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ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements inserted at $1 per square (ten lines or less, in small type.) first insertion, and nlty eents each subsequent Insertion. ■ • 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.