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TUB MARTYR PHYSICIANS.
Strong men march into battle.
The joy of conflict swelling in their hearts,
And 'mid the muskets' rattle
And cannons' roar act their heroic parts.
'Tis easy thus to perish.
To throw a life upon the waves of war.
Assured that fame will cherish
The name that shines trauscendant as a star.
Grand heroes of the fever,
JIow silently you tro<l the path of death:
Bidding farewell forever
To friends, and holm's, you sought the poison
ous breath
That floats in desolation
Through cabin windows and through palace
doors,
Spares neither age nor station.
And mocks at science as its spreads its pores.
He who in darkness hideous
Enters a horrid cavern full of fright.
Descends a path insidious.
And leaves all hope behind him with the light.
Displays no greater daring
Than those who seek the fever in its den.
To front a foe unsparing.
And give their lives to save their fellow men.
No form will shine morewhitely
About the glorious throne of heaven than yours;
No names are writ more brightly
Upon the page which deathless life secures.
Grand is the simple story
That tells your fight and most heroic fall.
Yours is the truest glory —
We gave a little, but you gave all!
—X. Y. Sun.
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Georsia Affairs.
The Augusta Evening Sentinel complains
muchly of the crooked and perverse ways
of the “pickauiny cotton stealer” in that
city.
According to the Times “there fs more
pulling, blowing and shrieking of steam en
gines in Columbus than was ever heard in a
‘dead town’ before. Almost every hour -of
the day and night is disturbed by incoming
or departing trains.”
The negroes in Atlanta have put out a
ticket to fill the vacancy in the House of
Representatives occasioned by the resigna
tion of Hon. X. J. Hammond. There will be
no Republican candidate for Congress from
the Fifth district.
The Athens Watchman is glad that Buffalo
Bill is coming that way. Nevertheless, it
urges him to shoot low, for, says it, appre
hensively, “We’ll be in the gallery.”
The Ellijay Courier says that Gilmer coun
ty will ship about twelve or fifteen thousand
dollars worth of beeves, hogs and sheep to
Atlanta this season, and for stock raising,
that county has no superior in Georgia.
General John B. Gordon addressed a large
assembly of the people of Spalding at
Griflin on Tuesday. He reviewed the Con
gressional canvass now beiug made in the
Fifth district, and paid many handsome
compliments to Colonel N. J. Hammond,
the nominee of the Democratic party of the
district. He advocated, in the strongest
terms, the election of Colonel Hammond.
Of the ability of the Democratic candidate
he spoke in glowing terms. Frequently his
speech was interrupted with applause,
showing that his express! ns inet with
unanimous approval. It is conceded that
the speeeh was among the finest that he has
ever made, lie was announced to address
a mass meeting of the citizens of Henry
county on Wednesday.
A report having been put into circulation
that the Atlauta Fair would be postponed,
the Constitution indignantly denies the same.
It says the Fair will certainly come off, and
moreover, will be one of the grandest suc
cesses of the kind which has ever been wit
nessed in the South.
We mentione \ a few days since that a man
named George Littleton had been arrested,
charged with having murdered young Peter
Randall, of Union Point, in North Carolina.
The prisoner now confesses the crime, hut
claims that he committed the same in self-
defense. His story is not credited. When
arrested he had on a pair of shoes belonging
to the deceased, and the clothing and watch
of the latter were also in his possession.
We have received an invitation to attend
the seventh anuual hop of the Sandersville
Social Club, to take place in that city on the
18th inst., during fair week. It will doubt
less prove to be an exceedingly pleasant oc
casion.
Athens Watchman: “While at Lula one
day last week, Mr. W. 11. 11. l'oolc, who
lives at Poplar Spring, near that place, ex
hibited to us the skin of a large catamount,
which he had killed a day or two previously
near his residence. We suppose this is the
same animal which was reported by persons
who had seen it to be a panther lurking in
the woods near Lula.”
Hartwell Sun: “In the Ninth district Col.
Billups is gaining ground, and will doubt
less be elected by a good rouud majority,
lie will succeed Col. Bell, w hose record in
Congress is as bright as the brightest, and
will be a worthy man to,succeed Mr. Bell,
and to represent a district with speh a
bright galaxy and of such precious memo
ries. Mr. Speer, his opponent, is a young
man of brilliant parts, but we think his
■‘vaulting ambition has overleaped itself,’
And by kicking out of the traces he has re
moved the Congressional goal farther from
bis coveted grasp.”
It being rumored in Atlanta that a case
of native yellow fever had appeared there,
a Constitution reporter called on Dr. J. G.
Westmoreland, and asked him if he had
heard the report. “Yes,” suid the doctor;
'‘but let roe tell you: whenever there is a
single case of fever in this city I will come
and tell you. I won’t stop running till I
get to you, and then you must tell the peo
ple. Why, ain’t my honor pledged to this,
and my honor is dearer to me than my life.
It is impossible for an}' case to get a hold
here; but if one should happen to do so, 1
Should at once let the public know.”
Partridges must be plentiful this year in
the neighborhood of Covington. Says the
Star: “A covey of partridges were discover
ed in the park on last Sunday morning,
which, upon being ‘flushed,’ alighted in
the piazza of Henderson Brothers store.
Arising from there they flew over the park,
and, striking against the front of the Star
office, a number were knocked down and
about a dozen of them were caught by some
small negro boys. The front windows of
our office being open several flew in through
them and one was caught perched on the
top of the press. He was soon knocked into
pi.”
McDuffie Journal: “Early on Thursday
morning last a difficulty occurred between
Messrs. E. B. Story and Caleb Nettles, both
of this county, which resulted in the shoot
ing of the latter by the former, with proba
bly fatal effect. There arc a number of
different statements of the facts attending
the affair, but, in view of a possible judicial
Investigation, we refrain from publishing
them. Mr. Nettles was shot in the lower
portion of the side, the ball passing through
the abdomen to the other side, where it w as
found and cut out by Dr. Dozier, the attend
ing physician. There is very little hope of
tiis recovery. Mr. Story has disappeared,
and up to this time has not been arrested.”
The Atlanta Sunday GazetU takes up the
cudgels vigorously in defense of Mr. Mal-
lou, Superintendent of the Atlanta public
schools, in his present fight with Governor
Brown. It says : “ We do not believe that
the history of social or political contests
will show a more wanton or causeless as
Bault than the one made by certain members
of the Public School Board on Superinten
dent Mallon. Mr. Mallon came to Atlanta
to take charge of the schools before they
were organized. He succeeded, by tireless
energy and constant devotion to his work,
in building up a system that is the pride of
Atlanta, and is pronounced by all who ex
amine it the best to be foun 1 in any South
ern city. Quiet, undemonstrative, loyal to
his duties and careless of notoriety,
but lfttle was heard of him; but the
schools bespoke his praise, and his
reputation was builded in the hearts of
ihousande of parents. At length, a faction ,
ESTABLISHED
of the board developed opposition to the
system as it stood. The high schools were
the objects of attack. In various ways this
minority assaulted the system. They
claimed that retrenchment was necessary.
Finding that they could not abolish the
high schools, they seemed determined to
hinder and hamper the system in every
possible way. They finally secured a tie
vote, and declined to elect a Superin
tendent. They made no war on Mr. Mallon,
but simply ‘cut off the head’ of the
system. They found, however, that a
member of the board was willing to
vote against Mr. Mallon, and being ap
parently in favor of anything to disturb the
even tenor of the schools, they put up a
new candidate for Superintendent. Having
just held that they should not have any Su
perintendent, they now tried to elect one.
In the race between Mr. Mallon and others,
every one of the men who have been classed
as obstructionists, and who are opposed to
the system, voted against Mr. Mallon. It
appeared plain that their object was to
weaken the schools by putting out the man
that had built them up. Governor Brown
joined the obstructionists in their war on
Mr. Mallon, and has been one of his most
! »ersistent foes. It is said that Gov. Brown
las a personal reason for his fight on Mr.
