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We make lielow an extract from an ad dress unanimously adopted at meeting of a nundier of graduates of the West Point Military Academy, held in Balti inore on the 20th of Juno. The address, after deploring the fact that hut few of the West Point graduates, except those who were arrayed on the side of the Fed eral Government in the late war, havo yet joined the Society of the Alumni of the Military Academy, says: This should not continue. The Graduates of the Military Acade my were not responsible for the war. In oar view, even the people of the Unit ■ i Stales id this generation, though ex a perilled by sectional differences to a degree winch made war inevitable, were not res|MHiHible for it. It was the result id' the- opposing domestic, social and in dustrial systems which hail been planted in the country at its first settlement, and finally overcame that unity of sentiment, and opinions and interests which are essential to fraternal feeling and nation ality. ft is a grave mistake to assume that a crisis in human affairs momentous as civil war, especially in a Republican country like ours, can bo provoked ex cept by antagonisms which spring from ihedcepostmid siuoerost, though opposing popular convictions. Look back to tho beginning of the struggle and the state of tho country then! Who has the fight to feel sur prise that tho graduates of tho United Slates Military Academy gravitated to the support of their respective sections. We kuowthat they wereequully conscientious. It was natural; nay, unavoidable, that they should be divided as their fathers and brothers were divided. Hut the fact gleams like vesled lire, that during all that struggle, tho gradu ates never lost for each other their per sonal attachment and esteem. All hail ! our Alma Mater ! whose warm and friend ly spiiit rose above the conllict of civil war; and kept alive in the hearts of her children their early and friendly regard. This fact was demonstrated too often and too conspicuously during tho war to be successfully disputed. The great fact here stated, that the late war between (he States was the inevitable result of “the opposing domestic, social and industrial systems which had been planted in the country at its first soltlo nient, ’ is a truth conspicuously apparent in all our political history for tho last forty years, it may bo added, and the history of that term will jls emphatically confirm it, Unit flic .South was not the uf/f/rtstitu section in that conflict of do mestic, social and industrial systems, but only si niggled for the preservation of her own instilutions. How wicked and mer ciless, then, has been the post-bellum policy of punishing and governing 11s ns subjugated “rebels!” It is to be hoped that the just and lib eral sentiments of this address will be the controlling spirit of the Society of the Alumni ot West l’oint, and Hint such an association of I ho educated soldiers of the North will shame into something like de cency the illiterate and inconsiderate rabble termed the “Grand Army of llie Republic,” whose passion and intolerance lias done so much to retard the restoration of good feeling between the sections. lion/>/:n complicanoxs. Those who are longing for such an ag gravation of our holder troubles as to af ford a pretext lor the acquisition of an other slice of Mexico, have reason to be hopeful, it not jubilant. It is evident that both the Texans and New Mexicans on one side of I lie line, and tho Mexicans ou the other, are exasperated and longing to avenge injuries anil insults already re ceived; and Ihetrite adage “where there’s a will there's a way” is always apt to find an exemplification whore the people on either side of a boundary lino between two nalionsiue mutually exasperated and anxious for a brush. The uiiiny established claims of (ho Texan.. for indemnity for millions of dol lar worth of their property stolen by Mexican mutirauders; the reported coun ter ckiuiH of the Mexicans for nearly as Ini ,o an amount.; the recent depredations of Mexican outlaws near the lower Kio Grautlf; the Kicki.poo raids into Arizona, and their pursuit into Mexico and pun ishment by Gen. McKenzie —of them selves form a bludget of grievances and difficulties that ordinary diplomacy would find of dillieult adjustment. And now we have another liostilo demonstration on the port of the Mexicans. The El Paso Sentinel puhlishos a letter from New Mexico giving an account of a Mexican invasion of that Territory early in June. About one hundred of them crossed the border with the intention of “cleaning out tlie residents of Talaoosa canon, cut ting the ucpieduets, and removing nil the dams placed in the river by the Ameri cans. They met with resistance at a mill, and many shots were exchanged during the day, with varying success, un til at last the arrival of reinforcements enabled the Americans to drive oft the Mexicans. Only one person, a Mexican, appears to have been killed, and the oth er casualties were trifling. Good watching and strong precaution ary measures will be necessary to pre vent more serious coulliels before Con gress meets, and it is probable that the Mexicau question will be one of the most difficult topics with which that body will havo to deal at its next session. iieu r Timms in New York. —The Daily bulletin of Thursday says: “There is scarcely any branch of business that lias Hot experienced more or less disappoint ment during the last few months. The expectations of an active and prosperous spring trade, end in almost every instance with i he result of loss and disappointment. Ihe depression is attributed in the first place to the embargoes on transportation m conserpieuee of the protracted winter, and then to theadvauce in the gold pre mium, and the stringency in the money market, arising from our inflexible and arbitrary currency. It is the opinion of eminent financiers that no permanent amt general business prosperity is to bo look ed for in advance of a restoration of spo -ole payments, and (be final abandonment bv the Federal Governiueutof all attempts to man,tain the ourrency at a fixed vol ume.” The stockholder’s of the Memphis and t Larlestou Railroad Company failed to get a quorum for their meeting ou the -+tk ult. The load is heavily mortgaged, and its stock is now worth only 21 cents hi the dollar. It is sad to find a railroad, at one tune regarded as one of the most important iu the South, in so unprofitable a condition. Superintendent tried to run a t rain the Ai Kbama aud Ghattanooga Railroad it h i 'buttauooga on Thursday last, but au hardly passed the corporation lim ' ore e ars were uncoupled, brakes put the ft o * l i tbfi tram Mopped- Trouble with of the'hit^f* 8 a *" JUt l **eir pay is the cause tuanv A u |ted States officials are arresting isk, iA ’he white citizens of Grant par in queUin v> ac t°d ms the Sheriff’s possee g the negro insurrection there. VOL. XV. THE RITETT AND JIOOLEY IJVEL. The fatal termination of an “affair of honor” between two prominent citizens of Louisiana, on Tuesday, has naturally ex cited tho curiosity of the reader as to the causes that led to the bloody encounter, as well as the standing aud antecedents of the comhaltants. Col. It. J{. iihett, Jr., is pretty well known throughout the South as a gallant Confederate officer, a vigorous newspaper writer, and a distinguished editor at Charleston before he removed to New Or leans. His father, It. B. lihett, Sr., was a distinguished South Carolinian, and once ably represented the State in the United States Congress, and afterwards in the Confederate Congress. His son, R. B. lihett who was a party to the duel, was always known as a respecter of “ the code, and has been engaged in affairs of honor previously—one of them, we think, terminating fatally. Os Judge Cooley w-o know but little. He was a prominent lawyer of Louisiana, a Republican in pol itics, and a supporter and defender of Kellogg in tho usurpations and frauds that placed the latter in the Gubernatorial chair. 