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Chronicle aitb Sentinel.
WEDNESDAY JULY 9,1873.
THE FRENCH BRAVO.
It is with peculiar and lively satisfac
tion that we hear of the wounding of
DeCassagnac in his recent duel with M.
Kane. For once the newspaper bully,
the “fighting editor,” the bravo of the
press, has been seriously wounded by
his antagonist, has come off second-best
in a conflict of his own seeking. For
once his superior skill in fence—which
has emboldened him to insult and ma
lign whom he pleased—has failed to pro
tect him, and while his wounds heal he
will have ample leisure to reflect upon
the uncertainty of small-sword practice
and of the cunning of fence displayed
by the Communist. So long as M. Ranc
confines his phlebotomizing operations
to such despicable desperadoes as De-
Cassagnac we shall wish him all manner
of success.
TYPE SETTING MACHINE.
The New York Daily News publishes
an extra with a long account of the
Delcambre type-setting machine— the
article itself set by the new process. We
have not the space for a description of
the new invention. Mr. Delcambre
claims for it simplicity, reliability and
speed. An expert operator can set from
three to four thousand ems an hour. Os
course Mr. Delcambre believes that “he
lias solved forever one of the most im
portant and intricate problems of the
mechanic arts—a solution long sought
by humanitarians, inventors, and other
apostles of human progress.” All such
machines have been heretofore dead
failures. They were born of the san
guine brain of their inventors but to
die. If Mr. Delcambre is by any change
successful, he will indeed confer a bene
fit difficult to estimate upon the world.
PRANCE'S FUTURE.
The Empress Eucgenie has not lost
faith in the future of the Bonapartes—
she still believes that the destiny of the
Napoleonic lino is to rule France and
the world. “Now that the wretched
Thiers,” she says, “is gone; all moves.
MaoMahon is President and loves
France. The future is ours.” Hopeful
words and brave, these of the widowed
Empress. She has lost her husband,
but she has a son and for him she is
working out away to the throne. Con
fident as is her language, thero is some
ground for her belief that France is re
turning to the sway of the Bonapartes.
If MacMahon chooses to play Monk, the
restoration may come to-morrow—and
he is an ardent lover of the Empire, at
tached to the Empress, a cool, clear
headed soldier and not over ambitious
himself. His election to the Presidency
was justly considered a triumph of the
.Monarchists and the only monarchy
which the Hero of Magenta ever recog
nized or served was the one founded by
the first and re-established by the third
Napoleon. To restore the Empress and
the Prince Imperial will be easier and
safer than to attempt the creation of a
■dynasty of his own. Let MacMahon
-lemoiuber Monk, who docliucdiMAK'-
«eed the Protector, and
«lying gratitude of his country by the
restoration of the Stuarts. Let him
espouse the cause of the widow and the
orphan, and let him give to France Na
poleon the Fourth —another ruler from
the race which made her the proudest
and the greatest nation in the world.
Before the victim of Sedan has been a
year in his tomb all this may bs accom
plished, and France may enter upon a
new era of prosperity and splendor.
TUB COMING ISSUE.
The New York Herald, of the stli, in
an editorial article written with a great
•leal i,'iore ability and force than the
leaders which usually appear in the col
umns of the American Trimmer, reviews
the past epochs of our country’s politics
and forecasts the nature of the coming
issue. While professedly friendly to Gen.
■Grant; while giving him credit for saving
tho Republic in time of war and for gov
erning it wisely and honestly (God save
the mark !) in time of peace; while im
plying that a second term of the Presi
dency was a just reward of distinguished
•public services, the Herald fears that
tbe personal ambition of the President
will make Oiesarism—the assumption of
•continuous power—the issue which the
[people must determine in 1876. The
writer thinks that the presentation
of such an issue will be a suicidal act.
Grant, though the leader of his party—
as completely its master as was ever Jef
ferson or Jackson—cannot hope for
success a third time. “ Great as
• General Grant lias shown himself to
(be, and powerful as his party nn
ilewbtedly is, the suggoutiou of a third
terra, seriously accepted on liis part,
would be virtually to leap from the
’Tarpeiau Rock and leave a name in his
tory to bo remembered with the names
of Burr and Arnold.” The metaphor is
a little mixed, perhaps, but the lan
guage is certainly strong and emphatic
enough. The foresight of the Herald
is not very remarkable, its prescience in
political allairs has been generally any
thing but extraordinary, but occasional
ly, in its wild wanderings and blind
gropings, it stumbles, accidentally, upon
the truth. Every important act of the
President's since his second inaugural
seems to indicate that he is preparing
: for a thirl term, that Cjesarism is to be
tithe issue—•Cjesarism with all itstryanny
and corruption, its viciousness and its
depravity without the prosperity, the
glory and the grandeur which made its
despotism endurable. To this com
plexion must it come at last unless
the people remain true to them
selves and trua to the faith of
their fathers the founders of
the Republic. But while the Herald
has discovered the fact it is not the first
to discover the truth. Like other jour
nals and other professed party leaders
it has been blind, because it would not
see. Sagacious statesmen foresaw and
depicted the evil more than a year ago.
■ Charles Sumner, whoso Repulieauisui is
as undoubted as his talents, told Con
gress and the country of Caasarism from
his seat in the Senate more than a twelve
months since. Horace Greeley, the great
journalist, the man able, honest and
•sincere, whoso untiring exertions, whose
perseverance, unflagging industry and
indomitable will, made him the founder
of the Republican party and contributed
in no small measure to its subsequent
victories and long continued success,
saw the danger and sounded a warning
in the columns of the Tribune. Other
Republicans saw it and sought to save
the party from the suicidal nomination
at Philadelphia. When they became
convinced that further exertions within
party lines would be useless, they re
nounced their allegiance. They deter
mined to act for themselves, and the
Cincinnati platform and the nomination
of Horace Greeley was the first formal
protest against the one-man power. The
Democracy, losing sight of lesser evils
in the presence of great and immediate
danger, coalesced with the reformers
and fought with them, shoulder to
shoulder, the battle of ’seventy-two.
