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Old Series—Yol. 35. No. 133. THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. Jas. G. Bailie, Francis Cogin, Geo. T. Jackson, PROF-METOBS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily, one year * lO 00 “ 0 mouths 600 ** 8 months 2 Tri-Weekly, one year 6 oo " ri months 260 Weekly, one year 2 00 '* 6 months 1 00 Single copies, 5 cents, 'lo news dealers, ¥/* On and after Otis date (April 21, 1375) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. Advertisements must be paid for when hand ed in, unless otherwise stipulated. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected communications will not be return ed, and no notice taken of anonymous commu nications, or articles written on both sides. Money may be remitted at our risk by Ex press or postal order. All letters should be addressed to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager, Augusta, Ga. Our regular Charleston letter goes over until to-morrow. i • In the organization of the editorial staff of the new Catholic paper, Albert R Lamar has been given the position of political editor. We publish another communication iu reference to the Planters’ Loan and Savings Bank from a Stockholder in Trust, calling loudly for a showing of its actual condition. Augusta is just now busily engaged renting houses for next year. A great clamor is made for a reduction, but so far we learn little concession has been made by landlords. In the College Regatta on Saratoga Lake yesterday the Cornell crew won. The President was present and the winning crew was carried with loud hurrahs before him. j We are requested by Col. S. K. John son to say to the people of Athens that he has no intention of discontinuing either train on their road until after Commencement, and not then if busi ness will justify running both. If either is taken off it will be the night. - The Cotton Congress, now in session at Raleigh, make a sensible recom mendation to planters : To raise their own provisions. It is now well demon strated that no planter can buy bis corn and meat and keep out of the hands of the sheriff. The Athens Georgian says “ a white man and a negro were floored by light ning on last Wednesday afternoon, at a down town bar room, kept by a col ored man.” We have lightning in this town which will knock off the shingling, flooring and weather boarding of any of its customers. We publish the concluding portion of the Catholigo-Tanqueray correspon dence. As heretofore announced our columns will be closed against any thing else upon the subject unless paid for. From the beginning we have taken no part in this controversy and are glad it has reached a conclusion, so far as this paper is concerned. If Kkk.lv has succeeded in discover ing a cheap substitute for steam, it will produce the most tremendous revolution since its discovery. There is hardiy an article in common use which is not made by steam, and if a greater power has been found which can be introduced without the expense of wood or coal, the cost of everything will be far less than now. m i m The first bale of new cotton was re ceived at New Orleans yesterday, and the first open boll at this office. The Orleans bale is nearly one month earlier than last year. This news will pro duce a sensation among cotton men. To announce this moruing the beginning of the new cotton season is as agree able as surprising. We hope it will have a good effect upon the dull times. The headquarters of the average dead-beat Bohemian will be at Phila delphia until after the Centennial. He has already commenced sending out printed propositions to the rural press, offering to grind out any amount of stuff demanded from date to the close of the great national show. We recom mend him to Gurney to keep his Charleston buzzards in good order. The news from the crops, not only iu Georgia but all over the South, con tinues most favorable. More so, in deed, than known in a whole decade of years. A gentleman just returned from Nashville says he never saw such a prospect all along the road from At lanta to that city. The Georgia corn crop south of Atlanta will be made in the ce;;t ten or fifteen days, or at least placed beyond the possibility of blight. The counsel in the Parker trial opened argument yesterday, and the day was consumed by them. The case may be given to the jury to-morrow. The mere fact ithat Parker is being tried at all shows some progress in South Carolina morals. The result of the ease is another thing. He baa flaunted his brazen face before the public for four years unmolested, whilst a full knowledge of his crimes was notorious. , - & In the South Carolina Department will be found the obituary of Mis. Jane T. Butler, of that State, one of the most remarkable ladies in the United States. The noblest blood of the, country flowed in her veins. She ■was the daughter of Commodore C. B Pebby and the sister of the renowned Commodore O. H. Perry, of the Battle of Lake Erie and “We have met the enemy and they are ours,” fame; the mother of Gen. M. C. Butler, and a relative of many of the most distin guished families of South Carolina.— She had reached the great age of 84- (I In 4 pailij fmisfMiimcilM. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. The French Assembly—English Cotton Mill Lockout— The Spanish Civil War —The Rifle Team—Canada and Eng land—The King of Burmah. Versailles, July ll.—The Assembly declared the election of Burgoing null and void, by a vote of 330 to 310. M. Duval (Bonapartist) interpolated the Government as to the line of con duct it intended to pursue towards the Imperialists. Buffet replied that the Government regarded it as its duty to insure re spect to the Constitution, and would tolerate no factious intrigue from any quarter, nor take the initiative in legaf prosecution, but refer unlawful acts to tribunals. The declaration produced great excitement. Rouher introduced a proposition for anew election in Nievre notwithstand ing the law forbidding supplemental elections to the present Assembly. In the course of his remarks he made al lusion to the committee for appeal to the people which he acknowledged he directed. The avowal of the existence of such a committee which Rouher had previously denied on his honor was re ceived with surprise and caused a sen sation. Debate adjourned to to-day. London, July 14.