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COLtJMBtTS:
J. H. MARTIN, Editor.
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Address Tuos. Gilbebt A Cos.,
Columbus, Ga.
the fence question.
Elections were held on Monday last in
Houston, Monroe and Spalding counties,
in accordance with an act of the Legisla
ture, to determine whether they would
keep up the present system of fencing in
cultivated fields, or change it by fencing
in live stock. Both Houston and Monroe
voted overwhelmingly against the change,
though all the returns are not yet in. At
Forsyth, the vote stood 751 for fence (for
the crops), and 114 for no fence. In
Houston, for fence 1,628; no fence 98.
It is evident that the negroes went almost
solidly for the present system, and the
whites were probably divided. We have
no returns yet from Spalding, but doubt
not that it has voted the same way.
We have heretofore had occasion to ex
press the opinion that the proposed
change cannot be carried anywhere by a
general popular vote. The reason is that
nearly every voter who does not own land
will oppose the change; and this class
inclndes most of the negroes. Men,
white and black, who own neither lands
nor stock, look forward more hopefuily to
the early possession of stock (if it be only
a cow or a few pigs) than to the owner
ship of cultivated fields. This possession
of stock is especially a primary aspira
tion of the negroes. We have always
thought that a much better chance of se
curing a change of the system anywhere
would be to procure first a medication of
the law so as to permit only the present
owners of farms and the present owners
of stock to vote upon it. They are really
the only parties immediately interested in
the question, or who will be directly affec
ted by its decision one way or tho other.
But tho question arises whether this way
of making laws by a restricted vote would
be in accordance with our democratic
system of government. It certainly would
not be popular with tho classes not
allowed to vote, and they might make
their exclusion a pretext for other action
or alliances that would bo productive of
mischief and disorganization. So we
conclude that there is now but little
chance of effecting a chango in tho
system of fencing, however desirable it
may be.
THE COAST RATER /.INF.
it is encouraging to see that tho inter
est in this proposed work of improvement
is extending. It needs only attention and
examination to convince practical and
sensible mon that it would boa work of
national importance; that it is feasible
with the expenditure of a comparatively
small sum of money; and that its great
advantage to tho commerce of at least
one-third of the Union would make its
cost insignificant in comparison with its
immense benefits. It would not have to
wait for completion, like the stupendous
Tennessee and Atlantic Canal, for its fa
cilities to commerce to bo sensibly and
widely utilized. When tho first section
of perhaps fivo or six miles, connecting
the Mississippi river with the Gulf, should
be completed, steamers from St. Louis,
Cincinnati, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Nash
ville, etc., could run through to any navi
gable points on the Alabama, Tombigbee
and Black Warrior rivers, discharging
their freight, taken on at the Wostern
cities named, at Montgomery, Selma and
Wetumpka on tho Alabama, Columbus and
Aberdeen on the Tombigbee, or Tusca
loosa on the Black Warrior. Think of
the great stretch of Southern country thus
brought into direct and cheap communi
cation with the Northwest by tho comple
tion of the first short section alone!
Then, by the completion of the second
section, hardly longer, connecting Bon
Secour bay with Perdido sound, Pensacola
would be reached, with its railroad tra
versing West Florida and South Alabama.
Two more short cuts between Pensacola
and the Apalachicola river would open a
continuous and unbroken line of inland
water communication between New Or
leans and Columbus, Ga., as well as other
points on the Chattahoochee and Apa
lachicola rivers.
While section between New Orleans and
the Apalachicola was being opened, work
could be progressing on the eastern divis
ion, to connect the rivers of Florida
emptying into the Gulf on one side with
those emptying into the Atlantic on the
other. This, apparently, is tho most dif
ficult part of the line, but, as shown
above, the realization of a very large
measure of the benefits of the improve
ment would not have to await the comple
tion of this section.
We are glad to see that the Savannah
Xeics is not leil astray by the ignis fatinis
of the great Atlantic and Western canal,
though its city is promised such immense
advantages from it, hut is vigorously ami
earnestly urging the superior claims of
the Gulf coast line. That sagacious and
influential paper has no idea of urging
Savannah to act the part of the dog in
the fable, which snapped at the shadow
in the water and lost the substance.
Whatever feeble aid we can add in direct
ing attention to what we believe to be
the only practicable and attainable line
of water communication through the cot
ton-growing States, connecting the Missis
sippi river with the Atlantic, shall be
heartily given.
or it roi.it x, too.
Tile Springfield (111.) Journal argues
that the transportation problem can be
best solved to the satisfaction of the far
mer by dispensing, in a great measure,
with transportation- -by creating a home
market for consumption in bringing the
agricultural and manufacturing pro
ducer directly together—that is, by estab
lishing manufactories in the West to com
pete with the British and Eastern manu
facturers.
The Journal could not have offered
better advice to the South if it had closely
studied our situation, and had directed its
argument especially to us. We are too
much dependent ou an exchange of pro
ducts. with its expensive transportation.
By increasing our manufacturing enter
prises of all kinds, we will make home
markets for all agricultural products, and
iu supplying this home demand we will
restrict the production of cotton, and get
a better price for what wo produce. W e
need diversity of industry—such an ap
plication and adaptation of it ns will near
er enable us to "live at home." By this
change we will lay the foundation of a
solid property, which will not be subject
to ruinous perturbations caused by tluc
tuations in the price of cotton under the
manipulation of speculating rings and
gamblers.
The Boleigh Sentinel, discussing the
abuse of power by the radical party in the
South says: “Look at this Slate. What
is the condition? Our University dead,
our common school almost dead. Shame
upon the men who did it. So far from
resuscitating they have blasted; so far from
extending the blessings of education, they
have curtailed them. In the South Caro
lina, Grantites either squandered or stole
the common school fund, so there are but
few schools in operation. In poor Louis
iana they have done worse—they have
abolished the “free school fund.’ But
this is enough. We see how unfaithful
they have been to the people—hew untrue
to their own promise. The day of reckon
jng will yet come.”
1 TEtßii TERM.
Is Gen. Grant Working for It ?
We copied yesterday telegraphic dis
patches reporting intrigues and combina
tions to put Gen. Grant in the field as a
candidate for a third Presidential term,
and they accumulate upon us to-day.
The movement seems to have been com
menced early, but perhaps it is thought
that a prompt demonstration will most
effectually head off other Radical aspi
rants and prevent such personal divisions
in the party as would jeopardize its success.
The New York Herald of the Bth inst.
has a long editorial on this subject, head
ed “The Danger of Ctesarism. ’ The
Herald, as our readers know, is a paper
keen to scent the trails of scheming poli
ticians and to disclose the secrets of rings
and coteries. It prides itself on its suc
cess in “still hunts” of this kind. It is
also reputed to bo skillful in ascertaining
the set of- popular currents and falling
gracefully into those which it finds itself
unable to stem. We therefore hope that
it is now no less true to the sagacity which
generally enables it to distinguish the
strong popular side than to the keenness
which aids it in exposing intrigues, in its
opposition to the movement to give Gen.
Grant a third term.
The Herald says that “the President is
surrounded by men like Mark Anthony
and Talleyrand, who speak to him as they
spoke to Ca.-sar and Napoleon;” also, that
“the circumstance is painfully apparent
that a large part of the ruling men in the
Republican party are negatively commit
ting themselves to the principle of Caisar
ism in the renomination of Gen. Grant.’’
It also designates the principal interests
that are relied on to rally men for the re
election of President Grant, as follows:
“With the increase of luxury and wealth
there is always a party craving the dis
tinctions, the complaisances and social
gratifications of a court. We are told the
presence of a court encourages business
and elegance in manners, high and gentle
courtesy and a spirit of honorable emula
tion among men. And what are all the
treasures of the vain and aspiring if their
possessors are only as other men and have
never a coronet or a star ? There is the
powerful class, who have all the country
can give them, and dread nothing but
change. And if by any means they could
dispose of their honors and offices as they
do of their gains, how happy would they
be ! Behind is the timid and conservative
class—what the French would call the
bourgeoisie —who fear every election as
mariners do the northerly gales or the
desert pilgrims the dreadful sirocco winds
—the class who saw in the probable suc
cess of Mr. Greeley the paralysis of all
true business interests, the shrinking of
all values—chaos and panic. To these
mon Ciesarism becomes a principle, for
they have no patriotism that is not purely
selfish. The interests of the country are
identical in all respects with their own.
