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WASHINGTON NEWS.
APPOINTMENTS FOR 6EOR6IA AND ALA
BAMA.
BLAISE AG AIS AT THE UNITE
HOUSE.
MirTHEHX POHTMA'n:KH HAVE
TOO MUCH MI.Y'KR.
Washington, May 23. Appoint
ments—Wm. H. Locke, Postmaster
at Eufaula, Ala., Vice P. G. Clark,
resigned.
A Philadelphia delegation waited
on the President. They desire a
change in Federal officers there.
Key knows nothing confirmatory
of the report that his Second and
Third Assistants are to be bounced.
Gov. Tom Young assured the Pres
ident that if his Southern policy
works well there would not be a
thousand Republicans in Ohio dis
satisfied with it.
The Secretary of War has returned.
W. P. Jones succeeds Dr. Hancock
as postmaster at Nashville, who, the
Star says, is removed for cause.
Indian Commissioner Smith will
bg absent two months inspecting the
agencies.
They are promising the mission to
Belgium to Gen. Burbridge of New
York.
Senator David Davis is critically
sick at Bloomington, Illinois.
There isa hitch in Wiekersham’s
appointment to the Mobile post
office. Special agent Fry, who is in
Mobile on other business, has been
instructed to look into it.
Geo. H. Booker, Minister to Rus
sia, has resigned.
The Postal Commission, with Post
master General Key and railway
mail superintendents Vail and Mar
shall, leave to-night. They will be
absent eight or ten days, and < n
route will visit in the order named,
LyQchburg, Danville, Charlotte, At
lanta, Chattanooga and Bristol.
Blaine was at the White House
again soon this a. m. He wants to
have John L. Thomas made collector
of customs at Baltimore.
Postmasters, South and West, com
plain of silver accumulating on their
hands. They are compelled to take
it in sums of five dollars for stamps,
and cannot disburse it.
Jesse W. Jackson has been appoint
ed internal revenue agent for the
district of Georgia and Alabama, vice
Alvin B. Clark, resigned.
The counties of Rockdale and New
ton are transferred to the 2d Georgia
District.
Andrew Clarke, Collector of 2d Ga.,
has permission to make anew bond,
so as to relieve his old bondsmen,
who desire it. The Administration
is troubled because they have no
money to make a show at the French
exhibition of 1878.
Nuiitbern Presbyterian Aurnblf.
Chicago, May 23.—A telegram has
been received from the Presbyterian
Assembly of the South, in session at
New Orleans, which says: The
Southern Assembly disapprove of
that part of the Northern Assemblies
greeting which omits reference to
the main part of their paper seat to
Brooklyn from Savannah, and says
if our brothers of the Northern
Church can meet us on those terms
which truth and righteousness seem
to require, then we are ready to es
tablish such relations with them du
ring the present session of the As
sembly.
The Hetliodlnt Conference.
Baltimore, May 23.—The bounda
ries of the ftorth Carolina District
were changed to include the Green
field, West Va. Circuit. The com- j
mittee reported a defining in the
Pittsburg* West Va., and Michigan
Districts, and they were included in ,
other distriots. The report was dis-!
cussed at length. No action.
Baltimore, May 23.—Pittsburg was
selected as the next place of meeting j
of the Methodist Protestant Conven- j
tion. The consideration of the report
of the Committee on Boundaries was
resumed and the report adopted. The
districts of Michigan, West Miclii- j
gan, Indiana and Kentucky remain
unchanged. Other districts in the j
North, South. East and West, with a j
few unimportant changes, remain
the same.
IXTERXATIOVAI. BRITISH (EL E
BKATIO.V.
Petersburg, Va., May 23.—The
grand reception in honor of the dele
gates from English, Scoth, Irish and
Welsh societies of the Northern
States and Canada, attending the In
ternational British Celebration, took
place this morning.
THE WAK IN EUROPE.
TIKK.EY ARMING RTUIA\ IX
MUBOEVTN.
Turkey Feels that She is Fightiug for
Existence.
The Power** to Krroxnl/.r liidr|irmlrnrr
ot Itiiiiiiiiiniß
London, May 23.— The Russians
have re-placed the troops at Oltenit
za. The relieved Roumanians march
ed towards Little Wallachia, where
the Roumanians will concentrate and
remain on the defensive.
A Russian decree orders the forma
tion of two more Cossack divisions
on the Don, to reiuforce the opera
ting army.
The Abchassians are in full insur
rection. The Turks have armed
them.
The Sultan has ordered twenty
thousand resolvers to be paid for
from his private purse for distribu
tion in Caucasus.
London, May 23.—A Vienna dis
patch to the Times says: Sheim Ul
Islam proclaiming a holy war against
Russia, and the almost simultaneous
announcement from Constantinople
that the departure of the Sultan for
the Danube has been decided upon,
would seem to show that the advice
of those who all along looked upon
the present struggle as one of exist
ence f>r the Ottoman Empire lias
gained the ascendancy in the Coun
cil of the Porte.
