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THE PERVERSION OR JURIES.
We had a little flurry in Georgia a few
months since—occasioned, first by an
arbitrary change in the mode of selection
of jurors for tho Federal courts—a change
taking from the State officers, that had so
long exercised it, the duty of forwarding
lists of names from which the juries were
to be selected; and second, by tho great
prepouderation of partisans, and gener
ally ignorant partisans, of one of tho po
litical organizations, in tho panel selected
under tho new mode. Tho fact that
three-fourths at least of the panel were
Radicals, and though tho Democrats or
Conservatives have a very large majority
in tho State, oven the negroes on tho lists
outnumbered the white Democrats, for
bade ftio idea that tho proposed jurymen
were selected with an eye to anything else
than their politics.
The other day wo had an instanco of an
Alabama Judge refusing to allow a jury any
discretion of their own in the finding of a
verdict, and virtually telling them that
they had only to consider the law as ex
pounded by him (though tho defendant
denied and introduced evidence to dis
prove tho charge against him) and must
bring in a verdict according to his in
structions.
And now we are advised that Iwo white
citizens of Louisiana are on trial before
a judicial tribunal of that State, charged
with an attempt to assassiuato tho acting
Governor, anil that tho jury is composed
of ten negroes and two white men. When
we consider that tho whites in Now Or
leans outnumber the blacks in tho pro
portion of about throe to one, and that
tho preponderance in favor of tho whites
in the town of Algiers (in which this trial
is progressing) is about as large, wo can
not resist tho conclusion that the jury
has been thus constituted with an eye to
the conviction of tho defendants. We
loarn from the New Orleans papers that
when tho case was called on Tuesday, the
counsel for tho defendants objected to tho
jury as having boon irregularly and im
properly selected to the prejudice of their
clients ; but their objection was overrul
ed, and the trial proceeded.
These are but few of a number of in
stances going to prove that one of the
dangerous and corrupt innovations of the
times is an attempt to pack the jury box.
If this safeguard of tho rights of tho cit •
fceu and the security of his property is
swept away in the mad zeal and fury of
party passion, what will be loft to distin
guish this government from an unbridled
despotism? With tho States powerless—
tho people immediate subjects of a Fed
eral tyranny—the judiciary partisan
even juries, like courtmartials in time of
war, “organized to convict” political op
ponents and acquit favorites —tho last
vestige of tho great rights extorted by the
people of this and tho mother country
from despotic rulers will be lost, and our
boasted civilization thrown back half a
millenium.
CONCERNED A ROUT GEORGIA.
The Montgomery State Journal (Bo
publicau) is anxious on the subject of
Georgia having a few papers of its stripe
to put tho people on the right political
track. It is really difficult to toll whether
it most desires that its party shall regain
the State by tho inaction of tho Democrats
(which moans nearly all tho white people)
or the activity of the few white and more
numorous black Radicals. In its third or
fourth late article on this subjoct, it says:
“We regret that there is no republican
journal to point out the way of patriotic
duty to many well-moan iug but passion
blinded partisans, who are capable of do
iug tho country good service if they were
only on the right track. Let us hope that
this reproach will not exist much longer,
and that Goorgia will bo speedily blessed
with a corps of able and patriotic repub
lican journalists, who shall perform their
full measure of duty in pointing out tho
pathway of peace and progress to tho
people of that.prosperous commonwealth. ”
How tho Journal expects a “corps” of
Republican journalists to sustain their
papers in Georgia, when tho reading and
business portion of the people are nearly
nil Democrats, outraged and disgusted
with former Radical rule, and determined
to keep the Slate from relapsing into that
abyss of intolerance, corruption and ruin,
is what perplexes us. It proposes to put
Bard back upon us again. Nov let it tell
us plainly whether the Radical programme
contemplates the restoration of Bullock,
Blodgett and Couley also, and we shall
know better what it is driving at.
VERY SIUX lI'U'AXT t \/> VERY
lurvJiEST Am iv
Wlicu tlie Attorney General of the
United States replied to the citizens of
Louisiana to attend to their own business,
and let politics alone, he hut foreshadowed
the whole plan of Gen. Grant’s policy.
He don’t want the people of the United
States to have anything to do with poli
tics. lie wants the great mass of tho peo
ple to work aad accumulate property, so
that they may be able to pay taxes. But
he wants them to leave tho government of
the country to him and his family and
friends. This is nothing more nor less
than a personal government, vt other
words a complete despotism. In tho pure
days of the republic, one of the servants
of the people would not have dared to
send such a message to the people of a
great State, lint the Grant dynasty don't
want the people to take any part in poli
tics. They want politics to be left en
tirely to the office holders. The same
fling is made by some of Grant’s organs,
to the farmers of the West; they don’t
want them to meddle with polities. When
the great mass of the people cease to take
any interest in polities tyrants reign su
preme. Federal Union.
A New’ York dispatch says: A curious
political movement which promises to he
productive of interesting results, lias been
quietly in progress fo# some days past,
the parties to which are a number of prom
inent “Liberal" leaders. Under the con
viction that the time is come when some
thing ought to he done to determine
whether they shall maintain an independ
ent organization or affiliate with the other
great parties, a conference has been called
at Sharon at the end of this month. The
invitations, it is understood, have taken
the shape of a private and confidential
circular, but as is usually the case in mat
ters of this kind, someone has let the cat
out of the bag.
Some months since, it will bo remem
bered, a similar conference was projected
in this city, but at that time it seems to
have been looked upon as premature, and
so it fell through. But as it is deemed
essential to do something now to deter
mine the status of tho party with refer
ence to tho next fall elections, tho propos
ed conference is having the sanction of
all, or nearly all, tho leaders in the sec
tion.
It is understood that the Democrats are
holding aloof from this movement,
though, of course, they are not disin
terested spectators.
A special to the Atlanta Constitution
from Chattanooga, 27th, says that “the
reckless use of cholera mixtures is doing
much mischief; people become neivous
and imagine themselves sick.”
“UNIFICATION” IN LOUISIANA.
We said the other day, in an incidental
notice of the political movement in Loui
siana looking to a union of the two races,
that wo did not then undertake to decide
whether the terms of the proposod union
made a surrender of those political rights
and social distinctions which the whites
of the South arc determined to maintain.
Somo of our Democratic exchanges, wc
perceive, are more positive. They see in
it a complete surrender by the whites of
everything for which they have been con
tending. Taking a strictly logical view
of the matter in its immediate bearings,
they are no doubt correct, and we of
Goorgia, from our advantageous stand
point, would never entertain such a pro- :
position. Wo recur to it, not to justify ;
it, but to remind our more fortunato peo- j
pie of the deplorable and almost hopeless
oondilion of the whites in Louisiana, in
mitigation of tho stern judgment with
which they aro judged. They are ruled
over by an usurping Governor and Legis
lature, and usurping local officers. The
State is overwhelmed with a burden of
debt, created by the same coterie or ring
of politicians who now hold power surrep
titiously conferred, and who aro fast in
creasing instead of diminishing it. The
whites of the State organized and fought
tho political battle of last fall upon a plat
form substantially tho same ns that upon
which wo aro now standing and propose to
stand. They fairly won that fight by a
majority of about ten thousand votes,
clearly electing white men to govern the
State in all its departments. But they
wore not permitted to reap the advantages
'ml their victory. The Federal authority
interfered and imposed upon them a gov
ernment of negroes and carpet-baggers.
What reasonable hope, then, enn they
havo of shortly rescuing their State from
its awful condition of misrule and ruin
by maintaining their old political divi
sions ? Does it not plausibly appear to
them that they are forced either to take a
nearly entire State government of negro
officers imposed upon them by fraud or
power, or to form an alliauco with the
best of the negro population to prevent
tho ascendency of the worst ? Remember
that their property and tho welfare, if not
tho personal safety of their families, aro
dependent upon the overthrow of tho
present State rule, and while wo cannot
approve their “stooping to conquer,” we
may fitiil in the exigencies of their politi
cal condition a full justification for the ex
ercise of the Christian crowning virtue of
charity.
It may seem to dash our charity with a
trace of malice, but wo must admit that
tho repugnance with which we contem
plated this movement was somewhat as
suaged by tho opposition which it encoun
tered from tho Radical politicians, begin
ning with tho Federal Attorney General.
