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Savannah Weekly HATPIDAT n<vkTihkk*0,1 7 ft. HVBMCftIPTIONK. Weekly News, One Year •* OO Weekly News, Nix Mentha I OO Weekly News, Three Mentha 60 New*, one yea/, $lO 00; nix months, *° 00; three month*, |l 50. Trl-Weekijr New*, one year, K 00; alx month*, W 00; three month*, (1 60. AU subscription* payable in advance. Paper* by mail are aloppetl at the expiration of the time Paid for without farther notice. Subscriber* will Picaae observe the dates on their wrappers. ASVBBTIRE VESTS. A SQCAKJt I* ton measured linea of Nonpareil Of The Weekly Nkw*. ®ach insertion, $1 00 per square. Liberal rate* made with contract adverttnera. cobrespon r>* sc*. Dorreapondence aolicited ; bnt to receive at ten • lon, letter* moat be accompanied by a re*pon*i '*le name, not for pablicatlou, bnt a* a guarantee of good faith. All letters should be addressed to J. H. EBTJLL, Savannah, Ga. "* ■ The New Orleans Jetties. There seem* to be some misgiving in the public mind as to the success of Cap tain Eads's system of jetties in giving ti.e required depth of water at the mouth of the Mississippi. The work seems not to progressing satisfactorily, and intima tions of probable failure are thrown out m the newspapers of New Orleans. A corre spondent in the Time* of Sunday last says: “There seems to be an ominous stillness reigning over the affairs and movements of this important work, which would Jisott lead one to'tali eve that somebody must be ill that is oonnected with it. About fifteen days ago men were busy with pile drivers driving piles at the head of the i asses, to wash away the island in the centre so as to allow a greater volume of water to rush through South Pass. But many s pile driver is there now and nothing hut the upright heads of thirty four piles setting out in the river attest what has been or Is being done. The first of January is not far distant, and there are many anxious ship owners waiting for tweuty feet or more of water in South Pass, to come in.” We still hope that the most sanguine expectations of the people of New Or leans may bo realized from the successful prosecution of the jetty system. But should it fail to give an adequate Gulf outlet to the immense commerce of tbeir great river, they may find it to their ad vantage to oncourage Col. Baiford’s coast line water route, which would virtually give to the Mississippi an Atlantic outlet. In any event we have always be lieved Col. ltaiford’s plan for cheapening L transportation and increasing the com- I tnerciol facilities of the Mississippi valley should be favored by the people of New Orleans. The day is not distant when all the existing mouths of the Mississippi will not suffice for the com merce which will seek through its channel outlet to the Gulf and the At lantia ocean. Proposed Visit of English Capitalists. The Chicago papers are publishing a circular from the agent of an organiza tion, the International Chamber of Com merce aud Mississippi Valley Society of London, England, which discloses a plan for gathering information regarding American securities that is quite inge nious. 14 is proposed to send out next year five deputations of prominent capi talists of Loudon to examine into the merits of fiuch securities as are now or may be hereafter offered in the London market. These deputations will take it upon themselves to investigate aud report upon the character and conditions of: 1. Ileal estate loans and investments. 2. Mining and mineral investments. 3. Public, railway and other corporate securities. 4. Laws regulating invest ments. 5. Agriculture and immigration. 6. Direct trade with Europe. It is pro posed that each deputation be composed of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred persons, und that they start, simultaneously, from New York or Phila delphia, visiting the various points in the West aud South. It is expected that about a month will be consumed by each deputation, aud, in order to facilitate in quiry, branch olHcos of the society will be established prior to the visit in dif ferent sections of the country. The committee appointed to arrauge for tho trip recommend that each deputation number one hundred, or thereabouts, which would make up a force of about five hundred visitors altogether. The Whiskey Ring in Trouble. It is said that if ever the inside history of the whisky ring should bo brought to light it will be tale of the most thril ling and startling interest, affecting not only promiueut people in the great cities of the West, but also persons moving in the very highest society of tho capital. For this very reason it has been strongly doubted whether the prosecutious would be pushed in good faith. The late de velopments are taken now as an evidence that tliere is to be no relaxation, and really the matter has now gone so far that there is no authority high enough to brave the oonsequeuces of interfering. After it is all over there are methods which may be availed of to wreak ven geance. An interesting incident is known here in connection with one of the promiueut parties in St. Louis of whose indictment the Treasury has been ofli cially informed. At the time the seizures were .made last spring this person was notoriously implicated m the frauds, and it was supposed that he would be one of the first to be apprehended. He was uu touched, however, and the secret of his immunity would appear to be in the fact that about that time he purchased for an immense price a property belonging to one of the volunteer agents of the govern ment in exposing the ring. - The steady and rapid growth of the wealth of New York has scarcely any parallel in the history of commerce We hold the commercial sceptre over 40,000,- 000 people. We are the principal factor of a oouutry which grows 4,000,000 bales of cotton, and the quantity is constantly increasing. It is to a certain extent a national monopoly. Without it the manu facturing wealth of Eugland would lan guish and gradually become almost ex tinct. —iVeic York World. And yet, says the Nashville American, Northern sentiment has tolerated for a dreary decade, a so-called reconstruction policy whioh has prostrated and retarded the commercial and agricultural develop ment of a country capable of producing four million bales of cotton —a national monopoly! Northern sentiment has dis countenanced every proposition to reclaim cotton lands of the Mississippi riparian States the construction of canals thro the ootton-belt—half or quarter the gov ernment aid to one trana-oontinental highway from the ootton-belt west, that has been lavishly bestowed upon two through the ice and grasshopper belt the East “holds the commercial eoeptre over 40,000,000 ” of agricultural producers. Why should we wonder at its desperate struggle to retain the money monopoly by which it wields its potent sceptre ? If English capital from this .should take the hinb—its manufacturing wealth would not languish while direct trade was an established fact Bigelow’s majority in New York city foota us 30,401. L ■ J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR, Senator Gordon on the Political Situa tion. On our first page we publish a reported interview with our distinguished Senator, General Gordon, in which he gives ex pression to his views of the political situation and the policy to be pursued by the Democracy in making up the issue with the Republican party in the coming Presidential contest. It will be seen that while General Gordon does not con sider that the currency question, in those States , ' ! eh it was made the leading lßAsut late elections, had the effect of iking the party vote —a view which U filly sustained by the re sult in New York, Pennsylvania and Mas sachusetts, where the question was not in contest between the parties— he is still of the opinion that the financial question should not be brought into the Presiden tial eanvaas urn.' year. He-maintains that it is the true policy of the National Democracy to ignore the ourrency ques tion as a party issue, and to go before the country in the Preeidential contest on the general issue of opposition to the corruptions and maladministration of the government by the Republican party. He would have the Democracy leave the settlement of the financial question to the legislation of Congress, irrespective of party, and confine itself in the coming canvass “to the work of exposing the ex travagance, the profiagacy, the gigantic frauds, the Southern policy of the Itepub can party, and its efforts to keep alive for its own purposes the sectional aliena tion" that has so long distracted the country. Upon these issues, and these alone, he thinks the Democracy would have carried both Ohio and Pennsylva nia in the late election, and he thinks it is upon these issues that the people ought to be asked to expel the Republi can party from power. While we concur with Senator Gordon in his opinion of the influence of the financial issue in the late State elections) we are disposed to doubt the expediency of ignoring an issue which has been forced upon the country ny the ruinous policy of the itadical administration in