And behind these classes we have the po
litical elemont, which subsists on political
ventures, as the pirates of [the Grecian
Archipelagoes used to subsist on the cap
tured ships of Venice and Genoa, and who
would care little whether the President
was for life and wore a crown, so they
could pursue their gainful calling.”
Os course it is the third class from which
we may expect the leaders and promoters
of the third-term movement in the South.
Their numbers are comparatively few
among us, but unfortunately they control
tho colored vote and will rally the negroes
almost in a body for Grant. We may
therefore set it down as next to certain
that the vote of every Southern State in
the Radical nominating convention can be
obtained for a re-nomination of Grant,
and will be given to him if he desires it;
and this vote alone would give him a
strength in the convention that it would
bo difficult to overcome.
The indications of this movement in
favor of a third term for Gen. Grant are
not confined to the North. Several sus
picious “straws" are waving in the breeze
in the South. Among them we reckon the
projects for the establishment of a num
ber of Radical newspapers. If Grant de
sires a renomination, we may look with
reasonable assurance for Sam Bard to
make the first open demonstration in
Goorgia. Other Radical partisans may be
more cautious, but their hearts and hopes
will be in the movement nevertheless.
Tho officeholders may be counted on with
confidence, and they constitute the motive
power of their party in the South. Grant
can get the whole Southern vote for a re
nomination if he desires it, and if he is
working it, this is the objective point to
which official effort will be directed, and it
will crop out in appointments, the distri,
bution of patronage, &c.
We need hardly say that we shall oppose
this schemo, not only qs a dangerous iuno.
vation in our system of government, but
because another canvass for Grant and
auother term of his administration involve
a continuance of the Radical organization
founded upon sectional hate, an endorse
ment and repetition of high-handed acts
of despotism towards the Southern Slates,
such as the Louisiana outrage, the pro
longation of the Enforcement act, and an
adherence to the policy and systems that
work for the perpetual subjugation of the
South to the political and moueyod power
of the North.
Tin: teess axi> the covets.
The Great Wrong of Pre-judgment.
Dear Friend Martin : My silence
hereafter upon this subject, 1 tender, as
in some sort a compensation, to yourself
and your readers, for their sufferance and
forbearance with my present and former
intrusion and imposition upon your notice
and patience.
“ When” * **, says a great jurist, “scan
dalous libels are punished by the English
law, some with greater, others with less
severity, the liberty of the press, prop
erly understood, is by no means infringed
or violated ;” but I would add, is invig
orated and made subservient to the high
est and most essential interests of man
iu a civil community.
And a press, as jealous of the growth
of lofty sentiment and enlightened re
spect for the integrity and aptness of
legislation to the condition of the citi
zens of the proper execution there
of, as it is of its own privileges, will
judiciously and with punctilious seu
sibility avoid displays of passion or vio
lence, which have a tendency to invite
just censure and destroy its prestige.
With all its complimented good intentions
and tirm qualities, human nature has a
side, neither flattering to its heart or head.
It may be termed the bloody side, a side
that is illustrated at the bull fight, the
cock pit and at public executions, as well
as iu more heroic, if not more histone
fields; and, at that, greatly to our shame
and confusion, as we are a creation but a
little lower than angels.
When, therefore, w'e see auy considera
ble portion of a people thrilled with
pleasurable emotion and approval of any
thing, that tones of prospective blood
letting, we cannot assent to the flattering
maxim, that “the voice of the people is
the voice of God.” However, there are
those in the moral and social world, in
the world of letters, even from the in
interpreter of the sacred volume, to the
dime novelist, and the sensational new'S
editor—not to mention the political
trickster, who measure every question of
propriety, then our pleasure or the pleas
ure of others, then our couvenicuce or
the convenience of others, then onr
rights or the lights of others, convictions
and principles, by their own conception
of public opinion; particularly if that
opinion carry with it a pecuniary value.
And iu applying this standard they very
fully appreciate the meuni, but neglect the
tuum, as an inappreciably infinitessimal
quantity. Hoes it pay? Will it put money
in the purse, and is it popular ? are the
test of the fas and the nefas.
I am led to these reflections by u cap
tion iu the Enquirer, of July 9th, "Pub
lic Opinion," followed by the statement,
that every mail brings it letters endors
ing its course and pledging support,
promising a future publication of their
vital parts, to show the Enquirer's con
currence with public opinion. To the
Enquirer, sub rosa, “Beware of the
Greeks bearing presents!”
But what has public opinion to do w ith
the right or the wrong of a man’s action ?
It can give it neither the shade of right
or taint of wrong. The temporary alarm
and excitement of a few good citizens
over what they imagine an increase in
crime, but which is only the usual history
of the American people, collated in the
daily papers through the extraordinary
facilities, never before had, of the tele
graph, do not argae, nor would they, if
crime really were on the increase, to the
calm and dispassionate, argue any vital
decay in public sentiment as to the proper
limits of a free press, nor in the defensive
and conservative energy in the judiciary
of the South when left uninfluenced by
principles antagonistic to the spirit and
interests of all its citizens.
A singular, though not very compli
mentary instance to some of the parties
concerned, of a stirring editor’s being en
dorsed and having the support of our
people pledged him, existed in the case
of Brick Pomeroy. Public opinion, if
judged by the temporary support given,
seemed to be with him. But it will be a
right brave and very truthful man now,
who will way he ever took his paper to his
family. “One swa'low does not make a
summer.” “The liberty of the press is
essential to the nature of a free State
“and it will be found true” “that to cen
sure the licentiousness, is to maintain the
liberty of the press."
One more precaution, and I am done,
and you or your “well-known attorney”
may close on the part of the press. “Well
known attorneys” are not always safe ad
visers; and such an one might strengthen
you in the belief that yon have not done
wrong or violence to an innate sentiment
of your newly mado friends, and yet the
instincts of a public, that loves what is
fair even when done to a Modoc, and is
not ashamed of or timid enough to fear
another maxim of the law (one it were
well the Enquirer should ponder) “that it
were better ten guilty ones go unpunished
than one innocent perish,” may teach you
and your legal adviser that you are wrong;
that he mistook the whole tenor of my
argument and lost the conclusion; that I
was defending no man, but only suggest
ing a limit to newspaper criticism. Now
remember that for a good round fee, you
or any other man, even your special young
friend of Opelika, whose blood the “well
known attorney” vies with you in thirst
ing for, could obtain the aforesaid attor
ney’s opinion and argument, in the face
of and against his record or writ of error
in your “Public Opinion,” before any
proper court, with a citation of more
cases and as safe, if not safer, authority
than “Roscoe’s Criminal Evidence,” to
prove that “circumstances alter cases,”
and that the correspondent of the Sun
was right who took you to task for pre
judging parties charged with crime, and,
that that, same correspondent is neither
mistaken in his interpretation of the
maxim, nor his conclusions from it. *
A CO It It ESPONDENCE.
As the controversy between the Colum
bus Enquirer and the Opelika Observer
has engaged some attention here, on ac
count of its bitter personal character, we
copy from the last named paper the fol
lowing correspondence. Mr. Strange
says, in his exceedingly caustic editorial
article embracing the correspondence,
that he does not even know the “stout,
red-faced man, calling himself Fletcher,”
and that he never authorized him or any
one else to threaten or insult Col. Cal
houn :
Columbus, Ga., July Ist, 1873.