—Masters of cotton mills in Ashton, Staly Bridge, Dunkin field and Mossley, decided to give no tice of the commencement of a lock out on the 24t,h instant, because work people employed in certain departments refuse to refer disputes in regard to their wages to arbitration, and other employes have quit work. London, July 14.—Mr. Mackenzie, Canadian Premier, iu a speech at Dun dee last night, referred to the great re sources of Canada. He contended it was quite consistent for two nations to exist on the North American Conti nent, governed differently and with dif fering political institutions. He was convinced, so long as Great Britain maintained her present attitude to wards the colonies, that friendship and confidence would be maintained. The Telegraph reports that tents for the American Team were pitched at Wimbledon yesterday. Recent rains have swollen the rivers and streams in the valley of Severn, causing serious inundations. A num ber of dwellings in Blaekency are flooded. The waters continue to rise rapidly. There is great excitement. A meeting called by the Radical clubs to-night at Trafalgar square to protest against a grant for the Prince of Wales’ Indian journey was a failure. The American Team arrived to-night and proceeded quietly to their hotel. They will decide to-morrow morning on the latest proposition of the Council of the National Rifle Association. Advices from the Spanish frontier, received by way of Bayonne, report that General Dorregaray, being unable to penetrate into the French territory, has turned back in the direction of Barbastro. Six officers and 172 men belonging to his rear guard were com pelled’ to take refuge in France Dear Gavarnel. They were promptly arrest ed by the French authorities, disarmed and interned. Troops have been sent from France to guard the frontier. Don Carlos is at Villa Real with a strong force Madrid. July 14.—The official Gazette reports that a great panic exists in Estella, where the news of the Car lists has only just become known. The Carlists are removing their artillery from the city. Gen. Dorregaray is hem med in by several brigades on the higher mountains near Huesca. Gen. Catnposo will shortly arrived and com plete the cordon drawn around the Carlist Chief. Madrid, July 14.—1 tis asserted that the article of the new constitution em bodying the principle of religious liberty will be supported when it comes up for final action in the Constitu tional Committee by a vote of 23 to 10. Calcutta, July 14. —Further commu nication has been made to the King of Burmah regarding the passage of Brit ish troops through his country, and it is hoped that the King will yield. THE SARATOGA COLLEGE RE GATTA. The Cormll Crew Win the Race, Saratoga, July 14—In the University boat race Cornell was the winner. Columbia second, Harvard third. At the first half mile Cornell and Harvard ahead : first mile Harvard ahead ; sec ond mile Cornell ahead. The race was officially declared as follows : Cornell, first; Columbia, second; Harvard, third ; Dartmouth, fourth ; Yale, fifth ; others straggled. There was great en thusiasm over the Cornell crew. They were carried back and forth before Grant who stood amid the enthusiastic demonstrations. The exact time of Cornell, 16 minutes 53% seconds; Columbia, 17:04%; Har vard, 17:0524 ; Dartmouth, 17;10?£ ; Wesleyan, 17:132/; Yale, 17.14%; Am herst, 17:29%; Brown. 17:33%; Wil liams, Bowdoin, 17:50%; Ham ilton and Union not taken The Prince ton turned back at the second mile, Parmley having fainted. The single scull was won by Yale by six lengths. Ithaca, N. Y., July 14.—The news of Cornell’s second and greatest victory aroused the most intense enthusiasm here. The great fire bell and other bells are ringing and the University chimes pealing, bombs and firecrackers exploding, guns firing, and business places and private buildings are fes tooned. Niglit Dispatch. The University race to-day was a complete success. The buoy system proved feasible. At least twelve thous and people witnessed the race. The only accident that marred the days en joyment was that to the Princeton crew, par in iy receiving a sunstroke at the end of the seeond mile. He had also been suffering from a felon on one of his fingers for several days. The University race started at 12:10 o’clock. The water was in good condition. The first half of the race was uneventful, Harvard leading at the start with 33 stroke, Cornell taking the lead with a 34 stroke. At second mile when Yale fell back to 4th or Stjj placo with a moderate stroke, after getting the lead, Cornell it kept to the finish. Jn the siDgle scull race, two miles. Kennedy, of Yale, won easily. Weed coming in an eighth of a mile behind. Time, 14:21%. THE LAWRENCE RIOT. Card from the Mayor. ' Lawrence, Mass., July 14. The Mayor publishes a card claiming that the riot was caused by a floating popu lation drawn here by the building of the new water works. The boarding house used by the water works haDds was burned; two perished, AUGUSTA, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1875. FROM WASHINGTON. Miscellaneous Dispatches. Washington, July 14.—1 t is estima ted that one hundred and twenty mil lion postal'cards will be used the pres ent year. Professor Marsh, in a letter to the President regarding the Indian frauds wherein he gives full details, declares he has no confidence in the sincerity of the Secretary of the Interior, or the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in prosecuting the investigation into these frauds, and that the evidence in his possession reflects unfavorable on both. The Light-House Board give notice that on and after the 31st of July, 1875, the arc of visibility in Barratarla Bay, La., light will be increased so that it can be seen around the entire horizon. The Secretary of the Treasury makes a call for ten million coupon bonds of 1862. To-day the special agents of the Treasury were transferred, from the office of Commissioner of Customs to that of the Solicitor, a suf ficient number, however, being detailed to attend to the accounts in the Com missioner’s office. No change in the assignments of duties of the special agents are immediately contemplated. THE COTTON CONGRESS. Proceedings of the Meeting at Ra leigh. Raleigh, N. C., July 14.