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MATUKOAV, IMTOHMt a. 1X73.
Interesting to Cotton Claimants.
It will bo interesting and welcome
news to a large number of our citizens
to learn that Louis Bagger, Esq., of
Washington, D. C., who, a year or two
ago, visited our city iit the interest of
cotton clannanta, and the Hon. Joseph
Casey, late Chief Justice of the United
Staton Court of Claims, who Is interested
jointly with Mr. Bagger in ihU matter
as oounseta|Mue succeeded in i ff. oting ar
rangements that will secure an early con
sideration by the next (Democratic) Con
gress of the propriety of paying those
ciaiii'e. Their points and arguments are
already prepared, and some of the most
influential members in the next House
are said to be in favor of the payment of
these claims, if proved. Judge Casey's
argument will be delivered before the
proper committee very early in the ses
sion. aud will be followed by arguments
of Judge Bartley and Louis Bagger, Eq.
Wo congratulate those haring claims in
the Lands of these gentlemen upon the
very satisfactory prospects of final sue
cess.
Deviltry in tub Distbict. — Every now
and then, says the Nashville American,
there comes to the surface facts that il
Justrate how the courts of the District of
Columbia bavo. been long given up to
lawless gangs, until justice has been worse
than succession of Wells^
ndT"shfw that per
Wf-w lion has yet been reached. Well
assistant in the Police Court, Campbell
Carrington, has already been requested
to resign, on account of abusing tbe privi
leges of las position, and it is also dis
covered that somebody has stolen a por
tion of tbe records in the court. The
papers comprise the important testimony
and bail bonds in cases where the aggre
gate of the fines would have amounted to
$5,000. With the destruction of these
papers, of course, the eases would fail,
aud a small crowd of rascals, hammers
and thieves would be allowed to run free.
The Attorney General has taken these
eases in hand, aud, as a result, Fisher's
non, the predecessor of Carrington, is in
custody. By this energetic action a por
tion of die bonds have been recovered,
aud young Fisher’s prospect of occupying
n cell in the penitentiary materially
strengthened.
Tub Tilton Beecher Moulton Suits.
District Attorney Britton refuses to
make known las intentions relative to
the criminal indictments against Moul
ton and Tilton, but it is believed that lie
will soon enter a nolle proeequi, after
which the scandal fight is expected to
take anew turn—Mr. Moulton being the
aggressor.
In this connection the Occola (Pa.)
Riteillt’ says: “The Baeclierites in
Brooklyn wiil find some way of evading
Moulton's trial, which would place their
champion in the worst position lie bus
y*-t occupied whilst the Now York
Nation, volunteers the remark that “the
first tsigu of sanitary improvement in and
nboift Plymouth Church will bo tho re
tirement of pastor and congregation as
fur as may bo from the public gaze.”
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There is trouble in Now Orleans again
about mixing the schools. The seniors
of the Boy's High School left in a body
because a colored teacher was placed over
them, and tho Bulletin counsels nil tLe
boys to quit the school uuloas ) ,u ca se
of complaint is removed ; but the I Hitts
thinks they Gould bear tho wrong with
patience until it can be righted in some
other and more satisfactory way. The
Bulletin shows tho enormity of tho evils
to which the white people arc compelled
to submit, when it tells us that the popu
lation of Now Orleans is 145,721 whites
to 57,017 negroes, and yt t tho school
board consists of niue negroes, with
Pinohback at their head, to tirjht whites,
loaded by G nornl Longs!reet. It is
highly probntdo that after the next elec
tion, which takes place next year, the
eompoHition/of this school board will be
changed, *rtd the white people will then
have a cjffance.
The Raymond (Miss ) V unite, speak
ing of tho Clinton riot, sajs: “There
worn probably a thousand negro women
then, ami perhaps five huudred negro
children. Tbcro were hundreds of mules
and Lor:, s hitched under tho adjacent
trees; and wagons and buggies innumer
able. Snob a scampering we never before
wunessod such a howling and such hor
rid in'f'mcttioiis wp ttcvit btforo hpiird,
and such vindictiveness and hostility to
the whites os was exhibited by the
tongues of the negro women we had not
supposed existed in the human heart.
Had the negro women been armed, not a
white man would have escaped to toll the
story of tho affair."
General B.mjuniii 1 Sutler's sister was
among the first of European travelers to
fall n victim to the new revenue regula
tion which was designed to prevent fash
iottahle smuggling. Upon her recent ar
rival in Boston she was required to enter
on a list all extra article s brought over
by her and had to pay several hundred
dollars of duty. The saddest feature of
the affair is that the Collector of the port
of Boston, who behaved so unhandsomely
to u lady in distress, is Mr. Bill Simmons,
• ho owes his position to the exertions of
General Butler.
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In. l Louisville Courier-Jourtutl wisely
recognize# the homogeniousness of in
terests between the West and the South.
Oppressed and weakened as the South it,
she cannot dictate or demand anything
with regard to public policy; but she welt
knows the natural relations that bind her
interests with those of the West; and’
ns interests to a great degree control the
sentiments and alliances of peoples, she
knows that to the W est she must look for
justice and generosity.
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A Washington letter states that the in- I
crease of banking circulation in this
month will hardly exceed a million. The i
withdrawal of circulation is principally |
in the West and South, whilst the heaviest j
increase is in the New England States, j
lx ere they have the national bonds ac- j
cumulated by fat contracts, aud feeding
the auny, and speculation, while other
people were fighting.
N.iiii Jell Davis at one of the fairs in
Missouri the other ilay: ‘Tt gladdened
my heart as I drove K> these grounds to
see the number of side-saddles on the
horses hitched along tho way. I had
almost began to fear that my American
countrywomen had lost the art of riding,
at least the art of riding on horseback.
Thank you, ladies, for coming ou side
saddles.”
This is good: It frequently occurs in
domestic history, observes the Washing
ton Star, that a gentleman has occasion
to send for his mother-in-law, but it
very rarely happens that he has need of
his father-in-law. That time seems to
1 ave arrived, however, in the career of
<Jov. Ames, of Mississippi,
Tho la t oflicial at Washington who
Mole something is named Fisher, lie
| topped his line in pleasant places and
Law! out a lot of appeal bonds that be
longed to the government.
W hite Slavery tu NcW FtitrUni).
It is announced that tho Fail River
(Mass, mills will resume operations to
day, provided the operatives will accept
a redaction of ten per cent, on wages,
and consent to the proposition of tha
Board of Manufacturers to "withdraw
from any association which does not leave
the choice of woik and wages to the free
wiil of each individual." The indications
are that the great majority will be glad
to close with this off ir, rather than at
tempt to g'i through the approaching
winter In idleness and want. At F*H
Biver, qt present, fifteen thousand opera
tives and forty mffis are idle, and as the
“vaoatiou” commenced sis weets ago
there is now considerable sufi ring
amongst the operatives. “Hungry and
poorly-clad womerf," writes a correspond
ent, “haunt the rooms of the societies,
hotel*, aud etoyes, asking for relief, and
at every corner on every street dozens of
sad-looking men stand gazing about them
with their hands in their pockets.
By the strike monthly wages amount
ing to >•“)<K),<)0<) have been lost to the
town and trades people, while $30,000,-
000 of capital lies idle and unproductive.
The manufaoturors have a stock of goods
from which to fill special orders, and
seem confident of meeting a limited de
; mand therefrom for six months, and say
| they might as well keep their mills closed
all winter, as they would lose money by
conceding the demands of the operatives
The Lowell manufacturers also announce
that they have doterimned upon a reduc-
of the opt-A tives
.The Boston Adoertiser says the reduction
1 will be felt in all departments of cotton
• manufacturing, and will be of such a na
ture that wages, relatively to each other,
will be changed, while at the same time
all are cut down to the lowest basis which
reduced prices and diminished profits
demand. The proposed reduction will
go into effect October 4, when wages will
bo out down from three to ten per cent.,
according as they were considered rela
tively too high or too low in the different
departments of the business. In order
to mitigate the effects of the reduction
as fur as possible, the amount to bo paid
for board at corporation houses is re
duced from $3 50 to $3 25 per woek for
males, and from $2 25 to $2 10 for fe
inales.
