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IRWIN BUSSELL.
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olernn
.vs are;
a young attorney, just admitted to
and sagacious as—as young attor-
ot *»■•* ‘V
• result of
u of deep abstraction held the seizin
jiitetnplation of the rule in Shel
ley a Case*
v in term-time- Mr. Smith was sitting in
lh< ’ CM . U e r rood men and true of the body of the
rtK '“ fll-l on their oath report,
bcretofore, to-wit: upon the second day of
.boot tin- hour of noon, in the county
A-D- y,f (J re«a : d t one .Joseph Scrogg-> f la?e
sD ' i,i countv, did then and there feloniously
"(...a :i a ml carry away
i.rse, ot the value of fifty dollars, more
,,r ime then and there beLg of the property,
'n H h atm chattels of one liezikiah Iless);
j^y‘,0 the statutes in eucli case expressly
, , l Uovuled; and against the peace and dignity
wherein the venue had been laid.
he prisoner, Joseph ScrOggs, was then arraigned
^•ad^^No^gui’lty,*’ and cf this he threw
iniVclf Upon the country at large;
AuA.il Joseph being poor the court did gracious-
^mith ni defend him—much on the same
' V,‘ t ' ie that obtains in every charity Lospi-
. where a young medical student is ofteu
S’to rectify a serious injury to an organ or
3 Joint.
witnesses seemed prejudiced against.poor
in-niie i>btr?ct Attorney made a thrilling speech,
J ji wi, : . ii hi t .Id the jury that if they didn’t find
i*ir the stat • he nckoned he’d have to “walk
nMr.7mith arose and made his speech for
h'ruin^im^i'ioted Shakspeare, Blackstone,
Chitty. Arcl»bold, Joaquin Miller, Story,
K , U Tupper, bmedcs and Marshall, and
ma’iy othm writers, and everybody said they
‘• L eviT he re 1 aidi a bust of eloquence.”
i >:i this hypothesis, my client must
hypothesis, it’s morally im-
'j-o^ible that he could be guilty, don’t you
•> hypothesis, you really can’t
Aid he sai<
■ itree;
Aud “Again, on /
: “Then, o;
onvict;” .
Auihoon, with forty-six more hyp itheses, upon
none of which, Sir. Mnith ably demonstrated,
could ticroggd be derelict.
But the jury, never stirring f rem the box wherein
hey sat, _
Bvturnt>! i v-Tdict of “Guilty;” and His Honor
sentenced Scruggs to a three-year
i,rm in the penitentiary, aud a heavy line,
and the costs on top of that;
Ami the prisoner, in wild delight, got up and
aLoed and sung;
ALd when they a-.ked him the reason of this
?:range behavior, he said : “It’s because I got
ulf so ea-y-lor if there’d ha’ been a few
mure cf them darned ht/jtothesises, I should
certainly have been hung.”
-Bric-a-Brac, Scribner for August,
1 flairs in Georgia*
Ilia to be presumed that the horticultur
ist* ind fruit growers of Chatham and the
other counties contiguous will not forget
that the State Horticultural Society hold
their meeting at Macon, commencing on the
1st of August, aud continuing two days.
Ample preparations have been made for a
fine display of the varied products of South
and Southwest Georgia, as well as other
portions of tho Stato interested in the pro
ductions which ii is the especial aim of the
association to foster. The Southern Expross
Company has generously offered to trans
port packages for exhibition free of charge,
md the railroads generally have consented
to pass members of the society for one fare,
ihilo tbe hotels have reduced their rates of
board to one dollar and a half per day for
Iheir accommodation.
Tbe boot blacks of Augusta have organized
a strike. They want ton cents a boot, or
will Kbine two for fifteen cents. The capi
talists are stubborn and will not yield to the
demand.
Water, water everywhere, but not a drop
to drink, is tho sad cry of tho Atlanteso.
For over a week they have been subjected
to a water embargo, aud were it not for tbe
breweries aud the North Georgia s'.ills
serious consequences would follow the lack
the aqueous fluid. They hoped that the
eupply would commence to flow yesterday.
Hi" shipments from the port of Bruns
wick during the months of April, May and
Jaoe, amounted to $350,025 in value, of
which $151,322 are credited to June. The
cuttou shipp l amounted to nearly $130,-
m.
Macon Tdegraph: “The latest conundrum
8°U'g th rounds is, ‘Why is Dr. U. 8.
Giant iu Loudon like a Macon pig?’” One
of two
answers, or both, will probably meet
tbe merits of the case. Because, like
GraDt , it has tho freedom of tho city; or,
because he goes about town with a “straw”
ia his mouth.
Another terrible railroad disaster is re-
-rded in the Constitution of Wednesday on
Alabama aud Chattanooga Railroad, re-
■jltiog in the death of tho engineer, Joel
D'bnrne, and Thomas Henderson, fireman,
"Al* of Atlanta. Tho accident occurred in
pisfeiog over a trestle between Eotah and
>\ arrior river. Tho supporters gave
aDl ^ l * ie eugiuo was precipitated a dis-
Lc *‘ <J forty feet to the bottom of a ravine,
sequel to this accident is mentioned,
{ “• w hen the news reached Atlanta of the
de ‘ th of Mr. Osburne, Mrs. J. W. Bridwell,
^ 0 ls elated to Mr. Osburne by marriage,
V* seized with convulsions and dropped
&Ld two of Mrs. Bridwell’s daughters
,e 111 a Cr itical condition in consequence of
be shock received.
A negro woman named Rachel Mitchell
^°Bnd dead at her house on Houston
;! reet ’ Atlanta, Tuesday afternoon. The
‘dilution says this is the sixth negro
° Qm l ^ ea d in Atlanta under peculiar cir-
uuistances during the present year.
1 1* understood in newspaper circles in
“ ailt4 that Col. Marcellas E.Thornton will,
the present week, begin the publica-
ouof anew evening paper, to be called
tluntd Iswkle. It will contain all tbe
l,‘ t5t D0W8 aD <l will be quite an addition to
ai ‘&uta journalism.
At boston, in Thomas county, water-
a . 0Iia are Plentiful at two and three cents
J L0,an(1 doctors’ stuff has accordingly
^ lved au upward tendency.
0Den 0a3aSVllle ha8 received ^he fust boll of
fr 1° Cf ^ tton l ho present crop. It was
who ] U l )alc ^ John Wright, colored,
Iv-' 8 at ^‘ dvva T» Leon county, Florida.
1-77 ^ Lean, of the Methodist Church,
day * ll0Ded at Berry, died there last Fri-
who'e 111611 Viaited Tai hotton last Tuesday
dreu C a8 '' reSate ages waa over ^ our ^ un "
i* H&rs. One of them, aged over eighty,
‘^<1 seven miles to town.
Weti F - hilled John 8oay in Meri-
& udth C , nty * Tb ey wero both colored,
c ^> t-seap a J er * W ^° WaS ° Uly fifteen J ears
, the Eaton ton Messen get' is
a °d U 7 Pfoasnres of the home circle
tric\ » U& * l 1DK l ^ e a tmoephere of a rural dis-
pi^i ' c 'h probably accounts for the im-
Withon ° lllH “Inside” in the last issue.
