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WASHINGTON
THE SENATE IN EXTRA SESSION.
MORUItS AX GKOVKBNWOnJi IN.
BLAINE STILL ON THE WAR PATH.
Washington, March B.—The Sen
ate has up the resolution to swear in
John T. Morgan, Senator from Ala
bama, to which Mr. Spencer submit
ted an amendment to refer the cre
dentials to the Committee on Privi
leges and Elections, ami spoke at
length in favor of that motion.
Tne motion to refer the credentials
of Ganeral Morgan to the Privileges
anS Elections Committee was reject
ed without dissent. He was presen
ted by Senator Gordon, and sworn in
by the Vice President.
The following proceedings have a
direct bearing on the Kellogg case:
Mr. 'Wallace moved that the cre
dentials of L. N. Grover, Senator
from Oregon, be taken from the ta
ble, and that he be sworn in.
Mr. Sargent submitted the follow
ing as a substitute:
Whereas, under the Constitution,
nnd the laws uDd the practice of the
Senate, Lafayette Grovet, claiming
to be a Senator from the State of Or
egon, his credentials being regular
nnd in duo form, there being no con
testant for the seat, is entitled to ad
mission to a seat in this body on the
prima facie use of such credentials,
notwithstanding the objection con
tained in the petition of citizens of
the State of Oregon against his ad
mission.
Therefore, resolved, that the cre
dentials of Layfavetlo Grover be
taken from the table and the oath
of office bo now administered to
him.
Resolved further, that the peti
tions of citizens of Oregon containing
charges against Layfayette Grover
lie on the table until the Committee
on Privileges and Elections is organ
ized, when they shull be referred to
such committee, together with the
credentials, with instructions to in
vestigate such charges and report as
to their truth or falsity.
Mr. Wallace accepted the substi
tute.
Mr. Conkling moved to amend by
inserting in the preamble, after the
words “no contestant for the seat,”
as follows: “And there being in said
State but one body claiming to be
the Legislature, and but one person
claiming to be the Governor, and
there being no doubt or dispute as to
the existence of one rightful State
Government.”
The. amendment wit# accepted by
Mr. Sarg#nt.
General debate on Louisiana fol
lowed, during which Mr. Saulsbury
said he feelfeved the ladles of New
Orleans eould drive the whole Pack
ard government out of the city, pro
vided it was not aided by the Federal
powers of the United States. (Great
laughter and applause from the gal
leries.)
The Vice President admonished
occupants of the galleries that ap
plause must not bo repeated.
Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, referred
to the case of Packard, and said he
was not an outlaw, but he could not
show himself on the streets of New
Orleans. If the people of New Or
leans were law-abiding people why
should Mr. Packard be afraid to
show blmseff before them? It had
been said he claimed an office to
which he was not entitled. The
game thing had been said about the
President of the United States, and
yet in this law-abiding city that
President was not afraid to show
himself.
Finally, Mr. Grover was seated.
Mr. Thurman said, at a former ses
sion of the Senate, the credentials of
J. B. Eustice, claiming to be a Sena
tor from the State of Louisiana, were
referred to the Committee on Priv
ileges and Elections. The Com
mittee reported against the right of
Mr'. Eustice to - h s£at on the ground
that the vacfn#! had been Ailed
by the election -of Pinchbeck Sub
sequently the Senate decided that
Pinchback was not elected. He there
fore sutfmitted a resolution that the
credentials of Mr. Eestioe be taken
from the table, and referred to the
Committee on Privileges and Elec
tions.
Laid over unil to-morrow.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
During the debate in the Senate
Blaine had read the following:
New Orleans, March 8, 1877. .
To lion. J. O. Iftatne, U. S. Senate:
Senator Bayard is mistaken. In
every parish outside the city, except
the live bulldozed parishes. In one of
which our tax collector has just been
murdered. My government is recog
nized by all, save a few pretended
Nicholls officials.
8. B Packard.
Washington, March 8, 1877.
To Hon. J. (}. Blaine— Dear Sir
Hon. W. M. Evarts begged me to say
to you that lie did not endorse the
letter of Hon. Stanley Matthews to
Gov. Chamberlain to the exteut. im
plied by the telegram of Gov. Cham
berlain to me; that the letter was
presented to him by Mr. Haskell, of
South Carolina, and he wrote upon
it substantially as follows: That he
had read the foregoing letter; that
he desired to see the trouble in South
Carolina composed, and he desired
to hear from Gov. Chamberlain upon
the subject.
Very respectfully,
D. T. Corbin.
Confirmation—John Sherman, Sec
retary of the Treasury.
Pending confirmation of other
Cabinet nominations.
There is nothing worthy of note
concerning military affairs or other
matters.
WASHINGTON* NEWS.
Washington, March B.—The Presi
dent may send a compromising Com
mission, headed by Vice President
Wheeler, to South Carolina and Lou-'
isiana.
Consternation pervades the Eepub
liean court.
