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Wednesday Morning,—Sapt 12,1877
Russia seems to be getting ready for
a long war; preparing winter quarters
for 200,000 men.
California election returns indicate a
small Democratic majority in the Leg
islature on joint ballot, though the re
sult is still in doubt.
From our Washington correspondent
The Egyptian cotton crop promises
well this season. The area planted
equals that of last year, with none of
iast year's drawbacks.
The miners’ strike in the Lehigh re
gion is about over. A largo number of
collieries are in full operation, and
many more are preparing to go to
work.
Two young men named, respectively,
Joseph E. Johnson and Fitzhugh Lee
are learning the machinists’ trade in
the Pennsylvania railroad machine-
shopE at Altoona, Pa. They are neph
ews of the Confederate officers whose
names they respectively bear.
We notice that there is an increasing
demand among the States for the whole
sale purchase of Toombs’ Railroad
Regulator. We are unable to advise
as to the wisdom of the investment.
We hardly know,' with the lights before
us, whether the medicine will turn out
to bo a cathartic or an astringent when
prescribed for trade. We are rather
inclined to the opinion, however, that
the Legislature, as it will be called upon
to play doctor in this particular case,
had better administer this new com
pound in broken doses to begin with,
at least. We are prepared, at all hazards,
to embrace the new Constitution and
trust to the Legislature to do the wise
and proper thing.
A SUGGESTION TO TOE FARMERS.
’Tis an ill wind that blows nobody
any good. The war storm raging in
the old world is casting its black shad
ow on into the next year. There will
soon he a big demand for breadstufb
by the struggling people. The fields
over there are being plowed with shot
and harrowed with shell, and the har
vest will bo death. They have to look
to this country for their food supplies.
Will our farmers be able to meot the
food drafts that will be so largely drawn
upon them ? Should the war continue
■n into the next year there can be no
.-hadow of a question but that wheat
and corn will usurp the throne of old
King Cotton. In viow of the present
probabilities it behooves our farmers to
prepare to reap tho benefit of the “ill
wind” of war as it blows to our bams a
big demand for food supplies for the
soldiery of the old world. Let our
farmers take at its start this tide in the
afTairs of men that will lead them on
toward fortune, if not to fame.
HAP1IAEI. SEMMES.
Admiral Semmcs, as our readers are
aware, died a few days ago at Point
Clear, near Mobile, Alabama. The Mo
bile Register gives an interesting biog
raphy of tho dead Admiral, from which
we clip a few paragraphs, telling of the
closing hours of his life: “His death
has been a fit close of his well-spent
and glorious lifo. A few days’ disease
having admonished him that death was
inevitable, he calmly prepared to meet
it as he had met other overpowering
foes. His worldly goods being few, de
manded but little of his time; to a no
ble, devoted wife, to children whom he
so dearly loved, he had no inheritance
to bestow but his own proud name, the
souvenir of his virtues, the example of
his patriotism. To-day, in the narrow
confines of an humble grave, where al
ready lie entombed some once dear to
him, on the green hanks of a little, tran
quil brook, to which.Bienville’s brother
gave his own name, in the retired and
calm retreat of the Catholic grave yard,
the remains of one so much loved by
his country, so much feared by her ene
mies; will gently be laid to rest A
simple monment, perhaps nothing more
than a modest wooden cross, emblem of
our salvation, will mark his last place
of repose.
REPUDIATION—SO-CALLED.
If the people of Georgia were lost to
all sense of honor the mouthings of a
few nrrrow-hrained scribblers of the
Northern press upon tho subject of
what they patly call Georgia’s repudi
ation of her bonds would be a source
of fun, but a3 Georgia proposes to pay
every dollar that she justly and hon
estly owes, and rightfully refuses to
pay what she does not owe, these in
tended taunts have somewhat of an
noyance connected with them.
Repudiation originally meant some
thing different from what it does now.
Since Minnesota resolved not to pay-
repudiated—-just debts, it has a mean
ing that is not altogether honorable
and pleasant. IVe venture tho asser
tion that on a proper case made .be
fore any impartial court of equity in
Christendom, on complaint of the hold
ers of Uieso fraudulent bonds, with the
Government of the United States and
tho State of Georgia as respondents, and
with all the facts charged as to the oon-
nivanco, combination and confederation
of the National Administration through
its several departments with the nom
inal rulers of the State of Georgia, and
with the truth fully before .the court,
that a decree would be rendered against
the National Government for a sum
sufficient to indemnify all hmocent
holder^ of the bonds. :
The fact .that .the genuine bonds of
this State, are considerably above par
satisfies JIB that wise and. prudent men
think well of us as a people.
STJUKINC NEWS FROM GEORGIA.
The Cincinnati Enquirer prints a tel
egram from Atlanta, Ga., dated 1st in
stant, and containing the following cu
rious paragraph, which may safely be
put in the already inconveniently
large collection labeled important if
true:
“A genuine sensation is created in
our politics this week by the announce
ment that Gen. Bob Toombs will he a
candidate for the United States Senate
in the election next year, when Senator
Gordon’s seat will be in jeopardy.
