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■ COLUMBUS SUNDAY ENQUIRER: SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1877. Jfttttdag %nqtdvtt. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1877. SALISBURY & C0. f - Proprietors. Brigham Young’s family in round num bers is sixty-five. A foreigner can own an American rail road. bat he can’t own an American ship. By a new schedule, the time between Charleston and Savannah has been short ened three hours. In London, Texas beef sold at 14 cents per pound, while in Galveston it brings 15 cents per pound. Mbs. Myba Clarke Gaines hm made nn offer to the New Orleans city authori ties looking to a compromise of her claims. ^ ♦ W | » — At the fourth day’s practice, Tursday the Crescent City four made eight hun dred and five. The New York four 803. Wind strong. Miss Carlotta Patti, sister of Adelina Patti, is hopelessly ill with a complication of maladies arising from the diseased hip-joint, which caused her lameness. It is understood that Brigham Young’s Successor as President of the Mormon Church will be the youngest of his sons by his first and legitimate wife, his son John W. Young. The Joe Bradley Commission did not decide that Hayes’ title to the Presidency was essentially good; it only decided, by a vote of eight to seven, not to investi gate that title to see whether it was good or not. The National Republican attributes the escape of Captain James Forney, of the Marine Corps, from court martial and military disgrace, to one potential reason. He is the son of John W. Forney, of the Philadelphia Press. A tradesman in Maine failed the other day and being asked if he thought his as sets would warrant an offer of 50 per cent, replied: ‘’That’s too much; they are only paying about 25 per cent, and I can’t pay more than other people do.” Judah P. Benjamin writes from London to an inquirer m Virginia: “I know nothing whatever of the so-called Jen nings estate, nor do I believe in its exist ence. I would not give a penny postage- stamp for the free gift of all the rights of all the claimants.” The interest income of six of the repre sentative fire insurance companies of the United States for 1870 was.135 per cent, less than their dividends, and their rate of interest for 1876 on the basis of interest to gross receipts was only 87£ per cent, of 1870. There arrived at New York on Thurs day a case of glass consisting of a window for the new Catholic Cathedral in the course of erection on Fifth Avenue, corner Fiftieth street. It was manufac tured at Chartres, France, and is a mag nificent piece of workmanship. The duty on the glass was $1,000. The comparative statement of the New York Cotton Exchange shows the receipts of the year at the ports to have been 3,945, 053; and the exports for the same time 3,025,175; showing a decrease of receipts, as compared with last year, of 182,394, and of exports a decrease of 205,184 bales. The direct cotton is yet to be added to get at the season’s crop. Thursday. Justice Field, of the United States Supreme Court, is technical in his denial. He says that Justice Bradley did not read in advance his opinion that the Electoral vote of Florida should be counted for Tilden, but he allows the implication to be made, and that very forcibly, that Aliunde Jo did verbally express suoh an opinion, which he afterward reversed when he took his pen in hand. Col. Scott says positively that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will re build as few of their buildings as possi ble at Pittsburg, but will remove all their shops and machine works to some other point, as remote as possible from that neighborhood, or, in fact, from large cit ies, where the property of the company will not be under the influence and at the mercy of mobs. ♦ The Philadelphia Ledger of the 27th instant, says: “The shipments of peach es over the Delaware Railroad on Friday, amounted to 129 car loads. The total shipments thus far by both rail and water, have reached about 1,700,000 baskets, and have netted the growers, it is estima ted, $500,000. At this rate, it is thought, the whole crop will net $1,000,000. The fruit is selling at paying prices now, and the prospect is that the market will re main firm to the close of the season.” Some astonishing rifle Bhooting was done at Creedmoor Thursday. General Dakin, the Captain of the Amerioan team, made the highest score ever recorded, that of 215 out of a possible 225. Mr. Selph, the New Orleans marksman, whose shooting is astonishing our riflemen, was close behind him with a score of 210. Eight out of ten members of the American team made over 200 points. Nothing like such accurate shooting was ever before done on the range. At the 800 yards tar get Mr. Selph, made fifteen consecutive bull’s eyes, or a perfect score. The Brit ish marksmen did not do so well. Of the thirteen men who shot one only scored more than 200. The visitors, however, are not accustomed to the range, and they were affected by beat. Northern Opinion of Our New Consti tution.—The New York World furnishes its readers with an abstract of the more important provisions of the new Consti tution of Georgia, which in the main it oordially approves. Commenting on the work of the Convention, the editor says: “A rapid perusal of the full text of the document is enough to show that it is a great improvement on the patent recon struction contrivance now in operation, which was designed mainly for conveni ence in handling the Southern States for Republican purposes, and varies slightly for different localities. It has some pe culiarities and a few blemishes due to the prevailing humors of the time; but its great virtue is that it is an honest and liberal constitution, made for the well being of the State by the representative men of the State, and flung like a pro tecting mantle over all classes, creeds and races.” —The Jewish temple in Atlanta, ereot- «d at a cost of $30,000, was dedicated Friday. Rev- Dr. E. M. Browne, of Cin* ginnati, delivered the Addtessi MANUFACTURING. HOW THE SOUTH EXCELS THE NORTH. We have shown in previous articles the superior advantages of Columbus in the manufacture of cotton in her immense water power and the cheapness of material and labor, and the abundance of opera tives, and also the great progress she has made in developing these resources with her own and the capital of her section. Buildings can be erected, here at one third less, probably nearly a half less than New England. We have also dem onstrated that if two mills were ereoted one in New England and one here, the difference in