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tttcefelg ©jrantMe & Coustitulimmlisl OLO SERIES —WOL. XCII NEW SERIES—VOL. LI. (Cfjrom'cle anb Jjfnrtml. WKDNESDAY, - AUGUST 29, 1877. Morton is getting better. His bowels were ont of order, especially those of compassion. Mb. Williams, Democratic candidate for Governor of Maine, was a Republi can, several years ago. When Senator Morton’s tongue be comes paralyzed, then we may know that his fight is well nigh over. m a Well did Jean Paul write that littlest children are nearest to God, just aa the smallest plants are nearest the Sun. The Courier-Journal charges that the Shkbmans are essentially a dishonest family, and that John is the boss rogue of the clan. Ben Butler is posing to become the Workingman’s Candidate for the next Presidency. He is taking a cock-eyed view of it. Rev. W. W. Hicks, formerly of this place, is reported to have accepted a call to fill a Chicago pnlpit. Similia aim ilibua curanlur. Is it not funny to see Democrats sup porting a Republican administration and Republicans antagonizing their own Chief Magistrate ? How long can the people of this conn try raise annually 8700,000,000 in gold to pay interest on their debts ? We only ask for information. General Le Duo, the new Agricul tural Commissioner, figures out that this country loses 860,000,000 a year by neg lecting the culture of the sugar beet. Junes Hilton's daughter is the belle of Saratoga by a large majority. —Baltimore Ga ulle. Yes, by $10,000,000 majority. A girl with a figure like that is always a belle. Fred Mat is called the Apollo of Long Branch, not because "he struck the lyre,” but in consequence of his fine physical proportions freely displayed on the beach. - “Bloated bondholders” of Balti more ask the prayers of the con gregation because their securities are Belling at a discount, in many instances, of CO and 80 per cent. Western farmers are buying pianos freely for their daughters. This is thought to be an indication of ap proaching good times. We hope thoy will not have occasion to change their tune. “Sionaba,” tho Japanese critic in the North American Review , is said to be Judge Clifford, of tho United States Supreme Court. We think not. Some of the Japan journals thiuk “Sionaba” is au almond-eyed Celestial. If Morton should pass away, as is not likely, just now, Blue Jeans Wil liams could appoiut a Democrat in his place. The very idea of such a thing makes Morton determined to hold on a little longer. Somo men appear to spin out their lives by simply defying death. m % m • The Springfield Republican thinks Senator Morton’s paralysis “a most for tunate event, both to him and the coun try ; ho could hardly expect to secure a re-election, and the new era upon which wo are entering is one which he has proved himself unable to even com prehend.” Lons John Wentworth, of Chicago, was so overcome with emotion, at a theatre, that he quite broke down. The local paper says: “For one brief moment his nose resembled a miniature Niagara, and then with a violent effort he shook bimsolf together, took a fresh ehew, and was a man once more.” ■>♦<■ Judos Black was not half as scorch ing as he oould have been when he wrote his review of the Electoral Commission. He expected to catch some fellow who liad the hardihood to answer it. Stouohton, the “olerical error” man, bas fallen into the Judge's trap, aud now no one will insure him at 99 cents on the dollar. The experience of the Emperor Nich olas, of Russia, made him wise at the hour of death, when he called his son (Alexander) to him and bade him re member that a nation should never make war except to repel invasion. If Alex ander 11. lives to see April 29, 1878, he will be the first of his race to attain his 60th birthday. The Herald , with more wisdom than usual, says: “If there are functionaries likely to put their cause in hopeless col lision with common opinioH by too much zeal there are others judicious enough to see ways in which justice and liberality may be reconciled with even strict views of discipline.” That is a classical way of putting what Bill Al len, in Hoosier phrase, called the folly of “biting more than yon can chaw.” A few Irish members of the British Parliament, not more than four, recent ly held the balance of power in debate and obstructed its course. Sir Patrick O’Brien denounced them as “humbugs" and “damned fools.” Sir Patrick was required to withdraw the offensive words, notwithstanding his averment that he nsed them as quotations. Beecher is the only man permited to “cuss” by proxy. Secretary Sherman, in his recent speech at Mansfield, declared that be wonld carry ont the resumption act in 1879, if it was not repealed meanwhile. He did not tonch upon “the dollar of the daddies," but he did virtually re pudiate Judge West and the Cleveland platform. He likewise stated that Mr. Hates had no favorite candidate for Governor, aud never sought to dictate or influence the nomination. Somebody has been lying. The Chioago Tribune, commenting up on t'x-Governor Moms’ revelations, ob serves that “the way to unearth a Demo cratic rastal in South Carolina is to in vestigate a Republican fraud. The Hampton adminislration is just now en gaged in this cheerful process, and is meeting with refreshing success. Every rotten Republican apple that has been opened has revealed a Democratic worm snngly coiled up in its core with a trail leading straight to the surface.” This is too general. The Tributic ought to give names. This cotton crop just being closed out is said to have amounted to 3,966,000 bales, or within 130,000 bales of the largest recent crop, that of 1876. Both oom and ootton are very favorably re ported, but about a fortnight later than usual. The harvest weather throughout the West is said to bare been well nigh perfect The crop of wheat and corn will be especially heavy. It is believed that the business of the year to come will be opened upon a vast Beale, but transactions in all lines of trade will be carried on at low prioes and small profits. THE FI.AIi OF TIIE PROPHET COM MERCIALLY. We have all heard of the romance at tached to the banner of Mohammed and its prospective unfurling by the Sultan of Turkey, as the custodian of the Ara bian Caliphate. But, up to a recent pe riod, the true reason of its remaining in statu ejuo has not been so very apparent. Diplomacy which seeks the surface would have the world believe that the same banner, if flung to the breeze, pro claiming a holy war for Islam, would simply provoke a general massacre of the Christians, and thereby bring down upon Turkey, not Russia alone, bnt combined Europe. In such a struggle, the Ottoman of course would be driven, banner and all, back to his Asian lair, and therefore the Sheik-nl-Islam and the Grand Padishah hesitate to dis play a relic which would act like a two edged sword, and, so far as the Mohammedans are concerned, do more harm than good. It seems, however, there is a cent per cent, view of the matter, dividing Turkish fanatics into two separate classes, debtor and credit or. It is stated’that “according to Mo hammedan tradition and Turkish law, every Mohammedan who rallies to the Prophet’s standard, in answer to a call, is finally relieved from the obligation of paying his debts; and this applies to the State as well as to individuals. The State probably would have unfurled the flag and availed itself of the privilege ere this but for the fact that the late Sultan repudiated most of tho Govern ment debt without taking tho trouble to go through the solemn religious cere monies in which the green flag figures. But every individual Turk who finds it hard to settle his little bills burns with fiery enthusiasm for a holy war, and considers it positively necessary to the welfare of the nation and the stability of the faith that tho standard should be taken down at once and flung to the breeze. On the other hand, tho butch ers ahd bakers aud other Turks who have been selling on trust, cherish the opinion that the best thing to do with the aforesaid flag is to keep it furled until everybody calls aud settles.” We dare say there is a vast amount of truth in this explanation, which is al most ludicrous in its manifestation of a practical age rendering eveu the most holy things subservient to “demnition cash.” The creditor class in Turkey seem to prevail, despite the soro straits of their country and Sultan, and this steadfastness lead a contemporary to aver that Americans can hardly claim superiority to the unspeakable Turk, for “if such a debt-cancelling flag should be introduced to this land of freedom, there would