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WEDNESDAY, - - JOLYII, IB77 ’
CHOP NEW*.
The friends of the ChboMci* aWd
Constitutionalist in Oeorgi* and
South Carolina will greatly oblige tw by
sending, from time to tfme, brief let
ters showing the condition of the crops.
We would like to hare a letter once a
week from every locality where the
Chronicle and Constitutionalist cir
cul ates.
Hates has snubbed Mossr. Good !
The Radicals in Mississippi har
shout concluded to run no ticket in tna
State. Sensible,
Returning Board Kenner is to h
deputy naval offioer in the New Orieai.
Custom House.
Oaket Hall, being well up in wa
topics, is supposed to be a Herald oorres
pondent on the Han n be.
Twenty of the Harvard graduating
class failed of their degrees. Some were
“plucked” for immorality.
A Cincinnati woman asked a clergy
man to christen her little dog, and seem
ed surprised when he refused.
The Nicholls government has already
tracked np the defalcation of Packard’s
subordinates to the tune of $156,000-
Clerk Adame’ latest report shows that
the Democratic majority of the House
is ears to be eleven, and may be eighteen.
Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, denies
the report that he ia to become coadju
tor of the New York Cardinal Arch
bishop. m • r
Packard says Hayes has thrown
away 19 electoral votes and every Con
gressional district in the South. Bully
for t
Blaine admires Robeson and Robeson
admire# Blaine. It is a case of Jack
Shephard pronouncing an eulogy upon
Hick Turpin.
Mb. Tildbn has one consolation, He
is the only Presidential candidate who
had a clear majority of the popular vote
and was not inaugurated.
It is i>aid that the Russian General
who led the vanguard over the Danube
is a German, Rnd, translated into Eng
lish, his name is Carpenter.
Sir Walter Scott was the first “inter
viewer,” according to the modern ac
ceptance of the word. See introductory
chapter of the Fortunes of Nigel.
— T .
The Republican party in Mississippi
has practically dissolved, because the
negroes have no white rogues to or
ganize them and the bayonet has played
out.
John Horn, Jr., of Detroit, has res
cued one hundred and thirty persons
from drowning. He has lost 81,BO**
worth of clothing in these humanitarian
efforts.
The Constitution boasts that Atlanta
is by all odds the best off financially of
any Georgia city—and this too despite
the fact that she is considered reckless
And rapid.
Ip the Eastern and Western Radicals
will let some of the States go Democrat
ic, jnst to “rebuke the Administration,’
they may proceed at leisure to wind np
the oonoern. m * m
lowa "rebukes” the President for liv
ing up to the very platform it endorsed.
A Radical-Republican cares no more for
a reform platform than a smuggler does
for a custom house oath.
Blaine does not believe in “giving np
hail of the Constitution to save tb
rest.” He likewise does not believo in
giving np any railroad bonds receive
for services rendered as a Congressman
<Qen. Toimbs was really the first pal'
lie man in Georgia to urge the remora
of the objectionable “rebel” clause it
our State Constitution ; but Jim Blaine
thinks Mr. Hill was at the bottom of it
*n. t
Silistma, before whioh the Russians
aro said to be in foroe, is a famous for
tress. The Russians failed to take it in
1773 and 1809. They took it in 1829.
In 1854 they failed again to reduce it.
Its surrender in 1829 is said to have
been due to treachery and gold.
The Baltimore Gazette shows how the
line 5 finely drawn in belligerent Re
publican circles thus: “When Colonel
Wilkins, in the offloe of General Ttleb,
BA id that a statement of the latter was
•false,’ that stern warrior objected to
suoh language in his office. Whereupon
Mr. Wilkins went out of his offloe, and
standing at the door said: 'Now, I am
oat of your office, I say it is s lie;
whereupon the warrior arose and shut
the door. Thus did he wash out in gore
the aspersion upon his honor.”
The Boston Globe gives its experi
ence of a common nuisance. It says :
“The average college graduate who ap
plies at this office for a place, generally
wants to know ‘if there is a vacancy in
the position of dramatic editor or liter
ary oritts.’ He expects to receive SSO
a week the first month and SIOO a week
afterwards, and is always sure he was
bom to be a great journalist. But after
he is sent to a fire, as his first job, he
finds new light break in on him, and
discovers that his true mission is‘the
liar.’”
A correspondent of the Herald says
Europeans laugh whenever a war-ship
of the Union enters a foreign port. Wo
do not see what there is to langh at.
The iron clad fleets of Europe have only
rammed each other in otherwise peace
ful reviews. The powerful squadrons
of France were useless against Germany.
The torpedo has neutralized their effec
tiveness, and cannon have been con
structed that would sink them at a sin
gle shot. Until these iron-clads show
themselves to be anything more than
expensive coffins, the people of the
United States can afford to let the Euro
peans laugh. Just now the langh is
rather a sickly one,
The New York Commercial Bulletin
gives a statement of dividend and in
terest payments on shares of fire in
surance companies and national banks
doing business in New York city, on
Government and SUte bonds and rail
road securities, payable in July, that
have been announced up to this date.
The total payments announced foot up
$60,301,783, of which [526,978,255 is on
United States bonds, $2,872,647 on
Stale bonds, $1,929,625 on national
bank shares, $16,858, lffO on railway
stocks nod bonds, $287,000 on fire in
snrance nto’ks, and $1,276,096 on m.s
eellaneous et*res. With the addition
of payments on 4ty securities, manu
facturing companies, etg., the total dis
bursements of semi-annual dividends
and interest payment* at the pfcneipal
cities will aggregate in the neighbor
hood of $75,000,000-
The Boston Advertiser gives some
interestingstatistiea from 49 of the larg r
cotton mills of New England. They
make about 80 per t. of all cotton goods
in the North, and consume annually
385 000 bales. In the first six months
of the present year they worked up 89,-
238,842 pounds. As the quality of the
crop of 1876-7 was much better than that
of the season before, the Advertiser
thinks it safe to assume that these
figures represent an inmeose (in pounds)
of 5 per cent, i* *e quantity of goods
turned out. These goods have founds
market, there is uo large accumulation
on hand, and the demand is perceptibly
improving. H prices ean be kept down
this Summer, the Advertiser thinks Au
tumn will find the New England mills
unable to keep np with their orders.
a Wide sPUT.
The Republican party of Maryland is
in hopeless disorder, consequent upon
the deadly altercations of Federal office
holders and ambitious men who attitu
dinize as leader*. The present hubbub
has been occasioned by the dismissal of
Collector Wilkins, of the Baltimore
Custom House, and appointment of Mr.
John L. Thomas. The recent history
of this change may be read between the
lines of the following extraordinary, not
to say “cheeky,” letter :
Office of the Baltinobe Anamcan, I
Baltthoee, May 80,18T7. j
To Bis Excellency, Rutherford B. Hayes :
Dea* Sib— Aa the appointment of Colonel
Wii-Kihs to the Collectoralup of Baltimore waa
partly uixrn my recommendation, it ia proper
f.irine to *!ate, in asking hi* removal, that I
mdoraed him with the poeitire assurance frrm
i.m that he would be willing to retire at the
il'ise of Preailent Grant’s term, in favor of
•fr. Thomas The President had. of hie own
volition, assured me that he would aak Mr.
Booth to resign and appoint Mr. Th iHas. ad
mitting that he had done tho latter great in
justice and waa desirous of undoing it. He
asked and received the resignation of Collector
Booth, when Mr. Ceeswell interfered and in
sisted that Mr. Thomas should not be appoint
ed The President then said that he would
appoint any one that Mr. Ceeswell and myself
would select. As we were in the midst of the
canvass it was necessary that prompt action
should be taken, and Colonel Wilkins agreed
to take it for the balance of President Qeast s
term.
Thus this appointment was made, and as
soon as Colonel Wilkins became Collector he
need his power to drive Mr. Thomas from the
Chairmanship of tha State Central Committee,
failing in which he commenced an open war on
the oommtttee, and did all in his power, in co
operation with Mr. Cbeswelt,, to hamper and
weaken its influencs. He was a mere persist
ent di.organiser than Collector Booth had
been, and his fosition in the party at present
is such that neither Republicans nor Reform
ers are willing to make nominations for the
municipal contest.
If the Prevalent wiU promptly make the ap
pointments of Maryland that have Ijeen suggest
ea to him try Mr. Thomas ami myself, it will
electrify the whole State, and I promise him in
return Dee election of a Reform candaUUe for
Mayor next Pall. The rural districts of Mary
lantl are Repuh.ican, ami when the Baltimore
rings of the Bourhon Democracy are broken
their power uhll he gone.
With much respect and thanks for the ap
pointment of General Tyleb, I am. very re
spectfully, yours, f HABi.Es C. Fulton.
