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Xlae Greorgia "W^eekly Telegraph, and Journal & jVTessenger.
i^iy tUc Bibb Conniyl*onds.
Tbe Ordinary hasadvertised-50,COOinbonds
of Ibis county for salo for some weeks, but the
sale is slow, notwithstanding tho ******
bonds are as safe a secunty as can be found m
the country, and can be had at about eighty
cents in the dollar. They bear seven per cent
interest, payable semi-annually in New York or
Macon, and. no doubt, but for the local scarcity
of money, would have all been taken so soon as
offered. Enough, however, mnst be sold to
prosecute the building of the Court-house, for
which purpose they are issued, or failing in
this, the money must be realized by taxation,
which perhaps will bo, after all, the better plan.
It will make us all howl spontaneously, but it
will be an excellent lesson on the value of econ
omy. Two years of taxation, which shall raise
one hundred thousand dollars each year for
county purposes, on the back of our other taxes;
will be a sweet and gentle exercise, and enable
ns all to appreciate the Court-house when it is
finished.
Two Fools Well Met;
The New York Commercial Advertiser notes
a recent duel in Vienna that beats all other lit
tle affairs of that character we have ever heard
of, for originality, at least. A lieutenant in the
army and a dancer of the opera house, both
young men, having had a quarrel concerning
lady, agreed that each should wear a glove on
tho left hand, and which ever was seen by tho
other without the glove should kill himself.
Owing to being taunted by his relatives upon
the singularity of keeping his left hand gloved,
the dancer had been induced to violate the
agreement, and being seen thus by the lieuten
ant, he considered himself bound in honor to
fulfill the stipulations, and shot himself in the
park, where he was found bleeding and carried
home. The simpleton very properly died after
imparting the above particulars.
A White Boy [Nearly Whipped to
DeatU by Negroes.
Tho Selma Times gives a detailed account of
the unmerciful whipping of a white boy near
that city by a gang of negroes. As reported to
ns, a young white boy, about fourteen years
old, who was living at or near the plantation
mentioned, found a negro boy in possession of
a pair of drawers which had been stolen from
the whito boy, and which ho became satisfied
werq taken by the negro. The boy thereupon
had an altercation with the negro, which result
ed in his giving him a whipping. The matter
was reported to tho negroes employed on the
plantation, who gathered in force, and took the
boy and whipped him unmercifully. A severe
flagellation was then administered by another
crowd of negroes, and the boy was then taken
off by a portion of the party, and since that
time has not been heard of. Whether he was
murdered outright, or left by the brutes in some
out of the way place, to die of his injuries, is
a matter of conjecture. Seventeen of the ne
groes have been arrested and lodged in jail.
Stanton in Dead Earnest. *
We published a paragraph yesterday with
reference to the determination of Mr. Stanton,
of the Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad, to
abandon negro labor in its construction, and
employ that of Chinamen.
The following dispatches, in tho Chattanooga
Times, of Sunday, show how much in earnest
he is:
San Francisco, June 17, 1870.
J. C. Stanton, Sup't A. & C. JL It:
Can deliver in thirty days, at Chattanooga,
one or two thousand good Chineso laborers for
sixty dollars per bead. Wages sixteen dollars
per month and board; free passage back.
Koopiianschab & Co.
To this Mr. Stanton replied:
Chattanooga, Jupe 17.
Koopmanschap & Co., San Francisco, Cat,:
We will take fifteen hundred able-bodied
Chinese laborers at once. We refer to the First
National Bank of Chattanooga.
J. O. Stanton, Snpt.
A General Amnesty Bill.
All prognostications to the contrary notwith
standing, it seems the Reconstruction Commit
tee have reported a General Amnesty bill which
has been ordered to be printed and referred
back to the Committee. Whether anything
further will be done with it this session is per
haps very doubtful. The exclusions from grace
are not very numerous, and if Government
really desires to restore the entente cordials it is
a pity there are any at all; but it is still more
lamentablo that a proscriptive policy should
have been pursued at all.
Whittemoiie's case was up in the House ac
cording to the noon dispatches yesterday, and
Logan excoriating him. The World, citing the
cose of Wilkes & Walpole, in tho House of
Commons, maintains that a successful appeal to
a constituency, in such a case, amounts to a
sort of political regeneration—rubs out the old
soore and remits the member to a new career,
purged of his past iniquities. Some of the
letter-writers say the Radicals are really puz
zled what to do in tho premises. They pro
nounce Whittemore “ unworthy a seat in the
House.” He appeals to his constituency, and
they reply: “ we differ from you. He is just
the kind of representative we desire. He suits
us exactly.” The quarrel then lies between
the House and the constituency; and as the
House literally made Whittemore’s constituen
cy, their months should bo stopped. They can
not find fault with their own handiwork. They
cannot disfranchise them on account of a differ
ence of opinion as to the proper qualifications
of a representative. Congress affects to insist
upon an outward observance of the Sth com
mandment as aqunlification for a representative:
but Whittemore’s constituents, with no respect
for it themselves, consider any attention to it
on the part of their Congressman entirely need
less. It is a difference of opinion entering in
timately into the chamcter of tho constituency,
and Congres has already endorsed the constitu
ency as eminently fit and proper. It is a caso
which puzzles the Radicals.
The San Francisco Bnlletin gives the follow
ing statistics of tho passenger travel over tho
Pacific Railway during tho first four months of
the present year:
Months.
East.
West.
January..:.....
894
1,234
February
957
1,493
March '
1.305
2,788
April
1.875
3,527
Totals
5.013
9,052
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to California over this route than came from
California Eastward. There arrived at San
Francisco during the same period, by sea, 6,164
persons, ana there departed 4,000. The wholo
number of arrivals in tho four months was 15,-
200, and tho &cpartures9,000, showing a balance
in favor of California's attractiveness of 6,200.
East Tennessee Wheat Cbot.—The Chatta
nooga Times says the recent heavy rains in the
above section have seriously damaged the wheat
crop. The Greenville Union says “tho wheat
crop of Green county will not be as good a3 was
expected ten days ago. In Sullivan county the
yield will bo rather light, while in Washington
county it will fall one-third below what was ex-
•pected two weeks since. The complaint of
smut is general in these three counties, many
crops being literally rained. The oat crop is
very promising.'’’
The Labor Question in the East.
The advent of tho Chineso shoe makers in
New England has set the whole busy hive of
Northern mechanical labor in a buzz. Tho
Northern papers are full of reports upon the
situation and prognostications in respect to the
future. The union organizations among the
mechanics are in a state of high excitement.
