The Greoraia Weehlv Teleara-ph and. *Xournal <Su IVIesseiiger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON. SEPTEMBER 2G1871
News Items.
T.rpynTAT. Hobseflesh Low.—Sixteen horses
belonging to the Emperor Napoleon sold for
f r f P08, or an average of $488 apiece.
Native and Fobeign Population.—The census
exhibits an unexpected preponderance of
native born population, at great central points.
Of the population of New York and Brooklyn
1,338,391, 703,383 were bom in the State of
Now York and 774,579 in the United States. It
has been supposed that those cities contained a
majority of foreign-born population.
New Jeesev.—In the renomination of Hon.
Joel Parker, who held the office of Governor
nine years ago by fourteen thousand majority,
the Jersey Democrats believe they have insured
success. The convention at Trenton on Wednes
day last was numerous and enthusiastic beyond
all precedent Both New Jersey and Minnesota
recognised the constitution and the amendments
thereto as binding on the country.
Involuntaev LmEBALiTr.—The World says
«the South is more than forgiving—it is really
magnanimous. In return for the scalawags and
loose fish we have been cursing it with for the
last six years it has now sent ns the best fish
that swims in its waters. The pompano, more
prized by the epicures of the Gulf than were the
turbot and mullet by the gastronomes of old
Borne, has made his appearance this year in our
waters for the first time within the memory of
■mm Perhaps, however, the explanation of this
unexampled migration may be that the pompa
no, a delicate fish and made for digestion by
decent people only, has got tired of being eaten
by carpet-baggers, and come to New York in
search of appreciative palates.” That is prob
ably true. The pompano quit the “recon
structed States” in disgust, and turned us over
to toadfish, stingarees, sharks and devilfish.
Eugenie, ex-Empress, reached Lisbon las f
Friday, and was called on by the King and
Queen of Portugal.
The Tobtedo Explosion in New York on Fri
day was a serious, as well as singular affair. A
truck had just driven up in front of 12C Beek-
man street, loaded with forty light wooden cases
containing 100,000 of a juvenile explosive called
“Union Torpedoes”—made of clay, the size of
a boy’s marble, and inclosing some powerful
explosive. Struck with a hammer, or thrown
against stone or brick, the detonation is as loud
as a pistol. While the truck or dray was stand
ing before the door and a street railway car had
just passed, the truck and its contents suddenly
disappeared in a cloud of smoke, simultaneously
with a fearful explosion, which shook, shattered
and damaged houses all around—prostrated
every person near the scene, and killed three
men and badly wounded four. The force of the
explosion was such that one of the springs of
the truck was shot across the street and embed
ded in a brick wall opposite.
Cotton Receipts.—Macon footed up on the
night of the lGth instant 3G8 bales of cotton re
ceived here Bincc the 1st. Last year for the
corresponding period she received 1,929 bales.
Think of that and then count on a crop of four
million bales. The Columbus cotton receipts
for last Saturday were 31 bales, against 3G6
bales received the corresponding day last year.
The total receipts at all points up to Friday, old
and new cotton, since 1st September, are 21,-
8GO bales against 33.S82 last year, showing a
falling off of 12,022 bales. The showing, as
exhibited by the New York Commercial and
Financial Chronicle, last Friday night, is as
follows:
1871. 4870.
Stock at American ports. 85,228 55,253
“ interior towns 10,291 12,975
“ in Liverpool 498,000 490,000
American afloat for Gt. Brit’n 51,000 17,000
Indian “ “ 714,186 443,245
Total 1,358,705 1,018,473
Showing an excess of 340,232 bales.
Montoomeby and Eufaula Railboad.—The
Montgomery Advertiser learns that the track on
this road is now laid to within fonr miles of
Enfanla, and being rapidily pushed forward.
Trains will certainly bo running regularly bo
tween Montgomery and Eufaola by the 5th of
October in fall time for the business season.
Yellow Fetes at Cedab Keys. — Mayor
Dyke, of Tallahassee, issued a proclamation on
the 15th, annonneing the existence of yellow
fever in an epidemic form at Cedar Keys, and
expressing the fear that it may extend along
the Golf and Atlantic coasts, and establishing
rigid sanitary regulations in all the wards of the
city.
The Tidal Wave.—The Wilmington Star in
dignontiy contradicts a rumor that he is build
ing an ark as a provision against the tidal wavo
—but ho would like some information as to the
probable cost of such an arrangement, all com
plete, for a man, his wife and seventeen chil
dren.
Poisoned.—In Faison’s Township, Dublin
county, Mr. Exam Morris, his wife, son and
daughter were all fatally poisoned with arsenic
last week.
A Gioantio and Wicked Conspiracy.—Infor
mation was received by Judge Bedford of the
Court of General Session last Friday morning
that a gigantic and wicked conspiracy had been
set on foot in Wall Street for the purpose of
looking np millions of dollars, and by this means
fajoring the commerce of the city and thereby
the finances of the whole oountry. The Judge
immediately convened the grand jury and
charged them to take prompt and fearless action
tlon at once. In a few days some of the most
respectable brokers and business men of the
city will be summoned before the grand jury,
when it is expected most startling exposures will
be made.
The workingmen’s turnout in Now York city
numbered about 25,000. Their badges called
not only for eight hours to the day’s work but
for thirty-two hours in the day, to-wit: “Eight
honrs for work, eight hours for sleep, eight
hours for recreation and eight honrs for rest.”
That programme will suit every body without
cholio or toothache. The French Communists
wore in line with a red flag—“Liberte, Egalite,
Fraternitie,” La Repnblique Universale, in
which nobody has to work—no, never so mueh
as one hour, and the Commune shall famish the
finest bread, bntter, steak and coffee at the
publio expense.
Speech of Wm. S. Geoesbeck.—The Hon.
Wm. S. Groesbeck made a long speech before a
Democratic mass meeting at Stenbenville, Ohio,
on Wednesday last, which is pronounced by the
New York San to be the greatest speech 6ince
the days of Daniel Webster. The Son com
menting upon this speech says:
If any donbt has existed that Mr. Groesbeck
is one of tho wisest statesmen, ablest constitu
tional lawyers, and most eloquent orators of the
country, this speech will dispel it. It will not
only take its appropriate place among tho re
markable productions of the times, but it will
give direction to tho public sentiment of the en
tire nation. In profandity of thdffght, in per
ception of vital political truths, in clearness of
statement, infelioity of diction, we recollect no
Epeech which surpasses it, and very few that
equal it, since Daniel Webster was in his prime.
