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T%ELEGRAPAIC MARKETS.

NEW York, May %, II 40 ANU. S. 6s Of
1881. 1,41z; do. coupons. 1l5hall5H; 5.2O's
of '65, new issue. 11l1s; '67. 1144; IS. cou-
pOns. ll6; 1e.4O's. 1l2%@l1eS; do. coupons.
119N9llSk; currency 6's, l25h; new SIS, lllA
@lll%.
LONDON, May %, $50 p.m.-Consols for
money. 9l7-lO; U. S. 5-2O's of '6j, 1921; 81
1905 10.40's, 1857 new SIS. 1855; Erie, 81.
LIVERPOOL May %, $3.50 p.m.-Flour, 800
93l; wheat, Milwaukee red. lbs 3d@lss9d.
Corn, 25s. Pork, 63s. Beef. SIS. Lard, AIS Cd.
Bacon, long clear, SSs; short clear, 40s.
NEW York, May 70. 12:1O p.m.-Flour is
dull. Wheat is quiet at l 7Os1s5; Milwaukee.
l SOL 60. Corn is dull at ts97e. Oats dull
at 47G52. Moss pork is quiet at IA 80 bid for
June; IA 50 for July. Lard is quiet at Q so bid
for June; 62h for July; 9 ia for August.
CHICAGO, May %. 70 m.-Wheat is hrmer at
l IS for June; 15SAgl B7A for July. Corn is
strong at 4Sh for June; SOY for July. Oats
are dull at S9H bid for May; s9l for June.
Pork is steady at IS 10 for June; 10 IS for
July. Lard is steady at Q eO@922 for June;
2S99 32K for July.
CINCINNATI May 22.-Flour is quiet. Whe /
is nominal. Corn is quiet at 50@53, Oats are
weak al 1880. Whisky is firm at 10Y. Pork
is steady at IA eOg1l Is. Lard is 6rmer at
93)@9S5 Bulk meats are steady at 5. u,
~. Bacon is steady at 6. 81, So.
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EGYPTIAN TROOPS EMsARKINO
FOR TURKEY.
President MacMahOn Denounced by
Partisan Artisans.
Emperor William Recalls Prince
Bismarck.

CoNsrANTINoPLE, May % The porte
has been inquiring of contractors about
the time in which quantities Of provisions
could be stored 10 Constautinople.
LONDON, May PA Paris special re-
ports that the impressions gathered in a
visit of investigation to the artisans
quarters Of Paris, show that Duke De
Broglie is scarcely mentioned in popular
clamor, all abuse being heaped on Presi-
dent MacMahon.
An Alexandria dispatch says: The
Turkish convoy for the Egyptian con
tingent arrived on Monday. 1t consists
Of the ironclad frigate Mshomet Ali, and
a corvette. Troops will embark on Tues.
day"
The Telegraph's dispatch from Tur-
turksi Monday evening reports that
forty-two Russian battalions, three bat.
teries Of artillery and some cavalry have
just arrived on the opposite side of the
river at Altanitza. An attack is expected
daily.
The News Galatz special says: YES
teriay tAe Russians crossedin boats from
I5rail to Ghiacet and burned the latter
place. The Russians have %dismounted
their Barboschi Notifications, consider
ing them of no further use, as from
Ibrail to REM the river is sufficiently
protected by strong batteries aud tor
pedoes."
The Daily TeIegraph's Rustchuk dis
patch dated Monday has the following:
Great preparations are in progress for
an attempt to pass the river between
Rahova aud Nikopolis. They have
brought down by rail to the bank pom
toon bridges and small steamers, and
are erecting large Notifications at Islatz
and Turner Magurele. A continual
concentration Of troops in the direction
of Limnitza is observable. The Turks
are fully prepared to resis: the attempt"
PARIS, May PA lie Temps Athens
special says war between Greece and
Turkey is considered inevitable. The
premier, at the opening of the session Of
the chamber, will deliver a speech tend
ing to war, which il is thought will break
out in twenty days at the latest.
VIENNA, May l0.--The Presse says
NO promise concerning the naturalization
of Little Wallachia has ever been given
or demanded. 1t was only with respect
to Servian neutrality that Austria ex.
pressed certain wishes, which have been
complied with.
New YORK, May 22.-The following
special from Berlin is published here:
st is officially announced that Emperor
William has recalled Prince Bismarck to
consider the situation in France, and
probably effect a change o. ministry
upon the relations of France and Ger
many"
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Kate CIaxtOn in Another Panic.
Dubuque QoWa) Times.1

