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s .sib* • FOR j *J!t**l ^^TsUBSCRIPTIOHS. gA „,R TUB WEEKLY. f,K ...tJ 00 ■■■■■ inr-«ff**nsi. CONTRACT RATES OF AJVcHTISIHO. lHwBilII 33mM& JHii oc , 1S THE TBI-WEEKLY. __$4 00 ,,,„. ;;; *» »dv»nc«, the price of : ;t „t win bo ** 501 yoir ’ * nd ormoro,on.eopj -U1 befur- VOLUME XXXII. ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MO • p ; i ■■Ik. .'.n.o ovj.iI )Jo«vi.i s *^le 7 0 A FEff •hot. JNIRY 0. 0. sh 3tc. i . ]ii Haute (.Ind.) Express saj's I f-“„f the bi<; corn crops on Sf’"j - t’.is year are almost mar- { c iieve that Mr. Whitfield ;p have the largest crop ever , ne farmer in this county. h* 3 ;' v '. r hundred acres of Wabash **'" near Durgas Ferry, that his X’X think will produce eighty < t0 the acre. Mr. Smith is him- ® that his crop will not fall short ' ntv bushels to the acre. The ^ j ;* * v is that he will nave fully ^ husheis on the seven hundred Thc hrrTbiTTory from New York the descruction of human life by the .mini! of an extensive piano manu- lory and other buildings is one that ... be repeated as long as there are 'X Structures with insufficient means ^ 'p n e fifth floor of a buildin: is being swiftly consumed by fire X dangerous a place as ingenuity : "ifi invent. Its occupants are crazed instant, and unless an outlet is meedily provided their destruction is huin. Only good legislation and ^ policing can prevent such hor- jg this. The only wonder is that ■e'do not have them by scores every ramuel McDonald, remarkable for idigacy, died a few days ago near ietre Haute. At the age of 21 he came cto possession of an estate worth 8500,- Xl, and at his death, aged 29, he had jy little of it left. His father, once 5 owner of Flora Temple, was a Bal aam millionaire, whose residence, w the property of editor Abell, of the Jiimore Sun, was famous for mag- l.e.nce. A feature of the place was •nitain that, on great social occa- cs, spurted champagne. The fath- extravagance was reputable, and he hered around him the best people Baltimore. The sous extravagance ■ disreputable, and his associates •ereof tiie worst kind. He established residence at Terre Haute, and made a disgrace to the city. His relatives ale strenuuus hut useless efforts to m him. Tv,- thousand Boston people—yes, a: i: ..tonians—went last Sunday . Me spree to Portland, Maine, arrived at Portland Sunday night goo ’. ship Plymouth Ilock, and eed?'l to "raise Cain” generally in .r city of the blue noses. Twenty-five itx were too drank to keep out of us is of the police, and consequent ly sent to the lock-up. Three of fell oil of the wharf, but were res- i A crowd of them robbed a sa- a-k-a-f-o, r of seventy dollars. About f hundred of the two thousand be lt disgusted and quit the carousal— other seventeen hunred kept up the kston is surely an interesting field : the moral missionary who maybe ous of hard work and plenty of it. rerything is quiet at the South, and might spare a few score of “South- Ku-klux” to preach civilization to '■enighted Bostonians. Send us the if.v to pay expenses, and we can twanl the men. T7 S moi knim; at funerals. There i- not much in Brigham •’nog's example that can be com- led, says the New York Herald, nt the written instructions he left for ’ Ge conduct of his funeral are in sever- *- respects very sensible, though in ^03 somewhat amusing. He evi- attached a high importance to -i body, and as he had always taken CJ re of -t during life, so he wished to be comfortable after death. Most ~st have an antipathy to thinking ‘wot their tombs, bnt Brigham was t: ’ ? particular about his burial, and specially fastidious as to his coffin. X was, no doubt, largely due to his --cf that his body would rise at the -•)'■ when he naturally desired At it should present a clean and re ntable appearance. He therefore -yoreda cotton bed and soft pillow ’■-.ed m Ids coffin, which was also to made wide enough to allow him to ‘ e ’ t htT to the right or left as he d? , --sire. No one can object to this Csctioaate solicitude for the body, un- Enable as it may appear; but the -•“■lions lor the funeral ceremony de- y *8 general approval. We particu- c ‘f admire the common sense of his H 3 that the male members of his fam- •y J0 'J-T no t weat cra p ej aud that . ' * e: °ales should buy no black bon- 1 Besses, nor black veils, but if c'° t ' lcm ^ lejr aro a * i i’-berty to them." This is excellent advice ish en ^ os as we ^ as Mormons, for the a .f wearing black to express T" ' or the death of relatives ha’’ be- great social abuse. The expense “•‘gham A cung’s family would, of Uave been very great, as he left wi\ es and forty-four children; tVen ’ n an ordinary Gentile family mourn h°g apparel is often a J burden. Persons who are un- *° purchase good every-day doth* _ij re< iuired by this foolish custom f or X' *h°mselves in sable garments, Thus • tlley fre( l uen tly cannot pay. •w'’ la or< Ter to show their sorrow, E l 0o ran >nto debt and add to the 1,1k p° funeral pecuniary trou- the are made fantistic by the h mat '' on 'he undertaker and ‘Wedt 3 ‘? aker - Brigham Young fly t . 1S( Tom in forbidding his fam- i: m * n u ' ge in the senseless mockery ia ^ Un k’ dresses, and his example R ' 11 to imitate. ‘ C S are i TIIE CHIEF COTTON PORTS. A comparison of the cotton receipts of the year just closed with those of 1875-6 shows some facts worthy of consideration. While the comparative falling off’ in the whole crop is probably less than 100,000 bales, the four principal Southern ports show a decrease in receipts of 229,478 bales. We take these statement from the papers of the cities named, of Saturday last: 1SZ6. 