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The remains of General Blair were
buried yesterday with imposing cere
monies at St. Louis.
The Rifle Team having won now sen
sibly decline periling their laurels by
taking extra risks.
Mrs. Sartoris yesterday gave birth I
to “a young Casar,” as the dispatches
say. Ten and a half pounds. Mother
and child, etc.
We publish this morning an addi
tional chapter upon the Green Line
and the Southeastern Railroad—being
a reply of C. H. Crosby, General
Freight Agent, to Chas. W. 'Anderson.
Mr. Anderson now has the floor.
The story of our Atlanta correspond
ent about the flying machine, published
Suuday morning, was instep with other
great inventions of the present day.
We hope to have one of these concerns
on hand in time for the next cyclone.
By a postal card from our Columbia
correspondent we learn that no court
was held yesterday in consequence of
the indisposition of Mr. Melton, of
counsel for the prosecution in the Par
ker case.
The news from Cuba is important.
The rebels are said to have captured a
convoy, then a fort, and then hung the
garrison and blew up the font. Val-
Maseda has suddenly lett Havana to
see about all this, and in a few days we
may expect the issue of his regular
proclamation.
Gen. Benning had an imposing funeral
at Columbus. It seems that he was a
native of our neighboring county of
Columbia. He certainly illustrated
Georgia and his grave will be bedewed
with the tears of his countrymen.
Our Atlanta letter, this morning, puts
anew phase upon the Scofield Rolling
Mill matter. It is said ex-Gov. Brown
has more or less crude and smelted ore
in that mill, and we have no donbt will
have more of each before he is done
with it, and that he will roll out some
very thiu plates before long.
Yesterday was the anniversary of
the battle of Boyne. The dispatches in
dicate that it was celebrated in a small
way by the “ Loyal Orange Institu
tions” of Philadelphia and New York.
These parades have ever been insult
ing and particularly irritating to Irish
men in this country, for they celebrate
a victory by which Great Britain placed
its iron heel upon their country, and
has kept it there ever since. And
what is most provoking the institu
tion is composed of Irishmen !
Bishop Gross announced from the
pulpit Suuday night that he would
soon commence the publication of a
Catholic paper at Savannah, to be call
ed the Southern Cross. We believe the
Church has no paper this side of Mary
land. The Bishop made an earnest
and eloquent appeal for its support,
and during his remarks paid a high
tribute to the power and influence of
the press, more especially here in free
America, saying that it was more
potent than anything else in the land.
We publish this morning a short but
intensely interesting letter from Mil
ledgeviile upon the condition of the
State Lunatic Asylum. There are six
hundred unfortunate inmates crowded
into rooms of capacity of no more than
three or four hundred. This is both
disgraceful and inhuman. As in Ken
tucky and other States a second Asy
lum should be built. The authorities
of the institution ought never to have
admitted more than just as many as
could be properly cared for. Just so
long as they pursue the present policy
the Legislature will not appropriate
anything for relief.
The irrepressible ex-Gov. of Idaho,
ex-Confederate, nominee of Grant, ex-
Postraaster, etc., Samuel Bard, Esq,,
has sent us a prospectus of his paper,
the Advance, which will be published at
Atlanta, on the Ist of September. The
prospectus is as long and highly sea
soned as the advertisement of Dothe
boys' Hall. It promises a multitude of
good things and some questionable ones.
The great object of Mr. Bard, as he
states, will be “not only to unite the
whole Union element of the South, but
to bring to its support thousands upon
thousands of old Whigs, at.d Andrew
Jackson, Douglas Democrats, who are
now actually without a mouthpiece in
the Southern States.” We dare 3ay
the Southern people are very well satis
fied with their Democratic papers, es
pecially in Georgia, and will hardly
look to Sam Bard for Delphie oracles.
Our own impression is that the Advance
is a Republican campaign journal, and
will end its course precipitately, in
case the Democracy triumph in 1876.
The average price of a horse in Rus
sia is about SSO.
(El)r fails lEonetitutionalist
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Moody and Sankey—The Radical Club
and the Prince of Wanlea—Collis
ion with a Whale.
London, July 11.-Moody and Sankey
held their closing meetings to-day. The
attendance was enormous. Many per
sons were ou their way to Camberwell
as early as 5 o’clock this morning.
Thousands were unable to obtain ad
mission to the opening services.
The Radical Club of the metropolis
have held a conference and decided to
call a mass meeting in Trafalgar square
for Wednesday next to protest against
the grant for the expenses of the Prince
of Wales’ visit to India.
The Cuuard steamer Scythia, which
sailed from Liverpool yesterday for
New York, came iu contact with a
whale off Roche’s Point and lost a
blade of her propeller. She is detained
at Queenstown, awaiting orders from
Liverpool.
London, July 12.—The News’ Paris
special reports the country between
Villa Franche and Macon has been
laid waste by floods to the extent of
forty kilometers. Fine wheat and vine
crops in many places have been utterly
destroyed.
The Spanish Civil War—3miting Don
Carlos Hip and Thigh.
London, July , 12.—The Pall Mall
Gazelle says we have received the fol
lowing from a specially well-informed
correspondent:
Hendaye, July 9.
Gen. Cabvera has left Biarritz for
Bagneres de Bigorre, having abandon
ed his intention of going to Madrid.
He has small faith in the ultimate
success of Gen. Jovellar’s opera
tions against Dorregaray. Appar
ently, Dorregaray hits already es
caped by an extraoridnary march
of ninety kilometres. This agrees with
Dorregaray’s avowed intention not to
light except in the. Basque Provinces.
