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Hightower. dec2-ly attorney at law, iiijVFKV'iiil.F., UA. Will practice in the \ )n unties ol the Flint Circuit ami in the Ku piemtcourt of the State. s<jp2B-3m Di\. (j- f • Cabell, DENTIST, Ji as io-o] ratal ill ofiict—Room 7S. Bank Building. K’lliiiß and extracting a specialty. Would lie to xr ohl friends an new ones too that will pnor him by calling. janll-3m _ Dr. Wm. A. WRIGHT, p.AUNKSVrLEE, GEORGIA, J Dealerlu Drugs, Medicines Chemicals, Paints, Oils, VARNISHES, GLASS, RUTTY, FINE SOAPS, SPONGES, BRUSHES, PERFUMERY, DYE STUFFS, TOBACCO, SUGARS,SNUFF, Etc. (jWDEfI SEEDS, Of th r Beat Quality :. t goods that are usual in his line. He pleasure of returning’ thanks for past l’a ■ ami solicits a continuance of the same, and "Un the future to be able to satisfy those an patronize him, in Prices, Quality of Goods, etc., ; l feels confident that it will be lo tlie interest . cl on him before purchasing elsewhere. S esci # ip(ions KlUleil on Ihe most Keasonables Terms. } - ~ Those in arrears must settle by Ihe first of March. fel22-3m ,\ xv Wt < >x # e IN ATLANTA. (J. !1, MILLEU& ( O\S I’TIIKKN SALESROOM POM Tue Meriden Britannia Cos. and ROGERS BROS’. FINE Silver Plated Ware, BRONZES, ETC., U Wholesale and Retail—prices same as at N. V. 15 Pryor Street, fuller Kimball House, ATLANTA, - - GEORG A Thrash's Consumption Cure lbe<l v'hal J)r. LOVIO PIE BCE has to say about it. IH.au Bbothku Davies—Excuse me for writing w en Lam deeply interested. I have been ' ■H i icss about two months. Could not read and 1 farUi, - v - R*d tried many things. Got no 1 Itl 111 atn • Since Conference, someone sent \ a bottle of THRASH’S CON -1 'U 1\ hrt BE AND LUNG RESTORER,which , r' 1 ' uon taking now this is the ninth day. lean w:t ‘ l 'me ease. I came here among other --. to sup;iip myself -with this medicine. No -ist here has it on sale. I must have it. I want > go in person to Messrs. Thrash & Cos. and them tins letter, aud make them send me, to a, Ga., two, three or four bottles, with bill. “ !u gettiug on finely. >a:„ wholesale and retail by D. W. CURRY, •••g.-st, Caitersville, Ga Call and get a trial bot- TILTIFW & REFORM. Now ready for r agents. The National Hand Book l, ' rs - with Life of TUden & Hendricks, and j.... '• j'"-' - of Rings and Frauds. 500 pages, illus . '• sii ei s. will secure outfit and territory. month made. E. 11. Treat, Rub.. Bts J U owl way, n. Y. li'Ro* I’TIONIST’S JOURNAL.gives choic * 'tan bird and new prices for professional aud renders and speakers, school exhibition, j 4 ’’f' >'■ sting aiticles <m appropriate subjects. ' u Me thing w.mted. Large size, 10 cts. of any ■'/‘jealer or bv mail. L' HANEY X uo.. 119 Na-sa’i St.. New York, tl AgUllfU f >ur large life-like steel Engrav of the President!a. Oandi- XK!: S dates sell rapidly, send for eireu j sai) v\ j Bir. N. Y. Engraving Cos.. 33 Wall -'L Box x. y. sept-lf 1 N 4 y H „ f ° till* Working Class.—Weare f ■ prepared to furnish all ela.ses with constant ;|2 J - lueut at home, the whole of their time, or for J.* 1 , 11 1 are moments. Business new, light and prof cent" e * Persons of either sex easily earn from 50 a. ~ Ll er evening, and a proportional sum by their whole time to the business. Boys s.- h eam nearly as much as men. That all who u 7 ,:: s notice may send their address, and test the j, P al 'aL-led offer: To such as are not well satis "*H send one dollar to pay for the trouble of doll " ru H particulars, samples worth several an ir t° .commence work on, and a copy of Home p ‘L. rot Jide, one of the aargest aud besi Illnstiated w ' c ations, all sent tree by mail. Reader if you f permanent, profitable work, address, gfohok TINSOS <8 Uo., Portland, Maine. VOL. VIII. Flowers aiul Seeds, VEGETABLE PLANTS ANDORNAMENTAL SHRUBBERY Atlanta Nurseries. Atlanta. Ga. M. COLE & CO., Proprietors. u t‘<l and Plant Wore Xo. Whitehall street. MOSES COI K SEND FOR CATALOGUE. CAMPBELL WALLAC E. Medical Dispensary. Ll Geo. \\. Marvin again ten (lers his professional service to his old friends and the public. Dispcn sary and consultation rooms, Xo. 1 White hall street, in Centennial buiF ding, Atlanta, Ga., where patients can get reliable treatment for all diseases of the Throat, Lungs and Catarrh. I lie above diseases treated by inhalation. Ihe Doctor treats all diseases of long standing, such as Eruptions, Gravel, Paralysis, Rheumatism, Go itry, Dropsy, Biliousness Diseases of the Kidneys, Erysipelas, Nervous Depression, Dyspepsia, Liver Com plaint, all Diseases peculiar to Wo men, tdl Private Diseases, Heart J >is ease Swollen Joints, Coughs, Gout, AN bite swelling, St, Vitus Dance, etc. Electricity applied in eases where it is required. The Doctor is per manently located, and persons who hay e been under the treatment of oth-> er physicians and have not