the interests of the money monopolists and which in a large portion of the Union must necessarily be a controlling issue in the approaching Presidential canvass. It is true that the financial question is not as well understood by the people as tho corruptions, usurpations and maladmin istration of the Radical party, but the fearful pressure of the times is forcing men of all classes and all sections to in vestigate the subject in which their vital interests are so immediately in volved, and when it comes to be understood in all its bearings it will exert a powerful, if not a con troling, influence on the popular mind. Iu accepting the new issue, which they cannot now escape, the Democracy do not abandon the old issues with Repub lican usurpation, fraud aud corruption, nor does it follow that the long catalogue of wrongs and outrages which make up the history of that party are to be over looked or forgotten. In struggling for the restoration of a healthy financial system there is no need to abandon the restoration of honest con stitutional government; and if the Democracy is strong irrespective of the financial issue, there is no reason to ap prehend that it will be weakened by it The following from that able and consis tent Democratic journal, the Columbus Enquirer , expresses our own views on this subject. Iu an article entitled “The Issues of 1875 —6,” the editor says: “An esteemed correspondent addresses us on the subject of the late Democratic reverses and the issues which he thinks ought and ought not to have been press ed by our friends in the States that have lately held elections. It is hardly neces sary for us to say to our readers that we agree with him as to the paramount importance of the great question of restoring the government to the constitu tional paths from which it has so flagrantly digressed in the “reconstruc tion” of the Southern States. But, as we have said before, the Radicals in the late canvass managed to evade that question, and it was not in the power of the Democrats to force it upon them. It is useless to say that in Ohio and Pennsylvania the Demo crats themselves set it aside, because we see that it was no more an issue of the contest in New York and Massachu setts, where the two parties did not differ on the currency, than it was in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Iu no one of the States that lately held elections did the Congressional Reconstruction acts or the conduct of the Administration in executing them enter prominently into the canvass, nor does any paper in those States, that we have seen, claim that the pressing of this question would have affected the result in any perceptible manner. We may as well admit the whole truth about this matter. The Northern" Democrats do not desire to make an issue upon the reconstruction measures, and they readily perceive that they cannot longer effectively press home upon the Radicals the usurpations and excesses of Gen. Grant's administration in carrying them out, now that the administration professes a change of policy in this re spect We regret that we did not lay aside the paper, so that we could quote from it literally. But the other day we had a New York paper (either the Herald or the World) which distinctly made the admission that the Northern Democrats would not demand the repeal of the re construction measures, and that they could not now successfully mate an issue at the North on any proceedings con nected with them. “It is not an easy matter to force the issues of a political campaign where the people have not a lively interest in the questions raised. At the North, as we have seen, they felt more interest in the currency question in those States in which the two parties were divided upon it, and in those in which thay were sub stantially agreed on this question, local issues took precedence. The currency question is one that goes home to a man’s business and pocket interests, and it will require some issue of pressing concern and exciting characteristics to shove it aside. The Democrats of each State may fairly be presumed to have understood the strength of the several issues which they oould make with Radicalism, and to have given the greatest importance to those which promised them the best results.” Hartranft’s majority in Pennsylvania will not be over twelve thousand. In the election for twelve Bute Senators to fill vacancies, the Dcmoc;ats gained one. S| ■ | Y \■ ' H H H ■ 1 jagg ■ SB yr |R •'* SB H t 1 ' y Grant Punishing the Mississippi Re calcitrants. A Washington letter represents the administration smoke-stack as being prodigiously disgruntled at the Demo cratic triumph in Mississippi, by which his pet satrap and brother bummer, Milk sop Ames, is overthrown. Grant labors under the impression that there has been treachery in the Radical camp and is de termined that the official patronage of the government shall not be enjoyed by any one who has contributed, even in a re mote degree, to the injury of the Re publican party. Hence the suspension from office of ex-Senator Pease and other Mississippi Postmasters, who used their influence against the Ames faction during the recent campaign in that State, and thus assisted, more or less, in the Democratic success. On Saturday, Bruce^ himself and Ames, asked for the removal of the offending officials. The reqnest was promptly granted by the President, and the Postmaster General was not con sulted in the matter at all. There is no question that the course taken by Mr. Pease and other Federal officials did much to help the Democracy. The course of Pease was not influenced by any love for Democracy, but solely by his personal antagonism to Ames. At the last session Pease made a two days’ speech, running over with malignity and vituperation of the Southern people, never excelled even by the utterances of Ben Butler. He and the other Federal officials acting with him have, however, by taking an active part against Ames, been the means of materially assisting in the redemption of Mississippi from Radical rule, and this is an unpar donable sin in the eyes of Grant. Twelve months since, when Kellogg wa3 sending his frantic appeals to the President to keep him in his usurped chair as Governor of Louisiana, he indited a private letter to the Executive, calling his attention to the fact that but three States of the Southwest yet remained in the hands of the Republican party. Those three States were Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana. Arkansas has gone. They have conceded that Louisi ana could not be held after the general election of next year; but Mississippi, with its immense preponderance of ne gro voters, was looked upon as secure. Now Mississippi has gone and cannot be recovered, It is, therefore, very natural that the sacrifice of Pease, and the Federal officials who acted with him should be demanded. Under the tenure of-office law the President has not the power of removal, but can only suspend the offending officials and report his action to the Senate. As no charges have been made against Pease and the others on the score of discharge of duties, the question will certainly be an interesting one when it comes up in the Senate, and the discussion cannot fail to be lively. It depends entirely upon the independent Republicans in that body whether Grant shall be sustained in his proscriptive policy. Cotton Manufactories in India. Cotton in India had up to 1872 caused the building of 5,111 miles of railway, and since that time the mileage has risen to 6,250. But, a large part of this system was also built for military reasons, under the government guaran tees of interest on the capital involved, and for the same reasons other lines are to be hereafter built. But, large as the population of India, the lines do not pay, and the government liability is steadily increasing, though the business done has been augmented by reduced rates of fare and freight. At consider able sacrifice the production and export of Indian cotton have been stimulated, and the limit of production there has not yet been reached. The extreme poverty of the great mass of the people of India is assigned as the main cause of the rail ways not paying a profit, and this being the case, it will be necessary to improve the condition of the people before the expensive rail way system can become remunerative. British energy has undoubtedly stimu lated Indian agriculture in every possible way, and with great results. But, there as here, agriculture has proven incapable of the task of furnishing a profitable main business for railways. The cheap ness and exhaustless supply of labor in India has attracted attention to manu factures, and may make the country a vast scene of industrial progress. This is already visible in the spread of cotton factories, and may extend to other lines of business. The subject has a general interest for all communities, but especi ally for the people of the South, who will see in the manufacturing history of India an example worthy of imitation. What we need at the South is diversified in vestment and enterprise. Let us grow less cotton and manufacture