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Old Series—Vol. 25. No. 122.
We publish the mournful news this
morning of the death of Lady Frank
lin.
Our Athens letter, this morning, is
very interesting and welcome. We
shall be glad to hear from our intelli
gent correspondent at any and all
times.
If the Centennial Commissioners suc
ceed in getting Queen Victoria and the
Czar of Russia to attend we don't
know but what we might be induced to
go ourselves.
The existence of yellow fever at Nor
folk is officially denied. A list of deaths
from it at Key West is given, from
which it appears the disease has been
quite bad there.
Brother j White, of the Plymouth
congregation, says “while Mr. Beecher
is our parson, the whole world owns
him.” If anybody wants to increase
his stock in him he can have ours for
nothing.
The Commencement, at Oxford began
yesterday. Senator Norwood delivers
the address before the Alumni to-day.
We have a regular reporter on the
ground and give his first letter this
morning.
All America will extend a heartfelt
welcome to Victoria if she accepts the
invitation to come to this country
during the Philadelphia Centennial.
That would indeed be a day of glory
which witnessed a British sovereign,
and especially the best one that ever
lived, land upon our shores.
Two more bales of new cotton have
been received at Galveston. Now begin
to cheer up, forget your hot weather,
dull times, and only dream of the
streets of Augusta in the near future
filled with the fleecy staple, plenty of
trade and cash to settle bills.
After the many plumps into the
bull’s eye by the American Rifle Team,
John Bull will no doubt be a little more
particular about picking a fuss with
this country. We assure him that
samples of that team can be found
upon every street corner in America,
whilst out in the country they go in
regular gangs.
Our South American news, usually
very dull and extremely stupid, is in
teresting this morning. They have had
a riot which would be pronounced re
spectable by a Dublin critic. True, it
was something less than their late
earthquake, but still a little more than
we should like to be mixed up with un
less armor-plated and heavily.
Br our special dispatch from Colum
bia it will be seen that the Parker
trial has been brought to a close and
that he has been found guilty. After
the charge of Judge Carpenter, the
jury retired and brought in a verdict
of §75,000 for the plaintiff. He will
now no doubt be put upon the criminal
side of the docket and land in the
penitentiary. We congratulate the
people of South Carolina upon the
verdict.
The Courier-Journal complains that
a reporter it sent the other day to in
terview Col. Buckner upon the matter
of the Jackson defalcation, in his office,
was kicked out. That reporter ought
to be discharged. When kicked out
the front door, he should have gone in
at the window, and when thrust out of
that, went down the chimney. When
arrested by the police, it should have
been while in the act of boring holes
through the ceiling large enough to
have heard every word the Colonel
said, and big enough to detect every
false entry in his books.
The Cincinnati Gazette’s article on
Gen. Preston is very high-toned and
very unexpected. It should cut cer
tain Southern journals to the quick.
The Gazette, in a spirit of firmness,
contrasts the conduct and speeches of
certain Northern men with Gen. Pres
ton’s behavior and harangue. It thinks
the Soutli Carolina orator had cause
for complaint, while Northern men,
especially those who made money out
of the war, have none. Mr. Wm. Cullen
Bryant and other pietists are respect
fully asked to put themselves in Pres
ton’s place before reviling him unduly.
In another column will be found a
vigorous protest against Mayor Estes’
sending any more paupers to Atlanta,
male or female. Probably, Mayor
Estes thought the Gate City wanted
immigrants, since such a tremendous
cackle was made over the advent of a
single Swede, the other day. At any
rate, the Georgia Railroad has put its
foot down firmly against recognizing
pauper passes and Atlanta has had a
spasm of reaction against immigration.
Our worthy Mayor must either put his
paupers to work, ship them to some
other point or warn all men and women
without visible means of support that
Augusta does not want them and will
not have them.
Judge Thubman is on a regular strike
against the financial plank of the Ohio
Democratic platform. He says he is
not an inflationist, and will take ex
ception to that clause in bis opening
speech of the campaign on the 31st of
July. But he most truthfully says
that there is a division in the Radical j
as well as in the Democratic party upon
the finances. The Radicals are doing
their best to thrust the finances for
ward as the main question of the next
campaign. But tho main matter for
•consideration is whether this Govern
ment shall be conducted for the next
four as it has been the last four years.
It is a fearful thing to contemplate by
the people of the South, who do not
know their General Government save
fcy its oppression.
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SOUTH CAROLINA.
CONVICTION OF PARKER.
The Close of the Argument—Charge
of Judge Carpenter—The Jury Find
Him Guilty and Bring in a Verdict
for $75,000.
ISpecial to the Constitutionalist.]
Columbia, Judy 19.
Attorney General Melton closed for
the State in an elaborate argument of
six hours’ duration. Judge Carpenter
charged the jury immediately and
brief!y. He said, if the jury believed
that the defendant, at the time of the
alleged conversion of coupons, was the
treasurer and custodian of State bonds,
it was his duty to cut from all
bonds all the coupons that had
matured prior to delivery for sale
or hypothecation. If he was such
treasurer, in the absence of proof on
his part, the defendant is responsible
for any proved loss or misuse of cou
pons paid either by himself or Kirnp
ton. If the jurors believe the defend
ant took from the State treasury or re
ceived from Kimpton coupons at that
time paid in New York or Columbia,
and appropriated them to his own use,
they should find for the plaintiff for the
sum they believe he took at the rate of
fifty cents in the dollar. If he did not re
move from the treasury and appropriate
to his own use the verdict should be
for defendant. If a prima facie case
of fraud has been made out against
Parker, they should find for the State.
