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aufl (ggmmggal ;,jpAtED APRIL IQ, 1876. subscriptions. you the weekly. S» nlhB fOB THE TBI-WEEKLY. iu ....$4 OC i oo ,V h ; hl -;;:;;.::::::::::::: - * «<> "".M strictly 1“ the price ol will be $2 60 a year, and iV^'f'^ormore, on. oopy will be for- £$»«»• ■fa —— M. DWINELL, PROPRIETOR. “WISDOM, JUSTICE 'AND MODERATION.” TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. VOLUME XXXII. ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY , SEPTEMBER 19, 1877. NEW SERIES-NO. 3 TS is. iSlI i name is Crawford, and ^ born in Kentucky.-Exchange. jjehcmet All's name is Mulligan. He Pennsylvania Correspondence. “let us Have Peace”—Grant in Europe. that Russia ia The writer that ' born in New Jersey, and early in his L " ie( j nfe silenced the batteries of his itbcr-in-law. This fact coming to the oi the Sultan, Mulligan was deco- d wil h the order of Howmenli and rcted to silence the Russian batteries. Richmond Enquirer. ] The London Times has along article Irrocting the impression i the verge of bankruptcy. the debt of Rus- 0 n -ay unmanageable, 1,1 that her resources are such III enable her to carry on a second and |ird campaign without exhaustion. I The present temporary successor of L„i ian Young is John Taylor, Presi- tjt of the twelve Mormon Apostles, Lj ac ting President of the Mormon • a h. which position he will retain L.n a new President is elected. He .hot at N'auvoo at the time Joseph s ith was killed, and is a bitter Mor- 3TB like Chicago Advocate says that Dea- ln Bathfel asked his family physician t week: “ Doctor, you have had such 1) extended experince at deathbeds, and fcve seen so many people go hence, that [would like to ask you what class are lost resigned, and die the happiest?” e aged man cleared his throat and said: llVell, Deacon, I have not seen so very iany deaths, but, so far as I have been lie to learn, the people who die the hap- test are those who are hanged.” | A letter received recently in New York a Lieut. Cooper, at Fort Con- Texas, who was with the Lrty of soldiers who not long ago ue lost in the Staked Plains the Northwestern region, and nearly [erislted from thirst, recounts that when c horses gave out the men fought to Irirk their blood. This only intensified r thirst o ad the Boldiers suffered symp- ms of the blind staggers, from which e horses, whose blood they drank, had lied. I It seems that Bishop Haven, who tr many years lias been a sort of rav- |g monomaniac, has got a surfeit of pica at last. While in Liberia re- pritly he caught a malarial fever which e thus describes: [ "An African forest was growing np .ia me,tops wUereo? wcio ui«a. (siMc. When the scrapings, from the - of the longue were placed under l microscope, their roots were in the -• n and liver. Black specks mov- frm swiftly up and down these ferns 1 cross trunks and branches were drably monkeys leaping from tree to v of this inward African forest.” The following extract from a letter Mr. W, K. James, of the Mysore EevenuoSurvey Service, gives a glimpse f : the awful picture presented by the pane strickened district of India: Already the sufferings of the people re awful; there is a regular service or- xized, in addition to the police, to r f P the streets of Bangalore clear of be dead and dying, but outside the municipal limits dead bodies are lying '■ "ij directions; the lower castes are ::d ? and eating the bodies; two ■ "ere caught doing so, and have : or o“ght before the magistrate this *■ 1 ' TO days ago, when riding past f W^ar stables, I saw a crowd of r.tea.d women and children routing aco dung-heap, and picking out the Indigested grains of corn to eat. I dysore is still under British admin- ptation, and half its population will fl’cnsh. fbe lullowing, clipped- from the Co- -fflbus Enquire, should impress upon : '«y one the importance of speaking F : before shooting once: V F :‘ J ? y n 'sht, August 31st, Mr. Bert |c°. r, ot ^ith a pistol at his sister, t', Maggie, and came in a hair’s KT?th of killing her. The young lady p been out with Mr. Geo. Folsome, ‘ '“™y, Ga., to an entertainment at „.;j® denc e of Mr. Rabun Hood. Mrs. “ad placed a chair against the |d 'A wliirli she left unlocked, that her f'ittr might find easy entrance on * min =. The young lady (Miss Mag- nVp,l CC0ril ' n S 1 y Pushed the door open, In I? causing the chair to fall upon J“ aeor and awoke her brother, who I.T.J ' om his bed in a dark room and lc,,’ V 16 ball taking effect in the door- Ij-J? above her head. Mr. Cook |t-, ,' w b°’s there” as his sister en- Iheard L- e room > hut she, not having I Jr? bun, gave no answer, and the shot I 15 immediately fired. r ; m ono of our California exchanges, j ! ‘ ^kton Indpendent, we clip the account of the way in which I ~*j a ' 3 heated. We don’t know ex- ,.. y ff hat alfalfa is, though it seems j v ," a re markably fine grazing crop— enae-iy popular in California—and . 