They evidently feared the movement. It
is too early yet to decide whether it will
obtain such support in Louisiana as to ac
complish tho ends sought by its support
ers. The probability is, wo think, that
the whites cannot be brought in a body to
participate in it, and if so, it will end in
disaster, materially and morally. But of
the two Democratic papers from New Or
leans which wo receive, one (tho Times)
favors the movement, and tho other (tho
l'icayunc) makes no opposition to it.
Gen. Beauregard has been severely cen
sured by some of our friends of the
Democratic pross for his support of this
union proposition. But a curt telegraphic
-porrospondonce between him and a citizen
of Nashville, which we find published,
shows that he considers himself and his
white fellow-citizons forced into it by tho
condition of tho State, above referred to.
Here is the correspondence :
Nashville, June 18, 187:5. —To Gen.
G. T. Beauregard : You havo taken the
wind out of tho constitutional amend
ments. Lee Crandall.
Beauregard's reply.
New Orleans, Juno 21, IS?::.—To Col.
Leo Crandall: Just so ;to lull our storm.
Our “carpet-baggers”must be rooted (bag
and baggage) out of the State, or wo shall
bo utterly ruined. The question is nar
rowed down to one of existence.
Yours truly, G. T. Beauregard.
A NICE LITTLE CAME.
An article which we copy from the Now
York World more explicitly states the
manuvering by which the] late spasmodic
advance in cotton was brought about,
than any other explanation that has met
our eye. The “bulls,” (or high price
men) commenced buying up cotton, in a
time of light stocks, with a view of caus
ing the advance and compelling the
“ bears” to pay them a margin on future
contracts. The bulls lose by the game at
present, but hope to be gainers in the
end; while the bears, relying on the be
lief that there is still old cotton enough in
the South to prevent their opponents
from controlling the market by monopo
lizing the stock, will attempt to secure
enough of the staple to meet their
engagements by actual delivery, and
not by the customary payment of the
difference between the price agreed upon
aud that current at the time for the fulfil
ment of the contracts.
Two facts in this connection will
probably be suggested by this statement
of the game, as worthy of tho attention
of cotton planters:
Ist. That it is now hard to tell whether
the bulls or the bears hold the strongest
hand, or which of them will win in the
end.
2d. That thoy are now playing the
game in such a manner that tho planters
might bo the gainers by it if they had the
cotton oil hand.
It unfortunately happens that tlie plan
ters have not tho cotton. If it is on hand
in tho South and available for throwing
it upon the market promptly, it is not in
the hands of planters. Thus wo see that
it is difficult lo bring about such a state
of tho game, which tho moneyed specula
tors play with onr great staple as the slake,
as to enure to tho benefit of those who
raise the cotton. On tho contrary
(as the BbrW.v article shows) the tempo
rary flurry serves to enchauce tho price
which the manufactures are now paying
for cotton, or to derange their steady op
erations, and this is of course hurtful to
both tlie manufacturing and the planting
interests, for their interests are intim
ately blended. Tho cotton future spec
ulation, as now conducted, is a distur
bailee of the law of supply and demand
—a pernicious intervention between the
producer and the consumers, regarding
the interest of neither, but ready to in
jure or destroy both for tlie gain of the
interlopers playing the game.
Is it not surprising that so respectable
and often authoritative a journal as the
Fin ancial Ch ronicle should defend cotton
future ventures as a convenience nnd
benefit to planters and manufacturers?
Wool Raised is Georgia.—Yesterday
morning our attention was called to a long
train of w agons and carts, unloading wool
at the warehouse of Messrs. Welch, Cook
A Bacon. The interesting sight attracted
us to the warehouse, where we found Mr.
Cook and weighers busily engaged in re
ceiving and weighing sixteen bales of
■wool as large ns cotton bales, and numer
ous small packages done up iu sheets. In
the warehouse yard we counted about
twenty fine, fat mules, belonging to the
person who had brought the wool, and we
learned in addition that each individual
brought along money’ enough to buy’ sup
plies without forcing their wool upon the
market.
The following are the farmers whom
wo found at the warehouse : J. (’. Farm,
T. A. Kyal and James Ferry, from War
wick, Worth county. J. B. Norman, J.
L. Norman, Josiah Weeks, J. F. Newton
and Lucinda Neesniith, Colquitt county.
The truth is Worth, Colquitt, Berrieu and
Erwin counties, comprise an Egypt. The
great majority of their citizens are well
to-do, always make their own provisions,
keep fat stock, and always have a surplus
of money and the staff of life ou hand.—
Albany Neics, ‘27th.
San Francisco, June 27.—Three cases
of small pox in the Chinese quarter.
TUE CHOLERA.
Its Progress in Nashville-Total Number
of Deaths.
In order to keep our readers posted in
regard to the cholera sineo it made its
first appearance here, we give as follows,
a daily record of the interments from this
disoase, to-wit:
Whites. Colored. Total.
June 7 11 10 21
8 8 10 is
1* 7 11 18
10 5 0 11
H 0 !) is
12 7 4 11
13 r» 10 15
14 2 10 12
b r » l'» 15 25
16 4 10 14
17 20 24 41
18 11 21 32
11» 8 22 80
20 23 41) 72
21 20 30 50
22 22 81 58
23 11 26 37
24 10 10 20
Total, 100 326 510
Thero had been several deaths from
cholera before tho 7th, of which we havo
no record.
In addition to the deaths reported in
our table, we have heard it estimated that
from fifty to soventv-five negroos, who
have died from cholera in the suburbs of
the city, have been buried iu the country
outside of our cemeteries in coffins made
by persons of their own color not engaged
in business as undertakers. It is there
fore probable that the number of deaths
from the disease reach if they do not ex
ceed six hundred. In the eighteen days
during which a careful count has been
kept, there have been five hundred and
sixteen deaths from cholera, which shows
a mortality almost equal to that of 18(50,
when there was a larger population in the
city 7. In 1800, the total number of deaths
front August 31 to October !) was about
800 ; and the total number from tho 7th
to the 24th of September, both inclusive,
was 508, but fifty-two more than for tho
corresponding number of days in this
month.
The highest number of deaths iu one
day in 1806, was 70, on tho 24th of Sep
tember ; then tho returns wore made up
to six o’clock, and included all tho deaths
to that hour. Tho number who died on
the 20th of this month greatly exceeded
that, as our table only shows the number
that wore buried up to five o’clock. Wo
have heard tho number who died on that
day estimated by gentlemen, in whose
opinion we placed a good deal of confi
dence, at fully 7 one hundred. The history
of tho proseut visitation of cholora, shows
it to ho of a more virulent type than the
Asiatic cholera, or that about the name of
which there was no dispute. The Ameri
can cholora may therefore be set down as
more fatal than that of Asiatic origin. As
in former visitation, the disease is now
yielding more readily to medical treat
ment, and the abatement of the past three
days inspires hopes of its early disappear
ance. —Union and American, 25th.
THE MO DOCS.
The Story of the Moiloc Massacre as
Told by a Survivor.
Mr. A. B. Meacham, one of tho peace
commissioners who, with general Oanby
and Rev. Mr. Thomas, went to hold that
last, and fatal parley with Captain Jack,
is now in Washington and barely recov
ered from the wounds received on that
occasion. To tho correspondent of the
Tribune he tells the following story of
tho massacre:
The commissioners went into the con
ference taking their lives in their hands.
Frank Riddle, tho interpreter and his
wife, who know the men they wont to
meet, tried all means to dissuade them
from going, and Mr. Meacham says that
a Modoc brought word from his camp to
Riddle’s squaw, warning them of their
danger. But even this had no effect on
either General Oanby or Dr. Thomas.
The spirit of the latter, although perhaps
not that of a practical man well acquaint
ed with Indian character, was most lofty.
In response to the entreaties of Mr.
