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COLUMBUS,
J. H. MARTIN, Editor.
the negro vote. 1
United In the South Divided in the
North.
It is apparent that the negro vote of 1
the Southern States is at this time as com- ,
pletely under Radical control as it was
immediately after the war, when the j
carpet-baggers organized the negroes in
their secret “loyal leagues.” It is true
that in certain localities, at times, they
are distracted and divided by personal
squabbles, or kick up a little at the exac- !
tions of their carpet-bag leaders, but they
never break loose from the Radical party.
At this time they are organizing in sev- j
eral of the Southorn States for their ap
proaching elections, and are as compact
on the Itadical side as ever. This is es
pecially the case in Virginia, Texas and :
Mississippi. The Badical estimates of
their strength in Virginia and Texas show
that they rely almost exclusively upon the
negro vote, and that their only hope of
maintaining their party in the South is in
their ability to keep up the jealousies and
antagonisms of race and color. In Texas
the Badicals count only on the German
vote in some of the western counties for j
any considerable white support of their
ticket, and they admit that the German
vote is uncertain. We have the ealcula
tions of the Bichmond Journal (Badical
paper) as to the strength of its party in ■
Virginia. It says that “the colored vote j
may be counted a unit for the Bepubli
can ticket.” From this source it claims
00,000 votes. Then it says that “there
are 17,000 Northern-born (meaning car
pet-baggers arrived since the war) and
naturalized voters, of whom threo-fourths
may be counted as Itepublicans.” This
adds 12,000 more, and it says that if only
3,000 native white votes can be secured,
this will give the Bepublicans a majority
in the State. So it places all the 00,000 .
negroes on one side, and all the 103,000
white Southerners, except possibly 3,000,
on the other—a division of races as close
as that drawn in the days of “Iteconstruc
lion.” In Louisiana, as we have seen, I
the negroes rejected the overtures of
white Democrats, promising them equal
civil and political rights in all respects,
distinctly on the ground that they would
not give up their connection with the Re
publican party, though many of thorn ad
mit that that party has cheated and plun
dered them. So we may as well conclude
that Ephraim (or Ethiopia) is joined to
his idol, in the South at least. Whatever
our friends in Alabama may decide to do
about the “white man’s party” issue raised
there, the negroes will have a black man's
party, with as few white streaks in it as
we see in the Badical party in Virginia.
But in porlions of the North streaks of
light from dark places are visible; and
inusiuuch as the Northern negroes (having
long had the advantage of free schools)
aro presumed to be more intelligent than
their raco at the South, we may hope that
their example will have some influence
here. We have seen that the State Con
vention of colored men in Ohio repudiated
longer allegianco to the Badical party,
and declared the negro voters free to go
with any party that promised to do the
most for them. Subsequently a colored
meeting held in Cincinnati attempted to
repudiate the action of the State Conven
tion, but this aroused great opposition,
and it was doubtful to tell, in the confu
sion, which division had the majority.
But a still more significant revelation
of tho designs of the negroes of the North
is made by the Washington National
Republican (organ of Gen. Grant’s Ad
ministration) in an article on the 25th
inst. It says that “a black man’s party
has been organized under the name of the
‘Equal Bights Loaguo.’ The organiza
tion is secret, and all persons receiving
the support of the League are obligated
to vote for and sustain any and all meas
ures proposed in the interest of negroes.
The organization is said to be a branch of
ono in Pennsylvania, and to have been
organized here by a darkey professor of
Howard University, named Gruner.” The
Republican, of course, denounces the
movement, though we fail to find in its
strictures any terms more abusive than
those of “black traitors to the Republi
cau party” used by some Badicals in Ala
bama towards negroes who complain that
tho carpet-baggers appropriate to them
selves all the offices.
This fight is getting entertaining, as
well as hopeful, and we shall watch its
progress with interest.
A NEW KAIL HO AD SCHEME
The Borne, Atlanta u and Griffin papers
have made mentiou of a scheme of rail
road cß&aoHdation and diversion, that in
terests us of Columbus. The Griffin
JVtfif* of Wednesday states it thus: “We
have been informed that in all probability
a combination will be made with the
North and South road from Cedar Town
to Borne, and that the road bed of the
latter will be widened so as to accommo
date the broad guage. If this is done
there will only remain thirty-two miles of
grading to be done between Borne and
Carroltou, in Carroll comity. We have
no doubt but that the absorption by the
Griffin and North Alabama Company of
the Borne end of the North and South
road would he readily acceded to by the
city of Rome, the largest shareholder, and
the other stockholders.”
It will be remembered that at the late
meeting of the stockholders of the North
aud South Railroad, in this city, proposi
tions looking to the independent opera
tion or long lease of the Home end of the
road were considered, and we believe that
tho Directors wore authorized to act in
tho matter. Whether this ••absorption"
of the upper end of the road was then
contemplated, wo cannot say
We have no other information of the
scheme stated as above by the Griffin pa
per than what we have seen in our ex
changes, ami we bring it to the notice of
our citizens as one deserving their atten
tion.
THE GREAT BA L LOOS.
The managers inform us, in their cir
cular letter, that "the ascension will
probably take place between September
Ist and 12th," if the weather permits;
and that it will depend upou the state of
the weather whether a more definite an
nouncement of the time can be made be
fore the day of ascension. The entire
apparatus is now nearly completed, and
the machine is nearly double the size of
any balloon ever hitherto attempted.
With its completion the responsibility of
the managers of the Graphic ends, aud it
then devolves on the venturesome mro
nauts to attempt their perilous voyage.
Tickets of admission will entitle the re
cipients to witness the inflation and as
cension.
Success to the daring adventure!
The Atlanta Constitution of Wednes
day publishes an official recapitulation of
the cases of prosecution for violations of
the Revenue laws, in the United States
District Court for the Northern District
of Georgia, for the year ending June 30th,
1873. From this statement it looks very
much as if the legal officers or Revenue
agents for the Government had been ex
tensively prosecuting the people of upper
Georgia maliciously and without good
cause. The whole number of suits were
182, the convictions only 48, the cases
decided against the United States 54, the
dismissals by nol pros. 120, the number
settled before trial 0. For the Southern
District the show ing does not appear to
be so vindictive, viz: Total number of
suits 20, decided in fav«r of the United
States 13, decided aga; United States
1, settled or dismissed !*.
Memphis, August 28, —Jefferson Davis
has resigned the Presidency of the Caro
lina Lite Insurance Company.
NOTES TOE SLAVES.
The Decision on their Vitality.
The Atlanta Constitution brings us the
opinions of the Judges of tho Supreme
Court in the case to which we alluded the
other day. Chief Justice Warner and
Judge Trippe concurred in overruling the
order of the Suporior Court setting aside a
judgment on a note given for slaves on
the ground of its nullity ; and Judge Mc-
Cay dissented. We copy the opinion of
C. J. Warner below. It is confined to a
statement of the case and a declaration of
the error in the ruling of the Court below.
Judge Trippe, in his opinion, discussed
the question how far the statutes of limi
tation would bar judgments of this kind,
but his argument is so intricate, and the
statutes and suspensions appear to our
mind (not versed in the law) so compli
cated, that we cannot say explicitly with
in what dates he considers judgments or
notes of this kind now vital. We there
fore do not copy his opinion (which is
long), but again invite some lawyer to
analyze it and give us the pith in a con
densation which people generally will un
derstand. It is a matter of interest to
many people, if the notes and judgments
obtained before and during the war have
preserved their vitality by virtue of sus
pensions of the statutes of limitation, and
can now be enforced.
Judge MoCay balanced his dissenting
opinion upon this point: “As no motion
was made during the term to reconsider,
and no bill of exceptions was filed within
thirty days after the adjournment of Sep
tember Term 1869, it is my opinion that
both parties to that judgment are, by the
settled rules of law, and the universal
practice of courts, conclusively, presumed
to have acquiesced in the judgment; and
that any error of the J ndge at September
term, 1869, cannot be made an error of
September term, 1872 —so as thus to
save the party from his laches in not then
taking the steps provided by law, for cor
recting tho errors in law of the Judges of
the Superior Courts in the judgments they
render.
