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Georgia Affairs.
The Norwood papers are boasting that forty-
eight papers in the State support their favorite.
1 here are one hundred and thirty-six papers
published in Georgia, so admitting the above
statement to be correct—which It isn’t—Col-
putt has a majority cf eighty-eight, nearly
t» - thirds—the same ratio of the majority he
had in the convention, and the same he will
receive in the State at large in October.
The Advertiser says Albany will receive
nearly 2.0CO bales of cotton this month, instead
of 1.500, as predicted.
The Albany News says: “Reports from our
farmers as to the condition of the cotton crop
are not very encouraging. Mr. John R. Lee,
w ho was in the city Friday, states that in his
neighborhood the caterpillar will destroy
abuut one-half the crop. Cotton is pouring in-
♦o this market every day, and the probability
id thtt the crop will be harvested early.”
The Columbus Enquirer states that at a
quarter to ten o’clock Thursday night a meteor
,,f extraordinary brilliancy was seen to cross
the heavens at a very low altitude. Bisiug in
th<- south it took a northeasterly course, pre
serving a perfectly horizontal line In its jour-
, lt y. it was composed of three parts, which
were perfectly developed balls of an equal size
and equi distant from each other. The first
ball threw out a tail which euveloped the two
following balls and extended several yards be
hind them. This tail was exceedingly lumi
nous, save at the extremity, which was some
what Indistinct, having a nebulous appearance.
Its motion was slow and was visible to the ob
server for fully fifty seconds. It did not fall to
the ground like other moteors, but continued
Its course northeastward until lost sight of. It
was indeed a brilliant and extraordinary phe
nomenon.
Mr. M. E. Thornton, of quail-eating fame
has announced himself a candidate for the
State Senate in the Thirty-fifth district.
The Columbus Enquirer thinks that if the
South will invest her own capita] in manufac
turing enterprises there will be no difficulty In
obtaining capital from the North. It says: “If
our people show confidence by putting their
own means in industries the moneyed men of
other sections will share it.”
(ieneral John B. Gordon delivered a power
ful ani telling speech at Springer's Opera
House in Columbus Friday night. The build
ing was crowded to its utmost capacity. It
si ems, however, that he was not treated with
the courtesy which common politeness de
manded. The Times says: ‘‘At times the
speaker was received with deafening applause
ani at others by hisses. It is to be regretted
that the audience should have behaved so un
becomingly to a gentleman who was invited to
the city for the purpose which he was carry,
ing out. He did not come on his own motion,
but by a solicitation of friends who desired to
hear him speak, and should have bean treated
as one gentleman should treat another. We
regret it was not done. We will not say more,
and cannot say less.”
The opinion is expressed in Atlanta that Col.
Willis A. Ilawkins, of Americus, will receive
the appointment of Judge of the Supreme
Court rice Judge Warren, resigned.
According to the 8umter Republican. the
cotton business in Americus has been quite
brisk for the season. -Up to the hour of six on
Friday last, seven hundred and fifty-two bales
of the new staple had rolled into the ware
houses. This is a pretty good showing at that
place. The price received, ten and a half cents
per pound, makes the farmers feel happy.
The Darien Gazette reports that there were
1 *00,0.0 ftet of timber down during last week,
between Monday morning and Saturday night,
and says: “This is an event that has not oc
curred before in many years. It is certainly a
very large drift for one week in the dull month
of August.” The following are the Gazette's
timber quotations for the week: “Square—603
avt rage §7 5GaS; 700 average $6&9 50; 600 aver
age $9 50al0 50; 900 average S10 50all 50; 1,000
average $llal2; 1,100 average $12al3 50; l,ano
average $l2a14. Scab—300 average $7a3; 400
average Sfca9; 500 average $8*10 50 ; 600 average
llOalL”
The Darien Gazette says; “The rice planters
an* now as busy as they can be catting rice.
They all have excellent crops, and if nothing
happens a good yield may be expected.”
The Brunswick Advertiser says: “The store
of l>r. Burroughs, in Waynesville, wasdestroy-
el by fire on Wednesdry night last—the work
'•f an incendiary. Loss, $2,100; insurance,
t] gpO
A large and enthusiastic Colquitt meeting
was held in Macon Friday night, at which
Col. L. N. Whittle was Chairman. Col.
John D. Stewart, of Griffin, delivered a
-peet-h of great fervor and force in favor of
the Governor.
A hardened, gray-haired old sinner named
Arch Brown attempted a brutal and criminal
assault on a little girl in Atlauta last Friday
night. The child fought desperately, and
finally succeeded in getting away from her
assailant, though she was badly bruised, and
iiad her clothing torn nearly entirely from her
body. Brown, who is a bricklayer by trade,
was arrested.
The Augusta News thinks the hot weather of
the past few days would not have been so un
bearable if society did not compel peeple to
wear clothes.
Columbus Enquirer 28th: “Yesterday af
ternoon the new steamer, built under the di-
fevti m of Captain Blaine for the Central line
or boats, was launched just above the wharf.
** ",''r k ' ' getting her into the water began
st i o clock and occupied about two hours.
• ae was named Rebecca Everingham, this
oemg the maiden name of the wife of Colonel
m. M. W'adley. President of the Central Hail-
• Quite a large crowd had gathered to
wuness the launching, and many weie the
compliments paid Gen. J. C. Blaine for his
; . 1 as 11 builder. At about 3 o’clock, by invi-
latjon of Captain s. J. Whitesides, in
ompany with him a few gentle-
men boarded the steamer to take the trip
>r ] t vraler 0,1 her. The Captain gave the
uer to cut the ropes and away we went
w ‘^-dning-like speed. The ride, though short,
sho ctW i ^ and hu £ el y enjoyed, but just as
lcin, ruck . lhe water some piece of timber
It ,,a framing of the cabin fell and
W as . a general scattering of the party. It
* 1&h f m ,V sln S.t° those on shore, but anything
V.1 it . '. l0s y m t,an «vr of being struck. Capt.
»«-sides broke the bottle of wine on her
laim/u* 3 Wt " were going to the water. The
ri ‘ c r was the moat successful made on our
* ln years—so say old river men. AU
;ii3 y urpn ™ . at the small amount of water
c‘r.vi reW r , a large boat and made prin-
, °ak it was thought she could not l>e
b° a t, but there are none on the
•- vr which draw less She tits on the water
ofsn. 1 , KWa ?’ ancJ wi 1 travel at a fast rate
of v T' "ohave nevrr seen such a model
ci un « ut ^ ln the shape of a boat, and must
l^j^nt Captain Blaine on his success. The
Lveringham is 140 feet Inug, 30 feet
havn’t' ’ beam and feet hold. She will
state rooms and can accommodate
tteeihnii P assen K*rs. She will have two new
■A- t °9, Iers a, ‘d use the engines of the Holt.
aiH a,e now being made in Pittsburg.
be received hereabout the middle of
in th Ql \e r ' ^ lle cabia , which was constructe<l
will £ " t>st * reached here on Tuesday, and
oin« o l )Ut on iiomediately. It is of white
fi.fl® ,: er y light. This »te»mer «Ul carry
y one thousand bales of cotton.”
ot Colonel J. C. Clements, who
!y en nominated for Congress by the
^r* locracy of the Seventh district, the Rome
a- Une says: “Colonel Clements is a native of
WIPED OUT.’
A Story of the Plains.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1880.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
his offenses against those who attacked him
cannot be ascertained, but upon Thursday
night, with all the lights out, the o’d man sat
up In his lonely cabin awaiting the approach
of a body of men who had threatened to whip
him. While thus awaiting, he heard stealthy
footsteps upon the outside, and then the tramp
of a crowd. The hour had come, and the man
felt his danger. Arming himself with a
heavily loaded shotgun he crouched in a
corner and waited. Without a word of
warning pistol shots came through the
door, and the blows of heavy instruments
fell upon it. There was no demand for
surrender, no chance to explain or implore ; a
murderous crowd was upon him. and despera
tion was born in his heart. There, in the
night, the crowd and the msn confronted each
other, with only a frail door between, one
crushing down the division, the other crouch
ing in a dark corner, with his burning eyes
fixed upon the door, and his finger upon his
trigger. It was a picture soon to change ;
with one last crash the door fell in and the
crowd pressed forward. At that instant a dark
form within stood upright and two sheets of
Home leaped forth into the night; the crowd
scattered right and left, leaving the two
brothers upon the threshold, with their brains
scattered in every direction. The next instant
a dark form glided across them from within,
and was lost in the night. He fled, but no one
blamed him fur his defense, and the Coroner's
jury which assembled around the dead justi
fied the.killing.”
A correspondent of the Brunswick Advertiser
writes that paper that “at ten minutes of ten
o’clock p. in., Thursday, 26th inst., & meteor
appeared in the southwestern horizon, first
consisting of what api>eared to be a ball of fire,
moving rapidly to tlie northeast, soon break
ing into two balls of about tne same size (ap
parently as large as a man s head) anil separa
ted by several feet, with a trail of luminous
matter between the two, and a long trail of
light in the rear. It did not seem to move rap
idly, and was in sight for at l^ast a minute,
pos-ibly more. Please call attention of ex
changes to this.”
