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WASHINGTON.
RETURN OF THE COMMISSION.
Whal llaycs Nays at Wadf, Ittntnc k C o
Washincwok, D. C., April ‘24.—Maj.
Stearns, Clerk of Appropriations
Committee of the House, while he
has no doubt of an extra session bo
nig called, thinks it will dispose of
its business in 15 days after organi
zation.
The Louisiana Commission ariived
this morning in good healt h.
Evarts has gone to New York and
Albany to be absent several duys.
Grant and Chandler are out riding
together.
Commodore B. F. Day ordered to
the command of the ltio Bravo, at
Browneville, Tex.
Hayes does not see how Wade,
Blaine & Cos, can give force to their
opposition. He says they could not
do it by thwarting any personal plans
or prospects of his own, because he
had none for them to thwart. They
could not do it by defeating his nom
inations in the .Senate, because he
never would send any name to the
Senate in whose confirmation he had
any interest beyond that inspired by
his general views as to the good of
the public service. He did not see
that they could do anything beyond
denounce his policy in speeches.
Even if they could find a majority in
the Senate opposed to the Southern
policy, the Senate could not undo
what had been done ; it could not re
store the troops to the State houses,
nor could it rehabilitate the govern
ments which have vanished as soon
as Federal troops are withdrawn from
their support.
The Louisiana Commission pre
sented their report to the President;
remained an hour with him, aud !
dined at the White House this even- j
lug. The report is simply a review of I
their proceeding.
A dozen Northern postmasters com
missioned.
Washington, April 24.—Two com- \
panies of soldiers ordered to North !
Carolina, leaving only one comjiany
in the State, at Fort Johnson.
The Cabinet session was brief.
The President thanked the Louisi
ana Commission.
son'll CAROLINA.
THE LEGISLATURE RE-ASSEM3LED.
How PartteM stantl.
Columbia, April 24,—The Legisla
ture met in extra session on call of
Gov. Hampton in the Senate, former
Lieutenant Governor Gleaves called
the House to order and made a fare
well address, insisting that he was
legally re-elected, but that further
resistance would be futile. Simpson
then took a seat, and delivered a
brief address, urging harmony and a
strict regard for the rights and priv
ileges of all classes. The Edgelield
and Laurens Senators were sworn
in.
The Senate now stands: 15 Demo
crats and 18 Itepublicans—but one
Republican votes with the Demo
crats, another is in jail, and the Sen
ate is virtually tied, and the Lieut.
Governor has the easting vote.
The indications are that Associate j
Justice Willard, a New York Depute j
lican, will be nominated for Chief
Justice by the Democratic caucus!
and be elected, in accordance with |
Hampton’s avowed desire.
TKI.EtiRAFMIC lllDllUV.
Dayton—Fritz Drue and William
Harrison, two principals in the re
cent diamond robbery at Nashville
have been arrested. Half the proper
ty fouQd on them.
New York— Luther C. Clark, Jr., of
the firm of Clark, Dodge & Cos., is
dead.
Chattanooga—A daughter of Chris
tian Payer, five years old, died from
the effects of outrage by a negrb, who
caped.
London—Julius Cassar won the city j
and suburban handicap at Epsom.
Richmond—The accounts of Dr. E, j
T. Baird, manager of the Presbyteri
an Publication Committee are com
plicated to the extent of $22,000.
(■.hip News.
New York, April 24.—Arrived: Elysia. 1
Arrived out: Frank Tubar, Matina, j
Glenola, Eunomia, British America, John 1
Black, Scotia, John Turkey, Capicl,
George Andra, America, Garland, Celtic,
Richmond, Acadia.
LOUISIANA.
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The Troops Marched Out of the Capitol,
IJ
]M) IIKDOMiTIUTIUA OK ANV KINI*.
Judge hpott'iird K.lerlrd Nrnntor.
New Orleans, April 24.—Governor
1 Nlcholls has issued a proclamation
requesting the citizens to attend to
; their regular buslneos to-day.
New Orleans, April 24.—As the
| Cathedral clock struck 12 to-day, a
detachment of the 3d Infantry, under
I command of Lieutenant Colonel J.
, It. Brooke, inarched out of the Or
leans Hotel, passed up Charles street
to St. Louis street, and out of St.
Louis street to the river, where they
embarked on a steamboat for the
Barracks.
About one hundred from other regi
ments assembled on the opposite
side of the street, in front of Orleans
Hotel, to see their comrades move.
When the Infantry Baud began to
play a few hundred persons gathered
on streets along the line of march.
