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t ttkeklg & 'Constitatumalist OLO SERIES HOI. ICII NEW SERIES-VOL. 11. Cijromcle and Beurtnel. y> BPIfgSPAT, AUGUST 15,1877. Bklisarius and Homer wire “tramps. The "Sick Man” is very lively after aIL _ If figures do not lie the public debt is now *2,060,158,223 26. The withdrawal of “pap” has killed the Republican press of Louisiana. The World thinks there was a “strik ing contrast” lately between the North and South. Mb. Hfukoeon cannot write sermons. He goes into the pulpit and the sermon comes to him. A Kentucky gentleman who owns a Longfellow oolt thinks of calling him Poems—by Longfellow. The New York Sun insists that Him monh, instead of Toombs, “calls the roll of slaves on Hunker Hill.” m a It may console Southern farmers et. at., to know that Hungarian nobles pay 1,800 per cent, for money loaned. Btabmpeli, a Hwiss diplomat, toasted Grant as “the ablest statesman and worthiest citizen of the United Statos. To soothe the excitable British since Grant's departure a guillotine that has out oft'‘22,lKK) French heads is exhibited in Loudon. While thousands of Hindoos are starving, the Maharajah of Gwalior is constructing a garden that will cost mil lions of dollars. Lady Bakkb has seen the black races in four quarters of the globe, and never saw one single individual move quickly of his own free will. m ■ ii A i.ittt.e New York girl, named Libbie Grant, swam across Harlem river, the other day, iu fifteen minutes. The cur rent is very swift and the girl only eight years old. Mb. Bishop’s letter accepting the Democratic nomination for Governor of Ohio is called, by the Cinoinuati Ga zette, a “pastoral address.” It will rally the faithful. Fa'iheb Taft really wanted the nomi nation iu Ohio, and could easily have gotten it, had he come forth boldly and unquivocally. His “questionable atti tude” killed him. Mb. Beecher rejoices to learn that a Albany (N. Y.) man lived ou 10 cents a day and died rich. What a glutton he would have been had he lived on a dol lar a day and died poor ! On* thousand cans of Massachusetts milk become two thousand when thoy get into the hands of New York dealers. The deaths by cholera infantum increase in about the same ratio. The Republican candidate for Lieu tenant-Governor in Ohio, is 33 years old aud graduated in law iu 1870. Ho is tid to have oome to America only eight years ago from Germany. i ■ —i— • Pibrkepont’s explanation why he and Uhant did not attend Mr. Motley’s funeral amounts to this: “He snubbed us when alive; we suubbed him when .dead.” It was a dead cut sure enough. The two glasses of Rhine wine im lnlied by President Hayes at a Schuet zenfest are expected to carry Ohio for Judge West and the Republicans. Mrs. Hayes must keep a watch on the Rhine. The* are bringing up aguinst the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio that he was a Know Nothiug, aud bis enforcement, when Mayor of Cincin nati, of tho Sunday law. It is said the Germans still allude U) “dot dry time with Bishop." John Hoey, the New York Express mail, spends 840,000 per annum in keep ing up his Long Branch property. Per haps it was a knowledge of this that caused President Garrett, of the B, & O. R. R., tog< into the express business ou his own hook. Anrnt Mr. Stephens’ artiole ou Junius, the Nashville American pleas antly says : “Now, why will a man of Mr. Stephens’ years go to springing a dangerous issue like this, just before the meeting of Congress, aud right on the heels of the railroad riot?” And bo the sweet singer, Adelina Patti, is no better than she should be. How pleased all her sister primmo doune will be.at the intelligence. Per haps, however, the sweet singer will have oompauy in her misfortune unless queens of opera eschew the society of silver tougned tenors or follow Ham let’s advice to the love sick Ophelia. - - Wb publish this moruiug a letter written hy General M. A. Stovall, President ot tho Augusta Cotton Ex change, in to the commuuicatiou of McDuffie, Vieh appeared in the Chronicle and CosasyrcTiosALisT of last Suuday, in relation to Hie agitation in the National aud Internatiowa. 1 Cot tou Exchange ef 'the subject of selling cotton by not weight. The letter will be read with interest by farmers and factors. JJr. E. A. Freeman contends that “no vnaw w.as ever more emphatically n re former itf tho history of his own age and <iw.u Mahomet. No man was .over more emphatically a destroyer in the general history of the world.” This ■is a pretty way of saying that “what is one mail's meat is another man's poi wou." A religion good enough for Ara bia is not good enough for Europe. Perhaps. And yet some parts of Europe are not any more religious than some flirts of Arabia. Mr. Wbioht said Mr. Hammond scout d the i4aa of being “a funuel through which the people speak.” Mr. Ham mond said he never need the word “fun nel. "It was, he said, Mr. W hjoht who used it “su'd he desires to be the senseless thing wu’h a small neck aud a broad month, 1 hn T e desire to take away from him tbai privilege.” Avery neat retort that, aud sf.ortb being called to order for. It is s.ain, .however, that Mr. Whioht will reply to Mr. Hammond and when he does the fnnnei probably gome in again. Tis well. Judge Wm. M. Reese, one of the Di rectors of the Georgia Railroad Com pany, publishes a card this morning de nying the statement that he is opposed to the payment of the bonds of the Port Boyal Railroad, endorsed by the Geor gia Road. If the reporter of the Chron icle and Constitutionalist had not beard the report from what he consider ed good authority it would not have been alluded to in this paper. If we under stand Judge Reese’s letter, he does not oppose the payment of the bonds be cause he sanctioned the endorsement as • member of the Board of Directors at the time it was made; bnt says that new .Directors, meaning Directors elected since the endorsement, may act in the matter “aocordink to their beet judg tnent.” FALSE ECONOMY. The action of the Convention in re ducing the salaries of Jndges of the Su preme and Superior Courts, and in re fusing to give the General Assembly the power to increase them except by a two thirds vote, is as nowise as it is unjust. The Judges of the Supreme Court have to live in Atlanta, and a man with a family cannot live in that city on the sum fixed by the Convention. Unless the Circuit Judges are dead-headed by the railway corporations, cases against which they Lave to try in nearly every county, their traveling expenses will reach three or four hundred dollars per annum each, leaving only sixteen or | seventeen hundred dollars for the sup port of themselves and their families. This reduction is not economy; it is a piece of absurd niggardliness, which will be productive of much injury to the most important department of the State government. We are glad to see that a large majority of the ablest and bebt men in the Convention voted against the senseless and mischievous proposition rnisuamed economy. Among these were Buchanan, Guerrard, Hammond, Hill, Lawton, Lawson, Lofton, William M- Reese, Augustus Reese, Simmons, Scre ven, Toombs, Thompson and Tuqgle. Though the same men who injected this economy into the Constitution rejected the motion of Mr. Hill to allow a ma jority of the General Assembly to in crease the compensation of Jndges, there is yet a hope, though a faint one, we confess, that two-thirds of the next Legislature will see the folly of fixing the salaries of the Jndiciary at starva tion figures, and will give the Judges sufficient compensation for their services to raise them above the reach of tempta tion, and prevent ignorance and venali ty from obtaining a lodgment on the Bench, the election ok jiiikies. The Constitutional Convention has at last decided how Judges of the Su preme aud Superior Courts shall be se lected under the new Constitution. As soon as the Convention assembled it became apparent that the mode of se lecting Judges would be a difficult prob lem to solve. Three shades of opinion on this subjeot found representation in the Convention. One class of delegates —aud deoidedly the smallest of the three—favored appointment by the Governor. A second class were on the other extreme, and desired to have the Judges elected by tho people, as they were uuder the Constitution of 18C5. The third class occupied a middle ground betwoen tho other two, and ad vocated the eleotion of the Judiciary by the General Assembly. As is usually the case in contests of this character, both wings of the extremists were de feated, aud a compromise for widely conflicting viows was found in elec tions by the Legislature. In many States of tbe Union Judges of the Supreme