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POOR MISSISSIPPI!
It is apparent that an effort is being made
to get Mississippi as completely under
Federal control as Louisiana now is. The
nomination of Ames for Governor is a
part of the plot, and a vory essential part.
Ames has no interest in the State, and
will no doubt return to Massachusetts just
as soon as he goes out of office. Only a
a few' weeks ago we saw a statement that
ha had declared he would “acquire aresi
douce in Mississippi if ho should be nomi
nated for Governor.” He is a “carpet
bagger” of the most unmitigated kind,
with all his interests in Massachusetts,
lie relies wholly on the negro vote, which
has the majority in Mississippi, and his
electors will not represent one-tenth of.
the property of the State. It is no won
der that Senator Alcorn and other South
ern white Republicans declare their ina
bility to support him. But we fear that
their opposition will avail little.
The hand of the Federal Administra
tion is already seen interfering in the
polities of Mississippi, and the agent for
the dirty work is the same officer who ap
pears to have special control of Louisiana
-the Attorney General. The Mississippi
papers publish the following letter, ad
dressed to a nephew of Senator Alcorn,
holding the position of United States
Marshal for the Southern District of Mis
sissippi :
Washington, I). C., July 8, 1875.
Tv Hon. ltobt. J. A IcArn:
Von are represented here as having sup
ported tiro Democratic ticket in the last
Presidential election. Is this a fact?
George 11. Williams,
Attorney General.
Alcorn replied that ho had supported
Greeley as a Republican, and ‘ off went,
his head.” If his removal had been in
tended as a punishment to him for having
voted for Greeley, he would have been
removed months ago; but it was no doubt
the apprehension that he would not sup
port Ames that caused the Attorney Gen
eral’s proceeding against him. A freshly
imported carpet-bagger was appointed
Marshal in his stead. Should Arnes be
elected of which there is every proba
bility, (and it may lie regarded as almost
certain that he will be Governor whether
elected or not). Mississippi will be, like
Louisiana, governed from Washington,
and reports of her domestic affairs will
no doubt be as frequently nnd “loyally”
made to the Attorney General as Kellogg
now makes them for Louisiana.
MISSISSIPPI— ALCORN A (.1 Ma
li. 4 te.
On Friday night, after the nomination
nf Ames by the Republican Convention
at Jackson, Senator Alcorn declared him
self an independent Republican candidate
for Governor. So both the United States
Senators are now candidates for the same.
State office an occurrence very rare, if
not unprecedented. The strong pre
sumption is that the Democrats will sup
port Alcorn, instead of running a candi
date of their ow n, though it is not certain
that ho can draw off any considerable
Radical vote. The contest in Mississippi
promises to be one of race against race —
a most deplorable condition of society,
but one which may be unavoidable, on
the part of the whites, in several of the
Southern States.
From a telegraphic report of Alcorn’s
speech announcing himself a candidate
for Governor, we make the following ex
tracts, which will serve to show the, spirit
in which he will conduct the canvass and
the points he will endeavor to make :
Should Ames be chosen, a war of races
begins iu the State. This means the de
struction of all our hopes. The purpose of
Ames and his followers is to rob the peo
ple. When I was Governor I was ap
proached with a proposition to pay the
Union bank bonds. A corrupt Governor
coulu have made a large sum. I was told
a bill could lie passed by the Legislature,
aud replied that if the law passed I should
make an effort to transfer the corrupt
portion of the Legislature to the peniten
tiary.
What guarantee have you that these
bonds are not the objective point of the
adventurer who now heads your ticket?
What interest has he in Mississippi other
than to debase Mississippi to his own use?
What weight is to lie given the pledges of
a political adventurer who lives more than
a thousand miles beyond your borders?
Will you risk thirty millions of dollars on
his word? Will yon risk so much on the
resolutions of this Convention? Oh coun
trymen! elect this man, and to you I fear
ail hope is lost.
11. G. Carter, a white Republican, who
ran for the nomination for Lieutenant,
Governor in the Radical Convention, and
was defeated by a negro, took the stand
after Alcorn concluded, and declared
himself an independent candidate for
Lieutenant Governor.
I IRGIN IA.
This dispoiled old Stale, as our readers
know, voted for Grant in the Presidential
election last year, and the Radicals have
promised themselves a victory this year
by which they "ill secure control of ihe
State government. No greater calamity
than this could overtake Virginia, already
robbed of a large portion of her territory,
and overwhelmed by a crushing State
debt. But her native white people appear
to see the danger and to be aroused to the
perils of the situation. All the accounts
from Conservative sources assure us that
the Radicals will be beaten this year.
The Democratic papers of the State are
very sanguine. The following is a special
Washington dispatch of the 29th tilt, to
the Louisville Courier-Journal. We
fondly hope that all its promises will be
fully realized ;
The reports from !he Virginia canvass
indicate a full vote'and an overwhelming
Conservative triumph. General indigna
tion is felt at the insolent attempt of the
Administration to control the polities of
the State, and organize there another
Louisiana. This feeling and the activity
of the canvass will probably secure a ma
jority larger than Governor Walker’s in
1809 for Kemper, the Conservative candi
date. Col. Mosby says that Kemper and
the Conservative ticket will he elected liy
from twenty to thirty thousand. It is
said that if the Conservatives carry the
Legislature there will he a general con
currence in fan r of returning the Hon.
ii. M !'. Hunter to the United States
.Senate.
The New Orleans Picayune says that
the Louisiana sugar crop of the season
just closed turned out, according to Mr.
Bouchereau s statement, to be only 108.-
520 hhds., weighing 125,34(1,403 lbs., of
which 93.859 hhds. were old process and
14,GU1 refined and clarified. The crop of
1871-2 was 128,4(11, and that of the year
previous 144,881 hhds.
The New Orleans Picayune of Monday,
in its annual statement, makes the re
ceipts of cotton at all the ports for the
year (adding 27,705 bales for corrections
“t New Orleans and Mobile) 3,023,073
"ales. The receipts overland and South
ern consumption for IS7I-2 amounted to
-**1,533 bales, and for 1870-1 to 389,153
bales.
VOL. XV.
RECEIPTS of the cities.
The receipts at Savannah for the year
ending August Jlst, were 016,31)6 bales
upland, and 9,575 bales sea island (which
includes 548 bales on hand Sept, i, 1872.)
Stock on hand and on shipboard, Aug.
31st, 1875, CBB bales upland and 536 bales
sea island.
Montgomery received 62,645 bales for
the year ending Aug. 31st, 1873. Stock
on hand ihursday night last, by running
count, 1,430 bales.
The total receipts of Selma, Ala., for
the year were 47,235 bales; total ’ship
ments 47,000—leaving the stock on hand,
by actual count, 226 bales.
Columbus, as announced yesterday, re
ceived 58,072 bales during the year, and
had a stock of 1,221 bales at itsolose.
The receipts of all these cities, except
Selma, were considerably increased as
compared with 1872.
New Orleans received 1,214,039 bales
during the year, against 940,211 the pre
vious year; and had a stock of 7,253 bales
last Saturday.
Mobile received 329,183 bales during
the year, against 286,006 the previous
year. Stock 6,227.
Galveston received 328,898 bales,
against 179,612. Stock 6,873.
Charleston received 370,703 bales,
against 273,766. Stock 4,202.
THE BRITISH IN AFRICA.
Late dispatches report that the British
Ministry have determined to interfere, in
behalf of the Fantees, in the war in west
Africa now waging between the Ashantees
and Fantees, two tribes of savage ne
groes. It is contemplated to march a
British army inland from Cape Coast
Castle, to co-operate with the Fantees,
and after subduing the enemy to return
to the coast—all to be accomplished by
March next. What the British rights are
in the interior of the country, we do not
fully uuderstand, but if either their com
merce will be extended by it, or some in
sult to the British flag or British subjects
where they ought not to be can be
avenged, that will be pretext enough.
