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J. H. KST1LL,
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Elberl
Affairs in (Jeorjria.
eouuty lias a horse fifty years of
age.
A negro
pan who attempted to outrage a
old colored girl in Early county
recently was captuiod, but subsequently
made his escape.
An old negro woman in Oglethorpe county
. ga jj to be one hutidred and five years old.
Dr J. P- Stevens lectured in Atlanta last
night on “God in Nature.”
Old man Norerose, it is said, intends to
ieavo nothing undone during the campaign
tJ forward the interests of his party,
lie liaa had his boots blacked, and will
shortly have his hair shingled.
The Hon. M. Eugene Thornton made a
rousing speech in Griffin recently, in which
he took occasion to set himself right on the
currency question. He bitterly denies that
he ever hugged the rag-baby to his bosom.
Saturdav was a hot day, but hot as it was
it drew forth some comments not altogether
justifiable. A fat gentleman making his
wav up Lull street, reeking with perspira-
t:un saw a young man standing on Butler’s
corner I " king as cool as a cucumber. His
-hirt trout shone glossy and stiff, and his
collar was without a wrinkle. The fat gen
tleman paused in the shade, removed his
bat, mopped his bald head and blazing face
with a large red handkerchief, and remark
ed : “Hotternelll" “Quite so,” remarked the
paie young mau thoughtfully. “I was just
noticing it. Two men shook hands on the
street a moment ago, and—would you be
lieve it, sir?—the palms of their hands
smoked for some time afterwards. It
is, indeed, remarkable weather. Why,
g ir> ”_turniug his intellectual face towards
the heavens—“the heat of the sun is so in
tense that even the twitter has been molted
from the swallows. I trust we will all sur
vive it, sir. So long !” The fat man paused
in the mopping process, watched the young
man as he llitted through the gay sunshine,
and then waddled off up the street.
The Griffin boys hung a well-known citi
zen in effigy the other day, on account of
some sharp law practice. Lawyers don’t seem
to have as much showing in that climate as
the grasshoppers.
Hon. Julian Ilartridge has addressed a
letter to the editor of the D&rien*Gazelle in
regard to the coming contest in the First
Congressional district. The letter is sub
stantially the same as Mr. Hartridge’s ad
dress recently published in the Morning
News, and was written in reply to one from
Mr. Grubb, of the Gazette, inquiring wheth
er a reuomiuation would be acceptable.
A correspondent says that Charlton county
is for Hon. John C. Nicholls for Congress.
Darien is to have a regatta next Satur
day.
A colored infant was found dead in Atlan
ta the other night, and the verdict of ihe
Coroner’s jury was to the effect that it came
to its death from criminal neglect after
birth.
A brace of buzzards were seen in Augusta
the other day, worrying a dead cat. This
would seem to indicate that cats sometimes
die in Augusta.
In the interest of harmony and good gov
ernment, wouldn’t it be a good idea lor the
Democratic Executive Committee to bring
suits for damages against the electrotypers
who have furnished the Georgia papers
with cuts of Tilden and Hendricks ? This
is a serious matter.
Mr. James W. Leigh, of Charlton county,
has seven acres of land planted in sweet
potatoes.
Dr. T. D. Hawkins, of Trader’s Hill, is
spoken of as a candidate for Representative
fruw Charlton county.
Seventy-five snakes were killed on a tem
perance plantation in Spalding county in
one day recently.
lion. Ben. H. Hill will open the campaign
in Griffin on Thursday next.
Thus the Darien Gazette : “The Radicals
of the lirst Congressional District have put
their toot into it by again nominating that
notorious carpet-bagger, John E. Bryant,
fur Congress. It is strange, indeed, that
the Radicals will not nominate a decent man
for this office. Col. John T. Collins, of
Brunswick, was nominated at the same time
for District Elector. The Hon. Julian Hart-
Gdge s majority over Bryant in 1871 was
Let us riake it 5,000 this, the centen
nial year.”
A large gray eagle and a hawk were killed
near Dupont recently while fighting.
Mr. It. a. Daniel, formerly of Darien, will
shortly begiu the publication of the Jesup
Bryant ought to open the campaign in
*rien. The darkeys down there are pre
paring to give him a barbecue—as thev did
before.
Ike Columbus Enquirer says that during
tbe cotton week ending Friday the west-
® rn ra ^ r oads of Alabama brought to
olumfius en route for Savannah and New
iurk ’ 131 bales cotton-130 from Mobile
&Ut * ! from Selma. The total through
tno\ement by this route since September
: 8t ’_ id 40 >&H bales—13,9GG from Mobile,
8,327 from Montgomery, 11,383 from Selma,
u,193 from West Point, Opelika, etc., 1,226
rum \icksburg, 455 from New Orleans, 55
} North aud South Railroad.
A correspondent says that those interested
1Q tile various post offices in Charlton
county regret very much to have the mail
r ute changed from coming on land from
■ Mary s by Mr. John Sheffield to coming
on the river by steam-boat. Mr. Sheffield
as been a steady mail-carrier for seven or
* \ears, and has never been hindered
J ' col(i or hot, wet or dry weather, and bo-
^*b a being faithful in the performance of
‘ a ° duties, he has ever been ready to oblige
parties on the route where he has traveled,
a “ * kils thereby made many friends who
^ r,ret to have him removed from the posi
tion.
J r Me3srs ; Baclilott & Layton, of Centre Vil-
a k e ’ Charlton county, are running their
turpentine distillery very successfully.
” 8 ' 1 "• A L. are energetic gentlemen
aU 8t ^ om Bdl to do well with anything
they undertake.
H- M. Turner, colored, who used to preach
PO.iGcs in this city, made a speech in Phila-
e P recently, in which he said he “had
Been things that few men had seen. He fled
0r * 8 Bv day and by night from the
ihur erous Ku Klux, and he must speak
b rongiy. We believe Turner did flee from
aeon, out we have been told that it was
from the results of his lewdness.
r. Bryant J. Brooks, of Charlton county,
Wile in the woods hunting the other dajf, I
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J. Ii. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, AUGUST 21. 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
discovered an enormous bear feasting on
the carcass of a hog which he had 'just
killed. Mr. Brooks, who is a good shot,
fired on him twice, without the least appa
rent effect. Men and dogs were collected
who went in pursuit of the bear. At last
accounts he had been shot at several times,
but was uninjured.
It is definitely announced in the Atlanta
Constitution that Colonel Clarke is not to be
married to a Columbus belle. A member of
the Slipper Club says it is probable that the
belle was aware of this fact even before the
statement was made. But the Colonel will
be caught at last.
The Jackson Argus says : “Mr. Norwood
has s&iitfied the people of Butts so well that
they will endorse him again.”
Atlanta correspondence Augusta Chroni
cle : It is whispered privately hero that a
certain gentleman to fame not altogether
unknown will have business before the Ful
ton Superior Court at an early day, to an
swer to the charge of trying to bribe certaiu
members and officers of the lato General
Assembly to purloin and destroy a certain
bill that created considerable excitement at
the time of its passage, and thereby prevent
its going to his Excellency, the Governor,
for his signature. If the facts as I have
heard them bo true, there will be a consid
erable shaking up of the dry bones in this
part of the moral vineyard.
