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OKI Series — ££>* X T if E CONSTITUTIONALIST Lady Franklin is still hopelessly ill. The British press have no hope of her recovery. • We have received the first number of the Gainesville Herald. The editors are badly in need of Webster’s spelling book and Linolay Murray's grammar. A good many of the Georgia weekly papers have suspended for the whole week on account of the Fourth of July. There is more laziness than patriotism in all this. If we were a subscriber to any of them we would only pay eleven eggs instead of a dozen for our yearly subscription, or knock off one for each Fourth of July. We protest against the present of a pair of buzzards sent by the Mayor of Charleston to South Carolina’s Centen nial commissioner, Gurney, on the ground that it is a great insult and disgrace— to the buzzards! We cannot see what crime they have committed to be thus thrust into such disreputa ble company. The Fourth of July was yesterday celebrated all over the country with more vim, parade, music, barbecue, speeches, and eclat generally than in perhaps thirty years. The grand old dav has again come to the front, and yesterday acted in the double capacity of reviving the recollections of ninety nine years ago and in rekindling the somewhat lost love between the North and South. We learn from Savannah that the Fourth of July had no perceptible ef fect upon the sale of the chicken tor pedoes. Colonel J. ap Catesby Harris State Agent and Chief Engineer, spent tne whole day shipping and answering correspondence and dispatches. He is up to his eyes in torpedoes, and pos terity is bound to point to him as a common benefactor equal to Seth Green, the great fish culturist. By next Christmas egg-nogg will be down to one dollar a barrel. We understand there was a humbug agent of a bogus chickeu torpedo pike ing around Warienton during the ses sion of the Methodist District Confer ence. Beware of counterfeits! None genuine except those bearing the trade mark, which is a picture of a hen house with the roof blown off, a dozen dead chickens, and a black hand stick ing to a cross pole where a chicken ought to be roosting, with the signa ture of Col. J. Constitutionalist Har ris. a It seems from our special dispatch from Atlanta that Mr. Stephens whs unable to deliver his regular speech at the Fourth of July celebration there yesterday, and that he will give it to the press for publication. It is ninety seven fools cap pages long, and would fill fully fifteen of our columns. Eight thousand strangersjwent to the Capital to hear him, and their disappointment must have been very great. Had we published the speech entire this morn ing it would have well nigh monopolized the paper, and perhaps our readers'will be satisfied with the fine miscelfauc ous edition given. * We publish this morning the reply of E. S. Babcock, General Freight Agent of the Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad, to Major Anderson. We also publish an advertisement from him giving rates of freight at less figures than charged by the Green Line, both of which publications will deeply in terest merchants, shippers and railroad officials. We have} heretofore protest ed against the discriminations of the Green Line against Augusta. Col. E. W. Cole promised us in Atlanta the other day, that this discrimination should be removed, hope he will see that it is done at once. The Aiken (South Carolina) Courier- Journal says “Mr. Smith, in preparing for the Fall campaign, has applied to Savannah ror the agency of the tor pedo chickeu for Aiken county. All who contemplate goiug into the poul try business will do well to give him an early call.” As Cjl. J. Coteswool Harris has only received the appoint ment of Agent for the State of Geor gia, this application will be refused, as it wili be a violation of patent rights for him to make South Carolina ap pointments. Basides he is so over whelnied with busiuess that he has no tifne to attend to them. We chronicle a death this morning which all America ought to and no doubt will regret, at least every one who has any admiration for a noble horse. The old racer, Lexington, died in Kentucky last Sunday. He must have been past thirty, for we remem ber his first celebrated contest and vic tory over the Matairie Course, at New Orleans, twenty-five years ago, with Lecompte. From him has sprung the fastest horses in the world. Almost without an exception, every great racer which has trod the American turf for the 1/ist twenty years traced his lineage to Lexington. He has been to horses what Hannibal, C.esar, Charla magne and Napoleon were to men, but, unlike them, leaves behind him a race quite as noble as himself. DEATH OF LEXINGTON. The Greatest Horse in America Passes Away. Cincinnati, July 4. —The race horse Lexington is dead. The Yellow Fever at Key West. "Washington, July 5. — A Key West dispatch reports there were no deaths from yellow fever on the 3d, but on the 4th there was one death, and a few pew cases were reported. (El)c jails (Eomtihitumafot THE FOURTH IN ATLANTA. Bight Thousand People Present—Mr. Stephens too Unwell to Deliver His Speech, but Will Publish It—The Opening Portion—Breaking Ground for the Cotton Factory. [Special to the Constitutionalist.] Atlanta, July 5. Crowds from all portions of the State poured in early this morning. Fully eight thousand strangers were present. The procession was slim and composed of the Zouaves, Governor’s Guards and Atlanta Cadets, and an artillery com pany from the barracks, the orators, and a few citizens. They marched through the streets to the car shed, where ten thousand people assembled. Governor Smith made the opening address; Poem, by Colonel Stewart; Reading the Declaration of Indepen dence, by Captain John Milledge. Mr. Stephens was unable to deliver the ad dress, but made a short impromptu speech, and said he would give the reg ular speech to the public through the press. The speech is 97 foolscap pages long. The following is the opening : “This, fellow-citizens, is uo meaning less show, no demonstration gotten up for scenic or less worthy effect. Its object is to do honor to the day on which, 99 years ago, our ancestors proclaimed those truths and principles from the maintainance of which sprung all our free institutions and everything that has added lustre to and renown of our country. Iu honoring the day we treas ure grateful and reverential remem brance of the deeds of our fathers. The occasion is one for thought, medi