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WASHINGTON NEWS.
PRESSURE TO HASTEN THE EXTRA
SESSION.
The Office-Seekers Clamor
For It.
THE PARTY OBJECT INVOLVED
Washington, May B.— There is a
pressure to reconsider the time fixed
for Congress. Applicants for office
are much disappointed, as the policy
of postponment is to be applied to
them as well as to Congress. The
best theory is that the Administra
tion are ambitious of organizing the
House in the interest of the Hayes
wing of the Republican party. This
being found impossible as early as
the 4th of June, the grand issue was
postponed to the middle of October,
and that meantime every appoint
ment will be with a view to that re
sult. The slate has been modified in
the interest of this scheme, and par
ties who ten days ago thought they
were secure find the doors of the
White House open tardily when they
approach.
Washington, May B.—The Light
House board give notice that an au
tomatic signal buoy, giving blasts of
a whistle at short intervals, has been
placed for trial off Cape Lookout,
North Carolina. The buoy is located
in eleven fathoms of water.
High quarters say Congress will
certainly not convene before the mid
dle of October, unless something oc
curs.
F. A. Clarke appointed engineer of
Hot Springs, Ark., reservation.
Pension agents consolidated are
required to close accounts by the end
of the current quarter.
Col. Butler’s harsh removal from
his Mail Agency to the Black Hills
is considered more inconsiderate than
his appointment.
The Postal Convention between
the United States and Italy was
signed to-day.
Str. Gettysburg, at Constantinople,
will remain there until relieved by
the Vandalia, when she will resume
surveying service.
Full Cabinet. Nothing transpired.
A Secretary is quoted that they bad
nothing before them requiring ac
tion.
ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.
The Eelations Between Them Regarded
as Critical at Berlin and Paris.
Berlin, May B.—The Gazette be
lieves Russia will not reply to Der
by’s note, because the only possible
reply would be a declaration of war.
Paris, May B.—The Moniteur, or
gan 6f the French office, says it is
certainly a most serious inci
dent.
The Courier de France declares it
is impossible to imagine a more
alarming diplomatic declaration.
We can’t shut our eyes to the fact
that it is a perilous indication of
coolness between England and Rus
sia and Germany.
PROBABLE PASSAGE OP GLADSTONE’S
ANTI-WAR RESOLUTION.
London, May B.—lt is confirmed
that Russia does not intend to reply
to England’s note.
In their modified form Mr. Glad
stone’s resolutions declare in effect
that Turkey has no claim to the mor
al or material support of Great Brit
ain. This proposition may receive
the full Liberal vote as well as the
support of such conservatives as are
desirous to keep Lord Beaconsfleld
from plunging the nation into war.
The debate has already constrain
ed the Government to declare that it
will harbor no apprehensions should
the Czar declare that he does not in
tend to seize Constantinople. This
concession to the anti-war party as
sures further succes.
Liverpool, May B.—-The Poet says:
His Majesly’s war ship Achilles, ly
ing in the Mersey, received instruc
tions yesterday to proceed to Ply
mouth on Friday. We are informed
that the governmeut has already
85,000 troops and 11,000 horses ready
to embark at any moment.
London, May 8. —Parliamentary
whips on both sides are very active,
and have sent urgent summons to
members to be in their seats to-night
in readiness for the division on Mr.
Gladstone’s resolutions.
THE WAR IN EUROPE.
SHELLING ACROSS THE
DANUBE.
Austria Demands Only a
Short Interruption of
Navigation.
PRINCE CHARLES THINKS ROU
MANIA MUST FIGHT TURKEY.
London, May B. Turkish shells
were falling around the railroad
depot at Ibrail.
Grand Duke Nicholas has arrived
there.
The Russians have commenced
bombarding Widden from Kalafat on
the opposite side of the Danube.
Austria has notified Russia and the
Porte, that the interruption of free
navigation of the Danube can only
be temporary. Navigation must, af
ter the war, be restored to its full
force, in accordance with the treaty
of Paris.
Bucharest, May B.—Prince Charles
of Roumania, acknowledging the ad
dress presented to him by the Senate
in reply to the speech from the
throne, recounted the acts of hostility
committed by the Turks against
Roumanian ports, npon towns on the
Danube, or their peaceable inhabi
tants and Roumanian vessels, and
said: “In consequence of the ag‘
gressivc attitudo of Turkey, the Rou
manian government will display not
only the foresight, but also the en
ergy which both chambers of the
Legislature have prescribed. I fore
see, however, with sorrow, he con
cluded, that moderation will be of no
avail, and that we mast meet force
by force, as it is our duty to defend
our country.
Constantinople, May B.—A corps
of Turkish volunteers is being formed
here.
London, May B.—The British Gov
ernment asked the Porte to extend a
few days time for closing the Black
Sea. Granted.
England will defend Egypt from
interference or attack.
I-ONDON AMI FAKI4 KXCHANVES.