be an unfurling party iu existence in loss than a week, and we fear it would carry every elec tion by a large majority.” CAPITAL AND LAIIOII. The late Thomas Kensett, of Balti more, some time before his death, esti mated that his proporty, during the past five years, had shrunk $400,000. When the shrinkage would stop he did not know. In one of the Baltimore pa pers, tho other day, the editor thought there was a large margin for commis erating the “bloated bondholder” who beheld, in numerous cases, his property perishing piecemeal. We see it men tioned in one of our exchanges that Mr. Wm. T. Walters has offered to compro mise with the city of Memphis for fifty five cents on the dollar. Mr. W. holds, we understand, a large amount of these securities, and it is most probable that his loss by the defanlt of the Tennessee oity is not inconsiderable. No doubt, many thousands of capitalists are very miserable at this moment because of the uncertainties of tho future and the omi nous foreboding of the present. With the exception of the Syndicates and holders of United States bonds, we think it can be safely said that financial distress is well nigh universal, and that if laborers have had their wages cut down, capitalists have been compelled to part with much, and, in somo oases, all of their profits. The trouble is that the shrinkage, on the one hand, touches the stomach, aud, on the other hand, the commercial credit. But, in the long run, the rich man has terrors in his mind that are much more dreadful than the cravings of a partially satisfied digestion. The Baltimore Ameri can puts the case happily thus : “A capitalist whose property was worth three years ago one hundred thousand dollars, is now worth sixty thousand dollars—a clear loss of forty thousand dollars in three years—while his employes have probably not sus tained a loss in this time of five hun dred dollars apiece. His money, more over, may be all locked up in his busi ness, which he cannot dispose of with out still further loss, so that he has neither ready money nor profitable busi ness. Hundreds of men supposed to be wealthy have not the means to live com fortably in their families, and cannot get them. Wealthy men are pushed to make ends meet as much as poor men, for while the latter have one bill to pay the former have twenty ; and while the latter have bills for sugar and coffee of one or two dollars, perhaps the former has bills for steam engines and building materials of one or two thousand, it may be. The attorney who attempts to oollect a bill from a capitalist flnds it qnite as difficult as to collect a bill from a laboring man. It is painfnl to con sider how scarce money is from the moneyed men. Hundreds of them are failing every year in all the large cities and throughout the country. They oannot meet their debts for labor, for rent and for other expenses, and as a resnlt they go into bankruptcy or com 'to mi so with their creditors, whioh is a loss to other moneyed men. Our capitalists as a body are simply driven to extremities. The accumulations of many years, as well as the accumula tions of their fathers, are being swept away often at a single stroke. They who have always been rich have been compelled to take their places among the poor ; they who still keep np their former style of life must often pinch to supply their tables with the commonest food. Heads grow gray in a few months over the troubles of the times ; comfort able homes are broken np, the sheriff is selling out some of the finest property in the country, delioate ladies whose hands have never been trained to work are turned ont to seek in vain for places in a factory or to sew for a living; in short, every misery overtakes the capitalists and their families that overtakes the laboring men. The laboring class are snffering much, bnt are they suffering more than other classes ? and are net the real sufferers as much the moneyed men as others ? The snffering and de pression are general, and if the laboring man gets inadequate returns for his la bor, the capitalist gets inadequate returns for both his labor and capital. In fact, the very money which is paid to the la boring man in snob inadequate wages often comes ont of the capitalist as a dead loss, there being no profit to him in the manufactures which keep the laboring men employed. While, there fore, we are expressing sympathy for the suffering classes, we should not omit such a large part of them as the capi talists ; much less should we create a hostility towards them in the hearts of their employes.” THE OHIO CAMPAIGN- Secretary Sherman’s apparition in the Ohio campaign will no doubt mud dle it all the more for his party, because he has evidently sought to antagonize the inflation element, and otherwise discount defeat by proclaiming that the President is not responsible in any way for Judge West, his saying, doings or platform. Meanwhile, the “old war horses” are organizing anti-HATEs meetings, and fulminating against what they call the Southern policy, which the President could no more help carrying out than the planetary system can avoid obeying fixed laws of motion. The marplqj; of Ohio Radicalism is one General John Beatty, a citizen of Columbus, Presi dent of a Savings Bank, an ex-Congress man, and said to have been a brilliant of cer in the late war. Well advised cor respondents declare that this Co lumbus movement is not local, but is shared to a greater or less degree throughout the State. The New York Tribune's agent telegraphs spe cially that the revolt is prodigious, that Gen. Beatty is exultant over its success. He states that he is informed by tem perance people that the Prohibition ticket will receive a larger vote this year than ever before; that heretofore, where principle was at stake, the party had cast their vote nearly solid for the Re publican candidates, but row they have no reason for doing so. The General is firm in the conviction that at least 20,000 Republicans in Ohio will refuse to vote- the State ticket. He says the Republican party in the State is sadly demoralized; that never before in its history did its candidate for Governor put himself and party on the defensive from the first by utterances which must be explained and smoothed over. He says also that while the workingmen’s movement may take some votes from the Democracy, it will in no way help the Republicans. Under John G. Thomp son, the Democracy will make the cam paign an aggressive one. On the point of the “policy,” the General, interview ed by a Chieaeo Inter-Ocean reporter, said: I regard it, sir, as the surrender of the only principles worth fighting for in the Bepuhlican party. It is the surrender, sir. of a majority poor aud weak to a minority rich and strong. The former are pushed to the wall and the lat tor are permitted to rule. It is, in fact, the recognition of the shot-gun as more potent in Amerioan politics than the ballot. The Presi dent has secured by intrigue the overthrow and destruction of legally elected governments of States of this Union. In doing this he has disregarded the obligations of law, the pledges of party, the legal rights of citizens, and all those considerations of mercy, gratitude and honor by which civilized men are usually in fluenced. The General blamed tho Ohio Repub lican leaders for this, notably Stanley Matthews and Foster, whom he thought had been completely bamboo zled and outflauked by “forty Con federate brigadiers.” Wherefore this Federal bradier proposes to let bis party be thoroughly routed in order to de stroy Matthews and teach a stern les son to “hypocrites, traitors and sneaks.” The General thought such a drubbing would do the party good and prepare it for glorious victories in the future. We wish him joy of great expectations. He is only helping the President to “knock the stuffing out,” and no doubt Mr. Hayes secretly laughs in his sleeve to see how the valiant Beatty is carrying out his real policy without knowing what a fool he is making of himself at the same time. Proceed, General ! Perhaps Blaine and the President will “ shake hands over the bloody chasm.” Not one vessel of the merchant service of the United States has ever passed through the Suez Canal. Sporting oireles are now betting odds that the American potato bug will reaeb Constantinople ahead of the Russians. • Ml • l> The success of the Hampton govern meut is no longer doubted at the North since intelligence reached tho brethren from South Carolina that hogs were now fed upon peaohes. A Texas paper states that at a colored camp meeting near the town, “the devil appeared with seven heads, and a crown