Newspaper Page Text
Old Series—'"Vol. 25, No. 122.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Jas. G. Bailie, Francis Cogin, Geo. T. Jackson,
PROPRIETORS.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
Gaily, on© 9®
months “ rr
" 3 months *"V
Tri-Weekly, one year “ y®
“ ti months 250
Weekly, one year * “V
" 6 months 1 011
Single copies, 5 cents, lo news dealers, 2 1 /,
On and after this date (April 21, 18751 all
editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent
free of postage. Subscriptions must in all
cases be paid in advance. The paper will be
discontinued at the expiration of the time paid
Advertisements mustbe paid for when hand
ed in, unless otherwise stipulated.
Correspondence invited from all sources,
and valuable special news paid f(fr if used.
It jecle l communications will not be return
ed, o'nd no notice taken of anonymous commu
nicati ms, or articles written on both sides.
Money may be remitted at our risk by Ex
press or postal order.
AH letters should be addressed to
H. C. STEVENSON, Manager,
Augusta, Ga.
We omitted an “1” in Plimsoll’s name
because he was getting enough “1” else
where.
In our Georgia News column it will
be seen that Millfcdgeville was visited
by what may be called a “young earth
quake.” Many people were frightened
and nobody hurt.
A dispatch from Atlanta, received at
midnight, announces the appointment
of Col. L. E. Bleckley as the successor
of Judge McCay on the Supreme Bench.
We presume the agony is over.
And now we have intelligence that
the States of Indiana and Ohio have
suffered from a tremendous fall of rain
and consequent floods. The damage
to railways and crops is reported very
great. After our long dry spell, is Au
gusta to have her share of the pre
vailing inundations? We hope not.
Old Bill Allen’s Gallipolis speech,
which we publish this morning, is very
brief, but as full of wisdom as an egg
is of meat. It contains good sound
sense in solid chunks, and happily
adapted to the comprehension of all
classes of men. It is another example
of how a vast amount of truth and
useful information can be uttered in a
quarter of an hour, by a clear-headed
man, who does not talk against time.
The curse of this country is long-winded
oratory, and when a man talks hour
after hour on a given subject he is very
apt to spread his matter extremely
thin.
Some of the consequences of Dun
can, Sherman & Co.’s failure are begin
ning to crop out. A Trenton, N. J.,
bank confesses to the loss of 3100,000.
It seems that the rocks upon which the
great New York firm split were South
ern railway securities and speculation
in King Cotton. From developments
made in the Register’s office it would
appear that Duncan, Sherman & Cos.
had transferred the enormous sum of
31,250,000. This has an ugly look, and
standing, as it does, unexplained, would
seem to imply that some of the firm
had a snug nest-egg in spite of bank
ruptcy,
A North Carolina Tar-Heel discov
ered the reason of Sam Bard’s re
moval. A Republican acquaintance of
the editor of the Charlotte Observer
met the ex-Gov. of Idaho and late
P. M., and after breaking a bottle or
two, the subject turned on his (Bard's)
removal from the postmastership of
Atlanta. The blind Bard vowed that
he could conceive no earthly reason for
his removal; that he could imagine no
motive which could have induced the
Postmaster General to treat him so.
“Why,” said he, “I was never want
ing iu attention to him. I always
wrote to him once and sometimes twice
a week.” But, said his Republican
friend, “perhaps he took offense at
something in one of your letters.” “Oh!
no,” said Bard, “that was impossible.
I wrote him the right kind of letters.
I announced myself squarely in favor
of a third term.” Well, said his friend,
I’m not surprised at your removal; for
Postmaster General Jewell is himself
a prominent candidate for the Republi
can nomination for President. “The
d—i you say,” replied the Bard, “I nev
er thought of that!”
Gen. I). H. Hill, ia the Southern
Home, thus alludes to a call from his
old comrade in arms, Gen. Longstreet:
“ He is in bad health, and his long
whiskers, that were once so black, are
now frosted all over. He is stooped
and bowed, and looks haggard and
care-worn. There is little to rec ill the
confident soldier of Lee’s army, who
never dreamed of disaster, and still less
to recall the tall, straight youth, almost
feminine in beauty, who led so many
charges in the Mexican war. He was
then our most intimate friend in that
army, and no one has mourned over his
mistaken course since the wav more
sincerely than we have done. But the
South had no truer champion than he
in the days that tried men’s souls. It
ill becomes men who were bomb-proofs
then to cast a stone at him now. Lee,
Johnston and Jackson were not more
devoted to our Confederate cause than
was General James Longstreet. The
imputations upon his loyalty to the
South are simply ridiculous. As he is
no longer in Grant's employ, we feel it
but right to testify what we know as
suredly of his honor and truth.” Well
and handsomely said. If Longstreet
sinned grievously, grievously has he
suffered.
Minor Telegrams.
Baltimore, July 29.—The court of
inquiry into the conduct of Bishop
Whittiugham commenced. Thirteen of
fifteen members were present.
Toledo, July 29. —Two hundred Ger
man teachers are in national conven
tion.
Cairo, July 29. —Captain Gisney was
shot and killed at Carbondale, while
sitting in his own house. The assassin
js unknown.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Deaths from Yellow Fever at Pickens
and Barrancas—Bishop Ames Takes
No Sioux in His’n—Whiskey Wran
gles—Pierrepont and Ku Klux.
Washington, July 29. — Captain Belk
nap, Commandant of the Navy Yard at
Pensacola, telegraphs that Mrs. Lieut.
Ingalls died last evening. There have
been nineteen deaths at Barrancas out
of sixty-four. All well in the Navy
Yard. Lieutenant Deshler died at Bar
rancas ou vesterday.
Bishop Ames declines a place on the
Sioux Commission on account of offi
cial church and diocese business.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue was visited by a delegation to-day
representing the whiskey interests.