tation, reflection and close reckoning of facts and events, an examination into the balance sheet of progress rather than one of entertainment furnished by any display of rhetoric or oratory, even if your speaker possessed the re quisite qualities and were iu physical condition to attempt such display. All he proposes to do is to exhibit a mani festattSu of an earnest interest he feels in your demonstration and the profound sympathy that stirs within him in accord with your movement to keep alive and perpetuate in memory the great truths and principles which have just been read in your hearing, and which lie at the foundation of the en tire structure of our matchless system of civil and religious liberty. The 4th of July, 177 G, was one of the grandest political epochs iu the annals of man kind. Individuals had so written and spoken before, but it was reserved for our ancestors on that day to announce by the highest political authority, that is the sovereign will of or ganized States, these true doctrines: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by the Creator with certain inalienable rights, etc., and that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving just powers from the consent of the governed ; that when any form of government becomes de structive of these euds, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish, and institute anew government, laying its foundation ou such principles and or ganizing its powers iu such form as, to them, shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” Then followed au argument and his tory of the Government from Jeffer son’s time up to the present. The speaker spoke under difficulties. He had to stop several times for tremen dous applause. The day passed off hot aud exciting. A national salute was tired by the artillery, and American flags freely displayed. The Ceremony of Breaking Ground for the Cotton Factory took place to-day. A large procession of citizens marched to the lot of the factory, escorted by the Atlanta Cadets. Speeches were made by ex-Mayor Spencer, A. H. Stephens, Jos. E. Brown, Geo. Ailair and Judge Lochrane. The band played the “ Star Spangled Ban ner ” while the sod was turned over by Superintendent Davis and the Direct ors. tIoANOKE. (Associated Press Dispatch ] Atlanta, July 5. —The celebration of the 4th of July here to-day called to gether the largest mass meeting since the war. Citizens' and soldiers all par ticipated. Gov. Smith presided. Hon. A. H. Stephens, Orator of the Day, made a speech two hours long. The Declaration of independence was his theme. He reviewed the causes lead ing to American freedom, and described the grand celebration had in Phila delphia, July 4 th, 1789. He asked: Are these small matters to bring forth on this occasion ? Far from it. They are deep footprints of truth impressed on our earlier history, fixing the character of our system of institutions, which assertion can never obliterate, argu ment can never remove, time can never erase, and which wars can gever de stroy. They stick to the very firma ments of the primitive rocks of our political formation, and only have to be dug up and shown with their unerring inscriptions to utterly refute all false theories to the contrary. This is the time and occasion to exhibit at least a few of them. We should ever discrim inate between principles of govuiument j and the acts of its administration ; en- ] tire devotion to the one is not at all inconsistent with stem opposition to the other. This is a Centennial period. The grand demonstrations in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the destruction of tea at Boston, and the battles of Concord, Lexington, Bunker Hill, and the Mecklenburg Declaration, which have brought different sections into, more harmonious accord, are but a prelude to the celebration of the an niversary of the declaration which is to come off next year in Philadelphia. “The question is mooted whether we shall be represented in that celebration. In reply I say with ail the emphasis I can command, yes. What more fitting occasion could be planned for the gath ering of the people to consider the na ture of their institutions and contem plate their workings in the past, especi ally when administered on the princi ples on which they were founded.” Mr. Stephens closed with: “All honor now AUGUSTA. GA., TUESDAY MOLUSTUSTG. JULY 0. 1875. and forever to the men who, by their deeds iu the council chamber and on battlefields, achieved our independence, and like honor now and forever to the principles upon which that independ ence was founded.” Mr. Stephens was frequently applauded for his patriotic sentiments. The D y iu New York. NEw York, July s.— To-day is one of general celebration here, though much firing was indulged in yesterday, when there were a number of accidents. John Welsh, aged 17, was fatally shot, and several other persons severely in jured. The Day iu Washington. Washington, J uly s. —Town deserted. No organized celebration. The Day in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, July 5. —The celebra tion was more general and enuthu siastic than for years, with equally as large proportion of accidents. It is es timated that 150,000 people participated iu the ceremonies aud amusements in and around the Centennial building. The Day in Richmond. Richmond, Va.. July s. —The Fourth was celebfated here to-day by a more general suspension of busiuess than has been on any similar occasion since 1860. No general military display, but several compauies, both white and black, paraded and spent, the day in festivities. Numerous civic excursions and pic-nics were largely attended and almost everybody seemed to have de voted the day to eujoyment. Nothing worthy of special note occurred. THE NATIONAL* GRANGE CON VENTION. Resolutions Adopted to Strike Hands With the British Grangers —A Long Stride Towards Free Trade. Washington, July s. —The Executive Committee of the National Grange held another meeting to-day, and adopted the report of the sub-committee, to whom had been referred the subject of international exchange between the co operative societies of Great Britain and the Patrons of Husbandry of the Uni ted States. The report is as follows : 1. That they have been impressed with the earnest desire of our subordi nate Granges and members of every section of the Union, for active co-ope ration in busines.enterprizes, as express ed by efforts in this direction and by appeals to this exective committee for a systematic and uniform plan for such organizations, and with our obligations to mature and submit such a plan for adoption. 