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MAYOR’S COURT.
‘•Wilke nnd Call Me Knrly.”
The early cull made by tlio Mayor on
Jonsen was imlicative of a “sharp and
quick” job. Long before the usual time,
school W»S out and the children happy,
jhe commencement exercises opened by
a speech from
PSALMUEL DANIELS,
ff lio is running a red-hot saloon on Deca
tur street Psalm, was going so fast and
making so much money, that lie forgot to
put on brakes on last Sunday, and kept
open all day, and sold beer just like the
koys were not entitled to one day’s rest
out of the seven. YiTien the police came
up the jolly crowd was holding prayer
meeting. The place, time and object of
the meeting was rather mixed.
And all that night long they sailed away;
And, when the sun went down,
They whistled and warbled a niooney song
To the oelioing sound of a coppery gong,
Xn the shado of a mountain brown.
<•0 Timballoo I How happy we are
When we lire in a sieve and a crockery jar!
And all night long, iu the moonlight pale.
We sail away with a peagreen sail,
In the shade of the mountains brown.”
The Mayor took a hand in the sail,
and thought ns the boys had such a
lively time, the captain of the vessel
wouldn’t mind paying fifty dollars as li
cense for his crew.
WILLIAM BRYDIE
ought to have been hung in his earliest
infancy, ere he gave the world an exam
ple of what a man can descend to. Willie
beat his sweetheart—the miserable, cow
ardly dog! The Mayor knew he was a
coward because he struck a woman. A
witness testified that when he came up the
girl was “awful had off.”
Ob I there sbo sat upon the floor,
A weepin’ and a wcepin',
Her radiant auroral cheeks
In gushin’ brine a stef pin’—
While from her cumly nose's tip
A crystal drop depended,
Which flashed and flickered in the sun,
I'rismatlcally splendid.
Relentless sighs her buzzum wrung,
Like strugglin' earthquakes heavin’,
As to and fro sho slowly swung
A weavin’ and a weavin’.
In With hollow wails tho ceiling pierced.
With tears tho floor was drcnchin’,'
And all tho while her ruby hand
A twistin'and a renebiu’.
Ailown her hack an avalanche
Of glory spread its pinions—
(This Is powctic for her hair—
She didn’t dote on shinyuns,)
So freely fload her teary floods.
So sweet her constitution
She might cmphatic’ly bo colled ,
A sackryne solution.
For creating all this trouble and alarm
the said William was responsible, and a
"sackryne” solution of $50 and costs
was ordered to be applied to Will.
They say tho professions are crowded
By seekers for fame and for bread;
That tho members are pushing each other
As dose as their footsteps can tread;
But be not discouraged, my brother,
Nor suffer exertion to stop,
Tho' thousands are pressing around you
There’s plenty of room at the top.
This is what the Mayor said to Thomas
O’Keefe, who was up for being drunk on
the streets. It was the second time late
ly that he had been up, and the Judge
thought he was contending for the main
prize for drunkenness. Although the
profession was a little crowded in that
line, he was offered encouragement to
proceed. There is always a niche which
is waiting to be filled by some one, and
though the members of the drinking club
are crowding one another as to who*can
destroy tho most, yet, as the Mayor says,
“There is plenty of room at the top.”—
A berth in that room cost O’K—five dol
lars.
Just after this case wds disposed of, S.
Roach appeared, charged with the same
offence. The Court had her back up,
and became interested in this business.
When S. It. was first discovered by a
near-sighted policeman, he was on his
■war-horse—
He rode to battlo down the street.
She wept beside her window pane;
A flower fell *t tho soldier’s feet, t;
A voice fell soft and sweet;
“ Auf'Wiederseh'n.”
He fought afar; she wept alone;
They brought him home from battle slain,
Bencith hisblocd-stained tunic shono
A silver cross, with this thereon:
“Auf Wiederseh’n.”
When they got him home, besides
finding a silver cross and tho “orphan
widder’s son,” the Court told Jonsen to
see if he couldn’t find a loose V. about
him somewheres. Jon brushed his hair
back, and thought he could.
This put the beer on the “orphan’s
widder’s son,” and the school was out.