Not much progress has yet been made in
“reconstructing” Africa in the interests of
civilization and progress, but possibly
new hope in that respect has been excited
by witnessing the facility with which
Africans have “reconstructed” white com
munities in this country.
The country of the Ashantees and Fan
tees lies next to our model American colo
ny of Liberia on the east, and it is possi
ble that the war may be extended so as to
affect the American settlements. But,
according to reliable accounts, not much
damage would be done if Liberia were
wiped out entirely.
A HUGE “GOAh'.”
That dispatch of Tuesday night from
Washington, particularly describing the
counterfeit SSOO legal tender notes, and
warning the people of the South not to
take them, is about the best specimen of
official joking that we have seen lately.
We cannot give credence to the idea that
it was intended to taunt us in our misfor
tunes. Why, bless your watchful old
soul. Treasurer Spinner, the people of the
South are in no danger of handling any of
your SSOO bills, genuine or counterfeit.
We give ourselves very little concern
about the difference between the two. So
far as the people of the South are inter
ested, they might all be counterfeits, and
we would be as well-off. They all “hold
the word of promise to the ear” (or
eye) “and break it to the hope”, for
that matter. No, no— ice are not scared
about counterfeit SSOO or SIOOO notes;
but just permit the rogues to get the ad
vantage of you in flooding the Southern
country with counterfeit irredeemable
fractional currency, or even with the bills
bearing the handsome head of the late
Chief Justice, and thou you'll hear howl
ing from this quarter. Don’t let them
do it, Watch Dog of the Treasury I
Both the candidates for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi on the
radical ticket are white men. This is the
more strange when the fact is taken into
consideration that the negro population in
that State exceeds the white by upwards
of sixty thousand.— 2V. Y. World.
Both the candidates are not white.
Davis, the Radical nominee for Lieuten
ant Governor, is a negro, and one or two
other uegroes are nominated on the State
ticket. But the uegroes have not only a
majority of sixty thousand in the popula
tion of the State, but a vote of sixty to one
as compared with the white Radicals. In
other words, not one Radical in sixty is a
: white man.
A suspicious looking steamer, resem
bling the late Confederate blockade run
ners, has been seen hovering along the
coast between the St. Augustine light
house and the mouth of the St. John’s.
The Press says :
She is a propeller and moves with great
speed. Some have even gone so far as to
say that she carries a large complement
of* men, aud when the sun shines the
gleam of numerous arms can be seen on
deck, with four brass pieces; one at the
bow, one at the stern and one at each
side. Whether this may not be some war
vessel connected with the Cuban insurrec
tion, hovering along onr shore to watch
the movements of Spanish ships or to as
sist in receiving arms and contraband
goods for the insurgents, is the question.
At all events, it would be as well to keep
it good look ont. The vessels that enter
the St. John’s for Jacksonville would, in
either case of a cruiser or pirate, be a
great temptation.
A Setter from the correspondent of the
Montgomery State Jo or mil at Pensacola,
stated on Saturday, that “on Friday night
yellow fever was then increasing. Proba
bly, forty or more cases, supposed to be
yellow fever: but few die, it is so light.
There have been about ten or twelve
deaths altogether. Some insist that it is
not yellow fever, but only billions fever.
One or two physicians have claimed this,
even as late as within two or three days;
but 1 have no doubt about its being yellow
fever, for bilious fever don’t spread so.
A great many have left town aud can t
return until frost.”
Oui-i. of Editors. —At half-past 4 p. m
vesterdav, a duel was fought iu this city
between Mr. Andre L. Roman, of the
New Orleans lire, aud Mr. G. de la Bre
t.onne, editor of the “Slid." The friends
of the challenger, Mr. Roman, were
Messrs. Mondiegt, of the Dee, and Col.
DeFerriet. Those of ihe ciiallengee were
Messrs. Marie, of Terrebonne, aud Lab
usquiere, of New Orleans. The weapons
agieed upon were small swords. Mr.
Roman was twice wounded in the right
or sword arm, when Dr. C. Beard, sur
geon, declared that the fight could not go
on. Thus terminated the affair.- -V. 0.
Pic. 3 Oth.
The London Saturday Review takes up
the figures of the United States census,
and says that “adding to the local taxa
tion and indebtedness, the taxation and
debt of the Federal Government, it is
plain that per head the thirty-eight mil
lions of citizens of the United States are
by far the most heavily taxed and most
deeply indebted people in the world.
Gov. Alcorn has called a mass conven
tion of Republicans of Mississippi, to
meet at Jackson on the 18th inst. The
attendance and proceedings on that occa
sion will show whether he has any consid
erable support by his own party, and will
probably determine the policy of the con
servatives.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
ALONG FLORIDA'S SHORE.
SAX III' ME RE IX HEARD FROM.
Voyage from Cedar Key to Manatee-
Groves of Bananas, Guavas. Oranges.
Lemons and Limes—A Land of Tropi
cal Beauty—The Old Settlers and New-
Comers—Sandy Merlin Goes to the Bay.
Manatee. August 26, 1873.
Editors Tidily Sun: My last was for
warded to you from Cedar Key, at which
point I remained until Sunday afternoon
at 3 o’clock. We were detained at the
Key longer than we expected, in conse
quence of the steamer H. McCoole getting
aground on a bar, with tide running ont,
in endeavoring to wind up the crooked
channel leading into the harbor. It was
my good fortune, at the Key, to meet a
couple of gentlemen who proved to be
eminently social in disposition and cour
teous in address, aud who contributed
largely to the pleasure of the trip. Their
names arh Dr. Snead, of Gainesville, Fla.,
and Air. Geo. Fox, purchasing agent for
the large hardware house of Rice Bros. &
Cos., New Orleans.
Leaving Cedar Key at the hour men
tioned above, we saw the green shores of
Florida, with innumerable groves of cedar,
gradually fade away in the distance, un
til, when lost to sight altogether, we
turned and found ourselves fully out upon
the bosom of the Gulf, steaming steadily
onward to the South, where nothing met
the eye save sky and water. Our vessel,
commanded by Capt. Wm. Jackson, a
thorough and fearless sailor, behaved ad
mirably, and moved upon the water “like
a thing of life.” The H. McCool is a
great convenience for travelers going
South of Cedar Key, as she supplies a link
that was formerly missing, the absence of
which caused great annoyance at that
time. Now, you have only to come to the
Key, take this steamer of a Saturday
morning, and a commodious and hand
some state room is given you, aud you
are made in every way perfectly comforta
ble. Mr. Bell, the Purser, is a model
gentleman, studiously doing everything
in his power to make his passengers feel
at home and enjoy themselves. Our en
tire party were delighted to form his ac
quaintance. His boat has recently been
overhauled, repainted and put in the best
condition. I give this information in
order that those who contemplatetioming
to South Florida may know how to come.
This steamer touches at Manatee, both in
going from and returning to Cedar Key.
We took advantage, on board, of a novel
kind of bath. A portion of the planking
on the back of the wheel houses has
been taken off, in order that a part
of the immense body of water that
is taken up by every revolution of the
wheels, may dash out aft. Right under
this minature Niagara, we, after having
got rid of all our surplus clothing , lay at
full length and allowed the salt water of
the Gulf to overwhelm us. This was a
favorite resort of the passengers during
voyage.
We reached Manatee on Monday morn
ing at 11 o’clock, after a pleasant trip. I
had read and heard so much of this set
tlement, from various sources, that I had
formed a very favorable idea as to its
appearance. At first sight, as we steamed
up the bay, I was disappointed. But this
feeling, however, was only momentary;
for irnmedietely upon landing, I entered
a path that led directly through a large
and handsome orchard of bananas, form
ing an almost solid area of shade, with
the broad and long leaves radiating from
the main stem in every direction. 1 stop
ped, involuntarily, and gazed in silence at
the beautiful sight. In a moment I real
ized the fact that we were in the almost
fairy land of tropical Florida. I say
almost fairy land, from the fact,that while
the beautiful growth of the country re
sembles the exquisitely touched pen pic
tures of the realms of the fairies, still
there comes up the practical thought that
though it is as beautiful as the most deli
cate conception of the artist, yet it is
natural—that it is Nature, in all her tropi
cal grandeur and glory. Passing on from
this banana orchard, we entered several
groves of guavas, the great substitute
in this country for the peach; and, indeed,
when eaten with cream and sugar, resem
bles in taste very much our famed dish
of “peach and cream.” There is a sin
gular fact in connection with this fruit.