Gen. Toombs has assurance that his
disabilities will be removed when Con
gress meets. His wise course in the
Constitutional Convention has made
him many friends, and Georgia is dis
posed to consider him the greatest man
she ever furnished the country. He
will make a fine race. He has never
been beaten. Gen. Gordon, will, how
ever, be hard to oust. Among the oth
er probable candidates are ex-Governor
Joseph E. Brown, ex-Gov. Smith, Con
gressman Julian Hartridge, and ex-
Congressman P. M. B. Young. The
campaign is already opened, aa the
Legislature chosen this fall will be the
one to elect a Senator. Gen. Longs tree t,
formerly of New Orleans, is now a res
ident of Georgia, owning a sheep farm
near Gainesville, and is a candidate for
United States MatBhalship of the State.
Gen. Longstreet takes no active part in
politics, and is quite popular. Hon.
Benjamin H. Hill has been interviewed
concerning the rumor that Hayes has
picked him out os an available candi
date for the Presidency in 1880. The
amber-haired statesman shows his
vrhite teeth and seems pleased at the
circulation of the rumor, but will not
talk definitely about "it He Bays he
has determined upon a certain course
in the Senate, ana that the triumph of
the cause he will argue would bring
him more gratification than any per
sonal renown possibly conld. Mr.
Hill's friends, after solemn canons upon
the rumo,T have agreed that ‘stranger
things have happened,’ and have gone
to work to divide out the best missions
and candidates. Georgia desires to ‘go
abroad.’
A man jut from Florida died of yel-
of the 6th inst, we make the following low fever in New York oh the 2d inst.
pleasant extract:
“The Graphic of the 4th inst says
‘Better times are coming. There can bt
no mistake about it. Everything prom
ises a better fall and winter trade than we
have had for the last four years.’ Some of
the evidences adduced in support of its
predictions are the enormous crops of the
present season, with a large foreign de
mand at good prices; -coal has advanced
with little prospect of receding to the
ruinous figures that have ruled for some
time past; preparations are being made
by merchants to meet demands of such
magnitude as have been unknown for
years; confidence has been reestablished
in commercial circles; bottom prices
have been touched and the tendency is
now upward. “Burleigh” the New York
correspondent of the Boston Journal
whose sound judgement is conceded ar
rives at like conclusions. He says the
furloughed clerks of large houses have
been recalled, in many cases re-inforced,
and all busy, whereas a few weeks ago
those on duty were idle, sitting on boxes
leisurely eating fruit Similar reports
reach us from the centres of trade. The
rebound, too, appears to have been much
more abrupt than was expected in many
branches of trade. A gradual reaction
was all the most sanguine dared hope for
and the restoration of confidence indi
cated by the unexpectedly large orders
received in the past two weeks, are all
the more cheering,
Rents, prices of food and boarding
rates have all had to yield at last here in
■Washington, though landlords and board
ing-house keepers struggled long and
with a determination worthy of a better
cause. Fears of the dangerous develope-
ment of agrarianism under the pressure
of a wide-spread destitution, such as was
never before known here, at least not for
many years, has spnrred.philanthropy to
an organized effort looking to relief. At
a meeting on Monday evening composed
in part of many of our most wealthy citi
zens and officials, preliminary steps were
taken to form a “labor exchange.”
It contemplates furnishing employ
ment to those willing to work, also tools
to the artisan destitute of the imple
ments of his craft, raw material for the
manufacture of such articles as can find
here and in the vicinity a remunera
tive market; and, in short, to aid tho
industriously disposed in every legiti
mate effort to support themselves and
those dependent on them. The aid of
the police is to he invoked to suppress
street begging, now one of the most
constant features of Washington life.
The engineers of Marseilles have, it is
said, discovered that since the opening of
the Suez canal the level of the Mediter
ranean has sunk 3} inches.
The first bale of new cotton was re
ceived at Norfolk, Va., from Raleigh,
N. C., last Wednesday, and graded low
middling. Sold at 11} cents.
M. Louis Adolph Thiers, ex-Presi-
aent of the so-called Republic of France,
died on the 3d instant, in the 80th year
of his age. M. Thiers first won a name
as a writer, but for forty years has
been connected with the politics of
France.
At Wapatauka, Ohio, the other night
the county treasurer was seized, gagged
and a fire kindled between his feet as
he lay on the floor, and he was thus
compelled to divulge the combination
of the county safe, and 840,000 were
taken therefrom.
At a recent agricultural show in Bel
gium, a machine, the hydro-incubator,
for hatchiug eggs by artificial means,
was exhibited, by means of which 450
eggs can be hatched at a time with a
certainty and rapidty far exceeding the
ordinary course of nature.
A private letter of a very recent date
received at Washington from Hon. S.
S. Cox, at Long Branch, is to tho effect
that his chances for Speakership of the
next House are excellent. Mr. Cox
ventures the opinion that Sam Randall
is out of the race, and italizes the word
'out”
Paris, Texas, a town of about five
thousand population, has been almost
totally destroyed by fire. The North
Texan gives the following account of the
fiendish origin of this destructive con
flagration : “Taylor Pounds, a young
man who has lived here for number of
years, whose people are here, and are
esteemed by all, deliberately saturated
the floor of the back room of tho City
Saloon with coal oil and pat a lighted
match to it, saying as he did so, “Now,
gc, d—a you.” He was followed and
captured, and is now in jail. He gives
no reason for his devilish conduct, but
says he was “mad and drunk.” And
to thi3 madness and drunkenness we
are indebted for the homeless and pen
niless condition of so many of our peo
ple, to say nothing of the new made
grave where lie the remains of poor,
martyr Ellison.” Not a single house
is standing on the public square except
streets leading from the square seven
them are devastated.
work has been accomplished, and twen
ty-one miles are laid with iron and
trains are duly running on it The en
tire property with all its franchises was
bid in by the Columbus and Atlanta
Air Line Railroad Company, the char
ter of which is owned by Col. NustiaD
This is a Columbus company, and the
understanding is the transportation for
the coining thirty days, at least, is to
be governed by the same management
as now.
