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Finished.—The N. & 8. R. li. bridge
across Mulberry Creek has been comple
ted.
Tlie “J uue rise” of the Mississippi river
wan reported coining down the upper
Missouri on the 20th ult., having then
reached Fort Sully.
The wife of Gen. S. B. Buckner, of
Kentucky, has, by a decision of the Su
preme Court of Illinois, tiually secured
one-half of the large Kingsbury eetate,
which has been in litigation for years.
Ex-Gov. Wise, of Virginia, in a recent
letter, lute declared that he will not accept
either a Democratic or Republican nomi
nation for Governor; and it in now thought
that he hue no settled purpose to run as
an “independent” candidate.
The lower House of the Connecticut
Legislature has passed the constitutional
amendment requiring that there shall be
but one capital, and that at Hartford. The
amendment must be adopted by the peo
ple, however, before going iuto effect.
A private telegram received at Wilming
ton, N. C., Friday, reports the death, by
drowning, of the Itev. W. S. Mcbiarmid,
editor of the Lumberton ltobesouian,
while in bathing in the Lumber river, on
Thursday afternoon last. The telegram
adds, “All business is suspended, and the
whole villuge is filled with gloom.”
Fort Valley, or Fox Valley?—An in
telligent gentleman of the vicinity told us,
the other day, that Fort Valley was an
official misnomer. He says that applica
tion was made to the Department at
Washington to name the new postoffice
b'ox Valley , but that the handwriting of
the name being indistinct, the Postmaster
General christened his new mail offspring
Fort Valley, and so it has remained ever
since. Our informant learned this from
the late lamented Bimri Rose of Macon.
Wliat say you, brother Christopher?
Bankrupt Cases.—From our exchanges
theso are gathered in regard to the Savan
nah Court:
Injunction granted against the Sheriff
of Stewart, restraining him from selling
the property of Horace M. Jenkins until
(he further order of the court. Martin J.
Crawford, solicitor for bankrupt.
An injunction was granted on the peti
tion of Wm. 11. Christopher, bankrupt,
restraining the Sheriff of Taylor county
from the sale of his property until the
further order of the court. Jackson,
Nisbot Sl Bacon, solicitors for bankrupt.
H. B. Clafiin vs. John King—petition
filed May 21>th.
The Alabama Bonds.—The well-inform
ed and reliable Washington correspondent
of the New York Journal of Commerce,
writes that a report to the effect that the
State of Alabama would fail to pay tbe
July interest ou her bouds is incorrect.
He states that the interest ou the regular
bonds of the State will be promptly paid,
but that owing to default of the purchas
ers of the A. & C. Railroad, the accruing
interest on the bonds of that road, en
dorsed by the State, will not be paid at
present- probably not until the Legisla
ture meets and makes provision.
We have already stated, ou the authori
ty of the Montgomery Journal, that pro
vision has already been made for paying
tbe July interest on the bondsof the State
as soon as due.
Jail Delivery in Russell.—Sunday
morning at 7 o’clock, when the jailor,
Mr. Allen Bagly, went to feed the prison
ers, he was rushed upon by them and all
(four iu number) made their escape. The
cell has a double door; one, the inner
door, is made of iron, the other one of
wood. The prisoners had torn otf a piece
of ceiliug Ij inches thick, with which
they had prized and broken the inner
iron door from its hinges and fastenings,
and one of them was standing in the
space between the two doors, where the
outer door was opened. Each prisoner
was armed with pieces of the iron broken
from the door. One of them was shot by
the jailor as he was climbing the fence
enclosing the jail. Pursuit was made,
aud the last heard from them they were
between Uchee Creek aud Fort MitcheH,
all together.
An advertisement by Sheriff Burch, of
fering a reward of $250 for the arrest of
the four escaped prisoners, will be found
iu another column. It will be noticed that
SIOO reward is offered for Soho Walker,
who killed Mr. Mao Halliday a few
mouths ago, and who was at large some
time before being arrested.
Narrow Gauge Railroad from Tiiom
aston to Columbus. —Several prominent
citizens of this place, we are informed,
have seen and tulked with influential men
of Columbus, in regard to putting on foot
measures to construct a narrow gauge
road from Columbus to this place. This
would be the most direct route from Co
lumbus to Atlanta and the North. It
would place Thomastou within 55 miles
of water navigation, and would make this
a better cotton market than either Barnes
ville or Griffin. We also learn that it is
the opinion of men of good judgment that
such an enterprise would be a very profit
able investment. We hope that such is
the fact, and that soon measures may be
started that will result iu the construction
of such a road. This would make Colum
bus the cotton market for a very large
aud rich section of conntry. We hopo the
editors of the Columbus papers may re
gard the enterprise favorably, and give tlie
matter a circulation through the columns
of their papers—YVicwn/jftfn Herald, Slat.
Tbe proposition seems to be one deserv
ing the prompt and earnest attention of
our citizens. Such a road would certain
ly add much to our local trade, besides
giving us additional through lreight fa
cilities. Should anew road for the whole
distance bo considered too heavy a job for
present means, half the cost might be
saved by building one from Geneva via
Talbottou to Thomastou, where, we be
lieve, it would connect w ith a branch road
of the Macon and Western, uniting with
the latter at Barnesville. We commend
the enterprise to the favorable considera
tion of our citizens.
The Cincinnati Road.—What One of
The Trustees Say About It.—We are
permitted (says the Chattanooga Times
of Friday) to make the following extract
from a private letter from a prominent
citizen of this city, dated Cincinnati,
May 27th. Mr. Miles Greenwood is one
of the trustees of the road, and one of
the most wealthy and reliable gentlemen
in the West.
“While in Cincinnati I saw Mr. Greeu
w'ood, one of the trustees of the Cincin
nati Southern Road, aud had a long talk
with him. He thinks the road will be
put under contract within sixty days, aud
the work that takes the longest time to
finish will belet first. He says the trustees
are goiug to build the road the shortest
and most direct route to Chattanooga, it
being the teruiiuus of the road under the
laws which they act, and m each State ;
that they will own every foot of the Cin
cinnati Southern, aud w r ill not lease any
roads whatever, for they dare not do it. ’
VOL. XV.
COTTON IN NORTH GEORGIA.
One who has not had an occular demon
stration can hardly form an adequate es
timate of the extent of the cotton crop
this year in the country above Atlanta.
The rich valleys heretofore devoted al
most exclusively to graiu, are now in large
part appropriated to the fleecy staple, and
the wheat crop having been much thinned
out by the severe freezes of the winter, it
is upon their cotton crops the farmers
generally are, for the first time, relying
for money next fall. On the rich lands
of Gwinnett and Forsyth counties, cotton
bears about the same proportion to corn
planted as on the plantations of this sec
tion, and even throughout Dawson aud
Lumpkin counties cotton fields abound.
Wo heard,also, of extensive cotton planting
iu Jackson, Hall, and other counties of
Northern Georgia. It is the present agri
cultural mania of North Georgia, and
success or failure in the planting of cotton
this year will have a marked effect on the
prosperity and progress of the section.
Iu many localities of that region it is to
a great extent anew business—the dis
covery having only been made a year or
two ago that a liberal use of commercial
fertilizers will overcome what has hither
to been considered tbe great obstacle to
the successful cultivation of cotton up
there, viz: the shortness of the growing
season. Last year’s success by a compar
ative few having convinced the people
generally that guano will stimulate the
growth and hurry the fruitingof the plant
on their rich lands to such a degree as to
compensate for their shorter season, they
are this year staking everything upon cot
ton. The joyful cry of “eureka,” as ap
plicable to their planting economy, bursts
aa universally from their lips as the deep
searching, never-failing and world-known
“eureka” of our friend Dr. Ilood exhibits
itself painted upon their rocks and fences.
