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WASHINGTON NEWS.
Xorlti Carolina Revenue Caaea.
Washington, June 28.—Key and
Shurz have returned. Hayes comes
Saturday.
Judge F. M. Cooley, of Michigan,
is a prominent applicant for the Cir
cuit Judgship made vacant by Judge
Emmon’s death.
Gen. Howard proposes to com
mand the next Indian fight in person.
He is waiting on Salmon river for his
forces to concentrate. Meant ime the
enemy has ample time to scatter.
The Essex at Hampton Roads has
been ordered to cruise off the Liberi
an coast.
Franks’ trial developed nothing
new.
During the past six weeks Senator
Ransom, of North Carolina, hae been
appealing to the President and Sec
retary of the Treasury for amnesty
for all his people charged with viola
ting the internal revenue laws. The
Senator has been in the city for the
last two days on this matter. It is
said he has concluded an arrange
ment with the Int. Rev. Department,
by which all cases In North Caroli
na can be compromised with the
Government under certain restric
tions. The terms are understood to
be satisfactory to Gen. Leach, John
N. Staples and Thomas B. Keogh
who are attorneys for the whiskey
and tobacco men of North Carolina.
The terms will be made known as
soon as the formal arrangements are
completed with the attorneys.
iowa statFconvention.
SOME LITTLE WEANGLING
ON THE ADMJNISUItA TION'S
SOUTHERN POLICY.
Washington, June 28.— The action
of the Des Moines lowa Convention,
being the first State Convention, has
been watched. The financial planks
are as follows.
Fourth, The public credit should
be sacredly maintained, and all obli
gations of the Government honestly
discharged. And that we favor the
early attainment of euirency con
vertible with coin, and therefore ad
vocate a gradual resumption of
specie payments by continuous and
steady steps.
Fifth—The silver dollar having
been a legal unit of value from the
foundation of the Federal Govern
ment until 1873, the law under which
its coinage was suspended should be
repealed at the earliest possible day,
and silver made with gold a legal
tender for the payment of all debts,
both public and private.
We also believe that the present
volume of the currency should be
maintained until the wants of trade
and commerce demands its further
contraction.
At the conclusion of the reading, a
resolution endorsing the President
and his policy was offered by Mr.
Resley as an amendment to the first
resolution.
Tnis created an indescribable up
roar and was received with tumult,
in which were mingled vociferous
protests and hisses. The chair ruled
the resolution as not being germain
to the subject.
An amendment endorsing the poli
cy and saying it would secure the re
sults asked for in the third resolu
tion of the report of the committee
was then referred to t bat resolution
and with the same result. The third
resolution as presented by the Com
mittee was then adopted.
After this all the rest of the resolu
tions of the committe were adopted.
Mr. Cutts offered the following res
olutions :
Resolved, That the so-called South
ern policy which has been inaugura
ted and pursued by the present
National Administration is in accord
with the principles of the Republi
can party.
This was received amid general
tumult. Dr. Bardsley moved it be
referred to the Committee on Reso
lutions.
Mr. Merriman, of Keokuk county
moved amid great excitement that
the resolution be tabled. Adopted
by about three-fourth vote.
WEATHER INDICATIONS.
Wab Dbpartment,
Office of Chief Signal Offices, •
Washington, June 28, 1877.
For the South Atlantic and East
Gulf States, stationary or higher
pressure and temperature, winds
mostly from the west, clear or partly
cloudy weather, and in the first
named district occasional showers.
THE WAR IN EUROPE.
London, June 28.—The affair of tho
21st near Delababa was very severe.
The Russiaus fell back the following
morning with heavy loss. The Turks
lost 400 killed and 2,000 wounded.
A dispatch from Kustendji, Wed
nesday, says: Russian cavalry are
spreading over the interior of the
Dobrudseha, but the infantry follows
slowly. The authorities at Kustendji
are preparing to evacuate.
A Time* Bucharest special reports
that the Russian General wounded
at Guirgevo died in the hospital at
Bucharest. General Roth was previ
ously reported wounded.
Two Turkish monitors, caught by
low water in one of the branches of
the Danube near Matohin have been
summoned by the Russians to sur
render, but at latest accounts no re
ply had been made to the demand.
The Russians are very anxious to
capture these monitors uninjured.
London, June 28. —The special
edition of the Standard has a Bucha
rest dispatch that the Bulgarians in
Dobrudseha are arming against the
Turks.
Bucharest, June 28. Grand Duke
Nicholas, at the head of the Bth army
corps, crossed the Danube near Sim
nitza yesterday near Daybuok, divid
ing the Turks from their positions.
