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Wm IVcdili) Cljrtnude $ Constitutionalist OLD SERIES—VOL. ICII NEW SERIES—VOL. LI. (Ttjromcle anb .Sentinel WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1877. Tub Ohio Prohibitionists claim that they will poll 15,000 Totes this year. They say that they have hitherto acted with the Radical party, bat there is no longer a Radical party to act with, and they are going to act for themselves. October 15th has been fixed as the day for the election in France which is to test tLe power of the Radical and Conservative elements in that country. That the latter will be successful is the wish of all true friends of France and the French. Mb. E. W. Stoughton's North Amer ican Review article, in defense of the eigbt-by-seven commission, brings to mind Judge Jkbe Black’s remark, that “all Btocohton knows about the Con stitution is that under it the President has the power of appointing foreign ministers.” Tub three additional votes discovered for Wigcinton in California give him a mujority of two over his Republican Competitor, Pacheco. It is quite prob able that Mr. Wioointon will be in a Congressional seat in time to cast a vote for the Democratic candidate for Speak er. Hekator Baicnum says however concil iatory the Administration party may be, it is simply breaking up the Republican party. “A President that split his party never has beeu a success in the history of the country. If there was a general election pending I don’t believe the Re publican party would carry six Btates in the Union.” We publish this morning an article on the growth and prosperity of Augus ta, tukon from the Atlanta Constitution. It vas doubtless written by Hon. Evan P. Howell, the editor-in-chief of that paper, who spent a few days here re cently and saw for himself the things whereof he speaks. Augusta thanks him for his kind words. The results of examinations in the In terior Departmental Washington showed that a great many of the applicants for positions were not very well grounded in tho subjects taught in the common schools. The questions in grammar and arithmetic were exceedingly simple; yet they proved stumbling blocks in the way of many. It is said that in some instances college graduates were found lamentably deficient. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has been interviewed at White Bulplier Springs about tho first Bull Run, and said that the troops on both sides were greatly de moralized toward the close of that bat tle, and that he now believed that it would have been better for the South if tho North had won the battle, for in that event the war would probably have en ded there. But tieu. Johnston says \that Gen. Robert E. Lee was always of the opinion that onr differences would never have been settled but by the fearful ordeal through which we have passed. It is announced in the last New York Ledger that anew story, by Professor Wm. Henry Peok, of this city, will be commenced next week. This announce ment will give pleasure to the thousands of tho Ledger’ll readers in the South. Of all the famous writers of the Ledger, Professor Peok has the most culture, the purest style. His plots are com pact, full of interest and of thrilling incidents. Through the whole of his work there is delicious humor, and a knack of character drawing that is sur passed by no writer.— Atlanta Constitu tion. -- i New Orleans desires a shorter route to the sea than that formed by Mr. Erds by deepening the South Pass. It is proposed to dig a ship canal between New Orleans and Barataria bay—an es tuary of the sea that penetrates far into the land on the south coast of Louisi ana. The distanco from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico by this route would be only fifty-eight miles. The cost of digging the canal, it is estimated, would be five million dollars. Neither Gov ernment nor State aid is asked; the ad vocates of the canal solely ask Congress to grant them the right to use the tidal waters of Barataria bay. A remarkable article appears in tho fifth supplement of the Popular Science Monthly, and is likely to muke a gen uine literary sensation. It is writteu by JonN Taylor Innes, and is entitled “The Trial of Jesus Christ,” whose tomb, as Lamartine put it, was the grave of the old world and the cradle of the new. Mr. Innes reviews this most memorable of all trials that the world has ever witnessed, and subjects it and the chief actors therein to the most searching aualysis, and proves that, judged by what students know of the old Hebrew law and its observances, it was .illegal from beginning to end. What have been called the four great rules of Hebrew criminal jurisprudence —“strictness in the accusation, publicity in the discussion, full freedom granted to the accused, and assurance against dangers or errors of testimony”—all these rules were set at naught. Mr. Innes will follow this with a second ar ticle, reviewing the “Trial of Jesus” in the light of the Roman code. The moral of Brigham Young's won derful success in lifting the • blooming Territory of Utah out of a sandy basin and governing its large population so admirably, the Graphic thinks, is not far to seek. Religion was the basis of their life, the [core of their motives and movements. Without the religious ele ment the experiment would have failed utterly. The leader pretended to be a prophet, perhaps thought himself to be one, and his people believed in him im plicitly. Yet this is the age of the al leged eclipse of faith, when the world is said to be losing sight of eternal veri ties and spiritual things, and to be mov ed only by material interests. Brigham Young's success and the ease with whioh he obtained proselytes to his grotesque creed shows plainly that the race is still governed by its emotions and that the religious nature of man is yet stron ger than any other influence for weal or woe. It is noticed that there are more young American men in this country learning trades in the penitentiaries than there are outside of them. The Courier-Journal discovers as the princi pal cause of this that we are educating our young men for gentlemen, and try ing to make lawyers, preachers, doctors and clerks out of material that nature intended for blacksmiths, bricklayers, carpenters, tailors, and other honest trades and callings. It is a mis take, and a big one, to teach boys and girls to believe that to labor is disgraoeful, and that to do nothing for a living is more beooming the society in which they expect to move and have the respect of. There are many men’s sons and daughters who are now being edu cated to play the parts of “leading lady” and “walking gentleman” in the great drama of life, who will land in a poor boose or a penitentiary before they have played their parts and the cartain drops. Go to work! THE INVITATION TO THE PRESID#NT. Yesterday evening the City Council, by a unanimous vote, passed resolutions inviting the President of the United States to come to Augusta during bis visit to the South. There is nothing in the resolutions to which any man could object; there is nothing in them to which any citizen could refuse to sub scribe. The City Council acted wise ly and well, and their action will meet the hearty approval of their constitu ents. We trust that the President may find it convenient to accept the hospi tality which has been tendered. We feel satisfied that he will have no reason to regret his visit. He will be cordially welcomed and will learn more of the true South by mixing with the people than he possibly can from the politi cians. REASON FOR REJOICING. It is stated that Colonel Mosby finds Hayes a very different President to deal with from General Grant. When Grant was in office Mosby, by means of judic ious flattery, succeeded in gaining an in fluence over him which was used for the benefit of Mosby and his friends and to the detriment of the country. He now naturally complains that the old order of things has passed away. A Wash ington correspondent of the Boston Advertiser says that the guerilla inter viewed the President recently. Mosby complained that so far as the appoint ments made in Virginia are concerned, only two classes of persons had beeu recognized by tho present Administra tion; first, men who served in the Union army, and, second, those who fought on the Confederate side, and who have been unyielding in their opposition and denunciation of the Republican party, and who votod for Mr. Tilden at the last election. Mosby represented to the President that twenty thousand ex-Con fedarates in Virginia voted for him at the last election, and that none of these has received any recognition