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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.” - 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. ►■ # > | 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