5 t prove equally as profitable in ] ■ section. The account above al- Jjj: to i is as f 0 ij 0WB . Can-ip way . alfalfa is treated on the liter. tm ds Made yield ten or fif- log , a ,year. The farm is divided substw-i separated by the most it nrt. / encea . When the alfalfa about ti , has attained a height of it anri'tv * eet a h er< i of cattle is tured it a fJx ey browse it down to the roots to„ ,ys. They are then removed ia. »? t ext held and sheep are turned tie sn P ,! r t v tae y have eaten every visi- br.d js . X are taken off, and the 'AdtMgf W . lrn e ate(J - In two weeks, bopicat ® Btl paulus of the water and other h “, n ’ h ‘ s again ready for an- manner tv hungry cattle. In this head , m su PPorts about 3,000 he beiru. cattle constantly. The herds cattl e vLAnally shifted, the fat tzrkr.f removed and driven to Li i e ,’ ‘ e their places are taken by feculent u 0t ? ot ber sections. The A.d thi s „r/ a Fa ^ ^be cattle rapidly, Ligonieb Valley, Pa., 1 Sept 11,1877. j 2b the Editor of the Courier: We don’t just remember the date of the above patriotic remark, but it was made on a certain occasion by his Majesty, Ulysses the Great. It was perhaps made about the time he entered upon his career as President—at least, the country was in a splendid condition at that time for such a remark. The peace of which he so fondly dreamed was not forthcoming under his administration. He said “Let us have peace,” and then inaugu rated and carried out a policy flatly at war with such a principle. The bloody- shirt flaunted from the headquarters of every Jacobin rendezvous in the land with the Presidential sanction. His party leaders revived the passions of the late war with fiendish relish, and Ulysses smiled and bid them presevere. The vilo carpet-bagger of the South robbed the brave psople of that section with impunity, and the President encour aged it. He said “Let us have peace,” and then inaugurated a war of extermi nation upon the rights of the people of the South. The crowning glory of victo ry in battle is magnanimity to a fallen foe. In Grant’s case this principle seems to be absent. But these things are all pa9t, and the present seems to offer a much more hope ful view. President Hayes seems to be equal to the emergency. He did not Bay, in the language of his illustrious ? pred ecessor, “Let us have peace,” hut he is pursuing a policy that will bring it, which is much better. What the country now demands is permanent peace and recon ciliation. We want the passions of the war the bloody-shirt, the carpet-bagger, club law, and all kindred enrses buried forever, and perfect confidence in the peo ple of both sections of Union fully re stored. This is one of the imperative demands of the hour. And wherever a majority of a free people make a popular demand, that demand mnst be heeded. We are happy to announce to-day that we are able to see the beginning cf a new era in our history. The people of the South are entitled to extravagant praise for their Christian forbearance during the last de cade of oppression imposed upon them by the extreme men of the Radical par ty. As a matter of course, we helped to “s'-* *Ln neople of the Ouuin, mu wneu the war was over, tnSFiBoment we were in favor of permanent peace. And we are free to say, that without perfect peace, tranquility, and implicit confidence, be tween the sections, a perfect Union is out of question. The Southern policy of the President will bring about this happy re sult, and is, therefore entitled to the sup port of every- patriot ia the country. We did not help to put Hayes in the Presidential chair; on the contrary, we opposed it with all our might, and yet we endorse, with our heart and sold, the pol icy he has thus far pursued towards the people of the South. And not only is such action endorsed by the Democratic party, but by every patriot of aU par ties. GRANT IN EUROPE. “His Excellency” is now being “lion ized” across the waters. We pity the fawning sycophants, of any nation, who would make asses of themselves by pay ing homage to such a little thing as Grant. He is paving the way, it has been inti mated, to the Presidency in 1880—a nice little arrangement, truly. It is said he is the only man tho party can trust H this be so, God pity the party; for the country is in no danger, as he will never be elected. The arrangement, however, seems to be this: He is to sojonm in Eu rope for two years and then return. It is supposed (by Grant) that the American people will be so glad to see him return safely after so long an absence that they will at once make preparation for his nomination. This is a very nice little ar rangement, yon discover, but nothing could be more ridiculous than to entertain serious thought concerning it. The people of Europe may lavish all the honors upon him they choose. He is en titled to none here ; neither will he re ceive any. No sooner will he return here than he will be promptly consigned to the political oblivion he so richly merits, and for which he is so admirably fitted. Key-Stone. Toombs for Governor, Columbus Enquirer. Already the journals are speaking of candidates for the position of Governor of Georgia. Hon. Thomas Hardeman appears to be adopting the mode pur sued by Gov. Colquitt, by becoming President of the Georgia Agricultural Society. Hon. J. H. James takes the example of Gov. Smith, and is reaching for the high position through a legisla tive reputation. We have thought it would show a proud and just apprecia tion of Gen. Toombs to elevate him to the chief executorehip, that he might carry out the provisions of the Consti tution, the most important features of which are of his own framing. In point of intellect he has not a peer in the State, and though often rash in speech, in counsel his actions are governed by wisdom, justice and moderation. It would be a fitting and appropriate tri bute to make him the first Governor under the new Constitution. in San Francisco mar- A Chicago paper tells us that, “Darwin says that a woman’s feet may blnsh in stead of her face.” Certainly they may. Why, one night last winter the feet of a Chicago woman, standing bare-footed on a sixth-story verandah, suddenly took it into heads to blush at their own size, and hanged if people forty miles south of there didn’t mistake it for an aurora boralis.