—The Con gress delegates have reported. H. N. Leary, of Louisiana ; R. D. Wynne, of Georgia. Judge Jones, of Arkansas, addressed the Congress upon the sub ject of establishing agricultural bu reaus in the several States. He read a telegram from the agent at New Or leans of the Rockdale Co-operation Company of England, asking a com mittee of conference. Maxwell, of Tennessee ; Jones, of Arkansas ; Jones, of Georgia ; and Butler, of Georgia, were made said committee. Col. Holt, of North Carolina, introduced resolu tions requesting the delegates to the Congress to urge the Legislatures of their respective States to follow the precedent so wisely establisded by Georgia, iu establishing a State Depart ment of Agriculture. Dr. Jones, of Georgia, spoke, advo cating the resolution, and explaining the great good that had been accom plished in that State by this depart ment. He claimed that two million dollars would be saved to the farmers of Georgia this year by its workings. The resolution was adopted. The affairs of the Direct Trade Union were discussed. It was stated that while its workings had not been alto gether satisfactory, it had established the fact that it could be productive of great good to the Southern States. An essay was read from Dr. E. M. Pendleton, of Georgia, pertaining to agricultural colleges of the Department of Agriculture. Col. Johnston, of North Carolina, re ported from the special committee, ad vocating the re-establishment of the State banking system as peculiarly ad vantageous to the whole country, and asking Congress to relieve the tax upon State banks, as a matter of justice and right. A constitution and by-laws were adopted, making the election of officers biennial. Col. D. E. Butler, of Georgia, was re elected President, Col. J. D. Whetford, of North Carolina, Secretary, and R. M. Sims, of South Carolina, Treasurer. Nashville was selected as the next place of meeting. A resolution was adopted urging the importance and absolute propriety of producing an abundance of all articles of prime necessity. The Committee of Proper Basis to write the commercial interests of the South and Western States, said these States should be more closely united together, as the strongest ties of com mercial interests exisited by reason of their diversity of climate and soil— each producing the prime articles of domestic necessity required by the other. A resolution was adopted requesting Congress to afford such aid as will en sure the construction of three great trunk lines of railway : From Chicago to Morristown, Tenn.; from St. Louis through Cumberland Gap to Knoxville, and from Memphis to or near Atlanta, Ga. The question of co-operation with the Rockdale Society of England was referred to the National Grange. AN ILLINOIS WATERSPOUT. Great Destruction of Crops, Cincinnati, July 14.—A dispatch from ShawneetowD, 111., reports the heaviest rains yesterday that has fallen for years. The track of the Springfield division of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, in the vicinity of Mill Shoals, is covered with water from three inches to two feet deep. It put out the tire of an engine to-day as the train came through it. People in the bottom lands along the Ohio and Wabash rivers are seriously alarmed on account of the threatened overflow. A great many farmers have lost their entire crops by the flood. THE FIRST BALE OF NEW COTTON Classed Middling 1 Fair and Sells for 25 Cents. New Orleans, July 14. — A bale of new cotton was received laaf night from St. Landry parish which classed mid dling fair to fair, now classification, and weighing 400 pounds. It was sold at 25 cents per pound. The first receipt of Louisiana cotton last year was Au gust 12th. FALL OF A VIRGINIA HOTEL. Singular and Fatal Accident. JjYNCHBURG, July 14. — About 4 o’clock this morning |ffi e r !- ar portion of the City Hotel fell with a great crash. For tunately the five or six rooms destroyed were not fully occupied. As far as known only three were domiciled in the wrecked rooms. Mrs. L. Brown was killed, T. E. Harris, commission broker, badly injured, a negro man severely brqised, and a negro child missing. Mrs. Brown was dead when reached by the firemen. The building was old, but considered safe. The Hebrew Union. Buffalo, N. Y , July 14.—The Hebrew Union adopted resolutions embodying the idea and setting forth the objects of the Hebrew College, and pleading fop the hearty co-operation of the He brew people throughout the land. Philadelphia, July 14.—The Japan ese Commissioners to the Centennial have arrived. They are preparing to put up centennial buildings. LETTER FROM ATLANTA. That Flying Machine Story—A Re porter Swallow's the Joke and Tries to Hunt it Down—Anticipating the Future—A Scandal Case—The Pub lic Schools—The University’ Embro glio—Learning and Common Sense- Gossip. (Regular Correspondence Constitutionalist.] Atlanta, Ga., July 13, 1875. Out of your 5,000 Sunday readers, there were, perhaps, ten who gave cre dence to the truth of my account of the flying machine. One of the city papers here sent a reporter to Clayton county iu hot haste to in stitute an interview with the colored inventor. As I was careful—deuced careful—to keep dark as to his true whereabouts, the jaded reporter came back in profuse perspiration, swearing that I had perpetrated a diabolical fraud on the community. Yet, forty thousand years ago there wasn’t any such thing as a chill and fever medi cine, or a female regulator, or a cross cut saw! Now look at it. Look how Progress rolled up his trowsers and waded through the puddles of ob stacles that surrounded him on either side, like so many passenger agents at a