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tI'HEA T “ CORNERS.”
They mako and break “corners” in pro
duce so rapidly at the North, that we
hardly know whether what we announce
as the condition of the market to-day will
he near its qnotationsof to-morrow, lint
we believe that we can report the titter
overthrow of all the “bulling corners” in
wheat for forty-eight hours in Chicago,
and that gives 11s some confidence. Forty
eight hours is an exceptionally long time
for rascality to stay whipped out in Chi
cago, and the occurrence being so rare,
we must needs make a note of it. A dis
patch of the Ist instant from that city re
ported the “corner” broken, and a fall in
wheat from $1.40 to sl,lll. It is true
that this welcome intelligence was some
what dashed by the additional announce
ment that “no failures have resulted,
though some parties were t ightly squeezed”
—thus intimating that the “eornerers”
were not incapacitated for future mis
chief. A dispatch later in the same day
quoted wheat in Chicago at $1.04(6)1.05,
which was perhaps too low, as the Cincin
nati quotation on the same day was $1.25
<6j1.30. There was no report for Satur
day for wheat in any of the Western
cities, which may he suggestive of more
mischief brewing, hut we only feel au
thorized to accept it as evidence of no
change in the market.
It would tie a waste of time and effort
for us to point out the evils to heulthy
commerce resulting from such nttempts
to “corner” the markets of great staples.
The truth is that they ought not to he per
mitted. The people are entitled to pro
tection from their governments, so far as
regards the prohibition of any practice
calculated to affect perniciously the regu
lar supply and steady valuation of so in
dispensable an article as bread. All con
spiraces or combinations that seek to
establish other values than those legiti
mately springing from supply and de
mand ought to he, prohibited. The com
mon laborer ought not to bo made the
prey of the speculating Shylock, if it is
in the power of the government to pre
vent it. The commerce of the country
ought not to ho unsettled and disturbed
by the pernicious influence of capital
A'pcrated for the benefit of a few selfish
gamblers in the necessaries of life.
Why cannot the General Government,
which so readily finds the constitutional
power to punish “conspiracies” at the
South against an individual’s political or
civil lights, also find the power to crush
out conspiracies at the North to withhold
the bread from the mouths of the poor all
over the country ? We read in the con
stitution that Congress has power to “regu
late commerce among the several States;”
but we nowhere read that it hasthe power
to punish violations of individual rights
within a State. Is commerce free be
tween Illinois and Georgia, when a Chicago
“corner” either monopolizes the wheat in
market in the former State, or runs up its
price above the figures that the legitimate
supply and demand of the article would
fix ? Is it free when the wheat is with
held from market by speculators for the
purpose of stimulating a demand and run
ning up prices? Would commerce lie
free between Georgia and Massachusetts,
if large capitalists in Georgia were to buy
and hold lip the cotton crop for exorbi
tant prices and stop the mills of Massa
chusetts ?
The popular movement for cheap trans
portation will stop short of a remedy for
the evils complained of, if it does not also
demand free and legitimate commerce,
foreign and domestic. When it does this,
its strength with the masses all over the
country will he largely increased.
I SIGSUICANT FACT FOll THE
people or the south.
It is now generally understood that the
‘‘unification” movement in Louisiana,
headed by Gen. beau regard and other
Democratic and Liberal leaders, failed
not so much because of Democratic op
position to it, hut because the negroes
would not give up their alliance with a
few carpet-baggers and unite with the
whites of the State on the terms proposed.
They said in effect, in their meeting which
was regarded as having rejected the prop
osition, that they were gladthartho whites
were willing to extend to them the politi
cal ami social rights which they had been
instigated to demand, but that they had
no idea of breaking their connection with
the ltadical party. In other words, they
demanded a complete and unconditional
surrender of the whites of the State;
they would not he content with an equal
ity of races in all matters that could be
regulated by law, but they must have
such equality under the rule and guaranty
of the Radical party ! This involved a con
tinuance of all the usurpations, the had
government, the corruption and profli
gacy, and the ignorant and oppressive
rule, that have already brought the State
to the verge of bankruptcy and the people
to the liiiuk of ruin and despair. Os
course the consideration moving the
whites of the State to propose so humili
ating a concession utterly failed when it
was found that they could gain by it
nothing whatever ; and we may therefore
accept unhesitatingly the judgment of
the New Orleans papers, which at first
gave a quasi support to the movement,
that it is now dead and stinking.
We have already alluded to the bitter
alternative which the Democrats of Lou
isiana had in view when they initiated
this “unification" movement. Wo have,
while deprecating their course, plead for
“charity” for men who felt themselves
impelled by an inexorable necessity to do
what they had so long been opposed to
doing. The disappointment which they
have encountered has no doubt made
them sadder as well as wiser politicians.
Let us also hope that it has made them
more determined to stand up unflinch
ingly iu future for rights whirii no legis
lation can properly invade and distinc
tions which a greater than human law
givers has created.
The significant fact to which the atten
tion of the people of the South is invited
is this : that the great body of the ne
groes ding to the Radical party as their
sole ark ol safe!y, and will not be weaned
from their idol by any advances which the
whites may make to them. The preju
dices instilled in their minds l>y the host
of carpet-baggers who overran the South
as soon as the war ended, seem ineradi
cable—at least ineradicable so long as the
Radical party remain in power. The utter
defeat and overthrow of that party is the
first great step towards the recovery by
the people of the South of their equal
rights in the Union and their just share
" f political power. It must be accom
plished before we cau secure the mutual
confidence and good will between the
whites and the blacks of the South, so
desirable between races which must live
and work together, and whose material
interests are so intimately blended. Let
VOL. XV.
us rejoice in the fact that though iniquity
still revels in high places and uses its ill
gotten power with most despotic sway, its
usurpations and excesses are estranging
the honest people of the country and pre
paring the way for a victory of right and
justice no less signal and important be
cause so long delayed.
-V O-PA It TYISM.
We frequently Lear (says the New Or
leans Picayune , and we fully approve and
adopt its sentiments) of the great advan
tage to he derived to the public from the
abandonment of party, which is alone
needed to secure all the blessings of good
government. \Vith a very small madicum
of truth, which is obscurely hinted rather
than expressed in this doctrine, is com
bined in a huge mass of error and fallacy.
This great desideratum of some of our
political doctors is as much beyond the
possibility of attainment as is the elixir
of life. It never has been and never can
be realized in any country the government
of which depends upon the will of any
large portion of the people. Nay, even
under the absolute rule of one man the
cabal of a court will take the place of
party; and that this is productive of any
advantage to the people at large will be
doubted by the student of history. The
parasites who flatter an emperor are no
less corrupt than the demagogues who
flatter the people. They are precisely
the same class of men, differing only by
the circumstances in which they are
placed.
Party is simply organized thought and
action directed to political ends. It is
thus a necessity in all governments in
which masses of men are called upon to
determine the character of public meas
ures. On such subjects there will, from
man’s nature, bo differences of opinion.
Those holding these diverse opinions will
seek to impress their views upon the
Government; and this can only be ef
fected by organization. When men
are thus organized for political
purposes they constitute a party.
This is the whole matter, and it must be
evident that the idea of renouncing all
party affiliation whatever, is completely
futile, while the people remain free, as is
that of shaking off any other condition of
our existence. Public interest being lost
in any subject, the parties of which it is
the germ may disorganize and fall to
pieces ; but it cau only be to reorganize
around some other. The Granges of the
Northwest may renounce past party affili
ations, but in the very act of doing so
they at once form another, to effect the
purposes of which they enter into obliga
tions as potent as any by which they had
previously been bound. Yet it is the ex
aggerated character which is given by
most men to this obligation that consti
tutes the only just and practical objec
tion to party obligations. Men having
connected themselves, either through
judgment or prejudice, with a party, are
too apt to remit to its leaders the
duty of thought and right of man
agement which are incumbent upon
every individual member. They vote for
the candidates and measures of the party
without inquiring how the former were
selected, or whether the latter are consist
ent with the principles of the party itself.