more. Then, come what may, we shall not have all our eggs in one basket. The Brooklyn Scandal. Since Mrs. Moulton’s written charges against Beecher have been referred to the Examining Committee of Plymouth Church, to be acted upon as the com mittee see fit, considerable speculation has been created among Beecher’s con gregation, and the general opinion is strengthening that the whole scandal will speedily be revived. It will be sev eral weeks before the committee begins its work of investigation. It is learned that they have been directed to review all the evidence in the case, both that which was presented in court and that which was excluded. This labor will certainly involve considerable time, and it may be many months, therefore, be fore anything like a report is reached. Loader, now on trial Jon acharge of per jury. demands that a commission shall be appointed to go to Montclair, New Jersey, and take the testimony of Mr. Joseph Richards and his wife, brother and sister-in-law of Mrs. Tilton, to whom the latterjs said to have made a full con fession of her guilt. Loader main tains in his affidavit that their testimony is essential in his case, as he will be able to establish by it the truth of his charge against Beecher. Thus this crowning scandal of the age is cropping up again in various disgusting forms. If the press is to be again deluged with the nauseating flood of filth and falsehood, it were better that the whole saintly crowd of them were sunk forty fathoms deep in the sea. The disclosures fit Plymouth rottenness that have already been obtruded upon the public, has done an amount of harm to society and reli gion which all the preachings of all the Beechers, Moodys and Sankeys in chris tendom cannot undo in a generation. SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1875. Affairs in Georgia. Wo hope Commissioner Janes is watfching the developments. Here is the /wenty second since the Ist of September: On Saturday last the gin-house of Mr. James M. Minar, at No. 121 Central Railroad, was burned, together with thirty-three bales of cotton, two giDs and about' three hundred yards of bagging. This gin-house was one of the best in Georgia. The loss is estimated at four thousand dollars. It is a nine days’ wonder that Kimball doesn’t sue Sawyer’ for libel. However, as a worthy member of Havens’s church, we suppose Hi exhibits a spirit of Christian for giveness, or something of that kind. The Irwinton Southerner says that as Mr. L. L. Peacock was assisting in loading a wagon with seed cotton from a pen in his field he took, up with an armful of cotton a good sized rattlesnake which he threw in to the wagon. The cotton became separa ted and the snake was disclosed with a mouthful of cotton which he had got hold of trying to strike while in Mr. Peacock’s embrace. The wagoner vacated in favor of the snake, and afterwards killed him with a pole. The tame paper slys that Mr. Eli Harrell, of thisroouDty, has lately erected, and has in successful operation bn the premises of Sr. Andrew .T. Muler, a wah r JJU4 which is the prop'-r-y of Messrs. Rbinhnlser k Mfi ler. These gentlemen some time ago made themselves a fish pond to raise fish for home consumption, and desiring to utilize the water power thus obtained, engaged Mr. Harrell to build them a water gin, and they are now ginning three bales of cotton per day on it. An occaaioual wild turkey is killed near Geneva. A camp-meeting is going on in Tattnall. In a difficulty between two negroes near Warrenton recently, one slaughtered the other with an axe. It is a question in this community whether the conquered negro was struck upon the head. It will require the affidavit of the coroner to settle the matter. Pat Walsh, writing from Washington, Ga., to the Augusta Chronicle, says that General Toombs is not a Granger, but he iB an example for them to follow. He raises his own wheat, oats, corn, vegetable, and never buys a pound of bacon or a potind of fodder, raising everything on his own place necessary for the support of himself and family, his hands and his stock. The colored Baptists, of Macon, are hav ing a splendid time this season. The lele graph says that on last Sunday night a difficulty arose at the church between Isham Johnson and Frank Harvey, which resulted in the former being shot by the latter. The wound was merely in the fleshy part of the thigh and not likely to culminate in any danger to the life of the wounded man. The negro who fired the shot made his escape, and has not yet been arrested. We shall never pay our debt to our Thomasville contemporaries. The Enter prise adds to it as follows : “On a former occasion we alluded to the Savannah Mous ing News as a valuable auxiliary to the local press in all public local enterprises, and crediting the News as the first paper in the State to adopt this liberal, unselfish policy, we gave it as our opinion that much of its well-merited popularity in the interior springs from this source. The truth of this statement was fully verified during the re cent Thomasville Fair. The Ngws entered warmly into the advocacy of the fair and all its editors and correspondents did yeoman’s service in the causa of Southwestern Georrgia. The fair was a great success and the News helped to make it a great suc cess.” When the Irwinton Southerner tells af story it tells a good one, as witness the onfe hereunto appended: Deacon Smith, df Wilkinson county, owns, or did own, k horse, which one time in its life saved hin\ an incalculable amount of money by its horse sense. The deacon says himself and wife, while partaking of their noonday, meal, wero very much surprised at the actions of their horse, which was loose in the road near the house. It would run up to the gate, neigh vociferously and then run off again. This was repeated several times, and the deacon arose from the table to as certain the cause of its strange conduct. He reached the door and looked out, and saw away off in the direction the horse had ran a dense smoke. He seized his hat and ran to the place. “Gentlemen,” said he, “ lightning had struck a tree and set it on fire, and the flames had communicated to my fence around mv corn-field containing about eight hundred bushels of corn. The fire had consumed about a dozen panels of fencing, and reached a branch. Mv horse, when I arrived, was standing in this branch dipping her tail into the water, and throw ing the water on tho burning fence.” Tho crowd looked incredulous, aud the deacon said, “ Gentlemen, if you don’t believe it, you ask Mahaly.” Bill Dent was subjected to an interview the other day in relation to sheep raising by Fitch, of the Newnan Star, with the follow ing results: On his farm in Alabama he kept one sheep and fourteen hounds, but for fear the sheep might bite the dogs he kent it locked up in the smoke house and fed him on pine leaves. The sheep, says Bill, can lay more eggs than a dozeu Shanghai chickens, but mine having horns turned out to be the wrong kind of a sheep, whereinjl was swindled by the blasted Yan kee that I bought him from. However, I got a fine crop of wool. I sheared half of him and got a hundred pounds, which was as much as I needed for my winter clothing. The other half of the fleece is still on and grows rapidly. Of cold nights that sheep lies down on his sheared side and uses the other for a wrapper. Some sheep roost very high, and one day when I accidentally left the smoke house door open, the hounds stepped down that way and that sheep broke to keep from biting the dogs. I heard the rippet and I went out and found that lovely lamb roosting in the top of one of my biggest sycamores, and making faces at the dogs. It made me mad, for I don’t like to see my dogs insulted. I was about to get my gun aud pepper him out of his perch, but I concluded I might want some more wool next year, so I called off the dogs, and got a flaxseed poultice and put it on the back of that sheep’s neck, which soon drawed him down out of that tree. Asa fertilizer, said Bill, no animal equal the sheep. If you will fertilize the sheep properly, and irrigate him also, there is no telling how many eggs he wii! produce. Particular care, however, should be taken in the laying season not to irritate the ani mal, as he sometimes becomes very furious and exceedingly dangerous to children. My sheep crows for day like a chicken, and when he has a bad cold the noise he makes is terrific. Bill entertained us with much more sheepish talk, and completely satisfied our mind that every editor ought to be the in dividual proprietor of a sheep, exempt from taxation on their giving bond and security not to let their sheep bite, harm or scare any cur-dog, bull-dog,mastiff, hound or fice. Col. C, W. Styles, on Thomasville Fair : The first objects of interest that attracted our attention on entering the spacious grounds were the exhibition halls of the competing Grangers. On 'he right, the Ochlockonee.and on the left, the Boston and Eureka. By the kindness of courteous brothers we first made a partial examination of each department in each of these halls, and were enabled, before looking into the various other departments on