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the si 1.1 icy (.ictn.
Public indignation has been so gener
ally expressed against the act of the last
Congress increasing the salaries of its
members, as well as that of the President
of the United States, as to render it very
doubtful whether a dozen members who
voted for it, or who take their increased
pay under it, will be re-elected. Nearly
every public meeting held by both parties
condemns the act. Had a simple act
doubling the President’s salary been pass
ed, the country would doubtless have ap
proved it; but it is too apparent to have I
escaped the attention of the people, that
the act was made to cover both the Presi
dent’s and the Congressmen’s salaries so
as to secure the approval of both depart
ments. The bill might not have passed
Congress had it raised only the Presi
dent's salary, and the President would |
probably not have signed it had it in- I
creased only the Congressmen’s salaries, i
So it is a difficult matter to condemn one |
part of the act and not the other; and it j
will be found difficult to repeal the act |
as to Congressmen and not as to the Ex- !
ecutive. If it was a selfish and unau- j
thorized “grab,” as the people generally
consider, the President is as much to j
blame as the Congressmen; and thus we
find that while some Radical meetings do
not explicitly denounce the President’s
share in the “grab” all of them that men- !
tion it do so to condemn.
J Jut bow is it to be repealed, so as not
to decrease the President’s salary for the
present term, and the Congressmen’s for
this Congress? The constitution of the
United States provides that “the Presi
dent shall, at stated times, receive for bis
services a compensation which shall
neither bo increased nor diminished du
ring the period for which he shall have
been elected.” It is now, by the recent
law, $50,000 per annum for the term now
running, and cannot constitutionally be
diminished during the term. The same
constitutional prohibition may not pre
vent a diminuition of the Congressmen’s
salaries at any time. But the judgment
of the country having condemned the
President’s participation in the “grab” as
well as the Congressmen’s, and the selfish
or corrupt intent that prompted their as
sociation in the same bill being apparent,
will the new Congress consent to a repeal
of only part of the law ? \Ve think not,
and we think that the people demand
more. President Grant might obviate
the difficulty by “covering” half of his
salary annually into the Treasury, as I
many Congressmen are doing, lint no one !
seems to expect him to do this. What
ever people may think of his sagacity or
capacity, lie is generally regarded as a
mail who will get all that he can and hold
on to all that he gets. Possibly, if he is
reduced to the alternative of making
$200,000 in four years, at, $50,000 a
year, or the same amount in eight years,
ut $25,000 a year, ho may take the latter
chance as giving him also another four
years’ lease of power. It would seem that
a renunciation of the increased pay must
precede any hopeful candidacy for a third
term.
L UNA It Y.
The new theory that the Moon has al
ternate periods of red-hot heat and frigid
cold, takes the starch out of some popular
traditions and romances. We believe
that it was Lord Byron who sneeringly
said that tho only curiosity the lady ob
servers had concerning the Moon was to
find out whether there was a mau in it.
They may now rest contented that there
is not a single lunarian, and all schemes
of emigration thither had as well lie
abandoned at once. Even the fabled sol
itary brush-burner must be a myth, and
the jagged figure which we see at full moon
is probably only the shadows cast by
peaks at that time incandescent with ac
cumulated heat, while on the other side a
temperature far below that of our poles
forbids the idea of human life.
The cow that “jumped over the moon”
is intimately associated with our infan
tile beginning in book learning; but we
now know that she must have given it a
wide berth, else she barely escaped fur
nishing the neighborhood where she “lit”
with a carcass of well-done roast beef.
Only the “horns” remain as evidences
of civilization or liquidity, and these
round oil' so quickly that they afford but
temporary points upon which to hang a
theory or an argument. We are forced
to give it up that only “distance lends
enchantment to the. view” of our beauti
ful nocturnal luminary, and come to the
reluctant conclusion that she is too
changeable and inconsistent for our com
fortable closer acquaintance.
UENSACOI.A.
We find the following paragraph in the
Savannah A titer User of Saturday. We
do not now exchange with a Pensacola pa
per, but we are encouraged by the fact
that we have not seen such a report in a
Montgomery paper to hope that there is
some mistake about it :
“One of the most malignant fevers ever
known in this country is said to be deso
lating Pensacola. Out of a population of
less than one thousand, twenty a day have
died. Scarcely an American is left.
Among the deal hs are Dlonaugh, Presi
dent of the Legislative Council ; Mr. Har
rison, United States Attorney, and lady,
the Navy Agent and many others. The
troops have been partially affected,
and are removed. The Governor and
Council have left the town."
Augusta. —The Chronicle and Sentinel
of Saturday makes gratifying report of
the improvement and progress of our
third city. It says: “There are at pres
ent iu course of erection at least one hun
dred substantial brick and wooden build
ings, while a host of cottages, many of
them neat and handsome ass lirs, are in
course of construction iu various parts of
the city. Iu its very centre a number of
edifices are being erected, while others
are under contract and their foundations
will he laid iu a few days. * *
“The unroll of progress is visible on
every side. l'iie canal enlargement, one
of tho mod important enterprises in the
South, is being rapidly pushed forward,
Already anew factory is being erected
upon its banks, and ere many months
have passed we confidently expect to
chronicle the laying of the foundation of
another."
Hon. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, has
not lost his overweening estimate of his
own abilities—whatever else he may have
hist. In his last—being his third or
fourth—letter defining his position as re
gards a nomination for Governor, he says;
“If either convention will abstain alto
gether from a nomination, I will defeat the
nominee of the other.” But he thinks he
could not be elected with the nomination
of either party.
Gainesville, Newuau, Quitman and Ho
gansville, in this State, have recently been
made money order offices.
VOL. XV.
GROESBECK ON THE SITUATION.
We copy a conple of letters from Hon.
W. S. Groesbeck, of Ohio, giving his
views on the political situation, and espe
cially upon the proposition to unite all
the conservative people of the country in
opposition to Radicalism.
Entirely agreeing with Mr. Groesbeck
upon the duty and the necessity of such a
union of all good men. and being our
selves very loosely attached to any mere
party names, we are nevertheless not yet
thoroughly convinced of the necessity of
any disbandment of the political organi
zation which, as is now admitted, has
stood upon constitutional grounds and
stiuggled for a wise conservative policy
ever since the clone of the war If men
of Other parties have now become con
vinced of the soundness of the principles
and the merits of the measures supported
by the opponents of the party in power,
and desire hereafter to act in unison with
us, is it not puerile trifling to demand
first a disbandment of the political organ
ization which they propose to join and
whose principles they propose to adopt?
Is it not especially so in view of the readi
ness and heartiness with which the Dem
ocratic party of the whole country last
year forbore to present a national ticket
of their own and accepted the candidates
and the platform of the Liberal .Republi
cans?
“Liberal Democracy” is a good name—
a comprehensive and expressive name.
We would have no objection whatever to
the party with which we act accepting it.
But we must say that if a combination of
names is relied upon to effect a co-opera
tion of parties, we fear that the experi
ment will prove abortive, if not disastrous.
Men, convinced of the error of their past
political association, who have not the
moral courage to go openly into what
they have found to be a better party, but
who must demand a change of name to
cover their change of position, cannot lie
relied upon as efficient auxiliaries. They
evidently prize a false show of consistency
above principle and duty. Such was not
the course of the old Whigs of the South,
and many of the same party at the North,
who, at the close of the war, threw away
their old party cognomen as a toy un
worthy of affectionate regard in an emer
gency which required a patriotic union of
all good men to save the constitution from
violation and republican government from
shipwreck.