Some threaten immediate violence, and others
content themselves] with dark and portentous
vaticinations in respect to a grand impending
conflict between labor and capital, in which the
weaker at the ballot-box will go to the wall.
There was a mass meeting of working men
in Troy, New York, last Wednesday evening, in
which the sins of Mr. SampsoD, the importer
of the Chinese, were charged upon Massachu
setts, and die, the first to abolish slavery, was
charged with a deliberate design to degrade
American labor; and anarchy and disorder
were predicted as the certain resnltof introduc
ing a “ servile immigration” of which this was
but the first wave. It was demanded that the
question should be made a test in the next Con
gressional elections. Congress was invoked to
pass the bill to make tho importation of emi
grants under labor contracts unlawful, and the
working men of America were appealed to, to
riso in their might to maintain the dignity of
their position.
But how about the other side? A corres
pondent of the New York Tribune, writing from
North Adams, tho scene of the Chinese experi
ment, calls this importation “the desperate re
sort of the manufacturers against the growing
and unbearable exactions of the Knights of St.
Crispin.” He says it brings faoe to face, in
violent antagonism, labor which commands
three to six dollars a day, and labor content
with seventy cents a day. The account of the
arrival, appearance and demeanor of the Chinese
i3 interesting. We quote a paragraph:
An inspection of the cheerful little colony
just established in the factory of Mr. Calvin T.
Sampson certainly produces a different impres
sion from that received by accounts from Cali
fornia or China itself. The quarters provided
for the strangers are filled with young men of
small stature, all chattering in a tongue which
seems to have no syllables, all smiling in a su
perabundance of good spirits and good nature,
and all neat as wax. It seems impossible that
these can be the class who built the Pacific
Railroad, slender and light as they are, with
faces sparkling with intelligence, and hands
smaller and more delicate than those of the
average of American women. And, indeed,
they are not a fair average of Chinese laborers;
for Mr. Chase (Mr. Sampson’s agent) obtained
picked men from a company of two thousand,
selected especially for their quickness and
adaptation to a business requiring skill and in
telligence. But it gives a novel and agreeable
impression to a New Englander to see a party
of emigrants freshly arrived on American soil,
employing their first days of rest not in smok
ing and drinking, not in quarreling or sleeping,
but in reading diligently books in their own
language, in writing diaries in blank books they
havo brought for tho purpose, in studying
arithmetic with their national “sum-doing”
machine of beads on wires, and in learning to
read and speak English with an eagerness al
most painfal in its intensity of application.—
Remind a Berkshire man than these are Fagans,
representing a nation cursed with peculiar vices,
with no conception of republican ideas, and he
points you triumphantly to Mr. Ah Sing, the
leader of this company, who after eight years
in California wears the garments of our civili
zation down to his boots, speaks, reads and
writes English, is courteous and dignified in
manner, and belongs to tho Methodist Church.
The North Adams philosopher is entirely con
fident of bringing every one of these strangers
up to Mr. Ah Sing's standard in mnch less than
eight years, and that once accomplished will be
quite ready to take them into his church or into
his parlor.
Upon the contract actually made by Mr.
Sampson, we have the following:
Seventy-five men are engaged. A foreman
to keep them in order and np to their work, pro
vide for their needs, and command them gener-
ally, at $G0 a month, and two cooks, who act
also as counselors and advisors, being men of
rank and experience, at the wages of laborers,
are all the non-producing members of the com
pany. The rest will all stand at the bench and
‘‘make shoes.” They will receive $23 a month
each the first year, and $26 a month the rest of
the three years they are bound to stay. In ad
dition to this, and to the expense of bringing
them here, Mr. Sampson supplies the heat for
their cooking, and their bunks, ranged in fonr
tiers at the distance of an ordinary sleeping car,
and famished with mattresses. All the rest the
men themselves provide, boarding themselves
according to their own taste and fancy. The
employer has advanced money to famish thorn
with hats, underclothing, stockings, dishes
(though most of these they brought with them,)
andcotton cloth for varioususes; butthis is to be
“worked out” and deducted from the first wages
paid. If any Chinaman dies, his bones are to
be sent home by express. It is fiot an experi
ment to be cheaply tried, of coarse; but it is
not so costly as would be imagined. Mr. Samp
son determined to sink $50,000, if necessary, in
carrying the thing through; he is not likely to
have invested one-fifth of that -amnunt before
the profits begin to come in. He doubles his
night-watch, illuminates the grounds about his
building by powerful reflectors, laughs at the
threats of the Crispins, and is os confident of
entire success as of the rising of the sun to
morrow.
These Chinese are not shoemakers as yet
They have the trade to learn, bat the race are
constitutional adepts in handicraft, and are mak
ing rapid progress in the art.
It is, we think, easy to see that this is merely
the beginning of a great labor movement and a
labor convnlsion. Unless Congress is prepared
to go the length of absolutely prohibiting all
Chinese immigration, the effort to stop it by for
bidding preliminary labor contracts will be fu
tile as it is unreasonable. But the political,
economical and social results which must follow
the extensive introduction of Chinese labor into
the Northern States open an equally boundless
and interesting field of conjecture. On the
whole, we think New England, long so deeply
and destructively agitated by the labor question
in the South, will soon find one on her own
hands which may give her quite as much trouble.
air.
Stephens on the Treatment of
Prisoners of War.
In his second volume of the “War between
the States." Mr. Stephens definitely and em
phatically stamps out the Radical lie that ex-
Fresident Davis and the Confederate authorities
were guilty of cruel treatment of Federal pris
oners. Henceforth let us have no more of it
from any quarter. Ho says:
This whole subject of tho treatment of prison
ers, which has become so prominent a feature
in considering tho conduct of the war on both
sides, from the turn which has been given to it,
I may as well dispose of here, at once and final
ly. Blis I do by stating broadly that the
charge of cruelty and inhumanity towards pris
oners, which has been so extensivelymade at the
North, against Mr; Davis and tho Confederate
authorities, is utterly without foundation in
fact. From the commencement and throughout
tho war, the whole course of Mr. Davis towards
prisoners shows conclusively theperfectreckless-
ness of the charge. His position on this subject,
in the beginning, clearly appears from what we
havo seen, and that fully sustains this statement.
The efforts which havo been so industriously
mado to fix the odium of cruelty and barbarity
npon him, and other high officials under the
Confederate Government, in tho matter of pris
oners, in the face of all tho facts, constitute Gno
of the boldest and .baldest attempted outrages
upon the truth of history, which has over been
essayed; not less so than tho infamous attempt
to fix upon him, and other high officials on the
Confederate side the guilt of Mr. Lincoln’s as
sassination J Whatever unnecessary privations
and sufferings prisoners on both sides were sub
jected to, the responsibility of the whole rested
not upon Mr. Davis or tho Confederate authori
ties.
