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Newspaper Page TextIjUamiah %’tehlu lldirs NAIDKIMV, AKit MT 14. IB7S. | ONLY ONK DOLLAR ! ■TK MAVA\NA|| WKKKI.Y NKHH ■ Will bo sent to any address (postage Wp*'") ix months for One Dollar. It is I, 9iie of the cheapest weeklies published. Ut is neatly printed, compactly made up, •nd edited with great care. Nothing of 9 dull or heavy character is admitted into ilie columns of the Wkkki.y. It ia an elaborately compiled compendium of the lieat things that appear in the Daily The telegraphic dispatches of the week are re-edited and carefully Weeded of everything that is not strictly Of a news character. It also contains full imports of the markets; thus, those who have not the advantage of a daily mail, ean get all the news, for six months, by ono dollar to the publisher; or tor one year, by sending two dollars. Tho Daily Moknino News is the same Tcliable organ of public opinion that it Jjas always boon—vigorous, thoughtful 9nd conservative in the discussions of tho issues of the day, and lively, spark ling and entertaining in its presentation C>f the news. In gathering and publish ing the latest information, und in dis- B&UKsing questions of public polity, the Vk i‘ i. ! Uy * abreast o) the' journalism of the W times. | Trice, $lO for twelve months; $5 for L nix months. | Tho Tm-Weekly News has tho same ■ features as the Daily News. Price, |fc<; for twelve months; sls for six P jnonths. I Money for either paper can be sent I by P, O. order, registered letter, or I express, at publisher’s risk. | Address all letters to J. 11. EhTILL, tf Savannah, Ga. Ail Extraordinary Season. Tho rainfall this summer is singularly capricious. Tboro liavo boon very heavy Tains in Central Missouri and in South urn Ohio and Imlinna, and groat damage Las been done to tho crops and railroads. Darge sections of flat country are sub merged, and tho hanks of tho creeks and streams are all overflowed. On some of the ronds the trains Jmvo boon stopped by washouts, injuring tho tracks and cul verts, and also by landslides. Crops tiro under water, and a great deal of wheat lias sprouted. On tho other hand, tho drought has j Seriously damaged the crops in various ; portion;: of the Houth. On tho seaboard nud in portions of the interior of Georgia there lias been a great scarcity of rain for more than a month past. A similar ilelicieuoy in tho rain fall has been ex perienced in parts of Alabama. In some t places there has boon no rain siuoo May, and crops are consequently utter failures. In the greater part of the cotton licit no nun has fallen in from four to six weeks, the thermometer ranging from ninety- Jpour to ninety-nine. Throughout tho world, the year has •boon distinguished by the most startling nnd w,>’ V;f u | natural phenomena. In d* this, the theory lmsjbocn that the unusuai .’isturlmuees ol . ilio atmosphere this season are due to the Influence of the planet Jupiter. The , astronomers say that Jupiter now pro || Hents a strange appearaneo in tho heav ens, and it is supposed that the big planet is passing through the same stupendous changes own earth saw before man appoaroiMn it; and it is oertnin that Its liioveiuoi^ mayful do considerably Idt'ect our has certainly boon ta b 1 ow 11 tin' ■ cause. The Press ami tho District Ring. L One of the Washington newspapers, the Telegram , prints soqio statistics of public printing and advertising by its •juntoqyiornries in tho District of Colum bia. The following are sums paid at various times between June, 1872, and iNovombor, 187 t: l'liniiiU| $68,1117 17 V|>iililicuu 83,770 07 V 0.11111 l (HI mi .... 1,(ICO 08 “ 18,000 (HI IvenhiK Star 83,770 fill i “ " 4,448 88 ~ “ " 3,000 00 " “ 8,000 00 I•• “ 3,000 (H) Dally Patriot 8,001 oo Now National Nra 4,831 75 ■■uluy Herald 4,300 00 ■muml ns no ' ,ic Journal 3,781 01 M'.mi " ■ |'i" i Minin' ' " •• 373 os Voice inn anial.Mii cluvi) 43 no Oapltol 3,144 00 Uazetto 3,003 87 Bum's... 1,310 lo B|2> uiuoi its tiro credited to tho o\ o . " I *isti lot limit," iin.l i.ro distinct from tho sigmti- Ht “subscriptions” of various depart- Hontiaof tho Federal Government. The wTelcgram says that enough more has been haul sinoe November, 187 t. to make tho nrhole amount in threo years nearly half a pillion dollar's. If tho names ami figures are correct it must bo admitted that the “District King,” put a good deal of its money where it could not reason ably be expected to do much good. Tho death of General Pickett has oc oasioned tho publication of an incident illustrative of the high sense of honor of this gallant Confederate. A gentleman who has personal knowledge of the facts says that shortly after the capture of Newborn, N. C., a considerable sum of money was sent by a ring of truce to a Federal olrieer (who was taken at tho capture) through General l'ickett, at that time in command of that depart ■neut. .This mouoy was forwarded by a Hnrier to Richmond for delivery to the Bfci. question, but the courier de ft to the enemy ami appr.-prsaud the General Piekett then raised the amount from his own estate and sent it to the officer, whom he had never seen, by a member of bis staff. This is tho manifestation of a different spirit frdm that which prompted many Federal offi cers during the war to rob Southern wine liars and plunder private libraries. — Augueta Chronicle. The silk factory at Pittsfield, Mass., I tho first in Berkshire county, established ■bout six months ago by Mr. Saunders, been so successful that it is proposed to form another compuuy for the same business. All kinds of silk are made bore, from tho finest sewing twist to Ljoorso fish-line material, but no weaving fc* done. ftX female .ipirituahst in New York pro- Hfees to have received from the other HfDrld a communication *. the effect that BSfaiueH Fisk is safe Btong tho happy Spirits," The Restoration of Constitutional Government in the South. General Grant was prophetic when in bis message to Congress he demanded the overthrow of the new constitutional .State government of Arkansas, giving as a reason for the course recommended that if the people of Arkansas were permitted to form a constitution for their own gov ernment the people of other Southern States might take it into their heads to do the same thing. liis prediction that if such doings were permitted in Arkau sas constitutional government would be come epidemic at the South is being rap idly verified. The New Orleans Timex says: “Although the vote polled was exceed ingly light on Monday, enough is known to justify the statement that Texas is nearly ready to get out from under the ban which Davis and his followers placed her under. There appears to be no rea sonable doubt of a majority in favor of a new Constitution. Arkansas first, then North Carolina, anil now Texas, have ex - tricated themselves from the toils of ten years. ILouisiana ought—and if our peo ple manage it with any sense, will— wheel into the line of the new South next. Our friends in’Mississippi will make their first tight on the 2d of No vember, and our neighbor, Alabama, having broken the power of the Spencer ring, will soon follow. We have waited a long time to see the salvation of the Jjonl, und sometimes have felt that to tho South the heavens would ever be hung with black. But the end of the iniquities which have flourished and fat tened here is nigh at hand. All we have to do is to have our faith firm in provi. kf s ep'our powder dry.” Sir ce the editor of the Timex wrote the above, the people of Alabama have voted tor a convention to draft anew Constitu tion. This looks like a clearing up of the long darkened horizon, and encourages tho hope that Georgia will no longer hesi tate, hut, following the example of her sister States of tho South, will assert the right of her people to have a voice in the framing of the organic law by which they are to be governed. If Georgia is a State in the Union, her people have nil the rights of local self government enjoyed by thoso of any other State in the Union, chief among which is the right to frame their own constitution and laws. At pres ent wo have no recognized constitution, but our people are living under an ordi nance dictated by military power and framed by alien carpet baggers anil igno rant negroes. “Are We a Nation I” This proposition having been discussed in tho affirmative by Dr. Holland in Hcribner's Monthly, tho Baltimore (lazette comments that tho article is unacceptable at tho South, as tho Doctor’s idea is that tho Southern people do not take kindly to tho nationality, and that they still cherish