Hot tai° rty 'h°r8e-powcr lenses we could
the isan e 1U ^ oca ^ do * 8 here and there in
Tho Quitman Reporter announces the
death on last Monday of the Rev. Dr. J. S.
Baker, one of the purest and most exem-
I lary Christian gentlemen that ever lived.
His loss to the community will be seriously
felt, for he was forward in every good word
and work.
On or about the 5th of August the two
military companies of LaGrange and West
Tomt, which form a battalion, under the
commanl of Major Bell, will go into en
campment at the White Sulphur Springs of
Meriwether county. Tho grounds for the
encampment are now being conveniently
prepared and arranged. The battalion will
remain at the Springs about a week or ten
days. Can’t our military get up an encamp
ment, say at Jasper Springs, where the ex
tensive Fair Grounds are convenient and
admirably adapted for the purpose. It
would be a good school for the soldier, and
a pleasant way of spending a few of tho dull
days of summer.
Tbe Cfu'onicle and Constitutionalist says:
John Burroughs, Marshal of Kingston, at
tempted to arrest a negro man named
Nelson Brown, when the negro tnrned upon
him and was handling him so roughly that
he shot him, inflicting a dangerous if not
fatal wound.”
The Thomasville Enterprise savs: “We
hear some reports of the caterpillar in this
-county. This is an every year occurrence,
and we hope will prove as usual, of no con
sequence. The present weather, however,
is favorable for their develonment.”
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger says:
“It is with regret we learn that a lutle eon
of Mr. C. C. Clay, formerly of this city, but
now residing on his place in Jones county,
fell from a tree and fractured his skull on
Monday morning.”
The Columbus Enguirer says : “Eight or
nino gentlemen went out yesterday to Wool-
folk’s plantations to shoot doves. They
killed over one hundred and had a regular
feast at noon as a short cessation from their
hunt.” Is there a game law for the protec
tion of tho inuocent dove ?
The Talbotton Standard, whose strict vo
racity we cannot successtullv impeach, says :
“Our friend Judge J. F. Walker, who has*an
elegant litte country seat near towu, showed
us a peach of tho Chinese cling variety tho
other day that weighed thirteen ounces and
measured eleven aud a half inches in cir
cumference.” It was just one-fourth of an
inch larger than the one the Montezuma
Weeklg was munching some days ago.
The Butler Ilendd says : “ An officer and
two other gentlemen passed through Butler
on Saturday morning last with two negro
boys, about fifteen or sixteen years old, who
had committed the hellish crime of rape on
a little white g-irl about fourteen years of
age, in Schley county. There were three
negroes implicated, but one made his es
cape.”
The Columbus Enguirer is angry at tbe
map-maker of tbe Western and Atlantic
Railroad, who has given that beautiful and
prosperous city the go by, and goes for him
in tho following style : “We have before us
a map of this road, which is also an adver
tisement of the Kenaesaw Route. The
genius who invented it must have been in
terested in lots over tho river. lie has a
railroad passing through Girard, Alabama,
but Columbus is missing entirely. No such
name appears in Georgia. Owner, as ho
doubtless is, of water privileges on Girard
creek, he would put Girard in very small
letters. W’hat this bright map-maker in
tended, we cannot imagine. He certainly
shows he is very ignorant, both of Georgia
aud Alabama, for the road he has traced
goos through Columbus and does not touch
Girard. Perhaps the map was drawn in a
beer shop ana the pay demanded. Accord
ing to this drawing none can leave nor ar
rive at Columbus by tbe Keunesaw Route.
Ignorance most gross is shown in the getter-
up of this specimen of incorrectness.
Columbus has twelvo thousand people, and
Girard fifteen hundred.”
The Thomasville Enterprise says : “Col.
H. 8. Haines was in town last week and had
a taik with our merchants. He satisfied
them, so far as we can ascertain, that he
would look after the interests of Thomas
ville, and do all in his power for them. They
feel now that they can, as they have always
done, compete with neighboring towns in
prices. They ali say that Col. Haines was
as clever aud frank as possible with them,
and they are very well pleased with tho re
sult of their conference.”
Tho Gainesville Southron says: “Another
accident occurred on tho Street Railway,
last Friday night, in going down tho long
grade near Gower Spring. Our string
baud, together with a crowd of gentlemen
and ladies, were going to the spring for tho
purpose of having a musical entertainment,
and just, as the flat-car, on which they were
riding, had passed the hill and started
down grade the brakes again became un
manageable, and the car started off full-tilt.
A stampede ensued, and in the excited
efforts to get off Henry Cohen, F. \V. Red-
wine and MifS Annie Easton were quite
painfully hurt. Several others precipitated
themselves from the car, some alighting
rigbt-side-up-with-care, and others vice
versa, but none others were hurt-, with the
exception of being a little scared.”
The Quitman Reporter says: “We hear
that tho caterpillar pests have appeared on
several plantations in this and the adjoining
counties in Florida, but a3 yet have done
but little damage except on Mrs. John Mc
Mullen’s plantation, where they wero dis
covered much earlier than elsewhere, aud
are now said to be quite numerous^and are
devouring the cotton with avidity.”
The same paper says: “Quitman wants
and must have a bank, or a bank agency, to
facilitate her business the coming season.
An institution of the kind would prove very
remunerative to the owners if judiciously
managed, and of incalculable advantage to
the towu. From this depot was shipped the
past season about 8,000 bales of cotton, and.
if the crop of the present season should
prove to be about equal with the past, we
have every reason to believe that, with the
advantages that a bank wonl 1 afford the
shippers of cotton, and the efforts that are
now being made, of which we are not at
liberty to speak, there will be at least 12,000
brics shipped from here—all of which we
want to see go to Savannah.”
The Iorest News thus refers to the Savan
nah Morn-ino News, saying : “It is, in the
true acceptation of the term, a ‘number
one’ newspaper. Not content with the
‘litcrarv attractions’recently added to the
paper, Mr. Esfill, in the Weekly News, fur
nishes a goodly portion of choice agricultu
ral and household ‘matter’ well suited and
adamed to those sections in our beautiful
sunbv land where his paper circulates most
largely. To aDy of our readers desiring a
paper from abroad, we at once commend
them to the Morning News as one amongst
the best papers in tho whole country. It
may not bo out of place to remark that the
agricultural department is under charge^ of
an experienced farmer aud agriculturist,
Captain L. C. Bryan, of Tuuinas county.
China fairly revels in capital punish
ment. In Canton alone no less than 2,400
executions for crime takes place in a sin
gle year. A Belgian who recently visited
that city visited the principal prison yard
and witnessed the execution cf twenty-
four persons at one time- two headsmen
going about and slashing off heads with
as much indifference as though they were
cabbages to be severed from the stalk.
There, too, he saw the implements of
torture which the inquisitorial mandarins
use to extort testimony from reluctant
prisoners, who are used to implicate
others. There is no cruelty omitted.
All tho devices of torture to be found in
the museums and prisons in Western
Europe, and which fill the soul of the
tourist with horror, are employed daily
in the prisons of Canton.
The Sultan is unconsciously teaching
the little Sultans the following nursery
jiDgle:
Too Dan U K,
Too Dim U J3,
ICUR
Too Dan (much) for
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
^UaultrTi^ 1 ^ ' ldter/lser mentions with
Ui»t fc l at fo>n of spirits the fact that
r bristles with tho masts of
fifteen iu port.