This is a sad state of affairs and affords
a striking illustration of tho evils result
ing from the present financial policy of
the government which has prostrated the
manufacturing, commercial, mechanical
aud industrial enterprises generally of the
country. It demonstrates, too, theabject
dependence of labor on capital in New
England, whore the political economy of
the State is controlled by capital in the
interests of capital. Mr. Calhoun once said
that labor and capital in the free States
were in nntngonism, with the advantage
on the side of capital. In tho free
States pressure came upon capital
through labor, while in the slave States
pressure could only reach labor throifgh
capital. In times of panic and pressure,
tho Southern slave owner, to preserve his
capital, was compelled to feed his slaves.
Tho mill owner could close his factory
door and lot labor starve. The condi
tion of things in Massachusetts to day
affords a convincing demonstration of
tho correctness of Mr. Calhoun’s theory.
Whatever were the evils of slavery it had
some compensations. It gave tc labor,
helpless labor, employment am security,
which the labor system of phi
Massachusetts does not.
No paper in Now York better deserves
the support and patronage of the South
ern people than The Run. It is in all
respects a model nowspuper, and is by
far tho best and fairest of thoso journals
in Now York city that assume to lead
public opinion. Its editor-in-chief, Mr.
Charles A. Dana, is the pronounced ene
my of shams of all sorts, and nothing
that is not honest, virtuous aud good es
capes his trenchant quill. Although an
avowed Republican, he is a better Demo
crat to-day, in everything that relates to
devotion to principle aud incorruptible in
tearity, than the editor of the New York
World. In addition to this, Mr. Dana
is one of tho most scholarly writers
connected with journalism. Mr. Wil
liam Young, the managing editor of
The Sun, upon whom dovolves the
responsibility of gathering aud arranging
the news, is a gentleman of experience,
taste and discretion, and is one among
tho few journalists in Now Yoik who is
critic enough to discriminate between
news and mere eoaaoiionolism. In addi
tion to this he is a fluent, graceful aud
vigorous writer.
Wo write thus strongly in behalf of
The Sun because, in all contingencies it
has stood up for honesty and principle,
and because it has so ably defended the
South in the maintainauce of the right of
her people to local self government, for
all of which it deserves their confidence
and thoir gratitude.
The carpet-ba * usurping Governor of
Louisiana, with a keen appreciation of
tho fact that it would bo futile to expect
any further assistance from Federal
troops to keep himself and his confeder
ates in power, now that the Democrats
have a majority in the national House of
Representatives, has had anew census
taken by officers of his own appointment,
md the result, as foreshadowed in our
w Orleans correspondence, shows a re
markable increase in the colored popula
tion. According to the returns of Kel
logg's census takers, the population of
ihe State Las increased 127,47.1 in the
Last five years, the total population being
less thau 1)00,000: aud of this increase
SI,Mi) are reported to be colored. By
tho last census it appeared that the white
exceeded the colored population about
2j0o0; Kellogg's new census gives the
colored population as over 41,000 in ex
cess of the whites; and when the elections
mko place it will be claimed that the
Kellogg and Casey party have a legitimate
insjority in that proportion of voters to
population. As Kellogg & Cos. have the
control of the election machinery, with a
knowledge of the uißuuer in which elec
tion returns have been manipulated here
tofore, it is easy to foresee what will be
the result of this strategy.
Verification of Weather Probabili -
ties.- From Sergeant J. Kaberuagle,
j United States signal observer in Balti
i more, the > < n learns that a comparison of
; the weather probabilities for August last,
issued tri-daily, and covering twenty-four
hours from the time of issue, with the con
ditions of the weather following the same,
i shows that the average verification for all
: the districts predicted is 01.14 per cent.
The percentage is greater for the up>per
! lake region (1)2.6 percent.), and least for
New England (Bff.4 per cent.) The wind
| direction predictions have been the most
j successful, viz: Off 75 per cent, verified,
weather 1)1.45, temperature 91.00, and
barometer *5.77. The omissions to pre
dict average 0.32 per cent.
Secretary Fish states that the difficulties
with Hay ti have been amicably adjusted.
The civilized world will breathe freer at i
learning that all danger of a sanguinary
collision between tjip yhi ty-black govern- j
went of the United States and t|m black j
government ot iiojti is thus averted. ’ j
Bullock’* Swindling Confederates in
Trouble.
The petition of Henry Clew and The
odore H. Fowler of the bankrupt firm of
Henry Clews A Cos., for a discharge from
all their debts, was considered in tbe
District Court of the United States for
the Southern District of New York on
Thursday last. Mr. Henry Clewa was
present aud the court room waa filled
with creditors, some thirty of whom pro*
tested against the discharge of the pe
titioners, on the ground of fraud which
it is alleged has ueeu developed dur
ing the investigation of the affairs of the
bankrupts. It was stated that worthless
collaterals had been iransK-rred from the
old firm to the new, by which, under
colors of a loan, the money of
the depositors of the new
was mod to pay o£U certain
pref rred creditors of the old rnKlikUDae
creditor stated that the bonds q| the j
State of Geoigia negot; dby Clews &
Cos., to the amount of
been repudiated by the ililliim
It was believed that the seeimtieis of
Georgia, aud other States which ®pur-
portid to have been given to develop
industries of thoso States, igipht hp made
valuable aud be acknowledged by the au
thorities if the books and uoucher3 of
the bankrupt firm showed a clean record
and a value received for them. If it
could be shown that tbe money
from the *a!e of these bonds had been
honestly paid into the State Treasuries
there couldbe no valid defense against
-A,oir , i>ut' Che the
firm do not show clearly the nature of
the transactions between the firm and the
officials of the So\dh e 7 n Stales, ft had
been furthermore proven in a Georgia
court that the accounts of Clews & Cos.
had been falsified. Under these circum
stances it was considered the books would
be of no value to the creditors. The in
vestigation on the whole was Aiost dam
aging to Bullock's financial agents, Hen
ry Clews & Cos., and fully confirmed all
that tho Georgia press has charged upon
the firm as being co conspirators with
Bullock and his ring of carpet-bag de
velopers m defrauding the State.
But the richest as well as the newest
disclosure in the financial operations of
Clews & Cos. was reserved for tho close
of the investigation. While the creditors
of the firm were yet in council, forth
came Benjamin 11. Cheever, of Washing
ton, D. C., who filed in the Register's
office a claim against Henry Clews & Cos.
for “balance due on contracts of March
27, 18<i!), $150,000; less by cash, $9,500
$140,500.” Attached to this claim were
copies of the agreement or contracts
made by the firm with Cheever and
James Van Daren. Following are the
alleged contracts:
“Should we be appointed by the United
States Government as financial agents in
New York, or in any city or town in the
United States, wo hereby agree to divide
the profits of the same with B. H. Chee
ver and James Van Buren, one-quarter
each, they being partners in such propor
tion. Henry Clews & Cos. ”
“Should we be appointed by the United
States Government its financial agents in
London, Paris or Frankfort, we hereby
agree to divide the profits of the same
with B. 11. Cheever and James Van Bu
ren, one-quarter each, they being part
ners in such proportion.
“lleniiy Clews A Cos.
“Washington, P. C., March 27, I860.”
Cheever stati and that he also repre
sented James Van Buren, who had a sim
ilar claim, and that they both protested
against Clews receiving a discharge
f'fOm his liabilities. After the adjourn
men's* 1 of the hearing, Cheever in
or*u-.na^“f< >r ter or itie Tribune that he
was prepared to show tha. Henry Clews
& Cos. had received over SOOO,OOO profits
as fiscal agents of the United States, and
that his claim for one-quarter of that
sum was presented in good faith. He
had sworn to its correctness before the
register, and he was able to substantiate
it. He said Clews had deceived him,
and it was understood that the books of
the firm did not contain any entries of
the transaction. The agreement was verj
plain and could not be misunderstood,
but Clews has evaded payments
under it, claiming that there were no
profits. Cheever also stated that at
tho time the agreements were signed
Clews told him that Habicht, of the
firm of Clews, Habicht & Cos, London,
would havo one quarter of these profits,
leaving the remaining quarter to
Clews. Cheever declined to give de
tails concerning his claim and the na
ture of the services rendered until after
his counsel had prepared the papers in
the suits which would be begun against
tho firm to recover the money claimed to
be due under the contract.
Cheever’s documents and statements
leave us no room to doubt that the
appointment of Henry Clews & Cos. as
financial agents of the Government
was obtained by bribery, and the
inference is fair that the appointing
power shared tho bribe with Messrs.
Cheever and \an Buren. They certainly
did not control the President in these
appointments, and could only have
acted as agents of a higher power to con
duct the bargain with Henry Clews &
Cos.