The publioatlon of this letter acted
like a bombshell in Baltimore and Ad
ministration circles. The camp imme
diately divided between Wilkins and
Thomas, the friends of the former threat
ening to go over iu a body to the aid of
Democratic candidates. The President
must have been wofully deceived by
editor Fulton, of the American. The
Democracy are od the broad grin at his
promisee. The oouutry does not “elec
trify ” worth a cent, it is true that
Fi-lton has got the scalps of his party
antagonists, but the party itself is rent
in twain. The Democrats are happy,
because their triumph will be all the
easier, and the disgust of the country
with the existing race of Federal office
holders must be complete. Gail Ham
ilton has material for another letter.
IN THE “*BW YOIIK TRIBUNE” IWO
iUBPNOV
The contest of the Tribum with its
printers, standing as it does alone among
its contemporaries in New York, is sup
posed to argue financial distress. Five
years ago, Jay Gould gained control of
the paper, and Whitelaw Kei& became
managing editor. The shares were val
ued then at SIO,OOO each and the estab
liahment at $1,000,000. It was out of
debt and had a cash surplus. We learn
from a Massachusetts exchange that du
ring the Intervening time there have
been no dividends paid to its stockhold
ers; a debt has aeoanmlstad of from a
half to three quarters of a million,
possibly more; the shares could not ow
be sold for $5,000 apiece; and it ig re.
ported th at Jay Gould is seeking to get
rid of the property at almost uny price.
Some months ago, we ffjjderstand, Pres
ident Andrew White of Cornell JJniver
sdv sought to buy it. The property was
offered to him for half a million, inelnd
>ng real estate and deb*- 8 - Hut an ex
rtmination of the condition of things by
himself and his friends convinced theta
that it was not worth what wa asked,
and .they withdrew from the negotiation.
The chief causes of the paper’s de
oline are supposed to be the moral taint
of Jay Gould’s ownership? the money
sunk in an expensive building wft.h a
tall tower; an alliance with Blaine polit
ically; and the subserviency of its edito
rial page to proprietary scandals.
The Springfield Republican is partial
to the Tribune and would welcome its
return to ancient prestige ami popularity.
It thinks that separated from its debts
sod its real estate, the paper is well
worth a half million dollars to-day. But
it is the eonvu*io4 of those who know
most about its affair* th at its debts
greatly exceed the value of its b#iJ4jngs
and land; and, unless in some way the
tide in its affairs is changed, some ravo
lntiou oneuf&d both in its attitude to
ward the puiiiiA wd Ike attitude of the
public toward it, the*® ifi certainly dan
ger of its drifting on to hsukrUidisy,
This is a singular state of affairs, gftd •
yet it is creditable to the public that It
will not support a paper that has Jay
Gould tor a c<*droiler. A journal, like
A nation, must have > moral life.
UI.AINK, OF MAIN£.
The stalwart Republicans, who ioye
not Mr. Hayes, are evident P*rsh}.b
ing under the lead of Mr. JamT!*
Blaine, “the plumed knight” of Maine,
the dramatic victim of a fortunate son
stroke, the man who still holds Mulli
gan’s “mimorandy,” the antagonist of
Ben Hill, and the brother-in-law of
Gail Hamilton. It is true that Mr.
Blaine has shining and showy qualities
aud most dexterous talents. He made
a notable Speaker of the House, and
is said to have also made much money
as a Congressman. He is a master of
parliamentary tactics, but, by his own
confession, he kuows no law. Mr. La
mar, of Mississippi, and Mr. Tucker, of
Virginia, who know a great deal of
law, have, on several occasions, made
Mr. Blaine's deficiency painfully ap
parent. They have, jn.point of fact,
temporarily struck him dumb, sharing
in this feat an equal honor with the
noontide sun. Mr. Blaine has
many elements of a popular leader,
especially among Machine men and the
“stalwart” members of the Republican
party. No one better knows how to in
terpret the passions and prejudices of
the worst forces of his political follow
ing, and no one is bolder than be in
riding a hobby in the best manner of
the opera bouffe 6tagc. His recent
speech at Woodstock, Connecticut, is
the real opening gun of the campaign
against the Democracy and the South.
It is also a note of warning to the Presi
dent that he mnst slink back into the
folds of the serpent of party, or else pre
pare for the worst that the shop of
Blaine A Cos. contains.
We did not know, nntil Mr. Blaine
avowed it, that war with Mexico or peac
able annexation of a large slice of that
sister Repsblie was part of the pro
gramme of the immediate future. Of
course, there bad been some newspa
per talk about this: bnt it read more
like the wild jargon of a Bohemian than
anything else. But Mr. Blaine tries
to get ap a genuine scare on the sub
ject, and, in order to make his bugaboo
the more effective, give* it a rakish Con
federate appearance, and proposes to
offset it by the scooping np of Canada.
So, to prove Mr. Jug Blaine a veritable
seer, this country, already groaning and
sweating under an almost intolerable
burden of taxation, mast ran atilt with
the greasers of Memos and the subjects
of Great Britain. The Woodstock au
dience may have swallowed all of this
ghastly nonsense; bnt we do not be
lieve a msjority of people as
sembled there did so seriously.
We know of no overpowering de
sire on the part of the South to be
allied politically with any more half
breeds, and thereds, presumably, no ir
repressible conflict, outside of Maine,
to make war upon Canada.
But let us see what it is that so tetri
fiee the “plumed knight,” We quote
tha concluding passages of his speech :
The cansolsUted strength of the sixteen
States that were lately sUvetaolding ia a tre
msadoos politic ,L fori, embodying almost
ons-half the Senate of the United SUte*
more than one-third or the House of Repre
sent Ativca. and about two-fifths of the aggre.
gate Electoral College. This entire clement
ia controlled by a small minority of the people
of thoee States; it will be wielded in the fu
ture with the unity of despotism, and aims at
permanent domination in the Government of
the country. Let ns look the future equarely
in the face, prepare for the danger in season,
and avert it if possible. I take my position
without hesitation, without distrust, without
acrimony, and without concealment. I believe
that Southern contiol in the Government of
the Union ia the worst possible result, even for
the South itself. I believe that it ia menacing
and dangerous to every interest in the land; I
believe that the men who in battle and in
counsel saved the Union should govern it; I
believe that the men who for four years sought
the life of the nation should not be intrusted
with its supreme control: I believe that the
hereby of the citizen’s primary allegiance be"
ing due to his State—a heresy which has al
ready wrought so mnch misery and shed so
much blood-should be confined to the States
that chenah it, and not be permitted to install
itself in the Government of the nation; and,
finally. I behove that any policy which con
templates. or by any possibility involves, the
annexation of Mexican territory or any other
addition to the disturbed elements of the
South, is at war with the highest interests of
every American citizen, of the generation that
now "is, and of thoee countless generations
which, in the Providence of God, shall suc
ceed to our proud title and to its continually
widening responsibilities.
Mr. Blaise is aghast with contem
plating the ghost of the Confederacy!
What a tribute the South has forced
from his reluctant lips ! We have been
defeated in battle by overwhelming
odds; we have lost property enough to
set up in luxury a dozen nations; we
have been subjected to the role of the
bayonet; we have been “reconstructed”
repeatedly; the unfriendly legislation of
Jim Blaine & Cos. has been more de
vouring of onr snbstanoe than the war
fare of their betters in the field; we have
been robbed, insulted and brow-beaten,
commercially and otherwise—the re
sources of men and devils have been ex
hausted to debauch and unman us—and
yet, after seventeen years, full of war and
the horrors of an angry peace, we are
more powerful than ever, though poor.
This failure to stamp out the life of the
South is what galls Jim Blaine; but it
is the bitterness of death for him and his
to know and feel that every art he
and his employed to destroy us has been
made, in the Providence of Gop, an in
strument of our total and permanent
deliverance. The South does not as
pire to control the Government by any
but lawful means. If she can gain that
control lawfully, why not ? It may not
please BbAINSS, of Maine, if snoh shonld
be the oase; but men who sow the wind
need not be surprised if, at some time
or other, they reap the whirlwind.
But the most audacious doctrine
of Jim Blaise is where he asserts that a
Government wbioh does pot protect
every citizen iu every State baa no right
to allegiance. Mr. Blaine had better
read the history of his country, and
especially that part which refers to
tbs formation of the Federal Govern
ment. it wit! dp Jiim good and mend
his ignorance to pursue such a course of
study. Even the Cincinnati Gazette,
disgusted with this heresy, reminds
the wipdy orator that ours is a country
of law, not a ftlpb wielded by a Presi
dent, It adds : ”?hp ptqteption of
citizens ia left to law, administered by
the citizens of the vicinage, We should
have to abolish the protection of law to
the citizen in order to put a club in the
hands of the President to make him the
protector of everybody. Republicans
can regfegjber the time when it was well
for the® th 4 m mk olnb was in the
hands of the President. WP 4° not
propose to make onr Government Ifec
that of Dahotny, even for the promise of
having Mr. Blaine to wield the protec
tive*!^.”
If Mr. Jim MLAaNS desires to go before
the people of this country • his present
platform of centralization, let him sound
hi* bugle again and begin. If President
tyiij fegjain true to the Constitu
tion and tfm laws not * ear
Blaine. There will bo nothin? left of
the Maine man’s plume in such a non
test, not enough to partially cover the
disreputable nakedness of Job s turkey.