And they are “pitching” into cotton
with the same venturesome and Imp-haz
ard devotion exhibited by our planters in
this section. They buy their guano on
time, pledging the forthcoming cotton
crop for the purchase money, and hiro
their labor upon the same contingency.
The probability is that most of them have
grain and meat enough to last thorn while
making thiH crop, arid herein they have
the advantage of our planters further
South. But how well they may bo off in
this respect after this year’s operations,
wo will not forbode. “Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof.”
The application of guano to the cotton
is universal. Even on the rich bottom
lands of the Ohatuhoochee river, in Gwinn
ett and Forsyth counties—lands that will
make forty to fifty bushels of corn per
acre without manure—they are liberally
applying guano to their cotton. We heard
of one planter on a rented farm on the
Chattahoochee, through whose lands we
passed, who has this year bought about
$llOO worth of guano for his cotton, and
bought it on time. Ills land would give
the maximum yield of corn above named,
with good seasons, without manure. It
is evident that he has risked heavily on
cotton this year, and means to “make a
spoon or spoil a horn.” And his course
is precisely that of many others iu the
splendid agricultural section of which we
are writing.
The great fear generally expressed up
there is not that their cotton crops will
fail, for really they appear just now to
have a better prospect of good crops than
our old cotton planters—but rather that
the aggregate crops will be so large as to
depress prices to uuremuuerativo figures.
So it appears that they go iuto the busi
ness with a full knowledge of the impoli
cy of over-production. And if such a
prospect awakens their keenest apprehen
sions, how much more should it alarm
the planters of the “great cotton belt,”
whose settled policy leaves them uo means
of readily retrieving a disaster to their
chief staple? With the many means of
independence and thrift within our reach,
are we not perilling too much by this ab
sorbing devotion to cotton—this risking
of everything upon a slender thread, al
ready drawn to a straining tension, and
which may snap at any moment ?
The chief object of this article is to ad
monish our planters of the great “belt”
that they are likely hereafter to encounter
lively competion from a rich region that
has heretofore produced but little cotton
for sale. Let them not under-estimate
the addition to the aggregate crop from
this source. Should the success of last
year be again realized, it will undoubt
edly be large this year, and will then re
ceive such an impetus as will make every
North Georgia farmer a cotton planter.
How sad will then be tbe condition of our
“Empire State” of the South, with
Cotton ! cotton ! everywhere,
Aud not a thing to eat [
It is best to take in the whole situation
in time and to devise timely means to
meet the emergency.
A SLICE OF MEXICO.
We cannot yet determine what founda
tion there is for the many reports of a
design by President Grant to acquire a
portion of the northern territory of Mexi
co. Certainly the chain of developments
indicating such a purpose is long and
strong. But it may be that the present
intention is only to test the feeling of
the country in reference to the project,
and that further steps in that direction
are dependent upon events which an Ad
ministration cannot arbitrarily control.
We are disposed to look favorably upon
such an acquisition, if obtained by proper
and honorable means. Certainly we of
the South have little to risk, and perhaps
much to gain, by the extension of our
boundaries in that direction. The mate
rial interests of the section proposed to
be acquired must necessarily be kindred
aud allied to those of our Southern States.
It will be, as we are, but a very limited
participant aud beneficiary in the con
trolling systems of finance, currency,
trade and manufactures, that constitute
the substantial domination of the North.
Its people can hardly be governed by tbe
sectional hate that continues to deny to
us the full right of self-government be
cause of the late civil conflict. They
must feel that they, like us, must work
out their political equality in the Union,
and similarity of, effort must needs pro
duce sympathy in feeling and action.
Their products and needs will be more
similar to ours than to those of any other
section, and this of itself would be no
trilling bond of sympathetic union.
But can the coveted “slice” be acquired
by honorable means—by means consistent
with treaty obligations and national good
faith? We confess our inability to “see
it" in that light as yet. We give no cred
ence whatever to the reports that the
Mexican Government “is willing,” or can
even be induced for a reasonable consid
eration to give consent. That Govern
ment is not so firmly established in the
popular support as to disregard the popu
lar prejudices aud traditions; and we be
lieve that Mexico never yet parted with
any territory until forced to do so by war.
Tejada would be apt to lobb his office with
his territory, should ho sign a treaty of
session.
A year or two ago there was a de facto
independent government in Northern
Mexico, holding the territory now desired
as an acquisition to the United States,
and the difficulties above suggested would
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not have prevented a successful negotia
tion with it. The same causes of com
plaint against Mexico existed then as now
—they were more aggravating then than
now. Mexicans, instead of Indians flee
ing into Mexico for protection, crossed
the Texan frontier with arms and rapine,
and the customs regulations of the United
States were wantonly violated. Yet the
Administration of Gen. Grant then disre
garded the appeals of influential presses
to seize the favorable opportunity to ac
quire the Northern States of Mexico and
thus end the frontier troubles. Why was
so favorable an opportunity neglected
then, if a less propitious occasion is now
to be seized and less justifiable means to
be used, to attain the same end? Can it
be that Grant would not recognize or ne
gotiate with the revolutionists in posses
sion of Northern Mexico, because his
Cabinet apprehended that such a step
might fairly be regarded as a surrender
of the complaints against European pow
ers for their partial recognition of our
late Confederacy when it had a de facto
government and held possession of the
territory which it claimed? Such a reason
might have had a show of consistency;
but it was a consistency that could avail
nothing either for the correction of errors
of the past or the advancement of desira
ble objects of the time being. It lacked
the merit of a wise statesmanship that
would make the best use of surrounding
circumstances. It did not suit the policy
of a government aiming to be aggressive
or progressive, as Gen. Grant apparently
desires to make ours.
We repeat our hope that the desired
part of Northern Mexico may be acquired
by means consistent with our national
faith and honor, but not simply because
we have tbe power, and by the same kind
of diplomacy as that used by the wolf for
the appropriation of the lamb that drank
bolow him in the Btream.
COAL AND IRON.
The operations of the party of capital
ists and n.iners, prospecting for coal in
Walker county, on the east side of the
Lookout Mountain range, will be noted
with interest. We believe that no coal
of good quality and of an accessibility
that promises profitable mining for it, has
yet been discovered in Georgia. A year
or two ago we had reports of the discov
ery of such coal in Whitfield or Catoosa
county, near the State Road; but we hear
nothing of operations for utilizing the
discovery, and presume that further tests
were not satisfactory and assuring. Should
coal of the needed quality and accessibil
ity be found by the prospectors on tbe
Lookout Mountain, tbe discovery will be
a valuable and important one for the
whole of Georgia, and especially for this
section. The coal now received here
comes either from Alabama by way of
Montgomery, or from a point distant
twenty-five or thirty miles beyond Chat
tanooga, in Tennessee. But coal from
Walker county would require considerably
less transportation over the State Road,
and our progressing North and South
Railroad would directly intersect the local
ity iu which the prospectors are operating.