London, May 23.— The Times’ Bu
charest dispatch says it is believed
Russia will first recognize the iude
l>endenoe of Roumauia, and that
Germany, France and Italy will fol
low. England and Austria are ex
pected to delay recognition.
A Vienna dispatch to the News
says: From Cettinge it is announced
that Montenegro lias postponed the
recommencement of hostilities until
the Russians have actually crossed
the Dunube.
THE SITUATION IS FRANCE.
Itcporled llKatrertlun uf LtßltlmUU.
HOW A REPORT OF BISMARCK’S RECALL
AFFECTED THE BOURSE.
Paris, May 23. -It is said that forty
Legitimist Senators, dissatisfied with
the Government’s intentions con
cerning clerical quotations, have de
cided to join the Left in refusing to
grant a dissolution. Marshal Mac-
Mahou has power to prorogue, but
not to dissolve the Deputies.
Gambetta will visit the larger pro
vincial towns to superintend Repub
lican resistance.
London, May 23. —The Times'
Paris dispatch says the Bourse
opened very firm on Tuesday at
about the highest questions of the
day, but the strong tendency was
soon checked by news that Prince
Bismarck bad been recalled to
Berlin. This, in the present sensi
tive state of the market, told with
rapid severity.
M’MAHON WILL BE DEFEATED.
London, May 23.—The Times’ Paris
dispatch has the following : France
will doubtless pronounce overwhelm
ingly against President MaeMahon uf
the elections, even if the Senate
gives a majority in favor of dissolu
tion, which is very doubtful. The
refusal of the Senate to authorize a
dissolution would iuevitubly cause
MacMahon’s resignation.
TEI.EKHAPHIC M 'IMAUV.
London. —The weather has been
unusually cold for the past week,
particularly Saturday.
Philadelphia.—The carpet weav
ers of J. & J. Dobsiu’s mills at the
falls of the Schuylkill, who have
been on a strike for a month, resum
ed work yesterday.
Chicago, May 23.—A large three
stoiy brick block at Cedar Rapids,
Mich., belonging to Mulaly & Pres
ton, fell Monday. Seventeen men
were injured, of whom one wa3 kill
ed, four or five mortally wounded.
Cleveland, 0., May 23.—Tbe Resi
dence Insurance Company, organized
in 1873, with two hundred thousand
dollars capital, has resolved to dis
continue business.
Pittsburg, May 23.—Davis, Cham
bers & Co.’s lead works burned ; loss
SIOO,OOO.
New York—Mrs. Stienbacker died
Monday from poison which she took in
consequence of a quarrel with her hus
band. To-day Steinbacker shot himself
fatally. A meeting of directors’ to the
Bank of commerce resolved to reduce
stock from ten to five millions.
Rochester —W. H. O. Hosmer, the :
poet, is dead.
Bcncook, N. H.—Wm. Flounders,
aged 17, while in'oxicated shot bis step
father fataiiy. The game shot blew his :
mother's hand oil.
A correspondent, writing from Cairo,
exposes the humbug ol the Khedive iu
pretending to suppress slaver}', and says
that at the very time he sent an expedi
tion lor that purpose down the Red S"a at
the instance of tile English Foreign Office, 1
he was selling 400 lemale slaves, while
every one of his palaces overflows with
them, “to say nothing of his cruelly op- I
pressed, forced laborers.” Tliere is no
doubt that this is perfectly true.
But if they were white slaves the phil- !
anihropists will not trouble themselves
about them.
COLUMBUS, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1877.
THE WAK IN ASIA.
Russian Advantage by the
Fall of Ardahan.
BATOUM AGAIN THREATENED.
London, May 23.—A Turkish coun
cil of ministers resolved to send all
reinforoements arriving to Erzeroum
and Batourn.
The fall of Ardahan secures the
Russians in their position before
Kars, and opens anew line of opera
tion against Erzeroum.
London, May 23.—The Daily Tele
graph's Pera dispatch says a portion
of the Ardahan garrison took the
road to Ordanatscb, having cut its
way through the Russian column
which endeavored t.o intercept it.
The Russiaus are said to have
closed in upon the rear of Batourn,
which is once more seriously threat
ened.
SERVIA, AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
11l Siam CLAMOROUS FOR WAR.
Vienna, May 23.— A Council of Min
isters at Belgrade resolved that
| Prince Milau shall inform the Czar
that after Roumania’s praclatnatiou
of independence Servia cannot remain
neutral. Roumania’s declaration
caused a little excitement at Vienna.
All the Hungarian papers, however,
declare that the hour for action has
arrived for Austria and Hungary.
A letter from Kossuth is published,
urging an alliance between Hungary
and Turkey against the common ene
my, Russia.
London, May 23.—A dispatch from
Vienna to the Daily News announces
that the Austrian Government’s at
tention is directed to the increasing
agitation in Huugary, where there is
an eager clamor for war amongst all
classes.