What was lacking last year to smooth
and even carpet the way for dissatisfied
or repentant Radicals to move from one
organization to another? They were not
called upon to support the Democrats—
the Democrats supported their old lead
ers. They did not have even to come
upon a platform of our making, for they
made it themselves. They chose the
candidates from their own ranks, made
the platform to suit what they regarded
as tho settlements of the war, took the
lead in the canvass and directed the tac
tics of the campaign. And yet they made
no sensible impression upon the Radical
ranks. And yet many thousands of Rad
icals, whom Mr. Groesbeck now hopes to
“fix” by a combination of names and
principles, then supported Grant. What
has since occurred to detach these men
from Grant? We speak not of the few
who may desire to desert him and the
Radical party from motives of interest,
but of the great mass committed to the
policies and systems of which liis Admin
istration is regarded as the sure support
—the Prohibitory Tariflites, the Monopo
lists, the Plunderers, and the Consolida
tionists. If any break has been made in
the serried ranks of Radicalism rallied by
those interests, and they can only accept
the name of Democrat with the prefix of
“Liberal,” we see no objections to mak
ing this trifling concession—in fact we
rather like the significance of the addi
tion. But let us engage in no child’s
play, sporting with a mere bauble, while
the “anaconda coils” are tightening
around tho States and the liberties of the
people are constantly being trampled un
der foot by tho iron heel of despotic Fed
eral power.
KE1.1.000 AN It NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans is a city of 200,000 inhabi
tants. Its business men, as a general
thing, are not rich; they labor under the
common embarrassments and restrictions
of all Southern cities. But they have
more money in hand or at command, at
this time of the year, than the planters
or the people in other parts of the State.
Therefore it is that Kellogg has hurried
up the. work of extorting from them all
the money he can, and duly reports pro
gress to the Attorney General of the
United States ! He telegraphs that lie
collected one million and one hundred
thousand dollars from the people of New
Orleans in the mouth of June. Itisonly
about $5. Id each for every man, woman
and child in the city, or, if we estimate
that only one half of them paid the tax,
it is $10.20 each ftr every responsible
white person. How much more he ex
pects to get in July, is not disclosed to
vulgar eyes, but doubtless he has advised
bis patron and supporter, the Federal
Attorney General. We may be sure that
be will bleed them heavily for their politi
cal sins before he gets through. Metro
politan police attend the movements of
bis tax-gatherers, and Federal bayonets
and Gatling gnus are at his service when
ever he may need them. We need there
fore expect no further resistance, and 1
only a little subdued squirming, as these
exorbitant taxes are summarily called for.
There is “peace” in Louisiana now, but it
is the peace of despotism. The people
pay their taxes, and the Federal authority
is excitingly informed of the fact as an
evidence of their subjugation. A million
dollars a month from New Orleans is a
fund upon which the usurper may rely
to enable him to run the machine of gov
ernment without recourse upon the Fed
eral treasury, and so far the conspiracy
works successfully. Tho people “had
better mind their own business and let
politics alone” 1
A Washington dispatch of the 2tith
says : “Gen. Myers, Chief of the Signal
Corps of the army, to-day decided not to
detail any employees of the signal ser- j
vice to accompany Prof. Wise in his Eu
ropean balloon voyage. Over twenty
volunteer applicants hail been received. ■
This action on his part is taken on ac
count of the extreme peril incident to
such a trip.”
“Old Probs” is famous for his correct
prognostications. We make a note of
this one with as much confidence in his
good judgment as we have in giving his
daily bulletins of the coming weather.
A Georgian Come to Grief at Long
Branch.— Mr. J. J. Clay, of Macon,whose
handsome team of four greys is so well
known in Georgia, has taken his team to
liong Branch and cut quite a dash. On
the 15th, an accident happened to him, ;
bv which the carriage was overturned by j
the running away of the horses, caused
by the pole becoming detached and falling
on the heels of the two hind horses. They I
ran until they came to a fence, which the
two forward horses jumped clear, but the
others broke it down. Here they were
easily held, on account of their fine
training, Mr. Olay himself escaped un
hurt, but his driver was badly cut about
the head. —Atlanta Constitution.
Buffalo, “July 30.—8 y a collision at
Clinton crossing, two ladies were killed
and ten injured. No Southerners.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
AUBURN LETTERS.
Commencement Exercises of the Agri
cultural ami Mechanical College In
augurated Sermon by Kev. TV. B.
Shapard, of Mobile Large Crowd in
Attendance.
Auburn House, July 28, 187:!.
Kds. faun : The refreshing showers of
yesterday morning served to lay the dust
and cool the atmosphere, thus drawing
in from the surrounding country a very
great crowd of people to hear the Com
mencement Sermon of Rev. W. B. Shap
ard, of Mobile. The attendance from
Opelika was quite large, as the preacher
has numerous relatives and an extensive
acquaintance in that city, where he is re
garded as mi eloquent and able divine.
We did not arrive in time to hear the dis
course, but all reports agree in regard to
its being ? well-prepared and finely de
livered sermon.
The exercises of to-day are announced
as follows: 10 o’clock—Prize Declama
tion; 11—Agricultural Address by the
Hon. Alexander White; C—Dress Parade
of the Corps of Cadets; B—Celebration of
AVirt Literary Society. This is an at
tractive programme, and the indications
now are that the chapel will be filled to
its utmost capacity. A large number of
visitors came in on the early morning
train, and carriages from Opelika and
other points are constantly arriving,
nearly all of which bring a few pretty
girls. It is a singular fact, to some per
sons at least, what a deep interest yonng
ladies leel in the Commencement Exor
cises of a college devoted exclusively to
the education of yonng men. If they
don t have a brother of their own to look
after, they are pretty sure to have an eye
on the brother of some other yonng lady,
which is very kind indeed.
Sidney Herbert.
Prize Declamation—Columbus Eloquence
—Absence of lion. Alex. White—Dress
Parade of Cadets—Celebration of Wirt
Society—Columbus well lb-presented.
A. & M. College, July 20, 1873.
Editor Sun: In our hastily written
and brief letter of yesterday morning. It
was impossible to give you any outline
of the sermon of Rev. Mr. Shapard ; nor
do we propose to do so at this late hour,
but simply to state that we hear it very
highly commended in all quarters. Hav
ing once been pastor of the Methodist
Church here, his present visit to the scenes
of his former labors, is cordially wel
comed by a host of warm personal
friends. He is a good speaker and an
able sermouizer. Thenumberof visitorsis
quite large, and while many parents and
distinguished men are here, the majority of
strangers are young people, many' of
whom seem to think Commencement is
only intended as a season of fun and
frolic. We think their conduct, however,
clearly showed how little sense and good
manners they possess on public occasions
of this kind. Columbus is well represent
ed here, not only by parents and promi
nent gentlemen, but her delegation of
young ladies is very attractive and charm
ing. There are also quite a number of
belles from the line of the Mobile and
Girard Railroad. One of these, although
an 0 (Ott) is not a cypher; yet several
young students and one unmarried pro
fessor do sigh for her sweet smiles.
Young Peabody of your city, at the close
ot his declamation, acknowledged a beau
tiful boquet from this fair charmer, much
to the surprise of everybody, in an eulo
gistic Rpeech of thanks.
PRIZE DECLAMATION.
At 10 o’clock yesterday morning the
chapel was filled at an early hour, and
presented quite an attractive appearance.
It was handsomely trimmed with ever
green, with the letters A. and M. C. over
the college motto— “ First the blade,
THEN THE EAR, AFTER THAT THE FULL CORN
in the ear.” Beneath this motto and ap
parently supporting it were several fine
stalks of corn, with full ears and a rich
foliage, the effect of which was very fine.
The beautiful white silk banner, present
ed to the corps of cadets by the ladies of
Montgomery, was also displayed upon the
platform, on either side of which were
raised seats occupied by the students.
After prayer by Rev. A. Tatom, the fol
lowing young gentlemen contended for
the oratorical prizes, two in number: W.
S. Rowell, Lee county—“ Little Things;”
E. R. Rivers, Glennville—“Characteris
tics of the Age;” John R. Figli, Mont
gomery—“ Christopher North’s Address
to his Wife;” J. S. Dowdell, Auburn—
“ Heroic Actions the Source of National
Greatness;” S. A. Ellis, Blount county—
“ The Pleasures of Science;” 0. T. Hodge,
Lee county—“ Perseverance;” B. C. La
nier, Huntsville —“The Criminality of
Duelling;” George E. Dillard, Auburn—
“ The Prisoner for Debt;” E. Wagner,
Montgomery “The Private Soldier;’’
Orbrey Elay, Columbus—“ The Fate of
Napoleon Bonaparte;’’ Thos. F. Davis, i
Autaugaville—“Advantages of Educa
tion;” J. A. Hurt, Hurtville—“Death G s |
Hamilton;” P. 11. Stowe, Opelika—“Re
spect, the Foundation of National Friend
ship;” F. D. Peabody, Columbus—“Mar
mion Talcing Leave of Douglas;” C. S.
