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XMDistinct THE DAILY SUN. THURSDAY MOKBTKO ...JULY 29 their diplomas as graduates of the I Southern Female College, of which more anon. I cannot close without expressing I through you, my sincere thanks for hospitality and kindness exhibited by the good people of LaGrange. I might dilate to some extent upon this particular point, but the fact is too well known all over the country direction. The Real Story of the Kn-Klnx. Mr. Copeland, the intelligent and fair-minded correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce, has a let- j some few localities the wheat crop is sul ter in that paper, in which he gives his evidence as to the existence and character of the Ku-Klux in the Southern States. The Journal says editorially, by way of comment on the letter: “Besides being one of the most com plete accounts of that mysterious organ ization that we have ever read, it has the higher meiit, we believe, of absolute im partiality. A Northerner journeying Southward isapt to be swayed by intend ^tement is confirmed by the following prejudices when he approaches this tick- ish subject. If he is a bitter radical, he talks with radicals only, believes all he hears, and imagines Ku-Kluxes for him self in every stirring bush by moonlight. If he is an extremist of the opposite par ty, he affiliates with ultra men of his own political school, who are greatly tempted to understate or extenuate or even pooh- pooh at the lawless'deeds ascribed to the mystic crew. Our representative at the Sonth, act ing under explicit directions from this office, purges himself from all bias, erases from his memory, so far as any man can, the one-sided statement of Congressional reports, and proceeds to investigate, in dependently and impartially, from all available sources on the spot, the exact «*• V^oyting their wheat under Winter . *• * I trhnor ia AAmmnnnitwv rn - wnof from 4-no status, of the Ku-Klux-Klan. His state ments, therefore, possess au interest?and value wanting in all, or nearly all, the expositions of this theme which have I c r °P s l°ok very light. The rain came Quit- hitli erto appeared. The conclusions that he n.aches may he briefly set down thus : Florida has no Ku-Klux organization, but is cursed with her share of outlaws, like every State in the Union. No Ku-Klux band proper exists in Georgia. Alabama is equally free from the pelt, but in por- of the Z^ f.°P 7^ be bel °" the aver- ADDRESS OF MR. SAMFORD. M. . lt l v LAGRANGE. f “ The Annual Exercises at the * Southern Female College. i LaGrange, June 28, 1873^ At 11 o’clock Tuesday, your repor ter arrived in this pleasant little city. f or me to attempt one word in that Learning that the exhibition of the Junior class of the Southern Female College was in progress, I wended my way at once to the large and comfort able Town Hall, in good time to hear the reading of the original composi tions by the class. The Hall was fill ed by the beauty and chivalry of La- Grange, and numbers were present from other places. The reading of the young ladies was splendid, attest ing the fact that particular attention had been given to the modulation and tone of voice. ’ Below I give you the names of the Junior class, their residences and sub jects : 1. Miss Addie Baker, Buena Vista Fact and Fiction. 2. Miss Ophelia Stone, Alabama— Nature’s Voices. 1 * 3. Miss Aliee Cox, LaGrange—The Mystic Seven. 4. Miss Nina Homady, LaGrange —Quid Nunes. 5. Miss Lizzie McQueen, Lowndes county, Alabama—The Eastern Win dow. 6. Miss Lenna Matthews, Marion county—The Western Window. 7. Miss Jennie Hubert, LaGrang Imperfection of Human Knowledge. 8. Miss Lillie Moor, Griffin—Pa triotism. 9. Miss Fannie Rountree, Quitman —You Know How It is Yourself. 10. Miss Gussie Murphree, Troy, Ala.—Beautv. 11. Miss Carrie McMullen, man—Both Sides. Many of these productions exhibit ed a depth of thought and close re search seldom displayed by those, so young. While all did so well and reflec ted so much credit upon their teach ers, it would seem invidious to make distinctions, but we must be excused for mentioning particularly, Miss Nina Homady, subject “ Quid Nunes.” It was a well written thing, and splendidly spoken/ Her thrust at the “ newspaper reporter ” would have had a telling effect upon a cer tain individual, had he not taken the precaution to get a back seat, and keep his business to himself. Also, Miss Jennie Robert of LaGrange, deserves special mention. We only mention these because we could hear distinctly every word uttered. While no doubt all the young ladies had good compositions, yet their sweet little voices were stifled by the timid ity so natural to tender years. The sweetest of music was interspersed all through the exercises. The Western Wheat Crop. The Western Associated Press furnishes its members the appended summary of news relative to the wheat prospects of the West. It will be found of interest to merchants and bread eaters generally: Chicago, June 25.