Brunswick Advertiser: “A bottle was picked
upon the shell beach below the quarantine
ground, all tightly corked, by Mr. JohnVan-
daiiy. this week, containing a pait of a leaf
from a memorandum book, with the following
written thereon: ‘Brigantine Lucas. Bombay,
bound N. Y. 120 days out. Abandoned off
Bahamas, June 19th. 1880. Jno. \V. Jenkins,
Master. Glasgow, Scotland.’ If any of our
readers have read anything touching the loss
of, the above brigantine or her unfortunate
crew, in any of the papers, we would be glad
to hear from them.”
The Americus Republican thus tells of
costly dr nk of water:” **W« are informed
that on Thursday last as 3Ir. J6hn Frazier aud
Jesse Suggs, of the Fifteenth district, were re
turning home from the city, they stopped at
a well a few miles out to get a drink of water,
and left their horse unhitched. Finding every
thing Clear, the horse cleared out with the
buggy and left the gentlemen to foot it home.
After running two or three miles, the horse
struck the fence of Mr. W. C. Williams, tore
down three panels of it. demolished the bug
gy. and went on with increased velocity and
determination. At last the horse ran against a
tree and killed himself, and so ended the
race.death being the winner and Mr. Frazier the
loser. It is said that the debris was scattered
for several miles over the road. The horse
was valued at (price paid) $125 and the buggy
at $10U; harness, goods, etc, in buggy,
$50 more, making $275 for a drink of water.'
Americus Republican : “The committee ap
pointed by the citizens of Americus to meet
the Commissioners of Railroad Tariffs in At
lanta have returned home. In conversation
with Mayor Felder he informed us that it was
his opinion that order No. 10, issued by that
board, would stanJ; that in bis opinion there
was only one way to stop it, and that was to
file an injunction. We doubt if this will be of
any benefit to our people. The only way to
break this monopoly is to build a railroad to
Hawkinsville or Newnan. Ga. Either road can
be built easiij', and the charters have already
been granted several years since. Either of
these enterprises, undertaken in the right
spirit, will humble the proud oppressor and
bring Iiim to a sense of justice.”
Griffin Neirs : “We regret to learn that news
was received in the city night before last to the
effect that Mr. Drury Allen, son of Major A. 8.
Allen, of Pike county, had been fatally iujured
under the following circumstance: Mr. Allen
was cutting a tree down, which caught in an
other, and in his effort to dislodge it fell, strik
ing him and crushing his skull. At last ac
counts he was alive, but no hopes were enter
tained of his recovery. Mr. Allen was an in
dustrious young man, and had many friends,
who are pained at the sad misfortune to one
who had just started out in life buoyant with
hope aud with bright prospects for the future.”
l. correspondent of the Athens Chronicle
writes that paper as follows: “Bartow county
during the past year his shipped six thousand
tons of manganese, valued at $10 per ton.
From this one mineral, therefore, $60,000 has
been added to the wealth of that county. Tlie
specimens of this mineral from Monroe county,
we are informed by Dr. Little, are very much
inferior to those of Bartow. The former
yields seventy-two per cent, of pure manga
nese. The writer lias seen specimens from
Madison county which, while not tested, ap
peared to be nearly pure. He has also seen
nearly absolutely pure specimens of plum
bago from the same county. These min
erals are sold low. of course, but when
found are easily mined, and are in large quan
tities. A large deposit of either is better than
gold mine for profit. It was a great mis
fortune that the Geological Bureau was dis
continued last fall. It was one of the most
valuable departments of the State. Our part
of the State had never been examined system
atically, and we are satisfied that when it is
done, very many sources of wealth to our peo
ple will be developed. We will take occasion
to refer to the matter of this geological survey
at another time, believing that it will greatly
profit the State, aud particularly our own im
mediate section.”
THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
GENERAL BUTLER'S SPEECH AT
fanpeil hall.
He Decline* to be a Candidate for
Any Office l uder the Preseut Ad
mlolutratlon—He Charges the Re-
publican Party with Recreancy to
the Platiorm of 1876 and Deser
tion of (he Negro-Grant Makes a
^Speech la Galena-lie Never Voted
a Republican Presidential Ticket
— The Colorado Republican*.
LETTER FROM RANDOLPH
COUNTY, GA.
Effect of ilie Drought and Rain* upon
the Cotton Crop—Politic*.
Randolph Co c if tv, August 2'i.—Editor Mom
|ing Neics: You request your subscribers to
give you statements of the cotton crop, which
I have concluded to do from this and adjoin
ing counties. Four or six weeks ago the pros
pect for a full crop was never more flattering.r
We then had a drought of two weeks,which In
jured materially what is termed the middle
crop, causing the plant to shed off the fruit
badly. Rain commenced three weeks since
and stimulated the plant to an unnatural
growth. It was as flourishing as possible, and,
if occasional showers had continued, the daml
age of the drought before the rains commenced
would have been repaired by an abundant
top crop; but, alas! they ceased, aud hot, dry
weather (thermometer ranging from 93 to 93)
ensued for ten days, which caused the young
fruit to dry up and fall off in large Quantities,
so that it will be impossible to gatner a full
crop. I have conversed with a great many old
farmers, and the universal testimony is that
we shall make a short crop. In addition to
the casting of th% fruit, the excessive rain has
caused all the gray lands to rust very badly
When that takes place the cotton ceases to
fruit, and what is on it opens prematurely.
One of my neighbors has a field from which he
thought be would get a bale to every two
acres, but ho will not get a bale to
six acres, and there are many more
like him Cotton is going to market mote
rapidly this season than in former 3 ears, ow
ing, in most part, to rust and a premature
opening. This is the condition generally of
Sou hwest Georgia. I am satisfied the yield in
Georgia this year will be short of last year’s
crop.
We are pretty quiet on the political Ques
tions. We are mcstlj* on one side—all for
Colquitt. He will carry this county by an
overwhelming majority. We all say let the
majority of the people rule, and not a minority
of disappointed, restless office seeking politi
cians. An Old Fakhkh.
The
Walk,
K*r co^ty.a lawyer of marked ability,
anrf 1'i 1 '• 11 ele cted, prove himself a faithful
rh*. ent Representative. He will enter
leavp^ VRSP nerved for the conflict, and will
?° ^one unturned to carry the Demo-
banner to victory. His friends and the
art sanguine of success, and hope to un-
». 1 aad defeat certain well laid plans
carv'iToi. .Politicians have laid to cause the
eW•L 0 be barren of results. His triumphant
ulon w confidently anticipated.”
crer l r 5 a d' irs have a'ready learned by tele-
on Ar °ij ^tempted outrage near Cochran
of h „ ne fffO man, John Brown, by a party
brr.nff t>era< oe3 ,’ and shooting of two
The na, " ed Dykes, engaged in the affair,
follftn 140011 Teicfirrap/i of Saturday gives the
‘ Ahr„. l » n S I )art * cu l ar s of the tragedy. It says:
of ftV.ZT S ve mdes from Cochran, on the edge
able wajn P> lives John Brown, a respect-
e ftad respected colored map, Wfcat were
Sewanliaka” Disaster Inves
tigation.
Nsw York, August 28.—The local steam
boat inspectors who made an Investigation
of the causes which led to the burning of
the steamer Seawanhaka made publiaAhcir
report yesterday. They say the testimony
goes to show that there was an abundance
of life preservers on board, and in every re-
pect conformable to the requirements of
law. Upen examination of the boiler
after the accident, two of the top
row of flues in the starboard
boiler were found to be ruptured close to
the back flue sheet. This they believe oc
curred alter the vessel was beached. The
fire was caused by the draft forcing the
eases and flames out from the grate and fur
nace doors, igniting the wood work. The
inspectors believe also that had the passen
gers taken the advice of the officers and re
mained on board until the vessel was
grounded, nearly all of them would have
been saved.
Condition of Washington .McLean.
Long Branch, N. J., August 28.—The
condition of Washington McLean, editor of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, was so improved
to day that his physicians permitted him
to be dressed and put in a chair by the
window. He is perfectly rational. ' Hb
recognized and spoke cheerfully of his
hopes of recovery to his family and a few
personal friends who are permitted to be
with him. Dr. Bartholon says his patient’s
strength is rapidly recruiting, and that he
is worth a dozen dead men. It has been
decided not to remove him to his Western
home lor perhaps a week or longer time.
Long Branch, N. J., August 29.—Wash
ington McLean had a relapse early this
morning, which at first caused some alarm,
but soou passed over. This evening he is
very brighr. the usual sinking spell that oc
curs towards evening being scarcely no
ticed.
A Washout on the Union Pacific
Railroad.
Chicago, August 28.—A special from
Omaha, Nebraska, says: “No overland
train arrived yesterday, and there will be
none to-day. The Union Pacific Railroad
is broken by a washout thirty miles east of
North Platte. Twenty or thirty trains are
delayed. The last advices predict that the
break will be sufficiently repaired to permit
the passage of trains about noon to-day.
The damage was caused by a rise ln the
Platte river,’ 1
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Boston, August 29.—In a speech at Fan-
euil Hall last night Gen. Butler declared he
is not now nor should not be a candidate for
any office, electivejor appointive, at this elec
tion, or under the incoming administration.
