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fcaiannab Wtcklu ileus ■ WATUKPAY, omiltulw, IgTt. *c*-icnirrinss. Weekly MfW*! One Year <l* OO Weekly Newa, Ml* Ifnnth* I OO Weekly New*, Three .llonih 50 Dally News, one year, $lO 00; all month*, s.’■ 00; three month*. $4 50, Trt-Weekly Now*, one year, $6 oo; elx roontha, $S 00; three month*. $1 50. All subscription* payable In adnuiee. Paper* by mail are (topped at the expiration of the time paid for without further notice, Subscriber* trill please obaerve the date* on their w rapper*. aoraßTina* aiera. A Sqi'AKK I* ten meaaunal line* of Nonpareil _pf Tub Wkkki.v News. ' Kaeh insertion. $1 on per square. Überal rate* made with contract adverttKer*. Coaur.neoNOENCE. t'orreapondence solicited ; bat to receive atten tion, letter* mttat be accompanied by a reeponm bln name, not for publication, but a* a guarantee °f good faith. All letter* abouid be addressed to i. li. KNTII.b, Savannah, <a. The Drawn Itattle in Ohio did Not Settle the Financial (Question. While the New York World and other Democratic bond-holder*' organa are glori fying orer the defeat of the Ohio Democ racy, tl e Radical politicians and presses of Penns}!vania are net deceived by that dearly purchased victory. While, for effect and to arouse the enthusiasm of the rank and file, they have celebrated their triumph in Ohio with a torch-light proceamon and other jubilant demonstra tion* in Philadelphia, the Radical or garni of that city understand too well the significance of the first great battle be tween the money power and the people— the Ooucord of the monetary revolution— to feel any very great degree of confidence in the triumph of their party in the upproaebing election in their own State. They do not fail to recognize the disadvantage* under which the gallant Democracy of Ohio met the issue in which was arrayed against thorn the com bined power of the bondholders at borne and abroad, the Federal administration, and the sectarian prejudice in their midst, inflamed and intensified by mis representation and falsehood. They do not fail to recognize in the vote of more than two hundred thousand freemen of Ohio tho warning voice of an op pressed, betrayed an indignant people, resolved on resisting the further encroach ments of a corrupt and corrupting money power which threatens their en- Hlavement. They recognize in the vote of the Ohio Democracy the acceptance of the issue betweon tho would-be money aristocracy, allied with Radical cen tralization and despotism, and the people, battling for the uiaintaiance of Demo cratic principles, constitutional govern ment, equality, right and justice. They regard the stand taken by the Democracy of Ohfo as the beginning of a popular revolt, and they know that revolutions never go backward. Hence, tho Penn sylvania Radicals find, in the drawn bat tle in Ohio, nothing to bolster their con fidence in the success of their party in the approaching olection. Tho Evening Star says : “Ohio’s verdict doesn’t fvwiide, but intensifies the contest here.” The h'or/tiny Telegraph gives the reasons for entertaining the same opinion. It argues thus; “Tho Repub lican victory by a small majority, taking Into consideration the iiuauciul issue which enterod so largely into tho canvass, shows (hat the party in this State can only hope to gain a triumph and restore the commonwealth to Republican rule by the most strenuous exertion. We liavo not in our favor such striking blunders on tho part of our opponents as our brethren in Ohio had. Tho inflation horesy docs not form nonrly so prominent an issue here, nor are tho Democratic candidates so easily assailable. The Re publicans in this State have a closer, sterner combat to wage than had they of Ohio. It boooiues, therefore, the duty of all good Republicans to put their shoulders to the wheel and to make the best possible use of the brief spaoe of time yet left them.” The Washington Star, a paper gener ally well posted in the views of tho lead ers of tho ltadicul ring in thut city, gives utterance to similar misgivings as to the final result. Tho editor says: “Conced ing all tho weight that should belong to the triumph over inflation in Ohio, it will not be safe for the friends of sound money to take it for granted that tho na tional battle is won, and that, for in stance, a victory is assured m Peunsyl vania on the same issue. The result in Ohio is sufficiently close to show tho popularity of “cheap money” amongst the ignorant and tho unemployed, and it is evident that but for the extraordinary efforts made in the canvass there to edu cate the i>eople of that State up to an appreciation of the folly of rag money promises of prosperity, Allen would have been elected by a large mujority. As it was, such localities as- Youngstown, where mills were lying idle and the promise was held out that inflation would set all tho wheels of enterprise in motion, went hotly wrong-headed on election day; and there are very many more ‘Youngs towns,’ and more idle mills and unem ployed people in Pennsylvania than in Ohio. Tho work of educating all these discontented voters up to tho true mean ing of inflation cannot be entered upon too earnestly, or a day too soon. ’’ In the coming contest in Pennsylvania all tho influence of the administration and tho power of the money monopolists will be brought to bear, and the canvass, which was in a measure suspended pend ing tho struggle in Ohio, will from now till the day of election be intensely ox citing. If the Democrats are victorious all the party lost in Ohio will be more than re paired. On the contrary, a victory on the part of the Radicals no more decisive than that in Ohio will be a sure augury of the final overthrow of the money power. During the recent Beecher-Tiltou un pleasantness, a large number of clergy men of the vicinage, with their flocks, manifested an utter want of sympathy with the sufferings of the Brooklyn Lao oon: and, at that time, so tightly was he clasped in the folds of the giant ser pent of scandal, that he had no time to waste in anything than attempts at ex tricatiou. But, now that the coils have relaxed sufficiently to permit of con nected thought and utterance, Mr. Beecher is doing his level best to get even with Drs. Cuyler, Budington, et al. At the last prayer-meeting in Plymouth Church, the pastor, in the course of his talk, touched upon the oldtime Pharisees and their “modem counterparts” (mean ing the anti-Beecher Christians'), and thus expressed his “true inwardness" in re rard to them : They were pious [screwing up his face to a knot as though he despised the very thought of the men whom he was about describe] ; yes, they were pious and mean, pious and proud, pious and bitter, pious and critically censorious, pious and as hard-hearted as the devil! [Slight applause.] This is an “outcome of inner life” fully as fervent as anything that “the bird sung in the heart” in the Elizabethan ra of epistolary highfalutin. Ex-Senator Gwin, of California, pre fers Tilden as the Democratic candidate for President, though he says the people y>f the Pacific coast generally prefer Thurman or Hendricks. fKleeblg f|em J. H. ESTILL. PROPRIETOR, Senators Gordon and Norwood. Georgia is perhaps as ably represented in the I sited States Senate as any State in the t nion. There were some who | ventured the opinion that the dashing j and heroic Gordon, albeit interesting and eloquent, would prove to be superfi j cial, and lacked that depth and grasp of intellect necest ary to the elucidation of occult questions of constitutional law. . But the most hypercritical, in the light, j of his great speech on the finances, de livered over a year since, and his subse ! quent bearing in debate when critical and important subjects were under discus sion, are constrained to admit that r their judgment was erroneous. The gallant preux chevalier of the Con- I federacy, Life proved to be to the full as effective as when leading the Democracy against the cohorts of Radicalism in the Senate chamber as he was valiant and irresistible in the field amid the iavis£o and tumult of battle At the same tinle even his enemies must confess that his course has been temper ate, conservative and wise, challenging the admiration of those with whom he splintered lances in the forensic arena. Who then is not proud of our Gordon ? The accomplished Senator from the “city by the sea” Las also won for him self an enviable