on each head. The meeting broke up in a panic, the preacher being the first to run.” Now Mr. Sohurz is aocused of desert ing Tilden, whom he had promised to support, and selling out to the Republi cans for a Cabinet position. Mr. Sonußz’s favorite air is “ the heart bowed down.” Henry Grady’s “Sally,” the white girl whom he wrote into notoriety and out of the chain gang, has beeu sent back there for another offense. Henry ought to prepare another lecture and call it “The victim of misplaced con fidence.” Gen. Mahone still insists that the debt of Virginia must be “adjusted.” And if it be true that no additional taxation will be permitted to make up the annual deficit of $600,000, General Mahone may be right. He predicts bankruptcy, dis honor aud open repudiation as the last analysis of existing affairs. The people of Baldwin were determin ed that their delegates should not be starved out by the Treasurer. When the deoision of the Attorney-General was published they promptly held a meeting and pledged themselves for the payment of the per diem of the Bald win delegation. Packard’s twins are to be named Louisa and Anna. That is not exactly the way to spell the name of the State, but it misses the true way just like the Boss missed the Governorship. Bnt the first reports said the twins were boys. How is that ? Has thero been another transformation scene ? When a Bulgarian male child is born it has a salt bath. From that time to his seventh year he is not washed under pain of mortal siD. A Bulgarian female is allowed only one washing during her life-time. This is according to church discipline. The correspondent of the New York Times at Russian headquar ters declares that their filth is only sur passed by their cowardice. No wonder the cleanly Turk despises them and their so-called religion. The Evening r Express infers from the best available estimates that the wheat crop of Minnesota, lowa, Wiscon sin and Kansas for this harvest aggre gates to the surprising total of 117,000,- 000 bnshels. Last year the yield was bnt 61,000,000 bnshels; and in 1875, 93,- 000,000 bnshels. It is reasonable to suppose that the farmers will sell at ninety cents a bushel,so that the receipts from the crop in these Sta’es will be over $100,000,000. But this is some thing like $50,000,000 more cash than was netted last year; and for the past two or three years the farmers have been squaring their accounts and get ting even with the world. That is, the farmers of these four States will have $50,000,000 to apply to other purposes than simple maintenance, and back debts probably will not figure largely in the accounts. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 29, 1577. THE LETTERS OF “NEMESIS.” The Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist says that the letters of a few years since con taining the biting sarcasm against ex-Govemor Joseph E. Brown, and signed “Nemesis," were written by Senator Norwood. Well, as these letters appeared first in that paper, of course, it ought to know the true author, and we are glad that paper has told who it was. for we know two or three young gentlemen who each claimed to be the author of those much-talked of letters.— Athens Georgian. It is very naughty in “two or three youug gentlemen” to claim the author ship of the letters of “Nemesis,” for it was stated by the Chronicle and Senti nel at least three years ago that Mr. Norwood was the author. The history of these letters, however, is a little curi ous and may not prove uninteresting, as they were extensively circulated in Georgia and the South, and there was a good deal of speculation as to the identity of the writer. While ex-Gov ernor Brown was very roughly handled he was only incidentally assailed. The letters were entitled “Pen Pictures of an Extraordinary Bullock,” and it was against the developing Executive of Georgia that the author’s biting satire was principally directed. Early in the Spring of 1871 General A. R. Wright, then editor of the Chronicle and Sen tinel, received the first letter of the series. It was post marked, we believe, New York, and was accompanied by a private note—also signed “Nemesis”— saying that if the contribution was ac ceptable, and if General Wrioht would publish it on his own responsibility without seeking to know the name of the author others would be furnished from time to time. The acceptance of the proposition was to be made known by a few lines to that effect in the edi torial columns of the paper. General Wrioht agreed to the terms and so stated iu the manner indicated. The letters were furnished from time to time, generally coming by way of New York, and were published without any oue knowing their paternity. They made a decided sensation and there was a great deal of curiosity manifested con cerning their authorship. General Toombs, Governor Johnson and other distinguished Georgians were among the parties suspected. Iu the Fall of 1871, Mr. Norwood came to Augusta and calling upon General Wrioht, in formed him that he was “Nemesis” and requested that his secret should be kept until be (Mr. Norwood) consented to its publication. So far as we know, Gen eral Wrioht died without having com municated the secret to any oue. Iu 1873 or 1874, we believe, it was stated in the Savannah News that Mr. Norwood was the author. The writer of this article expressed a doubt as to the correctness of the statement but soon afterwards received a letter from Mr. Norwood which fully satis fied him oa the subject. Tbe man uscript of “Nemesis” had been pre served, and he gave not only the dates, the post marks and the exaot contents of the private note which accompanied the first letter, but he also described the very paper upon which the artioles had been written—some old bonds of the oity of Savannah, we think, which had been printed but not signed, or issued, and whioh were blauk on one side of the paper. The hand writing of “Nemesis,” though some attempt had been made to disguise it, was evidently the hand writing of Mr. Norwood. There was no room left to doubt the entire justioe of his claim to the authorship. At one time Mr. Norwood thought of collect ing the letters, aud publishing them in pamphlet form, but fiually abandoned the idea. It is matter of regret that this intention was not carried out, as the matter was well worthy of reproduc tion. This is all we know of “Nemesis;” if the “two or three young gentlemen” of Athens oan show a cleaner title to the authorship we should like to see it pre sented. THE CAPITAL QUESTION. Tho Chronicle and Constitutional ist’s special dispatches published this morning give the action of the Conven tion yesterday on the capital question. Tho attempt to name Atlanta in the Constitntion as the seat of government, though vigorously pressed, disastrously failed, and the Convention decided by an overwhelming majority to let the people determine by a separate vote whether Atlanta or Milledgeville shall be the capital of Georgia. We have never doubted that this would be the re sult; we have certainly never doubted that this should be the result. We ad vocated the adoption of such a course because we believed it would lessen the opposition to the new Constitution, be cause we thought it afforded the only means of settling a vexed question sat isfactorily and forever, and, above all, we advocated it beoause we believ ed it was just and right. Un der the resolution adopted the friends of Milledgeville and At lanta will bo afforded a fair field for the capital fight, and,however it may be decided, tho defeated will loyally abide the issne. It is important that the con troversy should be terminated, and we are, therefore, gratified at the adop tion of the amendment which makes the vote on the capital decisive, whether the Constitution, with which the ques tion will be submitted, is adopted or re jected. If the people prefer Atlanta as the’seat of government, suitable accom modations for the General Assembly, the Governor and the other offioers of the State should at once be provided in that city. If they prefer Milledgeville, the public buildings there should be oc cupied and the expenditure of money in Atlanta atopped. SCHOLARSHIPS IN A NORMAL COLLEGE. A Letter From tlie Htate School Com mis mlMioner. Office of } State School Commissioner, Atlanta. Ga., Angnst 20, 1877. > Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist: Please allow me space to make a state ment. Dr. Sears. General Agent of the Trustees of the Peabody Fund, has en dowed a limited number of scholarships in the State Normal College Department of the University of Nashville, located at