The Carlist artillery now numbers 120
guns, and more are expected daily.
Madrid, July 12.—An official dis
patch says Gen. De Lat re has driven
Dorregaray from Torrecilla, Guara
Sieste and Boltara. The Carlists re
sisted the Alfonsists stoutly, and lost
many men in killed, wounded and pris
oners. They retreated to the Valley of
Aran, in the Pyreuees. Gen. De Latre
is still pursuing them, and Gen. Mar
tinez Campos is making forced marches
to join in the pursuit.
The French Assembly—lnterference
in a Bombardment.
Paris, July 13.—A passionate debate
is expected upon the report of the com
mittee annulling M. Burgaing’s election.
M. Rauher intends to speak. He will
insist upon the legitimacy of the hopes
entertained by the Bouapartists of the
restoration of the empire and predicts
their ultimate realization. It is semi
officially stated France will be com
pelled to interfere if the Spanish man
of-war Vittoria bombards Legutto and
Ondorroa on the Biscayan coast.
An official telegram corrects the ex
aggeration of the number of lost at
Toulouse. Only 216 bodies have been
found.
Important from Cuba—The Rebels
Capture a Convoy, Hang a Harri
son and Blow Up a Fort.
New Y t ork, July 12.—A letter from
Havana says the cause of the sudden
departure of Valmaseda from Havana
on the 21st ult. was the news of eight
hundred rebel cavalry having captured
a Spanish convoy between Holquin and
Gibaua, in which the Spanish loss was
about eighty in killed. The rebels
afterwards captured a fort in the town
of Majagua, in which the Spanish had
taken refuge, and after the execution
of the garrison blew up and burned the
fort and house.
In the Assembly to-day the Univer
sity Education bill was discussed
clause by clau-e. All amendments
moved by Liberals have been rejected
by narrow majorities. Clericals are
jubilant and congratulate Bishop Du
panloup on their success.
Bismarck. Belgium and Lord Derby.
London, July 12. — 1n the House of
Lords, this evening, the Earl of Derby,
Minister of State for the Foreign De
partment, in a reply to a question put
by Lord Penzance, said that the Ger
man note to Belgium, dated February
3d, 1875, laying down certain interna
tional principles, had no application to
Great Britain, who was not asked to
acquiesce therein. The objects of that
correspondence were now settled, and
it was useless to discuss abstractor s.
The words of the German dispatch
which had been quoted by the noble
Lord were so vague that they did not
admit of judicial interpretation. If
they meant that all acts having
a tendency, however indirect or re
mote, to cause disturbance in another
State ought to be prohibited that would
be the most extraordinary and prepos
terous claim ever put forth in diplo
macy. if they only meant some acts
which international law forbade, that
was a principle which, within certain
limits, every government would admit;
but for one government to require an
other under menaces to silence its
press or public speakers, was an act
which had always excited, and he hoped
always would excite the strongest
sympathy for the latter and indigna
tion against the former, because such a
demand was arbitrary and oppressive.
Sir Edward Watkins has accepted
the Chairmanship of the British Com
mittee of Erie bondholders on condi
tion that all interested support his ap
pointment.
The Rifle Team.
Colonel Gildersleeve has officially re
plied to an inquiry from the London
agents of the Associated Press that the
determination of the Americans not to
shoot another team match on this side
of the Atlantic is final. He says the mem
bers of the team are now separated
and cannot be brought together for
any purpose before next week. Five
or six of them would probably be glad
as individuals to shoot at Wimbledon,
if the Lloyds cup is offered.
Another Heavy Failure.
The house of Cornling & Cos. have
failed. They owe one man $600,000.
Other liabilities large, Jt was an
Egyptian house.
Moody and Sankey.
Moody and San key’s farewell meet
ing took place at Midway’s Hall to
night. The Earls of Shaltesbury and
Cauan, Samuel Morley, M. P.; Right
Honorable Cowper Temple, Mr. Mc-
Arthur and 700 clergymen were pres
ent. Speeches were made full of praise
of the eminent Revivalists for the
fresh life and energy they had intro
duced in the churches and the stead
, fastness of their converts. A sugges
tion was made that a memorial of
some kind be presented to Moody aad
Sankey, but Mr. Stone, ou their behalf,
said it would not be accepted, and
nothing would give them more pain
than such a step.
•AUGUSTA., GA.. TUESDAY MORNING JULY 13. 1875.
Accident to an Ocean Steamer.
London, July 12. — The Scythia lost
one blade of her propeller and had an
other crushed by a whale, but was not
otherwise injured. She returned to
Liverpool. Part of her passengers go
by the China, the remainder by the
Russia.
Carriage Run Into by a Train.
Montreal, July 12.—Yesterday after
noon a carriage containing Mrs. Ber
nard, of Beiocil, her two daughters apd
son and two neighbors, was run into by
a train near Beiocil Bridge. Two ladies
were killed. Mrs. Bernard and one of
her daughters were badly injured, and
are not expected to live.
Snpreme Black Encampment.
Toronto, July 12.—A raeetiug of the
Supreme Black Encampment of Ameri
ca will be held in this city to-morrow.
Delegates have arrived from all the
principal cities and towns of the Do
minion, also from New York, Philadel
phia, Pittsburg, Troy and Newark.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Counting the Money.