They were appointed by a recent Con
vention in Cincinnati. The Com
mittee argued in favor a mod
ification of the regulations con
cerning the traffic in spirituous
liquors, advocated a more frequent
transfer of gaugers and storekeepers,
in order to prevent collusion, and re
marked that the system of seizures as
at present enforced was unjust to the
trade, as often seizures were made upon
purely technical grounds and without
proper examination. The committee
also argued in favor of a rule govern
ing the transportation of old spirits,
showing the natural outs. The Com
missioner will give their views careful
attention.
Attorney Geneial Pierrepont said
yesterday, in response to the question
whether ho had recently received any
accounts of Ku Klux outrages, that he
had received none since he had occu
pied his present position. The num
ber of applications for pardon is not so
large as heretofore, the circular issued
several months ago by the Attorney
General on that subject being more
rigid in its requirements than the for
mer course.
National Finances.
The Comptroller of the Currency ad
vises the Secretary of the Treasury of
the issue of 312,705.90 of national bank
circulation in the month ending 28th
inst., eighty per cent, of which is to be
returned in legal tender notes, making
the whole amount of legal tender notes
retired since the passage of the act of
Juiy 14, last, 372,448.92. National bank
circulation outstanding at this date,
3350,512,538.
FROM NEW YORK.
One of Duncan, Sherman & Co.’s Vic
tims—Failure of a Publishing House
—Southern Securities as Banker-
Smashers—A Possible Nest Egg for
Broken Merchants.
New York, July 29. — The Trenton
Banking Company, of Trenton, N. J.,
which lost 3150,000 by Jay Cooke, lose
3100,000 by Duncan, Sherman & Cos.
J. B. Ford & Cos., publishers, ask an
extension. Their failure does not af
fect the Christian Union Publishing
Company, which is a separate organi
zation. Ford & Cos. say their assets, at
bare cost, will exceed their liabilities
380,000.
The Tribune says: “A responsible
officer of one of the largest banks in
the city stated to a reporter yesterday
that Duncan, Sherman & Cos. had nearly
3700,000 tied up in securities of the
Mobile and Ohio Rafiroad Company, of
which Duncan was President and the
firm the fiscal agents, and a small
amount in the Selma and Gulf Rail
road, an incomplete scheme, abaudoned
after the panic of 1873. It was under
stood also,” says the Tribune, “that iu
one of their settlements Duncan, Sher
man & Cos. had been obliged to take
3300,000 iu Alabama State bonds, which
are now quoted at thirty-five cents on
the dollar.”
It appears that transfers of real es
tate have been recorded at the Regis
ter’s office this week on the part of
Wm. Butler Duncan and other mem
bers of the firm of Duncan, Sherman
& Cos., to the amount of 31,250,000.
Deeds just recorded date from 1868 to
1874. The name of the grantee is
freshly inserted, in a different hand
writing from the body of the deed.
River Pirates Blown Up —A Know
Nothing Assignee.
Kiver pirates were blown up by the
explosion of an oil lighter which they
had fired.
John Baird has been appointed re
ceiver of the Commercial Warehouse
Company.
Judge Simpson, assignee of Duncan,
Sherman & Cos., knows nothing of as
signments for circular notes in the
hands of travelers, issued by this
house.
Pacific Railway Matters.
At a meeting of the first mortgage
bondholders of the Northern Pacific
Railway, held here to-day, the appoint
ment of Charlemagne Tower as trustee,
under a general mortgage of the Union
Pacific Railroad Cos., as successor to
William B. Ogden, resigned, was con
firmed.
FROM ALABAMA.
Death of an Official—The Drouth
Playing Havoc With the Crops.
Montgomery, July 29.—James R.
Smith, City Clerk elect, and ex-mem
ber of the banking house of Farley,
Smith & Cos., died this morning.
The drouth is havocking corn and
cotton. Some places have had no rain
since May, and the crops are utter
failures in the greater part of the cot
ton belt. No rain has fallen in four to
six weeks. The thermometer has been
ranging from 91 to 98. It is estimated
that the crop has been cut off from 25
to 33 per cent from calculations three
weeks ago.
THE WINDOWS OP HEAVEN.
Terrible and Destructive Storms —
Railroads Waslied-A Train Wreck
ed-Crops and Property Destroyed.
Terre Haute, July 29.— The heaviest
lain for years fell on Tuesday. Travel
was impeded by the washing of bridges
and culverts. The Wabash is out of
its banks and great damage has bo
fallen the crops.
Booneville, July 29.—There was a
wash out on the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas road between here and Sedaiia.
Tsvelve miles of track are useless.
Terre Haute, July 29.—A freight train
for the Louisville, New Albany and
Chicago Railroad went through a tres
tle forty feet high, killing the engineer,
conductor and liead-breakman.
Marietta, Ohio, July 29.—A severe
rain and wind storm occasioned heavy
loss. A five story chair factory was
prostrated and Its contents destroyed.
The whole country is submerged,
houses, chimneys and shade trees.
Moody’s mother lives in Northfield,
Mass.
AUGUSTA. GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Cable Complications—American Tour
ists in a Bad Way.
London, July 29.—The Post, iu its
financial article, says shares of the
Anglo-American Telegraph Company
advanced yesterday while those of the
direct United States cable declined on
an unconfirmed rumor that the steam
ship Faraday had abandoned the at
tempt to repair the injury to the direct
cable and was returning to England.
Direct cable shares are now quoted at
£7.
A grand banquet will be given this
evening at Guildhall by the Lord Mayor
of London to the various municipal
beads of British and foreign cities and
towns who have assembled here in re
sponse to the Lord Mayor’s invitation.
