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Savannah Weekly Hnv&
__*ATtHtAV. IH.'TOHHH 30, I HTH.
Appointment* of Georgia Conference
M. R. Church.
Atlanta District —J. W. hro. p. E.
AlUuta -- Marietta itreet —To be sup
plied.
Loyd street and Clark Cbapcl E. J.
Lansing, J. a. Trimmer.
Mark Liam street - Allen Frazer.
East Atlanta—. C. Upshaw
West End and Fulton —W. O. Lynch.
Atlauta Circuit- W. C. Walker.
Georgia Mission—K. If. Waters.
LaGrauge —H. U. Parmenter.
Hogansville—lt. Bingham.
Grantville— Samuel Smith.
NcWuan—Geo. Standing.
Newnan Circuit- D. M. Pinkard.
Heard and Troup —P. T. McWhorter.
Carrol ton—Hugh Bojd.
Carrol ton and Bowdon Kobert Millej.
Douglaasville—A. Dorman.
Palmetto—Elbert Wood, one to be sup
plied.
Fatrbum—James McHenry, S. S. Ber
ry-
Decatur—D. Smitli.
Jonesboro—J. H. Smith.
Payette—W. E. Tarpley.
Gnftin Circuit G. A. Hill.
Mest Point and Tronp—James Robin
aon; E. Q. Fuller, editor Methodist Ad
vocate; Isaac J. Lansing. President of
Clark University.
Dalton District—'W. B. Osborn, P. E.
Dalton ind Jtesacca—T. H. Triplett.
S deg Place —Tbos. G. Chase.
l.ifayette and Summerville—Wm. H.
Sullivan, D. 1). Entrekin.
J wjtr B. M. H'pp, It. H. Itobb.
I 'ijuy J. A Thurman.
Morgantown D. 11. Sullivan, J. J.
Diwassee —H. Sheffield.
I. i sM.ville D. W. Chase, J. 11. l)unD.
I 'ui.ionega— W. Balieu.
( .. t'-u .J. 11. Ledford.
Mar '.a —S. D. Brown, J 5. F. Powell.
Back Springs—A. Walton, A. F. Kl
lidiuehville L. ]). Eilington.
Simpson Ira Woodman.
J I'. Palmer, Principal of Ellijay Sem-
JfuM’ Distbict—J. L. Fowler, P. E.
iu>u,c - W. H. Cook.
Floyd—J. C. Johnson.
Homersville and Browntown —M. Rob
inson.
Coosa -8. Sanders.
Cave Springs and Cedar Town —F. M.
Gordon.
Cartersvillc—J. F. Johnson.
Adairs ville and Pine Log—ll. Mullins.
Whitfield—Sam W. Williams.
Cobb and Milton—B. M. Cain, J. Dai
ley. .
Gwinnett —E. IJ. Davis.
Hall Demos Hopo.
Oconee —Ohas. Arnold.
Jackson—J. C. Wagner.
Oxford nnd Covington- It. Alexander.
Newton and Walton -F. Smith.
Maoom District C. O. Fisher, P. E.
Mason and Forsyth -1) McClendon.
Columbus -To bo supplied.
Whitcsvillc -To bo supplied.
Warm Springs Win. Maddox,
Greenville- To be supplied.
Sonoia —0. Milliard.
Forsyth Circuit —To be supplied.
Barm svillo and Milner—P. Maddox.
Zobulon C. T. Boberts.
Griffl’i- To be supplied.
Spalding- 11. Stricklin.
White Water—Joseph Sams.
Liberty Hill—J. Arnold.
Clayton—A. Palmer.
McDonough and Sunnyside—E. Little,
J. J. Elsby.
Rockdale —J. M. Hollingsworth.
Oak Hill To be supplied.
Fort V'alley Benj. Hail.
Hawkinsvillo—To bo supplied.
Butts and Monticello—To bo supplied.
Vtttt Shoals —To be supplied.
Savanwau District— B. P. Buskins, P.
E.
Ashbury and Kynett —A. G. Amos.
Savannah Circuit- K Lacey.
Josup -To be supplied.
Btackshenr G. Washington.
'Waynesboro Augustus White.
Brunswick—lt. M. Taylor.
Brunswick Circuit—C. F. Vauderpool.
Darien G. Taylor.
Keidsvillo- Samuel Unrey.
Cauidcu J. 11. ltandall, Z. Butler.
St. Mary’s and Trader’s Hill E. Pinck
ney.
Montgomery George Harris.
Valdosta—-8. 11. Buys.
Ogee.uhee R. L. Blnck.
► Oukeciike Distuiot—S. A. Pharr, P.E.
Mount. Zion- E. F. Dean.
Burnt Fort and Charlton—J. P. Baze
more.
Tutnall—T. A. Pharr.
Lowndes and Ware—A. H. Bazetuorc.
The Georgia Debt.
A Now York liaaucial paper having re
oontly stated, on the authority of a bro
ker firm in that city, that the debt of
Georgia was $10,*100,000, the Georgia pa
pers take pains to correct the statement
by explaining that the debt is only
$8,105,500, as appears from the last ofli
end statement made by the State Tress
nrer. There is a disowned • debt of
155,00(>, which the knavish Governor
of the State, Bullock, protended to con
tract ; but this was proved to Lo a fraud
by a Legislative committee, and the State
has never recognized its obligation to pay
it. At tho time the Legislature disowned
this fraudulent debt the proceeding was
strongly denounced in New York as en
act of imd faith; but Ihe failure of t lie
house of Clews & Cos., which took
place shortly afterward, anil the gen
eral rottenness of its relations
which an investigation revealed, have
compltdely justified the step. Clews A
Cos. were the financial agents of Georgia
under Bullock—or rather they were Bul
lock's financial agents —and the legisla
tive inquiry into the condition of the
Slate's finances thnt followed the over
throw of the Radical party and the flight
ot-Jjjllßoi'k. showed strong reasons for
* .suspoctifry Hntk the financial agents had
full knowledge of Bullock’s frauds at the
time they were committed. When tho
assets of Clews & Cos. were tabulatid of
fer their failure, a large number of these
disowned Georgia bonds, for which the
State never receive 1 a cent of considera
tion, was included in the list. But these
bonds are utterly worthless ; the State of
Georgia is under no more moral or legal
obligation to pay them than they are to
make good the private frauds of their
runaway Governor ; and it is safe to say
that they nevtr will pay them.—Nf. lamis
Jtepubßoan.
Bad State or Affairs in Texas.—A
letter in the New Otleans Republican from
Mason oounty, Texas, say's: “Hardly a
mail is received but brings tho news of
the assassination of oueor more citizens.
The Sheriff has long since ceased to txe
cute legal process. For months he La
changed his sleeping place every night to
escape the weapon of the assassin, and
the last mail brought news of the killing
of two men. Not less thau a dozen have
been killed and wounded, and there is a
lively prospect of an actual, bona tide
battle. John Whorley was shot down
while drawing a man up out of a well in
process of excavation. After shooting
aud slashing the body ad libitum the
murderer deliberately took his victim’s
scalp aud rode off unmolested, and no at
tempt has been made to arrest him. It
is difficult to explain fully the origin and
progrt ss of the vendetta. The trouble
start* 1 in quarrels about the ownership
of stock, aud as one murder begets
another, matters have gone on from bad
io worse uutil almost tho entire popula
tion is actively encaged in prosecuting
die bloody feud. The Governer is ap
pealed. to, aud unless State troops are
stationed there at once, a worse state of
iff nrs than existed iu DaWitt county be
*’'■ * action was taken, may be ex
pected.”
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A Centennial Chess Game.—The I'all
Mall Gazette says: An ingenious Sweed- j
ish wood-carver has hit on a way of ap- j
plying the game of chess to political and
religious controversy. This artist, whose
name is Oestergren, and who is a native !
of the obscene town of West eras in
Sweden, is makiug ready for the forth- j
coming Philadelphia Exhibition a set of
chessmen intended to typify the struggle
of opinion now going on in Germany.
On the one side the Emperor is the kiDg,
tho Empress Augusta the queen,
Prince Bismarck and the Minister of
Public Instruction, Herr Falk, the bish
ops; the knights are Uhlans, and the
pawns recruits of the Laudwehr. Their
adversaries are the Pope, of course, as
king, whilo an abbess figures as queen ; i
the bishop s are cardinals; monks mount- j
ed on ass. s represent the knights, and
the pawns are monks on foot. This is
not tho first happy hit of tho artist. Last
winter in the Upsala Exhibition he ex
hibited a chess game, in which the pieces
the chief actors in the Fran
war.
South Atlantic and .Mississippi Valley
Stales.
Rditor Morning News :
We have been receiving from the In-
I ternational Chamber of Commerce and
Mississippi Valley Society, of LondoD,
a numbe r of leUersand documents rela
' Uve to the workings and intentions of said
I society. The head office, or parent office,
i soeniH quite active, and is pleased with
| the reports from the diff ;rent branches.
