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BLODGETT'S “ PARDON” VOID.
The Atlanta Herald publishes the de
cision of Judge Hopkins, of the Superior
Court, in the cases against Foster Blod
gett and his securities, in Fulton county.
We would like to publish the decision in
full, but have not the room to-day. Judgg
Hopkins makes recitals which show that
Blodgett appealed to Conley for pardon,
denying his guilt, and asserting that he
could not get a fair trial, as public opinion
had prejudged his case. Bullock, fugitive
ox-Governor, joined in the recommenda
tion for pardon on the same grounds. The
pardon was granted on the 9th of January,
1872, and accepted. It recited the grounds
for it as stated by Bullock and Blodgett.
Judge Hopkins decides that a pardon
must be based upon either a conviction or
a confession of guilt, and cites strong au
thorities to sustain this point. “The
Governor has power to grant pardon for
offenses against fte State. When there is
no offense against the State, there is no
offender—no guilt—nothing to be for
given. In a case of guilt he may pardon
and he is responsible for an abuse of the
power: in a case of innocence, he cannot
pardon—it is beyond the limit of his
power, and an attempt by the use of an
act called a pardon to protect an innocent
man from a threatened improper convic
tion, is a nullity.”
Again, the pardon is void on the ground
of deception in its procurement. Even if
it be true that many persons had pre
judged Blodgett’s case, the Judge holds
that such persons could not get upon the
jury, because all eligible jurors are re
quired to swear that they have no bias or
prejudice against the accused.
Judgments for the State were entered
in each case.
The Post Master General has notified
Congressman Freeman that hehas appoin
ted John N. Swift Post Master at Lytho
nia, DeKalb county, Ga., in the place of
Win. C. Smith resigned.— Griffin News.
As we don’t know anything about Mr.
Swift, we can’t have any objections to his
appointment. But the fact that the Post
master General notified Congressman
Freeman of the appointment raises our
curiosity. Have such appointments been
parcelled out to the Congressmen from
the several States? Are Democratic Con
gressmen, as well as Radicals allowed to
make selections for their respective Dis
tricts? And what becomes of “civil ser
vice reform” when the opportunity of re
warding party favorites and purchasing
the influence of local politicians is thus
given to Congressmen? It is not presu
mable that they will use their power of
appointment lor the promotion of their
own selfish ends rather than for the effi
ciency and honesty of the public service?
What we most need in this country now
is the turning of the river of public in
dignation through the Augean stables at
Washington, and it is to bo hoped that
the people will soon find a Hercules com
petent to the task.
The New York World -of Sunday last
states one of the results of the “corner”
in cotton in New York, confirmatory of
our proposition that a sudden rise pro
duced by the operations of gamblers, and
not sustained by the condition of supply
and demand, could only be hurtful to
both producers and manufacturers of cot
ton. Tho World says : “ The mischief
of tho cotton gambling in New York has
been that it has stopped consumpton at
home. This consumption should be over
20,000 bales a week, whereas the cotton
mills are either standing idle or running
on half time. And instead of buying the
mill owners are actually selling cotton to
speculators to cover their shorts. The
bears tender actual cotton to the bulls in
stead of paying differences, and the latter
operators lose from 2 to 3 cents a pound,
to tho great satisfaction of everybody but
themselves.”
The Montgomery State Journal of
Wednesday reports quite a lively scene
between three of the high officials of its
party on Tuesday. The trouble grew out
of the appointment by the City Court of
another Solicitor in the place of Solicitor
Knox, against whom “grave charges” had
been preferred before the grand jury. It
waR understood that Capt. Whiting and
Sheriff Strobach had been before the
grand jury and had something to do with
the charges. After his suspension Knox
was seen hotly chasing Whiting down
Washington street, until the hitter took
refuge in a store and police arrested
Knox. Afterwards Knox and Strobach
engaged in an angry altercation and were
about to pitch into each other, when the
police again interfered to preserve the
peace. All the parties mentioned are
Radical leaders in Montgomery—loud
mouthed denouncers of ku-kluxism and
other violence at the South. It was ex
pected that the Mayor would have the
matter up before him on-Wednesday.
The Sherman (Texas) Courier says:
“We understand that Col. Irvin, division
engineer, has received orders to send all
the iron at this point to Dallas, to be used
from that place to complete the Texas
aud Pacific railway to Sabine Pass. By
Ist of August it is thought that that road
will bo completed to Dallas, aud all this
country will then have direct railroad
communication with New Orleans, via
Red River and Shreveport. The Texas
Pacific, it is understood, will reach Fort
Worth this year."
River Crops. —A few dayssince we had
an opportunity of seeing the growing
crops on several twins near Apalachicola
river, and were gratified to note vigorous
growth and fine promise. Although the
low lands have been threatened by
freshets and slightly overflown on several
occasions, yet the damage has been very
slight, and the loss unworthy of regard or
consideration. The prospects for the
success of river farmers were never more
promising.— Marianna Courier, 10 th.
The Virginia Campaign.—The National
Republican, which is carrying the weight
of organship for the Virginia negroes,
carpet-baggers aud Bouibons, announces
that ex-Gov. Wise has written another
letter, which practically lauds him in the
Radical camp. It is probable that the ex-
Governor, in his anxiety to get the Radi
cal nomination, is bidding higher; but it
will make no difference whatever, as Mr.
Hughes will certainly be nominated and
enjoy- the honor of his defeat,— 117mA
ington Cor. Louisville Courier.
The Saturday Review reviews merci
lessly one of the “goody" books of which
the age is so prolific entitled, “Very Lit
tle Stories for Very Little Girls.” It says,
“This author, with her "words in season,
for spring time, reminds us that we once
heard of a person in greasy black clothes
and a white tie who got into an omnibus
and handed to his fellow-travelers a tract
bearing the inspiring title, ‘Are you aware
that you are going to hell?’ ”
The Washington Gazette thinks that
Graut “has been singularly fortunate in
his selection of Cabinet officers.” As he j
got the houses aud lots and libraries be-!
fore he appointed them, it strikes us that
he would have been just as fortunate if
he hadn't appointed them at all.— Courier-
Journal.
Mr. Murray, eulogising the Adirondack:
in the Congregationaliat, says there is a j
charm in those solitudes which is good for I
all. “In this instructive stillness,” he \
adds, ‘"the preacher realizes the foolish
ness of preaching, and learns how much
more impressive is God’s silence than
man's talk.”
The late Jesse R. Grant bequeathed his |
entire estate, about $75,000, to his three
daughters. He left nothing to the Presi
dent.
LABOR-NOBIS AND SOViS-
It is no uncommon thing for Radical
presses and politicians of the North to
taunt and sneer at the people of the
South for their indolence. The late con
temptuous and presumptuous admonition
of the Attorney General of the United
States, that we had “better attend to our
business and let politics alone,” had a pre
cursor, and still finds an echo, in the dog
matic reproof of the radical press that
what is needed at the South is more
work, and less attention to politics. We
propose, in this article, to show that the
assumption that the Southern people are
less of a working people than the North
ern is entirely unfounded, and therefore,
when a working man of the North re
proaches us in this respect, he ignorantly
condemns a people fully as industrious
and productive as those of his own sec
tion ; and when an idler of that region—
be he a dishonest speculator, a bondhold
er supported in ease by taxes wrung from
the hard-working people,-or a Federal of
ficer with a sinecure--indulges in similar
assumptions and upbraidings, he does so
in utter disregard of tho frailty of his
own “glass house.”
The single fact that one-half of those
States known as “the Southern,” produce
annually four millions of bales of cotton,
worth is sufficient to refute
the charge of idleness. This magnificent
industry not only contributes more than
any other to the clothing of the world,
but it furnishes a raw material by whose
lighter manipulation millions of people
in other States and countries obtain em
ployment and a comfortable living.—
Even many of those who indulge in these
taunts and sneers against us are stockhold
ers in Northern cotton mills yielding them
princely incomes; and they and their super
intendents teach their ignorant operatives
—most of them women and children—that
the South, which, by labor of a severity
to which they are utter strangers, produ
ces the cotton that they spin and weave,
is a section of idlers and vagrants! The
million bales of Southern cotton yearly
manufactured by Northern mills afford an
ever-present refutation of the ungener
ous calumny.