Mallon. It is certain that in the bitter
and truculent war he has made upon him,
he has lost much of reputation for sagacity
and dignity. He has shown a disputatious
and venomous spirit that does not comport
with his high position and illustrious repu
tation. His specious and circuitous argu
ments, when confronted with Mr. Mallon’s
calm and manly utterances, put him in a
bad light. It seems that the Governor has
allowed his fondness for controversy and his
pride of sarcasm to lead him deeper into
this thing than he intended to go at first,
or should ever have gone. * * * *
We are perfectly sure that it is the opinion
of nine-tenths of the people that these as
saults on Mr. Mallon have not had the slight
est justification by anything in either his
private or official record. Tiie public sym
pathy and feeling are overwhelmingly with
him.* And while he has received several
offers that, are better than what he gets by
remaining here, we believe that it is bis
duty to stand to the public schools of At
lanta. It is doubtless disagreeable to a
quiet and decorous gentleman to be run-a-
rnuck by a few wrong-headed officials, but
in this case he must certainly be sustained
by the knowledge that the people approve
o‘f his work and will hold up his hands, with
an almost literal unanimity.”
Swainsboro Herald: “We hear it reported
that the population of our town is to be
largely increased at an carl}* day by a num
ber of families moving in from the country.
Come on, friends. You will be received with
open arms by the good people of Swains
boro.”
Senator Thnrman.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The New York Times and other Re
publican journals affect to believe that
Senator Thurman has been destroyed as
a Presidential candidate for 1SS0. The
idea is almost too ridiculous for serious
notice. We say “affect to believe,” for
such a journal as the Time* is too intelli
gent, and too well read in the book of
human nature not to knew that Senator
Thurman is as formidable as ever, and
that nothing has occurred to mar or in
jure his prospects for the Presidency.
IIis moral character is above reproach,
lie has never been guilty of official or
private misconduct. He has never even
been accused of any deviation from the
path of rectitude. He stands, therefore,
on unassailable ground to begin with.
And his ability is as incontrovertible as
is his integrity, while both, with his ex
perience in public affairs, stump him as
a safe, wise and able statesman, lie has
no superior as a Senator and few equals.
But possibly the Time* draws all its in
spiration from the fact that in Ohio the
Republicans at the recent election carried
their State ticket by a small majority
over the Democratic ticket. Few cared
about the State ticket. We hardly beard
it mentioned during the canvass. It was
the Forty-sixth Congress that engaged
the attention and the efforts of Senator
Thurman. It was there that he did good
and able service that entitles him to the
gratitude of every Democrat. The Re
publicans, in making a noise over the
election of their State ticket, are tooting
through the small end of their horn.
They lost the main fight through the
efforts of Senator Thurman.
The Metzler Family Beset by
Evil Spirits.—A special dispatch to the
Cincinnati Gazette from Akron, O., Oc
tober 11, says: “What is considered by
many a very mysterious case lias just
come to light in"the family of Michael
Metzler, a German, living in the south
ern part of the city. Since Tuesday last
Metzler and family have been made the
objec’ of the continual persecution of
what they assert to be evil spirits, so
called, manifestations taking the shape
of stones and pieces of brick of various
sizes, which are dropped from the ceil
ing, and burled at them from different
directions. Not only tlie family, but
several neighbors and one or two news
paper men have been struck by these
missiles, which have l>een preserved.
Metzler also claims lie is not able to
work in an adjacent corn field on ac
count of the interference of alleged spir
its. So great was the alarm at Metzler’s
last night that he called in a Catholic
priest to exorcise the spirits. Whether it
is malice of neighbors or a trick of the
Metzler family has not yet been devel
oped. ” ^
A remarkable scene took place in the
Fairfield county (Conn.) jail on Friday
last, when Mrs. Alexander, who is
charged by Frank Bassett with the mur
der of “Stuttering Jack” bust July, was
permitted to see Bassett in the presence
of witnesses. Advancing to him, she
said: ‘Don’t you know "that you killed
Winebecker V Don’t you remember that
you put him in the barrel, and that 1 fell
alongside of the barrel overcome by
fright and fear?” Bassett remained un
concerned. Not a word escaped his
lips, however. “You said you once
loved me;” and saying this, she threw
herself headlong on the floor, and finally
assumed a kneeling position. M bile
thus on her knees, with her hands folded
and arms outstretched, she exclaimed, in
tones loud enough to be heard all over
tlie prison corridor: “By all the attach
ment you ever bad for me, by all the
love you ever l»ore me, say now—sav
right here—that I am innocent of John’s
death. Now is your chance: say it
now.” Bassett sa’id he had nothing to
confess, and the interview terminated.
The Trouble Begun in South
Carolina.—A correspondent of the
Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist
telegraphs that paper from Sumter
county, South Carolina, under date of
October 10, as follows: “One Democrat
was arrested here to-day. The lawyers
say the arrest is clearly illegal and can
be set aside. Northrop is expected to
morrow. Warrants are out for two
colored women and two colored men,
charged with poisoning my family for
the purpose of murdering General
Butler, my expected guest. Three have
been arrested and one is still missing.
The News and Couriers report of the
affair was half true and half false. Sam
Lee is supposed to be capable of any
crime, but no analysis was made because
no food was left. It is supposed that
the arrested parties will tell something,
and Lee’s castigation by General Butler,
in his speech on the 21st of September,
is a possible cause of the poisoning. No
warrant is out for Lee as yet.”
A Constantinople “ Yankee.”—We
have all heard of Rothschilds grand coup
after Waterloo on the London Stock Ex
change. It has been imitated on a smaller
yet considerable scale by Mr. Zarify, the
wefi known banker of Constantinople,
who could not have done a smarter stroke
if be had sprung from a concentrated es
sence of Yankee stock. The morning
after the signature of the private Anglo-
Turkiah treaty for the cession of Cyprus
he dispatched one of his most trusted
employes to Cyprus with sealed orders.
On opening; them, he (the agent) found
that, like Monte Cristo, he had “ un
limited credit ” to buy up everything he
could find worth buying. He spent two
hundred thousand dollars in purchasing
all he could lay hands on—horses, cul
tivated land, shops, cattle, etc. The peo
ple were frightfully bard up, and ready
money had a wontirously persuasive ef
fect. To-day this property is worth over
one million and a h*df dollars.—New York
Worto*
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
A MEETING TO PROMOTE AMERI
CAN COMMERCE.
Terrible Hnrrieane on the River
Platte.
SENTENCE OK A VIRCINI.t W IFE
IIIKDEREK.
Glut in Cotton Goods in Lancashire.
THE AFGHAN WAR CLOUD THICK
ENIXG.
Foreign and Domestic New*.
THE PROMOTION OF AMERICAN COMMERCE.
Chicago, October 17.—A meeting of
manufacturers, merchants and citizens was
held at the Grand Pacific last evening to
listen to an address by General Cyrus
Bussey, President of the New Orleans
Chamber of Commerce, upon the subject
of promoting American commerce. Judge
Booth, Hon. Jno. C. Dore and Hon. Charles
L. Easton made remarks, and resolutions
were adopted favoring such transcontinental
cheap rates of railway transportation as will
develop our trade with China, India, Japan
and Australia. Such cheap rates can ouly
be obtained by breaking down the present
railway monopolies to the Pacific coast and
bv tlie completion of the Northern and
Texas Pacific Rouds.
The resolutions further recommend
speedy action by Congress looking to that
end and provide for a committee of seven
to give force to these purposes. They also
favor the holding of an international com
mercial convention here soon to consider
the extension of our North and South
American trade. They favor, further, an
extension of steamship lines with foreign
countries by means of subsidies and con
tracts and call for a general extension of
water traffic by Congressional legislation.
