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GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The Unoited States debt was reduced $3,000000
a April.
The celebrated Ju'hn Morrissey, died in Al
bany on the let.
The Cincinnati lnouthern road will cost when
eomp'eted about $J.it00.O000.
Madrid advioce state that in the aotumn
Spain will send $000 more troope to Cuba.
Cuban refugees continue to return home in
large numbers. Over 100 went back from Key
West last week in one vessel.
Mayor Jones, of Pensacola has resigned be
eares of some disagreement with the City
Council and the Board of Health.
Of ten prizes offered recently by the Cobden
Club for examainations in political economy in
London, eight have been taken by women.
W. 8. O'Brien, of the great house of Flood &
O'Brien, died in San Francisco on the 2nd. He
was a brihelor and leaves a fortune of from
p1.o000,000 to $.O,0000.000.
Mest large country houses in Great Britain
and Ireland are now brilliantly lit by gas
made on the premises, and so are several large
eountry houses in this country.
After July next telegrams throughout France
are to cost one sons (a fraction less than a
rent) a word, but those containing less than
ten words will be charged ten sons.
The towboat Warner, from New Orleans for
St. Louis, exploded at Memphis on the let inst.
Po.r o. the crew, looluding Captain Dawson,
were killed and a number wounded.
Mr. R. A. Arnold estimates, In an artiole in
the NianteentA Century, that were the Churoh
d Englard disestablished, it would retain a
surplus of £l120,00.00 after all claims had
been met.
Special agents of the Government continne s
to r:sert with great positiveness that Lonisi- 1
ana ard Florida negroes, have been kidnapped
and sold iotb slavery in Cuba. The matter is I
So be fully investigated. t
The Southern Senators and Representatives I
who vriited Boston on the '28sh were treated
with the most distinguished consideration. I
General.Houoker, of Mississippi, made the great
speeeh of the occasion.
Sam Johnson sold the " Vicar of Wakefield" I
for £60 and " brought Goldsmith the money."
Two letters of poor " Goldy " are now to be
seen in a show window in St. James street,
and the price is 100 guineas.
Among recent failures are those of Ben
..'ood, in New York, for $500,000, and Nathan
oebwew. of Boston, who was worth P7,000,000
61870. Matthews lost his money by the tre
1tadoue depreciation in real estate.
OGe. McClellan is a man of muscle. On a
sertain occasion, while conversing with a party
at friends on the sobject of physical strength, i
ke took a silver quarter of a dollar from his e
pocket and bent it between his forefinger and I
iabmb. e
The assertion is made by the Rochester T
Iiprese that at a rifle shooting match in that a
city specta.ors were able with the naked eye f
It see t'e bullets as they went from the guns
to the targets. There was a high wind, and
min was falling.
April 25th, 200 partiesuns of Lerdo, the ex
Plesident of Mexico, attempted an invasion of
Mexico near Lanorises, on the Rio Grande,
hoping to instigate a rising against Dias.
They were defeated by the Government troops,
losing 8 prisoners, 2 killed, 2 wounded and 3
drowned.
For ten years past a contractor of Bradford,
England, has paid £i00 annually for the arr
ooniacal liquor produced at the gas works. 1
The contraot has now been ruler for seven I
years, at '£10, 359 per annum. The holder of
the present contract puint in a tender at £d,0o0.
The vast increase in the value of the liquor is
due to the d:s3Jvery in it of a chemical seb- d
stanc used In aniline dyes. c
A three-mile rwi,, on a freightt train, one U
eended by hi cloult lng frlom a book , t Ito side I
of the car was tbi,' exp-r-ence of it traup tile
ether itight a. Oxf rni. N. Y 'lThert, was not a r
scratch up,-n hltll a Lin r, ntied, hot his nmel
Sal estlrrtg was t t. l~n, as Ith expected inu
.nonrarily to ibe d,'..d I I pieces. lie Lail bent
stea ing a side, nth ptl1!d t, jo.tp ttr
vhbile the coai C ::. :no ..:'. t
I'to actors in ' 1't1, athaugh ,ut " trtvel-ing
Xatanuy are iav t:g t x|eri el tufs sity ceihIlae
.0 1 o1:0, of Itile'o Coun t.tbe ns ·l r 1 c-at st.f PI
boith thtV '11.o (,u'.tII'lls'd, t by lbo , i g I:ly
showo.; of n.I:'ltil. f n tt . galilltry, to io)tr
)b:. rtl ,t put i- It tsid1its f
nighls ago, t:,e stag, wis ct, eret with u, ls,
amd thebe was abl,lt.-. l eint.
Great labur and itl i. it liiy are expended on
the production of the Bank of Eitgland Iotla.