We will not add to our cotton produc
tion the vast industry represented by the
sugar and rice culture of these same cot
ton States, and by the tobacco and tur
pentine production of other Southern
States. But we proceed now, by a com
parison of statistics afforded by the Uni
ted States census of 1870, to show that a
greater proportion of the people of the
Southern States than of the Northern
are engaged in what the census calls “oc
cupations of good repute. ”
The “Compendium of the Ninth Cen
sus” gives a table of “Occupations,” show
ing the “number and sex of persons en
gaged in each class, by States and Terri
tories, in 1870.” It gives the number of
persons over ten years of age engaged in
“gainful and reputable occupations only.”
To copy the whole table would require
too much labor and space. But we do
not intend to make selections favorable
to the proposition which we are seeking
to establish. W e will take the two South
ern States upon which w r e can look from
our office door, and compare them with
the great representative Northern States,
Massachusetts, New York and Pennsyl
vania.
The first column below gives the total
population in the State over ten years of
age; the seoond, the whole number of
persons engaged in “reputable” occupa
tions; and the third, the number engaged
in agriculture :
Total pop. All occ. Agric.
Alabama, 708,802 305,258 291,828
Georgia, 835,929 414,878 338,145
Blassachusetts 1,160,806 579,844 72,810
New York, 3,378,959 1,490,018 374,323
Pennsylvania, 2,597,809 1,020,544 260,051
Those who will take the trouble to make
the computation will see that in Alabama
and Georgia more than one half of the
population over ten years of age are en
gaged in reputable occupations; while in
neither Massachusetts, Now York nor
Pennsylvania are one half of the people
over that age, engaged in such occupa
tions. In New York and Pennsylvania
tho number falls considerably below one
half. If, instead of Massachusetts, New
York and Pennsylvania, we had taken
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, as the North
ern States for the comparison, the advan
tage on the side of the South would have
been still greater.
A little closer look into the census sta
tistics shows us that even the above fig
ures do not represent the case as favorably
to the South as the facts would warrant.
In the matter of hard work—work in the
fields—work fully coming up to the Di
vine sentence, “in the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat bread”—the Southern
States are largely ahead. More than
three-fourths of their people with reputa
ble occupations are engaged in agricul
ture, while leas than one-eighth of the
population of the Northern States above
selected are engaged in tilling the ground.
Again, some of the occupations classed as
“gainful and reputable,” and included
above, are of a very light kind of work
and rather fancy than productive, such as
apiarists, ilorists, actors, Milliard and
bowling saloon keepers, clerks in Govern
ment offices, and employees of Govern
ment. Most of these are to be found in
tho North, and materially help to augment
the numbers employed, and to that extent
diminish the producing population em
braced in the census returns.
These facts and figures make an exhibit
which cannot be disputed. They show
the South to be the hard working portion
of this country—by its industry furnish
ing the chief staples that pay for our im
portations, and at the same time keeping
in operation large industries at the North.
They ought to make the calumny choke
the throats or paralyze the h inds of those
who say or write that we are behind the
North as a working people.
CHOLERA.
This pestilence is evidently making
steady advances over this country. It ap
pears to have been introduced into New
Orleans about the latter part of May, by a
German emigrant vessel, and after com
mitting some ravages in that city, it ad
vanced up the Mississippi, Ohio, and
Tennessee Rivers, spreading to the towns
on their banks. Memphis, Tenn., has
suffered rather severely, the deaths from
the epidemic in that city on the 22d of
June numbering 55. We hear of it pre
vailing also at Nashville, Gallatin, and
other towns in Tennessee. Advancing up
the Ohio River, its prevalence is an
nounced in Evansville, Indiana, Cincin
nati, Ohio, and Wheeling, W. Va. From
Memphis it appears to have also deflect
ed eastward, still following, as usual, the
main lines of travel. Then it is reported
to have appeared in Washington, D. C.,
thus leaping from the valley of the Ohio
to that of the Potomac, skipping over the
intervening towns. These may hereafter
suffer or escape entirely as has so often
occurred in the history of this epidemic.
The epidemic appears from the reports
received to be less fatal and to attack a
smaller proportion of the population than
at its previous visitations.
At the South it has been far more fatal,
according to all the reports, to the color
ed than to the white population.—Medi
cal News {Phil.)
Here is a case in point to illustrate the
correctness of a proposition made by us
the other day, iu an article on “fighting.’’
We take it from a New York dispatch of
the 15th inst:
Peter Wilson, brother of police Cap
tain Wilson, had a talk with Patrick Cas
sells, of 241 Delancey street, last evening,
and called him a liar. Cassells immedi
ately struck Wilson in the face, and the
latter fell, his head striking the curbstone.
At the time he was not thought to be seri
ously injured, but at half past five this
morning he died. Cassells was arrested.
IRE BN QVIP. SB ASS OVMtlfirSt,
The Enquirer of yesterday publishes a
communication highly eulogistic of its
editor and breathing defiance to his foes
(real or imaginary,), over the signature
“X.” The editor caps it “A Timely Good
Letter,” and was no doubt as much sur
prised as gratified by this hearty endorse
ment of his course by “a native Geor
gian.” We would not disturb his quiet
enjoyment of it, but for the closing para
graph “leveled” at us, which is as fol
lows:
Before closing I cannot refrain from
commenting on the course of the Sun.—
This paper appears to have a spite at you.
The editor, who is a clever old fellow in
his way, but ought to have lived a centu
ry ago, has writ himself dry, and daily his
paper has communicated articles that are
aimed at you—the latest an I won
der if he ever killed anybody. If he has,.
I hope he has repented and don’t want
to kill anybody else, especially by this
worrying process. In how much better
taste and spirit it would have been for the
Sun to have extended you true Southern
hospitality, helped you on, advised you,
if you made a mistake tell you in a kind
manner and put you on the right track.
But no, you are “come at” in spirit of
spitefulness, of jealousy, of a kind of “I
wish you hadn’t come here” manner, and
“I’ll make it too hot for you to remain.”
Now, we ask this community, when and
how have we exhibited any “spitefulness”
or “jealousy” towards the Enquirer un
der its new management? If we have ad
mitted into our columns a single harsh
expression towards that paper or its ed
itor, let the remark be produced. If we
have even called him a “Yankee”—a term
which he seems fond of applying to him
self, but at the same time highly offended
if others_u.se it—point out to us the date
and the article. The truth is, we have
been much more careful to exclude
from our paper everything relating
to the Enquirer or its editor, that might
offend the most sensitive man, than ever
we were to avoid anything offensive to
wards a Southern editor. We have now
on hand several communications, reply
ing to its articles, which we have declined
to publish simply because of the severity
with which they criticise its editorials,
but which communications we would have
published without any hesitation if they
had in tho same strain criticised our own
writings. In the same spirit we have re
fused to copy, or even to allude to, an ar
ticle in a Pennsylvania paper, sent to us
for our notice, making serious charges
against the editor of the Enquirer. Does
this look like “spitefulness” or “jeal
ousy ?” Does it not, on the contrary, go
to show that we have extended to him the
“true Southern hospitality” that this cor
respondent blames us for not extending ?
But we have “writ” articles aud pub
lished communications differing from the
views of the Enquirer! Well, we have.
And we have to confoss that our “true
Southern hospitality” is not so exuberant
as to recognize the infallibility of the
views of even a stranger editor, especially
when he daily holds up to ridicule or ani
madversion our customs, our “civiliza
tion,” and even our religious notions.
We have dissented from his proposition to
open the Southern pulpit to the same
wide range of discussion common at the
North ; we have protested against the too
hasty judgment of persons accused of
crime; we have defended our section
from the imputation that it is behind
other sections in industry ; and we have
admitted communications taking issue
with the Enquirer in its views of South
ern and Northern “civilization.” But we
repeat that neither in our own editorials,
nor in the communications that we have
admitted, has there been a single expres
sion that could fairly be regarded as offen
sive to the Enquirer, or as indicative of
“spitefulness” or “jealousy” towards it.