We will reprint to-morrow what Mr. Groes-
fceck has to say about the constitutional amend
ments.
Hodge’s Defalcations.—Tho World says it
is believed that Paymaster Hodge’s defalcations
will amount to $1,200,000. His penitential let
ter to General Brfco is published. He con
fesses to stealing $450,000, and says he is glad
the truth is known for he has been “in a hell
upon earth for years.” Hodge has been lodged
in Fort MoHenry.
Yictorial Woodhull was elected President of
the National Association of Spiritnralists, in
Troy last Tharsday. Vic, we think, represents
the flesh more than the spirit.
Faib Entries.—Secretary Lewis says the en
tries for the State Fair are more numerous thus
early than they have ever been before. Among
them there will be a heavy competition between
leading jewellers in Gorgia. Savannah and
Atlanta will be hard after each other. Sharp
and Hamilton are going to 6eo which can bo the
more gorgeous.
The rains intermitted on Sunday and Monday
np to this present writing—say 4 o’clock in the
afternoon—we have had but one shower.
The New York Mercantile Journal scores the
Independent for “trifliDg with sacred things.”
That is heavy. Tho Independent is tho cham
pion of advanced evangelism in the North.
“The South —Wo havo No. 1 of a weekly
paper published in New York, by Tardrew & Co.,
“devoted to the material interests of the South
ern States." There’a so many Northern papers
devoted to the political interests of the South,
that we are glad to see a change of tho stop,
although it be the same old hurdy-gurdy.
John 0. Beeckineidge, say the Lexington pa
pers, is now one of hardest working lawyers in
Kentucky, and is likely to make a good deal of
money by his profession. He seldom discusses
politics in these days, having discovered that
they are in no sense remunerative.
Genuine Radical Performance.—Davis, the
Radical Governor of Texas calls into service for
twenty-four days prior to, and during tho com-
icg election, appointed for tho 3d, 4th, 5th and
6th of October next, twenty speoial police in
each county, and orders them to receive $3 00
per diem as their pay. There being 130 coun
ties, this costs the people $187,200.
The New York State board of equalization
have just completed the valuation of the taxable
property of that State for the year 1871-72.—
The valuation is:
Real estate $1,599,930,166
Personal estate 452,607,732
Total $2,052,527,898
This gives a per capita valuation of $469 18.
Don’t Holt! on Too TIglit.
We trust oar planter friends will not allow a
very natural desire to hold their cotton aud real
ize tho highest possible profit on it, to cause
them to lose sight of another no less important
matter, viz: Tho prompt meeting of all their
engagements with the merchants, warehousemen,
etc., by whoso aid they have been enabled, in
pari, to make .the crop. They showed a most
commendable spirit last season in this matter,
though,in many cases, at heay pecuniary sacrifice,
and received well deserved credit therefor. Their
liabilities were much heavier lost than this sea
son, and therefore—though the temptation to
hold back the crop is greater this, than last year
—there is really more reason now than then to
strain every nerve to meet the obligations. The
staple is now commanding at leaBt a moderate
ly remunerative price, and those who sell to
meet their engagements cannot suffer any posi
tive pecuniary loss by so doing. Oar advice is
to hurry enough of the crop to market to square
off all liabilities, and then hold the remainder
for a flash price. By such a policy the planter’s
credit will be maintained, his honor preserved
and his friends preserved from damage.
A Sontliern Bcmocrnlic Editor’s
Testimony.
Replying to a hopo expressed by one of the
poppycock weeklies of' the red hot species,
that he wonld bring the Constitution back into
harmony with the aforesaid red hot on the ques
tion of the new departure, the editor of the
Constitution, who has just returned from the
North, replies as follows. We hope the politi
cal Pharisees who are nauseating tho people
with their “holier than tfcon” howls, and inso
lent lecturing and hectoring as to what consti
tutes Democracy and who are Democrats will
read the last paragraph and then paste it in
their hats:
When the Democracy in tho Northern States
that are under Radical control determined, a
few months back, to bury, if possible, the war
issues, in order to get the question of Radical
usurpations andcorrnptions nakedly before their
people and redeem their States, wo thought
then, as we think now, that the South should
not embarrass them in any way. The contests
were local and not national-,-and to make a na
tional issue out of them at this juncture was im
politic and hurtful.
Those people took their ground with a knowl
edge of their home weaknesses, and we felt that
we had no right to interfere in their local fight
for redemption and liberty. We have expressed
no opinion upon the propriety of their position,
and we do not intend to at present. We have
studiously avoided it. We felt that Southern
declarations that pratically nullified their new
venture were untimely and most improper, and
must be fatal. This responsibility we wonld
not take. We thought that our friends North
should have every chance to succeed in their
new venture. They did not commit us. They
were fighting for very existence. They might
be mistaken in their policy. Bat we felt it was
not oar place to diminish their prospect of suc
cess by weakening their efforts. .
The editor’s observations North have con
vinced him of the propriety of this course. We
saw there the new movement falling dead
through Southern instrumentality. We heard
Democrats despairingly crying out, “Why don’t
our Southern friends keep their months, and
let ns battle onr cause here untrammelled ?” It
is to-day impossible to see what intrinsic force
there was in the non movement, because South
ern opposition has made it a dead-fall for the
present. And this opposition, as far as we can
learn, has not confined itself to legitimate argu
ment; bnt has misrepresented tho movement
most grossly; not intentionally, of course, but
still most grossly. The hdp to the Radicals has
been great. We heard Radicals say that they
can afford to pay certain journals and men
South, of the extreme Democracy, a large sxm
to heep up their fusilade against the new move
ment.
New Books:—We have received from Lee &
Shepard, (Boston, through J. W. Barke & Co.,
of this city, the “Young American Abroad,”
tho last of tho “Oliver Optic” series, a most en
tertaining record of travel in Norway, Denmark
and Sweden and calculated especially to interest
and instruct the young folks; the “Young De
liverers of Pleasant Cove,” a well told story of
the adventures of some American boys in Pro
vence, France; “The Eye in Health and Dis
ease,” by B. Joy Jeffries, a valuable treatise
numerously illustrated, on a very important
subject; and “Tho Wife of a Vain Man,” by
Marie SophieBchwarlz, which we have previously
noticed, and which we may repeat, bore, is one
of the cleverest novel* 0 f the period. Messrs.
J. W. Barke & Co., have all theso books for
sale.
The Califobnia Election.—The 'Washington
correspondent of the New York Journal of Com
merce, writing on the 8th fast., says:
It is reported hero on the authority of one
who ought to know all about it, that tho Cali
fornia election was carried for tho Republicans
mainly through the efforts of the Central Pacific
Railroad Company.
