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COLUMBUS SUNDAY ENQUIRER: SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 12, 1877. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: SUNDAY AUGUST 12, 1877, SALISBURY fit CO,, - Proprietors It is claimed that a cow in Memphis gives fifteen gallons of milk per day. The colored Baptists are going to edu cate their preachers and have established an institute for that purpose at Natchez, Mississippi. A company has been organized in Jack' son county, Fla.,the object of whioh is to raise blooded stock—horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, etc. Senator David Davis is not dangerous ly ill, as reported, but, on the contrary, is in the best of health, and weighs 328 pounds. George William Curtis is to be the candidate for the United States Senator ship from New York, in opposition to ltoscoe Conkling. Field Marshal von Steinmetz, who died the other day, was 81 years of age, He was a Prussian Lieutenant in 1813 nnd fought against the first Napolian. Jim Blaine proposes to attack the com* munist West, of Ohio, Republican eftndi date for Governor, and also that he will go for resumption if it smashes the party, the country and everything else. During the year just closed the United States sold 105,000,000 yards of cotton goods abroad, ten times more than was exported the year before. The Bale is be ing rapidly extended to every quarter the globe. of A lineal descendant of the great Sir Francis Drake is keeping a boarding house in Denison Texas. The lady has in her possession a diamond knee-bnckle worn by Sir Francis, which is valued at nearly $2,000. The Louisville Courier-Journal is very unhappy over the victory of the working men in the election in that city on Mon day, and says that it was “clearly a vic tory of the mob over the conservative forces of society.” Col. Walter H. Taylor, who was Gen, Lee’s Adjutant General, has an article in the last Southern Historical Magazine about the battle of Gettysburg, in which ho puts the Confederate forces engaged in that fight at 04,000, at the Federal at 105,000 effective men. The New York Democrats have never been more confident. They not only manifest the most positive faith that they will elect their general ticket this fall by a large majority, but they expect to get a good working majority in both branches of the Legislature. It is said that General McClellan has prepared an article for publication in a leading magazine, in which he endeavors io demonstrate by means of statistics that a sum greater than the expense of an in creased military establishment has been paid annually for the transportation of men and military stores. One of the signs of the times is the ea gerness with which American boot and the shoe-makers are scouring all regions of earth to build up a foreign trade in their goods. They are succeeding fairly. American styles are popular, and there is a prospect of America shoeing the Japanese empire and all South America. Mr. Charles A. Dana, editor of the Sun, has happily reached bis fifty-eighth birthday, and, from appearances, he is likely to have birthdays for many years to come. To wish that bis shadow might never grow less would be superfluous, because he has no shadow and he shines for all. Just a quarter of a century ago there died a miserly old man, one James Neild, who, with the exception of a few lega cies, left all he had “to her most gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria, begging Her Majesty’s most gracious acceptance of the name for her sole use and benefit and that of her heirs.” This bequest was upward of £2,500,000. An exchange suggests that it would be better for some of the strikers to go South and grub land, instead of flooding mines and making good their titles to cells in jails. We have plenty of land that needs grubbing, but we would rather have them grow up in sassafras bushes than incor porate the class spoken of in onr society. We therefore beg that all strikers be kept at home. A company has been started to supply downtown New York merchants and bro kers with lunch at their offices. Each subscriber is called upon between 10 and i o’clock every day by one of the compa ny’s carriers with a hermetically sealed box, containing au assortment of fresh sandwiches, made of French rolls and meets of every kind. Mr. Rookeb, the foreman and a stock- bolder in the New Y*ork Tribune, says it as not true that he gave to the public the recently published editorial of Mr. Gree ley, rejected by Whitelaw Reid just before Mr. Greeley’s insanity. He says, too, that the Tribune is now a paying property, getting seven per cent, and free rent in its building, and netting $40,000 in the past six months. The New York Times has come to the Conclusion that the railroad system has outgrown the State, and calls for “nation al legislation.” The Springfield Hepub- lican suggests that it was the laborer who struck, and not the .railroads, and that the railroads are no more “national” than the other fellows, nor is there oocasion for any “national legislation” in regard to either. The New York Express states that Maurice Strakosch has not only engaged Adelina Patti to come to this country the approaching season, but is also making up an entire operatic company of singers, none of whom has ever been heard in America. Among them is Nicolini, the celebrated tenor, whose name gossip has recently connected with that of the fas mous prima donna. The New York Times champions re course to that “barbarous Southern in stitution, the whpping post,” as a cure for rioting. The words quoted will be recognized as having given emphasis to many an effort of leading Radical papers to fire the Northern heart. What would the Times have said, however, if the lash bad been applied to a few of the sedition- mongers its party sent to the South- to pitr up riot among the negroes on election flays? MANUFACTURING. The South is entering as an important factor in the transformation of her native product into cloths. It is beginning to attract the attention of Northern capital ists as well as those of England. New England is endeavoring to show her su periority to the old country by'the prac tical demonstration of exporting print cloths to England. This has proven a