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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON AUGUST 15 1871.,
Or Course.—Hr. Edwin J. Scott, chairman
of the committee which was appointed by the
South Carolina tax-payers’ convention to inves
tigate the transactions of the financial offices of
the State, reports that Mr. Parker, State Treas
ure^ refuses to let his books bo examined. The
Slate Comptroller and other officers offered to
furnish every facility in their power for the ex
amination of thebooksand papers in their offices.
Parker has evidently not cooked np his figures
for honest inspection. He hails from Poston,
and landed at Charleston in 1865 with one small
Bizod carpet-saok, containing a dirty shirt, one
pair of drawers and sock3 ditto, and a box of
paper collars. New Mrs. P. sports the finest
diamonds, and P. himself, is one of the richest
men In the State. If ho is wise he will keep on
refusing to allow an examination of his books.
A New Kailway Brake.—Tho new air brake,
which is exciting so much attention among
railroad men, was invented in Pittsburg. It is
automatic and self adjusting, but is directed by
machinery on the engine. This machinery con
sists of an air pump and receiver, which are
worked by the movement of a hand lever at the
fire box. Pipes connect the brakes of the entire
train, and through these, by the movement of
the lever on the engine, the air is made to act
upon each wheel instantly. The expense of this
apparatus is §300 for the engine, $25 for the
tender, and $100 for oach car.
Fine Pains.—Good rains fell in Spalding and
Putnam counties on Sunday and yesterday, and
from the appearance of the clouds the same
day, as seen from this standpoint, our neigh
bors in Monroe and Jones were equally blessed.
This city and vicinity had a taste of the same
luxury, yesterday, substantial showers falling
at intervals from about 11, a. m., till half past
2 p. u. The dust has been effectually laid for a
season, and gardens much revived. The clerk
of the weather will please consider himself
publicly thanked therefor.
Wages in California.—San Francisco seems
to bo a good place to move to, if high wages
are an object- Blacksmiths get $2 50 to $4 per
day; shoemakers, $35 to $60 per month; brick
layers, $ 1 to $6 per day; cooks $20 to $75 per
month and found; carpenters, (rough) $2 to
$2 50 per day; farm hands, $40per month in
summer; laborers, $1 50 to $2 per day; men
and wives, $40 to $60 per month and found;
miners, $50; wood-choppers, $1 25 to $2 75
per cord, or $45 per month and found.
Died, in Talbot county, on Friday last, little
James Keenan, son of a lato well known city
editor of the Telegraph. Little James left
Macon, cm Tuesday last, in high health, to visit
his relatives in Talbot county. On Friday he
was dead of congestion of the bowels, and on
Sunday was buried beside his father in Fort
Valley. He would have been six years old next
month.
A Lively Time at the Home Office.—The
World’s London correspondent gives an amusing
sketch of an irruption of three or four hundred
of the shrieking sisterhood and their male sat-
telites into the Home Office to demand the im
mediate and absolute repeal of the Contagious
Diseases Act. Mr. Bruce heard them out and
then dismissed them with some very peremptory
rebuffs.
Utah Silver Ore.—Thirty thousand bags of
silver ore from Utah were received at New
York last week, valued at $178,000 and contain
ing an average of forty per cent, of silver. It
is shipped to Swansea, Wales, for smelting.
The cost in Utah is abont five dollars per ton.
Cost of transportation from Utah to Liverpool
fifty-five dollars per ton.
A Popular Ebeoe.—Speaking of the marriage
of Mr. Lecky to a maid of honor to the Queen
of Holland, a correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial says it showa the absurdity of some
of our generalizations abont nations that “a
Dutch woman” 6honld so often be another
phrase for corpulence; whereas, in fact, it is
rare in Holland to see a fat woman.
Imported Seeds.—J. Milne has various kinds
of Imported turnip seeds—Mangel Wurtzel and
Euta Baga—imported direct from Chester, Eng
land, from tho Eoyal seedsmen. They may be
found on sale at Begg’s grocery store, comer of
Cherry street and Cotton Avenue, and we re
commend gardeners to try them.
Kentucky voted yesterday for Governor and
other State officers and members of the Legis
lature. In tho election last year for members
of Congress the vote of the State was, Demo
crats, 00,450; Kadicals 57,247; Democratic ma
jority 33,203. The negroes voted last year for
the first time.
Sakatcga Statistics.—The Commercial Ad
vertiser correspondent presents the following
statistics gleaned by careful observation at
Congress Hall: Number of young ladies who
have allowed their hands to beheld willingly,
1,152; number do. unwillingly, 3; unmarried
ladies kissed, 391; married do., 276.
The Cholera in Europe.—This awful scourge
has made it appearance in Europe in two places
—the south of France, and at Hall, England.
Only one case, however, is reported at tho lat
ter place, and tho almost precautions have been
taken to localize it
. VismNo Beauties at Athens.—An Athens
correspondent of tho Atlanta Era writes a3 fol
lows of some of the numerous P. G.’s who were
there, last week, in attendance upon the com
mencement exercises:
As there was not a perfect orator among tho
student speakers at the chapel, there is not a
perfeot beauty either, visiting or living in
Athens. At a grand hop, given by the stu
dents at Dupreo s Hall, on Wednesday night,
there were present some rare types of feminini
ty. Conspicuous for tall and graceful figures,
enchanting amiles and lovely modesty, were the
Misses Henderson, from Covington. There
too, was Miss Mitchell, of Atlanta, with eyes of
a Honri, looking into the very souls of her many
admirers. Miss Lockett, of Macon, a petite
beauty whose dark luxuriant hair, whoso rich,
rosy cheeks, whoso bright vivacious - converse-
tion proved attractions that even tho Stoic must
have acknowledged.
Gen. Butler and Col. French, while yacht
ing at Nowbnryport, Mass., a few days ago, ac
cidently fell overboard. Col. French caught
hold of a small boat and saved himself, but Gen.
Batler had to be helped ont of the water, after
going completely under the second time.—
Charleston Republican.
A signal illustration of tho Irnthof the old
proverb. Wo would ehed very few tears over
Butler’s mere death by drowning or elsewise,
but they would fall in showers over tho calamity
of his cheating the gallows by any such respec
table medium of exit from the scene of his su
perb sconndrelism.
The Kev. Thomas H. Hanna, of Pittsburgh,
Penn., has distinguished himself among ‘"
clerical brethren by refusing to exchange
$2,500 salary in the City of Bmoke for a $C,uuu
salary (gold) in Ban Francisco. Such load calls
as that seldom go unheeded.—Tribune, ith.
And Dr. B. M. Palmer, (Presbyterian) of New
Orleans, has distinguished himself by refusing
to exchange his $9,000 per annum in that city
for $15,000 and (wo believe) a parsonage in New
York city. And when he says a thing he means
'it—as Beast Bnllcr can testify.
riHTOBIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
University Commencement Exercises—
Tuesday’* Kccord—Wednesday’s Hecord—
An **Am*»nlHop,”and the Carta In Falls.