They are moade from pure now white linen:, and
kr trno hnrdred years have been manufaoot
nred in the same family. The printing is done t
by a most curious process in the bank building. r
There is an elaborate arrangement for insuring a
that no note shall be like aniy other in exist
ore ; consequently there r.ever was a dupli
eate of a Bank of England trote except by
forgery.
Thousands in San Francieco would starve if
bharitable institutions did n,,t give them their
daily bread. Last month one single such in
ttitotlon gave shelter to 416 persons, d'
tribu.ed 20,000 rations, and wood, coal, shoes,
elothes and medicines to 510 families; ye
many were left without the necesear'os o life.
Real estate has tallen 50 per cent; Communism I
Is growing apace. On the spot these woes are C
attribu ed to over-speculation r- d cheap
Chinese labor, whio's cuts the grass from
under the feet of Europeo-Amerioans, and
lives on it in a luxury undreamed of in the
Ltwery land.
Richmond, Va., never witnessed such a deli
riom tremens of religions ent honiasui as is now
saing on amonig its darker citiszmsna. At .nt
2-00 of these sif both ses, though with a
;i loutinatai of males, are going around dlay I
ad night "in snrch ob de Lld ;" at tirst they
Ipcar sdL diiascouraged and overcte'o wirilt
de uir, bu:lt all at ince, having " found die
Lo.d," as tIt,- aitre letiaseti to remark, the irrsi.
prterille i,mhlty i t heisr sunny raJoe is re
ao'n in thIl light sh t-eir conLtelance, antl
Ibey are h, .py as fiv are caipable of being.
The revival i~ spreailrsng, and no one knowss
where it will cnd-po-lselhly ill a new Africa
tbrough just men made perfect.
A writer sinning "Married andi Done For" in
She Leudon Fihld writes apropos of comments
in that paper on the ostliness of social life in
the p 'sent day: "In the district in which I
nside what are called Cinderella parties were
started last winter, and have been a great sue
ecs. They are called Cinderella parties be
eanse they break up at midnight, but this is
•ot their only merit. A number of heads of
Iballies agree to have a party in turn at their
own housoes, and all who belong to the associa
ate1 are invited to each, with their sons and
bsaghters, the hostea asking as many outal
de1s as she pleasses. It is a role that the party
asoeld begin at * and end at It. Another role
is that dress he simple and that there be no
ailborate set down supper."
A most estimable and competent lady de
sies to secare a pesitles as govsernoes or hoeaekeeper.
S·bL I ef mlddle agse, I thereaghlr edueated ind has
O experlieae aeqalredia reaiog her own thamly,
Swlds thte sad eand rel lssem of the war and enses.
Sstratida reducoed from smraee to poverty, thu em.
aBlg her to look around r -aoe mde of makstag a
UL ss rsadt adverJ lesmat la W t soluma.
1IU3R NAIL WEWI.
Dublin Nation. April 13.
Lord Leitrim's funeral has been the
occasion of a demonstration for which a
parallel can only be found in the scenes
which occurred at the burial of Lord Cas
tlereagh, when a crowd of Irish people in
Westminster cheered loudly three times,
or at that of Lord Clare, whose coffin was
assailed with volleys of dead cats. It was
intended that only a few private friends
shlould follow the earl's remains to St. Mi
chan's Church-that the interment should,
in fact, be as private as possible-but this
arrangement fell through. The populace
in the neighborhood got wind of the fact,
and they aasomb!ed in large numbers to
express the popular detestation for the
memory of the deceased. Hooting, hissing,
and groaning marked the passage of the
certegl to the churchyard, the hearse had
to be piloted to one of the entrance gates
by the police, and when at length and after
much difficulty the coffin was removed
from the hearse, there came on the air "a
great yell of execration.!' But this was
not all. After the ceremony in the Church
had concluded, and the scene had bean
transferred to the vaults, "there was a
furious rush through the Church after the
coffin! "
EXTIIAOItDINAItY DEMONSTRATION IN DUB
LIN.
On Monday morning, at 6 o'clock, L"ord
Leitrim's remains were removed from MhI
ford for interment. They were conveyed
by way of Letterkenny to Strabane, thence
tia Dublin to Kiladoon, one of the reai
dences of the deceased, near Celbridge,
whence on the following day they were
carried back to Dublin. The Evrening Tel
egraph of Wednesday thus refers to what
then happened :
The remains of the late Earl of Leitrim
left Kiladoon, Celbridge, this morning, and
arrived at St. Michan's a Cemetery, Church
street, Dublin, about half-past two o'clock.
