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Old Series—Yol. 25, jSTo. 122.
The news from Fort Bararncae is aw
ful. From twenty-nine cases of yellow
fever last reported the number mounts
in three days to sixty-five.
The serious trouble threatened in
some of the Biitish cotton mills culmi
nated yesterday in a big strike. Strik
ers are the unerring emblems of hard
times.
That terrific member of the House
of Commons, Plimsoll, has brought
the Government to terms. Disraeli
and his Ministers have not been so
badly scared since they came into
power. That is, over the extreme left.
The Madrid Government has brought
up that same old four thousand Car
lists “killed, wounded, captured and
missing,” and annihilates them again.
They should remember the saying of
Talleyrand : “A lie is too precious to
be told more than once.”
Old Col. Spinner, after sailing along
over glassy seas, and along flowery
banks, has ended his voyage very un
happily. That $47,000 stolen a few
weeks ago is still missing. The only
hope he has is that the conscience of
the thief will force him to bring it
back—just about the slenderest thread
which could be mentioned.
A citizen of Augusta just home from
New York says confidence in the gov
ernment has been completely broken
down, and that “if the Democrats nom
inate the D—l himself next year they
will vote for him in preference to any
man the Radicals may put up.” He
further says “the merchants and
tradesmen of New York are bellowing
like hungry calves,” and he never saw
a people take to poor ways with such
uncouth manners.
We publish a very interesting letter
from our Athens correspondent. He
reviews the closing session of the
University of Georgia, giving many
interesting statistics and statements of
the operations during this, its seventy
fourth year. Our University needs a
great and positive man at its head. It
should have at least five hundred
students, and nothing short of a great
name in its Faculty will ever bring it
up to the standard of first-class North
ern institutions.
The railroad war, which has been
extensively ventilated in our columns
by Gen. Babcock, Maj. Anderson and
Mr. Crosby, and which involves the
St. Louis and Southwestern and the
Nashville and Chattanooga and the
Green Line, has culminated in the re
duction of passenger and freight rates
from St. Louis to Nashville and Louis
ville to nominal figures. We see a
statement that passage from Nashville
to St. Louis is now only $2.50, and the
telegraph this morning says freights
are in proportion.
We have received the Alabama State
Journal, with the name of Sam Bard as
editor. As it is physically impossible
for any man to edit a paper in Atlanta
and Montgomery too, we hope Sam will
make Montgomery his future home.
The Alabama Rads, need his services
far more than we do in Georgia. In
this State that party consists of Potash
Farrow, Jeff Long, Postmaster Conley,
and Sam Bard, with Judge LocHRANEas
a possibility, and Bullock and the
Freedman’s Bank as history. We hope
he will meet with sufficient success in
Alabama to keep him there perma
nently.
The news we publish from the grow
ing crops in Georgia this morning is
not at all reassuring. Up to three
weeks ago we had perhaps the finest
prospects in twenty years. Since then
there has been next to no rains at all
in any county, whilst the thermometer
has steadily stood above ninety during
the day, with the nights so hot that
vegetation failed to rally.. This has
been the state of the thermometer in
our houses. In the sun, among the
growing corn and cotton, it must have
been at an average of one hundred and
twenty. We fear the corn crop has
been irreparably damaged at least fif
teen or twenty per cent, already. As
cotton is a hardy little sun plant it
would quickly rally if it could get a
good soaking rain. It is stunned and
at a stand still. We refer the reader
to the details under the head, “Geor
gia Crop News.”
We have received from “Chas. W.
Thompson, Secretary,” a parcel of doc
uments dated “Boston, July 15th, 1875,”
and saying:
A movement is being made here among
the veteran soldiers and sailors, having the
welfare and honor of our country wholly
and truly at heart, to bring prominently
before the independent voters all over the
land, the names of Hon. Nathaniel P.
Banks, of Massachusetts, for President
and Hon. L. Q. C. Lamab, of Mississippi'
for Vice President, in the next coming
Presidential campaign.
Much obliged to Mr. Thompson, but
as the Democrats have made their ar
rangements to nominate and elect a
clean out-and-out Democrat the next
President, we must beg leave to re
spectfully decline the offer of Governor
Banks. We, therefore, offer as an
amendment to your motion, Mr. Thomp
son, the substitution of the name of
Eaton, or Pendleton, or Allen, or
Thurman, for Banks. Will you accept
the amendment ?
The Indianopolis Sentinel.
Indianapolis, July 26.—The Sentinel
of this city has been sold to Hen. Jno.
C. Shoemaker. The editorial and busi
ness control will be in the hands of
Lucien G. Mathews. It is understood
the paper will be thoroughly Democra
tic. The first number under the new
management will apper Wednesday
Pott:
He ®ii (Eomfitutuinalist.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
THE TURKISH AND HERZEGO
VINA WAR.
The Turks Attack the Insurgents and
are Repulsed.
Ragasa, July 20. —The Herzegovina
Insurgents were attacked by Turkish
troops near Nevesigna; severe engage
ment. Many killed and wounded on
both sides. The dispatch reporting the
battle fails to give the result. On Sa
turday the Turks made a sortie from
Stolatz and attacked the Insurgents
near Dabra. Four companies made an
unsuccessful effort to flank the insur
gents. The fighting lasted all day.—
Result unknown. The Turks have
fired Goritza.
The Plimsoll Shipping Bill—He Makes
a Truce with the Government.
Liverpool, July 25. —A meeting was
held at Berkenhead to-day to endorse
Mr. PlimsolPs course in Parliament.
Several thousand sailors and working
men were present, and resolutions ex
pressing sympathy with and pledging
support, to Mr. Plimsoll were adopted.
The Times understands that Mr.