Scheussler, Montgomery—“ Death of John 1
Q. Adams;” W. P. Smith, Auburn—“ The
Ruins of Time;” W. L. Brock, LaFayette
“The Cultivation of the Intellect;” W.
M. Perry, Columbus—-“ The Results of
our Institutions;” E. T. M. Cothran, Dal
las county—“Woman.”
Thesq young gentlemen did exceeding
ly well, on the average, while several dis
played superior culture as elocutionists
anil public speakers, their gestures be
ing appropriate and graceful and their
voices well modulated. Os this number
we noticed E. Wngnor, of Montgomery,
F. D. Peabody, of Columbus, E. R. Riv
ers of Glennville, and J. S. Dowdell, of
Auburn. Geo. E. Dillard, formerly of
Columbus, C. 8. Scheussler, nephew of
Alderman Scheussler, and W. M. Perry,
son of Win. Perry, of your city, also did
well. The declamations were interspersed
with music by the Auburn Brass Band,
and were to have been followed by an Ad
dress from the Hon. Alex. White, but that
gentleman being detained in Washington,
found it impossible to reach this place in
time for the Commencement, and there
fore that part of the programme was omit
ted. The Dress Parade of the Cadets
took place in the evening, and was wit
nessed by a large crowd of spectators.—
The corps is divided into two companies,
fully officered and equipped, and was in
command of Col. I{. A. Hardaway, the
popular Commandant and Professor of
Military Science. It is needless to say
more than that they made a very fine ap
pearance, and went through the evolutions
in a most creditable manner. Their splen
did appearance was the theme of general
remark, especially on the part of the
charming young ladies present, to whom
a uniform and a military air are “so very
nice.”
CELEBRATION OF WERT SOCIETY.
The annual Celebration of the Wirt Lit
erary Society took place last night in the
chapel and was a successful affair. The stage
was tilled with distinguished gentlemen
and newspaper reporters, while every part
of the room was crowded to its utmost
capacity. Capt. Win. T. Rutledge, Presi
dent of the Society, occupied the chair,
and after prayer by Rev. W. B. Shapard,
announced Sergeant-Major B. H. John
son, who delivered an excellent oration
on “Diligence, the Lesson of the Hour.”
This was followed by the discussion of
the vexed question—“ Ought Universal
Suffrage to Prevail.” In the affirmative —
P. H. Stowe and Orderly Sergeant E. R.
Rivers; in the negative—F. D. Peabody
and Lieut. B. F. Jones. The speeches of
Messrs. Rivers and Peabody were unusu
ally good, and were well delivered. Both
these gentlemen are fine debaters, and
young men of rare ability. Hon. ~1. L.
Stansel, in behalf of the Committee, an
nounced that they had decided the ques
tion in the affirmative. At the close of
these exercises, w’hich were enlivened by
the music of the baud, the audieuce re
paired to the elegant rooms of the Wert
and Websterian Literary Societies, where
a most delightful hour was passed in
social chat and promenading. To the
yonng people, this was the most enter
taining and attractive feature of the day,
and was well taken advantage of by them
to make addresses not of a literary charac
ter. Sidney Herbert.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5,1873.
THE SECOND DAY’S EXERCISES.
Declamations—Literary Address of Hon.
John Gamble—Review of Cadets by
Governor Lewis—Celebration of AVeb
> sterian Society—Brilliant Social Gath
ering.
A. & M. College, July 30th, 1873.
| Editors Sun: Another pleasant day
has been allotted to this Commencement
occasion, and every body has had an op
: portnnity to enjoy themselves. The ex
ercises of the Second Class took place in
\ the chapel on yesterday morning, and
were witnessed by the largest crowd yet
jin attendance. Professor O. D. Smith
presided on Monday, and on yesterday
I that duty was assigned to Col. R. A. Hard
! away. After prayer had been offered by
I Rev. J. W. Simmons, of Columbus, the
following declaimers held forth : Lieut.
W. H. Moore—“ Characteristics of the
Age;” Lieut. B. F. Jones—“Be Useful;”
Sergeant Major B. H. Johnson—“ Dive
rsified Agriculture the success of a Na
tion;” Lieut. Al. A. Frazer—“ Effort;” Q.
j M. Sergeant R. B. Barnes —“Our Past,
i Present and Future.” All these gentle
men presented well written themes and
discussed them in an able and vigorous
manner. Lieut. Frazer was especially
happy in bis style of delivery, and closed
bis tine “effort” in a tenderly eloquent
: maimer. The Literary Address before
the united societies was then made by
Hon. John Gamble, of Greenville, Ala.,
who proved himself quite an accomplished
orator. His remarks were eminently ap
propriate and well-directed, and cannot
fail to accomplish the object had in view
by the projectors of this exercise. His
appeal to the young men, with Wirt and
i Webster as their noble examples, was elo
! quent and forcible.
GRAND REVIEW OF THE CADETS.
At 5 o’clock,despite the threatening clouds
which shut out the sun but refused to
drop rain, a large crowd gathered on tho
Campus to witness the grand review of
the Corps of Cadets by his Excellency,
the Governor, and other distinguished
citizens of Alabama. Col. It. A. Harda
way was in command, and under his
guidance the Corps made a most credita
ble display of their proficiency. Gov.
Lewis and bis party occupied a position
on the upper balcony of the College, from
which he reviewed the battalion in the
usual manner. In conversation with us !
last night at the social gathering, the
Governor expressed himself highly pleased j
with the military display and literary
exercises of the College. Considering
that the term has been confined to only;
seven months and that considerable delay i
occurred in procuring uniforms for all
the Cadets, great credit is due the accom
plished Commandant, Col. Hardaway, for
the proficiency in military evolutions
which the Corps now displays. The good
effects of this department of education
is readily seen in the manly bearing and
erect forms of the students, many of
whom look “every inch a soldier.”
WEBSTEEIAN CELEBRATION.
The most attractive part of the pro
gramme, however, was reserved for the
young men of the Websterian Literary
Society, whose celebration took place in
the chapel last night, and which, notwith
standing the rain, was fully attended by
the ladies. Lieut. M. A. Frazer, Presi
dent, occupied the chair in a most digni
fied and able manner, and greeted the
audience with a few appropriate remarks.
Prayer was offered by Rev. W. E. Lloyd, j
followed by an original declamation from !
Lieut. M. H. Moore, entitled “Nil Des- |
perandum.” Mr. R. O. Bounsavall, B.
A., of the class of 1872, was then intro
duced as the orator of the Alumni, and
delivered a splendid and strikingly orig- I
iual address. Everybody was delighted
with the effort of this modest young man,
and all predict for him marked success in
the future. He is a hard and faithful
student, and his address was replete with
good sense and deep thought. The So
ciety honor of Valedictorian was well be
stowed upon Adjutant Joseph L. Golson,
whose words of farewell were eminently
appropriate and delivered with much
emotion. Adjutant Golson has a pleasing
voice, a dignified air, and is one of the
finest looking officers in the Corps. Os
course, all the young men who spoke
were the recipients of bouquets, as well
as sweet smiles and bright glances, from
the charming belles present.
IMPROMPTU SOCIAL GATHERING.