Col. French Strange, Opelika, Ala.:
Sin: A mutual friend, Mr. , has
just called on me, and he informs me he
lately had a conversation with you, and
that from your representations, he is con
vinced I have been misinformed ns to
your intentions. An understanding is
always best among men who desire to do
right, and I offer the following explana
tion in justification of an article that was
leveled at you. Your paper had a sling
at me on Thursday. On Friday I heard ;
you wero in our oily, and that you pro
posed calling me to account for some im
agined wrong I had done you, or your
friends, and on Saturday afternoon a
stout, red-faced man, calling himself
Fletcher, came into my office. He was
half drunk, and claimed to be your friend
and “your friend’s friend.” He seemed
very indignant at something, and told me
“if I did not let up in the Hooper matter,
you would wear a cow-hide over me.” I
could not but then believe, though sur
prised, that this man spoke with your
authority. The result was the article in
question, which, like ail articles written
under a sense of injury, was stronger
than the injury would warrant.
Understanding that you disclaim any
connection with tho rumors or their
authors, I believe you, and therefore feel
I have done you an injustice, and as a
man who aims to do right, if you assure
me this Fletcher was not authorized to
speak for you, 1“ will make an apology
as public and sti'ong as was the article
referring to you. 1 have no desire for a
newspaper quarrel, and while ever ready
to defend myself, God knows I have no
wish to harm any man, and though it is
harder publicly to say I was wrong, and
mistaken than it would be to quarrel, the
line of duty will make it easy to do
justice to those whom Iha r misjudged.
Yours Very Respectfully,
A. R. Calhoun.
Reply.
Opelika, Ala. , July 3, 1873.
Col., A. H. Calhoun—Sir: I have re
ceived your letter of the Ist inst., and be
cause of my respect for Mr.—, who
has intervened, with the view of recon
ciling matters between us, feel constrain
ed to reply.
In your newspaper article of (he 2!)th
till., you made direct and positive state
ments of alleged facts, against my per
sonal honor, and numerous insulting re
marks of a personal character. The
former could never have been justified,
or palliated, by any facts such as you
specify as having actually occurred, or
even by those you state you heard hod
occurred. If your allegations against my
personal honor were true, they were not
the less true because von were misinform
ed as to olher tacts. A withdrawal,
therefore, of your assertions on any such
grounds as you suggest, would, by no
means, be acceptable tome, not well prin
cipled in you; because, if true, you can
not, honorably, withdraw them, and, if
untrue, a proper degree of self-respect
would impel you to disavow them.
Respectfully,
French Strancie.
An Interesting Exhibit of Chime. —
The criminal docket of the Superior Court,
which will shortly be taken up, exhibits
an unusual array of parties charged with
the highest crimes known to the law. 'i'he
cases are as follows : Murder, HI; burgla
ry, 0; forgery, ;i; assault with attempt to
murder, l(i; extortion, -t ; manslaughter,
1 ; arson, 1; perjury, 1 ; libel, fi; mal
practice, 4 ; larceny, b; resisting an of
ficer, 1; misdemeanor, 15 ; fornication, 9;
bigamy. 1 simple larceny, 14 ; riot, (I; be
ing a rogue and vagabond, 1 ; buying and
receiving stolen goods, 1 ; assault and bat
tery, 3 ; larceny after trust, 4. Savan
nah Xetos, Bth.
The negroes of Texas held an exclusive
State convention in Houston on the 4th
of July, and refused toendor.se the course
of Gov. Davis, carpet-bag Radical. This
exclusive negro organization in Texas is
thr more worthy of note in view of the
“unification” movement iu the adjoining
State of Louisiana.
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The publication in full of an “eloquent
prayer” is the latest feature and feat of
"live” journalism at Atlanta. Does it
suggest the thought that the minister who
uttered it was fearful as to its fate with
out such publication ? -Macon Telegraph.
And if he was so fearful, for whom
must the prayer have been intended ?
Are "live journals” mediums of commu
nication with the Throne to which it is
presumed to have been addressed ?
When well-informed persons mention
the fabric jeans, they pronounce it
“janes," and that’s how Uncle Peter came
to make another little mistake. lie went
into a store and held up a pair of gent’s
drawers, and asked if they were not drill
ing. “Those are jeans,” said the clerk.
“Lordy!” said Uncle P., blushing clear to
his toes, “How should I know it? but
don’t you ever tell anybody I tetched
’em?”
The Shreveport Tories, of the Ist inst.,
in an article ou crop prospect, says:
“ From all points we hear pretty much the
same account of the crops; corn and cot
ton doing well, wherever they have been
well worked, though many farms are
very grassy and there is a prospect of
more or less acres being turned out.
«■
An item in an Oregon horse doctor’s bill
read: “To holdin a post mortim exami
nation on a hoss who afterwards recov
ered, $1 50.”
lIRUNSMICK AND ALU ANY R. R.
CASE.
This important case is now on trial in
the Superior Court of Glynn county—
Judge Schely presiding. Possibly the re
sult of the trial may be telegraphed to us
in time for this issue. We learn from the
Savannah papers that the bonds of the
company, deposited in New York by Kim
ball, were forwarded to Brunswick to be
introduced as evidence.
Mr. Styles, of the Albany News, was in
Brunswick on Thursday, and on that day
telegraphed to his paper, reporting the
progress of the trial, and stating the main
questions involved. We copy from his
dispatch:
The main questions involved are,
whether the contract was with Kimball as
President, or with H. I. Kimball & Cos.,
as Contractors, and in either case, whether
the complainants have any lien at all.
The evidence: so far as the argument has
developed, shows conclusively that the
contract waff H. I. Kimball & Cos., and
that the complainants have no lien. The
case involves the question of lien.
In all the cases there is no prospect of
fered of adjustment of the difficulties that
envelope the road, but a motion to sell
will be strongly urged, and I have some
reasons to believe the Judge will grant the
order and make it absolute.
There are negotiations of vast impor
tance to Brunswick, Albany, Columbus
and Eufaula, and may culminate in grand
results to those cities.
Kate Stoddard, who is under arrest in
New Y’ork for the murder of Charles Good
rioh, (and concerning whose condition
there is a dispatch in this paper,,) made a
statement onFriday, in which she said that
her name was MinnieWaltham, of Middle
boro, Mass., that she was living with
Goodrich as his “mistress,” and was much
attached to him, but that he was cruelly
repulsive towards her, and ivas about to
leave her, when she,wrought up to a state
of frenzy, shot him with one of his own
pistols. This is her story in brief.
It appears that our suggestion, that
people should wait for an explanation be
fore trusting the report that Jacob
Thompson was a large defaulter to the
United States, was a timey one. A later
dispatch says that “the defiet of $821,000
charged against Jacob Thompson, Secre
retary of the Interior under Buchanan's
administration, is explained by the state
ment that that amount of Indian trust
bonds was abstracted by one Goddard
Bailey, a clerk in the Department of the
Interior. The defiet, though charged to
Thompson’s account, is carried from year
to year in the accounts of the Secretary
of the Interior.”
The New State Bonds Going Like Hot
Cakes. —Col. Jones, the efficient State
Treasurer, informed us yesterday that he
had sold just $700,000 of the new' State
bonds at par. This leaves only $500,000
to be disposed of. This flattering sale
has been made in the short space of three
months. And what is most extraordinary
of all, only $50,000 of the amount have
gone out of the State, the large propor
tion of $650,000 being taken up in the
State. Os the amount disposed of $150,-
000 were exchanged.
This is a very gratifying exhibit, and
the achievement is something of which
the State Treasurer has reason to be
proud. —Atlanta Constitution.
A New Motive Power. —There is a
marvelous story current at Washington of
the discovery of anew motive power at
Philadelphia by the use of water, ivhich
is to supercede steam on railroads, steam
vessels, etc. It is said that Tom Scott
and Edgar Thompson have investigated
the matter, aud regard the invention as a
success.
The Weekly Sun
Will be sent from now until Jan. 1,
1874, for Seventy-Five Cents.
A Doomed Office. — A mysterious and
singular fatality seems to hang over the
seat of the Orangeburg Senator in the re
constructed Legislature of South Carolina.
It is a remarkable fact that not a single
Senator from that county elected since
reconstruction has lived to serve out his
term. The Rev. B. F. Randolph, the first
Senator, was killed during the year fol
lowing his election. He was succeeded
by Joseph A. Green, a caipet-bagger, w r ho
died of consumption before his term ex
pired. At the last general election, Jas.