If thero has been, point it out.
Is it expected of us that we must sur
render all our old teachings, impulses and
convictions, at the first challenge of anew
comer ? Are we not even to be allowed
the right of fair and courteous discussion,
for fear of exhibiting a spirit of “jeal
ousy” and “spitefulness?” This would
be carrying “true Southern hospitality” to
an extent far beyond our idea of its scopei,
and far beyond our intention.
We thank our unknown friend for the
compliment which he pays us in say-ing
that we ought to have lived a hundred years
ago. Perhaps this age is too “fast” for
us, in its manners at least. The person
ality of sensational journalism we never
expect to catch up with. But possibly
the writer may mistake the tastes and de
mands of the public. We have at least
gratifying assurances that many appre
ciate our quiet, courteous style of com
•mentation or argument, and it will re
quire a great deal more of commotion
than has yet been occasioned here to
make ns change it.
In answer to the inquiry whether we
ever “killed anybody-,” we assert most pos
itively that we never did, and had no idea
that we were suspdbtedof it. But we can’t
understand what this inquiry has to do with
the relations between us and the Enquirer.
Must an editor “kill somebody” before he
becomes qualified to discuss iu his paper
the public questions of the day ? We
have had in Columbus a number of edi
tors who ranked as men of ihe highest
talents, but we never heard of such a test
before. Perhaps we never before saw in
a Columbus newspaper such rudeness of
language as we have lately become ac
customed to, but we trust that even such
evidence of improving “civilization” will
not impose on us the alternative of “kill
ing somebody” or surrendering the edito
rial pen.
THE RHETT-COOLEY DUEL.
The second thought of the country will
sustain Col. Rhett. An unbearable insult
was offered. Had he endured it in silence,
all its bad purposes would have been ef
fected, and his usefulness as a public man
would have been at an end. It is far
easier to tell others how to endure an in
sult than to do it yourself. Either a
street fight or a fair encounter on the field
of honor. We regret the killing, but if
somebody had to die, then we are glad it
was not Col. Rhett. Life is not more
dear than reputation to a true man. If a
sacrifice had to be, thank Heaven that
sacrifice was not he, brave as gentle, who
championed the righteous cause. There
is no true man who does not honor him,
Col. Rhett. There is no good man who
does not rejoice that the God of justice,
and the God of battles, shielded him in
that mortal strife in which he bravely rep
resented his country, and that Providence
brought him off unharmed from the peril
which his public position made it neces
sary- for our sakes that he should encoun
ter. From our heart of hearts we say, in
view of that result, God be praised for his
safety. — Eufa ula Times.
Touching Incident of Mr.. Davis’
Visit to St. Louis. —During the late visit
of Hon. Jefferson Davis to this city, while
he was being called on by crowds of res
pectable citizens, and receiving manifesta
tions of respect from hundreds of the
most prominent and worthy ladies and
gentlemen of this city, there occurred a
little episode of a very pleasing character.
One night, during his stay at the Planter’s
House he was serenaded by some colored
people, who were formerly his slaves.
After their dulcet strains had ceased, Mr.
Davis called them into his room where,
after cordial greetings on both sides, and
a little chat about old times, he made
each a handsome present. At another
time during his stay he was called on by
an “old aunty” who had been the nurse
of his oldest child. The affection that the
ex-slaves manifested for their former mas
ter, and the interest which he manifested
for them and their future welfare, was
really affecting.— St. Louis Christian Ad
vocate.
The Selma Times says that in the course
of a week more, caterpillars will be on
every plantation in the prairie lands of
that and surrounding counties. We con
versed with a number of gentlemen from
the country yesterday, and they all said
they had caterpillars.
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Crop Si Schools/ EnjoymeAts, &c.
Editor Sun : I have noticed reports
from various sections of the country in
regard to the crops. I thought it wouldn’t
be “ time lost” to give you an accurate
report from this section and the condition
of the people generally.
As far as my observation extends, and
from what I have learned from the plan
ters, there will not be more than half a
crop realized. The drought has injured
the crops very much, and the corn has
commenced firing, some stalks nearly up
to the ear, and the need of rain is seen
through the entire neighborhood.
It is quite a gloomy time indeed with
the farmers. A great many of them have
their crops under mortgage for supplies
furnished and to be furnished them by
the merchants, to enable them to run their
farms, and the prospect of paying for
such is very gloomy.
The farmers, I believe, have all nearly
finished “ laying by” their corn, as they
term it. and are working industriously to
get rid of “General Green,” to be found
in some portions of the cotton crop. The
grass has fought the farmers a tight fight,
but they have nearly conquered it at last.
The people are having pic-nics and
social parties frequently, and the young
heads seem to take great interest in them.
We had a fine pic-nic at Pine Knot Springs
last Saturday, 12th inst. There was quite
an attractive crowd there, several from
Columbus; all seemed to have a fine
time. The table was crowded with every
thing in the vegetable line that yon could
call for, and the day passed pleasantly
away, and each one set out for home at
the close of the happily spent time.
We have plenty of fruit, or will have in
a few days, but what few peaches I have
seen are very sorry and very small. The
watermelon crop is nearly a complete
failure ; the vines are all dying on ac
count of the dry weather.
Our school examinations have passed
off very favorably, and the schools soon
will open again. We have in our midst
Mr. John J. Harvey, of Talbottor, Ga.,
who has charge of the preparatory school
of this place, and we are glad to say that
we find him an excellent teacher. His
school will be reopened the third Monday
in July, inst. Through his aid we have
formed a Literary Society which the
people seem to take great interest in.
Well, Mr. Editor, I will bid you adieu
for this time, and hope to be able to con
tribute often in the future. In haste, I
am, yours, &c. V. H. W.
Cusseta, Ga., July 15, ’73.
CA TER PILEA RH EATING THE COT
TON PLANT
West Florida Correspondence of the Sun.
Greenwood,-Jackson County, Fla., >
July 10, 1873. j
The caterpillar is the absorbing topic
of conversation here and throughout the
county, Since their first appearance, up
to a few days ago, they had made such
progress, and the reported destruction of
them by a bug which somewhat resembles
an aligator, caused many to believe that a
fair crop of cotton would be made, but
yesterday an examination of several plan
tations where they had first made their
appearance, dissipated all such hopes, as
they materially injured the cotton, and
there is but little doubt that it will be
totally destroyed by the present crop of
caterpillars. If the early cotton on the
uplands escape their ravages for the next
four weeks, a fair crop will be made on
it. The damage, so far, is confined to a
few plantations, and in some portions of
the county no caterpillars have yet been
discovered. This was the case last year,
but it was only a few days after they had
destroyed the cotton in this neighborhood
before there was a total destruction
throughout the whole county.
The Caterpillar Destroyer Compound,
that I previously spoke of as having been
effectually tested, only killed the worms
then on the plant. They have since re
turned, and are equally as fond of it
where the compound was applied as they
were before. One planter is now having
them knocked off of the plant and plough
ing them in during the middle of the day,
with the hope of retarding them in that
way. If the crop hero is as great a failure
as that of last year, there will be great
suffering.
RELIGIOUS.
The progress of the various churches
in this neighborhood, which has almost
been dormant for the past three years, is
now encouraging. The Rev. Dr. ,
(Presbyterian) of Virginia, visited this
place several weeks ago, and two additions
w r ere made to his church at this place,
and his efforts evidently benefitted other
churches. Last Sunday 1 witnessed the
baptising of nine persons at tho Blue
Springs, by Mr. Langly, of the Baptist
church here, and two more were baptised
the following day. About the same num
ber were added to this church a few
months ago.
A. lIEItOIC A MERIC AX STUDENT.
A Young Kentuckian Saves the Life of a
Young Countess—Two Thousand amazed
Spectators—Reward of True Courage.