Plimsoll has procured a revival of his
shipping bill, which he previously
abandoned in favor of the Govern
ment’s measare, that it will now be
placed on the order book for Thursday.
Plimsoll will then apologize to the
House and consent to the passage of
the bill as a provisional measure for
one year only.
Lond >n, July 26. —On motion of Mr.
Roebuck, Thursday was fixed for the
second reading of Plimsoll’s shipping
bill. The Earl of 3haftsbury has writ
ten Plimsoll a sympathizing letter, and
advised him to appear in the House
and adhere to his views, but expresses
regret that excitement led him to vio
late the rules of debate. A majority of
the prominent daily and weekly jour
nals express similar views.
Sir Charles Adderley's shipping bill
is regarded as a Government conces
sion to and triumph for Mr. Plimsoll.
London, July 26.— 1n the House of
Commons to-day various notices of
motions and questions were given, all
reflecting the depth of public indigna
tion at the Government’s withdrawal
of the shipping bill. Sir Chas. Adder
iey, President of the Board of Trade,
will introduce, on Wednesday, a bill
for further empowering the Board of
Trade to prevent unseaw T orthy ships
from sailing.
Germany and the Pope.
Berlin. July 25.— The North German
Gazette, commenting on the recent sub
missions of Catholic clergymen to the
law for the administry of church prop
erty, says : “The Episcopate has there
by abandoned the principle hitherto
maintained that politico-ecclesiastical
matters can only be regulated by means
of independent arrangements between
State and Church.” The Gazette infers
that the Roman cures have given per
mission to the clergy to decide for
themselves, at the same time assuring
them that a decision in favor of sub
mission to the law will not be regarded
as an act of disobedience to Papal au
thority. “This,” continues the Ga
zette, “may be considered as changing
the struggle betweeu the political and
fcelesiastical powers, and the Catholic
Episcopate will probably urge on Rome
tlie necessity of extending still further
freedom of action in these matters.”
That Same Old Four Thousand.
Madrid, July 26.—The losses of Car
lists in the past three weeks in killed,
wounded and missing is 4,000.
3antandek, July 26.—The military
situation being considered satisfactory,
Gen. Jovellar is about to return to Ma
drid.
Madrid, July 26.— Carlists in Catalo
nia continue to give in their submission
to the Government. Eight hundred
additional submissions have been re
corded.
Death ot Vicompte Vassey.
Paris, J uly 26.—Vicompte de Beau
lont Vassey is dead.
The Direct Cable.
London, July 26. —The manager of
the direct United States Cable, in a
communication to the Times, referring
to its remarks in its financial article of
Thurday last in regard to the Cable,
says no stockholder has been denied
information. He also says a small por
tion of the cable has been injured, pro
bably by ice. Contractors are now en
gaged cutting out and replacing the
injured part.
A Great Strike in England.
London, July 26. —The Working
men’s Association of Yorkshire, Lanca
shire and Cheshire have resolved to
support the lockedout and striking mill
operatives. Thirty cotton mills closed
at Oldham to-day, the operatives hav
ing refused to accept the master’s
term in regard to wages.
Collision of Cunard and Guion
Steamers—The Hulls Damaged and
the Vessels Docked.
The Cunard Line steamship Abys
sinia and Williams & Guion Line steam
ship Wyoming, both from New York,
collide-i yesterday at New Brighton,
uear Liverpool. Both considerably
damaged iu hulls and have been
docked.
A Portuguese Famine.
London, July 26.—A Daily News
special from Lisbon reports a drouth
in several districts of the province of
Minho has destroyed crops and pas
tures. Famine is threatened and riots
against grain exporters imminent. Cat
tle are dying of hunger. Local au
thorities report it will be impossible to
collect taxes in many places. An at
tempt to do so, they fear, would cause
insurrection. Reports from Algarce
show a similar state of affairs in that
province. The Government is sending
relief to the afflicted section.
Responsibility of Carriers.
Kingston, Ont., July 26.- Judge Bur
rows to-day gave a decision in the case
of McNee vs. Grand Trunk Railway
Company, holding that the latter is not
responsible on a loss in Canada on a
through bill lading from Liverpool
while goods are in charge of railway.
The steamship line was responsible for
the delivery at destination, their re
sponsibility not ending with shipment
on cars.
Murder.
Cincinnati, July 25.—Last night at
Garnett City two engineers on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, named
Andrew Keelan and John Graves,'be
came involved in a quarrel, in whiefi
Graves seized a hatchet and dealt Kee
lan a terrible blow on the head, bury
ing the weapon in his skull apd caus
ing death in a few hours.
The South Carolina Railroad,
Charleston, July 26.—A1l the diffi
culties between the South Carolina
Railroad and connecting roads having
been removed, freight and passenger
business goes on without interruption.
YUGTUST.Y, GEY., TUESDAY MORNIN(>, JULY 27. 1875.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Capital News and Notes.
Washington, July 25.—The commis
sion heretofore delegated to count the
money in the Treasury will this week,
iu accordance with the request of the
Secretary, make close inquiry concern
ing the abstraction of the $47,000 some
weeks ago. Before General Spinner re
tired he expressed his confidence that
the stolen money would be returned,
because several other stolen sums had
found their way back into the Treas
ury, and it was his opinion that the late
theft was committed by a person or
persons holding places under him.—
Since that time no new discoveries have
been made, although the Treasury de
tective force has not lost sight of the
matter.
Sir Edward Thornton has not yet
left the city for a Summer sojourn else
where, he being detained here to at
tend to a large number of claims before
the United States and Mexican Com
mission, in his capacity of umpire.
Resignation of Avery and Judge
Fisher.
Washington, July 26.—Secretary
Bristow has official advice of Chief
Clerk Avery’s indictment. Avery’s
resignation was demanded and prompt
ly given. His successor is not yet
designated. Two indictments against
Avery single and the other in connec
tion with ex-Collector McDonald and
ex-Revenue Agent Joyce.