and of tbe Circuit Courts are elected by the people, and we have never heard of any evil consequences resulting from the system. Between 1865 and 1868 the Judges iu this State were chosen by the popular vote, and the Bench of that time will compare very favorably with the Beach of to-day. But since 1865 tho former slave popula tion of Georgia lias become voters, and it was this fact wbich prevented tbe success of the advocates in tbe Conven tion of election by tbe people. It was urged that the oolored voters would sup port, aud might elect, incompetent or corrupt men to Judgeships, and that it would be dangerous to put such power into their bands. It remains to be seen how the new scheme will work, whether well or ill. The principal objection to it is that it will give new vitality to the very objectionable practice of “ log rolling,” but it would bo impossible to devise aoy mode of selecting Judges which would not have some defect. THE LEGISLATURE. Our speoial correspondence from At lanta has given the substance of tbe re port agreed upon by tbe Committee on Legislative Department. Tbe Senate is to consist of forty-five members, each Congressional District to embrace five Senatorial Districts. This plan may work well enough, though we confess we shonld prefer to have sixty three Senators—nine to each Congres sional District—instead of forty-five. The Senate is too small and more nearly resembles an overgrown committee than a deliberative body. It shonld be en larged at least onu-balf, and representa tion should be based as nearly as pos sible upou population. The counties of Richmond, Chatham, Fulton, Bibb and Burke aeuld each constitute a separate Senatorial Disirigt. The oommitte report in favor of retaining iiffi present number of members of the House of Representa tives; give each of the six largest counties Chatham, Fulton, Rich mond, Bibb, Burke, aud Houston —three members each; the twenty-sis oejt largest counties two momberseach; aud tire remaining one hundred aud five couutifis one wej&bgr pach. This is sub stantially the old except {hat twen ty-six instead of }birtsr-©AO cormiiea arn allowed two members omit. This change was evidently made to cover iij gases of the five new counties—McDuffie, Oconee, Douglas, Rockdale and Dodge —which jsye been organized sinoe the apportionment ai yonresentatives was fixed by tbe Constitution of t&§§- The Chronicle and Constitutionalist and other journal* of the State have already conclusively shown the absurdity of such a system gf representation, or, more properly, miafceprrsentation. has been shown that un der this system, is not based upon population, the true basis of ail rep i reseutatiou, or wealth, but simply upon territory as embraced within i county lines. But as the Convention is ; constituted we bate u o hope that the injustice will be remedied, boiueinicg can be doue, however, which will not in terfere with the privileges of the small counties which hare no population aud pay no tax yet which will he a little more equitable to tbe large and wealthy counties. We make the suggestion in the hope that the Convention will see the propriety of adopting it. 1. Let the three most populous and wealthy couuti.es of the State—Chat ham, Fulton and Richmond—have six representatives each instead of three. According to the census of 1870 these counties had a population of one hun dred thousand—nearly one-tenth ol all the inhabitants of the State. According to the same authority the same oonnties in owned sixty millions of property nearly C n< f our,fi °f the property owned in the ?**** <*nd paid nearly one-fifth ol all the taxed levied for the •upport of the State government. Their population has largely increased since 1870 and they are certainly entitled to this small increase in representation. 2. Give the oonnties of Bibb, Bnrke and Houston fonr representatives each. 3. Give to the counties of Bartow, Coweta, Decatur, Floyd, Monroe, Mus oogee, Troup, Washington, Merriweth er, Wilkes, Greene and Gwinnett three members each. The adoption of this plan will do mnch to qniet the dissatisfaction that now ex ists because of the wrong done the large oonnties. It will make the House of Representatives consist of two hundred members instead of one hundred and seventy-five, but with bien nial sessions and the reduotion of per diem and mileage, the additional ex pense necessitated by the increase will be very trifling. We hope the Con vention will accept this or some similar plan iu lien of perpetuating a system of representation which does such flagrant injustice. THE EAVTEHN WAlt SITUATION. It would be almost as unwise to con clude that the late victory of the Turks over the Russians would by a speedy solution of tbe Turkish question as it would Lave been to predict, as many did, that the extraordinary Confederate victory at tbe first battle of Manassas would lead the North to desist from the attempt to subjugate the South. A Rus sian force of less than forty thousand men is thrown npon a superior and strongly intrenched Turkish force when, by ordinary skill on the part of the commanding general, he might have concentrated two to one at the point of combat. Tbe Russian rank and file seem to have behaved as bravely as any soldiery ever did. But one army corps and part of another have been destroyed for all present available purpose of war, the Russian prestige temporarily lost and Turkish confidence restored. Tbe mili tary situation is rendered dubious and uncertain, all that seems clear about it being that the war will be indefinitely prolonged. It is fair to conclude that Russia will exhaust all her resources be fore she will permit the inferior power of Turkey, single-handed, to defeat her aims. The danger of a European in volvement,in tho event of the war being long protracted, will be great, •■ ■ m THE COST OK STRIKES. The Chicago Tribune shows that 30,- 01X1,000 of innocent people were direotly and instantly injured by the strike ; the entire East sufleriug by tbe advance in tbe price of some of the necessaries of life as well as in other ways, and tbe West also suffering by the interruption of traffic. It figures the loss to Chioago at fully a million and a quarter. The valuo of live stock, grain and other pro duce kept out of Chioago by the strike approximates $2,300,000. The loss of trade to the dealers in dry goods, gro ceries, boots and shoes, clothing, drugs, and other wholesale goods, is not far from $3,000,000 more ; and the varied manufacturing industries would have turned out $1,750,000 worth of products during the time they were kept in forced idleuess by the mob. Here is a total, in round numbers, of $7,000,000. Ten per cent, of this would be $700,000, wbioh is rather an under estimate of the wages to workers and the profits to the capitalists who would have handled the property. Adding the cost of calling out tho military and the special police, with the value of the property that was owned in Chicago but burned in Pitts burg, and there is a total direct loss of not less than $1,250,000, or an average of $2 50 per head ef the entire popula tion of the city. STRANCER THAN FICTION. A correspondent of the New Orleans Democrat recalls the gratitude of Judah Touro, a wealthy Israelite of that city toward R. D. Shepherd, a Christian, who had saved his life at the risk of his own. Mr. Touro and his friend were under fire at the battle of New Orleans, and tbe former was wounded badly. We read iu the narra tive before us that when Mr. Shepherd repaired to tho spot in the open field where the mutilated aud fearfully wounded body of his friend lay, de serted by surgeon and every one else, and, lifting him on his shoulders, bore him to a cart, iu which he brought him to the city, he not only exposed himself to great physical peril, but incurred the displeasure and threatened arrest of his superior officer for turning aside from a public duty to discharge one of hu manity aud friendship. Commodore Patterson, whose order Captain Shep herd was engaged in executing at the time he was called aiyay to assist his unfortunate friend, at a dinner party, given some time after the evacuation of the State by the British, said to Mr. Sbekherd : “I ought to have had you shot for not proceeding to bring those stone masons 1 sent you for to strengthen my batteries, but when I learned what turned yon aside, I should, after shoot ing you, have had a monument erected to your memory as a faithful friend and true Samaritan.” When Mr. Touro died he left Mr. Shepherd an enormous estate, the rent roll of which V 43 least SIOO,OOO per annum. This property, ylpch is °P Canal street, is kuown as the “Topso Buildings” and is fitly characterized as “a monument