depot! Look at the inven tion of the steamboat, the locomotive and Henry Ward Beecher! Look at the sewing machine, the reversible rat trap and the Iveely motor! And last,, but not least, look at the chicken tor pedo ! And then as you gaze in awe upon these specimens of old Prog.’s handiwork, tell me that my nigger fly ing machine is a fraud ! No, sir; the time is not far distant when the white canvass fans of that air boat will be flecking the cerulean sky of our land, transporting the mail of Uncle Sam from New York to Augusta, from Bos ton to London, from St. Petersburg to Yamacraw, in the same ratio of speed as the telegraph, by jingo ! Imagine the billet doux of the Queen of the Fiji Islands, delicate as a rose petal, and as fragrantly perfumed just as it issued from her taper fingers, dropped into the hand of Gen. Grant or Gov. Bard, all on the same day. Think you Bennett, of the New York Herald, would not avail himself of the privilege of dropping a friendly call to the people of Ujiji for the pur pose of au interview on annexation ! And yet these feats will be accomplish ed. In less than twelve months my Clayton county nigger will sail out of the city of Savannah and take his sup per in New York on the same day— little as you think of it. Scan. Mag. A case of genuine sensation has erupted. It’s one of those cases that crop out of a too close perusal of pro ceedings of Beecher’s trials and tribu lations. lam sorry—it harrows my soul and rends my heart to think of it —that the hero of this romance sailed under so plain a name as Jake. My bliss would have been supreme, my ecstacy complete, had he been named Adolphus, Lorenzo, Theodore or some thing of the kind; but it’s plain Jake. If you think it will look better in print you might instruct your intelligent compositor to set it up Jacob—just to set off this romance a little better. Well, Jake carried a high "head here, moved in high circles, and was pretty well thought of. Notwithstanding this, however, he sold his interest in the brewery here for a good sum, put the money in his pocket and took a car for the North with somebody else’s wife. At least everybody says so, and of course there is something in it. He is gone, that’s certain; she’s gone, that’s certainty. The Police Schools. The question which perplexetk the Atlanta taxpayer now is—shall the pub lic schools be continued ? If you buzz among the rich bugs who send their children off to Virginia, to Harvard, to Princeton, to the German Universities, &c., you will And that a heavy per cen tage advocate an abolition of the sys tem because its a tax from which they derive no direct benefit* But when you tackle the poor man—the hardworking mechanic—whose children receive a liberal education by means of the sys tem, he says “bully for the public schools.” lam no enthusiast on agra rianism or communism, nor do I favor either, but I feel ray plebeian blood tingle when I read the reasons given by “our prominent merchants” for the suppression of the schools. Hear one, “it is wrong to tax the people for a faqcy education of the poor, and it is dangerous for the poor because it unfits them for the sphere in which they have been raised, and makes them opposed to the kind of work in which most of them will have to engage and to which they have been accustomed.” As if the poor man’s child should grow up in ignorance—and ignorance is the granddaddy of vice—simply be cause it “unfits them for work ! Egad! in my way of thinking, education is just the thing to make them work.— And then besides it is a spur to the ambition to reach higher than menial work. It not only fits them for their sphere but fits them for higher spheres, and lifts them above the thousand temptations a life of ignorance throws in their way. Give us the public schools, even at the cost of drawing a few dimes from the well-fined purses of our “prominent merchants.” The Chancellorship. There seems to be a growing dispo sition to recall Dr. Lipscomb to the Chancellorship of the State University. Dr. Tucker has given entire satisfac tion as a teacher and as a ripe scholar, but as a disciplinarian he has proved himself a fraud. It takes a man who can combine with his scholarly attain ments a way of winning the love and commanding the respect of the stu dents. To be mild yet firm, to live in common yet live superior, is the tactics of a Chancellor who expects to gain the love, respect and reverence due his position as ;;n officer and worth as a man Dr. Tucker is eminently qualified, so far as “book lamin’” is concerned, but lie knows no more about controlling boys—and boys will be boys wherever ypq pqt ’pm— than I (Ip of Beecher s guilt! • It was Dr. Lipscomb who gracefully and worthily wore the robes of that office, and if his health will not aelmit of being recalled, then, for gracious sake, put somebody there who forgets hirnsejt and bis dignity, and his office, to apply the epithet of “ asses ” and “fools” to a wtide university of boys on every occasion J Pencil Marrow, A capital shower fell to-day, washing off the dust and throwing a thrill of deliciousness into the atmosphere. |Truit rolls into town promiscuous ly, and finds a goqd sale. Good peaches sell for $1,50 per bushel, and rapidly falling. The Irishmen here will celebrate Dan G'Connefi’s centennial birthday on the fith of August They intend giving the grandest ball ever given in this city. Roanoke. THE PARKER TRIAL. Col. Rion’s Speech—Cumulative Evi dence of Parker’s Guilt—He Prob ably Stole the Whole Pile—Ladd’s H cstimony a Deadly Dose. (Reported for the Constitutionalist.] Columbia, July 15, 1875. To-day, before a full court and a large audience, Col. James H. Rion, of counsel for the State in the case of the State vs. Niles G. Parker, opened the agreement for the prosecution in a very conclusive and able speech. He disen tangled the case from its involvements and presented a clear, connected out line of the facts proved and showed their pertinency to the issue. He pro posed, he said, to place stone upon stone, timber upon timber, until the structure of proof should rise clear to the view and