Whisky and Tobacco Contribu
tions to our Bevenne.
Roue, Ga., Sept. 10,1877.
To Dr. S. P. Smith :
You say, “I don’t pretend that my sug
gestion of giving our grand juries inquis
itorial powers in regard to violations of
the United States revenue Jaws, wiU bo
followed up in every instance by a speedy
indictment, but what I do say is, that in
the long run it will be productive of good,
and will give to the Government what it
needs, viz: local assistance. I have never
intended to convey the idea that tho
grand juries should collect the tax, but
only to assist in its collection by reporting
all illicit distilling.” I admit, Doctor,
that local assistance is what b most need
ed in ferreting out the frauds now being
practiced upon the Revenue department,
and that it cannot be effectually cheeckcd
until it b secured. I learn that our very
efficient and gentlemanly collector of the
2nd dbtrict of Georgia, Col. Andrew
Clarke, has already adopted that plan,
and will carry it oat as far as he can.
As an evidence of that fact, he has hut
very recently appointed and commission
ed one of our best and most respected
citizens, Tho3. H. Cuyler, a special depu
ty collector, whose duty it will be to look
after all violations of the revenue laws.
Thb b a good step and one in the right
direction, they can and will accomplish
great good and correct many abuses that
now exist Still they will not be able to
do all that ought to be done. My idea b
that next Legislature should levy a tax
upon the manufacture of whbkey, and re-
every one who wishes to run a still to reg
ister it with the County Treasurer in
which the still is to be located before
commencing, and require them to give
bond for the payment of ih« tax, and
make quarterly reports under oath to the
Receiver of the county, the failure to re
port to be a misdemeanor, and any one
failing to register before commencing
forfeits hb still and all the property con
nected with it, and be fined Si,000, and
the informant get half of the fine and
proceeds of forfeiture. Thb will not
only give local assbtance to the depart
ment, but pecuniary aid to tho State and
on the north side, and of the eight iB ^pkn Doctor; wh at
“of/thmkyoaof it? The Revenue Depart-
OSMAN PASHA.
"1
A Man of one idea.
The attempt of Sergeant Bates to
commit suicide the other day is a
source of thought fox the thoughtful.
It will be remembered of him that
since the war he has made it his lifb
business to travel over the world carry
ing and dbplaying the flag of the United
States. Sergt. Bates is to be pitied, and
it would be far from our wish to do or
say anything to cause him or one of his
any pain; but the thought that comes
along with thb bit of news b that the
dividing line between the great man
and the fool b sometimes so dimly
marked that it is impossible to tell just
where to place a man. For instance,
if Sergt Bates loved tho flag he carried
and fought for In the late war between
the States, which we admit he did
without having evidence to the con
trary, he might by proper handling of
the subject' and means at hb disposal
have made himself not only famous as
the great flag-bearer, ijgt _abo wealthy
by the small gatherings be oould have
heaped up from others that loved the
old flag too. But Sergt. Bates showed
hb weakness in this, that fie went on
hb oeaseless journeys round the world,
believing that he was aCcompIishing a
great deal simply by carrying that flag,
when, in truth and in fact, it did not
do him or any one else the least parti
cle of good, And so it came to pass
that the sergeant wasrgetting poorer and
poorer every day, and at last , it hap
pened that for himself and hb family
he had nothing to eat, and then he went
and attempted fS kill himself. Let us
hope fiafiaa learned a . less on—that he
We havo, says the Knoxville Tribune,
a genuine sensation, for East Tennessee
especially, in the article from tho Lou
isville Courier-Journal, identifying Os
man Pasha, of the Turkish army, as the
notorious R. Clay Crawford, bom and
raised in Hawkins county. The story
readB like one of Nod Buntline’s ex
travagant romances, and yet, in so far
as it relates to Crawford’s adventures
East Tennessee and ebewhere.it
might ho much enlarged without seri
ous departure from the truth. It has
been understood for some time Osman
Pasha is an adventurer—at least that he
is not a Turk—but he has kept hb an
tecedents closely veiled in mystery.
Some have guessed him to be disgraced
Marshal Bazaine, of France, but thb
surinbe has been dberedited. Mr.
Wickliffe, the correspondent of the
Conrier-Jonmal, makes a plausible
revelation, at least To one acquainted
with Crawford, there b nothing improb
able in.the story. Here, in East Ten
nessee, and especially among those who
knew anything of hb exploits in 1S63-4.
it will be generally credited until au
thentically disproved. Tho sketch of
hb career, as given by the Courier-
Journal, is substantially true—the ear
lier incidenb of hb life almost exactly,
though not as fully as they might have
been given. The unjust intimations
that ex-President Johnson in any way
connived at Crawford’s rascality might
have better been omitted from the ac
count, which otherwbe commends it
self for general truthfulness.
We met Crawford at Knoxville in
January, 1864. He was then commis
sioned os Colonel of artillery, and had
opened a recruiting office at the comer
of Gay and Main streets. Knowing
something of hb previous hbtory, he
impressed us as being the most insinu
ating and accomplished rascal we had
ever encountered, and when a short
time afterward we heard that he had
broken into the Branch Bank of Ten
nessee, at Rogeryille, and taken charge
of a vast amount of blank notes which
he filled up with forged signatures and
putin circulation, we were not disposed
to question tho accuracy of the remark
of a well known Federal General then
in our city, that he “would steal the
Southern Confederacy if he could only
carry it away” We could supplement
the Courier-Journal’s narrative with
numerous exploits reported of Craw
ford, all showing the same genius for
lawless and startling adventure, but it
b not necessary.