Preparations for the banquet are very
elaborate. It is said the decorations
alone cost 350,000. A ball in honor of
the visitors will take place in Guildhall
to-morrow night.
Paris, July 29.—Many telegrams have
been received here from Americans in
various parts of the continent holding
letters of credit issued by Duncan,
Sherman & Cos., which have been dis
honored. Inquiring about them, it was
rumored here to-day that English and
American bankers would accept Dun
can, Sherman & Co.’s circular notes.
There was much disappointment when
the report was found untrue.
Plimsoll Apologises and the Goose
Hangs High.
London, July 29. —In the Commons
Plimsoll read an apology for his con
duct last Thursday. He said he re
tracted unparliamentary expressions
with reluctance, but not his statement
of facts. He then submitted his case
to the judgment of the House. Mr.
Disraeli submitted that the .order mo
ving for a reprimand of Mr. Plimsoll be
discharged. Messrs. Ben tick and New
objected, but the order was discharged
by an overwhelming majority amid vo
ciferous cheering.
True Bill Against Col. Baker—The
French Assembly and American In
demnity.
London, July 29.— The grand jury of
Croydon found a bill for misdemeanor
against Col. Valentine Baker, of the
10th hussars, who was charged by a
young lady with assaulting her in a
carriage on the Southwestern railway.
Paris, July 29.—1n the Assembly M.
Raoul Duval asked the Government
why the United States had not paid to
French citizens the indemnity due them
for losses sustained during the civil
war, while claims of other foreign
ers had been settled. Duke de
Cazes, Minister of Foreign Af
fairs, in reply, said the indemnity
due other foreigners was likewise un
paid. President Grant, in his last mes
sage to Congress, recommended it to
take legislative action on this mat
ter. Congress, however, had not moved
yet. In conclusion, Dukede Cazes said
lie had full confidence in the faith of
the American Government.
The Permanent Committee of the
National Assembly, as approved, con
sists of twelve deputies of the Right,
two of the Lavergue group aud eleven
of the Left.
Riot of Swiss Workingmen—The Mil
itary rut 'l’liciu Down—Spanish Fan
dangoes.
Berne, July 29.— Two thousand two
hundred workingmen employed ou St.
Gothard Tunnel struck work to-day
aud became riotous. They gathered at
the northern entrance of the tuuuel
and blocked it. The Swiss Govern
ment sent a body of troops to the spot,
who dispersed the rioters, killing two
of them and wounding several others.
Madrid, July 29. —An official dis
patch announces that a body ofCarlists
is concentrating in Catalonia. Gen.
Martinez Campos has taken the town
of Seo de Urgel, in the province of
Loyda, among the Pyranees, by as
sault. The Citadel still holds out, but
must yield to the heavy artillery of the
Alfonsists troops.
The Lord Mayor’s Banquet.
London, July 29.—Fifty persons at
tended the banquet of the Lord Mayor
at Guildhall to-uiglit. No member of
the Government was present except
Lord Tenderden, under Secretary for
the Foreign Department. ThePiefeet
of Seine and the French Ambassador
sat respectively on the right and left
of the Lord Mayor. The Lord Mayor, in
proposing a toast for the municipalities
of Europe and America announced that
he had received a telegram from the
Mayor of Philadelphia sending greet
ing to the company, regretting his ab
sence and inviting all to attend the
Centennial celebration next year in
Philadelphia. Letters of regret were
read from the Mayors of towns in Ger
many,Denmark and other countries; the
Prefect of the Seine, the Mayor of Que
bec and the Syndic of Rome responded
to toasts. The French representatives
were much applauded. All present ex
pressed gratification at the cordiality
of the reception and the brilliancy of
the entertainment.
Winner of the Goodwood Cup.
Adventurer won the Goodwood Cup,
Scamp second, Trent third.
BIG INDIAN.
How Poor Lo is Swindled—Grant has
a Pow'-wow aud Makes Promises of
Reform.
Omaha, July 29—The Indian Com
missioners while here made several im
portant discoveries as to the way sup
plies have been furnished to the Indi
ans. One miller testified to having put
up 87 pounds of flour in sacks that he
knew were turned in at 100 pounds. A
beef contractor lost by freezing seven
hundred head of cattle that the Indian
agent gave receipts for. People in this
section back Prof. Marsh up, many
from personal knowledge.
Long Branch, J uly 29.— The Indian
Commissioners had a long interview
with Grant, who announced his unfal
tering confidence in the humane and
Christian policy by him adopted. The
President was earnest in pledging the
full power of the Executive in reform
ing any branch of the service, and
pledged his hearty co-operation with
the Board, with whom he is in entire
accord. Neither the Secretary of the
Interior nor the Commissioner of In
dian Affairs was present at the confer
ence. The gradual removal of all the
Indians in the country to the Indian
Territory, south of Kansas, was dis
cussed, and measures adopted looking
to a carrying out of the plan.
FROM ATLANTA.
Colonel Bleckley Appointed Supreme
Judge.
Atlanta, July 29.—C01. L. E. Bleck
ley was appointed Supreme Court
Judge to-day, in’place of Judge McCay,
resigned.
Peanuts are quoted dull.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Hot Weather Junketing a Bore—On to
Washington—North Georgia Sights
and Scenes—Tennessee and Virginia
—The Land of Corn—The American
Eden—Water Power—’Tuunels—Old
Virginia Welcome—Washington.
[From Our Regular Correspondent.]
Washington, July 26,1875.
It is au ugly mistake when one thinks
he can travel with any sort of pleasant
ness this kind of weather. Even take
the best route to the North, which I
honestly believe to be the Kennesaw,and
one still finds inconveniences. Col.