Nashville, Tenn. He tenders, at this time, five of these scholarships to Geor gia. He gives two hnndred dollars per annnm to each appointee, and tnition is furnished by the college free of charge. Applicants will be expected to declare their intention of teaching at least two years, if opportunity offers, and must be able to atand an examination npon all the branches of stndy usually taught in a good high sohooL Printed questions for examination will be prepared and forwarded to some friend of the under signed, in the county of the applicant, in whose presence the answers must be written ont, and to whom the papers containing the written answers mast be delivered for transmission to this office. Persons of both sexes are admitted into the College; bnt no one is received who is under 16 or over 30 years of age. Tbe next scholastic year of the Nor mal School begins the first Wednesday in October next. The answers to the questions sent mnst be in this office by the 20th of next month, at which time choice will be made from among the competitors, and the successful appli cants will, at once, be notified of the re sult. Applicants will please Bend for ward their names, state their ages, and enclose a certificate of good moral char acter. Gustavus J. Orb, State School Commissioner. A bold burglary was committed in Macon a few nights since. CONDITION OF THE CROP*. Tbe Crop Prospect In Greene County. [ Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist .J Woodville, Greene County, Ga., August 21.—Crop prospects in this lo cality, north Greene and sonth Ogle thorpe, are sorry indeed. No rain of any consequence has fallen in eight weeks. Many trees in the woods are dying in consequence. Compared to last year, the crops stand: corn about 65; cotton, 65; peas, 75; potatoes, 50; frnit, 300. In some sections not half a crop can possibly he realized. Gener ally the people are blue, and want badly good crops; also, Alex. Lawton’s, Nat Hammond’s aud Gus Reese’s “revised” Constitntion; no injustice to corporations and the ignoring of just claims against the State; less legislating and cutting of poor salaries and, in the language of “Sovereign,” that most intelligent body ever assembled in Georgia to come home, come. Greene. REMORSE. Au EuflUh Murderer Coulchnph Ilia Crime aud Surrenders Himself. Philadelphia, August 20.— 0n Fri day night last a man surrendered him self to the police authorities, stating that he was a deserter from England, where he had committed a murder. He was a member of Troop A Hussars. One night in July last he went out in com pany with Surgeon Wheeler, of the same troop, and, finding that the surgeon had money with him, he hit him on the head with his carbine aud killed him. He then rifled his pockets, obtaining £6O. The body he threw into a cesspool. In formation was lodged with the Vice- Consul from England in this city, who has since been making inquiries. It has been ascertained that the body of a man was found in a cesspool at Colgate, England, the place where Henderson said the affair occurred; also, that both Henderson and the surgeon (Wheeler) were marked as deserters. Henderson says he has been here six weeks, and his conscience has so troubled him that he could not rest day or night, aud finally he concluded to give himself up, and let the law take its course. He is held to await the action of the English Consu late. ALSTON’.* LUCK. A Pleasnnt and Romantic Incident In Kenl Idle—How it Learned Canary Foretold a Fortune for Col. H. A. Alston—And llow the Fortune Really Turned Up. r Atlanta Constitution .l Severaljmonths ago General Gordon and Col. R. A. Alston were wulking down Pennsylvania avenue in Washing ton City. They noticed a crowd standing on the sidewalk, and npon investigation discovered that the crowd had assem bled around a portable stand upon which a grave and speculative group of Canary birds were engaged in telling the for tunes of the by standers. The modus operandi was simple. A stranger would give the birds a nickel. The bird wonld then hop off to a basket sitting near by, and pick up a little envelope in his bill aud oarry it to the expectant customer. In this envelope ha would find a small piece of paper on which was printed the history of his future life—at least a Canary bird’s eye view of it. CxreßtnesH Unbending on flic .Street. Moved by one of those unaccountable impulses, that operate with tho groat as well as the lowly, Gen. Gordon announc ed his purpose of trying his luck with the birds. He handed the wisest look ing canary ho could see a carefully se lected nickel, and awaited the result. The bird returned with an envelope, which the Senator opened. It announc ed that the Senator “talked too much, had five children, and would live to be eighty-six years of age.” The Senator remarked that the first part of the for tune was not true; that the second was, and he hoped the third would be. Upon this encouraging resume, Col. Alston determined to have his fortune told, so he chased a nickel into the corner of his breeches pocket and capturing one, handed it to a likely looking bird, and requested him to move ahead with the panorama. The bird looked at tho Colonel carefully, as if he felt that the case in hand required his very finest judgment, and then moved off in a pro foundly contemplative and reflective state. He soon returned with an envel ope, which he delivered to the Colonel. Tho first clause of the fortune was this : “You invite too many people to your house; many of those that yon invito are not your friends.” That much was true. The hospitality of Col. Alston is wide and as spontaueons as that of the Biblical gentleman who, when he had a wedding in his house, felt so good about it that he sent out the police to boat up his guests from the bushes and thickets. But the above was a small part of the prophecy. A Fortune By Inhcrilnnee Promised. The printed slip went on to recite that the Colonel would in a short time receive a large sum of money. He thought at first that this was tidings— dire but grateful—about his big fee whioh was then in the prospective. So the paper went on to say that he would receive this fortune as an inheritance, and that it would be the basis on which he would build to a definite prosperity. He folded the scrap of paper in his pocket and went to Willard’s where he met Judge Lochrane. He was showing the paper to this genial gentleman with tbe big Irish heart, wUen ho was inter rupted by the exclamation: “Why, my dear sir, your fortune is already left you. I saw this very day in the Balti more Sun that John E. Alston, of Brooklyn, had died, and had left a for tune of about six hundred thousand dollars to be divided among his heirs and relatives in the South.” Col. Al ston then hurried ont to find the Balti more Sun. He failed, however, and the matter dropped out of his mind. A day or two afterwards Attorney-General Devens asked him if he was any kin to J. E. Alston, of Brooklyn, remarking that that gentleman had left a large fortune to be divided among his family. Col. Alston replied carelessly and came to Georgia soon afterwards, and had very soon forgotten about the clear eyed Canaries and their prophecy. Tlie End of the Kainbow in Higlit. A few days ago, however, he received a printed copy of the will of John E. Alston, addressed to him as one of the heirs of tbe estate. The will bequeath ed various amounts to special heirs, and then recited that the balance, amount ing to $137,000, should be distributed to the heirs in Georgia and South Caro lina, through the agency of Mr. Albert Glover. Col. Alston yesterday received a letter, which we examined, from Mr. Albert Glover, announcing that he wonld be ont to Georgia soon to have a personal interview with Col. Alston con cerning the distribution, and announc ing that he was bringing the matter to a close as rapidly as possible. Mr. Ker Boyce, of Augusta, has the card upon which the fortune was printed, but Col, A. has written to him for it, that he may be ready to meet the tide of inquiry that this article will turn loose upon him. The above story is true in every par ticular. It is a remarkable story in it self, bnt when taken in connection with the numerous miracles of lack that have been worked in behalf of Col. AlstoD, it becomes much more remarkable. We predict that he will clear $50,000 by the little inheritaßce. ALEXANDER H. STEPHEN*. Anythin# Bnt a Complimentary Notice of the Great Commoner. [Charlotte Observer .l Every newspaper contains a notice now that Hon. Alexander H. Stephens is entirely renewed in health, and will return to Washington this Fall looking better than ever; and now that he is on his regular monthly parade before the public gaze, we contribute our mite to ward keeping the ball moving by copy ing with our hearty endorsement the following pen picture drawn by our good brother Cameron, of the Hillsboro Re corder, and made true to life: “Steph ens was always right at the wrong time. He lagged to the rear when his services were wanted. He rnshed to the front when the battle was lost and could not be restored. He was a peace man when his position and his duty constrained to be for war, and he was the ablest expo nent of the principles which led to the war when the practical failure of those ’principles had been irretrievably decided by wager of battle. He was a Grant man when Grant trod most heavily npon a prostrate Sooth; and he is a Hayes man when the honest sense of the South re bels against the recognition of his legal ity.” MARYLAND’S MORALS. AN AWFUL PICTURE OF ITS PRIB ONS. Shocking Dcgniilntion in Ike Alms llouar. nntl Jftils ot I lie State\Ylmt Ilie Report of tlie Secretary of the Board of Health to the Horernor Shows. Baltimore, August 19.