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SAVANNAH, aMONDAY, JUNE 25, 1877.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Affairs In Georgia.
From official returns received from all but
one county, the majjrity for convention
foots up more than ten thousand.
Tue trial of Finuegaa after three days in
the Muscogee Superior Court, resulted in a
verdict of voluntary manslaughter. On the
lirst trial he was found guilty of murder.
The Superior Court of Muscogee has
been in session for thirty days and last Fri
day was sentence day.
The ColutnbuB mills have taken since Sep
tember 1st 9,081 bales of cotton against 10,087
last year, while the receipts of cotton have
been 71,870, or 20,805 more than for the
game period the previous year.
An important is?ue is discussed by the
Franklin Register, that of the education of
tbo masses. The correspondent thinks that
the levy of a tax for educational purposes Is
unwise; that the people are too poor to meet
it, aud in the same issue of the paper, an
nounces the “passage of the Rhine” by the
Russians.
The society of the “Suckers” aro enjoy
ing life in the vicinity of Pensacola, Flori
da. They lof: Columbus for an extensive
fishing excursion, and they report as a fact
that big turtle crawl of seven feet. Yerily,
the voice of the turtlo is heard through the
laud.
It is now in order to suggest business for
tbo convention, and the Greensboro Herald,
who has taken the floor, says: “If there is
no regular order of business for the conven
tion, we suggest that they kuock out those
clauses iu the constitution about ‘rebels
aud ‘paramount allegiance* the first thing,
aud then go to work and fix up some decent
laws.”
W likes county cast 28G votes for, and two
against a convention. Jasper county polled
115 for, aud two against a convention. Level
headed counties.
The question which agitatos the public
mind of Darien is. Shall hogs be licensed as
public scavengers? Brunswick also Las had
ihe question under discussion, and finally
resolved to “pound ’em.”
A nice discussion is going on between the
colored people of Muscogee county, aud it
has assumed a shape which detracts from
the efforts of Georgia to furnish school fa
cilities for the colored citizens of the State.
Wo give it as we have it from the Columbus
Enquirer: “A leading member of St. John’s
Methodist Chnrcli, aud also a teacher in one
of the colored schools, wrote au artiole for
a Philadelphia paper censuring a pastor of
another church for allowing a woman to
instruct iu the Sabbath school whose family,
he siys, are not virtuous people, and her
character is very littio better, while he (the
pastor) is aware of the fact. Whereupon
the said leading member aud school teacher
was turned out of St. John’s Church for
charges preferred by said pastor. The pas
tor asserted that if the woman s character
was bad ho did not know it. One thing is
certain, the colored people do not have suffi
cient regard for the virtue of their females.
The largest colored procession we ever saw
in Columbus followed the remains of a noto
rious proatitutc to the grave.”
The Greensboro Herald says: “The
freshet last Monday evening did considera
ble damage to crops in some sections of the
couDty, and the damage to fences is very
serious.”
The Greensboro Herald makes this start
ling announcement in its editorial column
under the signature of Oi Polloi: “It is said
the officeholders who hold appointments
under the State administration were almost
uuanimous iu their opposition to a conven
tion. The singular harmony with which
this elacs of our citizens worked against a
measure which nine-tenths of the best peo
ple of Georgia thought desirable has ex
cited considerable comment.'*
One of the nicest questions which the
convention wi.l have to discuss will proba
bly be the removal of the capital. A corre
spondent of tbo Greensboro Herald at At
lanta thus defines the position of that city
on the question : “Atlanta is ‘ready to do
nate the City Hall square, a beautiiul four-
acre iot, whenever ihe State wishes to build.
A beautiful capitol of Stone Mountain granite
is what I expect to see in six years. There are
many old fogy ideas and false notions of
economy to whip before this can be accom
plished,* but 1 am sure progress and liberal
views of public expediency will accomplish
this desirable result.” Other people think,
however, and with just cause, that there
isn’t granite enough iu Stone Mountain to
build a new capitol at Atlanta.
The Atlanta Constitution makes tho fol-
I >wiug editorial announcement: “Itgives us
pleasure to auuoncce that Mr. Henry W.
Grady, cf this city, lias consented to de
liver a lecture in Macon for the benefit of
the family of the lamented poet-editor, A.
U. Watson. The lecture will probably take
place on Thursday night of next week. We
ean promise our Macon friends a rare treat.
Colonel H. H. Jones, of the Macon Tele-
g r di'!t, has been the prime mover iu this
affair, aud it is at his suggestion and invita-
ti":i that Mr. Grady consented to deliver
the lecture.” It goes to our heart, this love
of jo lrnalists for each other. The name of
Watson will never die so long as the names
of Junes and Grady live. We can only say
in memory of .Mr. Watson that the press of
Georgia tnouru his demise with a feeling of
heartfelt sorrow.
The Darien Timber Gaze'.te says : “We
thiuk there were more Democratic votes
P'Aed by the colored people of this connty,
at the recent election, than ever was polled
before by them. We congratulate the col
on d people, aud hope that ere many days
tbev will all be voting with their white
friends.”
Consolidated returns of the Second Senato
rial District, says the Darien limber Gazette,
Ji vs that “Mr. Gignilliat*? majority over
Lectured Crawford is only 19; Mr. Horae’s
Majority over Bacon, 1G; Mr. Conley’s ma-
j >nty over Beal, 20. ‘For convention*
ovir ‘no convention’ only 7. Tattnall coun-
d:d better than we expected. Owing to
tL heavy rains on election day we did not
wpieleven ho large a vote as was polled.
L »:rty and McIntosh, as usual, did nothing
to 1 r*g on, aud both deserve a leather
between them. However, we cou-
praiukte the good people of this district in
'be selection of .Messrs. Gignilliat, Conley
in-l ilorne, who, we are satisfied, will worth-
> represent tho Second iu the approaching
1 netitutional Convention. Mr. Gignilliat
18 a true aud tried Democrat, aud we con
gratulate the people of the Second Dis
trict in electing such an able gentleman to
j*pre«ent them. He has ever worked hard
*V r * i b» people of this county aud this (with
Jr' - 'XCt-pticn of his being elected to the
H ime years ago aud being swindled
bis seat) is the first time that he La-*
„ Ver b-en honored by the votes of his felluw-
Tampa is indulging in fifty-ono pound
watermelons. Tho fruit has not yet reached
Savannah, but we have heard of a transac
tion in canteloupes which figures eight for
six dollars. They wore bought for ship
ment by tho Baltimore steamer, which left
this port on Saturday.
Says the Sumter Advance: “Mr. J. M.
Sherling presented tho Advance corpse with
the first watermelon this season.” It is a
sad commentary upon the editorial fraternity
of Florida,
The contemplated telegraph from Sanford
with Leesburg aud Sumterville will save
nearly a hundred miles of wire, and if the
people of Orange would take stock it would
be an investment that would pay in the long
run.
Crops in Putnam county are unusually
good.
Parsnips six and a half feet long, from top
of leaves to end of tap-root, and boots thir
teen inches in circumference are among the
late vegetable productions of Escambia
county.
Fifty thousand dollars are to be expended
in making additions aud improvements to
the Pensacola custom house.
The new county of Levy shows a commen
dable spirit of enterprise, and although the
negroes think that iu being incorporated iu
that county they are subject to chills, the
following fact has given them some confi
dence : “ Dr. Hodges has brought iuto Cedar
Keys a raft of over four thousand sticks of
cedar.”
