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Old Series-—Vol. 25, No. 122. The cholera is raging at Damascus. Four hundred cases a day are reported. The American rifle team has arrived in France, and has been specially re ceived by Victor Hugo. The dispatches this morning indicate that the trail of old Spinner’s missing 847,000 has been struck at last. The news from the Mississippi river this morning indicates that it has about reached its highest. The great everflow anticipated will hardly come this time. Now that Parker is out and gone, for good, Governor Chamberlain can re turn with perfect safety. There is no danger of his being on the witness stand. Our special correspondent at Saw dust sends us the brief details of a terrible boiler explosion, the killing of one man and fatal injury of two others. The other side of the Prescription question is given in our columns this morning. We call attention to it as a short, sharp and decisive review of “ Mechanic's” statement. m A dispatch from Fort Barrancas says seventy cases of yellow fever have occurred there in all, and thirty deaths. It has stopped because there is no more material to feed upon. Alexander Duncan, of Scotland, father of Wm. Butler Duncan is worth 88,000,000, and so the New York bank rupt is still very comfortably situated. It is a famous thing to have a prodi giously wealthy parent in Europe when one breaks in America. It appears to us that if the people of Columbia want Parker, their abscond ing Treasurer, they could easily find him. They seem to be idling away time on street corners speculating how he made his escape. The truth is they are glad he is gone and hope he will never return again. Keepers of isolated stores will read the tragedy on Satilla river with pecu liar interest. The negro is rapidly de veloping a frightful character for cold blooded murder. They seem to select these country and suburban shopkeep ers more than anybody else for their victims, robbery being their sole mo tive. MoCreery has swept the State of Kentucky by forty-five thousand ma jority. Where is the boasted and once powerful Radical party ! An exploded humbug. Let it pass away forever. It has entailed more misery and woe upon the country than it will recover from in ten generations. Never was collapse more sudden or complete. Senator Morton has entered the Ohio campaign, and yesterday made a speech at Urbaua. He favors resump tion of specie payments, and accuses Ihe Democrats of wanting to break up greenbacks and re-establish State banks. Here the Ajax of Grant is wrong. What we complain of is not having hardly any greenbacks at all. A private letter from Athens says an examination of the floor of the Library, where Dr. Tucker held his levee, and which gave two distinct premonitions of giving way that night whilst five hundred people were upon it, revealed the fact that it sunk three and one half inches. In addition to the people, the floor held fifteen tons of books.— Had it fallen, there would have been the most frightful calamity ever heal'd of in Georgia. Even now it makes one tremble to think of it. A few days since we published a let ter from Portsmouth reflecting rather severely upon the conductor of a sleep ing coach on the C., C. & A. R. R. This conductor has called upon us and states that he is not guilty of the offense charged; that the whole matter has been distorted and misrepresented; and that an official investigation of the af fair will be made and published. We shall be pleased to give all sides a fair hearing. We publish on the third page an im portant communication upon the sNp ject of building anew railroad from Augusta to Greenwood. One interest ing fact omitted by the correspondent is that when the people of Elbert coun ty get their road finished to Toccoa, Augusta will lose every bale of cotton from their county which we have heretofore received. The road is now graded and ready for the iron. We are doing nothing to counteract this move. Unless we do something we will soon have no trade at all from the Savannah river country above Richmond county. In the Georgia news column will be found the death of the last survivor of the aborigines of that portion of Georgia upon which Augusta now stands—the Ucliees ! He died in Haw kiusville, where he was long known by the name of Indian Sam, and, from the obituary given, we judge he has been a slave from his youth. The LTchees are described by a Georgia historian “as gentle as women,” and “without those fierce traits characteristic of other tribes.” We doubt not this short record of the death of the last living member of this race will be read this morning by their successors and conquerors without a single regret. How different from the death of the Duchess of Rochester, the last of the Pi.antaga netts ! Alas ! The Poor Little Darlings! Ottawa, August 7.—A dispatch from Gaitenan says three children, while picking berries in the bushes, were at tacked and killed by a bear. Only the feet and arms of one of the chil dren can be found. Ihe laito tastitatioiraliit FOREIGN DISPATCHES. The American Squadron—Drumming for the Centennial. London, August 7.