Before the election, Mr. C. P. Huntington
and others gave notice that the Central Pacific
Company desired certain land grants and aid in
money, for new enterprises they wore about to
commence.
The Democrats indicated a determination to
oppose these aid propositions, and the com
pany went in to elect the Republican ticket.
It has been frequently predicted that these
powerful railroad corporations wonld by-and-by
exert an irresistible and detrimental influence
in polities. State as well as national. How far
agigantlo “railroad ring” can be Beached by
legislation is a very difficult problem to solvo:
the “ring” virtually electing and owning the le
gislative authority, and the latter not apt, con
sequently, to rebel.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Chas. P. McGalla, the lato general book
keeper of the State Road, and the Great North
American Railroad Informer, has come to grief,
having on Saturday been arrested at Atlanta for
embezzling public fnnds, and falsifying the books
of bis office.
Mrs. Maria J. Westmoreland, of Atlanta, has
a novel fa press by Carleton, of New York city,
called “Heart-Hungry."
The Chronlole and Sentinel, of Sunday, has
the following handsome notice of the late elec
tion in tins District and of onr successful can
didate :
The Twenty-Second Senatobal Distbict.—
The returns from this District show that CoL
Simmons, the Democratic candidate has been
elected by a very large majority. In the eleo-
tion last fall the District was earned by the
Radicals. The great change which has taken
place in this District cannot be attributed alone
to tho personal popularity of Col. Simmons,
though we believe he is personally as strong in
the affections of the people as any man fa the
District The Democratic masses rallied to his
support with great enthusiasm, because they
knew CoL Simmons was a true man and a
thorough Democrat. We congratulate the
people of the State upon this acquisition to real
Democratio strength fa the Senate. Col. S.
was a good soldier and an able and accomplish
ed officer daring the late war, a valuable mem
ber of the approachfag Legislature he will take
a high rank as an intelligent, upright and fear
less protector of the people’s rights.
Jame3 Yarbrough, a most estimable citizen of
Stewart county, died yesterday week of a con
gestive chill.
Charles Fowler and Elias Nesmith, of Mitchell
county, are in jail at Savannah, fa default of
$2,500 bail, for passing bogus treasury notes.
A sailor bold and a choleric soul named Char
ley Cole, and as black as his name, performed
hari-kari on a fellow mariner named Harris, at
Savannah, last Friday night .
General Joseph E. Johnston is named by
“Many Citizens” -in the Savannah Advertiser
and Republican, as a suitable candidate for
Mayor of that city. The ayes have it np this
way.
Columbus expects 5000 bales of cotton by
the Chattahoochee river, against nearly 7,500
last year. That stream has been navigable all
the year, which show-: how great has been the
rain fall in that section, this year.
The Sun wants to know “where’s yonr three
million bales ?” It says:
In tho last few days the reports are general
and come from reliable men, that the continu
ous wet weather is oaasing immature bolls to
rot fa the fields and matured cotton is sprout
ing. From,tho neighborhood of Macon and in
Southwestern Georgia, this report also comes.
The Agricultural Bureau is a good guesser.
With favorable seasons, the wiseacres of the
Bureau say, the crop can’t exceed 3,250,000
bales; with les3 favor may be 2,400,000. Any
body can guess with a margin of 800,000 bales
allowed. We can do that Wonder if the
Bureau would call a mistake of a million, close
calculation.
Capt Bryan Conner, during the late civil war
commander of the “Mitchell Guards” one of
the companies composing the 47th Georgia
regiment, died last Friday night at Savannah,
aged 44 years.
The balloonist of Haight & Wooten’s circus
drew an immense crowd at Savannah last Fri
day afternoon, by plumping into the river. He
was rescued.
Mr. Robert Saussy, living near Savannah, was
nearly murdered by a negro boy in his employ,
last Thursday. Tho negro escaped.
Tho Constitution of Sunday says:
'Two Wives at Once—Another Bowen—
Pass Him Abound.—A man named Kirkpatrick,
hailing from Jackson county, who has been for
some months a tenant of S. Hi Cox, in Ogle
thorpe county, lately seized a plantation mule
and ran off with the daughter of another ten
ant, to Washington, by night, and they were
married Sunday. They returned the following
Taesday to his boardiog house at Long Creek,
in a hired hack, leaving the mnlo in pawn at
Washington for hotel and livery bills, and said
that the mulo would not lead and was left on
the way. The Tuesday following ho borrowed
a plantation mule from another tenant, and a
saddle from a negro to go after the missing
male, bat has left for parts nnknown. It is
known that ho has a wife and children living fa
Jackson county. Kirkpatrick claims to be a
licensed exhorterand preacher of the Methodist
Church, and is quito a Sunday-school man, and of
good address and fair words. Look out for him
and savo other such disasters among the softer
sex now so often victimized.
The news at Savannah is that J. H. Gonld,
the trewly Ioyl defaulting revenue collector, late
of that city, has been murdered by a man whom
he had employed to pilot him across tho Big
Cypress swamp in Florida.
The Early county News thinks Southwestern
Georgia is entitled to the next Governor, and
names Colonel Herbert Fielder, of Cnthbert, as
its choice.
The Atlanta Sun of yesterday communicates
the following item of intelligence.
Goveenok Bullock to come back to
GeoBgia.—Wo hear it stated that Governor
Bullock, before leaving New York for Cali
fornia, told a gentleman who resides in this
State, bnt there on business in that city, that
he wonld return to Georgia by the 4th day of
October next, and that when he did reach
here a very different phase wonld be put upon
all the proceedings and tho general opinion of
the public concerning the prosecutions now
going on against delinquents and plunderers
of tho late State Road administration. In
what particular this new phase was to appear,
wo did not learn.
From Houston County.
Fobt Valley, September 17, 1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : Rain has
fallen for'the last ten days and still continues
to fall, and the destruction theroby of the cotton
prospect has caused the countenances of onr
planters to extend considerably. After the many
disasters that have befallen the cotton crop the
last, but not least, is the rottening of the bolls.
The continuous wet weather is ruinously bring
ing our crop to a close, and unless the sunshine
soon warms np our cotton fields the cotton crop
may be justly pronounced an entire failure. The
Flint River plantations of cotton and corn have
been completely submerged and destroyed.
Farmers, with their laborers, have abandoned
their flooded crops and are seeking employment
on the railroads. ’Tis no use to cry short crops
fa Southwest Georgia. The w-rk is done, and
ere long the story \rill be tol< We have corn
enough to snpply homo de-mam. 3. Potatoe and
pea crops promising.