Thirteenth Dny'e Proceeding**—Ail But
One Motion to Reconsider Bill of R-ightci
V oted Down—Stirring Speeches by CJen.
\VofTord, Judge Collier, lion. T. G. Law-
»on and Ex-Attorney General Ham
mond—Gen. Toombs and Gov. Jenklna
Debate the Question of Irrevocable
Grants— Gov. Jenkint* Carries the Con
vention in Favor of Reconsideration by
Four Majority—Galleriet* Crowded in
Every Part and General Applause for
Both Speakers.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Finland has more blind than any other
country, in consequence of the huts
having no chimneys. Norway suffers
from the same cause, but in a less degree.
A comparison showed that whdo in that
country the blind were 13.fi m .0,000, in
Finland they were 21 4.
A magazine writer has discovered that
the word “skedaddle" is not denved, as
supposed, from the Greek s ^ e ‘? a “
nurni”—to scatter or disperse—but n* m
an old English provincial word, signify
ing to separate by dropping.
The death is reported of “Oapt. Tack,
Chief of the Modocs,” a somewhat famous
white successor of the original chieftain.
Se was shot and killed by Ms companion
m a rude hut on the Snake river, South
ern Idaho, during a drunken quarrel.
liuuning the Freedman’s Bureau into
the ground, and being run mto camp by
tbe Indians aro two different jokes. Gen.
Howard says so.
Atlanta, July 25.—President Jenkins
called the convention to order at nine
o’clock, prayer being offered by Kev. Geo.
F. Cooper, M. D., of the Thirteenth dis
trict.
The reading of the minutes was fol
lowed by several motions to reconsider
the action of yesterday on tho bill of
rights.
Colonel Gnerry, of the Twelfth district,
desired to reconsider the action on the
entire bill, that it might lie on the table
until the other reports were considered,
as there were several sections in the bill of
rights which, he thought, should go into
other departments of the constitution.
His proposition, however, was voted down
on motion of Mr. Davis, of the Tenth
district.
Mr. Mershon, of the Fourth district,
wanted to reconsider and strike out the
section in regard to lobbying, as, he said,
it reflected upon all true Georgians who
were members of the Legislature.
Gen. Wofford replied in the strongest
language, and clearly showed that Geor
gians were as guilty of corruption in such
matters as other people, declaring that a
million dollars of Georgia’s debt to-day
was in the pockets of lobbyists. He cited
the lease of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, and the convict lease as evi
dence that he was correct. The motion,
therefore, was voted down almost unani
mously on motion of Mr. DuBase, of the
Twentieth district.
Hon. J. It. Brown, of the Thirty-ninth
district, wished to reconsider the whip
ping question, as he favored that mode
of punishment, and wanted the matter
left out of tho constitution. General
Gartrell strongly opposed the motion, and
it was tabled.
Mr. Key, of the Twenty-eighth district,
called for a reconsideration of the action
of the convention by which his amend
ment in regard to the right of the people
to appeal to the courts was voted down
yesterday. After explaining his views,
and earnestly advocating his motion, he
was again voted down.
Leaves of absence were granted Mr.
Fields, of the Thirty-ninth district, Mr.
Smith, of the First district, aud Mr.
Itoberts, of the Thirty-fifth district, on
account of business and sickness.
Hon. T. G. Lawson, of the Twen
ty-eighth district, moved to re
consider the section providing
that “no bill of attainder, ex post
facto law, retroactive law, or any law im
pairing the obligations of oontracts, or
any law making any irrevocable grant of
special privileges or immunities, shall be
passed,” as he wished to strike out the
words “privileges or immunities,” and in
sert “exemptions from taxation.” He
supported his motion in a speech hap
pily conceived and well delivered, and
which was not without its influence.
Ex-Attorney General Hammond fol
lowed, in support of the motion, in one
of his best arguments, in which he re
viewed a portion of General Toombs’
speech of yesterday, and declared that
this was the most important financial
question upon which the convention
would be called to act. lie advised a due
regard for the rights and interests of
those who should desire to develop our
resources and build up our industries
through corporate powers.
Gen. Toombs replied with considerable
vigor, and reviewed the condition an!
history of the Georgia, the Air-Line aud
the Central railroads, as showing the evils
that grow out of great corporations
against which the people and stockhold
ers have no adequate protection. He was
opposed to striking out the restriction, as
the convention was bound to protect the
people through some such wise provision
in the constitution.
Gea. Lawton being in the chair, Gov.
Jenkins arose as Gen. Toombs sat down,
and delivered a concise, able and con
vincing argument in favor of the motion
and amendment of Mr. Lawson. The
convention was taken by surprise, as
were the densely packed galleries, as the
venerable speaker warmed up and glowed
with his subject. He seemed to have re
gained the vigor of his earlier years, and
his clear, strong sentences rang through
the hall. “There is life in the old man
yet,” saida distingushed member to me,
“and he has made the best speech that I
have yet heard in the convention." Both
Gen. Toombs and Gov. Jenkins were ap
plauded in their most eloquent utterances.
Governor Jenkins argued that the sec
tion as it stands is a deadly blow aimed
at internal improvements and the pros
perity of the State, and if not amended it
would certainly put a quietus on indus
trial pursuits and manufacturing inter
ests. The restriction was too broad; he
favored limited, not perpetual charters,
and no exemptions from taxation ; but he
could not give the Legislature power to
revoke at will charters granted iu good
faith to corporations.
On the call of the previous question
it was found that the yeas were ninety-
four and the nays eighty-three. General
Toombs called for the yeas and nays,
which resulted in niaely-four yeas to
ninety nays, and the motion to reconsid
er was declared adopted, but Mr. Lawson
asked that the reconsideration be post
poned for the present, which was agreed
to.
The final result is still in doubt, as tho
close vote to reconsider does not indicate
that Gen. Toombs cannot, when recon
sideration is had, secure enough votes
(only five being needed) to retain the re
stricting clause in the present section.
The contest will be exciting to the very
close. . _ ,,
Judge D. B. Harrell, Chairman of the
Committee on Reducing Judicial Dis
tricts, made his report, and Hon. J. A.
Hunt, of the Twenty-second district,
presented a minority report, which were
ordered printed for the use of the con
vention:
REPORT OP THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDI
CIAL CIRCUITS,
Mr Harrell, Chairman of the Commit-
tee on the Judicial Circuits, made the
following report:
Mr. President: , . ,
The committee to which was referred
the resolution, “to inquire into the num
ber of the sessions of the Superior Courts
of this State, the time necessary for said
sessions, aud the expediency aud practi
cability of reducing the number of j ndi-
cial circuits,” beg leave to submit tbe
following report: .
That, by the laws now in force, two
sessions of the Superior Courts are re
quired to be held annually in each county,
which, in the one hundred and thirty-
seven counties of tbe State, aggregate
two hundred and seventy-four sesuons.
The time allotted to, and requisite for,
the holding of the sessions varies in the
different counties from two to thirty-six
weeks and, in tbe whole number, aggre
gates about five hundred weeks, and is
divided between tho twenty judicial cir
cuits as follows:
Albany C renit—Twenty-two weeks.