L. Jamison, a young, healthy and vigor
ous colored man, was elected to the seat,
and a few days ago the intelligence was
received that he, too, had died. Will this
fatality deter other politicians from as
piring to the office?— Augusta Chronicle.
“Out in the Com Wrmin ” —We he»v
“Out in the Cold World.”—We hear
it reported that about two weeks since, a
young lady of this city, who had been
rendered exceedingly unhappy by trouble
of a domestic character, left her home sud
deuly, and has not since been seen. Re
ports say that ill treatment aud persecution
by those from whom she had every reason to
expect consideration and kindness was pa
tiently born for many months, uutil hu
man nature could stand no more, and the
unfortunate young girl was driven to the
necessity of abandoning her home. When
last seen she w ; as ou a street car, leaving
for Auderson street, but not the slightest
information as to her whereabouts has
been obtained. She was about nineteen
years of age, and was regarded as a very
worthy aud reputable young lady. —Sa
vannah News.
Kentucky House Raising. —We have
before us a copy of the Georgetown, (Ky.)
Times, which describes a recent sale of
thoroughbred horses by A, J. Alexander,
j of that county ; arid as an evidence of the
lucrative character of the horse raising
business we give some of the figures,
: which will prove interesting to horse own
ers and dealers in stock. Fifty-four colts
were disposed of for $20,220 —prices ran
: ging from SBO to $5,500; a full brother
| of Kingfisher bringing tlie latter price.
I Thirty-eieht thoroughbreds brought $25,-
! 200 : an average of over SOOO. Sixteen
trotters sold for $4,720; an average of
over S2OO. We do not know that this
sale was an exceptional one. It is a fair
example of the profitable character of the
business. Kentucky has grown wealthy
through the efforts of her horse dealers,
and is the great fountain of supply for the
thoroughbred stock of the country.
: Georgia, with her advantages, ought to
regard with interest the prosperous ad
vance of Kentucky and learn a losson
: thereby.— Savannah Advertiser.
The New York Commercial (strong liad
! ical paper) has had its seusibilities greatly
shocked by the attempt of some colored
men to force themselves into a “circle”
of whites (probably gamblers iu gold,
stocks or cotton futures) at one of the
theatres there. It says that no properly
constituted colored person will thrust him
! self where he is not wanted, and that
therefore the “colored gemmen” who
sought an entrance to the “ elite white
circle at Wallack’s” were not “properly
constituted.” They propose to do things
differently in Louisiana, and Geu. Beau
regard says that they are forced to it by a
necessity imposed upon them by North
ern Radicals of the Commercial's stripe.
Receipts at Interior Towns.
The following shows the receipts of
the named interior towns from August
31st to July 14th. Their united stocks ou
the 11th were 31,75(1 against 10,470 same
date last year:
1873 1872
Augusta 170,702 142,530
Macon 01,397 54,354
Eufaula 20,481 22,025
Columbus 57,503 40,382
Montgomery 61,825 52,544
Selma 40,825 58,950
Nashville 05,112 50,810
Memphis 405,400 378,875
901,305 800,470
Wesleyan Female College.
Quite a large number of persons have
gone from Columbus and Talbotton to
the Commencement Exercises of this
popular institution at Macon, among
whose students are several young ladies
from this city and Talbot county. The
Sermon is to be preached to-day, and the
other exercises continue until Wednesday
next, and promise to be of an unusually
interesting character.
TELEGRAPHIC
LATEST DISPATCHES.
New \*ork, July 13. —The coronor's jury
convicted Lizzie Lloyd alias Stoddard of
the Goodrich murder. The jury accom
pany their verdict with some general re
marks, asserting it to be their conviction
that the coronor's jury as an institution
for the discovery of crime or detention of
criminals has out lived its necessity or
usefulness. Its place can ho effectually
supplied by some legally designated crim
inal or health authorities, or of both
combined. The coronor’s jury is more
liable to aid iu the escape of the
prisoner than to result in the discovery
and detention, it is also urged that while
the present system exists, everybody
should be inspected by a Coroner’s Jury
as soon us possible after a discovery, and
a 2>.nt mortem *-x -.mutation should follow
and not precede ~.ueh inspection. Xu ans
wer to the usual questions from the Cor
oner, the prisoner said her name was
Lizzie Lloyd King, that she was 26
years of age. The detectives answered
questions regarding the murder.
Versailles, July 13.- —The tumult in
the assembly over Gambetta’s speech
compelled the President to adjourn
the session. Upon reassembling Gambet
ta said France was revolutionary. He
glorified in universal suffrage and accused
a majority of the assembly of trying to
militate.
The Minister of Justice protested
against it.
Gambetta charges the government as
willing to accept debate upon its policy
at any time.
Wheeling, Va., July 13. —John Frazier
and Miss Foolstick, aged 17 years, eloped
from here and went to Pittsburg, and
thence to Harmony, where they stopped
at a hotel. Frazier shot the girl in the
head and then killed himself. The girl
can't live. No cause known, but it is sup
posed Frazier was jealous.
Memphis, Tenn., July 13.—Gen. B. M.
Bradford, Major of the first Mississippi
infantry during the Mexican war, and
who distinguished himself at Buena Vista,
is dead. Two cases of cholera yesterday.
Louisville, July 13.— Lsst Sunday, at
Shilop Church, near Hopkinsville, Miss
Emily Owen died at the altar, while par
taking of the communion.
Halifax, July 13. —Six hundred pack
ages of goods have drifted to sea from the
wreck of the City of Washington.
The weather is rough.
Rome, July 13.—1 tis expected the
Pope will soon bestow Cardinal hats upon
Archbishop Manning of England, and two
American Archbishops.
ORIGIN AND CAUSE OF THE CHOL
ERA IN THIS COUNTRY.
Special to the Courier-Journal.]
Nashville, July 9.—At a meeting of
doctors it was almost unanimously de
declared that the late prevailing disease
was nothing more nor less than Asiatic
cholera, and that it did not arise here
from local causes; that its course had
been from Rio Janeiro to New Orleans,
from thence to Memphis, and from thence
to Nashville; that it accompanied persons
here from those places, and that it was
greatly aggravated by the useof stale and
decaying and rotten vegetables from the
South, it having made its first appearance
near the mouth of the Wilson Spring
branch, where said vegetables were most
ly demanded.
The Mayor has withdrawn all restric
tions relative to the sale of vegetables.—
Only one case is reported iu tho county to
day, and none in the city. It seems to have
left the country where it has been more
recently raging, and the prospect for its
disappearance from the State is favorable.
RENT ON SUICIDE.
New York, July 12, —It was reported in
Brooklyn last evening that Kate Stoddart,
who is still confined in the captain’s room
at the police station, had attempted to
commit suicide. There is a woman in
the room with her, who says that she
dares not carry out her threats, but it is
feared that even this precaution will not
be sufficient to save her life, if she is kept
confined there much longer. She was
very restless last evening after heaving
that the police had captured her trunk
and obtained possession of the Goodrich
property. Once or twice she begged to
be left alone in her room, but her request
was not granted. Some say that she is
already insane, and doe3 not really know
what she is talking about. Others think
she is only feigning insanity,under advice
of council, who has long since been re
tained to defend her.
THE ORANGE PARADE.
New York, July 13. —The parade of
j the loyal Orange lodges took place here
| this morning. The procession w'as a long
one. The members were dressed in new
and neat regalias and looked well. A
heavy’ force of policemen was stationed
along the route, but thus far there has
not been the slightest disturbance.
A WHISKY AND HAIL HO AO It IXO.
New'York, July 12. —Washington spe
cial state that there is a combination of
whisky dealers and railroad men to ope
rate on the next Congress to repeal cer
tain Internal Revenue laws deemed inim
ical to their interest.
HE »» r YOEK ITEMS.
New’ York, July 12 —The Post says a
break in the cotton corner will occur uext
week, the efforts to put up the price hav
ing failed.
