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FROM WASHINGTON.
Bristow and Grant Preparing Their
Documents—The Eagles Gathering
Over the Carcass.
Washington, November 28.—The
Secretary of the Treasury is still en
gaged in the preparation of his report
on the finances, and it will not be
printed till Friday, when, as heretofore,
it will be sent to the principal cities for
distribution to the press on the day of
its transmission to Congress.
The President has not yet finished
his message, but some portions, or all
of it, will be read to the Cabinet next
Tuesday.
New candidates for the Clerkship of
the House are appearing every day.
The latest announcements are: Robert
Tyler, of Alabama, son of ex-President
Tyler, and Neill S. Brown; and the most
prominent of the other contestants are
ex-Congresßinan Adams, of Kentucky;
Archer, of Maryland; Shobez, of North
Carolina; A. R. Lamar and Dubose, of
Georgia; General Crittenden, of Mis
souri; A. D. Banks, of Mississippi;
Calkins, of New York; Miller, of Penn
sylvania, and George C. Wedderburn,
of Virginia, who received the compli
mentary votes of the Democrats at the
organization of the Forty-third Con
gress. There are now here about six
teen Senators and sixty members of the
House.
Washington, November 29.—The
withdrawal of Mr. Wood from the con
test for Speaker, created a sensation
to-day. In authorizing the withdrawal
of his name, Mr. Wood declined to say
for whom he would cast his influence.
The respective friends ot' Kerr, Randall
and Cox, are still confident.
The contest for the Speakership is
active, Major Wedderburn of Va., Ma
jor Banks of Miss., Mr. Adams of Ky.,
Mr. Archer of Md., and Dußose of Ga.,
are on the ground. Each will undoubt
edly have the support of his State. It
is thought the election of Kerr will
throw the Clerkship to the Southeast,
or to the election of Randall to the
Southwest.
The Supreme Court to-day confirmed
the decision of the Court of Claims in
the case of the United States vs. The
Union Pacific Railroad. This confirms
the proceedings in favor of the road,
and allows them to retain half of the
amount paid by the Government for
transportation. The case decided is
only for half a million, but ths decision
will hold for the future, and may in
volve a large amount
The opinion of the constitutionality
of the Enforcement act involved in the
appeal from Judge Bradley’s decision
in the Grant Parish cases, was not de
livered.
Tobey declines the Commissionership
of Indian Affairs.
The Italian Government inquires,
through the State Department, what
space can be allowed them in the Cen
tennial gallery of fine arts.
Ex-Commissioner Smith remains in
the Department as confidential clerk to
Chandler.
The Treasury sells no gold in De
cember. 8764,422 in legal tenders was
retired to-day, being 80 per cent, of the
national bank notes issued during the
month.
The Canal Commissioners, after al
luding to the importance and feasibility
of the canal, say : “It is now regarded
as of the highest importance that the
United States take some action at once j
to carry out the feasible plans of the
ship canal, in order to prevent either i
France or England from coming in and 1
reaping the honor and profit of this 1
great enterprise.” The commission con- j
cists of Gen. Humphreys, Capt. Patter- j
son and Commodore Am men.
Surgeon Ebenezer Swift has been ;
unsigned to duty as Medical Director ;
of the Department of the Gulf. Assist- i
ant Surgeon A. A. Yeomans ordered to |
duty to the Department of Texas.
Serious Charges Against Mr. Lo.
Washington, November 29.—Briga
dier General Crook, in his report con
cerning the Black Hills, thinks settlers j
bordering on the Sioux reservations
have just ground for complaint when I
they claim that the Sioux violate the
treaty time and again; every Summer
stealing their cattle and absolutely
breaking up their business, and this
violation of the treaty by the Indians,
who iN'e fed and clothed by the Gov
ernment, and supported by the
taxes paid by the frontiersmen as
well as other tax-paying citizens.
Then when these same settlers, era
poverished by the raids of the Sioux, j
go to the Black Hills, a country, by
the way, the Indians seldom visit on
account of the terrible thunder storms
in the Summer, and the snows in the
Winter*, for the purpose or prospecting
lor mines, they are charged with vio
lations of a treaty, the main features
of which the Indians have never re
garded. General Crook says there are
nvo sides to this story, and the frontier’s
men should be her.rd as well as the
Indians. The settlers are Che weaker,
compared with the Indians, and most
deserves sympathy and protection.
The Union Pacific Railroad iu Luck.
The opinion of the Supreme Court to
day, affirming the decision of the Court
of Claims in favor of the Union Pacflc
Railroad Company, was unanimous.—
The Court fully sustained the position
of the company. A large number of
persons were present, and a rush for
the telegraph office at the Capital was j
immediately made by newspaper cor
respondents and others to send away
the news.
Phil Sheridan's Hint to the Presi- '
dent—A Lame Explanation of a Das- j
lardly Deed.
Extracts from General Sheridan’s re
port:
“ The troops stationed along the
Rio Grande have had the humiliating
duty of attempting to protect our citi
zens and their property from raids by
the people of a foreign country, who
come over the boundary in an armed
party to steal cattle and do not hesi
tate to attack a kill our citizens when
necessary to accomplish their purpose.
The low stage of water in the Rio
Grande, and its great length, twelve or
fifteen hundred miles, makes the duty
of protecting it difficult—in fact, almost
impossible with the few troops availa
ble for this purpose.
In speaking of this duty as a hu
miliating one, I do not mean it is not
perfectly legitimate, for any duty is
such which has for its object the pro
tection of the lives and property
of the people or an international
boundary line; but when it is con
sidered that these armed parties as
soon as they are pursued they take
refuge on the opposite bank of the
river Rio Grande, and there in sight of
our troops, which dare not cross, graze
and slaughter the stolen cattle with im
puuity. The sight is very mortifying to
those engaged in the protection of the
frontier. This condition of affairs has
been going on for the last twenty years.