—The American squadron will shortly sail from South ampton for Gibraltar. American gentlemen in Paris say too little interest is manifested for their Centennial. The reason is that English and French manufacturers have not been sufficiently informed of the de tails. A movement is on foot in Paris to organize a bureau of information. Home people need stimulation to work in Europe while there is time. The Cholera—Pour Hundred Daily Cases at Damascus. The Secretary of the Universal Alli ance, in a letter to the Times, says Da mascus dates of July 22d report the cholera raging. Four hundred cases are reported daily, but the real number is concealed. Christian quarters de serted. Mission schools closed and children dispersed. The British Parliament. The Pall Mall Gazette says Parlia ment adjourns Tuesday to Friday, when it will be prorogued. Dublin, August 7.—Excursions, field sports and amnesty demonstration to day in Glancoin Cemetery, where O’Connell is buried. Four thousand present. Resolutions favor home rule and amnesty for imprisoned Fenians. Working of Plimsoll Leaven. The crew of the ship Clydesdale, from Greenock, August 4th, for Que bec, have refused to proceed to sea on account of the alleged unseaworthiness of the vessel. A Vicksburger Wins a Prize. Stuttgart, August 7.—Mr. Choessege, of Vicksburg, Miss., won a silver cup in the rifle shooting here to-day. The Rifle Team in France. Paris, August 7.—The American Rifle Team is iiere. It was received last night by Victor Hugo. Hugo said he was proud of Americans and grateful for the recognition given him aud his books. And the Spaniard Wants Money! Madrid, August 7.—lt is reported that the government intends contract ing a loan of seven millions. Indemni ty for the' owners of Porto Rico eman cipated slaves is officially denied. GOVERNOR MORTON ON THE FI NANCES. He is for Specie Payment, and Ar raigns the Democrats. Urbana, ()., August 7. —Gov. Morton, of Indiana, after speaking in support of the Specie Resumption bill of the last Congress, said : “ I had something to do with the preparation of this bill. Voted for it in good faith and intend to stand by it until experience has demonstrated that it is impracticable or needs amend ment. Its feature, fixing a day for re sumption and providing for it,l had pro posed to the Senate six years before. Its the method by which I "believe specie payments can and will be reached. It established the policy of free banking, the slow, gradual, but certain return to specie payments, and no contraction or expansion of the currency until that time.” He then addressed his remarks to the Democratic platform of Ohio, and combatted the greenback theory, and claimed that Democrats had always been enemies of greenbacks. He said: “This whole scheme of a further issue of greenbacks in lieu of national bank notes, I arraign here to day as hypocritical and treacherous, designed in the first place to affect the destruction of national banks and then by their volume and by the decision of the courts to destroy the greenbacks themselves, and pave the way for the restoration of the old State bank sys tem. The State sovereignty party will never stop short of State banks. A national currency, whether of green backs or bank notes, is hateful to the party which abhors the national idea and declares that there is not a nation, but thirty seven independent and sovereign pow ers. The party which clamors con stantly about centralism and Federal assumption can never be the friend of the greenback, which represents the highest form of national sovereignty. Every year the proposition has been brought forward in Congress to repeal the law taxing the notes of State banks, which drove those banks out of exist ence, and the repeal of which would again open up the flood-gates for pub lic and private robbery, by the estab lishment of innumerable kiting and worthless banks in all the States. Only last year Mr. Thurman and every Demo cratic Senator voted for a proposition to repeal that law, which was offered as an amendment to a finance bill. SPINNER’S MISSING $47,000. Arrest of Several Charming Young Men. Washington, August 7. —Detectives brought Theo. W. Brown, known as “peg leg Brown,” here from Saratoga, charged with complicity in the 847,000 theft from the Treasury. Benj. B. Hal leck, clerk iu the Treasury cash room, now on leave of absence, was arrested in New York by detectives McDevitt and McElfresh, on the same charge. Wm. H. Ottman, restaurant keeper of this city, was arrested. The theory is that Hulleck took the money. Some of it was left with Ottman aud that Brown went to Saratoga to work some of it off. Meanwhile Halleck was making arrangements to buy jewelry, clothes, harness, and other para phernalia of fast life iu New York. — GRAND METHODIST FIELD DAY. Fifteen Thousand at Camp Meeting. Old Orchard Beach, Maine, August 7.—There are 15,000 at the National Methodist Camp Meeting. Searl, of New Haven, Wood, of Baltimore, Graves, Hughes aud Gray, of Philadel j phia, officiated in devotions. THE KENTUCKY ELECTION. McCreery’s Majority 45,000—The Con vention Lost. Louisville, August 7.—McCreery’s majority will reach 45,000. Convention probably lost. Dull News from Louisiana. New Orleans, August 7.