But the strategy of the enemy caused
the true grounds of quarrel to be ig
nored and forgotten. The conflict was
waged upon false issues, and the Cincin
nati movement encountered a crushing
defeat. Now the campaign must be re
commenced; and though the last fight
was lost and the enemy has the prestige
of success, the prospects for victory
will be better than they ever were be
fore. Csesarism, which formerly lay in
ambush, now rears high its brazen front,
and there is no mistaking the char
acter of the foe. Unless the masses
have become accustomed to misgovem
ment—unless the Democracy have lost
their ancient courage and forsaken their
ancient faith—victory must come to us
in ’seventy-six.
AS IT SHOULD HE ?
From the appointments recently made
in South Carolina, it appears that Sena
tor Patterson, of that State, is the prin
cipal adviser of the Administration in
the matter. This is decidedly appro
priate. bought his way into
the United States Senate, and by so do
ing proved himself worthy to take his
seat by the side of the Camerons, Clay
tons and Hipple-Mitchells of that body.
These are the men who understand how
to work the party machinery so as to do
themselves the most good, and they are
influential friends to have in thoir re
spective States. “By placing a good share
of the appointing power in their hands
Grant binds them securely to him, so
that ho can command their services
when needed.
ADDS ITS VOICE.
The Connecticut Legislature has
added its voice to those of many sister
States in condemning the salary steal of
the Forty-second Congress, and has re
quested the Senators and Representa
tives from the State to labor for the
repeal of the law. This action of the
Legislature is noteworthy as showing
how deep-seated the feeling of popular
disapproval is, the lapse of time having
brought with it no ameliorating in
fluences, as it was fondly hoped, by
those who w. re the principal movers in
the steal, it would. There is no pro
bability that the sentiment of the peo
ple will have undergone any change by
the time Congress meets in December,
and in this case it would be wise for the
body to trci*l. that
A Washington
letter to the Savannah News states that
three distinguished “gentlemen from
Georgia,” members elect of the Forty
second Congress, have been drawing
their increased pay regularly for the
past threo months—though they have
neither taken their oath nor their seats.
If this bo true only four votes from
Georgia can be counted on by the friends
of repeal.
THE CRUEL CORE.
Opinions of tbe Press on the Recent
Murders—Healthy Public Sentiment
—Let the Laws be Enforced.
Walworth and Rhett.
[From the New York Herald.]
Tho duello, of which we have had a
terrible instance in the Rhett and Cooley
ease at New Orleans, and lately, also, at
Richmond, Va., springs from the same
false and unchristian notion of honor
and morality. It is a remnant of the
semi-barbanc age, mistakenly called the
age of chivalry, when every man above
tbe level of a serf had his lance in rest
or some other deadly weapon ready to
take the life of his enemy. This mis
called and, as we said, unchristian senti
ment .of chivalry still exists. It exists
not only in the United States, but in
Europe’ and throughout the world,
though of late years it has been dying
out as intelligence and morn liberal
ideas prevail. It is not many years since
men of the highest position iu Europe
—statesmen and those who ruled na
tions—met to fire deadly shots at each
other, after the ancient semi-bar
baric plan, for the purpose of settling
some difficulty or to satisfy a punc
tillio of honor. But, fortunately, we
rarely hear of a duel now among the
highest and most cultivated people in
Europe. In the United States it is still
practiced, particularly in the South, and
often JU cases that are as absurd and
Quixotic as they are criminal. Young
Walworth, no doubt, had imbibed this
idea of freely using the pistol from his
social relations and education. It is but
a short step from the so-called chivalric
code of defending one’s honor by the
pistol to using that murderous instru
ment to protect a beloved mother or
family under supposed danger. All this
is contrary to our Christian and nine
teenth century civilization. It is the
remnant of a barbaric age. The law is
the proper remedy for evils, and if that
cannot be always obtained at the mo
ment it is the duty of civilized and Chris
tian men to submit or wait rather than
commit crime. Our morals in this re
spect —in respect to sjsjng the pistol—
need improving, and the improvement
should begin with the educated classes.
Heath on the Field of Honor.
[St, Louis Itepublioau.J
Our dispatches from New Orleans an
nounce the fatal result of a duel between
Col. R. B. Rhett, Jr., of the Picayune,
and ex-Juilge Wm. N. Cooley, growing
out of newspaper articles. Tlie details
are sickening, anil will, we hope, serve
to give fresh impulse to the now nearly
universal condemnation of duelling
throughout the .civilized world. Two
gentlemen, attended by special friends
and surgeons, reach the point of meet
ing by tlie same train. With much po
lite formality forty paces are measured
off, and the belligerents placed opposite
each other, armed with double-barrelled
shot guns. Two exchanges each are
made, when the party who had been in
vited to this dismal ceremony falls,
pierced to the heart, and dies in si?
minutes. Ana then—such is the tele
graphic narrative:
“The gentlemen engaged in the affair
exchanged the usual civilities, and sepa
rated with the expression of mutual re
spect and consideration.”
What a miserable mockery is this
cold-blooded specimen of genteel mur-
der, with its precedent, subsequent and
concomitant ghastly etiquette f We ask
not who was in the wrong in the quar
rel leading to the conflict. Whatever
the merits of the controversy, Judge
Cooley’s death leaves them precisely as
they were, and Rhett’s superior marks
manship settles nothing as to the just
ness of his cause ; while, assuming him
to be a man with sensibilities like his
fellows, his triumph on the field be
queaths to him a shuddering memory
that must haunt him through life. And
yet individual members of society, be
tween whom hos.ile feelings become
engendered, are perhaps not so much
to blame for the resort to this so-called
“ chivalrous code” as the local senti
ment that, cool and unprovoked, tolerates
and thereby encourages the horrible
practice. Is it not time that the last
vestige of this duelling spirit should
disappear ?
Murderers Must Hang.
[Detroit Free Press.]