remunerative process. While they are showing this to the world we of the South can prove, and have demonstrated beyond doubt, and by actual experiment, that if New England has advantages over\he old country, onr section has unmeasurable profit over any; for our mills declare dividends while those of the North are starving, or losing money heavily. If New England can be a com petitor, or rival, or superior in the markets of the world to Old England, the manufacturers of that conn- try will direct their attention to the loca tion of enterprises in the very heart of the cotton fields and drive out every es tablishment from New England. This iB susceptible of demonstration to the dullest comprehension, and before many years the benefioial effects will be fully exper ienced in our Southland. From the article we publish below it will be noted that New England bas the idea that the South is dependent upon Northern capital for internal improve ments, and we cannot manufacture as fine goods as the North. This is a woeful mistake. Very little Northern money is invested in the South. Thus in Golums bus since the war 55,000 spindles and 2,009 looms have been pat in operation and every dollar invested has come from our own seotion. Greater care than ever is being devoted to the better class of fabrics and they pay well. If we can make common goods and realize a profit from them why cannot we make more on the finer grades? Proximity to the .cotton fields, climate, cheap and abundant water power—unfailing the whole year around, with no disturbances from ice, with little or no expense for steam, abundant and low-priced labor present claims to the attention of mann- factnrers which are uneqalcd by any coun try in the world. These considerations are bound to tell in the not distant future. If the South can send out her cotton as goods she is mistress of tbe situation and power and wealth are within her grasp. To show the Northern idea we clip the following from the Woonsocket (R. I.) Patriot of August 3d: cotton manufacture at the south. The production of cotton in the South ern States is steadily increasing, and it is estimated that the average crop from 1870 to 1880 will amount to 5,000,000 bales per annum. These figures show that cotton is still king at the South, and that not withstanding the changed conditions and the increased cost of production, the ma terial source of her future prosperity still remains unimpaired. There is a movement on foot by which the South proposes to doable tbe value of its cotton crop. She proposes to enter tbe field of manufacture, for which she has peculiar facilities. “Why,” they say, should we permit others to monopolize the profits of manafacture by their supe rior enterprise ? If the increase from the spinning of the crop, which would amount to $250,000,000 a year was retained at the South her financial condition wonld be such as to command universal respect. It is possible that such a condition of things will not be far distant. . The South poor, but she has Nor the in capital and enterprise behind her. Already a cotton mill of 24,000 spindles is erecting at Augnsta, Ga , and will be started in September. Others will be erected soon in different sections of the South. Not only would the raw staple be doubled in value by Deing turned into a manufactured commodity, and find a readier market, but the large losses by damages and wast which occur in trans portation, and which the planter has to bear, would be saved. Now the question is, how will this new spirit of enterprise at tbe South affect the manufacture of cotton at the North? It may be early yet for such a question to be presented,but still it is one that should be considered in the light of a possible contingency. Its principal effeot wonld doubtless be to call forth a higher grade of manufacture. She can hardly hope to compete with the North in the thorough ness and excellence of her mann- factored products. It is not probable then that the cotton manufacture of the North will be materially affected by this new departure; the change would be very gradual and would doubtless be in fluenced to a great extent by the new con ditions that may meanwhile arise. But any step the South may take will be a great advance, adding materially to the wealth of the country, and will doubtless prove in tbe end for the benefit of all parties. THE BOSSES. WHERE IS THE PAY TO COltE FROMf TREASURER RENFRO HALTS — THE DOOMED LEGISLATURE — STRIKING AT THE GOV ERNOR—FORTY DAYS IN THE WILDERNESS —JOE BROWN AND HIS PAMPHLET—JOUR NALISM AT THE CAPITAL. The New York Sun very seasonably re minds those Sontbern cities that are “hon ing” for a visit from Hayes, that they will have to foot some pretty steep bills for the honor. Referring to his recent visit to Massachusetts it says “two individuals went from Boston to Washington to give him tbe formal invitation, and for this labor they have drawn, $170 65. He had breakfast at Lake Grove, which cost 172 13. He was entertained with a con cert for which tbe State auditor has paid $346 06. Carriage hire for him and his party ran up to $457. One of the items paid on his account by the Governor amounted to $200. The State election in Kentucky on Mon day last showed Democratic gains every where Ihoroughout the State except in Lonisville. There the workingmen sprang a ticket on the Democrats at the very last moment, and succeded in electing five oat of seven of the memebers of the Legisla ture to which that city is entitled. One of tbe marked results was the redemption of the city of Lexington from negro rule. At tbe preceding election they carried jhe city by over 1100 votes. On Monday |he Democrats had 540 majority. The Legislature elected is an important one aa it will have to choose a successor to Senator McCreery. The trade reports of the last fiscal year are complete,and add to the financial puz zle of why we don’t have better times, as thebalance of trade is largely in onr favor. Taking special values, the exports last year (ending Jane 30) exceeded the im ports $151,167,022. In the fiscal year 1875-’76 the excess of exports over im- was but $79,643,481. The exports of bullion amounted to a little over fifty six millions in both years, but the imports of 1877 were $40,774,414 against $15,936,- 681 