2. That we would willingly aud cor dially grasp the hand offered to us by our brethren across the Atlantic, aud pledge to them our readiness to co ope rate with them in all laudable efforts to secure for productive industry its just reward, to restore honest dealing in all commercial transactions, and to ad vance the moral, intellectual and mate rial interests of the masses of the peo ple. 3. That having examined the detaiies of the plan of the co-operative society of Great Britain as presented by their deputation to us, popularly known as the “Rockdale Plan,” and its wonderful success, we heartily recommend it to the careful consideration of our State and subordinate Granges, and to the members of our order, aud advise such action ou the part of the Executive Committee of the several States as may be necessary to the organization aud op eration of such co-operate associations within our order. 4. To this end we recommend the ap pointment of a committee to se cure from the Hon. Thomas D. Worrall, of the English deputa tion now present, such rules, regulations, articles of association, pamphlets, aud other writings as may be deemed necessary to place the de sired information iu this connection be fore the members of our Order, aud that, said committee be authorized to have printed so much of said informa tion, aud iu such amount, as they may deem advisable, to be distributed to the Executive Committees of the State Granges, with circular letters com municating the action of this Executive Committee herein, and such other in structions as may be desired. m ► ♦ • Minor Telegrams. Mahohester, N. H., July s.—Water man Smith’s private residence was tyurned by an incendiary. Mrs. Smith sEved her life by jumping from the second story window. Loss, $50,000. St. Louis, July s.—Several distilleries in the Ozark Hills and a large one in the woods of Harrison county, Texas, have been searched and the proprietors arrested. Boston, July 5. —Worth Spates, law yer, and a member of the Maryland Fifth, delivered a lecture at Music Hall, on Southerner’s impressions of Boston. The hall was crowded, the lecturer much applauded and received a vote of thanks at the conclusion. Columbus, 0., July s.— lu a bar-room fight Peter Trutt, a well known rough, fatally stabbed a negro (James Turner.) In running to escape Trutt seriously stabbed another negro. Middletown, N. Y., July s. —Nelson Fuller committed suicide yesterday by breathing charcoal fumes. His father recently drowned himself. Hartford, July 5. Rev. Robert G. Vermilye, D. D., for eighteen years professor of Hartford Seminary, is dead. Wilkesbarre, Pa., July s.—The four oared boat race at Pittston, to-day, be tween the Watkins Glen, Scranton, Easton and Pittston clubs, over a course of three miles, was won by the Watkins Glen Club. Time, 21 minutes 10 seconds. BEECHER AND HIS CHURCH. His Salary to be Raised—New Recruits. New York, July s. —There were im mense crowds at both morning and evening services at Beecher's church yesterday, large numbers being turned away on each occasion. Thirty new members of the church were received. Next Wednesday evening a special meeting of Plymouth Society will be held for the purpose of raising the salary of the pastor. Beecher will not leave town until Wednesday for his vacation. Horse Racing at Gen. Grant’s Water ing Place. Long Branch, July s.— The following are the summaries of the races here to-day: First race, Hopeful stakes, for two year olds, one-half mile. Pas ton first, Lady Clipper second, Free booter third, Faithless fourth, Millie Carew fifth, Dailguissian sixth, Lillie Belle seventh, Paraphine eighth, Helen ninth, lone tenth, Bevens’ Leamington Bonny Boon filly eleventh. Time, sl)£ seconds. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. The Contemplated Visit of the Prince of Wales to India—The Difficulties in the Way. London, July s. —As the time draws on for the departure of the Prince of Wales for India the difficulties of the journey are more clearly appreciated. It has not yet been settled whether the Prince is to supersede the Viceroy or to accompany him as his guest, and even old Indians are very much di vided ou the question, some asserting that it wili have a bad effect on the minds of the natives if the Queen’s son plays second fiddle to the Queen’s deputy, while others argue that it is of more importance that the Viceroy’s dignity should be maintained at the highest point, as, after all, he is the permanent representative of Great Britain in India. The Prince’s costume is another problem. A Prince in a calico shooting jacket would, it is thought, not be sufficiently impressive, and i hough the red coat and cocked hat of au English Field Marshal is uo doubt imposing enough, it is very fatiguiug to the wearer in that coun ty. It was at one time contemplated that the Princess would accompauy her husband, but this idea has been aban doned, partly on account of the difficul ties iu regard to etiquette, and partly on economical grounds. The Govern ment is still scheming, how to get the money for the expenses of the trip out of India. For some mouths past the Prince has been suffering from sciatica, and it is to be hoped that the Eastern climate will do him good. The Cuban Civil War. New York, July 5. —A Havana letter of June 26th says : “According to offi cial reports from Santa Clara several forces of battalion of Baza on the “Li guance’ surprised the encampment of Quayabo and killed eight rebels and cap tured seven prisoners on the 15th of June. The same day a column of Cat alanos, in combination with a battalion of Baza surprised the encamptment of Cecilio Gonzalez, in the ‘Lomas Devar ges’ and killed five insurgents. The column of Leon had an eucounter with another small band of insurgents June 15th and killed three of their number. The insurgents in these recent encoun ters are estimated to have had seven teen killed and lost, seventy prisoners aud thirty one horses. In this Cuban war the horse is au important animal and takes a prominent place in all army reports, Mbre horses have been reported captured aud killed than ever existed ou the Island.” Lady Franklin —Hex 1 Condition is Con sidered Hopeless. Neav York, July s.