Athens, August 2d, 1871.
Taking it for granted that CoL Jones, who
left yesterday morning, has, ere this, put on
record for tho benefit of the million readers of
the Telegraph and Messenger everything of
interest pertaining to the Commencement oxer*,
cises of the University of Georgia up to, and
including tho Alumni dinner, and also tho ora
tion of Mr. E. G. Simmons (of Macon,) before
the Demosthenian Society on Monday evening,
I infra np the thread of correspondence cut by
his departure, and proceed to wind it to tho
end.
The programme for Tuesday morning was an
address to tho two societies by Colonel B. A.
Thornton, of Columbus, who chose for his sub
ject “Tho Duty of the Hour.” I shall attempt
no synopsis of his remarks, because such things
almost always fail to satisfy either reader or
orator, and also because my space is limited.
Tho disorder and noiso in the College Chapel
which, I regret to say, has generally been more
pronounced than I recollect in many years to
have heard, marred its effect in a most discred
itable maiman I put my condemnation of it on
record most emphatically, but how to put an
end to it I am not prepared to say. Many go
to such places with no other desire than to talk
and laugh—to “have fun,” and show their fine
feathers, and while this i3 the case, one can
only protest, and wait for a higher civili
zation to teach even the hardiest offenders
better—manners. Mr. Hill’s address the day
before was interrupted and depreciated by the
same unseemly causes, so it will be seen that
th6y have almost grown into tho dignity of a
system.
Tuesday evening, Mr. W. T. Armistead, of
Oglethorpe county, the orator for tho Phi Kappa
Society, had a large audience, and made a capi
tal speech on tho “Mysteries of Mind and Mat
ter.” He gives promise of a bright future, if
he supplements fine natural gifts by that energy
and steady, plodding perseverance which alone
can raise and keep a man on a higher plane than
that occupied by his fellows.
To-day, as usual, was the day of all, and I
have never seen a larger crowd in tho chapel.
The town looks a miniature city, when some
gala day summons all classes, sexes and condi
tions from far and near. Especially do onr fel
low-citizens and citizenesses of tho favored color
andpoliticalpersnasionmako themselves tocome
together in numbers most large, as n French
man would say. Some come to turn on honest
penny by divers and multifarious sorts of traffic,
most generally in the melon, fruit and “pies
and things”-line, but tho majority with no other
purpose than to enjoy a big loaf. Athens is a
very popnlous place for one day in the year, at
least, and if she were ambitious and up to sharp
tricks like some other places I know, she would
certainly manage to have her censns taken on
this .occasion. It would bo “a good enough
Morgan” to fool people at a distance, at least.
Herewith I append a programme of tho exercises
of this morning. With tho speeches of Messrs.
Glenn and Murphy I was mnch pleased—espe
cially with that of the former. There was
about it a “snap” that positively refreshed one,
and for five minutes, certainly, made tho listen
er forget all the disagremena of heat, the crowd,
eta Dr. Miller’s address was pointed, pithy,
eloquent—ont of tho beaten track, en&justlong
enough. Tho Doctor knows exactly where the
happy medinm in speech-making lies, wherein
he sets an example which perspiring humani
ty is correspondingly grateful for, and which it
earnestly commends to the consideration of all
who have not made tho same discovery. But to
the programme:
P. K. Yonge (2d honor) Pensacola, Fla—
Salutatory (Latin.)
L. L. Brookes (D. S. orator) Sonth Carolina
—The Greatest Art.
B. L. Gamble, (P. K. S. orator) Augusta—
The Political and Legal Coxcomb.
G. K. Glenn, (2d honor) Dawson—Five
Minutes.
J. L. Hand, Americas—Anthropos.
B. W. H. Neal, B. L., (excused) Thomson—
The Talisman of Success.
E. NowtoD, (3d honor) Union Point—The
World's Drama.
H. E. Ware, (D. S. orator) Athens—“It moves
for all that.”
G. W. Warren, (P. K. S. orator) Augusta—
Now and Then.
P. K. Yonge, (2d honor) Pensacola, Fla—
Tho Beal and Ideal.
E. H. Briggs, (1st honor) Columbus—Vale
dictory to Trustees and Faculty.
G. A. Howell, (1st honor) Valdosta—Valedie-.
tory to Audience,
A. A. Hurphey (let honor) Monroe oounty—
Valedictory to Class.
Honorable mentiod—H. O. Ansley, Augusta;
B. A. Denmark, Quitman; B. H. Goetchins,
Columbus; J. L. Hardeman, Macon.
Tho medalists were Messrs. J. S. Davis, of
Albany, Sophomore Prize Dedaimer; J. E.
Hartridge, of Florida, Sophomore Prize Essay
ist ; W. E. Blount, of Florida, University Prizo
Essayist; and W. S. Morris, of Athens, Sopho
more Prize Scholarship.
After the award of the medals a list of those
adjudged worthy of degrees, distinctions, cer-
ficates of merit, and certificates of proficiency,
wrs read by tho Secretary of tho Faculty, from
which I make the following extracts, its length
precluding my giving it entire in thi3 letter:
distinctions.
Students admitted to the Sophomore Class
having completed, with distinction, the studies
■of the Freshman Class: F. T. Myers. Flor
ida; J. M. Myers, Athens; S. P. Sparks,
Athens; B. W. Patterson, Macon.
Students who have completed a portion of
the stndies- of tho Sophomore Class; (a) with
distinction; (b) satisfactorily: (b) Clarence
Angler, Atlanta; (a) H. W. Barrow, Athens;
(a) O. T. Mims, Decatur; (b) A. E. Thornton,
LaGrange. -
Students admitted to tho Jnnior Classes of
the different Departments, having completed
with distinction the studies of the Sophomore
Class: E. L. Antony, Texas; C. M. Beckwith,
Virginia; W. G. Bibb, Alabama; L. B. Brumby,
Athens; J. S. Davis, Albany; M. T. Hodge,
Henderson; T. D. Huff,Cosseta; W. G. John
son, Sonth Carolina; E. W. Montgomery, Fort
Lamar; W. S. Morris, Athens; C. A. Niles,
Griffin; S. A. Eatonton; B. H. Handle, Union
Point; W. T.Trippe, Forsyth; W. A. Whittle,
Macon; J. A. Williams, Americas.
Certificates of merit were award to all those
students who have completed satisfactorily the
course of study in tho Junior Classes. The list
is too long for insertion here, so wo only give
the names of the six in each class who were
distinguished for scholarship, and of those who
won cerlficatcs of proficiency, and who were
awarded the degree of Bachelor of Laws.