of the gratitude of an Israelite who was indeed without guile, auj qf the fidelity of a Christian who, at great to himself, rendered an aet of kindness t,o a sjjppps.ei? dying man.” Mr. Touro was a bnsefeptoy of fjiex port, R. 1., and his charities to the Christians of New Orleans wero with out stint and without number. He gave Dr. Clapp, a Christian ! minister, the free use of a church which ! lie any, is this day, tbe memory i of Hie liberal-minded nofjla Israe lite is ehetiabci in a preci , ons heritage. In Mr. Gharlss Ga?ar -1 re’s remarkable book “Fernando de ! Lemos ,” there is, under X fictitious na£.e ; a splendid sketch of Judah Touro and the 1 pn_llia.pt and eloquent recital of Jewish glory that ever, iu our knowledge, came from Hie pe# <?f man. We are glad that the Sew Qrieaea press has revived this incident. It la a : tiipely aud opportune recollection, when the wpuqr/t who inherited A. TANARUS, Stew art’s million* fcefcii fg a prejudice agaiust a people who were tym earliest possessors of the faith in Jehovab, and from whose tribes sprang the God Man whom the Christian adores and the Mo hammedan respects. lowa’s tramps number about as many as the Radical majority. The Evening Telegram, said to be a tender to the New York Herald, re cently alluded to Ooeola as “a Semi nole chief who fought against George Washington in Virginia in the last een tnry.” This blunder is thought to have been perpetrated by a fresh and green i journalistic importation of Mr. Bkn- I NETT. Mr. John Swixton, a New York jour i nalist, claims the possession of $7,000 in United States bonds and $4,000 “con | version ” bonds of South Carolina. He ; values the latter at abont two cents on . the dollar. He onos owned town lots in a Kansas city, bnt preferred to forfeit them rather than pay taxes. Mr. Swin ton is a dangerous man to be at large. In Massachusetts there are 60,000 more Women than men; but there are twice as many men aa women iu prisons, alms houses and hospitals. Miss Jennie Col lins, of Boston, who is famous for her oharities and statistics, declares that the world would be surprised if it knew what a vast multitude of men are wholly sup ported by the hard labor of women. The world ought to know if that knowl edge wonld shame those fellows into work. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1877. CONDITION OK THE CHOPS. A Load Aei-onnt of tbe CropM i<i Richmond— A Suggestion lo the Cnrolion Hnilroud. f Correspondetice Chronicle and Constitutionalist 1 Richmond County, August s.—Fre quent showers have brought out tbe late corn amazingly. The prospect in Rich mond county was never so good for an abundant corn crop. Cotton looks well; some few bolls opening, but not enough to commence picking the fleecy staple. The melon crop is all that coaid have been wished for, but price in Augusta are ruinous. They cannot be produced at the present prices and realize any thing for the producer. The pea crop is splendid ; so with fruit. Many peach trees are breakiug down with their over bnrdened branches. Ground peas are doing well. Tbe tobacco that I have seen is looking well. Taking it alto gether, I think the Richmond county farmer has reason to be thankfnl for the bountiful harvest which is so near at hand, I see in your issue of Saturday an excursion, to the mountains of Sonth Carolina, to leave Augusta on Suuday night. Why do not the authorities of the Sonth Caroliua Railroad (,’ompauy give timely notice of suoh excursions ? Many of our people would avail them selves of this cheap transportation to visit their friends and relatives iu that. State had they only timely notice. I hope they will get up another excursion soon, aud give ten or fifteen days to spend away from home. Let the first notice of the excursion be put in your weekly edition ; many of our farmer friends subscribe'for that issue. Then follow in daily paper for benefit of your city readers, and my word for it, the in creased number of excursionists will amply repay the increased outlay for advertising, etc. Can yon nrtgetCol. Huger to try it once? ' Farmer. laelter from Wilke*—Appearance of the Army Worm. Centreville, Wilkes County, Ga., I July 28, 1877. j Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist: Seeing you are solicitous in regard to the farming interest iu different sections, I thought 1 would give you the benefit of my information iu regard to the crop prospects iu Western Wilkes county. We are now closing out one of the most abundant grass crops I have ever seen. The crops, both corn and cotton, have withstood the advance of the enemy (grass) remarkably well. If we have good August seasons we expect an aver age yield of cotton—corn below an aver age. I have, this morning, been in formed that the army worm has made an attack on tbe late ooru crop of one of my neighbors, destroying it entirely as they go. We harvested a good wheat crop, the best for years. Oats were a failure. Tbe pea crop promises much above the average. On nearly every farm wo have the Chinese cane growing, aud I hope to see the day when every farmer will crib his own corn, garner his own wheat, house his own oats and make hia own meat. While upon the subject I would like to give you the mode by which oue of my neighbors cul tivates his low lands. As early as possi ble in tbe Hpring be beds his land, very stifl flat woods land, on Dry Fork Creek; just before planting, he rebeds; plants his corn on the bed; when proper size runs round with turn plow; bar to the corn; iu ten or twelve days chops through with hoe, and runs two more furrows with turner, this time throwing the dirt to the corn; chops through again with hoe, aud at proper time runs three more furrows with same plow, splitting out balance of the middle, making iu all his plowing seven furrows to the row; his rows are four feet, and no man in our section makes more corn ou an average than Joseph Arnold. A word about labor : So far as I know, tbe freedmen have worked remarkably well this season. Very resyeetfully, yours, J, H. B. Tlio Crop* in OnEetliorpn County* Mt. Pleasant, Oglethorpe Cos., Ga., ) August 6, 1877. \ Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist: As you invite correspondence, I drop you a few lines. Up to the middle of July cotton in this section was remarka bly small, early corn well nigh ruined, and the later varieties and plantings suffering very much for rain. We then i had a few refreshing showers, whioh made a wonderful change for the better in cotton and tbe later varieties of corn. It will be two weeks to-morrow since we had any rain, and cotton and the later corn are now suffering very much for it. I consider the injury to cotton permanent; for, if it rains iu a few days, it will react ant} t|;row oflf an immense amount of its present form, and the new form, after reaction. Will oe too late to mature. If it does not rain, as a matter eff course the crop will be badly injured, Iu the north and northeast portions of this county, and the south aud south east portions of Madison county, eorn orops were, I suppose, never better. As to cotton iu those sections, the weed is fine, but I consider tbe form scattering; they, too, are now suffering for rain. 1 think there is more eorn planted in this section this year than has been any year sinoe 1865; cotton about the same as last year. There is an abundance of fruit, of almost every variety, grown iu this section. The peopje in thp .country have about come to the .conclusion that our Con.