The discovery of coal along its proposed
route will not only add much to the im
portance of the road, but hurry its com
pletion. In a short time, too, our ad
vancing Savannah and Memphis Railroad
will reach the coal region of Alabama,
aud then (should the Walker county test
be successful) we will enjoy unsurpassed
advantages for obtaining cheap and abun
dant supplies of this much needed min
eral. We need not particularize in regard
to its great help iu the establishment and
maintenance of our factories, foundries
and other important industries. Cheap
coal and iron are needed to aid them all
in a successful competition with the in
dustries of other countries. How could
the immense cotton aud woolen manufac
turing business of England maintain its
prosperity and pre-eminence without the
cheap iron and coal of that country ?
With a full development of our great and
varied resources, we shall have advanta
ges for the manufacture of cotton goods,
especially, such as no other country can
hope to obtain.
We note also, with pleasure, that coal
mines in the immediate neighborhood of
Chattanooga are being opened, and a rail
road three miles iu length connecting
them with that city will be completed in
a week or two. Even this brings us a lit
tle nearer to developed coal mines, and
strengthens the presumption of the suc
cess of the Walker explorers.
The discovery of fine “needle ore” at
Cartersville is also an event worthy of
special mention. This is the fibrous iron
ore used in the manufacture of cutlery
aud instruments requiring a sharp edge
and ready ductility. We believe that
there is but little of it developed in Geor
gia—at least in the part of Georgia with
which we have easy communication.
Homalite ore of good quality abounds in
many places, and the day is no doubt
near at hand when it will be extensively
smelted and exported. The fibrous
or needle ore of excellent quality and
abundant supply is found in Shelby and
other counties of Alabama.
We have a vast latent mine of wealth
in our minerals, aud these and other ef
forts to facilitate the development of an
industry that must surely be great and
prosperous in the future, should interest
and encourge all our people.
Capt. Jack Insane !
This plea in behalf of the savage
Modoc chief is perhaps the best satire of
the times. Were Capt. Jack a gentleman
of ample means, with influential friends
and plenty of swift witnesses, it might
avail before the very civil courts that try
murderers now. But we are not sure of
its success before a court-martial, aud in
behalf of a poor red devil who has not a
pony to his name. Jack’s madness will
no doubt be adjudged to have too much
method in it. We doubt whether even
the humane Thomas and Meaeham will
stand by him in his extremity; and the
“Great Father” at Washington will not
manifest half the anxiety to save him
that he has exhibited to save Santanta
and Big Tree, because Capt. Jack has no
longer a tribe to be appeased or sympa
thisers to be quieted. He must die the
death, sane or insane. But it is to be
hoped that the mere interposition of such
a plea in his behalf may have the effect
of admonishing philanthropic courts and
juries of the absurdity of this plea of
insanity when resorted to in behalf of
criminals of the deepest dye and most
crafty depravity.
While people all over the country are
complaining of hard times and the scarcity
of money, it seems that Uncle Sam keeps
his treasury well filled, notwithstanding
salary grabs and big defalcations. The
receipts of internal revenue for the por
tion of the year ending on the Ist inst.
were $106,000,000, aud the estimate now
is that the total receipts of the year will
exceed the estimates by eight millions.
Atlanta, Ga., June 3, 18.3. —Mrs. Ju
lia Clayton, relict of Judge Smith Clay
ton, died this morning at the residence of
her son-in-law, Dr. William King, aged
eighty-six. She was the mother of W.
W. Clayton, Atlanta, E. P. Clayton,
Augusta, and Philip Clayton, Greens
boro.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 10,1573.
The Late Gen. Clanton—A Correction of
Some Errors.
The Atlanta Herald, of Sunday, June
Ist, publishes a letter from its Tennessee
correspondent, in which he states “that
the widow of Gen. Clanton had married
again, and consequently the conduct of
the prosecution was left to the prosecut
ing attorney of the State, who is a law
partner of Nelson's brother.” We are in
formed by a connection of the late Gen.
Clanton’s family, aud a gentleman we
know well, that upon Clanton’s assassina
tion by Nelson, his estate was found to be
worth nothing. Some $3,500 were made
up by the people of Alabama, to buy his
widow’, who in still a tcidow, and in deep
mourning for her husband, a house and
lot. Mrs. Clanton still owes something
on the house.
The State of Alabama has never paid
her for the legal services rendered by
her husband, and during the years of
1871-72 her main support was from the
pay of her two sons, aged 10 and 12 years,
as pages in the Legislature. The State
of Alabama is to blame for not paying the
widow of General Clanton the amount
due him ; which would have been willing
ly spent by her in prosecuting the mur
derer of her husband. Our informant
also asks us to request the Knoxville
(Tenn.) papers, and any paper, which
may have published the Herald’s corres
pondent’s notice, to publish this.
Georgia’s Quoto of Arms.
The Atlanta Sun of Sunday morning
corrects its previous statement that
“upon application from military compa
nies organizing, as to what kind of arms
are desired, the Governor will make re
quisition therefor after the first day of
July.” It says that the act of Congress
requires “that in the organization and
equipment of military companies aud or
ganizations with said arms, no discrimi
nation shall be made between said com
panies aud organizations on account of
raco, color, or former condition of servi
tude,” that the U. S. chief of ordinance
has notified the Governors that they must
certify that this requisition has been com
plied with ; that the Legislature of Geor
gia has prescribed a different rule of dis
tribution ; and that it remains to be seen
whether the Governor will, under these
circumstances, make application for arms
at all.
Weather Statement fob Last Week.—
The New York Financial Chronicle has
this in its issue of Saturday the 31st:
Weather Reports by Telegraph :
Our woather reports to-night are scarcely
as favorable as given last week. Too
much rain is the general complaint. Not
that we suppose that any damage has been
done; the only result of the rain thus far
has been the rapid growth of grass, and
the difficulty, therefore, of keeping the
fields clean. A succession of clear, dry
days would soon remove this unfavorable
condition. At New Orleans the weathor
has been much the same as last week;
they are having too much rain, there be
ing heavy showers, with rain more than
half the week, the weather being warm
and sultry. Mobile dispatch states that
they have had a continuation there of the
warm, sultry, wet weather of last week,
with rain more than half the week ; the
grass is said to be growing so fast as to
be troublesome, and hence the reports with
regard to the crop are less favorable. Too
much rain and the farmers complaining
of grass, with rain more than half the
week, is also the contents of our Mont
gomery telegram. At Selma very similar
facts are reported as to the weather, but
our correspondents add that the cotton
plant looks strong and healthy, and is
developing promisingly. Our telegram
from Macon states that it has rained
there two days, but also adds that a good
stand of cotton has been secured. At
Columbus it has ruined three days. At
Augusta they have had one rainy day,
with a slight hail storm yesterday, which
did but little damage. At Charleston it
has been warm and dry all the week, with
the exception of light showers, and the
crop is improving in condition. They
have had rain on five days at Memphis,
and on one day an unusually severe
storm, with the rest of the week cloudy;
grass is becoming troublesome. At Nash
ville it has rained nearly every day of the
week.
Indiana has a grievance concerning its
Commission at the Philadelphia Centen
nial. Ex-Gov. Baker appointed as Com
missioner Mr. David M. Boyd, an agent
of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad
Company, who, it seems, is not a resident
of Indiana. Gov. Hendricks informed
President Grant of the facts, stating that
Congress had declared that such Commis
sioner must be a resident of the State he
represented, and asked that the Hon.
Franklin C. Johnson of New Albany be
appointed to succeed Mr. Boyd. The
President responded by forwarding to
Gov. Hendricks Mr. Johnson's commis
sion. The latter presented himself with
his commission in the Centennial Execu
tive Committee, but was refused recogni
tion as representative from Indiana, and
Mr. Boyd was retained in the position.
