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C O L I? M B US:
J. H. MARTIN, Editor.
OUR WEEKLY PAPER.
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mercial intelligence will be found valuable
and reliable. Our Telegraphic service is
now so full and extended as to enable us
to lay before our readers accounts of im
portant or stirring events in all parts of
the world almost while they are being
enacted. We shun the discussion of no
topic because it has a political bearing;
but, while endeavoring to report or com
ment upon such subjects in a spirit of
fairness and candor, we remain firm in
our attachment to the great principles and
rights for which the white men of the
South contend, and to the interests that
most concern our own section. At the
same time, we are careful not to permit a
devotion to political matters to trench
upon the “variety” which we know to be
the “spice” of newspaper as well as hu
man life.
It is gratifying to us that we can state,
in this connection, that our subscription
lists have for some time been steadily in
creasing, are now growing, in spite of
the prevailing “tightness” of the times. In
illustration of this, we may cite the fact
that whereas a year ago we had little or
no share in the official advertising of this
and the adjoining counties, we are now
favored with all of such advertising from
Muscogee county, and to refer to the ex
tension of such patronage from the coun
ties adjoining that have no papers of their
own. To enable every one to take our
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THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1770.
In our judgment, the decadence at the
South of tho veneration which we used to
feel for the anniversary of our indepen
dence is duo rather to unpleasant memo
ries, wrongly associated, than to calm re
flection. It springs from the idea that
the Federal Government, with which we
have ulways associated the 4th of July
(though really it was the independence of
the States rather than of the Federal
Union that was asserted in 1776) is not
now such a government as it once was, or
such a one as its framers designed.
Granted the fact—it still does not detract
one iota from the renown or the great
achievements of those who won the fight
for American independence. It does not
tarnish the fame of Washington—our
Washington still, though his tomb be
stolen—or that, of his subordwlato officers
and patriot soldiers. It does not lessen
in the least the vuluo of those great prin
ciples of human liberty and right which
the American colonics on that day asserted
and afterwards gloriously maintained.
Nor does it doprive the world of tho bene
fits of those new ideas of civilization and
progress plantod there and rapidly devel
oped with the magic growth and power of
our great Western Republic. The famous
declaration made on that eventful day—
the work of our Jefferson and of the pa
triots who met a year previous in Western
North Carolina—became tho text-book of
men of liberal principles and progressive
aims throughout the world, und its great
political truths and the deep impression
which it made on the civilization of the
age would survive even the destruction of
the government of which it formed tho
corner-stone.
The South cauuot afford to surrender
its share of the great work commenced on
the 4th July, 177 ti. Throughout the
marvellous progress of the Government,
for three-quarters of u century, it bore
the impress of Southern genius and com
memorated the triumphs of Southern in
tellect and valor. Strike from tho roll of
American statesmanship and talent, tho
bright Southern names that illuminated
it, from Jefferson and Madison to Olay
and Calhoun, and how blank, broken und
disfigured would it appear! Blot from
American history the achievements of
Southern military genius, from Washing
ton ami Marion, to Jackson, Scott and
Taylor, and where would be our triumphs
and acquisitions. What would ho left of
the immense domain which now consti
tutes for us and our children a country
beautiful aud inviting as that upon which
Moses looked from the mountain height
a country greater in its wi;le expanse and
richer in its varied resources than any
over which the Homan Eagle spread its
conquering wings ?
The choicest section of this country is
ours—ours of the sunny South. Aud
though recent spoliation aud present mis
rule may darkly cloud it uow, there can
be no doubt of its bright and prosperous
future. We have, too, our peculiar heri
tage of fame—that of heroes whose
achievements are the admiration of the
world, whatever efforts may bo made at
home to disparage them. We have the
memories of Lee, Jackson, Joliuston and
their dead compatriots, whose genius and
heroism rise resplendent above even a de
feated cause, aud must be inerudicably
interwoven in the history of the United
States, gilding and illuminating its darker
pages, eucircling them with a halo bright
er than any ill-used victories of which it
may be said "all that raised the hero sunk
the man."
The South does not give up her share
in this anniversary. It may not become
us, stricken, despoiled and oppressed as
we are, to observe it with the noisy de
monstrations and glittering pageants of
yore. But the principles associatcu with
it are none the less dear because they are
violated for our humiliation, and none the
leas certain of future vindication and re
establishment because of existing bad
administration.
The communication of ‘‘Asuiodeus,”
reviwiug the facts and testimony in a
criminal case lately under investigation,
proposes to continue through our col
umns a controversy in which we do not
wish our paper to engage. We agree
with the writer in his views as to the impro
priety of publications already made con
cerning the case; but wo do not believe
that any further discussion of it at this
time will do good. We extract, however,
what this correspondent has to say con
cerning another contribution to our pa
per, which, we are glad to say, appears to
receive more general sanction in this com
munity than any article of a controver
sial character that has appeared for a long
time :
“It is pleasant, after continued cloudy
weather, to see the bright sunlight again.
It is pleasant, after sickness, to experience
the agreeable sensations of returning
health. Akin to these were the refreshing
sensations the w riter experienced this mor
ning, while reading the admirable com
munication in your paper, The Sun, under
the caption, "The Press and the Courts."
The article is manly, courteous, sensible
and just, and the writer deserves the
thanks of the public. It will be com
mended by every right-thinking aud
equitable man, and deserves to be copied
by the Press throughout the country.”
The first bale of cotton raised on the
Bio Grande this year was brought to
market on Thursday.
FLOUT THE CHOLERA.
Dr. Jesse Boring communicated to the
Atlanta Constitution an interesting article
on the “prevailing disease.” The Doctor
states that he passed through tw’o epidem
ics of the cholera in this country, at places
where it prevailed—San Francisco and
Galveston, —and therefore has some per
sonal experience with it. He has never
known it to prevail as an epidemic in a
Dee-stone region, or a city located in such
a region ; and therefore he believes that
it will not assume the epidemic form at
Atlanta. At Galveston, though it prevail
ed there during his residence, he does not
think it was epidemic, but eould be trac
ed to the use of impure water and to indis
cretions of eating or drinking. In some
places noted for their general health it
was epidemic at former visitations, but in
these places limestone water was used,
and it was noted that those who used cis
tern water in such cities were generally ex
empt.
The Doctor advises prompt attention to
jocal and personal cleanliness ; the avoid
ance of all stale or unwholsome vegetables
and fruits; prudent living, eating suffi
cient, but of good, sound meats and veg
etables ; no drinking of brandy or other
stimulants to keep off the cholera ; and as
soon as the stomach becomes deranged,
send for a physician. “Don’t tamper with
medicines or ‘specifics.’ There are no
specifics.”
HOW THEY TREAT WITH THE
INMANS.
A dispatch to the Northern Press, dated
Chicago, 2!)th ult., gives an account of a
council held with Chiefs of the Sioux
Indians—lied Cloud and Spotted Tail in
cluded—one object of which was to in
duce them to give up some of their lands,
another to take from them the privilege
of hunting the buffalo on the North fork
of Republican river, and the third to ob
tain Red Cloud’s consent to the removal
of the agency to the Sioux reservation in
Western Dakota. Tho dispatch says that
the Commissioners did not press the
matter of relinquishment of the lands, as
they feared to force that concession at
this time; that the Indians were not
willing to treat about restricting their
buffalo range, and that matter was
dropped; but that “in regard to the
proposition to remove the Red Cloud
agency, the Indians at first resisted the
proposal; but upon being informed by
the Commission that tho Government
would call in the troons, they agreed to
the removal.”
Mr. Joseph Brooks, who contests the
right of Mr. Baxter to be Governor of
Arkansas, has made another appeal to
tho people of his State. This time his
speech seems to haVe been fervid and
passionate. He says he was fairly elected
by 25,000 or 115,000 majority ; and that if
the decision in his ease, now pending in
the courts, is in his favor, he will have
the office “or death.” The bitter con
tempt which Mr. Brooks pours upon the
Baxter administration has nothing what
ever to do with the merits of the case.
