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WEDNESDAY, - AUGUST 8, 1877.
Nov 11 the time to improve navigable
streams. '
“ Put your lip on ioo" in the latest
slang.
The gold discoveries in Maine turn
out to be only a practical joke.
Gov. Bgbmbon, of New York, did not
oali on the President for troope.
The average billiard player loses a
week each year in chalking his cnee.
Boston's debt is 843,090,499. Her in
stant available assets are 816,109,973.
Messrs. Blaine and Chamberlain
ought to get up another "high old joint."
The boys of St. Louis, out on a cari
cature strike, wanted "eake and pie or
blood."
A Turkish bath on wheels, attached
to a train of oars, is the latest modem
improvement.
The World, suggests Texas as a good
plaee for the emigration of Northern
men who can not tind work.
The Kadical organs think troops
should be withdrawn from the Booth
and stationed in the North. Do tell !
a l a—
The Globe-lJenuxxrat wants Grant as
President again. Grant pardoued the
Globe-Democrat man out of the peni
tentiary.
Collector Simmons, of Poston, has
been married three times, and the Cus
tom House is overflowing with the genus
brother-iu-law.
Pittsburg is in Alleghany county, the
bulwark of Peuusylvania Radicalism.
The party majority there ranges from
12.000 to 18,000.
The New York 6iun reminds the pub
lic that State sovereignty cannot be put
into limbo because two or more Govern
ors play the fool.
The Baltimore Gazette concludes that
the rioters, by plundering and burning
aud bloodshed, have struck lor lower
wages, aud the result is inevitable.
France in spite of revo
lutions, mainly because out of a popula
tion of 38,000,000 no less than 36,000,-
000 are at work in some way that pro
duces money.
The New Orleans Democrat predicts
that Tildkn and Field will be found
dead, some day, with their pockets full
of surrejoinders, writs of ejectment aud
<juo warranto.
Fred Grant's father-in-law has struck ,
—no, failed. Hia creditors are out of (
pocket uearly $1,000,000. If the old ,
gentleman is as wise as most of his kind,
bankruptcy will not hurt him much.
Recording the death of ex-Ohief of
Police Matsell, the Tribune says: “Our
peaceful city is at this hour a monument
to hia honor.” Is the filthy Police Ga
zette which he owned a monument to his
infamy ?
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The railroad strikers at Pittsbnrg <
don’t like the use made of the regular i
army. They voted almost solidly to use 1
the troops at the South. Do they mean i
to say that aauoe for the goose shall not I
be sauce for the gander ?
An Englishman left bis daughter SSOO,- ]
000 iu Virginia bonds on the ground :
that "if there is anything entirely sure (
iu this world, it is the faith and honor ,
of the Commonwealth of Virgiuia.” The
beqneat was made before the war. I
—
Gen. Kbmball telegraphed from Asia
to Mr. Layard as follows : “The Rus
sians have attacked the Turkish right
wing. See I. Samuel xi. 11." The
Grand Vizier confiscated the dispatch
till it oonld be ascertained who Samuel ,
'was.
The Herald admonishes the laboring 1
men on a strike that they are killing the
goose that lays the golden egg. Well, 1
that’s what the North did when it made
war ou the South. The laborers are
only imitating the bad example of the
tipper ojasses.
Col. Richard Lathers, wall known
in South Carolina, has the highest en
dorsement of the New York Journal of
(Commerce for nomination to the State
Senate. 001. Lathers was born at Win
yak, S. 0., but has resided at the North
for many years.
The New York Witness is on its last
legs. It has not paid its printers in full
for six weeks. From the publisher’s
announcement, we judge that the con
cern will ot last mnoh longer. It
ought to die. It speaks well for the
people that they do uot support it.
Grant resembles St.'Nkwall Jackson
in one thiug, vis. : Not knowing one
tuuc from another. His children are all
moaical and one, Jesse, is talkative. In
Geneva, the other day, the cub proposed
this toast : "The youngest Republic to
the oldest.” The World suggests that
this meant "Franco to Ban Marino;” but
of course Jesse meant something else.
Tee wicked Georgieus refused to hire a
chaplain to open their Constitutional Conven
tion with prayer, at fl a prayer. Probably
they thoeght a four-dollar prayer would not
help mattem much.—A’eir Tori: Express.
Oh, no. The Convention had fifteen
umisters of the Gospel in its member
ship, and proposed to furnish its own
Prajiufr
To the remark of Bks Hill that Mr. Blaiwi
,<tue the least about the Constitution of any '
jMU ui public life that he ever saw. the Troy
,(Jl. I’ ) Times rttorts that Mr. Blaine knew
.eoeugft of it to respect it, which Mr. Hiu has
nnmetuistr failed to do.
Mr. ne haa respected the tail of
it—the part which attempts "to circnm
vent God.” The rest was not within hia
.scope. •
.J. Henhi BrncH, the colored states
man of Louisiana, says that if he had
foreseen the course of Haves he should
have reeigued as au elector, and eased
hia conscience from the responsibilities
forever that have followed the ejection.
This need not prevent him from restor
ing SIB,OOO missing from the school fond
of the Pelican Btate. His “conscience"
ia evidently situated iu the palm of his
band.
The editor of the Hew* and Courier,
odUeiug contributions to help the
ftlueky Carolina widow (of whom we
fcave batoce spoken) to purchase her
cre of ground, acknowledges oue from
•* Jack pot," Adding “ whatever that
may mean.” The editor ia too modest
by half. He knows well aeough what a
Jack pot ia and ia also familiar with the
manner in which it is opened. He
would have os believe text that he never
beard of “ straddling a blind.” How
e Tm. we are glad to see that e Jack pot
t M | l a's put to such a good use end in
dulge tb£ hope that all poker eireles.
'will M *- VJ out” a few “ beans” for the
plucky widow, who ia not ashamed to
-work and only wishes money enough to
bay the acre of ground she now routs.
All the boys should “ chip in” to aid
o good a cause. •
i njuvt charge*.
The Chronicle and ConstctutipJcal
ist published yesterday morning a letter
from Atlanta signed “Farmer,” some of
the statements in which we shall briefly
notice. It is well known that a newspa
per ia not responsible for the opinions
expressed in its columns by volunteer
correspondents unless it gives them eu
dorsal. This paper, especially, has giv
en the widest latitude to contributors,
on the principle that a journal is, to a
certain extent, pnblic property, andfbat
every respectable citizen is, under cer
tain limitations, entitled to a hearing.
Therefore, it is a matter of almost daily
occurrence for communications to ap
pear in the Chronicle and Conbtitu
tionalißT which are far from reflecting
the views of its managemafit. Outside
of these considerations, however, a sense
of justice requires us to say something
of "Farmer’s” letter. The author of
that communication stated :
Our Democratic Executives have been no
improvement on Bullock and his Badical
regime. Governor Smith. Although a most ex
cellent gentleman, has committed many blun
ders, the double payment of the notorious
bonds being the most prominent. Governor
Coiqcitt, who is also a most excellent gentle
men, by bis unwavering devotion te the State
Constitution which he swore to support and
adhere to, is following fast iu the steps of his
predecessor. During his six mouths in office
he has well nigh come up to the full extrava
gance of either Smith or Bullock, and Gob
only knows what he would do if not arrested
by the present Constitutional Convention that
is now in session.
The people of Georgia will not be
lieve that “our Democratic Executives
have been no improvement on Bullock
and his Radical regime for they know
to the contrary. They will not believe
that Governor Smith “made many
blunders, the double payment of the
notorious bonds beiug the most promi
nent.” It has never been shown that
Governor Smith was in any way respon
sible lor the saoond payment of the
“notorious bonds,” and we do uot be
lieve it ever will be. Governor Smith’s
public administration was all that the
best citizen—the purest patriot—could
have desired it to be. His bitterest
enemies have uot hesitated to admit
that nothing could be said against bis
public acts. That his appointments to
office did not give entire satisfaction is
both true and natural. When forty
men are in pursuit of au office, and only
one can get it, it is uot surprising that
the other thirty-nine and their friends
should resent what they consider bad
treatment.
