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COLUMBUS SUNDAY ENQUIRER: SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1877.
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COLI'MBIJS, GEORGIA:
SUNDAY AUGUST 19,
1877.
SALISBURY & CO., - Proprietors.
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, accord
ing to a Washington correspondent, op-,
poses both the civil service and the South
ern policies of Mr. Hayes.
The Philadelphia Herald thinks they
are called “Indian Supply Contracts,*’
because the supplies always contract be
fore they reach the Indians.
The Astor House bar room is the most
Bncuesslul in the United States. It takes
an $1,500 a day. It is said too that the
Astor does the safest hotel business in
New York.
The Sovereign emigration colony of
Boston has sent an agent to West Vir
ginia to select a site for the colony, which
Stow numbers about sixty families of
farmers and mechanics.
The New l’ork Insurance Reporter
states that Mr. Stilson J. Hutchings, late
of the St. Louis Times, is negotiaing fort
the purchase of the New York World.
The price asked is $300,000.
The President s message to Congress
Bt the extra session, October 15, will be
ns brief as possible. His annual message,
together with the annual reports
of the various heads of departments, will
not be submitted to Congress before the
regular session in December.
A negro man was drowned on the Gth
jnst. in the Chipola river, ten miles from
lola, Calhoan county, Fla. He was in
the employ of Mr. Sidney S. Alderman.
It was thought that he had a fit and fell
from his bateau, as the water was very
phallow where he was found.
The annual report of the Texas and
Pacific Railroad Company, which was
read at Philadelphia on Wednesday, sta
led that 480 8-10 miles of track had been
completed, of which 110 were finshed
during the year just closed. The
receipts for the year were $2,381,970 47,
End profits $318, 985 02.
George Curtis, leader of the move
ment among the South Carolina negroes
for a wholesale emigration to Liberia, is
mercilessly criticised by a colored clergy"
man, tne liev. J. B. Middleton, as a big
amist, a wife-deserter and an absconding
debtor. Mr. Middleton wonders whether
bis people will oyer profit by the lessons
cf the past.
One of the largest woman in the world,
Fannie Wallace, died in Ephrata, Pa., a
few days ago. She was fifty-four years
old, seven feet four inches in height,
and weighed five hundred and eighty-five
pounds. Her coffin was seven feet eight
inches in length, three feet six inches in
depth, four feet wide at the centre and
I wo feet wide at the foot.
A return has been issued of the expen
diture in the Tichborne prosecution.
The total costs, charges,and expenses of
the prosecution amounted to £60,074 19s.
4d., of which £23,676 17s. went in coun
sels' fees, X18,712 Gs. Id. to witness
agents, Ac., £10,268 5s. lid. to law sta
tioners and for printing, £3,637 18s. 4d.
for shorthand writers’ notes, and £3,780
to the jury.
An army officer stationed at Washington
is authority for the statement that at no
distant day the President will receive a
petition, numerously signed by reputable
army officers, requesting that a board of
inquiry be detailed to inquire into and
report whether Gen. Babcock is guilty of
the mnaifold iniquities charged against
him. and if so, that he may be court-
martialed as unfit to hold his position as
Bn army officer.
One of the most interesting features
of the session of the National Edu
cational Association Thursday at
Louisville, was the address of Prof.
Runkle on technical education in
connection with the common school sys
tem, a subject which is growing in im
portance, and which is forcing itself on
the attention of educators everywhere.
Prof. Runkle stated the successful results
of his actual experience in this pre-emi
nently useful branch of popular educa
tion.
The valuation of taxable property in
San Francisco for 1877 is $190,223,123
real estate, and $70,354,715 personalty;
total, $260,577,838, which is a slight in
crease over last year. The tax levy on
this for 1S77 shows a remarkable increase,
being $5,078,955, against $3,697,397—an
increase of $1,'371,558. Comparing San
Francisco with St. Louis, we find that
the valuation of the former is*$260,577,-
£38, and of the latter $181,324,340 ; the
tax levy of the former is $5,078,955, and
of the latter $4,795,228.
A Washington dispatch states that “a
statement Le3 reached here from Missis
sippi that ex-Governor and ex-Senator A.
G. Brown, of that State, contemplates
running es an independent candidate for
Governor of Mississippi, and that he will
be supported by Republicans. Mr.
Brown was a member of the United States
Senate at the time of the secession of
Mississippi, and left his seat in company
■with Mr. Jefferson Davis. He was after
wards a member of the Confederate Sen
ate. His friends here are inclined to
doubt the statement.'’
Sitting Bull is getting proud. A let
ter from Fort Ellis, Montana, reports that
General Miles’ attempted mission to him
failed because the Chief refused to see
any one who did not come with full powers
to negotiate a treaty. Probably since the
gentle Sioux Cbieftian thus assumed royal
airs, the Government weald do well to
recall Pierrepont from England and order
him to Canada to try and smooth him
(Bull) down. If Pierrepont could do it
in no other way, he could soon make him
kill himself eating, for it is not to be ex
pected that General Bull has a digestion
equal to that of General Grant.
The Aew Orleans Democrat finds in the
political situation in Ohio and Maine
proofs of the completeness of the victory
of the Democratic party, and on this
point says: “While large credit is due
the President for his honesty and sagac
ity, in leading and compelling the sur
render of his party, it cannot be denied,
indeed, it is confessed by the most honest
of them, that the real victor in this con
test is the Southern Democracy, aided by
their brethren of the North.” The Dem
ocrat is deceived as to the proofs, and
mistaken as to the completeness of the
victory, but Republicans will please re
member that the real victor in the con
test, if there is a Dremocratio viotory at
pll, will be the Southern Democracy.
ABOUT THAT MONET.