There was not the slightest demon
stration of any kind. On rhe gal
leries of the Orleans and St. Louis
Hotels stood a few of the adherents
of Gov, Packard, looking at the
movements of troops and the people
in the streets below.
New Orleans, April 24.—The Leg
islature In joint session elected Judge
Bpofford U. S. Senator. Many Re
publicans, after patriotic speeches,
voted for Spofford. The ballot stood :
Spofford 140, Wiltz 1, blank 12—total
153 ; necessary to a choice 77.
WEATHER INDICATION!).
War Department, 1
Office of Chief Signal Officer, >
Washington, April 24, 1877. )
For South Atlantic States: north
erly to westerly winds, and cooler,
partly cloudy weather, stationary or
slowly rising barometer; and io the
Southern portions light rains.
A Hanging.
Savannah, April 24.- George Wil-
I liatns, colored, convicted of killing
I bis step-child, by beating and roast
-1 ing, was executed to-day Spring*
' field.
BUN WAIIEA I. HIT lilt.
HOW' HE ROSE UP WITH CURSES.
New York, April 24.—The Trnrn j
| this morning printed the following |
I letter written by ex-Senator Benj. F. |
i Wade, and which is now published
j for the lirst time :
Jefferson, O , April 9.
I Mr. V. H. Painter, IVaxhingtun D. C.:
My Dear Sir- Your letter of the
15th was duly received. You asked
whether l remember what I Said in
favor of President Hayes in my en
deavor to procure his nomination at
the Cincinnati Convention. 1 do
i remember it after what has since
I transpired with indignation rind bit
terness of soul that I never felt be
fore. You know with what untiring
zeal I labored lor ttie
of the slaves of the South, and to
procure justice for them before and
during the time I was in Congress,
and I supposed Gov. Hayes was in
full accord with rne on this subject,
but I have been deceived, betrayed
and even humiliated by the course
he has taken to a degree that I have
no language to express. During the
tirst mouth or his administration we
find him closeted with two of the
worst and most malignant enemies
of the colored race that can be found
in 8.11 that slave coursed region, and
there consulting with these manu
facturers how best he can put these
colored people under the iron heel of
their most biber enemies and reduce
them to a condition infinitely worse than
before they were made free. I feel that
to have emancipated these people and
j then to leave them unprotected would be
Ia curse as infamous as to have reduced
them to slavery when they were freed.
For Hayes to do this to the men who had
at the hazard of their lives, given him the
votes without which he never could have
had the power to do this terrible injus
tice. No doubt he meditates lit • destruc
tion of the p irty that elected him. A con
templation of all this tills me with aujaz -
me nr. anti inexpressible indignation. My I
only congolaliop is that history informs!
me tifat better men titan 1 ever pretend ]
ed to he have in tike manner been deceiv ;
ed. Some have attempted to excuse him j
by saying that he means well. But hell
is paved with just such good intentions.
Yours truly,
[Signed] BF. Wadi, j
YVhy suffer with h bad cold if one j
bottle of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup will ;
i cure a cough of the worst kind. Dr. •
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1 cents per bottje, or five bojtles for
! Si.oo in every respectable drug store
iin the United States.
Thrash's Consumption l ure.
Sure cure for Consumption, Bronchitis,
Coughs, Croup, Colds, and all long affec
tions; and restores lost voice, &e.
Wholesale and retail by A. M. Brannon
and \W It. Kent. Trial bottles at all drug
gists in the city at 35c.
mh24 .edmfesun
(.mill Atlvice.,
Now is the time of year for Pneumonia, ,
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i of these dreaded diseases, yet it is- much
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j ses will cure you. One bottle will last
| your whole family a winter and keep you
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COLUMBUS, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1877.
THIS EASTERN SITUATION.
Movements of Armies.
THE CZAR ANNOUNCES HIS PURPOSE.
COUm'UAKOFF DIMES THAT
RUSSIA H££RM TERRITORIAL.
AOOH A.N IUZK.MI NT.
Bouinania Makes no Objections to tbs
Passage of Russsian Troops.
NVar hiiKHt|i
Contantinople, April 24.—An im
: mense crowd witnessed tho removal
1 of the Russian insignia from the por
-1 tul of the Embassy.
London, April 24.—Gortsoluikoff’s
circular regrets that Russia tiuds
i herself under necessity of proceeding
‘ single-handed to realize the improve
ment of the condition of the Chris
tians—the note says, not territorial
: aggrandizement.
WAR GOSSIP.
When the Russians cross the Pruth
| the Turks will send a large force of
Circassians to destroy the railroads.