Judge Fisher has resigned and will
vacate upon Gov. Wells’ return to
Washington.
FROM SOUTH AMERICA.
More Religious Troubles.
Panama dates of the 17th say iu con
sequence of the Ultramontane riots in
San Miguel, in the State of Salvador,
the City of Panama, on the last voyage
from Central America, brought down
from the port of Libertad the Bishop
of Santa Tecla aDd seven priests, and
landed them at Covinto, in Nicaragua,
where they still remain. These priests
were suddenly arrested and hurried
down to the port under an escort of 100
soldiers, and put on board of the
steamer.
Advices from Salvador of the 4th
state that order was restored at the
scene of the Ultramontane riot. It was
discovered that arrangements of simi
lar outbreaks were prepared all over
the Republic, in the name of religion.
The Provisor Rodriguez, Bishop of Ca
rano, and Canons Ovellana and Vechi
deti, have been expelled the country.
A WESTERN RAILROAD WAR.
The St. Louis end Southeastern Cut
Down Rates.
St. Louis, July 26.—The cutting down
of passengeTs’ fare by the St. Louis and
Southwestern Railroad, between here
and Nashville, Tenn., a few weeks ago,
in opposition to the Iron Mountain
Road and its Southern connections, has
been extended, and the former road
announces that it will hereafter carry
passengers from Nashville to Louis
ville for one-third fare, and freights at
correspondingly low rates. The route
will be by the St. Louis and South
eastern to Nashville, thence by the
Loujsville and Paducah to Louisville.
The opposition was brought about by
the Louisville and Nashville Road in
refusing the St. Louis and Southeast
ern tickets to Montgomery, Ala., and
other points South.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
Five Children Drowned.
Atlanta, Ga., Juiy 26.—A man named
Johnson, with his family, a wife and
five children, in a wagon, drove into
the Coosquatte river, iu Gordon coun
ty, and got into deep water. The wagon
bed flooded off and all the children
were drowned. The roan and his wife
escaped. The bodies of four of the
children have been recovered.
Floods in the West.
Memphis, July 25.—There is still con
siderable alarm in regard to appre
hended overflow, and prayers were of
fered up in various churches to-day
for its abatement. To-night news from
above is regarded as favorable despite
heave local rains of last night, as it is
believed the nine inches decline report
ed by the Signal Service at Cairo ren
ders danger from the Ohio freshet im
possible.
Mysterious Suicide.
Charleston, July 25.—A mysterious
suicide occurred during the trip to this
port of the steamer South Carolina,
wh'ch left New York on Wednesday.
An unknown passenger who had regis
tered under the name of Incognito,
when off Hatteras, on Friday, shot
himself three times with a revolver
while lying in his berth, and died al
most instantly. He had carefully de
stroyed everything jn his baggage by
which his body could be identified. He
left a letter to the Captain indicating
that he took passage with the intention
of committing suicide.
Nearly au Accident at Rye Beach.
Rye Beach, July 26.—The Seaview
House, the largest house here, narrow
ly escaped destruction by fire last night
from the falling of an insecurely fas
tened chandelier, containing twenty or
more lighted naptha lamps. The hall
was instantly a mass of flame, and a
genuine panic ensued. By the prompt
use of fire extinguishers a serious con
flagration was prevented, and with but
slight damage to the hotel. The ex
citement among the guests continued
for some hours.
THE YELLOW FEVER AT BAR
RANCAS.
Sixty-Five Cases—TheFever of a Very
Malignant Type.
Navy Yard, Pensacola, July, 26.
Hon. Secretary of the Navy, Washing
ton, D. C..
Keep strangers away fpom here.
Fever raging at Barrancas. Sixty-five
cases and seven depths.
Strict quarantine upon p.arran
cas - No communication therefrom ex
cept through our quarantine. The Post
Commanding officer’s wife is sick. His
duties providing for the s}ck are ardu
ous. The fever is of a very malignant
type. The ladies and children of the
post are nearly all down. Please in
form jthe Secretary of War.
[Signed.] G. H. Cooper, Gom’dt*
The Apprehended Mississippi Flood.
Memphis, July 26. —River stationary.
AU fears of serious damage are abated.
Twenty acres caved at Dr. Peters’ plan
tation, twenty miles beiow. Dr. Peters
was compelled to move his residence
and gin house. A crevasse in Old
Town levee caused some damage.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.
Seventy-Fifth Collegiate Year—
Junior aud Sophomore Examination
—The Graduating Class—-List of
Speakers Chosen for Commencement
—List of Junior Orators —Number
of Students in Attendance—The Fi
nancial Situation—New Buildings—
'The Military—The Approaching Com
mencement, etc. etc. etc.
[Regular Correspondence Constitutionafist.]
Athens, Ga., July 26, 1875.
Editor Constitutionalist : Following
iu the arduous steps of their senior
brethren, the juniors and sophomores
here finished their examinations, and
the entire college is now basking in the
‘sunshine of liberty.” All is quiet, and
with the exception of some rampant de
claimed who disturbs the midnight
hours with “Rienzi’s Appeal” “Cata
lines Defiance,” or “Webster’s Defence;”
and a few struggling juniors with sun
dry boisterous predictions about the
appearance of that much to be dreaded
"blue list,” there is nothing to mar the
monotony of the interlude.
The marks of t,he graduating class
have at length been made out, and the
following gentlemen declared entitled
to speakers’ places for Commencement
Day :
From the degree of “Bachelor of
Arts,” P. G. Smith, Alabama; J. H.
Lumpkin, Athens; J. J. Ingraham,
Rome ; D. H. Hardy, Texas ; and H. N.