—Courier-Jodmal. What the Constitutional Con vention has Done. From tho Eatonton Messenger. It has stricken from the bill of rights everything that was offensive to the people of Georgia. It has made the term of office of the Governor two years, and declared that he shall not be eligible to re-election, after the expiration of a second term, for the period of four years. It has taken from the Governor the power of appointment of (Judges, At torney General, Solicitors, Notaries Public and other officers, savo in cases of vacancies. It has reduced^ia salary from four thousand to three thousand dollars per annum. It has reduced the pay of his clerical force from the eum of ten thousand to six thousand dollars. It has given the election of Treasurer, Comptroller General and Secretary of State to the people. It has forbid them receiving for them selves any fees or perquisites, and com pels them to pay these into the treasury of the State. It has limited the pay of their cler ical force. It has made it penal for the Treasur er to receive any fees, interest or reward from any bank, corporation or person for the use of the money of the State. It has reduced the term of the Su preme Court Judges from twelye to six years; the Superior^Court Judges from eight to four years. It has reduced the pay of these offi cers for the present, but authorizes the Legislature, by a two-thirds vote, to change their salaries. It has giyen the election of Judges and Solicitors-General to the Legisla ture. It has given the election of Attorney- General to the people. It has restored the Grand Jury sys tem. It has restored the right of appeal from one jury to another. It has made the session of the Legis lature biennial, and limited its duration to forty days. It has reduced the pay of members from seven to four dollars a day; mile age from twenty-five cents to ten cents. It has reduced the term of Senators from four to two years. It has ordered, that the public print ing shall be given to the lowest bid der. It has limited the pay of the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate. It has forbid .railroad corporations buying up competing roads, or to take stock in other roads, thus preventing them from involving themselves ruin ously in debt, and utterly impoverish ing the hoqest owners of stock. It has forbid their making rpinous or unjust disSfmination against any town, cuy or oommuuliy. It has made their property subject to taxation, as the property of individ uals. And, better than all, it has limited the powers of taxation to certain speci fied purposes; it has forbid the creating of any debt, except to pay existing debt, to supply actual deficiency in revenue, and to repel invasion or sup press insurrection. It forbids the State lending her credit to any individual, company, corpora tion or association, or becoming an owner or stockholder in any company, association or corporation. It also forbids the General Assembly from authorizing any county, city or town to do the same, except for schools or charitable purposes. It forbids the State assuming the debt of any county, municipal corporation or political division, except in cases of invasion, insurrection or war. It makes it a felony for any officer of the government to receive interest, profit or perquisites from the use or loan of public monies. It declares forever null and void all bonds so pronounced by the people in their vote on the 1st of May last. It authorizes the sale of the interest the State owns in railroads, the pro ceeds to go to the payment of the bond ed debt of the State, and no other pur poses. In the language of Gen. Toombs, it has “locked up the treasury and put the key in the pocket of the people.” It has given the people the right to locate their capital, and to choose either the “old” or the “new” homestead. And, if ratified, it will save to the people of Georgia, who are burdened with debt and oppressed with taxation the following amount of money annu ally : In the Executive Departments 3,400 In the Judiciary Department- 14,425 In one session of the Legisla ture annually 111,000 In pay of members and clerk hire of one biennial session- 55,000 Total $188,925 Burning a Faithless Wife at the Stake. About three weeks ago an Indian known as Sam lost his squaw Mary, through the blandishments of an Indian named Jim, with whom she eloped, taknig some of his household goods. The loss of these goods added much to the wrath of Sam, and he raised such a commotion among the Piute braves that they determined to teach the frail Mary, id, by her example, the rest of the wo men of the tribe, a lasting lesson. Jim tried to screen her from the gathering storm by hiding her, but they soon found her, and about fifty of the tribe, including Jim and several squaws, es corted her to the hills, just back of Washoe lake, on Saturday evening last, and there, safe from Caucassian intru sion, they made a great pile of sage brush, and after tying her firmly in the middle of it, set it on fire. Then they began a war dance around the scene of cremation, in which all joined, and Jim Sam being very fierce in their yells. The screams of Mary added to the zest of the dance: Jim meantime sat quietly by, and semed an indifferent spectator. After the body of the unfortunate Mary lhad been reduced to ashes, Sam Ex pressed his satisfaction, and they dis persed.