Boats filled with troops continued
to cross the river all during yester
day.
The Russian official account yester
day says the engagement with the
Turks is still proceeding. Nikopolis
has been burned by a bombardment.
The German Rrlfhlae.
Vienna, June 28.— 1n the lower
House of the Reichstag, the Minis
ter resident, in reply to an interpret
ation, said no offensive or defensive
alliance with Germany had been re
fused, because none bad been asked
by Germany. He added that the
Government still maintained its dec
laration of neutrality. Its relations
with foreign powers were the same,
and there was no occasion for
mobilization of defensive forces.
Should events occur, however,
rendering the reininforbement of
troops on the frontier neccessary the
Government reserved to itself to take
such measures as protection of im
mediate interests on the frontier
might require. From the fact that
Government had hitherto deemed
these measures unnecessary and
from a regard for its financial posi
tion still dispensed with them was
a guarantee that it would not adopt
them prematurely nor to a greater or
less extent than necessary.
A Fatal Miomlute
Cincinnati, June 28.— Near Wil
liamsburg, Grant county, Kentucky,
Tuesday evening, during an alterca
tion between Thos. Redd and Wm.
Little, brothers-in-law, regarding a
certain piece of land, the former
shot the iatter, inflicting a mortal
wound. Little returned the shot
killing Redd. A feud had existed for
many years between the families of
Redd and Little.
Arrhblkhoii Wood.
Rome, June 28.— Archbishop Wood,
of Philadelphia, who left Rome on
Thursday last, has been appointed
arbitrator in the disputed cases of
the Diocese of Pittsburg, and the
ancient order of Hibernians.
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A Carriage Factory Hurtled.
Lowell, Mass., June 28. Hill
Brothers Carriage Factory burned.
Loss $60,000.
Death of a Journalist.
Nashville, Tenn., June 28,-Gen.
E. E. Jones, journalist is dead, aged
sixty-four.
The Bradlaugh-Brisant Sentence.
London, June 28.— Chas. Bradlaugh
and Miss Annie Bessant, who were
arrested and tried for publishing a
pamphlet alleged to be immoral,
have been condemned to six months
imprisonment, to pay a fine of £2OO
each, and to enter into an engage
ment to behave well for two years.
The Turf.
New York, June 28.— The atten
dance was large at Fleetwood to wit
ness the free for all race. Hopeful
won straight heats ; Judge Fullerton
second ; Albermarle third, and Ade
laide fourth. Time 2 .18J, 2:20‘ 2:21
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Who First Introduced Potatoes Into
France.
The potato was unknown in Limous
in. It was not common in any part of
France, and perhaps this is not astonish
ing when we remember that the first field
crop even in agricultural Scotland is sup
posed only to have been sown in the
fourth decade of that country. People
would not touch it, though the experi
ment of persuading them to cultivate this
root had been frequently tried. In Lim
ousin the people were even more obsti
nate in their prejudice than elsewhere.
But Turgot perseevred, knowing how use
ful potatoes would be in a land where scar
city of grain was so common. The or
dinary view was that they were hardly fit
for pigs, and that in human beings they
would certainly cause leprosy. Some of
the English Puritans wonld not eat pota
toes because they were not mentioned in the
Bible, and tiiat is perhaps no better a rea
son than the other. When, however, it
was seen that the Intendant Turgot had
the hated vegetable served every day at
his own table, the opposition grew more
faint; men were at last brought to con
sent to use potatoes for their cattle, and
after a time even for themselves.— Fort
night Review.
COLUMBUS, GA„ FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1877.
Tlie London Timex on the Reported
Breach,of the Neutrality Law*
liy UurtMlniiM.
London, June 28.—The Times in its
leading article says neutral States
are painlully interested by reports
that the Russians have been violat
ing the laws of war by the infliction
of wanton injury. If they deliber
ately directed their guns against
the Consuls uud defenceless
people of Rustchuk their guilt
is surpassed only by their folly; and
that folly would be all the more glar
ing because if, as reported, they con
tinued to tiro on the English consu
late after the Consul had hoisted
the American flag, they would have
gone out of their way to assail a
power peculiarly friendly to them
selves. It is difficult to believe that
the Russians would have deliberately
inflicted such an outrage, aud it is
well to remember that similar
charges invariably aceompany every
bombardment.
THE RHETOR* AT HIKNKH.