the cost of transportation of the raw material would pay for the Southern mill in twelve years and six months. The average life of a mill is twenty years. The greatest advantage of all is that we produce the raw material and have it at our doors. In olimate .the superiorly of the South is beyond all question. In six or eight months of the year in the North, it is necessary by artificial means to raise the temperature of the atmosphere in order that the spindles and looms may run suc cessfully. The furnaces and fuel re quired to produce this artificial heat form in the aggregate no inconsiderable item of expense. From all this we in this climate are entirely free. Farther than this there is a material per centum in our favor in the comparative operation of the atmosphere of the two climates upon machinery and upon cot ton from its raw state through the various processes to which it is subjected in manufacturing. Very intelligent and practical manufacturers claim that the climate’s advantage in our favor is fully equal to half a cent in the yard in fab rics. At that rate the aggregate differ ence upon the goods produced from the South is very large. The differences in regard to the freight of machinery are far overbalanced by these and other considerations. We can get special rates as well as New England. The only criteron by which to deter mine the importance and prosperity of a oountry is the value of its exports over its imports. No matter how many mil lions Georgia makes, if she spends it, she oannot advance in prosperity. If by manufactures she can quadruple the value of exports and spend less from home she may regain her former wealth. In the last ten years the South has made immense strides toward independence. The immense advantages of the South over the North in manufacturing are pat ent to the casual observer and to any understanding. They are so great that with proper freights we can throw yarns and cloths into Lowell and sell them at a profit, though at a price less than the aotual cost of the goods at that place. This being so, how successfully may we compete with them in the general markets of the world ? When ample capital shall have been acquired, and it will come, the South can undersell Old and New Eng : land every where. Certainly for the sea son just past, one of the most trying years, our mills have declared dividends and ran full time, while those -of the North were reducing operatives’ salaries, and loosing money. In the coarse of the not distant future we may reasonably ex pect that millions of foreign capital will be invested in manufacturing in the middle of the cotton fields. The young and middle-aged men killed during the late war in Georgia numbered fully 50,000, and perhaps 30,000 were dis abled for life. From this oause thou* sands of widows and orphans were left in the State, and even after.'twelve years have passed, three-fourths of the females are in a very dependent condition, and find life indeed a hard struggle. From the class of impoverished women, girls and boys there can be obtained thousands of operatives, to whom the furnishing of work would be the greatest blessing that could be be stowed. A diversity of pursuits is a necessity. It means wealth, prosperity, happiness and power. Viewed in every form no country on earth possesses such advan tages as the South and its wonderful facil ities must be developed. Providenoe has so ordered that the land which grows the cotton is the most favorable on earth for its transformation into fabrios. A BLESSING IN DISGUISE. A distinguished divine has said that he who lives thirty years in this era is a con densed Methusaleh. There is so much condensation of thought, feeling, rapidity of action and discoveries in every depart ment that centuries are compressed into days. We should count time by heart throbs, not by the slow motions of the dial. The last twelve years have witness ed the strangest of anomalies in the South —a change in the entire purpose and sen timent of the people. That which we all thought would prove a curse in this sec tion has proved the greatest of blessings and promises to revolutionize the direc tion of energies and regenerate our in dustries . The Republicans of the North over reached themselves and all their fine laid plans have been thwarted. A few days since we showed that they emancipated the slaves to weaken the South, and sub sequently gave him the ballot to destroy the political influence of the whites, and perpetuate the rule of the Radical party. The South captured all the ballots, and her weight in the national councils has been increased thirty-five Congressmen and that many ballots in the Electoral College. Messrs. Republicans, “you have done us proud,” we salute thee and return thanks.. A greater boon than mere political power has been furnished us by the ne gro legislation. The lands are better cul tivated than ever before and greater at tention is being paid to diversified crops, and the improvement of the soil. We find now thousands who believe that cot ton in excess is a dethroned King and are raising such a variety of crops as make plantations self-sustaining. Others have stock farms, and are engaged in the cul ture of fruits and other products. These will tell in the future, if we cannot appre ciate in the full the benificent results in the present. There are also other splendid ac complishments produced by emancipation. That is the diversion of money from the purchase of more lands to be skimmed, more negroes to feed, and more mules to be worked down, to mills, steamboats, ca nals and varied undertakings. In these pursuits our people are showing all the vim and go-a-head-ativeness of Yankee- dom. These enterprises will in turn bring others such as belt factories, bobbin factories, to supply onr own institutions. Co-operative stores, those in which the majority of the stock is owned by opera tives, follow in the wake of these estab lishments. Sayings banks were unknown before the war in our country. Now they are increasing in number and importance. We have three stroDg institutions in Co lumbus. One cent pieces, the sure basis of close management and snccess,arenowin vogue. Before the late revolution they were rarely seen, and then regarded as curiosities. Then we bad nothing below five oents. Less values are now employed, for poverty has taught the nseful lessons of economy and thrift. Thus the emancipation act intended to cripple has evolved the dormant energy of the people, and caused the develop ment of all the' elements which create wealth and importance. Manufactories