The hearso was followed from Celbridge
by about half a dozen carriages containing
some of the friends of the deceased. When
theremains came into Church street the
hearse was surrounded by two or three
hundred persons, mostly composed of the
middle and lower classes. On the funeral
aertefe coming to a halt, a scene of great
disorder was witnessed, popular feeling
being strongly manifested by the crowd,
who pushed, shoved, shouted, and hissed
around the hearse. It was with the ut
most difficulty that the coffin was taken
from out of the hearse, and as it was drawn
out the hooting of the crowd was very
great. A large body of police, under the
control of Inspector Murphy, succeeded in
keeping back the disorderly crowd from
entering the graveyard. The remains
were brought into the churchyard amidst
a strong manifestation of popular feeling
from the populace outside, portion of whom
gave cheers and hisses. When the body
entered the yard seven or eight policemen
closed the gates, the crowd forcibly at.
tempting to gain an entrance. Tihe service
of the dead was performed in the Church
in the presence of a large congregation.
Amongst those present at the service were
-Lord James Butler, the Earl-of Leitrim,
Colonel Caulifleld, Mr. John Madden, Rev.
F. F. Carmichael, the Solicitor General,
Mr. Hugh IHomes, the Law Adviser; the
Right Hon. H. Law. (.. C, M. P.; Mr. Bal
four Lowry, Lord Kingston, and others.
The Dublin Freeman of Thursday says :
At twenty minutes past two o'clock a
derisive yell announced that the short pro
cession had reached Church street. The
crowd closed around the hearse as it ap
proaclhtd the graveyard, groaning, cheer
lug, art hiesing. The occupanlts of the
monlrlimig coacht s on descending fromu their
cllrsfT.s w c te j 'st!ed about ntid ecatte:r d
Th'i,,e l ili vaion songht to clear a passage
f(r the c 11i:. l'te most violent ,ection of
the o:, br re. tie . line with a ruehh, and
forcetd thi.r way to the heLise. Curets,
doi: i ve ch ers, and groans Inmade the CseeI'
a hern 1i1 e- ,-t". Not molre than 110 rowdiies
of the worst clits teitt-er f ngiht or jerIied.
'Thei rest o e d un t t!:-at m y tovertt aict
! nti.condct:t, out withoutt any lv iolnt
Jd titenstratt ionC of ditaiil,!rllIOV A reiinforce
ment ol) 3t11 more meI of the 1). I)vi i.,in
hurried up at thle nun:ejt and recaptured
the hearse. Under their convoy it was
piloted to one of the entrance gates, a':d it
was evidently intended to bring it through
the gate to the church door. No soaner was
the gate unfastened, however, than the
mob buret through the cordon of police
and was almost pouring in when the gate
was forced out in their faces. Over a quar
ter of an hour elapsed before tire coffin
could be finally removed. In the meantime
the mob hooted and groaned, and voices
came from the worst of them saying, "Out
with the ould b--," "Log him out."
"Dance on him." With the utmost diM
culty, by the aid of a double line of police
men, the mob was held in check while the
coffin was nunbearsed and removed on men's
shoulders through the gate. A great yell
of execration was raised as the coffin passed
in.
The last prayers being over, the coffin
was borne through the southern door,
towards the vaults. A furious rush was
made through the church after the coffin,
and the confusion was for the moment
scarcely less indecent within than outside
the church. Immtdiately that the bare
headed lmournere were sighted by the mob
:uteide tile ratlings, a new howl of execra
lion wut up, ianld amnnid hisses, cheers and
itdircent jests, thle cfthi of the unfortunate
Inoblemiatn wst hurried to its last res:ing
ilhrn. A largo crowd had by this time
found its way withil tlhe graveyard, but,
althoigh no hat was raised by them as thtn
coilin passed, they indulged in none of tile
disgraceful fe stivities of the outsiders. The
young earl alone descended the vault with
the coffin bearers, and returned after a
moment. Then a burly sergeant of the D
Division shouted, "Now, gentlemen, yes
may go away; it's all over." The mob
hooted again, the gate of the vault was
fastened down and padlocked, the carriages
were ordered around to a back lane, and
the Earl of Leitrim and the chief mourners
found their way by a private doorway from
the graveyard.
TilE rUNERALS OP TIl DRIVER AND THE
CLERK.
The Ennisklillen correspondent of the
Espreu, telegraphing on Thursday week,
says :
The remains of the unfortunate young
man, Macken, who was shot along with
Lord Leitrim, on Tuesday morning last,
arrived at thbIs station to-day from Milford.
They were encased in a plain black coffin,
which lay upon the platform until some
friMads arrived from Leltrll, when it was
placed in a hearse and followed by one ear,
on which were four friends, and left about
half-past three for Moill, in the county
Lsatrim. On the breastplate of the colt
was the brief inscription :-"John W.