The assertions concerning Governor
Colquitt will not be more readily be
lieved. In addition to the statement
that Governor Colquitt during his six
mouths of office has well nigh come up
to the full extravagance of either Bmith
or Bullock, “Farmer” goes ou to say
“it is said by one of the public officers
io the Capitol here that seventy thous
and dollars would not cover the expen
ses of the Executive Department for one
year.” There is no evidence whatever
that Governor Colquitt has been guilty
of any extravagance siuce be was called
upon to take charge of the administra
tion of the Btate government. Bo far as
we can learn, so far as there is any evi
dence to the contrary, he has made as
faithful and as economical au Executive
as any, the most illustrious, of his pre
decessors. He has been censured in
some quarters for the payment of the
forty-five thousand dollars fee for the
recovery of two hundred thousand dol
lars from the United States Govern
ment. We thick that Governor Col
quitt acted with imprudent haste in
making that payment; but that the pay
ment was anything more than an error
of judgment we do not believe. Gov
ernor Colquitt asserts that he was fully
justified by the coutracts of previous
Governors in allowing the amount of the
fee. We do not doubt that he enter
tained suob an opiniou; wbether
he was correct or not we cannot under
take to decide. 80 far as the expenses
of tho Executive Department are con
cerned no one who has ever examined
the reports of the Comptroller-General
will credit for a moment the statement
that they exoeed seventy thousand dol
lars per annum. A committee appoint
ed by the Constitutional Convention has
just examined the clerical expenses of
the Department, about which so much
has boen said, aud has reported that no
person is employed whose employment
is not authorized by law. Let us try
aud be just. Governor Colquitt was
nominated unanimously by a Convention
of the Democratic party of Georgia. He
was elected by the largest majority wkioli
a candidate for Guberuatorial honors
ever received iu this Btate. He was a
gallant soldier. He is au honorable
man. Since he has been in offioe he has
done nothing, so far as we know, to for
feit the confidence and respect of the
people. When he does do a wrong act
the Chronicle and Constitutionalist
will be the first to condemn him.
RETRIBUTION.
The South is the peaceful section; the
North the turbulent one. Troops are
leaving the South—to garrison the
North—just as the Republican party
disbands in South Carolina and Missis
sippi. The New England idea of over
throwing the Southern system of labor,
by armed oonflict and unfriendly legis
lation, baa resulted in such an upheaval
of Northern labor that it amounts to a
revolution, bints of anarohy, and has
banished peace and confidence from
many homes and oouuting houses. Even
in Europe, the foreign bondholder, who
gets twice as much interest on our Gov
ernment securities as he can get from
the monarchies of the Old World,
trembles in his boots. The profits of
the war, in aud ont of Congress, are
ra{vj)v perishing. Here and there a
man can to found who enriched himself
at the expense of the people; but the
balk of shoddy t'ortapai has withered
like Jonah's gourd. The bondholder,
here aud abroad, who bought his secu
rities at from 30 to 66 cents op the paper
dollar, and who insists upon payment
at par in gold, still soars aloft in
fancied pride of place; but even be
may have to share in the oommon calam
ity, stoas it has been demonstrated that
tne whole tabrui of the East and West
is corrupt and rotten, an 4 if 6uoJi masses
should organize, under universal suf
frage, there is no telling wbat the conse
quences may be. Already, even in Europe,
a secret power, whioh alarms thrones and
sometimes topples them down, is be
ginning to proclaim Hyy a war debt is
immoral, and that, as it grinds forever
the blood aud bonne and hearts of the
- laboring classes, it should be repudiated.
Very few of the European States are
able to barely maintain themselves, the
majority are hopelessly bankrupt and
their debts ew long will need no for
mality of repudiation—they will repu
diate themselves. It is creeping into
the minds of the masses of the Old
World that their enslavement comes
rntfear from debt than from the sword;
that they can not break the sword until
they have cast off the inenbus
that makes the award the necessary
asytre of Jungs and Emperors. There
was hardly a hope that the Feudal sys
tem would be broken np, but it perished.
The endurance of naan has a limit, and
when that limit is reached there must
be reform or revolution.
From present appearances the agita
tions of Europe have been transferred
with dreadful and portentous power to
the Northern part of the United States.
We were a happy and prosper
ous people until England, jealons
of onr wealth accumulation and rapid
approach to the sovereignty of the seas,
under a free Bepublioan Government,
the paradise of European emigration,
grafted her Abolition policy upon New
England Puritanism, the horrible re
sults of which this generation will never
oease to lament. No wonder General
Grant is a social hero in Great Britain.
He carried ont the designs of that em
pire and laid his own country in the dost
at her feet.
Now that the programme of Garri
son and Exeter Hall has been consnm
mated, we are at last confronted with its
oonaeqnenoes. The South has had her
day of woe; it ia the North’s tarn to
suffer for a fearful sin. While Garrison
goes to England to abuse the South and
receive the plaudits of his co-conspira
tors, the earthquake has yawned at
home. The men of the North who came
down with torches and bayonets to ruin
and snbdne the South have cut off the
very sources of their comfort, wealth
and employment. They have freed
negroes and enslaved themselves. The
condition of a fat, sleek, kindly treated
black man, on a Southern plantation of
the olden time, was heaven itself com
pared with what the white laboring man
of tbe North, out on a strike, is bound
to be.
And while Garrison and Grant are
hob-nobbiDg with the aristocracy of
Britain, the New York Tribune, founded
by Horace Greeley and dominated by
Jay Gould, virtually confesses that their
work was monstrous; that negro suffrage
is au abomination; that the negro him
self is unworthy the boou of franchise,
if not of liberty; aud a wild shriek goes
up amid the baffled Radical camp that
the South is “solid,” and, they have to
add, that the South has won her liberty
and is still at peace.
By prodigious sacrifices aud against
fearful odds, the States of the South as
serted the right of society to be consti
tuted, uot as Thad Stevens and
Garrison and Grant wished, but
as God Almighty planned it. Even
tbe Springfield Republican confesses
that. It plainly tells tho malcon
tents of its own party that they must
rail against Jehovah, if they rail at all,
and not against Mr. Haves. Even
Grant knew his theory, or rather the
theory he administered, was monstrous.
The Republican frankly says; “His
sin and that of his advisers and party
was that they did not see that they were
trying to circumvent God, that they
could not succeed, and that there was
another aud a better way to organize
Southern society and government.”
For many years we have, in common
with many others in this seotion, en
deavored to impress this momentous
truth upon the fanatical workers of in
iquity. We felt satisfied that, in good
time, the GuD-established law would as
sert itself; that there would be Compen
sation for the South and Retribution for
the North. It is not given to man that
he shall, however powerful, assail tbe
supernatural successfully. The South
is in the ascendant to-day, not because
of Tilben or Hates, but because the
Radical leaders attempted to circumvent
God, and miserably failed in their ex
periment.
REA NUNN WHY.
There are many reasons given for the
great strike, and no doubt some politi
cal economist, with a faculty for group
ing statistics and arguments, will some
day cousolidate tbe results aud attempt
to draw valuable deductions therefrom.
It is oouoeded that the introduction
of labor saving machinery has had a
blighting effect ou the workmen in the
mass. The Herald admits it, but says
“ tho workmen are themselves largely to
blame for this ; they have tolerated a to
tal neglect of foreign commerce, and in
tho course of time the country has come
to a point where it can manufacture
more—not much more, but .yet more—
tbau it can consume. Tho surplus
weighs like lead ou every branch of in
dustry ; it depresses prices and disables
manufacturers, who find the home mar
ket overstocked by nine mouths’ work in
tho year, and are prevented, by blun
dering laws, from selling the surplus
abroad. Suppose our wheat farmers
could not sell their surplus in Europe ?
They would be utterly ruined, no matter
how great their crops were. But that is
precisely the condition of our manufac
tures, and all interests suffer with them,
the railroads, of course, chief of all.
The workiDgmen cau easily and quickly
change all that, but not by striking.
Let them demand that Congress shall
free foreign trade from some of its
shaokles, and they will see anew pros
perity rapidly springing up and labor in
demand everywhere. We must sell our
surplus.”