Wrenn may give you fresh and clean
sleeping-coaches, plenty of ice water,
and afford you any number of grand
views of mountain and rural scenery
that fringes either side of the route,
but the Colonel cannot temper the hot
rays of a still hotter sun ; neither can
he prevent the promiscuous, injudi
cious, not to say malicious and abso
lutely unnecessary clouds of dust and
cinders that fill your ears, eyes and
mouth, causing you to be about as cross
and near the color of a bob-tailed yal
ler dorg.
Tired of the ceaseless buzz of busi
ness that hummed through the bustling
streets of enterprising, progressive At
lanta, and longing for the dull quiet
ness of New York, Boston, Philadel
phia, and other towns of the retrograde
movement, I shook the dust from my
low-quarted No. 9s and rushed with all
the swiftness of a freshly liberated bird
through the upper country.
Nothing of special interest evoked
from the capacious depths of my linen
duster my rapacious note book, while
going through the upper portion of
Georgia, only that at a little station
just above Marietta I came across the
original sign painter. At least, I knew
he must have lived there, for of all the
unique, grotesque, eccentric, diabolical
signs I ever beheld, I saw them there.
When one reads Josh Billings as much
as I do, the orthography might be re
garded as a good joke; but it was the
style of letter aud its manner of being
placed on the board that took my eye.
There was one poor, weak little sign
hanging in soriow from a small shanty
which caused the fountain within my
heart to well up aud burst the lid-dikes
of my eyes in sheer grief. I can never
forget it. Even when this oblong form
of mine shall have been wrapped in the
funeral suit, I want it recorded
above my bower that that was
the heftiest sign I ever saw. I can
see it now. The long bottom-heavy L,
turned the wrong way, as if hiding
from the easy E that nestled closely to
it; then their two formidable M’s tow
ered above its fellows, giving O and N
shelter from the sharp points of an
awful looking A. Like one of the M’s,
an I came next out of place in the
word, as well as the line, and the sign
came to an abrupt conclusion on the
sickly continuation of a feeble DE,
vaguely intimating to the close obser
ver that lemonade was for sale.
When we struck Tennessee the
mountains became objects of interest,
but it was not until we were rolling
along on the good old soil of Virginia
that they commanded all our attention
and interest. The country was magni
ficent. No old red hills, no burdensome
cotton fields, no hall -starved farmers ;
but waving fields of shutter-green corn,
thousands of fat, sleek cattle, browsing
on hills where grass grows the whole
year round, and farmers ruddy-faced
and happy, and with farms free from
liens and other debts. I saw one field
that had been planted iu corn every
year for twenty-five years, aud that
land doesn’t know what manure is.
Virginia.
There is a sweetness in the word Vir
ginia that causes it to come from every
lip in a pleasant, glorious way. There
is something grand in it —something
that touches a tender chord at its men
tion and floods it with an air of pride
that lifts it far anc reverently above
its sisters. Hence when conductor
Barnes told us we ware on blessed Vir
ginia soil every heart beat a little faster
and we rushed to the windows as if
there was a circus procession passing
by. The scenery was grand. The Al
leghanies reared their heads in the dis
tance and so high that their peaks seem
to mingle with the blue vapory clouds
above. The cars serpentined about
them, now shooting through high walls
of solid rock, now skimming along the
iron-ribbed crust of a tall embankment,
now stretching like a great yawn across
some level valley; then rounding the
base of some giant mountain as if hid
ing from a pursuing Nemesis; now
squeezing through mountain passes
(free passes) and then scouting through
fertile meadows and grim old forests,
the powerful engine flattened its broad
nose to the track and scampered over
glorious Virginia ground as braced by
the vigorous morning air.
The Eden of Virginia.
Lying to the right of the A. M.
and O. R. R., in Montgomery county,
is Big Spring Valley, said to be the
Eden of Virginia. The valley is three
miles long and two miles wide, and lies
at the foot of some very high moun
tain-spurs of the A lleghanies. In the
distance, and within a fev miles, are
the Blue Ridge Mountains. A fork of
of the Roanoke river waters this val
ley, which is planted in corn and small
grain. The land is neatly laid off in
squares, well tilled and can’t be bought
for love or money. It takes its name
from a tremendous spring at its head,
which yields enough water to supply a
city the size of Augusta. There is also
another spring iq the valley, as worn
aerful in combining the different prop
erties of mineral water as the Big
Spring is in capacity. This spring,
which is a very powerful one, furnishes
limestone, freestone aud sulphur wa
ter combined.
The owner of one of these valley
farms gets from £B,OOO to £IO,OOO an
nually at his gate for cattle alone.
No Cotton.
After leaving Tennessee I did not
see a single stalk of cotton. They say
the climate is too “short” for cotton.
If the climate in Georgia was short too
there wouldn’t be so many “short”
farmers.
Greenville, Tennessee,
This little place enjoys quite a noto
riety, from the fact that it was here
that Gen. John 11. Morgan was shot
and killed, and because it is the home
of Senator Andy Johnson, The old
shop In which Andy crossed his legs
and caressed the goose when an ob
scure tailor still remains. It is now
used as a dwelling house. Andy is
pretty well off, owning a great deal of
real estate in and about Qreenville. A
few miles further on he has a large
grist mill, which pays him a handsome
dividend, as Joseph E. Brown would
say.
Water Power.
In our State nearly every mill, water
tank, or factory outside of cities is run
by steam. Here in Virginia water is
the motor. In most places a small
water wheel catching the water from a
small stream, runs a pump which forces
water into the tanks for railroad pur
poses. No one lives near it. It is sim
ply let alone and faithfully performs
its duty.
Some of these little streams are
really beautiful. Running over beds
of rock, the water is clear aud limpid,
and rushing as they do from mountain
gorges, their banks embroidered with
large trees, they present a picture for
the eye of the ardent lover of nature
truly enchanting.
Tunnels.
