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■ • I WOODPECKER'S TAP OK A UOL
-1.0 tT Ol.li TKEE.”
One of the electioneering hobbies of
Gen Grant’s Administration has tieen
■‘civil service reform.” Numerons con
sultations have been held, ostensibly to
devise means of putting this idea into ef
ficient operation, and a system of formal
“rules” have been adopted for carrying it
into effect. And just here the thing
stopped. The public service has not
been improved in the least, so far as the
people can see, nor has any change been
made in the character of the appointees
to office. It is not denied that favorite
Congressmen have the selection of Feder
al officeholders for their respective .States,
ami it is undeniable that the same un
scrupulous party hacks who had most in
fluence with Gen. Grant during his first
term have most favor with him now—such
men as Morton of Indiana, Cameron of
Felinsylvanin, Conckling- of New York,
Roller of Massachusetts. These and the
carpet-bag Congressmen from the South
are the real dispensers of patronage, and
it is freely used with an eye single to
the strengthening of the ltadical party.
A Democrat, Conservative or Liberal,
however eminently qualified for any
Federal position, has no chance to obtain
it in competition with the most corrupt
and incompetent Radical politician in the
laud. This lining so, is not the pretended
“civil service reform” of this Administra
tion the most arrant humbuggery ever
sought to lie imposed upon the people?
It" “civil sorvico reform” means any
thing beneficial to the country, it must
mean the selection of honest and compe
tent officers and their exclusive devotion
to the public duties of their positions.
Rut what is the reality ? We see the Ad
ministration and its subordinate officials
as actively as ever engaged in the work of
bolstering up the Radical party. We daily
witness Federal interference in State poli
tics and elections in a most shameful
manner and to an extent never before
practiced. Within the last week ltadical
politicians of Virginia have, according
to telegraphic report, received from the
President himself assurances of his full
sympathy and ready support. For some
time past two ltadical delegations from
Texas have been perplexing the Presi
dent with their rival claims to his royal
favor, and according to the latest reports,
the faction opposed to Gov. Davis has
gained the day, and that State official
(though a Republican in whom there is
no good) will he thrown overboard. These
are but samples of the manner in which
State politics are now managed in Wash
ington, as between rival Radical factions.
When Federal intervention is needed in
any Southern State to protect a Radical
minority from defeat by a Democratic
majority, we have an instance in point in
the Louisiana case.
Even in Georgia we see evidences of the
devotion of Federal power and patronage
to the keeping of the Radical party on its
legs, preparatory to some future outrage
on the people of the State. It is announc
ed from Washington that “Gov.” Bard
has al reaily been promised government
advertising patronage to enable him to
start and maintain his paper at Atlauta—
such as advertisements for contracts to
supply the forts in Idaho, New Mexico
and other far western territories with
beef, pork, Hour, &is. Assessments of
Federal office-holders for electioneering
purposes have also commenced, in proof
of which the Savannah New* of Friday
publishes resolutions adopted by the Re
publican Commit tees of Chatham comity,
by a resolution of the “Republican Coun
ty Committee of Chatham county,” adopt
ed cm the iloth of June last, the Federal
office-holders of the county were “request
ed to conti Unite monthly such percent,
of their salaries as may be necessary to
procure a full return of the Republican
tax-payersand by a resolution of the
“Republican Executive Committee of
Chatham county,” adopted on the same
day, "the Federal office-holders in the
county he requested to pay monthly two
(2) per cent of their salaries, lor the bene
fit of the Republican party of the county.”
This is Grant’s “civil service reform”—
this forced contribution of ‘it per cent,
per annum of the office-holders' salaries to
carry elections for the Radical party 1
Was ever so glaring a deception attempt
ed ?
i hi: gulf uo.ist ir.-i ter- ir.-i»' in
THE IV ES I'.
Col. A. 1/. Hardee, of .Jacksonville, has
received a letter from an influential Wes
tern man urging him to take steps to
bnug prominently before the people of
i'Uirida the importance of the Gulf coast
water-way. The letter says the Farmers’
Granges in the West, especially those in
Ohio, favor the Gulf-line, and have ap
pointed representatives from each Grange
to appear before the transportation com
mittee of Congress and urge the adoption
of this route. Col Hardee proposes to agi
tate the subject to some extent.and to this
end desires the Board of Trade of Jack
sonville to meet and confer with him on
the subject. The Republican also urges
a meeting of the Board of Trade and im
mediate action by the citizens. The wa
ter-way, when completed, will add greatly
to the prosperity of Florida, and, if any
thing can do so under her present admin
istration, resurrect her trade and com
merce, develop her material resources,
ami invite immigration. We trust some de
cided action will be taken in the matter.—
Sav. New*.
We have seen other intimations that the
“Granges” of the West favor this scheme,
and we are hopeful that their support of
it will materially aid in turning the atten
tion of the whole country to its merits.
These have only to be considered, with
out sectional prejudice or party bias, to
convince the people that it is move de
serving of favor by the Federal Govern
ment than any scheme of internal im
provement that it has yet undertaken.
It will be remembered that we copied,
a few days since, an article from the
Owego (N. V.) Gazette, in which it
strongly favored this “water way,"
and urged the Democratic party to
adopt it in connection with a canal uniting
the great Northern Lakes with the Hud
son liver. We now find that too plans
for effect, uy the hist named improvement
are pii> l l- >-* <l , anil tine is said to obtain
strong support in Canada. One of these
plans is the purchase by the Federal Gov
ernment of the Erie canal, its enlarge
ment, and free opening to all vessels.
The other is the acquirement and improv
meul of the Welland canal in Canada,
connecting Georgian llav with Lake On
tario, thence down the St. Law rence river
t<> its nearest approach to Lake Chain
plain in New York, and a canal conueet
-lUB Lake Champlain with the Hudson
'her. it will he seen, by reference to the
lu ap, thut this route would make areasou
abl J close and direct water line from the
•'tates of the Northwest to New York, and
that hot very little caualliug would be re-
Hunej. [t j s that the Canadian
authorities would liberally aid in us opeu-
U We hope, however, that one of these
VOL. XV.
Northern water-ways, in connection with
our proposed Gulf Coast canal, will ob
tain such general favor as to obviate any
need of party support for it.
“supply amp demand. ”
Another reported object of the Granges
so nearly meets our views of what the
country requires, that we must give it
our hearty approval. It is the prevention
of the gambling expedients that interfere
with the just relations between the con
sumer and the producer, and nullify the
wholesome law of “supply and demand.”
On this point we copy from the St. Louis
Republic,cut's report of an interview with
one of the most prominent advocates and
officers of the Patrons of Husbandry in
! Illinois:
“Another object contemplated by the
Grangers is the control of the markets
to a certain extent by regulating produc
tion. This Mr. Allen believes to be en
tirely feasible. The grangers collect com
plete and reliable statistics of the farm
products of the country. The local grange
tjeuds its reports to the State grange;
there the reports are tabulated, a copy
sent to the secretary of the National
grange, and printed copies sent to all
subordinate granges, which thus know
just what crops the State is producing,
and in what quantities. The National
Grange, through its Secretary, furnishes
to the State Grango the general result,
and these statements reach those they are
intended to servo in time to be beneficial.
Thus the patron in the most remote coun
ty knows just what stocks there are on
hand ami what umount will be produced,
and what the consumption will be. The
law of supply and demand is to be form
ulated so that the plainest farm laborer
can understand it as well as the keenest
speculator. The acreage in any given
crop can be increased or diminished ac
cording to circumstances.
Herein we recognize the germ of a great
reform. It may be that legal measures
will he needed for its full development,
but if so, the Grangers will doubtless
have power to obtain their passage. It is
a reform aimed at one of the greatest
abuses of the time—one that has grown
alarmingly within the last few years, and
whose pernicious influence upon com
merce and industry has been widely felt.
