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CLISBY, JONES & REESE, Pbofbietobs.
The Family Journal.—Njiws—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Aeeaibs.
GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING
Established 1826.
MACON, TUESDAY JULY 16, 1878.
Volume LIH—No 28
BY TELEGRAPH
Washington, D. G, July 7.—Tho eu-
perintendont of the Life-saving Servios
will begin aa early as practicable, to erect
new stations on tbo coast of North Caro
lina. It ia likely that a life-saving car
riage, designed to make rapid transits
from stations to points of disaster, (a late
invention of Ltentenant Walton, assistant
inspector for tho sixth district) will be em
ployed on the North Carolina coast with a
view to test its efficiency for all stations.
Onr oensal at Morocco has been in-
strnoted to co-operate with the representa
tives of other governments in naing his
good offices in behalf of the oppressed
Israelites in that Empire.
Chairman Potter has'written to Secre
tary Sherman, in reply to a recent letter
from tho latter asking that witnesses be
summoned from Louisiana, (a list of
which Mr. Sherman sent to the commit
tee) to testify to fraud and intimidation
in that State. Potter says ho understands
they have testified before former com
mittees of the House and Senate and
have been also contradicted. The com
mittee ore therefore unable now to de
cide whether it will be proper to lake
that evidence. This can be determined
after the inquiry now in progress in
Louisiana has 'further proceeded.
Galveston, July 16.—A News special
from Mason says a Western bound stage
was last night stopped by the same gang
that robbed tho Eastern bound maiL
This is the fourth time the mail has been
robbed at tho same spot within two
years.
Vienna, July 7.—The occupation of
Bosnia and Herzegovina has been finally
postponed until August, in order to give
time for tbo restoration of the railways
and for the organization of the future ad
ministration of the province?.
Berlin, July 7.—It has been decided
to grant autonomy to Western Eoumania,
Epirus, Thessaly and Crete to be se
cured by European control.
Bxbi.in, July 7.—Austria receives one
side of the Bay of Antivarl, and Montene
gro receives Niesics. The powers will
insist on the rectification of the Greek
frontier by Turkey.
Constantinople, July 7.—The British
Channel squadron has appeared oil Cy
prus. This revived a rumor concerning
tho purchase of the island by England.
Bussia and Turkey have arrived at an
understanding regarding the return of
the Turkish prisoners of war, and several
steamers have been despatched to bring
them to Constantinople.
Bxblin, Jaly 7, midnight—Considera
ble progross was made in the commission
yesterday on the Batonm question. A
complete settlement is not yet accom
plished, but it is expected it will be in
to-morrow’s sitting of tho commission
preceding the meeting of the Congress.
London, July 7.—It is declared in Bns-
eian circles that tho prospeot of Schonva-
lofl’a succeeding Gortsohakoff depends
npon the Count’s ability to inaugurate a
polioy aiming at an Eoglish alliance.
Bebun Jaly 7-—The National Gazette
says it bas been informed that the Aus
trian police have discovered ciroum-
stanoea leading to the belief that Dr.
Nobeling's attempt on the Emperor’s life
was connected with the intrigues of Bos-
eian socialists.
Havana, July 7.—City of Mexico ad
vices up to the 30th nit., represent that
country ripe for revolution. Gen. Ne
grete has resigned, and is regarded as
the ooming revolutionary chief. Other
generals are disseminating revolutionary
ideas among the lower officers of the
army. Mejia has returned to Mexico,
and Diaz has united with him in an ef
fort to provent disturbance. Jose Marie
Mata has been appointed Minister of For
eign Belations, and it iB rumored that Se
bastian Campo will sneoeed B;va Falaoo
as Minister of Pablio Works.
Montbeal, July 7.—The English
Privy Council has confirmed the judg
ment of tho Court of Appeals here, set
ting aside tbe provincial stamp act for
imposing a stamp duty on insurance
policies as unconstitutional. The conse
quence will bo that the local government
will havo to reimburse the insurance
companies in the amount of taxes so far
paid.
Montbeal, July 7.—It baa been deci
ded to call out tho city corps, numbering
1,500, also 800 from the frontier battal
ion, with the city troops in reserve for
the preservation of order on tbe 12th.
The Orangemen have announced their
intention to parade.
New York, July 7.—The World says
ChamberlaiD, lately Governor of South
Carolina, and Carter and Eitoa, of this
city, attorneys for the bondholders, have
obtained an order from tbe circuit court
of the United States for the District of
Sonth Carolina, returnable in September
requiring the South Carolina Bailroad
Company and the Greenville and Colum
bia Bailroad Company to show cause why
they should not be placed in the hands
Of a receiver. The order was yesterday
eemdon the officers of the two roads at
Charleston.
Cincinnati, July 7.—A curious case
came up before the Belief Union of Cin
cinnati to-day, involving a claim of a
colored pago to five million dollara’ worth
of land, money, &c., in Tirginia, Ken
tucky and other State?. The story is
that Jacob Gist, a wealthy Englishman,
lived for years in Virginia, owning
slaves, but finally freed them, and, dying,
willed them his property, consisting of
lands in Virginia, Kentucky and other
States, and certain moneys. It is claimed
that the executors swindled them out of
their propeity, and their heirs, now num
bering five hundred, and living mostly in
this State, wish the claim pushed.
The matter was brought before the
Belief Union, composed of wealthy and
charitable people here, and tc-day the
Union decidod to take np and prosecute
the case.
Fbovidence, Jaly 7.—The resldenca at
Vanzsndt, at Newport, was robbed yester
day of a watch and jewelry valued at
$3,000
Cincinnati, July 7.—James Gilmer, an
employe of the United States express, is
missing with $15,000 in money and
paokages.
Evansville, Ind., Jaly 7.—Albert
Fisher, holtel keeper, beat John Soantlin,
a tinner, with a beer glass, inflioting
wounds from which the latter died.
New Orleans, Jaly 7.—William Snt-
oliffe, who recently defeated Frank Prinlz
in a twenty-four mils swim was drowned
in the Mississippi xiver to-day. Satellite
and others had been swimming bnt were
] u a boat when Sutcliffe jumped oat to
oatch the iwell of a passing tow boat—
ventured too near and was struck by a
barge and sank Immediately.