The English and European capitalists
I have their eyes fixed upou tho South
I and West as the great coming market,
! both as to buying our productions and
I seikug to us such manufactures as we
I desire. We write with the desire to
arouse the citizens of Savannah to their
real and material interests, and can as
\ sure them that if they will take hold of
and manifest an active desire in the mat
ter, they can command English capital
with all ease in enterprises that look to
the development of our varied interests.
As we said in a former communication,
we are ready to address the citizens upon
the subj ct, and give any information we
l have.
The last report we have received from
the London Society states the
of.nkral objects.
First. To protect and promote inter
| national trade.
Second. To watch, support, or oppose
; in the various countrieslegislatioD affect
iin? it
_ 'i bird. To adjust and settle by arbitra
j tion disputes occurring in it.
Fourth. To collect and record eom-
I mereial statistics aud information for the
’ use of members.
It must be borne in mind that there
are branches of tho society in France,
B lgiutn, Italy, Germany, Holland,
Austria nnd America, and reports are
sent to all those branches. For instance,
the “Report upon the Resources of
Georg.a is sent all over Europe as a
matter of informalion to the different
European branches, published by the
bureau of general information.
1 be special objects of the society are—
First. To fix attention upon the valley
of the Mississippi and the South Atlantic
Stab s as the great coming market; tbc
world’s new theatre of production and
consumption.
_ Second. To promote the application of
European capital to the development of
this market; to the cultivation of the
soil, the working of the mines, the im
provement and cheapening of inland
and ocean transportation, anti the estab
lishment of direct trading.
Third. To direct European labor to
the same objects.
Fourth. To establish in Europe the le
gitimate business credit of Ihe South At
lantic and Valley States by defending the
integrity of honest operations against
unfounded prtjudice; by furnishing cor
rect information about public and pri
vate enterprise ; V-y preventing the adop
tion of immature undertakings by expos
ing adventurous schemes aud impostures;
and by promoting greater personal inter
course between the two peoples.
Such, Mr. Editor, is the special effects
of the Mississippi Valley Society. The
English and European capitalists intend
to make the South and West the great
coming market, to use their own language,
if we will but display any interest or zeal
in tho sulij -ct. For us to be indifferent
or careless in the matter is a criminal
wrong to ourselves and our section. Busi
ness men should be business men in the
broadest sense of tho word, and be ready
to entertain any feasible and practicable
plan presented. To cavil, to raise ob
jections, to pronoiyice snap judgments
upou a project that is new, aud which
they do not understand or have not in
vestigated, is folly in tho extreme, and
suicidal to every interest of business ad
vancement.
The Mississippi Valley Society is a
corporation of capitalists seeking invest
ments in public and private enterprises,
and askiugof their branches to give tl#m
true aud reliable information ;
more or nothing less. What is to be d^T
sired, is that the business men and real
estate owners of Savannah will join the
Savannah brunch, andjjtive to the Euro
pean capitalists their ideas what invest
ments would pay. In other words develop
new resources.
We want cheap money, for instance,
and could get it by a proper move in the
right direction. Mr. Orossley, President
of tho London Sooiefy, writes us that
money is lending at 2 per cent, in the
Bank of England, and in the open
marlu t. Let them know that they can
lend it hero at 7 per cent, on good
collaterals and it will come, and that
quiek’y. We need the extension of the
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad to Pollard.
It can be built with foreign capital, if the
Savannah merchants will do their duty,
in our opinion We need more facto
ries; they would be built if we would but
interest ourselves in the matter.
Nothing, however, will ever he done
by a few individuals, when the great
majority wrap themselves up in the
clonk of their own individual and selfish
interests. Any cPy or enterprise, no
matter bow worthy or beneficial it may
be, will die when such motives control.
R. M. O.
LETTER FROM BEIiKIEN.
Adel, Berrien County, Ga. , \
October IG, 1875.)
Editor Morning News :
As I have not seen anything in the
News concerning our county, I am under
conviction that it will be generally sup
posed that Berrien is occupied by a com
munity of mutes. Such a supposition
would bo very incorrect. We are neither
all dumb nor all asleep in old Berrien.
In proof of this, I propose—just to break
silence —to furnish your valuable columns
with a few items, which will perhaps be
read with some interest by a few of your
many readers.
The first thing which demands my at
tention is that which most concerns our
citizens, viz -.
TnE CROPS.
Corn crops (though somewhat retarded
by a wet, backward spring, then again
by a drouth in July) have surpassed the
most sanguine expectations of our farm
ers. and it is hoped by aid of the excel
lent oat crop harvested last summer that
a plenty will bo made for home consump
tion. Cotton, though the most promis
ing I ever saw uutil June, has been badl>
iujured in cor sequence of the dry weather
and intense heat of the sun; in some set
Cements not more than half a crop will
be realized, while none will gather a full
crop. Late crops, such as sugar cane,
sweet potatoes, field peas, etc., ere not
likely to be very good, and are depending
on a late f ost to be anything of a success.
The weather has been unusually dry in
this section until last night, when a
heavy rain fell, leaving the air rather
cool.
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.
A Primitive Baptist Association will
convene at “Salem’’ Church to-day.
Almost a perpetual roar of buggies greets ,
my ears on their way to this church. (
The association will continue till Mon- |
day, 18th iustaut, aud bids fair to have a j
fine time, as well as a vast number of !
visitors from adj fining couuties.
PATRONS OP HUSBANDRY.
This order has spread to a considerable
extent in oar county, there being six j
subordinate granges, with perhaps an
aggregate membership of two hundred.
The granges appear to bo in a prosperous
condition and are looking forward for a
little jollity on the fourth of December— !
the eighth anniversary of the order.
If we can dig a big potato, cut a huge j
sugar-cane, get up a big row or something
of the kind. I will write again.
Very respectfully, ~ Rustic. j
A Wife, Cow, Etc., Sold for Fifty
Dollars. —A Michigan mau, named Wy
mans. having discovered that his wife
and a boarder named Jones, got along
much more pleasantly together than was
i natural, suggested that they had better
!go their way and he would go "bis. The
i wife confessed that she would much
I rather live with Jones, and Jones, being
| agreeable, a bargain was soon struck. For
! fifty dollars Wymans gave a written bill
' of sale, formally transferring his wife, a
cow, and some household articles to Jones,
and then departed on the best of terms,
and with a belitf that he did the right
tiling to all concerned. This strange
story is vouched for, and the bill of sale
is recorded in the township clerk's office,
in the township of Plains, Lake county,
Michigan.
STRANGE SCENE IN THE WOODS.
A Pmkrr’i Recovery of HU I.ooc-l.oot
Daughter.
[From the Albany Argus, Oct. S.J
Saturday afternoon a man named Louis
Bourbaki made bin appearance at Kearn's
Hotel, near the Albany and Schenectady
turnpike, in the town of Watervliet, and
asked the bar-tender to give ffiiru all the
information he could about tbe “wild
woman in the woods,” of whom be had
read an account in the different papers,
j The bar-tender told him all be knew
about the matter, and asked the stranger
in return what interest he had in the
| matter that he seemed so eager to glean
j information about. Mr. Bourbaki then
, told him that he lived in Vermont, but
lived near Albany in 1873, and while
1 there his only daughter was seduced by
a clerk who worked in a dry goods store
iin Albany. She was deserted by the
heartless deceiver, who fled to New York
1 city and has not been seen by him
lor any of his family since. He became
! enraged when be learned the position his
daughter was iD, and immediately ex
pelled her from his house, and has not
seen her since. A few days after her de
parture he became sorry for his rash act,
and would have given all he had in the
world to see his child again and welcome
her with open arms to his house. He
made enquiries concerning her, and
traced her from Albany to the interior of
Watervliet, but there lost track of her
and immediately after gave her up as
de ai, and always since believed her to be
so until be saw an article in a Vermont
paper a few days ago copied from the
Argus , and recounting the adventure of
three young men with whom they sup
posed to be a wild woman escaped from
some aayluin. Immediately after reading
it, the thought flashed through his mind
that the wild woman might be
his daughter, and he proceeded with
all haste to that place to
find out the particulars more closely.
