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Old Series—-Vol. 25. No. 122. SUNDAY CONSTITUTIONALIST. The attention of advertisers is called to the large edition of The Constitu tionalist which will be issued to morrow morning. We always print nearly twice the number that morning that we do during the week, as the de mand requires it. The Sunday paper goes into almost every household in Augusta and for miles around the city. No better day could be selected to pub lish advertisements. The report of the Department of Ag riculture upon our Wheat Crop is brief but interesting. Spain has again resolved upon relig ious toleration. The world cares little about what that stupid country resolves upon. The Abbottsford, one of the few American steamers flying our flag be tween Europe and the United States, has been wrecked. The vessel w r eut ashore and finally, as Byron puts it— “ Heeled to port And settled in an instant—limp in short.” The Cotton Brokers’ Convention did a heavy days work yesterday. Phelps was re-elected President, and some im portant matters passed upon by resolu tion aud remark. Augusta was selected as the next place for meeting. The British House of Commons has a Wendell Phillips on its hands. His name is Plimsll, and Plimsall rises and makes demand “in the name of God.” Whether God has delegated Plimsall to make such a demand is another thing. At this distance Plim sall sounds very like a humbug. According to an Atlanta paper Judge McCay has actually resigned. Mr. Bleckley has declined to take his place on the ground that the salary is less than his practice brings him, and the field is now open to Mr. Hope Hull, of Augusta, who seems to be the coming Supreme Judge. The Governor has made a fine selection. It will be seen by our special from Atlanta that the South Carolina Rail road was yesterday forced into the pooling system. By one construction of an old arrangement, President Ma grath is obliged to remain in until old business is settled up. There is a good deal of muddle about the whole thing, and if the reader can see through it by reading the matter elsewhere publish ed we have no objection. We deeply regret to publish the fact that the yellow fever is ragiug in a vi olent form at Fort Barancas. This Fort is nine miles above Pensacola, and a regular military place. By a special to the Atlanta Herald, it is announced that eleven cases prevailed there that day. Our coast ports should redouble vigi lance, and all points where it has pre vailed in former years should take the most extraordinary sanitary precau tions. The Charlotte Observer announces the appearance of Gen. LongßTßEET— there for the purpose of consulting Gen. D. H. Hill upon some points of matter contemplated for his forthcom ing book. “Gen. Lonstreet’s beard,” it says, “is now gray. Soldiers who knew him during the war say that then it was black and very long, extending almost to his waist. He now wears the Burnside whiskers, moustache a"d side beard. He is said to be not so large as he was during the war, and he is repre sented as being very much changed otherwise in his personal appearance." We publish such selections as we found yesterday in the Georgia papers upon the growing crops. There has been no rain of any consequence in the State in ten or twelve days. Immedi ately arouud Augusta, in Richmond and the adjoining counties, corn is suf fering for rain, and will be greatly cut off unless it comes to its relief in five or six days. Cotton has not as yet, we think, been damaged to that extent but it would quickly recover. Grass, too, begins to look withered, gardens are dying and com firing at the bottom. At the moment of writing to-night the heat is intense, with no indications of rain. The great speech of Senator Nor wood, which we published iu full yes terday morning, ought to be univer sally read. It came up to the full stan dard and measure of the truest elo quence. Says the Covington Star: “On Tuesday, at 4 p. m., the Alumni address was delivered by the Hon. Thomas M. Norwood, United States Senator from Georgia, on the results of the late war between the States. He spoke two hours. It was the grandest oration we ever heard. It was ornate and elegant, even to the very limit of the beautiful. To quote the language of Dr. Potter, ‘He pleased usjwith humor unique, and thrilled us with eloquence sublime.’ It as far excelled the frail efforts of com mon men as the grandest circling storms surpass in power the breath that escapes in sighs from the lips of disconsolate beauty. Georgia may well be proud of her brilliant statesman; Emory of her noble son. We wish every true Georgian could have heard it. It is an opportunity that comes but once in a life time.” ahe Yellow Fever at Fort Barancas, Florida. [Special Telegram to the Herald ] Pensacola, July 22.—Two prominent physicians who were sent to Fort Ba rancas this morning have returned and officially reported to the Mayor of this city seventeen cases of yellow fever, making eleven new cases since yester day, one of them being black vomit. Every avenue is guarded to prevent its reaching Pensacola. No fears are en tertained here. Sandy Mebtin. ctlic Jails ffinmlifntioiialM. THE POOL CONVENTION. Tlie South Carolina Railroad Forced luio It. [Special to the Constitutionalist.] Atlanta, Ga., July 23, 1875. The Pooling Convention was to-day concluded. Result, the South Carolina Railroad was forced to pool both local aud through freights. The committee | said that President Magrath had ground to assume the position lately held by him, but the report of the Au gusta committee, literally construed, made it obligatory on him to pool. He says he is forced to maintain pool rates until the old business is settled, and the Convention will unite against him if he longer refused. Clarke. THE COTTON BROKERS’ CONVEN TION. Selection of Officers. White Sulphur Springs, Va., July 23. There is a full attendance aud quite an audience, including ladies. The min utes were read and approved. The regular business, the nominations for President, Vice President and seven directors, was called for. John Phelps was elected President without a dis senting voice, amid applause. The nominations for Vice President