—Dispatches re ceived at Western Associated Press office in this city from Eastern and Central In diana, and all parts of Illinoies, indicate that the recent terrific thunder storm and hurricane had no perceptible ill effects effects uponthe growing crops. In most of the localities from which dispatches have been received, the storm was much less severe than in this vicinity. Many of the dispatches state that the crop prospects were never better, though in [feting from the rust. Reports, from Western Wisconsin and from the great wheat-belt in Minnesota do not give so favorable a view. The St. Paul Press says that from a | recent trip over the section bordering on the Mississippi river, in that State, so far as observation extended, evidence was found that the reported ill condition of Ac of the wheat crop was fully justified, counts received from other sections Minnesota justify the belief that the yield will fall far below the average. This dispatches, for the Western Associated Press, received from prominent points in Minnesota Rochester, Minn., June 24.—The prospects are that we will have a light crop. The recent rains will help us very much, but a good deal of the wheat is past redemption. u3 J Stillwater, Minn., June 24.—Wheat will not exceed two-thirds of an ordinary crop. Throughout this country the re cent storms had no perceptible effect. Wasica, Minn., June 24.—The wheat crop is - all right,, looking pretty well, although there has been very much rain, Wabash, Minn, June 24.—Our wheat is all very poor, and in many cases it will be too short for cutting. Some farmers wheat is commencing to rust from the effects of warm weather. Dover, Minn., June 24.—The wheat too late to be of any benefit. Lake City, Minn., June 24.—The wheat crop promises to be very light; the rain came too late. Other crops are look- ing wajLjjMWMBBi Winona, Minn., June 24.—The yield tions of North and South Carolina there are gangs of prowlers, who sometimes rob and murder. The leaders of these are dissolute whites, some of them scions of good families, and their followers, es pecially in North Carolina, arei fellows who were the scum of society before the war, and are now only gratifying their old thirst for rapine and blood. Their age. The light rains are considered ben eficial, though rust is feared, Miniska, Minn., June 24.—The late rains have been beneficial to the crops. The yield will probably be much below the yield average in this vicinity, Austin, Minn, June 24.—The wheat crop looks favorable. The rain did no damage. ■ Hudson, Wis., June 24.—Wheat never numbers are small, and their maraudings . wis., Junewneat nevei confined to limited districts. Owning | * tthis of the J ear ' horses, and having the complete disci pline and bond of secrecy which always obtain among banditti the world over, and living in a sparsely settled country, they fly from this point to that with tne speed of the wind, defying detection, arrest and conviction, and can keep a hundred imiles square in a constant fer-, . , . , - , , ment. Like stage soldiers, who run be-1 tSZ&gjfSlp wa8hed lfc off > the -The Ripon, Wis., June 25.—The general opinion is that there must be a light crop, and the recent storm makes it worse. WhiteWater, Wis., June 24.—There has been some complaint of rust on wheat, but to-day farmers say the heavy After tlie reading by the young la dies, Mr. TV. J. Samford, a rising young lawyer of Opelika, was intro duced to the audience. TVe knew the gentleman, having learned our A. B 0’s in the same school, and in later years been on the most familiar terms, TVe squared ourself for a treat, for we knew it was in him, and he has way of letting it out that never fails to please. His subject was “ TVoman —Her Duty.” He handled his sub ject in a manner so different and so foreign to the usual style of such adr dresses, that from the first, his hear ers were pleased. The entire address consumed about thirty-five 'minutes, and the many peals of genuine elo quence were so natural and unpre tending that no one doubted that they came from the pure fountain of his souL We were delighted and felt proud of our friend, and congrat ulate Opelika upon having in her midst such a promising young man as Mr. Samford. At night, the j; c tti > GRAND CONCERT of vocal and instrumental music came off at the Hall. All was a blaze of-glory. The class, under the direction of Prof. Schirmacher, as