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COLU.M B US,
J. H. MARTIN,JdItoI*. __
TME GULF COAST WATER LISE.
The Savannah News of Tuesday makes
an appeal for subscriptions to aid in
bringing this project properly to the at
tention of Congress and the central organ
ization of the Patrons of Husbandry at
Washington. The proposition is to raise
money to send Col. P. H. Raiford, of St.
Marys, the projector of the enterprise, to
Washington next winter, where he can
confer with representative men from all
parts of the country and exhibit the merits
of the enterprise in its true light. No
lobbying or corruption fund is wanted,
but only a sum sufficient to pay Col. Rai
ford’s necessary personal expenses, and
for diagrams, printing, &c. It is believed
that Jhe prospects of the enterprise are
cheering, and that it only needs to be
pressed upon the attention of Western
and Southern men to meet their approval
and support. Its own merits are its best
advocates, but they need to be explained.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnson has given his
opinion that it is both economical and
feasible, and President Grant has already
officially made favorable mention of it.
It is believed, too, that it will receive the
powerful support of the Granges of the
West.
The News says, in its notice of this pro
position : “There is certainly no proper
ty-holder in Savannah, Brunswick, St.
Mary’s, Thomasville, Bainbridge, Albany,
Columbus and Femandina, or in Charles
ton, who would not give a dollar or two
each in the advocacy of such a work. A
committee, composed of a few active men
in this city to start the ball and put the
machinery to work, will make the effort a
success.
“The Gulf Coast Water Line, to all ap
pearance, now has the inside track over
all other contemplated routes, but it wiH
bo thrown behind in Congress through
the active energy of Northern interests,
unless its merits are impressed upon, the
representatives of the Western grange
lodges , who are now, and who will be kept
constantly in Washington city until some
decided action has been determined upon
by the Government. We trust that our
Chamber of Commerce will take docisive
steps in the premises.”
Believing that Columbus will be more
benefited in her trade, by this improve
ment, than any other interior Southern
city, and that she will be among the 'first
to realize the advantages of its section
most clearly practicable, we hope that our
citizens will liborally co-operate in this
movement.
IMF STATE FAIR.
Though we believe that the Columbus
papers aro generally overlooked in the ad
vertising of the Georgia State Fair, that
does not destroy our interest in the exhi
bition. Wo are pleased to learn that it
promises this year to be one of which the
State may bo proud. Much of the credit
for the interest now felt is doubtless due
to the energy and good judgment of Mayor
Huff of Macon —a thorough-going man in
everything which he undertakes; but we
hope that there is also a growing popular
interest in such exhibitions, and that soon
“fair week” will be regarded as one of
tho most eventful and pleasant periods of
the year.
A reporter of the Atlanta Herald relates
an interview with Mayor Huff on Wednes
day, from which we glean some new facts
in reference to the Fair, that may be of
general interest. The Mayor thought that
thoro would be 20,000 people in attend
ance, and said that though the hotels
could accommodate more than 5000
with lodging, there was a disposition
among the citizens to entertain people,
and some provision would be made for
every one. He said that the display of
stock would be by all odds the largest ever
exhibited at any State Fair; that he had
positivo assurances that Col. McDaniel
would be there with the celebrated race
horso Bassett and others; that one com
pany of the New York 7th Regiment had
been invited, one company of the Mary
land sth Regiment was expected, and the
following Georgia companies: “The
Governor's Guards, the Cadets, and the
Zouaves of Atlanta; Cadets of Savannah;
one company from Columbus; the Ogle
thorpes from Augusta, and one from Mo
bile, Alabama, and, of course, all of our
Macon companies.” He intended to add
a prize of SSO for the best base ball club.
The “Editor’s Home” would be in full
blast. The Fair proper will continue only
bix days, but during the week following
the Fair there will be an exposition, when
the racing is expected to continue. Mayor
Huff confirmed the reports that he had
“made arrangement with the different
roads for the conveyance of all people and
goods to and from the Fair for one fare,
but the various roads leading to Macon
have kindly consented to bring and re
turn all goods entered for the county ex
hibition free of charge.”
THE VESTS OF THE SOUTHERN
STATES.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial writes, Aug. 7:
“Them is no doubt that a scheme will be
introduced in the next Congress contem
plating the assumption, by tho General
Government, of the indebtedness of the
Southern States. John W. Forney and
Gen. Butler, of Northern Republicans,
are already represented to be committed
to the scheme.”
The old Trojans did n t have better
cause to beware of the Greek horse than
the South has to distrust this scheme. A
proposition to give the amount to the
Southern Stares, to do with it as they
pleased, would receive very little North
ern support, while this scheme may be
supported by some of our bitterest ene
mies in that section. And why? We
think that the Nashville Union gives the
true answer, when it says: “This matter
was talked of at the lost session of Con
gress, and membors were sounded as to
their views on the subject. But it was
ascertained to ha too late in the session
to consummate the necessary legislation,
and so the m. tter was dropped for the
pre vent, but it is to be brought up in the
nt«v r 'ongiess. O, course this effort
to have the General Government assume
the dob*s of the Southern States is not
made from pure love for the people of
these States. Thero is nothing of the
Vnd at the bottom of the movement. It
is in the interest of speculators. A large
portion of the bonds and other evidences
which represent the indebtedness of the
Southern States, is in the hands of North
ern speculators, mainly in New Y’ork, who
have bought up these evidences of debt
at very low figures. Some of them, and
not a very small proportion either, are
fraudulent and could not be collected
from the States by which they purport to
have been issued. But if Congress passes
a bill authorizing the General Govern
ment to assume the debts of the Southern
States, these fraudulent bonds will be
paid the same as the other bonds. There
is a great deal of rascality in this move
ment, and it should be thoroughly ex
posed.”
A Map of the County.—Mr. J. T. Gray
Thursday showed us a map or drawing of
the county of Muscogee, exhibiting its
roads, watercourses, bridges, land dis
tricts, railroad tracts and stations, coun
try churches, voting places, Ac. It was
prepared for exhibition to the County
Commissioners, to show the location of
roads and bridges. It also marks the
residences of many of the best known
citizens in the county. It would un
doubtedly be a great convenience to the
people to have copies of such a map at
public places, and we think it would be a
good idea for the county authorities, after
satisfying themselves of its general accu
racy, to have it lithographed. No doubt
enough copies could be sold to pay the
expense. Mr. Gray himself drew it. j
SOUTHERN STATE DEBTS—AGAIN.
The New York Times (regarded as the
exponent in its city of Gen. Grant’s Ad
ministration) discusses this scheme in its
issue of the 19th inst. It opposes the
proposition, and we are glad to find at
the close of its article an intimation that
it would prefer a “direct gift” of the
amount to the Southern States. It is evi
dent that if the design be really to im
prove the condition and aid in the recu
peration of these States, that would be the
proper form and direction for the benefit;
and it would be the form that would best
subserve the ends of justice and equity,
for the States respectively, and not the
Federal Government, can best decide
what portions of their debts have been
regularly and legally contracted and the
proceeds properly applied. But the Timex
and its Washington correspondent concur
in the belief that the bondholders are at
the bottom of the movement—that “it is
presumably made by them or in their in
terest.” If this be so, it is manifestly
not to their interest to have any investi
gation as to the authority or mode of in
curring the indebtedness, or the extent to
which the States got the benefit of it.
The Times estimates the bonded in
debtedness of the eleven Southern States,
proposed thus to be aided, at $150,000, -
000 to $175,000,000 —an estimate which
we believe to be too low; and it admits
that “these States are staggering under
great burdens for which they have re
ceived very inadequate benefits.” But
the Times makes no allusion to the fact
that the State Governments which con
tracted by far the large portion of these
debts were not the governments freely
chosen by the people of the South, but
those imposed upon them by the Federal
power. Whether this essential fact makes
it the duty of the Federal Government to
assume those debts as an act of justice
and honesty , is a question which we will
not now discuss. We would like to see it
tested by those bondholders whose claims
may be rejected by the Southern States.
In saying this we do not wish to be un
derstood as favoring the repudiation of
any bonds whose proceeds have been
honestly us6d for the benefit of the State
or people, no matter by what authority or
means contracted. We believe in sifting
them through the sieve of equity rather
than that of law—in paying them to the
extent of their adequate benefits.
