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X1IB STATE LEGISLATURE. Atlanta, July 26,1879, THE SENATE met at 10 a. m. President Lester in tbe ebiit Prayer by Rev. Mr. McCauley. Tbe Journal was read and approved. The ncfiniahed business of yesterday was resumed, which was the considera tion of tho report of the House on the investigation of the signing’ of tho Northeastern bonds, and the substitute offered by Senator Bower, (already re ^Senator Clarice spoke in opposition to Senator Bower’s substitute. Senator Hudson defended the Gover nor in the endorsement to tho fullest ex tent. Senator Holcombe spoke on the other line. President Lister thought that the Senate ought to take action on the re port. The S-iua'o adjourned pending this debate. Atlanta; July 23, 1879. THE HOUSE met this morning at the honr of nine, Hon. A O Baoon, the Speaker, in the chair. Prayer was offered np by Rev. H. H. Tucker, D.D. The j mrnal was read and approved. Mr. Welch moved, alter dno notice given, to reconsider so mncli of tbe jour nal as relates to the aotion of the House upon a bill ‘‘to amend section 1397 of the coda relative to the praotica of medi cine," woioh was loifc under an adverse report. Tea motion prevailed, and tbe bill was recommitted to the Committee of PavsioUoa of the House. Oa motion of Mr. SlcCurry, of Hirt, tho rules were suspended and the follow ing bill was read the second time: “To incorpora’e tho Hartwell (Hire county) Btilroad Company to ran from Hartsville to Brown»villu. Tna rules were farther saopended on motion of Mr. Nisbet, of Bibb, and a bill was read the second time, “To an- tborize the issue of iutereat-b taring bonds by the Mayor and Caunoil of Ma con far refunding the bonded debt and landing part of the Abating debt of said city.** The rules ware farther suspended on motion of Mr. Cox, of Troup, and a bill was read the third time, “To amend an act authorizing the oity of West Point to organize a public school system isdepsn- dent of the public schools of the State. The bill was osssed—vote yeas 109, nays 0; and was immediately transmitted to tbe Senate. Tto regular o:d-r of business was the CALL Or COUNTIES for the introduction of new matter, un der which order the following bills were offered. Mr. Chambers of Wilkerson, to carry into effect the provisions ef tbe new con- stiintion inreferenoo to elections, and to ohaoga the location of county seats. Ja- dicmry. Mr. Hull of Spaulding, to amend tho law for the protection of the treasury. Finance. Mr Bleokly of Bsbnn, to repeal tho aol fixing compensation of connty offi cers in said ouunty. Special Legislation. Mr. McCnrry, of Hart, to provide for protection against sale, of spurious and worthless fertilizers, Agriculture. Abo to r-gnlate filing of notices of writs of certiorari. Judiciary. Mr. Rosea, of Fallon, to authorize the issue of bonds in said county for the purpose of erecting a new court house, and to lavy tax for the same purpose. Finance. (Note. This will leave the city hall lot, offered by the city to the State as a location of the new capitol, vacant: The cite for tbs new court house is on the corner of Hunter and Fryer.) Mr. Halsey, of Falton. to provide for the relief of Normy A. GaskilL Judi ciary. AW to provide for the relief o! S. A. Daniel. Finance. Mr. Waters, of Dougherty, to Incor porate within the bounds of the oity of Albany the grounds of the Northeast In dustrial Aseoaiation. Special Legisla tion. Hr. Northern, of Hancock, a resolution to allow the Committee of E luoation to attend tbe commencement exercises of tbe State University. Agreed to. Mr. Turner of Coweta—To prescribe the manner or carrying deadly weapons. Judiciary. Also to empower County Commission ers of Coweta county to purchase the bridge over tbe Chattahoochee river at Morns’ Ferry. Corporations. Mr. Tansy of Clatk—To amend the act chartering the University of Georgia, to provili for tbe purchase of the “Lucy Cobb" as a branch of said University, for the purpose of free female educa ion. Education. Also a resolution to present a portrait of Crawford W. Long to the art gallery at Washington, he being the discoverer of Anesthesia. E luoation. Mr. Bussell of Chatham—To create a State Board of Health to prevent the rpread of epidenno diseases. Committee Paysicians of the House. A message from the Senate was re ceived and read. Mr. Butler of Camden—To provide for tbe registration of voters in said county. Also to amend an act incorporating tho city of Baint Marys with memorial. Both bills and the memorial were re ferred to tbe Committee on Local and Special Bills. Mr. Harris of Bibb, lo' define who are ineuracce sgenis cf insurance companies not Incorporated by tbe laws of thtB S:»'e. Judiciary. Hr. Davie of Baker, to exempt otysi- cisu. from special tix. Ftuanoe. Mr. Bridie tf Paulding, to create a board ef commissioners of roads and rev enues in said county. Special L’gfela- Uon. Mr. Fletcher of living, a bill lo pro hibit tbe sale of spiritaons liijucr in said county. Special Legislation. Mr. Dupree of Macon, efferei a memo rial from the citisena of said eoan'y. Ju diciary. Mr. Polbill, tf Jeffsreon, moved to eus pend the rules and take np the Senate resolution to appoint a joint committee of the House ana Smite, to oonsider tho Capitol proposition of tbe oity of Atlan ta. Agreed to tnl tbe resolution con curred in. Tbe regular order was suspended by motion of Mr. Miller, of Houston, and Smote bills were taken np and read tbe. first lime. . . SENATE BILLS. - To enforce Use provisions of' the new Constitot oo relative (o the sale of liquor on election days. Judiciary, To amend Section 8354 of Code. Ju diciary. To ptovide for the change of county line*. Committee on County and Cjuu y Linos. To amend section 3962 of Code. Judi- clary. To amend section, 2943 of code.