comprehension of the jury, and the fraud of Parker be de monstrated. He would call it Parker’s stumbling block, making in this a ref erence to the building which Parker erected in Columbia and which, because the community persisted in calling it Parker’s Haul, he changed to the less objectionable name of Parker’s Block. I give you such synopsis as I am able to make up in time for the present mail. At this stage of the proceeding it is difficult to form a judgment as to the probable issue of the case. Par ker’s counsel have prudently put up no witnesses and will rely upon the neces sarily difficult task imposed upon the State’s counsel of proving a fraud by reluctant witnesses. The jury is not of a character to raise high expecta tions that in a matter of duty to the State, they will be able to rise to its faithful performance, or even just ap preciation of it. But leaving specula tion aside, we give you the line of Mr. Rion’s ingenious argument, which pre sents a theory which will carry con viction to all who thoroughly take it in. It will be observed that he takes the view that Parker himself appropri ated the whole $450,000 of coupons, and that the story of division with others is not likely to be true and is far from j being probable. Col. Rion said that the plaintiff re cognized the rule requiring them to prove fraud, and they were willing to take that onus upon them. It was not necessary to prove it positively; the proof might be by circumstances.— Prima facie proof was sufficient. This principle of law originated necessity, from the very nature’of fraud, which is always careful to conceal itself and all traces of its presence. He referred to the reserve of Mr. Kimpton, to the peculiar manner iu which the books of the Treasury had been kept, to the fact that, according to his own statement, Cordoztf had kept no mem orandum of the bonds he signed while Secretary of Stat?, as difficulties in the way of discovering the great fraud on the part of the defendant in this case. Yet he said that, notwithstanding these obstacles, and though the plaintiffs were not required to introduce posi tive proof, they had brought forward positive proof of fraud. Capt. Ladd had proved that Parker had $450,000 of coupons, which Parker said himself he had obtained at the time of the final settlement with the Financial Agent in New York. Capt. Ladd not only had Parker’s ad mission of that fact but he had actually seen and handled $150,000 of them. Slurs had been cast upon the testi mony of Capt Ladd. Reference had been made to favors which Parker had done him, and it was attempted to show that he was ungrateful in thus testifying against his benefactor, but it was evident that Capt Ladd was very reluctant to testify. The Attorney General was at one time on the point of dropping the examination of this witness when being asked if Parker had any further conversation with him, he answered no, not at that time, but catching the words, not at that time, the Attorney General fortunately asked him if Parker had any further conversation with him at any other time, and then he was obliged to answer yes. Capt. Ladd himself testified to favors that Parker had shown him, and to his own sense of gratitude and good feeling towards him. He felt it due to Capt. Ladd to say that with (ill the temptations be fore him, with all the obstacles to tes tifying, in his regard for his oath, in regard for the mandate of the subpoena of this court, he had shown in giving his testimony before the court and jury he had dai’ed do all that might become a man, and he that dared do more was none. His armless sleeve showed that at some time in the past he had shown physical courage in the service of his country, but he never could have shown physical courage greater than the moral courage he had ex hibited as a witness in this case. Parker’s letter to Capt. Ladd and the written memorandum he had given him were positive testimony than which nothing could be stronger. Ti'fie the memorandum wa3 not signed by Park er, but if it was not given by him to Capt. Ladd he had not said so, although he had full opportunity. %e then referred to Maj. Gulick's tes timony that Parker had a large number of coupons, and to the proof that Sen ator Owens had funded these coupons. Senator Owens was chairman of the Legislative Committee on Accounts, and therefore was properly the man to take care to prevent any such frqud as this, and this was one of the very things taken advantage of to prevent detection. Parker said that Owens had funded coupons for him and the record shows that Owens funded oou oons on separate oocasions as agent. The amount funded by him on the second occasion was exactly five per oentum on the whole amount he fund ed, and the reasonable conclusion is that it was his remuneration for his services in the matter. As to the division of the coupons with other parties, it should have no effect upon the amount of the verdict whether the jury believed that the division was made or that Parker kept the whole $450,000. The action was for damages and tire verdict must be for the amount qf damage jffie plaintiff had received, and not the benefit received by the fendant, But if the jurj would not accept this proposition of law, then as a fact it could not be believed that the division was ever made. Scott had denied re ceiving the share alleged to have been given to him As to Chamberlain’s al* Jeged share, the manner in which the statement was made was itself evi dence that he had never received it or known of its being set aside for him.