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. * m ^« :;i ■••-utn ^TwHU AKKIt STREET, ‘^MORNiNG NEWS BUILDING). SUBSCRIPTIONS. „ .—-..mo oo p*' 1 *:—r;; — « oo Tfi \h Ck -**-* tf WO ff *.r»IsoR mutbbid BT cabbies OB rni- I1J A paid by kail. uapers trs stopnea at tfce expiration tjms ralfi *cr tritfiout further not!ce : .jcrlbersWill ple**“ obserre tie 4»t« od wrappers. ‘ wiahffiK the i»P« tnmtoiea tor anj r leas thin one year will have their orders ' y attended to by remitting the *7100111 f y, tie time desired. ,ar advertising. SEVEN WO BO) 3 MAKE A LINE. Ordinary advertisements, per Nonpareil line, iO cent?* Lfnal, Official, Auction and Amusement adver- tjccmoutf and Special Notices, per Nonpareil line, 15 cents. Heading notices per line, Nonpareil type, 20 . reot^» 1 cal notices, per line, Minion type, 25 cents. \ discount made on advertisements continued AH EXTRAORDINARY CAREER. The Wraderfal Ht.tory ef Dr. Mi Friedrich Herder. for one week or longer. REMITTANCES for subscriptions or advertising can be made , y ro;t office order, Registered Letter, or Ex '' at onr risk. All letters should be ad dressed. J. H. ESTILL, Savannah. Ga. Affairs in Georgia. Reports reach ns through our exchangee from various sections of the State of gener- 0 ,ts rains, which will do an immense amount of good to the growing crops and dissipate the fears of the farmers as to the effect of the 5Iav drought. Tiie Thomaoville Guards propose to go j U !o camp for three days some time next J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVAjNNAH, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1877. ESTABLISHED 1850. and & few side whiskers Dear the ear and wearing dark ragged and dirty clothes. The other white man, about five and a half feet high, rather light moustache and imperial, short hair, in shirt sleeves with brown knit shirt, also dirty.** The Quitman Free Frets snys: "This sec tion was viiited by a most delightful and re freshing shower on Wednesday last. Some of onr farmers were needing rain very much, as they had replanted their cotton where the cut worms had destroyed the first planting, and the ground was so dry that the seed would not come up. Crops of all kinds would soon have been suffering for rain,and this was indeed a welcome shower.” ! The encampment will be located ut ar the town of Thomasville. The many friends and admirert of Bishop pierce will be pleased to know that hia tt altb is improving. The Nashville Adco- ra < ( ^ays his “ health is greatly improved, his visit to Nashville ho has been a remedy for his throat affection from wind) be has derived great advantage. He •.vs, ‘My throat is greatly improved—the c kange for the better is wonderful. I hope for a complete cure.* ” The Chattahoochee Mills spun on 2,064 up □ lies 64 bales of cotton—32,000 pounds— durirg the month of May, the mo9t of was woven into 4-4 brown sheetings. The present constitution has been decided bv the Supreme Court to be a constitution • ,» up »n the State by act of Congress. We trud that the decision of the Supreme Court will be eustained by the people at the elec ts throughout the State to day, and that a constitution emanating from the people will be the result. The bold burglar is plying his avocation fiucccd 1 fully io Covington, the bed rooms of two gentlemen in that town having been en tered and their pockets rifled of their con- teats on Saturday night. % It appears to be a well founded rumor that the Board of Trustees of the University of (h g’a have dispensed with a salaried chM'.cellorshiD, and that the dignity of honorary chancellor will hereafter be con ferred from year to year upon the prominent In -rary gentlemen of the State. There is a strong movemont on foot among some of the trustees to replace in the chair Dr. William L< >y Broun, now professor of mathematics in Vritiderbiit University. riK oldest clerk of the court in the State is claimed to be Mr. Nat Barden, of Harris county,who has hold that office continuously from 1836 to the present time. A noble re cord of integrity and worth. This veteran officer has stemmed the current of the caprices and vicissitudes of popular favor for forty years without reverse. On the evening of the 5th inst. Mr. N. Patch, who resides about three miles from Liihonia, DeKalb county, had the misfor tune to lose his dwelling, barn and smoko house by fire. The Rome Chamber of Commerce held a very interesting meeting last Thursday. Tue Secretary read several letters from gen tlemen at the North and West, making in quiries aa to the advantages o^ered to immigrants. One wishes to buy tea thou sand acres of laud iu a body for a colony of Germans. Another states that he desires a locaii'.'ii i *r a colony of two hundred fami lies. Tnese parties were induced to write from having seen the pamphlet sent out by the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. L. J. Jones contemplates the publica tion of a new religious journal at Cave Spring, in the interest of the Congregational Methodist Church. The first number will appear about the 10th of July. A party of bix gentlemen, of Americus, went to McClelland’s mill pond, in Worth county, thirty-three miles below Americus, last week, on a fishing excursion. DuriDg the two days they remained at the pond they caught over five hundred brsam, averaging three fourths of a pound. Mr. James R. Thurmond, of Jackson count}', is the head of a family, including sons-in-law and daughters-in-law, number ing seventeen persons, none of whom do now, or ever have usod tobacco in any form. Is thcro another instance of the kind in the whole countrv? The anti-convention men are dabbed “LMi-wethers*’ in honor of J&ck Boll, one of the framers of the present constitution. The Albany Xews says : “ About four hundred shade trees were set out by the City Council this spring on the various <tr.-et?. Marsh? 1 Smith reports nine out of every ten as Jiving.” The Atlauta Constitution says: “The City Attoraeyship will fa.lt upon one of the fol lowing gentlemen, who are frequently men tioned m connection with the office: Walter 1. Brown, T. J. Hooka, T. P. Westmoreland, YV. J. Heyward and Win. Newman.” The Rockdale Register says: “Cotton and 'oru are both very small m the counties of Kockdale, Newton and Henry. Late cotton is dying from dry weather, but if there is rain soon there will be left a good stand of both coru aud cotton. Should the rain commence in a few days, and it continue seasonable uutil the 1st of September, we predict better erbps than we have had for years.” The Cedartown Express says: “The sheriff sold fnrtyacre lots of land on Tues day la i at from two and a half cents per lot to one dollar and fifty cents. Murder !** The Dawson journal says : “Mr. Thos. W. H .mmond, a prominent planter, who re- bi.ii ■< in the Seventh District of Baker coun ty. informs us that he has a field of cotton that will average nearly kneo high, and T weriog raoidiy. The first bloom made ns apo'.aiauce on laot Saturday, the 2i in stant.' Mr. Hammond is a splendid farmer, and most always gets the first bale into our market.” A correspondent from Wadley, Jefferson county, under date Juno 10th, writes as fol lows concerning the crop prospects o? that section: “For eight weeks past we have had i- ■ rain save two light showers, and wo were all begiuniog to lear that the dry scourge • •t 1S75 was again upon u*, but to-day iho gracious rain discended, giving new life to ail of binds vegetation. Had the drought continued longer we could not sum up the pufferiDg and distress it would have brought upon us. Co aing to a close now, and with good seasons from this on, we have the most flattering prospects. The crops are all ciean, aud the major part of the wneat and oat crops are harvested. The. yield of both these cereals have been very tine and with a larger acreage than ever before in this sec tion. The hum and whir of the threshing Florida Affairs. A correspondent from Banana, Putnam county, sends us the following flattering words concerning the crops and other inter ests iu that section of the 8tate : “The weather is warm and dry. Crops are im proving wonderfully. Corn is about all through plowing. A greater acreage than usual was devoted to oats the past winter and they are now being harvested—the