The case was then given to the jury.
Up to this hour (9:30 p. m.) no verdict.
There is a rumor that eleven are for
conviction and one for acquittal.
11:30 p. m.—Jury rendered a verdict
for plaintiff in the sum of §75,000.
Home.
m
FROM WASHINGTON.
General Capital News.
Washington, July 19.—Bristow and
Attorney General Pierrepont returns
to-morrow. Robeson is here.
The Star has good authority for say
ing Judge Fisher remains District
J udge.
W 7 m. Burnett, Supervising Inspector
General <?f Steam Vessels, and Inspect
ors A. Lowe, of New York, Wm. Rodg
ers, of New Orleans, will, on the 14th of
September, commence a series of ex
periments with safety-valves at the
Washington navy yard.
Professor Barnard, of Columbia Col
lege. New York, has been appointed
Chairman of the Steam Boiler Com
mission.
The President and Commander of the
various Catoiic benevolent societies of
the District of Columbia, have called a
Convention for Wednesday evening to
make arrangements for celebrating the
centennial of Daniel O’Connell.
The Postmaster General has request
ed rhe Attorney General to designate
counsel to attend to the application
pending in the United States Circuit
Court, in New York, for a mandamus to
compel the Postmaster at New Y’ork to
receive a book package for mail trans
mission to Philadelphia at the old
rates. The Postmaster General says
he knows but little of the merits of the
case further than that the Postmaster
was acting in the line of his duty in ac
cordance with the law.
Judge Spence, Assistant Attorney
General for the Post office Department,
states that there may be some plausi
ble ground for the position taken by
the plaintiff in this case, but that a de
cision in favor of the mandamus would
greatly confuse the service, as there
were several important amendments
iu the law which originated in the
Senate, among them the new law con
ceruing the postage on newspapers,
&e., sent from the offices of publication,
which would be thrown back upon the
old law if the mandamus should be
granted.
THE YELLOW FEVER.
Its Existence Officially Denied at Nor
folk —List of Deaths at Key West.
Norfolk, July 19.—The Board of
Health make the following statement:
A rumor that yellow fever existed in
this city originated in Washington and
publishe J iu the Boston Journal of the
17th instant as a dispatch from Wash
ington, is utterly without foundation,
nor is it believed that a naval medical
officer at this station made any such
statement as that mentioned in the
Journal of said date. There is no case,
nor has there been one yellowfe ver death
either in the city or at the quarantine
station this season. This statement is
made by order of the Board of Health
and signed by John B. Whitehead,
health officer.
New York, July 19. —A Key West let
ter dated July 9, says: Among the
most promiaent persons who have died
here of yellow fever are Mr. Allen, tele
graph operator, Mrs. Townsend, wife of
the Deputy Collector of Customs, Mr.
Van Duseu, Methodist Clergyman, Mr.
Hogan, cigar manufacturer, Mr. Auch
intrek, Cnief Engineer, Rev. Cutler
Seward, Mr. Polhemus, Second Engi
neer, Mr. Jourdan, of the light house
establishment, with many other of less
note.
The report telegraphed from Wash
ington that there were several cases of
yellow fever in this city caused suprise
and indignation here and efforts have
been made to discover the naval officer
upon whose authority the statement is
said to have been forwarded. Commo
dore Stevens replies to a note ad
dressed to him by Captain James Baron
Hope, of the Mandark, as follows : “I
feel with you that a great wrong is
being done by the publication of such
reports and shall institute immediate
investigation into the statement refer
red to as coming from a medical offi
cer attached to this station, Signed T.
H. Stevens, Commodore and Command
ant.
The following dispatch has been sent
to the Naval Medical authorities at
Washington : “ To Dr. John M. Wood
ward, Supervising Surgeon, Washing
ton : There has been no case of yellow
fever at Norfolk this season. Signed :
H. W. Sawtell, Assistant Surgeon U. S.
Marine Hospital Service.”
Gen. Waddy Thompson.
Memphis, July 19.—Waddy Thomp
son was brought before Judge Flippin’s
criminal court to-day, and counsel
agreeing, his trial will commence to
morrow.
When deaf and dumb lovers are
married, two members of the wedding
pair are sure to be unspeakably
happy.
AUGUSTA, GA.. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 20. 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Death of Lady Franklin.
London, July 19.—Lady Franklin is
dead.
Sketch of Her Life.
Lady Jane Franklin was the second
wife of Sir John Franklin, the cele
brated explorer, who went on his last
voyage to discover a northwest pas
sage through the Arctic Seas in 1845,
and since has never been heard of save
by a few relics found twenty years later
by the McCiintock expedition. She
was born in 1805, and therefore had
reached the age of seventy years. She
was the second daughter of Sir John
Griffin, and was of French-Huguenot
descent.
Her distinguishing trait has been the
devotion of thirty years to the finding
of her husband. In this she expended
nearly every farthing of her large for
tune, and by her personal appeals in
duced the expenditure of about ten
times more by the Governments of Eng
land and the United States, and by
public and private individuals. In both
hemispheres she enlisted the warmest
sympathy. She never ceased to hope
until her heart was sttlled in death.
It can well be imagined with what
mournful feelings she received and
looked upon the few relics brought
back and laid before her by Gapt. Mc-
Ciintock, consisting of one or two
skulls fouud in a boat, a few spoons,
knives, and other tableware. Every
article brought back from Sir John’s
ships, the Erubus and Terror, were
carefully collected and preserved at
Franklin House, iu Lincolnshire. The
whole civilized world will regret her
death. She has at last joined her lost
husband on the other shore !