Oar citizens are looking forward with great
interest to the Southwest Georgia Central Fair,
to be held in Fort Valley, beginning on Tues
day, 17th October, and ending the following
Thursday. The Fort Valley Fair grounds are
nearly completed,and for location,conveniences,-
etc., are surpassed by none fa tho State. The
buildings when finished will be beautiful and
add much to onr growing town; and the trot
ting track challenges comparison. Twenty-five
hundred dollars in premiums are offered. The
location of the Fort Valley Fair grounds has
many peculiar natural advantages to tho farmers
and mechanics of Middle and Southwest Geor
gia—situated in tho very heart of the cotton
belt, surrounded by large farming capital, and
accessible by railroads running in every direc
tion—there is no location of equal advantages
for the exhibition and development of the ma
terial and agricultural interests of our State.
__ Fabmee.
District Heeling Colored JI. E.
Churcli.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: At the
Fort Valley district meeting of the colored M.
E. Church fa America, convened Friday morn
ing, September 1st, delegates were in full at
tendance. The whole meeting passed off very
quietly and peaceably. On the Sabbath there
were from two to three thousand people present.
Bishop R. H. Vanderhorst preached in the mom-
fag and evening. There was also a large turn-
out of tu6 white citizens at both services. Peace
and harmony reigned throughout the day.
Wo feel under many obligations to the white
citizens for their liberal contributions. Bishop
Vanderhorst tenders his thanks to the kind gen
tlemen—Messrs. H. P. Everett & Co., James
Mathews, and Mr. Brown, for their very accep
table present, and to III tho citizens of Fort
Valley for their kind and liberal hospitality.
J. H. Andeeson, P. E.
R. H. Vandebhobst,
Bishop. M. E. S. Church fa Georgia.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Cotton Movements of tho Week.
New Yobk, September 17.—The cotton move
ment shows an increase fa receipts over last
week, while the exports were largely in excess
of last year. Receipts at all the ports 12,561
bales, against 9,137 last week, 7,579 the pre
vious week, and 7,544 threeweeks since. Total
receipts since September, 21,860 bales, against
33,882 for the corresponding period the previous
year, showing a decrease of 12,022 bolcB. Ex
ports from all tho ports for the week 15,815
bales, against 3,840 for the same week last year.
Total exports for the expired portion of the
year 30,430 bales against 10,903 bales for same
time last year. Stock at all the porta 85,228
bales against 55,253 the same time last year.
Stocks at interior towns 10,291 bales against
12,975 last year. Stock in Liverpool 498,000
bales against 490,000 last year. American afloat
for Great Britain 51,000 bales, against 17,000
last year. Indian cotton afloat for Europe
714,186 bales, against 443.245 last year. The
weather south wa3 rainy in many sections dur
ing the week, interfered to some extent with
picking operations to say nothing of damage to
crop.
New Tork Markets.
New Yobk, September 17.—Cotton has ad
vanced, but closed quiet. The sales for the
week reached 82,000 bales, of which 71,500
were for future delivery, and 9,500 on the spot
and to arrive. Of the spot cotton exporters took
2,400 bales, spinners 4,625 bales, and specula
tors 625 bales. Hay products have been irreg
ular, with intervals of buoyancy and depression.
Beef and dairy products have been firm and
more aotive. Hops have advancod, bnt at the
close were quiet. Tobacco has advanced. Na
val stores have declined. Petroleum has been
in demand at improving prices. In the domes
tic products tho changes have been unimpor
tant. Domestic produce markets have been
generally active daring the week, and prices ad
vanced fa leading staples; although in some
cases an unsettled feeling has prevailed. The
export demandhas increased for many products,
and no donbt much larger business would have
been transacted bnt for the high leading rates
for gold engineered by the syndicate in the gold-
room, and which interfered with the negotia
tion of commercial bills of exchange. The
publio generally take very little interest fa con
tests between speculators in the gold-room, but
when their operations assume a form which in
terferes with legitimate operations then tho
matter becomes important, and demands some
remedy. It seems likely that the Grand Jury
will relievo the people from the present obstruc
tion to export operations by the nefarious sys
tem of looking np gold. At the produce ex
change there has been a large demand for
breadstuffs generally, and prices have advanced
sharply in sympathy with the improvement in
the English markets.
Washington, September 17.—The United
States Mexican Claims Commission is expected
to resume its session this week. There over
thirteen hundred cases on the docket, nearly
equally divided between the two countries. So
far, eighty cases havo been decided against
Mexico,‘involving abont $400,000, and thirty
or forty cases against the United States, involv
ing abont on::-fourth of that amount. Cases
have been decided determining the various
phases of citizenship and the jurisdiction of the
matters of contract, favorable to the views of
the Commission. A large number of pending
cases will be decided according to the principles
declared fa the opinions heretofore delivered.
One hundred and fifty cases have been submit
ted by Mexico against the United States, claim
ing in the aggregate $4,500,000 damages in the
sack of Bagdad. This subject is expected to be
disposed of fa a week or ten days. A hundred
and fifty similar eases are also pending, claiming
in the aggregate, $11,200,000 damages in the
sack of Piedras Negras in 1856, the town hav
ing been invaded by United States troop3 fa
pursuit of hostile Indians. The United States
took much pains in procuring offseting proofs—
having sent an agent to Mexico especially for
that purpose.
Nobfolk, September 18.—A serious affray oc
curred last night between the United and Hope
Fire Companies of this city, growing out of a
jealousy that for some time has existed between
tho two companies. Abont 8 o’clock in the eve
ning a number of men from the United Com
pany proceeded to the engine house of the
Hopo Company on Cove street, and dragged the
engine and hose carriage into ihe street and
then went away. Half an hour later a crowd of
men belonging to the Hopo collected and pro
ceeded to Main street, meeting the United men
near the Atlantic saloon, when the fighting be
tween the two companies immediately com
menced. During the fight about twenty shots
•were fired from revolvers.by which two men were
seriously and fonr slightly wounded. The po
lice gathered in force and succeeded in arresting
the leaders of tho riot and restoring order. The
Lowell firemen, who were visiting the city,
were at their hotel during tho riot, and are in
no way implicated fa the affair. It is stated that
step3 will be immediately taken to abolish the
volunteer system and substitute 8 paid fire de
partment.
Boston, September 17.—Harvey Jewell, who
has been prominently endorsed by leading
Radicals as a candidate for Governor of Massa
chusetts, writes a letter withdrawing his name
and deploring the division fa the party. Al
luding to the attacks which havo been made upon
the executive and legislative administration of
the State, he says he is satisfied they tend not
only inevitably to disorganization and disruption
here, bnt to still farther reaching disorganiza
tion in other States.