Win. J. Healy, paymaster of the navy’,
is dead.
Steamers Celtic and City of London
took out $1,700,000 specie.
CHOLERA REPORTS.
Cincinnati, July 12. — First cholera case
yesterday.
Memphis, July 12.—Three interments
yesterday—no cholera.
Nashville, July 12. —Five deaths yes
terday—all colored. No cholera.
Chattanooga, July 12.—Four deaths
yesterday—no cholera.
SPANISH TROUBLES IN CUBA.
New’ York, July 12.—A Havana letter
states that two entire Spanish regiments
are in revolt against the Captain General,
and will not obey his orders. Several
Spanish companies in Puerto Principe
have been withdrawn, and forts in the
northern section of the Island are being
abandoned by the Spaniards.
EIGHTH INQ.
New York, July 12. —Three houses in
Brooklyn wore struck by lightning yester
day. Several trees were torn in pieces.
At Easton, Conn., lightning killed a son
of Mr. Handy, and seriously injured two
others. It ran to the barn and outbuild
ings, which were burned.
AN IMPORTANT MARRIAGE.
New Y'ohK, July 12. —A Herald special
says the marriage of the Duke of Edin
burg and Maria, the Czar’s only daughter,
foregoes the right of succession to the
Duchy of Saxe Coburg, which fact involves
an important political consideration.
ARKANSAS POLITICS.
Little Rock, July 12.—The Governor
has mustered out all the military officers
in Pope county, and appointed Wm. A.
Crawford, formerly a Confederate Colonel,
Brigadier General of Militia. Anew reg
istration is ordered for several counties.
The Weekly Sun
Will be sent the balance of the Year for
Seventy-Five Cents.
FROM VARIOUS POINTS.
CHOLERA REPORTS.
Chattanooga, Jnly 7. —Thirty deaths, ;
all told, for the AS hours ending at 8 p. |
m., last night, which nnmber the city
physician allots in equal portions to
cholera aud to “other diseases.” Among
the cholera deaths were Mary Mont
gomery, white, aged 26; B. F. Parker,
white; L. Greene, white, aged SO; ex
poiicemau, J. D. White, white, aged 45;
1 F. H. Clause, white, aged 55 ; Miss Ada
1 Reagan, white, aged 30: aud Colonel
Gillespie on Lookout Mountain.
The disease is very severe and fatal,
but no cause for increased alarm exists.
Chattanooga. July 8,3 p. m.—Many
new cases and several deaths are reported
to-day, but 1 think the number will not
exceed eight up to its close.
, Yesterday was our saddest and most
j fatal day. The partner of Col. Gillespie,
who died from cholera on Lookout
Mountain, was in a bank to deposit some
money at 11 a. m.; at 3 o’clock p. m. he
was a corpse.
5 p. m. —Only five or six cholera deaths
are thus far reported. The names of this
day’s dead are Francis Remons, black,
aged 65, cholera; Hammond Tehopik,
white, aged 1, cholera ; Reuben Holden,
black, aged 34, inflammatory diarrhoea;
1 Lucy Harris, black, aged 14, cholera;
Charles Schoertes, white, aged C months,
cholera infantum ; Lee Whitesides, black,
aged 45, cholera; Annie Shields, black,
! aged 25, cholera.
STILL LATLR.
I have just heard of two more deaths
that are not included in the foregoing
list from the city physician’s office. The
storm of last night, it is thought, has
somewhat lessened the number of new
cases. The mortality is sudden and feal'-
ful. —Atlanta Constitution.
Four deaths from cholera in Chattanoo
ga Thursday.
Out of a population of 1,200 in Green
ville, fractions of thirteen families remain.
A correspondent of the Knoxville Press
and Herald says:
Andrew Johnson did not escape. He
remained at home until he w'as attacked,
j and then left for his country residence,
near Henderson’s depot. After a fierce
struggle with the disease, he rallied and
| got better, but, afterwards, took a relapse
j aud earne near dying. His physician, Hr.
Broyles, was sent for, who watched by
his bed-side for one whole night, never
leaving him for a moment, and finally
succeeding in enabling him to pass the
; crisis. It is said of Mr. Johnson that
j while he was at home he did all he could
j to minister to the wants of the sick aud
I the dying. I was told to-day by a gen
tleman who seemed to know what he was
talking about, that the ex-President in
| tends leaving Greenville, and will settle
in one of three places—Knoxville, Nash
ville or Washington City. He certainly
would make a valuable acquisition to any
community.
IX THE WEST.
The Estimated Losses of Crops ami other
Property—The Freshet in the West —
Immense Damage to the Growing
Crops.
Cincinnati, July B.— The following ac-
I count of the damages to the crops and
j buildings, and the estimated losses by the
; recent rains have been received here:
In Ohio, through Fayette county, the
wheat and corn has been seriously dam
aged. Many trees are uprooted and one
barn was demolished. The loss is estimat
ed at $3,000 outside of the crops. In
Washington county the crops were con
siderably beaten down, and the extent of
the loss cannot be estimated, reports not
being sufficiently full. In Belmont coun
ty several acres of timber were destroyed.
For miles around in Belmont nearly all
the fences were blown down, admit
ting stock into the grain fields. Wheat
and corn were also flattened out in Marion
county. In the vicinity of Cardington,
on Thursday and Friday, the storm level
led fences, and many valuable orchards
were ruined. In Franklin county the loss
is estimated at from $30,000 to SIOO,OOO.
The bottom lands were covered with wa
ter, destroying the crops, and a part of
the canal in the towm of Manchester is
under water.
IIERRE W COXEEREXCE.
Cincinnati, July 10. —The Hebrew
| Conference to-day adopted a Constitution
forming an association under the name
of “The Union of American Hebrew Con
; gregations.” The object of the Union is
the establishment of a Hebrew Theologi
i cal Coilege. All the Hebrew' congrega
tions in the United States are invited to
join the Union. The next meeting of the
Conference will be held on the second
Tuesday in J uly of next year.
Cincinnati, Jnly 11.— In the Jewish
Conference a resolution was adopted
j respectfully requesting the co-operation
of all Jewish congregations in the United
! States for securing a more perfect union,
| so that the establishment of a Jewish
Theological Institute and other institutes
of the Jewish religion may be promoted
j thereby. By-laws for the body were
! adopted, and the Conference adjourned to
| meet in Cincinnati on the second Tues
j day in July next.
LIRE IX WESTERX TEXAS.
Special to She Galveston News.
San Antonio, July 5.—A Herald special
of to-day has the following : “Last Mon
day twenty-five cattle drivers went to
Schreiner’s store, at Kerrville, got drunk,
and killed one citizen The citizens, who
are minute men, immediately assembled,
charged the desperadoes, killed five, drove
eight into a block house nine miles above
Kerrville, where they' ate besieged and re
fusing to surrender Citizens are trying
how starvation will work on them. The
other twelve escaped.”
A letter from Frio, dated June 80th,
says: “On Sunday Wm. Allen aud Adri
an ce Brown rode up the river after their
horses, and when about nine miles from
town they were attacked by Indians.
The men, having nothing but pistols, ran
off, but Brown’s horse gave out and both
stopped. Brown begged Allen to save
himself; to leave him. Allen did so, and,
escaping from the Indians, rode to Frio
and gave the alarm. The citizens started
in pursuit, but the Indians had escaped.
They found Brown dead and stripped.
Appearances indicate that Brown had
killed an Indian from the bloody trail
left ”
THE FIGHT FOII THE TERMINUS OF
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC R. R.
San Francisco, July 7 —The question
of the terminus of the Northern Pacific
Railroad continues to excite the people
of Puget Sound and Portland, Oregon.
| A town in Washington Territory offers in
the way of inducement a donation of land
and subscription of money amounting to
| $1,000,000, and still increasing. The
! town of Taconia offers the control of the
entire water front of the city and a large
| amount of land. In case Seattle does
i not get the terminus, a party of unques
j tionable responsibility agree to build,
equip and put in running order a branch
road from Seattle to connect with the
Northern Pacific near Taconia, by the
Ist of January next, at a far less amount
than pledged to that company by Seattle.
i STATE GRANGES—EDUCATION.