The Daily Ax’tt's’Bucharest dispatch
reports that at six o’clock Tuesday
morning the Turks fired from Rahova
at an Austrian steamer, which, after
several shots, caught fire.
Baltiimire Races.
Baltimore, May 22.—Mi10 heat for
three year olds who had not won in
two year old form. Lucifer won;
Clover Brook second; Diamond
third. Time 1: 46—Clover Brook was
the favorite.
Two and a quarter miles, for all
ages. Tom Ochiltree won, Preston
second; Burgoo third. Time, 4:14.
The favorite won.
Oneand a half miles--Shylock won ;
Jennifer second ; Invoice third. Time
2: 425.
Mile heats for all ages. Rappa
hannock won; Partnership second.
Time 1:47.
RnsNia Warnlnic Tunis.
Berlin, May 23.—The North Ger
man Gazette states that Russia has
declared to Tunis that if military or
pecuniary aid is rendered to the Sul
tan they must prepare to see their
Cipital bombarded.
The Tunis government is also dis
quieted by the concentration of a
French force on the frontier.
England's l•^cp^lPllll>ns.
London, May 23.— There are five
Great Indian troop ships at Ports
mouth in readiness to proceed to
sea if required for other service.
Thousands of barrels of powder were
embarked for Malta to-day.
FEEDING THE OLD WORLD.
STEAMERS LOADED WITH PROVISIONS—
BREAD AND BEEF FOR THE MILLION.
New York. May 19.—Five steamers
sailed for Europe to-day, viz: City of
Richmond and England tor Liver
pool, Canada for London, Anehovia
for Glasgow, and iiheiu for Bremen.
All the vessels go out full, and the
exportation of food is about, puual to
that, of former Saturday’s shipments.
It, is stated at i he shipping offices that
a quantity of freight,offered will have
to lie over until next, week for want
of room.
The shipments of grain aggregate
168,000 busheis; of cheese there is
nearly 25,000 boxes. The exact num
ber of pounds of fresh beef cannot
be obtained from the lists of cargoes,
as some have been shipped by tuna in
weight, and others by tons in meas
urement. On one vessel 100 tons in
weight have been shipped ; on others
1,500 tons in measurement, and on
another 2,000 quarters, averaging 200
pounds each. Tlie aggregate ship
ment of beef, however, fully equals
that of last Saturday.
Off for Montezuma’s Halls.—The
! quiet meetings and mysterious innve
| ments of those who have the Mexi
-1 can business in hand have caused
moreexcitement in many circles than
would at first be believed. All hough
nothing has been openly done fb give
: to the world the knowledge that New
Orleans is a recruiting depot, yet
j whispers are abroad that there are
now opened here, in obscure neigh
borhoods in the Second and Third
Districts, offices, where “laborers”
can fin 1 employment on a Mexican
railroad. It is evident now that the
scheme has been made public, that
all disguise will soon be thrown off
and the work of recruiting be > on
ducted in a more opeD manner. That
the government looks seriously on
the subject is shown by yesterday’s
dispatches, in which is stated that
Gen. Ord was en route for Chicago,
to consult with Sheridan regarding
Mexican affairs.
The steamship City of Mexico left
for Vera Cruz yesterday, her deten
tion having ended.— N. 0. Democrat,
22 and.
Address of col. M. W. Mailt, nt tlie Hnt
Ml mu euitttrr, on Hit* ZHtli of April.
Ladies and Fellow Ciluens:— This is
a solemn day! It issoleuiu in its cer
emonial, soleuiu in its associations,
sol mu iu every thought and duty
which it. suggests and leaches. Is it
too much to say that we, ilie Coufed
erate living, seem now to stand in
the presence of the Confederate sol
dier-deud? is it even too much to
say that, to-day, appears slowly to
defile before us the long line of he
roes, who fought so grandly upon
every blood stained field from Ma
nassas to Appomatox, clad in the
ashen gray of the evening sky, into
which they have passed, every face
aglow with resolute expression of
the same high faith which warmed
their hearts at each step of their
soldier-life, but darkened at times
by an anxious shadow, us if they mu
tually asked: “Have you who have
survived us, been also faithful? Have
you vindicated our memories, in thb
only way that they could be properly
and effectually vindicated, by a like
unshaken confidence in the truth and
ultimate triumph of the principles
for which we fought, and suffered,
and bled and died?” Grave question !