—Dr. Charles W. Chancellor, a member of the City Council, Secretary of the State Board of Health and a physician of extensive practice in this city, who was requested by Gov. Carroll to visit and inspect “all alms institutions in the State, particu larly with reference to their sanitary condition, the treatment of the inmates and the number of pauper insane who are confined therein at the public ex pense,” has discharged that duty and submitted his report to the Governor.' A Shocking State of Adairs. In introducing his report, Dr. Chan cellor says: It is painful to report the shocking condition in which many of the public institutions were found, and it is difficult to conceive that anything worse ever existed in a civilized country. There are now, he says, within the alms houses and jails of our State over five hundred insane and idiotic people, for whom there exists no proper provision, and who are utterly cast down and neg lected, half fed and ghastly in their wretchedness. The report first takes up the condition and management of State institutions in the city and elsewhere. With one or two exceptions (the House of Refuge and Bay View Asylum, which are overcrowded), the State' institutions are represented as well condnoted and disciplined, and the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, located at Frederick, is pronounced a “monument of public beneficence.” In the alms houses in some of the counties an entirely differ ent state of affairs exists, and Dr. Chan cellor’s report represents them to be dis gusting dens of filth and prostitution, too shocking, sickening and disgusting to contemplate. The Sexes Mingled. In Allegheny County Alms House the sane and insane were indiscriminately associated without proper means of separating the sexes. Most of the in sane were harmless. One colored girl, an epileptic of feeble mind, had three children with her, two of whom had been born in the alms house. The youngest, an infant of six months, was undoubtedly the child of a white man. In Anne Arundel county the alms house is an abode of misery. The keeper and his family are comfortably quartered on the first floor of the main building, while the white inmates dwell together in unrestricted concubinage on the sec ond floor. One insane woman, aged about 40, had borne three oliildren in the house, all begotten by the inmates. These innocents had fortunately been sent to an orphan asylum. There was not in any room of this alms house a bed or pillow fit for use, and such as were fouud were disgustingly filthy. The negro quarters, if possible, were even worse than those occupied by the whites. Every room was in a dirty condition, the beds filthy, without sheets or pillows, and in several rooms no beds. The oom mon jail of this county is as filthy and objectionable as the alms house, a pro miscuous association of all classes ex isting. In the Baltimore County Alms House the male.'departmeut was so over crowded that the dining room, bath rooms and even the water closets were used for lodging rooms. The jail in this county is pronounced one of the best constructed, best managed and cleanest in the State. With but two ex ceptions of defect in construction this is a novel prison. Mockeries of Charity. The Caroline County Alms House is a mockery of charity and nursery of pol lution, not the slightest attention being paid to the moral or physical condition of paupers and insane inmates. One woman was the mother of two children and another of six, all suid to have been begotten and born within the alms house. If the colored department should be compared to a filthy pigsty, it would be an injustice to the pigsty. In one small room were fouud four men, five women, two children, any quantity of cats and dogs, and other living things too nu merous to mention. Of the five women one was a oentenarian, two were mothers with infants in their arms, and two were young girls, aged respectively fourteen and sixteen years. One old man was sick, with scarcely the semblance of a bed on which to rest his achiDg bones. Another, though sitting upright to par take of the coarse and badly-cooked dinner just served him, was too weak to defend his scanty meal against the in cursion of a dog that quickly gulped it down. Such an aggregation of hnman misery is rarely seen, and a more disre putable place can scarcely be imagined. In Cecil,County Alms House, in both buildings, the departments for males and females are separated only by a nar row passage, and the evil result of the free communication between the sexes is manifested in the number of illegiti mate children in the house, Crimea Running Through Lieneralluns, There are two instanoes in this alms house in which the mother and children were born iu bastardy under its roof. One, an idiotic white woman, forty years of age, herself bornjin the alms|house, has given birth to six children in this institution. Another, a white woman, aged thirty-five years, insane, whose mother still resides in the house, has borne two children here ; and still an other insane white woman is the mother of a half-negro child, begotten and born in the institution. In Washington coun ty the alms house, situated in the su burbs of Hagerstown, should bo pre sented as a common nuisance. The de tails of its condition are, if possible, more revolting than of Baltimore county and Cecil. FALL TRADE. The Biiaineaa Prospect—Unod indications in New York. New York, August 22.—The Times, this morning, reviewing the Fall trade outlook, says: “When, last Fall, busi ness men were invited to say what the prospect in trade was for the immediate future, they were full of confidence that the bottom had been reached, and that a new era of prosperity was about to begin. It did not begin, however, immediately, and the Winter, to most of them, was one of despondency. Since then a very slight general improvement has taken place, and the condition and prospects are given as they appear to merchants themselves. In the grain trade there is great hope of a good time coming with the immense crops from the West, and there is a steady, healthful growth in the produce and grocery traces, which encourages men wfio are satisfied with small profits. The volutpe of business done by grocers is larger, up to this time, than it was at a corresponding date last year. The clothing manufac turers are feeling a small but good in quiry for their wares. There has been, and is, animation among the boot and shoe manufacturers, and the hatters say they have not done so much business for many years. Hard as the times are called, the piano makers have had a good business, and the drygoods trade reports indicate an improvement of from 30 to 50 per cent, in leading houses. There is not so much disposition to-day as there was last August to make san guine predictions, but the conviction is strong upon business men that they will keep the ground they have recovered, and continue to do a fair business with moderate returns. No Escape. {Woman's Journal .] “No man will ever prosper who has the curse of a ruined woman upon him. The murderer of the body can be tried and executed by the world's laws, but the murderer of the soul is tried by Heaven’s laws, and the execution is as sure as divine justice.” Aunt Betsy said this as she folded the white hands of a beautiful girl, and put white flowers and green leaves abont the mar ble-cold forehead. There was a tiny baby beside the girl-mother. The house was hnshed and there was mourn ing snch as few people