BUSINESS IN ENGLAND.
London, October 17—The Time*' financial
column says: From *‘2,000,000 to £3,000,000
of United States funded bonds have been
taken for America within the last three
da> s.
The glut of cotton goods in Lancashire is
simply unprecedented. At Preston, Ximms’
mills, with 30,000 spindles, and Sharpie’s
mills, with 32,500, have ceased ruuning.
Borrocks, Miller Co., the best known firm
in the north of England, have adopted meas
ures to restrict the production in their mills.
THE AFGHANISTAN WAR CLOUD.
Simla, October 17.—The concentration of
Afghans in Kbybcr Pass is causing uneasi
ness. The garrisons at Peshom and Ko-
hai are being reinforced and placed in a
state of readiness. Three Punjaub regi
ments have reached Tull. It is reported
that the forces at Ali Musjfd and Condahar
have been largely reinforced.
SOCIALIST TACTICS.
Berlin, October 17.—The Socialists de
clare that, as after the passage of the anti-
Socialist bill they will be prevented from
holding meetings, they will infest the meet
ings of other parties to cause them to be
dissolved likewise.
LIGHT SENTENCE OF A WIFE MURDERER.
Suffolk, Va., October 17.—The trial of
J. \V. B. Atkinson, charged with the mur
der of his wife by poison, was concluded
yesterday. He was found guilty of murder
in the second degree and seutcuced to the
penitentiary for five years.
A LEGISLATOR KILLS A NEGRO.
Petersburg, Va., October 17.—A special
says that during a Republican meeting yes
terday at Hicksford, \Vm, A. Keese, a mem
ber of the Legislature, shot a negro named
Trotter, dead.
A TERRIBLE HURRICANE.
London, October 17.—A telegram to
Lloyds from Buenos Ayres says that a terri
ble* hurricane has occurred on the river
Platte, causing a great inundation and con
siderable damage.
A CASE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.
New York, October 17.—Geo. W. Hoxie,
Assistant District Attorney, of Brooklyn,
will resign. He confesses to having appro
priated government funds, which he says he
lost in Wall street.
ELECTED GREEK PATRIARCH.
Constantinople, October 17.—The Arch
bishop of Salonica, the anti-Russian candi
date, has been elected Greek Patriarch.
EVENING TELEGRAM!
A CARD FROM GOVERNOR T1LDEN
Austria's Reply to the Porte's Charges
of Cruelty.
BRITISH ADVANCE INTO CENTRAL
AFGHANISTAN EXPECTED.
Steps Taken to Extend American
Commerce.
INTERESTING WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Delaware Greenback Convention.
A CAUP FKOjf GOV. TILPES.
New York, October 17.—Samuel J. Tilden
publishes a card to-day in which, referring
to the recent cipher telegram publications,
he says that he has no knowledge of the
existence of these telegrams, nor any infor
mation about them, except what has been
derived from or since their publication.
Referring to the alleged attempts to nego
tiate for electoral votes in Florida and South
Carolina, he denies all knowledge of the
existence or purport of any telegram re
lating to the subject. He cites as evidence
that any action on bis part looking to a bar
gain of any kind would have been incon
sistent with his plans, the fact that he had
in view a system of reform which he could
not have carried out unless he was untram-
elled by any commitment in the choice of
men to execute the official trusts of govern
ment, and was free from any obligations of
special interests. “I was resolved to go into
Uje Presidential chair,” he says, “in full
command of my resources, or not at all.”
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief -vonal Observer,
Washington, D. C., October 17.—Indica
tions for Friday:
In the Middle Atlantic and South Atlantic
States, increasing cloudiness and rain, warm
south veeriDg to much colder westerly
winds, followed by rising barometer.
In the East Gulf States, cloudy and
raiuy followed by clearing weather, winds
mostly from northwest, stationary or lower
temperature and rising barometer.
In the West Gulf States, clear or partly
cloudy weather, northerly winds, falling
followed by rising temperature and higher
pressure.
In Tennessee and the Ohio and Upper
Mississippi valleys,» loudy followed by clear
ing weather,winds mostly northwest, falling
followed by rising temperature and higher
pressure.
Iu the Lower Missouri valley, clearer,
partly cloudy weather, northwest winds,
stationary or higher pressure and tempera
ture.
EXTENSION OF AMERICAN COMMERCE.
Washington, < )ctober 17.—Commodore
Shufeldt will leave this country on the
Ticonderoga about the 1st of December.
One object of his commission is to open
new ports of commerce between Africa and
this country. The Secretary of the Navy
will have a conference with the
Secretary of State and they will
agree upon a plan by which the com
merce of this country may be advanced in
portions of the world where the national
flag has never been seen in that connection.
The appointment of a successor to Commo
dore Shufeldt as Chief of the Bureau of
Equipment and Recruiting has not yet been
considered.
MODE OF PURCHASING SILVER BULLION.
Washington, October 17.—An order has
been issued from the Treasury providing for
the establishing of a mode of purchasing
silver bullion hereafter. It is found by ex
perience that the London quotations ar
nqt a safe guide: the transaction^
there are less in amount thap iu New ) ork.
and quotations are frequently influenced
by si'eculating movements, and not by gen
uine sales. The new mode requires bids ou
Wednesday of each week ior delivery at
Philadelphia or San Francisco, to be deliv
ered as proposed by the bid. The price of
lots under ten thousand ounces will be
fixed by a rule, dependent on the market
value, ascertained by public bids.
DELAWARE GREENBACK CONVENTION.
Wilmington, Del., October 17.—The
Greenback State Convention met here this
afternoon. There were thirty-one delegates
present, twenty-five of whom were from
this city. The convention nominated Dr.
K. J. Stewart, of Lewes, for Governor, and
John J, Jackson for Congress.
MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION.
New Haven, October 17.—At the con
cluding session of the representatives of the
Odd Fellows and Masonic Mutual Benefit
Associations of the country, held here this
morning, it was voted to style the convention
a Convention of Delegates of the Mutual Ben
efit Associations of tlie United States,and that
these associations include and embrace all
associations doing their business on a purely
mutual plan. The fourth annual conven
tion will be held in Washington October 17,
1879.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Washington, October 17.—Naval reports
show that there are now about twenty naval
vessels on foreign stations and eight or nine
more preparing to be sent abroad. The
navy now has about fifty vessels in a sea
worthy condition. The "personnel of the
service is represented as admirable.
A. Abernathy, Austin Grover and Jno. M.
Hanna have been appointed revenue gaugers
of the Sixth district of North Carolina.
ANTICIPATED BRITISH ADVANCE ON CANDA-
11 AR.
London, October 17.—The Globe states
that a private telegram from a trustworthy
source at Simla says that the advance on
Candahar may be expected almost immedi
ately. Little resistance is anticipated this
side of Candahar.
ANDRASSY’S REPLY TO THE PORTE.
Vienna, October 17.—Andrassy’s reply to
the Porte’s circular consists entirely of a
refutation of the charges of cruelty against
the Austrian army of occupation in Bosnia
and a comparison of the present occupation
with (>mar Pasha’s invasion in 1852.
A Blow to Subsidies.
New York Bulletin.
The British Government, wc observe,
has substantially notified the Australians
that in future they must not expect any
imperial subsidies for ocean mail steam
ship lines. The idea seems to lie that
the colonies are big enough now to run
alone and pay their own bills. They
may hereafter engage in any “mail
service” they please, but they are to have
the undivided privilege of paying for it.
At present there are three steamship
lines connecting with the mother coun
try, all of them receiving more or less
government aid; but now that there is
direct cable communication between
Australia and the rest of the world,
together with various unsubsidized
steam lines anxious to carry mail
bags as cheap as any other freight.