At the gala regatta of the South German
Boating Association at Mannheim, in Ba
den, on the 13th of June, there took place
an event which shed considerable lustre
on American gallantry, and which ended
in a most romantic manner. On the
above mentioned day the banks of the
Rhine were lined with spectators, among
which the South German aristocracy was
fully represented. Just, as the crews of
four boating societies were speeding past
the last pillar of the new bridge, a thrill
ing spectacle attracted all eyes. A hand
some young lady, most elegantly dressed,
who had been leaning over the low railing
of the bridge, suddenly lost her balance
and fell into the water, which was at least
seventy-five feet underneath. Two or
three heartrending shrieks burst from the
lips of those standing near, aud then the
thousands of spectators, losing ail interest
in the race, looked with brealhless sus
pense for the result of this terrible acci
dent. The poor young lady struck the
water heavily, and disappeared at once.
The Rhine is at that place deep and rapid;
and when the aged father of the unfortu
nate lady, in a voice of agonizing grief,
offered a princely reward to whosoever
would save his daughter, there was no
response.
All at once a tall young man, in the
costume of a German student, and wear
ing the gold-embroidered cap of the Van
pal Society-, of Heidelberg, rushed to the
left bank of the river, and plunged boldly
into the water—a leap of thirty feet.
There was a loud shout of applause, and
then again a pause of breathless silence.
All eyes were riveted on the gallant swim
mer as he struggled against the rapid cur
rent at the very spot where the young
lady had disappeared. He dived down
What a minute of suspense! But all at
once a heavy burden fell from all those
oppressed hearts. The swimmer emerged
from the depth, and on his arm held the
senseless body of the young lady 1 An
other shout of applause rang the welkin.
Now two boats rowed rapidly toward the
pair, and they did not come any too late;
for the young swimmer was visibly grow
ing faint, and, when he with his fair bur
den was drawn into one of the boats, he
sank down in utter exhaustion. When
the boat reached the left bank, the young
hero was at once the object of a fervent
ovation, while the young woman’s father
took the latter in his arms, and carried
her, still in an unconscious condition,
into a carriage.
The young hero was a Kentuckian,
named Clarence Goodwin, a law student
at the University of Heidelberg. The
oldest and most experienced fisherman on
the Rhine pronounced his exploit a truly
heroic deed, and already on the following
morning the Grand Duke of Baden con
ferred on young Goodwin, who is only
nineteen years old, the large golden medal
for deeds of conspicuous courage aud
devotion. But a still sweeter reward
awaited him. The young lady whose life
he had saved, and who, notwithstanding
the terrible shock she had suffered, had
soon revived, was the only daughter of
the Count of Reigern, one of the wealthi
est South-German noblemen. Her father
went himself to the savior of his daught
er, and, after thanking him in the most
touching manner, brought him to the
young countess. The latter thanked
young Goodwin with tears in her eyes,
and said that her life-long gratitude be
longed to him. During the next few days
the two were seen frequently together on
the public promenade, and everybody in
Mannheim believes that they are engaged
to be married.
The Shah of Persia, whatever else may
be said of him, is not deficient in gallant
ry. When addressing her Majesty the
Queen, he indulged in the following flow
ery compliment:
When the Shah visited the Queen at
Windsor he saluted her Majesty with the
most perfect delicacy and grace, and said
"‘that hitherto he had reckoned his years
from the day of his birth, but that in fu
ture he should date them from the hour
of his meeting the Queen of England.”
“Millions for de fence," as the nigger
said when the bull was after him. ,
GEORGIA NtWS,
The Public Schools of Bibb county have
cost, for the educational year recently
closed about $20,000, affording excellent
tuition at an average cost of a little over
a dollar a month to the pupil. The
amount received from the State Educa
tional fund is about $6,500, and from the
Peabody fund SISOO, leaving the balance
to be made up by special taxation.
The Macon Telegraph learns from the
editor of the Brunswick Appeal that the
parties in the Brunswick and Albany Rail
road suits have effected a compromise by
which the con tractors accept a preferred
lien for 30 per cent, of their claims,
and the bond-holders take judgment for
the face amount of their bonds and inter
est; the road to be sold at Brunswick on
the 15th of October next.
New York papers of Saturday last say
that Hon. Charles J. Jenkins, of Ga., was
present at the meeting of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society of Union College during
commencement week, and was appointed
to deliver the annual oration before the
Society at the commencement in 1874.
Governor -Jenkins was a graduate of the
College of the class of 1821.
A meeting of persons interested is to be
held iu Hamilton, on Saturday, the 3d of
August, to take such action as wiii secure
the benefit of the school fund.
The papers report an advance
in corn on the 16th, with a scant supply.
Quotations were advanced to S3@Sse. for
white, and 80@83c. for yellow. An ad
vance in the West is also reported.
The Constitution also states that the
members of the Board of Trade took into
consideration the high freights charged
on wheat from Tennessee —to Atlanta
39c., and to Macon 42c.
The Union and Recorder says more
building is going on in Milledgeville just
now than for many years past.
The Savannah Advertiser learns that
quite a number of old petitioners in vol
untary bankruptcy, who, after making
their application and getting their papers
all fixed up and sent forward, neglected
to pay costs and look further after the
matter, are now anxiously inquiring what
disposition has been made of their cases.
Some of them, in consequence of their
neglect, now find themselves in rather a
bad box.
In Atlanta, on Wednesday afternoon,
Dr. G. W. Graham, sou of ex-Governor
W. A. Graham, of North Carolina, was
united in marriage to Miss Sallie Shaver,
daughter of Rev. D. Shaver, D. D., the
officiating clergyman.
The Supreme Court has decided that a
homestead laid off under the judgment of
the Ordinary, does not carry with it the
crop then growing upon the laud, to the
exclusion of a lien granted by the hus
band on his then glowing crop.
The Enterprise understands that there
is a man living in the Southern partiou of
Newton county, who lias caught 89 pounds
of fish, killed 75 large snakes, and joined
the church—all in the last five weeks,
and his crop is free from grass, at that.
T. J. Blassengame was elected Ordina
ry of Pike county, on Tuesday, to fill a
vacancy. There were seven candidates
for the place, and we fear that the elec
tion put some of them behind in the work
of killing the grass.
Died ax One Hundred and Six. —The
oldest negro in Southwestern Georgia,
was old aunt Sally Sutton, and she died
yesterday morning in our city hospital at
the advanced age of one hundred and six.
—Albany Neics, 18th.
Sweet potatoes have made their appear
ance in the Macon market.
A Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry
has been formed at Cuthbert, Randolph
county. O. P. Beall was elected Master.
The Cuthbert Appeal of the 18th re
ports a continuance of the drouth, and
says gardens have “played out” in town,
and considerable apprehensions are felt
for late corn in different localities.
ALABAMA NEWS.
Mayor Faber, of Montgomery, has made
proclamation urging attention to all sani
tary precautions recommended by the
Board of Health. The Montgomery pa
pers of yesterday report the health of their
city as excellent.
The corn crop in this section of coun
try between Glennville and Spring Hill,
is almost an entire failure and the cotton
is suffering very much for rain. —Elifaula
News, lith.
The Huntsville Advocate says the
“cholera has entirely subsided, but is suc
ceeded by a general debility disease,
which is very annoying, painful, and
dangerous. Cholera medicine in demand.
The hotel closed last week.”
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
It is stated that a report lately made, to
the British Medical Association denies the
efficacy of calomel in promoting a healthy
action of the liver 1 The report maintains
that in large doses it caused a marked
diminution in the flow of bile. It is diffi
cult to believe that the medical fraterni
ty, generally, have been as much mistaken
as this report affirms.
It is stated, on authority of a German
cook, that turkeys and other fowls can be
rendered unusually tender, if a glass of
rum be poured into them an hour before
killing, even if they are roasted immedi
ately after being killed. We have a sus
picion that the German cook learned that
while in France.
The New Albany-, Indiana, Ledger says
that nineteen men have been lynched in
five counties of that State, near its city,
within the last six years. So we don’t
have all the lawlessness at the South.
“The American cholera,” says the Mem
phis Avalanche, “made a pass at ex-Pres
ldent Johnson, but he soon funded it, and
will be able to make a few remarks in a
conversational way during next year’s
canvass. ”
The New York Commercial Advertiser
tells of a couple who paid twenty-five dol
lars for the privilege of being married in
a circus ring.