at the hands of the Administration. This fact, he said, was hurting the Administration in Virginia among the men who accept the results of the war in good faith, and were showing their loyalty by standing by and supporting the Republican par ty. Mosby’s statements are the reverse of accurate. Twenty thousand ex Confed erates did not vote for Mr. Hayes in Virginia, or in the whole South, for that matter. Tho whites of the South did not at the last election believe that any good conhl come out of Nazareth and they voted unanimously for the man whom they thought could alone release them from the bondage of the bayonet. They have since discovered that a Re publican can be a patriot and subor dinate partisan feeling to the welfare of his country. Not only will the Presi dent not iDjure his party by declining to follow the advice of Mosby but he will add to his popularity by having nothing to do with this political camp follower who is as wholly without influence as he is ontirely destitute of principle. A HINT TO MERCHANTS. We have several times taken occasion of late to show that the planters of the South will be in better condition this Winter than they have been at any pe riod sinoe the surrender. The reason is obvious. Tho cotton crop has not been raised on credit. The planters have bought very little grain and meat, and, in most instances, have not received any advanoes of money from cotton factors and commission merchants. Asa conse quence they will not be obliged to turn over the entire proceeds of their crop to pay oft - the indebtedness incurred, in its production. Thus, though prices mny be small and the crop large the planter will have more ready cash at his com mand than he has had in many years. The mauner iu which this crop has been produced brings another fact to view which should be seriously considered by cottou factors and commission mer chants. The planters of Georgia and South Carolina will not only have money but they will be independent. Hereto fore the planter obtained advanoes from a certain cotton factor and a certain grocer or commission merchant. He was compelled to send his cotton to that factor for storage and sale, and he was compelled to purchase his supplies from that grocer or commission mer chant. This year this state of affairs no longer exists. The planter will send his cotton to whom he pleases and he will buy bis goods from whom he pleases. Those who wish his custom must seek it; it will not come to them else. The factor or merchant who sits oalmly in his warehouse or counting room and waits for custom to be thrust upon him will not obtain it. He must show the planter that it is to his interest to patronize him. The only means of do ing this in such a way as to make the announcement effective is by advertising in a journal of established influence and extensive circulation. The Chronicle and Constitutionalist offers just such a medium as is needed in one or the other of its editions. It has the combined circulation of the Chronicle and Sen tinel and Constitutionalist, and reaches nearly every planter in Middle and Eastern Georgia, and Western and Central Sonth Carolina. It reaches every person in the section tributary to Angusta. If a factor wishes cotton for sale or storage, if the commission mer chant desires ready sale to paying cus tomers for his goods the best invest ment he can make is to spend a few dol lars in judicious advertising. Though we give advertisers the benefit of the circulation of two newspapers, we charge them but the prioe that would have been demanded by one. The same remarks apply to all merchants. The prospect was never more favorable for a brisk business season. The planters will have a good deal of ready cash and are per- 1 fectlv free from all entangling alliances. I They will seek the best places in making ! purchases, and they will learn where j such places are from the journal which ! they read. Prndent business men will \ make a note of this. A CLOSE STATE. One of the most interesting of the Fall elections, and one concerning the pros pects for which very little is known in this section of the country, is that in Wisconsin. Four tickets will be offered to the voters—Republican, Democratic, Greenback and Prohibition, though very little importance is attached to the last two. While the State has chosen a Democratic Governor bnt once in 22 years, the average Republican majority has been small. Only twioe has it ex ceeded 10,000, and that was in 1863 and 1865, under the influence of the war ex citement. Four years ago the Demo cratic candidate received the support of the Grangers, and was elected by a ma jority of over 15,000. Two years ago the Republicans elected the Governor by 790 majority, the reet of the offi oers chosen belonging to the other par ty. Hayes had only 6,141 plurality over Tilden laat year, and the Cooper ticket also received 1,500 votes. So, it will be seen, there is no large majority for the Republicans to fall back on. If they carry the State this Fall it will be by dint of hard work, and whether the leaders have spirit enough to make a fight remains to be seen. The Granger fever which prevailed four years ego, has been cured, aud those who were af feoted by it have returned to their for mer party associations. But the partial Republican success of 1875 was due wholly to the personal popularity of their candidate for Governor, who se cured more votes from Milwaukee Dem ocrats thau constituted his majority. The German vote, so far as it is a solid force, is believed to be more.inclined to the Republican side than in some past years, though this is by no means cer tain. If the Democrats act with the prndenoe which they have displayed during the past four years we see no reason why Wisconsin should not join the ranks of the Democracy. FitANClft O. TICK NOR, THE LYRIC POET OF GEORGIA. No one acquainted with the poetical literature of the late war, cau have for gotten the noble contributions to it of Dr. Frank O. Ticknor, of Colnmbns, Ga. “The Virginians of the Valley,” aud “Little Giffen,” are alone a ufficient to prove that Dr. Ticknor was a genuine poet, but he has left behind him (for alas ! he died two years ago), a large number of other pieces; almost all of them bearing the stamp of genius; and so admirable both in conception aud ex ecution, that for the honor the State, no less than his own, they ought to be collected and published in book-form. Dr. Ticknor was essentially a Lyrist ! Invariably his thought moulded itself into the lyrical form, and we find in his best, and characteristic verses, a reson ance of metre, and a rhythmio ring (“as itj were, the sounding of some ’silver trumpet”), which fires the blood, and causes the heart to beat a bold, martial measure! Take the following poem, which lias too often been published anonymously, as a brilliant illustration of its author’s power. It refers to the indomitable bravery of our “left wing” at Manassas —the first Manassas—aud is truly as gallant a “war song” as ever was penned, from the ago of Tyrtaius to the time of Walter Scott : “ Onr Left.” From dawn to dark they stood, That long midsummer day, While fiorce and fast The battle blast Swept rank on rank away ! From dawn to dark they fought With legions torn and eleft, While still the wide black battle-tide Poured deadlier on our “Left.” They closed eaoh ghastly gap ! They C- .seed each shattered rank ! They knew (how well) That Freedom fell With that exhausted flank ! “Oh ! for a thousand men, Like these that melt awav !” And down they come With steel and plume Four thousand to the fray ! Right thro’ the blackest cloud Their lightning path they cleft ; And triumph came, With deathless fame To our unconquered “Left !” Ye, of your sons secure, Ye, of your dead bereft, Honor the brave Who died to save Tour all upon our “Left!” I beg my readers to remark the fiery terseness, the concentrated vigor and spirit of this fine lyric. There is not a single unnecessary word, far less an un necessary line in it, from the beginning to the end. And, like all true battle lyrics, it is passionately picturesque. One sees the contending hosts; the flash of arms and the desperate struggle for supremacy; the dust, the turmoil, the desperation, the horror ! And just when all hope seems lost to the feebler party, how like a whirlwind we behold the “four thousand” “rush headlong to the fray !” In a different vein, bnt full of pregnant though homely humor, is TiokNor’s ballad called “ The Old Rifle man.” Nobody, not even the most fu rious of the old Abolitionists, need take offence at this poem now. It has be come a part of the ballad literature of the country; for sectionalism in litera ture is, or at all events ought to be, dead. I don’t see why a Yankee soldier himself should not laugh at the description of “Old Bess’” virtues in the shooting line. Of course, twelve years ago, it was very different. "Bess" might have been considered rather personal in her attentions just then. I quote this spirit ed ballad entire : Tlie Old Rifleman. Now bring me out my buckskin suit, My pouch ami powder, too; We’ll see if seventy-six can shoot As sixteen used to do! Old Bess! we’ve kept our barrel bright, Gur trigger quick and true, As far, if not as fine a sight, As long ago we drew: And pick me out a trusty flint! A real white and blue! Perhaps ’twill win the other tint Before the hunt is through ! Give boys your brass percussion caps, Old “shut-pan" suits as well; There's something in the sparks; perhaps There’s something in the smell ! We’ve seen the red-coat Briton bleed ; The red-skin Indian, too ; We've never thought to draw a bead On Yankee-Doodle-doo! But Bessie!