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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, -FOR THE WEEK ENDING TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1S7G.
No. 9, Volume IX
WEEKLY EDITION
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TIIK MKVEN1 BK2VTB AMENDMENT.
The Atlanta Constitution ^ th « p**ty in power. In short, atjg
Wise, “the system of centralization
" • is systematically pressed against the
democratic doctrine of extending free
dom in all departments of human
activity, the consequence of which can
only be one, namely, the transforma
tion of the democratic republic in an
aristocratic oligarchy, with a govern
ing clan under the dominion of the few
chosen men at the head of the govern
ment in ita various departments. A
ctalnlized republic is as ranch of a des
potism as centralized Ku;gia and
Persia.”
“If, M he adis, “we cast our votes in
the next Presidential campaign for the
republican candidate for president and
vice-president, we vote into power the
We need that to begin with; for no
plan of civil aer vice reform could lie ef
fectual without it. Mr. Tilden, in hia
round and comprehensive way says,
“No reform of the civil service will tie
complete and jiermanent until its chief
magistrate is constitutionally disquali
fied for reelection. Experience having
re)«»at«*dly exposed the futility of self-
irujiosed restrictions by candidates or
incumbents, through thin solemnity |** me n,i f»torv principle which under
only can ho be effectually delivered
Iron* his greatest temptation to misuse
the power and patronage with which
the executive is necessarily charged.”
Pul! as the letter of acceptance is of
Irfilitiral wisdom, it contains nothing
more valuslile than this proposition
(•Hiking to the constitutional removal of
the great source of corruption in this
country.
Now is a happy times to start the
amendment. Both candidates are on
record as one term men. Mr. Hayes
only promises it is true lobe satisfied
with one term. Make that a bird in
the hand, he says, and I will let the
two in the hush go. This i.« unsubstan
tial. Mr. Hayes will have no occasion
to seek a second term,
hut if lie should have
lie could easily jk rsuade himself that a
promise of four years previous should
not tie |mnnit ted to stand in the way of
“duty to his country.” There is no
safeguard in this direction short of a
constitutional amendment. Love of
power grows with its exercise, and
presidents w ill continue to “fix things,”
by the promotion and retention of
“wire pullers” until an amendment
puts an end Pi all such disorganizing
work.
I/*t the seventeenth amendment
go to the states along with the
sixteenth. We need both of them—
the one to take religion out of politics,
the other to take corruption at the
fountain head out of a sadly demoral
ized civil service. We have had of late
a surfeit of |»artisan appointments, and
the country wants a rest. The demo
cratic house should start the seven
teenth, for all reforms originate there
The senate is content, and will sanc
tion no reforms unless they are forced
on it in such a way that it dare not re
ject them.
1UUMC LAKHS AN1> ILLIIKRACY.
The LunsviPe Courier-Journal calls
si lent ion to the hill to apply the pro
ceeds of the miles of public lands to
the support of free schools. The hill
nqmrted liy the house committee on
education provides that the secretary
of the interior shall annually certify
the net amount of tin* proceeds of the
public lands to the secretary of the
treasury, who shall, within one
mouth thereafter, a|>|»ortion the same
among too several states and territories
mid the I>i»trid of Columbia on the
basis of population, to Ini applied by
the l«s*al authorities of such states,
territories and district, in accordance
with their I«h\i1 laws, to the education
of all the inhabitants thereof between
the ages of live and sixteen years. For
the first live years the whole amount
of such net proceeds is to l*c thus ap
portioned; for the succeeding live
veara one-lialf; the other half, and
alter ten years the whole amount, to lie
invested in United States bonds, only
tbe interest on w hich shall Ik* thus ap-
jMirtioned, and the investments thus
made to remain as a i*erpetual fund
for the b netit of free education
throughout our entire country. Lur
ing the first ten years the apportion
ments are to lie made on the liasis of
illiteracy, but forever afterward on that
of the whole population. While the
bill leaves it optional with each state
toairept or reject its distributive share,
yet when once accepted it must V
faithfully ami honestly applied to the
puri*o*e therein indicated, under the
l*enalty of forfeiting all right to any
other apportionments until full com
pliance Ire made with the conditions
prescribed
We agree with the Courier*Journal
that it is far lietter to devote the l»al-
amv td the public lands to educational
puri>osc* than to squander it on rail
road corporations. The latter have
grahlted nearly “00,000,000 acres in tbe
last fifteen years. There remain, how
ever, 1,154,771,762 acres, which the
land sharks an* begging for, and which
they will get s<H*ncr or later unless;
law is passed that stops their efforts.
The passage of such a bill woul*
greatly promote free* education, espe-
c ally in the south, where, owing to the
great number of colored people, illiter
acy is a prevalent complaint, We have
in Georgia a school population of fully
400,000. Ami to the present state
ap|H>rtioniNenT tbe revenue that the
house bill would bring in, and
the happiest effects would
felt in every county. Schools
could be established where
none now exist, and tbe terms of exist
ing schools c* *uld Ik* hanusomely ex
tended. H Mr. Hoar i* so desirous of
providing I »r free education, let him
push this bill ahead when congress
again assembles. In that way he can
reach the end he effects to desire, with
out violating the fundamental princi
ple* of the government. We must not
however rely
any mao will and must produce the
rame nugatory effect. Hayes is no bet
ter man than Grant, and can no better
check the evils which flow from the
same force. Hayes is neither more com
petent nor more honest than Grant,and
no more than Grant can he or will he
change the principles of his party, or
emanri(«te himself from its statesmen
and politicians, which are the sources
of all the corruption, misrule, extrava
gance, failure and bankruptcy. We
can not vote again in favor of the prin
ciple of centralization.
Therefore, no choice is left us; we
must vote for Tilden and Hendricks,
who are opposed to centralization of
power and wealth, and are not only-
pledged to reform but in a position to
carry it out, as they need none of the
corrupting means to reach the end of
centralization, which they oppose, So
we feel, so we say, and so we will vote,
and so give it to our readers as the
humble opinion of a disinterested pri
vate citizen, who is, no politician. De
centralization is the only remedy
known, and the democrat* are the de
centralizing jwrty. Therefore we can
vote the democratic ticket only.”
Col. II. V. Redfield, alike distin
guished in war, medicine amt journal
ism, is announced aa a candidate for
the Tennessee legislature from the
Chattanooga district, in the place of
Colonel Crutchfield, who declined to
make the race. Colonel Redfield takes
the field on the platform: “The union,
the constitution and the enforcement
of the dog law.” It’s the best platform
in Tennessee.
Mr. Norms A. IIill, the candidate of
the Florida democracy for lieutenant-
governor, is a native of Georgia, who
hegau his mercantile career in Savan
nah. In 1851 he removed to Florida,
where lie is engaged in managing large
irange groves. His election and that
of the w hole democratic state ticket is
predicted by a large majority, whether
the opposition have one or more tick-
ts in the field. We are assured that
»n Orange county, which is full of
northern |>eople, there are only three
white men who will vote the republi
can ticket.
provincial government, which pays all
transportation expenses on condition
that the animals are snch as do credit
to the country. One hundred and for-
ty-eix fine sheep of the Cotswold and
other breeds, fresh from the royal ag
ricultural display at Birmingham,
England, are on their way to Philadel
phia. Tbe aggregate number of en
tries already include 700 horned cattle,
300 horses and 400 hogs. These figures
and facts are sufficient to show that the
coining display will eclipse all pre
vious exhibitions of the
kind in this or any other
connty. It will do so especially in the
way of blooded stock. For no animals
are eligible for admission, with the ex
ception of trotting stock, walking
horses, matched teams, fat and draught
cattle, unless the exhibitor can furnish
satisfactory evidence that they are of
purest breeds. As to thoroughbred
horses there must be evidence back to
the fifth generation of their ancestors,
and as to short-horued cattle that they
are registered in either Allen’s, Alexan
der's or the English herd books. As to
Holsteins, Herefords Ayrshire^, De
vons, Guernseys, Britanny Kerrys, and
other pure breeds, that they are either
imported or descended from imported
animals on both sides. As to Jerseys,
that they are entered in the Herd Reg
ister of the American Jersey Cattle
club, or in that of the Royal Agricul
tural society of Jersey. As to sheep
and swine, that they are imported or
descended from imported animals, and
that the home-bred shall be of
pure blood as far back as the fifth gen
eration. The term breed, as used, is
intended to comprehend all family di
visions where the distinction in form
and character date back through years
of separation. For instance, it is held
that the progeny of a pu re-blood Jer
sey and a pure blood Guernsey is not a
thoroughbred, but a cross bred animal,
and as such, is necessarily excluded.