Another unwelcome, but indisputable,
truth which the Times utters in this con
nection, is this: “Since immigration
shuns tax-burdened communities, until
the finances of these States are in better
order they cannot compete with their pros
perous Western neighbors.” This shows
what illegitimate and irresponsible State
government has done for us in the way of
retarding our development and hindering
our prosperity. The same thing may be
said of the investment of capital as of im
migration. A community not secure in
the right of self-government can offer no
inducement to either foreign capital or
immigration. This fact we have had oc
casion to state on previous occasions. The
Southern States must have unrestricted
control of their own domestic affairs, and
they must so manage them as to convince
the world that men of intelligence and re
liability—men interested in the common
prosperity and advancement—have per
manent control, before they can offer sat
isfactory inducements to capital or emi
gration. Are we making progress in the
attainment of this desirable condition, or
are we still in danger of Federal domina
tion and disturbance from without and
the ascendancy of ignorance and irrespon
sibility at home ? This is the great prob
lem to be solved, and upon its solution
depends our destiny in the near future.
A SIGNIFICANT STATEMENT.
Hon. George F. Hoar, a Radical Rep
resentative in the last Congress from Mas
sachusetts, who (to his credit be it said,)
opposed the “back pay” grab, has had a
controversy on the subject with Ben But
ler, and in this controversy he has alluded
to a significant fact. He states that when
the proposition was made to increase the
salary of the Presdent alone , it was voted
out of order, but that when an amend
ment was proposed increasing the salaries
of the Congressmen also, it was voted in
order! From this it appears that the two
propositions had to be connected to secure
for either of them a majority. It was a
regular “log-rolling” affair. It follows
that the repeal ought to embrace both the
Executive and the Congressional increase
of pay, for if one was tainted with cor
ruption, so was the other; if one could
not have passed on its own merits, neither
could the other; if one owes its success to
a selfish and reprehensible legislative co
alition, so does the otner.
It is not to be denied that the people
look with more favor upon an increase of
the President’s salary, than upon an in
crease of pay T to the Congressmen, especi
ally back pay, We believe that the sim
ple proposition to increase the Pr” '
dent’s pay would be acceptable to tire poo
pie. But such a popular sentiment does
I not justify or excuse the means by which
I the bill was passed, and if it was parsed
| by corrupt log-rollings it ought to be al
| together repealed, and each proposition
! then taken up on its own merits.
| Though the findings of the Military
commission that tried the Modocs have
j not yet been officially made known, those
I who make it their business to find out such
' things in advance say that all the leaders
are condemned to death by hanging, the
commission deeming them unworthy to
meet the fate of soldiers.
Pliny Earle Chase, of Haverford Col.
lege, Pa.,writes to the New Yorl Tribune
i that he thinks he has discovered anew
| planet (or rather inferred the existence
of one) moving round the stm in an orbit
about 7-26ths of the earth’s mean dis
i tance from the sun. He in this way ac
counts for the periodic spots on 'he sun's
disc. He estimates a half revolution of
such a body in from about 25 to 2o£ days
S (we do not use his nicer fractions,) and
thinks that the spot,, havi such a period.
The Burlington, lowa, Gazette says: "‘lt
is certain that if the Grangers take any
part in pol'tics it will be to overthrow tne
present corrupt dynasty. Now the ques
tion is, can they keep out of politics? It
seems almost impossible for them to do
! so. Can they accomplish anything with
out making their ballots an instrument of
| power ?”
The next State elections are those of
California on the 3d, and Maine on tie
| Bth of September. California elects a
Legislature, and Maine a Governor and
Legislature. Both parties in California
are much distracted by new’ issues of a lo
cal character, and the one which best
maintains its organization will win in
this election. In Maine the old parties
appear to be more closely held together,
and there is no reliable indication of any
great political change ; but we think that
the Democrats will show increasing
strength and enduring pluck.
The State Pomological Society, as
sembled at Atlanta, finished its discussions
and business and adjourned on Thursday.
The Herald says that it was a success—
that “there was not a single distrait fea
ture in the whole proceedings. Every
thing was harmonious, orderly and en
thusiastic. The exhibition of fruits,
flowers and vegetables was particularly
fine, over six hundred varieties being
shown.”
The papers give accounts of the crimes
of J. M. Schueller, a German Lutheran
minister, at Andrew, Jackson county,
lowa, for which he had to flee the coun
try. He is charged with the seduction of I
six orphan girls at an asylum placed under !
his care, and attempts upon others. We j
prefer not to copy the particulars.
THE GOLD DEFICIT STORY.
In onr telegraphic columns will be found
a contradiction of a reportihat the amount
of gold in the Federal Treasury is ten
millions of dollars less than the official
statement. This_report has been “going
the rounds” for a week or ten days, but
we never believed it, and never allowed
its repetition in our paper. Started at a
time when there were strong indications
of another attempt to run up the price of
gold for the benefit of speculators, and
immediately following or accompanying
declarations that the “ gold ring ” had
formed a combination which would prove
too strong for the Treasury, it had too
suspicious an appearance to command
ready belief, however strongly asserted
or often repeated. The New York World
of the 20th instant exposes the trick as
follows : “Some time ago the people who
were and are at work to advance the price
of gold, finding it back at 117 on its down
ward course, bethought them that it
would be a fine thing to assert that there
was a deficit of ten million dollars in
the Treasury of the United States.
To get this assertion, to which the
responsible monthly statements of the
Secretary of the Treasury have been a
sufficient answer, fully before the public,
these gentry tried all ways known to them
to induce New York journals to state it as
of their own authority. In this they gen
erally failed. Had they attempted this on
arising gold market their manrenvre would
only have been dishonorable; attempting
it on a declining market, say on Friday,
July IG, it was both dishonorable and
damaging to their credit. The story has
run itself out in this city. Here we have
it again, however, from Washington,
where its repetition has, apparently, pro
duced a great effect upon a correspond
ent. It produces none upon us; we have
known the origin of the gold-jobbing in
vention too well.”
It is to be hoped that the exposure of
such tricks will have one good effect—that
of pointing out the necessity of prevent
ing, by the strong arm of the law, gamb
ling devices to affect the value of the
Government’s credit and the people’s cur
rency. Surely a Government which has
the right to compel people to accept its
issues at par for debts due them ought to
have the power to protect its credit and
currency from conspiracies operating for
their depreciation.
DRAWING IN FROM ROTH ENDS.
The efforts of some men—particularly’
some who have not succeeded in entering
the state of double blessedness—to con
ceal their real ages, often leads to amus
ing inconsistencies of speech. Our
übiquitous corresponding editor (now
temporarily filling the chair of the absent
Local) was fairly caught in this way the
other day, but exhibited much ingenuity
in the effort to extricate himself. Pick
ing up an exchange in the office, he un
thinkingly dropped the remark that he
wrote articles for that paper twenty years
ago. “You surprise me,” said a visitor,
“I did not think you were so old!” “Oh,
well!” replied the Major, “I was very
young then—not more than sixteen; and
now I come to reflect, it was not so long
ago as twenty years, but about seven
teen !”
It occurred to us that if Jacob could so
easily have gotten over seven years of
servitude, he would have been willing to
take one or two more of old Laban’s daugh
ters.
Sale of Stock at Savannah. —On Wed
nesday last, Messrs. George W. Wylly &
Cos., sold for the estate of E. C. Hough
the following stocks, at the prices annex
ed :
Forty-nine shares Central Railroad Com
pany’s stock at $76 to S7B 50.
Forty-one shares Southwestern Railroad
Company’s stock at S7B 50 tos79.
Twenty-five shares Merchants’ National
Bank stock at slOl.
Ten shares Atlantic and Gulf Railroad
stock at SG.
Two shares Savannah, Skidaway and
Seaboard Railroad stock at $lO 50.
Five hundred dollars —one city of Sav
annah bond, January and December cou
pons, due 1888. price SIOO, SB3.
Five hundred dollars—-one city of Sav
annah bond, January and December cou
pons, due 1876, price SIOO, SB7.
One thousand dollars —one Western
Railroad of Alabama, endorsed eight per
cent., SBS.
Ten shares Savannah Gas Company’s
stock, par value $25, at $37 50 to $-10.
These sales show a marked improve
ment in Central Railroad stock within the
last few months.