Gov. Baxter is not on trial; his right to
the Governorship may bo. It is quite cer
tain that the Clayton Ring counted
Baxter into office by the most outrageous
frauds. Tho Legislature, however, gave
him the certificate of election; and it is
stoutly maintained that the courts cannot
go, behind the action of that body. Mr.
Brooks is determined to push matters in
that direction. It is not easy to see how
the courts can help him.— N. Y. Tribune.
Brooks, though a Republican, was the
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Arkansas, and was undoubtedly elected by
a large majority. The Radical State offi
cers refused to couut part of his vote,
and thus made out a majority for Baxter.
Brooks appealed first to a Federal, and
now to a State Court, and they have so
far refused to help him. Tho Tribune
says it is not easy to see how they can do
so. That may be. But in Louisiana,
where the candidate supported by the
Democrats was also elected, where votes
cpuld not be thrown out, and where the
Radical Board elected their man by
counting votes which had not been cast,
but which they said would have been cast
but for “intimidation,” the Stato and
Federal Courts found a way to interfere
and help Kellogg. 'Qjey put him in office,
and the President helps him there by the
aid of Federal bayonets. What a conven
ient thing it must be to have courts and
judges able to help one party in an emer
gency, but having “no jurisdiction” to
help the other party !
GEORGIA NEWS.
Gov. Smith on Wednesday issued his
proclamation announcing that he had
seized and taken possession of all the
property of the Macon and Brunswiak
Railroad, because of its failure to pay the
interest on the bonds of tho company en
dorsed by the State. George H. Hazle
hurst, President of the company, is ap
pointed agent to receive and manage the
road for the State.
The Atlanta Constitution of yesterday
reports a case of genuine cholera iu its
city, brought from Chattanooga. The pa
tient is a lady who loft Chattanooga on
Saturday last, took the cholera in Atlanta
on Wednesday, aud on Wednesday night
was considered to be iu a dying condition.
Macon and Brunswick Railroad money
isagaiu taken freely at Macon aud Atlanta.
There are reported to be SBO,OOO of it out.
and #OO,OOO in cash and property appro
priated for its redemption. The bills will
also be received for freight and fare over
the road.
Mr. Wm. Speight, of Hancock county,
while walking on the track of the Macon
and Augusta Railroad, on Saturday last,
became dizzy and fell on tho track just in
frout of a freight train, which ran over
and killed him.
The Atlauta Herald learns that an old
Indian much excited the people of Murray
county by telling them that he would show
them where rich mines of gold and silver
were formerly worked. He pointed out
spots near Spring Place, where they found
the filled-up shafts and mines, just as he
told them they would, but no finding of
gold is yet reported, though they are tear
ing up the country at a lively rate.
At the banquet in honor of Ilerschel V.
Johnson, by the Macon (Ga.)bar, the fol
lowing were among the toasts offered :
“The Agriculture of the State—Based
upon liens; buried in mortgages; con
trolled in its councils by lawyers; per
fumed with the aromatic odors of distant
isles of the sea; with its corn-cribs and
meat houses iu foreign States; its offense
is rank; it smells to Heaven.”
Tho supposed “earthquake shock” at
Savauuah, on 1 hursday before last, is ex
plained away. It is stated that the shock,
which was felt throughout the city, was
caused by nu explosion under water, for
the purpose of blowing out an old wharf.
It made no noise that could be heard at a
distance, but shook the city.
Work on anew cotton factory on tho
Augusta canal has been commenced. It
is located about a hundred aud fifty feet
above the powder works. The factory at
first will only manufacture rope aud
yarns, but will extend its operations soon.
The Etna Iron Works of Home has de
clared a dividend of ten per cent., put of
the earnings of the furnace.
The lady from Chattanooga, who had
cholera in Atlanta, died on Thursday
uigkt. No other case is reported by the
Atlanta papers of Friday morning, and
they express confidence that the disease
will not obtain a footing there.
The Hamilton Visitor of the 4th quotes
chickens la to 20 cents, and butter 20 to
2;> cents, but provokiugiy adds that “the ;
demand exceeds the supply.” We believe,
however, that Hamilton has had an extra
ordinary local demand for such supplies
lately.
A difficulty, growing out of au old
grudge, occurred between Bradford Ray
and H. H. Bailey, at Alapaha, Berrien j
county, on the 21st June. Several other
persons became engaged in it, and eleven
shots with pistols were exchanged in all; !
but the only serious injury done was the !
fatal wounding of Ray by one of Bailey's !
shots. Bailey was lodged in jail.
THE PRESS AND THE COURTS.
The Great Wrong of Pre-judgment.
Dear Friend Martin: I wish to know
where a man derives the right to antici- I
pate a judicial verdict and call a man a i
murderer? either in private conversation
or in public print. It is so common a
habit for men to say “he has committed a
murder,” or if their personal feelings are
enlisted, “he has committed a foul, delib
erate murder.” But if it is a common
habit, is it any the more just and right
because common? Is there not a tribunal
established to determine the fact of mur
der ? and that, too, under the most sacred
forms and sanction? Then what right
have any to interfere with that tribunal
and anticipate its judgment or force its
conclusions by manufacturing public sen
timent against an accused, by playing upon
the known abhorrence of the public for
an abstract crime? Do men of reputed
education or liberal views above all others
treat a community right in either private
conversation or in public print to charge
crime upon parties who have to be tried
by the courts ? Do not such declarations
tend to narrow aud warp the sentiments
of andilliberalize the common mindsothat
we are too often greeted with the flippant
term murder applied to every grade of
manslaughter? This indiscriminate use
of the term arises from ignorance oftener
than from malice, and those whose oppor
tunities should have made them know
better are to blame for this common fault.
How can we know whether a murder has
been committed in any case, except from
first knowing what is murder, (and how
few know or can quote its definitions) and
then, either from having seen the crime
committed or having heard the testimony
delivered under oath, with a mind free
from malice and prejudice against the
accused, form our opinion? The law itself
gives the accused the benefit of every
doubt. There is no place so fitted for
the settlement of the question, as in the
courts where the jealous eye of justice is
blindfold, that the cold judgment of the
mind may act with fearless discretion.
The condemnation or tho hanging of a
man without trial, are in essence one aud
the same infringement of justice aud law;
and the community that countenances the
former will under favorable circumstan
ces have to submit to the latter. Its
moral sense having been blunted in the
one instance, tho community yields im
plicit obedience to its passiou in the other,
and the dignity of a court is scouted with
the same facility that private right was
disregarded. The suffering of one indi
vidual might be tolerated, if thereby the
public morals were to be improved; but
damage the moral sense of the community
in one case and it is the readier for an
other infraction of right.
1 Mob violence arises alone from an im
: patience of judicial course, from the one
man judgment., restive of legal restraints,
unwilling to trust any matter public or
privato to the wholesome checks and de
cisions of established tribunals. Boast
i ing itself that it is ready to sacrifice life
for the maintenance of law and order,
i that it is superior and infallible in its ap
proval of virtue and denunciation of vice
and crime : yet taking the most direct
path to the destruction of virtue by weak
ening its only hope—the tribunals of jus
tice ; and giving by this same means, by
indirection, the most dangerous and in
sidious method, open license to crime.
The community enlightened enough to
understand its rights, individual as well as
public, and bold enough to defend them,
have no need that crime should be hunted
down either to the injury of the innocent,
or at the sacrifice of the prerogative of
the courts; and will with authority de
mand of any class of men of high or low
degree, native or alien, private or public,
within its influence, to cease to unite the
name of the innocent with a charge of
crime, (the law holds all innocent until
proven guilty,) to refrain from personali
ties ; and reserve their denunciation of
individuals for a peroration to the sum
ming up of the testimony delivered
under oath, when the court shall have
delivered its decision. If the community
forces these men to such decent silence
‘and patient waiting for orderly execution
of law, and they are earnestly anxious
for the criminal to be punished, they
will bend all their energy in the right and
better direction to the establishment of
an independent, enlightened and edu
cated judiciary, to a purging of the juries,
and to a general education of the masses,
in duty aud morality.