reputation and unfading laurels in bis Congressional career. The writer, who has been associated with him almost from boyhood, was well aware of the powers and brilliancy of Mr. Norwood’s intellect, though constitution ally modest, it was not his custom to thrust himself forward on all occasions as is the manner of some. We then an nounced that he would be fully equal to the duties of his exalted position; while the escutcheon of not a single official in the nation was morally more stainless and pure. The result has more than vin dicated the opinion. Mr. Norwood is calm, sagacious, and watchful. He speaks but seldom, but when he rises in the Senate, all give heed. We doubt if the records of that august body contain a nobler exhibition of caustic satire, classical learning, epi grammatic word painting, and genuine wit, thau were to be found cropping out and sparkling through almost every sen tence of the Senator’s celebrated speech on the civil rights bill. Ilis delineation of tho carpet-bagger was so just and vivid, that neither Hogarth, Darley or Nast would have required a personal sit ting to sketch the contemptible creature iu all his life-like proportions. Iu the oration before Emory College also, he showed himself to be every inch a scholar of commanding genius and versa tile attainments. Justly, then, has Georgia cause to be proud of her Senators, and long may it be before they are shelved siuqtiy to make way for ambitious aspirants. This rota tion in office for rotation sake, is simply a disgrace to the country, and is preg- Daut with danger to the Republic. If a man is incompetent, dishonest, or neglectful of his duties, make him “step dr-wu auu out” iuccntinently. jßut when the opposite is true, to decapitate him without cause, is like inflicting upon a faithful servant the fate of the ostracized Aristides, aDd for no better reason. Wo hoar of no dissatisfaction with Mr. Norwood, nor has any one, so far as we are aware up to this time, openly entered the Senatorial lists against him. Far be it from us to dictate to the Democracy in the premises. But the above tribute is justly due to an honorable, capable, and worthy representative of the State at large iu the Sauate of the Congress of the United States. —Macon Telegraph. An Attempt to Sectionalize the Finan cial Issue. When the currency question was made the leading issue in the Ohio election, we congratulated the Southern Democracy upon the substitution of a practical liv ing question of national policy for the theories of sectional prejudice and hate which have been so long used by the Radicals to excite the passions and per vert the judgment of the people. We were gratified when, in the opening of the campaign, Morton’s attempt to excite the sectional phrenzy of the people of Ohio by flaunting his threadbare bloody shirt iu their faces proved a most signal fail ure, aud he retired from the field of con test iu disgrace. There was a hope of a return to reason and calm judgment when the people refused to be any longer de luded aud crazed by tbe raw-head-and bloody-bones of the past, and whatever might be the result of the contest on the financial question, good was in our judg ment certain to come of the new line of tactics which had been forced upon the Radical party. But it seems that the bloody-shirt party are determined not to bo deprived of the talismanic in fluence of sectional hate, by which they have so loug controlled the Northern masses. The South is still to be the lamb to the devouring Northern wolf, and to be held accountable for the issue that has arisen between the Radical coutraetionists and monopolists aud the oppressed tax payers of the country. The attempt is now beiug made by lead ing organs of the Radical party to hold the “Southern Confederate element” respon sible for the auti-contractiou plat form of the Ohio Democracy. The Philadelphia American says: “ There is scarcely any disguise of the fact that the programme of unlimited issues of baseless paper money, and of practical repudiation by paying the war debt and interest with them, was dictated by the Southern Confederate element, which thus continues to govern the Democratic policy as it did before the war. The war currency and the war debt would thus be degraded to about the same level as the Confederate currency and debt. All the Southern organs and orators of the Con federate Democracy unite in advocating this policy and denouncing the Northern friends of a sound currency and honest payment. But fortunately the North still holds the reins, and the awakening of the Northern masses is a serious affair under any circumstances, as the Confed erates have some reason to know. The first point is gained; inflation and repu diation are dead. The next point is whether the national banking system shall be destroyed or sustained. That we must decide in Pennsylvania in November.” The “rag baby” that has so disturbed the plethoric repose of the money monopolists of the North and East, is of Western nativity, without a drop of of rebel blood in its veins. But as it is a robust, hearty baby, and bids fair to grow apace and make a noise in tbe world, we of the South have no objection to stand god-father for it. While it ha* our good wishes it is not our bant ling, and it is unfair for the editor of the Anurican to question its paternity, and try to frighten it to death with his everlasting raw-head-and-bloody-bones of the “ Southern Confederate element.” Is This a Nation or a Constitutional Union of States l The action of the Alabama Convention setting the Union above the Constitution has rejoiced the hearts of the consolida tionists. The Philadelphia North Ameri can, the leading consolidationist organ of Pennsylvania, is greatly elated at the re cantation of the Alabamians, which it re gards as putting an end to the doctrines of State rights for all time, and therefore to be regarded as the grand climax of Radical revolutionary achievement. The editor says: Against all of the detraction that is or may be published: against all of the mis representations, and in partial apology for real shortcomings, and positive as well as negative errors, the Republican party may file the clause incorporated iu the Constitution of Alabama by the Con vention that recently adjourned : “The people of this State accept as final the fact that from the Federal Union there can be no secession of any State.” Re publican achievement has been unparal leled in variety and importance, and com paratively brief as the sway of the party has been, after surpassing all former deeds of all preceding parties in war, in the promotion of industry, in commanding foreign consideration, in elevating a race to freedom, in perfecting and nation alizing a financial system, it crowns these by that expedient conduct under which a question that has perplexed all former administrations and disturbed the pro gress and development of the nation, is forever laid away by those who held it. The baneful doctrine of the right of secession is destroyed in the constitu tional acknowledgment of Alabama,* “ There can be no secession of any State.” The country is one and is a nation. The doctrine of State rights and its corrolary, the right of secession, was first taught by the politicians of Massachu setts, and, under different circumstances, that State might have been the first to test the practicability of enforcing the doctrine. Had the constitutional rights and equality in the Union of her people been denied as were those of the people of the South, Massachusetts might have been the first to demonstrate to the world that there is really no practical difference* between the right of se cession and the right of revolution. If the war of coercion proved anything, it proved that in our boasted Republic constitutions, compacts and solemn pledgesufford no protection of the weaker against the stronger party, and that whatever be the guarantees of the consti tution, whatever the rights of the indi vidual States under that instrument, there is no such remedy for their viola tion as peaceable secession from the Union. The editor of the American in directly admits the injustice which im pelled the South to seek a severance from the Union. “There is,” says he “no manner of doubt that some share of what the South claimed as State rights, under the original reservation and con cession,-is claimed justly. The extreme doctrine of consolidation was defeated