(t¥ 4 SfKjyaPAPER.
Tho Chicago Inter Ocean has seen fit
to make public an itemized account of
jts career since it was first established
up to tii& {WBflpnt week. The editor
premises that tew pflderstand or
have any idea of the rasbusai Of tiffi Un
dertaking to build up a great daiiy
newspaper. He says: “Ten or twenty
j yesr§ ago it was a comparatively insig
nificant But in these days
of telegraphic e* teeing over two
hemispheres, end cabtesefr efabiftg
oceans and seas, with an educated public
that demands the latest news from Con
stantinople, St. Petersburg, London
and lean jPrfMfjaoo, as well as that from
R<*kford, and Kankakee
—that rqnuleee obiW ml activation
in the editorial chair- that insists Utap
there shall be reporters learned inlaw,
science, theology, art and mnsio—that
that an epitome of the world’s
doing pa lgjd upon the breakfast
table 0* early and regular,’
the**, til these bfti faintly tfrow forth
an undertaking
tnde of such an enterpn—
fail to be a draft on the purse, the ■- *
and the mind, taxing endurance' If a
man has gray hairs and plenty of money,
let him'refrain from embarking in the haz
ardous experiment. Even if he has
yonth and money let him hesitate.”
Having shown what demands are made
by the publio and how hard it is to
comply with them, especially when that
publio grows, as it often does, ill-natnred
and nngratefnl, the editor reveals the
business of the office with a formidable
array of facts and figures. It is shown
that the Inter-Ocean started in March,
1872. On the 31st December it had
sunk $62,571 75.- In 1873 the loss was
$34,847 92. In 1874 an additional sum
of $60,849 67 went the way of the rest.
In 1875 the ocean of indebtedness swal
lowed np a farther pile of $71,116 65.
On the 20th day of October the old com
pany sold out. So trying was the sit
uation that the new company lost before
the close of the year, less than seventy
five days, $14,005 79. And daring the
year 1876, in spite of every effort at
economy, the loss of the new organization
was $59,313 29. In five years and a
little over, therefore, the paper had
sank more than three hundred thousand
dollars. This was discoaraging enongh;
bat brains, enterprise and true grit won
at last. According to the statement now
before us, the tide has turned. There
is no longer an annual loss sufficient to
support a second-class paper in laxary
for a year or two, bnt a large balance to
the credit of the concern. The profits
of the paper for the first five months of
this year are set down at $42,208 44.
The circulation is estimated at 26,000
daily copies.
We are not always able to agree with
the Inter Ocean politically, bnt its en
terprise is worthy of all praise. Very
few papers, however substantially back
ed by “ demnition cash,” would have
been able to fight and conquer as this
Chicago jonnal has done, and from the
nettle danger pluck at last the flower
safety.
Grant having about got through with
the “bloated aristocracy” of Great Bri
tain, has commenced tickling the work
ingmen. The World punctures the ex
sovereign’s speech by showing that the
emigration to Great Britain from this
country last year exceeded in numbers
the immigration from Great Bn tain
hither. A bitter comment on the true
relations between Grantism and the
working classes. And yet Jim Blaine is
howling for a return to Grantism.
CZAR ALEXANDER.
A DRAMATIC PICTURE!
A -ttrniaincenc-r of the Snpmr NlckelM
fMettare Brtwcea 1N26 nnd 1577
Hiller, Be pealing Tt*ll- 1 lie Path of
[A. Y. Times—Editorial.]
The Czar’s rumored displeasure at the
ill-supplied condition of his army is
doubly justified by tha fact that the
esme mismanagement wbioh is now de
laying his progress on the Danube was
impeding that of his father when ho
himself was a child seven years old. It
is sufficiently curious that the last ap
pearance of a Russian Emperor on the
scene of actual warfare should have been
made on the same spot, and in the same
way, as the present one. In the Danube
campaign of 1826, undertaken by Nicho
las within a few months of his accession,
he determined to enconrage the troops
by his personal presence; and his ap
pearance at Ploiesti stili lingers in the
memory of some few of the oldest resi
dents. His first exploit on the Danube
was within a hair’s breadth of being his
last. On the green slope that rises be
hind Ibraila there is still standing a tall
obelisk of gray stone, with Russian in
scriptions on its four sides, one of which
runs thus : “On this spot, by the grace
of God, the Emperor Nikolai Pavlovitch
escaped death from a cannon ball dur
ing the siege of the town in 1826.” The
Czar’s personal experience of war was a
brief one. Disgusted at the miserable
plight of his troops, and the utter break
down of the mechanical routine in which
he delighted before the rough test of
actual warfare, he speedily returned
home, leaving the chief command to
Count Diebitsch, the future hero of
Adrianople.
Since his depth the Russian military
system has been greatly changed for the
better. The reduction of the term of
service from twenty-five years to seven,
the improved food and lodging of the
rank and file, the gradual adoption of
the barrack system instead of that of
“quartering out,” and the comparative
disnse of the odious and barbarons pun
ishments of the old regime, have done
much good, though it must be owned
that the commissariat still shows defects
enough to justify the trenchant distich:
“ Busaki sold&t, molodetz.
Kuaski komisar, podletz!”
(The Russian soldier is a fine yellow ;
the Russian commissary a villain.)
Had Nicholas’ life been prolonged, the
spectacle of a Russian Czar on a battle
field would probably have been seen once
more ; for in his agony of grief and
rage at the successive disasters which
overwhelmed him, he was meditating a
departure for the army when the news
of Eupatoria proved his death blow.
His last review (held, by a strange and
terrible irony of fate, on the very day of
the great defeat on the Alma) was that,
of the cavalry of the Guard, just before
their departure for the Crimea, and
when he had blessed and taken leave of
the splendid horsemen as they defiled
before him in all the bravery of their
gorgeous trappings, departing never to
return, then, for the first and last time,
the iron man fairly burst into tears. Five
months later his reign and life ended to
gether, and his son, with characteristic
love of peace, put an end to the conflict
as soon as possible, little dreaming that
he was one day to lead an army in the
very steps of his father, and avenge the
latter’s defeat upon the ground which
had witnessed them.
[Herald Correspondence .l
Ploejestj, June II. —The Emperor
Alexander has arrived in Ronmania. He
has made his entry successively into
Jassy and Ploejesti. In the last of those
two towns His Majesty was received
quite in a modern fashion; at Jassy, on
the contrary, his passage had borrowed
from antiquity a usage that had long
been forgotten. Iu old time the passage
of great personages was marked by a
sacrifice, and a madman resolved that
the sovereign of all the Russias should
not be less honored than the tyrants, the
satraps and tie Pharaohs of the past.
Bipod on flie Path of the Czar.
Be tfiprefofe deliberately stabbed him
self to the heart. TTnfortunately the
Czar, in whose honor this fine blow was
struck, is the duly person who, even to
the present day, kuows nothing about it.
It was thought best to conceal from His
Majesty the excessive zeal of an old offi
cer of excellent qualities and great per
sonal courage, who had the drawback of
becoming easily excited when going un
der fire. I had seen this strange person
dqrfyg ®y stay af Jassy. I had even
dined with hi®. JJe wits a handsome
man, of some thirty years, with a face
that would make the fortune of a manu
facturer of wax figures. The face was
regular in its features, with a serene ex
pression; the eyes and the mustache
were black; the dress gray cream choco
late. jTe’a’&eeted the Circassian style,
which has repeated or imitated the uni
form of the Cossacks, with all the ac
cessories, pistol, poignard and cartridges
on the breast and Astrakan cap.
pjieyajier of Ht. George.
On his outsail the cross of St.
George, which, notwithstanding his de
sertion, this Pole still wore, because the
cross of St. George is ouly given for gal
lant deeds, and is rather a mark of ac
knowledgment than an honorary sign.
For Jfjis paeon nothing can deprive the
pobsesSor bi ’U' because nothing can
wipe out an accomplished A chev
alier of St. George might kill his father
and mother, might even rob or commit
any other crime without for this ceasing
to be a chevalier of St. George. The
®ge actions of the future suicide had
. Skd fey attention. From curiosity
I informed 'my'llel/ about him, yet
thought so little tbeu that tub informa
tion would prove of use to me that 1 aid
not write down his name, which I have
since forgotten, and which—this is a
characteristic Russian trait - has never
been motioned to be by any one.
ins .ijfee C/ar.
This man came n,e;r pajjsipg the Em
peror some annoyance, and, therefore,
every good Russian must forget his nan®
on the moment. This name should be
torn from the memory, and ail those to
whom I addsessed myself answered me :
“ t fiave forgotten that wretch’s name.”
I know very yell jtu&f £7 persisting I
should have discovered a BftftSiaa with
a more sceptical memory, but I have
preferred to remain iu ignorance in or
der to be able to inscribe anew evidence
of Russian servility toward their sov
ereign. This suicide of Ki—which is all
I know of bis name—was a Pole, who,
after gaijiibg f g/Iyancment, de
serted. The £mp£r6f, jo wnoju be pp
! psai6il pardon, bad answered hin*
u'et nojl baying been judged
that, conse
he was —Anil ’ geaing
quently, no p_ to q.esgrrion,
this the unfortunate, - fjfe)
fell into his old habits and dese.