—bless your dear old heart ! Those days are mostly done, And now we must revive the art Of shooting on the run : If Doodle must be meddling, why There's only this to do— Select the black spot in his eye, And let tha daylight through! And if he doesn’t like the way That presents the view, He’ll, may be, change his mind, and stay Where the good Doodles do! As Timrod was par excellence, the war-poet of South Carolina, so was Ticknor the war-poet of Georgia. I would fain remind onr generous-hearted people of what he has done (let me re ; peat) for their fame, quite as much as j his own; and thus inaugurate measures : whereby the intellectual remains of a | versatile, manly, yet tender genius may -be collected and preserved for the bene ! fit of coming generations 1 Ah ! fel ; low-countrymen ! it is an ancient | truth, but how little regarded, that the materialisms of trade, and commerce and finance, are not all that constitute a nation’s glory ! Strengthen your trade prosperity by an alliance with the vitalities of Art. Do not honor exclu sively (as too often you have done hitherto) your great agricultural and railread capitalists, yonr heroes of the loom, the bank, the exchange, bnt re serve a plaoe in yonr esteem and grate ful remembrance for those who have wronght throngh spiritual and mental agencies, and whose words, with due recognition, shall not die ! Paul H. Hayne, The striking Pennsylvania miners are said to be “browsing around in search of food.” By the sweat of their browse must they live. Wonder if General Howard ever read Madam DkStakl’s definition of happi ness—“constant pursuit of, and success ful progress toward, an unattainable ob ject.” A man named Coffin has failed in New York, and now realizes that the as sertion that life is a grave business is merely hearse say. His failure “is his own funeral.” AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1577. WILL HE COME f At the meeting of the City Council, held Monday evening, resolutions were passed by a unanimous vote recognizing the patriotic manner in which President Hayes has administered the affairs of government since his inauguration, and extending to him a cordial invitation to come to Augusta during his Southern tour. As we have said before, the course of the City Council will give general satisfaction and be heartily endorsed. If the President shall come he will meet with a most cordial reception. Will he come V It is stated that he will leave Washington in a few days for Ohio, where he will attend a Soldiers’ Re union. From Ohio he will go to Ken tucky, having accepted an invitation to attend the opening of the Industrial Ex position in Louisville. From Louisville he will go to Nashville, and from Nash ville to Chattanooga. He has consented ts attend the State Fair of Virginia, at Richmond, aud it has heretofore been stated that he would go to Richmond from Chattanooga via Lynchburg. By taking this route he would see little of the South proper—of the cotton States nothing at all. If he accepts the invita tion extended by Augusta, and returns to Washington by the coast route, he will pass entirely through four of the leading Southern States—Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, two of these large producers of cotton. We hope that these reasons may induce the President to accept the hospitality which has been tendered him. His visit, we know, will be pleasant and profitable. He will see the country and he will meet the people, and will make himself better qualified for the treatment of Southern affairs. HYPERCRITICAL. The Cincinnati Gazette has for some time been endeavoring to find a flaw in the new Constitution of Georgia, an instrument which has met with such general acceptance at home, and with such warm commendation abroad. The Gazette thicks its labors have at last been rewarded with success ; There is an ambiguity in the anti-slavery pro vision of the proposed new Constitution of Georgia. It says: " There shall bo within the State cf Georgia neither slavery nor invol untary servitude, save as a punishment for crime after a legal conviction thereof.” If the man who drew up the section was honest, he intended to make “involuntary servitude” the punishment for crime, bnt he explained him self very clumsily. As the section stands, it is quite possible that criminals could be reduced to actual slavoiy, and their labor and care be intrusted to a private citizen. The colored voters, who are most likely to bo affected by bucli legislation, will do well to vote against the adoption of the provision. We beg the Gazette to dismiss its fears for the safety of the “poor negro.” The new Constitution does not seek to re-establish slavery in Georgia, even as a punishment for crime. The section whioh so alarms the Gazette is a copy verbatim et literatim of the section on the same subject in the present Consti tution which was framed by men the majority of whom were colored, and nine-tenths of whom were Republicans. It has been the law for nine years and has not had the effect of re-establishing slavery. Perhaps the language is a little clumsy, but so long as people under stand what it means no harm is done. No one in Georgia wishes to enslave col ored men who have been convicted of crime, and people here have sense enough to know that a colored convict cannot be treated differently from a white criminal. The new Constitution affords full and complete protection to colored men—just the same protection that is afforded white men—and when the day of election arrives, the Gazelle will see whites and blacks voting for its adoption. THE LATE RAILWAY STRIKES. Col. Thomas A. Scott, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is the author of an article in the current number of the North American Review, which deals with the “Recent Strikes,” and the means of preventing violent demonstra tions against property. In the opinion of Col. Scott, the late troubles on the railroads in fourteen States of the Union are not unlikely to be followed by others of an even more serious character, espe cially as tho lawless element of the com munity have now, for the first time in American history, become aware of the power of an organized mob to terrorize law-abiding citizens. The Colonel takes occasion to vindicate the Pennsylvania Company from the imputation of having oppressed its employes, or managing its affairs in such a way as to imperil the interests of labor in any respect. It re duced its rates of interest before cutting down wages, kept more men employed than it really needed, and lowered tba charges for transportation upon material affecting manufacturing industries, so as to aid enterprises upon which the poor depend for their livelihood. In Col. Scott's opinion it is the duty of employers to keep as many men at work as they can. Asa rule, the laboring class cannot be expected to accumulate mueh in the way of savings, and capital is bound to care for them. From an ex perience of 30 years as a railroad man the Colonel is led ttfbelieve “that the “managers of American railways in gen “eral may fearlessly appeal to their past “relations with the faithful among their “employes, to prove that they at least “have always endeavored to treat the “interests of employers and employed “as identical, and have never failed to “take into prompt and respectful con “sideration every grievance which has “been fairly and properly presented to “them.” And he adds ; “I am snrethat “it has been the purpose of the compa “ny with which I $m connected to at all “times pay its employes the best com “pensation that the business of the “country would warrant ; and I have no “doubt that this