Macken. Died 2nd April 1878. Aged 24
years." He passed through Enniskillen
this day week along with his lordship, to
commence his duties as clerk in his lord
ship's office in Donegal, and to-day be Is
brought back a corpse.
The correspondent of the Freeman tele
graphs:
Two of the bodies were removed for
interment to-day. That of the poor boy
Buchanan was buried close to Milford. The
funeral was not large, though commisera
tion for his unhappy family is universal.
Young Macken's friends from Leltrim also
arrived last night with a coffin, and to day
removed his body by the Rathmullen
steamer to Derry. The poor fellow's friends
were "beside themselves" with grief. He
was only twenty-four years old-in telligent,
quick witted and popular. The passage of
the remains from the Loughawilly railway
terminus to the Great Northern terminus in
Derry, ea route to Leitrim, was marked by
an eager demonstration of sympathy on the
part of the citizens.
Doblin Nlation April o0.
The sensation of trle week bas been the
debate on Friday night, the 12th inst., in
the House of Commons, on the assassina
tion of Lord Leitrim Mr. O'Donnell, see
ing the attempt made by the English press
to hide the misdeeds of the murdered ty
rant, and to make the whole Irish people
sufferers for his death, determined to defeat
those nefarious ends by showing him to the
public in his true character. He ingenionely
put the matter soppositiousnely, asking the
Honse to imagine the case of a Cumberland
earl attempting. through the terrors of
eviction, to debauch lthe morals of the
peasant girls of a Cumberland village. This
appears to have been too much for the
sensitive soul of Mr. King-Harman, who
two or three times attempted to gag Mr.
O'Donnell by calling him to order, and
who, when he failed in that efort, did his
best to suppress the truth by "espying
strangers." A division was immediately
taken, with the result that the reporters
were excluded; and, for having in this
division thought it right to vote against
Mr. Kin-Harman and the other friends of
Lord Leitrim, the Marquis of Hartington
and Mr. Gladstone were made the objects
of gross insult at the hands of the infuriat
ed Tories.
In the secret sitting the-debate waxed
hotter and hotter, Mr. O'Donnell contian
log his scathing speech, and being followed
by Mr. Parnell, who is said to have de
livered one of his beet and most argument
ative addresses. But the excitement cul
minated when Dr. Ward, amidst the fran
tic cheers which the English never fail to
bestow on such an exhibition of toadyism,
turned ferociously on Mr. O'Donnell and
Mr. Parnell, and accused them of attempt
ing to win popularity for themselves by
apologising for assassination! The recep
tion which this impudent and traitoroas
pronouncement met from the House was so
warm that Mr. Callan, Mr. M'Carthy
Downing, Sir P. O'Brien, and some other
Irish members from whom a different
course of action might have been expected,
followed, albeit longo iterrallo, in the
wake of the member for Galway, Mr.
O'Connor Power alone of all present ven
turing to take the side of the members
attacked. That victory inclined, however,
to the latter every reader of the report of
the whole debate must admit. Mr. O*Don
neil and Mr. Parnell did not withdraw a
single statement they had wade, nor were
their contentions denied ; and the result of
all this to day is, that the tide of calumny
which was poured on the Itisl people
apropos of the Donegal mrrder has bcon
de tinitely rolled bacih.
()a the serie night on which thls axcitmg
ec,,: e ts enacted in the house of Cornmumos
ant!hi. r debite u:a tihe same subject took
place in teo HtII tue :f Lords. in was initi
it:"d, of course, by that venerable coert:onl
i1t, Lord r.)anmore, who strov. by the aid
ot bOniU criminal statisticd to pl, ove that
Iretland was as badly in want as ever of a
stringent Coercion act. and that for this
the L~ nd Act, the Nuttoo, and ott er Iiioh
CatiOnal journals were responsible. The
old gentleman received more or less coun
tenance and support from Lord Lifford and
Lord Inchiquin (who framed a special
indictment against the Catholic clergy),
but, strange to say, Lord Cairns, the Chan
cellor, threw him overboard, flatly denying
his statement regarding the increase of un
detected crime throughout the greater part
of Ireland. After the representative of the
Government had spoken, the attack waged
by tihe band of anti Irish Irishmen collaps
ed. The final blows were given by Lords
Carlingford and O'Iagao, who took up the
defence of the Land Act. The Oranmore
crusade, in short, resulted in a fiasco, and
thus in both Houses of Parliament the
cause of truth and justice practically tri
umphed.