the grounds, to pronounce the Fair a success, and far ex ceeding in interest, as a purely agricultural exhibition, any similar display we had ever witnessed in Georgia. These Granges exhib ited no article that was not produced at home and by their own members, and we speak within the bounds of truth, when we assert that they alone entered and displayed a greater variety and better specimens of farm, garden and horticultural products, and female industries and handicraft, than were exhibited at the State Fair. The field products were especially superior, and showed that short of progress in the choice of seeds and the skill in culture that is giving Thomas the lead in agriculture, and redeeming the whole country from the thraldom of big ideas and little work, broad acres and ignorande, earth scratching and idleness. Nearly everything that grows out of the ground was there in rich abundance and perfect in kind, and there, too, were the splendid men and women whose industrious hands had wrought the achievement. The domestic departments were none the less oomplete in variety, and wonderful in quan tity and quality. Twines, preserves, jellies, pickles, canned fruits, dairy and garden products, were there in endless variety and superior quality, while the products of the needle were brilliant, beautiful, and remark able as specimens of skill, patience, toil, cultivation and refinement. There were 1,002 beautiful quilts, besides several hun dred curiously wrought and exquisitely fin ished garments and other articles, in the department of the Boston Grange,and almost an equal display in the Ochlockonee. The Eureka Grange exhibited not go much of this kind of work, but it showed thirty three heavy bales of cotton produced on a three-mule farm, together with many other similar evidences of the result of industry and co-operative rivalry. When we had looked through Boston Grange, we said at once, Boston will undoubtedly get the pre mium. We did not believe it possible for Ochlockonee to win it from her, but when we had gone through a second time and examined more minutely and with greater care, doubts as thick as thistles began to spring np around us, and after the third round through both halls, we arrived at the deliberate and satisfactory conclusion that no human being on earth could decide the superiority, except a Fair Ground Com mittee—the only infallible tribunal now known among men. It is fondly supposed that Colonel Clarke, of the Atlanta Constitution, is now immersed in the Okefenokee swamp. The sorgbam crop of Bartow counta.*/* unastucfiS- large this year. This accounts for the frequent presence it Henry and Wil liam Grady in that neighborhood. Dr. W. T. Rodgers killed a negro in Ran dolph countv the other day. The physician used a pistol and not a prescription. Somebody is shipping Texas ponies through Georgia into Florida. It is said that Colonel Samuel Small, of the Atlanta Constitution, is accused of wear ing out his finger nails against his front teeth. This is a Texas habit. Henry W. Grady, who figures as “John, Jr.,” has a very neat little sketch in the Herald of Tuesday. Prof. T. J. McVeigh, principal of the Masonic High School at Spring Place, Mur ray county, is dead. The Hinesville Gazette says the oat crop of TatnaU county will be" twenty-five per cent, greater next season than it was last. The farmers are sowing every available spot of land. We were pleased to meet in the city yes terday Cos!. E. W. Clarke, who is now ex ploring Oaefenokee swamp. The Colonel oapie op to saj good-bye Wt lafty friend. a girl and sits up late he has to “put up” for the Kerosene. During September and Oetober 2,681 bales of cotton wore shipped from Forsyth. The new gin-house of Mr. John Stallings, of Monroe county, was burned on Saturday last, making the twenty-third this season. The Rome Courier says that J. H. Camp, whose farm is two and a half miles above that city, on the Etowah river, made thirty six bales of cotton this season on forty-two acres, thirty acres of which made a bale to the acre. He also made thirty-eight bushels of corn to the acre on forty acres, and twenty-four and a half bushels of wheat to the acre. The only fertilizer he used was barn yard, produced on his own farm. The dwelling-house of Mr. Geo. H. Win ston, near West Point,was burned last week. The dwelling-house and kitchen occupied by Mr. E. G. Lewis, of Milledgeville, was burned last Friday. A man named Seals was found shot through the heart in Douglas county on Sunday. James Clinton has been arrested as the murderer. Col. Tom. Howard, of Kirkwood, says that he has crab grass on his place so obstinate that a bull elephant couldn’t pull a lancet through it. In Atlanta the burglars still burgle. Colonel Clarke, of the Okefenokee Con stitution, wants to be swallowed, but not by an alligator. He will remain in Savannah several hours, or until he settles matters. His case is desperate. Colonel Clarke, of the Okefenokee Consti tution, refused to remain in the city yester day. Four hundred acres of land in Taylor county were sold for twelve thousand "dol lars the other day. A wild eat was captured in the jungles of Emanuel county recently. The gin house of Mr. Benjamin F. Lanier was burned in Emanuel county recently, together with six bales of cotton and a quantity of oats. We are under the im pression that we have already .counted this conflagration. At any rate, Wte won’t num ber it now, whereby we will preserve our accuracy, and .at the same time allow the CTpmrnssioner of Agriculture to straighten out his tally sheets. The last number of the Okefenokee Con stitution had telegrams from Billy's Is aud. At the time these dispatches w< re seut Col.! Clarke, the leader of the expedition, was in -Savannah flirting around among the girls. Fort Valley had six cases of burglary' last ■Week. / The first thing you know someone of those “two thousand” citizens of Atlanta will nominate Hi Kimball for Governor. In case of his election, he would doubtless ap point Havens chaplain for thestate at large You wouldn’t believe, from the dearth of stirring items in that neighborhood, that Columbus has a kerosene factory in full blast. Columbus had a slight alarm of fire the other day, and the newspaper reporters are still excited. Thirty passengers for Florida passed through Atlanta the other day. A “noted colored woman” in Atlanta pos sess tho remarkable faculty of having spasms. Augusta Chronicle: Yesterday afternoon a horse attached to a dray became frightened, on Campbell street, and dashed off in the direction of the Union Depot. When it reached the latter it turned to the right aud ran with breakneck speed along the track toward Ko.lock street, the dray banging at his heels, over the cross ties. Across the canal, where the railroad passes, is a culvert, built as such structures usnally are, aud witn two planks placed together between the rails for the convenience of parties on foot. Over this the frightened horse sped, the dray bouncing up a foot or two at every jump. Strange to say the passage was accomplished in safety. One false step or a lurch of the dray to oue side and both horse and vehicle would have been precipitated into the canal. Gainesville Southron: On Friday evening, about 6:30 o’clock, the usual quiet of the city was disturbed by the report that a mur der had been committed on Athens street. A Southron reporter immediately repaired to the spot, and found Jerry Smith, a crip pled colored man, dead as a mackerel, hav ing been stabbed in the left breast with a jack knife in the hands of Henry Winter, another negro. Both are men of families, and each are about 35 years old. The diffi culty grew out of a dispute between Jerry aud Henry’s wife, who were gambling, over fifty cents and a quantity of mean whisky, mixed up with a deck of cards—just the articles, with a jack knife and an old pistol thrown in, that causes nmre difficulty among the negroes than everything else combined. Newnan Star : The opinion is very preva lent in this county that money is being lav ishly used among the Governor’s friends to induce him to commute the sentence of Brinkley, the murderer. There is no doubt that heavy fees have been paid since the trial for insanity, to work np the papers and present the case to the Executive in tho strongest light in favor of the criminal, but nobody who knows Milt Smith can believe that he would be influenced by corrupt mo tives. The strong efforts being made will un doubtedly have the effect to make the Gover nor examine the case more critically,and the Brinkley money caused these efforts to be made. So that if he is saved from the gal lows it can truly be said his brother’s money did it. But this may be said without im puting bad motives to the Executive. We doubt not Gov. Smith will do what he thiuks is right, but if he does spare Brinkley we can safely say there will be no more children iu this county named Milt Sn h during this generation. Dr. T. 8. Hopkins, of Thomasville, Presi dent of the South Georgia Medical Associa tion, publishes the following card in tho Enterprise to all physicians of Southern Georgia: The next meeting of the South