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A STtllCT COS ST UlC nos OP TIIK CONSTITUTION—AM HONK9T AND BOO.VO.IIIC.IL ADMINISTRATION OF TIIK GOVKRNMKNT.
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Ragland & Wynne, Proprietors.
COLUMBUS, GA„ TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1871.
Volume XIHL—No. 32.
The Vi eckly Enquirer.
JOHN H. M A UTIN........ .Editok.
COLUMBUS 7
THURSDAY ...AUGUST 3, 1871.
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The First Boll.—The first open boll
of cotton that have hoard of in tLis
section was sent to our ollice yesterday,
it was from the farm of Mr. S. M. Inger-
soll, of Hnssdl county, Ala., about three
miles west of Columbus. It was fully
matured and open for piukiug.
Western Premiums on Cotton.—-The
great cities of tho West seem to be vicing
with each other in the way of otrering
handsome premiums for cottou exhibited
at their several fairs of this year. Wo
have already uoticed the liberal premiums
ott’ored l»y the Fair Association of St.
Louis. The “Cincinnati Industrial Expo
sition" is determined not to bo behind, as
wo learn from its circular announcing
premiums on cotton. It offers $2,450 in
premiums oil bales of cotton from tho
chief cotton growing States, viz: Texas,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Teunesseo, Missis
sippi, Alabama and Georgia—$250 for the
best bale, i.ud $100 for the next best,
from each of these Stales. It also otters
a ••sweepstakes premium" of a gold modal^’
open to all of these States. Cotton for
competition will be received up to Sept,
doth. '1 lie Exhibition will open Sept.
f>th, and continue until Oct. 7th.
Tuk A. A C. Rau.koad.—Wo copy a
notice of some revelations made by the
Chattanooga Times, concerning the swin
dling opera!ions of J. C. Stanton A Co.
in Irnildiug and retaining possession of j l,>
tho Alabama A Chattanooga Bailroad. | ^
The Time* bad, up to the time of these j 11.
revelations, been friendly to Stanton, and |
sustained him against those who tlr«t j a, ‘
denounced his course. It Attributes its J j
change of fueling towards him to his Into j ur ,
acts of had faith. Tho Timen statement j ph
as to tho very limited number of stock
holders in the road, and the still more
limited amount of their own cash which
they contributed to r.o groat an under
taking, will serve to show with what
facility and assurance Northern adven
turers have gulled and involved Southern
Stales. North Carolina and Florida have
1 eon leeched in this way eveu worse than
Alabama, and have now to confront the
dire alternative of bankruptcy or repudi
ation. Tho report of the cost of the
Alabama A < 'haltunooga Railroad, or rather
of tho amount of obligations incurred by
tho Stantons in building it, is startling.
It portend*, we fear, a slim chance for tho
State of Alabama to protect more than
one-third of her endorsements by any
course that sho may pursue. Those en
dorsements, wo believe, amount to about
£7,000,000, though a protest is made
against the endorsement of some $(100,000
of this amount as unwarranted and fraud
ulent.
From tho other end of the line we havo
accounts of tho taking*possession of tho
road in Mississippi and Alabama, by tho
Statu of Alabama, through her ageuts,
Geu. James 11.‘Clanton aud J. Giudrat
Wiutor. The western end of tho road
was held by the unpaid employees, against
tho Stanton company, but they have gen
erally acquiesced iu the claim of the State,
relying upon it for the payment of back
wages. Stanton, when ho heard of this
movement by the State, telegraphed to
his agents along the line to suspend op
erations and secure and retain all tho
stock of tho company under their control.
They have no doubt made an effort to
concentrate as much of the stock as pos
sible in Tennessee, and will eudoavor to
hold it there, as well ns the end of tho
road iu Tennessee. The seizure of the
road by tho State of Alabama was made
with the assistance of the sheriff* of the
counties through which it runs.
Cotton lY. ulatlens In Sew York.
To the Editor of the Journal of Com-
The owners of cotton shipped to this
port are compelled to submit to more
loss by stealing, and that without any
protection from tho law, than the owners
of any other class of goods.
1 Lave been iu a po»nkm for the past
several years twithout haviug the power
to stop it) to witness the shameful, bare
faced rubbery committed almost daily by
samplers, loaders and weighers' meu.
For the first few yeurs 'alter the war a
great deal of the blame for loss of weight
was attached to storekeepers, aud iu
many cases justly, but that was very easi
ly remedied : for a storehouse, once com
plained of, could no longer get business
from u me.chant.
'1 he next, and probably the worst class
of meu, are the samplers of cotton. Tho
eyes of any observer, uuless closed by
something thicker thun a pair of eyelids,
cannot tail to observe tho difference be
tween the size of a sample represented in
tue office of a cotton broker und the huge
handlulis pulled from either side of the
bale by tin so iucu. A small portion of
tho coiton thus extracted is placed, after
being properly classed in a paper ready
tor tiauspoitaiu.il to the office of the
broker; the balance is packed tight
bag for transportation to tho nearest re
ceiver - of stolen goods, who passes under
tho respectable name of junk dealor,
Not only the lueiclient receiving tho cot
ton loses by tins class of thieving, but ul-
so the owner of tho cotton; ns the sam
pler invariably endeavors to cover his
enme, by asking, ami in the majority of
cases receiving, unjust allowances.
Weighers ns a rul^rc to blame for al
low n-; tbe demands of the sampler, but
in « very ci.se whoro a dispute has arisen
in rcgaid to allowance, and it lias beeu
r. ferud the Board of Brokers, they in
variably decide lor their employee.
Tho weighers men coino in for their
share «.f tin* spoils in the shape of cotton
winch the samplers draw oft’ next the bug-
gum. i.s being too poor to mix with the
Inti. »li.v.ot cot i on underlying it. The
before plaoing
The Earthquake In the Philllplae IriamU.
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This was tho language addressed to a
crowd of his race, assembled around the
gallows to seo him hanged, by Lewis Oup-
pedge, a negro, who was executed at
Wadesboro’, N. C., on the 21st ult., for
tho murder of an estimaLle citizen of
Anson county iu that State. He made a
full confession of his guilt, aud iu the
above plain words bo warnd the colored
people to break off from au association
and an inllucncc that had brought him to
so disgraceful a doom.
There never was a more timely warn
ing, or one that more urgontly demunded
tho attention of the race to whom it was
addressed. They know that the attempt
to make them ignorant politicians has
been only hmtful aud injurious to them
selves ; tLat if any benefit was derived
fi«>ui it. it was monopolized by the nehetu-
iug white adventurers who only used the
negroes to advance their own selfish de
signs. They have obUiuod office aud
plunder, bnt the negroes are worse off to
day than they were before they attached
themselves to a political organization.
Instead of getting “forty acres and a
mule." hundreds of deluded negroes have
died oil the giUows, and thousands of
them are suffering in penitentiaries and
jails, for crimes to the commission of
which they were led by bad white men,
who allured them from honest labor or
intlamed their passions against their best
friends. Lewis Coppedgtf found them
out too late. Let others of his race heed
Lis warning and abandon in time the
company that led linn to his ruin.