Starnes, Augusta. “ Master of Arts,”
G. F. Gober, Marietta. “Bachelor of
Engineering,” W. H. Fleming, Augusta.
“ Bachelor of Science,” T. P. Vincent.
Athens, and P. A. Stovall, Athens.
Junior Orators as follows : H. C.
Ayer, Rome ; S. G. Brinkley. Camak ;
A. W. Davis, Atlanta; P. E. Dennis,
Talbot county ; J. F. George, Maiietta ;
W. M. Henry, Walker county ; L. M.
Landrum, Maxeys; G. D. Thomas,
Athens ; H. H. Tucker, Jr., Athens ; H.
B. Walker, Alabama.
With the 24th inst. closed the 75th
regular collegiate session of the Uni
versity.
During the year there has been in at
tendance two hundred and twenty-nine
students, fourteen of whom are 'mem
bers of the law department; one hun
dred and fourteen attend the academic
department, and cue hundred and one
the State College school. The number
of old students is comparatively
small, while there Is a marked increase
in the new ones over the past terms.
The former, however, has been explain
ed on the ground that during the hard
times many parents cannot afford to
send their sons to college for a greater
length of time than one year ; hence,
many here last year did not return.
During the past few months the
Legislature, we learn, has passed a bill
appropriating fifteen thousand dollars
($15,000) to the University, to be paid
($5,000 per year) in three years. This,
of course, is comparatively small for a
State University, but in time it is to be
hoped that a larger amount will be ad
vanced. Dr. Tucker, in his address at
Atlanta last February, laid the case
very plainly before our legislators, and
with our energetic representative from
Clarke, Hon. H. H. Carlton, who during
his terms of office, has ever shown him
self a true friend of the College, and uaa
in that time done as much to further her
interests as any man in Georgia, the
University may hone for better things.
Not only should every legislator, but.
every citizen of oui* Commonwealth, es
pouse the cause oUoqr institution, and
the great truth shc-uld be stereotyped
throughout the St;-to that “the cause
of the University is the cause of us all.”
By the appropriation of twenty-five
thousand dollars ($25,000) by the city
of Athens has been erected a very hand
some and substantial edifice adapted
to a College of Agriculture, Science and
the Mechanic Art*;.. This building is
three stories high, fvith abasement be
low the first story.
The first ttoor iu occupied by Prof.
White with lecture room and laborato
ries of industrial and analytical chemis
try. The second la divided off into a
very spacious leeture hqll. physical
laboratories and office of Dr. 'Wm. Leroy
Broun, the Professor of this depart
ment and President of the State Col
lege; while the drawing and recitation
room of Col. L. It. Charbonpier tske
up the entire third utory. The building
itself is 100 feet by)so, aud presents a
very handsome eyterjor. Professors
White, Broun and Gharborjnier have
gone to work in earnest and had they
an appropriation to obtain suitable
operatives the scientific and engineer
ing portion of the college would be
second to none in the United States.
This is called ‘ Moore College” in
honor of the late Or. R. D. Moore, of
Athens, to whose efforts the University
owed so much, and forms a befitting
testimonial to the n.emory of the illus
trious deceased.
Quite a prominent feature during the
past year, in the history of the Uni
versity, has been the introduction and
establishment of the military portion
of the curriculum.
In November one hundred stand of
arms, donated by the Legislature, were
received. At once the entii’e collq?e
was “mustered” and divided off into
squads,
Many predicted that this feature
would be an entire failure as incompat
ible with the government of a Univer
sity. But on the contrary, the squads
rapidly advanced in the field move
ments, were then thrown into three
companies, A. B. and C., commanded
respectively by Captains, Fleming,
Case and Hart, and, during the month
of March these vere “ armed and
equipped as the law directs.” Each
company consisted of thirty (30) pri
vates, 2 Lieutenants and 4 Sergeants.
The bad weather of the early Spring
and the intermediate examination in
February, of course, interfered great
ly with the drills. But under the abie
and efficient management of Col. Char
bonnier and Major James Bonham, tie
companies have m ( *de splendid pro
gress and nr© now as efficient iq tie
movement and manual as perhaps any
volunteer battalion la the State. Their
drill before the boar i and visitors wis
highly complimented.
The introduction of military into lie
Uuiyersjty has been of vast benelt
generally. Jt has, besides training tie
students in the manual and general
drilling, which every one should knov,
furnished a necessary amoqnt of e?eTr
cise, improved the bearing of the boys,
and materially assisted in the discipline
of the college.
Next year another hundred stand
of arms will bo' furnished, and all the
students will be able to drill—the sys
tem will become more fully establish
ed, and the general organization more
perfect. Bergeaats |J. Jackson anl
H. P. Moore, of your city, will be cap
tains of two of the companies ne&
year.
The entire list of the graduating
class is not known. Only those to whom
speakers’ places have been given havfe
been made public. It is generally un
derstood, however, that upwards of
thirty diplomas will be awarded—a
larger number than any class since the
war. The standard of the University
is becoming higher every year, and to
get a diploma is now no easy thing to
accomplish.
The Senior class, who now “step
down and out,” are unusually young.
They uumbei thirty-five. The average
one of this persuasion is distinguished
by his white beaver, slender cane and
delightful tenor voice, besides, of
course, intellectual accomplishments,
which at once stamp his identity. There
will be about thirty lawyers, I under
stand. What a prospect for the coun
try ! Decidedly the most popular mem
ber is Mr. F. R. Clark, a young gentle
man well known in your city.
Quite a popular feature of our ap
proaching commencement will be the
Chancellor’s levee. This new addition
to the entertainments during that fes
tive season will be held Tuesday night,
August 3d.
The University Library, a large aud
spacious room, will be brilliantly light
ed, a band will be in attendance, aud
the entire campus illuminated. The
public are respectfully invited to attend
this reception. Dr. Tucker is sparing
no time or pains to make it a most en
joyable affair.