I. Junior Metaphysics.—J. A. Aycock, Cow
eta county; W. A. Blount, Florida; J. O. Averv,
Florida; L. Phinizy, Athens; B. F. Payne,
Marietta; M. 0. Davis, Alabama
II. Junior Mathematics.—J. A. Aycock, Cow
eta county, Ga.; W. A. Blount, Florida; J. C.
Avery, Florida; M. O. Davis, Alabama; L.
Fhinzy, Athens; B. F. Thompson, Newnan.
1IL_ Junior Lalvu-J. A. Aycock, Coweta
county; M. 0. Davis, Alabama; William Wynn
Washington; C. A. Atkinson, Macon; J. o'
Avery, Florida; B. F. Payne, Marietta
IV. Junior Greek.—M. O. Davis, Alabama -
William Wynn,’ Washington; Balph Peters, At
lanta ; Leonard Phinizy, Athens; A. P. Whit-
tle, Macon; O. B. Mitchell, Atlanta
V. Chemistry.—J. A. Aycock, Coweta county,
Ga.; W. A. Blount, Florida; J. O. Avery, Flor
ida ; M. O. Davis, Alabama; O. A. Atkinson,
Maeon; L. Phinizy, Athens.
VI. Junior Natural Philosophy.—J. A. Ay-
cock, Coweta oounty, Ga ; W. A. Blount, Flor
ida ; J. 0. Avery, Florida; O. A. Atkinson, Ma
con; B. F. Payup,.Marietta; L. Phinizy, Athena
VII. Junior Rhetoric.—3. A Aycock Coweta
county; J. 0. Avery, Florida; W. A. Blount,
Florida; W. Wynn, Washington, Ga.; L. Phin-
zy, Athens; A. F. Whittle, Maoon.
VIII. Junior German —3. C. Avery, Flori
da; C. A. Atkinson, Macon; B. W. Patterson,
Macon.
IX. Junior French.—J. A. Aycock, Coweta
county; W. A. Blount, Florida; B. F. Thomp
son, Newnan; E. A. Angier, Atlanta; P. K.
Yonge, Florida; W. G. Johnson, SouthCarolina.
Certificates of Proficiency.
I. German.—W. B. Hill, A. B., Macon; W.
Dessau, A. B., Maoon; B. L. Gamble. Augusta;
J. B. B. Smith, A. B., Atlanta; J. M. Adams,
Augusta.
II. French.—Vi. B. Hill, A. B.,Maoon; B,
E. Bruce, South Carolina; W. B. Davenport,
Plains of Dura; W. Dessau, A. B. Maoon; J
Hart, Hartsville, Ala.; B. W. H. Neal, Colum
bia, Ga; J. L. Hand, Americas; J. B. B.
Smith, A. B., Atlanta; J. S. Powell,Hartsville,
Ala; G. W. Warren, Louisville, Ga •
Degrees.
Bachelors of Law.—Washington Dessau, A.
B., Macon; Wm. A. Broughton, A. B., Madi
son; Walter E. Hill, A. B., Macon; Benj. EL
TTillj jr., A. B., Athens; Charles D. Hill, Ath
ens; W. B. Hinton, Marion county; James L.
O. Kerr, Buena Vista; Stephen Clay King,
Wayne county, Ga.; Henry Hull Linton, A. B.
Athens; Bichard W. EL Neal, Thomson, Ga.;
Charles W. Seidell, Athens; Brittain H. Tabor,
Mississippi Bobert Whitfield, Madison; Fletch
er P. Wethington, Florida
A much needed shower fell this afternoon,
and has effectually settled the very aggressive
dust that has been one of the annoyances of
this week. It must have been worth thousands
to farmers hereabouts, as just that event was
indispensable to making the com crop. If
general, that crop, in this section, has been put
very nearly, if not quite, beyond the contin
gency of failure. It was also the one thing
needful to make the “Alumni Hop” to-night
what I am persuaded it will be, a delightful oc
casion. That affair completed and Commence
ment is over, the curtain falls, the lights are put
ont and Jim’s must be written upon the record.
Let ns hope that the good old town and its ge
nial people may witness many more, each one
outshining the other in all the elements that
compose that magical word, success.
As for the University I feel in my very bones
that she has taken a “new departure,” indeed,
towards a future of greater power and prosperi
ty than even the most sanguine among ns
scarcely realize, now. A start has been made
in the right direction, and friends more numer
ous and powerful than-were suspected have
been developed by the gathering.of the Alumni
and their deliberations. Now let the Alumni
gird np their loins for the straggle, and pre
pare to supplement the efforts of the friends
of the University in the next Legislature by
earnest, persistent, united action. Let every
one of them constitute himself a missionary in
this'good work, and the result cannot bedoubt-
fuL They have a responsibility upon them
that themselves have invited, and to be
laggard now would cover them with reproach.
For one I cannot permit myself to doubt either
their earnestness or their power, if properly
directed. ' B.
What the Honorable Bobt. Toombs Knows
Abont Farming—A “New Departure.”
From the Rural Southerner.]
We were pleased, a few days since, to wel
come in our sanctum this distinguished gentle
man and statesman, and to converse with him
for two hours. We had heard, through our
friend “Progress,” (John T. - Wingfield, Esq.,
of Washington, Ga.,) that Gen. Toombs mani
fested much interest in, and devoted consider
able time to, the cnltivation of his farm on
which he resides, near Washington, bnt we were
not prepared to find in him the enthusiast that
he i3 on the subject of improving our agricul
ture. We did not expect to find a man who has
(spent almost his entire life in public affairs and
trusts an analytical agriculturist. But his
knowledge of this, as of all other matters, is
comprehensive.
Suppose, General Toombs, that the Sonth
plant, in cotton only, one-half the area that she
does, and devote the remainder of her lands to
grains and grasses, what would bo tho result?”
we asked.
“Why, in five years she would be the richest
country on the face of the globe,” was tho earn
est reply.
Editor—“Do you consider this section of the
Sonth adapted to growing grasses?”
Gen. Toombs—“I do. I have never seen any
regioB, either in Europe or America, where
clover and grasses succeed more beautifully than
they do in Middle Georgia.”
Editor—“Have you grown any grasses?”
Gen. Toombs—“I have succeeded well with
clover, orchard grass, and lucerne on uplands,
and with herds gross on damp lauds. I consider
lucerne the finest forage grass that grows. It
is thrifty and hardy, and makes more forage for
six months in the year than any other crop. It
should be sown more universally than it is.”
Editor—But can the Sonth afford to grow only
half the cotton that she does ? We have to pur
chase such a vast amount of manufactures of
other countries and other sections of our own
country.
Gen. Toombs—“If tho South raised only
half the cotton she does, she would realize as
much money for it as she does for her present
crops, and would have her provisions and
stock at home besides. She would then be
able to manufacture much more largely at
home.”
Editor—" You think, then, that every farmer
should raise at home articles of consump-
tion ?”
Gen- Toombs—“ Yes, and every man can do
it, and when he does, he will be the most inde
pendent of alLmen.”