Jo the Department of the Gulf, every-
fflje 'Antjnsln Constitutionalist.
Established 1799.
thing seems to be getting along quietly.
Last Winter, when the Department
came under my jurisdiction, I thought
it best to call a halt, in a forcible way,
on much lawlessness from armed bands,
which action brought the attention of
the Government and the law-abiding
and good people of the country to a
growing and inhuman evil. Peace has
been the result, aud prosperity, I hope,
will follow.”
The Care Bestowed on Mr. Wilson.
The conclusion of a card addressed
to the Evening Star, was as follows:
“When your reporter saw the room in
which the Vice-President died, it had
been put in preparation for the occu
pancy of the men who were to take a
plaster cast of the face and the men
who were to make a post mortem ex
amination of the body and the men
who were to prepare the same for the
funeral casket put iu order, but as
one not aware of the purpose might
think in disorder by covering the
carpets and furniture with rugs
and loose clothes. This care your
reporter took for neglect, and upon
his own error he builds bis sup
position of other men’s neglect of the
Vice President, through his sickness
and death. Nothing could be further
from the truth, or more cruelly unjust
to the kind-hearted men who gave days
and nights, through all that uncon
scious fortnight, to gentle and untiring
ministrations by the bedside of their dy
ing friend, or to long watchings at his
door, and it is also cruel to the Vice-
President’s many friends through the
country, whose wounded hearts will
gather new pain from such rumors of
neglect. A more comfortable room, or
more careful aud faithful attendance,
could hardly be furnished a sick and
dying man, than was provided to the
late Vice-President.
(Signed) John R. French,
Sergeant-at-Arms Senate U. S.
THE CROOKED WHISKEY TRIALS
Singular Evidence—Gen. Babcock Im
plicated—A Drive at the White
House—ls Gen. Grant Guilty S*
St. Louis, November 29.—A. C. Rogers,
once Deputy Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, testified he once arrauged a
raid without Avery’s knowledge.
Avery complained and said it was an
imputation against him. That was
the New Orleans raid. It was suc
cessful.
John S. Douglass testified, he was
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
from 1871 to May last, consequently
to New Orleans to raid. I wanted to
try this district. The news got out in
some way and he became convinced it
would be necessary to get rid of
some of the officers. I sent Joyce to
California so I could have the books
of this district examined; suspected
McDonald and Joyce, but was disap
pointed in the first raid on New Or
leans. Avery knew nothing of the suc
cessful raid on New Oi leans.
He complained that my action re
flected on him. In the fall of 1874, I
concluded to change supervisors.
Talked with the President and Mr. Bris
tow about it. As soon as the elections
were over and out of the way, I reeorn-
IBGDfiftd flip plmngoc, X oout MCl^OQttlO
and Joyce to Philadelphia. There was
great pressure brought to bear on the
part of the President and McDonald
aud Joyce were not transferred, as I
had recommended. In reference to the
question whether General Babcock
came to see witness about retaining
McDonald and Joyce in their district,
counsel for Avery objected.
General Henderson stated he in
tended to prove that General Babcock
was in the ring, and with this view W.
D. W. Bamar was called and asked to
compare a telegram banded him with a
letter from Babcock written to Bamar.
Barner thought the telegram was not
written by Babcock.
Mr. Douglass was recalled, but could
not recoguize the telegram as having
been written by Babcock.
E. R. Chapman was then called, and
said he was a judge of handwriting,
and had no hesitation in saying that
the telegram and letter were written by
the same person.
Mr. Gilflllan, Cashier of the United
States Treasury, in Washington, who
said he was an expert in handwriting,
testified that the letter and telegram
were written by the same hand.
John K. Donohue, clerk of- the West
ern Union Telegraph Association, iden
tified several telegrams as having been
received and sent from here in 1873 to
1875.
Gen. Henderson wished to read the
telegrams.
Judge Krum objected and stigma
tised the proceeding as one simply to
bolster up this case and involve the
jury in a muddle as to who was being
tried. The telegrams were Babcock’s
and not Avery’s. He said they were
also introduced to make a drive at the
White House.
FROM NEW YORK.
New York, November 29.—The Gov
ernment has commenced suit against a
Flax Spinning Company for SIOO,OOO,
for undervaluation. The company
claim that goods were imported at full
value.
Clias. O’Conor Reported Dead.
Chas. O’Conor, lawyer, is danger
ously sick.
Later —Chas. O’Conor is dead.
A later dispatch from Fort Washing
ton denies the report of O’Conor’s
death. It says he is somewhat better.
Centennial Short of Money.
New York, November 29.—A meet
ing of the Centennial Committee of
Banks, Clearing House, etc,, addressed
by Governor Hawley, of Connecticut,
and Biglow, of Pennsylvania, shows a
million and a half yet necessary to
open the Centenuial in May next.
Failure—Cardinal McCloskey’s Ad
dress.
Buffalo, N. C., November 28.—A. T.
Marcy, dry goods dealer, has suspend
ed. His liabilities are $150,000.
New York, November 28.—Cardinal
McCloskey delivered an address to-day
in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in this city.
It was his first address since he re
turned from Rome, and the congrega
tion to hear it was very largo. It was
! confined principally to a review of his
visit to Rome, and was highly eulogistic
of the character of Pope Pius IX.
Wilson’s Remains.
Boston, November 29.—The day was
fair. An immense crowd viewed the
remains. The ceremonies were very
impressive. Business in the neighbor
hood of State street and the burned
district was almost entirely suspended
and the stores closed on account of
Wilson’s obsequies. Flags were at
half-mast all over the city, which in
many localities wore a Sunday aspect.
At Lowell, Lawrence and many other
New England cities bells were tolled
and cannons fired.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The Suez Canal Stock —Movements of
the U. S. Men-of-War.