—The London Times, in a late issue, referring to Lady Franklin’s critical condition, says: “ She continues to manifest the same deep interest in all connected with the Arctic exploration, whie’i has been the leading feature of her life.” A Loudon dispatch says : “ I regret to hear that beyond the rally which she made on Sunday last, the 27th of June, and which is still maintained, there is no material improvement in Lady Frank liu’s health, and that her recovery is considered hopeless.” A Spanish Boinbaidinent. Madrid, July 5. —General Jovellar has thrown four hundred shells into Contaveija. He is expecting reinforce ments of heavy artillery. The Carlists are unwilling to risk a second engage ment, and General Dorregaray, with their main body, has withdrawn in the direction of Gatubel. THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE. Horror Upon Horror —The Most Aw ful Calamity Since the Creation of the World. New York, J uly 4.—Later mail ad vices from different places in Colombia more than confirm the horrors by the earthquake in May. A letter from Sal aza, dated May 28th, says : • “Cucuta is a pitiful sight. Everything is in ruins. Not a house remains stnudiug. Thieves and robbers from the surrounding country have swept down ou the ill fated city, and hardly a single safe has been saved from the custom-house. Four hundred mules were killed in the streets, aud as there is uo one to re move them the stench is becoming frightful. The villages of Sau Custo bal, Farina, Guassimo, Capaeho, San Antonio, Lobatera, San Juan de Urena, Reosario and San Oayetana are com pletely destroyed. The store houses at Puerto de los Caches was sacked aud burned by the bandits.” A letter from Ocana, dated May 30th, says: “Ten thousand people were killed in Cucuta, in addition to other thousands who were seriously wounded and bruised. Death aid desolation reigned everywhere. A great number of haciendas have been destroyed, and hundreds of houses iu the country have been overthrown,leaving the peo ple homeless and, consequently, in pov erty. Many of the trees were torn up by the roots and small hills were opened like a melon. The cause of the great catastrophe is, of course, unknown, as well as the precise place of its first manifestation. Some suppose that the volcano of Sobotera, which was in action iu 1848, is again breaking out, while others say that anew volcano has ap peared iu the hills of Giracha.” A private letter from Bucarmanga of May 24th, says that in Piedecuesta the town hall is destroyed, and in Pamplo na the cathedral is in ruins. A telegram from Hon. Aquile Barra to President Perez, dated Bucaramanga, May 24th, says : “The earthquakes continued last night, and the Cathedral in Pampalona fell. There is great alarm and great devastation throughout the Valley of Cucuta,” A dispatch from President Perez, from Chinacota May 24th, says : “The population of Ban Jose, lioaanio aud San Cayetano have disappered. The rest of the department is in ruins. There are more than 4,000 victims. ’ A dispatch from Socorro, dated May 24, says: “The situation is assuming a grave aspect, aud sickness and starva tion in Pampalona are increasing.” A telegram from Chiquinquira, of May 22d, says: “ The shocks are re peating. There were two last night and one to-day. There is great alarm among the people. Appeals for help were being circulated through all the cities of Colombia, and the most liberal responses were being made.” The Atlanta Artesian Bore. Atlanta, July 4.—Bard turned over the Post Office under a written and verbal protest. The statement about his bondsmen giving him up is a mis take. Another Centennial Over. Baltimore, July s.— The centennial of Washington assuming command of the Continental army was celebrated at Cambridge to-day with great brilliancy. LETTER FROM ItUTLEDGE. Magnificent Crops—Getting Independ ent of Westei*u Products—A Rail road Accident Matrimonial Sick ness—No Centennial or Fourth of July Enthusiasm. [Correspondence ot the Constitutionalist.! Rutledge, July 2, 1875. Since my last, nothing of an exciting nature lias transpired in this beat. The weather is very hot, but we are having daily showers, which make flue grow ing weather, and the corn and cotton crops are taking advantage of it. I never saw evegtation grow so fast as at present. The farmers are laying by their eorn and cotton, all clean and in flue order. Cotton blooms are plenty. The crop never looked better at this season. The blackberry crop is extra good this year. We are just now getting in full blast, and the demand for corn and bacon is getting light; so the rise in bacon does not hurt much. Wheat is cheap, aiid Maj. G. F. Pander has one of the finest flouring mills near Rut ledge that is in the State. So you see, with flour aud blackberries, we have good living. I heard of a frightful railroad acci dent that happened at Union Point the other day, which you have not pub lished yet, and I proceed to give you the details : Col. S. K. Johnson, Maj. Newnau Hicks aud Capt. John W. Bell passed down the road on their fine crank car, examining the track. When they got to Union Point they did not 3lack up in time, and when they ran on the switch the car ran off the track on the cross-ties some distance. The sudden change caused the party to change seats, setting them down in the foot of the car. No damage done. Harry Coggins says that these officials should |,be suspended for six hours and treat to a bottle of Brady’s bitters for running over a switch faster than schedule time. There was a marriage in high life at Conyers on th§ last day of June. Mar ried, June 30th, at the residence of the bride’s father, Rev. J. L. Stewart, Mr. G. W. Gleeton, (a member of the bar) to Miss Fannie M. Stewart, all of Con yers, Ga. The Gordian knot was„ tied by the father of the bride. They were married at half-past 12 p. m , and loft on the train at 2:39 for Toccoa Falls. The good wishes of many friends fol low them. I learn from Dr. J. J. Montgomery that there is considerable sickness through the country this hot - weather —no yellow fever. The people iu this section do not seem to be much agitated about cen tennial celebrations or Fourth of July frolics. I haven’t heard any one say a word about going to or getting up any thing for the Fourth. National patriot ism in Sherman’s black belt was killed so dead that it canuot be easily tated. The present condition of the Government, especially that portion bearing on the South, has killed all pa triotic feeling for national celebrations. _ R. THE DISTRICT CONFERENCE. [Special Correspondence Constitutionalist.] Warrenton, Monday, July 5. The Conference met at 8:30 o’clock Saturday morniug, as per adjournment, Bishop Wightman in the chair. Reli gious services