been cur ed, are invited to call, as he treats all curable diseases, and cures guarnteed or no i>ay. Call and see the Doctor without delay. Ills charges are mo derate, and consultation free. Oflice hours from 0 a.m. to 4 p.m. feb22-ly An art to amend the Constitution of the State. Stction 1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of he S;ato of Georgia, That the following b ad ded us an amendment, and ,-iii addi tional clause to the sixth section of the third article of theOonstitution of tlr.s State, to wit: Neither the General Asssembly nor any other authority or officer of this State, s. all ever have Dower to pay, or recognize as legal, or in any sense valid or bin ding upon tne State, any direct bonds, gold bonds, or currency bonds, or the State alleged guaranty, or en dorsement of any railroad bonds, or any other bonds, guarantees, or in dorsement, heretofore declared to be illegal, fraudulent, or void, by act, or resolution of the Legislature originating this amendment, viz : Tiie Slate gold bonds, issued under the act ol October IT, 1870, hi aid of the Brunswick and Albany iviil raid Company : the currency bonds issued m dor the act of August 27, 1870 ;th quarterly gold bonds is sued under the act ol September 10, 1870, which are enumerated in the act of August 22, 1872 ; the indorse ment of the State upon the bond's of the Brunswick and Aloany Railroad Company, made under the act of March 18, 1860 ; the indorsement of the State upon the bonds of the ('artersviile and Van Were Railroad Company, and of the Cherokee Rail road Company, the indorsement, of the State upon the bonds of the Bainbridgc, Cuthbert and Colum bus Railroad Company : and ail oth er bonds, guaranties, or indorse ments declared illegal, farudnlent or void, as herein 'provided. Nor shall any General Assembly ever have power to provide for the re-in dorsement of such railroad bonds, or to provide for the indorsement, oi guaranty by the State of any new bonds issued in lieu of, or to pay off, or retire, such railroad bonds, by any railroad companies, or other persons in payment, or in lieu of such indors ed bonds, or other bonds declared ille gal ; or to lend the aid, or credit of tne State by any act, resolution or law, to such railroad companies, or to other incorporated companies, or persons, acquiring, or succeeding -to the rights and franchises of said com panies ;or to buy the railroads of such companies ; or to suoinit the questions of the liability of the State upon any of the bonds, or indorse ments upon bonds, or other guaran ty herein declared illegal, fraudu lent, and void, or upon any claim of money advanced upon said bonds, indorsements, or guaranties, or ex pended by said companies, o: other persons in and about the construc tion of said railroads, to the decision of any court, tribunal, or persons whatever • or io pay, assume, or se cure. directly or indirectly, by any act, or law, any money advanced, or claimed to have been advanced on the bonds, indorse ments, or guaranties herein declared invalid. Section. 2. Beit further enacted, That so soon as this Ac t shall have been passed by the rc quisite vole of two-thirds of two successive Legisla tures, in the manner required by the Constitution, his Excellent-} the Governor, be, and he is hereby, au thorized and directed to provide, by proclamation, for submitting the amendment herein proposed to the unqualified voters of said State for final ratification, upon a day u> be fixed by the proclamation ; the man nor of voting and conducting the election to be such as is, or may be, p escribed by law, for the election of members to the most numerous branch of the Legislature. Sec. J. Repeals convicting laws. Approved February 2A 1875. The Failed States has a Depart ment, not a Minister, of Agriculture, the average appropriation to which, for 1873," 1874, and 1875, averaged about $280,000 per annum. THOM ASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 2s, 1877. The Macon Telegraph of last Thursday gives a horrible account of a negro by the name of Charles 4 homas, going to the house of a Mr. James Caraway, a thrifty farmer in South "West Georgia, and brutally murdering Mrs. Caraway. The Tel egraph says that Mr. Caraway was at one of his farms three miles off, and the negro Amnd Mrs. Caraway alone. She, seeing the negro, told him that if he wanted to see her hus band he must go to the plantation. 