1ST7. Savannah 539,967 486,450 Dec, 43,451 Charleston 3S5,671 447,881 Inc. 62,310 Mobile- 374,672 360,918 Doc. 13,754 Now Orleans.. 1,182,457 1,401,562 “ 224,2S2 These figures show a loss by Savannah on the Atlantic seaboard, which is more than compensated by the gain of Char leston. Wilmington and Norfolk also show gains in receipts. But the falling off in the receipts of New Orleans Is quite large, and is not compensated by increas ed receipts at Mobile, which also shows a small decrease—about balanced by the increase of Galveston. The inference is unavoidable that New Orleans has lost heavily by the diversion of a large por tion of her cotton roceipts to Northern poits direct. This has been effected mainly by the extension of roads from St. Louis and Memphis (where they connect with Northern lines) to Bed River and into Texas. There is every reason to fear that this (liverson will grow instead of di minishing, especially if Tom Scott’s io- ealled Southern Pacific Railroad is pushed through with the connections provided for in the bill. It is a scheme for di verting trade from New Orleans, as well as from the Southren Atlantic ports, by establishing immediate through connections with Northern ports, while the Gulf and Southern Atlantic ports will be left to make connections as best they may by the means of Southern peo ple. Tom Scott’s Southern Pacific Rail road will prove an iron “Trojan horse” for the South, aud the diversion of cotton receipts from New Orleans, already oh servable, suggests the mode of its opera tion. The gain which Charleston has ma.1 compared with the loss of Savannah, may be in great part accounted for by the increased crop of North Georgia- that crop going East by the Georgia and Air-Line railroads. It is alco possible that the management of the Central Railroad had something to do with Sa vannah’s loss. Whatever may have been the cause, we hope that it will only be temporary, and that our Georgia seaport will not only hold her own but continue .-.v to hit her irnin in cnftn*. rrrpi-'.t- vhich has been so encouraging for sever al years past, with tits exception of the last. AN OSSAWATTOMIE JEREMIADE. The erection of a cheap monument to John Brown at Ossawattomic, Kan sas, last week, says the St Louis Re publican, was the occasion of a loud lamentation by the orator of the day, Senator Ingalls—a lamentation over'the nation’s gradual departure from the lessons which John Brown taught it Tho Ossawattomic orator thinks the country is going to the dogs because it has grown tired of the Republican party, and he is constrained to halt even in his sky-rocket panegyric of the man of Harper's Ferry to bewail our recreancy to his principles. “For the past seven years the path of the nation has been downward,” said the senato rial orator; “if either of the constitu tional amendments were submitted to the States to-day I do not belieye that one of them could receive the number of votes necessary for ratification. It has become unpopular to speak of dis loyalty and treason. Public opinion has grown flabby. A school of political pigmies whom Providence, for some inscrutable purpose has pieced in pow er, are endeavoring to pacify the coun try by debauching its convictions, by asserting that those who sought to over throw and destroy the Government are more entitled to its favors than those who sacrificed all to uphold it, by at tempting to obliterate the distinction between right and wrong, and to repeal the laws of God.” This a deplorable picture of national decadence, hut when the orator comes to the Hayes administration and the Postmaster General his Kansas elo quence warms up, and he pitches into Mr. Key in the following energetic style: “When a repentant rebel is caged as a Cabinet Minister and made the chief attraction of a peripatetic menagerie, called out at every railroad Btation and compelled to speak his little declama tionlike a naughty pupil by his mas ter, telling the multitude that he has been very wicked, but means to do bet ter, and hopes in time to bo a good Yankee, the spectacle is edifying and instructive. The emotions of the cap tive may be imagined, and tho response of the South is significantly solid. AVe must be reconciled. AVe must love each other. We must forget Let us wash the crimson from our flag, be cause it is the hue of blood Bhed by patriots in defense of their country; the blue from its field because it was the color of our soldiers’ uniform, and the gold from its stars becauso they shone on the epaulets of our heroes!” Washington Correspondence: j Washington, T>. C., Sept 3. It is believed hero that the death of “I and all iny men are resolved to dm at our post.”