Genekal Joseph E. Johnston. —Henry
S. Foote, iu a series of articles which he
is contributing to the Washington Chron
icle, thus speaks of General Johnston:
“ihere are few men on the continent of
a braver soul, a more cultivated mind, of
more urbane and gentlemanly manners
than Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. I have
never yet heard his courage, his disinter
estedness, or his abilities* called in ques
tion; and I sincerely hope that the day is
not far distant, should war again arise in
the land, when this meritorious soldier
ill once rnuro be found battling giori
...siy and successfully against some for
eign foe side by side with such men as
Sherman and other defenders of the Union
in tb’ recent struggle of arms under the
immortal stars and stripes, beneath which
he has often, in other days, won immor
tal renown.”
The New York Herald publishes a let
ter from Lima, Peru, giving an account of
the “placing of the star-spangled banner
on the very summit of the Andean chain,
a material height never reached before
by that emblem cf liberty,” on the 4th of
July, by some North Americans in Peru.
The height attained was 17,574 feet above
the level of tue sea. Twenty Indians
helped them. They stood knee-deep in
snow when they reached the summit, and
they w’ere then two thousand feet above
the region of perpetual snow. They got
high on someth’”" else when they de
cended.
A NY. onsiu paper st-tes that the
Grangesin Winnebago county held aeoun
cu m Oshkosh Saturday, the 9th, and ic
so! ed to keep their wheat from the mar
ket until buyers come to their terms. A
call will be issued ro all county councils
in the State to co-operate in the move
ment. It is also generally understood
i among the patrons there that this move-
I men* will be co-operative with that of the
I fraternity in lowa, Minnesota, and Illi
| uois.
The satirical couplet—
“ The I)—1 was sick, the D—l a saint would be ;
j The D—l got well, the d—i a saint was he”—
finds striking exemplification in a recent
act of Ben Butler. He donated a lot of
land in Gloucester, Mass., for the use of a
church. It is said that he once purchased
a Baptist church in Lowell, and allowed
it to be turned into a theatre. The key to
Ben’s piety is his aspiration to be Gover
nor.
Hatched Out.—The eggs laid by the
moth or miller upon a cotton leaf at the
drug store of Capt. J. W. Brooks (of which
we made mention the other day) have de
veloped into worms of some sort, and
lively ones at that. In a day or two more
we will probably be able to tell certainly
whether they are the real cotton caterpil
or not.
Fine Peaches.—We return thanks to
Mr. B. W. Davis, one of our subscribers
in Stewart county, for some of the finest
peaches we have seen this year. They
were of different varieties, but all of large
size and superior flavor.
Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, is
out in favor of Butler’s election as Gov
ernor of Massachusetts and the salary
grab-
The Opelika Observer says: “During
the trial of a case in the County Court
this week for carrying concealed weapons,
a witness for the defense swore that in a
recent storm at Auburn the barrel of a
pistol was blown away and the stock left. ”
ALABAMA NEWS.
Hon. John M. Chilton, the Judge of the
newly created City Court of Opelika, is
said to be th« youngest judicial officer in
the State of Alabama, and also a very
efficient magistrate.
The Russell Recorder publishes the fol
lowing appointments of Gen. E. M. Law,
who in organizing Granges of the Fatrons
of Husbandry in Alabama:
Midway, Bullock, Saturday, Aug. 30.
Enon, Bullock, Monday, Sept. Ist.
Glennviße, Russell, Tuesday, Sept. 2d.
Seale, Russell, Wednesday, Sept. 3d.
Fort Mitchell, Russell, Thursday, Sep
tember 4th.
Crawford, Russell, Friday, Sept. sth.
History of a Case in the Coubts of
Bullock.—Affidavit sworn out for assault
with intent to kill. Warrant issued lor
assault and battery. Defendants tried
for an affray, and bound over for disturb
ing religious worship. One witness swore
that it was not religions worship, but was
a prayer-meeting. The case was tried by
jury on Tuesday last. Verdict—not guil
ty.—Union Springs Herald.
The Selma Times of yesterday says:
“Reports of the ravages of the caterpillar
continue to come in and there can be no
doubt that in the country contiguous to
Selma immense damage has been done by
them. Some plantations have been lite
rally swept.”
The Tallapoosa Head-Light of yester
day makes this better report: “We have
made enquiries the last week, of a great
many, if the cotton worm had made its
appearance anywhere in the country, and
we have not found one who has seen or
heard of any.” But it heard of some
about Tallassee.
The Tuskegee News of the 21st says
that during the week previous the cater
pillars increased rapidly in its section,
and were still increasing.
A negro boy named Ed. Brown was
! committed to jail in Montgomery, on a
! charge of violating a negro woman and
! the attempting to kill her with an axe.
The State Journal of Thursday says :
! “The plantations in Montgomery county
have been nearly cleaned by the worms.”
The Mayor of Mobile has “proclaimed”
i against intercourse with Pensacola, on
‘ account of the existence of yellow fever
| in the last named city. But report says
that there have also been two cases in
Mobile.
The Evergreen Star says that Rev. Mr.
Lundie, a Baptist minister, well known iu
Alabama, died of yellow fever at Pensa
cola last Monday.
The city authorities of Montgomery are
also after the vagrants. A general stir
ring up of that class is what is needed iu
the South.
CONFEDERATE DEAD IN THE
NICHOLASVILLE CEMETERY.
Jessamine (Ky.) Journal.
In the cemetery in this place there re
poses the remains of a few heroes who
died in the Southern cause. Yesterday
we visited the spot and found the graves
in a condition of sad and reproachful
neglect. Some of the wooden headboards
have rotted off and are lying on the
ground, whilst mauy of those standing are
so defaced and bleared by the action of
the weather that it was almost impossible
for us to decipher the inscriptions. These
soldiers, thirty-one in all, died in hospital
at this place during the years of ’62, ’63
and ’6l. Eight graves are unknown and
unmarked, and, of course, we can obtain
no information as to their occupants.
But wo are glad to be able to publish
the following list as designated upon the
boards, iu the hope that other journals
will copy, and by this means the relatives
and friends of these unfortunate heroes
may know their resting places :
G. W. Tribue; T. Willoby, Ist Georgia;
C. Richards and W. H. Richards, 41st
Alabama; J. B. Hall, Ist Georgia; Win.
Thornton, company A, 41st Alabama; W.
J. Hale, 40th Georgia; J. A. Poles, com
pany H, 43d Georgia: J. M. Walson, 17th
Mississippi; M. E. Copeland, Alabama;
E. S. Dickson, 42d Georgia; W. Laird,
Georgia; L. Johnson, company H, 6th
Georgia; H. Campbell, 63d Virginia; J.
H. White, 4th Alabama; W. M. Robe,
company C, 16th Georgia; John R. Cox,
59th Georgia; J. Brock, 16th Georgia.
Many of the inscriptions are so dim and
disfigured that we were unable to decipher
the State and regiment.
In this connection we would call the at
tention of our citizens and the trustees of
the cemetery 4o the shameful neglect with
which these sacred depositories of the
dead are treated. It is a duty we owe to
the unknown departed and their living
friends, as w r ell as to ourselves as a Chris
tian and civilized community, that suit
able repairs be made at once. It will re
quire but little time and expense, and we
hope the matter will be attended to at
once. In a short time the boards will
have rotten down, and the graves will be
past recognition.
From the New Orleans Picayune.
THE COLORED COPULATION, AS
EXPOSED BY THE CENSUS.
We beg leave to lay before our readers
a table compiled from the census of 1870
—showing the increase or decrease of the
colored population in thirteen Southern
States. To elucidate it, we have present
ed a rough estimate of the per centage of
increase or decrease, which our readers
can easily verify by the table itself. We
think that the table explodes a great
many errors, and elucidates many impor
tant truths, which we propose hereafter
to consider. At present we leave them
with onr table:
COLORED I’OPDLATION AT EACH CENSUS FROM
IS4O TO 1870.
1840. 1850. 1860. 1870.