Floridian: “Tho investigation into the
county records of Loon county has been
concluded, and shows that the lato clerk, C.
H. Edwards, is indebted to the county to an
amount reaching some $1,300. He is now
under bonds of $2,000.”
Tho Sun and Press says: “A telegram
was received Friday to the effect that Judge
Bradley had taken the papers in the case of
the Florida Central Railroad and wonld ren
der his opinion at some future poriod. Iu
the meantime all interested should possess
their souls in patience.”
This beats our vegetablo market and we
yield the honors to Leon county. The
Floridian says: “A beet twenty-two
inches loDg, fourteen round, and weighing
seven aud a quarter pounds, is one of the
vegetable wonders of Leon county.”
The Sun and Press has this about the
Suwaneo river: “Dr. Kenworthy Las been
‘Way down upon do Swannee riber,’ having
just* returned from au exploration of that
classic stream. Liko a boid and independent
voyager, he earned his own boat along, and
‘took water’ at Eilavillo, examining the
banks on both sides to Cedar Keys. The
doctor is of the opinion that the California
salmon could be introduced iuto tho Suwan
nee, as well as the shad, aud designs open
ing a correspondence with Professor Baird,
of the SmitliBOuiau Institute, upon tbo sub
ject. Tbe orange groves encountered were
of fine size and thrifty appearance, aud had
not experienced tho slighest injury from the
frosts of last winter. The greatest distance
accomplished m oue day. including stop
pages,* was fifty-four miles.”
The Now York Home Journal giveR the
following personal of one of Florida’s most
efficient workers : “Dr. J. Marion Sims left
for Europe last Saturday. His prosout tour
will iucludo Vienna aud St. Petersburg,
places that he has not yet visited in his
many previous trips. Tne eminent physi
cian goes abroad partly with tho idea of
gathering material for a new book, and also
to pursue his professional practice; lor he
has many distinguished patients in the
higher circles of European capitals. Dr.
Sims will return to his practice in New York
on the first of November.”
The homestead entries in Florida aro at
tracting attention, and we publish tho fol
lowing circular from Commissioner William
son, of Washington, as bearing upon this
important question. The letter is addressed
to Registers and Receivers of United States
Lands, and reads as follows: ‘‘Referring to
my circular of Apnl 1, 1877, under the act
of 3d March, 1877, authorizing tho proof re
quired iu homestead entries, under section
2291 of tho Revised Statutes of the
United States, to be ‘made before the
Jadge, or, in his absence, before the
Clerk of any court of record of the coun
ty and State' or district and territory, in
which tho lands are situated,* I have further
to direct that in all cases in which such
proof shall be made before a Judge, under
said act, yon will require, in addition to the
Judge’s certificate, that the Clerk of the
court shall certify, under his hand and the
seal of his office, that the said Judge was
duly commissioned and qualified, and also
to the genuineness of his signature, such
certificate of the Clerk to be indorsed upon
or annexed to the papers, and form a part
thereof.”
Florida Affairs.
f Tue removal of the court house of Brad-
county h*a become a question and has
■ en submitted to the courts. Judge
Archibald has taken the matter in hand and
,J lda the cxbc under advisement.
There were sixty arrivals at tho Brown
%30 > Micon, Friday night, among them
“ty Westerners on a tour of inspection to
Florida.
J corrc '8pondent writes that a large num-
r Western men, principally from Wie-
j Di ‘ u > "'>li seek homes in Florida this fall.
( * Si * u °f public lands will attract name-
!et tlers, and tho immigration busi-
** s *iUb 9 brisk.
S’. w ‘*( have water, even if tbe
don’t Bupply tbe requisite amount
I ' *■ At the last mooting of C mncil tbe
j J “' wing re Port was adopted: “That tbe
ta jnviUe water work*, a private corpora
te.' e A ‘' uwe ^to commence and proseoute
y* rcjntem Plsted water works.” This ao"
J °f the Council gives a fall Bupply of
7*ater to the city.
ttkt'.'. 11 st °rm in Jacksonville on tho 23d
, ‘ at ’ drifen by a strong wind, broke
n, ® er 01 window glasses in the oity.
• ct *iies were the size of marbles.
The Convention.
tVe congratulate the good people of
Georgia on the result of the recent elec
tion. The convention has been called
and we truly believe that Georgia will be
greatly benefited by tbe deliberations of
that body.
There were three classes in this elec
tion: the remnant of the Radical party,
in view of the division in the Democracy,
lifted its head higher than for many a
day in Georgia. It was represented by a
very few whites and the great body of the
negroes, and was bitterly opposed to
a convention. They felt that it wonld
give the last and final stroke to their ras
cality in Georgia.
Another class was composed of good
citizens of Georgia, and good Democrats,
but they were “doubting Thomases.”
Fearing many things, they preferred to
put up with a constitution full of defects
and imperfections, rather than risk the
uncertainties which, in their minds, at
tach to the people in convention assem
bled.
The third and last class is composed of
true and earnest men, who never have
forgotten and who could never forget
that the instrument called a constitution
under which we live was not the organic
law of the land as created by a sovereign
people, but was the joint product of dis
franchisement, foroo and fraud. They
have waited and bided their time with
patience until the people of Georgia
could speak without the bayonet at their
throats and without tho stigma of dis
franchisement resting upon the noblest
of her sons. That hour has come at last,
and now they will act not in a spirit of
malevolence and retaliation; but they
will take up the necessities of the hour
and the wants of the future, and with a
just regard for the rights of all citizens,
give to the people of Georgia a constitu
tion uDder which they will live for many
a generation in peace, honor and pros
perity.—Darien Gazette.
A Doo Detective.—A rich merchant
of Paris has a haudsome country house
in the environs which he only ocoupies
from July to September. The rest of the
year the property is under the care of
L=rat an old soldier retired from service.
About May 1st, while Lerat was smoking
his pipe before the door, two meu in
blouses, carrying a large goods box on a
handbarrow, asked his leave to deposit
the box for an hour in the garden. Lerat
assented; the box was set down behind
the stable and the men departed. In tne
evening Lerat’s dog began to bark
savagely Lerat went to see what was
the matter and found the dog guarding
the chest, barking and showing his fangs
significantly. Lerat crept on tiptoe to
the box and heard movements in it. He
isn at ones for his gun, got the gardener,
and returning, opened the chest. A man
in a blouse sprang out and started tc
escape, but Lerat covered him wUh his
gun, and the man, instead of evading,
fell upon his knees and begged Lerat Dot
to betray him; ho would confess every
thing. Lerat, however, handed himover
to the police, who set a trap, and that
night captured his two accomplices
trying to break into the house. The
goods box dodge, it seems, has been
frequently tried of late in and about
Pans.
In a letter to G. W. Childs, of Phila
delphia, Gen. Grant says of the atten
tion shown him in Englund : “I love to
see our country honored and respected
abroad, and I am proud to believe that it
is by most all nations, and by some even
loved. It has always been my desire to
see jealousy between England and the
United Slates abated, aud every sore
healed. Together they are more power
ful for the spread of ooinmerce and civi
lization than all others combined, and
can do more to remove the causes of
wars by creating the mutual interests that
would be bo much destroyed by war.
LETTER FROM THE SPRINGS.