finest yield ever before known in this com munity. The new comers still arrive. They cannot wait . itil usual winter travel, but have been coming all the spring.” J. W. Menard (colored), of Florida, is an applicant for an appointment as Consul to ooe of the South American ports. The Lunatic Asylum at Chattahoochee is almost ready for the reception of inmates. So says Adjutant General Dickinson, who has been looking after the interests of the State in that section. Mr. B. Genovar, of St. Augustine, is quite extensively engaged in the manufacture of orange wine. He commenced this branch of industry about four years ago as an ex periment, bat his perfect sacoess and the increasing demand for this popular brand, induced him to enlarge his facilities for its manufacture. Last season he made forty barrels, and it is his purpose to continue this business in the future on a large scale. The Pensacola Herald gives an account of the suicide of a colored woman who had been an occupant of one of the bagnios in that city, and who but a day or two previous attempted to end her life by taking lauda num, failing in which she boarded the steamer Lizzie, for New Orleans, aud when about seven miies out leaped overboard and drowned herself. The steamer put ba -kto the navy yard and .telegraphed the fact to the city. The Florida Central Riilroad litigation having attracted much attention because of the connection of the State of Florida with the proceedings, we publish the order of Judge Archibald, passed at Chambers in Jacksonville on the 9th instant, restoring the road to the possession of the company: In the Fourth Judicial Circuit Court, Du val county, Florida.—Iu the matter of application for possession of the Florida ,. rr . » .1 rt T., Pennsylvania Railroad Company will take $20,000 from the lumber company.'’ The Pensacola Gazette gives the following aocount of the reception of Governor Drew, on his recent visit to that citv: “Geo. F. Drew, Governor of the State of Florida, ar rived in the city by last evening’s train. A large concourse of citizens weie at the de pot to give him a he&rtv welcome, and he was received with military honors by the Escambia Rides, Capt. Moreno commanding, who afterwards escorted the carriage whicn the Governor and Senator Jones occupied in its progress through the streets. Just after leaving the depot the procession was met by the Batter Guards, who presented arms as it passed aud fell in as a rear gaard. Arrived at the Santa Rosa Hotel the Rides and Guards formed in line; the Governor alighted. and after having passed down the line in informal inspection, complimented the representatives of the Penaacoia militia in terms of high praise. The whole event was very pleasant in every respect, and tho wel coming crowds that thronged the streets through which the Governor passed, suffici ently indicated the estimation of the people of Pensacola—perhaps the most important city of his domain, thongh there be others that opt con ut her "on the census book.” The Pensacola Herald save : “ The ele gant reception laet night at the hospita ble mansion of Captain Alexander Grant, in honor of Governor Drew aDd Senator Jones, was decidedly the most recherche affair of the season. The Governor having been unexpectedly called away by a tele gram, was represented by Senator Jones. The honors of the house, at the fair hands of Mrs. aud Miss Grant, seconded by the able services of Captain and Mr. Joseph Grant, were handsomely and elegantly dis pensed. The table was laden with every delicacy for the palate, and beautiful deco rations attractive to the eye of taste aDd cultnre, that could be imagined. The fan d of infinite enjoyment was not even exhausted at a late hour, when the heavy hours of night began to yield before the light ones— ‘when the clock struck one.’ The party dispersed, and will remember long the pleasant occasion, regretting, however, the absence of the bland smile aDd engaging conversation and manner of His Excellency the Governor of our great commonwealth.” THE CONTENTION. A MORAL SUICIDE. He Leaven Hi. Boy of Fourteen to “Take illy Example no a Warning. Centra! Railroad Company, held by Jo seph H. Durkee, Master and Receiver. “This application comiDg on to be heard upon a rule on the said Joseph H. Durkee to show cause whv the petition filed by the Florida Central Railroad Company praying an order for possession of the railroad should not be granted, the answer of said Durkee having been filed by his attorney, John A. Heuder-OD, and the argument of conn set having been heard upon the peti tion and answer filed, it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the said com pany, organized as set forth in said petition, is entitled to the possession of said railroad as therein prayed. “It is therefore ordered that the said Joseph H. Durkee, Receiver, be and is here by authorized and required to deliver forth with the said Florida Central Railroad, its depots, rolling stock, properties, monies and credits now in bis possession, management and control, to Edward M. L'Eogle, Presi dent of said Board of directors of said eom- parv, except as to the money and credits, which he is authorized and required to turn over and deliver to the Pre.ident of said company at as early a day as may he con sistent with the proper adjustment and set tlement of his accounts. And it is farther ordered that said Joseph H. Dnrkee have thirty days for the final settlement of his accounts with said company. “ At chambers, Jacksonville, Florida, June 9th, 1877. “ [Signed] R. R. Archibald, Jndge.” There seems to be some hitch in reference to the property and funds belonging to the Florida Agricultural College fund. An aot of the last Legislature au thorized the organization of the Board of Corporators, which, it seems, has met and organized in pursuance of that act, and of which board Hon. Walter GwynD, of Tallahassee, is Treasurer. John Yarnum, of Gainesville, also claims to be Treasurer of the Florida 8t*te Agricultural College. The former has made an official demand for the debts, property, etc., belonging to the Agricultural College, to which demand the latter has responded as follows: “U. s. Land Office. 1 “Gainesville, Fla., May 24, 1877. j “lion. Walter Gicynn, Tallahassee, Fia.: “Deab Sib—I am in receipt of a commu nication from you, dated the 14th inst., statiog that the Board of Corporators of the Florida Agricultural College, having organ ized under an act of the Legislature, approved March 17. 1877, had passed a reso lution directing you, a6 their Treasurer, to inform me that you are now authorized to receive all property and deb s belonging to the Agricnltnral College fund, and request ing me to turn then over to yon, etc., etc-, signing yourself Treasurer of the Florida Agricultural College. In answer, I beg to sav that I have been prevented from making an earlier reply both by my duties here and the careful consideration your letter de manded. “As Treasurer of the Florida State Agri cultural College, I am, and have always been, directed and governed by the Board of Trustees of the institution. I have not the power to pay out, transfer, or receive monev or other preperty whatever without their direction or consent. “Until, therefore, I am instructed by them in the matter, I decline to comply with your request to transfer to you the property of the Agricultural College. “ As a trustee of the college, I emphati cally deny the power of the Legislature of Florida, under the Constitution of the United States, to pass any law of the nature of that under which you assume to act. “ Very respectfully) “(Signed) JohnYarncm, “Treas’r Florida State Agricn’l College.” For the information of seekers after home steads we state upon authority that “it is no longer necessary for homestead settlers to appear in person at the District Land Offioe to make final proof, in case of com mutation, or at the expiration of five years. The person can appear before the Judge of the Circuit Court with his witnesses and swear to the prescribed forms as used here tofore. The papers and fees must be left with the Judge, to be transmitted to the Diatriet Land Offioe by him.” The Pensacola Gazette says : “Senator C. W Jonos arrived from Washington by Fri day night’s train and