The correspondence between Gov. Hen
dricks and the President is published in
the Indianapolis Sentinel, as well as a let
ter from Congressman Kerr reviewing the
whole subject.
Brunswick and Albany Railroad.
OVER FOUR MILLIONS DOLLARS INVOLEVD.
The argument of the legal questions in
the above case has been progressing be
fore Judge Schley, in this city, for the
last three days. The questions involved
in it are of the gravest importance, not
only to the legal profession, but to the
whole people of the State, as we under
stand the validity of the so-called repudi
ation acts are called in question by Judge
Lochrane, the counsel for the foreign
bondholders.
Some of the questions involved are:
First. Whether the contractors, who
have built every foot of the road with
their labor and money, have a lien on that
part so built by them?
Second. If they have a lien, whether it
is superior or subordinate to the lien of
the bondholders?
Third. Whether bonds are negotiable
securities or commercial paper ?
It is understood that Judge Schley is to
give no opinion upon any of the questions,
but iu to wait until the final trial, which
will be some time in July. Over four
millions of dollars are involved in the case,
the bondholders claiming three million
six hundred thousand dollars, and the
contractors and other creditors ever half
a million. It is said to be the largest case
ever tried in Georgia. —Savannah Hep.
The Depredations of the Caterpil
lar. —At no time in the history of
North Mississippi has the caterpillar
been so numerous —at no time so
destructive. To compute their num
ber would be like computing tbe drops
of water in the Mississippi river and its
tributaries. They have ruined the pros
pects of an apple crop in some portions
of our country, and probably killed many
apple orchards outright. They are depre
dating on all forest trees, especially the
gum, blgck jack and young oaks. Thous
ands of trees through the conntry have
not a single leaf upon them. What is to
be the extent of their depredation on the
crop as the season progresses no one can
tell. Much apprehension is felt through
all North Mississippi.— Holly Springs
{Miss.) South.
Fisk’s widow has commenced anew
suit against the Union Pacific Railroad,
the Credit Moblier; Gov. Dix, Geo. Op
dyke and others.
TELEGRAPHIC
THE MODOC WAR.
Longell’s Yalley, Dust River, Ore
gon, Grun’s Camp, May 31.—After a
thorough examination of the Modoc cap
tives captured during the present scout,
under Col. Green, it has been ascertained
that the last haul netted 34 men, women
and children—l3 being able bodied war
riors; 16 rifles of various patterns, 113
cartridges, and several lean and hungry
ponies. Boston Charley and Schonchiu
are anxious about dispositions to be made
of them. The former murdered Dr.
Thomas and the latter mutilated Meaeham.
They both look like desperadoes, each
carries his character iu his face. Boston
Charley is about 28 years of age, and
Schonchin 60.
The boldest warrior of the band is
Scarfaced Charley.
A. Cabauess, of Yreka, a contract sur
geon, who slept in their retreat last night,
says Captain Jack presented a most wo
begone appearance. The wily warrior
sat upon a rock in the centre of a little
lava bed, a few yards back from the
crest of a bluff, and seemed as lonely as
bis surroundings. He was wrapped iu a
faded army b'anket. his head buried iu
his hands. His sister Mary, captured at
Willow Creek day before yesterday, talk
ed to him with tears in her eyes, and after
he entered the camp he was sullen and
had little to say. He promised he would
surrender to-day; in the night he stole
aw r ay.
The Modocs say Jack is insane. There
is much method in his madness. At
present he is thought to be iu this neigh
borhood with from three to five warriors.
There are twelve Modocs at large now.
Scouts were made to-day in three sec
tions of the country by cavalry under
Col. Cresson.
STILL LATER FROM THE MODOC WAR.
Applegate’s House, Clear Lake, Cali
fornia, June 1, 3:30 p. m.—A series of
prolonged yells and cheers aroused this
camp from a pleasant siesta half an hour
after the departure of my last courier.
Gens. Davis and Wheaton and other offi
cers and all the men rushed from house
and tents to find tbe cause of the uproar,
and at once the whole camp was in com
motion. Down the level plain north of
the house, was a grand cavalcade of
mounted horsemen; steeds rushed for
ward at once at furious rate and soon
neared groups of spectators scattered
about the premises.
“captain jack is captured !”
shouted a sturdy sergeant, and again the
valley echoes with cheers aud yells. The
mounted command was Perry’s. He had
returned from a scout of twenty-three
hours, three miles above the mouth of
Willow creek. At half past ten o’clock
this morning the Warm Spring scouts
struck a trail, and after a brief search,
the Modocs were discovered.
Col. Perry surrounded the Indian re
treat. His men were bound to fight.
Suddenly a Modoc shot out frqjn the
rocks with a white flag. He met a Warm
spring Indian and said Jack wanted to
surrender. Three scouts were sent to
meet Jack. He came out cautiously,
glancing about him a moment, and then,
as if giving up all hopes, came forward
and held out his hand to his visitors.
Two of his warriors, five squaws aud sev
en children darted forth aud joined him
iu his surrender.
Captain Jack is about forty years old,
five feet eight inches high, compactly
built and full of individuality. Although
dressed in old clothes, he looks every iuch
a chief. He does not speak to any one.
The Modocs are grouped iu a field near
the house surrounded by a guard. Spec
tators peer into Jack’s face with eager in
terest, but he heeds them not. He is still
as a statue.
FOREIGN.
London, June 2.—-The Times of this
morning publishes a special dispatch from
Berlin, which says the German Govern
ment is dissatisfied with President Mc-
Mahon’s address to the French Assembly,
and will not enter into regular diplomatic
relations with his Government until sat
isfied that France will faithfully adhere
to the treaty of Frankfort.
Paris, June I.—The Orleanists in the
Assembly are seeking an alliance with
the Left Centre, having refused to form
a coalition with the Legitimists and Bona
partists. The Left Centre, however, de
clines to entertain their proposition.
Berlin, June 3.— Asiatic cholera has
appeared in two villages in West Prussia,
having been communicated from Russian
Poland. A rigid quarantine of the affect
ed has been established.
Paris, June 3. —President McMahon
has issued a proclamation to the army, in
which he says : “The choice of President
of the Republic from your ranks shows
the confidence of the Assembly in your
loyalty.” Tbe President has also issued
an order appointing Lodmerault, now
Military Governor of Paris, to the com
mand of the army of Versailles.
NEW YORK.
New York, June 1.-—A Washington
special says the counsel for the defend
ants in the Credit Mobilier suit will iu a
few weeks file a demurrer to the bill on
equity, taking the ground that the act un
der which the bill is drawu is unconstitu
tional, and that Congress cannot enact for
the benefit of the government what is de
nied to individual suiters; that the act is
indirect violation of existing laws, under
which the defendants have the right to
ask protection, and until they are placed
on equality with the plaintiff there can lie
no equitable proceedings. This will car
ry the case to the Supreme Court.
It is admitted that this objection of the
defendants may quash further proceed
ings.
The Express states that Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher to day wrote a statement
exonerating Theodore Tilton from all
blame in connection with the late scandal,
with which his name has been connected.
The statement of Mr. Beecher will be
printed. The same paper states that the
man who lately made public the Tribune
statement is Samuel Wilkerson.
Grand Master Fox, of the New York
Masons, in his annual address, stated that
non-intercourse with the Graud Orient of
France, and the Grand Lodge of Hamburg
still continued, but that amicable rela
tions existed with all other Grand Lodges
in the world.