'I he personal quarrel arose in this way: Judge Hawkins, the man who sued the Picayune (of which lihett is the leading editor) for libel, was one of the famous (or infamous) Lynch Returning Board, which, without pretending to have suffi cient returns of the olection before it, de clared that Kellogg had been elected Governor. Cooley was (ho counsel of Hawkins in his late libel suit against the Picayune. In his argument in this case, he asserted that tho Picayune had singled out Hawkins from the other members of the board for its abuse, and ho taunt ingly asked why this was done, answer ing his own question by saying, “ Some people, you know, it don’t do to trillo with.” Here was an intimation that lihett was afraid to deal with the other members of the hoard as he had dealt with Hawkins. This called forth a bitter reply from Hie Picayune, in which it de nounced Cooley’s assertion as wilfully and maliciously false. Cooley then addressed a letter to Khett, sendingit “by a friend,” in which ho reiterated the truth of his declaration, challenged lihett to produce from the files of the Picayune anything to the contrary, and concluded by say ing : “If yon cannot, you will make the acknowledgment of contradicting your record.” Illicit replied by letter, only affirming that he “ had controverted these assertions,” and it “ was not liis province to find and show what the files of the paper contained.” Thereupon Cooley published tho correspondence in the Times , embraced in a card, w hich he con cluded thus : “Colonel lihett having writ ten in the Picayune Hint I made asser tions to the jury which were ’malicious and wilfully falso,’ and having subse quently refused my fair, holiest and honorable offer to docide which of us is correct, 1 publish him (o tho people of New Orleans as au unmitigated calumnia tor, a deliberate and wilful falsifier, an artful dodger, and withall, a thorough paced braggart.” It would seem that this left a dueling man no alternative, and we therefore did not credit (110 first telegraphic report (now contradicted) that Cooley .was tho challenger. It is, of course, lamentable, that the life of any useful and deserving man should be sacrificed in a resort to the duel. But if a deadly conflict between those two men was unavoidable (aud, in view of Iho recognition by both of them of the “ code of honor,” and of the in sult, evidently designed by Cooley to pro voke a duel, it appears to have been so,) the fairest mode of conducting it seems to havo been the one adopted. It at least gave lihett a more even chance than he would have had before State authori ties as hostile to him as those now reigu ing in Louisiana; before such juries as they select for the trial of white men and Democrats. It brought him and his op ponent face to face upon more equal terms than at any previous meeting— where the latter had no Federal bayonets, or Custom-house Gatling guns, or Metro politan Police to substitute force for right and justice. We feol no gratifica tion at the death of Cooley; but wo should have bewailed it as a crowning grievance and outrage to oppressed Louisiana, if, in addition to the crushing out of the life of the State, one of her bravest and most able defenders had fallen in an individual fond incident to that political crime. The verdict of not guilty in the case of Messrs. Golien and Kailley, on trial near New Orleans for the attempted assassina tion of bogus Governor Kellogg, has already been announced by telegraph. The most extraordinary efforts wore made to convict these gentlemen of a crime of which they were not guilty. In this ense their conviction was deemed necessary to relieve Kellogg of embarrassment, just as he said lie solicited Grant’s proclamation, a few weeks ago, to relieve the President of embarrassment. Tho jury was made to consist of ten negroes and two white men. Positive testimony was introduced that Col. Cohen was the man who cursed Kellogg and fired the pistol at him. But the defense proved by the most unim peachable testimony—and a plenty of it — that Col. Cohen was in the Picayune office attending to business when the pis tol was fired, anil that lie went out into the street to soo what was causing the disturbance. This proof was too strong to bo resisted even by a negro jury; but the whole proceeding serves to show how strong a ease of innocence an opponent of the'party in power lias to make before courts and "juries as now selected aud con stituted. Making the Amende. —The Montgom ery Shite Journal (which, we believe, was one of the papers that went off at half cook in denouncing the action of the Judges in tho Hooper-Phillips examina tion, without waiting for the law and the evidence on which it was based) has this to say after reading the statement of one of Mr. Hooper’s counsel: “We have read the reply of Judge Wad dell to tho unjust assault upon young Hooper and liis lady friend, by a corres pondent of the Atlanta Herald, and we must think that it puts another aud au entirely diffi rent color upon the cause which led to the killing of Phillips. We are opposed to setting aside the law, or taking it into one’s own hand; but if there is ever a case which can palliate it, it must lie when female innocence is wan tonly slandered.” Wheat. —Mr. Williamson MidJlebrooks, of this county, has threshed his crop of this year’s wheat, which yielded au average of twenty bushels to the acre. From thirteen acres he obtained 260 bushels of good wheat. Who of onr farmers, can beat this ?—Thomaston, Herald. At $2 per bushel, which oau be readily obtained, the 13 acres of wheat will make <j£s2o. The same land might have made, with three times tho labor, four bales of cotton, at 17 cents per pound. Four bales of 500 pounds at 17 cents, $340; and all the hot summer and unhealthy fall to work and pick the cotton. We can’t figure it out, but cotton may he the best crop. Joseph Beal succeeds Horace F. Hark aS President of the Union Pacific Rail road. He will be made defendant in the Government suits against the Credit Mo bilier. THE WEEKLY SUN. CROPS IN FLORIDA. Marianna, Fla., June 27, 1873. Kvery plantation that I could see from the boat while coming down the Chatta hoochee river gave evidence that work was much needed. The crops in this sec tion of Florida are very good, especially those that have been well worked. The corn and pea crop will undoubtedly be a good one, but the farmers are gloomy aliout their cotton, as the second crop of caterpillars have made their appearance, and the weather is very favorable for their propagation, as there has been con siderable rain of late and it still continues. On the Milton plantation they are repre sented as being more numerous than else where, and in some spiffs have very nearly stripped the cotton of leaves and webbed up. Their appearance this year is two weeks earlier than last. The cotton here presents a very differ ent appearance from that about Columbus —there is plenty of it four and some five feet high, and tho crop generally, where it has been well cultivated, is as good as it usually is at Ibis season of tho year. I learn that Wisenant’s patent com pound—a powder, which is sprinkled on tho plant at the rate of twenty-six pounds per acre, was sucessfully tried ou the Mil ton plantation yesterday. Where it was applied tho caterpillars were found dead under the plant a few hours afterwards. This remedy will cost $2 or $3 per acre. The largest planters in the county con template using it. T. GEORGIA NEWS. As has been heretofore announced, the city of Macon has offered a premium of SoOO for the best drilled white military company appearing at the State Fair in October—the companies to consist of not less than forty-nine men, rank and file, and tho premium to be open to the world. The Telegraph of Sunday publishes the rules and regulations that havo been adopted for the government of the con test, and the Board of Military Judges who are to decide it, viz: General J. E. Johnston, Chairman; Major J. B. Cum in ing, Augusta; Colonel J. W. Robertson, Macon; Captain Henry Jackson, Atlanta; General It. 11. Chilton, Columbus; Gen eral Philip Cook, Americas; General R. H. Anderson, Savannah; General P. M. B. Young, Cartersville; Professor L. H. Charbonnier, Athens. The Atlanta Constitution learns from Jackson county that Hugh N. Carter, who was lately acquitted of the murder of Pool, has been found murdered. Also, that a “wild man,” who has been disturb ing the peace of the good people of the county for some lime, turned out to be a horse t hies, whom they had to shoot three times before they could catch him. He is in jail. Tho Round Mountain Iron and Coal Company have organized by the election of W. S. Roberts, of Augusta, President, and J. M. Elliott, of Rome, Vice Presi dent. It is understood that Major J. F. Burns will be Superintendent. Work to be commenced at once, anil where practi cable tho old works will be repaired and made available. Several old bachelors in Griffin have lost their reckoning and don’t know how old they are.