has been very warmly welcomed bv his constituency. The ability with which he has discharged bis official du ties has commended him to the esteem o, people in ail parts of the State.” We find the following in the New York Sun of the P.h inst: “The Si. Miry’s River Lumber C mpany is a corporation in the ytate of Florida, whose stockholders nearlv all Northern capitalists, The following is a translation of the letter left by A. W. Holbert, the Swedish waiter, who shot himself at No. 398 Fourth avenue : New Yobk, June 2, 1877. My Deab Axel : It gives me much pain to inform you about the act I am about to commit. My constitution is entirely broken down, and Ido not see any way to escape from my difficulties daring the rest of my life. I am unable to provide a living for myself or to help you along any further. Instead of passing the rest of my days in a hospital or poor house, I prefer to take my own life. Try to bear this calamity lightly, and don’t take it too much to heart. Endeavor to lead a pure life, and treat every one properly, doing only what is right. Then, I hope, God will help yon, and you prove to be a good citizen, succeed better than I have, and fare bet ter here and hereafter. I have written to Wilson and Collin and asked them to as sist yon as much as they caD, and I have requested Mr. Dilden to help you to write toyonrUnole Adoiph. I suppose many will ask the reason why I take my own life. You may only tell them that I was in such poor health that I could not earn my own living any longer. I leavo these directions to you. Take my example as a warning your whole life through, and if you should encounter misf ortunes and things look dark have patience and trust in God. I had a gentle and Christian bringing up in my native home, but I neglected to profit by it. I know that I have tried to do my best since I took charge of you. If you should perchance meet your uncle Adolph tell him that my last farewell was to you and him. I will also a<k you to remember another thing whioh is of great imprtanee in this life for a young man, to be prudent and self- restrained, be temperate and chaste, and if you are too young to understand these simple teachings, keep these lines in memory of your unfortunate father. I had much more to tell you, but I am too tired to write it, and will only sign my last farewell. Your Fatheb P. S.—You will see that I have had many sorrowful nights before I took this step, and I hope God will forgive me. two -- I aqu reports received from various partic-s x'f- believe the rain which fell to-day to have beea general over this section.” The Rome Courier says: “Col. W. A. Shorter, of Atlanta, when stepping from the train at K-ngston la-t Thursday, •everely sprained his left ankle. He is now confined to his room at the Choice Hotel.” A Georgia farmer of much experience fays: ‘‘The exoerience of the past is that good crops almost invariably succeed a drought iu May. The roots go deep into the ground in search of moisture, whereas if a wet season prevails daring the early growth of the plants, their rootB come near the surface, and a succeeding drought finds them without adequate resources upon. "■Inch they may draw tor supplies, and they, arc consequently blighted and dwarfed.” The Dawson Weekly Journal has the fol lowing : “Two white tramps came to R. C. Martin’s store, at Brown’s Station, about ten o’clock last nigbt.l One seized Sam Den ton, the clerk, by the throat and held him »hile the other took the money drawer from under the counter and ran out. The ether immediately released Mr. Denton and both ran off, dropping the money drawer about twenty steps from the door after taking >‘ts contents. The descriptions of these ' hold rascals are as follows: One white man abont five feet nine inches high, spare made, dark complected,long black hair, moustache are It was first - - - -- brouebt into prominence by the alleged de ni) bines can be heard in every direction f-i ca tioa of Gnief Engineer Howell, of tne Pennsylvania Railroad Company,, who, it * J . .. .t - bon frnr completing the garnering of the golden ... . jt Sr&in. Corn is small, but looking well. , t the money taken from the ra.l- Cotton is as good as could be expected after intn the assets of the lumber ! iiecool nights iu Mav and the hot, dry days 'f the past two weeks. From indications road company into the assets of the oompany, of which he was a large stock- hbUer The lumber company was or ganized from the firm of F. G. lViutmg ,t Go. lumber dealers, who induced a number or capitalists to form the stock companv. Whiting was made General Superintendent. On the mveatigauon m- ctitntaH to ascertain the amount that uoweu ^wed the Pean "ylvania Railroad Company it discovered that Whiting was a defaulter p^he extendi nearly $18,000.^ The books are examined the amount of ^ will be found to be greater The directors granted an order enjoining fr0 .“ felling or transferring ^ m^t jersey' Whiting owns no real estate in New Jersey, hut he is the proprietor of a large mill n Florida which, the plaintiffs say, was built aid maintained with the money belonging to the lumber company. It is the intention if the directors to make the injunction ope- ^ Wednesday°as °he tras arrested Whiting ODin ^w ^ Jerge;J . Clt?> T11 ahe B i a h now in the Hndson county jail. It U^Unifted that Howell’s restitution to the To the Expressmen. [From the Inland liagazlne.] Everybody is indebted—directly, or indirectly—to the express system of this country for many of the luxuries of living as well as what are now considered the necessaries of life, also. The service, as at present carried on, is very nearly per fect in all its ramifications, and under takes to do for you, ssfely and expedi tiously, everything and anything that could be performed at the hands of another. Do yon want some one to guard your money on its perilous journey by rail? The faithful express messenger stands ready to do it. He does it, often, at the risk of life. Hi. honor, as a trusty agent, is at stake. His reputation for probity and pluck rests on the vigilance with which he performs the part assigned him. In a certain sense, he is like a soldier on sentinel duty when the enemy is in front tryiDg to break the line. The companies do their utmost to instill this idea of responsibility and this chival rous code of honor into every sub ordinate. The result shows their success. Once in a way there appeirs a Judas in their ranks; occasionally a rob ber runs away with the valuables given to his keeping. But they are the exceptions. The rule shows a long list of faithful and generous men, untarnished in name, tak ing pride in their honorable calling, and holding themselves up to the high stan dard marked out for them. All highways of travel are garrisoned and patrolled by the express companies—from the rocky passes and heavy grades of the Pacific slope canons to the continuous steel rail of the prairies and the more east ern East. Wells, Fargo & Co. stand guard over the Rockies, the Southern Express Company holds sway in the South, the “American,” is the lion of the Northwest and New England, while tho “Adams,” the “Uni ted States” and others touch the pulse of traffic and wait upon the wish of the public from the shores of Long Island hitherward. All kinds of valuable service are per formed by them—including 6afe trans portation of the Inland Magazine. At your pleasure they officiate as bankers, brokers and commission merchants. “They receive every class of paper for collection. They carry deeds, mortgages and other documents; have them execu ted and recorded Bad returned to consig nors. They pay taxes an property thou sands of miles away.” They bring your dead from distant aDd forgotten corners of the world, or from battle-fields, it may be, for the last sad offerings of love, the last mournful rites of earth. _ In these and a multitude of other services they offer “ ample security for the faith ful performance of any trust committed to their charge.” Quite recently the expressmen have ODened their ranks to the admission of women and extended to them generoas welcome. „ , , Two young ladies in Nebraska and two in Oh'o appear on the list of express agents, and evidently understand their business. For these and for the mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of the ex- of account in Florida have not yet been gsm such organizations as the Mu examine,1, and it is believed that ’Then th^y Assoclatjon and the Aid So ciety stand like the rock and well-spring in the desert, the shelter in the storni, the shadow of the mountain in a torrid dime. Garry forward your noble work and while you are doing it we give you our God speed- words of praise for the past; words of cheer for the future 1 a minister in the Speech ot Hon. B. H. Hill. On Saturday night a large audience as sembled in the Hall of the House of Rep resentatives to hear an address from Hon. B. H. Hill upon the convention question. The following is the report of Mr. Hill’s speech as given by the Constitution of Sunday: Fellow-citizens: As the Chairman ot the meeting has said, we have come together as a portion of the citizens of Atlanta, as I understand it, for the purpose of simply interchanging views as to the pro per course, especially, for the people of this city to pursue in the election on next Tuesday. It was in view of the fact that in my judgment the relations of the citi zens of Atlanta to this subject were more peculiar than those of any other people of the State that induced me to be here to-night, and give you my views. Of course nothing like a speech is expected. It is simply to express our views as to the course we should pursue, and our reasons therefor. It is a question iu which we all have an interest. All the citizens of Georgia have an interest in it, and we of Atlanta especially should make no mis take, and upon that question there should be no party line or controversy. We should simply get together and arrive at a pro; er conclusion as to onr position upon this question in which we all have the same interest. It is unfortunate if anything has been done to draw any lines of any kind. This is a question of gov ernment in which I think we are all in terested alike, without regard to race, or color, or previous condition of servi tude. I shall entertain yon bnt a short while in expressing my views; and that yon may understand me in my advice to the people of Atlanta, I shall make first a few general remarks upon the subject of the convention and its propriety. YV 3 of this generation are beginning what, in my judgment, ia perhaps the most interesting period in the history of popular government, not only in this oountry, but in any age and any country. The 6ra of popular free government upon which we are now entering is just as dis tinct as that whioh began in 1787 and ended in 1860, aud as that was from the era of the confederation, or the era of the confederation from that of colonial his tory. In my opinion, ws are entering upon a new era, and this era has been brought about and inaugurated by the most extraordinary events. The revolu tion through which we have just passed was in many respects the most remarkable in human annals. We who took part in it even do not yet realize its magnitude. The war was but one feature of that revolution. It ex isted for thirty years before the war, and the seeds of it were planted in the Cousti tion of 1797. Whether they were wisely qr unwisely planted and allowed to ger minate and bear such fruits as they did is not now the question. That revoln tion, my friends—I experience a sincere happiness when I say it—has ended. It has ended as I feared it would not end. It has ended leaving our free popular government and our constitutional sya tern still in life and still in vigor. I was apprehensive duriDg the whole period of its existence that it would end in the en tire destruction of what is known as the American system of constitutional gov ernment. [Mr. Hill then proceeded to cite the results of the recent conflicts, both of the civil war and of the electoral count. The results of the former he declared to be settled, and permanently so, and be de clared that no man cm be a statesman in the future who would seek to unsettle the issues that were settled in the war, nor could be deemed a patriot who would seek to keep alive the hates and passions engendered by the war. Bat he declared that the results settled by the war were one thing end the consequences of the revolution quite another thiDg. There are many consequences of that revolu tion still upon us, and our duty is to adapt ourselves to them in the wisest manner possible. He referred to the res toration of constitutional government to the people of the Southern States, and to the exhibitions made in the electoral con test of loyalty to the Union upon the part of the South, and the adherence of the Republican leaders to the strictest doctrines of States rights. He then spoke of the Legislature, deeming this a proper time for the holding of a Constitutional Convention, aud upon the subject of a convention said:] I think every man ia Georgia ought to vote for a convention. [Applause.] Now for the reason that controls me, and I speak first to all Georgians. One thing is certain, and that is, that a large pro portion of the people of Georgia will never he satisfied until they do have a convention and a new constitution. Now, it is all important in the great work before us that wo should begin with the fundamental lew, with which our whole people are satisfied. The men who are moving in this matter will continue the agitation of it until they do get it. You will look that fact in the face, and, whether you agree with them or not, you will realize the fact that this dissatisfac tion exists, and will continue to exist until this convention is held. Suppose you defeat the convention now—will that end it ? I tell you it will not. It will be an issue in the next legislative elections, and hills will be introduced here in this very house and discussions of the subject will con tinue until they will have it. You say it will be expensive. The Legislature has appropriated twenty-five thousand dollars for this purpose, and I think it will be ample; but the discussion of the question here in this hall will annually cost the State more than this convention. Now, then, I say that whether the reasons that create thin dissatisfaction are or are not, in your judgment, right, makes no differ ence. The dissatisfaction will continue, and he is unwise who thinks it right to force upon the people of Georgia a con stitution with which they are not satis fied. But, fellow citizens, the reasons for this dissatisfaction are such as excite the respect of every man. They exist with a great majority cf the educated, property holding men of the State. It is not reasonable that that class would be dissatisfied with anything that should lie satisfactory. This fact should make you think the reasons wor thy of consideration. The reasons are such as oome home to every reflecting mind, and commend themselves to very great respect. The first reasons that this constitution was not made when yon were in a state of freedom. The funda - mental principle of our government is that the people shall have a right to frame their own organic law. This constitution was not framed under an aot passed by a Legislature of this State, but under an act passed by Congress. Congress took charge of the matter and called this con vention, prescribed the qualifications of voters, aud took upon itself to disqualify about twenty thousand of the best men in Georgia, and to prohibit them from taking part in the making of that consti tution. Now, you men who talk about popular and free government—don’t you respect the man who comes oat and says, “I am unwilling to recog nize as the constitution of my State a constitution that was made when twenty thousand of her best citi zens were not allowed to take part in the construction. While it may be true that it was submitted back to the people at a qualified election, yet if it was adopted then it was not yours, for there was a cause that it must be satisfactory to the Congress of the United States. That is one reason, and if you are an advocate of popular government, then yon cannot say white people of the State did not have a right to participate. Isn’t it right that yon should be against this one for like ; and were gradually coming to a right view of their relations with the people of the South, He closed as follows :] reason that pat you against the other, j The future of this South is going to be This constitnacn is at war with every better, brighter, nobler and higher as principle of popular governments. It is time goes on, and if we will he wise, THE TERRIBLE TORNADO. Fuller Detail*—A Horrible l.ull la the utorai—Sketch of the Town ot -Mount Carmel. an insalt and a discredit to every man in Georgia, because the reason why these twenty thousand men were disfranchised was because they had served you. Isn't it a standing insult to yon and to every man in Georgia, that because they served you they were punished for it. And, my prudent, true and firm—cling to the ! Union as it is—the day is not far distant when you will be the controlling power in this government to the great good ot everybody in the UnioD, and no one from the Pacific to the Atlantic, from the lakes to the gulf, will have better cause to he friends, you will never be able to get the glad that the South has come to save con- ' ' ‘ ’ * " " ” ’ ’ stitntional government to this people than the men who have been deriding ns for two decades past. Great applause. “But I pass,” said west end, one Sunday, in dismissing ona theme of his subject to take up another. “ Then T make it 6pades! yelled a man from the gallery who was dreaming the happy hours away in an imaginary game of euchre. It is needless to say he went out on the next deal, being assisted by one of the deacons with a full hand of olnbs. that it is right to force upon the pecfple of Georgia a constitution made in such a manner and under such restrictions. If the Republicans act at all from principle, provided they have any principles at all to act upon, they Bbould vote for a con vention. You made a fuss about the con stitution becanse tne colored men did not have aright to vote and a voice in the mak ing of it, and yet you made one, in the construction of which a large portion of the intelligent people of Georgia satisfied with a constitution thus framed, nntil they are unworthy to be freemen, and then i; matters little whether they have one or not. Another reason is, that a great many people in Georgia are never going to be satisfied with this constitution, becan e it denounces the late war as a rebellion and all who took part in it as traitors. I kaow that a party that tries to overthrow a government and fails are called by the outside worlds “rebels.” I do not care for what the outside world may say, but are you going to have your own funda mental law denounce you as snch’ Are you going to call yourselves traitors? Does anybody require that yon should ? Yon say it is a sentiment. Ah! it is a sentiment without which no man can feel manly. Let others call ns “rebels”—let the outside world do it; but will we call ourselves ‘"rebels?” and will we[put it m our own fundamental law and keep it there? It is a stigma upon your dead. What a mockery it is for you to have your annual decoration, when your fundamental law says they are “rebels” and traitors whom you thus honor ! It is an outrage and an impeachment of your civilization as u people. You have submitted to it heretofore because this _ constitution was not of your making, but 1 was forced upon you by the bayonet. History will not blame you for the past; but now if you adopt it, you become re sponsible for it. Mr. Hill next insisted that the Repub licans who claimed that they were forced to their part in the making of this consti tution by compulsion from Washington, had no longer that excuse, and should redeem themselves in this election by voting for the convention. He also said that it seems impossible to have a cheap administration of the government under this constitution. We have both sorts— Republican and Democratic—and all were shamefully extravagant. He cited the fact that a Democratic Legislature paid twenty-seven thousand dollars for clerk hire in one year, and declared this ex hibit to be shocking. For all this extrav agance the plea was the looseness of the present constitution, and he favored the adoption of a new constitution, so that it could no longer be blamed for these things. Mr. HiU then continued : My friends in Atlanta, let me say a few words to you: However other people vote, in my honest opinion every single man in Atlanta should vote for a conven tion. I wish that on next Tuesday in this city the vote for it coaid be unani mous. If you do not vote for a conven tion the world will do you the justice to say that you did not vote against it be cause you loved the present constitution, for they know you do not. They know that you voted against its ratification ; bnt they will say you did it because you are afraid of losing the capital, and that you are willing to keep this constitution upon the people of Georgia rather than lose the capital. That is not right—not like high-minded people. They will say that you, for a selfish motive, will keep upon the people of Georgia that, which the people hate. Yon cannot ac complish it. Suppose that you vote it down now—it will come up again, and you will only have postponed it. Sup pose that you vote against it and the bal ance of the State vote for it—how will you stand then ? Atlanta will he put down as an enemy to tiie convention, and that convention will have the power to make the removal. If the convention is to carry, you should put yourselves in ac cord with it, and have yonr members there who are in accord with a majority of that convention. Don’t put yourselves in a wrong position. Suppose the halanoe of the State vote it down—you will have done no harm in having voted for it. A kind, intelligent gentleman, who is usu ally correct in his political opinions, said to me the other day, if Atlanta votes against it, heT vote may defeat it. That is the very worst thing that could happen to you, because if your vote being against it, defeats the convention, every man who helps to contribute a ma jority of the people of Georgia outside will feel that you have kept upon the peo ple of the State that which a majority of them wanted to get rid of, and solely that you might keep the capital here. It would make every friend of the conven tion in Georgia your direct enemy. It would be an unwise thing for you to do. I talk frankly and solely for the good of the city. I have some warm friends who have differed with me thus far in this matter. Some of them have their names upon an opposition ticket, hut I hope you will reconsider it and have it out of the field before Tuesday. Let us withdraw it, and let everybody vote for one ticket aud for the convention. [Applauee.] My own opinion is that so far as the capital is concerned, it makes very little difference, and I have no idea that, unless you put yourselves in a position to invite the issne, it will be made at all. Y’on do not want all this agitation. If Atlanta is going to have the capital, let her know it. If they are going to take it away from At lanta, why let the agitation cease? This convention is going to be upon the basis of population, and you will have a better representation in it than in a convention called in any other manner. This desire for a new constitution is the highest feeling that can actuate mankind. It is a feeling that actuates thousands of our best people, who are determined to have a new constitution, and it will not do for yon to be against it. I tell you that the men in Georgia who have this feeling are destined to be the future rnlers of this country. It is no use to shut your eyes to this fact. They are men who possess intelligence—who have property, who love the traditions of the past: who love the memories of the dead; who have a keen sense of the honor of the future; and I tell you it i3 not iu your power to keep such men down. [Applause.] You may, for temporary rea sons, with transient expedience, with false views, for a time postpone this work, but yon cannot conquer it—you cannot defeat it—you cannot destroy it until you destroy the highest elements of manhood in the citizens of Georgia. [Ap plause.] Look at it straight in the race. Come up, and let ns every one vote for a convention. Then, every man who is in favor of a convention is yonr friend, and will feel that you are in accord with it. I will not take your time talking about the thousand