Such was the tenor of Gen. Toomb3 expres
sions, and who will deny their practicability?
This i3 one “departure” from old customs that
he indorses. _
The Democratic Party.
It used to be a favorite pastime with Bepubli-
cans daring the war to proclaim the Demooratio
party dead, beyond tho power of resurrection.
Those sageg of Badicalism have “changed their
tune” most emphatically within a year or two.
In proof whereof read the following specimen
brick “ confessions” from high Badical author
ities:
The Demooratio party to-day is stronger than
it ever was in its history. It means now to
Win, and I do not say that it cannot win.—Hor
ace Greeley in Vicksburg.
Yon make light of the Democracy, bnt to-day,
in the State of New York, there is a clean Dem
ocratic majority of ninety thousand. Wo sever
did have the Irish, and now wo are losing all
the Germans.—New York Times, Radical
Grant with his Ku-klnx bill thinks he can
kill the Democracy. It will take more men by
a million than he had at Appomatox.—New
York Sun, Radical
A great deal has been said about the dead
Democracy. Those who think it is dead surely
never read the story of the resurrection.
There will be signs in the heavens and on the
earth in 1872 when this Demooratio party gets
its soldiers in the field.—Springfield (Mass.) Re
publican, Radical.
He is a fool or a traitor who expects towin an
easy victory over the Democratic party in 1872.
Grant can never do it with tho bayonet—Neio
York Evening Post, Radical.
They may say what they please, bnt those
who are the most confident do not know these
Democrata They are the most dangerous
when they seem most whipped. Do not put
any faith in them and do not trust them. In
retreat they are treacherous and often fatal.—
Louisville Commercial, Radical
Snlclde of a Beantifnl Southern Girl
In New York.
From the New York Post of the 26th ult.]
Coroner Schirmer to-day held an inquest in
the case of Genevra D. Bockweli, alias Minnie
French, a beautiful young woman of twenty-
three years, who died on Tuesday at No. 120,
East Twenty-Seventh street, from the effects of
a pistol shot wound in the left breast, inflicted
by herself on the 10th instant at No. 117, West
Thirty-Third street. Fidelia Bockweli, Bister
of the suicide, testified that she came to this
city with her sister about six weeks ago from
Charlotte, North Carolina, with the intention of
going to Long Branch. They first went to the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, where they remained for a
few days, bnt afterwards removed to 117 West
Thirty-Third street On the 10th inst witness,
wishing to speak with her Bister, went to the
room and found her lying on the bed. Genevra
said that she had shot herself in the left breast,
bnt deolined to give any reason tor the set,
remarking that it was “a matter between herself
and God.”
The wounded girl was taken to Bellevue Hos
pital, but in a few days was removed by her
friends to the house in East Twenty-Seventh
street, where she died on Tuesday night.
Bollock is building a bam on his farm in
Cobb county, the cost of which Trill be only
$20,000.
Keligious revivals are progressing in the Third
Baptist, Evans’ Chapel, and First Methodist
Churches, at Atlanta
Dr. Blake Brewster, 000 of. the most esteemed
citizens of Talbot county, died last week.
The Talbotton Standard says of the report
made to the last meeting of the Agricultural
Club of that oounty by committees representing
the various districts:
In some instancesa full account was not made,
embracing only a part of the district; bnt the
information submitted by the committee, it is
believed, will express pretty clearly the estimate
desired, Bhowing the acreage to be in favor of
com in Talbot county about 15 per cent. The
amount of guano used is about 'two - hundred
tons. The labor in theconntyis reportedgood,
and even an improvement upon that of the pre
vious year, in many instances. Up to the pres
ent time, the year has not been favorable to the
growing crops, and in many of the districts, it
is believed the stand of cotton has been thinned
to such an extent, that one-half a crop, even un
der the most favorable conditions; cannot be
made. The wheat was a half crop; oats nearly
rained by rust and not much rye or barley
saved. The county will make plenty com for
home consumption. Tho general condition of
the planting interest is good—not many liens
given on crops.
John G. Morrel, on old and prominent citizen
of Effingham county, and for a number of years
its representative in the Legislature, died' last
Wednesday.
The blRckburying season is not yet over in
some parts of the Stato Ned Jones killed Sam
son Favor, in Meriwether county, last Saturday
night The matter in controversy was a $2 coat.
Muscogee tax returns show an aggregate of
$8,000,000—an increase of $2,000,000 over last
year.
Daring tho past twelve months 104 houses
have been built in Columbus, at a cost of $150,-
000. In the suburbs of the city at least one
hundred have been built
The Son says the crops between that city ancT
Opelika are wretched. Cora burnt np, and on
a majority of the lands it will take “twenty
acres to make a bale of cotton, with a slight
sprinkling of rocks.”
There were over three hundred guests at
the Chalybeate Springs, last W6ek.
Prof. Hunter, of Oglethorpe .College, At
lanta, has resigned, and will return to Athens,
as principal of the Industrial School-of the
University—a new department.
Mr. J. G. Thrower, of Atlanta, while passing
down Whitehall street, Saturday night,’ on his
way to organize a Good Templar’s lodge, fell
into a cellar and damaged himself severely. If
Mr. T. hailed from Elberton, we should suspect
him of having thrown himself outside of several
heavy doses of buttermilk.
The Era of Sunday says:
Chicken Lifter’s Mntnal Aid and Co-operative
Association, of Fulton county, is now fully or
ganized with an efficient and active board of
officers. Some of tho best lifters in Georgia
are members of tho O. L. M. A. O. A., and the
prospect of lifting never was better. At the
last regular meeting it was resolved to keep a
black book with names of all parties who did not
keep poultry. Such citizens are held as en
emies to the C. L. M. A. O. A.
Fatal Accident.—Yesterday evening while
some men were employed working, near the
State Boad shops, a bank caved in, killing a
colored man namod Nick Jackson, and severely
injuring another. The side of a car was broken
in by the slide.
One of the Atlanta demi-monde swallowed an
ounce of landanum, Saturday night, bnt a
stomach-pump interfered and cheated the coro
ner ont of his fee.
An Irishman, name not given, was run over
by a train on the Central Boad, a few miles from
Augusta, last Friday, and severely injured.
Three bushels of corn, six dollars in green
backs, two pairs pants, one pair shoes, a pocket
knifo, one ponnd of tobacco and an old pistol
made up the boot in a horse swap, in Wilkes
county, a few days since.
The Savannah dry dock, work on which was
commenced in 1869, will be finished early this
week. The Advertiser says of it:
Tho length of the dock is 345 feet by 80 feet
top, and 45 feet bottom width. The pumps are
the largest and most powerful ever used In this
section of country, and are capable of throwing
about 18,000 gallons of ♦aterpsr minute. .The
entrance to the dock has been thoroughly
dredged, and a channel way allowing eighteen
feet of approach on a spring, and from sixteen
to sixteen and a half feet on an ordinary high
tide.