— Star. It’s wilfulness on their part. They 'want to bo miss-taken. Thore was a panic in Macon on Satur day aud Sunday about the Macon and Brunswick Railroad currency. Reports that the company would fail to pay its interest due on the Ist inst. appear to have started tho excitement. Somo sold tho money as low as fifty cants on the dollar, but on Monday ninety cents could bo obtained for it. President Iluzlehurst was expected to make a satisfactory ex planation to-day. The jury in the Penn Bedell case, at Atlanta, could not agree, and were dis charged on Monday. Another trial must be had. The Herald says it is under stood the jury at first stood six for ac quittal and six for a verdict of man slaughter, and that at last it was eight to three. Dr. Flournoy proposes to turn Mossey creek through Fort Valley, and establish a huge cotton factory. A letter to the Atlanta Herald reports the escape of three prisoners from the jail at Newnan early Sunday morning. Two of them were confined for murder —Hicks, who killed Brown in Carroll county; and Albright, for killing Brood in Carroll. They first removed the ceiling inside the jail, without injuring it in any way, and then cut through the wooden part of the jail, which was put together with large nails or spikes, very closely driven, aud thence through the brick wall. They then made a rope of blankets, by which they let Coleman down to the ground (the jail is two stories high—they wore in the top story). Coleman went off some two hundred yards, procured a ladder, and put it to the hole for the others to come down. ALABAMA NEWS. It is admitted that cholera, or a disease distressingly similar, has made its ap pearance at Birmingham. Mr. Stephen Murphy, Senator from Madison county, died at his home in Huntsville, Saturday night, from con sumption. Gen. Law is invited to visit Seale and lecture on the Granges aud organize one for Russell county. Dr. N. D. Richardson, last week, cut sixty-five bushels of wheat from a three acre lot in Athens, Ala. Decision by the Supreme Court of Ala bama on Monday : Tho act to amend Revised Code, 2901, approved March 8, 1871, gives the land lord a lien on the crop of his tenant for advances made by him, to secure its cul tivation, commensurate with liis lien for the rent. Such a lien is superior to one given by the tenant to another person, either by mortgage, or under the provisions of the Revised Code, 18. r >B, after tho contract of routing, for advances received prior to those made by the landlord. TIIE EIRE IN THOM A S l IIIE. Special to the Savannah News.] Thomasyille, June 30.—This morning about three o’clock, a lire broke out in the store of J. T. Koituiau, which, in spite of everything that could be doue to arrest its progress, spread and developed into a very serious conflagration. The origiu of the fire is undoubtedly due to incendiarism, though as yet there is 110 clue to the wretch who applied the torch. The following list comprises the promi nent losers: John Watt, Davis & Cos., J. T. Kottman, Dr. P. S. Brown, A. A R. Smith, Lohensteiii A Steyeruiau, Dr. lleid. Hunt A Puryear, James Linton, L. H. Kirksey, T. C. Mitchell, Joseph Pass, Koselifield A Levy, S. J. Cassels, Rushing A Oullen, Ilubilshek ABro., B. Goldberg, Western Union Telegraph office aud va rious law offices. The following is a list of the approxi mate losses and insurance: laws. Insur. Watt A Brother, $ 1,900 $ 800 Davies A Cos., 3,;.00 1,7.>0 D. Hirt, 800 500 J. T. Kottman, 2,500 800 A. A R. Smith. 14,000 6,000 Huut A Puryer, *IOO J. A. Linton, 4,000 Lolieusteiu A Steyermau, 8,000 6,000 Dr. Reid, ' 7,500 4,000 T C. Mitchell, 4,000 3,000 j 18,000 10,000 Roeentield A Levy, 4,000 3,000 B. Goldberg, 6,1100 4,000 Rushing A Outteu, 2,000 1,500 Dr. Bowen, 3,IKK) 2,300 Total, $79,800 $43,650 The fire is out and everything is quiet. BOLD AND RONDS. Washington, Juue 29. The Secretary of the Treasury sells one million gold the first second, fourth and fifth Thursdays, and one and a half million third Thursday of July, and will buy half a million bonds on third Wednesday, aggegatmg the sale of five aud a half millions gold and the purchase of one half million bonds. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1878 THE IS CRN ING OF COL VMRIA. General Stone’s Letter Reviewed. Honey Hill, S. C., June 23,1873 To Brigadier Ueneral Stone: Your letter of the 2d of Juno to the Chi cago Tribune has just been called to my attention. Its general air of levity is in very bad taste. The question you under take to answer involves the responsibility of the most brutal outrage upon the pre tended civilization of this country which has darkened the history of the present century. Nevertheless, you begin and end your letter with trifling cant, as if the very recurrence to the shameful event ir resistably excited your risiblos. A swath of flame, desolation and rapine, one hun dred and fifty miles long anil forty miles wide, and Columbia in ashes, seem to make you not only merry, but facetious. But I do not propose to attempt to shame you. I come to correct some of your statements, and then give some items of history which ought to disabuse your mind of the egregious errors into which yon were led by that Ku-Klax “Society” soldier. Ist. You state that while you were hastily ventilating your patriotism in planting the national colors on the State House, in Columbia, General Hampton’s cavalry had attacked your advanoo guard and threatened a charge ou your brigade. If you wish to create the impression that, after the surrender of the city aud its oc cupation by the United Stales troops, Gen. Hampton oither charged or threat ened to charge your brigade, or any other brigade in the city, you are attempting to falsify the facts. Gen. Hampton rode out of tho city as you entered it, about 9or 10 o’clock, Friday morning. lie had only an escort with him, and hearing that the city had been surrendered, only remained to protect the peoplo and pre serve order until its formal possession by the United States troops. If there was even a little skirmishing during that day it occurred several miles from the city, and that with advanced cavalry, which pushed forward on the different roads leading to Winsboro. That pretext for bad feeling, provoca tion aud the subsequent disgraceful scenes in the city is utterly without foundation. The statement is false. 2nd. You try to apologise for your ina bility to control your men, and guard such a population as you then hnd in charge with only some 2,21)0 men, and to make your case very strong, you say a population of 40,000. Ridiculously absurd ! The largest popu lation of Columbia at any time during the war did not exceed some 16,000 or 18,000. At tlie time you entered the city, there were possibly some 500 men, old and young, and about 9,IKK) women and chil dren. The released Union prisoners, the murderers, the burglars, Ac., in the jail were, all told, 150, and this body must have constituted that formidable society which, despite your efforts, assisted by his generous Tecumsehship.iiuiltipled into thousands of fully uniformed soldiers, who hunting in packs of from ten to forty ransacked inside of three hours every house within au area closely built, say of one mile square, demolishing robbing, burning, insulting, aud carry off by Che ton silver plate, valuables, pictures, Ac., Ae. I havo no language to characterize your statement. 3rd. To keep sharply in view the pecu liar raw place in the Northern heart, to harrow it for general effect, and to awak en au already plunder-suborned sympathy, you refer to the maltreatment of tho pris oners in Columbia. It is all romance, laboriously worked up since the war. The “clandestine” feature the the “few noble Southern women” is an investment in popular sentiment that maybe good yet, where a munolnuisen lie has more believers than the plainest truth of either Bible or history. I did hear of a gay couple—no Southern blood, no not one. drop —whose Southern sympathies during the war knew 110 bounds, but who immediately at its close, pretended some wonderful acts of “clan destine” generosity. But I had before heard that they were given to acts of “clandestine” generosity. But I answer the insinuation by facts. I wished to return some courtesies to the officers of command, then our prisoners, but who had kindly treated some mem bers of my family captured by the U. S. troops. I called on the Major command ing the guard, and stated the facts. He unhesitatingly sent for them. They were some four or live in number; I had a room to myself with them. I talked freely and frankly, with and enquired particu larly as to their wants. The uniform answer was “we can make no complaint; we are sure that we can gel as good, if not better than them poor fellows who are guarding us; if you can get us ex changed it is all we want.” I gave them the history of our attempts to exchange, and of our offers to give four or live for one, and throw in all the sick and wound ed, that they might be taken homo for proper attention, and then of Robespiere Stanton’s reply. They blushed at the brutality of their own Government, but like good soldiers, said nothing. Three weeks after I was fortunate enough to get their names on an exchange list, and since the war received a letter from one of them, thanking me for my courtesy and his exchange. Does not this answer your shameless appeal to ad captadum nonsenso? 