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gffjromcle and Smtfnel. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1877. CROP NKWM. The friends of the Chronicle and Constitutionalist in Georgia and Sontli Carolina will greatly oblige us by j sanding, from time to time, brief let- J ters showing the condition of the crops. We wonld like to have a letter once a ' week from every locality where the Chronicle and Constitutionalist cir culates, The Rochester Democrat says: “It is time that General Howard threw aside his foolish scruples and eallcd for the police.” _ Public sentiment seems to be crystal izing in favor of the creation of a Board of Police Commissioners for Augusta, to be elected by the City Council. Mr. Gradt is mistaken in bis state ] ment to the Cincinnati Enquirer (con cerning General Toombi’ candidacy for the Senate) that General Toombs had never been beaten. He was defeated for the Confederate Senate in 1863 by Hersuhel V. Johnson. The Cincinnati Enquirer arithmetic man figures Brioham Young insolvent, ne left eighteen widows and 86,000,000 worth of property. Each widow is enti tled to a third of his estate as dower. Eighteen thirds of six millions would be thirty-six millions. Ho his estate will only pay about sixteen per cent, on the dower. m t m - A special dispatch from Richmond, Indiana, to the New York Herald, indi cates that Senator Morton’s health is not improving, as was supposed. When the Senator’s age, liis physical infirmi ties and the nature of his disease are taken into consideration it would seem that thechances aro against his recevery. We publish Ibis morning extracts from the editorial columns of the New York Tribune and Washington Rational Republican, commenting oa the invita tion to visit Augusta extended by the City Council to the President. They are couched in the kindest terms and show that the courtesy, so far from be ing wasted, is highly appreciated. We hope the President will find it con venient to accept. The late Secretary of State of Louis iana has sued ex-Governor Kellogg for something over eight thousand dollars, which the Secretary of State insists is dne him from the Governor for affixing the Louisiana seal to certain State docu ments. It will not snrprise anybody to hear that there are charges of a job in this matter, and that Kellooo was the jobber, The New York theatre managers have organized an association to build a mon ument to Ben. Deßar, the veteran actor who died in St. Louis last week. This is an age of monumental intentions, but so many of them have been used for paving purposes that the cemeteries are dotted with unfinished piles, and the graves of distinguished dead are over grown with weeds. The New Bedford and Billerica, Mas*., two feet gauge railroad, the first of the kind in this country, has beou completed, und the first trips, which were made Saturday, showed that the road is inferior to none in speed, smooth ness and safety. The road, which is eight miles long, has cost but $*50,000, including buildings, bridges and equip ments. The latter consists of two loco motives and eleven cars, the former weighing but eleven tons each, while the passenger cars, carrying half the number of the standard cars, cost but one-quarter as.much. Senator Dawes long ago openly took side with President Hates in his new departure for tlio beuefit of the country. But in a recent talk he went beyond the record, and said he w< uldn’t have even sent a commission as Haves did to let down the Louisiana Republicans easily, but would have withdrawn the troops promptly, ss Orant came near doing, and let the people of the State take the responsibil ity of what followed. Anyway, the Sen ator meaus to stand by the President in his Southern policy, and thinks the Republican party should do so, openly, heartily and effectively. Alvin Adams, the founder of the Adams Express Company, died at his residence in Watertown, Mass., on Sun day, nged 73. His career shows what can bo done by a poor person, in this country, with the exercise of thrift and perseverence. Mr. Adams' parents were very poor, and he remained so himself nutil he was nearly 40 years of age. In 1840 ho opened an express office in Bos ton, and at first met with very indiffer ent success. He persevered, however, and the result is known to everybody to day. Mr. Adams, at his death, was one of the richest meu in New England. In 1854, after his express business had only been going on for fourteen years, he re tired, the possessor of great wealth, and purchased a splendid estate in Water town, upon which ho erected an elegant Italian villa. In his art collection, ■which is said to be ono of the finest in the country, is the “Greek Slave” of Powers. The President and a part of his Cabi net are to be in Ohio this week. He will attend the soldiers’ reunion at Marietta. This is an annual affair in Ohio, and it is managed by privates and non-commissioned officers. It was for merly local, but as the occasion has grown in interest the niche has widened to take in a more general interest. This year Federal and Confederate officers are invited, and many have accepted. The celebration will be significant of the return of good feeling between the dif ferent sections of the country. Marietta is distinctively a Yankee town, and was settled by families of Revolutionary officers and soldiers. The town was named after Marie Antoinette, who, it was believed, had been instrumental in the recognition of the Republic by France. The Queen was much pleased, and sent the settlers a bell, which was lost at sea. Marietta gave to Ohio the New England Town System, afterwards adopted in all the West, as opposed to the Virginia County System. The Presi dent has decided that he will accept no public receptions except at Marietta, at Fremont, his home, and at Dayton, where there is to be a meeting of the Managers of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Asylum. m t * The fresh, clar breezes of September bring with them something even better than cool and pleasant days. On every side there is an indication of a good Fall trade. Not a trade, indeed, based upon fictitious values and unsound credit, but a trade that will be substan tial in volume, and, avoiding the shoals of undue confidence, bring us back to the old days of commercial prosperity. The indications are that the turniDg poiot has been reached and that we are n *>w to progress onward to the goal for whic ti all have so earnestly longed. One of the l opeful and significant signs is the enormous shipment of grain, which has not been paralleled in many years. So great, indeeu, is t ‘hat tlle l* an > White Star and Other line* have been compelled to put on oxtra ship*, while the first named line is pushing forward to speedy completion a vessel as large ss the Bothnia. The crop of cereals is almost unprecedented, aud, what is bet ter, is finding a ready market abroad. Thiß must, naturally, make a greater in flux of money to this eonntry and pnt trade in general in healthy circulation. Already the manufacturing towns of New England echo to the hum of the looms, and in every way there is cause for thankfulness for an abundant harvest and a revival of the drooping energies of the commercial body. THE ELECTION FOR SENATOR. Mr. Henry W. Grady, in liis letter from Atlanta to the Cincinnati Enquir er, copied in the Chronicle and Con stitutionalist yesterday, maps ont a very lively contest for the United States Seuate. He gives ns no less than six cmdidates—General Gordon, General Toombs, ex Governor Smith, General P. M. B. Young, ex-Governor Brown and Congressman Ha/.tbidge. Mr. Grady writes from Atlanta, the centre of political gossip and intrigue in this State, and doubtless bad good reason for believing the correctness of his in formation, bnt we think he has named some men who will not be candidates and has left unnamed some who will be. We think it highly improb able that ex Governor Brown will enter tie race. He has a large personal fol lowing and is a very strong man in Georgia, but we do not hink he cares for the position of United States Sena tor, and that his bad health and the dn ties of the office which he now holds will prevent him from becoming a can didate. We think it equally certain that he will oppose the re-election of General Gordon to the extent of bis ability. It is an open secret that the two men are far from friendly, and the fight will come over the splendid prize of the Senatorship. It has been stated frequently of late that General Toonbs was not averse to the position and wonld accept an election. His dis abilities have not been removed, but it is said that he is certain his friends in Congress will talie care that he is not prevented from occupying his seat. It h also rumored, strange as the state ment may sound, that Governor Brown is favorable to the election of his former enemy. Backed by Governor Bbown, General Toombs might prove a formid able candidate. It is quite likely that General P. M. B. Young and General L. J. Gartrell will both be in the field, and will make a strong raee. Ex-Gov ernor Smith has personal friends all over the State, and will stand a fair chance of success in fhe event of a pro tracted contest. We have seen nothing that would indicate the candidacy of Mr. Hartbidoe. He seems to be satis fied with his present position, is very popular in his District and will be able to hold his own as long as he cares for a seat in Congas, We think it more