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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. Cvrl " ’ * l /gr i* ff * ir ♦ § IE fctilij faimiumonatet 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.