It is said no one ever likes the taste of
the guava at first, possessing as it does a
faintisli odor and taste —in fact, some
people get sick at the mere smell. This
soon wears off, and then it seems as if the
question applies not to the liking of them
but to the quantity that can be eaten
without satiating the appetite. I next
came to several fine orange, lemon and
lime groves, through which I passed to
the hotel.
I should state that this hotel is literally
embowered amid orange and lemon trees.
As I write, sitting on the up-stairs
front gallery, there is immediately iu
front of me a forest of Ibis great produc
tion, fairly loaded with the fruit, the tops
iof the trees swaying high above me. I
do not recollect ever buying seen orange
; trees grow to such an immense size. An
| other peculiarity in tropical fruits, is the
fact of the Sicily lemon, which is grown
! here in large quantities, being over twice
as large as it is in its native country. The
1 French lemon does not grow so large, is
; very rough and uninviting iu appearance,
j while lemon is quite smooth and
handsome. The sugar cane has been
! grown in considerable quantities in this
i county, (Manatee) and as much as two
hogsheads of sugar, besides the molasses,
have been produced from a single acre of
cane, paying, as will at once become ap
-1 parent, a much better profit than any of
our up country crops. The sugar cane,
I besides the immense yield, possesses the
i additional feature of “rattooning” from
six to eight years; that is, springing up
from the old roots without replanting.
The pine apple also grows well, but has
I not yet been cultivated to any great ex
| tent. The people of this country—l mean
the old settlers—seem to have had no idea
of the future when they came here and
located their settlements. Where there
can now be seen one acre in orange trees,
there should have been created by this
time one hundred. Fortunes can un
! doubtedly be made here by a few mouths
hard work at first, and then the subse
quent exercise of patience and good hu
mor. In the course of time your trees
will arrive at maturity, and then com
mences a permanent income- -an annual
dividend far exceeding any investments
iu railroad, factory, bauk, or other stocks.
1 had heard, before arriving here, so
many predictions of tortures generally in
flicted on the inoffensive traveler, by the
countless myriads if mosquitoes, suppos
ed to have this country under their espe
cial supervision, that 1 inwardly shook
with fear, lor the comfort of our blessed
body. Upon arriving at our hotel, when
shown to a room, I was horrified to see no
mosquito bars on the beds. I expressed
a desire for a bed with one. but was met
with the quiet rejoinder, “\ouii not need
it, sir." And sure enough I didn’tfor I
never passed a more pleasant night in
mi life. I heard not the plaintive sing
ing of even one mosquito during the en
tire night. Dr. Pelotes, who has been
here for several years, informed me lust
evening, that he has never had any cause
to use a mosquito bar during ihe whole
of his residence iu this section. So much
for the “great mosquito stories. But al
ligators are seen occasionally in Manatee
river, though of late years they have be
come quite scarce, which is much better
for the peace of mind of the weaker sex.
I had the pleasure yesterday, of meeting
Mr. John A. Graham, formerly of Mont
gomery, Ala., and who now has been here
not quite a year. He has been steadily
engaged in preparing his lauds aud plant
ing trees. He expects to have a fine
grove ere long. I should have more to
say on this point, hut having engaged a
sail boat for a trip down to Sarasota Bay,
I must prepare to leave at three o’clock.
I shall be gone three or four days. I go
in old fashioned camp style,carrying along
enough to eat for the time being. Up
on my return I expect to take passage on
the steamship Valley City, for Key West,
at which iioiut I will remain several days,
and will give you something new when I
get there. Sandy Merlin.
The Charleston Sews gives ihe follow
ing statement of the rice crop of 1872-3:
South Carolina 48,692 tierces, Georgia
21,800 tierces, Louisiana 17,000 tierces—
total 87,492 tierces. This does not ap
pear to include the crop of North Caroli
ns.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1873.
For the Sun.]
THE WESTERS FARMERS.
Very few Georgia planters know what
the Western farmers are doing in the way
of political combinations. The Granges,
for their social improvement and com
mercial strength, were originally planned
in Washington, after the model of a
Scotch co-operative society in North
Carolina. lowa and Kansas are the first
States that adopted them so as to make
them a success and a power.
Aside from this the farmers are organ
ized into clubs for the formation of a
farmer's political party to redress griev
ances and to lift from their backs the
weight of the taxes, debt and extrava
gance of the country that is crushing
them to the earth. These club3 have
their headeentres, like the other societies
or organizations. The principal paper of
the Granges is The Farmers' Advocate,
a monthly of sixteen pages, published in
Jackson, Tenn., edited by Charles Green,
who has been very active in getting them
up in this section. The principal paper
of the farmers’ clubs in Kansas is The
Vox Populi, and is the most spicy little
affair we have seen in years. By address
ing Q. C. Weyhight, Lawrence, Kansas,
office Vox Populi. one can get both these
papers for a year at $1 50, paid in ad
vance.
These farmers are lather blunt iu their
expressions—they call this government
“the greatest collection of aggregated
cussedness that'the world ever saw;" that
“national banks and robbery are synony
mous;” that “farmers now are not going
to sneeze every time an editor takes
snuff.” They “want biennial legisla
tures; so that a law can be published and
read before it is repealed.” Methinks all
farmers are tired of paying men to go and
make laws that are only made to be re
pealed, so as to keep up the appearance
of work while the daily pay is drawn.
Just to think of Pennsylvania with 7,000
new laws in the past two or three years 1
Gan anyone tell how many hundreds of
new laws were passed at our last Legisla
ture ? Better are a few bad laws well
kept than hundreds of good laws always
changing. In one ease the people are
law-abiding; in the other they lose all re
spect for it and run into the riot of law
lessness.
It will pay Georgians to take these two
papers just for the refreshingness of see
ing how wide awake farmers can bo when
they mean business. They seem determ
ined that hereafter they shall have the
first chance at broadcloth and a coach
and four; for as they dig the wealth of
the nation out of the ground and support
ali other classes as consumers, they are
determined to be the best paid.
V/e are not agents for these papers;
never expect to make a dime by them;
but they will rouse our planters to tile
necessity of acting with them and form
ing clubs, if they ever expect to over
throw the gold power that now grips them
by the neck, for Ben. Hill has foretold
their fate if they do not, which is the toil
of slavery without its guaranteed iit'e
support.
Prosper 0. Smith,
Cotton Planter.
For the Sun.]
SNAKES.
Genova did not go into the papers and
boast and brag about the commencement
exercises of her splendid high school, as
she might have done; and the wonderful
performances of speeches, singing and
dinner, at her Sunday-school celebration;
nor how the P. G. jn G. lives there and
spent the day in a war of wit with that
Talbotton ex-editor, “who can’t help lov
ing all the pretty girls to save his life ;”
nor did she enumerate lire Demosthenes
and Ciceros that orated or oratoried iu
her audience halls, for their name was
Legion; but she will brag about her
snakes.
Some days since a large rattlesnake was
found crossing to a low marshy place back
of her row of stores, and killed. It had
nine rattles. Seven men then offered a
darkey one dollar a piece if ho would find
and kill its mate. The first snake was
killed about l o’clock p. m. The darkey
sat by the marsh and watched; and at 10
o’clock at night the other snakeship came
along following the exact path of the
other, and was killed. It also had nine
rattles! Colnmbu3 may boast of her
factories, but she’s not much on snakes:
for what is one poor little snake climbing
into a bird cage compared so two such
monsters as these ? If was a moonlight
night, and we think the darkey earned
his money. Something was said about
their being piloted by the rattlesnake’s
pilot, which is supposed to be a small
blunt snake about a foot long. Can any
one inform us whether rattlesnakes have
a pilot ? and what are their size and
habits? X. Y. '/..