A little negro child was accidentally
Idiot and killed, by tho discharge of a pis
tol in the hands* of a larger white boy, in
Savannah, on Saturday loot. The boys
were playing with the pistol, and the sad
result was evidently an accident. But
some cue is generally to blame when boys
are permitted to play with loaded pistols.
Horace King has obtained the oontract
to rebuild the bridge over the Chattahoo
chee river, near La Grange, which was
burned during the war. Of coarse it will
be well and substantially built.
Speaking of Gen. Butler’s candidature
for the Governorship of MaSBacbuaeta, a
paper of that State says: “Because the
the Fifth Congressional District has got
him, like the small-pox, that is no reason
why he should be spread all **
pbusetts," %
cm . n the Ini us. before the eyes ot
Piiwh.Miro absolutely pmd to prevent
is iv thing.
iu ti.« fu< o ot all these factR, pntent to
v intclligi nt. watchful man, oau any
». be Mirpri.-eil that cotton loses weight?
n- eecret lies m a nut-shell, Merchants
e not as enrol uI ol their outride etu*
oyooM ns they should be; it is a tjues-
►i» of misplaced confidence. They have
tho pow« i; to stop nil thieving by refusing
to allow a limn to sample cotton whom
they know will steal, and also refusing to
employ a weigher who will not stop his
men from picking up the leavings of tho
samplers, and finally by not giving busi
ness lu n carman who cannot get men to
load without continually ripping bales
and taking cottou from them.
Our shippers endeavored to correct this
thieving by re Weighing, but they fell into
a grievous mistake. Their losses were
not attributable to false weighing.
All cotton should bo weighed, then
sampled, and all sample holes sowed up,
tlu n reweip.hr d. and if any reniakablu dts-
civpeney exists between tho first and sec
ond weighing, there is but one party re
sponsible for the loss, namely, tho sam
pler, and he baluuccH his account by tbo
sumplnn drawn.
One weigher cited a case in my hearing,
of a complaint made by a sampler that ho
shipped l•/» bales of cotton to a mill with
in the last .‘JO days, and they reported a
loss of -iso p»unda (equivalent to a hale of
cotton ), and ho was sure that he only took
one half of that.
Why not make nil storekeepers weigh j
nil samples taken from the bnles, aud
give them authority to arrest any one in
the act of stealing or carrying away any
cotton from their storehouses?
It is ulmqri useless to employ detec
tives, us they have invariably boon
seen by tho pooplo they were hired to
watch.
If tho Cotton Exchange will spend a
litte time, practically discussing tho moans
of eradicating an evil, that has been a
curse since the war broke out, they will
confer a great bonetit on tho trade
Rex.
W-.kly Circular,
t OTTOS.
Liverpool, July 14, 1871.
The Situation.—We have iu several
of our recent reports culled attention to
the fact that the recent very rapid reduc
tion iu the visible supply was much more
a]) pa rout than real, and lust week we gave
a table showing that the actual ponttion
on the doth nil., including the stock held
by English aud Continental spinners, in
dicated an excess in supplies then as com
pared with corresponding date last year
of about bOO,(MX) bales. A further inves
tigation of the subject satisfies us we
then underestimated thu supplies held by
Continental spinm rs, und if, in addition,
wo had taken into account tho excess of
stocks held in Russian and Spanish ports
it would have been nearer correct to put
the excess at about 700,000 bales. This
largo excess iu the actual supply will, of
course, have an important hearing upon
the course of prices sooner or Liter, for
it is very evident the time must come
when from olio cause or other the trade
will lull back upon the large stocks which
they hold, and wo are then utmost certain
to iiave u long dull spell aud a conse
quent react ion iu prices. This is the
weak point iu the present position of the
market. But, on the other hund, if tbe
American crop grown this year should
continue to give promise of a decreased
yield, us compared with the crop of last
year, of about one million of bales,
which seems now to bo about the popular
estimate, this would not only offset the
excess iu the present actual supply, but
allow some Coo,000 bales for decreased
productions next year, it should further
be borne in mind the question of actual
supplit can only be approximately ar
rived at by tlio/z!/? who carefully study
the fitatiriic* of tho trude, and conse
quently exerts a less direct iutluence on
prices limn the r ini He supply at the prin
cipal markets which are more generally
observed. Now from our usual weekly
table given above it will be seen we make
London, July 27th, 1871.—A terrible
earthquake visited tho Philipine islands
iu the mouth of May lust. It commenced
ou the swull island of Camiguin, live
miles iu length, near the island of Mina-
mis. There hud been a succession of vi
olent shocks for some months, which
opeued several extensive devices.
Tremblings of the ground were espe
cially felt in March, till fiuully, on May 1,
tbe level plain near the village of Cutur-
miu begun to subside, until tho tops of
the houses were ou a level with ihe sur
face of the earth.
A crowd of people wore attracted by
curiosity, nud renmiuud for several hours
eagerly wutching the pht uouienou, when
suddenly terrific shocks, accompanied by
thundering revorburalious, burst upon
tho island.
The earth was torn asunder and the
whole level plain fell iu. At the same
time a volcano, with a crater fifteen feet
wide, which hud been for .several days in
au unusual stute of activity, broke out
into a terrible eruption, sending forth
columns of white sulphurous smoke und
torrents of lava aud boiliug water.
Musses of rock were hurled aloft into
tho uir, columns of hru shot forth, aud
stones Hud ashes weie throwu up to ihc
height of thousands of foot.
One hundred und fifty persous were on-
gulfed iu tbo vent which opened ul the
base of tho volcano. (Several other large
openings were made iu the ground, from
which proceeded a terrific explosion aud
jets of (lame.
The explosion, which Rounded like the
thunder of heavy artillery, had lasted lor
several hours. Then suddenly there en
sued a pause till durk, when another ex
plosion broke out.
More crevices were opened, moro lava
llowod down tho volcano,engulfed houses
on its way and rushed with a hissing
sound into tlm sea. Black dust was
driven up utul overhung the island like u
cloud, and columns of smoke nnd tire,
with brilliant displays of light, continued
to issue from the crater. B beeuied liter
ally to rain tire, while strong exhalations
ol gas poisoned tho air.
'J ho woods caught fire, tho men nud
cattle fl # \ iug before the flumes. Tho spec
tacle was (rightful. Tho whole village
was destroyed; the houses either sunk into
tho ground or were left shapeless ruins.
The eruption of tho volcano still con
tinues, Iml ull tho inhabitants have left
tho island.
Tremblings of tho ground were felt all
over tho neighboring islands.
The island of Cumiguiu had until lately
215,000 inhabitants.
It produced Manila hemp, tho quantity
of which amounted to ouo tenth of the
whole quantity grown on the Ehillippine
Islands.
THE FUILL1PFIKE ISLANDS.
Theso islands uru in tin* Indian Archi
pelago, and are nearly twolvo hundred in
number. There are but few large islands,
most of them being mere ciijh. The pop
ulation reaches nearly fivo millions of
people, comprising Malays, Oriental ne
groes, the descendants ol* Chinese, and a
tow Spaniards. Tin y were discovered by
Magellan in 1521, and taken possession of
by Phillip 11., ot Spain, in 1 Imt oven
now Spanish dominion over them is not
complete. Manila is tho capital, und a
city of some importance, Manila hemp
cordage taking its name fioui this place.