1 ho monster walked into the house and struck Mrs. Caraway a blow on the head with a heavy club which he carried. The blow felled her face downward upon the floor, where she lay motionless. He then pro ceeded to rifle the drawers and trunks in the house, and secured ten hollars in silver, and two or three tdousand dollars worth of papers and notes, which he destroyed. As lie was passing out of the house, lie ob served that Mrs. C. was groaning, and fearing that she might recover and tell on him, he struck the pros trate woman two more blows upon the head with the same club with which he knocked her down. These last blows crushed in her skull un til the brain oozed out. Taking his pitiful booty the monster then fled toward his home in Terrell county. A Baptist minister stopped at Mr. Caraway’s house a few hours after the commision of the deed and was horror stricken to find the lady ly ing upon the floor, with blood and brain oozing from her head. He saw at once that she had been mur dered. The spectable was a most ghastly one—one that cannot easily be effaced from memory. He gave the alarm at once and soon t lie whole neighborhood was aroused. A posse formed and started at once in search of the murderer. For some reason or other Thomas was suspec ted, and the party went at once to the plantaton in Terrell county where he was employed and had no difficulty in finding and arresting him. lie confessed the whole hor rible deed, substantially as we have stated above. He had in his posses sion, when arrested, the money which he had taken from Mr Cara away’s house. The monster was taken to the neighborhood of where the crime was committed, and Mr. C. was no tified that he was there. That gen tle .nan, with a forbearance as rem arkable as it was commendable, ask ed that the inhuman murderer of his wife be taken to jail in order that the law might take its course with him. At a hint from him the fiend would have [laid the penalty of his fearful crime in an equally fearful manner. At the beginning of the present difficulties between Russia and Tur key there was a general opinion a mong many of our army officers that the troubles would create a market for ordnance supplies, arms and oth er implements of warfare, and that the l nited States would be enabled to dispose of the vast amount of mi- i serviceable goods of that character ! now stored in our arsenals and forti fications; but a careful examination of the subject by prominent officers of the Ordnance Department leads to the belief that there will be no de mand upon our country for these goods, for the reason that England, Germany and France have vast quant ities of condemned arms for sale, and therefore neither of the contending parties would find it necessary to make purchases on this side of the Atlantic when they can obtain similar goods so much nearer home, unless the present complications should as sume such shape that the Powers mentioned would decline to dispose of th’eir condemned arms and sup plies to either party, and then there might be a demand for ours. Since the Franco-Prussian war both France and Germany have been rearming aid replacing the arms us ed by them in that war with those of more improved patterns, and conse quently have many ohl arms for sale. Turkey’s Present Supplies. It has also been ascertained that Turkey is much better supplied with arms than was at first supposed, she haying received over three hundred thousand stand of arms from the Providence Tool Company, of Prov idence, R. 1., within the past two years, under a contract made with that company to furnish half a mil lion Peabody guns, a breech-loading rifle similar to tne Martini-Henry rifle used in England. These rifles tire still being manufactured for and delivered to the Turkish government, several officers of which have been in this country for some months past inspecting tliearmsand superintend ing their manufacture. The Turks also have contracts with various firms in this country for 200,000,000 rounds of metallic cartridges and for a large number of cartridge eases, which are now being made at Bridge port and New Haven, Conn., and other places. That government is also well supplied with breech-loading steel guns for field service, and it is not probable that there will be any great demand for arms of obsolete patterns upon this or any other country. Russia’s armament. Russia has also received a good sup ply of arms from this country, in pursuance of contracts with Smith & Wesson, Colt and other manufac turers. These contracts were for re volver.