A Grand and Costly Altar. —At the
residence of the Vicar General a convoca
tion of tho priests of the diocese of New
York was held on Thursday to devise
means for ereotmg the high altar in the
new cathe lral in F.fth avenue. The
altar when completed will cost about
$210,000, and it is proposed that the
diocese of New York shah defray the en
tire expenses. When completed, the al
'ar will be one of the most magnificent
in the world. Its principal parts are be
ing erected in Home, and others in St.
brieuc, France. The high altar will oc
cupy the eastern extremity of the build
ing, aud be supported by a platform to
be reached by three broad marble steps
rising from the floor of the sanctuary.
The table will be of white marble, rest
ing on columns of precious marble, xyth
bases aud foliated capitals of the same
material, and are eight in number, divid
ing the front of the altar into three
large aud four smaller niches. The
Lirger niches will contain representations
of the Passion of Christ, and the smaller
statues of the Apostles. The altar is to
be twelve feet-four inches long by two
feet four inches wide.
Specie Taxes. —A Washington dis-
says: ‘‘Among Treasury officials
the report that tho President will prob
ably suggest such an amendment of the
legal teuder act as will require the pay
ment of all internal revenue taxes in gold
is regarded as too absurd for discussion.
The Secretary of the Treasury is obliged
to sell between fifty and sixty millions of
gold annually to get sufficient currency,
in connection with internal revenue re
ceipts, to pay the current expenses of
the government. As already stated in
this correspondence, the administration
does not expect any favorable legislation
from the Forty-fourth Congress, and de
pends wholly upon the existing specie re
sumption act to carry out the will of the
Republican party.
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The United States gunboat Brayo
to leave Galveston on Friday night last
for the Bio Grande, under the escort of
the revenue cutter J. A. Dix, and General
Ord says if the Mexican Greasers do not ;
keep out of Texas there will tip lively .
40 that vicinity. / j
An liu--aranr** Bombshell,
A convention of Insurance Commis
sioners and Superintendents was held in
New York last week. We learn from the
New York papers that the harmony of
the body was unpleasantly disturbed by
Commissioner John A. Finch, of Indiana,
who quietly dropped the biggest kind of
bombshell plump into the midst of the
body. The order of the day was the de
livery of addresses, When Mr. Finah's
turn came, be made a compact, logical
argument, intended to show his colleagues
the errors under which the whole system
of Life Insurance has been laboring for
msjny yeas past. He contended that the
contract for life insurance is the most one
sided known in business ; that it binds the
policy holder as with a chain of rivetted
steel, aud the company as with a rope of
:*kUd; that the companies have every
Mintage of the policy holder in regard
to payments of dividends, the satisfaction
of Cfcans, the election of agents and so
licitor : that the responsibility for con
tracts is shifted from solicitor to geueral
agents, from to the com
panies, and from the companies back
again: tha.t tbe companies “sit in a
shadow of mystery and speak in techni
cal phrases, and that when a policy is
forfeited or lapses from any cause, “the
holder receives what the company gra
ciously will give.’’
This, remarks the Brooklyn Argus, is
a stern indic*rißp. striking at the root
of the bregsMfcErfeHi of conducting the
r hfe _ i- *
i remedy, Mr. Finch proposes the passage
, of anew general law, which shall make
al} life policies nou-forfeitable after the
first payment; compel the companies to
be responsible for the acts of accredited
agents and solicitors; permit no defense
at law for fraud in applications after the
lapse of five years, and make a contract
between company and holder as binding
os any other contract. This propo
sition is sufficiently sweeping to stir
the whole life insurance interest to
its foundations. It will please the great
mass of people who are policy-holders—
and it will displease a good many of the
companies who have figured conspicu
ously in the law courts in contests over
claims. But, considering the fuet that
there are in the State of New York alone
more than 800,000 holders of life poli
cies in the different grades, and the addi
tional fact that th ; s vast army of the pru
dent are insured to the amount of
$2,000,000,000, the new departure sug
gested by the Indiana Cammissioncr be
comes at once a subject of popular inter
est. The bold defense of the policy
holders will naturally make Mr. Finch
the leader in anew agitation. The com
panies will be heard from in due time.
A New Application op Gun Cotton.—
The telegraph recently gave us a brief
account of an explosion in a “celluloid”
factory in Newark, N. J. Most of our
readers, perhaps, never heard of “cellu
loid” before, and of course have no idea
what sort of a manufactory was blown
up in Newark. “Celluloid” is a newly
discovered substance manufactured from
several ingredients, chief among them
gun cotton aud camphor, which possesses
a high value on account of its close re
semblance to coral, ivory, tortoise shell,
amber or malachite, according to prefer
ence. Not only is it susceptible to the
richest and most delicate coloring, but is
very light and at the same time very
tough, aud in these respects superior to
any known substance now in use for a
great variety of purposes. The coral
•imitations a r e so perfect that expert jew
elers fail to detect its real character with
out close inspection. The principal scat
of its manufacture is Newark, though
companies aro springing up in other parts
of the country. It is largely used in the
manufacture of jewelry and fancy goods,
and though not easily broken, is highly
inflammable and ignites instantly, it is
said, when placed in contact with fire.
As was to be Expected.— The follow
ing striking item appears in some of the
latest Washington news:
“General Ord, commanding the De
partment of Texas, is of opinion that
better service could be rendered along
the Rio Grande by a command of exclu
sively white troops. Tho Mexicans, so
officers in the command write, do not
fear the presence of the colored infantry
or cavalry. There are other reasons
given for insisting on the change if the
command is to be made effective.”
Very few people, says the Richmond
Dispatch, knew there were any negro
soldiers on the Rio Grande; but all knew
that negro soldiers would very poorly
protect the frontier. General Ord has
come to a couclusian that must bo reached
by all officers, and all honest ones will
ftankly express them. General Ord is
one of the honest ones.
The New York Abduction Case.—
The boy Joseph Sullivan, whose myste
rious disappearance in New York on
Wednesday last has brought out the of
fer of s>.>oo reward for his recovery, is
still missing. Superintendent Walling
said Tuesday that he had learned of a
boy being taken away in a wagon by two
men, and from the description thought
it might be Joseph Sullivan. On Wed
nesday last the boy was playing on the
sidewalk in front of his father’s store
and dwelling, at No. 412 Greenwich
street, at 1 o’clock in the afternoon. At
1:05 o’clock his father’s clerk spoke to
him at the door, and that was the last
time he is known to have been seen by
any one who knew’ him.
The Centennial Bonanza. —We have
never doubted that the Philadelphia Cen
tennial was to be made the basis of in
numerable schemes of speculation and
plunder. We see it announced that the
United States Centennial Board of
Finance has granted the privilege of
printing the official catalogue qf the ex
hibition to J. 11. Nagle & Cos., of Phila
delphia. The firm gave the Board of
Finance $ LOO,OOO for the privilege, and
agrees to print the catalogue in English,
French, German and Spanish.
Warmoth and Kellogg, of Louisiana,
are reported by the New Orleans Times
to have compromised. It asserts that
Warmoth has lately declared “there is
nothing for him and Kellogg to quarrel
about now: that there are plenty of
things in sight for both of them, and
that what he wants is not the same thing
that Kellogg wants.’’ Meantime, the
people of Louisiana want nothing better
than to see both these plundering scoun
drels consigned to speedy perdition.
Another Bold Kidnapping Case. —In
New York, on Wednesday morning, Mrs.
Cohler, of Fifty-ninth street, while pur
chasing goods at Stewart’s store, had her
j little daughter, five years of age, taken
from her by an unknown woman, who
went with her into an omnibus. The
j mother, half frantic, ran after the vehi
cle, and recovered the child. She was
so excited that she neglected to call the
I police, and so the kidnapper escaped.
The taxes levied in New York last year
averaged $35 for every man, woqian and
child. This exceeds the tax levied in
Paris in the last year of the empire,
when taxes were heaviest to meet the
vast improvements then executed. The
taxes in Paris that year averaged only
f24 50 per head.
LETTER FROM THE “GATE CITY.”
House Again— Judge Martin J. Crawford
—Old Friends—Cron*—A Lively t pl-
Macon, her Hotels and the State
Fair.
.special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Atlanta, September 25, 1875.
I am once again within the dusty pre
cincts of the “Gate City,” having ar-i
rived here from Macon at a very early
hour this morning. After an absence of
a month I find Atlanta but very littlej
changed, except that more activity is
visible on, the streets, the result of a
brisk opening of the fall trade. Of
course I have not had time to call on the
Governor, interview the public offieiaß
generally, or get posted in regard to the
"last sensation.” I merely propose in
this hasty epistle to drop yon a few inci
dents * travel, in the hope that tLev
may not prove uninteresting to your read
ers.