We find in the same paper the opinions
of the Judges upon a case nearly similar,
from Lee county, and from these opin- j
ions we get a clearer view of what they
respectively regard as the legal limita
tions governing such cases. In the case
from Lee, C. J. Warner contended that
the judgment of the Court below was not
an irregnlar or erroneous judgment, but
a void judgment, because it had no law
whatever to support it, and that the
plaintiff should have been allowed to have
his case reinstated on the docket. He
adduced authorities strongly supporting
this view. Wo copy from C. J. Warner’s
opinion:
That a great wrong has been done to
the plaintiff in the dismissal of his case
for the cause apparent on the face of the
judgment, must be admitted. Surely this
Court should not be anxious to perpetuate
that wrong by refusing to allow him to
set aside that judgment and reinstate his
ease on the docket whore it rightfully be
longs. The plaintiff’s right to make his
motion to have this pretended judgment
set aside, which the Court below held was
in his way, wa3 not barred by any
statute of limitations at the time
the motion was made. By the 3530
section of the Code, a motion may be
made to set aside a judgment at any
time within the statute of limitations,
that is to say, at any time within which a
judgment can be enforced according to
the statute of limitations applicable
thereto. Within what time must a judg
ment be enforced according to the statute
of limitations applicable thereto ? The
2863d section of the Code answers that
question when it declares, that no judg
ment shall be enforced after the expira
tion of seven years from the time of its
rendition, and that applies as well to
judgments rendered against a plaintiff, as
to judgments rendered against a defend
ant. The subject matter of legislation
in the 3530th section of the Code is judg
ments and nothing else, and the statute
of limitations mentioned therein has ref
erence alone to judgments, and to no
other subject matter; it has no reference
whatever to the statute of limitations
applicable to promissory notes, or to the
statute of limitations applicable to bills
of review or for anew trial in a Court of
equity, and there is no statute of limita
tions that can be made applicable to a
motion to set aside a judgment, but
that specified in the 2863d section of
the Code, unless we resort to judi
cial legislation, which the Constitu
tion of the State prohibits. When
the 3530th section of the Code
declares that a motion to set aside a judg
ment may be made at any time within the
statute of limitations, the true intent and
meaning thereof is, that the motion to
set aside the judgment may be made at
any time within which a judgment can be
enforced as limited by the 2863d section
of the Code. The practical effect of hold
ing that the plaintiff is barred of his right
to make the morion to have this pretend
ed motion set aside and his ease rein
stated upon the docket, will be to say to
him, it is true your case was wrongfully
dismissed from the docket of the Superio-
Court where it was rightfully entered,
without the authority of any law of the
land, as has been decided by the highest
judicial tribunal in the United States, but
you shall norihave any benefit from or
enjoying of the fruits of that decision
because you are barred, and this result is
accomplished by judicial legislation, there
being no statute of limitations applicable
| to this judgment which bars him of his
j remedy to have this pretended judgment,
which the Court below held was in his
| way, set aside- —inasmuch as seven years
had not expired from the date of the ren
: dition of this pretended judgment up to
I the time the motion was made to set it
i aside.
Judge Trippe, held in this case that it
was not brought within three years after
the order of dismsssal, and was therefore
barred. (The case first above named was
brought within three years—hence the
difference in his opinion on them.) He
said:
It will be observed that the motion to
reinstate was not made until nearly three
years after the note sued on—the cause of
action was barred by the statute of limi
tations. Nor was it made within three
years from the time the order of dismis
sal complained of was passed. Whether
under the right guaranted by section 3530
of the Code the words “witnin the statute
of limitations,” be construed to mean
three years, in analogy to the statute pre
scribing that period as the time within
which a bill lor anew trial must be
brought, or to mean that period within
which the plaintiff's cause of action would
be barred, this motion was not made in
time.
The views I have just presented in the
case of Prescott vs. Bennett, et al., in
which judgment has just been pronounc
ed, I refer to and repeat here. In that
opinion I confined the argument chiefly
to stating why the seven years iu which a
judgment would become dormant was not
applicable as a fixed invariable time, to
bar a motion to set aside, and why the
principle involved in the second rule
stated above, furnished in my opinion a
more equitable and correct rule.
Judge McCay concurred in the opinion
of Judge Trippe, but upon the ground
that the plaintiff ought to have moved,
not within three years, but at the term of
the court at which his ease was dismissed.
So it would appear that C. J Warner
applies only the statute of limitations of
seven years to judgments of this charac
ter; Judge Trippe contends that the mo
tion to reinstate dismissed judgments
ought to be made within three years after
the order of dismissal; and Judge McCay
that the motion ought to have been made
at the same term.
A question npon which we still lack
definite or authoritative information is
this: What effect do the several suspen
sions of the statutes of limitations have
npon the vitality of old judgments or
notes of this kind? To what periods do
they prolong their vitality?
The city election held in Apalachicola,
last week, resulted in a Democratic suc
cess by a considerable majority. W. T.
Orman was elected Clerk and Treasurer,
8. A. Floyd Councilman, and Thos. Gor
don, Maishal, by votes of 110 to 121 for
the Democratic candidates, and 71 to 84
for the Radicals.
News i» scarce in Minnesota; in the ef
fort to present something fresh, a Lanes
boro paper has found it necessary to pub
lish the Ten Commandments.
BVTLZR nr MASS ACS? SETTS.
OuT dispatched of yesterday show that
Ben. Butler is making a strong run for
the Radical nomination for Governor,
and has probably made sure of it. We
cannot say that we regret this. Such a
man as Butler as Governor of the emi
nently enlightened, Puritanical State of
Massachusetts, ought to open the eyes of
the people of the whole country to the
dishonor and absurdities to which pro
gressive Radicalism would lead them.
That he is a fit leader and exponent of ad
vanced Radicalism, will be evidenced by
his nomination and election in the most
advanced Radical State of the Union.
A report of Butler’s speech at Worces
ter on the 26th proves him to be the apt
est demagogue that has yet appeared
before the American people. It is Mark
Antony improved and enlarged. Ben be
gan by quoting from the New Orleans
Picayune, in 1861, a statement that he
was the son of a negro barber who emi
grated from this country to Liberia, and
was a native of Liberia. Next he read
President Davis’ proclamation offering
SIO,OOO for Butler’s capture and delivery
to the Confederate authorities, and said
that this proclamation was ahead of Hoar’s
attack ou him. Then he told a tale of a
South Carolina lady wanting to spin the
cord to make the rope to hang him when
Jeff Davis caught him. All of which Ben
worked up to show that he was the worst
vilified and most persecuted patriot that
ever lived. Then he read a vote of
thanks passed to him by the Legislature
of Massacusetss in 18G3, and approved
by Gov. Andrew, for his administration
in New Orleans; also a testimonial signed
by leading men in New York, in 1864,
thanking him for his services; also Kev.
Henry Ward Beecher’s nomination of
him (Butler) for the Presidency—all go
ing to show that the nation, and Massa
chusetts especially, was under a deep debt
of obligation to him.
It is hardly necessary to say that Butler
secured the delegates from Worcester by
this speech, and by similar speeches is
securing and will secure delegates all over
the Slate. His triumph will cap tfie cli
max of Massachusetts’ boasts of intelli
gence and purity superior to that of other
States, and evenly divide her highest hon
ors between the demagogue and the fa
natic.
A C UTtIOVS MISTAKE.
Some of the papers preferring the At
lantic and Tennessee canal project to the
Gulf Coast water way have conceived the
strange notion that the latter, being a
somewhat longer line, will require more
time for the transportation of freights,
and that the charges must consequently
be higher. The very reverse is the truth.
It is the length of eanalling that will
consume the time and add to the cost.
The Gulf Coastline will not have more
than twenty or thirty miles of canal be
tween the cities of the Ohio or upper
Mississippi and the Apalachicola river;
consequently steamboats could run the
whole distance at full speed for all except
these few miles. On the other hand, the
Tennessee and Atlantic project would re
quire at leaßt two sections of canals with
many locks, and a total length of es.na!
not less than one hundred aud fifty miles.