We predict that our entire commence
ment will be a “flue thing.” We hope
that everybody will be here. Let not
dissatisfaction and rumor deter any
from visiting once more our grand old
institution of learning, and, as in Old
England, when the merry days of
Christmas roll around, ail family diff
erences and social bickerings are hush
ed ’neath the holly and the misletoe,
and lost at the festive board of the
parental roof ; so may all gather round
our memorable Alma Mater on her 75th
anniversary, and in the “feast of rea
son and flow of soul” crown her with
happiness. Let the elderly sire come
and see his son or grandson as he fin
ishes his collegiate career ; let th 9 aged
matron come and share in the triumph
of the joy of her declining years ; let
theyoimg men with whom these scenes
are fresh, or who are yet to visit them,
come and eujoy the recreation of a few
days ; and, above all, let the young
ladies (if they will only keep quiet) come
and inspire us by their expressive
glances and bright faces.
And to you, Mr. Constitutionalist,
if you can leave for a few days the
scenes of your labors, we guarantee a
hearty welcome and a fine time, if it
can be obtained, by Picciola.
LETTER FROM RUTLEDGE.
Dry Weather and Suffering Crops—
Large Wheat Product—Railroad
Magnates—Bucolic Amusements —
John H. James for Governor.
[Regular Correspondence Constitutionalist.]
Rutledge, July 25th, 1875.
The weather is very hot, and is get
ting dry—haven’t had any rain in this
immediate neighborhood in ten days,
some showers with considerable thun
der passed round in sight yesterday
morning. Crops will suffer if it does
not rain in a few days.
To give you an idea how much wheat
was made in this section, I visited the
fine flouring mill of Major Ponder one
day last week, and Mr. John F.
Toler, the Superintendent—by the
way he is a good millwright as
well as a miller—had fixed up the
late break-down by the late freshet,
and had everything iq good running
order in a few days after the breaks,
and he informed me that he was grind
ing over a hundred bushels a day.
While I remained there—about six
hours—one hundred and seventy bush
els of wheat came into the mill by the
customers around the country. Now
Mr. Toler is a first-class miller, and
turns out as fiae flour as any mill iu
the State. The farmers through this
portion of the country are making
considerably more grain than usual.
The corn crop is very extensive, and
with one more good rain it is generally
made.
I noticed the other day at tlpe dinner
table in the new eatipg house at Rut
ledge quite a crowd of distinguished
Railroad officials, among them Hon.
Judge J. P. King. Col. S. K. Johnson
and Ma,j. G. T. Jackson.- of the (Georgia
Railroad, qnd Ron. W. J- Magrath,'
President of the South Carolina Rail
road. They were all looking weii and
doing ample justice to the substantial
of life that sat before them, I learned
thsy were on their Way to 4flqqta
to attend $ railroad meeting of officers.
The farmers, having generally got
ten through with their field work,
gather around Rutledge these hot days,
spm yarns, talk politics and eat water
melons. Among the many aspirants
to the Gubernatorial chair next year,
I believe Hon. John H. James is the
favorite in this section. We want a Gov
ernor who will take care of the finances
of the State, and stop such high taxes,
and we know J. H. James to thoroughly
understand financiering.
R.
Our Reveuue System.
The World regards the acceptance
by Secretary Bristow of the Claflin in
dictments as an indictment of the Ad
ministration at Washington. The editor
adds;
It is also another open confession
that the Treasury, whether under Bout
well or Richardson or Bristow in Wash
ington, or Grinnell, Murphy or Arthur
in New York, cannot, in this city, col
lect the rates of duty which the Re
publican party levies and vindicates. —
And if not in this city, then practially
nowhere, because more than two-thirds
of the importations into this country
are made through the port of New
York, is it sensible or decent to longer
continue such tariff legislation, and
refuse to adopt a system which taxes a
few articles, turns the eyes of the
Treasury upon them alone, and makes
possible their complete collecti n? The
weak points in our existing customs
revenue ape the oonsular, the ware
house, and the appraising departments.
The Consuls are, as a rule, ignorant,
and inefficient. Our warehousing con
trivance depends in its last analysis on
the integrity of storekeepers at two
dollars a day, who are generally the
burafpers of the Republican party, with
itching palms, too, ready for pay to do
anything that smugglers and defraud
ers ask. Out appraisers are in chief
part pohticiars like Dariing, of higher
pretensions than the storekeepers, but
yet politicians and not merchants fa
miliar with the character, qipality and
value of imports they appraise.
Failure of a Pittsburg House.
Wheeling, July 26.—Sweeney, Mc-
Clure & Cos., glass have
failed for SISO,QOCJ. They employed
30Q hands,
Death of the Editor of the Galveston
News.
Galveston, July 26.—Willard Rioh
ardson, founder and editor-in-chief of
the Galveston News, died this morning.
MOUNTAIN MEADOW MAS
SACRE.
Horrible Details of the Butchery—
The Evidence of One of the Partici
pants—None Spared Save Children.
Beaver, Utah, July 23. —At 2 o’clock
the first, witness called was Robert
Keys. He came to Utah October 2d,
1857, through the Mountain Meadows ;
saw piles of bodies of women and chil
dren piled promiscuously; sixty to
seventy of the children were from two
months to twelve years old; smaller
were more torn by wolves and crows;
some bodies shot, some throats cut,
some stabbed; all torn by wolves, ex
cept one woman a little way off who ap
peared as if asleep ; ball hole in her left
side; it appeared the bodies had been
dead fifteen days; seven of us saw it;
piles of men’s bodies further on; didn’t
go to see them; there was no clothing
on the bodies, except one sock on a
man; none were scalped.