- Ja- clary. tntion relative to the revision of jury* lists. Judiciary. To amend eeo 1920 of cod9. Jndiciary. To made it a penal offense to poison any domestic animal. Jndiciary. To provide how certain TnVts may be brought against the M. & B. B. B. Railroad. To provide for the compensation of jurors in justice courts. Finance To amend sec. 4559 of code. Judiciary, To define State line between Georgia and South Carolina. Finance. To change the fiscal year. To define disputed county lines. County and connty lines. To amend saotion 3233 of tbe aide. Jndiciary. Tu restore the trne meaning in the oode of the writ to remit the judgment of the Supreme Court to the oourt below. Ja dietary. To prescribe and fix the compensation of jnrors in this State. FtnauQe. To exempt from taxation articles men tioned in the new constitution, as ex empt. Ftnanoe. To amend section 3339 of the oode. Jndioiary. To define the crime of poisoning, pre scribing penalty therefor. Jndiciary. To amend section 9694 of the code, Judiciary. To provide for the retnrn of special taxes. Finance. To restore tho offices of tax collector and tax receiver in all counties where these two offices have been consolidated. Fi nance. lo allow replevy by ftrmea pauperis in claim cases. Referred to Judiciary Com mittee. To fix the fees of ordinaries and other officers m homestead oases under the pro- visions of the new Constitution. Judici ary. To provide for the cancellation of deeds and mortgages to secure debts under certain conditions. Referred to Jndiciary Committee. To repeal section 4533 of the code, of fering substitute. Referred to Judiciary Committee. To empower judges of tho Superior Court to employ a stenographer reporter in each circuit. Referred to Judiciary Committee. To re enact Beotian 4324. Judiciary Committee. To amend section 4161 of the code. Judicial y. The Home then, on motion of Mr. Wright, of Richmond, adjourned till to morrow in order to receive Mr. Stephens and to bear his promised and muoh an ticipated epeeob cn the great question of national politic*. The galleries of th9 House were crowd ed with a brilliant array of beanty and oonrage, while the fl >or of the House wee devoted to the Representatives, Senators and distinguished men of the Stats. . At tbe hoar of 12 m. Mr. Stephens, supported by Speaker Bacon, advanced np the Bisle and took his seat on tbe Speakers stand. His appearance was greeted with great applause. Caroltnn. BY TELEGKAFU. Havana, July 27.—Suoab.—O wing lo rumors of alteration in the dnty on cer tain kinds of sugar in the United States, business was cartailed—specially in cen trifugal?, which eufiered a decline. All other classes were firmly sup ported at an advance. Numbers 10 to 12 ds 7 tu 7$ reals gold per arrobe; Noe. 15 to 20 de 8) to 9} reale. Molaesse, su gars. Nos, 7 to 10 at 6 to 6) reals. Mus covado sugar, common to fair, 6 to CJ reals. Centrifogals, sugar, Noe. 11 to 13, boxes and hogsheads, 8} to 8} reals. Stock in warehouse at Havana and Mo torizes, 85 900 boxes, 72.000 bigs, 59,« 300 bag-. 932 Receipts for the wetfc, 3 300 m x *, 106 bags, 932 hogsheads. Export- for the week, 6,850 bixes, 1,000 bags, 9 050 hogsheads, in cluding 1,100 box s, 672 bags and 8,260 hogsheads, to the United States. Tooac- oo quiet. Spanish gold, two thirteen and a half to fonrteen. Excnange firm; on the United States 69 days, gold 9J to 10}; short sight, 10) to 11); on Lon don, 20}; on Paris, 7}. London, July 27.—In view, of the ap proaching competition of tbe new Frenoh oable, the Auglo-Amertoan Cable Compa ny has decided to lay a new oable next year to faoiliiate tbe transmission of the increased number of messages which will result from a lower tariff. Advices from Mosoow announce that Agrarian diatarbanoes have broken oat In various districts of Poland. Nearly three hundred engineers, who are on a strike at Bradford, are about to emigrate to the Uaitsd States and Can ada. A Renter’s dispatch from Constantino ple represent-) that the crisis etill contin ues. Tne latest indications are unfavora ble to Kheirdden’e remaining in power. Simla, July 27.—Major Gavanar and the members of the British mission ar rived at Cabal oa the 24m instant, and were received with briltiant military hon ors and salutes. The demeanor of the populaco wxs respeotfal. Yskoob Kahn replied in very friendly terms to the speech made by Major Oovognori oa pre senting his credentials. Aloises, July 27.—The Governor Gen eral haa issued a decree sequestrating the territory of the cities which recently re volted, an imposing an extraordinary con tribution of 255 000 francs upon them. Pabis, July 27.—The Catholics journals here publish a letter of the Archbishop of Paris to the members of the Senate pro testing, in the name of libetty, against the education bill. Peter burg, Va., July 27.—-Oa Satur day evening Captain Daniel Dodson, with hie wife, five daughters, two grand children and oook, were made seriously ill by eating ice-cream, tho custard of which had been boiled in a brass kettle. Tbe neighbors to whom seme of the ice cream had been cent wero also taken ill after eating it. Pittsburg, Jaly 27.—The storm of yesterd«y, though not so severe in the city or immediate vioioity, was fearful in its effects on the surrounding villages and country. The oil towns of Potrolia and Kama suffered terribly. Twenty- five hemes in the former place wero swept away and destroyed aad the line of railroad between Parker and Kama city were submerged, bridges were wash ed oat—culverts destroyed and the road bed in many places ruined. Ths people of that section barely es caped wita their lives. The rainfall np tbe Monongbahela Val ley and along tho line of the Baltimore and 01 lo railroad, which tk its Yoaghio- gkenny, was the heavisat known for years. Houses, fences, outbuildings, lumber and other property were swept away and many of the coal mines flooded. Tbe miners in some of them narrowly es caped d.owning- At Shrodet’a min3s ucjt E izibsth the miners waded through water up to their chins. Nearly ell ths railroad lia83 centreing here, wi-h the exception of the Pennsyl vania Csntrfcl,report mors or lees damage end consequent delay of traffic. * The only known lo3i of life is thtt of Ur?. Dirby, who was drowned in attempt To amend provision of the new cossti- iagiocroaa creek near Shonsi’d Sti tioo on the Baltimore and Ohio road. The damage to growing erops has been very great. At Irwin’s station the rain fall was seven inohes, and the Youghlo- ghenny branch railroad was damaged in several places, the foroe of the water be ing so great as to break steel rails. The railroad people are hard at work in all directions, and will have ths dam age repaired in the shortest possible time. New York, July 27.—Potrolia, Pa., dispatches say the flood caused by the storm of yesterday was very disastrous. The business portion of tho town is budt directly over the creek, and when the rushing waters struck tbe piles on which he buildings stood it floated orerything away bodily—sweeping off and demolish ing all bowses from the railroad totae. Central Hotel. Twenty-five business houses on Railroad street were completely d !8troyed,as well as many on Main street. A great number were flooded and badly itjared. The large oolisenm, where the walking match was going on at the lime of the flood, was completely do strayed, and the pedestrians acd specta tors barely escaped. Advices from Monongahela Citv, on Irwin and Peters creek, say the fljod was the worst ever fenewn. Immense dam age was done everywhere to railroads, bridges, culverts and crops. Brockton, Out., July 27 —Daring a terrible thunderstorm this afternoon, the ijita and child of George Hatton, who took refuge beneath a tree, were struck by lightning. The child was" instantly killed in its mother's arms, and Mrs. Hatton fatally injured. A man was also killed on an island a short distance np the river. Montreal, Jaly 27.