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THE DAILY SUN.
Thursday Morning June 15.
Attorney General Akerruan has arrived
at bis home in Cartersville.
The Cartersville Express learns that the
residence of Mr. Alf. Best was burned a
few days ago. v ;
Mr. Levi Peacock killed a big black
bear last Friday morning, within a mile
of Coleman’s depot, on the Southwest
ern Railroad.
Messrs. J. B. Buchanan and H. B.
Elder, of Cuthbert, have each lost a child
from scarlet fever, within the past week.
It is said that there are no inconsidera
ble amount of cotton of last year’s crop
still in the hands of planters in Monroe
county.—[Monroe Advertiser.
The Southern Mutual Iusurance Com
pany of Athena held its twenty-third an
nual convention lost week, and declared
a dividend of 40 per cent, to ite policy
holders on the last year’s basiness.
The Columbus Snn says 36 miles of
fishbar rail have been laid on the railroad
from Montgomery to Columbia, and
that from eighUi'o ten freight trains are
expected to come to Columbus over it
every day next winter.
The mortality among our colored pop
ulation for the past week has been sad
and alarming. Last Sunday there were
four corpse in the city, and during the
few days preceeding, there were ten en
tombments.—[Rome Courier.
Augusta is to have a fine insurance
company of her own, to be called the
“ Commercial Insurance Company of
Augusta,” with a capital stock of §250,-
.000, and the privilege of increasing to a
'million. Seven hnndrdH shares were
subscribed for on Saturday.
What, promises to “ phn out ” very well.
Mr. W. B. Meek informs us that his crop
will average fifteen bushels to the acre.
The farmers are “ laying by ” corn pre
paratory to giving tneir entire time to
cotton. Oats are booming.— [Monroe
Advertiser.
Mr. Alex. Moffat, who lives on Fifth
Street near the Southwestern railroad de-
jpot, killed a large rattlesnake in his yard
yesterday morning. It was very fortu
nate for his children, who were playing
in the yard, that the dangerous reptile
was discovered and killed before it bit
either of them.—[Macon Telegraph, 13th.
The Lnrnpkin Telegraph echoes the
ram chorus, and says some farmers talk
of turning their cotton fields out and
making pastures of them, the grass is so
much better than the cotton: “We heard
one say that be could not get bis hands
into his fields because the gross was so
high they werp afraid of snakes; another
says a grasshopper vjpwld have to get on
bis knees tobitolira, oven if he could find
it, and that whftu fie plows it he has to
stoke off the rows to know where the cot
xnDistinct print
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDN
✓June 21, i87i.-
ANOTHER REBUKE TO THE
NEW YORK WORLD.
Its Inconsistencies--Its Lack of
Sound Principles—Its Tainted
Record and Its
etc., etc.
, /We have a verbal report of the action
<df the Committee appointed at the re
cent Citizens Meeting to pass upon the
bonds of certain Radical officials. After
fully canvassing the matter on Thursday,
it was agreed that C. A. King should
moke the bond for the Tax Collector and
Miles O. Turner for the Treasurer. The
scalawags elect to have nothing to do
•with the offices, further than to draw
their ill-gotten per cent The arrange
ment was deemed best under all the cir
cnmstances. The action of the Commit
tee will, therefore, receive the ajjproval
of the tax payers of the county. Messrs.
King and Turner have since made the
necessary bonds, and entered upon the
discharge of their duties.—[Monroe Ad
vertiser.
A Webster county correspondent of
the Macon Telegraph & Messenger, says
“I am truly boity to inform yon that our
crops are all of four weeks behind time.
We usually have cotton bloom in this sec
tion by this date, but do not look for any
now until about the Fourth of July. Corn,
too, is small for this date, but is doing
better than cotton. We have had so
much rain, (and now at this time we are
so wet we cannot plow,) that the most of
our farms are in a deplorable condition
for want of the necessary cultu%. There
Are many planters that will have to aban
dona portion of their cotton crops to
save the remainder. It is generally con
ceded by planters that there is about 25
per cent, more corn planted this than
last year, and about the same deduction
from the cotton crop. There is a great
complaint of a poor stand of cotton, and
by the time the present crop of grass is
gotten through with the stand will be
: still poorer, as the freedmen are not very
nice about stands when the grass is in
dheir way. There is an unusual breadth
cof oats sown this year, but, unfortunately
for ithe planters, the rust has destroyed
the greatest portion of them. Those that
had the good fortune to sow the large
yellow, <or, as some call them, the anti
rust oats, will make good crops. As to
wheat, there is.so little planted I hardly
think it necessary to place it in the cata
logue of crops, as this portion of South
western Georgia h 88 very nearly aban
doned its culture. ,
Tlie Treaty in England.