—Gov. Kel logg has addressed a letter to the Sheriffs of the several parishes of North Louisiana, where a number of murders and other deeds of violence were re ported recently, directing them to call in the aid of the better class of citizens to bring to justice the perpetrators. The Funding Board has adjourned until September, and will fund no more bonds until then. AUGUSTA, GA.., SUNDAY MORNTHSTG, AULT GIT ST 8, 1875. O’CONNELL. Further Details of the Great Cen tennary Centennial Dublin, August 6.—Midnight.—A grand banquet exhibition at the palace. The Mayor presided. No incident oc curred until in the regular programme toast. The legislative independence of Ireland was reached. The Mayor called on Chas. Garvin Duffy to report. Duffy’s rising created tremendous up roar, which lasted 20 minutes, when the Mayor withdrew. Dr. Butt rose to speak, wheu the gas was put out. The company dispersed in great confusion. New York, August 7.—A Dublin special reports Home Rule members of Parliament have promised to attend the demonstration to-day, which is to consider the proceedings of the Lord Mayor yesterday. The Rome dispatch states that in the oration on O’Connell by Professor Ariairte, in the church of St. Agatha yesterday, O’Connell was claimed as the pioneer of the revival of Catholicism in England, and that the discourse was ultramontane through out. New York, August 7.—A Dublin dis patch says a proclamation has been is sued by the Lord Mayor prohibiting the proposed pyrotechnic display at Phoenix Park to-night. The cause as signed for this is that information was received that a disturbance was in tended. — OUR NATIONAL FINANCES. The Greenback Situation. Washington, August 7.— Customs re ceipts to-day, 868,967 50 ; for the month, to date, 82,801,069. Internal revenue receipts to-day, 8317,298 ; for the month, to date, 81,969,375. Na tional bank notes outstanding, 8348,- 947,939, of which 82,599,000 are in Na tional gold bank notes. Bonds held by the Treasurer as security for National bank circulation, 8374,927,862, aud for public deposits, 818,792,200. Shipments of United States notes for the week, 82,862,956. The Treasury books for the fiscal year about closed will show the na tional income larger than any estimates that have been made. . THE WESTERN FLOODS. Special Signal Office Report Washington, August 7. —The Ohio will rise slowly below Louisville, fall at and above Cincinnati. The Mississippi will rise from Cairo to Vicksburg. The Ohio has probably reached its maximum height at Louisville aud will rise slowly before this station and fall at ihe stations above, except Pittsburg, where it will remain stationary or rise slightly. The Mississippi will rise slowly below Cairo; it has probably reached its maximum height at this station The Mississippi has risen very slight at stations between Cairo and Vicksburg, and fallen two feet at St. Louis, has probably reached its maxi mum height at Cairo where it is five feet and two inches above the danger line, it is one foot above the danger line at Helena, nine below at Memphis and one foot and a half below at Vicks burg. THE TURF. Poughkeepsie Races Poughkeepsie, N. Y., August 7. The Summer meeting of the Hudson River Racing Association closed to day. In the first race, 2:31 class, in which 81,250 went to the first, 8625 to the second, mile heats, three in five, in harness, St. Julian took the first money, and Tom Moore the sec ond. Time, 2:26%, 2 30, 2:28, 2:26%. In the second race, 2:27 class, purse or 84,000, 82,000 to the first, 81,000 to the second. 8600 to the third, 8400 to the 4th, mile heats, three iu five, in harness, Bonner took the first money, Frank Firguseu the second, Maybird the third, and Eli White the fourth. Time, 2:27, 2:26, 2:24%, 2:29. The third race was free for all, 82,500 to the first, 81,500 to the second, 8750 to the third, mile heats, 3 in 5, in har ness. Goldsmith Maid, 2,1,1, 1; Ame rican Girl, 1,2, 2, 2 ; Himpress, 3,3, 3, 3. Judge Fullerton, Hopeful and Lady Maud drawn. Time—2:l7%, 2:18,2:19%, 2:20. —i GLORIOUS NEWS FROM POUGH KEEPSIE. Bob Alston, the Kirkwood Granger, Makes a Speech. Poughkeepsie, Agugust 7.—C01. R. A. Alston, of the Atlanta Her ald, was serenaded here to-night aud made a speech. FATAL EXPLOSION. Twenty Boys Injured. Philadelphia, August 7. —An explo sion this morning at the arsenal. About 20 injured. Some fatally. All boys. One boy killed. YELLOW JACK. Better Reports from Pensacola. Pensacola, August 7. —No new cases. No death since yesterday’s report. Dr. Sternberg is this morning sitting up a little in bed. All others are doing well. Correct the report about the death of Col. Randall’s child. It was his sou, an infant, and not his daughter. Commodore Cooper telegraphs all well at Pensacola Navy Yard. THE NAMELESS OUTRAGE. The Negro Speedily Killed. Cincinnati, August 7. —A special says a negro attempted to rape Mrs. John son Howard, of Athens, McMinn coun ty, Tenn., on the highway. The negro was captured, taken from the jail and killed. Citizens are arming from fear that the negroes will attack the town. Later —Reports state that quiet has been restored. Robbery of a Cincinnati Pawn Shop- Murder of Four Men. Cincinnati, August 7.