will be the policy of “the company for all future time, as it “is founded on sound business prin “ciples no less than upon the instincts “of humanity.” But in spite of all this, granting its truth, the strikes took place, with disas trous effects to every material interest of the country, that of labor suffering most of all; and as such movements are sel dom if ever founded upon reason, it is not improbable that there will be similar | disturbances in future. The question is how to prevent them from assuming ! forms of violence dangerous to the pub lic welfare. So far as the railroads are ooncemed, Col. Scott is of opinion that the Federal Government may and should of right interfere for their pro tection against mob violence. This au thority is supposed to be derived from that clause of the Constitution of the United States which gives Congress power “to regulate commerce with for “ eign nations, and among the several “ States, and with the Indian tribes," Col. Scott forcibly illostrates the inade quacy of the means at the disposal of the States for the maintenance of law and order when extensive disorders oc cur, as during the great railroad strikes. He says: “The present regulations all favor, unintentionally, the rioters and the mob.” Thns : In the first place, the Mayor of a city most exhaust his power, the sheriff of the county must essay his strength ; then, while precious time is expending—for a mob constantly at tracts dangerous elements, and grows with impunity and success —the Governor of the | State must be called upon by the sheriff of a i county. If the State happens to have an effec tive military organization, which at the pres ent time is the case in perhaps not more than five out of the thirty-seven States of the Union, the Governor can call out the military forces and suppress the riot. If the State has no such organization, or if the military forces of the State prove inadequate to the emergen cy, the Governor is paralyzed and must call upon the United States for assistance. If the authorities of any State should for any cause fail or refuse to call upon the United States Government, what possible remedy or protec tion is left to life and property within the limits of that Commonwealth ? All these features of diliatoriuess and weakness have been made apparent with in a few weeks past, and it does seem as if there ought to be a remedy some where. Those railroads only which are bankrupt and under the management of receivers appointed by United States Courts could receive protection from Federal troops promptly. The traffic of solvent companies was in most in stances left to the mercy of the mobs. Col. Soott remarks with great appear ance of justice : It will hardly be contended that the railway companies must become bankrupt in order to make secure the uninterrupted movement of traflic over their lines, or to entitle them to the efficient protection of the United States Government. If a bondholder or other ci edi tor is entitled to the protection of the Federal Courts to prevent the threatened impairment of the value of a property through legal pro ceedings, he certainly should not be left with out remedy against lawless violence which has actually destroyed the security for his invest ment, and has, as at Pittsburg, converted mil lions of dollars into scrap iron and ashes. Tho laws which give the Federal Courts the summary process of iujuiction to restrain so comparatively trifling a wrong as an infringe ment of a patent right certainly must have beeu intended or ought to give the United States authority to prevent a wrong-doing which not only destroys a particular road, but also paralyzes the entire commerce of the country and wastes the national wealth. The Governor of Wyoming Territory has issued a proclamation for tho elec tion of members of the Territorial Leg islature, September 11. The women vote in that Territory. TIIE CROP PROSPECT. Condition of Ihe Crops In Edgefield Comity, South Parolinn. [Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist .| Elmwood, S. C., August 31.— The weather eoatinues oppretsively warm, the mercury rang ng as high as any time during the season. The rains have continued partially through the county since my last letter to you, some two weeks ago, a sufficiency to keep all pro du< e from snfl'iring, especially cotton, which continues to grow slowly and ma ture well. Very little shedding or drop ping of the young bolls or forms lias ta ken place the present season, in fact less than for many years past, and while the stalk is small, it is well filled with bolls and forms, and in many localities it is beginning to open fast under the hot sun we have at this time. Should this weather continue dry and hot through the coming month of September much cotton will be gathered of fine quality and sent to market. Many planters are neirly dole gathering their fodder, while others who have much late corn have not touched it as yet, but much good fodder has been housed. The corn crop will not p?ovo as good as last year’s crop, but a sufficiency will be made for all purposes, b. lides there is more old corn in the oojnty now than has been sinoe the war. The pea, potato and cane crop, for syrup, all promise well for a good yield. Of the latter there is more planted than there has been in several years, and many are learning the mode of making excellent syrup out of this cane, nearly equal to the New Orleans syrup. Seneo. TALIAFERRO COUNTY. Court Week In Crawfordville—The New Con- Htltution. | Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist .] Crawfordville, Ga., September 3. The regular August term of Taliaferro Superior Court, held last week, was not a very interesting one. There were law yers enough on hand to transact any quantity of business, but unfortunately for them the business was not there to be transacted. lam not sure this is a hopeful sign, even for the non-profes sionals. It rather indicates a stagna tion in prosperity and progress than a lack of disposition to litigate. If the times were better our legal friends would have more to do, I observed present the following gentlemen : From Wash ington, Messrs. S. H. Hardeman, John C. Reed, W. M. dims, F. H. Colley and W. M. and M. P. Reese ; from Sparta, Messrs. Geo. F. Pierce, J. A. Harley and Solicitor-General Seaborn Reese ; from Lexington, Mr. Samuel Lump kin ; from Greenesboro, Messrs. M. W. Lewis and E. C. Kiunebrew; from Warrenton, Mr. C. S. Dnßose ; from Union Point, Messrs. W. W. Lumpkin and W. O. Mitchell. Mr. J. W. Hixon, a member of the Bar of Tennessee, was admitted after an exami nation iu open Court. A small number of civil cases were disposed of and several criminal cases. The principal theme of conversation was the new Con stitution. All the attorneys seem to be in favor of it. Judge W. M. Reese and Mr. George F. Pieroe made able speeches in support of it. It it my opinion that a very large majority of our people will vote for rat ification; that Atlanta will receive a good majority over Milledgeville, and that the vote on the homestead will be close, with probably a majority for tho “Homestead of 1877.” Mr. Stephens thinks the Constitution will be ratified in the State by 60,000 majority. The principal opposition to the Constitution seems to come from officeholders. Probably their opinions are affected by personal considerations. It does not matter much whether they are or not, the people are going to think and act for themselves in this mat ter without fear, favor or affection. We will soon be living under a gov ernment of our own making,and for this we are indebted much to the manly and patriotic course of the Chronicle and Constitutionalist. Long may you wave. Homespun. BRIGHAM YOUNG'S ESTATE. The Fortum* Lett by the Great Leader of the l.atter Day Saints—Curious Clauses In His Will. [Salt Lake Dispatch to the Chicago Times.] The estate of Brigham Young is esti mated at from 86,000,000 to 87,000,000, but it would be difficult to put any ap proximate valne upon it, as it is very widely scattered. He owns large tracts of real estate in many of the settlements, and mills, buildings, live stock and a great variety of improvements. He owns nearly all the stock in the street railroads in this city, and large amounts of Utah Central and Utah Southern Railroad bonds, is a large owner in the Deseret Bank, the Deseret Telegraph Company, the controlling proprietor'of the great Zion’s Co-operative Mercantile Institution, etc. In Ann Eliza’s bill for divorce she estimated his monthly in come at $60,000, which he denied in his reply, and stated that his monthly in come would not exceed 86,000. He had already distributed