were Stephen Harrison, of New York; A. F. Herring, of Augusta, Ga.; and Chas. A. Wessen, of New York. Mr. Harrison was elected on the first ballot. After some ballotings the following were elected directors : E. C. Stone, Galves ton ; W. L. Trenholm, Charleston, S. C.; Henry Hall, Mobile, Alabama; J. W. Lathrop, Savannah, Georgia; W. A. Goodwin, Memphis, Tennessee ; J. F. Wheless, Nashville, Tenn.; and W. C. Reynold, of Norfolk, Va. Addresses of thanks were made by each successful candidate present. A resolution that the President appoint a committee of three on the insecurity of bills of la ding was adopted. The President named Wheless, of Nashville, Whit lock, of New York, and Pinckney, of Charleston. Mr. Estlin, of New Orleans, moved tnat the Convention recommend to Congress the early completion of the Texas and Pacific Railroad and the ac ceptance of the proposition made by Col. T. A. Scott. Adopted without dis cussion. Mr. Pinckney, of Charleston, moved that two grades be established in ad dition to those adopted at the last Convention, to be known as middling fair and fair, aud that the Committee on Classifications of New York be re quested to put up the same and for ward to the other exchanges. Mr. Johnson, of Savannah, moved that all Cotton Exchanges represented in the Convention, should account as official use figures of the next crop statement to be compiled by the com mittee appointed from the National Ex change for that purpose. Adopted. The Convention then received the re port of the Committee upon the plan pursued by the New Orleans Cotton Exchange to secure correct information and make up of official crop statement for 1874-’5. It was favorably received, and resolved to adopt the same plan for National Cotton Exchange reports in future. The report of the committee upon the definition of false and fraudulently packed cotton and mixed cotton was received. False and fraudulently packed cotton was defined as such bales as may contain any foreign sub stance ; water-packed bales, or bales containing damaged cotton in the in terior without indication ; such dam age upon the exterior of bales and such bales as are plated or composed of good cotton upon the exterior and de cidedly inferior cotton in the interior of the bales, in manner not to be de tected without opening the bales. This definition was unanimously adopted and made official. It was moreover resolved that reclamation upon such cotton, to be valid, must be made within one hundred days of arrival and be pre sented to sellers at point of shipment within thirty days thereafter. The same committee reported the following definition: Mixed packed cottons where such bales as contaiu more than one quality of cotton of lower quality being so situated in the bale that no design or false or fraudulent packing appears, the difference, however, in qualities must be equal at least to one half of the grade. In the bales sold, low middling and above, and one full grade bales sold as below low middiiug. This was adopted and made official. There was an evening session at which the subject of locating the Na tional Cotton Convention was brought forward. The committee was in favor of Au gusta, Ga., and the report was adopted, but as no President or director was elected from that place the possibility of such in obtaining the charter was pointed and by Mr. C. W. Rowland, of Cincinnati, who made a motion that the Executive Council authorized the change of the domicil fixed by the vote of the covcntion in ease such a contingency arise. This was adopted unanimously without discussion. Mr. Rowland also made a motion that the Executive Council be instructed to ob tain the charter and provide a seal for the National Cotton Exchange Associa tion. Adopted unanimously. OI R WHEAT CROP. Report o.’ the Agricultural Depart ment upon State Averages. Washington, July 23. —The returns of the Department of Agriculture for July 1 show the condition of Spring and Winter wheat together at about 82 per cent, of an average. Winter wheat, including the California, averages 74 and Spring wheat 96. The Spring wheat States in the Northeast and Northwest are generally iu high condition. Of the Winter wheat area the South Atlantic and Gulf States are generally above the average, but in the Middle States the condition is very low, New York ranging down to 45. West of the Alle ghanies the prospect is better, the State averages being between 71 iu Ohio and 95 in lowa. California re ports Winter wheat at 76 and Spring wheat at 55. FIRE EXTINGUISHER ACCIDENT. Explosion of a Building of Burning Oil. Newark, Ohio, July 23.— The build ing erected for the purpose of testing i the fire extinguisher, while being satu rated with oil, exploded from prema turely taking fire, terribly burning D. C. Winegardaer, Mayor, Hon. J. B. Jones, Chas. Hamilton, Street Commis sioner, a bridge constructor, and 15 or 2Q others, some thought fatally. AUGUSTA. GiA... SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 24. 3 875. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. THE PRESBYTERIANS. Ur. MeCosli ou International Union- Alliance Resolution Adopted. London, July 23.—Dr. McCosh, Presi dent of Princeton College, presided over the Presbyterian Council. He made a speech in which he eloquently traced the progress of the idea in favor of union. He described bis original sug gestion at Philadelphia in regard to it, aud the cordial reception of the scheme in America which culminated in the success of 1873, when a meeting of the Evangelical Alliance, such as was only possible in the United States, was held. This led to a conference between dis tinguished men who declared the ac complishment of the scheme one of the desires of their heart. With regard to the Constitution he might say that the Council had agreed to take the consequences of the Reformed Church. The objects of the alliance were set tled. The Council would consider the question of the general interest of the communtyand seek the welfare of the weak and oppressed churches, collect and distribute information about the church and entertain all subjects con nected with the work of evangeliza tion. Resolutions favoring an alliance were unanimously