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WA I
THE SENATE IN PLTRA SESSION.
.{dH *l rr, ~< ..>i
Bruce Wants New Elections
in Louisiana and 8.
Carolina.
Postmastera Uneo*j.
•' .v,
Why Bid Cen WeTroWanit T..ri. Over
•.K+rjxr ■*
Washington, D. C., March 13.—1 u
the Senate, Mr. Morton submUtecf an
order to return to the Western
Union Telegraph Company the tele-
,examined by the
coma3vißHi%jNuan' B an d Ei e °*
tions, but it was laid over nt the
request of Senator Mitchell.
The Senate, atll Sd.-ttHjk S t-8
until 1:30 p. m., ti-airait ilbmiuktibfca
from the President.
It le reported that Ex-Gov. Aiken
beco F3fcMW3£l e, ** w,ai '‘ o(
Charleston.
Persons holding tapes tan t post
offices seem to have an idea that
their services will soon be dispensed
with.
Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, sug
gested to the President, who granted
him an interview, that the best way
out of the feomplications in Louisia
na and South Carolina was new elec
tions in these States.
Mr. Bruce expressed UU approval
of the new SaAitkerfl ’policy and his
belief ** MT wfcatd be for the best
interest of the colored people of the
South if they, as a race, can be re
in ovdfrmftH TTT& pbSTttan which they
now ocqppy at solid iuiU*gonisui to
the the M 6 * 11 '
gnce*of that section, brought about
through carpet-bag machinations.
Secretary Thompson took charge
of the Navy Department to-day.
All # are now
regularly installed.
Stone b#-renominated for Dis
trict Attorney for South Carolina.
The President desired to send it in
again in deference to the endorse
ment of his predecessor. The South
Carolina Republicans are not very
earnest in their opposUfdh.
ThewtoMwcy U the soldier charged
with murder to Col. Bayiand, Bho is
Nichqnn*"CTffT~T(Tr- ponce, wettes
coeavmmtt&ixttnl & ot •
Gen. Auger had no instructions
from to the disposition
of the sffilflOTwOTm H 6 ftfaceif ftl tffe
t&ndmmmwmw oi Foace on
a charge of murder.
Noimuatlons—Lot M. Morrill. Col
lector of Customs for the District of
Portland aqd Paimouth, Maine.
Wm. 'Bufte,' Attorney for ‘South
Carolina.
Asa O. Albis, of Vermont, Jas. B.
Haraell, of lowa, and Orange Ferris,
of Nejr.Yof*, to ppqthirß Claim
Commlssidbers.
Postmasters—Win. R. Holloway, at
Indianapolis'*' Mtmaln/ 3 Fflbeek; at
Terre Haute; Geo. P. Fieger, South
Bend; John fe. Dowd, Rockville; and
Henry I ’DhVls, at Tfedtdfil- all of Im
diana. *
Gen. Babcock took charge of the
Fifth Light House District to-day, a*
Majol b4‘ Kj&iniseia! *•
Evarta will not give up his law prac
tice. -.
Seni^at‘fcatnerou, itif' .Wisoousin,
who had been sick, was in his seat
to-day;•*■* allise
Among’ 1 ftfey I*4 f ‘ 'are--that l
Georgia William Curtis will relieve
Pierrepont at the court of England ;
ex SeWOWry Wistew will take Caleb
Cushing’s place at Madrid; Marshall
Jewell wifi be returned to tit, Peters
burg; Bill Grosvenor, of Missouri,
will of Indian
Affaire; Kemer or Lew Wallace will
be sent to Mexico; Senator Logan
r^aHV'^ittiDK'
racial
naiiots to proper committees, ud
j pf
Customs, He. . c .
Blaftreildit figvorti new elect Km* in
South Catotfmk and Louisiana. He
takes this ground, as be is quoted,
in view of the possibility that the
President may not recognize Packard
and Chamberlain.
The
ty in the Senate to-uay. Morton
withheld oh "Kellogg on
this accottnElf tfOOfl ,kl
Senator Morton was with -the bow
Secretary of the Navy this morning
when he assumed bis functions.
The struggle oyer the Petersburg
aud Lynchburg and Charleston post
offices was ineffectual to-day.
CAUPKT-BAU I*KKVBBrrT
THET TOREATEN TO RULE Olt BREAK UP
■ TUE RADICAL PARTY.
Washington, March 13. A special !
to rf&ew York paper says a number
of informal caucuses have been held
by the Southern Republicans during j
the past day or two, and they have l
with but few exceptions expressed a
determination to do everything in
their power to prevent the recogni- 1
tion ot the Nieholls or,
Hampton govemjn en t’ B - Should
they fail in this, as now belivetl to;
be probable, they will, or at least,
they say they will change the politl- 1
calcomidexion of the upper House of
Congress by voting against the ad
mission of Kellogg from Louisiana,;
or Corbin froth South Carolina.
t ksijiieu w( Kot;m.i> i> new
ORLEANS.
, - -- -i
ANOTHER SOLDIER, SUSPECTED OF THE
Mi; an git. IS TURNED OVER TO
nicholls’ Police.
New Orleans, March 13. Henry A.