The American Riflemen.
London, July 18. —John Ridgely, of
the Irish Team, tied Major Fulton in
the shooting for the Sr. Leger stakes
yesterday, making thirty-five points.
The contest will be finished to-morrow.
Lord Wharncliffe entertained the
American Team at dinner to-day at
Wimbledon. Lady Wharncliffe; Lieu
tenant-Colonel Phillips, Mr. Mil l l may,
Captain Peel and a number of other
prominent persons were present. No
speeches were made. The American
party were subsequently conducted
through the camp. They were particu
larly pleased with the arrangements in
connection with the targets, and will
probably recommend their introduc
tion at Creedmoor. The Captains of
the English, Irish and Scottish Teams
have Council to permit
the Americans to shoot at the time for
the Elcho Shield. The Americans con
curred in the application. No answer
has yet been given by the Council.
London, July 19.—Fulton, of the
American team, won the St. Luger cup
in shooting off the tie.
London, July 19. —The shooting for
the Albert prizes are taking place to
day at Wimbledon. The ranges are
200, 600 and 900 yards. The shooting
at the first two ranges has been fur
nished. The scores show Gildersleeve
ahead, having made 68 points out of a
possible 70. At the first range Gilder
sleeve, Fulton and Coleman, of the
Americans, each made 34 points out of
a possible 35, while Hamiltou, Netty,
N. Yatt, Greenhilt and Rigby, the latter
two of the Irish eight, made 35 points.
At the second range only Greenhill and
Rigby maintained close competition
with the Americans, scoring 32 points
each. In the match for the Rifle Asso
ciation cup, in which each man has ten
shots at 600 yards range, Coleman
scored 49 out of a possible 50, leading
a large number of competitors. Gil
dersleeve made 48. The excellency of
the American marksmen causes aston
ishment. The ties in the shooting of
Saturday at Wimbledon for the St.
Leger sweepstakes were shot off to
day. Fulton, of the Americans, won ;
Mitchell second and John Rigby third.
The American riflemen say that they
do not concur iu the petition to council
by the Captains of the English, Irish
and Scotch Teams for permission for
them to shoot at the same time with
the Elcho Shield competition, and that
they will not compete in that match.
Council has not yet acted on the appli
cation of the three captains.
The contest for the Albert prizes was
finished this p. m. Sir Henry Halford
won the first prize, sc ring 98 out of a
possible 105, and Col. Gildersleeve took
the second prize with a score of 92. Iu
the match at Wimbledon to-day, be
tween the House of Lords and the
House of Commons, the range was 500
yards. The Commons won, making 313
points against 220 made by the Lords,
out of a possible total of 375. The fol
lowing are the individual scores, tho
highest possible being 75 : Commons —
Hon. Randal Plunkett, 67 ; Dan’i Pep
loe, 64 ; Arthur Vivian, 64 ; Marquis of
Lome, 61; Rob’t.JLindsay, 57—total, 313.
Lords—Earl Ferrers, 62; Duke of
Marlborough, 45; Lord Waldegrave,
42; Earl of Dunraven, 36; Lord Wharn
cliffe, 35 —total, 220.
The Prince of Wales’ Expenses.
A meeting was held in Hyde Park to
day to protest against the grant for the
Prince of Wales’ visit to India. Twelve
thousand persons were present. Brad
laugh made a violent speech, and con
cluded by offering a resolution of a sim
ilar character. The resolution was
adopted almost unanimously. Eight
persons who voted against it were set
upon by the crowd, and the police had
to interfere for their protection.
The Bavarian Electoral College.
Berlin, July 19.—The Bavarian Elec
toral College consists of 77 Liberals and
19 Ultramontanes.
Maurid, July 19.—The Carlists have
abandoned the siege of Puycefda.
War in the East—A Revolt Against
the Turkish Government.
London, July 19. —A dispatch to Reu
ter, dated Constantinople, says the dis
turbances in Herzegovina are believed
to be serious. The commissioners sent
by the Porte to tranquiiize the country
have reported by telegraph that they
are unsuccessful. The whole district
between Mostar and the Austrian fron
tier, down nearly as far as Ragusa, is
in a state of revolt, and the insurgents
threaten death to all who refuse to join
them. The commissioners advise the
Porte to send troops forthwith.
The House of Commons—The Lord
Mayor’s International Banquet.
In the House of Commons, to-night,
Mr. Disraeli stated that tiie Govern
ment would proceed with the agricul
tural, merchant, shipping indicature
and land transfer bills. He declined to
say what disposition would be made of
other measures. He hoped, with the
assistance of the House, to bring their
labors to a close at a reasonable and
satisfactory period.
Much dissatisfaction is expressed at
the Premier’s indefiniteness of the
functionaries invited to the Lord May
or’s international banquet. The follow
ing have signified their acceptance:
The Prefects of the Seine, of Pas de
Calais, and of the police of Paris ; the
Mayors of Calais, Bordeaux, Geneva,
Rome, Turin, Florence, Christiana,
Boston and Quebec; and the Burgo
masters of Brussels, Antwerp and Am
sterdam ; 17 have not yet answered,
and 22 have declined, including all the
Germans invited.
JUDGE THURMAN AND THE FI
NANCES.
He Disagrees with the Ohio Demo
cratic Platform.
