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CLISBY, JONES & REESE, Proprietor*.
Tsn Faxxly Journal.—NnwOr-PoLiTici—'LiTURArwnB—Agriculture—Domesti# Afpaxbs.
GEORGIA TELBGJRABH ^J$fLDHfG
Established 1826.
MACON, TUESDAY JULY 28,1878.
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BY TELEGRAPH-
New Yohk, July 14.—Dr. Carver to
day accomplished the feat of breaking
with a rifle five thousand five hun
dred class balh thrown from the hand
at distances varying from ten to twenty
feet, in eight hours and nine and a half
minutes.
New York, July 14.—The yellow fevsr
has appeared at this port, there being a
number of cases in the quarantine hos
pital. Four patients were taken from
steamer Niagara which arrived here from
. Havana a few days since. One, a fire-,
man, died yesterday. Altogether about
eight cases ore in the hospital. The
health offloer says there is no oause for
apprehension.
Pottsville, July 14.—The miners gen
erally resume work to-morrow with a fair
prospect of steady work tho remainder of
the shipping year.
Chicago, Jaly 14.—The walking matoh
in which Daniel OLeary challenged
Scbmebl to walk 250 miles while be
walked 275, closed yesterday, Sohmehl
won, having completed the 250 miles at
9:50 while O’Leary did set complete his
275th mile until 10:50.
New Yobs, July 14.—A 2im«’ special
from Bismarck, Dakota, gives informa
tion that tho hostile Nez Perces on Cana
dian territory are moving across the
Rocky Mountains to join those who did
not break out in open hostilities last sum-
mer.
Efforts are making t« induce tho re
turn of White Bird and his band to the
American side.
The United Statea warehouse, at Fort
Lincoln, containing clothing and har-
ners was burned. Loss 1100,000.
San Fcancieco, July 14.—A Portland
dispatch says tho following was received
from J. B. Keeney, dated Fondlcton,
July 12: . „
“Wo have been having ereiimg times
here today. The hostile Indians are in
foTce on the reservation. George Cog-
pan, of Portland, and AI Bunker, of La
Grand, were shot this afternoon six miles
from here on the stage road to CajU39.
Coggan was killed and Bunker 13 sup
posed to be mortally wounded. Fred
Foster was with them, and only got
away by luck. Bunker rode with him
about two miles after ho wa3 shot, when
they wer9 compelled to part. Foster
brought the news, and we started a team
with fourteen men as an escort to go for
Bunker. They got as far as Chief Win-
oumonat’sfarm, when they were attacked
and driven back. The Indians weresbout
150 strong, and the Umatillis are doubt
less fighting with them.
The Cayuse House was pillaged and
burned. Our ttago station was not
burned at dirk. Captain Miles’ com
mand will reach (he agency to-night.
His soldiora are exhausted, and, should
they go tc tho agency thinking the Uma-
till&3 are all right, they may get the
worst of it. Our families are at the mill
and court-house, and the town is well
gnarded.
The following UtU r has just been re
ceived by Governor Chadwick, at Uma
tilla, by a courier from Pendleton: “ The
troops under Captain Miles are now fight
ing the Indians, about two mile3 above
tho agency. They have been fighting
two hontB. Almost all the Umatillas are
supposed to be in the fight. Al Banker
has just got in. Ooggan has not been
found yet. Should the Indians gat the
best of Miles wo will all have to fight.
Over one hundred men are hero—with no
arms, however.”
Washington, July 14.—Richard Sut
ton, formerly the official stenographer of
the Senate, is dead.
United States Judge Olin, of this dis
trict, has retired from the bench on ac
count of ill health.
Tho President has pardoned John Ri
ley, a Creek Indian, convicted of man
slaughter in Arkansas for killing a Choc
taw, who resisted arrest.at a game of La
Crosse in the Creek nation two years
ago. Riley was a policeman. The oth
ers indicted with Riley, but not yet tried,
have also been pardoned.
A Herald special from Montreal says,
os the Sherbrooke and Richmond troops
were leaving there yesterday for home, a
largo crowd gathered and taunted the sol
diers with having eome to Montreal to
aeo protestants beaten under their noses.
As the train moved an Orange handker
chief was shook fn defiance at the mob,
which immediately stoned the traiD,
smashing windows, oic. Fifty shots were
fired into the mob, and two men were
badly wonnded. General Smyth will in
vestigate tho affair.
London, July 14.—The tnbslanoe of
the articles of tho treaty Iv, first, Bulga
ria to be constituted an autonomatlo
tributary principality, under the snzer-
alnty of tho Saltan, with e Christian gov
ernment and national militia.
2d. The principality is limited on the
sonth by the Balkan?.
3d. The pricoe shall be elected by the
papulation and confirmed by the Porte
and the powerp. No member of a reign
ing European dynasty shall be the prince.
17(160 a vacancy occurs a new prince
shall be elected nnder tho same condi
tion?.
4th. The plan of the government w;ll
be prepared by an assembly of nobles,
convoked at Tirnova. Before the elec
tion of a prince the rights of Tarks,
Roumanians, Greeks and others will be
taken account of in whatever relates to
the election of government.
Gth. By the basis of the public law of
Bnlgana all distinctions of religions be
liefs are not to exclude any one from
political rights, pnblio employment, or
other business enterprise.
Ctb. Until the permanent organization,
Bulgaria shall be governed by a provin
cial organization directed by Russian
commissioner?, assisted by delegated
consuls of the Powers.
7tb. The organic government shall bo
settled within nine months.
8th. Treaties commenced between the
Porte and others powers regarding Bul
garia remain.
9th. The tribute to the Porte shall be
settled by the signatory powers at the
end of tie first year of the new organiza
tion, Bulgaria bearing her portion of the
public debt of the empire.
. 10th. The principality carries out ex-
i;t:ng railway conventions between Aus-
tro-Hungary, Persia and the Porte.
11th. The Ottoman army evacuates
Bnlgaria. All fortresses to be destroyed
within a ye&r, and new ones not to be
erected.
42th, Mussulmans who removed from
the principality can retain their real
property by allowing It to be adminis
tered by third parties.
13. Thereis formed sonth of the Balkans
:? e Province °f Eastern Roumelia under
Wtaa, having administrative auton.
,1™ a Christian Governor-General.