Voorhees, Company B, Thirteenth
Infantry, was found dead yesterday
in a stable near where a military
guard is stationed. Voorhees was
shot through tho head.
William Porter, Company K, Third
Infantry, who is charged with the
murder, was placed under guard,
and by order of Gen. De Trobriand,
has been turned over to Cpl. Bay
land, Siqieriutendent of Police.
I'. N, Miprt'me Court Declsiomi.
Washington, March 13. —ln the Su
preme Court, Foster vs. master and
warden of the port of New Orleans
—held fiere that the act o t Louisiana
authorizing tho master and wardens
of the port to survey the hatches of
vessels, and forbidding others mak
ing such survey, is unconstitutional.
Revised with instructions to dis
miss the bill.
The notable Chopenning Mail
Contract case was decided against
the claimant.
HEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.
Boston, March 13. -Reports from
the principal towns in New Hamp
shire at 10 o’clock indicate nothing
decisive as to the result of the elec
tion.' Owing taunfavorablo weather,
the vote is as yet light.
At Concord, in wards four and five,
Mr. Briggs Republican for Congress,
runs considerably behind his ticket,
and Mr. Sulloway, Democrat, is pro
portionately ahead.
At Nashua, the Democrats will
probably elect a Mayor and a major
ity of the Aldermen.
At Portsmouth, the Republicans
look for an Increased majority.
4t jClaremont, Mr. Kent, Demo
crat for Congress, is ahead of hls
ticket; also at Keene.
Nothing detinite has been received
from Frank Jones’ district, except
from £>dver, which reports him as
not rtnnrag #© far ahead of his ticket
as at previous elections.
LATER.
Concord, March 13.-Sixty towns
and cities give Prescott, Republican,
10,378; Marcy 9,171; scattering 99.
Same towns in 187S gave Cheney, Re
publican, 10,647; Marcy, Democrat,
9,282 ; scattering 92 ; Republican net
loss 158.
latest.
Concord, N. H., March 13.—Eighty
towns and cities give Prescott, Hep.,
17,244 ; Marcy, Dem., 14,120; scatter
ing 137. In 1876 the same places
gave Cheney 17,071; Marcy 14,079;
scattering 168. Kepublicun net gain
in these places 3.
Twenty-five towns of fhe First
Congressional District give Marstpu,
Rep., 4,981; Jobes* Dem., 4,495 ; ic&t
tring36.
Twenty towns in the Second Con
gressional District givu Briggs, Rep.,
sJtyl; Sulloway, Dem., 4,487 ; scatter
ing 25.
.Thirty-five towns in the Third
District give Blair,
Rep., 6,011; Kent, Dem., 4,902; scat
tering 45.
Senator.
Harkisbubo, Pa., March 13.--The
Hppublicau caucus nominated Don
Cameron for United States Senator,
and passed a resolution endorsing |
Hayee’ policy.
The Pope’* Al'ocutlou.
Rome, March 13.—The Pope deliv-j
ered an allocution in the consistory \
, wi)ich was held at the Vatican yes-;
ijeirtlay. He paesed in review events j
prince 187ot and said that Italy took
of Rome at an epoch when
aigenerous nation was in sore dis
tress. He declared that the Italian
ecclesiastical laws deprived him of
the means of administering the (
Church, and left him only the liberty j
graated by the ordinary laws. He
lamentediis inability tp,prevent im- 1
morality and irreligion from perme
ating society.
In conclusion, bo pronounced con
ciliation impossible, and appealed to
foreign bishops to incite the faithful
to the good Wr* Of, iuduping tbetf
governments to take the poaition 01,
the Holy See into consideration.
COLUMBUS, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 1877.
THE EASTERN QUESTION.
TIRKRI AND MOXTKXKWHO IUVT
AGItKK.
Outline* ol* tho PropanMl Protocol.
Constantinople, Mar. 13.—A council
of Turkish Ministers on Monday de
clared that the Montenegrin demands
for the cession of Nicisic and territo
ry on the Albanian frontier are inad
missible. The Montenegrin delegates
appear resolved to adhere to their
demands. They will confer again to
day with Safoet Pasha.
N. Philip Chisties remains here as
the Servian diplomatic ageut..
London, March 19. —The Times, in
its leading article, says to day will
be memorable iu the history of the
Eastern Question.
The Cabinet meets to consider tho
terras of an agreement among the
powers. It does not contain any ar
gument to use coercion in any form.
Tho powers will employ their di
plomatic inlluenee in favor of reform.
The conference is decided to be nec
essary, but further than this they
will not go. No term is Used within
which the powers are to use their in
fluence, or after which they consid
er that their efforts have failed.
When t lie proposal which Lord
De,rby submits to his colleague has
been accepted by the other Europe
an powers, it is expected that Russia
will declare herself satisfied, and
demobilization will follow in due
course.
A protocol to be signed by the
Porte and countersigned by the pow
ers as the form of agreement which
has found most favor.