The canal sections alone would require
nearly as much time and involve a
greater cost than tho whole Gnlf
Coast line. We believe that on
the New York and Erie Canal, about a
week is generally required to carry a boat
through, and this will give an idea of the
delay that would be encountered in ship
ping by the Tennessee and Atlantic canal,
if cut through a rough country. So great
is tho need for faster time on the
Erie canul, the State has offered a pre
mium of SIOO,OOO to the discoverer of
some means of propelling boats through
by steam, at a fair rate of speed, and it
is said that a number of contestants will
compete for the premium at the trial in
October or November. The success of
any one of them is doubtful. Canals are
safe but slow lines of communication,
and a steamer can make twelve miles on
a good river or sound to two on a canal
with locks. The Gulf Coast Water Way
would be found the swiftest and cheapest
freight line of the two, beyond a doubt.
G JtASI A SVO XNCED FOR A THIRD
TERM.
The dispatch which we copy below is a
special to the New York Tribune. It
bears date Washington, August 25. Com
ing from the source named, it must be
regarded as a formal entering of Gen.
Grant for the Badical nomination for a
re-election. That it has the President’s
approval—or at least that he has express
ed no disapproval to persons known to
be in his confidence —is an almost irresis
tible conclusion. We fully believe that
Gen. Grant is willing to accept, and that
he will be tendered a nomination for a
third term. As we have heretofore taken
occasion to say, he can get the support of
every Southern State in the Radical nom
inating Cenvention, through the negro
vote, which constitutes the bulk of the
Radical strength in the South. If, in
addition to the South, he can get only
two or three Northern States of good size,
his nomination will be secured. Would
i it not be an act of retributive justice
! if the negro vote should so soon be used
1 to overcome the Radical sentiment of the
North, and perhaps tc divide and defeat
the party ?
The following is the Tribune'sdisv&tch :
The Administration organ concludes a
three column article, to-morrow morning,
with a distinct declaration that President
Grant should be put before the people for
re-eleothm. Il says that if he desires the
Presidency for a third term lie can have
it, for the people have learned to trust
the hand that has guided the Ship of State
safely through so iu my perils, and they
will keep him at the helm as long as exi
gences of the State may need him and his
willingness to serve the country may
make him available. The article also
points out the fact that a third term was
offered Washington by Congress and the
Legislatures of several States, while Jef
ferson, Madison, and Monroe were each
formally urged by the Legislatures and
political bodies to serve a third term.
New Narrow Gauge Railroad Near
Atlanta to be Completed in Two Months.
—Our citizeus will be astonished to learn
that a narrow gauge railroad is to he im
mediately built, running from a point on
the Air-Line rudroad, thirteen miles from
Atlanta, to Roswell, Ga.
The objeet is to develop the manufac
turing aud agricultural interests of that
section. The contract has been let out to
Grant, Alexander & Cos. The building
forces will begin on Monday morning to
work. The road is to be completed with
in sixty days.
The above information we get from Mr.
Roswell King, who favored us with a visit
yesterday.
The road is the Atlanta and Roswell
Railroad. Mr. Roswell King is President
and Judge David Irwin, Treasurer.— At.
Const. 29.
We now regularly receive Atlanta and
Columbus (Ga.) papers at half past twelve
o’clock on their publication days. The
Constitution , Herald and Sun of Friday
■morning, 29th instant, were on our table
at half- past twelve o’clock yesterday.—
Selma Times, 60th.
And the Selma Times containing the
above item was on our table by three
o'clock p. m. yesterday, the day of its
publication. We hope that our Alabama
friends will always be as near to us.
A private letter from Pensacola, Fia.,
to one of the employees of the Selma
Times states that the yellow fever is pre
vailing to an awful extent. The letter is
dated 26th instant, and states that there
were sixty cases that day in Pensacola.
A New Domestic Fowl.—Californians
are boasting of anew domestic fowl, the
chaparal cock or churra, which is easily
domesticated, and when properly cooked
is superior to chicken for eating. The
churra is about the size of a curlew, with
a top-knot, and a long tail of beautiful
colored feathers. It is a great enemy to
snakes and vermin.
6EOEOIA TEWS.
The first bale of Sea Island cotton was
received in Savannah on Saturday. It
was grown in Alachua county, Fla., and
was of fine staple.
The Athens Georgian tells a remarka
ble story about a man near that place who
went fishing on Sunday, and npon at
tempting to leave the rock where he had
been setting, found himself immovably
fastened. He called it a judgment of the
Lord, and the Georgian says he is still
fixed to the rock.
The Augusta Constitutionalist hears of
counterfeit nickles circulating in its city,
made by splitting the genuine coin and
filling up with a "baser” metal. That is
counterfeiting on the smallest scale yet
practised. How the rogue could make his
salt at it is the puzzle.
The editor of the Athens Watchman is
satisfied from personal observation that
there never were batter crops in Walton
county than at present—that there is “the
best average crop known for years."
After taking a ride to the neighboring
farms, the Griffin News says: “All the
patches around the city, as well as the
crops through the country, are very fine,
but from the best information we can
gather, we are satisfied that such an over
whelming yield, as some anticipate, will
not be made.”
Says the Gwinnett Herald of Wednes
day : “It is estimated that the corn crop
of Gwinnett this year will be sufficient, if
equally divided, to furnish thirty seven
bushels of corn to each man, woman and
child in the county.”
That tolls a condition of the farmers
that makes them independent. They can
afford to make a big cotton crop next
year, and they will do it.
Several gentlemen caught a beaver with
a seine, in a lake near Sandersville the
other day. The animal weighed forty
pounds. *
Crawford county has nearly twenty-one
thousand acres in cotton, and a little over
fifteen thousand in com.
Schley county returns 15,636 acres in
cotton, 13,392 in com, 762 in wheat, 785
in oats, 500 acres in peanuts, and smaller
crops of cane, potatoes, &c.
Hon. Carter Campbell, one of the oldest
aud most respected citizens of Madison,
died on Thursday night.
Important Reduction op Bates. —The
Central Railroad is sending out to the
merchants a circular which makes con
siderable reduction on freights to points
South of Atlanta. The rates between here
and points on the road to Macon, remain
much the same. To points on the South
western road, some fifteen to twenty per
cent, reduction has been made.— Atlanta
Constitution, ‘6oth.
ALABAMA NEWS.
The two papers of Opelika, of yester
day’s date, make somewhat conflicting re
ports of the present condition of the cot
ton crops of Lee county. The Locomo
tive says: “The weed is fine, but the fruit
is not at all abundant, and what there is
of it is being rapidly destroyed by the
boll worm. This worm is doing great
damage. We have heard more complaints
from it than from the common caterpil
lar. Altogether the crop is anything but
pleasant to think of. ” The Observer says:
“Up to the present time we are inclined
to the opinion, from the information we
have been able to gather from various
sources, that the dan; age to the crops is
not very great.”
An intelligent gentleman expressed the
opinion to the Locomotive that salt and
water (brine) would drive away the cotton
worm.
Montgomery had received seven bales
of the new crop up to yesterday. The
Advertiser says that by this time last year
not less than three hundred had been re
ceived.
The several Courts of Russell county
meet as follows :
Chancery Court meets 3rd Monday in
May and 3rd Monday in November.
Circuit Court meets Ist Monday in May
and Ist Monday in November.
Criminal Court meets first Monday iu
July and Ist Monday in December.
County Court meets the 4sh Monday of
each month.
Probate Court meets 2nd Monday of
each month.
Commissioners Court meets 2nd Mon
days in Febuary and August, Ist Monday
in April and November.
At its meeting, the Commissioners’
Court of Bussell, established an election
precinct at Jernigan, in the lower part of
the county.
The Bussell Recorder of the 28th, re
ports caterpillars gradually appearing and
increasing,and fears that in some localities
the damage will be of a serious character.
It also hears much complaint of rust.
The Montgomery Advertiser of the
29th says of its county: “The destruc
tion of the cotton crop by caterpillars has
been very thorough in this county. Plant
ers are already turning off employees for
whom they have no longer any employ
ment. It will hardly exaggerate the losses
of the planters of Montgomery county to
say that they will not now gather one bale
of cotton where ono month ago they had
a flattering promise of three. It is terri
ble—no other word can begin to do jus
tice to the subject.”