Not long since Capt. Blodgett, ex-Su-
perintendeat of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad, essayed to make a coup d'etat to
put Maj. McCalla out of the way, and
get himself in exclusive possession of the
State Road records, where the vigilant
e ye of the General Book-keeper conld
not see what he did. In this he failed,
a# the public know.
The stake, however, was mighty, and
the case desperate. He resorted to the
dov ice of trying to turn the records over to
the Attorney General, instructing him to
employ clerks, &c., to bring up the bal
ances, (a thing Blodgett himself could
nave done months ago, if he had tried)
and do other things.
The point in this was that the Attorney
General, whatever may have been his
wishes in bringing the offenders
to punishment, recognized Blodgett
as having authority to remove Maj.
McCalla; recognized himself (the
Attorney General) askaving authority re
ceived from Blodgett to make appoint
ments and removals; and the friends of
Maj. McCalla feared thei-e would be anoth
er attempt to remove him, in which CoL
Farrow would try his hand. This fear or
expectation, it seems, was realized; for
yesterday Col. Farrow served Maj. Mc
Calla with a formal notice of dismissal.
Maj. McCalla was appointed to the po
sition, or assigned to the duty thereof,
fiy tho Governor, and ho and his friends
held that none but the Governor could
remove him.
It seems to us that the committee ap
pointed to take charge of the records,
should have recognized the- services,
the ability, integrity and knowledge
of Major M., and required his
retention in his place. He kuows where
to point out the tracks of the villainy
that has taken place, and his services
cannot be dispensed with, and thus
ought to be retained without allowing
any recognition of the authority of
Blodgett to remove him.
But aside from all this, we ask:
Why should Capt-.' Blodgett and Col.
Farrow have used so much strategy in
attempting to take from the control of
Maj. McCalla the State Road books ?
If Capt. B. and Col. F. were so willing
to have the alleged State Road frauds in
vestigated, why should they not have un
hesitatingly gone to the aid and assis
tance of Maj. McCalla and Maj. Har
grove, who started this good work in
good faith to the people of Georgia ?
Have not the efforts of Maj. McCalla
and of Maj. Hargrove already developed
a fact beyond dispute: that fraud, theft
and forgery had been carried into suc
cessful operation by State Road officials
to the amount of thousands of dollars ?
Now, if Capt. B. and Col. F. are friends
to these exposures, why do they not come
up in support of McCalla and H. ? Why
should they desire to rid themselves and
the community of McCalla’s services—
the man above all others calculated to ex
pose these frauds ?
Personal.
Gen. Robert Toombs arrived in the
city yesterday morning. He is remark
ably well and will remain in the city a
few days.
Down the Macon. & Western Road.
A leading business man, who has just
returned from a trip down the Macon &
Western Railroad, says the crops, where
he has been, are as good, if not better
than he has seen for several years. Corn
looks unusually well, while the cotton is
not altogether as bad as some would have
us believe.
The Premium List of the Coming Pair.
The Secretary has placed on our table
a copy of the list of premiums for the
Fair in October, and we think it the
handsomest one we have ever seen of the
kind.
The arrangement of departments and
classes is such as to facilitate exhibitors,
Superintendents, Judges and the Secre
tary in their labors.
The rules and regnlations are excellent,
and if the premiums are not so large as
those offered by some other Fairs, they
are liberal enough to induce a large ex
hibition.
Mr. Echols, the Secretary, is busily
engaged in distributing the premium lists
into tho proper hands. From the delay
that has unfortunately attended his work
he will have his hands full from this date
on. He wishes parties who design ex
hibiting to make tbeir entries as soon as
possible, so that he may report to the
Superintendent what space each will re
quire, that all parties may have satisfac
tory accommodations. The books are
now open for receiving entries.
Let every citizen aid in making the
Fair a grand success.
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SING SING.
THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN.
yard where he was buried, and was held
in high esteem by the Erench people. I
m not learning age, or if he was in
good circumstances at the lime of his
death, or had a life policy.