A Better Feeling.
London, May B.—Business on the
Stock Exchange is quiet, but there’s
much more confidence than yester
day, in consequence of Mr. Cross’
statement iu the House of Commons
last night of the government’s poli
cy. International stocks are quoted
considerably higher.
The Paris Bourse is also firm in
consequence of the English news.
FRANCE, AUSTRIA AND THE POPE.
London, May B.— The Times’ spe
cial from Rome says the Frenoh and
Austrian governments, to which the
Pope had more particularly turned
for protection, have confidentially
informed the Vatican that it is abso
lutely impossible for them to open
negotiations in his favor based upon
the question of temporal power.
The Holy See replied that when an
nouncing it proper rights the assis
tance invoked was strictly in behalf
of the influence of its spiritual au
thority.
M. E. Visitations.
Nashville, May B.— The Episcopal
Visitation for present year includes
Bishop Marvin to Western Mission,
Southwestern Mission and Indian
Conference; Bishop Kenner, West
ern Virginia, North Alabama,
Memphis, North Mississippi and Ala
bama; Bishop Pierce, North Geor
gia, South Georgia and Florida;
Bishop Doggett, Tennessee, Virginia,
North Carolina and South Carolina;
Bishop Paine’s assignment includes
Louisiana; Bishop Weightman’s, all
the Texas Conference.
The New York PostoUlce Fall.
New York, May B.— The Grand Ju
ry of the United States Circuit Court
to-day made a presentment relative
to the accident at the postoffice
building on May Ist, involving the
loss, of three lives. They charge
negligence and want of ability and
experience on the part of the super
vising inspector and assistant, but
hold no one individually responsi
ble.
Gen. Hancock at FortreH* Monroe.
Fortress Monroe, May B.—-General
Hancock, commanding the Military
Division of the Atlantic, accompa
nied by Gen. Mitchell of his staff,
has arrived here on a visit to the
fort, and are guests of Gen. Getty.
He received a salute befitting his
rank, and inspected the fort and ar
tillery. He leaves for Richmond to
morrow.
Not the dll' ot Brussell..
London, May B.—The ship seen by
the Wisconsin was bark-rigged. The
missing steamer City of Brussels is
ship-rigged.
No Money, No Court.
Trenton, N. J., May 8. — Judge
Nixon announced that the failure to
call an extra session of Congress
would compel the omission of June
term of the United States, District
Court, as it could not be run at the
expense of its officers.
COLUMBUS, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1877.
THE WAR IN ASIA.
Turks Claim that They can Check the
Russians.
London, May B.— Moukhta Pasha
telegraphs from near Kars his ability
to check the Russian advance.
The Turks have abandoned Osarg
heti, on the Georgian frontier, near
Batoum. The place, however, is de
fended by seven Turkish men-of-wur,
who cannonade the advancing Rus
sians.
EXPLOSION ON STEAMER SIDONIAN.
MIX MEN KILLED.
Boston, May G.— Aarived steamer
China, from Liverpool. She reports
April 30th, at 6:30 p. m., in latitude 48
min. 21 sec., longitude 33 min. 20 sec.,
signalized the Sidonian, of Glasgow,
from New York for Bristol, disabled
and requiring a surgeon. At 7p. m.,
stopped and sent ship’s surgeon on
board, who returned and reported
that on the 29th the Sidonian’s boil
ers exploded, killing the Captain,
three engineers, two firemen and one
trimmer and injuring the cook. The
rest of the crew are well, requiring
no further assistance.
New York, May B.—The surgeon of
the Russia reports that the cook of
the Sidonian, who was brought here
by the Russia, told him (the surgeon)
that the steamship suddenly stop
ped. and after a short pause started
again; she then stopped a second
time, and Capt. Edwards went be
low to see what the matter wa9. An
explosion took place almost immedi
ately afterward. Hutchison was
struck on the head by the iron cap
of the galley funnel, joining the main
funnel, and his scalp was laid open.
The fatally wounded men were not
able to speak afterward, as has been
reported, but retained consciousness
till their deaths. The accident resul
ted from the explosion of the port
boiler. Previously there was some
trouble with eccentricity of the en
gine, but the surgeon was unable to
explain the character. All the deaths
occurred before the Sidonean fell in
with the China.
According to the statement of
Hutchison, which is also at variance
in this particular with the imperfect
accounts previously received, the
first who died was Henry Treggeel,
a fireman ; the second was Capt. Ed
wards,
WEATIIEK INDICATIONS.
War Department, )
Office of Chief Signal Officer, f
Washington, May 8, 1877. )
For the South Atlantic States,
winds mostly from the northwest to
southwest, clear or partly cloudy
weather, stationery or rising temper
ature, and rising barometer.
;The Women Vetoed.
Albany, May B.—Gov. Robinson
has vetoed the bill allowing women
to hold office on school boards. He
says the bill goes too far, or not far
enough.