-Gou. will spend a great deal of money aud do bat little good. The friends of economy and reform in that body are too few. J. J. G. THE (IREBN’S CUT HOMICIDE. The Icvestigation to be Continued Wed ne*day. The preliminary investigation in the case of Charles J. Walker, charged with killing John P. Miller, at Green’s Cut, Burke po'nnty, Jjisl tyedneeduy, was commenced Saturday before justices Sims and Cox. Three witnesses were examined. Their testimony was sub stantially the same as the statement, made by our correspondent in his ac count of the affair. After the examina tion of the three witnesses the investiga tion was postponed until to-morrow. Solicitor General Dutcher, A. M. Rodgers, Rsq., apd j. J. Jones, Esq , represent tlmitate, apd ' jtidge H. D. D. Twiggs, 4P<| Cjeij. Carswell, the defendant. The prisoner remains in the custody of Constable J. D. Roberts. Witnesses examined for the State, Saturday, testified that Walker wrote Jos. B. Miller a very abusive and insult ing letter calling him a thief, and say ing 'lie' ijfty dollars, and declar ing that he had go&' in jjephzibah Commencement to see him personally and say the same things to him more fully, but had failed to see him, as Mil ler was not there. This was an open ; leitej, taul, LL:c?"b the mail, and mark i ed • *£jnpsd o y, i Joe Stiller walked' up to Walkter' at the i handed ' hiid the' Utter, saying; dij ybtf write this ?” Walker took the fetter, fooged at it, said “Yes, I wrote ..it,” handed it liack to Miiier, and fired at him, I but wuubut effect. Miller then | his pistol at Walker. Just at this time fished up, saying : ‘lbis must stop,’ or word 3 to that effect, aud grasped Walker’s pistol. Two shots were then fired. One witness tes tified positively that the third shot was fired by Walker, but did not know who fired the second. John Miller was wounded, and Joe Miller, springing upon Walker, beat him with his fist aDd a rock. He did not know at the time that his brother had been wounded. The letter to filler, it is said, grew out qf (he following circumstances: Miller, the story goes, bad bought a horse from Walker and paid him part in cash and part in a note for fifty dollars. Some time afterwards Walker, while in Waynesboro, was arrested for disorder ly oonduct and fined fifty dollars by the Mayor. Walker didn’t have the money, but he turned over Miller’s note as pay ment of the fine. When the note reach ed maturity Miller paid it and Walker took umbrage at this, demanding that Miller should pay him the amount, which Miller refused to do, as he had already paid it to the Mayor of Waynes boro. THE 31.48T1N lUM|I( IDK. Verdict of Self-Defene. [Special Bispalch to Journal of Commerce. J Bbusbon, S. C., August 6.—The in quest held over the body of R. J. Mar tin was brought to a close this morning and a verdict rendered as follows : That the deceased, R. J. Martin, came to his death by a pistol shot, fired by the hands of T. T. Gill in self-defense. Signed James P. Youmans, foreman. Gill re turned last night and has surrendered himself to the authorities. No warrant has been issued against him nor have the witnesses been bonnd over to Court. Pnblic opinion is strongly in favor of GilL NEW YORK GOSSIP. A GEORGIA WOMAM IN GOTHAM. Tramps and Paupers—A Specimen Case— Thn Strike—A Curious Result—New- York Hospitals— Ignorance and Superstition— The Docks at Night—Preseot Fashious— Advice to to Shoppers—Buying Cloves. [CorrespondenceChronicle and Constitutionalist ] New York, August 5. —ln my letter last Summer, I wrote of tbe gaieties and glories of New York fashionable life as represented at Saratoga. This year, I have been struck with quite a different phase of existence in Gotham which the hard times have forced into nnusnal prominence. New York has its fair share of tramps and beggars at all times, but now tbe streets are literally swarm ing with them. You canuot walk ten steps in any direction, without encoun tering objects that appeal strongly to your sympathies, in spite of the annoy ance caused by the persistent impor tunity with which they dog your steps aud plead for charity. To gratify one tenth of even the most pitiable of these wretched paupers with the merest dole that charity would prompt, is simply impossible to any one not endowed witii Fotunatus’ purse, and yet, there can be uo doubt that a great deal of tbe misery now seen ou the streets of New York, is genuine, and calls loudly for relief. It is not always the most wretched looking that are the real objects of sympathy; there are professional beggars, got up for the occasion, whose rags and deformity may deoeive the uninitiated, but the really deserving class are comparatively well dressed, decent looking laboring men and women out of employment, whom necessity has driven to a profes sion which they regard as a slnme aud degradation. Not loug ago a very de cent man, having the appearance of a Sixth Avenue salesman, came to the house where I am staying ami begged for something to eat. One of the young ladie.s of the house ordered food brought for him, and lie seized and ate it before her face with the avidity of a famished dog. Suoh oases are not exceptional, and seem to me to bear a not inexplica ble relation to the recent strikers’ riots. While far from seeking to justify the brutal violence of the insurgents, for they were nothiug else, still I cannot look upon the squalor aud misery that underlies the magnifioenoe and luxury of this great city without feeliug that there is “something rotteu in Den mark.” The solutiou of this problem is one of the gravest of all the knotty questions presented by politi cal eoonomy for the considera tion of mankind, and, like most politico-eeonomioal questions, it is one whioh legislation, in the present advancement of society, cannot reach. The relations of demand aud supply had best bo left to regulate themselves, aud any attempt at legislative inter ference will only make things worse iu the end by establishing artificial rela tions which cannot endure. Our sup ply of labor, at present, greatly exceeds the demand, and consequently suffering to the laboriug classes is inevitable. The consideration of a remedy would lead us to the delicate question of arti ficial checks to the population—a sub ject whioh it is not desirable to discuss here. The great strikes, fortunately, wore themselves out before reaching New York. We were blockaded for a few days, provisions began to rise, there were attempts at mass meetings, <fcc., but. tlio vigilance of the city authorities was equal to the emergency, and the silent eloquence of four stout field pieces presiding over the first attempted communistic meeting on Tompkins Square, appealed to the mob more ef fectually than the riotous demagogues who addressed them. Gunpowder, judiciously used, in an instrument of mercy as well as of justice, and a few well directed vol leys in the beginning of a dis turbance will save more lives, in the long run, than they destroy. It is merely another application of the old proverb, “a stitch in time," ete. One of the most ourious results of the strike was to be seen iu the sudden resump tion of travel after the railroad block ado was raised. For two or three days the streets leading to all the principal depots were thronged with express wag ons, carrying such piles of baggage that if the conveyances had been a little more primitive, I could Utmost have fancied myself in a Confederate town of fifteen years ago, whioh had just been waked up by the rumored approach of a Yankee army. During my rambles about the dark corners of Gotham, I have visited some of the hospitals —jjqt daf]i corners them selves, by auy meaqs, but yet pot gen erally places of interest tp the pleasure seeker. The moat prominent, and to me the most interesting, pf tljeso is Bellevue, situated at the foot of Twenty sixth street, aud commanding, from its back galleries, a prospect that fully jus tifies its name. Those who imagine that a hospital is necessarily a painful, or even a disagreeable place to visit, are greatly mistaken. Bellevue being the city hospital, receives its inmates lrom the lowest and most degraded elements of population. Many of the patients, when first brought in, are so covered with filth and yepmin that fheir clothing has tq lie Iqjrnej, pd' yyhaj is not burned, it is geupiqlly pepeysary to sprinkle with lime and fumigate care fully before it oan bo admir.ted within the wards. Yet, even here, everything is scrupulously clean. About such a place some disagreeable odors are, of course, unavoidable, tbe most percepti ble being the scent of drugs and disin fectants. The only labor provided by the city for scrubbing and cleaning is that of ten days prisoners from the Po lice Courts, women token up on the streets for or di 3or derly conduct, anij tbg like,'and )j:hen we con sider the irregularity and inefficiency‘of such servioe, the degree of order and cleanliness maintained in the building is really wonderful. In some of the wards, the tables and shelves are taste fully oruameuted with cut paper done by the convalescing patients. Flowers ara not a rarity, aud I am told that it is a common custom with New Yorkers to send the floral decorations left from wedjinto Uai[ fifhcmls fo {fie hospitals, (jue o'f tts a urges at'Relle vue told me that she sometimes had splendid floral designs costing a hun dred dollars or more sent to her ward. Among the class of patients who are received at Bellevue there is, of course, a shocking amount of ignorance and su perstition, aDd one of the physicians in ohargP related to me a ourious instance of the ia'Ccer, 'uoneei mug a laige black cat that was kept as a pet at the hos pital. Pussy, it seems, had a fancy for frequenting a certain ward, in which it happened, from the nature of the dis ease* cfcpjod there, I presume, that a largfe proportion oi lafsl casee occurred, The p’atifihtW fltohee began id associate the idea’ of dhatji with’the' blafek'cat, ans ecbfi came to regard him & the evil genius of tfi'e ptecy.; bip's ffiat his presence wa* a sure harbinger of cfeaili, Canlared that ho would single aud even r -landing beside out the fated victim, t>.