He explained his present position as caused
by the recreancy of the Republican adminis
tration to the platform of 1876 and their
desertion of the negro in the South after
promising to protect him, and eaye:
“Now, then, It is because I am a friend of
the negro, it Is because I desire to stand for
him, it is because I desire to do all that in
me lies to aid him in the difficult position in
which he is placed by the attainment so un
prepared of his citizenship, that I now pro
pose to act with the Democratic party.
They at least can protect him, and I believe
will do so. The industrial condition of the
South shows that the negro is necessary as
a laborer and must be protected, and will
be as soon ss the political
tagonisras die out. I freely confess
to you that I desire to be in such relations
of political kindness and courtesy w<Lh the
Democratic party that I be permitted to
point out on behalf of the colored men
what I deem would be for the best interests
cf all, and what I doubt not will be their
wish to do in his behalf.”
Gen. Butler attacked the claim of the
Republicans that the present prosperity of
the country is due to their administration.
He claimed that this prosperity was the
act of God, and that the bankrupt condition
of business, and the depression existing a
few years since, were caused by the re
sumption act; that the Republicans have
legislated the American flag off the ocean,
and have negotiated us out of ail our fishery
righte in the Northern seas. The liepubli
can party in Its long lease of power has be
come corrupt, and there can be no hope of
change under Garfield.
The General eloquently vindicated the
memory of Oakes Amee, aspersed in defense
of the Republican candidate.
The meeting was very largely attended
and the General was loudly applauded.
Chicago. August 28.—A Galena special
says: “Last night, at a Republican mass
meeting, General Grant being introduced
by Hon. Philo A. Orion, spoke as follows :
‘I did not intend to 6peak when I came here
to-night. I am very much like Judge Or
ton. I have never made a Republican
speech in my life, or any kind of politi
cal speech. 1 am sure it would require
some time and too much preparation
to make one of any length. I can,
of course, go little further thau Judge
Orton and say that I never voted a Republi
can Presidential ticket in my life, and but
one Democratic ticket, end that was many
years ago, when I was quite a young man.
But I will pledge you my word here to
night that if I am spared, although I shall
be at some distance from you, on the 2d of
November I shall return to Galena to cast
one Republican vote for President of the
United States, and I hope the city of Galena
will cast a round Republican vote, such as
it has never cast before.’ ”
Leadville, August 28.—The platform
adopted by the Republican State Conven
tion endorses the State administration and
national and S.ate nominations. It declares
opposition to mouometalisiu, is in favor of
the re-establishraent of silver ou an equal
basis with gold, and Is in favor of the free
coinage of sliver. It also declares that the
Democratic Congress, in its treatment of the
Indian question, has failed to discharge a
public duty. The convention then ad
journed.
THE STATE CAMPAIGN.
Joint Dlacuwalon ISctween Governor
Colquitt and .TIr. Norwood— Com
plete Victory lor tlie Democratic
“Recoiunieudee”-Mr.Norwood no
ITlatcli lor the Governor on the
Stump.
Special lelcQram to the. Morning Neics.
Atlanta, August 28.—To-day’s joint dis
cussion between Governor Colquitt and Mr.
Norwood, at Coviugton, before three thou
sand people, tested their powers thorough
ly, and a Norwood man acknowledged that
Norwood wa3 no match on the stump for
Colquitt, though Norwood began and ended.
The Governor’s victory was complete and
crushing, and he carried the crowd like a
whirlwind. Both speeches were able, but
that of Governor Colquitt was electrical.
His use of Norwood’s war and salary grab
record was courteous but overwhelming.
His use of Norwood’s Oxford speech, derid
ing the colored people, solidified the
thousand colored folks present against Nor
wood. Several in the crowd cried out for
Colquitt to “spare Norwood.”
Colquitt’s father was the finest stump de
bater in the State, and the son has inherited
his father’s wonderful power.
HON. R. J. MOSES IN ROME.
A Telling Speech lit Favor of Col*
quit—Floyd Solid lor the Gov-
eruor.
Special Telegram to the Morning News.
Rome, August 28.—Hon. R. J. Moses
spoke here to-night in behalf of Governor
Colquitt’s re-election to thousands of peo
ple. His speech was received with thun
ders of applause. Count Floyd solid for
Colquitt.
marine Dlaa*ter*.
St. John, N. B., August 28.—The three
masted schooner Allytha. which arrived on
Thursday from Richmond, Va., with coal,
while lying at the lower cove market wharf,
suddenly listed yesterday morning and fell
on her starboard side, the weight of the
coal breaking in her bilge and straining and
twisting her hull. The mizzenmast was
also broken aud leaned over.
Washington, August 28.—The Signal
Corps Observer at New river, N. C., reports
that the schooner Lorenzo, Capt. White,
while going out New river bar this morning
struck and bilged, damaging the vessel bad
ly and the cargo slightly.
Change in Cable Arrangement*.
Boston, August 29.—A special dispatch
from Bangor states that important changes
in the overland lines connecting with the
Anglo-American cables have been completed
by Assistant Superintendent Duxbury. Un
der the new arrangements the cable facili
ties between tills country and the old world
are fully doubled, and the danger of error
in transmission is also greatly reduced.
Bangor will hereafter be only a repeating
station between New York and the cable
landing, and Boston business will be facilita
ted by the change. The New York wire has
been quadruplexed, aud will be used ln con
nection with the new cable jU6t landed.
Acquitted.
Harrisburg, August 28.—E. Z. Wallo-
wer, the proprietor of the Harrisburg Inde
pendent, was tried last night at Carlisle in
the Criminal Court, for defaming the charac
ter ot Mrs. Catherine Zell at the time when she
was under sentence of death for the murder
of Mrs. Elizabeth Kiehl, by republishing an
article in reference to her which was taken
from the New York Herald. The jury this
morning rendered a verdict of not guilty,
and ordered the prosecutor to pay the costs.
Mrs. Zell’s husband, the prosecutor, now
lies In jail awaiting sentence for larceny
committed at the jail while he was visiting
his wife.
A Disgraceful Prize Flgbt.
Red Bank, N. J., August 29.—A disgrace
ful prize fi^ht took place here this morning
between George Weed aDd John Splaner.
The riDg was pitched a few yards from the
main thoroughfare. The mill lasted half an
hour and ended with Weed falling upon
Splaner, the latter having his arm broken in
two places. Weed was severely punished.
No arreete were made.
Anotlaer Trot Against HI* Own
Time.
Minneapolis, Minn., August 29.—SL
Julien is entered to trot here during ex
position week, which begins on September
6th, against his own time, the best on record,
for a purse of $5,000.
We often wondered what Induced Dr. Bull
to invent his celebrated Baby Syrup, but we
understand now that he was a married man.
RUgSO-lt
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
A Victory for the Government 1:
tlie House ol Common*—The Em
ployers’ Liability Bill —Autumn
fleeting of the Conservative*—The
Chinese Legation at St. Petersburg
— Greek Volunteers Waiting to In
vade Turkish Territory—Inactivity
of the Russian Army—The Repre
sentatives of the Powers ln the
Naval Demonstration.
of
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
London, July 28.—The House of Com
mons went into committee of supply last
night without opposition, and discussed the
details of the Irish votes. At three o’clock
this morning the House adjourned.
The House met to-day at twelve o’clock
and proceeded in committee on the
burials bill and other government measures.
The burials bill passed through the commit
tee with some amendments.
a victory for the government.
Yestarday’s struggle in the House
Commons resulted in a victory for the gov
eminent after twenty-one hours continuous
sitting. The postponement of the constabu
iary vote was only conceded by the govern
meut upon Parnell understanding that it
shall not be obstructed on Monday.
The Ministerial Whitebait dinner, which
usually precedes the close of the session
will take place on next Wednesday.
THE EMPLOYERS’ LIABILITY BILL.
The House of Lords has fixed for a third
reading of the employers’ liability bill for
Tuesday, when It will probably be passed,
but in a form which the House of Commons
will not be dir posed to accept. The second
reading of the hares and rabbits bill hae
been fixed for Monday. The Earl of Rides-
dale will move its rejection, but it Is proba
ble that the majority will prefer to amend
it by empowering the tenant to
contract with the landlord regarding re
spective ground game rights. Such an
amendment the government could not ac
cept, as It would substantially destroy it.
PROTEST AGAINST THE AMENDMENTS.
The Parliamentary Committee of the
Trades Union Congress have sent to the
Ministers a resolution deeply regretting the
amendments of the employers’ liability bill
made by the House of Lords, aud express
ing the hope that the government will either
restore the bill to the shape in which it
passed the House of Commons or withdraw
it and pass a more thorough-going measure
next session.
A CONSERVATIVE MEETING.
It is stated that at the end of autumn a
meeting of the Conservatives will be held
under the auspices of Lord Beacoustield and
members of the late government to advise
the various Conservative associations
throughout the country affiliated with the
London Central Association as to the pro
priety of holding meetings during the win
ter with a view of escertaining the opinions
of their constituencies upon current policies,
including the continuance of the ballot act
or the advisability of returning to the sys
tem of cp-u voting unlees new enactments
are made designed to prevent abuses. The
Marquis of Salisbury, Sir Stafford Northcote,
Sir Richard Asheton Cross, Sir John Holker
aud Lord Gtorge Hamilton have promised
to take part in the meeting.
THE COLLECTIVE NOTE.
A dispatch from Constantinople says the
collective note of the powers in regard to
the Greek frontier question Is firm but not
threatening ln its tone.
