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THE ATLANTA W EEKLY SUN
THE DAILY SUN
Saturday Morning September 9.
* VetT Dr. Greeley, as a prophet, lias
‘turned up. In 1S52 lie wrote as follows
for Grahams Magazine: “We Amirieans
of tho nineteenth century will be found
in due time to have inscribed ourselves
■most legibly on the earth’s unfading
•record. * * * A railroad over the
.-Rocky Mountains, a telegraph across the
. Atlantic, a towering observatory wherein
. all the storms and calms at any moment
,prevailing within the earth’s atmosphere
.shall be portrayed on a common dial plate,
and the storms which shall take place at
.any point during the next day or week,
-with their several directions and inten
aities.” And all these things have come
to pass in his day and generation. Great
is America, and Dr. Greeley is her chief
prophet. _
XETTER FROM IVANHOE.
“Bfo Ytllnv/ Pivtr-Plare np xviMi I lie
Radicals—'Their flundcrlngj exposed
J»—A Radical Governor’s Secretary At*
tempts a Big '‘Steal’'--Scliools Madly
"Mixed, Etc.
New Oubeans, Sept. 5, 1871.
Although the business season has not
set in here, active preparations are in
progress for its speedy arrival. Stores
are being refitted and supplied with
:goods of every description." Houses,
-churches ami theaters are being built or
.repaired. .
Dp to this date we have had no yellow
•fever, and the weather is 'now becoming
so cool, that we entertain little or no ap
prehension.
Among tho interesting events of last
•week, are Judge Abel’s charge to the
grand jury, complaining of tho financial
•corruptions of the day, and tho spirit of
■speculation and peculation that enters
into the administration of every depart
ment of the Government. It is a bold
and manly expose of the various tricks
presorted to by unscrupulous office-liold-
fers-in fleecing the people, from the judge
• upon the bench to the humblest tax
payer in the community; and tho public
is much indebted to him for plucking
stiie mask from oflicial villians, and pub
lishing facts, which, though long known,
have not at any time before, been so
boldly announced and so scathingly de-
, .mounted. If he were not himself a high-
minded, honorable man, who commands
-Hie general confidence in his statements,
‘. they would not be so approvingly receiv-
"cd as they now are. 1
Another incident which has occasioned
not a little sensation, and produced quite
a flare up among the Radicals, particu
larly among those who intended to make
a profitable job of the city water works,
is the dismissal, by Gov. Warmoth, of
his Secretary of State, for undertaking
to promulgate an Act of Incorporation of
•said Water Works, passed at tho last ses-
. sion of the Legislature, which he had not
signed, and which did not receive his
•official sanction. For this piece of pre
sumption on tho part of the Secretary,
.the Governor suspended him, very prop-
-.erly, from his office till the next session
of the Legislature, and appointed Gen
eral Herron to occupy his place ad
interim.
The period for opening all the schools,
parochial and private, as well as public,
having arrived, after the summer vaca
tion, several of tho clergy, last Sunday,
.addressed their congregations on the sub
ject of education, making a fierce on-
slauglit on the public schools as conduct
ed in New Orleans. The administrators
of these schools are radicals, and go for
leveling up the black race to a footing of
equality with the whites, and mixing tlie
two races together in the same schools.—
All decent people are opposed to this ini-
-quity, and naturally and properly rebel
against paying taxes to support such
schools, Denominational schools are
consequently established all over the
city, and the system of public plunder,
in the shape of popular education for tho
.paxti-colored masses, will, ere long, have
to be abandoned. It awakens nearly
universal indignation.
Tho tidal wave, which, according to
Prof. Agassiz, is to rise to the height of
fifty feet, and to sweep over the whole
gufi coast", on the 6th proximo, to the no
.little terror and wide spread destruction
of our inhabitants, excites the exceeding
merriment of some of our city journals
Iyanhoe,
their knees every night for sending him
to them; that he was the champion of
their race and was willing to suffer mar
tyrdom for their sakes; that as Christ had
shed his blood for their souls, so he
would shed his for their liberty.