musical director, acquitted them selves beyond the power of praise of this reporter. The hall was not half large enough. When the halo of beauty and loveliness first hurst upon our vision, we were startled by the very piagnificence and loveliness of tile picture. The young ladies were assisted by a number of amateurs, of which this city stands unrivalled in ' SUNK- "*- 1 * - fl -*«*n*w; Everybody was pleased — every thing passed off splendidly, the weather was propitious, and the sweetest of moons cast her silvery sheen over the happy throng who had gathered at this feast. - To-day is commencement, and a pumber of young ladies will receive hind the scenes from one wing to another, and then march past the footlights in endless procession, these K. K. K. ’s im press the casual observer as a vast army; whereas, all told, they are but a handful, and if corraled could be captured by a company or two of regular troops. But there’s the rub. Their game is is not to be caught—and twenty regi ments of soldiers, mounted, might not be successful in bagging them. That they will disappear almost as suddenly as they sprang into notoriety we have* no doubt—but their extinction will come from the clearing up and improvement of As wheat looks well Gross Plains, Wis., June 24. wheat crop is considerably damaged by rust. The recent storm had a good ef feet, and we expect a middling fair crop, Hartland, Wis., June 24.—The wheat is very rank. No damage was done by the rain. SchleIsingvtlle, Wis., June 24.—The wheat crop in this section looks very good. iMMtojdtaiMUlMi Hartford, Wis, June 24.—The pros pects of wheat in this part is very good, and if the weather, remains as now, we will have a very heavy crop. Richfield, Wis., June 24.—The wheat The Alabama and Chattanooga > Railroad. The Chattanooga Times of the 27th instant has the following:- The news of the decision of Judge Woods in Montgomery yesterday, that the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad had not been and could not be forced in to bankruptcy, and ordering possession to be given to Mr. Stanton for the com pany, spread like wildfire through the city, causing the greatest rejoicing.— Some of the employees of the road got an old anvil to the top of the stone fort and gave vent to their joy by burning all the powder they could get hold of. Mr. Stanton himself showed his joy by hang ing out the American flag at his private residence. • > . Of course the first men to say “I told you so” yesterday were those who had before insisted that the road could never get out of the scrape. This decision removes, in a great meas ure, the depression which had weighed upon all our spirits. It restores confi dence in the road, in Mr. Stanton andih ourselves. It insures the speedy ruuning of trains and the revival of business rela tions with the rich country so lately opened to our merchants. The . attach ments upon the rolling stock will be no impediment, for the trustees, under the mortgage, can replevy at' once and of course will do so. It will be easy for the Company to raise money now to pay off the employ ees and a portion of the floating debt; and we may look soon for the return, if not of the flush time of the old days, at least of a reasonable amount of prosperi ty and comparative ease of money. J. C. Stanton has again demonstrated that he is hard to beat. He is a man of indomitable will and great ambition, and these qualities added to an untiring en ergy, have enabled him to succeed in the face of difficulties which would have cowed most men. The people of Chattanooga do well to rejoice at this happy_consummation. serenade. Mr. Stanton was serenaded by the Sil ver Cornet Band at the Burns House last night. He responded briefly, thanking them and the people of Chattanooga IW their sympathy and confidence, and as suring them that he would run tlie_ road for some time to come, and iu the inter est of the people along its line, and that Chattanooga should be the terminus, ei ther under his management as Superin tendent, or that of his successor in years to come. He paid a very high compli ment to the baud. At the close of his remarks he was heartily cheered. • : ; A Superb Swindle. the South, politically and socially. , .... .. , fever and ague vanishes before proper cro P ^ this secrion was looking very drainage and culture, so the Ku-Klux I goodbefore the storm, but I think this distemper will quit the Southern body I sb)rm bas “IH!