when asserted by the Federalists. The question is rather of degree than of kind. But there is as little doubt that the definition of these rights should be judicial; and that their' denial, should they at any time be improperly withheld, is to be cured by the Visual legislative method rather than by civil war. This was the fundamental error of Calhoun and all who accepted his doctrine —not that there are real State rights beyond these rights granted to the nation, but that their infringement or denial is sufficient warrant for civil war.” The editor confuses the “right of se cession” claimed by the South with civil war. There is no affinity between peace able secession and civil war. On the contrary they are utterly inconsistent with each other. The right of secession implies peaceable secession, for if it is a “right” it must be peaceable, aud there fore precludes the idea of civil war, while civil war equally precludes the right of secession. Mr. Calhoun and those who accepted "his doctrines did not maintain that the infringement or denial of the constitutional rights of a State was “sufficient warrant for civil war.” They maintained that the Union was a voluntary compact between free, equal and independent States, formed to “promote the general welfare and secure the blessing of liberty ” to the people and their posterity, and that whenever the compact was violated, and the stipu lations upon which it was based were disregarded so that it ceased to subserve the ends for which it was made, then, as a last resort, the States whose rights were violated, being the judges of their own grievance, had the right peaceably to withdraw from the Union. Iu the concession and maintainance of this right, they recognized not only the differ ence between a Republican government of consent aud a despotic government of force, but the strongest incentive to mu tual good faith and fidelity to the con stitution. There was no civil war in such a political faith, a faith which —had it been held in common by all parties to the compact, would have preserved the Union and the constitution inviolate and perpetual for ail time, and thus “pro moted the general welfare and secured the blessing of liberty” more effectually ; than all the blood that has been shed ! and all the treasure that has been ex pended in the Radical war of coercion. But the editor of the American flatters himself that the revolution of the gov ernment is complete in the acknowledg ment of Alabama that “from the Federal Union there can be no secession of any State.” We attach no such grave impor tance to the clause in the new constitu tion of Alabama. It is not a question for the Alabama Convention to settle; nor is the constitution of that State the j place to look for the true and authorita- I tive interpretation of the constitution of the Federal Union. It is not to be pre- j sumed that the authors of this clause j of the new constitution intended it as j the recognition of a principle of sov- ; ereignty inherent in and co-existing with the constitution of the United States, j making secession treason. Such an act i on their part would be the grossest stul tification, and would stigmatise the mem ory of thousands of Alabama’s sons who ! fell in the Confederate cause. The clause 1 alluded to has no such significance. It j is only an admission—albeit out of place in the organio law of the State—of the impracticability of peaceable seces sion of any State from the Union, while the despotic doctrine of coercion by the Federal Government is held to be paramount to the Constitution itself. It is, so to speak, a constitutional acquiescence of the people of Alabama, in “the legitimate results,” so-called, of the war of coercion. But it neither changes the Constitution nor the relations of the States of the Union to the Federal Government. It creates no new Empire, uo “Nation;” and even if every State in the Union were to follow the example of Alabama, and declare that peaceable se cession is an impracticable remedy, it would not change the principles upon which the Federal compact was founded, nor establish “ the Nation ” upon the ruins of the constitutional Union of States. SAVANNAH, SATURDAY’, OCTOBER 30, 1875. Affairs In Georgia. Mayor W. A. Singleton, of Buena Vista, is claimed to be the best Mayor in the State of Georgia. Macon is crowded with members of the j press, and the amount of eloquent scrib j hling that will be done is fearful to con template. The gross receipts of the county fair | j us ! closed at Griffiu, were $2,226. Rev. Mr. R. T. Foute, formerly of Christ Church Savannah, now rrctor of St. Phillips, Atlanta, has declined a very flattering call to the rectorship of Trinity Church, New Orleans, much to the grati fication of his congregation. The Sandersville Fair, which takes place on the 28th, 29th and 30th of Oc tober, promises to be a grand affair. A large number of entries of stock and horses have already been made. Our acknowledgments are returned for an in vitation to be present. The North Georgia Conference con venes in Griffin on the 2d of December next. The Atlanta Herald says there were thirteen babies in one sleeping car, and eleven in the ladies car, which came down on the State Road Saturday night, solos and choruses were doubtless mag nificent and thrilling. Mr. M. H. McJunkin has retired from the editorial chair of the North Georgia Herald, and has been succeeded by Rev. Thomas Crymes, Representative to the Legislature from Franklin county. Mr. C. Henry Cohen was admitted to the Augusta bar on Monday, after a rigid examination, being especially compli mented by Judge Hook for the creditable manner in which he acquitted himself. Willie Payne, Corporal in Company B, Macon Volunteers, and an active member of the rifle team of that corps, was pain fully injured in both hands, by the ex plosion of a cartridge while loading his gun. Additional information in regard to the late homicide at Porterville Academy, near Me Bean station, is to the effect that Alpheus Tilly killed Morris M. Finley in self-defense. There was heavy frost in the vicinity of Augusta on Sunday right. Cotton was killed on the highlands, but was saved by fog in the lowlands. Vegeta tion generally was wilted. E. P. Clayton & Cos., of Augusta, will retain their agency of the London and Liverpool and Globe Fire Insurance Company, to which they were appointed by General Johnston tive years since. The TOccoa Herald will hereafter be issued on Tuesday instead of Wednes day. Colonel Forsyth, of Rome, has discov ered in Paulding county a rich copper mine, which will realize sixty dollars to the ton. The American Grocer says that Geor gia peeled dried peaches continue to ar rive freely, and sell readily for fifteen cents for medium and sixteen cents for prime. Southern sliced apples bring from nine to thirteen cents, and black berries about twelve cents a pound. The local editor of the Toccoa Herald celebrated his birthday on tbe 12th, and has done nothing since but sit down and receive presents. Twenty—some quite valuable—have been gathered in, and more precincts are to be heard from. This was such a success that he proposes to have another next month. About four weeks ago a strange cat astrophe happened in Rome. About that time a cat owned by Mr. Lansdell gave birth to three kittens, one of which had but three legs, two fore legs and one hind leg. In the place where the leg ought to f fftov tlxc~rvbore of n stump of aleg 7 about half an inch long. This three legged kitten hops about as lively as the others. Thus the Atlanta Commonwealth : Our city editor has gone to the Fair, and the duty of dishing up the town hash has devolved upon the old man. A citizen of Thomasville who has a live-months son, named Jeff Davis, will enter him for that S3OO sewing machine. The following we clip from a letter of Rev. W. N. Chandoin, District Secretary of the late Baptist Association, to the Christian Index: “ During my visit to Georgia I have heard much of Jewell’s mill, but had no conception of the magni tude of the enterprise or its importance to that part of the State. It is one of the finest private factories aud mills in the South. The possessions embrace five miles of land aud a village of seventy-five or a hundred houses, consisting of a factory, mills, store, dwellings, academy, temperance hall, masonic hall, and church —the latter donated to the Baptist de nomination here by Mr. Jewell, and