This slavishness to party is undoubtedly
an evil and needs correction; hut it
is one which results from the im
proper use and not from the existence of
parties. A greater independence of
thought and action on the part of the peo
ple should lie cultivated, and every man
shoul 1 he impressed with the conviction
that the determination of the grave ques
tions of public policy and the selection of
fit and proper officers is a duty personal
to himself and one which he cannot shirk
or throw'upon another. Anything which
tends to stimulate this activity and inde
pendence of thought should be welcomed
as restricting and controlling the despot
ism of party. Wo merely deceive our
selves, however, if wo indulge in the de
lusion of no-partyism.
The introduction of this leaven into
the public mind of the West is the
service which the Granges have rendered
to the country; but they' have not de
stroyed party. They have only organized
anew one; for, in combining to attain,
by political means a certain end, they
constitute a party. How far they will
affect the existent organizations it is im
possible, at present, to predict. We think,
however, that, unless the leaven shall work
further than it has hitherto done, it will
hardly produce much impression upon
them. A party which limits its object to
the reduction of railroad fares and the
reprobation of certain detected political
thieves, has too narrow' a basis to prove
very efficient, in the mighty political con
test which is forcing itself upon the peo
ple. In that contest is involved the very
existence of constitutional republican
government on this continent. The pub
lic mind, once aroused into activity, may
ho directed to this subject in time to avert
the danger. On the other hand, it may
be feared that its energies may he wasted
and frittered away upon petty and local
issues of subordinate consequeces. It is
the imperative duty of all who can influ
ence the minds of the people to avert
this last result, aud to show' to them that
a great constitutional principle is of far
greater importance than the price of wheat
or cotton. If all the products of the West
were for the next ten years transported to
market entirely free of charge, it would
not compensate that people for the estab
lishment of the Louisiana case as a pre
cedent of constitutional law. The one
would for a time put money in their pock
ets; the other will wreck their liberties
and all security for their future happi
ness and welfare. The advice then, so
frequently given, “to accept the situa
tion,” and to “let the d—nod politics
alone" is the insidious counsel of enemies
to the public liberty.
The situation is despotism; to accept it
is degradation and ruin. Politics is the
very life of a free people; to let it alone
is to abandon duty and to renounce lib
erty. Could our voice reach the people
who hold the destinies of this country in
their hands, we could say to them:
Awake, arouse yourselves, for the roof of
your dwelling is on fire; tiend every en
ergy to the extinguishment of the flames;
after that shall have been accomplished
there will be ample time to readjust the
furniture.
The old adage, “it never rains but it
pours,” seems to have been strikingly ex
emplified in the accounts which we have
of the wonderful rain-fall iu Peru. That
is represented to be a country' in which
rain very seldom falls, and the probability
is that the houses overflowed’ were locat
ed without the least thought that rain
would ever wash, much less overflow their
sites. Old Nature has her eccentricities
sometimes that upset the calculations
of the wisest aud most observing men.
The Philadelphia Press sums up “the
substantial results of Republican policy
as interpreted under President Grant as
follows: “Its unparalleled currency, its
financial success, its rewards of labor, its
comfort to the emigrant, its trophies of
redeemed wilderness aud improving cities,
and its peace with the world—all com
bined in universal content aud peace.”
This was written too early to include the
late refreshing rains.— N. Y. Tribune.
Young men do not find it half so hard
to marry as they do to get their furniture.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
ALABAMA HISTORY.
The Canoe Fight—General Sam Dale.
Editors Eufaula Times: A short time
since I read in “Alabama” by Reeves, an
account of the celebrated canoe fight on
the Alabama river below Claiborne, which
was so different from what I heard from
the lips of the old veteran himself that I
have determined to give you his version
of that conflict.
I will premise by staling that I crossed
the river in 18(12, at a ferry which was
then said to be located at the very spot
where the canoe fight took place. Some
distance above the ferry, there was a very
sharp bend in the river, making almost a
right angle, so that a person on either side
of the river at the crossing, could only see
an object as far up as the bend.
A short time after this, in 1832, I met
Sam Dale at the house of David Cham
bers, in Perry county. My father, with
myself, were spending some time at the
houso, when he came and remained some
two or three days. It rained every day
while he was there, so that out-door busi
ness was impossible, hence most of the
time was spent around the fireside ; and
as General Dale was quite talkative, and
my father fond of stories of frontier life,
lie drew from the old frontiersman much
about his wild and adventurous experience.
He was a very large man and quite rough
in his manner and expression—fond of
talk, but rather inclined to put himself in
the back-ground %ben telling of dangers
which he had shared in common with
others. I was just at that age when such
stories were of thrilling interest to me,
and when each word almost of the narra
tor was impressed upon my memory in
dellibly. I know that I can now relate it
just as he told it, which was as follows:
He and a party of men had been across
the river ou a scout. He separated from
the rest of the party, after an arrange
ment had been made, that if they did not
meet again sooner, they would all meet at
the place where they had left their canoe
on crossing tho river. On returning to
the river (which he did iu some haste be
cause he had found fresh Indian signs
close by, which led him to conclude that
it would be unsafe to remain in that vicin
ity longer,) ho found that the balance of
the party had crossed over and gone on,
leaving a negro with the canoe to bring
him over when he called. He called to
the negro who was on the opposite side
from him, to bring the canoe. The negro
immediately paddled out into tho stream,
but had Sot but a few boat lengths from
tho shore when a canoe with Indians in
it, came in sight around the bend above.
Tho negro called his attention to the In
dians, and immediately turned the canoe
back to the shore. Dale commanded him
to bring the boat across, telling him if ho
did not, that ho would certainly' kill him
if he ever put his eyes on him again. The
negro knowing that Dale would be as
good as his word, and that as the Indians
could do no more to him than Dale would,
struck boldly out across the river to where
Dale was standing. By the time the canoe
reached Dale, the Indian canoe—in which
he now counted seven warriors—had got
withiu three or four hundred yards of
him, so that escape was impossible. He
jumped into his own canoe and command
ed the negro to paddle it straight to the
Indian canoe, which was then descending
the river pointed right towards him. The
negro obeyed instructions, and Dale took
his stand in the bow with his rifle in his
hand. He said it was a very large boro
and the longest range gun in the whole
country. He further directed the negro
to run the hows of the two canoes togeth
er, and then to keep the sterns apart with
his paddle, so that but one Indian could
get at him at a time. As soon as he got
in shooting distance, he fired at the In
dians, and wounded one of them severely.
He immediately commenced to reload and
the Indians laid down in their canoe, and
there having been a hard rain a short lime
before, there was a good quantity of wa
ter in the bottom of it which wet their
guns, so that they' could not shoot him.
Before, or just as the canoes came to
gether, he shot a second time, killing an
other one of the Indians, which left only
five able to fight him.
As the bows came together he stepped
one foot into tho Indian canoe, and there
the struggle for lifo commenced. After a
hard contest he succeeded in killing foui-,
one after another, with his clubbed gun.
The fifth and last one, was an Indian
whom ho had known well, in friendly
times, and had many' afoot race and sufflo
with—pretty near his own match, in
strength and skill. He called this Indian’s
name, but I have forgotten it. As he
stepped up to take his place, he exclaimed,
“now Big Sam, you and me,” Dale said,
w<cried as he was with his conflict with
the other four, he felt like he was gone,
when this fellow stepped forward so con
fident and cool, knowing as he did from
experience, what a powerful man he was.