In awarding prizes to animals of pure
blood, the judges will take into consid
eration chiefly the relative merits as to
the |»ower of the transmission of their
valuable qualities; a cardinal object of
the exhibition beiug to promote im
provement in breeding stock.
GOV. CHAMBERLAIN'S LETTER
New York is excited by what the
f«!»erH call the white slave trade. It
bcomc quite common, it seems,
in New York lor certain charitable
institutions to send the friendless chil-
lren committed to their care to homes
in the west. A case, however, has come
Indore the Brooklyn city court, which
has led the judge (Neilson) to speak
ery strongly against the legality
transporting these wards out of the ju
risdiction of the slate*. The children of
of a poor woman were sent away with
out her consent, and the agents of the
society made money by the business.
The congressional convention of tbe
seventh district is to lie held at Carte ns-
rille on the seventh day of September.
The counties are pronouncing for Col.
Dabney with remarkable unanimity.
Tux Mobile Register says the Ala
luuna election “was worse than a spring
freshet. It was an overflow which calls
upon Ananias Hays to save his bacon
It was the bursting of a reservoir an*!
the rushing of a deluge.”
Carr. Rackin' withdraws from the
congressional contest in the sixth dis
trict in order to restore peace and qui
et again in the city. He thanks his
friends, and leaves the field to Mr.
Blount, who will now prove an easy
winner.
Tub hay crop of the western states
is very large. In central Illinois,
whence a g*H>d jnirtion of our >apply is
foolishly drawn, timothy is so abun
dant that farmers are contracting for
it at five dollara a ton—a material re
duction from the ruling figures of the
last five years.
A centennial grasshopper is said to
be destroying the crops of Colorado,
except her quartz. These insects are
said to be centennial in nature and
habits. Our grasshoppers are centen
nial also. They will stay with us just
about a hundred days—that is, a few
ot them.
Oxly two general appropriation bills
remain to be adjusted—the Indians
and the diplomatic and consular bills
Unless the republican senators desire
to prolong the session for bloody-shirt
debates, the impression prevails that
l*oth houses will be ready to adjourn
on Monday next.
Tux Cartersville Express has a griev
ance. It claims to have invented Mr.
Johnson's candidacy for governor, and
to have given it force, “solitary and
alone,”nntil a late day in the campaign,
and yet it was not consulted in regard to
j "the course or direction”given his letter
the Hoars. Oar own of withdrawal. As the letter was written
We have no room for the arch-hypo
crite's letter to the president He de
nied that he had asked for troops, and
he told the truth in a certain sense. But
the reason why he did not expressly
call for troops was lx*cause he was try
ing to induce the conservatives of South
Carolina to make no nomination at the
convention which meets next Tuesday.
He wants their aid in cose of a split in
the republican ranks, which is more
than probable. He did not therefore
call for troops” on the sjiot; but when
the president beard of Chamberlain’s
inqualified statement that he had not
asked for troops, be is* said to have
been amazed and indignant, lienee
the publication of Chamberlain’s letter,
hich might otherwise have remained
hidden piece of evidence against the
man who is trying to ride two horses
going in directly opposite directions.
The letter is a long and cunning ar
gument in favor of keeping troops in
South Carolina during the political
campaign. It is based on
the Hamburg tragedy; and yet
Governor Chamberlain lias tune
and again declared at home that the
tragedy had its origin in personal and
not in political causes. In the letter
before us he attempts to trace it to po
litical cause*. That is the whole tenor
of the letter—of the letter that was in
tended for the Washington market and
not for home consumption. He dis
cusses the whole race question in a
specious and partisan manner, distort
ing the facts and indulging in unfound
ed assertions without limit. In con
clusion, he asks, “ W ill the general gov
ernment exert itself vigorously to’re-
press violence in this state during the
•resent political campaign on the part
•f persons belonging to either party,
whenever that violence shall be beyond
the control of the state authorities?
Will the general government take such
precautions as may be suitable, in view
of the feeling of alarm already referred
to, to restore confidence to the poor
people of both races and political par.
ties in this state, by such a distribution
of the military forces now here ,as will
render the intervention of tbe general
government prompt and effective,
if it shall become necessary
restoring peace and order?” He ar
gues that there is no official duty more
binding on the president than thv pro
tection of tbe states against d* mestic
violence.
We have given enough of the letter
to show its object, and to expose the
hypocrisy of its writer. He pretended
one thing to the o -nservatives of the
state and plead for the oppo
site before the president,
seeks the votes of conservatives
while engaged in an attempt to prove
that they are engaged in a conspiracy
to terrorize by murder and violence
the colored men of the state. He wants
their votes while he accuses them
without evidence, of crimes. He gives
the Hamburg tragedy one version at
home and another at Washington. He
wants at once white influence and gov
ernment influence. He is playing
double game, and the president has
done South Carolina a rare and unex
pected service in giving Chamberlain’
letter to the public. The people
that state now understand him, and
will doubtless act accordingly.
The Columbia Register has unearth
ed the fact that “Captain” Doc. Adams
never had any commission; that nei
ther he nor Attoway weie mditia offi
cers but were commanding a mob
that they were pleased to call a milita
ry company.
That little mortgage of $32,000,000,
which the New York Central and Hud
son River railroad company recently
executed, was not given to the bead of
the family, but to William H. and Cor
nelius, Jr. The mortgage was given
to cover a loan made for the laying of
new tracks.
The Vicksburg Herald says the
'cut-off” is a benefit to the city instead
of an injury. The low water discloses
bare which show that the river will not
for many years be more than half a mile
from the city, and there is no evidence
that the harbor In front of the city Is
filling np. If it should, it would only
require a small outlay to keep the chan
nel open down the lake in extreme low
water. __
The August shower of fireba’ls and
meteors was billed by the New York
Herald and other scientific authorities
to occur on the nights of the 8th, 0th
and 10th, but tbe heavenly pyrotech
nics have not yet appeared. The en
gagement most therefore be considered
“off.” A repetition of the remarkab’e
display of 1833 was anticipated by
some. __
Eight years of radical rule have re
sulted in throwing in New York city
alone forty thousand able bodied men
out of employment, and but very few,
says the New York Herald, can have
any adequate idea or conception of the
actual extent of the distress now pre
vailing in.that city. The Herald's ta
bles show that fully 40,000 persons are
now idle out of the 100,000 dependent
on their daily labor for bread.
Gen. Wade Hampton, in a letter just
published, says he does not desire a
nomination for governor, but that he
will obey the call of the etate. He only
asks that the call be made with una
nimity, and that those making it will
be fully prepared to make any sacrifice
for the redemption of the “piostrate
state.” He is opposed to any compro
mise or fusion with the radical party,
and advises the convention to present
full ticket made up of men for whom
Carolinians can vote without sacrifice
of feeling or principle.
delegation, and that of every other
state should set* to it that the bill be
come* a law.. Let the children of
the land come in for the pro
ceeds of the public lands instead
of the ring* that have already swallow
ed the best part of the public domain
and that are eagerly striving to secure
the balance.
hayes disektid at home.