We passed through several tunnels
cut through solid rock. During the
passage in them in was as dark as Ere
bus, and were blessed momentary
trysting places for lovers. Unfortu
nately there were no lovers along. I
was so sorry for this omission in the
programme that I really wished for a
good looking lady, that I might tempo
rarily act well my part. This morbid
curiosity of mine will be the death of
me yet.
Good Grub.
If you want something good to eat,
just take advantage of one of those old
Virginia welcomes, and stop for a few
days at the house of a well-to-do far
mer. The old oaken door creaks a
welcome, the well-fed chickens crow it,
the dogs bark it and the fat
pigs grunt it. You are wel
comed from the very depths of the
old ruddy faced farmer’s heart, and his
whole family are just like him.
It is here that you get beefsteak as
tender as a maiden’s first love ; chick
ens fried to a rich nut brown, and as
juicy and greasy as the most fastidious
old-timer could wish for. Rolls that
are as light as if made of snow, and
butter golden iu color and as firm
and sweet as a young widow’s lips.—
Ah, my dear sir, there is nothing like
it! You can eat until you have to be
taken out on a board, and forget iu
your gastronomic joy all prior diffi
culties with hash and hair. The good
solid flesh creeps unawares upon your
hungry bones, and your attenuated
frame assumes that proportionate
opaqueness that so clearly denotes the
possession of blessed health.
Washington.
Passing over the bloody battle fields
of Manassas and vicinity, and whiz
zing through the antiquated city of
Alexandria, we reach the great capitol.
Here we rest for the day.
I called on Grant first thing after
breakfast, but found that he lmd gone
to Long Branch to arrange about get
ting a lieutenancy or a colonelcy for
Nellie's little Johnnie Bull. lam sor
ry I failed to see him. I wanted to get
Jack Brown’s office as Revenue Collec
tor of Atlanta. Roanoke.
THE COURSE OF COTTON.
[New York Bulletin, July 27 ]
Although the general market has
sold down to a somewhat lower level
than last week, there was a less de
cided downward turn, and the growth
of a rather more confident feeling has
been noticeable in many quarters.
That there should be some slight re
action after the previous heavy break
ou values was but then natural, and
the markets both here and abroad
have no more than realized the expec
tations of even the most persistent
bears. Some little bid or a streuKincu
ing nature has also been obtained from
the South, from whence the heretofore
brilliant crop accounts commence to
show slight modifications. A great
many sections report dry weather,
and others talk drouth pretty
strongly, while the steady rise of the
Mississippi aud the danger of an over
flow have been magnified to the fullest
extent possible, and proven successful
as a stimulating influence. The com
paratively low cost, too, has attracted
some attention, and drawn in a great
many operators to cover, while a few
have gone “long” on the belief that an
opportunity for a quick turn would be
afforded, aud thus expectation was in
some cases realized. Still, while the
tendency to extreme depression seems
to have checked, there is no deeided
rebound as yet. and where investments
would be required upon a basis of an
important recovery in value operators
manifest extreme caution. The move
ment of actual cotton into consumption,
either here or abroad, does not appear to
have greatly increased as yet, and stocks
are holding out well, all things con
sidered. The rumors of further weak
ness among the European portion of
the trade, though as yet only rumors,
occasionally have an ugly look; and as
to the crop, it is claimed that iu reality
not a particle of actual damage has
been shown on the late accounts, but
simply what is likely to occur under
certain contingencies. Taken alto
gether, neither the “bull” nor the
“bear” interest have had any particu
larly strong point to work from during
the past week, and the fluctuations
have been due, in many cases, simply
to the manipulations growing out of
monetary advantages and influences.
Actual stocks have still been slightly
reduced, and on oontracts the interest
on present crop has fallen away, while
on the next crop an increase is shown.
There is but little to say for
in detail beyond the record of a fur
ther decline of with a subsequent
more steady tone at this reduotion.
Some few sales were reported on ex
port aocount, but the record of busi
ness stands principally to the credit of
domestic spinners, The call from the
latter source was at times of a fairly
general character, but still a great
many lots have gone to one point, and
some of the trade hcffd to the opinion
that speculative connections have, to
some extent, induced purchasers, rather
than actual consumptive wants. Hold
ers were offering moderately through
out, and at no time resorting to any
pressure, while not a few held their
views considerably above current quo
tations, especially on good ordinary
upward. Shippers have continued to
find the Liverpool market and gold
and exchauge against them to such an
extent as to shut off all negotiation,
and they have from necessity remained
as mere lookers-on. Contracts* have
undergone a number of fluctuations at
somewhat lower average op a break
mad© early in the week ; but at the de
oline there was finally a greater degree
of steadiness whenever the “ bulls ”
could present an apparent stimulating
“point,” The general influences have
been referred to more fully above. One
poticpable feature on the market is the
gradual neglect of the only maturing
oontracts aud a general extension of
fhe Interest into the new crop. The
August “corner” is no more talked of,
gnd the latest development was the
anticipation of a free offering of notices
on the month named. Southern orders
have been pretty plenty, some to cover
and secure profits made under recent
sales, aDd others to put out a little
more cotton when a moderate reaction
had taken place, but few, if any, to pur
chase for investment.
g
Centennial pickles are announced.
THE CAMPAIGN IN OHIO.
Gov. Allen on the Financial Issue.
The following is the full text of the re
marks made by Gov. Allen on the finan
cial question, at the Democratic gath
ering in Gallipolis, Ohio, on the 21st
inst.:
The Democratic party, he said, were
here in the very same condition they
have been in with regard to other laws.