~- * ” her bed and staring at her with glaring eyes. The effect npon their im aginations at last became 30 injurious that it was necessary to make away with the cat. But I have not reached the lowest depth yet. if you would see tfie bottom layers of New fork life in ajl theif de formity, you must go to tfie docks. For reasons which can be of po ipterest to the readers of this letter, it was my f° r * tune, not loug ago, to spend a night on board a steamer at a North river pier, and the experience is one which I would not advise the most curious investigator of human nature to imitate. Imagine a mingled odor of spoilt eggs, hydrogen gas, bilge water, rancid machine oil, coal smoke, sewerage, with any other particularly inodorous substances you can think of, and you may form some idea of the scents that pervade the New York docks at night; and fancy all pan demonium broke loose, or a village band practising for tbe fourth of July, and you will stjll fall short of the noises that make night hideops along the piers. To make matters worse, the sailors on a big Liverpool steamer, under whose bows we were moored, got into row with some canal boatmen about a tow line, and the language that ensued it is beyond my powers to describe, In short, if a single night in the New York docks does not make one a first honor graduate in the entire vocabulary of bil lingsgate, it is because he has not the capacity to take an education. lam afraid my lady readers will be disgusted when I confess that I have scarcely bestowed a thought upou the fashions, and cannot even describe a new mode of arranging tbe hair. The fact is, there is not much fashion in New York daring the Summer, and I shall have to postpone a fall consideration of that important point till after my visit to Long Branch. In general, verv sim ple styles of coiffure seem to prevail. French twist, a single plait down the back, or a small round knot done high on the head, are the styles most fre quently seen, though anything light and simple will pass muster. The hair dressers display frizzled false fronts, looking very wiggy and ugly, which they assure me are indispensable, but thus far. all the ladies I have seen have the good taste to dispense with them. Iu bonnets, the Normandy style is al most universally worn for half dress, and is very generally becoming, but for full dress, the most elegant is the Dani soheff—a large hat with the rim flared up in front and on one side, with a reck less profusion of pendent rubber flowers about the face, and a cart load of plumes aud gauzes out side. It is very dressy aud looks well ou slender figures, but I would advise women who are inclined to be at all stout to beware of it. The style is too pronouuced for tljem, and gives them a vulgar, fly-a-way look that is anything but prepossessing. Aud now let me give my fair friends a word of advice about shopping iu New York. In the first place, don’t shop too much. The only idea many women have of New York is that it is a convenient place for shop ping, and they waste their time aud wear themselves out running about after cheap dry goods when they might be much more pleasautly and profitably employed in visiting the art galleries the museums, the parks aud thousands of other objeots of iuterest with which the city abounds. The best plan is to set aside two or three days when you first come for shopping, so as to get the tiresome business done with and off your mind. Spend the first day on Broadway, looking about to see what is stylish aud elegant, then, if you canuot afford -to lay out your money there, go over to Sixth Avenne, where you will find ruanv things as good as on Broadway, and a g'reat deal cheap er. The best shopping is iu a short range from Nineteenth to Twenty-third streets, and includes every conceivable article of apparel, so that you need not waste tme going to out of the way places to find something a little oheaper. Cheap shopping is about the most ex pensive thing I know. Only the other day, as I was about to pay twenty cents for some trifle, a friend stopped me with an excited exolamation of “Dou’t buy that here; you can get it up town tor eighteen cents.” On inquiring more particularly, I found that “up town” meant some fifteeu blocks off, and we would have been obliged to spend ten cents each car fare, and from a half to three-quarters of an hour’s time, to save two cents. And this is the case with most cheap shopping. You lose more in car fare, time and worry than ten times the money is worth. Sixth Avenue is becoming such a popular shopping ground, that it bids fair to rival Broadway, and you not unfre queutjy fiqd things cheaper on the old thoroughfare. There arc some articles wfiicU it js absolute folly to purchase anywhere else, kid gloves, for instance. You can get them cheaper ou Sixth avenue, of course, but cheap gloves are the moat expensive things you cau possibly buy. Go straight to Harris', the great kid glove emporium, on Broadway, whore you will find the article in question In all styles and at all prices, from one dol lar up to—l am afraid to say how muoh —but no matter what price you give, you will be sure to got the worth of your money, aud will always seoure a good fit. The fashionable glove house is Fortune’s, on Fifth avenue, opposite the Brunswick, where you will find everything extremely elegant, prices not excepted. The walls are fitted with ele gant hangings of brown buckram, tbe windows heavily decorated with lam brequins of the same, the glove counter ditto and, in short, you find yourself in a little brown leather paradise presided over by a little brown genius of kid gloyes. On approaching the counter a dapper little Frenchman accosts you with the inquiry, “What si?eqf gioflfdo M’amselle wear ?” Now, if you are an elderly lady, con scious of having a goqty husband, and five or six grandchildren at homo, it is very gratifying to be addressed as “M’amselle.” You never suspeoted you were so young looking before, and im mediately determine to take at least one pair of gloves at any price. With some misgivings, as you remember, vari ous pairs of gloves burst and ruined in the attempt to stretch them over your fingers, you give— say 6J as your num ber. Then our Frenchman looks sur prised, and requosts to see your hand. He regards it with the air of a con noisseqr anj “Ah, that is much too large for M amselle. Ze Amorioaiu kuow not how to fit gloves. M’amselle’s hand is suit for ze small gloves—6 will fit per fect. You secretly determine to take two pair of gloves. You make a modest protest, however, about the size, and are requested to rest your elbow ou oue of the brown velvet cushions placed at intervals along tbe counter. Your band is first covered with a delicate perfumed powder, and then the glove drawn over it for you so easily by the expert sales man that you wouder what magic has so suddenly altered if 8 proportions. The secret is 4 yefy 'sjgips qV 'ilortgue’s gloyea aye q iqU larger thaq any other make, The safest plan in shopping is to avoid extremes; at the very cheap places you are apt to be taken in, and get inferior goods; at tbe very fashionable establish ments, you pay a large per cent, for style. Elzey Hay. UNIVERSITY OF UEOKUIA. Annual Aleetina of the Board of Trustees— Chancellor Tucker Retained—Cof. C. V. Jones, Jr., Elected P.rofessor of. b(iy |(H --sje£ref B)jeiiuie; [Atlanta Constitution.] The trustees of the University of Georgia completed their work on Fri day night after a long and anxious ses sion. Contrary to very general expecta tion, Col. Leroy Bronn was not recalled. It was the idea to bring him bacf: by a call to tjio cjmir qf physics. When the elecjiiop Tor ; tins' chair camo off there was qo’ejiscugsi'on af qlj. Itr. Sfepheus, sitting in kis chair, namihateil Mr, C.' C. Jones, of Augusta, a gentleman of well known culture, for the chair, and supported his claim in quite a forcible manner. To the astonishment of many members of the Board, Mr. Broun’s name was not put before the Trustees. Notwithstanding this fact he received eight votes out of, we think, pjneteen. Oue Vote was given to Sjr. ham. R'ar nett, of Wilkes county. Mr. Jones was elected on the first ballot. There was no discussion on the merits of the present incumbent, Montgomery Gumming; Wn underßtam} 7 fhaf lie is a '’igogt' abb 'and' qulturfcd 1 gentleman, aud’we febrn that ’ the'iVuesfioh of Ins removal was only spoken of because he happeneej fo occupy (be ohauj tq