know. Half glad that the mother and child were dead, the rest of the family must perform the last sad office of bnrial and bear the family shame. A haunted house I A ruined home! God the architect and man the spoiler. The curse is there, and the destroyer cannot escape. Some dastardly wretch (white man) attempted, a few nights since, to enter the sleeping apartments of a young lady, a member of one of the most respecta ble families in the Valley of Talbot. The wretch was subsequently captured, but managed to make his escape through some inadvertence of his captors. THE STATE. THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS. Franklin county is to have anew jail. Peaches five cents a peck in Gaines ville. Dr. Fisk, of St. Louis, lectured in Dalton last week. The crops in Wilkes county, except fruits, are generally short. You can get three dozen eggs for twenty-five cents in Gainesville. There arc some rumors of starting a Circulating Library in Washington. A delegation of Dalton citizeus is be ing organized for Colorado and Oregon. The fancy dress ball at New Holland Friday night is said to havo been a brilliant affair. The ladies in the gallery speak of Gen. Toombs’ “brilliant eyes” as though he were twenty-one. Columbus numbers among her citi zens a negro one hundred and fifteen years old. The corn crop of Murray oounty is unusually promising. It has harvested a tremendous crop of wheat. Mr. John A. Stephens’ residence, in Crawfordvillo, was burnod last Thurs day night. Little or none of the furni ture, or even the wearing apparel of the family, was saved. Loss, 83,000. Mr. Juo. Davis, a farmer who lives iu Taliaferro oounty,and who is 74 years old, through all the vicissitudes of war, pan ic# and drouths, has never bought a bushel of oorn or a pound of meat since he began business for himself. The engine to the gravel train on the Air Line exploded at Longview on Monday, seriously scalding the conduc tor, Mr. J. M. Austin, The engineer and fireman esoaped unhurt, though at their post and as near to the engino as was Mr. Austin. A convict escaped from the camp at Old Town one night last week, anil though well directed efforts were made to catch him, and notwithstanding the faot that they were near him with the hounds once or twice, he eluded their grasp, and is now over the hills and far away. A few days ago, near Dawsonville, a negro girl eleven years old got mad with a negro male child four years old and pushed it over a preoipice, inflioting in juries from which it died soon after. The girl had threatened the killing pre viously, and therefore it was premedi tated. A sad and fatal mistake oaused the death of a little babe of Mr. Wm. S. Hollemau, of Hawkinsville. A dose of morphine prepared for the mother of the child was given to jthe latter instead of bismuth powders, whioh had been prepared for the child. The infant liv ed twenty-nine hours after the fatal mistake had been made. Crops of corn and cotton look as well in lower Madison as the oldest inhabi tant ever saw them, and the people are proud to tell it, and thankful for it. They have not suffered for rain a day. The sorghum crop will be sufficient to provide long sweetening for the Thir tieth Senatorial District, including two Representatives from Oglethorpe. The party who rode through Craw ford the night an attempt was made to burn Mr. Arnold's store, and fired at some gentlemen when told to halt, was recognized as a white mau who has been brought prominently before the people of that county of late years. While his actions are suspicious, no ono harbors a thought that he is the incendiary. The Oglethorpe Echo says: A promi nent officer of this county recently in vested 85 in a lottery ticket, and he last week received a letter stating that he had drawn a gold watch, valued at $l5O, which had been forwarded him per ex press—but he would havo to pay cortain charges on the same, amounting to sls. Contrary to the advice of every ono he paid the money, and received a brass ohain and time-piece, worth about se venty-five cents per peck. The Forest News says : Never, in the history of the country—at leaßt in the recollection of the writer—has there been such a mania, apparently, for all grades of crime, especially murder, aR at the present; while at the same time, the number of suicides or acts of self destruction within the last year or so, are greater than iu ail the balance of a lifetime of over half a century, as far as memory serves. Why should these things be, at this particular time ? Columbus has had a first class case of infanticide. Talbot county has 62,422 acres under cultivation. Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, is still in Atlanta. Aggregate value of property of Clarke county, $4,022,445. A careful estimate predicts that there will be fully 15,000 people in daily at tendance at the State Fair. A cutting scrape occurred near Ma con, last Saturday, between two young men. Neither seriously hurt. Eighty-four barrels of dried fruit, ag gregating 17,220 pounds, have been shipped by one firm in Talbotton. The galleries of the Representative Hall are crowded every day, as the busi ness of the Convention becomes more interesting, A negro woman, living near Lithonia, stopped the Covington accommodation train the other morning to sell the engi neer a chicken. Mr. Richard Futral, an old resident of Griffin, died on Saturday night last at his home in that city, in the sixty second year of his age. Peaches actually sold as low as ten cents a bushel in Atlanta late Saturday afternoon. The enormous crop seems to be perpetually renewed. The total number of deaths for* the week in Atlanta were sixteen. In Au gusta, the total was twelve for the week ending August 18, 1877. Griffin puts in its claims to be men tioned among the fashionable Summer resorts, and Marietta insists that it is the most charging of all resorts. Dr. A. PayDe, the Indian doctor who has lately located in Athens, has a fe male rattlesnake whioh gave birth to eight or ten young ones on Monday morning. Mr. Stephens left Catoosa Springs Monday and went to Chattanooga, where he will spend a week or ten days. Hiß health has improved considerably dur ing his stay at the springs. RAILROAD MEETINU. A Call For a Merlins at Lauren* Court llouae September Third. [For the Chronicle and Conslilutumatitt ,] Laurens C. H., S. C., August I?. — Iu response to a call made through the Laurensville Herald, for q meeting to be held on salesday in August instant, of all interested in the subject of Improved Railroad Oommunicatiog and Lower Freights, a large and enthusiastic meet ing assembled in the Court House, and, after free and full discussion of the whole subject, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : Resolved, That when this meeting ad journ it stand adjonrned to meet at this place, at ten o’clock, on next saleday, (September 3d) and the question of route, and also the manner of building the proposed road—whether by taxation or otherwise—be then considered and acted upon. Resolved, That we invite the attend ance of representatives from all tho dif ferent points in any manner interested in the subject, and their participation in said meeting. - Resolved, That a committee of two from each township be appointed by the Chair to act as a Committee on Busi ness, and that five of this committee will constitute a quorum. In compliance with these resolutions, the undersigned respectfully, but earn estly invites delegations from Augusta, Greenwood, Belt on, Green ville, Spartanburg, Union and Newber ry, to meet and confer with the people of Laurens on the great subject of com mon interest to us all. The people of Laurens, once more breathing the at mosphere of home rule, are in earnest in signalizing the beginning of their new life by an offering to the material im provement of our common oountry. John A. Barksdale, Chairman. N, S. Harris, Secretary. Naval Cadet*, Ninth Dintrlct. A competitive examination of candi dates for appointment to the Naval Academy, for the Ninth Congressional District, will be held in the city of Gainesville on Saturday, September Ist, 1877. Dr. H. 8. Bradley, Prof. J. W. Glenn, Prof. E. H. Beck, President C. B. LaHatte, and Henry Perry, Esq., are appointed the Board of Examiners. Candidates must be over fourteen and under eighteen years of age, free from physical defects, of good moral charac ter, residents of the Ninth District, and will be required to report at the Academy for examination by the 12th of Septem ber next. H. P. Bell, $2 A YEAR —POSTAGE PAID MOSES’ CLEAN BREAST. MORE SECRETS OP THE SOUTH CAROLINA INVESTIGATION. Ex-Gov. Mosea Confessing to Unit’ a Million ol Bribe Money—. The True Inwu ril ness of the Bond Conspiracy Coming to Light— Trouble Ahead lor llie State OlHeinls. Charleston, S. C., August 12.