The somersault executed by Dr. Ward
and Mr. King Ilarman for the gratification
of their British friends may gain them the
favor of "good society" in England and
Scotland, but in Ireland, and among the
Irish people in England, it is regarded with
loathing and indignation. At two great
meectirgs in Liverpool and Manchester it
has been denounced in the strongest lan
guage, and the brancbcs of the loruo Rule
CofTideratron of Great Britain have passed
resolutionls on thie subject which are as
decidedly c~ndemnatory of the behavior
of the members for Sligo and Galway We
venture to say that that verdict will ere
long find an emphatic endorsement
throughout the length and breadth of Ire
land. There are some offenses the memory
of which never dies in the popular mind,
and that the representatives of Irish popu
lar constituencies should be found to do
what is equivalent to defending such a
person as Lord Leitrim is a circumstance
which can find aplace only in this category.
BL.ADON PRsINS -By a card from Messrs J.
Conner 5 Co., proprietors, published in another
column, it will be seen that this faone watering plane
opened on the lst inst. Located in one of the most
charming sections of Albama the isplace has always
bsen almost as highly appreelated for its beautiful sur
roundings, healthfolnoess end the variety of amal
menta easily within reach tf all. as for the medicinal
propertleo of its waters. The U. 8. Mali steamers leave
Mobile for the Springs oevery Tuesday and Saturday
evening, charaging for the round trip only $17. Fordse
tails apply to the proprletors, or to L L. Lyons, agent
corner Camp ad Oraelor streets
Geoats' shirts, Wamsuntta cotton and lianen
bsems maesd heo esata at Brrsstmae's.
T2E NEW YORE WORLD ON LORD
LRITRIM.
It may have been and no doubt it was
unparliameotary in aso Irish member of
the House of Commons to tell the truth In
that august body about the murdered Earl
of Leitrim. But the truth about him
seems to have been of a kind not easily to
be suppressed. In his walk and conversa
tion for threescore years this fierce and
lawless lord seems to have been a lively
modern reproduction of tie most odious
types of the old feudal noblesse. Some of
the readers of the World were disposed to
quarrel with "Henry Greville" for his (or
her) vivid portrait of the terrib'e Russian
boyard Bagrianof in that most interesting
tale of the "Expiation of Saveli" which
was reproduced in our columns. But
really Lord Leitrim, all allowance having
been made for the different society and
legal atmosphere in which he dwelt, makes
almost as dark and truculent a figure as
Bagrianof against the background of our
modern life. There was something fro
ward and uncanny even in the few 'kind
acts," as they are called, which English
writers report of him. A recent London.
paper, for example, which actually speaks
of him as "always inexorably just," tells
the following story by way of illustrating
this trait in his character. One of his chief
antipathies, it seems, was a horror of
goats : "And old woman, one of his ten
ants, had a favorite goat, which lie espied
one day and made her bring up to him by
the side of the road. Without a word of
warning he took out his knife and cut its
throat. The woman, as far as she dared,
reproached him with his ruthless act,
whereupon he gave her a .20 note, saying,
'Take this to buy a cow with." It is cari
ous to speculate upon the moral constitu
tion of a man who can see evidences of
"inexorable justice" in this act of brutal
selfishness and inhumanity. It was the act
of a savage, and the reparation was as
insolent as the offense was cruel and das
tardly. On the whole we shall be rather
surprised if the Irish peasantry can be
tempted even by a reward of nearly $60,
000 into taking particular pains to capture
Lord Leitrim's assassins. A landlord so
fond of indulging his "antipathies" is
more than likely to have been quite as lax
in his control of his "sympathies," and
these, we fear, may often have been the
deadlier and more unendurable of the two.
TAXING BONDS.
Mobile Register.
This question was in effect recently
decided by the Supreme Court of the
United States in the case of Murray vs.
The City of Charleston. Murray, a
foreigner, held about $35,000 in the regis
tered stock of the city of Charleston,
bearing six per cent interest, payable
quarterly. The city imposed a tax of two
per cent on all its debt, and directed the
tax to be retained out of the interest to be
paid to the creditor. It paid Murray the
four per cent on his stock and retained the
two per cent tax. Thereupon Murray
sued the city to recover the amount of the
interest dne him thus retained as tax. The
Supreme Court of South Carolina decided
that the city could cellect the taxes because
the State had given her power to tax all
property. Murray appealed to the Sn
preme Court of tie United States, which,
after considering the preliminary question
of jurisdiction, went on to say tiat the
State of South Carolina having by statute
given the city the right to tax all property,
the city, in ezercislbg the power was in
substance and in fact exercising the power
and authority of the State, and the question,
thlerrore, really was, whether the State
had th:e right to tax hLer own debts or to
give authority to a city ti tax the debts of
that c::y. Ties Cuurt hetd tebat this State
cjv:id not thus in etl'-.ct violate a crntract..
SBUSINESS FAIL UES
TIHE REPOiRT FORlt TIHE FIrRT QUAItfEit OF
TIlE YEAIt-AN INCREAi E tOVR LASTI.