Washington, July 11.—The commit
tee having charge of the work of coun
ing the money and security in the
vaults of the Treasury Department,
have completed the count in the cash
vault, including ali the greenbacks,
fractional currency, gold and siver coin
and nickles, and are now engaged in
the reserve vault, which will be finished
this week. The count of the bonds
held in trust for National Banks will
then be made, after which the com
mittee will take up the books and
examine them thoroughly, to see that
they agree with the amounts on hand.
They will be prepared to make their
report in about ten days. Up to this
time the differences between the
amounts called for by the statements
and the amounts actually on hand have
been trivial, in some cases being one or
two dollars short and in others similar
amounts in excess, though in no in
stance has the error exceeded two dol
lars, and it is believed that these errors
will be satisfactorily explained when the
books are examined. Eighty counters
are employed, but they are required to
work now during the day only and not
at night also, as was the case when the
cash vaults were being examined.
Hayden’s Expedition.
Washington, July 11. —The Secretary j
of the Interior has telegraphed to Ou
ray, one of the powerful chiefs in
Southern Colorado, requesting him to
allow Prof. Hayden’s exploring expedi
tion to pass through that section with
out molestation. The Secretary in
forms him that Hayden’s mission is
one in the interest, of science and for
the benefit of the Government, and not
for hostile purposes ; that none of the
party will molest or interfere with the
Indians, and the Government desires
the expedition may be successful in ev
ery respect. Therefore he hopes Ouray
will not only refrain from molesting the
party, but will render such aid as may
be required in making the exploration
and surveys.
Washington Notes.
Washington, July 12. — The Secretary
of the Treasury decides that an alien
cannot be licensed as master of an
American Bhip under any circumstan
ces, but may be licensed as an engineer
or pilot if he has declared an intention
to become an American citizen.
The Commissioners representing the
Executive Department, have decided
to erect a seventy-five thousand dol
lar seperate building for the exhibition
of the government department at the
Centennial. The ground will be broken
next week.
The Executive Committee of the
National Grange adjourned to meet at
Louisville in October next. The secre
tary with his clerical force will depart
bag and baggage for Louisville Satur
day.
The Postmaster General has conclu
ded to abandon the tri-weekly mail be
tween Vicksburg and New Orleans.
He will send a mail weekly on the best
te*ms he can. He may arrange for a
semi-weekly service. He will re-adver
tise the route.
Advices received at the Navy De
partment this afternoon, announce
that the Powhattau arrived at Aspin
wall on the 26th of June, ten days
from New York. The Omaha had not
reached Panama at that date. The
Richmond arrived at Arica, Peru, June
13, with officers and crew all well. A
letter has been recieved from McGrew
saying he has made no charges against
Chief Clerk Holt, of the Internal Reve
nue Bureau, in connection with the
whiskey frauds. No information what
ever has reached the Department to
day from any quarter on that subject.
The Cape May Yacht Race.
Cape May, July 12.—Au immense
multitude assembled on the beach, ho
tel fronts, lawns, pavillions and in car
riages to witness the formation in line
of the craft participating in the regatta.
The steamer Talapoosa anchored in the
stream, having on board the judges,
committeemen and press representa
tives. The Plymouth Rock took in her
passengers from Congress Hall pier,
and close alongside were the steam
yachts Eutaw, Young America, Bay
Club, the revenue cutter Pilgrim and
steam tug Davie Emory. The prelimi
naries occupied considerable time, the
spectators being good natured and
cheerful.
The flag boat was anchored off shore
fronting Stockton house—all being in
readiness, the signal guns were fired
and the yachts bore into action. They
consisted of yachts Madeline, Mohawk,
Resolute, Rambler, Idler, Eva, Sun
shine, Dreadnaught, John Y. Creely,
and sloops Vindex, Sadie, White Wing,
Reiner and Raiser, Wilhelm. Wind is
dead ahead, but very light not sufficient
working breeze, rain starting up which
will be a further check, and this makes
a start exceedingly difficult and con
sultations are being held as to most
advisable course to pursue.
Later.
The race appears to be off for tho
present. The Tallapoosa has been
passing around the yachts and most of
them have anchored. A postponement
till the turn of the tide is regarded most
probable. There is much disappoint
ment.
Horrible Accident.
Springfield, 111., July 11.—As the
train bound East on the Toledo, Wa
bash and Western Railroad was near
ing Jacksonvilie, this morniDg, the en
gine struck some cattle, which threw
the train from the track, turning the
engine upside down and holding the
fireman, Roberts, and the engineer
helpless beneath, whiie the steam pour
ed over them. When the men were final
ly extricated they were so shockingly
scalded that it is believed they cannot
live. 'No passenger was seriously hurt,
A female preacher of Jewish descent
has been disseminating the doctrines of
Christianity in Rlkton, Ky,
FROM NEW YORK.
The Orangemen.
New York, July 11.—The Orangemen,
to the number of about 600, assembled
to-day in their lodge rooms, under
command of the Supreme Grand Treas
urer, Capt. Fullerton, and marched to
the Church of the Holy Trinity, where
they heard a sermon from Rev. Morris
A. Tyug, on truth and love, no refer
ence whatever being made to the occa
sion of the gathering. To-morrow the
various lodges will proceed on a grand
excursion, by steamers, to Elm Grove.
The College Regatta.
Saratoga, July 12.—Arrivals indicate
a large attendance at the regatta to
morrow. Tuesday forenoon a single
scull race, for which there are three en
tries, Wild of Harvard, Kennedy of
Yale, and Francis of Cornell, occur at
11 o’clock. The freshmen’s race crews
entering from Harvard, Princeton, Cor
nell ana Brown come off at 11:30 o’clock.