A lady in our neighborhood who
has suffered for over three months
the most extreme torture by a vio
lent cough, has become completely
cured by Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup.
For sale in every store.
The Frdcral Mate for Louisiana.
Special to the N. O. Democrat.]
Washington, May.—The Louisiana
slate of Federal office holders is made up,
and unless unforeseen influences should
be brought to bear very soon, will stand
as follows:
Marshal—Jack Wharton.
Surveyor—Madisou Well 9.
Naval Officer —Either Pinchbaek or
the present incumbent, with chances in
favor of the latter.
Collector of the Internal Revenue—
Cockrem or George B. Johnson.
District Attornev- Leonard.
Sub-Treasurer—Packard.
George Sheridan will get the Central
American mission, and Geo. Carter is un
der consideration for some territorial gov
ernorship, probably New Mexico.
The President has said in substance
that he would not appoint Packard to
any office in Louisiana to which any
political power was attached, and for
this reason the Sub-Treasury has been set
aprt for him, it being the only non-politi
cal office available.
If Packard would accept one of the
minor foreign missions or territorial gov
ernorships the President would perfer to
give him such an appointment, bnt it is
understood here that Packard prefers to
remain in the State.
It may be added that Hayes is desirous
of breaking Packard’s hold upon the ma
chinery of the Republiban party in Louis
iana, and to transfer it to other bands;
believing that the scandals of the last two
or three years are largely due to his lack
of tact in its management.
The President regards the diraffection of
the negroes with Packard as represented
by Pinchbaek, Roxborougb and other
colored leaders who went over to Nicholls,
as a decisive evidence ot his incapacity to
manage the concern, and his distrust of
Kellogg is equally pronounced.
The'tact is that all the influences which
were paramount in Louisiana undei
Grant have been set aside by Hayes, and
the sceptre of Louisiana influences at the
White House has passed from the hands
of Kellogg, Packard, Pitkin & Go. into
those ot ouerdan, Warmoib, Carter and
others, who were not in favorwith Grant.
The only individual whose claims are
difficult to meet is McMillan, who has
not been definitely taken care of as yet,
and whose fate is still quite uncertain, but
if Packard should decline the Sub-Trea
urv, or consent to be taken care of out
side of the State, McMillan would get
the Sub-Treasury. Buell.
Life at the Whit* Honor.
Washington correspondence of the Commercial ]
The President is an early riser. At 6 in
the morning he is at Ins desk in his sleep
ing apartment, enjoying the pleasures of
correspondence with his friends of the
humbler walks of liis career, and whom
he now remembers with even stronger
affection. In another portion of the Exe
cutive Mansion Mr. Rogers, the private
secretary, also an early riser is at his desk
engaged in the personal affairs which de
mand his attention.
About 8 o’clock the President is accus
tomed to repair to the room of his private
secretary, from whence, after the salttla
tions ol the morning, they leave the build
ing together, to enjoy the fresh air and in
terchange of views upon questions of
public and private interest. In their
morning strolls they seek the less fre
quented streets and parks, that they may
be undisturbed 1 y the gaze of passers.
By 9 the President and his private secre
tary have returned, and at that hour
breakfast together with the family. At
the table are the President, Mrs. Hayes,
Mr. Rogers, Webb Hayes, the two young
children and such guests as may be visit
ing at tlie Executive Mansion.
After breakfast the President goes to
the Cabinet-room, and Mr. Rogers to his
own office, and they begin the duties of
the day. The stated hours of business,
however, are from 10 a. m. to 2 p. m., ex
cept Tuesdays and Fridays, Cabinet days
and Saturdays. At 2f. m. the President
leaves his office for lunch, after which he
sometimes returns to the Cabinet room to
meet some personal or other person by
special appointment. The dining hour
is 6 F.M.
The President and Mrs. Hayes have al
ways been noted through their public ca
reer for their generous hospitality. In
the Fxecutive Mansion t teir domestic lilc
is the same as the Col Haves of the 23d
Ohio volunteers, the Mr. Hayes, of Free
mont. All the rooms are filled with
guests, and at their table any friend of the
family at hand is invited to lunch or to
dine, the rule being always to have all
the seats at the table filled, when there
are friends to fill them. After dinner the
President and Mrs. llayes withdraw to
the reception room or to the library up
stairs, where Mrs. Hayes receives her per
sonal friends.
The formal social routine of the Exe
cutive Mansion, under the present Ad
ministration, will not be determined until
the proper time.
ENGLAND'S FKEFARATIONS.
AN ARMISTICE PREDICTED.
Special to the N. O. Democrat.l
Washington, May 6. —The most dis
tinguished of the European ministers here
to-day stated, in an interview, that the
recent activity of Great Britain in warlike
preparations was undoubtedly prelimin
ary to some important diplomatic move
ment to check the advance of Russia and
secure an armistice for the purpose of re
opening the negotiations carried on be
tween tlie powers and Turkey.
lie said the hesitation of Russia, which
but now become too palpable to be long
er concealed, was due to the apprehen
sion of a demonstration on the part of
England when the Gzar declared war.