Let them sustain the court, condemn
crime ; but not upon hearsay or ex parte
testimony manufacture a criminal out of
an accused, and force tho court and jury
to their own views by the stimulus of
agitated public opinion. Let them calm
public sentiment by the most heated and
impressive (if they choose) discussion of
abstract right or wrong, and teach it to
form a safe and rational opinion, rfot. do-'
ductions, from an argument ad hominen,
educate men to think rather than be led
by impulse. The pulpit and the press are
responsible for much of the lawlessness
of the land, from Maine to California,
and it is as plain as the handwriting on
the wall to Belshazzar. 'They are both
“ found wanting,” and though they may
not lose their power while the nation
lasts, they stre leading it fast upon ter
rible breakers. And in that section of
our country where the pulpit and the
press deal most in personalities, crime
and lawlessness has taken the fastest hold
of all grades of society.
And it will ever be found that tho good
and virtuous, though, they may at first,
out of an abundant hatred of wrong, let
fall a word of approval of newspaper or
pulpit virulence, tiually consign them to
their merited contempt. Let the wise
take heed. May the dispenser of all good,
who permitted our people to come out of
the late civil conflict with its honor alone
uninjured, spare us too the peculiarly un
tarnished reputation of our press and the
stainless fidelity of our pulpit to its Mas
ter’s simple charge. If any have unfortu
nately taken a step in the wrong direc
tion, let them retrace it immediately, let
not pride of opinion restrain them,for the
truth s sake, for the law’s sake, for the
sake of peace and harmony among our
people.
There is a large element iu all com
munities which is fond of personalities.
It is wrong to throw r food to such an
appetite. The natural result of such
feeding is strife aud commotion. One of
the ways it lias of illustrating its life is in
I annonymous attacks multitudinous in
I their form, aud the most dangerous en
| giues for the manufacture and distribu
! tion of this food are the Press and the
J Pulpit. Both, deeply rooted iu the confi
• deuce of the people, have untold power
for harm in this direction, while the
j preacher and the editor stand almost
j equally safe from personal danger in
most cases as tlie person of a woman,
I when she descends from her lofty pedestal
of unapproachable modesty to strike a
man iu auger; since him that lays his
; hand on woman save in kindness it were
| base flattery to call a coward,
j Pile lover of peace aud good order need
j not grow' impatient of good results, for
though he may not dip his pen in gall
and write the villain (as he construes
him) home, or drink his blood at the
block; a patient continuance in well
doing, line upon line, precept upon pre
cept, from the press or pulpit, as the con
, stant dropping of the water, will wear
| away tlie hardest stone. The finest
characters have been thus formed in men,
and so it must be of the aggregate, the
community. Violence in instruction is
! like tlie tornado and the storm, either in
the forest or among tho corn, destruction
; follows. Gentler, more congenial winds,
strengthen the roots and toughen the
j healthy fiber.
I have no other ends to subserve than
a sincere interest in a right minded com
munity. I desire the public should love
justice and law as superior to self-pro
tection, for the latter necessarily is subor
dinate to tlie former, and without its
conservative influence cannot exist. Pro
tection is the natural corollary to justice
and law. ‘ *
Oscar 11., crowned “King of Sweden,
and also of the Goths and Vandals,” will
embark at Trondjeim, in the St. Olaf
frigate, the largest ship of the Norwegian
navy, to visit North cape, the most north
erly point in Europe. No king has been
there since Christian IV of Denmark and
Norway, who was interested in building
up trade and fisheries in that quarter two
hundred and fifty years ago. On the 18th
of July, King Oscar will receive the Nor
wegian crown at Trondjeim.
An old Bavarian soldier died not long
ago at the age of eighty-six, near Munich,
from the effects of a bayonet wound re
ceived at the battle of Brienne, fifty-seven
years ago.
EARLY TIMES IN BARBOUR.
From the Eufaula Times.
In the treaty of 1832, spoken of yester
day, there was a provision for the purpose
of paying certain debts due by the Greeks;
and to relieve them in their distressed
condition, the sum of one hundred thou
sand dollars was to be paid to the Creek
tribe. This treaty was w itnessed among
others, by Win. R. King, C. C. Clay and
John Crowell. The last named was the
Indian agent at that time, residing then
and afterwards at Fort Mitchell, Russell
county.
On the 2!>th October, 1835, the father
of the writer purchased a tract of laud
near where Spring Hill now' is, from
Francis W. Pugh aud Wm. K. Johnson.
These lands were afterwards owned by
Ferdinand Lee, Robert O. Dale, aud
are now owned aud occupied by Mr.
Crane. In December, 1835, my father
with his family moved to his new pur
chase in the Indian Territory. The set
tlers were few and widely scattered in
that neighborhood, and the woods w r ere
filled with Indians, there being an Indian
town within four miles of us. The near
est neighbors now recollected, were Joseph
Cobb, now living and residing on or near
the place where he was living in 1835;
William Head, who had a large family of
sons and daughters, and who was well ac
quainted with the language and habits of
the Indians, having resided for a long
while among them —he is dead long ago
—and Haley G. Jenkins, who has been
dead for many years.
The writer’s earliest recollection is of
the selling out, packing up and leaving
the old homestead in Georgia, aud the
long (to him) and anxious journey through
an almost unbroken wilderness amongst
the Indians to the promised land. There
were no roads and cultivated fields in
those days near Spring Ilill. The under
growth, vines and canebrakes were abun
dant and luxurious, and the magnificent
magnolia and the wide spreading beech
glorified in the rich virgin soil, and the
harmony of nature w'as only disturbed by
the wild beasts of the forest and the sullen
untutored savage.
The few whites who were living among
the Indians were in constant apprehension
of attack. About the first of May, 1830,
the out-break commenced, and a Mr.
Flournoy was the first victim. He was a
wealthy planter, who had brought his
slaves into the nation and settled a short
distance above where Gleuville now is.
The news of his death aud the report that
tho Indians were assembling in large
numbers painted and equipped for war,
spread alarm among the settlers. The
women and children were buried out of
the country with the greatest speed and
confusion. In a few days more the In
dians surprised and burnt Roanoke, a
small town on the Georgia side of the
Chattahoochee river, near where Florence
is located. A fort was constructed in
Irwinton (now Eufaula) for the protection
of the refugees and citizens. The writer
well remembers it. It was a stockade
built of pine logs, split in two, about
twenty feet in length and set upright in
the ground. It was of circular form
about three hundred feet in diameter,
and occupied the space of ground imme
diately in rear of the “Howard House”
and McLeod’s shop. In this fort the peo
ple gathered at night and guards were
stationed around the same at times of
greatest apprehension.
At the beginning of the war, the
mother of the writer, with her children,
left home and sought safety in Georgia.
Two days after she left homo some sixty
or seventy Indian warriors painted and
plumed came to our house. My father
was slow to believe the Indians intended
a general hostility to the whites and re
mained at home. He was at the house
with his coat off and engaged in writing
when the Indians approached. A faithful
old servant woman named Jemimah, who,
by the ivay, was the mother of nineteen
living children gave the alarm by crying
out, “Run, master, run, yonder comes
the Indians.” He went out of doors and
saw them coming, being then about a
huudred yards off. His first intention
was to sell his life as dearly as possible,
as ho had in the house a rifle, a shot gun,
a pair of pistols and a sword, and he went
back into the house and partially closed
the door with that intent. But ho recon
sidered in a moment, and ran out, and
by keeping the house between him and
the Indians, effected his escape, although
they had got to within thirty or forty
steps of the house. He made his way
bareheaded, and without a coat, through
what was then a wilderness to a settle
ment of whites near Fort Browder.
When tho Indians got to the house they
rushed in and searched everywhere, and
when they found they had lost their in
tended victims (for they supposed the
family was there), the negroes said they
were in a great rage, and yelled fearfully.
They set fire to the houses and tore up
and burned everything they could not
carry off. ’They killed one of our negroes,
a young fellow, about 18 years of age, by
shooting him through the heart with a
rifle; but this was because he became
frightened and was running from them.