Raleigh, Jnly 9. —The masters of the
various granges in this State met here to
day and organized a State Grange. Wm.
S. Battle, of Edgarton, was made Presi
dent. The meeting was well attended
and harmonious. It adjourned to meet
again the third Wednesday in February
next.
A large State Educational Convention
was held here to-day ; all portions of the
State were represented. Hon. W. H. Bat
tle, of Raleigh, was made President.
Much interest was taken in the delibera
tions, business of an important character
being transacted.
mi Ml
BOGUS II ox ns EXJOINED.
Charleston, July 9. —In Columbia, to
day, Judge Carpenter, on motion of coun
sel representing tax payers of the State,
granted a temporary injunction restrain
ing any and all fiscal officers of the State
from levying or collecting any tax for the
purpose of paying the interest upon the
bonds named in the complaint which are
State bonds, known as conversion
bonds amounting to over seven millions
of dollars.
RAILROAD DESTRUCTION.
Lawrence, Kansas, July 9. Half a
mile of the Missouri and Pacific Railroad
track, near Kiekapoo station, dropped into
the Missouri river and sank out of sight in
the flooded stream without any warning
to the railroad men. The water where
the track was situated is now forty feet
deep. Railroad men say it is the most
fearful rent ever made. The escape of
trains was almost a miracle.
THE OLD HTIRUt,
EGYPT.
Sir Samuel Raker’s Expedition.
London, July 7. —The Herald corres
pondent at Kahrtoum telegraphs via Alex
andria a confirmation of the arrival of Sir
Samuel and Lady Baker and party, all the
details of which are known from previous
dispatches. He adds that Sir Samuel Ba
ker has succeeded in organizing district
governments, appointing superintendents,
and making Fatiko the chief station,
Godakora being next in importance. He
also established eight other principal
ports, which form a connected ehaiu from
Nubia to Nyanza, and obtained a thou
sand additional troops to complete the
garrisoning of the communications. An
important geographical discovery is said
to have been made, which will astound
the scientific world, as it pretends that
Lakes Tanganyika aud Albert Nyanza
prove to be one aud the same water, and
a magnificent inland sea seven hundred
miles in length. It is further announced
that vessels can be launched above the
falls named after Sirßoderich Murchison,
and sail to Ujiji.
Sir Samuel Baker and party are in ex
cellent health, aud leave at once for Smia
kini, en route to Suez. The above nar
rative is direct from the explorers.
FOREIGX ITEMS.
Paris, July 9.—The second installment
of 25,000,000 francs of the last milliard
of the war indemnity was delivered to the
German Treasury on the sth inst. There
now remains due to Germany but 500,-
000,000 francs which, in accordance with
the treaty signed at Berlin, in March last,
to be paid by the fifth of next September.
London, July 9.—A special dispatch
from Vienna to the Standard says . An
attempt was made yesterday by an incen
diary to fire the Exhibition building.
Correspondents of the Lontlon journals
aud other persons who have returned here
from Vienna hint that the building will
probably be burnt soon.
London, Jnly 11.—Considerable excite
ment in Belfast in consequence of appre
hensions of disturbance to-morrow during
the parade of the Orangemen. The au
thorities have made extensive prepara
tions for the maintainance of order, and
are resolved to act rigorously should the
scenes of last 11th of July be repeated.
One thousand extra policemen have been
sworn in, and an additional military force
has been sent to the city. Placards were
posted throughout Belfast this morning,
signed be Wm. Johnston, member of Par
liment from that city, deprecating the
Orange demons! rations.
SPAXISH A PI A IltS.
Madrid, July 10. —The Carlists have
captured the town of Sal Guesa, iQ the
province of Navarre, twenty-five miles
southeast of Pampalona, and shot the tax
collectors.
Madrid, July' 10. —The Carlists have
seized thirty-four residents of Morsa and
hold seven of them as hostages for the
safe return of the Insurgents now in the
hands of the Republicans ; the remaining
twenty-seven are held for ransom.
The Deputy Mayor and Consulor of
Malaga have been assassinated.
Bayonne, July 11. —The Carlists forces
which captured San Gesa, in Navarre,
were soon driven out by a force of Re
publicans, who, after they had saved the
place, burned the factories and insulted
the women; upon the pretext that the
population sympathized with the Carlists.
Madrid, July 12. — There was serious
trouble in Malaga yesterday while a bull
fight was in progress. The people of the
city rose against the municipality and
many excesses occurred. Amongst the
atrocious acts committed was the assassi
i nation of several councilors.
Lieut. General Sonchese Bregna has re
ceived orders to hasten to Navarre and
take command of the army of the North
in person.
Upon assembling of the Cortes to-day
Senor Suver, Minister «of Colonies, pre
sented and read a bill applying to the Is
land of Portoßico the constitutional clause
of 1809, with reference to individual
rights; also, applying same clause to the
Island of Cuba, with the exception of the
territory occupied by insurgents.
Dispatches have been sent to the Cap
tain General of Cuba authorizing him to
adopt tho same extraordinary measure
against the insurrectionists in that island
as have been resorted to by the Govern
ment for suppression of the Carlists in
surrection in Spain.
The abolition of slavery in Cuba will
be realized by special law.
CAIILIST SUCCESSES.
Madrid, July 12. —The defeat of the
Government troops under Gen. Cabrinett
by the Carlists, commanded by Sabalds, is
attributed to lack of discipline in the Re
publican force. The troops which were
captured by the insurgents surrendered
almost without firing a shot.
Bayonne, Jnly 12. —Advices received
here from the Carlists state that the insur
gents chieftain Scirro, with a band of five
hundred men, including fifty-five cavalry,
has crossed the river Ebro and entered
old Castile, which is organizing risings
of Carlists. There is much agitation m
Burgos, and many of the inhabitants of
that province are enlisting under the ban
ner of Don Carlos. Several bands of
Carlists have appeared in the province of
Leon. There are three chiefs in Salicia,
each at the head of an organized force.
Madrid, July 12. —The Minister of War
in the Cortes confirmed the defeat of the
Republicans near Pepall and death of
commander Cabrinett; also confirmed the
reports of the internationalist excesses in
Alcqry. The Mayor of Alcory, whom the
internationalists assassinated, was a thor
ough Republican, and had spent a for
tune in the cause. His body was dragged
through the streets, the mob yelling con
tinually. A collector of taxes was also as
sassinated and bis body treated with the
same indignity.
AR IS IT it A TIOX.
The British Commons favor it by a Close
Vote.
London, June 9. —In theHouseof Com
mons, a motion was made that the Gov
ernment should address foreign powers,
with a view of establishing arbitration as
a permanent retort for the settlement of
differences between nations. The mo
tion was supported by figures showing
the cost of standing armies. Gladstone
opposed the motion. He argued that it
would defeat its own object, because the
continental nations held widely different
views on the subject. He asked the gen
tleman to withdraw his motion. Mr.
Richmond declined to withdraw'. The
Honse divided, and the division resulted
in a tie—9B yeas to 9snays. The speaker
gave the casting vote in favor of the mo
tion, w’hich was adopted.
THE WAR IX KHIVA.
A Town Fired by the Russians—Discov
ery of 10.000 Persian Slaves.
London, July 7. —Despatches from Khiva
state that the town of Maugit, which
made a desperate resistance, was fired
and destroyed by the Russians. Kilai,
which surrendered without firing a shot,
was spared.
The victors found in Khiva 10,000 Per
sian slaves, many of whom claimed the
protection of Russia.
EVAC VATI OX OE FREXCII TER
RITORY.
Paris, July 11.—In accordance with the
treaty signed in Berlin last March, under
which the Departments of Vosges, Ar
dennes, Meuse and Menrthe and St. Mo
selle, as well as the fortress and arron
disements of Belfort, are to be evacuated
on payment of the second installment of
the last milliard of the war indemnity,
the German troops commenced to retire
on the 3d inst. The withdrawal will con
tinue by detachments until the 15th of
August, when the above mentioned coun
tries will he entirely evacuated.