He was assured that there was no possible
danger of English intervention, but the
events ol the last ten days have convineed
him that he was ill advised. The Rus
sian idea was that the anti-Turkish feel
ing in England, represented by Glad
stone, was strong enough to compel tlie
government to maintain a strict neutrali
ty in any event, but the rapid military
and naval preparations of England in the
last ten dayß have opened the Czar’s eyes
to the fact that the opposition us 1 and by
Gladstone cannot even exercise a restrain
ing influence upon Disraeli’s Cabinet.
Under these circumstances, and in view
ot the uncertain altitude of Austria, the
Minister said it was evident that the
Czar had begun to realize that his action
had been precipitate, and that an imme
diate armistice wag very probable.
Being asked whether he thought Eng
land would declare war in the event of
rapid advance of the Russians in Asia
and on the Danube, the Minister replied
that that would depend entirely upon the
the extent ol the advance and the ability
displayed by the Turks to defend Con
stantinople. He said that the British
government regarded the Czar as having
pledged himself to stop witli the occupa
tion of Bulgaria as a material guarantee
for reforms demanded of Turkey, and
that any advance of the Russian forces
beyoud this limit, or any policy looking
to a permanent occupation Turkish ter
ritory in Asia, would be taken by Eng
land as casus belli.
Buell.
Vhc Jcwnih Millet n urn.
The announcement that Russia
has given an invitation to the Jews
to return to, and reoccupy Palestine,
is attracting attention. The popula
tion of Palestine is double what it
was ten years ago, the new-comers
being Jews and chiefly from Russia.
Three years agosucli an influx took
place toSaphed, one of the four holy
citities in Galilee, that there were
not houses to receive the immigrants,
and many had to camp out. A plat
of ground was sold to them for
twenty times its former price, and
building goes on now by night as
well as day. Two little colonies
bave settled just outside of Jaffa
Gate. It is evideut that a large pro
portion of the Joew immigrants are
animated by| religious enthusiasm,
though the immediate cause of the
movement now is that recently no
Jew could own land in Palestine
without becoming a Turkish subject.
The divine plan for the Jewish race,
as expounded by the Jewish mission
ary in Cincinnati, Mr. Neil, is, that,
six thousand years of prevailing evil
are now to be followed by a millen
nium of 360,000 literal years. It
would indeed be a grand spectacle of
the triumph of divine justice to see
these people re-eslab isned in the
world as a nation and holding the
high position their intelligence enti
tles them to. — Etc.
Three prisoners confined in the
Jail at this place, effected their es
cape on last Thursday morning,
when the little bov went to give them
their breakfast. They had managed
to break open the inside door, and
when he unlocked the outside door
they rushed out and made him give
up the keys to the lower door, which
he did, and they passed out and made
their escape. The little boy, as soon
ns he could get out raised the alarm,
but was too late to effect their cap
ture.— Dadeville Headlight.
A Boston Methodist congregation clos
ed their church rather than aceept the
the new pastor that had been sent to
them.
The Field of Journallam.
H. V. Redfleld has this In a recent
issue of the Cincinnati Commercial:
It has been remarked that very few
who get into journalism start out
with such intention. They drift in
accidentally, and are promoted as
they develop capacity. Money,
wealthy parents auu influence are of
no sort of service in getting a young
man a place on a newspaper. There
is no business that is so entirely in
dependent of all these considerations
as this. A wealthy father can easily
get his son a location to read law or
medicine, or push him forward in
almost auy walk of life ho tnay se
lect, but he is utterly powerless to
do anything for him in a journalistic
way. To be sure he may buy a news
paper and set up his hopeful in that
mauner; but unless there is some
thing in the youth called jour
nalistic knack, u natural knowledge
of what to write and how to write it,
he will be a failure in that line, and
all the tnouey and influence of
wealthyßand perhaps powerful re
latives will count for nothing.
Some fond parents educate their sons
with especial view of making journalists
of them; but it is rarely that we hear of
these young men after a few years. Mean
time some scrub, born among the hills,
having nothing but a common school
educaiion, and the knowledge scraped up
in a couutry printing office, will advance
to a front rank in the profession. He has
the journalistic knack, and forces recog
nition not because he ha|vealthy parents
to influence the ptoprlelors of leading
newspapers, bU|because he knows what to
write and how to write it, and the editors
take it because it is what they want. His
aaticles go in because they supply a de
mand, while, perhaps, the elaborate essays
from the pen of a man educated on two
continents, with an especial views to
journalism, are cast into the waste bas
ket.
Young men just out of the college, and
with journalistic ambition, and who have
had their essay passed upon by admiring
relatives, and pronounced the production
oi genius, think if they cau get a letter of
introduction to the manager of some lead
ing newspaper, they will forthwith find
recognition in his columns. I don’t
know how many applications by mail
and in person I have had from young
men asking me for a “letter of recommen
dation” to the editor of the Commercial.