bet ter than all, himself, wife and family are consecrated to the glory of God and the good of his community. I could but be favorably impressed with the order and system of every depart ment pertaining to this place. Notwith standing the house was crowded during the convention, there was no confusion. His accomplished daughter, although just from school, a graduate with two medals, in honor of being head in her literary and French classes, considered it meet to assist her mother, and presided over the table with that grace that made all feel at home. Mr. Jewell sells his fabrics iu Georgia. I noticed several fiae looking young merchants aiound, in specting goods, but heard it hinted that they were looking more at Jewells than yarn. May be so. All and all, Jewell’s mill is one of the beauties of Georgia.” Athens Georgian local paragraph: The modesty of our editor-in-chief would deter him from calling attention to his leader upon the Ohio election, which appeared in our issue of the 13th, the morning after the election. This edito rial was not written until after the full midnight returns had come in and were gotten up, set in type, and printed about three o’clock on the morning of the 13th. If we remember aright, the Georgian was the only paper in our State that had an editorial upon this election on that day. Griffin Sunday Press: The visitor to ! this section of Georgia will be impressed with the marked moral improvement of her citizens. The financial wreck, and the political corruption characteristic of the cotton belt for the first few years after the war closed, seemed to threaten the very existence of the morals of the people. Idleness, despair and intemperance were prominent, at least in all the railroad towns, but every body is busy, most of the people are hopeful, and intemperance, through the noble efforts of the United Friends of Temperance, is but rarely seen. South west Georgia bids fair to become, at an early day, the garden spot of the Empire State of the South. The Buena Vista Times relates this re markable coincidence: Rev. J. O. Branch, of St. Paul’s, Columbus, filled the pulpit of Rev. D. G. McWilliams on Sunday last. It is a remarkable coinci dence that, without any previous inter change of views, he selected the identi cal text and pursued in his discourse the same line of argument and ideas, with one exception, that Rev. D. G. McWil liams had mapped out for himself in case Mr. Branch failed to arrive. Both min isters had predetermined, without any knowledge of the other’s intentions what ever, to preach to the same congregation from the same text, on the same line of argument, and at the same time. This is so unusual that it appears to be almost the work of Providence. The Atlanta Board of Trade have in vited Tom Scott to address them at an early day on the Southern Pacific Rail road project. Mrs. W. W. Flewellen, wife of Dr. Wm. W. Flewellen, of Columbus, and daughter of the late CoL Jas. S. Calhoun, died at her residence in that city on Mon day night. She was a most estimable lady, and generally beloved. ®Dr. Joseph Thompson, so well known to the people of Georgia, is using a pocket knife which he has carried every day since 1821. Col. Lee Jordan, of Macon, Columbus and Dougherty counties, and the biggest planter in Georgia, informs the Columbus Times that there has been about sixty per cort of a full crop of cotton fifty p i cent, of corn made in Georgia tins year. YV. E. Johnßon, the Postmaster at Co lumbus, has applied to the Methodist Church for ajicense to preach th gospel. It is not stated whether he will resign his government position or not. The Atlanta Herald will hit the right thing after awhile. It has now resumed the folio form and runs all the reading columns in long metre. An enterprising farmer in the neigh borhood of Titon, on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, has invented a scheme by which he gets pay for a fine shoat, g *at or sheep nearly every, week. He lives immediately on the railroad, and every alternate day feeds his stock on different sides of the road. This gets the stock confused as to which Side of the road the com and hay will be distributed, and, in crossing and recrossing, a train comes along and some of them are killed. The road then pays for an imported sheep or bull, and the thrifty farmer is happy. Sheriff Findley, of Hall county, receiv ed from the Governor on Monday the reward of $250 for the capture of Sand ford Parker, charged with the murder of John C. Strain. The Thomasville Enterprise remaiks that “the reason why the Fair next week will be the biggest Fair ever held in Thomasville is because the peo ple have taken hold of the matter. Bos ton Grange alone will make a bigger show than our former fairs—what then shall we say for the three other Granges, the ho; ! t of Savannah and other mer chants, for Thomasville and the country at large ? If you miss seeing this Fair you will miss seeing the biggest and best thing of the kind ever gotten up south of the State Fair, and we expect to rival that." Rome is putting out her claims as a cot ton market, and asserts that the price paid there is on an average about a quar ter of a cent higher than in Atlanta or any other market in that section. The Enterprise gives a magnificent wood cut illustration of the terrific com bat to come off at the Thomasville Fair between an enormous black bear and a pack of ferocious dogs. John Sally, an aged negro, living in Talbot county, was murdered late Sunday night by his son-in-law, a boy about 20 years of age. The negro was killed while asleep in bed in his house. His head was split wide open with an axa, and his body dragged to a ditch near by and covered with leaves and straw. A search for the body led to its recovery, as well as the axe used in the fearful deed. The young fiend was ar rested, and is now in jail. Harris county jail must be a nice in stitution. When the prisoners get tired of the place they just pick up their duds and walk off. Three suddenly departed on Sunday night. The farmers in the vicinity of Colum bus don’t believe in bothering with mag istrates. When they discover a negro at night in their fields they go for him with and furnish the doctors, instead of the lawyers, with a job. Rome was thrown into a state of ex citement on Monday by the arrest of a gang of six negro burglars who have been operating in that vicinity. A lot of stolen property was recovered. A negro in Columbus, who had just served eight months on the chain gang for stealing, was nabbed by the Sheriff of Chattahoochee county on Monday as booh an he was released cantered to jail to await trial for a burglary commit ted in that county. Colonel H. Wimbleton Grady, having returned from his recreating trip, Colonel Avery has been relieved of his occupancy of the editorial chair of the Atlanta Her . aid, and has rambled off to the State Fair A Deputy United States Marshal is making it lively in Columbus by chassezing around with a bundle of war rants for the arrest of a number of citizens charged with the offense of illegal voting at the Alabama election last year. Among those arrested was YV. L. Cash. The warrants were sworn out in Opelika. Col. J. J. Cohen told the Rome Com mercial, on Friday, that he was corres ponding with a German Baron (the gen tleman who was recently in Savannah with a party of friends], who, at present, is in Atlanta, in reference to the settle ment of a German colony near Rome. This Baron wishes to get several thous and acres of land on which he propotes to settle some twenty or thirty German families, and thus make a regular perma nent colony. Prof. George Little, the State Geolo gist, will accompany the expedition to the Okefeenokeo Swamp, now being or ganized by Messrs. Hemphill & Cos. The expedition will probably start about the 3d November, from some point on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad. The Hiuesville Gazette says the first frost of the season came last Saturday night. A heavy rain on the preceding night, and a cold wind on Saturday, re sulted in a heavy frost that night. In exposed places thin ice was formed. And the Augusta Constitutionalist will persist in saying “bursted.” The Macon Telegraph notes among the many new inventions displayed at the State Fair, the “Ham patent wheel.” This is the invention of Mr. John D. Ham, a Georgia man—was patented in 1870—and Mr. Ham informs the Tele graph that the Ham Wheel Company will shortly commence their manufacture in Macon. They will put up a manufactory, with $4,000 capital. The wheel is made on an iron hub, which is in three pieoes, the hub beint in two pieces, the box mailing the third. A spoke can be re moved and replaced without disturbing the rim ; and if a box wears out it can be replaced in a moment by any one who can take off and replace a tap. The Survivors Association of Confede rate Soldiers, now in session at Macon, wi! be addressed at the close by General Gordon on the subject, .