Dubuque IoWal Times.l
Let no one tell US that the FIRE iiend
(~excuse the expression is not following
Kate Claxton with relentless furry.
Last Saturday, as she was performing in
the opera house at Lacrosse, a FIRE broke
out some tour or FIVE blocks away, when
the boys in the gallery, hearing the
shout OF FIRE" on the streets, took up
TIE dreed cry, sending it ringing through
the crowded house like the crack oil
doom. Men, women and children all
over the house sprang to their feet panic
stricken in an instant, and a rush vas
made for the door. Benches we're over
turned, people stumbled, and those be
hind feii over them, a hundred voices
we're shrieking all sorts Of unintelligible
sounds, while every one was making a
wild, mad rush TOR life. Men aud boys
in the gallery jumped down to the audi
torium below, alighting on the heads OF
the surging, freDzied crowd beneath, and
it seemed for a brief space OF time as
though scores must be trampled to
death il nothing else. Some twenty OF
more grained the street before the police
men on duty, who knew there was no fire
in the building, could shut the doors;
but when they succeeded in closing the
exit they beat back the terror. stricken au
dieEce, and in a few minutes compare.
tive calm was established. Though none
we're fatally injured several were
severely hurt, and many badly bruised
The curtain was down when the
alarm was given, and the fearful cry o.
fire had Hardly rang through the hal
before Miss Claxtou, pale and trembling
rushed to the front Of the stage, exclaim
ing, as she threw up her hands with &
wild gesture Of despair, "0h, my, is Their,
q fre2' and was just in the act Of jnmp
ing from the stage, when some one re
strained her. Ia view Of the dreadful
experiences she has undergone no on,
could expect her to be other than un
nerysd at such a time. Quiet was soor
restored, and the performance went on
though fully one-half of the audience left
thankful to get out while they might.
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DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
Launching Of the Iron Steamship
Saratoga Results in the Killing
and WOunding Of Many.

CHESTER, Pa May 22.-This morning
the Saratoga, a large iron steamship
which was TO be launched at Roach's
ship yard, started from its blocking soon.
er than was expected, killing aud wound
ing a great many. Six dead bodies have
been removed. About forty men were
under the Saratoga when she went off.
An order waS given for thom to come
out, but was not heard.
The names Of the killed as far as
known are Edward Fowley, John Mel.
son, Chris Wright and Edward Burke.
The wounded are George Woof, NOR
tally, and Barney Cannon and Walter
Parkinson, seriously. II is thought that
some Of the workmen we're killed and
dragged into the water by the ship. The
bodies Of the dead are horribly mangled,
n being literally cut in halves, and
others with their legs and arms torn of
The ship.yard is thronged with friendG
and relatives Of the victims and presents
a very distressing scene.
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In his essay on Democracy, Charles
0'Conor condemns the secret ballot as
opposed to the spirit of our institutions.
He says it might excusably have been
imagined, though quite false in tact, that
in the great exemplar of Americans the
aristocratic quasi republic of Great
Britain, election by ballot would Dc a
boon to the miserable mine-laborer or
c%Ottier; but in free, fertile and prosper
GUS America it was wholly useless; its
acceptance was a reproaeh to the poorer
citizsns, and a s~csndalnus acknowledge
meat of timidity in the rich. 1t opened
the doors to frauds iunumerable. The
inutility to the dependent poor has been
demonstrated. The governing faction
Of q city that employs 10 public work one
tenth of its electoral body has sem its
workman to the polls in charge Of a
whi2per.in whs, when near the ballot
box, furnished him the favored ticket,
and thence until its delivery to the Off.
cial receiver watched the hand in which
1t had been placed.
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ST. LOUIS.
Illicit Dls;illlng Suicide Of a Young
Lady.

ST. LOUIS, May 22.-John G. Simpson,
of Oregon county, this State, was con
victed in the United States District
Court yesterday of illicit distilling, the
jury finding him guilty on all five counts
in the indictment. Sentence. was de-
ferred by the cosrt. Simpson is fifty
years old, was county judge for two
years and has been q Baptist minister
for twenty years.
Louise E. Bostelman, q young lady
nineteen years old, of highly respectable
and well to-do parents, committed sui
eide yesterday by throwing herself into
a we'll forty feet deep. Her parents OPP
position to her marriage with a young
man for whom she had strong affection
was the cause.
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LYNCHING.
The Young Negro, Who Attempted to
Outrage aad Murder Mrs. Pile,
Hung to a Tree.