™ very much. politic as the Southern people are re-ad mitted to their rights and resume all the functions of self-government. The Ku- Klox are not a political cabal; although they profess to sympathize with the con servatives. This . illusion they keep up by Northern or Southern Radicals. But the Conservatives, without exception, so far as our correspondent can ascertain, repudiate these Bedouins, and wish for nothing better than their extermination. When the Conservatives regain power at the South, they will make short work with the false pretenders who occasional ly steal and murder in their respectable name. The list of cases presented in the letter makes a startling exhibit of crime; but so would a half dozen atrocities cull ed from the police records of a day throughout a Northern State. This should be remembered in reading them; nor should the reader fail to note, while execrating such midnight horrors, that some of the feeling against negroes and carpet-baggers thus terribly exemplified at the South arises from the misgovemment and oppression inflicted upon that section by the latter and their accomplices.— Where rulers are demoralized some of the ruled will inevitably be so too. The nui sance of carpet-bagism breeds the other nuisance of Ku-Klux Klan. The death of one will be fatal to the other also. Wampum, Wis., June 24.—The recent storm has done no damage to the crops in this section. Everything promises fair for a good yield. Magomanis, Wis., June 24.—Fair prospect for wheat crop. The storm has done a. vast amount of good; Corn looks finely, the best for years. Other crops are good. . [dpi Burnet, Wis., June 24.—The prospect for wheat in this vicinity is good for an average crop, but the recent storm has lodged the grain to some extent. - V,4 The Cl Til Service Commission. A Washington dispatch of the 26th, to the Western Press Association gives the following: “All the members of the civil service commission, except Mr. Walker, have been heard from, and have accepted their appointments. It is expected that they will assemble here at an early day to agree upon a plau of operations and the belief among those interested in reform is that, by the time Congress assembles, the commission will be able to recom mend a definite system for adoption. The apparent change in sentiment regarding the matter here is shown by a leading editorial from a city paper, which, at the I The Washington correspondent of -the New York lUrald, writing on the 24th, says: : ' The Territorial Government here is not so much of a success as it was confi dently predicted at * the outset. It has been found that the rings, which existed under the old h form of government have full as much swing now as' heretofore. Under this state of affairs, various.influ- ential citizens of the District are now agitating the question as to whether it would not be better to petition the next session of Congress to repeal the Territo rial bill altogether. It would seem that the only ■ new feature which has been realized under the new order of things was a fatal tendency to recommend im provement. The Board of Public Works, in a recent report on the subject, recom mended the adoption of plans for beauti fying the city which would have cost in the aggregate about §12,000,000. Acting upon such suggestions the local Legisla ture has had introduced several bills which would have taken the entire valua tion of the District to have carried them into effect. They were voted down seri atim, but only by a small majority. At last a bill was got before this body with a favorable report from a committee, which involved an expenditure of about five millions. In the discussion which fol lowed it was discovered that not only was this report a forgery, but that it contem plated the disbursing of this large sum of money without any degree of respon sibility whatever. No one was to account for the way in which it had been expend ed, nor to make any record of its dispo sal whatever. Under this state of affairs property holders are naturally becoming alarmed, and are fast coming to the con clusion that it is better to be governed by a Congressional committee than by an ignorant, unlettered and corrupt set of legislators. Bigamist Bowen’s Pardon. A Washington dispatch says: Bowen’s pardon seems to hinge on the political strength of the Republican fac tions in the Congressional District of South Carolina of which Charleston is the center. So far the President refuses to commit himself to either faction. There is no doubt but that the majority of legal votes cast in that District at the late elec tion for member of Congress were cast for Bowen, and that DeLarge was seated simply by the count of fraudulent votes. Since the commencement of the persecu tion against Bowen, some half dozen judges of election in that distriot have been tried, been found guilty, and sen tenced to the Penitentiary. This virtu ally gives Bowen his seat, but his enemies