Columbus Enquirer: Yesterday Alfred
Tarver, colored, aged forty-five years, died
of consumption at his home in this city. He
was a member of the Baptist Church and
Vice President of tho colored fire company,
Washington No. 2. He was a carpenter, and
a faithful, industrious aud trustworthy man
in his pursuit aud dealings. He was well
thought of by the whites and highly esteem
ed by the colored people. Ho always seemed
to appreciate his condition in life, knowing
his friends, the white people, and acting
with and sustaining them by his influence.
Milledgeville correspondence Macon Tele
graph, August 19 : The bridge for common
travel over the Oconee river at this place
was totally destroyed by fire this morning.
It was a wooden structure erected soon after
the war, in place of the substantial old
bridge destroyed by Sherman’s army in
18G4. The burning is believed to be the
work of an incendiary. When the fire was
discovered, near two o’clock a. m., it had
already made great headway, having evi-
dantly commenced near the middle
of the structure. It fell with
a great crash into tho river
soon after 2 o’clock, aud continued to
burn in that portion above the sur;ace of
the water—the two blazing ends ou the ele
vated abutments aud the burning timbers
stretching from shore to shore along the
water line, formed a striking but mournful
picture. The lire was undoubtedly the work
of an incendiary. It is difficult, however, to
conceive cf a motive for such incendiarism.
The county, iu these “hard times,” will
probably defer for some years the building
of a new bridge. Already an old style ferry
boat is putting passengers across the
stream.
Albany coirespondeDce Columbus En
quirer: Our prospects for a large yield of
cotton, so promising one month since, are
now being fast blighted. We have not had
a general rain for five weeks, and the conse
quence is that cotton is shedding rapidly,
both forms and leaves, aud is injured be
yond redemption. Favorable seasons from
now on would never bring it up to its aver
age yield. While some portions of the coun
try have had rain in abundance, tho great
er portions have had none at all. Why
rains have been so partial is a ques
tion for scientific men to deal with,
I can only state the facts. In short,
I should summarize the prospective yield of
cotton as above that of last year, but below
the average twenty-five per cent. Catei-
pillars have made their appearance on
nearly all bottom lands, and tneir ravages
are as yet confined to them, as owing to
drought cotton on the upland is tough a :d
hard. The matter, iu my estimation,
stands thus: Without ram we will make no
top crop, as cottou has stopped fruiting and
is throwing off a good portion of the fruit it
already has on; and if we were to have
favorable showers it would so greou
up cotton on uplands that cater
pillars would find it too inviting a
meal to abstain from foraging on it,
and would totally “clean up” the new
top crop. Therefore we need not base our
alculatiooB on the top crop at all. This is
merely the opinion of your correspondent
and not infallible, as tho caterpillar might
not, even under the most favorable circum
stances, attack the uplands; but, judging
from the naturo of the insect in the past, it
is sure to devastate them if an abundant
rainfall should cause the cotton to take a
second growth and become green and ten
der. At present there is no prospect of a
general rain, and all calculations as to the
futuro are iu a chrysalis state. A couple of
weeks more will show what the result is to
be. Fodder is all about pulled and stored
away. Quantity and quality both good.
Corn shows up beautifully after being
stripped of its leaves, and will turn out fully
as well as anticipated. One piece of corn,
an early variety, “White’s sugar corn,” grew
up under my eyes. I saw it planted, culti
vated and gathered, and estimated that it
would produce about eight bushels to the
acre. It was plauted 3x4 on an ordinary
piece of upland, and not highly manured or
cultivated. Much to my astonishment, it
shelled out something over twenty bushels
to the acre.
The Bayonet in the Flection.
[From the New York Suu.]
Grant has seized the first moment after
the adjournment of Congress to show his
hand, and the people of the country can
see that it grasps a bayonet, the point of
which is turned toward the Southern
States.
It is a feeling not of alarrp, but of in
dignation, that will be raised throughout
the land by the military order that was
yesterday issued from the War Depart
ment to General Sherman. It directs the
General of the Arm}' to hold all the avail
able military force in readiness to be used
for the support of the Fifteenth Con3ti
tutional Amendment, and for the punish
ment of those who may attempt to inter
fere with the rights therein guaranteed.
It directs him to have the military force
so distributed as to be able to act with
promptitude : and it informs him that he
will receive other instructions from time
to time concerning this business.
The order means that ten or twelve
thousand troops of the regular army are
to be concentrated in the Southern
States—in those of them which have
been, or, without this order, would sure
ly be, wrested from Gramism in Novem
ber next. They will, doubtless, be sta
tioned mainly in Mississippi, Louisiana,
Alabama and South Carolina; and it is
not improbable that, before the election,
the Southern Department will be put in
charge of Gen. Sheridan, who has had
some experience in the kind of work that
he will be called upon to perform.
It was very cunning in Don CaineroB.
Secretary of War, to resort to the pre
text of basing this order on the resolu
tion of Mr. Scott Lord, which was passed
by the House of Representatives on the
10th instant, and received the vote of
nearly all the Democratic members. He
has delayed its issue till one week after
the passage of that resolution, and has
kept it back till one day after the ad
journment of Congress. Why did he not
issue it after receiving the resolution, or
while yet Congress was in session ? The
trick is worthy of Grant himself.
As far back as the second of this month,
we warned Congress that it would be un
safe to adjourn leaving a free opportunity
for the exercise of unrestricted power in
the hands of such a President as Grant.
Our warning is already more than jus
tified.
Grant and the Senate have lately been
very anxious for the enlargement of the
ai my; and it is now evident, as it has
been all along, what object they had in
view in this policy.
The House was weak enough on the
last day of the session, to wit: on Tues
day of this week, to assent to the Sen
ate’s demand for an increase of 2,500 men
in the cavalry arm of the service. The
pretence was that this additional force
was needed for the Sioux war. It was
not needed for that war, but for use in
the Southern States during the Presi
dential election.
There is but one thing now to be de
sired, and that is that this military inter
ference of Grant may recoil upon the
party for whose advantage it is intended.
A public official was at dinner in Wor
cester, when the hostess said to him, “It
isn't possible that I neglected to give you
a spoon ?” He at once arose and offered
his pockets for investigation.
The seventieth-anniversary of the Em
peror William’s entrance into the Prus
sian army will occur January 1, 1877. He
began military life before he was ten
years of age.
THE MORNING NEWS.
DEATH OF SPEAKER KERR.
Progress of the Servian Revolution.
THE
‘O. A. U.” AND THE SCHOOL
QUESTION.
sitting; bull sends a message.
Captain Ends and Ili* IfliNtiissippi Jettle*.
THE EASTERN WAR.
London, August 19.—The Turkish defeat
at Birsanski is confirmed. The Turkish loss
was 1,100.
it is reported that General Tcliernayuff
has issued orders to shoot all Circassians
anil Bashi-Bazouks without parley when
captured.