likely that Southern Georgia will be represented in the fight by General A. R. Lawtoj* or ey-Senator Norwood, o\ both. General Lawton is very popular in the State, and has strengthened him self by his consistent and conservative course in the General Assembly and in the Constitutional Convention. Mr. Norwood’s friends capie so near re electing him last Wiuter that they will in all probability enter him again. Of course it is understood that Gen eral Gordon desires to be bis own successor, and it is not too muob to say that he is at present the strongest can didate in tho field. His course gener ally in tho Senate has given satis faction ; lie is personally very popular ; he is strong among the soldiers by reason of his army record ; and he will have the whole influence of the State administration exerted in his behalf. This list by no means exhausts the number of possible candidates. Hon. Thomas Hardeman may bo brought for ward if liis friends regard tho outlook as favorable. Hon. Wm. E. Smith, themem ber of Congress from the Second Dis trict, is a strong man in Southwestern Georgia, and covered himself with glory by bis opposition to tho creation of the Electoral Commission. General W. T. Wofford may be pressed by his numer ous friends in the Northern portion of the State. Aud there is a chance that Mr. Htei-hbns muy be brought into the contest before a decision is reached. Be sides his great reputation and extended personal popularity ho would have the same element of strength that contrib uted so much to the success of Mr. Fill last Winter—namely, the dosire of all the l ongressioual aspirants in his Dis trict to translate him from the House to the Senate. As the Legislature which is to be elected next December will have the selection of a Senator, the campaign will begin a year earlier than it other wise would. The indications point to numerous candidates and a well con tested field. UNSPOILED CHILDREN. The Baltimore American says: That the child is father to the man is an aphoriam often quoted, and almost uni versally believed iu. There are so many possibilities hidden in a young life, so much constantly developing itself even iu a crude and feeble manner, which af terwards becomes part and parcel of ex istence, that there is little wonder we watch with care the gradual growth of the infant faculties, and often see in them a foreshadowing of what will hap pen iu the future wheu they have fully ripened and moulded. Hence philan thropy constantly recognizes tho neces sity of caring to* tfce children. Tho lit tle waifs who run about pur streets are the objects of much solicitude.on the part of social reformers. Homes and asylums have been erected for them, re formatory institutions have been estab lished, and an education has been at tempted to be giveu W them which would fit them for taking a ptaaa jn the industrial world. We are all familiar with the good which haa thus resulted, and with the amount of incipient crime which has thus been checked. And yet the fault has often been that all onr efforts have simply been directed towards a certain class, and that the evils which we try to eradicate are simply what are supposed to spring from poverty and ignorance. There is no doubt but that the children of the pres ent day have advantages which their fathers and mothers did not possess. The whole world of civilization has been taxed to supply their wants. Bystenus of education have been devised by which knowledge might be the more easily imparted to them. Ingenious brains have invented toys which wonld amuse them, artiats have painted for them, and a literature has sprung up exclusively for them and fitted for the range of their comprehension. This has naturally resulted in an increased deference being paid to children, and a feeling of importance taking possession ot them which leads them sometimes to forges their own weakness and imagine that they etp capable of aoting and judging in all things for themselves. Tbe literature which is lsened for them is devoted principally to storiea of chil dren. Instead of pointing ont what has been accomplished by earnest and strug gling men and women, the heroes and heroines whose adventures are related are not ont of their teens, and yet they rnn their important careers, are geni uses, benefactors, martyrs and wronged and blighted beings by turns and at an age when their fathers and mothers had co idea above the playground or the nursery. The little girl wanting to be a nun because the world was hollow and her doll was filled with saw duet is not so verv extravagant a conception after all. How often do we find children when every feeling in their young hearts ought to lie as sweet ami tender as e rose, and when every faculty sbon’d gradually be unfolding itself to the light and gathering fresh strength and beauty, become blase and discontented. There is nothing sweeter than the hu nfiWty of nnspoiled children. Their imaginative leads them to weave fairy romances of whet their lives will be when they have groan, up and become meu and women. But the contempla tion of such things does not unfit them from retaining their guilelessneas and; simplicity. They have not discovered that they are worth thinking about, they do not sit down to analyze their char acters and watch themselves grow, but go about their daily taaka and amuse ments in natural insignificance. They do not take credit todhemselvee for be ing so sweet and pretty and forbearing, but practioe their goodness and their modesty unconsciously, and indulge only in those aspirations which spring from childish innooence. Society is much to blame for the precocity and abnormal development so much display ed by its children. It has tanght them to look upon themselves as personages invested with self-importance, whose wishes must be consulted and whose J whims ought to be gratified. The ideal i which we set up to their view is a high one. They are told that it is in the power of the weakest amongst them to gain the most exalted position. And ; although it is perhaps better to point out such a future, yet there is a danger that constant looking at and dwelling j upon it will unfit the mind for the infe rior duties of life aud cause it to idealize i its little self. And the same thing holds good of the amassment* and pleasures which chil dren are allowed to indulge in. It is not conducive to the happy freedom of childhood to place it on a pedestal where it may be admired, where instead of the unrestrained and natural grace of movement which belongs to it, every motion and step shall be regulated by a due regard to social proprieties. In an artistic point of view the rioh exotic, even without any fragrance, may com mand admiration, bat the true poetic spirit can learn a better lesson from the clambering and the sweet scented wild flower. And so with our children. It may be pleasant to note their gracefal attitudes, their acquaintance with social forms and their fast ripening knowledge of the world, but when this is gained at the sacrifice of that simplicity which ought to surround youth aud childhood, and when little ones become meu and women before their time, then we may well question if our kindness has not been misplaoed. The world with its toils and burdens, life with all its shift ing changes, its trials, its mockeries and its deceits, will oome soon enough upon them without plunging them into the vortex and the whirlpool when no thing but peaoe and happiness should fill their harts. If our ohildren are put through a constant round of [enjoyment, exposed to the glare aud glitter of fash ion, and allowed to dwell constantly in an artificial atmosphere, the bloom and the buoyancy of youth will soon leave them. The fruits and the flowers of life are easily enough displaced by “the worm, the canker and the grief,” with out hastening that time. Let our chil dren believe that there is still some en joyment for them, that it has not all been absorbed like the juioe of an orange, but that it is perennial aud never ending, and they will be better able to take their true positions in life and retain the freshness of youth, even amid the hurry of trade and the struggle for existence. NORTH AND SOPTII. From the report of the Commissioner of the General Laud Office it appears that the Southern States have received the following donations of land for the purpose of internal improvements : Acres. Alabama 3,579,120 Florida 2,360.114 Louisiana 1,577,840 Arkansas 4(879.149 Missouri 2,895,160 Total to Southern States.. .15,291,483 The donations to Northern States have been as follows : Wisconsin 5,236,797 Minnesota 9,664,042 Oregon*. 