The trade of the isluuds is suiull and the
industry of tho people nnimportunt. A
range of mountains runs through the en
tire group of islands, and these are mostly
of volcanic formation. There are many
extinct craters and a few active voloauoos,
the Archipelago being, on the whole, an
excellent place for earthquakes.
More About the I’ojm’n Aililns*.
Ti:l«*nri»ni to tlit* New York llt-ruM.J
Rome, July 27.—Tho Pope, in reply to
thu address of the deputation of thu Ro
man Academy, bearing Peter's pence,
said, in addition to what was reported by
special telegram yesterday:
The Church invites her ehildron to de
fend her ugiiinst tho ignorance und malice
of her assailants.
The doctnuu of infallibility has been
sufficiently vindicated and clous not iu-
volvo any power on tho part of the Papacy
to dispossess sovereigns.
Popes dispossessed sovereigns in for
mer times, not because of their attribute
of infallibility, which only tpuches thu
dootrinos of tho Church, but bcouuse of
tho authority then recognized in Popes.
Tho authority of tho Pontiff in those
times was considered public law, nnd
Christian uations accepted tho Popo as
sniireme judge.
The enemies of tho Church confound
the present with the past in this regard,
which iu due to their hud faith or their de
sire to influence States against tho Church.
Any commeuts on the decisions of tho
Ecumenical Council nro superfluous, as
the text of tho resolutions is sufficiently
clear.
A Great Western Plain.—[From tho
New York Independent* 1—Tho vast
stretch of plain—six hundred or moro
miles wide—extending from Ogden,Utah,
to the foot of tho Sierra Nevada Moun
tain, provos to he richer than was at first
supposed. Instead of being au absolute
ly barren, infertile couutry, chemical
analysis of the soil shows that it is ex
ceedingly rich in nitrogenous matter, pot
ash, and other mineral elements for rais
ing almost any variety of crons. The
chief ingredient* of this “alkali ’ are gyp
sum or phosphate of lime, fhe chlorides
of potassium and soda—a combination of i j 1,rljp d over, and father replaced it, w hen
the highest fertilizing qualities, if not iu ** turned upside down uguin without fur-
too great excess. It needs only regular 1 * ier ,,ot *cc\
and abundant irrigation to render this I “I went into the bed-room and got my
section the finest agricultural territory of , r: ^° a,,t l shot-gun, and took them out and
the far West. The soil is finely commin- ; ,lrt:d 1,10111 nH danger, and
uted, and when watered will yield almost I " hen I got back I took out tho clock from
every variety of crop in the most profuse j ^ ,0 bed-rooui, and while on the porch
abundance. The organic and mineral cl- J Iraard U ,tJ nieknacks, toys, etc., About fifty
ements are practically inexhaustible, u '"‘ " * “ *
Trueliu on the Defeiirire-The Story ofAuguri,
is 70.
New York, Juno 28.—Foreign flies by
tho steamer to-day contain a report of
Trochu’s defense before tbe National As
sembly. After referring to tho Accom
plishment by the Prussians of tho turuiug
movement which ho dreaded and antici
pated, Gen. Trocim said tho following
day, August 17, the Emperor summoned
the Generals to a conference, which I at
tended. I will uot mention a single fact for
w hich I have uot living evidences or writ
ten proof. There were present tho Em
peror. Prince Napoleon, Marshal McMa
hon, General Bertault, Gen. Hcinitz nud
myself. 1 think that while tho confer
ence was iu progress Gen. DeCouraou and
Prefect Dupaleis caiuo into tho room nnd
remained. Tho Emperor asked this
council what they thought of tho slate of
affair* and what was beat to be done.
Uuaniuiously and through Prince Napo
leon, and also through me, the council
expressed itself iu thu following textual
terms:
The Eiuperor has abandoned tbo gov
ernment by going to take command of
the army nt such a distance. His maj
esty 1ms just nhundonod the command of
the army and given it up to Marshal Ha-
/.line, lie is alone at tho camp ol'Cha
lons without any army do facto command.
He has abdicated bolli tho government
ami tho command. Unless his majesty
wishes to abdicate altogether, he is hound
to resume either tho government or tho
command of thu nriuy. His majesty
acknowledged that this statement was iu
conformity with the facts.
The council added that it did not think
it possible for the Emperor to resume tho
command of the army, nnd, therefore,
that the only course was to resume, with
u firm hand, the reigns of government,
’•'ins view met with the Emperor’s appro
bation. Prince Napoleon added that in
order that the Emperor hhould resume
tho reigns of power in safety, his inten
tions should be notified to the Parisian
population by a general officer, who
should piecede him and take military aud
moral precautions to prepare tlio public
for his majesty's arrival. Turning to
ward me, the Emperor asked me would I
undertake that mission. I replied: “Sire,
you ask me to go to Paris to announce
your arrival ami to take tho command in
chief, I will do all that, but with the
clear understanding that tho army ot Mar
shal McMahon will become thu army of
relief for Paris, for we are sure to he be-
Hoiged." Tho Emperor acquiesced. Mar
shal McMahon hud previously declared
that that was precisely the duty his army
lmd to fulfill. This conference broke up
at 11:30, after agreeing to a kind of con
vention. couched in these terms: Gen.
Trochii, appointed Governor of Paris nud
commander iu < liief, will immediately
slur! for Paris. Jle will precede tho Em
peror by a lew hours. Marshal McMahon
will march on Paris with his army.
That night I arrived at the Tuileries
and waited on the Empress Regent. 1
found her full of firmness, full of courage,
hut excited and distrusting me.
“Gcuorul," said her majesty (I quoto
her words toxtually), “only the. Empeior's
enemies could havo urged on him this
return to Paris. He would not reach tho
Tuilcries alive. No, General, tho Empe
ror shall nut come to Paris. Ho will re
main at Chalous. ”
“But, then, madam, tho convention,
iu virtue of which 1 have come hero, is
no good. The Emperor sends mo here
t<» defend him, and ho does not follow
luo.”
“You will defend Paris, and fulfill your
mission w ithout the Emperor."
1 replied: “Very well, luadamo. I will
defeml Paris without the Emperor. I
have brought with ino thu proclamation
in which 1 desire to make known to the
population that I have been appointed
governor and commuuder in chief during
the *
ego.
The Empress interrupted me: “Gon-
cral, tho Emperor's name must not appoar
iu a proclamation nt a time like this. In
the prescut stato of tho public mind there
would ho serious objection to ullow this
reference to tho Emperor.”
The name was struck out.
Aft* r referring to his misunderstanding
with Gen. Palikuo, who rofused to allow
the army of Marshal Bnzaine to return to
Paris, and dispatched reinforcements to
Mo*z and Verdun contrary to the opinion
of Gen. Trocliu, tho General proceeded
to describe the events which followed on
tho disaster of Sedan.