N >t only the Geru»an*,bnt the Israel
ite, oi Ohio are declaring for Tilden
and Hendricks. We have before us
the last number of the American Israel
ite, an able and popular journal edited
by the well known Hebrew leader,
Isaac M. Wise. Tue learned Rabbi re
views in this number the political situ
ation, and in an article of five columns
completely dmds the republican par
ty. He shows that the centralization
«>i power has been systematically car
ried into effect by the ruling party
until the chief magistrate w ields an in
fluence dangerous to liberty. To sus
tain and extend this centralization ex
travagant expenditures were resorted
to, a system of espionage was estab
lished and corruption and ineom
petency naturally followed. This
•>oem of centralization next begat
bigotry, and the religious queer on was
iato politic* to aid tha
on the 24th ult., no one, it claims, had
a right to use his name afterward*.
The Express asvs in conclusion: “We
may be wrong, but we think the
friend* of Judge Johnson were badly
tx eated by the Richmond delegation.’
LIVE STOCK AT THE CENTENNIAL.
The live stock display will soon be
gin, and it will embrace the finest ex
hibita of horses, moles, dogs, homed
cattle, sheep, swine, goats and poultry
ever seen in this country. That our
readers who are interested in live stock
and who intend to visit the exhibition
may arrive there at the proper times,
we again stale the period* devoted to
each ciass. Horses, mules and asses
will be exhibited from the first to the
fourteenth of S *ptembcr. Col. Thsd-
eua Holt, of Macon, Ga., is one of tbe
judges of this class. The dog show will
last from the fourth to the eighth ot
September. The horned cattle will be
i>n exhibition from September “l to
October 4; sheep, swine and goats from
the tenth to the eighteenth of October,
and poultry from October 27 to No
vember 6.
Over four hundred stalls have
been erected for horses, and a
very Urge number fee carte.
Canada will send 630 animals, **.acted
by a coBianaston. appointed by
The truth is out at last about the
Corliss engine at the centennial exhibi
tion. Mr. Corliss undertook to build,
set up and run the huge engine, fixing
ilay upon which it should be ready
to start and guaranteeing its j»erfonn-
ance of all requirements, for the sum
of $70,000, the centennial authorities
only supplying the fuel. Mr. Corliss has
thus far fulfilled his agreement, lie
has not sold the magnificent engine,
and the probability is that he will bate
an elephant on his hands after the ex
hibition closes.
The Columbus Enquirer leaves all
its contemporaries far behind, by a
notice of the entries for the gubernato
rial race four summers hence. IMr.
James, it says, “means to adopt the
plan ol Gov. Smith, become a member
of the legislature and mount higher if
he can. In the house he will have an
opportunity for displaying his financial
abilities. Col. Thomas Hardeman is
following the example of Gen.Colquitt,
and succeeds him as president of the
eorgia agricultural society. The asso-
iatiou is to be congratulated on theex-
ellent choice it baa made in the selec
tion of a presiding officer. He is a
gentleman of ability and eloquence,
thoroughly acquainted with business
and the practical wants of fanners, and
is a true son of Georgia.”
NO ROOM FOR INDEPENDENTS.
These dissatisfied people,—who are
either very “wise” or very selsfih—
have struck a bad year for their pecu-
lar work. Tney have struck a year in
which the party is united and confident
of victory; for its presidential candi
dates will receive the support of demo
crats everywheie. There is no strag
gling, no disorganization, as in 1872;
and this close union and confident feel
ing will extend from the presidential
canvass, down to that for state and lo
cal offices. When ajl see that a change
of administration is possible, and even
exceedingly probable, when our gener
al candidates are popular and strong,
then indeed have the dissatisfied, the
sore-headed—in a word, the Indepen
dents—fallen on evift lines. They flour
ish best when all is &T loose ends, when
disorganization is popular, when defeat
is inevitable. All keep in line when
the sounds of victory are in the air.
They may be old chronic independ
ents—those men who are far wiser than
all their fellows who will not recognize
existing political conditions; but all
such will find themselves powerless.
They will get the cold shoulder this
year as they never got it before. The
spirit of unity is abroad, and the de
mocracy of Georgia will, in their local
conventions act wisely. They have al
ready selected a state standard bearer
who is the people’s unmistakable
choice, and who will receive the sup
port of all unselfish members of the
party. No divisions will be permitted,
and the chronic cases will he over
whelmed in the tide of party enthu
siasm that will prevail.
Tne chief danger of independency—
tfle bane and humbug of politics—
comes in local contests; and in those
onr friends should guard against the
evil by placing strong and unexcep
tionable men in nomination. It is very
important that the next legislature
should be composed of our best men.
Important questions will come before
it, and such men are needed, not only
to dispose of them, but to keep down
future divisions, Put no weak men
in nomination. Fiji the county ticket
with names that the people will ap
prove of. Select popular and able men
for municipal honors. Give the inde
pendents no chance, and thus uphold
in every possible way the grander can
vass that is a death struggle for every
thing we hold dear.
If the democracy of Georgia present
a divided front in the October election,
the moral effect of our victory will to a
great extent be \xL R member that
our election precedes by nearly a week
the other and more decisive October
elections. If we are united and roll
np a rousing majority for the demo
cratic candidate, it will inspire the de
mocracy of Indiana and Ohio to extra
exertions. They will see in our grand
vote a solid south, and work the harder
because tbe more hopeful. But if we
permit, independency to lessen our ma
jority, all this advantage will be lost.
We would thus fritter away our in
fluence. It must not be. The
state convention lias ac'ed wisely and
and unitedly, and our local nomina
tions should be of a character to com
mand the support of the party, and all
should set their faces firmly against any
and all divisions or splits in .the inter
est of* lissatisfied and', selfish men. For
the man who will not act with his par
ty in such a year as this is a man that
no one should trust He lacks either
intelligence or principle. Let all unite
to make the machinations of such
harmless. Let us chill their bo
gus enthusiasm at the outset, and thus
prepare the way for a victory in Octo
ber that will inspire the democracy of
those states* in which political warfare
is fierce and the result doubtful.
THE EASTERN STRUGGLE.
Republican senators claim that the
school amendment passed by the house
not sufficient. They considered it
sufficient when Mr. Blaine presented
it, but now that it has been adopted
by the democratic house they find
flaws in it. The Baltimore Gazette
rightly characterizes these men:
If tbe republican senators were in earnest in
this matter, they would paai the Blaine amend
incut at once, t ut they are not They do not
tops* it. Their purpose ia to keep the
quettion open, and if possible raise a religious
de which shall help them to retain their
hold of power, continue their misrule and plun
der of the public treasury. These men sre pub
lic enemies. Whst thej have been endeavor
ing to do in the south for years in a political
way, they are now striving to do in the north
the question of church and creed. There is
t a particle of sincerity in their pro
fessions and practices upon either ques
tion. They kcow very well that there are
outrages in the south except what they
iglnate. They also kno.v that in the north
there is not the least danger that the school fund
ill ever be divided among the different sects.
What we want north and south and east and
west is peace—peace politically, peace socially
and religiously. We have great problems to
work out in politics, in finance, in industry and
commeree.in science ana literature and art And
we can worx them out only as one people. The
war of sections must come to an end. the
and the party who would perpetuate it must be
crashed out. Tbe republican party is to-day
the party of dissension. It never was a party of
union. It can only live by strife and discord
and bate and animosity. There is no turn
appropriate to put an end to it than in this the
centennial year, and the men to do it and give
us peace are Tilden and Hendricks.
The republicans, says a Washington
correspondent, admit privately that
Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida will
now certainly follow the example of
Alabama and give democratic majori
ties in November, unless some scheme
can be hatchet! to prevent it. It is not
certain but what such an effort will be
made, as it is said that certain promi
nent republicans are busy in trying to
get up a plan to obtain fall control of
those states. The proposition made by
Senator Bout well in his report to terri
torialize Mississippi is one of tbe plans
which has been thought of, but there
doe® not seem any way by which the
president and Senate can do this with
out consent of the house of representa
tives. Some of the more sagacious re
publicans think that such a measure
would be very unpopular and odious
among the people of the north, and it
would not do to attempt it. It ia very
evident that the republicans are dis
heartened by the signs of the times.
The best Sunday school platform we
have seen in a long time comes from
the Fair Point assembly on the banks
of ChatauquA lake. It is so brief and
excellent that we give it entire;
Fust—Wash and t* clean.