THE CHOLERA IN MEMPHIS.
Memphis, June 4.—For file past ten
days a disease has prevailed here which
at first the physicians pronounced cholera
morbus fever, but no alarm was felt until
yesterday, when physicians generally
agreed that it was cholera, aud some class
ing it as sporadic and others as Asiatic.
It has been chiefly confined to negroes
and laboring classes, and in the absence
of an authorized Board of Health, it is
difficult to estimate the number of fatal
cases. The doctors say the disease, if
promptly attended to, yields readily to
treatment. Among the latest victims was
Geo. Moore, of the Memphis and Louis
ville Transfer Cos., who died last night.
Reports from towns below here on the
river, say the disease prevails there also.
There is but little excitement in regard
to it.
ILLINOIS.
JUDICIAL ELECTIONS.
Chicago, June 3. —The judicial election
in this city and county yesterday resulted
in the election of all the present Cironit
Judges by large majorities, there being
indeed no opposition to any but Judge
Booth, and his majority is over 3,000.
The returns from the election for Judge
of the Supreme Court in the sth district,
where Chief Justice Lawrence was a can
didate for re-election against A. McCraig,
nominated by the Farmers’ Convention,
indicate Judge Lawrence’s election by a
handsome majority.
Jno. Schofield is elected to the Supreme
bench in the second district by a large
majority.
MARYLAND.
Baltimore, May 1. —John A. Curtis,
colored, aged 21, shot and instantly killed
W. Sheft, colored, aged 31, a little after
midnight, plunging a butcherknife in his
side. Curtis was arrested. Iu a conver
sation with a reporter this morning about
the cause of the difficulty, Curtis remark
ed that he would not let any damn nigger
son of a insult him on the street.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, Jnne 2. —E. H. Sum
mers, an enterprising citizen, aud first
President of the Cotton Exchange and
the President of the Crescent City Bank,
died to-day at Pass Christian.
MURDER OF MR. WOLWORTH.
New York. June 4.—The murder of
Mr. Wolworth by his son created great
sensation, owing to the distinguished
social relation of the family. The de
ceased was a son of the late Chancellor
Wolworth, one of the distinguished citi
zens of the State and a man identified with
the great Temperance Tract and Bible
Society. The Chancellor died in the
67th year of his age. A brother of the
deceased is a popular and eloquent mis
sion preacher of the Paulistic family,
being largely identified with the most
prominent interests of the State, iu the
Judiciary, in the church, in education and
literature and has throughout a wide in
fluential connection. Mr. Wolworth was
born in Albany in 1830 and was iu the 43d
year of his ago. He was educated for the
legal profession and after he was admit
ted to the Bar he assisted his father for a
short time in his office in Albany, but the
profession becoming distaseful, he turned
his attention to literature. He married
some years after and the result of this
union is two daughters, now between
12 and 14 years old and the son, by
whom he lost his life this morning. He
has been separated from his wife for
some years, aud that lady is now keeping
a Seminary for young ladies on the estat e
of the late Chancellor Wolworth at Sara
toga, where she is living iu elegant style.
Mr. Wolworth’s contributions to the lit
erature ot the day are five works—“Hot
spur,” “‘Lulu,” “Warwick,” “Delaplaiu,”
and “Beverley.” Mr. Wolworth arrived
in the city Monday to attend the annual
communication of the Grand Lodge of
Masons of the State of New York, which
commenced this afternoon.
more particulars.
Mansfield J. Wolworfh,killed by his son
this morning, was a son of Chancellor
Wolworth, and a well-known author. He
separated from his wife three years ago,
since which time he has been residing in
this city, the remainder of the family be
ing at Saratog i. His son, Frank, came
on from Saratoga yesterday to shoot him.
He called at his father’s boarding house
last night in Fourth Avenue, and not find
ing him, left a note asking him to call at
the Sturtevant House this morning and
see him. The father called at the hotel
where his son was stopping and went up
stairs. In about fifteen or twenty minutes
afterwards several shots were heard com
ing from the room, by the chambermaid,
who ran down stairs and informed the
clerk, who immediately sent for an officer.
Before he arrived, Frank Wolworth walk
ed down stairs and stated that he had
shot his father, and asked where the near
est police station was. After receiving
tlie desired information, he went to the
telegraph office and sent a dispatch to his
uncle iu Saratoga, telling him what he
had done, and asked him to break the
news as gently as possible to his mother,
before she should hear of it iu any other
way. He then proceeded to the Thirtieth
street police station, and walking to the
desk stated to the sergeant in charge he
had shot his father, who was then dead in
the Sturtevant House, at the same time
handing over his revolver, which was a
Colt’s five-barreled.
Dr. Marsh made an examination of tlie
body and found thore were four bullet
wounds, one in each breast, one on right
side of face, the ball lodging in the
brain, and the fourth in the right arm,
breaking it. The following is the pris
oners story, as told to the coroner in an
swer to questions put by that gentleman :
the parricide’s statement.
“I reside with my mother in Saratoga,
my father having parted from her some
yeats ago; my father is an author aud I
have been studying law; I think he is 41
years old, but do not know where he was
bom; my father has not lived with my
mother since we left here three years ago,
but be has repeatedly sent us threatening
and insulting letters; it is only a short
time ago since he threatened to shoot my
mother and myself; I shot him because of
this; not long ago I met him in the street
in Saratoga; I then told him if he did not
keep away from us, or insulted my mother
more, I would shoot him; I told him that
thore were bounds which I would not
allow any man to go beyond with impuni
ty, especially when my mother was being
insulted; I went to liis bouse and left a
note for him to call, which he did this
morning; when he came to my room I
drew out my revolver and told him to
promise me chat he would not insult
us any more, which he promised ; shortly
afterward we began speaking on familiar
matters, ami he used some yery insult
ing language and pin his hand in his
pocket as though to >j i out a pistol
when L shot him; l.u then came to
wards me aud I fired Mi; ,-c other shots at
him ; when I fired the last shot at him
he had me by the collar; I ouly regret this
on account of the effect it will have on
my family ; I would like Judge Barbour
to know of this, as he was interested iu
the case before. ”
COMMITTED TO THE TOMBS
The doctor did not find any pistol in
pocket of deoased, but found the note
left for him by his son in hi3 breetches
pocket. The following is a copy of the
note:
Three o’clock.
“I want to try and settle some family
matters, call at Sturtevant House, after
an hour or two. If lam not there I will
leave word at the office.”
“F. H. Wol worth.”
The Coroner committed the murderer
to the Toombs until such time as the in
quest takes place.
New York, June 4—A resident of
Saratoga says Mrs. Wolworth, wife of the
man killed yesterday by his son, was a
Miss Nelly Harding, daughter of Col.
Harding, of Kentucky, who was killed at
the battle of Buena Vista. After the
doath of the Colonel, his wife went to
Chancellor Wolworth, the father of the
murdered man, to settle some contest
about the estate of the late Colonel. It
ended by the Chancellor marrying the
widow. This naturally brought the daugh
ter Nelly, and Mansfield Tracy Wolworth
constantly together, and the result was,
that they were married. In the
course of years, Wolworth began to
indulge habitually in intoxicating
liquors and brutal in treatment to his
wife, aud on some occasions struck her.