From tho Baltimore Gazette
The New York World is at last satis
fied. It has something that it can en
dorse. Itrnns up the flag of what it
calls progressive Democracy, and it
steers boldly forward for the harbor of a
“political future,” which meaus being
on the side of the party in power, with a
finger in the pie of political patronage.
We needed no assurance from the World
that it was determined to yield to the
“logic of events.” This, is what it has
been endeavoring to do for years past, on
ly it has always fuiled to comprehend
exactly what tho logic of events was. Its
conservatism was a delusion.
ITS DEMOCRACY WAS A SHAM.
During the war it was the shambling
policy of the World and tho party which
supported it, which did more harm to
the cause of the South and of constitu
tional liberty, than the open attacks of
enemies. It professed to want peace,
yet it cried for war, and even when, af
ter the nomination of Gen. McLellan
and Mr. Pendleton, the latter was in
duced to proclaim, from the balcony of
the New York Hotel, that the West must
have a free route to the Gulf of Mexico,
by peace if she could, by force if she
must, “the party of peace,” of which
the World was the organ, privately de
nounced Mr. Pendleton, because,” even
with this declaration, he was not to be
counted upon as a War Democrat at
heart.
When the World accepts the situation,
it is only doing
OPENLY WHAT IT HAS DONE SECRETLY
for years, although it has not had the
manhood to acknowledge it. It does
not pretend now to discuss what is right
or what is wrong, or what is best for the
interest of the people whom it pretends
to guide, or what is the duty of the
statesmen of the country. Its only aim
is political fortune, and it evidently de
sires to attaint by the shortest cut.
THE SOUTH HAS ALREADY ACCEPTED THE SIT
UATION.
To its views, its notions and its
schemes, the World, with the Democra-
—**“>- AS -fa.U.2S_.
we, of Maryland, are con jernedTwe have
long since accepted the situation, as they
have done in our sister Southern States.
Sambo is an equal as far as the law makes
him. On this point we are rigidly punc
tilious. We give him all his rights, and
we assert our o yu. ■ Besides this we pay
an income tax, v i support the revenue
by buying French wines and silks and
German toys. We keep our accounts in
National banks, and occasionally we are
sufficiently loyal to invest in Government
bonds. What more does any one want ?
Is not this accepting the situation? What
else need we do.
DO THEY WANT US TO TELL FALSEHOODS
AND BE HYPOCRITES?
Does any one suppose that we will
make ourselves any the more respected
by pleding our solemn words that we do
these things because we like them, when
every one knows that we only do them
becanse we cannot help ourselves ; and is
it not plain that we only make our
selves contemptible by trying to obtain
our object by a sneaking trick, when we
have not the independent manhood to
attack persistently until toe triumph by
principle ? - v - ,
EXPOSING ITSELF TO ATTACK.
The great blunder which the Northern
Democracy makes is in setting up a plat
form as a mark for its antagonist. The
outside party wants no platform. Its
policy is to get in. When it succeeds,
then it can shape its aim and purposes to
meet the necessities of the situation.—
For us, in Maryland and in the South
generally, we have but one thing to do—
to accept the candidate, if we can, who
may be nomiuated, to vote solidly, to
hold our tongues, so as to give the Radi
cals no opportunity of distorting our sim
plest expressions, and to trust to the fu
ture. fy
If some of our Northern friends had
adopted such a policy, they would not
now have been in a position where they
feel compelled to take back what they
swore" by a few years ago. simply because
by so. doing they think they have a bet
ter chance to win, changing their princi
ples as a gambler dues Lis stakes.