—Reno Journal. The failure-of the Newport Manufac turing Company will be a severe blow to that city, particularly if, as is feared, it shall involve another large establish ment in its ruin. Depression in busi ness seems to haye been the sole cause of the disaster. General News Items. Tell not your secrets in a corn-field; it has a thousand ears. When grief leaves its traces, what be comes of the rest of tho harness? “ John, you said Sally kissed you. Did you kiss her back ?” “ No; I kissed her face.” Soft words are said to cost nothing, but the old fellow who has just paid $20,000 to settle a breach of promise case thinks differently. It was a Vassar girl who, when a sailor of forty years’ voyagings had been pointed out to her as an “old salt,” sub sequently alluded to him as “ancient chloride of sodium.” A Michigan farmer writes to the fac ulty of Yale: “What are your terms for a year? And does it cost anything extra if my son wants to learn to read and write as well as row a boat ?” “ My brains are on fire I” exclaimed an excited ladjr to her husband. “Well, my dear,” said the unfeeling man, taking a revolver from a drawer, “just hold still a moment, and I’ll blow them out.” The meanest man has just been found at Foster, Ohio. He sent one of his children over to a neighbor for a share of his neighbor’s honey, claiming that the bees had collected most of their honey from his choice flowers. We overheard the following conver sation between two darkies the other day: “ Sam, which am de best way to dive?” “ Feet foremost.” “Why am dat?” “ ’Cause dey ken hold da bref de longest.” “ Yah, yah, go away from here, nigger!” He was making a call, and they were talking of literature. “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” she remarked, “always seems to me pailful. Of course you are fa miliar with Bunyan ?” He said he had one on each foot; and they troubled him a good deal. A gentleman committed suicide the other day, and left a paper stating that he did so because his wife was a great deal too good for him. That is why the jury returned a bill recording their opinion that the deceased was in an unsound state of mind. “ Is this the place,” she asked, os she wandered down on the barren sands, “where a young lady—a beautiful young lady—fell into the water last season, and was rescued by a gallant young man whom she afterwards mar ried ?” He looked at her carefully, es timated her at a square 47, with false teeth, and said: “ Yes, ma’am, but don’t know how to swim 1” It is thought that B. Young ought to liavo rjf/worerl from his cholera mor bus, but when it came to ngmrng wun twenty-seven women, each one with a different kind of mustard plaster for her dear husband, and a new kind, of herb tea, it was too much for him. Ev ery woman laid her plaster where there was room, and the prophet went down to his grave like a sandwich.—Burling ton Haickeye. Y’ou boys ought to be very kind to your little sisters. I once knew a little boy who struck his sister a blow over the eye. Although she didn’t slowly pine away and die in the early sum mer time, when the June roses were blowing, with words of sweet forgive ness on her pallid lips, she rose up and hit him over the head with the rolling- pin, so that he couldn’t go to Sunday- school for more than a month, on ac count of not being able to put his best hat on. The following love idyl is translated from the columns of Le Progres, de Saone et Loire: “Two closely entwined bodies of a young man and a young girl were fished out of the river Saone at Verjus the other day. They were encircled by two pocket handkerchiefs tied together; the young girl’s right arm was tied with her scarf to the left arm of the youth, and with her left arm passed over the right shoulder of her lover, the girl held him dose to her. The unfortunate pair were lovers; the youth, who was twenty-one years of age, had drawn an unlucky number and was about to be conscripted into the army for a term of five years. The sad thought of their approaching sepa ration pushed the lovers on to the fatal act. They went to Verjus, and there, after tying themselves, walked slowly and deliberately into the Saone until the waters of the river flowed over and buried them alive. When they were found they were taken to the shore and interred in one grave in the Veijus cemetery. Two Reports from Georgia. N. Y. Evening Poet, Republican. Georgia just now is attracting a good deal of attention, not only by her brand new Constitution, the latest organic law in the Union, but the unusual activity of her statesmen and politicians. Mr. Robert Toombs, not at all discouraged by the indefinite postponement of his promised roll call at Bunker Hill, is trying in various ways to make himself eminent and usefuL A good deal of the credit for what is good and what is bad in the new Constitution belongs to him; and the report that he is to make a run for the United States Senate upon the end of Mr. Gordon’s term, and that the run will be a strong one is not im probable. Outside of Georgia satisfac tion would be felt at the success of some body who iB a less conspicuous repre sentative of old and stubborn notions. A report of a different kind is that which brings Senator Benjamin H. Hill forward as the next Republican candi date for President Improbable as such a result now seems to bo, its mere sug gestion shows how loosely party lines are drawn, and how uncertain is the future of parties. It shows, too, the swiftness with which time has worked political changes. It is not long_since Mr. Hill was chosen by Mr. Blaine as theobjeotof an attack which was'inr tended to revive the dying 'bittemesalbe- t ween Northerners aha Southerners. Yet there is scarcely any Southerner toward whom there is now a better feeling at North; and while he may not haye been tJhoughtmf seriously ns _8. Repub lican candidate for President, certainly he has.been trusted laigelyto strength en and make good the later and con servative Republican policy. ’ Many Republicans would rather, see Hill President than Toombs Senator. Personal Jottings. There is a young lady in Omaha named Hittie Maginn. A thousand Smiths were present at a ‘ebration in New Jersey for the benefit the family. Among Brigham Young’s probable i there is no question but that . Q. Cannon is a big gun. t