If the Grangers fail in every other under
taking, and succeed in accomplishing
this one, the mark which they will leave
in the history of the country will be an
honorable one, and their good works will
live after them.
THIS SOUTH MISJUDGED.
Some of the Radical papers still insist
that the people of the South cherish ha
tred towards the North, and towards the
Federal Government as administered, be
cause of the events and the results of the
war. There never was a greater mistake,
and it is indeed strange that any one
can make it, after considering the politi
cal course which the white people of the
South have pursued since the war.
Have any of our people presented the
name of a Southern man as candidate for
the Presidency? Havo any of us even
asked for the nomination of a Northern
man who was opposed to the war? In
stead of doing so, have we not readily
supported, or declared our willingness to
support Union soldiers ? Did we not sup
port Gen. Blair in 18G8, and have we
not all the time been willing to support
Gen. Hancock? In 1872 did we not even
go much further than this, and support
Liberal Republican candidates for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency, who had
not only been earnest and consistent sup
porters of the war for the Union, but who
had favored the odious and unjust Recon
struction measures of Congress? We co
operated with this Liberal Republican
party, 100, on a platform of their own
making; but it was a platform which as
sured us of their purpose to check the en
croachments of Congress on the rights of
the States and the people and to remand
the Federal Government to its constitu
tional limits.
But there is one class of Northern poli
ticians to whom the people of the South
have not yet become reconciled, and to
wards whom reconciliation and forgive
ness would be a virtue exceeding Chris
tian charity. We refer to the gang of
carpet-bag adventurers who flocked to
the South after the war was over to “re
construct” us in such a manner as to put
the Southern States under the rule of ne
groes and vagabond Northern politicians
-to exalt ignorance over intelligence—to
make the vicious law-givers for the virtu
ous and refined—to place all property at
the mercy of those who owned none of it.
The Southern people cannot forgive those
who sought thus to insult and despoil
them in their defeat and helplessness, be
cause their partial success entailed upon
us evils which a generation cannot out
live; nor can they forget them, because
our continued impoverished condition and
the yearly demands of the tax-gatherers
are ever-preseut reminders of their ra
pacity and profligacy.
Towards the people of the North who
were our enemies in war, but who have
beeu and are our friends in peace, the
people of the South have none but the
best feelings. They are even willing to
“shake hands across the bloody chasm”
with those who, having supported late
measures for our humiliation and despoil
ment, now sympathise with us in our sad
condition and manifest regret for their
acts of wrong and outrage; and this was
most strikingly proven last year. But
wo can entertain little hope of better
feeling or better action from Northern
politicians who last year would not even
support Republican candidates for the
Presidency aud Vice Presidency because
they received endorsement aud support
from the South. With such meu party
devotion or sectional prejudice must be
too strong for patriotic impulse or com
mon justice. They are evidently bent on
nothing less than the continued subjuga
tion of the South and the perpetuation
of the aggressions of Congress and the
usurpations of the President. The people
of the South have not yet wholly surren
dered to politicians with such views aud
purposes, and we hope that they will con
tinue to spurn any “loyalty” based upon
such a test.
AI.A HAM A STATE TEACHER’S AS
SOCIATION.
This Association met in Talladega on
the tiih inst. A number of interesting
addresses were delivered, and some dis
missions were had on topics relating to
education. No action of importance was
taken. The following officers for the en
suing year were elected:
President —Hon. J. H. Speed, State
Superintendent; Vice Presidents—Prof.
W. S. Wyman, of Tuscaloosa; Rev. A. I).
McYoy, of Dallas; Prof. J. L. Dodson, of
Calhoun; Prof. T. J. Dill, of Perry; Sec
retary, Prof. A. H. Todd, of Talladega;
Assistant Secretaries, Prof. Alex Hogg,
of Lee, and Prof. It. W. Beck, of St.
Clair: Treasurer, Dr. J. H. Johnson, of
Talladega.
Marion was selected as the place for
the next meeting, after which the Asso
ciation adjourned.
The New York Herald's correspondent
with the Yellowstone expedition writes
from the Yellowstone river. July 20th,
describing the barren, arid and irreclaim
able character of much of the country,
and adding: “How any sane man can im
agine that a railroad can be maintained
in such a country, where it is difficult to
procure wood and water for even camp
purposes, is beyond my comprehension."
THE WEEKLY SUN.
FARMERS’ CONVENTION.
Planters Aroused.-Full Attendance—Great
Enthusiasm—Gen. Colquitt Presides—
His Opening Address—lmportant Ques
tions Announced for Discussion.
Newton House, >
Athens, Aug. 12th, 1873. /
Editors Sun: In accordance with my
promise, given you a few days since in
Columbus. I propose to write down a few
I “dots” in regard to the great assembly of
Georgia farmers now' convened in this old
and honored city on the hills.
From all parts of the State, delegates
have come in for the past twenty-four
hours, among whom are many of our lead
; ing planters and agricultural writers.
It is thought that nearly three hundred del
egates will be enrolled before the close of
the session, over two hundred havin al
ready reported themselves.
The officers are pretty generally at their
posts, and the Executive Committee will
jbe aide to act with full ranks. Gen. A.
j 11 Colquitt, the able President of the As
j sociation, is in the chair, and I am glad
to report that he opened the Convention
with a very appropriate and practical
• speech. His vigorous and sensible sug-
I gestions were frequently interrupted by
| the hearty applause of his delighted
| hearers.
i The first business in order, the appoint
j ment of necessary Standing Committees,
{ was well attended to by Gen. Colquitt,
i who selected the best and most intelligent
men for those positions. This step was
suggested by the fact, not always consid
ered, however, that very important mat
ters were to be entrusted to their judg
ment and action. This good beginning
indicates that the entire session of the
Convention, unlike some of its pre
decessors, will be devoted to the dis
cussion of the most important practi
cal questions of the day, as regards the
interests of the planting community
throughout the entire State.
Up to the hour of my leaving the Con
vention, for the purpose of getting this
letter oil in time for publication on
Thursday morning, several reports had
been made by the committees appointed
at the Augusta Convention. The special
report endorsing the administration of
the late President of the State Agricultu
ral Association, Col. Ben. C. Yancey, was
still being discussed at the time of my j
departure. The result of the discussion |
is yet in doubt, and I therefore decline to
throw out any hints as to what may be
the final action of the Convention in re
gard to the matter.
There can be no doubt of the impor
tance of the subjects to be discussed
during the present session, as your read
ers will readily see from the following
topics already announced : “Local Fairs, ” j
by J. M. Stubbs; “Negro Emigration,”!
Col. D. E. Butler; “Industrial Education,” [
Prof. Lo Broun of the State College;
“Land and Labor,” Col. McKinley; “Ex
perimental Farms,” Dr. Pendleton; “Lime
for Agricultural Purposes,” Col. B. C.
Yancey. These questions, aside from any
others that may arise, will keep the Con
vention fully occupied until Wednesday
night, the time of the proposed adjourn
ment. I regret to learn that the “Grand
Banquet” is to wind up the labors of the j
last day, as the drunken scenes of the
Augusta Banquet are still vividly in my
mind, and I dread a reproduction of them
here. Intemperence has already' cursed
our industrial and agricultural interests to
a fearful extent, and I most earnestly
desire to see a change for the better in
this direction, as I believe it to be our
only hope of success in the future.
Agricola.
RAILROAD COM It IX A TIOXS.
The Beaufort Republican stales that
negotiations are pending which propose
to result in anew railroad combination.