ABUSING MB. DAVIS. L
v There is one thing, however, winch we
cannot understand, and that is why the
World, in accepting the situation, and
proclaiming, as now, its articles of faith,
should go out of its way to indulge in a
vulgar diatribe against Mr. Jefferson Da
vis. The epithets which it applies to
Mr. Davis, and the abuse which it heaps
upon him, for saying “that troth is great,
and in the end principle must prevail,”
are really so low that we forbear to re
produce even one small extract. We
cannot see what the World has to gain
by vilifying a gentleman who, since; his
release from persecution, has been singu
larly reticent, and who, when he does
speak, speaks as a philosopher; nor can
we see what in the world the utterance of
a great truth has to do with the World’s
“new departure.” If the World thinks
that Mr. Davis and it are not already wide
'!lough apart, it can set itself at rest.—
Whatever may be thesius or the failing-
of the Ex-President,^vaut of prindpleis
uot among them; and whenever the World,
uncertain as to what is most safe and
profitable, sets itself up iu the Democrat
ic .political ring to the highest ladder, it
ueecl not fear that it will encounter auy
opposition from Davis, or indeed, those
who, like him, firmly believe that ill-ad-
I vised, expediency is only too apt to, make
A cable dispatch of the 12th instant,
from London, says:
In the House of Commons, this even
ing, Gladstone, in reply to the question,
, said, that the 6th article of the treaty of
I ndecencies., j Washington prohibits the use of neutral
ports for the renewal or augmentation of
arms and supplies to belligerents only
when they are intended for use against
other belligerents, and not when export
ed in the ordinary course of commerce.
This was, he said, the understanding of
President Grant and Minister Schenck.
It was understood, however, on toe
presentation of the role for its acceptance
by other powers, that the statement on
this point should be clear. He stated
that he had received the assent of the
United States Government to the pro
posal to submit these principles of the
treaty to the European powers for their
acceptance. He concluded by praising
the tone of America throughout the ne
gotiation.
In the Hbnse of Lords, Earl Rnssell,
moved the address to the Crown against
the ratification of the treaty of Wash
ington.
Earl Derby hoped that Lord Russell
would withdraw his motion for the rejec
tion of the treaty, which America would
now take as a direct insult. He accepted
the treaty as an accomplished fact, tak
ing the evil with the goodf. He hoped
no pressure would be applied to Canada
to interfere with the exercise of her free
will.
Earl DeGrey and Ripon defended the
treaty and conduct of the negotiations.
He scouted the lamb-like meekness of
British Commissioners before the shear
ers. It was true they desired to concili
ate the Americans, but nothing more.
Several proposals made by the Americans
had been persistently declined, although
they were not preposterous. An apology
for the escape of the Alabama inside the
conclusion of a good treaty possible. The
settlement of the neutrality questions
was a vast gain, as neutrality was to be
England’s future policy. The omission
of any provision for commercial recip
rocity was unimportant, in view of the
progress free trade was making in Amer
ica. He defended the articles concern
ing the fisheries on the ground that Can-
rda would be really benefitted by them.
Lord Cairus deprecated the motion of
Earl Rnssell. The treaty was as binding
as if it had been ratified, although it was
badly drawn and obliged England to sub
mit to principles hitherto unknown to
the country.
The Lord Chanceller sustained the
treaty.
The Marquis of Salisbury declared
tinu tlu; trier, ry sacrificed the right
neutrals to American araaccptibilitles.
Earl Russell then withdrew his mo
tion, and the debate was brought to a
close.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
Death of an Army Major Gen
eral in the Tombs.
Major General Charles Mundee, of
Tallahassee, Florida, for twenty years,
and until recently, when he resigned,
an officer of the regular army, and a
man of conspicious social position
and large wealth, died in the Tombs
on Sunday night, in a fit of delirium,
after having been committed to a cell
on a charge of larceny. It appears
that a few weeks ago General Mun-
dec left his home to attend the re
union of the army of the Potomac,
at Boston. He-afterwards came to
this city, and Visited, among others, -
Generals Wright, Newton and Ham
ilton, who had formerly served with
lnm * ww '**f ■ ]' r>i ‘;.
He subsequently (probably, were
suffering from temporary insanity)
bought for $250 a partnership in a
low drinking saloon, No. 110 West-
street, and sat daily behind the bar.
although he took no active part in
the business. On Friday his bar
keeper was arrested on‘ a charge of
stealing from a customer, and on the
following day Genr’l. Mundee was also
arrested as a confederate and locked
up. On Saturday evening lie was
seized with convulsions and died in
two hours. The body will be for
warded to Florida by Generals New
ton and Wright, Shaller and Hamil
ton, General Mundee leaves' h wife
and six children. • General William
F. (Baldy) Smith will take charge of
the body after the inquest . and for
ward it to his family.—[New York
Evening Post.