Alabama 255,571 345,1»9 437 770 475 510
Arkansas 20 47,708 111.259 122,160
Florida 26,634 40,242 62.677 91,689
Georgia 283,697 384,613 465,608 545,142
N. Carolina. .268,549 316,011 361,542 391,650
S Car01ina...335,314 39j 944 412,320 415,814
Tennessee 138.583 246,85 l 283.019 322,331
Texas 58,718 182.921 263.475
Virginia '98,892 526,861 548,907 512,841
Louisiana 193.954 262,271 350,373 364,218
Kentucky 189,954 220,992 236.167 222,210
Mississippi.. .196 577 310,808 437,404 444 201
Missouri 69,814 90,040 118,503 118,071
To elucidate the above table we will in
a rough way, endeavor to show the per
centage of increase and decrease :
Alabama—The negro population in
creased from 1840 to 1850—about 35 per
cent.; from 1850 to 1860, 37 per cent.;
from 1860 to 1870, 13 per cent.
Arkansas— The negro population in
creased from 1840 to 1850, 238 per cent.;
from 1850 to 1860,134 per cent.; from
1860 to 1870, 10 per cent.
Florida—from 1840 to 1850, 54 per
cent ; from 1850 to 1860, 47 per cent.;
from 1860 to 1870, 47 per cent.
Georgia—From 1840 to 1850 the increase
was 33 percent.; from 1850 to 1860, 21
percent.; from 1860 to IS7O, about 17
per cent.
North Carolina—From 1840 to 1850—
the increase was 18 per .cent.; from 1850
to IS6O, 14 per cent.; from 1860 to 1870,
0 per cent.
j South Carolina -Increase from IS4O to
1850—17 per cent.; from 1850 to 1860—-
5 percent.: from 1860 to 1870, only three
thousand four hundred—being not one
per cent.
Tennessee— From 1840 to 1850—in
crease 33 per cent.; from 1850 to 1860, 15
per cent.; from 1860 to 1870, 13 per cent.
Texas—ln 1850, fifty-eight thousand—
from 1850 to 1860, increase 200 per cent.;
from 1860 to 1870, 100 per cent.
Virginia—lncrease from 1840 to 1850,
6 per cent.; from 1850 tolß6o, 6 percent;
from 1860 to 1870 —a diminution of 36,-
000—being about 7 per cent decrease.
Louisiana —Increase from 1840 to 1850,
about 60 per cent.; from 1850 to 1860 30
percent.; from 1860 to 1870 -only thir
teen thousand —being about 4 per cent.
Kentucky—lncrease from 1840 to 1850,
30 per cent.; from 1850 to 1860, 15 per
cent.; from 1860 to 1870—a diminution
of about fourteen thousand, or some 1
per cent, decrease.
Mississippi —From llrO to ISso,increas
ed 70 per cent.; from 1850 to 1860, 40
percent.; from iB6O to 1870, being an
increase less than five thousand, about 14
per cent.
Missouri—From 1840 to 1850, increased
about 48 per cent.; from 1850 to 1860,
about 15 per cent.; from IS6O to 1870, de
creased four hundred and thirty-two ne
groes.
St. Louis Horse and Mule Market.—
The St. Louis Republican, of the 14th
inst., states the horse and mule trade in
that market for the week previous had
shown considerable improvement over
that of the week preceding, buyers being
in liberal attendance, and purchasing all
that were offered. During the week Jas.
C. Edwards <fc Cos., of the Planters’ horse
and mule stables, shipped a car load of
really fine natives to Thomas McElroy, of
Charleston, S. C., and another to G. H.
&J. B. Parker, of Augusta, Ga. Com -,
mon and plug horses and mules were dull,
nor is any improvement expected in them,
until the opening of the Southern trade.
The following are the quotations: Horses
—plugs, $50@75; plain, s7s@lo<); good f
harness, $H!0@150; extra, $150(®200. i
Mules—l 34 to 14 hands, S6O@GS; 144 to
15 hands, $125@140 ; 15 to 15J hands,
$150@175; 15£ to 16 hands, $175@200.
from Various points.
THE OHIO AND THE HUDSON.
Special to the Courier-Journal.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 20.—1n con
nection with the agitation of the subject
of completing the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal, from Cumberland, Md., to Pitts
burg, there is another project under con
sideration in this city, having iu view the
extension of this same canal from its
present western terminus at Georgetown,
in the District of Columbia, to Annapolis,
Md., a distance of between thirty and
forty miles. This will save trans-ship
ment of coal and other freight.at George
town. and thus transportation by schooner
about two hundred miles by w r ay of the
Potomac and Chesapeake Bay and Balti
more, or by sea to Philadelphia and New
York. By the Annapolis extension and
the completion of the canal to the Ohio,
there would be an uninterrupted water
route from the Ohio to the Hudson, inter
secting the Chesapeake Bay and the Dela
ware river. I'his subject will be pressed
upon the attention oi me Senate commit
tee of transportation routes to the sea
board.
E AIL R O.i 1> COL LI SI OX.
London, August 23. —A collision oc
curred this morning on the Great Nor
thern Railroad, at Retford, near Noitiug
ham, between a freight train and an ex
cursion train. Both trains were badly
wrecked, and reports thus far received
say that twenty persons were killed and
a large number injured. There is great
excitement at Retford on this account.
It may be exaggerated.
Later and more accurate details from
the railroad collision at Retford Place. —
The number of killed was four only, but
fifteen persons were badly injured and
several of them beyond hope.
MASONIC.
Manchester, N. H., August 23. —La-
Fayette Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, of
Washington, D. C., was received by Mount
Horeb Chapter, of this city, this evening.
A collation was served at the Masonic
Temple this evening. Josiah Kidder, M.
■ E. High Priest, delivered an address of
welcome, and Hon. Lewis A. Clarke acted
; as toast-master. Among the distinguished
! Masons present were J. F. Miller, M. W.
Grand Master of Texas; David 11. Mun
roe, M. W. Grand Master of New Bruns
wick; David 8. Jones, of Washington,
Past. High Priest, and M. W. Cumener,
M. W. Grand Master of New Hampshire.
The visiting brethren start for Newbury
port and Boston to-morrow morning.
BRIGHAM YOUNG’S DEMURRER
SUSTAINED.
Salt Lake, August 23. —Judge Eimuer
son to-day sustained the defendant’s de
murer in the case of Annie E. Young vs.
Brigham Young, for divorce, against the
jurisdiction of the District Court. The
Judge held that the Probate Court, and
not the District Court, had jurisdiction
in the case. This is in direct opposition to
the opinion of Judge McKean, at the
October term of the District Court.
Rev. O. 0. Stratton, Methodist minis
ter here, in a card, denies that he in
fluenced Ann Eliza to enter the divorce
suit, and charges her lawyers with an at
tempt to fleece their client.
NE IT YORK DRY GOODS MARKET.
New York, Aug. 21. —The dry goods
business was active with agents and pack
age jobbers in all branches. Cotton
goods steadily at the current quotations.
Bleached sheetings, cotton flannels, are
very brisk ; boiled jaconets were active
and firm; prints iu spirited demand;
woolen and printed dress fabrics are sell
ing freely by agents ; woolens and Otto
man shawls in good request; wool flan
nels and blankets brisk ; silk and cotton
velvet selling freely at auction.
INDIGNANT MAN AND BROTHER.
Cincinnati, August23.—-PeterH. Clark,
a colored man of this city, made a speeoh
at a meeting of colored men to-day, at
Chillicathe, iu which he charged that
colored men were ignored in the North-
w T est in the bestowal of officers, and that
in municipal offices in Ohio, and in labor
on public works, they were also injured.
He said the demands of the colored men
were expressed in the Philadelphia plat
form last year, but that platform had not
been observed. He thought that now
was the time to claim redress.
From tlio Montgomery Advertiser.]
HEALTH OF PENSACOLA.
Pensacola, Aug. 22.— T0 his Honor
the Mayor of Montgomery:
Your dispatch of the 22d inst. is receiv
ed. There have been five deaths in this
city within the last two weeks, supposed
to be yellow fever. I have consulted the
leading physicians to-day, and they re
port the city in a healthy condition. N\ e
irave at present a few sick cases from
different causes, but all are convalescent.
Wm. W. Carr,
Alderman and Active Mayor.
SANTANTA AND BIG TREE.
St. Louis, August 23.—A gentleman
just from the Indian Territory says the
Kiowa chiefs Santauta and Big Tree ar
rived at Fort Gibson, where they will re
main until the meeting of the Grand
Council of Kiowas and Comanches, in
October, when they will be taken to Fort
Gill and formally released from captivity.