The feeling in Atlanta among many
leading members of the Convention is not
very favorable to either the Attorney
General or Atlanta. Quite a number re
gard the whole as an Atlanta trick. They
say each a measure was never dreamed of
until the measnre to strike from the Con
stitution a place for the capital and vote
on the subject at the next regular elec
tion. Refusal to pay more money might
induce the Convention to adopt some
hasty legislation of which advantage
might be taken in defeating the instru
ment. Such are some of the reports we
gather from the papers and letters. The
Constitution bitterly denies that Atlanta
had anything to do with the influencing
of the Attorney General, if he was conn-
sailed at all, and affirms the first caution
to the Treasurer to have a regard for his
bondsmen in case he paid more than
the $25,000 appropriated by the Legisla
ture, came from Milledgeville. We, of
course, cannot tell about this, and can
only say that if it be a trick, it was very
quickly disposed of.
The Convention is very quietlv pursu
ing its work, wholly undisturbed, and we
well know no large number of the patriots,
nor the other class, are going to continue
laboring for the welfare of the country,
without pay aud the prospect of getting
none. When the money gives out the
love of country is not quite ro strong in
the human brea st as before, and this cool
way the Convention takes the matter
shows at least the members have no
doubts regarding their pay. A counter
feit bill would more than overbalance the
services of not a few to the State.
Gen. Toombs, is quoted by the Consti
tution as indignantly saying he has fre
quently heard of the Commons starving
the King but never before of the King
starving the Commons. He says that he has
no doobt about the power of the Conven
tion to vote itself funds, and that if it will
pass au ordinance ordering $25,000 from
the Treasurer that he will cash the order
before 12 o’clock. He says he will go
down to the treasury and open it with a
orow.bar if the Convention orders him to
do it.
Judge Wright of Rome, has no idea
the Convention will allow itself to be
starved out, but will borrow the money
it needs and pay it back with the first
Legislative appropriation. The only ac
tion of the Convention to this writing, is
to appoint a committee of nine to wait
on the Treasurer. Telegrams have not
yet reported what they said.
The humorous aspect shows off the
Convention and the advisers in a funDy
light. It is a splendid theme for the
comic artists.
LABOR ASM CAPITAL—THE TWO
SIDES.
Vividly drawn pictures tell their story
wonderfully. In the Harper's Weekly
which came yesterday, there is a contin
uation of the consequences of the strike.
Both are very sad stories. Those who
have caused all this misery should be the
sufferers, but still cutting rates and wages
while they revel in luxury they move
placidly along life’s way, careless alike of
tears or smiles. Men have the right to
strike. That was never denied, but when
the strikers seized trains and prevented
starving men from procuring labor, which
they were so eagerly seeking, then the
strikers became violators of the law, and
their action was taken advantage of by all
the scoundrels aud rascals in the country.
Pittsburg was due not to the strike, but
to th9 strikers’ own action in interfering
with the transportation of the country,
making their own will a law unto tbem-
thern selves, and by their own example
calling forth every disorderly element in
the country. The strikers at that stage
could not control the movement.
We were speaking of Harper's pictures.
In the first picture, says the Courier-
Journal, whose description we adopt, a
railroad man is seated at a table, with his
wife and children, eating the “Half-a-loaf”
provided by bis limited wages. Below, in
another scene, a widow, whose sole in
vestment is in railroad stock, is seated
with her children at a frugal table, asking
a blessing on the “Half-a-loaf” her re.
duced dividends enable her to provide.
In a parallel column is “The Stricken”
after the strike; a dead man on a rude
bier ; a miserable wife with a ha! f-naked
child at her knee, with everything about
her bespeoking tbe legend, “No Bread. ’
Below this is the widow who was depend
ent upon her half dividends, with her
weeping child beside her, and a sheriff
selling off her little property. The striker
has stricken her, too, and her half-a-loaf
has disappeared. It sometimes happened
daring the late strike that persons who fan.
cied they saw an opportunity to indulge the
practice of carrying water on both shoul
ders spoke of there being “two sides” to
the strike question, intending thereby to
extenuate the lawlessness and violence
of the strikers. Such persons would do
well to consider the two sides presented
in the illustrations described above. The
railroad men were not the ODly persons
who, these hard times, are compelled to
put up with a half loaf. The miserable spec
tacle of the stricken family of the striker
awakens sympathy, but tne equally un
happy spectacle of the dependent widow
and orphan, luined by tbe lawless depre
dation of the striker, is entitled to more
sympathy because it is innocent of the
cause of misery aud ruin.
Soldiers’ Meeting:, Marietta* Ohio.
Tremont, O., August 18.—The execu
tive committee of the Soldiers’ National
Meeting for Marietta, Ohio, September
4th, 5th, Gth and 7ih have reported.
Common ammunition, arms, tents and
two hunndred standsof regimental colors,
provided for by the acts of Congress, and
of the Ohio Legislature, are already on
the ground. A number of distinguished
Generals, among whom are Generals
Cockerell, Joe Johnston, Sheridan and
Crook, are to be there, and it is expected
the President will also attend. The Gov
ernor of the State and his staff will be
present, and Governor Young will formal
ly open the camp on the first day. All
the soldiers of both armies are invited,
and no partisan political speeches will be
tolerated. Every State will be represent
ed by ex-soldiers of the Union and Con
federate armies.
Chronicle & Constitutionalist : The
New York Sun thinks the spade is the
only match against the repeating rifle; that
the Tnrks have won against the Russians
by discerning that truth and aoting upon
it; and that the Frenoh might have saved
their country if they had dug more earth
works and fought fewer battles in the
open field. The moral of all this seems
to be that recent events prove that the
Turk, like Ben Butler, may be a mon
ster, bat he is not a bit of a fool.
— — ^ i t e »
Joyce has gone to Georgetown, D. C.,
^ where he has a boose.
THE CONVENTION AT A HALT !
THE GREAT RAILROAD QUESTION
THE DEBATE UPON IT!
A COMPROMISE ADOPTED.
OPINION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL A8 TO
THE TREASURER’S DUTY—OPINIONS AND
COMMENTS—ONE MORE WEEK
Special Correspondence of the Enquirer-Sun.]
Atlanta, Saturday, Aug. 18, 1877.
The Convention has been stamped. It
is at a stand still. The sovereigns have
struck a question which worries them
badly. How they are to solve it yet re
mains to be seen. They spent two days
in the midst of forty propositions, half of
which nobody understands, aod there is
more mixture about the proceedings than
there has yet been at any previous stage
of this, not remarkably lacia session.