The Dadeville Head Light of Thurs
day says the cotton caterpillar has made
its appearance iu nearly every portion of
Tallapoosa county. The Tallapoosa News
of the same date makes more complaint
of the boll worm.
Tlie Head Light also says: “Every
train carries a large quantity of hands to
the contractors on '.lie Savannah and
Memphis Railroad, beyond the Tallapoosa
river;” and it says that hopes are enter
tained of the completion of the bridge
over the Tallapoosa between this time
and Christmas next.
It is computed by those competent to
judge, that there will not be made enough
cotton in Montgomery county to pay
taxes.— Mont. Journal.
But taxes are distressingly high in Ala
bama, and especially in Montgomery. It
is a State in which a negro is supremely
independent, because he can vote without
paying iaxes, and the whites have there
fore to foot the whole bill.
Parties from the upper portion of Henry
county and others from tho other side of
the river say that the cotton is eaten up.
AH is made that will be made.— Eufaula
News, 2ith.
Another “Ktt-Klux” Case.—United
States Commissioner W. B. Smith had
before him yesterday two cases of alleged
violation of the Enforcement Act, more
commonly known in this part of the great
Republic as Ku-Klux cases. The defend
ants are John S. Crocket, white, and
George Crumley, colored. The prosecu
tor, as usual, is a negro, named Daniel
Johnson. The facts of the case as set
forth by the prosecutor, for no official
examination has‘yet been made, are that
Crocket is the owner of a plantation in
Henry county npon which be and Crumley
are tenants. That, at the recent election
upon the “fence law issue” he failed to
vote the way Crocket and Crumley wanted
him to vote, and since then, with a view
of possessing themselves of his present
crops, and other earnings, they have con
spired together, and compelled him to
leave his place by threats against his life,
and that they have cursed him out and
rocked his house on several occasions.
This tale may be true, and it may not,
but the United States Court will soon in
vestigate it, as that Court convenes on
Monday next. The prisoners waived pre
liminary examination before the Commis
sioner, and gave a joint bond of $2,000
for their appearance.— Atlanta Constitu
tion, 30 til.
Pick, Pack and Sell Early,—The
planter cannot afford to hotd his crop on
speculation. It is not only a matter of
compulsion, but it is to his interest to
pick, pack and sell his cotton as rapidly
as it opens. Rings do not take shape till
the receipts begin to indicate the general
crop, and consequently the stealing pres
sure is not so great for the first sixty
days of the season, as it is after that pe
riod.
The planter who first gets out his cot
ton and first puts it upon the market, is
like the early bird, and fattens on his in
dustry and judgment. Staple and color
are uninjured by the weather: weights
are better, and nine times out of ten the
price is fifteen to thirty per cent, more
satisfactory.
These are some of the reasons why,
upon general principles, we earnestly urge
our neighbors and friends to loose no
time in preparing their cotton for, and
placing it upon the market. But just
now there are especial reasons for this
policy. The crop may be larger than last
year in the United States, and if we are
to credit reports from abroad the foreign
product will greatly exceed any previous
year. Should our crop turn out to be
half a million of bales in excess of ’72-’73,
the Rings and Corners will manage to so
distort the problem of supply and demand
as to pluck the profits from the tillers.
It is, therefore, our earnest and consci
entious advice to pick, pack and sell as
fast a3 the staple opens. —Albany News.
THE OLD WORLD.
THE INSURGENTS IN CARTAGENA.
Madrid, Aug. 28. —A dispatch from
Alicante to-day says the insurgent iron
clad frigates Humancie and Mendez Hu
nez left Cartagena harboi on Sunday last,
and proceedea to the offing to attack the
Spanish Bepublican fleet, under command
of Admiral Labos. The Government
vessels could not be found, and the insur
gents squadron returned to Cartagena.
The Humancie and Mendez Hunez are
now posted at the entrance of the harbor,
with steam up, ready for immediate ac
tion.
Vice Admiral Sir Hastings Yelverton,
commander of the Meridian squadron,
still retains possession of thelntransigente
vessels, Victoria and Almanzia, which
were captured off Malaga. The Intransi
gentes in Cartagena are very resolute, and
are rendering the place impregnable. —
Their only danger is from internal dis
cord.
The members of the moderate party
have requested foreign Consuls to obtain
amnesty for them riom the Madrid Gov
ernment.
Carutgoua is completely mfested on all
the land sides by Republican troops un
der command of Gen. Martinez Cauipos.
It is reported that a mutinous spirit
prevails iu the squadron under Adimrui
Labos.
SPANISH AFFAIRS.
Madrid, August 28.—Tho artillery men
of Barcelona garrison, who maintained,
and endeavored to bring about a general
revolt, have been tried by court martial,
and twelve of the most guilty
to death and thirty to transportation to
penal colonies.
It has been ascertained that the(cargo
landed on the coast of Biscay by the
stqamer Deer Hound consisted of con
demned American small arms.
Tho Government has information which
leads to the belief that the Carlists and
Intransigentes are acting in concert.
Bayonne, August 28. —Don Carlos has
issued stringent orders against inter
ference by his forces with railroad com
munication. The penalty of death has
been decreed for violation of this order.
The Carlists are repairing telegraph
lines iu Northern Provinces.
Madrid, August 29.—The Cartagena
insurgents have liberated all the Carlist
prisoneis iu that city. The Carlists, in
turn, liberate all the Communist prison
ers who happen to fall into their hands.
Many of the Communists who have been
implicated in the recent exercises are flee
ing to the Carlists lines and enlisting
with Gen. Coupas, who has twenty-four
Krup guns in position before Cartagena.
SPAIN.
The British and the Insurgents.
New York, August 30. —A Herald spe
cial, dated Cartagena, says the British
Admiral, YMverton, informs the rebels of
his intention to move the Victora and Al
manza to Gibraltar. At a meeting of the
rebels, a majority decided to fire from the
forts in case the removal of Spanish ships
is attemped. The Admiral gives forty
eight hours warning, and threatens to
bombard Cartagena if the forts firs upon
the ships.
THE CORTES.
Madrid, August 30.—A majority of the
Cortes in caucus resolved to suspend tha
session from the Ist September to the 3d
November, and pass a vote of confidence
in the Ministers before adjournment.
Hidalgo.
Madrid, August 30. —It is asserted that
Hidalgo will be appointed Minister to the
United States.
Another Aspirant for the Spanish Throne.
A rumor is current that Alphonzo,
Prince of Asturias, will shortly attempt
succession to the throne on Spanish soil.
Carlists Defeated.
Telegrams from the North announce
the defeat of Savalls, after four hours
fighting.
The Black Blag.
Yesterday General Campos summoned
the Cart ha gen a insurgents to surrender.
They answered by hoisting a black flag
on their works. As yet, operations be
fore the town on the land side amounted
to a slight skirmish.
It is reported that the insurgents have
agreed if hard pushed to deliver some
forts to the Carlists, on condition that all
the Carlists at Valencia, some 4,000 in
number, will join the insurgents in an
attack on the Republican troops.
SIEGE RESUMED.
Bayonne, Aug. 30: —The Carlists forces j
have resumed the siege of Biiboa.
THE IRON QUESTION.
London, August 29. —The Times this
morning has an editorial on the iron
question, the burthen of which is that
one of the finest markets England ever
possessed in the trade of iron is being
gradually closed to her. Her disasters in
this direction are not ended. The United
States are competing successfully for the
control of the iron traffic with Canada,
South America and the West Indies. They
have contested under immense national
disadvantages, but have beaten Eugland
in spite of these. She cannot afford to
idle and sleep away her time and waste
her money while competing with thrifty,
active and intelligent nations. The Times
thinks much of the blame for the state
of things it describes should fall upon
the strikers and trades unions.
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FRENCH AFFAIRS.
