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WASHINGTON.
AN EXTRA SESSION PROPOSED ON THE
ISTH MAY,
Is it to Affect the Louisiana
Settlement?
P. M. GEN'L KEY’S FAMILY WILL
NOT GO TO WASHINGTON.
Tii3r\rT£-TI
Virtuous Kellogg!
OKDF.UK XO OEXFR.VI. HANCOCK
— -yjf .'■=7
Washington, April s.—The Repub
lican threatens the Bemocratic ftW
of the Senate with being aided and
abetted hereafter by Senator Patter
son.
It is intimated that the pacifica
tion of Louisiana is to be postponed
until after the 15th af May, when it
is proposed to organize the Forty
fifth Congress. The Administration
is not entirely emotional. A stratum
of subtlety outcrops here aud there.
It begins to appear that the en
igences of the Navy Department re
quires that Congress should assem
ble as early as May Isth. There are
three month’s pay due that branch
of .jhe servicfc. I| is a
aese*tiaijof malice tut corniest the
pacification of Louisiana and the
organization of the House with the
early call for the extVa The
suggestion does not come from the
friends of Louisiana, or the admin
istration. !•
■The family of Postmaster General
Key will f pot come tu,Washington.
On this subject, the Chattanooga
TiJh ear spe altlng bf the Postmaster
General, says: “His identity with
Chattanooga and the esteem in which
his family are held would cause a
protest so earnest and general that
they would certainly yield. Besides,
he has a large family and splendid
home, and it would not seem prudent
to change. Mrs. Key has not kept
pace with her husband in growing
grey;* she, indeed, appears quite
young. His oldest daughter, Miss
Ertitna, having graduated at Salem,
N. 0., Institute, is at borne. Her sis
ter, Miss Kate, Is stilt at the Insti
tute.” ;
The Washington special to the
Baltimore Sw/t bas this: Et-Govern
or.Kellogg had a lengthy interview
with the President on Tuesday, and
the latter much surprise
that Gov, Kellogg was not going
home to see after "Eifs 'interests and
the good of his State. Gov. Kellogg
says if he went to New Orleans and
a solution of the" dtfferencfe were ar
rived at, by which he wouid have no
further contest for his seat, >hep his
enemies would allege that he had
sold out his party and bis friends,
Wisßrsuib#..!). p„ April 5,1877,
To Qen. IP. S, Hancock Commanding
MiUtary Divxmoh of Vie Ailantufy
New York City:
General: I now have the honor to
enclose you" certified copies of the
letter of the Hon. Secretary of War,
of April, ad, ipajh, and of the Presi
dentol-tws States, of same
dan*, prdering-tbe withdrawal of the
troops of, the United States from the
State House at Cplumbia, South Car
olina, on Tuesday next, at 12 o’clock.
You will please cause this order to
be executed precisely at the time and
iq.the manner described in said let
ters, and report the fact promptly to
these headquarters.
I have the honor to be youtf obdt.
servant, W. T. Sherman,
General.
Chamberlain leaves for Columbia
to-morrow.
Secretary Thompson returns with
bte<<f mjljt ii| a few days, when he
will
Atlantic navy yards. He an
nounces’be wfll use what money re
mains to the credit of the Navy to
pay accounts for the necessities of
families of officers abroad.
There was a two hours Cabinet in
consideration of deficiencies in ap
propriations for several depart
ments. o . ,4 ,
It Is authoritatively stated that
there has been no change, nor likely
to be, in the date of the extra session,
namely, June
Heavy by Fire.
WilmiSgtow, Del.,- April s.—The
fire in Jessup & Moore’s paper mills,
yesterday, was more serious than at
first* reported. The loss is nov? esti
mated at from $200,000 to $300,000,
upon which there is $125,000 insur
ance, divided among fifteen compa
nies.
LOUIBIINA.
Packard Bohlliw People Support
MChotls—XlCholla Take* Charke
at City Hospital.
New Orleans, April s.—Packard
made a speech in caucus, saying he
would insist on his claim to the
Governorship to the bitter end.
Natchez, Miss.. April 6.—Enthusi
astic meetings in Louisiana parishes,
adopted resolutions pledging taxes
and unqualified support to the Nich
olls Government.
NxwOhl e\nh, April 6: —The Nich
io!ls noaJa of dlreotorslook charge o
the city hospital. They found from
600 to 700 patients there and no
money.
A MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION.
TWO MEN KILLED—ONE WOUNDED.
New York, April 5.-An explosion
occurred at 10:30 this morning, by
which Mr. George W. Jewett, of the
firm of John Jewett & Sons, manu
facturers of white lead, was instantly
killed, and Mr. Orville £). Jewett, his
brother, fatally wounded. Another
member ojitjie firm, James A. Dean,
was wounded in the leg, but his in
juries are not dangerous. Persons
attracted to the scene by the noise
and shattering of windows found the
three members of the firth lying
■bleeding ugoqi, the fiopr.and the per
sons of the injured then were odyered
with soot; and fragments of a bomb
shell which, when whole, must have
been some four inches in diameter,
were found in the office and adjoin
ing room. It is a mysterious affair.