We had no power to make more cur
rency or less currency. The other
party could say this bill shall be legal
tender and that bill shall not be. They
put up 2,000 banks and entered into a
quasi contract with those banks to
take a certain amount of public stocks,
and to issue a certain amount of
notes. They organized this great out
side power in the aid of the money
power of the Government. The Demo
cratic party could not help it. They had
no means of helping it. They were
powerless, but now, lo and behold!
th( se people, who have been ordered by
the will of the nation to vacate Con
gress and come home and behave them
selves aud repent, rise up and call this
money they have circulated “ rag
money,” and they charge the Demo
crats with wanting to ruin the country.
How ? By letting the same rag money
stand, although the contraction of its
general volume by the public, which
has curtailed the circulating medium
one-half and has put all the manufac
turers and laborers and business men
upon the verge of bankruptcy. They
still cry out more contraction. They
still clamor for specie payment. Now
this specie payment is a thing that is
worth looking at.
In the first place, we want to know
what makes a silver dollar worth a
hundred cents. If there be a bar of
lead, a bar of iron and a bar of gold
lying here, as long as they exist in
those bars they are not circulating me
dium. A piece of pig-iron is just as
much money as a piece of gold until
public authority has stamped it and
said it shall be taken for so much. It
is public authority, and that alone,
whicU gives a piece of metal its charac
teristic of money and makes it circu
lating medium. Now, you will observe
that none but the Government of the
United States has this power. The
State can’t do it; a private man can’t
do it. It has got to be done by and
with the authority of the United States.
When silver has passed through the
mint of the Government and comes
out quarters and half dollars, then
it becomes money. Suppose that in
stead of a bar of silver or gold the Gov
ernment of the United States takes a
piece of paper, called greenback, and
says this shall be legal tender in re
ceipt and expenditures of all govern
ment dues and in all transactions of
the people. Suppose the Government
to be in good standing and sound credit,
responsible for its words and for its
paper, this dollar, thus stamped like a
piece of metal, is to all intents and pur
poses equivalent to a silver dollar. You
want specie payment. How much specie
would be used if specie payment were
required to be made? Perhaps a few
ten-cent pieces or quarters to take
the place of shinplasters. which wear
out so quickly aud are very incon
venient. Up to that point specie
would be used, and no further.
TllC fclxcvt iu tkoixrli all nVAP
the country for specie payment passed
a currency act in the last Congress, and
they could not tell to save their own
souls whether that act was an act of
inflation or contraction. One portion
of the Republican party swears it was
contraction; the other swears it was in
flation; but, whatever sort of act it was,
they wouldn’t debate or give any rea
son for passing it. They put off this
day which was to carry deliverance to
the nation for nearly four years. Now.,
if specie payment was such, a good
thing, why didn’t they put it into op
eration right away? Because they
knew the Presidential election would
have to occur before the expiration
of the four years, and they kuew
that if they undertook to enforce
specie payments before that election
they would be utterly ruined. They
knew It would spread bankruptcy
throughout the entire land, and that
no business man or laborer would es
cape. The panic drove money into the
banks. Banks would not loan it to
traders, because they distrusted their
ability to pay in the future. There are
plenty of men iu the country who have
money to loan, but it is not borrowed,
because the great manufacturers aud
tradesmen who have need of it have
the threat of specie payment before
them. They will not borrow money
worth eighty cents on the dollar, and
have to pay at the rate of 100 oents,
besides interest. Therefore the busi
ness men let it stay where it is.
That brings me to another proposi
tion. When you do come to specie pay
ments, what do you mean by that V Do
you mean that all of the existing debts
of the country, thousands of millions
of them, all contracted upon a basis
depreciated fifteen cents on the dollar,
are to.be paid on a certain day by a
specie-bearing standard ? If you mean
that, you simply mean an impossibility,
come when specie payments may. I
pronounoe it an absolute, an utter im
possibility for such an aot to have
retrospective effect, and to act upon
contracts previously made. That act
must have a prospective effect, with
the single exception of such obligations
as have been previously understood to
be payable in gold apd silver, or its
equivalent. All pre-existing contracts
must b,e paid in the currency in which
they were contracted. Then apply the
act for specie payments to the debts
afterwards to be contracted, and then
the people will know what they are
about. If the people who have bor
rowed af the rate of eighty-five cents
on the dollar are compelled to pay at
IQO cents, it will break up every man
in the country. I say, therefore—l
don’t know how many people may have
said it before me, and I don’t care for
them —the truth comes fqir and pat
into my brain, anff I will utter it if it
bufsts me. [Laughter.] I say to you
now, whether I speak qloqe or not, the
resurpptiop of specie payments by a
Retrospective act that embraces all
existing contracts would be an outrage,
aa infamy and absolute impossibili
ty short of revolution, [Cheers.]
FROM MEMPHIS.
Rise in the Mississippi—An Inunda
tion Threatened.
Memphis, July 29.—The river rose an
inch to-day and a heavy rain storm
swept over the city and adjacent coun
try.
R. K. Daw has been appointed re
ceiver of the Little Rock Railroad.
A New York paper asks, “What will
the Centennial millions of Philadelphia
do for water?” The majority of the
Centennial millions don’t care a rap
whether there is any water or not, if
the other fluids hold out,
■New Series—Vol. 3. Tslo. 170.
MADAME RUSH.
HER DRAWING ROOMS UNDER
THE HAMMER.
Reminiscences Suggested by an Exe
cutor’s Sale of the Old Rush Man
sion House on West Chestnut Street
—A Bygone Leader of the City’s
Haut Ton.
[Philadelphia Times 27th.]
Executor’s Sale, Estate of Dr. James
Rush.— On Tuesday, July 27, at 12 o’clock
noon, at the Philadelphia Exchange, the
large and valuable four-story brick ma t
sion, with stable and coach house, No. 1914
Chestnut street, 102 feet 8 iches front, 235
feet deep to Sansom street; two fronts, well
and substantially built; the situation is
very desirable for a hotel or stores. Im
mediate possession. Full particulars in
handbills.