Meacham, whose experience with Indians
taught him that these warnings had truth
iu them, his reply was, in substance:
“God will call mo at his proper time. If
he desires me to offer my life in this man
ner, I shall not withhold it.” Both ho
and General Oanby were firm in the re
fusal to permit any member of tho party
to carry arms, ns thero was a stipulation
to the contrary, or to allow any promises
to be made to the Indians for temporary
purposes that were not meant to be ful
filled. Mr. Meacham followed the only
course in honor left open to him. lie
could not, as chairman of the commis
sion, say peremptorily of two older aud
more distinguished meu than himself,
“You shall not go;” he could not remain
behind while they ventured alone into
danger. He accepted tlie inevitable and
went. He naturally regrets, now, that he
did not refuse to permit the conference,
whatever might have been tho conse
quences to himself. Tho meeting took
place in an open space, previously markod
by tho erection of a white tent, around
which gathered the group as closely as a
circle of friends in a drawing room.
The talk wont on for some time without
accident or incident. Mr. Meacham,
keenly on tho watch, saw full 20 minutes
before any shot was fired that trouble was
brewing, and saw it in an event that
would have seemed meaningless to any
one unused to Indian ways, ilehad left his
horse untied, and had hung his coat on the
saddle. Hooker Jim tied the horse, and
taking the coat from its place put it on,
buttoned it up carefully to the chin, aud
strutted before a companion, saying: “Ale
old Meachaui now. Think 1 look like old
man Meacham ?” This sudden outbreak
of insolence first awakened his suspicions.
After the interval of about 20 minutes
Jack rose and moved back a little from
the circle, with his side to Gen. Oanby
and his hand in his breast. This, Mr.
Meacham thinks, was tho sigual for others
to draw near, ns two Modocs came run
ning up with guns in tlieir hands. Seeing
their approach all sprang to their feet,
and Meacham cried, “Jack, what does
this mean?” “ Kautuxie /” All ready!”
—yelled out the Modoc chieftain, as he
swung out his arm and snapped his re
volver at Gen. Gauby.
Then began the fight, the story of
which lias already been told. Mr. Meacham
was shot by Sclionchin first, who leaped
at him w ith a revolver in one hand and a
knife glittering above his head in the
other, lie aftoward became the target of
nearly twenty shots, ho thinks, all of
which wore tired at a range of less than
half a dozen yards. By a marvelous good
fortune, none of them entered tho skull.
As he lay stunned, the Indians had suffi
cient time to strip him of his clothing,
and were attempting to get lii.s scalp
w hen Biddle’s squaw, who seems to have
been a ready woman, cried "Soldiers!"
and the Modocs lied in fright. The
scarcity of his hair, on which ho had then
his first cause of congratulation, was the
reason of this delay, but the ingenious
savage, rather than lose such a trophy,
was evidently preparing to lak ■ the scalp
from the side of the head, by this ex
pedient gaining the additional ornament
of an ear.
The Supreme Court Weight vs.
Ware.—The Supreme Court on yesterday,
Justice Brickoll delivering the opinion,
in the case of Wright vs. Ware, settled
some vexed questions on principles which
will leave no doubt on these points in (he
future. Wo undoistand the opinion,
which we cannot publish ou account of if.s
length, is very’ clear and satisfactory in
style and reasoning. Tho Court decided :
First, as to the pow er of the Legislature
to pass laws transferring jurisdiction in
administration of estates from one coun
try to another—that the Legislature might
constitutionally enact such laws; and this
power exercised in this case, was vindica
ted with strong logical reasoning.
Second, the main practical question de
cided, is, as to the jurisdiction of Probate
Courts in making sales of lands of deceas
ed persons. In all collateral attacks, the
failure to set forth the names of heirs or
distributees in the petition for sale, and
the failure even to show that tho lands
sought to be sold lie in the State,- other
wise than iu giving the Section, Township
and Range, are declared to be mere irreg
ularities which do not vitiate the sale.
The presumption in oil collateral attacks
is in favor of the Probate Court. Many
irregularities ami errors which would re
verse a caso on appeal, have no influence
in collateral attacks.
The failure to show clearly that deposi
tions have been taken as in Chancery
cases, showing the necessity for the sale,
tho’ required by the statute as a jurisdic
tional fact, will be presumed from com
paratively slight recitals in the record.—
Montgomery Advertise r.
Mrs. George Wade was killed by light
ning while in a field near her home in
Polk County, on Monday, the 23d. She
was assisting in hoeing cotton at the
time.
GEORGIA NEWS.
In the United States District Court at
Savannah (sitting in Bankruptcy) on
Thursday, injunctions were granted in
the matter of John Hooks, Bankrupt,
against John C. Herndon, Sheriff of Stew
art county; and in the matter of Wm. B.
Haisten against John McK. Gunn plain
tiff in fi.Ja., aud L. A. Smith, Sheriff of
Randolph county.
The City Council of Gainesville have
made an appropriation of £IO,OOO for a
high school. One coal thrown from a lo
comotive on the hack of a terrapin.
On Friday, in the Supreme Court of
Fulton county, Judge Hopkins ordered a
witness, who appeared to be drunk, to be
examinod by a physcian, and the Doctor’s
report confirming the suspicion, the Judge
ordered the witness to jail. Tho Herald
quaintly says that the Doctor selocted to
make tho examination was evidently qual
ified for tho work, combining the eperi
cnce of a local editor with his professed
skill 1
The trial of I’enn Bedell at Atlanta was
not concluded on Friday. It was proved
on that day that Rasberry admitted that
he fired first.
The Albany Central City reports a
freshet in the southwestern portion of
Worth county with great damage to crops.
One farmer had his whole plantation un
der water —the highest point on it a foot
and a half—and his entire crop ruined,
and was eneavoring to make up a school
in order to make a support for his fami
!>'•
The death of a woman in a few hours
from the bite of a spider, near Daltou, is
reported iu the last North Georgia Citi
zen.
Mr. S. F. do Graffonried died of the in
juries received by an accident on tho
Brunswick aud Albany Railroad.
J. A. Sullivan, recently in the service of
the United States Coast Survey, has been
adjudged a lunatic, aud sent to (lie asylum
at Milledgeville.
Wo notice in tho Augusta Chronicle a
notico of the death of J.lr. Frank Steiuer,
a brave soldier and generous hearted gen
tleman, known to many Confederates in
Columbus. Ho was on Gen. Cummings
staff in tho army of Tennessee.
J. R. Wallace, of Atlanta, claims lo
have the finest orchard in North Georgia,
lie has 416 varieties of fruits, besides a
great number of small fruits, and is pre
paring to cultivate tho English walnut and
pecan.
The special election for a Clerk of tho
Superior Court of Sumter county, held on
Tuesday, to fill tho vacancy occasioned by
tho death of A. G. lionnldson. resulted as
follows : Joseph 11. Alien 400, James A.
Daniel 280, Wm. 15. Guerry 2(50.
•The sale of tho first lor of new wheat
at Romo is reported by the Commercial
of tho 26th. It brought sl. 75 per bushel,
and was immediately ground into beauti
ful white flour.
The Gwinnett Herald says that a Jus
tice of the Peace in its county sentenced
a man to bo banished and to remain in
perpetual exile. We move that that Jus
tice bo sent to Eufaula, Ala.
University of Georgia . —The approaeh
ing commencement exercises of tho Uni
versity of Georgia will be unusually at
tractive. On Sunday, August 3d, tho
commencement sermon will bo preached
by the Rt. Rev. John W. Beckwith. On
Monday Hon. A. H. Stephens will address
tho literary societies, and on Tuesday Rt.
Rev. Geo. F. Pierce will deliver tho an
nual address before the Alumni.
ALABAMA NEWS.
The now company that lately bought
tho Fair Grounds at Selma have organ
ized with the title of tho Selma Exposi
tion Company, and resolved to hold a Fall
Fair, commencing Tuesday the 28th day
of October, 1873, and continuing five
days.
A point in the decisions of the Supreme
Court of Alabama on Tuesday : “Inaccu
racy or indofinitenoss of description of
the lands in the proceedings for a sale
under a decree of the court, will not
vitiate the sale.”
Mr. George W. McQueen, ono of the
best farmers of Lowndos county, in formed
tho llayneville Examiner, last Friday,
that he had given up as totally lost half of
the land he has tried to cultivate this
year.
The Randolph Enterprise, 20th, inst.,
understands that during a drunken brawl,
near Henry Kitchens’ doggery, below
Roanoke, on Saturday night previous a
man named Thomason was stabbed, and
Bird Kitchens mortally wounded.