HON. A. II STEPHENS.
The New York Herald reports an “in
terview” with Hon. Alex 11. Stephens, in
which Mr. S expressed his opinions on
“Cresarism,” the rights of the Stales, &e.
In an editorial notice of this interview the
Herald makes a summary of Mr. Stephens’
views, which we copy :
Mr. Stephens does not think there is
any more danger of Csesarism fr<>ua General
Grant in being elected President a third
time than there was in his second or first
election, especially if he confines the ex
ercise of his executive powers hereafter to
the same limit as heretofore—that Ciesa
rism does not consist in who is the Execu
tive nor how long, but in the disregard of
the checks and balances of the constitu
tion—that there can be no Ciesarism while
each of the thvee departments of the gov
ernment remains intact and while the re
served rights of the States are respected.
The greatest danger to the Repnblic,iu the
judgment of Mr. Stephens, is consolida
tion, more familiarly known as centrali
zation. This, he holds, is the only way
from the Republic to the Empire which
is now to be feared. Ho holds, too, that
there are no evidences of any desire on
the part of General Grant looking in this
direction, but that the only approaches to
consolidation are to be found iu those ob
noxious laws of Congress trenching upon
the rights of the States, passed through
the active exertions of those malcontent
Republicans who now style themselves
Liberals. In brief, Mr. Stephens believes
that there is nothing to be feared from
General Grant in being elected a third
time, nnd that there is no saereduess in
the example of Washington in limiting
himself as President to two terms.
IuRI.GCI.ARITIES OF OFFICIALS OF THE
| Georgia Railroad.—The Augusta papers
give the following about certain irregu
larities discovered in rfficialaof the Geor
gia Railroad. Mr. Carlton Uillyer has
been investigating the matter.
Mr. R. 1., Rhodes, the General Freight
Agent, is a defaulter. He has been some
fourteen years on the road. By ingeni
ously manipulating claims, and appropria
ting money for transporting United States
troops, he scraped in bet ween $7,000 and
SB,OOO of the road’s money. He also
| drew money for fictitious hands.
The largest defaulter was P. W. Priu
tup, Road Master. He has been thirty
years on the road. He used roail timber
for private use, transported grain and
supplies for his private plantations, paid
himself for stock not killed, built mills at
the expense of the company, payed ficti
tious pay-rolls. His pickings, it is esti
mated, sum up to SIOO,OOO.
The third person who gobbled road
things was J. 8. Shipley. Supervisor. He
imitated Printup cleverly. He was a ne
potist. on a small scale, putting lots of kin
iu office.
These men have been dismissed, aud
also the entire force in the Road Master’s
aud Supervisor's department.
The new Road Master is Mr. Newnau
Hicks, and Supervisor, Mr. Thomas C.
Hendrix.
Radical Assessments. —Circulars are
sent out by the Radical Executive Com
mittee in West Virginia assessing Grant's
office-holders in order to provide the sin
ews of war in the campaign. It is said
that some of Mosby’s appointees are
among those assessed. These circulars
are sent under a United States official
stamp, notwithstanding the law abolish
ing the franking privilege.— Savannah
! Neirs.
Only a practical illustration of “civil
service reform.”
Little Rock, August 51. —The last
spike of the Cairo aud Fulton Railroad
l driven at Fulton. 461 miles.
THE OLD WORLD.
i
THE SPANISH IRON CLADS.
London, Sept. 2.- r 'LhoJ'unes of this
i morning had additiouaf details concern
-1 ing the affair between Yice Admiral Yel
j verton and the Can hagena insurgents, in
relation to the removal of the iron-clads
Almansiaand Victoria. Afterthe Admiral’s
notification that at the expiration of 40
hours he should take the vessels out of
the harbor, the Insurgent Junta proposed
he should pledge his faith for his Govern
ment that they would be held at Gibraltar
and not turned over to the Madrid Gov
| eminent. This proposition was rejected
| and the British commander informed the
| Junta that he would take the vessels to
I Gibraltar and then recommend to his
; Government that they be not surrendered
until the affair of Carthagena was settled,
j but declined to give a personal guarantee.
At this the insurgent leaders were very
I much exasperated. The Junta issued
I orders to commanders to resist by force
the removal of the iron clads. The Eng
! lish Consul prepared to leave Carthagena.
A conflict seemed unavoidable.
This was the condition of affairs when
the correspondent sent the despatches
published this morning, probably to the
31st of August.
To-day a brief telegraphic dispatch
. from Madrid announces that Vice Admi
ral Yeiverton has taken the vessels, and
that there was not a conflict. Whether
■ the Insurgent leaders abandoned their
extreme position, or in what manner the
trouble was avoided, is not known.
SPANISH NEWS.
Bayonne, Sept. 2. —The Carlists claim
j the Spaniards in the Island of Cuba con
tribute liberally of their means for the
support of the cause of Don Carlos.
It is reported here that 6,000 Carlists
i have marched against the town of Ternel,
the capital of the province of Ternel iu
Oregon.
j Socialists troubles of a serious nature
have broken out in Andalusia, in the
neighborhood of the town of Jimena.
Farm laborers liar e banded together for
i the purpose of demanding and endeavor
! ing to enforce a division of property.
They have burned forty farm houses of
those who oppose them and committed
other excesses. Some of the rioters have
been arrested.
London, Sept. 5. —A special dispatch to
the Standard says the Carlists have car
| ried off from Vera a number of women
who were chosen by Thallot, in the prov
ince of Biscay, to make uniforms for the
royalist soldiers.
The wife of Capt. Travis, commander
| of the British yacht Deer Hound at the
time of her capture by a Spanish frigate,
has published a card appealing to the
j public to aid her in her efforts to secure
the release of her husband, as well as
other prisoners.
FRANCE.
Baris, Sept. 2.- The Paris Figaro pub
lishes a proposal to the Loyalists of
France to subscribe money to rebuild the
Palace of the Tuilleries. The editor of
the Figaro offers to head the subscrip
tion with a contribution of SS,OOO.
Paris, Sept. 2.—The cholera has made
; its appearance among troops quartered at
; Havre, having been communicated, it is
thought, by German insurgents en route
to the United States. Fashionable loung
; ers, traveling, are'much alarmed and are
leaving'rapidiy.
TEXAS POLITICS.
Washington, August 00. —The politi
| cal fight in Texas is assuming considera
ble proportions, and has again been
brought io Washington. Captain J. E.
Whittlesey, the postmaster at, Austin, has
arrived here iu advance of Governor Da
■ vis, and will make common cause with
i William T. Clarke, the postmaster at Gal
| veston, to prevent the removal of the
latter from bis position. Both Whittle
sey aud Clarke are carpet-baggers from
Connecticut, who were thrown upon Tex
as by the late war. They were both op
posed to the reuomiuation of Davis, but
will support him because he is the nomi
nee of the party. They, however, ex
pressed grave doubts of success. The
j National bank interest has no confidence
I in Davis, and will not do anything to ad
vance his interest. The main railroad in
the State is controlled by Galusha A.
I Grow, of Pennsylvania, and ex-Spcaker
J of the House of Representatives, who has
no confidence in Davis, and who refuses
to act prominently iu his behalf although
he is a pronounced Republican.
NEGRO SECRET POLITICAL SOCI
ETIES.
Special to tlie Cincinnati Commercial.]
Washington, Aug. 28. —The establish
ment of a colored Know-Nothing Lodge
in this city is not likely to be without re
sults in Virginia. The colored people,
who constitute three-fourths of (he voting
strength of the Republican party, are
i entirely without representation on the
' Republican ticket, while the head of that
ticket is a former rebel. The denuncia
tion of this colored lodge by the Admin
istration organ here has not effected its
disbandment, and it is understood that
I the effect of this movement in Virginia is
so much feared that the subject was made
a matter of grave consideration at the
meeting here yesterday of Col. Huges,
with some of the other candidates upon
the republican ticket. The movement,
although more secret, is, in nature, sim
ilar to the recent demonstration of the
colored convention at Chillieothe, Ohio.