Mr. llaye* Hluvhei Like it .Nrlioolhoy,
unit Beg* to be Excused—Historian
Bancroft on Class Longevity—'Tlie Pout
master General Hectares the Unity of
the Nation.
Boston, June 27.— At Harvard alum
ni dinner, President Elliot, in Siting
language, then introduced President
Hayes.
MR. HAYES AROSE
with apparent diffidence, standing for
some moments before commencing
to speak. The association favored
him with nine vigorous raps,
waved their handkerchiefs at him,
and in many other ways expressed
their enthusiasm and respect for
hi in. He
BLUSHED LIKE A BOY,
and evidently was laboring under
intense emotion. When he had ob
tained sufficient control over his fac
ulties to enable him to proceed, he
said slowly and with difficulty:
Graduates of Harvard university:
Th*s is your day, I may not, I ought
not, to take up any particle of your
valuable time. You will therefore
excuse me, lam sure, if I take my
seat after saying in the briefest way
what I feel in my heart. I assure
you that I have a very grateful ap
preciation of this hearty greeting. I
know—l know how little it.is descre
ed. God grant that during the re
mainder of the term I may be able to
do something to deserve it. [Deaf
ening and continued applause.]
GEORGE BANCROFT, THE HISTORIAN,
said he had graduated sixty years
ago. In the course of his speech he
said more than one half of his class
are still alive.
general key,
who was received with warm ap
plause, said ; The cordial greetings
which I have met to-day are charac
teristic, it seems to me, of your peo
ple of New England, and convince
me of the truth of what I have heard
of you. My friends, I feel that we
have only one country. There is no
North and South. We are one and
inseparable!
This sentiment provoked a renewal
of applause, which was not silenced
for some moments.
The next speaker was Carl Schurz,
who was presented to the audience
as a graduate of Bahn, in a neat
speech, by Gen. DeveDß.
A HIT BY SCHUIIZ,
“Mr. President and gentlemen,”
said Mr. Schurz, “there is no more
comfortable and pleasant institution
among men than a good, well regu
lated admiration society. [Laughter.]
Let me assure you that the members
of the present Cabinet always speak
pleasantly of one another, and in
this respect we are the healthiest and
happiest family that ever existed.”
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A J)o Burned in a Furnace.— A
singular ease of cruelty to animals
was tried in the Court of Special Ses
sions yesterday, before Justices Mor
gan, Murray and Duffy. Thomas
Dickinson, engineer of the Harlem
Orphan Asylum, was charged with
having thrown a living d*g into the
furnace of the boiler of his engine.
Mr. Bergh, who appeared in behalf
or the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to ADimals, opened the case
by calling four boys, inmates of the
institution, who agreed in saying that
Mr. Dickinson, after hanging the dog
with a piece of belt lace, had cut it
down while yet alive and thrown it.
into the furnace, and that they had
seen the animal move after having
been thrown in. They also testified
that the dog, which was only seven
months old, was not vicious, but was
of a kindly, playful disposition. Mr.
Bergh asked that the heaviest penal
ty be imposed. The judges, after
consultation, imposed a fine of SIOO
on the prisoner.— N. Y. Ttmes, 20th.
A Vermont Humorist.—Young Mr.
Blow, of Bennington, Vt., is a humorist.
His sense or the ludicrous is excessively
acute, and nothing, it appears, amuses
him more than a frightened woman.
Young Mr. Blow walked out in the fields
last Sunday in company with two women,
his cousins. Humorist as he is, he took a
gun with him, although we believe the use
or that spot ting mp ement on Sunday is
strictly forbidden bo It by the law and by
public sentiment in Vermont.
Mr. Blow wanted to make a joke, and
ho made it. He neglected to blow into his
gun, and rested confident in the belief
that it was not loaded, wherefore he be
lieved it to be perfectly safe to point the
weapon at his cousins, merely to frighten
them into an exquisitely ludicrous condi
tion of terror. Unluckily the gun was
loaded ; as empty guns are pretty sure to
be when humorists of Mr. Blow’s kind un
dertake to penetrate the entirely original
joke of pointing tnem at. other persons.
The gun went off, wounding both women,
one of them it is teared fatally. It would
be an excellent thing now to lock this hu
morist up, say for ten years or so, just to
give him time to laugh over his exquisite
jest.— New York Evening Post.
MHUH.UAVN financial policy.
Cuteclictically Explained.
Correspondence of tho Cincinnati Enquirer.)
Washington. June 23, 1877.
“First class iu finances, stand up.”
Question - What is the Hayes finan
cial policy?