At the close of the exercises in the chap
el, which ended at about 10 o’clock, the
large and handsomely furnished halls of
the Wirt and Websterian Societies were
thrown open to the inspection of visitors,
and the social element asserted its power
to such an extent that the hour of mid
night passed before those halls were de
serted. Such an array of youthful beauty
and chivalry is seldom seen. The cadets
in their best uniforms, and the young
ladies in full dress —which means that
what is taken from the neck and arms is
put in the full train—made a most elegant
display. Columbus, Montgomery, Ell
- Opelika and Tnskegee contributed
numerous “beautiful belles,” while the
fair maidens of Auburn were out in full
force. But the grand feature of the gath
ering was tho great number of red-lieaded
young ladies, some of whom were quite
beautiful and fascinating. One professor
said he would like to know ii the town
took its name from the color of those
ladies hair, or their hair took its color
from the name of the town, as Auburn
hair seemed to be very fashionable on
this occasion. Another gentleman de
clared that he could not get his house in
sured because he had so many red-beaded
young ladies there. And another gentle
man remarked, as several of these young
ladies passed, “there goes a torch-light
procession.” We took dinner on yester
day at a house where there w'ere seven
very attractive young ladies, four of
whom have auburn hair. Yet the belle
of the Commencement season, so far as
we can judge, is one of these four ladies,
and one who is distinguished for her ele
gant culture and refined manners. But
seriously, it is a subject of general re
mark, that on no previous occasion have
so many red-headed young ladies ever
been seen together. Auburn hair is con
spicuous, and the Opelika, or tow-heads—
so called because they are near Auburn,
are too numerous to mention, they being
far in the ascendency. Black eyes and
light hair carry the day here in Auburn
on this occasion. Sidney Herbert.
PATRONS or II VS RAND nr.
The Order Rapidly Increasing What
George W. Adams is Doing,
Colonel George W. Adams, Deputy of
the State Grange, organized a Grange,
known as the Atlanta Grange, in this city
yesterday', with twenty-six members.
There are now seventy Granges in the
State.
To show that Colonel Adams is an in
defatigable laborer we will cite a few
facts: On the lfith he organized Adams
Grange in Spalding county, with thirty
members; on the 21st, Conyers Grange,
with fifteen members; on the 23d, La-
Grange Grange, with twenty-six members;
on the 23d, Antioch Grange, in Troup
county, with twenty members; on the
21th, Hogatisville Grange, with twenty i
members. To-day he organizes a Grange
at Warnersville, in Meriwether county.
Thursday he organizes one at Whites
bnrg, in Carroll county.
Friday he organizes one at Liberty Hill ;
in Pike county.
Next Monday be organizes one at Pow
ersville, Houston county.
Next Tuesday be organizes one in the
city of Columbus.
Next Wednesday he organizes one at
Eatontou.— At. Const., 30 th.
A meeting was held in Americus on
Friday to hear Dr. Stevens ou the subject
of Granges generally, and to take into
consideration the formation of one at
Americus. After the Doctor had conclud
ed his iddress, as we learn from the Re
publican's report, Col. Jack Brown re- |
plied in opposition, believing the institu
tion to be of a political character and of
the nature of the Know Nothings, into
which it appears the Colonel was iuticed,
much to his dissatisfaction.
The Doctor replied to this intimation
that it had no politics in it only to the
extent that self-preservation and protec
tion among the particular class —the far
mers, with whom the Patrons of Industry
bad to do, might be considered into poli
ties. It was secret on the same principle
that wise and successful business men
kept their ojvn counsel.
EERIEF FOE BALTIMORE.
An Appeal From Hon. C. J. Jenkins.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Gentlemen —The fire scourge has visit
ed in f nry, the beautiful Monumental City.
Quite a large area of Baltimore is in ruins.
The devastations of this terrible element
are always sudden and appalling—opu
lence is often reduced to poverty, and
easy competence to entire destitution, in
a few hours. These calamities, befalling
a populous city, call loudly upon those
still enjoying exemption for liberal and
! prompt relief, and such calls among our
I warm-hearted people always meet a gen
| erous response.
j In this case, however, {he sufferenT
: have a peculiar claim upon our people.
A few years since Georgia was desolated
: by fire, and smoke, and pestilence, and
1 famine, which in fearful combination,
; always wait upon war, and follow in the
wake of conquering armies. Then, with
alacrity and persistence unprecedented,
Baltimore aroused herself and came nobly
;to the relief of Georgia. The Ladies’
j Southern Aid Association, of Baltimore—-
| under the impulse of generous hearts, and
i the guidance of wise heads, and sustained
by the open purses of fathers, husbands
and brothers—sent a flood of relief,
which, in its abundant outpourings, per
vaded our entire State, clothing the
naked, feeding the hungry, sustaining
the sick and tho wounded anil the aged.
Lot our people now show their grate
ful appreciation of this noble charity
let them heartily embrace the first oppor
tunity presented for becoming reciproci
ty.
The writer is emboldened to venture
on this appeal in his own name by the
fact that, owing to the official position oc
cupied by him at the time, he was honor
ed as the chosen almoner of this great
charity, which came with healing on its
wings in the day of our adversity. He,
therefore, knows well how full, how am
ple, and how alleviating, the relief was.
He trusts our authorities will at once
take the matter in hand, and that munici
pal treasuries and private purses will be
freely opened in so good a cause—sys
tematic movement, originated by public
authorities is, in such cases, always most
honorable and most efficient.
Very respectfully,
0. j. Jenkins.
THE GEORGIA BONDS.
Considerable indignation exists among
| those persons who have been published
i as creditors for heavy amounts of tho de
faulting Georgia swindler, 11. I. Kimball,
whose failure occurred two years ago.
Application to several of those mentioned
elicited the information that they were
either not Interested or their interest was
for lesser amounts. A member of the
leading banking house, who are said to
be creditors for a large sum, stated that
he supposed the figures very exaggerated
in many of the cases. With respect to
his own house, the transaction was one
of some years past, and had been liquidat
by the sale of securities left as collateral
agaiiist the loan. Henry Clews & Cos.,
who are mentioned as having lost $1,000,-
1 000 by the failure, report that they wore
only interested to the extent of SIOO,OOO,
which they claim was amply secured by
collaterals.
A. G. Johns, President of the Fulton
Bank, Brooklyn, when questioned by a
I reporter of the Tribune, indignantly de
nied the statement alleging that they had
loaned money to Kimball. It was subse
quently learned that through Kimball the
Fulton Bank had loaned the State of
Georgia $35,000 in bonds issued by the
State, to pay the Legislature of 1871 and
1872, which are held to be valid by the
State authorities. The report relative to
the connection of the Brooklyn Savings
Bank and Kimball is also denied. The
bank has never loaned Kimball anything,
and it has never held a Georgia bond. It
is understood that the collaterals in nearly
every instance were the Georgia bonds
with which tho market was flooded at one
time.— New York Tribune, 2Cf/i.
THE COTTON CATERPILLAR.
Bellevue, Ala., July 18, 1573.
Col. Saffold: I write you a hurried
note, which you may use if you think
proper to do so. On Wednesday morning
I applied a proportion of Paris green,
arsenic and flour to a small portion of
my cotton before sunrise, which was
heavily laden with caterpillars. In two
hours all the worms were dead, and no
others have attacked the cotton. I have
taken fresh worms from other cotton and
placed them on the plants sprinkled with
this remedy, and a like fate has been
theirs. A number of my neighbors have
witnessed this experiment, anil believe
this remedy a success. The remedy con
sists of one pound of Paris green, one
of flour, lime, land plaster, or fine ashes.
I would suggest that lime, land plaster,
or ashes be used instead of flour, being
much cheaper and they will do as well.
The Hour or lime is used only to assist
the distribution of" tlie Paris green, and
arsenic. Care must be taken that the j
mixture is not applied too heavily on the j
cotton, otherwise it will kill the plant. ]
The ingredients should lie thoroughly
mixed ten or twelve hours before using; I
so that they may be well incorporated J
with each other. .The quantity given
above is sufficient for one acre; and should !
be lightly sprinkled over the cotton with
a tine sieve or a very open sack. Farmers
should not wait a day longer to procure a j
supply of Paris green for it will have to !
tie ordered from New York. Druggists |
have only a small quantity on hand, and |
will only purchase a large amount to fill
orders. It will not do to fiddle while
Rome is burning. The caterpillars have
dug up the tomahawk and are on the war
path in large numbers in this neighbor
hood. Yours truly,
A. N. Pouter.
[Cor. Selma Times.
Cushing on Dogs and Other Things.—
Hon. Caleb Cusuiug has addressed the
following note to the editor of the Ger
mantown Daily Chronicle:
Washington, D. C., July 21, 1873.