Paris, August 28.—A special session of
the Cabinet Council was held yesterday
to consider what measures the Govern
ment may take to allay the trouble caused
by the high price of bread. It has not
yet transpired that any definite action
was determined upon, but it is reported
the Cabinet were of opinion the Govern
ment is authorized to abolish discrimina
ting duties as to cereals without convok
ing the Assembly for legislative action
upon the subject.
Paris, Aug. 28.—During the past three
months the French railroads have sold
360,(MX) tickets to religious pilgrims.
FRANCE.
Trial of Marshal Bazine.
Paris, Aug. 30. —The trial of Marshal
Bazine will be held at Triana, and will
commence on the 6th of October. The
Journal Des Debath has a significant ar
ticle from the pen of M. Lemrone in
which the writer expresses the opinion
that a Republic is impossible, and that
France must have a Liberal Monarchy.
Count De Chambord can follow the ex
amples of Louis XVIII, and grant a Con
stitutional Charter, but if not, monarchy
under Chambord is as impossible a« a
Republic.
The Government has issued a decree
returning grain and flour from surtax or
addition importal,levied on accountofthe
war indemnities from the bonding duty.
NO REPUBLICAN DEMONSTRA
TI ION.
Paris, August 30. —A circular has been
sent to prefects of departments forbidding
demonstrations on the September anni
versary of the proclamation of the Re
public.
WAR INDEMNITY.
Paris, Aug. 30 —It is reported that the
Government will pay to Germany the last
installment of the war indemnity on the
14th of October.
ATLANTIC CABLE.
London, Aug. 28.—Capt. Halpin w rites
from the Great Eastern that the broken
cable has been grappled and raised to the
surface at a point designated by eleotri
cians, but upon testing the wires the fault
was found to be still to the eastward. The
Great Eastern had experienced adverse
weather, with alternate fogs and gales,
which rendered the work of grappling ex
ceedingly difficult, but Capt. Halpin is
sanguine the fault will soon be found and
remedied.
THE WORLD’S CHESS MATCH.
Vienna, August 30.— 1n the duel chess
match, Steenitz won the first, Blackburn
the second, Anderson the third and Rosen
thal the 4th prize.
REBELLION IN FEGEE ISLANDS.
London, August 29. —Late advices from
the Fegee Islands are to the effect that a
rebellion has broken out, and that the
rebels murdered a number of white set
tiers.
EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, August 30. —A heavy
earthquake at San Jose caused excite
ment. No damage. It was heavy at
towns south; slight here. j
BUTLER’S FIR.SI VICTORY- Tilt
REPUBLICAN WARD
MEETINGS.
Boston, August 26. —General Butler
has achieved his first triumph in the gu
bernatorial campaign. At the meeting of
the Executive Committee of the Republi
can Ward and City Committee, held to
day, next Friday evening was fixed as the
time for holding the Republican caucuses
throughout the city for the choice of del
egates to the Worcester Convention that
meets on the 10th of September. This
date was selected by the Butler party
here, and the purpose of it, as alleged by
the Hoar or anti-Butler wing of the Re
publicans, is to take advantage of the ab
sence from the city of many citizens who
usually take active part in the primary
meetings, and by securing, it is expected,
a large number of Butler delegates to in
fluence the rural districts in their choice
of delegates.
The Hoar party naturally think this
precipitate action unjust towards the
friends of Air. Washburn, and regard the
short notice—only two days—as stealing
a march on the citizens.
The number of delegates to be chosen
is ninety-four. Butler’s adherents expect
to secure three-quarters of the whole
number at least, and under certain condi
tions he may get the whole of them.
The recent operations of the State police
has tended to get up the “mad” of our
foreign citizens, who, especially the Ger
mans, at Worcester, intend to go against
the Washburn par tv at the primaries.—
N. Y. World.
Boston, Aug. 30. —A summary of re
sults thus far, including Boston, show
Butler has 113 and Washburn 33 delegates
to the State Convention.
Worcester, August 30. —All Butler del
egates elected.
Boston, August 30.—Butler has sixty
two of ninety delegates from this city.
Lynn and Lowell are unanimous for
Butler.
RESOLUTIONS OE THE PEXXSYL
VANIA DEMOCRATIC CONVEN
TION.
WiLKESBARiiE, Aug. 27. —The conven
tion adopted a series of resolutions, pre
faced as follows :
Resolved, That the Democratic party
of Pennsylvania, believing that the plat
form of the late Democratic State Con
vention of Ohio is sound in principle, do
hereby resolve ["here follow the resolutions
adopted by the Ohio Democratic State
Convention of August (1, with the excep
tion that in the first resolution of the
Ohio platform the following words are
omitted: “It insists that our tariff laws
should be formed with a view to revenue
and not to tax the community for the
benefit of particular industries.”]
The following additional resolution w'as
adopted:
Resolved, That we will no longer tame
ly submit to the repetition of the election
frauds by which the will of the people ex
pressed at the ballot-box has been sub
verted for some years past, and that the
Democratic State Central Committee be
directed to use all their efforts to prevent
the repetition of these outrages on the
franchises of the people, and if, in spite
of their efforts to secure an honest elec
tion, the popular will is again fraudulent
ly overborne, to adopt sitch measures as
W'iil result in certain vindication of the
rights of the legal voters of the Common
wealth.
THE MISSISSIPPI REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION.
Jackson, August 30. —The Republican
Convention adopted a platform declaring
it unnecessary to adopt new dogmas, but
simply renew their expression of steadfast
faith in the Republican party; opposed
burdening the reconstruction of Missis
sippi with the repudiated Planters’ and
Union Bank bonds, and pledges the party
to resist by all lawful means the assump
tions by the State of any such debts: op
posed granting to railroad or other corpo
rations, the fund devoted to the State by
Congress for educational purposes, and
demands a repeal by the next Legislature
of such grants already made. Favors
biennial meetings of the Legislature, as
serts equal rights to children in public
schools, and pledges the party to enforce
such right by appropriation by the Legis
lature, and to support the present school
system thus explained. Endorses R. C.
Powers, present Governor.
A resolution to endorse the Kellogg
Government of Louisiana was received
with such demonstrations of hostility that
many withdrew. Gen. Ames was intro
duced and made a short speech saying,
among other things, that if elected Gov
ernor, and during liis term of office any
bill looking to the payment of the repu
diated debt, or opening the question in
any way, shall come up, he most cer
tainly will veto it.
The Convention adjourned sine die at
8 o’clock last evening.
A TWO MILLION DEFALCATION.
New York, August 28.—Late last night
it was ascertained that the Brooklyn city
treasury had heen robbed of a large
amount of money, and that Rodman, late
Assistant City Treasurer and Secretary of
the Trust Company, was the guilty party.
Rodman acting in his double capacity
was enabled to cover up all deficits by
making false statements concerning the
amount of city money on deposit with
the Trust Company. The total defalca
tion is $2,203,000. Sprague, the Treas
urer, is responsible for the loss. He has
sold his stock in the Brooklyn Eagle for
$55,000. His bondsmen are fully respon
sible and the city will not lose. It is said
that Sprague’s bondsmen have pledged
themselves to make good any deficiency,
and that Sprague has made an assignment
of all his property to the city, even to
his household goods. There are those
who assert that Mills, of the Brooklyn
Trust Company, who was drowned at
Coney Island, was implicated with Rod
man in this defalcation.
RODMAN ARRESTED.
New York, August 2:).—Rodman has
been arrested.
CORN CROP IN THE WEST.
Chicago, August 23.—The Tribune has
crop reports from about forty counties in
Illinois, embracing the greater part of the
corn growing portion of the State, and
from twenty counties in different parts
of lowa. With the exception of half the
counties in Illinois, all put the corn crop
at only from a half to two-thirds average
yield, though in some localities where the
yield will be short there is a greater aver
age planted than usual. Reports from
lowa vary similarly to those in Illinois.
The drought has injured corn very mate
rially and the season is so far advanced
that rain now would hardly benefit it.
A STARTLING ESCAPE THE
GRAVE.
Baltimore, Md., Aug. 27.—A dispatch
from Westminister, Md., says: Wm. A.