—An indignation meeting was held here last night, at which strong resolutions were passed against tbe removal of Lieutenant Gov ernor Letellier. Memphis, July 27.—Fourteen new oases ot yellow fever were reported to tbe Board of Health to-day. Among the moat prominent are Miles 0*en, Brooks Wilsos and James Meath. Nice deaths f.-om fever hare occurred since las: night, as follows i C. M. Widrig, Eva Widrig, Henry Parthesns, LjuU H. Webrum, Mrs. W. Him merle, Mrs. James A-h- brook, Ed Kearny, Mary Barns and Chas. Patimat- At a meeting of the Howard Asiocia tioa this afternoon it was naanimon-ly resolved that the Association needs no as siatauce at present from physicians or curses from abroad, to attend to the com paratively few esses now under then curses. We offer heartfelt thanks to many who have already kindly tendered their services, and who will be gratefully remembered. We would add that an let no circumstances will the services of an* acclimated people be hereafter accepted. Two colored military companies went into comp to-day on the bluff under order, o. Colonel Jao. F. Cameron, of the Gjv- e i.’rf staff. The police and fire departments have been strengthened, end the antbori.ies do not now anticipate any trouble. Compa for the colonization of poor people will positively be established to morrow. Little Bock, July 27 —Robert M. Johnson, Reprt-sen'ative from Arkansas from 1847 to 1853, and Senator in Con gress from that time to 1861, died at 11:30 last night, at his residence in this city, after an illness of two weeks. Prior t- the war, he was a man of.vunparalleled popularity in Arkansas. Through hib personal inflaence a grant ot lauds in atd of building the Iowa and Fulton ann Memphis, Little Boek and Fort Smith Bxilroad was passed by Congress. College Point, L. I., July 27-—Aa excursion party from New York got into a row at Freygang’d pavilion near here to-day, in the course of which one mao wa3 shot d-ad and two wounded. Tu-re was fighting on tho boat all the way from New York. Buffalo, July 27.—Two men named Mahoney and Sullivan were drowned while fishing in Black Bock Harbor to day. Sullivan lost his life in trying to save hie companion. A coroner’s jury in the case of two men who recently lost their lives by fall ing off the East Buffalo warehouse, ba- rendered a verdict severely censuring the supervisor of the work of construction and declaring the Leighton Bridge and Iron Company responsible for the aocidant. la an affray between Italian card players at 314 Mott street, last night, Posaria Marano was fatally stabbed with a etilletto. A largely attended meeting of work- iogmen was held here last night to dis cuss tbe eight hoar movement, and spirited addressee were made and resolu tions passed in favor thereof. Sr. Louis, July 27.—Dr. Ritherford, of the Texas State B laid of Health, bos telegraphed to the officials of this place that medioal officers will bo sent from Texes, Cairo, St. Louie acd Hannibal who will examine all persons going to Texas by railroad, and givo them certificates if found to be well or not recently from the yellow fevor districts. Hautfjkd, July 27.— The Hartford Foundry and Machine Company’s works were badly damaged by an incendiary fire to-day. The loss is estimated at $55,- L00. This afternoon the City Stone Branding works were a's; burned; lois $10,000. Mxmphi), Jaly 23.—Throe new ca9es were reported to the Board of Health this morning. No deaths occurred. A detail of twenty-five men from the color ed military companies has been d:tailed to do police duty in the daytime, a3 ths entire strength of tho regular police force ha* been assigned to the night service. It has been raining steadily since day light. De Samuel J. Fox, of Eanis, Texas, arrived this morning. He will be sent out of the city to night by order of John Johnson, Superintendent of qnoratine, as he has never bad the fever and the in spectors at the quarantine have been in structed not to permit unacclimated peo ple to enter the city. London, July 28.—British ship “River Lune,” Capt Robson, from 8in Francisco, due 23, which ariived at L’orent, France, Jaue 29th, is ashore on one of the Scilly Islands. It is expeoed she will become a total wreck. Tne crew have been res cued. A di.-patch dated Valparaiso, July 26th, to Doysls, Bays the Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s steamer Illimani, of four thousand tons, has been wrecked. All hands were saved. London, July 23.—A dispatch from Constantinople to Neuter's. dated to-day, £ays the Saltan having rejected that part of the programmes of Khaireddin Pasha, grand vizier, relative to the establish ment of a responsible ministry, Khair- redin has definitely resigned. A irife Pasha, formerly Turkiih Ambassidjr to Franc?, and who haa twice filled tho of fice of Foreign Mimstor in the Turkish Cabinet, haa been appointed his succes sor. Washington, July 28.—Dr. Bea- ies telegraphs from New Orleans to the National Board of Health jto- day: “One Jatal ease of yellow fever at the corner of Second and Conatacoe streets, an Italian girl. The premises were filthy and crovdtd. No other case here." London, July 20.—Tae Truss haa a di;p-tch confirming the revolted dtetruo tion of the theatre in the Kremlin, Mos cow, by an incendiary fire. The stair., case was saturated with petroleum, prob ably by tho Nihilists, and the. torch ap plied. The theatre building burn d for five hours, Constantinople, July 23.—An Irade baa just been issued declaring the Grand Viziet’s resignation a necessity, abolish ing tho Grand Vizerata and appointing Aarif Pasha Premier and Sarafet Pasha minister nf foreign affairs.. New Yoke, Jaly 28.—’The Peruvian minister, now here, has jact received the following telegram from Senor Irigoyen, foreign minister at Lima, via Panama. Tho Huaacar entered the blookado port of Iquique, fought the Chilian squadron two Hours, leaving hers duconv bat theConBino and Abtao. The Hans- ear is unhurt. TbiscTb, Jaly 28 —There was a vio lent hurricane Sued iy in' this part of the Adriatic. Several Jiv 9 were lost Twenty vessels were damaged and one. sunk. New Yobk, July 28.