And at Shakespeare’s grave I’ve been
too. The “Bard of Avon” is the
name he is known by in that immediate
y 101 ? 1 y- Avon is a stream, and upon its
banka he was bom, which circumstance
1 nse to explain” in order that your
readers may see the point, and that no
error may occnr. For instance, if
the thing should get mixed, and
some winter sometime should, in al-
lndmgtoShakspeare, put it “Bard, of
the Irue Georgian," the effect would be
awkward, and might mislead the youth
of our land Dr. Bard, the talented ed
itor of the True Georgian newspaper of
your city, would not care to be reeoo--
nized in company sometime as the author
of bhakspeare’s works, nor would Shaks-
peare, even though he is dead, (which
you know he is,) care to be charged with
being editor of the True Georgian, orliav-
ing been Governor of Idaho under the
administration of Gen. Grant. And this
is why I am particular in directing public
attention to this matter, “which the same
± would further rise to explain” as the
cause of my being here at Sing Sing.
As before remarked, George Washing
ton is dead, and so are Napoleon and
bhakspeare; and I have visited their
graves. It is impossible for me to carry
out my desire to visit the graves of all
great men, for the reason that some of
them are not dead. Thus, being denied
that sad privilege in the case of ex-Gov-
ernor Bard, Ihastened from Long Branch
to do the next best thing, which was to gaze
upon the place of his birth.
Wliat more natural, therefore, than
for me, whilst looking with eager eyes
at the house wherein the ex-Govemor of
Idaho first saw the light of day, to
associate in my mind the scenes and in
cidents of other visits to consecrated
spots. The “Bard of Avon” and Dr.
Bard, of the True Georgian newspaper,
and ex-Govemor of Idaho! What a coin
cidence! Several hundred years, it is
true, intervened between them, but the
world has had, and is having the benefit
of HiB^genius of each. The house here
in which Bard, the Sing-Smgist, was born
does not differ materially from other
houses in the village. The same remark
applies to that in which Shakspeare first
tuned his lyre; but the flyre (to the com
positor: don’t spell this word liar, and
cause me to make a moonlight excursion
to Sandbar Ferry,) was not tuned until
he became the editor of a political
paper, but there is a wonderful similarity
of coincidental sameness in the lives of
the two men. Webster advises us that a
“bard” is a “singer or poet/’ from which
circumstance it would seem that the sub
ject of our sketch is eminently entitled,
from the incident of both birth and name,
to claim the advantage of Shakspeare,
being a double “singist,” and by virtue
of being a “bard,” is a poet, the latter
entitling him to the lyre. (Compositor
will again be careful.) Shakspeare did
not enjoy advantages like these, but was
thrown wholly upon his own resources.
The village boys have got the whole sto
ry pat, and the old men of Hie town sit
in tho evening twilight and speak with
pride of the greatness which their town
has given to the world. Tho house is
the first object showh to the visitor upon
his arrival.
Seated at the hotel enjoying my morn
ing cigar, and glancing at the Southern
telegrams in tho Herald, I was waited up
on by a committee of the City Conncil,
with the Mayor at their head, and inform
ed that the house in which Dr. Samuel
Bard was bom was ready for my exami
nation, and that it would be their pleas
ure to conduct me to it. I thanked the com
mittee, cordially, and accompanied them*
This attention is more particularly paid
to gentlemen and ladies from the South.
This is a standing committee of the City
Council, whosejduty it is to daily scan the
hotel register and chaperone visitors.
But if I am to get this in to-day’s mail
I must close. Yours in haste.
B. O. Hemtan.
masses North and South will rally with
spontaneous enthusiasm to the old famil
iar standard which has floated trium
phantly over a hundred battle-fields and
will float over a hundred, more. Who,
then, are the schismatics ? Certainly
not those who abide iu the old Demo
cratic ship and adhere to the old Demo
cratic principles !—Greensboro IGa.,) He>'-
ald, 30 August, 1871.
POLITICS IN OHIO.
Another Letter from B. O. He-
rnian—Fleeing from tlie Fislt—
At Sing Sing—-A Mecca-—The
Birthplace of a Bard— fcl Rises
to Explain.’?—- Cfc Tlie House
Where an Ex-Governor First
Saw the Light”—'The Lyre.
Sing Sing, August 28, 1871.
My last was from Long Branch. After
my interview with His Excellency, the
President, the aspect there was blase; be
sides, Jim Fisk annoyed me. Go where
I would, on the beach, promenades, or
drives, Jim Fisk, in opera-house span
gles and panoply, would turn up to offend
my nice sense of propriety, for you must
know that I do not like fast men er wo
men; so I left.