The University race crews, numbering
13, takes place on Wednesday at 11
o’clock.
A Heavy New York Forger.
New York, July 12. —Attorney Gen
eral Field to-day filed information in
the First District Court against Geo.
C. Benliam for obtaining thirty-five
thousand dollars from the State on
fraudulent vouchers. The transaction
on which the charges are based was
developed during the recent investi
gation against Auditor Clinton. Ben
ham is still at large.
BIRTH OF A YOUNG CAISAR.
He Weighs Ten Pounds and a Half-
Mother and Boy All Right.
Long Branch, July 12.—Mrs. Alger
non Sartoris, the daughter of President
Grant, gave birth, at 8:15 this morning,
to a fine boy, weighing ten pounds and
a half. The happy household immedi
ately telegraphed the news to the Pres
ident, who is at present at Cape May.
He immediately sent his congratula
tions and a father’s blessing by tele
graph. Many friends arrived during
the day to congratulate the happy
mother, but, by special instructions
from her physicians, none were per
mitted to see her, except near and
dear relatives. This evening, mother
and son were doing well.
THE FUNERAL OF GEN. BLAIR.
A Large and Imposing Funeral.
St. Lotjis, July 11.—The funeral of
Gen. Biair took place this p. m. from
the First Congregational Church. The
services were performed by Rev. T.
M. Post, pastor of the church, assisted
by Dr. Jas. H. Brooks. The church
was filled to overflowing by all classes
of citizens. Prominent among those
present were Gen. Sherman and mem
bers of his staff, Montgomery Blair,
Mayor J. H. Britton and several ex-
Mayors, Senator Bogy, ex-Senator
B. Gratz Brown, City Council and city
officers. In the body of the procession
were members of the Frst Missouri
Regiment, of which Gen. Blair was
first Colonel, a considerable number of
ex-Confederate soldiers and many of
the most prominent and distiguished
citizens. The remains were conveyed
to the Bellfoutaine Cemetery under
escort of the First Missouri Regiment,
and were follwed thither by a large
coucoilrse of citizens.
——
Minor Telegrams.
St. Louis, July 12.—A dispatch from
Kansas City says an immense water
spout descended on the track of the
Kansas Pacific Railroad, near Kit Car
son, on Saturday, aud washed away 200
feet of road.
The blockade on the North Missouri
and Hannibal and St. Joe Road contin
ues, and no trains have been through
for several days.
Halifax, July 12. —Captain Richard
Wash, of Summerside, and three others
were drowned off Massique harbor dur
ing a squall.
Zanesville, July 12.— Lewis Gerwig,
of Cincinnati, and Charles Church, of
this city, were drowned by the upset
ting of a skiff. They were both intoxi
cated.
Muntreal, July 12. Monsigneur
Laßique, Bishop of St. Hyacinth, is
dead.
A Lift for the Wesley Monument.
Round Lake, N. Y., July 11.—After the
sermon by Bishop Kavanaugh this
morning, Dr. Clarke, of Savannah, Ga.,
presented the ca3e of the Wesley Mon
ument Church, now being erected in
Savannah, and a collection of $1,500
was taken. Bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church have also given Dr.
Clarke an autograph letter certifying
their sympathy with this project of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Parade of Orangemen.
Philadelphia, July 12. —The Loyal
Orange Institution of Philadelphia and
vicinity celebrated the one hundred
and eighty-fifth anniversary of the
battle of Boyne with a grand street
parade.
New York, July 12.—The Orangemen
of this city assembled at their various
headquarters marched in bodies to
barges in East and North Rivers and
embarked for the grove on the Hudson
to take part in their second annual
picnic, together with lodges from
Brooklyn, New Jersey, which will meet
them at that place.
Lawrence, Mass., July 12.— Conflict
to-night between Catholic Irish and
Orangemen. Several police and citi
2:ens wounded, Particulars soon.
St. John, N. 8., July 12. —To-day ob
served by Orangemen all over the
province. No conflicts reported.
Rice Prospects.— The Savannah Ad
vertiser of yesterday says: "We were
informed by an old planter yesterday,
who had just returned from a visit to
several of the rice plantations contigu
ous to Savannah, that the highland
rice is suffering terribly from drought.
From what he has seen, and facts ob
tained from those in a position to
know, with whom he conversed, the
general idea prevails that not more
than an average crop will be made,
but in value the increased product in
good cereals, it is thought, will fully
counterbalance any apprehended loss
that may be sustained by the poorer
qualities.”
“Got the ’photiy, have ye? Can’t
swallow any liquid, eh ?” she observed
to her husband, who had refused water
for two days. “Well, we’ll see;” and
the good old woman drew the cork
from the whisky bottle and placed the
nozzle near her liege’s mouth Milliss’
, face emerged from its gloom like a full
moon from behind a cloud, and glanc
ing at his wife with a quizzical expres
sion, he said: “Come to think of it
Jane, I don’t believe that dog had aDy
teeth”
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
The Scofield Rolling Mill .-Einbroglio—
A Large Majority of tlie Creditors
Object to Goodnow and Want Ley
den—Joe Brown tlie Mepliistoplieles
in tlie Case—Tlie ex-Governor as a
Sharp Practitioner.
ISpecial to the Constitutionalist.]
Atlanta, Ga., July 12,1875.