Choice Representation.—Cain, the negro
Tycoon of South Carolina, and editor of the
Missionary Record,” says the Palmetto ne
groes will claim in that State two of the Repre-
sentatives and one of tho Senators in Oqngress.
They should tAke the whole delegation, instead
of electing such white men as Whittemore.
TIte Georgia Press.
Muskmelons have made their appearance in
the Savannah market. ; • J
On Sunday evening, in Savannah. Bill Sim
mons, 15th A., chopped up another ditto, pretty
badly with a razor.
The Savannah Radicals have chosen three
white men, so called, delegates to the 4th of
July convention of that crowd, at Atlanta.
Mr. D. O’Conner, of Savannah, will soon
commence the manufacture, by steam, of drays,
wagons, etc., in that city.
The schooner P. Mervin, from Philadelphia
for Savannah, went ashore on the coast of
North Carolina on the 12th. Her cargo, con
sisting of syrup, iron, railroad wheels, will be
saved, in part.
Daring a thunder storm Sunday, at Savannah,
lightning struck a stable knocking down but not
injuring a very fine horse. A man in the stable
had his hat knocked from his head, but was not
hurt.
Tbe Savannah News says:
For more than a week past we have had heavy
rains each day, and yesterday at the usual hour,
between two and three o'clock, a rain storm
opened upon ns, which continued, with slight
intermission, till night. An immense body of
water fell, and as the earth had been previously
well saturated, our streets were soon flooded, so
that in some quarters they might have been nav
igated with small crafts. A few such rain storms
as that experienced here yesterday, along the
valley of the upper Savannah, would swell the
river over its banks and cause immense damage
at this season on the low land plantations above
us. If there is no abatement of the rain we
shall expect to hear that Hamburg, S. 0., is out
of soundings, and that Augusta is floating down
stream.
The Elberton Gazette says:
Uatto Times.—There seems to be a universal
complaint among all classes of ‘hard times’ and
a scarcity of money. We learn that many farm
ers in the county are now out of com, and have
no money to bay it, and com is a cash article
at $2 50 a bushel; yet they are endeavoring to
make large crops of cotton without it. We fear
that a worse time than the present awaits us not
far ahead, unless the price of com is greatly re
duced the present year by abundant crops in
other sections of the country, for it is estima
ted that the amount of com planted in this
county will not more than half supply the peo
ple, even if the season should be a favorable
one.
J. J. Walker, of Griffin, has threshed out 200
bushels of wheat from eight acres, andnot abrag
patch either.
An excursion passenger train will run over the
Griffin and North Alabama road, from Griffin
to Senoia, next Friday.
B. F. Sawyer has retired from tho Rome
Daily.
Major Campbell Wallace and CoL Hulbert
have been summoned to testify before tbe State
Road Investigation^) Committee.
Tho Atlanta Constitution understands “that
one of the basement rooms of tbe Stato House
has been tendered by Mr. H. L Kimball to the
State Agricultural Society for the Secretary’s
office, for the meetings of the Society and the
Executive Committee, and for any other uses to
which the Association may see fit to appropri
ate it.”
The Atlanta Era, of yesterday, says:
On Saturday last the lightning did some dam
age. The house of Mr. Stevens, of tho firm of
Stevens & Flynn, was struck and every member
of the family prostrated. The first to recover
was a negro woman, who hastened for medical
assistance. Tho cooper shop of Mr. Fitzgibbon
was strnck, knocking Mm down and doing much
injury to his stock. On Hunter street, near Mr.
TFink’s residence, a tree was struck, killing in
stantly a cow which had taken refuge under it
from the storm. The lightning also struck tMs
afternoon, but we did not hear of its doing much
damage.
Quarries of Quincy granite and flexible sand
stone have been discovered on the line of the
Air Line railroad, near Gainesville.
The Griffin Star says the late rains have ma
terially injured the crops. There is mnch com
plaint of cotton dying from the effects of rain,
and cotton lice. Wheat is sprouting in the
shock, and socle is being fed to stock.
Tbe Monroe Advertiser has the following
items.
Fbom Cullodhn.—A correspondent at Cullo-
den, under date of the lGth inst., sends us the
following:
The appearance of growing crops in this por
tion of the county is very promising, and the
only fear among farmers at present is that the
copious rainswithwMch wearenowbeingvisited
will keep the ground too wet for them to con
trol the grass, and perhaps hasten the advent of
the boll worn.
Crops in Crawford are subject to the same
remark.
Wheat, as far as can be estimated, has yield
ed a good return both in Monroe and Crawford.
Dead.—Bill Travis, a well known person of
color, died here last week. He was one of the
Registrars of tMs district in 18G7, and was quite
prominent with Ms own race. He was conser
vative in Ms attitude towards the whites.
Recovering.—We are glad to learn that Judge
Hiram Phinazee, who has been seriously ill for
several weeks past, is convalescent. We hope
soon to see Mm stirring about with Ms usual
vigorous health.
Butts County.—The agricultural situation in
Butts is very promising. For the past three
weeks, seasonable rains have fallen in nearly
every; portion of the county, and farmers are
in the best of spirits. Wheat has been harvested,
and the yield is estimated atsometMng above an
average.
Com was never more promising at this season
of the year. I notice that the fields of some of
the earliest and thriftiest farmers are nearly
ready to tassel out, and yon may expect tantaliz
ing rumors of roasting-ears from this region in
a very short time.
Cotton is remarkably vigorous in its appear
ance, and it is thought by some sanguine agri
culturists that, with further propitious seasons,
little Butts will pack and send to market a larger
supply of the staple than at anytime since 1800,
which, your know, was a famous year for cot
ton.
Dr. R. T. Hames, for many years a represen
tative in the Legislature from Sumter county,
and one of her most influential citizens died
Sunday, of typhoid dysentery.
Hancock, of the Sumter Republican, is an
nounced as on a tour down in Calhoun county,
in the interest of tho Good Templars!
The Albany News says crops ore already se
riously injured by the rain, and planters ore
blue. Tho News says, furthermore, that the
caterpillar has made its appearance.
•Mr. E. E. Wilder, from Capt. John A. Davis’
plantation, bottled a fly a few days ago, and in
three days its larvo commenced devouring cot
ton leaves placed in the bottle as a test. This
wo saw, and have 'no doubt of iho identity of
the insect.
