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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo “ six months 5 00 “ three months 2 50 Tri- Weekly— one year 5 oo “ six months 2 50 Weekly—one year ' 200 “ six months 1 00 Single copies, 5 ets. To news dealers, i I A ets. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for.’ JAS. G. BAILIE. ) FRANCIS COGIN, ; Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON, j Address all Letters to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager. Tuesday Morning, September 7, 1875 Fritz’s letter from Barnwell county, S. C., will appear in our Wednesday morning's issue. The financial world is not very lively. There is still a dead-lock in San Francisco, a gambling Buffalo bank has suspended, and dullness reigns supreme in Canada. Another Northwestern flood is reported, causing great damage to railways, and presumably to crops. Does the grain mar ket require a bull movement just now? Anew daily paper called the bxprqss is announced to appear in Charleston, found ed, it is said, upon the Chronicle,, a sheet which has had but an obsure career for some years past. By our Wayuesboro letter it will be seen that the Insurrection prisoners had a trial there yesterday, and nearly all were dis charged, after the manner of JSandersville. So endeth the secoud chapter. Great Britain contrives to make money out of the misfortunes of other nations by supplying belligerent brethren with war material. The Carlists have had quite a lift this way, and we may look for some desperate kicking from that lively corpse. Our New York dispatches state that the Beechek-Tilton nastiness will be resumed this mouth. Just about the time this an nouncement was made, a disease like the epizooty broko out among the cattle. No wonder. *•. "* Mr. Joseph T. Derry, in an admirable letter, this morning, continues his impres sions of North Georgia. Mr. Derry is evi dently enjoying his trip and we feel assured that he will return among us well-fortified to icsume his labors at the Academy. - The duel about Jefferson Davis, be tween two St. Louis editors, proved a harmless affair. Their paper bullets of the brain were more wound-dealing than their lethal weapons. Now let them stick to their quills or lead pencils, and let pistols alone. We would be much obliged to the Gov ernment to put its lightning mail line, which lias ju=t been determined upon be tween New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and the West, in motion through the South, down the South Atlan tic coast to New Orleans, 'i he political news from California con tinues to bo very gratifying- to tlie Democ racy. '-This \vi i have a dampening effect upon the “bloody shirt” and Know Nothing Radicals of Ohio, and correspondingly encourage the followers of old Uncle Wil liam Allen. Another “wail from Chicago” is pub lished this morning. The Courier Journal’s correspondent, having been assailed by the Tribune as a falsifier, the correspondent aforesaid has returned to the charge and “put the beer” on the editor who tried to make him out a fraud and prevaricator. This is a bad year for balloonists. As an appendage to the Donaldson disaster, we have intelligence that an teronaut attached to a circus company, in Michigan, ascended into space, was seized witli “the vertigo of high latitudes,” jumped out, fell into a mill pond and became a “dom’d cold, moist, un pleasant body.” From the Vicksburg Herald’s statement regarding the riot at Clinton, Miss., it ap pears that the whole affair, bloody and brutal as it was, started from whiskey drinking. The Good Templars have another line text. Men who put “ thieves into their mouths to steal away their brains ” are liable at any moment to turn into de mons and perpetrate any and every enor mity. —— We had the pleasure of meeting Mr. James A. Bryan, the gentlemanly traveling agent of that live and reliable paper, the Augusta Constitutionalist, in our office yes terday. Mr. B. represents his paper in a flourishing condition; this is as it should be, for the Constitutionalist is the best daily in the State. We recommend Mr. Bryan and his paper to our readers.—]Madison Home Journal. The New York Herald, of the 4th inst., says : “The trial of the colored men charge 1 with insurrection in Georgia has practi cally ended in the acquittal of the prisoner first tried, the remainder being discharged. To have justice done before the law in the face of strong race prejudices is extremely gratifying, and the conduct of the people and authorities during the whole affair will remain an honor to the State.” The news from the revolted Turkish pro vinces and their sympathizers is somewhat mixed. As soon as insurrectionary move ments are suppressed in one quarter, we hear reports of their breaking out in another. How much influence the Turkish bond question has to do with reports from the seat of war must be left to conjecture. There is much systematic prevarication just now in all quarters, and rich and pow erful speculators are credited with being able to put a bigger pair of seven-Jeagued boots on a healthy and active lie than any body else. The Indians have taken to molesting geologists aud stealing their instruments. Well, this is not any worse—and in fact not so bad as the experience of the engi neers who attempted to clear the way for the first English railroads. The civil ized, so-called, white savages were more brutal than the red barbarians. The In dians no doubt thought, aud correctly too, that the scientific men were only an ad vance guard of land-robbers. The first railroad prospectors in Great Britain were engaged in developing, improving and in creasing the value of property. It seems to us that this is a distinction with a dif ference. The English consul at Mostar gives a very bad account of the outrages of the Herzegovinian insurgents. These “rebels” may call thefnselves Christians; but, from all accounts, they are worse than the infi dels, and have damaged their cause by ex cessive cruelty and unsurpassed demonism. Their religion is probably of the same quality as that of the Greek bandit or Italian brigand, who is said to engage in pious meditation and the exercise of many devotions as a preparation for rob bery or murder. We should like to see tho so-called Christian subjects of the Sultan either independent or else allied with peo ple of the samo race; but, iu any event, they are sally in need of soap and water, as well as the better practices of civilized life. tmt The Atlanta girls must be awfully be witching. ODe of our promising young lawyers, recently returned from there, is frantic on the subject. He says she is ray ideal—the impersonation of all the loveliness, grace, beauty and what not, this tender heart ever communed to my mind.” Pretty well for one day’s lesson. * ilje lAugnstol Ctmsttitfiumcilist, Established 1799. FOREIGN DISPATCHES Contradictory Reports From the In surgent Provinces —Barbarism of the “Rebels” —End of an English Strike. Belgrade, September 5. — An insur rectionary movement is reported in the neighborhood of Gradatsetats, Bosnia, instigated by bands of Servians. It is asserted that whole districts in the south-eastern frontier of Bosnia are rising. Constantinople, Sept. s.