passed. The Constitution adopted by the Presbyterian Council has been made public. The name given the new Union is Alliance of the Reformed Churches throughout the world. All churches are included which hold the Presbyte rian system and creed. The preamble of the Constitution recites that the ob jects of the alliance which are to dem onstrate the unity of belief among Protestants, organize mission work to promote educational and social reports, and oppose infidelity and religious in tolerance. Great Floods in England. London, July 23. —The waters of the river Neva at Peterborough are from 15 to 20 feet above ordinary level, and the current has increased in velocity to 16 and 20 miles an hour. Last night the rise was so sudden that bedrooms in buildings along the river were flood ed and sleeping inmates barely saved their lives. Four thousand acres of grazing land are flooded between Earith and Denberg and 3,000 cattle are de prived of pasturage, 'the water is three and four feet deep on 4,000 acres of land near Whittlesey. No such flood has been seen in that section of country for fifty years. A British Wendell Phillips—Plimsall at Full Length—The Shipping Bill and Murder. A protest placed by Mr. Plimsall on the table of the House of Commons last night is published. In it Plimsall says: “I protest in the name of God against the delay of the Shipping bill. Although the bill itselt is an atrocious shame there is enough humanity aud knowledge in the House to change it into a good measure.” He denounced the present laws against breach of con tract, which leave sailors who have un knowingly agreed to sail in unsea worthy ships the -alternative of the goal or death, and continues: “I charge the Government with willingly and un willingly playing intu the hands of the maritime murderers, iuside and outside the House, to secure the continuance of the present murderous system. I de sire to unmask that the villains who sit in this House are fit representatives of the more numerous but not greater villains outside. I demand that the bill be proceeded with. Failing in this, I lay upon the heads of the Premier and his colleagues the blood of all who perish next Winter from preventable causes, and denounce against him and them the wrath of God.” The Central Press report of the scenes in the House over the shipping bill says it was remarked in the lob bies that there was much method in Mr. Plimsall’s madness. The outburst was apparently prearranged. Mr. Plim sall came to the House with his valise and was prepared to go to prison. He has been in the library of the Commons to-day searching for precedents. He persists in his refusal to withdraw his remarks. A tremendous scene is ex pected when the subject comes up again next Thursday. The House of Commons has passed the Canada Copyright bill. Alexander and William Collie. London, July 23.—Alexander and William Collie, who were committed to Newgate in default of $40,000 bail on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, secured the necessary bonds and were released. Germany and tlie Centennial. Berlin, July 23.—The list of German exhibitors at the Philadelphia Centen nial Exhibition has been officially closed. The number of those who in tend to exhibit in the art department is 800. The large manufactories on the Rhine, and in Westphalia and Saxony, will be specially represented. An Im perial Commissioner has been appoint ed to obtain more room for the German Department in the exhibition building. Strike of Austrian Weavers. Vienna, July 23. —The strike of the weavers at Brunn has ended, a com promise having been effected between the strikers and their employers. Madrid, July 23.—The Constitutional Commitiee adopted an article estab lishing religious toleration, by a vote of 22 to 8. London, July 23. The Horne Rule members have abandoned the intention of attending the Home Rule banquet at Dublin, because the Convent Bill, which they oppose, is expected to come up at that time. THE STEAMSHIP ABBOTTSFORD. Into Seven Fathoms and a Total Wreck. London, July 23. —The steamship Abbottsford, which went ashore in Ceremmus bay, keeled over at 1 o’clock this a. m., and her stern sunk in seven fathome of water. The vessel is a com plete wreck. Philadelphia, July 23.— The Ab bottsford was fully insured in English and French companies. The cargop, which was large, was insured in this country and England. The City of Limerick, which takes the Abbotts ford’s place in the American line, leaves Liverpool Wednesday next. Philadelphia, July 23. — The agents of the steamship Abbottsford are in re ceipt to-day of a cable dispatch stating that the superior Court had reversed its decision of the lower court iruthe collision case of the steamer Abbotts ford vs- the steamer Indus, and had de cided in favor of the Abbottsford. lowa Citt, la., July 23. The cooking tanks of Close & Sons’ paper mill ex ploded, killing five men. Two were blown over houses and across the street, and two into the river or burned up. Jjo3s, a quarter of a million. FROM WASHINGTON. General News from tlie Federal Cap Hal. Washington, July 23. —Mrs. General Merritt is here. She is the woman who claimed being outraged on the tug in New York harbor. She is a notorious confidence woman. The Government has purchased, at New Orleans, the steamer Planter, a small boat drawing but four feet of wa ter, but strongly constructed. She will be properly armed and manned, aud sent to the Rio Grande for duty on that river, to prevent Mexicans crossing into Texas and running off cattle. The Planter has been ordered to Mobile, and Lieutenant-Commander D. C. Kells detached from the iron-clad Cauonicus and sent to that city to take command of the new vessel. It is said that one or two other steamers of similar char acter will be purchased and fitted out to act with the Planter in the suppres sion of Mexican depredations. . The Postmaster General has adver tised routes 30,093 between New Or lean and Vicksburg. 