have been built, and more are being erected, the bum of the spindle is heard all over the country,' and the most skilled foreign and New England labor are being attracted to the South. Hope and certainty point to a bright future. That which the Republicans in tended to crush has really proved a bles sing in disguise. The South at no dis tant period with her manufactured goods will prove a proud rival to New England mill owners, and in the coarse of time will drive them from the field by the superiority and cheapness of her fabrics, and the prime cause will have been the emancipation act. GEORGIA NEWS. —Mrs. Pope Freeman, of Macon, died in Florida. —Meriwether oounty is out of debt and has $1,800 in the treasury. —Houston county has raised enough hogs to supply her own meat. —Last week there were 700 chickens in the coops at the Warm Springs. —Miss Mattie, daughter of Mr. R. W. Cubbedge, of Macon, died in Griffin on Friday. —Augusta received the past season 189,283 bales of cotton against 172,592 last year. —Meriwether Circuit Court sent three persons to the penitentiary, fined some, and cleared the jail. —Macon, for the cotton year just closed, has received 79.112 bales of cotton, and has a slock of 408 bales. —A greater proportional number of Georgia Congressmen are college gradu ates than of any other State. —It seems to be almost an assured fact that Savannah will send at least five rifle teams to the Thomasville Fair. —The Convention cost the people of Georgia about fifty thousand dollars, and it will save the State in the neighborhood of two hundred thousand per annum, when the new Constitution is adopted. —An attempt was made to destroy the life of the landlady of a Broughton street, Savannah, boarding house by put ting broken glass in her soup, and that of no one else. A colored girl is sus pected. —A guard of Grant, Alexander & Co., shot himself seriously, accidentally while conveying two convicts, whom he had captured, at the Augusta canal. His pis tol dropped, was discharged and shot himself. —Meriwether grand jury recommends a tax of 75 per cent, on the State tax, and that the commissioners furnish eaoh district with a copy of the road laws, published in pamphlet form by Lewis Garrard, Columbus. —Marietta was stirred to the depths last Tuesday, by a blaze of pistol prac tice. O. L. Bozeman struck, and nearly scalped his grand father, Mr. L. Bennett, and then took two shots at the town mar shal. At last accounts he was wrestling with a $2,000 bail bond. —Hon. W. H. Hall, of Augusta, does not think the new Constitution as good as the present one. Is it not strange that nearly all the objections to the Constitu tion comes from Augusta? We put against Mr: Hull Gen. Toombs. Georgia will not hesitate regarding which gentle man has the most brains. —After a barbecue in Burke county last week the proprietor of the ground whereon the fun was engineered, picked up the following relics : One pair ladies’ ganntlets, one pair white gloves, one half of a tucking comb, one hair comb, one brown veil, one pair ladies’ cuffs, one pair ladies’ gold cuff buttons, two army guns, one sword, one whiskey flask in a hollow log, one between the mattress and feather bed and one at the root of an old pine tree. —Commissioner of Agriculture, T. P, Janes, says of grass worms: They some times commit great ravages, destroying the grass, bladeB of corn and other plants, but do not attack cotton. Where they are very numerous and it is desired to ar rest their progress, the most effective plan has been to plow a deep furrow around the field to be protected, with the side next the field as nearly perpendicular as may be. The worms will collect iu masses in this furrow and may be de stroyed by fire, or by covering with an other farrow. —A Mrs. Robertson, living in the sub urbs of Dalton, died about a week ago from starvation. When found with her child in an old house, she was so far gone that nourishment failed to keep her alive. She had previously been released by the county authorities. Her child, which was almost famished, was relieved by Col. Jesse Glenn, at whose house it is now living. This is a very distressing case. The woman was about fortysfive years old. She suffered with no disease. The officers of the county are clearly to blame. —Four respectable citizens of Pike county, Messrs. Dave Malier, John Con ner and two young men named Foster, were arrested at Zebulon last Wednesday by three Deputy U. S. Marshals, from Atlanta, upon information of a mean ne gro named Dick, who swore that they had threatened to kill him. This same black villain, says the Central Qeorqia Weekly, “had assaulted Mr. Conner with an axe, and having done him (Conner) an injury in violation of criminal law, con cluded, as negroes generally do, whether advised so to do by United States officials we know not, to forestall his own arrest through State authority by swearing out a lie before some Federal officer. This vil- lian knew he had sworn a lie and knew, furthermore, that he wouid be arrested and brought to justice, if oaught; hence when the cases which he had instituted against these gentlemen were called for trial in Atlanta, the perjured prosecutor was nowhere to be found.” ALABAMA NEWS. —Cotton picking has commenced iu good earnest in Henry county. —James Byrd, an old citizen of Mobile, aged seventy-six years, died Monday. —Shelby county complains of rust in cotton. The continued dry weather has injured crops. —The typhoid fever is said to be very prevalent in and near Autaugaville, con fined mostly to children. —Corn of last year’s growth, and weav- el eaten at that, is selling in the shuck in Montgomery at eighty cents a bushel. —Montgomery received the past season 67,337 bales of cotton—3.694 less than last year, and 5,197 less than Columbus. —A negro boy, ten or twelve years of age, was killed by the train on the narrow gauge railroad, near Shelby Iron Works, one day last week. —Mr. Ike Ford, of Macon county, was arrested and brought to Montgomery Thursday, charged with illegal voting. Col. Herbert soon procured his bond. —The new company will commence active operations at Kennedale Cotton Mills at Tuscaloosa about the 1st of Oc tober, and will need quite a large number of operatives. —Mr. George Turner, U. S. Marshal, telegraphs from Washington to his friends in Montgomery that he is holding on like grim death, and that the signs indicate his retention in office. —Walter Pickett and William Spence convicted of burglaries by entering Mr. W. T. Barham’s store, at Huntsville, at the spring term of the Circuit Court, have