Atlanta to .HoDtcomrry - Crops and
Wratber—Fn*i Train* and Few Passen
ger*—Montgomery— Mouth and Worth
Alabama Railroad and Immigration—
Blount Spring* n« a Health Resort.
(Special Correspondence Morning News.)
Blount Springs, Ala., June 21.—
Leaving Atlanta on Tuesday morning,
just after breakfast, I reached this health
restoring spot at midnight of the same
day.
All along the line of travel I noticed
the improved condition of crops, the re
sult of recent refreshing rains, which
have been general through the whole
section.
Col. L. P. Grant, of the West Point
Railroad, and Gen. E. P. Alexander, of
the Western, have put their tracks in fine
condition,and are now running a lightning
express train between Atlanta ana
Montgomery.
It is with this train that a connection
is made at Opelika by the fast train from
Macon, on the New Orleans route, of
which so muoh has been said by the
press. A five hours’ delay in Mont
gomery, however, makes the fast riding
between Atlanta and that city a bar to an
early arrival in New Orleans.
Still, as Montgomery is the capital of
Alabama, aud rising conspicuously from
one of its high hills can be seen the
stately capitol in which the Confederate
Government was fir»t established, the
traveler can spend a few hours very
pleasantly in viewing the city, which has
many attractions. A new union passen
ger depot at the foot of Commerce street
is a great benefit to the traveling public.
We had but few passengers, although
college anniversaries aro taking place.
Not a dozen came to LaGrange, one being
Attorney Generul Ely, who was to deliver
the literary address on yesterday. Three
went to Tuskegee, where they had daugh
ters to graduate. The fact is, in these
hard times people can’t afford to travel
about to commencements as they used to
do a few years ago. At every town on
the route I noticed many empty stores—
iu ono town twenty-two were abandoned.
This shows that trade centres have be
come demoralized, or the business of the
country has suffered a general decrease.
Many persons think the latter cause, in
most cases, is the true one.
A1JOUT ALABAMA.
This State was enabled to throw off
its yoke of Radical oppression soon
after Georgia fell into line, and her pro
gress since that hour has been remarka
bly encouraging. Her bonded debt has
been renewed and put in good shape.
She has adopted a new constitution, and
under Gov. Houston’s prudent manage
ment has adopted the most economical
form of State government to he found in
the South.
Her immigration schemes have gene
rally been successful, and while hun
dreds of her people have gone to Texas,
other hundreds of industrious and de
sirable settlers have come in and built
up new towns, established new indus
tries, and cleared new land for farming
purposes. The South aud North Ala
bama Railroad, on which Blount
Springs is located, has doDe an immense
Amount cf work in this direction. It has
placed its lands in tho market at cheap
and easy rates, given low fares to immi
grants, and scattered broadcast its circu
lars descriptive of the country.
President Sloes even sent an agent to
the Centennial with a grand display of
the minerals and cres and products of
the State, that the whole world might see
what a country his railroad traversed
and what kind of lands the settler could
fiud here. Some five or s x years ago I
made an excursion over this road, then
just opened, and the country was almost
a wilderness. To day I fiud scattered all
along its course towns aud cities and set
tlements full of life and youthful vigor.
Aud yet North Georgia has nil (and
are more valuable) the ores and the min
erals to be found here, while South Geor
gia has a soil aDd a climate for farming
purposes unsurpassed by any other sec
tion of this continent. The same enter
prise and liberality m making known
abroad the resources of Georgia, followed
up by proper encouragement to immi
grants to settle there, would do even
more for your Slate than has been done
for Alabama, for her material resources
and advantages are superior.
BLOUNT SPEINGS EEVIVED.
Over a half century ago the wonderful
sulphur springs at this point used to at
tract large crowds of wealthy citizens.
They came in their family carriages, fol
lowed by baggage wagons and servants,
and spent the summer in the midst of a
wild and picturesque mountain region.
Alabama’s greatest men have sought re
newed health here, including Vice Presi
dent King, Senators Yancey and Clay,
and others who had won national reputa
tions. But it was only a few years ago,
on the completion of the South and North
Railroad, that modern improvements
were made here, aud general attention
called to the great curative powers of the
various sulphur springs that form a clus
ter at the foot of one of the majestic hills
that skirt this narrow valley.
The Jackson House and its numerous
cottages form quite a little town, and
when the season is fairly opened the
place is alive with visitors, some seeking
restored health by drinking sulphur water,
and others finding recreation in hunting,
fishing or riding over the mountains.
Col. J. F. B. Jackson, of Georgia, and
Mr. H. F. DeBardel“ben, son iu-law of
the late Hor. Daniel Pratt, who have re
cently purchased the property, are mak
ing extensive improvements about tho
present hotel, kept by Capt. J. D. Ton-
ner, and are also preparing to erect a fine
brick hotel on the site of tho ante bellu.ni
hotel near the springs, which will be
fitted up exclusively for invalids. There
will then be no need to go to the far off
Hot Springs ot Arkansas, as relief can he
found here for all the diseases treated at
that place. Having repeatedly tested the
sulphur waters of old Blount, your cor
respondent has never failed to secure the
desired restoration of health after a very
short visit. Three days, at this time,
will send me back to my duties greatly
improved. Chatham.
SKETCHES OF FLORIDA.
Ne. 2.—Her Keeonrree.
In many respects, and without preju
dice to other sections of the country, I
may claim more diversified resources for
Floiida than any other of the States of
the Union.
Georgia, so appropriately called the
“Empire State of the South,” has her
mild and genial winter climate about Sav
annah. Augusta, Thomasville, St. Mary’s
and Eastman, and her cool and refreshing
summer climate about Gainesville, Mari
etta, Tallulah Falls, and in the Nacoochee
valley. She has wealth in her cotton and
rice fields and her fine forests on the
coast, and in her iron and coal and gold
mines in the mountains of the interior.
Her climate, soil and resources are varied
and desirable in a remarkable degree.
Florida, however, possesses that which
no other State has in full perfection—a
semi-tropical climate peculiarly adapted
to a certain kind of fruit cultnre,
aud in which relief may be found
for pulmonary aud other diseases
which demand the mildest and dryest
kind of an atmosphere. Thomas county,
Georgia, is said to be admirably suited
to such diseases, and many cures have
been obtained by a residence there. But
Florida has a large extent of tenitory
where such diseases find themselves
obliged to relinquish their deadly grasp
upon their victims.
Nor is it true that Florida is merely a
heme for invalids and a place to cultivate
semi-tropical fruits. Like Georgia, its
soil, climate and productions are varied.
Gadsden, Leon, Jefferson, Alachua, Ma
rion, and some of the adjoining counties,
contain as desirable farming lands as can
be found in any Southern State. Long
and short staple cotton, as well as all
kinds of farm products, are successfully
cultivated in these counties. Many kinds
of fruit are also grown with profit, al
though tho impression has prevailed that
such was not the case.
From Indian river and along the St.
John’s and the Ocklawaha, which
includes the interior country,
comes the gTeat bulk of the oranges,
lemons and bananas that supply the mar-
ket demands. Fernandino, from along
the line of the Atlantic, Gulf and West
India Transit Company’s Railroad,
ships an immense quantity of naval
stores and lumber. Jacksonville, Palatka
and St. Augustine annually sell thousands
of dollars worth of “Florida curiosities”
to the winter visitors. Cedar Keys is the
great fish and oyster mart, as is also St.