Second— Eat sad be strong.
Thirl—Sleep and be cheerful.
Fourth—Exerv ae ana be mutcates.
u* aaC ht LopaiSL
The election in Maine, which come®
off in September, is expected to dis
close considerable democratic gains, the
effect of which coming from such
quarter wonld be very disastrous. Her-
ulean efforts are being made in Maine
on this account, and the republican na
tional committee is sending all its spare
cash into that state. To cover up its
Hacks stories have been started alleg
ing that Gov. Tilden was sending large
amounts of money into Maine, which
are known to be entirely destitute of
truth. __
Dick Whitely was nominate*! by ac
clamation for congress at the late radi-
ical convention in Albany. Slippery
Dick is preparing to get the worst
thrashing he ever received.
Tux congressional convention of the
second district is to be’held at Thomas
ville, on the 13th of September, and
the counties are requested to express
their preferences for or against the
two-thirds vote.
Representative Bell, of New Hamp
shire, who resigned the other day be
cause he could not get a leave of ab
sence, is a democrat. He has the
reputation of being an able lawyer,
l but he has not taken any prominent
part in the proceedings of the house.
His resignation shows bow lightly he
regards a seat in the house of represen
tatives, and. he gain* more reputation
by the manner of his retirement than
by anything he hAs done or might have
done by oontiaaiagon its rolls.
The past week has been a disastrous
one for the Servian cause. First one
fortress and then another has fallen
before the advance of over one hundred
thousand Turks, and the Servian line
which extended from Alexinatz tc
Saitchar, with the center resting upon
Gorgusovatz, has been irretrievably
broken. Saitchar and Gorgusovatz are
both iu the hands of the conquering
army. The capture of the latter cut
the Servian army in two, and
the fifth attempt upon Saitchar
resulted in its fall. This destroys the
high hopes of the Christians in Euro
pean Turkey. Nothing is now possi
ble on their part but a guerrilla war
fare, which the mountainous character
of a portion of their country makes
feasible. The situation in Serv
also the situation in Herzegovina. The
overwhelming power ot the Porte has
made him master of the entire situa
tion. The little Servian array and her
militia have not proven as brave and
well-trained as newspaper accounts had
led the world to behve they were, and
nothing but mediation can save Prince
Milan and h s people from whatever
terms the Mussulman sees fit to im
pose.
The occupation of a good part of the
revolting provinces by the Turkish
army, and the possibility of a repeti
tion of the Bulgarian atrocities there
in, is alarming the grest powers. The
people of Europe will not quietly look
on if the Baslii-Bazourks are permit
ted to prey on Servia. A strong moral
influence will be brought to bear, es
pecially by England, to prevent the
occurrence of any more outrage*. But
great distress amongst the unfortunate
people must follow. Even Belgrade
is in danger, and thousands of peasants
are reiugeeing from fear of the men
ho have been taught to look upon all
Christians as dogs whom it is a merit
to rob and maim and destroy.
There are some indications of com
ing events in the direction of mediation,
ard the present week will doubtless be
an important one in this struggle upon
which the eyes of the world are center
ed. If Russia and Germany fhould
combine for the purpose
settling the eastern question,
this brave but rash effort of
Servia would not be without its fruits.
A few straws indicate that they may.
The time for intervention has certainly
come, and Christendom will eagerly
watch the action of the great diplo
mats. Upon their action depends the
welfare, if not the lives, of two mill
ions of Christians, who deserve tne
protection of more favored Christians
in other countries. We hope the pres
ent week will show that they are to re
ceive it, and we care very little in what
shape it comes.
Brigham Young is 75, and still mar-,
risgeoble.
Bets in New York are $100 to $50 :
that Tilden will carry the cute, and democrats
find few taken at these odds.
Samuel J. Tilden is not a big man
physically. He is 5 feet 2 inches with his boots
on, and weighs 117 pounds.
TiiEKeely motor has set the machin
ery of the courts in motion. A suit involving
200 shares of the stock has been begun iu Phila
delphia.
“Organization and victory,” says
the Albany Argus,will henceforth be the watch-
wordsof the campaign, and then look out for
reform—sweeping reform.’’
A number of Turks from Jerusalem,
in Syria, who are now engaged in business on
the centennial grounds, have deplored in court
their intention of becoming Ana ican citizens.
A Baptist minister in Connecticut
got thirty cents last week as a marriage fee.
The bridegroom remarked Ihet times were hard.
A life-boat has been invented in
England which is 30 feet long, weighs •
and rights itself immediate y when capsized
into water. The inventor claims that it will
keep 200 persons above water.
Col Fred Grant has been promoted
to a first lieutenant, and at last ordered-to the
front? Oh, no, indeed. He goes to Texas. It
would never do to brlux our Freddie within
the possible reach o! Si* ling Bud. —Philadel
phia Times.
When a two hundred pound darkie
woman throws herself into the centennial
rolling chair, and pays over her CO cents for au
hour’s ride, the zloom that settles over the gen.
tlemanly white attendaut’s laca cau be felt
from cue end of the gro ind to tYe other.;
Prince Milan has pawned for 476,-
000 francs his sword of bouor, aud his wife,
who declares that she will sell off her wardrobe
before funds are lacking to yrosccute the war
for Serbian Independence, has raised 3,GOO,(XX)
francs on her Russian estates.
Great Britain’s public debt lias been
reduced since IS58 f.om 839,519.3/6 pounds to
S75.3IC 685 pounds, being a diwuuilion of
64,170.610 pounds. The total amount paid off,
however, was much greater, for in the same 18
years a new debt was contracted amounting to
28,646,441 pounds.
It is predicted that by tl»e time one
two more presidential terms hav® passed
away, the women of this country will hold the
balance of the power. Robert Bonner and Syl
van us Cobb, jr., may as well prepare themselves
for the responsibilities of the office.
The colossal statue ol Washington
is safely landed in Philadelphia last week,
and will be erected on the centennial grounds.
It is twelve feet high and was cut from a solid
block of marble. The site selected for it is be-
tweeu main building and machinery hall.
Just previous to the death of Mr. A.
T Stewart, Mr Dale, of the Dde silk manufa*-
turing company, advised Mr Stew • rt to invest
in raw silk, as the crop wai likely to fail.
Thereupon A T Stewart & Co. invested $1,000,-
000 in raw silk.buying at about $ 12* per pound.
Mr Da’e was right; the crop tailed, and to-day
raw silk is worth 6.60 per pound, and If AT
Stewart & Co. were to Bill out to-day they
would realize a million by the epenuiou.—
Buu.
The New York Tribune states that
Gov Hendricks attended a democrat! • pole rais
ing at Johnstown, N Y., about thirty miles
from Saratoga, on Saturday evening Thepeo-
pie turned out to the number of 5.* or 6,000.
and Gov Hendricks made a speech which exci
ted much enthusiasm. His letter was then read
to the crowd by a gent’etuan, who wnetted
their expectation by telling them that it was
reserved to the people of Fu ton countv to be
the first In the Uuitcd States to hear the doc i-
menL Gov Hendricks afterward sal 1 he did not
know it was so good a letter till he heard it
read..
Tin: list of mills stopped in New
England is reported in the Boston Advertiser at
one million swindles, and the additions iu
New Jersey ana Pennsylvania, with more to be
heard from in Rhode Island and Connecticut,
two hundred thousand, or 12>; per cent, of
usual production. The spin*, es stopped arc
-half on print cloths, and represent a pro
duction of 55,000 pieces a week. Cora puree with
returns for previous years, the present pro
duction is less than would have been sufficient
any season since 1872.
The New York Express recalls the
suggestive fact that when the Unite*! States Ben
in 1868 acquitted President Johnson of th«
most unjust charges of political misdemeanor,
the partisan majority in that mat “august’
body bssteued topnt on record a vote of ecu.
against him. When the same body Tues
day acquitted, on a technical plea a couf- ssed
bribe taker, there was no vote of oemure to show
that the honorable senators condemned the
crime aud deplored the weakness cf the law
that permitted the criminal to escape from pun
ishment.