4th. One fellow asking for bread of a woman, has her to spit in his face! To have spit in that lying poltroon’s face, she must, if there at all, have stretched her neck some nine or ten feet, or he liis neck through the iron grating to the same extent. The mail lied, Gen. Stone, aud you ought to have had sense enough to have known it. Knowing it as I believe you did, the reference to such clap-trap is unmanly, unsoldier-like. It will not take the tarnish out of your sword. “Fie! Fie! a soldier and afeard ?’’ “Out, I say,” will not remove the “ damned spot,” much less the chaffering falsehood of a fawning miscreant. I know you would not believe that fellow on a promise for a five dollar bill, and yet you quote him in a question involving the character of thousands. I now propose to answer tho question as to the burning of Columbia in an ap parently indirect manner; but you will see the point before I shall have conclu ded. However, before I leave your letter, I will do it the justice to say that it is in the main the most correct description of the burning of Columbia that has ap peared from a Northern pen. It gives the lie to Gen. Sherman plainly, anil flatly. You state the truth when you say that (here was no lire to endanger I lie city up to about nine o’clock Friday night, and Gen. Shoriuau had then been in the city some ten hours. To this I add another fact (hat may be familiar to Gen. Sherman. Friday after noon, the city then quiet, Gen. Sherman walked from his quarters, Blanton Dun can’s residence, in company with Dr. T. J. Goodwyn, theu Mayor of the city, to call upon the daughter of an old ante-war friend. The call made, they returned to gether, when reaching the front gate and the old Dr., seeming very anxious, Gen. Sherman said, “Go home, old man, you are worn out and will make yourself sick. You anil your city are perfectly safe. Go homo and rest. You never have been as safe, as with my troops to guard your city.” Sequel.—ln less than three hours the “old man’s house was robbed, burnt, and lie turned into the street half naked, and insulted by some hundreds of fully uniformed U. S. soldiers in the presence of (heir officers, not three hundred yards from Gen. Sherman's room, and less than one hundred and fifty yards from a Ma jor General’s quarters, who had troops all around him. But I see that I have made this letter already so long, that I must defer to a second, the history of the sacking and burning of Columbia. It will be much shorter than this. Wavkrlt. ♦Note. —The first pair of manacles ever seen by this gentleman, was presented by Gen. Sherman, when he was a youDg artil lery officer, with the recommendation that they were excellent for “unruly negroes, and would make them know their places.” Mississippi papers record the death in that State, on the 27th of May last, of John Owens, at the age of 114 years, 8 months and 6 days. He was a remarkable man; for although he admitted he used whisky occasionally, aud that he had smoked and chewed for 103 years, he never claimed that he had seen Washing ton. From the Augusta Chronicle, 29th. PRESENTATION TO GOVERNOR .JENKINS . Tlie State Does Honor to One of Iler No blest Sons. In accordance with the notice published by us yesterday, the gold seal, a far simile of the seal of the Executive office of the State, prepared under the resolution pass ed by the General Assembly in August, 1872, and forwarded to Major Gumming, the mover of the resolution, by Governor Smith, together with a copy of the pream ble aud resolution engrossed on parch ment aud elegantly framed, aud a letter from his Excellency, was presented to Governor Jenkins yesterday by Major Camming. At 12 o'clock a number of gentlemen, including the members of the present and last Legislatures, Col. J. K. Sneed, who was the bearer of the seal from the Governor, the Mayor of the city, Judge of the Superior Court, the Ordinary, Judge of the City Court., Editors of the Chronicle and Sentinel, aud other citi zens, assembled, by invitation, in the large parlor over Mr. Schneider’s store, on Broad street, where the presentation W'as to take place. Soon after the party met, Governor Jenkins entered the room, when Major Gumming said: “Gov. Jenkins—Last Summer, when a member of the Legislature, I had the hon or to introduce into the House of Repre sentatives a joint resolution, anthorzing and instructing the Governor to present to you, in the name of the people of Geor gia, a sac simile of the seal of the Execu tive Department. In doing this, 1 felt assured that I was not only responding to an impulse of my own heart, but that I was also striking a chord in perfect uni son with the feeling of the truo people of Georgia. Tho unanimity with which tho resolution was passed by both Houses of the General Assembly satisfied me that I was not deceived in my anticipations, liis Excellency the Governor, remember ing my connection with this transaction, has kindly given me the pleasure and con ferred upon me the honor of presenting to you in the presence of some of your fellow-citizens and friends, this seal and the preamble and resolution. In addi tion to these, his Excellency has requested me to hand to you an open letter ad dressed to you. As this letter is doubt less of interest to those friends of yours hero assembled, I shall, with your per mission, not only present it, but read it in their hearing.” Mr. Cumming here read the letter. Af ter the reading, he remarked, I shall not weaken the force of this admirable com munication by adding one word to it. I have the honor to present to you the seal and the parchment copy of the preamble and resolution. Gov. Jenkins, in receiving the testimo nial of the State’s gratitude, responded feelingly and eloquently to Major Curn niing’s remarks. At the conclusion of the response, ho stated that he would, as soon as possible, put its substance in writing in the form of a letter to the Gov ernor, for transmission to the latter. This letter, as well os that from his Ex celloncy, w T e will publish in a day or two, as matters of general interest. The presentation ended, the party gathered around the long table set in the middle of the room and paid appropriate honors to the Widow Cliquot. Governor Jenkins proposed as a toast “The old State of Georgia, our common nurse and mother.” Drank standing. The toast was feelingly responded to by W. J lope Hull, Esq., who then gave “The life, ca reer, and administration of Chas. J, Jen kins.” Also drank standing. Judge Cla borne Snead next proposed the senti ment, “One of the ablest of men and tru est of patriots —-tlio present Governor of Georgia.” Like the two former, this toast was drank standing, in flowing bumpers of sparkling champagne. By request, Gov. Jenkins theu detailed tho principal facts and incidents connect ed with his removal from tlie Executive Chair by the military usurpers who op pressed the State at the initiation of the in iquitous reconstruction measures, the course adopted to endeavor to procure au injunction from the Supreme Court of the United States, restraining tlie milita ry from proceeding iu their arbitrary measures, and his interviews with promi nent lawyers at tho North in regard to the matter. This interesting narrative of events, in the most trying portion of the history of the State, was listened to with the deep attention which it deserves. One circumstance told by the Governor lias probably never before been in print. Just at the time when the military were about to assume control of the State he went on to Washington City to seo if something could not be done to uphold the supremacy of the civil authorities. One day he was at the White House in conversation with President Johnson, in regard to tlie condition of things in Georgia. The President, as was well known, was opposed to the reconstruction measures, had vetoed them, aud now after they had been passed over bis head was