Andrassy now favors tho mobiliza
tion of Austrian forces sufficient to
; protect Austrian interests.
The Russian army commences its
■ march to Roumania Wednesday.
The Russian naval authorities
! have suspended navigation between
i t he Crimea and Caucassus.
Russia lias promised Roumania
; independence and a royal title. The
! Austro-Hungarian army at Pesth has
I been placed at Conchart for any
| emergency.
Turkey is bringing timber from
Transylvania, for bridges over the
Danube.
There are only 7,000 Turkish troops
in Crete, and the people are organ
ized for insurrection.
The Italian squadron, which
sailed from Tarauta under orders, is
bound for Saloniea.
Twenty thousand Russians con
centrated on the Pruth, will soon be
ready to cross.
The Amere of Kashgar is assem
bling an army on the Russian fron
tier of Khokand.
Gen. Kauffman asks for reinforce
ments.
The formal declaration of war is
sues Wednesday.
St. Petersburg, April 24.—A dis
patch from Kischeneff, dated yester
day and officially published to-day,
announces that at the review of the
troops by the Czar at Traspolaneria
yesterday ills Majesty, addressing tho
officers, said : “I felt grief in sending
you to the field of battle, aud there
fore delayed action as long as possi
ble, hesitating to shed your blood;
but, now that the honor of Russia is
attacked, I am convinced that you
will all, to the last man, know how
to vindicate it. May God be with
you, I wish you complete success.
Farewell until you return,”
The Czar’s manifesto to the Russian
army and people was promulgated
to-day. The Emperor declares that,
in view of the rejection of the proto
col and obstinate refusal of the Porte
to yield to demands of Eu
rope, the moment lias arrived for
Russia t.o act independently.
Bucharest, April 24,— The Rouma
nian Government, in reply to the
Turkish Grand Vizier’s dispatch re
questing the Prince to make arrange
ments with Abdul Kerim, coimnan
der-in-chief of the Turkish army, to
prevent the passage of tne Russian
army, has declared that such a step
is too serious to be determined by
executive power alone. The Rouma
nian Chambers will be assembled on
the 20th inst. to examine the ques
tion.
The first Russian detachment, con
sisting of 40 sappers arid an officer,
crossed the Roumanian frontier yes
terday at Bestinak. Oue thousand
men are expected to cross to-day.
Grand Duke Nicholas has issued a
proclamation to the inhabitants of
Roumania announcing the passage
of the Russian army under his com
mand toward the Danube. Roumania
having received no preliminary noti
fication, has declared it yeld3 to
force, and has directed its troops to
fall back to avoid a conflict.
RUSSIANS. CROSS THE FRONTIER.
London, April 24.—The Russians
crossed the Roumanian frontier near
Crghern at 5 o’clock this morning.
In the House of Lords, this after
noon, Earl Derby stated that 17,000
Russian troops crossed the frontier
last night.
Count Sohouvaloff, the Russian
Ambassador, in’ communicating the
Russian circular to Lord Derby to
day, stated that a general order to
cross the frontier had been given.
Encape ii t ;i HiinMrr Bca Vurtle.
Belmont, Mo., April 20. —A monster
seatut'tle, weighingover7.ooopounds,
shipped from New Orleans and con
signed to E. M. Freedham. St. Louis,
was cut loose from the flat car to
which he was fastened by some un
known party, while being transferred
across the river at Columbus, Kv.,
and he made his escape into the Mis
sissippi river. It was impossible to
recapture him. He made headway
for down stream.
There is a lady in Texas who annually
fattens fifteen thousand beeves for mar
ket.
BLACK HILLS GOLD NO MYTH.
TALKS WITH OMAHA AND OHEYENE BANK
KUS PERSONAL OBSERVATION AT DEAD
WOOD—HOW GOLD IS TAKEN OUT.
Correspondence of tho N. Y. Suu.J
Deadwood City, Dakota, April 15.
I have tried religiously to get at the
true inwardness of all this Black
Hills business beforo putting my
name to any article continuing or
denying existing impressions or re
ports ns to the presence of gold here.
In Omaha I called at the First
National Bank and asked the Presi
dent whether much Black Hills gold
had been brought to their bank.
“Yes,” he said. “We buy a good
deal of gold—both gold dust and
nuggets.”
“Can you show me any now?” I
asked. “I want to see the gold it
seir.”