Indifwdknce, Iowa, July 7.—Clar
ence Shaw shot and instantly killed Hat
tie Sherwood, daughter of a prominent
citizen, and then killed himself. Canse,
jealousy.
ForraviLLE, Pa., July 7.—Tbe priest
of the Polish Catholic Church, upon go
ing to service to-day, found _ the doors
locked and an excited crowd in front de
fying him to open them. Upon making
the attempt he was aesanlted by the
crowd. Thirty men and women have
been arrested. The cause of the dem
onstration was a demand from a faction
•of tho Pclanders that tho priest should re.
sign, which he refused to do. But for
the arrival of the police he wonld have
been killed.
Pailadzlphia, July 7.—Rev. Father
Augustus McConomy, for fifteen years
Chancellor of the Diocese of Philadel
phia, is dead.
London, Jnly 8.—A Berlin dispatoh
says the treaty will be signed on Satur
day. Negotiations between Austria and
Turkey, relative to the occupation of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, have com
menced. The Tarks desire Austria to
sign a document acknowledging the Sal
tan’s title to the provinces.
London, July 8.—A dispatoh to the
Times from Calcutta reports forty-seven
hundred houses destroyed by a conflagra
tion in Mandalay.
London, July 8.—The Daily Telegraph
of this morning has the following:
“Bebun, Jnly 7.—England and Tur
key have concluded a defensive treaty.
England occupies Cyprus immediately
and guarantees the integrity of Asiatic
Turkey.”
Tho Daily Telegraph's correspondent
also says: This defensive treaty does not
necessarily como within the scope of tho
deliberations of Congress- It is an inde
pendent contract between-the powers
concerned, and the validity of which
could not be called in question, except
at the cost of a war. The arrangement
will, however, be announced to this Con
gress on Monday.
Tho position of Cyprus will give Eng.
land absolute control over the Euphrates
valley. A line of railway having this
object in view is to be constructed. No
farther Bussian encroachment in this
direction will be possible. So far as Asia
is concerned, England and Turkey will
practically form one power.
New Yobk, July 8 —A speoial from
Paris states that an explosion occurred
yesterday in a petroleum factory at Lyons
causing the death of thirty persons.
London, July 8.—Berlin advioes state
that the question of Batonm wa3 at one
time the cause of grave apprehensions.
Its settlement was the resnlt of the ap
plication to the Czar for new instructions,
Lord Beaoonsfield having declared that
unless the commercial character of Ba
tonm was strictly guaranteed England
would doem herself entitled to send her
iron-clads through the straits whenever
aha pleksed'
Varions correspondents at Berlin agree
that tho settlement now reached implies
that tho fortifications of Batonm shall be
completely dismantled, and no men of
war stationed in the harbor.
The Post's Berlin correspondent says:
“As compensation for the loss of Batonm
Congress has decided that the Tarks
shall retain Bayazid and lhe whole valley
leading thereto, including Alasbgerd.”
Pobtland, Obeoon, July 8.—Governor
Ohadwiok, who is now at Umatilla, tele
graphs here nnder date of the 17th that
the Volunteers nnder Captain Sperry,
fifty strong, were defeated at Yellow
Springs, thirty miles sonth of Pendleton
yesterday. Sperry was killed and nearly
ell his oommand killed or wounded. We
can hear of bnt seven left.
Pobtland, Obeoon, Jnly 8.—The fol
lowing dispatch has been reoeived from
N. B. Sinnott, dated the sixth instant.
■The stages in from Canyon oity, report
that the hoetiles are strongly fortified
twenty five miles from Canyon oity, wait
ing to give Howard a battle. Howard’s
forces were expected np to engage tbe
hostilsa on the fifth. There are about
sixteen hundred Indians, of whom one
thoasand were armed. General Howard
has directed General Wheaton to hire a
steamboat, and equip it with artillery,
and patrol the Columbia river, to prevent
the hostiles crossing.
London, July 8.—The Bight Hon.
Asheton Cross, Secretary of State for
the^Home Department, made the follow
ing statement in the House of Commons
this afternoon, replying loan inquiry of
Lord Harrington: "In view of the reten
tion of Batonm by Bussia, a conditional
convention was concluded on the fourth
of June last with the Porte, England
agreeing to defend Turkey against ag
gression and the’Forte, ceding Cyprus,
which will be Immediately .occupied by
England. Sir Garnet Woisey.will be ap
pointed to administer the affairs of the
Island. :
London, Jnly 8.—A telegram from Vi
enna points ont that Batonm is not to be
made a free port after the fashion of
Hamburg or Altoona, bnt is to become a
Bussian free port, which Is a different
thing. Respecting Crete tho solution
proposed by tbe Congress iB o insidered
unacceptable at Athens, where pnblio
opinion is exasperated. On Friday a
manifestation in which fifteen thousand
people participated, took plaoe in front
of the King’s palace. The Government
is powerless to resist the onrront popu
lar.
On Friday evening, orders were issued
for the transfer of the Royal Goard to
the frontier at L&maia.
The Times’ Berlin correspondent teleg
raphs that he learns from perfectly trust
worthy sources that in St. Petersburg
and still more in Moscow great indig
nation is felt at the result of the Con
gress. Russian diplomatists in general
and plenipotentiaries at Berlin in par
ticular are spoken of with contempt.
They do nothing, people say, but make
concessions and are ready to accept any
humiliation to gain the approbation of
Europe.
Paris, July 8.—Twenty-two supple
mentary elections were held in France
yesterday for deputies, which resulted in
tho return of seventeen Republicans.
Washington, Jnly 8.—Severs! aun-
stiokes ooourred here to-day. Two were
fatal.
The Secretary of the Navy, with sev
eral heads of bnreans, left on the Talla
poosa to-day for a tour of inspection along
the ooast.
S. A. Brown, tbe present chief clerk of
the State Department, who was confirmed
as consul at Birmingham, will remain
in his present position and another eonsnl
will be appointed.