Washington, July 19.—Judge Thur
man had an interview with the report
er of the Baltimore Gazette. He is rep
resented as saying in effect : “ The
Democratic party of Ohio is divided
on the currency question. The finan
cial plank of the Columbus platform
should be regarded only as a local
opinion. The unjust charge in this ac
count is made that tho Democratic
party as a national organization is ani
mated by a spirit of inflation. There
are inflationists in both political
parties. It is true serious errors were
inserted in that platform. I did my
best to avert the threatened evil, but
because others disagreed with me I see
no reason why I should bolster up the
Republican party. The errors commit
ted iu Ohio can be corrected. They
need not be an excuse for greater ones.
The Republiean party of Ohio is
also divided on the currency question.
The financial plank of their platform
can be construed to mean either hard
or soft money.” Replying to the charge
that he evinced a lack of moral cour
age for not denouncing the inflation
platfk of the Columbus platform at the
ratification meeting he said: “The place
and time w r ere not opportune. It is
great injustice to condemn one for
opinions never uttered. I have said or
done nothing to warrant the charges
brought against me. My record in the
Senate is before the country, and on
that record I yet stand. lam to make
my first speech of the campaign at
Mansfield, Ohio, July 31, and shall then
announce my disagreement with the
financial provisions of the platform.
And throughout the campaign I shall
say nothing to discredit the convictions
of a life time.”
The Libel Suit Against the Baltimore
American.
Baltimore, July 19.—The three suits
instituted in the Court of Common
Pleas, on Friday last by the Governor
of Maryland, State Comptroller and
State Treasurer, respectively, compos
ing the Board of Public Works, agaiust
the Baltimore American, for libel, dam
ages claimed being §25,000 in each case,
are likely to become adjudicated. To
day Reverdy Johnson tendered hi3
professional services to the pro
prietors of the American, which
having been accepted, Mr. Johnson’s
appearance was entered in eaen case as
their attorney. In his letter volunteer
ing his services, Mr. Johnson says:
“My motive for making this offer was
that from the ground on which I un
derstand the suits have been brought,
I thought that the public interest
was concerned and that the free
dom and usefulness of the public
press were iuvolved This being
my impression, I cannot agree
to receive any pecuniary com
pensation.” Owing to the high official
and equally high social character and
reputation of the plaintiffs, there can be
no likelihood of a compromise or set
tlement short of a decision of a legal
tribunal, the official conduct of these
gentlemen taping involved on the one
part in these causes, and the extent cf
the right and liberty of the press to
criticise and charge corruption to pub
lic officers on the other. The suits have
already attracted attention throughout
the State. Both parties are represented
by the ablest counsel in Maryland.
The Cotton Mills.
Fall River, July 18.—The Manufac
turers’ Board of Trade held an import
ant session last night, relative to the
future action of the mill corporations
iu this city. The committee appointed
some weeks since to visit the different
manufacturing towns of New England
reported that the cotton business was
in an unusually depressed condition,
and that the wages paid operatives in
Fall River were considerably in excess
of other manufacturing centres. After
some discussion it was voted, in view
of the stagnancy iu the market, to re
duce the rates of wages to the same as
paid before the late strike, the same to
go into effect on the first Monday in
August. An agreement was signed
that the reduction should be made gen
eral in all the mills of the city, and, in
case of a partial strike, a general lock
out should follow.
The Boy Murderer.
Boston, July 18.—Pomeroy, the boy
murderer, has written the story of his
life, narrating his crimes and his im
prisonment in a reform school. He re
tracts from former confessions, pro
fesses to have been a regular Sunday
school attendant in early life, and
claims that lie was not guilty of the
first crime for which he was arrested,
but was goaded by the police into
making a confession. Referring to the
discovery of the remains of Katie Cur
ran, at No. 327 Broadway, he doubts
whether these are the remains of Katie
Curran. He says he made a false con
fession that hi3 mother and brother,
who had been arrested for the murder,
and whom he knew were innocent,
might go free. He charges that lies
were used freely all around by the wit
nesses at the coroner’s inquest. He in
timates that lie has the knowledge as
to who committed the murder, but he
has not yet revealed his suspicions.
NEWS FROM CUBA.
Valmaseda Arresting Gold Bulls and
Bears.
Havana, July 16, via Key We3T, July
19. —Many arrests are reported to have
been made in this city and Matanzas,
Cardenas, Puerto Principe, Cienfuegos
and Santiago de Cuba, for violation of
the decree prohibiting making time
contracts for gold.
Several persons suspected of com
plicity iu attempting to cause a rising
in the jurisdiction of Guanajail have
been arrested and brought here.
Arrival of the First Bale of Cotton at
New York,
New York, July 19.—The first bale of
this season’s crop of Louisiana cotton,
raised in St. Landry parish by Mr.
Joseph Berand, and shipped to” Bliss,
Bennet & Cos., of this city, was put up
for sale to-day at the Cotton Exchange.
After a fair competition it was pur
chased by Merrill & Cos., brokers, at 18
cents.
Matt Carpenter.
Milwaukee, July 18.—Ex-Senator
Carpenter has been retained by the city
of New York to assist in proseeutiu g
Tweed.
SOUTH AMERICA.
Great Riot at San Mugiel, Salvador —
Fearful Destruction of Life and
Property.
New York, July 18.—The United
States steamer Powhattan, from Pana
ma, to the Bth, brings the following
news: A dreadful riot took place at
San Mugiel, Salvador. A great deal of
discontent had been excited against the
Government by its refusal to allow a
pastoral of the Bishop of Salvador,
written in atone hostile to the laws, to
be read in the churches here. There
had also been considerable hostile feel
ing among the lower classes, owing
to some regulations requiring deal
ers to use anew market for
their benefit. While matters were
in this condition, a priest named
Palacios preached a violent sermon
against the constituted authorities on
Sunday, the 20tli ult. That evening
the mob rose and attacked the jail and
released two hundred prisoners. They
then proceeded to assault the small
garrison and took the Cuartel, killed
Generals Espinoz and Castro, cut the
former to pieces and threw the pieces
at each other ; split the skull of Gen.
