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COLUMBUS
J. H. MARTIN, EJItM*.
the enquirer.
There is only one remark in the short
article of the Enquirer of yesterday, in
reference to this paper, to which we think
it necessary to make any reply; and that
is the following:
“ We should feel grateful to the editor
of The Sun for not publishing an article I
from The South abusive to us, but then !
we are not. It would be bettor to publish
it than to keep it on exhibition. Only
publish the whole of it and give us half a i
column to reply. We have nothing to !
fear, and do not consider that our neigh- !
bor holds the sword of Damocles above
our head.”
To show how the Enquirer has jumped
to an unwarrantable conclusion in its in
timation that we have kept the paper re
ferred to “on exhibition” against it, it is
only necessary for us to say that we never
saw the copy of The South to which it
alludes, and never before even knew that
The South had an article abusive of!
our neighbor. We exchange with The '
South , but if ever we received the par- j
ticular number referred to, the article es
caped our notice ; and if the paper was I
obtained by any one from our office and
“exhibited,” we were in utter ignorance !
of its contents. We hope that this is sat- j
isfactory.
Neither has the paper to which we did
refer been “on exhibition” at our office.
It has been kept out of the way of per
sons who daily inspect our exchanges.
We have heard that there was another
copy of it in the city, which may have ob
tained some circulation for aught that
we know, and we have seen its article
noticed by the Savannah News. We have
no design of publishing it, or holding it
over the head of our neighbor; we only
alluded to it in response to the taunt of
the Enquirer, through a correspondent,
that we had been inhospitable, spiteful
and jealous towards that paper. We hold
the papor abusive of him subject to the
order of the editor of the Enquirer, to do
what he chooses with it, and to the call
of no one else.
(iKANT AM) A IHIKU TERM.
The papers are discussing with earn
estness the question whether Gen. Grant
desires a third Presidential term, and
whether he could be re-elocted if a candi
date. A nnmber of liepublican papers
oppose the proposition,.and some of them
go so far as to predict a defeat of their
party should it make the experiment. It
is worthy of note, however, that the New
York Times (regarded as the especial
champion of the Administration in its
great city) has not expressed an opinion
on tho subject; also that we have seen no
opinion on the subject copied from the
Administration organ at Washington (we
do not now exchange with it.) It is
hardly necessary to say that the Demo
cratic and Liberal Republican presses are
united in opposition to the scheme.
Home of the Republican journals freely
admit that Gen. Grant can force or pro
cure a renomination if he desires it, and
of this wo have no doubt whatever, for
reasons already stated. The material
question seems to be whether he wants a
renomination, and tho silence of his de
voted journalistic champions is significant.
In our view of this contest, the same
great material interests that worked so
powerfully for Grant last year desire his
countinuance in office,especially if the or
ganization of the Western Farmers con
tinues formidable. We allude to the
Moneyed and Protected interests of the
North, whose stability and continued se
curity were last year thought to require
another term of Grant. A great move
ment to put down monopolies and special
privileges will be apt to make these inter
ests cling with a tighter grasp to their
strongest stay. This influence, united
with the negro vote of the South, con
trolled by office-holders and carpet-bag
gers, would make Grant invincible in a
party nominating convention.
We repeat our lively interest in the
course of Gov. Sam Bard on this question.
We hope that he will hurry up the pub
lication of his paper, if only to relieve
public anxiety in this regard. Let
him strike out for Grant, as he did
in 18(18, and let a generous bestowal of
official patronage reward him now, as it
did when Grant was first elected ; and it
may help us to a conjecture as to how
the cat is going to jump.
ItVLLOCK’S BONDS IS BROOKLYN.
Reference is made in our telegraphic
dispatches to a large amount of Georgia
bonds held by the Brooklyn Trust Com
pany as “doubtful assets.” We learn
from the New York Tribune of Saturday
that the amount of tho bonds is $200,000,
and that the sum obtained for them was
$1 ">O,OOO. They are bonds issued by
Bullock in aid of railroads (probably the
Brunswick and Albany), and no interest
has been paid on them for two years.
The Legislature of Georgia refuses to
recognize them ns valid and binding on
the State, and bondholders (assuming that
they are of the B. and A. issue) have
“adjusted” their litigation with other
parties by an agreement to sell the road,
ignoring tho State’s lien, which was one
of tho conditions upon which tho bonds
were to bo issued. It would seem, there
fore, that there was not a very lively
prospect of the State’s recognizing these
bonds, notwithstanding the Tribune's as
sertion that “they may and probably will
be redeemed by the State, but at present
they could only be sold at a very heavy
discount. The Tribune says of these
bonds:
During Gov. Bullock’s administration
the authorities of the State of Georgia
issued several million dollars worth of
bonds in aid of certain railroads. Subse
quently the State repudiated a large por
tion of these bonds. (1.) because they
were issued fraudulently by Bullock, the
railroads not having complied with the
conditions named in the act by which the
issue of the bonds was authorized; (2.)
because the acts, or some of them, which
authorized the issue of the bonds were al
leged to be in violation of the State Con
stitution. Some gold bonds, which had
been authorized for the purpose of ex
change for existing obligations, were repu
diated, part of them because held by
Itenry Clews as security for his claims
against the State, and others because the
associates of Bullock had hypothecated
tho gold bonds with which they were in
trusted for the purpose of conversion,
and never turned into the Treasury the
bonds for which new issue was to be ex
changed. At the time these frauds were
perpetrated Henry Clews was the finan
cial agent of the State. He was supposed,
by the Legislature which repudiated the
bonds, to have knowledge of the frauds
which were perpetrated at the time of
thur issue, an investigating committee
having reported to that effect.
RRE AKIXG DOWX.
The Louisiana unification movement
shows signs of weakness, and tho indica
tions are that our opinion expressed a
short time since, to the effect that it would
fail and would end in injury rather than
benefit to the cause of the white people
and property holders, is likely to be real
ized. The New Orleans Picayune at first
gave at least a quasi support to the move
ment, by suppressing any objections on
the score of principle and waiting to see
if it was likely to accomplish any present
practical good that would justify snch a
“stooping to conquer.” But the Pica
yune despairs now, regards the movement
as unpromising of any good result, and
attributes its failure to the refusal of the
negroes to co-operate with the whites on
a platform substantially yielding all that
the Reconstruction measures contempla- j
ted. The Picayune of the IBth says:
“Again we say we are sorry indeed that
these “representative men” of the negro
should have so wantonly and effectively
killed the unification movement, but they j
have done it, and the funeral is theirs.”
IS MEXICO BELLIGERENT f
It is stated with much positiveness by a
San Antonio (Texas) paper, that the Mex
ican General Escobedo is marching with
a large force towards the Rio Grande,
and a Washington dispatch of the 21st
inst. says that this intelligence, telegraph
ed to that city, is “looked upon in milita
ry circles as very important.” Other ru
mors of a startling nature we will not re
peat here, because this same dispatch says
that they are not credited at the War De
partment, and we would not have credi
ted them even without this notification of
the Department’s disbelief.
Neither do we fully credit the report
that Escobedo is marching withhostile in
tent towards the frontier. It does not
accord with all the late reports of the dis
position of the Mexican Government. It
is hard to believe that a government so
beset with difficulties—financial troubles
and domestic disorders—as Tejada’s, would
rashly and precipitately bring on a war
with the United States. Mexican vain
glory, great as it is, is not equal to an in
fatuation like that. It may be that Es
cobedo has been dispatched with a small
army of observation to watch the course
of events on the Rio Grande, and to repel
an unauthorized invasion by Texans,
should one be made in following up Mexi
can maurauders. But that Mexico seri
riously contemplates retaliation for the
McKenzie raid, we do not believe. Esco
bedo is well acquainted with that section
of Mexico, and is popular with its people.
His selection for this important and deli
cate duty we regard as significant rather
of a restraining and precautionary .policy
than an aggressive movement. However,
there is enough in the rumors to awaken
the liveliest interest, and we cannot be
indifferent to them.
Tin: EIRE IN BALTIMORE.