The ridiculous affair of the New York
broker anu coal dealer, who walked into
the neighboring Dominion a few days
since with the avowed intention of im
bruing their hands in each other’s blood,
and who came back without so much as
a smell of what Dick Swiveller would
call “the sanguinary” on their garments,
has been followed by a real duel in
which there is nothing ridiculous. The
affair referred to took place on Tuesday
in the State of Mississippi, between ex-
Judge William N. Cooley, of New Or
leans, and R. B. Rhett, Jr., of the same
place, editor of the Picayune. The
weapons used were donble-barreled shot
guns and the distance forty paces. The
results of the encounter thus far have
been the death of Judge Cooley, who
fell at the second fire, and, presumably,
the vindication of Colonel Rhett’s repu
tation for courage.
There ought to be other results than
these. The survivor ought to be arrest
ed and punished for the murder he has
committed, just as any other murderer
would be. If there is any public senti
ment in Mississippi which sees any dif
ference in point of criminality between
deliberately shooting with a double
barreled gun a man who has consented
to be shot at, and shooting in the same
manner a man who has not so consented,
it is an unenlightened public sentiment,
and needs reforming. It is high time
that the barbarous idea of washing out
dishonor in blood was abandoned ; but
it will never be thoroughly abandoned
until the laws against it are administer
ed promptly and decisively. Let a few
such duels as the one recently fought
in Virginia and this Mississippi murder
pass unnoticed and the revival of the
“code” to which we referred yester
day will have been practically accom
plished.
The Duello Proves Nothin#.
{Selma (Ala.) Times.)
We publish elsewhere the details of
the unfortunate duel which occurred a
few days since between It. B. Khett, Jr.,
and Judge Cooley. Wo do not propose
to discuss the “Code,” nor to say that
duelling is right or wrong. We do not
consider it always an evidence of per
sonal courage to tight a duel, nor do we
consider it an invariable evidence of
cowardice to decline a challenge. Brave
men have refused to tight, and cheap
reputations have been made by challeng
ing non-combatants. The bearing of the
“Code,” as applies to individual in
stances, is a tiling' to be regulated by
the parties immediately interested. We
regret the necessity that occasioned the
death of Judge Cooley, and we regret
more, that as noble a man, as gallant a
Southron, and chivalrous a gentleman
as R. B. RlxeP, Jr., had to commit the
act of killing. Our sympathies all go to
Rhett, and if either had to be killed, we
are%lad that Judge Cooley had to fall.
We are confident that we reflect the sen
timent of the whole white people of the
South. But tlieni we ask. what lias been
proven by the duel ? Has the status of
facts been changed by the fight and its
results? Cooley believed in the “Code;”
Rhett, Jr., was schooled under its
teachings; both were brave men; they
met, exchanged a couple of shots,
Cooley fell, a victim to the “Code,” and
the facts remain iust as they were. In
the language of the Augusta (Georgia)
Chboniole and Sentinel, we ask:
“Does Cooley’s death prove that the
Picayune did assail Longstreet, Herron
and the rest of the Kellogg Returning
Board ns grossly as it did Mr. Hawkins,or
Col. Rhett, the editor of that paper,
is not an ‘artful dodger’ or a ‘willful
falsifier ?’ Is it settled that Judge
Cooley was in the wrong, because his
ball went wide of the mark, while that
of his enemy was lodged in his heart ?
Surely not. This bloody relic of barba
rism, this modern substitute for the an
cient ordeal of battle, with more than its
folly and less than its justification, can
settle nothing, can prove nothing. The
Code may make men murderers; it may
carry desolation and heart-sickness to
happy homes and families; it may make
women widows an.l children fatherless,
but it can furnish no guide to the dis
covery of facts; it is powerless to deter
mine a disputed question.”
(COTTON.
Review of the Week,
[From the Financial Chronicle.]
Thursday, p. m., July 3, 1873.
By special telegrams received to-uiglit
from the Southern ports, we are in pos
session of the returns showing the re
ceipts, exports, &c., of cotton for the
six days ending this evening, July 3. It
appears that the total receipts for the
six days have reached 12,428 bales
against 17,686 bales last week, 19,672
bales the previous week and 18,245
bales three weeks since, making the to
tal receipts since the first of September,
1872, 3,498,219 bales against 2,697 472
bales for the same period of 1871-72,
showing an increase since September 1,
1872, of 800,747 bales.
The exports for the week ending this
evening reach a total of 21,613 bales, of
which 12,533 were to Great Britain,
2,375 to France, and 6,705 to the rest of
the Continent, while the stocks, as made
up this evening, are now 196,417 tales.
From the foregoing statement it will
be seen that, compared with the corres
ponding week of last season, there is an
increase in the exports this week of
11,651 bales, while the stocks to-night
are 70,129 bales more than they were at
this time a year ago.
We have only four days' business to
report this week, the Cotton Exchange
having adjourned from Wednesday even
ing, the 2d, to Monday morning, the
7th inst., the adjournment covering two
bank: days, which is something unusual
in an American business organization.
And yet this simply indicates the rapidly
developing tendency which exists among
US at present of extending the holiday
season; so strongly in contrast with the
severer ideas of only a few years since.
During the four days the market for
spot cotton has been very quiet and
quotations unchanged, presenting no
feature of interest. A moderate busi
ness has been credited to consumption
and speculation, but nothing for export.
The sales for speculation have un
doubtedly been purchases to apply on
contracts in cases where the buyer in
sisted upon having the cotton instead of
a settlement. On Wednesday the market
was dull and unohanged, and so closed.
For future delivery the opening on last
Saturday was weak, and prices were
lowered~3-16<g(}e., but there was some
recovery later in the day. Monday was
decidedly firmer. Tuesday, after ’Change
there was a decline to nearly Saturday’s
prices; and on Wednesday there was a
further decline of I-16<&$c.; an exchange
from August to July was made on Wed
nesday of 1,000 bales at a cost of [c.
per pound. Very little has been done
for the next crop. The latest sales of
futures reported were for July 20 7-16,
for August 20}, for September 18 13-16,
October 181. The total sales of this
description for the week are 35,100 bales,
including free on board. For im
mediate delivery the total sales foot up
this week 3,081 bales, including for
export, 1,610 for consumption, 1,471 for
speculation, and in transit. Os the
above 72 bales jvere to arrive.