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Prospects of the Cotton Crop.
ADVICE TO A NEW WRITER
Another negro w.as knocked on the head
in this vicinity on Tuesday last, on the
plantation of Mr. Clayton Vaughn, about
a mile from town. Two negro meu,
James Nelson and Sam Jones in his em
ploy, were working together in lie field;
and Jim asked the other what timeqf day
it was. fie answered that it was about
twelve o’clock, judging from his shadow.
As the sun was obscured by clouds, this
method of determination did not suit the
philosophical mind of Jim, who gave his
companion the lie. The latter raised bin
hoe in a menacing manner, saying that if
lie repeated that, he would kill him.—-
.Jim then jumped back a step and struck
Sam upon the head with his hoe, killing
him almost instautly. Jim then took to
his heels as he saw some one approach
ing, and made for the river about two
miles above town. The Sheriff was im
mediately summoned with his blood
hounds, and succeeded in trailing the
murderer fpr several miles, across the M.
& A. R. R. bridge, and down the opposite
bank about a milej where it was discov
ered that he had broken a boat from its
fastening,- and takes to the water, as LLs
only means of escape. Ho concealed
• himself some whore, and up to this time _ _ _
no further traces have been discovered — t hose who resort to it contemptible in the
[Milledgeville Recorder. end.
I860.
Cotton (new).... $191,806,655
Breadstuffs 20,583,516
Gold and Silver 56,916,851
Tobacco.....' 19,289,975
Petroleum Nil.
Provisions 16,612,143
Naval Stores 1,969,612
Tallow : 1,598.176
Total... $308,807,157
Grand total exports. 373,189,284
A correspondent asks us. concern
ing the condition of the cotton crop
generally—whether it has everywhere
been greatly damaged, by rain, as in
his section. We have for several days
been carefully examining our ex
changes for information on this sub
ject, and we are satisfied that the great
damage by excessive rains is ’general
but not quite universal. We do not
make extracts from the papers of the
several localities noticed, because their
account* *are so very similar as to
sacrificed" the rigiito <>£ araouhFTb almost literal repetitions.
1 Suffice’ it to say that throughout the
great “cotton belt,” extending from
the Atlantic to the Mississippi river,
there are very few spots indeed that
have lately been dry enough; for the
vigorous and healthy growth of tho
cotton plant. In very many lowland
localities the cotton has been drowned
out, and the stand lost; and on the
uplands the cotton has become so
grassy that a view of it is very dis
couraging indeed. The job pf clean
ing it looks as formidable as : did the
fabled one of the Augean stable, that
required the strength and skill of a
Hercules. Much of the cotton in
this “belt” has not yet even been
thinned out to a stand. From the
important regions of Southwestern
Georgia; from the rich country around
and below Montgomery, including the
prairie lands of Montgomery, Bullock,
Lowndes, &c.; from the fertile and
productive “canebrake” region of
Western Alabama, and from the
rich bottoms of the Alabama
river, come the same accounts
of overwhelming and long-pro
tracted rains, overflow and grass.—
In Florida the rain appears to have
been more partial, but in many parts
of that State, too, the season has
been far too wet for cotton. In the
country north of this “ cotton belt”
and east of the Mississippi, the rains
have not been so disastrous, but none
of this region produces cotton very
largely, except West Tennessee and
the valleys of the Tennessee and
Coosa rivers in Alabama. Our in
formation from the heavy cotton pro
ducing regions west of the Mississip
pi is not so general as from the sec
tion east of that river. Our accounts
lead ns to the conclusion that in Ar
kansas and Texas the rains have been
partial, as in Florida on this side of
the Mississippi, but that great dam
age from rain has nevertheless been
sustained in these two States. In
$66,274,129 Louisiana, both east and west of the
Mississippi, the rains appear to have
been as disastrous as here.
Accounts like these have very ma
terially reduced the estimates of the
crop of this year. We do not believe
that any one in the South now thinks
it at all prqbable than more than
three millions of bales can be pro
duced. The prevailing estimate ap
pear to range from 2,600,000 to 28,-
000,000, but some are confident that
the crop will not exceed 2,500,000,
bales.—[Columbus Enquirer.
While one of the lady converts at a re
cent baptism in Noblesville, Ind., was
being led into the river by the pastor for
immersion, she slipped and he slipped,
and they both sank into the depths to
gether. They were fished oat all right,
however, though it was some time before
they could remember what they went for.