This third immense and appalling con
flagration of American cities within the
past few months is well calculated to
excite terror and arouse inquiry. The
fires all appear to have been accidental,
but they occurred at times and under cir
cumstances peculiarly favoring their rapid
spread and obstructive of all efforts to
keep them within bounds. While, there
fore, the fact of the fires broaking out at
only one place in each city does not go
to sustain the suspicion of incendiarism,
the other fact that existing conditions
operated to speed the conflagrations about
as widely as could have been effected by
the application of the torch at several
places should not be overlooked. If ad
vantage was taken of those conditions, it
is significant of a blending of science and
diabolism—disclosing an intelligence and
probable organization far more danger
ous than the simpler schemes of more
ignorant incendiaries.
The anonymous warnings of “commun
ist” organizations and schemes of confla
gration may all have been intended only
to terrify, but it does not seem safe to
pay them no attention and credence sim
ply because of the apparent accidental
origin of the fires.
Baltimore has made rapid progress
within the last ten or fifteen years, both
in the increase of population and the ex
tension of her commerce. Her popula
tion increased from 212,418 in 1860, to
267,354 in 1870, and has, no doubt, con
tinued to increase in the same ratio for
the last three years. The recent opening
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and
its connection with the leading railroads
of Ohio and Kentucky must do much to
open to her new avenues of commerce.
She has a bright prospect before her,
which this fire, great and disastrous as it
was, cannot impair or retard.
A prominent and very intelligent gen
tlemen of this city, in a conversation with
us concerning this destructive fire in
Baltimore, dropped a suggestion which
we think eminently entitled to considera
tion. It is that in the large cities pipes,
troughs or cylinders to hold water could
be so arranged along the “combs” or
roof-trees of the houses as to flood the
roofs with water at the proper time. This
expedient would seem to promise good
results in cases in which burning shingles
and embers are carried up by the currents
and blown by tho winds to the roofs of
houses in a burning city. The idea needs
no particular explanation, as it is alto
gether practical and easily understood—
the only question being whether its ad
vantages would be commensurate with its
cost.
BE CAUTIOUS.
We hear through the newspapers of the
use of Paris green for the destruction of
the caterpillars in the localities in which
they are committing depredations. Re
ports are somewhat variant as to the effi
cacy of this remedy, but we have seen no
statement of any injurious effects to per
sons handling it at the South. We have
therefore hesitated about copying this re
mark, which we find in the New York
Times of the 22d inst: “Accounts of far
mers being fatally poisoned by Paris
green, used to exterminate the potato
bugs, are getting to be common in Wes
tern papers.”
It would be a great loss and a thiug to
be regretted (if Paris green really destroys
the caterpillar) that our people should be
prevented from using an efficacious reme
dy by a false report of its hurtfulness to
those handling it; but it would be a worse
thiug, if it is hurtful, for people to be in
jured by an ignorant use of it. We there
fore copy the statement of the Times ,
with the hope that someone acquainted
with the properties of the article will in
form the people whether it may be
handled with impunity.
ANNIVISIISARY OF MANASSAS.
The 21st inst.,the anniversary of the first
battle of Manassas, was celebrated with
much animation in Savannah. Large
number of citizens turned out to witness
the various parades and contests gotten
up for the occasion. The Republican
Blues and Savannah Cadets engaged in a
prize drill on the Fair Grounds. Both
went through the drill admirably, but the
prize was awarded to the Cadets. Many
citizens witnessed this contest with great
interest. The other companies partici
pating in the celebration were the Ogle
thorpe Guards, Johnston Light Infantry,
Chatham Artillery, and Savannah Volun
teer Guards. The Georgia Hussars also
had a sabre oontest, the first prize of
which was won by Gen. R. 11. Anderson,
the second by G. M. Ryals, and the third
by Lieutenant Henry P. Miller.
The Supremo Court of Alabama, on
Friday, granted a mandamus to the Judge
of the Circuit Court of Dallas county to
restore to the Solicitorship of that Court
Jas. S. Diggs, who had been removed.
The Court ruled that “when the Solicitor
of the county has been sentenced to the
Penitentiary, his office is vacated from
the date of tho sentence; but if the judg
ment of conviction is reversed he is
entitled to be immediately restored.
(Rev. Code, sec. 146.)”
A New Enemy to Cotton. —A gentle
man from Franklin informed us a few
days ago that anew enemy to cotton has
made its appearance in that county. Ho
says it is an insect which bores into the
forms, and that they fall off a few days
after being punctured. He says it isdoing
much damage, and that none of the citi
zens havo seen auytning like it before. —
Athens Watchman.
The Montgomery State Journal of yes
terdayjmentions a letter from Mayor Pow
ell, of Birmingham, Ala., in which he
says that there has been no case of cholera
there since the 16th. The board of
health believe the plague has entirely
disappeared.
It is telegraphed that the Emperor of
Austria will visit the Czar of Russia, at
St. Petersburg, in the fall, and that the
visit is regarded by the European press
as of “deep political significance.”
THE GULF COAST “WATER ROAD.”
The letter which we copy below is in
teresting and encouraging, not only be
cause it shows an extending interest in a
great proposed work of Southern improve
ment, to which we have heretofore alluded
on several occasions, but because, tracing
the communication even beyond the Mis
sissippi river, it exhibits it as an enter
prise clearly national in its character—
more so than any other work of improve
ment which the Federal Government has
ever before undertaken. We refer to the
latter for a delineation of the route from
the Mississippi to the Rio Grande. It
also explains, more fully than any other
statement which we have seen, the course
of the route from the Apalachicola river
to the Atlantic.
The letter which we copy below is ad
dressed to the New York World. It
traces a line of inland water communica
tion embracing all of tho Gulf coast,
crossing the peninsula of Florida, con
necting with another long line of inland
water communication on the Atlantic
coast, reaching from the mouth of the St.
Mary’s river to Savannah and Charleston.
Surely so vast an inland water line, ex
tending across the whole Southern terri
tory from the Rio Grande to the Atlantic,
and connecting with all the g reat river
emptying into the Gulf, presents claims
of a national character, such as no other
work of improvement can offer:
Savannah, Ga., July 18.—The first sec
tion of the proposed work is intended to
connect the Rio Grande with Berwick’s
Bay, a distance of about 520 miles. Four
fifths of this distance is through tide-ba
sins and lagoons, leaving one-fifth to be
cut through marshes and very low sea
shore prairies. From Berwick’s Bay the
channel would be in the direction of New
Orleans (where some forty odd miles of
canalling for small steamboats are alrea
dy opened) and across the Mississippi to
Lake Ponchartrain —in all about ninety
miles. From the Misssissippi the route
would be through Lake Ponchartrain, the
Rigolets, Mississippi Sound, Mobile and
Ben Secour Bays, and thence through
Perdido and Pensacola Bays, Santa Rosa
Sound and the bays of Choctawatchee and
St. Andrew’s; through Searcy’s River and
Lake Wingco, Apalachicola Bay, St.
George’s Sound, Crooked River, Ocklock
onee and Shallow Bays, and other small
inlets and lagoons to the Bay of St. Mark’s.
From the Bay of St. Mark’s the line will
follow the marshes and low grounds of the
Gulf shore, crossing in its course and
before reaching the Suwaunee in
Florida, the mouths of the Ocoillo,
Econfeuco and Feuhollow Rivers.—
From St. Mark’s to the Suwaunee the
distance is about eighty miles. The route
will then follow the Suwaunee —in places,
through slackwater improvements—to a
point within about thirty-five miles of the
St. Mary’s river. At this point, between
the Suwaunee and the St. Mary’s, lies the
great central summit basin of the Okee
feenokee plateau, to furnish a supply of
water for the short canal between the two
rivers. If a greater supply of w ater than
is furnished by the Okeefeenokee basin
should be found necessary, engineers say
they can easily turn into the canal the
waters of the Satilla river, which flows
from a higher level and drains a large
area immediately north of the Okeefeeno
kee plateau. From the outlet into the
Atlantic at St. Mary’s the route will fol
low the land-locked—or, as it is called,
the inland channel behind the sea
islands of the Georgia coast. From the
Rio Grande to the St. Mary’s outlet the
distance is about 1,300 miles, or from the
mouth of the Mississippi to the same
point on the Atlantic about 670 miles.