Advices from Rome represent the Ripe’s health as not so good, and it stated that his limbs are paralyzed. The Mormon apostles decide that a quorum of their number shall rale the church. This makes Apostle Taylor, their head, virtually Brigham Young’s successor. Gen. B. F. Butler, when fighting his battles o’er again, always alludes re- ‘ * Yy to the Southern soldiers as lerates,” and not as “rebels.” The Milwaukee Wisconsin, an influ ential Republican newspapers of the Northwest, mentions Gov. Hampton favorably as a possible candidate for President 1SS0. Ann Eliza, the discarded wife of the late lamented Brigham Young, is cred ited with believing that her old lord and master is now enjoying an atmos phere of 210 in the shade. The Englishman DeTourville, who is under sentence of death for pushing his wife over a precipice in the Tyrol last summer, receives by her will, lately proved in London, a fortune of $200,000. That was what he did the murder for, but little good will it do him. A son of the late Hon. JohnY. Mason, of Virginia, is a captain in the French army. At thirteen years of age he was the hearer of dispatches from Napoleon’s Court to the Confederate government and subsequently served on Gen. Hamp ton’s staff during the civil war. The heirs of John C. Heenan are about to erect a monument to his mem ory. The design of the work is one of simple, touching beauty. It contem plates a plain marble shaft, surmount ed with the appropriate figure of an angel in pugilistic attitude, with bloody nose and a black eye. John Anderson, the Englishman who accused himself in Philadelphia of committing a murder near Colchester, England, last January, now says his confession was false, and that his only object in making it was to obtain a free passage to England. Five sons and seven daughters of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Parker, of Nantucket, are now living, whose ages are respectively 78,76,73,70,68,65,63, 59,57,55, 58, fit These twelve consti- *AflrwyrW'AtrhTiT)inif Kill 'Tlftiii cept one. -which died in infancy. The lafnerwas, at the time of his death, 88, and the mother died at the age of 77. The Houston Telegram has inter viewed Mr. Robt. Kidd, now in that city, who resides at San Felipe, on the Brazos, Texas. He is a native of Am herst county, Va., and is now in his lOfth year. His father died at the age of 104. He has used tobacco, says the reporter, since his 20th year. Never used spectacles, and never weighed over 154 pounds. He made 200 bushels of com and one bale of cotton, without any assistance, in his 99th year. He was a bachelor till his 64th year. Georeiacs. Companies ore already organized to build two new hotels at Milledgeville, should it be elected capital of the State. Mr. J&s. Bennett, of Fayette county, has ten acres of Shockley apples that have paid him SG0Q net profit in the last two years. The Lawrenceville Herald says there is a man in that county who hasn’t on a chan shirt in six months, wife ought to sow a turnip patch on his back. The value of meat annually brought into the State of Georgia is about $18,- 000,000. This array does not dismay those farmers who have their smoke houses at home. Dr. S. C. Brown, of Forsyth county, has dried this year 1,400 pounds of peaches and apples from an orchard of two acres, making about one hundred dollars clear profit Milledgeville has appointed fonr guards, who nightly patrol the Capitol square, lest some vile scamp should torch tire building. Now let Atlanta environ the Opera House. A Spalding county farmer says that frost never comes until the cockle-burrs were fully ripe, and as these have just begun to grow in indications pointed to a late season and the fall maturity of all cotton bolls. Hon. J. H. Blount member of Con gress from the Sixth Dsstrict, last Tues day appointed Mr. G. Simmons, son of Hon.T. J. Simmons, ex-President of the State Senate, as cadet to West Point from stud district Col. Jones, in his “editorial corre spondence” of the Macon Telegraph, tolls the following snake story : “The wife of a farmer residing near Hines- ville, recently hearing one of her chil dren ciy out, while bringing water from the spring hard by, ran to its assistance. Bat imagine her terror at finding a huge rattlesnake twined around the legs of 3he child, and with sounding rattles vainly endeavoring to bite it A rapid inspection showed that the mon- storis laws were distended to the ut most by the protruding legs of a half gorged rabbit Of course it was quickly slain; and the child rescued from her perilous condition.” A Spunky Old Lady* S There was a very spunky old lady at e White House last Friday. She is ntChadesFlodd, ofCohjinbus, Ohidl and as she was; going about with ^er party visiting the public rooms, an ob- sequious ! doar-keeper came up and of fered Ids services to show them about. “If you come with me,” said he, “I will show you the President” Mis. Flood shinned her shoulders and turned her tack .titpon the young man,saying: 4 1 “I have seen him too often in Colum bus; He 'is old~6lioes to me. I never would demean myself by going to See him is an pffiw he has stolen.” A Confederate Torpedo. An Incident of the War Without a Far- alleL Letter to Richmond Whig. * * * But of all the boats in all the tide of time, and of all the daring deeds of mankind in the history of wars, that of Lieutenant Dixon, of the Twenty-first Alabama Volunteers, in the submariue torpedo boat in the Charleston harbor, in 1864, stands un paralleled. This boat operated under water. She could take tho bearing of her enemy more than a mile away, then settle down under the surface of the water, head for the hostile ship and strike her at any depth below the water-line. She required a