been pardoned by His Excellency the Governor. —During the present season, Roycroft, of Tuscaloosa, has sold 1,350 wa’ermelons —-some weighing 45£ pounds, and some 2£ feet in length. They have all been produced upon two acres of ground, and still more to come. This beats cotton raising all hollow. —The severe drought of the last three weeks has considerably damaged the cot ton orop in Montgomery and adjoining counties, causing rust and shedding of squares and young bolls, which will make the yield much less than was promised but a short time ago. —A skiff which contained seven negro men returning from a gin raising at J. EL Winn’s, to their home on the Carson plantation, in Tuscaloosa, on last Thurs day evening, was capsized, and four of the seven passengers were drowned, and the remaining three narrowly escaped the same fate. —The squad from Montgomery, in charge of Deputy Marshal Jost, who rex cently went to North Alabama on a raid against the violators of the United States revenue laws, returned Thursday. Quite a number of arrests were made and many stills were confiscated and others de stroyed. —On Thursday the residence of Major Wm. Johnson, about ten miles from Montgomery, was entirely destroyed by fire, together witj) furniture, bedding and clothes of the family. The house was a frame one. About two bales of seed cot ton stored near the house were destroyed, and a fine gold watch on the manth piece in one of the rooms was burnt up. The fire was entirely accidental. —The Supreme Court of Alabama has affirmed the judgment of the Court be low in the case of Griffin vs. Pringle et al., from Lee Chancery Court; also, affirmed the judgment in the case of Har ris vs. Brooks, from Lee Circuit Court; and reversed the judgments in the cases of Shorter, administrator vs. Ware, and Howard vs. Doughtie, from the Circuit Court of Russell. The judgment in the oase oi Lang’s, administrator, vs. Wilker- son’s administrator, from Barbour, was reversed. In an appeal from Macon Chanoery Court, the Court decided a purchaser of lands at an administrator’s sale, who has not reoeived a conveyance of title, cannot enjoin ejectment by the heirs unless he shows by matter of re cord in the Probate Court, that such steps were taken therein as authorized a conveyance, and that he has paid the purchase money in full. The receipt of the purchase money by the guardians of minor heirs cannot operate to defeat their rights or divest their title; though as respects adult heirs, knowingly receiving from the administrator their share of the purchase money, it may amount to a ratification, and vest in the purchaser an equity to compel a conveyance of the legal title from them. Reversed and remanded. In Stevens vs. Naughton et al. appeal from Barbour Chancery Court decided when a bill seeks to divest the title to lands out of infant defendants, the record must af firmatively show that its material aver ments were proved as against them; and the failure to show this fact, though not specially assigned as error, will cause a reversal of the decree. Reversed and re manded. In Taylor vs. Wray, appeal from Russell Circuit Court, decided to maintain an action for a forcible entry under the statute, (Rev. Code §3299,) the plantiff must show an actual, subsisting possession by him at the time of the de fendant’s entry; and this the evidence in the present record wholly fails to show. Reversed and remanded. —The Supreme Court has decided in the case of Dawes vs. McArthur, which went up from the Mobile Circuit Court. It declares that the act to declare judg ments liens upon the property of defend ants, approved February 19th, 1867, not having been enacted according to the re quirements of the Constitution, never be came law. The Court says that the inser tion into the Code, by the Commissioner, of the substance of that act, as section 2877, under the authority given him to insert in the Code all laws of a general nature passed subsequently during the session at which the Code was adopted, only authorized him to insert therein laics. The act from which section 2877 was in corporated, never having become a law, its insertion in the Code, under the circumstances stated, could not give it the force of law. The “act to continue in force certain laws,” approved July 29th, 1868, only put in force laws and parts of laws found in the Revised Code, etc., and the incorpo ration into the Revised Code of the sub stance of the “act to declare judgments liens” not giving it the force of law,it was not a law or part of a law found in the Re vised Code, and hence could not take validity from the act of July 29th, 1868, which operated only on laws and parts of laws. The act of July 13th, 1868, was not intended to make operative anything in the Code, which had not been previ ously enacted in the forms of law ; it was simply a healing act intended to cure cer tain defects and irregularities supposed to exist as to enactments of the Legisla ture daring the war, and daring what was known as the Parsons and the Patton governments. THE JUDICIAL CIRCUITS. HOW THE MATTER STANDS AT PRESENT. Correspondence of Savannah News ] Atlanta, August 29.—“How about the Judicial Circuits,” said a member of the Legislature to me yesterday morning, “I don’t see anything in the new Constitu tion which refers to a reduction of the number to sixteen?” After a careful search I was compelled to confess that it had been left out. I at once sought Gen. Toombs and other prominent members of the Convention still remaining in the city, and they were at a loss to understand it, until we finally discovered that the motion of Hon. J. M. Mobley, of the 25th Dis trict, to put the ordinance in the Consti tution, was defeated. The Convention thought it wiser to leave the matter with the Legislature, in case changes may be needed in the future. The ordinance, therefore, Btands separate from the Con stitution, but having full force and power over the next Legislature. REDUCTION OF JUDICIAL CIRCUITS. The following is the ordinance intro duced by Hon. Porter Ingram, of Mus cogee, and adopted almost unanimously, in preference to all other similar propo sitions: Be it ordained by the people of Georgia in Convention assembled, and it is hereby ordained by authority of the same, That there shall be sixteen judicial circuits in this State, and it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to organize and appor tion the same in such manner as to equalize the business and labor of the judges, in said several circuits, bb far as may be practicable. But the General Assembly shall have