The Democrats are solid and de
termined in their demands for the
restoration of self-government
throughout the South, and in obtain
ing it, do not propose to make any
humiliating concessions to the Pres
ident or any one else.
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hitting llull Again un the War Hath.
New York. March B.—A Bozeman.
M. TANARUS., telegram of the 6th says that
couriers arriving here to-day report
the appearance of Sitting Bull, Crazy
Horse, and Dull Knife, with 1,000 to
2,000 lodges of hostiles, forty-five
miles from the Crow Agency, threat
ening it. The Crows are said to have
stampeded on learning of the ap
proach of their foes.
TELEGKAPHIC NUMMARY.
New York. Joe Gross has been
arrested on a requisition by the
Governor of Kentucky, for prize
fighting, and locked up.
Matilda Haron (actress) is dead.
Washington.—Major J. C. Cash
paymaster in marine corps, found
dead in bed, of appoplexy.
Boston.—The 160th auniversay of
the independence of the Masonic
Grund Lodge of ‘Massachusetts was
celebrated to-day. Many distin
guished Masons from other States
were present.
Ship New*.
New York, March B.—Arrived: Victoria,
City of Vera Cruz, T.lua.
Arrived out: Aiopbitito, Ranger, Niag
ara, Laurel, Lindok, Juliana, Prescott,
Hazeltine, Joshua King, Martha, Betsey
Gudo.
Homeward: Frietig, Hampton Roads;
Mollyneux, Tybee; Constanta, Hermann,
New Orleans.
The ship Alexandrina, from New Or
leans for Liverpool, badly damaged from
a collision in the Mersey.
Russia nnd Turkey.
London, March B.—The Standard’s
Paris special is assured that Turkey
has forwarded a circular declaring
that Russia has been indirectly wag
ing war against Turkey, and is now
instigating insurrection in Bosnia.
Gen. Ignatieff, while at Berlin, re
ceived no encouragement from Prince
Bismarck to go to war.
WEATHER INDICATIONS.
War Department, j
Office of Chief Signal Officer, r
Washington, March 9, 1877. )
For the South Atlantic States,
falling barometer, increasing south
erly winds, cloudy weather and rain
will prevail, followed by colder
northwest winds and cloudy weather,
with rising barometer.
We are glad to hear it. Our druggist
informs us that Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup
sells better than any other medicine, and
alwayg gives satisfaction.
A Resistless Magnet.—Prof. Smy
the was once lecturing on natural
philosophy, and in the course of his j
experiments he introduced one of
Carrington’s most powerful magnets, ]
with which he attracted a block of j
iron from a distance of two feet.
“Can any of you conceive a greater j
attractive power?” the lecturer de-j
mancled. •, j
“I ken,” answered a voice from j
the audience. !
“Not a natural terrestrial object?” I
“Yaas, sir,”
The professer challenged the man j
who had spoken to name the thing. ;
Then rose up old Seth Wimlet. !
He was a genius in liis way, and
original. Said he:
“I ken give ye the facts, ’an ye can
judge for yourseLf. When I was a
young man, tbar were a little piece
o’ nateral magnet, done up in a kali
ker and dimiuity, as was called Bet- j
6@y Jane. She could draw me four- !
teen miles every Sunday. Sakes
alive!-it- were jest nateral as'
slidin’ down hill. Thar wa’nt no
resistin’ her. That‘ere magnet o’
yourn ispooty good, but ’tain’t a.cir- 1
oumstances to the one ’at draw’d
me.”
COLUMBUS. GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1877.
HAYES AND THE SENATE,
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OPPOSITION.
WILL WITIIimvMr TUB TROOP*
FROM THE SOU TH.
New York, March B.— The World's
Washington dispatch says there was
a conference at the White House last
night, at which Mr. Evarts, Stanley
Matthews, Mr. Schurz uud other
friends of the President were
present. The extraordinary ac
tion of tho Senate in defer
ring the confirmation 'of tho new
Cabinet, was variously discussed.
The President expressed great aston
ishment. Ho had not anticipated
unanimous approval of the selection,
but at the same time lie thought they
met the approval of tho greater por
tion of the Senate.
He added that he should adhere to
the nominations as he had made
them, and that the Senate could pur
sue its own course in the matter;
that lie had laid down tho policy he
intended to pursue, and he should
carry it into effect, if the Cabinet
was not confirmed this week, he said
he should proceed in co-operation
with the old Cabinet, and issue or
ders for tho withdrawal of the troops
from the Southern States.
LEAVING THE WHITE HOLME.
MRS. GRANT SHEDS TEAKS, AND THE GEN
ERAL BECOMES GARRULOUS.
Special Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Washington, March 1. Mrs.
Grant-, so says one of her intimate as
sociates, weeps now when she speaks
of her approaching departure from
the White House. She sayes she has
been very happy there, and adds, as
one of her sources of regret in leav
ing, that she has had more money
while there than she ever had before
in her life. It is hard, independent
of the tender associations one must
naturally have for a homo in which
the eight most important years of
one’s life have been passed, to give
up $50,000 per year “and found!”
