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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.