things that are to be put in the constitution. Look at the great sub ject—the controlling motive—and leave the details to be fixed by the members of the convention. I tell yon a conven tion which shall be presided over by that grand specimen of human civilization, Charlee J. Jenkins, of Augusta, will be better than a convention in which Aaron Alpeoria Bradley was the greatest leader. Bat suppose that the men who came to this convention should be unable to frame a better constitution than Aaron Alpeoria Bradley & Co. did—they mast submit it for your ratification, and if they frame a better one than j ou have got you can take it, and if they make a worse one you needn’t take it; and you need not have any fear that it will not be submitted for yonr ratification, according to the ex pressed will of the Legislature. A great many are against it becanse it will dis turb some of the official relations under the present constitution, bnt the idea of pleading the tenures of a little office—the tenure of a few days or a few months—as a reason for not elevating a stigma from your living and dead, is an outrage. Come up and do your duty like men, and I guarantee yon shall come out all right. [Mr. Hill then ridiculed the idea of th9 rights of the oolored people being disre garded in the new constitution, claiming that they were valuable to the South iu an increase of political representation, A Just Estimate of Grant as a Soldier by a Northerner. [From the Chicago Times, 29th ult] The Tribune on Sunday informed the oountry that Grant never lost a battle. As Grant was licked at Belmont, and again at Shiloh, and suffered two disas trous repulses in his assaults in May, 1863. before v icksburg. it is seen that the Tribune’s assertion is somewhat at va riance with the facts. The strategist of that 6heet asserts that Grant's “theory was that a battle should always cost the enemy more than it cost him." and yet it is the fact that just the reverse is the truth. Grant was always wifliDg to lose three men in order to kill one of the enemy, basing his willing ness upon his celebrated utterance that his “cat’s tail” was the “longest.” Had Grant not been possessed of more than twice as many men as Lee the latter might have taken Washington in place of the former taking Richmond. It was four to one that drove Lee back ; and even then Richmond would scarcely have been taken had not Sherman commenced moving from the South. Grant was not a strategist in any sense of the word. All he knew of war was to keep “hammer ing ” away, conscious only of the fact that in the end superiority in numbers and in supplies mast give saocess. Ia truth, our late war, outside of Sherman’s Atlanta campaign, had vary little strategy in it. In nearly all other instances it was simply a case of give and take, in which not gameness, but weight, had the best of it. Von Moltke is credited with sayins that our war was simply the mad contact of two armed mobs. Always except Sher man’s movements, that is pretty much all there was of it. The soldiers of Europe will certainly look on Grant with much curiosity as a man who lost more lives and accomplished less for the sacrifice than in any war known to history. They certainly cannot have any admiration for his military genius, for the reason that they will not be apt to regard mere stolidity, mere willingness to lose three men to kill one of the enemy, as any evidence of ability. He will undoubtedly attract much attention; but, as said, it will be rather cariosity than anything else. Grant, as shown by history, lacks in all the purely intellectual qualities of a first class soldier. He has no culture to recommend him in other respects. It is a very well known fact that the men with whom he has associated since the war, who have been his friends and intimates, have not been men noted either for their social, moral or intellec tual worth. Hence Grant has not had that opportunity which is afforded by contact with the more refined elements to acquire polish. He is yet as uncouth, or nearly so, as when he left hia tannery at Galena to take charge of an Illinois regiment. [from the Evansville (In i.) Courier.] The force of the terrible blast was such as to uproot the firmest buildings, lasting four or five minutes, and leaving ruin and desolation in its track. The tornado was accompanied by a violent noise, whioh in itself was harrowing, followed by crash after crash, as one edifice after another yielded to the blasting breath. A com parative calm followed, which aroused the fortunate people to a realization of the horror. Soon a report spread that this and that building was blown down, among them two schoolhonses; but fortunately it was at such an hoar when they were vacant of their pupils. Notwithstanding this the report was given that the fall of the schools had killed a large number of children, which, happily, is not confirmed by later infor mation. The tornado in itself was a suf ficiently great calamity, but it was fol lowed by a destructive fire in the ruins of the demolished structures. The fiames spread rapidly under the fanning of the destructive breeze, and threatened the destroyal of the entire place. The fire department of Vincennes was called upon to render assistance, and immediately re sponded by sending two engines ana a good force of men to assist in checking the fiames and help the citizens in chari table work. Princeton rendered the same service, and at 9 o’clock last evening a special train on the Air-Line Railroad took out a number of workers. Mount Carmel is the oounty seat of Wabash county, Illinois, and is situated on the western bank of the Wabash river, about forty miles above its month, and practically at the head of navigation on that river. It is also on the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad and at the crossing of that road and the Princeton Air Line Railroad. Mount Carmel had about two thousand live hundred inhabitants, of an enterprising, industrious oharacter, who took great pride in their town. It was one of the prettiest places in Illinois, and was situated on an undulating country, somewhat elevated above the surrounding prospect. The country for miles about was prairie land, which left Mount Car mel right in the sweep of the blasts whioh are so freqnently felt in that section. Mount Carmel, by reason of its ei' osure, was subject to violent storms; but never before has it been visited by any of a very serious nature. It is astonishing to read of the destruction of the court house, for that building was a very substantial structure of brick, with heavy stone foundation. In 1834 the old court house was destroyod by fire, and a very short time after the present one, jnst blown down, was bnilt in its stead. At the first mentioned the records of the county were lost in the flames, aud it re quired a special act of the Uliuois Legis lature to legalize titles from the original. It has since caused considerable litiga tion, and altogether Mount Carmel has been rather unfortunate. Its people, however, were very pnblio spirited anil worked hard to bnild it up, until it be came one of the mo9t prosperous snd rapidly growing towns in this section. Its bnildings are modern and substantial, and the school houses are of the latest designs. The disaster is a terrible blow to the town, hut the industry of its citl zens will soon restore it to its wonted life and vigor. A New Patent Coin. Letters patent were issued this week to a Philadelphian for an invention called galloid, which is an alloy of gold, silver and copper in the proportion of one part gold to twenty-four of silver and two and three-quarters of copper, and is supposed to be especially adapted for coin dollars and fractions of a dollar. The mean den sity of the metals is 10.683, and the alloy shows an increase in weight of about 117 by a computation at the Mint Bureau. The dollar made of thi; alloy would be 23s grains, being equivalent to the old silver dollar of 412.8 grains and to the gold dollar of 25.8 grains both as to standard and fineness. It is claimed for galloid, among its many advantages for ooin over the present silver dollars and lesser coins, that it is not liable to destruction by abrasion, and cannot be destroyed for gold leaf or the manufacture of jewelry; that it is smaller tnan silver coin aDd more convenient in size for commercial purposes; that its density cannot be counterfeited by base metals; that it utilizes the silver produc tion of the United States and increases our wealth on the basis of onr own pro duction of precious metals; and it is not corrosive, and is capable of a fine and enduring impression. Dr. Linderman says its intnnsio value for assay purposes is such that it could command a premium of about three-fourths per centum above par in the London market. --Philadelphia Times. Anotheb Impobtant Arch.eological Discovert.