The army commission, of whioh Sena
tor Barnside is president, will bold its
first session at White Sulphur Springs
dnring the present month.
John A. MoDowell, a brother to General
McDowell, ia appointed superintendent
of the construction of the Ohioago cus
tom House.
The Treasury statement has been pre
pared, showing the actual condition of
the Treasury on the 3Cth of Jane. There
was in the Treasury at that date: Gold
coin, $161,343,914; standard dollars, $6,-
887,948; gold bullion, $6,099,439; silver
bullion, $5.891,201; fund for the redemp
tion of United States notes, $121,000,000,
which being dedneted from the total of
above items leaves the coin in excess of
the redemption fund, $59,222,502. From
this there will be required payments for
unmatured calls on five-twenty bonds,
$23,350,000; coin certificates outstand
ing on that date, $44,367,000, leas $19,-
469.320; redeemed and in the Treasury,
$24,897,680. The principal of tho debt
estimated to be due and unpaid at that
date, $4,000,000; coin interest estimated
to be due and unpaid at that date, $4,-
OCO.OOO, leaving an excess of $2,474,822.
Tho gold coin on band, stated above at
$161,343,914, does not include the re
deemed gold certificates, or any other
coin item, bat is actual gold coin. Thero
was also in the Treasury at that date
$7,136,529 in fractional ailver coin.
Nbw Yobk, Jnly 7.—Communication
by telegraph between Key West and Ha
vana has been restored by the repair of
No. 3 cable of the International Ocean
Telegraph Company. It is expected the
duplicate cable No. 2 will be repaired in
a few days,
George S. Appleton, of Appleton &
Co., publishers, is dead.
Ottawa, Jnly 8.—Two thousand men
aro ordered in camp on the Dominion
Square on the 11th instant.
Omaha, July 8.—A severe wind storm
is prevailing at Grand Island, Nebraska.
Several houses have been blown down.
Mxbidian, Miss., July 8.—A fire to
day at Enterprise, Mississippi, destroyed
twenty-four business houses. Loss $50.
000. Insurance $20,000.
Nbw Orleans, Jnly 8.—’Rio Potter
Committee examined D. J. Wedge, chair
man of the Democratic Parish Campaign
Committee. He detailed occurrences In
connection with J. E. Anderson’s depart
ure from West Feliciana, and efforts to se-
oure his rotnrn to complete the registration
nnder the law. The registration oloses
nine days before the election. Anderson
did not return until three or four days
before it, therefore there were over four
hundred Democratic votes unregistered.
Captain Degray, a prominent Republi
can, told witness before the election that
it was the purpose of the Republicans to
have no ticket in the field, so that the
parish conld be thrown oat. Anderson
signed the returns nnder oath, saying it
was unnecessary to make a protest, as
the election was peaceful and quioti
After Anderson signed the returns, wit
ness 'paid him between two and three
hundred dollars. This was the amount
of his vouoher on a bill of the parish
treasury, which was insolvent. He was
paid this amount ont of the campaign
tund for fear he would not complete his
work without such payment, and not to
induce him to do wrong.
After the corroborative testimony,
John S. Sheridan, a planter end clerk of
the district court, testified that the war
rant cashed for Anderson, afterward fell
into hi3 hands, and was paid into the par
ish troasnryat its face value for taxes.
The witness in response to a question,
submitted a copy of the indiotmeat found
by the grand jury May 20th 1872 against
Thomas H. Jecka, for embezzling ten
thousand dollars as tax collector. The
record shows that this indictment was
nolle proseguied May 22nd, of the same
year. Also, another indictment whioh
was similarly disposed of. There was
civil proceedings Mgainst Jenks for the
amount of the defioit. I find no indict
ment against L. B. Jenks to Mr. Reed.
The records of the oonrt do not show that
any warrant was issued for Jenks, and he
may not have known of this indictment.
west Point, N. Y., July 8 —The hear
ing in the oase of Fitz John Porter was
resumed this mornlDg. Tho morning
was occupied by the counsel for Porter in
reading a printed copy of the latter’s de
fence before the general comt-martial. In
the afternoon oonnsel read the printed re
port of Judge Holt to President Lincoln,
revising the proceedings of the oonrt
martial. General G. K. Warren, who
was colonel nnder Porter and with him
all the day of the seoond Bull Ron bat
tle, testified to; his movements there.
He described the distances surrounding
the battlefield, and description of woods
whioh lay between Porter’s command and
the enemy, when Porter reoeived the ora
der to advanoe his forces. Witness testi
fied that no prudent man would attempt
to marob bis foroe through them. Gen
eral Longslreet will testify to-morrow. He
waa present daring the sitting to-day.
Heintzleman and other effiaers prominent
in the history of the seoond Bali Ran are
also here.
London, July 8.—Tho offioial corres
pondence in relation to the occupation
of tho Island of Cypress has been made
pablio. Lord Salisbury, writing to Min
ister Lsyard, May 30th, explains the ne
cessity of an arrangement to oonnteraot
the influence in tbe dtreotton of disinte
gration, which the mere possesiscn by
Bnasiaof Batonm and the fortresses north
of the Araxes, wonld 6xeroise npon the
populations of Astatio Turkey. Even if
this should be not oertain, those places
would b scorne tbe base from which emissa
ries of intrlgne could issue, to be follow
ed in due conrse by invading armies.
Tho dispatoh states that private negotia
tions are shown that Russia is not inclin
ed to modify those portions of the treaty
of San Stefano whioh relate to Asia.
Lord Salisbury lays stress npon its being
an indispensable part of an agreement
that England shall reserve the right to in
sist on satisfactory arrangements for good
government of the people of Aeiatio Tur
key.