Col. Rro„u most cqllhd ii he were called at all. His removal on any other score was not considered, and we do not believe the Trustees will find themselves sustained in their action in this case. It is understood {hat Dr. Tucker will remain in the chancellorship. The or gaumatiwq qf fhp faculty remains un changed), Bave iii'iue 'parwoular alluded to aboye. ' Two or three years ago thq Trustees of the University passed a resolution by which jt was proposed fo abolish the secret efubh then Nourishing in pollagq. The resolution required that the stifdent should take an o%w ythen lie mnGicqlat ed that he would not join any secret club While he was in college- The boys who were devoted to their clubs, flanked this prohibition by joining a secret plnb before they matriculated, after which they oould take tbe oath with impunity. Hence it was that despite the resolution the clubs flourished. At the meeting just adjourned the trustees seemingly bent upon their reform, passed a resolu tion requiring that when a student ma tripulates lip shall agree qqt to atfepd any secret club meetings during his stay in colfege. This action has had the re sult of detrmioing several of tbe stu dents not to retqru tq the University. - -'-mi wan- . —- JIUBQERA? BRIDGEPORT. The Priest Atteudin* the Dying Wan Falls Dead. Bridgeport, Conn., August fi.—Da ring a quarrel between a man named Conklin and George Allen, on Saturday night, at Fairfield, Conn., Allen shot Conklin, cansing injuries which resulted in his death early yesterday morning. Rev. Father Mullen, a Catholic priest, was called to attend the dying man, and when returning to his house fell dead in the yard of the murdered man. Cause supposed to be heart disease, superin duced by exoitement. GOVERNOR JENKINS. His Position In Regard to the Bullock Bonds —What He Thinks of the I'oustllutlou. Ex-Governor Jenkins, President of the Constitutional Convention, after spend ing two days at his home in Summer ville, returned to Atlanta last eveuing. A reporter of the Chronicle and Con stitutionalist interviewed him at the Union Depot just before the train left. The following conversation ensued: Reporter: Yon saw the extraot from the Athens Georgian aud the editorial of the Chronicle and Constitutional ist thereon, did you not, Governor ?” Governor Jenkins: Yes, but I care nothing for what newspapers say about me. The truth is three parties in New York wrote to me as President of the Constitutional Convention, asking me to lay their communications before the proper committee, whioh I did. These parties were holders of “Bullock” bonds and asked that they be allowed to place their claims before some judicial tribu nal for adjustmeut. Reporter: Did you go before the com mittee in reference to tho Herring and Branch bonds ? Gov. Jenkins: Mr. Branch asked me to go before the committee and make a statement, which I did. When the reso lution of 1872 was passed by tbe Legis lature, declaring certain bonds valid, Mr. Branch came to me and asked me if I thought it would be safe for him to buy those bouds. I told him yes; that the Legislature would hardly go back on their own action. He then bought the bouds. It was this statemeut of fact whioh he wished me to make to tho committee, and whioh I did make. He wished to show that he had acted un der advice. I made no argument before the committee. Reporter: What is your opinion of the new Constitution so far. Governor? Gov Jenkins : It bids fair to be the most absurd and ridiculous Constitu tion that ever was drawn up. The Convention is entirely too large a body. Every man seems to think that he must offer something aud that his measure is the most important of all. They are really making a code of laws instead of a constitution. Reporter : Do you think the salaries of the Judges too lew ? Gov. Jenkins : They have certainly been placed at too low a figure. Judi cial offioes should be filled by the best meu. Reporter : How loug will the Con vention ho in session, Governor ? Gov. Jenkins : Probably two weeks longer or it may be prolonged beyond that. The speakers, however, have beeu curtailed to ten mimites each aud that may shorten matters, THE AGRICULTURAL BUREAU, A Review of tlie Co'nmltmionerta Ci'l-loun Arithmetic' Editors Chronicle and ConstUutionalist: In circular No. 42, reoeutly published by Dr. Thomas P. Janes, Commissioner of Agriculture, for the benefit and infor mation especially of planters—l find on page 26, “the new law” whioh will go into effect first September, 1877, will give even more favorable results. Here tofore the fees for inspection, after pay ing for the analyses, inured to the bene fit of individual inspectors. Uuder the new law, the fees will be paid into tho Treasury of the State. Tho fee, under the new law, will be uniformly fifty eents per ton. The fees for inspecting 75.824 tons will be $37,912. Nine thou sand dollars will pay all expe.ises of in spection and analysis, leaving $28,912 to be paid into the Treasury.” Who will pay the large salary of the Commis sioner and the salaries of his five clerks and assistants, which cost the §tqtp last year $14,000 ? who nqya the chemist his $3,000?. who pays for tags, office rent, traveling expenses (for most of the in spections are made in Charleston and Port Royal), inspectors’ assistants, sta tionery, bottles, etc. ? Those seyeral amounts, yyith what fie admits as necessary for inspectors' salaries, $9,- QflO, will aggregate at least from $35,0Q0 to $40,000. Now the Com missioner has promised to pay into the Treasury $28,019 out of $i17,913, when the expenses foot up from $35,000 to $40,000. And should the trado vary as it has done, and only 50,000 tons be brought into the State (not at all im probable), he would have but $25,000 for receipts to meet an expense of $40,- 000. If the results and working of the Department of Agriculture are so doubt ful as to require to be built qp qqd strengthened by rect iu (qaqy particulars, and apparently with the intention of imposing upon the credulity and confidence of the people, the sooner it is abolished the better. The inspection of fertilizers has been of great benefit, and may be a necessity, but if so, it can bo agiyeUftnd thorough ly dqnp wiUloilt tqe Ahi'ioultural Bureau as with it. Planter. TWO MEN BURNED TO DEATH. They and Five Ollier* Are Dropped Into a Furnace MhafE. f From the Pittsburg Post, August 4th.\ A frightful accident oocqr.recj yester day at the jiucy f.qreace 4* tfie corueT of Fiftieth street aud the Allegheny Valley Railroad, by whiqh two men were almost instantly killed—Julius Hardin aud Michael Cusick. Patrick Cusiek and James Turney were fatally wounded, and John Ward’, Jamos Hart and John Boyle wero very painfully though not dangerously injured. The managers of the furnace Y,a,Vdetermined to have one qf Uu* .i,aeks' re-lined, and for th.qt purpose let the fires go out on : Monday morning. A scaffold was placed crosswise near the top of the stack, the ends resting upon thq taside wall, which is nearly fctlt thick. Yesterday roofhjng"tt was thought the stack had became cool enough to permit the men to work, and ton laborers were detailed to remove the fire-brick liDiug. Standing on this scaffold, nearly fifty feet from the base of the stack, the workmen loosened the fire-brick from their places and allowed they) to fall to the bottom. At o’clock seven of the meq standing on' the scaf fold qnq three on the projecting inside walls, de(acheq a large tnasa at flre brick above unfor tunately, fell its full force upou ♦he ceatt'e of the soaffold. The platform broke with this additional weight upon it, and the seven unfortunate workmen were precipitated headlong fifty feet to the bottom of tbe stack, alighting among the cinders, which were still nearly red hot. The three men npon the wall es caped unhurt. The crash of tfce falling walls and thp qfie* pi ffie workmen who escaped uniumfed attracted the atten tion of bther workmen about the place, and they excitedly rushed to aid tlpeir unfortunate fellow-labore^ There is an af typ b,ase of the stap.k, aud hbl 6 W®. arrived in time to sfie the fire pommunicate tft the tiihber’which hat) fallen fflmr pom rades. Thp qn|aßduafip ’ W-P Bad by thuj timph,egdh tp, reqlipp. the danger of their horrible sit'datiuu, and they Bent out lusty cries far help. The men as sembled about the stack urged Manager Gurry to throw water upon the blaze, but the latter refused, knowing that the walls were still nearly red hot, and knowing the disastrous consequences which must have followed to the livinv. Then some of the n>en entarpd thp aper ture above tbe hearth cdnslWoted for the exit ol molten iron, and one by one the wounded’ who' were able to help