CAIRO, May 22.-On Sunday night a
party of disguised men went to the jail
al Blandville, KY, and with drawn pis-
tolls demanded and received the keys.
They then seized the negro Levi Pile,
who attempted to outrage aud murder
Mrs. C. R. Pile, tied a rope around his
neck, tied him to mule and dragged
him away to the woods. Nothing further
is known except that his dead body was
found hanging to a tree with several bull
let holes in it and the clothing burned
off, At last accounts the body was still
hanging.
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now Jassy LOOKS.

From Edward Kings Jassy Letter to the
Boston Journal.l
| mad been prepared, l knew not by
means of what absurd prejudice, to ind
in the vicinity of The Pruth and the Bes-
sarabian frontier nothing but small and
misersble villages, in which comfort was
impossible. / was therefore consider
ably surprised when | was informed in
Bucharest that Jassy was a town OF 90
600 inhabitants, with good hotels, fine
mansions and well paved streets. Ar
irving there after about seventeen hours
of railway travel, | found all these state.
mentg pleasantly confirmed. Jassy is
built on the top and along the slopes of
a range of hills which in summer are
said to be remarkably beautiful, but in
the bleak, rainy weather of to-day they
were somewhat dreary. | disembarked
into a sea OF mud, however, quite like
those | had seen in the peasants vii
lagos. A Russian mujik, dressed in an
immense great coat, descending to his
colossal boot heels, with a girdle about
his waist and a cap drawn down TO the
bridge Of his nose, escorted me to his
"droskhy, as the carriages are called
even ON this side Of the frontier, and was
500 wheeling me through muddy pools
in the lower part Of the town. As soon
as we reached the hill | discovered that
the streets Of upper Jassy were paved
with asphalt and were as clean as those
of Paris. The long, straight roads we're
filed with droskhys rafting to and fro,
and with country vehicles, the high
wooden arched collar above the horses
neck proclaiming the Russian manufac-
ture OF the wagons, at every corner
saw the Jew in bis gaberdine, with his
black skull-cap coquettishly perched
on the top of his gray hair. The Jews
10 Roumania are one of the most impor-
tant elements OF the population, and
shall have something to say of them in
a future letter, They have been greatly
abused here-even latterly-and they do
not look upon the coming of The Russians
with any marked degree Of pleasure.
The Turk has generally shown himself
civil to the Jew, but not because Of a
desire to be civil; rather because Of gen.
eral negligence.
The rain fell in binding sheets as my
mujik drove into the muddy courtyard
of the principal hotel in Jassy. 10 the
corridors of this hostelery I find any
number Of squarejawed, red faced ser
wants sitting outside their masters
doors, whence, l conclude, there are
Russians here already. -Four or five oil
these servants appear to belong to one
man, who continually calls them in a
loud voice, creating the most intense ex-
eitement in their ranks. When any
guest Of the hotel passes, these servants
rise and remain standing until he has
nassed.
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DIHD.

HART-Tuesday May %, 1877. at 2 o'clock
a m, R0BT. +. G.. HART.
His friends and army companions are in
yited to attend the funeral services at the
residence OF Joseph S. Johnston. 262 Poplar
street. on WEDNESDAY morning, 3 o'clock.
Enthusiastically. Nay %, 1877, at tho res.
idence, 40 Monroe street. Mrs. MARY A.. be.
loved wife Of James B. FAIRIES, aged 81 years.
Der remains will DO skipped to Garner Sta,
ton, on Mississippi and Tennessee railroad.
Feneral from tho residence at ~ o'clock to-
mortew WEDNESDAY afternoon. Friends
Of tho family are respectfully inyited.
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Territorially there is no reason why the
eastern portion Of Utah should not be
annexed to Colorado, and the western to
Nevada. In creating the original terri
tory Of Nevada a large slice was cut off
from Utah, and another portion might
now be added with advantage. Such an
addition might prove advantageous in
improving the politics of that State by
introducing therein another element
Aud there is no doubt that the people Of
Nevada would take good care to punish
polygamy within their borders. Colo.
RADIO would be benefited by the aunexa
ton Of a portion OF Eastern Utah, and
the Territories Of Idaho, Montana and
Arizonia could with advantage absorb
the northern and eastern portions.
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The OamIng Wan m Runssin.