are making strenuous efforts to prevent tho President from pardoning Bowen, while on the other hand Bowen’s friends are exerting themselves for his pardon, assuring the President that they repre sent the strongest faction of the Repub licans, and that Bowen is their choice for Congress. \ tdi merit i And pardon is to be considered solely upon its political merits, leaving out of view the principles of morality and justice, which were formerly sup posed to exert an influence upon those who have authority to remit and commute sentences pronounced by the law. The whole thing amounts to this; If Bowen has most friends in his district he will be pardoned; hut if DeLarge’s friends are most numer ous, Bowen will he allowed to quietly work out his sentence in the peniten tiary. A Prophecy Fulfilled. The editor of the Charleston Cou rier, who was personally acquainted with Mr. Vallandigham, contributes the following: We were delegates to gether to the Democratic National Convention of 1860, whose disruption, in the contest between Douglas and Breckinridge, as to the character and rights of slavery in the territories, was the precursor to. the late civil war. On one occasion, in this city, Repre sentative Logan, of Illinois, Larabee, of Wisconsin, and others being pres ent, the conversation naturally turn ed upon the threatening attitude of the questions then before the Conven tion. Mr. Vallandigham rose at the dinner table with an heir of great gravity,, and said, “Gentlemen, if the Democratic party is dissevered in this Charleston Convention, the result will he the disruption of the Union, and one of the bloodiest civil wars on rec ord, and the magnitude of which no one can estimate. In the unity of the Democratic parly, and in theIJn ion lies the hope of the Soi\jh and of Republican government.” We think it was Mr. Logan who replied, “Sit down, Vallandigham, and drink your wine. You are always prophesying.” His reply was, “Gentlemen, I speak earnestly, because I feel deeply im pressed with the truth of what I have uttered.” This was in'the Spring of 1860. The secession of South Caro lina took place in December of the same year. Indiana Ku-Klux. u The Washington correspondent of time of the retirement of Gen. Cox, ridi- the Cincinnati Enquirer says: “It is «*!». ^ notions of civil service reform. i ^ It is now understood that it published , ated m Republican quarters here nothi t what ifc bnows F snit that a concerted efforts is bemgmade the pt £poses 0 f the administration. It to heal the differences in the Repub- gays : “It is to be hoped that the civil lican party in New York, and to re- service commissioners-will -soon get to concile Senator Fenton, Greeley and work, so as to be ready with their plans the President. If it can not be avoided, the first step in the pro gramme ,is.to be removal of Collector Morphy from office. The negotia tions are understood to he in progress at Long Branch, and one prominent member of the ring has arrived here to consult with some Cabinet of ficers.” /■ -j Ko wonder that Miss Nilsson likes America, and proposes to re: Since the days of Danae there has not been such a golden shower as has fallen into her lap. One hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars fori where he will not herself; and besides that Strakosch has his hat and pockets full to the overflow. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, probably, since last fall, have been realized for singer and j manager. - and suggestions by next December, when their recommendations will be sent to Congress. Before the heat and ex citement of the next Presidential contest is upon ns we should like to have the civil service question entirely disposed of and eliminated from our party politics. It would not only be an advantage to the clerks themselves, bat be a great and en during benefit to the country. Without permanency, dependent on good conduct and fidelity, we cannot have efficient ser vice in any of the clerical departments of the government A public officer must be made to feel that he is secure as long as he is honest and upright and industri ous, and he must be placed in a position where he will not feel a weary, restless anxiety about his own future and the fu ture of those dependent upon him.” — . Jealousy and Murder. A Louisville dispatch of the 2Gth, says : ; ■ Last night a young man was shot near this city under circumstances which ren der it almost certain that he was murder ed by a jealous rival. Daring the even mg'Jacob Rein and Valentine Rabbit, rival, suitors for the favor of Miss Lizzie Wertz, who was engaged to marry Rein met at the house of, the young lady’s pother, five miles of the city, and re mained until 