—Server Pasha, in a telegraphic dispatch dated Mostar, to-day, states that many in surgents have submitted, and the agita tion is greatly allayed. The Imperial troops have been traversing all parts of the country for several days without meeting with resistance. He believes order will be restored before the foreign consuls begin the work of mediation. London, September 6. — A special dis patch in the Meorning Standard says the British Consul has arrived at Mos tar. He witnessed the horrible cruel ties perpetrated by the insurgents, who, in one instance, roasted children alive. The insurrection is put down. Only raids by the Servians and Montene grins take place, and these are exag gerated tenfold. A telegram to the Daily News states that Server Pasha has been authorized to propose a limited form of autonomy for Herzegovina. London, September s.—The strike at Oldham is ended. The terms of the operatives have been accepted, and work in the mills will recommence to morrow. Cable New s—The Collie Case. London, September 6. — The mana gers of the direct United States cable report that their line has been re paired. Win. Collie, who, with his brother Alexander, of the late firm of Alexan der Collie & Cos., is charged with ob taining money under false pretences, was again arraigned to-day. The prosecution said they had not aband oned the hope of capturing Alexander Collie, who has forfeited his bail. They therefore asked for further postpone ment of the case and it was accor dingly adjourned till the IBth of Octo ber - Russia About to Chastise Kliokand — Marine Accidents—Servia Announces Her Determination to Let Herzego vina Play a Lone Hand. London, September 6.—A special dis patch to the Times, from Berlin, says Russia seems convinced that the Kho kand rebellion was fomented by Yakoob Khan. An agent of Yakoob arrived at Odessa, but, as he left before recent events in Khokand, his avowal will hardly serve to postpone retributive measures by Bussia. Steamship Gauges, which left here August Bth for New York and Odessa, returned to Deal yesterday with her machinery disabled. Belgrade, September G. —The Ser vian Minister of Foreign Affairs offi cially notified the Turkish Government and the Powers that Servia has taken necessary measures to prevent armed bands going to the aid of Herzgovinian insurgents. Cardinal McCloskey’s Progress—Re pentant Carlists—Notable English men Dead- Ronle, September 5.— A dispatch from Turin announces that Cardinal McClos key lias passed through that city and will arrive here to-morrow. Madrid, September G.—Numbers of Carlists from all parts of Catalonia, Na varre and the Biscayan provinces are giving their submissions to the gov ernment of King Alfonso and asking for amnesty. London, September 6. —Lieutenant- Colonel F. M. Wilson, Cocservat.ve,one of the members of Parliament for West Suffolk, and Mr. H. M. Fielder, Conser vative, a member for Blackburn, are dead. The former was only elected in June last. POLITicAL. Electioneering in Church—A Radical Waterloo in California—Pow-wow in the Indian Territory. Paterson, N. J., September s.—The ballots for the Constitutional amend ments election in New Jersey on next Tuesday were circulated at the Catho lic Churches in this city to-day, with several amendments crossed out. The erased amendments prohibit the appro priation of public money and lands to private or sectarian purposes, guaran tee a system of free public schools, and prohibit special legislation. San Francisco, September o.—The vote for Governor, so far as returned, is as follows; Irwin, Democrat, 43,000; Phelps, Republican, 25,000; Bidwell, Independent, 18.0C0. Legislature re ture are not complete, but the Dem ocrats will have an overwhelming ma jority. The contest for Mayor is still uudecided, with chances in favor of Clayton, Independent Republican. The Constitutional Convention proposition is defeated. San Francisco, September 6. — Bryant, regular Democratic nominee, has been elected Mayor by a small majority. Okmulgee, Creek Nation, via Musko gee, Indian Territory, September 6. The Grand Council of the Indian Terri tory is in session. A full delegation is in attendance from nearly every tribe in the Territory. Extra delegations, as visitors, from the Iviowas, Ooman ches, and other wild tribes from the plains, were also present. The only business to be considered is anew con stitution, providing for a Governor of the Territory, United States Courts, and a Delegate to Congress, which will probably pass this council, but with a proviso that it be submitted to the na tional council for approval. Meeting of the Alabama State Conven tion—Gen. L. P. Walkex - Chosen Pres- ident by Acclamation. Montgomery, September 6.