I never complied, because I know that
these agencies are not worth five cents a
peck towards getting into the paper. 1
tell the applicants to send along whatever
essay ami so forth they have on hand,
and that a letter of introduction a mile
long would not be ot the least service in
influencing the editor to prim what
didn’t fill the bill. Recommendations
from those known to the editor or “influ
ence” of wealty relatives of young men
ambitious to shine in journalism, are of
no earthly benefit in this matter, unless,
indeed the latter might furnish money to
have the maiden efforts published as ad
vertisements. But fame, at thirty dollars
a column, is expensive. The majority ot
successful journalists drift into it trom
other walks of lite, and perhaps the most
of them up to the time they are eighteen
or twenty yrars old had no thought in
that direction.
The Albany News publishes a let
ter sent by the Internal Revenue
Commissioner, at Washington, to
Hon. Wtn. E. Smith, on the subject
of making farmers pay a tax on to
bacco furnished their hands. The
Commissioner says “a farmer or
planter, who simply supplies his em
ployees with wbat manufactured to
bacco they need for their own per
sonal use, and for their special accom
modation, and not with a view to
gain, or profit to himself, is not to be
regarded as engaged in the business
of selling manufactured tobacco, and
would not. be required to pay special
tax for thus supplying his hired la
borers with tobacco.”
A LOOK AT THE GROUND.
THE THEATRE OF TIIF. RUB9-TURKI9H WAIt
IN ASIA MINOR.
It will be well to receive the Turkish dis
patches announcing victories in Asia Minor
with the usual discount allowed to accom
plished liars. The news of Russian repulses
at Kars, Ardahan, and Tchorukson, with
heavy loss, comes exclusively from Constan
tinople, and is therefore to be distrusted as
braggadocia intended to have an effect upon
Western Europe in the early stages of the
war. if there has been any fighting at all,
it has probably been in the nature ofskirm
ishing with the Russian advance, and not
with the main army, which is still in the vi
cinity of its base at Erivan, on the river
Aras. and not at Batoum or Tchorukson,
which are on the south coast of the Black
Sea, near Trebizonde. The objective point
of Russian attack is Erzcroum, southeast of
Kars, the possession of whieh would com
mand the whole of Armenia and the south
shore of the Black Sea.
A brief description of the country now oc-<
cupiedby the respective forces will give the
readers clearer idea ol the military opera
tions. Armenia is divided between the
Turks, Russians and Persians. It extends
from the Caucassus on the north to the moun
tains of Kurdistan on the south, and from
the Caspian Sea on the east to Asia Minor
on the west. It is a high, table-land, reach
ing its highest points in the peaks of Mt. Ar
arat, and its valleys are watered by the Eu.
phrates, Tigris, Aras and Kur. The Russian
portion extends south to the Aras, and is
mainly included in the Government of Eri
van; the Persian share is in the Province of
Azerbijan; and the Turkish in the Vilayet of
Erzeroum. The principal Russian towns
are Erivan, Etchmiadzin, Ardtibad, and Ai
exandropol; the Persian, Urumiyah; and the
Turkish. Erzeroum and Van. Tne locality
of the skirmishing recently reported from
Constantinople is in the Turkish vilayet
north of Armenia and along the coast of the
Black Sea east ot Trebizonde, and near the
mouth f the Tchoruk river. Trebizonde is
the Capital of the vilayet, and is the first
commercial port of Turkey in importance
on the Black Sea, importing larae amounts
of grain from Russia and the Danube, and
commanding the overland trade with Persia.
Erzeroum. the objective point of the Rus
sians, is the capital of Armenia, on the west
branch of the Euphrates, abont 11U miles
southeast of Trebizonde. It is the halting
place of the caravans from Teheran to Mec->
ta. and the distributor of the Trebizonde
trade with the East, and commands the road
from Constantinople to Persia. The Rus
sians have fought over the ground before,
Prince Paskevitch having taken it by assault
in 1829 Once in possession of it, the Rus
sians will hold Armenia in their grip.
The Russian army in Asiatic Turkey, as
originally organized, ei mposed a corps of
over 100.000 men, commanded by the Grand
Duke Michael, brother ot the Czar. Our
dispatches state that the Russians are still
sending large bodies of troops to swell his
army. The Russians since the Crimean
war have constructed their roads with refer-
ence to possible wars in this very section,
and their communications are now perfect.