"Yes, sir,” said tho bank officer,
j turning around and emptying a tin
j box, holding about two pounds of
gold dust anil nuggets, into a shal
low tin pan. “Here is some gold
which we purchased yesterday from
j a Black Hills miner. This, you see,
| is dust, washed out,” he said, loading
down the palm of his hand, “and
here are several ounces of nuggets—
pure gold, wort h $lB per ounce.”
"Where is the man who sold it?”
“Gone back to Deadwood, sir.
They all go back.”
"Then there’s gold there in paying
quantities, and enough to warrant all
mis emigration?”
“Yes, sir; there aro rich gold
mines in the Black Hills. YVe buy it
almost daily. and often in large quan
tities. They will tell you better about
it at Sidney and Cheyenne. Why
don’t you go over there?”
The next morning I left on the
Union Pacific for Cheyenne. On the
train Were about 250 Black Hills emi
grants. The Nebraska prairies were
dotted with wagon trains. Fvery
thing on wheels seemed to head
toward the Black Hills. At Sidney
the stages were loaded down, and
several caravans were starting out,
with freight and passengers, 275
miles across the country for Dead
wood.
AtCheynene the excitement seem
ed to culminate. Sixty earnest fel
lows front Skowhegan, Me.—Artemus
Ward’s birthplace— headed by an
old miner who had ulready been one
of the successful diggers, were just
starting out for Deadwood. The lu
ter-Ocean Hotel was crowded with a
hundred guests, aud the plain all
around Ctieyeuue was alive with
“freighters” hauling to Deadwood.
The sixty Skowhegan fellows made a
bargain with some freighters to be
carried at GJ cents, per pound, live
weight. It was a very funny sight—
Lite weighing of t hese passengers. A
little fellow weighing lUO could go
for $6.50, while a big 200-pound fellow
had to pay sl3.
I should say 3QO people are going
into the Black Hills daily from Chey
enne and Sidney—and none are com
ing oat. The stages come back
empty, their only load being gold
dust and the stage guards. One day
last week. Mr, Suulisbery, the pro
prietor of tbe stage line, tells me,
bis stage brought down $17,000 wort h
of gold. Tne Superintendent of the
Union Pacific Express (Mrs. Mars
ttmu) reports that the road shipped
Black Hills gold East to the amount
of $2,000,000 last summer.
At Cheyenhe I called on Stebbins,
Post & Cos., the leading bankers.
They showed me several bags aud
boxes of gold,
“Come in after the stage arrives to
morrow,” said Mr. Post, “and we’ll
show you more.”
I called in again the next day after
the stage came in, and saw the daily
arrival. It weighed out $2,200. It
consisted of gold dust, retort gold
rendered from gold quartz, and nug
gets. Quo nugget weighed nine
ounces.
“Do you buy and ship much gold?”
I asked.
"Yes, sir, a good deal. We shipped
to our Now York people—Kouutze
Brothers, 12 Wall street—s2,4oo in
gold dust yesterday. On the 7th of
April we shipped $3,000, and on tbe
4th $5,000. Wo have received from
the Black Hills, up to this time, over
half a million dollars. But, sir,”
added the banker, “why don’t you
jump into the stage and go up there?
IPs only forty eight hours. Go aud
see for yourself. I tell you, sir, it
will bear inspection. We estimate
that over $5,000,000 in dust, retort
gold and nuggets were taken out of
the Hills last year; and this year,
sir, $15,000,000 will come out. Go up
there, sir—go up!”
Tho next morning I took the stage
—a regular old Concord coach—for
Deadwood, determined to see aud
know for myself and The Sun readers
the bottom facts about the Black
Hills gold mines.
The stage went by Fort Laramie,
ninety miles from Cheyenne, Hat
Creek, Red Canon, and Custer City.
Custer City, fifty miles south of Dead
wood, coutains about 3,000 people.
The mines of Battle Creek, French
Creek aud Rapid Creek are near Cus
ter. The miuing here is mostly
gulch mining. That is, a long wood
en trough is made, apd the water
runs into it. Then the miners shovel
the dirt into the trough, and the
water washes off the dirt, leaving the
heavy gold dust in tbe bottom. There
is considerable gulch miniug going
ort around Custer City, but, owing to
the scarcity of water, the miners have
chosen to push on fifty miles further
to Deadwood.
Deadwood is the objective point for
all caravans, stages, etc. It is the
center of the Black Hills gold fields.
The town stretches eight miles up
and down Deadwood gulch, a stream
which I should say runs about a
auarter as much water as tne Croton
Aqueduct. This stream furnishes the
water for all the wooden sluices and
rockers. Hackers aye made like a
crad)e. Tney [lll them half full of
dirt and water, and then rock the
cradle until the gold settles to the
bottom.