The article continues : we believe if
Eugland accepts this, all other pow
ers will. It then depends upon the
temper in which the Porte receives
the agreement and the acts with
which it follows it, to show whether
we are on the path of final pacifica
tion. Hitherto the Sultan’s govern;,
j rtient has showu no desire to come to
Terms with Russia. Wo can only
j hope that the Porte will not by ac
tion or Inaction, by purposeless defi
ance or ill-timed obstinacy, frustrate
the sincere attempts or tho other
States to avert, war.
r.IUMNU OF A MAIL FAIL
many valuable letters destroyed.
Washington, March 13. Advices
have been received from Toledo,
Ohio, that upward of 20,000 ordinary
and about 000 registered letters were
destroyed by the burning of the pos
tal* car attached to train No. 4, on the
Buffalo & Chicago Railroad, leaving
Chicago ten minutes to 9 a. m. on the
Bth inst. The traiu collided with a
freight train near Sedan, lud., the
shook upsetting the stove and burn
ing up tho car and contents. The
registered mail lost must have been
very valuable, as this tiain usually
brings tho bankers’ remittances of
bond and other collaterals, besides
many costly articles sent registered,
and for which no refund can be ob
tained. _
Mlltll !WH.
New York, March 13—Arrived: Ca
ion.
Arrived out: Jas. A. Wright, Gladti
dtngs, Labrador, Prince Rupert,C. E. Rob
son, Rudolph, Ebel, Hecla, Kalemta, Mon
treal, Fannie M. Carville, Losseps, Pearl
of India. Milton, George Freyer, Edward
Cromwell, Mardall, Charleston, Admeta,
Ambrosia, Gilroy, Adler, Peter Rothland,
Asmo, Onfecl, Ktnilie, Lydia, Westminis
ter, Dronomiger, Wanderer, Texas.
London, March 13—Brig Sunshine,
from Port Royal, S. C., for the United
Kingdom, abandoned on the 23d of Febru
ary. The crew landed at Liverpool by
brk Nashnamain.
Fire In Baltimore.
Baltimore, March 13.—The four
story brick warehouse, No. 31 Com
merce street, occupied by W. D.
Scburiz & Cos., wholesale fish and
cheese dealers, and Jesse Lazear &
Cos., wholesale grocers, was burned
this morning.
WtVniKK t.WIKATIOVd.
War Department, j
OFficE of Chief Signal Officer, r
Washington, March 14, 1877. )
For the South Atlantic States,
falling barometer, northeast to
southwest winds, warmer, cloudy
and rainy weather will prevail.
Last Week’s Lotion Future*.
The New York Chronicle, of (lie
10th. feign ts receipts of the seven
days, ending Friday night, March
9th, 50,742 bales, against 78,380 the
corresponding week of last year
showing a toss of 27,3G8 bales, lotai
receipts of the cotton year to that
date 3,023,749 bales, against 3,569,522
to same date last year—reducing the
excess to 54,227 bales.
The New York Cotton Exchange
statement for the same days, was
49 163 bales, against 78,018 -showing
a loss of 28,855 bales. Total receipts
3,005.194, against 3,555,301— showing
an increase of 49.833 bales.
The Chronicle \s Interior Port table
shows receipts of the same days, 23,-
911, against 42,482 last year, Hbip
ments 27.798. against 44,031. Stocks,
109,281, against 194,405.
The Chronicle’s visible supply table
showed 3,140,972 bales cotton last Fri
i day, against 3,032,310 same date last
| year, 3.000,191 the year before, and
3,050,9iKJ in 1873, showing an increase
of 58,582,140,701. nnd 89,983 bales res
pectively. On Friday middling up
lands were worth in the Liverpool
market 6 9-16-oh Friday year 6j-at
Bam* date in 1874, 7J, and in 1873, 7|
and Bd. The New York market was
i fluctuating during the week, and
i showed a net decline of three
; sixteenths—closing at 12i-
THE TIGER'* CLAWS.
WHAT A YOUNG MAN DROPPED WHILE
FIGHTINU THE FELINE—THAT TRICKY
LITTLE SILVER BOX-SLANG VOCABU
LARY OF THE SPORTS.
X. Y. Humid.]
A ease giving what, maybe termed
au expose of the mysteries of faro,
and also portraying interesting and
highly instructing facts concerning
the great expectations of a "green”
young man, came up before Judge
Larreinore yesterday in special term
of the Court of Common Pleas. It
would appear, as the story goes, that
Mr. Jotiu A. Wallace, according to
the representation of his counsel, Mr.
A. H. H. Dawson, is a “credulous,”
but very ambitious young man,
whose hopes of future wealth were
oftentimes frustrated in a most unex
pected aud aggravating manner. Not
withstanding the numerous cheeks
and reverses of Mr. Wallace’s finan
cial career, his courage and perse
vering energy never deserted him.
Schemes of magnitude would Hit
through the imaginative brain of this
ambitious youth, only to meet, how
ever, with the accustomed ill luck.
It is not surprising, therefore, that,
reduced by bad speculations and
financial loans, the young man
should become desperate and resort
to other and more hazardous schemes
t o accomplish the object of his heart’s
desire. Having for his prospective
pinnacle of greatness the possession
of untold millions, he soon fell a vic
tim to "sharpers.” One day Wallace
became acquainted with two appa
rently respectable and well-dressed
men, who told him that they kept an
establishment where Mr. Wallace
might, if lie chose, make his ever
lasting fortune; and the sequence of
this unfortunate meeting is aptly de
scribed iu the following complaint
and affidavits, which wore presented
yesterday on a motion made by Mr.