Answer—Whatever the Adminis
tration dares iu the way of commo
tion of legal tender currency—re
sumption of specie rayment being the
object aimed at.
Q. Does the Secretary of the Treas
ury propose to put $22,000 greenbacks
iu the currency balance as represent
ing the 80 per cent, legal tenners re
tiredjby former Secretaries under tho
Resumption Act V
A. He does.
Q. By what authority?
A. By authority of the law as he
construes it after dinner.
Q. Does tie propose to sell bonds
for gold and gold for green backs, and
keep the latter iu limited sums as
part of the resumption fund?
A. He does, but is rather afraid to
do so. He argues that the gold is for
redemption of greenbacks, and that
the latter would, after resumption
set in, become more the currency of
the country than gold would, aud
deems the reserve of greenbacks
more a necessity than a reserve of
coin, because of tho general belief
that a note actually representing,
and at option of the holder, actually
redeemable in gold coin, will seldom,
if ever, come in for redemption, their
general confidence in the Govern
ment’s honesty precluding all desire
for heavy metals in commercial
transactions. In other words, he
believes that as the world’s monetary
transactions are based on coin, but
coin is comparatively a small part of
the world’s currency, the note repre
senting coin will bo held as good in
public estimation as the coin itself;
and the demand for coin will be very
small after the first dash at some
$50,000,000 to be used in showing the
people that United States notes are
redeemable in the precious metal.
Q. How much coin does he want to
commence resumption on?
A. He expects success iu negotia
ting the four per cent. loan. He will
succeed, notwithstanding the opposi-1
tion of certain bankers. The credit
of the United States will surmount
all political obstacles and private
jealousies. In this belief he has an
idea that the gold premium will be
wiped out, and when it gets to a point
where he can wipe it out he will issue
gold coin to affect the premiums us a
stroke of policy.
t,. But suppose Congress should j
interfere with such a programme by
prohibitory legislation ?
A. Congress will not meet until the
10th of next October. Meantime he
lias four months to practice silence
about his policy and to work out
adroitly his ingenious designs. _
Q. But suppose the people inter
fere ?
A. The people can not interfere.
There is no power outside of Con
gress to prevent him doing anything
that the law authorizes.
Q. Does the law authorize him to
commence specie payments before
January 1,187 b?
A. It does not prohibit him from
so doing. The authority is by appli
cation or inference.
Q. Is not that a strained interpro
tation of the law?
A. It is; but the fashions have
changed in th c matter of expounding
financial laws of Congress. The idea
in the minds of the administration is
that the people want specie payments
resumed, and that the end will justi
fy the means; that the people will
welcome the result and praise the
machinery at last, whatever may be
the popular seutimeut now ; and that
it is advisable to “make the turn”
before the Ohio election in October,
or get well advanced in tiie scheme
before then.
Q. Suppose they fail?
A. It is an experiment.
Q, Does the Secretary really intend
to assume that eight millions of the
fractional currency have been losl
or destroyed, and issue silver in its
place?
A. He does.
Q. Under what law?
A. Asa conundrum. I give it up.
Q. What will be the effect of that ?
A. The law authorizes the estab
lishment of a ten million legal ten
der fund, for the redemption only of
fractional currency. This fund is
nearly full, and was created by giv
ing out sliver in exchange for legal
tenders. This takes ten million le
gal tenders outof circulation through
manipulating tiie fractional curren
cy. This, however, lias nothing to
do with the other fractional curren
cy business, for the law requires that
tiie fractional curreucy and silver
circulation together shall not exceed
$50,000,000. Before you know where
we stand, there will be at least $50.-
000,000 silver in circulation, besides
tiie floating fractional currency tiiat
will come in gradually for redemp
tion from the $10,000,000 Legal-tender
Fund. It must be remembered that
there are probably $12,000,000 frac
tional currency that has been lost,
destroyed, or will never come in for
redemdtion.
Q. It has been stated that the
Treasury still redeems Continental
money ?
A. That is not true. It comes in
frequently for redemption, but it was
repudiated ninety years ago, and is
not redeemed.
Q. Does the Administration want
silver remonetized?
A. The Administration is flirting
with that problem. The President
and the Secretary of the Treasury
say they want the silver dollar, a sin- j
gle coin, remonetized to the extent
of making it an equivalent with
greenbacks. They have an idea that,
such a tiling would help to bring out
gold coin. But, my impression is
that they will abandon the idea and
ask Congress to raise the legal ten
derstandard of silver from what it is
now, $5 to $lO, or may be as high as
s‘2o, in each single payment, or
make the silver dollar legal-tender
to S2O, or more,and the smaller coins
to $lO. The Administration is quite
at sea on that point.