Asatel Bennett called: Was at Mea
dows December, 1857, saw bones thei’e;
horrible sight; skeletons of women and
children, curls, long tresses of hair,
dried blood; children ten to twelve;
some skulls had flesh dried on them;
the bodies had been covered up; wolves
evidently dug them up.
Philip Klingham Smith, defendant,
of San Bernardino, California, called.
Prosecution entered a nolle qirosequi as
to himself ; lived in Cedar City iu 1857;
was at a massacre in September, 1857;
heard of emigrants coming; people were
forbidden to trade with them; felt bad
about it; saw a few of them at Cedar;
this was Friday. Same heard rnmors
of trouble; Sunday the custom was to
have meetiugs of President and Coun
cil, Bishop and Council and High Coun
cil; I was a Bishop; came up for dis
cussion as to their destruction; Haight,
Higbee, Morrill, Allen, Willis, myself
and others were present; some breth
ren were opposed to their destruction;
I did; Haight jumped up; broke up the
meeting; I asked what would be the
consequences of such an act; then
Haight got very mad; the Indi
ans were to destroy them; Monday
Higbee, White and I met ; same
subject was discussed again; I opposed
destruction; Haight relented ; told
White and me to go ahead and tell the
people the emigrants should go through
safe; we did so; on the road met John
D. Lee; told him where we were going;
he replied, “I have something to say
about that matter;” we passed the em
igrants at Iron Springs; they had 20
or 30 wagons; over 100 people, old
men, middle aged, old women, middle
aged, youths and children; near home
I met Ira Allen; he said the emigrants’
doom was sealed; the die was cast for
destruction; that Lee’s orders were to
take men, go out and intercept them,
and to spare only small children who
could not tell the tale; I went off; met
Allen, our first runner, and others;
Higbee said, you are ordered out, arm
ed and equipped; so I went; got to
Hamblin’s ranche in the night, three
miles from the emigrants; there I met
Lee aad others from the general camp,
where the largest number of men
were; found emigrants not all killed;
Lee called me out for consultation;
he told me the situation ; emigrants
were strongly fortified ; no chance to
get them out; Highee ordered us to
decoy them out the best we could;
command was given to J. D. Lee to
carry out the whole plan ; Lee called
all the soldiers in a hollow square and
addressed them; they were all white
men, about fifty in all; the Indians
were in another camp; order to march
was given ; it was part of the Nauvoo
Legion, organized from tens up to hun
dreds ; marched in sjgfit of emigrants ;
either Bateman or Lee went out with a
white flag ; a man from emigrants met
them ; Lee and the man sat down on
the grass and had a talk ; don’t know
what they talked about; Lee went with
the man into the entrenchments; after
some hours they came out, and emi
grants came up with the wounded in
wagons ; the wounded were those hurt
in the fight three days previous ; said
Mormons and Indians couldn’t oust the
emigrants; emigrants came up; the
men halted; women on foot; children and
woqnded went on ahead with John D
Lee; soldiers had to be all ready to
shoot at word; when word halt came
the soldiers fired; I fired once; don’t
know if I killed the man; not all killed
first shot; saw the woman afterwards
dead; throat out; I saw as I came up
to them a man kill a young girl; found
children; put them in a wagon; took
them to Hamblin’s fiouse, saw no more
soldiers; took children to Cedar City,
ieaving one at Pinto creek; on road met
a freight train of wagons; men living
here in Beaver now on it; I went to old
Mrs. Hopkins; toid her had children;
she rustled around got places for them;
I took one girl baby home; my wife
sucked it; i gave it to Birkeok, he
having no children; they were well
treated; after several days Haight
sent to Iron Springs where the wag
ons, cattle and goods of emigrants
were; got them and put them
in the tithing house ; I was to brand
the cattle; I put goods in tithing office
cellar; left wagons in front of tithing
office; branded cattle with church
brand—a cross; Lee was in cellar with
me and saw goods; Haight and Higbee
told me a council had been held and
Lee deputed to go to President Brig
ham Young and report all the facts of
the massacre; Lee went; at the confer
ence at Salt Lake, in October, I asked
him if he had reported to Brigham
Young; he said yes, every particular;
same day Lee and Charley Hopkins
called on Brigham Young; he said to
me in their presence, “you have charge
of that property in the tithing office;
turn it over to John D. Lee; what you
know of this, say nothing of it; don’t
talk of It, even among yourselves;
when I came I had to go to Yegas lead
mines to get ore; while I was gone
Lee took the property; had an auction
and sold off, so Haight and Higbee
told me; Haight sold part of the
cattle to Hooper, Utah’s Congressional
delegate afterwards, for boots and
shoes; there wore Indians at the mas
sacre, the hills were pretty full of
them; they were deputised to RiU the
women; saw one Indian cut a little
boy’s throat; heard no effort to re
strain the Indians; the Indians were
wounded, and three died of tbejr
wounds; the Indians came to Cedar,
where J lived; one was called Bill, one
Tom, both chiefs; saw some of the em
igrants’ property with the Indians;
saw Lee get dresses and jeans from
the tithing office, out of the emigrants’
plunder; I learned from Allen that Lee
was the one to gather up the Indians
to attack the talked with Lee
afterward; Lee was Indian agent at
Harmony ; agent traded with the tribes
and issued goods and rations of the
government to the Indians,
The court hero adjourned.
During the time Smith was testify
ing giving the horrible details of blood,
the suspense was terribly painful. Lee’s
square, hard, low-browed face and
neck become fairly purple-black, and
his wives scarcely breathed, straining
forward to catch each syllable. Excite
ment in town is intense. lam prepar
ed to state that Klingen Smith’s story,
iu all material details, is the same as
Lee’s suppressed confession as to the
massacre. Klingen Smith’s reputation
here is that of a man of truth. He
could not be impeached save by facts.