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A STRIKE AVERTED.
London, Aug. 23. —The threatened lock
out by the iron masters of Manchester of
a portion of their operatives, has been
postponed for the present, a proposition
having been made to submit the differ
ences between the employers and work
men to a committee of arbitration.
DIRECT TRADE EOR GEORGIA.
Augusta, Ga., Aug. 22.—The ship Lady
Dufferin, from Liverpool, arrived at Port
Royal with a miscellaneous cargo of eleven
hundred tons for merchants in Savannah
and Augusta.
SUICItMS OF A CONGRESSMAN.
Wxshington, August 23. —Private in
formation received to-day from Wisconsin
say’s that Phileas Sawyer, member of Con
gress, suicided by editing his throat on
Wednesday. No cause for the deed is as
signed.
A LEGISLATIVE THIEF.
St. Louis, August 23. —Charles Manse,
said to represent Loundes county in the
Mississippi Legislature, was arrested here
yesterday for stealing a lot of clothing
from, a room in the Laclade House.
PATMENT OF INTEREST.
Washington, August 23. —The Secreta
ry of the Treasury directs payment of in
terest due on the Ist of September—
about five millions, on the 25th of August
without rebate.
A SEA TO FILL FT A DESERT.
San Francisco, August 21. —The James’
surveying party to explore the Colorado
river is encamped in the desert near the
river, with Cozopah Indians. The project
of filling the Colorado desert from the
waters of the river is reported upon as
feasible.
THE CREEK ISIHAX COUNTRY
Parsons, Ks., August 20. —The agent
of the Creek Indians reports twenty mur
ders since the first of May. The agent
adds good men of all parties demand that
the Indian country shall be put under the
protection of the United States.
GOV. DAVIS RENOMINATED.
Austin, August 21. —Gov. Davis, of
Texas, has been renominated by the Eo
publicans.
PEANUTS FROM CAEIFORNIA.
Omaha, Aug. 21. —Three car loads of
California peanuts (goubers; passed east.
HEATH OF JUDGE NELSON, OF TEN
NESSEE.
Knoxville, Tenn., August 24. —Judge
Thomas A. R. Nelson, late Judge of the
Supreme Court, died at his residence, at 6
o’clock this morning, of cholera, after an
illness of tw o days.
FIRST RAI.E NORTH CAROEIXA.
Nash, N. C., August 23. —The first bale
of new cotton received to-day from Ru
therford county, and sold for 25 cents.
IMPORTS.
New York, August 23.—Imports for the
wuek—Dry goods, $3,315,378; general
merchandise, $4,70Q,4G5. Total, $8,081,-
843.
AX OTHER RAIL ROAR COLLISIOX.
Cincinnati, August 22. —By a collision 1
on the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad,
three train hands were killed. The watch
of the engineer of the freight train was a
quarter of an hour slow. The engineer
and conductor of the freight train fled.
Conductor arrested, and a warrant is out 1
for the engineer. Passenger coaches were
thrown off the track; passengers uuhurt.
The Superintendent of the road will
prosecute the engineer and conductor for
murder.
LATER.
Cincinnati, August 22.—The passen
gers by the Western bound train of the
Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, which
did not arrive here until 1.40 this morn
ing, bring in more confirmatory accounts
of the collision near Montgomery Station,
with some additional particulars. The
Hiisboro and Loveland accommodation
train left Montgomery Station on time.
The freight train bound from Chillecothe
to this city, was behind. It is said the
conductor’s watch was fifteen minutes
slow. In addition, it is intimated that
the engineer, with whom he had some
hard words at Loveland, said he would
get him into a difficulty before he got to j
Cincinnati. At any rate, the freight
train started out and two trains met on a
curve, both engines reared upward and
stood almost erect, the baggage cars fol
lowing. The passenger coaches remained
on the track, but the shock to passengers
was terrible. Charles Rather remained
on the engine with his father, the engin
eer, and was crushed between the fire box
and tender. The father escaped without
apparently serious bodily injury, but was
so much moved by the excitement of the
disaster that he came away from the
wreck with a disordered mind. A brake
mad, in response to tho signal, “down
breaks,” was assisting the baggage master
when the shock came. Both were crushed
to death. Walter Rhodes, express mes
senger, and his brother, J. Rhodes. Su
perintendent of Adams’ Express of this
city, received injuries from which he died
just after reaching the Cincinnati depot
this morning—making four deaths in all.
THE WAR OE THE RADICAL EAC
TIOXS IN ARKANSAS.
Little Rock, Ark., August 20. —The
Board of Supervisors met in Perryville
Monday. Mares aud a former clerk of
the county, backed by four or five friends,
entered the town armed. They had sworn
they intended to kill J. W. L. Mathews,
an attorney of the court, on account of an
article published in the Gazette reflecting
upon them. They attacked Mathews in
the Courthouse, breaking up the court.
Mathews retreated into a store and tired
upon his pursuers without effect. A brisk
fire was theu opened on both sides during
which Mathews, wounded though, man
aged to escape to the woods. That even
ing the friends of Mathews to the num
ber of 150, entered the town, killing a man
named Trice. Mares and his crowd had
left, however, as had the Sheriff also, who
is understood to be friendly to Mares, and
who is now in this city.
After this the Board of Supervisors re
sumed their court and Mathews had war
rants issued for the arrest of Mares, Ham
bright, the Sheriff, and all the others en
gaged in the affair, but to the latest ac
counts they had not been served. The
affair creates great excitement throughout
the county. Puli particulars will be laid
before the Executive to-night.
LATER —MARES RE-TAKES THE COURT HOUSE.
Little Rock, Aug. 22.—Advices from
Perry county slate that after the con
stable’s posse, who were endeavoring to
arrest Mares and his party for their at
tack upon Mathews and the Supervisors’
Court, had dispersed, Mares with a crowd
of about thirty men entered Perryville
and took possession of the Court-houso,
swearing they would kill forty men for
the killing of Trice. Supervisors Pierce
and Holmes, in fear of personal violence,
left town, and are now in this city to lay
the facts before the Government. They
declare it is unsafe for them to return
without protection. It is understood Ad
jutant General Bishop will leave for the
scene of disturbance in the morning.
FA MIL
New York, Aug. 22. —This morning
Michal Braderick, while in a state of semi
intoxication, quarreled with his mother
in-law, at No. 80, Carmine street. His
daughter, fearing he might seriously in
jure her, called in her two brothers, one
of whom, James Braderick, aged 19 years,
rushed into the room and endeavored to
take his father away from her, whom he
was savagely beating, when he turned on
him and with a large knife stabbed him
twice in the heart. He staggered and fell,
but got up again and succeeded in gain
ing the second floor, when he fell dead.
Meanwhile his brother John, aged 22
years, interferred, and his father made a
lunge at him, and stabbed him once, near
ly in the same place as he did James, but
without wounding him fatally. At this
point the police rushed in and secured
Braderick, who was perfectly mad with
rage. The family resided on the fourth
floor, and were oartmen by occupation,
and were almost always quarrelling.
Braderick had been drinking hard for
some days, and at the station-house pro
fessed to know nothing of the bloody deed.
CA LIEORNIA.
A Democratic Split.
San Francisco, August 21.—The Demo
cratic party of this city squarely divided.
Each wing has pul a Legislative ticket in
the field. Ex-Mayor McCoppin has de
veloped into an out and out railroad man
and is the Railroad candidate for the State
Senate, together with James Clark. The
Democratic Municipal Convention, which
is claimed to be anti-railroad, has nomi
nated Philip Roache and A. J. Bowie
for State Senators. The Tax Payers’
Independent Ticket for this city is gain
! ing strength daily. Thev same is true of
the independent anti-railroad movement
throughout the State.
A BISHOE SUED.
Chicago, August 22.—John Murray
i Ryan, a suspended priest of the Catholic
Church, who has for some time been prac
ticing medicine in this city, to-day com
menced suit in the Circuit Court against
Rt. Rev. Thos. Freely, Bishop of the
Diocese, laying damages at $25,000. His
claim is based on the allegation that the
| Bishop in suspending lim acted despoti
j cally and irregularly, and not in accord
ance with the canon of the church.