in 1876. It is a deplorable fact that last year in the State of Maine, where Blaine, the moral censor, holds forth, there was a gain of 16 per cent, in the nnmber of State prison convicts, and the Legislature had to appropriate $15,000 to enlarge the penitentiary to accommodate the increas ing number of criminals, The Republi cans of that State devote themselves ex clusively to the passage of liquor laws, of whioh forty have been passed within twenty-six years. Special Correspondence of Enqairer-Sun.] Atlanta, Saturday, August 11, 1877. The Convention wants greenback* The long list of honorable gentlemen are rather argent for their four dollars a day, and there has recently been a little hitch which may cause some little trouble, or may pass smoothly by after all. The Legislature appropriated only $25,000 to defray tbe expenses of the Convention, and that sum has been long ago absorbed. The Treasurer is iu doubt whether or not he can comply with any demand for farther amounts. It is rnmored that Governor Colquitt and some of his bondsmen have pat the Treasurer on notice that he can not pay any more than the appro priation. They say that we are now under a Constitution which pro vides that money cannot be appropriated from the Treasury save by the lower house of the General Assembly. Now, if the Treasurer should pay, say $25,000 in addition to the sum appropriated, and at the next meeting of the Legislature the House should demand his authority for so doing what would he have to aay ? Sup pose tbe new Constitution is not adopted, what account can be given for the $25,000 paid oat of the people’s money beyond the limit fixed by tbe sole power which now controls appropriations ? Tbe ques tion has created considerable interest and there are widely different views on it. The Treasurer will consult with the Attorney General who is, it is said, in favor of paying whatever the Convention may demand, as it is really the voice of the people, higher than that of any other representative, executive or judiciary body. If the honorable gentleman don’t get their money there will be a lively row. They are costing the State jast twice as much as was expected and one reason of this extra expense is that they have talked so many fair things about economy and reform. THE LEGISLATURE, which is now elected, will be doomed if the new Constitution is passed. The re port of the Committee on Legislative Department reduces tbe nnmber of Rep resentatives to eighty-nine, to be chosen from eighty-three election districts. The nnmber of Senators remains the same as now, the State being divided into nine instead of forty-four Senatorial Districts. The report of the Committee on Final Revision very wisely declares that the sessions of the General Assembly shall be biennial. This will, if the new law is adopted, forbid the meeting of onr pres ent “county line regulators,” and leave them in the memory of the people only by their glorious and gaseons record of last winter. How frail is human glory, even at its best 1 It is thought by some that this clause will aid what has already developed as a STRONG OPPOSITION to the new law. Reports come from Northeast Georgia that the people are tired of the slow progress of the Con vention, are now forming prejudices against the new Constitution which it will be difficult to dislodge. There will be a large class of sore heads from the Convention itself who will go home and donounce the instrument be cause th6y failed to shape it to their own whims. This latter'class is, I am sorry to note,gaining strength every day. Itisapity that such peevish littleness should be de veloped in a body that ought to represent the generous manhood, as well as the great intellect of our State, but when a second rate politician has ridden some little hobby a long time it hurts him ter ribly to bflSkuocked cff. There will be stumping and wire palling, and appeals to prejudice and all sorts of strategems need to defeat the newjConstitution, but I am confident of its success. Somehow it seems impossible that the people of this great and good State wonld cling to an organic law in whose first pages there is an insult to their honor, a law framed by .deluded negroes, malicious adventurers, or unprincipled demagogues, in prefer ence to one made by an assembly of many of the best, pnrest and ablest men, who yet hold Georgia to the prestige of her ancidbt high standard. PUBLIC EDUCATION was thoroughly discussed yesterday, and the day before, and snch a mass of false philosophy and bad economy was brought out in the debate that a true friend of real and liberal education found little pleasure in listening to it. The advo cates of a very elementary edneation have been successful. Their banner inscribed with the practical “three R’s,” has been carried to victory in spite of tbe stout opposition of tbe men who think there is more to be taught children by the State than what is contained between the covers of a blue-back spelling book, and an ele mentary arithmetic. A very distinguished member of tbe Convention made a speech the other day, in which he treated public edneation as a matter of mere secondary importance. If our State is to keep her place in the advancing ranks of her sis ters, all snch narrow-minded policy must be disregarded. The State University has received several hard blows from men strong enough to do good if they struck in a nobler cause. There is no lack of the old fogy element in the Convention. Its ruling philosophy seems to be of that hard utilitarian school, which fattens tbe pocket and cramps the sonl. JOE BROWN is out in a pamphlet which he calls “The Reviewers Reviewed,” and in which he devotes his attention to answering tbe arguments of the anti-railroad men, who contend that the State has a right to regu late freight rates. The pamphlet is writ ten iu the Governor’s best style, and has a show of fine philosophy. He is evident ly wrought upon this question and is hard at work, in his own pecnliar way, to pre vent the action he seems to dread. His main point is that the State has jnst as much right to regulate the business of banks or any other corporations as that of railroads. If freqnent private conversation and the most adept wire polling can bring the Convention to agree with him it