Marks. The turtle trade is also a large
source of revenue. There are other impor
tant branches of business that yield fair
profits, and in which new settlers can
engage.
iu a State settling up 03 rapidly as is
Florida, there are constant opportunities
to engage in some kind of business in
newly started and growing towns. The
supply, however, is always ahead of the
demand, so that clerks, lawyers, doctors,
preachers and mechanics often find them
selves compelled to resort to farming or
fruit growing for support. With
an increase of population, how
ever, there will eventually be
a greater demand for professional and
business men and mechanics. Already
manufacturing enterprises have multi
plied iu various parts of the State, and
the end is not yet at hand.
Stock raising is a profitable business in
the counties on the Gull coast, and from
Tampa, Funta Rassa and other points
larga shipments of cattle are made to
Key West aud Cuba. Emigrants need
not go to Texas in order to get “out of
the world,” and live a wild life with their
“Hocks aud herds.” They can find just
snch a retreat, and lead just such a life,
“away ’round” on the Florida coast.
Some settlers have even penetrated to
within a short distance of the Everglades,
and there, not far from the Seminole
ludians, have made themselves homes.
Tbe onward march of modern civilization
and progress, stayed for a time, will soon
circle that entire coast and penetrate to
and settle up its remotest habitable
regions. I predict this from the fact
that various semi tropical fruits can be
grown with greater certainty and profit
in that section of the State.
In these times of financial depression,
when all manufacturing industries are
demoralized, and with u population too
overworked and enfeebled to stand the
rigors of a cold climate, it is impossible
to estimate the influences that will draw
a steady stream of immigrants to Florida.
Her orange and banana groves; her
“truck” farms; her oysti r beds and fish
eries ; her turpentine stills and her saw
mills; her cotton fields and her potato
patches; her flocks and herds, and her
“sportsmau’sjparadise;” all these, with
herj growing towns, railroad enterprises
and steamboat lines, and her multiplying
industrial pursuits, must attract within
her borders a constantly increasing num
ber of actual settlers. These will scatter
iu various directions, as their tastes and
desires differ. As I have already stated,
they will fiud a variety of soil, climate
and products, and can hardly fail to be
come suited. The St. John’s river, the
Atlantic and tbe Gulf coasts, and the
interior of the State, present a diveraily
of attractions, and all ard getting their
share of the new comers. Formerly this
was not tbe case, but of late every por
tion of the State that comes into notice
as possessing desirable attractions for
settlers, draws to itself a share of the in
creasing population. Of these sections I
shall speak in detail in future articles.
Sidney Hebbe-.t.
The Rothschilds and American Finan
ces—The Saratoga 5 ensation in
Washington.
A Washington special to the New Y'otk
Bulletin says:
“Information received here indirect
ly from the Rothschilds, but undoubt
edly with their sanction, places that
firm in the position of opponents to
our four per cent, loan and all our credit,
if Judge Hilton’s Saratoga insult to
Joseph < Beligoian means au ontering
wedge to the social proscription of Jews
America. It is evident from
aDd hints that
are angrily ex-
m
these statements
the Rothschilds — —=
cited about the matter, and ready,
if this is intended as even a social menace
from the American people, to stand aloof
from aDy further connection with Amen-
can financial transactions—national, mu
nicipal or corporate. The Jewa here say
they are bound to prosecute the Saratoga
matter under the civil rights bill, on
account of the misapprehension and in
jury to our business interests tha* might
result if the Jewish capitalists of Europe
should get a wrong impression about it
deep seated enough to cause lasting
^“Secretary Sherman denounces the act
of Judge Hilton in severe terms. The
general impression here 13, however,
among Jews and Christians, that Judge
Hiltou is running this hotel upon a per
sonally sentimental rather than a business
basis, and that he does not express the
sentiment of the American peopleortKe
theory of onr government in his action,
and our official advise hisprosecuUonto
the fullest extent of the oml rights law.
CHARLTON COUNTY.
The Elertlon-Bnrbecne—The Croys
lion nitd llominy question.
Centbevillage, Chablton County,
Ga., June 18.—Editor Morning News: The
result of the electiou in Charlton county,
on the 12th instant, was as follows : For
convention, 280; for no convention, 5 :
for J. R. Bachlott and M. L. Mershon, 28.3.
The colored candidate did not receive a
vote in the county. Charlton is, there
fore, the banner county.
Charlton county is moving smoothly
in the direction of retrenchment and re
form. A wooden bridge composed of
pine material has recently been built
across Spanish creek, a stream twenty-
five or thirty feet wide, for the small sum
of four hundred dollars. O reform!
reform.’
A barbecue was given at Centrevillage,
in Charlton county, on the day of the
election. Just before the eating was
commenced tho people were addressed in
an eloquent and a well directed speech by
Col. S. W. Baker, in which the Colonel
strongly urged the necessity of a con-
ventior.
We are delighted to see our old friend,
Mr. John Sheffield, bringing the mail to
the post offices in Chariton county.
When steamboats fail, Mr. Sheffield is
regular and reliable.
The seasons to the present time have
been very favorable in Charlton county,
and consequently the crops are very
promising.
Hogs are still dying with cholera in
Charlton county. A remedy for this dis
ease, which has been tried successfully,
is the use of potash, say one pound to
two gallons of water, in which soak corn
before feeding it to the hogs. W. O. G.
The Shermans and Brownlows pull
lustily and multitndinously at the public
teat. Seven of the latter family are
handsomely provided for, and an expert,
familiar with the blue book, says the
Shermans have their names inscribed
therein before they are even put on to
the baptismal record.
BY TELEGRAPH
-TO-
TUE MORNING NEWS*
WAR NOTES.
“There are twenty thousand vagabond
children in Philadelphia who never enter
a school door.” The South better send
some missionaries to the Quaker City.—
Dotton PotL
THE PASSAGE OF THE DANUBE.
Xoukhtar Pasha Fights Terribly.
THE QUESTION AS TO THE SUEZ
CANAL.
THE Tl'BKS FORSAKE THE DOB-
RED ISC H A.
Tbe Fighting in Montenegro.
[By Cable to the Morning News.]
London, June 23.—The PosCs Bucharest
dispatch says: “Tho preparations for cross-
iug the Danube are complete. An attempt
is expected to he made in a few nights.”
A special to the A’etcs from Ibrsil says ;
“All u ready for crossing the Danube. The
bridge from Ibrail to the Turkish side is
completed. Tho bridge is between seven
hundred and eight bnudred yards long. The
Russians have aiso a large number of rafts,
and employ all merchant vessels detained
iu pert. Seven wooden sloops have been
irouplated and armed with two guns, and
have a capacity for two hundred men.
Tho bridge is composed of huge
plauits, held together by anchors from
the Iorail side. Five batteries for its pro
tection have been constructed on tli3
Matcbin side. Tho Russian force at Ibrail
is fifteen thousand strong. The Austrian
troops have lined the Montenegrin frontier
with strong detachments. The women aud
children are flying to Badna and Catlano.
The Russians hive material ready to bridge
the river at Galatz. The Turks made no
sign of hindrance at Ibrail. Two small
camps are visible on tbe heights above
.Matchin. Tbe Russian force at Gaiatz and
Ibrail is forty thousand. A wide m irsh on
the Turkish side separate the combatants at
both places.”
New York, June 23.—A cable special says:
“The whole Russian corps is iu Bulgaria.