This is a madman', who is not more in
teresting than other madmen, and it
would not be worth while to devote so
much space to him except to connect
his act with the hesitations concerning
the war, which still exist in the super
stitious mind of the Czar. The son of 1
Nicholas, who, it is said, promised his
dyiDg father not to make war during
his reign, hardly leaves Russia—that is
to say, hardly entered on the campaign
—when his way is marked by the stain
of blood. This was something calculat
ed to make him reflect —to stop him,
perhaps. But he never learned any
thing about it, and so the war continues.
CROPS IN CEOIUiIA.
Condition of Ibe L'fl> iu Warren.
I Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist .]
Pleasant Hill, Warren County, July
3.—Crops in this section are looking
well. Most farmers are cleaning
their crop of grass. Although there
are a great many crops suffer
ing for want of attention, labor is
plentiful, and a majority of laborers are
working well, I think better than in
previous years. Wheat was seriously
damaged on account of the rainy spell
of weather which we have just had.
However, it will be a great help to the
people, as the crop was above the aver
age. The Con-Con is dawning upon us,
with very little interest in this section,
my judgment being based npon the
small vote cast iu its favor. As it is to
be, its proceedings are looked npon by
some with interest. I am not author
ized to say, but I am inclined to think,
that onr representative will favor an im
provement of onr present homestead;
also, the removal of the capital. He is
aware of the great fact that the State of
Georgia is encumbered with debt, and
that it has property, yes, property that
cost heavily in Atlanta. It has proper
ty in Milledgeville which, unless used
for the purpose it was intended for, is a
dead loss to the State, while the property
in Atlanta can be disposed of to advan
tage. Why not then sell the Atlanta
property and remodel the State House
in Milledgeville for future use. It is cer
tain that if the capital is fully establish
ed in Atlanta, the cry will next be heard,
“Anew Capitol Building;” “Anew
Governor’s mansion;” and other like ex
penses to gink the stpte still deeper in a
debt amounting -to not less than a clean
million. And atill we have t<ie Milledge
ville property a dead loss. We want a
sure enongh homestead law, as the one
we have is as flimsy as tissue, like the
ones who framed it. It is useless, how
ever, to discuss these many subjects
which are sure to be presented before
the Convention, as we have men to be
there who will surely look to the best
interest of their beloved Commonwealth.
Vox Popull
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.
ttlg OPINION OP MR. HAYES AND
HIS POLICY.
Itoßekmiles the PoiuNi .11 n4e in Hl* Let
trzJWo-The Harvard RrcepUnn and
It*Meaning— The Republican Party Hopp
le**! y Divided, Etc.
“I am now simply a private citizen,”
said Charles Francis Adams to a New
York Sun reporter, who bearded him in
his Quiucy home. “I have no wish to
go before the public. My duties as
President of the Board of Trustees of
Harvard College required that I should
be in Cambridge and appear publicly
with Mr. Hayes. But the suggestion
that because I did meet him in public
and extended to him a civility which I
think proper to be extended to any one
who holds the office he does—because I
did this that I had changed my views as
expressed in this letter to Mr. Tilden,
which was published, is wholly false. I
have not changed those views, nor can I.
I did feel a little peculiarly when ,1
thought of meeting Mr. Hayes. It is a
hard thing to say of any man that he
bears the stamp of fraud upon his brow,
and, therefore.if Mr. Hayes saw the letter
he must have been touched by it. I did
not write it for publication, but only to
express to Mr. Tilden some sense of my
respect for the maimer in which he had
acted, while the wrong was being done
him. But what I then wrote I still ad
here to. Still, Mr. Hayes came here.
He is the acting President —not the
rightful President, but still he holds the
office; a certain respect is due that of
fice; that is all that my appearance with
Mr. Hayes means.”
“Were the civilities paid Mr. Hayes
by the authorities extended in the same
spirit ?”
“Massachusetts has always extended
civilities to the President. In this
case the State extended such civilities to
the acting President. She did what was
right to do and no more.”
“Can Mr. Haves’ trip and the civility
shown him be takon as an endorsement
of him or his policy ?”
. “ The trip cau do him no harm and no
good. One fact stands out prominent
nothing can overshadow it; and that is
the method by which he received his
office. No policy of his can atone for
that.”
“ Then, in your opinion, the attempt
at civil service reform will not offset the
means by which he obtained the Presi
denev ? ”
“ Not at all. Civil service reform !
What is it—a meie matter of detail. In
significant beside this one great matter.
Policies, reform and such things are
mere side issues. But this matter goes
a way down to our existence. That was
a great crisis through which the coun
try passed last Winter. It is wonderful
that the majority of the American peo
ple, whose will was then overridden,
submitted to it so calmly. I am grate
ful that they did. It is a credit to the
American people that there was uo vio
lence. But, sir,” and Mr. Adams spoke
with impressive solemnity, “it could
never bo so again. The next time such
a thing shall happen
There Will lie Violence, Bloodshed nnd
Ruin.
I havo always been afraid of that
weak clause in the Constitution which
made such U crisis possible. I was very
apprehensive early last Winter when I
saw that those who had been lawfully
elected were to meet with opposition.
When I learned that the matter had
been left to the gentlemen who acted on
the Commission, I felt somewhat re
lieved, because I thought: “Now the
judges, at least, will look at this ques
tion in a fair and judicial light. They
will try to get at the truth. They will
try to learn whom tho ppople elected to
be their President and Vice-President.’
And it seemed so plain who were so
elected that I felt almost assured of
what their decision would be. But what
was the result ? Taking advantage of
technicalities, of legal qnibbles, of every
point that would give them an oppor
tunity of voting as they wished to vote,
the majority declared as it has. Among
other sad results of this decision there
is this one : It has utterly destroyed our
faith in the judiciary so far as political
questions which may come before it are
concerned. Taney, years ago, shook
our faith somewhat when lie ren
dered decisions on questions con
nected with slavery. This latest
action has entirely destroyed that
faith. The judiciary are no longer
to be relied upon as a source of justice
iu political matters. Now this has been
done. Something remains to be done,
and that is the most important, the
most imperative duty at hand. It must
not bo allowed to be slighted. Immedi
ate steps must bo to make the re
petition of this wrong'itnpo.sgible. Jt
must not be a party matter. I hope the
people of all parties will join in making
this demand. Congress ought, tho very
first thing, to begin the consideration of
a constitutional method of preventing
the repetition of sueh a crisis. In every
way that is possible this depiand should
be made. As to Mr. Hayes, J must say
that I feci a sympathy for him. He
menus well, I think, but he is in a false
position, apa therefore a trying position.
His is puj wjll bp the ffiost difficult
course that any president hais eyer had,
a great deal more difficult tjtan of
those two men,” pointing to the por
traits of his father and grandfather,
“and they had it bad enough. I think
Mr. Hayes looks careworn now. I
looked at hi® rather closely at Cam
bridge, and I thought fie seepaej worn.
The cTifjlcnJties'are riot only those which
result from the methods w'hiqji made
him President, but are also those which
he has made sinoe taking his seat. What
has he done ?
He Has Divided, Split Up His Own Party.
There is proof enqugh of that. See
what Republicans in lowa' have
done. There-is a Urge pgf'tiofi that
makes no secret of opposition. Then
see what his Southern policy has done.
There was a time when it was necessary,
as a result of their condition, that the
Southern negroes should be looked after
by the Administration. Now it is a po
litical necessity foir the Republican party
to ’’keep pe'gro ybfce. But M r -
Hayes has lost the’pariy that. Had he
been as shrewd and clear-headed a poli
tician as Blaine or Morton, he wonld
never have done that. I am grateful—
so is every good citizen—that peace and
order have come to the South. But that
Was fcfje policy of the Democratic party,
and the pnlicy feiqep jy would have car
ried out had it not been 'bfbvenfed by
the event which put it in Mr. Hayes’
power to do so. He who had no right
to do it has done right. But he will se
cure no support from the Democratic
party for having done this, and it has
diviqea pfe ov’n. Then there is another
difficulty lie is sniffir. It arises
from the false }*i6srtioli ha todk apod
himself when be'threw Packard over
bcferiTin Louisiana. 'ln either way' in
wfii ph ft J btfetfei M.- fee fe in' a false po
-Uiao. tUrev atod his parfy
-i -a bad lot. Mow,' ifW
overboard a- Mr. Hayes wag
Packard was not
not. There can be no denying w.-
that if he WSfi ousted because he was
not ’elected, Mr. ft aye; is in the same
condition exactly. Tb,e yotps i-byt elect
ed Hayes elected Packard. On the
other hand, if Packard was elected, why
was he to give up his seat as Gov
ernor of Loufsktna? It will be seen
that in either case Mr. JJ;yes is in a
false position, and therefore pis
will be a trying one. I do not see how
he can succeed' in i*. I cannot think it
possible to he snecees/tff i* the face of
all these difficulties.”