will do so, for the Governor is using all his proverbial skill in this sharp fight. Somehow there has gotten ont an im pression that the Convention is not through with GOVERNOR COLQUITT, and that a clique, strong in numbers and influence, will make another last desper ate effort to cat off his term and order an election in 1878. They will be opposed vention, bat I should not be surprised to see them succeed. I do not think the body has shown a proper respect for the Governor on several occasions. Dnrrng the first two weeks of the Convention’s session he threw open the mansion and invited all to come and enjoy a social evening in its balls and parlors. Nearly all the members were present and large numbers of citizens from all parts of the State enjoyed the same pleasure. Now, when the discussion as to the Governor’s salary came on, some coarse politicians, willing to purchase a cheap reputation for econo my at the price of any little or ridiculous aotiou, actually referred in rongh language to these little social entertainments, as an evidence of an executive extravagance that shonld be promptly condemned, sincerely hope that while this exhibition was in progress there were present none of our friends from a distance who may have heard of the generosity and elegance of trne Georgians, and if they were, hope they did not interpret what they heard into an expression of popnlar opin ion. The receptions at the Executive Mansion have been discontined and I hope that the close fisted Fotriphar Peagreens who saw^BUch a bug bear in them are now able to sleep in peace. ADJOURNMENT. The Convention has a tacit agreement to adjonrn next Satnrday night, bat it is clearly impossible for them to do so. although they now have two sessions a day. Six or eight important questions are yet to be discussed and acted on. The best estimate wonld make adjournment probable about next Wednesday week. If the Treasurer refuses to pay anything above the appropriation the sovereigns may hurry up faster than is now expected. There is a growing impatience among some of them at the prolonged session. JOURNALISTIC NEWS. Col. Sawyer seems slow about starting his proposed new daily, the Trbiune. He has rented an office here and says he has plenty of material. Several gentlemen who have been in jonrnalism in Atlanta before, will assist him in the editorial conduct of his journal. It is said that he is backed by $15,000 capital, subscribed mainly by gentlemen in Rome. Marcellas Thornton, the irrepressible patriot, annonnees that on Wednesday he will come down on the city in a “spicy and sparkling evening paper,” with the modest title, the Atlanta Nickel. With impatience and anxiety it is fondly ex pected by the pnblie. There is talk that Wm. L. Scruggs, for merly United States Minister to Bogota and late disappointed applicant for the Brazilian ministry, will start a daily here, and that Bob Alston will be associated with him. Scrnggs is jnst in the humor to turn Democrat now. Indeed he ha 8 already announced that in State politics a Southern man is obliged to be a Demo crat to preserve biB self-respect. H. W. J. Ham, of the Warrenton Clip- per, and Eugene Speer, of Griffin, are going to start a weekly in Milledgeville, with the gaudy expectation of fifteen hun dred subscribers in six months. Hope is the prerogativS of youth. Tat. GEORGIA NEWS. —Revivals of religion are flourishing in the vicinity of West Point. —A Cherokee county man found eighty- five snakts under a fodder stack recently. —John Justice reported killed by James Wright of Laurens county, is alive and has been jailed at Irwinton. —The Methodist church choir in Barnesville numbers forty-two members, but the average attendance is only two. —In Marietta, by the upsetting of a buggy, in which Mre. J. A. G. Auderson and Mrs. Cliff Mansfield were driving laBt Saturday, the former had one of her legs badly broken, and the ankle dislo cated. —Bibb county is reported at an aggre gate value of $8,736,914 55 against $9,- 682,688 last year, showing a loss of $945,- 774. Polls are 5,251 of which 2,851 are colored. The blacks own $244,421 of property. There are 42 lawyers, 33 doctors and 5 dentists. —Dr. J. W. Osiln’s two children made a narrow escape near West Point. While leaning from the buggy to arrange the harness the Dr. fell ont, and tbe horse ran away and was stopped by a negro after going a mile. A little sister, aged nine, placed her little brother, aged five, in the bottom of the buggy and sat on him to keep him from falling out. —The Telegraph-Messenger says Mr. O. O’Neal, of Biob county, has sold 400 bushels of last year’s crop of corn, and has enough for thiB year. He will make over 500 bushels this year, and besides will make ten barrels of syrup, has killed fourteen hogs and will Kill 25 next winter. He sold last season 800 pounds of pork. He uses only home-made manure. He is a model farmer. —The Atlanta people are loath to give up their cotton factory enterprise. Mr. M. R. Berry has given up all other busi ness, and has accepted tbe office and as sumed the duties of Treasurer. He has subscribed for one hundred shares of the stock, and estimates that one hundred and thirty thousand dollars will set tbe mill in operation. He calls upon the people of Atlanta to come to tbe rescue. —In Houston county, the defaulting tax collector (Mr. Killen), who served tbe county for the years 1875 and 1876, has not been beaid from since his departure last winter. His bondsmen paid to tbe county and State tbe amount he failed to torn over. His successor (Mr. Watson, we believe,) who was elected last January, nsed liquor so freely that his bondsmen petitioned Governor Colquitt to be re moved from bis bond. Mr. Watson failed or refused to make a new bond, and a special election for tax collector was or dered. The election occurred on Wed nesday, August 1. Notwithstanding the past troubles there were thirteen candi dates for the office in the field. The peo ple turned out largely and there were over 2,400 votes polled. William Brunson, of Perry, was the fortunate man. —Among the distinguished educators present at the Teachers’ Convention now in session at Toccoa city ar eHon. G. J. Orr, Prof. Sanford, Prof. Dav. W. Lewis, Dr. Means, Prof. B. Mallon, Prof. George