She has a railroad running from the Don to
the foot of the Caucassus. and has reduced
the time ol travel to two days. Across the
mountains she has constructed a fine maca
damized road, extending to Tillis, on the
Kur, through the valley of which she has a
perfect easy approach into Armenia. The
government, therefore, is within a few days
communication with the Asiatic army, and
can furnish troops and supplies to it without
any danger of interruption. The Turks, on
the other hand, l.aving but a small army,
under command of Hasson Pasha—small
because Asia Minor has already been com
paratively drained to supply the European
army—have no communication with Con
stantinople either by railroads or good high
ways, and must subsist off the country, inas
much as any possibility of communication
via the Black Sea and Trebizonde to Erze
roum would be inevitably disturbed by the
Russians. It is also always to betaken into
account in connection with the Asiatic cam
paign—the probability that Peraia i* in alli
ance with Russia, and that, while the Turk
ish troops are engaged with the Russians in
Armenia, the Persians, whose territory ex
tends to the very foot of Mount Ararat, can
pour in an army of at least 70,000 men to
the southward, and attack the Turks on the
Hank. Notwithstanding Turkish dispatches
of victories, the progress of the Russian
army through Armenia eastward towards
the Bosphorus to co-operate with the Euro
pean army is morally certain. It may be
many weeks, even months, but the time will
come when the Turks must find themselves
driven south of the Balkans, and hemmed in
between two powerful Russian armies, where
they will be crushed like an eggshell, leaving
Russia in complete possession of the Black
Sea. —Chicago Tribune.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MONK Y AND BTOCKN.
LONDON. May B.—Noon—Consols 98%. Erie
2%®%. which % and % below bank.
PARIS, May 8.—1:30 p. m.—Rentes 102f. and
35c.
NEW YORK, May B.—Noon—Gold opened
107 V.
NEW YORK, May B.—Noon—Stocks active, but
better; m*'U*y 2; gold 7; exchange long, 4.88;
short, 4.90 Vi State bonds steady; Governments
active and weaker.
NEW YORK, May B. Evening Money
abundant at 2®2%; sterling weak at 4 87%; gold
quiet at 6%®7; Governments dull aud steady—
news’s 11.-4 i Statesjduli aud steady.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, May B.—Noon Cotton quiet
and bteady; middling uplands 5%d, Orleans 6
1 16d, sales 6,000, speculation and export 1000,
receipts 10,700; American 7300.
Futures steady; uplands, low middling clause,
May and June delivery, 6%ti, June aud July 6
25-32®13-16d, July aud August 5%@29-82d, Au
gust and September 6 31-32d.
1:00 p. h —Uplands, low middling clause,
August and September delivery 6d, September
aud October 6 1-l Gd.
2:00 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause,
Juue aud July delivery, 5 27-32 rt.
Sales of American 3950.
4.00 P. m.— Uplands , low middling clause, May
and June delivery 6 26-32.
6:00 p. m.—Futures firm; uplands, low mid
dling clause, May and June delivery 5 13-ltid,
also 5 26-32d.
NEW YORK, May B. Noon—Cotton steadier;
uplands 10%; Orleans 11; sales 751.
Futures opened steady as follows: May 10.95@
.97; June 11.10; July 11 00(a). 13; August 11.20
®.22; September 11.16(g).20; October 11.02(g).06.
NEW YORK. May 8. —Evening—Cotton quiet,
but firm; middling uplands 10%; Orleans 11;
sales 626; net receipts 650; gross 200.
Consolidated net receipts 11,068; exports to
Great Britain 20,028, to France 3616; to continent
1053; to channel —.
Futures closed firm; sales 45,000; May 10.96®
98; June 11.04®.1)5; July 11.14; August 11.24;
September 11.20®.21; October 11 06® 08; No
vember 10.98® 11.00; December 11.00®.01; Jan
uary 11.12®. 16, February 11.22®.25.
GALVESTON, May B.—Cotton dull and irreg
ular; middling 10%; net receipts 34; gross —;
sales 386; exports to Great Britain —: France —;
to channel —; to continent —; coastwise 18.
NORFOLK, May 8. Evening Cotton
quiet; middlings 10%; net receipts 311; gross
6553; sales 25; spinners—; exports to Great Brit
ain —; coastwise 460.
BALTIMORE, May 8. Evening Cotton
dull; middling 10%; low middling 10%, good
ordinary 9%; net receipts 18; gn.-ss 114; sales
190; spinners 60; exports to Great Britain—; to
continent —; coastwise 40.
BOBTON, May 8. Evening Cotton dull;
middling 11%; net receipts 241; gross 241; sales
—; exports to Great Britain 1709.
WILMINGTON, May 8. —Evening Oetton
dull and nominal; middling 10%; net receipts
1; ssles to spinners—; exports to Great Britain
—, coastwise —.
PHILADELPHIA, May B. Evening Cotton
quiet; middling 11%; net receipts 348; gross 327;
sales 327; spinners 227, exports to Great Britain—
SAVANNAH, May 8. Evening Cotton
quiet; middling 10%; net receipts 178; gross —;
sales 60; exports to Great Britain —; to continent
—; to channel —; coastwise —.