30,094 between St. Francisville and Vicksburg; bids to close September 2, and to be opened September 4 ; contracts to run from October Ist, 1875, to June 30, 1878. Information has been received at the Indian Bureau from Fort Marion, Fla . that Lean Bear, one of the Cheyenne prisoners confined at that fort, has be come insane, and an application has been made to have him sent to the Government Insane Asylum near this city. This is the same Indian who attempted suicide on the route to Florida under the recent order to send the families of the prisoners to them. Directions have been given that one wife to each prisoner and the children under 12 years of age be forwarded. BOLD BANK ROBBERY. Safe Blown Open With Nitro-Glyce rine. Lewiston, Me., July 23. —The Nation al Bank of Winthrop was burglarized. Vaults and safe of savings bank open ed. Loss unknown. The robbery of the National Bank was a bold operation. The safes were blown open by nitro-glycerine, as is supposed, there being no indications of powder. There were three distinct ex plosions, all of which were heard by several persons. The robbers left within ten minutes of the last explo sion, which was so severe as to blow out all the windows in the front part of the bank and cause a general smash up inside. The contents of the main safe were so badly mutilated and so many fragments were left behind that it is thought the amount realized by the robbers could not have been large. The capital stock of the bank is one hundred thousaud dollars, and the amount of the deposits in the Savings Bank was abouut one hundred thou sand dollars. The safes of both insti tutions were rifled of their entire con tents. The standing of the bank, the directors say, will not be impaired. A dispatch says four men have been ar rested on suspicion near Bethel. As the distance from here is about forty miles it is doubtful if they could have got so far in the time they had. Failure of Chicago Wheat Merchants. Chicago, July 23. —The rapid rise in wheat the past few days has resulted in much excitement among commission dealers, and a few failures of minor im portance have been reported to-day. Baldwin & Storie, who do an extensive commission business both here and in Milwaukee, have suspended. Mem bers of the firm state that the suspen sion is only temporary, and due entire ly to the failure of country dealers on the Board to meet their liabilities. — % Minor Telegrams. Cincinnati, July 23. —A. J. Cochran and Thomas Edmonds have been com mitted, at Greenup, Tils., for the mur der of engineer Eamos in the late at tempt at express robbery. Atlantic City, N. J., July 23.— J. Dougherty, of Philadelphia, was drown ed while bathing here. New Orleans, July p.3. —Auditor Clin ton has resigned, to take effect Decem ber 15, 1875. Kellogg, in accepting the resignation, declares lie never for a mo ment believed Clinton dishonest. Chicago, J uly 23.—The trotter Bodine has gone lame. Tlie Origin of tlie Sexes. Aristophanes, the funny man of clas sic Greece, gives tlie following myth : “ Once upon a time a man had three sexes aud a double nature ; besides this, he.was perfectly round, and had four hands and four feet, one head, with two faces looking opposite ways, set on a single neck. When these crea tures pleased, they could walk as men do now, but if they wanted to go faster, they would roll over and over with all their four legs in the air, like a tumbler turning summersaults ; and their pride and strength were suc h that they made war upon their gods. Jupiter resented their insolence, but hardly liked to kill them with thunderbolts, as the gods would then lose their sacrifices. At last he hit upon a, plan. ‘I will cut them in two,’ he said, ‘so that they shall walk upon two legs instead of four. They will then be only half as insolent, but twice as numerous, and we shall get twice as many sacrifices.’ This was done, and the two halves are contin ually going about looking for one an other: and if we mortals (says Aristo phanes, with a comic air of apprehen sion.) are not obedient to the gods, there is a danger that, we shall be split up again, and shall hf.ve to go about in basso-relievo, like those figures with only half a nose which you may see. sculptured on our columns.” Nothing excels in wonder the bridge system of the West, nil built up since the war. The Missouri is bridged at St. Charles, (6,535 feet long.) Boone ville, Kansas City, Leavenworth, Atchi son, St. Joseph. ($1,000,000,) and Omaha. The cost of these bridges was about $11,000,000, or $3,000,000 less than the single bridge and approaches at St. Louis. The Ohio is bridged eight times below Pittsburg, at a loost of $16,000,- 000. The Mississippi js bridged at St. Louis, Hannibal, Keokuk, Burlington, Clinton, Dubuque, Winona, La Crosse, St. Paul, and other places, at a cost of $25,000,000. It is state:! that the bridges of the United States built since the war have cost $150,000,000. The great bridges at Saybrook, Albany, Havre de Grace and Buffalo do not bear com parison with the bridge system of the West. —< * Jt is recorded fhaf M- Thieps opce had his hat knocked (off by some fix , tures in front of a shop in Paris, and he was so pleased witli the fact that he was too tall for once in his life that he often revisited the shop and became a regular customer. LETTER FROM ST. MARY’S. Very Flattering Compliments—True Democratic Principles—Glimpse of St. Mary’s, [Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.l Allow me to pen a few thoughts in re gard to your paper, subject at your discretion to publication or deposit in the waste basket or in the flames. Be sides, if agreeable, your correspondent will add some local items that will pos sibly prove of interest to yourself and readers in connection with some general views, appertaining to the current events and men of the day. Your journal is the paper of the South aud contains a greater variety of interesting reading matter of a miscel laneous nature than than any other within the purview of the writer’s knowledge. The editorials exhibit the highest order of ability and display the master hand of the celebrated author of the celebrated Southern household song “My Maryland.” The political princi ples it espouses aie the only ones that will ensure’ victory to the Democratic standard and achieve for our manacled Southern land emancipation from the direst thraldom that ever befell an ill fated and wronged people. No sacri