JUDGE MARTIN J. CRAWFORD. I
Passing through Columbus on vesti'c
day I made a brief call at the law office
of this distinguished gentleman to con
gratulate him upon his recent re-appoi t
rnent as Judge of that circuit, in pi ce
of Judge James Johnson, resigned. 3he
rumor that he was offered a place uj an
the Supreme Bench has no foiy d
ation whatever, as I am assured ’■ by
both Governor Smith aud Judge Cru v
ford. W hen General Alfred Iverson was
elected United States Senator for this
State, and in 1853 resigned the position
of Judge of the Muscogee Circuit, Gjv
-efticr •TTSvsuCt.j' r*. jcnasou
appointed Hon. M. J. Crawford to fill tho
unexpired teym, some two years or more.
And now that Judge Janies Johnson re
signs, Governor Smith, with his accus
tomed good sense, re-appoints Judge
Crawford to fill the present unexpired
term, which is also about two years. On
the first Monday in October,"at Butler,
the new Judge will preside over the Tay
lor county Circuit Court, and as
his former services on the bench
were of a high order of merit,
I can s-.fely assert that his pres
ent career will far surpass it in en
ergy and ability. .Judge Crawford comes
of good stock, is commanding in appear
ance, has dark, sandy hair and whiskers,
aud is one of the ablest and most success
ful presiding officers in the South. With
such men as Herschel V. Johnson and
Martin J. Crawford on the bench, there
is no chance for the scales of justice to
be tampered with, aud the ermine of
the Judge will again become what it
should bo in all ages and in all climes,
as pure and spotless rs the untrodden
snow. Of all curses that can fall upon
an oppressed and sorely-tried people,
whose only safety is in the strong arm
of the law the worst is a venal aud cor
rupt judiciary.
AN OLD FRIEND —CROPS —AN EPISODE.
At the and. pot in Columbus I met my
old and genial friend, Captain A. A. Winn,
who has been on a business tour through
that section. He was in the act of 1 uy
ing a copy of the Morning News from a
newsboy, which led him to remark to me
that everywhere he went he heard high
praise bestowed upon your paper, and in
many instances he had taken subscrip
tions to accommodate parties who desired
it regularly. He reports crops rather
better than was anticipated some weeks
ago, and in Southwestern Georgia the
“second crop,” as it is called, promises
well if not cut off by an early aud severe
frost. Captain W. has been canvassing
in Tallapoosa, Chambers, Lee, Montgom
ery, Bullock and Barbour counties, in
Alabama, and through Southwestern
Georgia. He has done good service for
tht city of Savannah, and through his
infi nee many a stray bale of cotton will
find *s way to your warehouses.
Ju t after the train left Butler I re
mained to Captain Winn that the next
station was Reynolds, where the young
ladies pin back their dresses so tight that
it makes wrinkles in their faces, aud they
can’t shut indr mouths. A vinegar-faced,
bareheaded dirty looking old woman sat
in the sea* in front cf me, having wjjh
her a barehtaied daughter and grirnUT'
ohild, and thinking I was casting a slur
upon the Indies of Reynolds, her own
home, she very indignantly and
sharply replied, “I’d thank you,
sir, its gin in that the ladies
of Reynolds dresses in better styles
as does tho ladies .of Macon.” Tho
daughter of the irate old woman laughed
good naturedly, and explained to her
mother that she had mistaken my idea,
but the indignant creature would not mol
lify worth a cent, and as she left the cars
at Reynolds, she cast such a withering,
scornful glance upon me that Conductor
Jeter and Captain Winn were convulsed
with laughter.
MACON —HER HOTELS AND THE FAIR.
I stopped over a few hours in Macon,
and found everybody talking about the
approaching State Fair, Great efforts
are being made to have an agricultural,
mechanical and stock exhibition such as
has never before been witnessed in the
South. Although there is to be no
regular racing, it is understood
that some of the fastest horses in tlie
country will be there and give a display
of their speed. Eminent men from all
parts of the land are being invited, and
already several have promised to be pres
ent. Of hotel accommodations there will
be no lack. Mr. J. C. Mcßurney, the
owner of tho “Hollingsworth Block,” has
re-opened the National Hotel, which he
had handsomely frescoed and refiitted in
elegant style, and where he is making
preparations for an immense crowd du
ring the fair. I took tea at this hotel
last night aud am glad to be able to state
that it is now better kept than ever be
fore, The Brown House and Lanier
House, ever popular, are also cleaning up
and preparing for the expected crowd.
Private boarding houses are also making
ready, and all visitors will be taken care
of. Me Judice.
The Romance of the Grand Duke
Alexis.
[From Galignani’s Messenger.]
The young wife of the Grand Duke
Alexis cf Russia, son of the Czar, has
just been divorced by the Tribunal of St.
Petersburg. She was a Hessian, and in
that quality had been accepted by the
Empress Maria Alexandrowna as a maid
of honor. Her Majesty was rapidly cap
tivated by her young countrywomen,
who speedily became her favorite. An
other conquest of still greater importance
awaited the young lady in the Muscovite
Empire. Not absolutely pretty, but en
dowed with that grace which bewitches
more than beauty, possessing a charming
figure aud an incomparable elegance, she
inspired the young Grand Duke with an
irresistible passion. One evening the
Empress saw enter her apartment the
maid of honor bathed in tears,
who, throwing herself at her Maj
esty’s feet, avowed her love, and
besought the Czarina’s consent to
the marriage. That same night the
young lady was put into a rail
way carriage, and, under good escort,
conducted to the frontier, while the
Grand Duke Alexis received orders to re
join his ship. But the Czar had reckoned
without the determination of the two
lovers. The Prince escaped, rejoined his
fiancee beyond tho Rhine, and married
her in German territory, notwithstand
ing the paternal fulminations ; and theD
left with her for America. The romance
lasted two years, and nothing could bend
the determination of the Emperor nor
restore the son to his favor, when the in
fluence of the Empress, being brought to
bear on the son, determined the latter to
accept his father’s conditions. It was
decided that the Grand Duke should con
sent to a divorce, resume his situation in
the Russian navy, and that an annuity
should be settled on the heroine of the
romance. It was immediately after that
the Prince was in London with the Czar.
The formalities of the divoree were com
pleted last week.
The Vebdict.—A jury it supposed to
represent fairly the general intelligence
of the community from which it is taker.
The guilt or innocence of a party, the
value or worthlessness of an article is
established by its verdict. A verdict has
recently been rendered by a jury com
posed of the best men taken from every
countryem the globe; the evidence was
Clear and impartial, and thousands of
witnesses gave their testimony. The trial
was a ore, Occupying ten years, and
the jury have at ist brought in a verdict
which was, that! Dr. Tatt’s Pills possess
greater power over disease than any medi
cine invented sii*e the foundation of the
world.” It is p/uouuced by all a right
eous verdict. J
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
‘The Texas Editorial Party—Sights and
f Scenes—. 4 Floridian Abroad— Aniee’s
Pedigree— Mississippi Notes—Kellogg
(Around— Louisiana Topics— Washington
Jottings-Hing Scandal—Hon- Business
is Done With the Secretaries—The
Heiga of Rascality—Odds sud Ends.
j [Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
i i Was sis oton, D. C., September 23,1375.
THE TEXAS EDITORS.
We have had quite a party of Texas edi
tors in our city who have beea excurtiug
around the North ia charge of R. W. Thomp
son of the Texas Pacific Railroad. They
j were waylaid on Sunday by the Young
Men’s Christian A-sociation and presented
with bibles. They then obtaiued a special
j permit and were shown through the Capitol,
Treasury and White House, and in the af
ternoon had their photographs taken by
Johnson, and their phrenological develop
ments reconnoitred by Professor Henry of
the Smithsonian Institute. They seemed
to be well pleased with Washington. They
pronounced the beverages good and the
board excellent. They had to forego the
satisfaction of gazing on Ulysses, but thev
read the sign on Freddy's bank and saw the
room where the old man filled the guests
with choice drinks at government expense,
i They also saw the spot where Tom Ochiltree
sat in tho great Sartoris supper,
and their breasts swelled with pride
at the deeds of that sou of
Texas. They were shown the Washington
monument, standing aloft in the Potomac
mud like a broken broom handle. They
role on the street cars and rubbed against
tli© high-toned Africans ot Washington with
the privilege of getting small-pox or itch.