At the conclusion of the speech he
took occasion to remind them of the fact
that, as he was willing to do the suffering,
they must “foot the bills”—that the la
borer was worthy of his hire. He wanted
every man, woman and child to briDg up
their offering—“none of your one and
two dollars will do for me,” says he;
“money, and aplenty of it, I must and
will have. So bring ifcright along 1” and
they brought it. One old negro said he
had no money, bnt would give a bushel
of potatoes; another offered a peck of rice;
some would bring fish, another oysters,
&c. Campbell slept that night a wealth
ier if Dot a better man.
The following day, believing that he
had the woi-ld in a swing, he arrested
another British captain, whose offense
consisted in defending his quarter-deck
against a mutinous negro crew, who at
tempted to take his boat and leave his
vessel.
In all these outrages upon the persons
and property of the whites, he seems to
have the sympathy of the United States
officials, and is backed by a baud of three
or four hundred armed negroes, the
whole of whom he can assemble at an
boar’s notice, and who would do his bid
ding, even to the slaying of every white
person within their reach.
When the Sheriff was ordered by
Judge Sessions to arrest the mutinous
crew of the boat Grace, and deliver them
to the Captain, he refused to do it, say
ing that he would be murdered if he did;
that they were guarded by a hundred
armed negroes who swore they should
not be taken. The Sheriff is a negro,
but not a favorite with Campbell. He is
the only officer in the county who is dis
posed to do his duty, bnt is powerless to
do a thing contrary to the wishes of
Campbell.
A warrant from the Superior Court of
Fulton county, for the arrest of Camp
bell, was sent to Darien, which the Sher
iff would not execute until .he had Camp
bell’s permission to do so. He was then
taken before Judge GilHson, a white Jus
tice, and required to give bond. The
bond was worthless, and tho Judge re
ceived it. The court house and yard was
full of infuriated negroes, swearing that
the heavens and earth should come to
gether, before Campbell should goto
jail.
One white-haired old negro, who ap
peared to be acting as chief that day,
when the judge refused to accept the bail,
said to the crowd “iVow is the time/” In
an instant every negro in the house was
upon his feet; but Campbell turned and
said, "Not now," and all was quiet im
mediately, every negro resuming his seat.
A white lawyer, who does the dirty
work for Campbell, then drew up a writ
of habeas corpus, and the Ordinary (ne
gro) sent for Campbell and discharged
him forthwith upon the “straw bail” that
he had offered.
The Ordinary has since acknowledged
that his action was illegal, and that he
knew it was at the time; hat if he had
sent Campbell to jail, there is no telling
what would have been the consequence.
Bennett, the Sheriff, remarked in the
presence of several white gentlemen, that
there were no less than three hundred
stand of arms on the premises ready for
instant use, and he believed that if he
had attempted to put Campbell in jail,
his life would have been forfeited, and
that a general massacre would have fol
lowed. Sach is also the opinion of the
citizens of Darien.
Under all these aggressions, the people
have been patient and forbearing, trust
ing the coming time when Hie State will
be rid of Bullock and those he has sent
out to pester and annoy the people.
Let the day come quickly. * * ~
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
DARIEN. :
A Sad State of Affairs—A Negro
Autocrat — How lie Manages
Tilings—Makes a Speecli and
-Collects Titlies—-Backed "by an
Armed Bauditti—-A Mockery
of Law—Straw Bail—Officers
Afraid to do tlieirDuty—Ready
for a Massacre.
.Correspondence of The Atlanta Sus.
Darien, Ga., Sept. 5, 1871.
JEilitors of the Sun: Possibly there is no
•autocrat who wields a greater influence
over his subjects than the negro Senator
Campbell wields over his serfs in this sec
tion of the State. The slaves of Aladdin’s
lamp were never more prompt in respond
ing to a call, or more expeditious in exe
•eating a commission. His decrees are
carried out as faithfully as the decrees of
« monarch could be. His ipse dixit is the
only obligation the ignorant negroes care
to know, and it is needless to say that his
.voice is not always raised for good.
The public is aware of the fact that
'this autocrat caused the detention of the
.British boat Grace, discharging the sail-
• ors aud hold the vessel for three weeks
by a gang of armed negroes. He was ar-
xested for the offense and taken before a
United States officer, and a farcical trial
had, and Campbell discharged. He went
home, and sent out runners to make
known that on a certain day he would
.make a speech. The day came, and with
it, every negro “for miles and miles
around, ’ and the speech was made.