There is much truth in the above state
ment. The country wants free trade or
something akin to it. It has been " pro
tected ” to death. When five quinine
manufacturers at the North can be en
riched at the expense of the whole
country, by impests which drive the
foreign article away ; and when these
monopolists raise the price of that ne
cessary article so that poor men can
scarcely obtain it, aud in some instances
do not obtain it pure, there must
be “ something rotten in the State
of Denmark.” Men go from tbe
South aud West to Congress advanced
free-traders; but they do not remain so.
At all events, no matter how great this
necessity, nothing is done to relieve the
sections from which they come. What
fascination meets them at Washington ?
Are they duped or do they betray their
constituents ? Surely some of them
ougbt to know, and yet none of them
can be made tell. There is some jug
gling in politics worth finding ont; and
the people ought to make their Con
giessmen speak or die—politically.
The Springfield Republican prints a
formidable array of figures to prove that
machinery has indeed largely reduced
the number of hands on*e employed. (
There is an increase of production large
ly disproportioned to tbe number of
laborers at work. Under these circum
stances, the laborer must either seek
some outlet of escape from overcrowded
region attempt other kinds of work, or
else use his poiti.s* poger to change a
system of Government that usea his
muscle for destroying slavery in the 1
South only to drag him down to the
worst sort of serfdom at the North.
Th£ Chicago Tribune remarks as sig
nificant that the first freight delivered
at Alton depot Saturday was a wagon
load of coffins.
-—-iw m - ———
Somb> of the business j#en of New
York discharged their clerks who went
out with the militia under Gov. Robin
son’s call.
The Nashville American has its faith
in Christian civilization shaken by read
| ing a noble decision of the Sheik-ul
-1 Islam. When asked, “If eleven Mus-
I without just cause, kill an infi
del who pvpu tribute, what is to be
done?” replied : the Mussel -
men be a thousand and one, let them all
die— if the infidel paid tribute.” Per-j
baps the Sfieiji was deposed for being so
“truly §.004/' \
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 8, 1577.
HAN THE CRISIS COME V
If we may credit the telegrams from
Europe it wonld seem that a crisis in
the Rasso-Tnrkish struggle has been
reached, and that a few days may de
cide the fate of the Ottoman Empire.
The successful passage by the Russians
of the two great L arriers which nature
designed for the defense of Constanti
nople has caused affairs to cnlminate
with startling rapidity. The armies of
the Czar crossed the Danube without
encountering, practically, any resist
ance. Repeating the campaign of Die
bitsoh in 1828-9 (the boldnesss and suc
cess of whioh has always made it a fa
vorite with Muscovite commanders), the
Russian General masked the formidable
fortresses of the quadrilateral, and by a
foroed march penetrated a pass of the
Balkans with a portion of his forces and
descended towards the plains of Adrian
ople. The very audacity of the move
ment has contributed to its success, and
present appearanoes indicate that the
Russians are securely established south
of that great mountain range against
which the armies of tbe Czar have so
often dashed themselves in vain. In the
meantime Bonmania is said to have
taken the aggressive, and a portion of
her army has crossed tbe Danube and
occupied Nicopolis. If these things be
true, aud the Great Powers continue to
look passively on tho contest, the
great game for empire which Rus
sia is playing may soon be won.—
Military writers Lave compared Bulga
ria to a great fortress,of which the Dan
ube is the fosse, the slope from the riv
er to the Balkans the glaois and the Bal
kans the rampart. The fosse has been
crossed,the glaois passed and tbe rampart
surmounted, aud, to continue the figure,
the hostile army is uow in the very
heart of the citadel. Adriauople once
taken, the road to the city of Constan
tine lies open to the iuvaders. But the
Great Powers seem to have been roused
from their apathy by tho startling suc
cess of the Russian arms. England is
reinforoing her Mediterranean garrisons
aud is said to be meditating tbe occu
pation of Gallipoli, the key of the Dar
danelles and a point from which an ar
my could be easily thrown on Adriano
ple. Austro-Hungary is greatly alarm
ed and a Cabinet Council, presided over
by tbe Emperor, is sitting in Vienna. It
is even rumored that the Emperors of
Germany and Austria are shortly to
have a conference, but this intelligence
is scarcely to be credited. In tke mean
time it is reported that the Sultau aud
the Turkish Cabinet are preparing to
cross the Bosporus and establish them
selves in Borroussa, or Brusa, on the
Asiatic shore. In a short time we may
expect to hear either that the war has
ended or else that it is beiug waged on
a gigautic scale, with the great nations
of the world for combatants and the con
tinents of Europe and Asia the field of
battle.
The casual leader of tbe Constitu
tional Convention proceedings would
suppose that the average Georgia Legis
lature is a den of thieves, and that the
chief end of a Convention delegate’s
existence is to qualify as a first olass de
tective. If the Legislature is venal, the
people are to blame for electing such
Representatives aud Senators. If the
Legislature is pure, the members of tbe
Convention should not slander it, and
thus befoul their own uest.
The Khan of Kashgar is the latest
“lion” in London society, vice Grant
departed.
A TALK WITH STEPHENS.
The Inralid Ntatesnian Expresses Himself
On Public Mattem—What tbe Convention
Shot.ld Do—About Mr. Toombs— Mr. Hayes’
Policy—The Future of tbe Country.
[Atlanta Countilution.]
“Mr. Stephens,” said the reporter,
“what do yon think about the Conven
tion ?”
The C'onvemlon.
“It is a remarkably intelligent body
of men, and contains, as far as I have
been able to observe, not only the best
men in the State, but the best average
men. But there is one thing,” contin
ued Mr. Stephens, “that I am afraid
they are going to'do. I am afraid they
are going to reduce the number of mem
bers of the Legislature. This will be a
very great mistake."
“But they say, Mr. Stephens, that as
at present constituted the General As
sembly is too unwieldy.”
The Slie of the Legislature.
“Exactly so. It ought to be uuwieldy,
in so far as its unwieldiness might resist
the approaches and influences of the
lobby and similar influence. There is a
good deal of absurdity in the hobby of
‘retrenchment and reform’ by which a
few hope to become popular with the
people and ride into office. The pro
pose! reduction is a poor piece of econo
my—a very poor piece of economy. Both
the Senate and the House had better be
increased in numbers than decreased. If
I had any voice in the matter” Mr.
Stephens continued, “I should suggest
that the Senate be composed of one
member from each county and the House
contain at least two hundred members.
In my opinion the Senate should con
sist of one member from eaeh county, to
be elected from the Congressional Dis
tricts. Under the present appointment,
this would give eleven Senators to each
Congressional District and one from the
State at large. I think it would be in
the interests of economy to have the
people as largely represented as possible.
When I was in the Legislature—at least
from 1836 to 1842—the General Assembly
contained three hundred and odd mem
bers. These were the days of the glory
of the State, and the people were not
burdened with debts and taxes.”
LegiHlatke Economy.
“But wouldn’t this largely increase
the cost of the sessions ?”
“Well, as to that you can see for
yourself. If there were five hundred
members in the legislature, the pet
diem of five dollars a day fpr forty days
would only be one hundred thousand
dollars. Compared with the millions of
debt piled up by some of the reduced
Legislatures, this is an exceedingly
small amount. The more largely the
people are represented, the more eco
nomical will the Legislature be, for it is
manifestly the purpose of the people to
look after their own interests. We
want a General Assembly too big to be
controlled by lobbyists, jobbers, and
log-rolling bargains. ”
“Does it strike you that the Conven
tion is progressing as rapidly with the
business before it as it should ?”
“Well, yes. It is no little thing to
frame an organic law for a people. The
Convention should be emphatically a
deliberative body.”
'•What is your gpigigg of the home
stead question j’’
The Homestead Provision.
“Ob, I believe the Convention will
make the homestead permanent and in
alienable. lam in favor of a reduced
but liberal homestead.”
The Political Outlook.
Mr. Stephens "says he is more hopeful
of the oountry now than sinod 1856.