Downing street cannot understand why
the Imperial Government should con
tinue to grant exclusive privileges to any
particular line. The conclusion is cer
tainly a reasonable one. However, the
Australians, though much given to boast
ing of their independence of late, we ob
serve, do not take the notification kindly,
and there is no lack of intimations that
if the home government is thus going
to withdraw its “protection” the ques
tion will lie forced upon them, Of what
advantage is it to remain in the position
of colonial vassalage? The inference is
that the Australian mind is unable to
discover any benefit accruing from that
position that does not enable it to draw
ad libitum upon the imperial exchequer.
They have been so long accustomed to
tlie government spoon that they cannot
bear to be deprived of it. We’have no
particular interest in following the possi
ble consequences of this feeling upon the
future political relations of parent and
offspring; but it is with some gratifica
tion we are enabled to record the fact
that the subsidy system is thus more and
more coming into disfavor by the British
Uovernmei^. In accordance with the wise
policy recently adopted, subsidies that
expire are not, save in rare cases, renew
able. Communities that want extra
mail facilities must pay for tlicm,
and not ask other people in a
roundabout way to foot tlie bill; for
that, in plain terms, is precisely what
subsidies mean. We commend this
healthful tendency of the times to such
of our own countrymen as are not yet
impressed with tlie conviction that it is
not among the legitimate functions of
popular government to be countenanc
ing a policy of that description. If the
British Government, which is an im
perial system, is tired of it and is en
deavoring to get rid of it, the question
may well be asked, why should a Re
publican system like ours, which has no
favored classes to legislate for, continue
to tolerate it ?
Rashness and Death.
Xeic York Sun.
The gateman had closed the gate at the
Franklin Square station of the New
York Elevated Railroad at about 3 p. m.
Monday, and the conductor was pulling
the bell rope to signal the engineer to
start, when a man ran up the stairs and
pushed open the gate. The station agent
says that he did not even slop to pay his
fare, but hastened toward the train, nor
did he stop when he saw that it was
moving. The conductor motioned him
away, and a colored iqan who was
sweeping the platform seized him by the
coat. The man jerked himself away,
and, with the little quick step that a per
son slackens a run into as he braces him
self for a leap, approached the edge of
the platform. No railing protects pas
sengers from falling to the track, and the
man jumped for the platform of the
second car. lie might as well have cast
himself in front of the locomotive.
The sight, the crunching noise, the
jolting that followed, were all over in an
instant. The man must have been dead
a second after he jumped, for he not only
fell to the track, but his body was also
crushed between the sides of the cars and
the woodwork of the station platform.
The body was dragged to the end of the
platform, and then it fell mutilated and
dismembered to the pavement. Nothing
was found that could identify the man.
The station agent and the colored man
said that the man ran by them so quickly
that they had uo chance to see his fea
tures, but they judged him to be about
forty years of age, and the colored man
thought that he was intoxicated.
IIauntep j?y His Wife.—William
O’DoiAell, a tailor, living at No. 137
Baxter street, was yesterday committed
for examination as to his sanity by Judge
Duffy at the Tombs Police Court. The
complainant is O’Donnell’s son, who says
that his fathci’s manner since his wife's
death has been very peculiar. He talks
rationally on other subjects, but fre
quently causes great annoyance and
alarm in the household by night excur
sions around the house in search of his
wife. She appears to him now and then,
and he goes iu pursuit of her around the
house and out iu the yard. He encoun
ters her occasionally, but she refuses to
speak to hup. Young O’Donnell, when
questioned about his mother s death,
could not remember whether it occurred
in last June or the Jime of the year be
fore. They lived in Pearl street then,
and his mother was clubbed, he said, by
a drunken policeman, and never re
covered from her injuries.—N. Y. Herald,
12 th. '
A Monomaniac’s SuicmE.—A German
cigar maker named Ritter, of Newark, N.
J.7 was sent to State prison some time
ago for defrauding the government by
using boxes belonging to another cigar
maker named Daniel Rech. The princi
pal witness was Mr. Rech. On Sunday
the latter hanged himself at his home.
Ever since the trial of Ritter, his accuser,
it is said, has been possessed wjth the be
lief that somehow he, too, w r ould lie ar
rested. He thought the officers were af
ter him. His ideas, entirely groundless,
weighed upon him so that his mind be
came affected, and he put an end to him
self. After dinner he went up stairs, and
shortly afterward was found dead. He
leaves a wife and several children, some
of whom are married. ITc was fifty-
two years of age and owned" considerable
property.
A Mining Suit for Millions.—Suit
has been entered at San Francisco by
John H. Burke, as a stockholder of the
Consolidated Virginia Mining Company,
against J. W. Mackey, James C. Flood,
John G. Fair and the Pacific Wood and
Lumber Company, to recover $4,000,000
worth of property alleged to have been
converted to their own use by the de
fendants. This is one of a number of
suits in proper form to take the place of
the $35,000,000 suit, which was found
defective in form.
THE SIRE WAY OF RESTORING
PROSPERITY.
A Differential Duty for Our Shipping
and an Export Duty on Our Cot-
ton.
New York Sun.
New York, October 9, 1878.
Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, of tlie Congres
sional Labor Committee:
Sir—In my last letter, published this
day, I showed that England could not
find in the world a country to rival us in
the production of cotton, and that she
has signally failed in the attempt to do
so. Consequently, she would not avenge
herself in that direction, for the destruc
tion of her shipping interests and the es
tablishment of our supremacy on the
ocean through the effects of the differ
ential tariff developed in my first letter.
Our permanent advantage in cotton
growing being settled, the question arises,
How can that advantage be utilized in
legislation for the enriching of our coun
try and the prosperity of our labor?
answer by an export duty levied on cot
ton.
1 am aware that this is a novel and
startling measure, nothing of the kind
haviug been attempted, or even suggest
ed, since the adoption of our Constitu
tion. Yet this measure necessarily
grows out of the differential tariff, and
it will soon appear to be an essential part
of it.
I propose to prove in this letter that
the power to impose such a duty exists,
where it is lodged, by whom and under
what conditions it h» to be exercised, the
methods necessary, its feasibility, and its
ultimate triumph.
It is to be presumed that tbe delegates
in the convention that framed our funda
mental law knew best wliat powers they
intended to grant to the Federal Govern
ment, and what powers they did in fact
grant. Also, that they knew best what
powers they intended to withhold and
reserve, and what powers they did abso
lutely withhold and reserve to he exer
cised* by the Slates or the people thereof.
1 deem it necessary, therefore, to re
for to the debates in the convention upon
the subject of an export tax in order to
clearly arrive at the rightful conclusion.
Besides, my method in these letters re
quires, as I advance, that I leave no
doubts in the rear.
The convention earnestly considered
the question of granting to Congress the
power to impose an export tax, with, I
believe, but one delegate favoring it,
and even he doubting’y.
Gen. Charles C. Pinckney, of South
Carolina, contended for a clause in the
Constitution restraining Congress from
taxing exports. When the committee
was appointed to report a Constitution, he
reminded the committee “that if they
failed to insert some security against
taxes on exports, he should be bound by
his duty to his State to vote against the
report.” Col. George Mason, of Virginia,
contended that “no tax should be laid on
exports.” He proposed to insert the fol
lowing as a qualification to the power to
levy taxes, and impose duties on imposts
“Provided that no tax, duty, or impo
sition shall lie laid by the Legisla
ture of tlie L'nited States on articles
from any State.*’ Oliver Ellsworth,
of Connecticut, contended that the
“taxing of exports (by Congress)
would engender incurable jealousies.
Pierce Butler of South Carolina declared
that “lie never would agree to the power
of taxing exports;” and the prevalent
opinion was that the States never would
surrender that power. They never did,
hut reserved the power to he exercised
by the States themselves. The conven
tion, however, subjected this reserved
power of the States to the condition that
the consent of Congress should he ob
lained before any export duty laid by
any State could be enforced, while the
net revenues arising therefrom should be
for the use of the United States Treasury.