The balance of the negroes they did not
molest, but ordered them aw'ay and told
them if they remained they would kill
them when they returned. The negroes
took them at their word and retired The
Indians ripped open a feather bed aud
took the tick and tilled it with all manner
of things meat, meal, clothing, and
among the rest a shot bag containing two
hundred dollars in silver -put it upon a
mule and went off with the plunder.
About four days after my father got a
few neighbors together, and w'ent back
to where his house was, and in the neigh
borhood came upon a party of Indians
who fled, leaving the two mules and the
plunder they had carried off in the bed
tick, all of which, including all the silver
money, my father recovered. My father
had a library of some thousand volumes.
Most of the books were boxed up in the
condition they had been carried in our re
moval to Alabama. The Indians unboxed
the books and scattered them all over the
yard. Among them were some illustrated
medical books, and the negroes said that
when they saw these pictures they were
wonderfully pleased, and gathered around
them with much chattering and delight,
and every now and then would make a
loud noise over them. Singular to relate,
the only book that was saved was the old
family Bible, which had been purchased
by my father’s father in 1800. This book
was rudely torn by them, but a good old
religious family negro woman, knowing
how it was prized, got it away from
them, aud it is still in our possession,
with the marks left by the hands of these
savages upon its leaves.
Old Settler.
MISCELLANY.
Ex-President Jefferson Davis is in New
York.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times states that Marshal Bazine will
probably be tried at Compeigne the latter
part of September.
The 4th was celebrated in Spain at the
residence of Minister Sickles iu Madrid,
at the American Legation by a grand ban
quet. Among tho distinguished guests of
Minister Sickles were Senor Castellar, the
members of the Cabinet, the foreign rep
resentatives in Madrid, aud the President
of the Cortes.
The 4th passed off quietly in Savannah.
One negro accidentally killed.
T. H. Jackson, a real estate broker,
died iu his bath tub yesterday morning in
Boston , m
The young man and woman who w r eut
over Niagara Palls were to be married to
day. Bodies not yet recovered.
One brother-in-law killed another at
Greensburg, Ind,
Specie shipments yesterday were $248,-
000.
Lightning burned a house and killed a
woman at Wolfboro, N. 11.
Four men fishing were drowned at Deer
Island, off Eastport, Maine.
Crops in Texas. —The Jefferson (Texas)
Democrat says that the, discouraging
crop prospects, which during the late
constant rains was the subject of so much
remark all over the country, havt uow
assumed a more encouraging aspect. In
cotton in Texas an increase in acreage is
put down at thirty-four per cent., aud
high hopes are entertained that an im
proved yield over last year will be com
mensurate with the increase of acreage.
The Democrat says that the grain iu the
adjacent counties and farther West, so
far as harvested, has yielded a great deal
more than was expected, and it has been
garnered under the most untoward cir
cumstances ; and concludes that the pros
pects are now altogether enlivening, and
congratulations are offered the farmers on
so decided a change for the better re- i
garding the future of the present crops, j
LF. VERT JIOLLEGE.
Closing I>ay—lmmense Crowd—Literary
Address—Annual Levee—Sad Farewell.
Harvey’s Hotel, July 3.
commencement exercises.
The exercises of the morning were in- ;
trodneed by the singing of a song by the
pupils, followed by prayer by Rev. L. G.
R. Wiggins, after which Prof. Manget
announced that tho salutatory of the class
would bo read by Miss Ella Dicksou, a
modest, rosy-cheeked country lass, daugh
ter of Mr. Henry' Dickson, of Talbot
county, whose words of welcome to the
Board of Trustees and visitors were well
chosen, modestly spoken, and cordially
received by the audience. Miss Maddie
Biggers, daughter of Colonel J. M.
Biggers, of Muscogee county, chose for
her theme “The Beauties of the Heavens,”
and gave us a fine description of several
of the most brilliant of the stars of
heaven. Her apostrophe to Venus was
especially h,-autifnl and sublime, and
proved coneUi-.ively that she has not wast
ed her school days m frivolous gay-tty.
Miss Loula Daniel, daughter of Col W.
A. Daniel, of Talbotton, was not only the
most beautiful and elegantly-dressed of
the graduates, but her excellent reading
of “The Changes and Ruins of Time,” a
brief but comprehensive review of the
decay of cities and empires, proved that
she possesses other charms than those of
face and form, and other wealth than that
which, by its adornments, makes these
still more beautiful. Her allusion to our
own nation, with a sly hit at the Modocs,
was duly appreciated. Miss Ella Dickson
endeavored to show- how “Every Day has
its Evening,” by picturing the voyage of
life, dwelling upon its various changes in
a practical way. Civilization, said she,
rises in the east and wends its way west
ward. As Bishop Berkely wrote: “West
ward the star of Empire wends its way.”
Miss Amanda Fleming, of whom wo shall
speak more at length hereafter, tenderly
and beautifully, aud with a sublime pa
thos, told us of the “Faceson the Wall”—
the dear, sainted faces of the brother,
sister, father, mother—all that her heart
held dear that constituted a home on
earth -who have gone before her to the
spirit land; who have “crossed over the
river” aud are now waiting for her “un
der the trees” that grow by the stream of
life. Her apostrophe to her sainted
mother was so ieuderly beautiful that
many an eye was wet with tears of sym
pathy for the bereaved orphan. Miss
Annie Gilreath, daughter of Mr. J. W.
Gilreath, of Talbotton, discoursed sweet
ly about “Beauty of Person,” and clearly
proved that good features are not the
highest type of beauty. A sweet, kind
voice, a noble, tender heart, and a face
from which the heart speaks out its good
ness, constitute the best and most lasting
beauty, and make up for all defects in
form aud feature.
Miss Ida Leonard, daughter of Mr.
Henry Leonard, of Talbotton, and sister
of Miss Clara Leonard, of the sophomore
class, who distinguished herselt by her
flue reading on Monthly, took for her sub
ject, “Streams.” She sailed us along the
shores of the stream of Time, in imagina
tion, picturing to our minds the various
changes that are constantly taking place
on its moving waters. Miss Mollie Owen,
daughter of Win. Owen, of Waverly Hall,
read an excellent essay on the “Eyes,” in
which she claimed that they have a pecu
liar and forcible language of their own,
which is sometimes used more constantly
than that of the lips. As to the choice of
colors, there is a great difference oi opin
ion, some preferring the mild blue, ulners
the sparkling black, and still oLhers the
dark grey-. Miss Minnie Tidwell, daugh
ter oi Rev. W. W. Tidwell, of Knoxville,
Ga., gave us some very truthful and hap
py ideas in regard to “The Cares of an
Old Woman.” All married women, she
said, are old and tilled with cares, tihe
hit off tliu husbands who so thoughtlessly
take home three or four strangers to din
ner without giving their wives notice of
their coming. But she was most happy
in her description of a good old grand
mother, to whom she paid a beautiiuiand
deserved tribute.
THE VALEDICTORY.
The choice of valedictorian could not
have fallen upon a more excellent und
deserving young lady than Miss Amanda
Fleming, the ward of Thomas Hunt, of
Huntsville, Ga. Modest and unassuming
in the highest degree, yet possessed ot
superior moral and intellectual qualities,
her Class-mates fell themselves Honored
in assigning to her the distinguished
position of valedictorian. Fatherless and
motherless, as well as brotheness and
sisterless, she has walked humbly but
bravely m the patii of duty and of service.
We were told by her pastor, a gentleman
of rare culture, that in all her school life
she has never received a mark of demerit
of any kind whatever. Think of this, U ye
maidens who have fathers and mothers
and homes to advance you in the culture
of your intellect, aud let it inspire you to
nobler efforts aud purer aspirations. Her
address of lure well was not brilliant, but
it contained well-chosen and pleasant
words of commendation and thanks,
which she modestly aud feelingly ad
dressed to the Board ol Trustees, the
Faculty oi me College, aud the friends
of the class generally. Her appeal to Uei
associates, as she spoke her larewell
words to them, was eminently appro
priate. She besought them to go form to
duty with high resolves, with noble pur
poses, and with hearts sanctified by the
presence of a loving Saviour, in such a
path alone could they find true happi
ness.