Belgrade, August 19.—A dispatch from
General Tchernayeff to Prince Milan reports
that his army is perfectly reorganized and
ready to reassume the offensive.
An extraordinary cabinet council was held
yesterday, Prince Milan presiding, at which
it was resolved to continue the war to tho
last extremity.
The Prince of Montenegro, understanding
that the Turks intended to invade Montene
gro from Albania, has left his brother-in-
law Vukoyich iu command of the troops in
Herzegovina, aud has marched with eight
battalions on Montenegro, whence he will in
vade Albania, where the Catholics promise
him their support.
Ragusa, August 19.—Prince Milan has
entrusted Col. Deapotiviach with the chief
command of the insurgents in Bosnia, who
has defeated the Turks at Pretorosts, setting
fire to tho town. The Turks have left the
Austrian frontier, and are concentrating in
the vicinity of Livno.
A body of about five thousand Turks have
been defeated at J&nkova.
The Turkish forces now iu the vicinity of
Albania are estimated at forty thousand
men.
Belgrade, August 19.—It is understood
that tho Sknptschina will be convoked
shortly.
TUE O. A. U.
New York, August 19.—Mr. VauNort-
wick, a member of the New Jersey Senate,
on behalf of the Order of the O. A. U., has
addressed a long letter to Gov. Ilayes re
specting the seventh plank of the Cincin
nati platform in reference to public schools,
and asks: “Was the seventh plank of the
Cincinnati platform merely inserted to quiet
the O. A. U. and similar organizations into
the support of certain party nominees ? Is it
only a delusion, a snare, a lie? Were the men
who so uproariously greeted its reading in
the convention only so many clacquers
hired to get up a cheap demonstration ?”
He further says: “The men of this organi
zation have an interest in understanding
whether the seventh plank of the Cincin
nati platform means business or other
wise. If the resolution be a sham, a mere
wordy exhalation, then they must bide their
time. If, on the other hand, it means that
the school question is a live issue in tho
present canvass, then they expect that the
word will be passed to make fight aloDg the
whole line. Uutil that word is given aud
the movement begins in earnest, they will i
necessarily feel that they have no part or
lot in the matter.”
FINANCIAL CRISIS IN PORTUGAL.
Lisbon, August 19.—In consequenco of
the financial crisis there wa-* a general run
on the banks here yesterday, aud they were
compelled to close their doors. Several will
suspend payment. The Bank of Portugal
is also closed. All suspending banks have
assets in excess of their liabilities.
The present embarrassment is sole
ly due to the scarcity of silver
coin, supplies of which are expected
from London, and it is thought that on
its arrival the crisis will terminate. It is
expected that an official decree will bo pub
lished to-morrow granting a delay of two
mouihs for the payment of commercial
bills.
London, August 19.—Private advices from
Lisbon announce that the government has
issued a decree for the suspension of all en
gagements for two months; consequently tho
financial crisis is considered over. This ar
rangement gives the embarrassed banking
institutions time to determine tho best
course to adopt. Liquidation, however,
seems unavoidable in many cases.
A MESSAGE FROM SITTING BULL.
St. Paul, August 19.—Under date of July
27, Sitting Bull, replies as follows to Major
Mitchella t Fort Pt ck : “Tell him I am com
ing before long to his post to trade. Tell him
I did not commence the war ; that I am get
ting old ; that I did not w ant to figh t,but the
whites rush on me and I am compelled to de
fend myself. But for the soldiers stationed
on the* Rosebud, I with my people would
have been there before. That if I was as
sured of the protectiou of the Great Father
I would go to Fort Peck for tho purpose of
making peace. I and the other chiefs want
the Black Hills abandoned, and wo will
make peace.” Medicine Cloud estimates
the hostiles at from eight thousand to ten
thousand fighting men. They are living en
tirely on meat, which is Lard to get, owing
to the close pre xirnity of tho whites. The
hostile camp is now on Tongue river, south
of Yellowstone.
BOLD BANK ROBBERY.
Cincinnati, August 19.—A special to the
Enquirer, dated tit. Louis, 18&h, says a Dal
las (Texas) dispatch states that about one
o’clock to-day two robbers entered the office
of the State Savings Bank, on Main street,
jumped over the counter and commenced an
attack on E. H. Gruber, President of the
bauk. After felling him to the floor
by a blow on his head ^ith a
navy revolver, they helped themselves
to w’hat money they could find. When an
alarm was raised they ran into an alley,
where their horses were hitched, and rode
off. Mr. Gruber states that the loss will
not exceed two hundred dollars. He lias
offered a reward of five hundred dollars, aud
the citizens have increased tho amount to
one thousand five hundred dollar*, for the
capture of the robbers.
CAPITAL NOTES.
Washington, August 19.—Tho President
left Washington tc-clay for Long Branch.
Several members of the Cabinet are aiso
absent.
Captain Bancroft Gberadi, of tho United
States Navy, has been suspended for two
years for punishing seamen contrary to
law.
Pay Inspector Spalding, who was on duty
at Sau Frp.ccisco when his clerk, Pinney,
absconded with government funds, has been
dismissed from service.
Pay Inspector James N. Carpenter, of the
Navy, having been found guilty of neglect
of duty, is suspended from rank and duty
for five years.
DEATH OF SPEAKER KERR.
Washington, August 19.—A dispatch was
received here to-night by the wife of Dr.
Pope, Mr. Kerr’s physician, announcing the
death oj Speaker Kerr at Rockbridge Alum
Springs this evening at 7:30 o’clock. A cas
ket will be sent from this city to It ck-
bridge Alum Springs to-morrow morning, in
which the remains of tho late Speaker
will be conveyed to bis late home at New Al
bany, Ind. There will be no official cere
monies at Rockbridge, though it is proba
ble that several members of Congress will
attend the remains to New Albany. There
is a very general expression of sorrow here
at the sad though not unexpected news.
FOR THE CENTENNIAL.
London, August 19.—The Scotch rifle
team to compete in the Centennial rifle
matches embarked at Liverpool to-day on
tho Cunard steamer Bothnia.
The Williams & Guion line steamer Idaho,
which sailed from Liverpool on Wednesday,
the 16th instant, for New York, has on board
the Thames professional four to participato
in the international regatta at Philadel
phia.
THE TRAINfiROBBEKY.
St. Louis, August 19.—The Kansas City,
(Mo.) Times publishes a letter purporting
to be from Jesse James, denying that he
had anything to do with the Otterville train
robbery, and gives the names of two prom
inent citizens iu Jackson county, whom he
says can testify that he saw and talked with
them in that county the morning following
the robbery.
FROM QUEBEC.
Toronto, August 19.—A special cable
dispatch to the Globe says, concerning the
Quebec loan, that it has been officially an
nounced that half a million of the loan had
been subscribed. The Times again at
tacks the loan violently, and says tho sub
scription is not bona fide.
FROM PARIS.
Paris, August 19.—A fresh prosecution
has been commenced against the l)roit
VHomme newspaper for publishing articles
insulting to the Chamber of Deputies.
TAMMANY AND ANTI-TAMMANY.
New York, August 19.—The Tammany
and anti-Tammany Executive Committees
met yesterday to arrange differences, with
no result.