The preparations for moving out, are
nearly completed now, and the fami
ly purpose leaving the White House
on Mondav. The President’s own
affairs are well known to be in a very
bud wav pecuniarily. It was told by
an official in the Treasury a year
ago that the President constantly
anticipated his salary. It. is knowii
that he has speculated and lost, and
the losing investments are believed
to have been made chiefly under the
influence of Tom Murphy, and were
in real estate at Long Branch and in
New York.
President Grant lias been less taci
turn of late, it would seem, as he re
cently told a lady this story of how
lie was appointed to West Point. He
gave it as an illustration of how
slight a thing (“not may move dis
sension between hearts that love”)
may make a General and a President
out of a poor country boy in “the
land of tlie free and ttie home of the
brave.” He said his parents had a
near neighbor in their old home
when ho (Ulvsses Simpson Grant)
was a lad. The father of the future
dynasty of Grant and the head of the
neighbor’s family had a bitter feud,
and were not on speaking terms for
sometime. The mothers of the two
families, however, did not take part
in the quarrel. One day Mrs. Grant
(mother of the present Chief Execu
tive) met her neighbor whose name,
being unknown to tne, I will say was
Blau White. Quoth the letter: "We
arc in great trouble about our boy ;
he writes from West Point that he
doesn’t get on at all there, and
doesn’t feel he is treated just right,
and he’s all discouraged and down
hearted, and wants to conic home.
Now, Mrs. Grant, suppose we write
to tell him to give up, ’cause it
doeßH’t seem as if we can make turn
stay wjjenhe says lie can’t get along;
and, then, bow’d yftu like to have
Ulyss put in his place?”
Mrs. Grant mere eagerly embraced
the proposition, but doubted if it
were feasible. Her friend said she
would tell her husband to write to
their member of Congress who had
put their boy in at West Poiut, and
tell him that as their son would be
withdrawn, they wished Ulysses
Graut to have their appointment.
“I’ll speak to my old man at once,”
continued Mrs. White, “and tell him
to talk it over with yours.” “But,”
demurred Mrs. Giant, “they don’t
sneak.” “Oh, never blind that,” re
sponded cheerful Mrs. White, “they’ll
speak fast enough if my old man
gets your boy into West Point. ’ So
it proved, and the matter was ar
ranged and the feud healed. In tell
ing the story the President says:
“When they told me of my appoint
ment I was glad to hear I was going
away from the old placeandsee New
York and other large cities. I didn’t
love books, and didn’t care to go
through tlie hard study and dis
cipline at West Point, but I’d never
been away from home, and thought
I’d take the appointment and see
New York, and if I didn’t like it at
West Point, I’d run away. That was
my resolve, and from a mere boyish
love of adventure, I agreed to go to
West Point, and after I had got
there, I thought I’d just try to see
it through, so I didn’t keep to my
plan of running away.”
She said it was a very bright idea. He
said be knew a brighter one, and when
she asked bim wliat it was, be answered,
‘*‘Yonr eyes, dear!’ There was silence for
a moment,.then she laid her ihcad upon
the rim of his ear and wept.
A Western farmer said he would get
even with the grasshoppers this year.
He did, too. As soon as he heard
they were going to visit his section
again, he immediately started east.
Before starting, however, he planted
his entire farm with Canada thistles
and carrion plants.
The Trouble nl WnslilsKtmi.
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DEMOCRATS HOLD THE BALANCE.
HiKitlal Dl.Ji.toh to tho Constitution.]
Washington, March 7. - The South
ern Democrats bold the balance of
power in the Senate, andean reject
,or confirm every member of the cabi
net. They Will use their power to
force the recognition of Nichols and
Hampton, or to secure at least non
intervention by the President. It is
said to-night they have certainly
secured the pledge they want.
Tlie Northern Democrats will pos
sibly split from the Southern wing
and vote to reject Hayes’ nomluta
tions.
the republican shat
grows bitterer every hour, and seems
t,o be irreconeiliable. Blaine is on
i the war path to-day, and Hayes is
just as determined. Stanley Mat
thews said to Gen. Gprdon ; "Ipledge
my life that Mr. Hayes Will stand by
the policy bedias mapped font. Gor
don is the hero or the day, it being at
his persistent persuasion, hacked
finally by Grant’s advice, that the let
ter to Chamberlain was written by
Matthews and endorsed by Evarts.
The letter will bo read by Gordon in
theSenuteto morrow, [and will cause
a*fl utter,
after tat.
Robert Alston and Edgar Thomp
son are possibly candidates for mem
bership. Hurt for Atlanta postmas
ter Callaway, lato of Louisville, for
District Attorney of Georgia dr post
office at Athens. Grady.
A Lesson About llllUrence.
There was once a German Duke
who disguised himself, and during
the night placed a great stone in tlie
middle of the road, near his palace.
Next morniug a sturdy peusunt,
named Ilahus, came that way with
his lumbering ox-curt. “O these
lazy people 1” said ho, “there is this
bigkrone light in the middle of the
road, uud no one will take the
trouble to put it out ot tlie way.”