St, Petersburg Cor. New Ycsk HERALD
The rising man is IguatieG, Who, be-
yond being a trained diplomat, is a dis.
t~inctiyely Russian official after the true
Russian heart. Capable of grand ideas,
Of generous impulses aud Of enormous
s~sltsaerifce, his altar contains beyond
self only one god, that Of an ambition
to see his country dictate everything to
Europe and a perfect Willingness that the
United States shall dictate everything to
America. He is a grand ce~ntralizer.
and his apparent concessions TO England
IN the late conferences and joint actions
toward arranging the vexed Eastern
question we're simply to give the Disra-
elrpeFby party the rope he felt Assgred
would be used to tie their usefulness and
power TO a hostiug wreck OF misspent
opportunity. In this bis judgment hes
proved correct, for whatever issee Tie
present difficulty may have England
force as q mentor, guide and arbitrator
Az ihe eiairs Of Europei is weakened past
repair,
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Paris Cor. Of the New York Times.l
Here in Paris we bear a great deal Of
war talk, the Bourse being sgitGted by
all sorts Of reports, afternoon and eve.
ming. But there is a hope that France
may not be involved at this time, for oil
reasoning men see that she would have
10 struggle again without allies. Change
may be brought sbsgt as the Eastern
war is developed. which will bring her
into ultimate relations with Eogland,
Austria GRd Italy, but for the moment
she has to keep extremely quiet. Every
movement that she makex ID noted across
the Rhine; the transfer Of Q single regi.
mept 70 the Elstern departments IS CUES.
toned as q menGce And the speech Of
Field Marshal Won Aoltke shows us that
the military authorities Of GERMANY are
on the qui viVe. But the French gov.
eminent has resolved to keep out Of the
quarrel if it can, aud the Due Decszes
is showing great prudence in the Goa
duct o! his department, The French do
not want war. They dread it above all
things a. this time. Their military or
~ganization il NOT yet fully completed.
but they regard the possibility Of com
plicahoas with Q a6rt ef TesRAatior
which is perhaps Q surer Evidence 0
strength than the excessive eonHdenc,
shown al the moment when the populaQ,
vas crying a Berlin about the streels o
the capital.
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The Louisville Evening News com
ments on Postmaster General Key in the
following style;
Postmaster General Key INDUCES in
the following balierdash: THE Presi.
dent is firm and determined in bis South
ern policy if the South will give him the
support necessary to carry it out. y
There is no Southern policy to be car
ried out. The Southern policy died
with the tramp Of the last soldier who
marched out Of the capitol building Of
Louisiana. There is Just as much sense
in talking about q Northern as q South
ern policy to-day. The policy, or rather
principle, which the country demands is
neither Northern nor Southern, but q
broad and truly national one, which will
cover all the land as a protecting shield
Mr.. Key runs the risk of writing himself
down an incapable, and, for his own
credit, should say as little as possible
unless he can say it more to the point
than any utterance which has character.
lied him since be went into the Hayes
cabinet.
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River Teiegrnms.

CAIRO, May 22.-Arrived-James B
Williams, New Orleans, 9 pm; Color
ado, Vicksburg, 3 am; Joseph Walton,
st. Louis, 4. Departed-Alf Stevens, St.
Louis, 8 pm; Gaff, Cincinnati. 10; ]. B.
Williams, Ohio river, 10; Colorado, St.
Louis, A am; Joseph Walton, 81. Louis,
Z; Coal City, Ohio river, 7. Weather
fair and warm.
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Publishers Agents,
No. % Park Row. MY. est
Attechment Notice,


No. 556-Defore j. S Galloway, j. P. for
Shelby county, Tenn.-E. s. Proud6t VS.. c..
IN fiis CAUsE AN ATTACnMENTHAv.
ing been sued out under section 34S5 Of the
Code Of Tennessee, aud returned levied by
garnishmont upon the property Of tho defend.
ant. and affidavit having been made that the
defendant Is Justly indebted to the plaintiff in
the sum Of eS25.T due BY motto, and that the
defendant is n non. resident Of the State Of
Tennessee, or Ia about to- remove, or has re-
moved hilaself or property from the State
II "a therefore ordered that said defend
ant make his personal appearance before
me on the 18th day Of june, 1871, at 20
o'clock AN, nj my Office, 2l9M Main St., in
the city Of Memphis, Tenn, n defend gaid
attachment suit within the timo prescribed by
law, or tho same will be proceeded with OF
parte; and that q copy Of this order be pub
lished once a wook for four consecutive weeks
In the Public Ledger.
This 9th day OF May. 1871.
j. s. GALLOWAY. D.. p.
b. b. Barnes. Attprpey GO.65-72 II
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POstpOnemeut of an Extra Session
OF Congress Hue 10 Conspiracy.