— The evidence was that Parker had said that $50,000 were get aside for Chamberlain, but he did not know whether he had received it or not. Was it possible that $50,000 of coupons could be cfispqsed of in that mysterious, uncer tain, ' careless way. Was it possible that any man could have this large amount of securities, which were like to be worth dollar for dollar, placed some where for him and not know of it, not had some friend to go and carry the good news to him ? And, as for himself, he said humorously, he thought that animal magnetism or electricity, or some other mysterious or supernatural means must have in formed him of it very soon. Mr. Cham berlain’s character was sufficient to re but such a charge sustained only by such weak and uncertain proof as this. Kimpton, he said, was not an object of his admiration, but he could prove and would prove to the satisfaction of the court, at another stage of his ar gument, that Kimpton never received the share that Parker said he did ; and if the statement that there was a di vision was false as to three of the parties, it is in all probability false as to all. He was sony that Neagle had not followed the example of Scott, by going upon the stand and saying whether he did or did not receive his portion. Home. BURIAL OF BENNINGr. Funeral of General Henry L. Benning —Honors to the Memory of a Grand Old Man. [Columbus (July 13) Enquirer.] The funeral of General Benning took place Sunday morning at half-past nine o’clock. Before that hour hundreds had assembled to pay honor to the memory of a grand hero, the true type of the chivalrous, noble gentleman. The funeral service was read at the residence of the Rev. W. C. Hunter, Rector of the Episcopal Church. After this the column was formed iu the fol lowing Order: 1. Military companies. 2. Confederate soldiers. 3. Officiating clergymen. 4. Attending physicians. 5. Hearse. 6. Horse led by a groom. 7. Pall-bearers, 8. Family. 9. Members of the Bar and City Council. 10. Citizens, gent rally. The March was directly to the cemetery. The two military companies numbered 61 mem bers—the Light Guards 28 muskets and three officers, and the Columbus Guards 26 muskets and three officers. Col. Shepherd commanded the entire column, with Lieut. Brantley as Adju tant. Following them were Fire Company No. 5, in citizens’ dress, but having caps and belts, headed by the Chief Engi neer, numbering 32 men ; and then 112 Confederate soldiers in citizens’ dress. The latter were under command of G. E. Thomas (of Thomas & Prescott.) The march was by column of fours. Two carriages bore the officiating clergymen and attending physicians, Dr.s Colzey and Stanford. The hearse was drawn by two horses. The coffin was literally covered with flowers. The coffin had been opened in the moruing. The deceased seemed to be sleeping sweetly, and his face was ven natural. Thrown lightly over the foot ol the coffin was the battle-riddled flag of the Twelfth Georgia. Eight men were shot down while carrying it at Sharps burg. Five were killed. Deputy Mar shal Robinson was among the terribly wounded. Directly after the hearse came the General’s horse, with sword and mili tary trappings, and led by “Old Billie.” “Old Billie” was in the Twentieth Geor gia, of Benning’s brigade, during the the entire war. He wore his old gray coat. Looking on, one could but re call the times that tried men’s souls, when Benning’s brigade wa=? a terror to the foe when “ Old lloek ” led them Especially does memory dwell on that terrible charge at Gettysbuig, where | threo guns were captured and next turned on the enemy. Then to the lifeless form in that coffin. Carriages containing the pall bearers and family came next, followed on foot and in twos by thirty members of the Columbus bar and the Mayor and every member of the City Council except one —Alderman Brannon who could not attend. A long train of vehicles followed. We counted sixty-five carriages. When the head of the column had reached the upper cemetery gate, the rear was at Slades’ school house. On foot and in column were sorqe fi7Q men. Many attended who were prevented from joining the line by the intense heat, There were hundreds who came front Girard and Browneville, and crowds from the city and Wynnton and surrounding villages. The colored peo ple were out in force. Thus the column headed by an excel lent field band with muffled drums beat ing, moved slowly to the city of the dead—God’s acre. Everyone had som thing to say of the love and esteem felt for the heroic dead whose name they uttered in tones of tenderness. the pall-bearers were John Peabody, Judge Porter In- | gram, G. deLannay, Judge M. J. Craw ford, Col. W. A. Barden, Capt. Thomas Chaffin, Col. M. H. Blaqdford, Major R. J. Moses. In the Cemetery the burial service was yead, the milita ry salute fired, and tfie dead—a great and good man—left to sleep alone. He has left a void that no one can fill. He had in him the stuff of which heroes are made. With a slight ghaoge O’Hara’s beautiful lines may be repeat ed over him: On Fame’s eternal camping ground His silent tent is spread, And memory guards with solemn round Trie bivouac of the dead. “ I’m shot! I’m shot! Here’s some of my brains',” shrieked a Newburyport tffan, on the stb|, clapping his hands suddenly to the back of his head, showing a handful of something’ soft and squashy to the horror-stricken by standers. A doctor was called, and found that the rqpojfc of a firecracker find a simultaneous blow on the head from a rotten banana were what had produced the delusion, Milwaukee News: It may be thought remarkable that the discoverer of the “new motor” should be able to run a sewing machine all ejay with a pall of water and an inch air pump ; but we now have a railroad conductor who oan run a whole traiu from here to Prairie du Chien on a pint of whiskey. “ I declare,” said Susan, as she watefiefi the people coming into church, “ that man looks like a piece of dried beef.” “ Hush,” said her sister, “it isn’t meat in you to talk so.” “ Folks can’t be toq keerfql nowadays wfiat ffiey let their children eat,” said an old lady as her eye fell upon the heading of a newspaper article—“ Little Emmaline’s Diary.” THE PLANTERS’ LOAN AND SAV INGS BANK. “Timely Warning'’ Not Heeded. Mr. Editor: In your issue of the 2d instant appeared a communication signed “ Trustee,” headed “ Timely Warning,” in which was used the fol lowing language: “ The stockholders of the ‘ Planters’ Loan and Savings Bank’ owe to the community, the depositors and them selves the very serious duty of coming together and demanding a full state ment of its affairs. * * * Such of the stockholders as