Deadwood has a telegraph office, a
daily newspaper, and 12,000 people.
I should judge there were 15,000 peo
ple along Deadwood gulch.
Hate I found miners really getting
out gold in paving quantities. Many
of the miners are close mouthed, but
I saw some of them taking out from
$5 to SIOO per day in the placer mines
—that is, the mines where the gold is
i washed out by hand.
Tho gold is found in gold quartz,
in dust, aud in nuggets. Many of
the placer mines yield fifty cents
worth of dust to a bushel of dirt.
Nuggets are found weighing from a
quarter of an ounce to flye pounds.
The Williams Brothers, three of
them, took 4,900 pounds of dust out
of Deadwood Gulch lust summer.
Tills would be worth $410,000.
Old California miners say the gold
bearing quartz, a brown quartz
specked with gold, is the richest
ever found in this country. There
are now three steam quartz mills in
working order in Deadwood Gulch;
also one bail crusher and two arus
lers. Sixquurtz mills for breaking
and grinding the quartz are now on
their way from Cheyenne, and the
miners say there will be twenty-live
steam quartz mills located around
Deadwood before full. There ure
sixtj miles of gulches around Dead
wood ; miners are prospecting or
working in almost all of them.
Four or five hundred new comers
are pouring into Deadwood daily.
The hotels are crowded. Log board
ing houses speck every hillside.
Board is from st> per week to $25.
New comers, as soon as they get rest
ed, go out prospecting, and soon get
settled in some gulch or mine near
Deadwood. Thousands of prospec
tors are now moving up iuto the Big
Horn country. All news confirms
the reports that there are gold mines,
and still richer gold mines, up there.
In fact, gold crops out all over the
country. Old Californians are put
ting their money iuto tho miues.
The East ueed not look for suffering
in the Black Hills. They can take
care of themselves. Quantities of
seeds have gone up there this spring,
and vegetables, potatoes, and onions
will he piuntod extensively.
There are two steam sawmills in
Deadwood, and one at Gayville,
where Billy Gay aud Sam Gay took
cut over $20,000 in dust last summer.
Timber is very plentiful. It is
mostly pine. This country is a good
agricultural country. It will take
care of itself.
Coming back on an empty stage,
we met hundreds of wagon trains.
The whole country is specked with
them. They are now putting heavy
iron safes into the stages, under the
seats, for carrying gold dust. Safes
that bandits cannot break into.
There are three plucky men on each
stage, loaded down with pistols and
carbines. The stago lias been at
tacked several times lately. Troops
are stationed all along the stage
route from Cheyenne to Deadwood.
A while ago Charley Phelps, one of
the bravest drivers on the road, was
shot by bandits. He whipped up his
horses, got out of the way of the rob
bers, and then stopped the stage and
said in a broken voice to the passen
gers ;
“I don’t want to frighten you pas
sengers, but I’m a killed man. Don’t
be skeered, I said ; Iwou’tstop the
stage; but I want one of you fellow’s
to get up here and drive, while I get
down In the boot to die 1”
In an hour Charley was dead.
Eli Perkins.
Timidity ot Ureal Men.
Fortnightly Review.]
Turenne, being ii9ked whether he was
frightened at the beginning of a battle,
said: “Y’es, I sometimes leel great nervous
excitement, but there are many subaltern
officers and soldiers who feel none what
ever!” Conde was much agitated in his
first camgHign, “My body trembles,” he
said, “with the actions my soul meditates!”
Frederick the great, at Molwitz, gave but
little promise of ever becoming a soldier.
It is reported by oue of the ablest friends
of Washington that in his first battle his
nerves quite gave way, and that he had
to be held to his post by two soldiers; it
was as if the hero’s legs tried to carry
him off in spite of himself. It is obvious
to remark that distinguished men, whose
nerver have thus completely broken down
may thank their stars for being distin
guished. Much is lorgiven them, tor they
did much service. Had they been com
mon soldiers, they would have received as
little indulgence for the automatic action
of their feet as the poor receive for the
malady 6f * kelptomania.
There is, however, a special reason why
allowances should be made for Generals
whose presence of mind has failed them.
A private has only to shut Ills eyes to dan
ger ana to confront it with that chien de
courage of which a great commander
spoke with envious disparagement. But
the skilled courage of a General is a virt
ue of a very different order. He must, as
it were, have two selves. In deliberation
he must calculate the exact amount of
danger to which he exposes his troops,
and then in action the calculation must be
erased from his mind. He must often
say to himself “Peace, peace,” when be
leels that there is no peace; and, by a
sort of military faith, he must tight as see
ing a safety which is invisible.