THE WAWASSET REPORT.
Washington, Sept. 1. —Inspectors of
, Steamboats have made public their offi
-1 cia! report of the Wawasset disaster.
They recommend the prosecution of the
Potomac Ferry Company and captain
and mate, and suspend the engineer. The
charges against the Ferry Company are
carrying more passengers than was allow
ed, and the employment of officers who
did not bear certificates. The charges
against the captain and mate are for ac
cepting places without proper documents;
want of discipline is generally charged,
and undue anxiety on the part of the cap
tain to save the boat instead of passeu
■ gers. The Secretary has refened the
report to the Solicitor General for his
action, with a view to the prosecution of
the alleged culprits.
DA NGEROES COUNTERFEIT.
Washington, September t. —The Treas
ury has discovered the existence of very
dangerous counterfeit of the SSOO legal
tender notes of last series of 1869, so per
fect iu its execution that Treasurer Spin
ner declares it is calculated to deceive
even most practical experts. The note
was forwarded here by the Sub-treasury
at New York, who suspected it, but for
warded it to the Treasury for examination
by the experts of the Department. The
difference between the counterfeit aud
genuine issue will lie given for publica
tion to-morrow.
VIA SHI NG TON ITEMS.
Washington, Sept. 2. —The disburse
ments of the Treasury last month amount
ed to $20,233,500.
Judge Robinson, acting Solicitor of the
Treasury, to whom was referred the report
of the Board of Investigation concerning
the Wawasset disaster, will to-morrow for
ward to the U. S. District Attorney his
instructions how to proceed iu prosecu
tion of those who are charged with viola
ting the law. It is believed he will be re
quested to push the prosecution to a
rapid suit.
Beau Hickman died at Providence Hos
pital this morning, and his remains were
interred in Potter’s field.
Washington, Sept. 3. —The President,
Secretary Richardson and Collector Casey,
are expected to return Saturday, when a
Cabinet meeting will probably be held.
The Commissioner of luternal Revenue,
Douglass, and Attorney General Williams,
has returned.
Another SSOO counterfeit has been re
ceived at the Sub-Treasnry, New York,
making three iu ail from the West.
Sec’y Richardson, Belknap and Assis
tant Secretary Cowan, are in attendance
upon the President at Long Baranch.
The LaGrange Light Guards have re
ceived their arms. The gnn is a breech
, loader, and is a superb weapon.
FORGERS ARRESTED.
A Hugo Swindle Nipped.
New York, August 31. —Norton, who
swindled several firms here and in Lan
caster, Pa., by raised certificates of stock
of Philadelphia and Reading Railroad,
has been arrested, Boiue time smeeitbe
police received information that a num
ber of shrewd operators had been working
on forged railroad stock to an alarming
extent, and that they were in league with
well known engravers of certificates. Os
this all brokers were warned, but this af
ternoon showed that the warning was not
heeded. A rumor was sprung by Alcott &
Cos., of Broad street, who had purchased
a thousand dollar bond from a man calling
himself Leonard Brown, being in business
at No. 113 Broadway. To-day Brown
called on Alcott & Cos. and wanted a loan
of sixteen similar bonds. It was found
that the genuine bond first purchased was
similar in number to one of the bonds of
the sixteen on which the loan was desired.
Examination was made and the discovery
made that the sixteen bonds were forger
ies. The detectives then ascertained that
Wooden Sherman, of No. 9 Nashua street,
was endeavoring to negotiate a loan of
$25,000 on New York Central stock con
solidated, issued with Messrs. Denny A
Cos., of Wall street, for Mr. Brown. A
detective at Sherman’s saw Brown, who
appeared impatient aud was walking up
and down the office. Mr. Sherman en
tered directly after, and handing Brown
a bond told him he could do no business
to-day. He left, and was arrested by the
detective who found eight forged thou
sand dollar bonds of the New York Cen
tral Railroad consolidated stock, and re
ceived two similar bonds which had been
lent with Edding A Cos., No. 26 Pine
street. Brown was taken to the Central
office and locked up, and the detective
further succeeded in recovering sixty-two
forged bonds similar to those found from
two firms, the names of which are kept
secret. The police say there are a million
dollars of forged bonds ready to flood
Wall street, and that $250,000 worth have
already been placed on the market. As
tounding developments are looked for to
morrow. The public are cautioned to
critically examine the following stock :
New York Central Railroad sixes 1887,
sixes 1876, and Buffalo, New York, and
Erie Railroad sevens.
THE BOND FORGERIES.
New York. Sept, I.—The principal ope
rator in the New York Central bond for
geries is one Charles J. Williamson, who
is believed to be identical with the no
torious Ross and Wright. He appears to
have been dealing through various brokers
to a very great extent, principally in New
York Central sixes of 1887, New York
Central sixes of 1883, and Buffalo, New
Turk and Erie first mortgage bonds.
Williamson is an outside man, aud whether
all these bonds just mentioned are for
geries or not, or merely covers by which
he was enabled to issue forged bonds, it
is impossible to tell. The detectives
think it advisable for any persons who
have bought any of the classes of bonds
just mentioned since the date of the last
interest payed to have them examined at
the several offices of the company, to
have their genuineness attested. It is'
reported in Wall street that a certain
bank has been victimized to the extent of
a million dollars with these forged bonds,
and it is further recorded that the arrest
of several prominent operators in Wall
street may bo shortly looked for, with
reference to this worthless paper. Since
the arrest of Brown, a large quantity of
bogus bonds have been discovered, as
follows: Found on the person of the
prisoner, $30,000; found with on
firm on Broadway, $20,000; with
another firm on Broadway, $32,000
making in all $82,000. It was rumored
last night that other stocks bad been
counterfeited, and that business will be
partially suspended in Wall street to-mor
row till the truth is known. Williamson
has the alias of H. H. Williams, and is
said to have been discharged years ago
from the position of book-keeper to
Brooks Bros., for speculation and forgery.
Every effort is being made to secure his
arrest.
later.
Leonard Brown, who on Saturday en
deavored to procure a negotiation of $30,-
000 worth of forged New York Central
Railroad Bonds, was arraigned at the
rooms of the police Court this afternoon.
Wooster Sherman said he received the
bonds from Brown to negotiate, aud only
knew Brown from Friday previous. Hold
brook, of the firm of Eddy A Cos., pro
nounced the bond 101, submitted to him,
an undoubted forgery.
SELLING A FOAIUNE.
We hear from several sources that im
mense amounts of land are being sold to
foreign capitalists, in Bartu, Polk, Mur
ray, Dade, and Gilmer counties, and at
extremely low figures. It is said that
their red fields, that the farmer can hardly
raise a crop of grass on, and scraggy hil
locks or mountains that are completely
inaccessible to the plow or the hoe, are
most in demand. Os course the farmer
feels rejoiced at getting rid of these por
tions of his lands, which to him are per
fectly useless, and no doubt he thinks he
has struck a capital bargain when he
sells them for $5 an acre.
Does be forget that his land is very deep
and that in its bowels are riches that would
command millions? Does he forget that
near Home, old wornout, hot looking
lands, that a year ago would have been
gladly sold for three dollars per acre, can
not be bought now with any amount of
money? Does he forget that Cherokee
Georgia is the richest iron country on the
globe, and that iron is more precious
than gold ? Does he forget that scores of
capitalists, sitting to-day in murky offices
in London, are peering across the Ocean
greedily at these very lands that they are
selling (or almost giving away) as worth
less ? Does he forget that there are rich
companies in New York who this very
moment have in their counting rooms,
maps of every foot of iron land in Chero
kee Georgfa, and that through their emis
saries they are daily buying them up?