NEW ORLEANS, May 8. Evening—Cotton
steady; middling 10%; low middling 10% ; good
ordinary 9% ; net receipts 2616- gross 2991: sales
2000, exports to Great Britain —; to France—; to
coutiueut —; coastwise —.
MOBILE, May B.—Cotton weak and nominal;
middling 10%; net receipts 61; gross —; sales
200; exports to Great Britain —; to France —;
to continent —; to channel —; coastwise —.
MEMPHIS, May B.—-Evening Ootton quiet
and steady; middliug 10%*, receipts 108; ship
ments 404; sales 300.
AUGUSTA. May B.—Cotton quiet; middling
10%®% ; receipts 20; sales 190.
CHARLESTON, May 8. Evening— Cotton
dull and nominal; middling 10%.net receipts 648;
gross —, sales 100; exports to Great Britain —; to
France —; to continent —; coastwise —.
PROVISIONS, AC.
NEW YORK. May B.—Noon- Flour dull and
unchanged. Wheat quiet and heavy. Oorn dull
without decided change. Pork steady—new mess
sl6 00. Lard steady, steam $10.16. Freiguts
him.
NEW YORK. May 8. Evening—Flour very
dull, slightly in buyers* favor, closing dull, su
perfine Western and State $7.76®58.00. Southern
flour less active and easier; common to fair extra
$8 00®58.75; good to choice do., sß.Bo® $10.76,
Wheat dull, strongly in buyers' favor, nominally
2®3c lower* No 2. Milwaukee $l.B-1, ungraded
si.oo, winter wheat dull and nominal at $2.20.
Corn heavy. 2®30 lower; ungraded Western
mixed 66®70, steamer white 70@71% Oats
hravy, 3® 5c lower ; mixed Western aud State 46®
69. Coffee, Rio, Arm, quoted at 17®20% for gold
cargoes, 17®22 for gold job lots. Sugar strong
aud quiet, firmness of holders checks busines—
-9%(§)10% for fair to good refining, refined firm,
good inquiry—ll% for standard A, granulated
12%, 12% for crushed and powuered. Molasses
grocery grades firm, at 46@47 for New Orleans.
Rice firm and in fair demamd—Carolinas%@6%,
Louisiana 5®6%. Pork opened lower, closed
firmer—new extra $16.00. Lard opened lower,
closed firm—prime steam slo.oo®s 10.05 for new,
$10.06®510.17% for old. Whiskey shade easier
at 11%®12. Freights shade easier for grain; cot
ton per sail 9-32, per steam 5-lfl, wheat closing
nominal, per steam G®6%.
LOUIBVxLLE, May B.—Flour firm, not higher;
extra s7.< 0®57.5 >; family $8 00@58.60. Wheat,
market bare; red $1.70, amber $2.00, white $2.00.
Oorn firm—No. 1, white 63. mixed 64, Rye
steady at sl.oo. Oats steady—No. 1, white 60,
mixed 47. Pork nominal at $16,00. Bulk meats
quiet—shoulders $6.02%, clear rib sides $8,12%,
clear sides $8,76. Bacon quiet—s 6.37%, $8 76,
and $9 00, for shoulders, clear rib, and clear
sides. Sugar-cured hams, canvass packed 11%.
Lard—all offerings taken at yesterday’s prices;
choice leaf in tierce io%® 11, do., in kegs dull and
nominal 12. Whiskey quiet at 1.08. Bagging
quiet 12%@13.
BALTIMORE. May B.—Oats fairly active and
steady, Southern fair to prime 49Q6J. Rye
quiet and lower at $1.05©51.10. Provisions quiet.
Pork $17.00. Bacon shoulders 6%, clear rib
9%. Hams 12%®13%. Lard, refined 11®U.
offee strong, jobs 17®22. Whiskey held at 14.
Sugar firm at 12.
CINCINNATI. May B.—Evening—Flour easier;
family $9,25.®59.60. Wheat stsady; red $1.90.
Corn unsettled and weaker at 66, mixed in good
demand at 60®55. Oat* eaaier at 48®63. Eye
quiet and firm at 98®51,00. Barley dull and
nomiual; good to prime Western spring 60®70
Pork eaaier at $15.50®75. Lard dull and nomiual
—steam $9 90asked; kettle slo.6o®s 11.00. Bulk
moats unsettled and lower—shoulders $6.26,
abort rib aidea $7 87 ML abort clear aldea $8.26.
Bacon dull and drooping—6%®%, 8%®%, and
7%®9, for ahouldere, clear rib and clear aidea.
Whiskey steady at SI.OB. Butter easier, not
lower: choice Western reserve 19®20, Central
Ohio I®lB.
BT. LOUIS, May 8. - Evening Flour held
above bnyers’ views, little doing; double extra
tall $7.50® $8 26, treble extra do., $8.60®59.26.