“Since the above was in proof, we have con
versed with a number of our heaviest planters,
and they all concur in the gloomy faot that cot
ton has received a terrible blow. Col. B. G.
Lockett says the rains are the most hurtful he
ever saw, that vast bodies of the best lands are
under water, and that all are too wet for work.”
Clear and Waum.—Yesterday was the clear
est and warmest day we have had in this sec
tion during the last fortnight.
A letter for Preston Day, of Macon, is held
for postage in the Savannah office.
The Savannah Republican says:
Arrival or Graxwacke.—Tho schooner S. B.
Franklin, from New York, arrived at the wharf
immediately above Wright’s Cotton Press, yes
terday, with threo hundred tons of “gray waoke”
for the new pavement on Bay street. Tho
blocks are from three to fonr inches in tMck-
ness, from six to eight inches wide, and from
six to ten inches long. The material appears
to be granite of a sufficient hardness and
streegth to make a substantial pavement
The Walking Cab.—Mr. J. K. Glenn’s walk
ing car made its appearance yesterday on West
Broad and Bay streets loaded with five bales of
cotton, weighing about 2,500 pounds. It was
drawn by two mules and followed immediately
after a dray loaded with five bales of cotton, and
we could not perceive any difference between
the labors of the two teams. Each one of the
teams carried its load over tbe street with about
the same ease and facility.
A reported homicide at Thunderbolt Sunday
night, a dog fight that finally resulted in the
knocking down of three' policemen, and the
proposed issue of the Press Advocate, a semi-
occasional newspaper devoted to commercial,
industrial and agricultural progress, about sums
up the result of a farther search for Savannah
news in the Republican’s local column.
The News says:
At a meeting of the German Immigrant Aid
Society of Georgia, held last evening, the fol
lowing gentlemen were elected as officers:
President—Capt. A. P. Wetter.
First Vice President—G. Y. Sejbold.
Second Vice President—Nicolaus GelL
Recording Seoretary—Ohas. Heinsius.
Corresponding Secretary—Dr. L, Knorr.
Directors.—G. Gehe, M. P. Muller, N. Gazan,
Wm. Swoll, O. Schwarz. y .
Mr. Wm. E. Jackson, President of the Au
gusta Factory, has been elected President of the
Augnsta National Bank, vice B. H. Warren, de
ceased.
William Edwards, white, was sentenced on
Monday to pay a fine of one hundred dollars or
serve six months in the chain gang for stealing
a pistol at Augusta.
The Constitutionalist says:
Li a Bad Way.—There is considerable inqui
ry made among the employees of the Port Royal
Railroad Committee as to the continued absence
absence of Mr. Geo. D. Chapman, the contrac
tor of tho Port Royal Roilioad Committee.
Divers attachments have been isued against Ms
available assets left behind, and altogether Ms
financial status on ’change is particularly shaky.
• The Press and Messenger says Putnam coun
ty farmers have hed too much rain—have had to
stop their plows. Cotton is growing very luxu
riantly.
The Columbus Enquirer says:
A Difficult Levy.—Daring the thunder
storm yesterday, Barney Casey levied on a wagon
and mules belonging to a freedman living some
five miles from the city to satisfy a $5 debt due
another freedman for labor. At the first heavy
clap the mules runaway, and it was only by
strenuous efforts Barney recovered them. At
the second clap they broke again, wMch again
put the constable through. At Inst accounts,
however, he was in possession of one mule.
wMch he proposes to hold for damages.
The Columbus Sun gives the following ac
count of a heavy rain storm, and the freaks of
the lightning in that city, Monday:
Heavy Rain Storm—Several Houses, the
Upper Bridge, and a Negro Struck by Light
ning—Runaways.—A dark, heavy rain cloud
passed over the city yesterday about I p. m. It
was very narrow, for parties a mile distant on
the east or west had no rain nor saw the flashes
of lightning. Heavy torrents of rain came. In
less than three quarters of an hour Dr. Fqgarty’s
guage indicated that an inch had fallen.
During tho progress of the shower two vivid
flashes of lightniug wore seen, followed intantly
by rapid and deafeniag thunder. There were
fourteen runaways of horses and mules on
Broad street, between Randolph aad Crawford.
Threo express wagons and one buggy were
broken by being dragged against trees and other
obstructions by tbe frightened animals.
The lightniug struck the rods on the Presby
terian Church building and Dr. Billings’ resi
dence, but did no damage that we heard of. It
also struck the front iron verandah of the Ken
tucky House, and knocked down senseless a
negro man who was sitting on a pump in rear
of the hotel. The negio was revived by throw
ing water on him. Where the flash first struck
only a splinter was broken from a plank. Di
rectly below was young Mr. Maurice Barnett,
who, sitting, in a window, was talking to Mr.
Jackson—the latter being in the store. Young
Barnett was stunned for a moment and lifted
from Ms seat by the shock; Mr. J. did not feel
it. The hotel is in the middle of a block and
protected by several rods. They were not in
jured, nor was any one in the building shocked.
Parties along Broad say a broad bole of light
seemed to traverse the street and come out of
the stores.
The lightning struck the rod on CoL Mott’s
residence, but did no hann. It also strnck the
upper bridge, just where the ga3 pipe terminates
near the Alabama shore. The current broke a
hole through the roof about the size of an ordi
nary hat, shivered a “girder” below to pieces,
and then lightly splintering the timbers on either
side, descended via the rock piers to the river.
Damage light. Several negroes and vehicles
were within the structure at the time, but none
were injured, and all were too frightened to give
any account of what they saw. In fact they
beheld nothing but fear. A cow not far off was
knocked down and stunned for a few moments.
Gentlemen in Henes’ barbershop, in the Geor
gia Home building, noticed flashes of light leap
ing along the heating apparatus. It is said a
young telegraphic messenger was knocked off
Ms pins in Mr. Meyer’s shoe shop while in the
act of delivering a message. Not hurt.
A meeting of the Executive Committee of the
Stato Agricultural Sooiety called to assemble,
Tuesday, at Atlanta, found itself without
quorum, and adjourned sine die.
George Sharpe, an Atlanta jeweller, has se
cured the contract for famishing the premiums
for the Atlanta Fair.
The firm of J. P. Stidham and Co., PMladel-
pMa, have been awarded the contract for put
ting up tho new passenger depot at Atlanta.
The ground for the building will measure 352
by 120 feet, and the building will be of iron
and brick, and will cost $135,080. It will have
five tracks running through it, and is to be fin
ished by the 10th of October.