Atlanta Circuit—Thirty-four weeks.
Augusta Circuit-Twenty-eight weeks.
Blue Ridge Circuit—Twenty-six weeks.
Brunswick Circuit—Twenty-four weeks
Chattahoochee Circuit Twenty eight
weeks
Cherokee Circuit—Twenty-four weeks.
Coweta Circuit—Thirty weeks.
Eastern Circuit—Thirty-eight weeks.
Flint Circuit—Twenty-six weeks.
Macon Circuit—Twenty-four weeks.
Middle Circuit—Sixteen weeks.
Northern Circuit—Twenty-eight weeks.
Ocmulgee Circuit—Twenty-two weeks.
Oconee Circuit—Twenty-two weeks.
Pataula Circuit—Sixteen weeks.
Rome Circuit—Twenty weeks.
Southern Circuit—Twenty-two weeks.
Southwestern Circuit—Seventeen
weeks.
Western Circuit—Thirty-two weeks.
The average time being twenty-four
weeks.
The inequality of time allotted to the
different circuits, and, consequently,
therefore, the labor required of the re
spective Judges is not only clearly ap
parent, but remarkable, and cannot be
accounted for, or justified, by any con
siderations, solely affecting the public
interests, varying from sixteen to thirty-
eight weeks.
A few years previous to the year eigh
teen hundred and sixty, when the taxable
property of the State was about six hun
dred and seventy-two millions of dollars,
and the courts crowded with heavy litiga
tion, there were only sixteen circuits, and
the dockets were kept up at least as well as
tho present time with twenty circuits,
aud only about two hundred and forty
millions of dollars’ worth of taxable
property.
It is true that the emancipation of
slaves created an element of litigation not
existing at that time, but, we respectfully
submit, not to an ex'ent beyond tbe de
crease of the business of the courts
caused by the loss of four hundred and
twenty-five millions of dollars worth of
property by the citizens of the State.
Under this statement of facts your
committee are impelled by a sense of
public duty to recommend a reduction of
the number of judicial circuits, and, at
least, an approximate equalization of the
labors of the Judges. There is no just
reason why the Judges in some of the
circuits are required annually to perform
tho active duties of the court room and
devote to their other duties more than
double the time required of others en
gaged in similar labors.
In regard to the extent of tho reduc-
j lion, and the manner in which it can be
' best accomplished, your committee has
been somewhat embarrassed. It is much
more difficult to diminish the number than
increase offices,and experience has abund
antly demonstrated, that once created
aud recognized by the government, it is
almost an impossibility to abolish them,
even though it be apparent that they are
not only useless but expensive.
The ouly just rule upon which offices
should be created or regulated is the exi
gencies of the public service, and tho
reasonable amount of time and labor,
both mental and physical, demanded of
the incumbent, and whenever the exi
gency of their creation ceases they should
be promptly discontinued.
Your committee has applied that rule
to tho consideration of the matters re
ferred to them, and respectfully submit
the data upon which their recommenda
tions are founded.
As before stated, the average time of
holding tho courts of tho State in tho
twenty circuits, as they now stard, is
about twenty-four or five weeks. If the
circuits were equalized upon the basis of
the shortest service, it would require
about thirty circuits—if upon the longest
service, about ten only would be suffi
cient. Four of the present circuits have
an average of thirty four weeks—tho four
next highest have an average of twenty-
seven weeks. These eight are the only
circuits the time of which exceeds the
general average of twenty fivo weeks,
and the average of the eight is about
thirty-one and a half weeks.
Now, while it may not be judicious to
bring all of the circuits to the time now’
required of- the highest, we are of the
opinion that it would be neither improper
nor unreasonable to place them upon an
average of the eight highest, viz: thirty-
one and a half wueks. By doing this,
and allowing four weeks iu each circuit
for business “in chambers,” motions
for new trials and injunctions, etc., it
would still leave the Judges about four
and a half months of their time for
study, recreation and attention to their
private affairs. This we d9em amply
sufficient, and, therefore, recommend
that the number of circuits be reduced to
sixteen.
This, estimating the salaries of the
Judges and Solicitors General at their
present standard, would cause a reduction
of expenses in the Judicial Department
of eleven thousand dollars annually. This
would leave the expenses of the Judicial De
partment, for the salaries of Judges and
Solicitors General, forty-four thousand,
against fifty-five thousand, as they now
stand; and even this amount, contrasted
with the thirty-two thousand four hun
dred dollars expended on that department
previous to tho late war, appears very
large, and when It is remembered that
these salaries are paid on a specie basis,
and now amount to about fifty-seven
thousand dollars in currency, the differ
ence is stiil greater.
As this reduction would cau38 impor -
tant changes in most of the circuits, your
committee recommend a complete re-dis
tricting of the whole State and the organi
zation of the circuits solely with refer
ence to the public interest, taking into
consideration the contiguity of counties,
the time required to transact the busi
ness therein, and its convenience of ac
cess. And to this end, present, with their
report, an ordinance accomplishing this
purpose, and respectfully ask its adoption
by tho convention.
D. B. IIareell, Chairman.
W. J. Hudson, 25thDistrict.
N. J. Tumlin.
E. C. Grier.
H. N. Hollifield.
AN ORDINANCE TO DIVIDE THE STATE INTO
SIXTEEN JUDICIAL CIRCUITS.
Bo it ordained by the people of Geor
gia, in convention assembled, that the
State shall be divided into sixteen judi
cial circuits, numbered from 1 to 1G, as
follows:
Section 1. the first circuit shall bs
composed of the counties of Bryan, Bul
loch, Chatham, Effingham and Liberty.
The second circuit of the counties of
Appling, Camden, Charlton, Coffee,
Clinch, Glynn, McIntosh, Ware, Wayne,
Telfair and Montgomery.
The third circuit of the counties of
Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Daca-
tur, Echols, Irwin, Lowndes, Miller,
Mitchell, Thomas and Worth.
The fourth circuit of the counties of
Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Lee,
QuitmaD, Randolph, Stewart and Terrell.
The fifth circuit of the counties of
Chattahoochee, Dooly, Houston, Macon,
Marion, Schley, Sumter, Taylor, Webster
and Wilcox.
The sixth circuit shall be composed of
the counties of Harris, Meriwether, Mus
cogee, Talbot and Troup.
The seventh circuit shall be composed
of the counties of Bibb, Crawford, Jones,
Monroe, Pike, Twiggs and Upson.
The eighth circuit shall|be composed of
the counties of Baldwin, Dodge,
Emanuel, JohnsoD, Laurens, Jefferson,
Pulaski. Tatnall, Washington and Wilk
inson.
The ninth circuit shall be composed of
the counties of Burke, Columbia, Mc
Duffie, Richmond and Screven.
The tenth circuit shall be composed of
the counties of Glasscock, Greene, Han
cock, Lincoln, Morgan, Oglethorpe,
Putnam, Taliaferro, Warren and Wilkes.
The eleventh ciicuit shall be composed
of the countiesof Batts, Clayton, Fayette,
Jasper, Henry, Newton, Rockdale, Spald
ing, Walton and Upson.
The twelfth circuit of the counties of
DeKalb, Fulton and Milton.