YEAR
l)it'lig tie qulrter whicir e-nded with
thio 3let of March ther' were 3 355 failur, e
ia tie United States. i: - italblittes amount
in;g to *d2,(i07d,26 fli: liumiber of failures
is greater by 496 thtn,i during the cdrres
po:ndrng quarter ': last year and the lie.
b:lities $27,540,75G more. The winter jnst
passed has been exceptionally trying to all
branches of trade, and the enormous
shrinkage of resources has contributed to
swell the figures of the failures. It should be
be remembered, however,-as is stated in
Dunn & Co.'s circu'ar, whence these figur a
are taken--that the constant extension of the
mercantile agencies brings into their class
ification a smaller class of traders whose
wants are purely local, thereby increasing
largely the number of failures reported and
adding to the total liabilities. Some evi
dence of this is afforded by the fact that
while in the Middle States there are 42
more failures reported this year than last,
there are 247 more reported from the
Western States, which furnish 1 218 out of
the whole number.
The definition of a republic adopted by the
French Academy for their famous diotionary
Is : "A State in which the Government is con
ferred by eleotion, and of wbioh the chief is
not hereditary." It came from M. Emile Olli
vier, and was unaninmously adopted.
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RvIE'CEDn -Our lady friends will so with
pleasure tLat Mr. J. A. Braeolman, urrhe immouse
cstablishment at the corner of St. Andrew and Maga
sne street ba~n lovg b-tn our of the great features of
the upper city, has reduced the prices of all his dry
goods. We need not here enter linto details as to the.e
reductions, which will be found fully stated in the
advertisement in another column, but we desire to
state our conviction, based upon a long acquaintanse
with Mr. Braselman. that when he makes a statement
of this character it may be depended on as literally
true tin all respects, for he is above resortlng to any
clap-trap to draw purchasers to his store! Oive him a
coll.
The popular house of Levy Itrother., 585
and 507 Magazine street, corner at. Andrew, announce
in another column that during this month they will
offer a "full line of dry goods at priceo never -/fore herd
of." The best calloo they are offering ati 4o. bet
white and brown cotton at 4), oorded piques at 7; lines
lawns at 100; 10-4 sheeting at 15. and evarything else
at the same proportionately low rates. Ihey have
also some b·albriggan white boes, slightly damaged.
which they are selling at 55 cents. bhe Meurs. Levy
are among the most active and relhble merchaata in
our city. and purchasers can always depend Upon
receiving falol value when dealing with them.
Mr. James Kirkpatriok, 610 Magesine street,
has a fall supply of petyer boks beads osad other
arNtels aoeessai flr ebildlrea about to make tLheir
rst C ummauae.
MEMORIAL DAY IN MACON.
Ex PRESIDENT DAVIS' LETTER ON THE CO -
PFDERATE DEAD.
Maoon Telegraph.
Col. J. P. Fort introduced Mr. J. L.
Saulsbury, Jr., the gentleman selected to
read the letter of ex-President Jefferson
Davis. Mr. Saulsbury rose and in an elo
quent manner read ore of the grandest
letters ever penned by human hand. The
selection of the reader was peculiarly
felicitous. In a voice modulated to great
perfection and in a manner which showed
how deeply the reader felt the sentiments
of glowing patriotism of the great ex
president of the Confederacy, Mr. Sauls
bury executed the trust assigned.
The letter was read as follows:
LETTER FROM PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS.
MiassssirrP CITY, Miss., April 11, 1878.
Gentlemen -I sincerely regret my inabil
1ty to be present at the laying of the corner
stone of "a monument to be erected at
Macon, Ga., in honor of our dead Confed
erate soldiers."
The event possesses every attraction to
me; it is inspired by the Ladies' Memo
rial Association ; the monument is to be
located in the Key-stone State of the Con
federate arch, and to commemorate the
sacrifices of those who died in the defense
of our inherited and "inalienable" rights.
What though we were overborne by
numbers, and accessories not less efficient,
truth is not to be measured by success in
maintaining it against force; nor is the
glory less of him who upholds it in the face
of unequal odds, but is it not rather more
to his credit that he counted all else as
dust in the balance when weighed with
honor and duty I On many a stricken
field our soldiers stood few and faint, but
fearless still, for they wore the panoply of
unquestioning confidence in the rectitude
of their cause, and knew how to die but
not to surrender. Let not any of their
survivors impugn their faith by offering
the penitential plea that "they believed
they were right."
Be it ours to transmit to posterity our
unequivocal testimony to the justice of
their convictions, to their virtues, and the
sanctity of the motives by which they were
actuated.