Our Slaughtered Exports.
According to the British Board of
Trade returns the value of imports into
Great Britain from the United States
during the year 1870 was §249,024,645,
the largest amount ever recorded. This’
official statement furnishes the best re
ply. to the assertion that the present tariff,
by raising the price of home products,
virtually excludes them from foreign
markets. It reveals the startling fact
that under this tariff the country most
interested in free trade is increasing its
detnand for our merchandise.
The largest quantity of cotton we ever
exported was 3,746,835 bales, in i860.—
We received for it §191,806,555.
We exported only 2,167,323 bales in
1870, and received for it §219,373,805,
for cotton was worth in 1870 nearly
double its worth in 1860.
This alone would enlighten the Tribune
did its delusions arise from ignorance
merely; but the falling of the cotton
value which will be shown in the exports
of 1871 may let daylight into the dark
ness it would diffuse.
In 1860 the total value of our exports
amonnted to §373,189,284. In 1870 the
export value was §506,948,514. From
these totals we will now take the export-
values of eight principal articles of ex 1
port for the two periods respectively,
consisting of agricultural products and
bullion, thereby showing the amount of
export of manufactured articles or handi
craft, which for nine years have been fos
tered by the most corrupt class legisla
tion:
1870.
$219,373,805
64.636.922
66,097,317
18.090.923
35,666,302
29.001.441
5,426,037
2,481,638
$440,674,385
506,948,514
Oiir manufact'rd expts $64,382,127
The balance of value left for manufac
tured articles for the two periods and the
relative per centage on the aggregate
amount of exports were thus :
I860, $64,382,127; per centage on the whole.
abont r : 17 1-4
1870, $66,274,129; per centage on the whole
about 13 1-16
Deplorable at this falling off of
the exports of our handicraft is, the
worst remaius to be told—namely, we
have increased 30 per cent in population,
to say nothing of increased wealth. The
farmer who does not want his product
protected, has more than come up in his
exports to the standard of the increase
of population, for we find an increase of
over- 300 peer cent, in breadstafla and
over 80 per cent, in provisions.
If our manufactured exports had mere
ly kept pace with the rate of population
increase, the value of manufactured arti
cles exported would have been in 1870,
as follows:
Amoaut exported in 1SG0 $64,382,127
AUd St> per cent, for increase of populatiou.19,314,638
Rightful export in 1870
Actual export in 1870.
$84,196,725
66,274,129
The slaughtered condition of our ex
port trade for manufactured articles is as
clear as 18 per cent,—New York World.
By “Gris.”
I received the other day the following
note of inquiry: "%• «*it-
Deui Sib; I think I have got tallunt into me to
rite.,. J want to tri it but don’t no how to begin.—
You, lno, hev*had spcrianso. Will yu plese rite and
give me iuformaahuu on the folwiu pints, two-wit,
namely:.
VVhat to rite on.
When to rite. - ' ' '
Where to rite. 4r.- (S
How to rite.
How much to rite. .
What paper to rite for.
With cuuynther hints on tho snbjeck that may
otur to yu. Yures truly, Am bishuk.
I am gratified always to be able to im
part any information iu my power to one
about to begin to write, although he may
never begin to write with me. Strug
gling genius I am prone to encourage.
I am not like some in the profession, who
keep all they know about writing to
themselves that poor people would not
suspect they knew anything about it.—
As far as writing is concerned, ohiro-
grapbic pugilist that I am, I always stand
ready to “let go my write.”
“What to rite on.” I generally write
on a table or desk. I prefer a desk when
I want to desk-ant profoundly. Some of
my desk-antics are fearfully and wonder
fully made.
Don’t try to write on a multiplication
table, unless you are a complete master
of figures, especially figures of speech.—
I'have frequently written on my knees,
but I am aware mauy people have a re
pugnance to getting on their knees, ei
ther to write or to do anything else.
There may be occasions when you will
be compelled to write on the top of your
hat, "but it hurts one’s (s)tile to do it ha
bitually.
Literary men often affect eccentricities
regarding what they write on. Shelley,
I believe, wrote his “Shellies of Ocean”
on his thumb nail; Byron wrote on gin,
and Edgar A. Poe wrote on a drunk.