Little, Dr. A. W. Oalhonn, Hon. Samuel Barnett, and Col. A. P. Mooty, of Geor gia; Hon. H. A. M. Henderson, of Ken tucky; Rev. H. T. Morton, of Tennessee; and Prof. O. D. Smith, of Alabama. It is expected that Hon. Joseph B. Cam ming, Hon. W. P. Price and Rev. Dr. Haygood will arrive in time to take part in the proceedings of the Convention. The members were hospitably received by the good people of Toccoa city, and are comfortably provided for at the hotels and private residences. —The Georgia Teachers' Convention is in session at Toccoa city Prof. Little delivered in; address o:< ;?ie Geology of the State; Prof. O. D. Smith, of the State Agricultural College at Auburn, Ala., read a fine paper on Practical Edneation; Dr. A. Means made a speech on general topics, closing on woman; Rev. H. T. Morgan,Superintendent Knoxville, Tenn.. Schools,'on the Teaoher the Practical Me taphysician and Philosopher; Hon. W. P. Price on “How to Supply Teachers for our Country Schools;” C. M. Neil, prin cipal Kirkwood High School on “the Re lation between High Schools and Col leges,” iu the discussion after which Mr. J. H. Chappell, Professor O. D Smith, Professor Sanford, and Professor W. D. as a visitor, was invited by the President to address to Association, which he did in a strong, vigorous speech. Hon. H. A. M. Henderson, Superintendent of Ed ucation in Kentucky, also made an ad dress. Association will visit Tallulah Falls. ALABAMA NEWS. —Justice Brown, of Dale county, is dead. —Hon. Alphonso Hnrtel, Mayor of Mo bile, died in that city early Thursday morning. He was a lawyer by profession. —The national flags at the various con sular offices, the flag at the Armory, and the flags of the different vessels in port of Mobile, were all at half mast on Thursday morning, a mark of respect to the late Mayor Hurtel. —Daring the week of the Fair the Sec ond Alabama Regiment has arranged for an encampment here, A which the atten dance promises to be large. Most, if not all, the companies propose to be present. On Wednesday of that week the grand drill takes place. —The first bale of cotton of the crop of 1877 was brought to Montgomery Friday; it was grown on the plantation of Mr. Geo C Morgan, of Lowndes county,sold by at auction by B W Young, bought by. HE. Faber at 15^ cents and stored at the Cen tral (Marks, Fitzpatrick & Co.) Ware house, to be shipped to Frewkel, Haas A Co., Mobile, Ala. —On the 23d of July, 1845, a bale was brought to Montgomery, this being the earliest date at which cotton has been re ceived here. In only four other years— viz: 1842, 1844, 1857 and 1860—has cot ton been received daring the month of July. On the 30th day of August, 1849, the first bale of the year was received, this being the latest date for the thirty- five years covered by the table. So it will be seen that the dates between which the first bale has been received here are July 23 and August 20—a period of twenty- eight days. —Iu Dale county before two J. Ps., an action of assumpsit was brought to recover three dollars, due by account. They had a jury. Two lawyers on a side. They spoke all the morning and were not near ending when dinner hour approached and they became hungry. After consultation, says the Star, the several attorneys finally agreed upon and submitted the following: 1st. The lawyers to contribute six bits each and pay the debt sued for. 2nd. The jurors to remit their cost, in consideration of being spared tbe infliction of hearing any more speeches. 3rd. The court and constable to release so mnch of their charges as might be reasonable and equit able under all the peculiar circumstances. 4th. The parties to divide the remainder of the cost equally between them. These terms were mutually accepted, and the Court adjourned. WASHINGTON. NEW MARSHAL AND ATTORNEY PROBABLE FOR ALABAMA. UNITED STATES, CANADA AND SITTING BULL —SENATORS JONES AND MORGAN’S FAVOR- BLE EFFOBT3 IN BEHALF OF FLORIDA AND ALABAMA AND GAINS FOB PENSACOLA— MAILS FOR VENEZUELA—8CHUBZ ON CABI NET POLITICAL SPEECHES. HORRIBLE MURDERS. THREE MEN MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD — PICKENS COUNTY AROUSED. Mr. J. K Spence, of Pickens county, reports in Montgomery, that on last Fri day afternoon, at Pickensville, Pickens county, a negro man struck Mr. Andrew Bush, a good and peaceable citizen, on the head with a billet of wood. The blow fractured his skull and death result ed next morning. The mnrderer fled, but two citizens, named Wm. Story and Thos. Kilpatrick, son of the county tax collector, arranged to go in pursuit of him. This fact was known to the negroes in the community, and a party of them waylaid the road they were to travel, and about 11 o’clock on Saturday night, only a short distance from Pickensville, fired on them, killling both of them instantly. After shooting Mi. Story off his horse, the fiends took his own gun and shot him again in the head and face, almost shoot ing both away. They then laid him ont in the road, and crossed his hands and laid his gun and saddle across his dead body. Mr. Story had been acting as a deputy sheriff for the county. Mr. Kil- patick was left in the road where he was shot and died. Ttie bodies were discov ered in a short time after tbe mnrder, and the whole community armed. A clue to the perpetrators was soon learned, and warrants were issued for the arrest of a large number of negroes. Seven of them were committed to jail to await the action of the law. We understand that two of the seven have confessed to the murder, and through them all the facts will be de veloped. The negro who killed Mr. Bush is still at large. The gentlemen killed,all three of them, were men of good character and unexcep tionable citizens. They were murdered in cold blood, and without the slightest provocation. The murderers are now in jail and will pay the penalty of their crimes. It is seldom that any snch shock ing scene takes place in any community, and it is easy to imagine the intense ex citement it has produced among the good people of Pickens. Mr. Bush was a farm er. The negro who killed him was steal ing his fruit. Mr. Bush remonstrated with him and was killed. The other gen tlemen were in pursuit of the murderer and they were waylaid and shot down while in discharge of a duty owed to soci ety. Every man in the