“The Duties of Confederate Soldiers in the Present.” The convention is working harmoniously, and will send delegates to the Richmond convention, February 22, 1870. Irwinton Southerner has this: We learn from reliable parties who visited the spot, that on Saturday night last a Land of disguised men went to the storehouse of Mr. Robert J. Smith, at Cool Springs, in Wilkinson county, and awakening Mr. Willie Smith, the clerk, ordered him to remove the books and pa pers of his employer and his own per sonal effects, as they intended to fire the house. They then inquired for the bar rel of kerosene, and, after assisting him to remove his trunk and the books of the store, they saturated the building with oil and applied the torch, and tbe house and all it contained was soon a pile of ashes. The house was the property of the estate of the late Willis Allen. Mr. Smith was con st; s- ting a two-story building across the road from the one he occupied, which was fired by the djsguised men, and was alsr consumed. There was also five bales of cotton outside of the storehouse, which the clerk begged permission to re move, but was sternly refused, and it shared the fate of the storehouses. A scrupulous regard for the property of persons not connected with the store was observable. They carefully removed to a place of safety the tool chest of Mr. O. G. McCoy, and a cage and bird belong ing to the clerk. The loss is estimated at about $6,000 —no insurance. Miss Griffin and Miss Irene Steed, daughter and niece of Rev. W. T. Griffin, residing $t Hampton, Spaclding county, were badly injured a few days since whilst out riding, their horse becoming frightei ed and running away overturn ing the buggy. Mr. John High, formerly of Jasper county, and well known in that section, died lately in Morris county, Texas, aged 88 years. Bishop Beckwith is in Milledgeville. The CartersviUe Standard and Express having published a communication censuring the manner in which the cot ton business was carried on, five cotton buyers who were touched on the raw, considered that they were the parties aimed at, and ordered their paper stopped. No names were mentioned in the article, but the action of these parties leave no doubt as to who constitute the ring. YVe are glad to learn that whilst erasing the names of these tive subscribers from bis books, the proprietor of the Standard and Express received a list of double the num ber of new patrons. J udge YV. D. Kelley was announced to address the people of Atlanta last night on the financial issues of the day. Mr. S. i. Milligan, an old and respected citizen of Griffin, died on Tuesday. In the Methodist conference at Atlanta on Tuesday, a resolution was introduced petitioning the General Conference to create a colored Bishop, but by sharp parliamentary tactics the resolution failed to pass. The Rome Commercial thinks the present cotton crop may yet fall short of the big estimate, having received a letter from an extensive cotton planter in lower Georgia in which he states that the cot tou crop in that section is turning out badly and will fall much below the estimate made some time since. The Macon Telegraph remarks that “when Solon liobinson visited the Geor gia State Fair in 1869, his patriotism was shocked because the old flag was not there. ‘The old flag is not there’ this time, nor is any other there, albeit the society owns one, and there are two hun dred and fifty on the ground ready for use and belonging to the city.” The Sandersville Herald has this: “YVe learn that agents to buy cotton have been sent by New York and other houses throughout the entire country. YV e are informed that one has been sent to almost every station along the Central Railroad, and our great staple is being eagerly sought after. YVhatdoes this'un usual eagerness to buy cotton mean ?” YVork has been commenced on the foundation of the Atlanta Custom House. A Georgia Judge instructed a jury the other day that an officer who shoots a man whom he is trying to arrest for a petty offense is guilty of murder. The increased business of the whole sale houses in the principal cities of Georgia is an evidence that the country merchants are encouraging home trade more than formerly, which is eminently right and profitable. Thus the Rome Commercial: “The Bank of Rome alone has received through the Southern Express office, since Sep tember Ist, SIOO,OOO to pay for cotton. And yet there is uo money in the com munity. Because why ? Why, the farm ers owe it to the merchants and the mer chants owe it in New York, and so it finds its way back as fast as it comes. So goes the world.” Application was made to the Governor on Tuesday by the attorney of John Bard for a longer stay or suspension of the execution of his sentence, in order to give his friends time and opportunity to raise the money and pay the fine ; to which the Governor replied that, upon reflection, he was unwilling to interfere to delay longer the execution of the judgment of the court, as, in his opinion, sufficient time had already been allowed for him to make any arrangements de sired. John H. James has agreed for the sum of SIOO to collect that promised dividend of $5,000 for the Atlanta negroes who were swindled by the Freedman’s Sav ings Bank. ~ The Atlanta nerald, not to be out done by the Constitution, gushes forth the announcement in a half column of leaded matter that the Herald has com pleted arrangements for a thorough and penetrative exploration of Ponce De Leon Spring and the region adjacent. John Feagan, a worthy member of the Columbus police force, died on Tuesday morning, ne came to this country from Ireland about twenty years ago, and for sixteen years has been living in Columbus. During the war he fought gallantly for his adopted land. He was a member of Company K, Forty-sixth Georgia Regiment, commanded by Col. P. H. Colquitt. He has been on the po lice force about six years. He leaves a wife and two children to mourn his loss. “Dogs ought to be taxed.” So the members of the Brad well Lyceum, in Hinesville, after an animated discussion of several hours, decided at their last meeting. They might have gone further and decided that nine-tentlis of them ought to be killed. Port Royal Railroad bonds, endorsed by the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, are nearly all withdrawn from the market, and but few are now offer ing. It is stated that quite a number have recently been picked up, privately, on European account, and are not likely to return until maturity. The Greensboro Fair commences on the 26th instant. It bids fair to eclipse all former efforts. Hon. B. H. Hill de livers an address during the week. The Hamilton Visitor brings us an amusing commentary on our neglect as a people to raise our own supplies. It is contained in Judge Crawford’s recent charge to the grand jury of Harris coun ty. “ If,” says the Judge, “by any acci - dent, there should be a hog in the county, and if, by still greater accident, it should stray from the owner and get to a neigh bor’s without being slaughtered, the jury should inquire as to the estray law being complied with.” There were forty applicants in one day for the position on the Columbus police force made vacant by the death of Mr. Feagan. The gin house on the plantation of Mr. YVm. A. Wilson, known as the DerJar nette place in Lee county, was destroyed by fire, together with seven bales of cot ton, on Sunday night. Loss SI,OOO. No insurance. A few nights previous a negro cotton thief was chased from the place, and it is supposed that it was he who sought this mode of revenge. A census just completed shows that the population of Columbus and its suburban settlements is 13,500, which, says the Enquirer, makes it the fourth city in the State as to population, and it is certainly the first in the extent of its manufac tures. Its great industries, too, give it a source of stable prosperity of which few Southern cities can boast. Columbus will soon have a bagging fac tory and a broom factory, the enterprises of Northern capitalists whose attention had been directed to its advantages. On Sunday evening a discussion arose between Gabriel Green, the fastidious choir leader of the colored church at Travelers’ Rest, near Montezuma, and Hall Turner, of the copper cast of features, which resulted to the disad vantage of Hall. The simple proposi tion of Hall to prove that Green’s skin was as black as his broadcloth suit did not meet the latter’s notions as a fair argument; hence he went for Hall, armed with a clock-weight, knife ami fence rail, and manoeuvered so well as to cripple his enemy with the use only of a clock weight. Thus the Augusta Constitutionalist: “The policy shop organ at Charleston-- said to be Ben Wood’s own—thus speaks, in its issue of yesterday, anent municipal affairs in this city : ‘The Constitutional ist is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb, but j breathes and burns for Estes. This is the poetry of journalism, especially as } one of the stockholders of the Constitu tionalist is a canal contractor under Mayor Estes.’ Any intimation that the stock holder of the Constitutionalist, who ‘is a canal contractor under Mayor Estes.’ ever by word or deed attempted to influence this paper on that subject is a lie —and we so nail it.” The buildings and ground at Stone mountain, which cost $30,000, have been tendereckfor the State Baptist Female University. Miss Sarah Appleyard. daughter of Mr. John Appleyard, of Columbus, was en gaged with her sister in making soap in the back yard of her father’s premises. The younger sister was called off, leaving Miss Sarah alone at the soap boiling. In a few minutes after the attention of a neighbor, Mr. Reaves, was attracted by screams proceeding from Mr. Appleyard's yard, aud upon hastening to the door, he discovered a heart rending sight. Miss Sarah Appleyard was lying in the fire, her clothing burning rapidly, and was unconscious. It is supposed that as soon as her dress caught fire she became so badly frightened that she fainted and fell in the fire, inhaling the flame. It was the work of an instant to throw a bed quilt upon the form of Miss Apple yard and drawing her out, to extinguish the flames, but the youug life was doomed. After excrutiating agony, last ing several hours, the unfortunate youug lady expired at 7 o’clock p. m. She was twenty-eight years of age. On Tuesday last a countryman brought to Columbus ou his wagon a bale of cot ton, and between the suburbs and the warehouse he was asked to sell by no less thau twenty cotton buyers, mer chants and others. It is sad to state that the cotton had been sold a month be fore. It is reliably stated that arrangements are being made by a number of Western railroads, iu connection with the Mont gomery and Eufaula road, to immediately build aud put on the Chattahoochee river three first-class steamboats to run from Columbus to Apalachicola. The Columbus Enquirer has this : YVe learned Tuesday for the first time that there is a line of lightning rods extend ing the whole length of the Western Railroad of Alabama. These rods, which extend over the tops of the poles only a few inches, are placed on every tenth pole, aud in seme sections on every fifth pole. They have been in position on that road for five or six months, and a con ductor informs us that he does not know of an instance in which any pole has been struck by lightning since the rods were erected. He is certain that they are not struck near so often as they were formerly. Thus the New York Grocer of the 9tb: “Our good friend Estill, of the Savannah News, is one of the livest newspaper men in the country, and the journal he conducts one of the best outside of New York. And now he has bought up the Advertiser he has the field all to himself, and he very worthily fills it. Amalgama tion seems the order of the day and the strongest only survives. However dis couraging this may be to the juniors and cadets of the profession, we cannot re gret to see one truly representative news paper take the place of two or three un happy looking sheets that have only pro longed a hopeless struggle. These chaages do much to elevate the journal ism of the country. Perhaps we cun hardly hope to see the News much better than it is already, but we wish it suc cess. ” Florida Affairs. Some lunatic endeavored to create a sensation in Live Oak by circulating a report that the negroes would burn the town orf Friday, but the people didn’t bother worth a cent, and the poor fool went off in disgust and got drunk. There will be a mammoth camp meet ing near Pine Grove Church, Suwannee county on the 12ih November. Madison is reported to be the busiest town in Florida. Fernandina was excited on Saturday by a conflagration at the old Fernandez man sion. Prompt action prevented any se rious damage. Tlie Dive Oak Timss plants itself thus squarely in regard to the Hicks affair in the following language: “Some evil minded persons having reported that we have made a retraction of the statement made in our paper of July 14, regarding the conduct of Dr. YV. YV. Hicks, we say that the persons who originated such re ports are low, cowardly liars. YVe have not retracted anything that appeared in our paper, neither do we intend doing so. YVe have no personal quarrel with Dr. Hicks, but it appears that some who pretend freindship for him are de termined to keep him in hot water. If any doubting Thomas will take the trou ble to step into-the office of the County Clerk he can easily ascertain our position. YVe have told the truth, and will stick to it; and we ask our friends to flatly con tradict any report that we have, or will retract what we have said about Dr. Hicks. Soon as we can find them out, we intend to publish the names of the sneaking backbiters who originated these lies.” The merchants of Lake City amuse themselves when business is dull by “putting on the gloves” and mauling one another. At Jacksonville the other day Mr. YVm. Spaulding ordered a negro to remove his feet from the painted guards of his little steamer Magnet, when the black villain seized a piece of wood and struck Mr. Spaulding on the head, knocking him insensible and then escaped. A large number of colonists from Jas per, Miss., have located ’in Manatee county. G. H. Houze is the pioneer of the movement. Mr. YV. G. Dunham, of Monticello, tho taxidermist and hunter, has arranged with Mr. Grant, of Jacksonville, to ex - hibit his fine collection of birds, fish and animalsj in the National Hall during the winter. The collection now numbers over three hundred specimens. The Live Oak Times eloquently ob serves : ‘ 1 Col. R. L. Gentry, general traveling agent for the Savannah Mokn ino News, was in town last Thursday and yesterday. Col. Gentry is a live man, and represents the best paper in the South.” The Lake City Reporter says: “Our farmers are preparing to enter largely into the business of market gardening for Northern markets. The inducements for shipping which are being offered by the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad will great ly benefit those who raise produce for shipment. ’’ The Madison Recorder learns that in consequence of a cheapness of goods in that place, and the high prices paid for cotton, that a great deal of cotton which has heretofore found its way into Georgia, is now offered and bought in that market. Jacksonville anticipates a brilliant theatrical season the coming winter, ap plications for the Togni Hall having been received from a number of companies. YVilliam Shay, a young man from Chi cago, apparently about twenty-one years of age, who had been stopping for sev eral days at Mrs. DeCortes’s boarding house, Jacksonville, committed suicide last week by shooting himself in the head with a pistoL The act was evident ly premeditated, as he had packed his ef fects carefully, and laid out clean cloth ing before committing the fatal act. The firm in Chicago with which it appears he was connected were telegraphed to. Pensacola Gazette has this: Recent shipping intelligence reported the pres ence in the harbor of Cadiz, SpaiD, of the Spanish ship “Panzacolina,” lately arrived from a voyage, and to clear on another. The “Panzacolina” is a native of Pensacola, and is all of Florida wood. She was built by workmen sent out from Spain, in Navy Cove, opposite