themselves a little were extricated from their fiorrible situate,p, Thp pm'cp was hot tq sqopbhihg, and tfie smoke was sulocating. Ju™ PsMohs \jere Soon rescued, hut these stated tWB were op the When the crash came, and WH Ef fip king under the tim bers, The smoke cleared a little, and Julius Hardin aud Miohaol Ouaiek were dragged forth dead. It was at first thought they had died of suffooation, but further examination showed that their death was far more horrible than that. The flesh on Hardin’s bodv burned to a blackened ojiiy m -'many place; while Uisick aetually los( his nose ahd both hands’by the fire of the furnace. The body of Cusick was taken to his boarding house. Gq vmb a single man, aged. ab.Hht. ypsrs. Haydip if as a married man, and leayea a wife and child. Qf the wounded men, who are all sin gle, John Boyle was taken to his home near by. The remainder were taken to the Bt. Franciscus Hospital gpd there attended by thp physiaiqn o| the institu tion. James Turney and Patrick Cusiok, the most seriously injured, will proba bly die from inhaling fire and smoke. Some of their bones are also broken, and their flesh is badly seated. The others are very seriously injured, but are expected to recover. Coroner Thom as was summoned to hold an inquest yesterday afternoon. He impanelled a i' ury, who viewed the bodies, examined he soeue of the aocident and adjourned until 9:30 o’clock this morning. $2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PATD A horrible murder. A) Dastardly Deed iu llaralMOM family. [Cartei-sville Express ] At about eleven o’clock to-day church services were interrupted aud the con gregation appalled by the news that Mr. Washington Golden, a young man about eighteen years of age, had shot and killed Mr. Lee Pierce, an old man about fifty years old, both citizens of this county. It appears that you ug Golden aud two other youug meu had been ac cused by Pierce of baviug shaved the maue aud tail of a horse bolougiug to oue of Pierce’s friends while bo was speudiug the night with Pieroe, aud Pierce and Golden had had some words about it. To-day Mr. Pieroe's two daughters and little son had gone to church, leaving the old mau at home. When found he was just inside his gate, dead. Oue pistol ball had entered be low tbe left breast aud ranged through the heart, tho other being just above and ranging through the luugs. Pow der staius on his shirt showed that Gol den was just outside, only the gate be tween them. By Pierce’s side lay his shot gun, with the hammer pulled back, an old load in the gnu and an old cap on the tube, and betwoen the body aud the house lay some papers, proved before tbe Coronet's jury to have beeu Gol den s. The Coroner beiug at the church ns well as the Sheriff and Deputy, they proceeded at once to Mr. Seaboru Gol den’s and arrested young Golden and carried him to Buehauau jail. Two of young Golden’s brothers testified before the Coroner’s jury that Wash told them that he had killed Pieroe. ■ ii A WOMAN’S HEROIC FIGHT. Three Pioneers MnsHneretl hy Imliuiin in die Black Hills. [MUwanfoe Sentinel ] Deadwood, July 23.—A wagou drawn by two yoke of oxeu, and carrying two men and a woman, with their effects, left Deadwood on Monday morning des tined for Bismarck. They camped on Centennial Prairie on Monday night, aud on Tuesday night passed through Crook City. An eye witness, who was eutting hay within a quarter of a mile, tells how it occurred. He says that hearing a succession of rapid shots fired over the bluff from where he was mow ing, he got up ou a high timbered eleva tiou and saw about, twenty Indians en gaged iu a fight with two meu and a woman who occupied the ox train. The meu defended themselves gilluutly against the great odds. They were welj armed, aud fought, as only men fight, for their lives. The Indians, instead of coming up iu a body, broko iu every di rection and surrounded the wagou, keeping up a qoustaut trail of bullets upon the poor unfortunates. Three of the oxeu wero the first, to fall. Waggo meu, the owner of the outfit, amftlia husband of the lady, next was shot, through the head. Mrs. WaggomeH seized her husband’s revolver aud dis charged tbe contents among tlio In dians, who were now close upon the wagon. After she had emptied the weapon she flung it, full iu the faoe of a burly savage, wbo was reaching over the wagou to grasp her. Ho reeled baok, bnt others took his piano. Mr. Tyner, the other mau, was quick ly finished, aud there remained but tbe lady to deal with. The Indians had since the beginning of the conflict, been careful not to injure her, aud their bul lets were direoted chiefly toward the two men. The poor woman, knowing her probable fate, fought bke a tigress, clutching an empty gnq U J striking right aufi left, but to no avail. She was finall) overpowered and brought to the ground, but the woman fought so hard that they procured some tent stakes which were iu the wagon aud staked the limbs and body of the poor woman firm ly to the gronqd. After they had ac complished their horrible deed they took her scalp aud horribly mutilated her around the breast, qu’d then dis patched her, The shrieks of the woman could be heard distinctly where my in formant waa lodged, powerless to help and almost dead with fear. When tho savages began saoking tho wagou thoy observed the witness of their cruelty standing on the bluff, and two of them started in pursuit. He, however, made good time, aud succeeded in reachiug Crook, about nine miles off, without falling into their oßpohoj. fciaau after the massacre (fia Rismarck stage rolled by the fatal upoh There wero no In dians in sight, aud the passengers were horrified at seeing the sight before them. Both of tlio two meu had been scalped and their ears and noaqa qqt off. The woman was horribly, mutilate,l, her brains and qn.trmkl being scattered over holies of tbo poor unfortunates were taken to Crook and there interred, They belonged to Brain ard, Minn., aud had come into the Hills early this Hpriug, made their little stake, aud were on their way home when the fatal accident befell them, - THE pNIHAN WAR, *'|R- t'l'-Hiun ul -tusiqili mi,l Gen. Howard A Eemute Cawlvo Made an Indian’s t'aiicn kiue. Helena, Montana, August & —Mr, McCormick, of Messoula, writes to Gov. Potts, on the 6th, instant, us follows: “A courier uriwed from Gen, Howard at aolock this afternoou. Ho left Howard Saturday morning last, and thinks that Howard will camp near the summit between tbe Lolo and tffe Men roster to-night. He i% distant about fifty miles frq.us iim month of tlio Lolo. The reports that Joseph, with ! moxo than one-half of liis fighting force, has gone to the head of the valley by tho way of the Elk City trail, and will form a junction with Looking Glass and White b;r,l near Ross' Hole. Ha says Howard has 750 men tynd 450 puck mules, aud is rapidly as pos sible. Adipew Haui the Upper Ritter Rqql qay the Indians will camp io-uight in Ross Hole. Gen. Gibbou in follow ing them rapidly. Qtfior advices say the Indian# stiff at Doolittle, nix teeq miles above Qorvellss, and that Gibbon expected to strike them on the morning o| the 7tb, before they broke camp. The courier says tho liostiles have Mrs. Maunel with them, as tho property of a petty chief called Cucaso nilo. Her sad history is fami,liV to. the public. Another Troops lie. ,eil .V('4 Vft Ifemp-rHeyere boss Inflicted, (Juiqaoo, August 8, —Official iufurma tion has just beep. received at military headquarters cftpftrmmg the rumor re ceived b.pra a (osy days since regarding a Uglit between the Indiana and United States troops in Texas, ita ascertained that a disastrous cuwftuter was had on the Staged f’Jaip, ip, which tUeic were two oncers pud twpntY-#ix enlisted soldiers filled. Tim remnant of the party continued its march, after having suffered thin loss, and has since reached Fort (fonder with an additional loss of five privates and forty horses and mules. The unfortunate command was without water for eighty-six hours, and the suffering they endured iu conse quence was terrible. Further particu lars concerning the disaster ajo wanting, the dispatch by% very brief. It is thought full details will be received iu the course of a few day, when the names of the killed an<J tvcWled will be learned, A VTiUUt.t.*,, (fifty ACWMWwat Troops Needed iu (oka. Kev West, August s.