are not in the con ! fidence of the President have a right to hear hoiv much has been carried to shrinkage account and what amount is being paid to salaried officers.” I read that communication with in terest, as it led me to hope that its effect would be to elicit from the offi cers of the Bank, the information con cerning its condition—the kind and real value of its assets—for which I and others had been long and fruit lessly seeking. Instead of that, how ever, a report of the “condition of the Bank” is published in the papers of the 11th inst., and which, by the way, I will venture the opinion, would not have been given at all, but in obedience to the call of the Governor. It is an admirable document—fixed up accord ing to rule—in real “double entry book keeping” style. The debit and credit sides agree to a “quarter of a cent." The figures look beautiful, aud, I dare say, are a correct transcript and sum ming up of the big ledger so familiar to the daily gaze of the worthy President, but a “sealed book” to those stock holders so unfortunate as not to be in his confidence. But the misfortune is, that after reading and diligently studying this admirable paper, and getting others to help me, I knew no more about the ac tual condition of the bank than I did before the report was printed. It shows “resources” equal, nay, more than equal, on paper, to “liabilities;” but the question recurred to me, as it had a thousand times before, what are the re sources really ? Among the “resources” are Stocks and Bonds $28,413 20; Notes and bills, including past due paper, $77,101.85; Notes in suit and suspended, $12,079.38; Real estate, $37,314.03. Now, I demand to kDovv the kind and value of these Stocks and Bonds, what por tion of these notes and bills and past due paper, and in suit and suspended, are good, what portion doubtful, and what bad or worthless. There appear ing no Profit and Loss account in the report, unless “Undivided Profits” may be called so, I presume the real estate is put down at its cost. I demand to know its real value, and in what it con sists, and how it came (all of it) to be the property of the bank. Does not every stockholder who is in the dark on this subject join in these demands? If so, it is, as “Trustee” says, a serious duty to come together and institute an examination into the bank’s affairs. The result of such an examination might evolve the reason why the stock, once so readily taken at par, is now selling, when a buyer can be found, at about fifty cents on the dollar of the par value. Cestui Que Trust. Tlie Charleston Riflemen. [Charleston News and Courier.] Avery large and enthusiastic meet ing of this corp3 was held on Monday evening, at which, among other things, the recent Fourth of July excursion was talked over, and as a preliminary step towaids perfecting the organiza tion, a resolution was adopted provid ing for weekly drills during the Sum mer. A communication was received from | the Washington Artillery, stating that the 22d of February would be observed by them with a grand military display and oration, and requesting the co-ope ration of the Charleston Riflemen in the same. A resolution was unani- j mously adopted tendering an escort to | the Artillery on the occasion referred to. Arrangements were also ma,de to perfect the new uniform of tho compa ny, which will be, when completed, one of the handsomest uniforms in the South. The following complimentary resolutions were unanimously adopted: The officers and members of the Charles ton Riflemen desire to place on record a faint expression of their unbounded grati tude for the many kindnesses that were shown them by citizens and soldiers at Au gusta, the officers of the First United States Artillery, and by the citizens and soldiers of harleston. Be it therefore 1. Resolved, That the cordial and earnest thanks of this command are due to Gen. Vqgdes, commanding the post qf Charles ton, and to the officers of the First United States Artillery, fur the handsome send-off in the way of the national salute that was tendered them on the morning of the Fourth. 2. That to the members of the escorting detachments who participated in our ex cursion to Augusta, we desire to convey our most cordial thanks. 3. Thai our heartiest thanks are due, and are tendered to the citizens of Charleston, and more ■ specially to the ladies, who honored us with their presence and patron age pn the occasion of our excursion to Augusta. 4. That our cordial reception and hospi table welcome by the military and by the civilians of Augusta, have filled our hearts with emotions of gratitude, which can scarcely he expressed in words, and we hereby pledge ourselves, should the oppor tunity present itself, to endeavor ta repay, to the best of our ability, the many obli gations which were incurred by us on the occasion of our visit to tho Empire City of the Houth on the Fourth. a. That these resolutions be printed in the Charleston News and Courier, apd that a copy of them be transmitted to Gen. Vog ues, United States Army, and Col. Barrett, commanding Augusta Independent Volun teer Battalion. MffiVV Telegrams. Providence, R. 1., July 14. — The Na tional Division of Sons of Temperance of North America are in session. Ninety foqr representatives are present.— Twenty-seven representatives were in itiated. Boston, July 14.—The vinegar fac tory of E. M. Pettinghill was seized for manufacturing distilled spirits. Atlanta, July 14,—Tom. Wells, form erly a commission merchant of this city, suicided. Financial troubles. New York, July 14.—Cardinal Mc- Closkey sails for Rome, August 7. London, July 14.—The Swiss General Dufour is dead. ■. Lynching in Florida. New Orleans, July 14.