the city, and was launched in 1808. Her burthen is four hundred and fifty tens—at the registration of the time —and she was quite a large ship for those days. Her cost was some $44,000 (Spanish gold, of course), and that she was thoroughly built of good material, the long record of her service attests. She has been on duty for sixty-seven years. Her frame is of Florida live oak and her top work is of Florida red cedar. Persons are now living in the city who saw the “Panzaco lina” launched. The name of this old ship is sometimes reported “Panzacola” also “Pensacola.” The Fruit Growers’ Convention meets in Fernandina on the first Wednesday in November. ESTABLISHED 1850. Palatka Herald thus remarks: “Nearly every shrewd man that visits Palatka says this is a remarkably fine place, a place that is bound to come up, and all that. But kind words and good wishes don’t build up a town. The value of town lots increase in valuh every year, so say the owners, but the business does not keep pace with all this estimated value of town property. Where is the point ?” J. L. Demilly, Treasurer of Leon county, was robbed on Monday last of one thousand dollars worth of green backs, greenback scrip and county war rants. The portfolio containing the money was placed in the safe of Mr. Megiuniss, a merchant on Mam street! and while it was open the thief found an opportunity to secure the portfolio and its contents. No clue was obtained to the robbery until Wednesday, when, savs the Sentinel, the portfolio was discovered in the rear of Mr. Meginmss's store, in a place designed for the foundation of a house, and which had filled up with water. All the county orders, nud a Comptroller’s warrant for one hundred and fifty-four dollars, together with sixty dollars in greenbacks, were found in the portfolio. It is supposed that the thief had to do his work in a hurry, and grab ging the greenback scrip and United States currency, which he saw on open ing the portfolio, tossed the remainder into the place above mentioned. An old offender named Parsons is suspected of the robbery, and he was arrested. Two hundred dollars of the greenback scrip were secured. James E. Drake, E*q., President of the St. John’s, Lake Eustice and Gulf Railroad Company, was in Jacksonville Friday, Saturday and Sunday. He states that work has already commenced on the road, which he expected to have finished in twelve months. The Monticello Constitution says that Col. Simkins has in his garden in Mon ticello a hundred stalks or more of (he finest cotton we ever laid eyes on. It is of the “Cheatham” variety, and the stalks, which send forth numerous branches, are literally covered with bolls. We are honestly of the opinion that an acre of this cotton would yield at least five ordinary bales. We covered nine full grown bolls with the palm of our hand. No doubt this variety of cotton will prove the most profitable to our planters. The Monticello Constitution tells of a petit jury who had under consideration a case of assault and battery with intent to kill, was locked up for twenty-four hours on last Friday night and Saturday, aud were finally discharged without ren dering a verdict. The jury stood eleven to one for conviction. There are twenty prisoners in the county jail at Tallahassee, eighteon of whom are negroes, the majority boys. The Live Oak Times announces, “we want some of those who owe us to send us some cow feed.” Why not go the whole cow instead of the feed ? It is proposed at Key West to restore the Sunday bull fights, which pastime ceased when Spain delivered Florida to the United States. A paper of that city remarks: “Won’t that be jolly for our sports.” The Mellonville Advertiser says that Rev. F. R. Haleman will return to Florida from Louisville, Kentucky, with a colony for Orange county. The Lake City Reporter suggests either J. T. Wofford or W. J. Barnett as a candidate for the vacant State Senator ship from that district. The Tallahassee Floridian gives the particulars of a gross outrage which oc curred on Monday at the store of W. S. Robjnson, on the Kirksey place. A piuiife of ton or twolv * oolr^***"—nv rmm2 armed, went to the store and demanded the surrender of the clerk, a young Mr. Johnson, for the purpose of taking his life. Johnson sent for Mr. Robinson, who came to the store at once and talked loug and earnestly with the men to prevail upon them to go off peaceably. Finally they agreed to forbear taking Johnson’s life if he would pay them twenty dollars. After considerable remonstrance the amount was paid and a receipt taken with the names of all the armed men at tached. Among the names appear those of Arch Crowell, Homedy Henderson, Miles Hunter, Stepney Comet, Elias Hen derson, Squire Henderson and Demps Irvin. Crowell, we are told, seemed to be the leader and did most of the talk ing. He was very violent in his expres sions and connected the Governor of the State with them as being at his back, He said that they were going to set things to rights her e, remove all the magu trates and do a good many other things. The only cause of offense against young Johnson, so far as known, was that the night before, at one of the colored churches, he had punched up the fire with his foot, and some sparks flew ou a colored boy, who got very angry and said if he had his pistol he would shoot him, after Johnson had apologised for the accident. The people of Ocala have come to the conclusion that Guinea grass is the most profitable that can be grown in that sec tion of the State. Lake City claims the facilities for en tertaining one hundred and thirty North ern tourists. Whereupon Monticello steps to the front and says she will see those one hundred and thirty and raise to three hundred with splendid accommodations. The editor of the Ocala Ranner has commenced a criminal prosecution against W. H. LeCain for alleged libellous state ments in an article published in the last issue of the Cedar Key Journal. LeCain was bound in the sum of three hundred dollars to answer at the next term of the City Court, but subsequently his bonds men delivered him up in open court, and on Thursday he was committed to the common jail of the county. The editor of the Key West Dispatch ie in clover. Hear him prate of his nap piness. “Potatoes are cheap now. We can afford to keep a barrel on hand in our storeroom, and the Valley City can go to the and .” A “White Man’s Barber Shop” has been opened in Jacksonville. The Jacksonville Press says that a colored individual of the feminine gender entered one of the fashionable shoe stores last Saturday night in quest of a pair of hio. 10 gaiters. A boy was summoned by the proprietor, and told to “find a pair of shoes for that woman.” The remork reached the ears of the ebony damsel, who swelled up with suppressed indigna tion, and flounced out with the irate re mark, “I jess want you to know I ain’t a woman, I’s a lady.” The Floridian says that beds of pep permint grow luxuriantly on the Hills borough river, near Tampa. They flour ish without the least care. In some of the States peppermint is grown as an article of trade, and is usually cut three times from one planting. The Jacksonville New South asserts that Tim Murphy, of that place, has now running in his machine shop the oldest steam engine in Florida still in service. We are not possessed of sufficient tech nical knowledge to describe this old and faithful servant, but will say that it is the simplest form of high-pressure engine, with small cylinder and very long stroke. Tim says it is good for many years yet, and runs his lathes just as well as one of more modern make. A military company, numbering thir ty-six, was recently organized at Double Bridges, six Jacksonville. H. T. Tompkins is Captain. Monticello complains of stagnation in business, notwithstanding the merchants have in store magnificent stocks of sea sonable goods. Monticello is a nice town, but is evi dently afflicted with a kleptomania epi demic, judging from the observation of the Constitution that “the only article that "an be permitted to remain from under jock and key at night, in that town, with any degree of safety, is a wash pot. They generally weigh so much that an ordinary Florida thief is too lazy or delicate to steal it,” On the premises of Mrs. Fatlo, At May port, there are two moderately sized fig trees that are curiosities in their way, and which month after month have sup! plied her table with the most