The bar-tender sent for two of the young
men who met her in the woods, and with
w hom she had the contest, whose names
are Edward Harrison and James Lumtly,
and they gave a minute description of
her to Mr. Bourbaki in every particular
The stranger was beginning to be con
viuced that she was his daughter, and
said he was going into the woods that
very minute to seek her out. The young
men told him to delay a little while and
they would get three or four men and to
gether they would proceed to the woed
and try and effect her capture. This the
old man consented to, and about four
o'clock Saturday afternoon five of them,
four young men from that locality, and
Mr. Bourbaki, proceeded to the wood to
lay in wait until she should make her
appearance. But they waited together
a loDg time, as she seemed to be pretty
cautious about venturing out of her hiding
place since her conflict with the young
men some two weeks ago. The party
soon divided up, three going in one di
rection and two in another. In this way
they walked about the woods nearly all
night. About four o’clock on Sunday
morning Harrison and Lurnbly, who went
alone, heard a mournful cry, as from some
female in distress. They hastened with all
possible speed through tbe stumps and
brambles in the direction that they heard
the cry, and ere long were quite close to
it. In the wood is a deep ravine, the
sides of which are protected with huge
rocks, and through the bottom of which
runs a little rivulet. To the bottom of
this ravine the young men proceeded,
though it required no small share of
trouble to reach it, but once there, they
were rewarded with seeing the object of
their search in a little cavern behind a
huge rock, through the interstices of
which a faint light glimmered. As these
two had felt her anger before and were
the recipients of some gashes made by
her scissors, they had no ambition to
beard ber in her den. After a short con
sultation between them it was settled
that Harrison would remain there and
watch her, while Lurnbly returned to ap
prise the rest of their friends of their
success. A few minutes after his de
parture she commenced to cry again, and
wrung her hands, at the same time mut
tering some sentences in the French lan
guage which Harrison could not under
stand. During this time Harrison was
steadily gazing at her through a crevice,
but she could not see him. She did
not look as wild nor did she act as
insane as when he last saw her, but her
general appearance betokened sorrow
and ili-ease. Finally, the whole party
soon returned, and they entered the
cavern on their hands and knees. She
gave a shriek of tbe utmost despair
when she saw them, and ran and
knocked her head against the wall, and
acted like a perftet maniac. After
awhile she turned around aDd began to
implore them to go away. Mr. Bour
baki, who kept in the rear all this time,
then stepped forward, and said in a loud
voice, “Emma.” She started and locked
as if petrified, and in a moment
rushed with a wild cry into her
father’s arms. The scene that fol
lowed it would be impossible to de
scribe. She was perfectly sane, but re
fused to tell why or how she lived there,
but simply said she would tell her father
all some other time. They all started for
Kearn’s hotel, she makiug no objections
to accompanying them, and they reached
there about G o’clock on Sunday morning.
She was nearly naked, but she wore the
remnants of the clothes she had on when
she left her father’s house in Albany, in
May, 1873. She was provided with cloth
ing at the hotel, and after heartfelt thanks
being extended to the young men and
Mr. Kearns by her father, the now happy
father and daughter departed in Mr.
Kearns’s wagon for Albany, where they
arrived about 5 o’clock on Sunday even
ing.
The Two-Thirds Rule—Again.
The repeal of the two-thirds rule in
making the next Democratic nomination
of a candidate for Governor is so earnest
ly pressed as to raise the suspicion that
the proposition is made in the interest of
some particular candidate; and yet we
find that it has supporters among papers
presumed to be favorable to the nomina
tion of tiro of the candidates, and these
two considered the most active if not the
most prominent among the aspirants. It
is suggested to us that the friends of both
Gen. Colquitt and Hon. Thos. Hardeman
have confidence in their ability to rally a
majority for their respective favorites,
but that neither party has such con
fidence of obtaining two-thirds, and
that this accounts for the course
of their friends. If this be really
so, the repeal of the rule would practi
cally be only au arrangement to compel a
choice between these two gentlemen
Able and popular as both of them are, we
do not believe that the people of the
State would willingly give up a conserva
tive plan of nomination for the personal
object of fore'ng a choice between them.
If they have so closely divided the perty
as to give each of them hopes of a ma
jority, while neither esn obtain two
thirds, it seems to us that this is tbe very
contingency in which the rule can be ad
hered to with a salutary effect. It is al
ways more difficult to thoroughly recon
cile a defeated wing of a party to its most
prominent opponent than to some man
not so conspicuously identified with the
contest, and who can be offered as a com
promise.
Next year will be an inopportune time I
(if indeed any time can be opportune) to
risk a division or a bolt by departing
from the usages of the party tor personal
considerations. It is the year for the
election of Congressmen and the Presi
dential election. The contest and the
results will be too momentous to allow
any personal issues to exercise an influ
ence and produce uncertain consequences
iu Georgia. Let us do all things prop
erly and in order. Columbus Enquirer.
Army Topics. —A Washington dispatch
to the Baltimore Sun says: * ‘Army
circles are agitated over a rumor that
General Humphries. Chief of the En
; gineer Corps, is to give way to General
• Babcock. This looks like a movement
similar to that whioh substituted General
Ingalls for General Meigs as Quarter
| master General. General Meigs did not
want to give up his "position; he was
amply competent to discharge his duties,
i So with General Humphries. But the
dynasty which rales here, when it has a
will always finds a way to execute it, and
if General Humphries’ place is wanted
for General Babcock or any other favorite
courtier, that officer may as well make up
his mind to vacate. Speaking of Gen.
Ingalls, it is said that his renting of a
large building on the avenue for the use
of his office is not only without authority
of law, but in direct violation of law.
It will no doubt be inquired into, as also
the necessity of sending General Meigs
Vi wild goose chase over Europe for no
offer purpose than to put Ingalls in his
place.”
LARCENY AFTER TRUST.
Another Clever Little Steel of Ihe Great
Developer.
J. Boorman Johnston <fc Cos., of New
Yoik, are knocking at the Treasury door
with an humble plea for the payment of
a nice little bill out of which they were
done by Mr. Hannibal I. Kimball, of
| this city.
i Tbe history of the case is a brief one.
| it is full of roguery from the initial
chapter to the last word.
Under the authority of an act of the
i General Assembly, passed August 27,
| 1870, Governor Bullock issued 2,000,000
! lithographed currency bonds of the
State. These bonds were intended for
| temporary purposes only, and were to be
replaced by gold quarterly bonds, issued
; under act of September 15, 1870.
| The gold quarterly bonds were issued
j early 1871, and H. I. Kimball was au
thorized to take up therewith the litho
graphed currency bonds above men-
The Fourth National Bank of
New York, which held a large amount of
these temporary bonds, surrendered them
to Kimball in exchange for the gold
quarterly bonds, whereupon he wrote to
Governor Bullock as follows :
New Yoee, March 20, 1871.
To Ills Excellency. Gov. Bullock :
Governor —l have the pleasure to in
form you that the lithographic bonds of
the State given to be used temporarily as
collateral, while the regular engraved
bonds were being prepared and issued,
have now been exchanged, and the litho
graphed bonds turned over to Henry
Clews & Cos., financial agents of the
State, for cancellation and return to you.
Respectfully, yours,
H. I. Kimball.
Now, plain and simple, and direct as
this letter was, its statement was false, a
deliberate lie— for instead of turning the
bonds over to Clews & Cos. for cancella
tion, he, on tho 3d day of April, .some
thirteen days after tbe date of the fore
i going letter, iu which he declared the
I bonds were turned over, hypothfeated
$l2O. fXR) of them to J. Boorman John
j ston A Cos., to secure a private loan io
; himself of SBO,OOO, msde to him on in
| dividual account, and again on the 24th
day of June following he pledged an addi
| tional $50,000 of these same lithographed
j bonds to the Fulton Back of Brooklyn,
| to secure a loan of $34,000 made to him
self on his individual account. Thus, by
this falsehood and fraud, he pocketed in
these transactions SIIG,OOO in actual
cash, leaving the State obligations as se
curity to the amount of $154,000.
It may be interesting to his friends
and admirers to know that J. Boorman
Johnston & Cos. still hold these bonds
hypothfeated by him, and claim that the
State should redeem them by paying the
amount which Kimball borrowed”
The Joint Financial Committee of the
General Assembly had their claims under
consideration at the session of 1874, and
in a majority report took ground that
there was strong equity in the claim.
It is believed by many that the Legisla
ture will, in the end, be compelled to
respond to the claim, and the State will
loose another SIOO,OOO or so, by this
piece of knavery on the part of the great
developer.— Atlanta Commonwealth.
Return of the Pilgrimage Piesideut.
[From the New Yrrk Sun.]
After a continuous absence of four and
a half months and many wanderings, the
President has at last returned to the
capital, where the law supposes him to be
constantly present, discharging the duties
which he has sworn to perform. He quit
Washington for LoDg Branch on the 3d
of last June, and with the solitary excep
tion of half a day on the 21st of July, he
has not appeared there since that time
until now.
Measured merely by dollars and cents,
this absence has cost the country pretty
dearly. The present salary is at the ratc
of $137 per day in round numbers, or
sl3 70 for every hour of the ten, esti
mated to be a full day’s work in ordinary
pursuits, cr $5 70 for every hour of the
twenty-four, working, idling or sleeping.
He has thus drawn from the Treasury
$18,084 without having rendered any
service whatever except to sign official
papers at Long Branch and to falsify the
record by a pretended execution of them
as “done at Washington.”