They saw the Howard University at a dis
! >“Uce and the exploded Freedman’s Bank at
; short range. They visited Ford’s Theatre
i (now the medical museum), and were shown
the spot, immediately beneath tlio skeleton
Of-the buffalo, where Booth Dorforutwa his
murderous They saw Castle Sjtewart
and Fort Butler, and had the pleasure of
walking over the pretty in os .Tie pavement
j made of plaster and cement laid around the
i capitol grounds, on which a Virginia Ropub
■ Bean member of Congress and several con
tractors have become rich. They were dis
gusted by the amount of Indian statu
ary and pictures which a maudlin
sympathy for Lo has caused to be
erected, for the average Texan believes in
first killing the Indian and then civilizing
him. They gazed in wonder at the dome of
the capitoi, one of them remarking that it
was nearly as high as Victoria Peak ; they
looked with astonishment at the skeleton of
the megathenium, they leered covetously at
the bags of gold in the Treasury vault, aud
grinned at the half plucked eagles in Frank
lin square, but, unlike their Northern breth
ren, they did not whittle or break off any
thing for relics, although they were shown
where the tree stood near which Sickles
killed Key, and were told that said tree had
been whittled up aud carried off by Dan’s
admirers. Tlio excursionists left here more
rapidly than they would, but the nows of
the cyclone alarmed them, aud they packed
up and sped away.
MISSISSIPPI.
The pin-headed abortion whom old Stra
bi-mus gave to his daughter is raising
Ned in Mississippi, but the people have
rather got him by the hip. That State has
had a hard time of it since the war with the
Revels, Pease, McKee, Barry, Lynch, Perce,
Morphia, Harris and the rest of the horde
of negroes, carpet-baggers and thieves. To
see the pedigree of these fellows in the Con
gressional Directory, each giving his own
performances,is enough to disgust, and was
even too much for that paragon of Radical
perfection, Poland, who, with blue swallow
tail and brass buttons, and the fragrance of
the Vermont hills hanging in his ilfaetorios,
could not stand this commingled essence of
dirty carpet-bagger, scallawag and nigger
that, filled tho legislative halls at Jackson,
and consequently reported against them.
But to Ames—this youth started out under
the auspices of Bl&ino as a second lieutenant
in 1861 and was crowded up to a Brigadier
General of volunteers in tho days when no
one was allowed to loaf around tho Willard
but Generals. Ho was appointed Lieutenant
Colonel of the 24th Infantry after the war,
aud was assignod to command what was
known as the Fourth Military District, em
biaeing Mississippi. In this capacity bo
literal'y had control of the State. Most of
the offices were filled by Federal officers aud
their retainers, and when reconstruction
came Ames and the othc-r negro Revels were
elected Senators April Ist, 1870. Then be
married Belle Butler and became the son of
his, father-in-law. And now io.‘ the reason
of his resigning the Senate and taking tlio
Gubernatorial chair. The expenses of re
construction in a great State like Mississip
pi, necessitated expenses, levees needed re
pairing, and improvements were needed.
The State could issue bonds, aud who could
.place them ou the market and with more
#ij. t• J motives that that spotless pa
triot, the Governor’s hlthc-Hf-iaw, Ben But
ler ? Tho bonds were accordingly got ouq
and if Ames and Butler have not made a
good thing of it, you can gamble that the
latter has. Bruce, the retired barber (who
is of alight mule color), and Jamos Lusk
Alcorn, of Friar’s Point, both Senators, are
opposed to the Ames-Butler business, and
have been bore and. ring the so-called trou
bles, watching matters. Tho election for
members of Congress takes placo in Novem
ber, and from the present appearances the
Radicals will be wiped out so clean that tho
price of valises will go up fifty per cent, in
Jackson.
WM. TITT KELLOGG
is here trying the pulse on outrages. He
"'ants to get up some excitement that will
place Pinckney B nton Stewart Pinchback
iu the Senate, where \V. P. K, can manipu
late him to the best advantage. But Pinch
will hardly sit. Some of the old Radical
fossils do not like to have a convict and
gambler thrust amongst them, although he
has a right to be there under their decisions
and acts. When the class to which W. P.
Kellogg aud J. E. West are squelched in
Louisiana, the better class of people will be
enabled to rally and place their Slate on its
old footing of prosperity. New Orleans, the
natural grain outlet of the Mississippi val
ley, needs only out.-rprise that stable gov
ernment engenders to become a great port.
Ten years of domestic order in Louisiana
and a proper utilizaiiou of labor would
double the population of the Crescent Citv,
especially now that tho attention of tlio
government has been attracted to the im
provement of the mouth of tho Mississippi.
1 heard a Northern capitalist re-piarlt a few
days ago, that if he felt assured of order
prevailing for a few years he would invest
all his available funds iu real estate in New
Orleans. Peace and order, I told him, will
come in under Democra'ic rule, and he will
not have lopg to wait.
J.QCAL lories.
The topics of interest here are the arrest
of C. F. Fisher, tho late Assistant United
States Attorney, for stealing records, etc.
He is mixed up in a vast amount of rascali
ty, but as every branch of the District Gov
ernment is rotten to the core, be is little
worse than others. The Board of Commis
sioners are nominally presided over by Den
nison, ex-Governor of Ohio, but Ketchum,
of New York, formerly member of Congress’
is the wire-workc-r of the institution, and
Shepherd is yet “Boss’’ as much as ever.
It was foolishly supposed that honesty
would rule when the board came in, but
matters are worse. Contracts are still ob
jects of swindling. Under tlio law of Con
gress tlio board can enter into no new con
tracts, but they can complcto work that was
under way. When Ketchum and Iloxie de
sire to give a good job to a friend, they send
him to one of the contractors who had com
pleted a portion of a stree t and was doing
the work at exorbitant rates, bnt wbo bad
been stopped and settled with. Tho friend
g'-ts this contractor to authorize him to
complete any further work qn the street
upon which he was working, should the
board order it. The board then orders the
friend to complete the street under Board of
Public Works prif.es, and the people are thus
robbed in spite of themselves. The offices
of the Board of Commissioners employ
nearly as many clerks as the citv of New
York, and such a collection of retired burg
lars, pimps aud seailawags were never gath
ered together before. All the offices are
believed to contain defaulters, and the city
is full of forged certificates of the Board of
Audit. An ex-army officer, a friend of Sena
tor Logan, named Varney, has been arrested
for passing some of these, and it is believed
that several prominent brokers are inter
ested in this bogus business. The Shepherd
ring has made many a Washington bummer
rich. Four years ago “Bill” Dickson kept a
little doggery on llih street, and to-day be
is the leading broker in the district. Nearly
FOUIi YEARS AGO
Pennsylvania avenue wai paved from the
capitol to the treasury with wooden pave
ments of different patents, and upon the
completion of this,, the first great job, a
grand carnival was given! There avas a
masked procession, a tournament of beats
in pasteboard armor, a race of goat carte,
Helmbold Buchu driving up and down in
his chariot, sis in hand, with brass trap
pings jingling, Grant in his landau, and
Beau Hickman on horseback. To-day Penn
sylvania avenue is in holes again and needs
anew pavement, but other streets have
been improved, the ring has got rich, and
the people of the district have a debt of
twenty-six millions, which they expect the
American people—through Congress—to
shoulder for them, ar.d yet the steam rollers
are working down tbi Ur, and Shepherd, it i
is said, is laying his snare to catch the in- ;
coming Congress. He counts on so manv i
green ones, but may be sadly mistaken. I !
know a few that salt won’t work on.
IN TOWN.
Senator Cameron was here a few days ago
with an ex-member of Congress from Penn
sylvania named Lem. Todd. What old
Simon wanted to get for Lem. no one knows,
but he would make a good deputy premier
in the Samoan Empire. And now comes
Leonard Myers, another Pennsylvania ex
member, who also wants something, and
who says he must have something or the
De mocrats will carry Pennsylvania certain.
We have Garfield, of Ohio, bustling around
here, and it is rumored that he is trying to
rahe funds and voters to take out with him;
but that won’t do for Bill Allen. By the way,
Garfield has a fine house on “I" street here,
and, as Chairman of the Appropriations
Committee, became rich —off his salarv, of
course. He was in Credit Mobilier, salary
grab, and had a touch of Pacific Mail, but
managed to survive it all. He Is the oulv
bidder as yet for the Vice Presidency. Pat
-1 terson, of South Carolina, late of Juniata
: Pennsylvania, has taken cheap lodgiDgs and
| will remain until and dnriug the session of
i Congress. J. L. Evans, of Indiana, a newly
elected Republican, has been here draw"-
iog his pay and laying m a stock
of garden seed for his constituents. He is
a young man of promise. Pat Hawes, mem
ber-at-will from Nebraska, whose pie shop
in the New York Post Office .was broken up
by tba Postmaster, is here trying to get his
friend Bristow to mend the matter lor him.