I am now at Sing Sing, not at the in
stance of any judicial persuasive eloquence
as some are, but of my own volition. You
know I have been something of a travel
er in my time, and have a fondness for
treading upon places distinguished in
history, and of looking upon the shrines
of the mighty. In early life I made
a pilgrimage to Mount Vernon, and
gazed with a venerative sort of enwrap-
turedness, (a new and good word) where
Washington sleeps. But he’s “played”
now, and you will not expect me to di
gress from the thread of my story and
enlarge upon his virtues. George Wash
ington was all very well in his time. He
strutted his brief hour upon the stage of
human affairs, and “handed in his
checks.” The school-boy idea about
there being “giants in those days,”
sounds well enough from a Sophomore
stand-point, but no sensible {person
will give ear to such tomfoolery, for we
have the giants in this day and genera
tion.
Well, I was also once at the tomb of
Napoleon, at St. Helena. No man is
tliorougly “traveled” who has not been
there. Neither should you expect
from me a learned biographi
cal sketch of Napoleon. He is gen
erally put down as a Frenchman, but
was born in Corsica, as I am informed. —
It is stated that there was some sort of a
disturbance at Waterloo some years ago,
with which Napoleon had some connec
tion, after which he was arrested by the
police and carried to St. Helena, where
he died. He was regarded as a very clev
er man, as they told me at the grave
POL1TICS IN GEORGIA.
From tho Greensboro Herald.
Wlio are tlie Schismatics?
The quondam Democratic papers are
becoming exceedingly nervous about
Democratic unity. Remote from the
noise and excitement of scheming rings
and the seduction of public patronage,
we have not shared the apprehensions of
our “departed” cotemporaries. Stand
ing upon the firm basis of the Constitu
tion as it was left to us by its framers,
we have seen no cause either for alarm or
flight in the presence of present or pros
pective dangers. “Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof,” is an inspired
maxim which holds good in all the inter
ests and plans of human life—it is as ap
plicable to politics as religion. Occupy
ing our rural stand-point, and calmly and
dispassionately surveying the whole field,
we have seen no occasion for depressing
our lance or fleeing from the great bat
tle-field of principle.
Whilst our noble old State was in
duress and her beautiful feet in the
stocks, it was alike the dictate of good
philosophy and wise policy, to refrain
from active and prominent participation
in Federal politics. It conld only harm
her by inviting new .insults and more
onerous exactions from the tyrannical
and scheming dominant party. But now
tho case is changed. Reconstructed,
unfettered, rehabilitated, responsibilities
are laid upon her which die may not
shun. And wliat are these? We answer,
to labor quietly, but perseveringly and
courageously to reform, preserve and
transmit that form of Government
of which she was an original framer
and partner, and in which she still |
has a proprietary interest. These re
sponsibilities she cannot shun and stand
acquitted before God and posterity—for
States like individuals are answerable to
both, though the penalty for delinquency
is different.
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In the year of Grace 1871, however,
when the government, as every one can
see, is steadily and rapidly drifting into
Centralism or something worse—when
all the mighty reformatory and conser
vative power of the United Democracy
is necessary to keep the old ship from
going down, a part of the Democratic
leaders became mutinous; take observa
tions of revolving lights; steer the vessel
among the Radical breakers; jump into
the long boat, and under false colors,
buccaneer on Radical commerce. These
hasty departures have not, however, ma
terially affected the unity or integrity of
the Democratic party. When the great j
conflict for principle comes, the honest
■Mi*. I’fiidbton on tile Xcw Dcpnrturc.
Mr. George H. Pendleton made a po
litical speech at Loveland, Ohio, the
other day, which, it is claimed, indicated
his acceptance of the departure which
proposes to pledge the Democratic party
to abide by, and if it comes to power, to
treat the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments as legitimate parts of the
Federal Constitution. We think he is
gready misunderstood by those who put
that construction upon his speech upon
that occasion. There are only two para
graphs in that speech which touch the
question at all. The first one is in those
words:
“Our Government was—J say was—a constitu
tional government. It was framed by the delegates
from States. It was ratified by the conventions of
States. It was a creature of States, endowed by
inetn with all the powers it possessed, and was so
plentifully endowed that it could, of itself, perform
the duties, define the powers, and perpetuate the
existence which had been given to it. Those .duties
were few, those powers were ample, but they were
limited. The constitution and laws made in pur-
suance thereof were the supreme law. All powers
not delegated to Congress nor prohibited to States
were reserved.”