Weather Reports by Telegraph.—
Our reports by telegraph to-night indi
cate better weather in the South, and
therefore generally show an improving
condition of the crop. Still much re
mains to be done, and a continuance of
good weather will be needful to get the
plant everywhere in good condition
again. Our New Orleans telegram states
that they have had two days’ rain,
one day heavy and one slight. It has
rained on two days the early part of the
week at Mobile, the latter part of the
week being clear and pleasant; the re
ports with regard to the crop are more
favorable, as good progress is being
made in clearing the fields of the weeds
and grass. At Selma they have had two
heavy rain storms, and generally ac
counts with regard to the crop are more
favorable, but some plantations are in
very bad condition still. At Montgomery
one day’s rain is reported, with the rest
of the week pleasant but hot. They
have had three days’ rain at Columbus;
as the week closes a favorable change is
noticeable. At Macon crop accounts are
more favorable; they have had two days’
rain, and good progress is being made
in clearing the fields of weeds. There
have been occasional showers at Charles
ton, but the planters are making favor
able progress in getting rid of the weeds
and grass. The weather at Augusta has
been warm and dry all the week, very
hot and with no rain. Our Memphis
correspondent states that the plant looks
strong and healthy, and that good pro
gress is being made in clearing tne fields
of weeds; large tracts of land under
cotton are being abandoned, not being
able to keep the grass and weeds down;
them has been one rainy day, the rest of
the week being cloudy. At Nashville
there has been rain on two days this
week; our correspondents state that
the weather is now bright and warm, and
the crop is developing promisingly. The
thermometer at Montgomery has aver
aged 88; at Columbus, 87; at Macon, 86;
at Memphis, 85.
Stock op Cotton in New York. —We
are indebted to Chas. 11. Easton, Chair
man of the Statistical Committee of the
Cotton Exchange, lor the following
statement of the stocks of cotton at New
York, June 30, 1873, by actual count:
In warehouse 52,855
In Brooklyn 6,970
On wharves 8,073
On shipboard not cleared 5,681
Total bales 73,579
This gives the stock by actual count
73,579 bales, which is a very close ap
proximation to the running count.
Bombay Shipments. —According to
our cable dispatch received to-day, there
have been 15,000 bales shipped from
Bombay to Great Britain the past week
and 5,000 bales to the continent, while
the receipts at Bombay, during the same
time have been 6,000 bales.
Gunny Bags, Bagging, &o. —There has
been nothing further done in gunny
cloth ; the price is nominal at 10S@llc.
The general inquiry for domestic bag
ging is good, but there is no disposition
on the part of either buyers or sellers to
operate ; higher prices are looked for,
and holders are not anxious to sell; the
market rules strong nt 14c.
’Jute is in moderate inquiry, but trans
actions are chiefly in a small way. Jute
bntts are again on the decline, and with
increased offerings the market is de
pressed.
What a Western Editor Thinks^B
Local News.— The local news
most important feature
says Colonel Calkins mhisnrarelH
fore the Wisconsin Editorial ConH
tion, for the vast majority of
It is like social gossip, and it has a piolH
gency and attraction, if well told, which 1
a record of the most important remote
events does not possess. If the reader
knows personally all about the facts
which are described, so much the better;
for the account of a dog fight whioh he
himself beheld, or the report of a meet
ing which he attended, or in which he
participated, will be perused by him
with greater interest than he would feel
in the most thrilling description by an
eye witness of the capture of a Modoc
chieftaiu.
A man will read with absorbing inter
est everv line in a description of a fire
at which he was present, and the minut
est details of which he already knows ;
and if he can find an audience to listen
he will read it again to them aloud. If
ho took part in subduing the fire the
account will possess a double charm and
ravishment, und his eyes will kindle,
and his cheek will glow as he fights
anew in print the battle with the flames.
To see in print what tho eyes saw occur
yields an indescr.bable pleasure to the
human mind. As we live again in our
children, we live over again the eventful
moments which the newspapers repro
duce.
The talk of the streets, the counting
room, the shops and social circles is the
best material for the local editor. The
ablest editorial article on the events of
peace and war will pass unread, or with
out comment, while a paragraph about
triplets born in the humblest neighbor
ing family will be in everybody's mouth.
Everyman takes a greater interest in the
absence of his friend or acquaintance
from home than he would in the absence
of the Queen of Great Britain from her
dominions. A bank in New York may
become insolvent and ruin thousands,
but we will barely mention it, whilo if a
store across the street is locked up by
the sheriff we will talk about it all flay.
An army may be slain in battle on the
other side of the globe without exciting
one of our emotions ; lint we will all get
up and run to look, and be shaken by a
tempest of feeling, if a drunken rousta
bout is knocked down around the corner.
We feel an interest in the world around
us far deeper and more enduring than
that which we feel in the world at large.
Our home, domestic wonder is the real
nine days’ wonder. This quality in hu
man nature gives to the local depart
ment of the newspaper an attraction, if
it is well edited, which no other depart
ment can acquire.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Savannah boasts of a two thousand
canine population.
Mumble-peg is now the favorite amuse
ment of the average Maconite.
Twenty-five cents each is paid by the
City Council of Macon for uncollared
canines.
Mrs. Dr. Gharllie died in Macon, Sat
urday, from the effects of an overdose of
morphine.
Savannah negroes steal gas pipes,
grates, window fastenings, &c., from un
occupied houses.
Bishop Beckwith administered the
rite of confirmation to eighteen persons
in Savannah, Sunday.
The Macon Volunteers have decided
to enter for the five hundred dollar pre
mium at the Stats Fair.
The Southern Pacific.
San Francisco, July B. —The Board
of Supervisors passed an order to-day,
granting to the Southern Pacific Rail
road the right to portions of Louisiana
street and Mission Bay, to facilitate the
bringing of ships and railroad freight
cars together.
MISCEGENATION.
A Shocking Example.
The day passenger train on the Geor
gia Railroad brought to the city a singu
lar party yesterday afternooon—a cap
tured runaway couple, consisting of a
coal black negro man and quite a good
looking white girl about seventeen years
of age, the father of the latter, an officer
of the law and several citizens of Wilkes
county. The negro was in chains.
Seeking after an explanation of the
affair, we ascertained that the old gen
tleman, father of the girl, was a re
spectable farmer of Appling county.