Tiie light betweon them was long and
doubtful, but at last, after receiving him
self some stunning blows, he succeeded
in knocking him over into the river. The
wounded Indian, lying in the bottom of
the boat, seeing his companions all gone,
and he helpless, defiantly pulled open his
gown upon his breast, and scowled upon
him sayring “shoot.” Dale sa’id, hot with
conflict and excited as he was, he smashed
his brains out also, but had always been
sorry for it.
This was his version, and I submit it to
any one who will read it and compare it
with that published by Reeves, if it is not
the most plausible of the two. In the
other version three men against seven In
dians, the canoes side by side, held to
gether by a negro in the water. It is al
together improbable; while this is very
reasonable, when wo consider what an ex
traordinary man Dale was as to manhood.
They had the advantage of him in num
bers, hut that availed them but little, as
but one conld get at him at a time. I
give it to you for what it is worth. Dale
may have exaggerated in making himself
the sole actor in that exciting conflict, but
Ido not believe he did; at any rate I
give it just as he told it in 1832.
Georgian.
Macon, Ga., July 20, 1873.
CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY.
C rops—School s—Eclig ion.
Cusseta, Ga., Aug. 3d, 1873.
Editors Sun: I thought it would not
be amiss to let you know something about
crops, etc., in Chattahoochee.
The “cotton crop” is tolerably good.
“Gen. Green,” with his army', camped a
good while in some of them ; but the
farmers have about whipped him out, and
they now rejoice in triumph. Not many
caterpillars have yet been seen, but the
farmers are getting uneasy. One hale
of cotton to three acres will he abont the
average crop if the catterpillars don’t
come.
The corn crop is by no means good, the
drouth has nearly ruined it: the stalks are
turning yellow and the ears are small.
Farmers are “pulling fodder.”
We have plenty of peaches, few water
melons and apples. Plenty of rains for
the present; there have been four or five
this week.
There are two schools in Cusseta, both
of them are good schools. Prof. J. ,T.
Ilarvey has charge of the academy, with
Miss Annie Murphy, assistant in the pri
mary department. They have proved
themselves to be excellent teachers, not
hy T “self-puffing." however, but by perse
verance aud industry.
There has been a good revival at the
Methodist Church in Cusseta, and thir
teen have connected themselves with the
church. Adieu. A Subscriber.
Remedy for Caterpillar.
The following, highly' endorsed by the
Galveston News , is recommended. It is
very cheap and said to work perfectly :
“One quarter pound of dry Paris Green,
one pound of arsenic, five pounds of flour,
twenty poundsof slack lime or ashes. Mix
well and apply when the dew is on the
plant through a box or can, with a seive
two inches in diameter iuthe bottom. The
above is sufficient for five acres. Care
should betaken not toinhale the mixture.”
The worms will turn white within
twenty-four hours, meanwhile losing their
appetite.
It has been recommended that to the
above mixture a larger amount of lime be
added. This will, it is thought by some,
increase the strength as well as quantity’.
“Who took care of the babies,” asked a
little Columbus girl oa hearing her moth
er say that all people were once children.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA; TUESDAY, AUGUST 12,1873.
GOV. SJtIITH.
Synopsis of II is Speech at Thomaston.
From the Thomaston Herald, 2d.]
On Wednesday, the 30th ult., at 12) p.
in. a large crowd of people assembled at
the Court-house door in Thomaston to
listen to a speech from Gov. Smith. Af
ter the Governor had expressed his pleas
ure in meeting so many friends among
whom he had lived so long, he stated that
when the war was ove- men sought to
recover their fortunes by othe, employ
ments than agricultural pursuits—all the
best talent of the country engaged in
professions, and if there were a tool in a
family he was put to farming.
Agriculture required the very highest
order of talent. Agriculture was the
! greatest of all interest; it was the founda
tion or source from which all other busi
ness derived its support. Let the lawyers
be set aside and community might do
without them—set aside the physician
and men might get along without them,
hut suspend tho agricultural interest for
a year aud ail would go to ruin. Common
sense directs that the most important
matter must be attended to first. If we
would be successful we must go back to
first principles—we must look after the
interest that produces all profits.
These views are not pul to produce an
tagonistic feelings; there is room for all
i -—make the farming interest prosper and
men engaged in all other branches of
business will also prosper, ask any lawyer
present, and he will tell you, that he
always made most when farmers pros
pered.
The farmers of Georgia are ignorant of
the natural resources of the country—
Georgia abounds in all kinds of minerals,«
; gold, iron, copper aud even diamonds ex-
I ist in the State. Vast coal beds are situa
ted in the Northern section of the State.
We have the best country on which the
sun shines. The soil of Georgia is adap
ted to the growth of every description of
production that grows between the Frigid
and the Torrid Zones.
The Legislature of Ohio in 183 G, appro
priated $5,000 to promote the agricul
tural interest of tho State, and you can by
going to the State Capitol ascertain the
quality of the land iu every township iu
the State. This system has greatly en
hanced the value of the lands in Ohio;
lauds there have advanced 25 per cent, in
j the last eighteen months.
I In Georgia there are coal mines enough
| to run all the furnaces in England and
: America for fifty years. In the same
localities iron ore abounds in vast quan
i tities. Yet, with all these natural advan
tages of soil, climate, ore, and with natu
ral productiveness equal to that of any
country beneath the canopy’ of heaven,
{ men of Georgia are suffering for the ne
cessaries of life. You may form as many
j organizations of labor as you please, and
; they will do much good so long as they
; are kept up, but the natural tendency of
1 tho human heart is to “grow weary in
I well doing.” The only' way to keep up a
j permanent interest in agriculture is to
| establish an Agricultural Bureau. If y'ou
will put money into a business, men will
| attend to it. If you would have men to
; take an interest in their business, you
must make them understand their busi
ness thoroughly.
The farmers have it in their power to
have things as they wish. I want men to
legislate for the good of farming. I have
heard men say that the lawyers were going
to have a good harvest —when a man can
not pay his debts he cannot pay a lawyer,
but when the cattle on a thousand hills
are spread out before the eye, when the
granaries and the smoke houses of the
farmers are tilled to overflowing, then it
is that the lawyer can get his fee, the
! doctor his bill and the minister his salary.
Let the farmer make his corn, meat, hay,
oats and other supplies at home, and he
will starve out the middlemen and force
them to go at other employments. A
man purchased ten thousand bushels of
corn in lowa, this season, for 15 cents per
bnshel and it was afterwards sold iu Mont
gomery’, Alabama, for $1 25 per bushel
now where did the difference between
15 cents and $1.25 go? L went to the
middle men. The farmer ir get rid of
the tax that these mi. me r m impose
upon them. Some objec.. .0 ti e granges
because they have ladies in them; another
objection is that it is a secret society'.
Well, there cannot bo much secrets where
ladies are. These labor organizations,
if they are not abused, are likely to do
more for the country than all other things
combined. All tho burdens and misfor
tunes of life fall more heavily on women
than on men ; for this reason it is pioper
for them to take an interest in these or
ganizations. We would not have tho la
dies turn politicians—that is not their
sphere ; but we have no fear of anything
of this kind; their natural modesty will
prevent this. If men would take their
wives with them when they go out they
would never get in trouble.
Keep politicians out of y’our organi
zations, for if they get in they will be
worse than the middlemen. Too much
legislation is a curse to the country.