The fifth clause in section 9, article 1,
of the Constitution forbids Congress to
impose an export tax in these words:
“No lax or duty shaii be laid on any article
exported from any State. * * * No pre
ference shall be ^iven bv any regulation of
commerce or revenue to the ports of one Slate
over those of another: nor shall vessels bound
to or from one State be obliged to enter, clear,
or pay duties in another."
Hence it is certain that this reserved
power of the States is limited to the im
position of export taxes on articles
shipped to foreign ports only.
The recognition of this reserved power
of the States is found in the second
clause of section 10, article 1 of the Con
stitution, in these words:
“No State shall, without the consent of Con
gress, lay anv imposts or duties on imports or
exports, except what may be absolutely neces
sary for the execution of its inspection laws;
and the net proceeds of all duties and imposts
laid by any State on imports or exports shall
be for the use of the Treasury of the United
States, and ail such laws shall be subject to the
revision and control of Congress.”
Thus it is clear that the States can im
pose an export duty for the purpose of
executing their inspection laws, without
the consent of Congress; but to exercise
their reserved rights beyond this requires
the consent.of Congress.
Roger Sherman, of Connecticut, is the
author of the words in the Constitution
making the revenues derived from ex
port duties laid by the States redound to
the benefit of the United States Treasury.
John Langdon. delegate from New
Hampshire to the Constitutional Conven
tion, in referring to this fifth clause in
section 9, article 1, of the Constitution,
said: “By this section the States are left
at liberty to fax exports.” And such is
the fact. Thomas Fitzsimons, of Penn
sylvania, was perhaps the only member
of the convention who was in favor of
giving the power to lay an export tax to
Congress (to use his owu words), “when
the proper time may call for it.” He
further said: “This will certainly be
when America shall become a manu
facturing country.”
That time has now arrived. Believing
that the hour foreseen by the Pennsylva
nia delegate has struck, I now propose
that the States shall exercise, for the first
time, this, their reserved right, and im
pose an export duty on cotton, discrimi
nating in the amount of tax between
short staple and sea island.
I will in my next letter examine the
comprehensiveness, and the present and
future importance of this measure, as
well as its availability and unobjectiona
ble character. ()u r cotton lias such pecu
liar relations to the commerce of the
world that it can lie subject to an export
duty without the tax in the slightest de
gree acting as a restraint upon our trade.
To expedite the adoption of this
measure, Congress should without delay
invite the States to exercise their power
in this direction, at the same time pledg
ing the requisite consent of Congress to
their enactments. There should be an
immediate convention of the cotton
States, wherein to agree upon a uniform
rate of tax; or perhaps a commission ap
pointed by the Governors of those
States to convene at Washington, agree
upon the rate of tax to be imposed, and
report the same to fheir respective Legis
latures for adoption.
With a view to avoid confusion and
expense, adequate legislation should be
provided by these States, enabling the
government to collect this tax, not only
in the ports of the cotton States, hut in
the ports of those States not producing
cotton, but from which it may be ex
ported. 'This may involve a feature in
the movement requiring the consent of
every State within which there is a port
of entry; in such case their consent
should not be withheld. No State can
afford to be an obstacle to the patriotic ef
forts of other States for the general good.
Congress should accompany its invita
tion with its pledge that if the States
levy an export duty of one cent per
pound on all cotton exported in Ameri
can bottoms, and one cent and a hajf on
cotton exported in foreign ships, it would
meet with their approval. The tax
should not exceed the above rates, and
perhaps it may appear that a half cent per
pound on cotton in American bottoms
and one cent in foreign ships would an
swer our purpose. But the first stated
amounts, in my judgment, are the near
est to the true standard. This differ
ence in the export tax, it will be per
ceived, is an important auxiliary to oar
import differential tariff, increasing the
inducements to build American ships.
We will now exhibit results springing
from the cent and cent and a half duty.
Estimating the crop now being gathered
at 5,000,000 bales (it will doubtless be
greater), deducting 1,500,000 bales for
domestic consumption, leaves 3.500,000
for export. A one cent tax will yield
$17,500,000. This is bast'd upon an aver
age of 500 pounds to the bale.
We propose a tax of ten cents per
pound on sea island cotton, because we
alone produce it (although it is said the
Sandwich Islands have produced a few
bales of fair quality). This cotton,
for many years, has ranged in price from
45 to 85 cents (Charleston price current).
Since 1870 it has averaged 58 cents per
pound.
This tax will not be damaging to those
industries abroad requiring tins particu
lar cotton. We have heretofore exported
almost the entire crop, although 1 am in
formed that our spinners are now con
suming a few thousand bales. The for
eign factories requiring this long staple
are dependent solely on America for it.
The crop will in a few years be as large as
it was before the war. In tbe years
1858-9 we exported 47,592 bales. * We
are now exporting about 20,000 bales:
estimating at 400 pounds to the bale, the
tax will yield $800,000, which, added to
the receipts from the one cent tax on
short staple, makes the gross revenue
from the export $18,300,000.
Probably not one-fifth of this sea
island cotton comes back to us manu
factured for our consumption. On that
one-fifth tbe government receives an im
port tax paid by our people. But by
this export tax the remaining four-fifths
consumed abroad yields us revenue
equal to $640,000, paid by foreigners for
our benefit. This entire export revenue
should be covered into the treasuries of
the States imposing the tax. Congress
can accomplish this by allowing it as an
inspection fund, which the Constitution
provides for without fixing the amount,
that being left to the States. To legis
late the fund out of the United States
Treasury, and distribute it to the States
proportion to the amount of
cotton which each State exports,
would raise a question of constitu
tionality, about which there would,
doubtless, be a fair difference of opinion,
although we have a precedent for the
distribution of a fund among the States
in the second administration of Gen.
Jackson, when about $28,000,000, the
proceeds from the sale of public lands,
was taken out of the Treasury and divid
ed among the States then in the Union,
without any other reason except that the
government bad no use for tlie money.
I do not in this case approve of the rea
son or tbe precedent, although that was
not a parallel case to tbe one we have in
hand. I am inclined to the opinion that
under the inspection clause it can be done
with little strain, if any, upon a just con
struction of the Constitution.
Objections will probably be started by
niggardly quibblers to this application of
the fund. It should be remembered that
the cotton States are passing a law for
the benefit of all the States; all are
equally benefited. There is no power
to secure this revenue except by the
voluntary consent of the cotton States.
A sense of common justice should ap
prove this disposition of the fund.
There are, however, emergencies in
which opinion cannot halt. It is of the
most urgent importance that we unite in
restoring the prosperity of the Southern
States. Their productions are not only
the salvation of our commerce, but will
ultimately give us tbe commercial
supremacy of the world. When we take
into consideration that they have been
the victims of twelve years of
desolating war, blunderingly brought
on themselves—more than four of
these years waged between them
and the North, Itye remaining eight years
of a more relentless war carried on by
tlie Grant dynasty, on private accouqt
against their pockets and their rights as
citizens and States returned to the Union
—hones^and patriotic men will not hesi
tate in promptly tendering for their re
lief this export tax, especially when we
consider that they have been plundered
since the peace in 1865 to the extent of
more than $250,000,000, and have noth
j to show* for it except absentee carpet
bag thieves and tbe crushing taxation in
cident to fraudulent encumbrances.
Tbe connivance of Congress alone made
these carpet-bag robberies possible; for
Congress, if it desired, could have pre
vented them, and executive indifference,
or doubtless something w'orse, insured
them impunity.
This fund will not only give partial
and rightful relief, but will evince tbe
feeling of fraternal interest in their wel
fare that all good men entertain. More
especially should this be done, since not
one cent of this tax comes from the
pocket of any citizen or any treasury in
America, the entire amount being paid
by tlie foreign consumer of the article
exported. But should selfishness rule,
the States imposing the tax would la*
justified in demanding the fund as a sine
qua non.