The thirteenth circuit of the counties
of Carroll, Coweta, Cobb, Forsyth, Kar- 1
alson, Heard, Paulding, Douglass and
Campbell.
The fourteenth circuit shall be com
posed of the counties of Banks, Clarke,
Elbert, Franklin, Gwinnett, Habersham,
Hall, Hart, Jackson, Madison and
Oconee.
The fifteenth circuit shall be composed
of the counties of Bartow, Cherokee,
Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin,
Pickens, Rabun, Towns, Union and
White.
The sixteenth circuit shall be composed
of the counties of Catoosa, Chatooga,
Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Polk,
Walker and Whitfield.
Sec. 2. At the expiration of the terms
cf the several Judges aud Solicitors Gen
eral of the circuits as at present organ
ized, under the Constitution prescribed
by this convention, there shall be a Judge
and a Solicitor General appointed in each
of said districts in the mode prescribed
in the Constitution.
Sec. 3. The Legislature may at any
time hereafter increase the number of
circuits as often as the business of the
courts collectively increase, so as to re
quire thirty-two weeks active labor of the
Judges, in holding the regular courts in
each year over the time uow necessary,
keeping in view an equitable distribution
of the labors of the several Judges upon
a basis of thirty-two weeks annually.
MINORITY REPORT OF COMMITTEE TO IN
QUIRE INTO EXPEDIENCY OF REDUCING
NUMBER OF JUDICIAL CIRCUITS OF THE
STATE.
We, the undersigned, a minority of the
committee on a reduction of the judicial
circuits of the State, beg leave to submit
the following report:
While we yield to none in our desire to
curtail the expenses of government as far
as is consistent with a proper administra
tion of the same, and thereby lessen tbe
burden of taxation, we do not think
sound economy demands a reduction at
this time in the number of judicial cir
cuits of the State. It is certainly one of
the highest duties of the government so
to organize and arrange its judiciary sys
tem as to insure a speedy adjudication of
the rights of its citizens and a prompt
administration of the laws of the State.
The judiciary of the State is defectively
organized when it does not secure
these ends. The administration of jus
tice in every part of the State is now re
tarded because of tbe large amount of
business on tbe dockets of the courts.
The Judges of the different circuits in
the State are required by law to hold
court an average of twenty-six weeks,
or six and a half months of each year,
which, we think, when added to the ad
journed terms they are compelled to hold
in order to keep up with the business of
the courts, and the large amount of busi
ness they necessarily dispose of at cham
bers, is quite as much as is consistent
with an intelligent administration of the
law.
The ever varying condition of our peo
ple briDg3 much more business into our
courts at one time than at another, and for
this reason we think it unwise that the
number of judicial circuits should be reg
ulated by the organic law of our State.
It should be left to be regulated by tbe
General Assembly of tbe State, as exi
gencies demand.
If retrenchment must be bad in this
department cf tbe government we think
it far more expedient that the salaries of
the Judges should be reduced than that
the number of Judges should be reduced
and the wheels of justice thus retarded.
We therefore recommend that this
matter be left where it now is—in the
hands of the General Assembly—to be
regulated in such manner as the business
of tho courts, from time to time, may
demand.
All of which is most respectfully sub
mitted. J. A. Hunt.
M. L. Mershon.
R. D. Wynn.
J. B. Twitty.
President Jenkins resumed the chair,
and IIou. Miles W. Lewis, cf the Nine
teenth district, arote to call up his report
on the capital question, but Gen. Toombs
was first recognized, and moved that his
report on tho Executive Department bo
taken up for action, which was agreed to.
[This report was published in Wednesday
morning’s News.—Ed.J
Hon. Joshua Hill wanted to amend the
first section so as to provide for two
Councillors of State.
Col. Ingram, of the Twenty-fourth
district, wanted an Attorney General,
and to be elected by the people.
General Gartrell explained that the
question of an Attorney General would
come up in the judiciary report.
Colonel Holcombe, of the Thirty-ninth
district, said they were met to reduce
offices, not to create positions for orna
mental purposes, and moved to table all
the amendments, which was carried.
Mr. Dismuke, of the Twenty sixth dis
trict, wanted a Lieutenant Governor, but
that “ornamental” official was voted
down with unanimous promptness.
Mr. Osborn, of the Thirty-first district,
desired to fix the Governor’s salary at
$3,000 in currency, and no more; Col.
Holcombe n&t to exceed $2,500; and Mr.
Bass, of the Forty-second district, at
’$3,000, until otherwise provided for by a
two-thirds vote of both branches of tbe
G3neral Assembly. Col. E. C. Greer
tabled them all.
Judge Harrell then moved that it be
fixed so as to not exceed $3,000, specie
basis, which motion he supported in
quite a patriotic and economical speech.
Tbe “specie basis,” however, aroused
Judge Wright, who made a strong appeal
in favor of the same currency for offi
cials as is paid to day laborers. Only
bloated bondholders are privileged to be
paid in gold.
Hon. Pope Barrow, in reply to Judge
Harrell, made an excellent speech in re
gard to returning to the “good old times
of our fathers,” and explained that this
section was identical with that of the
Constitution of 1798.
Mr. Bass sustained Judge Harrell and
Judge Wright in their assertions that the
people would not have called a conven
tion but for this very purpose—to reduce
salaries and expenses. “Unless wo do
this,” he said, “they will repudiate our
work. ”
Judge John Collier, of Atlanta, followed
in a clear, calm and able discussion of tho
question, and demanded, in the name of
the people, that the convention commence
with the Governor’s salary and reduce all
salaries and expenses to the end of the
list.
The hour of adjournment having ar
rived, the convention adjourned to nine
o’clock to-morrow morning.
Hon. S. W. Harris, Chairman, a few
days since made a special report of the
Committeo on Public Institutions in re
gard to the various State bureaux, as
follows:
A resolution has been submitted to the
Committee on Public Institutions, re
questing said committee to inquire into
the propriety of abolishing the Chemical,
Geological and Agricultural Bureaux, and
report on the same to the convention.
We have considered the subject submitted
to us, and would recommend that the
Chemical, Medical, Geological and Agri
cultural Bureaux, or departments, be
abolished, aud an ordinance to that effect
be passed.
On Monday, Hon. S. F. Keller, of the
First district, presented the following
minority report on the same subject,
which was ordered printed, and which
was to-day placed upon the desks of the
members;
MINORITY REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The undersigned, being a minority of
the Committee on Public Institutions, to
whom was referred a proposition to abol
ish the “Chemical and Geological and
Agricultural Bureaux of this State,” be
ing unable to agree with the majority of
the committee, beg leave respectfully to
present the following dissenting views:
By inquiry of the Commissioner of Agri
culture, we learn that more than seventy-
fi vte thousand tons of commercial fertilizers
were sold to the farmers of Georgia last
seasoD, costing them, at cash valuation,
more thay three and a quarter millions of
dollars. This enormous sum of money is
paid out by the farmers of this State for
an article of crime necessity—one that,
at present they must have and cannot do
without; and they are totally unable of
themselves to form any correct judgment
of its real worth by its appearance or by
any examination or test which they can
apply. Without that protection, which
the State alone is able to give, farmers
would be completely at the mercy of un
principled and unscrupulous men, who
would sell them utterly worthless stuff at
the full price of valuable fertilizers.