11. Tho fixing limits are missing.
\ 6, Tbe Sultan fortifies the frontiers
f" keeps troops there. Employs no
itTeguiars nor quarters troops on the in-
Internal order shall be pre-
M,. rTT.’"“ *-» «*»eu ot ma religion 01
“• inhabitants where they are stationed.
The treaty further provides that a
rropean commission shall determine in
three years the powers of the Governor;
also the judicial, financial and adminis
trative requirements of the provinoe.
17. That all international arrangements
applicable to Roumelia shall be continued
in force and insure religions liberty.
81tb. The Russian army in Bulgaria
and Roumelia shall cot exceed fifty them
and men—and shol begin to evacuate
the territory in nine months. Three
months are allowed to complete the evac
nation.
The independence of Montenegro and
Servia Is recognized, fiervia bears a
share of the Turkish debt proportionate
to the territory acquired.
Eoamania’a independence i3 condition
ed on the ground of religions liberty.
Ronmanla returns to Russia that part of
Bessarabia taken nnder the treaty of
Paris. Montenegro’s independence also
insures religions liberty.
Yunna, July 14.—The Politioal Cor
respondence reports that Gortschakoff and
Beaconsfield have drawn up a basis for a
future Anglo-Russia understanding.
Beilin, July 14.—Bismarck, in closing
the Congress on Saturday, declared he
did not hesitate to affirm that this Con
gress deserved well of Europe. Tho
plenipotentiaries would have the con
sciousness of having, as far a3 possible,
restored and assured peace. He enter
tained the firm hopo that this European
understanding would remain durable and
that the cordial relations established
among the plenipotentiaries would com
solidate good relations between their
governments.;
Bismarck incidentally remarked that
his health was such that he had soarcely
hoped to preside over the Gongres3 until
its conclusion.
Count Andrassy started lor Vienna on
Saturday. Beaconsfield left for home to
day.
San Francisco, Jnly 15.—Advioas from
Walla Walla report that fighting between
the Indians and General Miles commenc
ed on Saturday morning between the
month of Lodi Willow and Caynsa sta
tion. General Forsyth with seven com
panies of cavalry have gone to reinforce
him.
Yankton, D. T., July 15.—The Stan
ley commission, with Commissioner
Hoyt, has failed. At a council with the
Red Cloud Indians, Red Cloud said he
wanted to go to White Clay Creek, over
200 miles from the Missouri river, and
positively refused to go any nearer.
This firm position was applauded by the
other chiefe. Spotted Tail is equally de
termined and says ho will burn down the
agency buildings, if hia intended move
from the Missouri river is hindered.
Spotted Tail’s choice of country is only
sixty-five miles from the Missouri.
London, July 15.—The Rhodope in
surrection has been entirely suppressed.
A dispatch from Syria reports a great
conspiracy against the Sultan, discovered
in Stamboul, and over fifty persons ar
rested.
The Daily News says it is intended that
the island of Cyprn3 shall be permanent
ly garrisoned by a comparatively small
body of European troops, which is to be
supplemented by a local militia to bo or
ganized by officeis accompanying General
Sir Garnet Wolsey. The stay of the In
dian troops in the Island will be tempo
rary. General Wolsey is expected to
arrive at Malta on Wednesday, and starts
thence for Cyprus on the 20th instant
with transports conveying the troops.
London, July 15.—The London press
favorably comments on the results of the
Congress, the Daily News exoepted.
The Times, in a leading editorial, sum
ming up the labors of Congress, says it
has made ohanges which transform an
Empire. It has removed long-standing
causes of discontent, has pacified (we
may hope) provinces which were born by
discussion and misrule, and has plaoed
barriers between rival forms of implioa»
ble bigotry. It has stopped many ave
nues of foreign intrigne, and if It has
abridged the power of the Porte, it Jua
given peace to Europe.
. Cincinnati, Jnly 15.—John Hanna baa
been renominated for Congress by the
Republicans ot the Seventh Indiana Dis
trict;
Quebec, Jaly 15.—The Maine press
association retamed from Baugnenay
yesterday. In the afternoon they visited
the Citadel, where they were entertained
by the Governor General and Countess
Dnfferin.
Quinct, Inn, July 15.—'Sevan sun
strokes yesterday, five of wbioh were
fatal.
New York, July 15.—A Norfolk dis
patch says the first white man whipped
under the new law which ha3 just taken
effect in Virginia, occurred at Hampton
Saturday. The sentence was executed
by a negro constable. The party whip
ped was a sailor from Baltimore, who
was convicted of stealing an anchor.
A special to the Times, from Fort
Thompson, Dakota, reports the discov
ery ot most extensive frands at the In
dians agencies in that section snch
robberies unheard of on theMisscuri
river. Last March the Crow Creek, Low
er Brnle and Cheyenne agencies were all
seized by military. A eecret investiga
tion into their affairs developed a con
spiracy between the agents and traders,
that startles the natives. Dr. Livings
ton, of Crew Creek, was taken withont
warning and his office safe captnred be
fore ho had time to remove the evidences
of his wealth and guilt. The testimony
is still piling np againg the ring, and
Livingston in particular. It beats all
former developments for thieving, perju
ry and forgery. The details show that
they stole everything in sight, and pros
tituted the whole agency machinery to
private use.
New York, Jnly 15.—The sureties on
the bond of oolleotor Merritt are 8. B.
Chittenden, Wm. Walter Phelps, L. Mar
shal, O. Roberts, and Renben E. Fenton,
wbo qualified in the snm $100,000 each.
Joseph E. Lawrence, one ot the Cali
fornia pioneers, at one time editor of the
Golden Era, of San Francisco, died sud
denly in New Jersey this morning.
The Paoifiomall steamship company
have given sixty days notice to the Union
Pacific Railroad company, of its inten
tion to cancel the oontraot of combina
tion with said company.
The Merobants National Bank of this
city with this week xednoea its capital
from $3,000,000 to $1,000,000.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Jnly 15.—The Com
mercial publishes crop reports from many
places in Ohio, Indiana and Kentnokv,
shewing there is not only a greater acre
age of wheat than in any former year,
bntthe average prodnot per acre is larger
then ever before.
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs,
Jnly 13.—The Atlanta Cadets arrived
bere, tc-day, and will remain a week.