To-day at noon the auctioneer’s ham
mer will sell, or perhaps withdraw from
sale, the once home of Madame Rush.
From beneath the poise of his inevi
table stroke perhaps some pleasant re
membrances of an old time may be
stolen, and with this idea let us talk
about what the old Rush mansion was,
who once made it merry, and who they
were whose abscence lias made it to
day a dreary old house, abaudoneu to
rats and decayed servants, the cash
begetting object of an executor, and the
ware of an auctioneer. Benjamin Rush,
a signer of the Declaration of Indepen
dence, was a noted man in his time. He
was a physician by profession, and dis
tinguished above his fellows, be
cause of his courage and his intelli
gence. His reputation, not only as a
physician but as an author, extends
over the English speaking world. He
died at an advanced age, full of hon
ors, the esteem of friends and all that
makes life worth living for. He left
behind him five children: James Rush,
who embraced his father’s profession;
Richard, who became Attorney General
of the State, Minister to France and to
England, and was a candidate for the
Presidency on the anti-Masonic ticket;
Samuel, once Recorder of the city; and
William, also a physician; and a daugh
ter, who married Henry J. Williams,
who, at an advanced age, now enjoys
in retirement the sober evening of a
life spent in the intricate pursuits of
the law. There was not a great deal
of money possessed by Dr. Benjamin
Rush, and therefore when young Dr.
James married Phoebe Ann liidgway,
whose father was possessed of unlim
ited means, it was thought a good
match. She was a fair, well-formed
young woman, not particularly pretty,
but attractive, with buoyant health.
Her father was Jacob Ridgway,
a Jersey man by birth, who ac
cumulated an immense fortune by
mercantile ventures during the French
revolution, part of which time he was
United States Consul at Antwerp. Be
sides Mrs. Rush he had a daughter who
was first a Mrs. Roach and afterwards
married Dr. Barton, since deceased,
and a son John, who, with Mrs. Barton,
now resides in Paris, and another son
who died in early manhood, Dr. James
Rush, who married the girl full of life
and health and strength, was a curious
compound of eccentricities, and entire
ly unfitted by natural disposition to
give her those loyal attentions, those
manly kioduesses, without which wo
men naturally rebel against their legal
lords. The result was natural and in
evitable. Dr, Rush and Mrs. Dr. Rush,
instead of being the myn^c,
such cases contemplated and intended
by law, human and divine, became two,
and while living under the same roof,
and enjoying each the esteem and friend
ship of the other, pursued alone their
solitary ways. He devoted himself to idg
books and she beoame a leader of fash
ion, a queen of society t and lived this
hot-house existence until, in a smoth
ering room in a hotel at Saratoga, she,
Unattended by the care and love of kin
dred, oven the kindness of friends,
passed her life away. The well known
Rush mansion, on Chestnut street,
above Nineteenth, was the creation of
her taste; a very plain and almost ugly
brick building it is without, and within
more noticeable by the size of its
rooms than from any adornment given
them other than by the furniture and
paintings. It was here that Mrs. Rush
gave her weekly receptions during the
Winter seasons from 12 to 3 o’clock,
and occasionally balls. Here were
gathered all that was brilliant and
witty, and above all select, that Phila
delphia in those old days could pro
duce. From the Rush side of her
house Mrs. Rush was entitled to be one
of that mystic circle of democratic aris
tocrats for which, since the days of Wm.
Penn,Philadelphia has been particularly
famous, aud therefore, to have the en
tre to her receptions was in society like
the accolade of a knight. Yet she was
just in her selections, and always re
cognized the divinity of intellect. She
was ever happy to be surrounded by
ajtists and literary men of reoognized
ability, even if their purses were unla
den. Of rare conversational powers, it
was with suoh that she chose to exer
cise herself. As she grew old her affec
tions seemed to go out towards young
people, and she was always surround
ed, both here and at Saratoga, by
young men and maidens, to whom she
was on more than one oooaslon a help
ing friend. To the Philadelphia of 20
years ago she was as well known as the
vane of the State House steeple. Quite
fleshy, and endeavoring to hide the
wrinkles and paleness of age by rouge,
she was seen daily on Chestnut street.
She dressed very expensively, but not
always with the best taste. With her
was some young man of good looks (for
she had a fine eye for manly beauty),
and all heads turned as she passed.
She was the recognised leader of Phil
, adelphia fashion. Towards this posi
tion she struggled, and, seouring it, she
enjoyed its hollow honors without a
rival until at 70 years of age she died.
A more desolate place than this aban
doned house, West Chestnut street, it
is hardly possible to find. On the up
per floor is the room in which Dr. Rush,
after a life devoted to the oonsumption
of books, died and left behind him only
a will marked all over with his own pe
culiar idiosyncraoiee. In it he termed
the newspapers “the vehicles of dis
jointed thinking,” a remark, [f not true,
at least original, and broke the hearts
of the shareholders of the Philadelphia
Library by offering them a million of
money they could not touch without
hurting themselves. Through the
rooms of his old mansion yester
day a Times reporter, accompanied by
the inevitable Biddy, wandered.
Through parlor, drawing-room, library,
dining-room and bedchambers he went.
The walls that resounded for so iong
with the ringiug-laugh of fair women
and the deep tones of wooing and ad
miring men were silent. Yet it was not
difficult to imagine how the naked
boards of the floors once kissed the
steps of the pretty feet of pretty wo
men, and how the bare walls enjoyed
the whisperings of the old story which
men will tell and to which women will
listen ever since the tale was first whis
pered in Eden. There is a garden in
closed on eithey sjds by a high wall,
■ lined with a conservatory and at the
fourth side by outhouses very prettily
finished in a soft Swiss style, are scat
tered bronzes, paintings and statuary,
formerly gathered from the capitals of
Europe, evidencing the great wealth, if
not the taste, of the collector. This
mansion, from the exterior, always
draws the attention of the stranger as
he passes out Chestnut street, for it
differs, like its once master, from all its
neighbors, with stiff high balustrated
steps and windows, barricaded to the
top with iron bars, strong enough to
fit a prison. If the property is sold, as
it doubtless will be, for the law, as a
rule, does not wait for a good price,
another of the special landmarks of
the old city will go down before the
vandal hand of the modern-making
alterer.