If the value—the real, actual worth—
of a fertilizer could be judged by ocular
or tangible examination, like a bushel of
corn, a yard of cloth r or a piece of fur
niture, it would be improper for the
Stale to assume any control over the
trade; but every one knows this to be
utterly impossible.
In a case like this, it is the duty of the
State to afford protection from impo
sition to its citizens in any honest calling.
There is no class to whom the State owes
so much as to its farmers, and no class
who more deserve its fostering care, en
couragement and protection. He who is
unwilling to extend this protection to the
tillers of Georgia soil is not their true
friend, and is opposed to the State’s most
vital interests.
This protection has already been most
wisely given to our farmers by the State,
with the most gratifying results. We
most earnestly desire it to remain as it is.
Many persons on this floor know, that
before the law requiring the inspection of
fertilizers was first passed, many farmers
in all parts of the State were victimized
by unscrupulous creatures, who took ad
vantage of their ignorance and sold them
that which was wholly worthless for the
full price of a valuable fertilizer; and
suits at law, in which farmers resisted
payment for fertilizers, were found in all
our courts. After the passage of the in
spection laws, there was considerable im
provement, but complete protection was
not given. These inspection laws were
in force, and inspectors were at their
posta of duty from 18G9 to 1873, yet the
evil was only partially remedied. Fer
tilizers, exceedingly poor in plant food,
were still allowed to go to sale. The
execution of the law was left in the
hands of each inspector at his own place.
Hence it was not uniform or vigorous. It
lacked the vitality and efficiency which
an officer of the State alone, specially
charged with the duty of enforcing it,
could give—one who was disinterested,
and whose fees did not depend upon his
own action. Fertilizers were still ad
mitted to sale, having less than three
per cent, of soluble phosphoric acid,
and some having even less than one per
cent. Farmers were, in many instances,
still defrauded, and guano suits were
multiplied.
Such were tho circumstances, when a
numbjr of the most intelligent farmers
of the State called for the establishment
of a Department of Agriculture, with a
Commissioner at its head, charged with
enforcing the law, and with the work of
extending full protection to the farmers
in purchasing fertilizers, and with the
general duty of working for the encourage
ment aud improvement of the agriculture
of Georgia. The act was passed; and the
department was established in September,
1874—two j’ears and ten months ago. It
has been in e xistence long enough for us
to see its workings and for it to show
Bomothing of what it is worth. It has
afforded complote protection—full and
ample—in the matter of spurious, worth
less or very inferior articles sold as com
mercial fertilizers. Now a farmer cannot
buy a worthless article in Georgia. The
Commissioner has forbidden and effectu
ally prevented the sale cf low grade arti
cles, and they cannot be placed upon the
market in this State.
We submit to every candid mind,
whether the interests of the farmers of
Georgia, involving three and a quarter
millions of dollars, being thus protected
from imposition, ia not worth the pitiful
sum of thirteen thousand two hundred
dollars—the cost per annum of the de
partment, all told. We are free to give
it as our conviction that it is worth one
hundred times all that it has cost—nay,
more than one thousand times all it has
cost.
The majority see no good results from
the workings of the department. It does
seem to us that one has but to open his
eyes to facts, to see good results every
where. Through the Georgia Depart
ment of Agriculture, Georgia has acquired
a name aud a fame abroad whicn she
never had before. The leading journals
of the United States are almost daily
speaking most favorably of Georgia,
making quotations from, or ref
erence to, the publications of
the department as authority. Intelligent
reading men everywhere, from Boston to
San Francisco, often mention their
knowledge of Georgia in favorable terms,
acquired either directly or indirectly from
the publications of the department.
Through these Georgia’s true condition
and resources are known to a large por
tion of the outside world as never before,
and as could not have been made known
by any other means.
The agriculture of the State has most
wonderfully improved since tho depart
ment was established. It is a great farm
educator, a disseminator of agricultural
knowledge, which is doing more to give
Georgia farmers correct and reliable in
formation, and turn them into correct
channels of farm economy, than all other
agencies for this object combined ever
did, or even can, in the same length of
time. It is impossible for the
sound, practical lessons emanating
from this department not to have
great influence. It is a great agency for
collecting the agricultural knowledge
which our people stand sorely in need of,
and scattering it broadcast over the State.
We specially invite attention to the
manuals on sheep husbandry, and hog
raising, the circulars on fertilizers, and
the Handbook of Georgia, as enduring
monuments, forever testifying of the
wisdom and patriotism of those who
caused the department to be established.
And we mention with pride the fact
{hat Georgia is the first State in the
Union that ever established a Depart
ment of Agriculture. Its usefulness has
been so maiked, its results so demonstra
tive, that a number of other States have
followed suit, and have either established,
or are about establishing, similar depart
ments, among which may be mentioned
North Carolina and Virginia, who have
recently done so—all quoting and re
ferring to the example of Georgia to
justify them in taking the step.
The department has heretofore cost the
people of Georgia, per annum, a very
slight fraction over one cent, for each
individual, while its benefits cannot be
calculated. Iu the matter of supervising
the inspection and sale of fertilizers, we
find, by reference to facts published by
the Commissioner, in circular No. 2G,
that its actual cash saving to the farmers
of the State, in a single season, was more
than one dollar and twenty* five cents to
each person in the State. We have but
to open our eyes to facts to see its good
results.
But wo are happy to be able to state to
this convention, and to the people of
Georgia, that henceforth the department
will not cost the State a single cent! That
it will not only sustain itself, but leave a
handsome surplus in the State Treasury !
Upon the recommendation of the depart
ment, the Legislature, at its last session,
passed an act (approved 2Glh February,
1877,) which goes into effect the first day
of September next,by which all the fees for
inspecting fertilizers are to be placed in
the State Treasury. A copy of this act
is hereto attached. If it had been in
force last season it would have placed
about $38,000 in the treasury. It is fair
to presume that it will put that
much into it, if not more, during
the next fertilizer season. After
paying all of tbe expenses of the de
partment, the salaries of inspectors, and
the expenses of making chemical analy
ses, there will still be a surpulus left in
the treasury of over $15,000. Surely he
must have very erroneous views and be
very shortsighted, who would propose to
wipe out and abolish that which is doing
an untold amount of good to our people,
and which will not only pay its own ex
penses, but leave a handsome surplus in
the treasury to aid our State and people
in these hard times, when they are bur
dened with taxes and debt. True econo
mists will give every encouragement to
all such helping measures, rather than
try to blot them out.
As for the Geological Survey, we need
say but little. It is a thing of limited
existence. It was established for five
years, and nearly three of the five have
expired. The survey will, no doubt, be fin
ished by the end of the five years, and the
State will have the benefit of it. We may
state, os a fact, that the survey has
caused more capital to be brought into
Georgia, to be invested in mining and
utilizing our wasting water power, than
all other agencies combined ever did. Be
sides, it is collecting samples of soils and
subsoils from every county and every
formation in Georgia. These are being
analyzed to show their properties. The
great lesson which our farmers must
learn is, what each one’s soil needs, and
how to procure and apply that which is
needed. The Geological Survey is a
great ally of Qie agriculturist, and the
results of its work will yet teach him
one of the most important lessons in the
science of farming. We think it would
be very unwise to abolish it in the midst
of its important work, thus losing all
that it has done, and the valuable results
of its completed work.