. Such is the dispatch which The city of Paris owes a debt that might put New York or any other American city to shame. On the let of January last it was $380,000,000, con sisting of nino separate loans, five of which amounting to $200,000,000 wore negotiated under the Imperial regime; the remainder, $180,000,000, has been contracted since the German war. The payments for interest and into the sinking fund that the debt calls for are $21,000,000 per annum, and the total taxes collected from the people are 854,000,000 a year. Brigham Young will rapidly hasten the: disintegration of tho Mormon system. Kis hold upon the allegiance of his ig norant dupes appears to have suffered its first shock with the influx of Gen tiles, who have steadily poured into Utah since the Pacific railroad reached that Territory en its way across the continent. Its first contact with outer civilization appears to have communi cated a poison that in time must prove fatal. Tho bogus prophet’s indomita ble will, coupled, with great executive ability and a degree of fanaticism that scrupled at no crime, enabled him to maintain a show of authority during all the succeeding years and to keep within the bonnds of: control, (he scores of intriguers, who now Thlieved-of his presence will diyide up the Church into factions of personal adherents; and the fabric he reared will grdually crumble to its fall, propelled thereto by moral forces rather than physical ones. It is estimated that Young’s estate will amount to from six to eight millions of dollars, and echoes of incipient strife over its distribution already reach us from far off Salt Lake City. f; The commission appointed by Sec retary Sherman to investigate the affairs of the Norfolk Custom House have at tended to that duty and returned home. It is understood that they have fully established all the charges made by Moore after his investigation of that very rotten institution. The duties from entire cargoes were stolen, accord ing to the talk oh tfie street here this morning’and the vessels were entered as though arriving in ballast. These robberies are said to have been traced through a series of years under Collec tor Lee, and there appears to have been a systematic falsification of tho books. AATiat is to bo done to save the credit of the special agents stationed there to protect the Government from just such robberies, and who reported everythin: correct month after month, .has not yet been made public. Their- dismissal from the service would seem the mini mum of punishment demanded by the interests of tho Government, and by their defective vision, to characterize it very mildly. - -'U; i : ; Rumors long afloat of the intended resignation of Assistant Secretary of tho Treasury McCormick have assumed oTinpo, anil HifiThHlBiilPTA^: appears now accepted without question. Cause assigned, the very onerous and exacting charater of the labor required ) if the duties of the position are con scientiously performed; and his most bitter personal or political enemy would hardly venture to suggest they had not been during his incumbency. Tho sharp contrast in this respect be tween him and some of his predeces sors makes his contemplated resigna tion all the more regretted. He is one of our few public men who have been sought by the'positions they have filled. He is a politician in tho best accepta tion of the term. Mr. McPherson is regarded as having the inside track as his successor; and if one must be se lected a designation more generally ac ceptable to those having business with the office could hardly be suggested. The lobby intriguers who have been operating for a recall of the proclama tion convening Congress in extra ses sion on the 15th proximo, have retired, apparently disconragedj’and every plan of the army of interested ones is evi dently laid with the view that thero is to be no postponement. Some items of interest are made pub lic by the Treasurer in his assessment of national hanks for the cost of assort ing and redeeming their notes, just now- engaging his attention. Total amount assorted during tho last fiscal year, $214,361,300; unfit for circulation, and hence destroyed, 862,518,600; fit for circulation and returned to the banks for that purpose, $151,842,700; increase of amount redeemed over year preced ing, 838,239,445; number of notes as sorted, 22,745,548; expenses for express- age, $189,362.05, and for all other charges, $167,704.05, aggregating $357,- 0G6.10; other than express charges, de crease of expense, $38,346.42, or a re duction of nearly 20 per cent, as com pared with 1875. The assessment for express expenses is made in proportion to the amount of notes assorted for each bank; and all other expenses incurred in proportion to the number assorted. On this basis the ratio for express charges assessed is SS 34-100 cents for each $1,000, as against 90 36-100 cents for 1875. Assessments for other ex penses, S7.37 for each 1,000 notes as sorted, as against $10.78 for 1875. Not one cent’s loss has been sustained by the agency during the two past years, showing the accuracy of the system. Knox. The Fight in the Sehipka Pass. .-ai— ! lam oeodT N. Y. World.] Gen. Derojihsky, the pomman'der.'of the Russian troops in the Schipka Pass, ‘ia reported to have sent to the 'Gzaf on the morning of August 20 at the beginning of the Turkishrwttaek. — Tho troops at his disposal-, numbered, pot less than 8,000 men. The attacking force was the whole of Suleiman Pasha’s army—about 20,- 000. But upon the valor of these 8,000 the whole fate of the Russian campaign in' Bulgaria depended." - The' Sompks. Pass .once forced, a junctibn,_between Suleiman Pasha and Osman Pasha’s armies could scarcely be prevented, all the Rpaijan troops echeloned between Gabrova. Selvi and Timova would be crushed between the two formidable forces of the enemy, and ! the western wing of the Russian army would bo faced by a Turkish force numbering about JO -! 