The Scofield Rolling Mill troubles
are not yet settled. It was understood
a few days ago that the bondholders
and creditors had agreed upon a plan
by which the mill could be run. One of
the conditions of this agreement, we
learn from reliable authority, was that
Mr. William Goodnow, who was
in great haste and without the
knowledge of any of the bondholders
and a large majority of the creditors
appointed Receiver, should be replaced
by Major A. Leyden. To the astonish
ment of all except Joseph E. Brown,
Mr. Goodnow refused to resign, and
the court that appointed him refused
to do other than continue him in the
face of the application of all the bond
holders and all the creditors present,
which was more than half, and all the
stockholders—the whole represent
ing fully four-fifths of the indebtedness
and all the stock in the mill.
So overwhelming was this evidence that
I understand that Judge O. A. Loch
rane, who had up to last Saturday rep
resented Mr. Goodnow, announced to
him that unless he resigned that he
would no longer represent him. Where
upon Mr. Goodnow agreed to resign,
but later in the day it was reported
that he had reconsidered and refused
to do so. It is believed that this change
of mind was due to the influence of
Joseph E. Brown, as he is the only
creditor or party at interest known
to be opposed to starting the
mill. Some suspect that he wishes to
buy it. Some suspect that he wishes
to keep the mill locked up until orders
that are offered it by the Georgia Rail
road and the Central Railroad for
iron rails are sent out of the State, by
which he might be profited. It is ab
solutely certain that Brown and Good
now’s opposition prevents the starting
of the mill, which keeps between two
hundred and three hundred needy
men with families out of employment,
with no prospect at this time of
getting it elsewhere. We also
learn that these men are getting
clamorous. Not one creditor has
proposed to put money in the mill to
run it under Mr. Goodnow as receiver.
An overwhelming majority, both in
amount and numbers are willing to put
the necessary amount of money in to
run it if Major A. Leyden is appointed
receiver. It was asserted before Judge
Knight by one of the largest creditors,
that out of the $300,000 of debt due by
the mill, that less than SIO,OOO favored
the retention of Goodnow aud of this
Joseph E. Brown represented less than
SB,OOO. The other creditors have nn
confidence in Mr. Goodnow and are not
willing to have the mill run under his
receivorship. Tubal Cain.
GEORGIA LUNATIC ASYLUM.
Six Hundred Patients—Their Condi
tion-Five Hundred Incurable- —
Want of an Inebriate Asylum-
Causes of Insanity—The Crowded
Condition of the Institution.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.]
Milledoeville, July 12, 1875.
There are now over six hundred
patients in the Asylum. Three hundred
and twenty-five males, some of whom
have been inmates since the days of
Dr. Cooper, who was the founder of
the institution. (It seems to the writer
that the likeness of this noblo man
ought to adorn the parlor of the Asy
lum.) The ages of the inmates range
from five to a years. A large
number of the female patients are
married women. Some five hundred of
those at the Asylum are considered
incurable, most of them so because
they were not sent in before their in
sanity became chronic. At the first ap
pearance of this fearful malady, the
subject should be put under medical
treatment. In the present crowded
condition of the Asylum it is out of the
question to receive other patients, un
til those now on hand are sent away.
Some of those occupying rooms are
harmless idiots, and might be cared
for at home. •
Is not the law defective which re
tains them as patients in the Asylum
to the exclusion of lunatics who are
curable? There are quite a number
occupying rooms who ought to be in
an inebriates’ home, rather than the Lu
natic Asylum. The State has long been
a party to the system of liquor license
which has contributed largely to in
crease the number of inebriates, and
she is solemnly and irrevocably bound
to provide for them a place of refuge. A
very sad fact in reference to many of
the inmates, who are incurable, is that
their insanity is due to liquor-drinking
fathers or snuff-dipping mothers. If the
State would provide an Inebriates’
Home at some suitable place, (the Stone
Mountain, by reason of location and
the high moral tone of its citizens,
would be a most excellent place), and
appoint some competent physician in
charge of it, the wise and henevolent
throughout her bounds would heartily
endorse the expenditure of the money
thus invested.
The Lunatic Asylum will accommo
date comfortable about five hundred
and fifty patients, hence with the
present number, it is necessarily
crowded —as many as ten patients are
placed in one room ; besides there are
no rooms left for setting rooms or
parlors.
In another communication I may re
refer to the religious instruction of the
patients, and how they spend their
time.
Wingfield.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Charles O’Conor dresses shabbily.
Danial Drew was originally a show
man.
It’s the blasted H’east H’india trade,
you know, is doing h’all the ’arm in
Lunnun, you know.
The London Court Journal says that
Sankey is the sweetest and loudest
singer through his nose they have ever
heard in that country.
Not as an example, but as a warning,
we notice the fact that a female life as
surance canvasser renders existence a
burden in Cincinnati.
Lightning revenged itself up6n its
taskmaster the other day, at New Or
leans, by tearing a portrait of Profes
sor Morse to tatters.
A Kansas woman will bet SSO that
her husband can “cuss” a bushel of
grasshoppers out of the country while
the people of Missouri are fasting and
praving a pint out of a ten-acre wheat
field.
THE FINANCIAL PROBLEM.
GREENBACKS AND GOLD.
How to Make Paper Money as Good
as Gold—A Rose by auy Other Name
Will Smell as Sweet.
[NeYV York Journal of Commerce.]
We assumed the other day that no
progress could be made towards specie
payments until the first step is taken,
and we urged that this initial move
ment should be made at once. The lirst
part of our proposition cannot be de
nied, and the step we suggested has
been very widely approved by the press
of the country. Wherever it has been
opposed the antagonism has arisen in
each case from a misunderstanding of
our suggestion. For instance, the Sa
vannah News, after a long review of
our article, sums up its opinion by de
claring that “it will be a difficult mat
ter to convince the people that the
remedy for the evil is in contraction of
the only circulating medium within
their reach, and the scaling down of
the paper dollar to Its gold value,
while the bonds held by the wealthy
capitalists are not only held at their
face value but draw interest in gold.