The following are the features of tbe
convention between Great Britain and
Turkey;
It is stipulated that if Batonm, Kars
and Ardahan are retained by Russia, and
if an attempt ia made, at any fntnre
time, on any portion of the SulUn’s ter
ritory not ceded by the definitive treaty
of peace, Great Britain engages to join
the Sultan in defending his territory by
force of arms. The Saltan, in return,
promises to introduce the necessary re
forms, to be agreed upon by the latter,
in order to enable Great Britain to make
the necessary provision for executing her
engagement. The Saltan consents to
assign the Island of Cyprus, to be occu
pied and administered by Great Britain,
who agrees to pay the Forte the present
excess of the island's revenue OTer its ex
penditure. Finally, Great Britain ena
gages to evaouate the island and termin
ate the convention if Russia restores
Batonm, Kara and Ardahan to Turkey.
The convention will be ratified within a
month.
Milwaukee, July 8.—Delegates fiom
American Hebrew congregations of the
principal cities of the Unite! States will
meet in annual convention to-morrow.
About 150 delegates will be present. It
is expected that the gathering will be
one of more than usual importance. A
special object of the convention will be
to harmonize and ultimate the various
interests of the different sections of the
conntiy. The council will also discuss
the feasibility of securing lands in the
West and Sonth that may he colonized by
New Orleans, Jnly 8.—Tim following
rifle team will represent Louisiana in the
contest at Mobile, Jnly 15,16 and 17th:
Bercegeay, McGuithy, Bradford, Arms,
Selph, Leanmont, Benaud, Schmutz,
Goldthwaite and Babbitt. This team
and three military company teams repre
senting the Louisiana field artillery,
Washington artillery and Continental
Gnards, leave for Mobile this week.
Montbeal, Jnly 8.—The anticipated
troubles on tbe 12tb, affect business
badly. The merchants are afraid to
send goods here until after that date.
The Mayor haa received a number of
threatening letters.
Kingston, Ont., Jnly 8.—Battery A,
one hundred strong, has been ordered to
Montreal. A masa meeting of Orange
men here to-morrow will complete their
arrangements for taking part in the pro
cession at Montreal.
Boston, Jnly 8.—The ship Akbar ia re
ported from St. Helena abandoned. She
wsb owned by William Perkins of this
city. ' The cargo was valued at one hun
dred and fifteen thoasand dollars, and
the Tassel thirty thousand dollars. There
was good insnranoe on the ship and ear-
go-
New Orleans, July 8.—Mr. Reed, Re
publican member of the committee, left
this afternoon for home. Mr. Cox, of
Ohio, is expected to arrive to-morrow, to
take Reed’s plaoe.
Northampton, Mass., Jnly 8.—Ira B.
Wright, Sonth Hadley’s defaulting tress
nrer, was fonnd guilty of embezzling
twenty-nine thousand dollars, and sen
tenced to five years in the State prison.
THE GEORGIA FttESS.
The following Georgia towns were made
money order offioee on the first of the
month: Fairbnrn, Milner, Perry,
GrantviUe, Thomson, Jefferson, and
Grawfoidville.
Justice Rhea, of Atlanta, hBS deoided
that Sunday shaving ia a lawful thing for
barbers to do in that city,
The Constitution says:
The Tax Cases.—The three tax fl-fias
against the Georgia railroad were for
about $80,000 eaob. Jndge Grioe, after
hearing argument of oonnsel npon the affi
davits of illegality filed by the railroad,
sustained the illegality, except for $291-
66, and ordered that eaoh fi-fia proceed
for that amonnt and no more.
The state was represented by Attorney
General Ely and General Toombs, The
railroad by Judge McCay, Maj. Joseph B.
Camming and Mr. Henry Hillyer. Maj.
Camming and Mr. Hillyer argued the case
for the road.
The State will carry the oase to the su
preme court.
The Fibst and Best Line.—Marietta,
July 5, 1878. Editors Constitution :
Please tell me the author of the follow
ing. “A thing of boauly is a joy for ever,”
and oblige yours truly. Pythia-.
It is tho first and best line of Keat’a
Cardymion.”
Isn’t it “the first and bast line” of
Keats’ “Endymion?”
‘Bill Abp” discourses as follows on
the situation in the Seventh District. We
quote from the Constitution:
The crops are laid by, the houey bees
are hummin in the corn tassels, morning
glories open to the rising son, the cotton
patch is white with blooms and every
thing gives signs of peace and plenty .in
this delightful land.* It’s a good time
now for a recess and a frolic, and so for
onr amusement the political campaign
has opened the ball in the Seventh Con
gressional district. Tbe isshn is made
np—the skirmishin’ has begun, the
sharpshooters have been pnt in position,
aod before long yon will hear the sound
of heavy artillery reverberatin’ all over
these classio mountains.
I see you have gotten up a side-show in
Atlanta about who organized the Demo
cratic parly in Georgia in 1867; Well,
reckon somebody did it, and now the is-
shu in our district is whether that organ-- i’ ;
ization is or is not worth preferring.
Radicals and independents are on one
side and the organized Democracy on the
other. This is the substantial question.
There is nothing else in it that I can see
—no charge of fraud or triok, no bribery,
no corruption. The gauntlet has been
faiily thrown down, the wager of battle
made. Both sides are honest and earnest,
and have pnt ont their boldest cham
pions. They are men whom the people
have delighted to honor. They are both
of the same religious family, and have
Berved their country faithfully in war
and in peace. Above all, both of them
are gentlemen, and the fight will be
made in an open field in the light of
day, while the eyes of millions, as Jim
Brown says, will be lookin on. The
isshn is a tremenjous one, and I feel
like getting npon a mountain and' ex
claiming, “soldiers forty centuries are
looking down npon yen from tha heights
of these pyramids.” I tell you, Mr. Edi
tor, its goto to be a Waterloo in this dis-
triot; somebody is goto to be beat, but
who it is I’ll be blamed If I know. I ain’t
got any money to bet on it Bhore. Yon
tee the dootor has got the inside track,
because he’s always in, and be haa done
a thousand little things that makes a man
friends and keeps em; and the dootor is a
preacher and has the gift of tongue, as
St. Pant says, which iB a good thing for a
preaoher to have.
Bnt then, on the other hand, Lester
has got a power of friends htsself, and he
never loses bdj; and he’s eloquent and
mity nigh as homely as the dootor. Be
sides that he’s a cripple soldier and when
he rises forward before the mountain
boys and stretohes forth one arm on the
heighth of his argument, and the other
flops around loose in an empty sleeve,
don’t yon know them boys will yell?