THE COTTON WORM.
The editor of the Houston, Texas, Tele
graph has had an interview with Dr.
Flewellin, a planter as well as a physi
cian, of Grimes county, on the subject
of the cotton worm. Dr. Flewellin pre
sented him with some specimens of the
insect in its various stages of develop
ment.
The Telegraph says that “the doctor
has been for several years an attentive
student and microscopic observer of the
habits, peculiarities, characteristics, etc.,
of the worm, aud in 18G9 published a very
interesting and scientific article on its
history. The doctor explained how the
worm underwent five changes before
reaching the chrysalis state; that the in
sect has six eyes, arranged in the shape of
a crescent on each side of the head ; that
he has a pedal peculiarity belonging to no
other caterpillar ; twenty-three days being i
the average period of the growth of the j
worm into the chrysalis state, though he \
has the capacity of a chrysalis transfor
mation much earlier.
From the chrysalis state, wherein the ,
insect buries himself in a web shroud, he j
emerges in the butterfly form, when he
becomes the ‘miller. ’ In this state, each j
worm represents and is capable of genera- j
ting half a million of young worms. Dr. I
Flewellin believes, after much micro- j
scopic examination, that in the extinction |
of the ‘miller’ lies the only possible reme- j
dy against the destruction of crops from j
the worms.
The doctor found the worm to readily
succumb to the application of carbolic
acid.
The cotton worm has not been seen or
studied by the scientific men of Europe,
and the facts furnished by Dr. Flewellin
are certainly of great interest.”
Swayze. —At last that genial friend of
the South, the great and good J. Clarke
Swayze, has found his element amidst a
sympathizing people, to whom he can
freely pour out his story of wrong and
suffering endured among the Ku-Klux of
Georgia. Swayze sends us a circular sta
ting that he proposes to start the Daily
Blade at Topeka, Kansas.
His reason for leaving Georgia is
mournfully given as follows : “Until two
years ago, I had hopes that Georgia could
be redeemed, immigration induced, and
her resources developed; but with the
disappearance of the Republican State
government, all hopes of advancement
and prosperity in the State vanished.”
Let us hope that Georgia will survive
this last great shock.— Sav. Advertiser.
Central America is to be again the seat
of invasions and pronunciamentos. Hon
duras is now the point of attack, and
Palacion has landed, and all the small
States are preparing to repel the advance.
There has been for many years in Nicara
gua a clerical party inimical to any con
federation with either Guatemala or Hon
duras. For sometime a union of these
States was the political question there,
and now the opponents, to kill the last
spark of life in the measure, have invaded
Honduras at the head of an armed force.
— N. 0. Picayune.
TELEGRAPHIC
NEWS FROM GOTHAM.
STA TIC or ED VCATION IX THE
SO ( TIT.
General Reports Very Unfavorable.
New Yoke, July 17. —The following are
interesting details from Dr. Sears re'
port on schools South:
VIRGINIA.
The Public Schools in the State for the
year ending August Ist 1872, is 3,695,
and school population consisted 411,000
persons between the ages of 5 and 21
years, of whom 247,021 are white, and
16,419 are colored. Os assistance re
ceived from fund $28,200 was appropria
ted to Virginia schools during the last
scholastic year. The bulk of this was
given in aid of graded scchools. The to
tal amount appropriafed to scools of the
State was $38,200.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The condition of Public Schools and
education generally, in this State, is far
from satisfactory. There is alarming in
difference on the subject among the com
mon people, and wantof union and hearty
co-operation among the publio men. The
amount appropriated for schools in this
State was $12,555.
SOUTH CAROLINA. ,
Five schools reported throughout the
year. Application made for Charleston
as follows: The Legislature at its last
session approp: ver $30,000 for edu
| cational purpos. . Not one dollar of this
| amount was recei" act from the Treasury,
and the result has been that nearly all
! Public Schools in this State have been
closed. The amount paid this State from
the fund is $1,500.
GEORGIA.
; Dr. Sears quotes from the report of the
; j State Superintendent, “It is not to be
| disguised that the efforts thus far to es
i tabliah a Public School System for that
! State has resulted in a comparative fail
] ure. Fund contributed $10,200 to twelve
j schools.”
FLORIDA.
A somewhat gioomy picture of the con
dition of education in this State is given
j from the report of the State Superin
i | tendent, who, among other remarks, says
j it is saddening to reflect that three-fourths
I of the youth of this State are yet un
| reached by the educational system; but
adds it is encouraging to know that the
■ ratio is rapidly changing. The Peabody
fund contributed SBO,OOO in aid of four
teen schools.
ALABAMA.
The Superintendent gives a despondent
report. Out of a population of one
I million, three hundred and eight}-three
thousand can neither read nor write. In
the voting population are ninety-one
thousand blacks and seventeen thousand
whites, who can’t read or write, enough,
if consolidated into one party, to control
every election in the State. State funds
paid $606,517 65 during the year, and
Peabody fund $7,000 to live schools.
MISSOURI.
By the new school law, in addition to a
State tax of four mills on the dollar for
payment of teachers and supervisors,
counties are required to levy a county tax
for school houses and incidental expenses.
One estimate of a county superintendent
states there are four thousand six hundred
and fifty Public Scools, w'ith an average
attendance of one hundred and twenty
five thousand four hundred, and private
schools w r ith one hundred and fifty-eight
thousand seven hundred and eighty pu
pils enrolled. The expense of the com
mon schools is $1,136,988, and the Pea
body Fund contributed $4,450 to aid six
schools.
LOUISIANA.
On recommendation of the agent, who
acts gratuitously for the State, the sum
of $70,380 was contributed to aid schools.
TEXAS.
In an unsettled state on school matters.
The general agent was constrained to
reply to the last letter of the State School
Commissioner, which was anew call for
money, that in the present unsettled con
j dition of the system there, the trustees
j did not feel justified in making donations
from the fund.
Philadelphia, July 17. — A full meeting
of the Peabody Trustees. The fund now
amounts to $228,000.
New York, July 17. — Alluding to the
financial condition of the Peabody Edu
cational Fund yesterday, Mr. Winthrop
stated that about $130,000 from the fund
had been expended in co-operation with
six or seven times that amount contribu
ted by the Southern people in the cause
of education since the last meeting of the
board, making but little less than a sl,-
000,000 expended during the year for free
common schools.
ESCAPE or THE VIRGINIUS.
United States Charged with Foul Play.
New York, July 17.- Correspondence
from Panama to the Bth contains the fol
lowing details of the escape of thesteaiuer
Virginius, which had put in for repairs:
The Spanish uinbonf Bazean came in on
the 21st of Jv- •’ anchored, her com
mander not f t ug to let it be known that
his instruction, .. norized him to sink
her if she attempted to escape. The same
day in came the United States steamer
Kansas and anchored not far from the
Bazean, and not long after the Canandai
gua arrived. All hough everybody knows
what the Virginius has been doing for the
past year, her character as a blockade
runner being as clear as day, yet Mr.
Thoringtou, who acts as U. S. Consul at
Aspinwall, certified that her papers f ion
the last port, Carthagena, were all right,
and therefore she was entitled to proceed
on as a merchant vessel belonging to the
United States. Commander Reed of the
Kansas, considering the Consul was tech
nically right as to the letter, though not
in his way of thinking as to the spirit of
the law, convoyed the Virginius to sea at
6p. m. on the Ist of July, and remained
outside of the harbor until she was lost to
sight in the darkness.
The commander of the Spanish steamer
Bazean when he saw the odds against
him proposed that the Virginius should
be sent to the United States for trial,
offering to give surety for the expenses if
she was not condemned. The people
here, though generally sympathizing with
the Cuban patriots, think in this instance
the United States’ flag has been abused,
and that Spain has not had fair play in
the matter. Commodore lteed, when in
terviewed upou the subject, said he in-
I tended to call the attention of the authori-
I ties at Washington for the purpose of
I having the register taken away from the
j Virginius; and he further says the Spau
! iards wonld be quite right in sinking or
capturing her if caught at sea heading for
| Cuba in neutral port. However, Ameri
j can commanders can do no less than
! grant her the protection she asked for.
| On the day of the sailing of the Virginius,
the Bazean did not even get up steam,
her commander deciding to lay the cor
i respondence which had taken place, and
his report, before the Spanish Govern
ment to be submitted to the authorities at
Washington. The Virginius cleared for
New York coastwise, with no other cargo
than arms and ammunition, which had
| been received from New Y'ork per steamer j
| Colon.