crew of nine men, all told— a captain or pilot, and eight men to propel her. She was built in Mobile, by Hund ley & McClintock, who took her by rail to Beauregard at Charleston. He called for volunteers from the fleet to man her and use her against the ironsides. Lieut Payne, of the Confederate navy, (a Vir ginian) and eight seamen volunteered to take her out. She was made ready one evening, and lying alongside a steamer. The crew were all at their posts inside the boat. Payne was stand ing in the round hatchway, just about to stoop down into his place and fasten the hatch down, when the waves of a passing steamboat swept over and into her, sinking her instantly. Payne caught by the guards of the steamer and sprang out; the other eight men went down with the boat and perished. In a few days she was raised and again made ready. Payne again vol unteered, and eight sailors with him. This time they were lying by the wharf at Fort Sumter, Payne standing as be fore, in the hatch to give his final or ders, when the boat creened, filled and sank. Payne and two men sprang out, the other six men went down in her and perished. In a few days she was again raised, and Hundley and crew toc-k her into Stone river, where she dived and swam on the water and under it, showing all her powers, until presently she dive I and carried her hapless owner and crew with her to the bottom. When they were found a week after her nozzle was down deep into the mud of the bottom, and the boat was inclining forty-five degrees to the surface. Her ballast had shifted, and her crew were unable to re lieve her, and they all perished. Again she was made ready for action, and though they had seen the fate of the three crews; a fourth, led by Uent. Dixon, of the 21st Alabama infantry, volunteered to take her put and attack the Housatonic, a new corvette, which had just arrived on the station, and was lying outside a few miles off Charleston harbor. . .. - ; ’ Brave Dixon steered his boat with the certainty of fate, struck .the Housa tonic fairly, and blew her whole stem off. The ship sank in two and a half minutes, and the torpedo boat disap peared for ever. Six years afteward men in submarine armor went down to the wreck of the Housatonic, and they report the Torpedian lying on the bot tom, 100 feet from where her great vic tim lies. Undoubtedly the concussion produced by the explosion of the tor pedo destroyed instantly the lives of Dixon and his crew. Sitting Bull. He says Ills Name is Charles Jacob, and that he is an Alumnus oi St, John’s. We make the following extract from a letter written by a correspondent of the New York World from “Fort Walsh, Cypress Hills, British North west Territories The mystery that has hitherto shrouded the person of the great Sioux warrior has been removed. In conver sation after dinner with one of the po lice officers the other day he said that he was a native of Fort Garry, and an Alnmnus of St John’s College there— statements which he himself afterward confirmed. Several old traders who have had a look at him declare that they remember him well as Charlie Jacobs, a half-breed who attended the college in its infancy thirty years ago. This young Jacobs was of Objibway birth, and was a remarkably intelligent lad, with ambition to become a “big Injun." He disappeared from Fort Garry about 1853. When asked by the police officer if he recollected anything about Fort Garry Sitting Bull laughed heartily, and said he knew the princi pal people there, among others Donald A. Smith, the Hudson Bay factor; Jas. Sutherland, Father Vary, now a mis sionary at the Sault. He was also well acquainted with the late James Ross, Chief Justice of the Riel-Lepine Goy- erament in 1869-70; indeed, he says they were boys together. Roes was a half-breed, who after graduating at St John’s College went to Toronto Univer sity, where he was a gold medalist Sitting Bull says his father, Henry Jacobs, was at one time employed as interpreter by Father Proulx on Man Islandj but whether the old gentleman or not he does not know. Sit ting Bull is thoroughly familiar with French and English and several Indian languages. He is about forty-two or forty-tnree years of age, a medium sized, athletic built man, of no distin- ing traits beyond those always ound in the half-breed. He is an ex cellent conversationalist, and will talk on every subject but his plans for the future. Georgia Looking Up* Boitan Herald. The Empire State of the South is looking np. Gen. Bob Toombs, having been assured that his political disabil ities will be removed by Congress this winter, is intending to ran for Senator Gordon’s place. Hon. Benjamin Hill, the amber-haired statesman, is already talked of in Georgia as the next Demo ocratic candidate for the Presidency. Longstreet, now a citizen of Geor- The Crops in Georgia and the South. The following report for the month of August has been issued by the State Department of Agriculture: CORN. The average condition and prospect of com in North Georgia is reported at 103—exactly the same as reported for June and July. This is the only sec tion of the State in which over an aver age crop has been produced. In Middle, Southwest and East Georgia there has been a very decided falling off since first of August—amounting to 9 per cent., or 80 against 89 one - month ago, in Middle Georgia; 5 per cent,, or 67 against 72, in Southwest Georgia; and 9 per cent., or 79 against 88, in East Georgia. In Southeast Georgia the pros pect is unchanged. The general aver age prospect for the State, on the 1st September was 81.7 against 89.8 pi cent. 1st August The prospect Sep tember 1st, 1876, was 106, and Sep tember 15th, 1875, 85 per cent of an average. It is evident from these estimates