The Cossack Cifivalrywciu
The Cossack cavalrymen are all com
-atively youDg men and have young
they set ont on a
* • i white scarf or band
campaign they buy a
kerchief to take with thefilr A-*
of their period of service they WSf urn to
their villages and are met by titfi wpo,e
population. Now a wife who h as been
unfaithful to her lord, kneels down be
fore him in the road, puts her face in
the dnst, and places her husband’s foot
upon her neck. This is a confession of
guilt, and at the same time a prayer for
forgiveness. If the hnsband then covers
his wife’s head with the white scarf, it
means that he forgives her and agrees to
forget her fault. If the white handker
chief is not produced, the woman re
turns straight to her father's house with
out again entering her husband’s dwel
ling, and a divoree is pronounced. Mr.
MacGaham recounts a tragical story
which a soldier told him on the Danube.
A returning Cossack was informed by a
malicious neighbor before he reached
his home that his wife had been unfaith
ful. His comrades pereeived that he
had all of a sudden taken to drink and
dissipation, although he was not a man
given to these vices. When he reached
his village his wife, as he feared, came
forward, knelt down, and put her face in
the dust at his feet. The spectators saw
him look at her as she lay in the dust
for a long time. Two or three times he
put his hand in his breast for the white
handkerchief as if he were goiDg to cov
er the repentant woman’s head —two or
three times the movement was restrain
ed. Finally, as if driven by a sudden
impulse, he drew his sword, and with
one stroke severed her head from her
body. The punishment for the crime
was” two months’ imprisonment, while
the malicious neighbor who had taken
the trouble to inform him beforehand of
his wife’s misconduct jras sentenced to
Siberia for three years.
A little colored girl blown from a
bridge near Milledgeville descended
sixty feet in perfect safety by means of
her parasol acting as a parachute.
A TRIPARTITE TILT.
DESPERATE NAVY BATTLE IN
PERUVIAN WATERS,
Two Urtiil i>lr*-oI \Var Bear wn Upon
a Petnviaa Rebel lla*a—A 'Three Hoars’
£ugneinenl Upon lh Kea-|fclie Bam Dto
nbled nud Boated—The Peruvian Govern
ment Outraged Over the Euglisliers’ ( oil
duct.
Panama, July 6.—The following are
the details of a battle between the Shah
and Amethyst, of the British navy, and
the rebel Peruvian ram, Hnasear. It oc
curred on the 29th of May. The Eng
lish opened fire at about 600 yards, the
first shot carrying away the flag of the
Huasear, which was immediately re
placed. The Huasear replied with her
heavy 300 pound Blakely’s in the turret,
and the Amethyst lying off and on
steadily persisted in her attempts to
rake the ram. The Shah fired her
broadsides, which are discharged by
electricity, and in a few moments
everything on the Hnascar's decks,
except her mast, turret, and
smoke-stack, had disappeared—her
standing rigging, bob steering, gear
and capstan were destroyed in a hot fire
from the English vessels. The Huasear,
however, continued her fire at regular
intervals, sometimes from her turret
guns. A shell from the Amethyst entered
one of her forward ports exploding in
side, killing one man and wounding
several. After the fight had lasted about
an hour and a half the Amethyst was
seen with sj thick smoke issuing from
amidship and steamed away out of ac
tion not returning for twenty minutes,
leaving the Huasear and the Shah alone.
The former now attempted to ram her
adversary but the splendid handling of
the Shah prevented any successful ma
noeuvre of this nature. On approach
ing, as the Huascar’s officers state,
the Shah appeared to move as
if by instinct, and her heavy batteries
were brought to bear on the assailant.
A small Gatling gun stationed in her tops
assisted very seriously in commeding
the combattauts on board the ram. Her
stack is riddled with musket halls. One
three hundred pound shot struck the
turret of Huasear, and penetrated the
iron for two inches and then rebounded.
On the side she was hit twice by the
same shot, and with precisely the same
result.
The Peruvian ram adopted anew
mode of attack, first advancing on the
Shah and then on tho Amethyst, but
the superior speed and superb manage
ment of these vessels prevented her
ramming them. The battle lasted for
three hours. Then the Huasear slowly
retired, the shell from the Amethyst
having destroyed all the primers of the
turret guns, and she headed towards
land for which she had been maneeuvreing
for some time previously. The enemy
did not attempt to pursue, but content
ed themselves with receiving the last
shots from tho Huasear and remaining
about two miles from shore, evidently
keeping watch over their brave antago
nist. The Huasear, attacked at this time
by musketry firing from tho Government
troops on shore, who imagined that a
landing was to be attempted, seut a
messenger with a white flag to the Cap
tain of the port begging for ammunition,
and asking permission to land a few
wounded, who were on board. Only
one man was killed. This was refused,
and the answer was returned calling for
the surrender of the s’- ip, but the Huas
car, being short of ammunition, and ap
prehending a repetition of the English
attack, thought it better to take ad
vantage of a heavy fog, then
rising, and slip quietly down to
Iquique, where the Government fleet
was lyiDg, and where Pierola hoped to
make some arrangement for combined
action against the British forces. The
movement was cautiously executed, and
none too soon, for ahont ien o’clock
a steam launch from the Shah came
stealing through the darkness with a
torpedo, and by a mere chance, avoided
affixing that implement of destruction to
the side of a coasting steamer, in port,
mistaking her for the Hnasca. When
the departure of the ram was made
known, the English disappeared. The
President has issued a proclamation in
which he declares that he will exact
from Great Britain an explanation and
satisfaction consequent on snch a wan
ton outrage on a friendly power. On ar
riving at Ignique Piereola proposed
to the Government forces to unite and
go out in pursuit of the English. This
was not acceded to, and Pierola seeing
that his personal cause was hopeless,
surrendered his vessel to the Inde
pendence, obtaining safe condnot for
his followers, but refusing all guaran
tees for himself. With this tho revolu
tion terminated.
HIGH M(.'HQOI..
The Commencement Exercises of ail Old
educational Institution.
f Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutioiyilist. ]
I have jnst returned from Commence
ment Exercises (if snob it may be term
ed) of the High School.—
The examination exerpffies came off last
week, when tue pupils were subjected
to an examination by the principal on
questions propounded by the School
Commissioner. N° religious services
on Sabbath. Prayer by Rev. Wm. H.
Davis af tfip opening of the exercises,
and a good address' by Ed. L. Brinson,
E-q., of Burke county. Exercises for
the day closed at 2 o’clock, p. m., and
night services commenced at 8, when
we had a concert, charades, etc., by the
young ladieg an 4 gentlemen for the
benefit of the organ fund. The amount
realized is unknown to your correspond
ent. Ap enjoyable time most of the
visitors had. Hephzibah certainly de
serves praise for its hospitality. These
Commencements are fast losing their
prestige, as the decrease in attendance
gradually sho^ys—the attendance being
very small tjiis time as compared with
similar ocoasjons in the “gone by days.”
Oh, for a' return to the old plap, when
the scholars were publicly examined be
fore a large audience, and the examina
tion often conducted by prominent men
selected from the audience; then a
pupil stood or fell py his or her own
merits, when concerts, were free,
when everybody was not only provided
wit‘H'accommodations'by night, but'were
invited to a “ huge barpecue 1’ at noon.
Examinations then were not so much
of a farce as now. Then the school
fund was disbursed by one officer for
the county, and pupils got their pro
rata of the taxation imposed for school
purposes.' The tipres ‘ did not require
two’dozen or more men to disburse the
school fund. Then,' the old ffied And el
derly ladies turned out in full force;
now, very few attend, the audience be
ing composed in these days principally
of the younger class.
Do not understand that I am finding !
fault with the anticipal—lie has only
to obey insifuetions' given by a superior
officer. When in times gone by he waA
left nntrafh'melldd, fin'd did' all in |iiß
powiJr tb bake the entertainment one of
sueb'efes affij popularity! J hope the new
Constitution provide for 'an entjrq
change in the school law.
p*—“.ting to the school exercises
aga\n, while I do £?* wish to make in
vidious distinction, candor compels me
to gay that Miss Lula M. and Master
Willie D., did exceedingly well in their
respective |iy.W Ql
scholars, where all did so well, 1 would
fain mention Miss Jesse D., as excelling
among the girls, and Master R. J. M„
amopg Jhe boys.
Of the eojme f i, I can safely say all
did well. JDhe crowning pte V 6,
the Band Begins to ?fay” by a band of
young ladies, was superb. “Don t Marry
a Mfcn if he prints,” by Miss Butli M.,
called tort* WpW&t# applausp. §ppg.
ff j by fj€.o cofiJ4 ppypQ
exeeiktf,
Nothing transpired to maf tub plea
sures of the day, except one Uttffi 4 1B "
turbanoe in the yard between a young
ma q from Bsrke and one from the
lower portion of Richmond.