Laugnago fails in an effort to describe
the nature of tho speech. He told the ne-
jjroes that they should thank God on
excite interest It reminds one of an old
Bruin surrounded by a dozen or more of
barking curs. One like the N. Y. World
will screw his courage to the sticking
point and occasionally lay hold. He
goes off yelping with a mashed head
while the little fellows turn tail, scramble
away into winter quarters, whining as
they limp, “Let us have peace!”—Colton
bus Sun, 5th Sept., 1871.
Washington, Sept. 1.1871.
DEBT BEATING INTEREST IN COIN.
Bonds at six per cent $1,604,802,050 00
Bonds at five per cent 276,706,850 00
Principal
Interest,,.'......
$1,881,568,900 00
...... 34,100,488 50
BEST HEARING INTEREST IN LAWFUL MONET.
Certificates of indebtedness at four
percent $678,000 00
Navypensionfundatthreeper cent 14,000,000 00
Certificates at three per cent 28,840,000 00
Principal $43,518,000 00
Interest 310,407 69
Debt on which interest has ceased
suica maturity...................
1,852,612 26
300,989 51
Interest. ■■
DEBT Biviuixg NO INTEREST.
Old demand and legal-tenasr notes $356,095,456 25
3S.39S.130 CO
10*138,000 00
FracUonal currency
Coin certificates
Principal $ 411,231,586 85
Unclaimed interest 9,612 13
Total debt 2,338,171,099 17
Interest 34,733,497 99
Total $2,372,904,597 16
CASH IN THE TREASURY.
Coin $90,815,691 G6
Currency 7,968,345 CG
Total $93,782,030 72
DEBT LES3 CASH IN THE TREASURY.
September 1,1871 $2,274,122,560 38
2,283,328,857 98
August, 1,1871..
Decrease of debt during past month $ 9,206,279 60
Decrease of debt since March 1,1871 46,586,286 54
Decrease of debt from March 1, I860,
to March 1,1871........ 204,754,413 09
BONDS ISSUED TO PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANIES.
Principal outstanding $64,618,832 00
Interest accrued and not yet paid.. 646,188 00
Interest paid by the United 8tates.. 12,692,475 00
Interest repaid by the transporta
tion of mails . 3,139,106 00
Balance of interest paid by the Uni
ted States 9,553,368 00
STATEMENT OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF BONDS PUR
CHASED BY THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT TO DATE
AND DESTROYED.
Principal of bonds $219,375,200 00
Amount paid in currency 246,468,789 00
Net cost in currency 246,447,940 90
Net cost estimate in gold 204,673.066 00
The public bonded debt has been reduced by the
amount of these bonds which have ceased to bear
interest, and have been cancelled and destroyed.
The six per cent bonded debt has also been reduced
by the amount of five per cents, used to take their
place.
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From tho Columbus Sun.
Mr. Stephens and kis Critics.
James Boswell, the biographer of Dr.
Sanra,el Johnson, sought immortality by
associating liis name with and as the eu
logist of the great English writer and lin
guist. This was rather an amiable,
though humble ambition in one who pos'
sessed himself the finest literary abilities.
Some of Mr. Stephens’ critics are some
what more aspiring. They seem tube
avrare that their names will scarce go
down to posterity unless linked in some
way with a nobler fame. They pitch into
Mr. S. on every occasion. They treat
him 1 as the personification of a new reve
lation of Democracy, and seem to be ob
livious that they themselves were advo
cating the same Democracy when Mr. S
was quietly writing his book, “The War
between the States.”
The fight as it stands, is too_unequal to
GEORGIA NEWS.
GRIFFIN.
The Middle Georgian of the 8th has
these two items: * ,
The Board of Directors of the Savan
nah, Griffin and North. Alabama Bail-
road were in session on yesterday, and
we learn from a director, that the work
is progressing finely from Newnan to the
Biver.
The crop prospect on the Bidge Boad,
leading from this place to the Indian
Spring, was never better. The cotton is
tall, but is very heavily fruited.
MARIETTA.
The Journal of yesterday has the fol
lowing items:
A meeting in the interest of the. Mari
etta and North Georgia Bailroad will be
held in Ellijay on the 12th inst, when a
reorganization will be made, settling all
those little differences and irregularities,
heretofore supposed, to have existed.