They ain’t forgot Murfreesboro, nor
Shilo nor Gettysburg, nor Frederioksburg
nor Petersburg, nor any other bnrg.
Willingham thinks ha knows, and may
be he does; bnt I’m goto’ to ax Harris.
What be don’t know ain’t worth
knowto’. Yon see its the oamp agin’
the cross this time, square ont.
The Hartwell Sun seemB to capture the
true inwardness of the very much dis
cussed question as to who saved Geor
gia, in tbe following:
The following fonr great Georgia dai
lies, the Atlanta Constitution, Augusta
Chronicle and Constitutionalist, the Macon
Telegraph and Messenger and the Sa
vannah Morning News, have in the past
been faithful guardians of the people’s
rights and aa vigilant sentinels on the
outer walk, have sounded the alarm at
every approaoh of danger. The influence
wielded by this mighty team in the way
of redeeming Georgia, in throwing off
the clanking fetters that bonnd her, and
elevating her to the prond position which
she now occupies is immeasurable.
Db, Felton and the Democratic Con
vention in the 7th District.—The
Rome Courier makes this statement:
Just before the convention adjourned,
Frank B. Gray, of Bartow, arose and
said he wiahed to make a short statement
of facts for the information of the con
vention. He said, “in company with
Dr. Stephens, another delegate to this
convention, I called on the Hon. W. H.
Felton yesterday, and asked him the fol
lowing question, viz: Will yoa permit
yonr name to be submitted to the Bing-
gold convention? His reply was, ‘I will
have nothing to do with conventions.’
I then said, but suppose, Doctor, you are
nominated by that convention, will yon
accept that nomination ? His reply was,
‘I will have nothing to do with conven
tions.’ ”
“Economy” writes *as follows to the
Savannah Recorder:
I bought 3 pair of nicely made, neat
looking shoes at two dollars and a half
per pair on the 18th of June, and to-day,
the 6 th of July, both toes and sides are
out of them.
Send your money up here, “Economy,”
and be happy.
Of the meeting at Augusta last Satur
day, the Chronicle and Constitutionalist
says:
As we anticipated, tb3 Democratic
meeting yesterday was a very small as
semblage of citizens. The Exeoutive
Committee had called it fer the purpose
—and the aole purpose—of selecting a
new committee and the occasion was not
one to induce a large attendance of the
people. As a consequence there were
only a hundred and forty or fifty per
sons present, although nearly thirty-five
hundred votes were cast for the Demo
cratic candidates at the election last De«
cember and although nearly twelve hun
dred Democratic votes were cast at the
Democratic primary election last Octo
ber. Thongh the meeting was called for
a specific purpose, to-wit, the
election of a new Executive Com*
mlttee, those who had charge of it did
not hesitate to carry ont the soheme that
seems to have been previously matured.
Eighty-nine Democrats voted down a mo*
tion to allow all the Democrats of the
eoonty to select delegates at a primary
eleotlon, and eighty-nine Democrats chose
eighteen delegates to the Thomson Con
vention. The programme appears to
have been carried ont to the letter. The
gentlemen who are to favor of nominat
ing Mr. Stephens nnder anyoironmstan-
oes had the power and did not hesitate to
use it; and it may be considered certain
that the vote of Biobmoud in the Con
vention will be oast for Mr. Stephens. It
seems to be equally certain that, not
withstanding his letter to Hon. H. R.
Casey, Mr. Stephens will not enoonnter
any appreciable opposition when the Con
vention assembles. He will be nominat
ed notwithstanding his gratuitous defiance
of the Demooraoy and his oontemptuonB
disregard of the party organization that
haa twice placed him in the position
whioh he now occupies. He will be nom
inated notwithstanding he still says, in
effect, that if the Convention nominates
him it will reflect the wishes of tha peo
ple of tho District; if it does not nomi
nate him he will treat itc aotion as the
fnlminatlon of a body of irresponsible
tricksters, and ran as an Independent.
The following are the resolutions
adopted by the meeting:
Resolved, By the Democratic party of
Richmond county, in primary meeting
assembled, that we rejoice again to re*
cognize the conspicuous ability, tbe lofty
patriotism, the unswerving integrity and
the eminent public service of the distin
guished gentlemsn who, for five years
past, has represented this district in the
Federal Councils; that in their opinion,
at no period of hi3 long and illustrious
career, haa he shown a wider grasp of
mind and greater moral and intellectual
nerve, than exhibited by him at tbe re
cent session of Congress in bis position
on the Potter resolution, and his attitude
to referenoe to the title of the present in
cumbent of tbe Presidential chair; that
the Hon. Alex. H. Stephens thereby de
serves and possesses the increased confi
dence of his constituency in his ability,
integrity and patriotism.
Resolved, That we dsepls deplore that
some good men of the party have strange
ly been led astray by a tortored construc
tion placed npon Mr. Stephens' recent
latter to Dr. Casey, by whioh it is at
tempted to represent him as having
threatened and mantled the Democratic
party, or any portion thereof, while the
language of soorn and defiance used in
that letter oan obviously apply only to
those who, through the forms and usages
of party, wool! betray its principles, and
defeat the will and siienoethe voice of the
people.
Resolved, That the nnwonted vigor of
health now enjoyed by onr distinguished
Representative baa no less surprised than
delighted us, and gives, we hope, the
earnest that in the providence of God he
may be spared yet many years to do bat
tle for his conntry, and bear in triumph
the principles of the Demooratio party.
Will Join the Cook Column.—The
editor of the Americas Republican has
“ seen a letter irom an influential citizen
of Taylor county, addressed to a citizen
of this place, in which he says that a
mass meeting of the Democratic party of
Taylor county will be held on the third
Saturday of the present month, and that
delegates favoring the renomination of
General Cook will certainly bo appointed
to tbe Congressional convention.”
The same paper learns that the editor
of the Buena Vista Arjiwhas some idea
of removing hi3 paper to Americas.
That place seema likely to become the
Mecca of Georgia journalism.