10 o’clock, when Rabbit left A quarter of an hour after Rein also left. He had gone about two hun dred yards when Miss Wertz heard a pis tol shot, and fearing some harm to her betrothed, Tan out of the house and up the road, meeting Rein staggering back He fell in the road, when she picked him np and carried him in the house, where he died at 1 o’clock this afternoon. The ball had entered the left side of the ab domen. Before death Rein made statement of the affair, declaring that Rabbit ran out from a fence comer and shot him with a pistol. Rabbit was ar rested, but denies having done the bloody deed. MB ’ *ff* Oj) :— ' ■ 1 A woman in Pittsburg had her husband arrested for ill-treatment. He then had - her arrested for bigamy. She turned the tables on him with the same result. The sequal was that the woman had a husband and he a wife previous to the alliance between them, but that each had deceived the Bail-dl k A dispatch, dated Louisville, the 26th, instant, says: Special dispatches to the New Albany, Ind., Ledger, this evening, give accounts of a diabolical otrtrage near Orleans, Lawrence county, Ind., yesterday. A party of assassins attacked the house of the Moody family, consisting of four old brothers,'Mrs. Tolliver^ their sister! and a hired man named Lee. They' threw three jugs of benzine into the Jrooms oc cupied by, the family, and threw in sev eral torpedoes, loaded with buckshot, nails, screws and similar missiles. The torpedoes exploding set fire the ben zine and aroused the family, when the assailants commenced firing with revolv ers into the doors and; windows. > Mr. Thomas Moody, was shpt in the hip, the ball ranging upward through tfte_body, coming out in the upper portion of the breast. Lee received a severe-wound iu the thigh and another in the back. Mrs. Tolliver was terribly burned with the benzine and torpedoes. The assassins es- laMiiMdniiii >ii»Z The community is greatly excited. Ten thousand dollars has been raised to prosecute the guilty parties when qaught. Detectives are busy ferreting them out. The people are almost wild to g£t hold of the assassins, and'threats of lynching are heard on every hand, but it. is believed prudent counsels will prevail. At 3 P. M. Mr. Moody’s recovery was hopeful— Lee’s doubtful. It is understood that Moody’s statement of the. afiair was re duced to writing, and 1 he said E&^rbcog- nized several of the attacking party. —-—— ■-* | TUe Stock of Rice. The Savanuah Advlrliscr of Sun day says: “From an. account as accurately taken as possble, it is esti mated that the stock of rice, last year’s crop, now on hand, amounts to about forty-live thousand bushels of rough and about five hundrSd'casks <^lean. The demand in this market lately, has been ^principally for Gulf ports, with some large .shipments North, and as the stock on hand at. Charles ton will not hold tho remainder of the season, that port will also become" a purchaser iii this market/whom the present stock onkahd here will he but sufficient to carry out the remainder of the season. * From accounts iu reference to the present crop, everv thing thus far seems fayorable/with fully as much acreage planted as last season; -but it is .useless..to calcu late on the growing crop, as old and experienced rice growers never form any opinion until after the plan: blossoms and the seeds begin form- piokunfi 08 smil 9UH ti A New Financial Departure. Tlie Coming Cotton Crop. The New York World says of the probable extent of the cotton crop “The most contradictory reports have prevailed, to which the Govern ment at Washington, has contributed its full share. The weather bulletins sent out by the War Department re ported less rain than the private ac counts; but when the whole subject had been pretty , well exhausted, and the “bulls” had forced prices to about the highest limits, the Agricutural Department came out with a highly sensational statement of injury done the cotton crop, which was fortunate ly so plainly overdone that it had lit tle effect except to “ stick ” a few over-confident “bulls.” The truth about the cotton crop is that injury has been suffered in v arious quarters from too much rain, but there is nothing as yet to justify and material reduction of an estimated yield of three and a half million bales.” The Indiana Tragedy. Forsyth, has a Church steeple, and the Advertiser persists in poking it into the eyes of the rest of the world. South Joggins,Xova Scotia, lias its scientific mystery, which the native pundits are scratching their heads over with slight hope of solution. It is nothing less than a fossil human foot, which a gentleman of an observ ing turn of mind recently; dug out of a sandstone rock. — A Washington