The Virginia Springs are rapidly filling
np. The Whit9 Sulphur Springs prop
erty will be sold at pnblie auction on the
6th proximo.
North Trot, Vt., Jnly 15.—Carlos W.
Morse, the late embezzling collector of
Newport, retained and compromised
with the town by conveying to it his pri
vate property. The town sustains no
loss.
Pottsville, Jnly 15.—Work was re
sumed to-day in all the coal mines in the
Schuylkill region.
St. Loui3, July 15.—There is no
abatement in the intensity of the heat.
The mercary is ninety-eight, and in some
instincts one hundred and two degrees in
pelled to be ant keep in doors. Thirty
ennatrokat ar prostrations from heat are
reported to-day, and sine deaths have
o scarred from these can see.
Newark, July 15.—In response to a
telegram Aram the Triton club to Lee to
row at the Metropolitan regatta at London,
Lee, to-day, replied, they will not accept
nay entry wad ace afraid if me.
San Francisco, Jaly 16.—A Walla
Walla di^tosh relating the Miles fight
with the hoetiles at the Umatilla reserve
tion aaya toe tstops numbered 300 regu
lars. The fight oeeurred abent eight in
the morning within a short distance of
Cayuse station. The savages number
between 4,000 and 5,000. Getting the
men into position, Miles opened fire.
The hosliles returned It withont effect,
neither alia Retailing any injury. This
was continued without intermission until
12 oVlook when the Indians attempted to
charge Miles’ lines bnt were driven off,
being unable to stand the fira from the
howitzer.
In a charge the Indians sustained con
siderable loss, those present estimating
the dead at 15. Miles’ casualties consist of
two wounded,one in-the lag. Shortly after
one o’clock the Indiana fell back towards
the mountains. This is the first time
this campaign tho hostilea have attempt*
edto charge and shows that they are
driven to desperation. During the whole
of the fight they snot wild. Miles’ ob
ject, in view of the overwhelming num
bers against Urn, was to prevent the ad
vance of toe hostile* and if possible
to hold them in'check till reinforced.
This he did, although a foot and the sav
ages were well montod. During Fri
day the Indians completed the distrac
tion of Cayuse station,which, on the day
previoHB they partiaHy destroyed. It ia
feared Meachames has met a similar
fate. Among the interested spectators 0!
tho Miles’ fight were a largo number of
Umatilla who tcok sides with neither par
ty bnt appeared to relish the sport.
London, Jnly 15.—Beaoensfield is ex
pected on Tuesday. Preparations are
making for a popular demonstration at
Charing Cross. The only invitation hon
oring bis return that Lord Beaconsfield
has acoeptsd is a dinner tendered by the
Carlton Clab.
MANGHBiTBE, July 15.—The Guar
dian's London correspondent says expec
tation gains ground that a general elec
tion i3 imminent, bnt nothing can be
definitely stated until Beacontfiild’s re.
torn. It iatpsderstood that the .'premier
will make an important speeoh in the
House of Lords Thursday Right, and if
an appeal to the party u intended, a noti
fication of that step will then he given by
him.
Havana, July 15.—The steamer City
of N ew York has arrived from Vera Cruz,
with the following intelligence:
City ot Mexico, July 7.—Mackenzie’s
invasion of Mexican soil oansed consid
erable excitement, toe people believing
that he aeted upon a wide construction
of his orders, turd that hie object was to
raise a bordir war for annexation pur
pose?.
There was no special celebration of the
Fourth of July by the Americans, except
a picnic for families.
Tho Treasury is cow said to be de
pleted, consequently mueh complaint is
made by the Government employes and
claimant*.
Fears ef coming disturbances continue
to create uneasiness and impair business.
It is reported that a famine prevails in
Sonora and Sinalos. At Mazatlin there
was absolutely no flour, Md the people
were emigrating.
Washington, July 15.—The case of
McElwee vs. Blackwell, the manufactu-.
rer of the Durham smoking tobacco, was
decided to-day by the Commissioner of
Patents in favor of Biaokwell. McElwee
claimed that be was entitled to the trade
mark, which evnsiaia ot Durham end a
figure of the bulL It ia decided that the
McElwee elalae, whieh were based on
partnership relations with J. R. Greene,
deceased, are not well founded, but that
Blackwell has the sole and exclasivo
right to the trade mar*.
Washington, July 15.—The frauds at
Crow Creek, Dakotab, Agency daring
Livingston’s administration, aro officially
communicated to the Indian office here.
Many of thorn are lor Indian labor. The
Indians who worked a day or two were
rated at $69 to $90 a month for a whole
quarter, and for several quarters. It is
impossible to put hand* css any paper in
tho agenoy office without clutching fraud.
They appear in the expenditures for all
sorts of material. Several forged vouch
ers have bten discovered, and evidences
of guilt throughout. The Department
will proceed to prosecute.
Norwich, July 15 —The trisl of Wes
ley Bishop and Kate Cwbb for the mnrder
of the latter’s husband, began to-day.
Montreal, Jnly 16.—It is now stated
that it was not the Militia who fired into
the people on Saturday, hot Orangemen
returning home.
New Orleans, July 16.—Before the
snb>oommittee to-day, Patton, Chairman
Demoeralio State oomuaittea in 1876, tes
tified that Anderson proposed if the Dem
ocrats would support Nash for Congress,
he would give them two members in the
General Ascembly aid 16,000 to 1,800
Demooratio majority to East Feboiana
Pariah.
Philadelphia, Jaly 15.—Wa.H, Rob
inson, charged with stealing $12,000 in
bonds frees Grant & Anil, was dismissed
for the want of evidence, bnt he is still
held to await a requisition from Massa
chusetts.
Toronto, July 15.—Wm. Riley, one of
the gang who garreted and robbed in a
street ear Thomas Bnekley, paymaster
of the Knitting Mill mb Trey, Hew York,
was arrested in Bowavville and brought
to Toronto to-day. He wan remanded by
the polioe magistrate for extradition.
Athens, July 15.—A telegram from
Lamia states that a gseat fire is raging
throughout; a large district of Thessaly.
The village of Sophwdaa is partly burn
ed. The harvest is totally destroyed.
The fire began at numerous distant
point?, and was nndeubtedly incendiary.