FAILED.
New York, August 19.—The failure of
Hon. Josiah Quincy is announced. His
liabilities are $80,000, and his assets are said
to be $220,000.
Tilden's War Record.
THE MISSISSIPPI JETTIES. | AN ABLE DEFENSE OF GOV. TILDEN
St. Louis, August 19.—The South Pass
Jetty Company has official information frofll- Mr. Hewitt’s Heply lo .Mr. Kaswon—Hov
E. L. Corthell, Chief Assistant Engineer at
the South Pass Jetties, to the effect that a
careful and exhaustive survey, in which
more than seven hundred soundings were
taken on the very crest of the bar, was made
on the 14tb, showing a clear channel of
twenty feet depth at average flood tide, with
at least a width of one hundred and forty
feet. When the width of the channel reaches
two hundred feet, the company will be enti
tled to their first payment from the govern
ment.
ARRIVAL OF THE ESCAPED FENIAN8.
New York, August 19.—The whaling bark
Catalpa, Captain Anthony, arrived here this
morning from New South Wales, with the
Fenian prisoners who escaped from that
country some time since. The names of
the men are Mijhael Harrington, Thos.
Darragb, James Wilson, Robt. Cranston,
Thomas Henry Hassett, John J. Breslin,
alias Collins, Thomas Desmond, alias John
son, John King, alias Jones, and Thomas
Breman, alias Hall.
THE MONGOLIAN COMMITTEE.
Long Branch, August 19.—Representa
tive Meade arrived here to-day. He says ho
has not declined to serve ou the Mongolian
Committee, and trusts Mr. W’ilson will re
consider his determination not to serve on
the committee in view of the public import
ance of the investigation proposed, and the
general confidence in Mr. Wilson’s judg
ment. This wish, Mr. Meade believes, is
shared by Messrs. Page, of California, and
Kassou, of Iowa.
A DUEL. *
Paris, August 19.—A sabre duel took
place to-day in Belgium between Piudy aud
Cbardon, well-known Communist refugees.
One received six gashes and the other
eight. Both fainted from loss of bljod.
They accused each other of robbing the
Commune.
WAGENER.
August 19.—Five hundred
present at a_ banquet last
Bayreuth,
persons were
night, given in honor of Horr Wagener.
After making a speech, which was loudly
applauded, Herr Wagener was crowned with
a silver and laurel wreath.
ATTEMPT TO THROW a TRAIN OFF THE TRACK.
New York, August 19.—Au unsuccess
ful attempt was made last night to throw
the express train via the lloosac Tunnel, on
the Fitchburg road, from the track by plac
ing lies on the rails.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATION.
Montgomery, August 19.—Hon. G. W.
Hewitt is renominated for Congress from
the -Sixth Alabama District. This defeats
B. B. Lewis, at present member from the
State at large.
BURNED.
Cincinnati, August 19.—A fire in Ports
mouth, Ohio, this morning, destroyed tho
Childrens’ Home. Loss $15,000. The build
ing was not insured.
CRETE EXCITED.
Vienna, August 19.—The Political Cor
respondence announces that great excite
ment again prevails iu Crete.
THE STATUE OF LIBEKTY.
Arrival of the Highl Hand and Wrist
fra in France.
A fragment of the great statue of Lib
erty, destined for Bedloe’s island, waq put
ashore at pier 57, North river, yesterday
from the French steamer Labrador, it
was contained iu a huge case* as large as
a small dwelling, made of boards nailed
rudely together, with open spaces be
tween. All the statue it held was the
wrist aud right hand, with a section of
the torch which the right arm is to hold
aloft, bearing a flambeau, which will serve
as a lighthouse beacon. The vast case
rested on a truck, and was an object of
much curiosity to the people around the
docks. The French sailors of the Lab -
rador fairly danced arcund it in their
enthusiasm, calling on those in the vicini
ty whom they guessed were Americans
to come and “ze zee tumb.” The thumb,
which partly encircled the torch (a huge
cylinder of twelve feet in circumference)
was a ludicrously gigantic member. Ou
the thumb-nail alone a man of several
huudred pounds avoirdupois might find a
more roomy seat than in a Third avenue
car. As for the arm below the elbow and
opening into the palm of the hand three
men of ordinary stature may walk abreast
within its interior. It is said that inside
tho upper and broader part of the arm
above the elbow as many as nine men can
b9 comfortably accommodated. This
fragmentary part is made of bronzed
copper, about a sixteenth of an inch
in thickness. It is in fine, evenly-rolled
plates, riveted and t crewed together
in the firmest and most elaborate manner.
The completed statue will to about one
hundred and twenty feet in height, from
the crown of the head to the sole of tho
foot, the elevation of the pedestal being,
perhaps, a third of the altitude of the
statue. It is understood that a staircase
will be placed within the right arm, by
which ascent can be made to a balcony
running around the edge of the flam
beau. The height of the complete
arm is thirty-five feet. Of course the
statue is upright. The left arm is bent
so as to enfold and hold lightly toward
the body a set of tablets upon which
the Declaration of Independence is
supposed to be inscribed. A tunic falls
over a peblum from the shoulders to the
feet. The head is surrounded by a dia
dem, from which projects a circiet of
prongs that catch the sun’s ray and con
struct a brilliant nimbus of glory out of
them. The folds of the outer garm nt
are so arranged that the edges fold dia
gonally across the figure. Its estimated
cost is $125,000, half of which has al
ready been subscribed. Both pedestal
aud statue will be completed in two years
from now, and it will be the joint enter
prise of France and America. Along with
the fragment already received and the
portion on exhibition at Philadelphia the
right arm is supposed to be complete.—
Herald, 15(/i.
Anoilier Exhibition of Telephony.
[From the Toronto Globe, August 12.]
We are informed by the Expositor that
at a party at the residence of Professor
A. Melville Bell, Brantford, on Friday
evening, a rare treat was afforded to the
guests in the experimental explanations
made by Professor A. Graham Bell, of
Boston, of the new system of telephony
lately invented by that gentleman. In
struments were placed, one in the porch
of the residence and the other in an out
house on the grounds, and communica
tion between these made by ten miles of
wire. Musical notes, the human voice,
and songs spoken and sung before one
instrument were plainly audible by plac
ing the instrument to the ear at the
other. By this invention, too, any
number of messages can be conveyed
over one wire in either direction, pro
vided they have a different pitch; the
tones of the voice can pass over the
electric wire, enabling the hearer
at any distance to hear dis
tinctly what is said, and to distinguish
the voice of the speaker. On Thursday
the professor had communication with
his instrument on ihe common telegraph
wire between Brantford and Mount Pleas
ant (five miles), aud was spoken with,
while in Mount Pleasant, by Professor D.
C. Bell aud Mr. Griffin from the Domin-
wn office in Biantford. On Saturday
evening the professor tried a new experi
ment, havieg had an instrument made so
that three persons could sing different
tunes or different parts of the same tune
into the instrument at the same time.