CLAIMS AUAIXST THE VXITEIt
S TA TES.
London, July 10.—An advertisement
appears in the London Time* this morn
ing, calling a meeting of all persons who
have claims against the United States
which arose after the terminal date fixed
in the treaty of Washington for the pur
pose of taking joint action for the ad
vancement of their interests.
ISIS MA R CII.
Berlin, July 11.—The retirement of
Bismarck from the Prussian Ministry is
certain. He will retain the German
Chancellorship. It is reported Herr Von
Bolen will be Minister of Foreign Affairs.
COY CRESS OF GREAT ROWERS.
London, July 11.—It is reported that
the French Government is about calling
a Congress of the great powers to con
sider the treaty of commercial relations.
NEWS FROM GOTHAM.
THE ERIE RAILWAY.
New York, July 8. —The following is a
condensation of a report of the Erie Rail
road earnings. The Company have con
tinued steadily to increase for the past
half year. They have largely exceeded
those of any similar period since the com
pletion of the road.
The funded debt of the road has been
increased during the year by the addition
of ten millions convertable bonds of
which eight millions have already been
sold at par in currency. Tire remaining
two millions will probably be placed at
sale soon as they will be needed for our
new constructions and equipments now in
progress.
Assuming all these bonds to be nego
tiated the funded debt of the Company
will then be as follows:
Reported July Ist, 1873, $30,010,140;
convertable bonds $10,000,000 ; total 40,-
040,140. The stock capital of the com
pany is unchanged as reported July Ist,
1872, viz: common stock $78,000,000;
preferred stock $8,536,910; total $86,-
536,910. The floating debt of the com
pany, as reported July Ist, 1872, was
$6,463,668.20; tho present floating debt
is nearly $1,700,000, or about equal to one
month’s currency receipts, showing a re
duction since last July of $4,750,000.
The call of votes for an election of Di
rectors of the Erie Railroad ceased at 2
p. m. Forty-one million of the shares
were voted, and the Bischoffshem ticket
was unanimously elected. So apparent
was its success that 20,000,000 proxies be
longing to the McHenry and Bisclioffsheiu
interest were not cast. The result is re
garded as a complete indorsement of the
management of the road since the expul
sion of Jay Gould and the advent of
McHenry, Barlow and Waston’s manage
ment. No dividends were declared.
AXOTHER “ORAXGE” TROUBLE
REARED.
New York, July 10. —The police au
thorities are busy making preparations
for the disposition of forces during the
Orange procession on the 12th July.
Very little has been learned as to the do
ings of the Irish societies. While a large
number of the authorities do not antici
pate any more trouble on his 12th of July
than on the same day last year, there are
many who do not believe that it will pass
off so quietly, as they are constantly urg
ing the necessity of precaution requisite
to quell any disturbance that may arise.
While the force may be ordered on duty
at the Central office at 9:30 a. m., 12th
inst., detectives will be scattered among
the crowd, watching the procession, and
it will be their duty to arrest any person
attempting any violence or inciting a riot,
as w’ell as thieves found along the route.
There will be five hundred men to guar;
the Orangemen and a reserve of tL •
hundred at the Central office. The 5
authorities do not intend to call on ... -
military this time, as they believe
their force is fully able to cope e.
turbulent spirits.
S UCCES SEUE El LIU l'S TER I SO.
New York, July 9.—Steamer Virgin. ;
Capt. Williams, sailed from A-pic
eluding the vigilance of a strict Spanun
hlocade, on the night of July Ist, an i
landed on the Island of Cuba, July 7th,
a large cargo of breech-loading arms,
powder and medicines for the u-e of
the liberating armv. 4he expedition was
fitted out in Aspinwall, under the super
vision of General Manuel Tuosda, and
the Virginias was closely watched by the
Spanish man-of-war Bazan. Aften her
departure she was chased for about a hun
dred miles by the Bazan, but readily out
sailed and finally eluded her pursuers.
The entire cargo of arms, powder, match
es, medicines, clothing, etc., was safely
landed, and the Virginias reached Kings
ton, Jamaica, on her return on Wednes
day, July fe 9th. The expedition, after
leaving Aspinwall, was under charge of
Brigadier General Raphael Tuesda,
brother of General Tuesda.
THE LOST STEAMER.
Criminal Carelessness Said to be the
Cause.
New York, July 10. —A passenger on
the City of" Washington charges the loss
of the steamer is due to criminal caieless
ness of officers and crew, and that they
just barely escaped being engulfed. He
says, “the lead was never hove once and
no one had any idea where the ship was.
We had on board a Captain as passenger
who has crossed the ocean scores of
times, aud he frequently warned the chief
officer that he was running too far north
ward and advised him to ran down one
hundred miles or so southward to get the
sun and see where they were. This ad
vice was rudely declined. The second
officer, I believe, concurred in this.”
MYSTERIOUS MURDER SOLVED.
New York, July 11. —The Goodrich
murder mystery is solved. The police
have found in tranks of Kate Stoddait—
now under arrest—at her boarding house,
Goodrich’s rings, seals, pocket-book and
money which is no doubt same he had in
his possession at the time he was murder
ed. The pistol, which had three cham
bers empty, and which it is supposed she
used to commit the murder with was also
found in the trunk. Kate’s real name is
supposed to he Lizzie King.
l OUXG WAR WOR TH.
New \ork, July I(l.—Walworth’s moth
er, who, with a basket of flowers, was on
the same train, met young Walworth at
Sing Sing yesterday and took final leave
of him. The latter kept up his spirits,
and freely' conversed with the lookers-on,
and upon receiving his striped suit,
jokingly remarked : “I look as if I had
got a base ball suit on.” Ha will enter
the shoe shop to-day and learn sufficient
to become chief clerk in the blioe depart
ment,
THE TIGRESS.
New York, July 9. —Thirty of the best
and most experienced men on board the
receiving ship have been selected for the
crew of the Tigress, which is announced
to sail positively on Saturday. The Ti- i
grass will carry 250 tons of coal, and if
necessary will get anew supply at St.
Johns. By this evening all supplies of
provisions w ill be shipped. i liey are j
composed principally' of pork and fatty ;
matter. A large quantity of prepared
bread will be taken, also canned vegetables
and fruits. The total amount ot" provi
sions carried will be rations for forty men
for two years.
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THE XOR Til AX D SO U Til ALABAMA
RAILROAD.
New Yore, July 9.—Suit lias been be
gun in the Supreme Court, in behalt of
Jas. Seiigman and others, to prevent the
mortgage made by the North & South
Alabama Railroad Cos., from being can
celled. It appears the plaintiffs agreed
to dispose of bonds of the railroad, re
ceiving a commission of .Oil, per cent, on
the whole amount, but defendants faded
o carry out their part of the agreement:
the suit.
TRIAL OE THE MODOCS.
Fort Klamath, July 10.—The Military
Commission met and proceeded with the
trial of Capt. Jack, Schonchin, Boston
Charley, Black Jim, Statuck and Braneho,
implicated in the Can by massacre. The
following are the charges against them :
First, murder in violation ot the laws of
war. The speoitirtions reports facts
already known. Three witnesses have
been examined— T F Riddle, his Indian
woman, Toby, S. D Dyar. Toby swears
positively that Capt. .jack shot. G eneral
Can by ; Schonchin Mr. Meucliam, Boston
Charley Dr. Thomas, and that Hooker
Jim tried to kill L. D. Dyar; also, that
Braneho knocked her down with a gun
and tried to take her horse. The testi
mony of Riddle corroborates his wife’s
testimony.
XEW HAMPSHIRE DIA BOLISM.