So great an evil has this become that
the passage of any law at all is to be
dreaded. The farmers have it in their
power to have things arranged to suit them
selves, and if the men they send to make
laws do not make such as will protect the
farmer, then drop them and sen i such men
as will give the farmer justice. Send the
ablest, purest and wisest men to make
your laws. It is a melancholy fact that
last year only 1,000 immigrants came to
Georgia, while 20,000 of her citizens left
the State. If we want immigrants to
come to Georgia, we must be able, to show
to them what the resources of the State
are—we. must let thorn know what is in
the State.
The Governor appealed to the people
in conclusion, tou.se their united efforts
to advance the agricultural interest of tho
State. His speech was one and a half
hours long and abounded with sound aud
weighty arguments throughout.
The Mobile Register advises the South
ern Grangers : *l. To consider as individ
uals how much land, or„eottou, or other
aid each one can and will give to a local
immigration society in his own immedi
ate neighborhood. 2. Having so consid
ered, for each one to mako up his mind
to give it, and to so inform his brother
granger and aid a general and prompt ac
tion to form such local immigration soci
ety. 3. To confer, as a grange, with
neighboring granges, and to endeavor to
form a simple and immediate basis for
concert of action. By thus acting at
home the granges of the South can of
themselves solve that problem so vital to
them —the introduction of white immi
gration.”
“Black traitors to the Republican par
ty,” is what a correspondent of the Mont
gomery Journal calls those negroes who,
he says, “are pretending that they have
| not received their full share of offices,
| and are threatening that hereafter they
| mean to elevate their own in preference
jto those (Radicals) of the white race.” A
j negro, it seems, is not free in one thing
at least--if he opposes the policy or the
i office-seekers of the Radical party. 110 is
! a “black traitor.”
The Oswego (N. Y.) Gazette, noticing
I the sickness of George Francis Train in
j Germany, says: “ His death would be a
| strange finale to an eventful life.” We
j wonder how the Gazette expects Mr.
; Train s life to end ? To us, at this dis
tance aud with the lights now before us,
any finale to Mr. Train’s i,. other than
by death, would seem v .v.range. But
we are called ail old fogy.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office is in receipt of information that
valuable deposits of gold have l>sen dis
covered by army officers stationed in
| Alaska.
A dispatch from Nashville says that
Andrew Johnson and Horace Maynard are
commonly spoken of as couipetetiug as
pirants for Governor of Tennessee.
Omaha, August 5. Grasshoppers light
• ed at noon Saturday in the Western part
jof the State. Corn and oats are gone.
: Wheat had been harvested.
KILL THE WORMS.
A Very Cheap Destroyer Suggested.
To the Editor of the Argus:
Dear Sir : To save the present crop
of cotton is engaging the attention of all
thinking men. It is now certain that
either paris green, arsenic, or sulphuret
of potassium will destroy the caterpillar.
But the great aim must be to introduce
some compound which will be so cheap
that the poorest farmer will be able to
use it. Baris green and flour will cost
nearly two dollars per acre. Only the
few can mako use of this combination.
Arsenic is the substance in paris green
which kills the worm; and arsenic costs
only from six to eight cents per pound in
New York. The writer would therefore
suggest the following combination: Ar
senic one pound, water eighty gallons,
and dextrine one pound.
Arsenic may be said to be almost insol
uble, as only' twelve parts will dissolve in
one thousand parts of water at ordinary
temperature. It,therefore become nec
essary to reduce it to a very fine powder,
aud to hold it in suspension in the water,
which is accomplished by means of the
dextrine. The dextrine should be dis
solved in the water first, and then the fine
ly powdered arsenic added.
Eighty gallons of this combination
will be sufficient to go over four or five
acres, and will not cost more than ten
cents per aero. Tho best way to apply it
is by means of ordinary watering cans,
of about two gallons capacity. If the
cotton is very high, the persons applying
the mixture had better ride mules or
horses. The dextrine, besides suspend
ing the arsenic in the watejr, will cause it
to adhere to the cotton plant.
It is the opinion of the writer that very
little of the arsenic is absorbed by the
plant—it remains adherent to the leaves,
and as the worms eat of these they are
destroyed. It is not probable that cattle
will be injured by the arsenic, as it will
all be washed into the ground before the
crop is gathered.
The mixture can he prepared in barrels,
and these placed at each end of the field,
so that the hands can get it conveniently.
A two gallon can will sprinkle a row that
is a quarter of a mile long.
It is now proven beyond a doubt that
one application of paris green and flour
will not be sufficient to save the cotton
.crop from the destruction of the caterpil
lar. The plant grows rapidly, and the
new leaves and sprouts are again attacked.
This necessitates a second, and perhaps a
third application of the compound, thus
increasng the expense an additional dol
lar or two per acre.
There is another point to be considered
in regard to the paris green, and that is,
that so much arsenic is now being used
by the manufacturer that the planter runs
a great risk in its application, as its
strength is so much greater than the
standard article that it may destroy his
cotton. O. F. Fahs.
Selma, Ala., July 30, 1873.
GEORGIA NEWS.
A slight change has been made in the
schedule time of the passenger train on
the Macon and Western Railroad, by
which it will leave Macon at 11 p. m.,
and arrive in Atlanta at 5:4S a. m.; leave
Atlanta at l:40p. m.; arrive in Macon at
7:20 p. m. The other passenger trains
are discontinued, but an accommodation
freight and passenger train will leave Ma
con at 0:10 a. m., and Atlanta at 7 a. m.
Thos. E. Lloyd, Esq., a prominent law
yer of Savannah, died there on Thursday
evening last. In 18G3 he was a member
of the Senate of Georgia, and Chairman
of the Judiciary Committee, and would
no doubt have been often iu the public
service had he desired official position.
His age was tifty-two years.
Franklin county returns 7GB white aud
347 black polls; 15,500 acres planted in
cottou, and 14,472 in com. The News
of the Ist inst. says that crops in the
county are looking remarkably well.
Crawford county returnes 20,034 acres
iu cotton, and 15,541 in corn; very little
in anything else.
Carroll returns 2,OGG polls, an increase
of 105 in one year; acres in corn 19,820,
in cotton 13,275, iu wheat 0,587. The
Times of the Ist inst. reports abundant
rains and flattering crop prospects, and
says : “From present prospects we may
safely calculate on at least 5,000 bales of
cotton for Carroll.”
The Atlanta Constitution has informa
tion that a regular time schedule for
freight has been arranged, by which
freight from New York and all eastern
cities will be received in Atlanta in seven
days from and after the date of shipment.
Crops in Cherokee County.—The Car
tersville Standard and Express thinks the
corn in the Etowah bottoms of this coun
ty “will average forty bushels per acre;
aud if no disaster befall the cotton it
will certainly yield two bales to every
three acres; and we saw a good deal
which we thought would make a bag per
acre.
An Atlanta correspondent of the Au
gusta Chronicle says that “Hon. Ben. H.
Hill was asked to give his opinion of tho
Groesbeck new party movement, but de
clined giving his views, saying that he
was out of politics.”
The Crops.—Tho corn crop is about
made, and our farmers are busily engaged
pulling fodder though the weather will
doubtless cause much of it to be lost. We
may set the com crop as the best in this
section for years.
The caterpillars are appearing in force,
and on many plantations are working
much destruction to the cotton. From
the best information we can get, we are
compelled to believe that a fair crop of
the staple will be made. Bainbridge
Democrat, 31 st.
Charley, a little son of Mr. Win. P.
Smith, of Upson county, was drowned
while bathing in Respass’ mill pond on
Saturday last.