Paris, November 28.—The Khedive of
Egypt offered the shares of the Suez
canal stock for sale to France previous
to their purchase by England. Minister
Decazes wanted to accept the offer of
His Highness, but the Bank of France
made some difficulty, and the opportu
nity for the acquisition of the property
was lost.
The United States ships Congress and
Juniata will sail from Villa Franca, for
home, and the Franklin and Alaska for
Lisbon, on Monday, the 29th instant.
Russia’s Loss in Khokand Egypt
Whipped by Abyssinia—The Insur
gents Preparing to Strike at Turkey
—Spauish aud English. News.
Vienna, November 29.—Accounts from
Tiflis represent the Russian losses in
the recent rising at Khokand as heavy.
A part of the garrison at Khokand was
massacred.
Alexandria, November 29.—The Abys
sinians surprised and killed 1,200 Egyp
tians, including twelve officers.
London, November 29.—The Times
says the other Powers were not notified
of the purchase of the Suez Canal
shares, because there was no time, and
because the Powers had no right to
protest.
Berlin telegrams say Montenegro is
getting 11,000 men ready for a decisive
encounter which is expected around
Garausko and Gatehsko. The Prince
informed Austria that his people would
probably take part in the conflict.—
Austria answered that the Prince was
the best judge of his owu actions.
A dispatch from Odessa asserts that
the battle at Piva really resulted in a
positive defeat of the Turks.
The British iron-turreted ship Mon
arch, of the channel fleet, and the ship
Halden, from Pensacola, collided.
Both put into Plymouth harbor.
A special from Berlin says the Senate
of the State Tribunal ruled that the
charge of treason against Von Arnim
is admissible.
Madrid, November 29.—The Cabinet
Council determined that a decree
should issue, before December sth,
convening the Cortes.
C. Del Castello re-assumes the Presi
dency of the Ministry, and O. Loreuo,
Mayor of Madrid, becomes Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
The royal staff are ordered to be in
readiness to accompany the King to the
Army of the North on December 9th.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Conflagration—Mines Caved In.
Boston, November 29.—The Rubber
Shoe Factory at Malden and all adjoin
ing buildings were burned. Loss 8150,-
000. Insurance 890,000.
Boston, November 30. —The loss of
the Boston Rubber Shoe Company’s
factory at Walden is more serious
than reported. Loss, 8300,000.
Wilkesbarre, November 29.—The
roofs of the Chancey and Grand Tunnel
Mines fell severing a hundred acres.
Loss 8100,000. No lives lost. Several
hundred men art} onstpr* Mr ftphm-tei
uue oi tbe proprietors, noticed signs of
danger and gave orders for the men to
leave. One hundred aud twenty-five
men left the mine two hours before the
cave.
A Duel Fought.
Wilmingtor, Del., November 29.—R.
W. Baylor, of Norfolk, Va., and Col.
Jas. F. Kegan, formerly an officer in
the United States army, fought a duel.
810w r s had been exchanged in Phila
delphia, during a quarrel, Saturday af
ternoon. At the first fire, Baylor re
ceived a flesh wound in the left side,
when friends interfered, preventing fur
ther bloodshed.
The St. Louis Railroad Convention.
Most of the delegates from this sec
tion of Tennessee to the Southern
Pacific Railroad Convention at St.
Louis, returned here Thursday after
noon and yesterday morning. The
special train from Georgia and South
Carolina, on which a good many Ten
nessee delegates took passage to St.
Louis, returned last evening via the
Iron Mountain and Northwestern
roads. Sixty Georgia merchants were
on board. Twelve of these were enter
tained at the residence of Col. E. W.
Cole, by that gentleman and his lady,
while the remainder were conveyed in
the elegant hacks of the Nashville
Transfer Company, to the Maxwell
House, where they took supper. They
left for the South at half-past seven
o’clock. Many expressed their inten
tion of revisiting Nashville and form
ing a closer acquaintance with our
citizens and merchants.
At a meeting of the Tennessee and \
Georgia delegates, held on board the
cars while en route home, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That we, the delegates to the
St. Louis Railroad Convention from Ten
nessee and Georgia, who have been so well
cared for by Colonel E. W. Cole, President
of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis Railroad, desire to add our testi
mony to the wide reputation be enjoys as a
Railroad officer and courteous gentleman;
and for the many kindnesses he has shown
each of us on the trip, our hearty thanks
are due and are hereby tendered,
C. L. Ross, for the Georgia Delegation.
Thos. Claiborne, for the Tennessee
Delegation.
—Nashville American, 27th inst.
An Explanation.
Augusta and Atlanta Railway P. 0., 1
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 29, 1875. J
Mr. Editor : I see by your Sunday’s
issue a complaint signed M. Strick
land from Maysville P. 0., Jackson
County, Georgia, complaining that he
does not receive his paper in due time,
for the reason that it goes via Atlanta,
which is true, but it does so in accor
dance with instructions issued by the
proper authority. Therefore, neither
the Post master at, Augusta, or the
Agents on the line, are to blame ; the
paper leaves Augusta at the proper
time, and is sent via Atlanta and Air-
Line Railroad, according to instruc
tions from the Post Office Department.
Hoping this explanation may serve
to set the matter right,
I remain respectfully, &0.,
A. P. Wiggins,
Postal Clerk, Ga. R. R.
At the funeral of his favorite daugh
ter, the Khedive distributed among the
crowd four hundred aud fifty thousand
pieces of silver coin, from one to five
piastres each. Upon the lid of the
coffin tbo jewelry of the deceased,
valued at three million florins, was ex
hibited. Twenty-four buffaloes were
killed by the priests before the Mosque
Rilah at Cairo, roasted and eaten, and
then three thousand priests said pray
ers by the tomb for seven days.
Wheeling, November 29. —The As
sembly adopted articles of impeach
ment against Treasurer John S. Bur
deli.
AUGUSTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1875
THE VACANT TREASURY.