Said he :
“Light is breaking. Mr. Hayes is
doing what Mr. Tilden never could have
done. Had Tilden attempted what Mr.
Hayes has accomplished we wonld have
had fnotheroivil war. The revolution
of tffh North is something
wonderful, and imfiyares * Return fo
ri gift principles. I think ific lbaiigura
ti.Qn of tyr. Haves equal, in the
good if hss effected, to the abdication of
James I{, of England, gnd £ think that
events sum* that time have conspired to
produce great results and present great
evils.
Wkn the Meath Sheeld De.
In my opinion the people of the
Bouth, outside of party, should sustain
and aid him in his policy of pacification.
I told Mr. Hayes that he should cut
loose froth party and give the people
good government and pacification, and
seven-tenths of the people wonld uphold
him I advised him, moreover, not to
hate a hand in the speaker’s election, but
to appeal to the oowntry on the strength
of his own Executive right-doing.”
STRIKE NEARLY ENDED.
FREIGHT AND PASSENGER
TRAINS RUNNING AS USUAL.
The Strike Almost Over— Every!bios: Quiet
la Pittsburg, St. Louis, Chicago and Saa
Francisco—.Rost of the Hoads Kuualag
Trains-The War Office Closid—General
Hancock’s Opinion—A Few Minor Dis
turbances—The .Miners Preparing to Quit
Work.
New York, July 29.—There are no
indications of disturbances at any point
having telegraph communication with
New York. From all over the country
comes the cheering intelligence that
everything is quiet. There is of course
a feeling of uncertainty on the Delaware
and Lackawanna and the Morris and
Essex Railroads, and in the mining dis
tricts, but,whatever may occur hereafter,
everything seems peaceful now.
Fort Wayne, July 29.—Tbe strikers
drove off the Mayor and sheriff’s posse
that attempted to break the blockade
Saturday.
St. Louis, July 29. — Among the ar
rested was Albert Curtin, Secretary of
the International Society. The striker*
of East St. Louis disregarded the writ
of the Federal Court to allow the trains
on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad to
proceed. The Marshal reported the fact
to General Pope, who applied to
Washington for authority to use
the troops. The response being
favorable Pope has ordered Davis
to send troops there. Blaford Wil
son has been appointed special United
States Marshal to enforce the writ.
Seven companies of Illinois State mi
litia arrived at East St. Louis to take
care of the roads not under United States
protection. It is thought that by Mon
day there will be no interruption of bu
siness. John Morgan, ex-head centre of
the Coal Miners Association in Southern
Illinois, has been arrested.
Indianapolis, July 29.—The United
States Marshal, with fifty soldiers, took
out the train on the Vincennes aud Van
dalia Road without molestation.
San Fhanoisoo, July 29.—Last night
was perhaps the quietest Saturday night
ever experienced in San Francisco. The
hoodlum element seems thoroughly
cowed by tbe recent exhibition of tbe
intent and power of the authorities and
oitizens to crush all riotous demonstra
tions.
Buffalo, July 29. —The troubles on
the Canada Sonthern Road were settled
last night.
Evansville, Ind., July 30.—The
strikers organized in this city yesterday,
and this morning they intend to parade
the streets. It is feared that a general
strike in all brauches of trkde will be
inaugurated, aud trouble is anticipated
St. Louis, July 30. — Absolute quiet
reigns throughout St. Louis this morn
ing. The exchanges have reopened,
and everything is rapidly returning to
its normal condition. Some manufac
turing establishments are still closed for
want of ooal, but that Article will be
abundant again in a day or two.
Chicago, July 29. — Scarcely a vestige
of tbe late troubles has been visible to
day. Generals Sheridan and Crook ar
rived this morning from St. Paul aud
Gen. Pope from St. Louis. The latter
will still have the immediate .oontrol of
the United States troops here and im
mediate vioinity by virtue of his posi
tion in the army. Gen. Orook went West
to Omaha, where he will look after some
reported Indian troubles in the Eastern
territories. The railroad strike has few
new features. The engineers on the Van
dalia, It)dianapolis aud St. Louis line
have struck, and a few other engineers
talk discontentedly, but have yet made
no signs of striking. The usual Sunday
passenger business has been done by ail
the lines except the Vandalia. Few
freight cars have been moved in any di
rection.
Maunoh Chunk, Pa., July 30.—The
first New York mail sinoe Wednesday
arrived to-day.
Erie, Pa., July 30. — Freight and pas
senger trains are running on all roads
leading from this city.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., July 30.—Twenty
five hundred miners have just concluded
a meeting at Dana’s Grove. They pass
ed resolutions not to resume work until
wages are raised twenty-five per cent.,
eud the mine pumps are to be stopped
until the company accede to this de
mand.
Philadelphia, July 30.—Advices have
been received here that the strike on the
Texas Pacific is ended, and the men
have resumed work ou the basis of the
present reduction.
Chicago, July 30.—But little trouble
was experienced this morning in resum
ing the order prevailing before the labor
disturbance. The expected engineer’s
strike has not yet occurred and all the
roads, except the Lake Shore aud Chi
cago, and the Burlington and Quincy
have resumed both freight and passen
ger traffio, though the latter has been
annoyed by tho recalcitrants at Burling
ton, who refuse to allow any business
to go on, A considerable number of
lumber shovers on tho south branoh of
the Chicago river struck this morniug
but made no demonstration. The First
regiment returned from Braidwood this
morning and will go out to Galesburg
to-day to insure safety to the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy trains at that
point. No serious trouble is reported
in this city or in the Northwest.
Pittsburg, July 80.—Everything is
quiet, and the strike among railroad
employes is, to all appearances, ended.
Ou the Pittsburg division of the Balti
more and Ohio Road the freights East
aud West are now arriving and depart
ing on schedule time.
Elizabeth, N. J., July 30.—1 u New
Jersey the strikers are quiet, mainly
from the presence of the military. At
Phillipsburg, Hampton and Washington
trains are running regularly, and the
strikers are tryiDg to convince the mili
tary that their presence is unnecessary,
ana the military are trying to convince
Gov. Bedell that such is the case. The
truth is, however, that in the Lehigh
Valley there is no disposition on the
part of the strikers to resume work, and
no intention on tbe part of the railroads
to resume until there is a general return
to duty.
Cumberland, July 29.—The fast
freight train, with a military guard,
went through to Keyser. The following
train was stopped near Keyser, but the
strikers fled into Maryland when the
military, which escorted the first train,
returned. It has been orderly here, but
the crowd is large and the excitement
great.
Sedalia, Mo., July 30.—The strike on
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail
road has terminated.
St. Louis, July 29.— A1l trains, except
the Toledo and Wabash, sent out pas
sengers and freight to-day. Consider
able objection was made, but after the
arrest of sixty-five strikers matters were
quieted. Guards were sent on nil the
trains.
PrrTßpußG, July 29.—The freight
bloekade at this point is pretty well
broken. The. strikers on the Pennsyl
vania Central and Fort Wayne Roads
still hold out, but offer no resistance to
the movement of trains. Five trains of
stock left over the Pennsylvania Road
for the East to day. Two trains of
freight came West.
St. Louis, Sunday, July 29.—A1l
quiet. A number of companies of the
Citizens’ Guard have beeu disbanded.
C. H. Leder, the negro who led the low
er rabble, has been arrested. Twenty
six leaders of the Carondelet street riot
have been arrested. The jails are full.
New Orleans, July 29.—For the past
two days rumors of a strike have pre
vailed,' yesterday the employers
were asked to sign * papi/guaranteeing
higher wages to the hands. Notices
were posted of meetings to be held to
day. The authorities are on the alert.
Last night the Washington Artillery and
the Louisiana Field Artillery were un
der arms. The local military received
notice to be in readiness for action, and
were charged by Gov. Nioholls in the
event of an apprehensive gathering to
disperse it immediately at any hazard or
cost. No blank cartridges will be used.