Philadelphia, Jnly 15.—A deBperate
fight occurred on the wharveB in the
northern part of the city, last night, be
tween parties eonteeting for the owner
ship of the yaoht William Tell. Several
are dangerously, perhaps fatally wonnded.
Kingston, Jnly 15.—It is not certain
that Hanlon and Conrtonay will row this
fall, owing to a disagreement about the
plsee of meeting. They may goto Eng
land, failing ta make a match in this
0 ratify.
Rom, July 15.—At a consistory held
to-day. the Pope submitted for tho ap
proval of the Cardinal* a secret allocu
tion indicating the fntnre conduct to
wards tba various power?.
Cairo, Ills., Jnly IS.—A number of
frightened negroes frsm Kentucky, op-
pcsite Cairo, brought to • report that the
kn-klux visited the negroes in that vi
cinity last night giving them twenty four
hours to leave the connfcy. Later infor
mation prevea the knklnx to have been a
drunken frolis of a half dozen youths,
aged 16 to 19, one of wham lucklessly
shot at a negro inflicting a flesh wound
in the arm.
Nashville, July 16.—Robert M.
Lowe (whits) was shst and killed by Cal
vin Anderson (colored) near Bell Backle,
this morning, while Lswe with fifteen
others, disguised, were attempting to
break in Anderson’s door.
THE GEORGIA. PjsESB.
Mb. John King has bought) the Co<
Iambus Enquirer-Bun from Mrs. Sarah L.
Salisbury, and will hereafter have entire
charge of its management.
The Times announces the appearance
of the caterpillar 'to eome cotton fields
near Columbus.
Ms. Walter Dz WeLP was elected an
Alderman of Columbus lest Saturday, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Mr. A. G. Bedell. There were only forty-
five votes cast.
His Explanation.—According to the
Constitution’s latest account, Rev. J. W.
Faokler is the pastor ot the church at
Greensboro, N. C., but has passed by no
other name. He is not West npr any
one else who figured in Chattanooga as a
swindler. His marriage ia explained by
him. He had a wife and two children is
Lonisville, Ky. On account of his then
dissipated habits she refused to live with
him. After hia reformation and coming
to Georgia he endeavored to induce her
to return to him, but ineffectually. After
patient waiting he procured a divorce at
Cuthbert. Georgia. He afterwards en-
desvored to induce her to remarry him.
When called to the church he again
urged such a proposition upon her, bnt
she again refused. He had previously
stated, in tho pulpit that he was a mar
ried man. At that time he thought his
former wife would consent to a remar
riage. Her declination left him free, and
months after he loved and won a lady in
Greensboro and married. He states the
reason why be did not come with Mr.
Simpson to Atlanta was that he heard
Mr. S. was a detective officer, and he
(Fackler) thought he would be put to
some inconvenience in this State. Ac
cording to Mr. Fackler’s statement he
has been guilty of no wrong.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun 3sja 300
competent operatives can get employ,
meet at the Eagle and Phenir Mills dar
ing the next sixty days.
A Crusher.—Tho Constitution eaye
that when Judge Lsster came to make
bis rejoinder to Dr. Felton last Saturday
at Dalton ‘‘the Felton meD, exasperated
at the Waterloo defeat of their favorite,
continually interrupted tho speaker .with
cries of ‘Feltonl’ Felton!’ Ono man who
seemed to be intoxicated, was especially
vehement in calling for Felton. Point
ing at thi3 man, Judge Lester said:
‘They tell me, my friend, that you yelled
for Bullock, when ho was a candidate
for Governor, as you are yelling for Fed
ton now.’ The man dropped in his en
thusiasm, quiet was restored, aud Judge
Lester concluded his speech and tho dis
cussion.”
Me. Francis O’Connor died very aud-
decly last Saturday, in Augusta, of ap
oplexy. He dropped dead in the eani9
room and near the spot where a brother
of his died quite as suddenly about seven
years since.
Frost the Altar to the Poor House—
The Chronicle and Constitutionalist has
the following:
A singular couple—male and female—
walked into Justice Picquet’s office last
Friday. He was in the winter of life
and the snow of seventy winters had
whitened his locks and bent his form;
she was nearly a half a century younger.
Justice Picquet looked inquiringly at the
pair. ‘‘Jedge,”eaid Sen ex, “we wants to
get spliced, and we hear you is the man
to do it.” The “Jedge” smiled and said
he did sometimes perform the ceremony
that made two one. “Thar’s the paper
that I got from the Ordinary,” said the
aged bridegroom, producing the marriage
license. The “Jedge” was satisfied and
proceeded to tie the matrimonial noose
a short order and the blushing bride
was soon made a wife. History is silent
as to whether she tendered the officiating
magistrate the usual kiss. After the
ceremony was concluded the exultant
bridegroom, evidently intent npon taking
a bridal tour and passing the honeymoon
in style, said: “Well, now, Jedge,
can yon give ns a certificate to go to the
Peor House?” Judge Piequet politely
informed him that that was not in his
line of business, aud the happy pair left
the office, hand in hand, to seek the
proper officer to give them a permit to go
to the connty farm.
Twas ever thus and ever will be tone.
Jeff Collins killed Allen Blackman last
Wednesday in Schley county. Both ne
groes, and all about a dusty Desdemona.
The Colnmbna Times saya there ia an
extensive jute bagging factory in tbat
city wbioh sells all its prodnot there, and
that the demand is mnch greater than
the supply.
Wx learn from the Old Capital that the
salaries of the agenlB of the Macon and
Angneta railroad have been scaled thirty-
three and one-third per cent
Wants to Swap Back.—Under tois
head we quote the following from the
same paper.
A few days ago toe stockholders of the
Maoon and Augusta rcilread were tolled
together at Augusta to consider a propo
sition, on the part of the Georgia railroad,
to take their line back and relieve them
of the obligations of their lease. It came
out in the meeting that the Macon and
Augusta railroad is to debt to the amount
of $700,000, with an aoerning annual In
terest of $50,000, more or less. This
debt ia in the shape of bonds, and, if we
mistake not, the Georgia management
have obligated themselves to pay this
enormous Bum, with interest as it may
fall dne, besides filling np oertain trestle
ways along the line, and keeping the road
in good repair. It is well known now
that the conditions of the lease are very
bnrdensome to t'-e Georgia railroad, for
the hired line can hardly be said to do
snffisient business to meet the coat of
running, repair?, eto., and leave a sur
plusage to retire the obligations falling
dne and interest. The proposition was
not accepted by the meeting at Auguste;
bnt after some dismission it was derided
to pettponothe whole matter until winter
when farther aotlen will doubtless be
had.