1,888,600 Illinois 3,249,068 lowa 6,79-5,259 Michigan 5,962,480 Kansas 8,840,000 Ohio 1,100,361 Indiana 1,439,279 Total to Northern States,, ,44,376,783 Again, in the report of the Seoretary of the Treasury made to the Senate January 7, 1875, it is shown that from 1789 to 1878 the appropriations of money in aid of the construction of wagonroads, railroads and canals were as follows : For the sixteen Southern and border States $ 6,981,982 90 For the Northern States and Territories 97,025,762 70 During the same period the Secre tary’s report shows that for other public works the disproportion was nearly as great, being $11,612,086 56 for the bor der and Southern States, against $76,- 859,609 50 for the Northern States and Territories, IIRIUHAM YOUNU'S FUNERAL- The funeral of the Mormon President, Brigham Young, took place at the tab ernacle, in Salt Lake City, on Sunday. It appears that in 1873 he made tho ar rangements for his funeral services and burial, and tho written directions, made by himself, were read to tbe congrega tion of 18,000 people. Of oourse these arrangements were carried out. The body was dressed in the temple robes of Young, and it was buried in his private burial ground, about half a mile from the tabernacle, George Q. Cannon, the delegate in Congress from Utah, was the master of oeremonies. Ten tiers of seats in the tabernacle were ooonpied by the wives, children and grandchildren of Bbiaram and his immediate relatives. A choir of 220 sang the funeral hymns. The first wife of Brigham stood at the grave, leaning on the arm of Awblia Folsom, the favorite wife ot the de ceased. There were no signs of grief at tiie death of the Mormon leader. The saints were well prepared for the event, and looked upon it #s a sort of transla tion, wbieb would be of benefit rather than harm to tbe eburcb. His passing away, in their opinion, will hardly make a ripple upon the wave of Mormon pro gress. His place is, in fact, already supplied by the pre-arraDged appoint ment of fiis son. The bishops and prophets, and secret oounoils, all live, and are, under tbe system, perpetual. Polygamy will be practiced s hereto fore; the Mormons will hate the Gen.- til.es as formerly, and cling to their faith, a a mp only hope of their future salvation; for they generally believe that God reveals to the proph ets, day by day, His will and wishes, aud coming direct from Him they have only to ohey, whatever the obligation or duty imposed, wen to a Mountain Meadow massacre. But, uiief all, we think the death of the stern, cunning, unyielding old leader will make some difference ia the fcftnre affairs of the Mormons. Bat time Mopg £9# tell what tbe changes are to be. Complaint is made that the indict ment of so many of the late statesmen of South Carolina “will destroy the rem nant of Republicanism in that ’.State.” If Republicanism in South Carolina is reduced to sack a remnant as this it isn’t worth while to saye it, The following, from the Chicago fn ter-Ocean of Saturday, is but an epitome of like statements that are coming from the other business centres in that sec tion: “The jobbing trade is active in every department, and we have never before seen the Autumn months inaugu rated with such an aetive trade, or with such flattering prospects for a large and healthy business. Each day brings a large increase of business, and buyers are also composed of the beet class of merchants from every section of the West and South,” Tee funeral of M. Thiers took place yesterday, and all that was mortal of the great French statesman was laid ber neath the dust of Pena la Chaise. There was an immense concourse present, and the authorities had to take every precau tion to prevent a disturbance. The route of the funeral procession was two leagues in length, and this was densely crowded with Parisians aud people from the provinces, who braved a fearful storm of rain. The shops were general ly closed, and bore upon them the words “National mourning.” The flag on the State Department at Washington was pat at half mast in honor of the illustrious dead. THE CROP PROSPECT. Condition of the Crops in Wilkea County. | ('orresponhenee Chronicle arvl ConstMionalisi ] Hog’s Fork, Wilkes County, Sept. 5. —I have j net traveled over the northern portion of Wilkes county and will give my opinion of the crops. I have been fanning twenty-five years and think I ought to know a little about farming. I don’t think I ever saw as poor crops of cotton but once before and that was in the year 1866. In many portions of the county there has been very little rain since the middle of Jane; occasionally a few partial showers have fell and even where they fell it seems to have done little good. I pnt the cotton crop down as half a erop in that part of the connty where I have traveled. The corn where planted early and well cultivated is a tolerable fair crop, but all late corn is cut short at least half. After guano bills are paid there will be but little left to pay taxes and other bills. But few people can raise cotton at a cost of ten cents a pound in this county. We need to learn lessons in economy. While I think we have economized to some extent this year, there is yet room for improvement in that line. Not much said about the new Consti tution as yet, but I think it will be rati fied by a large majority in this county. Of course there are some objectionable features in it, but it is far better than the old one, aud then this is ours, made by our own people, free and untram meled by bayonets and carpet-baggers —in fact the good that is in it over comes every objectionable feature. Cotton Planter. LOUIS NAPOLEON’S FRIEND. Dr. Conneau's Devotion to the Emperor—. The Escape From the Castle ol'lTani. [Pall Mall Gazette.] A remarkable man has just passed away, in the person of Dr. Conneau, the private physician and most intimate friend of Napoleon 111. Few men have in their day enjoyed so much occult in fluence as he did, or used it with greater discretion. Dr. Conneau was born at Milan in 1803, and when a very young man became Secretary to Louis Bona parte, the deposed King of Holland. Afterward he graduated in medicine, and was appointed physician to the household of Queen Hortense. He was thus, from the outset of his career, closely identified with the family of the future Emperor, and being the latter’s senior by five years, he was in a position to assume toward him somewliat the position of a tutor. The young Prince from the first took kindly to him as a companion. As long as Prince Louis’ elder brother was alive, Queen Hortense’s favorite son dreamed hope fully indeed, but rather lazily, of the prospects that might be in store for his family. No sooner, however, did he find himself heir to the Bonapartist dynasty than his energies were aroused with electric suddeuness, and the raid upon Strasburg in 1836 testified to the new spirit that had been kindled in bim. It is well known now what great alarm the Strasburg affair oast into the family of Louis Phillippe, and how very near it was to succeeding. However, it (ailed, and Dr. Conneau counseled to try again. The result was that, four years later, a new expedition was attempted upon Boulogne, but this time the failure was more complete and disastrous than the first time, and Prince Louis, tried by the Chamber of Peers, was sentenced to im prisonment for life. Dr. Conneau had not been actually implicated in the sedi tion, but bo begged to share his friend’s prison, and was admitted to tho Castle of Ham on the understanding that he must submit to confinement and"prison rules exactly as though he were himself under sentence. It was a magnanimous act on Louis Philippe’s part to allow Dr. Conneau to continue tho prisoner’s companion; but it was equally generous and touching in the Doctor to submit to a captivity which be must have found at times wo fully tedious. Cortainly.wbeu he shut up in the fortress, Dr. Conneau must have reckoned that,with tho money and influences which were set at work, it would be easy to effect tho prisoner’s escape; but he was not long in discov ering his mistake, and the joint cap tivity of the Prince and himself lasted six years. When Napoleon 111 subsequently al luded to this period—which he did more often than might be supposed—he often said that he should have despair ed if it had not been for Dr. Connean’s constant cheerfulness. The Doctor spurred him on to study history and po litical economy, “just as though lie wire to-walk straight from the prison to the throne.” He acted as his Secretary, writing from dictation the numerous articles which the Prince was suffered to contribute to the Journal du Pas de Calais, and day after day, hour after hour, his master found in him those most precious of consolations, an im perturably even temper and a hopeful ness which nothing could dash. It has often been rumored that when the Prince at length escaped, the authorities had connived at the fact; but M. Gui zot to the last denied this, and said that the Government had intended keeping the Prince in confinement till Louis Philippe was dead and the Crown had passed to his heir; so that the Prince’s flight caused tho Court muoh uneasi ness. It was Dr. Conneau who acted as chief instrument in the escape, procur ing for the Prince the clothes of the workman Badinguet, ixho was effecting some repairs ip the castle, and afterward making up the dummy of a sleeping figure in the Prince's bed, so that when the Governor came on his nightly rounds he believed, as the Doctor af firmed, that the prisoner had gone to bed early, being unwell. For this gal lant act of devotion the Doctor was put upon his trial, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment—a part of which sentence was, however, remitted. Napoleon 111,, havipg ascended the throne could not fail to prove his grati tude toward one whose friendship had stood the most severe tests; and if Dr. Conueau was not loaded with honors, it was because lie wisely declined being made a too signal object of favor. He was offered tfje title of Count and a seat in the Senate; bnt he preferred to sit as an official Deputy in the Corps Legis late; and it was not until after fifteen years of loyal legislative service (during which he never once made a speech nor voted against a Ministry) that he accept ed