—The Ala bama Constitutional Convention met to-day. General L. P. Walker, first Secretary of War of the Confederate States, was chosen President by accla mation, Republicans and Democrats all voting for him. His father was Presi dent of the Convention which adopted the Constitution in 1819, under which Alabama was admitted into the Union. On taking the chair to-day, he made a conservative speech. Meeting of the North Carolina State Convention—A Tight Squeeze Be tween the Two Parties. Raleigh, September G. —The State Convention met to-day. There were 119 members present. There is ono vacancy created by the death of ex- Gov. Graham. Two ballots for Presi dent resulted in Ransom (In'd. Dem.) receiving 59 votes, and Dockery (Rep.) 58, tho two candidates voting scatter ing, leaving the result uudecided. The Convection adjourned until 10 a. m. to-morrow morning. Intense interest is felt iu tho result, and large crowds are in the city. No one knows the final result. FROM WASHINGTON. - The True Inwardness of Indian At tacks —-Department News—Discus sion of the Eads Jetties. Washington, September G. —The Ute Indians in Southern Colorado have manifested an unfriendly spirit for some time, on account of the many persons attracted to their country by the San J nan mines, and they earnestly protest against any encroachments upon their territory. This is the cause of their recent attack on Prof. Hay den’s geological party, who are making a geological suivey of Colorado, and expect to finish the work during the present season. A dispatch received at the Treasury Department to-day from Dr. Linder man, Director of the Mint, reports he left San Francisco yesterday morning for Washington. He will stop at Den ver, Kansas City, St. Louis and Cincin nati to determine upon a site for anew United States mint to be located in the Mississippi Yalley, in accordance with the provisions of the act of Congress passed last session. The Secretary of the Treasury and Attorney General have returned. The steamer Plymouth, from the mouth of the Itio Grande, has arrived at Port Royal. She is ordered to pro ceed to Norfolk. Mail service on the Ohio river be tween Louisville and Cincinnati, by mail boats, ceases on September 15th/ The Treasury Department has ad vices of the arrival of a vessel in Dela ware Bay from San Domingo, with yel low fever on board. The Treasury Department has re ceived applications for a transfer of one 1 million in gold from New York to San Francisco. The applications are from some ten persons who need gold for commercial purposes. The Treasury cannot make tho transfer to-day, but hopes to be able to send a half million to-morrow. Coinage of silver has stopped and coinage of gold resumed at the San Francisco Mint. The Board of Engineers, examining Capt. Eads’ plan for improving the mouth of the Mississippi, continues its sessions in New York. The discussion of the location of the jetties at the south pass was continued, and slight modifications of the plan for locating the cast jetty were recommended; also, a slight alteration in its curvature, so as to render the action of the current more effective and secure greater, so lidity. It was also recommended that this jetty, which is on the wind ward side, should overlap the end of the west jetty at least 300 feet. It was further decided that 1,000 feet was the most desirable distance to leave be tween the artificial walls by which it is proposed to deepen the channel. Tho length of the east jetty will be about 12,700 feet. Very little now remains to be acted upon, and it is expected that the Board will close its session Tuesday. “ Music by the Band.” Lincoln Hall was crowded to hear the contest between the Washington Saugerbund and the Virginia, of Rich mond. The Virginians were encored in every piece. FROM NEW YORK. Tlie Direct Cable Laid and Working —A German Festival —The Methodists Approve John Wesley’s Memorial Church. New York, September G.—A Rye Beach, N. H., dispatch says the laying of the direct United States cable was completed yesterday, a. m, and mes sages were transmitted to and from the London office. It will be opened for public business within a few days. The Superintendent in this* city of the direct United States cable says messages are now passing over the cable at a high rate of speed. Although the Faraday arrived on the ground on the 22d of August, teu days after sail ing from Loudon, she had only three days of moderate weather, during which she picked up the cable in 2,500 fathoms of water, cut out the fault and made a final splice. He hoped to be ablo to say in a day or two when the line will be ready for business. The procession of the Platte Den terche Vil Kefest to-day was composed of delegations from Baltimore, Phila delphia, Richmond, Chicago, Milwaukee and other cities, with residents of this city. The procession was reviewed by the mayor, the German minister and consuls. The festival is being held at the Schuetzen Park of New Jersey, and will last live flays. At a session of Methodist ministers resolutions were adopted approving of the erection of a memorial church in honor of John Wesley at Savannah. It was also resolved to call the atten tion of their respective congregations to this project. Reopening of the Beecher-Tilton Case —The Epizooty Again. Ex-Judge Morris, Tilton’s counsel, is busy preparing papers for a second trial against Beecher. ML Fearsoll, another of Tilton’s counsel, stated that this action is bona Jiile, and the case is No. 40 on the calendar. It will be reached about the third Monday of the present month. Rochester, September 6. —A disease similar to the old epizootic has broken out among the cattle near Avon. Forty have died within two weeks ; twelve died yesterday. BPORTIN4*NEWS. The Kentucky Races—Bob Woolley Makes the Fastest Time on Record. Lexington, Ky., September 6.—-The Fall meeting over the Kentucky Asso ciation course commenced to-day. Fine weather, good track, good attend ance and good sport. First race, mile heats, for three-year-olds, was won by Grinstead’s eh. f. by Gilroy; Cadwalla der’s b. f. by Enquirer, second; McGib bens’ b. f. by Lexington, third—time, 1:43%, 1:50. Second race, one mile and a furlong, was won by Bob Woolley; King Alfonso second, Katie Pearce third—time, 1:54. This is the fastest race ever run in America by two seconds. The first fur long was run in thirteen seconds, and the i©ile from string to string in 1:41 the whole distance at the rate of 1:411-3 to the mile. Tlie third race was a dash of three-fourths of a mile for two-year old fillies, and was won by Grinstead’s Janet, by Lightning ; Gardiner’s ch. f., by Lexington, secoud ; A. K. Richards’ ch. f., by War Dance, third. Time, 1:17. Ottawa, September o.