We learn that the survey of the road
from this point tfi Dallas has been com
menced. Our citizens very liberally sub
scribed the amount necessary to defray
expenses, assured that the consolidated
road would place upon this end a large
working force by the 20th inst. This
looks like business and we hope there
will be no check in the programme.
; A . CALHOUN.
The Times says:
We have been shown a remarkable let
ter, addressed, “Mr. James Beeves (The
One Armed Man), Calhoun, Ga.;” post
marked, Atlanta. It contained 30 cents
U. S. Fractional Currency, accompanied
with the following words: “I stole a feed
of corn from you duri: g the late war.”
We will add for the satisfaction of the
unknown sender, that it got into Mr.
Beeves’, the one-armed man’s, bands.
GREENSBORO.
St. Maui is exhibiting Ms tricks to the
Greensboro folks.
The Superior Court of Greene com
mences its session Monday.
Greensboro has paid 17£ cents a pound
for her first bale of cotton.
The Herald ofthe 17th says:
We have information that a hale of new
cotton was sold in White Plains on Fri
day the 1st instant, to those sterling
gentlemen, Messrs. Tappin & Mapp, at
20 cents; but the cotton was not grown
in Greene. Our cotton merchants will
have to wake up their energies.
MACON.
The Telegraph of the 7th brings the
following: . .
The river at this point rose nine feet
yesterday between dawn and dark, and it
will, doubtless, be quite full this morn
ing.
The ice factory on the bank of the
river near the foot of Second street, is
nearly ready to commence operations,
and will manufacture the article at the
rate of about a half ton per hour.
Several of the fleet-footed blacks about
town are training for the one mile foot
race to come off during the fair. One of
them—a little, bow-legged, stub-twisted,
bullet-headed nigger—will, we tMnk,
show even -Weston how to handle his
heels.
The Badical ratification meeting on
Tuesday night last, at the City Hall, was
slimly attended by the faithful, and little
or no enthusiasm was manifested. The
day has passed, we think, when the ne
groes can be aroused en masse, by politi
cal tricksters, as-they were soon after the
war closed.
The Citizen of the same date has the
following: v - ■
From an entirely trustworthy source,
we have been placed in possession of
more detailed particulars concerning the
terrible tragedy which occurred in
Toomsboro on Wednesday night the 30th
instant, to wMch we referred in our issue
ef the 30th. In order to disabuse the
minds of persons abroad, who may have
looked at it in a political light, we hast
en to give the facts as narrated to us. It
appears that Matthew Deason, Sheriff of
YVilUjynson county, had, without just
cause or provocation, abandoned his most
estimable wife and family, and taken up
with a negro woman, with whom he has
for sometime past been living in open
concubinage in the midsfc of a most re
spectable community. By this shame
less life, combined with other circum
stances,Deason rendered himsttf peculiar
ly obnoxious to the people amotg whom
helived, and every plan was resor&d to by
them to break up the unnatural alliance
or cause him to change the base of life
nefarious operations. Every effort oa
the part of the citizens having failed, he
was permitted to follow unmolested the
bent of his inclinations, until a few days
before his untimely taking off, when he
visited the village of Irwinton, where he
met his wife upon the streets, and upon
her approaching him, he raised his cow
ardly arm and smotaher to the earth.—
These facts becoming known in the im
mediate community where he resided,
public opinion was still more incensed
against him, and longer forbearance ceas
ing to be a virtue, some unknown person
or persons seized upm the opportunity,
and that night Mattlew Deason and his
paramour were numbered with the dead.
We have ever been tpposed to mob vio
lence, but tMs is ont of those peculiar
cases in wMch then seems to be some
justification for the iifliction of summary
punishment.
The Telegraph of the 8th has the fol
lowing:
The washes in therailway lines leading
to the seaboard disappointed a good many
merchants yesterdaj who were expecting
to receive goods fr*m New York. The
roads will all be repaired in a day or so,
or at least transportation resumed, when
they will come formrd as usual.
The river at this mint about noon yes
terday was severalinches higher than it
has been since whaiis known as the great
Harrison freshet, rad was within about
34 inches of high wjter mark at that time.