A contemporary finds that Friday,
the unlucky day of the superstitious vulgar, has
•roved, for Americans at least, the most f«
nate of the seven. It was on Frid »y. Au/.c
1492, that Columbus sailed from the harbor of
Palos for the new world. On Friday, Oeto1>cr
12th, he first saw the laud* On Friday, January
1493, he started on his return voyage, aud dis
embarked In Andalusia on Friday, Maich 15th.
On Friday, June 13 1491. he discovered the
American continent On Fridav March 5.1497
Henry VII of England gave John Cabut his dis
patch for hia equally important voyage. On
Friday, (September 7, 1565, Meudtz
founded St. Augustine, the oldest towu iu the
United States. On Friday, Novemmber 10,
1620, the Ma; dower first disembarke 11
igrantsou American soil at Province Town,
Friday, December 22, 160). her passen
gers finally lauded at Plymouth Rock. Oa Fri
day, February 22, 1732, George Washington was
born. On Friday, June 16,1775, the battle of
Buuker Hill was fought; and on Friday, Octo-
7,1777. occurred the surrender of taratoga,
which decided France to give her aid to Amer
icans. The treason of Arnold was discovered
on Friday. Y’ork Town surrendered on Friday,
and on Friday, June 7, 1*76, Richard Henry
Lee read the declaration of iudcpdencc to the
centennial congress.
Tbe ( nine Against Woman.
Keokuk Gate City.
This crime could be easily stopped
by law. Let the law provide that
every man guilty of rape, or attempted
rape, shall, in addition to imprisonment,
be unsexed. A penalty of this kind
upon the statute books of the state, en
forced in every instance where the
crime is committed or attempted, will
soon make women secure again in their
homes, on the streets, on the highway,
everywhere. The law in its present
treatment of crime is foolishly and un-
philosophically indifferent to all the
disclosures of modern science as to the
propagation of crime. We hold it to
be the duty of the state to apply the
law of natural selection and inheritance
to the treatment oi social evils. Let
the state by its penalties adjust its ji
icy to prevent the propagation as well
as tbe perpetration of crime.
Fool Day In tbe House.
EDIFIED GALLERIES.
Washington, August 7.—It was very
amusing iu the house galleries to-day.
I The spectators blessed with a good
sense of humor enjoyed the many in
genuous wavs devised by the house of
how not to do it. The entire day was
consumed in idle hunter and childish
play with the rules of the house until
6 o’clock. This day of nonsense and
waggish drollery began by some deco
rous republican taking fright at a fan
cied confederate attack upon his be
loved country and rushing torward with
a filibustering motion as a diversion.
To-day whs dreaded in the morning by
many timid ones and was curse all the
afternoon by the weary and impatient
members. It was generally conceded
at the outset that filibustering
occupy the entire day to »-uut
obnoxious resolutions, but it was not
clear at the outset
WHERE THIS FUN WOULD BEGIN.
A motion to amend the rales so that
the investigating committees could re
port at any time gave cause lor the
republicans to make their point. They
were not in favor of this, as they said
under it the minority reports could not
then be gotten in at the same time.
They held that this motion should go
first to the committee on rules, and so
made a point of order against it. This
was overruled by Speaker Sayler. Then
the republicans became mock indig
nant and refused to vote. This left
the house without a quorum and con
sequently nnable to transact business.
When this condition of affairs is reach
ed there is but
ONE OF TWO THINGS TO BE DONE.
One is to adjourn and the other is a
call of the house. The democrats de
cided upon a call of the house, as one
of the best ways to spend the after
noon. The doors were closed at nearly
3 o’clock and were carefully guarded.
The sergeant-at-arms then went out af
ter the roll had been called, and those
absentee members who had stepped
out “to see a man,” to get lunch, or to
squeeze the pretty hand and to gaze
into the languishing eyes of some frail
lobbyist
FOVSD THEMSELVES SUDDENLY ARRESTED
and dragged before the bar of the house
to show cause why they should not be
fined for being absent without leave.
The members shut up in the ball seem
ed filled with a delicious spirit of dev
iltry. They hooted, howled, sat upon
their desks and cheered one another,
and skipped up and down the aisles
like children. Every delinquent was
treated to a rain of chaff, chatter and
eers ♦hat made some modest new mem-
nearly swoon with confusion.
Shortly after 3 o’clock the sergeant-at-
arms appeared in front of the speaker’s
desk with three victims, Walker and
Meade of New York, and Thornburg,
of Tennessee. Walker and the latter
were smiling at the fun, but
MEADE WAS VERY ANGRY.
About this time the house was like a
great sweat-box. The thermometer
notched 9S degrees, and with the cheer
ful aid of the closed doors was busy
climbing baud over hand up still high
er flights. Walker, when asked what
excuse lie had, sjftly caressed his «1-
dermanic stomach and huskily wheez
ed “lunch.” Cox moved he be excused
and discharged on the paymeut of costs.
[Laughter.]
Conger—On wha f grounds ?
Cox—Public grouuds. [Prolonged
howls of laughter.]
Conger then tried to get this referred
to the committee on public buildings
and grounds. [Cries of “shut up, kan
garoo,” “pull down your vest,” etc.J
Thornburgh’s (excuse, made in a
shrill, piping voice, was that
HE, TOO, WAS AT LUNCH.
M« ad said that he was at work in his
comiiiitt* e-room.
“On what business, old man?” was
shrieked out by a friend of his.
Mead blushed, and refused to reply,
hen tiie house uproariously excused
him.
The fun reache*! its height when,
within five minutes afterward the ser-
2eant-at-arui8 came in towing after him
Schleicher, Silver Bill Bland, and Law
rence. Schleicher is nearly seven feet
high, am! is about twelve f*‘et in girth,
tlis fat German face was wreathed in
smile, and as he waddled along he
looked for all the world
LIKE AN ELEI’II ANT
circus procession. The house
yelled and cheered with delight, and
Bland made the scene more ridiculous
hen the space in /ront of the speak
er’s desk was reached, for th* re he
stood straight under Schleicher’s arm
and made frantic endeavors to embrace
him. Even so dignified a member as
Hunton of Virginia, sat upon one of
the front desks and lazily swung his
feet to and fro iu his enjoyment of the
scene before him. He said he was
present at the roll call but had to go
over to the senate to see about some
important bills. The house refused to
excuse him until a division vote was
made, and hooted Lawreuce ail the
way to his seat.
Schleicher’s explanation was the fun
niest: “I vas in the gtoak room. I vas
in here at the roll gall aud den I vas
uot here any more. I v nt avay to vet
some schleep.” Here the house broke
out into yells and cheers, crying out:
"Brave old Schleicher 1” “Let him
go!”
tdiver Bill Bland was at work ui>on a
bill.
Hoar moved that he be excused from
the payment of his fine in silver.
[Great laughter upon the part of Geo.
F. Hoar.]
Carter Harrison said: “The payment
to be made on the passage of Bland’s
silver bill,” and then grinned ten min
utes at his own humor.
Tucker, of Virginia, was
THE NEXT VICTIM.
on. There was no reason in this waste
• r time, and the close heat of the cham
ber was placing valuable lives in jeop
ardy. This appeal made no sort of
effect. As some of the members spied
Davy, of New York, comfortably es-
consed in one of the side galleries fasci
nating a pa*r of white kidded, fashiona
bly dressed New Y’ork beauties, the
sergeant-at-arms ran up to the gallery,
and collared Davy, amid the cheers of
the house, and dragged him oefore the
bar, w hen some one suggested that a
committee be appointedto carry him
THE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
PARTICULARS OF TUB RUN OFF
AT CINCINNATI.
Nobody From Atlanta on Board.