The Constitution learns by private letter from
Carrollton, that the Eagle hotel, the grocery
store of W. B. Conyers, and the Masonic build
ing adjoining wero burned Friday morning.—
Mr. Addison Steed jumped from tbe second
story of the hotel, about 20 feet, but was not
hart. Loss between $15,000 and $20,000, and
no insurance.
The Atlanta Sun says:
It was reported on the streets yesterday that
Capt. Bryant was before the Governor-Treasur
er Investigating Committee, and stated that ho
knew nothing new except that Fitch, of tho
Griffin Star, Mid received a feo of five hundred
dollars as an attorney, when he had not been
practising law for some years, and that Fitch
had last fall proposed to Bryant to burst up the
Democratic as well as the Radical party, and or
ganize a new party, to be called the Bullock
party. It is understood that Fitch will be sub
poenaed to appear before tho Committee to ex
plain the matter. TMs is done at the request
of the Governor.
The Supremo Court on yesterday, without a
dissenting voice, decidodthat keno was gaming;
and that the keeping of keno tables was the
keeping of gaming tables,
Mr. John McDonald, an old and well known
citizen of Snmter county, died last week, aged
95 years.
Major Black, of Amerious, has threshed ont
seventy bushels of wheat from three acres of
land—which is excellent oropping for that sec
tion.
Akerman-Mg Prospects and Oppos-
ers.
The Radical papers at the,North know so lit
tle of the new Attorney-General, that they per
sist in spelling his name Ackerman, whereas it
is as written above. None of them, so far as
we have seen, respond to his nomination with
any cordiality, except the Tribune. The Sun
sneers as follows:
Mr. Akcrman belongs to that class of men
for whom Gen. Grant has a predilection. He
was never heard of before, and there is no rea
son why ho should be in the Cabinet unless he
has privately made Gen. Grant presents. He
adds nothing to the political strength of the
Enfanla Items.
The News, of the 21st, says com is doing
well, but there i3too much rain for cotton.
A sale of city lots with ‘•inferior buildings
thereon,” was made at auction in Eufaula last
Saturday. The News says:
The brick store now held by Mr. Meyers,
brought $7,900, the two wooden buildings just
above the one occupied by Mr. Long, and the
other known as the old Bnrrns lot, brought re
spectively $6,700 and $8,000.
This looks as if Eufaula was on the rise.
The News chronicles a marriage between an
Indian and a wMte woman to escape the toils
of the law, wMch took place in Barbour county
jail. The Sheriff was the only attendant The
ceremonials not elaborate. No cards.
The News reports that tho Florida Radicals
of the darker sort are abont to throw tho carpet
baggers overboard and run one of their number
for Congress. The influx of the African ele
ment into Congress‘will shorten the summer
sessions. Tho dog days in tho Senate with
closed doors will be the “dogonedesi sort of
days.”
Norway Oats.—A friend was telling ns yes
terday about a patch of ten acres of Norway
oats in Jones county, wMch it was expected
would thresh ont abonfseventy bushels to the
acre. He has promised to report the aotnal re
sult, by weight, in a few days.
Administration, and it is a very poor compli
ment to Judge Hoar to select such a man for
Ms place.
And tho Commercial Advertiser thus:
The President has accepted the resignation of
Mr. Hoar as Attorney General, and has nomina
ted Mr. Amos T. Akerman, of Georgia, to the
vacancy. Who Mr. Akerman is, we cannot say.
Our biograpMcal Dictionaries are in vain.
As for the Northern Democratic papers they
scoff, and sneer, and jeer with an unction the
reverse of trooly loil.
The onslaught against Akerman’s confirma
tion seems to be headed by that venomous crip
ple, Morton, of Indiana, who; with Chandler,
Lewis, of Virginia, and McDonald, of Arkansas,
on Saturday, had an interviow with Mr. Grant,
and put on what pressure they could to induce
Mm to withdraw the nomination. The report
is that Mr. Grant said them nay very flatly, and
that he will stand by Akerman to the last. We
have heard this same old tone many times be
fore, though, and don't put quite so much faith
in it as we do in the venom and power of Con
gress.
Apropos to the the subject, tho following
special to the Tribune, of Saturday, may be read
with interest:
Washington, June 17.—Tbe petition of the
Hon. Amos T. Akerman, yesterday nominated
for Attorney General in place of Mr. Hoar, writ
ten by Mmself, asking for the removal of his
disabilities, is still on file with the House Re
construction Committee, and was examined this
morning by persons interested in the facts. The
petition sets forth that Mr. Akerman was a
Union man at the ontaet of the war, and strong
ly opposed secession, remaining quiet but firm
in opposition to the rebellion for some time af
ter hostilities began. Bnt, after the Confeder
ate Government had established itself, he en
tered its service, “voluntarily,” as he Mmself
says, remaining therein for about 18 months.
Mr. Akerman states that not having held any
office before tha war, he was not subject to the
disabilities imposed by the third section of the
Fourteenth Amendment, bnt that having, as he
writes, “voluntarily” served the Confederacy,
ho could not take the test oath. He wished his
disabilities to be removed in order to accept
office under the Reconstruction policy.
The contents of tho petition havo aroused
an unfriendly feeling toward Mr. Ackerman
among the more radical Republicans. With re
gard to Mr. Ackerman’s position in Georgia it
is stated by leading Republicans from that
State, now here, comprising ex-representatives,
and claimants for Senatorial honors, that he is
regarded a3 a perfectly sincere and earnest Re
publican, in harmony with the majority of the
party there; and that from the beginmng of the
Reconstruction movement he has been identi
fied with the national party. In the Constitu
tional Convention ho supported a provision dis
tinctly claiming that the right to vote gave the
right to be voted for, which provision was de
feated by tho conservative Republicans and
Democrat s.
The declaration made in his petition that he
“voluntarily” joined the Confederate service is
prejudicing the nomination. It is understood
that Senator Wilson, among others, asked for
Ms apppointment to the Supreme Court in the
event of Mr. Bradley not being confirmed or
withdrawn, wMla it is known that Mr. Dawes
asked for him the judgeship for the Circuit of
which Georgia is a part.
Tbe act of Congress relieving Mr. Akerman
from the legal and political disabilities imposed
by tbe Fourteenth Amendment, was approved,
by the President on December 14 last. His
name appears in the act with about 1,500 others.
His nomination for Attorney General was this
afternoon, in Executive session of the Senate,
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Doubts aro expressed of the confirmation of
Mr. Akerman as Attorney General, bnt a care
ful canvass of the Senate indicates that there
will be very little opposition to him. It is said
that several persons visited tho President, to
day, and endeavored to influence Mm to with
draw the nomination. The President expressed
nis belief to a Senator, that Mr. Akerman was
une of tbe best appointments ho had yet made,
and that he had no intention of withdrawing it
Cropping in Pulaski.