Beak Sib ; There is so much bosh of
good sense and of good humor iu your
article of tho 18th, entitled “A Dog's De
light,” as to induce me to write you a few
words on the subject. I perceive that all
the newspapers chronicle my dog fight. I
have thus of a sudden become famous
pretty much as Alcibiades did by cutting
off his dog’s tail, to the astonishment of
all Athens. I plead guilty to barking at
Sir Alexander Cockburu ; but I have done
this in self-defense, and, as it seems to
me, with great moderation, seeing that
Sir Alexander began barking at me
through I.‘lo pages of Adose-printed large
octavo, while I barken at him through
only twenty-five pages oflarge type leaded,
these pages not half the size of the others.
You see that I have been very temperate.
In justice to Mr. Fernando Wood, also, I
desire to say that the dog did not belong
to him, but to his tenant at will, Thomas
Kelly, and that, being written to on the
subject. Mr. Wood gave me full permis
sion to act iu my discretion against both
Kelly and his dog.
I remain, yours truly,
0. Cushing.
THE Olt AN(I US DISCORDANT. .
Oshkosh City, Wis., July 30.—The Ex
ecutive Committee of the Wisconsin State
Grange of Patrons of Husbandry, at a
meeting there to-day, adopted a resolution
repudiating the recent action of the Dodge
County Grange in calling a State conven
tion at Milwankie August 13th, and issued
an order to Granges throughout the State
to disregard the call and not hind them
selves to the furtherance of any political
scheme in direct opposition to the cardi
nal principles of their order.
TRICE OE SLAVES IN SUE EREE
NOR Til.
San Francisco, July 30.—Twenty-two
Chinese families, brought by steamer
from Hong Kong, were sold at public
auction to-day. Young girls brought as
high as $ Bit); middle-aged and old women
from .>'22o to SI,OOO.
lUH NEW STATE.
Memphis, July 20.—The convention for
the new tstate of Neshoba met iu Jackson,
Term., to-day.
Ike Union City (Term.) Courier of
the 25th inst., reports that there were 20
deaths from cholera during the week in
that village and immediate vicinity.
ANOTHER RUSSIAN WAR.
An Expedition Against the Turcomans
Ordered by the Czar.
Special Despatch to the World.
London Office of The World,'
32 Fleet Street, J uly 25. j
I have just received a despatch from St.
Petersburg, dated this day, announcing
that orders have been sent from His Im
perial Majesty the Emperor Alexander
to General Yon Kaufmann, Governor-
General of Turkestan, under whose com
mand thelatesuccessful expedition against
Khiva was carried to its conclusion, that
he should conduct another expedition,
this time against the Turcoman tribes.
The forces which have been placed at bis
disposal are not named, but it is presumed
that they are the same as those now with
him in Central Asia. Should it be deem
ed necessary to place others at work for
the purpose in hand, they will be forth
coming through Tasehkend. It is not,
however, anticipated that the task will be
too great to be accomplished by the troops
now with General Yon Kaufmann, who
number between 7,000 and S,OOO men,
and who, now that they have become ac
customed to the exigencies of the climate !
and inured to the sort of warfare conduct- ’
ed in the districts of Central Asia through
which they have passed, will be the best :
possible men to wage a successful warfare
against the nomad tribes. P. G. j
[ln every expedition which Russia has
sent into the heart of Asia the Turcomans
have been amongst the most implicable
foes. Originally inhabiting the eastern
shores of the Caspian Sea, they have
spread all over Central Asia, being nomads
by nature, dwelling in tents, born to the
saddle and a wandering life. They aro
divided nominally into numerous minor
tribes, but all partake of the general char
acteristics - bravery, fanaticism, and
shrewdness. During the recent march to
Khiva they continually harassed the Rus
sian troops, suddenly appering, discharg
ing their weapons, and then, at the ap
proach of the civilized troops and their
much-dreaded rockets, suddenly sweeping
out of sight again over the hills or
across the steppe or desert. Man just
was defended against Col. Lomakin by
3,000 of the Yornut Turcomans, who prov
ed themselves capable of an extreme
degree of endurance when their defences
put them on anything like a par with the
Europeans. In the wars with Bokhara
Khokand they invaribly sided against
Russia —the invader of all in common—
and they were tho hardest of all the tribes
to bring to terms. In the winter almost
all the nomad tribes are obliged to seek
the shores of the Caspian and it is some
what difficult to see how Gen. Von Kauf
man is to conduct his expedition against
these people while they are scattered over
so wide a section of country. Doubtless,
however, it is against those of the tribes
which have been especially annoying
during the late campaign that the war is
to be carried. Any one who has read the
accounts of the difficulties of the Khivan
expedition, as portrayed by our St. Pe
tersburg correspondent, wi’lseehow great
is the task which Gen. Von Kaufman has
before him. To conquer the City of
Khiva was to break the power of the
Khan, but these Turcomans have nothing
worth calling a city, no concentration of
power, and no recognized head; they en
camp where they please, and when there j
desires move them to do so, they decamp, j
If the telegraphic dispatch given above j
is correct, Gen. Yon Kaufman has harder |
work to do than be has yet done.]
ERANCE.
Versailles, July 29.— 1n tho Assembly
to-day the treaties of commerce with
Great Britain and Belgium, concluded by
the Due de Braglie, were approved.
A message from President MacMahon
prorouging the Assembly was received
and read. The President says he will
answer for the preservation of order dur
ing the recess, and will insure the main
tainauee of respect for the authority of
the Assembly. He points out the happy
results of concord between tho Govern
ment and the Assembly, among which he
specifies the passage of the bill for the
reorganization of the army. Alluding to
the evacuation of the soil by tho German
troops, now fast approaching completion,
he makes a grateful acknowledgment of
the ssuceesful negotiations of President
Thiers to that end, and praises the East
ern Department for their heroism and
the French people for their patriotism
and abnegation in the protracted trial they
havo undergone. The country, he adds,
will never cease to feel a sense of its dig
nity when it remembers what a price it
lias paid for peace, but 1 msy manifesta
tions of joy over the evt.i mould not tie
indulged in. Peace is tl.c lust necessity
and the Government is reso.ved to main
tain it. Assurances are received daily of
the sincere amity of the foreign powers.
The President closes his message by de
claring that ho shall continue the policy
indicated by tiie frequent and unanimous
votes of the Assembly. At the conclusion
of reacting there were clieers from the
Right and Centre. Permanent Commit
tee of the Assembly lias resolved to sit
once every two weeks during the recess.
All amendment offered by the Left mak
ing the sitting weekly was rejected. The
Committee holds its next regular meeting
on the 13th proximo.
ITALY THREATEN ING VIIANCE.
Home, July if«». —The King of Italy is
represented an having used the following
language to the Fro nch Minister on the
occasion of his departure from Home :
“J/. Fournier: Yon may leave in all
assurance that my ministry will be con
servative. I want no other; and tell your
government that I desire to be on good
terms with it. I have no taste for a l’rus
siau alliance, and there exists no treaty
between Emperor William and myself. I
only call your attention, and the attention
of your government, to the doings of the
Clerical party in France. These doings
are a continuous provocation. The cry
of ‘titiuver Rome, et la France is a cry
of war against Italian unity. If Marshal
MacMahou’s government does not succeed
in calming this agitation, which is com
municating itself to the whole of Clerical
Europe, he will oblige me to throw myself
entirely into the arms of Germany, and I
shall do it. At present I represent peace
between France and Germany. Go not
forget this. Get war be declared against
me, and it will be sufficient for me to
place an army corps on your frontiers in
order to paralyze a great part of the forces
of France and cause her an invasion,
losses of provinces, and indemnities more
terrible than those of 1870.”
FOREIGN ITEMS.
The French Assembly passed a bill
abolishing the shipping tux.
The Liberals carried the election at
Naples.
'Three thousand liemiugtou rilles, land
ed near Bilboa, were received by six hun
dred Carlists and taken to the interior.
MARRIAGE PORTION.
London, July HO. —The Government
proposes, npou the marriage of the Duke
of Edinburg with the Grand Guchess
Maria of Russia, to increase his yearly'
allowance to $125,000.
GERMAN DISAVOWAL.
Germany disavows responsibility for the
capture of the Vigilante. The captain
who effected the capture has been ordered
home for explanation.