An occasional correspondent of the Atlanta
Era who, that paper says, is doubtless “a Steph
ens Democrat”—whatever that means—writes
from Athens under date of August 4th, and thus
tartly refers to Hon. B. H. Hill’s address before
the Alumni:
He told some great truths, but his speech
plainly evinced iris desire to bring prominently
before the public the principles of tho “New
Departure.” This political, acrobat has killed
himself by excessive tumbling. If he possess
ed the combined intellect of Newton, Shaks-
peare, and Webster, he conld not inspire a ten
year old Georgian with the slightest confidence.
His knell has been knolled, and he will be de
cently interred with Demooratio rites when the
next Legislature, assembles.
“A LIAR AND A PUPPY.”
A Herald Reporter Interviews Hr. Davis
and bears some Plain Talk."
The New York Tribane has an article headed
“A Liar and a Puppy, sir,” wherein one of the
press Jenkinses is shown np very handsomely.-
This Jenkins, it seems, was confidentially shown
a copy of a private letter, and immediately tele
graphed its contents, which related to Mr. Da
vis, to his jonraal, the Blatherskite. The Tri
bune says:
Having committed this astonishing outrage
upon Mr. Davis, it was the most natural thing
in the world for Jenkins to present himself to
the victim and inquire how he liked it. He
was not left in doubt upon that point. Jenk
ins noticed, as soon as he enterd the room, that
the ex-President looked unhappy; “his face
seemed to be drawn together and set in a mould
that expresses rather resolnte endurance than
contentment”—an expression, we may remark,
almost always observed upon the faces of
persons who are so unfortunate as to hold
interviews with Mr. Jenkins. The rebel
leader instantly began to inquire abont the
publication of the letter. “I saw,” says Jen
kins “that he was temporising”—which we do
not exactly understand, for plainer speaking we
never heard than the .conversation set down in
this extraordinary ehroniole. . Before folly
freeing his mind, Mr. Davis went into the next
room apparently to get a pistol, and tho re
porter adds the wholly superfluous remark that
this was “an unnecessary precaution.” “I do
not pretend to bo a fighting man,” he observes,
and unless pushed never should fire on a fellow
being,” which is a degree of forbearance almost
heroic, especially in one who does pot carry
anna In faot, Jenkins confesses that “even
then” he would rather ran away. Mr. Davis at
any rate was “much bolder” when he came
back, and “would listen to nothing.” He talked
along for a minute or so, and finally wound np
by roaring out in stentorian tones, “You are a
liar and a puppy, sir!’ I rose at once, and said,
‘After that, Mr. Davis, I had better go;’ ” an
opinion in .which it is needless to say the ex-
President heartily concurred. And so Jenkins
went.
The Paris papers state that the Committee of
engineers appointed to report upon the con
struction of a tunnel across the channel between'
England and France have accepted the plan of
M. Thome de Camond, and that the works will
shortly be commenced, on one Bide at Dieppe,
and on the other side at New Haven. The cost
of the work is estimated at about $50,000,000,
and the duration of the work six years.
The sermon trade in England, according to a
writer in St. Paul’s, is very extensive, though
not strikingly remunerative to the authors. Tne
average price of original (?) sermons is quoted
at one smiling and three-pence to one shilling
and six-pence, postage paid.
Cotton Movement* of the Week.
New York, August 6. —The cotton movements
show a slight falling off in receipts, and consid
erable Increase in exports. Receipts at all the
ports 10,472 bales, against 10,900 last week,
10,601 the previous, and 15,386 three weeks
since. Total receipts since September 3,977,820
bales, against 2,880,020 the corresponding period
of. the previous year, showing an increase of
1,097,800 bales in favor of the present season.
Exports from all the ports for the week were
7,893 bales, against 5,539 the same week last
year. Total exports for the expired portion of
the cotton year 8,091,389 bales, against 2,548,-
891 the same time last year. The stock at all
ports is 150,212 bales, against 108,278'toe same
time last year. Stocks at interior towns 14,852
bales, againBt 22,170 last year. Stock in Liv
erpool 730,000 bales, against 568,000 last year.
American cotton afloat for Great Britain 46,000
bales, against 52,000 last year. Indian cotton
afloat for Europe 653,616 bales, againBt 527,591
last year. The weather at the Sonth daring the
week was hot and dry in many sections, while
in other parts the heat was relieved by ahowera
Some advices speak of-caterpillars and state
farther that the condition of the growing plant
is less favorable, bnt no great damage to the
crop is reported.
New York, August G.—Cotton has been heavy
and prices have deolined, both for spot and fu
ture cottons. The sales of the week reached
82,000 bales, of which 74,000 bales were for fu
ture delivery, and 8000 bales on spot and to ar
rive. Of the spot cotton, exporters took about
900 bales, spinners 3250 bales, and speculators
800 bales.
Hog products have been heavy, and dose at a
further decline. Beef products have been quiet
Tobacco has been active for export, at steady
prices. Petroleum and naval stores have de
clined. Hops, hay, wool, tallow and ingot
copper have been firm. In other domestio pro
ducts there are no features of interest to notice.
San Francisco, August 6.—The Italian de
monstration to-day in. honor of the occupation
of Borne by Victor Emanuel caused no distur
bance, and no inscriptions were carried to
wound the Gatholio feeling. The police had
made extra precautions but there was no neces
sity for their interference.
Buffalo, August 6.—The celebrated trotting
mare Purity, while exercising on the driving
park this evening, dropped dead from the heat.
Goldsmith made 2:19£ this morning while exer
cising.
Tho first entire negro jury ever held in Erie
connty tried two abandoned negro women and
cleared them.
New York, August, 6.—San Domingo -ad
vices report Baez distributing among the Hay-
tien insurgents, the partisans of the late Sal-
nave, arms and munitions received from New
York and that the Haytien Government have
ordered five thousand troops to the frontier
with orders to shoot every cne found under
arms. Baez in his recent engagement with
Cabral took fourteen prisoners, all whom were
shot immediately. Cabral retook San Miguel,
and with provisional government in the sonth
of the Island will reoommence active opera
tions against Baez, The Haytien orops promise
large yield.
Savannah, August 6.—Sandus, Goodwin &
Miller received to-day the first bale of new cot-
toD. It was raised by F. O. Craddock, of Jef
ferson county, Florida.
Savannah, August 6.—Arrived, Saturday,
steamship Virgo, New York. Cleared, Saturday,
steamship Magnolia, New York; Catharine
Whiting, New York; Tonawando, Philadel
phia. Arrived, Sunday, steamship Oriental,
Boston.
Charleston, August 6.—Sailed, Brig B. M.
Spearing, London.
London, August 6.—The Dublin authorities
forbid a public meeting to demand the release
of Irish political offenders.
New York, August 6.—There are only half
the usual passengers on tye ferry boats. Peo
ple are kept away by the late accident.
