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trict, the counties of Chat
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Br June 12:
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OurTrizr Stories.
In cur proposal for prize stories for
tb Wi ikt.v Mobmso News and Sunday
|t' >yra>n, tho Ist of June was the day
Bed fvt closing the list of competitors.
Bp, that date wi!ae twenty stories were
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tee selected to award the prizes, and any
manuscripts sent to us by tho 15th will
+ and to compete for tho prizes.
The names of the prize committee will
be announced in a few (levs.
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* Our Serial Stories.
In our present issue wo give tho con
clusion of “Misguided,” the story which
Uias been so favorably received by the
■eadorsof tho Weekly News and Sunday
Hk legram. Our next issue wiil contain
‘’Sequel to Misguided.”
|H ueki.y News of tho 20tlx inst.
■ .mi nce tho publication of an-
Bluer story, untitled “My Mother’s
■ *ugt .. by Mrs. Ophelia Nisbot lteid,
■ i t . ,n, Ga. This gracefully writ
leti intensely interesting story will
mm through several of our weekly issues,
thus giving a i-ple time for our literary
[committee to read the compositions sub
.iuitted and make their award of the
[prizes offered by us for the best and
®,iK ~ud best stories founded on incidents
connected with the late war.
i ‘‘Misgnidrd.”
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B Iho Health of Savannah.
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■ A recent issue of the Atlanta Constitu-
Hot, contained an editorial paragraph in
Hdlii 1 was stated that rumors of sick
• v li'. .it ill that
b; itertained by
■B ‘-but ‘ ) errors of laHt season
, Bui.. Ut >• t •
HHH , Ibe editor.
BWHk- - ‘' p**Bßß-. a Jp
Wi'twunb a paragraph which said there
llvih no foundation for the rumor
|£>t s in Savannah. Tho edi-
Bors df that paper wero prompt
Be correct the false rumor to which they
Bud unwiltn and |,i % i'ii breath. But in
■hiseast we I \ trilling illustration
Bd t!\e truth of tho adage which says:
■ ‘Uive error n day tho start of truth aud
Bt will take truth a month to overtake it.”
IrUo startling rumor once iu print has
It leveled far and wide, aud is credited iu
I quarters where the contradiction has yet
[to bo hoard. Only yesterday a cor-
Krespondont, writing from Quitman,
Buotos tho first paragraph of tho Con
and a: .s us if there is any truth
in tho report ?
We unhesitatingly state that there is
net the slightest foundation for tho above
ju;mor or any oilier which states that
Bi ro is any sickness in Savannah, or tlmt
are any roasouablo grounds for fear
Bt iho “homo i of last season are about
Ou the contrary, our
||r Hi free from disease of
■BH i.'i ".v condition i
IggajgH: if lei '*• - u for many years.
■BH ■ • 'she , started with-
H ..re e he haled to
HBH city gr. u injury. It they are
HHH by 11: pres, they assume a
.1 u : -chi. gossip
Hfiot entitled, and like all reports or
■tutors ot that kiud, gather volume in
■roportiou as they travel. For this
Bison wo have not heretofore considered
Bwortli while to contradict them, be-
that they would die out of luaui-
Bou,
We repeat, most empatically, that there
mo sickness of any kiud in Savannah,
kt the bills of mortality show au extra
■buary exemption from disease, and
sanitary measures adopted aud
Hriv curried . ut i end
fe Hp tvs can in t . ■
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,:-tr . w hick it was im
ML/ I vuukl surely be greatly im
'* ■■ iss' i'l w hile cotton, the nr-
V in which tins section is especially
Brested, is a very decided sufferer.
and, so great is the depression of this
titan k of trade that we learn from a
London dispatch that the cotton spinners
E Oldham, England, have decided to
HI a meeting of the whole trade to eon-
Hkr the advisability of working on short
Hie. v The war is not likely, therefore.
■ prove anything of a bonanza to Arner-
H, ami the sooner it is ended the better
parties.
~
t>rant, having been first
HHfe’ rebuked by the American
H . jjrhe ]>ol's. and then decidedly
JH his d r Jiu'lo * successor, is
•. uke an ex-sovereign.
H >ll*, invited to the Queen’s re
■ ■Bvittt out with th 6 Prince of
IH .<M . g an unlimited sup
s ,- i winiugs. He can
if a, >;*,' pretty well, and
rse most satisfac-
That “Boiianxa Fee,”
In a short editorial article which ap
peared in the News a few days since, no
tice waa made of the fact that ex-Gov
ernor Smith had published a long letter
in the Atlanta Constitution m which he
arraigned Governor Colquitt for haring
paid out the sum of $15,000 to the at
torneys who were employed in the prose
cution of the claim of the State against
the United States Government, growing
out of the possession of the Western and
Atlantic Railroad, by the military forces
of the United States, during aud after the
war. The letter stated in substance that
the Governor bad no right to pay the
money for three main reasons. First,
because there was no record on file in
the Executive office that he (Gov. Smith;
had ever agreed to pay these attorneys at
the rate of twenty-five per cent, of the
amount collected, and that since the law
requires that every official act of the
State Executive shall be recorded, had he
made such a contract, it would have been
found in the archives of his office. Sec
ond, that in the absence of such official
evidence of the contract, it was the duty
of the Governor to have taken parol evi
dence to prove it,and that he (Gov.Smitb)
was a competent and material witness in
such a case. Yet he was never called on
to give in his testimony, though he could
readily have been found, and could easily
have testified. And third, that no proper
evidence had ever been procured topiove
that the attorneys had satisfactorily per
formed services to entitle them to so
large % compensation. He admits that
he did app *&-£ a contract to the effect
employed by the State
. u penaaiojfeflfe-,%t such
| "Tts ndfto DeTbutsimpiy
should not twmi, twenty-five per cent, of
the amount collected.
This is the substance of ex-Governor
Smith’s charges. In reply thereto Gen.
A. C. Garlington comes to the defense
of Governor Colquitt, claiming that he
simply complied with the terms of the
contract made by Governor Smith
himself. This letter being likewise too
lengthy for these columns we will give
simply a synopsis of it. It states in
substance as follows:
In July, IHG9, the late Col. Baugh and
himself being parties in the practice of
law, entered into an agreement with Bul
lock, the then Governor of the Slate, to
prosecute the aforementioned claim for a
retainer of three thousand dollars and a
contingent fee of twelve and a half per
cent, of the umount collected. Efforts
were then made to get the claim allowed
by Congress, but all proved unavailing,
and finally it died in the hands of the
committee to which it had been referred.
In 1873, however, the matter was revived,
and, says Gen. Garlington, Col. Baugh
and himself then agreed to prosecute the
claim, and admitted Mr. It. A. Alston as at
torney in the case, on condition that Gov.
Smith, who was then the Chief Executive
of tho State, would agree to increase
the contingent fee, so that in case of re
covery each of the three would receive an
amount equal to that which Col. Baugh
and himself would have received in the
first place. He says that in a conference
with Governor Smith the latter gentle
man agreed to a contingent fee
of twenty five per cent., saying
that he was willing to pay a lib
eral fee, since he would regard any
money received on this claim as so much
“picked up” for the State, and that he
thought twenty or twenty-five per cent,
would not be unreasonable.
Messrs. Baugh and Alston immediately
proceeded to Washington and labored
there for i ms claim, and iu the ineau
. tiuMMfirtKelßaugh made a contract
i j W>® ..cVfiOTi,
firm of Jackson, Lawton A Basinger, of
this city, to assist him in the matter. It
was then, for the first time, ascertained
that Governor Smith had not endorsed
the contract made by him upon the
original Bullock contract, aud fearing
that this might lead to some complica
tions on account of the Baugh-Jackson
contract, he (General Garlington) called
on Colonel Baugh, who executed the
following paper, marked number 1, viz :
“Witnesseth; Heretofore, to-wit, in (he
year of 1861), General A. 0. Garlington
and myself were in partnership in the
practice of law, in the city of Atlanta,
and decided to present, by authority of
Governor Bullock, a claim in behalf of the
Westerg and Atlantic Railroad against
tho United States Government, growing
out of the possession of that road by the
military forces of the latter during and
after the conclusion of the war; and after
wards a contract was entered into by snid
partnership with Governor Bullock for
the prosecution of said claim, who agreed
to pay a certain lee, and a per centage
upon the amount recovered on said claim.