Castro and threw him over a wall,
where he was picked up by his mother
and died in three days. The garrison
were nearly all assassinated, and many
honorable citizens were killed. After
this the fanatic mob set fire to some
sixteen houses with kerosene. Before
the town was entirely destroyed it for
tunately happened that the British
ship Fautome was at LaUnion, where
she landed her marines, which allowed
the garrison there to unite with some
troops from Amopala, in Honduras, to
march to the relief of San Miguel and
put down the mob. The Curate Pala
cioa, at last accounts, was arrested,
with others that had participated in
the outbreak, and a good many of the
inferior rioters had been shot by order
of President Gonzales, who had ar
rived with troops. With the houses
destroyed and pillaged the damago is
estimated at $1,000,000, and commercial
failures are looked for in consequence.
The country has been declared in a state
of siege, and President Gonzales is tak
ing measures to establish order and
bring the perpetrators of this disgrace
ful outbreak to condign punishment.
The Diario Official of the State,
and all the public prints, abound in
indignation against tho priests who
were the instigators of this savage and
sanguinary affair. The Capilutar Vicar
for the edict published by his order,
and Jose Manuel Palacios, ex-Canouigo
of the Cathedral of San Salvador, and
the municipality of this city, asked to
have the said Palacios removed, but
the Curia Ecclesiastico paid no atten
tion to the petition. He was continu
ally sowing hatred between the lower
and well to do classes, and the result
has just been described. One curious
and incredible discovery was made
after the murderous affair was over,
and that was on the persons of the
dead rebels were found passports which
read when translated: “Peter, open to
the bearer the gates of Heaven, who
has died for religion.” This is signed
by George Bishop, of San Salvador, and
sealed with the seal of the Bishopric of
San Salvador.
— —
Minor Telegrams.
Louisville, July 19.—The Jackson
defalcation will probably reach seventy
five thousand dollars.
Turin, July 19.— Rossi, the Italian
tragedian, has engaged for fifty per
formances in the United States, com
mencing at New York in November.
St, Louis, July 19.—Mitchell & Co.’s
furniture factory was burned to-day.
Loss §60,000.
St. Johns, July 19. —The yacht “Ef
fort,” sixteen tons, from Fleetwood,
England, May 19th, has arrived. The
crew-consists of the captain and two
boys.
New York, July 19.—The Booksell
ers’ Exchange, Clearing House and
Book Fair was opened this morning.
Among tho publishers and manufac
turing houses represented are twelve
from Philadelphia and one from Balti
more.
LETTER FROM MACON.
A Female College Reminiscence—Re
vival of a Memorable Career.
Macon, Ga., July 15, 1875.
[Special Correspondence Constitutionalist.]
Permit us through your columns to
give vent to our pent up feelings. While
attending the commencement of the
W. F. College, at Macon, this week, we
were peculiarly struck by the lofty sen
timents contained and read iu a
young lady’s composition under this
caption, “ The Harpstrings of Recollec
tion.” Our mind enjoyed a perfect
feast, for unconsciously we too were
carried on the wings of thought back
ward o’er the past.
Almost a half century since we
were traveling through Jasper county
and saw two little boys busily plowing
(rather the younger riding the horse
while the older guided the plow.) It
needed no great amount of wisdom to
know that they were struggling with
poverty, but manfully they went to the
contest.
We have watched those two little
boys with no little degree of interest,
and now r come to the pleasant part of
their lives—rather the 4ife,..of the
younger.
Iu glancing over the list of the ju
nior class, we noticed a familir name—
the author of tho composition alluded
to. The beautiful and accomplished
youug lady was the youngest daughter
of our little plow-boy. Oh, what a vast
difference between the younger days of
father and daughter! I hope that he
was present and listened to the strains
of the harp of memory as it sent forth
its touching melody.
W e understand that he has given a
collegiate education to his two other
daughters and to two sons, both now
grown up to manhood, and an honor to
his gray hairs.
The older plow-boy is one of the most
prominent men iu Harris county, and
has a large share of this world’s goods.
The father of the youug lady alluded
to is considered one of the most suc
cessful merchants in the city of Cov
ington, with plenty to feast upon in his
declining years.
I do not mention anything I have
written to flatter tho gentleman alluded
to, for they never knew me personally,
but to encourage the young men of
this age to struggle on and do as they
have done. There can be no such thing
as a failure to the boy of pluck and
energv. Here were two with every
thing'imaginable to oppose them, but
amid'everything they worked, resolving
to succeed, and verily the success of
the younger (judging by what we saw
and heard at the commencement) must
be gratifying in every sense of the
word. ‘ ' “Senex.”
LETTER FROM ATHENS.
University Items—Tbe Senior Exami
nation Concluded—Champion Debate
—Speakers at the Commencement—
Hon. A. H. Stephens for Trustee —
Defense of Dr. Tucker—Dr. Lips
comb’s Adieu.
Athens, July 18, 1875.
After having fought the good fight
and passed the fiery ordeal, the Senior
Class at length completed their final
examinations. The last encounter with
Dr. Speer, Professor of Rhetoric, is
over, and the venerable Seniors have
at last entered upon the duties and
privileges of “Alumni.” Your corres
pondent being one of that honorable
class slowly gathers his scattered wits
and bewildered seDses, and waits in
suspense the decision and report of
the board of visitors who sit in “medita
tion awful” upon the examination pa
pers.