THE CHINESE LEGATION AT ST. PETERSBURG.
A 3t. Petersburg dispatch says: “The
Chinese Legation is now believed to be per
manently rstabii.-hed here, and the Marquis
Tsing, Ambassador, contemplates a long
stay. Much more peaceful advices have
just been received from the Russo Chinese
frontier. No hostile intentions on the part
6f the Chinese are apparent. The Chinese
authorities have even ordered the nomads
on the frontier to withdraw farther from the
border in order to avoid encounters with the
Russian posts.”
WAITING TO INVADE TURKISH TERRITORY.
A dispatch from Vienna says : “A dis
patch from Janina dated August 20th
states that the advanced guard of Alba
nian irregulars, which the League decided
to send to the frontier, has still much to do,
for trustworthy news had reached Janina
that three bodies of Greek volunteers were
only watting for a propitious moment to in
vade Turkish territory. The Porte contin
ues its armament in Thessaly and Epirus,
ln Turkish circles at Vienna it is affirmed
that thirty thousand men are already con
centrated In Thessaly and Epuotol Vlllayet.
They have more arms than they require,
and have accumulated much ammunition.
There are large magazines of provisions at
Arta Previsa, Metzgovo and Larls«a. The
fortifications of the latter place are almost
completed.”
INACTION OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY.
St. Petersburg, August 28.—The Golos
has the following telegram from Krasno-
vodsk : “General Skobeloff’s advance guard
is quartered at the future base of operations.
An offensive movement 19 temporarily sus
pended, but a reconnoissaoce continues.
The railway from Michael’s Bay has been
begun, but the material for it Is somewhat
delayed. Hospitals have been opened at
Krasnovodsk, Schikielar and Michael’s Bay.
But few are sick. Newspapers are asked
for to relieve the monotony of inaction. It
is reported that the Grand Duke Nicholas
will retire from the command of the Guards
and St. Petersburg district, but remain In
spector General of Cavalry, and that the
Czaiowi z will take command of St. Peters
burg and the IGrand Duke Vladimir com
mand of the Guard.”
VESSELS TO REPRESENT THE POWERS.
Rome, August 28.—T)iretto, the minitterial
organ, says : “ The following vessels will
represent the powers if the naval demon
stration in Turkish waters be carried out:
Eneland—The ironclad Alexandria, twelve
guns; Monarch, twelve guns; Temeriare,
eight guns. These vessels all belong to the
third class. Italy—The Ironclads Palestro,
seven guns; Venizia, seven guns; Venetta,
guns. France—The Ironclads Fried-
land, ten gun9; Suffren, eight guns; Le
Hirondelle, guns; Austria—The iron
clads Priuce Eugcn, twelve guns, and the
Kaiser ten guns. Russia—The Askold, the
Swetlaud and the El borons. Germauy—The
Victoria.”
Ragusa, August 29.—The Russian vessel
Saint Anne has arrived here, bearing the
Admiral who will command the Russian
portion of the European fleet which Is con
centrating for the demonstration in Turkish
waters.
Six Albanian chiefs whom Riza Pasha
wished to arrest, have escaped from Scutari.
The inhabitants of Dulcigno, with a body
of Albanians, are encamped at Mczura to
oppose the cession of Dulcigno. It is said
that the Tuikish regulars are fraternizing
with them.
AN IMPERIAL RE9CRIPT.
Berlin, August 28.—An Imperial rescript
iutrusts the Ministry of Commerce and In
dustry, vacated by Ilerr Hoffman, created
Secretary of State for Alsace and Lorraine,
provisionally to Priuce Bismarck.
A SAN FRANCISCO SUIT.
Tlie Estate of Win. C. O’Brien-Al
leged Fraud and Ureaches ol Trust
-Ten million Dollars Involved.
By Telegraph to the Morning Neics.
San Francisco, August 28.—Squire P.
Dewy has filed a voluminous complaint in
the Superior Court against J. W. Mackey,
Jr., G. Fair, Jas. C. Flood and Jas. W.
Coleman, executors of Wm. C. O’Brien, the
Pacific Lumber and Flume Company, the
Nevada Bank, Pacific Refinery and Bullion
Exchange, and the California Mining
Company, demanding an accounting to the
California Mining Company and its
stockholders for alleged wrongs, fraud and
breaches of trust, and on such accounting
to repay to said company for the use of its
stockholders and profits and property that
belong to the company, obtained by defen
dants by means of transactions set forth in
the complaint, which contains similar
allegations as are made in the notorious
Burke suits against the Bonanza. The sum
involved is represented to be ln the region
of $10,000,000.
The Religious Troubles in France.
Paris, August 28.—M. La Pere, ex-Mfnis-
ter of the Interior, and an intimate friend of
M. Gambetta, speaking at Avallon, In the
Department of Yonne, referred to M. De
Freyclnct, the Premier, and his new relig
ious bill, and said: “The decrees against Il
legal congregations will not remain a dead
letter. The Chamber of Deputies is desir
ous that the existing laws shall be en
forced, and pureuant to that will the decrees
will be carried but to the very letter against
all the congregations.”
For Gout, Dyspepsia, Bilious, Remjttent
and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the
Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, Dr.
Tntt’s Pills have been wonderfally success
ful. These diseases are the result of vi
tiated Blood. As & Blood Purifier they have
no equal.
RUFFIANISM IN BROOKLYN
THE RESULT OF PROTECTING
WOMEN FROM INSULT.
Two Young Men Attacked br
Party ol Roughs—One Stabbed to
Death and the Other Painfully
Wounded—Arrest of the Murdeiers
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
New York, August 29.—Geo. C. Hartford
a young and promising lawyer, and a friend
named Peter J. Larkin, were attacked and
st-abbed by a party of roughs in Brookly:
last night while protecting two women
from insult. Harward spent the evening
with some friends, and between one and
two o’clock started for his home in company
with Larkin. At Bond and State streets
they observed two women who were being
followed by three rough looking characters,
of whom the women appeared to be afraid.
Harward and his friend spoke to them and
they walked along together until reaching
Atlantic and Bond streets, when the three'
men who htd followed them came up, and
Harward said: “What are you following us
fort” Only a few words passed, when
blows were exchanged, and while Harward
and Larkin defended themselves with tneli
fists, their assailanta drew knives and
slashed away at both.
Harward was stabbed to the heart,and run
nlDg a few feet, threw up his hands, and
fell dead on the pavement. Larkin hastened
forward to assist his frieDd, but, when
stopping to raise him. found that he too
had been stabbed and was bleeding pro
fusely from a wound in the neck.
The police appeared, and secured one of
the assailants, Thomas Tierney, a porter,
who denied belDg implicated ln the affair,
bat marks of blood were found on his face,
and he was locked up.
To-night Walter J. Best, a bottler, and
Joseph II. Hurley, a laborer, were arrested,
the former as the murderer of Harward and
the latter as accompMce.
Larkin’s wounds are painful, but not dan
gerous.
The women acknowledge calling upon
two men for protection, but say they did
not see the stabbing. Ilarward leaves a
wife and two children.
THE GREAT STAPLE.
Condition of tbe Growing Crop In
Louisiana. Texas. Mississippi. Ar
kansas aud Alabama.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
X*w Orleans, August 28.—The Demo
crat publishes specials from eighty-five
points in the States of Louisiana, Texas,
Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama, giving
the condition of the cotton crop to date.
Replies from twenty-seven points in
Louisiana show the weather somewhat 1m
proved, although four parishes still suffer
from too much rain. Twelve parishes re
port cotton opening and fruiting well,
two opening slowly, and two fruiting poor
ly. Worms are reported at ten points, rust
at five, shedding at five, blight at one,
and rot from too much rain at seven. The
damage done averages 31 per cent. Pick
ing was begun two weeks ago in some par
ishes, and Is now general. Labor is suffi
cient in all but two parishee. The average
yield is nine hundred pounds of seed cotton
to the acre.
Twenty-six replies received from Missis
sippi show the weather favorable In all but
four countits, two reporting too much raiu
and two drought. The condition is
somewhat improved from last week.
Worms are doing some damage In
three, rust In three, rain ln five, blight in
one, and shedding in three counties. The
average damage is 16 per cent. Picking has
begun in all but two counties, which will
commence September 1st. Labor is suffi
cient in ten and scarce In five counties. The
yield is eight hundred pounds per acre.
la Texas the weather is reported general
ly favorable, warm and dry, the heat kill
ing the worms. Cotton is opening well but
fruiting poorly In four counties. The con
dition of the ciop is about the same as the
corresponding yield last year. Worms are
reported in seven districts, In five of which
they have done some damage. The average
damage is about 28 per cent. Labor is gen
erally scarce. The yield is seven hundred
pounds to the acre.
Reports from Alabama 6how unfavorable
weather. The plant is fruiting poorly in
five and well in four districts. Some dam
age is reported from rain, worms and rust.
Picking was begun August 15 and is now
general. Labor is sufficient. The yield Is
about four hundred pounds to the acre.
Reports from points covering South and
Central Arkansas show the weather Im
proved. Some damage Is reported from
rain, averaging 11 per cent. Labor is scarce
in three and sufficient in four. The district
yield is about seven hundred pounds per
acre.
THE INDIANS OF THE FAR WEST.