“That after Bullock left the State, aud
the Hon. J. Mitten Smith became Gov
ernor, said claim was submitted to the
latter: Col. it. A. Alston having been
taken in by the said firm as agent and
attorney for the prosecution of said claim
upon equal terms; that is to fay, each of
the persons above named, were to share
equally iu said per centage. which was
afterwards agreai between the Governor
and said parties to be twenty-fine percent,
ujxm the amount recovered. And
whereas, I, Robert Baugh, have lately
employed Henry R. Jackson, of the firm
of Jackson, Lawton & Basinger, as
attorneys to assist in the prosecution of
said claim at Washington upon certain
terms expressed in writing: Now, be it
known to all parties interested that my
agreement with said noury It. Jackson
and the firm above named was not in
tended to bind the interest which the said
A. C. Garliugtoii and It. A. Alston have
iu said claim, but only the interest I have
in the same, which as heretofore stated,
is only one-third of the per centage of the
amount which may be recovered,
y ‘Jt. Baugh.
‘.‘Atlanta,.December, 1876.
“In presence of W. T. Johnson,”
. Gt eral Garlington follows this paper
wiui various others, all tending to prove
the s me thing—that the oontract to pay
twenty-five per cent, of the amount col
lected teas entered into by the attorneys
and Governor Smith.
WPot
.'ledge
eople,
who
jjpih
He then goes on to produce otner proof
to the same effect, and concludes by jus
tifving Governor Colquitt’s paying the
fee out of the sum received, on the
ground that he was simply carrying out
the contract of his predecessor, £ud that
he was justified in so doing since the at
torneys had fully earned their money ac
cording to said contract. On this point
he says:
“But now, as to the services rendered
by the attorneys They were engaged
in this work nearly eight years. They
expended their time and energies, ard
money in its prosecution. A much
larger sum than the three thousand dol
lar retainer was expended. In all, the
services of no less than ten attorneys
were engaged with us in collecting the
evidence giving professional attention to
it. here and in Washington. Were the
services of these attorneys worth but
little? Was it an easy claim to secure
from Congrers? Yea, did you not re
gard the claim as so doubtful that you
would hava considered any amount re
covered as so xuiiajh money ‘picked up
for the State?’ If it w* so easy to col
lect, why did you not collect it ? Gov
ernor. during thu fjve (5) years of your
administration, or use in some
way your official position to secure
it ? It was not a claim for money due
the State on account of the military oc
cupation of the State Koad by the gov
ernment, or, as soma have supposed, for
iron taken from the road. But it was an
effort to reopen an account long ago
settled and closed, and to have the gov
ernment return to Georgia a part of the
money she had agreed to pay, and had
rhid for en gines, rolling stock, etc. Tiiis
keen pajaby the State twelve
. instance of these
V Htoa, '
suiic
nient and refund the money, it was urged
that such a thing would be against all
precedent. And again, when the report
of tho military committee, hereinbefore
referred to, came up for consideration in
the Senate, Senator Edmunds introduced
a resolution calling upon the Quartermas
ter General of the United States for the
facts in relation to this statement.
The Quartermaster General, in a long and
able report, violently attacked the bill
reported, on the ground that the settle
ment was long since closed, and that to
reopen it would set a precedent, which
would involve the government in the loss
of millions of money. 1 here undertake
to say that, in the face of that report,
with the active opposition of Senator
Edmunds and others, tho bill never
would have passed the Senate, but for
the evidence culled and arranged by us
fr .in the voluminous impeachment trial
of Andrew Johnson. Indeed, but for
onr labor in collecting the evidence, the
report never could have been secured
fr.itn the military committee. I go furth
er, and say but for the efforts of Col.
B Jgh and myself, the claim would never
have been presented to Congres. It
never bad occurred to any one
ei-e; and after it was presented, no
member or Senator could have found the
time and given the labor which for years
has been expended: and I confidently
assert that Georgia would not now- have
tb-i >150,000 in her treasury but for our
labor; and I would make bold to appeal
to every menu er of the Georgia delega
t.on in Congress to bear me out in this
a- .ertion. The only ground upon which
the part of the claim recorded could rest,
though just in itself, because the property
sold to the State was appraised at too high
a valuation, was that a compromise set
tlement had been made by the government
wnh certain railroads in Tennessee. But
it must be borue in mind that these roads
hud not paid the government the amount
due by them, as the State of Georgia had,
and one of the main reason- assigned for
Jhe compromise with tL- Tennessee roads
vus their probable inability to pay it in
well - a v * ■
* 1 1 eW-•WfUCkK'*/. anything should be i-e
--eovered, it would be so much momy
‘picked up’ for the State. And yet yoi
would have the community beiieve that
the attorneys who suggested this claim,
who collected all the evidence upon which
it rested, who prosecuted it at great ex
pense and labor for more than seven
yi ars, and finally to a successful issue, are
entitled to little credit, and less fees than
you agreed to pay.’’
And, furthermore, he justifies the Gov
ernor for so paying said fee without wait
ing for a legislative appropriation,because
it is an universally established rule that
lawyers are entitled to pay themselves
out of moneys collected by them for their
clients. And not to have been promptly
paid in this ease, after having performed
their duties, would have been manifestly
ui just, inasmuch as it would have caused
great delay and subjected them to much
inconvenience.
This is the substance of each of these
letters. We think it due to Governor
Colquitt that both sides of the question
should be presented. The people of the
State expect him to be careful and econ
omical in his administration, and such a
charge as this against him would certain -
ly tend to injure him, and work injustice
to him uuless properly understood. Gen.
Garliugton’s letter sets forth the whole
cu e very clearly aud distinctly. From it
it appears that the Governor has acted in
this matter strictly iu the line of duty
and from purely honest aud conscientious
motives, and wo simply desire to set his
conduct right in the eyes of the public.
It would be unjust in us were we
to instance tho frequent ’occurrence of
revolting outrages by white demons, the
reports of which from day to day mar
the local columns of our Northern ex
changes, in proof of the low standard of
morals in Northern communities. Yet
the whole South is denounced as barba
rian aud uncivilized by a portion of the
Northern press on a much less startling
airay of evidence. vVe doanUl|ii'w
oni- section t \o.option fromJMMßporih r
a.’"l Csipi'i.- Ib'-vion Ugti&flHßfnue'i t,x.
tr. me provocation, is permWWd to break
through the restraints of law, and per
soual animosity, intensified by political
antagouism, sometimes culminates in
deeds of violence aud blood ; but we fear
lossly assort that the annals of crime
iu the South present no parallel to the case
of revolting and fiendish brutality re
ported in another column as having oc
curred near Bound Creek, Waverly coun
ty, New Jersey, on Tuesday last.
llow Louisiana was Counted fob
Haves. —A New Orleans special to the
St. Louis Republican has the following,
which will show who carried Louisiana
in the Presidential contest: “In its ex
amination of original returning board
documents, those canvassed by Wells &
Cos , the State board of canvassers have
discovered that in one parish large addi
tions in pencil had been made to the
consolidated supervisor’s returns by the
returning board. This was discovered
from a duplicate statement furnished by
the supervisor of the parish ; and if the
addition of Republican and subatraction
of Democratic votes in the other parish
returns ‘pan out’ as well, the actual re
turns canvassed by the returning board,
nearly all of which are now in our pos
session, will show that Tilden received a
majority of eight thousand votes in the
State. An effort was made to destroy
those returns, but they have all turned
up but those from one parish, and Mr.