KATE STODDARD—HER HISTORY.
New York, July 15. —Great interest is
still manifested in the case of Lizzie Lloyd
King, alias Kate Stoddard, charged with
the killing of Charles Goodrich in Brook
lyn. Crowds flocked to the jail in Ray
mond street to see her, but very few suc
ceeded in doing so. She is as dumb as
an oyster on the subject of the murder,
she will not talk except to counsel, and
for him she is writing a full statement of
her c<-se and her history, from her child
hood up to the present time. She is now
twenty-six years of age, was born in Ply
mouth, Mass., and staid there until she was
eighteen years of age. Her father’s name
is Isaac King. He is still alive und car
ries on the trade of a mason. She has
one sister named Augusta, unmarried and
living at Walbridge, Mass. The family
are in comfortable circumstances.
So far as the tragedy is concerned, while
in moderately good spirits, she does not
take a very sanguine view of the issue.
The State prison seems to hang over her
mind like an immense shadow. Among
her other peculiarities she is pretending
to be very religious, and is reading the
Bible and Episcopal prayer-book con
stantly. It is said that she even had the
temerity to attend the fuueral of her vic
tim, and that she went up near the hearse
and touched the coffin. The police are
still on the lookout for Roscoe. Kate
Stoddard declares she does not know him,
while the v ur’'>n Armstrong is positive
she saw' tb ; m * gether. One of the
jurors hinte rday that there is a
good deal me *u this Goodrich tragedy
than has yet 1 -en given to the public,
and added that there is an important link
still wanting.
THE OLD WORLD.
■ SPANISH AFFAIRS.
Madrid, July 16.—Senor Aurich, Min
ister of Marine, has returned from Car
thagena. While there he was fired at
by the insurgent troops. A portion of
the garrison of Carthagena, who refused
to join the revolt, will reach here to-day.
Telegrams from Valencia states due
precautions have been taken to prevent
an outbreak in that city. The Governor
reports the volunteers may be relied on
to support the authorities.
Bayonne, July 16. Two thousand
Carlists, under Hierre, have entered the
Province of Polencia.
President Pi y Margall has refused to
negotiate with the Carlists for exchange
of prisoners, but authorized the Republi
can commander to come to an understand
ing, unoflicially, with the Carlists ehiefs
to secure the proper treatment of Spanish
troops falling into the hands of tho Insur
gents.
Bayonne, July 17. —The Carlists de
elare that all arms shipped for them have
been safely landed on the coast of Biscay.
Col. Assipura has taken command of the
forces which weye formerly led by the
Cure of Santa Cruse, and which now
numbers 1,000.
Lezzarro, with 4,000 well-disciplined
infantry and some cavalry, is operating
in Quipippa.
The Carlists, after capturing Coppany,
Corbinera, Puento and Lerrano, occupied
those towns.
Their partizans report that they are
crossing the. Ebro at all points and are re
cruiting, foraging and levying requisi
tions on the provinces of Burgas. They
repor t that the Spanish Government in
tends to form recruiting camps near
Leyna, and that the Republican troops
have received orders to shoot all priests
taken with arms in their hands. The
priests are endeavoring to bring about a
fusion between the Alfonsoists and the
Carlists.
Madrid, July 19. —The Budget Com
mittee have fixed the maximum pension
to retired civil officials at SBOO per an
num.
General Lagunero has resigned com
mand of the Republican forces in the
province of Biscay.
The Carlists have been repulsed before
the town of Esteila.
It is reported that Don Carlos ordered
his forces not to interfere with communi
cation on the line of the Northern Rail
road.
A telegram from Barcelona announces
that the workmen who left the factories
have returned to their employment.
The Captain General of Barcelona has
authorized the citizens to organize for
protection against the operations of the
International Society.
Madrid, July 19. —The new Ministry is
constituted as follows: M. Salmeron,
President; Fernando Gonseales, Minister
of State and Finance; Berges, Minister of
Justice; Maijonare, Minister of Interior;
Gonseales, Minister of War; Ovides, Min
ister of Marine; Palanca, Minister of Col
onies
In the Cortes a vote for the President
of Council of Ministers stood 119 for Sal
meron, 93 for Pi y Margall.
During the debate on the Ministry great
excitement and alarm was occasioned in
the Cortes by the explosion of an Orsini
bomb at the door. Who perpetrated the
outrage, or what was the object, is not
known.
I)OX CARLOS ENTERS SPAIX.
Enthusiastic Reception,
Bayonne, July 18.—Don Carlos entered
Spain Wednesday, and was received with
indescribable enthusiasm. The party had
no arms, and were dressed in citizens’
clothes. A halt was made at a small inn
on the Spanish side of the line, near the
foot of the Pena-Plata. The Marquis of
Valledesa and Gen. Lizzaaga were waiting
with staff and escort. Here Don Carlos
donned a brilliant uniform and mounted
on a handsome English bay charger.
Tho party proceeded to Zeugassamdindy.
where several thousand Carlist troops
were encamped. ATe Deurn was chaunt
ed in the church. All the Republican
prisoners in the place were released. The
cannon of the forts were fired, and the
day was given up to universal hilarity.
There are 4,000 troops here, but the main
force is under Elioza on the coast of
Biscay, to cover the landing of cargoes of
arms and ammunition from English ships.
Bayonne, July 18.—Advices from Car
lists sources state that the Cure of Santa
Cruz has resumed his clerical robes and
gone to Rome to ask forgiveness of the
Pope.
The friends of Don Carlos entertain
strong hopes of the recognition of their
belligerent rights from France as soon as
they gain possession of a regularly forti
fied town wherein to establish their seat
of government. The Carlists declare that
the Republican General, Cabinetiy, was
killed by his own men.
JIOW THE ALA RAMA AWARD IS
PAID.
New Y ork, July 19. —In the transmission
of the Alabama indemnity fund of $15,-
500,000 to the United States, the English
governmrnt availed itself of three Ameri
can banking houses in London—J. S.
Morgan & Cos., Morton, Rose & Cos., and
Jay Cooke, McColloch & Cos. The bank
ers determined to transmit about half
through the ordinary channels of ex
change. Accordingly Morgan A Cos., have
drawn bills for about eight millions of
dollars on London houses and sold them,
that amount being placed to credit of
England on this side. It is not the in
tention of the bunkers to transmit any
additional sum in this way, but the
balance is to be sent over through ship
ment of five-twenty I onds to the amount
ol $7,500,000, a considerable portion of
which has been obtained. The transac
tion in exchange was managed quietly, at
the instance of the Chancellor of the ex
chequer, who was afraid of the effect
publicity might have on the market. The
bonds will be turned into gold at par, j
making the full amount of indemnity. j
THE QUEEN ON ARBITRATION.
London, July 17.—1n the House of
Commons this evening, Fitzgerald read
the Queen’s reply to the address of the
Commons on the subject of International
Arbitration as follows: “ I have received
the address of my faithful Commons
praying that I would be graciously pleased
to instruct my principal Secretary to en
ter into communication with foreign
powers with a view to further improve
the system of arbitration. lam sensible
of the force of the philanthropic motive
dictating that address. I have at all times
desired to extend the practice of closing
International Controversy by their sub
mission to impartial friends, and to en
courage the establishment of rules inten
ded for equal benefit of all. I shall con
tinue to pursue a similar course with due
regard to time and opportunity, w’henever
it is likely to be attended with advantage.”
The House received the document with
hearty cheers.
A FIERCE BATTLE IN SPAIN.
Defeat of the C’arlists.
London, July 19.—A special edition of
the daily News, issued this afternoon,
announces that a large Carlist force has
been defeated by the Government troops !
at Ignailada in the province of Barcelona,
after a battle of eighteen hours, during
which the town was frequently taken and !
lost by the opposing forces. The number j
of wounded left upon the field is so large
that all vehicles of every kind in town
were pressed into service for their re
moval.