delicious fruit. Beginning very early in the sea son, they continue to bear rich crops of luscious fruit. The Constitution ventures to remark that there is not another town in the State that can boast of so many cotton buyers as Monticello; and they are pay ing equally as good if not better prices for cotton than any of our sister towns, either in this State or across the line. The Monticello Constitution of the 21st has information from private sources to the effect that a man by the name of James Maulden was killed by a young man named Joseph Tillman, about eighteen years of age (a nephew of Judge Joseph Tillman), at Tillman’s Store, near Cherry Lake, some nine miles north of Madison Court House, at about 9 o’clock ou Saturday night. It appears that Mr. Maulden was the proprietor of a store (cotton trap) some two miles west of Judge Tillman’s, whose store was on or near his plantation, and the young man who did the killing was clerking for his uncle. On Saturday night Maulden got drunk, and, in' company with a negro, visited Tillman's store, where he be came very insulting and created a disturbance, whereupon a gun was pro cured by direction of and from the senior Tillman’s residence close by, when the young man shot Maulden in the head, killing him instantly. We have no par ticulars of the extent of the offense given by the deceased to Judge Tillman or his nephew, but presume that their lives must have been seriously en dangered to influenoe theiu to kill the intoxicated man. The courts, however, it is presumed, will thoroughly investi gate all the circumstances connected with the homicide, although, it is said, the young man has made his escape. The deceased, Mr. Maulden, formerly lived in Brooks county, Ga., but has been doing business in Madison county for the past eighteen months. Cedar Keys Journal has this: “ A lot of young bloods, okl bloods, aud all sorts of bloods, paid their respects to a newly married couple on Atseua Otis, one night recently, in the usual manner of doing up such things. The gentle female with all the tender gush peculiar to her sex, looked out the window, and, recognizing an old friend, pathetically remarked, “N >w, S y, I didn’t think you’d do me so.” Madison Recorder: While Deputy Sheriff Coleman had George Harrison, colored, out in tlio court house yard, on last Friday, he jumped the fence with the agility of a squirrel, and made his escape from Coleman. He fired two shots at Harrison without effect. Henry Allen, colored, oomiug up the street headed him off, and Harrison was taken back to jail and locked up again. St. Au ustine Press: On Tuesday last Juo. Roberts and Tom Davis, both colored, employees in Nutter’s mill, endeavored to settle a previous difficulty by having a regular ring fight, which ended in the discomfiture of the latter. This result was unsatisfactory, and Davis pursued his antagonist with a loaded caue with the intention of braining him, but was checked in bis onslaught by a ball from Roberts’s pistol.* The wound, though severe, is not dangerous. After a pre liminary examiuation before Justice Westervelt, the prisoner was bound over to appear at the Circuit Court. Carl Schurzon the Ohio Election. The Hon. Carl Schurz is on a visit to New York, and in conversation on Friday with some friends was asked whether he thought the vote iu Ohio aud the defeat iliere of the inflation movement wouliff have such an effect in the West as to definitely put that issue out of our politics for the next year, in reply to which he said it- was very questionable. Inflation is very strong in the West, and it commands a large majority of the Democratic party in that region, except ing, perhaps, in the extreme North western States, including Illinois. If the inflationists had been beaten by a very large majority iu Ohio the result would probably have discouraged them so much as to induce them to give it up ; but the majority being small, they may feel warranted in trying again, and go on with the organization of legal-tender clubs, which they have already begun, and which they intend to establish on a large scale. Be- Miles, * h o Ohio election returns show that while a sffc.-Jl number ofliard-money Democrats voted" against Allen, a much larger number of soft-money Republicans voted for him. Whilst be did not look upon the election as decisive, it was an exceedingly important one, inasmuch as it showed the inability of the inflationists to drive everything before them with the cry of more money on their own chosen field. It certainly has saved the country from an immediate danger. He believes that the inflation Democrats in the West, sore over their defeat, may strive to revenge themselves upon the sound currency Democrats of the East, and make trouble within the party, and he is apprehensive lest they may receive help from the Southern Democrats. As to the future, he holds himself independent of party ties and influences, and prefers to leave the door open to act with that one of the two parties which, as be persistently re marks, shall rise farthest above its old record and its dangerous and merely sel fish element. While ho regirds the financial issue as of great importance, he thinks that some other reforms are also demanded, and is evidently ■ A in clined to see the currency question made the sole one next year. He believes-that party will have the best chance next year which lifts itself highest above its selfish partisan impulses and above its own record, and thinks the country will be best served if the political parties are not both as bad, but both as good as possible; and that each will improve the other by improving itself. The Tartarian Lamb. For many years there has existed a tra dition that on the steppes of Tartary there grew a vegetable more curious in its structure and habits than even the in sectiverous plants of latter-day notoriety. It was supposed to spring from the ground after the manner of a vegetable, but, on developing, a distinctly formed lamb, having feet, head, tail, and, furthermore, eyes and ears of perfect shape, would appear swinging upon a stalk three feet long, the point of attach ment being in the centre of the creature’s abdomen. This strange quadruped was covered with dense yellow wool, and, as it swayed about, bending and rising above the weeds and grass that grew at its feet, i t was said to feed upon the herbage its cattle do, and that when the pasturage in the fields withered from drought it pined away and perished. This fabulous story has found a rational explanation through the researches of botanists. The plant is a fern, called in the Tartar language BaromeU, which signifies a red dog, and in the language of science, Oibotium barometz, or C. ylaie rMcerw. The rhizome or root stock is covered with fine, flossy down, that might easily pass for wool, and, when denuded of the leaves or fronds, 1 ears a remote resemblance in shape to lam-/ It is pushed out of the ground by tin. roots growing beneath it, and rest u- , horizontal position, with the underlying roots looking not unlike legs sustaining it. When other vegetation dies at the setting in of the dry season it likewise perishes from lack of moisture. The plant has been introduced into English conservatories and is prized for the decoration of apartments, but it is re - marked that under cultivation -JKiany years are required to develop tiie iarno in perfection. In a correspondence in Land and Water with reference to this singular vegetable, several allusions to it were quoted from old authors. A description of it occurs in Darwin’s “Loves of the PJants,” Dr. dela Croix’s “Connubia Flo rum,” and in various sermons and poems by French writers. We quote Darwin’s pretty lines : Cradled in snow, and fanned by Arctic air, Shines, gentle Barometz, thy golden hair. Booted in earth, each cloven hoof descends, And round and round her flexile neck she bends, Crops the gray coral mo*s and hoary thime, Or laps, with rosy tongue, the melting rime. Eyes with mute tenderness her distant dam, Or seems to bleat—a vegetable lamb. '" ' ' The down of the Barometz is said to be an excellent styptic. It is much used * for stanching blood by the Chinese and by surgeons who, in its native country, have become acquainted with its quali ties. On Hang, of North Adams, sings of Mary and her little lamb : Was gal name Moll had lam, Fleas all same white sno, Evly place Moll gal walkee \ Ba, Ba, hoppee long too. ,