—Dealers here report continued dullness in the lum ber trade, not only in Ottawa, but in the whole of Canada, and Eastern States’ reports from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick say many mills will shut down for the season. Quebec, September 6. —The Mora vian, from Liverpool, reports that she struck an iceberg, September 2, in a fog, but was uninjured. AUGUSTA. GAI., JrXTESDA-Y, SEPTEMBER 7, 1875. THE NIGHT SIDMOF NATURE. Serious Inundation-1-Conflagration— Death of a Bai|oonatic. Omaha, September ss—The water rose all day yesterday ic|Boyer river and the Logan creek, r j|. re 'Chicago and Northwestern Railroad bed in many places is three and fojju feet under wa ter. No trains have! passed over the road, but all passengers have been transferred over the Damaged part of the road. Coon riwer and Walnut creek, on the Ohieagojßock Island and Pacific Railroad, rosta rapidly, and the track in many places gj four feet under water and is badly dajiaged. The Pacific Express en route West was thrown into a dijjeh just west of Commerce, lowa, twelve miles west of Des Moines, last even|ig. Jno. Hughes, brakesman, was instS ntly killed and several persons slightly injured. Tiie water in Walnut crt|;k is three feet higher than ever l:x|)wn. The west ward bound passengers are laid up at Commerce and Des Mjpines. The east ward bound train, whjjph left here last evening, laid up at Stjjwart, lowa. Springfield, Mass., September 5. An incendiary fire bre ke out in a car riage factory of Join Gekington, on Elm street. South Dt rfield, on Satur day night, destroying besides the fac tory, the Bloody Br >ok House and Hayden’s Hotel. ance, $30,000. Jackson, Micii , Sep Mnber s.—At the close of a circus, Wnc Doyle ascended in a hot-air balloon. Jumping, when some distance up, hf fell into a mill pond and was drowne l. Whitehall, N. Y., September 5.—A fifty thousand dollai incendiary fire occurred at Fort Ann. Official Rogues Punished—Barn-Burn iug.| Pottsville, Pa., September G.—The excitement was greaj here to-day in political circles over t| 3 sentence of tho commissioners of Schuylkill county, Patrick Conroy Valtf tine Binker and Moses Hiue, convicte|i of neglect and corruption in the duuharge of official duties. The sentence! of each was two years’ imprisonment | and SI,OOO fine aud embezzled funds Jo be returned to the county. They viare immediately taken from the court-voom to prison. Morristown, CamdjL' County, N. J.— Two large barns were burned here by aa Incendiary No die, Rutland, Vt., Septe nber G.—Tilton’s woolen mills at Ca: indish were en tirely consumed last ijight. The build ings are supposed to Live been struck by lightning. The mills were insured for SIOO,OOO in 2G conjpanies. WAR OF FACES —i How the Color Line|is Broken—Par ticulars of the Bloody Conflict at Clinton, Miss.—Mr. jjbamar’s Policy a “Barren Ideality.” | § Vicksburg, Miss., September 6. —An extra edition of the flerald gives the following account of tNe disturbance at Clinton: “The origifi and particulars of the riot at Clinton,s on Saturday af ternoon, have been |/ariously stated. After hearing all tib statements we think the following! about correct: There is a law prohibiting the sale of liquor in Clinton, (Some young men from Raymond brought a bottle with them, and while! the speaking was going on, Martin Siveley and some of his frienjls went off a short distance to iLke a drink. — The colored marshalifor the occasion approached them aid forbade their drinking. This ordlr was not re garded and when the marshal at tempted to take tl|i bottle out of Siveley’s hand, Sivfley struck him over the head with ill Senator Cald well, colored, started |.o settle the diffi culty and was folli ved by some 20 negroes whom ho Ordered back, but about 100 more ca|;ie rushing on. one fired a shit which was fol lowed by a general filing and a stam pede. Siveley fired ajfi the barrels of his pistol and the {[negroes then de manded his surrender* He surrendered and gave up his pisijil. After which he was shot and his jj brains knocked out. He was then* robbed of his clothing and a fiagel was cut off in order to get his ring. The infuriated mob found Charles C dltou iu his yard and shot aud killed hi a in the presence of his family. Frai !c Thomasson, a promising young k wyer, was shot from his horse a mile and a half from the scene of theconfl t, and, after fall ing, the savages dr ve their knives into his body in maiSy places. John Neal was fatally shot in the left lung iu the town and Wad ly Rico seriously in the hand. Four n< groes were found on the field and two n ortally wounded. Six additional negroes have been found dead about Clinton since. The white men of Clinton were cf ganized at once for seif-protection, ucfler Col. Harding, and telegrams are seijt here for assist ance. Iu fifteen mimics after the re ceipt of the first dispa|ch, 150 men were ready to march, an*! took a special train, which reachedf'fiinton at seven o’clock. About ten cfcloek more rein forcements came frclu Jackson. The roads were picketed c|iring the night, but, all danger being Apparently over, most of the citizens . euirned to their homes at Vicksburg, leaving thirty men on guard, under ICapt. W. H. An drews. Capt. Andrews returned with tho men this a. m., ai|l reports all now quiet at Clinton audl Edwards. The train from Jackson!Saturday night, with reinforcements lor Clinton, was fired into from the Side of the road, and obstructions weijb also placed on the track. j THE CABe7>f" iß. HICKS. 1 A Lame Prosecution (# i the Part of the Church—An Able Lawyer Defending Hicks. [Special to tho Milming News.] Live Oak, Fl|., September 4. The prosecution i:i|the case of Rev. Dr. Hicks closed th*s afternoon, and the examination of in be half of the defence las begun. The trial will be resum<| l on Monday.— Tho charge of collusion or conspiracy on tho part of any Lne to injure tho character or standiu'f of the Rev. Dr. Hicks was most thoroughly and effec tually exploded by tils evidence, there being not the least shldow of testimony to support it. Whit|, Hicks’ lawyer, appears to bo conducting both sides of the case, and is framing answers for witnesses with astonishing sagacity. Dr. Hankins, the prosecuting counsel for the church, is too conscientious and unsuspecting to copoLvith a lawyer. LaGrange Reporter: fairs. Jack Grady, nee Miss Roberts, a feigner resident of La- Grange, died a lew dugs since, in Harris county. Asher remaijs were being car ried to West Point to belsent by railroad to the horses took fright and ran away; the wagon strudh a tree; the coffin was thrown out and j the corpse badly bruised. Tlie remains #uore interred in the LaGrange cemetery WtLaesday afternoon. LETTER FROM ROME. More of the Beauty and Prosperity of North Georgia—lron Manufac ture and Other Industries—Thriv ing Towns—Religious Topics—An Old Colored Friend—Rome and Its Environs—Augusta Settlers—“ E xcept Those Bonds”—Captain Holley man—Adieu. [Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.] Rome, Ga., September 3d. I left Marietta on Monday morning for a short trip through Northwestern