All of the differen railroads leading to
this city have beta damaged more or
less by the tremejdous fall of rain on
Wednesday—the lacon & Western Boad
suffering less, probably, than the others.
On the Central Boad there were two
washes of considerable extent, near this
city, the one about seven and the other
fifteen miles from town, at the first of
which the down train, from this city, was
stopped on Wednesday night, and at the
second, the up passenger train was
stopped yesterday morning. At this
writing, 4 p. m., travel on this road is still
suspended, and we learn that no trains
may arrive or leave before to-morrow.—
The Southwestern Bailroad also suffered
by severe breaks on its line, about dark
ou Wednesday evening, between here
and Fort Valley, but they were promptly
repaired yesterday, and the regular pas
senger train arrived on time in the after
noon. On the Macon and Brunswick
Boad there was but one bread of any con
sequence, end that was in the Ocmulgee
bottom, near this city. The night train
on Wednesday, started out, but returned
about ten o’clock, when the Superintend
ent of the road immediately fitted out a
special construction train and went down
to the break, and bv 8 o’clock yesterday
morning the damage was repaired, and
the regular morning trains left as usual,
and crowded with passenger and freight.
Some portions of the track on ‘this road
was under water yesterday. On the Ma
con and Augusta Boad there was a break
made by the freshet, just on the opposite
side of the river, and near the bridge,
and no night trains were passing over the
road at a late hour yesterday afternoon.
None of the breaks above mentioned are
of very serious character, and will soon
be repaired, as the water was receding
rapidly-at nightfall.
The Citizen of the 20th gets up the
following items:
Mr. Jos. Tinley, the candidate for Sen
atorial honors, nominated by the colored
Bepublicans at Forsyth, last Saturday,
is in the city to-day, and upon being in
terviewed on the subject, declares he has
not yet confered with the committee del
egated to apprise him of his nomination,
hut says if they propose to run him on
any other than an out and out while
man's ticket, they have got the wrong
sow by the ears, that’s all.
A Wilkinson county correspondent in
forms us that a body of disguised mounted
men rode into the village of Irwinton
about 11 o’clock on Monday night, the
14th instant, and at once proceeded to
the residence of the jailor, from whom
they by force obtained the keys of the
jail, which they entered. They then re
moved therefrom a negro prisoner by the
name of Harry Lowther, and after secu
ring him, they conveyed him about, two
miles from the village, and mutilating his
body in a most demoniacal maimer aban
doned him to await the coming of the
grim monster. He 'was found in an
insensible -condition the following morn
ing, and taken back to the jail, where he
now lies in a very precarious condition.
This negro bears a notoriously bad char
acter, and at the time of the unfortunate
affair was in jail awaiting trial for one of
the many crimes "with which he is
charged.
GAiNSVILIiE.
The Air-Line Eagle of yesterday has
these items:
The new hotel is going up. The win
dow and door frames are being placed in
the first floor.
We are informed that Capt. Sage, the
Superintendent of the Air-line Bailroad,
wiil commence laying the iron down
again on the road in about two weeks,
beginning at tMs place, It will not be
long till, the good people higher up in the
mountains will hear the whistle of the
iron horse.
We learn that capitalists from Ohio
have recently purchased valuable mrning
property on the Chestatee river, on the
line of this county, and contemplate
changing the current of the river and
working out its bed. The bed of the
Chestatee is a gold mine, from which
large amounts of the precious metal have
been taken with the imperfect machinery
heretofore used.
DALTON.
of the 7tb,
has the ap-
A BLOODY STABBING AFFAIR.
The Ciiizen
pended items:
The man who tried to hang hfmgp.lf in
Walker county, (mention of which was
made last week,) has since professed re
ligion.
Whe heard a man say the other day
that some of the grashoppers in. his
neighborhood are as large as'small pigs,
and that they consume six ears of corn at
one feeding. We don’t believe the story.
Agingercake colored darkey was ar
rested on an up freight train from At
lanta, on Thursday evening, by our wide
awake Marshal, and put in the city “lock
up.” Beason: he borrowed forty dol
lars, without leave, from a colored broth
er in Atlanta.