It is proposed to effect a consolidation of
the Georgia Railroad, the Savannah and
Charleston Railroad and the Port Royal
Railroad, so that they will be operated as
one road, under one management. This
is to be done by the purchase of a con
trolling interest in the stock of the Savan
nah and Charleston Railroad by the Geor
gia Railroad. This consolidation, says
the Republican, will lead at no distant
day to a still more powerful and extended
combination, reaching from St. Louis to
the South Atlantic Seaboard. It will
probably include the St. Louis and South
eastern, or the Chattanooga, Nashville and
Northwestern, the Western and Atlantic
and the Iron Mountain.
Mariners Lookout for tiih Balloon.
The New York Graphic calls the attention
of mariners and all having command of
vessels leaving American ports during the
mouth to the fact that it is intended that
the trans-Atlantic balloon expedition of
Prof. \V T ise aud Mr. W. H. Doualson shall
loave New York, for Europe on some day
late in August or early in September. The
balloon will carry two life boats, and
every part of the apparatus that is capable
of beiug detached will be legibly inscribed
with the words, “The Daily Graphic.”
Mariners are requested, in case any arti
cles so marked arc picked up by them, to
ascertain the locality where found, that
all necessary particulars may be published.
During the progress of the balloon, the
aeronauts will occasionally throw over in
the night time torpedoes, which will ex
plode on striking the water, for the pur
pose of marking the direction they are
traversing. Note of these should also be
made. In case the balloon gives out be
fore it reaches land, the passengers will
have recourse to the boats, in which emer
gency, it is hoped, they may be seen and
rescued by auy vessel passing near.
The St. Joseph North Louisiana Jour
nal says: “It has often beeu said that
white people can’t stand the labor and
exposure necessary to make a cotton or
sugar crop. Nonsense. A colony of
twelve white families on a plantation in
parish of St, Mary made crops of sugar
and molasses in IS7I and 1872, that net
ted in the New Orleans market $40,000,
or $20,000 a year.”
Attention is called to the announcement
of the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege of Alabama, for 1873-4. This insti
tution. under the efficient Presidency of
Rev. I. T. Tichenor, D.D., is rising to a
prominent place in the ranks of our best
colleges, and we have no hesitation in
commending it to notice of our readers.
Columbus and this vicinity is already well
represented in the list of its students, but
there are other young men here who need
the advantages that are oftered by this
college, whose military training is an im
portant element of instruction.
Can any candid man dispute the perfect
truth of this statement? It is from the
Milwaukee News: “The whole rule of
monopoly—the tariff monopoly, the rail
road monopoly, the bank monopoly—the
entire rule of rings and corruptionists had
grown up since the Republican party
came into power. All these monopolies,
abuses and ring frauds are the fruit of
laws enactod by the Republican party.”
CRors. —Much improvement in the con
dition of crops in our county has resulted
from the recent rains. Some localities
have not been so well favored as others
with these showers, and in many places
the grass from last spring’s growth has
not been fully conquered. On the w hole,
our crop prospect is very fair. — Aldltdye
ville Union, 13th.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19,1873.
POLYGAMY IN UTAH!
BRIGHAM AXD HIS 17th.
As might have been expected, the “in
terviewers” of the press waited on these
two worthies as soon as the divorce
suit of Mrs. Young No. 17 made her
famous. Both the New Y'ork Herald
and the Sun has representatives who
waited on them in this capacity,
and those papers publish reports of
the interviews at length. \V< copy from
the Sun's report of the interview with
Brigham the portion relating to Mrs. Eliza
; Webb Young and her divorce suit :
| Correspondent—ls it is not offensive to
you I would like to ask a saw questions
concerning this divorce suit.
The Prophet—Oh, I will answer them,
though it’s really a small matter. This
1 man Sawyer who sends the press dis- ;
patches East has tried to make a great
thing out of it; but there is nothing in it
to make anything. He is a notorious liar,
j Nobody here believes a word he says. His j
| own paper acknowledges that it is an at
; tempt to blackmail. The men who are j
running the suit want our money, and [
| they won’t get it. That’s all there’s of it.
| Correspondent—The complaint alleges j
! brutal treatment and desertion. Is the J
allegation true ?
! The Prophet (laughing as though every- j
body knew that it was not true) —Nothing j
of the kind (shaking his head); nothing 1
jof the kind. She was alw’ays treated as a
! wife should be treated. No stipulations ;
| were made. She had no cause for com- ;
plaint. She has had bad advisers, and |
has taken a wrong step. We were driven j
from the States by the persecution of ;
bigoted priests and robbers. Many of us
were cruelly murdered and our lands and j
property seized. We wandered off to this i
wilderness, and the bigoted priests and j
robbers are again on our track. This !
i time they are headed by Goveryment of
ficials. (Suddenly firing up.) They will
do well to pause. This is not Nauvoo.
God has given us these lands, and they
have been consecrated by the sweat of our
brows We will not be robbed of them
in silence. It is our land that the thieves
j are after. This suit is of no account. It
i is a small attempt at blackmail, but a
I greater effort will follow. We are a law
abiding people, and have always been so.
We have been loyal to the Government,
j and all we ask is simple justice, and we’re
going to have it. Yv'hnt is law for a Gen
i tile ought to be law for a Mormon.
THE LEGAL ASPECT OF THE CASE.
Correspondent—What answer will you
make to Mrs. Young’s complaint ?
The Prophet—Of course it is a put-up
job. The complaint is made in a United
States Court, which has no jurisdiction.
You don’t try divorce suits in United
States Courts in New York. The Terri
torial laws are binding within a prescribed
limit until Congress annuls them. Con
gress has never annuled this law. The
Gentiles have brought similar suits in the
Probate Court. One of their leading
lawyers sought a divorce for a lady in the
Probate Court some time ago, and after
ward married her. Why, McKean’s packed
Grand Jury presented a bogus indictment
against me sometime ago for what they
called lascivious cohabitation with this
very woman. It is a case of unadultera
ted blackmail, and the complaint itself
shows it. As it is a put-up job, I have
no doubt but what they will wrongfully
entertain the case in the United States
Court. But that won’t help them.
Correspondent—Supposing the Judge
decides that he will hear the ease, what
theu ?
The Prophet (lowering his voice) —
Adultery. The facts are plain, and there
is plenty of evidence.
THE, WORK OF GREEEDY OENTII.ES.
Correspondent—Do you think that the
United States officeholders are concerned
in this suit ?
The Prophet—Do I think ? Why, the
officeholders have tried to fill their pock
ets ever since they have been in the Ter
ritory. They have endeavored to set all
our local laws aside. They have packed
Grand Juries, and have found any quant
ity of illegal indictments against us.
Scores have been arrested n and held iu
custody on trumped-up —<u‘gt >, until the
Supreme Court of the United States was
compelled to interfere and undo the work
of the officeholders. Look at them.—
They came here puffed with piety and pre
tended to bo horrified at polygamy. Yet
there wasn’t one of them who wouldn’t
run to an assignation house within twen
ty-four hours afterward if he had au op
portunity. They have always been a set
of canting hypocrites, and they are try
ing to get hold of our lands and property.
In their attempt to do this they have over
ridden all law. Why should they object \
to a Mormon upon a jury? It is a fact j
that can’t bo denied that the Mormon ju- l
ries have been more honest and just in
their decisions than any juries in the land.
Murderers and thieves never escaped |
when before a Mormon jury. Since these i
officeholders have got hold of things all
kinds of crime is on the increase. No
body is convicted, and you can’t even get
a criminal on trial. Money will do any
thing. They are all on the make. The
laws are at a deadlock, ami everything is
in confusion. The business interests of
the Territory are suffering, and we are
all at sea.
A MAN WHO WANTED SIOO,OOO IN GOLD.
Corresponpent—Who is responsible for
this stiite of things?