Thus he makes the same issue* with
Senator Morton that we made, and de
fines the Federal system as Jefferson and
Calhoun expounded it. More than that;
he intimates that tho constitutional sys
tem is eclipsed, if not subverted, by the
centralism of-Morton’s New Nation. No
greater violence could be done to Mr.
Pendleton’s life-long convictions than to
assert that he means to acquiesce in the
overthrowal of the the constitutional sys
tem which the States created and set in
operation in 1787. It is supposed by
some that the following closing paragraph
of his speech indicates that he abandons
all hope of restoring the States-union
system:
“ Fat the Democratic party in power. It has no
now promises to make, no new pledges to give. It
wiU remember its organization, and history, and
traditions; its principles and policy, as they have
been proclaimed in resolutions and illustrated in
practice. It will reform abuses ; it will punish cor
ruption; it will restore purity to the legislation,
and honesty to administration; it will be just to the
public creditor, and honest to the tax-payer; it will
pay the debt in the manner and at tho time prom
ised; will forbid all usurpation of power; it will
maintain constitutional government; it will obey; it
will cxict from all obedience to the Constitution and
all the amendments. It will restore self-govern
ment to all the States, and bring about an era of
harmonious union, of real prosperity of true lib
erty.”
It would be just as sensible to assert
that Thomas Jefferson abandoned Re
publicanism because he said in bis inau
gural address, upon entering the office of
President, “ We are all Republicans; we
are all Federalists.”
Mr. Pendleton expressly declares “that
the Democratic party has no new promi
ses to make, no new pledges to give. It
will remember its organization and history
and traditions, its principles and policy.”
What language could be employed more
clearly declining to take the New Depart
ure? No. The Democratic party will
not depart. It has no new pledges to
give. It will remember its history, its
traditions, its principles, its old-timepol-
icy, and it will not depart. What, then,
does Mr. Pendleton mean when he says
the party “will exact from all obedience t”
the Constitution and all the amendments?
He means what he says; but ask him if
the debt which is to be paid “in the man
ner and at the time promised,” is paya
ble, as to the five-twenty bonds, in gold,
and he will tell you they are payable in
greenbacks! Ask him if the pretended
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments are
to be obeyed when the Democratic party
“exacts obedience from all to the Consti
tution and all the amendments,” and he
will tell you they are not amendments,
but nullities! He stands, upon this ques
tion, precisely upon the ground occupied
by Isaac Caldwell, Judge Craddock, and
the Jeffersonian Demoei'at.
Indeed, he has gone further than Mr.
Caldwell or Judge Craddock, but not be
yond this journal, and maintained.; that
the thirteenth amendment is a nullity,
because not an amendment in pursuance
with the spirit of the instrument it pre
tends to amend. His position is forcibly
stated in a speech delivered in Congress
when the thirteenth amendment was
pending. It was, we think, the only
speech made iu Congress in opposition
to it.—Jeffeironian Democrat, Louisville,
Kg., Aug. 26, 1871.
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GEORGIA NEWS.
CALHOUN.
The following Homs are from the Times of the 31st:
An enormous quantity of rain has fallen during
the past week.
T3j,e body of a negro ba3 been taken out of the
river near llesaca.
We are pained to announce tho death of Sirs. Slary
Boaz, the estimable wife of Mr. N. J. Boaz.
GR1IT1N.
Templetonltip Van Winkled the people in George’s
Hall last night.
The Starot yesterdays says: “We are pained to
learn of the death of Dr. Thomas H. Butler,
who died at Shermantown, Texas, on the 7th ultimo,
of fever. Dr. Butler was raised in this community,
where he had many friends. He left us only a few
months ago in fine health, buoyant hopes and bright
prospects of a successful future.”
The Middle Georgian emits the following: “We are
informed by good authority that a negro man was
killed in Bike county,' near Williamsville, on last
Sunday. Ii is said that he was shot by Wm. Brown.
BAIKBBIDGE.