that the supply of will be deficient corn for next year There has been a general falling off in the prospect throughout the State, varying greatly in the different sections, viz: In North Georgia 2 per cent, or 91 against 93; in Middle Georgia, 4 per cent., or 86 against 80; in Southwest Georgia, 7 per cent, or 73 against 80; in East Georgia, 12.4 per cent, or 76.6 against 88; in Southeast Georgia, 1 per cent, or 91 against 92. The general average for the State was 79 on the 1st September, against 68.6 on 1st August In North Georgia the complaint is com mon that cotton is “late, Borne rust;” in Middle Georgia, “drouth, and some rnst;” in Southwest Georgia, almost uni versally, “rust and drouth;” and in Thomas, Decatur, Early and Dougherty counties, in addition, “caterpillars.” The crop will certainly be short Any difference between the estimates now and the final yield must be attributed chiefly to error in the former, since it is too late in the season for the recent rains—which perhaps have been gen eral—to effect more than secure the present estimates. During the preva lence of a long drouth and under its discouraging influence farmers general ly over estimated the injury to the cot ton crop. Still, the complaint of in jury from rust and drouth are so gen eral—well-nigh universal in large cot ton producing sections of the State— and the cotton being generally late in North Georgia, the final yield will probably, not exceed thre^fourths of ah average crop- T ~ . ■’BtigRam'Yff&iig’sirstate.' Silt Lika diipaJcK to cEieago ‘ 1 The estate of-Brii. mated at from $6,000,000 to but it would be difficult to put any ap proximate value upon it, as it is very widely scattered. He owns large tracts of real estate in many of the settle ments, and mills, buildings, live stock, and a great variety of improvements. He owns nearly all the stock in the street railroads in this city, and large amounts of Utah Central and Utah Southern Railroad bonds, is a large owner in the Deseret Bank, the Deseret Telegraph Company, the controlling proprietor of the great Zion’s Co-opera tive Mercantile Institution, etc. In Ann Eliza’s bill for divorce she estima ted his monthly income at 860,000, which he denied in his reply, and stated that his monthly income would not exceed $6,000. He had already distributed a considerable amount of property among his children, and as he was very punctilious in regard to his affairs, it is probable that his will has been drawn to preclude, if possible, any legal complication. Through life he was averse to lawyers and the settle ment of disputes through the courts. It is doubtful whether it will be possible to avoid complications and law suits in the settlement of this vast estate, and it is more than likely that the lawyers may have many a fat fee before the will disposed of. A clause in the will directs that Brig ham shall be buried in a rosewood cof fin three inches wider than his body, so that if he had a disposition to turn over he might do so; that he be laid on a cotton mattress; that his body be borne to the grave on a bier, and he he buried in a stone vault, a stone slab to be placed over the top. He requests that none of the male members of the family should wear crape or emblems of mourning, and that the females should not purchase mourning dresses, though they might wear such if they had them. Political Notes. Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, has written a letter on CoL Scott’s proposi tion to increase to regular army as one means of solvinh the labor question. Judge Black thinks this would not be a remedy, bnt an aggravation of the disease, and with grim humor suggests that it would be better and cheaper to charge the national treasury with fair wages to employees and let the corpor ations have the fruits of their labor as clear gain. A despiser of the President and all bis policies proposed the following res olution in the Pennsylvania Republican State Convention, but hadn’t tne cour- ;e to insist on its being read. The tairman suppressed it, bnt the wicked reporters fonnd it ont: Resolved, That this convention regards with admiration the President’s faithful attention to his Christian duties, and we cordially recommend that to the morning and evening service at the White House be added the little hymn, “When I can Read my Title Clear.” The Mayor of Hot Springs, Ark, dispenses impartial justice. A few days ago, having committed an offense f against the peace and dignity of the ifTtalked offor United States Mar- city, he opened his court in the mom- shal. Georgia intends to be a live mem ber of the Union. “The funeral was all that could be expected,” says an aged lady who looks ~— these events with an artistic eye. display of flowers was grand, and e widow wept like a bom angel.” At Richmond, Va., pedestrians axe crossing the James river without wet ting the soles of their shoes, so loir is the water. ihg by arraigning himself for violation of “ordinance number ten,’ and pro- Donnded the Query, “Gmltyjor not guilty ?” “Guilty, your honor,” was hisprompt response in the capacity of culprit to himself in the capacity of Mayor. “This prisoner is: fined five dollars and oosts,” said the Mayor to himself as prisoned and.-it .Wia so'entered on record.' Having4hns disposed of his owhichBehe'paBsedj withrRbman dig nity to the consideration of .others; c-- CONTRACT RATES OF ADVERTISING. One«quMeon» month— $ <00 toe squeio three months- - S M One square iix n— T - 12 00 One aquare twelve M 00 One-fourth column one mnpfrh 10 00 One-fourth edlnmRfliwa manftfL 20 00 One-fourth column SmoSS-!™... SO 00 toeAonrlh column twelve month! One-half column one 2*«-JaIf column three montha On e-half column fix month*..