ATTEMPTED AS SASSIXATION.
St. Louis, August 22. —An attempt was
made Wednesday evening to assassinate
Gen. Joe Shelby, a somewhat celebrated
rebel General during the war and cousin
of Gen. Frank P. Blair. The General,
with two little boys, was driving from his
residence to Nashville, when an unknown
party fired into the carriage from the
bushes, wounding him in the hip.
SAXTAXTA AXD ISTG Tit EE.
Galveston. Aug. 21 —The Indian chiefs,
Santanta and Big Tree, arrived at Hous
ton yesterday under guard from the peni
tentiary, en route for Fort Sill, where a
council is to be held between Secretary
Delano and Gov. Davis, and the Ciowa
and Comanche tribes, with a view of fur
ther peace.
ATLANTA PLEDGES SUPPORT TO
A DIRECT STEAMSHIP LINE.
Atlanta, Ga , August 21.—The Cham
ber of Commerce and City Council, to
day, adopted resolutions endorsing the
establishment of steamships between Liv
erpool and Savannah, pledging their sup.
port to the enterprise.
TEXAS POLITICS.
Dallas, August 21. —The ltepublican
Convention nominated for State Treasu
rer, A. F. Moore; Land Commissioner,
Jacob Itencher; Superintendent of Edu
cation, A. B. Morton; Lieutenant Gov
ernor, H. Taylor.
MEMPHIS’ EUt ST BALE.
Memphis, August 22.—The first bale of
cotton of new crop was received from
Canton, Miss., and sold at auction to-day.
It weighed 380 pounds, classed as mid
dling, and brought 41 cents per pound.
STEAMER WRECKED.
London, Aug. 22. The freighting
steamer Singapor, for Shanghai, was
wrecked in the Bed Sea. The captain,
officers and some of the crew were lost.
Thirty-six who gained the land are held
prisoners by the natives.
CUSTOM RECEIPTS.
New Yoke, August 22. —Custom re
ceipts to-day, $592,000.
IMPORTS.
New York, Aug. 22,--Week's imports
nearly $8,000,000, including over $4,500,-
000 of dry goods.
THE WAR IN SPAIN.
SPANISH NEWS.
Madrid, August 21. —Gen. Esparetero
has advised the Madrid Government to
appoint Gen. Manuel Conchua to the
chief command of tho Republican forces
in the Northern provinces bordering on
the Bay of Biscay, and Gen. Merconez to
the command of Navarre.
The Cortes, by a vote of (1(1 yeas to Go
nays, consented to trial by civil tribunal
of Benitoz one of its members who par
ticipated in the Cantonal insurrections.
London, August 21.—Special dispatches
to the Standard say the Carlists forces
under Elio, Dorregarray, Lizzarraga, OUio
and Don Carlos, amount to 2,000 strong
battaliions.
Madrid, August 21.—Prisoners taken
by the Government forces in the encoun
ter with Cautonal and Communist insur
gents are to be sent to reinforce the
Spanish army in Cuba.
The Carlist force operating in the
North is estimated at 28,000 men of all
arms.
The Government is actively progressing
with the organization of new levies,
amounting to 80,000, to take the field
against the rebels.
A bill has been presented in the Cortes
suspending guarantee individual rights
during the eontinnanoo of the present
troubles.
Madrid, August 22. —Tho Cortes has
autherized the prosecution by the'tri
bunals of justice of nine Deputies who
have been arrested for participating in
the Communist and Cantorial insurrec
tion.
Intelligence has reached this city that
on the Kith an unsuccessful attempt was
made upon the life of Don Alphonzo, the
brother of Don Carlos. The would be
assassin, whose motive is not stated, was
taken and executed.
Advices from the North, which the
Governmeent deems trustworthy, report
that the Carlist troops are discouraged
aud insubotdinate.
REPUBLICAN ADVANCE.
Madrid, August 23. The Republican
army, under command of Gen. Bauchev
Bregna, numbering 12,000 men, has en
tered Bilbos. The Carlist forces occupy
ing the city withdrew without offering
battle.
A DOUBT EUI. VICTORY.
Bayonne, August 23.—Advices from
Carlist sources state that Berza has again
been invested by the Carlist army. Both
sides claim that (hey gained a victory in
the recent battle before that town.
CONTEMPLATED MARCH ON MADRID
Bayonne, August 23.—The Carlisle say
they are organizing for a movement on
Madrid, and will be ready to march some
time in October.
THE NAVAL FORCES.
Bayonne, August 23.—The Cartagena
insurgents are vigorously replying to the
fire of the Spanish fleet. Admiral Loboz
has under his command only tho Saragosa
(iron-clad) and some wooden frigates.
The insurgents are plentifully supplied
with provisions, and are sanguine of as
sistance from Communists in other cities,
so that a stout resistonce may be expected.
SPANISH FI.EET BOMB A RDING.
Madrid, August 23. —The Spanish fleet,
under command ol' Admiral Labos, began
bombardment on Cartagena yesterday.
MUTINY OE THE ARTILLERY.
Madrid, August 23.—The artillerymen
in the garrison at Barcelona mutinied
against the officers. They were, however,
disarmed by the cavab’y under the com
mand of the Captain General, and im
prisoned before they had time to do any
serious harm.
CONFLICT OF CIVIL AND MILITARY
POWERS.
Madrid, Aug. 23. —Advices from Car
tagena stale that the civil and military
authorities of the Commnnist administra
tion have quarreled, and their respective
partisans have come to actual conflict, in
which a number of men were killed and
wounded on troth sides. The private sol
diers in Cartagena are discouraged, and
are in favor of surrendering to the Govern
ment forces.
BURNING OF MARRIAGE RECORDS.
Madrid, August 23. —The Carlists, at
the instigation of priests, burn all the re
cords of civil marriages that they capture.
PROBABLE STRIKE IN ENGLISH
IRON WORKS.
London, August 20.—Iron masters of
Manchester have determined upon a lock
out of one-tenth of their men to commence
on Saturday next, and to be followed
every two weeks by a lock out of one
tenth of the men then employed. It is
probable that the movement thus inaugu
rated at Manchester by tho masters will
extend throughout the country. Iron
workers of Bolton urge the men at Man
chester to meet the lock out on Saturday
by a strike of all hands. The aspect of
affairs excites great interest in this city,
as extensive strikes are apprehended.
The points in dispute between the mas
ters and men have reference to rates for
piece work and over time. The Society
of Engineers have on hand a fund of
five hundred thousand dollars with which
they will assist tho iron workers.
ENGLISH NEWS.
London, August 21. —The Times calls
attention to an advertisement in the New
York papers of the firm of Fonight, Rob
inson <fc Steele, who offers to systematize
the turf investments, in connection with
the English turf, and warns the public
that these so-called betting agents are
swindlers.
A rumor is current in this city, this
morning, that an attempt to release the
bank of Englaud forgers, Austin, Bidwell
and confederates, from Newgate by cor
rupting one of the prisoner’s officials, has
been discovered and that the keeper v,ho
! has been tampered with is now under ar
j rest. If true, the details will be carefully
j suppressed by the authorities.
! A LONG SPEECH CONCLUDED.
London, Aug. 21. —Mr. Kenealy, the
leading counsel for the defense in the
trial of the Tichborue claimant, conclu
ded his address to the Jury to-day. Mr.
Kenealy commenced to speak on the 22d
of July and has occupied the attention of
the court every day since, with the ex
ception of the usual adjournment from
Saturday to Monday, and an extra ad
journment from the 31st of July to the
sth of August, in consequence of the ill
ness of a juror.
A NEW PARTY IN IRELAND.
London, August 23.—The Doublin
Irishman publishes anew programme of
the Home Buie party. It includes the
establishment of anew paper in Doublin
called the Faugh a Ballagh, and to be
official journal of the party, and agitation
for the abolition of the name and office of
Lord Lieutenant, and substitution of a
Suzeaix to be elected by universol suf
frage, and to have nominal title of the
King for triennal parliments, and for a
law authorizing confiscation of estates of
absentees.
COULDN’T AGREE ABOUT THE
EL AG.
Paris, Aug. 21.— The Opinion Nation
ale, of to-day, says that negotiations look
ing to a fusion of the Conservatives of the
Assembly with the Legitimists, in the in
terest of the Count De Chambord, have
suddenly come to and end, in consequence
of a difference upon the question of a na
tional flag.