his promotion to the more august House, without however, to be ennobled, in the meantime he had married, and his son, Louis Conneau, who is of about the same age as the Prince Imperial, had become the com panion of the latter’s studies and sports, insomuch that the two were always seen together in public and private, and the lad’s good humored brown face and dark eyes were as well knoyn to the people of Paris as the Prince's own. f>r. Conneau continued to be the Emperor’s private doctor, but he did not pride himself much on his medical science, and never undertook the responsibility of treating his patient in serious cases. •M ■ ■ gEXr.ON’S PERQUISITES. Saered Crpei-i Hi/Jt for the Men Who Hoard Fashionable Churches. [From ike Court Circular.] A marriage was celebrated a few days ago in St. Augnstine’s Church, Shaw street, Liverpool, and as a part of the preparations 'Wm. gteyenson, uphol sterer, received orders troci- tiie bride’s mother to lay down a roll of crimson baize from the door of the church along the aisle to the place where the impor tant pud interesting proceedings of the day were to take place. After the cere mony Mr. Stevenson weat t.o pick up his crimson cloth from the aisle with a view of carrying it away. He succeeded in aettiM” it into a roll, which he shoul xZJT and i*4 uot the length of the Jsw&Tfo as 4 "p by the sextoß, who seized the and told him to leave it in the chnrph. The owner naturally asked the reason of this stoppage, and the answer was to the effect that thh cloth having been brougnt into the church and uaed there had been made holy according to bis theory, and having thus been consecrated could not again be removed without ad SO* P* sacrilege being committed. An ecclesi astical “tug of war” then began between the representative of the church mili tant and the rightful owner of the goods. Each managed to seize the baize a few yards apart and began palling it with might and main—the sexton to get it in side and Mr. Stevenson to get it outside of the sacred edifice. The “tug” took place just at the door of the church, and a large crowd of people soon gathered to witness the novel contest of right versus might. The people cheered and laughed; some cried “Shame;” but meanwhile the two combatants continued to pull with all their strength, until it became evident that very soon there would be nothing but shreds and patch es to fight about. Mr. Steyensoa, after employing his powers of persuasion and other means to no purpose for a long time, at length left his cloth under pro test, and it was deposited in the vestry to await further steps which he will take. .. i Tfef Queen nf the Oreji A breakfast-biscuit or tea-foil made with Doolev’s Yeast Powder is certainly the queen of the oven—so light, white and delicious. You lift it tenderly, break it open gently, spread it darntly With fresh, sweet butter, waiting to be gracious. After breakfasting on bis cuits made with Dooley’s Yeast Powder, what mas would contemplate suicide or grumble because his wife asked him for money ? AUGUSTA- SPARTANBURG. THE RAILROAD MEETING AT LA.U RENSVILLE. What Was Done—Spartanburg's Investment —Observations—An- the Times Better * Etc., Etc. [ Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist. | On the Wing, September 4. —It was a matter of very general regret that Au gusta was unrepresented at the railroad meeting held at Laurensville, S. C., on yesterday. Greenwood, Greenville, Ninety-Six, Spartanburg and Union were fully represented, and the meeting proved to be quite interesting. The delegates from Greenville and Spartan burg pressed the claims of their respec tive towns as the starting point, while Greenwood and Ninety-Six endeavored to show that a right line to Augusta could be found only by passing through their re spective towns. The people of Laurens favor direct connection with Spartan burg, and are anxious to reach Augusta by the most available route.. The ques tions at issue are still under advisement. Another meeting will be held next month, and it is hoped that yonr city will send over a good, strong delegation. These people are desperately in earnest; they are determined, if possible, to re establish the trade relations which sub sisted between their sections and Au gusta in the days when heavily laden wagons from the Carolinas thronged your streets. It is believed that Laurens will sub scribe $300,000 to the Augusta and Spartanburg Bailroad. Spartanburg will probably vote SIOO,OOO or $150,000 in support of the enterprise. It is possi ble that both communities may improve on these figures. The route from Spar tanburg to Laurensville will traverse the richest portion of Spartanburg county, no point of which is nearer a railroad than twenty miles. Asa crow flies, Spartanburg is distant from Au gusta about one hundred miles. The route via Laurensville and Greenwood will make it about one hundred and fifteen miles. The citizens of Augusta should cultivate in the good people of whom I have made mention the desire they have evinced for a closer communication with their old time trading point. As sure as you live, “there is life in the old land yet.” Proof is not wanting that man after man has surmounted, with com parative ease, obstacles which had been adjudged insuperable. An extra tax upon his resources has oft-times served to develop greater strength and put him an the high road to prosperity. It is the sluggard that folds his arms. He, who buries his talent lest by a venture he should lose it, caanot expect to have a future in which present lack shall be supplanted by plenty—plenty of money, prosperous business connections, etc. See what Spartanburg has done. She subscribed (town and county) $250,000 to the Air Line Bailroad, SIOO,OOO to the Spartanburg and Asheville, and has just voted a subscription of $3,000 for the construction in town of the work shops of the S. ani A. Boad. Was this investment of $350,000 a good one ? Spartanburg annually ships 20,000 bales of cotton. Previous to the completion of the Air Line Road, she paid $5 50 on each bale of cotton shipped to the great trade centres of this country. She now pays $3 50 per bale—an annual saving, on this one item, of $40,000. Put the saving at $35,000 aud you have 100 per cent, upon the interest on her invest ment in the two roads named. But that is not.all. On flour and bacon, the savings amount to $50,000 per an num. Her railroad bonds are worth 70 cents on the dollar, and are gradual ly passing into the hands of her own people. The Spartanburg and Asheville Road is rapidly approaching completion. The trains run to Tryon City, and the entire route has been paid for in the bonds of the oompany. As division after divis ion is graded, no difficulty is expe rienced in ironing the route. A first mortgage bond does the work quickly. Beyond Asheville the prospect has brightened, since the suit for the recov ery of $500,000, of what is denominated “Swepson money,” has resulted favor ably for the company interested. Recently I reported how the land lay toward the delta of the Mississippi. The outlook in that direction was en couraging. How is it throughout the hill country of Georgia and the Caro linas? More fruit, bettor orops, bright er prospects than for years past. A wiso economy rules, and the people— their faces suffused with smiles which by aud by break into one of those good natured guffaws that follow quickly upon the “kow’re you, neighbor?” of a farmer whose storehouses are filled to repletion—have begun to say, “Well, really, I have no cause to complain.” Make a circuit of the watering plaoes from the Indian Spring in Georgia to the Warm Springs in North Carolina, and you find great crowds of people whiling away the Summer hours. They are representative assemblages, not composed solely of the sous and daughters of fortune. The skies are not cloudless, but ho that re gards the clouds shall not reap. A won derful change for the better has taken place. Faith in God, the putting forth of our best energies, the exercise of true economy— i. e., a vigorous use of the means at command and the cultivation of a cheerful disposition—will make the change more marked and gladsome. These reflections are the outcome of ob servations taken in the presence of mer chants, farmers, professional men, in a word, labqrers of all classes, May the full frqitipp of these reasonable antici pations early cojpe to the people ! Martin V. Calvin. TIIE PRESIDENT’S VISIT. Tlie Invitation to tbe President to Visit Augusta. [New York Tribune.] President Hayes has a first olass en dorsement frprp the South at last for his Southern poliey. The City Coun ciltnen of Angusta, Ga., all Democrats, have passed a series of resolutions unanimously approving of the course of tho Administration, and inviting the President to call at that place during his proposed Southern tour. If this is a political straw if points quite signifi cantly how the popular wipfl is blpwing, and it certainly shows that some of the Southern people desire to be thought sincere in their protestations of patri otism. [ Washington National Republican.] Another eyidenep of the popularity of the President throughout the South is afforded by the fact that be has been in vited to the city of Augusta, Georgia, by the unanimous vote of the City Coun cil, a body composed entirely of Demo crats. The compliment will be highly appreciated by the President, who hap pily considers hipiself the President of the entire country, North