At a meeting of the surviving soldiers
of the Mexican war, held in Columbiana,
a resolution was adopted requesting such
survivors iu all the counties of Alabama
to hold county meetings and report their
proceedings to George V. Hebb, at Wil
sonville, Alabama; the immediate object
being to secure representation in the
National Convention of soldiers of that
war which meets at Washington City on
the 15th of January next, aud one of the
ultimate objects being Hie formation of
a National brotherhood.
The Troy Messenger learns that a Mr.
Leper was struck ami killed by lightning,
on Sunday evening last., at his home in
tho neighborhood of Maj. llollis.
Alabama has within lier limits GDI
blind ; 405 deaf and dumb; 555 insane
721 idiots; 76,730 paupers, aud 32,001
criminals or persons confined in prison
for crime.
The South and North Alabama Rail
road Company have retired and cancelled,
preparatory to their surrender to the
Stale, three million six hundred aud
twenty-five thousand dollars of Stale en
dorsed bonds, leaving outstanding only
four hundred and ono thousand dollars
of State endorsement on account of that
company all of which they expect to re
tire in the next sixty days. We suppose
they will lake in lieu of the surrendered
bonds SI,OOO per mile bonds accord
ing to act of the lale Legislature.— Mont.
Ado., 22/1.
We are delighted to learn, as we did
yesterday, from our friend Mr. A. L.
Clapp, that the reported death of a little
sou of Mr. Penn Yonge, at the Chewacla
Lime Works in Leo county, by being
crushed in machinery, was incorrect.—
Montgomery Advertiser, ‘Nth.
Wo are glad to see that the Opelika
Observer of yesterday also corrects the re
port.
A Grange for Russell. —Wo arc grati
fied to learn that there is a prospect of
tho early organization of a Farmers’
Grange for Russell County. So far as un
derstood the objects aud designs of the
order aro highly appreciated, and several
citizens, directly interested in planting,
have expressed their willingness to par
ticipate actively iu the working of a
Grange should ono be established. We
trust Gen. Law, who organized one re
cently at Opelika, will visit Seale, and
lecture on the subject.— Russell Record
er, 27th.
The Dadeville Headlight says that the
crops along the Tallapoosa river are very
sorry, all 11m bottom lands being drowned
out. by the incessant rains, aud what has
not been drowned, is run over by grass.
A Decision of the Supreme Court of
Alabama, Thursday: “The statutory right
of his debtor, sold under judicial process,
of a judgment creditor to redeem the lands
is not taken away by the bankruptcy of
tlm debtor, accruing after the rendition
of judgment, and before the offer to re
deem. ”
Mr. E. V. Pearre killed a bear a few
days since iu his plantation iu the lower
part, of Henry county, that weighed 2(5(5
pounds after it was dressed.
Cf the work of improving tho naviga
tion of tho Tennessee river, tho Hunts
ville Democrat makes this report: “Geu.
O'Neal who is here attending Chancery
Court informs ns that 500 hands are en
gaged in opening Colbert Shoals, ami tho
work will lie completed next fall, when
the work will begin on the Muscle Shoals.
Steamboats are now plying regularly be
tween Florence and the mouth of the Ten
nessee river.”
The Methodist Church of Dadeville hats
procured an organ. Did the whistle of
tho locomotive stir up that improvement
also?
A gentleman of Selma, just returned to
that city, informs the Times that while at
Marion lie was shaved by “the Senator
from Perry” (a barber.) It is certainly
nothing to the discredit of the Senator
that he is a barber by occupation; but
whether it is to the discredit of a respecta
ble barber that ho was an ignorant and in
competent member of a Legislature—
that’s the question.
The cholera has made its appearance
in Huntsville and is creating quite apauic
there. One or two persons died with
cramps almost immediately after they
were seized.
BATTLE OE HORDE'S BRIDGE.
Abbeville, Ala., June IG.
Editor Henry County Register :
Among tho other reminiscences of Hen
ry and Barbour counties, appearing from
time to time in the Eufaula Times, I no
tice a description and story of the battle of
Ilobdy’s bridge, which I consider very in
accurate as it gives credit where it does
not properly belong, and witholils it from
those to whom it should be given. I was
iu the battle, aud my recollection of it is
yet good, although I have passed my
throe score and ten, and in justice to
those by whose side I fought, aud all of
whom, within my knowledge, are gone
before me, I will tell you what I know
about this battle. At the time I was at
Eufaula—theu Irwinton—when Captain
(General) Wm. Welborn organized his
cavalry company of ninety men, picked
up from Georgia, Irwinton, Clayton,
Louisville, and any other place he could
find them, for tho declared purpose of at
tactiug (lie Indians then encamped in the
fork of Pea creek and Pea river, just above
Holidy’s bridge. It was understood this
force under Wellborn was to to co-operate
with a similar furen under the command
of Captain Harrell on the wist or Pike
side of the river, and to attack them .sim
ultaneously from the east and west side ;
but Captain Harrell reached the designa
ted place in advance of Wellborn and de
ployed his men in tho swamp to await the
signal, when the Indians heard them and
attacked them, killing Gilbert Mann and
Frank Anglin, and wounding Green Mont
gomery severely, seven balls passing
through his person, and drove his com
mand back in a wostorn direction. While
they were in pursuit of Harrell, Wellborn
crossed his men on a log and placed them
in position near the Indian camp, when
the squaws gave notice to their bravos by
loud and continuous screams and yells.
They returned, flushed with victory over
Harrell,and attacked andfronght Wellborn
for six hours, when we compelled them
to retreat by a footway made by the squaws
during the battle. They crossed the river
above us and retreated in a southerly di
rection, passing in thirty yards of our
horses aud horse-holders, without troub
ling them, as was evidenced by their
bloody foot-prints. Fifty-six Indians
and a negro man painted and dressed
as an Indian, were found dead
on the battle ground, and it
was supposed that some were thrown in
the river by the surviving Indians. Os
course we could not tell their exact loss,
as in tiiis battle as in all others, they made
it a point to conceal their dead and take
with them their wounded. Capt. Wellborn
lost his son ——- Wellborn, killed by a ball
passing through his hoail, Madison Grady
of Louisvillo was mortally wounded and
died that afternoon at Robert llobdy’s
house on tho oast sido of the river. Hurt
Ball of Louisville, was wounded in the
thigh. One of tho Ilobdys—l think Rob
ert —was wounded iu the thigh ; Frank
Jackson of Clayton, and Frank Dennis of
Irwinton, were slightly wounded, and I
was slightly wounded in tho log. One
Whatly had his arm broken, and there
might havo boon one or two others wound
ed. Captain Wellborn acted most gal
lantly throughout the battle, never con
cealing himself from the enemy. When
his son was killed I was in a few feet of
him, nnd somo of his brains bespattered
me. The Captain went to him and put
his hands on tho wound and remarked,
“ Boys, he’s gone, but let us give them
hell.” The Captain’s hat-brim was liter
ally covered with twigs and leaves
cut from tho treos above his hoad\by
Indian bullots. Captain John Moore,, a
brother-in-law of Wellborn, who lived
about Irwinton at that time, was iu the
battle and boro himself gallantly. He
rode to Irwinton by sun-down of that
day with news of the victory. Jonas
Jenkins, who died near this place only a
few months ago, acted as interpreter for
us, and said he could hear the chief or
commander encourage his men to flank
us, and would say to his men, “What can
Ido when you won’t help me.” I recol
lect nothing that wo captured except six
half dollars in silver found in tho pocket
of the dead negro. My recollection as to
the time is that it was in May or June of
1836.
I knew no such man as Cooper in the
battlo, or in the country, nor such a man
as Head. I think if they or either one of
them had been in the battlo where there
were so few engaged I would havo known
something about them, and most certainly
have remembered them if they had been
in command. I am satisfied that Capt.
Wellborn and liis command, assisted by
Capt. Harrell until ho crossed tho river,
are entitled to tho credit of the victory.
If they are, then by all means let them
have it. Respectfully,
Thomas Mathis.
TIIE USE OF CIS TERN M ATER.