a considerable amount of property among his children, and as he was very punctilious in regard to his affairs, it is probable that his will has been drawn to preclude, if possible, any legal complications. Through life he was averse to lawyers and the seltle tlement of dispntes through the Courts. It is doubtful whether it will be possi ble to avoid complications and law suits in the settlement of this vast estate, and it is more than likely that the lawyers may have many a fat fee before the will is disposed of. A clause iu the will directs that Brig ham shall be buried iu a rosewood coffin three inches wider than his body, so that if he had a disposition to turn over he might do so; that he be laid ou a cot ton mattress; that his body be borne to the grave on a bier, and be buried in a stone vault, a stone slab to be placed over the top. He requests that none of the male members of the family should wear crape or emblems of mourning, and that the females should not pur chase mourning dresses, though they might wear snob if they had them. Four brothers in Illinois have got rich by drawing houses. One is a house mover, one an architect, one an actor, and one had lucky tickets in a real es tate lottery. SAD SCENES. The Duped Depoultsrs of the Illinois Slate Savings Bank. The Chicago Tribune contains pen pictures of the scene outside the build ing of the failed bank after the news had reached the depositors. Says the Tribune : The sidewalk in front of the State Savings Institution presented, as early as 7 o’clock yesterday morning, a scene wholly unusual at such or any other hour. Men and women, boys and girls, some apparently well-to-do, and others with the signs of poverty depict ed on their pinched, wan faces, and their mean, well-worn, threadbare gar ments were there; some of them modest and sad, more of them brawling and mad. Here was a poor woman who took in washing. In her hand she carried a pass-book wrapped in a dirty handker chief. With her pass-book—the title to wealth stowed away in the vaults—she pressed forward aud sought to gain what satisfaction she could out of a fat police man standing on guard at the door and keeping out all outsiders, except those who had keys to the safety-deposit boxes. She didn’t get the satisfaction she wanted, and had to fall back. Then a man whose clothes seemed to say he had seen better times, camo up and re cited his griefs to those around him. He had managed to save $1,200 in gold, he said, when he was out in California, had put it in that bank, and now it was all gone. And here were these bank offi cers going soot free. Why, if he’d sto len a loaf of bread, he’d been jugged for it. And his voice grew thick, his tones more angry aud excited, and it is more thau probable that the tears would have flowed had not a burly Irishman behind him, in a red checked flannel shirt put a damper on him by singing out: “Oh, you needn’t talk; there’s many poorer’n you as has lost every cent they had. We’re all in the same boat.” A newspa per man, as he contemplated the loss of his careful savings, muttered: “Wouldn’t I like to set a Hioux Indian, that had been fed on raw beef about two months, on that d—d old reprobate Spencer.” “Wish we had him here,” said a rough looking workingman, who had overheard a knot of men talking about Spencer and his absence in New York, “we’d fix him on the nearest lamp post, the Clark street told the reporter that he aud his mother had managed to put away $4,000 for a home aud to keep them during a rainy day. It was all they had, and now they would have to begin over again. Two Irishmen, who have been taking care of gentlemen’s horses down on Wabash avenue and doing any odd jobs they could get, said they had saved $2,000 between them, and now the sav ings of 27 years were all cleaned out. An old German walked up to the door and demanded to see the cashier. When in formed that that gentleman was not around, the old fellow started out on a fierce tirade against the bank officers, telling the crowd he had been working for years, and bad saved up a little mouey, but now be supposed he’d have to start again. “Never mind,” said he, “I’ll be rich in ten years, aud it’d be all right.” In closing his harangue, he sar castically advised liis willing hearers to take a piece of the bank’s doors, or the stone walls, home with them to feed their wives and children on. At a later hour iu the day a little old woman, poorly clad, but of respeotable ap pearance, her features sharp and thin, her eyes suopping fire, and arms flourish ing a very dangerous-looking umbrella, bitterly denounced the bank officers for what they had brought upon her. “I had my last dollar in the world here,” said she, “and those sharks have ruined me. Talk about mobs! Why don’t you mob the rich men’s houses, the castles of those who rob the poor, in stead of fighting and killing each other? Oh, God 1 is there no mercy, no pity for the poor? Must we grow poorer that they may become richer ?” There were murmurs in the crowd of “You’re right, mum,” but, for the most part, the losers and curiosity mongers looked stolidly on, realizing that denunciation would do no good, and that the only thing to do was to wait and see what the assignee could get out of the wreck. THE NWAIir ANGEL. Tlie RenmrUnble Battery That Threw shot luto Charleston Five Miles Away. [ General Davis in Philadelphia Times ] At this period sprang into existence a battery built in the marsh between Mor ris and James Islands, which has become famous as the “ Swamp Angel,” and as such will go down to history. Its con struction was early determined upon, and the suggestion, we believe, was that of Colonel Serjell, commanding the New York Volunteer Engineers. It was expected that shells thrown from it would reach the city and probably cause the enemy to evacuate. The spot chosen was almost a mile from Morris Island, and nearly on a line between what were known as the “ left batteries” and Charleston, on the edge of a steep creek that served as a wet ditoh. On recon noitering the locality it was found that a pole could be run down sixteen feet anywhere thereabouts before coming to bottom. The active part of the work was assigned to a lieutenant of en gineers who, when shown where the bat tery was to be built, pronounced the thing impracticable. The Colonel re plied that the project was practicable, and the battery must be built on the spot selected. The officer was directed to call for anything he might deem necessary for the work. The next day he made a requisition on the quarter master for 100 men eighteen feet high, to wade through mud sixteen feet deep, and immediately called on the sur geon of his regiment and inquired if he could splice the men if furnish ed. This piece of pleasantry cost the lieutenant his arrest, and the battery was built by men of ordinary stature. A heavy foundation of pine logs was laid in the mud, on which the battery was built entirely of sand bags. The timber was hauled several miles from Folly Is land. The bags were filled with sand on the island and taken to tpe battery in boats. AH the work was done at night, for the eyes of a watchful enemy were upon all our movements. They knew we were at some mischief so far out on the marsh, bnt did not realize the truth until they looked across one bright morning and saw that, like Jonah’s gourd, a battery bad grown up in the night. It was commenced on the 4th and completed on the 19th of Au gust. The sand bags cost $5,000. The battery was mounted with a two hun dred pounder Parrott, and great labor was required to put it in position. It was hauled to the edge of the marsh, where it was embarked on a raft to the creek, and thns floated down to the bat tery. The distance from L harleston was 8,000 yards, and the gun was fired at an elevation of 34°. The strain on it was such that it burst at the thirty-fourth discharge. The “Greek fire,” of which so much was said, was the greatest hum bug of the war. NotbiDg of the kind was used during the siege, Thuee shells filled with pieces of port-fire were fired into the city of Charleston; bnt every thing beyond this was due to the fancy of newspaper correspondents. The dis tinctive name of “Swamp Angel” is said to have been suggested by Sergeant fel ler, of the New fork Yolnnteer Engi neers. THE GALLOWB IN EDGEFIELD. Execution of Cush Harris for Murder. [Special Dispatch to the News and Courier.] Graniteville, September I.