Washington, July 30.—The War De
partment closed last night near mid
night, after being constantly open for
ten days with a high officer in attend
ance, usually General Townsend of Gen
eral yindent tomg off duty. Two Col
lisions were reported yesterday, one
near JJew York, from recklessness, and
one at Columbus, Q., from a misplaced
switch. The jpail, passenger and milk
trains pa#s ospr all New Jersey roads.
It is thought at the War department
that the strike is virtually over. Only
in very rare instances have the strikers
improved their present or future condi
tion. General Hancock states in a dis
patch received this morning at tbe War
Department: “Have heard from Cum
berland and Pittsbnrg this morning.
Everything on the railroads within reach
of my oommnuitationa seems to be quiet
and progressing well. Avery little time
and reflection, I think, will accomplish
the Test:'’ Governor Carroll, of Mary
*■ ‘..lt
land, in a communication to the Secre
tary of War, says : “The freight trains
which were started from Baltimore and
Cumberland yesterday proceeded with
out any iuterruptinn to Martinskurg,
and have been set in motion again to
day without disturbance. I begin to
feel that the spirit of the disorder is
broken up, and hope for the speedy re
storation of quiet.”
Washington, July 30.—General Sheri
dan telegraphs from Chicago that no
further trouble is apprehended there.
Troops placed at various cities aud
points of danger will remain until per
fect order is restored and business is
conducted as usual.
Hoboken, N. J., July 30.— Walter
Kichliue aud Edward Sturgess, tbe two
leuders of the striking firemen on the
Delaware,Lackawanna and Western Rail
road, both presented themselves before
Superintendent Reasoner yesterday aud
admitted that the strike was over, and
that their efforts had been unsuccessful.
The Morris and Essex division aud the
other divisions are expected to fall into
line to-morrow.
St. Louis, July 30.—Five companies
of United States troops left East Louis
for Belleville at 7 o’clock last evening
with sealed orders.
Terre Haute, July 30.—At a meeting
of the Vaudalia Railroad employes last
night it was resolved to go to work this
morning at the old wages, subject to
modification hereafter.
New York. July 30.— Tbe Hornells
ville striker, B. J. Donahne, was again
before Judge Donahue to-day in the
Supreme Court (chambers), under au
attachment for interfering with the run
ning of trains by tbe receiver of the
Erie Railway Company, appointed by
the Supreme Court. General Pryor and
ex-Judge Curtis appeared for the re
spondent and represented that they had
no opportunity to critically examine the
papers. General Pryor then proceeded
to argue that the complaint was insuffi
cient iu not specifying the particular act
of contempt of Court. The plaintiffs
were allowed two days to file interroga
tories, and defendant ten days to file
answers. The prisoner meantime is in
the custody of the Sheriff of New York
oouuty, with leave to apply for bail.
ArrestM Using llliule—Rioters Punished—.An
Abortive strike iu Memphis—A Dividend
Pnssed—Trouble in the Mining Regions—
Trains Stopped—A Riot nt Scranton—The
Mayor Maltreated—Several Rioters Killed.
St. Louis, August I.—Two of the
strikers on the Executive Committee of
East St. Louis have been arrested. The
capture of the others is expected.
Chicago, August I.—United States
Distriot Judge Drummond sentenced
eight rioters to-day, brought from
Peoria, to four months imprisonment
and SSO fine for oontempt.
Memphis, August 1. —The brick moul
ders are on a strike for twenty-five cents
advanoe on the price paid during the
past five years. The street force of the
gas company have demanded an ad
vance. All the strikers have been dis
charged.
Philadelphia, August I.— The Board
of Directors of the Pennsylvania Rail
road to-day decided to pass the usual
quarterly dividend on the stock of that
company. The Board considers it ad
visable to use its available cash iu re
pairing the recent damages to its prop
erty.
Columbus, August J. —Seven freight
trains went eastward ou the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad and
one Westward this morning. Six west
ward bound freight trains arrived here
at noon. The police took oontrol of the
yards, assisted by two companies of
military. There was not a shadow of
opposition, but, on the contrary, every
one present seemed pleased at the con
dition of affairs. The Baltimore and
Ohio Company’s local officers have been
officially notified to receive freight.
Wilkesbarre, August I.—Trains left
both ways on the Valley Road this
morning without disturbance. At noon
a looal train for Pittston was boarded
by strikers, the engine out loose and
run into the round house. A large
crowd of persous assembled. There was
no interference with the strikers. A
mail train bound north on the Valley
Railroad, aud due here at 2, p. m., was
detained tlireo-quhrters of an hour by a
crowd of 7,000 persons at the depot.
The strikers uncoupled the passenger
coaches aud engine and threw the coup
ling bolts in the canal. The bolts were
replaced aud United States detective
officers were stationed on the platform
to watch them. The train was backed
below the depot and under a full head
of steam shot past the strikers. Some
of them attempted to board the train
but failed. Trouble is anticipated when
the next traiu reaches here.
Later. — A crowd of six or seven thou
sand people assembled at the Lehigh
Valley Depot to see the mail train South
come in at 3:45 this afternoon. The
strikers were out iu force. A copstable
and a United States detective, standing
on tlip platform next tq the engine, were
stoned. Master Mechanic Drumheller
was running the engine. The strikers
stoned him until he had to get off. As
he did so he was struck in the face with
a stone. The strikers cheered, mounted
the engine, out it loose aud fan it to
Sugar,Notch. JoJin Reitler, the con
stable, was seized by tbe mob and
roughly handled. They were going to
duck him in the canal, and would have
killed him but for the interference of
friends. He is now in tfie station house
for protection. The mot) followed him
through tfie streets, agf} yell
ing. 4 large number of passengers
were compelled to lay over here. The
strikers have the engine taken from the
train, and are running it up and down
the road, blowing the whistle and cheer
ing. The miners and railroad men are
coalescing, and trouble is feared.
Scranton, Pa., August I.—About half
past eleven o’clock this morning about
5,000 men, armed with clubs and re
volvers, forced all the employes of the
L. I. and C. Company who had returned
to work after a brief strike to desist.
They then proceeded to the car shops of
the Delaware, and pastern
Railroad Company and droye the
men from tbe|r posts threatened to
destroy the par shops and office. Not
satisfied with this they violently assault
ed several employes, both ip (he shop
and office, and many of them sustained
painful, though not serious, wounds.
Mayor McKane hastened to the scene,
and at the same time sent word to a vol
unteer organization of young men which
had been guarding the extensive stores
of the L. I. and C. Company for about a
week past. The Mayor’s arrival at the
scene of the melee was the signal for a
general attack upon him, and but for the
interposition of Father Dunn, a Catholic
priest, he would pyobably have beenkill
ed. He escaped, howeyer, with a double
fracture of the jaw. some
forty or flfty of the volunteers marched
down LacjiawsuneaYenue to Washington
street, TYhejre they’ were met by the riot
ers, and after a brief assault with clubs
and stones fired into the crowd, killing
four men. The hccdlpms, and in fact
everybody, were aqd S3 they
ran several fell opaquely woqnded. The
company xethfoed to their quarters un
molested. AH places of business are
closed by order of tpe Mayor, and the
citizens are joining the volunteers in
large npmbffffl- Troops have been sent
for and are expected to-night, when
fresh trouble is feared; meanwhile the
streets are being cleared by the police
and volunteers.'
All Quiet In C'olumbui* and at Naabville—
The Train* On the Baltimore and Ohio
Road Running A* Uctual—Cheering News
Froth Ha a let <Jii
r • *4 .u 7 u.
, Columbus Ghq, August J. The
freight trains were moved ont in all di
rections under a guard of the military
to-day without the slightest interrup
tion from strikers.
Baltimore, August I.— Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad officials at Camden
station report to-night as follows : “We
moved about joO trains on the various
divisions and all tforked well.”
Nashville, August I.—Thfc'strike on
the St. Lvuis Southeastern Railroad has
oollapsed, and trains will run as usual
to-morrow. The engineers express a
willingness to resume work, though no
concessions have been made to them.