Georgia Medical Society will be held at Al bany on the second Tuesday of December next. lam informed by the chairman of the committee of arrangements that a large number of the physicians from the counties west of the Flint river and several promi nent members of tho State Board of Health will be present. I have seen fit to invite from Atlanta the leading men of the pro fession to meet with us, and expect them. The object of the society is the promotion and advancement of medical science and literature, and the development of the climatic advantages of Southern and Southwest Georgia, and I cordially invite and earnestly hope that every regular prac titioner of medicine in the section of coun try named, having at heart the interest and welfare of the profession and country, will make it convenient to be present. One fare only will be required by the railroad. The meeting will adjourn in time to leave on the three o’clock train on Wednesday. All papers in Southern Georgia are respectfully requested to copy this notice. The Thomasville Enterprise has this Captain E. T. Davis, President of the Fair Association, is entitled to the highest credit for the comprehensive views he car ried out with such masterly energy in the recent exhibition. It was he who induced the Granges to appear in the exhibition, thereby adding immensely to the general display as well as to the general interest felt by the public, and it was his inde fatigable exer'ions, by correspondence and personal interviews, which induced the presence of so many exhibitors from abroad. The Captain belongs to the Boston Grange, and if that Grange did not succeed in bearing off the first premium, they should be consoled in having famished the executive ability which brought about such splendid results. Secretary HanselL, too, deserves the highest praise for the able manner in which he discharged the duties of his office, for we noticed that, although he was effi ciently aided by Messrs. McLean, McSwain and (taulden, he still had his hands full throughout the Fair. Messrs. 8. R. Robi son and T. N. Hopkins served efficiently atr the tioket office, and Mr. J. fats served with distinguished ability as cashier. The affa bility and politeness of all these gentlemen sent abroad a good report of the manage ment of “ our Fair.” > /Mr. Eli McDaniel, of Gwinnett county, made one hundred and fifty bushels of corn / ou a little more than one acre of ground. This, fellow-citizen-, is business. The editor of the Columbus Times is suf fering martyrdom of the most exquisite kind. In alluding recently to a project ad vocated by Mrs. Maria J. Westmoreland, of Atlanta, he boldly announced that she was “on the night hook.” He now announces, with some show of humility, that he wrote she was “on the right track.” The Intelli gent Compositor knows how to bring the Intellectual Editor to his knees. The editor of the Thomson Journal has crawled around a turnip weighing seven and a half pounds. Writing to a friend he states that there is material enough in one turnip of this variety for three tornadoes and two cy clones. These are scientific times, hanged if they ain’t. A negro child was burned to death in Polk county last week. Judge Tompkins has hurt the feelings of the superstitious by sentencing a negro to be hanged in Effingham county on Monday. Those who believe that hangings should take place on Fridays, also have a suspicion that jay-birds carry sand to Satan on the same day. It is very naughty of the Judge to unprejudice the prejudiced. A colored youth living near Prior’s sta tion perforated his grandmother with a shot gun the other day. He expresses great regret at the occurrence. The dwelling-house of Mr. A. E. Sturgis, in McDuffie county, was burned last week, making the fourth loss of the kind this gen tleman has sustained during the past four years. A negro baby fell into a well in Richmond county the other day, and was drowned. The epizootic is raging in Gwinnett county. The Columbus Times says that the follow ing case was decided in ’Muscogee County Superior Court on Tuesday: On the last day of April, 1873, James Tune, a customer of John McGough & Cos., left with the firm his cotton receipts for eighteen bales of cotton, and requested Mr. G. L. McGough to sell his cotton for him, and let him know when it was sold. Tune told McGough to act in the matter just as he had done before for him, and that he would be satisfied with what he did. McGough was to sell it for accom modation, and not in any way to receive any benefit from the sale. McGough has sold cotton for Tune for several years, and would deposit the money in John King’s bank to the credit of John McGough & Cos. and give Tune a check for it. McGough sold the cotton on the 2d of May and immediately wrote to Tune advising him of the sale. The money was de posited with John King to the credit of John McGough & Cos., with their own money, and it remained there without having been used by McGough, and without being of any benefit to them, until the 7th of May, when King failed. Tune came up in a few days after the failure of King, when McGough told him all about the facts. Mc- Gough proved the whole debt in bankrupt cy, and paid the first dividend of 20 per cent, to Tune as his money. Afterwards Tune re fused to accept any dividend, unless Mc- Gough would recognize it as a debt due by them. The jury found a verdict for defen dants—McCough & Cos. Florida Affairs. The Florida Radical cabal evidently think they are making capital by the prosecution of Harney Richard—but are they ? That’s the question. They say Archibald is a young man. We knew from his recent decisions that some thing was the matter with him. Notwithstanding that the hind-feet of the cream-colored mare are muzzled, the Radi cal politicians of Fernandina never venture out of doors after dark. These things are calcinated to amuse as well as instruct. There seems to be a little fuss browing between Captain Dyke and the Rev. John Tyler. If the Floridian has a larger font of italic than Tyler can command, then Dyke’s case is not altogether hopeless. It is darkly hinted that McMurray has Gubernatorial aspirations. Stearns should weigh these rumors before paying the re ward offered for the assassin of Dr. John son. Anew post office has been established at Oakwood, Dunn’s Lake, with Hr. Charles Hutchinsbn as postmaster. Purman is also laying very low. Three schooners arel oading at Jackson ville for Indian River. This is thought to be ominous. The Tallahassee Sentinel says that on Thursday last a colony of immigrants passed through that city on their way to Marion county. Tho colony was made up of seven families, all from Geneva county, Alabama. Three of four young men accompanied the colony for the purpose of prospecting, and if they make a favorable report there will be a large influx of immigrants from various parts of Alabama. The Jacksonville Press says the grand jury of Nassau county, in their general pre sentments, spokeof Harney Richard as being unfortunate in falling under the suspicion of being the murderer of Dr. Johnson, and asked the court to give him a speedy trial or admit him to bail—and we are informed that, Judge Archibald has consented to give bail upon execution of a bond of $25,000. McMurray was seen astraddle of the cream-colored mare in Jacksonville the other day. She is not the animal we took her to be. Two hundred and fifty visitors have land ed at Mellonville since the first of Septem ber. D. Y. Russell was held to bail in ten Ihou sand dollars the other day, tor raising a five dollar note to fifteen. Mr. E. J. Harris, of Ocala, is experiment ing with Guinea grass, E. J. will fool with these things, Lake City is rastling with an unfledged Thespian corps, It only costs a man five cents and costs— which must be more than five cents—to steal in Tallahassee. Thus the Floridian : “ Can you calculate interest ?” asked the Judge of a person called as a juror in the Circuit Court last week. The juror very innocently replied : “ Yes, sir ; I think I can when I hear the evidence.” He was a little nonplussed on being asked to stand aside. Key West is supposed to pay $40,000 an nually for imported fruit. Impossible ! The ship “Missouri” is wrecked at Matan zas and will prove a total loss. Falatka is slowly but surely improving. The Marshal of Orlando, who was recently shot by a drunken desperado named Roberts, is gradually recovering. Mr. Fred Lamer, of Key West, was ac cidentally drowned the other day. He leaves a large family. The Key Weet Fey of the Gulf says that Eugene Duminil, the charcoal burner, whose narrow escape from being murdered was chronicled a few weeks ago, has been miss ing since September 20th. His camp, cloth ing and tools are on Pine Key, where he was last seen, but he is nowhere to be found. The Marianna Courier says that the cor porators of the West Florida Railroad Com pany have filed the articles of incorpora tion, and subscriptions are already being taken, which indicates that the people are alive to the importance of an early com mencement of the work of connection with the commercial world. Another Ku-Klux story is