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TilE *„,/ Ditty Air"/ ., /„■ Sit no Without Chorus to the Kina's Old Courtier. 1 '] IRWIN BUSSELL. ffl 6 e bar, 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 jyii-tl J lav