The trial was perfectly successful, the
different voices coming distinctly over
the wire at the same time, so they could
be separately distinguished by the list
ener. The practical exemplification of
the lately discovered system of telephony
made by the professor afforded much
pleasure and information to those present.
In the night session of Monday in the
House of liepresentatives Mr. Hewitt, of
New York, replied to the attack of Mr.
Kasson, of Iowa, on Governor Tilden.
Mr. Hewitt’s speech, which was delivered
at five o’clock in the morning, after an all
night session, is said to have been one
of the most effective delivered in the
House for many years. The following is
a synopsis of the speech:
He spoke of Mr. Kasson’s speech as a
painful surprise and a melancholy expe
rience. He could hardly have believed
that that gentleman; with his intellectual
endowments, could have so far abdicated
his own self respect as to have indulged
in the partisan and malicious statements
which he had made. He (Mr. Hewitt)
approached the subject as he would take
hold of a slimy snake, with *a desire to
get rid of it. Tho first charge was that
Governor Tilden had been a secessionist.
It was possible that Governor Tilden
might before the lawless strife have en
tertained views in common with Jef
ferson, Madison, Jackson, and other great
in on wno had given construction to
the constitution and government of the
country. At the outbreak of the re
bellion he (Hewitt) was in daily and al
most hourly communion with Governor
TildeD, and he knew that no more loyal
or patriotic heart was then beating iu the
United States. When the first call for
troops came Tammany Hall, which Lad
then fallen into^ the hands of the ring,
raised a regimen’L The Grand Sachem
of Tammany Hall (W. D. Kennedy) was
Colonel of that regiment, and it was of
ficered mostly by members of the Tam
many Society.
Mr. Lapham—After the fall of Fort
Sumter did not Mr. Tilden refuse to sign
the call for the great Cooper Institute
meeting, and refuse to attend the mee
mg?
Mr. Hewitt—It is not true that he re
fused to sign it, and he did attend the
meeting. (Applause on the Democratic
side.) Mr. Samuel Sloan, then a mem
her of the Union Safety Committee, of
New York, applied to Mr. Tilden, at a
time when he was engaged iu the trial of
a case, to affix his name to the call, and
his reply was : “I am very busy just now.
Send me the resolutions after the trial of
this case, and if they are entirely proper
Twill sign the call.” The call was nev
sent to him, but when the meeting took
place he attended it, and the resolutions
received his absolute aud unqualified ap
proval. I say now that Tammany Hall
raised a regiment for the war, and that
Governor Tilden was a large contributor
to that fund.
Mr. Conger—How much ?
Mr. Hewitt—I am not going to state
dollars and cents. Patriotism is above
dollars and cents in some quarters.
Subsequently to that period no man in
New York was more frequently called
into counsel there and in Washington
than Mr. Tilden. I know that he was
twice called for b> President Lincoln,
and came to Warhicgton and
held cheerful consultation with him,
resulting iu the earl}' aud rapid filling of
the quota from the Slate of New York,
and 1 know that during tho whole of that
trying time there never was a doubt as
to the loyalty and patriotism of Samuel
J. Tilden. As to the resolution of the
Chicago convention quoted by Mr. Kas
son against Mr. Tilden, declaring the
war a failure, he (Mr. Kasson) should
have known that witniu a month past
public and positive statement had been
made by Mr. Manton Marble, the secre
tary of the committee on resolution
that Gov. Tilden opposed that resolution
publicly and privately, and it was with
his own (Mr. Hewitt’s) knowledge that
Gov. Tilden urged Gen. McClellan (after
his nomination) to make such a declara
tion iu his letter of acceptance as would
nullify that portion of the.Chicago plat
form.
Mr. llaudall—Which was, “the Union
at all hazards.”
Mr. Hewitt.—Those were the words in
serted in the Chicago platform. GovTilden
declared that the adjustment of the con
troversy between the North and the South
ou any other basis than the restoration of
the Union was impossible ; that the mo
ment aDy party went out of the Union
the question must be settled by war, aud
that the war must be prosecuted until the
question was settled. These declarations
of his were published in the New York
and Chicago papers, at the time cf the
convention, and that is my answer to the
statement of the gentleman from Ohio
that Gov. Tilden never made aDy declar
ation iu favor of the prosecution of the
war, and that he was a disunionist. In
regard to the insinuations connecting
Gov. Tilden’s name with that of Was. M.
Tweed, he (Mr. Hewitt) said that Gov.
Tilden had for more than three years,
like a hound ou the scent, followed tho
members of the ring patiently, secretly,
delightedly. He knew Mr. Tilden’s un
tiring efforts day and night; he knew
how' he tracked these people to their dens
of iniquity, and finally dragged them
forth to public execration. (Applause.)
The bare, naked fact is thL: There was
war—war to the knife—between Gover
nor Tilden and Tweed, aud it ended in
the defeat and exile cf Tweed. (Loud
applause on the Democratic side.) That
is all there is about it. I call tho House
to witness that I have answered and am
willing to answer every question bearing
on the merits cf this case. No one will
intimate that there was the slightest in
timacy, personal or political, at any time,
between Samuel J. Tilden and Wm. M.
Tweed. There never was. There was
that association which comes from the
enforced appointment of men on com
mittees from their living in the same
community and from belonging to the
same party. But the one man stood in
the community above and beyond suspi
cion, and the other was always an object
of hatred and finally of detestation. 1
defy the gentlemen to lay their hands
upon a dishonest dollar in the posses
sion of Samuel J. Tilden. The people
whom he served are his friends to-day,
and his best friends, and it is the service
which he rendered to them that will, not
withstanding the insinuations of the gen
tleman from Iowa, give him the vote of
those great Western States within whose
borders he reconstructed highways which
are to them to-day the arteries of com
merce and blessings whose value cannot-
be properly estimated. Through the
whole of his remarkable career he has
been the wisest of men. He has been the
truest of friends. He has been the most
zealous and earnest of patriots. He is
to-day the wisest, the most accomplished
statesmen in the land, and he will, by the
blessing of God, be one of the greatest—
perhaps the greatest—of Presidents of
the United States, because he will have
the opportunity to rescue this govern
ment from the hands of the incompetent
and dishonest men who have controlled
it so long, and have made it a reproach in
the eyes of the civilzied world. (Great
applause on the Democratic side.)
THE RADICAL ARMY OF OCCUPA
TIOX.
The Distribution of Soldiers in the Re
constructed States—Eleven States Gar
risoned by One Hundred and Thirty-
eight Companies—Half a Dozen Itegi
uients that flight be Spared to Fight the
Indians.
SECOR ItOBBERSON BRIEFLY DESCRIBED.—
The Secretary entered office a poor man,
spent double the amount of his salary
every year, and is now reputed to be one
of the richest men in New Jersey. He
made his money by awarding fraudulent
contracts to parties who had paid
tribute to the.Cattells, who divided their
spoils with him. Also by transferring to
Jay Cooke a million of dollars of the
government funds when that eminent
financier was on the verge of bankruptcy.