PRESENATION OF DIPLOMAS.
President Manget, in presenting the
diplomas, delivered a most earnest and
eloquent address to the young ladies upon
whom they were to be bestowed. Alter
reviewing their past pleasant associations
as teachers and pupils, and alluding to
those who had fallen out of the ranks
from time to time, leaving only a little
band of eight to attain the highest posi
tions in that temple of learning, he asked
why this had occurred. His answer was
“ because of a lack of decision of charac
ter”—fixedness of purpose. He elo
quently- alluded to woman’s true sphere—
not as an augel did she come to man—to
be exalted and gazed at —to be a subject of
praise and laudation—but as a litu-eom-
pauion—as a helpmeet aud a guide
"Goodness the being’s end aud aim,” is a
very appropriate motto for woman, and
under its influence she should seek to
elevate luan —to lift him above the vices
and extravagances of the present day.
This can only be done with decision of
character. Don’t shun society, but rather
go into it, aud by your own noble example
and holy life, purify and exalt it to
a higher standard of excellence.
Be true to yourselves and to your
God, and all will be safe aud
serene, as your frail barques sail out of
this harbor upon the broad and billowy
ocean of life. Take on board, if lie be
not w ith you already, as your pilot, Christ
the Saviour, that your voyage may be safe
and sure, free from quicksands, rocks aud
shoals, aud end at last in that haven of
eternal rest where bright and unfading
laurels shall crown your brows with im
mortal beauty. At the close of these re
marks, which were made with much depth
of feeling, Prof. Manget presented full
diplomas to the following young ladies; j
Misses Amanda Fleming, Ella Dickson, j
Loula Daniel and Minnie Tidwell; and j
diplomas for a partial course to Misses ;
Maddie Diggers. Mollie Owen, Ida Leon
ard and Annie Gilreath. These young
ladies then joined in singing their "Part- j
iug Hymn,” after which the audience \
prepared themselves for a rich, intellecual j
and oratorical treat, in the usual annual j
I.ITEBARY ADDRESS.
Prof. G. R. Glenn, of Columbus, the
gentleman selected to deliver this ad
dress, had already won for himself the !
highest praise at Tuskegee, aud Ins ap
pearance on the present occasion w-as
hailed with “great expectations.” Hap
pily for all concerned they were more than
fully realized. With fervid eloquence and
vigorous thought he grappled with the !
old and ever recurring question of
Pilate—" What is Truth ?’’ aud “ Where
shall we find it?” Not in the present, but
in the past —that casts its shadow over I
everything iu the future. What have we
done, and how have we studied the past ? j
We only live iu the midst of that which j
was, wdth lost aims and pulseless en- j
deavors. We see stars, but astronomers
fix their place. We turn up the clod of ■
earth, but the geologist explores it. Is
our educational system right? Are not
our institutions of learning manufac
tories for turning out automatons ? We
need living agencies of power and thought
in every department of life, and yet you
fail to seek them in the right direction.
O let your higher and holier natures cry
and hunger for something better, and
your hearts seek a purer intellectual at- .
mosphere. After passing a most eloqnent
and sublime eulogy upon the dead heroes j
of the South, the speaker reviewed in an
able and forcible manner the history of the
past, as it relates to the origin and nur
ture of truth. Then followed a scathing
and masterly rebuke of the present terri
ble condition of society and morals in our
laud. Everything bending and tending
and bowing down to the gods of expe
diency, popularity, greed and sensuality.
The only question now is—“ Will it pay?”
God is truth—the fountain head of all
truth. Go back of the present—back into
the dim vista of ages, and worship at His
j shrine. Out upon this hell-born policy
of present gain and popular applause that
I is running the world mad with its tinsel
| glare and delusive visions. Go back to
the past —under the silent watching of
the gates of Heaven—where truth stands
neglected and forsaken, and win
her to your hearts—re-stablish her
in your houses, in your stores, your
institutions of learning, your halls of jus
tice and legislation, anil drive hence the
deformities that now reign there under
the guise of expediency anil present gain.
This is but a feeble outline of the eloquent
remarks of Prof. Glenn, who denounced
unsparingly the false systems of the pres
ent day, aud with an eloquence and zeal
that thrilled the entire audience. In con
clusion, he made a touching appeal to
woman, whose purity aud nobleness as a
mother he most beautifully illustrated,
j We want “Mothers,” as Napoleon once
said, with decision of character, purity of
heart and nobleness of purpose. If we
obtain men to destroy the present accurs
ed “gilded civilization,” which only seeks
immediate gain and power and wealth,
trampling every holy thing under its feet
in its efforts to attain them, wo must
raise up noble mothers by a proper sys
tem of culture at home anil in the school
room. Then we shall have permanency
in old and sacred things, on which to-day
this “gilded splendor of modern philoso
phy,” this new tribunal of public senti
ment, casts its deadly glare and withering
glance.
AN API-EAL FOE MONEY.
At the close of the regular exercises of
the day, which were interspersed with vo
cal aud instrumental music of an attrac
tive character, the President of the Board
of Trustees, Rev. T. T. Christian, an
nounced that Judge E. 11. Worrell would
make an appeal in behalf of the institu
tion, now the property of the South-west
Georgia Conference, to raise three hun
dred dollars with which to repair tho col
lege buildings. At the close of Judge
Worrell’s remarks, which were conliued
to a plain statement of tho necessities and
purposes of tho Board, the Rev. - Mr.
Christian called for subscriptions. Col.
J. B. Gorman, with his characteristic
generosity and noble-heartedness, gave
twenty dollars, adding to it a very neat
and appropriate little speech: others fol
lowed with similar and lesser sums. It is
highly creditable to the press that sixty
dollars were given by editors, and to the
clergy that they responded so liberally.
The press and the pulpit did themselves
honor by their hearty aud generous sup
port of so noble an institution of learning
as EeYe rt Female College.
Sidney llep.bekt.
THE MODOC S—LETTER EDOM CON
GRESSMAN LUTTRELL.
The following letter from a member
of Congress, California, explains itself,
and puts quite anew phase on the Modoc
war:
Lava Beds, Cal., June 17, 1873.—T0
Hon, C. Delano, Secretary Interior,
Washington, D. C. — Dear Sie —The Mo
doc war is over. The Modoc tribe, ex
cept live or six, are captives. Captain
Jack and several of his confederates will
soon be tried by court-martial for the
murder of General Canby aud tte Peace
Commissioners. There can be but one
verdict or result in the conviction aud
execution of all those participating in the
murder of settlers aud Peace Commis
sioners. I have spent several days in the
Lava Beds aud the country adjacent.
I have investigated, so far as I could,
the causes of the war between whites and
Modoes, and from a careful investigation
I can arrive at but one conclusion, that
the war was caused by the wrongful acts
of bad white men. In the lirst place, it
is charged by responsible parties that
the Indians were compelled to slaughter
their horses for food on the Klamath re
servation to keep from starving. When
they had no more horses to slaughter they
were forced by hunger to seek their lish
ing ground on Lost river, a tract of laud
set apait for them by lion. E. Steele, late
Superintendent of Indian Affairs for
California. The land is valuable ; specu
lators desired it, and sought to have the
Indians removed. The Indians say there
was but one or two courses left them—-
death by starvation on the reservation or
aspeedier death by bullets. In the lava
beds they chose the latter. lam in favor
of hanging those who participated in the
murder of the Peace Commissioners or
settlers, but humanity and justice demand
an investigation of the war and its causes
from its lirst inception. Let us have
both sides of the question. Let us have
the sworn statement of the Indians, which
will, I am credibly informed, be corro
borated by the testimony of responsible
white men. If you have the authority to
order it, direct that the testimony
of all those who are likely to be
convicted and executed be taken.
I regret to have to say it, but I believe
there never was a time since the organiza
tion of the Government when there was
so much corruption and swindling, not
only of Government and people, but In
dians, as there is to-day being praticed on
the Indian reservations on this coast. Mr.