Prominent among this board we no
tice Prof. Richardson, of Bowden Col
lege ; Col. Jones, of the Telegraph and
Messenger; Mark W. Johnson, Esq.,
and Prof. Glenn, of Jefferson, who ex
amine the mystic workings of our
great institution, and who are now
prepared, doubtless, to disclose the
secrets thereof.
Speakers from the graduating class
have not yet been appointed, but prob
ably will be known on the morrow.
Many a heart beats high which to
morrow may be sickened by “Dead Sea
fruitmany “chateaux en Espague”
are to-day reared, to bo ruthlessly de
molished by the “powers that be.” But
such is life. “The Champion Debate,”
presided over by Gen. John B. Goidon,
promises to be a highly interesting
affair. Dr. Tucker preaches the ser
mon, Howard Van Epps, Esq , of At
lanta, delivers the address before the
literary societies, and the usual quota
of sophomore declaimers and junior
orators will electrify the audience with
“thoughts that breathe and words that
burn.”
The Hon. James Jackson, of Macon,
is Alumni Orator, and will, of course,
“do the handsome thing” there.
There are, you may remember, two va
cancies iu the Board of Trustees,
caused by the death of Colonel Goode
and Hon. Dunlap Scott, and it behooves
the Alumni of the University to be
present at their annual meeting, and
elect good men to these positions. The
college needs wisdom and energy to
support her iu her progress and devel
opment, and it seems to be the prevail
ing sentiment that Hon. Alexander H.
Stephens would be a most valuable ad
dition to that honorable body. If
Georgia needs her intellect and states
manship anywhere, surely it is in the
management of her great University
whose prosperity or decay is of the
most vital importance to our entire
commonwealth. Among the number of
these Trustees she already recognizes
some of her peerless sons and to these
let her add the “Sage of Liberty
Hal!.” But there are also many
of tliis board who are not only
not identified especially with tho
interest of the University, but who
are totally incompetent to fill so high a
position ; and we are convinced that if
Mr. Stephens thought that he could be
of service to the State in this capacity,
as evidently he can be, he would accept
the position. Every day, Mr. Editor,
in the history of our University con
vinces us that we need men for her
trustees who are not only capable of
furthering her interests, but who are
anxious for her welfare.
It is a source of great pain to the
friends of the College that there seems
to be so much dissatisfaction about the
Chancellorship and general working
and management, for unless there be
perfect harmony here, comparatively
nothing can be accomplished.
The scene in the University prayer
room, which has been so graphically
portrayed to the public generally, seems
to have furnished a nucleus around
which general complaints and charges
have centered in a most formidable
manner. Assuredly the little affair it
self is to be generally deplored, as Dr.
Tucker probably allowed himself to be
come too much enraged at the disre
spectful conduct of some few of tho
students; but it does not deserve the
importance which has been so emphat
ically placed upon it. Be this however
as it may, one thing is certain that the
students during the last year have been
remarkably quiet and well behaved, the
general moral element of tho college is
extraordinarily good and the boys are,
most of them, ambitious and indus
trious.
These facts, as a student, your cor
respondent is able to establish, and
will be corroborated by any of the cit
izens of Athens.
Now, Mr. Editor, we are not a wor
shipper of Dr. Tucker. In fact, as a
straight-out “ Lipscombite,” we were
a little prejudiced against our new
Chancellor at the beginning of this
term. But these statements we make
simply because they are true, and we
fear that great injustice has been done
Dr. T. Of course, others who have so
emphatically expressed themselves
upon this point know far more about
it than we do ; but, in our very humble
opinion, we would suggest that Dr.
Tucker understands our University, its
condition and wants about as well as
anybody in the State, for proof of
which I refer you to his able address
before the Legislature last February.
The Rev. Dr. A. A. Lipscomb shortly
leaves us to take his chair at Vander
bilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
The bare mention of the departure of
the venerablo Nestor of the University
is sufficient to sadden the hearts of
many of his boys, who have felt the in
fluence of his precepts and have expe
rienced the salutary effects of his teach
ings. From every part of the State
adieux “hushed iu silent prayers” will
be breathed upon the beloved divine.
Truly in his loss Georgia has sustained
a blow indeed. For many a long year
he has preserved the University in its
darkest hours, and sustained it in its
lofty rank among the educational insti
tutions of our land.
His biography is written in the
hearts of our youth, his image deeply
engraved in their memories and never
while the blood is warm or the heart is
tried will it fade away. “One of nature’s
noblemen,” he leaves the manor of his
adoption for other fields of usefulness.
May he be a blessing to our sister
State as he has been to us, and in time to
come may he see his labors and teach
ings there as prolific and as fruitful
as they have been at the University of
Georgia. “Picciqla.”
National Bankers’ Convention.
Saratoga, July 19. —Two hundred
prominent bank Presidents and Cashiers
are in town to attend the Natiouai
Bankers’ Convention, which meets to
morrow at noon in the Town Hall.
About 1,000 more are expected to ar
rive in the morning.
Keely motor stock is said to be at
500 par oent premium.
-New Series— Vdl. 3. jSJc. 160.
LETTER FROM RUTLEDGE.
Showers and Heat—A Heroic Deed—
An Outrage—Capt. Vining—Bathing
Novelties—The Greatest Invention
of the Age.
[From our Regular Correspondent.]
Rutledge, July 18th, 1875.