Hazleton, ’August' I—The first
passehget train from the East arrived
here this morning from Mauch Chun 1 -,
thereby breaking the blockade, and rl
turned on schedule time #ifh mails affd
paijsepgers for jjew York "and 'Philadel
phia. Another *4ip arrived lafhr jn
dav with twelve mail pouches and a
fall complement of passengers. Both
of these trains were run by crews be
longing to the main line, as the men of
the Hazleton branch are still ont. The
pay car arrived here about noon. The
men were paid off up to four o’clock
this afternoon. None of the strikers
have asked to be reinstated. As the
morning train was on its way back to
Mauch Chunk it was stopped about five
miles below here by •, tie that' had
been laid across the rails. The obstruc
tion was placed at a curve of the road,
but the engineer wrs able to stop the
train in time to avoid disaster, although
the engine struck the tie before the
train could be brought to a halt. The
miners of Eokley, Upper Lehigh and
Jeddo held a mass meeting this morn
fug at the latter plaoe. It Was very
largely attended. The men seem desi
rous of reorganizing the Miners’ Union,
and are reported to have recommended
it at their meeting this morning. The
question of a strike was discussed, but
the speeches and entire proceedings
were in opposition to that course so long
as the Reading Company oontinnes to
work.
Later, 8, p. m.—lnformation has just
beeu received that the railroad men of
this division have signified their desire
to return to work, and that all local
as well as through trains will run to
morrow.
AN INTERVIEW WITH A STRIKER.
A Sample of the Men who Struck—A Sad Pic
ture—A Grinding Monopoly—Men Over
worked aud Underpaid—Wives aud Chil
dren Naked and Hungry—The Sympathy of
Haltering.
[Donn Piatt in Cincinnati Enquirer .)
Going through the train after it left
Cumberland, I encoußtered a familiar
face in that of a man in very poor attire,
who sat nursing an old-fashioned pair of
saddle-bags, that looked as if they had
been left over iu Cumberland bv some
trooper on his way to Braddook’s defeat.
It was only after the owner of these bad
clothes aud ancient saddle bags had
called my name, while holding out his
hand, that I recognized an old acquaint
ance. I had known him during the war,
at Cumberland, as a well-to-do mechanic.
Ho uow appeared oare-worn, gray and
evidently quite poor.
“The world has not gone prosperously
with you since I knew you in Cumber
land,” I said, seating myself by his side.
_ “No, indeed. I have had a hard old
time sinoe then, I had a little money,
aud was fool enough to put it in an oil
speculation, aud it went into a hole
where I oouldn’t folfow it. Theu my
wife died, leaving a large family of chil
dren. Then the hard times came, and I
went from bad to worse, until I am now
about as near the bottom as a man can
be and live.”
“What are you doing now?”
“Nothing. I did until thisstrike, and
now, like the rest, I am out.”
“ Tell me something about the strike,
if you can ?”
“ Certainly I can. I am one myself.
I am on my way to Martinsburg.”
“ Without a ticket ?”
“ Without a ticket.”
“ Why, the conductor will put you off.”
“No he won’t either; he is one of us.
They all are. There is no man works ou
this road that doesn’t hate it. The
company never asked anything but hard
work for poor pay, and now it finds that
we have no love for it.”
“ You have had a hard time of it ?”
“ Hard times doesn’t express it. You
fought four years to liberate the slftyee :
we are in a worse condition than the nig
gers, for they had food, clothing and
shelter for themselves aud families. We
must find all that out of eighty cents a
day, aud a day runs from ten to fourteen
hours. Why, Colonel, you wouldn't be
lieve it were J to tell you of the distress
we have been made to suffer. There’s
my family ; why, those children don’t
taste meat from one week’s end to an
other ; and as for clothing, it is a shame
to see them and know what they are ex
posed to. They have kept in bed dur
ing the Winter many a day because I
could not buy fuel, aud yet coal ought
to be as cheap here as dirt. When we
complain they tell us to ‘ git ’ if tfe don’t
like it, for there are plenty of others to
take our places.”
“I fear that is only too true.”
“Not much. When it oomes to that
there won’t be any places to take,”
Tbe expression of this poor man’s faoe
was uot pleasant ns he said this. I was
glad my esteemed friends, Garrett and
King, were not present to note that
countenance. It would have made them
so uncomfortable.
“I fear,” I continued, “that you are
engaged jn a fool's fight, To allow the
discharged laborer to dictate as to the
employ of another is to overthrow our
entire struoture, social and commercial.
You will pitch dowu upon yourselves the
opposition of all organized communities,
and poor, few and unarmed as you are,
I cannot see what is to be gained.”
“We can destroy the road,” he said,
with a calm determination really start
ling; “we can destroy every riqlroad in
the United States. Y°n don’t suppose
this movement is confined to the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad ? It extends to
every road, every workshop and factory
in the land. Misery has made the work
men of the United States known to each
other, and threatened starvation is our
bond of uniop. These great monopolies
will learn in a few days that they must
give way to justice or be destroyed.”
“In the meantime you will starve.
You cut away the only support—a poor
one, true, but a support—from under
you by such violenpp. ”
“No. we Wffh't starve , tne people
sympathise with us ; we shall not lack
for bread. Why, do you know that this
railroad has been so exacting, hard and
abusive of the people of Maryland and
West Virginia, that they wonld not only
he glad to see us punish bqt help na
~1 $4 not think muon of my friend's
threats at the time, attributing much of
his talk to the exoited boasting so oom
mon to such stirring events. Facts have
since demonstrated that he told only the
trnth. Distress among the laborers of
the United States has bound them firmly
into one body. Where two people think
alike there is organization. When iliey
feel alike there is action,‘and there is no
motiye sp powerful as hunger. A man
without wages, with the cry of hungry
children in his ears, is a man to be fear
ed. We are given to attribute the vio
lence iu France to false teachings cd the
Com mu ne. This is tr rt e. V W n
kills anothpY ft Jiffe(pnep of opinion.
Masses dq pot go at throats for an idea.
When Baris gets qp at nigh* ftnd marches
a hundred thousand styopg, with their
blue shirts oqtsidp theif uanfalopns it
means that (a starving. Theyp are
hungry stomachs under the blouse and
famishing families in the home. Human
nature is the same the world over. While
it is estimated that we have nearly four
millions of men out of employ, they who
have wages find themselves very little
better off. It is hunger and privation
to one—starvation to other. - *
of tub c hopm.
The Crop grouped In. Edgefield County,
Naalh Carolina *' '*
t Correyaaiiugfice Chronicle and ConaliliUionalut. J
Edgefield, S. C., July 30.—Crops of
wheat are better than they have been
since the war. Some were injured
not beiDg properly cared |ar ‘per-ore be
ing threshgd Opt. Wats, where not killed
out, are very good; red oats are selling
at 60 cents at this place. The corn crop
has been somewhat injured by not being
properly worked and by the spelf of
the first of thjs mqptyi, but will be
a prop, mpde in this county. The
cotton oyop at present is net an average
one; the rainy spell in June caused the
grass to injure seriously a large number
of acres, and there cannot, under the
most advantageous circumstances, be
more than two-thirds of a crop made in
this county the presen* y-av. There is
plenty of labor, such as' it is, ' but
the expenen’ce thost men who deal
with them ii" that but few of them
are worth their board aad oiothing. I
have recently Conversed with Mr. Bryan,
who has been over most of the county
with the County Treasurer collecting
taxes, and he informs me the crops in
the Sand Hills are very poor, but the
Saluda region they T ery good, and
that ;n jihs section 1 where' ljtostcotton is
raised. Very tew perSbns paid their
taxes. Money is' very scare. In the
Dutch settlement nearly every onb id
up in full, War *fiold
adage—rfien *-aisea cotton exclu
sively, and purchased everything else,
had very little money left after paying
their debts, if they got out even: w" ; f?
on the other hand, men -ho .ausedlmt
little cotta: iyu plenty 61 'col'll and
small grain, always had’money on hand,
and were ihdependent. Peace prevails
throughout the county. The division
of the county he diseftssed in Au
gust and September in the upper por
tion of the county. “Fence or no fence”
is attracting the minds of many, but my
impression is there will be no change
this Fall. There will be an effort made
in a short time to get oonviot labor to
grade the railroad from this place to
Bacon’s Turn-out, on the 0., C. AA. 1
R. If the labor o." he procured; work
will be ocmEienoed’et > hn> earfy day A
small assessment trpoh the property
wtthfb Mie incorporate 'limits of ldge- :
field will grade toe road and liav Sown I
$2 A YEAR-POSTAGE PAID
the cross-ties. We are yet hopeful of
seeing better times in Edgefield.