The moral evidence of his guilt is over
whelming.—Utica Observer,
A convict who escaped from a North
Carolina jail stopped at a farm house and
told the inmates that he was an officer iu
pursuit of a fugitive, and had put on the
prison dress in order to deceive him. He
asked for a revolver and got it. At an
other place, by telling the same lie, he
borrowed a horse. Several bloodhounds
overtook him, but he shot them. Yet,
after all that good luck, he was captured.
An enterprising New Hampshire boy
of sixteen eloped with and married a girl
of fourteen,four years ago,but she left him
in about two years ; whereupon he mar
ried another girl without the formality of
a divorce. Wife number two left him, a
while ago, and, nothing daunted, he now
takes to himself a third.
[•-’orrespondence of the New York Herald ]
Washington, August 15.—The Fresi
dent’s message asking Congress to allow
the special enlistment of 5,000 volunteers
to serve against the Indians for “six
months or the war,” has directed public
attention not only to what President
Grant, General Sherman and General
Sheridan have united in calling “the
possible needs of the army in conse
quence of existing hostilities,” but to the
distribution and numbers of the army in
the Southern States. General Sheridan,
in his appeal to General Sherman for re
inforcemeuts to be secured by an applica
tion to Congress, wrote, “I Lave stripped
every post from the lino of Manitoba to
Texas;” and General Sherman, in for
warding General Sheridan’s letter to the
President, says : *‘I invite your attention
to the fact that after stripping nearly
every post in his military division except
those in Texas and the South he has only
been able to reinforce General Crook to
the extent of 1,774 and General Ter y
1,873 men for offensive operations.”
THE IMPRESSION CREATED
by reading these words casually is that in
the desire to reinforce the columns ope
rating against the Sioux a heavy draft ha
been made on the garrison.3 and posts in
the Southern Slates, and that the “army
of occupation,” which, as alleged, has
been u aintained there in the interest of
Radio 1 politicians has been depleted to
i mere;} nominal proportions. An inspec
tion, nowever, of the rolls at the Adju
tant General’s office in Washington shows
quite a differeut state of affairs, and that,
despite the urgency of the crisis in the
Sioux country and on the frontier gene
rally. The garrisons and military posts iu
the eleven reconstructed Southern States
have been practically undisturbed. It is
not intended in this connection to make
any reflection upon or to attribute any
design of misrepresentation to either
General Sherman or General Sheridan
for what they have said about stripping
military posts to strengthen Generals
Crook and Terry. On the contrary.
General Sheridan is quite explicit in say
ing that he has confined the stripping
process to the region between Manitoba
and Texas. But the public have gathered
their impression from their letters to the
President, aud from the newspaper
accounts of the occasional passage of a
battulion of troops through the Western
an l Southwestern cities to the seat of
war, that every available soldier has been
taken from the peaceable parts of the
couniry and sent either to the Sioux
country cr to the outposts bordering
thereon.
A glance at the following statement of
the actual distribution of the regular
army in the eleven reconstructed South
ern States will tell a different story.
Within their territory—the limits, it wiil
be remembered, of the rebel Confedera
cy—tho United States military establish
ment at the present writing comprises 138
companies of soldiers, divided between
the three arms of the service as follows :
Companies of infantry 92
Batteries of artillery *20
Companies of cavalry i6
Total 13S
From this showing, as au exhibit of the
so-called “occupation of the South,”
should be deducted pretty much the
whole force of artillery, which is sta
tioned along the seaboard from Fortress
Monroe to Port Barrancas, and would
practically be so stationed if the late re
bellion had never taken place. It is a
suggestive fact, however, in this connec
tion, that the artillerymen are distributed
chiefly to the peaceful and quiet seacoast
region of Virginia, North and South Caro
lina aud Florida, where the policy of recon
struction, as interpreted by the liepubli
can party, has not been disturbed by do
mestic violence, while the infantry sol
diers, who usually would share these
posts with the artillerymen, are concen
trated in such States as South Carolina,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Geor
gia, where the White Liners and other
sympathizers with the enemies of the
Radicals, or
REPUBLICANS, “MOST DO CONGREGATE.” I
From this total we should also deduct
the twenty-six companies of cavalry who
are stationed exclusively within the lim
its of Texas, chiefly along the line cf the
Rio Grande, and who, confessedly, exert
little or no influence whatever in the plan
or policy of occupation of the South, j
their services being devoted to the pro
tection of the border from incursions of
Mexican guerillas and the frontier from
depredations of the Indians. It is also
fair to make allowance for the large in
fantry force stationed iu Texas compris
ing forty-five companies in all who are
largely engaged in assisting the cavalry in
watching and protecting the border and
frontier, although it is a question whether
without a “policy occupation” this
force of cavalry aud infan
try in Texas would be main
tained at its present size. With all these
allowances it will be quite apparent from
an inspection of the statement below that
au armed force of fully five regiments of
infantry and one regiment of cavalry is
now doing service in preserving peace in
the South. How much of this force
could be spared to help Generals Crook
and Terry, and how sparingly the mili
tary posts to the South have been
stripped to reinforce them are matters
for the public to form their own opinions
about. The distribution of troops by
companies in each State is as follows :
Texas—Forty-five companies of infant
ry and twenty-six companies of cavalry.
Louisiana—Twelve companies of in
fantry.
Mississippi—Ten companies of in
fantry.
South Carolina—Eight companies of
infantry and two companies of artillery.
Florida—Eight companies of artillery.
Georgia—Seven companies of infantry
and one company of artillery.
Alabama—Five companies of infantry.
Viiginia—Five companies of artillery.
North Carolina—Four companies of ar
tillery.
Tennessee—Three companies of in
fantry.
Arkansas—Two companies of infantry.
Total—One hundred and thirty-eight
companies.
Gen. Sherman stated before a commit
tee of Congress recently that the compa
nies averaged only about fifty men.
[Of the eight companies in Georgia,
one company (Company D, Fifth Artil
lery,) is stationed in Savannah, and seven
companies (B, D, F, H and I, Second, and
A and E, Eighth Infantry,) are stationed
in Atlanta.]
OATS IX GEORGIA.
Experience of Farmers With the Crop
[From the Columbus Times.]
Hon. M. W. Lewis declared in his
speech before the late Agricultural Con
vention that the only way to accomplish
any reform in planting or anything else
was to “get up an excitement” on the
subject. If that is the way to do it, we
may congratulate the people of Georgia
on the fact that they are likely to reap
all the benefit* that can be attained by
an “excitement” about oats. We never
knew’ so large an assembly more
unanimous on one subject than the
Gainesville Convention was in the con
viction that oats are to be a great agent
in the restoration of the farming pros
perity of the South. Numbers of the
members had marvelous reports to make
of the great yield of their oat fields this
year, and of the surprise they experiei.ced
iu finding that their horses and mules,
when fed exclusively on oats, did fully as
well, or better, than when fed on corn
and fodder.