It is thus seen that for more than a
third of the whole year, Grant has utter
ly abandoned the public trusts in order
to gratify his personal tastes for pleas
ure, and without any allege 1 or actual
cause whatever to justify so culpable a
neglect of duty, or to excuse so gross a
defiance of the common law of proprie
ty. This conduct is the more reprehen
sible from the fact that he is now re
ceiving double the pay allowed to any
former President, and that it was pro
cured by his own importunity, and in
addition to other emoluments which ex
ceed threefold those voted to Mr.
Lincoln.
The effect of this example is not to be
estimated in money only, large as the
charge on the Treasury is at a time of
unprecedented distress, and when every
dollar has more thau its usual value. It
has demoralized the public service most
seriously. The Cabinet felt justified in
following in the footsteps of their chief,
and during the whole past summer they
have been gazetted as junketing about
the country, at horse races, weddings,
clam-bakes, regattas, aud everywhere but
at the place where duty commanded them
to be. For several weeks together there
was.not a member of the administration
at Washington, and rarely more than two
for a few daj s consecutively. And re
cently, there has been no authorized offi
cer at all to sign the papers of the Inte
rior Department.
Asa necessary consequence of this
glaring abuse, the business of the coun
try requiring prompt attention and the
personal care of those charged with the
chief responsibilities, has suffered far
more than can be safely stated from the
want of precise data. It has come to be
assumed that the machinery of govern
ment, except for routine details, is stop
ped during the summer, because of this
absenteeism, which, beginning with the
President and Cabinet, extends to all the
heads of bureaus, and includes the chiefs
of divisions in every department.
Practically, therefore, the government
has been in the hands of subordinates
from June to October. Grant originated
this scandalous system, and he has lived
up to it since 1870, expanding it every
ytar. The temptations offered by the
wi nt of supervision, and the loose modes
of accountability thus accepted, have
dene much to encourage the venality,
frauds, and peculations which have grown
to be so enormous, and are daily dis
closed in one form or another.
If ever there was a period when the
Chief Magistrate and his advisers should,
by honorable conduct and disregard of
selfish considerations, have given an ex
ample worthy to be imitated and
respected, it is now, when all industrial
pursuits are prostrated, commerce is
languishing, enterprise is stricken down,
and a million and more of mechanics and
laborers, willing and anxious to work,
are without employment, and in actual
want. Instead of exhibiting the least
concern for this widespread misery, the
President and the Cabinet have * been
feasting and roystering at the public ex
pense, as if there was a flush prosperity,
and amusement was the first obligation
of public servants.
They may fiddle in the midst of all
this ruin and starvation, without
sympathy for the suffering poor or a |
generous emotion for the misfortunes j
that have overtaken thousands. A day j
of reckoning is not far distant.
Kapid Cure fob Catabbe. —We find
in the last Annual Record of Science and
Industry a remedy for catarrhal cold
which, from its constituents, should
prove more or less efficacious. It is given
on the authority of Hamilton, who says
it will remove the severest affection of
the kind in about ten hours. • The recipe
is as follows: 10 drops cf carbolic acid,
7.r> dropsof iodine.and the same of chloro
form. A few drops of this mixture are
to be heated over a spirit lamp, in a test
tube, the mouth of which is to be applied
to the nostrils as soon as that liquid va
porizes. The operation is to be repeated
after an interval of two minutes when the
patient will deliver a number of vigorous
sneezes, and then his troublesome symp
toms will quickly disappear.
The dangers of superheated steam is
the subject of a warning article in the
American Engineer. It seems that it is
liable to become superheated, without
aDy indication from the pressure gauge,
whenever water gets low enough in
boilers to expose the steam to heating
surfaces. Superheated steam will in turn
communicate its heat to the metal, and
ignition may be produced wherever felt,
wood, or other inflammable substance
comes in contact with any portion of the
boiler.
TALISiUN.
In Preset-valla! Thronali Ike Stormv
Day* Mneoeeding the Full sf the Second
Empire.
: From ihe New York World !
It is understood that a; the recent
Bonapartist council held at Arenenberg,
in Switzerland, it was decided that Em
press Eugenie should abdicate the re
gency which she has held ever since her
imperial husband left Paris, in the bright
' summer weather of IS7O, for the last
! time, aud that the yonng Prince, Louis
Napoleon, who underwent in that fatal
summer his “baptism of fire,” should
take upon himself the responsible leader
ship of the imperial cause in France.
Whatever tbe reasons for this decision
may be, it is quite certain, we sup
| pose, that the Empress Eugenie,
i so long as she lives, will continue to ex
ercise a great influence upou the fortunes
! of the sou and of the party which is so
| openly anu so audaciously laboiing for
I his restoration to the throue of France.
| Our readers, therefere. will read with
' interest, we are sure, an account which
; has been forwarded to us from England
of a visit recently paid by au Euglish
' woman of position and of intelligence to
j the dethroned and widowed lady who for
! so many years commanded the admira
| tion and the homage, not of her own sex
and of her own countrymen only, but of
'■ both sexes and of all civilized peoples.
The Empress has for some time past
been living at Arenenberg, where the
Third Napoleon passed so many years of
his life with his mother, the lovely aud
unfortunate Queen Hoi tense. Areneu
berg is a charming chateau standing a
| little off the direct road from Schaffhau
| sen to Constance. It was sold in 1843,
: after the death of Louis B maparte, ex
! King of Holland, to a citizen of Neuen
; berg, for 840,000 florins, aud in
1855 this citizen’s heirs sent to
Paris and sold there its tine col
lections of pictures and works of
art, including some paintings by
David, and many souvenirs of the First
Napoleon. This led the Emperor Napo
leon 111 to repurchase the estate, and it
now belongs to his sod. The ex-Empres.
(who alsvays, by the way, alludes to the
disasters of 1870 as “the events”) has
passed her autumns at Arenenberg ever
since the end of the Franco-German war.
The chateau stands on a hill nearly 1,500
feet in height, and commands a lovely
view over the upper valley of the Rhine.
The house is furnished new with perfect
simplicity, the only splendor anywhere
kept up being about the chapel of
the chateau, the altar furniture of
which is decorated with aucieut and very
costly trees. In this chapel is kept the
“Golden Rose’’ sent by his Holiness
Pius IX. some years ago to the Empress,
then reigning at the Tuileries. This
“ Mystic Rose,” by the way, is rather a
rose tree than a rose, and is a wonderful
piece of goldsmith’s work. It represents
a bunch of roses with buds aud leaves,
the whole about twelve inches in height,
being set in an antique vase of exquisite
pattern, adorned with bam-relievi of
scenes in the life of Pius IX. The roses,
the leaves, the vase, are all of tbe purest
gold, chiseled with a delicacy and free
dom and force worthy the best ages and
schools of art. The vase is set upon a
base of lapis-luzuli enriched with alter
nate medallions in gold of the papal and
the imperial rms, and in its turn support
ed on four tall steps of lapis lazuli. Of
course the ex Empress sets the highest
value on this precious memorial of her
sovereign days, and of the favor with
which the head of her church then, as
now, regarded her, alike as a woman and
as a sovereign. Equally treasured with the
“ Golden Rose,” however, is the “ Talis
man of Charlemagne,” a curious souvenir
of the two greatest Princes who ever
swayed the destinies of modern Europe.
The Romatas were passionately fond of
“ talismans,” which havebeen sometimes
called chimera, from the multiform fabu
lous monster of that name—goat, lion
aud dragon in one—and sometimes sym
plegmata, as being made up of discordant
elements embraced in one form, and
which havo been known in more re
cent times as grylli, from the Ital
ian grillo, which signifies at once a
“cricket’ and a caprice. Iu the later
days of Rome and tbe earlier days of
modern history the use of such symbolic
devices, carved in stone of various kiuds
and worn chiefly in rings, became very
general. They were thought to operate
as charms aud to secure to the wearer the
mystic protection of tho deity or deities
either symbolized or set forth plainly up
on them. The stone known as the Talis
man of Charlemagne is a species of co
numdrum, and is believed to have been
held very precious by that great sovereign.
It was long preserved with the rest of the
relics belonging to him at Aix-la-Cha
pelle, and the chapter of tbe cathedral
there presented it, not without cogent
reasons, to the modem Charlemagne,
the First Napoleon, who constantly car
ried it about with him. The King of
Rome, afterward Duke of Reichstadt,
treasured it not less, and from him it
passed t; his cousin, Louis Napoleon,
who had it about his person when he
made his escape from the prison of Him.
He left it behind him, however, when he
quitted Paris in 1870. Who knows what
might have happened had he taken it
with him to the field ? On the 31 of
September, when the Empress made up
her mind to fly from France, it was en
closed in a reliquary of rock crystal, shut
in by a secret spring, which the Empress
did not understand and had no time to
search for. So with a woman’s decision
she caught up a pair of tongs from
the chimL.iy-piecc and dashed the
costly case into fragments. Shortly
afterward she confided it, with a large
sum of money, to a faithful official,
with orders to find the Emperor at Wil
helmshohe, Jand give them to him.