And so Hahns went on his way,
scolding about tho laziness of the
people.
Next, came a guv soldier along.
He had a bright, pluine waving from
his helmet, and a sword dangling by
his side, and wentsiiiging merrily on
his way. His head was held so far
back that he didn’t sec the stone, so
he stumbled over it. This stopped
his song, and he began to storm at
the country people and call them
“boors and blockheads, for leaving a
huge rook in the road for a gentle
man to fall over.” Then he went on.
Next came a company of mer
chants, with pack-horses and goods,
on their way to the fair that was to
be held at the village near the Duke’s
palace. When they came to the stone
the road was so narrow they hud to
go off in a single tile ou either side.
One of them named Berthoid, cried
out.: “Did anybody ever see the like
of that pig stone lying here all the
morning, add no one stopping to take
it away?”
It lay there for three weeks, and
nobojdy tried to remove it, Then the
duke sent round word to ull tho peo
ple oil iiis lands, to meet at a deep
cut iu the road, called Doruthou,
near where this stone lay, as ho bad
something to tell them.
The day came, and a great crowd
gathered at tho Doruthou. Each
side of the cut was thronged with
people over-looking the jroad. Old
Hhaus, the farmer, was there, and so
was Berthoid, the merchant.
And how a winding horn was hoard,
and tlie people all strained their
necks and eyes toward the castle, as
a splendid caValcado came galloping
up to the Dornthou. The Duke rode
into the cut, got down from his horse,
and with a pleasant smile began to
speak to the people thus :
“My friends, it was I who put this
stone here three weeks ago. Every
passer by has left it, just wuere it was,
and has scolded his neighbor for not
taking it out of the way.”
When he had spoken these words,
he stooped down and lifted up the
stone. Directly underneath it, was a
round hoUowjiilled with pebbles, and
in ure hollow lay a small leathern
bag. Thu Duke held it up mat all
the people might see what was writ
ten on it. On a piece of paper, fas
tened to the bag, were these words :
“For him who lifts up this stone.”
He untied the bag, and turned it up
side dowu, and out fell a beautilul
gold ring and twenty large bright
gold coins.
Then everybody wished that he had
moved the stone, instead of going
round it and only blaming his neigh
bors. They all lost the prize because
they had not learned me lesson or
formed the habit of helpfulness.
And wo shall lose many a prize, us
we go on iu life, if we don’t form tins
habit. Tne bag of money was me
duke’s promise of a reward of help
fulness, but tlie promise was hidden
away under tho stone so that no one
could see it. God’s promises are not
hidden iu this way. They are writ
ten plainly out in the Bible, so that,
we may all see them and Understand
them. „ ,
Dr. Franklin used to say what
though you have found no treasure,
and nud no legacy left you, never
mind. Rbmember that diligence is
the mother of good luck. Then,
Plough deep while sluggards sleep,
And you will have corn to sell aud keep.
Work while it is called to-day, for
you know not how much you may be
hindered to-morrow. Oae to-day is
worth two to-iuorrows; aod never
leave till to-morrow anything that
you can do to-day.”
Wliat Is Whiskey BrlnKlnB?
“What is whiskey bringing?” asked
a dealer in that article one day. He
meant to ask, “How much is it sell
ing for?”
A gentleman who heard the re
mark took it in a different sense from
that.
“What is whiskey bringing,” do
you ask ?” I’il tell you. Its bring
ing men to prison and to the gallows,
aud its bringing women and children
to misery and want,”
There never was a truer answer
than this.
It isestimated that 100,00 G men
and women are sent to prison every
year.
Twenty thousand children are sent
to the poorhouse.
Three hundred murders aro caused
by internperance every year.
Two hundred thousand children
are made orphans every J>ear by this
dreaded evil, and 65,000 arb‘ killed by
intemperance every year in this coun
try.
Lun We AXimiiromise on lirerr
The Galveston News says that a
good many of the Texas people who
are willing to ostracise whiskey do
not wish to bury beer and all that
cheers without intoxicating man
kind. Thoviake the negative on tlie
old issue, will beer intoxicate? though
others say that beverage in large
quantities is like surveying, and en
ables a man to roach a given point
more surely by meandering than as
tho crow flies. Mr. Walter, of the
London limes, visited tlie United
States last summer, and observed the
convivial habits of our people. He
knows all about English beer drink
ing, and in a late address at a tem
perance meeting iu London contras
ted the bibulous habits of the Amer
icans with thoso of the English and
Germans. In England, he remarked,
while beer drinking was the vice
of the country, spirit-drinking was
the vice of the town, and he excused
each from local causes, which need
not exist out of the large cities in
this country—unhealthy dwellings,
bad air and depressingsurroundings.
In England lie seemed to have little
expectation of abolishing the use of
liquors, and none that beer would be
given up, but he did not seem to have
as high an opinion of tho favorite
English tipple hs most Britons. He
asked if it, Is not possible to obtain
better beer than that commonly in
use, and said that, the reason why
Germans could drink more beer
than the English without intoxica
tion was because the former tiad bet
ter beer.