We passed through a portion of Catoo
sa county last week, and noticed quite a
number of fields of corn, the blades of
which had been entirely destroyed by the
grasshoppers, thousands of which we saw
flying about in every direction. In some
instances they had attacked the forest
trees, stripping them of their leaves. We
see they have made their appearance in
the corn and clover fields immediately^
north ot this place, and are playing
havoc with them.
A revival of religion has been progress
ing in MoLemore’s Cove, Walker county,
for the past threo weeks. * The feeling
manifested is said to be do§p and fervent,
and old, gray-headed men are among the
most earnest seekers for pardoning mercy,
One tippling shop has been closed, and
the keeper of it happily converted. Up
to the present time one hundred and
eighty have professed religion, among
them some fifteen or twenty Universal-
ists.
NS e learn that a party of disguised men
went to the house of an old man (name
not recollected) living in the edge of
Hamilton county, Tennessee, about 12
o’clock one night last week, and took
Mm from his bed into a dense wood close
by, and it is supposed murdered him, as
they returned to his house a few hours
afterwards and told his wife that they
had taken her husband off for the pur
pose of settling a long account against
him. Up to the present writing (Wed
nesday) nothing has been heard of him.
Before leaving the house they stated to
the wife of the missing man" that- they
did not live in the county or State, but
were strangers, citizens of Kentucky, and
to corroborate this statement unmasked
themselves in her presence, not one of
whom, it is stated, was recognized bv
her.
Charleston, September 2.—There
have been three yellow fever deaths in
the last twenty-four hours.
A Man Fatally Stabbed with a Bowie
Knife.
About two o'clock yesterday afternoon,
a most bloody aud serious stabbing affair
occurred at the corner of Marietta and
Broad streets, in which James Little was
fatally stabbed by one Benton O’Neal.
The weapon used was a large bowie
knife, the blade of which measured eight
inches in length. The cut literally disem
bowelled Little, who fell after walking a
few steps.
O’Neal was arrested and carried before
Justice Johnson, who committed Min to
jail. A preliminary trial 'will be had be
fore him this morning at 10 o’clock.
It appears that these men were former
ly partners in the painting business, but
had dissolved the co-partnership. In
settling up their old business there was
some disagreement, which resulted in a
lawsuit. Yesterday they met at the
above named comer, when an altercation
occurred with this sad result. Both i
comparatively young men, and have fam
ilies. Little has a wife and three little
children, and O’Neal has only a wife. At
dark last flight Little was alive, but no
hopes wOre entertained of his life.
LATEST.
Little died at 20 minutes past 12 this
morning.
Capt. Irwin will.prosecute the case.
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Gov. Bullqclc Heard From.
At last we have a bit of intelligence
from His Excellency. He is in Califor
nia. What he is doing, or what he went
there foi*, or how long he intends to stay,
or whether lie ever intends to come back,
we have not learned. No doubt he is
trying to enjoy Mmself. We wish he
may yet be happy.
Meantime we learn that Hon. B. L.
McWhorter, the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, has arrived iu the city.
"Whether he came upon invitation, or of
his'own motion, to be inaugurated Gov
ernor or not, we have been unable to
learn. •• - -
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Northeastern Railroad Survey.
The last number of the Athens Watch
man says:
The survey of.the Northeastern Bail
road was commenced last Tuesday,'under
the direction of Mr. NY. W. Thomas,
Chief Engineer. The Jefferson route
will be first surveyed, after which that by
Harmony Grove. We have not learned
whether the route via Homer is to be
surveyed.
T E LEG R A M S
torney for the State of Alabama^T"
fiat, turning the Alabama and ’ Cl ft a
nooga Bailroad and rolling stock in'T
no ;see over to John Giudrat, Tier.,.;,.,
Alabama, as receiver of the Courier*
his decision, the Chancellor staf^i iu*
if the property of the Boad, Sjf 81
a receiver of another State, was n B„ 8 ? 0 !
within Ms jurisdiction he would
the property, and he expected a liS**
stotS oomit3 ' from th6 Contls oi 3;
Cleveland, September 8.—The se
verest gale of the season has swept Lake
Erie. Several vessels are ashore.
Trenton, September 8.—The Republi-
cans have nominated Cornelius Walsh for
Governor.
Lewiston, September 8.—There was a
slight frost here thi3 morning.