It is true that Nelson exclaimed, “What
is fear? I never saw it.” But, at the
time, Nelson was young; and against his
remark may be set the saying of Charles
V., when he saw writing on a tombstone,
“Here lies a man who never knew fear!”
“Then,” observed the Emperor, “he can
never have snuffed a candle with his fin
gers,” or, as we should say, such a man
can never have felt tho first touch of the
forceps of a dentist. Charles V., no doubt,
spoke from a commander’s point of view;
and he may, like other commanders, have
felt the difficulty of emulating the happy
fearlessness of his soldiers.
From the N. Y. Bulletin.)
ItUHSia’* Atftuined Mission.
It is the great misfortune of Christiani
ty that it should so oft need to be defend
ed against its defenders. The latest “de
fender of the faith,” the Czar, has issued
a manifesto in which he declares that he
made war against Turkey solely in behalf
of the Chris(ian3 of tbat country ; which
simply means that he conceives it to be
the mission of Russia to undertake a
war in the interest of Christianity and
against Mohammedanism.
It is far easier to start such a crusade
than to see the end of it. Should the
contest be confined to Turkish territory
and the forces he limited to those of Rus
sia and Turkey, it would bring probably
not less than a million men into the field.
But it can by no means be assumed that
the struggle Vill be thus circumscribed.
In Europe, Asia and Africa there are 100,-
000,000 followers of the Islam faith, all
lying territorially connected and therefore
cupalde of combining in a common
cause, should the idea happen to
strike them that this is a Christian as
sault upon their religion, calling for a
united defense. At present, we can only
vaguely j udge of the probabilities of the
religious fanaticism of the Mohammedans
thus combining the various Islam States.
That, however, must he reguarded as a
contingency upon which the extent, dura
tion and issue of the struggle will largely
depend. Nor would it be safe to treat
this contingency lightly. A war against
the Sultan for an avowed Christian object
gives him a most potent source of appeal
to the fiery followers of Mahomet, and it
is not easy to find good reasons for sup
posing that he will not sooner or later re
sort to it.
But beyond these prospects of the war
becoming u fierce religious struggle,
arousing the worst passions of humuu na
ture and presenting a spectacle shocking
to humanity, there is the greatest possible
danger'of its inevitable political (hearings
drawing iu other European powers and
making tho contest ultimately one for
a redistribution of power, of territory and
of nationalities on the map of Europe.
It is this possibility which has always
made European statesmen so backward
to stir up the Eastern question and so
ready to patch it in any way that would
avoid an open rupture.
Russia thus rushes into a contest that
tliere is too much reason to fear, may
prove one of the bloodiest of this century
of great wars. She does this avowedly
in the interest of Christianity; and by
consequence as against Mohammedanism.
In other words, ail that has been gained
by the vast progress of the last half cen
tury is to be Btaked upon the issue of a
bloody struggle for a politico-religious
ascendancy on tho part of a single power.
Four centuries ago, the Mohammedans
laid aside the sword of propagandism; to
day that sword is taken up by a so-called
Christian power. All our ideas of tho hu
manizing tendencies of Christianity are
shocked by the spectacle of a now crusade
of unprecedented dimensions and invit
ing an exteut of bloodshed unparalleled
in the history of religious wars. The lead
er of this movement boasts before the
world of his mission, and conceives he
may safely take it for granted that the
waste of life, the desolation of property,
tho destruction of commerce and the de
gradation of civilization that he proposes
to accomplish will be all justified in the
eyes of Christendom by the fact that these
things are done for. a Christian purpose.
It all Christendom does not resound with
denunciation of this base assumption, we
must expect it to be charged that Chris
tianity has not yet succeeded in human
izing mankind, and that in spite of all its
splendid agencies,for elevation of human
nature, Christian civilization is as unjust
and as essentially brutish as any other.
It does not follow, however, that, be
cause the Czar has chosen to assume these
high pretensions, the religion he professes
to defend is to be held responsible for his
pretended support of it. His sacred pro
lessious are a cloak for mere political am
bitions. The race of rulers whom he rep
resents have acquired too much fame for
making war under false pretenses to ad
mit of anybody being deceived by his
pretended Christian mission. It is soil
not souls about which he is solicitous.
The Christians whom he is so anxious to
defend ho really desires to swallow. He
wants to Russianise Turkey, not to Chris
tianise it.
Nashville American.J
Austria's Position.