HOW MONEY BAG* OF GEORGIA
ARE TAKING CARE OF THEM
SELVES. ! *
Au Order from Governor Smith—No
Signs of a Successor—^ The Matter in
Statu Quo. ;
[Atlanta Herald, 28th.j
There were no new movements in
Treasury circles on yesterday.
The Governor did a piece of routine
work in sending au order to the Treas
urer, notifying him that his office was
vacated by operation of the law, and
that in ten days he might turn over his
books and papers to his successor.
The following is the official order.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 26th, 1875.
John Jones, Esq., AtlarMa. Ga.:
Whereas, On the 15th inst., an Ex
ecutive order was issued, requiring you
to give new bond aud surety, as Treas
urer of said State, iu terms of the law
in such cases made and provided, a
copy of which was, upon the second
day, served upon you personally ; and
Whereas, You have failed to comply
with such requisition within the ten
days allowed by law, therefore,
You are hereby notified that, by op
eration of law, you are removed from
said office of State Treasurer, and a
vacancy declared.
You will please, within the next ten
days, state your accounts and deliver
the books, papers and money of the
Treasury to your successor, —, as
required by section 94 of the last Re
vised Code of Georgia. •
Given under my hand aud the seal of
the Executive Department, at the Cap
itol, in Atlanta, \he dag and year first
above written.
By the Governor. Jas. M. Smith,
J. W. Warren, Governor.
Secretary Executive Department.
HIS SUCCESSOR.
From all the information we could
gather it is quite probable that Dr. C.
L. Redwine will be appointed to fill the
vacancy for the unexpired term.
Should this be true, Dr. Redwine will
be an excellent choice and the mantle
could hardly fall on more capable
shoulders.
WHAT TREASURER JOKES WILL DO.
The natural course of events, now
that Treasurer Jones is out of office,
would be for the Governor to proceed
against him and his securities iu the
courts in case he finds Idm indebted to
the State or behind in his accounts.
Of course there can La no impeach
ment for the Legislature has no juris
diction. Col. Jones cad, if he so de
sires, demand an investigation at he
hands of the Legislature, and promptly
settle the issues that now beset him.
This course we earnestly hope he will
see proper to take. Without speaking
by authority, we are Inclined to be
lieve that he will demand a hearing
before the Legislature. He persistently
demanded an impeach mint, during the
last session, and it w sip denied him.
His only object as far as* we have seen,
has been to get a full and fair heariug.
ThiS hA r!H <- > —■ *'• UCAU
January.
WHO WILL BE lIIS SUCCESSOR.
It is Impossible to even guess at his
successor. Indeed theie is an air of
vague uncertainty pervading the Execu
tive department that justifies the
opinion that the Governor himself has
not arrived at any determination. Dr.
Bozeman has announced definitely and
positively that he would not accept the
office from either the Governor or the
Legislature. “I will not nave,” says he,
“any office that requires e. bond of 8200,-
000, and only allows 82,000 salary.” No
written application has been made as
yet for the place, though it is said that
Mr. Renfroe, of the Comptroller’s de
partment, is a candidate for it. Dr.
Redwine did not come to Atlanta on
any business connected with the Gov
ernor about the office.
It will be difficult for the Governor
to find a man who will make a 8200,000
bond for a mere months tenure of
office. The appointment must be made,
however, within the next seven days,
and the right man will doubtless be
selected.
THE SUEZ CANAL,
England’s Purchase of Stock-Inter
esting Statistics.
[ Cou r ier-J our nal. 1
The reported purchase of a large in
terest iu the Suez canal by England re
calls the opposition of L< rd Palmersou
to former efforts of the Fi ench Govern
ment to construct the great highway
through his fear lest France would ob
tain possession of Egypt and the control
of the new passage to the Indies. The
English, whose business with the Suez
canal now exceeds that of any other
nation, are themselves taking the very
steps for the control of Egypt which
they condemned in France. The grant
of Said Pasha, in 1854, of the right of
way to Ferdinand de Leseeps and the
French compauy will doubtless result
iu English control of Egypt. If an
oracle had spoken to Said Pasha and
warned him that the construction of
such a work would result in foreign
domination, he probably would, like
Pharaoh Necho of old, under the same
circumstances, have refused his sanc
tion. The French company was or
ganized in 1858, the stipulations being
that the Egyptian Government should
receive fifteen per cent, of the canal
tolls. The capital was originally
200,000,000 francs in four hundred
thousand shares of 500 francs each,
and was increased iu 18i>7 by a loan of
100,000,000 francs. The canal was
opened for business in November, 1869,
aud in the second year the receipts
were $1,830,455. Since then the busi
ness has been increasing, and the
canal is said to pay a good in
terest on the investment. M. de
Lesseps, to whose enterprise the
success of the work is largely due,
was desiiious in 1852 of submitting his
plans to Abbas Pasha, then Viceroy of
Egypt, but that potentate did not pos
sess the enterprising spirit of his suc
cessor. His son Mohammed Said, how
ever. approved of the scheme, and
granted M. de Lesseps, the concession
of the right of way. Said’s son, Ismail
Pasha, the present viceroy, took an
enthusiastic interest in the work, which
has made such a revolution in the
facilities for East India trade. M. de
Lesseps is now over seventy years old,
but he is equally interested in the pres
ent project of cutting a canal across
the Isthmus of Darien.
A Brooklyn picture dealer placed a
large and expensive mirror behind his
show window. A wandering bull ter
rier, recently, catching a glimpse of a
supposed antagonist, daeaed through
the plate-glass, valued at SIOO, and
demolished the mirror, valued at S4OO.
The proprietor considers his device a
failure.
COTTON.
Some Facts and Figures by an
Expert.
1 Atlanta Constitution. 1
TOTAL CROP.
Has it occurred to any of our numer
ous readers that it was passing strange
that the National Exchange crop re
port, issued from New Orleans, should
come out with a small crop just in time
to help the October corner, and the
next mouth, when there had been no
change for the better, should report
that the crop was likely to be a pretty
large one after all.