very reluctantly enforcing them. While the conversation w r as going on, it was an nounced to the President that Senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania, was without and desired an interview with him. The President immediately remarked that it was the rule that Senators and Represen tatives were not to be kept waiting. Gov. Jenkins therefore said that he would with draw. President Johnson replied that there was no necessity for this, as he felt certain that the Senator only desired to have a few minutes’ conversation with him in regard to an appointment. Gov. Jenkins then took a seat on one side of tho room, with his back to the position where the interview was to take place between the Senator and the President. Senator Cowan entered, and, as expected by the President, his business proved to be iu reference to some appointment. This concluded, the Senator remarked, “These reconstruction measures, Mr. President, are the greatest enormity that havo over been put upon the people of any State of this Union” (or words to that effect as we were unable to catch the exact language.) He then continued, “I tell you what I would do if I were the Governor of one of these Southern States. I would go before the Supreme Court of the United Statos, and ask for an injunc tion against the military officer in com mand, against tho Secretary of War, and against yon, Mr. President.” Governor Jenkins said that these sen timents, coming from a Northern man, a Senator from Pennsylvania, and in such exact accord with his mission to Washing ton at that time, so electrified him that he turned suddenly in his chair, almost with out knowing it, and sat face to face with Cowan—each staring in silence at the other. The President, who sat with his back to tho Governor, surmised tho true state of the case, from the expression of Cowan’s face, and with great tact imme diately turned and introduced the Senator aud the Governor, who met each other half way, and shook hands in the most cordial manner. “Well,” said Cowan, “Governor, I did not know that you were in the room, but now that I know yon are, I repeat what I have just said." The Governor thanked him for expressions so eminently Southern, and quietly inform ed him that lie had come to Washington for the very purpose suggested by him, a purpose which was afterwards carried in to effect, tho Supreme Court, however, refusing to grant the injunction. The seal presented to Gov. Jenkins is of solid gold, a jac smile of the seal of the Executive offise preserved by that nolde old patriot in the State’s hour of adversi ty. In addition, however, to the devices, it bears the inscriptions: “Presented to Charles J. Jenkins by the State of Geor gia,” aud the legend, “ Inarduis fidelis.” The Beech er-Bowen Scandal. —The Brooklyn Eagle states that the examin ing committee of Plymouth Church has received from P. West a specific charge of slander against Henry C. Bowen, and his expulsion is called for. It is charged that he has circulated false slauders against Beecher, and at the latter’s re quest the investigation is to be proceeded with immediately by fifteen Deacons. The Eagle, adds: The charges refer, in the main, to certain utterances made by Bowen at the recent conference which took place at the house of Woodbull. 'Much excitement exists auiong the mem bers of Beecher's church over the matter. Having a bill against a man in a Ken nebec town, we sent a letter of inquiry to a newspaper man of that locality. The reply was, ‘"He is dead; but he pays just as well as he ever did.”— Belfast Journal RHETTCOOLEY REEL. j Killing of Judge Cooley by Col. Khett. i New Orleans, July I.—The Evening Herald has the following: For several days past this community has been much excited by the apprehended duel between ! Col. R. B. lihett, jr., editor of the Pica j yune, aud Judge William H. Cooley, the ; leading counsel in the case of Hawkins vs. I the Picayune. Friday Col. lihett sent a : peremptory challenge to Judge Cooley, which was accepted, the meeting, how j ever, to be postponed until Tuesday, on i account of Judge Cooley’s engagement to argue the rule for a now trial before Judge Hawkins, which came up yesterday. During the course of the argument Judge Cooley, in opposing the motion for a con tinuance, remarked that if the case went over until Wednesday he might not he alive to argue it, and so it sadly turned out today. The parties left on the Mobile train at S o’clock a. m., arriving at Montgomery station about 10 a. in., where the party came off. The Mont gomery station, where the duel occurred, is a wild, sandy looking place, some four or fivo miles this side of Bay St. Louis, whore tho road passes through a wood of tall pines, behind which is an open field. Near by and on the line of the railroad is a small cottage occupied by a family, but with this exception there are no residents nearer than three quar ters of a mile. This difficulty is one of the sad results of the iniquitous Hawkins suit against the Picayune, of which Col. llliett is editor. In his speech for the prosecution, Judge Cooley made a reflection upon that paper which called for the editorial in its next issue, pronouncing thorn false. Judge Cooley then addressed a communication to the editor, calling for explanations, which, not being accorded, he followed it up by publishing a card, assailing Colonel Khett. The challenge promptly followed, and its result is how before our readers. This is not the first duel in which Judge Cooley has been concerned. Somo yearn before the war he met Dr. Kaufman, one of his parishoners, upon the field of honor, and, after au exchange of shots, an amicable adjustment of the difficulties were made, and thereafter the parties be ciimo warm friends. The body was brought to the city this morning and left at Luzborg hospital. Tho funeral will take place to-morrow morning. THE YELLO WSTONE EXPEDITION. Washington, June 28. —A dispatch from Fort Rice, Dakota Territory, says of the Yellowstone expedition now under way for explorations through Central Monta na: It comprises 1,900 men and 250 wag ons, under the supreme command of Ma jor Gen. Stanley, Gen. Custar command ing the cavalry. Sixty days subsistance and forage will be taken up the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers, and meet the com mand at the month of Powder river. The officers and men are limited to smallest possible quantity of baggage. Each soldier carries 200 rounds of ammu nition. Thirty Indian scouts aud eight half breeds as guides accompany the ex pedition. Its objects first are to serve as an escort for tho survey and location of the Northern Pacific lload. Second, to intimidate and subdue the Indians who are hostile to tho introduction of this road. Third, to make a thorough scien tific investigation of tlie traversed region, which has never yet been explored and which it is expected will furnish a rich field for study and research, especially in its zoological aud geological features. THE TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. Great toss of Life, San Francisco, June I>o. —The follow ing are the particulars of the receut ex plosion in Virginia City, Nevada, last night. A terrible explosion of nitroglycer ine and government powder occurred near the corner of Taylor and K streets, killing 10 persons and wounding many others. A large number of persons mining were probably buried beneath the debris. The explosion of 84 cans of nitroglycerine is the supposed cause of the disaster, the concussion of which caused the second explosion of 15 pounds of powder. Among the killed are Major-General Jacob L. Van Bokkler; J. H. Smith, Hardware Merchant; Mr. Davis, Clerk for J. H. Smith, Mr. Wandel, dry goods merchant; Chas. 14. Knox, of San Francisco; John Demil, Messrs. Tlios. O’Connor, and Wiu. H. Dome and daughter, 8 years of age, of Gold Hill. The body of General Van Bokkler was found in a corner of his room. J. 1\ Smith and hi former clerk were found about fifty feel ii.au the room occupied by them. A Imvo number of working men are now engaged in re moving the dirt and timber from the bodies of the remaining persons who are known to be beneath. The body of Chas. H. Knox has just been taken from the debris. Great excitement prevails in the city ; business suspended, and all schools closed ; the streets are crowded with men, women and children. It is now under stood that there will not bo any celebra tion on the 4th of July, and the money collected for that purpose will bo ex pended in burying the unfortunate dead, and the remainder distributed among the different lire companies. The city will go into mourning. All Hags are now half mast. Joseph Sharon, Dan Lions, Chas. Van Gardner and Senator Hubert reported killed, are all sate. It is now ascertained that Vail Bokkler had stored beneath his room six cans of nitroglycerine, 150 lbs. government powder, and 200 lbs. black rock blasting powder. The body of Win. L. Lowe has just been taken from the ruins. COVET QE CLAIMS. Washington, July 1. —Os the 1,200 claims allowed by the Southern Claims Commission and to pay which Congress at last session appropriated $78!),l id, all have been paid by the Treasury Depart ment except six, as follows: Two from Virginia for $2,577 and sl,B3ti, three from Tennessee for $7,205, $l5O and $155, and one from Georgia for $450. A great majority of the claims paid vari • ed in amount from SIOO to SSOO, though there was one amounted to $50,000. CURA. Appeals to flic Rebels. Madrid, July 1. —The Minister of Col onies lias sent a cable dispatch to tho Captain General of Cuba ami Porto ltico. After saluting the inhabitants of the islands without distinction of color, he declares the Government is determined to maintain the integrity of the territory, and appeals to tho Cuban insurgents to desist from tbeir aimless and inglorious war. Havana, July I.