NOnTII AND SOUTH RAILROAD SOLD
On last Tuesday the North and South
Railroad was Bold at Columbus, Ga.
agreeably to the law providing for the
sale of delinquent railroads by the
Governor.
The Columbus Enquirer, among oth
er matters of interest in regard to the
sale, says
The Governor of the State was pres
ent. There appeared to be three sets of
bidders—one for the-North Georgia and
Marietta Railroad Company, the other
for the‘Central Railroad Company and
the third a Columbus Company. -The
first party showed their weakness by
qtdckly withdrawing from the field,' if
they even made an offer; Colqmbus
five
£ jn over the Central road
the property winch started at
being Knocked—down to her
representatives for $40,600. The iron
niftnn would bring thb amount at pres
ent 1 prices, and cost nearly double that
ment b the most unpopular branch of
the Government, yet it is most important
one, and the least understood and appre
ciated by the masses. It runs the vast
machinery of the Government, giving to
its all its life and vitality.
All tho other departments are to a
greater or less extent dependent upon it
for support. Even tho Postoffice Depart
ment has to fall back upon it to make up
its deficiencies.^- '•* - "i -
The question arises from what source
b its revenue derived. It b a question
but little understood, not more than one
in twenty understand it If all did un
derstand it they would realize and appre-
ciate the importance of collecting tho
whbkey and tobacco tax, and the import
ance of protecting those who do pay
it. And the suppressing of the illicit
manufacture and trade in it, and not cen
sure the officers engaged in ferreting out
and bring offenders to justice. For over
two-thirds of the revenue of the United
States that fa collected by taxation b de
rived from those two nonessentbliof life,
vb: Whiskey and tobacco,which amounts
to the sum of 8126,000,000 annually,
which b equal to $3 per capita to every
citizen of the United States. Those who
do not manufacture, deal or indulge in
them pay none of it. And those who do
only to the extent they manufacture,
deal or indulge in it If the licensed
dealers are not protected, and the illicit
trafic b not broken np, those who do now
respect and comply with the require
ments of the law will no longer do so,
and run the illicit plan themselves, or
abandon the business. The Government
would have no right to complaii. In
that event the Goyennent would be forced
to the necessity of levying a tax npen
some of the prime necessities of fife, if
not upon all of them, and even upon the
industries, of the country, pause and re
flect here reader.
We have heard some good citizens,
and even Good Templars, censoring the
officer and the Government for hunting
up those illicit fellows and arraigning
them before the bar of justice to answer
for the frauds they have been practicing
npon the revenue of the country. They
did not understand this matter when they
talked so,
To bring thb subject directly home to
us all where we can more readily see and
appreciate it Let ns examine to what
extent our real and personal property-in
thb city b relieved from taxes by whiskey,
and to what extent it supports, our city
government There are eight liquor
dealers here, viz: P. Howell, Mitchell
& Hawkins, Lumpkin & Coleman, M.
C. Mathb, Dr. J. G. Yeiser, S. P. Smith
& Son, D. H. Findley and G. J. Bryant,
who pay 8500 each city license, besides
the tax on their gross recepts. The li
cense tax alone b 84,000. There are
several beer saloons, I don’t know what
they pay, but I suppose a liberal tax.
If there was no liquor sold here thb 84,-
000 would have to come from some other
source, and those who do not indulge in
it would have to help pay it as well ns
those who do.
It b not my purpose my purpose to de
fend or condemn the trafic, or the Reve
nue Department or i& officials. They
areebmpeten^ to; 1 *— 1 •-—
collecting it and suppressing jhe illicit
trafic of it? If the illicit' business
oould be broken up, the receipts arising
from these two items would, it b said,
increase the revenue one-third, and
largely decrease the expenses of the
Government It b true there has been
a great deal of complaint against dep
uty United States mcrshnls in arresting
parties against whom warrants had
been sworn out for violations of the
laws. Whether those charges are true
or not I am not prepared to say. They
no donbt have committed some indis
cretions in dealing with hard cases, but
I havo no idea they are guilty of nil
These marshals do not belong to the
Revenue Department, but to the Judi
ciary. Many of them arc good and
clever men. All departments have
their black sheep. I have written more
than I intended when I commenced
Solo.
Reply 4o “Ralph.”—No. 2.
am I engaged in t
fend themselves, ndr
r trafic or oohhected
with the department in any way
I simply wish to submit facts, figures
and results, arid the importance of col
lecting the whisky arid tobacco tax, and
protecting thosei who do pay it, for
they, to a very great extent, support
our National^ State and municipal Gov
ernments. Thk fieing & fact that can
not be-successfully controverted, b it
right to censure the revenue officials for
My Dear Sir: I was not in a very
good humor when I wrote my other
article, but it was because I did not
understand your position. Your first
article gave me every reason to believe
that you were a personal enemy to th3
North Georgia Agricultural College,
but since you have explained your po
sition, and I find that you are making
war only upon agricultural colleges in
general, and upon the United States in
particular, for establishing them, I see
the subject in a different light You
have a perfect right to your own opin
ions, and I have no desire to deprive
you of them - but the question you are
arguing b no longer an open one, it is
settled long ago.