—Miohael Fitz- gibbone, one of tba Memphis refugees who came here, died to-day at quarantine of yellow fever. John Henneesy, one of the stevedores who assisted in the un loading of the steamer City of Merida and contracted yellow fever, died at quaran tine Use night. A. F. Beitb, barber of the steamer Saratoga and E. B. Esty, steward of Che schooner Freddie C. Eo- bitt, from Haitian ports, were admitted to the hospital to-day, sick with the fever. Galveston, July 28—A spjeial dis- patoh to the News from San Antonio, gives the following particulars of the killing of Thomas F. D-wee3 by Charles Temple. Charles Temple and Jame3 Ord, a son of General Ord, Department Commander, were ridtog from tbe town of Pleasanton when they were bailed by Thomas F. Da- wees, between whom acd Temple a fend existed. Temple asked Devces what he wanted, when the latter knocked him from bis horse with bis fist. Temple re treated, bat was followed by DeWeos, who continued striking him. Finally Temple drew a knife acd plnoged it into Ds- wees’ heart, eausiug his instant death. Temple and Ord were arrested, but the lar-er bas siuoe baen released. Derby Line, Vr., July 28.—Thomas R«d. tbe defaulting cashier of the Firet National Bink of Galveston, Texas, was arrested on Friday at Graabt, Quebec, by a detea.ive. Reed was $49,000 short in bis *?30oants, sad absconded January tart** Philadelphia, July 28.—Saturday nighr, during tbe storm, wmoh flooded tbe tracks of tha North Pennsylvania road, tha Doylstown accommodation train ?nd the Bethlehem express collided near Elge Hill. Both trains were badly wrecked. Some of tha passengers bad their limba fractured, bnt no lives were Washington, Jaly 28.—The Secrttiry of War has telegraphed the President of the Board of Health of Memphis, in re sponse to tha applioatian for tents and rations, that rations will only be furnish- id to persons sick with the fever or in quarantine camp, who can be eubs s :sd in oo other way. Cincinnati, July 28—Chris Myers, who left Memphis a few days ago, called on the health officers this afternoon, and said be believed he had yellow fever. After an examination tbe officer sent him to tbe boepital as a suspicions case. Selma, July 28—Hod. W. Y. Little, President of the Alabama Senate, is dead. Philupcppolis, Jaly-28.—Thera is great excitement and some apprehension of distnrbancss here in consequence of the decision of tbe Internation Commis sion that tbe postal and telegraph admin istrators must be appointed by the La. thaus. Baltihobs, July 2S.—Thos. H. Ben ner, lodge keeper at Antietam cemetery, was ubot and instantly killed yesterday by his wife. The latter claims to have acted in self defense. Deal Bbach, N. J. Jaly 28.—The shooting match here to-day at one hun dred birds each, thirty yards risa between Edgar G. Murphy tho crackshot of the Long Branch game club and Donald Swan, the famous wing shot cf Mary land, was won by the latter by a soore of 85 to 7i). Cincinnati, July 28.—The Congres sional election frauds investigating com mittee examined only two witnesses to day, one of whom testified that a deputy marshal had offered him five dollars to bay another man's vote and the other that he bad seen a deputy marshal elec tioneering at the polls. London, Jaly 28.—A dispatch from Scmh Afrioi, via Madeira, says Lord Chelmsford is about to.tender hi3 resig nation. Sir Stafford Noitbcsie, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was thrown from his carriage by a collision at ’nibam on Sat urday, and was muoh ehakeu. He bad a narrow escape. It is hoped that be will be perfectly recovered in a few days. London, July 28.—Paris Lordre insists on the validity ot the recent resolution uf the Baaaptrtist leaders declaring Prince Jerome Napoleon the head ot the Bosapartist family. He says it is an of ficial declaration of the Bonapartist party, and invites those who no longer belong to that party to declare their secession. A Parts dipatch to the limes eays this shows that Mr. Bonher, after some weeks of inaction and silence, has again taken the field to enforce obedience on his mutinous colleagues. It does not, how ever, look as if his efforts would suc ceed. Mosc rw, Jaly 28 —The publication c t the Oroshadnin has been suspended by order of the government. London, July 23.—A Madrid dispatch to tbe Daily News saj s no complete ex tension ot slavery is expected ia Cuba nntil the Coolie immigration nnder the John F. Cameron, with a detachment of colored soldiers,Hook passage on a train famished by Superintendent Barke, of the Mississippi & Tennessee railroad, and established a camp five miles below where Camp Joe Williams was establish' ed last year. Tents were taken alcng. and by morning the detail will have fifty tents ready for occupation. A. D. Longatreet, president, and Gen eral W. J. Smith, vice-president of the Howard Association, have been added to tbp executive committee. Nashville, July 23.—Oa and after Thursday next, the Louisville and Nash- v<lle railroad, having determined to dis continue its trains between McKenzie and Memphis, which connect with those of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St Lonis railroad, trains on the latter rose will not go farther than McKenzie. Nashville wilt then be without direot con nection with Memphis. Trains on the Louisville and Nashville railroad stop ping at Milan, one hundred miles distant, and those o? the Memphis and Charleston railroad at Moscow, forty miles distant Mails wili bj forwarded on locomotives, This action will make an absolute quar antine agaist Memphis. New Oblzans, July 23.—The case of Nincenza Spono first attracted attention on Saturday, when Drs. Demise, White, Bailey aud Hull visited the patient and all agreed it was a sporadic case of yellow fever, the first that has occurred this season. A member of the Board of Health immediately sent a nurse who re mained with the girl until she died at one o'clock this morning. She was buried in Cypress Grove Cemetery. The Spoco family has been here two years, bat last summer, at tbe breaking out of the fever, removed to Carroilcon and their house remained closed during the entire season. The family moved to- d»y to another house. The Boa’d of Health are destroying all the bedding, etc., and fumigating their premises. Tbe entire neighborhood, foursquares around, is being disinfected with the new preparation of zino and iron, and tbe Auxiliary Sanitwy Asiooistiou and Board of HoKlib a:e doing their utmost to pre vent a spread of the disease. The for mer association, in accordance with tbe resolutions adopted lost week, begin to day tbe work of disinfeotiug the oitj^ They oommenoed on the river front with a large foroe, aud will continue nutil the work is complete. Effect of the IIxllow Fbveb Panic The Coiosgo Commercial Report esti mates the loss to tba provision trade al ready, in consequence of the yellow fever blockade at Memphis and the depression in prices and falling off in trade, at not lets than $15.000,0c0. Large quantities of pork end bacon which were intended foi Bile at tbs South, and would have betn sold there bat for the fever, will now have to bs carried ovet into the next seaiott. This fact has a material tffac*. upon pii- ces, which a re already so low us ibe cost of production will warrant. ..... drinks, whi-U were In great demand at 25 recent treaty between Spain and Chin* ‘cent* each: the Comtes* Kvrolyi and Lady i,„n '/» nrr.eig Q Bkelmertddo imporinuei men in the_ciqw<l is sufficiently Urge to provide laborers for the plantations. It is said, however, that the government wilt soon submit u bill on the Caban eltvery question to the Coates. Louisville, July 23.