The Russellville Democrat., 1878-05-16

Russia will not yet liberate the Turkish prisoners war, numbering G000O.
 -Advices from Havanna admit that the sugar crop will fall from 30 to 35 per cent. short as compared with last year.
 -Dr Hooper, of Little Rock, has been appointed as one of the Board of Visitors to the L. 5. Naval Academy.
 It has not yet been determined what will be done in Congress about the Florida frauds and the Blair resolutions.
 The Little Rock papers have cooled down wonderfully since the late unplcasantness between Col. Smithce and Maj. Adams.
 Prairie county will put her regu- lar Democratic ticket for county offl- cers in the field this year by the pri- mary election system.
 If we may judge from the coun- ties which have already held their conventions, we think Churchill and Frollch are sure to be elected.
 There is, as yet, no light to show how the solution of the troubles between the Eastern powers can be settled without war.
 -Chas. Morgan, owner of the Morgan line of Steamers running between New York and New Orleans, died on the Sth inst He was worth from $10,000,O00 to $12,O00,000.
 The Senate on the 9th inst, pas sed the bill providing for the repeal of the Bankrupt law,-the repeal to take effect from Sept. 1st, next. The bill now goes back to the House for concurrence of that body.
 The Nationals are not getting along so tremendously. They held 8 convention at Philadelphia on the 9th and the attempt to adopt plat form resulted in 'confusion worse confounded."
 Another disgusting scene occur red in the Lower House of Congress on the 9th inst. The spectacle of members getting excited to white heat, and Soaming and fuming like madmen, is becoming so frequent that the country is fast losing that respect which the supposed dignity of Congress should entitle it to.
 It IS now proposed to have the Congressional Convention for the Third District meet at Hot Springs on the 3d of July. We fear that with that Convention on the Sd and the State Convention on the 4th, there will be very little work done in the Press Convention, as many of the members will be delegates to both Conventions.
 To CONGRESS: Better to allow Mir. Hayes to serve out his time in peace than to shake the foundations of the Government by reopening the vexed question.-Gazette.
 If the Government has to rest upon the most notorious fraud ever perpc- trated, it ought to be shaken out of Its boots.
 Another spiritualistic fraud has been exposed. Mott, a spiritualist of some note, from Memphis, Mis- souri, while giving a seance at Mon mouth, Ills, had analine squirted in his face from ring while he appear cd ct the aperture of the Cabinet as a spirit. When lights were brought ms lace was covered with the analine stains, thus exposing the fraud.
 If the Democrats in Congress now fail to place on record thor ough exposure of the great fraud perpetrated upon the American peo. pie by the Republican Party in the last Presidential election, the Demo- cratic party will lose the great ad- vantage which that infamous decd gave them, and they will have to go into the next campaign with thelr mouths closed as to that fraud. There is now chance to authenti- cate all the charges that have been made concerning the theft of the Presidency by the Re publican party at the last election. If the Democrats in Congress now fall to come up to the scratch, the Republicans can at the next election defy them to make that great fraud an issue. They can then justly