power, hereafter, to reorganize, increase, or diminish the number of cir cuits: Provided, however, that the cir cuit shall remain as now organized, until changed by law. Hebe is the latest statement of some of Senator Conkling’s views/ “He does not hesitate to declare that Tilden was elected President. As he puts it, the votes as they came out of the ballot-boxes showed a majority for the Democratic ticket. He thinks there may have been intimidation in some parts of the South, but not of a sort to vitiate the result. He thinks Tilden’s election was as fair as elections are apt to be, and he has no defense to offer for the Louisiana Returning Board. But after the Governor of that State, act ing on the declaration of the board, had issued certificates to the Hayes elec tors, there was no help for it but to sub mit the question to Congress.” THE TURKO-RUSSIAN WAR. THE TURKS ARE WINNING. THE WEEK CLOSES FAVORABLY FOB THEM, BOTH IN EUROPE AND ASIA—THE BATTLE OF KABASON, IN WHICH THE RUSSIANS RECEIVED A GOOD BEATING, FULLY CON FIRMED—RUSSIANS SCAMPERING AWAY AND THE TURKS AFTER THEM—GENERAL REVIEW OF TNE ARMIES AND THEIR POSI TIONS. Knights Templar. Cleveland, Sept. 1.—The Grand En- , campment of Knights Templar adjourned 1 to meet next in Chicago. TURKISH RECONNOISANOE AT PLEVNA. London, September 1.—Osman Pasha reports reconnoisanees in force from PlevDa, in one of which a hundred Rus sian oavalry were killed near Riohad. BATTLE ORDER TO SERVIANS. A Reuter from Belgrade says Prince Milan lias issued an order de bataiUe to the Servian army. ASIATIC MOVEMENTS. A Renter from Erzeronm reports the Russians have changed their positions with a view to safety. A Russian bulletin says Prinee Charles, of Roumania, assumes command of the Russians and Roumanians composing the Western detachment of Morand. Duke Nicholas has been appointed Chief-of-staff to the Roumanian Prince. BLACK SEA COAST. Four newly formed Russian divisions will defend the Black Sea coast, replacing the seventh and tenth army corps hurry ing from here to the Danube. THE BATTLE ON THE LOM—THE RUSSIANS MADE TO SCAMPER. London, Sep. 1.—A correspondent of the Times reports in Thursday’s battle three Turkish brigades, two batteries and two squadrons of cavalry advanced from near Rarfgrad. Mehemet Ali and Prince Has' san took position on a high hill, com manding an nninterrupted view from Rasgrad beyond Osman Bazar. The Egyptians participated in this battle. The battle field extended fifteen miles. The Russians gradually gave way and by 5 o’clock were scampering from the field, the Turks scampering after them in fine style. The report concludes: The Bus sians were now in full retreat in every direction and by sunset the Turks had proved for the second time not only capa ble of meeting the Russians in the open field, but also of driving them from thei strongly entrenched positions. In ten days the Russians have lost the magnifi cent double positions of the Lorn and the Kara Lorn. What may happen next no one knows. It is impossible to tell what forces the Russians had engaged, nor can their losses as yet be estimated. Proba bly they were not heavy except around Karassan, by which name this engage ment will be designated by the Turks. TURKS IN HALF DOZEN PASSES. The Times says the fight for Shipka Pass is gradually developing into opera tions on a large scale. The Turks are moving over a half dozen passes. They may be only irregulars or flying detail detachments, but it is also possible that they are different links of a oombined op eration which may gradually develops itself. GEN. TODLEBEN AT BUCHAREST. Bucharest, Sept. 1.—Gen. Todleben, the great Russian engineer, who planned the defences of Sebastapo! has arrived here. RUSSIAN DEFEAT ON THE LOM CONFIRMED— TURKS PURSUING. London, Sept. 1—Later editions of the Daily News and Standard publish dis patches from their correspondents who were eye witness of Thursday’s battle which confirm in the detail of the Russian defeat on the Lorn. Both correspondents agree that Tapki has been abandoned, and the Russian position compleiely turn ed. The Turks are continuing the pur suit. Baker Pasha, under whom the Turkish cavalry charge was made, and who had two horses shot, is with Gapt. Briscoe. One of his staff is reported missing. REVIEW OF THE WEEK—ALL FAVORABLE TO THE TURKS, BOTH IN EUROPE AND ASIA. London, Sept. 1.—The week doses favorable for the Turks throughout the whole theatre of war. As regards Schipka, although Suleiman Pasha has not succeeded in driving cut the garrison, he has almost completely blockaded it. The latest Russian bulle** tin almost admits that he is master of the situation for the time, as it says the Rus sians are ignorant whether he is about to retire and renew the assault, or attempt a turning movement. It is, therefore, apparent that he has his choice of action, and from the fact that he has pushed a reconnoisance to Keckilagatock, which is in the northern slope of the Balkans, he seems to have chosen a turning move ment. The rqconnoisanoe was probably only made by a small body. The Russian position in the pass blocks the only road through it which is practicable for the heavy material of the main army. Mehemet Ali’s advance from the east ward possesses great importance in view of the fact that the Russian position at Tirnova, which is supposed - to be the object of the Turkish movement is com paratively open to attack from the east by a road leading from Bebrova and Elena, which debouches into the Tirnova and Drenova road, 10 miles south of Tirnova, where as Suleiman Pasha, even if he finally cleared Schipka, would still be obliged to advance through a complicated series of defiles. Before Mehemet Ali can, however, advanoe in the direction of Tirnova, it seems that he would have to clear the Russians from their position at Papaskai from which* they could threaten his flank. The Times' account of the BATTLE OF KABASON is transmitted via Therapia, and is conse quently likely to be more trustworthy than if telegraphed direct from Shumla, from whence all news is more or less untrust worthy by reason of the manipulation and pressure exercised by the Turkish author ities. CORRESPONDENTS ORDERED FROM SHUMLA. As an instance of this pressure, private advices received in London, state that three correspondents of the Times, name ly, Norman, Gambler and Coningsby,have just been ordered to quit Shumla. On the Plevna front all is quiet except for a trifling reconnoisance. RUSSIAN POSITION. Various conflicting estimates are pub lished of the Russian force there* but it is yet hardly sufficient