Oiikey Hall Interviewed
New Yvbk, April 5.—A London dis
patoh reports an interview with
Oakey Hall, and fully confirms the
Associated Press report that the Vic
toria’s passenger was Hull. The in
terviewer says: We had a long
interview, but he absolutely refuses
to make any explanations whatever
as to his motives in leavihg New
York under such extraordinary cir
cumstances, and seem3 altogether at
sea as to his future plans. He is evi
dently very much broken in mind
and body, and says that he only de
sires rest and peace. I venture to
suggest that it is now only oharity
to an utterly broken man to say as
little about him as possible.
TELEkKAI'IIIV SUMMARY.
New York, April s.—The coal com
panies have adopted a plan for limit
ing the product of coal by each. The
plan proposes eight million tons for
competitive points during 1877.
Nine vessels from the Long Island
fishing fleet,with their crews, 95 men,
are missing-all' supposed to have
foundered in a gale at sea.
London— Latest trans-Atlantic arj
rivals report heavy weather.
The Prineess of Walla is at Bo
logne, en route for Athens.
New York—Trenor W. Park an
nounces himself ready to meet all his
obligations. ,
London—Charles Bradlaugb, the
agitator, and Mrs. Winnie Beeent,
the free thought advoeato, were ar
rested to-dAy oh a charge of printing
and publishing a pamphlet alleged
to be of an immoral character.
Utica, N. Y.-TIW Very Reverend
Father BoDaventurea Keller, pro
vincial pf the Franciscan Fathers
from New York to the Mississippi,
died in this city to-day.
rr9 WMf*il|ry HUH, f
‘ j Chicago; ApftV- 6.—The whiskey
rectifiers of the country have entered
into a combination calculated to
place thh‘price of their products in
what may be considered a profitable
basis, and at the same time above
suspicion of crookedness.
" % r , TANARUS"; —• ♦
How a Bird Files.
(’tie most prominent Let about a bird is
a faculty in wlpiffi it differs.from every other
cfeature except' - the 'b'at a'nd ifiseCts—its
power of Hying. For this purpose the bird’s
arm ends in only one long slander finger in
stead of a full Hand. To this are attached
the quills and small'fealhers (coverts) on the
upper side, which rrtakea up the Wingf. Ob
serve how light all this is; in the first place,
the bones are hollow, then the shafts of the
feathers are hollow, and finally, the feathers
themselves are made of the most delicate fir
aments, interlocking and clinging to one
another with little grasping hooks of micro
scopic fineness. Well, how does a bird fly?
It seems simple enough to describe, and yet
it is a problem that the wisest in such mas
ters have not yet worked out to everybody;,
satisfaction. This explanation by the Duke
of Argyle, appears to me to be the best: An
open wing forms a hollow on its under-side
like an inverted saneer; when the wing is
forced dowg, the upward pressure of the air
ctught wider this eoncavtty, lifts theTiird Up
as much as you hoist,yourself up between
the parallel bars in a gymnasium. But he
could never in this way get ahead, and the
hardest question is still to be answered.
Now, the front edge of the wing, formed of
the bones and muscles of the forearm, is
rigid and unyielding while the hinder mar
gin is merely the Ktoft?- flexible ends of the
leathers; so when the wing is forced down,
the air under it finding this margin yielding
the easier, would rush out here, and in soak
ing, would bend up the end* of the quills,
pushing them forward out of the way, which,
of course, would tend to shove the bird
ahead. This process, quickly repeated, re
sults in the phenomenon of flight.
.. ' b j. 1 i -0
Lord Strangpforfi asked a clergyman at
the bottom or bistable, why- a goose, ii
there was one, was always placed before
the parson?” “Realty,” said he, “I can
give no reason for it; but your question is
so odd, that I shall never see a goose
without thinking of your lordship.
COLUMBUS, GA., Fill DAY MOKNING, APRIL (>, 1877.
GKUKCK (iHARP. OF ATLANTA, MISS- 1
INU.
HE DISAPPEARS WITH DIAMONDS.
New York, April s,—Geo. Sharp,
jr., adianio&d merchant ot , Atlanta,
ih-ftilssiog. A cursory-investigation
shows that he owes to the street bro-1
ker’s over $50,000, for which he had]
pledged $60,000 worth - of diamonds.
He got possession of all these dia
monds before he disappeared. A re- 1
ward is offered for his capture. Some
persons hint at suicide.
WHAT THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. SAYS i
ABOUT IT.
On last Friday night Mr. Geo.
Sharp, jeweler, left |!ie city under
suspicious circumstances, and has
not been heard of since. Ou Monday
morning his store was seized by his
creditors. To-day. the mystery is still
unsolved. It is the liveliest sensation
that Atlanta has had for many a day.
It appears that for sometime Mr.