The Gallatin, Tenn., Examiner has
this to say about the use of cistern water:
“We have often called the attention of
our citizens to what we regard as a well
settled fact that those who habitually use
cistern water are nearly, if not entirely
exempt from attacks of cholera. All the
experience and information that we have
leads us to this conclusion. During the
prevalence of (he epidemic in Nashville
in 184!)-’50 it was ol'tou remarked. Dur
ing the present visitation, although it is
raging iu Nashville, Edgefield is exempt
from its ravages, and we understand that
not a single case lias originated there,
although a few have died (here who con
tracted il in Nashville. We learn, also,
that there is a like experience in Memphis
In one ward of the city, where cisterns are
plentiful, not a single case lias occurred.
At Clarksville, where nearly every family
is supplied wit h a cistern, the citizens feel
a seiico of security imparted by their pos
session. In 1886 the cholera swept the
town —there were no cisterns. In US I t)—’GO
it was observed that there was not a case
in a family that used the rain water. At
once the citizens went to work and so
many were built that a place is not re
garded as desirable without a cistern upon
it.. It was proved in 186(5, when the
cholera swept Nashville, carrying off 820
persons. The records at Clarksville show
that llioie was a mortality of 70, of whom
GO were negroes living in (lie outskirts,
and ono white man, an inebriate, ail of
whom drank spring nnd well water. And
we are informed that the citizens of
Clarksville, among the universal panic
that overspreads tho whole county, are
cool and confident, nnd as exempt from
fear as though tlie cholera was no nearer
than the junglos of India. This feeling
of confidence itself is priceless in time of
panic. We may mention, in addition to
the many other facts supporting our the
ory, that the cholera has never prevailed
in a free-sione country. Surely, these
are sufficiently well established points to
enlist general attention.
—
WHEAT, RYE AND OATS.
Washington, June 25. —The following
is tho official report of the eondiliun of the
wheat crop: Winter wheat mostly har
vested. Os 753 counties from which re
ports have been received, 202 are above
tho average, 168 average, and 881 below;
of 30(1 counties reporting spring wheat,
103 are above the average, 115 average
and 68 below. Tho acreage of wiuter
wheat is somewhat increased, though
many fields of winter were killed and
ploughed up for spring wheat and other
crops. The acreage of spring wheat is
very largely increased, and especially in
: tho Northwest is unusually promising,
j Indications of the crop of 1878 are con-
I sidered at least equal to those of June,
! 1872, when the Department estimated the
! prospective crop at 220,000,000 bushels.
| The first estimate of (lie year raised (ho
! annual report of 1872, not yet published,
! 210,107,020 bushels, with equally favors
I ble conditions. The yield may l»e safely
set down at 250,000,000 bushels, insect
i ravages, however, are reported in tho
spring wheat —serious loss in some locali
ties.
Oats —An inereasod average anil im
proved yield of oats indicated in the ma
jority of the States. The maximum con
dition, 113, is found in Virginia, and the
minimum, 83, in California.
Rye—Twenty-four States report an in
creased and ten a decreased average of
winter rye. Sixteen States report the
condition above the average, two an aver
age, and the remainder below. The max
imum condition. lit), in California; min
imum, 83, in Illinois. Spring rye is re
ported iu only ten States; maximum con
dition, 108, in Kansas; minimum, 80, in
Indiana.
Bariey—Winter barley varies from 65
in Kentucky to 108 iu Kansas. It ranges
from 88 in Indiana to 114 in Maine.
There is no returns of hops.
Killed by Lightning.— The Cntlibert
Appeal says : On Sunday last, about 12
o’clock, while a party of boys were pass
ing through a field of -Jonas Temple, near
Buford, in this county, the entire party
was prostrated by ft thunderbolt. Eld
ridge Paul, a son of Mrs. Elizabeth Paul,
a widow lady, was instantly killed, and
the balance of the party—four of Tem
ple’s boys—were rendered helpless for
some hours.
STATIC CONVENTION OF SCHOOL
commissioners.
In this Convention, held in Atlanta on
Wednesday and Thnrsday, about seventy
five counties wero represented. It was
permanently organized by the appoint
ment of lion. Gustavs J. Orr, as President;
B. M. Zettler, Secretary, and Kev. T. E.
Smith, Assistant Secretary. Keports of
County School Boards were received dur
ing the most of Wednesday, and in the
evening the Committee on Business made
a report, in which they recommended
that the three following changes should
bo made in the school law of tho State:
1. That tho counties shall bo authorized
to lovy a tax to supplement tho State ap
propriation.
2. That the entire traveling expenses
of tho Stale School Commissioner, includ
ing his board and hotel bills, shall be paid
by the State.
3. That the enumeration be taken once
in three years, instead of annually.
This was the majority report. Tho mi
nority reported tho following resolution :
Resolved, That the Legislature be re
quested to repeal the present law in toto,
and tho readoption of the plan of educa
tion contained in Irwin’s Code, with such
changes as may bo necessary to suit our
times, retaining tho present offices of
State Superintendent and County School
Commissioner.
The Superintendents ami Teachers from
various counties made reports of the state
of education in their respective localities.
Adjourned to Thursday.
On Thursday the two reports were taken
up and discussed; and tho minority report
was laid on the table.
During the discussion Gov. Smith was
introduced and made an interesting and
encouraging address, which was received
with applause.
The majority report was amended as
follows, on motion of Mr. Lewis, of Mil
ton :
ltesolved, That the majority report be
so amended as to invoke tho Legislature
to provide for the payment of salaries due
teachers for service for the year 1871.
It was finally adopted.
Tho Convention adjourned, after votes
of thanks to Commissioner Orr and others.
H11)1) EX TREASURES.
A Chest, Probably Valuable—Unearthed
and Carried Off.
Mr. C. 11. Branan, of Gordon, Ca.,
writes to a gentleman in this city detail
ing the circumstances of a mysterious in
cident which may family prove to boos
much moment to tho parties interested.
The circumstances are about as follows :
Mr. Branan’s father died some twenty
years ago. For some years before his
death he was tho solo white occupant of
his premises. Some of the old negroes
belonging to him affected to bolievo that
ho had money buried some where about
the premises ; but at tho time there was
no clue to anything of tho kind. For
some time past tho placo has been wholly
unoccupied.
On Monday, the Gth instant, a placo
was discovered in tho old yard, which in
dicated that someone had boon digging
there. At first it was thought that some
one had been murdered and buried there,
and a party of men was eollectod to in
vestigate tho matter. It was soon found
that a pit had boon dug there about four
feet long and three foot deep. The loose
earth was carefully recovered and at the
bottom of the pit they found a place
from which a box about twelve by fifteen
inches in dimensions had been removed.
The impression of tho box was too plain
to be mistaken, and a chest lock was
found among the loose earth in tho pit.
The tools with which the previous digging
had been done wero found in an old well
near by.
A further investigation discovered tho
tracks of two persons loading from the
place. These were followed for some dis
tance, and occasionally they would come
together and present the appearance of a
halt having been made in order to trans
fer a load from one person to another.
Those tracks wore followed through a
field to a fence, and here there were indi
cations that a box had rested on the fence.
Here the trace was lost.
Mr Branan is satisfied that there was
money in the box, and thinks it probable
that whoever got it will come to Macon
to exchange'it for currency. Hence he
writes here in order that flankers and oth
ers may he on the lookout. Macon
Telegraph 271 h.
JEFF. DAVIS’ ALLEGED DIS-
G VISE.
To the Editor of the Chicago Tribune:
Sir —ln a Chicago paper of June 9lh,
there appeared an article headed “ Ten
Thousand a Year Adversity,” which was
false in every statement it made. It is
high time the people should know the
truth iu regard to Hie capture of Jeff.
Davis. I have obtained the following
truthful relation of the capture from one
of the participants in it, and submit it to
the acceptance of Ihe Tribune's many
readers, believing that it is right to be
just, though tho heavens fall. X.
From tlio Portland (Me.) Argus.
lam no admirer of Jeff. Davis. lam a
Yankee, born between Saccarappe and
Gorham Corner, am full of Yankee pre
judices; but I think it wicked to lie oven
about him, or, for that matter, about the
devil.