Meacham and Mr. Steele managed affairs
to the satisfaction of the people and the
Indians. I regret they were not retained
as Superintendents; I do not know who
is to blame, nor do I accuse any particular
agent of corruption, and before launching
these Indian chiefs into eternity let their
testimony be taken that the guilty parties
may be found. We'liavelost many valua
ble officers and men in this war, and jus
tice demands if any person or persons
were guilty of inciting the Modoes to war,
he or they should be punished. lam will
ing, if they can delegate to me authority,
to aid and assist in the investigation of
all the causes or charges which may or
can be brought out before court martial
as representative of the people immediate
ly concerned, and who have suffered most
by reasons of the w'ar. I feel justice de
mands a thorough investigation, il l can
in any way serve the Government and the
people in aiding or assisting the investiga
tion, command my service by telegraph
at Fort Jones. Very respectfully,
Ike Luttbell,
Member Third Congressional District Cal
ifornia.
The following is said to boa literal
copy of the order by which a Justice of
the Peace in Gwinnett county under
took to banish a man lately. (We alluded
to it the other day.) It is no doubt en
tirely original, unless the Justice had be
fore him a copy of the military order by
which Gen. Grant was about to banish
B. H. Hill from the country:
“ Let the prisner StaN Up. vu, sir, has
bin Found Guilty. & tried uv the Offense
uv shutin at your Nabor. Yu shal then
bo took from the bar uv this court by the
honorble baleef of this court, and carryed
1 into ihe adjiuen county of rokDale, &
! thar yu shall remain in Everlastin ban
| ishment forever from the honorable
county of gwinnett.”
The male and female adults in North
Carolina who are unable to read or
write, number about the same as the
Democratic vote in the State —a sigui li
cant fact, which the party can’t deny.—
Louisville Commercial, (Grant organ).
But they do not constitute the Demo
cratic votes of North Carolina. Every
sensible man, who understands the condi
tion of things at the South, knows that
nine-tenths of the ignorant and illiterate
population are Radicals It savors more
of malignity than consistency for the
Radical party to make votes of an igno
rant population, and then to jeer us be
cause of the large number of illiterate vo
ters among us, and caricature us in offi
cial publications for our population of
“illiteracy.”
The Boston Advertiser is informed
that the manufacturers of nails in New
England have unanimously agreed to stop
their works during the greater part of the
months of July and August. The reason
alleged is that heavy stocks of nails have
accumulated, and the market price has
thereby been crowded down below the
manufacturing cost. A similar action on
the part of the Pittsburg manufacturers,
was reported a few weeks ago.
Sharkey, who murdered Dunn in New
Y'ork. has been sentenced to be executed
August 15tb.
DESTRUCTIVE STORMS.
A TflltKE PAYS STOIiM IN THE IVKST
Washington, Ind. , July 5. —The storm
was exceedingly fierce. Spears ot wheat
were scattered about wildly and carried
many feet in the air. At Columbus the
storm was very severe aud destructive.
The general prostration of the telegraph
poles is without a paralell in the history
of telegraph companies. An alarmingly
large number were shivered to pieces by
lightning and totally destroyed, while
many others were partially destroyed,
and many prostrated by wind. To-day
will be a busy day in repairing these
wires, but by to-night they will be ready
to tell their own story of the storm.
Dayton, 0., July 5.—A terrific storm
of wind anil rain passed over this city
last night, blowing down trees and
chimneys. In the country the damage to
grain, fencing and sheds is said to be ex
tensive. The Miami river is full, and
still rising.
Milwaukee, Wis., July 5.—A terrific
storm passed through Wisconsin yester
day. It proved very disastrous to pleasure
parties. At Green Lake, Wisconsin, a
number of pleasure seekers on the Lake
were struck by tho storm aud their boats
capsized, and twenty persons drowned.
Chicago, 111., July 5. —The weather
to-day is clear and beautiful. Meagre re
ports yet received from various points in
the country show r that the storm of the
last two days has been one of the severest
kind ever experienced here. An immense
quantity of w'ater fell, and there has been
a good deal of damage to telegraph poles
and wires by lightning aud wind.
Cincinnati, July s.—The storms of the
past three days have seldom if ever been
equaled iu severity in Ohio aud Indiana.
HURRICANE AND TORNADO,'
with Hoods of rain, havo followed each
other iu rapid succession. This city aud
its immediate vicinity escaped the fury of
these storms. The country north of this,
and parallel in Indiana aud Ohio, has
suffered severely by the furious storms
which passed over it on the 2d, 3d and
4th iusts. The telegraph wires have been
severely prostrated.
At Springfield, Ohio, it is reported that
the telegraph poles were blown down
across the turnpike so thickly in some’’
places as to entirely obstruct travel to the
east of Springfield. On the Pacific aud
Atlantic telegraph line there were 200
poles down, some of them struck by light
ning aud others prostrated by wind.
Passengers from Logansport say the
storm yesterday leveled trees nearly all
the way from Logansport to Richmond,
Indiana. Iu Richmond trees were blown
down in the streets.
Circleville, 0., July s.— The Sciota
river has overflowed. The extensive
broom coi'n fields iu this vicinity will
probably be ruined. Corn is flattened
down and dirt washed on to it so that
much of it cannot be used. Streams are
so high that roads are impassable beyond
here and Columbus. No trains has ar
rived from the East since Thursday.
STORM IN THE EAST.
During a heavy shower in Andover yes
terday afternoon lightning struck the
Old South Church aud stunned the Rev.
Mr. Abbot, who was delivering an oration,
and also Mr. Carter, tenor of the Church;
both recovered iu a few minutes. The
Church was not materially damaged.
Several other buildings were also struck.
It was the most violent storm experienced
here for fifty years.
Several houses iu Portsmouth, (N. H.,)
and vicinity were also struck by lightning
yesterday.
Cincinnati, J uly G. —Advices from Mays
ville, Ky., state that a severe storm visited
that section yesterday, unrooting many
buildings, uprooting trees, blowing off
chimneys and doing great damage to the
crops. The Harking valley in Ohio indi
cated the water as being higher than was
ever known before. Six miles of canal
are gone. The damage to the crops
amounts to over a million dollars, aud the
salt works and other commercial interests
are suffering greatly.
St. Louis, July G. —The storm reached
Hannibal, Missouri. Three houses pros
trated and much damage to crops and
fences.
Mii.wa.ukie, July G. —'Reports from
Foil Du Lac state that the storm dam
aged grain throughout Green, Lake,
Foil Du Lac and Sheboygan counties to
c great extent. Its courso from the north
west to southwest was about 5 miles wide,
along which space grain, trees, fences were
thrown to the ground. In Foil DuLac City
many buildings were unroofed and a vast
number of large shade trees were up
rooted, and one hundred acres of grain
were prostrated along the course of the
storm. The reported loss of life on Elk
Hart Lake proves to be false; aside from
the disaster at Green Lake it is a re
markable fact that no lives were lost as
far as heard from. The damage to the
telegraph lines is being repaired and
communication is now open to St. Paul.
A heavy storm passed over Minnesota
yesterday, but no damage was done.
CHATTANOOGA—THE CHOLERA.
The Disease ut Dalton.
Chattanooga, July 4, 1873.—The to
tal number of deaths for Wednesday,
should have been put at eighteen, and for
Thursday at twelve. Nearly every case
of yesterday can bo traced to some impru
dence in diet. The greatest mortality
has taken place where the limestone rocks
are near the surface.
Twenty-seven coffins were sold yester
day-four for whites and twenty-three for
colored people.
Six deaths are reported this morning.
Chattanooga, July 4, p. m.—Twelve
deaths from cholera to-day. It is report,
ed that Postmaster Kendrick and Ed.
Bloudeil are dying.
THE LATEST.
Chattanooga, July f>, Gp. m.—Only two
deaths to-day. Kendrick and Blondell
are much better. We think the worst is
over, and that th e epidemic will rapidly
disappear. All the whites who have been
attacked are recovering. A hopeful feel
ing pervades the entire city to-night.