The Nautical Gazette says, “ we shall pro
bably ask the coroner to have brought before
him the gentleman who refused to grant a cer
tificate to the boiler of the 'Westfield not two
years ago—a gentleman who told Jacob H. Van
derbilt if he did not obtain a competent super
intendent some terrible accident would happen
on his boats.”
A riot ocourred on Sunday on a North Biver
excursion steamer and Jas. E. Hulz was se
verely injured.
Mayor Hallha3 deolined to review the Italian
procession on the 26th. The Swiss sooiety has
been obliged to decline joining the procession,
as by their laws they are forbiden participation in
political or religious demonstrations. The Po
lish Society joins the procession.
The yacht Terry Miller was sunk Saturday at
Little Bay side with several Queens connty offi
cials aboard—all Baved.
'Wm. Carrol and John Harrington, two boys
boys who were arrested for attempting to throw
the Erie train from the track on Friday, escaped
from the officers, who are still itfpurauit.
It is reported that Chas. Francis Adams has
declined the position of arbitrator at Geneva
under the treaty of "Washington.
Two temporary buildings are erecting at the
lower quarantine for persons not sick, bnt ex
posed to cholera on the voyage from Europe.
Arrived out, Harmonia.
Philadelphia, August 7.—Martin E. Massett
from New Orleans, died suddenly in Franklin
Square, from hemorrhage, yesterday.
Terre Hautb, IncL, August 7.—A forty barrel
lubricating oil well was struck here at a depth
of 1,633 feet.
Dublin, August 7.—In spite of the prohibi
tion the friends of Fenian amnesty attempted to
hold a meeting in Phoenix Park. Smythe, the
member of Parliament, Sullivan, the editor of
the Nation, and John Snllivan Byrne, entered
the Park followed by a large crowd. Police
Superintendent Howe, standing on the Welling
ton Monument, ordered the crowd to disperse.
Howe was hnrled to the base.of the monument
and barbarously treated. A half hours’ fight
ensued, when the soldiers reinforced the police
and dispersed the crowd. Smythe and Sullivan
were wounded badly, and over one hundred in
jured were taken to the hospital.
London, August 7.—A dispatch from Ddblin
to-day says the city is quiet. Several places
visited by the royal party "were gutted on Sun
day by the mob. Several French war steamers
'are ready at Toulon in view of apprehended
eastern complications. Troubles continue in
those portions of Franoe occupied by the Ger
mans. A Prussian subject having been hanged
a day or two since at Poligny, in the Depart
ment of the Jnfas, a riot followed in which the
German soldiers wounded abont twenty citizens
and threatened , to burn the place. Quiet was
restored by the authorities' promising to arreBt
he offenders.
New York, August 7.—The eastern bound
express on the Erie Bailroad had a narrow es
cape from total destruction yesterday, from a
displaced switoh at Shohala, Penn. The engine,
baggage cars and two Bleeping ooaohes were di
verged from the traok, bnt owing to the watch-
fulness'of the engineer who, seeing the trouble,
slacked speed, no person was injured, and
the damage to the rolling stock was slight.
Mr. Opdyke, Vice-President of the Chamber
of Commerce, will reply to the letter of the
Mayor and Comptroller to-morrow. He will, of
course, strictly obey the by-laws of the Chamber,
bnt in consequence of the absence of a majority
of the members he believes that a fall expres
sion of the views of the board could not be ob
tained.
Five thousand German Turners paraded in
Williamsburg to-day, and proceeded to Myrtle
Avenue Park, when a grand banquet was given
and Solomon Spitzer delivered an oration, in
which he congratulated the guests upon the
viotories which attended Germany. In the
evening, there was a sham fight and at night a
general social reunion in Turners H&1L
ltichard Moore, another Westfield victim,
died to-day, making deaths 95.
A Texas letter aays the army, in Texas, cavalry
and infantry, to the Extent of several thousands,
take np their line of march August 15, with a view
to concentration at the head of tho Wachita
mountain,, from whence, trader Col. McKee use,
they proceed to the chastisement of the Com-
anches and Waohita Indiana The troops are
exasperated by the treatment of their lost asso
ciates and go for extermination.
Washington, August 7.—Sherman has re
turned. The Nipsie has arrived at Pensacola
No news. All well. Creswell is here. Grant
is here to close ont the Bontwell and Pleas
anton imbroglio. George H. Stone is appointed
deputy collector at the port of Savannah;
Charles EL Townsend, book-keeper, vioe father
and son, Wellman.
Boats conveying foreign merchandise between
New Orleans and St Louis under regulations of
May 9th, 1871, are not governed as respects
clearance and manifests by act of February
18th, 1793, nor the aot of March 2d, 1871. .
Savannah, August 7.—The first bole of new
cotton was received to-day, and sold to Jas. T.
Stewart, broker, for 30 cents per ponnd.
Chicago, August 7.—Two and a half inch hail
stones fell to-day at Albion, Wisconsin. The
damage is over a quarter of a million.
Washington, Auguste.—The Cabinet meet
ing to-morrow will bo full except Fish.
Louisville, August 7, noon.—The election
in Louisville thus far shows heavy Republican
gains. In Frankfort, Ky., Leslie has 590 and
Harlan 690. A report of the election in Dan
ville, np to noon, gives Leslie 363, Harlan 532.
For representative, Haskins, Democrat, 393;
Barkley, Badical, 550.
St. Louis, August 7.—Yeager &' Co.’a flour-
rag miQ exploded; killing two.
Cincinnati, August 7.—A small tow boat
struck a hidden objeot below here and sunk,
drowning the mate and chamber maid.
New York, August 7.—Charlesto Brunner, a
respeotable dealer, was pounded by Michael
Coburn, a brother of the bruiser, and fatally
stabbed afterwards by John Saunders.
One hundred men rioted in Park Avenue,
Brooklyn. A number were injured, including
two offloers.
Geo. C.-Leek, cashier, and Wm. A. Knobbe
&Co., are held in $20,000 bail for embezzle
ment.
Savannah, August 7.—A party of negro ex
cursionists on the Savannah, Seaboard and Skid-
away Bailroad took possession of the cars, and
after cutting loose two of the cars near Sandfly
station, they commenced fighting among them
selves. One negro was reported killed. The
remaining oars, with a large number of ladies
on board, came on to the city. The negroes
have possession of the road. The sheriff will
go out to-night to arrest the rioters.
Washington, August 7.—The Commissioner
of Patents has prepared, for the convenience
of inventors and as a means of facilitating the
business of his bureau, a simplified classifica
tion of the subject matter of patents issued.
The classes number 128, under whioh are
grouped all cognate articles, inventions and
processes. The Commissioner will hereafter
send to persons desiring them copies of the
specifications and drawings of all the patents
issued in any designated class, commencing
with Jnly 1st, 1871, and continuing until, at ten
cents per patent, toe amount shall equal toe
sum of njpney enclosed to him.