New York, May 22-The Graphic has
a dispatch from Washington to the effect
that the postpouement of an extra SEES
sion Of congress was due to the discovery
of a conspiracy on the part of congress-
men of both parties, headed by David
Dudley Field, to introduce a resolution
declaring Samuel j. Tilden the honest
President elect, and inviting him to take
his place in the White House.
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When a new pedestrienne makes her
debut the Boston papers call it bound
ing from sedentary obscurity into the
arena Of p~eripaletic celebrity" If a
tramp with an empty stomach should be
bit by a cold potato, they would doubt
less refer to the occurrence as the i'm
pingement of an athermal, esculent,
fa%rinaceous TUDOR upon the victims
stomachic y%aouity. Il Worcester Press.
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To all who are suffering from the erFo5s and
indlscretions Of youth. noryouS weakness
carly decay, logs Of manhood, etc., will send
a roaipo tlat viii cure you FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered
by a missionary IN South America. Send a
~self-addressOd envelope 10 tho REy. JOSEPH
T, IEMAS, Station D, Bible House. Now York
City. l20-xxiv-l2sdkw
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westward Bound Freights

New YoRK, May % arrangements
we're entered into yesterday by the gene
raj agents Of the trunk lines running
out Of the city agreeable to instructions
received irom the presidents by which
the revenue Of the westward bound
freight shipments are to be placed in
what is termed a pool and divided be
tween the different roads which partiei.
pate. The Erie aud New York Central
are each to receive 80 per cent, Penn.
~sylyania rs per cent, and the Baltinore
and Ohio 9 per cent. A general agent
is to be appointed whose duty will be to
superintend the signing Of all bills Of
lading and to sec that the agreement is
carried out. Shippers are to be allowed
to qesiEuate which route they wish their
property sent over. No further contracts
for carrying freight are to be made here.
after as the poll will control the rates.
II is expected that the Grand Trunk
Railroad Company Of Canada will cutter
int the arreegemeph IS she.inauence q
that road in making low raleo from
Eastern cities might be adverse to New
! York.
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IT Is very neatly expressed by the
Mobile Register in this way: The
Southern people decline to accept the
proposition to ally themselves with that
portion Of the Republican party which
sBstsins the Presidents Southern policy
They stand ready to cooperate with al
who will defend that policy, but as 10
forming q portion Of a Presidential party
snd surrendering the organization OF the
house to the enemies OF the Democracy
we respectfully beg leave to decline the
proposition"
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The following definitions Of words that
often occur in news from Europe will
be found most useful to the general
reader:
Sultan-The Sovereign Of the Turkish
Empire; the recognized organ Of all ex'
ecutive power in the State. His head
quarters are at Constantinople.
Porte-The government OF the Turk
ish Empire.
Sublime Porte-The official name OF
the government, so called from the gate
OF the Sultan's palace.
Grand Vizier-The chief Minister Of
the Turkish Empire.
Divan-The Turkish Council OF State
the Cabinet"
Grand Muhi-Chief interpreter OF the
Mohammedan law and head Of the Wise
Meu"-iurists, theologians and literati-
who assemble for consultation on his
order. He is mostly styled the chief OF
the faithful. A writer Gays a letwa or
decree from him would summon around
the standard OF the prophet all the fsnat-
zeal hordes of Islam to fight to the death
against the "nfdels, in the firm belief
tb.t death on the battle field is q sure
passport to Paradise.
Pasha - Governors, viceroys, com.
manders, civil and military rulers Of
provinces.
Deys-Abeut the same as Pashas.
Sheik-The name given the heads OF
Arabian tribes or clubs. 1t means elder,
or eldest N dignity and authority.
Osmanli-A Turkish official.
Islam The religion Of Mohammed.
Massulman-A follower Of NOLAN.
med.
Ottoman empire-Another name for
the Turkish empire, and derives its name
from 0sman, its founder
Osmaulis-The Turks proper.
Not all followers Of the prophet are
Turks. In European Turkey there are,
in round numbers, five million Moham-
medans, less than half Of whom are
Osmanlis, the rest being Of Slavonic de-
scent, but none the less ardent worship
ers of Islam.