You wish to know upon what grounds
the N. G. A. College claims to be styled
an agricultural college. It was incor
porated as such by an act of Congress,
with the express view of participating
in the college scrip, but instead of
part of the scrip being given to th N.
G. A. College, as its trustees expected,
Gov. Smith by executive order in 1872
gave all tho proceeds of thecoUege
scrip to the University of Georgia on
condition that the University would
supporttone or more such colleges as
Congress indicated in the act donating
the scrip to the State. Congress in 1872
had donated the building at Dahlonega
(the U. S. branch mint) to the N. G. A,
College trustees, to be used for educa
tional purposes, under the act of 1SG2.
By an agreement between the Univer
sity and the college the latter becamo
an adjunct department of the State
University, a portion of the scrip being
given to the N. G. A. College by the
University. Thb sum has from time
to time been increased until the annual
appropriation amounts to $3,500. The
college has other sources of revenue:
the Price fund, the Peabody fund, and
the Gilmer fund, but these were not
given for agricultural purposes. Now,
sir, do you know “who owns the col
lege?” You ought to be ashamed of
yourself for asking such a simple ques-
- .tion, vjgJ vifit keeDing up with the times
^any better. Perhaps you would like to
know “who owns” the Unsversity, and
“how and when that came about ?” If
you desire it, please ask me privately;
I have no time to waste in writing
newspaper articles to a man who has
just been aroused from a Rip Van
Winkle sleep. You ask me what agri
cultural chembtry is, and ask it just as
though you think tho question cannot
be answered. Agricultural chembtry
b the application of chemistry to agri
cultural subjects; such as the analysis
of soils, fertilizers and plants, and in
cludes a knowledge of the chemical
elements necessary to the different
kinds of plant life, and how these ele
ments may beet be supplied when
wanting, etc.
The N. G. A. College is yet in its in
fancy, and the past four years have
been mainly devoted to preparing the
student by primary studies to enter
into and understand those higher
branches which relate to and are iden
tified with agriculture and mechanic
arts. Don’t be in a hurry, Ralph, you
will see results which will convince
you that all the bugs in the world are
not “humbugs.”
When the State of Georgia accepted
the scrip she accepted it on the express
condition that the State should provide
the buildings and keep them in repair.
To appropriate moneyffor the agricul
tural schools at Athens and Dahlonega
b the duty of the State under the terms
of acceptance. Whenever Georgia re
fuses to provide the buildings necessary
for the agricultural colleges supported
by her share of the land scrip under
the act, the State forfeits the sum of
8243,000, the amount which the scrip
yielded. The agricultural colleges have
not applied to the General Assembly of
Georgia for aid simply on the gronnd
that they are so-called agricultural col
leges, but because there exists a com
pact between the State of Georgia and
the General Government that the State
should provide and keep in repair the
necessary buildings if the former would
supply the means for the support of
essors. For it must be remem
bered that not a dollar of the scrip can
be used in any other way, except,
perhaps, a small percentage for the pur
chase of lands for experimental forms.
It b true that the Legislature has
created a normal department in the
Dahlonega college, but not a dollar of
the State’s money lias yet been given
for its support Thb department has
been created because there is a felt
want for teachers in the State common
schools, rand the policy of establishing
one or two such normal schoob has
been demanded by the executives of
the (State and the. head of the doparT
moat of education for yean past Th
Dahlonega school, like th* ono^tAtJj
ens.'is within the control of fhcr££gitf»
lature,and thal body can, to thdaxer-
dse ofiita jrbtfinii, create and ‘ ’
within i/' any other _
science ot knowledge. It might
Ush a Bchool of Brinee and raihihgif it
t proper, or a school of fechnql-
a nrifitary department, solely
under the State' patronage. The ap
propriation of the public domain, or a
part of it, to the several States for edu
cational purposes b not an open ques
tion. While the States were' at war
with each other (1862) the Congress of
the United States thought proper to di
vide a large portion of the proceeds of
the sale of public lands to tho States
for educational purposes, to-wit: to es
tablish agricultural colleges. It would
have been more than folly had our
State declined her share after all the
Northern States had received theirs,
and we could not have obtained it for
any other purpose except that for
which it was donated. If our agricul
tural schoob are not what Ralph and
other citizens of Georgia would like to
see them, it is because the State lias
not yet fully come up to her duty in
providing tho means for their support,
as she b in honor, as well as legally,
bound to do. Traddi.es.
The Georgia Debt.
A recent statement of the State debt
of Georgia as acknowledged by the gov
ernment shows it to be 810,6-15,500,
consisting mainly of six and seven per
cent bonds. The State owns railroad
property valued at 87,000,000, the pro
ceeds of which, when sold, will go to
the reduction of the debt. By a law
of the State $100,000 is to be paid on
tho debt every year, out of tho State
revenues, and thb b to continue till
the year 1886, after which time, by a
provbion of the new Constitution, the
same process b to be maintained in the
shape of an annual payment of 8100,-
000 into a sinking-fund for tho extin
guishment of the debt The new Con
stitution prohibits any increase of the
debt, requires the collection of an annu
al tax to meet the interest, and forbids
the loaning of the State’s credit to rail
roads. The railroad property owned
by the State consists of the Western
and Atlantic road, 138 miles in length,
now leased for fifteen years at 8300,000
a year; the Macon and Brunswick road,
160 miles in length, now yielding some
thing to the State treasury, and two
other smaller roads. It will be seen
from thb that the payment of the Geor
gia indebtedness b amply guaranteed.