The Athens Chronicle says: We are
>lad to see Colonel H. H. Jones, of the
ffacon Tkleobaph and Messenger, in
the city, being a member of the Board
appointed by the Governor to visit the
University. Colonel Jones is himself a.
man of fine education, and therefore well
qualified to pass upon the examination
papers of the students. With his mas
terly use of the quill, he has made him
self known as one of the leading editors
of the Sonth, and both on account of his
intellect and his fine character, haa been
long considered an honor to the Press.
This descriptive and illustrative facul
ty is often, grandly exemplified in the
impassioned utterances of Alpheus Ba
ker of Alabama, who is to-day the orator
par excellence of the Sonth, if not for tbe
entire Union.
It is the purpose of the Demooraoy in
his district to plaoe him in nomination
for Congress at the ensuing fall eleetion.
Recognizing as we do his general worth,
his gallantry as a soldier for Southern
rights, his versatility of talent, and above
all his glorions gift of oratory, we extend
to him the cordial greetings of his host
of friends in Georgia. We feel that with
such a man as Alpheus Baker in Con
gress, the people not of Alabama alone,
bnt of the whole South will have Beoured
a noble defender of their rights, a oham<
pion who in the oanse of reformation and
more economical administration of gov
ernment, would prove himself in one ses
sion, the bright peer of Sergeant Prentiss
in his palmiest days. Q. L. S.
Albany, Ga., July, 1878.
Good Times Ahead.
New York Herald, j
The immediate future is full of prom
ise. On every hand men’s energies, so
long paralyzed, are reviving. Want and
distress have sensibly stimulated the en
terprise and skill of onr people. Econo
my in all branches of government, State
and Federal, is the role, and no longer
tho exception. A greater number of
men are willing to work for a living than
at any time since the war, and farmers
and skillful and industrious mechanics in
all parts of the country are earning a
living. Few men are making rapid for*
tunes, and speculation has undoubtedly
received a blow; but faithful, punctual,
honest and skillfol labor is already get
ting the reward with which it was satis
fied before 1860. It ia a curious sign of
the times that in many of our cities
house-building has recommenced, bnt
the houses are mostly small and inexpen
sive. Finally, there is little doubt that
if the people who now cry out about tbe
severe pressure of the times and demand
anew inflation could bo examined, it
would be found that they consist almost
entirely of two classes— tramps and spec
ulators who bought at the top of an in
flated market, and are suffering tha re
sults of their incantiouB ventnres. Bnt
no legislation can help these two classes.
Baker, Prentiss and Haskell.
Editors Telegraph and Messengers If we
might be permitted to select from all oth
ers a theme npon which we eenid write.
con amore, an artide for yonr excellent
paper, it is here m this token of admira
tion for the living, this pleasing yet
mournful reminiscence of the distin
guished dead. We regard it as the
“greenest spot on memory’s waste,” as
an era in life, to have seen and heard
these giants of the mind, when, in the
bright flush of intellectual manhood,
they have stood np to battle for the
right. Bat for trenching upon your val
uable space, we could illustrate our sub
ject by reference to other and kindred
genius.
Newland Maffitt, in the prodigality of
his tropes and flowers, could present a
seraphic picture of bliss in that summer
land beyond tbe diBmal river.
Henry Bascom, with a fervid, rugged
grandeur could describe the agony of the
croES, or startle the thoughtless sinner
with the terrors of the judgment to
come.
. Tom Marshall could lash a demagogue
with a scorpion whip.
Sargeant Prentiss, like the eagle (bis
favorite figure of speech), conld soar aloft
on the tireless wing of his exuberant fan
cy, and there, floating in Berene confi
dence at some dizzy height, wonld. bask
in tho effulgent sunshine.
Haskell, of Tennesne, resembled his
compeers in some respects, but in the
Sbakerperian versatility of his resources,
in wealth of metaphor and, exhanatless
figure of speech he surpassed them all.
At one time he had occasion to describe
the battle field and the horrors of war.
He so wrought npon the imagination of
his auditory, that they stood transfixed
to the spot, as though they saw the blood
stained panorama passing before their
astonished vision.
So vivid and graphic indeed was his
word-painting power, that we heatd the
furious drums beating to arms, tho rat
tle of musketry, the deadly thrust of the
bayonet, the clash of sabres, and over
all the steady, thunder-boom ot cannon,
mingled with the shouts of the victors,
the shrieks and groans of the wounded
and dying!
Specie Reanmpllon Practicable.
The Washington Evening Star ot Fri
day says:
Tho aggregate amount ot ooin availa
ble for resumption in tbe treasury yester
day at the oIobs of business was two han
dled million. The Secretary does not, it
is nndersotood, intend to make any efforts
to increase that amonnt between this and
the 1st of Jnly next; therefore no reason
is seen why resumption should not be an
nounced before that date. For the first
sixty days after resumption is announced
it is not expeoled that the government
Will bo oailed npon to resume to an
amonnt greater than ten millions.
The Star also says the Treasury Depart
ment has resumed the purohase ot silver
bullion for coinage and bought on Wed
nesday 550,000 ounces at a coat of $635,-
360. This will ooin $711,11111 standard
dollars.
Wbat They Base Tbeir Hopes
Upon.
Having not the ghost of a chance to
win anything at the South nnder their
own proper name and organization, the
Radicals are looking with much faith
and hope to tbe so-called “independent”
movement which its thrusting its ugly
head up in varions parts of onr section.
They see in that movement their only
hope and opportunity to get back what
they have lost, and are busily engaged in
giving it all the aid and comfort possible.
As proof and example of this, we find
the New York Tribune, in recently aom-
menting npon the political situation in
Georgia, expressing itself aa follows:
In Georgia the Democratic majority is
so enormous that it is full of dissensions,
and at the mercy of independent move
ments. By using discretion, and com
bining with independent candidates
against the old negro-bating elements of
the Democracy, the Sonthem Republi
cans may do valuable work for their
party in the fall election.
We hardly think tbe Sonth will 6ver
be captured by this unholy alliance.
Bnt it ahowa the vital importance of
standing by onr colors, and maintaining
onr disoipltoe and oiganization.