There seems to be no justice in compell
ing the people to pay eight dollars for
a six-dollar barrel of flour, while the
bond-holding millionaire holds the non
taxable bonds of the Government at
par.”
This is a total misconception of our
proposition. We do not propose to con
tract the currency. In fact, our original
suggestion—to repeal the Legal-tender
act, to take effect after a given date—
so far from withdrawing the paper
money from circulation, would have
forced the dormant accumulations into
new channels by furnishing a fresh in
ducement to pay them out, and thus
would have given, in itself, an impetus
to trade. When we failed to secure the
needed legislation to effect this object,
we merely advised that accounts of
current trade be kept in gold, as a first
step toward the re-establishment of
the revenues of the country on a
sound basis. There is no “scaling
down” in this at all, nor even a
fraction depreciation of the paper
money. We do not propose, as the
News suggests, to raise flour from six
to eight dollars. Instead, however, of
selling a barrel of flour at eight dollars
and taking for it eight one dollar green
backs at 100 cents each, we propose to
sell it at six dollars and eighty cents
(or whatever the 'difference between
gold and currency may be), and take
the same eight dollars for it at 85 cents
each. The same currency will buy the
same flour, only by a different reckon
ing. If a bushel of potatoes retails at
$l2O, the buyer gives his paper dollar
and two fractional dimes in payment.
We propose to sell it at its actual
price, sl, and take the dollar (at 85
cents) and the two dimes (at 15 cents)
for it as before.
Not only will it make no difference in
the purchasing price of the paper, but
it will preserve* the same ratio between
the poor and rich man’s flour and pota
toes and “wealthy capitalist’s” bonds.
They will be subject to exactly the
same law. As we now reckon, the
greenback is worth 100 cents, and the
bonds sell in paper at 120. We will call
a real dollar the standard; the green
back will then drop, say to 85, and the
bond to 102, the same interest being
paid, and the payment being worth no
more aud no less than now.
If any one asks how this is to be
reckoned as the first step toward re
covery, we answer that it is the first re
cognition of the fact that our finances
are disarranged, and also of the object
to be attained. No man ever reformed
without first recognizing some higher
standard of right, and admitting that
his present life and conduct fall below
it. While we preserve the fiction that
our present currency is at par, all ef
fort at recovery must be aimless; but
the moment we break in upon this com
plete circle of falsehood with the one
truth, we have a key-note by which to
tune the whole system to perfect har
mony.
We wish to be understood as aiming
only at that which is practicable. The
people will not consent to reach specie
payments by the process of contraction
—by a system of coercion which shall
force the paper dollar to the value of
the true dollar. We do not believe that
this would be equitable if it could be
done. What right have we to force a
debtor who borrowed money or com
tracted an obligation at 85 cents to pay
it at 100 cents by changing the cut rent
valve of the medium for settlement?
Because we inflicted this injustice on
the creditor when we made a deprecia
ted currency a legal tender, shall we do
a greater wrong to the other class now
as an offset to it? Two wrongs do not
make a right, and there is not even a
seeming equity in the proposition, be
cause neither the individuals nor the
classes are now, relatively, the same.
We do not, therefore, propose to
reach specie payments by making the
paper dollar equal to the real dollar,
and forcing the debtor and creditor
interest to conform to this arbitrary
ruling. But we do propose to quote,
not only in the larger trades, bqt ulti
mately in the minutest transactions of
daily life, the real value of the paper
dollar as it may happen to stand at the
moment, by a law that no legislation
can effect, and thus to suggest to each
man, and to the whole people, the only
fair basis of a compromise,
We believe t hat when this distinction
is once clearly seen, all efforts to force
the two dollars into one line will be
abandoned, the coercive law will be re
pealed, and the people will be left to
adjust the difficulty for themselves. —
No matter what is attempted by the
Government, this is what the debtor
and creditor will do at the last, and we
propose to initiate the movement that
will lead most directly to it.
The greenback ia not depreciated a
particle by calling it less than a dollar.
Giving to ali values their real name will
not change their relative character,
while it will present ejafiy to the public
eye the true solution or the financial
problem, and reconcile all parties in in
terest to its final acceptance.
Counting Up the Cost of the Til
ton-Beecher Trial. —Jurymen Thyer,
Hull, Flate, Case, Jeffreys and McMurn
on Tuesday received $52 each from the
Ilings County Treasurer, aud signed
their names for their hist pay. The
jurors have received $2,981 in all, and
the total jury expeuses, including the
two panels of 1,000 and pQQ men each,
cost $5,194- The County Treasurer
has paid out $26,154 as the county’s
share of the scandal trial expenses.—
This is exclusive of the expenses of the
detailed policemen and the expense of
the meals for tho jurymen.
The hair from a lady’s braid should
never be Worn on the lapel of a genile
man’s coat, unless the parties are en
gaged.
NORTH AND SOUTH.
FREE SPEECH NO TREASON.
A Sensible View' of Preston’s Address
—The Truth not Always Hurtful, but
Sometimes Inexpedient.