THE MOVEMENT TO CREATE A NEW
STATE.
Memphis, July 2d. —The movement to
create anew State out of West Tennes
see, North Mississippi and Southern Ken
tucky, meets with hut little favor here.
A small meeting was held here last even
ing, and delegates appointed to the Jack
son Convention. The people generally
regard the movement as the work of poli
ticians and office-seekers.
ATLANTIC CABLE ANNIVERSARY.
Sports on Shore and on the Water-
Telegraphic Contests, etc.
Heart’s Content, N. F., July 29. —The
seventh anniversary of opening telegraph
ic communication between America and
Europe was celebrated yesterday on
board the Great Eastern and on shore.
In the evening a concert was given on
board the Great Eastern, creating great
enthusiasm.
AGRICULTURAL REPORT.
Washington, July 2S. —The July agri
cultural report has just been sent to the
press. It represents an improvement in
winter wheat, but a decline in the pros
pects of spring wheat on aceouut of un
seasonable weather in some quarters, and
insects iu others. The average in corn is
increased in West Virginia aud Minneso
ta, and decreased in all the other States
except Florida and Arkansas, where it re
| mains the same as last year. Corn plant
ing was everywhere retarded by the weath
er, and in many cases has been several
times replanted, and the usual complaint
of defective seed is made in all parts of
the country. The condition of cotton
bad been previously given. The indica
tions up to July Ist are of a crop of
89 500ths per cent of an average, not in-
I eluding Virginia, where the culture is yet
mainly experimental. The prospective
yield of oats declined during June in New
England, the Middle and Northwestern
States, except Wisconsin. It was en
hanced in all of the Gulf States, exeept
Mississippi. Winter rye improved in
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey,
! Maryland, North Carolina, Mississippi,
1 Texas, Arkansas, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois,
and lowa. It remained stationary in
1 Georgia, and declined in all tho other
1 States.
1 Spring rye was below average in all the
States but five, the minimum (seventy)
being found in Caliaforuia, and tlie maxi
mum (one hundred and ton) iu Nebraska.
Winter barley generally declined in the
South and West, where heavy rains pre
vented growth.
The grape crop generally improved in
the New England and Middle States,
though they were greatly shortened by
the drouth.
The late winter told disastrously upon
the fruit crops. Tlie injury to apple
trees was more extensive than was appar
ent at tho last report. Vast numbers of
peach trees were killed.
The condition of grapes ranged from
CL in California to 127 in Nevado, 100
representing an average.
The average in potatoes remained tlie
same as last year, or increased in 22 States
aud decreased in all the others. The
Colorado beetle has extended its ravages
eastward, being for the first time repor
ted iu several counties of New York. It
was still demonstrated in the West, but
the farmers had learned, iu many coun
ties, how to destroy it effectually. The
maximum condition of the crops (one hun
dred aud ten) was found in Georgia; the
minimum (seventy-six) in Delewnrc.
DESPERATE TRAGEDY AMONG
THE CHEEK INDIANS.
Washington, July 25. —E. R. Roberts,
Agent for the Indians at the Creek Agency
of the Indian Territory, reports to the
Indian Bureau, under date of July 21,
the particulars of the bloody tragedy in
which six Indians lost their lives :
Tim Barnett, a prominent and wealthy
Creek citizen, had two or three wives,
between one of whom aud an Indian
named Josiah Gray there had been some
intimacy, which resulted in a quarrel be
tween Gray and Tim. Some time after
ward Tim learned that Gray Lad threat
ened to kill him or w r as trying to kill him,
and, taking with him a few friends, he
lay in wait for Gray, and as he was going
to work in his field shot him down, and
then fled. A few nights afterward, Tim
learning that Gray was not dead, but only
dangerously wounded, took with him
Tuckabulchee, Yoliolo, Big Ben, a Bap
tist preacher, and two or three of his
friends, and returned to finish him, which
he did, wounding at the same time Jim
Gray, a brother of Josiah, and getting
one of his own men killed, a nephew of
Big Bon.
Barnett immediately went to his own
home, surrounded himself with his
friends, and refused to bo arrested. The
Light Horse from tlie three districts
gathered, with many of the friends and
connections of the Grays, numbering at
least one hundred, and, after counseling
two or three days, on the night of the
13th inst. moved over to Tim’s house,
charged it, and killed one Indian, when
Big Ben surrendered and was immediate
ly shot and killed. Barnett surrendered
upon the promise that he would not bo
killed, but would be aljoweil a fair trial.
He was tried, placed on a horse, taken
about 300 yards from bis house, and killed
by the Light Horse meu.
MO SHY TO THE EROXT.
Washington, July' 2d.—The ex-gneril
la, Mosby, is brought to the front once
more for the purpose of enabling his
friends to authorize the publication of (be
assertion that lie will support the Con
servative candidate for Governor, whoever
he may be, in the eusuing political canvass
in Virginia. It is denied that he has mis
led the President into the belief that be
(Mosby) is a Republican, and it is asser
ted that he only supported and voted for
Grant last, fall as the least of two evils,
and that his so-called success in walking
into the affections of the President to the
extent of a few dozen federal appoint
ments is a mystery only to be accounted
for on the supposition that Grant believes
implicitly in the law of compensation.
| We await confirmation of the above.
Deserters don’t often go only half-way
out of the lines, nor do they often come
buck voluntarily, j
LETTERS Itr a EX. SCOTT.
Washington, July 27.— Letters written
by Gun. Scott dunug the Mexican war,
and not before published, are forwarded
to-day by a daughter of the late John J.
Crittenden. The burden of the letters is
the direct charge by Gen. Scott that Pres
ident Polk and Secretary Marcy were
afraid to put him in command of the
armies, because his su cess would break
up the Democratic party forever, and that
their purpose was to allow none but Dem
ocratic generals to reap glory. What par
ticular object is to be subserved by the
publication of these letters now is hard to
tell ; but we shall probably have a num
ber of old fossils coming out to tell what
they know about it. — Courier-Journal.
K V-KL UXJSM.
Washington, July 28.—Gen. Kershaw,
W. D. Porter and It. M. Semuies, Com
mittee from South Carolina, had a con
ference with President Grant at Long
Branch to-day', the purpose of which was
intercession for Ku-klux prisoners of
South Carolina. The President said lie
was in favor of pursuing a very liberal
policy towards all convicts except those
guilty of violent crimes, and towards all
except those charged, and probably guilty,
of similar crimes. I. is understood the
President will address a letter of instruc
tion immediately to Attorney General
Williams in pursuance ot these under
standings.
Washington, July 28.—Pardon recom
mended for the following Ku-klux : Felix
Dover, Stephen Spann, Evans Murphy,
aud W. Scroggs, convicted in North and
South Carolina.
CHOPS.
Memphis, July 28.—Crop reports from
Arkansas are encouraging. The rain the
past few days has developed the corn and
cotton, liain is needed in the region
around Jackson port.
The reports from Mississippi are con
flicting in regard to cotton. About half
crop of corn on account of drought. In
the neighborhood of Okalona and Bran
don cotton and corn will make a poor
yield on account of drought aud worms.
The cotton prospect is fair in West Ten
nessee.
MRS. TO UNO XO. 17.
Salt Lake City, July 29.—Complaint
and affidavits iu the case of Ann Eliza
Webb Young, was tiled to-day in the Third
District Court. Complainant sues for
$200,000 damages, and alamony pen
ding suit SI,OOO per mouth, and $2,-
000 for counsel fees. The case will be ar
gued probably before Judge Emerson on
the sth of August on preliminary points.
Other suits of a like nature will be begun
soon.
MORE TROUBLE IX MEXICO.
Matamoras, July 28.—The Public Voire
of this city states that a revolution is
imminent iu Nneva Leon. There are
three aspirants for Governor in that State,
and an election will devolve on the Legis
lature, which meets in Monterey Septem
ber next. Intense party hatred prevails,
and an outbreak is regarded inevitable. I
NO. 26.
QUIDS or THK LAW.
Stokes—Carl Voght—Fertilizers.