fioe-of principle for tlie sake of “poli cy” will relieve the country, however plausible and attended with* the pres tige of distinguished civic and military names. Your advocacy of an eternal opposition to the odious Reconstruction measures of Greeley, Thad. Stevens & Cos., exalts you in the estimation of ev ery true lover of the South, as well as perpetuation of the system of govern ment based upon the immutable princi ples of genuine Democratic liberty and the Constitution, purged of such foul usurpations and impurities as the so called Constitutional Amendments. — With a “new departure” engineered within Democratic ranks, by such sophistical celebrities as Ben Hill, in the Alfriend interview, to a successful issue, such as forever stig matized the annals of 1872, we may bid an eternal farewell to any hopes of a future deliverance, and the chains of a consolidated despotism will clank in our ears as well as those of future gen erations. The time will have arrived for the future Gibbon of America to chronicle the decline and fall of the last expiring effort of humanity for the vindication of the right of self-govern ment. Contest, Mr. Editor, every inch of ground looking in the direction of an ignominious yielding of the only true cardinal principles of the founders of the Government, genuine Jeffersonian Democracy. The peerless “ Sage of Liberty H ill ” stands an unyielding ex ponent of Constitutional principles in their purity, and his attenuated figure is like a beacon star of unfading lustre in a night of gloomy darkness and im pending doom ! The other two noble sods of Georgia’s proud eminence, Her schel Y. Johnson and Charles J. Jen kins, with him constitute an illustrious trio, destined to an immortality of fame for their advocacy of sound and imperishable doctrines, as well as for their other pre-eminent qualities and qualifications. Ail honor to them, and may they be spared to do valiant ser vice in the cause of truth and oppress ed humanity, and see the day once more dawn auspiciously aud gloriously upon this benighted land, as a trib ute to their Cato-like adhesion to the spirit that animated Carroll, JeffersoD, and Madison and Patrick Henry and George Washington. “Milord, of the Ninth,” is again on the war path for the sake of leading and beguiling Bourbonism into another fatal ambus cade, such as that of 1872, but the writer of this trusts such bold defend ers of the right as yourselves, Messrs. Editors, and the shining galaxy of in tellectual and political luminaries just referred to, will be sufficiently alert and powerful to counteract all his per nicious influences tending to subvert the Democratic party and debauch Democratic integrity. The Constitu tionalist deals the blows of tne battle axe of Richard Coeur DeLeon upon the walis of the Castle Deßoeuf of er ror, aud is the cynosure of all the watchful patriots of the State, the vigi lant custodians of the priceless trea sures of American freedom, as it was transmitted to us, unimpaired, from the hands of our immortal Revolution ary Sires. The writer of this was a constant subscriber for the Constitu tionalist under the brilliant leadership of Gardner and Nisbet, giants of “the fourth estate of the realm,” but he does not hesitate to declare that uuder its present regime if has never been surpassed, and constitutes a most glori ous and memorable epoch in the His tory of the Georgia press. Some jottings in reference to St. Mary’s and your correspondent will draw his rarnbl ng effusion to a con clusion. This is an antiquated aud lovely place, reaching back into the past century as regards its origin. During the “late unpleasantness” it was shelled by “the boys in blue” in conjunction with their black allies and is a skeleton of its former self. It, how ever, verifies the old couplet : “ You may break, you may shatter the vase it you will, “But the scent ot the roses will cling round It still,” Embowered in live water oaks, ce dars and sycamores ; festooned with the long Spanish moss, peculiar to Southern latitudes, it presents a picture of loveliness, seldom equalled or surpassed. It possesses a cemetery that contains monuments, bearing in scriptions reaching back to 1300, and, with its dense grove of water and live oaks, overshadowing these venerable monuments, defaced by the wasting fingers of hoary time, there is a fu nereal solemnity about it as well as rural beauty that touches the emo tions of the heart, at the same that it awakens the highest sentiments of the love of the beautiful. Wide, grassj T streets and rustic pumps, such as would have stirred the imgiuation and pen of Hawthorne, are features peculiar to this ancient place. These pumps are shaded by large water oaks. 4 number of steam saw m,il{s keep vessels supplied with lumber for various points of the globe, and the Lizzie Baker from Savannah to the St. John’s plies regularly by this port twice a week, going and returning. The firm of Burns, Fox & Lippman drives forward these enterprises and main tains the life of St. Mary’s. In the Winter season it is somewhat of a re sort for Northern tourists and in valids, and the Spencer House affords q well provided and elegant hostelry for the weary traveler. Mr. Boaman, of Bergen Point, N- J-, is its proprie tor! The salubrity of the climate of this place is not surpassed in the Uni ted States, the excellence of' its water renders it a desirable resort— Winter and Summer, Fanned by sea breezes, tb,e hottest temperatures of the location are and the nights with a few exceptions are de lightful, barring the multitude of in sects. The river is capacious and adapted to floating large stzed vessels. With the completion of Raiford’s canal, which w?s demonstrated practi cably by Bishop’s paper boat voyage, St. Mary’s will become a noted sea coast town of Georgia. Fernandina, the “Island City” of Amelia Island, is only ten miles distant by a circuitous navigation, and five as the bird Hies. There is daily communication with it by steam tug boats. “Bourbon.” LETTER FROM LINC OLN. Torrid Weather —Corn and Cotton Suf fering-Sickuess—Religious Meeting’s —A Temperate and Law-Abiding Community —A Railroad Wanted— The Fruit Crop. [Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.