Two centuries ago Austria was the im
placable foe of the Turk, then her most dan
gerous enemy. She came near being con
quered several times, and it was just about
two centuries back that a great invading
army ot Mahometans was beaten before the
walls of Vienna, and the tide ot Moslem in
vasion stayed. Since that time, from the
time that Turkey ceased lobe an aggressive
and became a fixed power, Austria has had
a direct interest in its preservation. There
are several reasons for this.
Tbe population of Austria is largely com
posed of persons of Slavic descent. Of about
37,(100,000 nearly 17,000,000 are Slavs,
without, however, any unity of feeling or na
tionality amoug the various branches? and
with some hostility of leeling. They are
comprised mostly under the names of Pole,
Serb, Slovac, Czeck, Sloven, and Croat and
a lew others. The movement for a Pan-Sla
vic union, which took definite form about
thirty years ago, admonished Austria during
the Crimean war. The Hungarian or Mag
yar race is, on the other hand, hostile to the
Slavic race, and the Huns and the Turks
have several times been allies. The race
problem is a most difficult one for Austria
any way. The German, the Magyar and
the Slav, in nearly equal parts, do not coa
lesce well, and render government a doubly
complicated art, and especially so since they
are subdivided into families whose charac
teristics mark them almost separate races.
No other country in the world possesses so
many adverse or so many diverse elements.
With Russia one of the greatest powers, with
a population largely Slavic, the Christian
pYovinces ot Turkey Slavonic, and the war
a sort of religio-Pan-Slavic war waged
upon her borders, and a large portion
of her subjects sympathizing, Austria is nat
urally not indifferent and not likely to re
main a spectator.
A glance at the map will show her terri
torial conformation compels Austria almobt
as much as her race connections to an inter
est in maintaining Turkish power. Rouma
nia almost encloses a corner of Austria, sur
rounding it on three sides, and Servia and
Bosnia on the Sonth divide with Austria the
valleys of the Danube and the Save, while
Dalmatia lies to tbe West of Bosnia, Monte
negro and Herzegovina. Thus Austria has
a thousand miles of frontier inhabited by a
race sympathizing with her own Slavs,
partly disaffected arid incited by Slavic poets
and leaders, to a feeling of nationality which
can only be hostile to Austrian rule. As
they are now these Slavic neighboring pro
vinces are harmless, separate States, not
even possessing autonomy, with a general
common feeling against the Turk blit no
community of action or political affinity.
Formed into one State they would be formi
dable anil dangerous to Austria. Added to
Russia, they would be a standing menace to
the integrity of the Austrian Empire.
Austria occupies a very strong position in
u military point of view. She is protected
on the Russian side—to tbe east, along the
Roumanian line, on the east and south, by
the Carpathian Mountains, while she has al
ways open the direct road from Vienna to
Constantinople, by which to strike the Rus
sian flank and rear, and of this position she
availed herself in the Crimean war to veto
the Russian occupation of the Christian pro
vinces, and thus without striking a blow,
proved a most valuable ally to the three
Allied powers.
This accounts for most that is not under
stood in the careful diplomacy of Russia arid
her hesitation and for the statement that she
will preserve the defensive, as we said the
other day would probably be the case, in
Roumania and along the Danube, and oper
ate through Asia Minor.— Nathville Amer
ican.
The Xian Who Crew.
From the Detroit Free Pres*.]
One day last week a Detroit mechanic
was going down Michigan avenue and be
came favorably impressed with a pair of
pants hanging in front ot a cheap clothing
store The price was low, the goods seemed
all light, and he made up his mind to pur
chase.
‘I gif you de ward af Andrew Shackson
dot liose pants are shust like iron,’ said
the dealer. ‘I warrants dem elery dime.’
After three or four days' wear the purcha
ser fannd the bottom of the pants crawling
towards his knees. It was a bad case of ahrin
kage,-and he got mad and went back to the
store and said:
‘You swindled me on these pants! See
how they have shrunk!’
The dealer looked him all over, felt of hia
head, pulled on the pants, anil finally said:
‘I shall give you one tousand dollars a
months if you will travel with me.’
‘How—what?’
‘You are shust growing right upat the rate
of two inches a day. and I takes you aroundt
the country on exhibition. Dose pants are
shust as long as efer, but you haf grown oudt
off dem.’
‘1 don't believe it!’ shouted the man, 'I
am forty years old, and quit growing long
ago!'
‘I gif you de word of Andrew Shacheon
dot you vas growing.’