A. OaUev Hall to vacate au order of
arrest against these two respectable
and well-dressed men:
THE SILVER BOX DODGE.
The complaint states that one Sam
uel E. Briggs and one Charles N.
Moody are confederates iu cheating
aud swindling, and pursue that voca
tion ; that they employ and use a sil
ver box just large enough to hold a
deck of cards, arid constructed in a
manner to enable them to control
it at will, into which they put a deck
of cards trimmed in a manner toena
ble them to control each card at will
by the aid of tho box; that defend
ants represented to the plaintiff that
they played a fair game and that the
box was a fair box, whereby he was
induced to raise tlie sum of $12,600,
every cent Of which tie lias lost in
defendant’s establishment. He no w
says that the box was a fruud, and
the game also, and that, the game was
not the game of faro, because it was
not u game of clmuoo, and he claims
judgment, against them for $12,600.
Upon this complaint the order of
arrest was granted, at the instance of
Mr. A. H. 11. Dawson, who appeared
for tho plaintiff.
Mr. A. Oakey Hall, in his argu
ment to vacate the order, recited very
many of the old English stat utes re
lating to gambling, comparing them
with cur own statutes, aud claimed
that'the potion brought by plaintiff
could not be entertained in tile
courts, because his action was pre
mature, and that, being a partweps
criminis, ho had no right to bring an
action. .
Mr. Dawson road the affidavit of
Mr. Wallace, as follows:
Wallace’s affidavit.
John A. Wallace, being duly sworn,
states that he Ims a sufficient cause
of action against the above named
defendants, which arose out of the
following facts and circumstances.
Late in October, 1874, affiant was in
troduced to defendant Briggs as
Charles Stevens, and to defendant
Moody as Mr. Greeuloaf; that they
repreresented themselves as gentle
men of leisure, possessed of ample
means, and as keeping a club-house
ror the resort of bankers and brokers
at No. 1132 Broad, New York City;
that they also were the proprietors
of a game against which it was no
unusual thing for a banker or broker
to bet and win $30,000 or $40,000 of
an evening. They stated that they
left from $40,(W0 in tho drawer or
the table on which the game was
played, and always paid whatever
was lost on the spot. Afflaut states
that he never knew one card from
another; that he had never bet a
cent in his life on cards, and knew
nothing about any games whatever
on which money is lost and
won. He further states that he
does make, in speculations in real
estate, bonds and stocks, frequently
very hazardous ’ ventures, and often
with very profitable results; that he
has very frequently lost gulden op
portunities to make brilliant transac
tions for ttie want of a few thousand
dollars. That within tho last four
years his real estate transactions
have amounted to several hundred
thousands of dollars. That at the
time these defendants made to him
the represen tat ions above set forth
about the facility with which bankers
and brokers would win from $39,000
to $40,000 of an evening from them,
he was in need of a few thousand dol
lars more than ho had to consum
mate transactions which promised
to pay brilliant profits, and that for
several days alter these facts were
stated to him his mind was
continually haunted by visions of
the profit ho might make if he could
command the sum he needed, and of
the probability that he might win
such a sura if he ventured, until he
concluded to do so, and did, and that
he lost on the first venture some SBOO
or $1,000; that when he lost strangers
to him seemed to be betting, too,
against the same game and winning ;
that he felt that it was simply his
bad luck, and resolved to try it
again, and again lost a similar sum,
and that he kept on risking and los
ing. until he, lost, within three
months following, at No, 1132 Broad
way, risking against the same gatne
some $12,500; that he was always in
structed by said Stevens where to put
his money down, but that on risking
the sum of $12,500 he never won the
first dollar.
the name of it.
Affiant states further that he has
sinoe investigated the matter, and
that he has learned that the trick or
device by which he was relieved of
his money is known by the name of
faro; that Stevens proper name is
Briggs, and that Green leaf’s proper
name is Moody, and that they enjoy
the reputation of professional gamb
lers, who live by swindling, cheating
and defrauding ignorant mon at
cards; that it. is not true that they)
keep a club house for bankers aud
brokers and that, on the contrary,
neither bankers nor brokers, nor utiy
person whatever of respectability,
visited their house at all; that it was
and is simply a den of thieves, into
which strangers are inveigled to be
robbed bv the means above described;
that at the time affiant was intro
duced there, he was, as he still is,
R resident of the City of St. Louis,
Mo. Affiant further states that
Stevens represented himself as only
an agent of the house, aud that the
title of tlie firm was Wood &Gruuhas,
and that the Wood who was at the
house was the Hon. Benjamin Wood,
wiio is the owner and editor of the
New York Evening New*, whereas
the truth is that Bcujman Wood has
not, and never had, any connection
with the house, and that its solo
proprietors are the above named
defendants.
A SLANG DICTIONARY.