—Mrs. Poraetoy, who recently arrived wilh her child from Memphis, and was taken with yellow fever, died in the hospital to day. - Tne child who also has tho fever is doing Weil. This is the third death hero from fever, all having been refugee esses. Tho citi zens of tho town of Guthrie, which is a Stale quarantine station of the Lou:s- villo and Memphis Read held a meeting a to-day and resolved to resist the estab lishment of tho yellow fever hospital there, even with extreme measures if necessary. Msmfhis, July 23.—Ten additional cases were report id to the Board of Health th>s afternoon, sis of which were colored. Two deaths from yeilow fev.-r occurred, one Gt which, however, was be yond tho city limits. The special policemen engaged ia tak ing tho census of the city completed the task to-day. Tho result shows the pop ulation of Memphis to ba 16.110—viz: whites 4,283, colored 11.827; adults 10,- 651, children 5.459. 01 the total numb r 9,743 have had the fever, .leaving 7.367 snstepiible to the dias*s?. Failing to secure transportation to the site selected far the estahiishment of a camp on the Paducah r&troad, Colonel Nj ono can think o!e«>ly when Buffet ing with Ucadaebe. Dr. Bah’a Balt.uioie pills will banish this disagreeable ailment. Price 25 cants. —1 Maine political speaker mentioned somebody as a Shylock, and an auditor asked who Bhjloak was. ‘It you don’t know,' tbe orator soomtally replied, ‘you’d better go home and read jour ikble.’ —dome people perhaps are surprised be cause tha lever has not yet been declared tpidemuc in Memphis. Dr. Thornton says it ia beoause the deaths from yellow fever so far, have not bsenin exceea of tho deaths from other causes. When it beoomea to he will declare ths fever epldemio. —Geo. P. Iijwoii & <Jo , in the Amerloan Newspaper Directory for July, show tnat the whole number of newspapers in the United States has increased a.nee January of the current year, Lorn 8.703 to 9,153. New pa pers abound in tbe Territories- Suspensions have been fowar than ia any corresponding period for several years. —Typhoid fever has almost assumed the propor ions of an epidemio in the southweBt part of Terre Haute. 1 here were two deaths on Wednesday and one last week, and twen ty-six persons are down with it now, nearly ail the cases being within tbe small area of tbe third ward The doctors disagree as to what is the local cause of tho malady. tiDPEasrjTioN as Mbephis.—The Memphis correspondent of the New York Times says that on Thursday a flock of 41 sandhill cranes flow to the city from the Burroundmg coun try, and, after ciro'ing above the city for two or three minutes, started for the South. An old negro standing near remarked that it was a sign cf tha destruction of tha city, and called on all folks present to matk his prediction. —Ex-Congressman Jore Haralson (col.) of Alabama, is in Washington, advising with prominent Republicans as to the exodns movement cf the blacks, wbi:h he says will set in this fall with an earnestness and whole sale sweep not now dreamed of. He stye that not lees than 15,100 will leave his dis trict clcne this fall, to say nothing of other p iris o! the State. The same rate from the other districts will take 100,000 from Alaba ma alone. *-The average of mortgages upon the far ming lands of Prance i* but 5 par cent. In England it ia 53. The United States have but 8,000,000 proprietary agriculturists. Franco, Wu'ti a vastly smaller area, has G,~ OJO.OOJ, 5.01)0,009 of whom are small farmers. England noe but 250,000 land holders, and 12 per cent, only of the people till the Boil; tha rest are engaged in manufac.uring and other pursuits, une million are paupers. A Aids Dou. ir Tho Rocky Mountain Presbyterian says when ths eun is giving its good night kies to our westernmost isle, on th9 confines cf Behring tie a, it is already flooding the fields and f siesta of Maine with its mdteing light, and in the eastern part of that fta'.e is more than an hour high. At the very moment when the Alerian fisher man, warned by tha app oaching shades of night, is pulling his canoe towards the shore, the nuodohepper ot Maine ia beginning to make tha fores ocha with the stirring music of iiis ax >. • — at * remarkably snccsstfat charity fair ia London the stalls were in charge of titled women and actresses in about equal Lum bers. Lady Euiield and the Marchioness of Headfort mixed and Bold American fancy Last Week’s Cotton FJsares. The New York Chronicle reports the receipts of the seven days ending Vtl day night, 2oth instant, at 3.272 bales, against 4,086 for the corresponding days of last year. Total to last Friday4,433,- 653 bales, against 4.256,419 to same date of the previous cotton year—making the icorease np to last Friday night 177,234 bales. The Interior cotton porta for the same week received 944 bales against 3,059 daring the same week of last year. They shipped 2.269 bales, against 6,042 las yearj and their stocks on Friday night last footed np 14,410 bales, against 12,' 527 at same date of last year. Ths Chronicle's visible supply table showed last Friday night 1,325.853 bales of cotton in sight, against 1,478,021 last year at the same date, 2,100,196 the year before at same date, and 2,264.836 in 1876 at same date. These figures show a de crease in the visible supply, as compared with 1878, of 152,163 bales. Aa compar ed with 1877 at same date, a decrease of 774,343 bales, and as compared with 1876 at eame date, a decrease of 938,983 bales. Cotton in the Liverpool market .last Friday was quoted at 6 9-16 for middling upland. The quotation the year before, at the same date, was the same. In 1877. at same date it was 6 5-16 and in 1876 515-16. The weather telegrams for the week sent to the Chronicle on Friday, report TexaB a? still burniog up with drought. There had