J. B. Beck, of Kentucky, has also been here,
and was quite a lion, as his ehances'Tor the
Senate in 1877 are considered pretty good.
We have had a Tennessee delegation here
fighting over office. Spence, the United
States Marshal for the Middle District of
Tennessee, has been ousted bv Galbraith
j who goes into office in November. The
balance of the “loir* delegation are after
minor offices, and some ot them having ex
hausted their funds, are about to move off
ou the hoof before the corn is gathered.
THE FLORIDA CROWD
have all left except the Turman family, the
gay and festive United States Attorney,
whom minor has it will remain here witlfa
shingle in the wind on “F” street, the ;late
public printer, and a few more to fame uu
! known, but to saloon proprietors very fa
! miliar. Gov. Gleason has started to Ballin
; valley, near Newtownbarrey, in the county
of Carlow, Ireland, where "the Gleasous anil
Greasons, Dohertys and Flahertvs, the
Boyles and Doyles, will all gather to gaze on
the great Governor from “Ameriky,” who
left the “ould sod” in the steerage" of th
I Tonawanda, and now returns rich as Crrnsus.
1 He will go to London and Paris to endeavor
to dispose of some of his magnificent estates.
They say liis maps are gorgeous. The ever
glades become a fertile plain studded with
villages. Railroads intersect the country in
all directions. Steamboats plough "the
Indian river, aud seveu-story cotton
mills are thickly strewn among the thriving
hamlets. Gleason is a humanitarian. He
wants to provide homes for tho down-trod
den of all nations. Ho would as soon sell
to the Memnonites as to the British Emigra
tion Union or the orgau grinder’s benevo
vlent league. What a picture Gleason could
present to cts of Victor Emanuel.
In the happy !and%x->phiied .on the maps,
whose ■chiaate is milder than theirowii, itnj
descendant of the Caisars could sit beneath
his vine or fig tree playing some sweet and
touching air ou his hurdy-gurdy to which
the mocking birds (Southern nightingales,
Gleason calls them),could lend their chorus,
and the perfume of the magnolia would
overpower the monkeys’ senses so that ho
would forget to scratch himself, and all
would be blissful. But Glc-asou has gone off
and left the contract for building the life
saviug stations in the hands of Denis, of
Alachua, aud if ho don’t make a good per
centage, he don’t hold light offices in the
State, that’s all. There is something liko
twenty thousand dollars to bo disposed of,
and a largo portion of it may be considered
as profit.
FOREIGN.
Our minister, Bassett, who hangs out in
Hayti, lias been getting into trouble with
the clouted government of that placo. lie
should iiave the Seminole negroes sent to
him for protection. If the Sarnana Bay
speculation of the administration had not
burst, these uegroos would make a good
standing army for that portion of tho island.
Old Godlove S. Orth, who misrepresents us
at Vienna, writes that the Austrians do not
take much interest in our Centennial show.
As the principal feature of the American
department at Vienna was tho saloon, in
which the Commissioners fought and dis
ported, tho subjects of Francis Joseph have
little hopes of being able to compete with
the Yanks in tho mixed drinks line. Tho
American and Mexican Joint. Claims Com
mission have, it is rumoied, finished work,
and of course wo have a big bill against the
Greasers, but it is doubtful whether they
will givo us Chihuahua or Sonora in pay
ment of tho debt. L’bo American aud
Spanish Joint Claims Commission has been
adjourned during the summer, and \Y. T.
Otto has been rusticating.
DEPARTMENTAL.
The troubles in the Indian branch has
started the howl against Delano again.
They have found several horses and a”car
riage, purchased from the contingent fund
of the latorior Department, on the farm of
Columbus D. at Mount Vernon, Ohio.
Cowan, called General, Assistant Secretary
ot the Interior, is also accused of feather
ing his nest, and that Pecksniff Smith, the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, has laid up
enough so that no rainy day can aff.ct him,
and now they are making up anew slate for
those offices. Sambard should not be for
gotten. Delano deserves credit for doing
his own dirty work and having no outside
man, as is the custom in the other depart
ments. If you ask around tho hotels, How
can I yet at the Secretary of War ? they will
tell you to go to General Rice ; if you want
to yet at Robeson you will be told" to go to
Wiard or Murtagh ; if you desire to gel at
Bristow you will be told to go to Bill Brown
or Burbricl.-re ; if you are afier the District
Government they will send you to Shepherd;
it you are after Fish they will send you to
t-Ile-r, Hill, aud if you want to get at Jewell
you will be sent io his chief clerk aud confi
dant, Knowiton. So, nearly every bureau
officer, etc., also lias a man who", aB they
say, “controls ’ him, and to get at these
heads of departments or bureaus, with gen
uine or bogus claims, or tor any business,
you will find it to advantage to lubricate
the business man with a few ducats. Atl
favors are sold, aud money works wonders
in the departments here, from tho clerk un.
ODDS AND ENDS.
Many o‘ the newspaper men are return
ing hero, after their summer vacation.
Shaw, tho so-eallod uostor, considered a
number one lobbyist, is seen around the
hotels. Little McFarland, who took the
$25,000 from Pacific Mail Irvin for John
Forney, is again on deck, liamsdell, of tho
Tribune , again can bo scon at f-illard’s bar
and Preston, of tho New York Herald amdu
pull's around the Ebbiit. Papa Gobnght re
mained in town giving Sunday school exhi
bitions, etc., while Major Barr had to keep
his eye on the Southern dispatches. Go
bright is poet laureate of Washington since
Walt Whitman left. I will give you n speci
men poem some time. Ho is about to publish
a book under tho auspices of Longmans
Brown Longman*, i.ondon. The long
Tiltonian chronicler, Townsend, has not re
turned, and his friends pray that he never
will. Little Worden, of the Boston Tod is
on duty, and Boyntou, of the Cincinnati Ga
zette, could not leave town, being so busy
using up Sherman’s Rook in Weekly four
column articles.
Senator Jones, of Florida, Jias had no
response to his Seminole protest, and he is
of the opinion that ho nipped the matter in
the bud and that no more will come of it.
Ex-Senator Yulee, of Florida, is in town at
the Willard. A. J. Young, of Columbus,
Ga., and Y. Richards aud ladv, of Augusta,
are also here at the Metropolitan.
Capt. Frank Gallagher, mail route agent,
passed through Baltimore on his way North
a few days ago,
A shining light named Farr left hero for
Pensacola a few days ago to take a place in
the Coll, ctor s office there, 110 is a heavy
politician, and w-hen he gets anew set of
lignum Vila: teeth, can equal if not exceed
Judge Long oa tho stump.
The story is here that the United States
Steamer Syracuse went down by striking on
a reef near Vancouver Island last June ;
was loaded down with liquors, Ac., to be
exchanged for furs in Alaska. Arrange
ments, it is said,have been made with Wood,
the Collector at Sitka,aud Nicholson,the seal
fur man, by which big bargains would bo
made, and some uico presents wore to be
brought back for Robeson and the Presi
dent.
Ex-Congressman A. White of Selma, Ala.,
has beor appointed Associate Justico of
Utah, and will go there next month it is un
derstood. He vo,ted “Force bill 55 HQuare,
and is now rewarded. Ho will be lucky if
he turns out better than his confrere Sheafs,
whose tenpre as 6th Auditor was brief aud
inglorious,
The Union Republican Central Executive
Comrmtho are sending out toils of docu
ments to Ohio and Pennsylvania. They are
excellent for waste paper. Tho Pennsylva
nia Republican Association are raising
money in the departments to aid their party,
and Jewell carnc- down with fifty dollars.
As the time for the meeting of Congress
approaches candidates for office iu the House
thicken up. Some of them are old heats
and fossils whose only claim is that of hav
ing held office for years before the war. The
gumber of residents of the district who are
up exceed all the others. I will try and
make up a list before December.
Cyclops.
Bankrupt ftolt.
| We learn from Mr. Willard F. Warner,
I the courteous Deputy Clerk of the
: United States Courts, that during the
I past week the following proceedings in
bankruptcy have been filed in his office.