The Tax Receiver’s statistics of Decatur
county show 24,31!) acres planted in cot
ton, and 28,760 in corn. This is a good
showing for Decatur, and we are glad to
learn from the Bainbridge Democrat of
the 31st that its crops promise well.
Caterpillars are reported among the
cotton on the sea islands on the coasts of
Georgia and South Carolina.
Sir. Robt. Campbell, aged 87, and sup
posed to he the oldest citizen of Augusta,
died in Clarksville on Sunday.
Mrs. Clara Dickson, wife of Hon. Da
vid Dickson, of Hancock county, is dead.
The returns of the Tax Receiver of Hall
county report six thousand acres planted
in cotton iu that county. This is con
firmatory of the great increase in the cul
ture of cotton in upper Georgia, of which
we have heretofore had occasion to speak
from perusal, observation and inquiry.
ALABAMA NEWS.
The Eufaula Times of Sunday says that
the report from the cottou fields is “more
and more alarming,” and thinks that un
less the planters succeed iu destroying
the caterpillars by the poison, the cottou
iu its section will be stripped by the 20th
inst. It reports the success of some expe
riments with the “destroyer.”
The .Montgomery Advertiser gives a
positive contradiction to the newspaper
report of an alarmingly fatal epidemic
fever at Pensacola. We suggested, when
we noticed it, that there must be some
mistake. The Advertiser says that the
blunder arose from a too hasty reading of
some reminiscences of an old epidemic in
Pensacola, which a paper there lately
published.
The Birmingham Independent says:
“Col. J. R. Powell is iu communication
with a body of English capitalists who de
clare that if the abundance of minerals iu
this section are as represented, they will
invest one million pounds sterling ($5,-
000,000) in thjs vicinity. The worthy
Colonel can soon convince them the state
ment is true, if they come and investi
gate.”
An Alabama exchange says: An impor
tant suit for infringement on the patent
light of the Whisenaut Caterpillar De
stroyer, has been instituted in the United
States District Court, against several par
ties who have used a compound of Paris
Green and flour for the destruction of
caterpillars. The fact of infringement is
clear, but the difficulty iu proving the in
gredients used, without the aid of an
analytical chemist, renders the success of
the prosecutors precarious. Heavy dam
ages are claimed.
SPAIN.
TIIF GOVERNMENT AND THE IN
SURGENTS.
Madrid, August 4.—Official dispatches
from Valencia to-day report that the Gov
ernment troops are making their way into
the city.
The forces advancing against Cadiz
have entered San Susar I>e Bareneda, IS
miles north of the city.
A regiment at Maureza fired upon their
Colonel, who left his command with a
number of Republican volunteers. An
other regiment at the same place has dis
missed its officers.
The Government has received intelli
gence from Malaga that upon the arrival
of the insurgent frigate in that harbor,
Commanders of English, French and Ger
man squadrons had a conference with
Contreas, in which they urged him to or
der the return of seized war vessels to
Cartagena. The Government is further
informed that Commanders have decided
to hold Gen. Contreas as a hostage until
the vessels are returned.
In the Cortez to-day’ a special commit
tee w’as appointed to consider the expedi
ency of authorizing a legal prosecution of
the insurgent deputies.
The bombardment of Valencia has be
gun.
Madrid, August 5.—A large popular
demonstration iu Seville iu favor _of the
Government.
SURRENDER OF INSURGENTS.
Washington, August G. —The Navy De
partment, to-day, received a telegram
from Capt. Wells, Commanding Shenan
doah, dated Cadiz, August sth, in which
he says Cadiz is iu possession of the
Government forces. Tho Insurgents sur
rendered without fighting. The city is
tranquil. 110 says nothing about his con
duct iu that port, and for this reason the
Department does not credit tho recent tel
egraphic statements, of the 4th inst., that
he ordered the Spanish Insurgent frigate
Villa de Madrid to abstain from hostili
ties, and that the vessel remained at
anchor under the guns of the Shenandoah.
SPANISH NE WS.
Madrid, August G. —Germans have cap
tured two insurgent frigates in the harbor
of Malaga.
The insurgents at Cadiz have surren
dered to the national troops.
Gen. Pavia, at the head of the Repub
lican forces, entered the city yesterday.
Scuor Ronez has been appointed Presi
dent of the Junta of Cadiz until the
arrival of the authorities.
A powder magazine in Valencia explod
ed yesterday, killing many insurgents and
wounding a still greater number.
THIERS ON FRANCE’S FOREIGN
RELATIONS.
Paris, August 4. —Ex-President Thiers
yesterday, in the course of a reply to
Madame Koeheling, who presented him
with a gift from ladies of Mulhouse, de
clared that the attitude of France towards
foreign powers should be strictly neutral.
The difficulties in Spain were purely in
ternal. If France claims the inviolability
of her territory she ought to respect that
of Spain.
FRANCE.
Paris, Aug. 4. —There is no longer any
doubt that the Count DeParis has gone to
visit Count DeChambard. He arrived at
Vienna to-day and was received by
the Emperor Francis Joseph. There is
much excitement in view of tho reconcilia
tion of the Bourbon and Orleans branches
to which this proceeding points.
A vigilance committee of Left and ex
treme Left of Assembly hold daily' ses- |
sions and are prepared to call the leading
members of their respective parties to
gether when the time comes to take ac
tion. The Conservatives have elected a
majority of the. members of the General
Councils in the Departments of Savery,
Eure and Orne and the Radicals have car
ried the elections in Drome and Low'er
Loire.
Paris, Aug. (i.—A dispatch from Vien
na says Count DeChambard received
Count DeParis to-day.
Thiers assured his Republican friends
that they need have no tear that a fusion
of Bourbonists and Orleanists conld be
effected.
The French troops entered Nancy to
day, and were received with wild enthusi
asm.
Paris, August G.—A dispatch from Vi
enna says the interview yesterday between
Count Do Chambord an ! Count De Paris
was of the most cordial . “ire, aud that
the political situation w~. .tot alluded to
during their conversation.
ENGLIS H NE WS.
London, August 5. The Bishop of
Ely succeeds Dr. Wilberforce as Bishop
of Winchester.
London, August G. —The Queen’s speech
prorogued Parliament. Landed them for
provision for Duke of Edinburg. The
best relations exist with foreign powers.
The Zanzibar mission to suppress the
slave trade w r as successful. The relations
between France and England have been
brought to a satisfactory issue. Provis
ions for the treaty of Washington are
being carried out.
. GREAT BRITAIN.
A Conservative Triumph.
New York, August G.—A London spe
cial says the. election in Greenwich to till
a vacant seat in tho House of Commons
resulted in a Conservative triumph. This
is tho first instance since 1852 of a Con
servative candidate being elected for that
borrough. The result, which was not
altogether unexpected, caused great de
pression in the Liberal ranks. Iu well
informed circles it is accepted as virtu
ally deciding the political campaign. It
is an almost certain indication that the
Conservatives will return to power after
the approaching general election, with a
fair working majority. It is already sta
ted on good authority that Gladstone will
not seek a re-election at the hands of his
Greenwich constituents, and that he con
templates retiring finally from Parlia
mentary life.
GERMAN NEWS.
Berlin, Aug. G.—Princo Frederick
William, of Germany, is visiting King
Oscar, of Sweden.
The German Government has instruct
ed its representatives iu Spain to co-ope
rate with the English and French repre
sentatives for the protection of foreigners
and their property, oven if force has to
be employed.
BIGGEST RACE OF THE SEASON.