The great question of the regulation of
freight rates by the Legislature has been
discussed for two whole days and is not
yet finished by any means. Every able
man in the body seems to have an ambi
tion to prove the political economist of
the hour and to solve the knotty problem
which has taxed the best brains in the
State. This desire, of course, causes an
overplus of talk. Everybody wants to
talk aDd nearly everybody does talk,
from old man Holcombe, of Milton,
whose highest conception of statesman
ship is to cut down the Governor’s salary
and trust nothing to Legislatures, down
to Toombs, Jenkins and Hammond, the
men who have spent days and nights in
studying this intricate subject and who
are more deeply aroused on it than they
have been on any other part of the pro
ceedings.
The gist of nearly all the plans and
substitutes proposed was to make the reg
ulation of freight rates obligatory on the
Legislature. It is claimed that they have,
all the while, had the right so to do, but
have failed to exercise it. What the Con
vention was arriving at and what a large
majority seemed to favor it a plan to
make tbe legislative bird sing when he
can and won’t. Jce Brown’s pamphlet,
containing his elaborate argument before
the Committee of Twenty-six, on the sub
ject has been laid on every desk, and the
cautious ex-Goveruor, as if fearful of its
complete work of conviction, may be seen
in the hall from morning prayer till tbe
gavel falls upon the adjournment of tbe
afternoon session. He talks unceasingly
and has bis old affectionate style of put
ting bis bead very close to that of bis vic
tim and-using his bony hand as a bridge
across which to send a whole troop of
honeyed words into the listening ear.
He has not appeared so deeply interested
since the time when he spurted suddenly
for Ben Hill iu the memorable Senatorial
election and worked like a badger to defeat
Norwood and break down Colquitt’s influ
ence in the Legislature. He listens to the
discussion with his usual calmness, and
when any warm advocate of regulation
pours hot Bhot into railroads generally, he
approaches him, when his Bpeech is con
eluded, with a meek boldness that many a
man hasn’t got tbe face to meet, and then
he calmly but plainly tells bim how abso
lutely wroDg he has been in his fiery
speech and how poor his philosophy is and
how much better suited his capacity and
good sense are to a support of the right
side of the case, and this talk is not with
out its effect. If Joe Brown had studied
and trained himself for a lobbyist and set
up at Washington, there is no telling what
changes might have been wrought in our
national legislation.
GEN. TOOMBS
is the arch enemy of railroads. He, of
course, leads the “regulators,” and he
conducts his campaign admirably. Not a
word has been said on this question even
by little men that he has not heard. He
has moved his seat up close to the Presi
dent’s chair, and sits there with his gray
locks fiercely disheveled and his keen
eyes fastened on the honorable gentleman
who is trying to tell him what he already
knows. He opened his fire Thursday
afternoon. His speech was not such an
effort as he used to thunder in the Senate
when Georgia was about to apotheosize
him, but it was so much better than all of
his recent attempts that it created no
little enthusiasm. His heart is in this
matter and he means to make his brain
do its best work in the cause. His
speech was logical all the
way through, at times profoundly philo
sophical, and when he lifted his husky
voice to its high notes and raised his hand
in his favorite gesture above his head
there was a thrilliDg power about the
man. He was without his usual bitter
ness and utterly disregarded his too ha
bitual slang and profanity. He spoke
like bis old self, not so stroDgly or with
such sweeping grandeur, but still like the
past, and was a sort of shadow of his for
mer royalty. He spoke again yesterday,
but his effort was not so strong, though
it had several fine points. He seemed to
be somewhat debilitated during its deliv
ery aud did not speak clearly. He has
the majority on his side and is confident
of a victory.
GOV. JENKINS
is almost as deeply interested on tbe other
side of the question and has spoken two
or three times already on it. His efforts
were fnil of deep practical sense, too
practical to interest one who listened for
the beauty and intellectual display of the
deep and yet of the very sort of stuff to
move the plain thinking men of the body.
If Gov. Jenkins was ever a flashy orator
he has no longer any claim to the dubious
title. He is now a plain earnest man who
takes hold of every subject in earnest and
presents the results of patient thought iu
most practical language. He speaks with
remarkable clearness, and his voice seems
too strong for his evidently feeble body.
He has an able and sagacious ally iu the
“GENTLEMAN FROM FULTON,”
Mr. Hammond, who is fighting against
regulation with ail his power. He has
spoken twice, once rather generally on
the subject, aDd again yesterday morning
after the discussion had gotten full sweep
he took fhe floor again and kept it three-
quarters of an hour. He used every min
ute of the time well and put in some hard
blows npon tbe men who had denounced
railroads so bitterly. The effort was
characteristic, close, logical, well knit in
every part, and carrying one on from
premises to conclusion in rather a seduct
ive manner. •
In the course of the discussion railroads
were most heartily abused, aud as boldly
defended. Gen. Lawton lost patience at
one time and deolared that Gen. Toombs
is “monomaniac on the sab ject of rail
roads.” This declaration he smoothed
over with a glowing tribute to the gentle
man’s 'genius when he is not talking
about railroad regulations. The entire
subject of railroad rights and privileges,
the question as to whether or not they are
public highways was fully and freely dis
cussed, and most diverse views were pre
sented. The general opinion is that the
passage of a law regulating freight rates
would act greatly to the benefit of sea
board towns and equally against those in
the interior. It would hurt Atlanta and
help Savannah. It wonld aid Columbus
by destroying the unjust discriminations
now made against it.
The result of the two days debate has
been the adoption of a substitute offered
by Mr. Warren, of Chatham, which is as
follows:
Section 1. Railroad companies oper
ating railroads in this State are hereby
declared to be common carriers. Tbe
General Assembly shall have power to pass
laws regulating freights and passenger
fare on railroads, and when the local
freights are unreasonable and extortion
ate, it shall be the duty of the General
Assembly to pass such laws. The General
Assembly shall, from time to time, etab-
lish maximum rates of freight aud passen
ger fare in this State, which shall be uni
form on all the railroads in the State, aud
which are just to the people, and not de
structive of the property or rights of tbe
stockholders and creditors of the railroad
companies, and such as shall make no
discriminations nor give any advantage
to the people along the line of a road in
one section of the State, over those living
near, and having business relations with
a railroad in any other section of the
State. But such laws shall not destroy
the distinctions between local and through
freights, which exist and are recognized
generally throughout the United States.