San Francisco, September 8.—The
tax-payers’ majority in this city was from
two to three thousand and iu the State
about six thousand. The tax-payers
elect two, and probably three, members
of Congress.
Judge Wm. Livingston committed sui
cide; cause financial troubles.
Mobile, September 8.—The following
responsible c6tton factors of this city
have been interviewed in reference to the
cotton crop prospects: Crawford, Walsh,
Smith & Co.; Toomer, Sykes & Billups;
Charles Hopkins & Co.; Bell, Moore &
Co.; Sims," Harrison & Co.; Murphy,
Agnew & Co.; Millhouse, Shields & Co.;
Stqjlenwerck Bro.; Baker, Lawler & Co.;
Kirksey & Carpenter; Foster & Gardner;
John H. Garner & Co. They say the ac
counts received from friends in Alabama
and Mississippi are of. the most unfavor
able character. The general complaint
is of damage to the growing crop by
worms and rust, and it is variously esti
mated at from one-half to two-thirds of
last year’s crop.
Milwaukee, September 8.—The Cold
Springs Track, over wMch Goldsmith
Maid made such wonderful time, measur
ed 69 feet more than a mile,
Louisville, September 8.—A collision
occurred at 11 o’clock last night between
two passenger trains on the Louisville
and Nashville Bailroad, at Randolph Sta
tion, about eight miles from this city.
One person was killed, and two others
fatally injored. Their names are Wm.
Buchanan, of Ashville, N. C.; Dr. James
Thomas, of Borne, Ga., and Mr. Grif
fith, of Nashville. The train bound
South ran into the rear coach of the
train from MempMs and Nashville, as it
was going upon the side track. Sur
geons were promptly summoned by the
Company, and everything done for the
comfort of the wounded, of whom there
/Were seven altogether.
. LATER.
The persons most seriously wounded, wickshire.
last night, by the accident on the Louis-
ville & Nashville Bailroad, and who are
now at St. Joseph’s Infirmary, are B.
Brady, of Little Bock, Arkansas; J. O.
Griffith, of the Nashville UMon and
American; James Stone, of Washington
county, Mississippi, wounded in the
head; W. W. Anderson, wounded in the
head; Mrs. Cynthia D. Vickers, of Hills
boro, Tennessee, and James Welsh, of
Louisville. The injuries of these per
sons are not regarded as dangerous, and
they are doing well. Dr. James Thomas,
of Borne, Georgia, and Wm. Buchanan,
of Ashville, North Carolina, died tMs
morrnng.
Philadelphia, September 8.—Kane
O’Donnell, a journalist, formerly con
nected with the New York Tribune, is
dead.
Last week a large private party made
an excursion down the Bay from Wil
mington. The next day the whole party
suffered from symptoms of poison, and a
number of respectable families now have
one or more members seriously sick.
The cases have not been alarming, but
they seem annoying and distressing, and
one peculiar feature is that after the poi
soned person seems to have recovered,
he is seized again with as much severity
as before. One doctor is said to be
treating no less than forty cases suffering
from the unfortunate influences.
Chattanooga, September 8.—Chancel
lor Key to-day, on application of the at-
Gindrat gave a bond, signed bv rv
Lindsay, of Alabama, for §300 000 „ j
is now in possession of the road An-
stock, machine shops, aud depots of n 2
Alabama and Chattanooga raiWl •
Tennessee. oaa
The only obstacles now to the runn™
of the road are the attachments in T) f
county, Ga. An application for a Sf
eeiver, similar to that just decided Sii
be heard by Judge Parrott, at KlJ®
Ga. , September 19 th, and will undoS
edly be decided in a similar manner g
trains may be expected to run on th!
Alabama and Chattanooga Bailroad
September 20th. ‘ ^
The greatest delight prevails univer
sally at the prospect of the runnim? of
the road. It will be perfectly safe for
the State to run tho road, as all parties
are anxious to enjoy its benefits.
Boston, September 8.—The National
Division of the Sons of Temperance has
settled the question of colored member
ship, by the adoption of the following
preamble and resolutions : °
“ Whereas, in the order of the Sons of
Temperance, under the jurisdiction of
National Division, we know no distinc
tion on account of face, or color or former
condition, but all are alike equal befni-A
the law; therefore
"Resolved, that, in our future action
we do not deem it expedient to organize
separate bodies in the same territory, on
account of any of the above named dis
tinctions.”