the State sovereignty “heresy.” Tho Gazette thinks that for certain purposes strictly limited and defined in tho Constitution wo are indeed a nation, hut that for all other purposes each State government is paramount within itself. This sets tho Philadelphia American , the leading Radical paper of Pennsylvania, off on its old hobby. “There is nothing new in this,” says the American, “as it simply furnishes tho snme old pretext for nullification and rebellion as before, each State setting up its own theory of con stitutionality to suit itself. The heresy might as woll bo mot and fought at the throshholil as to admit any portion of it. For nothing can he clearer than that to set up any Stnto authority as paramount in any department in defiance to regit laity enacted luws and authority of the nation as a whole, is to reduce the Union to a rope of sand. It is not surprising to find tlie heresy advocated in a Democratic paper like tho Gazette, for it is common to tho whole party, and no more so at tho South than at the North.” Wo are glad to learn from the American that the “heresy” to which he alludes is common to the Democratic party North as well as South. As the editor proposes to meet and fight the “heresy” at the threshhold, we trust that the discussion of tho subject will develop the fact that not only tho Democrats of tho North and South, but tho groat majority of the true men of all parties in the Union are op posed to nationalism or consolidation. We are encouraged to believe that after fifteen yoars of ltadical despotism, mis rule and corruption, tho reflecting pooplo of this country are coming to the sensi ble conclusion that State rights and local self-government is the true theory of our Republican system, and that tho best way to perpetuate the Union of the Con stitution is to preserve the equal rights, dignity and equality of tho sovereign States composing it. •- * . .. Liverpool Cotton Prejudices. In another column wo print a circular addressed by the Memphis Cotton Ex change to the President of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers’ Association. In au editorial calling attention to this circular ttie New York Bulletin says: “There can be no question that tho position taken by the Memphis Exchange is well grounded. The Liverpool prejudice in favor of New Orleans cotton as against that of Memphis aud other cotton centres is based upon old time usages, when Now Orleans was almost the only receiving point for certain favorite cottons. But the intro duction of railroads, in lieu of river transportation, has changed tho condi • tions that gave Now Orleans cotton that distinctive preference; aud now large quantities of inferior cotton thut formerly went to other points goes to New Or leans, while much of the superior staple that onco was sent to New Orleans goes to Memphis or other centres of receipt and shipment. Cotton that used to find its way to New Orleans almost exclusively is now sent to Galveston, Vicksburg, Natchez, .Memphis and St. Louis. At auj’ of these places it would bring, to a Liverpool buyer, j cent less than the same cotton would if sold at Now Orleans; aud, to accommodate the English prejudice, it frequently pays to send cotton from those points to New Orleans to get this fanciful premium. The home consumers of cotton have long since ignored this distinction, aud are always toady to give fully as much for Memphis cotton as for that <’f New Orleans; aud it is singular that the sagacity of the Liverpool trade should remain so far behind the times.” James River axi> Kanawha Canai. — lhe lion. A. H. H. Stuart, of Staunton, Vs , is out with au exhaustive paper, in which he argues iu favor of the imme diate extension of the canal from Buchanan to Clifton Forge. He contends, upon data furnished by experts familiar with the route as well a? with the work already completed, that the project is feasible and ought right away to be carried out. He enlarges upon the benefit which will accrue, not only to Richmond, Lynchburg, Norfolk aud Petersburg, but also to the credit of the State, from the enhanced value of the stock of the James River and Kanawha canal and tho Chesapeake and Ohio Rail road, iu both of which the State is heavily interested. The government on Tuesday seized SIO,OOO worth of counterfeiters' mate rials iu Brooklyn. U esc Ranking and Fraud in Fnglaud It would seem that the evil of loose banking is not entirely confined to this country,hut that even in steady-going old England it has grown to such a degree as to demand rigid measures of reform. At the recent half-yearly general meet ing of the London and Westminster Bank arqortwas submitted in which it was stated that while the net profits of the ha ik for the half year amounted to 4252,- 70:;, losses of “a purely exceptional char acter” had been sustained. To provide for thepe losses the board had determined to reduce the dividend of the current ha’f year to five per cent, and to sub tract from the reserve the sum of 4. ">IO,OOO, placing that amount, in the meantime, to the credit of a special suspense account as provision for the losses. In moving the adoption of the report, the president indulged in some remarks, in which he referred to evils, “of a purely exceptional character,” which are encountered in conducting banking business in England, and stated the determination of the directors to re sort to extreme measures for the abate ment of these evils. As the same ev lsof an “exceptional character ’ exist to a much greater extent in this country, an 1 are no doubt one of the chief causes of our present commercial depression, th ; following extracts from the remarks of the president will be read with interest: lu addition to what I may call the or dinary difficulties of conducting banking business, we have had to encounter others of a far graver kind. It is now apparent, gentlemen, that the unprofitable condi ti' n of trade in several branches has given ri-o to new financial expedients of a vicious and most reprehensible kind, re sorted to for the purpose of sustaining credit at a point far beyond where pru d> ucc or a higher sense of duty would h;.ve dictated suspension. This vicious course of trading has led to frauds—l say it with a strong feeling of humiliation— to frauds of a nature, so far as the expe rt nee of this bank is concerned, hitherto unknown to commerce. In dealing with this grave state of matters your directors deem it their duty firmly to expose these fraudulent practices—[applause, and a voice, “Don't spare them !”] —and to bring home to those who have re sorted to them the dangers of their fraudulent conspiracies. Gentlemen, this is strong language, and un usual language from this chair; but I take it, it is not one whit stronger than tho circumstances warrant. [Applause.] It may not be known, but I may here an il mnee it, that Alexander Collie was ar rested last night, and is probably at the Mansion House at this moment. In dis charging these painful duties —for such they are—the board will receive tho cor dial co-operation of all concerned in pro moting sound and honest dealing. 8o soon as a knowledge of these matters c ime to your directors they took imme diate steps to strengthen the executive of tho bank, and they have devised such safeguards as shall, so far as human fore sight can go, guard against the recur rence of such losses. Our previous suc c ss had been so complete that it would have been deemed both imprudent and unwise to make changes which we now think it may be expedient to adopt. A note has just reached me that in addi tion to Alexander Collie, William Collie was arrested at the same time, and that they are now remanded until Wednes day. I may mention at the same time that Kershaw, the broker connected with tho fraudulent use of warrants, has gone away, but that a warrant has been taken out, and that, if possible, he, too, will be brought to justice. No thought of glossing over the losses entailed by these failures has ever been entertained, and, in dealing with, your directors have pursued the course they have ever taken in dealing with find and doubtful debts. They had at once made provision for them in the full and ample manner set forth in the accounts in your hands. After giving very anxious consideration to all the circumstances, the board has deemed it their duty to reduce the divi dend for the current half year to five per cent., and to subtract from the reserve the sum of 41500,000, placing that amount lu the meantime to the credit of a special suspense account. This sum, the direc tors believe, will amply