State is interested in the speedy enforcement of justice up on the murderers. “HOBP-LA” NO MOBE, Williams took part. Hon. Hugh S. Thompson, Superintendent of public ed- by moat of the strongest men in the Con-1 uqation in South Carolina, being present A BANKRUPT CIRCUS MAN—DEBTS, $216,000 —A88ET.S, $129,000. UnitedStates Marshal Payn of Richmond, Va., has received a schedule of the cred itors and assets of Jas. E. Kelley, the manager of Barnum & Co.’s (not P. T. Barnum,) Circus and Menagerie, which recently collapsed at Augusta, Ga. On the petition of several creditors, Register Close of White Plains has adjudged Mr. Kelley an involuntary bankrupt. The petition states the debts at $216,000. The following are among the heaviest creditors: P. T. Barnnm, $8000; Mre. Laura E Reynolds, (for services) $6,000 ; Nelson Robinson, $11,000; Henry Barnnm (Kel ley’s partner), unknown ; Bull’s Head Bank, $19,000; Metropolitan Bank, $47,- 100; James Reilley (printer of show bills), $20,000; Jules Mason (Swansea, Eng.), $80,000. Mr. Kelley’s assets are placed at $129,- 000 and consists of real estate and notes worth $28,300, 120 horses and ponies, 5 performing elephants, 5 performing royal tigers, 1 double bumped camel, 1 per forming zebra, 17 cages of wild animals, 3 teuts, 2 railroad cars, 2 property cages, 10 baggage vans, poles, ropes, chains, and Oilier paraphenalia seized by the sheriff of Augasta, valued at $53,000; wood cuts Bnd stereotypes estimated at $30,000 to $40,000; miscellaneous prop erty at Connersville, Ind., valued at $8,- 000; wagons and cages in Putnam county worth $10,000. Forty shares of Keely Motor stock are put in the schedule as ‘worthless.” A judgment for $5,000 against the Putnam County Agricultural Society is estimated a3 worth $1,000, and a judgment for $18,000 against J. R. Ma son of St. Louis, is set down "as of no value. Queen Victoria is the richest woman jn the world. Her income is about $3,- 125,000 a year, and of this amount she is not supposed to spend more than $125,- 000. VIRGINIA. CONSERVATIVE STATE .CONVENTION. Richmond, August 11.—Gen. James A. Walker, of PulaBki, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor. The financial plank invokes the Legis lature to adjust the public debt, so that equal justice may be done all without in creasing taxation. ALABAMA MARSHAL AND DISTBIOT ATTOBNBY. Washington, August 11.—The Cabinet will assemble Tuesday before the Presi dent’s departure for New England when it is nearly certain they will make a new Marshal and new District Attorney for Alabama. Secretary MoCrary called the question np at the Cabinet yesterday and Devens whose procrastination is depre cated asked until Tuesday to close the matter. UNITED STATES, CANADA AND SITTING BULL. It is thought in diplomatic oiroles that the commission proposed by the United States and Canada with regard to the dis position of the wild Sionx should be trip artite, with full representation accorded to Sitting Bull. EFFORTS OF SENATORS JONES AND MORGAN IN BEHALF OF PENSACOLA AND SECTIONS OF ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND THEIR FAVOR ABLE RESULT. Senators Jones of Florida and Morgan of Alabama, aided by the writings and explanations of Mr. E. b. Brooks, a well known journalist, formerly of Washington, and now of Pensacola, have sneoeeded in at tracting the attention of the authorities here to the condition of affairs in West ern Florida and Southeastern Alabama, particularly regarding mail communica tions on the western coast of the Gnlf of Mexico, and the development of the great natural resources of Pensaoola hare bor. The dry-dock, now being built at Chester for the Pensacola Navy Yard, will soon be ready for shipment to that point, when it is probable that Secretary Thomp son may visit Pensaoola. Meanwhile the attention of the Postoffice Department, and the Postal Commission has been di rected to the necessities and conveniences of Pensacola as a distributing point for the mails designed for the gulf ports, as well as Cuba, Mexico aud South America. At the instance of Senator Jones, proper surveys will be made of Pensacola harbor, so that when Congress meets the estimate will be ready npon which to base the appropriations for its improvement, and the removal of wrecks from the mouth of the channel near Fort Pickens. MAILS FOR VENEZUELA. The brig Mary Williams leaves New York, August 15, with the mails for Ven ezuela. HAYTI AND DOMINGO. The State Department has a dispatch from the American Minister at Port-au- Prince, stating that Plenipotentiaries be tween Hayti and Domingo have been ap pointed. The same dispatch reports a suppressed insurrection at Croix des Boquets. SITTING BULL COMMISSION. Schurz and Hayes had a oonverse to* day regarding the proposed joint commis sion to wait on Sitting Bull to arrange for his return to the United States. The Federal commission will not be named until Gen. Crook has been consnlted. SCHURZ ON POLITICAL SPEECHES OF CABINET. Secretary Schurz says members of the Cabinet do not propose to make any po titical speeches. He was asked how about Secretary Sherman’s intention to speak in Ohio? “Oh,” said he, “he will oniy make a financial speech. I would like to go be fore au intelligent audience and address them onthe Indian question—Sionx, Ten ion Barborasa.” CHINESE. They Ask Senator Morion te Intro- ttnee a Bill in Congress Checking Immigration. Special to Enquirer-Sun. ] San Francisco, August 11.—A deputa tion of leading Chinese merchants recent ly waited upon Senator Morton in regard to the troubles attendant upon the presence of their countrymen in California. The spokesman stated in effect that there was a strong feeling existing, that their prop erty had been destroyed and they had been subjected to personal violence, that their right, under tha treaty, were disre garded, and the State and United States Government failed to afford them the protection to which they were entitled. They did not blame the American people for this state of affairs, recognizing the fact that it was the foreign element that so strongly opposed them that having borne with this treatment for many years with no prospect of relief, they wished to adopt such measures as would have a tendency to check Chinese immigration, and to this end requested the Senator to introduce a bill at the next session of Congress providing for a modi fication or abrogation of the Burlingame treaty. They prepared a bill looking to the discouragement of immigration, and encouragement to the Chinese to return home, which Senator Morton promised to introduce to Congress. THE NEZ PERCES INDIANS. General Gibbons Had a Fight with Them. G-ibboRfli HepulB©ci. Many Killed and Wounded Both Sides. on THE BELLIGEEEft'j; SF.COM* RUSSIA \ plevxa. 