Dai.ton, July 4.—A case of cholera here
to-duy. Mr. Robert Lindsay, formerly an
employee of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad Company, left Chattanooga yes
terday morning, was taken at 4 p. m. and
died at 10 o’clock last evening. His
brother is now sick with the same disease.
Several had cases of cholera morbus in
town, but none have so far proved fatal.
Atlanta Constitution
KILLED IN A mL.IIAB.It SALOON.
Charleston, July G.— Mr. Harry West, ;
an estimable gentleman, was shot dead in
the most nnprovoking manner in a bil- !
hard saloon last night by John A. Dutlus, ;
a youth of eighteen. The inquest to-day
resulted in a verdict of “wilful murder.
Duffus is in jail.
DEAD.
Phir.AOFLPUiA, July G.—Father Kelly;
of St. Michael’s Church, died of apo-!
plexy while bathing at Atlantic City.
Judge W. H. Cooley, who was killed in
the duel with Rhott, was born in Point j
Coupee, La.; was about forty-seven years
old, and a widower. He took a leading
part in the Reconstruction Convention of
Louisiana, and was afterwards parish
Judge of Point Coupee, and still later
Judge of the Gtb District Court of New
Orleans. He was a man of ability, but !
easily warped by passion or prejudice.
For loss of Appetite, Dyspepsia, Indi
gestion, Depression of Spirits and Gener
al Debility, in their various forms, Febro-
Phospocated Elixir of Calisya made by
Caswell, Hazard &■ Cos., New Y’ork, and
sold by all druggists, is the best tonic. As
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.
THE l'A TRONS OE HUSBANDS V.
Washington, July 2. —The organization
known as the Patrons of Husbandry orig
inated iu this city iu 18G7, aud the Na
tional Grange was organized hero in De
cember of that year. The objects of the
order, as announced in the second circu
lar, were to advance tho education and
elevate and dignify the occupation of the
fanner, and to protect its members against
the numerous combinations by which
their intetests are injuriously affected;
and for protecting, by all available means,
the farming interests from frauds and de
ception of every kind.
The social feature is to make the coun
try homes and country society attractive,
refined and enjoyable*, and to balance ex
haustive labors by instructive amusements
aud accomplishments. It proposes to
abolish the commission of middle men
and to deal directly with the manufactu
rers and consumers; and, where it may
be deemed necessary, to reduce rates and
freights on railroads by a system of co
operation. No political or religious dis
cussions are permitted, and like most
secret orders, this one has a charitable
feature. Women are admitted as mem
bers.
The headquarters are Georgetown, Dis
trict of Columbia, where all the business
of the National Grange is transacted.
Over half a million of tracts or pam
phlets, principally of addresses delivered
from time to time iu furtherance of the
Order were sent out last year, together
with occasional circulars ol a confidential
character. There is a total of 4,335 sub
ordinate granges in the United States and
eight in Canada, comprising probably
325,000 members.
A DAD DEVOUT EDOM CHATTA
NOOGA.
Chattnooga, July 2. —The cholera is
raging fearfully to-day, and the excite
ment is intense. Many are wild with ap
prehensions of sudden death. They
gather in groups, and the exaggerated
stories which they hear only serve to in
crease the panic.
People are fleeing in every direction.
Some left their work and left without a
word.
Very few wealthy or prominent men are
now in the city —only poor people are left
for the awful disease to prey upon.
Sixteen deaths have been reported so
far to-day, and the grave diggers have
now got fourteen graves dug.
Two of the dead are employees of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad Couipauy
—Hopwood and O’Baunon.
It is difficult to pick out the truth in the
appalling excitement. It is impossible to
get a full list of the dead aud dying to
night. — Atlanta Constitution.
WALVTORTU AND THE DRESS.
New York, July 3. —Young Walworth’s
countenance nor his demeanor under
went any change alter the delivery of the
verdict. The prevailing impression here
was that he would be acquitted.
The Tribune says: “Never within the
memory of this generation has any great
criminal issue been so promptly and satis
factorily tried in New York.”
The World says : “ The severity of the
verdict indicates that the reaction of
mawkish pity, which has for so long a
time borne sway iu the jury boxes, lias
begun.”
The Times says: “ The moral effect of
the verdict was needed, aud an acquittal
would have been an invitation to every
youth having a dissolute or tyrannical
lather to whip him.”
After alluding to the array of promi
nent defenders of the prisoner aud the
science generally attending the trial, the
Herald says: “The wonder is that
justice herself was not blind on this
occasion, but society has to be protected,
and however cruel or brutal, the trial was
conducted in the moat exemplary and
dignified manner.”
A COURT SCENE IN KENTUCKY.
A Desperate Character Killed.
Cincinnati, Ohio, July s.—At Oweu
ville, Ky., on Tnursilay, Win. G. Lotter
tield was placed on trial for burning that
place in April last. While one Layclon
was testifying in regard to being employed
by Lottertteld to burn the place, Lotter
field and his friends rushed towards him
with their revolvers in hand, when several
determined citizens interfered and avert
ed the collision. Court then adjourned
till yestercay. Yesterday Lotterlield and
his friends' rode into town with double
barrelled shot-guns and revolvers, and
were met by Mr. Hoon, the jailor, aud
other citizens. Hoon fired at Lotterlield,
killing him instantly, when the restol the
party tied. Lotterfield lias been regarded
as a dangerous aud desperate character,
and his death is not much regretted by
law-abiding citizens.
FIVE VERSONS OVER THE FADES.
Rochester, N. Y., July 5. —Two men,
two women and a boy went over Niagria
Falls yesterday. Names unknown.
LATER.
Rochester, July 5. —The party that
went over Niagara were seining in a boat
at Chippewa yesterday. They got into
the rapids and were carried over Niagara
Falls. The names of the parties are not
known. Pieces of the boat have been
found.
A NEW COMET.
Washington, July f>.—The Smithsonian
Institute has just received a telegram
through the cable announcing the dis
covery of a comet at Vienna. The posi
tion of which is no hours, given minutes
of right ascension, and four degrees,
thirty-four minutes South ascension. Ap
pearance faint, motion as yet unknown.
This is the first announcement through
the cable of an astronomical discovery
from Europe since the completion of the
arrangement for the transmission of such
intelligence in February, 1873. The dis
covery of three new planets has been
telegraphed from this country since that
time.
HOW THE FOURTH WAS OBSERVED
IN ILLINOIS.
Chicago, July 5. —The was a large gath
ering of farmers at Springfield, Salisbury,
Pontiac, Champion, Kuoxville and other
places in Illinois yesterday, who celebra
ted the day by listening to speeches upon
the farmers’ movement and railroad ques
tion.
Several accidents happened here yes
terday, the most serious of which was the
shooting, and it is thought fatally wound
ing of a boy by a young man who was
shooting at a mark.
THE RHETT COOLEY DUEL.
Washington, July s.—The Attorney
General has received the following dis
patch from New Orleans:
General Kellogg has called upon Gov.
Powers, of Mississippi, to prosecute the
parties who loft the State of Louisiana
and participated in a duel which resulted
in Judge Cooley’s death.
TROUBLES IN THE EAST INDIES.
London, July 5.—-A despatch from
Bombay brings intelligence of a rising
among the Hindoo peasants m the Dis
trict of Poonah. They refuse to pay
their rents, and have plundered and
burned several houses. Two bands have
been dispersed by the police.
BAR THO l!A KBS IX IT A L V.
Florence, July 3.—A despatch from
Belltano, fifty-one miles north of Venice,
says shocks of an earthquake were felt
this morning. A volcano near Faria, a
town fen miles from Belltano, which has
been quiet for some lime, erupted, and
the water of a lake in the vicinity boiled.
A EREXCH ItVBL.
London, July' 5. —A dispatch from Paris
to the Telegraph says a duel between
M. M. Ranee and DeCassagnae is to take
place on Monday next.
THE NEW CABLE LAID.