-, a large number of whi-h have been delivered. ARMS OF THE UXITED STATES. We have for sale about four hun dred thousand of the new Spring field muzzleloading rifles, and a large number of repaired breech-loaders, besides ordnance and ordnance sup plies of every description, loft from the Into civil war. Flie lilies could be converted into breechloaders, but it has been found cheaper to make new one- outright than to undertake to ehatrge the old ones. The G mini nee Department lias from year to year urged upon Congress the necessity of making sufficient appropriations for the manufacture of improved arms, so as to permit the gradual accumulation of them in store for use in case of an emergency. During the ten years proceeding the late war an average of manufacture of such arms, but for several years past the appropriations for that purpose have been SIOO,OOO or $150,000. It is estimated that there will not be more than eight thousand arms of approved patterns on hand at the end of the present fiscal year, and should the States draw upon the national government for the full quotas to which they are entitled the limited stock of improv ed arms held in reserve would be exhausted. The ac. of April 23, 1808, makes a permanent annual ap propriation of $200,000 for arming and equipping the militia of the United States, and it is argued that if that sum was necessary at that time, when the population did not exceed eight millions, at least $l v -000,000 should be appropriated now, the population having increased nearly five fold. Under the act named the State of New York is an nually credited witli $10,792 of the $200,000, but if the appropriation should he increased to $1,000,000 as recommended, she would have $83,- 902, and so with the other States ac cording to their population. The stylo of gun now being manufactured is the Springfield breech-loading ri fle, and it is argued that those guns should be manufactured in uuanti ties sufficient to render a gradual accumulation of them in store a cer tainty. THE A UVI OT TH K < l"IT RE. That a better arm than the Springfield may some day be invent ed is not at all improbable, and ex perienced ordnance officers contend ed that a magazine gun will no doubt be the arm of the future; but until such a one suitable for the niil ttary service has been perfected and approved a reserve stock of Spring fields is a necessity. Walt! liii' Papers Say. Mr. President and gentlemen of the Administration, isn’t if about time to halt in this career of conces sion ?—Boston Traveller. The dead Whig party can no more be rehabilitated than the hones of Henry Clav can be reclothed with flesh and blood. That party during its fitful existence presented a galaxy of brilliant men, but, like the cap tain's deck on the Western steam boat, it had altogether too much tal ent for one boat —Washington Slur. We should like to see every post office in the country presided over by a good woman. It is work for which women arc fitted, and women, no more than men, should be cut out of public employment.— Louisville Cou rier-Journal. The Republican opponents of Hayes naturally ask where the Re publican votes of 1880 are to come from. To hand down the flag of the “bloody shirt” seems to them a piece of egregious folly. Buffalo Courier. Mr. Hayes is undertaking to do justice by South Carolina and Louis iana. He is not the first man who has sought to stifle his conscience by making good use of stolen goods. While accepting every righteous act with thankfulness, as an outraged people must, they nevertheless can not and will not condone his crime. —Albany Ary us, The Southern leaders ere neither knaves, ingrates nor fools, and the plan of building up a Hayes party in the South will result in nothing. —Baltimore Gazette. The creatures who have sold them selves will hide their dishonored heads when, in future elections, they see a South solid for integrity, ann patriotism; solid nfirepiidiatie.g a fraudulent President, and solid in uniting tvitii tlie noble men of the North "on the basis of the Constitu tion, the rights of the States, the liberty of the people, and for that peace and reconciliation which the Democratic party can alone give to the country. — Memphis Appeal. If we were going to state the Re* publican opinion in lowa, as we have heard and seen it expressed, one-half the members of the party in this State are dissatisfied with the course of the Administration, two-thirds of the rest are patiuntly waiting to see it tried, with grave doubts, in regard to it. and the remainder more or less heartily approve of it.— Jotra State Bey ist er \llep.) Labor troubles are fomenting in Eastern Massachusetts. To the f armers of Georgia: In view of tlie threatened war in the East—which seems now to he uu ! avoidable —it becomes us as prudent men. to avert, as far as jiossible, its disastrous effects upon our industries, by a wise forecast in onr farm econ omy. The indications now are that there will he a protracted war, involving the leading powers of Europe, the necessary consequence of which will be a rapid advance in the price of ail food supplies. Even the “rumor of war’has al ready caused an appreciable advance in meats and hivadstutfs, and a de cline in our great staple —cotton. Unusually large shipments of provis ions to the various European ports are already reported, and must con tinue so long as the war lasts. The foreign demand for cotton may lie greatly reduced, and its price fall below even its present low fig u res. In view of these facts, the