. “When to rite.” Write when you feel
like it, but be sure you feel like it. Some
people think they feel like it when they
don’t, which produces a good deal of suf
fering among readers. I would lay it
down as a general rule for young men of
“ambition” like yours, when you can’t
find any employment that will pay for
your salt, then write.
“Where to rite.” That depends a
good deal on where she is. If slie is in
Chicago it would be manifestly absurd to
write to Montreal.
“How to rite.” Is it possible that in
this land of commQn rchools there is any
young man who doesn’t know how to
write ? You should consult a writing-
master, and not me.
“How much to rite.” Better leave
that to the editor to whom you setfd your
contributions. He will tell you “for
How Much.”
“What paper to rite for.” The best
paper to write for is the Cincinnati Times
and Chronicle, but it will be no use writ
ing for it unless you enclose the stamps.
Our terms of subscription are cash in ad
vance. Liberal reduction to clubs.—
[Cincinnati Times and Chronicle.
We learn that a number of farmers in
this and the adjoining counties have ad
vanced the wages of employees .since the
harvest season opened at least 50 per cent.
It is not believed that the farmers are
justified in paying this advance, aud that
they will come out in debt.—[Monroe
Advertiser, —* J o ‘ w
TELEGRAPH .NEWS
Special Dispatctol^Se Si. •
By Atlanta and Nashville News Agency.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Butchery fMi M-anMjMHblt In Ihe
rout.
Paris, June 14.—The executions still
continue. Numbers of workmen dre
daily shot by the Versaillists in the dis
tricts where dissatisfaction still exists.
Baron Haussman has entered the field
as a candidate for gubernatorial honors.
The Bonaparte party, it is understood,
will be largely represented at the forth
coming elections, aud its candidates will
probably poll a heavy vote.
Trorhu Sprain— Tri ml at Rochefort,
Versailles, June 14.—In a speech de*
livered before the Assembly yesterday,
General Trochusaid the defense of Pans,
by the French army against the Ger
mans, was an act of heroic folly to save
the honor of France. He, from the very
first, had always considered the resis
tance that was then opposed to the Ger
mans, to be utterly vain.
The trial of Rochefort is appointed
for Monday next. The defense will
claim that the tribunal before wbioh fie
is arraigned, is incompetent to try bis
case, and will demand a trial by "jury,
The event causes much interest among
all classes.
The announcement of M. Ferries, as
Minister to Washington, has been re
tracted.
Jbmerlemne MWm mm Jfwwnl.
- London, June 14.—The United States
envoys in Enrope have opposed the va
rious European powers interested in the
negotiation of a fresh international
agreement to a treaty for the protection
of property at sea during times of war,
the treaty to be equally binding pn
America and tho signatory powers. It is
doubtful whether the consent of France
or England can be obtained to the
measures.
Athens, Greece, June 14.—King
George has made arrangements to visit
Copenhagen, aud goes via Trieste.,
Rangabe, now minister to Washington,
has been appointed Ambassador.
London, June 14.—The steamer knnn.
Smith has been wrecked near the English
coast. Ten lives were lost,
has been postponed. ' ‘ Klrt ■
The Committee of the Assembly on
Budget is known to favor VUifoaising of
funds by loan. tBT •
A special to the Standard say9 that
there were twenty-one executions yester
day in the Bois de Boulogne. Y
Bkeslan, June 14.—The Stodt Th$$pe
has been entirely destroyed.
San Philip, June 10.—A strong rebel
position in Guerrero has been taken by
the government troops.
The bombardment of Tampico is con
tinued. Tho rebels have inspired great
terror by their fire, and have silenced
the government batteries.
Paris, June 14.—The Bank of France
holds twenty-two milion francs bullion.
Hr* trust ion of a Theater. ; '.q)
Breslau, June 14, P. M.—The
Stadt Theater was destroyed by fire last
night. The audience and performers
escaped. , , - v , ..
Mutilated Treasury Notes.
A question having been raised as
to the application of the rules govern
ing the discount of mutilated U. S.
notes, and the use of printed dia
grams, subdivided into twentieths,
furnished for use in estimating the
deduction, the Treasurer has made
the following reply: “Deductions are
made for only the aggregate propor
tions missing, and this diagram is
divided into spaces merely ’ for con
venience in estimating the loss. No
matter how many parts of spaces may
be missing, no deduction will be made
unless the aggregate loss is more than
one-twentieth of the original propor
tions of the note, thus: There might
he one-tenth of each of nine spaces
missing, but as the aggregate loss
would exceed not one-twentietli no
deduction would be made; for a loss
of more than one-twentieth, hut not
more than one-tenth of the original
proportions of a note, hut one-twen
tieth of the face value will he de
ducted; for more than one-ten th, but
not more than three-twentieths, but
one-tenth will be deducted, and so on
until the loss equals, half of a note, in
which case one-half will be deducted.”