Death of Ouray, tlie Ute Chief—His
Probable Successor — Almost
Panic Among tbe Uncompaghres
—The Treaty Not Yet Signed—^The
Iudlau Losses by the Recent
Fights.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Los Pinos Agency, Col., August 26, via
Lake City, Col., August 28.—An Iudlan
arrived last night from the Southern Agen
cy with a communication from Dr. Lacey
to the effect that Ouray’s case is hopeless;
that he is unconscious, and has not recog
nized him since his arrival. A consultation
of three physicians has so decided, and re
port that the public may expect
to hear of his death at any
morneut. Chlppeta, his wife, Is with
him. The Uucompaghre Utes are
almost ln a panic at the very thought of his
demise, and rival bands are already discus
sing bis probable successor. From various
candidates who are crowding to the front,
Chief SapoveDara will undoubtedly be the
man. Tbe commission bas accomplished
nothing as yet at the Southern Agency to
wards the signing of the treaty. The death
of Ouray will complicate matters, and may
delay the settlement of the Ute question at
least a year.
Later, 12:30 p. m —A runner has just ar
rived announcing Ouray’s death.
Galveston, August 28.—In a telegram
from Fort Bliss, CoL Buell reports the
Indian loss ln the fights at Locogo, Debas.
Polomas and Rattlesnake canon to be not
less than thirty killed and wounded.
Chicago, August 28.—The following was
received by General Terry, at headquarters
to-day, from SL Paul, Minn. It is dated
Camp Houston, August 26, and signed by
Captain Pearson, of the Seventeenth In
fantry: “Capt. Bel! reports that one of Lieu
tenant Gresham’s parties, under Sergeant
Lawint, of Company F, Seventh Cavalry,
overtook a party of hostiles, killed one,
wounded several and captured six ponies
and mules. Gresham’s orders were to scout
with a small detachment the country south
of Lake Stabou and between the Little Mis
souri and Powder rivers. Major Merritt has
not yet returned from the Yellowstone.”
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Five Roys Swept from the Top of a
Railroad Car and Killed.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Newell, Mass., August 29.—A shocking
accident occurred cn the Lowell and Law
rence Railroad near here on Saturday nighL
Five youths, who attended the Caledonian
picnic at Smith’s Grove, clambered on the
top of the passenger car in the train which
left Lawrence at 7:30 p. m. When the train
reached Sprague's bridge, near this city, all
five were swept off and killed. One of them
was thrown down between the cars on the
platform and found by the conductor. La
ter the trackmen found the bodies of the
other four lying in the ditches on either
side of the track near the bridge. The ages
of the boys ranged from fifteen to seven
teen years.
Suspicions Cases of Sickness on a
Mississippi Tow Boat.
Memphis, August 29.—A telegram re
ceived this afternoon from Dr. C. A. Rice,
Inspector of the National Board of Health
at Vicksburg station, reports five suspicious
cases of sickness on board the tow boat
Raven, which left New Orleans
la&t Tuesday. Instructions were tele
graphed by Dr. R- W. MitcheU,
of the National Board of Health, to detain
the steamer if possible, but the telegram
was delayed, having.been sent from Vicks
burg last evening. The National Board
steamer D. B. Benner has been dispatched
to intercept the Raven if she should have
left before the telegram sent by Dr. Mitchell
had been received.
8havlng la a rascally business, shaving
with Qatlcur&8h&Ying Soap alone excepted.
A LIVELY MURDER TRIAL.
Revolver* Drawn in a Kentucky
Court Room—Intense Excitement
—A Verdict of Not Guilty—Tbe
Brother or the Accused Fined for
Contempt.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Nicholasyillb, Ky., August 28.—At the
trial of Arnold for the murder of Little,a ver
bal altercation occurred yesterday between
counsel, whereupon Ike Arnold, brother of
the accused, leaped over the railing with a
cocked revolver in his hand and was going
towards Bronston, tbe opposing counsel.
Intense excitement prevailed, and Mrs. Lit
tle fainted. Half a dozen revolvers wore
drawn and some one shouted, “They’re go
ing to shooL” Mrs. Arnold polled her hus
band, the accused, under the table and
shielded his body with her own. Before
any shots were fired young Arnold was ar
rested and Bronston concluded his speech
with closed doors. There Is much feeling
among the friends of the two parties.
Louisville, Ky., August 29.—The trial
of Arnold for the murder of Little, closed
at Nicholasville yesterday with a verdict of
not guilty.
The killing occurred on the 19th of De
cember at Richmond, where both men were
respected citizens. On the morning named
Arnold went to Little’s office, and, in the
absence of any witness, shot him dead. The
verdict caused intense excitement in tbe
court room. Arnold’s friends shouted aud
surrounded him, while his wife covered him
with her body to prevent his being killed.
A 6trong guard subsequently took the pris
oner to his room.
Cincinnati, August 29.—A special from
Nicholasville, Ky., says : “Judge Buckner
yesterday afternoon fined Ike Arnold $1,000
and sentenced him to one year’s imprison
ment for contempt of court. In presenting a
pistol to the breast of the Commonwealth’s
attorney while the latter was making bis ar
gument in the case of the State against Jas.
H. Arnold, who was on trial for the murder
of Robert E. Little.”
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
The New Y'ork Stork Market—Un
settled—A Decline lu Prices—The
London Stock Exchange—Money
Abuudant.
By Telegraph to the Morning Neics.
New York, August 28.—The stock market
opened firm, but subsequently declined X
to 2X per cenL, and later recovered to
per cent. During the afternoon the market
was unsettled, and in the late dealings a free
selling movement caused a sharp decline in
prices, which extended throughout the en- , — rr
1, . A ordinary people as it did in ante be Hum da\
tire list. rbe market closed weak HnH^pihx m<Mt "»h«imiiv wiutpfni h«rh*n«ni ■
at about the lowest figures of the day.
Another View of Mr. Edward At-
linsonV Reveries on Kins Cotton,
with Farther Reflections.
Atlanta. August 27.—Editor Morning News:
In a recent issue of the New York Herald, the
17th, is a communication from Mr. Edward At
kinson. of Boston, in which he indulges iu
various commendations, statements and the.v
ries touching our great staple. The Herald
devoted over an editorial column to its review
in a cursory way and in its osual positive style.
The Mi rnino News and other leading Southern
journals have paid their respects to it; but lot
us glance at it again from another point of
view, for it certainly don't strike every one
entitled to the amiable consideration it has,
perhaps inadvertently, evoked. We have all
become such good and loyal people, and are
impressed by the profound learning of certaiu
Boston autocrats—those philosophers who,
installed in their speculative observatories,
are ever sweeping the sky with their tele
scopes. more especially directing their ob
servations. from long habit, to the soul
era quarter, with the benevolent view of cor
recting the aberrations of. what seems.to them,
the erratic bodies there, and subjecting them
to the recognized laws of “high moral ideas, '
aud adjustmg them bv the standard of
“modern improvements”—that almost any
thing from so respectable a neighborhood is 1
once accepted as having the force somewhat
of a dictum ex cathedra.
“The foremost authority on cotton star
tics,” as the Herald terms aim, starts out with
chanting the beneficent results of reconstruc
tion. and felicitates the reader on the prospect
of the “first true union" between the sections
—“not re-unton,” he is careful to say—imply
ing we were never united before, according. I
suppose, to the '’higher law:" but even now
this first union of the nation is only “in part
accomplished.” He exults over the wisdom of
universal suffrage in saving the South from the
wrecked prosperity of Jamaica; concedes these
States suffered from a “short period of misg-
eminent," which, he adds, “has now passed
away”—and. while he deems it probable that
“wrong methods of intimidation and fraud
will continue a while longer, he consoles the
reader with the hope that this will diminish “a>s
intelligence and education are promoted and
extended.” It is pleasaut to know that we
are progressing in the right direction: that the
bow of promise spans our sky, though we are
still wardering in the wilderness, and that we
may ere long enjoy a glimpse of the “happy
land of Canaan” in the realization of that
“first true union” which, we lament to learn,
has os yet been only “in part accomplished.
It is in the “industrial forces” now in active
play, and in which cotton is recognized as the
most “potent force” of ail. that Mr. A. finds
the solution of our future regeneration, and
the great plant is now advancing from these
“barbarous conditions” and these wasteful
methods” to which it was long subject
in the dark ages, and now in the blessed air of
freedom he finds that even ‘ the very habit of
the plant itself has been altered; it has been
forced to mature earlier: it has been made
stronger to resist its insect enemies; it has
been made more prolific, and although the
testimony is almost conclusive that the laborers
in the cotton fields are now less numerous
than before the war. their labor is so effective
that the fifteen crops of free labor exceed the
fifteen crops made by the labor of slaves by
9,600,000 bales."
Just here suppose we pause a little and re
fleet. The plant appears very much tbe s&m-* to
The decline from tbe highest point ranged
from to 3% per cent., and was moat
marked in Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western, Western Union, Michigan Central,
New Jersey Central, Cauada Southern, and
Erie. Transactions aggregated 279,627
shares, including Delaware, Lackawann:
and Western 23.200, Erie 72,200, Hannibal
and St. Joe 25,700, Kansas and Texas 4,600,
Lake Shore 21,100, Michigan Central 7,100,
Northwestern 5,900, Nashville and Chatta
nooga 3,800, New Jersey Central 13,800,
New York Central 7,700, 8t. Paul 17.500,
Wabash Pacific 17,400, Western Union
10,800, C., C. and I. C. 8,700.