as well as Sopth. Spch piarkp of confidence in Mr. Hayes as the people ol Augusta display ought to convince even the most extreme anti-Hayes men of the North that the President’s policy of concilia tion is a success. [ Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald.] We had hoped that the President would visit this Fall all the Southern States. Hp has fee'eji £jnd and just to the South in his management of nation al affiirs, but still we think a trip of this character would be mutually bene ficial to tbe Administration and to the South. The men who are charged with conducting national affairs need to know more abopt tjie Southern people, and the Southern people nped to bo better acquainted with them. Certainly the South has nothing to lose and every thing to gain by the visits of leading Northern men. The South has suffered much from political lies and slanders, and these visits go far to lessen the effect. [Chicago Tribune.] The people of Augusta, Ga., are very de*ipons of receiving President Hayes as a guest, pud they have, through their Comnion Counoil, extended an in vitation at once so cordjal and pompli mentary that it ought not to go unheed ed. The Common Council is composed exclusively of Democrats, but their ap proval of the President's course and ‘heir assurance of a hearty welcome by all citizens wU nl< * ever suggest political partisanship. Onr Dried Frail Abroad. American beef is finding a formidable European rival in American fruit. The Pall Mall Budged says that “the for eign demand for American fruit is now so great that Europe and Australia will take nearly all the fruit, fresh and dried (dried peaches excepted) which the United States can land in their market in good condition.” Since last October England has taken 396,006 barrels of apples from this country, and ilia esti mated that she will take an average of 15,000 barrels per week. The Budget also says: “The working classes of Ger many and the workingmen and miners ol Australia are the chief customers lor American dried fruit abroad, but the poor people of England and Russia buy to a limited extent. As long as dried" apples can be exported from New York at fire or even at seven cents a pound, the workingmen of Europe and Aus tralia will buy ail mttj can be spared. The business of exporting fruit ia one that has been chiefly built up since 1865. In the eleven months ending July 1 the fruit exported amounted in value to $2,831,000.” Captain James Eads thinks he might bridge the Bosphorus at a cost not to exceed $25,000,000. WASHINGTON NEWS. A DUSKY MINISTER TAKEN DOWN A PEG. Prof. Langston Withdrawn From Ohio—Col ored Men Chnnge no Totes at the North— The Presidential Party Out on a New Jaunt—Chicago Colleetorship Carolina’s Dead Senator. Washington, September 7.—The Pres ident has advised Prof. Langston that political speeches in Ohio are incompati ble with his position as Minister to Hayti. It is considered that this strict construction of the President’s order is in accordance with the wishes of the Re publican managers of the Ohio election, as it has been found that colored orators do not make Republican votes in North ern States. The Presidential party made a safe start last night. It consists of Hayes, McCreary, DeveDS and Key, besides tho President’s family. The Cabinet have taken the papers in the Chicago Colleotorship case of Jones vs. Smith. Decision is reserved. The clerk of the Howard House, Bal timore, holds Owens’ effects, including 842,000 in money and securities, subject to adverse claims from Owens’ heirs and the State of South Carolina. Owens’ re mains leave to-day for interment in South Carolina. The Social Science Convention at Sar atoga discussed the South last night at great length. The views of the orators were so divergent that, pending their convergence, it is hoped the Southern people will have settled their own affairs in their own way. The Presidential Party On Their Jaunt—A Housing Welcome On an Exaggerated Scale—Hayes Speaks. Marietta, September 7.—The Presi dential party arrived safely* and were received with military, civil and special honor on an exaggerated scale. Evarts will join the Presidential party at Cin cinnati on the 15th. McCreary has gone to Fortress Monroe instead of with the Presidential party, which he will join at Dayton. After an address of welcome by "Mayor Palmer, of Marietta, Hayes stepped forward and was greeted with great cheers and waving of handker chiefs. He said : “ Ladies, Fellow- Citizens and Survivors of the Great War: I wish that I was pre pared to speak suitably upon this occasion. My friend, Mayor Palmer, in bis address informs me that in every speech made at this great national re union encouragement has been given to that spirit of fraternity which it is the desire of those associated with me in the Administration to do something during our term of service to advance. We do not, in meeting the people, propose to discuss any of the great party questions which divide the people who honor us with their attention. [Cheers.] We leave these to be discussed before the people by those who may be appointed by the respective parties to car ry on those debates, but we do feel that if, in visiting our fellow-cit izens in different States, we can add anything to strengthen the sentiment alluded to by the Mayor, it is right and proper that we should doit. [Applause.] All whg are familiar with the history of our country know that an hundred years ago there was no North or South. The fathers were one throughout the whole country. Washington and Jeffer son ' were side by side with Franklin ana Adams. Daniel Morgan and bis Virginians marched from Vir ginia to Boston. They were at Saratoga and Nathaniel Greene and his Continen tals were in the Carolinas. The whole country belonged to the fathers. It is to that state of harmony, of fra ternal friendship, that we desire our country to return. [A voice, “Good for you!” and cheers.] We are for [the Union as it iu. [Cheers.] We are for the Constitution as it is. [Cheers.] With all its amendments. [A voice, “That’s it !” Great cheers.] We want the citizens of everv State to feel at home iu every other State. [Amen and cheers.] If a citizen of Vermont travels to Georgia or Texas, for business or pleasure, we want him to feel at home in those States. [Cheers.] If a citizen of Texas or Georgia travels North, we want that citizen to feel at home every where throughout the Union. Now, my friends, I do not propose to detain you. I have made a much longer speech al ready than I intended when I entered your town, but you understand tho purpose. We may make mistakes in method, mistakes in meaures, but the sentiment we would encourago is a sen timent of nationality throughout the Union. [Applause.] We all regard the service of that four years’ war, we re gard that period of four years as the most interesting of our lives. We fought them, those of ns who were in the Union army, fought, as we believed, to make this forever hereafter a united people, forever hereafter a free people, and we rejoico to-day to believe that those who wore against us in that strug gle now are with us on both of these questions. [Cheers, loud and long.] And now, my friends, you will desire to hear from some of those who are asso ciated with me in the Government. Two members of the Cabinet are here— Postmaster-General Judge Key, of Ten nessee, and General Devons, Attorney- General. They fought on opposite sides during these lour years, but to day and here they are prepared to fight, if need be, on the same side. [Groat cheers. ] And now I will introduce to you Judge Key. I am sure he is an able man, I am sure he is an honest man, I am sure he is a patriotic man. [Cheers.] Judge Key Spoke as follows : Fellow-Citizens— I appear before you under peculiar oircumstanocs. You are assembled here to recite the vic tories which you have won in former days, to recount the triumphant results which you achieved. 1 appear before you as one of the soldiery from whom your victories wore won—your tri umphs achieved. But my friends The cordiality with which I have been received makes me forget that we have ever beep enemies, and I assure you that I would much rather meet you, as I meet you here to-day, as friends, than in the conflict of arms, as yon have been met heretofore. [Applause.] My friends, the flag I fought for four years has disappeared from the face of the earth. The Government I attempted, with my compeers, to establish, is no more. We have but one flag, and that floats ‘over every foot of our territory. We have but one Constitu tion, and that is the Constitution as it is. [Cheers.] Our quarrel, my friends, was inherited,. Slavery was established by onr fathers, It was established by the men of the North as well as the of the South. Jt was a relic of a termer age. As the ages progressed, as the country progressed, the free States became profoundly impress ed with the idea that slavery was wrong—that it was a great national crime—that it was the sin of tho age, that it was a sin against Heaven and liberty. [A voice, “And it was.”] The peop]e of thp Soath had been educated under different ideas. Their statesmen upon their platforms defended it, and their ministers before holy altars tanght the people that it was right and the people of the Southern States believed it was right. A con flict from time to time, a con flict of opinion grew up, We had adjustments, we had the Missouria com promise, the pojapfomise