Georgia Historic Newspapers

    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.
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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.
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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