The credit of the State stands high, and
it b believed that as fast as the bonds
fall due, they can be replaced with new
ones bearing only five per cent, inter
est.—St. Louis Republican.
Personal Jottings.
Bret Harte b about forty, but being
prematurely gray looks much older.
The Brazil mission pays Hon. H. W.
Hilliard, of thb State, 812,000 por year.
Ex-Gov. Jenkins arrived at Jordan
Alum Springs, Va., the other day, where
he proposes to stay and recuperate from
hb arduous labors as President of the late
Convention.
Mrs. Nancy Hutehereon, of Glasscock
S , thb State, completed her one hun-
year last Saturday. She has
more than two hundred descendants now
living, of whom about one hundred and
fifty,- including a number of the fifth gen
eration, were present.
A remarkable man, Dr. Conneau, pri
vate physician of Napoleon III has just
passed away. It was he who acted as
the chief instrument of Napoleon’s escape
from the fortress of Ham, procuring for
him the clothes of the working man.
Badingnet, and afterward making up the
Jnmmjrnf a dottping fignrn in *1io Pnnpft’fl
bed, so that when the Governor came on
hb nightly rounds he believed, as Dr.
Conneau affirmed, that the royal prison
er had gone to bed early, being unwell.
Brigham’s Successor.
The Jackson, Tenn., Sun says:
“In Lexington, Tenn., there lives an
old negro man who claims to be the
father of 157 children. He says he was
at New Orleans when Gen. Jackson
met Packingham, and that he had a
wife and one child. lie has been mar
ried thirteen times, and twelve of hb
wives bore him all of his legitimate
children, 157 in number. The last one
claims none of the honor of maternity
of thb numerous progeny of her pro
lific husband. He says most of hb
children were born in triplets, and the
increase of his family alone made his
master rich. Hb name is Bob Rusk,
and he comes nearer fathering the col
ored race according to hb times than
Ham, and if Ham’s claim was not the
oldest, Bob Rusk would be daddy to
them all' It b needless to say that
Bob claims many more bom out of
wedlock, and that we believe that Bob
b a great lover of the art of reckless
romancing.
Health on a Sure Basis.
- A.I-A] V»J—§
Brigham Young.
The Great Harmon Apostle niid His Career
In order to establbh health on a sure
basb the enfeebled system must acquire
additional vigor. And yet, patent as
thb fact b, and widely known as it is,
too many people neglect thb vital point
in the self-treatment of disease, and
physicians are very often equally remiss,
resorting to the use of palliatives which
affect symptoms only, and fail to .ac
complish the chief end in view, which
b, or should be, invigoration. The main
reason why Hostetteris Stomach Bitters
are so successful in overcoming disease
b that they impart vitality where it is
deficient, and thus build up a super
structure for exhausted nature to recu
perate upon. The Bitters abo improve
the appetite, soothe the nerrons system
when over-strained, and are a genial
and agreeable medicinal stimulant,with
a basb of pure spirits holding in solu
tion botanic elements of the greatest
efficacy.
The great ruler of the Mormons, who
has just died in the foil possession of
the despotic power which he has so
strangely attained, has a most remark
able fife hbtory. Brigham Young was
the son oLa plain country farmer, and
was born in the small town of -Whiting-
ham, Vt, June 1,1S01.. His education
was very limited, less indeed than that
oi most country lads in the first yearn
of the present century, but he made up
largely for thb deficiency iq hb man
hood’s years, andwas well posted on
most subjects of general knowledge.
Hb father brought him up to the trade
of a painter and glazier, but he soon be
gan to show a peculiar tendency to
ward religious subjects. Brigham was
early converted,’, joined .the Baptist
Church, and occasionally preached. Go
ing toth- West be heard of the Mor
mon ex Jo'-nont. - ml in 1832 joined
that sect at K:r:..n ■ O ,i... Thencefor
ward he was identified with all the for
tunes of this strange religious body. He
was soon ordained elder, and discov
ering unusual zeal for the propagation
of his new faith, and tho possession of
some pulpit eloriuer.ee, he was sent to
the Eastern States on a tour of prose
lyting. Though illiterate, and often
coarse, he was very successful in win
ning converts to his way of thinking.
Every year added to his power in the
seat. When in J une, 1814, Joseph Smith
was murdered, Young and four others
were set apart as canilidate3 for the
Presidency—or rather dictatorship—of
tho body. The “Apostles,” as the
Choosing Committee were called, unan
imously selected Young, and the sect
in general was well satisfied with the
choice of its mast earnest and success
ful prosclyter. To prevent any possi
ble dissatisfaction, Young’s chief rival
for the supreme honors, Sidney Rigdon,
was sent into banishment.
From the day of his induction into
his high office Brigham Young showed
the qualities of a leader. When Nau-
voo was declared a hostile city by the
Gentiles, and tho Mormons were driven
away from tho town which they had
founded, Young rallied his ibhearten-
ed subalterns, and urged them to seek
a new home in the West He led them
across the desert and the prairie to the
valley of the Great Salt Lake, declar
ing that here was the promised land of
sojourn. In this desert spot a fertile
region was formed, and the prosperity
of the community which Young thus
founded has been one of the wondere
of the time. Young was everywhere
recognized as absolute dictator, and hb
rule was inflexible. In 1819 he organ
ized a State which he called Deseret,
and applied to Congress for its admh-
Bion. Thb was denied, but the follow
ing year the Territory of Utah was or
ganized, and Brigham Young accred
ited Governor for four years. So long
as none but Mormons entered the Ter
ritory matters went on peaceably. But
the Gentile settlers were looked upon
as intruders, and many of tho more fa
natical Mormons, calling themselves
“Destroying Angela,” wrought terrible
outrages upon settlers not of their faith.