The Prophet —The man who makes the
Territorial appointments—Grant, isn’t he?
Correspondent —I have heard that the
Rev. Dr. Newman ran the machine in
this Territory.
The Prophet—l suppose that he keeps
the loafers and thieves in their positions,
but the man who makes the appointments
is responsible.
Correspondent Have you ever been
approached by an appointed official who
attempted to blackiuuii yon ?
The Prophet—Frequently, indirectly
and by insinuation. Why, two years ago,
when McKean’s packed Grand Jury found
their bogus bills of indictment, a Penn
sylvania politician approached me aud
offerod to fix the thing up all right if I
would give him $100,(Mil) in gold.
Correspondent—Was it Win. H. Kem
ble?
The Prophet (laughing)—l can’t give
his name.
Correspondent —What answer did you
make to him?
The Prophet (laughing heartily)—l
asked him if #IOO,OOO in greenbacks
wouldn’t do as well. (Shouting across
the room:) Wasn’t that what I said,
Sloan ?
Mr. Sloan, who was talking to Mr.
Joseph Young, but who had heard the re
mark, responded iu the affirmative, and
we all had a jolly laugh, the Prophet
laughing harder than any of us.
The Prophet then gave his version, or
expressed his opinion, about other matters
affecting the Mormons. Ho denounced
as false the telegraphic report of Speaker
Blaine’s interview with him. He said
that the Government’s Indian Agents
were, with few exceptions, “the most God
forsaken rascals that ever cursed the
country;” that the true Indian policy was
to make but few treaties and sacredly to
fulfill all promises. In reference to the
reported large emigration of Mormons to
Arizona, he said that only twenty wagons
went iu all; that they went to settle a fer
tile aud well-watered tract that they had
discovered there, and to aid the govern
ment in its troubles with the Indians;
that only a few of the emigrants had got
sick and returned—these “lost their way
and couldn't find the exact spot they wero
looking for."
We would like to copy a fiH report of
the interviews with M. . To .ngNo. 17,
as she made some tart replits and some
interesting disclosures of Brigham’s com
plicated family matters. But as we can
not well give the interview at this length,
we copy the Herald * editorial summary
of aud comments upon it:
The description which the interviewer
gives is not complimentary to polygamy
as it exists in Utah, and is emphatically
unfavorable to Brigham Young. The
lady from whom the facts are gleaned
speaks w ith an energy evidently inspired
by suffering. At the early age of twenty
two, when Brigham Young first met her,
she had already been married and divorc
ed. and, heedless of several suitors who
were anxious to claim her hand, led a re
tired life with her father and mother in
Little Cottonwood. Here she was sought
by that venerable blighter of female
youth and innocence, Brigham Y'oung.
If we are to receive Mrs. Eliza's account
without questioning, he was inspired more
by vanity than any other passion, and
sought her hand because it pleases his
amour prop re to display to the world a
succession of new, young wives. Exuding
at once that unctuous palaver and amor
ous magnetism for which those women
who have come under his influence claim
that he is renowned, he enticed her ear
with “good counsel,” and persuaded her
I that when she married again she should
marry, not for love, but for the sake of
having some ono at hand who could give
her sound advice. We confess that this
is a way of looking at the subject which
would never have occurred to us. A wo
man sometimes marries a man on account
of his beauty, but on account of his ca
pacity to lecture, never!
Having proceeded thus, Brigham next
endeavored to prove to his victim that he
was that w ise man upon whom it was pru
dent for her to fix her affections. He
then introduced other inducements, in
the shape of the offer of a house and one
thousand dollars per year pocket money.
; He reminded her that his only object was i
not the gratification of a selfish passion,
: but the salvation of her poor, perishing
soul, and her elevation to queenhood.
Meanwhile he got the better of her broth
er in business negotiations and got the
whole of poor Eliza's family so under his
thumb that (still following the line of the
lady's account) she resolved to sacrifice
herself and become his wfife, in order to
I save her brother from his machinations
and please her parents. The upshot was
that they were married, the triumphant
bridegroom presenting her with three
dress patterns and a fifty dollar note as a
wedding gift.
A few months after the marriage the
programme was changed. Brigham not
only left off visiting her, but even sent
her and her mother to superintend one of
his farms. Here he left them in almost
total neglect, so that Mrs. Eliza counted
herself happy when she could get five
pounds of sugar, a quarter of a pound of
tea and a few candles —beautiful fulfil
ments, these, of the ante-nuptial promise
of pocket-money to the tune of one thou
sand dollars a year. Finally she took to
keeping boarders, and amid all the
troubles of one of the most trying voca
tions on earth, during which all she ob
tained from her husband was two calico
dresses, she was attacked with pleusisy.
Resolving to appeal to the humanity of
Brigham, since all appeals to other feelings
seemed likely to be wasted, she managed to
reach his office and made known her
wretchedness and needs. Instead of or
dering her medical attendance and sup
plying her with every comfort an invalid
in her condition could demand, he direct
ed his commissary to give her “two bits’
worth of fresh meat,” and sent her on
her way. This time her sense of outrage
was strung to the highest point. She sold
the goods which the house contained by
auction and resolved to quit forever the
man who had done nothing to justify the
name of husband except make promises j
ho had never fulfilled. Whether success- j
ful or not in her aims, she resolved that,
for the sake of other women who had suf
fered like her, she would make every ef
fort to dissociate herself from one, of
whose affection she could only claim the
one-seventeenth share, and who had even j
disowned that share by treating her with |
tyranny and meanness.
ONE OR THE SPANISH PARTIES.
Correspondence ol'tlio Now York Horalil, from
Madrid, July 15tli.
I do not know whether, after the hun
dreds of letters you have received about
Spanish politics, you know precisely
WHAT THE INTEANSIGENTES ARE.
If you look upon them as socialists or in
ternationalists you are altogether mistak
en. They are the extreme republicans,
advanced republicans, or, if you like, red
republicans, without socialistic tenden
cies. To everything savoring of mon
archy and its traditions they are deadly
opponents. They wish to see the consti
tution of the democratic federal Republic.
They are impatient to behold their ideal
realized, and all these disturbances at
Cartagena, Malaga and Barcelona arise
from their impatience at hearing endless
orations, speeches, ratifications, &c. They
say by their nets, “If we have a republic,
give 11s a constitution under which we can
live, elect a government and stop your
gabbling, make war upon the Oarlists and
the monarchist factions,” and as an intran
sigent paper put it the other day, “all you
have done within five months may lie em
braced under the following heads” :
FOOD FOR REFLECTION.
First—You have made many speeches.
Second—You have passed your time in
making declarations, promises and fair
words.
Third —You have changed your Minis
tries.
Fourth —You have made food dearer
and taxed to the uttermost the poor class
es.
Fifth—You have doubled the imposts.
Sixth—Yon have established the faith in
Bourbonic absolutism.
Seventh—You have caused the govern
ment money to descend as low as sixteon
cents on the dollar.
Eighth—You have closed against us the
Exchanges of London, Paris and Amster
dam.
Ninth—You have suspended payment.
Tenth—You have increased the public
debt.
Eleventh—You have almost bankrupted
us.
Twelfth—l’ou view with fear all federals.
Thirteenth —Yon have deposed loyal re
publican chiefs.
Fourteenth—You have placed thetarmy
and onr forts in the hands of the eternal
enemies of a republic.
Fifteenth—Y’ou have menaced the mag
nanimous people with royalistic armies.
Sixteenth—You have sacrificed a Gov
ernor of Madrid and sixty Deputies rep
resentatives of the national sovereignty.
Seventeenth and last—You have placed
a dictator over a government which is an
entity.
When people talk in this manner some
thing is on the tapis; a revolution, a
complete and thorough revolution must
be at hand, and I fear that it is very near.