A filioHt Star) AI D ried tinier Oath.
CiM innati, July 25!.—They have a first
class sensation near Germantowu, Ohio,
in thu shape of manifestations of spirits
at the hoiiHO of Benjamin Stiver. The
furniture is removed, milk crocks upset,
eatables disturbed, and tho whole house
hold disarranged in the nioRt extraor
dinary manner. Eight members of the
family, though not all residing together,
appear in an article iu the Commercial
this morning, under oath, reciting the
circumstances with singular particularity.
The affiants are old citizens, aud liuvo the
general respect of tho people of that
comity.
The following is a specimen of tho
sworn testimony of one of tho witnesses,
Benjamin F. Stiver:
“The family Bible, which was ou tho
bureau, fell ou the floor, no ouo being
within its reach at the time. Mother
picked it up und laid it hack, and it fell
again immediately after sho had removed
her hand from it. The balance of the
chairs, six or suven, commenced turning
KiiinmersaultH in the room, and the cradle
soon as tbo surface soil becomes exhaust
ed they ascend by attraction and evapora
tion from the subsoil beneath. It is
quite probable that artesian wells will be
sunk for trial in some portions of these
arid wastes. There is every reason to be
lieve, from the conflgnration of the coiuf-
.. 11 . ... j , ,neve, from tne configuration of the count,
tlm present vislblo supply only 132,7*> t lhat water cun b bo qoiolily reaohed
m.Vi'TT. h "' I da,e U “- year ’ and if so, the old Raying ujay yot lie uinde
wbilHt Hie "took Imre n Liverpool is now . true . .- rh . desert shull blossom liko tho
actually reduced to within (18,030 bales of
the figures of last year at this date. This
lari item seems at first glance really as-
tonishing when taken in connection with
the fact that the imports into this port
since 1st January last have exceedoil tho
corresponding period of last year by 721,-
7fio b iles.
In our report of lust week we estimated
tho stock of cotton held by English spin
ners on the 80th ultimo at 220,000 bales ;
since then, say two weeks, they have
taken from this port and London 158,000
bales, und assuming consumption at 52,-
0(K) bales per week, they would now ap
pear to b<»l l 200,(M) bales, against about
52,000 at this time lust year. The stock
at the Continental ports,excepting Havre,
which is given iu our table above, and ex
cluding the port* of Spain and Russia,
from whi-h *<• cannot obtain regular and
accurate returns, uiuounted ou the 7th
instant to 182,150 bales, against 07,100
last year and 28,150 tho year before.
tqH'cial hii*|i.itrli to tli*- $H\uiiu.k)i Advertiser.]
Washington, July 22.—Dr. George A.
Stone, late auditor of tbe Chicago Custom
House, has boeu appointed deputy collec
tor of the port of Savannah, vioe Well
man removed. Charles A. Townsend, of
the Secretary of tho Treasury’s office, has
been detailed by Secretary Boutwell to
assist in the reorganization of the foroe
employed in that office. It is understood
that the position of auditor of the Savan
nah Custom House has been tendared to
Mr. Townsend.
The desert shall blossom like tho
rose."
Arkansas—The War or the Factions.
Little lluck % July 27.—James Brooks, the
leader of the faction of the Republican
party opposed to Clayton, mado a speech
ou Weihiesduy to a crowd of negroes
near this place, in which ho was particu
larly severe on the Clayton party, charg
ing them with many wrongs and outrages
against the people. He ad vised tho no-
gToes to vote for honest men, even if
they were Democrats ; that many of tho
latter party conld bo trusted a groat d< al
more than some in their party. He fuv-
ored amnesty. The speech was loudly
applauded by the negroes. Quite a war
bus beeu going on for some time between
the Clayton aud Brooks factions in this
county for tho negro strength. Thu lat
ter has it all his own way ho far.
Finohback, a colored member of tho
Louisiana Legislature, stated the situation
between himself and Colonel Carter,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
when he aaid: “I havo been playing sec
ond fiddle long enough. I want it dearly
understood that I'm not a Warmotb man,
or a Dunn man, nor a Carter man. If I'm
going to be in the orchestra I shall be one
of the cheif fiddlers. For instance, I am
very friendly with Colonel Carter, and he
honors me with bis friendship. But
just as soon as Oerter gets what he wanta
out of Pinohbuek, Pinchbaok may go to
the devil—and (alter a long pause.) I'm
4-4 if it atait ffeiffna, '
n number, swept frum the mantelpiece to
tho flour, it number of which were broken
by the fall. No ouo was iu tho room ut
tbo time.
“When I was taking tho nieknacks out,
the light, which was on the dough-tray in
the bod-room, was thrown off to the floor
aud put out. I took out the tray, und
while gone the bunch ou which the tray
was standing was turned upside down in
its place.
“While we wero carrying the bureau
and cupboard from the sitting-room into
tho yard, we heurd a noise iu the bed
room. Father wont there, followed by
mother and the boy, and ho saw tho guns
which had been placed by mo under tbe
chest after they were discharged, moving
away further under the chest. Ho saw
them move eight or ton inches. The
shovel, which probably proddeed the
noiso, was moved a distance of three or
four feet, aud a crock, which contained
nuils, was upsit.
“As father and mother and the little
boy were starring out of the bed-room,
tho boy remurked ‘that the feather-bed
was moving, angling across the bed.
Mother shoved it iiguiust the wall again,
and as they turned to go out of the room
the feather-bud was hoisted away oft' tho
bed to the middle of tho floor, striking
their heels and falling upside down, with
the quilt accompanying. ’
“They then started op stairs, tho little
boy behind, aud as he passed a large bag
of flour standing at the foot of tbe stair
way in the hall, ue remarked, touching it,
‘I guess this will go next,’ and before he
got up stairs be beard the bag fall off the
stool on which it had been standing, no
one being near at tbe time.
“When we got down stairs again into
the sitting-room, the stool in the hall
where the floor was, tumbled into the
sitting-room from the hall, a distance of
four or five feet. We then heard some
noise in the sleeping-room again, and
k f*tUoriBduvtb«iftttu4 « «|w4 (<u»td
ovor; nnd then, when they wore in tho
kitchen, tho dining-room table turned
over in its tracks, before father's nud
mother's eyes, ns quick as lightning. Ou
the porch lho flower pots wore likewise
tumbled over."
A lb'rnhl toinig Man In TiouMc.
One of the Herald young men, who
had probably boon falsifying Mr. Davis
in ouo of his sousuliotud articles, writes
ns follows of uu interview with tho ex-
Prosidcnt:
“Good morning, Rir," said Mr. Davis,
as ho hoard my uumo and pointed to a
chair. “Whoro have you buou ?”
“North Carolina and Georgia.”
“Do you know anything of a dispatch
thut was scut to tho Herald from Cliutia-
noogu about nio.”
“Y os ; I Sent it myself."
“And who gave you authority to speak
for mo or to say what 1 think ?’
“Well, sir, I suppose tho letter — "
And where did you see that lottei ?”
“lu Atlunlu," said I, woudoriug moro
and more what, was meant by this strange
catechising. I did not droaiu that Mr.