The Czar with his staff intends to cross
to-day.”
London, June 23.—Various speciil dis
patches poiut to a speedy removal of the
Russian headquarters to Alexandria in Boa-
mania, probably on Sunday or Monday.
Constantinople, June 23.—Intelligence
received to-day announces that Moukhtar
Pasna has been engaged 6inco Thursday,
with the the Iiussiau armv at Tatkhodja,
between Khurasan aud Delibaba. Tbe bat
tle was proceeding all day yesterday. The
result is unknown.
Tho Porte’s reply to Lord Derby’s note, in
reference to tbe Suez canai, was dispatched
on the 21st inst. It is understood that the
Porte accepts the principle of the full navi
gation ot the canal by neutrals, but reserves
the right of fighting au enemy’s vessel.
Prince Hassan, of Egypt, leaves for
Varna to-day on board the Missir. The
Sultan presented him yesterday with a
sword of honor.
London, June 23.—A telegram from Ibrail
smiouncea that six thousand • Russians
crossed tbe Danube from Galatz. The
bridge constructed by the Russians over
the river at Ibrail is finished. The Turkish
garrison at Matchin has withdrawn.
The second edition of the Daily News has
a dispatch from its correspondent at the
Ru-siau headquarters at Ibrail, dated yes
terday, which says: “The Ra»s:a’is cross
ed the Danube at Galatz in boats. They
have taken tbe heights behind Zizailia, near
Matchin. The Turks are said to have aban
doned Matchin. A sufficient number of
Russians have crossed to establish them
selves solidly there, and are now entrench
ed.”
Bcchabest, Jane 23.—A dispatch to the
second edition of the Stamtard says : “The
Turks are destroying tho line of railway be
tween Teheruavoda and Matchin. It is ru
mored that there are indications that Tur
key will not defend tbe Dobrndscha.
Ibrail, June 23.—Tbo Russians on land
ing on the Turkish bank of the Danube
penetrated directly into tbe interior behind
the hills, gaining possession of the heights
commanding Matchin, after au obstinate
tight with a body of Bashi-Bazouks. Tbe
engagement lasted from daybreak until
noon. Tbecaptureof Matchin is imminent.
London, June 23.—Tho Cettinje corre
spondent of tne Time* telegraphed yesterday
as follows: “Suleiman l’asba advances
very slowly, the road being obstinately con
tested by the Montenegrins. No doubt be
will succeed in getting through, bat with
very grave losses. According to the latest
consular reports ho had 22,000 regnlars and
irom 5,000 to 8,000 irregulars, against whom
Prince Nicholas can only oppose 8,000 to
10,000 men. The lighting is very sangui
nary, but the Turks can only return now
with daDp-r, and will uubU forward regard
less of losses.”
Tbe convent of Ostrok was burned this
moruiog.
An attack is announoed on two points of
the southern frontier. The total number
of Turkish forces now operating against
Montenegro is about 00,000.
A Beutor telegram from Ragusa, yes
terday, says: “Fighting near Ostrok ceased
yesterday. Tbe Montenegrins occupy au
entrenched position, which prevents the ad
vance of Sulci man Pasba. Prince Nicholas,
with another corpses entrenched at Ccrova,
south of Ostrok. Ati 3aib is expected to at
tack Denilograd to-morrow, with tbe object
of effecting a junction with Suleiman Pasba.
Should these operations succeed, both armies
will march upon Cettinje. Lieutenant-Gen
eral Mehemet Ali will march down from
Vasijevich to cover their flanks. AU the
Montenegrins in Herzegovina aro return
ing to their country’s defence.”
Constantinople, June 23.—It is officially
announced that the Turkish divisions
operating from Herzegovina and Albania
against M ntenegro successful y effected a
junction at Dine o’clock this moruiog, and
are now marching upon Cettinje.
A Paris dispatch to the Times saye: “It is
stated that the steamer conveying the
gigantio Krupp gun which was exhibited at
Philadelphia to Russia has grounded near
the island of Oassei.”
The Daily News’ Pioisti dispatch con
firms the report that the Grand Dnko
Nicholas received the English attache, Col.
WeUesloy, very brusquely. He put lorth
stipulations as the condition of his accom
panying tho army, which must trammel
oim as an independent representative ot
England. His freedom ot action would be
supervised strictly, and he was warned that
it was expected that he should not testify
in an unfriendly spirit. Col. Wellesley re
mains at Bucharest,presumably awaiting in
structions from home.
Cettinje, June 23 —Montenegrin official
accounts admit that Suleiman Pasha’s and
Ali Saib’s forces have effected a junction,
and say it was after six days continuous
fighting, in which tho TurkB lost seven
thousand men.
Constantinople, June 23.—A telegram
from Moukhtar Pasha states that the Turks
attacked on tbe 20tb inst. a Russian di
vision encamped at Heliatz. The fight
lasted until Dightfall. I ho Russian division
was cut iu two aud fled iu disorder.
London, Judo 23.—A Reuter dispatch from
Ibrail to-day says: “Tbe Russians entered
Matchin to-day, the Turks having aban
doned it. The Russians continue crossing
by bridge and a steamer.”
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Freedman's Bank Dividend.
SITTING BL'LI, TO be EXPELLED
FROM CANADA.
The Democratic Mnjoritv in the Next
Homs.
[By Telegraph to tho Morning News.]
Washington, June 23.—Commodore Jno.
R. Goldsborough is dead.
Secretary Sherman hag received a dispatch
from tho (laughter of Lewis Cass, who mar
ried a German nobleman, directing a sub
scription of fifty thousand dollars in four
per cents.
It is stated that tbe Canadian Government
is moving for SittiDg Bull’s expulsion from
Canada. His presence inspires the Black-
field ludians to turbulaace.
The following letter is made public:
“Executive Mansion, Washington, June
22, 1877—Sir: I desire to call yoar at
tention to tbe following paragraph in
a letter addressed by me to the
Secretary of the Treaiury on the conduct
to be observed by officers of the General
Government in relation to the elections.
‘No officer should be required or permitted
to take part in tbe management of politi
cal organizations, caucuses, conventions or
election campaigns. Their right to vote
and to express their views on pnblic ques
tions, either orally or through tbe press, is
not denied; bat it mast not interfere with
the discharge of then: official duties. No
assessment for political purposes oo officers
or subordinates should be allowed.’ This
role is applicable to every department of
the civil servioe. It should be understood
by every officer of tbe General Government
that he ie expected to conform his conduct i
to its requirements.
“Very respectfully, B. B. Hayes.”
Rufus Campin has been appointed pension
agent at St. Lonis.
Clark Adams has completed bis roll for
the next House, which Bhows a majority of
eight full pledged Democrats. Garfield,
Banks and Foster are counted out.
The Freedmen’s Bank has enough, it
claims, to pay 10 per cent, dividend, bat tbe
expense of distribution wonld in most cases
cover the amount. Tnere are 20,000 deposi
tors of sums uudor five dollars, to whom the
fifty cents is thought of no conseqneace.
The commissioners think they will ultimate
ly be able to pay fifty cents on the dollar.
' Senator Jodbs, of Nevada,one of the silver
Senators, is preparing the report of tbe
Joint Commission on silver. He favors the
double standard, aDd considers that the
opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury is
of no more binding force than that of any
other iudividnal.
G. Wiley Wells, ex-member of Congress
from Mississippi, will be appointed Consul
General to China.