The telegraphic report of the run off
on the Short Line railroad of a train con-
back to hi’seharminir quarters, “So the; tainlugoven 100 passengers, has created some
fun ran until nearly 6 o’clock, when a, uneasiness here. The centennial exclusion par-
compromise was agreed upon by the ty which left Atlanta Saturday afternoon, were
republicans agreeing that the reports of
the investigating committee could come
in after two days’ notice to the minori
ty, so that it could present its report at
i*!Thcn the doors were
^nldtkeu and the members rushed out
side hungry, perspiring, and blasphem
ing on their way to dinner.
BELI.E BOYD.
1
An Interview wills tbe Fiunoua Rebel
Spy—Dow Sbe Saved Jackson's
Army In the Khcnnniloah
Talley.
Houston (Texas) Age.
Yesterday evening, hearing that Miss
Belle Boyd had arrived from Galveston
and was stopping at the Dissen house,
au Age reporter called and in the
second-story parlor of the hotel met
this lady, whose name will live to future
ages along with that of Joan d’Arc, as
one of the romantic characters that
looms up from the great war of 1861.
Miss Boyd appeared neatly attired,
and is rather a handsome woman,
w liose dark eyes flash w ith something
of the Virginia beauty in times gone
by.
After a few miuutes* conversation tbe
discourse dnfied to a discussion of the
war.
In reply to a question of the report
er, Miss Boyd gave the following ac
count of her paving of Stonewall Jack-
son’s army iu the valley, m 1863:
At the t. me she was a prisoner of war
in Winchester, which was then held by
the federals. One evening Miss Belle
was in the parlor talking with Captain
Jones, of the Twenty-fourth Indiana,
when she overheard an officer remark,
“we’ll get old Stonewall this time.”
Whilst pretending to talk to the captain
she intently listened,but heard no more.
A few’ minutes afterwards she managed
to get to speak to a negro man employ
ed on the premises, but without being
overheard. She slipped a note in his
hand, at tha same time giving him $5,
and telling him to deliver the note to a
certain lady of her acquaintance in
Winchester,
The note requested her friends, among
other directions, to send Miss Belle a
country woman’s suit of clothes imme
diately. The note was promptly an
swered by the appearance of a negro
servaut girl, carrying a vundle contain
ing the “country suit.” Itvras convey
ed into the lianas of the “spy” without
excitfng any suspicion. She immedi
ately habited herself in The coarse robes
of a servant, and w ith a long bonnet—
such as used to be worn by negro ser
vaut. girls before the war. Covering
her features, she passed the guajpl, who
simposed her to be a i»rw»nt tprf «««
enough. Having escaped,^ she made
The “Cbfekeu” Step.
Saratoga Correspondence of the Philadelphia
Times.
There are several very heavy swells
here who have helped to render the at
mosphere oppressive. They generally
affect tlieE iglish style, and only a few
of them cau speak plain American now.
There is a new step out among the
young ladies. It is called the “chick
en” step. It threatens greater popu
larity than the Grecian bend. The
movement that produces this extraor
dinary step is only known to the initia
ted, iJut the effect is that of the body
being inclined forward to an angle of 45
degrees and all the weight beiug thrown
_n his toes. Following closely upon
this will undoubtedly com. the “goose”
step and then there will, indeed, be
great rivalry among the belles in the
art of pedestrianL>m.
He walked che* rfully forward, and
said he was over in the senate upon
very important business. [Cries of
“Louder.
“What business,” cried one.
“Lemonade!” shouted another
answer.
4 No, 1 ’ said Tucker, “I did not go for
lemonade, but for a promenade. When
I got back the door of the house had
just closed.”
Conger—So near, and yet so far.
|/-reat laughter.]
The wickedest time was had with
Roberts, of Maryland, a new member,
who, when he was brought up in from
of the howling mob, utterly lost his
presence of mind. His lips moved con
vulsively, but no sound came forth
Then they made him go up to theclerk’i
desk, everyone yelling “Louder” until
a Chinese g»ng would have been a
mere whisper in comparison. When
Roberts reached the clerk's desk he was
the color of a
BOILED LOBSTER.
He clutched a fan lying upon the
desk and began fanning himself vigo
rously. Everyone laughing still like a
hyena, Roberts clutched wildly at the
desk and stammered, “I am a victim
of circumstances '
Kasson (interrupting)—That is all
sufficient. [Great applause and laugh
ter.]
Conger -I move that the gentleman
from Maryland be referred to his seat,
not to be brought out on a motion to re
consider. Carried unanimously, with
deafening cheers.
This nonsense ran until half-past
o’clock, when Chittenden, with a voice
as much out of proportion aa a the note
ol a screech owl, veiled that he would
like permission to make a miscella-
her way on foot to an old “rebel,” Mr.
Gibson] five miles from Winchester.
The “spy,” to whom Mr. Gibson was
well known as an old friend, said:
“Me, Gibson, I want a horse?”
Gibson—“What in the world do you
want with a horse?”
Miss Boyd—“I want to go to Jack
son’s army.”
Gibson—“But how in the nation c *n
you think of going itr that dress?”
Mi3s Belle—“I don't care how I go, or
what I wear, so I get to Stonewall Jack-
son to-night. I want to save his army.
I don't care what they take me for, or
whether they think I’m a nigger or
not.”
The old man found it was of no vise
persuading her. She mounted a high-
mettled Virginia steed and struck out
at a gallop After riding some seven
miles from Gibson’s, she heard voices
in the woods near the road, it being
night. She drew rein, and rode into
thebu8hes. The voices drew nearer.
The Yankees have pursued and
cut me off, she thought. But it turned
out to be some boys out coon and pos
sum hunting. This dissipated her
fright. She knew one of the hunters.
“I want you to tell me if you know
any thing about Stonewall Jockson’s
army,” she inquired of him.
“Yes, his army is some six or eight
miles towards the mountains,” wa*
the reply.
The ‘ female spy” rode on, and the
dawn of the morning was breaking up
on the historic hills of Virginia as she
reached Jackson’s camp. One of the
first persons she encountered was an
officer of his staff who had previously
known her.
“Hey! Miss Belle,” said he, “what are
you doing here?” 1 thought you were
in Winchester yesterday evening
prisoner.”
“I was,” she replied, “but am at
Stonewall Jackson’s headquarters this
morning.”
Regarding her servant’s apparel, the
officer said:
“Miss Belle, who in the world has
been hiring you for a chambermaid
since you’ve been to Winchester?”
*'Oh, nobody has been biring me, but
I've come to be Stonewall Jeckson’i
waiting maid to-day!”
She was immediately carried to Gen
Jackson’s tent, where she informed
him of the intentions of Fremont and
Banks to fall upon him, and that his
only move was to retreat. He did so,
and intercepted Banks at the Gap, and
afterwards Fremont, with what result
history tells.
The Rate of Interest Lower In Enc
land than for Hall a Century,
TnE accounts of the special counsel
of the government ia the St. Louis
whisky trials have been settled. John
R Henderson gets $10,000; James O.
Broad head, $10,000*. and Laden Eaton,
SfiiOOd
Don’t Pot non To nr Sjntem
With such hurtful drugs as quinine,
calomel, or bine pills, bat take instead thet eaie
prompt end egreeeble sabstitate. Hosteller’s
tomech Bitters, which, whether it is used to
remedy or prevent nuUrUl fevers, overcome
general debilitj. orto correct torpidity of the liver
and bowels, will in every case be found fully nde-
quAte to tbe wants ot the sick And feeble It en
tirely removes dyspeptic symptoms, and by FATHERS OF HONEST CHILDREN
siiznularinx the flow of gastric juice, facilitates . .
digestion and insures the conversion of f wd into [“H iar, hear ] —and some are grand-
blood wherebv the system Is efficiently nourished ’ fathers. He Digged to suggest in the
and regains its lost vigor. This great vegetable j infernal condition of the weather, that
restorative has received the endorsement ot men the house had played the role of child-
of science, the presa has repeatedly home volun-i ren long enough. He had a serious
neous remark. He said, with a whoop
that could be heard over to the senate
side, “We are all of us ” He went
no further, as the whole house broke
out in a cry of “Louder,” until every
one was exhausted with bellowing.