A Straw.—The Americas Republican
learns ‘‘from a gentleman who was pres
ent at the barbecne at the Springs last
Thursday, that after dinner a vats was
taken as to the preference of the two as
pirants for Congress from this count y
which resnlted as foltews: Cook 40,
Foit 4. This shows wbioh way the
oounty will go.”
The Atlanta Pu3lic Schools.—Tho
Atlanta correspondent ot the Savannah
News writes this concerning the pnblio
schools now going on at Atlanta:
Thereis a sort of a windmill contro
versy going on here in regard to the pnb-
lie schools. A few ambitions politicians, I
about risotion lime, stir np the question i
for the purpose of tiding into effloe. The
schools of Atlanta axe well established
and depend upon no one man for their fu
ture continnanoe and welfare. The time
has eome, however, for the practice of
wise eoonomy in public expenditures,
and the same rule that is applied to the
school system will have to be enforced in
regard to all other departments exoept
that of Sewerage. The whole country
must adopt a more eoonomioal system of
government, or communism will prevail.
The unemployed poor, cannot pay taxes
when they have no money in hand.
ITlBe counsels and prudent action are de
manded In large cities.
The canvass in the Seventh district
has passed the fed hot stage. If some
thing er Homebody don’t oateh fire and
born np before November it will be a
miracle.
HRS. BAGGETT.
Her Melange ef Atlanta Gossip—
’Use School Huddle — Parson
Fallon and George Lester —
Alti Stephens, etc., etc.
Special Corrosposdaaco ot tho Telegraph and
Messenger.]
Atlanta, Ga , July 11, 1878..
I have been silent with my pen some
time, but my tengue has done propor
tionate duty. That never quits wagging.
What woman’? ever did? I wont up to
the closing exercises of the Mutes’ Asy
lum, and the thing wa3 very painful—to
a woman. The female mutes looked very
forlorn. The way they kept their fingers
going in conversation was very interest
ing, however, and supplemented as their
deit, nimble hands were with the flash'
ing expression of the eyes, the effectwa3
striking. It is a noble institution. Mr.
Conner is tue principal. There are
about seventy pupils. In the State
there axe about 600 mnt39, and all should
be educated at this institution. When
you consider that a horn mute has no
basis whatever for the imparting of
knowledge, the patient ssienoe that can
communicate an intelligible language to
their dark intelligences and then unfold
to them the world of knowledge, is some
thing marvelous. I was strnek with one
boy, who seemed perfect in mathematics
and grammar, grasping the hardest prob
lems of both. Let us hope that the
State will enlarge this institution to the
needs of the State. I witnessed a mar-
riaga of mutes. This is wrong. We do
cot want more males. The bride was
the daughter of mutee, and the result of
mute children is the prc3peet.
our rustic echoow.
Atlanta is in a hot conflict over the
public school system. A few married
men, who have some school tax to pay
are to3tile to the eebcol system, and
hare worked persibten'ly to break it
down as a matter of self-interest. The
mas3 of the Atlanta people are over
whelmingly in favor of the system, and
it is true that it is the crowning merit of
Atlanta civilization, the strongest weapon
of her progress, and the very model of
free education in the whole Union. The
very genius, of the system has been Mr.
Bernard Mallon, the Superintendent, a
man pore, able, conservative, disinter
ested and honest. He is one of those
clear-headed men that yon rarely meet
anywhere. He ia one of tha most
accomplished educators in the country.
He has a national reputation
as a teacher. He has a philosophical
conception of tho true theory of public
education, es well as a masterly grasp of
its practical execution. In my judgment
Mr. Mallon is the ablest master of the
public school system that there is in the
broad range of the continent. This is
high praise, but it is deserved. Atlanta
i3 fortunate in having secured hie servi
ces, and she has shown her unerring senaa
in getting him and holding him. The
public mind is generally discriminating.
Yon 1st public intelligence alone and its
operations are accurate. Mr. Mallon has
a quiet but invincible hold on the Atlanta
people. He is one of those unobtrusive
men who are never noisy, but who have
a silent power proportioned to an im
mense reserve of solid strength.
The free school enemies first tackled
the system, and got licked. They then
began an insidious war on the High
Schools. Their crusade was vigorous,
but futile. They got several of their
men on tha School Board, who have
sought to nndermine the system. The
last dodge was in the ahaenoe of three
members of the board, Governor Brown,
Judge Jim Jackson and Captain Lowery,
all warm friends of the system, to drop
the Superintendent, under the plea of
economy. It was a subtle more. But it
will reeoil frightfully on its author?. It
will strengthen the system ultimately.
I am profoundly sorry that Mayor An-
gier has lent himself to the new move
ment. It mHBt inevitably injure his in
fluence if persisted in. He was Bounded
on the free school subject when a candi
date, and declared himself a friend to it.
Hecsuldnot have been elected without
such alignment. His present movement
is regarded as untrne to his alignment
then. Popular indignation is gathering
volume dally at the attempt to mutilate
the system, and yon need not be sur
prised to see such a demonstration of
censure as has not been witnessed in
many a day.
CONGRESSIONAL QCBtP.
They are having the liveliest times in
the Seventh Distriot that yon ever heard
of.' It wilt be an historic episode—the
Congressional race in that district be
tween Parson Felton and Gaorge Lester.
Both are fine speakers and fine men.
Both axe popular and able. Both are
gentlemen. Felton has carried the din-
triot in hia pooket for two terma, and
thinks he ia permanent master of the ait-
nation. Lester has plunged into tho
race with an electrio brigs, and is riding
a whirlwind of popular enthusiasm. He
ia an ugly cnia physically, a atonUsb,
heavy-haired, ubiquitous-whiskered, sin
gle-armed feilow, with aa charming a
capacity for speech making on tho stamp
as any pnblio man in Georgia. Bis hu
mor ia perennial and inimitable and hia
pathos as touching aa a woman’s. He
blends the two effectively. His vsloo is
mellow and rich ,* bis. language graphfo
and plctnrosque, and at times stately and
sonorons, and his eloquence ia fervent
and thtiliing. He carries one sleeve
armies?, and tbe stamp gesticulates with
fine power. He is the chairman of
the Demooratio State Exeentive Commit
tee and Judge of tbe Bine Ridge Cironlt.