| Goshen, Lincoln Cos., Ga., | July 20, 1875. \ All of last week, and thus far iu this, we have had some exceedingly hot weather—the hottest of tlie season— the thermometer standing at one time at 101 degrees in one gentleman’s house. We had some fine rains the first of last week, but the hot sunshine, together with some windy days, soon made things look as if they had seen no rain in many days. Crops are needing rain now, and will suffer if it is delayed many days. Corn needs it more than cotton, aud the dry weather, if it con tinues, will soon begin to tell on that which is planted on uplands. Cotton is doing well, but will soon need rain. In the neighborhood of Pine Grove Church they have had no rain of any conse sequence for some time past; and corn, we fear, has been materially injured. In other places, cottou begins to show the effects of the dry weather. The crops in this section are compar atively free from grass, and farmers are beginning to “lay by.” In the up per part of this county, and over the line in Wilkes, not a few are consider ably in the grass, and one man was compelled to have a part of his crop turned out. From a gentleman who has just been over in South Carolina, in the neighborhood of Abbeville, I learn that crops over there in some sections are very good indeed, but iu a great many places, the grass has almost taken possession of the farms, in some fields being a foot high. There has been some sickness in this part of the country; principally chills and bilious fever. One gentleman has all of his hands on his place down with the latter. Mrs. Tillery, an old lady, aged 80 years, died recently in this county, at her residence near Lincolnton. She had been afflicted for some years. The time for protracted meetings, Sunday School celebrations, Camp Meetings, &c., will soon be upon us. As you know, the only leisure time the farmers have is during the latter part of July, ail of August and part of Sep tember, and into this time are crowded all these things. Pine Grove Sunday School, the largest in the county, will hold its annual celebration next Thurs day, 22d, to which several Sabbath Schools have been invited. It promises to be quite an interesting affair. A very large crowd is expected, and speakers have been invited ; and if this letter were to reach you in time, we would say to you, Mr. Editor, and your co-laborers, that we would be pleased to have your company. The Lincoln Camp Meeting (to be held at Wheat’s Camp Ground) begins this year on Friday night before the first Sabbath in August. Not as large a crowd as usual is expected, because of the small number of tent-holders. This county can claim to be quite a temperate one, as well as a very law abiding one. We have only two places at which liquor is sold, and both of them in the lower portion of the county. At Lincolnton there is no liquor shop now, the gentleman who was selling it having given up that business, and now it is beyond the reach of any one to get license to sell in that village, the price for that privilege being put up to SI,OOO —a virtual prohibition and a great blessing to the community and county. While once in a while we have a frac tious fellow breaking the law and get ting into jail, the general rule is for quietness to reign in this county. Our last court lasted only three or four days, aud I am informed that some time the business is disposed of iu one day. Avery substantial and comfortable brick Court House has been recently erected at Lincolnton, at a cost of about $14,000, taking the place of a very dilapidated one, which had been standing there for years. If we could now get a railroad by Lincolnton, or could allure some more settlers to that place, we could make it a place of some importance and interest. As long as it remains at its present status, it will be a small affair as a county seat. We need some enterprising citizens with capital to invest and build up the place, giving it life and animation. It could be made a place of some note iu these parts, and all we need is go-ahead men with the means to back them. To give you an idea of our county seat, (and I do it with sorrow, though' in the hope that someone may be stimulated to move iu building it up), there are not many over 100 inhabitants, and with the exception of the new Court House, a small addition put to Mr. Blanchard’s store, and anew one-story store house built last year, I don’t think anew house has been built there in several years. A country as old as this one is, with its population, intelligence and wealth, should feel a greater interest in build ing up and improving their principal village, and should so interest them selves as to be able to point with pride to their county seat. Ido not mean in anything I have said to reflect upon the good citizens of Lincolnton—They are ail clever people, but they have not the means, if they had the enterprise, to move forward in this matter. There is a flue opening at that place for a judicious inau to buy and build to the advantage—both of himself and others. The fruit crop is short in these parts. Apples and peaohes were cut off by the late cold weather ; pears, however, are somewhat plentiful. Watermelons and muskmelons are beginning to show themselves, much to the delight of lovers of them, who are cut off from getting the early ones usually enjoyed by city people. C. Adirondack Murray’s new church in Boston will not be occupied until it is paid for. That is right, and if a like system were adopted everywhere, we would possibly have fewer palatial churches, but a man would then be able to attend divine worship, once a year at least, without having an appeal Tor mohey thrust at him by the pastor, or a subscription paper stuck under his nose by a trustee or deacon. — Phila delphia Chronicle. Embroidered stockings? No, sir. Susan B. Anthony says that no stock ing is so cool qnd nice as a black woolen stocking, —Detroit Free Press. GEORGIA CROP NEWS. Goose Egg Cotton.— We have re ceived a sample of this cotton, raised by Capt. John Davis, of Cherokee coun ty, Ala. It is known as a fine species of cottou. — Pome Commercial. The cotton crop in this county is very promising at. present, the plant healthy, full of bolls, blossoms and squares, and of a size that usually puts the planter in a good humor with himself and the rest of mankind.