In my next letter I will prove that this
export duty, trifling as it appears, will
enable our cotton manufacturers to en
ter the markets of the world triumphant
ly. To them will lie restored tbe long
lost trade with the Spanish. French, and
British West Indies; also that of Mexico
and South America. It will require the
construction of more mills to supply the
newly acquired markets; it will call in
all our idle operatives, and create the
necessity for greater numbers; it will
give thrift to {capital, and render labor
remunerative, prosperous, and contented
Ellis B. Schnabel.
A DESPERATE DESCENT.
An Aeronaut*N Sale Landing After a
Perilous Journey.
What is “Tucking 2”
Reno (Nevada) Gazette.
A bothered-looking citizen came into
the Gazette office yesterday afternoon and
respectfully asked to be let look at tbe
dictionary. He sat down and rather
anxiously thumbed Webster awhile.
“What word are you looking for?
asked a reporter, seeing that the stranger
had failed to strike the~trail.
“Well,” said tho man in a burst of con
fidence, “you see I’ve only been married
a short time, and my wife’s gone up to
Truckee on a visit, and she's written to
me to look in the bottom of her trunk
for a lot of ‘tucking’ ana send it to her.
Now, what I want to know what iu
blazes is ‘tucking?’ It ain’t in the dic
tionary.”
Tucking?” said the reporter, briskly,
‘why, tucking is the stuff the girls make
by poking a sort of short-turned fish
hook through a hole and catching the
thread and drawing it back again.
Then the editor spoke up, eontemptu
ouslv, and said that a man who was so
ignorant as that ought to hold his tongue.
What the reporter had described was cio-
cbeting. Everybody ought to know what
tucking was. The ladies in making it
used a little contrivance shaped like a
mussel, with thread wound up inside of
it. Tucking could be purchased, by. be :
lieved, for ten or fifteen cents a yard, and
why intelligent girls should waste a whole
day in making what they could get for a
short bit was more than he could under
stand. In answer to a question from the
admiring reporter, the editor saitl he had
been told that tucking was used in trim
ming the undergarments of the fair sex
but why things should lie crLamented
Which a fellow would get licked for try
ing to look at—or perhaps shot—was be
yond his comprehension.
The married stranger said the editor
was mistaken; that the article he men
tioned was not tucking—it was tatting.
This he knew' for a fact.
The editor observea that when a man
came to the ( azette office for information
the'editor, when he gave it, didn't like to
be told he lied. If the stranger, wanted
to avoid trouble he had better get out and
go to the devil. As the editor had grown
red in the face and his eyes were blazing,
the married stranger coughed feebly and
slunk down stairs.
In tbe meantime, what js “tqcking
A family of emigrants on the way to
Texas camped over night in Sedalia,
Mo. In the morning the man packed all
the things in the wagon to continue the
journey, except his aged mother-in-law.
whom he left at the side of the r.uA
However, a mob compelled him to take
her alon^. • i
The following is telegraphed from
Scranton, Pa., by a correspondent of the
New York Herald:
The exciting balloon ascension of Pro
fessor S. A. King from this city Satur
day morning, when he wenk up in a
storfn and was swept over th*e dreary
mountain ranges southeast of Scranton,
has caused much anxiety for his afety,
and all day Saturday and to day tl e tele
graph and newspaper offices have been
besieged with eager inquiries lor liis
whereabouts. Messages were sent in all
directions asking if he had beei seen;
but Easton. Allentown, Stroudsburg.
Portland, and other places where t was
thought he would probably pass, re
sponded that the balloon had not been
heard of in those places. To night the
suspense had reached a painful climax,
and fears were felt of a sad fate for the
aeronaut. A fugitive telegram from
Phu'nixville stating that the balloon
passed that place ou Saturday, with the
basket torn away and a man clinging in
the rigging, served to heighten the gen
eral anxiety.
Your correspondent, who was to have
accompanied Professor King but for the
storm which prevailed at the time of the
ascension, is the only one here who has
heard from him ami is pleased to say
that, after an exciting ami highly peril
ous voya ’.e, tlie aeronaut landed safely,
although liis balloon, “King Carnival,”
was torn to pieces in making thedanger-
ous descent.
The aeronaut’s story is a graphic dc
scription of a perilous ride through the
clouds. He landed in Providence town
ship, Montgomery county. Pa., a dis
tance of about one hundred and twenty-
five miles from the starting point, mak
ing the trip in a little over two hours.
The voyage was exceptionally exciting,
and he describes the start as being ex
tremely thrilling, there being barely time
to discharge ballast so as to clear ob
structions in the city. He says when he
turned to salute the crowd there was but
little time to view the scene, as he was
whirled off and up In a gale. He saw
but a conglomeration of houses, rail
roads, round-houses, flaming furnaces,
cars,-chimneys, heaps of coal dust and
swarms of people, all of which left a
confused impression as they passed
rapidly away. The earth was under a
cloud and looked dreary except a bright
streak of sunshine running along the
mountain top west of Scranton, making
that particular spot, by contrast with the
surroundings, appear an emerald green.
The outlook ahead was anything but
pleasant. The clearings were small;
dense forests predominated, fringing the
approaches to the shades of death, a
wilderness oL swamp on the Pocono
Mountain. Toland in such a place would
be to encounter innumerable dangers^
and the velocity of the wind, which at
first boded so much disaster, gave prom
ise of a safe passage to the fields beyond.
In seven minutes from the start the
lower cloud level was reached, but the
balloon disappeared in the stratum above
a few minutes later. The balloon was
now expanded to its fullest tension, and
tbe valve had to be opened repeatedly lo
relieve it, but the temperature of tbe
cloud was so warm that it rapidly in
duced expansion of the gas, and the aero
naut rose rapidly. At bust, after sailing
through a dense mass of rolling clouds,
the sun was seen through a haze. A
height of 12,000 feet was reached here,
but frequent discharges of gas brought
the balloon down again nearly to the lower
cloud stratum. Through the latter glimps
es were obtained of the country beneath,
which presented a dismal aspect. Noth
ing but hills and interminable forests,
with an occasional stream or roadway
tlireading through them, were to be seen.
Again ballast was discharged and the
balloon mounted above the clouds. The
mist had disappeared, and the sun, shin
ing with full force on the balloon, caused
a rapid ascent to the height of 17,000
feet. This altitude was maintained more
than an hour, when the balloon gradually
descended again. The currents were all
in one direction al>ove and below, a
little east of south at the start and due
south at the close of the voyage. Be
tween the cloud rifts could now be seen
villages dotting the landscape, and a
river ran directly below the balloon.
The nearer the aeronaut approached the
earth the more he realized how rapidly
he was tlying over the landscape and
that the danger of landing in such a
storm was imminent.
The moment the balloon fell into the
cloud shadow descent was rapid. The
drag rope was lowered, the anchor made
ready ana tlie shock awaited. After es
caping a clump of woods, a field was
reached and the anchor was swiftly
tiirown «*ut. Here ensued a series of
frightful leaps across the fields. When
ever the anchor caught for an instant
it brought the balloon down with
a sudden bound on the earth, caus
ing it to leap into the freedom of
the air again. The aeronaut held
the collapsing cord, and at the first puli
the balloon struck the ground anu re
bounded violently, leaping over an im-
meuse pile of jagged posts into an upon
space beyond; The car, striking the
earth again, was shot through a fence
with the velocity of a cannon ball, and
immediately afterwards the balloon col
lided with a tall, spreading tree, which
tore it to shreds before it could be extri
cated. The ear hung a short distance
from the ground and the aeronaut es
caped unhurt. This was the fourth trip
he had made in the “King Carnival,”
and he feels its loss severely.