Minneapolis, September 17. — Goldsmith
Maid’s timo 2:18}, 2:17}, 2:21.
In the recent heat Lnoy came in only a ncok
behind the Maid, thos making better timo than
ever before. The track is new and sandy, and
gave way beneath the hoofs of the horses.
They were fa splendid condition, and trotted
the second heat with apparent ease. Doble
thinks ho will easily go below his Milwaukee
time at the first favorable opportunity.
New Obleans, Septembei 17.—Jno. 1711118108,
Alfred Decarronx and Noel, alias Madison Hamp
ton, all colored, were hung to-day in St. James
Parish for the murder of Franck Henteath on
May 10th. They were executed on the spot
where the murder was committed. The sheriff,
executioner, jailor and guards were all colored.
Milwaukee, September 17.—Fonr sailors from
the bark L. 1). Pomeroy, were drowned while
going ashore in a yawl
New Yobk, September 17.—Prof. Mahon, who
committed suicide, was made uneasy by reports
that he was to bo placed on the retired list, and
felt that his life long reputation was assailed.
For the past few days he has shown signs of
mental aberration.
New Yobk, September 17.—Arrived, Ocean,
Liverpool; Chas. IV. Lord, New Orleans; and
brig B. Young, from Charleston, which in a
heavy gale carried away foretop gallant mast,
split sails and lost part of her deck load; also
steamers General Barnes, Savannah; George
Cromwell and Gen. Meade, New Orleans.
Savannah, September 17.—Arrived, schooner
Somerset, Nassau. Cleared 16th, schooner
Wave, Nassau, steamer Huntsville, New York;
Magnolia, Now York; Wyoming, Philadelphia.
Chableston, September 17.—Arrived, steam
er Champion from New York. Two fever deaths
for twenty-fonr hoars ending Saturday noon,
and one for fwenty-fonr bonis ending at noon 1
to-day. The general testimony of the physi
cians is that the disease ia dying out. The num
ber of persons siok at this time is very small,
and they are generally doing well.
Versailles, September 16—Midnight.—The
Assembly has just accepted by a vote of 533
against 31 the enstoms treaty concluded by
Count de Kemusat and M. Ponyer Quartier
representing France, and Herr Yon Amim and
Connt Herzog on the part of Germany. Alsaoe
and Lorraine are included fa the treaty, the con
sequences of which are the immediate evacua
tion of Aisne, Aube, Cote D’Or and Jura, and
the reduction of the German army of occupa
tion of other departments to 50,000 men.
Pabis, September 17.—The National Guard
at St. Etienne havo quietly delivered their
arms. Many petitions for the dissolution of the
Assembly are circulating in Lyons.
Tho races at the Bois de Boulogne commenced
again to-day, and were well attended.
Victor Hugo i3 sick of pleurisy, and his con
dition is such as to occasion alarm.
The Mont Cenis Tunnel wa3 inaugurated to
day by tho Frenoh and Italian Ministers and the
local authorities of both countries. After meet
ing and congratulating each other, the party
embarked fa a gaily decorated car at Barrone
and passed through the tunnel to Modena, mak
ing transit in 22 minutes.
Lexington, September 17.—The races Satur
day were postponed on account of the mud.
Burlington, Vt., September 18.—The South
side of Lake street from Farrer’s Block to the
St. Albans House is burned. Loss $30,000 —
largely insured.
St. Pauls, Minnessota, September 18.—Hale
& Poor’s wholesale grocery and some adjoining
buildings are burned. Loss §100,000.
San Fbancisco, Septembef 18.—Ship Ann
Eliza is totally wrecked. A.powder explosion
at Bioche, Nevada, caused a conflagration, des
troying the business portion of tho town. Loss
$230,000.
Elahba, N. Y., September 18.—The Repub
lican Convention of this county has declared
for Grant.
New Yobk, September IS.—Comptroller Con.
nolly having appointed a deputy to exercise the
Comptroller’s functions, Mayor Hall, construing
this action as a virtual resignation, appoints
General McClellan comptroller. McClellan has
not yet accepted the post, bnt waits .Connolly’s
action under the Mayor’s dismissaL
Washington, September 18.—Delano has re-
tured.
The Ku-klnx Committee is digesting the evi
dence for their report to tho foil committee,
which meets on the 20th.
Cincinnati, September 18.—The receivers of
tho Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette rail
road, sue Henry O. Lord for $250,000 bonds
and money which they charge that Lord con
verted to his own personal use while President
of the road.
London, September 18.—The demonstration
at Folgan Square, fa favor of tho strikers has
been abandoned. Foreign workmen arrive
daily at Newcastle and Gateshead. A mass
meoting of workmen at Newcastle resolved to
continue the strike.
Pabis, September IS.—The disarmament of
tho National Guard progresses without dis
turbance. The mortality at Paris is 100 less
than the previous week.
New Yobk, September 18.—Comptroller Con
nolly writes Mayor Hall in response to his letter
of dismissal, that he has not, either in fact or
equivalent, resigned the Comptroller’s office.
Tho excitement is intense. Vast crowds are
around the city and county offices. The Com
mercial says: McClellan has accepted the
Comptrollership, who will proceed to the Comp
troller’s office and demand possession, which, if
refused, McClellan will apply to tho Courts for
an order giving him possession, which will un
doubtedly be granted; when McClellan, sup
ported by ajposse, will take possession.
Mayor Hall notifies Connolly that he recog
nizes neither Connolly nor hia deputy, Green,
as Comptroller. In the meantime Connolly and
Green have assurances of potent support.
Lateb.—GreeD, tho deputy Comptroller, ap
pointed by Connolly, has delivered all docu
ments to a committee, necessary to an investi
gation.
Ten thousand dollars reward is offered for
the persons who stole the vouchers. It is
authoritatively stated that McClellan declines
tho comptrollership.
The coroner’s verdict holds the proprietors
of the torpedo establishment responsible for
persons murdered by the recent explosion. One
proprietor has died from the explosion, tho
other is fa the Toombs fa default of $10,000
bail.
Washington, September 18.—Alfred E. Buck,
ex-member of Congress from Alabama has been
appointed deputy collector of customs at Mobile.
Chableston, September 18.—Only fonr deaths
in the last twenty-four hours.