contradicted. The Sentinel is informed by one of the offi cers of the Circuit Court of * Wakulla county that the grand jury, after three days’ inves tigation, indicted a colored man named Walker as accessory before the fact to the murder of Jackson, committed by someone unknown to the jury. From the same source it is learned that the evidence against Allen was not sufficient to implicate him in the murder. The track was larger tl}an that made bv Allen’s shoe, and it is said that when Allen drew his pistol to shoot Jackson he did it to defend himself from an assault made upon him by Jackson. Pensacola had a small fire the other day, destroying the grocery store of Mr. Charles Peterson. The Marianna Courier learns that A. H. Whorley, a colored man, living near Green wood, engaged in seed cotton traffic, was shot by some person or persons unknown, one night very recently. His wounds are severe and very painful, but not considered so dangerous as to render his recovery doubtful. • The same paper says that on last Satur day morning, Robert Hartsfield, a lad aged about fifteen years, and son of Mrs. F. E. Hartsfield, a widow lady, residing eight miles from town, lost his life by the acci dental discharge of a gun held m bis own hands. He was out gunning with a young companion, and seeing a locust tree, the fruit of which was beyond his reach, he en deavored to draw the limbs towards him with his gun. The muzzle of the gun being toward him, upon the explosion the whole load entered the stomach. He lived but a few hours, and died during the night after the wounds were received. Mellonville Advertiser: We would say to land agents, colonists and others, that Count Wassillieff hasvery generously offered to act as interpreter in any business transac tions occurring in this county, which are embarrassed by the inability of one party to speak English. Our friend is master of five languages besides his own: French, Spanish, German, Italian and Russian, and is only anxious to serve our people with his gifts and attainments as a linguist. The Sentinel says that a few weeks ago an investigation was ordered of the affairs in the clerk's and sheriffs offices of Hamilton county, and the committee of investigation were presented with an order on the treas urer of the county for one hundred dolla; s, which was said to be fraudulently issued, and which was presented as evidence that matters were not right in the offices of the clerk and sheriff. Upon this evidence the clerk and sheriff were arrested, audare now under bonds to auswer. Since their arrest, however, it has transpired that the order was forged by one Bryant. He went into the clerk’s office, procured a blank order, forged the clerk’s name to it, and went out and sold it for ten dollars. We are told that Bryant has confessed the forgerv, and says that he only did it to play a trick'ou ti e clerk. Jackson and Lee* the clerk and sheriff, have been at variance with some J the Representatives from that county, acd it is said that this was done to injure the u and get them into trouble. Bryant is said to be a relative of W. J. J. Duncan. Conover is not making himself conspicu ous now. Jacksonville Press : An old resident of Columbia county has handed us a curios: v, which can be inspected in our office. It is certainly very curious. A large trout was caught from a lake, where he lived in an old pine top which had fallen into the water. The lining cf what is called his “swimmer” (air bladder), was stretched upon a piece of wbite paper and a perfect picture of the pine top iu which he lived was indelibly stamped upon the paper. And it is said this result always follows, no matter whether the fish lires iu the grass or in an oak, piue or cypress top, a picture of his homo c.i n always bo had by the above process. This is certainly a curious freak of nature, and the most remarkable thing about it is that the picture is of a cream-color. The same paper says : The alarm of fire at 3 a. m., Wednesday morning, was found to proceed from the grocery store of C. Meyer, on the - corner of Pine and Ashly streets. The building with the adjoining dwelling house of Thomas Lancaster, col ored, were quickly destroyed. Mr. Meyer’s stock was insured for $1,500, and the build ing for S3OO, iu the insurance company of North America, Philadelphia, Mr. Schnabel, agent. Mr. Meyer values his stock at $4,000, and building at SSOO. There was a risk of S2OO upon the bouse of Tbos. Lancaster, in the Hartford Fire Company, J. H. Norton, agent. It is not known how the fire originated. The Me chanics fire engine and hose companies were on the ground, but rendered no assist ance until the fire was almost extinguished. After a long delay, water was obtained from Hogan’s creek. Some means must be de vised for the better supply of water. As it is, the fire department is* almost a nullity when a fire occurs iu any portion of the city remote from the creek or river. We shall be painfully reminded of this necessity, we fear, on some future occasion, Conover was in Tallahassee at last ac counts. It strikes us that this is about the right season of the year for him to walk over to tho Conservative side. The Union pretends to be troubled by an exchange fiend. If this is the case there is no remedy. The mullot at Key West are fuli-roed. Six hundred tons of mahogany from tLo bark “Nord Kyng” sold at a Key West auc tion on the 18th ult. for $3,905. The Union remarks: The glory has de parted from the legend of William Tell. He only shot the apple from his offspring’s head. A Polk county marksman shot the apple from a fellow mortal’s-eye. The steamship Margaret, from New Or leans for Key West, collided when off Pen sacola, about 2 a. m. on the 21st ult., with a large vessel, lost her mainmast with all its rigging, and narrowly escaped sinking. The night was dark ana no lights wore visible on board the vessel, Brigudier-General-Adjutant Yarnum has returned from Oh Golly. The oorner-stone of the new college has been suooessfullv in terred. Sugar boilings are frequent in Columbia oounty. The Floridian says that the Presbytery of Florida, holding its regular fall session at Monticello, adjourned to meet in the Pres byterian Church in Tallahassee, to ordain and install Rev. N. M. Long, pastor of the Presbyterian Church there. Pursuant to adjournment, the Presbytery met there on Monday morning at 10 o’clock, and pro ceeded with their business. Rev. Mr. Lit tle, of Quincy, preached the ordination ser mon; Rev. Mr. Dodge, of Jacksonville, pro pounded tho constitutional questions ; Rev. Mr. Preston, of Fernandina, delivered the charge to the pastor, and Rev. Mr. Groe, of Lake City, the charge to tho people. The services were very solemn and impressive. Three colored cattle-stealers are in jail in Lake City, Captain C. R. King has established an orange nursery in Columbia county. An orange tree in Monticello has yielded a barrel of .oranges this season. Fildes predicts that before many yeai s middle Florida will fie the orange-growing section of the State. The Floridian suggests that a convention of the land-owners of Middle Florida be held in Tallahassee, on Wednesday, Decem ber 1, 1875, at 10 a. m., to devise ways and means to secure an intelligent immigration, and to promote the agricultural and com mercial interests of this portion of the State. The Union says that Mr. Damon Green leaf has added a handsome otter to his list of Florida curiosities, and is really worth visiting. He reioices in tho name of Jack, and is as playful as any young kitten, and the way he frolics about, in and out of the water tank in which he is kept, shows that he enjoys tfie fun hugely. Possessed of an excellent appetite, he devours his food with a positive relish, and seems eager to make the acquaintance qf all who may visit him. Mr. J. 8. Adams, editor of the Few South, is still seriously sick, A colored chicken thief is in jail In Monti collo. The Lake City Reporter says that a lady, while working in her garden in that place, between one and two o’clock p. m. on Fri day last, heard a rushing noise overhead, and at first supposed it to be a flock of wild flow), but on looking up could see nothing but the clouds flying hastily toward the South. It has been suggested that this was probably the cyclone that devastated Wel born, as it is well known that they do rise and fall in this manner. Fortuoately for Lake City it was too high to do any damage. Alluding to the manner in which Harney Richard was indicted, the Menticello Con stitution says: It is needless to say that in our opinion a more flagrant judicial outrage was never perpetrated in the courts of any State. Richard demonstrated, beyond the possibility of a doubt, at the committal trial, that he was innocent of the murder of Johnson; the grand jury of Nassau oounty, after carefully considering the evidenoe in the case presented by the State, on their oaths affirmed the innocence of the man, and were afterwards, by threats of persecu tion and imprisonment from the presiding Judge, forced to render a “true bill.” Com ment is unnecessary. If the judiciary is thus to be made the instrument of personal and political vengeance, it is high time the people arose in the majesty of their might and swept from place and power the vile miscreants, who, in defiance of every prin ciple of justice, drag an innocent citizen be fore a politico-judicial tribunal, directed to convict. If Harney Richard can thus be arrested, tried, convicted and, perhaps, sentenced to the gibbet, who among the thousands in this State is safe from a simi lar fate ? South Carolina Affairs. On the 29th ult., the store of Messrs. Kil ter & Rooker, of Aiken county, on the Port Royal Railroad, was broken into by a party of five colored men and rohbed, after which they fired the building, and burned over twr thousand five hundred dollars’ worth of goods, and four bales of cotton. Mr. Robert Brice, of Camden, was in jured on last Wednesday by a buggy acci dent. Mr. G. A. Cromer’s barn, in Abbeville, was burned, together with its contents, on last Sunday night. The fire was the work of an incendiary, and there is strong sus picion as to the guilty party. Mr. Cahill, a former citizen of Spartan burg, is now superintendent of streets in Greenville. For several days a terrific fire has been raging in the woods east of the village of Lancaster. It is stated that a large area has been burned over and several thousand pannels of fence destroyed. Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Dellinger, of Camden, were injured on Friday last, by being dashed out of a wagon. The house of Allman Danner, colored, near Neyle’s Cross Roads. Colleton county, was burned last week, and his two children perished in the flames. His wife was some what injured. Mrs. S. A. Owens, wife of A. Singleton Owens, died at her residence in Laurens county on the 28th ult. The gin-house of Mr. H. A. McCullough, of Cedar Swamp, Williamsburg county, was burned on last Friday night, with a consid erable amount of cotton. It was supposed to have been set on fire. Cotton stealing is going on in Lauren county, to the alarm ot the people. Send up Judge Mackey. The Laurens Railroad has been completed to the Tiron, or to a point within about eleven miles of Laurens. ESTABLISHED 1850. Miss Nellie Kennedy, daughter of W. G. Kennedy, of Sumter, and a pupil of the Ursulitie Institute at Valle Crucis, near Co lumbia, received a premium at the late Dar lington fair for a handsome tidy, which she knitted before slie attained the age of twelve years. She consumed over three thousand two hundred yards of fine spool cotton in its manufacture. Captain Albert Dial, of Laurens, a day or two since, discovered that two bales of cot ton were missing from his premises, and apprehending that the cotton had been stolen, started immediately in pursuit. He soon got on the right, track, which he dilli gently followed, and finally found the cotton iu a t'wo-horse wagon, property of one Joe Sullivan, colored, an old penitentiary bird. The cotton was found in the woods about one mile from Tumbling Shoals, on last Wednesday. The Lancaster Ledger eays that, on last Thursday night, the cotton house of Mr. T. J. Josey, who lives about six miles south of Camden, was entered by thieves and robbed of several hundred pouuds of seed cottOD. Mr. Alexander McLeod, living about four teen miles east of Csmden, was also robl od of several hundred pounds of the same arti cle, last Saturday night, by persons who broke into his gin house. THE FLORIDA CYCLONE. Its Effects in Gainesville —A Graphic Ac* count of its Passage over the Town— Some Idea of the Power of the Wind— llow an Infnnt wns Saved. [Special Correspondence of the Morning News. Gainesville, Fla, November 9, 1875. On Friday, the sth inst., the people of Gainesville were startled from their after dinner quiet by a roaring, rushing, crackling sound, as if of A MIGHTY CONFLAGRATION. Hardly had the look of surprise had time to dawn on the face when it was suddenly changed to one of fear, for the cyclone was upon the town. Then ensued a scene of confusion and terror indescrib able. Men, women and children seeking safety iu flight. Here were seen women with infants in their arms without pro tection from the pelting rain, children clinging to their mothers’ skirts, men hatless and coatless, some leading horses, which their fear prevented their mount ing; all one pale, breathless throng. Houses were left without bolt or bar; merchants left their money-drawers open and unguarded; farmers left their teams and wagonsuncarod for—every one with in hearing of the tempest infected with a common terror. Persons who had only heard or read of it recognized the portent, and “The cyclone! The cyclone!” was heard from all sides. Iu far less time than it has taken to write or even to read this there succeeded A STILLNESS IN THE ATMOSPHERE so great as to be almost as fearful as the storm, and distended eyes look askance as if with the enquiry, “What next?” A visit to the path of the storm showed that there was no need of any next. Great trees rooted up; trunks twisted ofl; fences thrown down; rails scattered over the cultivated ground; houses thrown from their pillars and scattered over the earth iu indistin guishable masses of ruins, while sympa thising hearts urged on strong arms to the labor of extricating those of the in habitants to whom the warning sound came too late for '(hem to make their escape. "J r Now that we have had time to breathe and to take in the extent of the danger to which we were exposed, there cannot but arise a feeling of thankfulness that there was not A GREATER LOSS OF LIFE than there has been. So far as has been learned at this moment there is no sign of the oyclone west of Gainesville, though it is reported to have come roar ing over Ramsey’s Station, about a half mile in the air. It first made its mark iu the hammock near the western limits of the town, with a direction almost due east. Everything was cleared away as it went. Reaching the first farm of Dr. W. Porter, it took down paling fences and farm houses as if they had been straws. The occupants of the houses escaped with only bruises that time wiil cure. Next in its path was the house of W. K Cessna, Esq. The main building being long, low and rather strongly built was simply pushed from its pillars, com ing to the ground with sufficient force to make it unfit for future habitation. And here occurred one of those BEMABKABLE OIECUMSTANOES which attest the Providence that watches over children. An infant child was sleep ing in its cradle near the chimney, and in the midst of the sho\yer of bricks, rocks and mortar by which the cradle was deluged, a single plank falling over the space occupied by the child kept it unharmed. All the other buildings on Mr. O.’s pilaoe were utterly ruined. The residence of Mr. W. C. Matheson was torn to pieces, and Mrs. M , in making her escape, received some severe blows from flying timbers. She is not seriously injured, however. The kitchen of Oak Hall seemed to be in the path of the left side of the whirl, and while the main building was unin jured, the kitchen was entirely destroyed; and here occurred the only mortality connected with the cyclone in Gaines ville. The gardener, a colored man by the name of Davis, was sitting at his dinner with a fellow-servant when the building fell, CBUSHING HIM TO HEATH. The other barely escaped. Mrs. Wilson, the proprietress' of Oak Hall, was se verely injured by a beam falling across her back. It is hoped that she will soon recover. Two houses on the opposite side of the street were demolished in the twinkling of an eye. One of them, the residence of J. B. Coker, Esq., falling over his wife and daughter, and also over a colored woman who was employed on the place. Wonderful to tell, Mrs. and Miss Coker escaped from the ruins of a two story house with no injuries further than a few painful bruises. From this to the house of the Rev. Mr. Tomkies, was a fair open space—the valley of Sweet water branch. Mr. Tomkies’ house now sits flat on the ground, wrenched over askew, with its roof collapsed, a suffic iently strong indication of THE POWEB OF THE WIND. The family of this gentleman escaped without injury. The house, kitchen and stable of Mr. Edmund Jones were anni hilated, the latter being removed from over his horse without injuring him. Some damage was caused by the violence of the wind rushing into the whirling centre. The frames of several buildings were thrown down by them, and we hear of one little boy who was carried nearly fifty yards before he could bring up. It will take time for the effect to wear off the community. Even now, forty-eight hours after the disaster, a rise in the wind dilates the pupils of the eyes, parts the lips and pales the cheek. But sober reflection brings with it the conso lation that calamities like this rarely go in pairs, and that we may build our houses now more lightly and loftily than before. The shape of the PATH *tJBSPEI> BY THE CYCLONE must be ascertained from future develop ments. At this place its direction was first almost due east, and then east by northeast. His presence of mind did not desert your correspondent to such an extent as to prevent his ascertaining that the direction of the whirl was according to