of ]$5Q. but yet it would not suit. At last, free ideas so far prevailed that Lincoln was elect ed to the Presidency of the United States,” aDd Mr. Key proceeded in the same strain at great length. Washington, September J. —The Post Office Department has received letters from a number of principal newspapers j refusing to publish advertisements at j the rates allowed by law. Tlie Struggle for the Kpeakeratyp— I The Wavering Between Itamlall, Hay lep and Cox. WashincjTQN, September 6. To night’s Star has the following to say with reference to the Speakership of the Forty-fifth Congress : “ There has been a good deal of idle speculation indulged in concerning the Speakership of the next House, and the possibilities of each candidate who aims to preside over it. ‘Speculation,’ we say, because no one, even the candidates themßelves, can assume to say how the votes of the new members who come into the Forty fifth Congress will be given. Those of the candidates, and oat of which a pos sible selection may be made, are Sayler, Randall and Cox. Then there are hosts of small flyers who have no honest be lief that they can be elected, but who want to injeot their candidacy into the canvass with the hope that they may thus successfully make a good trade in the way of Committee Chairmanships. Thus it is that Morrison, of Illinois ; Blackburn, of Kentucky ; Goode, of Virginia ; Bnckner, of Missouri, and others thrust themselveß into the breach as candidates. No one of the last has any idea of success ; hut they want it to be'assumed that they have a sufficient following to transfer it to either of the prominent candidates who will pnt up most for it. It Is a source of regret that it is necessary to elect a Speaker by means of combina tions. In the iterr-Rapdall contest it reached the acme of degradation, inas much as Kerr had to name the Pacific Railroad ''Committee in advance of his election to save the influence of a pow erful corporation, and Randall, in turn, agreed to appoint five different members Chairman of the Committee on Missis sippi Levees. At the present writing it is impossible to predict who will gain the gavel. Randall has that prestige of success which his acceptable filling of the chair last Winter gave him, but he had to contend with the Texas Paoific Railroad Company, and it is safe to say | he will be antagonized by that interest, l inasmuch as he has never yet cast a vote | iu its favor. Sayler will have to suffi ciently explain tbe letter be wrote con cerning Southern claims during the last canvass, and Cox will have to dodge cleverly the financial issue to get votes West or South. Hence it is that all candidates, will come here about evenly balanced, and the winning man will be the one who can stir np the greatest en thusiasm on the ground, and make de luded hnman nature believe in his promises.” JUDGE LYNCH AT WORK. Four murderers Treated to a Summary Dose of Kentucky Justice. Cincinnati, September 4. Henry county, Kentucky, is in a state of great excitement over the lynching of four men who were confined in the jail at New Castle. For seven years the oonn ties of Owen and Henry, situated in the southeastern part of the State, have been terrorized by a gang of banditti who have shot, burned and stolen al most without fear of law. The roads in much of the region are narrow, rocky bridle paths that run along the sides of the mountain streams. Travel is almost entirely on horseback or on foot, and the familiarity of the outlaws with every turn in the roads and dark corners in the thickets enabled them to pnt travelers out of the way with very little inconvenience, and without fear of de tection. During the war many of their murders were charged to rebel soldiers, and at one time General Burbridgo caused a number of Confederates to be shot in retaliation. A few weeks ago one of the band, named Shuck, was hung at Owenton. He protested to the last his innocenoe, and made a statement implicating sev eral of his comrades. Soon after anoth er member of the gang, named Carter, made a full confession, and on the strength of this four men were arrested and lodged in New Castle jail. Three of them were brothers, named Good rich; the other was James Simmons. At half-past one o’clock this morning a mob, numbering fifty men, surrounded the jail, took the four men out of their cells. Lurried them a short distance from the building and hung them in a ghastly row. The victims before the hanging confessed to the murders and other depredations with which they were charged. Nobody seemed to know whence the lynchers came or whither they went. The officers were powerless to offer resistance, aDd the people, if they know anything, are afraid to give information. The bodies were taken down this evening and an inquest held, but no further facts were developed. M ■ i HORRORS OF THE WAR IN ROUMEI.IA. The Christian* Incited to Revolt by the Pres ence of Hussinn Troop*—Old Score* Pnid (lll—Rloody Reprisal* by tbe TnrKs—K*kt Naglira (liven Up to Plunder Ainerlrnn Missionaries Respected. Constantinople, August B. As the Turkish troops approached the city, the Moslem inhabitants began to issue forth from their hiding place. They hardly paused, however, to greet the troops who had delivered them. In fact, before the troops had fairly entered the place, the Moslem citizens brought out axes and be gan to break in the doors of all Bulgarian houses. Now was the opportunity to satis fy the covctings of years. Now was the time to revel in riches of the proud old patricians. There was no order to pillage issued. It was its if the understanding was general by an intuition. The Bulgarians had played their hand, and lost, and Hie instant this was evident the Moslems had their turn. It took hardly ten minutes to break in the doors of 500 houses. A rush was made for the residences of the richest nabobs, which were cleared out before the rabble undertook the systematic spoliation of every house which followed. There was a continuous and rapid fire of musketry going on all over the city at the same time. 'l'lie Turks say that the Bulgarians fired from houses and churches upon the troops. There arc no Bulgarians left to give their side of the story. All Bulgarian men seemed to be killed at sight, as if by arrangement. Women and children were spared as a gen eral thing. But the hideous pillage, and the firing and the shrieks and the shouts continued all night, and great districtsof the city was hunting, as if all the other horrors were not enough. At daylight Sulieman Pasha ordered all Moslems and Jews— whom the Turks protected as if they were their own people—to leave tlje place, since his contemplated operations did not include any such thing as tbe defense of Eski Saghra. So the Turks loaded up tlieir loot and tlieir women and children on wagons, and went to the nearest railway station, followed by what seemed an endless train of Bulgarian women and children who had lost all. These could see, iti the Turkish wagons, goods stolen from tlieir homes, but they might not dare ask for them. Eski Saghra was left to the flames, and in its streets and in the surrounding villages the rattle of rifles was constant for three or four days. There seemed to he a purpose to lull every Bulgarian male over ten years of age. The fair city, set on a hill, used to look out over a plain" which teemed with a busy peasantry in fertile fields. Now, from the seared and blistered hill, you look over the plain, and its forty villages arc blacken ed ash-liecps, foul from the hand of death. The attempt to ameliorate the condition of the Christians of this part of Turkey by war is not a brilliant success, and the mis management which armed these Bulgarians, and encouraged them to desperate lighting against tlieir rulers, and then deserted them in their hour of sore,need, was a tcrrilble crime. No one will ever know the exact loss of life at Eski Saghra. Seven thousand women and children of its Christian popula tion are dependent on charity in Adrianople to day. These people believe all of tlieir male relatives to have been killed. This, however, is hardly so, since many Bulga rian men escaped until the Russians. But the City of Eski Saghra is entirely wiped out of existence. (SUMMER LIFE AT NEWPORT. The Delicate Distinction Between tho Hotel mid the Villa People. [Newport letter inthe St. Louis Olobe-Lemooral.] The villa folks are more and more dis inclined to associate with the hotel folks. A few years since they were wont to commingle freely; now they resolute ly remain apart. The other evening there was a hop at the Ocean House, and near a hundred of the villa swells must have been in vited. Only three attended, I under stand, all the others sending politely worded regrets that they were unhappi ly obliged to be absent by reason of im perative engagements. This season the Avenue has nnquestionably set its face against, or rather Turned Us Back Upon, the Oceanites and Aquidneokers, and these so resent the obvious coldness that an eternal gulf is likely to open be tween them. Recently a young Now Yorker was ask ing the daughter of a wealthy manufac turer of Providence if she knew Miss vard. “Oh, I don’t know her. We do not move in the same set. I have heard of her; she usually goes to the Ocean, I think, and we never go to any of the hotels. Both mamma and papa have forbidden me going, although I dare say some of the persons at the hotels may be nice.” This preoious little girl is not too