Some months since he hired a negro
man—the individual referred to as being
under arrest —to work on his farm.
About a month ago it was discovered
that rather too intimate relations existed
between the negro and a daughter of
the employer, and the two, to avoid the
oonsequences, immediately fled and pro
ceeded to Elberton, where the negro
had relatives living. Hither, however,
they were followed by the justly enraged
father of the degraded girl, accom
panied by an officer of the law
and several neighbors, and their ar
rest was effected. They were brought
down, as stated, last evening,
and left last evening for Appling coun
ty, by the night train of the Central
Railroad. The negro, we understand,
tso charged with having committed
offense of burglary while in the far
’s employ. He is a brutal looking
limen, black, greasy and repulsive
pery respect. The girl evinces no
;rition for her shameful conduct, but
clings to her brutish paramour,
asserts that her father was the
prime cause of the trouble, as he raised
several of his daughters as ladies and
made the others, herself among the
number, work in the fields with the ne
groes. However, bo that as it may, the
advocates of the detestable doctrine of
miscegenation have their foul ideas car
ried out to their fullest extent in this
case. A more shocking example could
hardly be imagined.
Homicide In Charleston. The
Charleston News and Courier, of Satur
day, gives a lengthy account of the kill
ing of a young man in a billiard room
in that city on the Fourth of July.
The victim was Mr. C. Harry West, a
gouug man about twenty years of age,
Hon of Mr. Charles H. West, Jr., of the
firm of Henry Cobia & Co., merchants
in Charleston. It appears that West
was in Meldun’s billiard saloon, on
Meeting street, about 10 o’clock at
night, watching a game of billiards be
tween a party of gentlem n, though not
apparently interested in the result. He
was alone and sitting in a chair, when
four young men entered the saloon.
The names of two of these are not
given, tho others were recognized aB
brothers, James A. Duffus, Jr., and B.
L. Duffus.
One of the brothers challenged any
one in the room to play a game of bil
liards for #5, when the saloon keeper
Hotested against any playing for mo-
the subject was dropped.
walking about the room for a
James A. Duffus, Jr., and
L. I >'i 11. ajqo ".L'iied
and when close to him, one of
Hwo charged Mr. West with calling
a “negro.” Mr. West made
Pune reply, whereupon James A. Duffus,
Jr., struck him sharply on the face.
This blow was hardly delivered when
the other brother, B. L. Duffus, struck
Mr. West in the same manner. Mr.
West was evidently wholly unprepared
for so unprovoked an attaok, and en
deavored to get out of the way. Some
attempt was made by one of the gentle
men engaged in playing the game men
tioned to stop further difficulty, when
James A, Duffus threatened to shoot
him if he did not get out of the way.
Mr. West walked to the opposite side of
tho yoom and stopped, #vhen James
Duffus, who had moved towards the bar,
and was about ten or twelve feet from
Mr. W., drew a pistol, took deliberate
aim and fired, and then in company
with his brother and two friends retreat
ed precipitately from the room. Mr.
West staggered and clapped his hand to
Ms side and fell into a seat near the
door. He commenced to expectorate
blood, when he made an attempt to
reach the stairway leading to the street.
At the head of the steps he fell and soon
afterward expired. The ball had entered
the left breast just above the left nipple,
and passed through the lung.
B. L. Duffus and James A. Duffus
were arrested at midnight, at their resi
dence, in Anson street, and were taken
to the guard house, The arrest was
made by Lieutenant Chapman. Soon
after B. L. Duffus was released to ap
pear when called for, and James A.
Itnffus was held in custody.
AThe coroner’s jury returned a verdict
qt willful murder againdt James A.
Aldus, Jr., and that B. L. Duffus was
an accessory before the fact. Both of
tie defendants are young men just upon
the threshold of life. They will remain
in jail until the next sitting of the Court
of General Sessions, which occurs on
the first Monday in October next.
K.IXG CHOLERA.
The Man With the Black Valise —Fear-
ful Mortality in Gallatin—Reports
From other Places.
[From the Gallatin Examiner.]
During the pret alence of the epidemic
here our estimate of the population re
maining is 1,500. In this we are sus
tained by the opinions of the citizens.
The deaths by cholera, strictly within
the corporate limits, to this writing,
(Wednesday, July 2), have been an
even hundred. We have, therefore, lost
one in every fifteen, or six and two
thirds per cent. This is an appalling
figure, and shows a larger mortality in
G&llatiu than elsewhere, ft goes far
beyond that of Calcutta, where in the
sickliest year it is only two and a half
per cent! At Nashville from 1833 to
1813, after the advent of oholera, it was
4.56 per cent. In 1866 it rose to nearly
6 per cent. This above is the total mor
tality, inclusive of cholera. If an in
habitant of Gallatin could have foreseen
on the Ist day of June last that one per
son in every fifteen would be lying in a
grave, he would have been appalled at
the fearful picture; and yet it is true.
And we are glad that our absent friends
were not here to witness the terrible
scenes of the past month, the deserted
streets and closed houses; the general
gloom that shadowed the entire town;
the almost paiuful silence lliat brooded
over all, and broken only by the rumble
of hearses over the stony pavements, or
the lamentations of the stiioken sur
vivors.
BY TELEGRAPH.
TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES AND
MINOR TELEGRAMS.
In Memphis, one cholera death occur
red yesterday.
Don Carlos has ordered the arrest of
the Cure of Santa Cruz.
The specie shipments for to-day will
be over half a million dollars.
In Nashville seven cholera deaths oc
curred Sunday ; none on Monday.
There have been no cholera cases in
Cincinnati since 3 o'clock Monday even
ing.
Walworth is still in the Tombs, but
it is thought he will be removed to Sing
Sing to-day.
The Tigress, intended to go after the
Polaris, lias four feet of water in her
hold, and is leaking rapidly.
At the Dexter Park Sensation won the
four thousand stake. American Girl
won the first heat. Time, 2:29, 2:264,
2:25}, 2:28.
In the duel between M. Ranc, Com
munist, and OeCassagnac, the famous
duelist and editor, both were wounded—
Cassagnac seriously.