farmers of Georgia are urged to increase their areas in provision crops. Lis not yet too late to increase the area in corn, even if it has to be done by reducing the area in cotton. Let fanners plant enough corn to insure an ample supply for the ensuing year, net them plant crops for their hogs, and force them forward to se cure, as nearly as possible, a supply of bacon for home comsmnption. Let them plant liberally in German millet and field peas to supplement their corn crop in feeding stock, in order that more of their corn may be used for bicad. If the war should he averted—of which there is, at present little prob ability—we will have lost nothing by the above policy; if not, we will have provided against the possibility of loss or suffering. In either event, those adopting the bovc advice will have nothing to re gret, while those who do not may bo compelled to purchase provisions at ruinously high prices, and pay for them with cotton at prices even be low the cost of production. Very respectfully, Thomas P. Janes, Commissioner of Agriculture. Colton Planting. SOME SOUND ADVICE FROM A NORTH ERN SOURCE. (New York Cotton Record). Too much advice is sometimes worse than none at all. and at this season of the year, the cotton plan ter has probably more friendly sug* geslions dinned into his ear than lie can well digest.—Apart from all questions of agricultural lore, as to whether he should plant this tract in corn, or reduce Ins patch of cot ton —for he has undoubtedly become its good a judge of these important elements, as the many theorists who are constantly advocating the neces sity of making his cotton crop only a secondary adjunct to tin raising of his daily supplies—the question of price will in the long run, have greater weight with lum in the de term i nation of what amount of acre age he shall place under cotton. For the [last three years the great staple has gradually been declining, and the average result to the plan ter has invariably been lessened each year The evil was first started by the line and cry raised by the manu facturers, at being obliged to hu v on a falling market, and with it all, have a perfect surfeit of on hand. . All this has been changed, mill-owners enter upon anew era this year, for this surplus of the manufactured article has all been cleared off, the demand is good, prices are advancing and the raw ma terial is low. Of course, this is not entirely lost sight of by the ‘tiller’ of the soil, and even if his judge** ment should dictate to hint the pru deuce of sowing less cotton this year, in view of its steadily decreasing val lie, the favorable prospects for the outlet of goods wijl naturally make him pause and determine, whether after all, even an increased supply of hi* ‘snowy flakes' may not lie just as well taken care of, during the com ing year, as has been vouchsafed to him in the past. “The vital point at issue to the planter is not then, as to the next crop being four, five or six millions, but whether his financial position will warrant him in cultivating more land or not. It isstill an open ques tion, if our crops do increase from year to year, whether values recede 1 very materially, for the growing fa vor of .American cotton abroad, as the real standard article, our, of winch more yarn can be spun, the larger consumption, both North and South, will give an increased de mand, which production will find great difficulty in keeping pace with, now that an equal distribution of goods has taken place. The real se cret lies in whether the planter is out of debt, for if the aggregate crops are large all over the country I prices ef necessaries fall m a like ! proportion, and the money obtained | for his labor will go as far, as if the j crop had been only a small one, lor |he would then have had to pay an advance price for his corn, molasses, 'etc. The whole question then re solves itself into this—that tin* inde pendent fanner can plant with safe ty just as much as he lias the capac ity of cultivating, and his better judgement will invariably teach him to devote some of his land to the raising of wheat, oats, etc. Every ! year will undoubtedly place the | planter in a stronger position than j ever lie has been in, anil, while pri ! ees will invariably influence some. * the necessity of raising articles of food others, it will Ik? found that pieparations for the coming season will Jh on a larger scale than ever be fore, for farmers who are driven from sheer necessity to pay their arrears will vie with those who are perfectly able and willing to undertake an in j creased acreage, irrespective of their , neighbor's crops.