The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-08-26
The Empress will not return to
Mexico.
Reply of President Johnson Il
the Laborers Convention.
He favors the Movement.

New ORLEANS, Aug. 25.-Cotton firmer,
Sales 500 bales; low middling 3%@A; re-
ceipts 50 bales.
Corn mixed, Is To 80 cents; white, 73e.
Oats, 44c;
Gold, IA. Sterling, 50. New York eS-
change one-quarter discount.
Freights to New York to Liverpool 3.
There were sixteen deaths from Cholera
yesterday.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-Flour and wheat
dull. Corn lower Oats steady. Pork
steady-saIes $500 bbls S32 2s. Lard dull.
Whisky steady. Cotton active-sales 1905
bales middling 33l@36 Groceries dull.
Turpentine 67tG63 Rosin scarce and firm,
| 81 87@02 So Gold I455.
LIVERPOOL, August 25.-Cotton market
steady. Quotations unchanged. Sales 500
bales Middling upIands closed ut - 3-4d.
Breadstufls dull, owing to favorable wealth
er and the good prospects for crops, Prices
of foreign consolS have declining tendency.
Provisions unaltered
LONDON, Aug 25-Saturday Evening"
Money Market for consols closed s84, 500,
70!.
VIENNA, Aug. 25-Saturlay = Officially
announced that the Emperor Francis Joseph
granted a new constitution and ministry TO
| Hungary.
PARIS, Aug. % = Saturday.-Before the
treaty of peace was signed between Prussia,
Austria, Italy and Bavaria, Austria unre-
servedly admitted to Italy that the Princess
Carlotta will not return to Mexico, and they
| concurred in the opinion that the war in
that country was approaching an end.
New YORK, Aug. 25.-The committee APP
pointed by the. Laborers' Convention at Bal
timore waited on the President to-day. Mr.
Hinchclitf, the Speaker, disclaimed that the
Convention had any connection with party
III political sense or that the movement
was for political favor. He urges that the
eight hour per day system should be legal
! lied, and that public lands should be dis
| tributed so as TO be reached by laborers in
stead of capitalists, and that workngmen
be protected against convict labor.
He asked the Presidents assistance to ae-
complish these measures for the working
men. In reply the President said he was
| opposed to the present system of convict Ia
Dor on account of its unjust discrimination
and degrading influence, He desired to see
/ labor elevated, and such had always been
his position. His history proved he had OPP
posed monopoly of the public lands. He
was for shortening the hours of labor to
! the least number consistent with the inter-
estS OF e.rl, eem,t cne laboring men could rely
on his influence when it could be given in
their behalf
They had his sympathies and best feelings
in their cause, and he hoped they wond ac-
complish their object.
following:
Between Kenosha and Milwaukee an agent
OF the Travellers Insurance Company, of
Hartford, entered the car. and, having issued
tickets to several passengers, approached an
elderly lady, who, it afterwards appeared
was deaf
Madam would you like to insure against
accidents 2" inquired the agent, at tho same
time exhibiting his tickets
-" got my ticket down to Kenosha
" Not n railroad ticket, madam / want to
know If you would like to insure your life
against accidents"
L m going to Oshkosh to visit my darter
who's married up there and has Just rot a
baby"
The agent raised his voice a little
Would yOn like to insure your life against
accidents %
She's been married two years and half,
and that's the first child; it's gal"
Agent, still louder
L am an insurance agent, madam; don't
You want to insure your life against acct
dents 2"
She's got along frst-rate, and is doing
as well as could be expected"
Agent, ut the top of his voice
I'm an insurance agent, madam; cant /
insure yonr life against accidents?"
80, didn't understand you," said the old
lady. :" No, her name is johnson: my name
is Evans and / live five miles from Kenosha."