The reading of this affidavit was
followed by auother affidavit, made
by Henry A. Crowd, who says that
he is acquainted with the übove Darn
ed defendants, nnd is familiar with
their habits of business; that they
are professional gamblers, and deal
faro for a livelihood ; that they use
the implements invented for the ex
press purpose of cheating and de
frauding those who bet, against them;
that the box out of which they deal
1 the cards is so constructed that they
j may take one or two cards, justas they
choose ; that said card is so trimmed
that an expert shuffler can know the
location of each card in the deck to
every other card in the deck when he
puts them in the box to deal, and the
moment he has dealt the cards,
from the manner in which said cards
are marked, he can tell whether it is
necessary to draw one or two cards
in/brderto make the better ugainst
the Cfime lose ; that this box is tech
nically called among gamblers a
“snide,”'' “skin” or "brace” box;
that the cards thus trimmed are
called "strippers,” aud that the type
or style of gambler who use such
boxes and cards depend upon
“suckers” for patronage—-in other
words, men ignorant of gambling;
that- the house kept by defendants,
at No. 1132 Broadway, is a notorious
"skin game;” that this game is not
properly described as gambling; that
gambling means trick, and that the
defendants risk nothing; that it is
simply a trick or device through and
by which the defendants swindle,
cheat and defraud all persons green
and ignorant enough to be caught in
their trap.
Mr. Dawson said that Charles V or
VI, he didn’t know which, used to
compel ids ministers to play a fait
game of faro all day, and it is stated
that tlie excitement and intoxication
of the game prepared him to take up
and dispose of the many affairs of
State with a lighter heart and better
mind. "Why,” said Mr. Dawson,
"Washington and Lafayette intro
duced faro into this country; but,”
lie continued, “can you say that the
game now played is the same?”
After a lengthy argument Judge
Larreinore took the papers, reserv
ing decision.
1 lie Wife of n Famous American
Pioneer.
From the Harper's Monthly, February.]
Mrs. Blennerhasset, the wile of Blen
neriiasset who came over from England
seventy-live years ago, and settled on a
beautiful island in the Ohio, and who was
ruined by his conspiracy with Aron Burr
against the United States, was in all re
spects a very accomplished lady. Her
figure, tall and commanding, was molded
in the most perfect proportions. Her
features, over which was spread a most
brilliant complexion, were beautiful. A
strong mind, highly cultivated, gave to
those features that inimitable grace which
intelligence alone can confer. Brown
hair, profuse and glossy, dark blue eyes,
and manners both winning and graceful,
ever attracted attention to her, even in
the most brilliant circles. She was very
charitable to the sick and the poor in her
neighborhood, often carrying to them
those little delicacies Which could no
where else be obtained. Site had been
brought up by two wealthy maiden aunts,
who had taken great care to instruct her
in all the useful arts of housewifery,
which education she found to be of inest
imable value in herjnew bomc.She invari
ably dressed like u lady, in the most ele
gant manner. Her ordinary head-dress
consisting of n turban folded very full, in
the Oriental style. It was of rich silk,
sometimes while, which washer favorite
color in summer, but in winter pink or
yellow. Avery intelligent lady who was
lamiliar with society in Washington, and
had visited in the courts of Europe,
writes, “I have never be held any one
who was equal in person to Mrs Blen
nerbasset in beauty of person, dignity of
manners, elegance of dress —in ali that is
lovely and finished in the female person—
as she was when queen of tile fairy isle.
When she rode on horseback, her dress
was of onejof scarlet broadcloth ornament
ed witii gold buttons; a white beaver
hat, on which floated the graceful plumes
of the ostr cb, of the same color. This
was sometimes changed to blue or yel
low, with features to harmonize. She
was a perfect equestrienne, always ridiug
a very spirited horse, with rich trappings,
who aeeuuul pruud of his burden. Sue
accomplished the ride to Marietta of
fourteen miles in about two hours, dash
ing through and under the dark foliage
of tin; forest trees which when covered
the greater part of the distance, remind
iogimewf the gay plumage anil rapid
flight of some tropical bird winging its
way through tiie "woods.”
The Ofllcc* tn the Mouth.
Waaniugton Special to the Cincinnati Gazetted
Senator Conover, of Florida, is the
first of the Southern Republican Sen
ators to call upon Hayes to state that
he is willing to try the new Southern
policy. The interview was a loug
and cordial one. Mr. Conover 3tated
that while willing to co-operrte with
the President in making the experi
ment, he had many misgivings as to
its success. Mr. Conover, himself,
received thirteen Democratic votes
when elected. In consideration of
this he felt bound to recognize, to
sortie extent, Democrats in appoint
ments to local offices. The result
had not given satisfaction, and Mr.
Conover had suffered severely from
the Republicans on account of it.
He feared that President Ilayes
would have a similar experience.
The President intimated that it
might be well to leave the offices
vacant for it time, until the success
of the new policy is assured.
500 pieces new Hamburg Trimmings
Cheaper still. J. Kyle A Cos.
mti4 eod4t
Wlds-Tired Wheel*.
Tliis is another point which wouie
pretty apt to overlook, greatly to our
disadvantage. We suiter ourselves to
bo guided by wagon-makers, and the
wheelwright knows very well that lie j
lives by his trade. He serves himself j
when we are suited with narrow
wheels. A set of wheels with four
inch or six-inch rims and heavy tires
cost to make considerably more than
a set of two and a half inches wide,
but an extra price is always put upon
them. They are well worth it.