— Cush Harris, the negro who brutally murder ed Mr. Holloway last Spring, was hung in an old field near Edgefield Court House yesterday. Two local militia companies attended as a guard. Harris showed little emotion while going to his death, and made a speech to those present, holding np his fate as a warn ing, and advocating his confidence of salvation. Although a large crowd was in attendance, all passed off quietly. A Remarkable Double Suicide—A Cano of Despair. A young mau of twenty-one named Boyer, lately drawn in the army con scription at Beaune, in France, was in despair at the thought of beiDg separat ed for five years from a young sewing girl to whom he was betrothed, and re tired with her to Verjos, on the river Saone, where they agreed to drown themselves. With his cravat he tied her right arm to his left, her left arm being thrown around his neck over his right shoulder. The handkerchiefs of each were then linked together and tied round the bodies of both. They walked steadily toward the centre of the stream until the rapid current carried them away, and their bodies were found, still enlaced, at some distance below. A GREAT FRENCH HANBLEK. How He Repented of Hi. Sins nnd tlie No bility Attended HU Funeral. [iMndon Truth ] Blanc, of Monaco, Las left 1,000,000 francs to the Church of St. Roch, 400,- 000 francs to the poor of the first arron disement, 500,000 francs to the infirm priests of the Maria Theresa Asylum, and 100,000 francs to the chapel of the Ro quette Prison, where criminals under the sentence of death hear mass for the last time. He had the virtue to confess that it was by God’s own mercy he never passed through that place of worship. It was his intention, if he died in Paris, to have been attended by the Abbe Crozes, chaplain of La Roquette, who attends assassins to the scaffold, and gives them a parting embraco before M. de Paris and liis aids strap them to the swivel board of the guillotine. His for tune in France and on the Riviera comes to 88,000,000 francs. The legacy duty of his Swiss estates amounts to some thing over 200,000 francs. If Blanc had been the Duke of Well ington he could not have been buried with more solemn state. I went back to St. Roch to see his obsequies. Mother Church did all that lay in her for the re pose of his soul and the consolation of liis family. Within and without, St. Liooh was hung from base to summit with black cloth faced with silver, and the high flight of steps leading to the portal was covered with a sable carpet. Daylight was carefully exaluded from the interior. An infinity of wax tapers blazed on the high altars and in cande labra. The olfactory nerve was op pressed with inoense, the burning of which sent up from silver braziers green flames. Priests and deacons in funeral vestments knelt in close rows on the steps of the high altar, and others, also on their knees, formed a dense square, of which a short broad coffin, placed on a well-draped platform, formed the oentre. The music was not the least part of the obituary pomp with which Blanc’s remains were sent to the grave. St. Roch boasts of the best organ, or guuist and choral service in Paris, and it admits readily female singers to per form at its dead masses. An irreverent crowd filled the aisles. I thought I re cognized there, in seedy, prematurely aged and broken down men and women, persons I had seen some years ago at Monaoo, possessed by the demon of gambling. The nave was occupied by their family and their friends, whom it was scarcely large enough to hold. One saw there the people one would ex pect to meet at the Foreign Office routs. They were gathered from all civilized lauds, and, 1 am sorry to say, belonged to the governing class of their respective countries. The cosmopolitan aristocra cy in the navo had no reward for put ting on the black, and wearing a long face. Ido not like to think it was led there by the stupid admiration with which mortals of the baser sort are prone to regard those who do well unto them selves, even though it were done by keeping a couple of gambling houses going. It gives me greater pleasure to assign a more intelligent, if not more lofty motive, to the distinguished gen tlemeh and ladies who sought to install themselves in foremost places at the funeral mass. Blanc’s four unmarried children are the greatest catches going in the matrimonial market, and they are determined to marry into none but the noblest houses in Europe. A REPORTER’S REVl'Npg. [Chicago Tribune.\ Once upon a time there was a reporter whose life was made a burden to him by the ceaseless persecutions of an Italian Marchese, who kept a peanut stand on Clark street. Whenever the reporter chanced tp pass, the pativp of sunny Italy would insist upon selling him some nice fresh peanuts, and as the reporter was bilious and dyspeptic, besides being high-toned to a degree, this annoyed him. One day, as the reporter was walking down Clark street with the daughter of a millionaire, who was des perately in love with him, the Marchese addressed him the usual question, and when the reporter passed by haughtily, added: “Hi-a, cully, when-a you-a pay me zose vife scudi, hem ?” The reporter went to the olfice and took an oath on the assignment book te he avenged—to be fearfully avenged—and then wrote an item headed “A City Romance,” in which he stated that the Marchose was an eccentric Roman Prince, who had given all his estates to tho church in penitence for murdering his brother, who was his rival in the affec tions of a beautiful Countess, qnd that by economy, and specula tions in suburban lots, he bad accumu lated a fortune of nearly $300,000 in Chicago. Then he smiled a fiendish smile, and induced the city editor to give it a big display head, and went on bis way rejoicing. That poor Italian never knew what ruined him. When fie got to bis ucpUStQmefi Station next morning, there were about two hundred men wait ing for him to borrow money of him on ample seourity at ten per oent. a month; to get. him to become a partner with $650 in a well-established business that would pay $26,000 a year, if the addi tional capital coqld only he secured; to sell him some Olaumet real estate; to get him to endow a theological chair in the Oshkosh Cosmopolitan University; to sell him a trotting' horse that could show 2:64 every day of the woek (price $450), and for various other purposes. His knowledge of English was very im perfect, and he was an excitable man; and when the eleventh speculator came up and asked him to lend him $15,000 to start an oleomargarine quarry, ho blaoked his eye, and in the oonfnsion that arose his portable stove was sacked and the peanuts scattered to the winds of heaven. The police restored older, and then he was notified that if he persisted in col lecting such crowds arouud him and be coming a public nuisance his license would bo revoked. Then the collectors for charitable and religious soaieties be gan to besiege him, and while he was driving them away with a club his last lot of peanuts burned. Then a delega tion from the Chicago Commune visited him, and when he refused to divide—ac cording to the principlca of liberty, Fraternity and Equality—fell upon him as a traitor, aDfl mashed him as fiat rh several pancakes. After the police sur geon had sewed cm his ear, and stitched his nose together, the Marchese started for home, wheeling his cart, which had only half a shaft and one wheel left, and surrounded by a heavy of anxious moth ers who wanted to secure him and his title and his $300,000 for their daugh ters. After a while he placed himself under protection of the police, aud about 10 o’clock the coast was suffi ciently clear for him to venture out. When he had nearly reached home, he was sand-bagged and gone through by a highwayman, who had tracked him all day, and who, when he had only found two nickels and a door key on the Marchese, sand-hagged him till he was hlack and blue and sore all over. After lying senseless a while he man aged to crawl to his lonely hovel, and found that a gang of enterprising bur glars had already been there aqc| tore up the floors, and ripped up the bed, and smashed up the furniture, and dug up the chimney with pick axes, look ing for his $300,000. The poor Italian had merely strength enough to crawl to the river and pitch himself in, and as the reporter was going home about 2, a. m., and saw the splintered pea nut cart he knew that his vengeance was complete, and hurrying back to the office, put a little item in the " Per sonals” to say that the Italian March ese and millionaire, whose wealth had been described the day befoje, had purchased a palatial residence at Na ples, and left Chicago the evening be fore to occupy it and spend the rem nant of his days in opulence. Such was the reporter’s vengeance. •Sweet Peiq.li pickle,. Take f pounds of peaches, 3 pounds of granulated sagar, 1 quart of pure