One old gentleman from South jCura
lina confessed that he “had gone crazy on
oats but when he came to give in his
experience with that grain, it was readily
perceived that there was much “method
in his madness.” He said that at the
close of the war he first resorted to the
common plan of raising large co^.on
crops and purchasing provisions, with
view of restoring his shattered fortuueF,
but that he soon found that his condi ion
was getting worse, instead of imp-,
mg, under this system. He lien
tried the plan, prevalent before the
w'ar, of planting a considerable crc p of
corn as w ell as cotton. This, too, pri ved
ineffectual; it did not work as well with
hired free labor as with the slaves nuder
the old system. His cotton w’as mortgaged
for advances before it was picked, and
his progress was still down hill. His s ock
were poor, and his farming unremunera
tive. He next turned his attention to
oats as a feed crop, and found thfct he
had at last hit upon the remedy for “l ard
times,” scanty supplies and lien ci.«pF.
He had retained the seed of the “Red
Mexican Rust-procf Oats,” a va iety
which he commenced planting or. i
small scale before the war. He fouml it
yield very much greater than that of < orn
on his poor lands ; that it interfered less
with the culture of cotton and c'ber
summer crops than corn did : and th» ? in
proportion to the increasing extent of
his oat crop the profits of his last y
farming increased, his s’oek became fat
ter, and his condition much improved.
Iu all his long experience in planting it.
he had never known this variety of oats
to take the rust or to deteriorate. His
mults had no other grain, and did bt tter
on it than they did on c m. Even his
hogs were fed mainly on oats, and ihey
were as fat and sleek as any one c uld
desire to see.
Several farmers from upper Gee rgia
corroborated the South Carolina gen ie
man’s statements as to the value and rust
proof qualities of the Red Mexican oats.
One gentleman,we think from Bartowcoun
ty, said that his oats of that variety had
mixed, as he perceived yellow oats am mg
them ; but he was not certain that the
seed were not slightly mixed when he
first bought them—there had been no
other oats sown lo mix with them on his
place.
One gentleman from Murray county
related his experience in experimeLtiD^
to see how large a crop of oats could be
raised per acre. He had planted three
years in succession on the same ground
constantly increasing the production,
until this year he had gathered and
thrashed out very nearly one hundred
bushels to the acre-—we think that
twenty-seven bushels per acre was the
quantity stated. This was not done on a
single selected acre, but on a field of ten
acres, and the product stated above was
the average. The land was pretty good,
and he manured heavily with cotton seed.
Other gentlemen, who had experimt nted
on smaller areas, gave accounts of a pro
duction astonishingly great.
Mr. Carmichael, of Coweta, expressed
the opinion that oats could be clear* d of
grass and weeds, as well as fertiiiz d at
the best time, by overflowing them, like
rice. He said that his oat crop of this
year had been submerged five cr six
times during last winter and spring, some
of it to the depth of five feet, aud he
noticed that the yield was best where it
was ovei flowed deepest. Some of il was
uDder water three or four days at a lime.
He, too, is a thorough convert to the
superior value of the oat crop, which he
had made to supply the place of corn for
nearly everything except bread, and he
finds the condition of his workin;; and
fattening stock much improved by it.
There is no doubt that the Gaine-ville
meeting got up quite a revival on the
economy of planting oats, and that
greatly increased areas of this grain will
be planted during the coming fall and
winter. If it should come up to the san
guine expectations of those who reported
tbeir experience at Gainesville, it will
hereafter be known as the rescue crop of
the Sou<h.
A camp meeting at Yarmouth, Mass.,
was endangered by a fire in the woods.
In the midst of a panic some of the wor
shippers buried their gods, others did
nothing but shoot in terror, and many
fled. The flames, however, were checked
before reaching the camp.
A Wood chopper’s Agony. — Horace
Miner, on Tuesday last, was chopping in
the woods near Way mart. At noon his
wife carried his dinner to him. He was
engaged felling a tree when she arrived
at the spot, and she stood near waiting
for him to get through. She had in her
arms a child a few months old. The tree
in falling lurched toward Mrs. Minor, and
before she could get out of the way it
came crashing upon her, one of the
largest branches striking her and pinning
both her arms and her child to the earth.
Miner ran to the spot. He could not see
his child, but his wife was lying with her
face turned up and gasping in death.
Miner at once set to work to extricate
his wife and child from that terrible po
sition. The branch of the tree lay across
Mrs. Miner, and it was evident the child
was beneath the mother. The husband,
to extricate the wife and child, was com
pelled to cut away the branch, and be -
fore he had finished his task he saw his
wife die before his eyes. He removed
her body from beneath the tree and
found his child crushed to death, having
been crushed deep into the ground. The
husband, almost frantic, took both bodies
in his arms and carried them a mile
through the woods to his home.—Port
Jervis Gazette.
Important to Lawyers and Litigants
We have been handed the folk wing
letter, giving all the changes made by
the last Legislature in the sessions of our
Superior Courts. The delay in publica
tion of the acts made it necessary to ex
amine the original laws. * This Colonel
Barnett promptly did, on application
being made to him. Such officers are an
honor to the people of this State :
State of Georgia, )
Office of the Secretary of State,
Atlanta. August 10, 187G. )
Col. II. K. Hines, Macon, Ga. :
Dear Sir—The changes in the times of
holding the Superior Courts in this State,
made at the last session of the Legisla
ture, are as follows:
Burke county, first Mondays in April
and October.
Cherokee county, summer term, fourth
Monday in July.
Echols county, second Tuesdays in June
and December.
Oconee county, fourth Mondays in Jan
uary and July.
Washington county, first Mond ys in
March and September.
OCONEE CIRCUIT.
Twiggs county, first Mondays in March
and September.
Dooly county, second Mondays in March
and September.
Wilcox, fourth Mondays in March and
September.
Irwin county. Friday after Wilcox.
Montgomery county, Wednesday after
fourth Monday in April and October.
Laurens county, second Monday in
April and October.
Telfair county, Tuesday after the third
Monday in April and October.
Dodge county, fourth Mondays in April
and October.
Pulaski county, second Mondays in May
and November (two weeks).
Respectfully, N. C. Barnitt.
A Man’s Life Saved by a Dream.—
Early on Friday morning Mr. Hall, a
butcher, of Franklin, Mass., went into
his ice chest to inspect the premises,
when tho door accidentally swung back,
operating the spring lock, and the man
was a prisoner in a very small room of
icy temperature, and without means of
escape. A speedy and frightful death
stared him in the face. He shouted and
thumped upon what promised to be his
coffin, but all in vain. Now comes the
marvellous pat t of the circumstance. When
Mr. Hall’s son arose on that morning he
was deep y impressed with a dream which
he had duriDg the previous night. He
dreamed that his father had been caught
and suffocated in the ice chest! Not
finding his father on inquiring for him,
the son at once proceeded to the ice chest
and found it locked. On opening it the
apparently dead body of his father was
discovered and rescued. So near death
had the unfortunate prisoner come that it
was hours before he came to a state of
consciousness, and is still in an enfeebled
condition. To those (ourselves among
the number) who have no faith in dreams
and visions, it may be difficult to account
for the connection between the son’s
dream and the father’s accident.— Woon
socket (i?. /.) Patriot, August 14.
The Views of Some Lesdlac Senators
nnd Representative*—General Logan'*
Opinion.