Sharp has been carrying an itumeuse
ioau of debt. His credit has been im
paired, aud has bad very little ac
commodation in the banks. He has
hence beeu forced to borlow money
on the streets and from personal
friends. He has succeeded in getting
targe amounts from these quarters
by paying high interest and deposit
ing diamond collaterals. He has
been shitting about from one set of
lenders to another for a year and a
half. It has beeu bis custom to go
to the holders or his'diamond collat
erals and borrow the collaterals
whenever he saw a chance to sell
them. If he sold them ltd would pay
the money over, and if he failed he
wnvjld return the jewels.
jqji Friday last he went to every
man who held any of his diamonds,
and solicited the loan of them, say
ing that he had a chance to sell
them. He got them as usual, except
in one case, where a bond was de
manded for the return of the jewels,
and finally obtained it.
THE LAST THAT WAS SEEN OF Mil. SHARP
was in Dr. Taylor’s drug store. He
entered the store hurriedly on Fri
day night just as the Georgia train
was leaving and bought a shaving
brush aud two pieces of shaving
soap. He hurried the clerk up, and
Udt the store iu a fast walk. A tel
egram was reoeived here on yester
day from Conductor Purcell, of the
Georgia Railroad, stating that Bbarp
went down to Augusta with him
that night. It is further alleged
that he had taken the Saturday’s
train for Charleston. This allega
tion arose from the fact that he had
an exceedingly heavy valise, aha
that a valise notably heavy was han
dled in the baggage car of the
Charleston road on that day. This
might have been the valise of any
jcwelly or hardware druuuner.
Nothing definite has boon heard
from him since he reached Augusta
on Friday morning. It is helived, if
he was intent upon escaping, that he
made for one of the adjaceut sea
ports. Charleston, Savannah, Port
Royal or Brunswick.
Mil| News.
New York, April s.—Arrived: City of
New York, Othello, Nora Dunn, Ilayfrau.
Sarah King, Marion, Wm Gordon, Aus
triter.
Homeward; Aoaden, I'onsacola, Phila
delphia.
Flections.
Cincinnati, April 2.—Moore, Re
publican, is elected mayor ofthiscity
by a small majority.
Dispatches from Toledo, Cleveland
and Evansville indicate that the Re
publicans have carried all but the
last.
In Michigan the Republicans have
elected mayors of nine towns, and
the Democrats have carried fourteen
towns. The Republican candidate
for Justice of the Supreme Court is
elected.
THE SECRET* OF NUIUCI.IMi.
IIOW GENTLEMEN GET THE LATEST STYLES
OF DRESS FROM PARIS AND LONDON.
Some time ago several leading cloth
iers on Broadway and Fifth avenue com
plained to the Custom House authorities
i hat they grfcatly suffered in their business
through the smiiggithg of clothing: They
said that agents for clothing-houses, in
Paris and London obtained orders Irom
customers in this city and sent to their
employers to have them filled, and that
the goods were afterwards smuggled here,
in this, it was claimed, the Govermnen)
lost largely and the domestic 'clothing
trade suffered from unfair competition.
Yesterday Dectective Jackson and Hussey
ascertained that a lot of goods had arrived
in.the st.ea.mer City of. Chester, in, charge
of One of the officers, and ghing to the
Inman wharf, on the North River, they
saw a sailor pass them with a box which
the Custom-House inspectors had failed
to examine. The detectives followed him
to the store of .Joseph Jones, tailor, at 38
West Thirty-eighth street, and there seiz
ed the box, which was found to contain
eight suits of fine clothing, valued at $5()0.
Pined to the suits were the addresses of
two wealthy brokers in Broad street aud
a prominent Broadway merchant.
Nerd of sleep.
New York Correspondence Rochester Democrat. I
What i? wanted iu this city more
than other hygienic force*is sleep.
All our business men are suffering
from, thi3 privation. Most of this
class live far out. of town. Tbdy
rise early and get a hasty breakfast,
after which they rush for the cap?.
Arrivlhgfn town they apply thera
selv*ek closely to business, and at
noon are tired out. If fifteen minutes
of sleep could be had they would be
freshened for continued service. No
such opportunity, however, is afford
ed, and the substitute is a glass of
Bourbon. The noon drinking ftinong
business men is prodigious.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye tells the
story of two commercial travelers lately
comparing notes, as follows: “I have been
out three weeks,’’said the first mission
ary, “and have only got four orders.”:
'“That beats me,” replied the second com
mercial evangelist, “I have beep out four
weeks and have only got one order, and
that’s an order from the house to- come
home.
Oua panne! in a church wall in Valpa
raiso, Chili, is a painting representing the
while the devil is poking .*be imperial
Chancellor in the back-With a red-hot po
ker.
GATH.