000 men and elated, by A series of victo-. ries. Thus the 1 Schipka' 1 Pass 1 for (General Derojinsky’s corps a post' of honor, a post of death and its defense be comes one of the most remarkable episodes in modern warfare. For three; days this gallant corps sustained the most terrific assaults of the overwhelming Turkish forces without moving an inch from its positions. Even the night did not bring any. rest, as the full moon af forded sufficient light for the deadly, work to go on. Baring the eclipse there; was a moment’s rest, bnt as soon as 1 the moon’s disk, reappeared from under tho shadow cast over it, the fighting began anew more desperately tlqm,}>efore. ' - General Deroj insky kept hia wordJ For three days and' nights he did not move his post, and on the third day hei he was killed ai the head of his menJ In the meanwhile reinforcements were poured in from the rear, and it is scarce ly now to be expected that the Turks will succed in forcing the pass. If their fu rious attacks were repulsed by the Rus sian forces originally posted in the pass, they can hardly hope to master "it now that fresh troops have arrived on the bat tlefield’ aud Suleiman Pasha finds him self face to face with a nearly equal force occupying most advantageous natural positions. - But whatever the Ultimate result of this great battle may be, the gallant con duct of General. Derojinsky’s small force during the first days of the struggle pre-i sents one of those instances of calm, steadfast heroism which any nation might be proud of. Those plain unpretending words, “We will die at our post,” sealed: by the heroic death of the General hith-' self and thousands? of his men, after a desperate struggle -of forty-eight hours, will keep tho memory of the commander and of the regiments.engaged in the strife sacred for many a future • generation of tho Russian people. $4egendeneel 1 W-’owfdMu QitowrpteOfhwW**} Rowing account of,: dependence made. m tfiat State m ■ .Tire names signed, tq the paper are .well knownas'thoseof the prominent TDefi of their day in the State-, and the genuineness of their signatures in very many inattoces cau; he. easily proved l ■•-j.and.c : — ' r “ : " Pennsylvania Militia on a War - —-grn-y-xw ^ : , ■ _ fpo-tias- paper, ifc may he well to. state, is. mere." copy.’but ab original, ‘wim the; sighatures iri the' proper handwritmg of the signers,'and ini Some instances with the dates of signing, attached. The papqr ought to be preserved with the The 1 paper WaTfound-By Capt? Ap pleton- Oaksmith, of Carteret county, on tha,8th ; ^*y 4wt, jirMle geanfoing mom the boose of Cicero Green, Ksq., at Cleat Spring, iri r Craven county, which honBS was erected : and occupied by. Mr. Green’s great-grandfather, James GreCn, Jr., of ^revolutionary* fame. The docu ment, iKin good preservation, apparent ly in the handwriting of Richard Cas well, being first signed bjr him, arid one hundred 1 and eighty-five prominent patriots of th« State, of Revolutionary times, among whom arerAYillio Jones, Cornelius Harnett, AVilliam .Grehan], HezeKah' Alexander,, Robert. frwin, Zacchous AYilsoh, John 'Brevard, AVaightstill Avery, Joseph Hewes and John. Sevier. The following is ft ver5e- tim copy of this precious, document; if vyuirA ;iT declaBahon.';i* li t- “ AVe the Subscribers do declare that we will bear Faith (sic) and true Alle giance to tho Independent State of North Carolina, and to the powers and authorities which 1 may be estabHshed for the Government thereof; -And we willj.tQthe almost of our powers, main-: tain and defend the same against Great Briton, and all other Powers, Enemies to the United States of America. And this we do most Solemnly and Sincere ly declare without any Equivocation, Mental* Evasion or Secret reservation whatever.” , awtstaneugJFiIu MfcsH»ior .tehfcMh (o T.itiifoq - :Prorfet»ti<haJ>mnrt'> rwad Cor. Cin Esqairer. !: i - A: gemfiemfln nrisWetihg-'to - ihe.' -logical cognomen of,-Stone -turned ' jip here yesterday, in response toan i— tatiori tendered him by Gen. Dever resign his place as United states Al___ ney for South Carolina. He brought his resignation with him. This was' prudent on the part of the geological specimen, for he is a carpet-bagger, and; the same line of financial-conduct that made hia resignation acceptable to.the President made him extremely dteft* greeable to tho now authorities ofSouth Carolina. He tells me that Help-me- God Hampton is making it very hot for the late friends of man (colored) of that State. The Hi M. G. Governor is dead in earnest, and his committees rind grand juries hard at work. itovUsti-, j the conduct of the late friends of tosn (colored) put in office there by the , Jones’.-Chill.; Hef ‘was dry—-hadn’t been so dry since the:strike;, but there was-no saloon close by, and he hod passed the last drugstore.*. He knew Mrs.,,!, had a little old Hennesey 'about, the house that , she put iff puddings arid pies, and he Fntdaw'n on-the'doOrstepSTmd won dered haw he spuldisafeerailfiffom .Being wasted in such fixings, as economy was 'nis miito., 1 . he- -• He looked up aUthedog-stiir.-the alr ioth and the milkmaid’slpath,but they were silent and’, tending stridtiy jjo bus- Aceording to the Chicago Tribune, this year’s wheat-drop in tho great-wheat producing Western States compares with that of 1875 and 1876 as follows: 1S75. 1S7S. 1877. . Sutidt. Bushels. ' tisltU.' Minnesota 27,000,000 16,010,000 38,000,000 Iowa.. MiOOOtf#^ iSfiHfitt 87,000.000 Wiacostain .....35,000,000 15,000JIM 35,000,000 Kansai _...13,0D0,«|6* JO.Oofolop Total ...Of,000,006 M,06»,OM H7,OOft«M Here we have an increase Of twenty^ five per cent.