Los dom, August 28.—The Economist of
this week 6ays : “The rate of discount for
banks bills, sixty days to three months, is
per cent., and for trade bills 2%
per cent. On the Stock Exchange prices
of government securities have not been well
sustained. In American railways the market
has suffered somewhat, bnt home railways
and miscellaneous companies have as a rule
maintained their positions in public favor.
The continuance of favorable harvesting
weather bas stimulated prices- Money for
Stock Exchange purposes is abundant. ‘Erie
shares and bonds have been adversely af
fected by the report from New York that a
rival line to Buffalo Is In contemplation.”
SOUTH AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
The Aunlveraary of Colomblau In-
dependence—Tlie Relations of tlie
United States with that Republic
—Railroad Progress.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Panaaia, August 21.—Since the departure
of the last mail for New York, on the 16th
inst.., there have been no arrivals here cither
from the South or Central America, and
consequently no later news has been re
ceived from either quarter. From the lute
rior of Colombia, dates are from Bogota to
July 28.
On 20th of July, the anniversary of
Colombian independence, Mr. Delchm&n
United States Minister, in addressing the
President, said that the conduct of tbe
United States had been erroneously inter
preted by the people of Colombia; that the
desire of the United States was to forward
the interests of all the Spanish American
republics. President Nunez replied thank
ing the Minister for the good intentions of
his goverutment towards Colombia.
The ship Belle of Avon has arrived at
Burnamutura from Cardiff with fourteen
hundred tons of material for the railroad
and wharf. The work of construction on
both the railroad and wharf is in active
progress, and the Hist section of the ro&d,
that between Buentura and Cordova, will
soon be opened to tbe public.
The Fire Record.
Lawrence, Mass., August 28.—A fire
occurred this morning at the Pacific Mills,
in the flock washing room, a small one-story
building, having neither door nor window,
the entrance to the building being through
the skylight. Michael Lanergan and Pat
rick Moriarty were in the building at the
time of the fire, and, being unable to get
out, were burned to death.
Owensboro, Ky., August 28.—The to
bacco factory of L. J. Cottrell snd five
dwellings nearby were burned yesterday.
Loss $35,000, mostly covered by insurance.
The DeRauce Brothers Arraigned.
New Orleans, AugustJJS.—The DeRance
brothers were arraigned to day before Re
corder Miltenberger for tne killing of E. C.
Mix, Jr. After evidence on the part of the
State identifying the prisoners as the parties
who did the killing, the defense announced
that they had no testimony to offer then.
The prisoners were thereupon sent before
the District Criminal Court without ball. A
large crowd gathered about the court house,
but there was no excitement.
The Southern Pacific Railroad.
San Francisco, August 28.—The end of
the track of the Southern Pacific Railroad
is now within one hundred and nlncty-six
miles of El Paso, and It is the intention to
reach that point on or before January 26,
1881. On the 23d inst., the party at the
front bad surmounted all obstacles encoun
tered in the Dragoon Mountains, and the
boundary line between New Mexico and
Arizona will be reached in twelve days.
Steamer Burned—Some Gives Dost.
Detroit, Mich., August 29.—The steamer
Marine City, running between Mackinaw
and this port and Cleveland, took fire at
two o’clock this afternoon, -wo miles off
Alcona, and thirty miles below Alpena, and
burned to the water’s edge. She had a large
load of passengers. One hundred and
thirty are reported saved, and some are
known to be lost.
Alleged Fenian Plot ln Ireland.
London, August 28.—The Cork Constitu
tion says : “Sometime ago tbe constabulary
received information of a Fenian plot to at
tack the powder mills and barracks at Ballin-
collig, five miles southwest of Cork. Ex
tra precautions were taken and are still con
tinued against a surprise.” The Constitution
alleges that men in positions of trust at the
mills are Fenian officers.
Tbe Pennsylvania Riot Claims Cases
Harrisburg, August 28.—At the assem
bling of court this morning the District At
torney asked and obtained consent of the
court to h&ve nolle prostquies entered in the
cases of D. C. Clarke and Dr. D. K. Shoe
maker, charged with corrupt solicitation of
members of the Legislature in tbe matter
of tbe riot claims bill. The request was
asked on the ground of insufficient evidence
to convict.
Supposed Yellow Fever ln New York.
New York, August 28.—Francis LeFoy,
passenger by the steamer Clyde from
Asplnwali, was found suffering from malig
nant or possibly yellow fever at No. 1«8
Wooster street yesterday. He has been sent
to quarantine for treatment. The Board of
Health officials are Investigating the case.
Experience bas proven that tbe best rem-
dy for colic, diarrhoea, teething and other
troubles of Infancy is Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup.
Price 25 cents. augd0-lt
under the most "absurdly wasteful barbarism.
I can’t see that it is conscious of anj- special
emancipation act in its behalf. It matures
earlier under the stimulating effects of com
mercial fertilizers, which began to be exten
sivelj’ used ere the light of freedom dawned
upon our benighted land, and the period of
growth beingthus shortened,the insect enemies
have less time to commit their depredations.
Though we are now looking for a crop ap
proaching six million bales, has Mr. A. inad
vertently forgotten to inquire how much is
produced outside of what was formerly the
cotton belt hy the almost universal use of ter
tilizers. which.hastening tbe growth fully thirty
days, if not more, thus large!y encourages tbe
production in higher latitudes subject to later
spring and earlier autumnal frosts! Also, the
quadruple increase iu Texas, where immigra
tion has steadily opened new and fertile
lands? Has he calculated the largely
increased laboring population, and con
sidered bow much more cotton than for
merly is the product of white labor in these
new fields? It would be safe to aver that hut
little, if anj', over one-half of ourpre:-ent crops
is made in the territory under cotton cultiva
tion prior to the war.
Again, since he extols the triumphant re
suits of freedom aud the ballot in this connec
tion, as compared with tbe “wasteful methods'
of the days of bondage, I respectfully suggest,
as he is an expert in statistics, that he will refer
again to his figures of the latter epoch, anil he
may find a point which he will, in Capt. Cut
tie's vernacular, “when found, make a note of.'
The cotton crop of I860 61 was in round num
bers about five million bales, or more than
double what it was in 1810, twenty years pre
viously. Stimulated by the great j ield of gold
in California and Australia, the increase in
cotton manufacturing, the enhanced price ot
cotton, and the general appreciation of all
values, tlie production of the staple had sprung
forward steadily and rapidly. It was a com
mon remark, just before the war, that the
planters were just woking up to the art of its
perfect cult ivation. Great attention was being
directed to tbe selection of seed, to new and im
proved appliances, and the value of fer
tilizing agencies. Viewed, then, in the light of
these fact*, and (hat the crop of I860 had more
than doubled those of about twenty years
preceding, i3 it not fair to presume—the
ancien regime continuing undisturbed by any
civil convulsion, with a constantly augmenting
laboring population, increase of wealth and
appliances, that the cotton crop of 1880. or
twenty years later, would have amounted to
fully ten million bales? I don't doubt it. So
much for the "wasteful methods,” and the old
system.
Mr. A. next proceeds to speculate upon the
value of the seed which, he says, is yet “an
unknown quantity," and would seem to imply
that even under the present management all
seed, beyond what is required to plant, is cast
away as rubbish, when it has alwavs been
utilized as one of the best fertilizers and turned
into the soil after the germ is destroyed. But
he proposes, estimating on tlie basis of present
yield, to put the whole disposable seed cror
into the oil mills—to inundate us wit!
ninety million gallons of oil, over
one thousand million tons of oil cake, one to
two thousand million tons ot hulls.which may
be converted into three-quarters of a million
tons ot paper, or, along with the oil cake into
meal for .feeding stock, to the amount of a
fabulous number of tons, capable of sustain
ing during six months of the >'ear. twenty to
forty millions sheep (about six to each man,
woman and child in the cotton States, towns
included), folding the same on the cotton fields
for fertilizing purposes. The other six months
—spring and summer, of course—they are to
be pastured on the “annual grasses that are
the pest of the planter;" that is, turned into
the cotton fields while cultivation is sup
posed to be going on. And. besides the
untold fertilization of the soil from these
snowy flocks, we may expect to realize fifty to
one hundred million pounds of “fine clothing
wool." We will not pursue the line of his
thought. Well may he call these "startling
figures!’’ and well ma>' our farmers call this a
startliog system! Let Mr. A. come to Dixie
and show them how to work it in practice, by
putting up a model farm. Theories on paper
are bewildering. We are treated to an
“economic equation”—so-called—as to the
labor essential from the seed in the ground to
the cloth from the loom, in which a greatly ex
aggerated estimate is put upon the productive
results of one man in our cotton fields, and
marvelous figures again follow—about four
persons’ labor accomplishing the clothing in
cotton fabrics of a thriving town of one to
three thousand Inhabitants.
This rose-colored picture—"made possible hy
freedom," he says, suggests the thought that
“there never was so great a field suddenly
opened for ihe introduction of new tools, new
cotton gins, new presses, etc. Whence are
they to come, if n<»t from the North?” Why,
we are already continually flooded by every
sort of new invention, and a poor farmer can
hardly buy one tool and get to work before
some fellow comes along and persuades him
to throw it aside as out of date, and take his.
that is the latest improvement, and so on, till
he has no rest and never a spare dollar.