Q. Is it true, as stated, that the
Secretary of the Treasury is in con
spiracy with the banks of New York
city to cause interchange between
bank circulation and bonds, so as to
contract the legal tender currency.
You understand that under the law
a bank may present bonds to-day,
take out new currency to an extent
only limited by its capital, return the
currency next week and get its bonds.
Each experiment of the kind will
cause the retirement of eighty per
oent. of the greenback circulation,
while the bank-note circulation vvili
remain the same?
A. Yes, I understand all that; but
there is no such conspiracy. The
Secretary told me so, and said, fur
ther, that he would arrest uny such
scheme the moment he discovered it;
but--well—lie wants to contract the
legal-tender circulation by every
legal means, and this is legal.
Q. They say he is considering the
propriety of using legal-tender notes
to pay.the Sinking Fund. Is that so?
If so, how much would that contract
the legal-tender currency?
A. It is true that he is considering
the proposition, and believes the law
authorizes him to do so. If lie
adopts the Idea this alone would con
tract the legal-tender currency about
$35,900,000 a year
Q. And yet, you say tho Secretary
will use only iogal means to contract
the currency?
A. All these means are legal, as
the Administration lawyers inter
pret the statutes. No one can say
t hat any of them are prohibited by
law ; and the Secretary pledges him
self, in carrying out tho statutes, to
do no violence to tho laws of supply
aud demand, nor to the general pub
lic interests.
Q. Does the Secretary consider
that the banks of the City of New
York would have to deplete their
reserves to supply these legal ten
ders, and that he might make a scar
city of currency in the fall, when the
crops are moving, and thus create a
financial panic?
A. Oh! tie would not mind a little
thing like a panic. He wants to re
sume specie payment.
Q. But would not such a tiling de
feat the very object iu view?
A. You must understand that he is
only trying an experiment, and tha t
he will not act outside of tho law.
He feels bound to carry out. the
laws, iu letter and spirit, as ho finds
them.
Q. How many greenbacks are in
act mil circulation ?
A. Nominally there are $300,000,000
iu circulation. Actually there are
over $100,000,000 in the Treasury, as
I am told by the custodiau of the
hooks at tlie Treasury to-day, and
there are about $15,000,000 held by
the banks as legal reserves. This is
about the average now, because ap
propriations generally have run out,
and the drafts front disbursing offi
cers are small. It. will be somewhat
less after July Ist. Asa matter of
fact there are about $215,000,000
greenbacks in actual circulation.
Q. Is it a fact that they have again
commenced paying out one and two
dollar greenbacks ?
A. Yes, in limited quantities. But,
practically, the embargo has not
been raised, nor will it he raised by
this Administration. The intention
of keeping these notes on the way to
destruction is to put silver out. to sat
isfy all demands less than $5, so as
to bring out the $1 and $2.50 gold
pieces as soon as the gold premium
shall be nearly wiped out. The $1
and $2 bills have been out of print
since April.
Q, Do you think Secretary Sher
man will carry out t he general policy
you suggest in detail ?
A. Of course he will. His policy,
in general terms, is to reach specie
payments as quickly as possible.
Whether he will sell bonds for gold,
sell the gold for greenbacks, and use
the greenbacks in his resumption
fund, or do any of the things above
suggested, is not a question so much
as how far he will qo in the various
ways of contraction indicated. But
the naked fact is, that lie intends to
contract the greenback currency as
rapidly as the people will stand it,
and ho claims that allot the above
means are entirely legitimate.
Q. Will he maintain that any of
our bonds are payable in silver ?
A. No. He will maintain that they
are all payable in gold coin, except
those otherwise provided for, like the
currency sixes issued to the Pacific
Railroads. W. P. 0.
A muslin? Advertisement*.
The following are some oddities in
advertising, compiled by an ex
change:
“Teeth extracted with great pains.”
“Babies taken and finished in ten
minutes, by a country photograph
er.”
"Wood and coal split.”
The next appeared in .a London
newspaper, under the head of “For
Sale "Pianoforte—cottage—seven
octave the property of a lady leav
ing England in a remarkably elegant
case on beautifully carved sup
ports.”
And what does this mean ? “Busi
ness chances.—To be disposed of—
genuine fried fish business at the
West End.” Does the genuineness
appiv to the fish, the busines, or the
way in which they are fried ?