Hawkinsyille, June 20,1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger ; Here is a
leaf from my experience in planting the present
year, communicated pro bono publico •.
I commenced by running off my com ground
with a large scooter, or bull-tongne, as some
call it, 3) by 6 feet, not being able to break np
the original ground before planting. Dropped
tbe corn and pnt what a man conld grasp in one
hand of well-rotted cotton seed by the side of
tho corn, covering with the same plow on each
side of one farrow. TMs was about the 10th
day of March last. About the first of April I
sided with tho same plow, splitting ont well with
a half-shovel or common torning plow the tMrd
week in May. I will finish plowing this week
with a gopher plow, in no case using the famous
sweeps of Mr. Dixon, so highly recommended
and used by all of my neighbors. The result
is, so„far, I have the best corn of any of them,
land,|mannring and otherwise tho same. Some
go even further, and say I have the best in Pa-
laski county, bnt I fear they are mistaken; bnt
will bay I know of none as pood that I have
seen on uplands.
My cotton I cannot say is as good as it should
have been, owing to the inability of hands to
keep up with it on aeocunt of sickness. I will
state, however, that I have a piece of 40 acres
planted about the first week in April in the usu
al way, chopping it out as early as the tMrd
week of the same month, putting it to one or
two stalks. Since which time it has received
one siding out and is to-day to be seen (those
doubting) fonr miles southeast of Hawkinsyille,
clean and iiLgood condition, averaging eight to
twelve inches above tbe bed. TMs may seem
strange, that it conld have stood without hoeing
for two months, while rains have been falling
copiously, and crops near by are jusfros grassy
as any farmer wishes to contend with. The
cause of mine being clean, I attribute to tho
good culture of last year—in not allowing the
crop to be laid by till all the grass was com
pletely shbdued, even plowing after the piokers
had gone before me gathering the staple.
I consider I gained in the cnltivation of the
present crop, but do not think it helps the land,
but, on tho contrary, believe there should be a
good crop of crowfoot grass on the ground ns
early as oan bo after finishing.. Crops are
brightning up and the farmers aro beginning to
feel all safe as to corn; but it is yot too early to
say so much when they consider last year’s
prospeots in the early season.
Josephus Oarujhers.
ALOl’ISVIUE BANE ROBBED of $(10,000
111 Broad Uaylliflit — The Cashier of tbe
Bank Chloroformed, and Threatened
with Death!
Louisville, June 17.—The Mechanics’ Bank
of tMs city, this evening about 5 o’clock, was
the scene of a bold and daring robbery. Henry
L. Pope, cashier, wa3 at the time alone in the
bank. Two men entered, and one placing a
knife to the throat of Pope, threatened Mm
with instant death if he uttered a word; tho
other taking a handkerchief, saturated with
cMoroform, put It over Ms face and threw a
shawl over his head. The robbers, as soon as
the chloroform took effect, carried Pope to a
room in the back part of the building and locked
Mm up. The robbers then proceeded in a sys
tematical manner with their work of clearing
ont the bank. Sixty thousand dollars in money
was secured and carried off, and twelve or thir
teen thousand dollars was left scattered all over
the floor. A clerk, returning at half past eight
o’clock, discovered the bank doom open, and
called in two policemen ’ who, hearing a groan
from the rear of the building; discovered and
relieved Mr. Pope from Ms disagreeable situa
tion. He was still unconscious, and was some
time before he recovered from the effects of the
drug administered. The same bank was robbed
about thirty, years ago, when Mr. Parker, the
book-keeper, was killed, and Mr. Julian, the
cashier, severely wounded. The robber, Dix, was
discovered in the act, and blow Ms brains out
to prevent arrest. Thepolioo are on the alert,
but so far have obtained no due to the per
petrators of the robbery.
Weekly Resume of Foreign Affairs.
PREPARED FOB THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER.
Great Britain.—Tho Commons continued
the disoussion of the University Test Bill. An.
amendment proposing to relieve doctors from
subscribing to the formularies of faith, was re
jected.
The Conservative members of Parliament
have resolved to support the Government’s Com
pulsory Education^. Bill iu opposition to the
amendment offered by Mr. Hareourt and. the
National Educational League.
The rumor that the Marquis of Bute proposes
to secede again from the Roman church, de
serves but little credit.
The remains of Charles Dickens have been de
posited in the Poet’s comer of Westminster
Abbey.
The'statement that the Prince of Wales con
templates purchasing Tallymore Park, the seat
of the late Earl of Roden, to reside there part
of tho year in the future, gives great satisfac
tion in Ireland.
We reported in our resume of the 6th inst.,
that tho Directors of the bankrupt London Ma
rine Insurance Company “Monarch,” the Earl
of Poulett being nominally the President of the
firm, had been summoned before the Lord May
or. They have since been committed for trial
on charges of fraud.
France.—A bill for the suppression of the
famous “Hotel des Invalids” in Paris was laid
before the Corps Legislatif by Glais Bizoin,
Pelletan and Gaytt Moutpayroux. These gen
tlemen propose to quarter tbe 900 veterans still
living there, either on their families or the char
itable establishments of their departments.
The race of Longohamps, or the French Der
by, as it is sometimes called, was attended by
tbe elite of the capitaL The grand prize of
Paris was won by a French horse.
The cases of small-pox are diminisMng. Sev
eral meetings of medical men were held to dis
cuss the propriety of vaccination. The disciples
of iEsoulapiua agreed as to its efficacy, bnt there
prevailed considerable difference of opinion as
to the source from which the vaccine matter
should be obtained.
Mr. Roederer, of champagne fame, died, leav
ing a large fortune.
_ Tho long drought in France has caused enor
mous losses. The cattle are perishing for want
of fodder and water. The crops wMch will be
gathered in ten days are seriously injured.
The projected St Gothardt railroad, which
is to open a direct route, independent
of either Austria or France, from Italy to
Germany across the Alps, is naturally looked
upon with distrust by the French Government,
TMs railroad, to be constructed by Prussia, Ba
den, Switzerland and Italy, will be made the
subject of an interpellation m tbe Corps Legis
latif. Some Ministerial French papers have
lately asserted that the commercialinterests and
security of France and Austria will not allow
this railway to bo in the hands of Prussia, and
that France most prevent its construction.” At
a preliminary meeting of the members of the
Left Centre it was decided not to oppose the
construction of the work, but to request the
French Government to take also an interest in
it. The execution of this great enterprise de
pends at present still npon the decision of the
Italian Parliament. The North German Con
federation has joined the Swiss-Italian Conven
tion and subscribed ten millions of francs for
the railway. Italy, by virtue of her treaty with
Switzerland, has pledged herself to contribute
forty-five millions of francs, but it is the more
doubtful whether Parliament will grant tMs
subsidy, as French influence is striving in
Florence to prevent the construction of the road
by a negative vote of the Chamber in regard to
the subsidy.