A Grave Robber Shot.—A negro
named John Brown was shot and hilled
about three miles fr ohi Warsaw, 111,, Wed
nesday night, while attempting to rob a
grave. A man named Douglass died the
day previous and was buried in the fami
ly burial ground. Brown was seen lurk
ing around during the funeral, and one
of the dead man’s friends, named An
drews, suspecting that Brown intended
making a raid on the grave, concluded
to watch. About 12 o’clock Wednesday
night he found tw r o men at work in the
grave. He opened fire upon them and
they retreated, returning the fire with
two shots, neither of which latter took
effect. He pursued them, and in a short
time found Brown, badly wounded. He
took him to his house, where he died
the next morning. Before dying he said
he lived in Clark county, Mo., but re
fused to tell who employed him to rob
the grave. The matter will lie laid be
fore the grand jury.
Middle Georgia Military and Agri-
cultural College.
Miliedg* rille Recorder.
()ur readers have already seen, in seve
ral numbers of our paper, the commen
dation of tbe proposition to establish
this institution, by tbe distinguished
Board of Trustees of the State Univer
sity, and the large and intelligent body
of'citizens who constituted the recent
State Agricultural Convention. Their
commendation of the plan justifies the
conclusion that they saw no constitu
tional objection to it.
On the subject of education, we think
it has been made manifestly clear that
the Legislature is forbidden to make
appropriations to any additional college
or university for education of persons of
color. The authority is limited to one,
the college for people of color, now loca
ted in Atlanta. The Legislature is also
forbidden to tax the people for the edu
cation of the children of the State in the
public schools beyond the point of in
structing them in the elementary branches
oJf an English education.
The constitution says: “The powers
of taxation over the whole State shall be
exercised by the General Assem
bly, for the following purposes
only: For the support of the govern
ment and the public institutions.” There
is a difference between an institution and
a system. The State University is an
institution, a fixed establishment—the
common school education is a system, a
method of general instruction. But, ad
mitting it to be an institution, tbe consti
tution limits its powers to instruction in
English branches, and confines the power
of the Legislature to appropriations for
instruction in those branches only.
As lo the State University tlie constitu
tion says: “The Trustees of the Univer
sity of'Georgia may accept liequests, do
nations and grants of land, or other
property, for the use of the University.
In addition to the payment of the annual
interest on the debt due by the State to
tbe University the General Assembly
may, from time to time, make such do
nations thereto as the condition of the
Treasury will authorize.” It goes far
ther, anil in a spirit of liberality says:
“And the General Assembly may also,
from time to time, make such appropria
tions of money as the condition of the
Treasury will authorize, to any college
or university (not exceeding one in num
ber) now established or hereafter to be
established in this State for tbe education
of persons of color.”
These donations are confined by the
constitution to one College or Unice rsi tg
for tbe colored people.
Instead of having no power to aid tbe
establishment of a College at Milledge-
ville, as a department of the State Uni
versity, tbe Legislature has the power to
establish such a College on its own inde
pendent basis. It cannot establish an
other for the colored people, but there is
no restriction upon its power to establish
other colleges or universities for the
whites.
It is absurd to suppose that the fram
ers of the constitution in restricting tax
ation for the support of the government
and the “public institutions” had refer
ence alone to existing institutions. It
might be necessary to have other public
institutions than those existing now.
The constitution, in alluding to institu
tions. meant all now created, and all
that might lie hereafter created. It mere
ly alluded to such institutions no matter
when created.
As to departments of the State Univer
sity, the power exists l>y law to create
them, aud under that law the Agricultu
ral College at Gainesville was brought
into existence. So the medical college
of Georgia at Augusta was made one of
its departments. Oxford, the seat of one
of the great English universities, con
sists of twenty colleges separate and dis
tinct from each other, with their profes
sors and teachers, yet all united under
the government of one university. The
chief is a chancellor, supjiorted by the
other officers, such as high stewards,
vice chancellors and proctors. They
have from five to eight thousand students.
Among their graduates were Wickliffe,
Wolsey,Clarendon,nale, Locke, Addison,
Blackstonc, Gibson, Fox and many others
of the greatest statesmen, writers and in
fluential characters in the Kingdom of
Great Britain. It would be well for u*
if we had the means to have jidoiten col
lege departments attgeh^d to our State
University. We have a Chancellor of our
University and the time will come when
it, and its departments, modelled after
the English University, will number its
students by thousands instead of hun
dreds, blended together in harmonious
union and conferring innumerable
blessings upon our grand old State.
The feature, not the least charming,
perhaps the most so of all, is the blend
ing of agricultural with other science.
In Europe, where so few are owners of
landed property, the interest in agricul
tural studies is limil«d to a small num
ber, but here it would lie almost univer
sal Iu every civilized country agricul
ture is the mother of all interest; com
merce and navigation are mere pigmies
in comparison, rt nd in the United States
where manufacturing has assumed a
widespread importance, its relative value
in industries of the country is less than
a sixth of that of the cultivation of the
fioii. While this is so, every fair-minded
and thoughtful man in the country will
admit, that of all the great avocations it
has lieen less favored than any other.
We pass over the claims which the
people of Milledgeville and Baldwin
county have upon the people of the
State, to make some amends for the in
jury done them in the removal of the
capital, and place ourselves purely upon
the ground of the general good to all
which would result from lb* establish
ment of the college in iheir city. Having
already extender our remarks to the
Umits which our space allows, we will
defer until next week the expression of
our views upon the special advantages
which would result from the location of
the college in our city.
Mr. Hayes’ Friend.—Mr. Hayes’
friend. Sam Lee, of Sumter, S. C., is
charged with a horrible crime—an at
tempt to poison Mr. C. II. Mq ; Au and bis
family. On the 21st of iast month Gen.
M. 0. Butl.27 attended a Democratic
meeting in Sumter, and was invited to
iine with Mr. Moisc. For j*ome reason
he was compelled a» the last moment to
break the engagement. It is stated that
after the dinner every member of Mr.
Moise's family, the guests present, the
servants and all who had partaken of
any portion of tbe meal w-cre attacked
with violent pair^s and other indubitable
and distressing symptoms of active
poisoning. Medical aid was qaicklv
summoned, and in more than one in
st acce fatal consequences were barclv
averted by the timely use of antidotes.
An examination o*f several different
articles of the food rCTCalning untouched
revealed the presence of arsenic in all,
and Contirmed the suspicions of Mr.
Moise that the prison had been adminis-
teied by design. There is said to lie
good reason to believe that Lee was the
instigator of the dastardly deed, and this
explains why tbe agitator makes himself
so scarce in Sumter just at present.
Augusta Chronicle.
—
Jame. R. Randall, author of the ex
quisite lyric, “Maryland, My Mary
land,” has taken charge of the Atlanta
(Ga.) Sentinel Randall was, during the
war, a writer of prose as excellent ^ his
, -—- - verse, and many of his verses entitle him
T‘ ,n ? f SUC " ^ ful ? fforl3 to hi = h rank in lht department of lyrical
to save the dam deserves universal com- r.n*-trv w; a 1
A Delaware Boy’s Heroic Act.—
On Tuesday morning last a child of Q.
V. Brady, Esq., of Delaware city, while
standing on a well curb, was, by the
breaking of a rotten board, precipitated
to the bottom of the well, a distance of
forty-five feet. A boy named Frederick
Hilabum, who was standing near, iip
mediately pulled off anothe; planK,
threw liis arms aroy.nd the pump stock,
and shipped rapidly* down to thy water,
grasped the child as it was sinking fur
the thin) time, 4nd, though the water
was very deep, succeeded in holding
himself, as well as the child, above it
until ropes were lowered to him, by
which he was safely drawn ^uL The
child is less than three years old, and,
strange Say, escaped injury, save a
lew scratches. The boy’s heroism and
nmcan/./. Af • • ■ . \ nr
luenclauou. —Muldkfoicn
—
Mr Gladstone has found time to write
a letter on the management of the voice
in public speaking. He says; “When I
have had very lengthened statements to
make, I h ive used what is called egg-
flip—a glass of sherry beaten up with an
egg. I think it excellent, but I have
much more faith in the egg than in the
alcohol. I never think of employing it
unless on the rare occasions when I Lave
expected to go much beyond an hour.