FROM KITCHEN TO HALL.
A Philadelphia Servant Girl Becomes
an Irish Heiress.
[Philadelphia Times, July 20. J
Patrick Rafferty is dead. Patrick
breathed his last away off in one of the
northern counties of Ireland. Now the
death of Patrick didn’t startle the civ
ilized world iu general one-third as
much as it did the immediate neigh
borhood of 3,197 Ridge avenue in par
ticular. Here resides the famous Dibbs
family, composed in the main of Mr.
and Mrs. Dibbs and a Miss Margaret
Rafferty. The latter is, or rather was
until quite recently, a domestic in the
Dibbs household, lending valuable as
sistance to the members thereof by
her long experience with dish-washing,
wash-tub wrestling, frying-pan ma
nipulations and the like. She had
youth on her side, and her arm
was as well devoloped as the limbs of
a lion. Mr. Dibbs saw beneath her
bronzed features all of her true worth,
and when she told him in her own sim
ple, orphan-like way that she was a
stranger in a strange land, that she
hadn’t any friends and hadn’t any
“spondoolix,” his heart was touched,
for he knew she’d be handy about the
house, and was sure to know how to
boil his corned beef and cabbage. So
Margaret, after Mr. Dibbs had con
sulted his wife, became as one of the
family, and at once entered upon her
household duties. This happened
’three years ago, and Saturday last
found the once dejected emigrant alive
and kicking in Dibbs’ kitchen.
Her face was as bright as a
new tin pan, and you could see
your likeness from a distance of
five feet in the glistening beauty of her
dark brown eyes. Eleven o’clock had
struck, and she was just in the act of
taking up the potatoes for dinner when
Mr. Dibbs, all aglow with excitement,
handed Margaret a letter from Califor
nia. It was the first lice from anybody
the poor girl had ever received, and
her enthusiasm was so great that she
dropped the “murpheys,” dish and all.
Her excitement was beyond control;
she couldn’t hold the 'letter steady
enough to read it, and so asked Mr.
Dibbs to become her secretary. The
kind old gentleman consented, and
while Margaret sobbed and laughed
outright at inconsistent intervals, read
to her the following astonishing epistle;
San Francico, July 10.
My Dear Sister: I have just received a
letter from the parish priest of St.
Bridget’s Abbey, who informs me that our
uncle Patrick i 3 dead, and has left an es
tate of 60,000 pounds. We are his nearest
or kin, and consequently as rich as blazes.
111 write ye agin.
Hopin, this Finds you as it leaves me, I
remain your darling brother,
Timothy Rafferty.
At the conclusion of Mr. Dibbs’ read
ing, Margaret didn’t faint, but sprang
to her feet and rushed up stairs, vow
ing she’d cooked the last dinner for
the Dibbs family. Mr. Dibbs imme
diately informed his wif* of the intelli
gence, and the two worthy people
eame to the conclusion that to adopt
Miss Rafferty would be a humane thing
under the circumstances. They ac
cordingly adopted her, and Miss Mar
garet, feeling somewhat elated over
the circumstances, resolved to be
known henceforth as Miss Margaret
Rafferty Dibbs. To the Times reporter
Miss Margaret wouldn’t exhibit her
self, which refusal, of course, was Miss
Margaret’s prerogative: while Mr.
Dibbs looked on the inquisitive indi
vidual as he would have done upon a
suitor for the young lady’s hand. He
was communicative enough, however,
to make knowu the fact that Margaret
had five brothers, aud that the fortune
would be divided among them—“ pro
ratter,” said Mr. Dibbs; “in other words,
acoordin’ to lor,”
The Armed Strength of Europe.
A lecture was recently delivered be
fore the Royal United Service Institu
tion, London, in which a British officer
gave a detailed acoount of the stand
ing armies and reserves of all the na
tions of Europe. He said that, lookiug
at the armies of Europe from every
point of view, the rapidity with which
they can be mobilized, fed from re
serves, concentrated on any point and
maintained in the field, he should di
vide them into three classes, in the
order of their strength. The first class
comprised Germany, Austria, Russia
and France; the second, Italy and
England ; the third, Belgium, Turkey,
Sweden and Norway, Holland, Den
mark, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland,
Greece. There are four armies of the first
class, two of the second, and nine of the
third, with, in round numbers, a strength
on paper of seven and a half millions
of men and a combatant strength of
five millions, with 15,000 guns and a
million and a quarter of horses. In
navies Great Britain is supremo, and
then come in the order of strength
France, Russia, Turkey, Austria, Ger
many, Italy, Spain, Holland, Denmark
Sweden and Norway, and Portugal.
The navfes of all these have an aggre
gate of 2,039 vessels, of which 209 are
iron-clad, the whole being manned with
280,000 men and armed with 16,000
cannon. One hundred and ten ships of
war are now being built, and of these
46 will be armor-plated. The expenses
of these forces amount according to
the lecturer’s estimates to $560,000,000
per annum, of which three-fifths go the
land forces. The armaments of Turkey
and Austria cost only about $l5O a
year per man; that of Great Britain at
the most SSOO a year.
Minor Telegrams.
Philadelphia, July 26.—William A.
Conn, who accidentally shot and killed
his wife yesterday, was to-day commit
ted for trial by the Coroner, although
the jury decided that the shooting was
accidental.
Chicago, July 26.—Judge Blodgett
gave a decision protecting foreign hold
ers of railroad bonds as against a
lessee.
Cikcinnati, July 26.— Owing to the
failure of fruit in this section, the Bal
timore and Qhio Road has put on fast
fruit cars.
New York, July 26.—Geo. H. Mum
ford, Vice-President of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, died at
Paris, after a brief illness.
■ ~
Henry Bergh is staying at Newport.