J was with the party that, captured Jeff
Davis; saw the whole transaction from its
beginning. I now say—and hope you will
publish it —that Jeff Davis did not have
on, at the time be was taken, any gar
ment such as worn by women. He did
have over bis shoulders a water-proof
article of clothing something like a
“ Havelock.” It was not in the least con
cealed. He wore a hat, and did not carry
a puil of water on his head, nor carry pail,
bucket, or kettle in any way.
To the best of my recollection, he
carried nothing whatever in his hands.
His wife did not tell any person that hei
husband might hurt somebody if ho got
exasperated. She behaved like a lady,
and he as a gentleman, though manifestly
he was chagrined at being taken into
custody. Our soldiers behaved like gen
tlemen, ns they were, and onr officers like
honorable, brave men; and the foolish
stories that, went the newspaper rounds of
the day, telling liow wollislily he depor
ted himself, were all false. I know what
I am writing about. I saw Jefferson
Davis several times while he was staying
in Portland, many years ago; and I
think 1 was the first one who recognized
him at the lime of his arrest.
When it was known that he was cer
tainly taken, some newspaper correspond
ent—l knew his name at the time—fabri
cated the story about the disguise in an
old woman’s dress. I heard the whole
matter talked over as a good joke; and
the officers, who knew better, never took
the trouble to deny it. Perhaps they
thought the Confederate President do
served all the contempt that could he put
upon him. I think so too, only I Mould
never perpetrate a falsehood that by any
means would become history. And, fur
ther, I would never slander a woman who
has shown so much devotion as Mrs. Da
vis has to her husband, no matter how
wicke he is or may have been.
I defy any person to find a single officer
or soldier who was present at the capture
of Jeff. Davis, who will say, upon honor,
that ho was disguised in woman’s clothes,
or that his wife acted in any way unlady
like or undignified on that occasion, i
go for trying him for his crimes, and il lie
is found guilty, punishing him. But 1
would not lie about him when the truth
will certainly make it bad enough.
Elbumvillo. James H. Parker.
Kecelpts at Interior Towns.
The following shows the receipts of
the named interior towns from August
.'list to June 27th. Their united stocks
on the 27th wore 30,(1id against 12,854
same date last year :
1373 1872
Augusta 175,817 If 2,302
Macon (11,317 51,318
Enfaula 2(1,111 22,010
Columbus 57,400 40,252
Montgomery 01,778 52,523
Selma 40,740 <>8,915
Nashville 04,810 50,504
Memphis 402,027 378,040
807,248 805,020
Os T OF FENDS.
Washington, Juno 25. —The first Comp
troller has issued a circular to the Federal
Marshals that the appropriations for the
United States Courts are exhausted. Un
paid accounts must be deferred anti
courts must run on credit for the present.
ITALIAN MINISTRY.
Rome, June 20. —King Victor Emanuel
arrived at Florence to-night from Turin,
and immediately summoned Minghitti to
undertake forming anew ministry.
THE WAL WORTH TRIAL.
New York, June 2G.— ln tho Walworth
trial witnesses testified to the amiability
of the paricide’s disposition.
TUF. MOTHER'S STORY.
Mrs. Ellen Hardin Walworth was the
next witness, and, being sworn, said : I
am the mother of F. 11. Walworth. I was
married to M. T. Walworth in 1852, on
July 29th. In tho summer of ISGI, I
ceased to live at Saratoga, and wont to
Kentucky, near Louisville, my brother
Lemuel going with me, and all my child
ren. I lived there until 18G7. My hus
band did not go there with me. I lived
in Kentucky three years without seeing
him. He did not remain in Saratoga.
When I went away to Kentucky ho prom
ised to moot me there. Where he wont
to I don’t know. During the first winter
he was in Washington and afterwards in
Saratoga. Three years after I first went
to Kentucky my husband came to see me
and remained for about six weeks. I next
saw him in Saratoga the following sum
mer, and staid there about a week. In
December following, at which time ho
was with me, Frank being then in Louis
ville, at the earnest request of M. T. Wal
worth I came to New York, to a house on
Twenty-third street, all my children be
ing with me.
Mrs. Walworth continued; saying: On
the 26th of January, 1871, a final separa
tion took place, since which time she has
not seen her husband ; on the Bth of April,
1871, a decree of separation was pro
nounced. In July following, the decree
was modified to allow Walworth to see his
children once a month. Afterwards she
wont to tho old homestead at Saratoga,
and has remained there ever since with
her children. Mr. Walworth addressed
me by letter very frequently after our
separation. After I left him my youngest
child was born. Being delicate from its
birth, it died in January, 1872. Mr. Wal
worth never camo near the house and
never saw his youngest child. I did not
always receive his letters. For tho first
two or three months I did, hut after that
it was only occasionally that I received
them. Some of his letters never reached
me. There was no male person in iny
house who could protect me except my
son. Clarence Walworth spoke to me on
tlio Thursday before the occurrence about
taking Frank with him to Europo. I told
Frank of it that evening. 110 seemed
gratified, but paid ho should think about
it. Ho gave a qualified assent to the pro
posal. On Friday he went fishing with
his young brother to Saratoga Lake; re
turned about (i p. m., and retired early.
On Saturday ho was arranging his clothes
books and other things, and went swing
ing in a grove. On Sunday he slept till
late. Some young friends called in the
afternoon, and they went to walk in the
woods, lie wrote a letter on that day,
and asked mo for some note paper, which
I gavo him.
On Monday morning I came down
early, and seeing Frank in the hall, said,
“ You are up early.” Ho made some cas
ual reply and went out at the front door.
I thought he had gono to tho springs;
and at the breakfast table, asked why he
did not return. Someone said he bad
gone away, and left a message that if ho
was not back to supper he would not bo at
home that day. I then went to his room,
and on looking around, found an envelope
in tho handwriting of M. T. Walworth. I
immediately telegraphed Walworth and to
Judgo Barbour, but could ascertain noth
ing about him, and then believed lie bad
gono to Troy.
The envelope she found was produced.
It was post-marked May 30th.
A recess was here taken. After recess
Mrs. W. was again put on the stand, and
identified a document which proved to be
the stipulation, modifying the decree of
divorce signed by lier, and said she had
the counterpart of it signed by Mr. W.
While she lived with M. T. Walworth he
always carried a pistol.
The witness was then shown two letters
from the deceased, one written on Satur
day, May Gist, two days before the mur
der, and the other in August, 1872. The
former was sent enclosed in an envelope
to Rev. C. E. Walworth, in Albany. The
letters woro offered in evidence. Phelps
said he should object to all letters dated
in August. The letter was then read. It
ran ns follows:
walworth’s letter.
One O’clock, a. m., May 30.— Prepare
yourself for the inevitable. lam getting
over my wasting fever. I am going to
call on my children. My hoart is starving
for their caress. I shall see them peace
fully if I can, but with a tragedy if I
must. Keep Frank Walworth out of my
way. You have taught him to hate me.
Beware you do not rouse the frenzy that
is within me. I want to see my children.
There is a reasonable way to lead me now.
lam a broken hearted desperado. Save
this letter for lawyers and courts, if you
please. God is my lawyer now —not the
remorseless, brutal God that Eliza
Backus and 0. E. Walworth worship.
(Signed) M. T. Walworth.
New York, June 27. —In tho Walworth
trial there was a long discussion over Ihe
admission of the father’s letters. Judge
Davis decided to admit only such
passages as contained threats. The pris
oner's counsel specially objected to the
ruling. The letter of Walworth to his wife
was read. After bemoaning in the most
bitter and terrible terms at Ids being loft
only a portion of property in the trustee
ship of his brother by the will of lleuben
H. Walworth, he continues as follows:
“Now, Ellen Hardin, knowing that I
am helpless under that will," if you will
persist in trying year by year to see how
much of that trust property you can get
out of me by threats of law and by per
sonal blandishments lo my trustees, or by
any other means; if you doubt and will not
see that I ought to have something for
my entire life, whether he intended me to
or not, then mark what will bo the finale
of my vengeance upon that dead scoun
drel dog, who has made me so pitiable
before men and before yon. I will add,
so help mo the demons who wait upon
the persecuted, and the proud spirited,
and the revengeful, I will when stripped
by you of my property, and you may at
last plunge my dagger into Frank’s and
Tracy’s heart, and cut off the Walworth
Maine forever. G —d d—n him, he has
elevated them and degraded mo, and you
gloat over it. I have not one single firm
right under this will. This you believe
and this has been the cause of your de
spising and abandoning me. With cold,
calm purpose, yon contemplate my event
ual beggary and humiliation. I will
kill your hoys and defeat the damned
scoundrel in his grave, and cut off his
damned name forever. Now, you just
prosecute me about this properly, and
keep this thorn in my heart, and by the
Eternal God, I will kill them and you,
too. Now, you hurt my property any
further, you G—d d—d infernal b—b, and
I will gut your pups as well as you. The
G and d—n dirty villian shan’t rob mo of
wife, children and property. If I can’t
have anything I will have revenge. G—d
d—n you, I have already lost everything
which makes life valuable.”