ON BUSINESS AND INDIVIDUALS.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
New York, March 26, 1877.—People
wonder when we are to ‘Touch hard
bottom” lu business. “Not while so
much remains unexplained,” an
swers the public conscience. Here is
tlie Mayor of New York a fugitive
from bis family, bis clients aud bis
eouutry, and why? Because-There
was a general break tip of his career,
his habits, his happiness, his confi
dence, even his frivolity The spring
in that human time-piece—once a
Mayor—has not only snapped, but
has sprung out of its accustomed
ease and disappeared in the dark,
llis family seems not to be distress
ed ; his cronies are mysterious; there
is hardly a bluuk in society on ac
count of this fugitive. Yet he has
his influence ou business, and, like
another groan in au old ruined house,
people say, “She’s haunted.” She is
hauuted—this old house of American
life—haunted by the injuries of flush
times, the recollections of riot, the
temptatious in her garrets, the
whispers or her boudoirs, the rustle
of her threadbare curtains of lace;
haunted by banquets aud barters, by
the secret papers iu old sliding pan
els, the skeletons iu her closets, the
blood stains on her floors, Tweed
was recaptured ; lugersoll was par
doned ; another culprit ventured over
the Detroit river to Chicago anil was
“given away then Kweeuy reap
peared in New York. Then Hall, the
tried aud acquitted Mayor of the
city, the farceur who had attempted
to beau actor and play his own in
nocence amid cruel misapprehen
sions, Hall ran away. His life had
been so wayward and Bohemian like
that there were twenty little expla
nations of his (light. Frivolous and
eccentric men hav-e ft hundred alibi. s;
but when there is one great motive
of flight it outweighs all the small
ones. No mail properly acquitted
and really clear of blame iu the Ring
transactions would have run away
just after Sweeny mysteriously re
appeared. It is the unbidden Ban
quo at the feast who makes Macbeth
break up his company. It must have
beeu Sweeny, Tweed, Ingersoll and
Woodward iu New York which led to
the hasty resolve of Oakey Hall to
aOhomniodateail his minor dilemmas
to that prime necessity. Even bank
rupts fly before a revolution, or turn
anu lose themselves in it.
SKETCH OF EX-MAYOR HALL.
Abraham Oakey Hull was an aver
ago’iustance of a bright young man,
of no particular principles, coming
forward in American politics. He
was a native of the State,
familiar with the metropolis, and
also with Albany legislation, und he
took up law and amateur literature
together and repaired to the pleasure
and slavery mart of New Orleans to
begin practice under Judah P. Ben
jamin, that tropical Hebrew, to
whom all countries were as one.
Hall was a dark, tallisb, demi-aris
tocratio man, who did everything
with certain smartness and success,
yet always seemed desirous to ap
pear half earnest. He dismissed
care quickly ; he acquired aud spent
money like nature’s heir-at-law; he
was iii almost everything but the
law and politics, a finished amateur,
getting a little over toward the re
spectable aud young aide of ev.er
tbiug; but araoug politicians and
clients he threw off his “Harold
Skimpole” disguise, and exacted his
bund or pound of flesh, his dividend
iri coin and honors. Nothing that ho
did in literature or art was worth
much, but it seemed peaceful for a
city politician to doit. He wrote a
little book about New Orleans follies,
and made two or three plays, aud
published a literary weekly newspa
per in New York, and finally, when
lie had been scotched, not killed, by
the Ring exposures, he went on the
stage amid a flash and flaro of that
idle curiosity which goes by the name
of “quite a social event,” or “a fu
rore, as the smatterers have it.
There his weak knees, pallid face,
and inartistic fright betrayed the in
ternal pallor of bis soul. There were
the representatives of all those peo
ple ho had helped to plunder-the
play-goers; his “pals,” yet undiscov
ered, those who knew his secret, and
those who did not. His tongue ror
got its cunning, as we may say, re
versing Scripture, and his right hand
clove to his side :
“Tint* eouKcienc* dots make cowards of ns all—
Aud thus the uatlve Hue of resolution
I. sicklied u’oi."
Oakey Hall, like almost every ad
ministrator of politics in New York
in ring times, was a carpet-bagger.
The miners of this city were much
the same in their accidental aud for
tuitous concourse here as the carpet
baggers of New Orleans, whence Hall
arrivod to re-establish himself. But
in Now York the constituency were
carpet-baggers as well as the leaders.
They had oome by ship-loads from
all parts of Europe, by steamboats
from all parts of New York and
England, and by trains from every
part of the South. This city grew up
by arrivals, by refugees, by adven
turers and by carpet-baggers within
the memory of living men. Hoffman
was from up the river, Tweed was be
gotten in Nota Scotift, Sweeny arid
Connolly were Irish, Hall was from
Albany, Hackett and Barnard were
Californians, Cardoza was from Por
tugal and Jerusalem, MoCunu bought
an old castle in Ireland, J. R. Fel
lows was from Arkansas, Halpine
was from Dublin and London, Mor
rissey from Troy, Marble fiotn Bos
ton, &c. The impotence of a native
citizen of New York to amount to
anything in the government of its
affairs is attested by Tom Creamer,
ex Congressman, in an anecdote.
There was a meeting in a promi
nent ward of the East Side to nomi
nate a State Senator. A raau arose :
“Mr.Chairman, there are 700 Bo
hemian and Hungarian voters in this
ward, who must be recognized in this
nomination, and I demand that Ru
dolph Skupinski receive it, or there’ll
be music on election day !” [Great
applause.] The second man arose :
"Mr. Chairman, there is 7,200 Shar
man men in this district, and they
demand instantly, if not sooner, the
nomination of Carl Poppenheimer for
Shtate Senator!” [Huge applause.]