It rejoices us to know that the old red
hills of Georgia have become as precious
as if they were hills of silver, but it
grieves ns to know that the people who
own them are blinded by a little gold dust,
and selling their matchless heritage for
worse than a mess of pottage.
Captain H. D. Cothran, a prominent
banker of Home, adopted the right course
in regard to these iron lands. He discov
ered through a practical geologist em
ployed, where rich deposits were imbed
ded. He then, instead of rushing off to
New York where this knowledge would
have raised millions of dollars of stock to
work the mines in less than a week, sat
quietly down and commenced organizing
a home company to take charge of the
great work, and thus keep the money at
home, and enrich our own people. \Vid
ows. mechanics, guardians, merchants,
farmers, embraced this golden opportuni
ty to the extent of their means, and are
now drawing from 30 to 00 per cent, on
their investments. In a half a dozen com
panies formed in Home, and aggregating
very near a million dollars’ worth of stock,
there is scarcely a single stockholder who
is not a Georgian. Mr. F. I. Stone, Capt.
Archer Griffith. Major John T. Burnes,
the Messrs. Nobles, and other progressive
men, are working up companies as fast as
they can, and all acting on exactly this
some principle. While, of course, they
will welcome intelligent capital from any
source, the preference is given always to
Georgia capital.
This is the way to huikl up the State.
The iron interest of Cherokee Georgia is
to-day the local point of attention in all
this country, and it behooves the people
who own part and parcel of it to watch
well before they take any more. —Atlanta
Herald , 3d.
A San Francisco milliner has invented
a hat which will probably sell well in
cases where blushing is not so spontane
ous as it might be, or used to be. When
the wearer bows or lowers the head ab
ruptly, a tiny pair of steel clamps com
press the arteries on each side of the tem
ples, sending the blood at once to the
cheeks.
Augusta received 180,890 bales of cotton
during the year ending on the 31st ult.
Stock on hand on the lstinst. 1,212 bales.
The total Sea Island cotton erop of the
year just closed was 25,238 bales.
GEORGIA'S GEOGRAPHY.
AN INSTRUCTIVE AND PLEASANT
DAY WITH THE UNITED
STATES COAST SURVEY.
From tlio Atlanta Constitution. 1
The Government of faa United States
is spending three quarters of a million of
dollars, yearly, upon what is called the
Coast Survey. The work is one of large
importance, and its object is to obtain
accurate geographical knowledge of the
Atlantic coast, extending back to the
mountains. It is consigned to the ablest
engineers of the service, and is conducted
with all the care and appliances of mod
ern science.
A similar work is being carried on in
England and France. In several States—
as Virginia for example—the State is tak
ing advantage of the government work to
push on a through system of State surveys,
looking to an accurate and exhaustive
geographical and topographical map of
the State, for use at home and abroad.
The magnitude and importance of the
| government operations in Georgia make
it a matter of prime importance that our
j State should be imitating the wise and
enterprising example of Virginia, and go
to work in utilizing the labor of the gov
j ernment, by a detailed survey of the
character and capacities of our great com
monwealth.
THE SURVEY.
For nearly two years a party of United
: States surveyors has been quietly and
modestly, but skillfully and expensively
carrying on their labors within a few
miles of Atlanta. Sub-corps of survey
ors have been scattered about at different
j points, co-operating with the main body.
the main camp.
The main camp is located at the ele
: vated anil pleasant little village of Dora
j ville on the Air Line Railroad, fifteen
| miles from Atlanta. The officer in charge
of this camp and who directs the entire
operations is Capt. C. O. Boutelle, an ac
; complished and thorough gentleman, and
| one of the best and most experienced
officers in the Civil Service of the Gov- ,
I ernient. His selection for this work is an
evidence of his high qualifications. He
has had some thirty years experience in
such work. He has at presenl as assist
ants three capable young gentlemen, i
! Messrs. Blair, Scott and Barnwell.
Camps have also been located at Ken
nesaw. Sweat and Stone Mountains.
GEODETIC.
The formidable word “geodetic” is the
term applied to the general survey, and
it means the geometry of the earth’s sur
face.
A CURIOUS THING.
The traveler sauntering through the
| country will be somewhat puzzled to find
in the borders of DeKalb and Gwinnett
counties about Doraville a curious speci
! men of graded ground, straight as an ar
row, four or five feet wide, extending six
miles in length, with pegs every fifteen
feet, and having at each end a lofty frame
i work tower fifty feet in height. lie will
! worry his brain to know its purpose.
It looks as though it might be a road
bed of a very narrow narrow-gauge' rail-
I way, but then those towers bewilder this
: hypothesis. The concern is not wide ;
J enough for a road. It evidently cost a ,
good deal of money, not less than sixteen :
thousand dollars. The unposted observ
-1 er simply fails to find any solution of the j
; curious and costly mystery stuck oil' in
j the country.
Well, gentle reader, this mysterious I
piece of work is called
A PRIMARY BASE,
and is a very important matter indeed,
• constituting the foundation for a vast j
mass of valuable surveys. The finest stir- j
j veyiug talent of the United States En
gineering service has been in charge of it. :
J Nearly two years time of a large and ex
pensive corps of men have been toiling at
it. Thousands of dollars have been spent
in its construction. And now that it is j
done, it will be permitted to grow in un- ;
derbrush, and will in time lose its identi- j
i <■)’•
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BASE BINE.
There are nine other such base lines in
i the United States beginning near the Can- j
| ada line and ending in Texas. This is
j designed the “Tenth.” These base lines
! are difficult to get, so difficult that the
j officers may wander miles and miles with- :
j out meeting the requirements of one. I
j They need to be level, and running in the
j right direction, and in view of some com- !
| manding eminences, and absolutely
j straight, and not intercepted by w ater
| courses. The measurement of these lines
must be perfectly .accurate. At the end I
a heavy block of granite is placed in the
| ground, with a staple in it, on whose cap
i is marked the dot that indicates the ter
minus. Under this granite block weigh
| ing several tons, is some thick masonry, \
: and underneath the masonary is another j
| granite block with the terminus marked
ion it. This exceeding care is to preserve
j the terminus for all time to come for fu
! ture use if necessary. On each side of
the centre block, at some distance, are
placed four smaller blocks of granite im*
| bedded in the ground, and so marked
■ that lines from them will cross each oth
; er at the terminus, thus indicating it.
| And by the marks on one of the four
! blocks, the terminus could be determin
ed. The tower is built over the terminal
| poiut, and at its top a painted polo indi
cates the point beneath for distant obser
i vation. Lying partially on the central
granite block is a carved granite niouu
: mental piece lying sideways with the in
scription on the top, “Benjamin Pierce,
Superintendent, 1872.” And on (he side
the words, “Primary Base No. 10.”
HOW MEASURE.^.
The instruments used in measuring the
j base line are marvels of ugly science,
j They are long tubes bu'ging out on the
middle from six inches to a foot or so in
diameter, on funny legs, with all sorts of i
internal machinery, thermometers, brass
and iron thin rods painted, and other
things. They are so fashioned that a
i breadth of a sheet of paper’s thickness
i will look to be a couple of feet. It would
be impossible, in the short space of a
newspaper article, to describe the opera
tions of these wonderful instruments
which give absolute accuracy of measur
ment. In measuring the base both ways
: only the discrepancy of a sixth part of an
inch was discoverable.
A HUMOROUS INCIDENT.
The accomplished lady of one of the
party tells a humorous incident which
illustrates tl e almost incredible correct
ness and nicety of their operations. The
surveying parly came in, and she found
! them in their tent in a In<nur-stricken
condition. They were mutually bewail- ;
| ing some terrible disa.-.Ur U: * had hap
pened to them. They wore m different!
j degrees of despair ai.d insan
i itv. She ventured to enquire the awful
cause of their woe. They replied that in
a half a dozen miles of work there was
an appalling mistake of six-tenths of a
millemeter that could not be accounted
for. Overcome at the stupendous calam
ity she left the tent in deep sympathy
vith the distressed surveyors. She ven
tured to enquire what six-tenths of a mil
lemeter was, conceiving it to be at least
half a mile, when she was informed that
it was lUtle 'more than a hair's breadth.