—The following news has been received from Havana: The last Spanish mail brought an order for the release of the persons imprison ed for frauds in the Intendepcip pdli taire. This was a bloyj he face of Captain General jo cellar, arid sanctifies the opmmitted pnder the yaltr’a -Bda, Concha administration* Ru mors are’ current that .Jqycthy; prill re sign and be succeeded by Qeu. Elpnco. Gen. Martinez Gapipps has sent dis patches to (he Ijiing explaining the situ ation and 'campaign, and stating that the insurgents are so well supplied with information by spies, and their facilities for disbanding when pursued we such that it requires five hundred soldiers to look after ten insurgents. Gen. Cam pos < therefore, requires fifty thousand more troops to crush the insurrection. Gen. Campos further says that the in surgents will only surrender on receiv ing their independence, and recommends the Spanish Government to adopt one proposition or the other. A great many sick soldiers have arrived at Havana from the interior. Moses A. Wheeloak, Chairman of the New York Btook Exchange, resigned yesterday and announced that he was unable to meet his contracts. His liabilities are not large. THE STATE. THE PEOPLE AM) THE PAPERS. Crops iii Washington county are suf fering for rain. A colored child in Savannah was killed by falling from a bed. A lodge of the Ancient Order of Workingmen has been organized in Ma con. A little white girl only eleven years of age was married in burke county ru oeutly. One of the orphan girls at White Bluff was drowned last Tuesday while bathing. Mr. Wylie Pope, of Wilkes county, 58 years of age, is the father of nine teen children. Pike connty has 2,363 polls, white and oolored. Aggregate value of prop erty, $2,327,751. Samuel Wilmot, oolored, killed Jacob Terrell, also oolored. near Cartersville last Wednesday. Washington Golden, eighteen years old, killed Lee Pierce, aged fifty, in Haralson connty. Mr. S. E. Bothwell, formerly of Au gusta, expeots to commence business in Savaunah in a short time. Thirty-two marriage licenses were issued by the Ordinary of Chatham county during the past month. During the past week the crops in Burke county have improved. A great, deal of the corn, however, is past, hope. Hart county cau take tho belt. She has succeeded in producing 53 peaches on a section of limb 22 inches in length. A negro man was taken from his house, in Screven county, on tho night of the 26th of July, by three white men. who shot him to death. Win, Clark A Cos,, of Hart county, threshed this seasou, in twenty-six days, about 7,000 bushels of wheat, and oats! A few days ago they threshed 15bnshels oats in six minutes. The abundant peaoh crop has de veloped among other things an Elber ton man's capacity for punishing this fruit, which is truly wonderful. He ate forty the other morning before breakfast. Henry Chester, colored, died in the Bnrke jail last Sunday morning, from the effects of a pistol shot received while being captured and returned to tho ohain gang, from which he had escaped, some time since. LaGrange Reporter : "Mr. Gosey, about seventeen years of ago, residing in Troup county, was thrown from u mule and dragged by the plow gear un til he was killed. His whole body was terribly bruised, and his skull' was crushed.” The Dalton Enterprise says: “Coal oil has been discovered in a well near Dalton. The well is only about seven teen feet deep, and at times the water is so impregnated with oil that it is im possible to use it. Home of the water lias been at this office.” A difficulty occurred at Graysville, six miles above ltinggold, on Saturday last, between two white men (Winn Gilleland and George Jenkins), in wbioh the latter was seriously, if not fatally, shot by tho former. At last ac counts the wounded man was still alive. There is a natural curiosity iu Miller oounty, nine miles south of Camilla, known as the “Blowing Cave,” so called becanseit draws the air in, iu the fore noon, and blows it out iu the afteruoou, thus there is a perpetual alternate blow ing of wind inward and outward. The seiontiflo Hummer tourist should iuves tigate this phenomenon. Maoon had an incendiary fire last Monday. The Conyers Grays are to be reor ganized under anew captain. A Newton county man claims to have 6,000 watermelonsin his patch. Conyers had only $46,005 worth of merchandize on the first of April. Covington still continues to improve. More new houses going up. Thus we grow. On Friday last a little boy fell out of a high tree, in Athens, and was pain fully injured. Mrs. Busan Martin died at the resi dence of Mr. Fletcher Foster, on the 28th ult., aged 85. A son of Mr. James Carter, who re sides near Walnut Grove, died from bleeding at the nose, on the 23d of July. The Butts County Volunteers, who were with the Sixth Georgia Hogimonl, had a grand re-nniou at Indian Spring, last Wednesday. About 3,000 people were present. A sad affair took place at Brice’s mill, in Crawford county, last Saturday in whioh Mr. James It. Math e.ws was shot and killed by Mr. F. M. Abbott. Mr. James Bone, an old and respect ed citizen of Athens, died on Saturday last, and was buried Suuday. He hail been iu bad health for some time past, and was, we presume, near 80 yoars of age. Dr. J. B. Hendrick performed a most skillful and delicate operation, last week, in removing a splinter from tho eye of Gus Berggran, a Hwedo, living at Mr. W. F. Herring’s, near Covingtou depot. A party of ladies and gentlemen left Covington, last week, for Tocooa amt Tallulah Falls, and other points of in terest in North Georgia. They wont by private conveyance, and will be gone several weeks. THE CHITON CHOI*. Report f Ike Norfolk Colton Exchange From Viminln noil North Carolina. Norfolk, August B.— Thirty-seven re plies from twenty-five counties in North Carolina and Virginia report on the cot ton crop as follows : Seventeen replies report the weather favorable, twenty un favorable on account of excessive rains and cool nights, seven report the weath er favorable, seven about the same and eighteen less favorable than last year owing to too much rain. Twelve report stands about the same as last year and twenty-five less favorable owing to the cold, backward Spring. Twenty-two re plies report tho plant blooming and fill ing well, fifteen not filling well. Four report the condition of the crop as about the same as last year, thirty-two report its condition ten days to two weeks later than last year, the plant being full of sap and growing rapidly. Tho plant is reported larger than last year at this time, owing to the very hot weather and the heavy rains of the last two weeks. A few letters report shedding of bolls and rust. I.IKE IN DRADWOOU. [ Jj-tter to St. Lou in Hepublican.\ Among the most noted of the club bouses here are the Cabinet, the Senate, Morton’s olub house and the Melodeon. The gaming is carried on here on the ground floor iu open view. The rooms, are crowded with hundreds of uJten.soine waiting for a chance to take a hand, some busted and waiting for a stake, some too drunk to participate in the games, others too busy getting drunk, while many are putting up and trying their luck. I walked into Morton’s the other evening and took a few points. , Near the door was a roulette outfit, I with a man spinning the wheel around and asking the “gentlemen” to try their hand and make their expenses while in Hills. He was out of luck that eve ning, or the crowd was a little off rou lette, for the wheel spun around without a single bet. At the next table was seated an old man, hair closely cropped, but with a long, gray beard, ot rathei ohin whiskers. Before him on the table was au oil cloth, on wb.ioh were painted a star, a diamond, a heart, a olub, a spade and an anchor— representing the four suits of cards, with the addi dition of the star and the anchor. He hzd tpxee dice—on each face of which was one of these six emblems—and an apparatus shaped like an hour glass, about iix iuches high, opening at both epdp. Into tne top of this he threw the dice,, and then called upon the playera ! to. make their bets, which they did by placing their chips on any of the figures on the oil cloth. Ho lifted the funnel, either paid over the money to the one who had been so fortunate as to pnt his chips, sm the winning emblem or em blems, or raked in the ehips from those that lost. This man is a curiosity, and his speech, which he repeats over and over again, made a lasting impression on me. “Bets all made, gentlemen? There she is —two anchors and a spade. Oh, Lord ! Oh, Lord 1 Everybody wins and the old man loses.” One youDg man Ims a good run on the anchor; doubles the bets and wins again ; doubles and wins again. “ Ob, Lord ! Oh, Lord ! Every body wins and the old man loses. That anchor is a serpent; I know it—going to out him off to-morrow.” Another throw and the yonug man is cleared out; but still that monotone, “O, Lord ! O, Lord ?| everybody wins and the old man loses.” I noticed, however, that the “ old man ” was quietly absorbing the gold dust of the players.