were conducted by the Rev. C. W. Key, of St, Luke's Mission, of Augusta. Rev. Josiak Lewis reported as to the religious condition of Warrenton Cir cuit. There are nine church buildings on the circuit, with 740 communicants ; and eleven Sabbath schools, with 565 scholars. The religious condition of the circuit is encouraging. Bishop Wightman addressed the Conference on home and family reli gion. He was followed on the same subject by Rev. H. J. Adams, of St. James’, Augusta; Rev. Robert W. Big ham, Presiding Elder of the District; Mr. E. Christian, of the Sparta Times and Planter, and Capt. T. F. Newell, of Milledgeville. AH of these speeches were short and appropriate, and will doubtless resnlt in great good. The Conference then went into an election of representatives to the An nual Conference which is to meet in Griffin this coming Fall. The election resulted in the choice of the following delegates: Win. C. Derry, W. H. Pilcher, E. Christian and T. F. Newell. The fol lowing named gentlemen were elected as reserve delegates: Rev. R. W. Hu bert, C. P. Crawford and Rev. W. E. Johnston. The Conference then adjourned to meet at half-past three o’clock this af ternoon. Saturday Afternoon. Conference assembled at half-past three, Bishop Wightman in the chair. The session was opened with religious services, conducted by Rev. J L. Pierce. The Sparta station was reported by Rev. G. H. Patillo to be iu good condi tion. The church numbers 157 mem bers. The number of additions during the year was 42. The Sabbath School numbers 105, 20 or the scholars being communicants in the church. Rev. J. B. Purvis stated that in the Sparta Factory Missio.n there were four appointments, with monthly preaching at each, three Sunday Schools and 91 scholars. The number of communi cants in the mission is 45. Rev. J. L. Pierce, of Hancock Circuit, reported eight appointments and seven churches, with a total membership of 560. There are four Sunday on the circuit well attended. The at tendance on preaching is good. Crawfordville Circuit: Rev. T. C. Adams reported four churches, 275 members, and two Sunday Schools, each numbering 70 scholars. Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, of the Mill edgevill station, made a very encour aging report. He stated that his charge numbered 275 members. There had been fifty additions daring the year. There had been a spirit of re vival in the church almost from the be ginning of the year. Family prayer was held in almost every family. The young men were zealous workers in the cause of God, holding prayer meet ings not only in the city, but out in the suburbs and surrounding country. The Sunday school was flourishing, num bering one hundred and fifty-seven. This report was followed by impressive remarks, both by the Presiding Elder and the Bishop, on the work of lay members. Rev. Walter Yarborough, of Baldwin Circuit, reported three churches with one hundred and ninety-one members, two Sunday schools and seventy schol ars. The following resolution on tem perance was adopted by the Confer ence. Resolved, That the members of our church are most earnestly exhorted to separate themselves from a traffic con demned by good morals, Methodist rules, and the holy Scriptures, and that our pas tors are hereby called upon to judiciously, yet firmly enforce the ruling of our Bish ops as to the law of the church, with re spect to the sale of intoxicating liquors. A resolution of thanks was passed by a rising vote to the citizens of War renton for their unstinted hospitality to the visitors and delegates to the Conference; also, to the Bishop, secre tary and assistant secretary, for the able and impartial manner in which the business of the session had been con ducted, and for their unvarying cour tesy towards all. The Conference, then adjourned to meet at Sparta, July, 1876. Saturday night the pulpit of the Methodist Church was ably filled by the Rev. J. L, Pierce; Sunday morning by Bishop Wightman, and Sunday night by the Rev. H. J. Adams, of your city. The Rev. Mr. Wadsworth, of Milledgeville, occupied the pulpit of the Baptist Church Sunday morning. He is a young Georgian of lino person al appearance; a profound thinker aud a speaker who impresses his audience for good. He is a graduate of Emory College iu this State, a college that turns out not only graduates of excel lent scholarship but graduates also of aetive and genuine piety. Your corres pondent is informed that during this year over sixty of its students have professed religion and become mem bers of the church. Yesterday the Sabbath schools of Warrenton convened at the Methodist Church at four o’clock in the after noon, when a praise, prayer and speak ing meeting was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Bighara, to the edification of all present. Thanking you, Mr. Editor, iu behalf of the Conference, for your kind ness in publishing its proceedings, I will close this correspondence by as suring you that the old time Southern hospitality will greet you in all of its richness aud sweetness if you ever visit Warrenton. D. COTTON. The Goose Hangs High—An Unprece dented Crop, if Nothing Happens to Prevent—Errors Pointed Out—Prices —Speculation and its Dangers. [Atlanta Constitution.] If it was possible for anything to be better than best, the present crop should be put down at 105 when the nominal figures for a good crop are put down at 100. Among all our reports there is not a single complaint. The stands are perfect, the plants, although rather smaller than when there is an excess of rain, are plenty large enough to make a very large crop, for all farmers know that a medium size plant is often the best for a large crop. T.en full bolls on every stalk will produce one bale to an acre. The fields are as clean aud well worked as possible. The most of our reports say the crop of cot ton is fine, whilst some say theie is the best prospect for a large cotton crop I ever saw in my life; others say the l est since the war; others, the best since the big crop year of 1870. Withoi*t a wide-spread and general calamity this crop will be very large, much more so than many expect. A crop of two millions of bales is already beyond the reach of danger, and the continuation of the same weather for two months to come, that we have had for two weeks past, will add to the crop 50,000 bales each day. We have said that if the weather should be the same for two mouths to come, because it has been simply perfect; moisture and heat enough to make the cotton plants grow very