The official lost his head, and, instead of
setting out at ouce, went to his apart
ments in Paris. There he put the money
and the talisman into an armorie, the key
of which he had lost, and the double
doors of which he fastened together by
pinning over them a map of the fortifi
cations of Paris with four pins. Then
came on “the events,” one after another,
with tremendous rapidity. The official,
caught one day out of doors, was obliged
to fly for his life, without go
ing back to get either the money
or the talisman. Of course the Empress
in her exile, when she heard of all
this, imagined that the money and the
talisman both must be given up for lost,
and with the talisman the fortunes of the
Napoleons, the more particularly as it
was made known to her by the public
journals that the apartments of the
official to whom she had confided them
had been repeatedly ransacked both be
- during, and after the commune.
Fancy her astonishment, then, and de
light when this official at last returning
to Paris aud to his long-abandoned apart
ments found the map of the fortifications
dusty indeed, but undisturbed and the
contents of the armorie precisely as he
had left them J It can hardly be thought
strange that this should be regarded not
only by the ex-Empress herself, but by
her son and by not a few of their parti
sans, as an omen of unquestionable prom
ise for their now fallen cause.
Indigent Southern Clergymen. —Rev.
J. M. M. Caldwell, of Rome, Georgia,
appeals through the New York Observer
for aid to distressed clergymen in the
South. He says:
A large number of ministers connected
with the Presbyterian Church iu the
South are in indigent circumstances.
This is necessitated by a state of facts
which neither they nor their people can
change. The change must be effected
by the genial influence of time, patient
industry, and the blessing of God. It is
evidently the dictate of Christian beneyo
lence and wisdom to ccme to their aid
and relief. This cannot be fully accom
plished by the stronger churches in the
South. Valuable assistance has been ren
dered, to a limited extent each year,
since 1808, by generous men and women
in the Northern States. The plan of
action adopted is to provide, without
any paid agency, for the present support
and free instruction of their daughters,
who mv, in one or two or three years,
be prepared to teach, and thus be self
supporting and useful women. For this
purpose voluntary contributions have
been solicited. Each donor of fifty dol
lars or more can select the brother he
will thus aid, and will be put in corres
pondence with him. Two hundred dol
lars is the annual expense of each case
fully aided.
The power of love receives fresh illus
tration in the case of Miss Kingsmore, a
respectable young lady of Madison, Wis.,
who, to keep her lover from prison,
committed perjury. When her offense
was made clear she wept bitterly, sayiDg:
“I loved him and wanted to save him.”
SPIRIT* UTILIZED.
Two Thieves Captured Through Infor
mation (liven b.v n iHposk.
[From the Detroit Xews.j
At about ten o'clock on the night of
i September 23, E. 11. Sandford. a New
York commercial traveler, was knocked
i down on Michigan avenue, near First
street, and robbed of r $270 gold watch
and chain. The robbers escaped without
leaving any clue behind them. The next
day. the police being informed of the
case. Detectives Smith and Bishop were
i detailed to look it up. An unusual effort
! was made by them to discover some clue
I but all in vain. Thursday, a week after
{ the robbery, no discovery having been
| made, and the detectives, becoming
! weary of their work, lounged into the
Circuit Court room, where Mrs. Cart
\ wright, the medium, was being examined.
| Here Somerville, who is a very spirituelle
I sort of a fellow, was deeply impressed
; with the witch's powers. A happy
j thought struck him. He whispered a
\ word to Bishop, who smiled, noddad aud
j saiii “good."
That night the two seekers wended
their way to the witch's den. “What do
you want ?” said she. “A sitting,” mut
tered Somerville. They walked in and
sat down. “Two dollars if you please,”
said the witch. “Oh, that’s all right/’
said Bishop. “I always get paid in ad
vance,” said she. “Guess we’ll have to
come down. - ’ said Somerville, as he forked
over. The money having been disposed
of, the detectives were informed by the
medium to wait until she was entranced,
and then to call for whatever spirit they
wanted, and ask the right questions.
Soon the appearance of her face showed
that the medium was ready. “Jack
Sheppard, appear, " said Bishop, with a
sonorous voice. “I am here. What do
you want ?” came from the lips of the
woman. “God! that’s him 1” said Bishop,
as his voice sank and his usually florid
countenance paled. “ Come! what do
you want?” came from the impatient
spirit. “You talk, Somerville, I dare not.”
“We want to know,” said Somerville,
“who has got that watch and chain tlfat
was stolen from Sandford a week ago,”
and forgetting for the moment the spirit
ual nature of the interlocutor, he added,
“You won’t lose nothing by telling us,
neither.” “Ah, that’s what you want to
know ? You want me to squeal on a
brother, do you ? l r ou are mistaken in
your spirit. Git out!” was the reply.
“Beg pardon. Jack; didn’t mean to of
fend ; thought you had been dead so
long you didn’t care about such things,”
muttered Somerville. A sneering laugh
was his only reply.
“Let him go,” said Bishop. “Try a
detective. Call that old Frenchman—
Yidocq, I believe they call him.” Vidocq
was called, and being requested to speak
English, did so. But exactly what he
told the detectives they are sworn not to
tell. It is sufficient to know, however,
that the next day they succeeded in
making the arrest of Arthur und George
Pierce, two brothers, and finding on
George’s person the identical gold watch
of which Sanford had been robbed eight
days before. This morning the Pierce
brothers were arraignid before Justice
Harbaugh. They pleaded not guilty,
but when they find out the ghostly nature
of the witness against them, there is but
little doubt that they will withdraw their
plea and own up.
Tlie (iuibord Case.
There could be little sympathy on
either side, we presume, among the com
mon sense citizens of the United States
with the surprising contest, of which we
have had aeconuts from Canada, growing
out of the proposed burial of the remains
of one Guibord in a Catholic cemetery
at Montreal, which was attempted to be
prohibited, though the deceased had
owned a lot in the cemetery during, his
lifetime—the ground of prohibition be
ing that of subsequent excommunication
from the church on uccount of disregard
of its requirements, etc. Of course
the laws are very different in Canada
from those of the United States, and,
under certain compacts, the Catnolic
Church has a degree of governmental
recognition and rights secured to it
provided for in the succession of the
English to the French ascendancy. After
passing through the ordeal in Can
ada, the legal points iu the Guibord
case were appealed to the British Privy
Council in England. Anew phase is
now put upon the case by the statements
of the English newspapers of the grounds
of the decision in privy council, from
which it appears that the council held
that the manner of excommunication was
illegal, not the excommunication itself.
Sir It. Phillimore, in delivering the judg
ment of the judicial committee of the
privy council, said that “to justify the
refusal of ecclesiastical burial to Guibord
it was necessary to show that he had
been excommunicated by name.” The
ecclesiastical law of the Gallican Church,
which governs the Catholic Church of
Canada, required a “personal sentence of
excommunication” to make it effective
and legal. This the Bishop of Montreal
bad neglected to pronounce, having ex
communicated the Institute Canadien as
a body. The unavoidable inference
is that the privy council regard Guibord’s
tenure of his burial lot in the parish of
Notre Dame as conditioned entirely upon
his subjection to the faith and ecclesiasti
cal authority of the parish. The only
question was whether the Bishop
nad exercised his prerogative in accord
ance with the law and usage of his own
church. The privy council say not. The
Guibord party, therefore, win the case
only by what the lawyers would call a
flaw in the excommunication. As far as
the principle laid down by the decision
goes it is all on the side of the ecclesias
tical supremacy over the parish cemete
ry. The American courts, it is stated,
have held the same doctrine. It is a
very curious spectacle, however, the
fierce contention which has been had
over the remains of poor humanity as to
where they shall be buried—as if it mat
ter where,' really, in the long run—as
they will as readily rise for final
ludgmt nt in one place as another, and in
the meantime, long ere that day, be ut
terly fof gotten of men.— Balt. Sun.
A Heabtless Swindle. —A few weeks
ago an advertisement in a Boston paper
for a clerk who wanted a good situation
and could deposit $. r )00 as surety for his
honesty, integrity, etc., or words to that
effect, caught the eye of a young man in
this city, and there being something very
attractive either about depositing the
money or the promised situation, ho went
to Boston with the requisite amount of
money in his pocket. lie visited the
office of “Henry Howard & C 0.,” the ad
vertisers, and made known his business.