1>KFj : At SLOj RUSSIAN LANDWEHR COMING TURKS MOVING ALONG THE WH 0 AND TACKLING HARD NAMES POINT—SURMISES AND CRITICISM Weather. W ashington, August 11. —Indications— In the South Atlantic and East Gnlf States, stationary pressure and tempera ture, southerly winds, partly cloudy weather and light local rains will prevail. Steamer Wrecked— lOO Lives Lost. Special to the Enquirer-Sun.] Panama, August 2.—The Pacific Navi gation Company’s steamer Eten was lost off Valpairaso. Fourteen bodies recovered, forty-three reached shore. The cause of disaster is unreported. The survivors on rocks, owing to exposure and want of food, threw themselves into the sea to end their misery. Only three were saved. A letter dated on board the steamer Lima, at Callio, July 21st, says: The details of the loss cf the Eten are very meagre. Out of the crew, sixty-seven, all told, and passengers, there are probably saved sixty-three. There coaid not have been less than from ninety to one hun dred passengers, as she was the interme diate boat. Loss of life may be estimated at about one hundred persons. Chars - '** of i:mb;>zz’ement aud For- S’ery. New Orleans, August 11.—Edward Fulton, ex-Collector of the First District and Lewis Laun, of the late firm of Carr & Laun, in custody of a special officer, have arrived from San Francisco. Fnlton is oharged with the embezzlement of near ly $60,000 of State funds. He gave bond of $20,000, with ex-Depnty Collector Herring as one of his bondsmen. Laun is charged with defrauding tbe Citizens- Bank by forged bills of lading of $40,000, and was sent to tbe parish prison in de fault of bail. His partner, Carr, impli cated in the same transaction, is also in prison, failing to furnish bond. Helena, Mont., Aug. 11.—The follow ing was received this morning: Big Hole, Mont., Aug. 9.—Gov. Potts: We bad a fight with the Nez Perces, kill ing a number and losing a number of offi cers and men. We need a doctor and everything. Send ns such relief as yon can. [Sigaed] Jno. Gibbon, Colonel Commanding. Big Hole, Aug. 9.—Gov. Potts: We are here near the month of Big Hole Pass with a number of wounded and in want of everything—food, clothing, medicine, and medical attention. Send us assist ance at once. (Signed] Jno. Gibbon, Colonel U. S. A. Another dispatch to Gov. Potts says: “We had a hard fight and took the vil lage, but were finally driven back with heavy loss, Capt. Logan and Lieut. Bradley are killed.. Gen. Gibbon and Les Coiledge, Enghst and Woodruff are wounded, Eughst seriously and the others slightly. The troops are entrenched and the Indians le-.viug when the messenger was leaving. Gen. Gibbons said, “I want an escort sufficient to protect the wagons which are coming to relieve us. The Indians have cut me off from my supplies. Deer Lodge, Mont., August 11, 9 a. m. —W. H. Edwards has just arrived from Big Hole, bringing accounts of a terrible battle between Gen. Gibbons’ command and the Nez Perces on tbe Big Hole river, August 9ih. Gibbons’ command, consist ing of 182 men, 17 officers, 133 regulars and 32 citizen volunteers, crossed over from Ross Hole on Wednesday, starting at 11 o'clock. The same night they moved down all of the troops, with the exception of a few left to guard tha transportation, a few miles above, close to the Indian camp, which was in Big Hole, about three miles below where the Bitter Root and Barmock trail crosses. At daylight the fight was opened by the volunteers firing on an Iudiau going after the horses. The charge was then made on the camp, and some hard fighting took place in the next two hours, during which time large numbers of men and Indians were killed. The soldiers then charged the lodges, bnt were re pulsed. The Indians then attempted to cut the soldiers from a high wooden point, but the latter charged, beating back the Indian advance from the point, which they held and at once fortified. Fighting continued all day, and was still progressing fitfully when the courier left at II o’clock. The fighting was desperate on both sides. LATER —80 TO 100 SOLDIERS KILLED AND , WOUNDED. Special lothe Enquirer-Sun.] The messenger says after they failed to capture the lodges the Indians moved their camp off in the direction of Ban nock. All of the troops’ horses were cap tured, and the Messenger had to come to French Gulch, nearly 60 miles, on foot. Another messenger was sent to Howard who should have reached there to- day. The howitzer had been left six miles be hind, and was ordered to be marched up at daylight. During the light they heard it discharged twice, and then it was silent. A band of Indians soon after appeared with a number of horses, and it is believ ed that all the horses of the command, the gUD,supplies and reserve ammunition were captured. When the courier left Gen. Gibbons thought he still had a hundred effective men and believed that nearly all of the Indians had withdrawn from his front. The messenger says he thinks 100 Indians were killed, and nearly one-half the com mand including the citizens were killed and wounded. Gen. Gibbons has sent for medicines, surgeons, supplies, etc. Dr. Mitchel will leave to-day with an es cort. Gen. Gibbons .particularly asks for ambulance wagons to come under escort, and every available wagon will go forward from here and Butte. This is one of the hardest Indian fights on re cord, and Gen. Gibbons’ command made a most gallant and desperate fight against overwhelming odds. Deer Lodge, August 11, 10 a. m.—To Gov. R. Potts: We have all the men we want here to escort wagons. We are rushing out wagons, stores, ice, &c. Eighty or one hundred men are killed or wounded. THE ARMIES NEAR The Da.Vcb- 1 London, August 11.