-over the crop of. 1875,'iuid nearly one hundred per cent, rive* that of 1876. ■ *■..! irrim.-* , * .I'. 1 j. W ■ > '.rnh The Marietta-paper mill, which wad recently partially consumed by fed? with a loss of abontten thousand dol- ._ „ „ m, lars, uncovered by insurance, trill be W litter. . The principal call a'for Idw^ built as soon as practicable. priced 1 goods. ■ •- ' 'tenq-.n Penslyvonia’s blood runs cold at the expense of keeping up her military ap pearance, so necessary now for tho pro tection of her people. Paying two thou sand privates each S13 a month—$26,- 0001—is quite enough to chill her, but the cost of officers is positively freezing. Tho annual pay of a Pennsylvania Brig adier General is $5,500; of a Colonel,. $3,500; of a Lieutenant Colenel, $3,000;’ of a Major, 32,500; of a Captain, mounted, 32,000; of a Captain, not mounted, §1,800; of an Adjutant, $1,800; of a Regimental Qartermaster, 81,800; of a First Lieutenant, mounted, $1,500; of a First Lieutenant, not mountedj $1,- 400; Second Lieutenants, same; _ Aid to Brigadier General, $150 a year in addi tion to pay of his rank; Acting Assistant Commissary, $100 a year in addition to pay of his rank; Storekeepers, $2,500. Then there are the Sergeant Majors Quartermaster Sergeants, First Sergeants, Seargeants, Corporals, trumpeters, princi pal musicians, hospital stewards, and what not, at from 815 to $23 a month. Should a Major General be brought out he will draw $7,500 per annum. All commissioned officers are allowed extra rations, and there are allowances for for age, clothing, blankets, etc. Ah, moan on, Monongahela I and you, Youghioghe- ny I Sigh Susquehanna I You shall carry the wail of the tax-payer with the echo of the breech-loader, and the peaceful South will listen with a sympathetic ear when tho Northern wind shall take up and bear on the melancholy medley. Eternal revenue is the price of liberty.— Courier^Joumal. The Czar’s Liberality. The Czar is said to be a child in money matters. A most intimate friend, Count Adlerberg, is often in debt, and the Czar since his ascension to the throne, has ungrudgingly paid mil lions to release him from his embar rassments. One day last winter the Count appeared at court, coughing vio lently ana looking very ill. “AVhat is the matter with you, Al- derberg ?” asked the Cair. “Severe bronchitis, sire,” replied, the Count. “My doctor says that I ought to go to Nice for a couple of months.” “Then, why don’t you go ? I will give you leave.” ■ “I cannot afford the journey, sire.” “Never mind the expense; I. will de fray that.” The Count brightened up. “I will defray the expense,” in the Emperor’s mouth, could not mean lees than- ten or twenty thousand roubles. The next morning his Majesty sent for the Count, and graciously handed him a five hun dred rouble note—less than 8350, at the present rate of exchange, for a two months’ trip from St. Petersburg to Nice and back again. Count Alderberg gdt rid of his bronchitis in Russia. ;I ' The-New York papers, are jubilant oyer the prospects of trade reyival and the inauguration of better times. The Various hotels, especially thofeV in the business portion, of the city, are repre sented as being overflowing with gnosis, business men from theSonthand West, who, emboldened by good crops tund a — outlook, are again venturing ng deserted marts’’bf trade; Regarding a -revival of feurateoferesj the New York Sun, t ark, NeWi J rag;dtoinAraerica,« from the South are send deifffor all ffrinda - manufacturers-are i na thstNew-. artwilLliavelaxnorefixteiisiveSouth- em trade than sfee had bs§jp,th* ™ AVestem ’ ' ordering la) him, aud he opvflPd vGe door and felt his way back to the ice cooler, got up in a chair and fished out a piece of ice, buttoned up bis coat and turned up the collar. Then he staggered up stairs, ice in hand, and met Mrs. Jones. “AVhat’s the matter Jones—been drill ing?” “No,’said Jones; witb a sign and ashiver, “Caucus?” “No, no caucus.” “Another strike?.” “No-r-chill,” said Jones, as he sank into a chair and slip ped the ice into his coat pocket. “Feel that hand.” Oh, my!” and she shudder ed. Then she got a blanket and pnt over him, and said she would make him soma hot tea... Aaitot started for the kitchen .Jones called her bank, and, with a any all . better. There wasn’t a bit; she had i little brandy for cooking, purposes. Jones gave a shake, and said it would answer if she had a little hot water and sugar to make it palatable, They were on hand in two minutes, and while Bhe pulled off his boots and wrapped the blanket around his feet, Jones mixed his toddy and shivered. He.folt better afterwards, though he made up a. terri ble face when he emptied the bottle, and told Mrs. Jones that she bad saved his life. He ritired ten mmhtea after wards singing, - Ihw w*I nl) R u “Thors'* a lud that is fairer thaq day.’ Effects of Goy._.Tildeii’*L ttula icy, ' At the beginning ’of' the ; ‘feral-year 1874-75, and tho close of Gov. Bix’s administration, the gross,,debt of New York State was 830,199,456.40. The gross State debt to-day, as’ stated by the Albany Argus, is $10,881,660. Of this amount, 81,880,000'matures within twelve months, and the neceesaxy funds are in hand to pay. it at maturity, ao that in July next, allowing for sinking fund balances, the net debt will be less than $8,000,000. Economy in expen ditures and ability iri financial manage ment have gono hand in hand in socu- ring this result, which, as the Argus justly remarks, “should cause every citi- cen to be proud of his State. Its debt is so small that a three mill tax would extinguish it. Iri addition to the feel ing of pride, he must have a feeling of confidence in those whom ho has pieced in positions gf. trust. The,,people.pt large- have never, watched .before .so carefully i now watching the results brcraghtabbufTS^- their servants, the office holders. Profligacy aud the reckless expenditure of the public mon ey is and. will be condemned. Economy and prudent management is and will be couftbendffi:” 1 •• ‘ • ’ The Georgia new Constitution hnB one feature that even Northern news papers are forced to admit the virtue of—the divorce provision. There, was a strong' opinion ’iri the convention against allowing divorces at all; except for the Scriptural one of infidelity to the marriage tow ; but this .stem ^feel ing yielded in favor, of. the ; provision ” Jly agreed upon, whiqh permits di vorces when accorded by two succes sive verdicts by different juriee fit dif ferent terms of court; " The action must be brought in the county where the de- nayer Torce iiri:sbtne r. States, an^itds. itXediteblectoj sthat bq The sweetest mott& bMbriswnfldda the one that speaks the legst.scandah III ,7i 1! !ss Mots .suilLLiia •ilqlohA BiffcJ Jl lasuriitattab and active in his pursuit of ——, late opponent, Chamberlain. Storie says that if Help-me-God Hampton jgets hald of said Chamberlain he will have an opportunity tendered him of serving the State in a manner more riSefti than ornamental. Wkaow comprehend the meaning of oetipal quotation of the eloquent ' eriain at the Blaine-Bowen . of July celebration, when be 1 hs&r & foice you cannot boar, >“ J —I [ j; h That bockons mo away. v t . ~ 1 It was the voice of the sheriff, and fho heard him complain,” and the dread hand of the law, \ > A New-Fashioned Rattlesnake. Charlotte, (N. G.) Observer.] ^ 1 An inhabitant of Burnt Chimney, |jy : j on the Eastern WaTr: IHpl madeiof the arinies of Europe j arid the -second of his bapera, published in the September-October number of the North American iReview, > will be read with interest.:; His comments; are brought up to the 14th of August With the canlpaign movements in Asia General McClellan occupies the first part of hia review, and ho expresses the opinion 1 that the BnBsian forces in were at first much, overrated. .none hundred and seventy J as at first estimated, he tbinn not more than seventy-five thousand, to which the Turks oppose almost double the number. To the extension:of the Russian, forces evex,toalcofta„Hnehe‘ ascribes their repulses in Arminis, but believes that had the Russians possessed naval control of the. Black Sea lheir successes would have been swift arid complete. Their defeats at Plevna he attributes to the undervaluation of the strength of the Turks there, but'he does not consider (hat it will have a perma nent effect upon the war. In analyz ing the strategy of the Russian he finds that their aranmyuW. plans with cau- xikes with, decision. Uponl Gen. McClellan’s study of] 1 war as date krAubfirt 14: haa led hiin H> the condusion that “the diaaceirafliitltihiitDrsosetes are skill in favor of the Russians.”—N. pectedofpe6plewUtino r h • ' <;T It re stated that the. Newport’Manu facturing Company, p.t Providence, has called a meeting of creditors. Liabili ties about 825jQP0j-*Tr Boston expects fifty thousand visitors on‘thel7th print to see her netv Army and Navy mqunmont. H’a time fa begin toning up the bjgeygan. t . : “I take my ter dis. momiri i ij Awful Carriage in Iowa. •: -v/ vpli VTr.niir.rt--- Burlington H»wkeye,] qgents and fourteen book agents in vaded this county one day last week. I3te Goyemor was immediately urged; fa Send, itroopsjbut hie: aaid: he fation, but genuine horns. It was ind< a most curious sight. The two-headed calf ami the five-legged pig phenomena arc completely overshadowed by the horned snake. The horns project per pendicularly from the snake’s head, and are. abont an inch long. They are of a brownish color, and in shape and general appearance like those of a deer, with the difference that they are less crooked, and larger in proportional the point at which the emerge j>om the head.-«The possessor of these horns looks like a snake of abont eight yekrs’of ago) aud in every other re- p-rleo-t »-p.-nakei» over get to be. Niit-only r-o. butrtie ffnr it is said to be if.th- fciiduiue'guilder), has ft brighter ■itiHorv .re-vhcrrfhl cnuuteiwnee than her ciitiiphiTiUliiand looks as though she would he the first, tq volunteer in tbri event of a call for triiojisi. The owner or the pher homonal sjuake is Mr. R. P.J5ryson, and he has started tho exhibitor to New York for the purpose of disposing of them to Bantam. This manstntes that thesnakes were caught on Black Mountain, in Mc Dowell county (not the one in Buncombe) about a month ago. Himself and sev eral others had heard of a famous rat tlesnake den there and went for the pur pose of shooting them. AVhen they found them several hundred were visi ble, among them the one with horns. Before they commenced shooting they captured a half-dozen or more by means of nooses, taking the homy-headed viper first Vi. -. the Last Time. There is a touch of pathos about do ing even the simplest thing “for the test time.” It