The Agricultural department of this
State has put the present crop at 400,-
000 biiles, against 550,000 last year.
There has already been received at
Savannah 258,000 bales, against 288,000
last year, making a decrease thus far
of 30,000. Is it likely there will be a
decrease in receipts of 120,000 bales for
the balance of the season? It does not
look reasonable. The per eent. of the
receipts at the ports for the past seven
years for the first three months of the
season was as follows, beginning with
1868, 32, 29.4 25.4, 32, 31.7, 27.5, 38.5.
In consequence of the crops tribu
tary to the At'anta ports being early
and those of the Gulf ports being very
late, we have put the per cent, this
year at 39, making the receipts at the
ports, 3,900,000 bales, to which add
350,000 for Southern consumption, and
we have a crop of 4,250,000 bales, and
from our present standpoint we do not
think it will be more and cannot see
how it will be less. When there is a
good crop in the west as there is this
year, a large portion of the receipts in
January, February and March are re
ceived at the Gulf ports. But last
year, in consequence of the failure of
the crops tributary to Galveston, New
Orleans and Mobile, the receipts
were very small. There were but
three weeks last year after Christ
mas that the total receipts were
over 100,000 bales per week, and even
then but very little over. The receipts
are already 150,000 bales in excess of
last year. Now suppose the receipts
in December are the same as last year.
But, in consequence of the better and
later crop in the West, we will put the
receipts for January, February and
March at 25 per cent, more than last
year, and the balance of the season no
change from the year before. The
total receipts for the three months
named were 1,080,000; 25 per cent,
added, 270,000 bales, this, with 150,000
already received, will make the crop
just four and a half millions. The crop
of this State was injured by
the July drought, and will pro
bably fall short of last year about
10 per cent. Many farmers and
sections have as good and better crops
than last year. These we do not hear
from. But it is from those who are
habitual grumblers that we hear that
the crop of the State will be only half
to three quarters of last year’s crop.
The crop tribuary to this city is about
5 per cent, less than last year, but in
consequence of some local causes the
ronoinfca are likfjv tn La 1G not- *-
iess. Some towns that sent us several
hundred bales last year are not send
ing us any this. Last winter freight to
New York from this city was 50 cents a
hundred, whilst this year it is 100 cents
per hundred pounds. This makes a
large difference in our recepts by rail
road.
situation.
There was a long and steady decline
from March to October—six months.
Then a reaction for October, and now a
dull and lifeless November, and the
prices for spot cotton at about the
lovost point for the year.
r Ehe prospect for a very large crop
and a stock demand for cotton goods
with the price constantly falling, caused
the bears in the cotton market to sell
contracts down to so lowa point by the
last of September that they have been
unable to drive it any lower since. The
continent has been a heavy buyer of
cotton, and taken much the largest
amount it has ever done since the war.
Money is very cheap everywhere, and
cotton goods are lower than they were
wheu cotton was selling for eight cents
a pound; so it Ls not likely they will
fall any more for this Winter at least,
as a very much larger amount of cotton
goods than at the prices of two years
ago, There is an active demand in
Manchester for cotton goods for India.
Also, there is a growing demand for
bleaohed and fine crown goods for
Africa from this country. It is not
likelj that even large receipts will have
much effect on prices for the next month.
The price of cotton may be lower than
the present within the next two weeks,
but it is likely to be nearly one cent a
pound higher in the next six weeks.
Tlie Duke of Brunswick’s Diamonds.
Apjletons ’ Journal for the current
week has an interesting article on that
painted, bewigged Lothario, the Duke
of Brunswick, whose follies, eccentrici
ties aid diamonds made him the talk
of all jQurope. As to his diamonds, he
consecrated fabulous sums to the for
matioi of his collection, which speedi
ly became celebrated throughout Eu
rope. Among the most remarkable of
the trhkets which he possessed was a
pair ol epaulets, formed, not of gold
thread but uf magnificent yellow dia
mondsfrom Brazil. They were valued
at tw> hundred thousand dollars
each, aid were exhibited at the Paris
Exposition of 1855, watched day and
night ly four policeman, who took
turns ii mounting guard over the crys
tal cast which contained this treasure.
These tpaulets gave rise, one evening,
to a cirious and comical scene. It
was at a ball given by the Count de
Nieuwetkerke. The Duke, in the uni
form of a Brunswickian General, was
blazingvith diamonds, and had on the
famous epaulets. A lady passing by
remarktd to the person who accom
panied ler : “Only look at thosse epau
lets. mule of topazes!” “iopazes,
rnadamt! cried the dnke, indignant
at the mult offered to his jewels ; “ they
are dianonds—the finest yellow dia
monds o Brazil. Look well at them if you
never sav any before.” Thus adjured,
the lacb, nothing loth, examined mi
nutely tie dazzling epaulets; then she
passed o the orders that the Duke
wore, aid so prolonged her inspection
that she attracted a number of other
lady speitators, and the Duke was soon
surrounced by a crowd of ladies, all
admiringhis gorgeous gems, and caus
ing him to resemble very much a
Palais R<yal window with its throng of
gazers, finally, his patience became
exhaustel, and he cried, suiting his
gestures o the words. “Ah, ladies, if
you are so fond of diamonds, I can
show yoi still finer ones; I use them
for buttons to my undergarments.—
Wait a noment—” But the ladies fled.
Miss Kmberly, the music teacher, of
Newark, I J., who wrote “I Want to
Be An Angel,” is alive yet, and though
she is a ml square angel, she is not
oneoftha; kind you see in piotures
with chickeu wings and a pull-back on.
THE LATE WILLIAM B. ASTOR
His Wealth Estimated at One Hundred
and Ftfty Millions of Dollars—Some
thing About His Character and Bus
iness Habits.