The distance saved between the Mississ
ippi and the Atlantic ports and Eu
ropean markets as compared with the
passage around the Florida capes,
would be fully 700 miles. Experienced
engineers say the cost of opening the
channel from the Mississippi to the mouth
of the St. Mary’s for the use of steam
tugs and barges, such as are now employ
ed in moving the commerce of the Missis
sippi Valley, will be about $12,000,000.
But if the suggestion of General Grant,
that the channel be made a passway for
gunboats in case of foreign war, be car
ried out, twenty millions will, I think, be
found not more than enough to cover the
cost of a work sufficiently large for such
a purpose. As to the value of merchan
dise annually passing around the capes of
Florida to and from the Mississippi—the
bulk of which would be diverted into this
water-way—there are many statements
and many discrepancies. I think $500,-
000,000 would be a safe estimate, and
this, too, with a very small percentage of
Western productions seeking the markets
of the Atlantic or Europe by the Cape
route. The lowest estimate of extra in
surance paid annually on cargoes and ves
sels for the reef passage is over $5,000,-
000, which would in four years equal the
total cost of the proposed channel.
I COTTOX FROM LIVERPOOL.
The New York Herald, in its Financial
and Commercial article of the 23d inst.,
reports the continued arrival of cotton
from Liverpool, shipped back to this
country to enable the “bulls” to check
mate an attempted “ corner ” by the
“shorts.” The corner being resorted to
for the purpose of effecting an advance
iu the staple, at a time when producers
have very little and speculators larger
supplies, and its effect being to withdraw
from the manufacturers cotton which
they had bought at lower prices for their
own consumption, as well as to cause the
return of cotton shipped from this coun
try to Liverpool, this game of the gamb
lers cannot be otherwise than injurious to
every other interest except the personal
interests of one of the parties playing
the game. The following is the para
graph from the Herald,:
Speculation in cotton is developing.
Yesterday 350 bales of cotton were re
ceived by a promineut house in this city
from Liverpool, per City of Chester. Not
that the supply of the staple at this port is
inadequate for the wants of manufacture,
but the “bulls,” to carry out their specu
lative purposes, are gathering to them
selves as much of the available supply as
possible, refusing to sell to the “shorts,”
but in all cases being disposed to sell to
spinners and exporters at tempting prices.
But already considerable cotton has been
shipped back to this city from Providence
and other manufacturing cities, and now
we hear of receipts from Liverpool, with
accounts of more coming. The battle be
tween the “bulls” and the “bears” in cot
ton is unabated.
VIRGIXIA.
It is now conceded that the coming po
! litical contest in Virginia will be a square
fight between the Democratic and Radi
cal parties. We are glad of this, because
it will throw Ex-Governor Wise and his
squad of discontents on one side or the
other, where they will have to stay. No
guerrilla band will be left to embarrass
either party with its so called “indepen
dent” action, and the coming election will j
be decisive of the party policy of the !
State for three years at least.
We cannot believe that Virginia will |
“go back” on her proud record and sub
mit to negro and carpet-bag rule. Like
Georgia, she has heretofore been free of !
such an incubus and disgrace from the ;
time when her people were permitted to
have a free election; and like Georgia,
she has had peace in her borders and
made satisfactory progress in the way of j
recuperation. Let her continue in the j
course which she has so far pursued, and
she will escape ills that yet wake chaos
and desolation iu South Carolina, Louisi
ana, Arkansas and Florida. But should
Radicalism, aided by Federal power, ob- j
tain the ascendancy in Virginia in the
coming contest, her condition will soon
be pitiable indeed. A quarter of a cen
tury of work and sacrifice hereafter will
not suffice to recover from two or three
years of such rule as has cursed South
Carolina and Mississippi, or perhaps to
avert such a state of violence and anarchy
as now prevails in Louisiana and Arkan
sas. But Virginia will not be recreant
now. Her intelligent citizens will main
tain the supremacy of their race and the
vitality of the great principles for which
the conservative people of the country
mean to struggle as long as good govern
ment has an admirer and honesty anti po
litical equality a defender.
Colorado Territory is big enough to I
make thirteen States as large as Massa
chusetts.
GEORGIA NEWS.
The Athens Watchman of the 23d re
ports the crop prospect in Northern Geor
gia greatly improved : but some neighbor
hoods were suffering for the want of rain.
A Farmers’ Grange, numbering thirty
members, was formed in Spalding county,
on Saturday.
The census of Augusta, just completed,
makes the population of the city 19,986.
This is about 5,000 more than was return
ed by the U. S. census of 1870.
Some sensation was occasioned in Grif
fin, on Monday, by a planter bringing in
twenty bales of cotton, his last year’s
crop. People thought at first that it must
be cotton of this year's growth. We will
venture the opinion that that farmer has
been enabled to hold his cotton so long
because he had no corn and meat to buy.
Prominent men of Atlanta are now dis
cussing the propriety of inaugurating a
grand railroad celebration, to take place
in Atlanta on the occasion of the comple
tion of the Atlanta and Richmond Air
Line Railway.
Bowdon College, at its late commence
ment, conferred the degree of LL. D. on
Hon. Alex. H. Stephens.
A special to the Atlanta Herald from
Kingston, Ga., July 23d, reports: “Mr.
Hill, of this place, was shot through the
breast to-night, at 8 o’clock, and instantly
killed. He was killed by a bailiff, who
had a negro prisoner in charge about
whom some angry discussion took place
between Hill and the bailiff. The officer
drew a pistol and shot him dead in his
tracks on account of his interference,
just as the down passenger train rolled
up. He then went off with his prisoner
and lodged him in jail. No arrests yet.”
The Talbotton Standard of the 23d
says that Mr. Jake Bethune arrested a
negro near town last Sabbath, who ans
wers the description of Seaborn Walker,
the negro who murdered young Halliday
near Auburn, Ala., and for whom a re
ward of S3OO is offered. He is now in
jail awaiting the arrival of the sheriff of
Russell county, Ala.
Os the 19,891 people of Augusta, re
turned in the late city census, 11,151 are
whites, and 8,740 colored. The Chroni
cle thinks that there are at least two thou
sand more inhabitants in the city than
indicated by the new census.
Granges of the Patrons of Husbandry
have been organized at McDonough and
Jackson.
Yearington, who has been in the jail of
Floyd county for more than a year, on a
charge of murder, was adjadged a lunatic
on Wednesday, and an order made for his
removal to the State Asylum.
Speaking of the Confederate monument
at Atlanta, the Herald says:
We understand, however, that a con
tract has been consummated with the
Stone Mountain Company to furnish gran
ite to complete the shaft or body of the
monument, and that the memorial Asso
ciation will commence work afresh at a
very early date. Though our information
was not authentic, we sincerely hope that
we were informed aright.
The Central Road Sued fob $25,000.
—A suit has been filed in the Clerk’s
office of the Superior Court of this county
and returnable to the August term for
$25,000, against the Central Railroad.
It was brought by the family of Mr. J. G.
Sears, and the main charge in the writ is
that owing to the negligence of the other
employees of the road, Mr. Sears was
killed. It will be remembered that he
was crushed to death while trying to un
couple a train hero about one month ago.
The family is represented by Messrs.
Doyal and Nunnally.— Griffin News.
The Monroe Advertiser of the 22d inst.,
says a number of influential citizens of
Forsyth met on last Friday for the pur
pose of taking into consideration and in
augurating a movement looking to the
location of the Georgia Military Institute
at this place, if the Legislature should see
fit to re-establish the same.
A Grange of the Order of Patrons of
Husbandry has been organized in Con
yers, by Worthy G. W. Adams, Deputy
Worthy Master of the State Grange.
The Norcross Advance has the cruelty
to advise a young gentleman of its town,
who is terribly in love, that there are
only two remedies—either to commit sui
cide or to marry the girl; and it adds that
“one is about as good as the other.” We
call that an advance in impudence.
The Atlanta Herald of Friday reports
the absconding from its city of Mr. Chas.
H. Platt, a clerk of the house of Platt &
Cos., leaving several disconsolate persons
whom he had obtained goods by decep
tion. It says that his family connections
are of the highest character.
The total exports from Savannah for
the fiscal year ending June 30th amounted
to $32,675,515 in valuation. The imports
for immediate consumption amounted to
only $12,436, and goods warehoused to
$1,769 more !