the method established by the cyclone; that is, from west round by south, then east, north, to west again. This could be discovered by the cloud of debris, which was ■ whirling with inconceivable rapidity in the air. There are various reports; current as to the effects of the storm in other places, but they are only verbal here as yet, and while they are sufficiently dreadful, we tremble lacs further accounts may reveal fresh hor rors. W.. -m• • i m The failing eye-sight of a New Bed ford man has been restored by the falling of a heavy weight on his head. | The Clews-Cheerer Mystery. [From the Baltimore Gazette.] Poor typical cases of Republican fraud and peculation are just now prominently before the public—the Clews-Cheever case, the St. Louis whisky frauds, the Freedman’s Bank swindle, and the Freed man’s Bureau frauds. The developments in these oases ought to condemn any political party, and disgust honest people with the administration of General Grant, even if previous investigations by Con gress had not revealed a long series of other and equally astounding rascalities. Taking the cases we have particularly specified in their order, we propoee from time to time to say a few words abont each of them. We begin with that of Clews- —going somewhat over old ground. The Barings of London were the finan cial agents of the United States Govern ment for nearly three-quarters of a cen tury. For every dollar they disbursed during that period they accounted hon estly. Their financial standing was of the best, and time drafts, drawn upon them by United States officials in distant ports, found ready sale at a discount of three per cent. Sight drafts were invariably paid by them promptly on demand. Iu no case did they ever fail to uphold the credit of the United States from their own means, when the money on hand to the credit of the government was not sufficient to meet the emergency. With out forewarning, and without cause, the financial agency so long held by them was taken away, and divided between the new firm of Cooke, Mc- Culloch & Cos. aud Clews >fc Habicht— the naval financial agency being given to the former, the diplomatic and oonsular to the latter. By what means Cooke, McCulloch <fc Cos. got their appointment is one of the mysteries that time has yet to unravel. How Clews & Habieht obtained theirs, we have recently been told by Mr. H. B. Oheever, a notorious lobbyist of Washington. Our readers are aware that Clews & Habicht are bankrupt, and that Cheover has put in a claim for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, being the one-fourth part of the profits of the financial agency alleged to have been procured by him. The examination of Cheever be fore the trustee developed the significant and suggestive fact that five parties were interested in the profits of the Clews agency, but by a subsequent arrangement, of which we shall speak presently, the number was reduced to four. Clews <fc Habicht were each to retain a fourth part of the profit; one James Van Buren another fourth, and the remaining fourth was to be divided between Cheever and Judge Louis Dent, the brother-in-law of Geueral Grant. All this has been stated before, but the recapitulation is necessary in order to understand the sequel.' The one-half of Cheever's fourth, assigned to DeDt, was, by a subsequent agreement between Clews and Dent, cancelled—tho latter re ceiving instead fifteen thousand dollars in cash and the lucrative position of at torney for the firm of Clews & Habicht. ' The claim of Cheever and Dent to be sharers in the profits of the agency rests upon the same basis—the influence they are said to hnve exerted in obtaining the agen cy for Clews. As Secretary Fish and Mr. Boutwell both disavow all responsibility in the matter, it is not difficult to surmise by what paramount authority the trans - fer was made. The dark shadow of sus picion is thrown directly across the threshold of the White House. And just here we reach the most mys terious part of the Clews-Cheever com pact. The written agreement shows that one-half of the profits of the agency was to go to Clews & Habicht, the other half to James Van Buren and Cheever, with the understanding that Cheever was to divide his share with Judge Dent. Now Clews & Habicht we know, and Cheever and Dont are also known, but James Van Buren is one of those mysterious persons of whom Cheever himself professes to know nothing. If Cheever’s share of the profits was one hundred and fifty thou sand dollars, James Van Buren was enti tled to a similar sum. Yet he has put in no claim, and nobody seems to know who he is, or what he is, or where he is to be found. Here again we touch upon a strangely suggestive point. When the search for the children Sfty who play ut. ‘‘hide and soek”—the exarnksttblT'Or' Cheever be - the trustee was postponed until tho 20th of November. It was intimated by Cheever himself that when the examina tion was resumed the mystory about James Van Buren would be disclosed. Well, the 20th of November came, and another postponement was had, and now the public is informed that Cheever will not be called upon to testify again, “his claim having been settled out of court.” On the other hand, the trustee of Clews &. Cos. asserts that the investigation will go on, and an attempt to be made to hold Cheever responsible to the creditors of Clews & Cos. as one of the partners of the firm. . We do not believe that anything of the kind will be done, for at the back of Oheo ver stands that mysterious personage, James Van Buren, and it must be evident to everybody that the reasons that im pelled Cheever to drop his suit were rea sons that were vital to tho preservation of the incognito of James Van Buren. If the trustee of Clews <fc Habicht finds himself unable to do anything, as he surely will, it will remain for a Demo cratic Congress to strip off the mask. Wq hope it will be done effectually. The Egg-Dance In India. IScrihner’s Monthly.] A much more pleasing performance, and one which might perhaps better have been mentioned in connection with the exploits of the jugglers, is the “egg dance.” This is not as one might expect from the name given it, a dance with these fragile objects. It is executed in this wise: The dancer, dressed in a cor sage and very short skirt, carries a willow wheel of moderate diameter fastened horizontally upon the top of her head. Around this wheel threads are fastened, equally distant from each other, and at the end of each of these threads is a slip noose, which is kept open by a glass bead. Thus equipped, the young girl comes toward the spectators with a basket full of eggs, which she passes around for inspection to prove that they are real, and not imitations. The music strikes up a jerky, monotonous strain, and the dancer begins to whirl around with great rapidity. Then, seizing an egg, she puts it in one of the slip nooses, and, with a quick motion, throws it from her in such a way as to draw the knot tight. The swift turning of the dafir.er produces a centrifugal’ force which stretches the thread out straight, like a ray shooting from the circumference of the circle. One after another the eggs are thrown out into these slip nooses un til they make a horizontal aure ole or halo about the dancer’s head. Then the dance becomes still more rapid —so rapid, in faot, that it is difficult to distinguish the features of the girl; the moment is critical; the least false step, the least irregularity in time, and the eggs dash against each other But how can the dance be stopped? There is but one way—that Is to remove the eggs in the way in which they have been put in place. This operation is by far the more delicate of the two. It is necessary that the danoer, by a single motion, exact and unerring, should take hold of the egg, and remove it from the noose. A single false motion of the hand, the least interference with one of the threads, and the general arrangement is suddenly broken, and the whole perform ance disastrously ended. At last all the eggs are successfully removed; the dancer suddenly stops, and, without seeming in the least dizzied by this dance of twenty-five or thirty minqtes, she ad vances to the spectators with a firm step, and presents them with the eggs, which are immediately broken in a flat dish to prove that there is no trick about tha performance. A Snake in Ibeland. —A snake has at last been found in Ireland, and much excited speculation is indulged as to how the reptile came upon the island. A gardener in Baltinglass, Wicklow county, discovered the snake on his premises and killed it. It measured five feet in length, was black on the back and yellow under neath. It appears on investigation that a gentleman brought two snakes from India to Ballinrodan, both of which escaped six or seven years ago. One of these was destroyed by a pig, but th® other was never found. It is considered probable that the snake recently killed at Baltinglass is identical with the one which escaped from its custodian at Ballinrodan. A private palace car has just been built at Wilmington, Delaware, for^^jU Francisco gentleman. dining and sleepin^M fitted apw&|