The Argus of the 2Gth has the following:
Eight or ten days ago a colored woman, living at
or near Swann's Bridge, on Spring Creek, in this
county, was seen by several reliable witnesses with
a live baby, which was afterwards found in the creek
tied up in a bag, to which a rock was attached by a
cord. Either the mother or grandmother had
drowned the child, it is not certain which; but it is
certain the child was drowned. Another burned
her child to death at or near White's Bridge about
the same time.
DALTON.
The Citizen of the 31st furnishes several items, as
follows:
Heavy and constant rains have fallen since our last
issue, and the earth is very wet.
The recent Murray county camp meeting is re
ported as haring been one of more than usual in
terest.
It was reported in this place, last Sabbath, that the
revenue raiders liad killed a prisoner, who attempted
oes cape from them, in the mountains.
A squad of Federal soldiers entered our city early
last Friday morning with four or five men, wet to
the skin, asprisoners, charged, we believe, with dis
tilling contrary to the laws of the country.
Wb learn that a man, who has been laboring under
the happy hallucination of “equal rights” in the
kingdom to come, amongst saints and sinners, tried,
a few days Bince, m an adjoining county, to get np a
first-class horror by shuffling off this mortal coil in
a way that was vam. He fixed up a very nice noose
with a pair of bridle reins, and was just in the act of
giving up the ghost when his wife appeared, found
him struggling and lifted him up so ai to relieve his
neck from the pressure, till her screams brought as-
sist»nee, when the body was cut down.
Berlin, September 4.—Bismarck Boh-
leu lias been relieved from the Govern
ment of Alsace and Lorraine and promo
ted to the rank of General.
TELEGRAMS.
Washington, September 1.—The Cab
inet meeting to-day was attended by all
the ministers, with tlie exception of the
Postmaster-General and the Secretary of
the Treasury.
The President early called attention to
the letter of Senator Scott, of Pennsyl
vania, alleging causes for a declaration of
martial law in certain counties of South
Carolina, which was handed to the Presi
dent yesterday.
TV ithout any discussion of consequence
this letter was referred to the Attorney-
General, who is to take action regarding
the application of the Ku-Klnx law upon
the statements made therein, and as soon
as this official shqll have made his report,
the proclamation will be issued.
San Francisco, September 1.—There
is very little betting upon the result of
the State election, which takes place next
Wednesday. Both parties are working
hard.
The excitement over the threatened
Indian raid into South California is sub
siding.
Little Rock, September 1.—Senator
Clayton was arrested this morning by the
United States hlarshal, on the charge of
issuing a certificate of election to Gener
al John Edwards, as member of Congress
from this District, in violation of the En
forcement Act # of Congress. The Sena
tor gave bond'for his appearance at the
October term of the United States Court.
Charleston, September 1.—The cool
change in the weather seems to have
had a favorable influence in abating the
fever. No new cases have been reported
to-day, and only one death occurred.
To correct erroneous rumors, it should
be stated that the business of the city is
progressing without interruption of any
kind, and that all railroad trains arrive
and depart with their accustomed regu
larity.
The Courier and the News, to day, in
their commercial reviews, agree in esti
mating the growing cotton crop at from
three to three and a quarter millions of
bales. They incline, however, to tlie
former figures as the more probable.
New Orleans, Sept. 1.—A sharp cor
respondence has taken place between
Gov. Warmouth and Lt-Governor Dunn,
regarding Dunn’s assumption of Guber
natorial functions during Warmouth’s
absence from the State. Warmouth has
ordered the re-arrest of a convict pardon
ed by Dunn.
Dunn is defiant, and insists upon the
constitutionality of his act, and claims
that.Warmouth violates gentlemanly and
official courtesy.
The Times, commenting upon the re
cently developed evidences of fraud re
garding the water works, says:
“Every day brings its quota of confir
matory evidence in proof of the charges
long since brought against the leagued
cohorts of corruption, who have fastened
themselves upon the body politic in this
State. No stronger testimony is needed
of the rapacity of our rulers than that
furnished by the rival factions who have
combined against each other under tlie
respective leadership of Warmouth and
of Dunn. The pictures drawn by the
Governor of his opponents are worthy of
exhibition in every rogue’s gallery, and
the pictures drawn by the artists of the
rival faction present features no less
strongly marked by the characteristics of
moral hideousness.”