William B. Astor’s three surving
sons are Johu Jacob, Henry aud Wil
liam Astor, and his two daughters Mrs.
John Carey and Mrs. Frank Delano. He
owned 2,500 houses and building lots in
New York, and his total wealth was re
cently estimated at 8150,000,000.
.Mr. Astor had more improved real
estate than any four men in New York,
excluding William Rhinelander, the
Goelets, A. T. Stewart., and the Beek
mans. Most of the large tenement
houses around Tompkins square and
along First avenue and Avenues A and
B, belong to the Astor estate, as also
do whole blocks in Sixth avenue, from
Sixteenth street to Fortieth street. The
old Bowery Theater aud the old Park
Theater were on his land. He was
always ready to buy real estate where
he could get it cheap. It was his rule
never to sell any of his houses or
lots. He leased the most of his lots
for twenty-one years, with the stipula
tion that the lessee should build on
them. On the expiration of the leases
the buildings reverted to him with the
lots. The Astor House was the only
instance in which ho ever parted with
his real estate. For some unexplained
reason he sold this place to his son,
John Jacob for one dollar.
SELF-INSURED.
None of William B. Astor’s property
was insured. He believed like Mr.
Stewart that the cost of insurance
would be greater than his losses. The
terms of his father’s will prohibited the
building of brown-stone houses, as they
were too extravagant. He strictly
abided by this rule, and tbe brown
stone houses that he owned he bought
from others, as they reverted to him on
the expiration of leases. The most of
the residences that he built on Madison
and Fifth avenues and Thirty-third
and Thirty-fourth streets in recent
years were of Nova Scotia freestone or
brick with stone trimmings. Mr. Astor
attended personally to the rental of his
real estate, and was assisted by his
sons and agents, Mr. Hallock and Mr.
Bruce. His office was at 85 Prince
street, and he went to the office every
day until very recently. He retired
Mr. Bruce on a pension.
In 1870 Mr. Astor paid two million
dollars taxes on his houses aud lots.
THE ASTOR FAMILY.
Mr. Astor never held a public office.
His whole life was spent in the man
agement of his fortune. Neither of his
three sons has any business pursuit.
Henry, the youngest son, inherited
the estate of his uncle John Jacob, six
years ago. He married the daughter
of a poor farmer in Barrytown, Duchess
county, against the wishes of his rela
tives.
The Astor estate descends to John
Jacob, the eldest son of William B.
He is about sixty years old, and has
one son, William.
It has been the custom in the Astor
fmilv for threH crenerations to deposit
one hundred thousand dollars in bank
at the birth of a son or daughter, the
money and the interest to be given to
the child when he or she became of
age.
Mr. Wm. B. Astor had three daugh
ters, the eldest of whom was the first
wife of Sam Ward. Another was the
wife of Frank Delano, of Grinnel, Min
turn & Cos., and the third is married
to Mr. John Carey. The Hon. John
Winthrop Chanler married one of his
granddaughters.
Mr. Astor was sharp and exacting in
his business ’dealings. As his friends
expressed it, “When he paid out a cent
he wanted a cent in return.” He was
not so prominent in charitable works
as was his wife, who died a few years
ago. She was a manager in several
charitable institutions, and gave away
a fortune among the poor. She was
a daughter of Gen. f Armstrong, and
was related to the family of Alexan
der Hamilton.
THE MAN OP SEDAN.
Astouudiug lievelations of Napoleon
lll—Why Prance was so Easily
Whipped by the Hermans.
[Chicago Tribune.]
The accumulating facts about the
monstrous inefficiency of Napoleon
Ill’s preparations for the war of 1870
have already exhausted all our ca
pacity for beiug surprised, but still
they come. We quote a few fresh in
stances of criminal stupidity. All the
eight thousand artillery-wagons were
in a strong enclosure at Vernon, which
was provided with one narrow en
trance. The wagons were so ingeni
ously and intricately piled together
that it would have taken eight months
to merely get them out. Gen. Ducrot
testified that, of the two thousand can
non in Strasburg, less than five hundred
were fit for use. The arsenal was full
of stone cannonballs, made in the
time of Louis XIV. There were eook
ing-pots for only two thousand men
and canteens for only fifteen thousand ;
there were no haiters or picket-ropes ;
but there was enough black
cloth to dress one hundred thous
and men. Ducrot said he “spent
five years in asking uselessly
for indispensible things.” In Metz,
which was the basis of supply for three
army corps, the supply of biscuit and
oats was exhausted within a week.
There was not an ambulauce, wagon,
not a cart, in the town. Of the three
million three hundred and fifty thou
sand muskets, only one hundred thou
sand were chassepote, and many of the
others had been sold for old iron, al
though not yet delivered. There were
only one hundred and fifty rounds for
each chassepot. The troops were han
dled with shocking incapacity. More
than one hundred thousand of them,
who were absent on leave, were left
without orders, without transportation,
without arms, and without rations, to
join their regiments as best they could.
Men who were ordered to the frontier
from Paris were actually sent thither
by way of Algiers, in order that they
might be clothed in the moth-eaten
uniforms which were lying there. It is
needless to pile up more proofs. These
are enough to convict Napoleon 111. of
a degree of incapacity such as his bit
terest enemies never dreamed of im
puting to him, before his bubble-repu
tation burst and France fell a victim to
her faith in him.
A colored inexpres
sibles were in a very dilapidated con
dition about the seat, put the follow
ing conundrum to his mate: “Jim, why
am I like Henry Ward Beecher?” “Give
it up,” replied Jim. “Bekase ize a sit
tin on de ragged edges of dis-pair.”
“This is a bad year on the unright
eous,” said Ben Butler, when he arrived
in St. Louis. But Gen. Butler derives
a large income from defending the un
righteous, and doubtless he contem
plates this “bad year” with much satis
faction. He defends Avery,
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 100
YON BULOW AND BEER.