The history of
THE RISING AT CARTAGENA
may be given in a few words. Oh the
evening of the 13th inst. Contreras, au
able intransigents general, having left
Madrid for that purpose, placed himself
at the head of the insurrectionists of
Cartagena, and immediately took posses
sion of the arsenal, with its park of ar
tillery, numbering 500*pieces, on the mod
ern system. The castles of Las Galeras,
La Atalaya, and San Julian surrendered
at once, and soon after the splendid
iron-clads Numancia, twenty-five guns;
Tetuan, i\>rty guns; Victoria, twenty
three guns; Almansa, forty-eight guns;
and the steamer Fernando el Catolico,
transport; the corvette Ferolana, the
schooiship Blasco de Garay, and the frig
ate Mendez Nunez, declared for the in
surrectionists. The total number of
forces under Contreras consist of the
Iberian regiment, a battallion of Caza
dores, a battallion aud a half of marines,
100 arsenal guards, volunteers aud sailors,
nearly 5,000 men.
lii copying the subjoined remark of
the Bainbridge Democrat, we will take
occasion to say that we never doubted
the patriotic purpose of Gen. Beauregard;
also, that we have never accused even
Gen. Longstieet of intentional faithless
ness to his people and his section, how
ever much we have regretted his political
course. All men are liable to mistakes
in judgment, but all men are not capable
of treachery, and especially men who have
manifested a heroic devotion to principle
and duty, as Beauregard and Lougstreet
did in very trying times. The Democrat
says:
“The better class of newspaper men
while they condemned the movement
headed by Beauregard, never accused
him of an impure motive, but regarded
him as mistaken, and while only his ac
tion was gravely commented upon, and
deemed imprudent, his error was set
down to the head and not the heart.
Representing this class of journals we
might mention the Savannah News, the
two Atlanta dailies and the Columbus
Sun.”
SPAIN.
CARLISTS ADVAXCIXG.
Bayonne, August 11. —The Carlists have
surrounded Oscargam in Senpuzco. and
the Republican troops have retreated to
Papoluna from Elizonda, leaving the Car
lists in possession of Northern Navarre.
Dorregarrarv, with 7,000 men, is at San
i Estabu.
THE SURRENDER OE TALEXCIA.
[Special Dispatch to the New York Herahi.]
Valencia, Aug. 10. —Previous to the
I surrender, ten thousand troops were con
! cerstrated before the city, under the coiu
| maud of Martinez Camoos, Salcede Vel
arde, and Villa Cama, and with eighteen
siege cannon in position. The Junta
proposed to surrender the city on condi
j tion that the commander of the troops
guarantee full pardon to all the insurgents,
and expressed fin apprehension that the
I insurgents would burn the city if these
j terms were not conceded. This proposi
tion was made on the Gth, and the same
; day occurred a stampede from the city
! of frightened people, equally ajarmed at
j the prospect of facing a bombardment or
the excesses of the insurgents. After two
days’ parley and deliberation, the com
mander of the troops rejected the terms,
whereupon tho Junta and violent intran
sigentes took to flight at midnight to
Grao, the port of Valencia, and there em
barked on a steamer for Cartagena, hoot
ed by the people. Out of fifteen battal
ions of volunteers, threo only remained in
the surrendered city. Three hundred
killed and wounded cover the losses on
both sides, but the injury to the city and
commerce is very great. One hundred
houses were damaged by bombardment.
BEAXISH XE HS.
Madrid, August 12. —Iu the Cortes yes
terday, a resolution authorizing legal pro
ceedings against members of that body
implicated iu the late insurrectionary
movement was adopted. The minority
remains obstinate and threatens to resign
unless a general amnesty is granted.
Contreras left Carthagena Monday, with
4(H) adherents, and made a bold effort to
reach Madrid, hoping to find-sympathy
and accessions on the way; but his baud
was met and dispered by the National
troops. Contreras escaped, but his cap
ture is probable, as the cavalry are on his
track.
It is reported that a reconciliation has
been affected between Martas and Sar
garte, and a coalition of their political sup
porters will speedily follow.
Madrid, August 13.—Centreos, with a
few followers, succeeded in re-entering
Carthagena, his last refuge.
Bayonne, August 13. —The wife of Don
Carlos has joined her husband in the
field, and will share his fortunes. The
Carlists are wildly enthusiastic over this
event.
It It A Z ILIAN AEE AIR S.
Rio de Janeiro, July 25.—The Gov
ernment of Brazil has determined to
prosecute the Bishop of Pernambuco for
refusing to obey its orders. During the
debate in the Lower House of the Legis
lature upon the course of the Bishop, the
President of the Council declared that
the Government would force him to com
ply with its demands.
THE WAWASET DISASTER.
Washington, August 11.—The Super
vising Inspector of steamboats for this
District arrived hero to-day, and will, by
order of the Secretary of the Treasury,
commence on Wednesday a full investi
gation into the recent steamboat disaster
on the Potomac. A thorough count of
the number of dead bodies already' recov
ered puts the list at G 7. The names of
nearly all, if not quite all, who have been
identified, havo already been published.
Washington, August 12.—Additional
reports from the Wawassett disaster now
place the lost at 72. Friends of Daniel
Linch state he was engaged to be mar
ried to a widow lady, who, with her chil
dren, wero among the lost.
The investigation into the cause of tho
disaster of the Wawassett will begin to
morrow and will assume the form of a
suit against the owners of the Wawassett
by the Supervising Inspector of the
Treasury Department.. It appears that on
her last eventful trip the owners of the
Wawassett failed to ask or receive a special
permit to carry more passengers than her
certificate of inspection allowed. If the
owners had been grunted such a request
they would have been <■ applied to have
procured an additional .... it, in the mat
ter of an extra license. iowners hav
ing neglected to proem e hat necessary
paper have violated sin; law. The penalty
is a tine of ten dollars per j issenger and
to refund the passenger money. It is
stated the owners will also be prosecuted
for carrying excursions without a license.
I*o ST A Ij MATTERS.
Washington, Aug. 11.—The Postmas
ter General has decided that the postage
upon letters from postmasters, addressed
to the Treasury of the United States con
taining currency for redemption, must he
prepaid liy the sender with the full legal
postage, the same as ordinary letters.
Postmasters should not use 1 heir official
stamps in payment of such postage. It
is, however, their duty to register such
packages free of charge if the mailing
party request it. *
THE CASE OP CAPTAIN .TACK AST)
THE OTHER MODOCS.
Washington, August 7.—The inquiries
at the War Department for the court
martial papers in the case of Captain Jack
and other Modocs become so frequent
that the Secretary of War io-day address
ed a letter to Judgo Advocate General
Holt, asking him if he had received them.
The reply was promptly made, “The pa
pers in this case are not m possession of
this office, nor have they yet reached
here.” What occasions the delay is not
known.
EIRE WATER EOR EO!
Washington, August 13.—The Attorney
General decides whisky can he introduced
into Indian reservations by an order from
the War Department. Its jurisdiction
over the subject is exclusive.
HEATHS BY LIG H TNI NO.
Scranton- Pa., August 13.—Twenty-one
women and ’girls, picking berries in the
refugeed in a shanty from a
storm. Lightning killed two and shocked
seven seriousty.
EIGHT IN CUBA.
Havana, August 12.—While a Spanish
column was escorting several wagons
loaded with provisions to Guanal de
Socarras, it was attacked by a party of
insurrectionists iu ambush. After abrief
engagement the insurgents were repulsed.
WESTERN CHOPS.
Omaha, Aug. !).—The abundant rains
falling the past three clays in this section
are doing much good to crops.