After some conversation and a recital of
what his duties were to be (which, by the
way, were to be extremely light), he an
nounced his intention of accepting the
situation ar.d making the deposit. Just
here there was a slight hitch, the gen
tlemanly proprietor informing him that
there was a possibility that his part
ner, who he said was in this city, might
have secured a young man, and he would,
before taking the money, telegraph to him,
to make sure about it. Such candor
and fairness of course had its effect upon
the young man, and he was all the more
anxious for a position with so upright a
man. A dispatch was sent to the
partner, directed to the City Hotel here,
and in due time an answer, or what
purported to be an answer, was received,
saying the place was not filled. The
bargain was then closed and the young
man deposited the money. The pro
prietor took it and in a oareless manner
apparently put it into the money drawer,
and locking the drawer he gave the key
to his new clerk, telling him he was going
out for a short time on business and he
might begin his work at once. The clerk
waited for his return for a long time, but
at first thought nothing of if; for wasn’t
the money safe in the drawer, and wasn’t
the drawer locked, and didn’t he have the
key ? Finally, however, his suspicion
or Us curiosity got the best of him, and
he examined the drawer. Imagine his
surprise and consternation at finding
therein but a package of worthless paper,
and the trick flashed upon his mind. An
effort was made to find his partner in this
city, but the dispatch spoken of above
hasn't reached him yet, and probably
never will. —Providers Journal.
Kefgeminq on Spelling. —Governor
Ingersoll, of Connecticut, has appointed
a committee to consider the advisability
cf using the “amended orthography” in
publishing the official documents printed
by the State. It consists of Senator W.
W. Fowler, who introduced the resolu
tion ; Prof. W. D. Whitney, of Yale
College; Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull,
Prof. C. Van Benschoten, of Wesleyan
University, Prof. B. G. Northrop, of
the State Board of Education; and Prof.
Samuel Hart, of Tiinity College. The
plan is only to put State documents into
easier and cheaper orthography, with
less letter and stiaighter spelling.
THE RIFLE CONTEST AT MACON.
Score of the Savant-uh Teams.
Nearly all the gentlemen composing the
Savannah rifle teams wnich participated in
the contest at Macon on Tuesday and Wed
nesday, returned to the city Thursday,
j Messrs. James McAlpin, Dou McAlpiu, Geo.
| Allen, Al. Beese and W. King remained to
take part in the contest for the individual
prize which took place yesterday, aud are
expected home by the early train this
morning.
The statement in otir special telegram to
! the effect that the score of the Richmond
Rifle Club was reduced on account of their
having to use borrowed guns, with the use
of which they were not familiar, was, we
learn from the esteemed gentlemen, mcor
rect. It was the Quitman Club, of Forsyth,
that used other guns than those thev
brought with them, the latter being ruled
; out. It seems that previous to the contest
it was discovered that the sights ou several
: of the guns of the Richmond Club had been
i changed, and these guns, under the rule
i were rejected. The others that had not beeu
ta ipend with, however, were permitted to
he used.
THE SCOBE OF THE SAVANNAH TEAM.
As so much interest has beeu felt in the
matter we give herewith the official indi
vidual score of the Savannah teams :
SAVANNAH BIFLE ASSOCIATION.
j "
j "200 \ards. 300 Yards. 2:
McAlpin, J. W 3;U 3 J 5 20 33 31! *0
Anderson, R. H 2 43 3 2IS l 2 3.0 7 20
n-rrill, B. B 33 222 tv 202 2 0 6 IS
Vincent, W. C 322 33 13 033 2■> to 23
Reese 3 31213 3 14 2 2 3 2 4 13 27
Schley, Jas 4 4.2,3 2 IS 3 2 2 3 2 12 27
Allen, Geo 4 3 213 214 222 33 12 26
i McAI Um 1). M 3j2i3|4 310 2 s|a ajijisj |>7
Total 7,11 l S3 194
GEORGIA GAME ASSOCIATION.
_ 200 Yards, j 300 Yards.
White, J. P 33 33 3 151 0/2 2T7UH25
Kiug. W. A 33 2* 3 lxj 422S 3 14 127
Hamlet, J. R 22 33 313 220 2 2 8 21
Alden, Geo. E 2 2 2 3 8 2 3 2 0 3 0 8‘ '2O
Butler, J. G . 2 22 3 11 . 2 o e 2 4! 16
Nichols, W. N 23 2 S3 22 33 313 ->ti
•Swain, E. C i33 33 Ift 33 24214 j 29
Hussey, Geo. W 2 2 0 2 3 0 2 2 t 0 > 7 j 16
_ T tal 101 76 179
*This score is credited to Mr. Swain, who
was drawn for the position, but he being
unable to go to Macon, his place was filled
by Mr. Robert Wayne, who it seems made
the best single shot of the Savannah teams,
and next to the best shot of all the teams,
Rooks, of the Richmond Rifle Club, having
made the highest—3o.
COMPLETE SCORE.
The following is the official score of all
the teams participating in the contest:
_ , 300 200 Total.
Columbus Guards' team 56 9S 151
Baldwin Blues’ team 00 93 158
Sav’h Rifle Association team. .88 111 i9t
Georgia Game Association 78 101 179
Macon Volunteers 64 64 138
Macon Rifle Associa.iou 86 92 17S
Floyd Rifles 83 101 IS9
Macon Volume, rs, Cos. B 4S 73 121
Macon Guaids 47 84 131
Washington Rifles 52 94 146
Richmond Rifle Club 64 89 153
Quitman Guards 36 82 118
LOSS OF THE BRIG SAM’L WELSH.
Captain and Crew Rescued and Brought
to Savannah.
The schooner James Slater, Capt. Haw
kins, which arrived at this port Thursday
brought Capt. John Turner and the crew of
the brig Samuel Welsh, which cleared from
Savannah on the lJth inst., and which was
waterlogged and abandoned CO degrees S.
S. E. of Cape Hatteras on the 18tli inst.
From Capt. Turner’s report to the owners
of the vessel, which was kindly submitted
to us, we glean tho following information :
The brig sailed from Tybee Roads on
Thursday, the 14th inst., after having
been detained there wind bound for four
days. Nothing important occurred until the
afternoon of the 15th, when tho wind
backed to the W. S. W. and increased
steadily to a ga'e, rendering it necessary to
shorten sail. About 2 a. ui. on the 16th a
leak was discovered and tho services of tho
mate and three men (the other man being
laid up with fever) were required to keep
the water from gaining, the Captain
himself being at the wheel. About noon
it was found that the pumps would
not suck, and it was concluded to be ad
visable to throw overboard the deck led.
which was done, and all sail except topmast
staysail wore taken in; the pumps were
sounded with the result of finding eighteen
inches of water in the vessel. At 3p. m. the
water in the hold had increased to three
fett. At 5 p. m. the lashings of deck load
were cut loose, and the lumber was thrown
overboard, when, finding five feet of water
in the hold, a boat was got ready with pro
visions and water. The captain then order
ed close-reefed mainsail and mainstaysail,
with tlieview to beach the vessel, if possible,
and c utinued throwing over the deck load
until C p. m., when the crew were compelled
to desist, the sea making a complete breach
over the brig; the boat was then launched and
placing the sick man and one passenger in
it, they veered her astern to keep clear of
the lumber and wreck, which were drifting
from the brig, intending to stay by the
vessel as long as feasible. About
6:30 she became completely water
logged. The Captain perceived that it was
necessary to abandon her, and began to
give some thought to the safety of himself
and crew, whose position was decidedly un
pleasant and exceedingly perilous. A sharp
lookout was kept for a friendly vessel, and
on the night of tho 17th a schooner was seen
approaching them. She came so near that
they saw a man holding a light over her
quarter. Efforts were made to attract her
attention, but without success, and she
bore off in a different direction, ignorant of
the hapless condition of the Welsh and her
crew.
On the morning of the 18th a sail was
descried in the dis'ance from the masthead.
Knowing that the brig was rapidly drifting
out of the track of vessels, tho boat was
manned and after a hard pull for three
hours, the vessel, which proved to be the
schooner James Slater, bound to Savannah,
was reached.
Capt. Turner, in behalf .of himself and
crew, desires to return Capt. Hawkins and
the crew ol the Slater heartfelt thanks for
their kindness and attention in their desti
tute condition.
The Welsh was a brig of 229 tons ; she
was loaded with a cargo of 161,952 feet of
lumber, and was bound to Philadelphia.
A Florida Hound Steamer Disabled.
On Tuesday morniDg about six o’clock
whilst the United States steamer Alanthus,
Capt. Brown, was returning to Charleston
from a tour of inspecting and relieving the
buoys in the eastern portion of that dis
trict, she sighted a steamer close to the
north bieakers off Georgetown light bouse
with her flag union down. The Alantuus
was immediately headed for the vessel,
which proved to be tho Urbana, from New
York, bound for Fernaudina. Her
steam pipe was broken, rendering her en
gines perfectly useless, and she was in a
very dangerous position, and would have in
evitably gone ashore but for the opportune
arrival of the Alanthus. The wind was
blowing fresh at tho time from the north
east, and a high sea was running, which
would have broken her up in a very short
time had she got on tho breakers, and pro
bably many lives would havo been lost, as
she had only a small skiff on board, being
totally unprovided with anything like life
boats. Among her passengers were several
hdies •nd children. Tim Alanthus suc
ceeded in getting her a hawser, and towed
her into Georgetown harbor, at which place
she left her anchor at 8:30 o’clock Wednesday
morning.