CORONATION IN NOR I FAY.
Christiania, July 18.—The coronation
of Oscar and Sophia as King and Queen
of Norway,took place to-day at Drontheim,
the ancient capital of the Norw'eigan
Kings. There was a brilliant procession
to the Cathedral, in which Prince Arthur
represented the Queen of England, and I
Prince Waldeman the King of Denmark.
The ceremony of the coronation was per
formed by the Bishop of Drontheim.
CHOLERA IN EUROPE.
London, July 10.—Private advices from
Vienna dated 17th state that up to that
time there had been sixty-one cases chole
ra reported, forty-two which proved fatal.
In a single hotel there were forty-two per
sons attacked with symptons of cholera.
Six died. Hotel closed.
A FUGITIVE CASE.
Paris, July 10.—The Cure de Santa
Cruz escaped to France. The Spanish
Government applies for his extradition as
a common criminal. McMahon refuses
on the ground that the case is not within
the treaty.
San Francisco, July 10. —News from
Fort Klamoth is that all the Modoc pris
oners are secure.
FROM VARIOUS POINTS;
TROUBLES IX THE WES T.
Diltlculty Between Railroad Men and
Gamblers.
Omaha, July 17. —Considerable excite
j ment has prevailed hero since the stab
| bing of Atwood, the brakemau, by gaw
: biers on Sunday, for exposing their game
on the train. A meeting of railroad men
held yesterday at the Union Pacific shops
to consider the case, was attended by over
400 men. A committee appointed to
draft resolutions, drew up a programme
to be followed.
Should necessity demand it, they
threaten to deal summarily with the gamb
lers and rogues who have infested this vi
cinity for months past. Twelve or fifteen
of the fraternity have already left town.
Atwood lies in a precarious condition.
LATER.
The committee appointed at the meet
ing of the railroad men, Tuesday, re
ported at a subsequent meeting that a
citizens committee be organized for the
purpose of assisting the authorities to pre
serve order. The citizens’ committee
would take the necessary measures to se
cure protection to the lives and property
of all good citizens. It is hoped that
the committee will not be called
upou to interfere, but, if necessary,
would act promptly. That, whereas the
city was infested with robbers and gamb
lers, whom the civil authorities thus far
failed to arrest, and which fact is public
ly known to the discredit of the city, they
had formed themselves for the purpose
of self protection, and now give notice
that if some remedy is not. speedily ap
plied, they would feel justified in using
summary measures.
EIRES IX IO VIS 111 LE.
Louisville, July 16. —A midnight fire
near the Public Library Building—Bam
berger, Bloom & Co’s., store —is now
burning. There w'ere a number of alarms
during the evening. Some of the first
fires reported are out. The fire now 1 um
ing is in the neighborhood of the Louis
ville Hotel.
There were four fires in this city last
night within the space of two and one
half hours; the first about 9:30 o’clock, in
the lumber yard of Long & Bro. Little
damage; the second in the candy manu
factory of Gonerade Eupler, Market st.,
involving a loss of SIO,OOO, with an
amount of insurance; the third on Third
st., between Main and River Str’s. The
fire originating in J. E. Withers & Co’s.,
fine-cut tobacco establishment, destroy
ing that and adjoining buildings, occu
pied by Herbert, as a mill furnishing es
i tablishment. Loss of Withers A Cos., es
timated at SBO,OOO. Insured in Western
and German offices of this city, $25,000 in
each. Loss of Herbert A Wright, about
$5,000, uninsured. The fourth tire was in
Bamberger A Bloom’s block, on Fourth
st., between Green and Walnut streets, de
stroyed Vernon’s grocery, Madam Buck
ley’s fancy goods store, a vacant house in
in (he block, and damaged l’orguey’s res
taurant and confectionary. Loss of the
latter, estimated at st,ooo. Particulars
of other losses not yet reported.
Louisville, July 16. —The lire last night
was not so disastrous as was at first sup
posed. The losses will not exceed eighty
thousand dollars, with seventy or seventy
live thousand dollars insurance, in the
following companies: iEtna, $14,000;
London, Liverpool and Globe, $10,000;
Commercial, of New York, $6,000;
American Central, of St. Louis, $5,000;
Phoenix, $7,000. The balance was in
local companies. The fires were undoubt
edly the work of incendiaries. Every fire
engine in the city was at work when the
last fire broke out.
Owing to the proximity of the flames to
the Public Library, Theatre and other
large buildings, great excitement pre
vailed.
CHOLERA REP OR TS.
Evansville, Ind , July 19.—1 tis be
lieved the cholera at Mount Vernon is
abating. It has almost depopulated the
town. Banks and business houses are
closed. Every person in the place had
symptoms. Os some large families only
two are left. No cause known, as the
place is clean and occupies one of (he
highest positions between Evansville and
Cairo.
Columbus, July 19.—Two convicts took
cholera, making thirteen. The city is
unusually healthy.
Memphis, Tenn., July 1!).- —Board of
Health officially announces the total dis
appearance of cholera. No new cases or
deaths for a week.
Cincinnati, 0., July 19. —Six cholera
deaths at Carthage among the Hollanders
just arrived, from bad food. No other
cases.
ONE WIEE LEA VES BRIGHAM.
Scandalous Revelations Expected.
Salt Lake July 15.—A great sensation
was caused here to-day by the announce
ment in the Journal that Ann Eliza Webb
Young, the seventeenth wife of Brigham
Young, had forever left him, carrying off
her furniture and personal effects. Brig
ham will endeavor to replace the goods.
Mrs. Young is at the Walker House, and
three leading lawyers are about to insti
tute suit for a divorce and alimony in a
large sum. Great revelations are expect
ed concerning (he inner domestic life of
the Prophet. Mrs. Y'oung is enjoying the
sympathy of the Gentile ladies, and po
lygamous Mormons are a good deal dis
turbed.
C VBA X l X DEPEND EXCE.
New Y’ork, July 19.—Gen. Quesada, a
brother-in-law of President Cespedes, an
appointed confidential agent of the Cuban
Republic, arrived here yesterday, bearing
dispatches to the Columbian Minister at
Washington, concerning Cuban indepen
dence. He states that 1,500 troops have
been promised from Mexico; that Peru
will probably soon render assistance, and
arrangements are being made for holding
at Washington a conference of represen
tatives from all the South American Re
publics, to promote Cuban independence.
BENNETT'S FOOT RACE.
Springfield, July 17.—The starters in
the foot race for the Bennett challenge
enp were Renton, of Amherst; Bowie, of
McGill University, Canada; Phillips, of
Carroll. Bowie won in 11:18J, two miles:
Phillips’ second, only a second and a half
behind; Benton distanced.
MINNESOTA.
St. Paul, July 17.—0. It. Davis has
been nominated for Governor by the. Re
publican Convention. Resolutions were
offered favoring cheap transportation;
repudiating increased salaries and back
P“Y-
THE LOST STEAMER.
Halifax, July 17.—The decision of the
j court inquring in the case of the disaster
| to the steamer City of Washington has
| been rendered. Capt. Phillips is suspen-
I ded for one year.
A CALIFORNIA RACE.
San Francisco, July 10.—A running
| race to-day, at the Agricultural Park, a
: single dash of a mile and a half, between
| Nell Flaherty, Queen and Thornhill, was
I won by Nell Flaherty in 2:41 j. Thad.
j Stevens being disabled, did not run.
CA LIFO R NIA I »H EA T.
San Francisco, July 10.—The value of
flour and wheat exports from California
to Atlantic and foreign ports, for the year
ending June doth, .-*102.520,000. Value
of the entire wheat crop last year $25-
000,000.
THE VIENNA COMMISSION.
New York, July 10.—-A Vienna special
states that Hiram GarretsoD, of Cleve
land, Ohio, has been appointed Chief
American Commissioner, in place of Jack
son Schalls, resigned.
BROOKLYN TRUST COMPANY.