Eayonton, Ga., July 5,1878.
The Democratic Executive Committee
of the Sixth Congressional District, com
posed of T. W. White of Baldwin county,
T. G. Holt ot Bibb ootmiy, H. W. Byar
of Batts county, O. G. Roberts of J asper
oonnty, S. Barron of Jones county, R. A,
Stanley of Laurens county, A. B. Simms
of Newton oonnty, B. B. Roper of Rock
dale oonnty, H. C. Ward of Twiggs
county, H, D. McDaniel of Walton
county, and F. Chambers of Wilkinson
oonnty, are invited to meet in Milledge-
ville, Ga, on Thursday, the 18th tost.,
for the purpose of appointing the time
and plaoe of holding a Congressional
Convention fox the District, and for other
bnBineBs. Demooratio papers in the
District please copy.
Thomas G. Lawson, Chairman.
Great Britain arid Turkey.
It seems that Great Britain has stolen
a long marob on Russia, and secretly ne
gotiated a treaty of alliance with Turkey
by which she engages to maintain the
integrity and independence of Tarkey in
Asia, and secures the ieland of Cyprus
in tbe Mediterranean, jnat south of Tar
key in Asia, as a grand naval and mili
tary depot.
Cyprns is herself no inconsiderable
country. It is abont 150 miles long and
40 to 50 to width—has a considerable pop
elation, endmuoh mineral, agricultural
and arborio wealth. Here Great Britain
will plant the advanced out-posts of her
East Indian possessions.
She has also planned to ran a railway
from Constantinople and the Eastern
shore of the Mediterranean, just opposite
Cyprus, down the Euphrates valley to
the Persian gulf, whioh, while it will en
able her to flank and cut off any Russian
advance BQnthw&rd, will famish a straight
shnte to Bombay across the Arabian ses,
and, for purposes of dispatoh, be better
than tbe Suez ronte to India. My Lord
Beaoonsfield has been very smart. This
treaty haa no doubt b6en negotiated with
the Porte at Constantinople through the
offices otHr. Layard, the British min
ister at that oonrt. The movement
looks like a masterpiece of ambitious and
seif-aggrandizing diplomacy.
Marika Washington College.
The Telegraph wonld advise no reader
to send son or daughter out of ueorgia
for an ednoation, without special reasons.
We have plenty of good schools and col
leges at home, and they should be sus
tained by onr people. Bnt pnpils some
times need a change of climate, audit
more bracing and invigorating atmos
phere than oar’s to enable them success
fully to surmount the ragged steeps of
the hill of science without too great a
strain on the physical system.
In each a oase the Martha Washington
College, whioh we advertise elsewhere,
furnishes an excellent resort. Looated
among the mountains of Sonth Western
Virginia, its altitude gives it a Northern
temperature and perfect freedom from
miasmatio diseases. The region ronnd
abont is one of tbe most prodnotive in
America, and abounds in cheap and
wholesome food, and the oost et board
and tuition is, therefore, correspondingly
low.
The faculty is a very able one. The
President, Wabbzn Du Pbe, LL. D.,
originally of South Carolina, and at the
head of a male college of high reputa
tion in that State, is a gentleman of the
highest character and pre-eminently
fitted for the position he occupies. The
institution is not so crowded as to lose
all domestic and family character, and
its administration is gentle and paternal.
Foreign
United
Trade ot the
States.
According to the Treasury returns,
says the New York Bulletin of the 2d in
stant the foreign trade of the United
States for May was characterized by the
same movement as we have noted for
some few months past, viz., a decrease in
imports and an increase in exports. The
exports of merchandise in May amounted
to $54,701,000, against $44,877,000 for
the same month of last year—an increase
of $9,824, or about 21 per cent. The
Imports of goods are valued at $35,098,-
000, compared, with $45,513,000 in 1877
—a decrease of $10,415,000, or 23 per
oent.
The movement for the first eleven
months of the fiscal year is the most
extraordinary on reoord, so far as respects
the proportion between the imports and
exports. The exports, not including the
precious metals, amount to $647,948,000,
while the imports are valued at $401,-
420,000, showing an ezoeea of exports
over importe amounting to $245,528,000.
For the corresponding eleven months of
the preceding fiscal year, tha excess of
export amounted to $155,877,000. The
effect of this enormous surplus of exports
has been*not only enable us to take back
from Europe a very considerable amount
of onr securities, but also to prevent our
usual export of the precious metals.
Ordinarily, we have been accustomed to
make a net annual export of specie of
about $85,000,000; whereas, as will be
seen from comparisons below, the net
shipments for tbe eleven months under
review amounted to lees than two mil
lion!; a fact which indicates the extent
of the home accumulation of gold and
silTor daring the past fiscal year.
Heat must certainly be recognized as
an ingredient in sammer railroad acci
dents. Two have been reported in New
England within two days whioh are
ascribed to the expansion of the rails by
the intense heat.
Tke Voyage of Death.
The Charleston News and Courier
prints the first letter of its correspondent*
who sidled to Africa with the emigrants
on the bark Azor. It is a reoord of
■offering and misfortune. Twenty-three
died on the voyage from measles, ship
fever and other causes. The provisions
were scant, the darkies improvident, and
consumed on the voyage the storeB
shipped for consumption in Africa. The
Association had shipped as surgeon and
physician, one Curtis, a negro, who knew
absolutely nothing about aicknees or med
icine. The motley crowd of passengers,
though otherwise docile, could not be
made to observe proper regimen or keep
themselves dean. They were landed at
last, at Monrovia, innocent of all provis
ion for the future, and with prospects aa
black aa Africa herself.