A Baby Bubi t ;d Alive. —On last Fri
day Thomas A. Lemmon, who resides in
this county, about six miles from this
place, went out to his barn to attend to
some business, when he heard a cry of
something in distress. Heat first thought
it was a eat, but could not tell, and began
searching for whatever it might be that
was making the noise. After looking for
some moments he went to a pile of logs
that were piled up under the eave of the
barn, and upon finding that the noise
came from them, he found a heap of
fresh dirt, and the cry (evidently from a
child now) seeming to come from under
the ground, and upon digging the dirt
away he was horrified to find an infant
about three or four days old, which had
been buried alive. It was still alive, hav
ing been laid on its back, and a handker
chief placed over its face, and two wide
boards over it, so as to not touch the
baby, and the dirt on the boards making
a nice little grave. The child is alive
and well, and, although it is not certain,
still they think it is known who put the
child there, and the work of investiga
tion will continue until a certainty is
reached.— Cynthiana (Mo.) Democrat.
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She Gatheeeth. —About these times
the sentimental maiden wanders forth to
gather her golden leaves. As she picks
them up one by one she soliloquizes:
“Oh! falling leaves, he that passeth by
may read a lesson in your falling. You
are typical of human life. Your mission
accomplished, the cold hand of
wo-o-o that big dead caterpillar—
wowch!”—Detroit Free Frees.
The New York journals are kept ex
ceedingly busy in explaining why gold
does not go down. The Poet and Jay
Gould’s Tribune are specially occupied in
this task, and Jay Gould, who sent gold
up thirty per cent, in an hour one day in
September, 1869, ought to know all about
the price of gold.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Summary of the Week’s Dispatches
THE MACON IX POSITION.
[Special Telegrams to the Morning News.)
M acon, October 19, 1875.
The day dawned bright and lovely, aud
tho attendance at the Fairgrounds was very
good.
THE RIFLE TEAMS
Met at 9 o’clock iu the morning, Gen. R. H.
Anderson was elected chairman of tho Com
mittee of Arrangements, and the details for
the contest were decided upon and carried
out. The contest commenced at noon.
Twelve teams entered, but only six shot,
owing to tho late hour at which the contest
commenced. The remaining six teams will
shoot to-morrow.
THE SCORE.
Tho following is the score made tho dis
tance shot boiDg three hundred and two
hundred yards respectively.
Georgia Game Association, Capt. White,
Savannah—7B —lol.
Columbus Guar Js,Capt. Shepherd—so—9B.
Baldwin Blues, Capt. Walker, Millodge
ville—6o—9B.
Savannah Rifle Association, Capt. Mc-
Alpin—B3—lll.
Macon Rifle Association, Capt. O’Gor
man—B6 92.
Macon Volunteer. Capt. Wylie—s4—B4.
THE CONTESTANTS TO MORROW.
The Floyd Rifles, Capt. Sparks, of Macon ;
Quitman Guards, Captain Chambers, of
Forsyth ; Cos. B, Macon Voluuteers, Capt.
Jones ; Washington Rifles, Capt. Northing
ton, Sandersville; Macon Guards, Capt.
Freeman ; and Richmond Rifles, Capt. Bob
ler, of Augusta, will shoot to-morrow.
THE PROSPECT
The Augusta boys propose to try hard for
the prize, and have many friends, but. it is
tho general opinion that the Savannah Rifle
Association will hold the lead.
A STATE ASSOCIATION
of rifle teams will be organized to-morrow
by the various teams present, and will bo
established upon a permanent basis.
GENERAL GORDON'S ADDRESS.
At 12 o’clock the Northern visitors were
escorted to tho stand on the Fair Grounds,
where General Gordon delivered a brief aud
appropriate address of welcomo.
Senator Bayard responded very finoly,
and was followed by General Hawley, Judge
Kelley aud Mayor Fox, who were quite
GUSHING
in their remarks, which were lively and olo
queut, and were received with great ap
plause. Gen. Hawley created considerable
amusement by a pleasant description of a
fight his brigado had with Gen. Colquitt’s
brigade in Florida, during the war.
WHAT THEY THINK OF IT.
The praise bestowed on Central City Park
and its Fair buildings by these geutlomou
was quite flattering to Mayor W. A. Huff,
tho originator and promoter of the enter
prise. Nothing of the kind, said tho
speakers, is to bo found in any other part
of the country.
THE DISPLAY.
Quite a number of prominent citizens of
Georgia were on the grounds to day, but
all the departments are still in a confused
and unsettled state. The Machinery Depart
ment is the best and is quite lively and at
tractive, being well filled with cotton gins,
steam engines and machinery of various de
scriptions. The other departments lack
completeness and attractiveness.
THE PROGRAMME TO-MORROW.
Gen. Hawley speaks to-morrow on tho Cen
tennial project, and will attract a large
crowd. He will be followed by Judge Kel
ley, who will discuss tho great question of
the day— currency—and tell what ho kuows
about “rag babies,” inflation aud the “hard
chink.”
LOOKING OUT FOR THOMASVILLE.
rrosident Davis, Secretary Hansell
of tho South Georgia Agricultural Fail-
Association, aud Captain John Triplett
are hero from Thomasville, and
are working energetically to secure
additional attractions for their exhibition,
which takes place tho coming week, and
promises to be
THE BEST PAIR
ever held in that section. A great feature
of the approaching Fair will be some splen
did racing and sport. Liboral purses are
offered for trotting and running stock, and
all turfmon are invited to bo present.
THE PYROTECHNIC DISPLAY,
which will take place on Thursday
night, will boa magnificent affair. It is for
tho benefit of the Memorial Association,
and the committee have requested Mr. B.
R. Bren, of Savannah to take tickets on
sale. The display will be beautiful and
novel, and will bo well worth seeing.
It is hoped that to-morrow there will be
an improvement in the genoral appearance
of the several departments of the State
Fair and an increase in the number of vis
itors. Sidney Herbert.
Macon, October 19,1875.
At the Georgia State Fair to-day Gen.
Gordon, on behalf of tho Agricultural So
ciety of the City of Macon and State of
Georgia, extended
A welcome
to the distinguished visitors in an eloquent
and appropriate address, to which Senator
Bayard, General Hawley, Hon. W. D. Kelley
and Mayor Fox, of Philadelphia, responded.
There was a large crowd in attendance.
“the best machinery show in the south”
is the general verdict of the hundreds who
have visited tho machinery department.
The display is not only extensive but varied.
live stock.
To-morrow there will be a grand display
of live stock. The entries are numerous
and unusually fine.
BTILL COMING.
Large crowds are arriving on every train
coming into the city to-night. Special
trains are running on every road, and many
thousands more will arrive in the morning.
addresses.
General Hawley speaks to-morrow on
centennial matters, and Judge Kelley on
finance. Senator Bayard will speak on
Thursday.
A grand pyrotechnic display will take
placo on Thursday night. J.
Macon, October 20.
SAVANNAH TRIUMPHANT.
The rifle contest ended to-day. Tho fol
lowing is tho score of the remaining six
teams entered for the first contest, distance
200 and 309 yards:
Floyd Rifles, of Macon—Three hundred,
88; two hundred yards, 101. This t< am did
the best shooting of the day, and were com
plimented on all sides.
Washington Hides, of Sandersviile, 52
94.
Macon Guards, 47—84.
Richmond Rifle Club, ol Augusta, C 4-89.
Company B, Macon Volunteers, 48—73.
Quitman Guards, of Forsyth, 36—82.
The Richmond Rifles used borrowe4 guns,
which reduced their score, as the contest
ants were not familiar with the weapons.
best shot.
Rooks, of the Richmond Rifle Club, made
the best single shot of the contest, his score
being 13 and 17—total 30.
THE SECOND CONTEST.
The one hundred yard single contest is
now progressing. Seventy-three is the
highest attainable in five shots each. A
member of the Washington Rifles is tied on
the score by a momber of the Floyd Rifles.
The contest will be finished to-morrow.
THE FAIB.
Avery large crowd was in attendance at
the grounds to-day, the weather being per
fectly delightful. Only a few additional arti
cles were received, and the departments are
still rather unsettled.
THE STOCK BING.
was opened to-day. Some extra fine blooded
horses and cattle were exhibited, but the
number was small, and only a few were
from Georgia. The most of those ontered
were from Tennessep, Kentucky and South
Carolina.
LIVELY COMPETITION.
The machinery hall is well filled, and is
comparatively the centre of attraction.
The competition is lively among inventors,
of whom there are quite a number on the
grounds.