ALABAMA NEWS.
The Montgomery Advertiser of yester
day reports the cotton worms still on the
increase; and the State Journal of the
same date says that the crops of Mont
gomery county are nearly all ruined, ac
cording to the reports of planters. But
we presume that they haven’t given them
up yet.
Points decided by the Supreme Court
of Alabama on Wednesday—
Sales of property in the ordinary course
of business made during the late war by
one citizen of Alabama to another, with
the knowledge, but without the intention,
of its use in the military service of the
Confederate States, are susceptible of en
forcement in the courts, because of the
necessity of continuing the private busi
ness of the people, and its unavoidable in
volvement in the matters pertaining to the
war.
A joint owner of a judgment may com
pound his iuterest in it with the debtors
without the consent of the other owner.
The Union Springs Herald says that
the August term of the Criminal Court of
Bullock county will begin on Monday, the
4th day of August. Judge C. J. L. Cun
ningham presiding. There are fifty-seven
civil and forty-six criminal cases on the
docket.
The Floral Exhibition opened at Clay
ton on Wednesday, and was largely at
tended. The exhibition of vegetables,
fruits, flowers, hogs, fowls, etc., is said
by the Eufaula 'Times to have been very
creditable.
We gather the following item of news
from the Troy Messenger of the 4th:
The farming prospects have brightened
considerably within the last few days, as
we have had frequent showers. Corn is
looking well and an average crop can at
least be relied upon. Cotton is growing
w'ell and promises a fair yield.
The Catebpillak. —From various parts
of the county we hear of the caterpillar in
the cotton. In some neighborhoods farm
ers contend he is not the genuine cotton
destroyer, and others he has already given
such unmistakable evidence of his gen
uineness as to leave no room to doubt.
There is no doubt but that the cotton
worm has put in his appearance. Cotton
is said to be two weeks later than usual.
This fact, taken in connection with the
early appearance of the caterpillar makes
it almost certain that the crop in this
county must necessarily be far below an
average one.— Union Springs Her aid ‘23d.
FULTOX SUPERIOR COURT.
A glance over tho dockets of our Su
perior Court shows that an immense
amount of business still remains unfinish
ed, notwithstanding the length of the last
session. Aware of the well-known fact
that no j uege of this circuit ever dispatch
ed business with such rapidity as Judge
Hopkins, or exhibited greater patience
and preseverance in the effort to clear the
docket, we were surprised to discover that
nearly one thousand cases go over from
the last term, about as follows :
Appeal 21; equity Ol: claim 53; illegal
ity 13; common law 717; certiorari 28.
This number, too, is exclusive of motions,
(in many of which issues are joined) and
the criminal docket. When we consider,
in addition, the amount of new business
at the next term, it becomes a question of
serious moment how all these cases are to
be disposed of, and furnishes our attor
neys with a subject for earnest reflection.
We cannot see how even Judge Hopkins,
with all his energy and ability, can dis
patch the business. What shall be done ?
— Const.
The Democrats of Oregon are sanguine
as to their ability to elect a Representa
tive to Congress in the place of Mr. Wil
son, Radical, lately decease!. They say
that Mr. Wilson’s personal popularity and
some local influences not available for
any other Radical now, helped him con
siderably in the last contest; also, that
the Democrats of the State are now more
harmonious than the Radicals. The de
velopments concerning Senator-elect
Mitchell have somewhat disgusted or de
moralized many Republicans. The elec
tion will be held in October.
THE WORLD'S FAIR AT VIENNA.
From the Eufaula News.
Hear News : According to promise, to
let you hear something from the “Great
World’s Fair,” at Vienna, I must start by
saying it is really the greatest affair ever
known; I would not have missed seeing
it for any reasonable sum in cash.
The exhibition is on a square called
the Prater, about twelve miles square.
As you enter at the west entrance, you
first come to the American restaurant,
kept by Jewett & Tracy; they have ex
hausted their taste in fitting it up; it
looks more like a King’s dining saloon
than an eating house. Next to that is the
Turkish coffee house : there you get your
glass of coffee, about six spoonfuls, for
half a florin, and a long Turkish pipe
filled with a delicious Turkish tobacco;
they insert anew goose quill in the pipe
stem every time the pipe is loaded ; the
sight of it is well worth the money.
The next place you reach is the machine
shop, a building about one thousand feet
square, and built of blocks of white and
red granite. Everything in the shape of
mechanism is represented there, from a
tooth pick to a locomotive. The prettiest
of all is an apparatus to suck up water—
it is driven by steam and pumps out 300,-
000 gallons of water per hour.
You then come to the embroidery ma
chine—it is wonderful to behold. They
have the design or pattern they wish to
make, at the end of the loom. A small
pin the size of a penholder, extends around
the design, and is pushed by the operator
to the particular spot, where, when the
pattern is to be indented —it works like a
charm —they turn ot 180 yards per hour,
of the best, 6 inches in width. The lace
loom is a similar, but is worked like an
ordinary cotton loom. There are also
cotton, silk and flax looms. But in weav
ing embroidery on cloth and shawls,
Persia beats everything on the ground.
The variety of fire engines is also
great, and I believe I have seen some that
compare favorably with Cleburne, No. 1.
It would really be of no great advantage
to a mechanic to be here and see all this,
but as I have but little judgment in this
line, I will close and come to something
else.
And this is the rotunda, the grandest
building of the age; it is ten thousand
feet round —laid out in twelve round gang
ways, in the centre of it is a large arti
ficial spring about one hundred yards
round; the continual flow of water keeps
the place nice and cool; and in the first
round gang-way as you enter, art is repre
sented; you find there the finest sculpture
and paintings from the greatest artists
living or dead. Monuments of marble,
bronze, copper, &c., &e., all it lacks to be
complete is the likeness of our honorable
Mayor Wells J. Bray.
The second section contains specimens
of silver ware, gold, diamonds, of the
choices kinds. Brazil has the largest dia
mond on exhibition.
The third section is filled with laces and
embroideries, lace collars for 20,000
florins. lam glad that none of our Eu
faula ladies are here, for I never would be
able to sell them any more laces, they
would conclude that my assortment was
not tine enough.
Section four has shawls, cloaks and
gents clothing, for beauty of style and
make, unsurpassed, almost equal to our
friends Lochman and Schloss.
Section five has articles of furniture,
from the past to the present age—the
most conspicuous among them is a bed
stead of solid gold, given by the Czar of
Russia to the former Empress of Austria,
Maria Theresa. Even our friend Link
cannot show anything like it. One set
of furniture attracts general attention,
nameless, inlaid in eight covered pieces of
gold, silver and pearl, an entire parlor
and chamber set. I wish to remark here,
nothing is allowed to be sold or traded at
the fair. A person can sell what he has
on exhibition to another, but it cannot be
removed until the final closing up in Oc
tober.
Section six contains nothing but furs,
partly made up, and some of the wild ani
mols stuffed—it is horrifying to look at
some of those monsters, much more to
speak or write about them.
Section seventh has cutlery and fire
arms of all kinds—from the largest can
non to the smallest pocket pistol. The
different kind of knives, forks, spoons and
plates of all nations are here represented,
as well as breastplates and armors of the
present and past ages. I almost forgot to
mention, you find an American soda wa
ter fountain on each gangway. I wish
Eddie Bullock was here, I would get him
for nix.
Section eight is composed of different
works of willow, wire, &c. There you
can see bedsteads, chairs, Ac., made out
of wire, willow or cut out of wood, ivory
and ivey, and no one knows what else, as
every country produces different material
to work with.
Section nine is the prettiest of all; you
have copies of the palace, houses, cotta
ges, barns, &e., from all and every coun
try in the world. You can see the tent
of the Laplander covered with the skin
of the rein deer; skins with figures iu
sido representing the inhabitants of Lap
land—how they look and live—they dress
throughout with skins, shoes and all. This
section deserves all praise, as it fully rep
resents the world as it is. You can even
see the negro, how he falls asleep in the
cotton field, behind tho plow. You ean
also see the Yankee in New England
making shoes.
Section ten contains plants of different
fruits, flowers and vegetables ; even the
cotton stalk is represented there.
Section eleven, you have fish partially
dried and partially stuffed, from the
mackerel to the whale.