been no rainfall daring the week, either at Indianola, Csrsicana, Dal las or Branham. Galveston had bad a little, and was needing more. The crops everywhere in' Texas were suffering se verely. New Orleans bad bai delightful show ers on six days of tha week. Crops were promising. Caterpillars bad certainly appeared with limited damage so far. Shreveport was still dry. In Mississippi, Vioksburg pronounces the cotton crop as “ safe and very abun dant.” Columbus htd had 1.34 of rain during the week Little Rack, Arkansas, reported an inch and a half of rain. Nashville, 2.35. Mo bile reports 3.63 of rain during the week. Caterpillars on the prairie lands, with limited damage so far. Montgomery, 89 of rain. Crop developing finely. Rumors of caterpillars. Selma says cat erpillars are increasing, but no serious damage yet. Florida reports rust. Co lumbus, Georgia, roports half an inoh of rain during the week. Savannah 1.84, AugU8tal.55. Charleston 2.19. Macon, no report. to buy b-jcipioti-; and the beautiful Mis. Cornwallis West pushed the sales of cigars wiiti ail her mtgh ; but Sara Bernhardt pro* vou tun greatest atiiaotioa, for the crush was « giUAioa! arou .d her,'and her sole of h ;r own portraits was enormous at $2 5D cash, with her autograph. Not Block:ded — Iojurious statement have i>e*n uietemiLatodiu the West, inten ded to affset the shipment of grata to Balti more via the Dilt more and Ohio Railroad, to tho (.fleet that the road ia receiving more wnsat than it can handle. Mr. F. A. Wheeler, superintendent of the Locust Point elevators, hu gout a dispatch to efiiriais ot the road, which every one ia Baltimore conversant with tne whoxt movement knows to ho striot- Jy true, ae follows: ‘There ate reports from the W?et stating that our elevators are bloo- ktdoi. You will p'.exsc contradict thorn, and say that all cam are unloaded promptlv on arrival. The elevators are not half fall.* The capacity of Looast Point' elevators, at Baltimore, is over 2,000,000 bnshels. (OTTOS WoaH is Alabama —It begins to ok, says the Montgomery Advertiser, aa if the cotioa worm piague would surely visit car fanners. Tha following from the Hay- uoviUe -Examiner of yesterday shows that the worm ia clo°o at our owadoora: The worm h&i appealed in apprehensive numodrs in nnny ports of this county, on npper as well aa low lends. Their appear ance iftcxthohot acd diy weather of the past f t,w weess, dispels tbe theory tint the worm cannot propagate aud exist under heat and drougth Tne little pest his not yet time material damage, and planters are go ing to w-.rk and actively combat their every eti-p. Kev. t r. Skinner's Farewell Sermon. This worthy gentleman and distin guished divine preached his last dis course on Sunday at 11 a. m., to a crowd- congregation in the First Baptist Chnrob. Daring the three and a half years of his pastoral connection with his ople not less than 125 persons had ieen converted, baptized and received on a profession of their faith, and a con siderably larger number added by letter from other obnrebes. By actual calcula tion, therefore, os many as one person bad b ien received for every five days of the Doctor’s pastorate. This is a most surprising record, and famishes the best evidence that his labors had baen owned and signally blessed of God. Dr. Skinner’s sermon was based npon a passage in Job whioh depicts the Prov idence of the Most High and His inscru table mysteries. The speaker said men were prone to look at the dark side of every picture. To view the cloud and not the sunshine. Bat clonds overspread onr whole career, and even the Bible was full of dark passages hard to be un derstood. Paul said, “His ways are paBt finding out.” Still these cloads have the silver lining o! hope and prace to the believer—Dad’s love for man is infi nite. It ia manifested continually in the pages of holy writ, and lights np every eentence and sparkles through every cloud that dims the human vision. Tho bible is no respecter of persons. It bears, if possible, with even greater sever ity npon the saint than the simmer. Yet the glorious plan of Balvation is a bright light and unspeakable joy to the f&ithfnl amid all the gleom that envelops his earthly existence. So aho the indis putable evidence of the immortality of the soul and precious truths of revela tion are never failing sources of comfort to the believer. Tbe premature death of the good and useful, and, the way the wicked fl mrish, oh what a cloud o’er our pathway. But we know that “ His way is in the sea, his paths in the waters, and hi3 footsteps are not known.” These clouds too, are mere vapor spots introductory to a higher state of existence. For our “light afflic tions which are but for a moment shall work out for us afar more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” Some men think evil and lore to speak it. There i3 no snob thing as a disinterested act* all is deceit, and every man has his price. Virtue they regard as a mere myth, Bat even hero the light shines in. There is no unmitigated corruption in society. This is seen in all the relations of life. In tbe devoted love of father, mother, and the onences cf husband and wife. Love tights tbe clouds thethang over the. world, and moral justioe will certainly overtake the evil-doer. Religious light aud knowledge are gradually spreading over aU the earth. Even in the case of the desponding Christian the very confession and ac knowledgment ot sin affords good hope thatheisthe child of God. The har dened have no care for the future. The Dootor, In applying bis subject, counselled his hearers to cultivate teh habit of looking st tbe bright side of things—to oonfide in Christ and have faith in His promises. Let the clonds threaten and roll as they will, know that there is sunshine and peaoe beyond to tho believer. The oonolnding remarks of the speaker were fall of tenderness and admonition, and plain were the parting words that he addressed to bis psopls. His discourse, whioh we have in so wise attempted to sfcetob, was one of great power, and cal culated to oomfort the weak and wavering among God’s followers. When the ser vices closed, many oame forward and bade an affectionate adieu to their de parting t a tor. - We trust this eminent man of God wilt soon find himself again in harness, bit •ling for the truth, of whioh he is so bold and fearless an exemplar. THE WIFE'S SONO—“LINGER LONG 1” NO r Linger not long! Home la not home without thee. Its dearest tokens only moke me mourn: Oh I letits memory, like a chain about thee. Gently compel and hasten thy return. Linger not long I Linger not long t though crowds should woo thy staying. Bethink thee—can the