A wagon or cart with a six-iDeh
tread will take heavy loads over
soft meadows and hardly leave a
track, where a narrow-wheeled
wagon with a similar load could not
go at all. On country roads, such
broad tread vehicles destroy rutsund
act like rollers, making the roads
agrecabl for light carriages and
keeping them in much better order
throughout the years. It would be a
real blessing to every State of the
Union, to put so heavey a tax or nar
row wheels upon heavy wagons and
carts, that they would become quite
obsolete. Millions of dollars would
be saved to the people of each State,
in repairs of roads, in repairs of wag
ons, and in horse flesh. —American
Agriculturist.
Hon. W. R. Morrison, who was the
chairman of the House committee in
the Louisiana investigation, wrote
to a friend in Illinois a few days ago
as follows; “Many of our friends,
and some of tlie moat influential,
think, or pretend to think, that we
are bound by obligations cf good
faith to go on under tlie Electoral
Commission bill to see Hayes fraud
ulently counted in. There are so
many of this way of think
ing that this result seems
to mo to be inevitable. The
truth is that our groat man, Tildeu,
able, as he undoubtedly is, did not
have the pluck to meet tlie require
ments of the occasion at the right
time, though I suppose it must bo
said to his credit that when this
Commission was gotten up it was ex
pected thut Davis would be the
eighth man.”
B
The City Council of Augusta have pass
ed an ordnance creating a sinking fund
for the payment of the bonded debt of
the city. The Commissioners of the fund
are the Mayor and Finance Committee
of Council, Messrs. Wm. E. Jackson
Josiah Sibley, Z. McCord and Wm. A.
Walton. These latter hold their office
during good behavior, and have power to
(ill vacancies occuring in their body.
The sinking fund is to be created from
an extra tax of one-quarter of one per
cent, on all taxable property in the city,
and from one-half ot the net amount re
alized from the sale of city lots.
The Wheat I'riiKpect.
We have recently been through the
counties of Polk, Paulding Floyd, Chat
tooga, Walker/, Catoosa, Whitfield, and
find the stand of wheat generally good;
hut the growth is very small for this sea
son. The farmers generally consider
the prospect good for at least an average
crop.
The past few weeks of fine weather
have been improved by the farmers, aud
the farm work in this section is fully up
to the usual state of advancement. A
large portion of the upland intended for
corn is now ready for planting. —Rome
Couriei', 10th.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MONEY AND STOCKS.
LONDON, March 13.—Noon—Eric 7V
PARIS, March 13.-2:30 p. u.— Rentes 1071. and
12*c.
NEW YORK, March 13.—Noon—Gold opened
104
NEW YORK, March 13.—Noon—Stock* active
and irregular; money 2@2V: gold 4), joxchange,
long, 4.H4),; short 4.SC; Governments ateady;
State bonde steady.
NEW YORK, March 13 Evening Money
2@2)i; sterling dull at Qtf; gold ateady at 4R;
Governments activo aud ateady—new 6’a 914;
Statea quiet and nominal.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, March 13.—Noon—Cotton vsry
flat: middling uplands 6 7-IGU, Orlvaua 6),d,
as.t:K 6,000, speculation nd export 600, rocsipts
49,8(3; American 44,136.
Futures weaker; sellers at Inst night’s prices;
uplands, low middling clause, March n<{ April
delivery, 0 6-16d; April nod May 6Jv<gin-32d;
May and June 6Jf@16.32d; June end July 6
9-lOd; July snd Auguet 6Jfd; Bhipped February
per sail b 7-ICd; Marchsnd April delivery 6 9-B2d;
Jims and July 6 19 32d; shipped March ud April
per sail 6Jfd.
8:00 r. M.— Uplands, low middling clause,
April snd May delivery OJ-.d, May and June
(i)-,d; snipped February and March per sail 6
7-lbd.
4:00 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, April
and May delivery 6 13-3’Jd, May and Juno 617-3 id,
June and July 0 9-16d, snipped February per sail
b 16-32d.
Sales Amcricau 3,960,
6:00 p. m.—Futures closed 11 ru;; uplands, low
middling clause, Juno and July delivery 6
19-3'id, uieo 6>;d, July and Auguet and 2t-3'Jd; ship
ped Februaryaud March per sail 6 16 o'2d.
NEW York, March 13.—Noon—Cotton quiet;
uplands 12; Orleans 12,q ; saies 327.
Futures opened steady at a decline, as follows:
March 11 8u@.90; April 11.39@.91; May 12.06;
Juno 12.17®.19; July i2.25 .30,
NEW YORK, March 13. - Evening Cotton
easier; middling uplands I‘2; Orleans 12J4;
saies 124 b; not receipts 60; gross 610.
Consolidated net receipts 23,804; expurts to
Great Britain 2318; to France 6784; to Continent
3533; to channel .
Futurea closed steady; Bales 92,000; March
J1.90fai.92; April 11.96® 90; May 12.10®.11; June
12.24®...6; July 12.33®. .4, August 12.37®.38;
oepieinoer 12.17®.19, October 11.90@12; No
vember 1i.76<y.77; December 1t.75®.77.