New York, September S.—A collision
occurred on tho Bridgeville and New
York Boad, in which three were killed
and several hurt. The brakesman es
caped. All were asleep at the time of the
accident.
David Doran, attempting to shield a
young woman from roughs at Jones’
Wood, was killed.
David Banks, the oldest law book seller
in the State is dead—aged 85. ..
Jackson, September S.—Judge Tarbell
was, to-day, brought before the United
States Commissioner, under the Enforce
ment Act. Waiving examination, he
was admitted to bail in the sum of $1,000
forjhis appearauce before the United
States Court in January next. His of
fense cousisted in telling certain Repub-
lican officials that, unless they supported
Capt. Lake, the Republican candidate
for Sheriff, at the ensuing election, he
would urge their removal from office.
Washington, September 8.—Admrial
Lee, commanding the Gulf squadron, is
here.
The Tribune says editorially: “A ques
tion of veracity has arisen in South Caro
lina as to the authenticity of statements
concerning Ku-Klux outrages, made in
Senator Scott’s letter to the President
Several prominent officials join issue with
the assertions and affidavits in that docu
ment. Among these are one or two
United States officials who are supposed
to be impartial witnesses. As the mat
ter in dispute involves so grave a consid
eration as the proclamation of martial
law in South Carolina, this counter-state
ment makes it obvious that a further in
vestigation of Senator Scott’s charges
should be made before decisive steps are
taken.”
Salzburg, September 8.—The Empe
rors William, of Germany and Francis
Joseph, of Austria, parted this morning
warm friends.
Francis Joseph is to meet the King of
Bavaria at Munich.
Vienna, September 8.—The Moravian
elections give the .Government a two-
thirds majority in the House for a reali
zation of the policy of the equality of
all Austrian nationalities.
Constantinople, September 8.—The
Grand Vizier is dead.
Madrid, September 8.—Three thou
sand five hundred pounds sterling has
been raised for a monument to General
Prim.
London, September 8.—Troulmans-
dorf, who is a partisan of Dollinger, has
been appointed German Ambassador to
Borne. TMs produces a deep feeliDg of
discontent in the Vatican.
The montMy returns from the Board
of Trade show that the exports from
Great Britain during the month of An
gu st were unprecedented. Actual valuo
£22,221,245, an increase of over 30 per
cent, over 1870.
An affray between Catholics and Pro
testants occurred yesterdaj at Porter-
down, Ireland. No lives were lost.
Communication has been effected with
the imprisoned miners at Wigan. The
dead body of one of the victims has been
brought to the surface, and others are
known to be iu such a precarious condi
tion that hardly a hope is entertained for
the preservation of any of their lives.
Queen Victoria is improving.
A fearful storm caused great damage
to the buildings and crops in Malton
District, Yorkshire.
The tooth and mouth disease is spread
ing alarmingly among the cattle in War-
The conference at Salzburg was most
friendly on both sides.. The people
availed themselves of the event to have a
gala day. A grand dinner was given to
night, and there is also a brilliant illu
mination of the surrounding hills.
. There was 1,673 cases of the foot and
moth disease in county Norfolk last
week.
Paris, September 8.—Montauboa, in
the Department of Doubs, has been sus
pended from the exercise of his functions*
because he made preparations to cele
brate tlie anniversary of the inaugura
tion of the Bepublic on the 4th instant,
despite the prohibition of the Versailles
authoriites.
The committee to whom was referred
the proposition to send the Communists
to California will soon report.
The latest Algerian news is favorable.
Versailles, September 8.—The trial
of Bossel has terminated. His sentenca
is military degradation and death.
Gambetta will defend the members of
the press.
Halifax, September 8.—Thomas Mc
Donald and James Eeds, well known
citizens, were drowmed iu returning f rom
a picnic in a sail boat.
Chicago, September 8.—A dispatch
from MadisoD, Wisconsin, says there was
considerable excitement among the hop-
growers. As high as fifty cents a pound
has been offered for new hops, and twenty
cents is offered for last year’s growth.