— The Investigating Committee lias resumed its secret labors—even the witnesses are sworn to secrecy. Moses was the first real informer, aud he made a clean breast of it. He w s asked to account for tho various sums which he had re ceived as Speaker and Governor. Moses modestly estimated these at $500,000, while the higher valuation is $900,000 though figures were no question between Moses and the committee. After calling over the larger sums, which bore heavy upon his memory, he acknowledged that he “had spent it all.” Thero was $25,000 in one pile, which he, as Speaker, reoeived from United States Senator John J. Patterson. “What was that for?” It appears that in 1871 Moses began to tire of the retail perquisites of his position through the committees which he appointed. Besides, being a candidate for Governor, be was fre quently cheated by bis subordinates in making fair returns of the bribery money their committees made. Patter sou, too, thought the machinery was loose, and could be made to pay a hand some advance, as well as aid him iu liis candidacy for the Senatorship. He therefore proposed to purchase the whole privilege from Moses at one single dash, got control of the committees as a sys tematic scheme, and turn miller bimsolf for his own grist and that of any Demo crat or Republican who had any meal to grind, through the Legislature. Another large amount which Moses received stuck in his memory, because he had been cheated out of a portion of it. Tho Republican Printing Compauy drew two cheeks of SIO,OOO oach in liis favor, and left them with Hardy Holo man’s bank. Holomans paid’ Moses $15,000 of the proceeds, nnd kept $5,000. Moses has been threatening to sue So'o rnans for the latter ever since lie found it out, but the question, “What Court wonld entertain jurisdiction ?” has de layed the complaint. During his Speak ership Moses flooded the market with “pay certificates,” purporting to be for lervioes rendered by attaches of the nouse. Hundreds of thousands of dol lars of these were afloat. Any influen tial Republican oould get one, whether lie had ever beeu in Columbia or not. To do Moses justice, some of these he alleged to be forgeries. Jones, the Clerk’s signature is genuine, but his is not. From these certificates he derived a large amount of money. The success of the oommittee with Moses induced them to follow up the “pay certificate” business by calling Moses’ successor as Speaker, S. J. Lee, as the next witness. Lee is a light oolored mulatto. He was formerly a slave. My first remem brance of him was in 1867 as a witness in the ease of the United States against Crump, Davis & Arnim, for running nu illicit distillery. He struck me as a man of great self-possession and shrewdness for his opportunities, After reconstruc tion he was made a member of the Leg islature from Aiken connty, and evinced snoh taot as a parliamentarian that ho was generally called to preside in the Speaker’s absence. This made him Speaker when Moses was elected Gov ernor. He soon began to drive the most spanking team through Aiken and Au gusta, Ga. This mado Gen. Elliott, who prided himself on his equipage, jealous. Elliott was only a member of Congress at that time. At the next election Elliott made Lee take a back seat, and was himself made a member of the Leg islature. and then Speaker in Lee’s place. Lee contented himself with a county office until last election, when ho ran for Solicitor of the Circuit and was elected. Ho lias been several times complimented in tho Democratic news papers for his dignity, ability and fair ness as Solicitor. The committee keep Gov. Moses well in hand since their success in confronting him anil his pa pers with the distinguished Judge. They havo him and his faithful body servant, Robert, installed in rooms at the Greenfield building, and providod with meals from Pollack’s not far from the State House, so that he can bo with in calling distance, should any of the witnesses swerve from tho Pentatouclior fair books of Mosos. Lee was in jail, with no hope of giv ing bail. He saw the fato of “tho dis tinguished Judge,” and he knew he must swear like an Israelite according to the Pentateuch. Accordingly, when he was brought forward, ho, too, mado a clean breast of it. His testimony was mainly as to the pay certificates issued by himself as Speaker, and those issued in connection with Lieutenant-Governor Gleaves, who presided over tho Senate. He was not as lavish with these papers as Mosos, but told enough to keep Gov. Gleaves, who is hiding out, from ever returning to stand his trial. Tho com mittee were so well satisfied with the completeness of Lee's story that they let him out of jail upon his individual re cognizance, upon condition that he would resign his Solicitorship. Leo is now Reported to be one of the leaders in the Liberian exodus. Tho next witness before the committee was General J. B. Dennis, ex-Keeper of the Penitentiary, Sergeant-at-Arms of the late Mackey House, the furniture man, and a mem ber of the High Joint Committee to in vestigate the bonds in 1870. The prin cipal portion of his testimony related to the aotion of the bond committeo in 1870, and the connection Hardy of Solo man's bank with the State government. His evidence was only a prelude to tfiat of Sheriff Bowen,Tof Charleston, on the same subject. Bowen fias never oon oealed his knowledge of these matters from those who asked him for it in good faith, and it was given before the com mitteo in suoh a way as to draw forth the oommendation of the Demoorats who were present. In 1870, while Bowen was playing Con gressman from Charleston, he found himself unseated, and withoutthe means of support. The High Joint Investigat ing Committee from tha Legislature of Sonth Carolina, composed of Whitte more, Swails, Dennis and Tim Hnrloy, were then in session in New York, over hauling Eimpton’s books, and enjoying a good time at the expense of the State. Bowen saw his opportunity. He had never studied law, but he had been ad mitted to the South Carolina bar. Ac cordingly, he applied to the committee to provide for his immediate necessi ties. They gave him an appointment as legal adviser to the committee, with a fee of to be paid down by Kimp ton, who was providing bountifully the ready oash for everything the commit tee reqnired. From day to day tho in vestigation was deferred, the books were not ready. Kimpton was “out of towD,” and the committee grew tired of waiting —there was no money in it adeauaco to the occasion. Bowen had brought with him from Washington a young man who had acted a* his private secretary while Congressman. He was a shrewd fellow, and, as luck would have it, had a father in the employ of the American Bank Note Company of New York. Through this agency Bowen discovered that the South Carolina bonds were printed by that company. After considerable trouble, he obtained from the company the amount of bonds they had printed and turned over to be signed by the State authorities. They had printed $20,040,000, and turned them over, while they had on hand, subject to or der, 82,600,000 more. Of these $0,000,- 000 were “sterling funded debt” bonds, which were never issued by the authori ties. The balance of #14,040,000 was what the authorities issued, and what the High Joint Committee endeavored to investigate. Six million dollars of these, the conversion bonds, were after ward repudiated by the Legislature, and the remainder, with some small deduc tion, funded at 50 cents on the dollar in the consolidation bonds, Bowen revealed this omission at the time in the Charleston Courier, and re turning to Charleston became a candi date for the Legislature, was elected, and at tha next session preferred charges for the impeachment of Governor Scott touching the bonds. The impeachment was defeated by money taken from the State by Treasurer Parker. All of these details were given in his testimony. Hardy Solomans’ $125,000 bill was or dered paid at that session, and Bowen told how this was done thrice over. It was composed of pay certificates. The members of the Legislature had receiv ed them and reoeipted the Treasurer for them j they had been sold to Solomans, who reoeipted for them also, and then he aggregated them in his bill, out of whioh he paid SBO,OOO to have it passed, and it was paid. This haul of Parker, the Treasurer, was equivalent to that whioh gave him another voucher for $90,000 in bis official accounts, as ap pears from the testimony before the committee. The Republican Printing Company’s bill for that amount was or dered paid by the Legislature. They sold the bill to Comptroller-General Neagle for #20,000 cash. Neagle took it, receipted by the company for $90,000, to the Treasurer, who gave him SBO,OOO of Blue Ridge Railroad scrip, retaining SIO,OOO for himself. Upon the Treasur er s books the receipt of the compauy represents $90,000 cash. The Blue Ridge scrip is worthless. The commit tee have a sure thing against Scott, Par ker, Cardoza and Chamberlain. Tiia latter has an individual account to an swer ; and the list of charges against tho farm of Kimpton A Chamberlain is tho largest of the whole array. There will be requisitions for these gentry upon tho Governors of Ohio and New York before very long, and it wiil go hard with them. PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS. Meeting Of the State Conventl„_A s„|i,| and Senaible Speech liy lion. Mr. Slenaer the Permanent President. ’ Harrisburg, Pa., August 22.