ei der vinegar, 1 teaspoonful each of pow dered cloves and cinnamon, i of a nut meg grated. Scald and skin the peach es. A dip into boiling water will scald them sufficiently. When prepared, place them on a large dish and sprinkle the sugar very thoroughly over them. Let them remain several hoars; the sugar will harden the frnit. Put the vinegar in a pcrcelain kettle, with the spices tied up in a cloth; let it boil, then pour in the peaches and syrnp; let it simmer until they are all heated through, Boald again on the second and seventh days. Then tie up and put away in a cold place for Winter use. Robert Howell, of the grain house of De Pay k Howell, of Philadelphia, com mitted suicide by jnmping into the Schuylkill river. He was just recover ing from typhoid fever. $2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID DEATH OF THIERS. THE FRENCH NATION IN MOURN INS. The I.ast Hoars ol a Great Alan—His De mise Unexpected—Uriel ol tlie People—Pre parations for the Funeral—Gnmbelta Willi out n Rival. London, September 4. — The an nouncement of the death of M. Theirs is confirmed. His death was caused by apoplexy and his sufferings were appa rently slight. The attack which carried off ex-Presi dent Thiers was what is called iu Franco apoplexie fondrogantc. He was appa rently in good health in the morning and took liis usual walk. After luncheon he felt symptoms of illness which speedi ly developed in an apoplectic fit. Ha remained unconscious and died ot six o’clock, apparently without, pain. No event short of a coup d'etat or a Com munist rising could have created so pro found an impression thonglumt Frauee as will this. Its effect on the present political crisis cannot yet bo properly weighed. M. Gambetta is now without a rival in the Republican party, but bis advanced views are so alarming to tho Left Centre that the Republican par y, as a whole, will probably seek to cor i teraot the evil effocts of M. Thiers’ re moval by putting forward M. Grevy, ox t’resident of the Chamber of Deputies, as a candidate for the succession to the Presidency in the event of President MacMahon’s retirement. London, September 4. - A special dis patch from Paris to tho Standard says : “It would be impossible to convey an idea of the grief and consternation which prevails at the death of M. Thiers. This morning tho news spread like wild fire, and oven at an early hour, although the weather was very inclomont, tho streets were filled with people in great excitement. Some were actu ally shedding tears, and all wero giv ing vent to feelings of grief and apprehension, the death of Thiers, just, now, being regarded by all as a national calamity. Tho deceased statesman had been staying during the last few weeks at the Pavilion Henri Qnatre, at St. Germain En Laye, and had caught a slight cold, but nothing led to an an ticipation of the sudden termination of his eventful career. Paris, September 4.— Ex-President Thiers arose early on Monday and work ed until 7:30 o’clock, when he went for an hour’s walk on the terrace. Ho af terwards wrote until noon. At noon he took luncheon with appetite hut towards the end of the repast he stammered out a few words, his mouth contracted, his eyes became covered with a film aud ho was carried to bed. The physicians ordered mustard plasters and leeches. M. Thiers did not appear entirely aware of his danger. Prostration was com plete after twenty minutes had elapsed. The Temps says that MaoMahon, who was at Mount Brisou, upon being in formed of tho death of Thiers, immedi ately telegraphed to Paris to summon the Cabinet Council to arrange for sol emnizing the fune-al with the greatest pomp. The Temps adds : “President MaoMahon thinks that in tho presence of such a lose to the country, all divis ions should, for the time, disappear, in order, by a great national demonstra tion, to pay honor to one who has ren dered such great services to France. Tlie Moniteur announces that President MacMahon sent a telegram of condo lence to Madam Theirs, aud that the Official Journal will publish to rnorro v a decree announcing that the expenses of the funeral will be borne by the State. It is believed that the corpse will be interred in the. Invalides, The whole Republican press expresses pro found and siqceve sorrow. Private tele grams from the provinces show that M. Thiers' death is regarded throughout the country as a national calamity.” TEARS OVER THIERS. The Demi StalCHinnii of Tlie lial anee Wheel of Ht'enlilieiinielli Cciineo to Move-AVimi Will De tlie Ellecl t— llow the Nyw M Received. PABm, September s.—MacMahon will attend Thiers' funeral, at L’Hotel d’ln valides, Saturday, Bebian, September 5. —Thiers’ death has produoed a deep impression. New difficulties are apprehended. Pabis, September s.—The Bourse was quite animated, aud seemed, in some way or other, to regard the sad event as tending to clear the political atmos phere. London, September s.—The English press generally think that to the Repub licans M. Thiers’ death is terrible. It is not a light matter that, the Republi can policy, instead of being represented by Thiers’ mature wisdom, should be dependent upon tho eager temper of Gambetta, who is now without a serious rival. The Official Journal publishes a de cree by President MacMahon, ordering a State funeral for M. Thiors. M. Gambetta has been summoned to appear before the Jfudgo dTustruction on the lltli just BRISKER TIMES IN SIGHT. A Most Encouraging Oii>lmW lur ilic Autumn Trade—Wesierii uad Southern Merchants Ago.in in the Hotels—Where Unmet-Hog* Aif© WHvoiiinUA Revival of >luimfnct,wrc iw. Newark. [New York Sun.\ The most oareless observer cannot but have noticed in tho past few days an un usual number of strange faces in the streets. Long lines of pedestrians, with carpet-bags, have served as unerring guides to tho railroad depots, the steam boat landings and the ferry slips. In the daytime the wholesale business houses have been besieged; and in the evening the hotel entrances have pre sented an uncommonly busy appear ance. while tho lobbies have been crowd ed with restless throngs of strangers. This inroad of people from abroad is tho first evidence of the return of better times. It means that business is reviv ing; that the flattering prospect of such crops in the South and West as have not been known for many years has embold ened Southern and Western merchants to venture again into the marts of trade so long deserted. The best proof of the change that seems to be approaching is the increased patronage of the hotels. Asa rtilo, the down-town caravansaries are crowded to their utmost capacity. Tho Astor House, French's, Leggett’s, Sweeny’s Earle’s, the Belmont, the United States, the Stevens House, and the hotels on Coit landt street arc in most eases fairly over run with guests. The same is true of the Cosmopolitan, the Occidental, aud a number of smaller and less widely known houses somewhat removed from the business centre. The St. Nicholas, the Grand Central, tho Metropolitan, and the Fifth Avenue have received large numbers of guests every day for a w'eek, and these are, for the most part, retail merchants from the South and West. Such hotels as the New Fork, the St. Denis, the Gilsoy, the Windsor, the Sturdeyqut, the Coleman, and the Ever ett are filling up mainly with people re turning from their Summer's pleasure taking at the seaside while the Bre voort, the Clarendon, the Buckingham, the Rcssmore, and other hotels little patronized by guests show but the or dinary increase of custom. The trade outlook in Newark, which is the third manufacturing city in Amer ica, is encouraging. Customers from the South are sending in large orders for all kinds of goods, and the manu facturers are confident that Newark will soon have a more extensive Southern trade than she had before the war, The Western and Eastern dealers are also or dering largely, particularly the latter. The principal call is for low-priced goods. The Clark thread works have 1,303 hands on full time, and some of the female operatives make from $8 to sll a week. The saddlery, harness, Ac., trade is better than it has been for four years, The Peters A Calhoun Company are running extra men on fnll time, and have orders ahead for several weeks. The boot and shoe firms have all pnt on extra hands in order to meet the South ern and Western demand for goods. Dealers purchase in small quanties, but they order frequently. The trunk manu facturers say their business is picking np. The hatting business looks more favorable. Dealers are able to supply hats selling from $1 to $3 each at least 33J per oent. cheaper than before 1 The Count de X., possessing