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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. *■ • -* 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. *«-****. * * 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. — ► ^ ■< ' 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. ( J F.'AT 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.