LATEST GEORGIA NEWS.
Columbus has sufficiently aroused to
talk about a park.
Columbus, in one afternoon, subscribed
§50,000 for a Merchants’ and Mechanics’
Bank, and it was not a good afternoon
for subscriptions either.
Col. P. W. Alexander is lying in a very
critical condition at Columbus.
The editor of the Newuan Defender has
some oats seven feet high. He wants
three dollars a bushel for them when
they are threshed.
In addition to the decisions of the
United States Conit, at Savannah, and
the City Court of Augusta, declaring the
relief law passed by the last Legislature
unconstitutional, the Superior Court has
also decided against its constitutionality.
In a case iu this latter court yesterday
tne defendant iu a case coming within
the perview of the relief law, moved that
the plaintiff’s suit be dismissed, on the
ground that the affidavit of ihe payment
of taxes had not been made and filed.
This motion was refused by Judge Gib-
sou, who declared the sections of the act
requiring this affidavit to be unconstitu
tional.—A ugusta Chron. & Sentinel, 14.
* Mr. L. P. Taylor, of Vermont, is at
South Bend, Indiana, on a short visit for
tlie benefit of his health, the five Mrs.
Taylors whom he left at home having
proved too much of a load on his mind.
They are after him, however, and he
wants one of those swamp-angel divorces
that will shoot in five directions at all
WASHINGTON NEWS, hr
Jlotcrn, the Hlg-amht— The Ku-Khtx Commit
tee—-fifen. Toomba to be Summoned* r/;
"Washington, June 14.—Strong efforts
will be made, on the return of the Presi
dent to-morrow, to have Bowen pardoned.
His friends here have already commenced,
through newspapers here, to enlist pub
lic sympathy in his behalf, and they
claim that he was a victim of circum
stances, and also that the prosecution
against him was urged by South Caroli
nians.
Several'Sonth Carolina witnesses were
examined by the Ku-Klux Committee to
day. Among them was Mr. Hopper, a
District Attorney, who stated that the
State Government was rotten to the core.
All the testimony from South Carolina
shows extraordinary corruption by the
Radical State Government.
GeS. Toombs and Horace Greeley will
be summoned to testify.
Gov. .Lindsay, of Alabama, testifies
that there have been no disturbances
since the political meeting last summer,
and looks upon the State as being jn a
more peaceful condition than it bn« been
iu during the last fifteen years. He
points t6 the quotable price of securities,
and quotes statistics of Wade to prove
this.
Gen. Forest has been snmmoned to
appear pefore this Committee, and is ex
pected to arrive next week.
The Coming- Cotton Crop.
Washington, June 14.—A careful esti
mate of the cotton crop for the year
places the whole - number of bales as low
as 1,900,000. Another estimate as to the
decrease in acreage plaoes it at 1,000,000
acres—Texas not being estimated. In
North Carolina the falling off in planting
reaches 15 per cent. The weather has
been cold, wet and unfavorable, and cot
ton is unusually poor. South Carolina
has one-fifth less cotton under cultivation
this year than she hud last. The crops
are very inferior and unpromising.—
Georgia decreases her acreage about 15
per cent. Mississippi decreases 12 per
cent, with the weather unusually un
favorable. Arkansas decreases at the
same rate. Louisiana decreases her acre
age about 10 per cent In this Htate the
weather is more favorable than in the
other Southern States, and the prospects
for cotton are very fair.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Drp Ooele Sunk.
Memphis, June 14.—Two sections of
the Dry Dock sank to-day in 90 feet
water, while taking on a steamer. Lues
§50,000. w ; ,, r
luaufurat ion.
Concord, N. H., June 14.—This has
been a gala day with the Democrats of
New Hampshire. At suurise, a salute of
40 guns were fired. The people poured
into the city by every road and manner
of conveyance, to witness the inaugura
tion of tbe Democratic Governor. It waa
a grand affair.
Bridge Completed.
Keokuk, Iowa, June 14.—The bridge
over the Mississippi is completed, and
the trains are running.