—The Tribune pub lishes a manifesto of the federal republi cans of Cuba urging the union of all par lies, and calling on the insurgents in the name of the Captain General and repub lic, to lay down their arms and enjoy tho benefits of a republican government, and republicans have appointed a committee to go to Madrid and represent them be fore the government and Cortes. The political Governor has resigned and will return to Spain. BUTLER TO HE OOVERNOR. Nf.w York, June 28.— The. Tribune has a letter from Boston, on the political sit uation in Massachusetts, closing as fol lows : The present prospect is that Gen eral Bnller will gain his nomination through the aid of the administration, and use of party machinery, to which he will be further helped by the dissatisfaction with Governor Washburn’s course on the liquor legislation of the Slate. The Same infiueuue will do much to insure his elec tion, and a large accession of votes from the Democratic party will also greatly contribute to this end. EURO HOW ARB. The Secretary of War, while ex pressing a high opinion of Gen. Howard's personal honesty, says he was surrounded by bad men, against whom he was cau tioned, and must be held responsible for the rascality of his subordinates in the Freeduien’s Bureau. He states that only the Buell papers are missing from the War Department archives. REVENUE. Washington, June 30. —The fiscal year closes w ith five million in excess of esti mates for internal revenue. Total re ceipts $115,000,000. SWEEPING AND STEALING IN NEW YORK. New York, July I.—Two gangs of col ored men have begun work under the , City Government as street sweepers. Dander, Freres A Cos., the lace impor ters, deny all intention to defraud the Government, asserting that the charges have been trumped up by a former clerk of the house, and they intend to contest the matter in the Courts aud not com- I promise. Per contra, Deputy Collector Phelps expresses the belief that the al leged irregularities will justify a claim against the house of one hundred thous and dollars. Several cases of goods wore 1 seized yesterday, and the officials are in vestigating other eases of alleged irregu larities auiong importers. PLYMOUTH REECHER WRITES A LETTER. Henry Ward Beecher, in a card to the Brooklyn Eagle, says: “I have just re turned to the city to learn (hat applica tion has been made to Mrs. Victoria Wooilliull for letters of mine supposed to contain information respecting certain infamous stories against me. 1 have no objection to have the Eagle state, iii auy wa_V it may deem best, that Mrs. Wood hull, or any other persou or persons, who have letters of mine in their possession, have my cordial consent to publish them. “In connection aud at this time I will only add that stories and rumors, which have for some time past been circulated about me, are grossly untrue, and I stamp them in general and in particular as ut terly falso.” THE WALWORTH TRIAL. Guilty of Murder iu tlie Second Degree. New’ York, July I.—After recess Dr. j Parsons, of the New York City Lunatic ! Asylum, testified as to tho effects of epi j lepsy, and gave his opinion that the facts attending the action of young Walworth did not indicate epileptic insanity. Dr. Kellogg, of Hudson State Asylum, testified similarly. Dr. Clymer followed in the same strain. ] Francis Street testified to employing ’ deceased aliout a year, never heard him I swear, nor saw him drink. Henry Long and Henry Ackerman les | lifted similarly. Two others followed in I the same manner. The District Attorney offered the book “Beverly,” written by deceased, as evi dence, but the Court ruled it out. After recess, defence iu the Walworth easo closed; the prosecution opened in re buttal. New York, July 2.— The charge of Judge Davis in the Walworth trial was : “If the jury were satisfied, from the evidence, that young Walworth came to New York with intent to murder his father, then tho crime was murder in the first degree; hut if the crime was committed in a sudden manner, iu an instant, then it would bo murder in the second degree.” Walworth was found guilty of murder in the second degree. A ERIA 1.. New York, July I.— Saturday work was commenced upon the mammoth balloon iu this city by Messrs. Wise A Donaldson, under the auspices of the 'Graphic Company, the builders agreeing to make an mrial voyage to Europe. Tlie expedition will start about the 20th of August. SPANISH AFP A IRS, Madrid, July I.—ln the Cortes last evening a bill granting extraordinary powers to the government was presented and read by Benin- Pi y Margal. The Cortes, by a vole of 193 ayes against 13 nays, decided to proceed immediately with its consideration. LATER. • . The Cortes has approved the bill con ferring extraordinary powers upon the government. The vote ou the adoption of the measure was 139 yeas against. 18 nays. A GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN ITAL 1. Florence, June 30.—The violence of the earthquake yesterday morning was concentrated in the country north of Venice, where its effects were terrible both iu loss of life and the ruin of property. At Belluno four persons were killed and many injured. At Pievedalago several were injured, at Carago four, at i’ueos eleven, at Yissone two, and at Cuvessago one. Several churches are in ruins. Many were badly shattered, and hundreds of houses have been levelled with the ground. The inhabitants have been become paralyzed from their terror, and thousands are encamped in She field, but there has been no recurrence of the shocks, SIR CHARLES RAKER HEARD EROM. London, June 30.—The government has received a dispatch from Sir Charles Baker, dated Kliortown, May 26th, where ho safely arrived with the Europeans of his command. Ho reports that the country as far South as the equator has been annexed to Egypt, 'file slave trade has been suppressed, anil all rebellious movements and secret intrigues checked. The country is orderly, and its govern ment perfectly organized. A road has been opened to Zanzibar free from in terruption. He wmi a victory on the 6th of May with only 105 men over (he army of the African chief Onioso. His mission has been oouipleted successfully. TER RIR l. E EX PI. OS ION. Richmond, Va., June 30. — At an early hour this morning one of the boilers iu the drying kiln connected with the Tred gar Works exploded. Samuel H. Sandor ford, fireman, was instantly killed. His body was blown a hundred yards anil terribly mangled ; his head and one arm being blown off. Several fragments of the boiler, weighing one to two thousand pounds, were driven a considerable dis tance, and did much damage; one piece weighing 10,000 pounds, was blown through a wall into tho extensive black smith shops, greatly damaging the ma chinery. The house containing the kiln was demolished. Fortunately, tho acci dent occurred before the time for tlie hands to go to work, otherwise tho loss of life would have been very great, par ticularly in the blacksmith shop whore nearly one hundred hands are usually em ployed. DESTRUCTIVE EIRE IN TIIOMAS VILIE, GA. Loss over & 150,000 —Names of the Suffer ers. Savannah, June 30. —Half the business portion of Thomasville, Ga., destroyed by lire. Names of sufferers: Hardway, M. U. ltemou, Johnston A Stringer, Wes tern Union Telegraph Go’s office, W. E. Davis A Cos., J. Watt, X. Hirt, A. A It. Smith, Hunt Purer, J. Fuss, J. Cassels, B. Goldberg, ltussliing A Anton, Hau uond A Davis, Judge Alexander, Dr. D. S. Brandon. Loss over $150,000. DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT’S FA THEU. Covington, June 30.