Tilden can easily establish Ids claim
should he desire them in proof before
the United States Supreme Court.”
A telegram to an evening Republican
paper of New York cily makes the some
what startling announcement that the
opposition of the New York Tunes to the
administration’s Southed n policy is a bit
of strategy arranged by Mr. Evarts for
the better protection of Mr. Hayes. The
alleged object is to keep control of the
dissatisfied element, and by providing
them an organ which is m secret in full
sympathy with Hayes, it is hoped that
the malcontents can be kept in the party
traces when the time comes to vote by a
few carefully worded articles in the paper
whose counsels they regard. They say
Horace Greeley used to do good work in
his day by tnis bind of opposition to the
party leaders, being rebellious in the
extreme between elections, but always
supporting the nominees when the elec
tion came on.
A Philadelphia servant girl on Monday
last mingled corrosive sublimats with the
supper she had prepared for the family
with whom she was living, for the pur
pose of destroying them, root and branch.
Cau it be possible, asks the Courier Jour
nal, that in the “law-abiding North”
such a state of affairs exists that “ life
and property are insecure ? ” Secretary
Evarts should, indeed, prepare a letter to
Gov. Hartranft, admonishing him that
“ the whole power of the Federal Gov
ernment’' will be used to promote law
aud order if he does not prevent the con
mission of such horrible crimes.
The Washington Star of Thursday gays
the North Carolina politicians now in that
city are in a sort of Bald Mountain state
of rumbling, threatening an upheaval.
Thus far, says the Star, none of them
have “eruptedbat if an office or two is
not soon forthcoming they will organize a
new party, with President Hayes left out.
It if stated that not less than a dozen
of the English visitors to the Petersburg
celebration announce their intention of
making Virginia their home as as
necessary arrangements to that find can
be perfected and suitablalfarms for their
p^^^elected.
Ex-Governor Smith vs. Governor
Colquitt.
Ex Governor Smith publishes in the
| Atlanta Constitution an open letter to
Governor Colquitt on the subject of the
| exorbitant fee paid to Gen. G&rlington
\ and Col. Alston for their agency in col
lecting the claim of the State as owner
; of the Western and Atlantic Railroad
against the Federal Government. The let
ter of ex-Governor Smith is of very great
length, and is a labored effort, not only
to relieve himself from any responsibility
in this transaction, but to put whatever
• of blame may attach to it on Gov. Col
quitt. We have not the space to devote
I to the letter, even if we were disposed to
make our paper the medium of what is
manifestly a personal attack upon Gov.
Colquitt. It was, perhaps, proper that
Gov. Smith should explain his connection
with the affair, but the fair-minded
public will hardly justify his gratuitous
and very discourteous criticisms of the
action of his successor in office, whose
fault, if faultit be, was in simply comply
ing with the contract he had made with
the agents of the State. It must be ad
mitted that the fee of thirty thousand
dollars seems enormous foT the
collection of a claim which, if
just, should have been obtained without
cost or difficulty through the representa
tives of the State in Congress. But the
contract which fixed the compensation of
the agents for the collection of the claim
at "not exceeding twenty-five per cent,
of the amount collected” was not made
by Governor Colquitt, and could not
rightfully m- .brogated or modified by
him. Fiu|lmg the contract as it was
I ; fgsP** -1 <- Aftiawarg on tho rftftorflft
jor the e\ ve
| by aflidfvits of the claimants, he was
! bom .1 to recc gnize it.
I
Governor hmith, while he does not
remember having made the specific
contract with the claimants, under
which the fee of twenty-five per
cent, v .- claimed, and is sure he did not
sign any memorandum giving his official
sanction to the agreement, admits that ue
endorsed on what is claimed to be a con
tract with the attorneys for the claim
these word-: “The above contract and
agreement is approved, and the compen
sation to be paid to all agents of the State
is not to exceed twenty-five per cent, of the
amount collected upon the claims.” Ac
cording to the usage in such cases, under
this endorsement, tho agents, whatever
may have been their set vices, would have a
right to claim the maximum fixed as their
compensation, and Gov. Colquitt was, by
the terms bf the agreement thus en
dorsed by his predecessor, without dis
cretion in the premises.
That the fee was exorbitant no one will
dispute, but it is alleged that at the
time Governor Smith assented to the
terms of the agreement with the agents,
the claim was considered of very doubt
ful value. Its recovery was very uncer
tain, and the percentage on it, more or
less, was not a matter of very accurate
alculation. If it has cropped out a bo
nanza, it was the agent’s good fortune
and not the fault of either ex-Governor
Smith who employed them, or of Gov.
Colquitt who simply paid them their
stipulated fee.
If the contract with the agents gave
too large a per centage for the collection
of a claim that might have been collected
through our Senators or Representatives,
or if the contract was not sufficiently
explicit and definite in its terms to pro
tect the State from an exorbitant charge,
it was not the fault of Governor Col
quitt, who had no hand in making it or
in selecting the agents.
While no one kuows Gov. Colquitt
—-.AH luignLonoi" andf spotless integrity,
entertain a doubt of his scrupulous up
rightness in this entire transaction, it is
nevertheless to be regretted that, in view
of the alleged irregularity and rare com
plications of the case previous to his con
nection with it, he did not defer payment
of the “bonanza fee” as it is called, until
the questions now raised had been discus
sed and adjusted. He, however, doubtless
had good reasons for the course he adopt
ed, and, should the demand be made, will
be ready, at the proper time and in the
proper manner, to make a full and satis
factory explanation of his entire action
iu the premises.
“Loyal” Allegheny.
Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, has
long been noted for tho ease and prompt
ness with which it rolled up immense
Republican majorities, and is generally
regarded as one of the very strongest cit
adels of that party the land can boast.
Consequently Allegheny county may be
considered a good place to test the popu
larity of the present administration. A
few days ago a Republican convention was
held at Pittsburg, and the committee cu
resolutions reported the iollowing :
“ Resolved , That Rutherford B. Hayes,
in his faithful, fearless and patriotic
course since his elevation to power, in
carrying out the principles of the na
tional platform, deserves, and should re
ceive, the hearty and constant support of
the Republican party and of all Ameri
can citizens who value peace, order and
prosperity as the fruits of good govern
ment, and the legitimate results of a
wise administration of the powers con
fided to him.
"■Resolved, That his removal of ths sol -
diers from the States of South Carolina
and Louisiana was a just measure toward
the restoration of that feeling of unity
which should prevail everywhere through.
out the country, and an expression of
good will toward the South, that it should
not disregard, for the act was in
tended as a measure of peace, and to
give the loyal men of the South an op
portunity to administer its own State
governments with equality and justice.”
The presentation of the above was the
signal for a tremendous clamor of dis
approval. The hal! resounded with yells,
hisses, cat calls and indiscriminate pro
fanity, and the resolutions were laid on
the table without even a complimentary
vote. Evidently, then, the Republicans
of Allegheny are “red-hot” against the
conservative policy, and on the whole re
gard the “8 to 7” business as a curse
rather tiian a blessing.
The Mobile Register suggests that if
Mr. Noyes, of Ohio, who helped the Mad
Wells fraud, and who has been nominated
as Minister to France, is a prudent patriot,
he will not go abroad until the Senate
shall have given their advice and consent
to the appointment.
By the way, what has become of Madi
son Wells, the boss of the Louisiana re
turning board, to whose villainy perhaps
more than to that of any other one man
the present administration owes its ex
istence ? We have heard nothing of him
for a month past. He is not mentioned
among the applicants for office. Can it
be that having got his price for his vil
lainy in ready money he has retired upon
it to the shades of private life ?