Solon.
THK WAR IN EUROPE.
REPORTED DEFEAT OF THE RUS
SIANS AT YENI SAGHKA.
Austria A ruling—What She Intends to Do—
The Defeat at the Turku Nenr Riiutebnk
Diucreiiiteil—Freeariouu Position at the
Ruustanu South of the Unlkano—Four
Turkluli Ariuieu Approaehlug—Battle at
Yen! Nagbra—Tbe Turks Claim the Vic
lory—The Russians Reported Retreating.
Pesth, August I.—The Pest her Lloyd
publishes a Vienna special stating that
the Ministry have decided to mobilize
three army corps, which will be echloned
on the frontiers of Dalmatia, Croatia
and Solavonia.
London, August I.—The Times’ cor
respondent at Vienna utterly discredits
the defeat of Ahmed Ezoub Pasha and
says after the concentration of the
Turks around Shumla a considerable
portion of their forces was ordered to
a4vanoe by way of Eshi Djuma and Os
man Bazar upon Tirnova, to unite with
Osman Pasha there, aud then fall on
the Russian detachments which have
passed the Balkans. The Turks therefore
have only beeu able to leave a feeble
corps of observation, which will take
good care not to encounter an enemy su
perior in numbers. The position of the
Russians iu the Shipka and Sliono
passes and on the southern slope of the
Balkans is becoming hourly more grave.
Their effective forces whioh are eohe
loned on this line don’t exceed 50,000
men, which are threatened from four
sides simultaneously—from Adriauople
and Jamboli by Suleiman Pasha; from
Osman Bazar by Meliemet. Ali, while
Osman Pasha is advanoing in the direc
tion of Selvi, aud a reserve corps from
Sofia could approach by way of Philip
popolis. It seems also that the Rus
sians are not making much progress be
fore Silistria and Rustcbuk, where they
are meeting with a desperate resistance.
Gen. Zimmerman’s oorps, advauoing
through the Dobrudsoha, -is greatly
menaced by the right wing of the Turk
ish army from Varna and Paravada.
The Ninth Russian Army Corps has be
oome almost incapable of fighting in
eonsequence of the loss it suffered at
Nikopolis aud Plevna. Several telegrams
mention the fact that the Roumanians
ocoupied Nikpolis at tbp request of the
Russians as proof that the Russian cause
is uot prosperous.
The Times' Bucharest correspondent
says it is reported that the Roumanian
division, commanded by Gen. Manu,
after leaving a small garrison at Niko
polis, marolied in the direction of
Plevna. The Manchester Guardian's
Vienna correspondent reports that the
Czarwitch and his army is retiring to
wards the river Tantara.
A dispatch to the Telegraph, dated
Pera, July 31, midnight, says : “Jntelli
genoe just received heye from Gsmau
Pasha announces ft great Turkish vic
tory. The enemy was completely rout
ed, after two days’ severe fighting,
with a loss of 8,000 killed and 16,000
wounded. The Turks captured a great
quantity of arms and ammunition. The
Turkish oasnaßipfl were comparatively
small, owing to the fact that they fought
upon the defensive."
Austria has abandoned ber passive
position for one of armed neutrality.
Tweuty-four milliou florins must be
raised for the proposed mobilisation.
The Italian fleet is at Taranto. Specials
to the Telegraph assert that the
Turks were victorious iu the battle at
Yeni Sagbra and Plevna, and that thd
Russians are retreating to the Balkans,
pursued by Suleiman.
Bucharest, August I.— Reports are
current that Meliemet AU with sixty
thousand men has arrived at Osman
Bazar. A smaller Russian detachment
is retreating before him. Mehemet Ali
is trying to elfeot a junction with Os
man Pasha, but wishes to accomplish
this without giving battle in the open
field. The Russians are waiting for
such au opportunity most impatiently.
Raqbad, August I.—The Cossacks, on
the approach of Suleiman Pasha’s
scouts, fell back towards the river Tiete,
whioh shows that the Russian corps
which on the 27th held Tietesoum, had
fallen back on the Yantra. Communi
cation has been re-established with
Rustcbuk.
Wlint Riidsiu Really luleuilx
Czar’ll Criiirinnis un EnglitmPw Cauiluet—
The Esvptlaa A Chanse oi Pu
lley fcy pm Turku—They Will Take ilie Of
ten*! ve.
Vienna, August I.—The papers liele
unanimously announce that yesterday’s
council did not decide in favog of either
general or partial mobilization. Count
Andrassy, whose policy was entirely ap
proved, was empowered to take meas
ures for the eventual strengthening of
the troops already echeloned along the
southern frontier. The Cabinet also
discussed the cost, estimated at 35,000,-
000 florins, of mobilising four divisions
for reinforcing thu troops on tho fron
tier, should that measure be determined
upon.
London, August I.— A note received
by the Russian Secretary of State from
the headquarters of the Grand J}uke
Nicholas, where the Czar ia sojourning,
as to the sinking of vessels iu the Bil
lina month of the Danube aud the em
ployment of Egyptian troops in the ser
vice of Turkey, says ; “As soon as
the war is ended, the Russians will
remove the impediments and clear the
bed of the river.” With regard to the
other point the note states that “to
calm the anxiety of the British Cabinet
His Imperial Maiesfy instructed tbe
Russian Ambassador in London to de
to Earl Derby that we harbored no
project of aggression against Egypt.
Might we not have expeoted, therefore,
that in strict fairness the British Gov
ernment would use its influence with
the Khedive to him from eu
gagiu" in dicf hostilities against us ?
Iff Oflf flghts fn the Balkans our
soldiers foqnd themselves opposed to
Egyptian troops aud it *dl perhaps suf
fice to point (it this fact to justify the
hone that i| the British Government de
sires that its interests shall not be com
promised by aggression on onr part
against Egypt, it will also use its influ
ence there to prevent us from being
forced by the open hostilities of tha vice
regal government to take steps to pre
vent a renewal of them,''
Out of numerous conflicting reports
from Bulgaria last week, oue substantial
and very important fact is gleaned, that
the Turks have abandoned their Fabian
policy, and are making a sewes attack
on both flanks oi Russians. The
forced to suspend ag-
EVC4 siye movements, and concentrate on
their oentral line from Biela to Tirnova.
As pointed out by the Times' Vicuna
correspondent to-day, if Pasha
anil Lieut. Gen. JjJ4ewket Ali succeed
in joining bawds between Tirnova and
thb JpalKau passes it will be fatal to the
Russians south of the mountains. Thus
far only Turkish reports of fighting have
been received since th§ battle at
Plevna, but '> with a
appearance of probability, that if
the Russians were faring prosperously
we would have official bulletins from St
Petersburg.
Constantinople, August I.— Tuesday
evening the Russians were bombarding
Yeni Saghra.
London, August I, —regard to tbe
renewed at Rlevna it is clear-
V that tbe Russians were
defeated in the first day’s fi<*hßßg on
July 30th, as an official dispatch from
Tirnova, published in St. Petersburg,
aaya ; “ July 30th Gen. Krudener
again attacked Plevna, but without suc
cess. ” All advices as yet received go to
show that the second day’s, fighting was
equally disastrous tv the Russians. A
dispatgtj d a jd Bucharest to day says :
t-en. Rnid,ep er yesterday again *tck
eq Plevna, but afte; desperate
struggle Wap rfpvdaed by the
Turks, ye re greatly superior in
' An offioial telegram from
Osman Pasha, giving an account of
Tuesday's fighting, received at Constan
tinople, is almost identic*! yitli the
Telegraph's account, bpt estimates the
Russian 24,000 out of a
ioiye of ten divisions, and says the
Russians retreated to their
A Bucharest states that the
Russian army continues to receive rein
forcemeats, ’ Passenger traffic on the
qaasy railway was suspended yesterday
to facilitate their passage.