Who, among us, with hand upou
heart, can reply that, through all
these latter years of desolation ami
sorrow, years of right fettered and
powerless, and wrong enthroned
and triumphant, who among
us, Isay, can reply: "I have never
faltered; I have Kept the faith, and,
by the blessing or God, will keep it
unto the end?” The women can
indeed do so—those glorious South
ern women —whose souls shine not
only with the sweet springs of all
gentle and modest virtues, but
the stronger currents of will aud
resolution in the cause of truth and
justice, which disasters are unable to
lessen or obstacles to check. Poiot
i iug to this day—this memorial day
| which originated in their pure miuds,
and to Confederate-soldier graves,
{ which are decorated by their pure
hands, each ceremony connected
j with which bespeaks admiration of
| the deeds of those for whose sake it
{ was conceived aud executed, as well
las sympathy for their sufferings,
grief at their loss, aud faith in tneir
j principles, and in their final success,
I they can proudly say : "The memo
ries of our dead soldiers are dear to
us, and we have done, and will con
tinue to do, our duty by them.” Ah,
the women of the South! How rich
ly do they deserve to bo loved for
their beauty and gentleness aud
purity, to be admired for their
heroism aud strength of pur
pose, to be revered for their self-sa
crificing devotion to princi
ple I While the war was going on,
they forgot self, they buried every
thought of self; they gave up prop
erty, ease, and all the pleasures and
delights.of home, around which clus
tered the tenderest and fondest asso
ciations, and without widen life was
a burden to tuem, cheerfully aud
without a murmur; and more, they
gave up father, brother, husband aud
sun—are, even garlanded them for j
the sacrifice —words of encourage- I
I meut, only, passing the lips faces!
I serene iu the p uriotic resolve ; or if, I
perchance, the serenity was ever 1
I hrukuu by a tear that would come, it
j was brightened by tile smiling eye:
from which it dropped, at a in uncut |
when pangs more tern Die than those j
*jf death itself Were tearing their |
bosoms. And wheu the long struggle
was over, ami the South a ruin ami
a desolation, dismay on its face ami
horror at its heart, they, tenderly
ami delicately nurtured; they, whom
the winds of heaven had not been
permitted to visit 100 roughly, they
oared their dimpled arms, took the
jewels from ttieir rosy fingers, to do
singly and alone what scores of ser
vants had done for them before with
a courage and a determination which
pur. to stmuie, ami, in most instances,
to flight too, the despondency and
gloom, which clou led the brows,
darkened the hopes, and paralyzed
the energies of those upon whoso
brave spirits they had hitherto been
accustomed almost wholly to rely
for guidance and direction. “Look
not mournfully into the past,” -ami
they felt and spoke ami acted the
sentiment embraced In this beauti
ful and truthful passage from Hy
perion,—"Look not, mournfully into
the past; it is thine. Go forth to
meet the shadowy future without
fear, and with a manly heart.”
Have we, Southern men, been
equally as honest and faithful in our
labors to preserve untarnished the
memories of oar fallen braves? Not
by dwelling, in loving terms, upon
their valor; their patient endurance
of suffering; their fidelity to duty;
their moderation in victory, and their
firmness in defeat. No! For these
are known and acknowledged from
Maine to California—from Iceland
to Australia. The remembrance of
them, even were their history un
written, could never be lost. It is as
imperishable as the patriotic princi
ples from which they emanated, and
over which they exercise a control
ling power. But have we been true
to, and outspoken in, the mainte
nance of the justice and rightfulness
or the “Lost Cause”? Alas! under
the influence of selfish considera
tions—considerations of mere per
sonal promotion and profit—have
not some of us fallen away from the
faith in which we were born and
raised, and admitted either expressly
or impliedly, that one of the great
objects of that faith -the right of se
cession-the assertion of which on
our part brought on the war, .'.ever
existed, and that the fruits of its ex
ercise were wholly pernicious and
disastrous-in short that the idea
originated in wrong, arid that the
blood poured out so freelv to main
tain it, was not onlv needlessly but,
criminally shed? The doctrine of
secession is dead ! Submitted to the
arbitrament of the sword, the de
cision against it was direct, utter and
final. But the fact of its being dead
to-day does not argue that it was
dead before such decision was made
the fact of its not being right
now does not argue that it was
not right then. On the contrary,
that it was so—that it was a right of the
Mates reserved by them as a remedy for;
Federal wrongs and usurpation, as plain !
from the very nature and theory of our
government, the history of its origin, and j
the contemporaneous testimony of many j
of its founders, as well as the opini >ns of, j
some of the ablest jurists and publicists I
tliiscountry has produced. And sack
will be the verdict of impartial his
tory! For us, therefore, to acknowledge
now that the idea which formed so prom
inent a part of our political education,
wrong, and the mother only of wrongs,
or to tacitly acquiesce in the enunciation
of such a dogma, would be to sin against :
our honest convictions of truth snd duty,
and, at the same time, write rebel and
traitor across our foreheads, and upon
the headstone of every Confederate sol
dier’s grave.
And have the results of the war, which
followed our attempt at the exercise of
this right, been wholly ruinous? Have
its fruits been altogether bitter and pois
onous? Has it indeed ended in a mere
waste of patriotic blood ami heardly-earu
i*d treasure? 1' is to he imped not.
And are there not grounds for such hope?
The right of the B'ates to local self gov
ernment, —to preserve which right secess
ion whs resorted to, —may have been lost
with the war, which, however, I do not
believe to be the fact, as will lie evident
from what follows. It certainly would
have been lost w idmiu the war. For one
moment, if it be possible, let us lorgut
that terrible struggle, aud all ot the terri
ble consequences since, and go back to a
period immediately preceding them,
while we briefly cousider this point.