GALVESTON, March 13.—Cotton weak; mid
diiug U%; net receipts 860; sales 617; exports
coastwise 1372.
NORFOLK, March 13.—Evening—Cotton dull;
middlings not receipts 840; sake 60;
exports coastwise 684.
BALTIMORE, March 13.—Evening Cotton
dull; middling 12; net receipts 1, gross 15u;
sales 176; splnuere 70; exports to Great Britain
—; coastwise 280.
BOSTON. March 13.—Evening—Cotton quiet
and easy; middling 12Jf; net receipts 268; gross
3uß; exports to Great Britain
WILMINGTON, March 13 -Evening Cetton
dull and nominal; middling lljf; net receipts
1312. sales —; spinners —; exports to France —,
coastwise —.
PHILADELPHIA, March 13.—Evanlng—Cotton
quiet; middling 12K; net receipts 164; gross
999:sales to spinners 661; exports to Orest
Britain —■
SAVANNAH, March 13.—Evanlng —Cotton
dull; middling UK; net receipts 363; sales 250;
exports to continent —; coastwise —.
NEW ORLEANS. March 13.—Evening—Cotton
quiet and easy; middling UK; l° w middling 11;
good ordinary 10K, net receipts 2647; gross
3180; sales 4500. exports to Great Britalu 6344;
to Continent —; to France 4284; coastwise —.
MOBILE, March 13 Cotton weak and lrregu
lar; middling 11@UX; net receipts 445; sales
250; exports to Great Britain —; Contlnet —,
to France —; coaatwise 232.
MEMPHIS. March 13.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 11,•, ’ receipts 772;hipinente 1228; saies
600.
AUGUSTA. March IS.—Cotton weak, middling
11',; receipt* 343; aalea lOS.
CHARLESTON, March 13.—Evaulug —OotMs
dull; wtddUuga 11140*12. net receipt* 637; sal**
lauo; eaporta to Great Britain 11110; to Franc*
—; coast win* —.
FKO VISIONS. AV.
NEW YORK, March 13 Noun- Flour quiet
and unchanged. Wheat dull and nominal, our*
quiet. Pork heavy at tK 00. Lard heavy,
steam 10 43. Frelgut* Arm.
NEW YORK, March 13. Evening Flour
firm, moderate demand (or hnrnaua* light export
inquiry, maily for city mill talraa, price* un
changed; market cloaed Itnn, at S,V 804,(8.75,
Sou thorn Hour ateady; common hi lair extra
fa.HOt^IS.3O; good to choice do. (6.80@8.60.
Wheat without decided chauge, only vary mod
erate buaineaa, No. 2, red Western, ft.. 9, white
Wester* fl.Ol. Corn lea* active, eleaiug shads
easier; ungraded Weste.ru mixed 544,41)64, old
Wee tern mixed afloat 68 t„ yellow Southern |a>,;
white do., 33(4:09. Oats dull, aud slightly in
buyers' lvor; mixed Weeteru aud State 50.
Coffee, Km, qtilol—eargooe, 17(4/41 for gold Job
lota, 171,(0.22 for gold. Sugar uull aud declin
ing; 8 Vq/J tor fair to good re&niug, refined
quiet aud lower at 40'; 1- .>*<*. tor ataudard A,
granulated tl*4<ji. Hi* tor powdered uud
duelled. Molasses -rehutug gradea quiet aud
firm; other kind* quiet; N. 0., 40(456. Klee
quiet aud steady, Carolina 6)*@BV. Louisiana
4Rlgil>',. l’ora opcuod unset tied, cloaed Armer;
new mess. (14 511(475. L*rd cloaed much higher,
prime ateam elosiug (0.00 asked. Whiskey dull
aud lower at 7,q. Frcighta steady.
CINCINNATI, March 13.—Evening Floar
Armer, not qnotably higher; family (0.005016. HO;
auperhue tail f6.25ia50, extra (6.75(4(614,
double .extra do. (6.35@50, treble extra do.
(5 50. Wheat quiet and ateady; red (1.40(3)1.6*.
Com Arm at 42(4)43. Oats ateady at 35@4b. By#
tn goad demaud at 726*73. Barley in lair demand
tor better grades, cbolce (Canada) 91.0P@f1.06.
Perk quiet and Arm (14.35. Lard in guod de
mand, aud lower, steam BV@9. kettle 1043)11.
Bulk meate active and Arm—s, 7, and 7;41 for
shoulders, abort rib aud clear aides. Bacon
Arm—6'4, Hltytl, 8 and 81414 V. tor abouldera,
clear rib aud clear aides. Whiskey unsettled
aud nominal at 3. Butter iu fair demand;
Western reserve 34(425, Central Ohio 30(42.1.
ST. LOUIS. March 13.—Evening—Flour Arm;
auperAue (5. 75(a)(7.00; extre f6.754pf6.75.
Wheat unsettled and lower to soil; No. 3. red fall
(1.45 V. No. 3, rto„ sl.*3>4. Corn active; No. 2,
mixed 3C‘,. Oats—an advance asked, but non*
eetablieh'd; No. 2. 35(435)4 aeked. Rye Arm aud
Inactive at 04 hid. Barley Arm. etrlctiy prime to
choice Minnesota 85<H190. Whiskey quiet at 4.