for an attack, as it seems that only a few days ago, when the Turks moved from Foratz towards Selva, and it became necessary to send rein forcements thither, the reduction of the force thereby necessitated the evaonation of Slatina in order to oonoentrate the Russian lines and fill up the gap. The location of the forgo which the Prince of Roumania is to command is not yet pre cisely known, but if it be the 18,000 Rou manians which crossed at Goraitica, which is to be placed under his orders and com* 1 bined with the Russian troops, it might be serious for Osman Pasha, as Plevna would then be threatened from the rear. ASIA. The news from the Asiatio Beat of war is most conflicting as to present move ments of the Russian main army under Gen. Melikoff. Mukbtar Pasha asserts in his offioial dispatches, which agree with the latest dispatches from Erzeronm, thaj it is retreating, whereas a telegram from Kurukdara of the same date declares that the Russian camp had advanced four versts. A Russian bnlletin, however, ad mits that in the engagement August 25th the Turks had succeeded in capturing the heights of Kezeltepe, although their at tempts to turn the Russian left was re pulsed. As regards the engagement in which the Irivan column was engaged on the 24th and 28th of August at Igdyr, although they may be in themselves ut terly unimportant, they show the Turkish right is operating on Russian ground, and though the Turks may never advance a step further, yet if they should succeed in stopping the Russian movements for some weeks longer, there is an end to it for this year. ENGLAND. TEN THOU8AND COTTON OPERATIVES STRIKE —EFFLUX OF GOLD TO AMERICA. London, September 1.—The strike of ten thousand cotton operatives com menced at Bolten yesterday. Elias Gashill,a cotton spinner of Mellen and Ghapel Eulefrith, has failed. Liabil ities estimated at $300,000. The Standard in a financial article says with the report to the efflux of gold for New York which was thought probable, we learn there are no orders in market for that quarter, and it is believed that the exchange between New York and this oountry will be balanced by the export of bonds without the necessity of sending gold. ENGLISH CROPS. REPORTS TO THE LONDON TIMES—CROPS BE LOW THE AVERAGE, AND IMPORTS WILL BE LARGE—UNITED STATES AND CANADA LOOKED TO FOB A SUPPLY. London, September 1.—Mr. James Gaird, in his annual letter to the Times on the harvest prospects, says: The ex tent of wheat is greater, by nearly 200,000 acres, than last year, but 400,000 acres, or one-ninth below the average of the ten preceding years. In a careful analysis of the returns from farmers in the various parts of the country, I find that in twelve of the principal wheat counties, which represent one-half of the wheat growth of the Kingdom, three-fourths of the re turns show that the crop is below the average, while one-quarter give an aver age crop. For the remainder of the coun try the deficiency is somewhat less in proportion, The returns show a very general deficiency. They are below an average crop, but not greatly below it. The general yield is better than that of 1853, 1867 or 1875, the three worst crops in thirty-four years, but I fear that it will not be equal even to the defective crop of last year, and that, notwithstanding the increased acreage, we shall not have more than between 9,000,000 and 10,000,000 quarters of the home crop. The reduction of consumption conse quent on the enhanced price may reduoe the year’s requirements to 20,500,000 quarters on the two conditions of ^strict economy in consumption, and an early harvest next year. The foreign supply we should in these oircumstances require might be limited to 11,000,000 quarters. This takes a most favorable view of our position, for north of the Trent most of the crop is still unharvested, and is sub ject to the risks of a late season and very unsettled weather. If we were the only country that required help, and if we could rely on the continuance of the large scale of foreign imports which has marked the last four years, there would be little cause for apprehension ; but with the ex ception of some ports of Spain, all West ern Europe is deficient, and the ports of the Black Sea are closed, while a renewal of the famine in India oan hardly admit of any increase of the large supply we have received from that quarter daring the present year. We must, therefore, look to America for a considerable increase on her great exports of the last four years, and if the war in Turkey continues, the vast re sources of the United States and Canada will indeed be severely taxed to make good the wants of this country and West ern Europe. The small home crop of 1875 supple mented by the largest import we have ever yet received afforded five and one- half bushels per head. The deficient orop of 1876 with an import, which some what exceeds 12,000,000 quarters has afforded very little over five bushels. If the Black Sea ports continue closed for the coming harvest year, we may have to restrict consumption to considerably less than five bushels a head. The other home-grown crops promise little aid, barley being deficient, oats not above an average, while potatoes are much diseased. In 1866 and 1867, when from too inde- ficient crops and comparatively small imports, the quantity of wheat for con sumption fell below five bushels ahead, the price was sixty-four shillings. In the past twenty-five years the quantity has, on several occasions, fallen below that mark, and the prices of these years has averaged sixty shillings. If, therefore, the Black Sea ports oontinue closed daring the coming harvest year, we may be thankful if it goes no higher. FRANCE. MINISTER NOYES PRESENTED TO DUKE DE GAZES. Paris September 1.—Washbnrne pre sented Noyes to the Duke De Gazes, who received both gentlemen with great cordiality. He expressed regret at Mr. Washburne’s departure and warmly wel comed Mr. Noyes who made a suitable speeoh in which he congratulates himself upon entering upon relations with a minister who had always shown great sympathy for Americans, and with a oountry bound by so many ties to the United States. CUBA. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Havana,Sept 1—Captain General Jovel- lar has returned to Havana from the in terior. Large Shoe Sale in Boston. Boston, September 1.—The Associated Rubber Shoe Company have nearly com pleted the definite arrangements for hold ing a mammoth trade sale of their goods in this oity next October, at which goods to the value of three million dollars will be disposed of. WASHINGTON. HAYES AFRAID—CONNELL TO WIN. Newspaperdom. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] New York, September 1.—According to the report of George P. Rowell A Co., advertising agents, for the month of Au gust, there were established daring the month seventy-eight publications, con sisting of six dailies, one semi-weekly, sixty-fonr weeklies, six monthlies and one quarterly. Thirty-two papers suspended, comprising four daily, thirty-seven weekly and one monthly publication. WISCONSIN CAMERON AND ALABAMA OFFICERS —HON. A. LAWRENCE WILLING TO BE SCALPED—INSPECTION OF REVENUE COL LECTORS—FIGHT WITH THE NEZ PER0E8 ANTICIPATED—DEBT BEDUCEGD $3,859,- 528—VARIOUS MENTIONS. WISCONSIN CAMERON URGING ALABAMA AP POINTEES’ RETENTION. Washington, Sept. 1.—The pressure to retain the present incumbents in office in Alabama comes from Wisconsin instead of Pennsylvania. Each State has a Came ron in the Senate, one a very light weight, the other notorious. The Wisconsin Cameron had passed out of mind, hence the blunder. CORNELL TO WIN. The best opinion is that Cornell will be allowed to hold both civil and political office, and.that the famous order will de generate into advice. RESIGNED. Theopohlis Gains, recently appointed Attorney for Montana, has complied with the request to resign. Secretary Thomp son leaves Monday for two weeks. READY TO BE SCALPED. Hon. A. Lawrence, of Rhode Island, has accepted the civilian’s position on the Sitting Bull Commission. INSPECTION OF REVENUE COLLECTORS. Raum is preparing a circular to Reve nue agenfs to make quarterly inspections of the oharacter and efficiency of Internal Revenue Collectors and other employes in each collection district in the respec tive divisions assigned to the Revenue agents. Maj. Eli McClellan, Surgeon, is relieved from duty in the department of the South. INDIANS. Sherman telegraphs from Deer Lodge that the coming of the 3d Infantry gives great satisfaction to the people there. Sheridan telegraphs from Chicago, giving situation of the various forces and saying Howard should be there also, concludes: We should hear of a fight in a few days. There is not much danger of the Indians going to Sitting Bull. The Nez Perces and Sioux are not friendly, and always have fought each other. VICE CONSUL DEAD. The State Department has advices of the death of U. S. Vice Consul Harrison, at Guayamas. DEBT STATEMENT shows a decrease of $3,859,528; in the Treasury—coin, $107,000,000; currency, $1,750,000. APPOINTMENT. Thos. W. Kent, marshal of Southern Mississippi, Vice Lake resigned; Louis E. Parsons Attorney of Northern and Mid dle Districts of Alabama, Vice Mayer sus pended; Samuel G. Reid, marshal of Middle and Southern District of Alabama, Vice Turner suspended. ♦ —♦—♦ Fever at Fernandina. Special to the Enquirer-Sun.] Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 1.—The dis. ease which spread in Fernaudina, Fla., a few dayB since, is pronounced by physi cians to be billions intermittent fever of a malignant type and hemorrhage. Three deaths have occurred, and there have been fears that the epidemic might fol low. The report of the physicians was laid before the Board of Health of this city last night, and strict quarantine on freight and passengers was ordered until the Board is better satisfied of the sani tary condition of Fernandina. A special dispatch to-night says the disease readily yields to treatment. Indians in Wyoming;, Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Washington, September 1.—The Com missioner of Indian Affairs received a telegram from the Agent of the Shoshone Indians at Camp Brown, Wyoming, which says : The hostile Nez Pereas are re ported coming to this point. My Indians are perfectly friendly and loyal to the Government. Washakee, Chief of the Shoshones, says if they will give him a chance to mount his warriors, when they come, he can whip them in less than a day. Ohio Railroad Strike. Dayton, Ohio, September 1.—The en gineers, firemen and brakemen of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad refused to move freight trains yesterday. At midnight all was quiet, but the men are determined not to submit to changes recently made by the company. Cincinnati, Ohio, September 1.—The length of the trips of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Road was modified to meet the views of the men. No change in the cigar makers’ strike beyond the combination of ali manufac tures to stop unless the strikers return to work. This move is to prevent the em ployed giving aid to the strikers. CONFERENCE AT DAYTON. Cincinnati, Sept. 1.—The committee of freight men of the Cincinnati, Hamil ton & Dayton Railroad, who accepted the compromise with President Shoemaker yesterday are to-day conferring with the strikers at Dayton, Ohio, who refused to take out trains last night, with a view to induoing them to accept the compromise. Paris, Missouri, Burned by an In cendiary. St. Louis, September 1.—A special from Paris, Missouri, reports a half mil lion fire. Ten business blocks, including three hotels, telegraph, post office, and express office were consumed. The fire was incendiary. It originated in a saloon where a man named Tyler poured oil on the floor, saying he would burn the damned town. Tyler is in jail. BrigJtain Young Buried. Salt Lake, September 1.—Young will be buried Sunday. Ten Apostles will be present, two from Europe. An early se lection of a successor to Brigham is not expeoted. — Steamer to be Seized, New York, September 1.—It is stated in custom house circles that the steamer England will be seized on arrival for com plaints in smuggling. Races at Long Branch. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Long Branch, September 1.—In the three-quarter mile race, Egypt won, Key- bolt 2d, Lone Chase 3d. Time 1:18.J. One and one-quarter mile, Shylock won, Cyril 2d, King Bee 3d. Time 2:14. One and one-half mile, Partnership won, Auburn 2d, Aunt Betsy 3d. Time 2:514. _ Actor Davenport Dead. Canton, Pa., September 1.—E. L. Da venport passed a night of intense agony, and is now, 10:30 a. m., very low. LATER. E. L. Darenpgjt ^ ftt 11:55 A. H, Broken Boston Savings Boston, September 1.— On ascertain I that the July dividend had been D ^ by the Sandwich Savings Bank, the i Commissioner found that the bant*'* insolvent and obtained an injunction straining them from transacting any y ther business. The total amount of. posits in the bank is $11,000,000 (?) -T present difficulty is due to the shrint' in value of property in Boston and places, on which mortgages to the 8 m r - of $40,000 are held. The exact condi' of the bank cannot be ascertained Wood Paper Patent. New York, September l.