—A letter in the Bulletin, from Melton. Florida, re ports the lynching of a white man and a negro, each oharged with rape. Yer dict of the coroner’s jury : “Hanged by parties unknown, and served them right.” The tobacco worm has attacked the plants, and good elocutionists are posted on the fences by the farmers, reading the excellent anti-tobacco tracts by the late Mr. Trask. “ Our inside columns to-day,” says a country editor, “ ‘ Dyspepsia,’ * Crook ed Whiskey,’ ‘ A Chinese Restaurant,’ and various other interesting selected articles,” -New Series—Vol. 3. No. 155. THE MAN WITH THE EX TERMINATOR. fDetroitFree Press.] He smiled blandly as ho halted for a moment in front of the City Hall. He looked like a man who could, palm off almost anything on the public at 100 per cent, profit and yet leave the cus tomer in a grateful mood. He had a tin trunk in his hand, and as he sailed down LaFayette avenue the boys won dered whether the trunk contained tax receipts or horse liniment. The stran ger halted in front of a residence, his smile deepened, and he mounted the steps and pulled the bell. “Is the lady at home?” he inquired of the girl who answered the bell. The girl thought he was the census taker, and she seated him in the parlor and called the lady of the house. When the lady entered the stranger rose, bowed and said: “Madam, I have just arrived in this town after a tour extending clear down to Florida, and wherever I went I was received with glad welcome.” “ Did you wish to see my husband ?” she asked as he opened the tin trunk. “ No, madam ; I deal directly with the lady of the house in all cases. A woman will appreciate the virtues of my exterminator and purchase a bot tle where a man will order me off the steps without glancing at it.” “Your—your what ?” she asked. “ Madam,” he replied, as he placed a four ounce phial of dark liquid on the palm of his left hand, “madam, I de sire to call your attention to my ‘ Sun set Bedbug Exterminator.’ It has been tried at home and abroad, and in no case has it failed to ” “What do you mean, sir?” getting very red iu the face. “ Leave- this house instantly.” “Madam, I do not wish you to infer from my ” “I want you to leave this house!” she shrieked. “Madam, allow me to explain my—” “I will call the police !” she screamed, making for the door, and he hastily locked his trunk and hurried out. Going down the street about two blocks he saw the lady of the house at the parlor window, and instead or climbing the steps he stood under the window and politely said : “Madam, I don’t wish to even hint that any of the bdsteads in your house are inhabited by bed-bugs, but—” “What! W’hat’s that?” she ex claimed. “I said that I hadn’t the remotest idea that any of the beadsteads in your house were infested by bed-bugs,” lie replied. “Take yourself out of this yard!” she shouted, snatching a tidy off the back of a chair and bradishing it at him. “Beg pardon, madam, but I should like to call your ” “Get out!” she screamed; “get out, or I’ll call the gardener !” “I will get out, madam, but I wish you to understood ” “J-a-w-n ! J-a-w-n !” she shouted out of a side window, but the exterminator agent was out of the yard before John could get around the house. He seemed discouraged as ho walked down the street, but ho had traveled less than a block when he saw a stout woman sitting on the front steps of a line residence fanning herself. “ Stout women are always good na tured,” he soliloquised, as he opened the gate. “ Haven’t got anything for the grass hopper sufferers,” she called out as he entered. There was an angelic smile on his face as he approached the steps, set his trunk down, and said : “ My mission, madam, is even nobler than acting as agent for a distressed community. The grasshopper sufferers do not comprise a one hundredth part cf the world’s population, while my mission is to relieve the whole world.” “I don’t want auy peppermint es sence,” she continued, as he started to unlock the trunk. “Great Heavens, madam, do I resem ble a peddler of cheap essences?” he exclaimed. “I am not one. lam here n Detroit to enhance the comforts of the night—to produce pleasant dreams. Let me call your attention to my Sunset Bedbug Exterminator, a liquid war ranted to ” “Bed what 1” she screamed, ceasing to fan her fat cheeks. “My Sunset Bedbug Exterminator. It is to-day in use in the humble negro cabins on the banks of the Arkansas, as well as in the royal palace of her Ma jesty Q ” “You r-r-rascal! yo u villyun !” she wheezed; “how dare you insult me in !” “No insult, madam, it is a pure mat ter of ” “L-eave ! Git o-w-t!” she screamed, clutching at his hair, and he had to go out in such a hurry that he couldn’t lock the trunk until he reached the walk. He traveled several blocks aucl turned several corners before he halted again, and his smile faded away to a melancholy grin. He saw two or three ragged children at a gate, noticed that the house was old, and he braced up and entered. “I vhants no soap,” said the woman of the houB as he stood in the door. “Soap, madam, soap?” I have no soap. I noticed that you lived in an old house, and as old houses are pretty apt to be infested ” “I vhants no bins nor needles to-day!” she shouted. “Madam, I am not a peddler of Yan kee notions,” he replied, “I am selling a liquid, prepared only by myself, which is warranted to ” “I vhants no baper gollars !” she ex claimed, motioning for him to leave. “Paper collars ! I have been often been mistaken for Shakespeare, madam, but never before for a paper collar ped ler. Let me unlock my trunk and show .” “I vhants no matches—no dobaeeo— no zigars!” she interrupted; and her* husband came around the corner and, after eyeing the agent for a moment remarked: “If you don’t be quick out of here I shall not have any shoking about it!” At dusk last night the agent was sit ting on a salt barrel in front of a com mission house, and the shadows of evening were slowly deepening the melancholy look on his face. A deaf and dumb medicant was sud denly startled by the rude shouts of some boys while walking down a street., and in turning, slipped on a piece of orange peel and feel. He gave the lads a severe lecture, much to the enjoyment of the blind beggar at the corner, who saw the whole occurrence through his green glasses. —[Punch. The Sultan, to "the new American Minister: “Now, Horace, you must keep away from the harem and attend to your international affairs. We don’t know anything about true inwardness and moral Niagaras here.”