We are firmly convinced that there is
no economy or retrenchment in abolish
ing the agricultural Degartment and
Geological Survey, and recommend that
they be fostered and encouraged by the
State.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Both of the above reports have been
referred to the Committee on Final Revis
ion, who will bring the matter back to
the convention in a revised report. The
Committee on Amendments and Miscel
laneous Provisions, of which Colonel W.
T. Thompson is Chairman, have also re
ported to the Committee on Final Revis
ion, “that experience having demon
strated the usefuluess and “importance of
the Bureau of Agriculture to the agri
cultural interests of the State, it should,
in the opinion of this committee, be con
tinued by the General Assembly.
Chatham.
MATED AND MARRIED.
A Romance of the St. John Fire—Told i
in a Canadian Police Court.
Hamilton, Ont., July 21.—Among the
sufferers by the St. John (N. B.) fire
was Matthew B.iyles, proprietor of the
St. John Hotel. Turning his back upon
the desolated city, he dropped in here on
liis way to friends in Wisconsin, and dis
covered his long lost wife under circum.
stances which have been detailed at great
length in the Police Court for the past
two or three days. The facts are as
follows:
In 1855 Mr. Bayles, then in his thirty-
eighth year,married a MissMcAffie, of St.
John, nine years his junior, and installed
her as landlady of his hostelry. For fif
teen years they lived happily enough, she
bearing him three children. In 1870 his
nephew, Thomas Bayles, a young fellow
of twenty, came out to him from England
and was appointed chief hotel clerk. The
old gentleman noticed the rapid growth
of affectionate relations between nephew
and aunt, and wbiie he was exerting him
self to ascertain whether it was oriminal
or merely platonic attachment, the couple
sloped, carrying off $1,000 cash, some
silver plate and a quantity of household
goods. Bayles beard nothing of
the fugitives until 1874, when the
Chief of l’olice at St. John saw
them together in Montreal. They es
caped arrest, however, and in 1875 settled
here as man and wife, the nephew start
ing a factory at 10 Strachan street, and
his aunt making him an excellent spouse.
On the ltth, the uncle, while on his way
to Milwaukee, stopped here to look at the
city and accidentally came acioss the
pair after a weary hunt of seven years,
lie obtained a warrant for the arrest of
his nephew on the charge of stealing
money and silverware, and the latter was
to-day held over for trial by the County
Judge. The uncle is now sixty, tbe
nephew twenty-seven and (he wife-aunt
fifty-one. The old gentleman says that
ho will have no more to do with his wifi;
and she says that she will be loyal to her
nephew and none other.
The Treasury and the Stock of Gold.
The stock of gold held by the New
York bank?, after rising to twenty-one
and a quarter millions on the 7th of this
month, has fallen in a fortnight to some
thing under fifteen millions. Every one
who watches the movement of gold is
aware that this loss is caused by payments
into the sub-treasury for tbe new bonds
of tbe United States. The rapidity of
tho decrease suggests to some persons
tho possibility of a stringency in money
arising from this cause, and predictions
have been made in some quarters that se
rious inconvenience to trade must follow
the operations of the Treasury and the
Syndicate. Apprehensions of this kind
do not seem to us well founded. The
Treasury and the Syndicate have in this
matter the same interest with the general
public; it concerns them as much as it
concerns the public that the settlements
for bonds and tbe accumulation
of means for resumption shall
not distress the money market. The
smoothness with whioh the Syndicate
conducted its previous refunding opera
tions ought to be a sufficient guarantee in
regard to the present series of exchanges
of coin and bonds; hut if this be not
enough, we have the oertainty that the
Syndicate can oount upon the co opera
tion of the Treasury in case of need. The
Secretary evidently takes a natural and
pardonable pride in the success of nego
tiations with which he has had so much
to do, and he has plainly signified to the
Syndicate bankers that he will not allow
those negotiations to be thwarted or en
dangered by any complications of the
money maiket. If the payments for four
per cent, bonds should cause, though they
need not cause, a scarcity of coin, or if
the accumulation of coin for resumption
purposes should lead to similar incon
venience. the Syndicate has been invited
to consult with Mr. Sherman, and has
been assured in advance of his hearty co
operation for the relief of the public. In
a word, Mr. Sherman has so far shown
himself to be a sensible man of business,
knowing well enough what he is aiming
at, and determined to exercise his large
powers with prudence and circumspec
tion. He is in a position to be promptly
and accurately informed as to what goes
on in the money market, and the re
sources which he and the Syndicate bank
ers possess are ample for carrying on the
business of the Treasury without public
disturbance.—N. Y. World.
“Such is Life.”—He was a singularly
grave man, even for a sexton. For nearly
half a century he had been a public
functionary—had performed the con
spicuous duties of a sexton; yet no one
had ever seen him smile. Occasionally
he joked, but he did it in such a funereal
manner that no one could accuse him of
levity.
One day he was standing on the church
steps wiping his melancholy features with
a red bandanna. A hearse stood near
and three or four carriages were drawn
up behind it. The notes of the organ
floated out of the open windows with
solemn effect. A stranger came along
and said:
“Funeral ?’’
And the old sexton gravely bowed his
head—it was.
“Who’s dead ?”
The old man again wiped his brow and
gave the name of the deceased.
“What complaint asked the inquisi
tive stranger.
Solemnly placing his bandanna in higr
bat and covering his bald head the old
sexton made answer:
“There is no complaint; everybody is
entirely satisfied.”—Worcester (Mass.)
Press, July 20.
There is a pretty patriotic moral at
tached to a French drama now performing
at Vincennes. It is called “Vengeance
and the Wooden Leg.” The Marquis de
Solanges, who lost bia leg at Solferino,
finds a stranger at the feet of his fiancee.
The stranger draws his sword. “No
matter!” exclaims the Marquis, “mine
was left in the body of an Austrian Gen
eral—no matter!” and he unscrews his
wooden leg. with which he strikes his
adversary dead, crying, “Viva la France!”
while the orchestra strikes up the “Mar-
sellaise,” and the fiancee touched by this
act of patriotism, substitutes the support
of her arms for that of the missing limb,
and leads tbe Marquis back to the
ohatean.
Principal Lee, of Edinburgh University,
a hypochondriac, was met by Prof. Rob
ertson, who expressed a hope that he was
well. “Far, far from well,” said the
Principal; “I’ve had no sleep for a fort
night.” “Then, Principal,” said the Pro
fessor, ‘ ‘you’re getting better; when we
last met you had not slept for six weeks!”
The tomb of David, just south of the
walls of Jerusalem, has been explored.
It is now a Mohammedan mosque, with
marble columns.
ALLEGED RUSSIAN ATROCITIES.