The latest crop reports from the West
are anything but satisfactory. Between
the grasshopper and the wet cold weather,
the earlier flattering prospects of the
wheat crop are subjected to at. least a
temporary drawback; while the promise
for corn is at least dubious. A great deal
must depend upon the next two weeks.
From a Virginia paper we learn that
General Huger has recently had a rather
severe attack of paralysis. His condition
was. at one time, decidedly critical, but
is now repodod much betlei.
The Lonstitatioii&i Convention.
The facts tbrt Mr. Amos T. Akerman
and Mr. ~ohn L. Conley have written
pamphlets in opposition to the proposed
convention for changing the present con
stitution of the State of Georgia, is ex
citing some comment from the State press
at large, inasmuch as it shows that the
Republicans of the State intend to make
a party matter of the convention and op
pose it as Republicans. This, added to
the fact that such men are writing against
the movement, should, in the present
political status of Georgia, be a sirong
argument to a large majority of cur fel
low-citizens in favor of said convention
for the following reasons :
First. The constitution of a State is the
organic law of the State. It is the
supreme rule which governs, regulates
and controls all the legislation of the
State, no matter to what subject this
legislation is directed.
Second. This being so, it follows that,
under our republican form of government,
and according to our republican ideas
(that the people themselves form the su
preme power in a State, and they alone
have the authority to make laws aud
frame a system for their own gov
ernment,) every State constitution
should be simply the declaration
of the whole people regarding those
things which they conceive are best for
their mutual protection, and which will
more perfectly insure to them their in
alienable rights of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happii ess.
Third. This likewise being granted,
it is not only proper, Imt manifestly
right, as a simple justice to
ywo should
have a convention, and anew constitu
tion framed by and for the whole people
of the State, without regard to age, race
or previous condition, as the present
constitution, it is clear, does not come up
to the requirements of a constitution. It
was not framed by the people
or for the people, and does not
represent the will of the people of the
State. It was framed and adopted at a
time when the most intelligent and the
most interested class of citizens—the
property holders—were cribbed, cabined
and confined by disfranchisement and
political oppressions. It was forced upon
us by a few who by force of circum
stances were in powtr, while the classes
before alluded to had not a word to say
regarding their willingness or unwilling
ness to be governed by it. Its adoption
therefore was anti-republican in its na
ture, and opposed to the spirit of our in
stitutions. It is apparent then that it is but
a matter of simple justice to all our peo
ple, that the whole thing should be re
vised, and anew one framed, which will
represent the wishes of, if notot#, at least
a decided majority of our voting popula
tion. These are our reasons for desiring a
convention and anew constitution. We
think their soundness cannot be gainsayed
or questioned. To-morrow week is the
day for submitting the whole matter to
the popular vote, and we trust
that the citizens of Georgia will
consider well the importance and jus
tice of the move, and turn out
energetically and promptly to vote in fa
vor of a convention to frame anew con
stitution. If carried out it will be the
final overthrow of carpet-bag thraldom
under which we suffered, aud were so
grievously swindled .for so long a time,
even after we had become citizens of a
so-called “reconstructed” State.
Jolm Young Brown Stamps Out An
other Lie.
Tho Cincinnati Enquirer's Washington
correspondent, in a recent letter, writes as
follows: jg
There has always been an impression
here that the friends of the administra
tion did not care to claim that any ar
rangement had been entered into by the
Matthews-Foster combination by which
a Republican was to get the Speakership.
It was hinted at very broadly, but never
claimed as a bargain and sale iu so many
words. In a recent letter, received here,
John Young Brown denies the charge
most emphatically that there was an un
derstanding between the friends of Hayes
and certain Southern Democrats that a
Republican would be supported for the
next Speakership. Mr. Brown says
further: “It is a preposterous lie. I
never mentioned such a subject to a Re
publican, nor was it ever referred to in
my hearing, or within my knowledge by
one. So far as lam concerned the re
port is a vile slander.” In another part
of the letter he denies that any bargain
was made for the support of the Texas
Pacific project. This letter proves that
the administration was laboring under
some delusion when the Speakership was
offered to Garfield with so much confi
dence, apparently on tho strength of dis
coveries made by Matthews and Foster.
The Macon Telegraph , remarking on
Mr. Brown’s emphatic statement, says:
“This lie, which we believe was hatched
in Atlanta, included General Gordon in
its filthy scope. The little ring of plot
ters in that city whose members are
pining to step into General Gordon’s
shoes, will have to try again.”
The Baltimore American (Radical)
thinks: “The solid Democratic South
cannot remain so forever; such a thing
would be an anomaly in the political an
nals of this country. Inevitably there
must spring up new issues, upon which
men will divide, and in aid of their ob
jects they will seeir, to enlist votes; and
if there is anything certain it is that in
such conjunctures 1 the negroes will not
bo neglected.” Isijiot the wish father to
the thought ? j
The Charley R/ass case is being revived
once more. P. T. T arnum having offered
a reward for hiru, it) is rumored that the
parties having him in charge will restore
him by the first ofj.July—the third anni
versary of his disappearance—provided
they can do so willi guaranteed immunity
from puuisument. Of course, this is all
bosh; but it will answer the purpose.
’Twill advertise Barnurn.
A Washington special to the Cincinnati
Commercial states that Mr. Haves is
taking pronounced gnounds in favor of a
bi-metallic currency, and that in the re
commendation he may have to make to
Congress on the currency question he will
undoubtedly urge the restoration of the
silver dollar.
Our de facto President is showing his
teeth. He has determined to appoint no
more Democrats to office in the South.
Probably he is disappointed that he
makes such slow progress in this section
with his Whigo-Radical scheme, and this
is his revenge.
Histoby of Georgia, —The publishing
house of J. P. Harrison & Cos., Atlanta,
Ga., will make early announcement of a
History of Georgia. This is a much
needed work. Wc presume inquiries for
information may be addressed to the pub
lishers.
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WAK NOTES.
[By Cab e to the Morning New*.]
Constantinople, June s.—The Saltan
called the Presidents of the two houses of
the Turkish Parliament to the palace last
Thursday to discuss the best means of
closing both chambers without public scan
dal.
Vienna, June s. —The Servian Govern
ment has sent an energetic note to the Porte
with simultaneous copies to the powers.
She will recover an island in the Drina river
by force unless Turkey evacuates.
Roumania hesitates about active o-opera
tion with Russia after the Russian army
has crossed the Danube.
The Grana Duke Nichoks has communi
cated to St. Petersburg his disappointment
in coming to terms with Roumania.
Pesth, June 5.—A communication pub
lished in official papers states that, despite
her objections, the initiative relative to
peace must be taken by Russia.
London, May s.—The only thiug positive
in Russia’s reply to England’s questions as
to her intentions seems to be tnat Russia
will not touch Egypt or the Suez Canal.
Galatz, May s.—The Danube here is fif
teen feet above the ordinary level.
Vienna, June s.— According to the latest
intelligence the Czar will remain at Kische
neff for the present, because the breakage
of bridges is so great as to block the traffic
on the Roumanian railway lines. .
The insurrection in the Caucasus has
Aread to the Caspian Sea.
Ml'he Russians have abandoned their posi-
Wp-above Sukum-ta-ih., v JU TJ-kn JmEvAu
the river Kodrt.
London, June 5.—A special dispatch from
Berlin to the Pall Mall Gazette says: “The
statements which have been published that
the governments of England, Germany and
Spain have come to ati understanding with
respect to the taxations of British and Ger
man subjects in Cuba, turned out to be in
correct. Germany and England have ob
jected to any war tax at all.”
The limes in its leading article says : “So
far as can be judged, the fortune of war wili
be adverse to the Turks. The operations
may not have the rapidity of recent wars,
but the Turks are over matched and must
succumb in the end. This catastrophe Eu
rope will accept. No nation will go to war
again to support that which cannot be sup
ported. No real statesman will cling to a
dead element in a system instead of looking
for its living forces. We know we must
seek for that which is to replace the parting
power; to this we cannot too soon direct
our attention.”