This treatment continued until the out
break of the late war, when Wolworth,
through his father, obtained a position in
the .State Department at Washington, aud
his wages were improved. It was soon
discovered that Wolworth was using
the means his position furnished him
with to give secret information to the
Confederate authorities of what was
transpiring in the North. He was arrested
and sent to Old Capitol Prison, but was
released through the influence of his father
and allowed to go to Saratoga, where he
made report to the authorities every day
till the close of the war. In the mean
time his father died, leaving nothing to
his son or daughter-in-law, and the for
mer resumed his old habits. His conduct
at last became unbearable aud Mrs. Wol
worth left him aud shortly procured a
divorce. She obtained a position as
clerk in the Treasury Department
at Washington, where she remained
for two years and then went to
Saratoga, aud opened a young ladies
Seminary. It was while she was there
that she began to receive lettei'3 from
Wolworth, threatening and insulting her
and making outrageous charges against
her. It was these letters which caused the
son to leave his home and commit the
horrible act. One of the doctors who at
tended on the murdered man, said that
when he went up stairs to his room, he
found Mr. Wolworth was not yet dead,
he was lying on the floor with his head ou
the carpet and gasping,his pulse gave one
or two pulsations when the Doctor took
his arm in his hand and then stopped
completely. Blood was gushing from the
wound in his left breast, and from his
arm. He died in about a quarter of a
minute after the doctor went into the
room. He was shortly after placed upon
a bed. The Doctor says that young Wol
worth, when he was brought into the
room, reported the conversation between
himself and father as follows :
Wolworth, the son, standing before his
father—You have again written letters
to my mother, threatening both her life
and mine. Will you solemnly promise to
never make such threats again ?
Wolworth, the father—l do make that
promise.
Wolworth, the son—You have also re
peated the insult to my mother; do you
promise to never use insulting language
to my mother again ?
Wolworth, the father—l do make such
a promise.
Wolworth, the sou, drawing the revol
ver and pointing it at his father —You
have made that promise before, and I do
not believe you. You shall never have
the opportunity of doing so again; and
then the tiring took place without a mo
ment’s interval or hesitation.
The defense of young Wolworth, who
shot his father, will be insanity.
WASHINGTON. ‘
Washington, June 2. —The Court of
Claims to-day rendered a number of judg
mental iu suits brought under the captured
and abandoned property act, for value
of cotton taken and sold by the govern
ment. By the act the proceeds were
placed in the Treasury. In the cases of
Bingham, Houston it O’Grady, executors,
it was declared the government has no
right to have collected either three per
cent, on the cotton or custom-house fees,
and abandoned cotton, aud judgments
were rendered for amounts so withheld.
Judgment for $35,530, the proceeds of
captured cotton, was rendered in favor of
the Home Insurance Company of Savan
nah; and iu a similar case judgment for
$27,176 was given in favor of the Home
Insurance and Trust Company.
These corporations were incorporated
by the Legislature of the State of Georgia
while the State was in rebellion against
the United States, and the question rising
was, whether they were endowed with a
legal existence by which they were capa
ble of owning tlie cotton captured, aud
capable of suing iu this Court for pro
ceeds.
The Chief Justice delivered an opinion
of the Court, answering this question
affirmatively, aud holding that under the
decisions of United States Supreme Court
that whatever act of the Legislature of a
rebel State did not tend to further or sup
port the rebellion, or defeat the just rights
of citizens, but related merely to the do
mestic affairs of the people of the Stats as
a community, aside from the connection
of that people with the rebellion, is valid
by a de facto, though unlawful govern
ment, which will be sustained in the
Courts of the United States. Applying
these tests to the charters of these compa
nies, it is therefore held that they have a
valid existence, and are entitled to the
judgments above mentioned. The Court
adjourned till Wednesday next, when the
final adjournment is expected to the third
Monday iu October.
Washington, June 3. —The Treasury
disbursemeuts for May, exclusive of the
payments of principal and interest of the
public debt, was nearly $17,000,000.
The Connecticut Legislature has elected
Judged. S. Seymour Chief Justice of the
State.
the court of claims.
Washington, June 4.—The Court of
Claims to-day rendered a decision of gen
eral interest and very great importune*
in the case of William A. Haycroft vs. the
United States, which is principally identi
cal in principle and condition of fact, with
the well-known Elmira J. Kelly case,
likewise pending. The Huy croft suit was
brought July 30, 1872, for the proceeds
of certain cotton seized and sold by an
act of the United States Government. The
captured and abandoned property act
limited the time within which suits could be
brought for proceeds of sales of seizures,
to August 20th, 1868, being two years
from the date of the termination of the
rebellion as fixed by Presidential procla
mation of August 20th, 1866. The Su
preme Court decided that the amnesty
proclamation of Dec. 25th, 1868, relieved
all persons in the Southern States from
obligation to prove their loyalty in the
Court of Claims, and Haycraft, in filing
his claim in 1872, contended that in con
sequence of said amnesty proclamation
and the decision of the Supreme Court,
disloyal cotton claimants like himself
have a right to commence their suits at
any time within six years after the date
of the proclamation of Dec. 25th, 1868,
under the general statue of limitation ap
plicable to suits brought in this court, for
the reason he had no standing in this
court prior to the issuance of said amnes
ty proclamation, and that his cause of
action accrued ou that day, although his
property was taken iu 1863.
The Attorney Geueral tiled a plea to
jurisdiction on the ground that all suits
for cotton were required to be brought
within two years of the captured aud
abandoned property act.
Bartly & Cassey, counsel for claimant,
demurred, and tbe court to-day overruled
the demurrer aud sustained the plea to
jurisdiction. Counsel for claimant then
appealed to the Supreme Court.
This decision, if sustained by the Su
preme Court, will bar and exclude claims
against the Government for proceeds of
cotton to the amount of about $15,000,-
()< Ml.
In the case of Charles Hill, an alien
subject of Great Britaiu, claiming pro
ceeds of cotton captured from his factors
by the United States military forces, Hill
having resided iu England during the en
tire period of the rebellion, the Court de
cided that the presumption iu favor of his
having preserved his neutrality is not
overthrown by the proof of the mere fact
that he was interested in, and subscribed
money to, certain advances for raising the
blockade. These adventures, the Court
says, may never have been put afloat, or
if they were, may never have reached the
seat of the blockade ; it is therefore held
to be necessary to show not only the pur
pose to give aid and comfort to the rebels,
but the fact that aid and comfort was
given. This fact not being proved, judg
ment is given for claimant.
In the case of Warren R. Dent, the
Court decided that a proportion of pro
ceeds of captured cotton paid by the
Government to an informer could not
now be recovered from the United States.
This decision being based upon the gen
eral principle of the statute that claim
ants can recover no more than the net
proceeds paid into the United States
Treasury.
An important decision was also render
ed iu the case of N. 11. Spratt, of Missis
sippi, to the effect that claimants, who
purchased from agents of the Confeder
ates, knowing at the time that the pro
ceeds were to be used in the prosecution
of the war against the Federal Govern
ment, acquired no title to these purchases,
and therefore have no right of action
against the United States for subsequent
capture and sale of such cotton. This
decision governs and excludes claims to
the amount of about s3,<K)o,o(rt>.
An appeal was taken to the Supreme
Court.
The Court of Claims made an order
referring to what are known as the Vicks
burg cotton cases, involving proceeds
of some 9,000 bates, to Eder & Eredith,
of Washington City, as special counsel to
disentangle the complicated question of
ownership, Ac., Ac. Report at next term
of. meeting. Adjourned until the third
Monday of next October.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, May 31. —The Baptist Gen
eral Association of Virginia met in a tem
porary tabernacle. About 10,000 com
posed the delegates, visitors and citizens
present. Many could not gain admit
tance. The proceedings were opened by
prayer. After tbe completion of organi
zation, Rev. Dr. Curry, President, made
an able address.