Topeka, Ks., Aug. !t.—County reports
to the State Agricultural Department for
•June aud July show the yield of wheat
aud oats largely in excess of last year’s.
The corn crop is iu good condition and
promising finely.
TEXAS CROPS.
Si. Louls, August 12. —Texas papers
say that the recent rains will make a full
crop of cotton in the northern part of
that State.
THE CROPS.
Charleston, August 13. Heavy rains
on the coast during the past few days
threaten serious injury to the cotton crop.
FIRST RALE FLORIDA COTTON.
Savannah, Ga., Aug. 11. —The first
bide of the Florida new crop cotton, sec
ond bale of the season, sold in front of
tlie Savannah Cotton Exchange at 11:30
this morning at 21 cents.
THE FIRST RALE AT NEW YORK.
New York, August 13. —The steamship
Montgomery, which arrived yesterday
from Savannah, brought the first bale of
this season Georgia cotton.
FROM VARIOUS POINTS.
THE I.ATE HOMICIDE.
Special to the Sun ]
Tuskegee, Ala., August 12.
Columbus Sun : B. \V. Walker who
shot W. G. Clark yesterday, surrendered
himself to the officers, ami through his
Attorney, Col. S. Graham, demanded an
examination, that is now going on be
■ fore Justices ltaney aud Waddy Thomp
son. The testimony developes many
threats by letters anil otherwise against
the defendant by the deceased. E.
DESTRUCTIVE EIRE IX LAKE
CITY.
Loss. Twenty Thousand Dollars.
Special to the ..Savannah Morning News.
Lake City, Fla., August 11. —The citi
zens of this place were aroused this morn
ing by an alarm of fire, and pretty soon
nearly every body iu town collected on
the spot to aid in staying the progress of
the flumes. Iti the confusion and fright
incident to so unusual an occurence,
the fire made considerable headway, and
several buildings were destroyed before it
was finally brought under control and ex
tinguished. The tire originated on the
EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET,
in the building occupied as a store by J.
F. Baya, and the flames quickly commu
nicated with the buildings occupied by
Messrs. E. E. Cleveland, A. A. Hender
son, N. Murdock, Gray A Woltz and L.
W. Edwards. The building occupied by L.
W. Edwards w'as blown up in order to
stay the progress of the flames. The ex
periment was successful, and the confla
gration w'as brought under control aud
the destruction of property stayed. The
TOTAL LOSSES
are estimated at twenty thousand dollars, !
upon w'hich there is no insurance.
INCENDIARISM.
The fire is supposed to be the work of \
an incendiary, but thus far there is no
clue to the perpetrator.
8 UCCESSEUL XA VI(iA TTOX OE THE
YELLOWSTONE.
Yellowstone River, Montana, July 31,
via Bismarck, Dakota, Aug., G.—The
steamer Josephine, owned and comman
ded by Capt. Grant Marsh, who brought
the steamer Key West to Powder river,
has been successful in passing the rapids
and obstruction near Powder river, repor
ted by Gen. Forsythe, and proceeded up
the Yelowstone with a load of forage for
the expedition. The Josephine is a new'
boat, built in Pittsburgh expressly for
the Yellowstone river, aud was only com
pleted on the 15th of this month. She is
180 feet long, 31 feet broad, 4 feet deep,
aud draws 1G inches of water. She will
carry 400 tons. Capt. Marsh thinks that
the river could be navigated to Big Horn.
The Josephine had no difficulty whatever
at the rapids; she made her way against
the current at tho rate of five miles an
hour. She left Fort Buford July 28, at
7 o’clock, and, as Capt. Marsh had in
formed Gen. Parley of his intention to
ascend the river with her, a detachment
of cavalry was sent to meet him near the
falls. This and the boat proceeded ten
miles further up. Gen. Parley is com
pelled to make a detour to avoid Bad
Lands, aud will reach the river again to
night. The Josephine unloads her cargo
hero and goes down the river to-night.—
She will probably return to the Yellow
stone in the fall to ferry the command.
Washington, Aug. 11.—A dispatch
has been received at the War Department
from Col. D. S. Stanley, commanding the
Yellowstone Expedition, in which he gives
a detailed account of the operations of
the expedition, and announces the”genei ! al
good health of the command. Ho is now
encamped on the Yellowstone, fifteen
miles above Glendive’s Creek, from
whence he will proceed to Muscle Shoal.
He expects to return to Glendive’s Creek on
the 15th of September.
HOMICIDE IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Columbia, S. C., Aug. ‘J. —To-day wo
have information of a fearful tragedy
which occurred near here yesterday. A
young man named Howell I lay killed Alex
ander Brown, at a point on the Watereo
river, a few miles from Columbia. The
cause of the unfortunate affair seems to
he about as follows: Some time ago a
difficulty occurred between the parties and
Brown beat Hay severely. A warrant
was issued for his arrest, and subsequent
ly he heat Hay’s younger brother. On
yesterday the Hay brothers were out deer
hunting, aud Brow n approached the stand
where the brothers were posted waiting
for the deer to be driven out, and was
warned not to advance. He refused to
heed the warning, anil brought his gun
into position, as if to shoot. When only
a few- paces off Hay fired and lodged'a
load of buckshot in his enemy’s side.—
Brown fell, but while oil the ground at
tempted to shoot, but Hay dispatched him
by a discharge of his second barrel. Hay
surrendered himself, ami is now in jail in
this city.
EXCITEMENT AT SHREVEPORT.
A Threatened Difficulty Averted—Kel
logg’s Mayor Resigns.
Shreveport, Aug. B.—Considerable ex
citement has prevailed here for two days,
occasioned by the arbitrary aud tyranni
cal conduct of Mayor Jos. Taylor, ap
pointee of Kellogg, who, by his course.
Las aroused tlie feelings of every white
citizen and a great number of the ne
groes. For a time a collision was feared,
as both parties were armed; but wiser
counsel finally prevailed and bloodshed
prevented.
A petition was circulated to-day, and
signed by nearly every one, asking Tay
lor to resign. Finding affairs getting
complicated he finally concluded to yield,
aud handed his resignation to the Council
this evening.
Policeman Johnson, who was one of the
chief promoters of the trouble, was noti
fied last evening that his absence would
be acceptable, and left this morning for
Texas.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
Parsons, Ks., August 12.—A dispatch I
from the Indian country to-day says the
Downing and Ross party have beaten the
reformers, but Bell has obtained letters i
written by Ross and Jones to Washington,
showing treachery to the principles of the ,
party. The full blooded Indians
are said to be indignant and aroused, and
that Ross and Jones must go to the brush
to save their lives. It is also asserted that
the death sentence has been passed by
certain Indians upon Cu‘. Bmdinet, Jas. I
Bell and others of the progressive and i
reform party. There is no question but I
anarchy and crime arc largely on the in- I
crease, and many of tii i mon in that
locality begin to believe their only safety |
lies in a strong central Territorial form of
Government under protection of the ;
United States.
DASTARDLY ASSASSINATION AT
CORINTH, MISS.
Memphis, August !*.—This morning
about 1 o’clock, Deputy U. S. Marshal Dr.
R. T. Duun, stationed at Corinth, Miss.,
was assassinated while asleep in his room
in that city. Some unknown party with
a shot gun loaded with buckshot fired
through the window and struck him iu j
the head, killing him instantly. No rea
son is assigned and no clqe to the perpe- !
trator. The whole people are aroused !
and indignant. It has cast a gloom over
the entire community and is universally
regretted. Dr. Dunn was shot through
the head, and it is supposed never moved
a muscle after being shot.
THE MAINE DEMOCRACY.
Portland, August 12.—The Democratic
Conventiou has convened. Gen. Me- j
Keen presides. Sixty-eight delegates
presefft.