Section twelve contains minerals of all
countries, iron, gold, silver, etc.
As my time draws near to refresh my
bodily wants, I will close with the promise
to give you a further description soon. I
shall remain here a week longer, and
write again. With best regards to all
Eufaula friends and prosperity to the
News,
I am, respectfully,
A. Beringek.
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.
Stuart, Not Longstreet, Responsible for
the Loss of Gettysburg.
From the Vickiburg Herald.]
A letter written by ex-Governor B. G.
Humphreys, to Maj. Seymour McNeilly,
in response to a request from that gentle
man that the Governor —who commanded
a brigade in Longstreet’s corps—vindi
cate Longstreet from the imputations cast
upon him by Gen. Pendleton, in a lecture
delivered at Vicksburg, and other places,
in which he attributes to Longstreet the
loss of the battle of Gettysburg, appears
in the Greenville Times, of the 12th. The
Governor gives a vivid account of the
three days’ battle, and, from his stand
point shows very conclusively that it was
not Gen. Longstreet who disobeyed or
ders, but that Gen. J. E. B. Stuart is pos
sibly most responsible for the Gettysburg
disaster. He shows that when Lee crossed
the Potomac, he left Gen. J. E. B. Stuart
in Virginia to watch Hooker, with orders
to interpose his cavalry between Hooker
and Lee, and keep Lee posted as to the
movements of the Federal army; Stuart
disregarded these instructions by raiding
off to Meade’s rear, and leaving Lee en
tirely uninformed as to the whereabouts
of Meade’s (Meade had superceded Hooker)
army, and permitting that army finally to
fall upon Lee at Gettysburg, without in
forming Lee that it was in striking dis
tance. Then, after reviewing the princi
pal events of the battle, the Governor
adds :
Nearly ten years havo now passed by
since the battle of Gettysburg, and with
many Gettysburg seems to be an enigma.
They seem to be unwilling to accept Lee’s
self-accusation, nis over-weening confi
dence in Stuart, they fear, reflects too
much on his sagacity as a General; and
as Stuart was a pet in high feather with
the army and the country, the story of his
disregard of Lee’s instructions, by making
a brilliant dash and fruitless foray on
Meade’ srear, instead of being on his front,
and keeping Lee informed, must be lost
sight of and forgotten. Again, Ewell was
charged with losing the victory at Gettys
burg, by failing to seize Culp’s Hill and
Cemetery Ridge on the first day. Eweh
was then living, and being in good odor
with the Confederates, readily squelched
the idea of making him the scapegoat of
Gettysburg. Now, nine years after the
battle, comes Lougstreet’s turn, and not
being in high feather and good odor
with the Southern people, his “ un
worthy ambition” and “ill temper with
Lee” is readily accepted as the true solu
tion of the loss of Gettysburg. My love
for the true soldiers of the Confederacy,
true when w>e needed friends, has not
failed me, and I may be but too prone to
defend them; yet, I am persuaded that
when an impartial history of our civil war
can be written, the military fidelity and
heroic record of James Longstreet will
shine bright among the brightest orna
ments of the Confederate struggle for lib
erty and the independence of the South.”
We may now expect a response from
Virginia to so grave a charge against one
of her favorite war chieftains.
FIRE FIEND AT WORK !
rmfKV.SE EIRE IX BALTIMORE.
Wholesale Distinction of the Monument
al City’B Most Valuable Property—Loss
Nearly Equals the Great Boston Eire
—No Loss of Life Reported—Narrow
Escapes of Magnificent Buildings—
Scenes, Incidents, &e., &c.
Baltimore, July 25.—An immense lire
has just broke out, corner of Clay and
Park streets, the center of the city. Two
entire squares are in flames. Great ex
citement here. The vast fire commenced
in the planing mills which has a lumber
yard attached. Alarm has been sounded
and all the firemen are at work. It is the
largest fire that has occurred for many
years.
I. A TEE.
A little after ten o’clock, a fire broke
out in the planing mill of Joseph Thomas
& Cos., south side of Clay street, between
Liberty and Parks streets. Soon after a
general alarm sounded. The fire soon
extended to three adjoining blocks and
merchandise. The conflagration is now
raging, a stiff south-west breeze blowing,
and immense cinders wafted several
blocks in the vicinity of the Cathedral. —
The locality of the fire is now in the im
mediate vicinity of the Presbyterian
church, Rev. Dr. Smith, corner Liberty
and Saratoga streets, where the Presbyte
rian Assembly was held. The entire
south-west corner of this block is burned.
The fire extends from Franklin street
to Howard street. Lexington Park and
four churches burned. Cathedral threat
ened. It is reported that St. Alphonso's
Church is burning. Several lives are re
ported lost.
STILL LATER.
The district burned out is occupied
principally by small shops, several facto
ries and three-story brick residences. At
this time it is not possible to make any
estimate of loss. There are a number of
rumors of parties—men, women and
children being burned—but strict inquiry
has failed to establish any loss of life up
to this time, 1:45 p. m.
SCENES AND INCIDENTS.
Rows of citizens passed buckets of wa
ter where no engines were stationed.
The Washington engines reached the
fire in 40 minutes. Quick time.
STILL LATER.
The fire is still raging, but has not ex
tended to any great extent. The blocks
named in the last despatch, the Central
Presbyterian Church, Dr. Smith, south
east corner of Saratoga and Liberty
streets, is a complete wreck. Nothing re
mains but walls, with the exception of
three brick dwellings. On the southeast
corner of this block, in the immediate
rear of ruins of the church, not a build
ing remains.
At this'hour the wildest rumors prevail
in regard to the fire in other portions of
the city, but on inspection of the locali
ties only several buildings on Culvert st.,
north of Saratoga, have taken fire, among
them building of Children Aid Socioty,on
Culvert street, adjoining No. JO Spring
street, but have been extinguished.
About one hundred buildings have been
burned.
Two p. m.—The fire is still raging.
Eight blocks of fine buildings have been
burned. The authorities are sending for
outside help. The water supply is failing.
On Clay street, from Liberty to How
ard, two squares burned out. This is a
narrow' street filled with carpenter shops
and box factories. The steeple of the
Central Presbyterian Church was on fire
at half past one oclock. The fiercest por
tion of the lire was on Saratoga street, be
tween Park and Liberty streets. On the
south side every house on the square is in
flames. The fire destroyed houses on
Clay street, and up Saratoga to Howard
on the south side. The houses were still
burning at one o’clock.
The course of the fire from Thopias’
factory, where it commenced, was up
Park street on one side, and rear of St.
Alphonso’s church on the other side.—
Burned shingles and sparks started the
fire in squares on north side of Mulberry
streets, between the Cathedral and Park
streets. The fire then dashed across the
street to the Academy of Arts. The dome
of the Cathedral at one time W'as on fire,
but was put out by citizens who are sta
tioned on the roof prepared for it.
At 11 o’clock the casingsof the windows
of St. Alphonso’s Church were on fire for
the third time. Sparks were showered ail
over the Church from the burning houses
in front and along side of it.
No estimate of the damage is possible
under the circumstances. The w’ork of
moving is still going forw'ard and it is
impossible.
On Mulberry street the building of the
Maryland Academy of Arts has been
burned. Dr. Dalrymple’s school, adjoin
ing, is on fire. Three handsome private
residences on the north side of Mulberry
street, between Cathedral street and Park,
took fire but were saved with considerable
damage. A force of forty men are passing
water to the dome of the cathedral which
is covered with blankets.
4:10 p. m.—The fire is now under com
plete control, and many who removed
goods and furniture on blocks adjacent to
the fire, are now moving back.
Reports are still circulated that several
children were burned and men killed, but
strict inquiry at the Marshal’s office fails
to verify any deaths by burning.
Baltimore, July 20.—Loss of Central
Presbyterian Church, $70,000; insurance
SOO,OOO. The Sisters of Notre Dame and
St. Alphonso’s School and Library lost
$80,000; insured. The fire stopped on
Saratoga street, at Central Garden lager
beer saloon. The building occupied by
the Redemptiouist Fathers was flooded.
The English Lutheran Church, with par
sonage, not valued, and library burned.