Chittenden resumed: “We are most
of us
CHEAP HONEY.
xpe-
fiity
London Economist
We Lave beard a person whose ex|
rience extends over more than fi
years say that he never knew money so
cheap as it is this week. The comxnon
rate at call is j, though we do not think
that as long as we have ourselves known
the market,which is some years,though
not as many aa fifty, that rate was ever
liefore le38 than 1. The London and
Westminster bank only give at call, ac
cording to their new rule, 1$ less than
the bank rate, or now J per cent.—cer
tainly the least rate of interest we have
ever known wheh any was given at all.
Consuls, as was natural, have shared
the effect, and has risen since the be
ginning of July as much as 3 3,1-16.
The explanations of this great in
crease are two—first, that the money ii
cheap everywhere throughout the
world ; that credit is bad; that business
is depressed; and, secondly, that we are
calling in our loans for commercial nur-
poser from all quarters. So much bus
iness is now everywhere transacted on
English capital throughout the world
;h*t even a reduction of it amounts to
a large sum, and its repayment swells
the tide of bullion further.
All which can be said on the other
side, and by way of augury of more
active times, is that we possess, and
have now for a considerable time pos
sessed in unusual measure, the main
element of activity — cheap com
throughout the world, cheap money,
and, on the whole, cheap raw material,
and these must faciliate production; be
sides which, labor of most kinds if
cheaper than it was. As time goes on,
too, the stock of all sorts must be re
uewed, and therefore sooner or later,
thongh possibly not very soon, we may
ex|>ect to see an important increase of
activity, and a consequent revival
the value of money. Of the ultimate
due In Cindnnatti on or about the d*y ot the
accident, and considerable anxiety wm felt
about them. The details of the accident have
been received an J the following account taken
’romthe Cincinnati Commercial: The state
ment that any of the excursionUts from Atlanta
board is a mistake. The party consisted
Henry Ranks, jr., aud wife, John M Hill and
wife, Mrs W R Hill and daughter. Miss Jennie
Nance, Mrs R D Spaulding. Miss Snc Spauld
ing, and Colonel Brown, the commandant at
the barracks. Letters received from members
this party show that they left 1-ouisville
the morning of the 7th, and reached Cincin
nati the same day. No allusiou is made to the
run-off, aud the facta show that they were juft
twelve hours ahead. The Commercial’s repott*
simply took their names from the hotel relie
fer witbo"t inquiring whst train they came in
upon.
The Commercial says.
"The facts obtained from the officers of the
road are: *Train No. I left Louisville at 3:30
o'clock yesterday morning, and was due here at
7:30 The train consisted of a baggage and
nnoking-c&r and three Pullman sleeping coach-
aud had between 150 aud 17»passengers. At
point midway between Sparta and Glencoe
abont 5:40 o’clock, all the cats except the eu
gine and tender left the track Several passen
gers were slightly bruised aud scratched, but
nobody was se lously hurt.*
"Our reporter next made the rounds of the
hotels on ih* hunt for injured passengers. At
Burnet house Messrs. T. G. Mcrrit and A.
Farrell, of New Orleans, were registered.
Mr. Farrell had several bruises about his head,
but is in t seriously iujured. They were r.ding
the smoking car at the time of the accident.
Merritt says the train was rounding a
curve at the rate of at least forty miles
hour; the baggage car left the
track and turned over several times, be
thiuka, stopping iu the ditch at least forty
feet from the track. The smokiug car went off
the same side track, the forward pert going
into the ditch and the rear remaining on the
top of the embankment. The passengers were
tnruwn into a heap: and many were quite
seriously injured. The three sleepers did uot
down the emltankment. but turned over on
the side of the track. Both these gentlemen
attribute the accident U the slid.ng of tlie track
aud not to a broken rail os first reported.
Mr. 11. G. Askew, a merchant of Tyler, Texas,
with his .wife, was on theftrain. and i* stop
ping at the 8L James hotel. He corroborates
statements of Mersn. Merritt and Farrell os
to the speed of the train.and the probable cause
the accident Mr. Askew aud wife had just
left their sleeping berth and were at the ladies*
wash-room, she inside, and he standing at the
door, ween the accident occurred. They
were thrown violeuUy into a corner, and the
water tanks overhead completely dreached
them. Mr. Askew at first supposed the triiu
had gone into a river, but on gaining his feet
and getting his wife up, w-s over-joyed to find
his mistake He describes the scene in the
earns one of the wildest confusion, except that
little noise was made by any of the passengers
hen the cor turned over those sleeping on the
upper side were thrown out of their berths, and
lower side presented a mass of struggling
humanity, amid car cushions. c«, ued-
viotmng, valises, satchels, lunch «nd
spittoons It required only a few minutes
however, to restore order, and release ihosc who
had been almost smothered between the mat-
reuses. One ot the upper berths closed up
against the celling of the car, and for a few
minutes it was feared had smothered a little
child which was sleeping there. Fortunately it
was taken out all right, though badly frighten-
Mr Askew received s:vrr\l severe brulecs
about hts head, one on his right fore • nn and
his right hand bad the skin scraped off in sev
eral planes. Mrs Askew received several bad
bniia'W about her lower limbs, and was suffer
ing considerable pain last evening.
Mr. J. Ik-inshcimer and Mr W. II. Dcwes
New Oilcans, were registered at the Gibson
house The funner is quite seriously injured.
His knee-cap was knocked off. the j*>iut dislo
cated. and he received au ugly cut near his
right eye. H s injuries were attended to
prompt<yon his arrival, and last evening be
ported as resting very com for tab y. Mr.
Dewes* injuries were slight He thinks ucarly
every passenger on the train received some
mark by the accident, though iu a majority of
the cases they were hardly worth mention.
Mr Chas J Campbell of Mongomery, Alabama,
on the train, and the subject of much
sympathy from other passengers. Mr Campbell
cashier of the first national bank of Mont
gomery. and he bad In charge the dead bod
ies of hts two children, en route to Pomerov
Ohio, for interment. Bowed in grief
RUTHERFORD B.
vith no other thought
Than to rule for a term called three.
Tne people were mild, yea! extremely mild.
In this country by the sea,
Aud they loved with a love that was more than
The pitying angels so happy in heaven.
Looked down upon UlyssesG.;
Yea! that was the reason (as all men know)
In this country by the sea.
That the people, indignant grew cold one night.
Killing and chilling our Ulysses G.
But his love for power was strong as the lovo
Of thus who are older th&u wc;
Of many far wiser than we;
‘ ~ " * ” Is in heaven above.
loss; the shock of the accident was terribc; and
tbe nervous excitement that followed threaten
ed Mrs. Cam pi *11 with serious result*. Fortu
nately the lores rootainirg their dead children
—-« —*— -• ■* —-• they arrived
the Ashland
The article cloiea with’, a Hat of the passen
;en, in which the Atlanta parly is erroneously
gem, in wfc
Included
—Mr. Zocharie announces himself in
the London papers as “Late Chiropo
dist general, United States army.”
—Croquet is dead in St. Louis, and
base ball is dead in Philadelphia. The
country is still too new for brain-work.
—The dogs are barking so loudly
and numerously these evenings, that
one finds it difficult to catch the con
versation of the cat family.
—The seaside news this year is full
of w’&rm flesh tints. Never before in
fashionable history have the rage for
tight garb, even in hashing dresses, and
old ocean’s plastering down of drapery
combined together.
—“Steam is a great thing,” remarked
traveler in a railroad car to his vis-a-
vis. “So it is,” was the reply; “I owe
my fortune to it.” “Monsieur is man
ager of a company?” “No.” “An en-
gineer, perhaps? * “No, I have lost f
number of relatives by railroad acci
dents.”
—Found an the street: “Dear Sam
mie—Pap's watermillions is ripe. Gome
and bring some more poetry like you
brought afore. My love for you will
ever flow like water runnin down a ta-
ter row. Bring a piece as long as your
arm, and have a heap more about them
raving ringlits and other sweet things
Come next Sunday and don’t you fule
me.”