meet all eontin genees. I hare now tried to place before you an explicit, straight-forward state ment, in the belief that such a course is in accordance with your views and the best interests of this bank. In adopting this course we confidently rely on the support of our shareholders, whose de termination to deal at once fully and amply with the exceptional circumstances of the past half year we believe to be in entire harmony with our own. [Ap plause.] Mr. Chapman seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. Mr. Janies Carter Haughton said : As to the recent losses, he did not know that they could be called exceptional, for they wore due not so much to the general bad state of trade as to persons whom he might call thieves going about making use of the banks. A firm which had not been in business more than ton years, and who had been engaged in a “plunging” trade arising out of the American war, had come from Manchester to London and incurred liabilities of many millions without having adequate capital at their back. Their business was of Such a character that a small variation in the mar ket would ruin them. No lawful trader could compete with such firms; and yet these men got into their position by the help of banks and discount houses. The banks bolstered up such fellows to the injury of the mercantile community. The hanks hold their paper while every body outside the bank knew such securi ties to be rotton and not worth a shilling a pound. It was not a difficult matter to find out the character of a house whose paper was going round the bauks, and to ascertain whether the house was doing a legitimate business. He held that there was something wrong in the general management of banking transactions if such things as ho had described could take place. Mr. Vulliamy did not wish to say any thing offensive, but he wished to know how it was that this bank had been so particularly victimized. He was told that the securities were fraudulent, but he should have expected on the part of the managers a very keen scent with regard to such matters. Votes of thanks to the directors, the chairman, and the officers brought the proceedings to a close. The Chinese in California. —After all that has been stated iu regard to perse cution of Chinese immigrants to Califor nia, of the street mobs, murders and “hoodlum' 1 attacks upon them, it is pleas ant to remark that such a state of affairs has almost entirely ceased. The more intelligent citizens of San Francisco have inaugurated a better treatment of those people, looking upon their alleged hith erto ill-treatment as a barbarism likely to enure to the disgrace of the famous city of the Golden Gate. In fact, it is stated that the people generally iu California begin to look upon the Chinese as a use ful and almost indispensable adjunct to the laboring classes; are convinced that they are very industrious aud entirely inoffensive, and that if their heathen idolatry of gods, strange to our civiliza tion, has been brought with them, to gether with their, to us, unaccountable domestic habits, all such thiugs are good and very material matter for borne evan gelists to look after. Asa consequence of this new order of things, there is au impetus to Chinese immigration. That immigration to the Pacific coast com menced iu ISO”, aud up to this year the arrivals numbered about one hundred and thirteen thousand. The Nashville Methodi*t Advocate , in an article eulogistic of Andrew Johnson, says that “an earnest desire is expressed iu Nashville to have the remains of Mr. Johnson, with those of Andrew Jackson aud Mr. Polk, placed in a grand mauso leum on the eapitol grounds.” The Montgomery Advertiser puts the majority for a convention in Alabama at 15,(>G0. The convention will probably stand: Democrats, 70; Radicals, 10; aud Independents, 0, Still on the Ragged Edge—A Sian* derer Rebuked. The Saint of Plymouth, it would seem, has reason to apprehend worse conse quences to himself from the intemperate zeal of his friends than he experienced from the court of law and justice, before which he was put through the forms of a legl trial for his great crime. By the prostitution of the church influence and by the expenditure of vast sums of money, Beecher's friends succeeded in bringing about a mistrial. But not con tent with this result, and conscious of the almost unanimous public verdict of condemnation, they have been zealously at work since the trial, through the press, in the pulpit and the lecture room, endeavoring to con vince the world that they at least are sincere in their professions of unshaken confidence in Beecher’s innocence of the charge of adultery. Conspicuous among these over -zealous champions of the Ply mouth pastor are the Rev. Dr. Bacon and T. G. Shearman. It will be remember ed that it was the public denunciations and bitter taunts of the first that spurred Tilton to the reluctant task of vindica ting himself in court, and now the lu gubrious Shearman, the shyster who served Jim Fisk in all his villainy and who proclaims that he loves Beecher better than he does his own wife, by dragging the great scandal before the English public, greatly mis representing the facts of the case and slandering not only the counsel of the plaintiff, but the clergy and the women of the whole country, has aroused the public indignation and subjected the unconvicted idulterer to reiterated exposure and condemnation. Comment ing on Shearman’s recent speech in Eng land, the New York Timex, after showing up his infamous professional character in a paragraph, which we quoted yesterday, proceeds as follows: This same lawyer is now on a sort of lecturing tour in England in behaif of Mr. Beecher. So long as he stuck to his brief, we should probably have allowed him to go on unquestioned; but the pet tifogger goes far beyond bis instructions, and defames the whole body of American clergy—to say nothing of American women. He told a meeting in Loudon that Mr. Beecher had not "been guilty of any “improprieties.” He had, indeed, kissed Mrs. Tilton, but if this was wrong, “avast proportion of American society must be condemned, for Mr. Beecher was really more cautious in his relations with ladies thus brought up in his church than was usual among the clergy in America.” Then what on earth is usual among the clergy in America ? Many a husband or father must have asked himself this question when he heard Shearman’s statement, and when he remembered that Mr. Beecher acknowledged in his evi dence that it was his habit to kiss Mrs. Tilton whenever he met her. More cau tious than the American clergy generally! Yet Mrs. Tilton’s brother swore that once, when he entered a room where Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton were shut up together, he saw “ Mrs. Tilton making a very hasty motion, and with a highly flushed face, away from the position that Mr. Beecher occupied.” “It was such a situation,” he added, “as left an indel ible impression on my mind.” If incidents like these occur in the relations of a pastor with the female members of his congregation, when that pastor is “unusually cautious,” what must be the general character of such in tercourse? Of course this man Shear man wantonly and wickedly libeled the American clergy. Yet we suppose there will be many in England who will believe his vile slanders. According to a report in another paper, Shearman said that “it was the common practice for gentlemen and clergymen to kiss the wives of their intimate friends.” It may be Shearman’s practice when he is visiting in Brooklyn, but if he tried it ou anywhere else he would soon find himself kicked out into the street. This unscrupulous, “lawyer” then said that the charge against Mr. Beecher was entirely and simply the result of a con spiracy, and that the whole case “rested upon the word of Mr. Moulton, a man of very low origin, whose word, even in commercial matters, was in very bad re pute.” In reality, Moulton’s testimony was of lar less importance than the evi dence which is contained in the letters of Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton. That is testimony which Mr. Beecher will never be able to live down. In the review of the evidence published in this journal just after the trial this fact was strongly dwelt upon. In the revised edition of that review (published this day in a more convenient form), there are some import ant additions, among them a comparison of quotations from the letters of Beecher, Mrs. Tilton and Mrs. Morse. We ex tract from this comparison a few pas sages, the authenticity of which even Shearman would not dare to dispute : MBS. TILTON TO HEK HUSBAND. “When, by your threats, my mother cried out in agony to me, ‘Why, what have you done Elizabeth, my child ?’ her worst suspicions were aroused, and I laid bare my heart then, that from my lips, and not yours, she might receive the dag ger into her heart." “Did not my dear child, Florence, learn enough by insinuation, that her sweet pure soul agonized in secret, till she broke out with the dreadful question ? I know not but it hath been her death-blow.” ‘ ‘When you say to my beloved brother, ‘Mr. B.’ preaches to forty of his mis tresses every Sunday, then follow with the remark that after my death you have a dreadful secret to reveal, need he be told any more ere the sword pass into his soul?” (To her mother.) “I should mourn greatly if my life was to be made yet known to my father; his head would be bowed indeed to the grave. ” BEECHER TO MOULTON. “I ask, through you, Theodore Tilton’s forgiveness, and I humble myself before him as I do before my God!” “ He (Tilton) had condoned his wife’s fault. He had enjoined upon me with the utmost earnestness and solemnity not to betray his wife nor leave his children to a blight." “If my destruction would place him all right, that shall not stand in the way. lam willing to step down and out. Ido not think that anything would bo gained by it. I should be destroyed, but he would not be saved. E. and the children would have their future clouded. “ To live on the sharp and ragged edge, of anxiety, remorse, fear, despair, and yet to put on all the appearance of se renity and happiness, cannot be endured much longer.” In the revised edition of the review there are other equally remarkable pas sages quoted, and pray what do they all refer to? “Oh, nothing,” says Brother Shearman, “merely a little pleasantry on both sides. You see, Mr. Beecher had known Mrs. Tilton from childhood, and when he spoke of casting a blight on Tilton’s children, he was merely in fun. It was all a joke between the parties!” This was the sort of argument which Mr. Shearman used to find to answer very well when he went to plead before Judges whom his client had, to his knowledge, carefully bribed as a preliminary step in the proceedings: but he will probably find it less successful before the bar ot public opinion. What may be thought of Shearman in England we do not know; what will be thought of him here is that he is an impudent rascal. The Spanish idea of religious liberty is peculiar. Romanism is officially an nounced as the State religion, but the government finds it necessary to explain that nobody shall be molested on account of their religious opinions, so long as they worship in private. Protestants may have churches with open doors, but they will not be permitted to indulge in public ceremonies or street demonstra tions. This is good progress for Spain, but in any other country it would be called despotic discrimination and ignor ant intolerance. According to our telegrams, the result in North Carolina is still in doubt, with no prospect of a heavy Democratic majority. The Badicals have fifty-nine delegates and the Democrats fifty-nine, with a Demo cratic county to hear from. It will be rather a close shave for our friends at the best. Deplorable Condition of Affairs in Hie Weal. The present season has been a nibst dis astrous one throughout the Northwest, bat especially have the States of Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, and Missouri, the most important provision producing States in the Union, suffered incalculable damage from the late unprecedented rains. The Cincinnati Enquirer says: “ The wheat crop has been largely de stroyed, owing to inability to gather and secure it. It has, by rendering it impos sible to plow and till the ground, keeping it free from weeds, reduced the corn crop largely below the average. Thousand of acres in the vicinity of rivers and creeks have been overflowed and entirely des troyed Grass, like wheat, has been largely injured. Oats have been destroyed by the ravages of the army worm in addition to the effects of the rain. Potatoes are rotting in the hills. Tomatoes and other vege tables are not ripening. This any one can say without being considered a croaker. It requires only a ride into the country over a large belt of territory to perceive it. The fruit was, by the intense cold of the winter, largely ruined in this latitude. In the Far West the grasshoppers and other insects have been almost as injuri ous as the rain in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. Thus next winter we are likely to have the hardest possible times. The necessaries of life scarce and high, business dull, labor unemployed or un remunerative, what is to become of the country.” The Enquirer maintains that under these circumstances it will be madness to go on reducing the volume of the circula ting medium, making money scarcer and more difficult to be obtained for business and laboring purposes. “It was,” says the editor,” not possible long to have done so, but now there must be an immediate change. The calamities of nature demand and will have it at all events; otherwise we shall have a terrible future before us. People will endure privation up to a cer tain point, but there is a . ait to it. The money oligarchy may as well let go their hold of the masses. While the people are starving is not the time when they should be audaciously told that we have not yet reached the ‘hard-pan,’ and that we must go on until we get there.” Shearman in England. Mr. Thomas G. Shearman, one of Mr. Beecher’a counsel in the scandal case, who is now on a visit to Europe, recently attended a religious meeting in London, and in reply to an invitation made some assertions which are attracting consider able remark and uncomplimentary com ment. He told the meeting that Mr. Beecher had not been guilty of any “im proprieties.” He had, indeed, kissed Mrs. Tilton, but if that was wrong “a vast proportion of American society must be condemned, for Mr. Beecher was really more cautious in his relations with the 1 tdies thus brought up in his church than was usual among the clergy in America.” Mr. Shearman said the charge against Mr. Beecher was entirely and simply the result of a conspiracy, and that the whole case “rested upon the word of Mr. Moulton, a man of very low origin, whose word, even in commercial matters, was in very bad repute.” He also said that one of the counsel for Mr. Tilton (Judge Ful larton) had stated to another who refused to take the retainer, that he might be thankful for having esc. ,ed the task, as he had never known of a more “infernal conspiracy.” In reference to the jury, Mr. Shearman declared that they would have had a unanimous verdict in favor of Mr. Beecher “but for the that one of the number had sworn that he knew Francis D. Moulton only by sight, while he was a personal friend of his, and daily conversed with him in court.” The Ne- York Times pays its compli ments to Mr. Shearman in the following vigorous manner: “We do not know whether the people in Eugland have any idea who or what Mr. Shearman is; perhaps it will help them to understand him if we mention the fact that he was one of Jim Fisk’s most active lawyers, and the mau who was personally mixed up with the grossest of the scandals which were perpetrated in the time of the corrupt Tammany Judges. He either suggested them or carried them out. There was no so called ‘legal’ infamy too great for this man Shearman to be engaged in. This is a matter of history, proof of which we are ready to furnish at any moment, in court or out of it. The Floods in the Lower Mississippi. Much apprehension is felt in New Or leans of serious damage to the plantations on the lower Mississippi. The Times of Wednesday says: “We have no desire to become alarm ists, yet we fear that there may be a most disastrous overflow unless the river should speedily decline. Bed river is rising and the Arkansas is also coming up rapidly. We think this State is safe; but the dam age and overflow just now would do— with the best crop in sight, for many years—is incalculable. ■ • “Touching the probable effect upon the lower Mississippi country from the floods above, Gen. Jeff. Thompson, who has jast returned from a tour along the upper coast, says that there is no dauger to the front cotton lands, except those about Birchridge, unless the cracked points at iialeigh, which is a short distance below Goodrich’s store, and the corner at Milli ken’s Bend, and a place (not so danger ous) at Waterfroof, should either of them ‘ cave in.’ The water from above the line, and the Ashten crevasse, will make trouble on the bayous if the flood con tinues. When the gauge at Vicksburg gets to forty feet, enough water will run into Lake St. Joseph to do damage on the bayous. Had the Hardtimes levee not been finished last wee! all that fine country around Lake Bruin would be now under water, and several thousaud acres of splendid cotton destroyed. No dauger below Red river except behind Mor ganzia and Bonnet Carre crevasse. With the large volume of water that is now pouring into the tributaries of the Mississippi it may be possible that the swell iu the Mississippi at Vicksburg will reach a height of forty feet. Then, as Gen. Thompson says, there will be dan ger along the bayous. Politics iu Alfciama—Col. Powell’s Nomination. Union Springs, August Ist, 1875. Editor Morning News : Dear Sir— Observing in your paper of the 28th ult. a letter from Montgomery* headed “Politics hi. Alabama," and signed “Me Judice,” I write to ask that in jus tice to CoL R. H. Powell you will correct the error into which your correspondent has, doubtless, unintentionally fallen— that Col. Powell was nominated by the Radicals for the convention. Such was not the case. Co' Powell came out in response to a peuuon signed by a large number of as gooa Democrats as there are ia the count’ ,ao were dissatisfied with the Democratic nomination, and be lieved it to be vitally important for the people to run a man whose reputation for justice and moderation would render him unobjectionable to the Republican party, which is largely in the majority in this county. CoL Powell Ls canvassing the county as a Democrat, making no concessions of his life-long fealty to the party. By publishing the above you will do justice to a gallant gentleman who has been much misrepresented. Very respectfully, W. P. Coupee. Immigration from Europe is decreas ing, but immigration from Asia is increas ing. Last year 15,807 Chinese were landed in California, an increase over the previous year’s arrivals of over two thou sand. BRUNSWICK, DARIEN AM) DOBOY. Prop*rt of Trade, Crops ana Improve* meals. Brunswick. Ga.. Aug. 1, 1875. Editor Morning JS’cva: On the 27tn ult. I left Savannah for Darien, on the steamer Lizzie Baker, commanded by that well-known and cour teous gentleman, Captain La Hose. No ! incident occurred worthy of note during our passage save the loss of my hat and a stop, now and then, in Rumley Marsh, and the running out of a line to place the boat in position to move ahead again. However, we worked through said marsh with little difficulty, and then had plain sailing to Darien, where we arrived indue time. I remained in Darien on the 28th, and after transacting my business, strolled around to have a look at the town. Da- 1 rien has certainly been dreadfully scourged j by fire on several occasions, but the en terprising merchants are rebuilding on the : burnt district, and with brick. There are ! several brick stores being erected, al though the majority of their brick is transported from Philadelphia and Sa vannah. The town of Darien is sup ported almost entirely by the lumber busi ness. There are very fine and extensive mills in the neighborhood, and a large amount of lumber is shipped to foreign ports; also a great deal coastwise. Late in the afternoon I was invited bv my friend W——n to take a drive out to the Ridge, a summer resort three miles from the town of Darien. We extended our ride as far as Brighton, five miles, passing on the Ridge many very pietty buildings and several neat and pretty churches, Catholic and Methodist. The residences of Carl Epping and one of the pilots (whose name I have for gotten), would be an ornament to any city. Brighton is owned by a Mr. Pease, and a more lovely and well improved place cannot be found in Georgia. Mr. Pease is a planter, and has many of thee tropical fruits growing on his place, be sides a very extensive vineyard. Having business at Doboy, twelve miles frolh Darien, I left cn the 29th for that point in a perogue, or dug out, ac companied by Mr. W n, and a man to pull the boat. I will give you dimen sions of said perogue: length, thirteen feet; breadth of beam, two and a half feet. We left Darien at ten a. m., arriv ing at Doboy at half-past one p. m.; ther mometer 98 degrees in the shade, and not a drop of water to slack our thirst on board the craft. At Doboy there is a large gang mill, owned by Messrs. Hilton, Foster & Gilatn, from which they ship large quantities of lumber. Two barks and a schooner are now loading from their mill. At 3p. m. we left Doboy for the Ridge, passing another tine mill on one of the islands, and owned by the same parties above named at Doboy, where several vessels of heavy tonnage are now loading. After meandering innumerable little streams, we arrived at the Kidge just at sunset, where, you may rest assured, I was glad to remain and rest for the night. On the morning of the 30th I returned to Darien, expecting to leave for Brunswick at 8 a. m.,but owing to some change in the regular time of the steamers I was forced to remain until 4 p. m., at which time I left Darien in a small open boat for Lambright’s landing, passing through rivers, canals and ditches, all of which occupied about three hours, and the sun as hot as it ever gets to be in July. After arriving at Lambright’s, we mounted a baggage wagon, drawn by two very large horses (or frames, for they had but little flesh,) that moved off at regular gopher speed, but safely landed us at No. 1, M. and 15. ltoad, just at 9 o’clock. At 10 o’clock I left on the train, and arrived at Brunswick at ll£ p. m., pretty well used up, and am now stopping at the Ocean House. I have not seen a drop of rain since leaving Savannah, and in passing the farms on the sea islands and main, find the com aud all vegetation parched and dried as though a fire had passed through the country. Many of the planters will scarcely make the seed they have planted. I am informed that at this place thev have had no rain in nearly two months aud but little pospect at this writing. Dr. J. A. Madden, an old friend and well to-do merchant of this place, very kindly drove me all over the town of Brunswick, which is beautifully located, with very many pretty residences, and the most handsomely finished (inside) Episcopal church I have seen anywhere. The har bor is certainly a fine one, possessed of every advantage, deep water, and every security from storms. There are but few such seaport towns on the Atlantic. The town is principally supported by the tim ber interest and naval stores, many mil lions of feet of timber being shipped every year. There are several fine mills at this place, and vessels loading all the while. There is but little business being done among the merchants just now 4 but they anticipate a good fall trade. About one o’clock this morn ing a party of young men, being in rather a lively humor and not disposed to sleep, became angered, and engaged in combat, which resulted in the shooting of a Mr. Wells, a printer, by a man by the name of Smith, a son of a landlord by that name. Wells was shot in the arm and side, but the wounds are not considered dangerous. Smith has escaped, but the officers and his bondsman in a previous difficulty (attempt to commit a rape) are after him sharp. Hal. The Yellow Fever. The Secretary of the Treasury having instructed the Supervising Surgeon of the Marine Hospital service, John M. Woodworth, in accordance with a resolu tion of the Senate, to prepare or cause to be prepared a brief and succinct history of the yellow fever as it prevailed in the various ports of the United States in 1873, that gentleman submitted a report of Dr. Frank W. Reilly, who was detailed for that purpose. The history of the plague in 1873 and the circumstances of its spread are carefully reviewed, though the net result of the inquiry is not large, judging by the following candid avowal: Absolutely nothing has been learned of the cause of the disease; the question of its autochthonous origin, or of its impor tation into the Gulf States from ad jacent countries in the same latitude and under the same climatic condition, is still unsettled; specific modes of prevention and limitation remain as vague and inert; medical opinion is as confused aud con llioting, and medical skill as baffled as before. The only mode of combatting the dis ease yet known to be effectual is the same “general sanitation’’ found effectual in the treatment of all diseases of a similar nature, and in which are included thor ough