Saratoga, August 2. —The chief entries
for the races to-day were in the three
mile race, in which Harry Bassett and
Wanderer again met. 't he McDaniel en
try was the favorite. Wanderer, how
ever, found many backers. A good start
was effected, Bassett getting away first,
Wanderer second and Hubbard third. At
the half-mile post Wanderer was leading
Bassett by about a length, Hubbard mak
ing a trailing race some dozen lengths in
the rear. No change of consequence
took place in their relative positions for
the first mile. Going up the back stretch
Bassett quitted and Wanderer, increasing
his lead at every stride, looked every inch
the winner. At this point tbe backers of
the McDaniel stable sought to hedge their
bets, and there were large odds that
Wanderer would win, finding hut few
takers. The glorious uncertainty of rac
ing was destined, however, to receive
another illustration. When it seemed all
but impossible that Wanderer conld lose,
Hubbard, passing Bassett, rushed along
at a tremendous pace, challenging Wan
derer and taking the lead from him. En
tering the home stretch, Hubbard led by
two lengths and won us he pleased.
The result of the race created general
astonishment, as before the start, Col.
McDaniel applied for permission to with
draw Hubbard, stating that the horse was
sick. The judges, under the rules of
racing, declining to grant permission,
McDaniel gave out that he would merely'
gallop Hubbard and leave the race be
tween Bassett and Wanderer.
ah sin as a duelist.
Little Rock, August G.—Two China
men dueled in Lincoln county. One
killed, the other arrested.
SOUTHERN CLAIMS.
RICH developments expected
A List of the “Trooly Loil” Furnished
on Application.
Washington, August 4. —All tho claims
presented to the Southern Claims Com
| mission sitting at Washington, under
act of March 3, 1871, have now been
numbered and registered, aud their num
ber is found to be 22,205, aud their aggre
gate amount, as claimed, is somewhat iu
excess of $50,000,000. In their last re
port to Congress the Commissioners esti
mated the total number of claims to bo
filed uuder the act at 19,000, and the
amount to be claimed at $50,000,000 in
round numbers. The extraordinary ex
ertions of tho Claim Agents, how
ever, when they found tho time for
filing claims was not likely to
be extended for the present beyond the
two years originally' fixed by Congress,
resulted in a considerable addition to tho
estimated number and amount of claims
to be filed. No less than 1,278 claims,
representing according to claimants’
figures, considerably more than three
million dollars, were filed under date of
March 3d ; the last day allowed by law for
the presentation of claims. Many more
were put out from present consideration
by the somewhat unexpected termination
of the right to present them, and there
are believed to be several thousand per
sons yet in the late insurrectionary States
who, despito the exertions of the Govern
ment agents and the attorneys, have
not even heard of the act of Congress
passed for the benefit of such of them as
were not adherents of tho Confederacy.
Claims are presented daily to the Quar
termaster General and Commissary Gen
eral by residents of the better-informed
loyal States who have but just learned
that Congress passed a special act nearly
ten years ago to pay for property taken
for army use in the States not in rebel
lion.
Gen. Meigs, the Quarter Master Gen
eral, will not recommend the statute of
limitation for claims coming before him
as in the case of claims before the Loyal
Claims Commissions, and the Commissary
General, believing from his daily expe
rience that such a statute, whenever pass
ed, would be certain to include some mer
itorious claims against the government
from justs settlement in the case of the
Southern Claim’s Congress, must either
extend time for filing them before the
Commissioner or submit to the alterna
tive of receiving and considering them
singly under the constitutional rights of
petition.
A small number of excluded claimants
have already signified their intention of
prosecuting their claims directly before
the Claims Committee of the two branch
es of Congress.
Under the settlements so for made by
the Commissioners about $1,200,000 has
been distributed among some 1,400 claim
ants scattered all over the eleven insur
rectionary States; the awards, except iu a
comparative small number of instances,
have been for a few hundred dollars each.
At the coming session of Congress they
expect to award about $1,000,000, to be
similarly distributed and used. They will
then have disposed of about 24 per cent,
of tho number of claims filed and 20 per
cent, of the amount claimed. Not all tho
claims are before them that can bo pre
sented uuder the original act of Congress.
Tho Commissioners have had prepared
and have in press a full digest of the
claims, giving by States and counties the
names of claimants and the amount of
claims, accompanied by the explanatory
statement that tho names are of those
citizens of tbe Southern States who have
within tho p:tst two years declared
themselves to have been devoted
adherents of the Union cause through
out the late war and the amounts.
Not the values set by claimants upon the
supplies contributed voluntarily, or other
wise, for the use of the Union forces op
erating in the South, but the damage, loss
and destruction, of real and personal
property, suffered through the casualties
of war, or the unauthorized spoliations
and depredations of the troops and camp
followers.
This list of claims and claimants has
beep prepared chiefly to meet the appli
cations of former officers and soldiers of
tho Union army.
Curious to know who among their
Southern acquaintances of tho war arc
now claiming to have been both loyal and
opulent ten or twelve years ago, the Com
missioners, for the sake of tho informa
tion to lie obtained, intend to send the
pamphlet free of charge to all who apply
in person or by letter.
THE COMET SEEN FROM THE NA
VAL OBSERVATOR Y.
Washington, July 31.—Rear Admiral
Sands, Superintendent of the United
States Naval Observatory, reports to tho
Secretary of the Navy to-day that Profes
sor Hall, of the Observatory, last night
observed the comet discovered M.
Borelly at Marseilles, France, July 27,
and recently announced liyacible tele
gram to Professor Henry. The position
of the comet is as follows: Washington
time, July 30, 12 hours, 23 minutes, right
ascension, 1 hour, l(i minutes and 28 sec
onds; declination, 7 degrees and 38 min
utes souts. Motion small and to the smith
east.
WASHING TON ITEMS.
Washington, August 4. —Robert S.
Chew, Chief Clerk of the Stato Depart
ment, who died yesterday, commenced his
career in that department under John
Forsyth, of Alabama, Secretary of State
to Andrew Jackson.
Official dispatches from Washington
Territory report two white women killed
by Indians returning from the peace com
mission.
Leroy Brown has been appointed Mar
shal of the Southern District of Missis
sippi.
.John B. Stickney appointed United
States Attorney for tho Northern District
of Florida.
Washington, August G. —The President
has appointed some forty civilians second
Lieutenants in the regular army, and as
signed a number of cadets to duty.
Appointments—S. H. Siuitliers, Re
ceiver of Money at Natchctoches; Potter.
Postmaster at Warrington, Va.
Colonel Hughes, Congressman Plant
and Colonel Carter, of Virginia, called on
the President, who gave them assurances
of support in the coming canvas of that
State.
The President has signed postal treaty
with Japan. Postage, fifteen cents each
way.
THAT STORY ABOUT ESCOBEDO.
Telegram to the New York Herald.
Matamobas, August 2.—The Voz Pub
lieu denies the rumor in the American
papers that General Escobedo, with the
Fourth Division of the Mexican army,
had been ordered to the Rio Grande, anil
says that General Escobedo is on his es
tate near San Luis Potosi, aud that the
Fourth Division of the army is stationed
at different and remote parts of the Re
public on active duty. The report, al
though stated to have emanated from the
headquarters of the Department of Tex
as, and which first appeared in the San
Antonio papers, is groundless.
ELECTION.
Sr. Louis, August 5. —Aii election was
held yesterday in the Cherokee nation
for members of the National Council and
delegates to the Grand Council at Oc
niulgee, which meets ou the first Monday
in December next. The interest of the I
election rests mainly upon the issues
which have sprung up in the nation during
the past fev years relative to tho estab
lishment of a Territorial Government for
the Indian Territory. The progressive
party believe they have carried the elec
tion, but owing t i the remoteness of
some of the voting precincts and the ab
sence of the telegraph, the result cannot
he ascertained for some days. The new
Council of Cherokee will vote to ratify or
reject the constitution which was framed
by the Grand Council at Ocmnlgee in i
1870, and upon this issue the campaign
was conducted.