A special dispatch from Vienna to the
Standard says the Porte, as a precaution
against the growing war agitation in
Greece, has ordered the calling out of the
militia reserves in Epirus and Thessaly, and
the distribution of arms among the popu
lation of the frontier districts.
A dispatch was laid on the table address
ed by Lord Derby to Lord Lyons, the Brit
ish Ambassador at Paris. The dispatch is
dated May 12. Lord Derby informs Lord
Lyons that Great Britain had declined the
proposal of M. DeLesseps to keep open the
Suez Canal to all nations, and had intimated
to Russia that an attempt to block
ade or otherwise interfere with the
canal or its approaches would be
regarded by England as a menace to India
and a great injury to the commerce of the
world, and incompatible with the main
tenance of the British attitude of passive
neutrality. At the same time It was inti
mated to the Porte and Khedive that Eng
land was firmly determined not to permit
the canal to be made the scene of any com
bat or other warlike operations.
Cettinje, June 5. — A battle took place to
day near Maljat, lasting several hours. The
Turks were defeated, aud lost five hundred
moq. The Montenegrin losses are not as
cert.vned. _
Manchester, June s.—The GuardiWjM
Yiettia dispatch says : “Ibappears that ore
Tuilk' exaggerate their trouble. I* is be
lieVefi that the main body of the Russian
centre is still near Kars, and that the recent
pa/iic at Erzeroum was provoked by iiyiDg
corps of Cossacks and irregulars.”
Athens, June s.—Pour party leaders have
finally agreed upon the basis of a policy for
a coalition ministry. M. Comoundouros
subsequently informed the Chamber that
the present Cabinet had resigned and a
mmistry representing all parties was about
to be formed.
Rustchuk, June s. — The Turks to-day
bombarded and slightly damaged some ves
sels which the Russians wore collecting at
Giurgevo to cross the Danube.
Constantinople, June 5.—A grand mili
tary council, under the Presidency of the
Sultan, lasting two hours, was held at the
office of the Minister of War.
The Greek Patriarch has issued a pastoral
letter recommending the orthodox to remain
faithful to the Sultan.
A telegram from Suleiman Pasha, dated
Monday, announces that he has marched
from Gotschko and taken several Montene
grin positions. The especially important
fortifications around Kristadehe were cap
tured after a desperate fight.
FKO3I WASHINGTON.
[By Telegraph to the Morning News.]
Washington, June s. — Franks, the North
Carolina Deputy Marshal, has been released
on bail.
Anew element of disturbance is develop
ing itself in Louisiana politics. Senator T.
B. Stamps and James D. Kennedy arrived
this morning. They report themselves as
forming a part of a committee sent here by
the representative colored men of
Louisiana'' to see the President* -The
other members of the committee, Senator
Dumont, Rev. A. M. Newman and Louis M.
Kenner are en route, and are expected in the
morning. Nothing is known of their inten
tions, although it is rumored they will
strongly recommend Albert W. Leonard for
District Attorney. None of the committee,
they claim, are applicants for office. Burch
remains here to watch them.
General Butler was called upon by a dele
gation of citizens of the District in regard
to the Commissioner. He referred them to
Mr. Corcoran. The following is an
extract from a report of an interview, pub
lished in the Baltimore Sun : “We are told
that the Republican party is to be dis
bande’d, and the Democratic party is to be
disbanded, and a great Whig party is to
come into life. You had better go to some
graveyard and take off the tombstones
names of some Old Line Whigs and
pnt them on your application.”
The Gem ral hero interrupted him
self, and said he had asked one favor of
the President. When he was in command
of the Department of the Gulf during the
war the noble, eminent and patriotic Sur
geon-in-chief of the department sacrificed
his life in his labors for his country. His
son, now a promising lad of sixteen years,
desired to enter the Naval Academy. The
boy did not live in General Butler’s district,
or he would have him appointed himself.
He therefore went to the President,
who at the time had three na
val cadet appointments in his
gift, and related to him all the circum
stances, and asked him to bestow one of
the appointments on this poor boy. When
the President made the appointments the
boy’s name was not among them, bnt all of
them were sons of men of the style of Mr.
Corcoran.
Tho Court of Claims decides under
the tenure of office act that a suspended
officer deps not draw pay, but the office
ad interim draws the pay for the time of
the service.
The Secretary of the Treasury has aban
doned the purpose of investigating the Bos
ton custom house.
It is stated that the President disap
proves of the veto of the silver bill by the
Governor of Illinois. He favors the re
monetization of silver, but thinks it difficult
to determine in what form such i step
should oe taken.
General Sififik expresses the opinion yhat
no more troops am needed in Utah, f
Thomas 3. Bryant, formerly of °^ago,
but not a citizen, has been appointed Com
missioner of tho District, vice Ketchum.
Ex-Governor Osborne, of Kansas, has been
commissioned Minister to Chili.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
an order limiting the pay of District At
torneys to four thousand dollars per auuum.
The following Southern Postmasters were
commissioned to-day: Ezra A. Hadley for
Little Rock, Ark.; A. L. Darrell for Sher
man, Texas.
Second Lieutenant Jas. H. Whitten, of
the Tenth Cavalry, was held in five hundred
dollars bail in the Police C ourt,'charged
with duplicating his pay account.
Key and the Postal Commission have re
turned.
The Cabinet to-day discussed the reforms
in the custom house and the customs ser
vice generally. The prodigality of United
States Marshals was also discussed. The
District Commissioner was the onlv ap
pointment agreed upon.
An examination shows that the steamer
Yantic is not so rotten as represented bv
the officers who left her guns at the Cape of
Good Hope. She will be refitted and go to
sea again.
SAVANNAH’S CREDITORS.
[By Telegraph to the Morning News.]
Augusta, June s—a meeting of the Sa
vannah bondholders was held here to-day,
representing *300,000 in bonds. It was r*e
soWed as unwise for Savannah to repudiate
her debt, in part, by scaling either principal
or .uterest, and suggesting a tax of two per
cent, in place of one and a half, aud also
that the bondholders are willing to fund
the first three coupons on the bonds of
seven per cent.
At a meeting of the Savannah bondhold
ers held in Charleston, representing one
million of dollars, it was resolved that six
per eei'G 1 acceu.cdju satisfaction
for seven per cent, bonds and p*® due cou
pons, provided that said new bonds aud
coupons be receivable after maturity for all
dues to the city of Savannah, and that said
bonds shall be exempt from taxation by tho
city of Savannah.
THE ENGLISH CORN TRADE.
London, Jud 6 s.— The Mark Lane Ex
press in its weekly review of the British corn
trade says: “Vegetation is very backward,
having made very little progress under the
harsh weather which prevailed in May. It is
probable that the acreage under wheat is
larger this year than in 1876, owing to a
more favorable seed time, but the harvest
will eutirely depend upon the future
weather, which, up to the present, has not
given promise of a large yield. The growth
ot all cereals has been retarded. The stock
of English wdieat iu farmers’ hands
is now very low, as the recent rise iu value
was too tempting to be resisted and a ma
jority of holders sold out as soou as symp
toms of a reactiou set in. The offerings,
both at Mark Lane and in the country, have
been very meagre, and iu spite of the down
ward tendency ot prices, holders of the lit
tle remaining wheat have steadfastly refus
ed to sell at less money, feeling confident
that the unusual scarcity would shortly
bring quotations up agaiu. As buyers have
not been of the same idea, business has been
almost at a stand still, aud sales could only
have been made at a decline of 3s. to 6s. por
quarter.”