University of Maryland and Maryland
Academy of Arts partially burned; the
former flooded; the museum attached to
the academy unharmed; most of the pic
tures removed. Insurance people think
$5,000,000 will cover the loss. The dis
aster, they claim, will not affect the solv
ency of the insurance companies. No
lives lost. Sixty families houseless.
STRUCK INSENSIBLE AT LOSS.
Dr. Bareley was in New York when the
fire occurred. Upon his return, findiug
his church and parsonage burned, he fell
insensible and remained so during the
night, tie is better this morning.
QUICK TIME —MILE A MINUTE.
The aid train from Washington with
three flat cars, having on board two
steamers and two hose reels, and one pas
senger car with firemen, left the Wash
ington depot of the Baltimore and Ohio
Kailroad and arrived at Camden depot in
this city shortly after one o’clock, making
the run in forty minutes —averaging a
mile a minute.
I'IRE IN NOR I OLK.
Norfolk, July 2fi.—About one o clock
this morning an incendiary fire broke out
from a building on the west side of Mar
ket Square, occupied by Hofhernur &
Cos., boot and shoe dealers. Owing to
the bursting of a water pipe the day be
fore, and the limited resources of the
fire department, the fire gradually gained
headway and finally extended on the
northern side as far as Archer & Cos. ’s drug
store on Main street, and destroyed or
damaged six or eight buildings. Total
loss is estimated at $150,000, partly cov
ered by insurance. The principal losses
are Hofheimer & Cos., J. T. Griffin, boot
and shoe, W. R. Hutchins, and Taylor,
Martin & Cos., hardware, E. P. & Cos.,
crockery, and Archer & Cos., druggists.
The latter was damaged by water.
Fire rocket signals which were sent up
brought over th.ee engines from Ports
mouth and one from the Navy Yard, j
which rendered great assistance in pre- 1
venting the further spread of the fire.
A P UFF FROM THE CIGAR MEN.
Philadelphia, July 23.—A meeting of
cigar manufacturers was held to-night to
protest against the enforcement by the ;
Revenue Department of the United States
of the patent cigar box, which the depart
ment propose to introduce. The innova
tion was condemned strongly, and a com
mittee appointed to meet Commissioner
Douglas in Washington.
U. I. KIMBALL—GEORGIA ‘•DE
VELOPER.”
New York, July 25. —A special dispatch
from Boston says the failure of H. I.
Kimball, of Atlanta, great hotel and rail
road speculator in routes, creates much
remorse in this section, as he was a for
mer operator here. His liabilities are
said to reach $5,000,000, and the list of |
creditors includes Morton, Bliss & Cos. for
about $170,000; Henry Clews & Cos., about !
$1,000,000, and others to large amounts.
A ROYAL SMUGGLER.
New York, July 25.—Francis Gustave
Colberg, a natural son of the King of
Sweden, and half brother of the present
King, was held to-day with one Frederick
Plate to answer the charge of smuggling
kid gloves into this port.
DON CARLOS.
AT THE HEAD OF 150,000 TROOPS.
Volunteers from all Quarters —Success-
es, Reverses, Jtc.
New York, July 25.—A Herald special
from Lecumberry, France, 24th, says Don
Carlos, by the advice of his Generals, hesi
tated to advance on Pampeluna, and is
waiting for a junction with the forces of
Donegary. His whole force is 150,000
men, fully armed. Numerous French
volunteers are arriving and demanding
arms.
RECAPTURE OF THE WAR VESSELS.
Madrid, July 25. —A Prussian frigate,
dispatched by the German Consul, in
pursuit of the Spanish war vessel, Vigi
lante, which was captured by the insur
gents, overhauld her en route off Almiria,
whither she was bound for the purpose
of proclaiming that province an independ
ent Canton. Senor Golvezt, a deputy in
the Cortes, was in command of the Vigi
lante. The German embassador has of
fered to deliver the captured vessel into
the hands of the Government.
Barcelona, July 24.—Gens do Armes
of this city, to the number of 250, have
joined the Carlist forces.
Bayonne advices received here from
Carlist sources state that the minority in
the Cortes intend to leave Madrid and go
to Carthegena, where they purpose es
tablishing a separate Government. They
are endeavoring to induce Senor Pi V.
Margall to accompany them. From the
same source it is learned that the insur
gents at Carthagena have enlisted 10,000
men of different nationalities in their
cause, and increased their forced contri
bution upon the inhabitants to SSO,OOO.
Barcelona, July 20. —Four officers of
the Civil Guard were shot for attempting
to desert the Carlists.
Madrid, July 26. —Cartreas, assuming
the title of commander of the land forces
of Canton Murcia, has addressed a circu
lar to foreign powers.
The Germans have released the crew of
the Vigilante, fearing the German Consul
will be shot for embezzlement.
Bayonne, July 20. —The Republicans
are concentrating near Pampaluna. Car
los is at Elezendo with 15.000 well armed
stragglers.
Madrid, July 24.—1 tis reported that
Gen. Contreras, leader of the revolt at
Carthagenia, is marching on this city
with 0,000 men, having left a force
equally as strong at Carthagenia. It is
also said he has sent the frigate Almonza
to Malaga, and the steamer Forrord
Elcalabre to Lorrevija with instructions
to levy contributions upon the inhabitants
of those cities. The President of the
Committee of Public Safety, in Madrid,
has fled from the city.
Contreras, commanding *tlie rebels in
Carthagenia threatens to seize all German
ships now lying in the harbor of that port
unless the Vigilante captured by a German
man-of-war, is restored to the Insurgents.
There is a rumor, which needs confir
mation, that the German Consul at Car
thagenia has been arrested by the Insur
gents, and is detained as hostage.
The Cortes has passed a bill suppress
ing the admiralty.
President Salmeron has issued a proc
lamation calling eighty thousand men of
the reserves into active service against
the insurgents in the country.
Madrid, July 20. —The insurgents at
Carthagena have made preparations to at
tack the German frigate now in that har
bor, but it is believed they will not carry
out their design as their vessels are not
properly supplied with either officers, men
or engineers.
A dispatch from Molga says fighting
occured in the streets of that city between
opposing Republican factions.
Barcelona, July 20. —Five hundred in
habitants of the town of Molar, fifteen
and a half miles northeast of here, have
sought refuge in this city, fearing an at
tack upon Molar by the Carlists.
The funeral of Gen. Cobrentse took
place yesterday and passed off quietly.
CARLISTS STILL SUCCESSFUL.
New York, July 27.- —The Herald cor
respondent, who is with the Carlists in
Cotalonia, telegraphs that Don Alphonso
captured Reins, second city in the vicini
ty to Barcelona. Barcelona is threatened
with isolation. It is reported that France
recognizes Don Carlos as a beligerant.
FAVORABLE CROP REPORTS.
New Orleans, July 27. —Dispatches
from Central and Eastern Texas, and
other places, give favorable accounts of
the growing crops.
Waco, Texas, July 27.—Crops as good
as the most sanguine could expect.
Jefferson, Texas, July 27.—Heavy
rain in this section last night. Crops
good. Corn and cotton promise a better
yield than for many years.
Natches, Miss., July 27.- —The present
appearance of crops is fair. Caterpillars
have appeared at some places but no
damage yet done.
Vicksburg, Miss., July 27. —Crop pros
pects are not so favorable as last year.
Worms have appeared nearly every day
during the past week.
Shreveport, La., July 27.—The cotton
crop in this and adjoining counties is re
ported doing well where cultivation is
good. There is some complaint of labor.
In some localities the plant is reported to
be of good size and forming well. Pros
pects are regarded as about the same as
last year. Corn, generally, is reported
doing well whei e the cultivation is good.
The yield will be from 15 to 25 per cent,
greater than last year.
Monroe, La., July 27. —Crops very fa
vorable in this. Fine rain during the
past two or three days. Cotton and late
corn w'as greatly benefited. Caterpillars in
limited numbers have appeared, but no
damage reported.
Franklin, La., July 27.---Cane is gener
ally laid by, and an improving prospect
for a good fair yield. Stubble cane very
inferior. Corn very poor. Weather fa
vorable.
RUSSIA AND KHIVA.