I Richmond Dispatch.|
We observe that there is much ado
over Colonel Preston’s speech at the
University, and it is very much like
“much ado about nothing.” We are
rather tired of this everlasting exclama
tory deprecation whenever au impul
sive man says something that people,
generally don’t like. Are we children
—or are the northern people children—
that we shall hurry to exclaim that,
somebody has “said something bad,”
or “cussed,” or “misbehaved?” Shali
we imitate the scandalized boy who
thought “sucking cider with a straw”
was abominable, and informed against
his brother; and shall we expect to hear
the mother promptly censure it indig
nantly ?
The republic can stand a few such
phrases as Colonel Preston is fond of
uttering. In fact, we cannot see why
upon natural principles the Colonel
may not “cuss” a little ; for that is all
that is left to him. Can’t they who
have him down and have gotten all that
he had, stand a little scolding ? Let
them “put themselves in his place,”
and see how they’d like it.
People may ask, But why did the
University invite him to speak ?
Well, that is a comprehensive
question, and may be curtly
answered, “ because it had the
right to do so.” We would say that
the University could not properly dic
tate the theme and the style of a
speech to be made by a gentleman who
was invited to be the orator. Nor
would it has been possible to arrest
the orator midway his discourse. It
was his speech, aud he was responsible
lor its opinions. A part of the speech
was not objectionable either to the
North or the South. But the occasiou
was the semi-centennial anniversary of
the institution, and Colonel Preston
was one of its first graduates. It was
appropriate that such a man, accom
plished and venerated as he was,
should'be invited to take part in the
proceedings. Mr. Hunter of our State
was invited for the same reason.
Colonel Preson is a venerable gentle
man. He comes of noble stock—whose
blood has been 3hed on memorable
fields in the country’s cause. He cer
tainly has a right, as good as any
man’s, to lift up his voice in the land.
If he doesn’t like everybody and every
thing he may say so without breaking
down the Government.
It does the venerable gentleman good
to speak his mind, and that is a privi
lege which is the very life-blood of our
Republicanism, the first quickening of
which elicited from the “Loyalists” the
cry of "treason;” but it cannot be
“treason” for a free citizen to exercise
his “freedom of speech” in a free ex
pression of his opinion. The North
particularly has cried out for “free
speech,” and for that they were ready
to shed their blood; Would they in
flict a wound upon that grand Repub
lican right by impugning its exercise
by a proud-spirited old mao ?
We do think this national prudish
ness is censurable. Colonel Preston
finds, indeed, the approvers of all he
said to be in a minority in the South.
He seems to have made a mistake
somewhat like that of Solon Shingle,
who gave his testimony under the sup
position that the “Apple Sass” case
was under trial; which case was not up
at all; but who is hurt? In spite of
his mistake, the Colonel is the better
for that he has unbosomed himself,
and all sensible people ought in good
humor to Ist the matter slide.
Is Conciliation Possible?
[Courier-Journal.]
Can it be wondered that Southern
men should turn each to each and ask:
“What is the use trying to conciliate
such a people? They reject all our ad
vances. We can do nothing to please
them short of flattening ourselves upon
the ground and crawling upon our bel
lies to the pedestals on whioh sit Grant,
Sherman and Sheridan, there to lick
the feet of the illustrious trio. When
Sumner died his most eloquent eulogy
was pronounced by a Confederate sol
dier; and yet if Lamar should to-rl&y
question the autocracy of Radicalism
he would be denounced as a traitor.
The South gave Horace Greeley his
only enthusiastic support and has
accepted every condition imposed upon
it without revolt, beggaring itself in
doing so. All to no purpose. Lee was
as much a traitor in the mind of the
ruling party in the country when he
died as he wa3 at Gettysburg. The
amnesty to which Congress has been
forced is purely mechanical. It has
produced no moral effects beoause it was
not designed to. Here, ten years after
the war, with most of the secession
leaders in their graves, the tocsins are
sounded against the young men of the
South precisely as though they had
inaugurated the war against the Unicoi.
The slightest exhibition of manly feel
ing—of that sincere and candid
spirit on whioh the country can alone
rely for perfect peace united to
the freedom and happiness of all
the people—the last display of
the sense of equality under the
Constitution made by one who wore
the gray becomes the signal for a rab
ble-rousing assault of ‘Down with
him, he’s a traitor,’ So, what is the
use trying?” This ig common talk
among intelligent Southern men, and,
if there were no hope of a change of
parties in the General Government,
there would be no use trying. For our
part we do not believe that the people
of the North are fairly represented,
either by their mad dogs or by their
bloodhounds. We believe them to be
honest, peaceful folk, like ourselves,
who want to do right. So we are not
yet ready to give it up, and propose to
meet and contest every point in the
game of misrepresentation to which
the Radical organs have set themselves,
Ex-Confederate Generals Practicing
Negro Social Equality.
(Charlotte Observer.]
After reading the account of the
Mongrel celebration at Memphis on
the 4th of July which we publish in an
other column, our indignation over
powers us and we are at a loss for lan
guage with which to express our con
tempt for Generals Forreat and Pillow,
and the other white men who partici
pated in it. It is just as well that the
unprincipled political hacks of the South
were learning that there are thousands
of Southern people, enough to hold the
balance of power, who are Democrats
from principle, or ratyey who have op
posed Radicalism from principle and
who value thooe principles more’than
they do the flesh-pots of the Govern
ment. There
ern people who do not expect to make
any money out of a change in the na
tional administration, thousands who
oppose Radicalism above alf other cqn-
-N ew Series—V"ol. 3. 3N o„ 144.