Tlie threat Pianist’s Ouslauglit on
King Gambrinus.
[Chicago Tribune.]
Were Dr. Hans Guido You Bulow an
American citizen and a politician, in
stead of being a loyal subject of Bis
marck and a pianist, no office would
open its doors to him, no spoiis would
ever tempt him, from the fact that the
interpreter of the classics is not a
votary of Gambrinus, the big-bellied
god of beer. The fact has been drawn
out in an interview between a reporter
of the New York Suti and himself, the
former being curious, like many other
people, to know the reason of Mr. Carl
Bergmann’s sudden dismissal from the
conduct of the orchestra with which he
(Von Bulow) played his concertos in
Boston. The Doctor was very frank
and blunt in his statement. He rid him
self of Mr. Carl Bergmann because Mr.
Carl Bergmann kept himself full of
beer, and kept the orchestra full also,
with disastrous results to the concerts.
He plainly intimated that Mr. Carl
Bergmann was in the habit of getting
“how came you so” on beer, and he an
imadverted severely upon the beer
drinking teudeucies of his eouutrymen
in general, and musicians in particular.
Had this onslaught upon Gambrinus,
who sits enthroned in divers attitudes
before every saloon, been made by an
American, or a German unknown to
fame, the German people would have
crushed him with the epithet of
mucker or wesser-sempel, or some other
equally opprobious name, significant of
the German hatred of water But this
time it comes from a man who is a rep
resentative German musician, who has
made German music more famous than
ever, and who is destined to go down
to posterity by the side of Liszt, Tau
sig, and the other great German pian
ists, and to be chronicled in the ency
clopedias, by the side of Wagner, Raft,
Brahms, and the other representatives
of the modern German school of music.
He is not a mucker or a wasser
sempel, and he cannot be extinguished
with an epithet. His protest is in
the nature of a deflant attack upon an
almost universal habit among German
musicians, and it has come in good
time. It is pleasant to reflect that Yon
Bulow is capable of making good his
statement. He is not a man addicted
to swan songs or Peuserosos. He does
not belong to tho tender-eyed, melan
choly, sentimental class of musicians
who play to feminine hearts. He plays
to men’s heads. His music is the music
of brains ; he is aggressive and war
like, fond of combat as Wagner him
self, and hurls defiance at his own
countrymen as promptly as he hurled
his thunderbolts at Verdi and the
Italian school, recently. He is the Bis
marck of music. The German beer
drinkers will not make an open assault
upon him. They may probably adopt
the underhand German system of
cliquing against him, however, which
is a favorite system with the average
German musician.
Against beer as an element of Gemu
otliohkoit no esooptiono will probably
be taken, but we contend that beer as
an element of music has always been
its bane in Chicago, as well as else
where. Beer drove Carl Bergmann
himself out of this city years ago.
Beer cliqued against Henry Ahner and
ruined him. Beer drove Grosscurth
into his grave one stormy winter day,
and not a beer-drinker followed him to
his last resting place. Beer killed Carl
Anschurtz, one of the brightest and
best German musicians this country
has ever had; and it was reserved for
Theodore Thomas, who is not a beer
drinker, to defend him on one occasion
when he was not able to defend him
self from the cowardly attack of beer
drinking German musicians. Beer has
driven some of our best home players
into concert saloons. It has been
the bane of our saengerfests, and
has hindered the progress of Ger
man music in this city. It has ruined
more voices than all other causes com
bined. When Theodore Thomas or
ganized the Cincinnati festivals, he
banished beer from them, and speedily
aroused the opposition of the beer
cliques, which manifested itself in
various underhaud ways. Thomas
crushed it at tho first festival, and it
did not l’aise its head at the second.
But we need not specify instances. The
distinction between a violinist and a
beer-fiddler is well known to everyone
having dealings with musicians. No
society that makes beer since quanon
of music can succeed. The proofs of
this are strewn all along the musical
history of Chicago, and every other
city, and it is for this reason more than
any other that to-day the German
musical societies of this city are inferior
to the American.
Dr. Yon Bulow is not alone in his
opposition to beer as an essential of
music. He has a most worthy coad
jutor in Theodore Thomas, and it is
somewhat remarkable that, up to this
time, negotiations for their union have
not been successful. There are other
German musicians who are not ready
to admit that beer guzzling is necessary
to music. At the same time, now that
Yon Bulow has taken so decided a
stand against beer, he may expect to
find the cliques working against him
as they have worked against Mr.
Thomas. He has the consolation,
however, of knowing that he can appeal
to American musicians, just as Mr.
Thomas has, and that there is among
tho Germans also a cultivated class of
people who may not bo averse to beer
as an element of sociality, but do not
look upon Gambrinus as the patron
divinity of music.
The Gambrluus Side of the Contro
versy.
[lllinois Staats Zeitung.l
Mr. Hans Von Bulow seems desirous
of securing the reputation of a great
stench-maker. In Italy he made
enemies of the whole world by his
brutal remarks on Verdi (who has
more pleasing melody in his little
finger than Bulow and Listz in their
entire bodies, heads included), and in
America he began his course in a simi
lar manner. He comes here to make
money. That he thinks only himself,
his brother-in-law, Richard Wagner,
and Listz, the only musicians, and the
Americans—German and English—all
savages, was known in musical circles
before he began. But not even his
warmest admirers surmised that he
would no sooner arrive in New York
than he would begin his coarse and
brutal expectorations.
“But so it happened. In an inter
view with a reporter of the New York
Sun, Von Bulow indulged in the most
damaging remarks concerning Mr.
Bergmann, though whose accomplish
ments arose the possibility that a
flnger-mounte-bank (literally, rope
dancer-traus), like Bulow can reap a
golden harvest in New York.
“More than this, he abused the Ger
man musicians in the orchestra, and
spoke of the Steinway Brothers with
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whom he is not even personally ac
quainted, in a manner which proves
that, no matter how much he may
know about piano pounding, he has
not the faintest idea of the attributes
of a gentleman.