"In Bavaria you could drink a pail
ful ot beer without being the worse
for it. It. was fresh, bright, pleasant
to the taste, but it was not heady. It
had none of the qualities which,
when they once got hold of a man,
completely mastered him and made
a beast of him. People did not get
drunk upon the Bavarian beer.
“Tlie same remark applied to the
United States, where he had lately
been traveling. The lager beer sold
there was much like the Bavarian
beer. It was drunk to a great ex
tent by Germans. There were enor
mous breweries of it in New York
and other places; and it was com
paratively harmless, wholesome and
exhilerating.”
It may bo that beer is to be a sort
of neutral ground on which the re
spective friends of free li iuor and of
prohibition may agree to meet for a
season. The former seem to have
foes even in their own household. It
is reported that a gigantic combina
tion is on foot among distillers to kill
off the illicit fabricators of “bust
head,” and put up the price of taxed
whiskey to the point nearest prohi
bition. They propose to pool their
stock, and whether any still is in op
eration or not, the proprietor receives
his proportion of tho deposit the
same as though he was running.
The blue-glass mania lias reached its
climax in the sad case of a Chicago man.
lie went, into an opticians, and bought a
pair of blue goggles to wear on his
eyes. He dropped into a bat store and
ordered a little round piece of blue-glass
put in j lie top of bis ha* in place of the
usual tin ventilator. He then partook of
a dinner of bine-fish at a restaurant Willi
a blue skylight, dipped his fingers into a
hluo-glass finger-howl, and refused to
drink anything until the waiter hunted
him up a mug with a blue-glass bottom.
The day was now spent, and going home
in a blue-light street, ear, the blue-glass
man, meeting bis children at the door, re
fused to kiss any but those, having blue
eyes, sat down in a blue chair to read a
copy of the blue laws of Connecticut, and
got into such a fit of blues that he took
some blue ink, and writing in his will
that at bis death the glass in his coffin
should be blue-glass ami his monument
be made of blue granite, he grabbed a re
volver and blew out his brains.
A scheme of Packard’s followers to
blow up the St. Louis hotel and
charge it to the poole of New Orleans
was exposed.by the Democrat yester
day. These men seem to have had a
half dozen similar schemes on hand
at the same time, determined, when
their government finally collapsed,
to cause ruin and death in his city.
An account of certain queer proceed
ings going on in tho neighborhood of
the Supreme Court building and the
storage of a large amount of gun
powder there, given iu another col
umn, points apparently to a
grand Radical plot, after the
style of Guy Fawkes to produce
some terrible disaster in the city, in
the midst of which eonfusion Pack
ard’s followers probably hoped, like
Guy Fawkes, to regain some of their
lost powers.
As this gunpowder was only dis
covered yesterday evening, it lias
been impossible to unravel all tlie
mysteries of this case; which is, in
fact, almost as mysterious yet as
Packard’s assassination. There is
reason to believe, however, that the
Radicals would not hesitate to try
such a scheme at blowing up the Su
preme Court to redeem their despe
rate fortunes, whatever it might cost
iu life and property.—A r . O. Dem., 7th.
•8 Brats TANARUS”
Two darkies were playing “seven
up” Saturday night, for five Cents a
game. Pomp and alt the cards, aud
turned up the seven of clubs.
Josiah looked over his hand, stole
a card from tho deck, and said:
“Eight beats seven, I stand.”
But. Pomp held the ace, deuce,
jack and ten, and made high, low
jack and game.
Josiah enquired, “how can dat be?”
And Pomp promptly answered :
“You see, nigger, you counted on
fraudulent card. It was de eight Of
spades. Dat’s a sign dat you’il be
buried before dis game is played
through. Fuo’ is, eight mighty sel
dom beats seven in de long run, spe
cially wliar dar’s steaiin’, and I seed
you when you stole dat oard.”
Pomp pocketed the stakes, and re
tired to meditate on the virtues of
the Electoral Commission
Virginian.
The whole number' of Democrats
in the lato House was 179, and these
were equally distributed between tho
North gDd the South, as these terms
were formerly understood, 90 of them
being from the former slave States,
and 89 being from all the other States.
On one of tne test votes during the
fiercest of the so-called filibustering
87 Democratic votes were cast bv the
anti-submission party, of which 41
were from the South and 43 from the
North, leaving 46 Democrats from
the South and 46 Democrats Horn the
North—92 in all-who did not on the
test vote join hands--an exactly
equal number on each side of the
liqe.— Nashville American.