The indications are that the resolutions ■
of the Straight Choice Democratic Con- !
vention will be adopted.
MAINE RESPONDS TO OHIO.
Portland, Aug. 12. —The Democratic
Convention unanimously adopted resolu
tions identically the same as those of the I
recent Ohio Convention. James Titeomb
was nominated for Governor, after which
the Convention adjourned sine die.
A Louisville paper says tlie patrons of
husbandry is a white man’s party. Not a
negro has yet been enrolled. j
NO. 28.
NEWS FROM GOTHAM.
DESTRUCTION TO RAILROADS.
New York, Aug. 13.
Much damage about the city from the
storm from breaking of culverts and
flooding of cellars iu Camden; also simi
lar damages by breaks in railroad near
Merchantsville. which prevents tho pas
j sage of trains to-and from Mount Holly
aud Long Branch. Passengers for Long
Branch had to return to the city. All the
cars rau off the track but two Pullman,
| and went into tho gap. Passengers had
to crawl out through the windows, but
j none were hurt.
Later.— Passengers for the 11 o'clock
j train to New York have returned to this
| place and report that the track has been
| washed away between here and Sandy
Hook. The Now Jersey Southern Bail
; road track between this place and Phila
, delphia is also reported washed away.
1 No trains as yet have arrived from Pliil
i adelphia to-day.
The storm is the heaviest seen here for
i twenty years.
I Baltimore, August 13. —Tho railroad
track is washed out near Ruck Run and
the country is over flowed. The track is
being repaired by railroad gangs.
The Pennsylvania Railroad track near
Palmyra, N. J., is washed away and
trains delayed. Large forces of workmen
: repaired the track by noon.
At Newark, Del., the creek overflowed
aud washed over the Baltimore Railroad
track near the culvert for sixty yards.
Passengers from Baltimore by the night
train, were transferred at the gap. Re
pairs completed by noon aud trains pass
ing as usual.
At Lancaster City, l’a., the water works
were considerably damaged and coffer
dams washed away. Several small bridg
es washed away.
THE MANITOBA AEEAIR.
New York, August 11. —Governor Aus
tin and Mayor Brackett, of Minneapolis,
had two interviews at Long Branch with
the President regarding the Manitoba af
fair, and explained the whole matter,
dwelling especially on the cruelty with
which the prisoners are treated by the
Manitoba authorities. They also sought
to impress upon the President the neces
sity for speedy action, as they feared the
people in Minnesota, unless something
was done at once, would take tho settle
ment of the case in their own hands. The
President, according to a dispatch, gave
the Governor and Mayor to understand
that unless tho matter was disposed.of
within a reasonable time, a demand in
unmistakable terms would be made on the
British Government, and would be fol
lowed by further action. The President
then asked the Governor and Mayor to
reduce their statements to writing, which
they did, and the paper was forwarded to
Secretary Pish, who will be visited to-day
by its author.
Ft. Gaeey, August 11. —Lord Gordon
has disappeared from Monitaba.
ANEW YORK TRAGEDY
! New York, August 11.—At eight o’clock
this morning at the segar manufactory of
Steinhardt Bros. A O. Schonlak, in Vesey
street, a young man named Ephraim
Steinhardt, a brother of one of the part
ners, stood behind Samuel Schonlak and
shot him with a pistol under the ear, then
swallowed a bottle of poison, and then
shot himself under the left nipple.
Schonlak is conscious aud will probably re
cover : Steinhardt will not survive to-day.
The cause of the crime is not known.
Schonlak is in a fair way for recovery but
Steinhardt still continues very low. There
is no apparent reason in the relations of
the two men for either the murder or the
suicide. One man cannot and the other
will not, tell anything about it beyond the
bare statement that their family matters
are in tho case.
THE ATLANTIC AN O PACIFIC
BOA D.
- New York, Aug. 9.—At tho reorganiza
tion of the directors of the Atlantic and
Pacific Railroad Company to-day, Thos.
A. Scott was elected President, Andrew
Pierce, jr., Vico President and general
managers, and Gen. Clinton B. Fisk
Treasurer. John Edgar Thompson, Thos.
A. Scott, Alfred L. Dennis and David
Solomon, of the Pennsylvania Railroad
were chosen directors. The election of
Scott lo the Presidency is said to indicate
an alliance between the 32d and 35tli
parallel continental projects on one line
of railroad to San Francisco.
WHAT RRTGJI iM’S ELDEST SAYS.
New York, August 13. —John W., old
est son of Brigham Young, now here,
said in an interview last night, that Mrs.
Eliza .Young lias been induced by outside
Gentiles to begin the suits against his i
father, to make a schism in the church. ,
Brigham had not consented to any com- j
promise, but would fight the thing out.
SING ULAR FA TA L TTY.
New York, August 11.—Last night in
Brooklyn, Michael Surage fell from a
stoop in a house, and owing to his great
age his recovery from the injury is
doubtful. His wife was so shocked by
the occurrence that she died in a few
hours after.
THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.
Two Tourists Killed and a Dozen Serious
ly Injured.
Bethlehem, N. H., August 11. —Six
horses attached to the morning stage be
tween Crawford and the Prolific House
ran away to-day, upsetting the coach on
Whitcomb’s Hill, iu this town, instantly
killing G. R. Eaunail Kierl,. of Baltimore,
and fatally injuring A. S. Butler, a bank
er from Allegan, Mich., who has since
died. The following were also injured:
Mr. and Mrs. Reeves, of Phceuixville,
Pa., probably fatally; Gliauncy G. Har
rington, of Worcester, Mass., seriously;
Austin S. Fox and Miss Fox, No. 45 YV.
23d street, N. Y., seriously: G. S. Fox,
slightly: Miss Emma Kennedy, of Indi
anapolis, slightly; Mrs. Culbertson and
daughter, of fronton, 0., arm broken and
slightly injured in the head; two or three
others slightly injured. It is believed
that all the injured persons, with the
exception possibly of Mr. and Mrs.
Reeves, will recover. The accident was
caused by the breaking of the pole strap.
PLAIN TALK.
Chicago, Aug. B.—At a gathering of
the Farmers Ciub, at Winchester, Scott
county, yesterday, S. M. Smith, Secretary
of the State Farmers Association, made a
rather remarkable*’ speech, in the course
of which he denounced the corruption
and frauds of the present political parties
and prophesied that a day would come,
if there was no other remedy left, if the
farmers were swindled and hood winked
as they had been, that he and his boys
and thousands of other farmers and their
boys would have to ride some of these
villains out of the State Capitol on a rail,
and that many a tree in broad America
would bear human fruit. He thought a
remedy could be found, but if a remedy
could not be found, anarchy and blood
shed might follow.
TUP KENTUCKY LEGISLAT C RE.
Louisville, August 11.—The recently
elected General Assembly of Kentucky
will be composed as follows: Senate, 02
Democrats and <1 Republicans ; House of
Representatives, »1 Democrats and 19 Re
publicans. The Republicans gain oin !
the Senate and the Democrats 1 in the 1
House.
In at least two Districts the Republicans
elected Senators through Democratic di
vision, and in a number of counties the
Democrats lost members, or risked their
loss, by having too many candidates in
the field. The sweeping Democratic vic
tory is therefore both significant and
somewhat surprising. The Democratic
majority for State Treasurer (the only offi
cer elected on a general ticket) is even
larger than the Legislative results would
indicate.
The Atlanta ('Diminution of Wednes
day says: “Gentlemen arriving in the city
this morning from the Carolinas report
the condition of cotton from Macon to !
Wilmington better than known since :
1869, and everything else in like position. ”
j THE AGRICULTURAL il LIT A 5 Off
GEORGIA i
I Interesting Exhibition of Re Various
Products.
j From the Atlanta Constitution, 12th.]