Matthias, aged 22 years, died as was sup
posed, at 3 o’clock Sunday evening, of
brain fever. The body was placed on
ice. Yesterday when the family had as
sembled for the funeral services it was
noticed the skin had assumed a natural
appearance, and an examination showed
life was not extinct. Physicians were
called and Matthias is recovering.
ANXIETY ABOUT FORT SILL.
St. Louis, August 30. —Latest Fort Sill
advices state that but three companies
are garrisoning the fort. The balance
have gone to suppress Indian disturbances
on the Texas border. There is much
anxiety in families who have relatives
there.
Washington, Aug. 30.—The Interior
Department is still without advices from
Fort Sill. The report is generally dis
credited.
WANT A SHARE IN THE SPOILS.
Baltimore, Aug. 28. —A large mass
meeting of colored citizens dissatisfied
with the distribution of Federal patronage
here, was held in Montgomery square to
night to take into consideration a call for
a meeting of said political condition of
voters in the city and State and adopt
measures to secure the legitimate fruits of
right of suffrage. A number of speeches
were made and resolutions adopted con
demning the leaders of the Republi
can party here for ignoring their best
friends, the niggers, and denouncing the
party in the city and State.
A PRESENT TO THIERS.
New York, August 28.—A meeting of
French citizens resolved to present Thiers
a if. 1,000 copy of Irving’s Life of Wash
ington, with a suitable address.
LIBEL SUIT.
New' Orleans, August 28.—W. W.
Howard, of Louisiana Supreme Court,
sues the New Orleans Times for SIO,OOO,
for libel.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
RAISING THE GHOST OE MRS.
SURRATT.
Washington, Aug. 26. —Judge Auvo
cate General Holt publishes in the t/i ron ~
icle to-day a statement defending himself
from charges that ho, when presenting
the record of the trial of Mrs. Surratt to
President Johnson, withheld from him a
petition signed by five members of the
court recommending, in consideration of
her age and sex, commutation of hei
death sentence to imprisonment for life.
The communication embraces a letter
from Judge Holt to Secretary Belknap
denying in toto the assertions referred to,
and offering as proofs of his innocence
letters from Judge Bingham, ex-Attornoy
General Speed, Hon. James Harlan, Rev.
Dr. Butler, pastor of St. Paul s Church,
and many others, all of which are to the
effect that the record of trial and the pe
tition in favor of Mrs. Surratt were in the
President’s office before the execution of
the conspirators. Judge Bingham s letter,
dated Feb. 17, 1873, states that having
drawn up the petition on behalf of Mrs.
Surratt, and having after her execution
heard the report that it had been withheld
from the President, he called on the Sec
retaries of State and War, Seward and
Stanton, and was assured by them that
communication haTl been before the
President and been duly considered by
him and his advisers before the death sen
tence upon Mrs. Surratt had been ap
proved and that the President and cabi
net upon such consultation were a unit in
denying the prayer of the petition.
the new house of repre
sentatives.
Washington, August 24. —Many of the
members of the new Congress have al
ready drawn pay. The Clerk of the
House has prepared a list of those whose
seats are unconi ested and who are enti
tled to salary without question. Some
interest is already expressed here con
cerning the organization of the House.
Gentlemen who have given the subject
consideration say there seems to be no
contest with regard to the re-election of
Mr. Blaine as Speaker, Mr. McPherson
as Clerk and Mr. Buxton as Doorkeeper.
It is not certain that Mr. King will be a
candidate for re-election as Postmaster.
The most serious opposition will be
against Mr. Ordway for Sergeant-at-Arms,
arising from local causes in Washington;
but his friends, nevertheless, assert that
he will be successful in his canvass. — N.
Y. Herald.
RADICA L JOBBERS.
Special to the Cincinnati Gazette.
Washington, August 25.—Gen. Butler
is known as a claimant in Washington as
well as in Massachusetts. The Lower
California Company, of which he is Presi
dent, has one of the heaviest claims now
pending before the Joint Mexican and
American Commission in this city. It
covers a contract under the sanction of
the Mexican government for the surveys
in Sonora, by which the company claims
the title of twenty millions of acres in
that State, worth probably several times
as many dollars. The briefs in the case
have all been submitted to the counsel on
each side, including some of the ablest
lawyers in the country, and a decision is
expected at an early day. Associated
with Gen. Butler in this enterprise are
Caleb Cushing, Augustus Schell, and Wm.
R. Traverse, of New York, and John A.
Logan, of Illinois, Vice-President of the
company.
THE MONOPOLY PARTY IN CALI
FORNIA.
Special to the Louisville Courier Journal.
Washington, Aug. 25.—We1l informed
persons just, arrived from California speak
very confidently of the defeat of the Cen
tral Pacific Railroad and Monopoly party
in that State. The Democratic candidates
for the Legislature are nearly all anti-rail
road men, and it is thought that in the
northern part of the State they will gen
erally be elected. In some of the strong
Republican counties the anti-railroad
ticket, composed equally of Republicans
and Democrats, will sweep the field. No
doubt is entertained of San Francisco
county going against the railroad monop
olists, if the opposition there can be unit
ed on one legislative ticket. The feeling
in the State is so strong as to override all
the customary arts of corruption by the
railroad, and it is believed that either Sen
ator Casserly or Governor Booth will be
eleeted United States Senator, with the
chances in favor of the former. Both are
strong in their opposition to the railroad
dynasty. The election comes off early in
September.
WA S UING TON ITEIIS.
Washington, August 23. —The distri
bution of SBOO,OOO pensions commences
Thursday. The biennial examination of
pensioners also commences Thursday.
Surgeons are instructed to conduct the ex
amination.
The Postoffice Department is quarrel
ing with contractors over the inferior
quality of postal cards.
Chief Engineer A. J. Kiersted, of Nor
folk, has been appointed Inspector of Ma
chinery vice J. Kimball, who was ordered
to report to the North Pacific squadron.
The Northern train is an hour and a
half behind—missing connection inland
but connecting on the coast.
TUE WA WA SS E T REPORT.
Washington, Ang. 23. —The report of
the Wawasset steamboat commission is in
the hands of the Secretary of the Treasu
ry. Though not yet officially promulga
ted, it is understood that the first thing
recommended is the prosecution of the
Potomac Ferry Company for employing
in their service a captain and mate known
to them to bo unlicensed officers and in
violation of the existing rules governing
the steamboat service of the United
States. It also condemns them for allow
ing either the officers or crew of the Wa
wasset to engage as hucksters in the trafic
of melons, fruits, vegetables, etc., the
products of the Virginia and Maryland
shores. It recommends the prosecution
of Captain Woods and the mate, Mr. Gar
nett, for accepting and serving in their
respective positions in violation of the
steamboat law, holding that ignorance in
eithe’ - case is no excuse. It is also under
stood that the report recommends the re
vocation of the license of the engineer
for engaging iu business as a trader and
for his failing to apply such means as
were at his command to check the course
of the fire. The officers are also con
demned for not making an attempt to
distribute the life preservers and lowering
tho metalic life boat, also for failing to
have a fire organization. The commis
sion will report that in their opinion the
origin of the fire is a mystery.
ARMS FOR GEORGIA.
Washington, Aug. 2'). —Geu. Young,
member of Congress and agent for tie
State of Georgia, receipted to-day for $35,-
000 worth of arms for that State. The
allowance includes one battery of artille
ry, several thousand stands of small arms
and 300 pistols and sabres for cavalry,
and fixed ammunition and equipments
that may be necessary. General Young
reports that the arms he has secured are
of the most improved styles.
WISCONSIN RADICALS.
Madison, August 28. —The Republican
Convention nominated C. C. AVashburne
for Governor. A resolution was adopted
denouncing the increase of salary and de
manding its repeal; .recommended the
Board of Railroad Control to regulate
transportation.
CATTLE DISF.ASE.
St. Louis, Aug. 28. —Some twenty-five
cows have died here within a few days
from Spanish fever, or Texas cattle dis!
ease. Every precaution is taken to pre
vent the spread of the plague.
GREAT MEETING OF GRANGERS.