old to remember when her father was an in dustrious mechanic, but ill eduoated, and sprung from the soil. He went into manufacturing about 1860; got a Gov ernment conteact, and grew rioh by it. And now IIIn Iliiu filter in Iniro<|nce<l From visiting cultured and high-bred young ladies because they stay at hotels. Sbe must have misrepresented her I father, a sensible m u, without the smallest pretense. He married the daughter of a poor, ignorant fisherman on Gape Cod, her good health and fresh looks being her chief matrimonial recom mendations. And she, since her change of fortune, says Mrs, John Jacob As tor's grandfather was nothing but a vul gar Dntoh adventurer, and she has al ready put a coat of arms (it ought to be a shirt-sleeve rolled np, the hand hold ing a huge hammer) on her carriage, her furniture and her plate. Such inoidents of snobbery are not uncommon here, where there is less of it than at most watering places. A young woman from Worcester, possessed of a sharp tongue and a disposition to use it, called on a Mrs. Brown, wife of A Notoriously I)i*lionet Speculator) Who turned his dishonesty to a good pecuniary account. She inquired in nocently if she were related to the Browns, the noted bankers in Wall street? “Indeed we are not. They spell their name without an e,” was the reply, with an indignant toss of the head. “O, that makes no difference, my dear; it is quite probable that Mr. Browne’s grandfather conld not spell his name at all; and yet, if all reports are trne, he must have been more upright and honorable than his grandson.” THE CAUFRH'NIA fICTQRY. Democrats Have* Sweeping Majority In the General Assembly—-Senator Sargent to be Decapitated. San Francisco, September 7.—The latest election retnrns indicate that the Democrats have elected ten Senators and fifty-seven 4 sse ] bl J'B ieD > an(i Republicans fen Senators and twenty three Assemblymen. Including hold overs, the Democrats will have thirty eight majority on a joint ballot. 1 Washington, September 7.—Sargent’s defeat as United States Senator is re ceived with very great patience by oiti- ' zeus of the District of Colombia. THE STATE. THU PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS. Geneva’s tobacco crop is fine. Forsyth wants a cavalry company. Rust appears in Pike county cotton. Bartow county speaks of a barbecne. Warrenton is to have a livery stable. Amerious is to have a big fair this Fall. Miss Anna Darden, of Warrenton, is dead. The Georgia Road is energetically lay ing steel rails. The Brazil mission pays Mr. Hilliard 812,000 a year. There will probably be no racing at the State Fair. Illicit distillers aro being captured in Berrien county. Atlanta claims to have 10,000 surplus, idle population. Charles E. Harmon, Esq , becomes Atlanta librarian. Fulton county’s tax this year will be 274 cents per SIOO. Eggs and chickens have entirely de serted Barnesville. The Dalonega gold mines aro coining money, so to speak. The McDuffie Journal goes in for tho “ Halls of onr Fathers.” Columbus had a big Are Tuesday morning. Loss, $7,000. The incendiary is now having his washing done in Macon. Milledgeville begs the State to “pour it back into the old jug.” And now they have it that Mrs. Col quitt favors Milledgeville. Meriwether county is out of debt and Las 81,800 in the treasury. Mrs. Lawrence Battlo died at her home, in Barnett, recently. Houston county has raised enough hogs to supply her own meat. “The most magnificent hearse in the South” has arrived in Atlanta. Governor Colquitt delivered a sensible address in Columbus Saturday. Talbotton has within her corporate limits several self-sustaining farms. The Athens Georgian comes out sen sibly and manfully for the new Constitu tion. Col. B. W. Wrefnn’sKeunesaw coaches get about at the rate of forty miles per hour. Dr. Scruggs, of Glascock, has plump ed the first bale of new cotton into War renton. Tbe residence of Dr. H. H. Freal, at Kingston, was totally destroyed by fire Wednesday. Mr. Robert Langford, of Madison county, was killed recently by a kick from a mule. Tbe Cherokee people seem determin ed to build the Marietta and North Georgia Road. Mr. Stephons is in Athens attending the session of the Revisory Committee of the State University. A religious revival at Jewell’s Mills has added twenty to the Baptist aud six teen to the Methodist Church. Mr. Amherst Griffeth, of Athens, re ceived tho U. S. Naval appointment to Annapolis, from the Ninth District. The Talbotton Standard man is riled because his obituary of Senator Morton is crowded out. Patience, fond heart. The Hammer remarks that veracity is a jewel, but many a man has lost his hold on it by clinging to snake stories. Dr. R. C Johnson, of Thomson, was recently thrown to the ground from his buggy, and sustained several painful in juries. The Warrenton Clipper throws a musquitonet over its virtuous form and declines to be subsidized on tbe capital question. An epileptic negro boy was crushed under the wheels of the Georgia Road shifting engine, in Atlanta, Wednesday afternoon. Brier Creek Church, in Warren coun ty, commenced a series of meetings on last Friday celebrating its one hundreth anniversary. Colonel Humber, who plants in Put nam county, on tho edge of Baldwin, will make eight thousand bushels of corn this year. The Barnesville Gazette regrets to see the young editors of the Old Capital over-zealous in their disenssion of the capital question. Havauimh marksmen aro anxious to hear if Macon, Augusta or Atlanta in tend entering teams for the prize at the Thomasville Fair. A negro woman of Waynesboro,whilst violently whipping her child last Tues day evening, bursted a blood vessel and died soon afterward. Messrs. Massenburg and Colbert, of Butts county, shot and killed a sturgeon in the Ocmulgee river the other day that weighed 155 pounds, net. Among the stock burned at McPher son Barracks, Atlanta, were the two lit tle gray mules which once belonged to ex President Jefferson Davis. The girls call in the sanctum of the McDuffie Journal so frequently that the editor has hardly had time to make up his mind on the new Constitution. The Talbotton Standard thinks that every patriotic Georgian ought to thank God for this Constitution. It is a model of perfection, so far as human govern ment can go. Mrs. Laura J. Tumlin, the widow of Rev. George W. Tnmlin, deceased, died Tuesday evening in Cartersville, after a painful and protracted illness of about two years. The ablest'of the Western newspaper men, says the Constitution, are just be ginning to get a glimpse of the fact that the Georgia]mule is born with his heels in the air. Mr. Fitzsimmons, of Augusta, and M. P. Reese, Esq., of Washington, left the city Wednesday evening for Massachu setts, where Misses Fitzsimmons and Reese, who accompany them, return to school. At the sale of the North and South Narrow Gauge in Columbus, there ap peared to be three sets of bidders—one for the North Georgia and Marietta Railroad Company, the other for the Central. Railroad Company and the third a Columbus company. Mrs. Nancy Hutcherson, who lives near Gibson, in Glascock county, com pleted the one hundredth year of her age on Saturday last. She has more than two hundred descendants, now liv ing, of whom about one hundred and fifty, including a number of the fifth generation, were present. The McDuffie Journal thinks that the Convention should have petitioned Congress to remove the political dis ablitiea of Gen. Toombs. “ His coun try has an inalienable right to his ser vices,” says the Journil, “ and, from present indications, the day is not dis tant when his wisdom, experience and patriotism will be demanded in the oounoils of the Republic.” Of the Augusta Chronicle and Con stitutionalist, the Sanderville Herald says: “This sterling journal is lacking in no olement essential to a popular and successful paper. Unsurpassed in its news department, ably and disoreetly edited, and withal eminently conserva tive, we admire and heartily com mend our Augusta cotemporary to nil desiring a paper from this railway and manufacturing centre of the South.” Gov. Colquitt has been to Milledge ville. There will be fine raoing at the State Fair. Chicken pox prevails in Lumpkin county. Decatur is the city of churches in Georgia. Brunswick did not report a death dar ing August. Griffin’s receipts overtop last year’s by 332 bales. Snmter county has had a grand ratifi cation meeting. The negroes aro a camp meeting in Newton county. The Echo says that Oglethorpe will vote for Atlanta. The first barrel of new syrup has reached Covington. A case of meningitis is reported in Oglethorpe county. Savannah negroes have caught the Liberian exodus fever. The Grand Lodge of Good Templars meets next week in Dalton. Atlanta and Athens foster their Lite rary Clubs with tender care. Mr. George D, Guinn died at Rut ledge, Wednesday afternoon. A large number of free scholarships remain in the State University. F. B. Hodges, Esq., of Hart, is an nounced as Senator from the 31st. Samnel Barnett, Jr., of Washington, has departed for an European trip. The Athens Commercial Reporter has bloomed into a vigorous weekly. One steamer carried 379 packages of dried fruit from Savannah Thursday. The Manganese mines near Cave Spring are being worked with fair suc cess. Some Oglethorpe farmers think that not more than half a cotton crop will be made there. At the Savannah Court House sales last Tuesday, State of Georgia sevens sold at $lO7. Atlanta