Brooklyn, July 10.— D. Chaney has
been appointed receiver of Brooklyn
Trust Company. Some Directors state
deposits will be paid in full and probably
something be left for Stockholders.
DEAD.
San Francisco, July 10.—Delos S. Ash
ley, late member of Congress from Ne
vada, is dead, from softening of the brain.
London, July 10.— Alderman Solomons
is dead.
SUICIDE.
Cincinnati, July 10.—Dr. Thos. Dud
ley 7 , first assistant of the Eastern lunatic
asylum, suicided; took thirty grains of
morphine.
New Tore, July 7 10. —Weather cold and
rainy, with wind.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
t „ *
HOW THE GENEVA AWARD |, ~
RE PAID. '
The Tigress Polar Expedition.
Special to the Courier-Journal.]
Washington, July 13.—1 t is considered
settled iu semi-official circles that lr ".
ment of the Geneva award will | )e
by Great Britain iu five-twenty bonds !,,
the United States Tieasury Depart men!
and that the United States Government
will willingly accept this form of payment
The Secretary of the Treasury will certify
the receipt of the bonds, and thereupon
Mr Fish will give his receipt to the li nt .
ish Government. In this way ail distur!
bance of the exchanges will he avoided
and the law of Congress complied with
which requires the award to tie invested
promptly in Government bonds. A mis
apprehension has existed iu some quarters
that there was an analogy between these
Alabama claims and the French spoliation
claims, and that like the latter the claim,
ants might have to wait indefinitely f„ r
their money. The evidence for the claims
lies within a brief compass, and all that
is needed is for Congress to provide „
: Board of Commissioners for their hqm.
dation. It is supposed that the work of
the board or court could be dispatched m
a comparatively short time. The only
doubtful question now unsettled iswheth.
er the insurance companies are to be suit,
rogated in place of the owners and recov
er the losses in such cases. It is prob*
ble that the question will be one ij,„
first to be pressed at the next session
Congress.
THE TIGRESS POLAR EXPEDITION,
The final instructions to Commander
Greer, of the Tigress, who is in charge ol
the Polar relief expedition, were issued
on Friday. The first point of destination
of the Tigress is God Haven, on the 1-
iaud of Disco, where she will meet the
Juniata. Commander Greer will exhibit
his orders to Commander Braiue, and get
from him any information he may have
gathered on the subject- of the Polaris.
If the Polaris and her crew are there, all
the vessels w ill promptly return to the
United States. If the crew are found
there and the Polaris shall have been
abandoned, the Tigress will start iu search
of her in order to get her papers, records,
instruments, and collections of natural
scienoe, and if need be will winter in the
ice for the purpose. Iu executing this
mission, the commander of the Tigress w
authorized to push as far north as practi
cable, and to procure all the additional
information he can obtain. All the urea.,
ures ordered by Secretary Robeson m
this connection have been submitted te.
anil approved by the President.
THE Til INX ESS OP GEN. HO II
ARD'S DEPENCE.
Special to the St. Louis Republican.
Washington, D. C., July 11.—Au ar
ticle in a morning paper, understood to
have been writteu by an officer of the
Howard University, very thoroughly up
sets the principal points of the defence of
Gen. Howard, which were made in a re
port of a committee of which Fred. Doug
lass is chairman. Among other things
the writer shows that the institution of
w-hich Howard is President, is in a very
unsound financial condition, and that its
income is not in fact sufficient to carry it
on in a respectable manner. It has just
thrown two of its departments, law and
medicine, completely overboard, so far as
salaries are concerned, and has reduced all
salaries in the preparatory and collegiate
departments to $1,500 lor a professor.
The report exhibits a statement of Gen.
Howard’s private account to show that he
has given the University- more than it has
paid him. This performance is foolish
iu the extreme, especially w hen we find
out that the gifts are his personal dona
tions to individual students, a sum which
he had to pay on account of Tiis careless
ness and unauthorized indorsement of a
note from which the University got no
advantage, the costs of his receptions for
graduates and trustees, etc., and princi
pally tho bond of SIO,OOO, payable iu two
years, at 6 per cent interest, wrung from
him by recent criticism.
IRE ED RES \S IS IRE A J
Anxiety of Howard—He Don’t Want a
Court Martial.
Washington, July 17. — l The Star says
that on Tuesday, Gen. Howard visited
the office of the Inspector General of
the Army, who has his headquarters iu
the War Department, and requested from
an officer attached to that branch of the
service information as to what charges
he could be tried upon, should the De
partment see fit to order a court martial
in his ease. He was informed that he
could be tried for neglect of duty in al
lowing his subordinates to misapply mon
ey belonging to the Freedman Bureau, or
under the Thirty-Ninth Article of War
for embezzlement.
In a conversation bad with the officer
upon the subject of bis troubles, it was
suggested to liim that he had the privil
ege to demand a court of inquiry, and
inasmuch as the charges had become a
matter of public notoriety, it might be to
his advantage to request an investigation
by a military court.
Gen. Howard replied, that with the
feeling towards him entertained by many
officers in the United States army, he did
not think he could get justice, and he had
therefore declined to ask for a trial by
such a tribunal.
THE BRUNSWICK AND ALBAS I
RAI LR OA D ADA VS TM EN T.
From the Albany News.]
Brunswick, Ga., July 14, isT.i.
Col. Carey IK. Styles: The mortgage set
forth in the first bonds of the B. & A. K. It
Company was foreclosed on Saturday, and
the Bondholders took judgment for over
$3,000,000. The bonds were in Court,
exhibited iu evidence, and the jury found
verdict.
The Court decreed the sale of the Road
on the 15th of October next, requiring
$150,000 to be paid into Court on the day
of sale, and the balauce as called in by
the commissioners—Messrs. Bacon, Hook
Hines, Nichols, Harris and Lochran, to be
expended in the settlement with the con
tractors at fifty cents on the dollar.
All the bondholders and all the contrac
tors were parties consenting to settlement
and decree. The other cases against the
road are small and easily disposed of.
I remain here to gather the fruits of
the victory and secure them to Brunswick,
Southern and South-western Georgia.
A. O. Lochrane.
From other sources we learn that each
contractor’s name was incorporated in the
decree, together with the exact amount
found to be due by running the figure 2
through the audited claim. It was also
agreed that the engineers should be set-
Iled with upon the same basis.
This settlement agreed upon, the bond
holders foreclosed, obtained a verdict,
and the Court decreed “by consent of the
parties named.’
THE OTHER CLAIMS
1 are not in the w T ay of the sale, or the
j completion of the road. The Court re
mains in session to try them, but they
j can only obtain general judgments, which
! being inferior to the liens of the first
! mortgagees —the Bondholders renders
: them worthless and powerless.
PROBABLE EFFECT.
It is conceded that none but the bond
; holders can purchase the road, as none
| others can bid enough to reduce the sacri
fice to a willing figure.
We understand the European and
j American bondholders united in the set-
I tlement, and that they are united in their
purposes relative to the disposition of the
| road. It is believed they will purchase.
| organize anew company and proceed at
| once to complete the road to Eufaula
This seems to be the logic of the pres-
I ent status and outlook of affairs, and if we
are to credit the common understanding
j of all the wise men who have been admit
, ted to the confidence of the prospective
j owners, we may set it down as a fixed
fact that the road is to be completed with
out unnecessary delay.
No Cholera. —We have been informed
that the report of cholera in Eufaula ha*
; been circulated in some sections of the
country and that in some instances, the
people have been afraid to come to-town.
This is a great mistake. There has been
no cholera here, and no apprehension is
felt of its appearence. In addition to this
our physicians say that the town was nev
er healthier at this season of the year. In
fact we are almost entirely free fro®
chills, fevers and the usual summer dis
eases.—Eujaula Times, 1 St/i.
Says the Davenport (la.) Democrat
‘ The greatest joke of the season is the
lowa Republican party platform. l“ e
grandest joke of all is: ‘Proud as we aw
of most of the past record of the Repin''
lican party.’ Which part of the record i*
it which is covered by this nK’ st '
Is the Credit Mobilier, the Colfax U&*
the salary grab, or the Alabama fiasco.