mirth ot frienia. though dear, Compensate for the grief thy long delaying Costs tbe poor heart that sighs to have thee here? Linger not long I Linger notlong! how shall I watch thy coming. As evening’* shadow* stretch o’er moor and fells When the wild bee hath ceased her weary hum' ming( And lilence hang* on aU things like a spell! Linger not long! How shall I watch for thee when fear grows stronger. As night grow* darker and darker on thehiUI How shall I weep wbsn I can watch no longer i Oh, art thon absent, art thou absent still? Linger not long! Yet I should grieve not, though the eye that teeth me Gazeth through tears that make its splendor dull; For oh, 1 sometimes fear, when thou art with me. My cup cf happiness is all too full 1 Linger not long! Haste—haste thee home unto thy mountain dwelling. Haste as a bird unto its peaceful nest 1 Haste as a skill, when tempests wild are swell' ing, Flies to its haven of securest rettl Linger not long! IHE GEOBUIA JfitESS. Lo Mars, (Iowa), Sentinel, Ead.J The Southerner pan no moie help being a savage than tbs South ean help produc ing ratilesnskes and yellow fever. At his birth nature stamps barbarism on his brow, liar oa his lion, blaster on his tongue and oewardioe in his beait. Po litical equality between tbe North and South would be a burlesque on govern ment, and must always end in a tragedy. The South meat be disfranchised and con verted into a provtnoo governed by the enlightened and progressive North, or omtinne ty be a political and industrial rapist, clominatid by blattering btrburic chiefs, and doomed to political and indus trial ruin. There is enough of the flavor of xcys iery about the following whioh we find in the Angusta News,of Saturday,to make it quite readable. It purports to be an extraot from a private Atlanta letter, and says: 'There seems to be little doubt here among knowing ones that the Maoon and Brunswick Railroad will, at no distant day, pass into the hands of a New York and Boston company, consisting of Wm. B. Astor acd others of less note though well known in Georgia aa rtilroad mag nates, express men, and other public benefactors in various parts of the Union. It is also understood that the Macon and Angnsta road is part of the programme, either to draw Mr. Wadley into the scheme or remove the iron to continue the Macon and Brunswick road to the Gate City. There seems to be a power fnl undercurrent at work which may wake up some of your railroad officials before they are aware of it, unless wide awake already. Atlanta is determined to offer every faoility to any project that will cat off Macon from Augusta, and some Georgia railroad directors are wink ing at the prospect, as little as yon thick of it.. ‘White man very uncertain.’ ” The Americus boys are the marksmen for our money. Three of them, the Re corder says, killed 84 doves in two hoars one evening last week, one ot them scoring 41 as his share. P. S.—By the way, if there is one thing that tempts our appetite more than another, it ia a broiled dove, so the boys needn't be bashful about tempting it. The Upson County Enterprise is in formed “that a negro man named Henry Matthews, out at Dr. Rogers’ old factory place, was taken from his house on Friday night of last week by a party of masked men, carried down on the banks ot Po tato oreek and was severely whipped. Of course anch proceedings are carried on secretly suet the facts are difficult to ob- tain. Our information is that the provo cation was,' an insult to some young lady.” Dougherty connty tax books show, sajs the News, an inoreaie this, over last year, of $210,000 in property valuation. The value of laud returned by negroes is $11,242, and of city property by tbe same is $29,02-5. They also retnrn $10,- 216 worth of household aud kitchen far- nitare, $36,635 in stook of all kinds and $100,020 as the total valuation of ail prop erly owned by them—an inorease of $30,- 000 in valuation as compared with last year. Another feature ot the return is an inorease in wild land values of $30,- OCO, this over last year. The Valdosta Times tautsl zis ns by telling of some seining in Ochtahstohee lake last week. The net result in font or five hours was a ooapla of thousand trout, bream aud p9ioh, same of the trout weighing six or seven pounds. Hancock connty has increased her taxable values $17,440 this, as compared with last year. Thb Madisonian reports a belief gener ally entertained in Morgan that a large number of negroes of that county are or ganizing to go to Liberia next folk Quite a number, it adds, have also “sign ed” to go to Kansas at tha same time. The Columbus Times i3 reliably in formed that “Mr. Sam Reid, the young man who was shot by Mr. Grasty, on Monday evening, lies in a hopeless con dition and his death is momentary look ed for, Mr. Grasty is still sick at the Sledge House, olosely guarded. Opinion on the affair seems to ba divided. No day has yet boen set for a preliminary examination. The exoitement concern ing yellow fever has completely died out, and no farther danger is apprehended.” The editor of the Madisonian does not skirmish around a point when he Befs out to make one. For example : He “thinks In all candor that many editors are mak ing asses of themselves by this prema ture discussion of the next Gubernatorial contest.” The Sparta Times aul Planter says Hanoock connty haa made this year the largest wheat crop ever grown w.t'sta her limits, and thinks It will reach at least 75,000 bnshels. It bIso notes wonderful improvement in the erops since the late rains, especially as to cotton. The Albany Advertiser knows and tells of two Irwin county patriarchs who can boast, between them, five hundred and twenty-three ohlidren, grand and great grandchildren, with excellent prospects of seeing the number increased. The same paper prints an interview with Captain “1’ete” Smith, from which we make this extract; The Advertiser—What do yon think of the present politioal cntlaok in Georgia ; do yon attach any * importance to the threatened Independent movement? Captain Smith,—The Independents, as I understand them, oharge that our State government, aa now organized, is corrupt, and on this ground they base most of their opposition. If our party is so oorrupt as they oharge, we ought to be able to purify it inside of cur or ganization. We ousted the Republican party in thia State became of its known crimes and mal-actiqns, and it will be a sad commentary on human nature if a few Independents, in league with this Bamo Republican party, should drive us' out of power on the same charges. My judgment is, as having fixed a high stan dard for offioial conduct for our oppo nents, we