One stror^g i^asou for using something
of the kind is the great exhaustion often
consequent on protracted expectation and
attention before speaking.”
rare compliment of parody paid it. At
first sight, this may appear to lie an
equivocal compliment, but the poor paro
dist is wiser than he knows himself. It
is a most excellent test. A poem mav
have the highest merit and never be sub
jected to parody, but ode> which sink
deeply into the popular heart and find
a footing in the popular mind, through
excellence of form and substance, are
tfcoie which most invite the parodist
The “Hohenlindea,” the “Six Hundred ”
‘X’asabianca,” and “Maryland” have
been most subjected to this flatterin -
test, and of war lyrics Randall's stirring
lines rank with the best.—Nash cilk
dmervxtn.
THE NEXT CONGRESS.
R< *ult of tbe Election for Member*
In the Elsh« State, that Hare
Voted,
Philadelphia Times.
This vear the Republican party suffers
more in’ the Congressional
it did in 1ST4. when the great Demo-
eratic iidal-wave swept over the eount^
The following summary* will show the
situation:
c °isr' c °%r-
Maine
Ohio
Indiana
West Virgiana.
Iowa
R.
5
.. 0
.. 8
D.
0
18
S
1
R.
3
O.
2
11
3
2
* St 55 a
It will thus be seen that °(
Congressmen elected in lhe *’ v ! h -' a „'? r
the Kcnuhlieans lose one on the year
wheJ^ the Democrats carried almut every
State in the North that was worth making
a fight for Tbe Democrats hdd Oregon
in 1*74 and still have it. while the Ke-
puhhcans sec ire an additional member
by the admission of Colorado. They
are vert nearly certain to teoM 'n
Vermont, however, where m September
they lost the Third district, although the
opposition did not have enough to give
him a majority, and a new election will
take place in >'ovemher. Considering
that the whole fight thus far has been
made on Congress the outlook is not at
all hopeful as viewed through Republi
can spectacles. That party saved al
most nothing out of the sweep of l<-*4,
and it is losing still more this year, ac
cording to the figures.
The following is a list, with political
classification, of those elected in the
eight States which have chosen members
of the Forty-third Congress:
OHIO.
Dist. Republicans. 9.
1. Benj. butterworth.
2. Thos. L. Young.
4. *J. W. Kcifer.
12. ■'Henry S. Neal.
Hi. •Will. McKinley .Jr.
17. * James Monroe.
Dist. I>emocrate. 11.
8. *J. A. McMahon.
5. Benj. Lefevre.
6. Wm. 1>. Hill
7. Frank H. Hurd.
8. *E. B. Hnley.
it. *james aoiirw, 9. Geo. I* Cooewe.
IS. J. T. Updegraff. 10 *Thoa Ewinr
Hi. •James A. UarfleliL 11. *Henry L. Dickey.
20 * V Townsend. 13. Andrew J. Warner.
14. Gibson Atherton.
15. Geo. W. Geddes.
INDIANA.
Dist. Republicans. 6.* Dist._ Democratg. ‘
1 W II..Him nil 2.
5. *Ttaos. M. Browne.
U. Godlove S. Orth.
10. •Wm. H. Calkins.
11. Calvin CowgilL
13. *John H. Baker.
3. *Geo. A BickncU.
1. Jepiba D. New.
6. Win. R. Meyers.
7. G. De uiMatyr,G.-D
8. A. J. Hostetter.
12. W. G. Colerick.
Dist. I Republicans, 7.
1. Moses A. McCoid.
2. •Hiram l*rice.
3. Thos. Updegraff.
4. •Nath. C. Deering.
5. ‘Rush Clark.
IOWA.
Dist. Republicans, 7.
8. 'Wm. F. Sapp.
9. C. C. Carpenter.
Greenback. 2.
6. J. B. Weaver.
7. E. H. Gillette, G.-D.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Dist. Democrats. Dist. Democrats.
. 'Benjamin Wilson. 3. 'John E. Kenna.
!. *Benj. F. Martin. Democrats, 3.
VERMONT.
Dist. Republicans, 2. Dist.
1. •Charles H. Joyce. 3. Failed to elect. Bar-
2. A. It. Tyler. low, Ind. Rep.,
had plurality.
MAINE.
DUt. Republicans, 3. Dist. Democrats, 2.
1. •Thos. B. Reed. 4. G. W. Ladd.
2. 'William 1*. Frye. 5. Thomp. H. Murch
3. Stephen D. Lindsey. (G. and D.)
COLORADO.
James B. Beiford. Rep.
OREOON.
John Whittaker, Dem.
•Re-elected,
In these elections the Republicans have
lost ten Congressmen in a total of fifty-
four, with a fair chance of losing another
when the Third district of Vermont
comes to a second election in November.
The following table shows the compara
tive representation in the Forty-fifth and
Forty-sixth Congresses:
40th Congress. 45th Congress,
Rep.
Dem.
G.
Rep.
Dem.
Colorado
... 1
0
0
U
1
Indiana
8
6
l
9
4
Iowa
0
9
0
Maine. .
.. 3
1
i
5
0
< >hio
9
11
u
12
8
• *rt*£cm
0
1
0
1
0
N ermont
.. 2
D
II
3
0
West Virginia.
.. 0
3
0
0
3
Total
..28
-
4
39
16
Tlie New
York
Nation
8 -ys:
“No
not managed by men who, as Cromwell
said, know what they are fighting for,
and love what they know.’ We have
to get rid of the doctors who practice
homeopathy and allopathy as the patient
pleases, and of the pastors who are ready
to preach Universalism or eternal dam
nation as a majority of the congregation
may desire. The Republican party was
not built up by charlatanry, and can not
be saved by it. It must be led by men
who dislike Butler not because he has
liecomc useless, but liecause no good
cause can be served by him or his kind.”
A San Francisco pawnbroker lent ten
dollars on a violin worth one hundred
dollars, and put the instrument carefully
away in a closet. On the following day
a similar violin was pledged, and at the
end of the week five had been put into
the closet. Then the pawnbroker found
that after each bargain the valuable vio
lin had been replaced by a comparatively
worthless one, access to the closet having
tieen obtained through a hole in the wall,
and that he had taken in the same article
five times.
M. Yairliery, who for fourteen yean
has been prophesying a great war be
tween Russia and England, sees the ful
tillment of his vaticinations in the Af
ghan difficulty, and triumphantly shouts
"I told you so.” Persistence in augury
is a great thing. M. Vamliery also sus
pects Russia of designs on Kashgar. He
thinks it ridiculous to suppose that tht
ordering of a small force from Kuldja tc
the frontier station Sch.irkode can lx
designed merely to guard against thf
Chinese inroad.
Part of the edge of the cone of Mom
V esuvius has given way. Professor Pa
mien is having a kind of bulwark i
scoria constructed around the Observ
tory of sufficient solidity to offer consi
cTabie resistance in case of anv erne
gcncy. At Monte Falco, in Umbri
four shocks of earthquake have throw
down sixteen houses and rendered oi
hundred and tcirty-two uninhabitable.
Bea»e Kutler'n Crown,
Boston Advertiser.
“Uneasy lies the head that >• •»
..The poet says in nnmLw.^ hotwZr’
hat Butler we^-, ^ crown—easily he It*
The Washington Capital says of t
Bureau of Engraving and Printing th
it ‘begins in a brothel and ends in a pel
tentiary.
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