—Tho Democratic State Convention met in tha Hall of the House of Representatives at noon to-day. Many of the most, promi nent Democrats in the State were pres ent. At 12 o’clock Capt. Wm Model land. Chairman of the State Central Committee, called the Convention to order and presented tho list of delegates returned to him and then handed tho Convention over to them. The Hon. Mi. Sfcenger, who, it iuay be rowowbor ed, made a strong speech against tho half million subsidy to the Centennial Exposition, which it, is fair to say has been paid back, is permanent, Chairman of the Convention. Ho said : (tenth:, men of the Convention— Acoept my sin cere thauks for tho honor of being selected to preside over your delibera . *?• 1 congratulate you that we meet with a full representation from every dis trict in the State. There iR one striking fact about tho Democratic party it never dies. Others rise and full' un d come and go with the ideas that, called them into existence, but, the Democratic party lives ou amid all vicissitudes, be cause its principles are those of the Con stitution. It has been defeated, laid out for dead, defrauded [wild applause), but still it lives and our opponents may as well take notioe from its vital ity that while earth lasts, like seed time and harvest, Democratic Conven tions shall not cease. Defrauded, ] say, beoause I am not unmindful of the factjthat while I speak tie chair of Washington and Jefferson is filled by a man rejected by a quarter of a million majority of tho American people aud a decided majority of the electoral votes of the States. The wisdom of the re* cent Democratic policy is being vin dicated byj the Hayes Administration in two points enpeeially. In 1874 a Democratic majority elected to the Lower House of Congress instituted a plan for tho adjustment of pub lic difficulties by applying the policy of economy, retrenchment aud reform. They steadfastly adhered to it, and sixty million dollars were thereby saved to the nation. Every Republican newspa per said the Democratic llouho was orippling the Government, and was cruel to its employes, hut a few days ago tho Financial Secretary of the Hayes Administration goes to Oliio and claims credit for his party hecauso it lias re cently dismissed a thousand employes. It was compelled to do so by the Demo cratic House, and now credit is claimed by the Hayes Administration. The Democratic party urged the removal of tho army from the South. It was felt that peace and prosperity would, come to the Southern States only in this evont, and that business de rangements only then would cease. Tho House stood firm as a 3tono wall against tho proposil on to pay tho troops unless it was oxprcisly stipulated that the army should not be used to sustain bogus State governments. It was u unit for the bill with this included; a unit against it unless it was included, and now Sherman is praising Hayes because he adopted the Democratic policy. An other iustauco of economy, compelled by tho Democratic policy, credit for which is claimed by the Hayes Admin istration, Ido not propose to detain this Convention with an extended speech, but to follow the expe rience of my predecessor, venerable in Democracy if not in years. You sro competent to discharge your duty, and in that way invoke harmony. But whv harmony ? We are the party of law and order, and in ali history there was no grandor spectaclu than that of this great party quietly submitting, for the sake of peace and order and tho prosperity of our free institutions, to the most mon strous political fraud of any ago, for tho act of the Electoral Commission was a foul stain upon our national honor, which all the rains in the sweet heavens cannot wash out. The speech was very frequently inter rupted by applause, and every allusion to tho act of the Electoral Commisaioii was loudly cheered. The Convention adopted the follow ing : The Democratic party of l’enn sylvania, and their delegates in Conven tion assembled, do declare, first, that the induction of Rutherford H. Hayes into the offloe of President, notwith standing tho election of Samuel J. Til den thereto, was a high crime against free government, which has not bjen condoned, and will not ho forgotten Tho same spirit of patriotism whioh for bore contest upon the first offense will, resist and punish any atfcompt at a sec ond. Tho Convention reaffirmed anil adopted the financial resolutions of tho National Democratic platform adopted at St. Louis in IB7G. A NEW UlfK 1C FOR WOMEN. Kneaded and Sharked | roill j, ehll , (y Vigorous Her.iU,. The medical profession has been very good to women. It has given them no end of pleasant medicines anil peculiar operations, and foreign travel, and hap py deaths, and has ilouo all it could to provide anew medical fashion often and ; regularly. There is now a “new light” in the treatment of female valetudina rians, and is has boon flashed forth by a prominent medical man, Dr. 8. Wier Mitchell, in a discourse recently deliv ered by him before tho Medical and Ghirurgical Faculty of Maryland. The Louisville Medical News de scribes this new procedure as absolute rest, with massage or systematic knead ing, and inductive currents. It is not to be used in all oases of disease nor in most, but in snch as this : A woman pallid, feeble and exhausted at the age of thirty-two, the type of a class. Every thing worrid her—to walk, to read, to drive, to sew. She was a woman with a back, and a shawl on her shoulders, and a sofa for a home, and hysterics for a diversion. She had tired ont the doc tors and exhausted tho drug shops, and spas, anil travel, and outlived a nurse or two. The deformity mau had found a spinal curvature, and pnt on a brace ; the specialist had had his tnrn, the quacks had had their share and she wore blue glasses to keep out the bless ings of daylight. She weighed ninety fonr pourds, and had as l uch figure as a hat rack. Because everything elso tired her the doctor pnt her at rest in bed, and made rest absolute, not even permitting her to feed herself. She was fod with milk at brief intervals, but this produced disturbances of her di gestive organs. The doctor began to knead his patient as if he was making sponge for bread, and he filled her with electricity. The consequence was as he had sa.'d, that her appetite and digestion returned. Her nails became pink and the veins in her limbs began to show. She recove;ed. She wont to the doctor thin, sallo.v, ugly and feeble. After numerous doses of the “new light” she went home fat, and well, and vigorous, and handsome. It seems that this re sult awakened the interest of Dame Na ture, for she cried “ Finis coronal opus,” and gave the woman a baby as a com pensation for her lost hysterics. As this patient was a typo of a class, wo men will do well in future to call upon their physicians for the prompt adminis tration of the now cur©. Three Jlen Killed in <reeiivillt; Comity Dur ing ;i Hevuniip Raid. [Special bo Journal of Commerce .] Spartanburg, August 21.—Another re\ anue tragedy occurred at the foot of the mountains in Greenville connty, eight miles from Landrum’s Station. From the best information to be obtain ed, it appears that William Dnrham, a revenue officer, attempted to arrest ono Harrison for illicit distilling. Harrison resisted and was shot by Dnrham. A man named Howard and one named Gosling were the only ones present with Harrison. After Harrison had been shot, they fired upon and killed Dur ham, when Durham’s brother came up ami shot Howard. Dnrham was instant ly killed. W. Harrison and Howard died yesterday.