St. Louis, Aug. 27.—An immense meet
ing of grangers and veterans of the Mexi
can war, was held to-day at Sweet Spring,
near Brownsville, Missouri. Many came
from a great distance. A good many
prominent men, including members of
the Legislature and members of the press
were also in attendance.
ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS.
New York, August 28.—The World
says a Colonization Society of Port Royal,
S. C., has entered into a contract with the
Italian Labor Exchange, of this city, by
which fifty Italians will be sent to Pott
Royal each month.
A JUDGE MURDERED.
Little Rock, Aug. 20. —Judge Eiisha
Meurs, of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, hold
ing Court at Clarksville, Johnson county,
was mortally wounded while going home
}o dinner. He died at 1 o’clock.
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SIR SAM MAKE n't* ACffttZPiH
MEANS.
The following letter from Sir Samuel
Baker has been communicated to and
appears in the London 'l lines .
Ismailia, April 23, 1873, N. lat. 4:54.
Mu Dear Lurking: I returned here
from the interior on the Ist inst., alter an
absence of fifteen months. I have been ,
more than two years without European
news. Egypt now extends to the equator.
The Albert Nyauza is one sheet of watei,
including the Tanganyika Lake. You may
imagine the future results of steam navi
gation 1 But as to carrying Samudas
vessels iu their heavy sections without
carts and camels, you might as well move
Paul's Cathedral in wheelbarrows.
The Englishmen have constructed tfie
108-tons steamer here as the only class of
steamer that can pass the Bahr Giraffe;
this is a great credit to them and to
Messrs. Sainuda and Penn. The other
steamers must wait until camels shall be
sent up from Khartoom.
There must be a general reform iu the
Soudan before any great work can be ac
complished; there are no boats fit for the
long river voyage, and everything becomes j
ruined from’exposure to the weather be
fore it arrives here.
There are large quantities of ivory here
that we cannot ship for want of vessels.
When I see the Viceroy I shall be able to j
manage matters for the future.
I have laid good foundations, and I
have fought hard against many enemies
with an absurdly small force, resulting in
annexation of all countries, including
Uny-or, which extends to the equator.
Not only have I had to contend with the
natives, but the so-called traders broke
into open rebellion and attacked the Gov
ernment troops treacherously, in force,
when in the interior. These I routed
with the loss of half their party.
My entire party was in danger of de
struction by poison when in Unvoro. This
diabolical attempt was made by tfre King,
who attacked us with immense forces on
the following morning at daybreak. I
had only 105 men, but we gained the bat
tle of Masindi, and annexed the country.
I have established stations and forts,
and the countries are in the hands of the
I Government.
The natives pay their taxes cheerfully
throughout large districts. The officers
and troops are in good health and spirits.
The slave trade of the White Nile is
suppressed and my work is over.
Lady Baker has accompanied me
throughout the journey, with great fa
tigue, having had to march on foot for
great distances, amid constant lighting
for seven consecutive days. We have,
! thank God, been always in good health,
j and the troops have not suffered much
loss of life considering the exposure. In
fifteen months I only lost one man from
sickness out of 212.
The Englishmen are all pretty well, but
I have to lament the loss of poor Mr.
lliggenbotham, who was my able assist
aut.
We are now waiting for a rise in the
Nile for tho start to Khartoom, where I
shall post this letter. With many kind
regards from my wife, Ac., very sincerely
vours. Samuel Baker.
THE ACTOR SOTHERN KILLS
A MAN.
[Alta Californian.]
Mr. Sothern’s car difficulty has unfor
tunately ended fatally; James Lawson
died at one o’clock this morning. Sad as
the whole affair is, no one can possibly
blame Sothern. He was suddenly and
savagely struck while quietly expostu
lating with Lawson, a man over six feet
two inches high, and almost double his
weight. Even then, according to the con
ductor’s evidence, although bleeding pro
fusely from the mouth nnd nose, he kept
his temper, but remained as firm as ever
in his determination to have his private
car to himself. A second time he re
quested Lawson to leave, and a second
time did Lawson make a rush at him
while his back was turned as he urged
the conductor to keep passive. The second
cowardly attack did at last arouse him,
and turning round rapidly, Sothern gave
him two or three stinging blows, then
closed with him, and finally administered
a rapid “cross buttock,” intending to
throw him on the platform, but the man’s
struggles called for more force, and he
was thrown over the chain at the end of
the car. A compound fracture of the
right leg and internal injury were the re
sult. Mr. Sothern’s departure is unavoid
ably postponed, but no one can doubt the
verdict of the coroner’s jury.
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Money Market.
New York, Aug. 30—Evening -Money
3@4 per cent. Sterling 8. Gold 115§@
Governments dull but steady.
State bonds quiet, little doing.
New York, August 30.—Bank State
ment —loans decrease $1,048,800; specie
decrease $2,049,000; legal tenders decrease
$8,031,000; deposits decrease $7,301,000;
circulation increase $67,500.
Cotton Markets,
Liverpool, August 30—Noon.- —Cotton
quiet and unchanged; sales 12,000; spec
ulation and export 2,000; sales of uplands,
August delivery, on basis of good ordi
nary, 8 13-10’d; do. basis low middlings,
Bfd; Orleans, August delivery, basis low
middlings, 3d; nplands, new crop, basis
good ordinary, 8 11-10d.
Later.-—Sales, basis of good ordinary,
October and November delivery, Bjd;
sales include 6,300 American.
New York, Aug. 30 —Evening.—Cotton
quiet; sales 327 at 2l£<S>2lA ; net receipts
28 bales.
Futures closed steady ; sales 6,500 :
September 18 13-16(®18|; October 17f;
November 17 7-16@17 15-32; December
17 11-32@175.
Savannah, August 30. Cotton dull;
middlings 174 c; net receipts 140; sales
3; stock 86.
New Orleans, Aug. 30. Cotton, de
mand limited; middlings 184 c; net receipts
52; exports to Great Britain 2,350; sales
100; last evening 200; stock 7,177.
Provision Markets.
New York, August 30 Eveniug.—
Flour inactive but firm. Wheal inactive,
buyers hold off on account of the ad
vanced prices. Corn closed quiet. Pork
quiet and weak. Lard active but lower ;
Groceries firm.
Cincinnati, Aug. 30. Flour in fair
demand and advanced to $6 85. Corn
firm at 52@53c. Provisions impaired
feeling, but held firmly. Pork sold at
sl6 50. Lard quiet; steam held firmly at
8c; buyers offer 7sc in round lots; city
kettle held at Bacon in fair de
mand but steady; 10|c for clear rib
sides; 104 c clear sides. Whisky flam at
98c.
A V ESS El. B URNE />.
New York, August 30.—A Washington
dispatch says five sailors made their ap
pearance in Petersburg, Va., Thursday,
setting forth that they were part of fifteen
surjpors of the crew of steamship Lucy,
burned at sea, forty-five miles off Cape
Canaveral, on the 15th inst. Their names
are Charles Williams, Andrew Johnson,
J. E. Willis, Geo. Fisher and Thos Rich
ardson; two suffering from terrible burns
substantiates the truth of their storv.
C VBA.
Gold Wanted.
Havana, August 30.—1n consequence
of the Monetary crisis, a decree is issued
allowing the free importation of gold
from the United States and South Ameri
can countries to circulate at its intrinsic
value. Exportation duty on gold increas
ed five per cent. Lottery tickets required
to be paid one half gold, half paper.
Prizes to be paid in same manner.
STORM—LOSS SEVERAL MiI.I.JOYS
Halifax, August 30.—Details of the
storm by mail and telegraph show a.
frightful loss of property from Sunday’s
storm. The lobs is certainly several mill
ions.
ARKANSAS.
Little Rock, Aug. 30. $3,000 reward
is offered for the assassin of Judge Means.
It is reported that five were killed in an
encounter between a constable’s posse and
Mott’s gang in Perry county.
STRIKE AND RIOT.
New York, Aug. 29.—Seventy laborers
employed is rebuilding the btandard Oil
Works, struck because non-society men
were employed. They attacked the work
men. Tha police restored order and
finally escorted the non-society men home.
CHOLERA.
Lancaster, Ky., Aug. 30.—Twenty-sev
en cholera deaths. Sixty-three white
families loft.