"Mr. Chairman,” said No. 3, “there
are Too Hebrew voters here, ard Ja
j cob Lew is their man, and no com
: promise'!” [Fine applause.]
I No. 4 then said that if Patrick Roo-
I ney was not nominated there would
; be 8,700 missing votes for thftt ticket;
and the applause was hearty.
The Speaker said the nominations
were closed. After one Italian, one
Norwegian, and one Cuban had been
nominated.
"Stop.” said a long, loan ship car
penter. “I’d like to see one New
York native man nominated here, or
some other kind of American!” The
whole audience arose, and, without
regard to any other preference, ex
claimed : "Put him out!"
MUNICIPAL CARPET- BAGGERY.
The city of London has protected
its wealth from political confiscation
by walling in the old city -that part
which corresponds to Wall street,
and indeed all the lower part of New
York below Grand street and gov
erning it by guilds or societies of
master mechanics t\nd tradesmen.
Those rich, interlinking societies
elect by seniority the Lord Mayor.
But New Yorlt is merely the govern
ment of a camp by carpet-baggers.
Getiu the middle ring and prove
useful there, and wliateverthey nom
inate you to is an election. Oakey
Hall was a Whig; he flopped over,
aud became District ALtornoy—a
powerful office —and the nearest af
finity he had was the Recorder,
Haekett. After Hall had beon made
Mayor and the Ring was broken
down, he assisted Hackett to be re
elected as a bolting Democrat, nom
inated also by the Republicans.
Johu Kelly, who seemed especially
the victim of that coalition, exclaim
ed in Tammany Hall: “How could
the people of New York, with their
past experience, elect that man
Ilackott their Reoorder!”
Kelly did not speak without the
confirmation of sound suspicious.
When Judge George Barnard was
tried under articles of impeachment
at Saratoga and removed and dis
qualified from office forever Hackett
was in daily conference with him.
The Judioial Department of New
York was all rottcu at that time, and
judge after judge was impeached.
Barnard, Oordozu, McOunn, Curtis
all the swarm. Only the District At
torney and the Reoorder escaped.
Now the District Attorney, who was
also Mayor afterward, has run away,
leaving his greatest impression—af
ter the public treasury—on impecu
nious clubs, strolling actress circle,
the Divorce Court aud the Mutual
Admiration Society of punsters and
quibblers. But he who fled has been
the Mayor of New York, the fore
mast civic officer, pernaps, in Amer
ica.
It is now rumored here that Tweed
has given to the prosecuting counsel
the names and amounts of men and
moneys exacted from him at Albany
to pass needful legislation for the
City of New York. Thiß creates con
sternation ; such list will drag down
more doubtful respectability, and it
particularly affects old Republican
bosses of the legislature, some of
whom have called on Tweed since
his return.
Business will take a turn when we
have confidence. Confidence will
only follow confession and the
tnent of evil men aud officials from
the power to continue the period ol
of suspicion. Gath.
A riieiioiiii-iion Explained.
A planter owning 1000 acres of fair
average land in the healthy portion
of the cotton States is a poor, man.
He could not sell his land probably
tor more than $5,000. iHe looks to
the North, and finds land ranging
from SSO to S2OO per acre. He looks
to England, Holland or Belgium, and
finds it averaging from S3OO to SSOO
per acre. Why tills difference? Is
the land iu these countries better
than ours? Not by nature-lf it be
better it is by better treatment. Is
their climate better than ours? The
acknowledged superiority is on our
side. Are the prices of their products
better than ours? Ou an average not
so good. Are the taxes lighter than
ours? If we were compelled to pay
their tax, either at the North or in
England, our land would at once be
sold for taxes. Have they valuable
crons which they can raise, and
which we cannot raise? There is not
a farm product in either old England
or New England which we capnot
raise in equal perfection at the
South. Is their labor cheaper than
ours? The cost of labor at the North
nearly doubles the cost of labor at
the South. In England lobor is
cheaper than with us. But the dif
ference is perhaps compensated by
the poor and church rates and other
excessive tuxes paid by the English
farmer.
It then our climate Is as good as that of
the countries referred to, if our land is as
good ns theirs, it our products bring as
good prices, if our taxes Hremuch tighter,
if we can grow all the crops that thej
grow, if labor is cheuper with us than it
is at the North, and if difference in taxes
compensates for the cheapness of labor
in England, why is it that their land is so
valuable and ours so valueless?
We shall find the map of use to us in
answering this question. If we take the
map of the United States, and put our
finger ntion the Stales or parts of States
in which land sells at the highest prices,
we shall find that in those States or part?
of States the greatest attention is paid to
the dujtivntioii. of the grasses and forage
plants. If we open tlie map of Europe
we shall find the same rule holds good.
The eliea'pest lands in Europe are: those
of Spain, Where little attention i9 paid to
tlie grasses. The value ofland rises ex
actly in proportion to the attention which
is given to them, in England and Holland
reaching sometimes for farming purposes
to SI,OOO per acre. Holland is almost a
continuous meadow. This land value
culminates in Lombardy, where irrigated
meadow lands rent for SSO to SIOO, per
acre. Without exception, in Europe and
America, where a large portion of land
is in grass or forage crops, the price of
land is high, reaching the figures above
mentioned. On.the other baud, without
exception, whereyer iu either continent
the grasses do not receive this attention,
landed estate is comparatively of low
value.— C. W. Howard.