Louisville, September 1.—Two ne
groes and one white man have just been
hanged by a mob at Caseyville for out-
raging the person of a white woman in
that vicinity. Five men were concerned
in the outrage, which was of a horrible
character. The others were executed in
the same manner soon after the commis
sion of the offense.
Versailles, September 1.—The pow
ers of Europe have sent congratulatory
dispatches to Thiers upon the prolonga
tion of his term.
Advices from the departments say the
people generally approve the prolonga
tion.
It is believed that prolongation will
greatly facilitate the German evacuation
of French soil.
Larcy has withdrawn his resignation as
Minister of Public Works.
- Mobile, September 3.—Dispatches
published as coming from Mobile, stat
ing that several vessels are quarantined
with yellow fever aboard, are false.—
There is no yellow fever here, nor has
there been any this season. No such
dispatekts originated here.
Santa Fe, September 3.—The Post, of
yesterday, had the following correspon
dence from Lamsila:
The election excitement in this vil
lage culminated in the worst affray ever
witnessed here. It is no exaggeration to
say that the plaza was literally deluged
with blood. At the present writing,
Sunday, the 27th, it is known that seven
persons were killed, while it is estimated
that the number of the wounded will
reach as high as thirty, of whom seven or
eight will die. From 5 this evening un
til 6 the plaza resounded with pistol shots
and groans, and for fifteen minutes of
the time the firing was incessant, and it
continued during the rest of the hour.
The Republican and Democratic par
ties had severally' selected to-day as the
most suitable time for the grand demon
stration of the campaign and, at an early
hour this morning, both parties com
menced their preparations. The leaders
were evidently desirous of avoiding dis
turbances. The respective parties formed
in procession and passed each other with
out break. Nothing happened until the
meetings had adjourned. At 5 o’clock,
p. m., both parties met in the plaza and
exchanged different-views. A pistol shot
was fired, when a general fight occurred.
Men, women and children hurried to
their houses, but the fight was kept up.
Hon. John Lemon, the Republican
candidate for Judge, was the first killed.
The balance of the killed and wounded
are chiefly Mexicans.
Another fight took place at Antouchi-
co, near Los Vegas, in which two persons
were killed and six or seven wounded.
The people are terribly excited here,
but everything is being done to preserve
peace and good order.
New York, September 2.—The indict
ment against Vanderbilt reads: “Did
wilfully and feloniously neglect and omit
to have sound boiler and competent en
gineers, on the steamer Westfield.”
Francis Haggerty, a Westfield victim,
is dead.
The Grand Jury have found true bills
of indictment for manslaughter in the
tiiird degree against Jacob H. Vanderbilt,
President of the Staten Island Ferry
Company; James H. Braisted, Snperin-
denfc, and Henry Robinson, Engineer.—
An indictment for manslaughter in the
fourth degree was presented against Jno.
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5.
H. Matbows, United States Inspector of
Boilers.
A duel was fought on Long Island yes
terday between two well-known gentle
men, General Fardeli and Signor L.Carzi,
Fardeli cha’lenged. He claimed to have
been insulted by Carzi in a speech at the
recent Italian festival. Sabres were usecE
Fardeli received a severe wound in the
shoulder, which necessarily ended the
fight.
New Orleans, September 2.—An offi
cial note from Dr. Russell, Secretary of
the Board of Health, states that there is
not a case of yellow fever in New Or
leans.
The Picayune, on the sanitary state of
the streets, says a providential interposi
tion, perhaps, has kept sickness from our
doois. Ike health of the city has been
preserved in the face of the most utter
disregard of sanitary precautions. The
canals are- stagnant with impurity and
vegetation green and rank covers their
surface and decay aud fester beneath the
hot rays of the sud. Pools of foetid wa
ter, the receptacles of dead animals and
the sweepings of the levee are scattered
over the country, reeking with pestilence
aud filliug the air with sickening odors.
In many localities the citizens are com
pelled to close their doors and windows,
and. endure a want of ventilation aud the
excessive heat of the summer nights that
the noisome smells from the streets may
be excluded. Branches of the city as
well of the State Government seem char
acterized by imbecility, corruption,
fraud and violence.
The Grand Jury, reporting the condi
tion of the Boys’ House of Refuge, state
that the treatment of the inmates by
Henry, Superintendent, and Scliwind,
Assistant, deserves to be stigmatized as
brutal and ruffianly iu the extreme, and
the sooner a jail wall is placed between
society and Messrs. Henry and Scliwind,
the better it will be for society.