Concord, July 9. —An attempt was made
last night to throw the Boston Express
train off tlie track near Sinecook. Two
men were seen placing ties upon the
track by a woman, whom they beat (o in
sensibility and dragged to concealment
among the bushes. She recovered con
sciousness and managed to reach Sine
cook depot and gave notice of the ob
structions and saved the train from im
pending destruction. The assailants
robbed the woman of her satchel, contain
ing nearly S4OO. The satchel was found,
but in place of money was a piece of pa
per on which was plainly written in lead
pencil: “We made more money than
we should if we had tipped off the train
—you fool.” No traces of the men could
be found.
FIRE IX MASSAC 111 SETTS.
Westminster, July 11.—By a site in
Burdette’s Block 200 finished and unfin
ished frame buildings were destroyed.
Loss $150,000.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
REGARDING THE RELEASE OF MANTA-
N.V AND RIG TREE.
Washington, July 7. —ln an interview
between Secretary Delano, Gov. Davi-, ~f
of Texas, and Mr. Smith, Com
missioner of Indian Affairs, iu
reference to the release of Santana and
Big Tree, it was agreed that Superinten
dent Hoag should notify the Kiowas and
Couiauches to meet at Fort Sill, Texas
for a conferance with Commissioner
Smith and Gov. Davis, on the Mb of Au
gust next. Superintendent Hoag thinks
the prisoners should be released, as he is
under the impression that Gov. Davis
promised them if t lit?\ would return their
captives and behave themselves, the re
lease of the imprisoned chiefs would be
ordered.
The Indians have returned their cap-
tives and now promise to behave them
selves; but Gov. Davis is not disposed to
put any confidence in their promises,
and wants time toprove the truth of them
He demands as a condition for the imme
diate release of Santana aud Big Tree that
the Indians will give up their arms and
return to their reservation, place them
selves under military surveillance and
; draw their rations; until then the prison-
I eis cannot be surrendered. He believes
the only true peace policy for Texas rs to
I deprive Indians of their anus and horses,
and let the military have complete control
of them.
Secretary Delano expressed hiuiseit as
having more confidence in the Indians
tlin.li Gov. Davis has; while he, of course,
desired that peace be maintained, he was
in favor of dealing as leniently as possi
ble with the Indians, ami thought the
fact that they had returned the captives,
arid were now behaving themselves was an
argument in favor of their future good be
havior.
Gov. Davis leaves here this week for
New York to make some effort to dispose
of s9oo,oint worth of Texas bonds bearing
7 per cent, interest, pay able in gold.—
The State debt is about $1,600,000, a
greater part of which was incurred
by maintaining troops for frontier de
fense. He will return to Texas in about
ten days, and meet Commissioner Smith,
of the Indian Bureau, at Sherman the lat
ter part of the month, from which point
they will go to Fort Sill for the confer
ence.
POLITICAL QUARREL IX TEXAS.
Special to tire Cincinnati Commercial.
Washington, July 7. — The Republicans
of Texas have a bitter quarrel on hand
about the nomination for Governor. The
present Governor Davis is a candidate
for re elect dbe i violently opposed
to V» ! -. v- i',-i.-.mi at Galveston,
• . —nt the Admin
..sitstr. •. A tne custom with this
i iliticians, they have
LCCe;i.,-:.i g ti-e President for uibiiration.
i-i'ia:* J Postmaster C'laike have
uv.' it.a j their way to Long Brunch.
•i. 'la LA-etY mat Davis has gone bar k
.A -tile Davis charges that
. ..t-'iA i.te raiiZtsl the negroes and
laii'accac i..: i-sties as Postmaster.—
'l--. ; =.- - : the Indian
chiefs. 1. c Trie® and Sotanta, enters
into it.-r r.iec; D*vis has heietofore
opposed the pardon of these murderers,
nu..- il-. Administration has favored it.
Os course, tne large majority of the peo
ple ot Texas oppose it, and are wiih the
Govern-.r on the question. L*avi.s is very
confident of renomination even without
the support of the Administration.
third term movement.
It appeals that the movement of the
office-holders to secure the renominaiiou
of Gen. Grant for a third term has already
culminated. It is stated that the prelimi
naries were arranged At Long Branch
several days ago, and it is not denied that
the President is cognizant of it. Those
having the matter in charge seem to
count very largely upon the divisions sup
posed to exist in the ranks of the opposi
tion, aud upou their ability to rally the
moneyed interests of the country to the
support of their scheme. Under the
head of their moneyed interests they in
clude the National Banks, the railroad
corporations, and the large capitalists.
These they allege are for Grant, because
under his administration it is not likely
that any legislation will be enacted hostile
to those institutions.
Another argument used, is that there is
no man in the Republican party who has
developed greater popular strength than
Grant, and it is hardly probable that
within the next three years he will have
a dangerous rival. Os course, the official
patronage will be used in manipulating
conventions aud in securing delegates.
Some of the President’s friends think it is
too soon to agitate the question of the
succession, but the matter has been kept
very quiet, and it was not expected to be
made public until at least a year hence.
If Grant should fail to get the nomina
tion, his friends assert that he will be able
at least to name his successor.
Special to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Washington, July B.— The well under
stood hankering of Gen. Grant fora third
term has just provoked a speech from ex-
Congressiuau Porter, a Radical, to the
Virginia negroes, in opposition to his
having a third term. The New York
Herald of to-dav has a long leader to the
same effect. The Republican politicians
are very uneasy aboil* this political com
plication. A prominent Radical Senator
said recently that he supposed the increase
of the President’s salary would remove
his desire for a third term
HARPER’S EE Jilt t.
Washington, July 10. —The Attorney
General has written a letter in relation to
the suits now pending to enforce the
vendor’s lien on the Harper’s Ferry prop
erty, in which he says: “It is not my in
teution to have the property offered for
sale under the vendor’s lien until all the
outstanding claims against the property
are adjusted, and particularly not until it
lias been judicially determined what if any
right or claim the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company have to the property
or any part thereof.
THE COTTOX CROP.
Washington, July B.— Partial reports
received at the Department of Agriculture
from the cotton legions to July Ist rej
sent much wet weather, which in soma
States will make the crop baekwaul m
maturing. Indications are that whatever
may be the injury to the crop from this
and other cases, any deficiency will, it is
supposed, lie supplied by thelaiger plant
ing area than heretofore, and therefore it
is believed that the crop of this year will
at least be equal to tl at of last.
COTTOX CLAIMS.
Washington July 10.—A. P. Moore,
counsel for claimants, telegraphs from
Newport regarding a test case. They
have gained the great Gumming cotton
claim before the British Commission
here. The cotton was captured on Red
river. The award is twenty thousand
dollars.
BOLD ATTEMPT AT BAN K ROBBERY.
One of the Perpetrators Killed.
San Francisco, July 12.—At Marys
ville a bold attempt was made by three
men to rob the Bank of Dracker Jewett.
Frank Whipple, one of the robbers, en
tered and presented a pistol at Jewett, he
said. Jew ett fell down and made his way
to the desk, where Mr. Bingham, Chief
Clerk, was writing. Whipple leaped over
the counter, followed by Bingham, who
instantly shot Whipple in the neck V
desperate and general fight then ensued.
Several shots were fired wheu the com
batants dubbed their pistols. The rob
bers were finally whipped and turned to
ran out of the bank, when Bingham and
Jewett simultaneously tired upon Whipple
with double barreled shot guns, and ho
fell mortally wounded on the side-walk.
Whipple says lie had two confederates.
MEXTCAX IXTEL L/G EX'C E.
City of Mexico, July 1, via Havana. —
The Revolution in Yucatan is extending
and the country has been declared to be
in a stale of siege.
An election for members of the Mexi
can Congress will be held on the sixth
inst. Indications are that a majority of
the next Congress will be opposed to the
Administ ration.
No excitement was created over Col.
McKenzie’s raid.
'The Mexican press are urging Govern
ment to confer rights of citizenship upon
foreigners without compelling them to
renounce the nationality of their birth.
TELIMiIi.tfHIC BREVITIES.
Walworth, the parricide, with nine oth
er criminals, nmnacled alike, were taken
to Sing Sing Penitentiary.
The World’s Washington special saye
that the Chief Justiceship has been ten
dered to Hon. Roscoe Conkling, of New
York.