New Orleans, August 7.—The election for
delegates to toe Bepubliean Convention passed
off with comparative quiet. There were one or
two knock downs but no serious disturbance.
Lieut.-Gov. Dunn, United States Marshal
Packard; Postmaster Lowel, Collector Casey,
and CoL Carter, Speaker of toe House, were
elected. The election stands for Governor
Warmoutb, 11th, 4th, 30th, "and 14th wards;
doubtful, 8th ward; against toe administration,
1st, 2d, 3d, Gth, 7tb, 9th, 10th and 15th wards.
In all these wards the anti-administration party
claims large majorities, but the election of the
delegates is generally conceded in toe State.
As far as heard from eight parishes cast their
votes for Warmouto and send twenty delegates;
forty-one voted against him, and send 64 dele
gates. Eight parishes are not heard from.
Breaking Banks.—The, Charleston Courier,
of Saturday, says that at the recent municipal
election, while there were only about 400 white
m6n who voted the Badical ticket, there were
1,427 colored men who, in toe face of all diffi
culties, had toe manhood to cast their votes
with the white race of the soil. Tins inaugu
rates a new era in toe politics of that city, cer
tainly, and secures its control for all time to
come by the honest men and tax-payers who
won the grand victory of last Wednesday.
Apropos of this victory, toe Badical organ
there attributes it to a negro procession Mon
day night before the election, gotten np by the
trewly loyl thieves, and of which it thus speaks:
The conduct of some joining in that proces
sion was not only a disgrace to toe party in
whose interest they claimed to act, bnt it was
a disgrace to our city and to civilization itself.
Good judges estimate that that one thing cost
us five hundred votes! It not only disgusted
many who were prepared to act with us, bnt it
consolidated the Conservative party. It is
maddening to any good Bepubliean to look
back to the stupid bungling of that procession,
which alone perhaps cost ns toe loss of Charles
ton. Such yells, such brandishing of clubs,
snch hurling of rocks and breaking of windows
and fences and human skulls, such a little hell
let loose by men who knew not what they them
selves had at stake, surely was never seen be
fore in toe interests of politics within all toe
confines of civilization.
Cause of the Westfield Explosion.—A Wes
tern dispatoh of the 2d inst., says:
Wm. W. Vanderbilt, Government Inspector,
to-day ma£e an official inspection of. toe
boiler of the Westfield. He found that the
material of the boiler was good and that toe
iron was of the requisite thickness, bnt discov
ered a serious break in the inner casing, which
evidently existed long before the explosion.—
The outer edge of toe fragment was mnch
brighter than the inner, and from this faot and
certain other indications he has come to toe'
conclusion that the inner easing was broken
either when the boiler was made, years ago, or
gave way subsequently when subjected to a
severe test. He expressed the positive opinion
that the boiler has for a long timo been held to
gether simply by a thin ontside plating, and
said he was surprised that it had not exploded
before. He added, that this flaw could not be
deteoted by the inspector, as toe ontside boiler
was covered with felt, and toe inside one afford
ed no indications of decay. He also said the
flaw conld not have been detected by sounding
the boiler. __
New Tore’s New Loan.—The telegraph yes
terday advised that the loan for the construction
of docks and piers in New York City had been
taken by toe International Bank of Hamburg.
The plan adopted by the dook commission for
this purpose comprehends a street not less than
one hundred and fifty feet wide everywhere,
completely encircling toe water front This
front Btretches twenty-one and a half miles, to
be instantly constructed at a cost of $2,500,000
per mile, or $53,750,000. From this street piers
are to extend, three to five hundred feet long by
sixty to one hundred wide, with intervening
Bpaces two hundred feet wide, furnishing a min
imum depth along the frontage of twenty feet.
Some of toe piers will be of iron, some of stone,,
some of both. It is contended that the addi
tional rents will more than pay interest on toe
loan.
The Ice Crop.—There is an overstock of ioe
in Maine—between 200,000 and 300,000 tons
aid said to be still stored, mostly on toe Ken
nebec. The Boston Commercial Bulletin says:
Ovet 400,000 tons of ioe were cut within a
radios of fifteen miles of Boston last winter,
which, with toe competition between the Citi
zens’ Ioe Company and the combination of the
marketmen, has brought down prices to a lower
figure than at any time during toe 'past five
years. The article is now furnished at least
fifty per cent lower than last year.
North Carolina Election.—In the absence
of any definite news from this election by tele
graph, we print toe following from the Baleigh
Telegram, of Saturday. The Telegram claims
to be a Democratic paper, bat joined toe Badi-
cals in opposing toe Convention bilL It says:
The election returns' received in this city tons
far are meagre, bat they indicate that toe revo
lutionary soheme of Convention has been, de
feated at toe ballot box by the people of North
Carolina The most sanguine opposers of the
movement oaloulate that it has been defeated by
from 12,000 to 15,000 votes. It is safe to as
sume, however, that toe majority against too
measure, judging from toe counties already
heard from, will not fall short of six or eight
thousand.
The Baleigh, (N. O.) Sentinel says that wo
man’s rights were practically carried out in that
State at toe last election; two hundred colored
women voted by being dresBed in men’s clothes.
The women in breeches registered when taken
to the polls, and, as toe law forbids any chal
lenge, they were enabled to deposit their votes.
A movement is on foot among a large number
of capitalists of New York to form a combina
tion to resist the further collection of municipal
taxes until a full and oorreot showing of the
city’s finances is made. It is believed toe move
ment will be BuocessfnL
A Brooklyn physician prescribed hydrate of
chloral for a young lady, and wrote the pre
scription, “CKar. Hydr." The druggist inter
preted his hog Latin to mean chloridium hy-
drargyri—corrosive sublimate—and the young
lady died.
A lady in Halifax oounty, Ya., who, year be
fore last, gave birth to three boys at a time,
gave birth, week before last, to four boys. All
were doing well at last accounts.
The balance of trade is disturbed in Newborn,
N. G., by the faot that watermelons are only
three cents apiece, while cholera mixture is
half a dollar a bottle. ,
My Old Love,
I hear in the thicket the brooklet’s fall •
A thrash on the lilac spray
Singe, as of old, the vesper Bong
Of the slowly waning day;
And the fragrance comes down
trees
In toe meadow where daisies blow,
As it came down when the tender twilight
In the springs of long ago. ^ ^
Far over the dark and shadowy woods
Cornea floating the chnrck bell’s chime
As I wander and dream in toe fading light
As I dreamed in the olden Hi»» ^ ’
Bnt never shall I wait and watch,
In the hnah of the sweet apriog night
For a step in toe depth of the rustling cor =>e
And the gleam of a garment white. ’
When the tremulous stars through the fleiYrv,,.