Rev. Dr. Burrows, from the Committee
on Memorial fund, reported about $220,-
000 collected, of which $200,000 had been
contributed in Virginia. Os $200,000 yet
to Vie raised to coin Diete the memorial
fund, over $17,000 was subscribed ou the
spot.
Richmond, Jane 2. —A special from
Suffolk, \ a., states that Mrs. Dempsey
Jones and her sister, Miss Dosior, living
nine miles from that place, were murder
ed yesterday and the house plundered
while Mr. Jones and the children were at
Sunday-school. A bloody clnb was found
in the house, aud bloody marks of bare
feet discovered at the front entrance.
There is a clue to the murderers, and the
citizens are hunting them. The wildest
excitement prevails.
INDIAN NEWS.
Washington, June 2. —A brief official
letter from Post Fort Clark, dated May
2<)th, alluding to Col. McKenzie’s opera
tions against the Kickapoos and Lipans,
says the march of over one hundred miles,
the fight, and the destruction of two vil
lages and the return to camp with all the
captured stock and prisoners, was accom
plished between noon, on the 17th, and
daylight, on the 19th—forty-one hours—
with a loss to Col. McKenzie of only
three men wounded, one of which is sup
posed mortally.
NO. 18.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES,
j The United Stateß Writing Paper Asso
ciation (the paper we freemen write on
is in the hands of a monopoly, you know,
like everything else) are running the'r
mills only half time, to decrease the sup
ply and keep up the price.
The members of the Pennsylvania Con
stitutional Convention having fixed their
salary at $25,000, the papers say that they
evidently attach a great deal more value
to their services than any one else would
be likely to do.
Tho Postoffice Department has suspend
ed the printing of postal cards for the
reason that the card board submitted is
not equal to contract requirements. The
defects of and delay in the issue of posts’
cards are entirely the fault of the contrac
tors who had not provided facilities for
their manufacture.
Eighty three distilleries closed during
May, decreasing the production 85,0CJ
gallons.
The New York cotton Exchange has
elected Author B. Graves, President;
Miller James, Treasurer.
Austrain F. Pike, has a certificate to
Congress from the second New Hampshire
District.
At a session of the Grand Lodge of the
State of N. Y. held in New York yester
day, edicts of the Grand Lodge of Canada,
cutting off communication with the
Grand Lodge of Vermont, and cutting off
from communication the Grand Lodge
of Caudia, were read.
In Boston, Mass., the Medical Society,
at its meeting yesterday voted to expel
homeopathic physicians, whoso trial have
been recently chronicled, there being but
one dissenting voice.
The Bank of England recovered all but
£20,000 of the £IOO,OOO obtained from
the bank by the alleged forgeries of Mc-
Donald and associates.
In New York, yesterday 11,000 North
Carolina new bonds were sold at 10;
1000 Alabama 8s at 88. There was no
sales of South Carolina and dispatches
throwing discredit on about seven millions
of new issues have no perceptible effeot
on quotations.
A special from Houston, Texas, says a
band of armed desperadoes surrounded
the jail at Waco, Texas, last night and af
ter securing the keys of the prison and
locking the keepers lip, liberated seven
prisoners.
The same dispatch says the late fre
quent and heavy rains, have completely
flooded the country, causing great dam
age to growing corn and cotton crops.
Many parts of the State have been visited
by the most severe hail storms ever
known there, destroying the growing
crops. Rivers and creeks are heavily
swollen and there are prospects of
continued rain.
PRESBYTERIANISM.
Baltimore, June 2. —The following
was prepared by a leading elder anil
member of the Baltimore Presbyterian
General* Assembly. It will interest
Southern Presbyterians: This large
and influential body, consisting of be
tween 5,000 and 0,000 ministers and
elders, representatives from all parts of
the United States, after a remarkably
harmonious session of two weeks finally
adjourned on Wednesday night, 28th inst.,
to meet next year in St. Louis. Its pre
siding officer or moderator was the Rev.
Howard Crosby, D. D. L.L. D. of the
Fourth avenue church, Brooklyn, and
Chancellor of the University of New
York. Many important subjects were
discussed and decided, the details of
which will be found in the religious pa
pers. What will be most interesting to
Southern churches was the broad, liberal
action of this Assembly in relation to fra
ternal organic union at some early day
with the Southern General Assembly and
other branches of the great Presbyterian
family, holding the same faith and aiming
at the same results. The unanimous adop
tion of a report of sundry resolutions
submitted by Dr. Nicholls, of St. Louis,
would seem to remove the difficulties
hitherto existing as to union with the
Southern General Assembly and the old
school synod of Missouri.
The intention of these resolutions and
the effect of the action of the Assembly is
to remove all imputation of crime from
persons who took part with the South in
the recent struggle.
The General Union Presbyterian Assem
bly in session at Philadelphia. Commit
tee on Union reported that while cherish
ing kindness and Christian regard for all
evangelical churches, the Assembly does
not deem it expedient or important, that
it make any appointmeant of delegates or
represents!, w.a to attend the meeting of
alliance to be held in New York in Oc
tober. The report W'as adopted.
THE AGIUCULTUR AL CONGRESS.
Indianapolis, May 31. —The National
Agricultural Congress met this morning
at the usual hour.
The Committee on Agricultural Colleges
reported for adoption a resolution approv
ing and endorsing the efforts now being
made to secure additional aid from Con
gress for the colleges established in con
sequence of the land grant of 1862, but
an adverse minority report being offered
after discussion the reports wore laid on
the table for further action.
The committee on Miscellaneous busi
ness reported the following resolutions,
which were rejected by a large majority.
Resolved, 1. That all efforts on the
part of organizations of any class to in
crease or decrease the value of labor or
the produce of labor are pernicious in
their influence and against the interest of
farmers.
2. That the eight hour law passed by
Congress and now applied to labor per
formed for the government, is unwise, un
just, and a disturbing element in the man
agement of the business of the whole
country, and ought to be repealed.
The Committee on Transportation made
a lengthy report which, after considera
ble discussion was referred back to the
committee to be modified and reported
again to-morrow.
INSURANCE LOSSES AT BOSTON.
Boston June 2.—The following is as
correct a list as can be ascertained, un
til any adjustments are made, on Insur
ance losses of companies doing business
in Boston,or agencies: New fork $291,-
000; Pennsylvania, SIB,OOO ; Hartford,
$77,000; Providence, 19,000 ; Bangor,
$13,000; ruiscellanouH, $8,000; total,
outside of Boston, $97,000.
INDIAN TERRITORY.
St. Louls, June 3. —Caddo in the In
dian Territory, recently capiured by mar
auders, occupied by Federal troops from
Fort Gibson. Eighty-four marauders
captured. Two murderb occurred w'hile
the marauders held the town. A man
named White was found dead near Jay’s
house, the people convinced that Jay was
the murderer, killed Jay.
Juuok Dukell Theeatened w’ith Im
peachment. —A Washington correspondent
of the New Orleans Herald says that a com
mittee from Louisiana waited on the
President and urged him, not only for
the sake of the South but the good name
of the Republican party, to remove Judge
DuiAll, of the United States Circuit
Court for Louisiana; and as a particular
cause of complaint they asserted that
Judge Durell had put into Norton’s bauds, as
assignee in bankruptcy, large amounts of
money which had never been accounted
for. The President expressed hiss urprise
that Marshal Packard, who must have
been wronged by such a proceeding, had
not complained. The committee as
sured the President that Marshall Pack
ard’s verification to the allegation could
be obtained ;in which event the Presi
dent gave them his word he would re
commend Congress, as soon as it assem
bled, to impeach Durell.