This letter has no signature, and is ad
dressed to Mrs. Ellen 11. Walworth, Sara
toga Springs, N. Y.
Mrs. Walworth testifies to acts of per
sonal violence, of which the son had
knowledge.
Mrs. \V. said Frank showed signs of
mental aberration in various ways after
tlio separation of Ids father ami himself.
THE GERMAN EMPEROR.
Paris, June 22. The Union (newspa
per) publishes a rumor from Berlin that
the Emperor William is incapacitated for
further duty, and that the Grown Prince
Frederick William will soon be proclaimed
Begant of the imperial German govern
ment.
SFAX IS U A FFA JR S .
Madrid, June 2G. —Honor Bubiz has
been appointed Minister to London in
place of Don Morty Pandergast. In his
credentials Honor Uubiz is styled “ Rep
resentative of Spain to England,” instead
of to “ Her Majesty, the Queen of Eng
land.” All representatives to Spam
which have not recognized the Republic
are similarly accredited.
Madrid, June 2G. — The municipal elec
tion is ordered for the 12lh of July, and
for provincial deputies September Gth.
THE EH I VAX MAR.
Unconditional Surrender of the lilian.
London, June 27.— —A special dispatch
to the London Telegraph from Central
Asia announces that the Khan of Khiva
surrendered unconditionally to the Rus
sian troops before the Capitol of Khanate,
after General Kaufman had refused twelve
proposals for capitulation which were
made with treacherous intent.
THE SHAH.
Paris, June 27. —’Hie Municipality of
Paris reconsidered the vote refusing to
appropriate money for the reception of
Shall and adopted a resolution providing
for a night fete and an illumination in
honor of his majesty.
WOODHVLL-CLAFLIX TRTA I.
New York, June 27. —In the trial of
Woodhull, Clalliu and Blood for sending
obscene publications through the United
States mails, Judge Blackford decided
that in tho act of 1872 a weekly or daily
newspaper was not intended to be in
cluded amongst the list of obscene pub
lications. In the act of 1873 tho word
“ paper” is inserted and was intended to
include a newspaper which, as he con
structed the previous act on tho subject,
was not included in tiie statutes. Tho
indictment| in the present case was drawn
under the statute of 1872 and the prose
cution must consequently fail. The jury
then rendered a verdict of “ not guilty.”
THE HOWES SC AX DA 1.
New York, June 2f». —'The sun says
Henry C. Bowen, accompanied by H. B.
Clalliu, Judges Wood and lieymert, and
several other persons, called upon Victo
ria Woodhull last evening, and requested
: the letters written to her by Henry Ward
j Beecher and Theodore Tilton. Judge
Reymert said they had come to obtain
i this and other documentary evidence in
| order to vindicate Mr. Bowen. Wood
hull declined, on her lawyer's advice, to
loan the documents until the conclusion
of her present trial on tho chargo of ob
scenity.
THE ART PRESERVATIVE.
The Ahlen Type Setting and Distrib
uting Machine.
New York, June 2f>.—The effects of
the Ahlen Type Setting and Distributing
Machine Company, wero sold to-day at
auction, for nine thousand five hundred
dollars. It is said the inventor sunk at
least half a million dollars perfecting his
invention. The effects embraced letters
patent in Ibis country and Europe, ami
macliinos, machinery and stock on fac
tory.
ITI V TAX CHI LORES.
New York, June 27. —An address has
boon sent to President Grant and Gov.
Dix by the Italian-born citizens, express
ing the belief that some prompt, effectual
remedy is absolutely necessary to put
down the infamous traffic in Italian chil
dren between Italy and America, and
asking that certain laws may bo framed
to that end.
CROPS.
New York, June 25. —A Little Bock
letter, dated the 20th, says rains have
fallen incessantly for forty-six days, inun
dating the low lands and prairies, and
utterly ruining tho cotton crop along the
Memphis and Little Bock Railroad.
CHICAGO EXCITER A GOVT CORN
SELLING TOO CHEAP.
CmcAno, Juno 21.—During the past
week a number of bins of No. 2 corn,
amounting in the aggregate to about 115,-
000. bushels, in two of the elevators here,
have been posted on Change, as is re
quired in such cases, as out of condition.
The natural effect on the corn market has
been to create an unsettled feeling, and
to depress prices, and yesterday No. 2
corn sold at 27c per bushel, cash, which
is the lowest point touched in this market
for twelve years. There has been con
siderable feeling aroused among opera
tors iu corn, and charges have been made
on Change and in the city press that tlio
corn posted as heating was fraudulently
posted for the benefit of certain parties
and to tlio detriment of the trade.
A resolution was introduced on Change
to-day, which under the rules lies over till
Monday, providing for the appointment
of a committee to investigate these
charges, and if they find that there is
good grounds for them, instructing the
attorney of the board to ascertain if there
are grounds for legal proceedings against
the parties making the postings.
THE CHOLERA I.X TENNESSEE.
Nashville, June 21. —The epidemic is
abating, and nil indications are more fa
vorable. Only thirty deaths are reported
to-day—nearly all negroes. The disease
seems to bo passing to the* East, with a
southerly deflection towards (Ihattanooga.
Chattanooga, Juno 21. —The cholera is
undeniably increasing here, but it is
chiefly confined to-day to tho vicinity of
the Nashville depot, where it first origi
nated. Its location surprises all, because
the neighborhood of the depot is one of
the cleanest parts of Chattanooga.
A little girl, aged two years, was attack
ed this morning, and died at 2 o’clock
p. m. Several new cases are reported.
The older cases are doing well.
Chattanooga, June 25.—The cholera
hero has taken a fresh leap, which has
caused great excitement. There is now
a perfect panic; people are packing up
and getting ready to take first trains ont
of town. The weather is fearfully hot.
We have twenty new' eases to-day, though
no deaths are yet reported. Doctors
claim to have it under control.
Nashville, June 25. — I There wore twen
ty-nine deaths yesterday from cholera. It
is estimated there will be about the same
number to-day. There is very little ex
citement now, as the people are apparent
ly getting used to it.
Chattanooga, June 2G, 1873.—-Fifteen
new coses of cholera up to 3 p. m. ; 4
deaths, all white. Two of them turned
perfectly black in an hour after death.
Weather now cloudy and hot, which is
very bad for it. There are a great many
complaining and the disease is rapidly in
creasing, though those complaining are
not as yet recognized as cholera.
Later, Gp. in.—Seven deaths from
cholera now reported.
Memphis, June 27. —Seven cholera
deaths yesterday.
HA RI AR O COL LEG E.
Boston, June 25.—The necrology of
Harvard College gives the number of
deaths during ilia past year at 50.
The Nestor of Harvard College is now
Horace Binney. Ho is tt3 years old, and
graduated in 1798. The next is Judge
Milliard Hall, who graduated in 1799. He
is 93 years old. Both of these gentlemen
have been members of Congress. Sam i
Dunn Barker, the oldest living member
of tho Boston liar, a graduate of 1799, is
the next on the list. There are now no
representatives left of 1798, 1800, 1801,
1802 or 1803. The annual commencement
exercises of Harvard has taken place to
day.
THE RIO GRANDE FROSTIER.