Eighteen Norwegians, belonging to tho
German Arctic Navigation Company’s
service, who were left on Spitzenber
geu, were found dead by the party which
went to their relief.
Wanderer won the two and a half mile
race at Monmouth Park —time, 4:34}.
Jefferson Davis and Gen. Wade Hamp
ton attended the race. Beatrice won the
half mile race for 2 year olds—time,
0:52.
In Louisville, the third drawing of the
Kentucky Library lottery commenced at
nine o’clock yesterday morning. It was
announced that all the tickets had been
sold, and tho drawing was full, distrib
uting half a million dollars.
The agent of the Inman line has tele
graphed the agents at Halifax to do
everything possible, regardless of ex
pense, for the passengers of tho wrecked
steamer City of Washington. The bag
gage and spare stores were safely land
ed, with all the passengers and the crew.
She carried no mail.
In Philadelphia, David Brown died at
the hospital yesterday morning from a
gun-shot wound inflicted by Durham
Wilson a few hours previous. Both men
are colored. The difficulty arose from
the jealousy of Wilson at Brown’s at
tention to his wife. Wilson escaped.
ERIE.
Report of Its Condition and Prospects.
New'York, July B.—The following is
a condensation of the report of the Erie
Railroad: The earnings of the company
have continued steadily to iucreaso for
the past half year. They have largely
exceeded those of any similar period
since the completion of the road. The
reforms begun in the management of
tho company’s business have diminished
the relative expenses in almost every
department, and t ese expenses will be
still more largely diminished as the ro
formes in progress are developed, and
when the present plans for a double
track and narrow gauge on tho whole
line shall be carried into effect there is
no reason why the cost of operating the
road, in comparison with its gross earn
ings, should not be as low as upon
any of the other great trunk lines. We
are rapidly increasing our facilities
for business. Wo have put on this sea
son already two hundred miles of sid
ings and laid ten miles of second track,
and have increased our coal, postal and
other cars. Wo are preparing to reduce
the heaviest grades upon the line, and
when this is done, taken in connction
with thelcheapness of fuel—in respect of
which the Erie Company possess very
decided advantages over any of its rivals
for business in this State—the company
will be able to overcome the disadvantages
under which it has suffered in the past in
comparison with other lines originally
aossessiug better control of local traffic.
These advantages now, beginmg to be
realized will increase in future and the
day is not far distant when our proximity
to a connection with the anthracite and
betuminouH coal mines of Pennsylvania
and Ohio will far more than counterbal
ance the advantages heretofore posses
sed by other lines. The funded debt of
the road has been increased during the
year by the addition of ten millions of
convertible bonds, of which eight mil
lions have already been sold at par in
currency. The remaining two milllous
will probably be placed at sale nt the
same rates as soon ns they will be needed
for our new construction and equipment,
now in progress. Assuming all these
bonds to be negotiated, the funded debt
of the company will then be as follows:
Reported July Ist, 1872, #30,040,140;
convertible bonds, #10,000,000 ; to
tal, #40,440,140. The stock capital of
the company is unchanged from what it
was reported July, 1872, viz: common
stock, #78,000,000; preferred stock,
#8,536,910; total, #86,536,910. The flont
ingdebt of the company,as reported July
Ist, 1872, was #0,463,668 20. The pres
ent floating debt is nearly #1,700,000, or
about equivalent to one month’s current ,
receipts—showing a reduction since last ,
July of #4,750,000. j
The call for votes for the election of
directors of the Erie Railroad closed at ,
2, p. m. Forty-one million of shares
were voted and the Bischoff ticket' was
unanimously elected. So apparent was
its success that twenty million proxies ,
belonging to the Mo Henry and Bischoff
interest were not cast. The result is re
garded as a complete endorsement of ,
the management of the road since the ,
expulsion of Jay Gould and the advent ,
of McHenry, Barlow and Watson man- ,
agement. No dividends were declared. .
SPANISH COMMERCE.
New Customs Regulations.
Washington, July B.—A dispatch has
been received at the State Department
from Hon. Daniel E. Sickles, United
States Minister to Spain. He encloses
additional customs regulations, pro
mulgated by the Spanish Government
for the peninsular. The decree is dated
June sth, and will be enforced against
all vessels coming from Atlantic
ports of the United States after the
expiration of three months after the
date of the publication and four months
after that (fate for all vessels coming
from the Pacific ports. Minister Sickles,
in his dispatch, says it is observed that
this decree, although containing pro
visions tending to embarrass legitimate
commerce of the ports of the peninsula
recognizes aud debates several prin
ciples contended for in my corres
pondence with this Government con
cerning relations with Cuba. Only one
manifest is required instead of three, if
the manifest agree with the bill of lad
ing; the fine incurred for only an in
fraction of the regulation in describing
a consignment is imposed on the con
signees of goods and not on vessels,
and Spanish Consuls are prohibited
from certifying manifests which are not
properly made out. They are, besides,
required to note mistakes and amend
ments, and to report to the customs
authorities of the port to which the ves
sel is bound all manifests they certify.
The Credit Mobilier Suits.
Hartford, July B.—Sixty-two de
fendants in the Credit Mobilier suits
entered personal appearances in the
United States District Court before
Judge Shipman. They moved that the
bill be dismissed as regards them, on
the ground of the want of jurisdiction
of the Court—the defendants residing
in the Southern Distriot of New York.
The motion to dismiss will be nrgued at
the September term of the Court.
Eighty-seven other defendants appeared
by counsel.
TIIR STORM KING.
Further Details of the Great Storm iu
the West.
Cincinnati, July B.—The following
accounts of damages to crop and build
ings, estimated losses by the recent
rains have been received here : In Ohio,
through Fayette county, the wheat and
corn have been seriously damaged, many
trees uprooted and one barn demolished.
Loss estimated at SB,OOO outside of the
crops. In Washington county the crops
were considerably beaten down and the
extent of the loss cannot bo made, the re
ports not being sufficiently full. In Bel
mont county several acres of timber were
destroyed and for a mile around Bel
mont nearly all the fences were blown
down admitting stock into the grain
fields. Wheat and corn were also
flattened out. In Morrotv county,
in the vicinity of CoidongtoD, on Thurs
day and Friday, the storm leveled the
fences. Many valuable orchards were
ruined in Franklin county, and the loss
is est imat ed at from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO.