is not alone kissing the dead that gives yon this strange pain. You feel it when you have looked your last time uprin some scene you have loved-^-when you stand in some qmet city street where yon know that' you will never stand again; the singer whose voice is cracked hopelessly, and who, after this once, will never stand before the sea of upturned faces, disputing the plaudits with fresher voices - and fairer farms; , the minister who has preached hfo. test sermon—these all know the hjdflen bitterness of the two words “neveragain.” How they come fous on our birthdays as we grow older Never again young—always nearer and nearer to the very test—tire end which is universal, “the .last thing” which shall follpyr all last things, and tom them, let ire hope, from pain to joy. We were too old’ to walk any longer on bur stilts—too tall to play marbles on the sidewalk. Yet there was a pang when we thought we had played with oar merry thoughts for the test time, and life’s serious, grown-up work was wait ing for us. May it not be that these, too, shall seem in the light of some far off day as tho boyish games seem to our manhood, and we shall learn that death is but the opening of the gate into the new land of promise ?—Thc Acanthus men aud a'chromo man, Who onld talk the invaders to death. Then Burlington just got up and went over the river and -hid in the woods until the sounds of carnrge died away. ' .. , r *. And as tiie pale moon rose up slow ly and dimly, she looked down and saw the cold corpses of seven sewing machine agentoand-two lightning, roa men, while the on!/' living creature that roamed the .awful “ field was a wi d fierce de : uiat roamea mo nwiui. deaf chroma riten, in the delirium of the lockjaw! ■' There is a great deal of religious faith in the world that will not stand the test irience. One day a ship was Ain a severe gale. A woman, T „jfofied'.beyoned reason because she was‘very likely to go to’ heaven in h tew hburs, wait to the captain and said, “Captain, do: you think we shall weath- er the storm?” lie replied with great jravity, “Madam, we must trust in God. ■she threw her hands up iri consterna tion and exclaimed, “Ob, dear! Are WO to badly off as that? ” She' was a _ fair representative of some Christians, They talk about heavep as though it wqre the most desirable place in the universe, but they are not at all amf- ious to explore its glories. They tqlk about trust in God; but, a3 in tho above, when that is all they have to trust to, they don’t seem to regard it as of any great account: • ‘ n.'aa A circuit rider one day met a man hying iri the road. The exhibition of piety was not only gratifyirig, but aroused curiosity and begot inquiry: ffAVhat are-you doing?” asked the pmaier.iJs k! i . tps L (‘Praying for my enemy,” said the oiii j-fneqato ' bstnlicjj j-j-.u.U. •si; ._ -I: in/ioiU li ‘,‘HPtt’fclbeJSible say if ;yi r ypu can heap coals of firft .... „. Mili"70 new viito ti*rd-70l«fflral«p.’ , r/:!.-J r.pi ... —r season more 1 lsc:-i fe fup.i 51 li lo ir War/ -:: : The courier fromHelena bearing dis- jatebes ifrom Gibbon reached Fort 5 haw the following day. As the idtret- cottagesvnth ayouVff^al^m'herkrmsj acoosted.bim: “Have yoti any news from the Com mand?” “Yes, madam, I bring dispatches.” “Tell me the news, quick!” “A battle was fought on the 9th. Capt Logan and Lieut. Bradley tree among the killed.” The baby dropped from the nerveless arms and tiie young mother fell back in 6 swoon* 1 . It was Mrs. Bradley, the wife of the brave officer first to foil in the battle of the Big Hole.—Helena (Montana) HerkUL ’ '. A' " ■ • • ir !£—;—.frii.. j—rrsiii A case is in ptodnss in North Caro liria which is of .juterest to insurance companies by. way of information and warning. A-gentleman whn had in sured in the Sorithem Underwriters’ Association demands the returns of his premiums on the ground that they were obtained.’by false representations. The company published a Statement that it had a cash capital of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars arid no liability, whereas it had noauch capital, but only a small fraction of it, and the balance in rioteSufits own stockholders, given ostensibly for their stock, and had, be sides, large liabilities; which it had con cealed. - Jud v ;rsn if : »*' AVondees; of the Telephone.—On Satarday ’e at tire Weeteni Union Tele graph Company's . building, at Bxoad- way and iDraMwMtttiradrtis foti of transmitting vocal musicto Hartford, Ct, and back, over a loop of wire 240 miles long, Was successfully performed with Professor Edison’s electro-moto- graph telephone. . By this same instru ment vocal as well as instrumental music was transmitted to Long Brandt on Thursday evening, “-ft isnowpro- ed to give a concert af Saratoga, wife several distinguished singers to be sta tioned in New York. The Governors must have had an uncomfortable time at fee exhibition building in Philadelphia the other day. T^e Times of that city says that the vdseemedto regard them as exhibit- „ themselves, pressingcKjse upon their heel^ cutting off femr passage, com- what careless habiliments of one or two of t^ dignitaries, and ofeerwise^Bhow^ er before hsid : so' foany Governors been with them at once. . Monroe county has a method ofitsown to settle trouMesonfe and expensive liti gation, as will be seen from, the follow- ipg cow item from the Adpertu*r ; t , . “The celebrated cow case has been set- tied. The Commissioners, to avoid .fee expense of alengfey tml of riieh a small ease bought tire cow, paying each con testant twenty-five dollars. The cow is a valuable one,-and will soon be add to the highest bidder.” . u-mJ. • ‘gp gjfo ^ ■■ 1 The NCW York Times says there are indications of improvement in business of every kind. There is a.healthy growth in trade, and in some_ di mente it is better than ii several years. Tho doth”" tuxes, boat and shoe-mam Eufaula fine of i . rdrigh to Jacksonvil J, for the first time sin toad' war of last winter.. Y;:’ q The political: pqt wiU. soon be boil ing, again. Vermont, California and Main hold elections, on the . 