rapidly, and hot aud dry enough to prevent any disaster from caterpillars or boll worms. There was such a year in 1870, and now at the end of five years we may have such another, at any rate we will not provoke the curse of Him who rules all things for the best, by complaining un til we see the disaster coming. Errors. It is always unfortunate for the mas ses who read the papers that there should be any statement published by leading aud influential journals that are not. true and calculated to do a great deal of injury. Such an error was published in the New York Bulle tin by H. D. W., in criticising a letter signed “South.” The writer, H. D. W., cither made a mistake or was lamenta bly ignorant of the subject of which lie wrote. He stated that the supply of cotton in the world visible and in visible was 500,009 bales less than last year, when the facts were there were only 100,000 less, and as they were coming nearer together each day, the two years are now just about on the sailie footing as regards the number of pounds of raw cotton in the world. These important errors are often copied and promulgated by good men who (with a moment’s thought wo'uld detect the mistake) take them for granted be cause they are published in a leading journal, and they are often too busy to notice the very great danger they may lead the trading community into. Price. The statistical position, that is, the number of pounds of raw or unmanu factured cotton iu the world is about the same as last year, but this is no reason for the very low price. The prospective growing American crop and the simple statement that Speculation is Dead, killed by nearly two years of dull trade in all kinds of goods, but particularly eotlon goods, is the cause of the price of cotton being down lower than it has been in fifteen years at this time of the season. We can see no help for it at present, and those who buy cotton now, because the price is so very low, think ing there will be a reaction, will simply ►throw their money to the winds. It is true the shorts or bears for July, Au gust and September may be cornered aud driven up a little, more especially if til ere should come very bad reports of the crop. But except this there is likely to be a long and slow decline, lasting four or live months before the bottom is touched and a reaction comes. We have known men ruined who bought cotton at six cents a pound, because they had to sell it at three and a half and four cents. Treasury Officials and the Whiskey Frauds. New York, July 5.—A Washington dispatch to the World says: “There are dark rumors afloat affecting certain prominent Treasury officials in connec tion with the late whiskey fraud, which it is expected will develop themselves pretty soon. Secretary Bristow is said to be in possession of evidence estab lishing their criminality, and expresses a determination to prosecute them to the fullest extent.” *n Sinking of an Ohio Steamboat. Louisville, July s.—lnformation has been received here that the steamer J. D. Parker, from Cincinnati to Memphis, struck a rock going down the Falls late yesterday afternoon, and soon after sank. Passengers and a large part of the freight were removed in safety. .N ew’lSeries- Vol 3. No. 138. THE LINE. Reply of E. S. Babcock to Maj. Chas. W. Auderaon. Evansville, June 30,1875. Kditor Constitutionalist, Augusta, tfa .- Maj. Anderson, iu his letter, published iu your issue of the 23d, does not attempt to deny the charges made against the Green Line of discrimination, but seeks to defend their position by ‘'riding off” from the sub ject in question, and attacking the South eastern for breach of faith in the distant past and present pecuniary distress. Will the Major please note that mv reve lations were made for the benefit of South ern merchants, Southern railroad share holders and the city of Evansville, and that the Southeastern Road knew nothing of my communications then or now; that our bill of lading is considered good, and our road solvent; that we ask for what we consider is due to Evansville, and what, under exactly similar circumstances, she receives on freight sent East; that the Southeastern has not in the past, nor does it in its present proposition to accept Cairo rates from Evansville, do justice to Evans ville. We are forty-live miles nearer Au gusta than Cairo, and are justly entitled to proportionately lower rates. The Major speaks of spending millions on extensions, aud asks if any “sane” man would expect a long line to accept the same rate per ton per mile for part off The dis tance that they get over their whole route. We reply that several “sane” men not only do expect it but that it is almost universal ly the case, and note instances. The Lake Shore Road accepts the same rate per mile from Toledo and Cleveland as from Chi cago, the Wabash from Danville aud Peru as from St. Louis, the Atlantic and Great Western from Hamilton and Ur buna as from Cincinnati, the Ohio aud Mississippi, Vandalia and Indianapolis and St. Louis roads the same from Vincennes and Terre Haute as they receive oil St. Louis freights, and innumerable others. The Louisville and Nashville the same from Milan as from Louisville, and until this fight with the Southeaster u the same from Nashville and Guthrie as from Louisville, when freights are going southwest. Let the committee instead of answering charges by the “Beecher” method of belit tleing the plaintiff, give figures and instan ces to refute them or else confess publicly as they have stated privately that they know they discriminate, and if it was not enough to force freight over their expensive extensions they would make it more. This threat has already been carried out, rates having been reduced, June 11th, from Cairo eight cents, and from Nashville but six cents. The Major quoted actual figures but once iu his communication, and pointed out with apparent pi-ide the fact that they have moved over their “ wooden leg ” from the Wabash and Ohio valleys 479,536 bush els grain, or about 1,300 car loads in four months, or about twelve cars per day.