cleanliness, efficient disinfection, pure air and water, wholesome food, and individual hygiene. The following fig ures show the comparative fatality for a term of years of the much-dreaded yellow fever and cholera, and of some other diseases, which have lost much of their terrors through familiarty: From February 9 until November 2, 1873, there occurred 3,769 deaths from malignant or epidemic cholera. During the same period each year there occurred in round numbers, 21,000 deaths from diarrhoea, dysentery and cholera infantum. From May 23 to November 29, 1873, there occurred 3,349 deaths from specific or epidemic yellow fever. During the same period each year there occurred from the group of malarial fevers an ag gregate of 8,500 deaths. The last preceding epidemic of yellow fever was in 1807; from that time to the close of 1872, there have been 970 deaths from this cause; during the same period there have been over 50,000 deaths from malarial fevers. There had been no epidemic cholera in the country for the six years previous, but during that period the group of dis eases most resembling it, carried off not less than 125,000 persons. And year by year, such more or less preventable dis eases, as smallpox, scarlet fever, typhus, enteric fever and consumption are the causes of a tolerably constant average of over 100,000 deaths per annum. Dr. Reilly then gives an elaborate his tory of the yellow fever epidemic, and closes his report with a summary of the epidemic of 1873, showing the localities, dates of first and last deaths, number of cases and total and proportionate mor tality. By this it is seen that New York had 69 cases, causing 18 deaths; New Or leans 2,000 cases, 226 deaths; Pensacola COO cases, 62 deaths; Memphis 10,000 cases, 2,000 deaths; Shreveport 3,000 cases 759 deaths; Mobile 210 cases, 35 deaths; Montgomery 43 cases, 17 deaths; Cairo 10 cases, 5 deaths: Calvert, Texas, 500 cases, 102 deaths; Louisville 450 cases, 125 deaths, and Greenwood, La., 19 cases, 4 deaths. The totals showing 16,901 cases and 3,353 deaths. GEORGIA GLEANINGS. Cream of Oar Sime Fxrhnnges. Americus Republican: A case of som nambulism occurred on last Sunday night at the residence of Mrs. Hamilton, relict of the late B. B. Hamilton, about three miles from this city. _ A sister of Mrs. Hamil - ton was on a risit; about midnight she got up and lit a match, and with it lighted a lamp. A young lady. Miss Texas Ham ilton, of Thomasville, was in the room, and the explosion of the match awoke her, but she did not regard it. Mrs. Bar low went out of the room, thence by the back entrance into the back j ark, then into the front yard, through the front gate into the highway leading to Smith ville, down that road about half a mile, and into the woods on the right of the road, where shq wandered about until morning, having been awakened some time during the night by the rain. She says she did not know how she came to be where she was when found. Not long after she left the house, Mrs. Hamilton noticed the light in the room and went to see what was the matter; she soon discovered that her sister had left the house, when she immediately aroused the inmates, and all commenced a vigorous search for the missing one. They looked in vain until day, when they found her in the woods about three-quarters of a mile from the house. Mrs. Barlow re ceived no injury whatever with the ex ception of a slight bruise on her right arm. Augusta Chronicle • The usually quiet hamlet of Saw Dust, a small station on the Georgia Railroad, just above Ber zelia, was the scene of a frightful acci dent yesterday morning. Immediately at the station was located a steam grist mill and gin house, belonging to a company under the name of Landsdell, Cleary & Cos. The engine used was a second handed affair, but was considered to be perfectly safe, and had been so pro- we understand, by those com petent A few days since the owners succeeded in securing the ser vices of Mr. Wm. Parker as engineer. Mr. Parker was fireman on the wood train of the Georgia Railroad, but as there is very little for that train to do at pres ent, he had obtained the consent of the railroad authorities to act as engineer at the mill whenever his services were not needed on the train. These arrangements having been made, he commenced work at the mill yesterday morning. The en gine was fired up, and everything looked promising for a good day’s work, when, at about half-past six o’clock, the boiler exploded, scattering death and destruction around. The noise was fearful, and the air was filled with debrie and an immense cloud of smoke. The latter was observed by parties at Harlem, who thought a train was coming down the road. The engine room was completely demolished and blown to the four winds of heaven. A portion of the boiler was hurled fully three hundred yards. Mr. Parker was literally torn limb from limb. One leg and one arm were jerked off, while his head was blown a considerable distance and hot found until some time afterwards. Two other parties—Edward Palmer and —-— Tudor —were badly scalded and otherwise in jured. Mr. Parker was a very worthy young man, and leaves a wife and one child. Brunswick Appeal: A most diabolical murder was committed on Saturday night last, in Camden county, at Burroughs’ store, near King’s plantation, on the Sa tilla river, upon the person of Mr. Charles Lang, a most excellent young gentleman, who was in charge of the store. He was seen sitting in the store about nine o’clock Saturday night by someone who was passing. Failing to come to his break fast Sabbath morning at the usual hour, a negro woman was sent over to the store to call him up. She found the store door had been broken open, and the body of the unfortunate young man lying on the bed,with his breast literally torn to pieces by a load of buckshot discharged from a shot gun. From all the particulars which we can gather it is supposed that he was murdered for the purpose of rob bery, his money, watch and many articles from the store being missing. No clue, as yet, has been discovered which would justify a suspicion as to the perpetrator of the hellish and diabolical deed. Every effort is being made to establish some clue upon which to operate. Mr. Lang is represented to us as having been a young man universally esteemed by all who knew him for his many estimable traits of character. Wo most earnestly tt'ust the perpetrator of the crime may be dis covered, and made to suffer a summary punishment commensurate with the hein ousness of his crime. These things must be brought to an end—and thatsoon, too — or no man’s life will be safe. Since the above was put in type we are gratified to be able to authoritatively announce that two negroes have been captured who were unquestionably the perpetrators of the murder. The money, watch, and a cart load of goods were found in thoir possession. It is said the negroes do not belong to Camden county, but were from Florida. We presume they will not be allowed to escape. One other negro who was engaged in the murder and robbery is still at large. Warren ton Clipper: All newsppera readers in this State cannot fail to re member the startling and unaccountable manifestations which occurred at Sur rency, on the Macon and Brunswick Kailroad, a year or two since, aud which was attributed to the agency of spirits. The house of Mr. Surrency was turned into a perfect pandemonium for the time being. Crockery from unseen sources would fall into the middle of the rooms, brickbats would crash down,and billets of wood be hurled in at windows, seemingly without any human agency. The wonder ful occurrences,however, finally stopped, and after awhile lived only in remembrance of those who had witnessed and heard of them. Some time since similar manifes tations began in the family of a very es timable lady, Mrs. Russell Johnson, of Bartow, on the line of the Central Rail road. The crockery, brick-bats and other portable and small articles rained about the house in the most astonishing manner, causing no little terror to the inmates. However, Mr. John A. McMillan, a son-in-law of Mrs. Johnson, not being frightened en tirely out of his wits, noted the simi larity of the manifestations to those at Surrency, and finally remembered that they had employed in the family as a servant at the time a colored girl who had also been in the employ of Mr. Sur reucy at the time those strange freaks of the unseen agency took place in his house. Thinking that the two must certainly have some connection with each other, a strict watch was kept upon this girl, and