—Jesse J. Grant died here to-day. Cincinnati, June 30.—A special says the immediate cause of the death of Jesse Grant was softening of the brain and spinal marrow, though he had been suf fering for a year from a paralytic stroke. There were present at Ins dying bedside the President’s mother, Mrs. Rose, the President’s auut, Mrs. .Metcalf, two grand children, a physician, and a private sol dier who had been detailed from the New Port Barracks to nurse him. MORALITY. Concord, July I.—ln the House a bill was introduced making it unlawful for any circus to enter the State, fixing the penalty at SI,OOO. A bill to allow women to vote at school district meetings was discussed and in definitely postponed. The conscientious Pittsburgh man prom ised his wife, the other day, that he wouldn't drink another drop as long as he had a hair on his head. That very night he had his head shaved smooth, and then got tight with a proud consciousness of having faithfully kept his promise. NO. 22 NORTH ANH SOUTH R. R. Report, of Superintendent Chipley. To IF. -4. Me Doug aid, President: I hare at no time declined any re sponsibility in my position, wlieu in my judgment my action would redound to. the benefit of the company; but I have accepted each matter as it arose cheerfully, and met events to the best of my ability. In no special work was I more entirely in charge than at Rome, hence when I heard murmurs, iu which eveu the press took part, at the delay in resuming work at that point, 1 urged upon you a convention of the stock holders that our future policy might lie definitely fixed. It is now necessary to move forward, and to do so success tully every effort should be energetically applied, and the utmost harmony pre vail. Our duty to ourselves and justice to the stockholders required that a con ference should be held, and after due consideration, such policy adopted as would advance our enterprise and secure harmony of action. A brief resume of the operations of the company will not be out of place. Its organization occurred at Rome on the 11th day of August, 1871, and ou the 10th of December of the following year, the company had accomplished the fol lowing : 20 miles iu full operation. 40 additional miles graded. 118 surveyed. 80 located. 88 right of way secured. The outfit consists of 1 locomotive. 2 passenger cars. 1 baggage car. 4 box freight cars. 12 Hat freight ears. This status was reached during the space of eighteen months, in the face of extraordinary embarrassments and during the lowest financial depression known since the war. Lvery subscription had to be worked out before it could be used, which entailed constant annoyance upon the executive officers of the company and retarded the enterprise and necessarily added to its cost. But another feature of these subscrip tions was so utterly foolish as to almost render them useless. 1 refer to the con dition locating the expenditure in Harris, 4 roup or Heard, as the case might be. Not being ablo to alter these terms, I have pushed the work along, investing as re quired. it-will come into use ultimately, Imt now stands a large outlay utterly unavailable. Could these subscriptions have been concentrated, the track would have been to-day at Troup Factory, if not at La Grange. The Company commenced running trains for business over 12 miles of road, September lltli. Decemberl(ah, tho run was extended to terminus of first 20 miles. From September lltli to May 31st the earnings were: Freight $ 6 332 43 Passenger 0,138 65 Mail Service 48 ~ .. , 40 Operating Expenses, (month of May not included 0,407 73 The earnings only include $857.05 on account of contractors or construction. ■ Operating exponsos does not include any of tho general expenses of the company, but only such expenditures as pertaiued to the running of trains, maintaining of way ami repairs. Tho expectation seems universal that the company will advance rapidly “now that the bonds have been signed,” and the expression is lung into my ears daily. It is proper that this point should be well understood in the convention to-day. Tho construction to May 31st amounted to i 337 q 22 55 Outfit ltr’itsi 27 Showing total oi $637,003 82 I’ho subscriptions to the stock paid aie as follows : City of Golumbus $200,000 00 “ LaG range 2ft, ouo 00 “ Rome 100,000 00 Individuals 77,039 64 $402,089 54 Leaving balance due of $254,914 28 The resources of the company have been applied with the utmost energy, and 1 trust fidelity, but no rule can make one dollar pay in full two dollars of indebted ness. The bonds issued, however, have been made to satisfy all demands against the company except $32,454 84. To pay this balance and move forward we must look to the bonds on next seel ion, additional collections and new subscrip tions. 1 believe that the next 240 bonds, with such aid us can be secured, will com plete the roan : ... LaG range. 'I no many expenses lor organization, siuveys, right of way, and other general purposes, incurred in the beginning of the whole line of road, will not be required again. To consider it so completed with a bonded debt of $480,000 as an invest ment, i will institute a comparison with the M. A G. Road. The gross earnings for 12 months on that road to May 31st, were $177,314.00, or $2,215.41 per mile per annum. This Company, running only 20 miles, finished when the cotton season was well over, ending no where, and not touching even a village, before the people had time to be diverted from their customary channels, earned for six months ending May 31st, $9,709.55, or at the rate of $970 per mile per annum. During the fiscal year just ended the M. <fc G. It. R. carried 44,217 passengers. This Company, with 20 miles only com pleted loth day of last December, has carried 17,451 paying passengers to July Ist. This number does not include con tractors’ bauds. The M. AG. Road trav erses a very unhealthy country. This road runs through a section remarkably healthy and already well populat ed. Its salubrious climate and fertile, re liable lands, with rail road facilities, will soon render the population dense. While a largo atea tributary to the M. A G. road is not and can not be cultivated, this en tire line to LaGraugeis green with grow ing crops and swarms with life to furnish freight and passengers to this company’s trains. The M. & G. Hoad brought to and through Columbus for (he year just ended 28,C00 bales cotton. This road, running 20 miles, with not even a blacksmith shop on the line, finished after tliree-fourths of the crop had been marketed, has brought 1,800 bales to Columbus ware houses. Next season this Company will double this ooer the same line, and when it reaches a point ten miles north of pres ent terminus it will bring 8,000 to 10,000 bales, which now go to West Point, Grif fin and Hogansvillo. When built to LaGrange, it will enter into competition for transportation of from 00,000 to 75,000 bales of cotton annu ally shipped by Columbus to the sea, with return merchandise via Charleston and Portlioyal; also for the carriage of 10,- 000 bales from LaGrange for either the Columbus or Savannah market, or by the latter route to New York. To the local travel will be added a handsome through passenger business to the capital of the State, New York ami the West, when trains are put. through to LaGrange. These comparisons are made to show that it is only necessary to bring similar gr>od management, which has done so well with the Mobile anil Girard road, under its disadvantages, to bear upon this road, to secure still better results. Put place its earnings at the same, say 215 41 per mile per annum, and on 47 miles the gross earnings of this company To LaGrange would he 4103,123 27 deduct ter 3 ilreiuen, 3 wood passers, 3 conductors, 0 brakeuien, wood, oil and waste, flay SBO per day, 313 days 418,75) President, Sup’t, Sec’y and Treas’er, 10,955 Supervisor and Car Inspec tor 1,750 Stationery 700 4 section masters and 32 bands, wages and rations 9,120 Interest on 4480,000 gold bonds at 7 per cent., tt«l<l at 10 per cent., 37,200 78,505 00 Leaving a purplus of 4 24,618 27 or about <i per cent, on the capital stock paid up, with which to create a sinking fund, make repairs, or pay dividends, as the Diriectors may decide is best. The earnings will steadily increase each year. The M. «fc G. road has performed its