*’ A flomoni of lloror. For twenty-three years, old Jack A iHard has cultivated the ‘soil in Baldwin county, and drawn there from a support for himself and wife. She is childless. Not long ago Jack left his house in search of a missing cow. His route led him through an old worn-out piece of clay land of six acres in extent, in the centre of which was a well about twenty-live or thirty feet deep, that at some time probably had furnished the in mates of a dilapidated house near by with water. In passing by this spot an ill wind drifted Jack’s hat from his head and maliciously wafted it to the edge of the well, —in it turn hied. Now. Jack had always practiced the virtue of economy, and lie imme diately sot about recovering bis hat. He ran to the well and finding it was dry at the bottom lie uncoiled the rope which be had brought for the purpose of capturing the cow, and after several attempts to catch the hat with a noose, lie concluded to save time by going down into the well himself. To accomplish this he made fast one end of the rope to a stump bard by, and was soon on his way down the well. It was a fact of which Jack was less obvious than the reader hereof —that a mischievous fellow named Xeal Willis was in the old building and saw Jack go down into the well, and it so happened that Jack’s old blind horse was close by with a bell on his neck. The devil himself, or some other w icked spirit, put it into Neal’s head to have a little fun; so he slipped up to the old horse, un buckled the strap, and approached , the well with the hell in hand, ting aling-ting, ting-aliug-ting, ting aling. Jack thought that the old horse was coming, and said in audi ble tones, “hang the old blind horse, he’s coinin’this way sure, ain’t got no more sense than to fall in here on me ; woa, Ball. ’ But the sound of the hell came closer and closer, and Jack was resting at the bottom of the well—“ Great Jerusalem ! said Jack, the old blind fool will he light in on top of me in a minit, w’oa, Ball 1 woa ; woa now, Ball ! Just then Neal got close to tne edge of the well and kicked in a little dirt on Jack’s head. Jack thought Ball was about to come and got close up to the wall and began to pray. “Oli ! Lord, have mercy on—woa, Ball—a poor sinner. I’m gone, now, woa, Ball ! Our Father wiio art in —woa, Ball !—Heaven, hallowed he N by—gee, Ball, gee what’ll I do— name. Ayw I lay me down to si— gee, Ball ! out on your livers I (just then in fell more dirt) hack, Ball! Oh ! Lord, if you ever intend to do anything for me—back, Ball, woa. ho! ho-a—Thy kingdom conic—jee, Ball ! Oh! Lord, you know I was baptised in Smith’s mill-dam—woa Ball! hol’up !! m-u--d-e-r !!! woa, farewell world ! Neal could hold in no longer, and showing himself at the top of the well with a big horse laugh, which might have been heard two miles. I'll is was more than Jack could bear, and he started up the rope line a monkey: Blast your picture, 1 11 give you fits ; I’ll make your ears ring wors’n that bell. Neal took to his heels and ran like a quarter-horse,and the last that was seen of him, he was a mile from the well with two big dogs grabbing at his coat-tail, and Jack was close be hind yelling at the dogs. It is reported that the Texas cattle drive for the coming season will be 250,000 head. The emigration from Maine to the West is unusually large this spring. Since 1870 that state has lost 10,000 of her population in this manner. The defiant attitude of Turkey is explained in private letters from Constantinople. The Ottomans are rendered confident by assurances that Poland, the Crimea, the Cauca sus, Persia and even India will fur nish moral and material aid against Russia m the course of the impend ing war. A cattle disease is raging in Ulster county, N. V., which is fatal in al most every case. The animals are first attacked in the legs, which be come weak and soon altogether pow erless. They have also evident pains in the head and symptoms like epi zootic among army horses. It is intimated that will be issued in Now York in a few days for a mass meeting of all who are “in fa vor of maintaining the integrity and indivisibility of the Republican par ty.’’ The friends of Wendall Phil ips and Senator Blaine are under stood to be leading in the movement, and the object of the meeting isopen warfare upon Mr. Hayes’ Southern policy. 