ELECTION of prince na
poleon.
Paris, Aug. 22. —Prince Napolean has
been elected President of the Council and
General of Corsica by a majority of thirty
votes. In accepting the position, he de
livered an address to the Council, recom
mending that the proceedings be confined
to matters of debt at interests.
UNITING AGAINST BOURBONS.
Paris, August 23. —At a meeting of the
members of the Left to-day, it was de
cided to stop the support of the Left
Centre, to prevent the success of the plans
of the Fusionists and Legitamists for the
establishment of a Bourbon monarchy.
CLOSING A CATHOLIC SEMINARY.
Berlin, August 23. —Dr. Talk, Minister
of Public Instructions and Ecclesiastical
Affairs, has ordered a Catholic Seminary
at Posen, to be closed.
WONDERS OE THE NORTH- WTSI
Prof. Heyden’s Report—lmportant Geog
raphical Discoveries —New Lakes anil
Numerous Geysers Found.
Washington, Aug. 10.—It is stated in
the sixth annual report of the United
States Geological Survey of the Territo
ries, by F. V. Hayden, United States Ge
ologist, that there is perhaps no more
unknown or more interesting geographi
cal region in America than the different
branches of Suako River and the Madi
son—the great water divide of the Conti
nent. The maps now in process of com
struction will almost entirely change
the geography of this wonderful region.
Within a radius of ten miles may be
found the sources of three of the largest
rivers in America. The general elevation
is from 7,000 to 8,000 feet above the sea,
while the mountains whose eternal snows
from the sources of these great rivers
rise to a hight of 10,000 to 12,000 feet.
Moving northward are the various branch
es of the Missouri, Yellowstone, and
Wend rivers, which all eventually unite
into one mighty stream, the Missouri.
To the south are the branches of Green
River, which unites with the Colorado
and probably empties into the Gulf of
California, while south and west flow the
branches of Snake River, which, uniting
with the Columbia, pour their vast vol
ume of water into the Pacific. The ex
ploration of tills remarkable water divide
proves that the Madisou Fork has its
source in a small lake not hitherto noted
on any map, and that the so-called Mad
ison Lake belongs entirely to tho Pacific
slope.
This latter lake was found to be about
twelve miles long and eight miles wide.
From this body of water flows a stream
nearly 100 feet wide, which, after a dis
tance of about five miles, empties into a
second lake, which is four miles long and
one and a half miles wide. The former
of these lakes was named Shoshone and
the latter Lake Lewis, in honor of the
great pioneer explorer of tho North West.
At the upper end of Lake Shoshone, anew
geyser basin was discovered, with from
75 to 100 springs, many of them geysers
of considerable power. The ornamenta
tion about these springs was regarded as
more interesting and elaborate than those
in Fire Hole Basin. The divide between
the Yellow stone Lake and Lake Lewis
was found to be about 50 feet above the
former and 200 feet above the latter.
This low ridge in the great water divide
of the Continent has doubtless given rise
to the story of the Two-Ocean River, and
| such a stream has found its way to most
:of our printed maps. From the summit
j of the mountain the scope of vision em
| braced a radius of 150 miles, within which
470 mountain peaks worthy of name could
■he distinctly observed. The area that
i could be swept by the eye from this point
i could not have been less than 50,000
square miles, embracing every variety of
grand and beautiful scenery of mountain
and valley, probably without a parallel on
the continent. Ten large lakes and sev
eral smaller ones were embraced in the
view, aud the entire Yellowstone Park was
spread out under the eye. To the east
the Wind River and Big Horn ranges,
with the snow-clad summits of Fremont's,
Union, and Clond Peaks bounded the
view; on the north, the Yellowstone
range, with Emigrant Peak and many of
the loftiest mountains of Montana, were
clearly seen. To the west, the numerous
ranges comprised in what are called the
Salmon River mountains of Idaho, form
the horrizon of vision in that direction,
while the mountains near Fort Hall and
| the Wahsateh range completed the mighty
j amphitheater.
! This remarkable view embracing a large
| portion of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho,
and Utah Territories. About 40 small
streams, which unite and form the upper
portion of Snake River, were care
fully examined. The party then proceed
ed down the Valley of Snake River
through its remarkable canons, examined
Jackson’s Lake and the numerous streams
that empty into the main river on either
side. The report contains 84 4 printed oc
i tavo pages.
THE SITUATION IS LOUISIANA.
A Letter From Gov. McKnery.
New' Orleans, Aug. 19. —In response to
the communications from citizens of Mon
roe as to the proper course to be pursued,
regarding Louisiana affairs, John McEn
ery writes a letter advising State conven
tion in December aud the appointment of
a committee to appeal to Congress. Af
ter reviewing the Kellogg usurpation, Mc-
Enery says :
The present deplorable condition of
Louisiana demands for her rescue from
certain ruin the adoption of one of tw-o
remedies : Either tne rescue of her gov
ernment from the ignorance and corrup
tion pervading almost every department
by the united action of the intelligent
and honest people of the State, or an ut
ter surrender of the State to the Federal
Government, trusting that the govern
ment may institute an honest home gov
ernment that will spare the people the
confiscation of their property now grad
ually going, on and consequent inevitable
bankruptcy and ruin. To any one educat
ed in the genius of our govern
ment, the latter alterative is hard to ac
cept ; but any government promising abet
ter future, however irregularly instituted,
is preferable to one promising certain
impoverishment and general bankruptcy.
When a people find themselves surround
ed as we are by desperate and straighten
ed circumstances, commerce decaying,
agriculture demoralized, capital witfi
mercurial wings in flight, real estate de
pressed and depreciated fifty per cent,
since Kellogg’s rule, and in fact all val
ues on the decline—ail this in a State of
boundless resources, and simply and alone
due to tho fact of bad, dishonest, illegiti
mate government, possessing neither the
confidence of the people at home or
abroad —it is natural that they will accept
relief from any hand that extends it, aud
will not stop to enquire as to the regular
ity or irregularity of the authority exer
cised. But I hope fate is not so imperi
ous that we shall be driven to accept so
desperate a remedy. Let us hope better
of those who hold our destiny in their
hands. Let us appeal earnestly to Con
gress, trusting that honorable body, cast
ing aside all political prejudices aud party
rule, will do simple justice to a much
wronged and injured people.”
LT. WHEELER’S EXPLORATION.
Salt Lake, August 21.—One of Lieut.
Wheeler’s exploring parties, in charge of
Lieut. Hoxie, U. S. Engineer, has been
greatly delayed in its operations by the
desertion of two packers, who took 32
mules and horses, stopping part of the
transportation, iloxio immediately start
ed in pursuit, aided by the sheriff of Bea
ver county. After traveling several
nights, he succeeded in capturing both
the men and animals. This delay pre
vents the party from making the rendez
vous at Fort Wingate, N. M., as was con
templated, but wull not impair the results
of the season’s work. Lieut. Wheeler,
with the main force of the expedition, is
between Fort Wingate and Camp Apache,
Arizona. Lieut. Marshall, in charge of
the party which started for Denver, is
[ near Fort Wingate. The general results
of the expedition are satisfactory. ’The
national astrological observations at Og
den, under Lieut. Wheeler, are approach
ing completion.
NEW YORK ITEMS.
New Y'obk, August 21.—Customs to-day
over $500,000.
Twenty-nine bids were made for Gov
ernment gold, aggregating $9,024,500 at
from 114-05 to 115-40. One bid of 115-25
was made for $1,500,000.
The second company of Mennonites
from the Crimea came by Holsatia yester
day, including eight families and fifty
persons. Like their predecessors, they
are well-to-do, bringing about SIOO,OOO in
gold. They start to-day for Elkhart, In
diana.
The building on Fourth avenue, owned
by A. T. Stewart, erected for a hotel for
single and widowed women, where they
could live cheaply, will be devoted to
other purposes, it being deemed impossi
ble to establish a house such as Mr. Stew
art proposed.
EVIDENCE FOR TICUHORNE.
New York, August 21.—Whaley, a
member of the British parliament, who
has been in this and other cities in search
of evidence for the Tichborue claimant,
has sailed for England. He said his visit
was satisfactory in all respects, and the
object had been fully realized.
MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
New Orleans, August 21. Jno. Yeager,
a carpenter, residing at the cornel” of
Claiborne and Sixth streets, upon return
ing home last evening from his work,
found his wife Catherine Yeager, aged 22,
lying dead in the yard with eight buck
shot wounds in her breast and left arm.
No clue to the assassin.
ADM I UAL SUM MLS.
In The Historical ton vent inn.
Montgomery White Sulpher Scrim, s ,
Va., August 17. —The Southern Historical
Society, Gen. Jubal A. Early presiding,
met yesterday, and after the transaction
of some routine business, Admiral R.
Semines, late commander of the Confed
erate cruiser Alabama, was introduced to
the Association, which he addressed.
Mr. Semines said : As he wished to cor
rect certain poiu's iu his own career which
had boeu assailed he felt honored at being
the first to address the association, and
excused himseif for seemingly being
egotistical, as he desired to vindicate his
own career. Men owe as duty to posteri
ty a correct record of the events ot their
times. Unbiased history could not he
written until the actors were hushed in
death, and participators could not be im
partial judges. But if they could not
write the history at least the data could
be furnished. He had been called pirate,
buccaneer, privateer. His was nothin;;
but a regularly commissioned ship. The
destruction of property ou laud, which
represented the necessaries, was not con
sidered by our enemy as robbery, but the
destruction of property at sea. which was
the wealth ol the nation, by him, was
called piracy. In olden times the destruc
tion of commerce was a slow matter, ami
the nation that succeeded m mos. damag
ing the other's commerce was generally
victorious; but it was not so slow since
the introduction of steam. It had
been his lot to command the first
steam frigate, aud her fame was duo to
this and not her commander. His war
rant for all he did on the high seas could
be found in the laws of nations, and still
more iu the acts of the federal navy. The
denial of belligerent rights to the .South
was farcial. The blockade aud the very
parole given them proved their rights as
belligerents. The Alabama being built in
England gave no claim to that govern
ment to hold her Again, she was armed
and eqniped out of England, Her com
mission was lead upon her quarter-deck,
aud her flag unfurled on the high seas
The federal government had for a year
before the purchase of the Alabama ne
gotiated with her builders for similar
vessels. He got her by paying more.
This fact he established by proof. To
refute ihe claim that England should have
held her when iu any British ports, he
referred to the war of Spain and the col
onies, aud the action of this government,
citing the Santissama Trinidad. He next
referred to the wars id' 177 G aud 1812.
He quoted extensively from Cooper and
cited Paul Jones and others. The part
taken by Franklin and the State of Mas
sachusetts in furthering nautical enter
prises, tho cases of tho Queen of France,
the Surprise, Revenge aud other casts as
analogous, were plainly dissected. In re
ferring to the Geneva Arbitration he
showed the difference betweu grandfather
and grandson; in ttie elder Adams using
money obtained from the sale, ot captflred
ships to aid the cause, aud Ihe other de
nying these rights, lie was charged with
not having a court of admiralty to sit on
his captures. His ow n ports being sealed,
he did the next best tiling he eouUl; he
constituted himself a district judge ami
held court in his cabin, and condemned
every ship before be burned it. lie re
ferred to bis arrest, and read extracts
from an article highly complimentary ot
himself from Judge Advocate Bowles,
from the Atlantic Monthly. He also
cited the case of ihe Bonhomme Richard,
Ac. He concluded that the history of this
country must be one. Our separate his
tory 7 would live a generation or so, but it
would only be an episode in that of the
country. The people would be justified
or condemned hereafter by the events
now transpiring. If this government was
merely to lie governed by the majority its
days were numbered. It would go as
other republics bad done. If that time
comes w o will be regarded with approving
eyes, having hazarded all we possess to
save the liberties of the people secured
by our forefathers. If the parly in power
took a new 7 departure, theu we would still
be looked upon as a people who hazarded
| their all for principle and honor, who
were superior to their worldly interests.
The war failed to deprive us of our coun
try. Nor are we without hope that we or
our posterity may carry us back to the
pure government of our fathers. We are
destined to live together as one people.
Let us show magnanimity to our enemies,
and where they deserve it let us join iu
the perpetuation of their fame. A soldier
cannot be a sectarian, aud be can advise
his brother soldier without losing any of
his love for the South. English history is
written, but there is no separate history
of the Red or White Roses. They were
only episodes, aud so would our war be iu
time to come. He was willing to leave
his history and that of the Alabama, the
Florida and Shenandoah to be written
w 7 hen there will be cherised no more
South, no more North. Let us then pre
serve our records and archives. Our so
ciety must not be sectarian. If our gov
ernment is to boa government, of the ma
jority, without constitutional restrictions,
our days are numbered, and when that
time comes we will be vindicated anil
honored for our struggle for constitution
al liberty; but if, on the other hand, we
come back to the constitution, as it was
understood by the Fathers of the Repub
lic, our course will commend itself to all
men.
CONVICTION OE THE MODOC’S.
To be Hung October 3rd.
Washington, Aug. 23. —-Proceedings of
the Military Commission over the Modocs:
Arranged, Capt. Jack, Sehonsclifh. Black
Jim, Boston Charley, Barncho alias One-
Eyed Jim, Rud Sloiuck alias Cok Modoc,
Indian captives. Charged, Ist, of milder,
in violation of the laws of war ; 2nd, as
sault, with intent to kill, in violation oi
the laws of war. The prisoners were
found guilty on all charges and specifica
tions and sentences. The commission does
therefore sentence them to be hanged by
the neck until they be dead, at such time
and place as the proper authorities shall
direct —two-thirds of the commission con
curring therein. The President approves
these sentences and orders that they be
carried into execution by the proper mil
itary authorities, under the orders of the
Secretary of War, on the 3rd of October,
1873. The War Department has issued a
general order enforcing the above sen
tences, to be executed by the Command
ing General at Fort Klammath.
FATAL STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION.
St. Helena, Ark , August 23. —The
steamer Geo. Walfe blew up at San
Francisco Island, about 2 o'clock yester
day evening. Twelve persons known to
be lost, fifteen wounded. Officers of
the boat all saved, except the second en
gineer, who was on watch at "the lime of
the explosion, is missing. All the lady
passengers were saved. Mr. Nelson,
from Shreveport for Memphis, was drown
ed. A deck passenger naaied Dawson,
with his wife and two children, bound
for Tupelo, Miss., were all killed. The
cabin of the boat was blown to pieces
The hull may be saved. Geo. Malone.
Captain of steamer.
later.
Memphis, August 23. —A second dis
patch from Helena, at 10 o’clock, says the
passengers and crew aboard the steamer
Wolfe is still on St. Francis Island wail
ing an up-river boat. No further partic
ulars can be obtained at present. The spot
where the steamer blew up is known t«
river men as Grave Yard, being at same
place'where the Pennsylvania and St. Nic
holas blew up, and McGill burned. Il‘ H
steamer Wolfe was from Shreveport,
La., for St. Louis.
THE M VS TER IES OFTHE MO RCA I
Philadelphia, August 21.— Disclosures
made by the Police Department to-day
reveal a sad state of affairs at the City
Morgue. The body of Thomas Mance. a
wealthy farmer of Washington county,
who left his home in the early part of
July last, has been found pickled in the
dissecting room of the University. It had
been sold to the college by someone con
nected with the Morgue. The family "f
the dead man w’ere in the city to day and
identified the body.
The discovery wus made by finding the
watch of the deceased in a pawnshop where
it had been pledged by one Wm. McEwen,
who was driver of the Coroner's wagon.
Mance was found drowned on the morn
ing of July 3d. McEwen removed the
body to the morgue the same day. On Ike
sth it found its way to the college. Mc-
Ewen has been arrested, and the investi
gation is being further pushed. The dep
uty coroner says he holds the receipt«'
the superintendent.
PATRONS OE HUSBANDRY'-
Boston, Aug. 21.—A number of
mostly grain merchants, at Youngs llote -
yesterday, organized a Boston grange"
the order of Patrons of Husbandry. “ 11 '
B. Bartlett was elected Master, and B e
bert Badcliff Secretary. The fuHnum-”'
of charter members obtained pernn ßS
from granges in all grain ports on 1
Atlantic coast.