Georgia. After a ride of two hours and twenty minutes I reached Cartersville, where I remained until Tuesday morn ing. The ride from Marietta to Carters ville was very pleasant, the road pass ing through a well cultivated country. The towns and stations along the route present a neat appearance, and every one or the citizens with whom I talked spoke hopefully of the future. I was told by a gentleman who got on the cars at Ac worth that he had never seen better crops of corn aud that cotton was above the average. As we passed Bartow station X saw the iron furnace in full blast and was informed that there were turned out at these works from thirty to forty tons of pig iron*daily. Cartersville certainly seems to be a thriving town. It has about eighty stores, three hotels, a printing office, several good schools, Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist aud Episcopal Churches. Tho town has also a car factory (not now in operation) and one or two cabinet makers shops. Car tersvillte claims a population of nearly 3,000. Dalton, On Tuesday morning I left for Dalton. The ride was equally as pleasant as the one on Monday from Marietta to Cartersville, for the road passed through a populous country, and on each side of us were fields of beautiful corn with here and there a. fine field of cotton and occasional glimpses of as pretty pasture land as one would wish to see. As we came to Cass station I thought of the skirmish which the Oglethorpes were engaged iu near therein 1804, when X saw a gallant young soldier give up his life, Legare Hill, a son of Hon. Joshua, Hill of Madison, At liesaca arc still to be seen the works t hrown up by the Con federates in 1864. On one of the highest hills in Dalton is the fort that was occupied by a negro garrison after the Yainkee occupation of the town. General Hood captured this garrison on his way into Tennessee, and put them to work for the Confederacy by making them tear up the railroad in Sherman’s rear. Dalton is beautifully situated and like all the towns iu this part of Georgia seems to be improving. While there I called on the Rev. Mr. Seals, A formerly pastor of Asbury Church in Augusta. He was not at home, having gone to attend a meeting at Spring place. His son and wife how ever were there aud I spent an hour or two very pleasantly in their company. There are two large schools at Dal ton and the place is well supplied with churches. All tho leading Protestant denominations are repre sented, and the Catholics also have a church. At the North Georgia Manu facturing Company’s shops various kinds of household furniture are man ufactured. I was very much pleased with Dalton, and particularly with the Duff Green House, where I stopped. This hotel is right by the depot, and I do not think can be surpassed by any house from Atlanta to Nashville. At G p. m. I took the cars of the Selma, Rome aid Dalton Railroad, aud reach ed this “ City on the Hills,” after a three hours’ ride. After a night’s rest at the Choice Hotel I sauntered forth on Wednesday morning to trans act some business, and also to see the sights. As it was early, I first went over to Myrtle Hill Cemetery, with which I was much pleased. From the top of the hill I had a fine view of the surrounding country. Just at its base the Etowah and Oostanaula unite their streams, and under the name of the Coosa roil their mingled waters toward the sea. As I was crossiug the Etowah bridge on my return to the city, I met a colored man who, as soon as he saw me, let go the wheelbarrow which he was rolling and exclaimed, “ Well, if this ain’t Mr. Derry ! Don’t you remem ber Scab, who used to 900 k for Marse Will Dab ney during the war?” I told him that I remembered him, whereupon he made many inquiries about members of the Oglethorpes, and gave me information about others whom I had not seen since 1861. Among others he mentioned that “Marse Tommie Mc- Afee was keeping store iu Rome,” and said that I must be sure and call on him. I found out from Seab where Mr. McAfee’s store was, and received from that estimable gentleman a most cor dial greeting. In the afternoon Mr. McAfee gave me a ride through the prettiest portion of Rome and showed me the sights. At the engine room of the Rome Water Works we were entertained by Mr. George the engineer, who, by the way, is a perfect geutlemac, anil takes great pleasure in showing to strangers the working of his engine. He is also a man of great taste, as he shows by the number of pretty plants aud vines which he has trained around the walls of his engine room. We next went to the top of the water tower. I will not attempt a de scription of the view from that posi tion. All I will say about it is that it is perfectly beautiful, and that I have never seen a lovelier view anywhere. Exiles from Augusta. I have met since I came to Rome several gentlemen who formerly re sided in Augusta—Mr. James Bones, Daniel Plumb. Jr., Mitchell Nevin, Rev. Wm. Crumley and Capt. Thomas Wil lingham. It has given me great pleas ure to meet all these gentlemen. It will gratify the many friends of the Rev. Wm. Crumley to know that his health is rapidly improving, and that he has almost entirely recovered from his stroke of paralysis. He preached on last Sabbath both morning and night at tho Metho dist Church. I spent an hour very pleasantly Wednesday afternoon at the office of the Commercial, iu conversation with Mr. Nevin. I feel convinced, from what this gentleman tells me, and also from conversations with several citizens of Rome, that holders of Rome Bonds may lay at the door of the infamous reconstruction measures the rejection of the “compromise.” The citizens who favor the “compromise” represent con siderably more than half of the taxa ble property of Rome. I have heard several of them regretting deeply the light in which their city has been placed, and bitterly complaining of the law which allows any but tax-payers a voice in tho management of municipal affairs. They say that they do not like the way that some of our papers have of involving the innocent with the guilty by the unqualified denunciations that are heaped upon Rome and the Rowans. Adios. I will not attempt a description of the manufacturing interests of Rom \ for the reason that your readers have already seen many accounts of them. Yesterday morning I started out into the country to visit Captain Holley man, and met him ou the road, coming in town after me. I iiad a most de lightful