The bottom lands were covered with
water, destroying the crops. A part of
the canal in the town of Winchester is
under water, compelling some of the
firms to stop business. In the south
ern portion of Licking county, crops of
all kinds are badly damaged. The
Newark Somerset and Strasvillo Road
suffered severely. Twenty-five miles of
track wore washed out and several
bridges destroyed. In Clinton county,
the grain in theshocks and that standing
in the tields were alike prostrated, mak
ing it necessary to raise the greater por
tion of it by hand. In the southern por
tionof Greene county the wheat crop suf
fered, and the estimated loss is from
fifteen to. twenty per cent. In other
portions of the county the loss is con
siderably lighter. The weather is still
showery, and unless it clears up soon
the wheat crop, which is dead ripe, will
be greatly injured. In Muskingum
county, Zanesville, Washington, Perry,
Wayne and Knox townships suffered.
The loss and damage to the growing crop
is not less than SIO,OOO, besides a
heavy loss of timber. In the southern
part of Butler county the rain did dam
age to the crops, and also a largo lot of
timber was blown down. In Clarke
county the damage is great. In Union
county the wheat crop is damaged
throughout, especially along the creeks,
where whole fields were destroyed. In
Pickaway county the crops were de
stroyed and washed away. The loss
proximate, $100,000; to this may be
added broom corn within three miles
of Circleville, $25,000. In Athens coun
ty, at Nelsonville, the Hocking river
flowed in and inundated the lower part
of the town. A large number jof fam
ilies were compelled to leavo their houses
and contents and fly for life, so sudden
and unexpected did the flood come.—
The crops in the bottom lands are a
total loss; damage to crops estimated at
SIO,OOO. A great number of familios
living along the river in the vicinity of
Athens were compelled to move to high
er grounds. The Marietta and Cincin
nati Railroad track was covered too
deep to allow the passage of trains. In
Fairfield county the loss to public and
private property is estimated at over
half a million of dollars. Many low
farms were swopt of everything but the
buildings. The Hocking canal cannot
be repaired, having fifteen large breaks
within a distance of twenty-five miles.
The Bremen canal was six feet under
water on the morning of the 4th inst. Four
bridges of tlio Cincinnati and Muskin
gum and Cincinati and Hocking Valley
Railroads were wrecked. The Hocking
canal and the river wero made one
stream by numerous breaks. In the
southeast part of Indiana severe losses are
reported. In Union county the crops
are damaged ten to fifteen per cent. In
Ripley oonnty the wheat suffered badly,
tn Decatur county the wheat will yield
but one-fourth of a crop. In Shelby
county two-thirds of the wheat is lost.
In Dearborn county the loss to crops
will be far up in the thousands. The
same report comes from Fayette county.
Corn will yield three-fourths of a orop. 1
A DREADFUL CRIMINAL.
Capture in Clay County, Ky., of a Man
Charged with Thirteen Murders.
[From the Lexington (Ky.) Frees, July 11
The sheriff of Clay county and a party
of four armed men arrived' in tlio city
yesterday, having in charge two men,
named James Turner and Francis l’ace,
said to be men of tlio most desperate
character. The immediate cause of their
arrest was the murder, in 1872, of two
men named Middleton and Fields, whom
they waylaid at night on the public high
way. The history of Turner is one of a
very startling nature. Although of good
family and iu easy circumstances, yet his
love for deeds of cruelty was such that
he disregarded all laws of society in
gratifying his savage passions. During
the war he became the leader of a band
of guerillas, who harrassed or murdered
in cold blood all Southern sympathizers
on whom they could lay hands. In Har
lan oounty, on the Virginia line, lived an
old man named James Middleton, a re
spectable old citizen, whoso sons, David
and William, enlisted in the Southern
army. In 1863, Turner, with his bush
whackers, scoured that county. For fear
of their attacks, and knowing their des-
Eerate characters, old Middleton left his
ome and fled into Leecounty, Virginia.
They heard of his retreat, and following,
captured him and brought him back to
Harlan county, Ky., on the'Virginia
line, where they put him to death iu the
most oruel manner. Tying him to a
tree they cut off his ears and nose, and
tore off his nails, besides otherwise mu
tilating his person; after which they sat
around him, watching him slowly die of
his sufferings, the object of their ribald
jests and most inhuman torture. In the
same year David and William Middle
ton, learning of the frightful death
which their futher had died, returned to
their home iu Harlan, bent on revenge.
Here Turner succeeded in killing David
Middleton, and then escaped with his
band from the vicinity, pursued by a
party of Southern troops, who heard of
his depredations and were in search of
him.
He is oharged with many other mur
ders, amounting in all to thirteen. One
of his victims was the sheriff of Lee
county, Va., whom he caused to be
stripped and buried alive in a mud hole.
Until the close of the war Turner’s name
was a terror to the country over which
he and his band of outlaws roamed at
will, killing or maltreating the defense
less, but avoiding always a conflict with
a body of armed men like themselves.
Their deeds wero dark and bloody, and
many a tale of horror is told along tlio
Virginia and Kentucky line of Turner’s
blood-thirsty bushwhackers. There are
those in this city at the present time,
who served ih the army of Virginia at
the period of which we write, and who
recollect the terror which the very name
cf Turner inspired in the bosoms of
those who were compelled to remain in
the counties subject to his raids. He
spared not women or childron, and no
one was ever known to experience mercy
at his hands.