Davis could take the dispatch 1 had soiit
as u deadly injury, nud so fur his liiuunor
was quiet and gentlemanly.
lu Atlanta. Aud who showed you
thut letter ?"
Tho nigger now suddenly became
plainly visiblo iii tho fence. 1 saw Mr.
Davia wus mud und wus temporizing to
find out how his letter had got abroad.—
Whatever may bo his other faults, lie has
at least this virtue, that he would make a
y bad lawyer. Ho can’t hide his real
footings long enough to successfully
TOSB-eXamiuo a witness five minutes. (it
lourse, I was now tally warned, ami mado
up my mind uot to divulge (lie wished for
information. To havo done so would
have boon no breach of confidence; but
l did not choose to bo wheedled or bullied
out of it, so 1 answered quickly :
“That 1 must decline to toll you."
“Well, sir,” proceeded Mr. Davis, ‘that
dispatch was false; 1 don't behove you
ovor saw that letter.”
“But, Mr. Davis "
“Excuse me'one moment." Atul hero
Mr. Davis quickly passed out into his
outer office und, us 1 believe, armed him
self with u pistol, aud asked his elerlts to
keep a sharp lookout tor whatever might
occur. It was an altogether unnecessary
precaution, it' Ibis supposition bo true.—
i havo boon South twice, have made long
visits each time, huve been in all Hurts ol
rough plucos, and never carried a pistol,
aud never hud tho slightest occasion to
use one on previous occasions. 1 do not
protend to tie a lighting man, and unless
pushed to tho wall ami actually attnekod
novor should lire upou a follow-being.--
Even thou 1 would ruthor bo taken for a
coward and save myself by (light than
livo with my hands blackened with tho
stain of bloodshed in a private quarrel.
These uro strange aud ignoble Monuments,
no doubt, iu tho eyes ol a Southern cava
lier like Mr. Davis, who, wo can ull easi
ly believe, has outlived any squeamish
scruples about the sanctity ol human life,
lie must havo learned though thut. thou
sands of men who hold similarly unwor
thy opinions can march into a buttlo-liuld
at tho bidding of Fatherland and boar
themselves likotnou who uro afraid to die
only in a bad ouu.so.
Mr. Davis cuuie back into his room ami
nt. onco took up tho conversation in a
much bolder tone. I need not detail it at
length, though it was very short. It was
much the sumo in substance as that al
ready given ; bnt it wus all one-sided.—
At first 1 endeavored to reason with the
irate President, but he would listen to
uotliing, nnd cut off my kciUoucoh us re
morselessly and arbitrarily as ho would
have done my huud if ho had still been
thu chosen Lord of 8,(100,000 of people
aud I had boon nt his mercy. There was
only one special point in it thut not'd be
noticed. 1 confessed, of course, that 1
had not weighed every scutum-e in his
lot ter, though i was too polite to add that,
even if 1 hud, his literary style is too ob
scure to bo really understood. I told him
that 1 hud ouly read thu second page/
“But you said just now that some one
hail road it to you. You see you dou’t
tell the same story."
“That is true too."
“How can it bo," pursued tho ex-Presi-
dent, aud, liko jesting Pilule, when he
asked, “What is truth ?" would not stay
for an answer. Of course, my readers
will see from tho explanation 1 huve pre
viously given, und most of them would
be sharp enough to seo without any ex
planation that it is possible for a num to
read u letter, the purt or whole of which
has also boon read to him.
Mr. Davis now worked himself into a
perfect frenzy of passion, ilis eyes glit
tered with rugc, nud one might suppose
him some malignant sorpent, whose fang
of death had been taken away from him,
but who still returned, oven iu his present
impotence, tho evil passions that marked
his former power of ill. He tulked along
for a minute or so, nud finally w ound up
by roaring out iu steutoriuu tunes,
“You uro a liar and a puppy, sir."
I rose und at once said, “Alter that, Mr.
Duvis, 1 hud better go.”
“Yes, sir; clar, clar," was tho response,
Mr. Duvis, iu liis wrath, relapsing into tho
negro pronunciation of his section.
And 1 “clarrod." But 1 shall novor
forget the closing scene before my exit."
llloody Alfru) Iii ArkatiKAN.
A fatal slimy took place in tho western
part of Benton comity, near the headwa
ters of Honey crock, on Mouduy last, be
tween bouio parties by thu names of
Recco and Pierce, who all live in thu sumo
neighborhood. It socuis thut sumo time
ago there had been some difficulty nt
school between the children of tho fami
lies, which had caused ill fcolings to
spring tip between the older members.
On Mouduy lust some ten or eleven meu
were engaged iu threshing wheat iu n
field near the residence of Jaiuos Reece,
tho father of -Rome hall' dozen sons, w ho
were present. About it o’clock a. m. six
men, four of the Pierce family, one
named Manis, and one named Williams,
caine into the field, aud stood arouud the
thresher near ah hour. All of a sudden,
without any intimation, George Pierce
struck Andrew J. Recco with a pitchfork.
James Reece, tho futber, then struck
Piorco with a grain shovel, and then
father and son closed in with Pierco iu u
ground scuftilo. Williams then drew a
six-shooter and shot James Recco in tho
back of the bead, inflicting a dangerous,
aud it is feared a fatal wound, aud also
shot A. J. Recce, wounding him slightly.
Pierce then regained his foot, and imme
diately shot A. J. Reece again, killing
him instantly. A general fight then en
sued in which two others, one on each
side, wero slightly wounded. The assail
ants soon rot routed, and when some thirty
yards distant George Pierce turned
arouud nnd shot buck at the crowd, and
at the same instant he received a shot
from some one at the threshes, from the
effect* of which he died the next day.
Assailants have not yet been arrested.
These are the facts as they were given to
us by an eye-witness.
Tho Dunkirk (Chautauqua county, N.
Y.) Journal is thu source of tho follow iug
item:
. We have, on credible authority, the
statement that snow foil in the southern
portion of the Caaadaga Valley, in this
county, on the night or the 21ut of July,
1871, to the depth of six iuches or moro.
We are told that the crops in tho vicinity
of Levant have been thereby greatly dam
aged, and some of them wore entirely de
stroyed. Capt. Smith, of (he D., W. Jc
P. Bailroad, reported snow in Caaadaga
Valley at 7 o’clock on Saturday morning,
the 22d inst., at an inch or more. The
snow fell in the village of Forestville, on
the morning of the 21st, so generously
that the bovs in the streets snow-balled
From tho 8*1 ma T(iuw.
TIIK STANTON' SWINDLE.
Tlio Chultrtuonga Times of the 28th ult.
gives a derailed history of the proceed
ings instituted in the bankrupt court in
Ne*v York agaiust the Alabama and Cbnt-
taiioogu Railroad Company by Buckley,
Welling & Co., creditors of the company.
This history discloses a system of swind
ling, which, for the boldness and effront
ery of its performances, and tho magnifi
cent proportions of its operations, is cer
tainly unparalleled in this State. We
confess to no surprise at these disnlumires.
Tho Times admits its former belief iu J.