Pork dull at (14 00, i-ard dull nominal at 9.V,
Bulk meats in guod demand aud ateady, more
duiug clear rib aide* *7 26. Bacon eaay at 6V,
H l , aud B>, (or abouldera. clear rib and clear
•idea.
LOUISVxLLE, March 13.—Flour dull, extra
(5.76(a;(6.00. Wheat eoarce end wanted; red
(1 50, amber (1.55, white (1.60(466. Corn dull.
No. 1, white 42, mixed 44. Rye in fair demand
at 75. Gate cull—No. 1, white 42. mixed 41.
Pork dull at (11.50. Bulk meat* Armer—(*4.
7)4, and 7V. for abouldore, clear rib and clear
aideß. Bacon dull and unsettled —614. and
9, for shoulder*, clear rib and clear aides.
Sugar-cured hams 11 q (6)12)4■ Lard unaettled,
lieree lUV. keg 11. Whiskey ateady at 1 06.
Bagging quiet at 12'4SH3.
BALTIMORE,March 13.—Oata quiet, and ateady
Southern prime 40#41. Rye ateady and Arm at
70(472. Provisions dull and heavy. Pork (16.60.
Bacon—shoulders 746','. clear rib 9V- Lard,
refined lORIgHI. toffee very firm except fer
low aud medium grades which are dull; jobs
17),@22. Whiskey dull at 8. Sugar quiet at
ll‘.
AT THE CAB.II UKV LOOII* HOI ML.
SPE THE PBICFS! !
Worsted Fringes commencing at Bc.
Silk Dress Buttons at sc. per dozen.
Double-width Tabic Cloths, pure linen,
at 36c. per yard, worth 00c.
Closings, Hamburgs at a sacrifice.
A small lot of Worsted—Plaids and
Stripes, at 15c., wortli 35c.
Black Grenadines, old stock at a saving
of 33 per cent, on prices to obtain in 30
days:
One piece at 87%c., worth 50c.
“ “ “ 85c. “ $1.25.
“ “ •• SI.OO “ 1.50.
They are all perfect Goods.
Shoulder Shawls at 35c.
feb2 tf J. S. Jones.
Lumber, Lumber, Lumber.
Call and see our Lumber.
jal4 tf Willingham Jfc Cos.
Nash. Hour, and' Blind Emporium.
2,000 Window Sash glazed.
1,000 pairs Blinds with Buffer's im
proved Blind Hinge.
1,500 White Pkie Doors.
50,000 foot White Pine Moulding.
All for sale cheap, by
Willingham fc Cos.,
On Randolph St., opposite Gammel’s old
stables. jal4 tf
Zephyr Wool*.
I have received this day 25!bs. JSephyr
Wools in White and Colors.
3. Albert Kikven.
sure Male.
Kirve%'s 8 cent.Soa Island Cotton.
“ 8 and 10 cent Bleached Cotton.
feblO tf
Momethlng
real cheap, you will find in Kirven’s 200
peces of Hamburg Trimmings.
feblO tf
The first shipment of Spring Dress
Goods, received yesterday at the New
York Store. Gordon A Cargill.
febl7 tf
Mr. Mchenck'H tandard Remedies.
The standard remedies for all diseases
of the lungs are Sohenek’s Pulmonic Syr
up, Schehck’s Sea Weed Tonic, and
Schenck’s Mandrake Pills, and if taken
before the lungs are destroyed, a speedy
cute is effected.
To these three medicines Dr. J. H.
Schenck, of Philadelphia, owes his unri
valled success in the treatment of pulmo
nary diseases.
The Pulmonic Syrup ripens the roordid
matter in the lungs; nature throws It off
by tin easy expectoration, fpr when the
phlegm or matter is ripe a slight cough
will throw it off, the patient has rest and
the lungs begin to heal. ■' ,
To enable the Pulmonic Syrup todothis,
Schenck’s Mandrake Pills and Schenck b
Sea Weed Tonic must be freely used to
cleanse the stomach and liver. Schenck's
Mandrake Pills act on the liver, removing
all obstructions, relax the gall bladder,
the bile starts freely, and the liver is re-
Heved.
Suhenek’s Sea Weed Tonic is a gentle
stimulant and alterative; the alkali of
which it Is composed mixes with the food
and prevents souring. It assists the di
gestion ky toning up the stomach to a
healthy condition; so that the food and
the Pulmonic Syrup will make good
blood, then the lungs heal, and the patient
will surely get well II care is taken to pre
vent fresh Cold. _ _ .
AU who wish to consult Dr. Schenck,
either personally or by letter, can do so at
his principal office, corner of Sixth and
Arch, streets, Philadelphia, every Mon
t**Schpnc‘ks Medicines are sold by all
druggists throughout the country.
mhl eod2m
mabable hotel,
NORTH-EAST CORNER OF SQUARE
LA FAYETTE, ALA.
Mrs. S. W. Williams, Proprietress.
Boabd by the Day, Week or Month, at the most
reasonable rates. , „ ... ~ _
Livery Stable connected with the House,
w2tdCt
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