business with two regular trains —one a passenger, the other a freight—together with an occasional extra. The above es timate for three trains is a very full one, being at prices in some respects larger than we now pay. With three competent engineers repairs will not its 4 cenGdeftb ble item for some years. Turee trains will enable the company to perform all necessary ditching and do its business. It is proper to explain that the compa ny comes out of tho completion of its first section with a small debt, when the re verse was expected, due to the large ex cess of the cost of the work over the esti mate of the Chief Engineer, submitted at the annual meeting at Rome. His esti mate ou substructure, including ties, was For clearing and grubbing right ol way* 4,000 Graduation 87 500 solid Rock -o.’ooo Truss Bridge 4 g,*) Trestling .' u'.ooo Masonry e. 098 Gross-ties 16,100 Track-laying 8,000 Incidentals # 7,744 $107,240 This was submitted as an approximate estimate, but was made after the contract for tlie section w*as let, and based upon the preliminary line, and should have have been reduced upon the location. The result, however, was— Clearing and grubbing right ol way..s 4,768 18 Graduation 96,704 60 Solid Rock 7,943 DO Loose Rock 2,683 00 Truss Bridge 4.400 00 Trestling 28,385 09 Hard Fan ;:,&si 60 Masonry..., 24,801 so Cross-ties 16,627 70 Laying Track 8,000 oo Incidentals 7,143 73 Excess of ougiuoeriug expenses over estimate 6,000 00 $209,843 90 Leaving a total exeess of $42,603 90 Solid rock, the only item which could not be estimated with accuracy, worked out less than the estimate. The estimate upon superstructure also fell short over $15,000, hut of course uo one could have anticipated the remarkable advance in iron ; nevertheless the discrepancy added to the disappointments in the Company’s financial arrangements. Suitable station houses have been con structed and the track placed iu good or der. The first six miles of track was laid with little regard to the grade line. Alter Mr. Harris took charge this ceased, but green banks and the rectification of the first track laid imposed upon us heavy outlay during a winter unusually severe upon such work. No better evidence of the manner in which the task was performed can be sub mitted than tho fact that though carrying 17,451 passengers over anew road iu winter, (lie company lias never lost a dol lar or injured a passenger by accident. With gross earnings of $11,785 4(! to May 31st, not a demand has been made for lost or damaged goods, and only $2 50 paid for stock killed. I believe the prop osition submitted herewith will secure the immediate construction of the Rome Di vision. With the cooperation of all con cerned, I think such arrangements can be made as will advance this end of (lie line steadily to LaGrauge. At all events, I have given as concisely as possible the present condition aud future prospects of the Company from my stand point, it is for the stockholders to express their views and wishes. From causes well understood the Com pany has lost several|mouths time, i make no question as to the propriety of those causes, but beiug unexpected they inter rupted very seriously Hie progress of (he Company. The duty of the hour is by united action and renewed effort to overcome, as speedilyjas possible, I he lost ground. At tho last session of the Legislature this Company was empowered lo build a branch to Talbotton—Talbotton Las sub scribed $25,000, to the enterprise, and a corps under Mr. F. H. Harris, Engineer, in charge, has been put in the field lo make the necossary surveys. I Lope at an early day to report such additional subscriptions as will authorize a begin ning upon tho work. The enterprise will add greatly to the business of this Company, aud prove a wonderful benefit to both Talbotton aud Columbus. Os $77,089.54 paid by individuals up on their subscriptions lo the capital stock, citizens of LaGrauge, aud Troupe county, have paid $45,833.12; Harris county $11,940; the remainder by Floyd, Heard and Columbus, with S3OO from 1 Polk. The counties on the lino do not deserve a railroad until I hey have paid at least $250,n0n more. Troup alone, has approached its duty in the premises. It will require lo com plete to Hamilton— Trestling $3,00!) Gross-ties 2,700 Laying truck '999 Iron, naii plates and spikes 15,000 $21,600 Harris county should raise this amount at once; for, added lo amount already paid, the w r hole makes a very insignifi cant subscription for such a county. If half the amount could be secured in ap proved notes, payable in the fall, the track could be carried to Hamilton with out the delay incident to such negotia tions as will be necessary for tlie com pletion of I Lie next 20 miles. I commend this matter to the people of Harris. The county lias now nearly $200,000 worth of work done within its limits, w ith a paid up subscription from its citizens of only $14,940. These explanations will serve to answer the oft-repeatod question “ when will you get to Hamilton ?” From the date construction was first com menced work has never entirely ceased. At present a small bridge force is engaged ou trestle work north of the Mulberry, and about thirty bands are at work on tho Chattahoochee Division, grading at the river north of LaGrauge. The money had much better be used to advance the track, but as heretofore explained, the conditions of the subscriptions give the Company no control over the matter. It is therefore being placed where it will do most good under the circumstances. The company is under obligations for valuable aid from Mr. John King, and for services very kindly rendered by Hon. John Melllienny. Capt. Thomas E. Blanchard has never failed to place Lis time at the command of the company, and his assistance has been invaluable. Tho employees of the company have been faithful and have served its interest with fidelity. 1 will only add that I think the company Las renewed cause for con gratulation upon the gauge adopted—loo miles of branches, those wonderful feeders of trunk lines, which develop a country so rapidly, in addition to 100 miles of main line, of the narrow gauge, does far more towards building up a country than a single 100 miles of an expensive main stem. The trunk line can be im proved at any time when business and the financial condition of the road will war rant. Already one branch is shooting from this line, and others will follow until Col umbus will once more shake hands with friends who in years gone by hauled their produce 50 to 75 miles to its ware houses. Aud as prospers Columbus so will the entire line thrive. \V. I). Chipi.ey, Hu pe ri n tenden t. Columbus, Ga., July 2d, 1873. Prussian Government Purchases SH>,- 000,000 It, S. Ronds—An Interesting Sla'enient. New York, July 2. —The Post'll financial articlo says tho associated press despatch es from London that the Berlin Govern ment has bought from the Syndicate hav ing in charge of the negotiation of new United States fives $10,000,000 OF U. 8. BONDS, is confirmed by members of the Syndicate here. This operation is likely to have important bearing, not only ou the future price of American securities in London, but in tho course of that money market, as the transfer of the money necessary to pay for these bonds from the amount of the Berlin Government at the London Joint Stock Bank to the Syndicate bank ers inLoudon, will, it is thought, prevent for tho present at least any further ship ments of gold from London to this gov ernment. The Berlin Government was probably better enabled to make this purchase, from tbe fact that the bullion necessary to carry on its coinage operations during the next few mouths, will be supplied by the bank of France in the three indemni ties—payments falling due ou the sth of July, August and September. do not now recall au event iu the financial world which should be more satisfactory to those interested iu the advance of American credit than is this, for this shows the German Government considers that OUR PROMISES TO PAY are equivalent, in its estimation, to cash in bank iu London, an acknowledgement we do not remember to have been made by one government to another where no political considerations were involved, and where governments were not bound by a common interest, such as being allies in time of war. THE BANK OF ENGLAND at its regular weekly meeting of its gov ernment this morning, made no change in the minimum discount, the rate of which remains at six per cent. The former tone of the London money market yesterday is ascribed to the large transfer of funds alluded to above.