Nor shall they be so framed or executed,
as to cut off through business by
making the rates upon it uniform
with local business, or to drive
through business around tbe State,
which would otherwise pass over
the railroads of this State. Nor shall
they give competing lines between com
mercial centres which pass around (he
State such advantage over the lines pass
ing through the State as to cripple tbe
latter and divert their business in favor
of the lines outside of the State. Nor
shall they give any advantage to one line
over another competing line in this State.
Rebates shall never be paid, directly or
indirectly, by aDy railroad company in
this State, on any through or competitive
business.
This was the result of a compromise
between the extremists who wanted it
made obligatory on the Legislature to
pass regulating laws, and the extremists
who denied thier right so to do. The
matter is not yet concluded. An adjourn
ment yesterday afternoon was had pend
ing the section allowing suits for forfeit
ure of charters to be instituted by private
individuals. The subject will be under
consideration all to-day. Another hot
discussion is probable. Gen. Toombs is
as much wound up on this section as on
that which has just been passed. He
says it is a shame that a man can sue
anybody in Georgia for a wrong from a
“free nigger” up, but the law lays its
protecting arm around a railroad and says
touch not this.
“where’s the money ?”
is now a question which is very interest
ing to the sovereigns. I suppose you
have seen the full text of Mr. Ely’s opin
ion over the question of the Treasurer’s
right to pay out more than $25,000. Iu
the opinion of many he is right iu advis
ing that officer not to do so, and in the
opinion of as many others he is very
wrong. The Convention seems to take
the matter very calmly. Not a single
delegate fainted when it came to his
knowledge. Gen. Toombs has cussed on
the subject a good deal, but he treats it
with a sort of lordly contempt and says
whenever the Convention gets ready it is
going right into the Treasury, Attorney
General to the contrary or not. He has
no very high opinion of this officer’s legal
ability. What will be tbe result of this
opinion cannot yet be told, bnt I venture
the assertion that the sovereigns will get
their pay—every cent of it—before they
leave here.
FINAL ADJOURNMENT
will not possibly take place before nexi
Saturday night, if then. There are a
dozen big questions yet to be settled, and-
on each there will be the usual expendi
ture of oratory and gas. Ten days hence
may see the sovereigns here. Tat.
OEOKHIA NEWS.
—General Ruger has returned from the
North.
-Mrs. Wm. Awtry, of West Point, died
on Friday night.
—Stock of cotton in Augusta Friday by
actual count, 589 bales.
—Augusta to date, has received 188,728
bales of cotton against 168,671 last year.
.—We have received the first three num
bers of the Niekel, au afternoon pap->r
published in Atlanta by Colonel M. E.
Thornton.
-An ex sheriff of^Colquitt county, who
two years ago embezzled funds that came
into his hands, has been captured and is
now in jail.
—A negro woman in Troup couniy had
a white man taken up for vagrancy the
other clay. This is the most hopeful sign
of the new era.
-Iu Southwest Georgia caterpillars
are busy with the cotton and the
corn crop is - not nearly so good
as was supposed before the fodder was
pulled.
-LaGrange colored Methodists are
going to build a $3 000 school house.
Bishop Haven and family promise $1,000,
the pastor of the church tbe same amount
and other subscriptions to the sum of
$500 have been raised.
—Old man Mott, of Columbus, taught
Seceretary Thompson how to sew, about
the beginning of the present century.
Mr. Mott evidently thought it was time
to reap. Hence his recent experiments
in moral agriculture at Washington.
— Tbe Albany News reports fine rains
in that section last Monday and Tuesday.
Also that hundreds of negroes in thit
section believe that Whiteley, who is now
in Colorada, will send for them Christ
mas day ahd give them free transporta
tion to that country.
—A statement which has been going
the rounds that Gen. Toombs had declar
ed he would oppose the adoption of the
new Constitution is denied. In the dis
cussion Tuesday on the time when an
election for officers should be held, be
said that while not approving all that had
been done, yet, if the Convention pro
ceeded as well as it had done, he would
approve and stand by the Constitution.
Bibb County Commission rs report
receipts and disbursements from January
1, 1877, to July 3, 1877 :
General expenses $2,603 51
Bridges 1,274 18
County Court 2,071 65
| Pauper- 833 71
Hospital 2,622 08
Roads 3,142 60
Jail 1,351 82
Superior Court expenses 5,666 59
Court House 701 13
Fines and forfeitures 1,521 15
To balance 1,158 99
Total $22,947 42
—The Savannah News thus describes
the fatal accident on Friday: Messrs.
Morran & Reilly had taken the contract
to remove the heavy Marvin safe belonging
to the firm from the office lately occupied
by them, at the lower end of Bay street,
to their present quarters in Stoddard’s
upper range. The moving was superin
tended by Mr. John lteilly, of the firm,
1 and* the safe was brought without acci
dent from the late quarters to the front
of Stoddard’s upper range. It was then
lifted from the truck and was transported
in fhe usual way to the platform which
spans the alleyway between the street and
the buildings. There were some twelve
or fifteen men engaged in tb6 work, as
the safe was a very large one, being over
six feet high and weighing 5,003 pounds.
They bad succeeded in getting the safe
from the wide platform running to the
street from the office occupied by Messrs.
Jos. A. Roberts & Co. on to the narrow
platform which connects the other offices.
Under the direction of Mr. Reilly, the
gang had cut tbe safe around, and had it
on its wheels end were pushing it along,
when just ns they had gotten in front of
the office of Messrs. Wilder & Co., a short
distance from the building into which it
was to be taken,
THE PLATFORM 6UDDENLY GAVE WAY
and fell with a tremendous crash, carry
ing the safe and the men with it to the
distance of thirty odd feet to the paved
alley below. The platform divided and
the western part was completely inverted,
falling upon the other side and catching
between it a colored man named Sam
Johnson, who was extricated with great
difficulty, end who was found to be very
seriously injured internally.