■‘Children," said a considerate matron
to her assembled progeny, “children, you
may have everything you want, hut you
mustn’t want anything yon can’t have."
FROM VARIOUS POlxis
THE SMITIIVILLE MIR Dll;.
Two Arrests Made —One of I lie Al urtle
er’s Confess.
THE NEGROES WANT To HANG RIM
Special to the Telegraph ttei Ale-
Woe ten, Lee County, Ga., Air- t
Henry Jackson and Jesse Martin, lUe n ,
groes implicated in Uie murder ut y ollll ,.
Johnson, at Sunthvilie, inursday i 11 „ 1 '|
last., were earned lo Albany jail tu-day°
Jackson, the first negro arrested, iu, u j..
a confession to-day iu me effect the
Martin did the deed wtnie hb (Jacks.,]'
watched outside, and that he dm m km,,,
Johnson had been killed till some tm,
after they had left the house. Jf e Stu
Martin planned the whole thing, and m],
the original plan was to put Juhii Su i”
head in a barrel and smother his cr;e'
with shawls: but that he (Johnson i„ l( j'
such resistance that Martiu said he hail i,
kill him.
Martin deuies everything, and says g,
can prove that he was at home ali i| lH
night.
A youn/ \;au named John (Jorzart
swears, however, that he heard Martin,,
voice, that night, outside the stoic vvbor
Johnson was killed, calling to Johnson to
get up.
Martin bears a good character, hut Jack
son a very bad one.
The negroes wanted to hang Jackson
yesterday, but were prevented. 1 ... lu
both prisoners, and never a wor-e.
more brutal countenance than Jacksons
He looks more like a chimpanzee than .
man. Martin lias a pretty good face.
There is much excitement about the
matter, but the law will be allowed to take
j its course. A. W. R
THE NATHAN MISTED.
Confession by a Man whose Sanity ~
Doubted.
San Francisco, August 23. A man
I named Irving, iu jail here, lias made a
: confession or complicity in the murder o!
j Mr. Nathan, in New York. He thinks the
name of his confederate was McNally.
The housekeeper’s son got them n. do the
I murder at the suggestion ot Washington
I Nathan. The basement door was left
open. Irving and his companion re
mained in the dark some time, when a
■ man came down whosaid, “1 have finished
the old man.” They then went up stairs.
| Irving says he has at his house in New
i York some stocks and a memorandum
| book partly written in Hebrew, which he
| took lrorn the old nian. He had between
i SO,OOO and $7,000. Irving gives graphic
! details. The surgeons count not detenu
! ine his sanity. lie came here us u sailor
! on a British ship.
MORE AItOUT IRVING.
New York, August 23. —It Ims been as.
certaiued that John T. Irving, who has
been arrested in San Francisco on his
own confession as an accomplice m the
murder of Benj. Nathan, is a well-known
I New York Uriel and burglar, ills st,.; v
is probably false and intended asa men!:’.
; of procuring free return here.
Nf.w York, August 29.—The Nathan
murder was committed on July 29th,
■ 1871. John T. Irving was arresl
j ed on the following day in Hoboken,
! where he was confined on a charge oi
j burglary and robbery.
Later —It turns out that Irving, when
i arrested in Hoboken, w as a year previous
jto the Nathan murder. The police hr
i lieve he was in the Slate prison in Juh
j 1871.
A WIPE MURDER.
Baltimore, Ang. 23.—Shawaiter, win*
cut his wife’s throat fatally with a razor,
I then his own, lingers at the hospital, lie
I is very violent and straight jacketed; has
not alluded to the crime, which originated
from an unknown cause. He studied
medicine and graduated in New York.
Mrs. Sha waiter, then a widow, was Mat
ron of the Confederate hospital at Peters
burg, where Sha waiter was Assistant Sur
geon. lie contracted the small pox and
the lady nursed him. The hospital Sur
i geons say Sliawalier was perfectly sane
when brought to the hospital last night.
Mrs. Sha waiter was a Miss Carter, of
! Lancaster county, Va.
DEAD.
Dr. Showalter, who cut Ins wife’s and
his own throat, is dead.
“UNDER WHICH KISUY”
Cincinnati, Aug. 25.—The coloredpec
ple held a meeting to-night, at Aden
Chapel, to express their sentiments in
reference to the action of their brethren
at the Chillicothe meeting last Friday.
[ Speeches were made by Col. Harlan, W.
j H. Parham, Peter H. Clark, and others.
Tho meeting was very noisy and excited,
j and it was with much interruption that
Col. Harlan and Peter H. Clark, repre
sentatives of the two parties, could make
themselves heard. Resolutions were of
: sered repudiating the action of the col
ored people at Chillicothe, and declaring
allegiance to the Republican party ; alsu
Col. Harlan’s resolutions, which were
voted down at Chillicothe. The resolu
tion was declared adopted, but by sound
it was almost impossible to tell what ex
act resolution it was.
MISSISSIPPI RADICAL CONVEN
TION.
Jackson, Miss., Aug. 27. The Repub
lican State Convention met here to day,
i Every county was represented. The col
, ored element is iu the preponderance.
Gen. Adelbert Arnes was nominated for
Governor on the first ballot. He received
187 votes. R. J. Powers, present incum
bent, received lorty votes. Other nomi
nations will be made to-morrow. Lieut.
Governor and Secretary of State will he
colored, no whites are offering for those
positions. A platform will not be adopted
till the nominations are completed. The
proceedings thus far have been dignified
and orderly. Senators Ames and Alcorn
are here.
DEAD
New Orleans, Ang. 23.—Father Rich
ard Kane, Editor-in-chief of the English
part of the Propaganda Cathelique, died
this afternoon, aged 41 years. He was
Prosessor of Greek in St. Mary’s College,
Md., at 18.
Louisville, Aug. 29.—Captain Edwin
Haldbrooke, thrown from a street car yea
terday, died of his injuries to-day. 'The
deceased was one of the pioneers of the
tobacco trade in this city.
New Yoke, August 29. —Michael Angel"
McFarland, w ho spent $25,000 in defence
of his brother, Daniel, for the murder of
Albert D. Richardson, died last evening
iu Bellevue Hospital, and having ■>"
friends, will be buried in Potter's field
THE JAPANESE FARMERS.
San Francisco, Ang. 26. — The Great
Republic arrived to-day w'itli China dates
to July 26, and Japan to August 6. Has
cholera was prevailing at Singapore and
other places on the Malayan peninsula.
Yokahoma papers say the rebellion oi
the farmers in Fuuklowa county and oth
er counties have been put down. Hie
rebels were guilty of many instances "t
shocking barbarities, and when ciO*°
pressed many of them committed hare
kari. A gunpowder explosion at Osaka
killed many.
MISSISSIPPI POL /TI t'S.
Jackson, Miss., Aug. 28. —lk e Kep’<“-
lican State Convention is still 1U session.
A. K. Davis has been nomiaatedforLie.it.
Governor and Sas. Hill for Secretar;.
State, both negroes.- The Treasnm.
Auditor, Attorney General and Supe> m ‘
tendeut of Education are yet to he n° !Ul '
nated. Senator Alcorn has declare
against the ticket and announces that
will address the people at Represents* I ' -
Hall to-morrow night.
YELLOW EEVER IN NE W ORLLI >S
New Orleans, August 28. —Extra'*
gant reports regarding the health of
- having been circulated else" rt j
Dr. C. S. White, President of the b‘-> ar “
of Health, publishes a card in which e
says at this date, August 28th, only cue
case of yellow fever is under treatin'-
in private practice and another case in
the wards of the Charity Hospital.
are the only cases known to the Boan
Health.
It FA TH FROM A HOP TI OS ■
Baltimore, August 29. — Louisa
a girl who was disinterred at 11 1 l \
town, passed examination which
that an abortion produced her dent • -
woman and man have been arrestee, “
the horrible affair creates great exci
meat throughout Washington count.'-
RESPITED.
Ba'annah, August 2!*.— Mitchell
well, negro, sentenced to be bung to
was respited for five days by the ""
or, as it was alleged he was insane