C. Staulou’s good faith, und i'.s persistent
efforts to BtiNtaiu him, but confesses now
to having its eyes opened to “uti atrocious
ece of swindling.”
T he proceedings in bankruptcy, ns pub
lished in tho Times, are too voluminous
to be transferred in full to our columns.
11, however, condense the substance
f, so us to bo understood fully, and
at the sumo time not take up too much of
our space. These proceedings elicited
the following facts :
1. Tlio capital stock of tho Alabama
al Chattanooga Railroad Compnuy
uoiintH to six millions of dollars.
2. That tho stock is divided into ton
shares.
3. T hat D. N. & J. C. Stanton own or
control from four to six of those shares,
and the most of the other shares nro held
in different proportions by F. B. Loomis,
Lewis Riee and A. 0. Lippot.
4. That those persons arc directors of
the company, and constitute u majority
of the board of directors.
5. That littlo or nothing has been paid
on the stock by the stockholders, and that
the road has been built with tho proceeds
of the boiuls of the company, together
with the proceeds of the two millions of
bonds of tho State of Alabama.
«!. That the reasotiable cost of buildiug
and equipping the road would bo less than
six millions of dollars.
7. That the company owes a bonded
d* bt secured by first mortgage of four
millions eight hundred thousaud dollars,
a bonded debt Recured by second mort
gages of twelve millions sevcu hundred
thousand dollars ; a debt to tbe State of
Alabama of two millions of dollars, nml
floating debt of two millions one hundred
and thirty-two thousand and nineteen dol
lars ami sixty-five cents; making nn ag
gregate indebtedness of twenty-one mil
iums six hundred nud thirty-two thousand
and nineteen dollars and sixty-live cents.
S. That of said floating debt about
seven hundred and twenty thousaud dol
lars consists of local debts incurred in
and about tho construction, equipment
nnd local ummigemeut of the road. In
the several iuortgugcs # wado by the Com
pany, a stipulation was inserted, tlmt if
default should bo made in payment of in
terest on either tho llrat or second bonds
for the space of throe months, tho Com
pany should, on demand of the trustees
therein named, surrender the possession
of tho road, its books, records, papers,
accounts and money, to such trustees, to
manage and operate the same uutil such
default should be satisfied, if tho profitBof
tlio r* ad, after paying expenses nud com-
pensa'.tou to tho trustees, should bo suffi
cient therefor.
No bond was required of theso trus
tees, nor any limit of time fixed for thoir
possession of tho road. It was provided,
however, that the trustees should uot de
mand possession of tho road until requir
ed to do so, by at least one-half of tbe
holders of tho bonds of tho company,
then oulstnnting and unpaid. Tho mort
gage was executed in the first instance to
S. A. Carlo ton, Lewis Rico and R. T.
I’uino, jr., as trustees. Cnrleton and
l’aino wore induced to resign and D. N.
Stanton, the President of the road, was
substituted in the place of one of them.
This arrangement gave tho President und
Directors (tho Stantons and thoir confed
erates) tho powor to demand, as trustees,
the possession of tlio road from them
selves as Directors, whenever they should
make default in payment of interest, and
could procure tho consent of a majority
(in value) of tho bondholders.
Nueh being the condition of the affairs
of tho road m 1870, Buckley, Welling &
Co. held a lull drawn by the treasurer of
tho road ou tlio company, and accepted
iu favor of Richards, Stanton A Co.
(a house in which tho Stantons wero
interostod, nnd through which tbe mnto-
riuls nnd supplies for tho roud wore pnr-
clmsod ou commission). The bill wus
not paid at maturity, nnd Buckley,
Welling & Co. thereupon commenced
their proceedings to force the company
into bankruptcy. Stanton and his con
federates thereupon commenced lua-
mmivring. Their first object was to get
control of a majority of tho bonds, so as
to demand possession of tbe road in their
capacity as trustees. They held a large
amount of the bonds which had not been
disposed of and transferred a liulf million
to itichurds, Htuntoii A Co., nnd in order
to got enough to answer their purpose,
D. N. Stanton proposed to Buckley to
join him (Stanton) iu buying up tho
bonds and gei tho road into Stanton's
possession an tranter, and nit off the float-
in y dell, thus adding over two millions of
doiluis more to tbe enormous sums they
lmd already pocketed iu their efforts to
“develop the resources of Alabama.”
This little arrangement being refused,
they paid Buckley, Welling A Co. $25,-
000, tho amount of tho claims they had
control of, thus stopping the proceedings
in bankruptcy, and then bought up and
destroyed nil tho printed copies of the
proceeding in court they could find, to
prevent its becoming too gonerully known
in this State. Luckily there were two or
three of I hose copies not destroyed, ono
of which fell into the bunds of the editor
of the Chattanooga Times.
Ktunton paid out of this trouble in New
York, anil found himself confronted with
a similar ono in Alabama. After Judge
Busked, in tho bankruptcy proceedings
in this Stuto, decreed tho Company
bankrupt, Ktnnton agreed, in his trouble,
to consult with n committee, appointed
by a meeting of the creditors of the road,
aud arrange a plan to provide for an ex
tension of the debts; lie giving security.
It will bo remembered that Judge Wood,
of the United States Circuit Court, set
aside and annulled Judge Busleed's decree
of bankruptcy against tho Company.
Koon after the proceedings had been so
sotasido nnd dismissed by Judge Woods,
the committeo called ou Ktantou to carry
out the arrangement which had been
agreed on, and were coolly Rnubbed and
told to attond to their own busmens.
Tbo StAto of Alabama ban put up a “big
blind” on this guiue,aud the Stantons are
“bluffing" it heavily. As yet they have
the host showing. They are a devilish
small pnir to draw to; but we doubt not
they will get a “full hand." At any rate,
wo “pass out,” nud turn them over to
Govouor Lindsay nud the Montgomery
Advertiser, who heretofore have seemed
to und erst aud the game better than we do.
f R. R. Accident and Loss of Life.—
Navinota, Texan, July 22.—A nine-car
construction train bound North this eve
ning aud carrying 18 laborers waa precipi
tated into tho Nnvasotariver, killing 5 and
moro or less injuring 12 men. The acci
dent was caused by tho derrick of a wreck
ing ear striking arid carrying away the lat
eral traoes and rods of the bridge. The
first span foil Arst, after which the sec
ond, third and fourth followed, carrying
cars,engine and all, to the bottom. One
man was thrown 20 feet in the air and in-
instantly killed.
Verhalles, Aug. 2.—President Thiers
yesterday threatened to plaoe his resigns,
tion of the Government in the hands of the
Assembly, in conaequenoe of the defeat
of the decentralization bill. It ia thought
to-day, however, that the matter will not
with Mob otbor for full ftftoou puauteu. (be me4e ft cabinet >|UMtiou,
lta)onrtM or lUilota.
From the NVw York Kxi*rciw.]