And one’s mind gets hopelessly
dazed over the advertisement offer
ing ii large reward for “A large Span
ish blue gentleman’s cloak, lost in
the neighborhood of the market.”
There are others deliciously in
consequent, like tiie advertisement,
of a runaway, which furnished this
valuable hint for identification:
“Age not precisely known, but looks
older than he is.” Or the notice a
shoemaker put on his door: "Shall
be back in ten days from the time
you see this shingle.” Some, how
ever, leave no loophole for doubt:
“Babies after having taken one bot
tle of my soothing syrup will never
cry any more.
And an editor, puffing air-tight
coffins, said: "No person having
once tried one of these air-tight cof
fins will ever use any other.”
Bad Prophecy.— A man living in La
j man county, Missouri, recently worte as
j follows to the Chicago Inter Ocean:
Why do you condemn ever man that
pretends to be a Fortuneteller I know a
man that lias been raving Destraied for
13 years what he ses comes true to con
vince you such is the O ise lit; says Alex
ander stevens will die June 24 1877 if it
so Hapens he advise to advertise with you
if you will so state his predictions Ad
dress
Jxo L Williams lamar mo
Whereupon the Augusta Chronicle te
marks that “Mr. Stephens is one of the
i most courteous and obliging of men. But
I in the matter of death he displays a con
! irarioess and obstinacy altogether foreign
Ito his nature. He has been several times
at the very point of dissolution during the
past few years, and last winter a report
of his death caused a number of newspa
pers to print obituary articles, and some
of the Georgia towns to go in mourning
! for the Great Commoner. But he lives
j to read the obituaries and turn tears into
j rejoicing. Bo the Missouri fortune teller
j turns out to be no seer at all.
a lllgc lllscmint.
Brother Gardner suddenly put in
an appearance on Griswold street
yesterday with a note of hand of the
face value of four hundred dollars
which lie wanted discounted. He
made strongappeals to all tho banks,,
but in vain, aud he finally mounted
the postoffice steps and called out :
“Geui’len, hero am a note of fo !
hundred dollars, due in twelve mo’
days, and I’ll sell It for two shil
lin’.”
Several persons asked to look at
the note, which was signed by an un
known party and not drawn up in
due front.
“If this umn is able to pay the val
uo of the note why do you offer it for
two snillings ?” asked one of the
group.
“Well, dere am sev ral reasons,
slowly replied Mr. Gardner. "It
doaut’ seem to me dat do man can
pay It. It do,-in’ seem to mo dat. he’ll
be aroun’ on do day it’s due. lie gin
me dat. note for an old boss, and do
hoss died on him in about an hour.
But. gom’len, do great big main rea
son why I want to dlsaccount dis
note is do fact dat Mrs. Gardner lias
sprung a lawn party on to me fur dis
evenin’ w’dout a word o’ warnin.’
All do preperashuns we lutz made
dis fur is to borrow six cha’rs an’a
Bpitteon, an’ Ize got to sacrifice dis
note to git do baker’s bread an’
herrings.”
Tobacco and Tar as Currency.— ln
the work lately published by Rev. Dr,
Sla ighter, of Virginia, about men and
customs in the old days of the Common
wealth, it is stated that in colonial times
many acts of Assembly were passed reg
ulating tho culture of tobacco; and one
office of (he early church vestries was to
appoint respectable freeholders to count
tobacco plants in each parish. The sal
aries of ministers and civil officers were
paid in tobacco, and it or notes repre
senting it in warehouses, were tlie curren
cy of the country. Dr. Slaughter states
that parishes were known as "Orinoco”
and "Swect-scented”parishes, according to
tho kind of tobacco grown in them. A
sweet-scented parish. It is quaintly re
marked that a minister’s tobacco was
worth much less than other like bulk of
tobacco, because it was so mixed. Thus
it seems that the clergy have not always
had the “first fruits” of their parishon
ers in modern times. Whenever the flock
could fleece the sheperd they have rarely
tailed in that performance. Another fact
stated by Dr. Slaughter may not be gen
erally known; that towards the North
Carolina line, where little or no tobacco
was then grown, the minister was paid iu
tar, pitch and pork. The pine tree and
its fruits were the subject of legislation.
Par wus once in great demand for tar
ring the roofs of public and private build
ings-
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
.11 ON K V ANI) .STOCK*.
LONDON, June 28. — Noon Consols 94# for
money, 94 5-16 for account.
1:80 p. m.—Consols 94# for account, 94?* for
account.
3:30 i*. m.—Consols 95 5-16 for money, 91# for
accouut.
Bullion increase £211,000.