A. J. Ransier, the colored Lieutenant Gover
nor of South Carolina, and chairman of the
Republican State Executive Committee, pub
lishes a letter in the News strongly opposing
tho proposed declaration of martial law. He
thinks the civil power amply sufficient to re
press the existing disorders, and that martial
law as a remedy would be worse than the dis
ease.
Chicago, September 18.—Two children locked
fa the kitchen while their mother was at church,
were smothered to death by smoke.
Lowell, Mass., September 18.—There were
twenty-one new cases of small-pox yesterday.
Schools have been closed to children from the
vicinity of the pest.
San Fbancisco, September 18.—The loss at
Pioche, Nevada, exceeds $250,000; 300 kegs of
powder exploded. Fonr persons were failed
and a number wounded.
In the outbreak of the Nevada State prison
five guards and Lieut. Governor Denver were
wounded; Mat Pidley, proprietor of the Warm
Springs, was failed. Twenty-nine prisoners
* scaped.
The death of Cochise is rumored. Tho Apa
ches have driven the miners from Turkey
Creek. Gen. Crook is confident he can con
quer the Apaches if the Peace Commissioners
will let him alone.
Pabis, September 18.—It is rumored that M.
Leon has resigned his seat in the Assembly.
Nine were killed and a large number wound
ed fa a railroad accident at Champigny.
Chableston, September 18.—Arrived ship
Lady Dufferien, Liverpool.
London, September 18—A telegram from
Shanghai says the French have been ordered to
support tho American operations against Corea.
New Yobk, September 18 —Comptroller
Connolly and deputies have doubled guards and
have barricaded the doors to the office.
Charles O’Conner, at tho request of L. J.
Tilden, gave a written opinion that Connolly,
by the appointment of a'deputy to perform all
bis fnnetions and exercise all his powers, really
abandons his office, but that thi3 appointment
is in strict accordance with law. Nothing bnt
judicial action can set aside Connolly’s rights.
Tho law confers no right of removal upon Hall,
either expressly or by implication.
Mayob’s Office, New Yobk,
September 18,1871.
Sir—I am directed by the Mayor to inform
yon that ho does not recognise either Richard
B. Connolly, a3 Comptroller, or Anderson H.
Green as deputy, or acting Comptroller.
Very respectfully,
[Signed] Chas. O. Joline, Chief Clerk.
London, September 18.—The Russian press,
generally, is now vigorous in its attacks upon
Prussia and Germany
Advices from Zanzibar announced the receipt
positive, of intelligence of tho safety of Dr.
Livingston. The authority for the statement
is unquestionable, and its truth is certain. A
party of Americans are hurrying into tho in
terior with tho object of rescuing the Doctor
from his portions position.
Pabis, September 18.—A failure of the new
enstoms treaty with German is imminent The
French object to the Germany plenipotentiaries,
and Germany will object to the alteration made
by the Assembly. A legislative committee of
twenty-five will hold weekly sessions. The
President or Vioo-PreBident of tho committee
will represent the assembly.
Roue, September 18.—It is said the Repub
licans are preparing for a manifestation on the
20th inst—the first anniversary of the occupa-
of tins city by the Italian troops; but no disor
der is apprehended.
It is semi-officially stated that a deficiency
fa tho revenue of the Kingdom for the pres
ent fiscal year will probably be covered with
out tho imposition of any new taxes.
The attacks on the American barks Harvest
Home and Brothers at Mfaatitlan appear not to
have been made by the Mexican authorities, bnt
by volunteer gangs. There wa3 a sanguinary
straggle on the Brothers, and, though tho as
sailants were killed or driven off, the crew
abandoned the vessel in anticipation of anotbor
attack. Onr State Department is awaiting far
ther facts.
Letters to South Georgia Farmers—
No. 7.
BY HEBBEBT FIELD EE.
One of the chief obstructions to onr agricul
tural progress has been a migratory spirit among
the people, that has to a great extent operated
to prevent permanent and substantial improve
ments—that spirit and policy which when in
terpreted means: this is a good place for a few
years, bnt there is a better place somewhere else
—this occupation ^ imposed on mo now from
necessity. I will endnre it until circumstances
render it practicable for me to embark in some
other better snited to my inclination and taste.
The consequences are that temporary dwellings
are erected that do not please the taste or pro
mote the comfort of the rising generation who
are attracted elsewhere. No suitable ornaments
and amusements are provided to make
home attractive, and families spend time
and money seeking gratification abroad.—
No suitable provision is made for the protection
of stock, and the exposure results naturally fa
annnal losses fa value sufficient, if prevented, to
defray all tho necessary expense of providing
for their protection and comfot. Fencing is
often inferior and insecure, as well ss insuffi
cient in quantity for economical division and
management of crops and pastnrage. Lands
are often tilled without reference to preserva
tion, and are soon exhausted so as to make re
moval a necessity. By this policy tho great
State of Georgia has not only failed to reach that
scale of magnificence for which nature fitted
her, bnt has been injured millions of dollars in
real value. Thousands of aoreR of her once
most valuable lands have nearly ail the soil dis
placed, are cut up into deep gullies; and lie fa
irreclaimable waste. But maltreated as she has
been she is still, as to her capabilities and re
sources, an empire within her own borders.
When yon look abroad upon the civilized States
of Europe and of tho North and Northwest and
behold in many places their destitution in tim
ber, yon will see at once tho prospective wealth
which nature has planted in the expansive for
ests of the low lands of this State. Tlmy are
worth more than the gold mines of California
or onr own cotton bales for a long series of
years. For while it requires expensive machin
ery to take out and reduce the ore—while it
requires nearly a year to make a bale of cotton,
an axe and saw prepare a pine tree for market
fa a day. Civilization everywhere demands this
timber—the iron horses are being harnessed to
carry it away, and it will find its way to the
markets of the world.
When you look around upon the increasing
wants of mankind for clothing fabrics, and then
cast yonr eye over the vast expanse of onr State
so well fitted by nature for wool growing, then
look over onr exhaustless cotton belt; then take in
an estimate of the capabilities for the vine crops,
the vine and the cereals; then estimate the
metal capped bills and mountains on onr north
ern border. When yoar explorations satisfy yon
that nature has placed along with the raw mate
rial all over the land every article necessary for
a grahd system of manufactures. When you
wander along onr inland streams and see that
in their passage from the high to the lowlands,
as they leap from rock to rock and from the
higher to lower strata, all their vast volume of
waters are subordinated to the use of man.