Petitions in voluntary bankruptcy filed as
follows :
Washington J. Burkett, Twiggs county:
W. A. Lofton, Macon, solicitor.
Isaac N. Hart, Americus; Allen Fort,
solicitor.
Henry H. Phillips, Bullard station,
Twiggs county; Wooten & Simmons,
solicitors.
Petition for final discharge filed by
I the following party :
Wm. A. Ramsay, Augusta; Tkaddeus
Oakman, solicitor.
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A SICKENING TRAGEDY.
Wife Murder and Suicide In New JcrseT.
New Brunswick, September 21. —The
city was shocked yesterday by the re
port that Professor James Garland, a
widely-known musician, had. during the
day, shot his wife, a most estimable lady,
aud committed suicide. For many years
the Professor has been an organist and
pianist, aud his wife au accomplished vo
calist. Tho news of the terrible double
tragedy, therefore, spread like wildfire.
The scene of the tragedy, located on
the corner of Benner street aud
First avenue, East New Brunswick,
is a spacious frame house in the midst of
fine grounds. The Professor was verg
ing ou fifty, his wife being onlv a few
years his junior. Their married life
extended over twenty years. For two
years things have gone badly between
Garland and his wife, arising from an in
sane aud utterly groundless feeling of
jealousy of his wife ou the part of the
Professor. Hs became jealous of her
cousin, a boy still in his teens, who was
taking musical lessons from the Profes
sor himself. Within tho last month his
attitude toward his wife became posi
tively brutal. He would come home
drunk and abuse aud beat her. Finally
things came to such a pass that she had
him arrested for wife beating.
He was taken before the Justice, and
coolly inquired if he had not a perfect
right to beat his wife if she deserved it.
This, from the public character of the
parties, made a great stir. Garland went
on with his abuse and his beatings, and
the upshot was that Mrs. Garland de
cided upon separating from her husband.
Ihe necessary legal steps were taken
and the bill of separation grauted. Yes
terday the breaking up of the family was
to take place. It was arranged that Mrs.
Garland should withdraw from her hus
band’s house. She had taken apartments
for herself and children, and, with her
sou Alfred, was to have opened to-day a
~Aftusic store. It is stated that Mrs. Gar
land has foriofi
that her husband would do her 7 noleWcf*>
Several nights he broke into her room,
looked at her as she lay in bed awake, but
always withdrew without speaking or
offering her the slightest indignity.
Yesterday morning ho left tho house
aud proceeded to liis store in Albany
street. He returned after a few minutes
after 12 o’clock, and after walking around
the house abstractedly several times, en
tered the dwelling by tbe kitchen door.
Mrs. Garland was there with her
daughters packing up. The Professor
wore a very strange look and had some
thing in his hand which subsequently
proved to be a Colt’s seven-barrelled re
volver. Suddenly he leveled his weapon
at Mrs. Garland’s head and tired, the ball
entering her mouth, crashing away her
teeth aud passing out through the back
of her neck. The horrified lady, almost
paralyzed with dread, sank ou her knees
before her murderer.
“Oh, James, James, for God's sake do
not kill me !” implored Mrs. Garland, but
her husband shot her while on her knees,
the ball entering her head. Then Miss
Anna, a daughter of fourteen, courage
ously sprang forward aud thrust aside
her father’s right hand in which he still
grasped the revolver. Before he could
fire at his wife a third time, she, with a
desperate effort, sprang from the house
into the yard and there dropped appa
rently dead. The Professor darted from
the kitchen, sprang upstairs to his room,
threw himself on the bed, leveled
the revolver at his own head and
tired. The ball lodged just over
the right eye. Finding himself Still alive,
he took a penknife from his pocket and
slashed open his throat, inflicting a fear
ful wound, breaking the blade of the pen
knife in his frenzy. This did not kill
him; so he rushed into the hall, procured
a hammer, and then crushed in his skull,
making a hole twice the sizo of a silver
dollar. Soon after this his son Alfred,
who was away from home, arrived, and,
with the assistance of a Mr. Short, broke
in the door of the Professor’s bedroom,
and there witnessed a sight such as made
tho blood run cold. Sitting on the edge of
the bed, his head and face and shirt
front covered and streaming with blood,
was Garland, utterly unconscious. The
floor at the bedside was covered with
gore, and the walls and even ceiling were
bespattered with blood. It was expected
that every moment he would breathe his
J ist. His powerful physique, however,
jx.ild him up. At about four o’clock he
TSecamo conscious.
“Is wife dead?” he asked.
“No, but she’s ”
“My God, I’m glad of that,” and he
sank back. In the meantime Drs. Bald
win, Mulford, English, Voorhies and
Williamson arrived, and did all they could
for the dying wife and husband.
Our last telegraphic accounts represent
the would-be murderer and suicide as
being still alive.
THE COURSE OF COTTON.
Some Well Considered Facts in Regard
to the Staple.
The Now York Bulletin, of the 21st inst.,
says that so far as actual cotton has been
concerned, buyers havo retained all former
advantages, aud even made a little further
gain ; but tho previous monotonous down
ward tendency on contracts was checked,
and one or two slight pulsations of excite
ment sTiowu. Local influence hay contribu
ted largely to fluctuations on the speculative
position, tho general slato of feeling as re
gard crop, consumption, etc., remaining
much the same as last week, though tho
“bull” side has presented one or two new
“points,” which, if nut stimulating, have in
some quarters served to iufuso a slightly
more cautious spirit and checked pressure.
Tho bureau report, though as a rule con
structed favorably, is claimed to show less
encouraging features ou close inspection;
some few storms have actually occurred
at the boutl), and tho cold weather here
generates some fears that tho more North
ern portion of the cotton bolt may bo
caught by the frost. The “bears,” too, have
nearly all obtained a good margin for
profit, and this, coupled with the previouslv
noted indisposition to remain too largely
short of the market, induced a goodly
amount of covering aud a cousequent reac
tion whenever the demand becamo a little
sharp, Aside from the speculative manipu
lations we find everything to have beep ex
cessively tame. Exporters handled nothing
the consumptive demand fell away, and
foreign advices were, as a rule, discourag
ing, and faith in a large and earlv market
crop was unshaken with a large proportion
of the trade. Iu fact, while the tendency
seems- to lean strongly toward the belief in
a full supply aud moderate, cautious con
sumption of cottou, the shrinkage on values
already established and tho experience of
last year havo a tendency to prevent the
formation of a very extensive “short" in
terest.
“Spots” have been in vorv little demand
and the cost for the week is" fullv Je. 1 nver
with no great strength shown at ("he decline!
Nothing whatever was called for on foreign
account, tho smalt amount of stock required
by exporters being secured much more
readily at the Southern ports and on better
terms. The spinning demaud, too, was
very slow arid much smaller, tho reduction
in cost failing entirely to stimulate manu
facturers into purchases beyond their most
absolute necessities. The main point of de
presssion, however, has been the more lib
eral offerin is of new cotton from pier at
rates constantly running j@.|c. below those
nomina ly ruling on stocks in store. Old
cotton was to a certain extent most valuable,
but desirable selections proving difficult in
view of the broken assortment, buyers gave
the preference to new at the difference in
cost. Offerings have been pretty free both
here aud to arrive, and it u intimated that
consul* rablo amounts are sure to come for
ward iu time to meet September contracts.
For future delivery there has been con
siderable irregularity, with at times quite a
feverish tone, and on the whole a somewhat
better state ot affurs for tho selling inter
est than last week. The first tujn for im-
provement was obtained on th„ hints of a
strong combination to ■'-corner” September,
and th;s month in consequence at once
strengthened. Then came colder weather
here, reports of storms at the South and a
reduction in the orders to sell, which carried
a reaction into (he later months, and infused
a more general strength into the market, as
a general rush to cover took place. The
change of tone, however, as almost entirely
local, few orders from the Sou h coming to
hand to take in contracts, and no purchases
being made for investment that we could
learn of beyond the ordinary operations
based on expectation of a quick turn when
ever the market becomes unsettled. Past
receipts have continued pretty well up to
expectations. The crop report irom Hew
Orleans, placing the figures for last season
at 3,627,815, will according to previous un
derstanding with the H*tionaf Exchange
be accepted as official. We lie.tr little com
ment, except teat some of the “bulls” in
sist that it is simply absurd to look at these
figures and expect the liberal increase of
production which will be necessary to bring
the present growth up to the aggregate
claimed as sqpa by so many who seem to
have already forgotten last season’s mis
t ikes.