—The Nashville American states that
it has been ascertained that John Bur-
ridge, whose dead body was recently
found under the railroad bridge near
Pembroke, Ky., committed suicide. It
is believed, from the nature of his
wounds that he stood up on the lower
beam of the bridge and permitted his
head to appear above the crow-ties, so
that when the pilot of the locomotive
should strike his head would be crush
ed between the two, and, of course,
cause instant death. The back of bis
head was crushed in a fearful manner,
and his neck broken. His body must
have fallen to the ground under the
bridge where it was first discovered,
with the faithful dog of the deceased
keeping close watch over it.
—Paris has now six rinks open for roll
er skating, and two others, on a grand
scale, are being const* acted for artifi
cial ice. One of the latter is to be con
nected with the grand rink for roller
skating on the Avenue du Boisdu Boul
ogne; the other is being built by English
parties, on the Champs ElyBees, with
an expenditure of 60,000. The enthu
siasm for this amusement, far from aba
ting, is increasing, and the indulgence
Under the name of Rutherford B.
And the moon never beams without bringing us
dreams
Ot third term Ulysses G.;
And the stars never rise but they foal that his
eyes
▲re looking from Rutherford B.
And so all the day—all the night—side by side
Th* se marked onosof Fate run out with tho
tide;
ith the tide that is lost is lost in the sea—
That is Ufel in the sounding sea.
—“I shall follow her soon,” said a
sad eyed man at the grave of his wife.
Within a month he was following an
other woman.
—Lucy Stone’s husband never had
he floor but once, “and then,” says
Lucy with a grim smile, “he occupied
about about six feet of it and had a
dre&diul headache”—Rochester Chron
icle.
—A Saratoga girl writes home:
“There are plenty of males here—lisp
ing, silly, hair-parted-in-the-middlo
swells—but, oh, for the sight of one
genuine man!”
—According to a London paper,
light dresses are nowhere to be seen in
such profusion as at Lord’s cricket-
ground during one of the public school
matches. At the Eton and Harrow
match, he says, many ladies were rash
enough to recline on the greensward,
and their frantic efforts to rise from
their recumbent position w ere a source
of great amusement to the bystanders.
A certain duchess behaved with the
greatest self-pos ession under these
somewhat humiliating circumstances.
Finding she could not rise in the ordi
nary wav, she flung herself on ail
fours, and by throwing her weight al
ternately to right and left, finally suc
ceeded in gaining her perpendicular.
—The Marquis of Salamanca, a rich
hanker of Madrid, ennobled by Queen
Isabella, has sent to this country one
nuudred and thirty-five pictures, most
ly old ones, which he desires to sell.
His gallery is said to contain fifteen
hundred paintings, end these are what
he w ishes to get rid of irom among the
number. They bear the names of cele
brated masters, such as Ru>*ens, Mur-
rillo, Raphael, Vandyke, Tintoretto,
Wouvermans, Paul Veronese, Temers
and Velasques. They are to be sold at
auction, ami their genuineness is offi-
ially certified. IVimt they are really
irorth cannot be told until they are
xhibited, but it may be taken for cer
tain that they will sell very cheap.
There is no market in this country for
the old masters.
A turnstile is the latest arrange
ment to prevent street-car conductors
ippropriating the companies’ money.
One was tried on a Blocker-street car
yesterdag. - The front platform of the
closed entirely; no person is al
lowed to ride on the back platform,
each being com{>eiled to enter the car
through the turnstile, which stands in
front of the doorway and registers the
number of those passing through. Yes
terday some young men made their
exit l5y jumping entirely over the rear
platform in preference to squeezing by
the post. The conductor is in constant
dread lest new sboys entering the car to
sell papers may cause the machine to
register, and a fare must be forthcom
ing.—New York Tribune.
Rapid Hread-XIakfajr.
A trial was made on the 14th instant,
the Moss Creek Mills, near Carroll
ton, Mo., to ascertain the time in
which bread could be made from
wheat standing in the field and with
the following astonishing result, com
mencing at one minute after 3 o'clock,
and finishing at twelve minutes after
three:
Comn enood reaping whc»L««« ~~-3 01
Finished reaping whe:t
Commenced threshing wheat
Finished threshing wheat (K bus.).—.
Commenced grinding wheat...
Finished grinding wheat * wy*
Mrs Lawton commenced making b.e*d ....* OH
Finished making bread JI 08VS
bread —* 08V4
"* cakes. 3 0UJ4
Commenced baking bret
Finished baking griddle
KinL bed baking biscuits
in tascinatiog exercise is tmdiminished
by the w&nnth of the summer period;
even while tbe thermometer shows 2
temperature of 92 to 96 degrees, the
rinks are well patronized in the eve
nings. _
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
Vital weakness or depression
weak exhausted fealing, no energy or courage: the
result of mental cver-work, Indo-
scretlon or excesses, or some drain upon
the sjstem. Is always cured by HUMPHREYS’
HOMOEOPATHIC SPECIFIC So. 28. It tones up
tad invigorate# the system, dispels the gloom
despondency, imparts strength and energy—
itops the drain and rejuvenates the entire man
Been needtwenty years with perfect success by
thousands- Sold by dealer* Price, $1 00 per
tingle vial, or$5 00per package of five vials and
|2 00 vial of powder. Sent by mail on receipt *
isretphrcvv nnnr.
effect we may be sure, but we must not
be dioap pointed if some considerable .See. Addrees HUMPHREYS* Honco-
teftim0O j toits ! demand?leave of absence, and could! time—some months,even-pass, before r*THic -MEDICINE company,
to^m^ j not get out of the housein its present! we see so great a change aa we could* ^Broadway, new YORK.
c^aiu kind. tag 2.-dA»iw mood, any sooner than if it were a pna- desire.
..3 tKW
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ALL EYES ON ALABAMA.
Ucn. Forncj Renominated—Yfac Late
4i I or Ion* Victory.
Telegram to the Constitution.
Montgomery, August 10.—At the
democratic convention held at Gads
den to-day for the -seventh Alabama
congressional district, Gen. W. H. For
ney, at present one of the representa
tives at large, wras nominated by
acclamation.
Returns have been received from
fifty-four counties, and Houston’s ma
jority is 38,011. The eleven counties
to hear from, at the election in 1874,
gave a democratic majority of 3,002.
The senate stands 27 democrats, 1 in
dependent and 4 republicans. The
house will stand 83 democrats, 2 inde
pendents and 15 republicans.
PURCELL** POSITION.
The Catholic Church Does not Wlnb
to Interfere with the Public
School System.
Cincinnati, Aug. 10,—The Catholic
Telegraph of this morning contains an
article from Archbishop Purcell, ad
dressed to the people of the United
States, relative to the attitude of the
Catholic church towards the public
school system, in which he declares
that the church lias no disposition to
interfere with the system. lie farther
says no doubt justice and equality
would entitle the Catholic people of
this country to exemption from taxa
tion for the support ot other schools,
or to a fair share of public school funds
in proportion to the number of pupils
in the schools; but even this we are
disposed to waive in your favor.
PROVIDING FOR GRANT.
Nbrrmon to Rntlicn and Grant to be
General or the Army.
Telegram to the Constitution.
New York, August 10.—'The Trib
une has the following: The St. Ixmia
Republican has obtained information
from what is deemed an entire trust
worthy source, that Gen. Sherman,
through second parties, is negotiating
for elegant property in Cote a Brilliant,
a fashionable subburb of this city, for
future residence, that he will certainly
retire from the army after the fourth of
March in the event of the election of
Hayes and Wheeler, and that General
Grant will be appointed General Sher
man’s successor.
A REVENUE REFORM FROM
WITHIN.
I'm Grceue B. Raum of the revenue;
I uet lor the uaUon the nation's due.
Though every thing now is deuced blue.
And we need a much bigger army.
I'm Green B. Raum who wrote to Bab.,
Who wrote to Bab.,
jymeSi-dsodfcwly.
Tt» office I’ve got Is hot my due.
Ana. came from Urn hood of the army.