SPORTING NEWS.
Cleveland and Saratoga Races.
Cllveland, July 29.—Fullerton won
the $6,000 purse for the 2:18 class;
Lady Maud second, Nettie third. Time,
2:20%, 2:18, 2:19%.
Saratoga, July 29.—Faithless Won
the one-half mile for two year olds.
Time, 49.
There was a dead heat between
Preakaess and Springbok for the 2%
mile race. Time, 3:56%, the fastest
recorded.
McDaniels’ filly won the 1% selling
race. Time, 2:09%.
The Saratoga races were commenced.
The first race was for the Flash stakes,
for two-year olds, SIOO each, half mile,
with SSOO added, the second horse to
save his stake. There were one hun
dred and thirty subscribers. Ten
started. Faithless won by six lengths,
McDaniel’s Wardanoe filly second and
Poster third. The riders of Lady Clip
per and Warlock were thrown at the
three-quarter pole, and a claim of foul
riding was put iu against Faithless
by Lady Clipper’s jockey, but unal
lowed.
As the time for the cup race ap
proached the interest increased and
money flowed in the pool box as fast
as it could be taken, McDaniel’s entry
being the favorite. The race was for
Saratoga Cup $1,200, of which S2OO
goes to the second horse, added to
sweepstakes of SSO each, p. p. 2% miles
23 subscribers. Rutherford and Wild
Idle were leading in passing the grand
staml the lirst time, but at the furlong
\\ ild Idle led for a mile and a quarter,
when Freakuess went up and took the
lead.
Coming up the home stretch Spring
bok took issue with the leader, and a
most exciting race took place to the
stand, both horses running neck aud
neck, so that it was impossible to say
which won, and the decision of the
judges was awaited by an anxious
crowd for several minutes. At last a
dead heat was announced amid cheers.
Grinstead was third, Aaron Pennington
fourth, Oiitipa fifth, Rutherford sixth,
and Wild Idle seventh. It has been de
cided to run the dead heat off after the
last race,
The third race was for SSOO, selling
race for S2OO, to carry their appropri
ate weights for $1,500, allowed 7 pound;
for SI,OOO allowed 12 pounds; for SSOO
17 pounds, the winner to be sold at
auction; one mile and a quarter. Mc-
Daniel filly, l; Carolina, 2; Survivor, 3.
Messrs. McDaniel and Sanford have
--o - - otgVfla in thfiSnrn
toga Cup race and the race will not be
run off.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
Supreme Court Decision—Levee Bonds
Legally Issued.
New Orleans, July 29.—The Su
preme Court has decided that acts
numbers 32 and 115, on which bonds
known as the four million and three
million levee issues were made are con
stitutional. There remains one other
issue to be passed on.
Hadn’t Time.
[Vicksburg Herald.]
A citizen of Vicksburg who wanted a
few hours’ work done about his back
yard, the other day accosted a colored
man, and inquired if he would like the
job.
“I’d like ta do it, but I haven’t time,”
was the answer.
“ Why, you don’t seem to be doing
anything.”
“I don’t, eh? Well, now, I’ze gwine
a-fiishin to-day. To-morrow I’ze gwine
over de river. Next day I’ze gwine a
huntin’. Next day I’ze got to git my
butes fixed. Next day I’ze gwine to
mend the table, and do Xiawd only
knows how I’zo gwine to git frew de
week onless I hire a man to come and
help me!”
Fell Forty-Eight Feet and Lived.
Saturday morning, as George Lewis, a
young man nineteen years old, and two
or three other painters were at work
painting the French roof of anew five
story brown-stone block in Bridgeport,
Conn., Lewis’ foot slipped from the cor
nice, and he was precipitated to the
ground below, a distance of forty-eight
feet, turning three complete sumer
saults in his descent, and striking on
his back and shoulders upon the solid
earth. In the fall he struck nothing
till within a foot of the ground, when
his chin hit a projecting gutter spout,
and his lower jaw was split open. No
bones were broken, and he was not
rendered unconscious, but immediately
raised himself to a sitting posture. Dr.
Nash was sent for, and he was after
ward removed to his home. He suffers
intense, agonizing pain, but unless he
has received more internal injuries
than are now apparent, he will doubt
less recover.
The Pore’s Health.—A letter from
Rome, dated July 1, to the Philadel
phia Bulletin, says:
“I am sorry to report that the Pope
is in exceedingly feeble health. His
Holiness takes tepid salt baths daily to
bring up his strength.JThe remarkable
weather we have had tells on the weak
and the strong. We have dropped
into midsummer, and with it are
having the heavy rains of Autumn.
There is no immediate fear of the
Pope s death. He has gone nearly
through the changeable weather. As
soon as the steady Summer weather
begins, the evenness of it will sustain
him, probably, but it is feared that the
Autumn will go hard with the Holy
Father. A gentleman went to see the
Pope yesterday on business, and was
struck with the change he found in
him. The Holy Father sat in his chair
completely overcome with the fatigue
of the festa and the close heat after the
rain. He was almost insensible, but he
roused himself up and entered into
conversation with his visitor with great
clearness of mind.”
Here ! you fellows who are going off
to the springs and mountains—remem
ber that every daily paper is anxious
to receive letters contaimug hotel puffs,
—Free Pmsy