I °ee posted on the 'oads Pleaafi
keep*out/’ etc , etc., and was lri.-ymed \
this was a precautionary measure to
keep trespassers ftom fhh Jteßbl & —,
ana melons. j
CROP NEWS.
The CrO(tt Elmwood, N. C.
[Correspondence Chronicle aniJiConslilutionalist .]
Elmwood, Edgefield, S. 0., July 5.
As yon request to hear from different
localities in ,Georgia and South Caro
lina concerning the crops of different
kinds, I will write ypjj 3 line or two.
The weather for the past yeqg han been
oppressively warm, the mercury rang
ing from “90 to 98” in the shade during
the day and bfft little difference at night,
consequently the late pains have disap
peared very fast leaving Jthp ground
very dry under this burning ann and
checking all vegetation very rapidly.
Sain is much needed at this time, es
pecially for the corn crop, which bids
fair for a good yield if rain sufficiently
comes soon. The cotton crop is two
weeks later than last year at this time
and therefore is very small for the time
of year, but the acreage about the same
as then. The wheat and oat crops are
now housed; the former will prove an
average crop while the quality is a little
deficient pp account of the _ heavy rains
daring the time of harvesting it. The
latter will fall far short of the past year s
crop. The fruit crop will be saSleient
for all purposes, especially the peach
crop. Senex.
Promises kept inspire confidence; and
Dr. l ull’s Baby Syrup never promised
relief in the diseases of childhood with
out at once effecting it. Hence the pop
ular reliance upon it. Price, 25 cents a
bottle.
BEATEN AT BIELA.
A RUSSIAN BALK AT THE BALKAN
PASSES.
A Lively Fight Near Sistovn, in Which the
Turks Are Scouring
the TranN-Danui}aH Con n fry—The Turk
ish Army Caver nJt Kustcliuk nod Sliumlu.
London, July 6.—lt is stated at Bu
charest that over 120,000 Russians have
crossed the Danube at Simnitza with an
immense train of artillery, comprising
some pieces of very heavy calibie. The
enthusiasm of the Russian troops is
very great. The cavalry marches about
tweuty kilometres iu advance of the in
fantry. Aa the Turks have no propor
tionate amount of cavalry, the Russians
are sconring the country up to the foot
of the Balkans. The Turkish outposts
are at Jautra, which is their present
advanced line. The ceutre of their army
is near Rasgrad, the right covering
Rustchnk, the left stretching towards
Shmnla. It is reported that only 12,-
000 men are left- iu Silistria. The first
great battle in Bulgaria will probably
be fought on the above line, if the
Turks give battle in an open field north
of the Balkans. It is probable that there
will be little of interest from tho front
until anew disposition of troops by
both belligerents is made. The Russian
cavalry have penetrated to Pierna and
Softeha on the west nud to Tirnova and
Rabrova towards the Balkans. They
appear to be masters of the conntry be
tween the Balkans and tho Danube, and
from Jantro.
A Pera dispatch says it is reported
here that the Turks have gained a great
victory at Sistova.
Shomda, July 6, 10, a. m.—A battle
was fought yesterday in the vicinity of
Biela, which lasted twelve hours. The
Russians were repulsed with consider
able loss and fell back on Sistova. No
details.
The Struggling Provinces—’Turkish Troops
Abandoning Montenegro ltoiiiiiiinia’s
Datnibian < i vrotions— Warns Her
About Servia—Bosnia’** Petition to Vienna.
London, July 6.—A Constantinople
dispatch reports that thirty battalions
of the Turkish army in Montenegro have
reached Antivari whence they will em
bark for an unknown destination.
A special dispatch from Vienna says :
“The Romanian Government before
sending troops across the Danube in
quired how Austria would regard such
a step and was informed that as long as
the Roumanian army respected Servian
neutrality Austria would remain indiffer
ent to its movements.”
A Bucharest dispatch says that no im
portant action is expected until the
Russians have established their depots
of supplies on the southern side of the
Danube and prepared everything for an
advance.
A Belgrade dispatch says : “The
Greek and Roman Christians of Bosnia
are anxiously awaiting tho result of
their petition asking for the occupation
of Bosnia by Austrian troops. Part of
the Mohammedan speculation also favor
foreign occupation.”
A special from Constantinople says :
“All papers seem to confirm the view
that the Turks are about to withdraw a
greater part of their forces from Monte
negro.”
A telegram from Bucharest says that
120,000 Russians who kava crossed the
Danube at Sistova comprising 20,000
cavalry and 250 cannon. About 80,000
more Russiausare concentrated between
Simnitza aud Turnn Magurelli, The
army which crossed at Sistova has been
divided into three bodies, the principal
of which is marching on Rustschuk aud
the other two towards the Balkans and
Nikopolis respectively.
The Unfruitful Fight iu Agin. Minor—Kiissia
Not Likely to Do Much Work this Season —
Waiting tor Reinforcements.
London, July o.— An Erzeroum dis
patch says it is unlikely even if the Rus
sians are strongly reinforced that they
can successfnl]y|reuew their Asiatic oam
pain this year. Ten weeks hence the
climate will preclude effective warfare.
A special dated Erzeroum, Thursday
evening, states that both armies remain
inactive. The Russians are evidently
awaiting reinforcements.
London, July 6.— Russian official in
telligence thus explains the occurrences
in the Asiatio theatre of war: “General
Laris Melikoff having reached the
Araxes Valley by the way of Kars and
Kogismau, was marching west in the
direction of Erzeroum, when the Turks,
occupying fortified position of Sewin,
menanced his right flank. To prevent
an attack in front and rear, General
Melikoff, before proceeded further west,
had Jto turn north and attack Sewin.
The attempt failed, and Gen. Melikoff
fell back to the Araxes Valley,
where he heard that a Southern
column, under Gen. Tergukassoff, which
was to have met him there previons to
a joint march on Erzeroum was likewise
defeated near Dob baba and had retreat
ed. Lieutenant-General Tergukassoff is
seemingly determined to retrace his
steps tq the frontier and rescue Bayaz
ard. while General Melikoff, according
to latest intelligence, intended to take
up liis position in the Arax valley and
hold tho road to Kars aga nst the vic
torious force from Sewin.”
Wlmt (ortsclinkofl'Tliiiiks of Thom—A Tight
Job in Prospect n—Russia’* Non-Interfer
ence Policy—A
Bulgaria-.
Vienna, July 7. —Tho Preuse says :
“Prince Gortschakoff, in an interview
with a distinguished statesman, stated
that only the Servian question induced
him to accompany the Czar to the seat
of war. lie h3 prevented Servian co
operation, although qrgently offered.
In order to avoid European complica
tion, Russia had acted on two principles:
Ist. To avoid all interference with the
internal affairs of the same, not to en
courage them to warfare against Turkey,
and to decline, as the war lasted, any
intervention by the Powers, who at the
conclusion of peace would have an op
portunity of protecting all their in
terests). The Russians were prepared
for greater ifegistanpe by Turkey than
lias hitherto been experienced.” Hecon
cluded as follows : “If we succeed in a
decisive battle in Bulgaria, our task will
be completed in a short time. If the
Turks retire into the Balkans, and I
have reason tq believe they will, we
shall haye annoying delays heoaqse of
their) excellent position for defense,
Then will commence our difficulty in
provisioning the army.”
Doings in the Dobrudsclia The Turks
Threatened on Every Kjtle— A Flight tq>
tlie iiloMiitains Inevitable—Turkish Concen
tration Between and Sliuialn—
How the Kinds Will Fa^i.e
London, July 7.—A Bucharest corres
pondent telegraphs; According to infor
mation received from Dobrudscha, I
have no faith in any effectual resistance
being made by the Turks on the line of
Trajan’s wall. The correspondent then
summarises the military situation, show
ing that the Turks are threatened in
front by [he Russian army at Sistova
and in the year ‘by a corps advancing
through "the Dobrudscha. Russian offi
cers of rank at the front believe that the
campaign yfijl sopn be decided. The
Turks are concentrating abcqt Shqmla
in order to take the Russian advance to
the Balkans on a flauk. Tho Russians
will probably go forward until the Turks
come out of . humla, and then face
about and give them battle in the open
country. It is stated that all the rep
resentativek of the press haye beep or
dered to leave Russian headquarters. It
is rumored that by advice of Austria
a kind of informal armistice will'bn es
tablished in Montenegro, both sides
maiuMßiP# $e defensive,
A Bucharest cßspatcu sa>s tye
tary Situation now l appears to bp as fol
lows : TheTffrks 'have changed front
~u i [o ''the. westward Since the
Jiaseian epUauco ipt P 4*^®
ihissiahs are’deploying w'4h" tueif left
Hank resting ou the fianube fo face the
Turkish Ifne from ft H atq}i[- ( jr to ahpmla.
When this" movement ;s completed a
general battje may he expected, unless
the Turks fall back to the Balkan* or Rus
sians mask the whole quadrilateral and
turn it by passing to the Balkans, Rus
sian forces
radscha are approaching iue rear o.
Turkish ttustphuk and Shumla line.