The Mountain Meadow massacre has
been forcibly brought to mind by the
recent confession of Ji-hn D. Lee, who
charged that the atrocities were com
mitted bj the express command of
Brigham Young. Certain it b that he
had dictatorial power, and if he did not
command the massacre, he did not at
tempt to restrain the fanaticbm of hb
subjects. In 1754 a Provisional Gov
ernor, a Gentile, was appointed, and
Young defied tho power of the Govern-
uiuiil fur several j cats, refusing lu ac-
knowledge its representatives. In 1S57
Alfred Gumming was sent as Governor
to Utah, with 2,500 men, and the dicta
tor abdicated his temporal dominion,
retaining still absolute spiritual control.
This was most conclusively shown in
his promulgation of “the colestial law
of mairiage,” sanctioning polygamy.
This doctrine was denounced by the
widow of Joseph Smith, and opposed
to the practices and tradition of the
sect; but Brigham Young’s mandate
was sufficient to establbh it as a cardi
nal principle of Mormonism. Being
head of the sect, Young was by virtue
of hb office the chief of the order of
Danites and many secret Mormon or
ganizations, and hb sway was every
where felt. As regards the temporal
prosperity of the Salt Lake community,
it is agreed on all hands that thb b
mainly due to Young’s energy and sa
gacious planning. lie was strict in en
forcing the obligations of contracts,
and after his power was made subor-
dinate to that of the General Govern
ment, was generally just in his rules
regarding intercourse with the Gentiles.
Young’s last years were made unhappy
by the separation of hb fifteenth wife,
Ann Eliza, and the successful suit for
divorce and alimony, as well as the
proceedings against him as accessory
to the Mountain Meadow massacro.
But he was strenuous to the last in de
claring himself innocent of guilt, and in
urging his people to hold fast to their
principles, and to their faith in him as
supreme Ruler. He had beeu.in poor
health for some moths, and his death
was not unlooked for.
1 won,}-,oar
London, Aug. 29.—’
Madras Times? who „
reUefcommitteer^^ij
August 1st as follows- “ der < 1
“The population in Somk .
more or less afflicted bv r, •“ J
bers 24,OOO.lXW. In the
circumstances at least on^ ^
people will die. Th"
measurably greater than ^l
2£2Ri t Twe P‘y-three
died of-starvation in it v J
fas no SSjauuO,000 ris*
ter morning without thirty
ffie interior the distress h
One gentleman passing down V*
in the ynaad district count,.],'
nine dead bodies on the road 1
planter seeking shelter f tom ' ,i *
in a hut found six decomp^L^
in it. On any day, a ' nd *
mothers may he seen in the v‘-l
Madras offering their children*!
while the foundling portion of tt 1
house is full of infants found ill
police on tho roads, deserted WJ
parents. Since the famine com, ’
500,000 have died of want andd
The first big tragedy may be
m Mysore. In that province t'i]
information 1ms reached mefaTS
galote of two cases of eanihii;il
ready.” --
Brigham Youg’a Will
Salt Lake dispatch to N. Y. Iribacc.
Brigham Young’s will rK -|
day in the presence of all his wive!
children and a few friends. Bri44
Young, jr., George Q. Cannon i^l
bert Carrington arc named aa hb «
utors. The estate b largely real»
and is probably worth 82,000,CCO
will was made four years ago
youngest child, bom of MaryV^f*
was then three years old. Brfi
was the father of fifty-six chili-]]
left seventeen wives, sixteen =oeJ
twenty-eight daughters. The win c
to make an equitable division ,
property between all the wivsj
children, with no preference i
Moet all of them have alrea,
something deeded to them. On '•■'I
valuation was set, and it is to bee
ed to the recipients ns part of~L
share, though not necessarily all
valuation he put on it. That is
equitably adjusted when the estiil
divided. Meanwhile the income e|
go to the various mothers, acciri
to the number of their children, )
they can withhold it if the children!
have badly. All are provided fe|
far as their present needs are c
cerned -
The Mormon Catechism.
Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, pastor jf j
Lee Avenue Baptist Church, Bn
who has just returned from Cal
yesterday during Sunday-schools
described a scene which he witr.
in the Mormon Temple, Salt Lake t
where S,000 children were catecL
by the presiding Eider as follows:
“When b Pioneers’Day?”
“On the 26th day of July.”
“What does that day commemor:
“The entrance of tho Latte-!]
Saints into the valley.”
“When did they enter the valley r
“Thirty years ago.”
“Who led them ?”
“Brigham Young.”
“Who was Brigham Young?”
“The Prophet of God.”
“Who led Brigham Young?"
"Tlio
“Who was the greatest martyr f
“Joseph Smith)”
“You have answered well,
down.”
Transfusion of Blood.