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
Havana, June s.—The Euglisli mail
steamer has arrived from Vera Cruz, aud
brings the following news from the City of
Mexico to May 30th :
The passage of Valdes across the Rio
Grande has created no sensation.
The Judges ot the Supreme Court were
installed in the new Cabinet and took their
portfolios to-day.
Diaz is favorable to the Tehuantepec
Railroad project provided that Stevens’
backers are bona fide capitalists aud in
earnest.
Diaz has been successful in suppressing
pronunciamentoes, his experience as a pro
nunciador proving of service.
Henceforth a guard of twenty Soldiers
will accompany each passenger train be
tween the City of Mexico and Vera Cruz.
Licensed gambling houses have beeu
allowed in the District of Mexico. Those iu
the city are divided into three classes. Tho
first pay $1,500, the second SI,OOO, and the
third $750 for monthly license. The reason
for this is supposed to be tho necessity for
increasing the revenues. Considerable in
dignation is felt at the measure.
TURF NOTES.
Boston, June s.—The Mystic Park races
opened to-day. Summary of the 2:22 race:
Gomee, 1,1, 6,2, 1; May Bird, 2,3, 2,1, 5;
3, 6, 5,4,2; Hannah D., 5,5,
HMa,nk Reeves. 7. 4, 3].Jviß-Ht
-7,2, 1, dis.; Amy, o, dis.; time, 2:22,2:22,
2:21, 2:235, 2:25, The 2:50 race was won by
Voltaire, taking the second, third aud fifth
heats: Power second, and Wild Lilly third;
time, 2:27, 2:24, 2:24, 2:24, 2:255. Powers
took the first and fourth heats.
Cincinnati, June s.— The track was
heavy. In the one and one-fourtli mile heat
Lapland won, Verdigris second, Bill Dillon
third. Time, 2:275. In the two mile heats
Glasgow won, Flying Locust second. Jim
Murphy and Odd Fellow wore distanced in
the first heat. Time, 3:58, 4:10. In the
three-quarter mile heat for two-year olds
Burgamot won, Grapple second, Juba Jack
son third. Time, 1:255.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA APPROPRIATION BILL.
Columbia, June s.—The conference com
mittee on the appropriation bill have agreed
as follows : That a tax of seven mills be
levied to pay first the current expenses of
the government; second, the iuterest on
the consolidated debt, aud third, other vaiid
indebtedness of the State, after being in
vestigated by a commission of three mem
bers of the Senate and four members of the
House, their report to be ratified at the
next session, and deficiencies, if any, to be
met by a loan of one hundred thousand dol
lars, effected by the Governor. The result
of the conference will be submitted to the
General Assembly to-nigbt or to-morrow
morning, and will be adopted.
THE MOUNT OARMEL TORNADO.
Mount Carmel, 111., June 5.-—Twenty
two dead bodies have beeu found thus far.
The fire was subdued after six hours of
steady work. A number of farmers were in
from the country, whose teams were scat
tered among the debris. The number of
killed is yet unknown. Tho tornado passed
over the town at about 3:30 o’clock last
evening. It struck the town at the south
end of Cherry street and passed almost
due north, taking in about one square west
and destroying everything in its course.
STRINGENT POLICY OF THE FRENCH GOVERN -
MENT.
Paris, June 6.—A circular of M. Fourton,
Minister of the Interior, to the Prefects, in
structs them to revise ail licenses for hawk
ing and selling papers, books and pamphlets
and only allow fit agents, offering proper
guarantees to social order, to retain their
licenses. The Prefects are also instructed
to prosecute any persons who, in cafes and
other public places, spread false reports cal
culated to disturb the public tranquility.
DEATH WARRANTS.
New Orleans, June s.—Gov. Nicholls has
signed the death warrants of Adme Que,
colored, for the murder of Richard Jumer,
colored, in this city in February, 1876 ;
Joaquiu Eflorezo, Chinaman, for the mur
der of Mario Louise, colored, in July, 1876,
in New Orleans, and George Norris, colored,
for the murder of Sarah Jones, colored, in
this city in November, 1876. The con
demned men will be executed in the Orleans
parish yard on June 15th.
THE INDIAN FIGHT.
Chicago, June s.—General Miles officially
confirms the press reports. He telegraDhs
from Tongue river that on the 7th inst. a
hostile Sioux camp of five hundred and ien
lodges under Lame Deer was surprised,
captured and destroyed, and four hundred
and fifty horses, mules and ponies were
captured. Fourteen Indians were left dead
on the field, including the principal chiefs
and leader and head warrior, “Iron Star.”
the typos.
Louisville, June s.—ln the International
Typographical Union but little business was
transacted. Detroit was selected for the
holding of the next annual convention. A
uniform constitution for the Union, pre
sented section by section, was discussed
and adopted. The discussion on the numer
ous resolutions, together with the report of
the President, occupied the time of the
convention.
DESTROYED BY A TORNADO.
Cincinnati, June s.— Mount Carmel, Illi
nois, was nearly destroyed by a tornado last
evening. It was a thriving town of about
three thousand inhabitants, on the Cairo and
Vincennes Railroad. The loss is estimated
at from three hundred to five hundred thou
sand dollars. The same toruado damaged
a number of buildings in other towns lying
in its pathway.
A NOBLE BEQUEST.
Boston, June s.— The will of Charlotte
Harris, of Charlestown, gives eighty thou
sand dollars to the Perkins Institution for
the Blind. Ten thousand dollars to the
Charlestown Library, and seven thousand
dollars to other institutions. The rest of
her fortune, after deducting private legacies,
goes to the Massachusetts GeneraJ^bjspital.
THE REPORTED MUTIljJfc
London, June s.—ln the Qtonse of Com
mons Mr. Egerton, Secretary to the Admi
ralty, in reply to a question, said : “It is
not true that a mutiny had occurred on
board Her Majesty’s ship, Alexandria, the
fiagship of the Mediterranean squadron. It
was only a case of insubordination.”
RAILROAD SCOTT.
New York, June s. —Scott, the President
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, tele
graphed front Philadelphia to-day that his
road has not made aDy reduction in fares or
freights from New York tu tho West, but
was meeting the competition inaugurated
thepther roads from yhicago to she
A FATAL PLUNGE.
Albany, N. Y., June s.—This morning as
the freight train approached the bridge
here tho draw was open, and as the engineer
could.not stop the train in time the locomo
tive aud tenders plunged into tho river.
Ihe engineer and fireman jumped off and
escaped.
FOREST FIRES.
Detroit, June s. — Tho forest fires extend
forty-eight miles along the shore of Lake
Huron, and indefinitely iuland. No towns
are in immediate danger, but should no
raius come serious results are Certain. The
smoke makes navigation difficult.
NAVAL MOVEMENTS.
Fortress Monroe, June s.— Tho United
States steamer Hartford, the flagship of
Rear-Admiral Stephen D. Trenchard com
manding the North Atlantic squadron ar
rived in these roads last night from Fort
Royal. Ail well.
surrendered.
London, June s.—Private dispatches from
Lima state that Don Nicolas Depredola, tho
revolutionist, and his suite have surrendered
themselves to ihe Peruvian authorities with
the ironclad turret ship Huascar.
wrecked.
London, June s.—The British and Afri
can Steam Navigation Compativ’s mail
steamer Gambia \v„ - wrecked on‘the 18th
May at Cape Palmas. The crew and pas
sengers were saved.
THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE.
Chicago, June s.—The Board of Trade,
by an almost unanimous vote, has decided
to shorten its sessions. The morning ses
sion will now close at 1 o’clock, aud the af
ternoon session at 3:30.
SITTING BULL.
Ottawa, Ont., June 3.—Fro i recent
advices received by the Department of the
Interior, it is probable that Sitting Bull is
now at Wood Mountain, iu Cauadian terri
tory.
HYDROPHOBIA.