When you quaff the limpid draughts from a
myriad of gashing fountains, and find that they
are unsurpassed on earth. When you snuff the
breezes that blow from sea to inland and from
inland to sea, and find them the most invigora
ting and healthful. When the vine cropB almost
envelop the South, and fraits of all kinds are
spread ont before you in rich profusion. When
Georgians behold all these as their blessings
may they not have some emotions of pride for
the fntnre grandeur and glory of this noble old
State ? May we not justly rebuke those restless
spirits who wonld abandon her to follow the vis
ionary prospects of superior fortune in the far
West—those who havo fretted away their pa
tience over field labor, and wonld go where they
can find no labor they can command or rely upon
except that of their own hands among stran
gers?
Every section of conniry is seeking popula
tion and capital. The result is often the mag
nifying real worth and the suppression of trnth
a3 to objections. Strangers visiting a country
for settlement, can scarcely hear the whole
truth. We see the evils that surround as and
underestimate the good. We hear of the good
of other sections without mention of the evil.
The imagination paints a pictnre of a paradise
on earth, which adventurers have soughtin vain
to find. It is not in the north, or the west, or
southwest It is not fa Georgia, with all her
advantages. Bnt no part of the globe offers
greater inducement for settlement and per
manent residence, or promises more of health,
comfort, peace, prosperity and happiness to
population than this State does at this time.
Each section has its advantages and hin
drances. For instance, yon have a different
climate and soil from the higher latitudes,
adapted to different crops and modes of culture.
You have your long summers, short, mild win
ters, soft water and light level lands, giving
yon great advantages in physical comfort, in the
general average of health, fa the growth of cot
ton, rice,-sugar and the vine crops. Bnt when
yon undertake to transfer the clover and bine
grass of Kentucky and Virginia to the light
lands, under your summer sun, you meet with
difficulties as formidable as they do in their at
tempts to grow cotton, rice or sugar cano upon
the slopes of the Rlne Ridge.
These preventives of nature are apparent the
world over, and while art may, to an extent,
overcome their natural obstructions, it is not fa
the power of man to change them. And fa
abandoning one section on account of apparent
evils, he meets with others of equal magnitude
and against which he is Ies3 prepared to com,
bat. And he finds at last, that each section has
its climate, water, geological formations, sea
sons, soil, and productions, that are sufficient
for his happiness, if he will adopt and improve
them. Onr true philosophy at this juncture, as
a people, whatever may be onr dispositions po
litically, is to accept the earth as God has made
it, and the places upon it which a wise Provi
dence has assigned ns to. And becoming sta
tionary in residence set ont on the high road to
progress and power by availing ourselves of the
extraordinary advantages which our section en
joys over every other part of the continent. Let
ns pull down every air-castle we have erected,
and go to building datable residences for man;
good houses for stock; strong fences and barns.
Let ns plant the vine and cnltivate the flowers,
and fatten men and beasts on onr own cereals,
and animals of onr own raising. Let us and
our generation no longer sojourn fa tents fa the
wilderness or sigh for the flesh pots of other sec
tions, but mako this Southern land a Canaan
indeed.
Taking the Bull by the Hobns—A Struggle
fob Life.—The Ballston Journal relates the fol
lowing terrible straggle of a boy named Rich
ard Brown, son of 0.17. Brown, of West Mil-
ton, Saratoga county, N. Y., with a bull,
one day last week. He went into a field back
of the house where there were a number of
cows and a young boll, when the bnll started
for him furiously, goring him in the right leg,
tearing ihe flesh ont, and throwing him in
the air. On regaining his feet the lad suc
ceeded fa catching the animal by the hours, and
straggled heroically for his life. Now under
the bull’s feet—now dragged in the diit—now-
up again—clutching at the beast’s eyes,
and almost in despair of help—when nearly ex
hausted unexpected succor camo. The cows,
attracted by the bellowing of the bull, rushed
around, and the boy succeeded in getting one
of them between him and the mad animal, so
keeping the position until able to leap over the
fence, after doing which he fell exhausted to
the ground. The straggle was terrible, indeed.
The ground was dug np for rods. Every bit of
clothing was torn off the lad. His right leg and
shoulder were badly gored, and his body a mass
of braises. Finally, reaching the house, he
was not recognized by his father. It is thought
the lad will recover from his wounds.
The Texas Kuklux.—Here is a chance for
the Washington Kuklux Committee of which
they will not avail themselves:
The Tyler (Texas) Reporter says: “A gen
tleman at Garden Valley told ns the other day
that a colored man had informed him that the
negroes in that settlement had been notified
that if any of them [the negroes) voted the
Democratio ticket in any fntnre election they
(the offioers of the league) would keep a list of
their names, and that they wonld be hunted np
and killed or suffer some other terrible fate.
‘Therefore’ said the negro, ‘such of the colored
people as would, dare not vote the Democratio
ticket.’ Is this intimidation ? Where's the
Kuklux bill?”
The Bankers and Brokers Telegraph Compa
ny closed their offices at Philadelphia last Satur
day. The business ha3 been transferred to the
Western Union Telegraph Company, who will
probably buy ont the fonner company’s interest.
This is not very encouraging to the new enter
prise just getting its head above water in the
South.
JIBS. FAIB IS JAIL. ^
Her Personal appearance—Rcsein,
Treatment of a. Portion of the
Chances' of h New Trial. ®
San Francisco correspondence Chicago Tim^
Much has been written about this i
but very little I fancy that is not the .
either of an effort to secure a highly 6,
sensation or of one to pander to existing
dices. In view of this I fancied that a CM‘1
community would like to see her through Vo
of Chicago eyes. I may say before proceed
to the interview that not alone in this cit?n
in other places there is setting fa a retl-'
with reference to her case. It i3 not ttv '
one defends her act, bnt that there is arisl- '•
feeling that there was some blame on tter,^
side, and that it is unmanly for an entire r^l
munity to pile tho condemnation epeg
weak woman. Upon being admitted to he> 1
I said: ■ 1
“ I wish to bo honest with yon. \7e ate i
newspaper men. But I shall probably \rri*
letter to Chicago about this city, and about *
and it may get into a Chicago newspaper.