™., One-hall column twelve month!..... One oolumn one inneiv „ M , One column three months. 60 00 One column six moatha 104 00 One column twelve montha, , , 100 00 pm* Tha foregoing rates are tor either Weeklj Tri-Weekly. When published In both papers^ 50 per cent, additional upon table rates. The Had Stone. Courier- Journal. I Saw a genuine mad stone to-day, the only one to my knowledge in Har- rodsbrirg, Ky. It is in the possession of a farmer of this county, one W. F. Clarkspn, who proved its virtues, for the fifty-ninth time since he has owned it, this morning by applying it to a wound thought to have contain 2d virus from the saliva of a mad dog. The stone actually stuck—adhered to the wound for over one hour, absorbing the poison, its owner said. Mr. Clarkson,(who resides near Pleas ant Hill postoffice, h«a had thin stone in his possession for twenty-three years, and during this period has successfully treated fifty-nine cases of bites of dogs, cats, snakes, and poisonous insects, as many persons redding in Marion, Washington, and Casey counties ™ testify, including physicians, who were skeptics in regard to its curative quali ties before witnessing experiments with the stone. Peter Saunders, of Washington coun ty, wo3 badly bitten four years ago by a mad dog, and it is said by reliable persons, was entirely relieved by the application of this identical stone, and several hogs and horses, bitten at the same time by the same deg that bit Saunders, died of hydrophobia. The particulars of this affair, including a communication from Dr. Yandell, of Louisville, who ridiculed the idea of a curative powers, were published about that time in the Springfield Kentuck ian, and the article was extensively copied and commented upon. Mr. Clarkson claims to have procured this stone of an Italian, who brought it from Switzerland. It ia about one inch long, and perhaps weighs about two ounces. It resembles somewhat a piece of bone, being very porus, the pores running in one pirection and a parallel, though it is much harder than bone. After being applied to a wound con taining virus, until it ceases to adhere, it requires to be soaked in a mixture of warm milk and water, when it may be again applied, and so on until all the poison has been absorbed or drawn out. Clarkson was once offered a handsome price for it by parties in Canada, bnt refused to part with it. It has afforded considerable revenue to its present poe- An Important Invention. Sin Antonio Expnu. An Express reporter while wander ing about the city yesterday wad end- daily, and Co his surprise, tenderly em braced by Mr. Jake Marshall, and in vited to that 1 gentleman’s residence to inspect a contrivance for the loading of — v-”- — -notion. A chanced to he upon a west-hound train with Mr. -vJ.An'ttio nrohabilify ofaVOilJ- . to “taking in” (food was discussed. Mr. Marshall, having been in the days of his earlier life a man of no mean mechanical ability, declared that he could invent a means for loading the wood without stopping the train, and upon reaching his home he at once set his mihd to work to invent a machine for such a purpose. It was to show the reporter the result of his labor that Mr. Marshall invited him to his residence yesterday. Beyond doubt, he has achieved success. The machine consists of a flexible plat form elevated a few inches above tire height of the tender, upon which the cord wood is piled. As the train pass es, by the use of a lever the engineer throws out a catoh which takes the course of a groove in which a band that revolves the rollere underneath the platform is passed around the rollers, moving toward the tender, into Which the wood is thrown. After the wood is discharged the platform recedes and escapes the cars, which fly by, and no time is lost An Astonished Dutchman- Misers’ Journal. A Dutchman in the Pennsylvania oil regions let his lands to an oil com pany last spring on condition of receiv ing one-eighth of the oil procured. The well proved to be a pretty good one, and the former began to think the oil men should give him a better chance, and ventured to tell them so. He said they ought to give him one-twelfth. The arrangement was finally made, with the understanding -: that the Dutchman was not to toll any one. All went smoothly until the division day came, when onr friend was early at hand to see how much better he would be off under the new bargain. Eleven bar rels were rolled to one aide for the oil men and one for him. “How’s dish?” said he. “I dink I I was to get more as before. You haf made some mistakes.” The matter was explained to him that he formerly got one barrel out of eight, but it was his proposition to take one out of every twelve. This revela tion took him aback. He scratched his head, looked crass and relieved hi9 breast of feelings of self-re proach by indignantly remarking: “Well, dat ish de first time as I ever knowed eight was more as dwelve.” From the report of the Commission er of the General Land Office it appeals tfat the Southern States have received the following donations of land for the purpose of internal improvements: Acres. Alabama- — 3,579,e20 Florida Louisiana 1,577,840 Arkansas Missouri- — —-—2,894,160 Total to Southern States—15^91,483; The donations .to Northern States have been as foRom:' .... Wisconsin 5,236,797- Minnesota -—— —9,664,042 Oregon —1,888,600 Illinois 3,249,968 Iowa 6,795,259 Michigan 5,062,480 . ‘ —8^40,000 - Ohio- -1A0Q.361 . Tnijlap* —- —.t 1>439,279:;) Total to Northern States—- Curran was once defending a Miss Tickle befbre a Judge whcioduld take a joke. Saiftimfeiwert.izT “Tickle, ^my client, the defendant, the Judge cynically replied i “Tickle her youraelf, Curran, you die £M well able to do it as I am.”