The Emperor is still suffering from the gout.
His indisposition causes some uneasiness at the
stock exchange.
North German Confederation.—Bismarck
continues iu delicate health. His physicians
have advised him to visit England, thinking that
the change of climate and a thorough relaxation
from work will have a beneficial influence upon
the eminent statesman’s nervous system.
A uniform Penal Code for the whole North
German Confederation has been passed, at last,
by [the Reichstag. The question of capital
punishment had threatened to defer again the
introduction of a uniform criminal law for the
Confederation. The new Code has still retained
capital punishment, while in some States of the
Union, as Oldenburg and Saxony, the penalty
of death has been abolished for a number of
years. On this point there arose difficulties,
the Reichstag insisting on the abolition of cap
ital punishment, while Bismarck, representing
the Government, energetically defended the
necessity of the measure. Several deputies pro
posed to retain the penalty of death on con
dition that it should not be re-established in
such States of the Union, where it had already
been abolished. At last, thanks to Bismarck’s
earnest endeavors, they agreed npon a compro
mise ; capital punishment was retained but
limited to three or four cases. The speech the
Chancellor delivered on that occasion embody
ing many of bis leading sentiments, we beg
leave to quote the following remarkable pass
age:
‘Ttisour task to render all North-German
citizens equal before the law, and not to sanc
tion inequality where it exists, far less to create
it anew witMn the limits of the Confederation.
We have acted with severity, I might almost
say, with harshness, against special rights and
arrangements, against the prejudices of single
governments and races; nay, even against the
rights of single governments and races, because
we were conscious of the grandeur of our pur
pose. We have kept our national end unchang
ingly in view, and neither looked to the right
nor to the left to see if we wero hurting the
deepest convictions of any one. From this
spirit we have drawn our strength, our courage,
and our power to act as we have done. As soon
as tMs spirit leaves us, as soon as we resign
and deny it before the German people, we bear
testimony, that the energy with which three
years and a half ago we took our start in tMs
place, has grown weak among the sands of par
ticularism, the particularism of States and the
particularism of parties. We shall have left
the fountain from wMoh we drew a right to be
harsh, and to crash with our iron tread what
ever was opposed to the establishment of the
German nation in all its power and glory.—
[Loud applause; signs of disapprobation from
the benches of the social Democrats; renewed
applause.) I rejoice at the testimony borne
me by the disapproval of the enemies of Ger
man unity and German greatness.”
Italy.—The discussion on infallibility con
tinues in the Roman Council. Dupanloup en
ergetically combatted the dogma; he will be
followed by seventy-two prelates who have giv
en notice of their intention to oppose infallibil
ity. A singular argument for defending tMs
dogma has been brought forward by Monseig
neur Pie, tho Bishop of Poitiers. He argued
as follows: “ The Pope must be infallible be
cause St. Peter was crucified head downwards,
Thereby the head bore the whole weight of the
body. So tho Pope, as the head, bears the
whole weight of the Church. But he is infalli
ble who bears, not he who is borne.”
A Sicilian bishop, also favoring the dogma,
presneted another argument hardly less inter
esting. “Tho Sicilians,” said he, “have a
very special reason for believing in the in
fallibility of the Pope. In our Island St. Pe
ter preached the Gospel. There, were converts
on the Island who had heard before of this pe
culiar doctrine. They sent a deputation to the
Virgin to ascertain whether she had heard of it.
Her reply was simple and to the point. She
had been present when her son bestowed the
peculiar prerogative on St. Peter. We Sicilians
have ever since preserved in our hearts the faith
in Papal infallibility.”
The Italian Government is apprehending
more insurrectionary troubles. Rumor has it
that refugees will descend upon the kingdom
from Austrian territory.
The sentences pronounced against the soldiers
who took part in the late rising in Pavia are
very severe. Barsanti, a corporal, was senten
ced to be shot after previous degradation. Per-
nicl, a sergeant, was sentenced to twenty years’
militaiy imprisonment. Upon eight fugitive
soldiers the Court-martial passed liketpse the
sentence of death.
Spain.—General Prim promised the Cortes
to propose a candidate for the throne within
three months. Senor Castelar is going to in-
iroduce a bill abolishing slavery in the colonies
immediately, with indemnity to the present
owners.
The Duke of Montpensier has changed Ms
xoind. He will not go to England, bnt take np
Ms residence in Seville again, to be near at hand
in case of need.
The reports front the Spanish brigands are
contradictory in the extreme. While we were
told that the four oaptured Englishmen had ar
rived in Gibraltar, we receive now intelligence
that Cannels, one of the captives, has been res
cued by the national forces. Jabno.
The Poor Onsielan and
[TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN 1
One beautiful summer day there was.
festival in the large park at Viennu |P®*
almost covered with the crowds of , ,Sl
Among them were organ-grinders
and girls who played on harps. There ^
a musician. Be had once been a soldk- 'T^
his pension was not enough to live on q?;
he did not like to beg; and on this y
festival day, he took his violin and plaveu 1 ‘ 4:
rfpp AD nlr) fcrAA in t.fwa rtarlr JJg f ^
ft QjJk j
der an old. tree in the park.
ful dog with him, which lay
held an old hat in his mouth so that pas;*
might cast their coins into it *
Slany people went by and heard tlm „
musician playing, but they did not throw Z °V
in. I wonder they did not give him * cli
for he was a pitiable object His face wa* ‘
ered with scars received in his countrv’T
ties, and he wore his long gray army
had his old sword by his side. He had
three fingers on his right hand, so he V*>
hold the bow of his violin with these n?
let had taken off the two others, and sj
at the same time a cannon-ball had take 03
his left leg. The last money that ho hadV?
been spent in buying new strings for his vm'-
and he was now playing with all his strati
the old marches he had learned when , r
He looked sad enough as he saw tho 1 r-'
tudes pass by in their strength and vnntiT
beauty: for he knew on that very even®
would have to go to bed supperless, and £
a straw couch in a little garret room, p®
late in the afternoon, his hopes were fib?®
sun—they were both going down tamvZ
He plaoed his old violin down by his •;?'
and leaned against a tree. Tho tears streak
down his scarred cheeks. Not far off ?®
fine clothes, who had a ^
a gentleman in 2
heart. He listened to the old musician
xpfvpn Tip raw ftiflilf: nn nnP o-qyta ! il^*
when he saw that no one gave himhlm’a^
thing, his heart was touched with yj
Looking into the hat he saw only two 1 til'
copper coins. He then said: “My good frX
why do you not play.longer?” " 1 ,e ®<
“Oh,” replied the old man, “I cannot m
poor old arm is so tired that I cannot ho’.] .fi
bow; besides, I have had no dinner and I
have little prospectof supper.” ’ 1
The kind gentleman then gave him a nie*
of gold, and said, “I will pay you if you
lend me your violin for one hour.” m
“Oh,” said the musician,” this piece cf
money is worth more than a half-a-drwf-rw'!
fiddles like mine.'’ no i
“Never mind,” said the gentleman, “I ct .
ly want to hire it one hour.”