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Or we will send it four mouths on trial for ouiy 23 cents. Bkir Specimen copy sent on receipt of stamp. Agents wanted. Address FYM. LUPTOM & CO., Publishers, 37 Park Row, N. Y. NO 20. The Southern Jiutl Claim*. The Utorney-Gcncral has rend ered his decision to the Secretary of the Treasury in reference to the ap propriation of 1315,000 to l>e paid to different contractors for carrying the mails for the Tinted States Gov ernment during the tirst two or three months of the rebellion. It will be remembered that a number of these f contractors carried the mails up to tiie ending of the fiscal year, June 30, 1861. Congress at its last ses sion appropriated *3115,900 to pay these Southern contiactois, all ot whom, strange to say, lived iu the Southern States. It was discovert, u. however, after an examination by Secretary Sherman and Mr. McGrow, Sixth Auditor of the Treasury, that by its reading the bill made no pos itive designation as to the time up to which to pay these claimants. The vital ijuestiou to he decided I was when did the rebellion begin ; was it on the 10th of April, when the riot began in Baltimore, was it on the days upon which the ■various Legislatures of the South ern States passed the act of seces sion, or was it on the day when Lin coln issued his proclamation i I hese various tpicstiOTS of course puzzled the Sixth Auditor, and he referred the matter to the Secretary of the Treasury) who referred it to the So licitor, who in turn referred it to the Attorney-General. The latter decides that these contractions must he paid up to the time that their States respectively seceded or passed the resolution of secession. The last state that did that was the State of Virginia, which passed its Seces sion act some time in the latter part of May. From Virginia there .are <|ii.te a large number of claimant.'. Under this ruling of the Attorney- General the Sixth Auditor has issued a circular of instruction, by order of Secretary of the Treasury, to t he-e claimants, in which he sets forth that they must put in their claims in detail, giving the number of day of actual seryice rendered, and. that they must prove that they have nev er received any money from the reb el government for this service. In each claim they must give two responsible and reliable securities m reference to this after all the claims are in and properly adjusted the money will he paid, audit it is fou ml that the *375,000 appropriated for this purpose is insufficient, it will l e paid pro rata to the claimants. Ihe fact that no money is to he paid un til all the claims are in and properly adjusted can he regarded, as the Sixth Auditor says as an indication that payment will he made without further Congressional legislation. It will take such a length of time to get all these claims in and prop erly adjust them, that this and the ensuing administrations cannot ac complish it. Therefore one of the first propositions that the Secretary of the Treasury injustice to these men will make to Congress in June will he the asking of further legis lation on this subject, so as to make the act more infinite in regard to the payment of this money. In the mean time the just clalments will have to wait for their money, ow ing to the imperfect wording of the hill. I exports of the United States for the ! month ending February 28, 187’<, and for the period of eight month terminating on the same date. The chief of the bureau compares these j statements with like data for the | corresponding periods of the year immediately preceding, and shows that the excess of trade has been m favor of the United States. Recko ning wholly in gold values, it ap pears that our excess of exports over imports, on merchandise accounts, for February, 1887, amounted to $16,409,397, while for the corres ponding month in 1876 the execs was $13,504,685, a difference of 82 | - 964,712 in favor of the present year. In February, 1877, the export of corn and bullion amounted to 83,- 310,082, and the imports to $1,903,- 989. During February, 1876, the expoits reached the sum of $4,558,- 771, and the imports to $732,528. The difference favors the present year to the extent of $1,922,554. mi* Good financial authority, says a | London correspondent of * the New \ ork World, are of the opinion that j the ultimate effect of the Eastern ! complications will he beneficial to American securities, and that the present panic in the stock market ! will he of short duration. The commission to consider tin* Washington monument has met, ami j the engineers reported that the fouu i dation is not sufficient to hear the additional weight of the structure, hut they make no recommendation whatever upon the subject. The Federal Bureau of Statistics furnishes a statement—corrected to the sth instant—of the imports and Ballot's Monthly Magazine fokMav. There is much iu the May number of Bui - , lou’s Magazine to attract all classes of readers. The illustrations are fresh and very interesting, the stories; first class, the poetry good and the fun and wit by M. Quad particularly laughable, there Ik ing three pages hv the latter humorist, and he has taken much trouble to make his dei partment entertaining and acceptable.— Ballou '3 Magazine is one of the most en tertaining serials in the country, and at the same time the cheapest, being only ,81.50 per year, or 50 cents single copies, post paid, and is well known in every part : of the Union. . 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