should not only live np to it ourselves, but our officers should be above suspicion. I would not do injustice foany officer, but we cannot afford, as a party or otherwise, to sontion official corrup tion. We have removed the Republics- party to no purpose if we do. Much de pends on the present Legislature aa to what coarse the Independents wili takes We must rectify car lives—-purge the party of bad officers—advanoe tha gen. eral good by our enaotments, and then we ean defy all our enemies. The only fear that I have of the Independent move ment is, that it will revive the Bepnbli- ■ can party in this State and endanger its oontrol by Democrats. Independent Democrats in Congress heretofore have acted with the Democratic party there, and I believe will oontinae to do bo. The Arotio Ice Company, of Angnsta, advertises to Bell ice at their works in that city at forty cents per hundred pounds. N Y, Herald.l The Louisiana Convention limits New Orleans salaries to three thousand dollars, bnt as it puts no limit npon stealing it is* hard to see how tho oity treasury is to be benefited. Detroit Post.l In six years of “hard times”—frona 1873 to 1879—Michigan doubled its w heat crop. Its cultivated farms did not yield 15,600,000 bushels in 1873; they have produced 31,300,000 bushels this year. Eo9ton Heiald-1 If there is anything which we like to read sbeut, it is the information whioh the treasury department occasionally vouchsafts about the No. 94 crystalliza- ble Dutch standard Mueoovado Demera- ra cantrifagsl sugar, polarlsooped at 7 per cent- color co3t. It is a pity people generally take so little interest in it. N. Y. Bun.) ~~ 1 William H. Vanderbilt made in his own name, one day last week, the biggest in dividual investment in bonds on record. His purchase consisted of $4,000,000 in United States 4 per cent, bonds, each bond of the value of $500,000, The bonds were bought by Mr. Vanderbilt aa an in vestment for his family. Ha)f -sheet Memphis AvalatcheJ A ourlons faot in oonneotion with the present prevailing siokuess is that in the Bamehonse where tha Brumonds died there were fonr deaths last year, vie: Mr. and Mrs. Adams, Mr. Adem*’ stepdaugh ter, Miss Mollis Willard and David War ner, a son-in-law or Major Bowen. This house was open during the winter, and in a high, healthy locality. Tae experts are invited to explain. Half sheet Avalsnche-1 There is no disguising the faot that the average Memphian is blue. An in digo blue. But hold on a little. We are not all dead yet. Memphis iB not * dead. She will yet rise from her calam ities. It is tne part of manhood to face the inevitable with calmness. If it is our misfortuno to grapple with another epi demic, we will meet it and overcome it if we can. Be the event as it may, the city of Memphis does not die. Men die, the city never. Philadelphia Times.J News having been received that Gen. Miles had had a fight with a band of Sioux and had whipped them, the few Cabinet officers remaining in Washington immediately assembled in council and in structions were telegraphed to Milos not to do so any more. Army officers are al lowed to attaok only friendly Indians. They are not expected to approach a hos tile band nniess they have a reasonable certainty of being defeated, and one of General Miles’ experience ought to have understood this. Reno (Nev.) Gazette.! ^ ~ Daring the high wind which prevailed yesterday morning, J. Moorman Cutter started out with, a half gallon of whisky to tako to his sick mother, who lives oat onVirginiastreet. He was found some hours afterward lying behind a fence on the hill in an inarticulate condition. Later in the day ho recovered euffieiently to explain the catastrophe which had overtaken him. He said that he etopped around a corner to fix a cork in the jug and while he was taking the measure of the orifice of the jug a tremendous zephyr came down on him like a whirl wind. It sucked tha liquor clean out of the jag, blew it down his throat and turned the jug inside out. He could re member nothing more of the occurrence. No traces of any jug or liquor were no- tioed where Cutter was picked up. They had both been spirited away. New York fetter to Courier*Joum»l,] In my last letter I touched lightly on the uncertain ways of Nemesis, and the faot bo general of the paeticil retribution dealt out to the men who spent fonr years of their lives in bawling loyalty and robbing the pockets of the pnblio. These were the stay-at-home birds. One of them who is especially present to my mind's eye, I have known from childhood. His father was an original abolitionist. The son grew np intensely pious and intense ly avaricious. He made endless freedom speeches,'but never shouldered a musket. When it was over, he pat $400,000 into the construction of a Southern railroad. He said: “I have wrestled for my black brother of the Scuth, and lo I his chains hare fallen from him. How gladly will he now peel off his coat and work for me with the motive power of gratitude.” Colored brother did not take off his ooat; perhaps he had none. Nobody seemed to care about the road. Its bonds are worthless, its business nothing, for it was built from nowhere to nowhere. Tbe $400,000 have vanished, and Peleg the Pious, forgetting his piety, speaks cf “those d—d people down South.” Abbsvilla (Ala) Register], Dr. George Ezakiel Thomas was at O'.ho on the 31 instant, and exhibited himself to a few person?, among whom were Drs. Baird and Crawford of Hill- iardeville. Ha made his “in’ards” turn over and over worse than water boiling in a pot for some time and then exhibit ed a double set of ribs on his right side, then dropped his heart to the lower ptrtion of his abdomen cn the left side, and then changed it to a similar position on the right eid9—he then stopped bis heart and pulse from beating for a short time. This all seemed to be so and tbe doctors said it was so, but there were some around who eeqpted to be incredu lous, He is a black and appears stupid, sense. He says he Americus, Ga., in 18! eied over the United land, Germany and Cub home is now iu Syracuse, idiom size, ilka with good slave at iat he has trav- Vaace, Eng- and that bis . Y, Ha used more medical technicalities than it is safe to undertake to repeat with a limited knowledge of them. He is a great curl* osity. i Scfsebikq will exhibit it* pia'Mitt by the cries of the baby, and should be re moved by the prompt cm of tfc»t b'ghiy recommended remedy, Dr. Sufi's Bitj Syrup. It ia free from oplmtL Prtoe 25 eents. CL15BY, JONES & REESE, Proprietors. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING Volume LIY—NO 31 Established 1826. MAC01N, TUESDAY* AUGUST 5, 187a.