During the last week we have had
frequent showers. The last three days
have been the hottest of the season. I
have no thermometer, but it must have
been up to boiling heat, for the per
spiration just boiled out and ran off in
streams from the hands and horses in
the field at work, though field work is
now about over for a spell.
There was a very heroic deed per
formed by a young lady of the Social
Circle last Wednesday. ' The circum
stances, as reported, were that a young
man named Parker hired a horse and
buggy from the livery stable and
started with Miss Colton in the buggy
from the Circle to Monroe, a distanoe
of ten miles, to attend an exhibition of
a school. When they had gone some
distance the horse became frightened
and ran away, throwing the young man
out, dislocating his shoulder and other
wise bruising him. Miss Colton, re
taining her presence of mind, gathered
up the rains, stopped the horse and
turning back, picked up the wounded
man and drove to the nearest phy
sician with him and had his wounds
dressed.
On Thursday night, between 11 and
3 o’clock, some unknown person went
to a negro cabin in tire yard of Mr.
Robert Mosley, near Rutledge, and fired
a heavy load of shot through the window
into a bed where a negro man and
woman were lying, tearing a chair back
to pieces, making a large hole through
the footboard of the bedstead and put
ting several large shot into the bottom
of the man’s foot and a good portion
into the woman’s leg from the knee to
the ankle. It is generally believed by
the negroes and whites that the shoot
ing was done by a negro. All the cir
cumstances go to confirm this belief.
There has been no arrest made.
I met in Rutledge yesterday Capt.
David M. Vining, who informed me he
would now be a permanent citizen for a
while. His numerous friends in this
community regret his connection being
severed with the Georgia Railroad, hav
ing beea a favorite railroad officer with
the most of the people along the line
for twelve or fifteen years; at the same
time we are glad to liavo him among
us more closely as a neighbor. He
says he does not feel that his connec
tion is entirely ended with the Georgia
road, as that institution has raised him
from a boy it feels like a father to him,
and he will still watch over the interest
„\,nd look after the welfare of the old
Georgia road. Capt. Vining is a live
business man and will not remain dor
mant. He has already commenced
work putting up a mill in connection
with his steam gin in Rutledge, which
will be a great convenience to the citi
zens of the town.
The railroad company have built a
neat shed at this depot for an eating
saloon for the passengers on the up day
train to get their dinner.
Capt. Jack Brown, the energetic and
clever Station Master, has fitted up a
nice bathing saloon at the water tank,
which is a great luxury’ as well as a
great health preserver for the citizens
and visitors.
Rutledge is now a good Summer re
sort—pure atmosphere, good water,
cheap board and plenty of fruit.
Anew invention has just been put iu
operation here that lays in the shade J.
Wonderful Keely’s great machine. Col-
J. Corncoobchickentorpedo Harris’
humbug is nowhere. Roanoke’s Black
greenfleming’s Clayton county flyiug i
machine is pushed clear out of sight
when compared to H. Whalei Coggins’
great invention. It is a machine that
will shingle hair and shave a man clean,
or iu any style he may wish his whis
kers left, doing the job in the short
space of one minute, without any dan
ger of getting blood from the subject.
The machine is light, and can be folded
up and carried in a small satchel. It is
worked by gas, of which Mr. H. Whaler
Coggins always has a good supply on
hand.
Agents wanted in every town and
city in America, Europe and China ;
that is, if the Chinese want their cues
trimmed. Address H. W. Coggins, Rut
ledge, Ga. R.
LETTER FROM OXFORD.
Emory College Commencement—Dr.
Lipscomb’s Sermon—Dr. Pierce and
Bishop Wightman.
[Special Correspondence Constitutionalist.]
Oxford, Ga., July 19, 1875,
The annual commencement exercises
of Emory College were inaugurated
yesterday by a sermon iu the morning,
delivered by Rev. Dr. Lipscomb, for
merly Chancellor of the University of
Georgia. The venerable Dr. Lovick
Pierce, now 91 years old, preached
nearly an hour in the afternoon, while
Bishop Wightman closed the day’s ser
vices by a sermon at night. All of the
services were largely attended notwith
standing the extreme heat—the ther
mometer being away up in the niueties.
Quite a number of visitors are in at
tendance, the beauty of each section of
the State being represented by some of
Its fairest daughters. Besides other
notable men present, I notice Biohop
George F. Pierce. This eminent divine,
I learn, is expected to preside at the
Methodist District Conference to be
held at Covington on the 29th instaut.
The two tovr r ns, Oxford and Coving
ton, are situated near each other, be
ing only three miles apart—the latter
about half a mile distant from the
railroad depot, while Oxford is distant
two and a half miles in an opposite
(southerly) direction. Many visitors
stop in Covington and go over to at
tend the exercises of the college—in
hacks each morning. The exercises
for to-day will consist of the Sopho
more prize declamations, and to-night
the debate between members of the
Few and Phi Gamma Societies will take
place. S. J. C.
The British Government is very
gravely discussing the problem of the
Prince of Wales’ mode of dress when
he goes to India to exhibit himself as
the heir of Albion to his dark-browed
subjects. They are not certain whether
it will be exactly the thing for Wales to
appear in a calico shooting-jacket, with
spangles all over it, or a bright red
coat and cocked hat, the pride of Eng
lish eyes. For purposes of comfort in
that hot country the Prince might pro
fitably wear his night-gown, belted at
the waist.
A Cape May belle says the sea baths
there are as “exhilarating as the elasp
of a lover.” One of these days that
girl will be getting into trouble, and
then she will lay it to tho ocean, of
course.
MERCANTILE.
Some Interesting Facts and Figures
About Great Staples
The Cotton Trade a Losing Trade.