He has not Bought the nomination, bnt it
has cime to him spectantomly. There is
every Ingredient of n ground Bwell
in his ease, and It he don’t ride over the
doughty Parson into congress on a.tidsl
wave there ie no virtue in things or ap
pearances. He has started on a bnlge.
The whole distriot i3 aflame. Felton has
no ground work of rings or peeked con
ventions to go on. He bis dono all of
hia reforming, so-celled. His candidacy
sb an independent is pure defiance of
the Demsoratlo organization in his own
interest and for the gralifiration of his
own love of place. His adherents are
dropping him fast. The power of tho or
ganization is asserting itself. Cobb coun
ty, that gave Felton 450 majority, will go
500 better on Lester. Cherokee tbat
gUEhed 1,600 on Felton wi’l wipe that out.
Gordon that put up 250 on Felton will
roll Lester in. And so tha oount la fairly
estimated. Hurrah for the gallant arm
less hero of the Seventh, the fit Repre
sentative of the true Democracy.
In the Columbusdistoiet, Harris, Tng :
gle and Smith are having a tough tussle'.
Harris, aa Smith says, reads his composi
tion, and don’t get up mnch enthusiasm.
Toggle is on the war-path, hitting vig
orously at electoral bills and all that sort
of thing tbat nobody liked and every
body swallowed. Smith makes fhn ot
both, and gets np mnch laughing, bnt is
not captaring a disproportionate share ef
vote?. My sympathies are with Tuggle.
He is a smart fellow and a valuable one.
He would make a useful Congressman.
In tbe Eighth, Little Ateo is having it
his own way. He is of oonrse, ante to be
nominated and elected. He knew that,
when he defied 60 tartly. Atee is unex
ampled for capacity as a “toterof his own
skillet.” In candor I think some nnwiae
attacks have been made on him. In candor
I think be has been bad-tempered end ar
bitrary. Bat in equal oandor I think Geor
gia does well to keep him in Congress.
He is bold and honest. He has murage
and integrity. He oan neither be bought
nor driven, sold out or Intimidated.
Who would replace him? He is a lustre
to Georgia. He ia absolutely fearless and
has statesmanship. I grant yon that Mr.
Stephens has, as the moral dialect has
it, a ‘‘right smart” of not by any means
corrupt demagoguery, a genteel allowable
sorapalous suggestion of the politician’s
suhtle arrangement, bat underlying this
is an intellect, strong and original, a
spirit resolute and faithful, a very excep
tionally correct intnition of men and
measures, and aa experience ripe and
What tbe Potter Investigation
tans Accomplished'
From the Philadelphia Timm
The Potter investigation is not near its
end, bnt the holiday recess of the com'
miltoe affords a fair opportunity to com
aider whet it hae already accomplished.
Mr. Sherman has been entangled in
net of circumstantial evidence, to say
nothing of that whieh ia direct, bnt dis
puted, from which extrioatioa seems im
possible; and Mr. Stanley Matthews ia
buried beyond resurrection under tho
weight of hia own letters,
It is no light matter for the purposes
of fcvettig^ion that the Democrats have
been able to show the character of tha
men who have been the managers of the
Republican party in the South. It was
known that there were villians among
them, and now, so far aa Loeisiana is
concerned, the theory that there were
any exceptions has been well sigh din
proved. The JthkaeB, Webers, Ander-
sons, Pitkin?, Pinkstons, and the rest
tell their own atones, and so mere is
needed to disclose their depravity. There
can be no mors striking illustration of
h > i of Republican partisans than
the fact that whether these people testify
for or against them they are obliged t*
admit their knavishnes?. The more an
Anderson or a Weber is denounced, the
stranger is the indictment of the Repub
broad. Let U3 wish Alee a good many ijgaa party, of which they have been the
years of public life.
BAD THINGS.
We are having the usual assortment of
bad things, murders, killings, thieveries,
forgeries fight?, etc. Atlanta has her
reputation to keep up. and does it. I
hare mnch more to write, bnt lack time.
Mbs. Baggett.
THE GRANT PROGRAMME,
Soule. New Gossip from Paris
About “Tbe Man on Horse
back.”
Bufl&lc. Courier’* Paris Correspondence.)
General Grant is represented aa very
mad at the summary dismissal of hia
friend. General Torbert, from the consu
late-generalship here. Those who enjoy
the ex-Preeident’a intimacy say tbat he is
patting all theBe tilings and arrows of out
rageous fortune in a “black book,” and
that “when he cornea to bis own again”
he will get even with the Hayes crowd.
By “oorning to his own” it is understood
that Grant firmly believes that be Ib sure of
renemin&tios and eleotion. Hia son, the
piquant J eese, eon fided to a friend the other
evening that *pa can be President when
ever he wants to; he gets a bushel of let
ters a day from home saying that the
people can’t get along without him m the
office.” The confiding Jesse only put in
words what that peculiar group of time
servers about the ex-ring President bint?.
If it were left to his own volition, Grant
would return to America to-morrow. Af
ter the first novelty there is nothing in
the old world to interest a man of hia
serf. He confessed artlessly to an ac
quaintance in Rome that he was glad to
get out of Germany because they bored
him to go to see the churches, while he
was perfectly satisfied to be in England,
where the horses were the best in the
world.
In England, toe, he was made mueh ot
whereas on the Continent he is of no
more coneequenea than thousands of his
countrymen. Ho was wearied beyond
expression in Italy, and qnit the eennlry
as soon as he conld make the rapideit
loseible trip over tho prominent routes.