The New York Sun has a sensation about
slicing six or seven States from Mexico.
Mr. Evarts laughed at the caption, bnt
looked grave after he had partly read the
paragraph aDd became indignant toward tbe
close. He finally said wi'h a sneer, which
brought his nose and chin very close to
gether, “that newspapers must amuse the
people.”
THE MINCING LANE FBOYISION
MARKET.
THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.
1 be Mobile ami Ohio Bail road in Conrt.
FRKNCII POLITICS.
The Jew. of New York and .Mr. Ililton
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.
London, Jnue 23.—On the Stock Excbauge
the market for English funds has been ex
ceptionally flat as compared with tho steady
aud somewhat advancing foreign markets.
The rumors this week abont British inter
vention, though not sufficiently disquieting
to produce any marked effect on prices gen
erally, have yet been enough to alarm those
engaged in keeping up tbe markets ; hence
the sales of consols, to provide against acci
dents. On Thursday the prevailing dullness
was increased by the definite shape of the
rumors ot a war expenditure by the British
Government. To-day (Friday) there was no
increase ot general business, hut some con
sols are being offered for sale. At the
close there was a droop in speculative
markets in sympathy with the rel
ative foreign stocks. The harvest pros
pects bemg still good all over the
continent, there is some plain ground for
steadiness of value, but it is also noticeable
that there are large financial interests in
favor of high prices. At present a Russian
loan, a German loan, an issue of United
Stales stock and a Portugese loan are all
coming forward, and none of the groups in
terested in retailing these securities would
willingly allow a break in the markets.
.Speculators for a fall are therefore overpow
ered and do not operate. Tho most im
portant decline is la in Egyptian preference.
Hungarian is about 1 lower, Turkish j, and
Russian fractionally |lower. Italian and
French have actually risen. American ec-
curites have fallen a little on the issue of
I per cent, bonds, and the announcement
that the Cabinet has decided that the inter
est of the principal of the 4 per cents, only
are payable in gold has increased that effect.
THE MINCING LANE PROVISION MARKET.
London, June 23.—The business of Min-
ciog Lane continues rather quiet. Many
kinds of produco have now lost ihe advance
established at the commencement of the
war. Sugar haB been very dull during the
past week with quotations occasionally in
favor of buyers, but to-day (Friday), there
is rather more inquiry at a decline aud also
for refined coffee, which has been in good de
mand. Colary kinds are higher. Plantation
Ceylon shows a rise of one shilling to two
shillings. Native is firmer. The unfavor
able reports regarding crops have partly
caused an improvement. Ordinary de
scriptions are unchanged. The next sales
of the Dutch Trading Company on the
27th inst. will be larger than usual, viz.:
103,500 bags. Rice continues depressed.
Tbe tea market is unchanged, tho public
sales being small by privato contract. A
good business has beon done in this season’s
new make of CoDgon at fair prices. The
first steamer from llankuw with new teas is
expected to arrive here about July 4th. Tbe
new season’s Indian tea by auction realized
full rates lor the finest, but medium grades
are considered cheap. Saltpetre is lower.
BOLD ATTEMPT TO ROB A TRAIN.
Toledo, June 23.—An attempt was made
last night to rob the express car of train
No. 6, bound east over the Air Line divi
sion of the Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern Riilway. Shortly after the traiu left
Ligonier, Indiana, the car was entered by
four men, who accosted the messenger aud
were about to bind him,when they were c in-
fronted by a force of officers and express
men, beaded by Chief of Police Pardy, of
this city, who had been notified that an at
tempt was to be made to rob the car,and had
concealed himself and men in the car. A
short but most desperate straggle ensued,
resulting in the capture of the entire band,
who were brought to this city and lodged in
jail. All are yonng men and residents of
Noble conntv, Indiana. The train was not
stopped, and none of the passengers were
aware that anything unusual had occurred
during the Inp.
THE JEWISH PBOSOBirnON IN NEW YORK.
New York, June 23.—All the Jewish Syn
agogues in the city were this morning filled
to an unusual extent, it being anticipated
that the rabbis would have something to
say concerning the subject of controversy
between Judge Heury Hilton and Mr. Selig-
man. In most oi the synagogues the sub
ject was not touched. The exceptions were
the congregations of Bethel, corner of Lex
ington avenue and 55th street; Temple
Emanuel, corner of 5;h avenue and 431
street, and Sbearith Israel, No. 5 West 19th
street. The pastors of tbe separate churches
declared that the importance of tho Bubject
had been greatly magnified, and that no
groat principle was involved, the whole Phb-
ject being simply a personal controversy be
tween two individuals.
TURF NOTES.
Jebgme Pare, June 23.—Id the 1J mile
race Oriole wod, CarocoUa second; time
2:4Ij. Iu the mile heats Mary won
the first heat in l:49j; Dauntless
wen the second in 1:48, and”Mary won tho
third iu 1:49j. The race was very excitiDg.
Dauntless was tbe favorite alter the second
heat by 100 to 40. In the 1 j mile heat Yi-
cero won, Shylock second and Ambush third;
time 3:14. In the steeple chase Corset won,
Resolute second, aud Waller third.
Lexington, June 23.—The attendance was
large and the track in splendid order. In
the three minute class Lucy Flemmmg won
in 2:28, 2:29j, 2:29, 2:35j. Orange Girl took
the first h* at iu the 2:27 class. Lady Lum
ber took tbe secoQd, fourth anv filth, and
Jewess tbe first and third. Time—2:26j,
2229j, 2:284, 2:30], 2:32.
THE INSURANCE LOSSES IN ENGLAND BY THE
ST. JOHN FIRE.
London, June 23.—The limes' financial
article says; “Several English insurance
offices lose heavily by tbe St. John fire. In
one instance the loss will be over five hundred
thousand dollars, and the smallest loss that
any single office will have to bear is over
one hundred thousand dollars. The
principal sufferers are: North British and
Mercantile, Imperial, Royal, Liverpool and
London and Globe, Northern, Queen, and
Commercial Union Companies.”
SUSPENDED.
Peoria, Jane 23.—The hanking firm of
Sidney Pulsifer & Co. closed their doors to
day. Sidney Pulsifer, whose property
amounts to over a million dollars, posted a
notice on the door of the bank expressing
profound sorrow at the snspension and his
belief that the creditors would lose nothing,
as his property is large and unincumbered.
Woolncr Bros,, large distillers, have been
borrowing heavily of the firm and will doubt
less also tail.
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
Paris, June 23.—The vote in tbe Senate
for a dissolution of tbe Chamber of Deputies
being foreseen, has caused little sensaticu,
and is discussed by the morniug papers with
great calmness. The exact figures of the
vote in tbe Senate were 149 against 130.
The Deputies passed yesterday a supple
mentary naval note of nearly six million
francs for armaments necessitated by events
in tbe East.
THE MOBILE AND OHIO RAILROAD.
Memphis, June 23.—Jadge Trigg of the
United States Distriot Court, to-day took
the case of William Butler, Duncan et al. vs.
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad under advise
ment, and adjourned the court until next
September. This ease has attracted con
siderable attention, from the fact that the
whole line of that road and franchise, valued
at §15,000,000, u involved.
hydrophobia.
Pottsville, Jane 23.—A hydrophobia
case at Mahoney City attracts much atten
tion. Mr. Fister, the victim, is still living.