This column is too strong to be opposed
by any force detaclifed'frOm tho Turkish
main body, while the’main body itself
cannot turn upon it without exposing
its rear to the Russian main force.
jj oxe xiiis Correspondent seems to
entirfelv icm ore the existence of Silistria,
Varna and Kustendji. The latest in
formation fixes the garrisons at these
places respectively at 32,000, 20,000 and
10 000 which, operating on the flanks or
rear of the Russian Dobradscha force,,
would paralfei its efforts to’co-operate
with the aim? in .Osnlral Rin ? a..a Re
sides the' garrisons of tbefe fortified
places, Snlieman Pasha s artny, wmch is
now stated to be embarking at Anti van
coul* be i—.ded at Varna, which would
mak! &e f ffipbp ft T “*
sian left flank aloud over ftWf-
Knssi®n Dobradscha corps is stated to
number only 30,000.
yis-n-Vis in an *
Bamßd-B*iU liuiiirnf— rtf’
Pravisinofae AfUlif'
Ebzebocm, July f.'~The following is
the actual position of forces in Armenia:
The Turkish right wing confronts the
Russian left at Utsch K.lissa Paick
Pasha has a fresh body of 12,000 Rus
ri&cs opposed to him near B&yazid.
Another Russian division of 20,000 is
marching towards Ardahan. Mukhtar
Pasha’s advanced guard is within four
teen miles of Kars. Battles are expected
at Utscb, Kilmsa and Bayazid. lt is aisq
believed Mukhtar Pasha will be en
gaged soon. The provisioning of the
belligerent armies is now a matter of
great difficulty.
THE ME,
THE PEOPLE, AND THE PAPERS.
Glynn has $216 67 surplus.
Gamesville delights in foot races. •
Milledgeville has anew post office.
Governor Cplqnitt is in Dahlouega.
The heaviest thftig out —The wheat
crop.
Georgia is supplying the North with
peaches.
Army worms are ravaging corn in
Baldwin,
A heavy storm recently passed over
Marietta.
The Griffin Post Office has run short
of stamps.
Rev. J. H. Cowart died recently in
Bullock county.
Mounted chicken thieves are the novel
ties in Columbus.
The Rome Tribune recommends Fe
male colleges to teach telegraphy.
An effort is being made to establish a
paper-at Sylvauia, Scriven county.
Forsyth proposes to go extensively
into the dried fruit bnsiness this year.
A colored girl in Atlanta terrified by n
storm, died of heart disease the other
night.
The Griffin News thinks that County
Judges will hereafter be elected by the
people.
Rev. C. 0. Williams, pastor of Christ’s
Church, Macon, has declined a call to
Savannah.
Brunswick has applied to the society
in this city for a branch society of the
G. S. P. C. A.
Some party in Macon chopped up a
section of hose recently dnring the pro
gress of a fire.
Mr. H. A. Bnice, of Atlanta, and Miss
Coax, of Maoon, met in Griffin last Sat
urday by agreement and married.
Merriday Martin, a Macon cabinet
maker, died last week from the effects
of a fish-hook snag in the palm of his
hand.
Miss Mary Chandler, of Columbus,
who has been spending some time in
Augusta, left Wednesday morning for
her home.
The third aunual commencement of
Pio Nino College at Macon came off
Tuesday. Bishop Gross delivered an
able address.
The name of the Cherokee Baptist Fe
male College, at Rome, has been recom
mended to be changed to “Shorter Fe
male College.”
Captain Mangham has been elected
Major of the Fifth Georgia Battalion,
consisting of two companies of Griffin,
one of Forsyth and one of Barnesville.
The At-Con. is busy writing obitua
ries of the Con. Con. delegates. They
will be frescoed upon marble slabs and
placed in tlie Opera House if the Capitol
is removed.
The Rome Tribune wishes Hayes to
visit the cotton States. It says: “We
have not seen a President siuce the war,
and the Southern policy of Mr. Hayes
will secure him a hearty welcome every
where.”
The Milledgeville Recorder thinks
that photographs of the maguificont
public buildings located in that city
should be taken and placed in the Opera
House during the session of the Con
vention.
The Governor has issued a proclama
tion offering a reward of )two hundred
and fifty dollars for the apprehension of
the murderers of the unknown man
found in Sumter county, with his head
severed from his body.
A lire broke out Tuesday morning in
the millinery store of Mrs. Conroy, on
Whitaker street, Savannah, and spread
ing so rapidly consumed half a block
before it was extinguished. It appears
that the alarm telegraph wires were cut.
The Savannah News asks tlie question:
“What business has a family man (not
of the newspaper fraternity or a police
man) tb see a meteor at two o’clock in
the morning?” Our understanding is
that aa family men ofteuest “see stars”
it is meeter that they should observe
these things than single men.
MFE ATTHE JORDAN AI.IMf.
[Correspondence ChronicleandCmisti'utiunalist ]
Jordan Aiajm Springs, Va , June 28.
The day was tropical on which we left
Augusta, and the train crowded with
passengers hurrying away for the Sum
mer. The rush and roar and sharp
steam shriek would have roused old Rip
himself, while the smoke and heat were
stifliDg ; but as we neared the mountains
our shawls were in demand, and when
we reached here it was difficult not to
believe it was a morning in October—so
fresh and crisp did the air feel.
Life at the “Jordan Alum” this Sum
mer will be a perpetual festival. The
hotel is spacious, accommodating easily
four hundred guests, handsomely fur
nished and admirably kept by one whose
courtesy and ability is a host is too well
known to need praise. There are fine
piazzas around the building, stately
trees that shadow the green lawn, a pic
turesque lake with an island, on which
flowers bloom and fountains play, a bil
liard saloon, a resort for those who de
sire to communicate with the spirits, a
bowling alley, and a ball room 100 feet
long. These will gladden the pleasure
seeker, while tlie invalid will find waters
with wonderful power to heal and the
most luxurious beds. The epicure,
though he bo the most fastidious, can
not complain of the table. The lover of
nature will find that space and wildness
which belong to American scenery here
in perfection. The beautiful blue moun
tains have always an inspiration; we
stand awe-stricken and hashed before
their solemn grandeur, and feel onr
insignificance in the presence of such
sublimity. Not to feel a personal pleas
ure and exhilaration fn nature is a mat
ter of regret—one who loves her is
never friendless; every phase is a coun
sellor; the flowing streams, the moun
tain heights, the coming and going of
the year, the budding and the falling
leaf—each and all whisper truths to the
heart, if it be not insensible to snch
lessons.
Yesterday a small party was recruited
for an excursion up one of the adjoining
mountains. The road was in easy
zigzags up the side of a steep ravine,
the rich aud varied foilage made the
mountain side a succession of leafy
terraces and down the gorges we could
look oyer a wide and beautiful moun
• tainons landscape. But while we re
veled in tho loveliness before us and
: breathed the invigorating air, a storm
was throwing piles upon piles of black
ness over the tender blue of the after
noon sky. The lightning laaped in
keen flashes around qs, then a mighty
bolt b.urat and suddenly the rain came
down, drenching ua through and
through and destroying both the beauty
of the scene and our capacity to eßjoy
it. We sought refuge in the carriage
aud returned to the hotel a very moist
and unromautic looking party.
In the evening we watched the moon
rise over the opposite mountains, giving
a tender tqne and showing delicate
shadows over the lawn. Her soft light
seemoJ to purify the night, while within
doors there were strains of music sweet
enough to suggest the sops of the
Lorelei.
Nest week the seqsoq opens. Over
one hun‘l re< l gueuta are hooked for the
Ist of July and the Marino Band from
Washington City will arrive on the sth.
If idleness and the luxuries of nature
do not induce laziness, perhaps you may
receive another letter. Georgia.
A TJtAMPW VITALITY.
Asleep hi n RailroadTrnek and EiuiUiaciouH
ly Losing a b r ij-
Elmira, A). Y., duly 3 A,a accident,
attended witty the most extraordinary
circumstances, occurred pn the North
ern denial Railway, new Troy, Pa.,
Sun jay pigtyt. A tramp named dames
M. Rowers was walking omt’ne track to
wards ttyftt place. Being tired and hnn
gry, he sat down by the side of the rail
road and fell asleep. When he awoke
he attempted to get up. but, as he said
when discovered, found that ho could
not use bis legs. He had thrown them
across tfip rail in his sleep, and a train
had run over them. One was nearly
severed below the knee, and the other
was broken. No train was in sight, nor
had he heard the noise of any tram
passing. He took his knife from his
pocket and pqt (be elfin and flesh that
still held his one leg,, severing it entire
ly. He says be lay there unable to
move, wholly oopaoious and suffering
the most intense agony for at least an
hour. Finally he heard a Irani ap
proaching. Re bad 8 watch -1® W®
pocket aud a newspaper. He lighted
the paper when the tram canie in Bigut
and signalled by 1 wavlfag ft. The en
gineer saw the light and stoppled the
train. Bowers was taken on board and
carrieq I to Troy. Efe' never lost con
sciousness, ab.i when a doctor was sum
moned, who pronounced another ampu
tation of the severed leg necessary, Bor
ers refnsed to lake any anaesthetic, and
coolly subjected himself to that opera
tion anfl tJ tj.e setting of the bones in
his btokeh 1%. fie was removed to ffie
County House, and if is thought he jujl
recover.