— These figures disseeted#are pitiable when you consider that the production of these valleys was over ten million bushels, and that it always seeks a {Southern market; and that before the division of territory be tween L. and N. and N. C. Roads, and be fore the committee commenced their ex tortions, and gave Nashville shippers and the much despised “Muskeeter Fleet,” and all other connections about the same rate from Nashville south; that two firms of Nashvillo alone, Rhae, Smith A Cos. and Noel & Plater, handled in same time iu 1873 nearly, if not quite, two million bushels of corn from the same source. Again, last year, during same tim when the discrimi nation had not assumed so outrageous a shape, one liltle road north of us, the Indi ana and Illinois Central, shipped to the Southeast via Louisville and Evansville over 1,100 cars corn, and this year sent the same amount of corn to the South east, but it all went via Baltimore and Cincinnati— not fifty cars going via Louisville or one via Evansville. As much as usual, say five million bushels corn, has gone to the south east from the Ohio valley this season, but it went ru'a Memphis, Vicksburg and New Orleans, and the roads of the Green Line have stood still, “sucking their thumbs,” passing or reducing dividends and expenses and not understanding reasons for de creased receipts. Why the chairman of the committee has been kept busy visiting Richmond to get the Chesapeake aud Ohio Road to divide territory and abandon Augusta, Atlanta, Ac., has visited Vicksburg to stop that route—tried all means possible to stop New Orleans route; threatened the Mem phis route without success, and gone hurue to find after all he must reduce rates as low as ever known before, and after all grain is moved to other routes. These are stubborn facts, and your Augusta mer chants will tell you that they have not for years drawn as much grain from Balti more as they did this year, and that for thirty days in April and May this valley was out of the market for Augusta because the grain could not “beat the devil round the stump of the wooden leg.” .Some good has been accomplished by the exposures. Rates were immediately re duced to Augusta and Atlanta. To be sure the railroads South oi Nashville were tteeced, though the public generally were benefitted. The position of affairs remains unchang ed, except that another turn on the screw of extortion has been taken. Present rate Cairo to Augusta, *4l cents; Nashville to Augusta, 38 cents, or only three cents less. Eorty-oue cents from Cairo is equal to 51 from Vincennes, either of which pays but 27 cents from Nashville. Our rate—Vincen nes to Nashville is 15 cents, which added to Nashville division of Cairo rate, would make through rate from Vincennes but 42 cents, or 9 cents less than Green Line via Cairo. Were we granted our rights we could re duce the price of grain in Augusta at once live cents per bushel, aud does any “sane” man deny that it would not make it neces sary for Baltimore to reduce its price five cents before the Baltimore i*oads could haul the grain; or that five cents per bushel re duction will not materially increase the consumption ? To show you how to aid the expensive extensions they are selling their own and their connections’ “birthright for a mess of porridge. I quote below figures showing the net gain to the Northwestern Road out of an average tax on the grain and Southern railroads of eighteen dollars per oar on every car moved over this line. Through rate Cairo to Augusta, forty-one cents; allow for terminal expenses, includ ing agency at Cairo one cent per hundred, and yon have to pro-rate forty cents,which is divided as follows: Mississippi Central Railroad transfer aud road Cairo to Frost’s 6 cents per 100;NashviUe and Northwest ern, Frost’s to Nashville, distance 142 miles, 8 cents; Nasnvilleto Augusta, 27 oents. Al low the Northwestern for actual cost of moving this freight one cent per ton per mile which, we think, is as low as they can do the service, 7 1-10 cents, and you have left for profit nine-tenths of a cent, or SI.BO per car, and to give this valuable extension this magnificent sum which would amount on the total 1,30 Q cars of the major’s to $2,340, or about S6OO per month, your South ern roads and consumers have paid a direct tax of say $23,400, and are still asked to continue to pay a tax of $lB per car on all moved over the Northwestern or L. and N. Railroads aud lose hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue on what grain was forced on other routes. Let the Southern shareholders fully in vestigate this ‘turkey fm* the extensions and buzzard for all the rest” policy, and they will find the facts as stated, and if it is persisted in they will have a “Nemesis” similar to that which the Hoosac Tunnel is to the Boston and Albany road and the Baltimore and Ohio to the Pennsylvania road. The laws of commerce always find some method to get around monopolies. Having given |facts and •figures to sub stantiate them, it rests with the committee to attempt a refutai or else confess their position indefensible. Having shown how ruinous their policy is to all roads but their own, we will try and show why aud where in it is defective and falls to accomplish what the committee anticipated. The Green Line, as an organization, is as effi ciently and economically managed as any freight line we are acquainted with. The serious fault is taking the making of rates out of the hands of the agents at starting points, and giving them to a committee who live at different points and are fre quently hundreds of miles away from Soints of competition, so that, for example, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad enter Terre Haute or Chicago, and cut our rates one cent per hundred, we can not meet them until we telegraph M. H. Smith or C. W. Anderson, and after they consult with each other, probably receive an answer to for ward evidence of cut, while in the mean ' time dozens of oar-loads of freight are gone. The idea of leaving the making and changing of rates from St. Louis, Evans ville or Chioago to New York, to a commit tee living in Buflalo, Cincinnati and Phila delphia, would excite the risibles of a Northern freight man. How can such a committee judge of the necessity, when, by reason of competition or local causes, we would see fit to reduce or advance the rates from Evansville. How do M. H. Smith and ( . W. Anderson, sitting in their offices at Louisville or Nashville, know when it is best to advance or reduce rates from Terre Haute, Chicago or St. Louie? They are not on the ground and are no ju Iges of the situation, and cannot do jus tice to their own roads or connections. Do you suppose that if wo had authority to quote rates from Chicago as competi tion arose that we would allow, as is the ease row. nearly all of Charleston and Sa vannah and the bulk of Augusta freight via Baltimore a route 300 miles longer ? Do you suppose that C. H. Crosby