operations, because it favors negro so
cial equality. If this reconciliation
business is going to extend to the ne
gro kitchen we propose to kick out of
1 harness and shall take no more stock
in these centennial pacifications. Let
the Charleston News and Courier, the
Richmond Enquirer, the Petersburg
Index and Appeal, Neios aud other
v lrginia papers, that have been abusing
Generals Preston and Early so unmer
cifully for their speeches at the Uni -
versity of Virginia inform us how far
they are willing to go in the other di
rection. We have infinitely more re
spect for Longstreet, who fraternizes
with negro men on public occasions,
with the pay for this treason to his
race in his pocket, than for Forrest and
Pillow, who equalize with the negro
women, with only “futures” in pay
ment. The Democracy should repudi
ate Forrest and Pillow, and turn them
over to the Radicals, where they prop
erly belong. Forrest and Pillow
wish to play the same game in
our party to catch negro votes
that rich Radical politicians such as
Russell, Buxton, Settle, Rodman, Badg
er, Dockery, Thomas, Albertson and
others have been successfully playiug
in this State. These Radical grandees
will fraternize with negroes on public
occasions and vote for increasing their
civil rights, knowing that their money
will keep their families from having to
associate with negroes while the poor
white laboring man with no money is
left to fight against negro equality the
best he can. We are gratified to know
there are no social equality Conserva
tives in this State; while it is a part of
the Radical platform.
GEORGIA*CROP NEWS.
Richmond County.
Mb. Editob: Since my last communi
cation, we have had some dry weather
but not sufficient to injure the crops
materially. We have recently had fine
rains. The crops generally look fine.
I think the cotton crop is the most
promising I ever saw in Richmond
county. The corn crop is also very
good. Melons not quite so good as
usual and late getting ripe. We have
had an abundance of rain to-day, and
more lightning aud thunder than I
ever knew in one hour. The health of
the county is generally good.
Richmond.
Bbothersville, July 7th, 1875.
From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun •
Ten miles north of Columbus, in certain
quarters, there has been only one
shower of rain since May 3d, and crops
are suffering terribly.
Chattahoochee County
will have 1,762 hogs for killing next
Winter. She has, however, only 142
sheep and 498 dogs.
Spalding County.
Zebulon correspondence of Griffin
News : But as harvesting is over and
the rains set in, corn and cotton crops
are as good as heart could wish. The
farmers are having a nice time down
this way in the way of picnics, and the
blackberry crop is also very good for
“tarts” on these occasions, and we are
in anticipation of a fine peach and ap
ple crop, then we will have to change
the pie. We are ail Grangers down
this way, and we are going to make our
own supplies, such as peas and pota
toes, pumpkins and melons in waste, in
spite of “Figures,” “Exact Figures” or
“Uncle Fogy” combined. We can safe
ly say to “Uncle Fogy” that if he is not
a Granger he had better join us, and
we will learn him how to raise ducks
without a drake. Teli “Undo Fogy'
to come down this way aud see some
of our corn fields, and we’ll give him
some nice melons and learn him how to
make them.
Green Couuty.
[Greensboro Herald.]
The weather has been extremely
warm for the last week or two ; the heat
somewhat mitigated for the last few
days, by showers, which have been
quite abundant except in this place.—
Crops are doing well.
Putnam County.
Macon Telegraph.]
We saw a geDtleman yesterday who
has just visited Putnam and some ad
joining counties, and gives the most
flattering reports of the cotton crop.
He says he never saw it more heavily
fruited, and thinks the yield will be a
fine one, provided no disaster overtakes
it.
The Graniteville Factory.
[Columbus Enquirer.j
We have received a courteous letter
from Mr. H. H. Hickman, President of
the Graniteville Manufacturing Compa
ny, in which he informs us that our
late article headed “Cotton Manufac
ture in the South” does not do “full
justice” to the Graniteville Factory
The reader will remember that tne
sole object of that article was to show
that the reduction of dividends by the
Augusta. Graniteville and other facto
ries should not be regarded as indica
tive of the unprofitableness of cotton
manufacturing in the South, but that
their ability to declare any dividends at
all in a titne of deproasion and stagnation
of trado like this, should be looked upon
as proving the vitality and assured
general prosperity of the business.
President Hickman’s claim of a good
year s business for his factory, there
fore only strengthens our position and
should inspire inoreased confidence in
cotton manufacturing in the South.
Mr, Hickman sends us a copy of his
report submitted to the stockholders
on the 22d of April last, from which we
learn that the clear profits of the busi
ness of his factory for the year ending
on the 28th of February, lsV5, amount
ed to $114,538.67, which On a capital of
$600,000, is a profit of over 19 per cent.
The mill also Increased its manufac
tured fabrios, as compared with the
previous year, 170,036 pounds,
14,755 pieoee and 793,500 yards.
The mill run on full time aud at
full pay during the entire year.
It incurred an expense of $25,915.25 for
repairs and new machinery, and sll -
092.70 for other extraordinary demands
Mr. Hickman states that his factory
paid 16 per cent, for the yeay above
named, aud for tbe current year a s
paid two quarterly dividers, one or 4
*f 0 and ° ne oj. 2 Pfr ce-,£. Though our
statement that thq last quarterly divi
dend of the factory was only 2 per
per cent, wait, therefore, striotly correct,
“l no seen that it does not, as Mr.
Hickman claims, do “fully justice” to
the Graniteville Faotory. We are grati
fied to learn that its business has been
moye prosperous than we supposed,
and we point with pleasure to this
more extended statement as affording
strong proof of the vitality and pros
§erity of cotton manufacture in the
onth even in a time like this.
Parisian actresses cane critics who
oppose thom.