—The Department of State is in receipt of a dispatch from General John Meredith Head, the charge d' affaires at Athens, reporting the disoovery Dy M. Stephen Commanverdis, the learned Sec retary of the Archaiologioal Society of Athens, of the monument mentioned by Thucydides as having been erected by Peisistratus, son of Hippiae, and grandson of the tyrant Peisistratus. The stone, which was lying neglected on the right bank of the Iiissus, southwest of the Temple of Inpiter Olympia, bears an in scription, of which the following is the translation : “This monument, upon his advent to power, Peisistratus, the son of Hippias, has dedicated in the temple of Apollo Pythins.” It is worthy of note that the letters which Thucydides men tions are obscure, are indeed roughly and feebly ent, and that, as in all tne Attic inscriptions before the time of Eucleide, instead of H, there is E, and instead of diphthong 01' there is the simple O, and Y instead of YI. The discovery of this remarkable stone fixes the site of the Temple of Apollo Pythius, which was hitherto unknown. The monument has been purchased by the Archaiological So ciety, and will be immediately transferred to the Museum of Varvakion. Beautiful Tribute to a Wife.—The late R. M. Corwine, of Cincinnati, has left a will, in which he says to his child ren : “I enjoin upon them the duty of affection and respect and confidence to ward my said wife. Dessie M- Corwine. She has been an affectionate, devoted and faithful wife to me in all relations, and more especially in times of illness, for which I bless and honor her. She has as well been an affectionate, tender and care ful mother to my sons and daugber. I pay this tribute to her as the dying words of a loving father to his sons and daughter, and most earnestly pray that they will cultivate, cherish and honor her for my sake as well as her own. I pray that the peace and concord of my household may be preserved in love an unity in the future as it has been in the past. The Lord will bless yon for this, and I shall look down from my place above in loving kindness and acknowledgment to you all.” Mrs. Corwine was a second wife, and the niece of Gen. Thomas A Morris, of Indian apolis. A Plucky Woman.—As one of the women of the Mechanics' Exchange Hotel was sweeping the diningroom af ter dinner yesterday she discovered a huge rat which had made its way in through the open front door. Instead of screaming and jamping into a chair or upon the table, as is common in such cases, she reversed her broom and sallied after the rodent in real earnest, and ont the door he went with the broomstick tapping the pavement close behind him. Reaching the street he dodged into a hole nnder the sidewalk on the other side of the alley, and lookers on thought the sport was ended. Not so, however; the plucky woman ran her bare arm into the hole and drew the rat forth in triumph, and dashed him forward to the ground before he had a chance to turn and bite. Here she deliberately dispatched him with the broomstick.—Sacramento Union. [Cincinnati Commercial) The most important event in the his tory of the German Pioneer Association probably occurred last evening, at their regular meeting, being the advent among them of an old Prussian soldier and phy- cian. nearly a hundred years old, who had served in most of the great wars of the last and the present centnry. Hia Dame is Johann Friedrich Yon Herder, and his age is ninety.seven years. Hs was a son of one of Frederick the Great’s famous Generals, and at an early age served as military physician in the Prus sian army. At the battle of Jena he wounded and taken prisoner, and after recovering his health, accepted a position on the medical staff of the French army, afterwards being appointed staff physician to the great Napoleon. He followed the Giant of Battles through all his snbsi quent wars. He saw the great fire of Moscow, and endured the awful suffering-! of the immemcrably disastrous retreat which followed. He was iu Egypt; beheld the celebrated charge of the Mam elukes upon the French squares and heard the famous exhortation of th petit cor poral, telling his soldiers that forty cen turies were looking down upon them from the summits of the Pyramids. He saw Waterloo, the oharge of the Cuirassiers, the defeat of the Old Guard, the slaugh ter of the terrible pursuit. Afterward-tie joined the Turkish army, and continued in the service of the Sultan until the time of the Greek war, and the Massacre of Scio, when his sympathies being enlisted in the cause of humanity, he joined the Greek forces as an army physician. After the war he again want to France, and joined the French army. He went to Algiers and served there. He subsequently returned to Germany, go» married, and took part in the Bevo- tion of ’48, and had to fly the coun try. On coming here with his wife and children, he went YD St. Louis; and receiving $25,000 dollars soon after from the remainder of his fat her.) estate, started in the nursery business uear the oity. He failed in this, and at last, having lost nearly all his fortune, returned to the practice of his profession. Then came the war for the Union; and the old man, together with his five sons, joined an Illi nois regiment. Four of his sons were killed in the war, and the fifth subse quently died. His wife also died, and now the old man desires to return to France. The Pioneers’ Association fir ing heard his story, voted him fifty dol lars to help pay his expenses. He is now on his way to Europe. He yet seems vigorous, and told his extraordinary story last evening with remarkable prtoisiou and distinctness. WONDERFUL CHECKER PLAYING, A Beardlraa Youth of Nineteen Koulaall the Best Players ia Iho Coantrf- Bobert D. Yates, the champion checker player of the world, who has just accep ted the challenge of James Wylie, of Scotland, to play a match for five hun dred dollars a side, is a boy nineteen years of age, employed at the cash desk of his father’s eating salooD, under Ful ton Market, New York. The Sun says of him: “His forehead is broad, square and high, and the part of it in front of the ears looks overweighted. Mr. James Wylie, ‘the invincible herd laddie,’ so called because he learned to play check ers while watchiog cattle iu the fields, is fifty-five years of age. He has already bad a taste of the champion's quality. Last year he came to New York and played twenty-four games with Yates. The youth won two games and the rest were drawn. Of twenty-six games play ed in Brooklyn, l'ates won five and Wylie one. In a match for fifty dollars, Yates won two games, Wylie one, the rest of the fifty being drawn. Yates, in hi re- oent match with Thomas Martins, who crossed the ocean to defeat him, won three games, aud Martina one. “ Five years ago a school companion of Yates’ came back from a visit to Sullivan county enthused with the game. He taught the moves to Yates. ‘ We used to play around on stoops in those days,’ the champion said yesterday. 4 Afterward went to the Union for Christian Work in Fulton street, near Duffield street, Brook lyn. There I first learned that I could take two men at a time. I thought that was a big step gained.' “Several years ago a gentleman in Albany wrote to a Brooklyn friend that he wished to play with some good player by correspondence. Yates, under the name of H. C. McDonald, agreed to accommodate him. After the Albany gentleman had been driven iDto close quarters by his antagonist, the corre spondence ended in an angry dispute Recently he wrote to the checker editor of a New York journal to inquire whether Mr. Wylie had ever been defeated. He received an editorial reply : ‘Yes, by your old antagonist. H. C. McDonald.’ The letter was signed, ‘Robert D. Yates.' “Two famous players from an inland city, while visiting New York, not long ago, routed all competitors, in the rooms of the Young Men’s Christian Associa tion, at Twenty-third street and Fourth avenne. One of them casually met and played with Yates, in a Nast-au street office. After he had been defeated, he induced Yates to visit the Young Men’s Chris:ian Association rooms, to play with his friend. Vates was introduced under the name of Craig. The rural champion tacked his legs under his chair and got to work. After five short, sharp defeats, he gave up the contest, complaining that he had “no luck.” Then Yates was in troduced as Yates. “Yates hasadry humor, that freqnently leads him to stroll into resorts of checker players, and engage strangers in play. He has a slow, unpretentious manner, that, added to his vouthfulness, throws Btrangers entirely off their guard. After he has enjoyed their chagrin at being beaten by a boy, he engages n conversa tion with them, and relieves their an noyance by letting it leak cut that his name is Yates. There are no stakes in such games.” An eminent French Professor has writ ten an elaborate pamphlet on hydropho bia, which contains much important in- formation on the subject treated. Rabies in the canine race, be says, is not a snd den transition from a healthy state, but comes after an illnesa which may be pro longed for some time before madness ap pears. The Professor says: “Beware of a dog which begins to be sick. All ck dogs, as a principle, must be sns pected. Beware especially of one that ia sad, morose and seeks for solitude; one that does not know where to rest; one that goes and comes, rambles aboai, snaps and barks without reason, whose looks are doll and gloomy, and whose bright expression is lost. Beware of the dog that looks about and attacks imaginary phantoms. Beware of one that is sud denly too affectionate, asking for your caresses by his pitiful and repeated arav ings.” The bark of a mad dog is thor oughly characteristic. It it hoarse, lower in tone, prolonged, and not so strong, The Professor is of the opinion that the danger from hydrophobia is no greater in the summer than in the winter. The surest remedy for the bite of a mad dog is immediate cauterization of tha wonnd with the actual cautery or with burning gunpowder or gome other caustic agent. The Mixture of Races. Fair play to the freedmen could not he stretched, in principle, muoh beyond that shown by the white Conservatives in the South Carolina Assembly the other day. A bill was up prohibiting the in termarriage of races, under a severe pen alty. The colored mecihersof the House were against it unanimously, and the whites instinctively for it. But the lat ter, after some skirmishing, withdrew their support from the bill, and it failed by ac overwhelming majority. There was no mystery about this concession. It was made for the sole pur pose of satisfying the colored sec tion of the Legislature and olenohing it to the conservative side. Perhaps there could he no better illustration of the wondrous changes whioh time and cir cumstances have wrought in South Caro lina than that such an agreement should be made. Freedom from prejudice and obliteration of the “color line” could no further go. If South Carolina can staud the consequences of “miscegenation”— whioh ia forbidden by law in some South ern States—it is not for other communi ties to object to it. The result of these intermarriages will not he seriously perceptible in the present generation of South Carolinians. The number of them, it may be presumed, will not be large in any one year. The natural barrier that keeps apart the two races is quite as high and strong as any that the law could erect. As the so- oalled civil rights bills in theNorth do not incite colored persons to miDgle freely with whites at the hotels and theatres, so the legalizing of marriages between the two colors would not, as a matter of course, make such marriages common anywhere The effect upon the com plexion of the future inhabitants of South Carolina will probably be leas striking than the friends of the defeated bill an ticipate. ADd this effect, 80 far as there is any, will be more in jurious to the negroes than to the whites. The negro race takes not life, but death, from “miscegenation.” The negro in his unadulterated state, is long lived, almost proof against ciimatio maladies, and prolific. The mulattoes aro not re markable for longevity, are most liable to certain classes of disease than any pure colored race, and in no respect hold their own in the struggle for existence against either whites or blacks. The new relations of independence and self help, in whioh the negro is placed by the abolition of slavery, have not, on the whole, it is said, been favorable to the spread and perpetuity of his race at the South. The shortest natural process for wiping the negro off the face of this country would probably b6 to encourage his intermarriage with the whites.—Y. T. Journal of Commerce. Futnre Situs of Cotion Manufacture. A Columbus (Ga.) correspondent, re ferring to the issue which W6 lately made with Mr. Atkinson's artiole concerning cotton culture and manufacture, lately published in th6 New York Herald, takes exceptions to his views of the situs of the future cotton spindle. Our corres pondent contends, with other political economists, that the loom and spindle must eventually come to the cotton field. Coiambus, Ga., according to statistics which appeared in the Enquirer of that city, has now 35,000 spindles and 1,500 looms. Another building is nearly com pleted and machinery berog received for the operation of 20,000 more. These es tablishments require 18,000 bales of cot ton and 300,000 pounds of wool per an num. J^The water power of the river there is very great. The two falls within the city aggregate 5,000 horse power, end in a distance of three miles the fall of the river is over one hundred feet, yielding 45,000 more horse power. The bed and banks are lined witn rock, easily quar ried, while brick and other buildmg ma terial are of easy access and abundant. Not long since a company of Northern capitalists desired to know the cost of a mill to run about 32,000 spindles, and a praotieal manufacturing engineer of long experience and of known capacity made the estimate that the entire mill, of the number of spiudlee above men tioned, and the site, building and machin ery, with everything complete, would cost $300,000. This is only one out of a large number of Southern localities just as favorably situated for cotton manufac ture. The great natural advantages of the South must in the end make it a great manufacturing as well as producing seo- tion of the Union. At the same time foresight and caution are as necessary as energy and aptitnde to the success of all great enterprises.—Baltimore Sun. New Way to Pay an Old Debt.— Two daughters of a farmer in St. Law rence county, New York, desired to pay the debt on their homestead, bnt they preferred not to do it by hard work. They bit upon an idea that suited their purpose, and have made enough money to remove the debt. They had a large quantity of porous stone sawed into small pieces and thoroughly soaked in an odor ous preparation, which imparted to them a durable scent. These they peddled throughout the State, at twenty-five cents each, representing that they were cut from the, *“'k of a wonderful per fumed cave £? jth America. Tie girls are so demu~ .nd pretty, and tell their lie with such an appearance of simplicity, that the sales are very large. They have jnst put a fresh lot of stone in soak, preparatory to an extended Western tonr. A Romantic Stoby Exploded. — A “tbriliiDg and romantic narrative,” that has been published far and wide, is ex ploded. The story was to the effeot that a “young, beautiful, intelligent and at tractive nun,” in St. Francis’ Hospital, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, had violated her vowa by eloping with a physician em ployed in the institution. The facts ap pear to be that a young woman, who wa* on probation, and had taken no rows, left the nunnery, returned to the world, and is living respectably with her friends.