Smith, Edwards & Cos., of Liverpool,
in their monthly circular, say:
“Cotton has been turned into cloth
at a cost that has not been recovered
from foreign markets for several years
past. Someone in the chain has been
losing money, and it was long a mys
tery how it was kept going ; but now
we see that in reality the losses were
paid by the money of the London
banks,”
The- Bulletin says:
The Manchester trade with China,
India and Turkey is done at a loss ;
long accumulating losses have not,
however, brought forth their natural
extensive failures. Losses have been
covered up by the discounted bills of
successive shipments and by accommo
dation bills ; aud so long as the paper
of these losing shippers could find dis
counters ready to take it, there was
apparently no end to the ruinous pro
cess. The discounters themselves be
came so involved in the fortunes of the
the shippers that they perhaps deemed
it best to take the chances of a favor
able turn in affairs in order to get
safely out of their commitments ; but
this course only kept up and prolonged
the unsound condition of things.
The total exports of piece goods in
1874 was 2,588,993,682 yards, valued at
£34,735,000. And yet, showing how
large a proportion of the trade was in
eluded in this overdone Eastern busi
ness, the shipments to British India,
China, Turkey and Egypt aggregated
2,047,162,170 yards, in the following
proportions to each country:
To British India.. ..yards. 1,263,609.390
To China and Hong Kong. 393,316,000
To Turkey and Egypt 400,236,780
Total yards 2,057,162/170
Virtually, therefore, about four-fifths
of the export trade in piece goods has
been upon an inflated basis for years
past. The Eastern markets will have
to live for a time upon the excessive
stocks held there and to be forced on
the market in settlement of insolvent
estates, and upon the large stocks at
Manchester also. Iu the meantime,
the demand from spinners can only be
light, and Liverpool regards as a
good price for the new American crop.
The Wheat Excitement
fFrom the Bulletin.]
The rapid advance and excitement iu
wheat for the past week or ten days,
under an almost unprecedented export
demand, seems to be rapidly approach -
ing its culmination, if indeed the climax
has not already been reached. The
transactions of Wednesday attained
the enormous figure of nearly three
quarters of a million of bushels of ac
tual wheat, here and to arrive, while
each advance in price seems to stimu
late rather than check the demand.
Under this extraordinary demand,
prices have touched the highest point
by several cents yet reached this yeai.
Even the prices of the Chicago specu
lation in May, which were then re
garded as very unsafe, have been
passed. No. 2 Chicago then reached
in that market $1.09 against Si ll at
the close of Wednesday for cash. In
this market the same grade sold at the
same date at $1.21, while on Wednes
day it touched $1.24. All other grades
have advanced in the same proportion .
The market is taken by surprise by
this extraordinary movement, and is
somewhat incredulous as to its causes.
The demand is based upon foreign
speculation ; but what the foreign
speculation may rest upon is not at
present apparent; nor do even the ex
port houses seem to fully understand
the cause for the large orders that
come to them. England is suffering to
some extent from heavy rains upon
ripe and ripening crops, which, no
doubt, will involve a certain extent of
damage ; but the injury will probably
appear more in the quality of the crop
than its quantity ; and, after all, heavy
rains in July are not unusual in Eng
land. The French floods also are an
unfavorable element in the Continental
harvest; but the region affected is
rather a wine-growing than a wheat
raising section. The fact that several
vessels have been chartered here for
wheat for the Mediterranean suggests
a probability that the floods have raised
a speculative furore on the French
markets, which may go far toward ac
counting for what we see here ; for the
Frenchmen are the most, mercurial of
speculators when once excited ; and
this inference is confirmed by the fact
that French dealers are the largest
buyers on our market, and that the
London market, judging from the com
parative steadiness of prices, does not
seem to have beon subjected to any
special speculative impulse until yes
terday.
Advices from Pesth of June 26 show
that, owing to the prevalence of extra
ordinary heat, Hungarian wheat, which
was just forming in the ear, was in a
very critical condition, and that “a few
days longer” of such weather would
seriously injure the crop, aud advices
from Continental journals give rather
unsatisfactory accounts from Southern
Europe. It is not impossible that in
fluences of this kind may have affected
the European markets.
Played Out in the South.
Commenting on Charles Nordhoff’s
summing up the political situation in
the South, the New York Herald is im
pelled to remark : “The result is that
there is to-day substantially no Repub
lican party in those States of which be
has written. The brains, the influence,
the political weight, all that goes to
make up a live party, are solidly ar
rayed against the Republicans. In Ar
kansas and Alabama these are disor
ganized. In Louisiana they are ready
to disappear whenever Gen. Grant takes
his mailed hand off the State. In Mis
sissippi the only Republicans who could
make the party respectable are ostra
cised at Washington, and have a feud
with the Governor. Nowhere down
there are the actual Federal office
holders men of influence in the com
munities in which they live, and it is
hopeless to expect of them to get a re
spectable political following. This is a
blunder which may lose the Republican
party the next election.”
Yes, as we remarked yesterday, the
Republican party is played out in the
South, and this fact determines the re
sult of the next Presidential election,
and puts a Democrat in the chair now
occupied by U. S. Grant.
New Cotton.
Galveston, July 18. —Two more bales
of new cotton, 508 and 405 pounds,
have been received. They classed as
middling and sold for 15 cents.
Trenton, N. J., July 19.-—A boiler
explosion took place this p. in. at
Whitehead’s rubber mills, a short dis
tance from this city. Two men were
badly scalded. The' explosion will in,-
volve considerable loss.