THE SPEAKING
at noon was well attended. General Haw
ley presented the claims of tho Centennial
in an eloquent address, and was'followed by
J udge Kelley, who ably and fully discussed
the money question. Both gentlemen wer
loudly and frequently applauded and m.
a favorable impression on their JjKy£|ft
GREAT SPEECH i
is expected from Senator Bayard,
announced to address the crowd to-morrow
and who will undoubtedly attract an im
mense throng. He has made himself
generally popular, and there ig & great de
sire to hear liis views on tho issues of the
day.
MEXICAN WAR VETERANS.
General W. S. Walker presided over the
meeting of the Mexican war veterans which
met this afternoon. The at'eodance was
good, aud a spirit ot harmony and fraternal
feeling was manifested in this reunion of
those who so gallantly defoudod onreountrv
and extended her flag to the Pacific. This
association is tho connecting link between
the past and the present, and it is to bo
hoped that Congress will speedily recognize
the merits of the few survivors of theso
noble heroes and grant them a pension.
CONFEDERATE SURVIVORS.
Gen. Phil Cook is presiding at the meeting
of tho Survivors’ Association of Confederate
Soldiers, now being held at tho court house
which is densely packed. Gen. Gordon is
delivering a splendid address before the as
soci&t ion.
HOMEWARD HOUND.
Gen. Anderson, Col. Forrill, Vincent
\\ inter aud Pritchard loft for home to-night.
All tho trains leave crowded to excoss and
incoming trains are also full.
THE BIG DAY.
To-morr iw will bo the big day of the Fair
aud a grand time is anticipated. Tho pyro
technic display in the evening will be some
thing magnificent, and is looked forward to
with interest. Sidney Herbert.
. Macon, Ga., October 21, 1875.
The day was glorious—better weather
could not have been desired for the Fair.
There were six or eight thousand people
oil tho grounds, aud tho scene wag
brilliant aud lively beyond description.
SFLENDID ADDRESSES.
Senator Bayard‘addressed tho vast assem
blage at noon, speakiug over two hours. His
address was grand ; the noblo statesman -
liko vieas given expression to were received
with enthusiastic applause. A spirit of pa
triotism and constitutional loyalty marked
the entire address, which was well received
by everybody.
Gey, Alplieus Baker, of Alabamt, was
called upon and followed in a most brilliant
address, remarkable for its eloquence and
noble sentiments.
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
During the trial of tho cotton gius tbis
morning. Mr. E. G. Willingham, of
this city, while exhibiting a Gullett
gin, met with a most horrible acci
dent. His left band and arm were caught
in the gin, aud was terriblv mangled
rendering amputation necessary, the mem
ber being literally torn to pieces. In his
efforts to releaso liis arm Mr. Willingham
placed his kueo against the gin aud thus in
jured his log in a fearful manner. The bolt
was cut aud tho uufortnnato man was with
difficulty released from a horrible death.
This sad accident cast a gloom over all
present, and brought the trial to a speedy
termination. The greatest sympathy is ex
pressed for Mr. W., who is well known aud
highly esteemed in this community.
BLOODED STOCK.
The horse display for premiums was
small but very flue. John Marr, of Macon,
was awarded tho premium for entering the
best double toam; E. A. Heggie, of Au
gusta, tho best buggy horse ; John
Marr, of Macon, best saddle horse, and J
E. Lewis, of Oconee, S. 0., the best walking
horse.
General George I’. Harrison, of Savannah,
is Superintendent of tho Department,
George W. Massey timer and Judge, amt
J. E. Godfrey, formerly of Savannah, Chair
mau of the Committee.
TIIK RIFLE CONTKBT.
Tho rifle shooting match, for one hundred
yards, for one hundred dollars, took place
'O-dav. There were thirty-eight gentlemen
to enter. J. D. Rooks, of the Richmond
Rifle Club, Augusta, wou the prize Dv s *
score of 78.
SAVANNAn AGAIN.
There were twenty-live entries fir tli,
match for two hundred yards, the sane
prize one hundred dollars boing ffered.
Tho victor was Mr. A. L. Reese, of Savan
nah, who scored fifty-eight. Thero v./ah no
a great deal of iutorest manifested in this
last contest.
AT WOIIK.
The judges aro hard at work awarding
premiums, but will not finish until to-mor
row.
SAVANNAH EXHIBITORS.
Savannah lias done well and to-day has
had three attractive departments. Mrs.
Kolb makes a most excellent displav of
fancy work, which has excited universal ad
miration. Dr. R. F. Ulmer displays a splen
did assortment of perfumeries, toilet arti
cles and his superior liver corrector. Lud
den A Ratos show the finest collection of
musical instruments evor seen at a Georgia
Fair.
PLOWING MATCH.
Thero were but four entries in tho plow
ing match aud but littlo interest was mani
fested.
THE MACHINEBY nALL
was lively to-day, inside and out. The display
is full and really excellent. In fact this de
partment is the only complete one in tho
exposition.
THE BABY SHOW.
will be the big thing of tho day to-mor
row, and, together with the drawing of the
Jackson Artillery Lottery, will be the most
attractive features.
PYBOTECHNICS.
The grand pyrotechnic display is in pro
gress at the park, and has attracted an im
mense attendance. The exhibition is bril
liant, and is lor a good cause. It is acknowl
edged the most magnificent display of fire
works ever seen iu this section.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Senator Bayard goes to Savannah to
night.
Gen. A. R. Lawton is here.
Crowds are leaving for homo to-night.
* Sidney Hekbebt.
INDIAN fpAFFAIBS.
Washington, October 19.—The Indian
•Commissioner report in conclusion says wo
respectfully present the following summary
of recommendations, the most of which
have already been discussed in their proper
connection : First. That Agent Savillebo
removed. Second. That J. W. L. Havens,
of Kansas City, Missouri, be excluded from
all participation in future contracts under
any department of the government. Third.
Thai E. R. Threlkold, of the same place, be
excluded from ail further employment as:
inspector. Fourth. That no bids for sup
plies be hereafter received from J. H. Mar
tin. Fifth, 'fijiat D. J. McCann be excluded
from all luture contracts with the govern
ment. Sixth. That papers relating to the
aecount presented by D. J. McCann
for transport ation of property, stores,
etc., of tho Red Cloud agency from the old
to the new location be referred to the De
partment of Justice for examination arul
action. Seventh. That tho distanco front
Cheyenne and from Sidney to Red Cloud
and Spotted Tail agencies be accurately as
certained by measurement without unneces
sary delay. Eighth. That anew and care
ful examination of the Sioux around
the Red Coud and Sp itted Tail agen
cies he made, and that the ageDts bo
required to make an enumeration of
the Northern Indians, as they may
come for their supplies,and to keep a record
of all issues matio to them. Ninth. That
the bids for Hour and other produce be re
ceived at some suitable point in the West,
instead of New York. Tenth. That bub
for wagon transportation from the rsuleoadt.
to the agencies be also received at some,
suitable points in the West. Eleventh. Tha.
the office of Superintendent of Indiai Ageo
cies be abolished and the duties connected
therewith be transferred to inspectors.
Twelfth. That the feasibility of dispensing
with the services of a freight conti actcr
b tween Eastern cities and the terminal
points of railroad tiansportition in W-
West, be considered. Thirteenth. Thai r
accordance with the provisions of the turn;;
of 1868, army officers be detailed to inspeci.
all issues of annuity goods, and tbn
all inspections of Indian supplies
beef be made under the direction
0‘ the Commissary General of the army.
Fourteenth. That a carefully devised sys
tem of accounts, uniform for all agencies*
bo established, with the mode of issuing
and accounting for ail articles definitely
prescribed. Fifteenth. That the agencies,
differing greatly, as they do, in the amount
of intelligence and capacity required
to conduct them, be so graded as to
establish for the important ones salaries
sufficient to secure tho services of thor
oughly trained and competent men. six
teenth. That the Red Cloud and Spotted
Tail agencies, which are now off the Sioux
reservation, be removed to some suita
ble point nearer the Missouri river.
Seventeenth. ’That a commission of
army officers be appointed to con
sider the practicability of organizing
an Indian soldiery for police and similar
duty. Eighteenth! The establishment of a
United States territorial government over
the Indian territory. Nineteenth. That
suitable persons possessed of the necessa
ry legal qualifications be appointed to
prosecute for all wrongs against the In
dians and to defend their rights and in
terests as far as they may become
the subjects of adjudication before
the courts. Twentieth. That all fu
ture legislation for the Indians and all
dealing with them be based upon the policy
of bringing them as rapidly as possible un
der the game law that governs all other in
habitants of tho United Statos. Twenty
first. The consideration of suoh additional
legislation as will develop and apply the
general svstem of dealing with the Indians
suggested under the previous head of gen-4
eral observances. ■
(Signed; Thos. C. Fletcher, 1
Benj. W. Habbis, 1
Chas. J. Faulkn* b, a '
l Geo. W. Othebton. 1