Washington, June 22. —From expres
sions in official quarters, it has been as
sumed that Ihe raising of a cavalry regi
ment by the Slate of Texas for service
along file Rio Grande, is not regarded
favorably by the Government. Tlio Ad
ministration has its own plans and, pur
poses, and, with the control of affairs on
the Mexican border iu the hands of an
army officer fully conversant with its de
signs, no contretemps need bo feared;
but, if the impetuous Texan rangers once
get on the war path, they may spoil every
thing. To avoid interference with its
plans, the Government has, however, the
expensive alternative of getting this regi
ment under its absolute control, by ac
cepting it as volunteers, but this it is loth
to do. Louisville Courier.
the iii nil as i school noon.
Ooi.umhuii, <)., June 24.—The Supreme
Court to day unanimously decided that
the Constitution of Ohio does not enjoin
or require religions instruction or the
reading of religious books in the public
schools of Ihe Slate. The Legislature
having placed the management of public
schools under the exclusive control of di
rectors, trustees and hoards of education,
the courts have no rightful authority to
interfere by directing what education
•shall bo given or wliat books shall be
read therein.
a proposed si: ir noun: to the
OULE.
Hr. Louis, June 26. —Quite a number
of gentlemen from Texas, New York,
Nebraska and Missouri held a meeting
here yesterdy, and organized the HI.
Louis and Mexican Cult railway, electing
a board of directors and officers. The
road will start from Springfield, Missouri,
on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, run
through the western counties of Arkansas
and bisect that part of Texas lying be
tween Hie eastern country and Trinity
river.
EREEHMA N'S lIFREAV HOU'AIID
A BACK-PA YS TER.
Special to the bouisville Courier-Journal.
Washington, June 22.— Considerable
sensation has been produced to-day by
publications verified by extracts from the
journal of the Board of Trustees of
Howard University, showing that sixteen
thousand dollars has been received by
Gen. Howard as President of the Uni
versity for back pay during the time he
was Commissioner of the Freedman’s
Bureau, which was in violation of law ;
also that the funds of the institution
have been fearfully mismanaged, leaving
it heavily in debt.
SPANISH NEWS.
Madrid, June 27. A majority of || l( ,
. new cabinet will probably consist of mod,
orate Federalists. It is believed i| l!lt
Margall will be President; t’.ihuica. Mm.
I inter of (lie Interior; Pascal Casus. «,f
| Justice; Maisonave, of Foreign Affair---,
j and Gonzales, of i’nl.lic Works
A special constituent committee ..f the
Cortes have drawn anew constitution,
which embodies the following provisions
The Constituent. Cortes is to appoint a
President of the Republic, who shall ap
point a President of the Executive Conn
cil. The latter shall nominate (he Mini
ters, who must be confirmed by the Cortes
People shall elect the members tv Con
gress, and Provincial Assemblies the mem
bers of the Senate. The penal code is to
apply equally throughout the Republic
AH is now quiet at Seville.
Margall has formed a compromise
ministry, which is constituted as follow-.
President of Counsel and Minister of the
Interior, Margall; Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Musanave; Minister of Finance,
Carajal; Minister of Justico. Bergei
Minister of Marine, Aurioli; Minislci of
Colonies, .
Madrid, June 28.—A column of Re
publicans under Cosloras was surprised
on Thursday last in Sonouo by tho Car
lists and tied in great disorder to Poiu
pluna. Upon their entering into that city
the inhabitants rose against them, shoo)-
ing to death Louvilas.
It is believed the Government will su
percede Gen. Nouvalas as cominauder-iu
chief of the army of the North.
The Government troops under Goner and
Cobrinelty were defeated by a baud of
Carlisle commanded by Don Alphonse
Seuor Aurich, who was yesterday ap
pointed Minister of Marine, has resigned
his portfolio.
Sailor I’i y Margall, in announcing to
the Cortes the retirement of Aurich, asked
the deputies to refrain from interpella
tion on account of the withdrawal of Ihe
Minister of Marine. The remainder of
the Cabinet have not been confirmed and
the crisis in the government continues.
A motion in the Cortes that the body
bo constituted a committee of public safe
ty, was rejected.
HOWARD AND “HE HERO.”
Washington, June 27. —Sometime since
the Secretary of War, his action being
governed by the report of General Yin
cent, showing that General Howard’s ac
counts of (be freedmen’s bureau were at
odds and ends, submitted the question tea
receiver to indemnify the Government for
the alleged frauds said to have been de
veloped by the investigation of General
Vincent. No opinion lias yet, been made,
but it will be completed to-morrow ami
forwarded to the Secretary of War. It is
probable that the opinion will recom
mend a suit against the bondsmen of
General Howard and General Bulloch.
It is stated, in this connection, that
yesterday a search was made at the first
Comptroller’s office and the War Depart
ment for the bonds of these ex officers of
the bureau, and that they cannot be fonn 1.
A search was then made for the bonds of
the assistant commissioners of the several
Stales and they were also missing. It is
also alleged that General Bulloch was
never bonded to (ho Government, but di
rect to General Howard.
RETCHERV OE CHRISTIANS.
Vienna, June 28.— -Anarchy prevails in
the Turkish province of Bosnia, caused
by Mulioin mod ails. In one district of the
province 275 Christians have been mur
dered within the past six weeks, and the
perpetrators of the crimes remain unpun
ished. No efforts have been made to so
cure their arrest. The foreign represen
tatives to Turkey demand an investigation
anil call upon the authorities to afford
protection to the persecuted people. The
murders have greatly alarmed (he Chris
tians in the Province, and many of them
ai-6 emigrating.
*.
DEATH OF A SCULPTOR.
New York, June 27. — A Herald dis
patch, from Florence, states that Hiram
Powers, well known as the sculptor of the
celebrated “Greek {Slave” statue, died
this morning.
COUNTERFEIT AND “GENUINE"
I’AUER DIMES.
From tlio Boston Traveller, June 21.
Counterfeit paper dimes are in cireula
tion. What’s the difference bet.ween a
counterfeit dime and a genuine dune .
You can’t get cash for the one —and you
can’t get cash for the other. So there is
no difference. The counterfeiter will not
redeem his paper, and Government will
not redeem its paper. ’Tis much of a
muchness, both kinds of paper being
worthless. There is a sort of belief that
the Government paper will l.e redeemed,
though it rests upon nothing but hope,
that most deceiving of all deceivers. It
is probable that but a small part of our
smaller currency ever will be converted
into cash, as much of it will be lost, in
various ways —by wearing ont, l>y being
dropped or trampled upon or blow n away,
by Iming burned, and by being pronounc
ed counterfeit when it is genuine. All
this will be gained by Gov. rnineiit, and
it will be lost, by the poorest members of
the working classes, for whose sufferings
neither government nor politicians care
anything. Had any regard been paid to
the welfare of these classes, and bad jus
tice been done, all our small currency
would have disappeared six years ago
Its existence is a reflection on the c-.uin
try’s sanity, and in every way it is a ca
lamity.
N. B. —We cut the above from Hie New
York Times (a paper whose “loilly eh
es No. 1), iu which it appears without
comment.
If a “rebel” may put in a single sug
gestion here, we would inquire what is the
difference in the standing and prospect
between the dime and the other denomi
nations of the “fractional?
One of tlio “unreconstructed” urges us
to tlio additional impertinence of inquir
ing whether tlio larger currency, bearing
the likenesses of Chase, Lincoln, etc., has
a I Kilter prospect of early redemption
than the-fractional. But we do not care
to push this inquiry too far.
A clergyman was recently annoyed by
people talking aiul giggling. He paused,
looked at. the disturbers, and said : "I am
always afraid to reprove those who mi ■
behave, for this reason : Some years since
as 1 was preaching, a young man who sat
before me was constantly laughing, tall
ing and making uncouth grimaces. 1
paused and administered a severe relink
After the close of the service a genlleniAß
said to me: ‘Sir, you have made a great
mistake That young man was an i* l 1 ■ ■ -
Since that I have always lu-en afraid to
reprove those who misbehave themselves
in chapel lest. 1 should repeat that mistake
and reprove another idiot. ” During tk*
rest of the. service there was good old*"
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gestion, Depression of Spirits and Gener
al Debility, in their various forms,P< UlO
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sold by all druggists, is the best tonic A >
a stimulant tonic for patients recovering
from fever or other sickness, it has no
equal. If taken during the season it pre
vents fever and ague and other intermit
tent fevers.
Danger.
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with the seeds of lntermitteirta, remitt ent?,
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