“From a New York letter to the
Wesiliche Post, we learn that this ram
pant futurist had offered, through H.
D. Palmer and Ullman, to play upon
Steinway’s pianos exclusively for $20,-
000, cash, but that this demand appear
ed too exorbitant to the Steinwaya, and
they refused to contract with him.
Thereupon they, as well as Bergmann,
are traduced by him. The basis of Mr.
Von Bulow’s anger and malevolence,
therefore, is not pure ideal art-interest.
Altogether, he appears to belong to
that class of finger artists, who, fitted
out with extravagant vanity, play a
role now very similar to that of the
dancer, Vestris, a century ago, who was
so proud of his pirouettes aud entre
chats, that he considered only Empe
rors aud Kings as his peers.”
THE MOST VIRTUOUS GIRL.
Crowning the Rosiere in France—A
Remarkable Coincidence in the
Name of the Queen of Virtue.
[Correspondence of th i New York Times.]
Yesterday was a superb autumnal
day—a little cool but very flue—and all
our “ highlifeurs ” went to the races at
Chantilly. They were not extraordi
nary, most of the horses being little
known, but the great event of the day
was the success of Colchique. This
superb animal has for aloug time come
within a head or so of winning each
race for which he has been entered, and
has proved a fortune to the book mak
ers. The outside public made large
bets upon Colchique, so great was tho
confidence in him. and in each race he
came in second. Still M. De Caumont
continued to back his horse, which re
mained a favorite with the public, and
yesterday Colchiqiie’s friends were re
warded, he winning the Prix de la Table,
and making sad havoc among the book
makers. But while the grand monde
went to Chantilly, the rest of Paris went
out to Puteau, to see the ceremony of
the crowning of the rosiere. This
ceremony differs from that of other vil
lages in one respect, it being purely
laciai, one of the conditions attached
to the legacy being that neither the
priests nor the church shall have any
thing to do with it. At Nanterre the
disappointed virgins maiiciously de
clare that it is necessary to please M.
le Cure, in order to get the crown, and
that virtue has less to-do with the
choice than an affectation of excessive
piety. Doubtless this is true to a cer
tain extent, for the cure always desig
nates the rosiere. The girl who was
crowned last year, for Instance, was in
the habit of getting up before light to
hear 5 o’clock mass before going out to
dig her potatoes, and very frequently
she found herself alone at that hour.
Very few girls of of that age could
stand this throughout the year. At
Puteaux it is the mayor that designates
the rostere upon reports made by
scores of persons to givo their advice
secretly on the subject. The girl chosen
this year was predestined to wear the
crown, for her name is Bertha liozier.
She works in a paper mill where about
one hundred girls are employed, and
to her greater honor it must be added
that this paper mill is next door to a
caserne full of superb dragoons. Most
of her companions have the reputation
of being on the most amiable terms
with the dragoons, but Bertha Rozier
would not look at one of them, and
after a trial of twelve mouths her for
titude has been rewarded by a rosier’s
crown aud a sum of money amounting
to seven hundred and fifty francs. The
selection of a girl from the paper mill
caused a considerable commotion at
Puteaux, the rule being to take a rosi
ere from among the laundry girls,
since they are exposed to temptations
which can not reach the girls confined
all day in the paper mill. My own im
pression is that the blanchisseuse who
wins the crown of roses ought, in jus
tice, to have her dot doubled.
The ceremony at Puteaux has been
regarded as laical, but this year it has
been made Republican. Lot me say,
however, that this is only the second
time that the Cartault prize has been
bestowed. M. Jules Simon was chosen
as the orator for the occasion, and upon
the platform, with the Radical munici
pal council, were some of the notabili
ties of the Republican party. Beside
them sat Mile. Rosseau, the rosiere of
last year, whose virtue has not been
further rewarded with a husband. M.
Jules Simon made good use of the oc
casion for makiug a political speech,
and once more affirmed his doctrine of
the “ aaiiable Republic,” first declared
at Cette. He called upon all per
sons present to show themselves mili
tant Republicans on ail occasions,
and begged them to stand up firm
ly for the government of their
choice. That form of government
reposed upon virtue, he said, and
they were there to celebrate the virtue
of a young citoyenne; and then the ora
tor went into the past to bring us ex
amples of virtue which made Bertha
Rozier open her eyes with wonder to
find herself classed among the great of
the earth. All this was a little out of
place, but there was one part of M.
Simon’s speech that was superb. He
said that the reason he would not die
was because his work wa3 not finished,
and he had no idea of passing away
until his earthly task was complete.
This task was to bring about obligato
ry instruction in France. Under the
empire he had worked for it as a pro
fessor and as a member of several com
missions appointed to examine the mat
ter; he had worked for it as a deputy
and as a minister of his country; he
should continue to work for it until it
had taken root in Franco. “If we have
obligatory instruction,” he added, “but
a few years will close before we shall
see here not one rosiere but a whole
bouquet of rosieres, for the greatest
safeguard of virtue lies in the educa
tion of our daughters.” Here M. Simon
was on the right ground. In France
ignorance is the mother of vice. Of
the hundred young girls that heard M.
Simon speak, perhaps not half of them
could read or write; perhaps not ten of.
them could write a sentence correctly.
In ten years’ time obligatory education
would make a great change in the
morals of this country.
The ceremony of the day ended with
banquet at so muoh per head, the
Mayor inviting the rosiere and her
friends at the expanse of the town.
M. D, Conway has anew definition of
genius. He says there is nothing likb
genius in the common acceptation of
the term. It is simply a mind polished
until it shines; polished until it catches
every color in the air; polished until it
catches up and keeps on its rays of
light even in the darkness, like a mar
ble sphere in the night.
With most men life Is like
gammon—half skill ahd half luck*