The election in this country of a
Chief Magistrate upon a basis purely
sectional, with the other branches of
the government filled upon the same
bnsis. a result which, had there been
no war, must have surely followed,
would have placed the rights of the
minority section of the States at the
mercy of the dominant or majority
section; an i one has read the history
of the v\ot ci to little purpose, and has
but a superficial knowledge of hu
man character, who does not know
that this power would have been ex
ercised in the interest of the latter,
or majority section, to the detriment
of the former, or minority section.
But, as this could not have been
done without the rights of all the
States, those of the majority section,
as well as the others, being injurious
ly affected by it iu the cud, through
the establishment of precedents,
each step by the Government would
have been most cautiously taken and
guarded, aud every requisite prepara
tion made for the security of the
next step, until the march to abso
lute power on the part ot the Gov
ernment would have been accom
plished; aud that too, so natur
ally, quietly and gradually,
that the people of the Hi ales
could not have been aroused to
the nature aud scops of the move- j
meut, before their rights were j
gone and t hey helpless and in chains.
But the war came and passed away! \
And presuming upon the passions
engendered by it among the people
of thecontroUingor majority section,
the Government, by a long and des- ]
perate leap, attained what it would j
otherwise have reached, by soft and
easy gradations —surrounded the bal
lot-hox with its soldiery—destroyed
and built up State governments at
will thereby not only shocking the
moral sense of patriots throughout
the entire Union, but opeuing theii
eyes at once and widely to the perils
of thw centralized despotism with
which they were threatened. That
matchless form of government be
queathed to us by our fathers,in which
the rights of the whole are made con
sistent with those of the several parts,
and founded upon the great system
of populur suffrage, is no failure in
this country yet! Already have the
people fearlessly, and in no measured
terms, proclaimed that the right of
local self-government not simply
“may be,” but shall be, secured to
the .States. Tiuly.tiuly is the guiding
nand of a beneficent and all-wise
Providence manifested iu each one of
1 lie bold aud desperate moves of po
litical gamblers and conspirators to
prevent being made to work oui,
directly and surely, tlie re-establish-
ment of sound constitutional gov
eminent over every portion of our
common country. Thank God
for it! Thank God, the night is
a last passing away-a night
which lias taken up no small
part of the existence of this couutry ;
and light is beginning once more to
paint her colors of purple and gold
upon the eastern hoiizou. A dreary
night,, especially to the South, bus it
been—a night unrelieved bv light of
moon or star, and horrid with thun
ders and tempests. Weariiy—wearily
tiave patriots, nil over the land, beeu
looking for tlie darkness to end;
wearily -wearily—with a constantly
recurring, and a deeper and yet deep
er, disappointment. Despair had
well nigh seized upon their anxious
souls, when the powerful declaration
was made at the ballot-box,
by which was announced “the
coming of the day.” The
unmerited sufferings of the
Southern people, during this long
and disastrous night, aud the hero
ic aud uueomplaiuing fortitude with
which they have beeu supported, no
tongue can tell—-no mind conceive;
but, in the joy of the approaching de
liverance, while they may not be able
to forget these trials (nor indeed
should they do so, for out of them
have sprung the noblest and grandest
virtues,), and with hearts tilled with
love for a C institutional Uniou,
which even oppression in its name
could not crush, aud with confidence
in the earlv purification of every part
■ J their “Father’s House,” they, join
ing hands with their conservative
brethren oT the North, East aud
West, can and do, fervently and
sincerely unite, on this, the first Me
morial Day of the country’s second
oenturv, iu the glad soug of Glory to
God iu the Highest—peace on earth
arid good will toward men, closing
with tho triumphant and jubilant
refrain, of Happy is the nation whose
God is the Lord !
And when this much longed for
and good time shall come to this
country,
"Who can place a limit to the giant's unchained
atrei gth,
Or curb bis swiftness to the forward race?"
or, to change the figure, who or what
will have power to cheek the sturdy
youth of American Liberty upon bis
upward path, bearing in his hands,
"Mid snow and ico,
Tbo banner with the strange device
EXCKIJUOB !"
Learning a lesson from his late experience
in being so nearly lost in the Storm, and
buried beneath the failing avalanche, —
with a more walcblul eye, a stronger
heart and a firmer step, —be will slowly
but surely mount ‘’higher and higher” the
steps belore him. Along the path dark
ened by grim Alpine woods, and roughen
ed by sharp Alpine rocks, higher and
higher -across yawning chasms and
hick ravines and frosted glaziers,
higher and higher over iceelad
slopes and towering precipices, and
frowning snow drifts, —higher and hiehtr
—in spite ot howling blast, and rushing
avalanche, and roaring flood, and thick
ening cloud, and blinding lightning and
cra-diing thunder, higher and higher,
—until the very cr st ol power is attained,
bulled in the glad sunlight, and fanned
by the glad breez sofa substantial and
abiding prosperity. Then—oh! then
shall this prosperity, based as it will be
—based as it must be—upon the rights of
tho States, immutilntcd and unimpaired
—rights, for which Confederate soldiers
struggled and died,—make the memories
of these heroes shine with a brightness
and beauty scarcely less than supernal.