New I'oek, July 2§. —ln Supreme Court
Chambers, Judge Pratt reserved his de
cision in the habeas eorpits case of three
young men who have been detained as
witnesses in the Stokes case,
j Counsel for Carl Yoght received a letter
from the Secretary of State stating the
case was still under consideration by the
State Department.
The Peruvian Government is about to
institute suits for alleged frauds in the
sale of imported guano against five Water
| street firms engaged in that business.
The bill of complaints, which is very
1 voluminous, charges the refilling of old
bags which have contained genuine guano
| and so branded, and bought from the
j farmers for a few cents each and, the use
. of them in violation of lire .brand upon
| genuine bags, which is a trade mark
1 of the Peruvian Government. The agents
' of the Peruvian Government assert that '
j these chargos are based upon a close
analysis of bags of guano obtained from
the five out of the ten dealers in the ar
ticle.
lll’L’K/) AC A IX.
I New York, July ;>O.—A report is cur
i rent here that W. M. Tweed has escaped a
; new indictment through a stupid blunder
or design on the part of some official. A.
J. Garrey testified before the grand jury
he collected a fraudulent bill from the
I city for $1 :.*<>, 707, and that he collected
the bill through Ingersoll, to whom ho
gave on the same day his check for
$’.*,.700. Oil this and other testimony con
cerning the parties implicated, the grand
jury ordered indictments against Tweed,
Ingersoll and Win. E. King, Tweed’s pri
vate secretary: but when the bill of in-'
dictment was returned for the signature !
of the foreman, the name ot% Tweed was
found to be omitted, and the mistake, if
such it was, was not rectified. Ingersoll
and King having Hod, anew indictment
is worthless.
A CUSTOMS FRAUD, Oil A COM- I
SFIUACr.
New York, July JO.—Edward ltorke &
| Cos., importers of glassware, and their
I warehouse books, have been seized by
j Customs officers, and against whom suits
I have been commenced to recover penal
ties for alleged violation of the revouue
laws. They assert that nil the violations
of law were committed by one clerk who
was in charge of the business here during
the absence of the firm in Europe. While
ho altered charges at the Custom House,
he made proper entries in a book, and
wlieii a sufficient number of alterations
had taken place to warrant a good case
against the firm, he voluntarily' retired
from their employ, having previously
arranged with the Customs officer to get
one-fourth of the amount recovered from
the firm by compromise or conviction.
caul roc jit axd urs law iters.
New York, July 28. Carl Yoght, saved
from surrender to the Prussian govern
ment by a decision of Attorney-General
Williams, emphatically denies that he is
the murderer of Chevalier de Bianco, and
explains his possession of bank notes
and other securities which Chevalier's re
latives claim, by saying he received
them from a woman known here as Miss
Voght, who bought them in London from
a German woman. He is now earning a
livelihood by scrubbing law offices in the
city, while the lawyers are fighting for a
hundred thousand dollars’worth of securi
ties which he handed over to them after
his (Voght’s) arrest, to pay the expenses
of his defence.
CUBA—THE VIRGIN IUS AGAIN.
New York, July 2!). —Advices from
Kingston, Jamaica, report the blockade
runner Virginius safely landed 200,000
cartridges, 500 Remington rules, fifteen
needle guns, and a large amount of other
war material.
Cespedes has marched with a strong
column for Caruaguay. The insurgents
won a battle in the interior. No details.
Havana, July 20. — A letter says the in
surgents entered to Neutitas, and while
the Governor shut himself in the fort,
they sacked the town of Kingston. A
letter reports an unprecedented drouth.
A CON VICT lIAS SING SING AT HIS
MEItCY !
New Itork,1 t ork, July 29. — At Sing Sing yes
terday', while a draft of prisoners was be
ing made for the Auburn prison, the no
torious Wes. Allen, armed with a large
knife, unlocked his cell and defied any
one to approach him. When an attempt
was about to oe made to capture him, Al
ien pointed lo a can containing about a
pound ot nitroglycerine, and threatened
to blow up the prison should any one mo
lest him. The warden, deeming discre
tion the better part of valor, left him be
hind the bars in possession of his deadly
instruments.
xe n York it nr oooits market.
j New Y'ork, July 2(>. — Dry goods—The
market for cotton goods has developed no
I new features. There is good package de
j maud for cotton flannels, brown and
bleached cottons and brown drills. Prints
i quiet and dark colorings . incomplete as
yet. Rolled jackonets quiet. Wool flan
nels quiet ami active. Fancy Cassimers
i aud repellants selling freely. Cloths and
j overcoatings less active. Shills, drawers
and fancy hosiery improving. Dry' goods
! import for the week $2,750,807.
LOSSES OX TEA.
New York, July 29. —Losses in the tea
trade for the last year or two, estimated
at $0,000,000, caused the failure of the
following firms: J. C. McKenzie & Cos.,
W. 11. Gillett A Cos., Smith A Noyrs, Clias.
E. Hill A Cos., Phillips, Doter A Cos.
McKenzie, one of the earliest sufferers,
made a settlement and resumed business,
and other firms mentioned either have
made or are making settlements with
creditors.
Exit EA rOR IXO TO HE Alt OPE
BUTLER.
Boston, July 25. —Pursuant to call, a
meeting of the members of the ltepnbli
-1 can party opposed to the nomination of
Gen. Butler for Governor, was held to
day. The hall was comfortably filled
with Republicans from all parts of the
State. Among the present were H. L.
Dawes, George S. Hoar, Speaker Sanford,
H. 11. Coolidge, ex-Spcaker Jewell, Adam
Thayer, J. M. Forbes and others.
'The meeting was called to order by
Judge Hoar, who denounced in imqalifieu
terms, the salary grab, and pronounced
himself willing to do all in his power to I
prevent the State from being carried for ;
the author of that measure. Coolidge
presided. An Executive Committee was
appointed to consider what measures
were necessary to pursue and promote the
welfare of the State. An adjourned
meeting of the Executive Committee was
then held, and a committee of three ap
pointed to draw up au address to the peo
ple of the State to l>e reported at an ad- |
journed meeting of the committee.
ACCIDENT TO A BRIDAL PARTY.
Dublin, Va., July 29.- -Mr. aud Mrs. i
Shepherd, bridal tourists from Montgoic*
ery county, on their way to Pulaski,
while crossing Cloyd’s mountain in a
buggy, during a thunder storm, the horse 1
took fright at a flash of lightning
and shied from the road and the
party were precipitated down a preci
pice on to the ground, seventy feet high.
The buggy was shattered to pieces and t
the groom badly bruised. The bride had j
her collar bone and ankle dislocated, j
teeth knocked out and otherwise badly j
injured. A friendly tree on the way j
saved them from going to the bottom. !
7>/t EA It PUL A CCTIt EXT.
Chicago, July 30. —At tlie Chicago
Rolling Mills to-day T about a dozen work- I
men were engaged in removing an impel- |
feet blast from one of the furnaces, when
suddenly a large mass of clinker was de- i
tached, making an opening in the fur- ■
nace and there rushed out an immense
\ • uine of gas, which, coming in contact
with the outer air, exploded, filling the
place with hot flame, which completely |
enveloped eight workmen. Five were so
horribly burned that not one is expected
to recover; three seriously, but it is hoped
not fatally burned.
GEORGIA SCHOffi ’
THE A PFOR TIOXMEXT QU TITF
STATE SCHOOL FUND.
Cist of Children In Each County and
Amount Apportioned.
Correspondence Advertiser and Republican.
Atlanta, Ga., July 25, 187 J.
Jidxtors Advertiser and Republican:
Ihe State School Commissioners has
completed the apportionment of the State
School I und for the several counties iu
the State, and will, iu a sliort time, be
ready' to distribute the money to the Com
missioner of Education in each county.
I He is now preparing a circular which will
i be sent to each oouuty, giving full in
! structiou how to draw the money and wliat
j requirements must be complied with be
! [ ore , tlle money can be sent them, and
how it is to be paid ont by them. The
organization of a Free Sohool system, and
! ,ht; accumulation of a sufficient fund to
put the school in operation all over the
State, have been a work, of much labor
and thought, as well as time, and it is a
matter of congratulation that the State
School Commissioner is now able to sup
port three months of free schools in every
county in the State.