When offered water or Ice he ia seized with
convalsione and suffers dreadfully. He was
bitten seven months ago by a pet terrier.
FROST.
Toledo, Jane 23 A alight frost foil in
this vicinity last night.
the steamer l'amebique.
New York, June 23—The steamer
L’Amerique, of the French trans-Atlantic
line, after being thoroughly overhauled and
refitted, left her dock to-day for Plymouth
and France with between 140 and 150 pas
sengers.
THE WEAVERS' STRIKE.
Paterson, N. J., June 23. — The silk
weavers' strike continues. Tbe weavers,
who demanded ten per cent, increase, were
to-day locked out until they will accept the
twenty per cent, redaction.
THE LATE FIRE.
St. John, N. B., June 23.—The roll of
dead reaches ten, including Capt. Firth, a
prominent merchant. Five arrests have
been made for Incendiarism, and innumera
ble thefts are reported.
HAMPTON IN NEW YORK.
New York, June 23.—At tbe New York
Hotel this morning a large number of dis
tinguished citieens paid tbeir respects to
Gov. Wade HamptoD.
SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS.
Port Jervis, Juno 23.—It is reported that
Frank Abbott, late Treasurer of tbo Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers, is short in
bis accounts with that order. -
DAMAGE TO THE COTTON CROP.
Memphis, June 23.—The damage to the
cotton crop on tbe Arkansas river bv the
flood is estimated at from 20,000 to 30,000
bales.
Nobody Benefited by War.
Even the ever-sanguine Western people,
we see, are gradually getting cored of the
mischievous fallacy that aDy one nation
can permanently benefit by the misfor
tunes of another. Experience of late
has been teaching them another hard
lesson. The immense fortunes which
were expected to be made out of the
Russo-Turkish war by the fluctuations of
the markets have proved to be mere cas
tles in Spain, and nothiDg remains but
moral reflections like these from the Chi
cago Tribune:
“When war was declared the opera
tions on the Chicago Board of Trade of
outsiders—farmers, merchants in country
towns and the like—were enormous. The
lessons of prudence that were supposed
to have been taught to every one by tbe
panic were swept away in an instant and
dreams of sudden wealth took their place.
At first the gains were heavy, but a reac
tion in the market transmuted them into
equally heavy losses. The losses in wheat
aud provisions have alone been serious
enough to account for some of the
thoughtful quiet that pervades thi9 part
of the country. But, apart from specu
lation, the war has utterly failed to create
the demand for the produots of the West
that was expected.''
The fact is, at this stage of tho world’s
civilization, wars are but the brutal, bar
baric way to national impoverishment;
and though individuals may now aud
then profit by them by some lucky com
mercial venture, no reasonable man will
question that ultimately they hurt the
race infinitely moie than they help it.
Russia and Turkey developing their ma
terial resources and cultivating the arts
of peace, might some day have prosper
ous and wealthy populations that would
necessarily create markets for au ex
change of products which would augment
our trade nt the same time that it
would benefit them; but Russia and
Turkey engaged in the work of mutual
destruction and borrowing money from
whoever they can persuade to lend aro
on the road to common ruin and mutual
impoverishment, which will place it be
yond their power for a long period to
come to be consumers of the surplus pro
ducts of any nation beyond their actual
necessities, even if the crushing taxation
imposed by heavy war debts enable them
to do that. Last-week we shipped from
New York to foreign ports nearly five
millions of merchandise of one kind and
another, but not a dollar's worth went to
a Russian or Turkish port. Not only has
the Eastern conflict been a disappoint
ment to speculators in breadstuffs and
provisions, but, with the exception of a
few specialties in tho way of orders for
war munitions for the belligerents, it is a
question whether it does not to-day find
other mercantile trades in a similar state
of mind. What is true of the United
States in this respect is also true of Eng
land and other commercial nations. The
war has been of no benefit to them, ex-
cept in a few cases, and the advantage to
these, compared with the depression oc
casioned to general industries, weighs
but little in the balance. Commerce is
the golden link which binds nationH to
gether; and war, in thus destroying com
merce, can never be aught but what it is,
the worst enemy, we do not say of civili
zation and humanity merely, but of
material development in evoiy form.—N.
Y. Bulletin.
Mr. Sherman on Teapots.
Secretary Sherman says “the idea that
wo must permit every man who happens
to own an old teapot to rush off and have
it coined into silver dollars, which he
may pnt in circulation forthwith is ab
surd.” Why is it absurd ? A man who
has a gold teapot haa the right to rush off
and have it ooined into gold dollars; why
should the owner of a silver teapot be
debarred from the Bimilar privilege ? He
bad this right before the passage of tbe
act of 1873, aud when that act shall be
repealed he will have the right again.
The government mint was established for
the very purpose of coining silver and
gold for people on the sole condition that
they pay the charges therefor. The gov
ernment docs not undertake to supply the
country with money, uor to decide how
much or how little it shall have. Its
duty is limited to assaying and coining the
metal that may be brought to the
mint into ooin pieces of proved weight
and fineness, aud this only to Bave the
people the trouble and expense of a
chemical apparatus for testing the coins
they receive. Secretary Sherman inti
mates that if we were to allow all the old
silver teapots to be ooined into silver
dollars, the country would have more
silver dollars than it could manage. Hut
this is a very silly idea. If all the old
teapots in the land were turned into coin,
they would not make over $5,000,000,
which would be but a drop in the supply
of ¥300,000,000 Bilver that the country
could easily and profitably absorb. If
the coinage of silver dollars were re
sumed, the chief source of supply would
not be old teapots, bat the mines of the
West—and even these would contribute
only about $38,000,000 per annum.
Under a bill favored by Secretary Sher
man and passed by CoDgrese in 1875, any
man or combination of men may buy np
all the old teapots in the country, sell
them for government bonds, deposit the
bonds, draw national bank notes therefor,
and pat them in circulation. In other
words, while teapots cannot be coined
into silver dollars, they may be coined
into paper dollars, for circulation—and
tnis too, under a bill of Mr. Sherman's
own devising. Why should the Secretary
affect snch a horror of an nnlimited coin
age of silver money, when the law already
authorizes an unlimited coinage of paper
money?—St. Louis Republican.
The Gband Duchess Alexandria.—
As an example ot the foolish pride cf this
only daughter of the Russian house, a
recent London fitter tells that during a
visit to a celebrated conservatory near
London, the Princess with the Duke, and
the gardener who was showing her his
plants, got into a narrow pathway where
there was no chance of egress, excepting
through a closed door. The party came
to a standstill; the gardener did not dare
to precede her or tarn his back upon her,
and the narrow passage prevented the
usual method of backing oat with bis
face toward her. There were some mo
ments of hesitation and embarrassment,
which Queen Viotoria or the Empress of
Germany would have relieved by pushing
open the door herself, but not this petted
young Prinoess. In answer to the em
barrassed look of the gardener, the Duke
says: “You will have to return and open
the door from the other side; her High
ness will not do it if we remain here all
day.” The gardener made the oirenitof
the greenhouse and opened the door from
the other side, daring which time the
royal lady quietly waited, and then paned
oat as proudly as though all the serfs of
Roane were et her feet.
i—i—
JOHNNY CARROLL’S DEATH.
Only a Few Gasps After a Wrestle with
a I*laya>*te.
[From the Utica Herald, Juno 19.]