Washington. August 17.—The Presi
dent’s despotic order was the theme of
conversation and criticism in this city
to -day. A few members of Congress re
main whose opinions are worth quoting.
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, who started
for home to-night, when asked what he
thought would be its effect, said: “I fear
it will be the means of wresting two
States from us. Such orders are never
issued from philanthropic or disinterested
motives. It certainly was not intended
to strengthen the Democratic party;
therefore we must reason that its object
was designed to effect a contrary result.
Not that there was any fear of violence
during the campaign, but the slightest
pretext would be made an excuse for
calling upon troops, and after that tales
of intimidation and terrorism could be
repeated.”
Mr. Morrison, the leader of the House,
said that, after reflection, he was con
vinced the order would result in great
good to the Democratic party in the
SoHth. It would put the people of that
section on their good behavior, and
doubtless keep them from rash acts. He
did not speak of the wisdom or policy
which prompted the order, but of its
effect now that it had been promulgated.
“I can’t but believe,” he concluded,
“that the party and the country will be
the better for Grant's rashness.”
Mr. Lamar declined to express any
opinion, but by his looks and actions it
was evident he was exceedingly annoyed
at the attitude of the administration
toward the South.
Congressman Saylerof Ohio laughingly
said that it would do the Democrats .quite
as much good as it would the Republi
cans. Thoughtful people would under
stand that one portion of the country
cannot be picketed and garrisoned by
Federal troops ou the order of the Presi
dent without giving the right to scatter
the army all over the country. If in the
South, why not the North ? If in New
Orleans, why not in Circinnati, Chicago,
or any other city ? Nor would the peo
ple believe that order was maintained
through fear. In Louisiana the trouble
had not been riots and intimidation, but
the dishonest conduct of the State offi
cials in counting the vote : and all the
army of the United States had no terror
for such men as Packard and Kellogg.
Congressman Meade, of New York, re
gretted the alleged necessity for such an
order. It was intended that the military
should be used to intimidate the white
people of the South and embolden the
carpet-baggers to lead lawless bands of
negroes to the voting precincts, where
disturbances would be ci rtain to follow.
Mr. Levy, who represents the Colfax
(Louisiana) District in the House, said
that in the South, and in Louisiana, espe
cially, it would react. ‘*That order,” he
said, “has much more of the qualities of
a boomerang for the Republicans than it
was intended.”
Senator Logan is reported as having
said the promulgation of the order is
‘the worst d—n thing that could happen
to the Republican party.”
The Naval Order Reducing I*av of
Uflicers—Anollicr Political Subter
fuge.
\V ashington, August 18.—Navy circles
are in a terrible state of excitement over
the order of Secretary Robeson cutting
down so enormously the pay of officers
on the active list when relieved from
active duty. The allowance as prescribed
by the Secretary will, it is alleged, be
scarcely sufficient to keep body and soul
together, and will result in great distress
to the officers and their families. Some
of the Republican members of Congress
who are still in the city, in conversation
on this subject, express gTeat delight
over the action of the Secretary.
They say that the army and navy officers
consider it beneath them to take any part
in politics, that they never vote, and that
the sympathies of most of them are with
the Democracy. Now they argue that
when the shoe pinches these officers, and
they learn that a Democratic House of
Representatives has been the cause of re
ducing their emoluments, they will be
roused to redress themselves in the only
manner possible by voting the Republican
ticket next fall.
Such expressions frem Republican
Congressmen give color to the su picion
that the Secretary of the Navy, in
issuing his older, had political ob
jects in view. It is apparent that he
proposes, so far as he is able, to ren
der the resolutions made by the House
as obnoxious to the service as possible.
It is said that under this order Admiral
Porter, whose salary is near $13,000 per
annum, will be reduced to $G,500, as he
was put on leave recently, and when that
expires, which will be in a few months,
he will be furloughed. The compensa
tion of Vice Admiral Rowan will also be
reduced 50 per cent. The following
shows the present pay of the officers
named and what it will be under the
order:
On leave or
waiting orders.
Rear Admirals $4,0<>o
Commo lores 3,000
Captains 2,S0O
Commanders 2,3' 0
Lieut. Commanders—
First four years.... 2.0C0
After foar years.... ‘2,400
Lieutenants—
First five years l.GGO
After five years ... 1,80J
Masters—
First five years 1,200
After five years.. .. 1,400
Ensigns—
First five years S00
After five years.... 1,000
Midshipmen GOO
Present law on
furloughed.
$‘2,000
1,500
1,400
1,150
1,000
1,100
soO
900
700
400
500
300
-Baltimore Sun.
Secretary Cameron’s Order.
[Washington Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
There is quite a breeze arising out of
Don Cameron’s instructions to General
Sherman with respect to holding the
army in readiness to enforce the provi
sions of the fifteenth amendment. Ifc
had its origin in the brain of old Simon
Cameron, and was suggested by him to
Grant as a faithful interpretation of Scott
Lord's resolution adopted by the House.
It looked funny to all three of them at
he time it was drafted, but the shoe
pinches now in a way not at all sug
gestive of levity. Grant has been advised
to day that the issuance of such instruc-
ions will bear but one interpretation by
honest men, and that is that the negroes
the South and their carpet-bagger
leaders are to create disorders in order to
furnish excuse to send troops into the
Sooth. They are really invited to make
disturbance of the peace. While it is
believed that ihe worst elements of the
negro society wiil take advantage of the
invitation, it is held by all decent men
that the country will not be slow to form
the opinion that the army is to be sub
served to the basest of purposes—to ac
complish political results. Some of the
best Republicans denounce the order, and
so an effort will be made to prove what
has always been maintained by theDemo-
ocrats, that the Southern outrages are
provoked for a partisan purpose by the
very men who cry aloud for protection;
in shorr, that the instructions revealed
the fact that the “bloody shirt” flaunted
by Morton would never have had its ori
gin had not the administration created it.
The Democrats assert that the design of
the movement is to change the issues of
the campaign aud turn the attention of
the people from the candidates and live
issue, in the hope of arousing indignation
at the North. It can hardly be for any
other motive, as Don Cameron has as
serted that it would require all of the reg
ular army to carry the State of Missis
sippi alone for the Republicans, and he
does not believe it could accomplish it.
The ensanguined linen is to be the shib
boleth.
Natural Selection and Small-Pox.—
Statistics show pretty conclusively that
vaccination is not now nearly so effectual
to prevent small-pox as it was when it
was first used for that purpose, and a dis
tinguished English investigator tells ua
that the reason is not far to seek. Be
fore vaccination came small-pox selected
for its victims the persons who were most
easily susceptible of taking the disease.
Killing vast numbers of these, it left in
the world the men and women who were
best capable of resisting its attacks, and
these men and women, generation after
generation, transmitted to their posterity
their power to resist small-pox or to live
through its attacks. Under the law of
natural selection the liability to this dis
ease grew steadily less, and when vacci
nation was introduced among the fittest
who had survived it was sufficient. It
served also for a time to protect the
weaker ones, who, without its aid, would
have succumbed to the disease, and we
have now a world full of people so liable
to the disease that even vaccination is not
sufficient to protect them any longer.-
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