visit with him and his pleasant family. I know that Captain Holley rnan’s many friends in Augusta will be pleased to learn that he has prospered in his new home, and that he has one of the most flourishing farms in this whole section. I leave to-day for At lanta. Farewell to Rome! May she prosper in all her interests, and may her population of four thousand in crease until she takes rank among tlie first cities of Georgia! J. T. Gem. THE BURKE INSURRECTION. Tlie Waynesboro L’risoners —Many of Them Tried aud Discharged—“ So Endeth the Chapter.” Waynesboro, Ga., September G, 1875. [Correspondence of the Constitutionalist,.! To-day was tho appointed time for the further trial of the prisoners iu jail, charged with attempted insurrec tion. but from the verdict from Sand ersviilo, as I presume, together with the paucity of State evidence, all the prisoners were discharged without fur ther examination. There are now in jail about fourteen insurrectionists, all of whom have been bound over to await trial at tho next term of the Superior Court. So endeth the insurrection in Burke. The great excitement has passed away and our community is once again in peace and tranquillity, llow thankful should we be to Divine Providence for unfolding to us the foul and bloody plot contemplated, and for protecting us wholly from tlie unknown horrors of enraged ignorance ! Throughout the entire troubles the white people of this community have maintained tho most perfect solf-control and restraint; and although our hearth-stones were threatened with tlie blood of our fam ilies, we have, to the negro population generally, knowing the delirium under which they labored and the extreme superstition of tho race, extended the most sincere kindness and sympathy. We have many good negroes among us, and let Gens. Morris, Rivers, and the like, (including a few whites) be ex cluded from our midst, wo can live to gether iu peace, happiness and pros perity ! Lora. CHICAGO’S STARTING HOSST. A Correspondent Tries the ES'ect of an Advertisement or Two in tlie Tri bune’s Want Columns—Astonishing Revelations of the Condition of tho Poorer Classes. [Correspondence of the Courier-Journal. Chicago, August 31, 1875. Readers of tho Courier-Journal will remember that iu my last week’s letter from this city a good deal of space was given to showing the unfortunate con dition of the vast number of scantily paid clerks, and also iu giving the al leged plans of the Communists for the coming winter. In the item concerning the latter class I reiterated the state ment made in the first part of the ar ticle that there were fully 20,000 people in Chicago out of employment. At both this anil the remarks regarding the Communists the “ Tribune ” took offence, reprinting a portion of the article un der the title “Exaggeration aud Bosh; a Correspondent hard up for matter,” with some unfavorable comments, among which was the statement that there were not 5,000 persons unemploy ed in Chicago who were willing to work. I knew my remarks concerning the unemployed here were true, but have taken some little pains since the appearance of the criticisms in the Tribune to prove them so. The arti cles appeared on Saturday, when I im mediately stepped around to the Tri bune office and expended sl.lO in ad vertising in the Sunday morning “wants” columns of that paper. The following is a copy of the first: WAN TED —Male or Female Copyist will - ing to work hard for SC per week. Address, at once, Z, 94, Tribune Office. It will be noticed at once that “Z, 94 ” desired a copyist “ willing to work hard for $6 per week.” Six dollars a week is $312 per year, and no manner of board can be procured here, or any other place, for less than S2OO. This leaves a margin of sll2 per annum, for car fare $35, and $77 per year for re spectable clothing, as a copyist must be presentable, and the other necessa ries of life. For this thrillingly remu nerative position I have received up to this time (Tuesday noon) 51G applica tions couched in most piteous and ap pealing terms. Of this number only 33 were from women. The remainder were from young men who had just gradu ated from college; from old men who had been out of employment for months, and begged me for God’s sake to see them before making en gagements ; from accomplished news paper men; from retired real estate merchants ; from young lawyers who could do anything ; from book-keepers who could make deposit; from young ministers whose “call” had weakened; from men with families who didn’t know what they would do without it, or another place ; from gentlemen who had a literary turn aud could “cram” me ou any classic or modern subject; from Chicago Weggs who could drop into poetry or anything else from young men and old men who would work early aud late, in fact, some would insist on working twenty-five hours out of twenty-four, and from every manner and kind of consummate ability came these five hundred ap peals for the $6 per week, to keep body and soul together. The ladies were everything—hard-working, deft, rapid, agreeable, educated, talented, re nowned—one lady stating that her nom de plume was everywhere recognized and appreciated in the literary world. But each and every one wanted me to understand that working as people never worked before for $0 per week would be nearest heaven they ever hoped to attain—at least in Chicago. Here is the other ; WANTED— Hard-workinsr Carpenter for few weeks, $1.75. Address at once, S 84 Tribune office. I have received 394 replies tOithis of fer of a few weeks’ work at $10.50 per week. Without going into the particu lars of the minute specifications of the applicants’ abilities, which were exten- New Series — Vol. 28, No. 29. ded enough to “collar and throw” any thing from a coal-house to a custom house, it is only necessary to add that were all the copyists and carpenters alone out of employment in Chicago, grouped together—the hundreds that did not see the “ads.,” the hundreds who had not the necessary stamp, en velope and paper for reply, the hun dreds who could not read them (for eigners) if they had seen them, the hun dreds that neglected them altogether, and the hundreds that did hump their vertebra to express the most thorough perfection and the most absolute need —would have more than tilled the num ber “williug to work,” which the Tri bune, in defense of Chicago—which is all right enough when honestly and in telligibly done—indignantly claims as