she was finally detected in the act of taking a brick from a concealed position about her person and hurling it into the middle of the room. Here, then, was the secret. She was immediately apprehend ed, and under fear of being dealt with by law, confessed that she was the author of all the mischief. She was, of course, discharged. What has been her motive for all ihese actions is, perhaps, locked in an impenetrable mystery, but it will be a relief to many to know the truth of these singular things which so puzzled the brains of the good people of Surrency a year or two since. A Raid by Circus Men. —At Galesburg, Illinois, on Sunday morning, about two o’clock, the attaches of Barnum's Hippo drome, to the number of one hundred, made a raid upon the saloon kept by Tom Keeling, completely demolishing the stock and fixtures. The police, who tried to interfere, were severely handled. Although the fire alarm was given, a suf ficient number of citizens could not be mustered to attempt the suppression of the riot, and it was finally quelled only by the interference of the managers of the show. By order of the Mayor the company were detained until the next morning till the damage had been made good. A day or two ago a little boy, only four year old, named Edward Hell, was ar rested at Lindenville, Long Island, on a warrant issued by Justice Simpson, of Northfield, charged by AnnaT. Reed with malicious mischief. The little fellow was brought into court by his father, and when spoken to became dreadfully frightened,, and nearly went into convul sions. The Justice, seeing the defendant’s tender age, at once dismissed the case. A snow bank eight feet deep, may still be seen within two miles of Manchester, N. H., in a spot shut in by high hills, where snow and ice usually remain the year round. Shakey. The globe is continually shaken with slight earthquakes, not a day passing, scientific men assert, when there is not a sensible disturbance of this kind omewhere upon the whole surface. CITY AFFAIRS. VALUABLE STATISTICS OF CHATHAM COUNTY. Abstract from Ihe Tax IHffrat of 1875. Hearing that Mr. Barnard Bee, the efficient Tax Receiver, had completed the tax digest for 1875, we called upon that gentleman and requested permission to examine the hooks. The digest was courteously placed at our disposal, and from it we make the following interesting extracts: No. Polls whites, 4.97S ; colored, 5,305); total, 10.287. Professions, 91; dentists, 6; auction eers, 3; daguerreanß, etc., 3; billiard tables, etc.. 4 ; children between six aud eighteen \. .irs of age. 1,180. Total number of aces of land 151 - 394 21 80. Aggregate value of laud, $1,503,344. Aggregate value of city and town property, $12,554,703. Number of shares in any bank in the State, 22,110. Value of shares iu any bank in the State, $1,961,000. Amount of money aud solvent debts of all kinds, $4,089,817 Merchandise, $1,956,821. Capital invested in shipping ad ton nage $150,100. Stocks and bonds, $760,715. Iron works, foundries, etc., $33,836. Value of household and kitchen furni ture above the value of SSO, $373,265. Plantation and mechanical tools above the value of $25, $13,700. Value of all other property not enu merated, except annual crops" provisions, etc., $253,164. Value of property of defaulters not doubted, $193,567. Aggregate value of whole property, $23,913,979. Amount of tax on professions, dentists, billiard, bagatelle and pool tables, daguer reans, photographists, ambrotypists and other similar artists, $1,175. Amount of tax on polls, $10,287. The above gives the total of property, etc., upon which taxes are paid by white and colored. Annexed we give a record of the amouut of property owned and taxes paid by the colored people ex clusively : Total number of acres of land, 1,491£. Aggregate value of laud, $70,768. Aggregate value of city or town prop erty, $152,760. Amouut of money, aud solvent debts of all kinds, $l5O. Value of household and kitchen furni ture above the value of SSO, $1,595. Value of all other property not before enumerated, except annual crops, provis ions, &0., $18,952. Aggregate value of whole property, $244,225. Amount of tax on polls, $5,309. llftiirns from AtMlgnrra In Bankruptcy. We learn from Mr. James McPherson, Clerk of the United States District Court, that up to the 30th of June last 1,277 pe titions in bankruptcy had been filed in his office. By General Order in Bankruptcy No. 28, prescribed by the Supreme Court of the United Statos, assignees are required to file with the Register in Bankruptcy, on the first day of each mouth, a report, setting forth whether or not any collec tions, deposits or payments have been made during the preceding month, and if any, the gross amount of each. The amendment to the act of June 22d, 1874, requires every assignee to report, during the month of July iu each year, to the Clerk of the District Court of the United States as follows: Firstly. The number of voluntary and compulsory cases, respectively aud sepa rately, in his charge during the year com mencing July Ist, of the preceding year, and ending June 30th of the year in which the report is rendered. Secondly. The amount of assets and liabilities therein, separately and respec tively. Thirdly. The total receipts and dis bursements therein, respectively and separately. Fourthly. The amount of dividends paid or declared, aud the rate per centum thereof, in each class, respectively and separately. Fifthly. The total amount of all his fees, charges and emoluments, of every kind therein, earned or received. Sixthly. The total amount of expenses incurred by him for legal proceedings and counsel fees. Seventhly. The disposition of the cases respectively. Eighthly. A summarized statement of both classes respectively. And it is provided that any assignee who shall fail to make the reports re quired by the section quoted, shall, on motion made under the direction of the Attorney General, be by the District Court dismissed from his office, and shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year. The form of this report is here with given. It is also provided that the assignees shall, as often as once in three months, report to the Court the condition of each estate in his charge, and the state of his accounts in detail. All the petitions are numbered in ac cordance with the above requirements. Assignees have filed their reports with the clerk in the following numbered cases, the numbers not mentioned show the defaulting assignees, who are liable to the penalty described. The following returns are in : Nos. 589, 599, (510, (124, 041, 664, 009, 070, 077, 078, 081, 085, 087, 090, 095, 701, 702, 711, 712, 713, 717, 724, 725, 727, 728, 729, 731, 739, 741, 744, 740, 717, 754, 704, 700, 770, 779, 780, 791, 792, 793, 794, 795, 801, 802, 800, 807, 810, 812, 814, 818, 819, 830, 831, 832, 835, 837, 839, 855, 859, 804, 870, 873, 878, 881, 885, 892, 893, 894, 902, 908, 910, 912, 913, 910, 919, 920, 933, 938, 945, 947, 949, 951, 950, 958, 900, 909, 977, 981, 984, 989, 996, 997, 1,008, 1,009, 1,017, 1,018, 1,019, 1,022, 1,025, 1,030, 1,030, 1,042, 1,040, 1,047, 1,050, 1,005, 1,068, 1,073, 1,070,1,078, 1,080,' 1,083, 1,080, 1,095, 1,108, 1,109, 1,114, 1,119, 1,120, 1,128, 1,131, 1,134, 1,135, 1,141, 1,144, 1,140, 1,147, 1,148, 1,153, 1,154, 1,157, 1,159, 1,100,1,101, 1,102, 1,100, 1,108, 1,172, 1,174, 1,175, 1,180, 1,183, 1,184, 1,185, 1,189, 1,190, 1,191, 1,193, 1,194, 1,195, 1,198, 1,199, 1.200, 1,202, 1,204, 1,205, 1,207, 1,208, 1,214, 1,210, 1,218, 1,221, 1,225, 1,220, 1,227, 1,229, 1,231, 1,233, 1.234, 1,237, 1,240, 1,241, 1,243, 1,244, 1,240, 1,247, 1,248, 1,250, 1,251, 1,252, 1,253, 1,257, 1,258, 1,203, 1,204, 1,208, 1,271. Through Cotton Tor HiivaniiaU and New Vork. During the cotton week ending Friday night, the Western Railroad of Alabama brought to Columbus en route for Savan nah and New York, 155 bales cotton —154 from Mobile, 0 from Montgomery, 1 from Selma, 0 from Opelika, West Point and other stations, 0 from Vicksburg, 0 from New Orleans. The total through movement by this route, since September Ist, is 37,074 bales—4,4l6 from Mobile, 9,230 from Montgomery, 11,087 from Selma, 8,636 from West Point, Opelika, etc., 3,624 from Vicksburg, 65 from New Orleans. During same time the Mobile and Girard Railroad has brought up 5,036 through bales against 2,548. Bankrupt lioll. Since our last report the following pro ceedings in bankruptcy have been filed in the office of Mr. James McPherson, Clerk of the United States Court: Petitions in voluntary bankruptcy as follows: Gilbert A. Ward, Waynesboro, Burke