The despair of the operators over that
hair’s breadth discrepancy in several
miles measurement was very comical, but
it illustrates the exquisite accuraev of
their operations.
TRIANGULATION.
The primary bases are the simple
ground work of all the surveys. Taking
any point, such as Kennesaw for instance,
the angles made by lines from each end of
the base to Kennesaw are measured and
thus the distance to Kennesaw is compu
ted with entire accuracy. Upon this base
line all the computations proceed. This
simple system of triangulation does the
whole work. Each measured line is the
basis for other triangulations. Every 1
salient point in the country is utilized.
This survey, conducted by Captain Bout
elle, is to be carried through the whole
range of the Blue Ridge and to connect
the Atlantic with the Mississippi river.
In addition to the triangulations, astro
nomical observations give the longitude
and latitude.
THE HELIOTROPE.
While standing on the top of the tower, i
the writer looked through an instrument
called the heliotrope, and saw the spires
; of Atlanta, the signal pole ou Sweat .
Mountain, twenty miles distant, that on
■ Stone Mountain, ten miles distant, that on I
NO. 31.
! Kennesaw, eighteen or twenty miles dis
tant. These instruments show objects
SEVENTY-FIVE MILES OFF,
and materially assists the surveyor. A
I glass connected with the heliotrope throws
the sun's rays parallel with the direction
of the instrument, and makes a focus of
blaze visible with the naked eye forty
> miles.
We have not the space to record all the
j curiosities of science we saw. They are
j well worth one’s visit. Capt. Boutelle's
party move in two weeks to the Sewanee
i mountain, to continue their work.
| This net work of triangulations is to ae
-1 curately survey the whole surface of the
country.
Now is the time for Georgia to step in,
and with her State corps of surveyors, at
i small expense, fill in these valuable gov
ernment surveys with a minute topograph
ical map of the soil of Georgia, showing
the forest growth, hills and mountains,
streams, routes, roads, farms, boundaries,
soils, crops, etc., for the benefit of our
f people and of immigrants.
MORE LOSSES BY THE STORM.
Many Lives Lost.
Halifax, Sept. 3.—A letter from Guys
bosro’ says the late storm indicted its full
measure of damage upon that town and
the surrounding locality. The loss to the
inhabitants of Guvsboro’, mostly to
trades, is about $20,000. It is supposed
that no less than 100 barns have been
blown down in the settlement around
Guysboro’, and the crops, which promised
bountiful harvests, completely destroyed.
The fishermen along the cost have lost
their nets, and are left without the means
to prosecute the fall fishing.
A similar story comes from Fourehe,
where lumber, barns, fishing stages, trees,
fences, etc., are piled up in immense j
drifts on the road for a distance of a mile j
or so from Fourehe to Grand river. There
are only three barns standing, the remain
der being in ruins. To give an idea of
the fury of the hurricane, out of two acres
ofj hard woodland at Fourehe, there are
only ten trees left standing.
The fishing schooner Thetis, of Lahave,
wrecked on the north side of Prince Ed
ward’s Island, and all the crew, number
ing twenty men, were lost. At Cow Head,
where the gale was at its fiercest, there
were twenty sail of French fishermen, and
it is supposed every vessel went down
with all on board, for not the slightest
vestige of any of them was to be seen
when the sea moderated. A brigantine,
with seventeen on board, was struck by
a sea oil' Astpoint of Pie, and was over- i
turned; when she righted her spars were
gone clear out of her. The hull was driven 1
on the rocks and every soul on board per- i
ished. The name of the vessel could not i
be ascertained. At Magdalen the tide j
rose eight feet higher than ever known !
before, and the destruction of property 1
on land has been almost as great, if not
greater, than the loss at sea.
Another violent thunder and rain storm
passed over this city last night, but no j
damage has been reported. Steamer
Ebro was totally wrecked at Cape Breton, j
MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATIC
COXVEXTIOX.
Win. Gaston Nominated for Governor.
Worcester, September 3. —The Demo
cratic State Convention met here this
morning. On an informal ballot for can
didate for Governor, Win. Gaston, of
Boston, received 303 votes out of 451. I
Mr. Gaston was then nominated by accli
mation. The Convention was quiet and j
harmonious.
The Democratic Convention completed
the State ticket as follows: For Lieuten
ant Governor, Wm. L. Smith, of Spring
field; for Secretary of State, Benjamin J.
Miller, of Wiliiamstown; for Treasurer,
Naihan Clarke, of Linn; for Auditor,
Waldo Coburn, of Dedham; for Attorney
General, Cosgood Morse, of Northamp
ton.
C l L IIORXIA EI. EC I IOX.
San Francisco, Sept. 3.-— The political
excitement here is very high at the elec
tion to-day. The Peoples’ Anti-Railroad
ticket appears to be very strong, and the
general belief is that it will sweep the
field. The fact that railroad power has
obtained possession and control both of
the regular Democratic and Republican
conventions, having effectually broken
down party lines and excluded political
issues from the canvass, the contest be
tween P. Crowley, Independent, and
Theodore G. Cockerill, Democrat, for
Chief of Police, has taken strong sectarian
complexion, and is very bitter. The Or
der of United Americans having publicly
declared in fnvor of Cockerill, many
Democrats a o voting for Crowley. The
contest tor School Directors is character
ized by much of the same spirit. Ample
preparations have been made for preser
vation of order.
CHOLERA RAVAGES.
St. Louis, 2. —A despatch from
Okawaville, 111., twenty-nine miles from
here, on the St. Louis and Southeastern
Railroad, says the cholera of true Asiatic
type is raging there fearfully ; twenty
three persons died in twelve hours, among
them the principal bridge builder of the
Southeastern Railroad, and three children;
five died in one family in three hours,
lhe patients die within fifteen minutes
after attack and turn black immediately.
Medical aid will be sent for from the sur
rounding towns. Citizens are rapidly
leaving the city. Those recovering are
using disinfectants freely and burning tar
in the streets. It is said no local cause
exists for the disease.
iVEir YORK ITEMS.
New York, Sept. 3. —The Cashier of the
Sub-Treasury says that although a nnmbor j
of five hundred dollar IT. S. notes have
been presented for reratifieation, no coun- i
terfeits have been discovered since yester
day.
During August 10,035 emigrants ar
rived at Castle Garden; a decrease of over
4,000 for the month last j
year. From January Ist to 31st of Au
gust 201,947; a decrease of 4,874 for the
same period last year.
DEMOCRATS IS SEW YORK.
New York, Sept. 3. —The Democratic !
State Committee met here to-day and es- ;
fected temporary organization. Hecess :
was then taken until this evening. It is
expected the Committee will issue a call
for a State Convention to take place early
in October.
KESTVCK V.
Louisville, Sept. 3. —The old Hoard of
Short Line Directors re-elected.
The second grand Industrial Exhibition
opened with grand success.
Georgia Railroad Matures.—The fol
lowing changes have been made at the;
Georgia Hoad:
Mr. Geo. Heed, passenger conductor j
on the day train, has been promoted to !
be Down Freight Agent and Master of
Transportation, in place of R. L. Rhodes,
suspended. Capt. James Smith, con
ductor on the night passenger train, has
been placed in charge of the day passen
ger train, vice Capt. Newman Hicks,
promoted to Hoad Master. Capt. James
Johnson has been taken off the Macon
and Augusta passenger train and placed
in charge of Capt. Smith’s train on the
night line, Georgia Railroad. Capt. Thus.
Turner, an extra conductor, has been
placed in charge of Capt. Johnson’s train,
on the Macon and Augusta Hoad. Capt.
M. Welsh has been taken off the night
passenger train of the Georgia Road and i
placed in charge of Capt. Geo. Heed’s j
day passenger train. Capt. Ed. Purcell, 1
formerly agent of the Georgia Railroad 1
to look up lost freight, has been placed
in charge of Capt. Welsh’s night passen
ger train.