the limit of Chicago’s God-forsaken, though respectable, mendicants. But if this were all, there would be no action against the Tribune. On tne North Side, where reporters seldom go for news, save to the county jail, which is just across the river, there are in one line of business—the manufacture of ready made clothing—two hundred and six teen “slop-shops” or “mills,” The pro prietors of these—Germans, Scandina vians and Polish Jews, who are the wholesale clothing merchants’ manu facturers—employ from 10 to 150 girls and men, a small per cent, being men who do the “trimming” and “pressing.” At best, when these shops are supplied with work the year through, they pay but from 50 cents to §3 per week for female, and from 86 to $9 for male help, aud then turn away more appli cants than they employ. This should bo their “busy season,” making up Fall and Winter stock; but nearly everyone is running only a fourth of their regu lar force, and that at wages reduced from those named. The parallel of this is seen, also, where reporters never go, both on the west side, along Blue Island Avenue, from Harrisou to Eighteenth street, from Kinzlo to North avenue, along Milwaukee avenue, and on the South side from Harrison street to Archer avenue, west of State street. In this business alone there are 2,500 people out of employment. There are three great street railway companies here, the North Chicago, the West Chicago, and the South Chicago. I am informed by the Superintendents of these companies that conductors and drivers receive respectively, sll aud |D per week; and that there are over a thousand men waiting to take the two or three hundred positions, at salaries much lower than those paid. They are “willing to work,” probably. I was also informed yesterday by'a member of one of ihe largest clothing houses in Chicago that an advertise ment in the Tribune, four weeks since, for a young man to pile goods (I forget the trade designation of the specialty,) brought 900 replies. Thousands Begging for Work. A walk of thirty minutes along the river, from Bush to Van Buren street bridges, will show you a thousand men out of employment, who would duck you in the river if you should tell them they were not willing to work. Around the doors of every employment agency in the city you can count a hundred men and women who would go any where and do anything for work, at any price that would give them a bed and something to eat. Representatives of the great dry goods firms of Field, Rei ter & Cos. and John V. Farwell & Cos. tell me they would wager a year’s sal ary against “the drinks” that a Tribune advertisement for a clerk at $5 per week would bring within twenty-four hours two thousand applications. They never advertise, as they have already hundreds of filed applications vacan cies in anything at any price. The “boss” of the gang of three hundred now working on the Lincoln Park improvement states that he has to use the police to clear the grounds of hundreds of desperate applicants; that he could get 5,000 men in ten hours, and that he only pays $1.25 for liis com mon laborers. Tom Mackin, one of our most respectable contractors and builders, says—he is a Scotch-Irish man, and profane—“My God, mon! I could show ye 10,000 min before the drop o' the sun that would work for sax shillin’! —but I’d give ’em a dollar anyway!” The Tribune man, by just stepping over to the Young Men’s Christian Association Employment Bu reau, coGld ascertain that more than the number he names apply there every week. God knows, they say, they are “ willing to work ! ” There are a thou sand union and “ rat ” printers out of employment here. Even these autocrats who have work must to-morrow ac cept a reduction of their wages to the amount of fifteen per cent. Yesterday 700 stone cutters struck for an advance from $2.50 to $3 per day. This trade requires years to perfect, aud work cannot be obtained only du ring eight months of the year. Now all these are instances known to me in a general way, but which since Satur day I have ascertained to be incontro vertibly true. And this is not half of it. Carpenters, bricklayers, trunk makers, paper-box makers, tinners, machinists, thousands of planters, ho tel help, stenographers, collectors—in fact members of every trade, profes sion and business, by the hundred, yes, by the thousand, are out of employ ment, notwithstanding the high-toned disclaimer of tho Tribune, and, as I said last week, literally on the street. All this is no particular discredit to Chicago, but tho truth might as well be known, if it does hurt the false pride of somo of our friends and our own citi zens. I wrote the article not only as a matter of news, but to warn anyone away from Chicago who might have resolved to come here and better their condition —a perfectly natural expectation to form from reading Chicago papers and the average Chicago correspondence.— As I stated last week, the excitement of, aud consequent upon, the great fire, drew to us thousands upon thousauds of not only artisans, but amateurs and barnacles. For a year after there was more than work enough for all. The next year there was plenty of work at fair wages. The next, work dropped off, aud the ef fect of tho panic was severe. For nearly two years this vast overplus of labor has been apparent to any one of ordinary intelligence, and the laboring classes have been, and are, in a truly pitiable condition. Chicago is a big city, and nothing short of annihilation a half dozen times more can cheok her magical growth and boundless com mercial power; but, as before said, “notwithstanding her marble palaoea, splendid hotels, magnificent theatres, brilliant, duty-free plate glass, dazzling chandeliers, and unique candelabra,” and notwithstanding the eminently re spectable Chicago Tribune, she hides more pinched gentility, exquisite mis-: ery aud suffering than any other city in America. Regarding the Communists, as I stated, they have organized thoroughly j have secured the frieud- To Advertisers and Subscribers. On and after this date (April 21, 1875,) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or suggesting Candidates for office, 20 cents per lino each insertion. Money may be remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for If used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned, and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. ship of the working classes ; according to the flies of the