Two colored men, Henry Harris and
Henry t Coleman, managed to save them
selves as the platform was going down
by clinging to the sill of one of the office
doors, near which they were fortunately
standing. They were rescued from their
perilous position by some gentlemen, who
happened to be in the entrance at the
time.
The remainder of those engaged in the
work were precipitated to the alley way,
the safe striking fall upon the lower por
tion of the body of Dennis Wallace,
colored,
CRUSHING HIM IN A HORRIBLE MANNER,
and causicg almost instant death. All
the others were more or less seriously in
jured. Mr. John W. Reilly sustained a
severe fraction of the right thigh, bis left
ankle was brokeD, and he was otherwise
bruised and cut. Mr. John Daly was se
verely cut iu the face and the back of the
head and was very seriously injured in
ternally. John Harley, colored, was ter
ribly mashed by the fall. Garnett Wil
son, colored, had his arm broken, and was
bruised otherwise, and Wade Hampton,
Tom Williams, Cyrus Seabrook, Isaac
Brown and Solomon Williams were in
jured,the latter very seriously. The wound
ed colored men were removed by their
brother workmen at once, and sent to thei
homes in different parts of the city in
wagons, before it was possible to ascer
tain the exact character of their injuries
Mr. Richard Brough and Mr. Patrick
Broderick were also bruised, the former
sustaining severe cuts, and it is feared,
internal injuries.
Mr. Reilly and Mr. Daly were quickly
removed, and physicians were summoned,
when they were placed in conveyances
and sent to their homes, as were the other
persons injured. In a very short time
after the accident, owing to the prompt
assistance of those who had been attracted
to fhe scene, the wounded had been all
removed and sent to their homes, where
they could receive medical attention.
The Coroner was notified of the death
of Dennis Wallace.
ALABAMA NEWS.
—Tallapoosa county has four jail birds.
—Judge Henry, of Greenville, is get
ting well.
—The Knights of Honor have estab
lished a lodge.
—There are sixteen cases on the crimi
nal docket of Macon county.
—In many portions of Dale county
orops are alarmingly short.
—Uncle Gabe Mathis, of Dale county,
completed his 99th year on the 14th.
—Some old farmers in Chambers coun
ty say the corn crop is not so good as
represented.
—Mrs. S. Kirksey died at the residence
of Ler husband, in Newton, Dale county,
last fcuuday.
—The first bale of new cotton was re
ceived at Union Springs Friday, and sold
for 12^ cents.
—The hat store of J. G. Friend, agent,
in Mobile, was burned Thursday. Total
insurance $9,000.
—Col. Tom Williams, of Wetumpka, as
is his annual custom, gave his convicts a
barbecue last Saturday.
—The Baptists have organized at Sun
day-school at Dadeville, with Col. Wm.
D. Bulger as superintendent.
—Mr. Joseph Hale, the druggist of
Montgomery, gave a large barbecue on
bis plantation on the Tallapoosa river.
—An interesting revival is now in vogue
in the Baptist church at Fort Deposit
Fourteen new members have been ob
tained.
—On Friday County Treasurer Wolffe,
of Montgomery, filed a new bond, as was
required of him, and it has been ap
proved.
—Total receipts of cotton at Montgom-
eiy to date are 67,164, and stock 704. To
date last year the total receipts were 70,-
870, and stock 126.
—The preliminary survey of the We
tumpka Branch Railroad has been com
pleted, and the chief engineer is now
eDgaged in locating the line.
—On Saturday last the Board of Reve
nue of Dallas county declared the official
bond of Probate Judge Gothard insuffi
cient, and required him to give a new
one withia ten days from noon of Monday
last.
—Mr. Wilson killed one John St. John
in Lowndes county for stealing goods
from him, and then on being summoned
to surrender, leveled a double-barrel gun
at the pursurer. Wilson gave himself up
and was discharged.
—It seems to be pretty well under
stood that no contest will lie entered into
with regard to the possession of the
Montgomery county offices next Novem
ber, and that the Democratic officers
elect will take their places without any
trouble.
—While a couple of the young Messrs.
Kinsal, of Dale county, were out in the
woods squirrel hunting, one day last
week, the gun of one of them was acci
dently discharged, the load striking the
other in the hip, and indicting a painful,
if not dangerous, wound.
— On Friday Mr. John O’Donnell at
tacked Mr. J.H.Love,of Dale county, with
fire arms. He first discharged both
charges from a double barrel shot gun at
Mr. Love, and then fired upon him three
tmi65 with a pistol, seven shots taking
effect, none of which proved to be fatal.
Cause not stated.
—A party woiking the road near Clarks
ville, Madison county, built a fire among
the rocks on the side of the mountain,and
as it burned there was a strong smell of
coal oil, and upon removing the rocks
there were drops of coal oil clinging to
them as large as the end of his finger.
He thinks there is a stream of oil near.
—Thursday afternoon in Montgomery,
Henderson Stevens, colored, was struck
by Mr. Edward Evans over the head with
a piece of wood. It happened in the
wagon shop of Mr. Schoolcraft, over
which at the time Evans, his step son,had
control. The verdict of the Coroner's
jury is kept secret, Evans is hid out for
the present.
—The new cotton compress in !
Montgomery is jnst about com
puted. end wi : ! coTmerci tp-
erations seriously Lbuut the first week of
September. The capacity of the com
press is from 500 to 600 bales per day,
and a 500 pound bale of cotton can be
reduced to a thickness of about six or
seven inches.
—Official vote of Tallapoosa is as fol
io we: For Sheriff, Wm. B. O’Brien 3,660;
for Treasurer, Wm. J. Coley 1,991, Benj.
S. Smith 1,702; for Tax Collector, B. D.
Williams 2,175, John K. McCoy 714, B.
B. Williams 690; for Tax Assessor, Na
than Neighbors 3,072, Thomas M. Moffatt
635; for County Commissioners, B. L.
Dean 3,154, Albert Yates 3,335, James M.
Berry 3,238, Jas. V. Ashurst 2,030, Hiram
M. Wilson 1,670, A. J. Lowry 277; for
Coroner, James B. Berry 3,360. ,
WASHINGTON.