county. Stephen A. Corker, solicitor. Wm. Burns, Eaton ton, Putnam county. Wm. McKinley, Milledgeville, solicitor. Petition for final discharge filed by Nelson Stuckey, Stephensville, Wilkinson county. John Rutherford, of Macon, solicitor. The American Favorite A live, spioy monthly, published at Bridgeton, N. J., (a notice of which may be seen in our advertising columns), is furnished at exceedingly low rates, and, in connection with their large offers, will no doubt gain for them an immense circulation. Send two three-cent stamps i at once for a sample copy. TELEGRAPHIC NEYYN. Nummary of the Week's UUputehe* MEPHISTOPHILES MORTON. Urbano, 0.. August 7. —Gov. Morton, of Indiana, after speaking in support of the specie resumption bill of the last Congress, said: “I had something to do with the preparation of this bill and voted for it in good faith, and intend to stand by it until experience has demon strated that it is impracticable or needs amendment. Its feature, fixing a day for resumption and providing for it, I had proposed to the Seuate six years before, and whether the time fixed is a proper one or not, aud I shoidd have preferred it a year or two later—it is the method by which I should believe specie payment should come and will be reached. It establishes the policy of free banking, the slow, gradual return to specie pay ments, and no contraction or expansion of the currency until that time.” He then addressed his remaiks to the Democratic platform of Ohio, and combatted the greenback theoiy and claimed that the Democrats had always been enemies of greenbacks. Ho said : “This whole scheme of n further issue of green backs iu lieu of uational bank notes I ar raign here to-day as hypocritical aud treacherous, designed iu the first place to effect the destruction of uational hanks, and then, by their volume and by the de cision of the courts, to destroy green backs themselves, and pave the way for the restoration of the o' .I State bank sys tern. The State sovereignty party will never stop short of State banks. A national currency, whether of greenbauks bank notes, is hateful to the party party which abhors the national idea and declares that this is not a nation, but thirty-seven independent and sovereign powers. The party which clamors constantly about centralization aud Federal assumption can never be the friend of greenbacks which represents the highest form of national sovereignty. Every year the proposition has been brought forward iu Congress to repeal the law taxing the notes of State himks, which drove these banks out of existence, and the repeal of which would again open up the flood-gate for public and private robbery by the establishment of innu merable and worthless banks in all the States. Only last year, Mr. Thurman and overy Democratic Senator, voted for a proposition to repeal that law which was offered as an amendment to a finance bill.” FOREIGN CROPS. London, August 9.—The Mark Imm Express, in its review of the com trade the past week, says: “The weather, though broken, has been on the whole, tolerably tine. Crops are progressing fa vorably, but it is unreasonable to expect the plenty or quality of last year after a nearly sunless July, aud such a heavy rainfall as they have found in France, as far as they have gone, and Hour has risen four francs per sack in Paris. The bulk of our own harvest is yet uncut. Some of our country markets have hesitated about submitting to any decline, though generally it reaches from one to two shillings. Large speculative purchases have been made in Loudon on American account. The Loudon market closed with an improved aspect, and at an upward tendency, which must be swayed entirely by the weather. There certainly seems quite as much chance of a riso as a fall. REVIEW OP THE WEEK. New York, August B.— At the Cotton Exchange there has been considerable doing. On Monday the market opened with a strong tone with an advance to Jo based on reports of the injury to the growing crop, nud small stocks at leading markets. An improvement was supported until Wednesday, when concession was made. A woak undertone still was prevalent at the close yesterday. In contracts for future delivery there has been quite a break in values, particularly those of the last months, which are lower than during the panic of last week. The total sales of the week were 109,087 bales, of which 0,387 bales were for immediate delivery, and 162,700 on contract. the treasury thieves. Washington, August 9. Ottmau’s counsel will appoal for a reduction of libs bail, which is now SIOO,OOO. Ottman lffad a special deposit in the Germania Saviifigs Bank at Alexandria. The paeknge was found to contain a curious bftx, in which twenty-nine five hundred dollar bifoPwos-o found. The box was evidently made-for the purpose of burying tb.o money safely. The box*hnd money are in the hands of the detectives. The wives of Halloek aud Ottman had interviews with their husbands to-day, which were vory affect ing. Brown aud Ilalleck have an oxami nation to-morrow. DROWNED. Niagara l 1 alls, August 9.—Six citizens visited the Gave of tho Winds without the guide. Etlielbert Parsons, aged 29 and Lottie C. Phillipot, aged 25, de scended to an eddy never visited by the guides. While bathing the lady lost her foothold; the gentleman caught her, but the current carried both into the river aud they wore drowned. They were soon to be married. FROM LOUISIANA. New Orleans, August 7. —Governor Kellogg has addressed a letter to the Sheriffs ol the several parishes of North Louisiana, where a number of murders and other deeds of violence were reported recently, directing them to call in the aid of tho better class of citizens to bring to justice the perpetrators. The Funding Board has adjourned till September, and will fund no more bonds till then. THE NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION. Wilmington, August 7. — lieturas re ceived during the past two days leave the result of the election still in doubt. Both parties claim a majority of delegates, and it may be several days before the result is definitely known, as several extreme western counties are yet to be heard from. It is not probable that the rna jority will exceed two either way. THE MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE. Beaver, Ltah, August B.—The jury in the case of John D. Lee, charged with being the leader of the Beaver Meadows massacre, disagreed and were discharged. They stood nine for acquittal and three for .conviction, the latter consisting of one Gentile and two Mormons. THE BELIGIoA OP ADUXiTEKY. Twin Mountain House, August B.—The first of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s vaca tion sermons was delivered this morning to a very large audience. The attendance was made up of the residents of villages adjacent and the guests of the hotels in the vicinity. A VOEACIOUS BEAB. Ottawa, Ont., August 7.—A dispatch from Gaitenan says threo children, while picking berries in the bushes, were at tacked and killed by a bear. Only the feet aud arms of one of the children can be found. con. o. HOPPER. Omaha, August 9. —-Specials from the West report the grasshoppers very numerous. At several points immense crowds of the insects are still flying South. There was a good rain early this morning. A FATAL MISTAKE. Gabdineb,Me., August 9. —A physician left morphine instead of powder for a foam ing draught. An old lady is dead, and the nurse who tasted the medicine was saved with difficulty. THE HOOSAO TUNNELL. Springfield, Mass., August 7.—A large mass of soft rock fell in the Hoosac Tunnell. Smaller particles falling pre vent the approach of workmen to ascer tain the extent of the damage. a denial. Madrid, August 7.—The report that the government intends contracting a loan of seven million of indemnity for owners of Porto Rico emancipated slaves is officially denit and. JACKY. Washington, August 7.—C01. Jack Brown has been commissioned Collector of the Fourth Georgia District and leaves Monday night. DISASTER TO CROPS. Ottawa, August 9. —The rains last week caused heavy loss. In thousands of fields the oats and wheat can't be cut with a scythe or reaper. a good hit. Montreal, August 9.—Five young roughs attempted to enter the house of a respectable woman named Downs, who fired into the crowd, killing one. THE KENTUCKY ELECTION. Louisville, August 7. —McOreery’s majority will reach forty-five thousand. The convention is probably lost. 808 ALSTON. Poughkeepsie, August 7. —Col. R. A. Alston, of the Atlanta Herald , was sere naded here to-night and made a speech.