“Very well; you can do what you will,” m
the owner.
The gentleman took the fiddle in his hands
and then said to the old man:
“Now, my mate, you take the money aj
I will play.”
The strange gentleman began to play. Hi
mate looked at him with great wonder; hews;
so stirred that he could hardly believe it was
his old violin that made such beautiful soush.
Every note was like a pearl. The people, cl-
serving the strange sight, and hearing ssti
wonderful music, stopped in curiosity. Every
one saw that the fine-looking gentlemans
playing for the poor man, but none knewwl:
he was. Bye-and by they began to drop monel
into the hat, and the old dog seemed delight,
ed to received so many pieces of gold fora;
master. The circle of hearers became large
and larger. Even the coachmen of the splen
did carriages begged the people inside to stop
and hear the music. Gold, silver and copper
were thrown into the hat by old and young:
and it soon became so heavy that the doj
could hold it no longer.
“Empty your hat, old man,” said the peo
ple, “and we will fill it again.”
The stranger kept on playing, and the peo
ple cried out, “Bravo ! bravo I” Evenc!f-
drenjseemed carried away with rapture, it
last he played that splendid song, “God Her
the Emperor Francis!” All hats and car*
flew off their heads, for the people loved their
emperor. Then the hour was ended, and the
musician handed back the violin to the oil
man.
“Thank you,” said he. “May God bless
you!” and he disappeared in the crowd.
“Whois.he? who is he?” said the people.
“Where does he come from ?”
A person sitting in one of the coaches said:
“I know him. It is Alexander Boucher, the
great violinist It is just like him. He a*
the man needed help, and he determined »
give it in the best way he could.”
Tho people then gave three cheers fa
Boucher, and putmore money in theoldman':
hat When he went home that evening he
was richer than he had ever been before.-
When he went to bed, he prayed that Goi
might bless good Boucher, so that when le j
should get to be an old man he might have
good friends.
Fearful Tragedy at Ashley, Missouri |
A Rejected Suitor Hacks His Sweet
heart to Pieces With, a Bowie-Knife I
From tho St Louis Republican, of Saturdty, I
we condense the following aocount of one of the I
most horrible deeds of savage passion and d&j
peration that we have ever heard of.
Some months since Miss Summers went frez I
Quincy, where her parents reside, to Ast!t. r |
and engaged as a teacher in the Watson seci I
ary of that place. It appears that before
left home a young man named Ambroso Coe,i I
Galesburg, I1L, had been paying his address I
to her. He was of a good family and posse&t I
of some means, bat his manners and chance I
were repulsive to the lady, and his repeal
proposals for her hand wero rejected. Ibis-1
Luck in Ms suit seems to have greatly irritstit
his naturally ugly disposition, and hs had be®
heard to threaten any one who should ever * I
more fortunate in the young lady’s affection. I
Hopeless and desperate he followed Misa Se
ers from Quincy to AsMey, and hired hio»
The Cabinet.—Tho Herald says the Cabinet
crisis is not over with the resignation of Attor
ney General Hoar, but Secretary Fish and Rob
eson must also go. We shall withhold tears till
we see them going.
as a farm laborer near the town for the pnrps*
of acting the spy on her actions. It appe«|
that last Sunday he went to town and attecdec
church, where he saw the young lady in cos-
pany with a gentleman, of her acquaint*
Coe traoed them home, and followed them
the house where Miss Summers boarded. Gzf
into the room where the lady was he asked Pf
mission of her to talk with her privately, [
Bhe granted, the gentleman who accompany
her from church retiring. Coe immediate-,
locked the door and commenced the volt
butchering her with an old knife which he»
procured, and sharpened for the murderonsf-f
pose. The screams of the lady immed^i
alarmed the'
lady 1
he whole house, and a number ef p^
sons rushing to the door and finding it
broke it open. They fonnd Miss SummeraiJ-j
on the floor in a pool of her blood,
6pine completely severed, other fatal
her breast, and the knife still sticking taA*
wound. She died in a few moments. ~
maddened lover stood by, begging
came in to kill him at once. Cop
and placed in Bowling Green jail, 1° 8 , .
tried, and has not been lynched as was
ported. Miss Summers wa3 22 yews .^,.
and is said to have been beautiful aK
accomplished. _
Cabinet Changes. .
Under date of the 17th inst, the v-°‘ ‘
Journal’s Washington special says:
The belief in administration cjuarters |
quauy , |
quite settled to-day that there would
cdly he a partial reorganization of the t
holore the end of the session ofU**g
Tha change in the Attorney-General; s
is regarded as merely the commence® 6 -
that reorganization. Probably two or .
weeks may elapse before any addition^, h
nations are offered, but tbe most pro
men in the Kepubhcan party in ( - on ^„V;
clare that the President wifi be in aposu^,
a brief time to accept two if not three j
from the present Cabinet, a he Secre: j
State and the Secretary of theJnten ^
most likely to withdraw, while the jy
of the Navy is more generally mention ..
on yesterday as the third one, thfo_ /j
Mr. Creswell, Mr. Belknap and Mr. “
to remain.
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A Big Job.—Tho Mobile Register,
IdoBmE and Montgomery
leant from Col. G. Jordan, Genera’ P
dent of this road; that contracts *er _
yesterday, for completing the entire w ^
Tensas into the city of Mobile. *“ , - j,
si
* city of Mobile. l-riJ#
there will be about 3000 feet of u ■, jjotii*
with large draw-bridges at Tensas M^
rivers, and small draws in several ^ ;,*!
bayous. There will be about 11.000 0 f e*r^
of trestle, and 350,000 cubic W
work IS to we
work. Tho entire work is
Oct, 1st, 1871
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