How to Succeed.— lf your seat is hard
to sit upon, aland up. It a rock rises up
before you, roll it away or climb over it.
If you want money, earn it. It takes
longer to skin an elephant than, a mouse,
hut the skin is worth something. If you
want confidence, prove pourself worthy
of it. De not he content with doing what
another has done—surpass it. Deserve
success, anil it will come. The boy was
not horn a naan. The sun does not rise
like a rocket, or go down like a Gullet
fired from a gun; slowly ana surely it
makes iti round, and never tires. It is as
easy to lie a leader as a wheel-horse. If
the job be long, the pap will be greater;
it tlie task be hard, the more competent
you must be to do it.
—■ • ■♦ > '
Call at once and see Kirven’s Spring
ntid Summer Stock. Goods cheerfully
shown and low prices given. mh2s tf.
quaint XiollmiN of Nalvatfon.
Sunday aflßrnoon several darkies were
resting on the court hous* steps. Said one:
‘Dat wuz er powTul sarchin’ sarmon dat
culled gen'lmau preach’d ilia ebeiiin'.’
‘Wha’ wuz de tex'?’
'I wuzn’t in dar when he gib hit out, but 1
wuz lose up when lie struck de lish-buh rales,
shoi’
‘How did he exhaust de sinners an' wha’
new edvice did he sib ’uni!’ asked old Si.
‘He say dat we sinners is standin’ ’round
iiyar like po' folies dat's wor’ out de groun 1
au’ got so hud oil dat we don't make hutHn’
but nubbins fur co'u, nud only hn( er crap ob
deni 'bout once in two years!'
'Dat warn't no had ’lustrashun, now’!’
'An' he say dat de emigrance agints cums
'long mongst us aa' puts out dere kyards
an’ figgers on de tickets, au’ ’splaines de
route da we orter take, an' all dat, but
we stana off ondesided an’ axin’ fer chee
per far’ an' de Mowutiee ob mo' baggidge ter
de man!”
•He tole de born trufe den, fer er fackl’
‘Yass, an' he sed dat de longer we wuz
puttin' off de trip ter glory de hi’er de rates
wuz gittin; dat we better ketch de fust trane
an’ git er lnrnt seat in de throo' kyar! Git
on dis Baptise kyar rite now, he sez, fer ef
ytr get lef dis time yer may uebber heab
de whißsle blow no mo’!'
‘Hat’S good docktrin’, an’ dat 1 aint gwine
ter deny, but den hit pears ter me dat he puts
de las’ chance mos’ too strong!' said Si.
‘How is dat?’
”Kase hit don’t make no difference which
one cb de agints yer goes wid, nor which
one ob de reg’lar tranes yer gits on, fer de
price ob salvashun are de same, an’’yer ain't
Towed ter carry no ycarthiy baggidge on de
jerney, no how! But de pint 1 makes is dis,
dat while hit’s de safes’ ter go on de rcg’lar
passinger skedjulc, yit de good Lord is gin
erous an’runs de ’kommodashun trane out
at de Tevent’ hour fer ilem dat tarries out
late!’
'Dat’s tie trufe, mighty neah rite!
‘l’m talkin’ sense, now, nigger, an’ don’t
yer fergit hit, ef yer misses dat trane yon’se
lef’ in de wildernesswhar dar ain’t no blazed
trees ner moss oil de norf side of de bark.
De nex’ time you sees er light hit’ll be in de
furniss-room down below dar!’ —Atlanta
Const.
It is our uupleasant duty to an
nounce that the grave of the inven
tor of the accordeon is unmarked by
a stone. But, it is a great consola
tion to know that he is dead.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MO.VET AND STOCKN.
LONDON, April s.—Noon—Erie 6. Stroet rate
1 *i and ljf.
1:00 P. m.— Erie 6 1 4 .
8:00p. m. —Bullion decrease £480,000.
BERLIN, April s,—Specie decrease 682,000
markß.
PAULS, April 5. Noon Bontee 108f. and
40c.
Specie decrease nearly 17,000,000 franca.
NEW YORK, April 6.—Noon—Gold ojjened
104?;.
NEW YORK, April 6.—Noon—Stocks unsettled,
active, aud lower; money 3; gold 4ft; encliauge
long, 4.86>£; short, 4.87; Stato bonds strong;
Governments strong.
NEW YORK. April 6. Evening Money
easy, at3(s4; sterling Arm at 5X‘. gold dull at
4 X(qis] Governments dull aud steady— neyr 6’s
10** ; States quiet and nominal.
t’OTTOS.
LIVERPOOL, April 5. —Noon Cotton quiet;
middling uplands (j fi-lGd; Orleans 6>£d; sales
10,000, speculation and export 2000, receipts
17,700; American 300.
Futures l-16d cheaper; uplands, low middling
clause, April aud Msy delivery, 6 5-3*2<i, May aud
June'6.4<*: June and July 64@11*32d, July*Ail'd
August 0 7-16@13-32£, shipped April and May
64d, June and July 6 5-ltid, August and Septem
ber 646.