St. Petersburg, July 25. —The Gov
ernment has received a dispatch from
Gen. Kauffman announcing that a treaty
between Russia and Khiva has been
signed, the Khan promising to pay Russia
two million rubles and abolish capital
punishment in his dominions. In return
for this Russia guarantees the independ
ence of the Khanite. The Czar’s troops
will occupy Khiva until the war indem
nity is paid. A portion of the territory
! of Khanite is to be given to Bokhara for
i assistance rendered to the Russian troops.
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
Paris, July 25. —The permanent com
mittee of the Assembly to sit at Versailles
during the recess of that body, is com
posed of ten members of the Left and one
Bonapartist.
The Duke d’Aumale, to-day, asked leave
of absence from the Assembly for the
purpose of presiding over the court mar
tial of Bazaine.
The bill authorizing the construction of
the Church of the Sacred Heart, a grand
cathedral on the height of Montmartre,
overlooking Paris, passed the Assembly
to-day, after an exciting debate, in the
course of which much violent religious
partisanship was evoked.
THE CROWN FRINGE AN It MAR
SHAL BAZAINE.
Paris, July 25. —Prince Frederick
Charles, of Germany, has tendered to
Marshal Bazaine evidence in his favor on
his trial for the surrender of Metz to the
Prussians. The Marshal, however, de
clined to permit the evidence to be intro
duced.
EMANCI FA TI ON IN TOORKISTAN.
St. Petersburg, July 24.—A dispatch
from Khiva says a decree was issued by
the Khan on 24th ultimo, totally abolish
ing slavery throughout his dominions.
It provides that all persons held in bond
age shall be made citizens or returned to
their native countries.
SPAIN AND CUBA.
Washington, July 25.—Information
from Madrid by telegraph has just been
received in diplomatic circles, that the
Cortez, by a large majority, have resolved
that they will confer no further political
privileges on Cuba until the insurgents
shall laj down their arms.
NORTH CAROLINA STATE FAIR.
Raleigh, N. C., July 25. —Extensive j
preparations are being made for the com
ing State Fair. The grounds and build- ;
ings are the finest in the South. The
Fair commences 30th of October and con
tinues one week. Hon. D. W. Vorhees, j
of Indiana, has accepted an invitation to
deliver the annual address.
FROM VARIOUS POINTS.
CROr RETORTS.
Augusta. July 24.—Latest reports from
Florida states the crops generally two
weeks behind last season. Three weeks
ago heavy rains throughout the State
caused much grass, but the planters were
overcoming it when rain began again last
week, doing great damage. Caterpillers
have made their appearance throughout
Middle and West Florida, but as vet have
done little damage. The next two weeks
will determine the extent of injury from
this source. Experiments made with paris
green as a caterpillar destroyer proved
highly successful. The corn crop is re
ported good.
In Alabama the cotton is looking much
better than it did four or five weeks ago,
and if the worm does not interfere the
crops in the State will be larger than last
year. Worms have made their appear
ance much earlier than usual, and are re
ported on every plantation, but they have
done little damage, and the mischief, if
any, will come from the third crop of
worms, which will come three weeks
hence. The cotton crop is three weeks
later than last year, and indications, all
things considered, are that the yield will
not be so great. The corn crop is bad on
low lands, in consequence of the early
heavy rains which drowned oufi grain;
uplands will produce an average crop.
In Georgia the cotton reports are con
flicting. Southwestern Georgia gives in
dication of a good crop ; small but healthy
and well fruited. Crops about as early in
this section as last year. Middle and
East Georgia crops generally reported fine
and other cereals turned out well. A good
deal of cotton acreage abandoned on ac
count of grass.
But few reports from South Carolina.
Heavy and continuous rains in early sum
mer caused abaudonuieut of cotton lands,
though not to any considerable extent.
The crop is backward here as iu Alabama,
but later accounts are more encouraging
and an average crop perhaps will be made.
ICU^KLVX.
I*ol icy of the President .
Washingnon, July 24. —A delegation of
prominent officials from South Carolina,
consisting of W. D. Porter, Gen. J. B.
Kearshaw, A. M. Simmons and S. A. Dur
ham, accompanied by Assistant Secretary
Sawyer of the Treasury, this morning
waited upon Attorney General Williams,
requesting that all proceedings in that
State with reference to the outrages of
the Ku-Klux be suspended, and urging
the pardon of those already confined in
the Albany penitentiary.
They represent that as an organization
the Kiau has ceased to exist in the State,
and that arlenient policy on the part of
of the Government will tend to restore
peace and order.
Attorney General Williams informed
them it was the policy o £ the Government
to prosecute only aggravated cases, orders
having been given to that effect, and as
soon as the President was satisfied that
peaceable citizens would be protected iu
their property and life, a general suspen
sion of prosecution would be desirable.
He also informed them many Ku-Klux
prisoners had been pardoned and pardons
would be issued to others; most aggrava
ted cases would be detained nntii the last.
The delegation was much pleased with
the encouragement given by the Attorney
General.
The delegation will visit Long Branch
and have au interview with President
Grant.
JAIL BREAKING IS ARKANSAS.
Memphis, Tenn., July 21.—The Ap
peal'K special from Arkadelphia, Ark., to
night gives the following account of a
grand escapde there last night: The jail
here was broken into last night ati» o’clock,
which resulted in the delivery of fifteeu
prisoners, among them two murderers,
two robbers, one horse-thief and one
ravisher. Seven w r cre confined in secure
dungeons, and the balance in a large open
room. Parties from the outside broke
into the first room, and then into the
vaults or dungeons. The marshal and
citizens hunted the neighboring thickets
and swamps all night, and recaptured uue
who was maudlin drunk. Much excite
ment prevails. Marengo Joe is here with
eleven desperadoes; and many suppose is
implicated in relieving his partners iu
crime. He, however, seems perfectly
composed, but if he remains here will
soon ornament an Arkansas limb, suspen
ded by well twisted hemp. Benjamin’s
store was broken into last night at 2
o’clock, but the burglar was detected and
imprisoned.
SOUTH CAROLINA FINANCES.
Charleston, July 24.—State Treasurer
Cardoso, in an interview with a corres
pondent of the News and Courier , pub
lished to-day, gives a full statement of
the financial condition of South Carolina.
He says he hopes the suit of the tax payers
to have seven million of converson bonds
declared void will succeed and he wfill
give the movement whatever aid he can.
He claims also to be the originator of the
suit in as much as it is founded almost
entirely upon facts published by him last
year, showing that at least $0,000,000 of
conversion bonds were issued without
any authority of law.
In explanation of the emptiness of the
State Treasury, Cardoso said the appro
priations for the year, including old
claims, were $2,500,000, and the receipts
of the year only $1,600,000, so that the
next fiscal year will begin with a deficit
of at least $750,000.
RAIL no AO AND BANK ROBBERS.
St. Louis, July 25.—The police of this
city, from facts which have come to their
knowledge, believe that the robbers of
the Cowan Railroad train are the same
that robbed the hank in St. Geneviere,
Missouri, last May ; the Russellville, Ken
tucky, bauk two years ago; the Atlantic
bank, of this State, and committed several
other bold robberies. The rendezvous is
said to be Jackson county, Missouri, and
their homes are scattered around Jackson,
Clay, Lafayette and Ray counties. Some
of their names are, Jessee, Frank, James,
Bill, Shepherd, Cole, Younger and Mc-
Coy. Their familes are said to cultivate
small farms in the counties named, and
their houses are surrounded by those of
relatives and friends who would not them
selves commit crime, but would shield
these desperadoes to the last.
CHOLERA AT TATE’S STRINGS.
Special to the Atlanta Daily Herald.
Morristown, July 25. — The cholera
broke out jjt Tate’s Spring last night, and
Miss Tate and Joe Smith, the clerk in the
j hotel, are dead. Supposed to have been
brought there from Nashville, by a young
I lady who came to the Spring from that
| place, who had cholera a short time after
her arrival.
j There is a great panic, and nearly every
j boarder has fled from the Springs. There
l are now at the hotel a large number of
j persons who are waiting for their bag-
I gage, having left it behind in *heir hurry
|to get away. Three persons on the gravel
; train, near Jonesboro, died yesterday, and
I it is currently reported that ten persons
’ died last night at Jonesboro.
AFTER RAILROAD ROBBERS.