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From tho Augusta Chronicle, aid.)
We are glad to know that Mr. Sa
lem Duteher, the Solicitor-General
of the Augusta Circuit, is doing
everything in his power to bring to
justice the men who in violation of
the laws of God and Man entered the
jail at Waynesboro and lynched the
murderer of the peddler. There was
absolutely no excuse for this crime.
It was not done in the heat of pas
sion by the friends of the murdered
man ; there was an interval of days
between thearrest of the accused aud
the lyuchiug, and the prisoner was
confined iu a jail twenty-live miles
from the city. There was no rea
uegro was to be lynched. The lynch
ers went to Waynesboro without any
disguise, remained in tho town sev
eral hours, executed their purpose
and returned upon the train. They
then had the hardihood to send out a
committee to raise money from the
citizens wit h which to pay their ex
penses. It is true that these men did
no more than they had seen done be
fore in Augusta. To the shame of
our city by it said that on two occa
sions has the jail of the city been
broken ©pen aud men in the custody
of the law been murderously put to
death. No attempt was made ou
either occasion to punish the guilty
parties- grand juries refused even to
liud bills agaiust them. It is small
wonder, then, that men should think
lynching no murder, and the Waynes
boro tragedy was the legitimate off
spring of previous lawlessness that
had gone unpunished and uucon
detnned. This is the only mitigating
circumstance of the crime—this the
only thiug that should recommend
the criminals to tho moroy of tlie law.
In attempting to fetret out and pun
ish the parties the Solicitor General
is doing his duty, and in doing it he
will be sustained aud applauded by
all good citizens. Mr. Duteher has
shown himself an able and a fearless
official, and the example he has set
will be productive of good all over
the State.
But while we fully endorse the
Solicitor General’s determination to
enforce the law agaiust lynchers, and
while we believe that all true men
will commend his attempt to put a
stop to mob murder, wo regret that,
he has pursued a course which has
produced great excitement in the
community, and which seems now
we say it in all kindness—to have
been wholly unnecessary. So far as
we can learn the facts of the case,
it seems that, without placing
any warrants in the hauds of the
Sheriff, the highest civil executive
officer oi the county, and without re
questing the Sheriff to make any ar
rest, the Solicitor General call
ed upon a military company for as
sistance. The company, of course,
wnuld have necessarily been placed
under ttie command of the Sheriff,
but Capt. Clark was called upon
without tlie knowledge of the Sheriff,
and before it had been shown that
the services of the military were
needed. If we understand our law
aright, the Sheriff is the chief execu
tive officer of tho county. If he is
given criminal process to serve, is
suing from the proper authority,
aud the parties against whom it is
directed successfully resist arrest,
then he may summon a posse of
citizens to his assistance. If the law
breakers are too stroug to be taken
in this way, then he may demand
the assistance of the mili
tary—and not before. In this in
stance the Sheriff says he was not
given any warrants to serve; if he
had bad them he believes they could
have been executed without extrane
ous assistance; and he did not desire
the support of the military. The
Governor, too, seems to have taken a
false view of his duty in the premises
and to have suggested the employ
ment of military force instead of
waiting until the Sheriff asked
for such unusual assistance. The
letters of Governor Colquitt to
Sheriff Sibley and Captain
Clark seem to pro-suppose such
a condition of affairs in Richmond
county that the civil authorities can
not, execute the process of the Court
and that military force alone can
bring offenders iuto the custody of
tne law. The people of this county
are as law-abiding as those of any
other section oT the State, and we
have yet to learn of a single case
where the civil authorities have been
successfully' defied. By all means
let the Waynesboro lynchers be
brought to justice, but do not let the
military bo called in until it has been
shown that their presence is abso
lutely necessary.
II.IRK MAYS IN CAUIORVIA.
RICH MEN IMPOVERISHED—THOUSANDS
OF PEOPLE SUFFERING FOR THE VERY
NECESSARIES OF LIFE—THE
BURSTING OF THE 810
BONANZA.
San Francisco correspondence N. Y. Graphic.
I find’things in a frightful condition
here. East of the Rocky Mountains you
have no idea of the terrible depression on
this coast. We are suffering frogs a com
plication of disorders. The great mining
I übble has bursted, and has ruined every
one. I mean ibis literally, for not only
have the rich or the middle class suffe-eu,
but the mania for speculation has spread
to tbe very servants, and they are all to
day out of pocket and in debt. Men who
but three or four months since supposed
they were rich, are to-day begging for em
ployment; and probably three persons out
of every four are now making their first
acquaintance with extreme poverty. The
whole community scums to be beggard,
and.to add to our affliction we have jsst
passed through a great drought, our cattle
are dying by the hundreds of thousands
Their carcasses cannot be sold for any
sum, however sm ill; and the ruin ofcattle
dealers will inevitably bring a gnat deal of
land held in masses into the market to he
sold for a song.