Heart’s Content, July s.—The laying
of cable of 1873 was successfully com
pleted this morning, shortly afler mid
night.
CHOLERA.
Memphis, July o.—Thirteen cholera in- !
tcruients yesterday. The disease is spread
ing in the country.
THE PICA YUXE LIBEL SUIT.
New Orleans, July 5. —Anew trial was
refused in the Picayune libel suit.
The Atlanta Herald learns from agri
culturists in its vicinity that the caterpil
lar is committing great depredation on
the early corn. In some instances the
ear is eaten down from the top nearly two
inches, and the “varmint” is still working.
Should the weather keep warm and dry,
the grain will soon become so hard as to
prevent much further damage.
REDOUT OE Tin: CON3IMTSSION
ERS AVVOIN TED TO INQUIRE
INTO THE DEEDED ITIONS ON
THE TEXAS HORDE.R
Washington, June 2!*. —The commis
sioners appointed to inquire into the de
predations committed on the Texas
border have completed their report and
filed it with the Department of State.
Referring to their preliminary report
of December last, they say it is show n the
number ot petitions received was 102,
and the aggregate loss leleired to therein
amount to the sum of nearly S2S,tMH),IM)o,
but the actual losses amount to about
sc,ooo,ooff —the remainder of the twenty
eight millions being staled as contingent
losses due to the breaking up of busi
ness, the loss of the increase of the cattle,
damages aud interest. I’lre commissioners
hail no power to make award, their duties
were confined to recording the amounts
of the damages whether proven or merely
estimated. They wish it to be distinctly
understood they have not and do not
recommend the paymeut of auy such sum
as claimed of nineteen millions of in
terest, allowance for increase, damages,
Ac. Their plain duty has been to forward
; their original records, from which a fair
adjustment can be made in each case
assisted bv the general information con
tained in the calculations which they
made. The records of official labors of
the commission for 1873 show the re
ceipt of petitions numbered from Hl3 to
423, inclusive. These petitions allege an
aggregate loss of original anil contingent
damages, loss of increase, interest, Ac.,
of tw r enty million six hundred anil thirty
seven dollars. They are supported by the
depositions numbered from 335 to 1,190,
inclusive. The remarks with regard to
the petitions of 1872 apply to those of
1873, and as from the complex nature of
many of the allegations an exact separa
tion of the original losses and the various
contingent items cannot be made, the
commissioners desire to state definitely
that the same relations hold generally,
the aggregate of $2(),0tM1,G37 would in
proportion represent a total alleged origi
nal loss of four million six hundred
thousand dollars. This relation would,
for the total alleged losses of forty-eight
million and a half, give a total loss in
original items of say eleven millions,
and without a long and most searching
examination of each case it would be
impossible to record officially an exact
separation of the various items.
The Commissioners, iu concluding re
port, state the general situation of the
border, as described in the preliminary
report of December last, remains un
changed, and that with the exception of
the beneficial measures adopted by the
United Status Government in reinforcing
its troops, the energetic orders of the de
partment commander, and the smart
blow iidiicted on the Kickapoos In the
gallant Gen. McKenzie, the interests of
Western Texas are in the same jeopardy
as before. The views and conclusions of
that report are only strengthened by time,
aud the serious state of affairs referred to
can only be concluded by the removal of
the marauding Kickapoos to their proper
reservation, the performance of plain
duty by the river authorities of the Mexi
can border, and an equitable adjustment
of these claims. The raids of Mexican
marauders cannot be entirely stopped by
the military forces of the United States,
however watchful; and the operations of
the Texas regiment of volunteers, au
thorized under the late act of the Texas
Legislature, will, it is presumed, not
bring about the desired end: which can
be attained only by a resolute effort on
the part of the Mexican Government to
put down the irregular banditti, who for
many years past have impoverished Wes
tern Texas and wantonly shed the blood
of its citizens.
The commissioners conclude by saying:
The losses and disorders have retarded
the further settlement of Western Texas,
a region in other respects inviting an
immediate and valuble immigration. It
is for the United States Government to
open this region to improvement, by giv
ing those who live under the shadow of
its flag on the distant Rio Grande fron
tier that effectual protection they deserve,
whatever lie the cause militating against
local peace and the safety of life aud prop
erty so long imperiled by the arrow of
the Indians, or the knife and pistol ot
the Mexican assassin.
The commissions have completed their
duties anil will separate to-morrow,
Messrs. Robb and Osborn going to Chica
go, aud Mr. Savage to New York. Their
labors have been arduous, and the man
ner in which they were performed is satis
factory to the Government.
MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA
San Diego, Cal., June 30. —The latest
Mexican dates, per steamer Arizona, say
that President Lerdo has given most am
ple guarantee that he would very soon fur
ward to the United States Government the
basis of the treaty iu relation to the im
portant undertaking of the Tehuantepec
Canal and Railroad.
The Official Gaceta, of Costa Rica, pub
lishes a communication addressed to the
Government by Geu. Correzo, as Minister
to Central America, asking if it is will
ing to join Colombia and other republics
in begging Spain to leave the Cubans
alone.
The reply was that Costa Rica being a
small State,the United States being silent
on the subject, and Spain now being a
Republic, it would be better to wait
awhile.
111/. WORTH SENTENCED,
New York, July 5. Prank Walworth
was to-day sentenced to the State prison
at Sing Siug, at hard labor for life.
Judge Davis, in addressing the prisoner,
said he had fearful doubts whether his
case did not justify a conviction for mur
der in the first degree. The prisoner
stood the trying ordeal with firmness,
without moving a muscle of his features,
and left the court-room with his mother
immediately after the Judge had con
cluded.
SPANISH TROUBLES.
| London, July 2. —A special to the
Times, from Madrid, says there is great
alarm in that city in consequence of the
menacing attitude of the irreconcilables.
who ure known to he intriguing for the
overthrow of the present government.
Troops are concentrated at strategical
points, and every precaution has been
taken to promptly suppress any outbreaks
that may occur.
A GREAT STORM.
Memphis, July 3. —A tornado struck
Galeburg, on the Missouri, Arkansas and
Texas road. Several houses prostrated;
tlnee children killed. A storm is re
ported from Cincinnati to St. Louis, with
several fatal accidents; many houses pros
trated, and serious injury to wheat is ap
j prehended.
THE CATTLE UPON A THOUSAND
HILLS.
Topeka, July 3.—Shipments of Texas
cattle east from Wichita, Ellsworth and
other points in Kansas have commenced.
There are GO,OOO head at Wichita, and
1.>0,000 head on the way to that point
from Texas, according to official railroad
reports ; also a large number at Ellsworth,
and small droves at other points.
WESTERN CODE. OE HONOR.
A Rank President Shoots a Bar K.-rper.
Cincinnati, July 3.—A special despatch
from Bloomington, Ind., savs Geo. A.
Buskirk. the Fiesident of the First Na
tional Bank, shot and mortally wounded
Aaron Rose, a bar keeper in that town,
last night for refusing to sell him whisky.
TWO EOOI.S—ONE LEET.
New Y’ork, July 3. — An inquest in
Newark over the body of a young man
named Nodler, who, with a cousin named
Edward Bnchler, was found suffering
from the effects of poison. It was dis
covered both were in love with the same
woman, a young widow, and as two could
not murry her, and one did not wish to
deprive the other of possession, both
agreed to commit suicide. Nodler suc
ceeded.
MASSACHUSETTS M OKA US.
Boston, July 5. —In South Acton,Mass.,
yesterday, G. Curtis, a lad of eight years,
enticed a hoy named Lane, aged three
years, into the woods, and there beat him
with a club in a most shocking manner,
leaving him insensible. He was soon dis
covered, but died in twenty-four hours.
The murderer lied, but was arrested last
afternoon at Cambridge.
SWIET "RETRIBUTION.
San Francisco, July 3.— Advices from
Arizona state that Lieut. Babcock, with
fifty cavalry, who was sent in pursuit of
the murderers of Lieut. Aliiuy, overtook
them in the mountains aud killed four
teen and captured six. Two of Babcock s
Indian aids were wounded.