—The Pi- Trade Journal announces that the (v missioner of Patents has extended ■ seven years more the Volter patent reducing wood to paper pulp. j t states the patentees will raise the uric' each pulp to 3 and a half. Weatker. Washington, September 1.—w tions—For the South Atlantic and * States, falling, followed by rising bar' eter, southerly winds shift to cooler no' wiDds, cloudy weather and occasi" light rains will prevail. Hesltb on a Sure Basin. In order to establish health on a sure t the enfeebled system must aaqulre addit; vigor. And yet, patent as this fact !• ^ widely known as it is, too many people this vital point In the self treatment 0 f •* ease, and physicians are often equally «- resorting to the use of palliatives which symptoms only,and fail to accomplish the ■ end in view, which is, or should be i* ; . tion. The main reason why Hostetter's s"t aoh Bitters are so successful in overc - disease, is that they impart vitality where • deficient, and thus buildup a superstrueN for exhausted nature to recuperate upon '* Bitters also improve the apppetite, sootin'' nervous system when overstrained, and genial and agreeable medicinal stimuli-' with a basis of pure spirit* holding in bo**' botanic elements of the greatest efficacy AMUSEMENTS. SPRINGER’S OPERA HOUSi MONDAY, SEPTEMBER: THE WALLACES OPERETTA, CONCERT and FARCE See Programmes. Mount de Sales Acadei FOR YOUNG LADIES, MACON, - - GA This Insitution, under the direction of Sisters of Mercy, is connected with St. Joseph's Academy COLUMBUS, QEORQIA, Whose reputation for educationaj advantages is unsurpassed through out the States. It is delightfully situated on an eminence, commanding an exten sive view of the surrounding coun try, and only twenty minutes ride from ? Nono College, so that parents sending :u daughters to the Mount and having sons j::: College, can visit both without additional::* eling expenses. The street ears pass in lm~, diate vicinity. The spacious recreation grutsi afford ample space for exercise. TL» e building comprises study halls, refectory.re creation halls and dormitories. Terms moderate, to suit the times. Young ladies not connected with the A»:* my who wish to enjoy the advantages oft sio, Needle Work, etc., will be received asp vate pupils. Studies will be resumed on Tuesday, >• tember 25th. For prospectus and further parties:* address DIRECTRESS OF THE ACADEME sep2 dlw&SE3t To Tax Payers of Muscof County. T HE BOOKS are now open for COLLI TION OF STATE AND COUNTY TI ES for tho year 1877. Prompt settlements is required by law. D. A. ANDREWS, Tax Collector Office in Georgia Home Building. ‘ sep2 eod« Notice to Shippers, SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE Southwestern Railroad, Macon, Qa., Augrst 31at, 18") NOTICE. From this date the Agency a: .■ niper will be discontinued, and su ture will be known as a “Flag’’ or no kit Station. All freights for that point mw. prepaid. W, G. RAOl’L sep2 lw ‘ Sup". Notice to the Public An Act to alter and amend a. act to change the place - holding Legal Sales in tj County of Muscogee* Section I. Be it enacted, etc.. That J first of an Act to change the place of hoi:-Lj legal sales in the county of Muscogee :< T altered and amended as to read as follow | Be it enacted, etc., That in the county of-••'l cogee all sales by Sheriffs, Constables, Eik-J tors, Administrators, Guardians and Tru-'u* may be held at any of the street corner: i Broad street between Bryan and Cra:u| streets, or at any regular auction hi- I between said streets, in the city of Colons-1 upon giving the legal notice designating - j time and place of sale. Section II. Repeals conflicting laws. , In compliance with above law the Soe:-j sales of Muscogee county will be ad™"* I and held in future at the Auction H«.- i Messrs. HIESCH & HECHT, on the core- . Broad and Crawford streets, in thecity^ * lumbus. Administrators, Executors, aiL -, ers advertising legal sales, will find it to - I interest to hold them at the same place | JACOB G. Bl RRl> f sep2eod5t Sheriff JVIuscogee Administrator’s Ui 1 By HIRSCH & HECfil (C. S. HARRISON, Auctioneer G FORG1A, MUSCOGEE COt’NTL ;. order of the Court of Ordinary gee county, will be sold, within the leg* 1 - " of sale; ON THE FIRST TUESDAY u TOBER NEXT', in front of Hirsch x. Store, corner of Broad and Crawford- ^ I Columbus, Ga , the north part of lot on Troup street (Female College si fronting about 65 feet on .-aid st reet, ■ ning back 147 feet 10 Inches, on whlcni- . fortable Four-room Dwelling, a two-roo building and kitchen—all in good repa-- , j» House is at present occupied by Bailey. Posession givenat once.^ Adm’r Estate F. I. Abbott, dece*- sep2 SEit — x C V EORGIA, MUSCOGEE <-’0P> T ; X Whereas, James Camah, e ~7 rt jjb Thomas Camak, represents to the .yX petition, duly filed and entered on re<. • • he has fully administered said e.-tate - This is, therefore, to cite all P 6 ;’. : cerned, kindred and creditors, to sh" any they can) why said exeeutor , gLouId discharged from his executorship- letters of dismission on the first December, 1877. „ , F. M. BROOK&, This September 2nd. 1877- ttQu y MOD 1 - 1 'Ol'N- G eorgia — muscogee .... Whereas John R. Garrett tion for permanent Betters of Aumi on the estate of Mark A. Garrett. ia county, deceased. . These are, therefore, to cite an,- • al ane singular, the kindred and c : jrt sai l de-' ased to show cause (if any t t within the time prescribed by la . ters of administration, as atoreja not be granted to said applicant- ii-jr: F. 31. BROOKb,_CT u “ w(< September 1st, 187 aef 30l*> h. AJ G eorgia — aiuscogee < Whereas George I. 3IeG"U“ trator de bonis non, with the , ' a/.Tdi' John R. Dawson, deceased, mftte ,“,n»l;’ for leave to sell all*the real and pe- 1 erty belonging to said estate. ajm 5 '' These are, therefore, to cite an ‘ e it > all persons interested to show cau they have), within the time presen ) , , c : why leave to sell said property 3* K granted to said:appheant^^ ^ August 31st, 1877. ^ rtrfft' G ~ EORGIA - 3IUSCOGEE Whereas John N. Barnetth3• = )(ir L( petition in proper form to me, pray .jj (35=' ters of Administration, w “j l ^ , i e -83 ;i ed, on the estate of Sarah Esnaro, ae j This is to cite all creditors, lega- ftB j kin, and any others interested, to - pear at the October term of the W (if *£l nary of said county, and they can) why letters of admiuis : the will annexed, should not be gr John N. Barnett.^ F. 31. BROOKS, 1 C. IU. September xdj 1877—eawi*? . ordin*”'