Re is seen to wander for hours aione
on the beach, lost in thought, aud it is
rumored he intends establishing a
marine gymnasium, in the belief that it
will aid in the development of the mus
sels.
New Series—Vol. 3. No. 166.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Next Christmas comes on Saturday.
Gold has been discovered in Maine.
Sartoris is called the national son-in
law.
All religion and all ethics are summed
up in justice.
852,400 shoes were made in the United
States last year.
Dogs killed in the Cleveland pouud
are sent to the glue factory.
A gravestone is to be erected over
the remains of the race horse Lexing
ton.
The doctors have an idea that if a
physician let 9 the public know where
his office is he is not respectable.
Nude bathing at Newport has been
suppressed—only to be renewed, proba
bly, at convenient opportunities.
A niece of Rufus Choate, the cele
brated Massachusetts lawyer, is an in
mate of the Cambria (Pa.) county poor
house.
The work of reconciliation progress
es. Sorosis announces a party to which
gentlemen are to be invited.'
The Brooklyn Argus wants a law to
prohibit any resident of that city from
playing on a flute after dark.
“O, let them bloody Yahnkis ’ave the
old cups if they want them. Oo cares?
They ’aven’t got the Terns river,” says
John.
A mistake of the tvpes caused au
announcement to read:' “Thirteen Illi
nois railroads are in the hands of de
ceivers.”
M ith SIOO,OOO a year the very poor
est clergyman might struggle onward
toward Zion, and not care much how
many years it took him to reach it.
A Minnesota man who wanted to see
how bees worked in the hive can man
age to squeeze a number twelve hat on
his head now.
A conductor on the West Side street
railway, who is always at hand to lift
“pinned back” young women Into the
car, is attracting custom.
Apollo was held the god of physic
auu sender of disease ; both were origi
nally the same trade, and still continue
so .—Swift.
A little wart-backed hop-toad will
break up a croquet party quicker than
Lie darkest thunder cloud that ever
gathered.
The Scriptures tell us that we always
have the poor with us. The rich go
out of town in the Summer. —Boston
Courier.
“ Ya-a-a-s, they can shoot the mere
Hirish, you know, but they better not
come to Hold Heugland. It won’t do
to try it ’ere, you know,”
A prominent (Ohio) Catholic has be
come an Episcopalian, rather than take
his children from the public schools, as
he had been ordered to do by the priest
The Emperor of Brazil expects to
travel incog, through this country next
year, and in deference to the feelings
of the detective police, has determined
to leave his diamonds at home.
Brooklyn is so quiet after the scan
dal that a clergyman can’t enter a par
isboner’s house with a night-key with
out lifting overheard.
An Indiana lawyer eloped with his
sister-in-law the other day, but his
wife never shed a tear. She sent his
law books after him, sold the furni
ture and took the children to the cir
cus.
Fully fifty thousand Detroit people
went to view the scene of the recent
tornado devastation, but only twenty
seven persons Attended the relief meet
ing.
A dyspeptic at the Virginia Springs
hung himself the other day, leaving a
note behind which said : “ It’s a mighty
good joke on dyspepsia !” And so it
was.
Gloria in excelsis! Cassarism is dead.
Grant rises tiptoe, and leaning upon
the strong arm of his faithful Murphy,
exclaims, “I’d rather be a grandfather
than be President.”
“I’m a-weary, a-weary, he cometh
not,” she said, and then she picked up
the boot jack and laid in wait for him
behind the door, for it was after 11
o’clock, and she had toid him if ho
stayed out that late she’d baste him.
When President Grant saw that Sar
toris baby clench its little fists and
shake them defiantly in his face, he is
said to have exclaimed with joy: “Ap
pomattox is nowhere 1”
It is a singular fact that the eques
trian statue of Washington on tbe Cap
itol Hill, in Richmond, poiuts with ex
tended arm and sword directly to Ap
pomattox Court House.
A REMARKABLE OPERATION.
A Surgeon Extracts the Skeleton of a
Child from a Young Man Eighteen
Years Old.
[From the Grenada (Miss.) Sentinel.]
Dr. W. E. Rogers, who, as & surgeon,
stands at the head of the profession in
the South, performed an operation in
Memphis last week that has developed
one of the most remarkable results
known to the medical fraternity. He
was called in, at a house on DeSoto
street, to extract a stone from the blad
der of a young man about 18 years old,
named Jeptha Walker. The doctor
having successfully taken out the stone,
which is about the size of a large
guinea-egg, composed of carbonate of
lime, left the patient in good spirits,
doing well. Some days after, the
nurse, while dressing the wound of
the young man, saw something pro
truding from it, which she gave to Dr.
Rogers on his next visit. On examina
tion this proved to be the bone of an
infant. Since then the physician has
extracted several bones, among which
are part of both bones of the thigh, one
of the leg, one of each arm, and one hip
bone, and last Tuesday another was
taken out belonging to another part of
the body. The nurse stated that she
extracted many more bones, but not
knowing their value, she threw them
away. The patient is doing very well,
and is expected to be soon restored to
good health. This is the first case of
the kind, we believe, that has occurred
in this part of the country. But medical
works recount where soveral such phe
nomena have taken place; and thesamo
authorities explain upon a very plausi
ble theory how such things can"happen.
Some lazy, incredulous dootors, whose
vocation should have been that of
third-class scullious, have doubted the
word of Dr. Rogers in this matter. But
the doctor has shown us the bones and
the stone, and told us that his opera
tion was attended with the above re
sults, As far as Dr. Rogers’ character
is ooncerned, suffice it to say that he is
well known throughout the Southern
States as a surgeon whose ability is
unsurpassed by any one in this part of
the country, and is regarded as a gen
tleman who would, under no consider
ation, degrade his profession by irnpos-