3 is first visit to Paris—thanks to the
arts of Noyes and Torbert, aided by a
colony ot rich vulgarians ccasy for social
distinction—was something of an excite
ment. Ho was entertained at a very lond
dinner at the Grand Hotel, paid for by
contributions, thirty francs a ticket, and
was then passed from house to honse aa a
reigning lion. A few journalistic claquers
attached tothepersonalsuite turned on the
regulation lights and threw tho shadow of
these festivities acrom the ocean, to im
press America with the social status in a
foreign coontky of the friend and patron
of Baboook ana the whisky ring. It was
shortly after ConUing's return that let
ters began to oeme to Grant from his old
oronies. The first to write here was Rob-
eaon, saying that if he ooald “keep it up
long enough" and remain outside the par
ty wrangles then boiling about tbe shaky
foundation ot the Hayes fraud, he must
inevitably be nominated in 1880. From
that hour the par pose has grows, and in
pnrsnanoe of it Grant baa been counsel
ed to remain abroad until jost before the
nomination in 1880, when be ia to return
and be weloomed by a aeries of colossal
demonitrationa in various States.
Won’t Tatole the Solid Soulla.
Phfla.Preis.]
Er-Sacretary Chandler han been in con
ference with representatives Hale and
Gorham, of the Republican Congressional
Committee, npon the beat plus of cam
paign to be pursued in the fall. The plan
proposed by the ex-Seoretary ia to con
centrate the main strength of the cam-
' oaign in auoh Statea aa have a reasonable
i rope of Republican success, and to co-op
erate in sueh Congressional districts as
may be gained by determined effort Li
New York it ia intended to manage tho
campaign as far aa possible for the elee-
tion ot a legislature m the interests of
Conkling; in Pennsylvania to the inter
est of Cameron; in Miehigan for Chan
dler. In Indiana and Connecticut a
strong effort will ba made to secure Re
publican Buooeasora to Voorheea and Bar
naul. The members of the committee
will not exert themselves in Florida, Ala
bama, Louisiana and South Carolina, as
they regard this as a hopeless task nnder
the present reign of terror over tho ne
groes. A disposition is felt to give seme
attention to Arkansas should there seem
to be a possibility of securing the return
of Senator Dorsey, or any other equally
influential person. Ig Iowa, Colorado,
Wisconsin, Kansu, Nevada, Vermont and
New Hampshire, the local eommitteea
report them ability to earry on the cam
paign withont assistance, other than the
supply of documents.
How It to flMiipuattd.
New York special to Baltimore San.)
The “worms” and “grass have oansed
I chopping off of the extreme figures for
the cotton crop by our Exchange, and the
coneermtive figures ore now from 4,750,-
000 to £000,000 bales. The whole range
of the estimatae may he placed at4,750>
000 to 5,250,000, against 5,500)000—a fig
ure not long since indulged in. The
market this morning is rather firmer on
goed Liverpool report, but the prepon
derance of feeling to the room appears
to be bearish. An opinion, at beat, just
now is Bot worth a rush, as the market
susceptible of being moved up or down
at the will of a few determined operators.
The whole season, for that matter, has
been a treacherous one, and more have
lost money than have made it.
It is true economy to use the best
means first; hence when the Baby ia Buf
fering with Oolie, Diarrhea i, etc., use at
once Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup and observe
its remarkably quick and beneficial ef
fect.
evangelists. CertaiEly it is an anomaly
inpelitioethatif you flog a Democratic
witness you cripple a Republican states
man.
At last tbe true inwardness of the
Southern political situation of 1876 ia
understood by tho whole country, and
although the picture may be printed a
good deal blacker, as well it might be in
truth, it cannot be mote effective. No
candid man, Republican or Democrat,
will now deny that the States of Florida
and Louisiana were wrongfully counted
for Hayes m pursuance of a conspiracy
originating with certain members of the
National Republican Committee, execu
ted by Returning Boards under the in
spiration of visiting statesmen, and
under the protection of the army of the
United States.
An investigation which has accomplish
ed thia much toward electing the troth
cannot be arid to have been begun in
vain.
KsNTuegx baa had a tardy and singu
lar triumph of juatioe. Grove Kennedy,
a desperado, committed mnrder, and de
fied anybody to interfere with him. He
appeared at one of the moat fashionable
watering places to the State, so inert was
the sense of justice in the community.
The Governor, after hia attention had
been called to the ease by the newspa
pers, resolved to see whether the Uw
could be enforced. He sent a detective
offloer, who, by a Btrategem, arrested
Kennedy, and hurried him to Lonisville.
There being no assnranoe that the looal
effloers would prevent a rescue, the Gov-'
ernor returned the prisoner to the eonrt
having jurisdiction to try him, accom
panied by a company of the State Guard.
This military company had to remain on
duty during the trial, and maintain the
majesty of the law at (he peinjt of the
bayonet. The trial miscarried, ao that
a new trial was ordered. This rime Ken
nedy was convicted, and sentenced to im
priaonment for life.
true Congressional Outlook in
North Georgia.
So far aa wa oan asoertoin the “inde
pendents” in this hot bed of rebellion
against that time-honored organisation,
the nations! democracy, aro decidedly to
a bad way.
In the ninth district it is generally eon
ceded that the oonteat ia narrowed down
to a struggle between the loyal leaden of
the “old guard,” Messrs. Bell and Carlton*
The former would seem to hold the van
tage ground judging by the returns of
the primary conventions and elections,
bnt then we were told that some counties
always go counter to their instructions,
and there were many sanguine friends of
Dr. Carlton m Athens willing to bet that
he will be nominated.
That terrible two-thirda rule shades all
the hopes of the contestants and throws
a painful glamour o’er their prospects.
If the leal followers el each remain
true to their colors, then no choice can be
made, and Mr. Speer and hia recalcitrant
followers will rejoice, and ply their
efforts with inoreased assiduity.
Tied-oufc horses, too, are neighing and
champing their bite, impatient to be
booked for the rape.
We can but hope, however, that after a
reasonable number of ballotings has
demonstrated that neither ot the regular
candidates can expect to receive ao large
a majority in the Convention, the weaker
will yield to the stronger and make
unanimous the wishes of the plurality ot
voters.
It is the only way to assure the defeat
of Mr. Speer and bring grief and humili
ation upon the heads of those malcon
tents who would sacrifice their country
to the personal and private aspirations of
an ambitious leader.
It is high time that the two-thirds
rule, which is the grave of statesmen and
the opportunity of up6tari?, was abol
ished to all representative assemblages.