People East, who have money, could
not do better than come out here in or
der to take advantage of the reckless way
in which all kinds of property are sold.
Valuable farms and ranches can now be
had for one-twentieth of their value, and
city property is for sale at prices which
would have bcetned ridiculous a few
years back. The depression is so great
that it cannot last much longer in ibis
way. Bat tbe suffering is intolerable,
and bad as times have been in the East,
they are as naught compared with the
disaster which hoa overtaken the residents
of tlie Pacific coast. Thousands are go
ing to Arizona, where there is said to he
gold for tlie digging: and the agricultural
population will be increased, although at
present agriculture is the most depressed
industry we have. Word has been sent
1 to John McCullough, in New York, that
there is no use in his returning to the Pa
cific coast, and that his theatre will have
to be closed. This is tho second year of
drought since the settlement of Califor
nia.
Southern California is described as an
"ash heap.” while the Sonoma, Sacra
mento and Sonora Valleys are burnt to a
crisp. On one ranch alone 25,000 sheep
were killed because they could not be
fed.
The costly Exchanges here, far superi
or to any you have in New York, are va
cant, and have proved to be California’s
greatest folly. Lookout lor trouble among
the representative millionaires of the
Pacific coast.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
NO.\KY A.\W MTOrKN.
LONDON, May 23—Noon.—Consols 94 5-16;
Erie 6**.
PARIS, May 23, 4 p.m.—Rentes 103f. 95c.
1:30 p. m .—Ren tea loaf, 70c.
NEW YORK. May 23. Noon—Gold opened
106?%.
NEW YORK. May 22. Noon—{Rocks opened
Arm but soon became lower;
OJi; exchange, long, 4.88; abort, 4.905; btate
bonds steady ; Governments firm.
NEW YORK, May 23. Evening Money
easy at 2; sterling dull but firm at 8; gold quiet
at ?*; Government* quiet but firm—new 6’s
11 \i States steady.
430TT0W.
LIVERPOOL, May 23—Noon.—Cotton firmer,
but not quotably higher; middling upland* 5
8-16 J; middling Orleans (id; wale© 15 UOO; specu
lation and export 3,Oof); rcceiptß 56,969—Ameri
can 40,000.
Futures 1-32 better; uplands, low middling
clause, June and July delivery, 0 27-32d; Au
gust aud September 6d ; whipped April aud May
per sail 5 13-lCd; Heptember aud October delivery
6 1-16.
1:00 p. m—Uplands, low middling clause, July
and August delivery 5 29-32 U.
2:00 p, m —Uplands, low middling clans®, May
and June delivery 5 13-1(1.
Hales of American 10,000.
4:00 p. m,—Uplands, low middling clause, June
and July delivery 5 18-32d.; shipped May and
June per sail 5 15-16; July and August delivery
6,V
LIVERPOOL, May 23 Evening. Futures
quiet. Upiauds, low middling clause, August aud
rteptemher delivery, 5 31-32; new crop shipped
November and December, per sail 6 3-32d.
NEW YORK, May 23. Noon— Cotton quiet
and steady; middling uplands 10 ? ,; Orleans 11;
sales 2,320.
NEW YORK, May 23.—Evening—Cotton quiet
and steady; middling uplands 10J; Orleans 11;
sales 291; net receipts —; gross 3,229.
Consolidated net receipts 7,529; exports to
Great Britain 24,156, to France 2,172; to continent
4,648; to channel —.
Futures closed firm sales 35,000; May 110.89;
June July 11.79; August 11(§> 09;
September 11.04; October 10 91 @.93; November
December 10.83(g).85; January 10.98(tf
11; February 11.14®. 16; March 11.29®.83.
GALVKHTON, May 23.—Cotton quiet; mid
dliug 10%;,net receipts (17; gross —; sales 106;
exports to Gru&t Britain —; France —; to chan
nel —; tocontiuent —; coastwise 289.
NORFOLK, May 23. Evening Cotton
quiet; middlings lu|, ; net receipts 37; gross —;
sales 50; spinners —; exports to Greatßntaiu —;
coastwise 112.
BALTIMORE, May 23. Evening Cotton
quiet aud dominal; middling 10%; net receipts
—; gross 250; sales 90; spinners —; exports to
Great Britain 492; to continent —; coastwise 20.
BOSTON, May 23. Evening Cotton dull;
middling 11; net receipts 226; gross 804; sales
—; exports to Great Britaiu 252.
WILMINGTON, May 23. —Evening Cotton
firm; middling 10; net receipts 522; sales to spin
ners —; exports to Great Britain —; coastwise
PHILADELPHIA. May 23. Evening Cotton
firm; middling 11*,; not receipts—; gross 651;
sales to spinners 404, exports to Great Britain
SAVANNAH, May 23. Evening Cotton
firm; middling 10',; net receipts 112; gross —;
wales 125; exports to Great Britain —; to conti
nent —; to channel —; coastwise —.