All of these are excellent appointments,
and cannot fail to result in great good to
the road. — Augusta Const. 2 d.
The Times reports the cotton receipts
of Eufaula, Ala., for the past year at 20,-
747 bales. But the shipments (including
cotton that never entered the warehouses) i
are stated at 32,541 bales.
Geu. Jubal Early has written a letter j
vigorously defending Mr. Jefferson Davis’
late address before the Southern Histori
cal Society.
FROM VARIOUS Ptl'Vls,
A PEirxs TL tAxiJ. 1 £t(f£it oit.
Philadelphia, August 27.—The Board
of Health inspected the University of
Pennsylvania, recently bought for a post -
office, this morning. In the northern
portion of the cellar they discovered two
compartments,,in each of which.were six
deep vaults, all of which except one were
filled with human remains.
From one not quite filled the lid was
removed, showing a human body resting
on a dreadful mass of flesh, bones, etc.,
with which the pit was well nigh filled.
A string was tied to a lamp which was
lowered into the pit. The
tinguished by the foul air.
The party went through the building.
At almost every step taken human remaius
met the eye. Skulls, arms, trunks, legs,
t hauds and feet, were scattered: about the
building in profusion, and here and there
large cyndrical slimy vessels were found
full of human remains, which seemed to
be scattered from roof to cellar.
In the appartment on the upper floor
was found the lower half of a female
skeleton, with much of the flesh, muscles,
etc., attached. It is said that some years
ago, when the authorities of the Univer
sity made the contract to clean out one of
the pits, the contractor was paid SI,OOO,
and he found it almost impossible to keep
men at work till the job was completed,
even by paying out nearly S4OO more
than he received.
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Flanging of Horse Thieves.
St. Louis, Sept. I.—A special dispatch
to tho Republican from Sedalia, Mo.,
gives an account of a terrible tragedy
which occurred at Knightly's Station, on
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad,
six miles west of Sedalia, Saturday last.
It appears.that Will Knightly, who has
been laboring under mental derangement
for some time, killed or caused the death
of his sister Adelaide, aged 40 years, and
his nephew Leones Skabbes, set fire to
the house and then killed himself. The
house occupied was in an isolated situa
tion, and when the neighbors reached it,
it was a mass of ruins. The charred re
mains of Knightly were found near the
window, with a partly burned shot-gun at
his feet, and the body of his sister and
jnephew near the front door, but so badly
charred that it could not be determined
whether they had been killed by Knightly
or were suffocated. The coroner’s jury
inclined to the latter opinion, although
the neighbors testified to having heard
three shots tired while] the house was
burning.
The same special says two horse thieves
were hanged by a mob in Benton county
on Saturday, and another of the same
gang has been'arrested, and is now in
jail at Sedalia.
II ISCOXSIX.
Union of Ofiiini'iiits anil Liberal Ipul>-
li rails.
Milwaukee, August 31. —The Demo
cratic and Liberal Republican State Com
mittees havo called a State Convention to
meet in Milwaukee on the 24th ol' Sep
tember, to nominate an opposition ticket
for Governor and other Stale officers.
They adopted the following resolution :
Resolved, That in the opinion of these
Committees the time has come when all
patriotic and intelligent electors ol' Wis
consin, who seek the election of honest,
capable and incorruptible men to office,
irrespective of past political associations,
should unite in one Convention upon
officers and candidates, and assist the
same candidates, and assert the sacred
rights of electing their own rulers in place
of the corrupt party in power, and of a
decision on all professional ,riugs .allied
with or political apologise therefor.
I I I. J. TR ESTERS ? I‘REPAR IXG.
Kingston, Jajiaca, 1 ' August 2!).— The
I steamer Virginia is still here, but is evi
dently preparing for another trip to Cuba,
i The Atlas, from New York, it is said.
brought her anew Captain. The United
i States steamer Cauadagua still lies here
with cases of fever on board. The num
ber of cases are diminishing daily. As
soon as recruited she will return to Aspin
; wall.
EIRE.
Nashua, N. It., Sept. 3. —The Morimac
House and adjoining buildings burned.
Bangor, Ms.., Sept. 3. —A terrible tire
j is rageing in the western part of East
j Ferry, in a piece of woodland. A large
; force of men are fighting the flames, hut
if high winds continue a great number of
dwelling houses will lie burned, us the
; well, are all dry and hardly any water to
be had.
AX OLD EDITOR DEAD.
Savannah, Ga., Aug. 31. —Jacob N.
| Cardozo, who has been connected with
newspapers at this city and Charleston,
from the begining of the century, died
last night, aged 87. Ho was the oldest
living editor in the South, and was en
gaged on papers to within the past two
years.
OVER SCHUYLKILL BALLS.
Reading, Pa., Sept. 1. —A boat with
two men and a woman went over the falls
of the Schuylkill, near Kissengen bridge.
One man escaped. It is supposed the
drow-ned man rowed over the falls pur
posely—motive unknown. He had a dif
ficulty with the drowned woman in a beer
] garden.
DEATHS Ol ’ I‘R OMIXEXT MEX.
Boston, Sept. 2.—Chester Isham Reed,
recently Attorney General and Judge of
the Superior Court of this State, died at
White Sulphur Springs, Va., to-day.
Sweet Chalybeate Springs, Va., Sep
tember 2. —Gen. Daniel M. Barringer, of
J North Carolina, died last night at the
White Sulphur Springs of jaundice. His
remains will be taken to Raleigh to-mor
I row for interment.
TIIE EORT SITE HOAX.
Wicita, Kansas, Sept. 2.— The stage
leaving Fort Sill August 28th, reports the
massacre story a hoax. No trouble oc
curred with the Indians at Ft. Sill or on
| the route.
C UJt A—RE PUBLIC ASS ARRESTED.
Havana, Sept. 2. —-The Chief of Police
made a descent yesterday on the Republi
can club room and arrested and jailed
forty Republicans. They had been pre
| viously notified that such meetings wer»
illegal.
PIETY LESSEES WRECKED.
Toronto, Sept. 2. —The Marine and
Fishery depot received a dispatch from
Magdelen Island, stating that fifty vessels.
; American and British, were wrecked in
the gale of the 21st ult.
MEXICANS STEALING CATTLE.
Bkownesvim®, Texas, Sept. 3. —Cattle
i stealing on the border resumed. After
1 crossing, the stolen cattle are boldly
driven on the highways of Mexico, with
out interference from the Mexican au
thorities. The robberies are estimated
at 1,000 head monthly.
A SHAKING UR IS PANAMA.
Panama, Sept. 3. —On the 12th of July
i last a severe earthquake w r as felt all over
the State of Nicaragua, caused, as it is
supposed, by the Volcano Momatomit,
which has become very active.
PR IX E EIGHT.
St. Louis, Sept. 3.— The last deposit of
>SOO in the Allen-McCall prize was made
last night. The fight is to take place on
the 23d inst. There is but very little
betting on the result, although the friends
j of both parties are sanguine.
RAILED.
Titusville, Pa., Sept. 3.—A strange
was arrested for passing anew counter
, feit five hundred dollar bill, was released
■ on $3,000 bail, which amount he depos-
I ited.
EORT SILL.
Washington, Sept 3.— The Commis
sioner of Indian Affairs has a letter from
Fort Sill, dated August 31st, which stated
that the Indians thereabout were peaoea
! blc.
San Antonio, Texas, Sept. I.— Advices
from Mexico state that all the Pottowata
mies and two hundred and fifty Kickapoo
Indians, with their families, have left
t Mexico on their way to their Kansas res-
I ervation, traveling the upper route and
j avoiding all settlements.
Eleven Indians attacked the Varilla
f Springs stage stand, near Fort Davis, un
successfully and sustained a loss of two,
seen to fall from their horses and to be
j picked up by their retreating comrades.