SHERMAN SPEAKS FOR HIMSELF
IN OHIO.
HE SAYS HAYES DESIRES NO PARTICULAR MAN
NOMINATED—THE STEAMER DENMARK RE
LEASED ON $250,000, ALSO SPAIN—MAR
SHAL TURNER AND DISTRICT ATTORNEY
MEYER ASKED TO RESIGN—COSINA LEAVES
AUGUST 23d FOB BRAZIL—THE MOUTH OF
THE MISSISSIPPI AND $100,000 APPROPRI
ATION.
IDEAS OF COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE.
Washington, August 18 —Agricultural
Commissioner Leduc has two ideas. One
is to save sixty millions of dollars to the
oountry by stimulating the production of
sugar, and the other is to persuade it to
recover the deserts of the far West by
planting forests there. The Commis
sioner, however, is not by any means with*
out other ideas more or less practicable.
SHERMAN SPEAKS FOB HIMSELF IN OHIO.
Secretary Sherman, in making his
speech yesterday at Mansfield, gave a
history of what the present Administra
tion had done. In doing so he spoke
only for himself. The President author
ized him to say one thing, and that was
that all reports impugning him with any
participation whatever in the nomina
tion of candidates and State
ticket, or any desire to influence the Sen
atorial contest in Ohio,are utterly ground
less. His speech can’t be condensed and
it will require elaboration to make it
comprehensible.
the Denmark’s bond $215,000.
The bond in the case of the steamer
Denmark, libelled for silk smuggling, was
filed at 11 o’clock to-day, the bond being
for $215,000, and the signers are the
owners of the vessel, and Hngh J. Hast
ings and Wm. B. Garrison, son of Com
modore C. R. Garrison. This frees the
Spain, held as surety for the Denmark.
There is no doubt whatever about Mar
shal Turner and District Attorney Mayer,
of Alabama, having been asked to resign.
Their friends urge them to stick and
make things lively in the Senate in Octo
ber.
The steamship Casina leaves New York
August 23d with mails for Brazil.
APPROPRIATIONS AND MISSISSIPPI CHANNELS.
Special to Enquirer-Sun. 1
Washington, August 18.—The river
and harbor appropriation bill, of August
14th. 1876, appropriated $100,000 for the
improvement of the mouth of the Missis
sippi river, provided that the appropria
tion shall not be available whenever, and
so long as, there shall be an open channel
of eighteen feet of water at mean tide to
and from the sea, tbiough the south pass
of the river to the port of New Orleans.
Capt. Brown, the engineer officer in
charge of the work, has reported to the
Secretary of War that a survey has been
made and a channel 250 feet in width and
18 feet in depth exists. The Secretary of
War has, therefore, directed that all fur
ther expenditure of the $100,000, above
referred to, be suspended, and the or er
has been transmitted to make Howell, the
officer in charge of all improvements of
the mouth of the Mississippi, except the
Eads Jetties at tbe South Pass.
COLORED SUGAR.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Washington, August 18.—Samples of
sugar that have been examined by the in
specting officers have been received here,
showing that in aome cases a coloring
process has evidently been employed with
a view to evade proper tariff on the mer
chandise. The Treasury experts will make
a careful investigation of the reports to
this effect, and early action will be taken
by tbe department to recover all duties
that may have been avoided by any pro
cess.
FAILURES.
FAILURE IN NEW JERSEY.
Newark, August 18.—The clothing
firm, of Halsey & Hunter, has suspended
and have been placed in the hands of a
receiver. Liabilities are $32,000 ; nomi
nal assets $30,000.
FAILURE IN NEW YORK.
New York, August 18.—The suspension
of Spellmau Brothers, large dealers in
notions, trimmings, etc., 369 Broadway,
was reported this a. m
A still more important failure of a large
Broadway dry goods jobbing house is also
reported.
ANOTHER FAILURE IN NEW YOBK.
New York, August 18.—Emery, Ivy &
Lee, dry goods merchcDts, 359 Broadway,
failed this a. m. Liabilities $20,000.
INDIANS.
NEZ PERCE8 CONTINUE TO RETREAT—SHO
SHONES GO TO JOIN HOWARD.
Salt Lake, August 18.—Nothing has
been beard from the Nez Perces Indians
since they crosssed the Montana stage
road, going east on the afternoon of
the 16th, some thirty miles south from
Pleasaut Yaliey Station. The telegraph
line is broken. No doubt it was cut by
the Indians. No stage is running in the
section of road where the Indians crossed.
Nothing further has been heard from
Gen. Howard.
Thirty-five Shoshone Indians left their
agency this morning for Fort Hall en
route to assist Gen. Howard.
FOLLOWED.
Washington, August 18.—The follow-
ieg dispatched was received at the War
Department last night:
San Francisco, Aug. 17tb.
Adjutant General U. S. Army: Gen.
Howard telegraphed on the 14th instant
from near Bumock City that to-day he
would enter the Department of the Platte
in pursuit of the hostiles, who are now
ir Lake Henry, apparently making
eastward for the Buffalo country. Gen.
Sheridan and Cook are advised.
(Signed) McDowell,
Maj. Gen’l.
New Jersey Strikers Fined and
Imprisoned.
Newark, N. J., August 18.—Vice Chan
cellor Van Fleet has rendered a decision
in tho cases of tbe striking employes of
the Central Railroad of New Jersey, who
were on trial before him for contempt of
court, iD interfering with the receiver of
the road. He sentenced Ed. Knott, Jas.
Schwartz, Jas. Matthews and Albert Sny
der to fifty dollars fine and imprisoned in
Warren county jail to await the further
pleasure of the court ; Charles Garecht,
imprisoned in Somerset county jail, to
await the further pleasure of the court.
The men were deeply effected.
TEE BELLIGERENTS.