In order to stimulate these North
ern workshops to supply this hypotheti
cal fresh demand for tools, a “Cot
ton Exhibition,” embracing all that ap
pertains to the plant—its cultivation and sub
sequent treatment—in the way of appliances,
is recommended by Mr. A., which is well
enough, but as the inventors and workshops
seem more directly interested than anyone
else, it will probably devolve on them. The
farmers here will hardly be able to take “any
stock" in it. Improved tools are thrust at
them now faster than they can pay for them,
and if there is any increase in tne harvest In
these frequent experimental changes, it about
all goes to the tool makers a thousand miles
away.
Mr. A., speaking of cotton, asks: “What is
the secret of its kingship? May it not be found
in the fact that cotton, or cotton fabrics are al
most legal tender for all other commodities?”
He has not followed this line of thought-far
enough. I propose to add a few reflections in
honor of his majesty myself, and refer to the
tables as made up for the past fifteen years:
therefore, I speak by the card. We"11nd the
total crops, giving a fair estimate of that of
year just closing (not jet officially reported),
i or that period to have been fifty-five million
five hundred and fourteen thousand bales,
which sold for, at the average price of each
crop, four thousand four hundred and fifty-
four million nine hundred and ninety-eight
thousand five hundred dollars—or more than
double the entire debt of the National Govern
ment! Of these crops were exported to for
eign countries thirty-eight million six hun
dred and seventy eight thousand bales,
which, at the average price paid for each
crop, amounted to three thousand one hundred
and five million three hundred and ninetu-one
thousand two hundred and seventy five dollars,
or fully one and a half times the national
debt! what a factor these crops—specially as
to exports, saying nought of other industries
at the South, and exports—must have silently
proven towards the resumption of specie pay
ments? Could it have been accomplished with
out them? How would our great financial
Secretary have stood to day in his reports?
Then reflect upon all the blessings that have
directly and indirectly flowed from this im
mense production to millions of the human
race! Imagination cannot begin to take it in.
And this, too, including an epoch when these
States were undergoing the trials of recon
struction, and were charged with lawlessness,
disorders and outrages on life and property, and
are even now the victims of studied misrepre
sentation by unscrupulous men. Another
view connected with it is that of the vast
amount realized on the entire production first
given, about one-half went directly to the col
ored population, and nearly the whole of it
finally found its way to the pockets of North
ern manufacturers and Western producers,
thus demonstrating that the “down trodden”
raoe have not suffered by intimidation nor
otherwise at our hands, and that the benefit*
have largely gone to those who deri Je and de
fame us aa a people With all that may !>**
saui of our crude methods by those who. from
ignorance or design, keep up a system of
chronic perversion of facts, we challenge the
world to exhibit more substantial resu! _
according to population. If we ar
any degree, accountable, in equity,
for the national debt. it must be
confessed by alt good men. that we are direct
ly and indirectly doing much to make good the
indemnity. We produce what the world wants
and must have, equal t > the product of a gold
mine yieldine fully three hundred millions a
year, nut in its diffused blessings, doing a thou
sand times more good, and we are good natur
edly. or unwisely, paving out nearly the whole
of it to distant manufacturers in suppl) ing our
wants, ranging from a box of matches to a fir t
class steamship! “Still they are not happy." at
least a certain class of their ideal moralists,
but continue to spread the infection of hate by
their lying literature; have subordinated art to
degrade an entire people and disseminate the
poison among the unthinking masses who are
taught through their eyes; ani all this
the refining work of a class who affect a sub
lime regard for education and the benign influ
ence of a fine civiliza' ion' A* r *~
The Census—Once More.
Richmond Dispatch.
We have never seen more desperate
efforts made to uphold a bad cause than
the Republican journals of the North
are now making to sustain their false
averment that the Southern people were
engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the
North by returning in the census a much
larger population than the Southern
States really have. One of the most
malignant and untruthful of these libel
ers of the South is the journal which
the deposed Pubic Printer Clapp pub
lishes in Washington.
Father Clapp says that the ratio of in
crease claimed in the last decade for Yir
ginia is five times that made by the Slat
in any former decade from 1820 to 1870.
The increase claimed by us for the last
decade is about 25 per cent. The in
crease from 1820 to 1830 was from 1 . , • . _
1 ru• ■■ hr »„ 1 011 «-»»• lie ofio I *he waves rise higher and higher as the
iffit M. p£ °“ C —
No. 1. The increase from 1840 to 1850 ° t f P ralrle were
was from 1 -’39 79? to 1 421 601 or m > , vln f'away—again waves rise
181.864, or also over 14 per cent’ There Jf"* fa . H 'f hlndr | ? s , l | upon
is falsehood No. 2. The increase from In fr “ nt 'T ho walt !° snur th ? a ‘ r
1870 to 1360 was from 1,401.601 to ??? jj*™ **, h l ™ m |! 1 *
Father Ckpp sa^s G^o*rg1a increased aD j| th 7 nti , re , bera ia ata
. , . * • , , , °. «o—rt < I gallon nPftfls flown pvm rnllimr anil no
too fast during the decade from 18-0 to
1880. Look at the facts. The increase
Detroit Free Press.
What is that!
Look closer and you will see that it is
a gaunt, grim wolf, creeping out of the
little grove of cottonwoods^ towards a
buffalo call gamboling around its mother.
Raise your eyes a little more, and you
will see that the prairie beyond is alive
with buffalo. Count them. Y~cu might
as well try to count the leaves on a giant
maple! They are moving foot by foot
as they crop the juicy grass, and living
waves rise and iall as the herd slowly
sweep on. Afar out to right and left—
mere specks on the plain—are the flank
ers, brave old buffaloes, which catch a
bite of grass and then snuff the air and
scan the horizon for intimation of dan
ger. They are the sentinels of the herd,
and right well can they be trusted.
The wolf creeps nearer!
All the afternoon the great herd has
fed in peace, and as it now slowly moves
toward the distant river it is all uncon-
| scious that danger is near. Look you
well and watch the wolf, for you are
going to see such a sight as not one man
in ten thousand has ever beheld.
Creep—crawl—skulk—now behind a
knoll—now drawing himself over the
grass—now raising its head above a
thistle to mark the locality of its victim.
It is alone, shambling, skulking wolf,
lame and spiteful, and treacherous.
Wounded or ailing, he has been left
a’ one to get on as best he may, and his
green eyes light up with fiercer blaze as
he draws nearer and nearer to his uncon-
ious prey.
There! No, he is vet too far away.
Creep, creep, creep. Now he is twenty
feet away, now fifteen, now ten. He
hugs the earth, gathers his feet under
him, and he bounds through the air as if
shot from a gun. He is roiling the calf
over and over on the grass in three sec
onds after he springs.
Now watch!
A cry of pain from the calf—a furious
bellow from the mother as she wheels
and charges the wolf—a startled move
ment from a dozen of the nearest ani
mals, and a rush begins. The one wolf
is magnified into a hundred, the hundred
into a thousand. Short, sharp bellows,
snorts of alarm, a rush, and in fifty sec
onds after the wolf has wet his fangs
with blood, that living mass is in motion
to get away from aa unknown terror.
gallop, heads down, eyes rolling, and no
thought but that cf escape. If Lake
Erie were to dash itself against a wall
the shock would be no greater than the
awful crash with which this mass of
rattling hoofs, sharp horns, and hairy
bodies would meet it. The clatter of
hoofs and rattle of horns would drown
Uie noise of a brigade of cavalry gallop
ing over a stone-paved road.
Ride out on their trail. Here where
the stampede began the ground is torn
These ate figures enough to show that I “j} ’“ rro * E . d a3 ‘f. , a ca 5. no “
ere is nothin* extraordTuarv in an in I bad ,*f en finn S ahot “ ere
ana there are calves which have been
gored or crushed—here and there older
animals with broken legs and disabling
wounds. Here, where the herd was fair
ly off, you might as well hunt for a gold
in Georgia from 1790 to 1800 was Dearly
100 per cent. From 1800 to 1810 it was
over 50 per cent. From 1810 to 1820 it
was over 30 per cent From 1820 t<
1830 it was over 50 per cent. From 1830
to 1840 it was over 34 per cent. From
1840 to 1850 it was over 31 per cent.
From 1850 to 1360 it was over 16 per
cent. Father ClapD is contradicted by
tbe facts in every statement he makes.
there is nothing extraordinary in an in
crease of 25 per cent, in ten years in a
Southern Slate. The States that are
already overcrowded cannot increase
very rapidly hereafter. The South bas
more arable land than the North, and a i t ., *
much better climate, aud will hereafter d “ Uar ,“ abladc of tTf’- look for
• „ - ii„ I three miles os you look across it. It is a
increase more rapidly than any of the I frQ rt „ f j ^..,i
densely populated States of that inhos
pitable clime. Nearly half, if not more,
of the numerical strength of the country
must at some day not very far in the
future be in the States now known as
‘the South.” Hereafter they must in
crease rapidly, and the North very
slowly, if at all.
Slavery not only kept immigrants away
from the South up to 1860, but drove to
the West a large number of the best of
the natives amongst the white race.
Slavery having been abolished, the South
will hereafter not only receive her full
trail of dirt, and dust, and ruts, and fur
rows, where half au hour jigo was a car
pet of green grass and smiling flowers.