St. Louis, August 4.—The Texas cattle
plague prevails in northwest Missouri. In
the past two weeks several thousand have
died. In Nadaway county alone the loss j
is estimated at $500,000.
NO. 27.
NEWS FROM GOTHAM.
“CIVILIZATION” AT THE NOETIC.
Haitians Attacking- an Exiursiou Party—
Brutal Prize Eight.
New Yoke, August 4. —During the ex
cursion of the llelitia Manor Choir to
! College l’oint yos ter day a rain storm
drove the excursionists on board a boat.
A crowd of pick-pockets endeavored to
i get on board. Failing in this attempt,
| they attacked the excursionists with bricks
and stones. Two gentlemen had their
skulls fractured. Several ladies were se
! riously injured. One reporter was knocked
j down by a stone. Several of the injured
partis were carried to llellevue Hospital.
BRUTAL I'JUZE FIGHT.
The Chambers-Siddons prize fight yes
terday was carried out so quietly that tho
police were completely frustrated in their
attempts to discern the parties. The
locality of the fight was on Long Island,
between Gravesend and New Utrecht.
The line was formed in a clump of trees,
ropes being run around tho trunks in
lieu of stakes. There was little formality
in the preliminaries, the men walking in
the ring in plain clothes. Chambers was
in splendid condition. Siildous showed
| signs of over-training. Forty-seven
rounds were fought. Chambers drew the
first blood. The men came to time
promptly until the fortieth round, when
Siddons showed the effects of the heavy
pummelling he had received. At the end
of the forty-seventh round Siddons’ face
was pummelled to a jelly. Failing to
come time, his second threw up the
sponge. Chambers is not much injured.
Siddons was barely able to stand up, and
had to be carried to a carriages and con- 1
veyed to his house Chambers imrnedi- j
ately left for his home in New York.
SUNDAY AMUSEMENTS.
A pitcher thrown by one of the Brook
lyn roughs at another killed a child in its
cradle.
Timothy Donovan kickod his wife fa
tally.
A boy only twelve years of age, named j
Christine Dimer, was arrested in Newark,
N. J., on Saturday, on a charge of killing
a child four years old by wilfully throw
ing him down.
ANOTHER PRIZE FIGHT.
Flushing, L. 1., August 4. — .Jack Boy
kin and Pete Cracker fought at tivoo’clock
this morning. Thine were numerous
spectators. Twenty-three rounds were
fought. Cracker won. Boylan was se
verely punished. The fight was for five
hundred dollars and the middle weight
championship of America.
ARREST OE A CUE AN HANK li E
EAVLTEIi.
New York, August 4. — A detective and
the deputy surveyor of tho port yesterday
met the steamer City of Mexico down the
Bay and arrested Antonio Tnero Y. Al
verese, clerk of the Commercial Bank of
Havana, who robbed that institution of
exchange to the amount of $67,000 and
$2,000 gold. Nearly all the money was
found. He had a fowule with him, who
took the matter very coolly. She was
concerned in the robbery and was also
arrested.
NE tV YORK ITEMS.
New York, August 5.- —There are six
teen prisoners still in the Tombs charged
with homicide.
Numerous families are reduced to penury
by tho recent Long Island fire, and one
family forced to the poor house.
The police are after the concerters of a
circular signed Wright, Robinson & Cos.,
claiming to have exclusive knowledge of
what horses will win iu foreign races, and
offering it from their office, 599 Broadway,
on receipt of ton dollars. No such firm
is found there.
New York, August 6.---A series of law
suits are about commencing against the
Erie Railroad, on a formal demand for
tlie adjudication of the Erie as a bankrupt
for refusal to pay interest upon certain
bonds. The friends of the Erie charac
terize the projected suits as a stock job
bing manoeuvre.
Thehealth of Kate Stoddard, the alleged
murderer of Goodrich, is failing rapidly.
THE no It Lit ON I*l ri: NEW OR
GANIZATION.
New York, August 2.— The World has
a double-leaded editorial on “The Demo
cratic Party and its Allies.” The article
begins thus: “The natural allies of the
Democratic party at tho present time arc
two more or less imperfectly organized
bodiesof citizens, namely: Liberal Repub
licans and farmers’ granges,” and closes
as follows: “T i true thing to do is to
encourage the other organizations, but
resolutely maintain the Democratic stan
dard of political doctrine ; for unless the
Democratic party can be again made the
living conviction in the public mind, re
form of government will novor bo more
than skin deep.”
A RATTLE IN CURA.
New York, August 5. Mail advices
from Cuba state that a very severe en
gagement had taken place at Barancas,
nine leagues from Manzello. The Span
ish loss was severe. Thirty-seven wound
ed were taken to Manzello, and thirty
more severely wounded were left at Ve
queta. The Spaniards were very roticent.
A GREAT OIL EIRE.
New Yoke, August 5. —Five tank boats
filled with oil moored to the dock of ltock
afeller’s Oil Works, Hunter’s Point, Long
Island, exploded this afternoon and set
fire to the barrels and tanks of oil in the
yard. The fire spread almost instantan
eously and enveloped some three squares
occupied by the oil works of various par
ties. There was a very light wind, and
volume of smoke ascended to an immense
height, and of a density such as never was
before seen here. It covered Brooklyn
completely from the sunlight and extend
ing for miles over the bay and out to sea.
The firemen, who were promptly on hand,
were unable to approach the yards or
docks owing to the intense heat and suffo
cating smoke. Pratt Oil Works, the
Long Islaud City Oil Works, Lowenstein’s
Varnish Factory, and other oil works wero
consumed, and several buildings in the vi
cinity. Capt. Meyers of one of the tank
boats reported killed by the explosion,
and a large number of boatmen jumped
into the w-ater and escaped being roasted
alive. Fire burned from 3 o’clock all the
afternoon, and is still burning to-night.
Various rumors of large loss of life are
current.
New Yoke, Aug. (>.— Loss by the Hun
ter’s Point fire .$200,000. The remains of
Capt. Meyers, who lost his life by throw
ing a lighted match on the deck of an
oil vessel at Hunter’s Point, have been
found. Two persons missing.
I'JIOM MEXICO.
New York, August (!. —A Herald spe
cial from the City of Mexico says Lazar
do, liebel Chief, has been shot.
Cholera is raging in Chiapas.
The Government gains heavily in the
Congressional elections.
Legal stays are allowed in the decree
expelling American priests from Mexico.
THE PROPOSE!I XE If STATE.
Nashville, Tens., July 31.—The New-
State Convention is talked of here as an
ignominous fizzle. Lvory prominent man
with whom I have talked speaks of it as
an inconsequential side-show. The Ex
ecutive officers have lost very little sleep
thinking of it. An influential West Ten
nessee man told me that it was not so
popular in that portion of tho State as
might be supposed by persons at a dis
tance.
CHOPS IX KENTUCKY.
IjOuirvii.le, August 4. Recent rains
have brought out corn and tobacco crops
in eastern Kentucky finely, and both pro
duce well. Iri the blue grass region corn
and w heat are generally in good condition.
Corn promises well throughout the cen
tral counties. In southern Kentucky
wheat and corn look well. In western
Kentucky not more than two-thirds ordi
nary crops of corn and tobacco are expect
ed, though recent rains have improved
the prospect somewhat.
IN COLORADO.
The potato bug has done great damage
in the counties adjoining Colorado City.
THE MEXICAN OUESTIOX —IS A
WAR PRORAMLE
Special to the St. Louie Repiblkui:.]