It is meet that this monument should
have originated with the ladies of the land,
whose self denial was conspicuous through
all the trials and sufferings of war, whose
gentle ministrations in hospitals and at
wayside refectories so largely contributed
to relieve the sick and wounded, and whose
unfaltering devotion to their country's
cause in the darkest hours of our struggle
illustrated the fidelity of the sex which
was last at the cross and first at the sepul
chre.
I am profoundly thankful to them for
inviting me to represent them, as their
orator, on the approaching occasion. Had
it been practicable to accept, their request
would have been to me a command, obeyed
with no other reluctance than the con
sciousness of inability to do justice to the
theme.
Thanks to the merits of our Confederate
dead, they need neither orator nor bard to
commend their deeds to the present gener
ation of their countrymen. Many fell far
from home and kindred, and sleep in un
marked graves; but all are gathered in the
love of these for whom them died, and
their memories are hallowed in the hearts
of all true Confederates.
By the pious effort of our people, many
humble cemeteries, such as, in their im
poverishment, were possible, have been
prepared, and the Confederate dead have
been collected in them from neighboring
ha.lefields. There annually, with rever
ential affection, the gravee, alike of the
known and the unknown, are decked with
vernal flowers, expressive of g,.,titude re
newab!e forever, and typical of the hope
of a resurrection mand reunion where t'ie
wicked ceseo from troubling and the weary
are at reel:.
To be rtmembered, honored, heiovcd by
t' slr people is the reward beetowed on our
Confederate dead. It is the hightEet which
a good and purely patriotic man could de
sire. Should it be asked, why then build
this m:,nument I the answer is, they do
not need it, but posterity may. It is not
their reward, but our3debt. If the greatest
gift a hero gives his race is to have been a
hero, in order that this gift may be utilized
to coming generations its appreciation by
contemporaries should be rendered as
visible and enduring as possible. Let the
monument, rising from earth toward
heaven, lift the minds of those who come
after us to a higher standard than the com
mon test of success. Let it teach that man
is born for duty, not for expediency ; that
when an attack is made on the community
to which he belongs, by which he is pro
tected, and to which his allegiance is due,
his first obligation is to defend that com
monity ; and that under such conditions it
is better to have "fought and lost, than
never to have fought at all." Let posterity
learn by this monument that you com
memorate men who fought in a defensive
war; that they did not, as has been idly
stated, submit to the arbitrament of arms
the questions at issue-questions which in
volved the inalienable rights inherited
from their ancestors and held in trust for
their posterity ; but that they strove to
maintain the State sovereignty which their
fathers left them, and which it was their
duty, if possible, to transnmit to their chil
dieo.
Away then with such feeble excuse for
the abandonment of principles, which may
be crushed for a while, but which, poe
seosing the eternal vitality of truth, must
in its own good time prevail over perish
able error.
Let this monument teach that heroism
derives its lusoetre from the justice of the
cause in which it is displayed, and let it
mark the difference between a war waged
for the robber-like purpose Of conquest and
one to repel invasion-to defend a people's
hearths and altars, and to maintain their
laws and liberties. Such was the war in
which our heroes fell, and theirs is the
crown which sparkles with the gems of
patriotism and righteousneess, with a glory
nodimmed by any motive of aggrandlese
ment or intent to nloflict ruin on others.
We present them to posterity as examples
to be followed, and wait securely for the
verdict of mankind when knowledge shall
have dispelled misrepresentation and de
lausion. Is it unreasonable to hope that
mature reflection and a closer study of a
political history of the Union may yet re
store the rights prostrated by the passions
developed in our long and bloody wart
If, however, it should be otherwise, then
from our heroes' graves shall come in
mournful tones the
**Answer t
And if our ebildren must ete~
They mus bt thinkitng.. ear day.
111W ls, dbars th to =balb.'
Yours Faithfully,
Jarrzaox DAVIS.
Daring the reading, almost as each sea.
tence would fall, the applause of the assem.
bled spultitude would rise upon the air.
Never will those who beard it forget
thbe letter. But stored away in the treas.
ury of memory it will remain a diamond
never to tarnish, sealed with the signet of
immortality. The reader, too, who so elo.
quently gave utterance to the words of the
absent patriot will not be forgotten by
those for whom he once offered his life as a
stcrifce.
STAR VING 3MEN IN PENNSYL TANIA
Boston Pilot.
Aooonts of the condition of the workling
men of the coal districts of Pennsylvania as
painfol in the extreme. Hundreds of the ea
ployees of the Lackawanna Coal sad Ire
Company have been out of work for meith
and their families are almost at the polat -o
starvation. A newspaper correspondent aI
Scoranton draws the following distreesdn
pioture :
"Here may be found mothers surrounded by
children crying for food and clothile. T'he
dejeoted men leave their homes in the morning
not to enter them until night. They eaenol
hear the appeals of the little ones, oftentiame
huddled together in a darkened basement and
living on tee coarsest crusts. There is hardly
a minute in the day that these almost desper
ate men do not importune the superintendeni
of-the millssor work. At every sesionof-the
Poor Board the rooms are thronged with appli.
cants for relief who tell most pitiable tales.