1:30 p. m.~Uplands, low middling clause, June
and July- delivery 6 U*32d.
2:00 r. m.— Middling uplands C 11-32d; Orleans
$4 and.
2:50 v. M.-r-Upiands, low middling clause, July
and August delivery 6 7-16d.
Sales of American 4,960.
8:80 r. m,— Uplands, regular con tract, April and
May delivery, 6 5-32<L June and July 6 11-W*
also 64d, July and August 6 15-32d.
6:00 P. Uplands, low middling clAiise, April
and May delivery 64d. July aud August 6 7-16 U,
August and September 6 17-82d
6:80 p. if.—Futures quiet; uplands low mid
dling clause, May aud June delivery G4d; Au
gust and September 64d.
NEW YORK, April 5 Noon Cotton dull
and easier; uplands 114*. Orleans 114; sales 346.
Futures opened steady at a decline as follows:
April 11.42Gd.45; May 11.47(oj48; June 11.620.64;
July 11.72(3) 74; August 11.82(3).84.
NEW YORK, April 5. - Evening Cotton
steady; middling uplands 11 (<Ol-16; Orleans 11
1-16; sales 1375; net receipts 252; gross 1342.
Consolidated net receipts 22,342; exports to
Great Britain 23,084 to France 639; to Continent
11,319: to channel 3800.
Futures closed quiet and steady; sales 47,000;
April 11.48@ 49; May 11.64(5).66; June 11.60, July
H.80@.8J.; August 11.90(g).91; September 11.75
(3)77; October 11.60@.6i; November 11.50©.62;
December 11.51(3).53; January 31.62(^.66.
GALVESTON, April 5.—-Cotton nominal; mid
dling 114; ne t receipts 293; gress —sales —;
exports < Great Britain France. —, coast
wise 31)0.
NORFOLK, April 5. Evening Cotton
steady; middling bet receipts 823;
gross —, sales 150; spinners— f exports to Great
Britain —; coastwise 238.
BALTIMORE, April s.—Evening Cotton
quiet; middling 114; Bet receipts —: gross —■;
sales 106) spinners 75; exports to Great Britain-—,
coastwise. 75.
BOSTON, April 5. Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 114; net receipts 234; gross 629;
sales 60; exports to Great Britain 862.
WILMINGTON, April s.—Rvemng —Cotton
doll and nominal; middling 11; net receipts 29;
sales —; exports to Great Britain —.coastwise —.
PHILADELPHIA, April s,~Evening—Cotton
firm; middling 114; not receipts 419; gross 493;
sales 1561.; to spinners 196; exports to Great
Britain —. ’
BAVANNAH, April 5,-Evening—Ootton dull;
middling 114; net receipts 473; gross 473; sales
400; exports to Great Britain —; tp continent —;
to channel —; coastwise 22. f
NEW OBLEANS. April Evening—Cotton
dull aud easy; middling 114; low middling 11;
good ordinary 10; net receipts 147; gross 265;
sales 2000. exports to Great Britain —; to France
—; to Continent—; coastwise 1212.
MOBILE, April s.—Cotton quiet andO'easy;
middling 11; net receipts 53; gross —; sales 600;
exports to Groat Britain —; to France —, to
Continent 160; td channel —; coastwise 110.
MEMPHIS, April s.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 114; receipts 277; shipments 612; sales
1000.
AHGTJ9TA. AiYrfl 6.—Cotton quiet and steady;
middling 11@4; receipts 49; sales 33.
CHARLESTON, April 5. Evening Cotton
steady; middling 11%; pet rooeipts 230; sales 600;
exports to Great Britain —; to Frsuce to
continentcoastwise 117.
bait l . PKOVISIOKR, fttc.
BT, LOUIS, April s.—Evening—Flour scarce
and firm, witU advancing tendency; superfine bill
ss.6J<&tv.o&; extra do., $6 20(§5.50; double
extra do.. $6.75®57.00, treble extra do., $6.86@
$7.00., Wheat dull and weak—No. 2. red fall
$1.62(3)57, No. 3, do., $1.53. Corn active snd a
shade higher—No, 2, mixed, 394@*0. oftt *T'
advance asked, but nd demand; No. 2 36 asked.
Bye inactive at 644 *>*<*• Barley quiet and
steady; strictly prime.to choice Minnesota 90.
Whiskey steady at 4. Pork Inactive and lower,
not saleable over sl4 60. Lard dull and nomi
nal at $9.50 asked. Bulk meats easier—s 7 624
bid for clear rib sides. Bacon dull and lower—
-54@54. 84084. 8,4. for shoulders, clear
rib and clear sides.
NO. 82
NEW YORK, April 5 —NoQn - Flour quiet
and steady Wheat shade firmer. Corn quiet
aud steady. Pork quiet at sls 19. Lard quiet,
steam $9.00(/?)$10.00. Freights steady.