an im mense fortune, becomes smitten with a young girl who has no marriage portion. Yielding to the solicitations of his fami ly, he tries to cure himself of his incli nation. He makes several voyages with a view to forget his idol, but without success. “At last,” exclaimed he, “I must marry her if I wish to stop loving her,” —Paris Charivari, A RICH AND PROGRESSIVE CITY. | Wbnt An Atlanta Editor linn io Say of An. gmla. {Atlanta Constitution .] A stranger driving through the cilv of Augusta will be astonished at the won derful evidences of thrift ami progress that he finds presented on every side. Augusta has long been famous as a staid and wealthy city—prosperous in all that she turned her hands to, but not much given to troubling herself to hurry on ward. Her merchants did a safe but not sn.rp * BIII 3 business, her mills and factories hummed along lazily, and her greet capitalists drank their c’aret, aud entertained their friends wLu an easy grace, and the serenity that comes trom contentful leisure. Of late years, however, Augusta has been seized with the spirit of enterprise. Maintaining her proverbial prudence in business, she lias nevertheless managed a growth that challenges the admiration of the country. Hugo blocks of new buildings have been erected, a canal with meas ureless w .ter power has been finished, a f * nber of factories, the largest and ii osfc successful in tlio South, have been built. She lias established flouring mills that are famed from St. Louis to bt. Augustine; she has extended her tr.:de, improved her connections. Her immense capital, heretofore largely idle, has boen put into active circulation, and it is easy to see that her future must be grand and glorious. It is certain that un ess the sister cities strain every uerve and watoh every point, slio will outstrip them all. 1 We shall hardly bo charged with boasting, when wo say that much of Augusta’s prosperity is'due to the fact that she has caught some of Atlanta’s audacious and progressive spirit—and pardon us for remarking it—some of Atlanta s “brag.” There are few stran gers that enter her gates, that are not courteously shown through the city, and called upon to note every improve ment that is under way, or iu contem plation. Beyond this, her people mani fest an abundant anti gracious hospitali ty that wins the hearts of all comers. Atlanta sends her sister city greetings anil congratulations. She is rejoiced at her prosperity, and will hail with pleasure every step she takes towards that goal, which is our mutual aspira tion. Oue thing cannot be charged against our people—they aie not en vious. We can rejoice (4 the prosperity of a neighboring city; and next to llio inhabitants of Augusta, no people wilt be prouder of this gtand manufaetnrin; city than the people of Atlanta. EVANGEI.INK REPEATED, A French Girl Who I.ost Her Rover, anil Fol lowed Him Around a lonlinent. [New York World. \ The story of Evangeline is repeated with wonderful fidelity in all its details in the experience of a young French girl, a resident of Marseilles. She was engaged to a sailor, to whom she was lo he married on his return from a voyage to New York. He did not return, and after a year she got a berth as steward ess’ assistant on one of tho Havre steamers, to come here in search of him. On the passage a rich American lady be came interested in her story, and resolv ed to help her find out her lover. In New York she learned that he had gone to Canada. For mouths she traveled about the Dominion, sometimes close on liis track, and again losing every clue ns to his whereabouts. She returned to New York, and oue day, standing at a Broadway crossing waiting her turn to get aeross, she saw the object of her long search on the other side. She shrieked his name, and ran into the middle of the street, but a policeman caught her aud saved her from tlie wheels of the string of vehicles. “An gel of God there was none,” aud she never again saw the Gabriel she had so long sought aud so nearly found. She learned then that ho had sailed for Sail Francisco, and she went overland to. California, to meet him. Arrived on the Pacific coast, she found that her lover had fallen overboard just outside the Heads and been drowned. Meanwhile the body of a young man dressed in sailor’s clothes was cast ashore on the beach, carried to the coroner’s office, aud, not being identified, was interred iu the publio cemetery. A water-sodden pocket-book was taken from the dead man, which contained only a few letters written in French and unaddressed. The girl, hearing of this, went to the coro ner’s office and found that the letters were hers. The waves had tardily and partially recompensed her devoted search, and she was able to find the grave of her lover. -, . THE COSSACK AND HIS HORSE, [*SX ifi/uis Republican. J A correspondent, writing to the Ger man press, tells of a little joke perpe trated recently upon ihe keeper of a Kretshma (saloon) iu the vicinity of Bucharest, where “spirits” were being liberally dispensed to thirsty soldiers. A Cossack, mounted on a tired look mg nag, halted before the plaee, and, leaving the weary animal standing be fore the door, entered the saloon and ordered a generous amount of refresh ment for the inner soldier. Having dis posed of it, he quietly moved toward the door again, and was about mounting his horse, when the proprietor of the saloon gently reminded him of the custom of the place and the trifling sum he had placed himself under obligation to con tribute toward its support by partaking of its hospitality. With a woe-begono sigh ending with a moan, tho soldier draws a dirty looking purse from his pocket and is in the act of removing a coin from its scanty contents, when sud denly his horse totters aud falls to the ground. The poor follow is wild with anguish. He attempted to make the creature rise by every imaginable means used to bring a horse to his feet. Tho sympathizing bystanders aid him also, knowing the soldier owns the horse, anil will be sadly out of pocket by the loss. The Cossack almost weeps over the im movable mass of horse flesh, calls it en dearing names, but all is of no avail.— The horse is dead. ’Tin a tonchiDgsight, and appeals to the heart and purse. Iu a short time a kind-hearted witness had collected a nice little sum and handed it to the grief-stricken soldier with tho best wishes of the. spectators for a better and a stronger horse. Even the saloon keeper added his sympathy by opening a bottle of his bekt wine and with his own hands presented a foaming lrjmper to the bereaved man with a string hint indicating that accounts were square. Withsorrowing gratitude His accepted. Then bending over liis beloved horse Mr. Cossack remove the saddle and bridle, flings them over liis shoulder and marches away, with a last lingering look at the dead horse. Ten minutes later a shrill whistle resounds from some unseen quarter. Like a lightning flash the dead horse is up and away in the di rection of the charmed sound, giving bis heels such joyous freedom and such glorious evidence of vigor and life that the saloon keeper aud his astounded guests are, for the moment, bereft of their senses and powers of locomotion, and when a few minutes after the auda cious trooper dashed by and with a wave of the hand bids them farewell they can only articulate, “Damn the Cossacks.” NOT NO GENEROUS. A Paper That Qimilon* General Too ml,,’ Liberality. [Atlanta fnrjtepemient.] Great sentimentality has been manu factured over the event of General Toombs lending the State some $20,000 at 7 per cent., with which to pay’ the per diem and mileage of the delegates to the Convention. The Convention voted General Toombs a resolution of thanks “for this unmistakable evidence of his devotion to the cause of Liberty, Truth and Georgia.” The vote was unanimous, and a rising one. In the name of common sense, what was the use of all that balderdash ? Where is there any great evidence of devotion to the cause of Ell-iberty, Tee-ruth and Jee-eorgia, in General Toombs lending the State of Georgia $20,000, at 7 per cent., when many of her other bond holders get but 6 percent. ? Also, “the recipient of the distinguished and un usual honor sat with his face covered by his hands, [flies were bad.] When the Convention rose [by any other name would smell as sweet] en masse, he was visibly affected, and it is said tears roll ed down his face.” Grand old man 1 Priceless tears 1 He wants the princi pal and 7 per cent, for the S2O 000, bnt the tears he gives free, gratis, for noth ing. The Eagle Flouring Mills, Oakville, Illinois, together with 25,000 bushels of wheat, have burned. Loss, $55,000,