Wheat dull and lower to sell; No. 2. red fall, $2.22
bid; No. 3, do., $2.10. Corn active sod lower—
No. 2, mixed, 62%@62%. Oats firmer; No, 2,
44V,' bid. Eye firmer at 94®94%. Barley dull;
strictly prime to choiee Minnesota 96. Whiskey
steady at 8. Pork dull at $16.60. Lard dull and
nomiual at 10. Bulk meats dull nothiug doing
—clear rib sides 7% asked, 7% bid. Bacon dull
and lower— $6.12%(525, $H 60. and $8.76, for
•houldera, clear rib and dear aidea.
Mhlp News.
New York, May B.—Arrived: Russia,
Anchoria, Frasia.
Arrived out: Excelsior, Aquenda, Ber
tha, Buhlens, Antoinette.
Rynehart’s Bakery—Re
moval.
I NOTIFY my friends and customers that I
have removed my bakery to corner of Ogle
thorpe and Franklin streets opposite J. H. Ham
ilton's, and the Centennial stores, where I am
prepared to furnish fresi* Uresd and Cakes daily.
Weddings, parties and pionics served on liberal
terms at short notice.
WM. RYNEHAUT.
apr22eodlm
LOOK AT THIS!
Just Received.:
rAA YARDS VICTORIA LAWN at 12%c.,
OUU 16c. and 20c.;
600 yards BWIB3 MUSLIN, 12 %c. to 25c.;
BLACK GRENADINE, 25c. to 76c. :
New supply of HAMBURG TRIMMINGS—
▼ery cheap;
PRINTED LAWNS and GRASS CLOTHS:
FANS and PaRABOLS;
LINEN COLLARS and CUFFS;
MEN’S and BOYS’ SUMMER HATS;
PRINTS and DOMESTICS at bottom prices.
F. C JOHNSON.
febll eod’hn
Tax Payers, Take Notice.
THE attention of Tax Payers is specially called
to the following section of the Code, viz:
It shall be the duty of the Tax Receiver to re
quire all persons making returns of land in his
countv, to return the same by district, number
and section, if the lands have such designation;
and where lands have no such designation, then
by such description as will enable the Receivers
to identify them. Receivers are prohibited from
receiving any returns oi lands which do not de
signate them. And the Comptroller General is
prohibited from allowing any Receiver compen
sation or percentage for his services, who re
ceives returns in auy other manner.
Having been instructed to enforce the require
ments of this section to the letter, I hereby no
tify all tax payers that, when they make returns
of their lauds to me, they must do so by district
number, &e.; otherwise the return cannot be re
ceived.
M. W. THWEATT,
April 21, 1877. Tax Receiver, M. C.
NEW FURNITURE
JUST RECEIVED.
I AM SOW IN RECEIPT OF A FULL STOCK
OF
FURNITURE
Of all kinds in the line, consisting of
BED-ROOM SETS.
FINE and COMMON
PARLOR SUITES,
CHAIRS of all kinds.
BEADBTEADB in Great Variety, Ac., Ac., all of
the latest styles and fresh, and will be sold low.
Funltnre Repaired Promptly and
Cheaply.
L. ROONEY,
83 ’auil .85 Broad Bt., Up Htulr*.
mb4 eodJtw2m
T. S. SPEAR,
No. lQf Broad St„ Columbus, 6a.
Watches, Jewelry and Clocks Repaired promptly
a.ll orders will receive prompt attention.
Remington Sewing Machine Decot.
Exemption of Personalty.
Georgia, Chattahoochee co.—James
M. Renfroe, Jr., has applied for Exemption
of Personalty, and setting apart and valuation of
the same, and I will pass upon said application
at 10 o'clock a. m., on the 12th day of May 1877,
at my office.
JAMES CASTLEBERRY,
Ordinary.
Cubshta, Oa., April 23d, 1877.
apr26 tds*
FOR SALE OR REM 1 .
THE PROPERTY IN COLUM.
BUS, known as the deGrai
fenried property; for particulars flatfsEkUML
apply to G. E. Thomas, Esq., Cos
lumbua; Marshall deGraffenried, Atlanta, wrJ, F.
Waddell, Seale, Ala.
feb 16 tf
MABABLE HOTEL,
NORTH-EAST CORNER OF SQUARE
LA FAYETTE, ALA.
Mrs. S. W. Williams, Proprietress.
Board by the Day, Week or Month, at the most
reasonable rates.
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trade-marks, and labels. Caveats, Assignments,
Interferences, etc., promptly attended to.
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lILJLu I LU cure(l by us. Being op
posite the Patent Office, we can make closer
searches, and secure Patents more promptly and
with broader claims than those who are remote
irom Washington.
HJtfrtlTnnCWd u a model or
I?y Lr r* N I lIK Vketch of y° ur device;
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correspondence strictly cenfldetial. Prices low,
AND NO CHARGE UNJLES4 PATENT
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to inventors in every State in the Union. Ad
dress, in lierman or English, 0. A. SNOW k CO.,
Opposite Patent Office , Washington, D.
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