Aceoss Asia by Rail. —From Calais,
France, to Calcutta the distance is some
7900 miles. Os this, about 5000 miles
are laid with rail, viz.: the route from
Calais to Orenburg, at thefootof the Ural
mountains, some 2900 miles, and the
route from Calcutta to Peshawur, on the
Indus, some 2200 miles. The gap left
open is about 2400 miles wide; from
Orenburg to Hamarcaud, 1500 miles; from
Samarcand to Peshawur, 850 miles. M.
de Lesseps proposes to Russia to con
struct a road on this line, and Russia is
much inclined to embark in the enter
prise.
Parson Brownlow is out in a letter bit
terly assultiug Gen. D. H. Hill, of North
Carolina. The letter contains no new in
formation that is true.
What Columbus is Doing In Manufacture
Ing.
HER IMMENSE WATER POWER—THE RIVER
FALLS FIFTY] FEET IN LESS THAN THREE
MILES—NATURAL CHANNEL —LABOR AND
CAPITAL WANTED.
Wo have often spoken of the manufac
turing facilities of Columbus and the
great interest she already has in produc
tive establishment. Since 1865, when
four mills and sixty thousand bales of
cotton were burned by the Federals,
Columbus haR averaged the erection of
A COTTON FACTORY EVEUV YEAR
and it has been done almost exclusively
with Southern money.
Now we have six of these establish
ments, running 82,000 spindles and 000
looms. Two more will be erected be
fore 1875. Such has been the progress of
a Georgia town with an immediate pop
ulation of 15,000 souls.
THE CAPITAL
of our present industrial establishments is
about two and a half millions Some two
thousand people are supported by them
either dh-ectly or indirectly.
THE PROCEEDS
of the cotton factory embrace the finer as
well as tho coarser goods. One mill
turns out elegant checks, ginghams, cot
ades, jeans and cassimeres and cotton
blankets. It is the only mill in the
United States which makes the latter.
OUR INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS.
Besides cotton, we have grist, flouring
and oil mills, extensive wood works, plow
manufactories all founded upon the
wrecks created by the Federal forces. It
is said the South has no energy. The
manufacturers of Columbus have built
these industries with their own money and
the investments of our own people. They
have not gone whining to the North or
Europe for aid, but by hard work have
accomplished all they desired.
PATINO.
All our mills are paying ten percent,
and over, and promise twenty with every
assurance the pledge will be redeemed.
COLUMBUS
is located on the Chattahoochee river, at
the head of navigation, and four hundred
miles from the Gulf of Mexico. The
river is navigable all summer for light
draft steamers, and in winter for the larg
est boats. The city annually does a busi
ness of four million dollars, and ware
houses 70,000 bales of cottou, of which
our manufacturers take 7,000. Columbus
is known as the chief manufacturing place
in Georgia, and in point of cotton mills
is the most important in the South. She
is called the Lowell of the South; but if
the pace of the last few years is kept up,
Lowell may yet feel content to lie called
the Columbus of the North. We are in
the middle of an extensive and never-fail
ing cotton and grain producing region.
Railroads branch in all directions, and we
are contiguous to the richest coal, iron
and miscellaneous mineral region in the
world. Our climate is pleasant, and the
locality extensively healthy. The sum
mers are warm, but out-door,work is never
stopped on account of a hot sun, and in
the South sun strokes are things unknown.
OVER THE NORTH
the South has every manufacturing ad
vantage. The raw material is at our
doors. We save transportation. Labor
is as cheap as there. The temperature
is more favorable to the working
of the staple. Our winters are
milder and onr rivers never freeze. Days
aro longer and thus gas light is needless,
and the weather being far more propi
tious, fires need not be so severe nor heat
so great. A prudent manufacturer in the
South would make money while he would
starve North.
IMMENSE WATER POWER.
Columbus has, without doubt, the
easiest controlled water power on this
continent. From the northern limits of
the Columbus Factory property to the
present dam, a distance of less than three
miles, the natural fall of tho river is
eighty-three feet. The factory dam in
tho city is of tho capacity of four thousand
horse power, or some two hundred thous
and spindles. Rock channels have been
completed and the proprietors are offering
splendid water lots for sale. We have
heard a distinguished engineer say there
is hardly two miles between here and
West Point, thirty-eight-miles, where a
cotton factory could not be easily built
and operated.
POWER TO RUN MILLIONS OF SPINDLES.
A mile and a half above the city in a
straight lino is tho Columbus Factory.
The scenery is of the most attractive and
picturesque description. The river is
broad, and its surface dotted with multi
tudes of green islands. Tall bluffs, bright
ly wooded and flowered, inclose the
stream and far away hill rises above hill.
Here in three-quarters of a mile the
stream has a natural depression of 42 71-
1,000 feet, and in a little over a mile of
52 175-1000 feet. This fall can be made
available for a mile for contiguous facto
ries having an average of at least sixteen
feet head and ample water.
The river flows for a mile and a half
over a shallow rocky bed of five hundred
to seven hundred yards wide.
Nature has here prepared a natural tail
way or channel close to the Georgia bank.
It is lined with rock walls, and the bottom
of it, while descending with the stream,
is everywhere twenty to thirty feet below
the bottom of the river opposite, which
will average a breadth of thirty times as
great as this deep gorge. This succession
of islands, with foundations of rock, can
be made portions of a great wing dam ex
tending the entire distance, rendering
the main river the head and the gorge the
tail way, of as many enterprises as may
be desired for a mile down the river. It
is safe to say that location for cotton fac
tories, thirty in number, each running
20,000 spindles, can be obtained, and
that without raising a dam of over four
feet high on tho shoals between the
islands.
Over thirty years ago the Columbus
Factory, which owns considerable of this
valuable property, built a wooden dam,
which cost SIO,OOO, and controls a power
to run 100,000 spindles, which has not
cost a cent of repairs since erection.
On the Alabama side, a little lower
down, the power is almost as good. The
Federals burned a large paper mill which
was located there. The river when con
trolled will run a million and a half of
spindles.
BUILDING MATERIALS
of the most durable kind have been furn
ished by nature all along the river. All
to be done is to remove the rock by der
ricks from the quarry to the walls of
buildings. If brick be preferred, the best
of earth for making them is close at hand.
NO TAXES.
By our State and municipal laws all
taxes have been removed from manufac
tories for ten years.
THE STRANGER WELCOME.
All who come here as visitors or to
locate permanently are welcomed to our
section, and the social circle where they
deserve it, and every well-behaved person
does. The South is recuperating from a
disastrous war. She w r ants more capital
and labor and offers tempting induce
ments, and in none of her cities will bo
found more attractions than Columbus,
and none have the natural advantages
that nature has lavished on her.
Labor and capital are wanted to assist
in developing her immense natural re
sources.
Among the many plans for rapid transit
in New York, the latest is a system of
traveling sidewalks. The plan is to build
an endless movable platform on an elevat
ed tramway. The motive power being
from large stationary steam engines under
gronnd. The sidewalk is to be perpetual
ly moving up one side of a street or ave
nue and down another at the rate of nine
teen miles an hour. Passengers are to be
taken on and off the platform by means
of transfer cards, without stopping the
movement of the sidewalk.