John A. Kohlepp, of Brooklyn. 'Sf
York, has been for four years a' safe
from consumption, and Dr. Stahl pr-
josed transfusion of blood. Le
Jurkhardt, a healthy mechanic, wfe
teered to supply tho vital fluid, it
cordingly, July 11, the first openti:
took place. Four ounces of blood ws
transfused by means of Whitehots,
instrument When that amount hi
been admitted to Kohlepp’s veh
symptoms of conjeslion appeared. B
face was turgid and the breithn
slightly stentorous. These sympt®
disappeared, and then three addition
ounces were transfused. Burkhari;
who supplied the blood, suffered fe
thirst, and felt much exhausted. T:‘
symptoms were so uniformly favonli
that on July 2G four ounces more ws
transfused. Burkhardt again furm-iu
tho blood. The patient is now wik;
ing around, and does one or two hoffi
work daily.
One of the War’s ‘Tragedies.
' Georeiacs.
Among the stock burned at McPher
son Barracks, Atlanta, were two little
pray mules which once belonged to
President Davh.
Atlanta claims to have 10,000 sur
plus, idle population—just about nine
thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine
more than are absolutely necessary.
The Cedartown Record says Frank
Parish came into that town Thursday
with his long cucumber slung across
hb shoulder. It was 45} inches long,
and weighed-6* pounds. •-
A man in Gainesville the other day
refunded ninety cents to a merchant
who in making change had given him
that sum in excess ofthe amount really
due. At last accounts he was still at
laige. , Should ho be caught and caged
wehope he'will be exhibited hero.
a.^c*ican,now hi Lon-
aaJie believes, to T)is-
raeCY Eastern policy. He says the
PigfqiSf cares nothing for England, that
hbsyzqpqthies are Shemitic and Oriental,
Vjbftthe erection of lndb into an
ipire was but one feature of slowly-
developing tdan-to eweate -a-vaat Asian
,-The
he greatest naval power of the
Icdby the Jewfdescendcd Disraeli.
Who can say what may be?
From Frir&te Morris’ Address at Pittsburg.
One of the pathetic incidents told by
the lecturer was hb account of the
drawing of lots by a number of rebel
prisoners, to determine which one
should be shot, in retaliation for the
murdc-r of a soldier belonging to the
30th Illinois, on March 2d, 1S65. The
lecturer was directed by the Provos-t
Marshal to prepare a number of slips of
paper, corresponding with the number
of prisoners under guard at the head
quarters. With a single exception these
slips wero blank, and all carefully fold
ed. They were then placed in hb hat,
thoroughly mixed' by shaking, and cov
ered with a handkerchief. While he
had been engaged at thb task the pris
oners had been formed in line inclosed
by the guard, and stood awaiting or
ders. Major Marvin and the Bpeaker
then proceeded to the spot, stationed
themselves at the head of tho line, when
the prisoners were ordered to advance
separately aud draw a paper from the
hat The first man advanced timidly,
and with trembling hand drew from
the hat a ballot, which ho handed to
the Major. The latter’s hand was un
steady as he slowly unfolded the pa
per. It was a blank, and as the Confed
erate passed between the guard a sigh
of relief escaped him.- ’Anothwdrew
a blank, and thus seventy passed
through the ordeal in safety. A tSU;
middle-aged man, in plain, home-spun,
drew his ballot, and wnen the Major
opened it he said-: “You arc the ntan I
want” The man turned- deadly-pale
as he stepped aside. A shooting detail
had been made up from 'the regiment
of the murdered man, and after draw
ing their guns, ten out of the thirty be
ing loaded with ball cartridge, the
doomed man was taken to the edge of
a clearing, and the Illinois soldier was
avenged. . , ■ 7^'
Sixty-six, or one-third of
bers of the Constitutional Convention
were in the Confederate service during
the war between tho States.
As the time for the French elect-
approaches all donbt in regard to tl«
result seems to be disappearing. L
second Republican candidate has ap
peared to contest the seats of any of w
three hundred and sixty-three Ite;
cans who voted the censure of the Got-
eminent. Besides this, the Kepubucss
will contest one hundred and sixty-®
other seats. They are in fall aeon
among, themselves,and have already ip
didates for all but forty constituency
On the contrary, the breach between
Legitimists and the Conservatives»?
jears to bo widening almost day to utf
. ji as many as eighty constituencies
are rival Conservative Candidas I' 1 -
such a close union on the one side at
bickerings and dissensions among a com
paratively small minority on the otw-
it is not difficult to foretell the rcsul:
ithe Government will only keep its
off the ballot boxes.
Quite a significant item of foreig®
news b the fact printed in to-day 3 “*•
pacthes that the London Times has «•
como within the past two_ days an un
spoken advocate of the iriterYenncn
the great powers in Eastern Eintj*
The Times is a great leader of E n S L y
thought, and it3 expressions have nines
weight in moulding public opinion,
viewing the situation in the East it oc
cludes that “the nccdlcssncss of thep 1 -"
entwar, its excessive costliness m
money, far outweigh its posribibti®
good;” that there “is danger of an ***■
tual Russian failure;” that “the P*®"?
moment is propitious for intervenUW
and that “Germany and Ei^lando^®
to take the initiative to bring abo
truce.” . ■ --
The new synagogue at Atlanta*?"
dedicated, to the service of Alfflig A
God with appropriate ceremom®.
Friday; Aug. 31st. It h
Temple K’hilah Kadeah GennlaW
Chesed. The btulding c
is a very lmposinj
cation termon wa
Ml®. Browne. n ‘ ,:
MLaaori Feitaq knoaked
PaE^motfier-K,m the g
ivlth a rock, in CarlersviIlo,_a fev
Missouri, who'b supp
vicinity of Dalton. ”
prcT en .,
it-SSSB^Ssyp
on a high fence and waiting tn
* " ' mway.