Washington, August 2.— What founda
tion in truth there is for the published
assertions to the effect that the Adminis
tration is desirous of haring a tilt at arms
with Mexico, and is taking advantage of
opportunities tending in that direction
win oh happen to occur, is not quite evi
dent. Except such proof as can be found
in the expressions of certain Administra
tion journals, there seems to be no good
ground for the statement alluded to, aud
it is believed by persons high in official
position that the etatements contained in
me a nicies in those papers are not in
spired nor acquiesced in by the. President
or the members of his cabinet. Bui it is
certainly not true that the reports of out
rages along the Rio Grande are generally,
or oven to a very large extent, exaggera
ted or made up, as alleged, to creato sen
timent in this country against Mexico, or
unpleasant relations between tho govern
ment of that couutry and tho United
States.
Reports of raids by marauding parties
from Mexico are received here through
private parties as well as official sources;
each, as u rule, substantially confirming
the other. The latest from an official
source is a letter received at the Treasury
Department to-day from the Collector of
Customs, at El Paso, Texas, who informs
tho department that on tho 13thof July a
party of Mexican citizens, well known,
with force and arms recaptured a herd of
COO sheep, seized by him about three
j weeks previously, aud drove them into
Mexico. The herder was at the same time
seized and bound aud thus conveyed into
Mexico. This occurred 90 miles below
LI Paso, where tho collector had the sheep
grazing under the protection of the post
j commander at Fort Quitman. The collec
tor forwards a translation of a letter on
tho subject received by him from tho
chief civil officer at El Paso, Mex., aud
asks what further duty devolves upon
him iu relation to this matter. The letter
mentioned is given in full as follows :
El Paso, Mex., July 10, 1873. To Col
lector Colilwell, Franklin, Texas—Mir: I
have incidentally received notice that on
j the 13th inst., several Mexicans crossed to
j the left bank of the river, anil drove to
j this side a herd of sheep that was seized
j by virtue of the office you have the honor
j to hold. Surprised as 1 was, it aroused my
indignation at tho procedure of those cit
izens, who without doubt noted alone
through ignorauce iu a manner so unwar
ranted. 1 have already taken the neces
sary steps to correct this abuse aud you
can rest assured that I am animated with
; the greatest desire that the harmony be
tween the two nations shall remain undis
turbed aud your laws and institutions bo
respected. Dr. Mariano.
Samaniago Gifo Politico Del District
Bravas.
This correspondence lias boon sent to
the Secretary of State for consideration.
VIRGINIA CONSERVATIVE CON
VENTION.
Richmond, August 6. —The Conserva
tive State Convention met to-day at noon,
at the Theatre, the interior of which, es
pecially the stage, was decorated with
liags of various nations, also State and
National colors. The orchestra chairs
aud the parquette were filled with dele
gates, nearly four hundred iu number.
Tho remainder of the building was crowd
ed with spectators. Tho stage was occu
pied by a large number of prominent per
sonages representatives of the press
from this city and other points in tho
State and out of it.
The Convention was called to order by
Hon. R. J. Daniels, Chairman of the
State Committee, on whose motion M. G.
Harmon, of Augusta county, was chosen
temporary Chairman.
A committee consisting of two from
each Congressional District was appointed
on credentials.
During the absence of tho Committee
Hon. Robt. Ould was called upon and ad
dressed the Convention in a speech of
welcome. Other speeches were made by
Hon. H. M. Kelly, Mayor of Richmond,
and ex-Lieutenant Governor Robert L.
Montague and others.
A recess was taken till 4 o’clock, at
\yhieh hour the Committee on Credentials
reported. Several hours wore consumed
in discussing and amending tho report.
The question of appointing a Conduit
tee oil Permanent Organization gave rise
to a heated debate as to tho manner of
formation of the committee, some con
tending for each Congressional delegation
to have tho privilege of electing three of
their own number to report them in the
committee, and others for the whole
committee to bo appointed by the Chair
man.
The debate was conducted amid great
confusion, but finally the latter mode pre
vailed aud the chair appointed three from
each district delegation, with Hon. llobt.
Ould as Chairman. The Committee thus
formed, then retired.
Avery decided spirit of antagonism
was displayed iu tho various debates by
tho friends of Gen. J. L. Kemper and
Col, Robert E. Withers, tho two promi
nent candidates for tho nomination for
Governor.
Recess till 3 o’clock.
OHIO JOEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
Columbus, Aug. 6.—Tho State Demo
cratic Convention assembled nt the Opera
House this morning, all counties being
represented; some by very large delega
tions.
T. Hunt, of Hamilton, was chosen tem
porary chairman, and made an earnest
speech, predicting an active contest dur
ing tho coming campaign and the future,
greatness of the Democratic party. Ho
wanted the cry to go forth that “The Old
Guard dies but never surrenders.”
After appointing a committee, the Con
vention adjourned for dinner.
THE NEGRO KU-KLUX.
We loarn from the Jackson, Tenn.,
Whig of tho 2d inst., that twenty negroes
were last week arrested in itR county for
ku-klnxing and murdering William Hamil
ton Wyatt. They went to his house at a
late hour in the night, and riddled * his
body with balls. The charge against him
was that he had outraged an old negro
woman, but the woman herself contradic
ted the report. Tho strange part of tho
matter is that these colored ku-klux had
to be arrested by the State authorities,
the Federal officers being no doubt too
much engaged in a vain search for white
ku-klux!
Membuis, August s.—Of the twenty
negroes arrested on the charge of lynching
W. H. Wyatt, in Madison county, all
were released on SSOO bail but three.
The charges against Wyatt were disproved
by his alleged victim.
It RIG HAM’S 17 th.
Salt Lake, August ii. Ann Eliza
Young’s father and lawyers oppose a com
promise between her anil the prophet.
It is asserted that Ann Eliza’s first hus
band is alive and that she was never di
vorced.
THE CHICAGO WHEAT CORNER.
Yesterday the wheat corner terminated,
and proved to be successful. We do not
know that any previous corner was ever
so successfully maintained, or resulted in
such profits to the operators. The figures
of the operation may be thus approxi
mately stated: The “corner” purchased
800,000 bushels of wheat in options, sel
ler July, and 400,000 bushels of wheat for
cash. The sellers were of course unable
to deliver, and yesterday, after 3 o’clock,
made their settlements. The combination
settled with the shorts at different rates,
anil sold out their cash wheat at a loss.
The balance sheet of the transaction will
foot up something after this fashion:
Sold by the “Comer” and Settled for.
100,009 Bushels options at $1 30 $130,000
620,000 bushels options at $1 40 358,000
80.000 bushels (est.) at $1 40 112,000
40u,000 bushels cash, at *1 18 472,000
Total sales anil receipts $1,582,000
Purchased by Ditto.
400,000 bushels cash at $1 22 $488,00)
800,000 bushels options (av’ge) at $1 iy 952,000
Oommissions on 1,200,000 bush at '/f... 8,000
Other expenses 7,000
Total outlay $1,447,000
Net profit $130,000
We do not understand that it was de
termined to corner the market until alxiut
the 520th of July, though purebasas were
made before that time. There were about
six persons, all, we believe, residing in
Milwaukee, who were concerned in this
corner. The cash-capital required to run
the corner, including a reserve, was about
$860,000. Conceding that this capital
was employed a whole month, tho profit
of $130,000 was not only liberal, but
enormous. It is not likely that this thing
can be repeated, though it is probable
that it will be attempted.— Chicago Tri
bune, let.
A person who undertakes to elevate
others by scandalizing others might as
well sit down on a wheelbarrow and try
wheel himself.