It isn t the colic that makes that xue
baby scream. It’s the sharp point of trie
gold napkin fastener in Ris little piq
baok,—Amrmu- |
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Summary of the Week’.] ÜBpatcUe,.
JUDGE PERSHING ACCEPTS.
Pottsville, Pa., September 25
Judge Pershing’s letter accepting the
Democratic nomination for Governor
published. Concerning the financial
question, he says : “New issues are pre
sented for the consideration of the people
The question of the currency is attract
ing the attention of the thoughtful in
all parts of the country. Its final settle
ment rests with Congress and the Presi!
dent. The legal tender issue has be*
come incorporated into the business of
the country, and its constitutionality has
been affirmed by the Supreme Court of
the United States. lam opposed to in -
flation in its true sense, and inflation is
not demanded by tho Erie platform
That platform opposes any further con
traction of the currency at this time of
financial distress, when our work shops
mills and manufactories are closed, and
thousands of meu willing to work are out
of employment. To expand the volume
of currency when the people are incurring
debt, aud to rapidly contract it when the
time for payment has come, will prove ru
inous to every business enterprise. Any at
tempt to force tho country to the" re
sumption of specie payments under the
provisions of the act passed by the last
Congress will only intensify the distress
which now everywhere prevails. Wo
must cease exporting gold to pay interest
on our indebtedness abroad before specie
payments can safely bo resumed. I favor
such a volume of currency as tbe legiti
mate demands of business ami the revival
of the industries of tho country may re
quire. Experience will best determine
this, and it is to be hoped that an
adequate standard or tost for regulating
the amount of currency may be estab°
fished by our representatives in Con
gress. I adhere to tho ioetriue always'
held by the Democratic party, that gold
and silver constitute the trite basis for
bank uqte circulation. The question as
‘Aft-OhsUtUiol thesame as that of a paper
currency that U>- Jp,.
sovereign power a legal tender, aud
therefore is money.”
the corn crop,
Washington, I). C,. September ’>s -
The September report of the Department
of Agriculture says of tlio corn crop that
could it be thoroughly ripened, itsUgre
gate would exceed any previous crop and
the yield per aero would be one of the
best notwithstanding the losses by the
overflow o bottoms and tbe saturation
of heavy flat soils, such losses proving
less than the usua damages by drought
and insects, while the rains have
greatly benehtted the crop on drier
and higher soils. Nearly everywhere corn
is late m maturing from one to two weeks
The general high condition is still main *
tamed, the average percentage beinn
higher than in August. The State avera
ges are: .Maine 105, New Hampshire 100
Vermont!),B, Massachusetts 100, Conner’
ticut 108, New York !><>, New Jersey Ti l
Pennsylvania. 108, Delaware 100 Msrv-
n n m ioC ne rgi T 112 ’ North Melina
UH, South Carolina 87, Georgia Oo FW
ida 83, Alabama 111, Mississippi no
Louisiana 85, Texas 80, Arkansas 10.”,’
Tennessee 114, West Virginia 107, Ker, '
tucky 10,‘ 5, Ohio 07, Michigan 101 Indi
ana 83, Illinois 05, Wisconsin (io, M.TT
sota 1 2, lowa 02, Missouri 111 Kansas
100, Nebraska 03, California 05, Oregon
STA NI.EY.
New York, September 27.—The ,
has advices from Henry M. Stanley ,
iillago of Kap-hojj, District, f M.' 1,.i,
Mai< a aud May 10. Jle l la d readied Vic ,
rcma. y MlT h ? Viu * accomplish,,,)
Dm 1 “o 0 '- lill<: ‘ 1,1 720 “Bias ill JOB - t;i\ r.
Dining the journey he passed llmm-di"
totally new country with much fur, s” and
jungle where ho suffered from Inn, ~r and
the natives. A several <]..v’ Ho-iJ ;
with the loss of 21 followers. Hj„ t/wi "white
companums. Edward Poecock and 'FrT. r
lck Barker, succumbed to fevor. v\ eh i,,
diminished force, Stanley made a ebJJ.
vey of the great lake Victoria-Nyan a.
“IN THE HOUSE OF HIS FRIENDS.' .
Jacicson, Miss., September”, cu’u.f
Justice Peyton, Republican, h a , granted
an injunction restraining tho Auditor
froii paying money to support the A mes’
militia He held that mustering a mili
tia in time of profound peace, was cron
tiug a standing army of State troops ami
violating the Constitution. 1
JOINED THE OBD CATHOLICS.
London, .September 27 The Pall Mr,//
Hay®
rnmrTto t'ir; 1 *° *****
affirmatively. a V d l flocidtJ
solved to protem Dean Sp'e,?/' 4 , ba - 8 ro "
enjoyment of his temporal ties. ky thfj
<" Socro rote or
Mississippi. A (loot! Story Spn
ator Alcorn. Y 1 ® en *
Washington, Sept. IG. Senator Al
oorn ’ of Mississippi, who has been in ti„
city several days, placing bis two
girls iu tlio convent school at
town, relates no end of good stories
Mississippi plantation life. Mr. Moor,'
lives upon a plantation, where he mi,
ploys 1000 negroes, and be says that fee
never had any trouble with them. In
among these 1000 men there are no end
of secret societies, and every nightthere
are marchings and counter marchings all
over the place. Still, any of these com
motions have never caused him or his
family to fear an insurrection. Illustra
tive of how the negroes are lead about by
the nose by unprincipled men, tho
Senator relates an amusing story. Du.
ring his last canvass against Ames for the
Governorship of the State, there was n
very eager contest. As Alcorn employed
upwards of 1000 men on his plantation, it
was feared by the Ames men. that they
would all vote for their employer. Upon
the plantation is one old patriarch by the
name of “Shep,” who was the property
of Alcorn before the war, and who hail
the most of his life seen service on the
Alcorn plantation. One day a small
sized, dapper-mannered, carpet-bagger
came up to Alcorn’s plantation and went
around secretly electioneering among the
negroes. He discovered that “Shop ’
was a leader among thorn all, and unless
he gained him over it would bo useless
to look for votes for Ames on the plants
tion. IJe fell into conversation with
“Shep,” aud gathered from him the
scanty details of his past life. He then
went away without saying a word ie
‘ Shep” about the election.
Several weeks after that, and a uhort
time before the election, a large letter
postmarked Washington, and resplend
ent with red seals and official stamps,
came to the Alcorn plantation addressed
to “Shep ’’ It was an event in the old
man's life. A meeting of his favori.it
seeret society was at once called and cao
of the presiding officers who could read
was detailed to open and read tL, awe
inspiring document. It was as follows
“Executive Mansion, Washington, D.
C., He A DQU A IiTEES Or THE ARMY i:;i,
Navy and Glorious Commonwealth.-
My Dear Sltep— Although you live s*
great distance from me, and although,
you are only one of my many colored
children, yet I know all about you, and
often have my eye upon you. You were
born on a plantation near Lynchburg,
in Virginia. You were owned there by
a man by tho name of Charles Somers.
Some years before the war you were
sold to Mr. Alcorn, in Mississippi. I
know Julius, Robert and James Ilenrv
Augustus, your boys, as well as Susan
Ann Jane, and Rosanna Virginia, your
daughters. You see, Shep, that although
I am a very great man, I know all about
my children. I have watchful cam over
you ail, and have a plan to make you aIL
happy. I want you to vote ior
Ames for Governor this fall, and, my dear
Shep, I will give you iny reasons \ t>r so
wishing. In the first place General Ames.
!is my officer in your Stabß & u a i want
you to obey him. Mr. Aloorn is an old
slave holder; you must not vote for him.
If General Amoa is elected I propose to
cut up Mr, Alcorn’s plantation and give
it to, the slaves, who so many years
worked for him for nothing. I will give
you, my dear Shep, your choice out of
the lots when the plantation is cut up.
Do not forget to do ail you can to get
i votes for Ames. Good-bye, my dear
Shep. Your friend and benefactor,
“‘U. S. Grant.
“The great General of the army and
navy, and ooinmander of the common
wealth.”
This letter carried “Shep” completely
by storm. An angel from heaven direct
could not have convinced him that the
letter was not from the President. He
voted for Ames, and carried upward of
500 votes wRi, him-
The above related incident is only ono
af the many ways used by unscrupulot^j
politicians to hoodwink the simple-min
and gullible negro. Wanking ton cog
pondence of the Chicago Time#, J