Tlie lllnck HIM Territorial I’riijeet
01 uciuuatt Comoroiul.t (
Dr. Charles \V. Myer is en. route to
Washington from tlie Black Hills to
secure, if possible, tho passage oT a
bill in Congress creating anew ter
ritory consisting of some 30,000 square
miles and comprising tho hills and
the large grazing lands adjacent iu
Wyoming territory, or, fulling in
this, to have tho Black Hills proper
annexed to Wyoming, iu order that
unlimited water power may be se
cured to ilia miners. Dr. Myer is an
enthusiast on the subject Of the res
ervation, and believes that, besides
the $9,000,000 rihiuh has been taken
out of the hills and reported duriug
the past summer, there aro not far
from two hid away in cellars,
and other places in the hills,
wiioro the hard working minors be
lieve their treasures safe. His belief
iB founded on personal observation
and weekly detours among the gent
ry of that. section. He predicts the
most unprecedented success of gold
mining there, and expects to succeed
in his mission.
Miintrlpnl Elections In Vorki
New York, March s.—Municipal
elections were held in various cities
in this Slate to-day. Troy elected a
Democratic mayor by 3,000 majority.
Utica chose a Republican mayor by
600 majority, aud a DetnocraticTreas
urer by 200 majority. Elmira elected
a Republican Recorder by 350 major
ity. The Republicans carried Roch
ester, where only minor offices were
voted for.
Nice Dmit'oFChef.sk.—Half pound
of grated cheese, or cut in small
pieces, half as much of bread crumbs ;
two teaspoonfuls of better; one cof
fee cup of sweet milk. Mix together
the cheese, butter and bread crumbs ;
season wit h salt, pepperaud mustard ;
pour over the milk boiling hot; set
over boiling water until the cheese
dissolves; add to it tho yolks of three
eggs; stir well, and add the whites of
the eggs, whipped M> a solid froth;
butteravery shallow pan, or pie
plate ; pour in the mixture and bake
twenty minutes. Serve immediately.
Oliver P.
Morton, he
I lying in wait for Rutherford If.
Rutherford B.
Wishes that ho
Never ooukl meet with Oliver V.
A superanuuted coquette, who was
suspected ot giving rein to her
loquacity for the purpose of display
ing a very fiue set of teeth, once
asked a taciturn old lady what, in
her estimation, constituted a good
conversationalist, and the old lady
snappishly answered that, in her
opinion, a good conversationalist,
was a person who could talk without
betraying her dentist.
This f:hulrimitiMhl|>
Of tiie new Senate Committees will
boas follows: Fiuunoe, Morrill; Ap
propriations, Wiudotn ; Elections,
Morton; Foreign A (fairs, Cameron of
Pennsylvania; Commerce, Coukiing;
Manufactures, Booth; Agriculture,
Paddock; Military, Hpeucer; Naval,
Sargent; Judicialy, Edmunds; Post
Office, Hamlin; Public Lands, Ogles
by; Private Land Claims, Thurman ;
Indian, Allison; Pensions, Ingalls;
Claims, Dawes ; District of Columbia,
Dorsey; Patents, Wadleigh; Territo
ries, Christianey; Railroads, Mitch
ell; Mines, .Sharon ; Education, Pat
terson; Accounts of the Senate,
.Tones; Rules, Ferry; Printing, An
thony; Library, Howe; Public Build
ings and Grounds, McMillan.
What is Fortune ?—What dost thou
mean by fortune ? If mere chance,
then to envy the lot of others, or to
murmur at thine own, is folly; if
Providence, then it is impiety; for,
whatever goodness, guided by unerr
ing Wisdom, doeth, must be so well
done that ft cannot be mended—and
whatever is merely in the ; jiower of a
blind, giddy and inconstant hum’dr
(which is tho notion by which men
choose to express fortune), can
neither be prevented, fixed nor
lated.— Rev. Hichard Lucas, D. D.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
: , . i - (!.■* >“**4l4* *r'.ti-4 — --44 i) l a ’' * ’ l l
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
, j : :zpr- r '~~~~~iw. ■, ; . .
IU UN ETA N D STOCK*.
LONDON, March B.—Noon—Consols 06 9-16.
1:30p. m.—Consols 06 7-10 foe money. 90K for
account. Erio 7J-4.
3:00 P. M.—Bulliun effeefreftsf .£387,000.
Consols 96 9-16.
5:30p. M.—Chnsolß 96?4. ? >
I'ARIS, March .B—T:2O p. if.—Rentes 10Gf. and
ml. . i
NBW YORK, Martfß 8.-^Noon—<*ol4 opened
U)6’ 4 . :
NEW YORK, Marplx B.—Noon—Btonkjq active
aud unsettled; niodriy 2}4; gold ; exchange,.
Ion?, 4,84‘i; Short 4 Hfl; fiitaf© feoiid* steady,
Governments active and shade lo*Ar.
NEW YORK, March 8. —• Ev*nlfifj Money
easy at 3 bid; sterling firm at 4)tf; gold weaker
at s)<@s%'- OCv(-rimentn dull and steady—new
6’s 10 y % \ Btrtcs quiet and steady.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, March 9 Noon— Cotton quiet!
middling fiqd; Orleans 613-Jfld'; h* l **
8,000; speculation and export 1000; receipt* 7,000
—all American.
Futures—Uplands, low middling clanso, April
and May dmvefy* May and June
6 23-82)1; June and July 6 25-32d.