PARIS, June 28—1:30 p. m.—Rentes 106f. and
20c.
Specie increased 2,000,000 francs.
NEW YOKE, Juno 28.—Noon—Gold opened
106 •
NEW YORK, Juuo 28. Noon— Stocks firm;
money 1; gold s#; exchange, long, 4 88; short
4.90,}5; State bonus quiet; Governments firm.
NEW YORK, Juno 28. Evening—Money easy
at I#@2; sterling quiet at 8; gold firm at 6#;
Governments quiet—new 6's 10#; States dull.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, .Tune 28.—Noon— Cotton active
and firmer; middling uplands 6#(1; middling
Orleans 0 7-16d, sales 18 000; speculatiou and ex
port 3000; receipts 6400; American 1000.
Futures l*B2d better, but are new easier; up
lands, low middling clause, July and August
delivery, 0 11-321; August and September 6 13-32
®6#d; September and October 0 7-16d.
2:00 P. m.—Middling uplands 6 5-lCd, Mid
dling Orleans G|£. Uplands, low middling clause,
June and July delivery, 6 5-16d; July and August
5 16(1; September and October 0 13 32<1,
Sales of American 14,100.
3:30 p. m,—Uplands, low middling clause, July
and August delivery 0 9-32d; August and Sep
tember 6 11-32d.
NEW YORK, Juno 28.—Noon—Cotton firm;
middling uplands 12; Orleans 12#; sales 2220.
Futures opened steady as follows: Juno 11.90
(ft 92; July 11 9i@95; August 12.22; September
11.893.91. October 11.60@.62; November 11.33®
.36; December 11.34(3-30.
NEW YORK. June 28-Evening—Cotton strong:
middling uplands 12; Orleans 12#; sales 1876; net
receipts 42; gross 42.
Consolidated net receipts 4891; exports to
Great Britain 11,389; to France—; to continent
3525; to channel —.
Futures closed steady; sales 45,000; June 12 01
(3.02; July 12.03®.04; August 12 07; Beptem* er
11.94®.95; |October 11,Co; Novembor 11 38®.. 9
December 11.39; January 11.62®.63; February
11.66®.66; March 11.79®.81.
GALVESTON, Juno 28. Cotton firm; mid
dling 11#; net receipts 14; gross—; sales 603;
exports to Great Britain Franco—; to chan
nel—; to continent —; coastwise 1372.
NORFOLK, Juuo 28.—Evening—Cotton firmly
held; middling 11#; net receipts 69; gross —;
sales 3; exports to Great Britain —; coastwise
91.
BALTIMORE, Juno 28. Evening Cotton
firm; middlings 12; net receipts —; gross 3;
sales 360; spinners 280; exports to Great Britain
—; coastwise 402.
808 TON, June 28. —Evening Cotton firm;
middling 12#; net receipts 134: gross 140; sales
275; exports to Great Britain 159. coastwise —.
WILMINGTON, June 28. —Evening Cotton
steady and nominal; middling 11#; net re
ceipts —; sales —, spinners—; exports to Great
Britain —; coastwise—.
PHILADELPHIA, June 28. Evening —Cotton
active; middling 12#; net receipts 80; gross
447. sales 018; to spinners —; exports to Great
Britain —,
HAVANNAH, Juuo 28. Evening Cotton
firm; middling 11# ; net receipts 67; gross 191 j
sales 83; exports to Great Britain —; to conti
nent —; to channel —; coastwise lul7.
NEW ORLEANS, Juno 28. Evening— Cotton
strong, sonic sales higher; middling 11#; low
middling 10#; good ordinary 10#; not receipts
100; gross 118: sales 420; exports to Great Britain
—; to France —; to continent —; channel —;
coastwise 2660.
MOBILE, Juno 28.—Cotton firm; middling
11#; net receipts 69; gross —; sales 200; exports
to Great Britain —; to France —; continent —;
to channel —; coastwise 161.
MEMPHIS. June 28. Evening—Cotton strong;
middling 11#: receipts shipments 624; sales
300.
AUGUSTA. June 28.—Cotton firm; middling
11#®#; net receipts 14; sales 193.
CHARLESTON. June 28. Evening— Cotton
firm; middling 11#; net receipts 8; gross—;
sales 26; exports to Great Britain —; to I ranee—;
to continent —; coastwise —.
PROVISIONS, AiV.
BALTIMORE, Juno 28.—Oats quiet and steady;
Southern prime 46®48. Rye quiet and easy;
prime 76®70 Provisions very firm and quiet.