I wish to say that I have no prejudices to'seS
no malice to gratify, and hence, if I j
write a letter, it will, so far as I am able dor-
no injustice.” ’ ■'
Before I give her reply let me outline her
HEB AFPEALANCE
as I saw it daring the delivery of the fores™*
remarks. I saw a woman leaning easilv b,1
in her chair, whom I should judge to be a t*?
above the medium height She wore a wrang
of some inexpensive material, bnt cheerfS!
color, which, althouch belted at the waist m-,
what mystified her form, so that I could not*
much save that she is apparently slender ata
waist, with a bust of a breadth and depth tb
are well proportioned, and relieve her tank
nre from anything like spindleness or angel*
ty. Her dress, like the wrapper, was of sc-,
comfortable, bnt unostentatious material.
was confined well up to her throat by a aW
broach of no particular pattern that Inow£
call. Her neck rises squarely from her
ders, is neither delicate or hurley, ands-r.^ u
a head of the average size fa women. Ttefa
and head are those of a moderate blonde, xt
complexion is fair, without being of a daz£g
white, the eyes are a blue-gray, the hairpde^
ous and of a hue that in the sunl'ght wontu,
golden, bnt which fa a subdued light, isflajj
with a tone of brown. Her head is well poisJ
with a round, intelligent forehead, rerv
and well-defined eyebrows, smooth ch«s
which recede from the forehead as if i a £
mony with the design of an oval face, fc
which is faterraped by the chin which
somewhat and thereby conflicts with the
indications of the face above. The mouths
composed of lips of reasonable fnlness, that a
womanly without being voluptuous, that oj-;
squarely rather than with thoso curves chart'
teristic of paintings of women, and which, He
open, reveal rows of white and not petted-
regular teeth, and which also, when drawn hi
in a smile or fa conversation, corrugate &
wrinkles and dimples that portion of the!»
lying to the right and just below the mouth. &
much for details. Her general appeararee,:
one should notice her on the street, would fc
that of a married lady abont 27 years of aga
and who wonld seem a woman of intelligent
of fair attractions, aud of moderst.:- -olf-poas
sion. In fine, at a cursory glance, she wei
be placed a3 the wife of a merchant, and a
woman who had polished herself by much etc
tact with the world. In the coarse of onre®
versation there came into view qualities int
features which will be noted at the time of thi
occurrence.
And now to resume
OUS CONVEBSATION.
She hesitated a moment as I concluded v
announcement of a possible intention to write:
letter which by some resnlt might posBiblyjs
into into Eome newspaper, glanced at me i "
severely searching glance, and then said:
“I don’t object to a truthful letter at all; its I
tho other kind that I fear.”
“I assure yon, madam, if I write one at ill,
will be the facts precisely as I see them. I is
in search of trnth, and not in search cf a sex
sation like the Bohemians of the press who hut
you np, and who write, not what they see or heai
bnt such things as will most attract the atten
tion of their readers.”
“Well, I only ask you to do me justice. Dt
you know a Dr. Bluart, or some such name, i:
Chicago ?’
“I do not. What of .him ?’’
“He came to me under some pretense, c:
then published a most abominable account of
onr interview.”
“I never saw it.”
“Well, it was outrageous. If I am ever fret
I have an account to settle with him. I eK
visit Chicago, and he will have to prove win «
he said or he shall suffer, if there is any fagi
which will reach him.”
‘I don’t think you need worry much aboS
him. I never heard of him, and I don’t belien
he is of any consequence, anyway.”
“It is strange,” she said, “that I should besc
persecuted by the newspapers. There is not
one in San Francisco that will permit me to con
tradict the falsehoods that are going about. It
is asserted that I have a flood of visitors, whiio
the truth is that I see nobody except my child
and mother, unless they forcolthemselve3 upon
me—that is, I refer to strangers.”
“What do you think are yonr chances in tb
fntnre?”
“I can’t tell, of course. Bull think the So-
preme Court cannot bnt give me a new tri&L"
“ Is the Supreme bench composed of impu-
tial men?”
“ So far as I know, it is.”
“You do not think you had a fair trial?"
“It was a perfect farce. Judge Dwineb
wonld not give U3 timo to get onr witnesses
when trying for a new trial. We conld hsu
proved by several witnesses that one of tb
jurymen had said I should hang if they p-
him on the jury. Bnt the judge absolutely re
fused to allow time to send for these witness
es.”
“Do you think him prejudiced ?’’
“ Undoubtedly. You remember that he fice.
a woman who applauded me. Well, men hri
frequently applauded when things went again"-
mo, and he took no notice of it. But as soc:
as this woman applauded me, he ordered ts
fined.”
“ Why do yon think he was so prejudiced?
“I think it was from outside pressure. Mr.
Crittenden was connected with many of the
wealthiest and most influential families of tb
State. Jndge D wfaelle has- political aspiration
and you see how all this family influence wo~-
operate. I know that he seemed qaite impartis-
till one day he was at dinner fa tho club-roos.
after which his whole nature seemed re
versed.”
Here Mrs. Fair proceeded to relate some ps^
ticulars in the domestio life of the judge, whic-
were not particularly complimentary to Isl
and which, from her point of view, west b
show that the judicial bench is not beyond t.*
reach of a feminine influence whose origia-|
not of a character greatly above that emanate?
from the level of conrtesanship.
It was now that I began to discover that tn
face had other characteristics which were laten
when her conntenance was fa repose. Now aw
then, when she became warm with the reel tv
the calmness of her blue-gray eye became lig--’
ed with a steely glow that possessed a stroe?
magnetic power. In rest, her fe.ee was scarce:?
above common-place; in action, faint blasts
lightened across her cheek, her eye deepecw
and glowed with a strange fascination, and «•
smile seemed an emanation, a centre of niagnt‘;
io forces. I saw now the fascination of t- :
face.
FUITH I.B DEVELOPMENTS.
“Do yon have any hopes that yonr fate nuj
turn on the election of Governor?” I asked.
“I do not, particularly,” she said, “althou?-
I understand that Mr. Booth is a man t~>
wonld treat my case fairly.”
“Let me ask yon a somewhat singular qne*
tion, will you?”
“Certainly.”
“Suppose that the Supreme Court refuses 1
allow you a new trial, would you accept a cos-
mutation of yonr sentence?”
“How do yon mean?”
“Well, it is hard to say to a woman in jof
position just what I mean. It is to this effee--
suppose a petition was gotten np to comm®"
yonr present sentence to imprisonment, wov“
you accept it?”
“Never!” she answered, with a flush creeps
across her cheek.
“What! You prefer the capital sentence?
“Most certainly!”
“Why, may I ask? Is not life sweet to s° n ‘
“Yes, it is; but Ihave a daughter who is
growing up, and, should I remain iu prison.
would have to stay here and visit me. ba»
young, she would grow np without protection
and then would always rest on her lie Bt*®-
my prison life. But if I die, she would go a^.
somewhere else, and the stain would bo forgo 1
ten.” _
At Selma, Ala., whipping a husband
only $25, but whipping a wife costs $50.
is an outrageous discrimination, and tb® ® ^
down there are naturally calling for t-e*
•‘rights.”