— Dalton Citizen. Washington County. Despite the late and unpromising Spring, the crops in this section are very fine at present, and gives hopes of an abundant yield. There is also a most gratifying * feature in the system adopted by our planters this year, which is the self-supporting system. Very large grain crops have been planted, and Providence seems to have blessed the wisdom of our farmers by giving fine seasons and the prospect of a most bountiful supply of bread for the coming year. The small grain, which has ail been harvested, turned out well. The wheat was excellent, and we do not remember to have ever seen finer oats than the crop just har vested in this county. Up to the present, the corn is as fine as the laud could produce. The seasons have been wonderfully propitious. While a drouth now would shorten the production, yet a fair crop will be gathered if no more rain falls for several weeks. A great deal of the upland corn is al ready made, and one more ram would make all of it. A great deal has been planted, and it does one’s heart good to ride over our beautiful, undulating country and see the magnificently tall stalks, with the blades of fodder of so rich and dark a green as to seem almost black, waving their tassels in triumph from almost every hillside. Cotton is doing superbly. A drouth may cut this crop off very short, despite the fine prospects, but there is this consolation —there will be fewer debts for our peo ple to pay this year than for many years past, and if they do make a short cotton crop, they will have an abundance to live on without the cot ton. They will thus be far better off than at any time since the war; and if they will only steadily pursue the wise policy of growing everything ne cessary for the existence of man and beast, which they can so easily do in this genial climate and pro ductive soil, and make cotton a secondary consideration, there will be no more hard times in this country. We deeply regret, however, to hear that, in the midst of so much general good fortune, there is one section of our county,and of the adjoining county of Talliaferro, which is suffering from a fearful and ruinous drouth. There has been no rain there for about a mouth, and this at the most critical pe riod for the crops. There will be but short crops made in that section, no matter how propitious tlie seasons may be hereafter. We hope that enough may be made all arouud that unfortu nate section, aud throughout the coun try generally, as to make provisions so cheap as to be within the reach of all who live there.— Waslington Gazette. The Crops in Southwest Georgia. We hear so many contradictory ac counts from the corn and cotton crops in this iocality, that we are disinclined to venture a review or an opinion. Corn—The corn crop has now reached that stage that enables planters to esti mate with some degree of certainty vrhat the yield will be. Our informa tion is pretty general from the coun ties of Mitchell, Worth, Lee, Terrell, Calhoun, Baker and Dougherty, and all accounts concur in the one single, gloomy fact that at least one-fourth of the crop is a total failure, while the other three-fourths will scarcely yield above half an average crop. We cannot venture, therefore, to estimate the yield at more than 60 per cent, that was planted for ; but as a larger acreage than usual was plant ed, and as strenuous efforts have been made to supplement the crop with peas, potatoes and turnips, we are still hope ful that the section designated will be driven to purchase but little from fa vored regions. Cotton has also suffered to a greater extent than was apprehended on the Ist of this mouth. In the dry dis tricts, the plant is too smali to make a crop, while from ail localities the intelligence comes up that the fruit is falling off disastrously.— The plauters and merchants we most rely on for correct information sol emnly assure us that the crop is by no means promising, aud that the present outlook indicates a falling off of at least thirty per cent, from an average yield. Many broad fields, including some of our largest plantations and best lands, present a sad and sickly" ap pearance. Where the plant should be waist high and loaded with fruit, it is from six to ten inches and utterly bar ren. When such a plantation as Lee Jordan’s Fowl Town place is in this latter condition, well may we indulge fearful apprehensions as to the general crop.— Albamj News. Muscogee County. Farmers are getting very blue. The oomplaint is general, and comes from almost every portion of this section, that if rain does not soon come the corn crop will be ruined. Even in those quarters where showers have fallen, the sun has been so hot as to quickly bake and parch the earth. The same cry comes up from Florida. Rain is badly desired. Corn in that State is nearly made. There are no caterpil lars in that region, nor signs of any. Cotton generally looks better than corn, but even that will be greatly injured unless rain comes in a short time. The indication of showers grows less day by day.— Columbus Enquirer. The New York Commercial Advertiser is continually breakiug out in para graphs of admiration for “Col. Gilder sleeve, of the American Team.” A man might establish a big Sabbath school and keep it going for ten years, and that paper would never find it out, but let a common-place person get a rifle and go around shooting at a mark, and it wants to make him President of the United States right away. Nepotism.