would allow our company to publicly advertise that our rate from Evansville to Charles ton via Baltimore wifi at all times be two cents less and to Savannah the same as Green Line? Yet we are in the market at rates lower than Green Line, aud mean to stay as long as we choose, and are not, as the committee would think, dependent on any temporary disarrangement, of rates over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad If the Green Line do not choose to leave the making of rates to the agent, at the starting point, let them make one rate, and a rea sonable one from Nashville to alt parties, and lot the roads north of Nashville and the river to Nashville stand on their own merits. This will effectually stop all round a-bout routes and cau e all grain to center in Nashvillo. If they persist in their present course their stock will rot be worth the paper it is written on. They cannot advance present rates to Charleston or Augusta without bringing anew “Richmond in the field,” while, if they treat all alike, the very routes that are fighting thorn will work for and with them. What we have said is not for the benefit of the Southeastern Road, for they only sk to make Cairo rates from Evansville, while we think Evansville is en titled to her shorter distance arid as far as it lays in the power of the Company we represent, Evansville shall have just and equitable rates. We have little hopes that the committee appointed by the Green Liueto investigate, will effect much by any report they may make, for C. W. Anderson’s letter, 15th, in dicates that the thing is a foregone conclu sion and already settled. 1 quote his words: "We mag, upon terms satisfactorily to ourselves, admit the South eastern Road into the Line.” * * In eonclusion, allow me to say that while we think the South contains no more faith ful, intelligent and energetic men than this committee, their zeal can carry them too far. To summarize: The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad purchased the Northwestern Road expecting a “Big Bo nanza:” they have a “wooden leg.” The Louisville and Nashville Road leased the Nashvillo aud Decatur Road, thinking they had a “Comstock Lode,” they find it an “Emma Mine,” and to keep up appearances are “bulling” the market aud “unloading’ on their Southern connections. Very respectfully, yours, E. S. Babcock, Jr., General Freight Agent, Evansville and Crawfordsviile R. R. georgTa affairs. Dissatisfaction in the State University. [Correspondence of the Courier-Journal ] Augusta, Ga., Juno 28. Announcement has been made that there will be an election for a chancel lor aud several professors of the Uni versity of Georgia, ar the eomiug meet ing in July. There is some dissatisfac tion with the administration of Chan cellor Tucker, and the following com munication, which comes to me from a responsible party, will throw much light upon the subject aud the interior workings of the University: This morning, immediately after divine services in the prayer-room, tiie venerable Chancellor arose, with the avowed intention of reproving the stu dents for throwing the waste water upon the floor after drinking. He painted in glowing colors the evils ac cruing to the public in general from a waste of property, and to the State iu particular from moistening the planks in the floor of the University buildings. “Property,” he said—for we quote his exact words—“repsesented money, and money represented sweat.” Whereupon some little applause ensued. Dr. T.—# see nothing to laugh at in that —nothing at all ludicrous in the re mark.” (Faint applause.) Dr. T.—No one but a fool would ap plaud at that.” (Increased applause aud laughter.) Dr. T.—“And none but a fool would laugh at that /” (Further applause.) Dr. T—“And none but fools would continue to applaud.” (Applause grows louder.) Dr. T. (in an excited manner) —“I am sorry to see that there are so many fools present. (Continued appiaus.u.) And it is a noticeable fact that all the fools sit upon the back benches (contin uous and increased applause), which proves that they are also cowards as well as fools, for they slink away from the front, out of sight of the master’s eye.” (Vociferous applause.) Dr. T. (very much agitated)—“l want it understood that these remarks are personal; if I knew the parties concern ed I would call their names. I hope each man will consider my remarks as applicable to himself, and (shaking his flst vehemently) that I am personaliy responsible for them.” Silence having been restored, the Chanoellor prooeeded to express his gratification at the deportment of the students during the lecture of Hon. B. H. Hiii on yesterday afternoon. He said that their oonduct was very good in general, but from some disor der created in one portion of the room, he concluded that thore were surely negroes present, and after looking around for some time, ho perceived one standing at the door. Still, from the noise, he concluded there were two of them, but as he oould not find the other, he concluded he must have been hid away among the boys; however, he would take measures to prevent civii rights being enforced at tho next lec ture. Dr. T. then added: “I wish to be applauded for this remark.” Applause followed, which beoame rather boister ous in one corner of the room. Dr. T. (angrily)—“l am surprised to see that there are some of them (ne groes) present at this time.” [lncreased applause and whistling by one of the students, who being recognized b&came immediately the center of all observa tion.) Applause and laughter continued, in which the Chancellor joined eagerly, clapping his hands like miniature peals of thunder, and crying out “I am glad you havo found him—that you have recognized him. He has immortalized himself! Ho has immortalized him self !” The above is a true and faithful ac count, in fact, absolutely verbatim, of an incident occurring in the prayer room of the univeisity on Tuesday morning, June 22. We have extenu ated naught, nor set down aught in malice. A plane drunk—an intoxicated car penter. Adam Grimm, of Jefferson, Wis., had a crop of 25,910 pounds of honey last year. Delaware is preparing to ship six millions of bushels of peaches to market this season. Just now inventors will find a good deal more money in a plan for destroy ing insects, than in iron ships, torpe does and repeating rifles. Iron beds and furniture, artistioally worked, and by anew system of paint ing imitating perfectly rosewood, are to be one of the chief contributions ot Italy at the Centennial Fair,