NEW YORK, April 5. Bventn* Flour
6(sloc higher superfine Western and Stftto $6.30
@56.50. other grades unchanged, cotaimon to
good, extra do., Hootbern flour
firmer; common to fair extra $6.50@57.26; good
to choice do., $7-6<tss9 00. Wheat without de
cided chsngrt. moderate demand: N0.2. red West
erns $ 1.45(ib50, white Western $1.61. Corn shade
firmer, moderate demand, ungraded Western
mixed 64 6955. white Southern 58>4<560, yellow
Western 58, white.do., 66>i. Oats about lc bet
ter, fairly active; mixed Western and State 39(7$
64. Coffee, Rio. quiet—l6Hfo* gold chi
goes. 16 for gold job lots. Hu gar quiet;
for fair to good refining t, prime
Muscovado refined easier, 10/4 for
Htandard A, granulated and powdered 11, 11#
for oruehed. Molasses—grocery grades quiet,
at 886066 for New Orleans. Rice steady, in good
demand; Carolina 5(®6, Louisiana 4*£@64. Pork
closed strong; new mess, $15.4*0, Lard opened
lower, closipg firm—prime steam
kettle $10.26. Whiskey firmer at 74', closing at
74 bid. held firmly at H. Freight* to Liverpool
quiet; cotton per sail 4 per hteam ,4.
CINCINNATI, April 5. Evening Flour
firm; family $7.00<&i57.16; superfine fhll $6 25
(oJSO, extra $5.76(g)56.15, double extra do., $6.35
(SSO, treble extra do.. $6.50. Wheat stronger
and scarce: red $1.50®1.60. Corn strong at 41
@43. Oats steady at 36(4)40. Rye easier at 74(4)75.
Harley dull, prime fall 66(3)70. Pork easier at
$14.60(a)75. Lard active, steam $9.60, kettle
$lO 06(3)$10.50. Bulk meats easier—shoulders
$5.12 4(3)25, short rib sides short
dear sides $7.75. Bacon
for shoulders, clear riband clear sides. Whiskey
unsettled at 3(3)4. Batter steady; choice West
ern reserve 23(8)25, Central Ohio 20@22.
LQUIRViLLE. April 5. Flour steady; extra
$5.00(3)75, family $6.00(a56.50. Wheat scarce and
wanted; red $1.60, amber $1.60, white
Corn dull; No. 1, white 42, mixed 41. Rye dull
at 76. Oats dull—No. 1, white 40. mixed 38.
Pork firm at $1545(a)515.50. Bulk meats firmer
clear sides. Bacon in fair demand—64(4)4. 84
(31.4, and 9. for shoulders, clear ribs, clear sides.
Sugar-cured hams quiot, at 10>£(g)12. Lard
firm; choice leaf in tierce 104, do., in kegs 11 >4
(3)12. Whiskey firmer at 1.04. Bagging quiet ,at
12(<413.
BALTIMORE. Aprils.— Oats steady and firm
Southern prime 43(545. Rye nominal at 72(3)75.
Provisions quiet and heavy. Pork $16.00. Bacon
—shoulders 64, clear rib 94. Hams 13(3)144'
Lard, refined 104. Coffee dull aud nominal;
jobe 16(4)214- Whiskey dull at 7@7,4- Sugar
easier it 104. i<
WEATHER IVDICATIONS.
War Department, )
Of vice of Chief Signal Officer, >
Washington, April 5, 1877. )
For South Atlantic States, warmer,
southeast to southwest winds, par
tially cloudy weather, and rising ba
rometer on the coast.
FOR SALE OR REM 1 .
The property in oolum- l/jArT'l
BUB, known &h the deGraf
feuried property; for particulars t
apply to G. E. Thomas, Esq.. Co
him bus; Marshall deGraffenried, Atlanta, orJTF.
Waddell. Seale, Ala.
febl6tf
CHEAPER THAN EVER!
Plantation Wagons,
T. K, WYNNE.
COFFINS, GASKETS,
' —AND— •
Mctalic Burial Cases,
CEane, dueed a co.’s aa the amkrican
DUiOAL CASE COMEaJUES’
SELF-SEALING, AIR-TIGHT
BURIAL CASES,
For Beauty 6f design, Lightness *nd durabili
ty, are acknowledged by the trade every where to
be the very best.
The Cincinnati Superb Im
itation Inlaid ift>rk
Wood CoflQns-
The ' Most Beautifully Finished Coffins now
manufactured.
I also keep the Aijb.*Tight, Sklf-Skallno Wood
Coffins regularly bn hand, and my friends may
rely on flndliig any really nieritomous new arti
cle in,this Unain my stock, ae I keep tulta up
with the times, and am the lfeader in low pifoee.
T. T. EDMODS.
mh4 eod&wlm
——7Tv--a v-’-vi \ -^Trr
NOTICE.
rrillE undersigned haring here tofore'behl. stock
1 in the Merchants * Mechanics Bnk in the
city of Colnmbns.G*., hereby glees notice that hs
h H sold Tile stock ih said Company, and had the
seme transferaed, tad claims in oonformttyrrith
section 1496 of the Code of Georgia, that he is ex
empt from any liabilities of said Bank,
mhll Is loot A. ILLGEB,