Boston, June s.—Samuel Warhurst died
of hydrophobia at Saugus Centre, Mass,
us was bitten two mouths ago. The svmu
tons were well defined. ' 1
THE RAILROAD CASES.
Mobile, June s—The final hearing of all
suits instituted for foreclosure against the
IVlOUiiOiJiDil Ohio lifiilrottrl hoj Iwutr oiuf-v.
lor to-morrow by Justice Bradley.
TELLUR U-HIC SUMMARY FOR THE
WEEK.
Victor Emanuel has congratulated the
Pope on his approaching anniversary. Tho
Pope has replied to the letter, asking Victor
Emanuel not to permit the Italian Govern
ment to despoil parishes and confraternities
of their property, to which missive the
King lias made no reply. In the meantime
the Republicans have placarded the streets
ot Romo with notices of a demonstration at
the Apollo Theatre on the 31st of May to
declare that Rome can never again become
the homo of the Pope.
The Northern Presbyterian Assembly,
after having mildly cussed and discussed
the question of traternity with the Southern
biauoli of that church, liavo finally declared
iu effect that it is inexpedient to tako any
turther action i u the subject. So that tho
chasm still is open.
The English reserve chauuel squadron
have received orders to proceed to sea as
soon as they were ready, without waiting
for the “Thunderer,” whoso engines have
to be replaced. The destination of the fieet
is said to be Gibraltar.
McClelland, who was killed in Kemper
county, Mississippi, a short time ago, is
claimed to have been a British subject, and
a correspondence growing out of that fact is
said to have beeu commence 1 botwoou the
British Government and (Secretary Evarts.
The work on the improvement of the
Goorgia rivers is about to begin. Through
the persistent efforts of Senator Gordon or
ders have been issued by the Engineer Bu
reau to that effect. The work is under the
charge of Major King, U. S. E., at Chat
tanooga.
Coarabia wa3 shelled by the Turks for
eight hours ou Monday morning, and nine
sailing ships and an Austrian Danube Navi
gation Company steamer were destroyed.
Mecca has placed tiro treasures of the
holy sliriue, amounting to two hundred
millions of piastres, at tfio disposal of the
Sultan.
The bombardment of Turuo Magureli is
expected, as tho Turks have moved their
camps at Nicopolis behind the protecting
hills.
General Grant is expected to dine with
tho Prince of Wales on the 21st of June.
Tfio dinner has been put far off, aud wo
trust that Mr. Grant will ave a Lappetite.
Bpeeial dispatches to Manchester from St.
Petersburg insist that the Caucasian insur
rection will have a damaging effect on tho
Russians in their operations in Asia Minor.
Russia will only recognize the indepen
dence of Roumania provisionally, so as not
to become antagonistic to tho'othor pow
ers.
The giving way of tho outlet lock of the
Chesapeake Cana; above Georgetown, D. C..
JEedasday T killed rma—Uim asd {
wounded two others.
The decrease of the public debt, accord
ing to the next statement, will be six and
ono-half millions of dollars.
A general change ot Federal officers iu
Alabama is expected to tako place immedi
ately.
The death of J. Lothrop Motley,tho Ameri
can historian, is announced as having taken
place in Loudon on Wednesday.
Over five millions of roubles have been
raised iu Russia for war purposes by volun
tary contributions.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that
tho reported recapture of Ardatian is false.
The great Dei by race was won by “Silvo.”
McVeigh’s letter to Beast Butler has this
caustic sentence, which photographs from
life Butler’s career : “I had no money of
my own to spare, and it is only a military
commandant of Orleans, in time of war,
who can safely appropriate any considerable
quantity of the property of others to bis own
use.”
The Postal Commission made the trip
from Atlanta to Chattanooga, one hundred
aud twenty-eight miles, iu three hours and
thirty-five minutes, and from Chattanooga
to Knoxville, one buudred and twelve miles,
in three hours and forty-five minutes. They
will reach Washington this afternoon.
Moukhtar Pasha has beeu dismissed and
will be court martialed for representing that
he had au army of sixty-six thousand men,
whereas he had only thirty thousand &t his
disposal.
Horace T. Smith. General Freight Agent
of the Memphis division of the Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern Railroad, was
accidentally drowned in the river near Mem
phis on Wednesday night.
In a debate in the Commons upon the
question of preparing for eventualities the
Secretary of State stated that although the
government maintains its forces on a peace
footing it had not overlooked any possible
contingency.
The bad blood between the Germans and
French every dav becomes more apparent,
and the Berlin Post says that, no confidence
ought to be placed iu the professions or in
tentions of the French Cabinet.
Fifty dismissals took place Thursday from
the Bureau of Printing and Engraving.
Three chiefs of divisions have also been re
moved, and their places wili be tided by new
men.
All the papers and matters bearing on the
Chisolm tragedy have been turned over to
the Attorney General, who wili investigate
the law with a view to ascertain whether the
Federal courts can interfere in the matter.
The officers and crew of the United States
flag ship Pensacola at Mazatlau subscribed
five hundred dollars in cash to the wrecked
passengers of the City of Kan Francisco.
An instructor of French who was bitten
by a dog at Hartford, Connecticut, on the
uOtu of April last, dicu Thursuay of ~LXj<xto
pbobia.
Lieutenant Clarke telegraphs to General
Sheridan, from tho Rod Cloud Agency, that
tho recent report ot the defeat of Sitting
Bull is absolutely false.
The Turkish Foreign Minister has tele
graph! and the Porte’s Ambassadors abroad
that Atdahan has been recaptured by the
Turkish troops,
The corporation of London wili tender
Grant the freedom of the c: /. in a gold snuff
box. Thus the great American smoker can
add snuffing to his accomplishments.
Home Bashi Baz inks crossed the Danube
between Kaiaric and Juiomitza, captured
some Roumanian raihtia nen and cut off the
calves of their legs.
Lightning struck the Catholic Church at
Weishen, Posen, on Sunday last during ser
vice, killing six and seriously injuring
seventy persons. °
The Russians wiil strengthen the batteries
at Kalatat by the addition of sixty siege
guns, which are expected at that place.
The Roumanian batteries of Lfieida re
pulsed a htth attempt of the Turks to estab
lish a cattery opposite that place.
The Agricultural Club at Paris gave Min
ister Washburne a farewell banquet Wednes
day night.
Mr. Hayes says that he is >t
what is called the Jeffersonian n
diplomacy, whatever that may am •
It is stated that the Russian h is
repulsed in the attack on Karakt.i
The new Greek Ministry wil r,
and great uneasiness prevails at '
Two Austrian monitors are ai > nli to
watch the movements of the Servian.-,.
Russia has paid Roumania th et i is
of roubles.
Hobart Paso i has left Constsatinopi ■ for
the Black Sea.
Ail is quiet at Kars, the continued heavy
rains imoc-diDg operations.
In the Cabinet meeting on rnday the
Mexi-im deprs Jatioas were considered and
instr • jv given to the General uf the
ar m V ‘ pis'*ng the suppression of these out
ragi ’in h<‘ discretion of Gen. Ord, who is
to “t-‘ - Y operation of the Mexican au
thdtitTeiefont at all events to pursue and
capture the and predators even into Mexican
t(> Tbe heavy rains continue in the Caucasus, I
and inasde active operations in both arimea. j
A special to the London Times from
Vienna gives a very unfavorable report, ol
the situation of the Turkish army in Asia
Minor. They are fewer in number than
has been assumed, lack everything requisite
for aa _ army, have no reserve stock ol
ammunition, and are not iu a condition t*
take advantage of the delay in tho Russian
advance.
For tho first timo since negro suffrago was
established, the city of Wilmington, N. C..
is under Democratic control. The Board oi
Aldermen, consisting of six Democrats and
four Republicans, elected last March, hav
ing taken their seats. The new board elect,
ed John Dawson Mayor.