Fllßl.’ii pjNANCgS,
A Well Kmwi Man Commit* Siiiede.
f Special Dispatch to the Constitution.]
Albany, Ga., July s.— Wm. J. Ford,
late Ordinary of Worth county, and
brother-in-law of Hon. W. A. Hams,
committed suicide yesterday at Isabella
by shooting himself with a pistol. Fi
nancial embarrassment and other trou
bles are supposed to be the cause. De
cease! will be remembered by many as
one of the constitutional clerks of tad
Senate.
1 SOUTH CAROLINA,
PALMETTO IfKWB LEAVES.
Fort Pickens has a B. B. C.
Cotton is profusely blooming.
Abbeville brags on her street lamps.
The mad dog exottements have abated.
Ninety-Six wants a postal money
office.
Mr. W. J. Henry, of Chester county,
is dead.
The Chester Sabre Club paraded on
the Fourth.
Five thousand melons in Charleston
on tho Fourth.
Quick transportation is what the up
epuntry wants..
Edgefield has held a good old time
Court once more.
A two-horned rooßter is cock of the
walk in Columbia.
“ Mr.” Hampton is what the New
York Times calls him.
The Due West commencement wound
up with a spelling bee.
A Presbyterian College is soon to be
established at Wulhalla.
Chester county counts on the best
wheat crop since the war.
A colony of beavers are building Iheir
dams at Long Cane Greek.
The store of Mr. Glazener, at Easley,
was burned the other night.
Col. Clary has upon his Saluda planta
tion valuable mineral waters.
Mr. M. R. Wilson, of Sumter, died
last week after a short illness.
The Chester Methodists begin their
quarterly meeting to morrow.
The Anderson Baptists have been
holding a protracted meeting.
Mean whisky and sun strokes are dan
gerous things to mix just now.
The Sumter Female Institute lirs had
a very pleasant commencement.
The Chester Lee Light lufautrv had
an elegant festival on the 27th nit”
Aiken jail, with nine cells, has thirty
six prisoners— 2 white and 34 colored.
The “ fencing ” fight is merely a strug
gle between the “ ins ” and the “ outs.”
The colored dramatic tioupe of Char
leston will take a starring tour next sea
son.
The Greenwood and Augusta Road
apply for 200 couviots to grade their
route.
Chester is going to agitate a Library
Association when the mercury lets
down.
It appears that youngsters in Chester
stretch ropes across the street “justonly
in fun.”
A colored boy nine years old was
killed by lightning near Due West the
other day.
The Carolina papers came forth as
regularly as if the glorious forth had
never come.
Mr. James W. Colcock, who recently
left Yorkville for Texas, has returned to
his old home.
How to give every man credit for the
first cotton bloom is one of the puzzles
of the season.
The Investigating Committee are se
cretly at work iu Columbia. Gov. Hoott
testified Tuesday.
A negro recently left the employ of
Barnwell's sheriff, carrying with him
several souvenirs.
It is said that D. T. Corbin has gone
to Europe, aud will not return before
the Ist of October.
Wm. H. White, of Yorkville, died at
Howard University, Washington, reoent
ly of heart disease.
Carson Warren, Esq., an old and
highly esteemed citizen of Edgefield,
died Monday morning.
The Mayor of Spartanburg was re
cently kicked by a cow. Ho is now in
favor of a cow ordinance.
The Abbeville Banner editor “ feels
like courting somebody.” Guess it
must be the watermelon man.
Gen. Butler delivers an address next
Tuesday at, the closing exercises of Mr.
Lunch’s school at Johnston’s.
James Hemphill, Esq., of Chester, was
elected .by the Alumni Association of
Davidson College a Trustee of that insti
tution.
Dr. W. C. Brown, member of the
Legislature from Anderson county, is a
brother of ex-Governor Joe BrowD, of
Georgia.
The Register notes that Whittemore,
who represented Darlington in the South
Carolina Senate, owns a $35,000 house in
Massachusetts.
Tho exhibition at the Cedar Springs
Institute for the deaf, dumb and blind
is described by the Bpartan as being
highly interesting,
A small fire broke out Tuesday eve
ning in the foundry of the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad, at Co
lumbia. No damage.
A oolored man near Spartanburg had
a mule stolen from him recently, and
tracking the thief into North Carolina,
caught him near Hendersonville.
Spartanburg has ordered out a fire
engine, hose oart, and a quantity of new
hose. All that Spartanburg now wants
is a lager beer keg aud three “tigers.”
While Mr. Carrol Shirley, of Store
villo, was attempting recently to place
the band of the thresher on the wheel of
the engine, his arm was caught, fractur
ing both bones.
Tho lightning has been bolting and
freaking around iu Greenville consider
ably lately. Greenville, you seo, didn’t
foresee all this when she was laying her
street car tracks.
The Presbyterian Ohnrch, of Colum
bia, has secured Rev. J. F. Latimer,
Professor of Greek and German, at Da
vidson College, N. 0., for their pnlpit
during the Simmer.
Bishop Lynch says that there is no
foundation whatever for the rumor that
he is to be transferred to the Aroliiepis
oopal See of New York as Coadjutor to
Cardinal McCloskey.
The Yorkville Enquirer says that
Rufus Johnson, colored, who was in
jail on the charge of burglary and lar
ceny, escaped from the jail of this
county Tuesday morning.
Says the Edgefield Advertiser : Our
popular young townsman, John R.
Abney, Esq., has proved himself in the
very beginning of his new career a So
licitor nascitur as well as fit.
The Chester Reporter says that Col.
James L. Orr, of Anderson, while rest
ing from his labors and honor as a legis
lator, has been invested with the digni
ty of vice-president of a base ball club.
The Summer meeting of the State
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, will be
held at Anderson on the Bth of August.
The State Agricultural aud Mechanical
Society will meet at the same place and
time.
Two young merchants of Augusta
have just returned from Columbia,
where they have been attending their
raining interests. Admonished by the
old proverb, however, they have built
no “New-eastles” in the air.
The Reporter observes that Dr. A. H.
Davega, President of the Chester and
Lenoir Railroad, is in Now York, look
ing after the interests of his road. The
prospect is good for building the road
to Lincolnton during the present year.
The Reporter notes that a joint meet
ing of the Chester and Union commit
tees will be held at the residence of
Major J. W. Wilkes on Wednesday,
lsih instant, to confer concerning the
early construction of the Chester and
Union Railroad.
The Kilitna at lUidvUe.
We chronicled the fact last Wednes
day morning that a quiet and inoffen
aive colored man named James Hberoc
was assassinated at Station No. 9J (Mid
villej, on the Central Railroad, lasi
Saturday night, by some unknown party,
who pointed a doable barrel gnu in the
door and shot him while he was waiting
on ocstomers. Bherod was an indus
trious negro, and had amassed between
; ten ajid fifteen thousand dollars by keep
-1 ing a store. Last January bis store and
dwelling at Midville were destroyed by
fire, the work of an incendiary, lie was
insured for $2,800 in the Home
Insurance Company of New York,
but that company refused to pay the
policy on the ground that the fire was
the work of an incendiary and that
Sherod had reason to expect it, an at
tempt having been made some time pre
viously. Suit was brought in Bnrke
Superior Court against the company by
Judge H. D. D. Twiggs, counsel for
Sberod. A motion was made by Messrs.
Lawton & Basinger, representing the
company, to transfer the case to the
Unit 3d States Court, >and the matter' is
still pending in tho Courts. 1 ' Sherod; re
built his house ami) a (ore, ptbeured ■•£*
stock of goods and commenced business
once more. He placed a’ high stoekadd
around the property to prevent' inbed
diaries from setting fire to house - or
store injthe future. He was known as a
reliable and trustworthy negro; and had'
no difficulty in obtaining credit in Au
gusta. As yet no clue has tyeen obtain
ed as to his murderer, 1 *’ 1 1,11
Monthly Weather Report.
We have received from Air. H. Res
sant, Signal Service Observer at this
point, his weather report pr
which is as follptfQ'
Highest - b&rbtfibtter, 30.268, on the
2d; lowest barometer, 29:758, on the Bth;
monthly range qf barometer, 510; No. of
lunar halos, 1; highest temperature, 97,
on the 26th; lowest temperature, 58, on
the Ist; monthly range of temperature,
39; greatest daily range of temperature,
28, on the Ist and 2d; mean of maximum
temperatures, 87.7; mean of minimum
temperatures, 69.5; mean daily raDge of
temperatures, 18.2; total rainfall, or
melted snow, 667 inches; prevailing
wind, northwest; total number of miles
traveled, 2,418; maximum velocity of
wind, 30 miles on the 27th; number of
cloudy days, other than those pn whijh
rain fell, 1; number off whiety
rain or snow fell, 16.