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COLUMBUS SUNDAY ENQUIRER: SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1877. Jwtulag %nquitnc. 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' aul9 2t See’y anJTrwu FOR RENT TO THE HIGHEST BIDDP I F NOT previously Rented, C. S. Harrison will Kent, on the premises, on Saturd y. the 25th instant, my STORE HOUSE, No. 122, to the high est bidder. HENSON t aul9 SE.wedf&sat] WANTED, GOOD GENTLE BUGGI suitable for ladies to drrvt Inquire at aui9 lw INSl KAMI- COill’AMTS. 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. ,. ^ au9 td* JORDAN L. H 11 r - 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. For Tax Receiver. I announce myselt a can-- . the office of TAX RECE 1 ' • the unexpired term of my tatne- Tuesday, 28th of August auS td* •j II tl'i’V liEIJif .MEN from the cite and Abuses in eat hood Restored- i to Marriage Ren method of treati and remarkable Books and oircul. in sealed envel >pt HOWARD ASSOi l N. Ninth St., 1 Pa. 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