The Flying Machine Fizzle.—About
fifty thousand people assembled on Bos
ten Common Thursday morning to wit
ness the first exhibition of the flying
machine in the open air. The plan was
to sail around the tops of the house and
over the principal streets and demon
strate to a wondering multitude the poa
aibilitiee of air navigation. When every
thing was ready the machine was let go,
but instead of flying up gradually and
gracefully, as was intended, it shot up
like an arrow to a distance of about two
thousand feet. Every one came to the
conclusion at once that it was unmana
geable, and the poor aeronaut was the
object of much sympathy aahe floated
upwards. He. soon let off some of the
gas, but did not descend. He went up
higher and higher, and it wsb soon evi
dent that he was aa much at the mercy
of the currents aa any balloonist. He
sailed over Brookline, Boston Highland,
and ont through Norfolk county, laud
landed at the little town of Farnham
Here he was an objeot of wonder to the
inhabitants, and after they had gazed cn
him he essayed to fly back to Boston, but
on reaching Dover gave it up, and, pack
ing his machine .on the train, he
returned home by rail. He explains his
failure by saying that the gearing got
out of order. The steering apparatus
wonld not work, and cne of the rods was
disarranged. He says he had to tie it
with a cord and strap his foot to the
pedal.
Last Week’s Cotton Ffgares-
Nens entlie Situation,
The New Yerk Chronicle ot Saturday
reports the reoeipts of the seven days
ending Friday night, 6th instant, at 5,-
949 bales, against 6,102 for the corres
ponding week of last year. Total re
ceipts of the current cotton year to that
date 4,243,264 bales, against 2,344,758
to same date last year—showing a net
increase of298,506 bales.
The interior ports received during tha
same week 4,662 bales, against 2,434 last
year. Shipped 6,177 against 6,168, and
showed, as stock on hand, 19,675, against
32,077 last year.
The Chronicle's visible supply table
showed, on Friday night, 1,754,901 bales
of cotton in sight, against 2,836,931 at
same date last year—2,400,290 the year
before, and 2,534,803 in 1875. This
shows a decrease of 582,030 on the visi
ble supply of 1877 at that date—645,889
bales on the supply of 1876, and 779,902
on the supply of 1875. Middling up
lands in the Liverpool market last Friday
were quoted at 6 5-16—in 1877 at same
date 6|—in 1876 5f, and in 1875 7*.
TLe Chronicle's Friday telegrams on
the condition of the growing crop, com
plain almost universally of exoess of nun.
From Galveston it is deolared that cater
pillars have positively appeared, and the
position is preearions, though no great
damage has yet been done. Galveston
had five rainy days daring the week,
with a fall of an inch and a half and
over. Indisnola hears rumors of cater
pillars, but fears more tbe cloudy and
damp weather. Corsicana reports a good
condition. Rainfall dnring June 5.51.
Dallas is all right, and had dnring Jane
7.95 inches of rain. Brenham, Texas,
reports both caterpillars and boll worms,
and says planters are now using poi
sons. 5.20 inches of rain during June.
New Orleans, had a total of ram during
June amounting to 7.54. Shreveport
says the cotton miller has been observed
there. Vicksburg and Little Rock re
port too much rain and crops grassy.
Memphis tho same, and adds too much
growth of weed and forms shedding ma
terially.
Mobile bad rain five days in the week,
and 6.60 dating Jane. Montgomery had
a warm and dry week, and 5.85 daring
Jane. Columbus, Georgia, had too much
rain, bat ootton is strong and health
4.79 during June. Augusta had it show
ery every day of the week. Colton prom
ising, 5.85 daring June.
Watts & Co.’s Liverpool oiroular for
Jane oalls attention to tbe fact, attested
by a statistical array, that a large ootton
orop never follows a mild winter, and
that the'winter of 1877-8 was five degrees
milder than any on reoord. A mild win
ter does not destroy the germs of inseets,
and is, therefore, followed by destructive
worms. Moreover it, in torn, is followed
by an early and oold winter, whioh oats
short the pioktog season. The Chronicle
remarking on these forecasts, says that
some of the usual sequents of a mild
winter—for example, a late and backward
spring—have been escaped this year.
“Daahaway” all opinm preparations
and give only Dr. Bull’s Baby Syimpto
the Babies. Ibis the only remedy whieh
contains no opiates and is reliable.
The Enquirer thinks that tbe full rig
ged schooner of beer for three cents is an
unerring sign of the steady march of
evilizationin Cincinnati.
A Bloody Fioht.—The Governor of
Oregon telegraphs that Captain Sperry’s
company of volunteers were annihilated
by the Bannocks in a fight on the 6th
instant. Only aeven of the company es
caped.
Representative Sayler and John G.
Thompson are confident tbat the Ohio
Democrats will carry thirteen ont of
twenty Congressional districts in the
coming campaign. That is about the
Republican estimate also.
The circumstance should be distinctly
remembered, says the Courier-Journal,
that Emile Weber, who has knocked the
underpinning from John Sherman, is a
Republican witness, subpoenaed by John
Sherman’a friends to help him out of his
ugly predicament. These . friends of
Sherman are damning Weber now up
and down.
In New York, on Wednesday last
360,000 acres of land ia McDowell Coun
ty, W, Va., represented as heavily tim
bered white oak and mineral lands, was
sold at pablio suotion. The lands were
■old in lota ot 1,000 aorea, or more, to
suit purchasers, One-halt of the tract
was knocked down to G. P. Bonner & Co.,
at a half a oent per acre. The balance
was sold, mostly to Germans, in lots of
from 1,000 to 10,000 acres, at from one-
half a cent to a cent and a half per
acre. The average price realized for
the entire tract was one cent per mere.
Glasgow Times: There is a gentle
man and bis wife living in this county
who had born unto them, at three birth
occasions, aeven childrer. Twins were
born twice aid triplet] once. Notwith
atending these advantages to eur old
county, there are young men every now
and then who want to move to tome other
country.
Specie Resumption.—Ifc ib stated on
the very beat authority that Secretary
Sherman has decided to and will an
nounce tbe resumption of specie payments
by the United States Government on or
before the 1st of September next. The
law requires that resumption shall
take plaoe January 1st next. This action
of the Secretary,if taken, will be intercept
Congressional legislation on the subject,
which might be of such a character as to
repeal entirely the resumption law or
postpone for some time its being put into
force. It ie further intimated that the
Secretary may announce resumption at
as early a date as August 1st next.
The mercury nowadays ranges from
92 down. The blood circulates with free-"
dom.
BBS