Gov. Stone, of Mississippi, has written s
letter in reference to the recent troubles it
Kemper county, Miss., in which lie states
that the utmost quiet prevails there, and
that au extra sess ou oi the State eouit ha
been called, which will fully investigate the
matter.
It is definitely settled now, so far as a ca
hie telegram can settle anything, that Arda
nan is again in possession of the Turks, s
dispatch from St. Petersburg stating thai
the Turks recovered the place after the Rus
sians had reduced it to ruins.
Hamilton aud Yale Colleges have instf
, proceedings to recover a beques
of forty thousand dollars to each of thos<
institutions, upon certain contingencies
from the executors of the testaior, James
Kuos, of Knoxville, 111;
A fire iu Baltimore on Friday burned tin
oil refinery cm Eden street ‘ aud Cantoi
to ß ot * lt ’ r with twenty-five adjacen
buildings. Loss sevonty-live thousand dol
lars.
Ihe population of Kaheiiti district, ii
trout of Latoum, are showing a more paciti.
feenng towards the Russians, and arc sur
rendering their arms to the Russian author
files.
A column of Russian troops from the arm:
near Kars have been sent southwest iron
that point, which is iu tno direction of Erzo
roum, to watch the movements of a Turkish
foroe which has appeared at Saghauli.
Another insurrection in tho Terek dis
trict has been suppressed, one body of live
hundred insurgents losiug eighty killed am
olio hundred p* isouortf.
The Porte lias issued notice to marin es
ot its intention Yts. place tarp“d-n ln
x r * vv A.v- cCiivY u .. l>ay
ot Smyrna.
Logan won’t have the Chicago CoHector
ship. There is pluck in Logan.
It is stated that Moukhtar Pasha’s army
is iu readiness to assume the offensive in co‘-
operatiou with tho Turkish troops in trout
ot Olti.
The Montieur repeats its statement that
1 resident MaoMahon will not resign, and
the indications all point iu tho same direc
tion.
Bouquet Rodgers, Mr. Hayes’ sweei
scented private secretary, has gone West foi
a httlo rocreatiou.
Ihe contract tor furnishing postal cards
for four years has been completed with the
New York Phototype Company.
Russia’s reply to England’s note lias beer
dispatched, aud is said to be very concilia
tory iu tone.
A great fire has occurred in Titlis, burn
ing a whole street and destroying a vasl
amount of property.
Spain and Germany have settled the ques
tions growing out ot the position of German
residents in Cuba.
Toe Minister of 1 lie Interior of France
lias resolved to forbid all political meetings
of over twenty persons.
The Turks have defeated four battalions
ot Russians posted between Sukum-Kaleli
and Kutaris. It is said that the Russiam
lost, eight guns, aud to avoid capture threw
seventeen guns m tho river Kcdra, destroy
ing the bridge over which they retreated.'
Ihe Eastern situation hourly become*
more interesting. Kervia excites the anxiety
of tho powers, especially England and Aus
tiia, aud upon her action mav iuugc a gen
eral European war.
Steamers from New York took as freighi
tor Europe on tho 2d 170,000 bushels of
corn, 70,000 hags of wheat, 40,000 boxei
cheese, 3,000 packages butter, 2,000 cases
canned goods and 2,000 bales cotton.
Gen, Ord’s orders excite some apprehen
sion, and there are complications growing
out oi them which may excite the filibuster
ing idea of the people. Nous verrons.
The departure of the British Channel fleet
lms been indefinitely postponed, which is a
triumph for tlio Liberal-Gladstone auti-
Turitey party.
The President of the Municipal Council oi
1 ails has been arrested for insulting Mac-
Manqii. Such is the complexion of French
polities.
Butler’s Colorado possessions arc only
collateral for money loaned by him, and tb.
idea that he is going into the sheep culture
is entirely visionary.
Iho announcement of tho rceapturo of
Atdahan by tho Turks is, according to a
Constantinople dispatch, erroneous.
I aekaid is dangerously ill. He has novel
eutirely recovered from a complaint called
Hayes Southern policy,
~t JLrdjjM’-JjMkwbfttlLpf. Mt,-: imrt
is not miprobabio. The Chamber has voted
a secret session, which is ominous.
One can travel now from Chicago to New
lurk on (he Lako Shore Railroad for fifteen
dollars.
Stambou! is being extonsivoly fortified
two thousand workmen being employed in
strengthening the defenses.
Sorvia has resolved to issue six millions it
treasury notes, secured by .State bonds oi
do able that amount.
Garfield pronounces as a forgery the letter
published in tho Sun, purporting to bo fron
Hayes to Garfield.
The Russians will attempt the passage ol
the Danube perhaps on the 16th of Juno.
Schneider, of Chicago, has declined tht
Swiss mission. “Bully lor Schneider.”
When rogues fall out the truth will come
to the surface. One Deputy Marshal Franks
ot North Carolina, has been charged with
deli aiming tiie United States Government,
lie accuses the Marshal, a Mr, Douglass, o!
trying to bribe him to make false returns.
Peace rumors state that the programme
includes self-government for Bosnia, Herze
govina, Bulgaiia and tho Christians o
Lebanon, wuh an European garrison o
control and the cession of Armenian terri
tory.
Pitkin refuses to resign, and Mr. Hayet
has now to solve that old question. When
Peter Pitkin picked a peck of pickled pi p
jh is, where’s the peck of peppers that Pe*
Pitkin picked ?
The village of Htozen was alt;* eked a
destroyed on the 31st of May, wii > a loss o
one hundred and fifty-eight kill.- 4 ~and nine
teen wounded. Montenegrins, and insur
gents were the actors.
• Ttle grows daily more interest-
J-lio lurks havi) abandoned JSpuz. it
is thought that a hard fight will take place
at Krustaz, where the Turks are concen
trating,
Tho forcing of the mouth of tho -Saiina
approach to the Danube, is also r- ended as
a fiction, but it may bo stated v there is
more truth than poetry in the e (or.
The advance of the Russia • ater iroin
"Kars in the direction of Hoy. hi and Olti
interferes very seriously iffi Moukhtar
Pasha’s schedule.
Butler and MaeVeigh nave given scandal
ous iuterest to tho Marsh tlship of Louisiana,
but the MarsLaiship of Georgia still interest.-,
our awn politicians.
Moukhtar Pasha has not been oourtmai -
tialed, and ho lias established his head
quarters thirty miles east of Erzeroum.
A telegram ti, tho Daily Telegraph sa;
that tiie story of the destruction of Mousr-i
Pasha's Circassians is au unfounded canard.
Austria having made the demand, Little
Wallaohia will bo neutral ground.
The rains on ihe Danube ha . ’ ly
impeded military operation ■
White Las resign/ . m
,1 the port of Itichmon M
The Czar and Cza
Bucharest. H
In Virginia, under the amended c-'iH
stitution, a poll tax is levied, the avails
which go to the support of the schools.
No man can vote unless he exhihits at the
polls a receipt that such poll tax, for the
previous year, has oeen paid. The de
sign of this tax is to make ail classes pay
something toward the support of the
schools. All enjoyed the benefit of the
/schools, while a majority paid no taxes
whatever, and it wa3 urged that if they
valued the schools and the privilege of
voting they would be willing to pay the
head tax, which is small enough to be
within the reach of all.
The Pennsylvania Kepublicans are in
hot water. The leaders don’t know
whether it is best to follow Hayes, or go
with the other fellow. The Camerons
are anxious to retain the lead, and are
quite likely to do almost anything to
secure that end. They want the patron -
age, and Don is now in Washington
looking after the drippings. It is said
that Secretary Sherman is strongly in
sympathy with Cameron, while Evarts,
Schurz, Key and Devens are not disposed
to concede anything to him.
In Taliaferro a negro girl undertook to
burn out some snakes and
ing out farm of . J
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