seems inclined to look upon the capital campaign as a slanderous fight against her, Athens, Augusta and Atlanta threaten to be considerably mixed np matri monially this Fall. The Hartwell Sun wants Judge Wm. Gibson, of Augusta, to go to Congress next from the Eighth. Atlanta expects thirty or forty fine race horses from Tennessee and Ken tucky at the State Fair. The value of meat annually brought into the State of Georgia is about eigh teen millions of dollars. The Dalton Citizen don’t want any compromise candidates for President in 1880, Ben Hill or no Ben. Mr. Steve Elliot Moore, a prominent Granger of Twiggs county, is taking in his supplies from Athens, Four new churches are to be built in Hart county soon ; one Presbyterian, one Baptist, and two Methodist. The report that Crittenton Goolsby shot and killed Charley Ridley, n Jas per county, last week, proved to be un true. The local of the Athens Georgian de clines to “ponr it back in tho jug” while the warm weather glows and the straws hold out to draw. VVe aro apprised by Hugh Taylor, Efq., that Ebenezer, Morgan county, will not bid for the capital. This clears the matter somewhat. “ Carolynn,” the Macon Telegraph's Atlanta correspondent, is said to pen many letters to that place which never appear in print. How is this ? Atlanta thinks that she will now ex perience some benefit from tbe North and South Railroad, which will be continued by its purchasers. The presiding genius of the Warren ton Clipper and copartner of the An cient Capital wears a beaver made of Lookout Mountain chamois hide. The Central Georgia Weekly will be published henceforth in Macon, edited by Messrs. A. A. & A. O. Mnrphey, gentlemen of ability, culture and energy. The youthful strawberry blonde of tbe Atlanta Constitution continues to have his washing done in Cartersville, but bis literary flirtations are “done up” in Atlanta. It is not true, as msny people along tbe Georgia Road seem to think, that “Nez Perces” is the French for Ned Purcell. It is simply a pet name for Chief Joseph’s clan. Mr. Mary Barber, an old lady of Washington county, 57 years of age and weighing only 80 pounds, alone nnd un assisted, killed recently a huge rattle snake five feet long, and having eleven rattles. Tho Macon Telegraph notes that Mil ledgeville has appointed four guards, who nightly patrol the Capitol square less some vile scamp should toroh the building. Now let Atlanta environ the Opera House. A cyclone visited Elbert county last week, aDd among other places struok was the house of Mr. Beasley, where it lifted a Mrs. Tibbitts off her feet and carried her about eighty yards without injury, and leveled the house to the ground. Onr ever sprightly contemporary, the Oglethorpe Echo, speaking of the Chronicle and Constitutionalist, says: “For almost a century it has been iden tified with and treasured by tbe people of our county. Like wine, it has im proved with age; but we think it lias lately attaiued such a degree of perfec tion that no possible room is left for further advancement. The C. &0. has a solid, substantial look, while at the same time it combines the spice, vim and enterprise of modern journalism. Its tone is elevating aud dignified; its course conservative, unchanging and ever right. It is an honor to its editors; to the press of Georgia; to onr Htate; yea, to the American continent.” A CURIOUS CASK. All Unrorliiiialo Dilemma Resulting From Divorce, Remarriage and Dcalli. [From the Albany Times.] Samuel Rose was killed by the burst ing of a grindstone on the 29th of June, 1877, in the premises attached to Sulli van & Rice’s iron works. Ou the 9th of July William Hagaman was appointed administrator of the estate and guardian of Isabella Rose, the supposed widow, who is under twenty-one years of age, and who has borne a child, which is still living. Surrogate Rogers to day re ceived a petition, of which the following is the substance: Mary Jane Rose, of Brooklyn, alleges that she is the widow of Samuel Rose, late of Albany, deceased; that she was married to him in Brooklyn, and lived with him until shortly before the com mencement of the divorce proceedings hereinafter mentioned ; that a child, William Rose, now in his eleventh year, was born, the issue of said marriage, and said child is now living with the petitioner in Brooklyn. Ou or about the 21 of July, 1877, Samuel Rose died in Albany, and on the 9th of July William Hagaman was appointed administrator of the (state aud guardian of Isabella Rose, tbe alleged widow. The petition er further shows that in September, 1868, she oommenoed an action ngaiDSt him in the Superior Court at Connecticut, for an absolute divorce ; that on the 3d of November, 1869, the said Court granted to the peti tioner a deoree of divorce ; that, the petitioner, Mary J. Rose, is the person described in the decree, and that it has never been reversed, vacated, or set aside. Subsequent to the grauting of the decree, and while tho same was in full force aud effect, Samuel Rose mar ried a girl residing in this city, who is the person described herein as Isabella Rose, for whom William Hagaman was appointed guardian. The petitioner further shows that the marrioge took place in this State, and as tho petitioner is advised and believes, the same is void under the laws of the State of New York. The petitioner therefore prays that the administrator, William Haga maD, bo restrained from paying out any money to or from setting aside any per sonal property for any person claiming to be the widow of said Samuel Rose, deceased, except the petitioner. Surrogate Rogers ordered William Hagaman, administrator, to appear be fore him on the Bth of September. The decree of divorce granted by the Court in Connecticut is attached to the papers in this case, aud does not con tain the clause usually included in the decree and order of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the Stato of New York, namely, prohibiting the party from whom a divorce is obtained from marrying again. If it should be held that the last marriage is void it would make illegitimate the child born to Isabella Rose, and render the child born during Rose’s first marriage, and now in Brooklyn, his only legitimate heir. Price of n Freedom. Tom Ballard, the famous counter feiter, who is now serving tho third year of his thirty years’ term at Albany,has re newed the offer ho made in 1875 with out its receiving any attention from Sec retary Bristow. He proposed to reveal to the Government without promise of reward or release, unless it should be voluntarily offered him after testing its process, a secret which would render counterfeiting impossible. Tho greatest secret, Ballard says, in the making of our present paper money is the weaving in of the blue and red fibres; but this kind of paper is now too easily made by hand. His remedy is a machine, which would cost $30,000, and which would make paper of so superior a quality that it could not be imitated by hand. At present when the ink is washed from the face and back of a SI,OOO bill, it does not differ in appearance from a $1 bill. Ballard’s idea is to have numerous de signs worked in, in place of the red ink, and in plaoe of the blue localized fibre to insert a line or stripe -of stars of a peculiar metalio substance and in the center of each star to insert in minute figures the denomination of tho note, so that in case the ink is erased, or the note reduced to pulp even, its value could still be told. All these secrets, together with one in relation to en graving, which he says will excel any thing now known in lithography, Ballard offers the'Government if it will accept them. Ho also promises to make a quantity of the paper without cost to the Government to experiment upon. CHEATING THE PENITENTIARY. A Carolina Ex-*enator and Delimiter to the State i)le in Hnltiinore— Death An* ticipute* a Ke<jui*itiofi—laU*t Dent Act of V. J. P. Owen**) of CaureuM. Washington, September 6.—Ex-Sen ator Owens, of Lanrens county, South Carolina, died at the Howard House, Baltimore, last night. A large sum of money was found among his personal effects. Later. Columbia, S. C., September 6.—A notice was served on the Carolina Na tional Bank, of this city, to attach the funds payable on certificates of deposit issued to Y. J. P. Owens, amounting to over $20,000. Owens is surety on the bond of Niles G. Parker, ex-State Treas urer, and largely indebted to the State. Owens is now North and may attempt to negotiate these papers. [Note. — This is no doubt ex-Senator Owens who died in Baltimore last night.] Judge Gibson for Congress. [Hartwell Sun.] If in the course of hnman events it shonld become necessary to elect a mem ber to Congress from this district, we hope Hon. William Gibson, of Augusta, will be the man, having good, hard Com mon sense, with all the ability and quali fications for making “A No. I” Con gressman. This district needs a live, energetic, bold, working man, who will attend to any of the numerous little wants of constituents, which we know Gibson would take pleasure in attend ing to for the rich or the poor. We have no doubt that one week spent in Hart by him would secure every vote iu it. Hqw Infinitely Superior Is the fragrant and wholesome Sozo dont to the gritty tooth powders and chemical fluids formerly used upon teeth, bat which abraded and corroded the enamel and induced decay. The Sozodont, on the contrary, preserves, at the same time that it beautifies, the teeth, *