Sharp Pursuit.
St. Louis, July 2<>. —'The Republican
has received a special dispatch from St.
Joseph, Mo., which says a telegram re
ceived there states that a number of the
lowa railroad train robbers crossed the
Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad a few
miles east of Chillicothe, on Thursday,
with a large party. Pursuers only three
miles behind. The people in every sec
tion of country that could be reached by
telegraph have been advised, and the
roads in every direction are guarded by'
bodies of men. Two of the robbers are
said to be notorious desperadoes of Clay
county, Missouri. The dispatch further
states that there never was such a deter
mined pursuit of villians as in this, and it
seems almost impossible for the robbers
to escape. It is believed, however,
that they will not be taken without
a terrible conflict, as they know that cap
ture means instant death.
A SALT LAKE BUTCHERY.
Salt Lake City, July2G.-—The butcher
who killed Cotton and his two sons was
arrested yesterday. The youngest sou
was shot five times with a revolver and
once with a shot gun loaded with duck
shot. The eldest son was shot five
times and stabbed in several places with
a knife. A number of stories about the
terrible affair lead to the genei'al belief 1
that the Cottons were the assailants. The
people of Brigham Canon seem to justify
the butcher.
KIDNAPPERS HELD.
St. Paul, Minn., July 24.—The Mani
tobar authorities have decided to hold the
alleged kidnappers and Lord Gordon for
trial.
OUR OERMAN LETTER.
Flora Garten, Fireworks, Feasting nr j
inn—Apt English Student—Simple Sug.
gostions, or German Made Easy—Sunday
Show—Lofty Velocipeding Bachelors’
Haven —Cheap Reading Kates Season
Ticket System—‘‘The Early Bird Catches
the Worm" German Waiters l'.ret
Italic.
Hanover, June 2!(, IK7;J.
Any one blessed with God’s brightest
gift, the organs of vision, c m enjoy such
n scene, and those, whom education ami
a natural love of sentiment have given a
soul cannot fail to appreciate it ; hut,
alas! how few there are who can see and
enjoy the bright panorama of light, life
and love as pictured in the Flora Garten,
and then tell it to others as they saw it
themselves. “Circumstances make men,"
and, no doubt, circumstances make opin
ions ; and it may have been the peculiar
frame of mind I found myself iu, ou the
| beautiful night in question, but be that as
lit may, the scene was gorgeous then. Let
; me see if I can even imperfectly tell you
‘ how it was. This place is nearly iu the
j city, and combines a beautiful garden and
a splendid grove. Soon after I entered,
hundreds of visitors began to pour in and
some’were pressing along with wonderful
impetus. Then the usual German civilities
—bowing, hand grasping, lifting hats and
the hearty greeting—spoke with genuine
effect the cordiality of the meeting
and the sociability of the people. Soon
! a few couples who wished to speak of
things more dear than life and deeper
than death, would gently drop into some
of the more quiet byways and paths, then
table after table was filled and the four
halls were soon crowded. Iu the centre
of the busy scene was a calm and beauti
ful lake, on its brink a grand display of
tiro works was soon to lake place. Nov,
the band breaks forth in one of Meyer
beer’s grandest strains, and cannon like
shots open the fireworks. Amid the con
cordant echoes of these sixty instruments,
willing slaves iu the hands of master mu
sicians, the display begins, with suns and
lights and endless stars ; serpents, shots
and many hued balls of tire ; all this was
mirrowed from the placid lake whose calm
face reflected it with many a weird shade
and lurid shadow. Avouud the garden a
thousand jets were shedding a stream, a
perfect flood of light on the enchanting
scene. Is it auy wonder that these peo
ple are healthy and happy ? Americans
know how to mix drinks, and to use them,
they love excitement, liut are perfectly
destitute of real pleasure as derived from
quiet enjoyment. The Flora Garten
shall ever live in memory as the spot
where
“Was there consorted iuone harmony;
Birds, voices, instruments, winds, waters all
agree.”
Recently it was my ill fortune to meet
one of those harmeiess side-whiskered,
long striding, young and foolish animals,
known as an English student; naturally
we drifted into discussing German. He
casually remarked he would perfect his
knowledge of the language in a year and
return home to pass an examination iu one
of the colleges. This sounds pretty and
he may do it, but my experience causes
me to doubt it. That simple question
“Sprechen sie Deutsch?” when answered
iu the affirmative by a foreigner, iu whom
I can repose confidence, inspires in me a
love and admiration for that man akin to
worship. Auy adventurous young person
who fondly imagines he can come here
and breathe in and imbibe the language
in a few’ mouths is an ignoramus, and
should be declared non compos mentis and
condemned to reside next door to George
Francis Train, President in prospectn. A
few suggestions as to learning it if prop
erly heeded renders the acquisition of
this language comparatively easy. To
practice your lungs, so as to fill out the
pronunciation roundly and fully as a na
tive Teuton, you should practice on a bass
horn a couple of hours each day, always
talk loud and when you are at leisure prac
tice “corn songs” or hog calling, this gives
tone to the lungs and is of good service.
A thorough knowledge of Latin declen
sions and Greek reduplications, the pa
tience of a fisherman and the energy of a
mosquito, coupled with about three years
of hard study, enables an average Ameri
can to speak the mother of his own tongue
w’ith tolerable fluency.
To-day the mothers concluded to take
some respite from the usual routine of
church twice a day, Sabbath-school for
the children at !l a. in., class meetings,
church meetings, Bible class, collection
for missions, district meeting and stew
ards’ meeting, quarterly aud general con
ferences, and such other devotional exer
cises as are, with all due respect, weari
some to the flesh. Yes, to-day is Sunday,
and from the crowd of women and chil
dren I see, it seems to be a unanimous
agreement that all hands go to show.
This show consists of a gymnast riding a
velocipede over a wire suspended 80 feet
from the earth, aud while he runs the
velocipede backwards and forwards,
another gymnast performs at the sauie
time on the same wire. It requires dex
terous movement of his hands to keep
them out of the way and yet to have
something to hold his body up by.
A queer institution I saw recently; it
may be a good suggestion for some of the
old “stagers” at Columbus, and hence it
deserves mention. The Junggeselleu
Halle is an attractive mansion in the
county and is dedicated to sick bachelors.
Every old stag who is without a home and
nurse subscribes so much a year, and
should he become sick or decrepid he re
tires to this bachelors’ hall, where there
is no longer
“Lack of woman’s nursing.”
The circulating library of this city is
extensive and elegant, containing every
volume of current English, French and
German literature. The subscription
price to membership is $2 par annum, or
thirty cents per month.
The soda fountains of the city are all
j owned by one firm, and the same tickets
! are good at all. Everything nearly in this
| country issues season rates. The street
j cars, the bath houses, the clothes renters,
j follow this plan; in fact everything is
disposed of in this style except perhaps
tooth-brushes and paper collars.
Having recently read some of Lessing’s
works, the conclusion forces itself on
me that Tacitus’ Annals are light
literature to them. The truth is, I
I know nothing which compares with these
books in deep and absorbing interest un
less it be the solving of a German rebus,
the study of phonetics or deciphering
Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The “ newext ” novelty in the way of a
society, is a verein for early rising.
These early birds fly down at half past
four and all hands strut through the
woods until six o’clock. The party has in
view, I suspect, an early and unobserved
lick at beer, as the pastor of one of the
churches is President; but the worm, they
say, they are in search of, is health and
improvement in conversation.
To call a German waiter “head waiter”
is a certain avenue to his heart, his ambi
tion knows no higher bounds. If he
don’t yield to this mild treatment and
spin around to suit you, promise him a
groscheu and he becomes active as a cat
and polite as a lady’s man.
A Bremen paper, I was surprised to see
recently, devotes the eutire space ulloted
to current literature to a criticism on Bret
Ilarte’s writings. The American was
fully and severely discussed, but the arti
cle wound up with “Success to the Ameri
can Miner.” More anon.
Ever truly,
S. N. J.
When asked to sing the “Maiden’s
Prayer,” recently, an Atlanta lady imme
diately struck up “Mothermay I go out to
swim.”
A Danbury man who was disappointed
in raising enough money to go to Wash
ington last week, took what he had and
visited the State prison.