Judge Abell, First District Court, calls
the attention of the Grand Jury to the
action of State Treasurer Dubuctel in re
fusing to pay original creditors of the
State and compelling them to sell claims
to his friends. Abell says, “the State
Treasury, once the pride of the State
and financial agent of her creditors, has
been literally turned over to tax gather
ers, brokers, shavers and hangers on. I
have presided long in this court, and have
some idea of the depredation and plun
der of burglars, thieves, etc., and I am.
satisfied that the officials of the State
have, in two years, plundered the State
of more than all the thieves, etc., for the
last quarter of a century. Fraud, specula
tion, oppression, extortion and blackmail
ing i j resorted to in a most unscrupulous
manner. The millions raised by the two
per cent, tax and the vast amount of li
censes will be absorbed, at least one-half
of it being consumed by corrupt officials
and merciless brokers, and those official
economists, who manage, out of a salary
of less than ten thousand dollars, to save
a quarter of a million.
He regards the laws inadequate with,
the present jury system to check or pun
ish these officials, and advises the wise
men of the State to take counsel together
for its redemption, and, iu conclusion,
says the darkest page in the history of
the State is now being made up in charac
ters, which, I repeat, xvlien deciphered,
will show present bankruptcy, and per
haps future repudiation. The great
criminals who are destroying the future
of this State may, for the present, be too
strong for the imperfect laws on the sub
ject, and too corrupt to fear a juiy, one-
half of whom can neither read nor write,
but they may yet Ineet the frowns and
indignation of an injured people, and be
forced to enjoy their ill-gotten gains be
yond their sight.
San Francisco, September 3.—The
brig Hattie] Jackson, from the Artie
ocear, brings seven men who were
wrecked on the British bark, Japan.
Nine men lost.
New York, September 3.—Sardie G.
Clelland, a procuress, has been arrested
for enticing nine girls to leave on the
steamer City of Galveston. Two of the
girls jumped overboard after the steamer
had got under way.
The leaders in the movement against
the City Council, known as the political
reform movement, are working to secure
the co-operation of all the clergymen in
the State in the work. It is known that
five-ninths of all the voters in the State
are in the Protestant Churches. The
movement originated with this class and
its management has been principally
chosen from it.
Little Rock, September 3.—The
Kansas and Texas Railroad has been
completed to within five miles of Fort
Gibson.
The cotton worm has appeared on the
Red River lands.
Two hundred Kansans, who have
squatted on Indian territory, are incen
sing the Indians.
Versailles, September 2.—The As
sembly accepted the Presidency of Theirs,
not because content with his terms or
afraid of his resignation, but because
they could get no one to take his place.
The Due D’Anmalse’ final refusal de
termined the Assembly to support Theirs.
McMahon, Ckangamier, and President
Grevy refused to vote. Grevy said he
was a better Republican than Theirs.
Court martial has sentenced M.»Brissy,
the Commune leader, to death.
Madrid, September 2.—Advices from
the frontier report that the Carlists have
been ordered to report to their leaders on
the 8th, and be ready for rising on the
10th of September.
Philadelphia, September 2.—A crim
inal requisition for Evans, the alleged de
faulting agent, has been issued.
Chicago, September 2.—The locomo
tive of a Cincinnati express train explo
ded near Springfield, killing two em
ployees.
Lowell, September 2.—Mrs. Teresa
Perkins was found in the canal with two
scalp wounds. She was thirty-two years
of age.
Detroit, September 2.—Two emigrant
cars ran off the track. An unknown wo
man’s neck was broken, and seventeen
were injured.
San Francisco, September 2.— The
campaign against the Apaches, owing, it
is alleged, to interferences of the Peace
Commissioners, is a total failure, but the
campaign of the Apaches against white
settlements is a complete success.
St. Louis, September 2.— Edward
Chamouth, alias Dedulan, a professional
astrologist, was arrested, charged with
swindling $3,000.
The steamer Carrie V. Kountz, which
sunk below Coiambus, is valued at $30,-
000. A portion of the cargo can be sav
ed.
Long Branch, September 2.—A com
mittee of the Warmouth faction of the
Louisiana Republicans are here, waiting
for an interview with the President.