After the war Turner returned to his
home in Lee county, where he wont to
work as a farmer and amassed quite a
fortune. It is said that he is now
worth ten thousand dollars. Ho oould
not refrain, however, from deeds of
violence, and more than once he had to
flee from his home to evade the officers
of justioe. In 1872 William Middleton,
accompanied by a man named Fields,
traveling on horseback, came to the
place whero Turner lived. At the pub
lio inn Turner learned the direction the
travelers were to follow, and taking
with him Francis Pace, they lay in am
bus h for them. Building a lire in the
road, they took their places in the
brush, and as the men passed on horse
back, and came into tin- lij® * . . ♦ j
■•calc,l in n '-ill n i-., i>|n il. ,1 I::V|
effect. This last outrage M
the community mid enrage.®
such an extent that they r *
and pursued the murderers'®
tilled. They were carried
Clay county, to await trin®?V f f ,jl
strong guard the while. I'ii® J #
possible to try them at the 1 ®
the Clay Circuit Court, iiinß "j i '
too exp nsive to keep guard ®
for several months, the iiiillim^B
them to the jail at Lexington
toiler, when their trial will
and they will bo delivered once ii® .
the sheriff of Clay county.
rescues arc possible, and Judge
lias no power over the jailer,- so
is likely, when the proper time arrive!
they will ho handed over to the propmj
officers to meet their deserts at the"
hands of that justice they have so foully
outraged.
THE PERILS OF THE DEEP.
Details of the Wreck of the Steamer
City of Washington.
Halifax, July' B.— Left Liverpool on
the 24th of June; saw neither sun or
stars during the passage. It was im
possible to make any observations.
When she struck on Saturday evening
objects could not be seen three yards
ahead. She was going nine knots an
hour when she stranded. Perfect order
prevailed. Twenty-eight cabin and 481
steerage p.assongees were safely landed
by the ship’s boats and a small craft at
tracted by the steamer’s gnus. The sea
was calm and the distance to the main
laud a quarter of a mile. The vessel’s
escape from total destruction,with all on
board, was providential.
Halifax, July B. — lt is hoped that
the City of Washington will got off if
the calm continues. The passengers aro
supplied with cooked food. The ship
has a general cargo, part of which is
very valuable.
CENTRAL AMERICA.
Revolution in Yucatan—Mexican Po
litical Notes. *
City of Mexico, July 1, via Havana.—
The revolution in Yucatan is extending,
and the country has been declared in a
state of siege.
The election for members of the Mex
ican Congress is to be held on the 6th
inst. The indications are that a majori
ty of the next Congress will be opposed
to the Administration. No excitement
was oreated over 001. McKenzie’s raid.
The Mexican press are urging the Gov
ernment to confer the rights of citizen
ship upon foreigners without compell
ing them to renounce the nationality.
The telegraph 1 ne between Minntillan
and Vera Cruz has been completed.
The Indians in Chihuahua are on the
war path, and have killed several citi
zens.
'l'lie Storm and Its Results.
Jacksonville, 111., July 8. —Twelve
and a quarter inches of water fell be
tween twelve and live o’clock. Bridges
were swept away and great damage dono
to the crops. Many bridges and cul
vorts were badly washed. Spring wheat
flat on the ground; Winter wheat har
vested is sprouting; it is flooded on the
lowlands and damaged on the highlands.
Cincinnati, July 8. —A heavy rain has
occurred throughout the region of the
recent storms, covering a portion of
Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and further
West. Crop reports are gloomy.
Atchison, Kansas, July B.—The Mis
souri river is higher than ever known
before.
The Khan of Khiva and His Ministers
Under Russiau Hunrd.
St. Petersburg, July s.—lt is offi
cially announced that the Khun of Khiva
and all liis Ministers, who fled from the
capital upon the approach of the Rus
sian troops, have returned and submit
ted to Gen. Kaufmann, beseeching his
clemency and imploring his merciful
consideration. The General, pending
disposition of their cases, has placed
them under guard.
Marine Disaster.
Norfolk, July 8. —Put in for repairs,
tho steamer Gulf Stream, fr m Balti
more for New Orleans. Tho Gulf Stream
collided early this morning off the
mouth of tho Potomoo with an unknown
steamer. The latter lost her bowsprit,
and had the jib of the steamer. She lost
part of hor boom and had the chains of
her foretopmast and forerigging carried
away.
PALMETTO LEAVES.
The Barnwell cotton crop is beginning
to look vigorous and healthy.
Jus. L. Jamison, the colored Senator
from Orangeburg, died in Columbia,
Wednesday.
A young man named Harry West, son
of Mr. Clias. A West, Jr., a well known
merchant of Charleston, was shot and
killed in a billiard saloon in that city by
Jas. A. Duffus. Duffus was arrested.
John Harden, who killed Elbert Har
den, in Beech Island, some time since,
made an unsuccessful application for
bail, in Aiken, last Thursday. Ho was
sent to Edgelield jail, where he will re
main until September, when he will be
tried.
The Columbia Union Herald says:
“Mr. Matt. O’Brien is the agent of the
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, a
first class newspaper—one of the best in
the South. Matt, is popular in Colum
bia and draws well enough to draw the
first prize in the Havana lottery.
A negro house in Barnwell was burn
ed the other day. Os flvo children sleep
ing in the house at the time, three wero
burned to death, while the other two
escaped through the flames. Tom
Wood and his son Calvin, both colored,
were arrested on suspicion of setting
the house on fire.
The Kentucky Drawing.
Louisville, July B.—lu the Kentucky
Lottery drawing No. 21,764 drew $20,-
000; 10,550 drew $5,000; 98,743 drew
$10,000; 5,630 drew $50,000; 20,893 drew
SIOO,OOO
A Doomed Office. —A mysterious and
singular fatality seems to hang over the
seat of the Orangeburg Senator in the
reconstructed Legislature of South Caro
lina. It is a remarkable fact that not a
single Senator from that county elected
since reconstruction lias lived to serve
out his term. The Rev. B. F. Randolph,
the first Senator, was killod during the
year following his election. He was suc
ceeded by Joseph A. Green, a carpet
bagger, who died of consumption before
his term expired. At the last general
election, James L. Jamison, a young,
healthy and vigorous colored man, was
elected to the seat, and a few days hem
the intelligence was received that lul
too, had died. Will this fatality
other politicians from aspiring
office ? mu
Suicide of a Bride.—Mrs. t;|| ;
Shelley in .minified suicide ill
villi 1 , S. Monday iihh J
ing herself through the InH ?
maiden name was Blum, anflHHB
been married less Ilian a ni'HMH|||i||
ne ml. ippni. w a li:
rash act.
Fire in < Bum ruvii.u'^WM
deie el M.. Edward 'I
1 lev! lie, V I .jj'V'
Monday morning.