Inthe Eighth District, true to their
old lo»e for Mr. Stephens, the “great
commonex”who slew the “Know-Nothing
party,” end has illustrated Georgia for
two generations, his constituents have
consented to ignore the peevish and un
gracious deliverances of the cld man and
continue to trust and confide in his pa
triotism and love of country.
We were assured that the opposition
to hia re-nomination in the Thomson
convention wculd be next to m Ail.
Wo cannot sufficiently applaud thia
prudent course on the part of the De
mocracy of the Eighth. The evils tbat
would inevitably ensue if the color line
was broken down and the party divided,
far outweigh tbs trivial sacrifice of feel
ing involved in tho renomination of thefC
old servant, who, however seemingly de
fiant and unreasonable, no one believed
would betray the interests of hia native
State. •
Is the Seventh the contest is red hot
between tho gallant one-armed ex-Con-
ganigjr, Dr. Felton. It would appear
from the accounts received of the active
oenvass already inaugurated that, wjth
the removal of the old causes of diacqn’
tent among the Democracy, the prestige
of the Dooior has perceptibly waned, and
it is now confidently predicted that he
will he leftist tfehtad in the zaea with’hfs
gallant and popular antagonist, who a
the regular nominee.
Thia ia a result most devoutly to be
wished for.
In the Atlanta District several candi
dates, notably, Colonels Mynatt, Ham
mond and Stewart, are announced as con
testants for the seat of Mr. Candler.
May we net hope that they sqfil aS ao^piit
their claims to a convention and sustain
the nominee, whoever he may be, with
unanimity and enthusiasm.
Independeney is the Pandora’s box of
the Democracy, fraught with all manner
of evil and ruin to the country. Oar
only salvation ia to scotch the progress of
the hydra-headed monster. Let it he
done effectually.
Iasi WMk’i Cotton FJjfarefl.
The New York Chronicle, of gftfnrday,
reports the reeelpte of the rfevbn days
ending the previous Friday night, at
5,267 bales, against 4,454 the correspond-
ng week of last year. Total receipts of
Ibe current cotton year to that data V
248,551 bales against 3,949,1^3 ti same
data in 1877, showing an excess of 299,-
389 balsa.
The Interior port business of thia week
waaas follows: Receipts 3,222, agslret
1.944 bales during tbe corresponding
week of last year. Shipments 5,124,
against 5,024. Stocks 18,033, against
28,967 at the same date of last year.
The Chronicle’s visible supply table
showed, en Friday night last, 1,630,363
bales of cotton to sight, against 2jrS3o,-
801 at same date of last year, 3,313,272
the year before, and 2,458,630 to 1375.
This shows a decrease in supply amount
ing to 565,438 bales as etfmpartd with
last year, 667,909 bales as compared with
tho supply of 1876, and 808,267 bales aa
compared with the supply of 1875. Cot
ton was worth 6Jd for middling upland in
Liverpool last Friday—it was 6 5-16 at
same date laBt year, 52 at same date in
1878, and seven peace at some date to
1875.
The weather telegrams of the Chronicle
Bhow excess of rain to Texas, Arkansas
and parts of Tennessee, Louisiana and
Mississippi. Galveston reports flye days
of rain daring the week. Crop endan
gered by caterpillars—great demand for
poisons, and proepeok getting gloomy.
Indlanola reports caterpillars and much
damage feared, though little done aa yet.
Corsicana talks grass, bnt orop, In the
main, doing well. Dallas haa found the
grass and weeds so rank that some ootton
land haa been thrown ont. Brenham
says there is general discouragement from
grass and worms-
New Orleans, Shreveport, Vicksburg
and Colnmbns, in Mississippi, and Little
Bock oomplain of rain and grass, bnt aay
nothing abont worms. Mobile had five
days of rate, and says caterpillars are
about. Montgomery reports that tha
prairies aza fruiting poorly, and hears
rumors of the caterpillar. Columbus,
Georgia, says the caterpillars have cer
tainly appeared to that vleinity. All tbe
other stations send a good report.
A Solid Chunk of Wisdom,
Philadelphia Time*-)
Newspapers are being extensively used
in many of tha pnblio sohools of the west
in plaoo of books for reading lessons. The
wisdom of this'epuse la apparent. Muoh
more is to be leaned from one good
newspaper than from half n dezen ordi
nary school readers, and a well-edited
paper Is quite as trustworthy la the mat
ter of good English; ft is fnD of contem
poraneous history, of intelligent discus
sion, and affords a piolare ef tho world,
study of whieh Is nearly as beneficial as
experienoo of it.
To have the neck variegated with Boils
and the face bedecked with Pimplas and
Blotches is the some of misfortune. Dr.
Bull’s Blood Mixture by its health giv
ing properties cures all these disorders by
purifying the blood.
The New York Sun says the use of
pouonsfor the protection of glowing
crops against their common enemy, tbe
fly and beetle, has become eo freqaent
that farmers are apt to forget tbe pro
parties of the article they are handlist;
and serious results often follow its care
less use. From mny pieces we hear of
large numbers of feathered beauties dy
ing from eating of the potato vine npon
which Faris green has been dusted.-
Quail, orioles, and robins suffer severely
in this way. Dead fish are found float
ing upon the surface after eating the
bugs washed into the pounds and
atream?. A melancholy incident is the
death of a promising girl in Connecticut
from eating currents on which Paris
green had blown from a potato field.
Gossip about the dead Queen op
Spain.—The superstitious recall that os
she entered the Church of the Atafcha on
her marriage day the bearer ot her train
stumbled, a bad omen; also, that at the
bull-fight next day a veteran torero many
years ago a favorite at Madrid, opened
the amusement by turning to the royal
box and exclaiming to the Queen, “May
Your Majesty live 100 years l" Next
moment he was toeaed by the boll. The
Qeen died at daybreak in the arms of her
hnsh&nd end in the preaenoe of her
parent?, the Infanta Christine and the
Minister?. Cardinal Moreno administer
ed the last rites to the dyieg woman,
who preserved her clearneasand serenity
of mind. “Does Your Majesty regret
leaving this life?” he asked. “Yea,’
ate replied, “Ido, but it is for Alfonso
nd my parents’ sakes.”
A LUhtnlni Behcdnle.
Xash vilJe American.
Elopement, marriage, twins and di
vorce have happened to an Icdiana (til
federate, Colonel Lrttsr, and the disoi- witnin a year.