A Turkish Mtory of Rnlin Barbarities
Th in Rival Their Own ia Baifurla—
Who will Investigate Jt V
Aristarchi Bey, the Turkish Minister,
has received the following circular:
His Excellency the Minuter for Foreign
Affairs to the Representatives of the Rub-
lime Porte Abrexid:
Trustworthy - information which has
reached us from the Caucasus reveals the
atrocities committed by the Busaiana
against the Mussulman population of that
country. The Russian arnfv sacks and
burns the Mussulman villages and compels
the inhabitants to become orthodox
Christians under the penalty of being put
to death: it also desecrates tbe mosques
and the schools. Woman and young
girls are murdered after suffering tbe
vilest outrages, the men are spared only
to be sent to Siberia. All these horrible
deeds are ordered by and committed in
the presence of the officers of the Russian
army, and in conformity with a pitiless
regulation which aims at a systematic and
premeditated destruction of the Mussul
man population.
At the same time we learn that the city
of Ardahan, occupied by the Russians,
has also been the scene of revolting
atrocities. The enemy, after having
commenced with outrage, murder and
pillage, perpetrated the most frightful
crimes.
We call the indignation and reproba
tion of the whole world upon those crimes,
calmly and deliberately ordered by tho
agents of that government which pro
claims itself the defender of civilization,
and which, the past year, on the occasion
of reprisals made in Bulgaria against the
will of the imperial authorities, by an ex
asperated population, seeks to excite
against us public sentiment and make us
appear as barbarians.
The imperial government and our royal
army will never dishonor themselves by
such reprehensible acts, and our people
will strictly respect the dictates of lin
manity and the usage of war so audaci
ously violated by the enemy of our
country.
BARBARITIES AT ABDAHAK.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs has. ad
dressed the following circular to the dip
lomatic agents of the Porte relating to
the atrocities committed by tbe Russians
at Ardahan:
“As a continuation of my preceding
communication, I transmit herewith the
extract from a telegram addressed to tbe
Imperial Palace by tbe Governor General
of Erzeroum and mentioning further
atrocities perpetrated by the Russians at
Ardahan:
“On the day of his entrance at Arda
han the enemy fired upon the hospital
regardless of the flag that was upon it,
and killed ail tlie hospital stewards and
several invalids in revenge of the inhabi
tants of Avilar, who served in the Impe
rial army. The Russians ill-treat the
parents of these inhabitants, dishonor
their wives and daughters. Among oth
ers the family of the Deputy Governor
of Zaruchad, who is in active service at
Kars. After having been subjected to an
ignoble outrage they were sent to Russia.
Moreover, the Russians have sacked the
villages of Djerzra and Hadji Tchiftiick
under pretence that some of the resi
dents were spies. After being deprived
of everything, even to their last gar
ments, the villagers, without distinction
of ago or sex were sent to Kars in a com
plete state of nudity.”
A Living Bubial.—Early last evening
the residents of the lower wards were
thrown into a state cf excitement and
sorrow by a widely-circulated repoit that
a well had caved in, burying a man who
was engaged in cleaning it out. Hun
dreds of people rushed to the scene aud
the most intense excitement prevailed.
Brave men were carefully and actively at
work removing stone after stone, en
deavoring to reach the unfortunate man,
whose voice they could faintly hear in
answer to the words of encouragement
they kept constantly spoakiDg to him.
Night set in as they worked and the
darkness made the scene more solemn.
Scarcely a word was uttered by any one
of that immense crowd of terror-stricken
persons who stood by, but almost breath
lessly they listened to the -clink of the
stones as they were thrown out by the
toiling men, and the words of cheer
spoken to the unfortunate man, and his
faint answers which could be heard by
those nearest by. The hours rolled slowly
by, and at eleven o’clock tho head and
shoulders of the entombed man were
seen. Many thankful and hopeful prayers
ascended from the aDxions multitude.
Cheered by their success the almost ex
hausted toilers worked on, assuring the
unfortunate man that only a few mo -
rnents and he would be safe. At twelve
o'clock the last stone was removed, and
he, who had for over five hours faced
death, was carefully drawn from his
living tomb, and clasped in the arms of a
loving wife and surrounded by rejoicing
friends. A load of terror was lifted from
the hearts of the spectators and shoutsof
rejoicing ascended.—Elizabeth (N. J.)
Herald, July 8.
Mr. M. D. Conway writes to a Western
paper that if “Dr. Fairfax, of Virginia,
eleventh Baron cf an ancient house, wero
to come to England and take the seat in
the House of Lords, which is his due, the
fuss made over him would become a
chapter in the history of Fcgland. It is
understood that he declines to come on
republican grounds, in which case Presi
dent Hayes should look out for him when
next in want of a foreign Minister; but
all Americans are not so stern in their
political virtue.” Mr. Conway, we be
lieve, is a Virginian by birtb, which
makes it a little odd that he should be so
sadly in the dark as to a great Virginian
name. Dr. John Com tee Fairfax, who
resides not in Virginia, but at Bladens-
fcurg, in Maryland, is undoubtedly the
eleventh Lord Fairfax, of Cameron, to
which title he succeeded on the death of
his brother, “Charlie Fairfax,” of Cali
fornia, in 186t). But he has no seat in the
House of Lords, as he happens to be a
Scotch Baron, and we hope he is as good
a Democrat as was his manly and popular
brother. But the way in which Mr. Con
way writes about him ought to make us
all thankful that Badeau was not born
the heir of any titular distinction. If he
had had 6ven so much claim on a Baro
netcy as dentist Evans in Paris has on
the “Earldom of d’Oyley’’ we should have
had him demanding his place at the
Queen’s levees in the full uniform of an
American Brevet Brigadier General!
Foub Houbs of Mortal Peril.—
the site of the new Catholic colleg
the hill west of Omaha, a well was
twenty years ago, and walled with b
The supply of water failed,
about two weeks ago Mr. H. W. Bi
undertook to bore in the bottom to
a better supply. This was done
curbing was put in ; but a quicksand
struck, and this caused a falling in al
bottom. Accordingly Mr. Enoch Co
descended into the well on a rope. S
however, the bricks began to cav
around him, and he cried out to the
above to pull him up, and began at
same time to ascend the rope hand
hand. But he was caught by the gei
caving in of the brick wail above 1
his hands still on the rope stretched al
his head. In this attitude he was bu
under a column of brick about forty
feet in depth.
The struggle to save him was then
gun by men who were at work near
They were able to conver.-e with
even at the great depth at which he
buried, and the work was continued v
out cessation for four long hours, unt
last fifty feet of wall was taken off,
about seven o’aiock Collins was broi
out alive, and was able to walk with a
step to a coach.—Omaha Herald.
A Sea Serpent and no Mistake.
Graphic of last week gives two sketc
drawn by Lieut. Haynes of H. M. S.
borne, of the sea monster which the
cera of that vessel saw off the coas
Sicily on June 2d. The first sketc
merely of a long row of fins just app
ing above the water, of irregular hei
and extending, says Lieut. Haynes, f
thirty to forty feet in length. The o
sketch is of the creature as seen “
on,” and shows only the head, which
“bullet shaped and quite aix feet thi
and a couple of flappers, one on e
side. The creature was, says Li
Haynes, at least fifteen or twenty
wide across the back, and “from the
of the head to the part of the back wl
it became immersed I should cons
about fifty feet, and that seemed aboi
third of its whoie length." Thus i
certaiDly from eight to fifteen time
long as any tape fish hitherto knowi
tbe zoologist, and is at least as rem&i
ble a creature as most of the old woi
makers ever alleged.— London Specie
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