Rome, N. Y'., June 18.—Great excite
ment was caused here yesterday by the
death of Johnny Carroll, the twelve-
year o d son of Patrick and Mary Ann
Carroll. It appears that several bova
were playing together on Second street,
among whom were Johnny Carroll and
Patrick Collins. Johnny Carroll had a
bow and arrow. Johnny Toomy wanted
to shoot it and was refused. One called
the other “Sam Johnson,” and the other
retorted by calling him “bricktop.”
Then they clinched and went down in
the gutter. Toomy fell on top. After
falling he rose and eat astnde the Car-
roll boy. He sat on his stomaoh, and
after remaining there a minute got up.
The Carroll boy was heard to groan
several times, and to say “Oh! oh!”
After that he clenched his hands in tho
grass, his eyes turned back in his
head, and he appeared as if dead. His
mother and brother were notified, and
carried him into the bouse, where they
administered restoratives. But he only
breathed twice after reaching the house.
Dr. West and Coroner E. J. Lawton were
notified, and examined the body. Upon
examination no marks conld be found on
the body, and DOthiug was discovered to
show the cause of death. The boys who
were present gave their evidence, which
was substantially as the facts are related
above, except that it was proven that
there had been quarrels between the
boys before, though they had always
been playmates. The inquest was ad
journed until this evening at 8 o'clock at
Coroner Lawton’s office. A post-mortem
examination will be held to-day to try to
determine what produced death. A larga
number of people were present at the
inquest, and the members of the family
were in an excited state. One of tha
daughters, a young lady, went to the
dead boy and kissed him in tbe presence
of the jury and then went into hysterics,
remaining in an unconscious state for
some time.
Removal of the Capital.
[Prom the Warrentoa Clipper.]
The convention is now an assured fact,
and henoe tbe discussion of questions
hitherto inexpedient or of doubtful policy
may now be entered upon. We are Dot
of those who have seen fit during tha
campaign to argue, magnify and briDg
into prominence questions upon which
the people were divided. Our theory
was first get the convention, aud leave
the discussion of questions to be consid
ered by it until after it was an assured
fact. That time has now come, the
people have spoken, and now it Is in or
der for tbe press representing the feel
ings of its patrons to proceed to put forth
a reflex of their opinions on important
subjects.
One of the quesiions which will come
before that convention will be the remov
al of the capital: indeed, it has well nigb,
if not in fact, been au issue in the cam
paign. We aro decidedly of the opinion,
and believe we reflect tbe sentiment of
our people when we say that the capital
onght to bo returned to Milledgeville.
We are not one of thoso who fight Atlanta
because it U Atlanta, anil stigmatizo it as
the fountain source of all evil. We like
Atlanta; she has many clever people
within her borders; she is a part of
Georgia, and for her energy, push and
vim we admire her, aud as a Georgian wo
are proud of her. Hence, what we may say
in support of our theory that the capital
ought to be removed to Milledgeville shall
be in a spirit of utmost fairness to our
present capital city.
But this question of the capital re
moval is not one that should be influ
enced by local causes. No mere question
of sentiment, or mere theory of fitness
on account of this or that minor matter
should influence this question. There
should be but one object, and that ob ject
should be the good of tho State of Geor
gia and the welfare of the people who
make the state of Georgia and pay the
taxes to support its government. If this
convention is intended to do anything at
all, it is intended to 6ut down the ex
penses of running the government ma
chine, and to such a reforming of every
department as shall give to the people a
more economical and inexpensive, even
if it is a more plebian form of govern
ment.
We claim that this can be done easier
in Milledgeville than m Atlanta. It is
less expensive to live there, and even if
it is less elegant our State officials must
be content to live wherever the people
they serve see fit to put them. In Atlan
ta we have a capitol building that has
to be barred to the pnblic on any exciting
occasion lest the rush of tbe multitude
should crush it to the earth. In Mlltedge-
ville we bave a capitol eminently fitted
and suited to tbe purposes for which it
was built Ridicule it as they may, “tie
halls of our fathers” is a building the
like of which Atlanta cannot show. In
Milledgeville we have a Governor’s man
sion fit for tbe occupancy of our Chief
Magistrate. In Atlanta we have a cottage
completely overshadowed by James' pala
tial residence, and which has to be
repaired regularly every winter. Here,
too, is located the penitentiary, the
asylum, and all tho machinery of the gov
ernment, all right hero in easy reach of
the capitol, where it can be overlooked
by the representatives cf the people with
out any long and expensive trips to and
fro. Then, again, the temperature of
Atlanta at the season of the year when
the Legislature is held is one ihat altno t
invariably produces sickness amODg tha
members from the more southern portion
of the State, while Milledgeville ia free
from this and has none of these draw
backs to encounter. To sum up the
whole matter in one line, whether there
is any other reason or not, the people of
Georgia want it moved back and this ia
enough. It ought to be done.
Drunkenness No Excuse Tor Crime.
[New York Graphic.]
At last a “respectable brute” who
knocks down his wife, and kicks her
after she is down, is not allowed in a
city court to mitigate the severity of his
sentence by the plea that “he didn’t
know what he was doing because be was
drunk.” It is strange how in the past
tbe oondition into which so many first
put thei> selves to give them bogus cour
age and bring out their inherent brutal
ity, should be in any way regarded as an
excuse for their offenses. Nine drunken
men out of ten know perfectly well what
they are about. They show considerable
method in their madness. They do not
strike or abuse those whom they are cer
tain will quicKly resent such abuse. A
club or a pistol have still strong argu
ing power for the whisky crazed brain.
Rum, in many coses, is used as a
preparation for crime. It blinds men
temporarily to consequences and blunts
the sensibilities. This is exactly the
mental condition desired by many when
they wish to commit a jobbery, knock
down an inoffensive man or beat a
woman. The first step taken by de^ Dera
tion, disappointment or revenge, in order
to materialize the demons of imagination
is to “go off and get drunk.” The
criminal knows that sobriety dulls the
edge of recklessness, watonness and
cruelty. He wants it sharpened. There
may be little voluntary reasoning in thm
•natter, but men’s minds are very apt to
reason involuntarily towards the con
summation of any desired end. Hitherto
a premium has been laid on drunken
crime, especially in oases of domestic
brutality. The heaviest tax has been on
offences committed in sobriety. Let tho
law be more severe oc drunkenness. Let
those people who drink to excess share
some of this responsibility along with the
harassed saloon keeper.
Mine host Hilton, of the Grand Union
at Saratoga, says he objects to Seligmon,
not because ho is a Hebre w, but because
he is not wanted, and insists that no re
ligious standard is raised. He adds:
“The Seligman Jew represents nothing
that is standard Hebrew. He i3 to the
Hebrew what the shyster is to the law
profession. He is tho ‘aheene.’ He has
made money, and he must advertise it in
his perse n. He is of low origiD, and bis
instincts are all of the gutter. He comes
to the Grand Union, big with himself and
little with everybody else in tne decent
world, planks down his cash with his
royal order, and having never seen re
spectable food, he can't get enough to eat
unless he gorges down hu unpracticod
throat six meals a day. People won’t go
to hotels where Seligman is admitted, and
hotels, if they wonld thrive, most keep
out those who would ruin their existence,
and the very fact that Seligman makes
such a fuss because people don’t want his
society, and makes such a noise to foroa
himasif where he ia unwelcome, instead
of going elsewhere, prove* him to be juet
what I described him.”