2:00 p. m.—Up'and*, idw middling clauae,
April and May delivery 6>jd.
3:30 p. m.—Upland*, lour middling clause.
May And Juue delivery 6 23-33-
flaps American 3,950,
6:00 p. M.—Future* quiet; uplands, low mid
dling clause, June and July deliyery 0 25-!f2d.
NEW YORK, March Noon —Cotton quiet;
uplands Vctf; Orleans V&14; safe* 284.
Future* easy a* follows: Tilarch 12 31®.^87;
April May June 12.86@,87;
July 12)96 .97. v.l i.
NEW YORK, March 8. -Evening—Cotton dull;
middling uplands Orleans 12Hales —;
net receipts 39; gross 625.
Consolidated net receipts 33,087; exports to
Great Britain 29,897; t>o Frsn6e 6828; to Continent
1697; to channel
Futures closed steady at decline*; sale* 85,-
flflOi; March April 12.40®-s*; May
12.69(0,6'June 12.72@.73, July August
12 September 12.66(5).68; October 12.99@
.41; November 12.26(^.27; December 12 35<5.27.
dALVFWTON, Mft*ch B.—Cotton qnl*t, facto
ries willing to realize; middling U%\ neb re
ceipts 750; gross—; sales 2020; exports coast
wise 1283.
NORFOLK, March 8 —Evening—Cotton dull;
middlings 11 ,)s(§)'■„': net
export* coastwise 763.
BALTIMORE. March B.—Evening Cotton
dull; middling 12K; Stoss receipts 90; sales 160;
spinners 75; export* co*twie 776.
BOSTON, March B*-^-Ev*ning—Cotton quiet;
middling WHm .net receipt* 804; groa* 757; ex
p6rt* to Great Britain —p ! .
WILMINGTON, March B.—Evening —Cettcn
steady; middling l\%: net receipts 232; Bale* —;
splpners —; export* coastwise —.
NO. 58
PHILADELPHIA, Mrdi—Coltnn
ffriu; middling 12>; not receipt* 278; gruM* 769;
sale* to spinner* 302; export* tb Great Britain
48$.
HAVANNAII. March Eralug Oottnn
dull; middling 12; not roepipt* 740. salon 250;
export* to continent 422; coaatwiao 182.
NEW ORLEANS. March B.—Evening—Cotton
irregular and easy; middling 11*4 ; law middling
11 ; good ordinary lUV, not receipt* 1098;
gross 2MB;*ale< • 9*port* t<v Great Britain
j to Voutiucut liCfo France —epa*twite
MOBILE, March H.—Cotton weak; ipiddllpg
,11*4: net receipt* 180; nalo* 2W00; export* to
Qrst Britain to Franco ; coat twit* 81.
MEMPHIS, March B.—Evening—Cotton quiet
and ea*y; middling ll\'* tempt* M 8; shipment*
601; Bale* 800. . , ii
AUGUSTA, March dull and lower
to *eU; middling 11#; receipt* 066; sale* 218.
CHARLESTON, March 8,-Evining button
quiet; middling 11L i toe* receipt* T 47<i; tale* 700-,
export* to Great Britain —, to France ; ,co^et
wise nr.
'
puoyiftioam, /
NEW YORK. March Sl—Nrtoal Flour dull Wnd
declining. Wheat dull and unchanged. Corn
quiet and heavy. Pdrk heavy at $15.35. Lard
heavy, steam $9.85. Freight* steady.
NEW YORK, March B.—Evening. Flour--
moderate trade reported, mainly fqr home uso,
closed quiet; prices unchanged; superfine Wes
tern aud HUto $4.55&5.1.<6; Western flour quiet
uud heavy; common. ,to, lair extra $5.75(g)5C.75,
good to choice d0.56.80(518.60. Wheat dull and
nominal; price* without decided change, No. 2.
j’ed Western, $1.4), white Western $1 61. Corn
shade lower; for new fair trade; ungraded West
ern mixed 6601&6, white Western 68: yellow
Southern 66>£(567; white do., afloat 69. Oats
lower, with light radu; mixed Western and Ktate
894 69. Ooffta* Uio, nominal— cargoes, 17021,
job lots Sugar dull and heavy; 9U for
lair to good n tining, refined easier 10 %\ 11 for
standard A. Molwuteu foreign—refining grade*
quiet and firm; moderate inquiry, other kind*
quiet; N. 0.. Rice quiet and steady, *up
ply lair; Carolina Louisiana 4^@6> 4 .
Foyk quiet; new me**. sls 36. Lrd higher and
firmer, primo steam closing at $0.90.
Whiskey firm at llj*. Freight* shade firmer.
CINCINNATI, March B.—Evening Flour
dull; family #6.r,0(i*|6.80; superfine fall $5 26(S
50. extra ss.7fii#sG.ls, double extra do. $8.35
(S3O, treble extra do. $5 50. Wheat steady and iu
fair demand; red $1.40(a}1.60. Corn steady; No.