Tho concerted outcry certain Republi
can journuls are just now raising with
reference to ‘curtain alleged corruptions
iu the linsnciai administration of the af
fairs of this city—Oecaune that Adminis
tration is Democratic instead ot Republi-*
can—ought not to divert the attention of
the people from tbe iiefariona scheme
now concoct iug at Washington to secure,
by military force, thu Electoral vote of
the Southern States in urdor to re-elect
Grant Aud keep the Republican party in
puwer fur nuothor four yonrs.
iis substitution of the Bayonet for
Ballot was success (ally tried iu the
re-election of Lincoln, aud iu the subse
quent election of Grant, but the outrage
upon tho cuustitutional rights of the peo
ple, and upou all the forms even of free
government, were of so flagrant a ohurac-
[Lcltarto Louisville Courier-Journal]
The Crater of Yesavlwi oa a Beadtr.
I spent a night with some friend* on
the top of Vesuvius, freezing on one side
and broiling on the other. We kopt our
selves awake by tho amusement of dodg
ing the falling stones. About onoe in
teu minutes the old mountain gave a
shiver, then a hurst, liko forty thousand
muffled cannon, if ever there was snob a
thing. At each burst, a cloud of black
smoke in the shape of an inverted hay
stack, and about thirteen times the size
of the Galt House, was driven into tho
air, followed by a mass of livid flame that
lighted the country for leagoea around.
Then, boys, look out for atones. Millions
of tous are thrown hundreds of feet into
tho air, must of them falling back into
the crater, but many, varying in size
from a pigeon’s egg to a tobacco bogs-
gu.oimuum, nviu ui au ungrMui. m uuuinu- • head, land outside, and you moot dodge—
tor that ono would scarcely believe that generally easy enough, as they are of a
there were, anywhere, demagogues reck
less enough to venture to re-enaot it.
Fact, howovor, must be looked in the
face, aud the fact is, tho preliminary ar
rangements fur a repetition of the con
spiracy, are oven now in process of per
fect ioa. 'i he ku-klux bill prepared the
way, and the Rudical wire-pullers, with
tho President-General at their head, are
getting ready to walk iu it. It is true
that the Special Committeo which Con
gress sunt off ttouth to rake up material
to justify the poHsuge of that infamous
bill, has beeu a dead failure; it is also
true, that instead of discovering any jns-
titicatiou for martial law, iu any of the
KoiitUorn States, the most convincing
proofs wore presented of tbe existence
there of a state of society as orderly aud
every other way*as well disposed ns any
that could be found iu the Northeru
States—but what matters all that ? The
Ku-klux bill gives the President the
pouer to suspend the writ of hubea* Cor-
pan in any State of the Cuiou, at any
time, nnd upon any pretext that he may
iuveut. In other words, at one blow, he
can wipo away the Civil Power, aud with
the military arm in force, reign supremo.
Now, we havo daily accumulating proofs
that he intends to exercise that power.—
Elsewhere we print the statement of •
Washington correspondent of a city Re
publican journal, tu the effect that a Rad
ical Senator lias gone, or is about to go,
to Long Branch, “to lay before the Presi
dent tho condition of attuirs in South
Carolina and nrge the udoption of moro
stringent measures for the preservation
of order iu tlmt htutealso, that A com
pany of cuvulry has been ordered into
“tho most turbulent section of Mississip
pi to aid in the arrest of the lawless
gangs who huve been breaking up schools
aud whipping the teuchors." There is no
such proof us would couvinco any unbi
ased and intelligent jury of twelve men
tlmt there lias beeu any such condition of
affairs iu either of the States as ia here
represented; but us there must be some
excuse for substituting the military for
tho civil power, these school-teacher-
whipping stories will do as well os Any-
tiling else. The conspiracy is further de
veloped in the following:
[Wuriiingtuii ‘iviegraui to UeritM.]
“Several hints havo recently been in
circulation hole respecting certain move
ments of the judiciary in the Houtheru
►States, under tho advico nnd instructions
of tho Attorney General's Offico; and
there is already enough to show that the
initiative bus boeu taken to prosecute
thoroughly, by the Federal authority,
every iimlauce of outlawry south of the
Potomao, which cun by any system of
torture be construed akin to a violation of
the Ku Kiux statute. Tho department is
extremely reticent concerning' the plana
which have been adopted in this particu
lar, and the Attorney General, iu the ex
ercise of secrecy, has given explicit orders
that reporters of j.Ue public press are not
to be informed of anything whatever
transpiring iu that department of the
Government."
This enforcement of the Kn Klux Bill
—in other words, the subversion of the
civil power to the military, on any or
every pretence, “south of the Potomac"—
tho people gonernlly may as well under
stand, is simply Gou. Grant’s commence
ment of the next Presidential campaign.
He cannot re-elect himself without these
Southern States, and, if a free election
wero held there, he knows he could not
carry a single Ktale; and bo, in order to
retain power at all huzards, the bayonet,
under cover of tho Kn Klux Bill, mast be
substituted for the ballot. This ia the
way the late Presidential election waa car
ried in these Southern military dependen
cies, aud that is the way they are to be
carried again—if tbe people, meanwhile,
arc fools enough to stand by and aea it
accomplished.
We warn these political jugglers at
Long Branch and at Washington not to
push this conspiracy too far. Because
they succeeded ouue or twice before, it
would be, iu tho present temper of the
country, exceedingly unsafe for them to
presume that it would work again. The
Amorioan people will stand a good deal,
wo know, but they cannot be expected to
stand everything.
BITBKHF. COURT OK GEORGIA.
Atlanta, July 28,1871.
Argument m No. 15, Southwestern Cir
cuit, wus concluded.
No. K* was argued. It is S. 8. Boone
vs. J. D. Collius et al. Equity from Sum
ter. Hawkins & Bnrko, 8. 0. Elam, for
plaintiff iu error; C. T. Goode for de
fendant.
No. 17 was argued. It is William Bir-
rine, administrator, vs. the Southwestern
Railroad Company. Motion to diamiis
suit, from Kumter. Hawkins k Bnrko for
plaintiff iu error i N. A. (Smith for de
fendant.
No. 18 was taken np. It is Seymour,
Johnson & Co. vs. James M. Cobb. Oom-
pluint, from Murnter. N. A. Smith for
pluintiffs iu error; C. T. Goode for de
fendant. •
At the conclusion of the opening argu
ment Court adjourned till 10 o’clock a. in.*
to-morrow.
July 22.—Argument in No. 18, South
western Circuit, was concluded.
No. 12 was argued. It is John L. Lav-
amor e et al. versus John Miuish et ah
Ejectment, from Lee. Hawkins St Burke
for plaiutiff* iu error; Lyon St Irvin for
defendants.
No. 20 was argued. It ia Ladd A Wil
son vs. James Jackson, administrator.
Ejectment, from Lee. Hawkins A Burke,
W. A. Smith, for plaintiffs iu error; Lyon
A Irvin for defendant.
j. 21 was argued. It ia F. K. Wright
vs. N. A. Smith. Ejectment, from Bom-
tor. G. T. Goode for phdutilf in error ;
W. A. liuwkius for defendant.
At tho conclusion of the argument in
this case the Court adjourned till 10 a. m.
Tuesday next.
Monday ia consultation day as usual.
[Constitution.