Tribune, during the Pennsylvania riots were able to send money to assist the Molly Maguires ; are provided with arms and equip ments ; have a red-hot organ, the Vorbote; swear that they will have work, subsistence or blood nex Winter, and otherwise give signs of healthy life. On Sunday they gave a picnic at Ogden’s Grove, making a great show of force and red flags ; behaved them selves, and made a good deal of money, over 5,000 people being in attendance. Facts and figures won’t lie, and I have given both. BRINGING IT HOME TO ’EM. How the New Y r ork Canal Robbers Made Their Pile. [New York Trlbuno.l Every fresh disclosure of the Canal Commission is more interesting than the one before it. The story printed on Saturday which had George £>. Rord for its hero—known in the rogues’ gal lery of the canal ring as George the Si lent-reads like a chapter of detec tives’ reminiscences. We have a member of Assembly of the State of New York, of great wealth and politi cal influence, but just at that time out of a job, offering to get through a relief bill for two canal contract ors, Bennett aud Hand, for two thirds of the gross proceeds. Evidently neither of them suspected that he stood in need of relief, but the offer is accepted, aud papers setting forth this astounding agreement arc signed by the high contracting parties. The bill is carried by the joiut efforts of Jarvis Rord in the Senate and his son in the Rower House, and $30,000 is finally awarded on a contract on which the contractors had already made a profit. But his share in the transaction did not satisfy tho cravings of Mr. George D. Lord. Three years after, ho sug gested to Bennett that he should make another demand for relief on a differ ent contract, but one named in tho Be lief Act. This claim was heard by tho Canal Appraisers, and Mr. Thaddeus C. Davis, now Canal Appraiser, was counsel for both sides—openly and ostensibly for the Appraisers, and secretly and actually for the thieves. Tho fictitious account, as Bennett drew it up, was considered entire ly inadequate by Mr. Rord, who direct ed him to increase it. In its amplified form it was presented to Mr, Davis, who seems to have had doubts about the propriety of a lie till it was sworn to, and directed Bennett to make an affidavit supporting it. There was a friendly meeting of the Canal Commis sioners at Davis’ office, aud an award of $30,000 was the happy result. Of these two amounts, aggregating $05,000, Hand, the claimant in whose name the act was passed, did not receive a single cent, so that this entire transaction, in stead of being the prosecution of a claim which had at least some sem blance of justice, was nothing more nor less than a bold conspiracy to rob the State. In this new departure the Commis sion have entered upon an almost boundless field of exploration.— There is scarcely a limit to the fraud and corruption which has received leg islative sanction at the behest of the Canal Ring. By means of unbalanced bids aud poor work, by false measure ments and accounts, they grew rich enough to set up a party by themselves and threaten to move on Washington. The Regislature was the lever they used on the treasury doors when they were in the mood for a lucrative bur glary. But the partners iu this neat bit of “crib-cracking” are likely to come to grief. The law has laid its hand on Rord, and on Davis, his ac complice, while their two confederates, Bennett and Hand, betray them to the fate they so richly deserve merely to save themselves. FINANCIAL. The San Francisco Bewilderment—A Buffalo Bank Suspends—Great Busi ness Depression in Canada, San Francisco, September 6.—Noth ing new in the financial situation. It was reported yesterday that the Na tional Gold Bank and Trust Company aud Stock Boards would reopen this morning, but the reports were prema ture. Buffalo , September 6.—The New York and Erie Bank has closed. It is rumored that large indebtedness, through outside speculations, is the cause. The capital was $300,000. The European Crops. Roxdon, September 6.—The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly review of the oorn trade, says: The bulk of the harvest has been generally gathered in good order. Another ten days of pro pitious weather will about complete the work. New samples of wheat show great variety. Tho quality is much iuferior, aud the crop is short, as a whole, and large importations will be necessary. Prices generally have only been firm in Faris and the' home market, while in the provincial mar kets of France they have further declined one shiliing per quarter, and in some places two shillings. In Ger many harvesting has gone well and prices were generally easier, although for future delivery most are above the present rates. In Belgium prices have varied, but mostly downwards. In Holland the movement has been de cidedly downward. At St. Petersburg prices are lower. The harvest iu the neighborhood of Dantzig has been com pleted under most favorable circum stances. The new product is of fine quality and good weight, although the total yield is below that of the pre ceding year. Fecundity.—Ben Butler’s attack on the New England people has made the statisticians look around. We now learn that the facts in regard to the comparative fecundity of different races in the United States ha% Rot been very caretully collected. But, from what we know of the birth ami death-rates in England, Scandinavia, and Germany, it is safe to say that the people of those countries increase by excess of births over deaths much faster than the Irish do. Atlanta Constitution • Humors, seeming ly of an authentic character, reached this city last night to the effect that the citi zens of Forsyth and vicinity were appro - heading trouble with the negroes there abouts. The movement- of the colored peopß, it is stated, have been such as to arouse grave suspicions against their peaceable intentions. This caused no little excitement in Forsyth and we learn ■ that night before last the citizens formed a guard and patrolled their streets through out the night, Hawkinsville has had two shooting scrapes. In one McC. Pate and Capt. Cooley were slightly, and John Carrell se verely wounded. In the other a negro boy was shot by the devil of the Dispatch of fice. Gainesville Eagle: Mr, Ferdinand Phini y, of Athens, has spent several days in this city- Re spent many summers here iu former years,, and we are glad to wel come him among our visitors now*