THE TURKS MAKING THE BES1
OF IT.
ence in the general military 8 itnati
Armenia. In that direction as i n j. ° D **
the Russian leaders appear to
inforcements with which to r 00 „_ 9re
BAINS AND FEVER PLAYING HAVOC WITH THE
RUSSIANS—BAIN AND MUD ABOUT 8ISTOVA
russia willing to end the campaign ; p ro (Tab!e Mukhtar Pasha wih be ,
WITH THE LINE of the Balkans, the , ro unded and compelled to surrender'
TOW WITH T»
hich to resumg thl
tmouoi.D, xiu.d iLioir opponents are
able or are unwilling to take active
to profit by the quiet of their adversa,'
BAD FOR MUKHTAR PA^HA ^
A correspondent of the Berlin \ a r
Zeitung writes from Alexandronnl
io nrnhahlfl TVIllkhtur T^auho «..n . ^ »’
DAN RUSSIANS BUY . . .. .
4,000 BALES OF COTTON THE PAST WEEK under dat^flng^“ Ab
IN NEW YOBK and 35,000 during the am now a bout to return to Alexandre
season. ; where I am told to expect great evem°'
_ but although troops have passed unth
: way, Shelieve and Ardahau aro moreV
12,000 TROOPS DAILY. | ly to be the scene of the next operatior"
London August 18.—The Daily News' j Gen. MiliKcff, who has hitherto command
Vienna di.patch states that tbe . *» I*™”* '° f
from St. Petersburg to Kischeneff are Da b e Michael. So it is possible tba: ^
new carrying 12,000 men daily. erations maybe preparing which T
defective bridge causes delay. again attract tho principal interest 0 f tt‘
, . , us r«norts campaign to tbe neighborhood of K.
A telegram received to-ninht reports Bato H UQ f and Ard * b an ° f Ka *
Saratoga Races.
i Special to Enquirer-Sun-]
Saratoga, August 18.— Three quart
mile — lihodamanthus won, Viaein,-
second, Dock third, in 1:151.
One aud a half mile—Onole w ( , n
1:59.
Two miles—(Started in a rain storm -
Galway won,Cioverbrook second,in ;i : 4u
One and a quarter mile—Rappahanuo
won, Cardinal Wolsey second, Brother
Burk third, in 2:16{.
Weal Her.
Washington, Aug. IS.—Indications.
For the South Atlantic States, rising f'
lowed by falling barometer, increa-,1
southeast winds, stationary temperate?
partly cloudy weather and numerous rair
will prevail.
The Channels ofKx't
From the human system bear the same re
tion to it as sewers Jo to a city. Xhev
off the waste, the refuse which it is essen*
to remove in order to prevent disease, (jt-
the most salutary effects of Hostetter’s st -
ach Bitters is to renew activity of the l 1
when those organs are derelict in their
The bilious and dyspeptic symptoms whi
company constipation arc aho remedied*
this sterling alterative. Its gently cathr
action has the effect ol removing irnpuri--
which would otherwise poison the system -
its tonic influence is exhibited in an incres
in vital power. It renews appetite, soot ,
and invigorates the nerves, prevents and re-,
dies malarial fever, and is a tirst-rate remec
for despondency.
that one of the pieces of tbe railroad
bridge at Barboschi has given away caus
ing great delay.
The Times' Bucharest correspondent
telegraphs that it is reported Prince Bas“
san is in Dobrudscha, and is marching
rapidly with his Egyptian troops with tho
object of cutting the communication of
the Russians with Bessarabia. Simulta
neously, we learn that the Turkish steam
ers have received orders to disembark a
force north of the Danube mouth with the
same object.
[Note.—Rumors of this ciscription
have been in circulaiion some time.]
RUSSIANS PREPARING FOB A LONG WAR.
The Times' military correspondent at
Bucharest says every detail of preparation
shows the Russians have made up their
minds for a long war, and are preparing
great depots of fire wood.
RUSSIANS FIGHTING MUD.
The Times Sistova dispatch says a rain
of less than twelve hours duration has
rendered the roads at thi3 place, over
which the Russian supplies are trans
ported, a sea of mud with gaping holes
of unknown depth at freqneDt inter
vals. This forcibly illustrates the impos
sibility of a Russian campaign in Turkey
after the rainy season has begun. It will
be very difficult even to maintain their
armies between the Balkans and Danube
when the summer weather breaks up. All
other accounts concur with the above.
$12,600,060 F >R THE PORTE.
Advices from Constantinople via Berlin,
state the .Ottoman bank has succeeded in
placing a loan which will net the Porte
$12,000,600.
P. JUMANIAN CAPITAL.
A Bucharest dispatch to the Post says
Prince Tcherukasski has removed the
seat of Government of Bulgaria from
Tirnova to Sistova.
rustchuk bombarded.
RuaTCHUK August 18.—The Russian
bombardment continues. Two hundred
shell have fallen in the town, 20 killed.
A Russian reconnoitering party has been
repulsed near the river Lorn.
BAD RUSSIAN ROADS ABOUT RUSTCHUK AND
SISTOVA.
London, August 18.—Advices from
Bucharest aud sistova says: The Russians
have made no preparation against bad
weather. Even the FJat Sandy Island
over which is an approach more than a
mile long to the pontoon bridges, shows
no sigos of road making, although a
hundred infantry soldiers have idled away
the time there for several months. It is
now a mass of mind, as the wagons have
kneaded its surface seeking passable
places. A few days labor of a regiment
of infantry would have made across this
island, over which pass all the supplies
for the army of Bulgaria, a road capable
of enduring an unlimited amount of rain
and traffic.
On the Sistova side where the roads to
Biela and Tirnova run up tho step hill
sides, there was also no preparation.
Short but severe showers on Wednesday
night caught the Russian army service
department utterly unprepared after
the roads had been made virtually
impassable in many places. Fatigue
parties were turned out on ihe Sistova
hills to cut a new road and made ill di
rected efforts to fill the chasms in the old
ones with willow brushwood. The weather
has been exceedingly dry for months, con
sequently the roads w ere very hard. If the
rain of one night's duration could pro
duce effects t-neb as were described it will
be easily imagined what will be the con
sequence when a number of heavy rainfalls
occur in rapid succession.
A part of the Dobrudscha force has al
ready passed through Roumania and
again crossed the Dannie about ten miles
above Rustchuk, but operations on the
other side are delayed by the rain, which
has rendered all the roads practically im
passable for artillery and trains.