This is a great work—still iu its infancy,
but which it is to be hoped will be wisely
conducted and amply fostered by the
government and the people, till it is Well
introduced and established iu every neigh
borhood, ami at leust a five or six mouths'
free school taught every year; and no
doubt the time will soon come when many
counties aud neighborhoods w ill require
and support schools for ten months in
every year.
It is to be hoped, however, that this
provision of the State to educate free ol
cost all the children within it, both white
and black, Will not extend to anything
further than a common Englisti educa
tion, as now fixed in the law. If any
county or neighborhood or individuals
wish a higher education for their children
thoy have authority to provide the means,
but let the State funds be equally dis
tributed to all alike, both rich amt poor,
in obtaining an English education ouly.
Any attempt to do more will, in our opin
ion, jeopardize the whole system, and
may break it down.
The Legislature provides that all chil
dren between the ages of six and eighteen
years, and all Confederate soldiers under
thirty years of age, shall be entitled to
attend the free schools. The State Com
missioner, Prof. G. J. Orr, has had an
enumeration of these made in each coun
ty this year, upon which he has based the
pro rata of the fund for each county,
which the following table will show m
full for every county iu the State. •
No. Children
school age Amount to
including be distribu
coenties. Coaled, sol- ted to each
diets under county.
30 years.
Appling 075 $ edit 00
Baser 2,466 1,677 03
Baldwin 2,567 1.746 72
Banks 1,633 1,110 54
Bartow 5,331 it,625 41
Berrien 1,676 1,13d 75
Bibb.., 6,750 4,d23 06
Brooks 2,488 1,691 00
Bryan *1,612 i;oM 26
Bulloch . 1,872 1,273 07
Burke 2,750 3,910 35*
Butts 1,841 1,252 oo
Ualkouu 2,170 1,475 73
! Camden 1,217 527 63
Campbell 3,017 2,051 76
Carroll 3,038 2,678 os
Catoosa 1,677 1,140 46
Charlton; 677 460 40
Chatham 10,411 7,080 12
Chattahoochee 1,840 1,251 31
Chatt00ga...........;.. 2,257 1,534 00
Cherokee 3,732 2,537 oo
Clarke 2,716 1,547 05
Clay 1,802 1,22a 47
Clayton 1,787 1,215 27
Clinch 1 181 803 lo
Cobb 4,072 3 381 '*l6
Coll'ee . 1,216 826 06
Columbia . 2,163 1,470 97
Colquitt 611 415 62
Coweta 4,614 3,069 80
Crawford 2,046 1,300 73
Dade 015 622 26
Dawson 1,375 935 08
Decatur 2,845 1,934 77
DeKalk 3,012 2,048 34
Dodge 1,140 776 27
Dooley 2,834 1,927 30
Dougherty .. 2,497 1,608 11
Douglass 1,627 1,088 45
Earley 2,437 1,667 31
Echols 920 625 66
Eflingham 1,247 848 04
Elbert f3,216 2,187 08
Emanuel 2,067 1,405 60
Fannin 1,082 1,347 88
Fayette 2,713 1,845 01
Floyd 5,802 3,945 71
Forsyth 2,524 1,716 47
Franklin 2,524 1,716 47
Fulton (Cos.) 3,535 2,404 02
City of Atlanta 0,604 6,531 30
Gilmer 2,379 1,617 87
Glasseock 638 433 88
Glynn 1,512 1,028 26
Gordon 3,110 2,114 99
Greene 3,720 2,529 83
Gwinnett 3,629 2,467 96
Habersham 1,622 1,103 06
Hall 2,969 2,012 30
Hancock 3,432 2,333 97
Haralson 1,149 781 39
Harris 5,238 3,562 16
Hurt 1,816 1,235 00
Heard 2,373 1,613 79
Henry 3,693 2,443 46
Houston 6,967 4,061 12
Irwin 658 447 48
Jackson 2,904 1,974 90
Jasper 2,666 1,812 36
Jefferson 3,169 2,165 11
Johnson 947 644 02
Jones 2,178 1,481 17
Ijsurens 2,829 1,683 86
Dee 2,305 1,567 66
Eiherty 2,888 1,964 02
Eincoln 1,394 948 01
Rowndes 2,334 1,587 26
Bumpkin 1,694 1,152 02
Macon 3,591 2,442 10
Madison *1,617 1,031 65
Marion 4,027 2,738 61
McDuffie 1,068 1,338 36
Mclntosh 1,393 047 33
Meriwether 2,774 1,886 49
Miller 1,046 710 66
Milton *1,626 1,105 lo
Mitchell 2,875 1,056 18
Monroe 6,762 3,611 71
Montgomery 1,320 010 60
Morgan 8,63 u 2,468 62
Murray 1,871 1,272 30
Muscogee (eo.) 1,065 1,336 32
“ City of Columbus. 2,610 1,774 06
Newton 3,440 2,339 41
Oglethorpe 3,446 2,343 49
Paulding 2,300 1,564 14
Pickens *l,Oll 1,299 60
Pierce 1,109 754 10
Pike 3,163 2,151 03
Polk *2,411 1,630 63
Pulaski 3,075 2,703 24
Putnam 3,008 2,045 62
Quitman 1,366 028 06
Kabun 1,263 858 92
Randolph 3,429 2,331 03
Richmond 8,104 5,511 22
Rockdale 2,514 1,700 97
Schley 1,249 840 40
Screven 2,226 1,513 82
Spalding 3,337 2,260 36
Stewart 4,099 2,787 57
Sumter (co.) *4,127 2,806 61
“ City of Americus. . 783 535 80
Talbot 3,618 2,460 46
Talialerro 1,507 1,024 85
Tatnall 1,809 1,230 23
Taylor 2,120 1,441 73
Telfair 659 448 16
Terrill 2,813 1,913 01
Thomas 4,542 3,088 84
Towns 927 630 42
Troup 5,402 3,734 00
Twiggs 2,334 1,587 26
Union 2,033 1,382 56
Upson 2,616 1,770 04
Walker 2,353 1,600 18
W alton 3,551 2,414 90
Ware 813 673 20
Warren 2,608 1,773 60
Washington 4,640 3,148 68
Wayne 1,366 928 06
Webster 1,858 1,283 65
White 1,410 958 80
Whitfield 3,010 2,046 08
Wilcox 853 580 00
Wilkes 3,710 2,523 03
Wilkinson 2,428 1,651 lo
Worth 1,017 691 62
Total 367,814 $250,000 00
* Estimated.
Counties marked thus f return ol Ist 1.
Some counties have taken hold of the
work vigorously and zealously, while con
siderable reluctance, aud opposition even,
is manifested in others; but we Lave no
doubt time and a fair trial will remove
nearly all the prejudice. The Commis
sioner has visited some half dozen coun
ties lately and delivered lectures or ad
dresses to the people, and it is remarked
that wherever he has gone the people have
caught his zeal and are pressing the work
with all their might, and now he has
pressing invitations to visit aud address
the people in a dozen or more counties.
It is his purpose to comply with these re
quests as far as his official duties will al
low him. In Houston county, notwith
standing a good deal of opposition has
been made to putting the law and the free
schools into operation, there are now
schools organized, with one thousand pu
pils for the three mouths of the present
year. Signum.
OUTRAGE BY A NEGRO.
Memphis, July 29.—-On the night of the
18th inst., Mrs. Fitzpatrick, a widow re
siding at Ripley, Tenn., was awakened
from her sleep by a negro named Titus,
who presented a pistol at her head, threat
ening instant death if she made any noise.
He then outraged her, and being drunk,
soon fell asleep iu her bed. Mrs. Fitz
patrick slipped from the house and went
to a neighbor and told what Lad occurred.
Mr. Thompson, her neighbor, accompa
nied by his two sons, proceeded to the
house and found Titus still asleep and
secured him. He is in the Nashville jail.
The penalty is death.
Grady, of the Atlanta Herald , credits
the following to J. C. Kimball, brother of
the renowned Hannibal I.: Kimball said
a good thing, also. Bays he; Political
platforms are like railroad cars—not
made to stand on, but to get in on.” 1
don’t know whether this is an original
thought or not. If it is, lam glad Kim
ball is finding it out.