The army worm is in the cotton fields
of North Mississippi.
Chicago the of Ju S. & W.
a' Tif a rrr‘ S i Cp> ‘ grocers, of
South streets, has been n
-i a^i unknqyjm
At Pittsburg, Penneyßapia, yester
, **} 8 mould o mefal explosion,
at the fcraniny °*R.C. Totten, Liberty
*.Wo men were fatally and eight
Ttie poise of the
> explosion was squares.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Watermelons are plentiful in Griffin.
Conyers sells eggs at Gj cents per
dozen.
Monroe Superior Court has a *75,000
suit to try.
Several negro criminals are in the Cov
ington jail.
Rev. Father Murphy died in Macon
last Sunday.
Macon thieves fish for chickens with a
hook and line.
Dr, Sid. Holland, formerly of Augus
ta, is in Athens.
Large chickens sell for only ten cents
each in Carrollton.
The Knights of Pythias have a flour
ishing lodge in Atlanta.
Mrs. Sarah F. Pope, an old resident
of Athens, died last Sunday.
A tramp dtole a horse from a rack iu
Forsyth dnring Commencement.
A young colored highwayman tried to
snatch a lady’s purse in Atlanta.
Five persons were sick at one time, iu
a family near Milledgeville. Three died.
The various Lodges of Knights of Py -
thias in Savannah held a convention last.
Monday.
A negro stole a watch from a jewelry
store in Athens aor two ago. He was
oaptured.
A company of blind minstrels are
traveling over the State, giving enter
tainments.
A fight between a hog and a dog
caused quite an excitement in Grillin'
the other day.
“The Hump Back Mule,” an ancient
Greek ballad, has been revived, and is
now a favorite in Atlanta.
The total value of property owned by
citizens of Monroe countv is $2,311 44d
Of this, negroes own *64,743.
The engineers on the State Road have
acted in such a manner as to provoke
the admiration of the community.
The young ladies at Garnett Springs
have eleoted a correspondent from their
own ranks for the Toccoa Herald.
Mr. J. B. Carson, of Taylor county,
has sent the first boll of open cotton to
the Macon Telegraph and Messenger.
The Griffin Volunteers had a pic-nio
at Indian Spring yesterday. Governor
Colquitt was present and delivered an
address.
The nurseries around Atlanta are
laden with very fine fruit. The peach
crop of the present year is one of the
finest ever known.
Columbus darkies are going to At
lanta in a swarm on next Saturday, the
4th. Columbus leads the world in the
matter of excursions.
The Monroe Advertiser says: We
have had splendid rains, and corn, cot
ton and grass are growing with wonder
ful rapidity. The corn prospect is very
promising.
Last Tuesday, W. J. Hendricks, age til
fifty years, was married in Harris coun
ty to Miss Mollie Stribliug, a blushing
damsel of thirty Summers. It was a
runaway matoh.
W. H. Berry, an engineer on the Air
Line Road, weighs 275 lbs., age 51 years,
lias been running an engine for tweuty
nine years, and was never on any road!
but the Georgia and Air Line.
Marietta is full of strangers. There
was a hop at the Kenneaaw House Fri
day night, which drew all the beaux on
the State Road. Oartersville sent down
a dozen of its most dashing swells.
In IBTG the voting population of Mon
roe county was as follows: While polls,
1,027; colored polls, 1,109. This year
there is a change, showing an increase,
as follows: White polls, 1,052: colored
polls, 1,203.
A negro man named Robert Hurst
was killed on Sol. Penn’s place, on Gum
Creek, in Newton county, on Monday
night last, by another negro named
Simon Hill. The killing was done with
a razor, and Robert's throat was cut,
from ear to ear.
Two worthy citizens of Monroe coun
ty (each) lost a dun colored cow. A
contest was made for the ownership be
fore the Justice Court, and an nppeal
has been taken to the Superior Couvi.
The trial will cost the county at least,
three hundred dollars.
There is in Thomas county an immi
gration society, and there are being
printed by it ten thousand copies of a
pamphlet setting forth the advantages
of its climate, soil, etc., which will be
distributed throughout the North and)
West to induce people to come and set -
tle there.
Rev. A. J. Jarrell, pastor of St. James’
M. E. Church, Augusta, spent a portion
of last week among his friends iu Mil
ledgeville. The Union and Recorder
says “He possesses a heart overflow -
ing with love for his fellow-mon, and is
an active and earnest worker in the great,
cause of Christianity, He will always
find open doors and loving hearts here. ”
The Good Templars of Starrsville are
the cleverest people in the land. At
their meeting, last (Saturday night, it
was reported that the crop of Mr. B F.
Hays was in need of work--lie and his
family being siok and unable to work it
when about sevsoity-flve or eighty of
the members of the Lodge agreed to
take their plows and hoes and go and
work if out for him on Monday. *
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Legal Tenders Deiitroyed—|(m. 11. W. nil -
llnrd .Unde Minister la Brnsll—A Confede
rate Commodore Appointed to OOlre—Han
cock’* Opinion of the Strike.
Washington, July 31.—Legal tenders
destroyed for July, $670,1121, being 80
per cent, of the national bank notea
issued. The Cabinet discussed various
matters relating to appointments of pub
lic land officials, but made none. The
labor troubles were also discussed.
Henry W, Hilliard, of Georgia, was ap
pointed Minister to Brazil. Mr. Hil
liard, previous to the war, represented
the Montgomery (Ala.) District in Con
gress. Gen. Hancock reports the situ
ation in the mining districts of Penn
sylvania much more favorable. All ap
prehensions of violence have nearly disap
peared. The Lighthouse Board gives no
tioe that after August 10th a fixed red light
will be exhibited from the light house on
the St. John Shoal, Delaware Bay. The.
light will be visible thirteen nautical
miles. The Commissioners of the Dis
triot of Columbia have appointed Cora
modore Van Ranseallear MorgaD, late of
the Confederate Navy, Inspector of
Works and Repairs on the roeds and
streets of the District. Commodore
Morgan graduated in the class of 1836,
He was highly recommended to the
place by many of his old comrades in
the United States Navy, and by prop.-
erty holders of the District generally.
auity in the south.
A Houtli Carolina Diutrlrt Agree,* to flrop
Political Violence, u*i<l Nrndn a Com mil let*
to WaHhingtoiii
Washington, July 29.—A delegation
of gentlemen from the Edgefield and
Ellenton Districts of South Carolina,
composed of Republicans, both white
and black, and of Democrats, has re
cently called upon the President. The
object was to lay before him tbe pro
ceedings of the late mass meeting, par
ticipated in by all olasses in those por
tions oi the State, at which the people
on each side pledged themselves here
after to live in peace with their neighbors
of every class and race, and agreed, each
with the other, that violence and disor
der arising out of political differences
should cease. Asa result of this agree
ment, all the parties to it have united iu
asking the President to cause to be dis
missed all the cases recently tried by
Chief Justice Waite, and at the same
time they say that the State authorities
propose to dismiss a number of political
suits began in local Courts against Re
publicans. The President expressed,
much satisfaction at the improved con
dition of affairs in Swith Carolina, and
members of the delegation report that
he promised to take into consideration
the request they had made.
THE 1.088 V.
What Nw York Paj r Ifna ro Nay About
tbe (flcorgi.ft Convention.
New Yobs, July 31.—The Journal of
Commerce calls attention to the fact
that the Georgia Convention has
adopted a clause making lobbying
a crime. It thinks that it will be
impossilds to make any such legislation
constitutional, and adds, that the true
remedy lies in eleoting high-minded, in
telligent men io govern the State, who
cap neither be bought, nor bullied, nqr
cajoled, and in creating a public senti
ment that will ostracise the lobby.
Otherwise, even a constitutional pro
vision will not avfiil.
We all have our preference; but no
one prefers to hear a crying baby when
tbe fact in so well known that Dr. Bull’a
Baby Syrup woald at once quiet it
Rwe, 2q.ceufcs,