The women are in the majority. Goaded to
desperation by hunger, they seek the Pool
Board as a last resort. Oftentimes zagged
barefooted children follow their cryin
mothers into the presence of the Board. The
have barely clothes enough to cover them,
Their faces tell too plainly the tale of want
Some of them have sold almost everything to
get money with which to buy bread."
Notwithstanding this deplorable oondition,
the best order preva ls, and arrests do not
average one a day in a population of 45,000.
The streets are crowded with idle men. "I
don't know bow half the people on this ssetion
get enough to eat," said a miner to a corree
pondentlast week ; "month after month they
walk the streets with their hands in theit
pockets, hoping against hope that the olood
will break. I know of men who have nol
done a tap of work in twelve months, and who
have large families. Those who havework are
not much better off. Last month there were
miners who did not average over $7. Other.
got from that to $12, after having paid a labor
er. The most that any laborer made last month
was $9." The suffering of the miners is nol
confined to Scranton-it is universal. From
Carbondale, the great centre of the Delaware
and Hudson Canal Company, comes a cry of
despair from the workmen They say : "The
long-continued prostration in the coal trade
the frequent suspensions in mining, the eye
tematio reduction of wages, together with the
wrongs inflicted on the miner in the shape of
long tonnage and unjust systems of dooking,
have reduced our mining and laboring people
to a state of starvation." They add that the
people of Carbondale have been particularly
sifluted, because the coal company would pro
fsr working their leased coal rather than theit
own; in some localities workingmen have
only worked four months the past year, and
now more than two-thirds of the men have
been idle since the Ist of February, who, when
working, were barely earning enough to sup
port life.
The coal owners say they cannot sell the
coal, which the workmen admit is true. There
fore they appeal to the Legislature of PennJyl
vania and the Congress of the United States
for immediate aid to relieve the pressing wants
of the starving people.
From Ashley, near Wilkeebarre, on the Cen
tral Railroad of New Jersey, heretofore a
thriving mining town of several thousand in
babitants, the followir.ng is sent to a local
aper :-
` Tl is once prosperousborough is now on the
verge of ruin. The mines have suspended she
dif and henger and denolation now stare as it
tie face. A glimmering hope is hbold out to ai
tthat work may be resumed in the course of
twelve tmonthe; romewhat encouraging after a
log and dretary winter. Gloom and deepon.
dency have taken possession of us, and we
await the inevitable-a speedy departure from
this place, or remain until nothing is left."
Tho only relief to the sad picture is a state
ment that the trains for the West are boarded
by par irs of ten to fifty, hastening away from
idlene-s and destitution. Whole families go
at a time, and very few who once get away
have aty desire to return. Oat of the mines
and our, of the cities should be the cry with
two-thirds of the workingmen who know how
to farme, and can make their way to the West
First find out where to locate, and then make
up your mind to stay there. Too many men it
this country have been depending on trade and
manufacture. They must return to agricul
ture. The earth is the true mother of national
wealth and popular comfort.
POPE LEO'S ENCYCLICAL.
The telegraph brings us the following :
London, April 96.-The passage in the Pope'i
encyolioal letter, which was announced yester
day, regarding the power of the church, Is at
follows : The hopes of Italy and the world res
on the benefioent influence of the Holy See, ani
on the intimate union of all the faithful witl
the Roman Pontiff. It therefore stands to rea
son that we should with all diligence do all it
our power to preserve intact the dignity of the
Roman cathedra, in order before all things to
guard the rights and liberty of the Holy See
We shall never aesse to insist that our autheo
rity be respected, that our ministry and oua
power be left fully free and independent, ant
that the position be restored to us in whiehdi
vine wisdom long ago placed us. It is at
vain desire of dominion which moves ns to do
mend there-establishment of our civil power
We dtemand it because our duties and oan
sole-mn oaths exact it, and because it is nol
only necessary to conserve fully the liberty ol
the spiritual power, but also because it is evi
dent that when it is a question of the tempora
dominion of the apostolic see, it involves th
well being and safety of the whole huma
family.
Tue Pope distinctly indorses the policy an
sacts of his predecessor, condemns civil marri
eges and deplores the rejection of the autborit;
of the church, proclaiming that to be thbe cas
of alil existing evils, but in language of calm
neas end dignity, devoid throughbout of an
tone of offense or violenos. Toe enuyoltea
containe no attack whatever upon the olvi
Government of Italy, nor any mention, dire
or indirect, of the house of Savoy.
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