dispatch of the 23d, relates the following: A letter received by Commissioner Parker to-day, from Superintendent Hoag, encloses a report from Agent Tatam, dated Fort SU1, June 10th, in whichjhe states that the Kiowas are col lecting the forty-one mules recently stol en in order to return them to the Agen cy, and gives the following interesting particulars of the death of Satauka. while being taken to Texas for trial for killing white settlers: On the 8th inst. Satanta, Satauka and Big Tree were in formed that they were to start that morn ing to Texas, to which they demurred preferring to be sent anywhere else, Sataukp, whom I have regarded as the worst Indian in this agency, protested that he would not go to Texas, but would do something and be shot at once. Big Tree told him that if he did they would all be shot, and taking hold of him pushed him toward the wagon in which he was to ride, with two soldiers to guard him. Col. McKenzie and Col. Grierson were near him when he was put into the wagon. The prisoners had all been care fully searched some days before. When about one mile from the post Satauka, having., finished his death song, had, un observed, succeeded in drawing his shackles off his hands, and drawing a butcher knife started suddenly at his guard, cutting one of them slightly in the leg. They escaped from the wagon, leaving their guns, one of which Satau ka took, and while in the act of trans ferring a cartridge from the ctuimber of the barrel he was shot several times. He died in about twenty minutes. One random shot hit a teamster, named An tonio Barrel, in the side of the head, but he is not considered seriously wounded. Satauka was hurried near the post. In the New York Herald's Wash ington letter; of the 24th, we find the followil%*fK*> Secretary Boutwell contemplates call ing in some twenty millions of the five- twenties of the issue of 1S62, and re placing them, where the holders desire it, by equivalents in the new five per cents. The object of the finanoial de parture is to create, as far as possible, a market for the new loan, as the majority of the holders of the bends which are to be cancelled are Europeans, and it is ex pected that the foreign market will be relieved to that extent. It would appear from the statement of the Treasury agent3 already absent in Europe, that the markets there are glutted with the securities of all kinds seeking purcha sers. The Eranco-Prussian war has thor oughly deranged the financial system of Europe and capitalists are extremely cau tious about making investments. The heavy balances on hand iu the Treasury warrant this step on the part of the Sec retary, and if it succeeds it is proposed to follow it up in the exact ratio that the revenue receipts will justify. L ..jii T vUrop, Prospects. The wheat and corn prospects, ac cording to the Department of Agri culture, are not - flattering for the country generally. The acreage ap pears to have been somewhat increas ed, hut the crop will not~ increase in like proportion, 'owing tb a r variety of causes, the chief of ; whieh is the dry spring in mosttparts of the country. The largest: increase in-acreage of wheat is reported from Kansas; where, it is thirty per cent, greater than last year. The report on the whole is not specially discouraging, except as fail ing to show such an increase in the product over other years us might lie expected. ^ ^ —I—■ Akerman to Resign. The Herald of the 2oth, has the follow- ing iq its Washington letter:. .“One of the many- Cabinet rumors here contem plates a change in the Attorney General’s department. It is stated that the pres ent incumbent will be succeeded by eith er Solicitor General Bristow or by Gen. Harlan, which latter is Republican can didate for Governor iu Kentucky, it is well known that Mr. Akerman has been on the evetof retiring for several months, and that it .was an understood fact t hat he was to go out some time last spring, but he has found it convenient to retain hia portfolio up to the present time, and will probably retain it until Jibe Ken tucky election is heard from. ►-•■4 — UK ^ Dog Kilted. Ti A rabid dog was killed in an alley, on Market street, just.below Chmvn. yesterday morning, by John, the por ter in the house of Massengale & Co. There is a little history in connection with this dog slaughter that will do here to relate. The pistol used in the annihilation of the danererous canine was the property of H. T. Massengale, which was loaded on the night Gen. Jo.’ Johnston issued his famous order at Cartersville, Ga.,' in June, 1864, and never had been fired until brought into requisition yesterday. Although loaded for seven venrs, it went on at first pull.—Nashville Union and