Pork—new mess sl4 60®516.00, Bacon, shoul
ders 6#. clear sides B#@#; hams, 12@13 Lard
—refined 10® 10#. coffee quiet jobs 17®22.
Whisky held at 12#. Sugar actiqe at 11#.
NEW YORK, June as.—Noon- Flour quiet and
unchanged. Wheat quint and heavy. Corn h.-avy.
Fork dull—new rasas S 14.-10. Lard heavy—ateam
sU.l(Xg)2lf. Freights firm.
NEW YORK. Jane2B.—Evening—Flour medi
um good bramla steady,gnou Inquiry, low grades
dull mol heavy, closing quint, others unchanged;
■upnrttno Woatero aud State $6.60f576; common
tn fair t-xtru $8 6ufgiso 26. Southern flour; rom
uum to air extra tH 6 (qif'J Do; good to choice
do., s.o6@*lo on. Wheat dull, ttulltc lower,
shippers bidding rdf, only trifling milling Inqui
ry : whitA Western $3.16. Corn Mlightly iu buy
era’ lovor. only numerate business doing; un
graded Western mixed 65}f1@69, white Southern
H 7. Data slightly In buyers’ favor. Coffee—Rio,
quiet—ld 1 .,((gJ0.q for cargoes; 17(it33 for gold Job
lots. Sugar quiet and unchanged, yqfdjtoq for
fair to good refining, lU} 4 for prime; refined in
moderate demand at 11J,j.} ( ; lor Manila and a.
Molasses quiet and nominal 60060 for New
Orleans, hi. e eteaily and moderate inquiry—
Carolina 6\(n 11Louisiana flic.7 Fork ouli and
lower: new iuobh $u so. Lard heavy amt lower
—utwp ime Bteam sU.oli@*lU)s; choice $9.12g.
Whiskey firmer at 14. Freights steady; cotton
per sail 7*33; per steam Ji.
CINCINNATI. June 28.' Evening Flour
Iu good demand and a shade higher—extra $7.86
(o>$H.(K), lamily $8.86®59.00. Wheat scarce aud
firm—•ri'dsl.H&(ddls. Corn quiet at 60(5103. Oats
iu lair demand at 40@44. llye quiet—No. 3, at 70.
Barley quiet—old tali 40@48. Fork easier at
sl3 60. Lard dull amt tower to sell, steam nomi
nally at $8.76, kettle $I>.60(dl$10.00, current mage
$8.60. Bulk meats easier—shoulders $5.00 asked,
clear ribs aold at $7.00, clear sides held at $?.37q.
Bacon in fair demand—shoulders 6 1 ,. elear stiles
7 ',(<(7',, elear ribs Whisky quiet and
weak at SIOB. Blitter quiet; choice Western
reserve 16@16, central Ohio 13>a.
ST. LOUIS, June 28.—Evening Flour firm
and generally held rbove buyers’ views; double
extra tall $7.5008,181, treble extra $8.4110
$8.(10, good to fancy family brands sß.7sfd;so 76.
Wheat better for medium and low grades—No. 3,
red tall, $ 1.37},®34; No. 4 $165. Corn higher
—No. 2, jntxed, 4I> 1 ,. Oats easier—36 bid. Rye
quint at 1,2 1 ,. Whisky Bteady atsl.oßffl. Pork
j lower to sell at $13.10. Lard dull, small sales
at 8 for slimmer. Bulk meats, nothing doing
and firm clear sides 7„-. Bacnu—shouldera 6}4,
clear rib sides 7 1 ,, clear sides 8.!,'.
LOUISViLLE, June 28. Flour dull; extra
$5 25@.55,50; family $6.50. Wheat scarce and
wanted— redsl.46. Ooru dull, white 63, mixed
51. llye iu good demand at 7ii. Oats dull—white
45, mixed 40. Fork quiet at $14.00. Bulk meats
quiet—ehoulderH 6}fl@} 4 , clear rlbs7' 4 clear
aideß 7 s . Baeou quiet—shoulders 6, clear rib
Bides B',, elear sides BJ. Sugar-cured hama
quiet at 10}.@lli4. Lard steady; choice leal, in
tierco 10q. liega 11} 4 . Whiskey firmer at SI.OB.
Bagging dull at 13.
I.oulax lllu Tobacco Market.
LOUISVILLE. June 28.—Tobacco in light
demand, holders firm Loulsvillo navy bright
mahogany &4(ui6o, mahogany 48054 second class
48050, navy hue black 46049, Kentucky smoking
200151.
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