NEW ORLEANS, May 23. Evening—Cotton
firm: middling 10%; low middling 10; good or
dinary 9‘ b ; net receipts 194; gross 195: sales
5700; exports to Great Britain —; to France—;
to continent —; channel —; coastwise 2,3i3.
MOBILE, May 23. Cotton steady; middling
exports to Great Britaiu 4,851; to France —;
continent —; to chanuel —; coastwise 148.
MEMPHIS, May 23. Eveuing Cotton firm;
middling 10 V receipts 66; shipments 386; sales
230.
AUGUSTA. May 23.—Cotton quiet and steady;
tuiddliir; 10 '; ; uot roceipts 22; Haiea 283,
CHARLESTON, May 23. Evening— Cotton
acarce but firm; middling 10,V; uet receipt*
gross —, Bales 200; exports to Great Britain
—; to Frame—; to eontment 2,002; coastwise
I*KOVISIONS, dec.
NEW YORK. May 23—Noon- Flour dnll and
declining. Wheat nominally lower. Corn dull,
and lower. Pork heavy—new mens sl4 80.
Lard heavy—Hteara $9,609.65. Freights steady.
NEW YORK, May 22. —Evening—Flour dull
and heavy, and 10(a>25c lower, closing very dull ;
BUpprflnt Western and State $0.75(#57 00. South
ern flour dull, heavy and lower; common to lair
extra s7.Ui)('Vsß 00, good to choice $8.60(gi10.60.
Wheat very dull and In buyers’ iavor—shippers
and millers holuing off. winter wlu at quiet
and nominal. Corn l@2c lower; yellow South
ern Oats about Ic better. Coffee qiuet.
uteady aui unchanged. Sugar firm and in bet
ter d.unaud, iraiuly speculative, at Jo(ilo>4 for
j air to good refining; refined dull at 113i(j$ll% or
standard A. Molasses, grocery grades fiuner,
and iu moderate inquiry. Rice iu moderate re
quest but firm. Tallow heaqy. Pork dull and
heavy, new mesa closing atsl4 76. Lard a shade
lower, prime steam $9 67^@9 62>*, Whisky
steady li Freights quiet and steady.
CINCINNATI, May 23. Evening Flour
quiet; family $8,605#8.76. Wheat lower; red
$ i
44@49c. ltye dull and nominal at 86c. barley
quiet; good to prime fall 60<575. Pork quiet at
sl4 25. Lard steady—steam *,9.25, kettle $9.76
<sslo-00. Bulk meats iu good a- maud—shouders
$4 80@$5.00; short ribs, middles, $7.00; short
clear do., $7 37>g@7.50. Bacon quiet and firm
shoulders 6, clear ribs 8, olearMides B>£. Whis
key quot and steady $lO7. Butter dull and
drooping. Hogs fairly active; packing s4.B£<s
$* 05, receipts 2,3u0, shipments 825.
LOOISVtLLE, May 23 -Flour dull, weak nd
lower; extra $6.25@56.70. family $7.00@57 75.
dull and lowe* —red $1.75. amber $lB5,
white $1.90. C'oru in fair dem&ud but lowe ;
white 64, mixed 52, Rye quiet at 90. Oats dull
white 44, mixed 44. Pork dull, at $14,50<5514,76.
Hulk meats null and lower—shoulders 5, clear
rib 7\£, cl ar sides 7 )i. Bacon quiet steady—
shoulders dear rib sides 814,B 1 4, clear shies
Lard quiet; choice lea’, tierce
liv 4 ; do. in kegs Whiskey dullats 1.06.
Bagging dull at 12%@13.
BT. LOO 18, May 23 —Evening—Flour unsettled
and lower—Huperttne fall $5 00<g>6,40, extra $6.65
@S6.UO. Wheat dull and low* r—market complete
ly broken down—No. 2, red fall, $1.70<§)1.76; No.
3. $1.65. Corn dull and lower—No. 2, mixed,
46 oats weak at 4lc. Rye firmer. 75H bid.
Whisky quiet. Pork dull. Lard nominally un
changed. Bulk meat - dull—nothing done. Ba
con dull and unchanged. Hogs steady and in
fair demand. Cattle sieady.
BALTIMORE. May 23.—Oats steady. Rye dull
at 75(4>8d Provisions dull and heavy. Pork
—new mess sls 75@516.90, Ba<on, shoulders
clear sides 9; hams. 12#<$13)£. Lard—re
fined coffee quiet and steady. Whis
ky quiet at si3. Bugar quiet at 12.
WEATHER INDICATION*.
War Department, )
Office of Chief Signal Officer, >
Washington, Muy 23, 1877. )
For Soufh Atlantic and East
Gulf States, stationary or rising ba
rometer, lower temperature, winds
mostly from northeast to southwest,
and clear or partly cloudy weather.
NO. 123