A MERE PATH.
A greai part of the line of communica
tion with the army are over mere cart
tracks beaten into dust in fine weather,
and churned into mud when it rains.
Wood is scarce in the country now occu- !
pied by the Russians, and the enormous |
forces about to be encamped in the heart
of Bulgaria will probably leave it as bare
as the allies left the plains before Sebas
topol during the occupation of the Do- j
brudscha.
RUSSIAN PICK.
Lately the sick were sent back at the
rate of 300 per day, and there are signs I
of increasing sickness within the lines on j
the other side of the Danube.
SULEIMAN PASHA.
The news that Suleiman Pasha is fairly
across the Balkans seems to be confiimtd
from several sources.
Reuter's Shuinla agent pays a portion j
of his army has arrived at Ilyan, Lilliana,
and Elina. Another Sbumla correspond
ent says he is before Plevna. However
this may be, it seems evident that he I
is, or shortly will be, in communication
with Osman Pasha or Lieutenant General
Mehemet Ali, or both. Suleiman Pasha
seems to have brought his infantry and
cavalry through Fuditza and Hien passes,
and his artillery through Denn Copen
pass, that road b-ing better for the trans
port cf guns. Shipka pass, which is still
held by the Russians, was blockaded at
the southern entrance, and will, probably,
have to be evacuated unless the Russians
attack and defeat one of the three Turk
ish corps which now form a semicircle
from Rasgad to Plevna.
THE CRITIC3 TALK.
Some critics appear to think that the
Ti’ilruite of He
'pec
Armory City Bight Guards
Columbus, Ga., July 23J,18”.,
Whereas, Death has taken from our rail
one of our beloved companions, who, u,
friend and brother soldier, was endeare.lt
by his many virtues ; thereforre
Resolved, That in the death of Priry.
Mark A. Garrett the City L’ght Qua:
have lost a gallant soldier, and tke commtiD
has been deprived of one of its purest andls
citizens.
Resolved further, That we sympathize*;:,
the family ol our deceased companion in ti;
affliction, and extend to them our sincere es
dolence.
Resolved further, That the Company,ar
token o: respect,wear the usual badge of moil
ing thirty days, and that these resolution:
published and a copy sent to the family of :
deceased.
Capt. W. h. SALISBURY.
Sergt. J. M. LAYF1ELD,
• ’orp'l C. W. MEYER, l'i
Priv’t T. .T. APCLEY’ARD. |
Priv’t J. T. GAhliVluN,
Columbus Lodge No, 631—-Knigv
of Honor,
M EETS AT MASONIC HALL every.:
and, 3rd Monday evenings in eaci. m
at S.'.f o’clock.
Attention, City Light Guards.
Appear at your Armory MON’Dl;
at 4 p. m. for Drill and Target Pn
tice.
By order of the Captain.
A. W. BRANTLEY, U>
Notice,
T he 57th installment of the*
chants’ Building and L >an As- eiat
will be due and payable at my office t.-;
row (Monday), 20th inst, JN'O. KIN-
See'y and Treif
Columbus Mutual Loan A:
sociation.
Columbus, Ga., August 19th,if
T HE 2nd INSTALLMENT is due andp-.
able at the office of John Biaekmar, be
gia Home Building, Tuesday evening. -
2lst. Money will be sold at s 30 r a
citizens are invited to call and take st
W. H WILLIAM'
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TO THE HIGHEST BIDDP
I F NOT previously Rented,
C. S. Harrison will Kent,
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WITHDRAWN, NOT DEBARRED.
St. Louis, August 18.—The statement
telegraphed a d8y cr two ago that the
Franklin Insurance Company, of Wheel
ing; Old Dominion, of Richmond, have
been debp.rred from further doing bush,
ness in this State, proves to have been
incorrect; that Insurance Commissioner
W. S. Rolfe announces officially that these
companies voluntarily withdrew their bus
iness from Missonri.
We all have our preferences; bat no one
prefers to hear a crying baby when the
fact is so well known that Dr. Bull’s Baby
Syrup would at once quiet it. 25 cents.
Russian advantage lies in continued inac.
tion and further concentration, but the
increasing ravages of disease in the Rus
sian camps is an offset against the arrival
of reinforcements, and may compel their
Generals to attack Plevna or liojgad be
fore strategical consideration would au
thorize each undertaking. It is reported
also that public opinion in Russia is pow
erfully affected by the failure before
Plevna. Echoes of this dissatisfaction
might reach the enemy’s field and tend to
tempt the military advisers of the Empe
ror to urge some enterprise that might
j well be deferred till n stionger force can
| be arrayed Thus if is not impossible
| that ae ive operations rury be resinned
befcie they aie justly jAauantcd. lit-'
estabiisbmeDt of the imperial headquar
ters at Studen would serve to put a point
to a closer connection between the Empe
ror and the Grand Duke Nicholas, and
perhaps to presage the presence of tbe
bead of the army at some determined aud
obstinate assault on the entrenchments of
Osman Pasha.
FORM THE CAUCASSIANS.
It is reported that the Inguri column 1
under General Alchasoff continued its
advance and arrivod August 12th near
Atora, on the river Yodora,where prepara
tions were made for eff ecting a passage,
and the cavalry of the column crossed
over to the right bank, but these opera- (
tions are not likely to have much influ-
announceme^ts.
For Tax Receiver.
I announce myself a canau 3 -
the office of TAX RECEIVER 1 -'
election to be held on tbe 28th inst.
auTt.l* F G.JVIbj'- 1 ; .
To the Voters oi Muscos-
I am a candiJa’e tor tne -
TAX RECEIVER. I
ored to serve you faithfully in tne j • - (
you should do mo the kindness t > e ‘ e );
will not disappoint you in the iuture.
Tuesday, August 28th, 1877. ,. ^
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For Tax Receiver.
The many friends of 1 • A-•'
respectfully announce in= .
Tax Receiver, and earnestly sol* clt
port ol his iellow citizens. Electa ,
August 2Sth.
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I announce myselt a can-- .
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the unexpired term of my tatne-
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