The most dreadful cyclone known to
man could not have left more horrible
scars behind.
Miles away, on the banks of the wind-
in g» growling river, are three white-
toppea emigrant wagons. A camp fire
blazes up to boil the kettles—men, wo
men and children stand about, peering
over the setting sun at the distant moun
tains, and glad that their journey is al
most done. Butterflies come and go on
share of foreign immigrants, but she S
the grass, and the eagles sailing in the
blue evening air have no warning to give.
Hark 1 Is that thunder ?
Men and women turn in their tracks as
they look in vain for a cloud in the
sky. That rumble comes again as they
look into each other’s faces. It grows
Virginia will have over two millions of I ‘ b “ der f “ women turn pale anJ men
people; Georgia two millions; and Texas rcacb , for the;r trusty rifles. The ground
three millions. There is nothing in I
wiil keep at home her own sons and
daughters. These facts explain all that
is necessary to be explained in the cen
sus. A new era has dawned upon the
Southern States. The increase from 1870
to 1880 is as nothing compared to what
it will be from 1880 to 1890. In 1890
Virginia will have over two millions of ,
people; Georgia two millions; and Texas I. lllclrt T
Lilian ; g 1 trembles, and afar off comes a dm which
store for the South of the future but
wealth, happiness, prosperity and popu
lation. The census takers will not be
dreaded in this section ten years hence,
but New England will look upon them
with fear and trembling.
But this by the way. Let us go on
showing up Father Clapp. He does not
understand why a region which has in
creased 25 per cent in population should
not have collected more customs duties.
strikes terror to the heart. “Indians!”
they whisper. No! A thousand times
better for them if savage Pawnee dared
ride down where these long barreled ri
fles could speak a defense of the peace
ful camp.
“A stampede of buffaloes!” gasps one
of the men as he catches sight of the ad
vance guard under the awful cloud of
dust. Rifles are ready for a shot, and
the children climb up on the heavy
ul uaic i/Uiicvtcu uiGic Luaiuiua uuucs. i , , - -
Of the $138,000,000 received from the ? a S on ? bec ' s t0 “= tbe stran ? e P rocea ‘
customs during the last fiscal year only I S10 r? ^ . , , , , ,
$2,300,000 wis collected in Southern r Here they come! Crack: crack! crack!
ports!" So says the old fraud, apparent- [ ro ,™ l b , r , ee r ‘? es ; , and a sbou *
ly in earnest. The Democratic city of b “ lct * nstant a , 8ba ?«y bead -
New York, by the same token, ought to ?> Wed a duat br °wned body, rush-
have increased by some several hundred I “ through the camp. 1 hen another,
percent, seeing that about a hundred l and anotber - Tte men sbout <“ d
millions of the above revenue were col
lected at that port!
Father Clapp proceeds to show that
the Southern States do not own as many
ships, nor manufacture as many articles
as the Northern. _True enough. Ours
is a producing region. We are an agri-
wave their arms; the women and children
turn paler yet.
The roar and din shut out every other
sound, and the wagons jar and tremble
with the concussion. Now another shag
gy head—another—half a dozen—a score
—a hundred—a great living wave which
cultural people. One county in VnginVa TO, P ° WCT °1 a
raises more wheat than four or five of
the New England States taken together.
The South grows cotton and tobacco;
and thus pays all the debts of all the
people of this Union to Europe, and has
prevented the United States from becom
ing a bankrupt. But for her produc
tions the United States would be poor
indeed. But for handling these produc
tions the Yankees would have never
ship to load, and never a cotton factory to
boa>t of. The South furnishes every
thing that makes this country indepen
dent. Take her cotton from New Eng
land, and those States would dwindle
down to nothing. Take the handling of
her cotton and tobacco from New Y'ork,
and that city could find nothing where
with to pay her indebtedness to foreign
countries. The North was fighting for . ,
life when it battled to keep the Southern I a £® 1 &xtremety perplexing:
States in the Union. A high protective I <rt rL irs ^ J, -^ ew 9®,“®
tariff between the South and the North
do, followed by others more fierce and
strong, and the camp is blotted off the
face of the earth more completely than
by any power of Heaven. Nothing is to
be seen—no shout to be heard. Wave
followed wave across the spot—over the
bank—into the stream and across, and
when the last of the herd had passed
the keenest hunter can fiud nothing on
that spot of wood, or iron, or cloth, or
bone, or flesh to prove that a dozen men,
women or children were there wiped
out of existence and reduced to shred
and dust.
More Facts.
Baltimore Gazette.
Facts are stubborn things and some
times very hard to understand. For in
stance. here are three, which, taken to-
would beggar the latter.
^These are not idle boasts. They are
[facts. Here is a short extract from a
speech made in Indiana last Saturday by
19th of February, 1873, said that Gen.
Garfield, the Republican candidate for
President, “had ten shares of Credit
Mobilier stock; never paid a dollar; re
ceived $329, which, after the investiga-
Mr. Pulitzer, a distinguished speaker j began, he was anxious to have con-
and writer of SL Louis. As he is a Ger
man, he may be presumed to be impar
tial. At any rate he gives a genuine,
unadulterated Y'aukee as his authority.
The facts stated, however, are so well
known that they need not the endorse
ment of Mr. Atkinson or anybody else.
Indeed, we are inclined to think that
Mr. Atkinson has been unjust to the
South. Mr. Pulitzer said :
“Over one third of all our exports are
raised in and by the South. According
to the most eminent Republican statis
tician in the country, Edward Atkinson,
of Boston, the valae o f the last ten cot
ton crops alone wa3 not less than $2,500,-
000,000, and probably $3,000,000,000.
Two-thirds of this has been exported,
which means that for one single staple
produced by the ‘rebels’ during the last
ten years this country received the
enormous sum of two thousand millions
sidered as a loan from Mr. Ames to him
self.”
Second. The New York Times, on the
20th of February, 1873. distinctly stated
that Geo. Garfield, the Republican can
didate for President, “presented a most
distressing figure,” and that “ his par
ticipation in the Credit Mobilier affair
was complicated by the most unfortu
nate contradictions of testimony.”
Third. That the New Y'ork Tribune
and New Y’ork Times, after severely de
nouncing Gen. Garfield, the Republican
candidate for President, for the ‘disgrace
ful transaction’ aforesaid, now pronounce
him a truly good citizen and enthusiasti-
callysupport him for the office once held
by Washington, and are doing so to-day
in the face of the most overwhelming
testimony furnished by themselves of the
guilt of the said Gen. Garfield.
It is now really a perplexing question
in gold, or more than the entire national J w art readers of the able jour-
debt, from Europe. That this was largely D /^ s we have re.erred to to know which
due to the operations of regained self- ^ njUne Times
government is 6hown by the simple fact I ot or 01
that while the cotton produced in the
four years of carpetbag rule of 1866,
’68 and *69, amounted to about $462,-
000,000; in the years 1876, 77, 78, and I
79. under Democratic rule, it amounted to
over $951,000,000, or absolutely more than
twice as much—an increase of over J
100 per cenL, an addition to tbe national
Flashes from the Wires.
Lightning struck the house of John Wil
ier, at Mifflin, Fa., yesterday afternoon
while the familv were at dinner. Wilier and
four of his children were severely burned.
Robert Morrow, of San Francisco, the
owner of 8L Julien. denies the report
- - . — ’ - .telegraphed from the East that that
wealth in four years alone from a single | horse had been sold to Wm. H. Vanderbilt
staple of $500,000,000 as the difference be j but expresses a willingness to 6ell him for
tween Republicanism and Democracy. If
you look at any Republican almanac you
wiil see that of the $2,978,000,000 of ag
ricultural exports between 1865 and 1871,
the products of the South alone amount
ed to about $1,546,000. If you believe
that eminent Republican, Mr. Atkinson.
the value of the cotton crops of 1870- 79 I miles, the"stakes to be $1,000
was, as 1 said before, about $3,000,000,
000.”
Father Clapp can’t see why a region
which has thus rapidly enriched the I
whole country should have increased so J
fast ia population. For shame, old man.
$.o,000. This was before receiving the news
of his performance yesterday.
At a meeting of the Rowing Association
of Halifax, N. 8., on Friday night,
tbe managing committee was Instruct
ed to challenge Davis and Kennedy, of
Portland, to a double scull race with 3mlth
and Hamilton, of this city, distance three
side.
Booth in London—The Cast for Ham
let.
Los don, August 28.—The Manchester
Guardian's London correspondent says:
^ “The cast of Hamlet for Mr. Booth’s open-
CoDfess vour sins and ask forgiveness of I *55 111 Lo°don includes the following actors:
the people whom you thus wrong in I ‘Hamlet,^ Booth; ‘King,’ T-_ Swinburne;
every possible way and on every possible
occasion.
Equally adapted to the feeble or robust,
male or female, are Malt Bitters.
‘Ghost,’ J. Ryder; ‘Laertes,’ Kyrle Bellew;
‘Polonios,’ W. Farrer; ‘Horatio,’ Charles
Harcoart: ‘First Grave-digger,’ Harry Jack-
son; ‘Queen,’ Mrs. Herman Yexin, and
‘Ophelia,’ Miss Gerrard, The piece is being
lavishly mounted.”