Atlanta, Augu*t 1, 1871.—'Tbe Court
delivered its opinion in the cue# argued
last week.
No. 23, Southwestern Circuit,wee taken
>. It i* G. M Htokea v*. Dunoan afid
Johnson, complaint from Lee. Hawkin
A Burke, Fred. H. Weal, B. H. Clarke
for plaintiff in error.
Pending the concluding argument in
(his case the Court adjourned tul 10 A* v.
to-morrow.—iYete Era.
white heat and show as plain aa rockets or
stars. They tumble down the steep cone,
hissing and steaming in the snow, the big
ones breaking into fragments and flying
like a bursting sholl. Now, boys, ia the
time, ten minutes’ interval. We rush up
to the very edge of the abym and Idok
down to see fnrther particulars—see
“Dante's Inferno”—but you spoil your
boots; I did. You singe your mustache;
I did; and you wish you was safe out of
it; I did.
You turn away sneezing as if you had
accidentally ignited a box of locofooos
under your nose; for a moment all ia
dark; and then tbe long twinkling rows
of gaa lamps in the streets of Naples
seem to spring out of the ground under
your feet, though miles away; then you
see tho lights in the little towns about tha
base of the mountains in all save one,
and that one the largest. Pompeii—with
its great old temple, magnificent theatres,
lose built streets, and vast arena—is
dark; the grim skeletons lying in their
ashen beds alone keep vigil there; thoir
eyeless sockets need no light.
[From tbo Mobile Tribune!]
A fow weeks ago a California genius'
imposed upou the papers of that Btato
ono of the most remarkable hoaxes ever
recorded. The tale, iu short, was ah fol
lows : A lawyer named Parker, who prac
ticed in (if we remember rightly) Ban
Francisco, waa called upon one day by a
man of the name of Butnmerfied, who
stated that he had discovered a combina
tion of certain substances which, when
thrown on the surface of water, would
bunt into a flame that would decompose
the water into its constituent gases; and
that one of the gases would unite with
the base to form the original aubatanoe.
If this were true it is evident that, if ono*
a piece of tho eomponnd were thrown
upon the waters of an ocean, the Hamer
could never be extinguished until all the.
water won burnt up. In other words, tho
world would be destroyed by Are. (We
mey mention, to show that the author of
the honx had bestowed some thought
upon his subject, that certain metals will
tuke fire upon contact with water). This
secret tbe discoverer offered to sell for
$1,000,000. After various experiments,
mado to test the aoouracy of the discov
erer's statements, an attempt waa made to
raise the money, bat it was fount} that on
ly $500,0<JK) could be obtained in Califor
nia, and after a consultation amongst (he
persona to whom the secret bed been en
trusted, it was proposed to make the at
tempt to raise the balanoe in New York.
At this consultation it waa agreed that
the proposed obieot of the journey to
New York should be merely a blind', tbe
real purpose being the murder of the man
ho held so dangerous a secret. Accord
ingly Parker and Bummerfield started for
New York; and, taking advantage of an
opportunity that presented itfelf, the
former threw the latter off the platform
of the oar and over e precipice; killing
him immediatelv, and, thereby freeing
the world from the awful fate which had
been impending over it
Knch was the tale aa it was originally
mado public, and copied throughout the
United btates. We thought, at the time,
that tbe perpetrator of the hoax would be
satisfied with theperfeot success which at
tended his flrat attempt, and not haaard
his reputation by attempting a continua
tion. In this, however, we were mistaken.
The aaquel to the tale has appeared in a
California paper, and it ia es follows:
After the facte .which we have elreedy
mentioned were made pnblio two men,
named respectively Gillaon and Graham,
started from Ban Francisco with the pur
pose of obtaining, from the body of Bum-
merfleld, any fragments of the danger*
one compound which might still remain
on his person. Neither of these men
waa aware that the other had left Ben
Frandfloo on the seme errand until they
leipver the skeleton of the murdered
men. An agreement waa then mads be
tween them to share the profits resulting
from any discoveries they might make;
and their search resulted in their finding'
a bottle of the aubetenoe which wee to
plaoe the destiny of the world in their
power. The possession of this bottle
gave riee toe quarrel in which Graham
shot Gillaon fatally; and the above pen
ticulars profess to have been taken from
tbe dying confession of tbe latter. Gra
ham escaped with the bottle, end is now
at large with it in hia possession. He
is rspressntend aa an utterly reokl— and
desperate man, who. if offered hie choioe,
would, upon the wnole, rather bum up
the world than not. To eap the ottmax,
the following ia given as a copy of e
proclamation recently issued by tne Gov
ernor of California:
PBOGLAXATION OP TO OOTWUfOm—$10,-
000 KKWAXD.
Department or State.—By virtue of
tbe authority in ine vented, I do hereby
offer the above reward of $10,000, in gold'
eoin of tho Unite# Btates, for the erreet •
of Bartholomew Graham,familiarly known
aa Black Bart; aaid Graham is aoouued of
IIanokd.—Jim Toombs, negro, wee
banged at Perrv.Houston oonnty, on Fri
day last, for killing another negro who
waa working with turn in a field, about
seven months ago. When on the gallows
he gave the negtoee present some good
advice. He told them to throw away
their firearms, be industrious and obey
the laws. Me aaid that having no maatat
and a pistol, had brought him to tht gal-
TtfyrapH,
the murder of 0. P. QUleun, l»t4.of Au
burn, in the county of Pleeer, oink 24th
ult. He it five feet ton inehee end . half
in height, thiok eet, bee * mouota^M
sprinkled with gny,griuled heir, oleer
bine eyes, walks stooping, and eerrod ia
the lets civil w.r,under Priee aad.Qn.n-
tr.ll,in the Confederate army. He mfty bo
lurking in some of the mining soaps,
new u. foothills, as h. wee • Weeboe
teamster during the Comstock ereltemeat.
The shave rewwd will be paid for him,
(hail or atit*, aa he pc—owed himself of
on important worst by robbing the bote
of tbe Mo Gregory Hommerfleld.
By tbe Governor ! Given etBurueeuto
this th. Sth d*y of Jon., 1S71.
B. Q> Kioxouoa,
Beoretery of'Htete.
This proalnmnUon U, of aouao, a far-
try; but it emteialy f umiehw eddtionel
ridenoo of U>* ingenuity of tho author
of tho how.
Pik«’e Pert in soon to be mode e feab-
ionaUe Bummer resort. Think of that!
Whether tbe awrotr-geago Deavur »ad
Bio Onnde Railroad ia expected to eairr
throngs of touiiats in pomuii of health
end pleamn, a company of gantlemai*
have oooelndad the purohaa. of a trait rf
laud which includes the famous Colorado
Springe at the barn of the mountain, and
will proceed to lay out two *own«, owe cm
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hotel, to bellied tbs Tlp-TspHowss.w
therammit of Pike's Pert, The mitafl
an foot ia number i the tafwt hm far
med a beaia six or eight foot aoreaa, taam
the oeotre of whieh boils up a violent owr-
rMt. Attof themar« tarongly impragam
tad with ewbonie acid gsai their tamper
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