4th,‘ 5th and 10th of next morith, respectively. After the battle of Plevna the body of a famous Circassian chieftain, Prince Rubaninski, was found.,en- rtbe. field, with a sabre of solid gold,- hilt and blade.’. - The Concord Mills, of Smyrna, Cobb county,.have presented fee Atlanta Gq- dets. with enough of .feeir. celebrated cassimere to make four complete uni forms. -•- •” - . An old witch at Honolulu -predicts feat at the end of another twenty-five yeara whales will be so numerous that ships -win have to carry cannon to beat dwn-effi ■; U T ) hi! 1 . ■ J - : .. The' diving ofbathers in upper Kings -riverj CaL, revealed fee fact that the bed .was richly covered wife gold. Preparations were at once made to flume the river and begin mining. • ..pail Hamilton has finally talked herself out Eveiybody loves Gail Hamilton, bnt everybody hopes she will now pat on her sun-bonnet and go ipto fee country for a few years’ relax ation.- : -‘i’ '* AVhen a young woman makes up her mjnd that a ben shall not set, and the hen makes up hermind feat she Willi fee irresistible meets the immovable, and every tew of nature is broken or per verted. _ j 7 • • . • “AVas ithof Brother ?” is fee title of a new novel Afe think not It is our impression, feat fee large gentleman, in a. plaid coat,. who was kicking him down stairs and calling forth? dog, was her frrothferi" ~ ~ ' - - The two young cadets, fee.Princo of "Wales’ eldest sons, have luxurious quar- - hwWnnutff^fa-atriing-Kbrp Britannia. A part'fifths Uhip baH*>beeri fitted up for them and fear suite at a cost of nearly fifteen feemsand dollars. ‘Martha’s Afineyard’s a darned Yan kee fraud,” said a Western tourist after a brief sojourn. “There isn’t a grape grown on fee whole island, and not a soul I met had ever seen Martha, ->r could tell where she lived.” Mrs. John Drew opened her sixteenth regular dramatic season at the Arch Street Theater, Philadelphia, test night to a crowded house, the attraction being May Howard, in Bartley Campbell’s new pl*y, “Hearts." It was- a pro- u**™n^*^ a ^ c ^ st! ^■ ~ j 'p 1 Brougham, speaking of fee salary at tached to’the rumored’ appointment of a new judgeship; said it wa3 all moon shine. Lyndhurst, in his dry and wag gish way remarked, “It riiay be so; , but I have a strong notion that, moonshine thovgh it be, you would like to Bee the first quarter of,it” . An Alabama man refused to - accept certain bank bills tendered himbwanse the mules engraved on them were not properly geared. He laid feat-fee en graver had put the breeching upon the lead mule instead of those at the wheels, which made a-very grave state of af fairs id going-down grade. . A from Saybroolc, Ill., says that Sergeant Bates, fee flag-carrier, at tempted to destroy his life by taking an overdose of laudanum. Bates has been residing at Saybrook tor some time pastt-andr-tt is known that his family haveheen utterly destitute for nearly a year, bei A legal friend of Gen. Batter is au thority fortire statement that fee Gen- eral is preparing to carry on an inves-. tigafion tbrougb a special House com mittee of all matters connected wife the Foster and Matthews letters, and tire subsequent settlement of the Louisiana questiodbf the Commission sent thero by the President . Mr. Sumrier,whs was fastidiously ex act in all matters of official etiquette, once said in fee presence of the writer of this paragraph feat “the proper address of a member of Congress is simply ‘Mr. Smith/ of a Senator, ‘Mr. Senator,’:of a Cabinet Secretary, ‘Mr. Secretary’«wd of President, ‘Mr. President/ and the proper pronoun for them all Is, ‘you;’ ” There * at East Windsor,Oanriditlour- iriring apple tree, sixty years old, that bears good-eized bnt seedless apples. The seed cells are perfect, but a reed it self has never been found. The deform ity « camtd; by fee tree raow- ingupside down, having been started by bending fee tip ef a branch into the ground, and not cutting it from the parent tree until it had taken root Aeteriti ofsand which obecrirad the min’s rays latety foil in Rom% Italy. The, phenomenon has frequently oc curred before. The sand rises Into fee air from African deterts and floats a long time in tire atmosphere. T&biig- r — of ships is Often covered wife it at stance of over a thousand miles from fee African coast- The particles areexoeedipglj.fine.saa.of a.reboht. If -the plateftn bf fea grebritetok par- ty of Ioirx a torrectly understood by the Burlington JEwfoye,; it promises an^era qf high -wages, lDts-"o£.emplpyment,high price?for for fee fanner, cheap lour for fee mecKSncV high prices for ^Mt»» for fee stodkvrtshr. cheap beef for the workingmen, lots 6f money, tew inter- and times, for everybody but fee ostanasxju ^^^^pads^d bankers whoare to beyery poor and have no money to j«y fee iantfe. - -