—Dis patc J resent several Russian positions but they are utterly inefficient f! .1 renewal of offensive movements p ; seventy thousand Turks at the Lav s > j Plevna line which the correspond^ will take a deal of beating on the j> left to flank. The Czarowitch’c j which is available for holdino thl from the Danube to the Balkans bers about sixty thousand, neces' tenuated over a long front leave no gap for the Turks to through. The Turks are probat about the same strength, but if M. r Ali chooses to take the offensive h concentrate at Rustchuk, 1^,^ Osman Basar. The Russians V ready to face him everywhere, quently they must remain strictly defensive. The river Loot still vie constitutes the line of the H a army. Gen. Zimmerman is “stalemated is guarding Dobrudseha, which J threatened, and he cannot push f 0 . with his 30,000 men. lest his t*. frorn Varna and JShumla should cor upon him. SICKNESS AMONG RUSSIANS. The Russians are beginning to m- health—some corps from hard a ing, heat and irregular rations, principal cause, however, is nebJ sanitary precautions, resulting iu 5 . eral tainting of the air. At luelsu is thick and heavy with emanations filth and rotting offal. Gau. Ignatieff is still confined room with gastric fever. Prince t nis is also abed with the same coni’ Four out of the five Adjutant Uenen attendance on the Czar are ill. j everybody is more or less sick or sm ish. TO COMMAND HIMSELF. The Grand Duke Nicholas, himse,! take supreme direction on the fork! ing attack on Plevna. TURKS TO ATTEMPT A JUNCTIOX. The occasional correspondent i Times at Vienna says everything te:. show that Mehamet Ali ami bol-J Pasha are making efforts to effect a tion by the Slivuo Pass, so as to dii the Russians from Tirnova. If ther ceed iu effecting a junction we m pect shoUly to hear cf a great fed which will decide this year s campa: MORE OPINIONS. The Times' Bucharest special state| Czar remains at Biela, though the . sian army is being strengthened ra and there is little chance of any s action for more than a week. Thel: instead of actiDg with energy and: ion, are building more defensive i and strangest of all, the Russian.-. : finally decided to stop short m their.; without operating beyond the Baikal; year. They will probably suceesj clearing thi3 side of the mountainsi campaign, but meanwhile there me much sickness. Prince Charles has called out J Roumanian militia., RUSSIAN LANDWEHR COMING IN SLO? London, August 11.—The Pal Gazette has a Berlin dispatch which Russia experiences serious difficii.; Ailing the ranks of the Lundwehri:. , sequence of the reluctance with r. the men come forward. With a v.: • obviate this, the Government hasi-- notice that men will not ba reqn;. - : go to the front, but merely take the; at home of the reserve and gffi troops. The manner in which the.: wehr is constituted legally prec,: their employment out of Russia. !-| the present call the city of JIosc ■ forming a volunteer legion, which i: M poses to support until the end of the'3 Marines continue to be sent sou:: ; i from Cronstandt to join the fighting£■ WANT PLEVNA EXPLAINED. A special edition of the E renin ' 9 ard has a Bucharest dispatch which; | It is slated that the chief of (Rd. ; er’s staff has been called before a c. of war to explain the failure at !’• ■- A special to the Standard fromM-N says Reauff Pasha arrived last i-1 Prince Hossan commanding at ' SILl ^ coma here to confer with Lien - 9 General Mehamet Ali. ENGLAND. DEBATE IN THE COMMONS. tiovcrnnient to Observe Absolute Nentraiity ou Eastern Question. London, August 11.—In the Commons last night, Mr. Charles Monk, Liberal member for Gloucester City, persistently pressed a question on the Government, whether they would consider the tempo rary occupation of Constantinople by the Russian troops so far inconsistent with British interests as to disturb the relations of amity between England and Russia. Though Sir Stafford Northoote, Chan cellor of the Exchequer, refused to an swer this hypothetical question, it had the effect of drawing from the Right Hon. Wm. Edward Forster, Liberal member for Bradfofd, a statement expressive of greater confidence which is felt by the opposition, of the improbability of Eng land’s becoming involved in war. Mr. Forster said: Speaking for myself and others, we should not have yielded to the Government’s desire to avoid de* bate on the Eistern question, if we had reason to fear that tho g-.vermieiit were likely during the recess to drag the country into war, or involve it in any breach of neutrality We have most carefully considered every thing that has been written and said by the Government, and looking at their last dispatches, we feel convinced they intend to abide by the policy of strict neutrality. That being the case, I do not think it necessary to do more than remind them of the heavy responsibility under which they lie. This statement seems indicative of the easier feeling, generally prevalent, which is largely due to Earl Beaconsfield’s recent statement in the House of Lords, TURKS ADVANCE AND TACK NAMES. St. Petersburg, August lowing official dispatch ha; here: Alexandropol, August ish right wing assumed tb the 5th inst. along the wl Tsching-Yi pass to Karan; A number of Bashi-*Bazou supported by six infant coming from Yard aud drove in the Russian outp< was skirmishing along the ] whole day. After occupyin the Turks endeavored to ti but were repulsed. i losses were four officer twelve officers and thirteen ed. The Turks left tweut field. The Turkish corps ii trating in the direction of General Tergukassoff s at reinforced by a column u the main body and is con; wards Ijdyrdi. left batoum. According to the latest from Batoum, Dervish l’a- battalions has left Zichedsii northerly direction. on« I’oolins of Telegrap New York, August 11.—“ " ah this morning that the comm pointed by the Western l Ul - " lantic and Pacific Telegraph " would meet together nex‘ 1“ 1 ‘ discuss the propriety of p‘ ceipts of the two cor] ern Union to have four-ni n 5 tire proceeds. President <’.[ -• Western Union Telegraph l j i - afternoon stated to a reporte- ning Post that the report ot u - t meeting and its object course he could not tell wm- would be, but he commended Mr. Orton further said he h ^ ' no scheme to actually consoh companies. Coney l>»ti*t* 1 ^ ** New York, August 11.— l-"' " ,l which struck Coney Island l ' demolished 425 bathing hon^s