‘1 don’t care whose word you give. I say
these pants have shrunk nearly a foot.’
‘Has de top of dose pants shrunk down
any?’ softly asked the dealer.
‘Why, no.’
‘Shouldn’t de vaiatbands shrink down
shust as queek as dote bottoms should
shrink tip? If it’s in de cloth, one part
should shrink like de odder, eh? When I
sold you dot elegant pair of pants for tree
dollar 1 don’t suppose you vas growing so
fast or 1 shall hat put zum straps on de bot
toms.’
‘Well, I don't like this way of doing busi
ness,’ said the purchaser.
‘Shust like me. If I sella such elegant
pant* as dose to a man. and he growi out
of dem, it damages my trade. You haf
damaged me five boonered dollar, but I
haf low rent, pay cash for mein goods,
and can make you dis fifty-cent tie for five
cents.’
The man walked out to the curbstone, and
turning around, shook his fist and said:
‘You are a liar and a cheat, and I’ll dare
you out here!’
‘Such dings sing deep into my heart,’
sighed the dealer, as he took down his pipe.
‘1 dinks I sell out dis peesness and peddles
some vases aroundt. Den when I sells to
somepody it makea no difference how much
Uey grow.’ —Detroit Free Presi.
Chicago has a newsgirl, about fourteen
years old, who has made money enough
selling papers to furnish a comfortable
home aud buy a piano. Her name is
Nettie, and she can yell louder and light
louger than any newsboy in town.—Chi
cago Tribune.
The city of Macon owes the sum of
$009,200, of which about $65,00u falls
due this year.
The gentleman who was wedded to
his own views is very tired of his part
ners, and most anxious to change them.
IHIY tiOODH
FOR THE MILLION!
THE LOWEST PRICES ALWAYS!
STANDARD PRINTS 6CTB.!
Bleached Homespun &%, 8,9, 10, 11
cents.
Especial Bargains in 9-4 and 10-4 Sheet
ings.
Beautiful figured Muslins 12% cents.
Victoria Lawns Cheaper than ever
known.
A handsome lot of Ties, Lace Bibs, Silk
and Lace Fichus, Handkerchiefs, Ac.
Black Alpacas and Brllliantines bought
at such prices as to defy competition. You
are reapoctfully invited to inspect the
numbers at 40 and 50 cents. Have a dou
ble-width Alpaca at 25 cents.
8-4 French Nainsook and Linen D’lnde
(entirety new) Fabrics for Ladles' Suits.
Black Grenadines—all grades.
Striped and Checked Silks. Ali grades
Black Silks. Tamise—a most desirable
article for Mourning.
Full line of Corsets, commencing at 35
cents.
All-Llnon Hemstitched Handkerchiefs
at 10 cents.
London Cord, 9 cents.
This entire stock was selected by the
undersigned in person, and, being bought
at great advantage, will be placed at such
prices as will Insure sale.
J. S. Jones.
_
Four Per Cent. Discount.
WILL be allowed on *ll City Txee on Reel
Estete paid before My 1. Perou* owing
Taxee might do well to arrange for tbla payment
NOW. “A penny saved la a penny mad*.”
JOHN N. BARNETT,
aprlT tllmayl Treaenrer..
DR. J. M. MASON, D. D.S.,
Office, over Enquirer-Sun Office ,
COLUMBUS, GA.,
CUKES Diseased Gams and
other diseases of the Mouth;
cures Abscessed Teeth: inserts
Artificial Teeth; fills Teeth with * 1
Gold, or cheaper material if desired.
All work at reasonable prices aud guaranteed
aprS4 dly&w6m #
The Finest Bull.
THE full-blooded Devon
HTONEWALL may be found at
Manday’s Htables for a few weeks.
Improve your stock. This is the— T
best milking breed to be found, and the bull la
a very ffae Animal.
At the expiration of four or five weeks this
Bull will os for sale.
aprl7 lw
L G. STRUPPER’S
GRAND OPENING!
STRUPPER baa Juat fitted up hia
lee Cream Saloon
As handsome as any In the South, and i> mow
prepared to furnish the public with
ICE CREAM, SHERBET, SODA WATER,
and all other similar rafreahmenta.
Weddings and Partie* supplied at ahorl
not*..
IR. S, B. LAW.
Office at A. M. Brannon’s Drug Store. Office
hours from 13:30 to 2, and from 5 to 6*
Ja2B if
WM. SCHOBER.
Dealer In Baas and Ammunition.
Guns, Locks, fco„ Repaired.
ScpSO-tf SO Randolph 8t„ near Time, office.
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