Look out in tho western Bky. •
Yet a joy which is nameless ana strangelv eirt
Throbs oft m my heart’s deep core, b ' **“
**J*“E™g*t too Of the days long fled
Is thrilled into life once more. 6 "
O dear was I to the heart that is cold
And her love o’ersbadows me still - ’
And the stars shine down on her grave tc-nieht
In the lone churchyard on the hill. 1
AS AMERICA* BATTLE OF DOBEIXS
^ai&V heTnrmeeS,&aa ^
From the Indianapolis Evening News ]
The following is supposed to have been \n
ten in 1892 by Max Adeler, who was a witn*
of toe terrible scenes which occurred
time of which the story tell3.. The En^
satire, “The Battle of Dorking,” ^supplied 6
suggestion for this prophetic tale:
THE C0NQUESI OS’ AMERICA.
You ask me to tell yon, my children, of
•vents which immediately preceded the desks
tion of toe once great American Union,
the capture of the country by its pre,
European rulers, and to say something ahe
the cause which led to these deplorable rerj
I undertake toe task with a heavy heart,
when I revert to that terrible time I can
help contrasting our proud condition up tog
fatal year with toe humiliating position
pied now by the American people. The _
is a short one. In toe fall of 1872 Horace G:
ley, the editor of a newspaper in New York,
elected President of the United States.
people voted for him because they thongti
was an honest man. And so he was. fit
was also vain and weak, and he entertained:
tain fanatical and preposterous notions-al
agricultural matters, for instance—which
was determined to foroo upon the people at
hazzards and despite all opposition. He belief
among other things, that every man ought fc
to toe "West to earn his bread, and long bet
he was chosen President he used to adr
everybody to move to that region, as a cure!
all the disasters that could befall the heui
family.
DRIVING THE 8EAB0RD POPULATION WESf.
As soon as he reached the Execntive Macs:
winch we used to call the 'White House,
dent Greeley organized an army of two hi
thousand men, and proceeded to force the(
tire population of the seaboard States wests:
at the point of the bayonet The utmost i
lence was used. Those who resisted were
down, and their dead bodies were carted cf
a national factory whioh toe President bail
tablished for making some kind of fantasti
fertilizer. All the large cities of the Eastu
depopulated, and the towns were entirely eoa
The army swept before it millions of men, 1
men and children, until toe vast plains wes
Kansas were reached, when the pursuit cea
and the army was drawn up in a continuous lit
with orders to shoot any person who attempt
to visit toe East. Of course hnndrds of the*
andsof these poor creatures perished from si
vation. This seemed to frighten PresidentG.i
ley, and he sent a message to Congress reca
mending that seven hundred thousand voha
of a book of his, entitled “What I Know At:
Earning,” should be voted for toe relief of I
starving sufferers. This was done, and farm
implements and seeds were supplied; and u
the millions of wretched outcasts made an e:
to till the ground. Of the result of this I
speak further on.
IT.T, EUROPE IN AUMH AGAINST AMERICA.
In toe meantime the President was doin;
finite harm to the country in another way. '
hand-writing was so fearfully and wonderh
bad that no living man conld read it Arc
when he sent his first annual message to Ci
gress—the document was devoted wholly tot
tariff and agriculture—a sentence apper
which subsequently was ascertained to k
“Large cnltivation of rutabagas and been;
the only hope of the American nation, I'
sure.” The printers, not being ablo to to
pret this, put it in the following form, in vh
it went to the world: “The Czar of Bi
couldn’t keep clean if he washed himself:
toe whole Atiantio Ocean once a day!” 1
perversion of toe message was immediately
egraphed to Bussia by toe Bussian Minis
and the Czar was so indignant that he ins
diately declared war.
Just at this time President Greeley nr*
took to write some letters to Prince Bisrc
upon toe subject of potato rot, and, after
ing his sigular views at great length, he conci
ed with toe statement that if the Emperor r
liam said that subsoil ploughing was not f
in light soils, 'or that guano was better t
bone dust, he was a “a liar, a villain, tn
slave'Of course the Emperor also va
diately declared war, and became, an al!j
Bussia and* of England, against which ltf.
country Mr. Greely had actually begun boa?
ties already, because toe Queen, in her fi]#*
from the throne, had declared the Tribune s 1
voeacy of a tariff on pig iron incendiary, 1
calculated to disturb the peace of nations.
Unhappily this was not the full meseafl
our disasters. The President bad sect tot
Emperor of Austria a copy of his book,
I know,” &c., with his autograph upon a'
leaf. The Emperor mistook the signature
a caricature of' the Austrian eagle, at:
readily joined in too wax against the Cu
States; while France wa3 provoked
same act by toe fact that when the Fret
Minister came to call upon Mr. Greely to?
sent his credentials, the President, who *
writing, an editorial at the time, not coc?
heading toe French language, mistook the >
bassador for a beggar, and without lookiy
handed him a quarter and an order for a »
shirt, and said to him, “Go West, young®
go "West 1”
l>BT«mrrr OSEKLBT AND CABINET HANG©
So' all these natiens joined in making
upon the United States. They swooped C
upon our coasts and landed without oppoe
for those exposed portions of our unhappy
try were absolutely deserted. The
was afraid to call away the army from hi
at first for fear the' outraged people upon
plains would oome East in spite of him.
at last he did summon the army to his mo,
it moved to meet the enemy. It was too
Before toe troops reaohed Cincinnati^™
signers had seized Washington and all tne.
try east of the Ohio, and had hung tb» ;
dent, toe Cabinet, and every member 01
gross. The army disbanded in alarm,
invadeis moved to toe far West, where_
found the population dying of starvab°“
cause they had followed the advice of On”
book to “Try, for your first crop, to raise
and don’t plant more thap a bushel of v
lime in a hill 1” Of course these wretch©
pie were at the mercy of the enemy,
his credit be it said—treated thena kinojji
them, and brought them back to their old &
UTTER RUIN OF THE REFUBLIO-
Yon know what followed—how Prince ri
ick William of Prussia ascended the AT
throne, and toe other humiliations that
It was a fearful blow to republicanism--*
from whioh it will never recover. It n°*f,
who were f reomen, a nation of slaves. *
all toe result of onr blind confidence iu *
guided old man who thought himself a P?
pher, but who was aotnally a fool. May "
preserve you, my children, from the 1®“"
feel when 1 remember that I voted f°‘
bnoolio old editor.
Exported Death of Judge J. W. 0 "*
The Atlanta Son, of Saturday, says >t J
ported yesterday that Judge J. W. 0
at Valdosta the day previous. Itia certain t
had been seriously ill for several days, and*
expected to recover. The report, as ve ‘.
ed it, seems to be qorrect, though it m*f |
A farmer in Laconia, N. H., speaking^
thinness of the hay crop, said: “The
pern have all got lame trying to Jump 1
blade of grass to another.” ,
The grandfather of George H. Pendlet^
the second of Alexander Hamilton in
with Aaron Bare.