2 mixed 40(0j42. Oats quiet at 35(5)42. Rye dull
ut74. Parity dull; No. 3, fid 1 60(582. Pork quiet
at $14.75. Lard m good demand, steam 9>4, ket
tle 10 4. Bulk meats steady aud in fair demand
clear sides. Bacon quiet—o>,, 8?4, and 9, tor
shoulders, clear rib aud clear sides. Whiskey
quiet at 5. Butter dull; Western reserve 23@25.
Central Ohio 20(&23, medium grades dull at 16
@l6. ...
LOUISYiLLE, March &. Flour nominally un
changed; extra $5.25; do., family $6 00(Ui$6.2 r>.
Wheat in good demand; red $1.48, white $1.60
(5)55, amber $1.60. Corn dull, No. i, white 42.
mixed 41. Rye in fair demandet 76. Oats steady
No. l.whit’ 42. mixed 47. Pork unsettled at
$16.60. bulk meats flrnier—6jfc 0(®8)f, and B,V
for shoulders, clear rib and clear sides,
racou firmer, light offerings; 6.1*, 9, and 9. I *, for
shoulders, clear rib clear sides. Hugar-cured
hams 11*4(5)12.#. Lard quiet but firm; tierce
11, keg 12. Whiskey steady at 1.06. Bagging firm
at 12i t .
BT. LOUIS, March B.—Evening—Flour firm;
superfine $5.50* extra $5.75(5)50.75. Wheat
inactive; No. 2, red fall $1.45*4, No, 3, do.,
$1 43>£. Corn fairly active; No. 2, mixed 36>*.
oats in fair demand. No. 2, 35. Rye 64. Barley
quirt; choice Wisconsin and Minnesota 86(<390.
Whiskey easier at G. Pork opened easier; closed
firmer at sl4 75. I.ard dull; steam 9?4 bid. Bulk
meats firmer and inactive; $7 80, and $8.05, for
clear rib and clear sides Bacon dull; $6.12>,,
sß.7o(a)sß 87and $9.12#<&59.25, for shoulders,
clear rib and clear sides.
BALTIMORE, March B.—Oats dull, nominally
st.adv; Southern prime 4(Ya)4l. Rye steady at
74(0)75. Provisions dull. Pork $16.6(J(g)517 00.
Bacon—shoulders clear rib 9%£)!0.
I.ard, refined IH4@}£. f offee dull; jobß 17>4®
2l>s, Whiskey dull at a>4, Sugar easy at 11)*.,
Boots and Shoes*
Wells & Curtis,
ARE SELLING
Boots, Shoes & Leather
THIS YEAR
FOR CASH;
.. And iutwitbstaudiny •
flip) great advance in \
GOOD WORK AT REASONABLE PRICES.
WE HAVE A HEAVY SAOCK OF
PLANTATION BOOTS, BROGANS ANI)
PLOW SHOES,
4 FUEL LIFE OF FINE QOpM IN ALL THE
l V popular styles,aifd'are constantly replenlßh
.uigour stock with
SUCH GOOtS AS THE PEOPLE WANT.
All pu*chases be,considered, as
CASH ON CALL.
tiiilcSs by BpccfaiVgre.cment.
Wells & Curtis,
TSBROAp STREET.
Sign of the Big Boot.
Something New.
WOODEN GASES AND GASKETS,
SELF-SEALING, AIR TIGHT,
At the same Prices as Ordinary Coffins,
and One-Fourth oost of Metalio
Oases-
They ake a necessity whToh has iog
been felt iu onr hot climate, and obviate
daligeroas and unpleasant asHociaUoo*. I com
mend them to the inspection t <?f the community
(True rally.
Former style* of Odries and Caaketsat
Tleddced Prices.
• si-1
Night and,Sunday Bfil at front door
I>. KOOYin ,
S3 AND 85 ST. f UP-STAIBS.
f<‘bil;od&w3ift , , , > _
Chattahoochee Sheriff Sales.
WILL be sold before tbs Court House door in
(lusseta. fia.i within -the legal hours of sale,
on the first Tuesday irt April next, the blowing
property, to-wlt:
0 acres of lot oflanil No. 312. lying in south,
easterner of said lot, iu 32d District of original
ly Fee, now Chattahoochee, county. Jaivied on as
the property of J. W. Milter. ’
Also/at the same place and time, CO acres of lot
ef land No. 240. lying in the eastern part' 6f said
lot, in Slid district of originally Lee, now Chatta
hoochee county. Levied an as the.property of
A. J. Barefleld. All of said property levied on tp
satisfy a fi-. fa. issued from the January term of
1877, of the JUBticeCourt of 1104th district. G.
M., of said county, in favor Of B. F; Matthews vs.
W. D. Sheridan principal, and A. 4 . Barefiekl and
J, W. Miller, securities. Levies made and re
turned to me by J. W. Austin. L. C. Tenants in
yossessloninotified.
This F'ebraary 23d, 1877.
JOHN M. SAPP.
mehl tds Sheriff.