Our efficient Comptroller General and
his assistants yesterday completed tho
footing of the agricultural books returned
by the various Tax Receivers throughout
the State. In tho table of aggregates
which we give below the returns of the
entire Stato are included, with the exeep
| tion of twelve counties. The Tax Re
ceivers for these counties up to vesterdav
afternoon had not sent in their books, but
they will probably do so in a few days,
j These agricultural returns are taken un
der a special act of the last Legislature,
and hence we have not the returns of the
previous years with which to compare
them, and thus ascertain the increase or
decrease of any particular item. On ac-’
: count of the novelty of those returns,
many of the Receivers have failed to un
derstand thoroughly how they wero to bo
j taken, although printed instructions and
- forms were distributed to each from tho
Comptroller’s office, consequently some
j of tho items are by no means perfectly
reliable. Thus many of the Receivers, by
mistake, failed to ascertain the number of
j cattle, stock, etc., or acres planted in
vineyards, orchards, potatoes, etc., in the
| cities, but obtained these returns only for
j the counties exclusive of the towns. This
! makes a grave difference in the aggre
-1 gates, for iu many counties the towns
! contain nearly' as much live stock, aud
more vineyards or orchards, than tho
balance of tho county put together. The
other returns may’ be relied upon as coni
parativcly accurate.
Number of acres planted in cotton
1,T02,1G9;j.
Number of acres planted in rice, 3,952,'.
Number of acres planted in wheat, 278,-
057*.
Number of acres planted in rye, 18,GG8{.
Number of acres planted in barley, GO2.J.
Number of acres planted iu oats, 354,-
3041.
Number of acres planted in Indian
corn, 1,791,408.
Number of acres planted in sweet pota
toes, 33,9495.
Number of acres planted in Irish pota
toes 1,940|.
Number of acres planted in tobacco,
41 If
Number of acres planted iu sugar cane,
Number of acres planted in sorghum.
3,481.
Number of acres planted iu clover and
seeds, 1G,151|.
Number of acres planted in vineyards,
383f
Number of acres planted in orchards,
83,3495.
Number of acres planted in peanuts 15,-
4131.
Number of sheep iu Georgia, 471,081.
Number of dogs in Georgia, 115,874.
Number of hogs in Georgia, 730,8141
Number of horses and mules in Geor
gia, 139,597.
Number of cattle in Georgia, 534,833.
Number of cotton factories in Georgia,
Number of cotton spindles in Georgia,
79,057.
Number of woolen factories iu Geor
gia, 5.
Number of woolen spindles in Georgia,
872.
Number of carding machines iu Geor
Number of iron furnaces aud foundries
in Georgia, 10.
Iu Richmond county there are 1,25 G
acres in melons, and in Bibb county
there are 143 goats.
Houston county returns the largest
quantity of land in cultivation of any' ono
county, aud Appling the largest number
of cattle.
Washington is next to Houston in its
return of agricultural products.
Houston has in cotton, 55,173 acres; in
corn, 38,253 j acres. It has, also, 2,(!27
dogs anil 7,175 hogs.
Washington has in cotton, 47,798 acres;
in corn, 45,879. It has, also, 2,3(14 dogs
and 14,370 hogs.
In Houston county, the darkies are
largely in the majority, and a comparison
of its hogs and dogs with those in Wash
ington county, proves conclusively the
fact that dogs increase in a direct ratio as
the darkies, and that on the other hand
hogs decrease iu a double inverse ratio.
Ilog raising iR evidently not a success
just now in Houston. Appling makes the
largest return of cattio in the Slate, re
turning 7,824 head.
SANTANTA AND BIG TREE.
A correspondent of the Houston (Tex.)
Mercury thus describes the two Indian
i chiefs who are serving out a term in the
[ Texas penitentiary, and whom Governor
Davis refuses to pardon unless the Nation
al Administration will first promise to as
sist him instead of the Radical postmas
ter at Galveston (Clark) during the com
ing gubernatorial campaign in the Loin-
Star State: i
Sautanta is about fifty-three years of
age, above the average height, aud com
pactly built. His face wears a thoughtful
rather than a treacherous look, and his
large, keen eye has nothing of the devil
ish in it except when angered,then it flash
es and burns into yours like a living coal.
Big Tree, who is only a sort of second
lieutenant to Sautanta, and has no influ
ence with the tribes, is a short, thick-set,
wiry, treacherous-looking savage, in
whose coal-black eyo gleams the desire to
do deeds that chill the blood to think of.
Strange to say, he is the most industrious
of the two, and has actually learned the
art of putting a cane bottom in a chair.
Santanta sits during tho day in a different
shop, and chews tobacco, of which he is
a passionate lover. At night they both
occupy tho same cell, No. 3, in tho oast
building. They are cleanly in person aud
habits only by tho usual prison coercion,
and they are industrious by the same pro
cess. Big Tree, according to this rule,
works all the time.
He is employed in a shop in the third
stoi-y, and it is curious to see him looking
out of the window every now and then;
curious to watch the emotions of his
heart, readable iu his face, as ho peers
into the woodland bordering tho town.
Asa general thing these Indians are on
good terms with those working and living
with them, and although they have not
settled down in the habits of the white
man, they have learned some of his ways.
Big Tree will do things on the sly, but
Santanta does all ho does di* open ami
above board, and when reprimanded plays
ignorance, and, of course, escapes. Ho
often scolds Big Tree in rigorous Kiowa,
and sometimes he whips him in real earn
est. The Indian nation gives Big Tree
no chance to fight back, and he takes it
mutely. They are both in good health,
though Santanta is less the robust Indian
he was when first incarcerated.
TUP GRAND ENCAMPMENT
I. O. O. E.
At nine o’clock yesterday morning the
Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows of
the State of Georgia, assembled in Odd
Fellows Hall, on Marietta street,
There were present the following offi
cers, who were elected at the last regular
Encampment:
J. S. Tyson, M. W. Grand Patriarch,
Savannah.
J. M. Bloodworth, M. E. Grand High
Priest, Griffin.
J. B. Richardson, R. W. Grand Senior
Warden, Lumpkin.
W. R. Barrow, 11. W. Grand Junior
Warden, Atlanta.
John G. Deitz, R. W. Grand Scribe,
Macon.
T. A. Burke, B. W. Grand Treasurer,
Athens.
C. A. Robbe, 11. W. Grand Rep. G. L.
U. S., Augusta.
B. Lowenthal, Grand Sentinel, Macon.
The election of officers for the ensuing
year resulted as follows. O. J. Stroberg,
Encampment No. 2,M. W. Gr. Patriarch ;
J. j>. Richardson, Encampment No. 9, M.
E. Grand High Priest; W. R. Barrow.
Encampment No. 12, 11. W Grand Senior
Warden: D. Ferguson, Encampment No.
1, R. W. Grand Junior Warden ; John G.
Deitz, Encampment No. 1, R. W. Grand
Scribe ; T. A. Burke, Encampment No.
2, It. W. Grand Treasurer; B. Lowen
thal, Encampment No. 2, R. W. Grand
Sentinel ; , Representative to
Grand Lodge of United States.— Atlanta
Herald, 13 th.
JEWS ASKING PROTECTIOW
Chicago, Ang. 11. — A number of Jew
ish citizens have addressed a petition to
Mayor Medill, asking protection from the
disturbance of their Sabbath bv the pro
hibition of the carrying on of trade in
the vicinity of their place of worship.
No action has yet been taken on the peti
tion.
LOSS BY PORTLAND EIRE.
Portland, Me., Aug. 10. —The loss by
the fire is about $600,000 and two lives.
Comparatively light insurance. No South
ern companies involved. The losses in
clude one hundred hogsheads sugar.