—The British clergy are infected with the plague of nepotism to an extent hardly to be dreamed of. The Church Herald , au Anglican paper of Great Britain, relates that 8 livings lately filled by the Archbishop of Can terbury, and valued at nearly S3O 000 all were to his wife’s brothers, cousins, to his own nephews, <%o, J ump-up-and-yun-away-and-then-sit down-agaiu is the name of a Red Cloud Indian who has taken the war path. He must have sat down on a pin. New Series— Vol. 3. Ts! o. 164-. THE RAILROAD POOL. The Second Meeting'in Atlanta. The Atlanta Constitution of yesterday has quite an extended report of the meeting of railroad officers, which took place in that city on the 22d. After quoting the edicts of Joe Brown, cut ting off relations with the South Caro lina and the East Tennessee and Geor gia Roads, it says: “These documents produced their ef fect at once and open war was begun upon the South Carolina Railroad Com pany, to the no little detriment and an noyance to a large section of the com merce of the Southeast. The road per sists, however, in its course of opposi tion to the pool-players, and hence this Convention, with one of two objects, either coax the South Carolina Rail road into the combination or squeeze it until it will come in of its own ac cord. The morning session commenced in one of the parlors of the H. I. Kimball House, at 11:30 a. m. yesterday, Presi dent Joseph E. Brown in the chair, Chas. A. Sindail, Secretary. After sta ting the objects of the meeting and causing the minutes, correspondence, orders, etc., of and subsequent of the last meeting, a committee was appoint ed for the purpose of reporting the object matter in hand in a shape to be acted upon. As the convention was held with closed doors, and the members are su perlatively “mum” over the proceed ings had, we know nothing of what was said in the meeting, though the ap pointment of the above committee was all the business that was done. The evening session began at 4:30 o’clock and lasted until supper time. The committee reported, we are in formed, the grounds of complaint against the South Carolina Railroad Company, and its refusal to comply with the terms of the pooling conven tion. The matter was fully and generally discussed and several methods of reach ing a satisfactory adjustment suggest ed, but no semblauee of a conclusion was reached. There would seem to bo a division of judgments in the conven tion, some of the members favoring a conciliatory policy and others more in clined to use coercion. The representatives of the recalci trant South Carolina railroad did not participate in the convention, but w T ero around keeping their wits about them and waiting to see what would turn up. It is understood that they came here considerably incensed at the action of President Brown, in issuing his edict of ostracism against them. They seem to hold that overtures and concessions in the matter must come from the con vention and not from themselves. The present situation is, therefore, an uneasy one all around, and no man can tell what the result will be. The present status of the case is very unsatisfactory, a lack of brotherly unity and harmony is visible among the members. The meeting adjourned over unt’l to day at 9 a. m., when, it is hoped, the caucusing may have produced harmo ny and some definite conclusion or line of action may be developed. One of the representatives said the trout la w r as one springing up out of adverse feelings upon the part of cer tain officials, rather than one of princi ple, and it was believed the meeting would result in mutual understandings which would remove the difficulties.— But, at this writing, the matter is liable to any turn which may be predicted of the final result. Says the Herald : The convention having met, the Georgia road was call ed upon to unite against the South Carolina road. At the same time the latter road was given to understand that while the lamp held out to burn, the vilest sinner may return. That it did return is certain, and now all par ties concerned are as happy as big sun flowers. We could not obtain an inti mation of the terms of settlement, but knew from what we heard that an un derstanding was reached. The ques tion of rates was not touched, they remaining as fixed at the meeting on the 30th ult. — % m The State of the Cotton Trade. I Nashville Union and American.] While the wheat market is “boom ing,” cotton manifests more depression that at any time within the past two months. Notwithstanding the fact that our crop for the year just ending has been fully 300,000 bales less than the preceding one, the stock of American cotton at Liverpool is 150,000 bales lar ger than it was a year ago, and the Liverpool price yesterday 'was 0 15— 16d., against Bd. in 1874. The Liver pool Economist says that the market at Manchester is fiat, that stocks are ac cumulating and that the raw material is in but little demand at Liverpool.— England wants our wheat, for. how ever dull trade may become, her people must have bread to eat; but as to cot ton the case is quite different. India is competing with her cotton manufac turers on so formidable a scale as to drive them almost altogether out of the market there and in China. This was the prime cause of the recent heavy failures in London, Liverpool and Man chester. The Financial Outlook. lExtract from Gov. Allen’s Speech.] The Congressional pledge of resump tion in 1879 hangs like a pail over the business of the country. Prudent men have been following the example of contraction set by the Government. They have been drawing their means out of active business and securing it in real property ; they are closing up their manufactories ; they refuse to go into new enterprises, and the result is that the panic of 1873, which should only have had temporary duration, has settled down into a season of business prostration, which will continue until the policy of the Government is chang ed, the continued tampering with the currency checked, and the active men of the country can have faith to resume operations without fear of being over taken by ruiu through governmental interference. If resumption is reached in 1879, a steady eontraetiou and a de pt eciation in values must continue, and what sane mau will invest his means in business under such circumstances ? Let us reach specie payment as speed ily as possible, but let the laws of busi ness and circumstances under which we are placed govern the matter, and not the special interest of the banker and bondholder. Mrs. Beecher says she has borne up under the worry and fatigue of the great trial by keeping “mad all the way through.” It’s not so extraordinary that Nebu chadnezzar lived on grass. We know of hundreds upon hundreds who live on the turf.