—Solomon Porus, pawn broker, was robbed of ten thousand dollars worth of jewelry. His wife and daughter were sitting outside the door, when the thieves en tered the rear. It is thought the bodies of the four young men found in the river, first supposed drowned, met with foul play. Their bodies were hopelessly mangled. Their effects were 8800, and their guns, rings and watches were stolen. The Regular Hoosic Accident. Springfield, Mass., August 7.—A large mass of soft rock fell in the Hoosic tunnel. Smaller particles falling prevent the approach of workmen to ascertain the extent of damage. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. EXPLOSION OF A SAW MILL BOILER. Wm. Parker, of the Georgia Railroad, Blown to Pieces—Edmund Palmer and James Tudor Fatally Injured. [Special Correspondence Constitutionalist.) Sawdust, Ga., August 7, 1875. A terrible calamity happened at Saw dust this morning at six and a half o’clock. The boiler of the engine at tached to the steam mill and giu of T. L. Clary, Wm. Lansdell and N. J. Ben net, exploded killing Mr. Wm. Parker, a Georgia Railroad fireman, literally tearing him to pieces and making him totally unrecognizable. The mill building was torn all to pieces, several large pieces of the boiler being blown several hundred yards. Mr. Edmund Palmer and Mr. James Tudor, son of Mr. Thos. Tudor, were also seriously, if not fatally, wounded. The loss is estimated at about 82,500. Parker leaves a wife and two child ren. He was an upright, steady young man, and would doubtless have been promoted to the position of engineer on the Georgia Railroad this Fall. W. F. Kelsey. LETTER FROM ATLANTA. A Glorious Gala-day for the Children —Fulton County Sunday School Union— A New Bonanza—The Build ing Mania—A New Paper. [Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.] Atlanta, August 6, 1875. Since happy May Day, the little folks have not had so glorious a time as they did to-day at Oglethorpe Park. They celebrated the anniversary of the Ful ton county Sunday School Union and had a regular jubilee. Just think of nearly 4,000 children singing at one time! Several familiar Sunday School hymns were sung, and the chorus drowned every note of the organ. Hon. Juo. H. James offered a prize of 85 in gold to the school most proficient iu singing. The prize was won by Edgewood school. The child ren enjoyed themselves splendidly, as did all the children of larger growth. A New Tributary. With characteristic pomposity, At lanta swells with pride at the prospect of adding anew bonanza of mineral, agricultural, horticultural and too-rural wealth to her charming necklace of tributaries. She has her progressive eye on the Eiberton Air Line Road, which diverges from the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line at Toccoa City, and runs through the counties of Franklin, Hall and Madison. The country is rich, and Atlanta hopes to bask in the sun shine of its richness ere long. The people of Atlanta are called upon to subscribe to the building of this road, and, iu order to seduce the dollar from the wallet, the wealth of this country and the advantages to the Atlanta mar ket are pictured in glowing colors. Impi’ovemeuts. I can’t imagine what gave the city the present impetus to build. At every turn one sees new buildings going up. Every vacant lot that possessed the slightest advantage as a good loca tion has rubbed up and now looks like business. You would scarcely imagine that money is scarce or that times are hard to look at these manifestations. There are stores, residences, mills, fac tories and other classes of buildings, and the town looks like it was hurry ing to put on anew dress for winter. Death of Willie Lowry. Willie, a promising little eon of Mr. R. J. Lowry, a prominent, banker here, died last Wednesday morning after an illness of eleven weeks. Although Wil lie was only twelve years old, the en tire city seemed to have felt the loss, aud the expression of sympathy for the family was universal and sincere. His funeral was largely attended. The First Presbyterian Church was so crowded with friends that they filled the churchyard. New Paper. Col. C. R. Hanlieter, a well known printer, with Judge Peterson, an old journalist, have commenced the publi cation of anew evening daily. It is a resuscitation of the old National Ameri can, which was run by the same par ties nearly fifteen years ago. It is a very neat little sheet, but devotes but little space as yet to local news. Be ing too small to enter into the discus sions of general affairs, it should con fine itself to local affairs entirely. At any rate we wish it success. Martha. im m Minor Telegrams. Col. Jack Brown has been commis sioned Collector of the Fourth Georgia District. He leaves Monday night. Paris, August 7. —Continuous rain in different parts of France, especially in the basin of the Rhiue. A flood is ap prehended at Lyons. Springfield, Mass., August 7. —The Northampton Anchor Tape and Web bing Company has failed. Liabilities, 830,000. Ottawa, August 7.—McGraw’s saw mills, Richmond’s roads, burned. Loss over 8100,000. Memphis, August 7.—Judge Trigg has granted a writ of habeas corpus for Waddy Thompson. Frankfort, Pa. August 7.—The Bri desburg arsenal explosion was caused by the breaking up of condemned me tallic ammunition. A boy killed and 20 seriously injured, some fatally. Sailing of Cardinal McCloskey. New York, August 7. —Cardinal Mc- Closkey with his Secretary sailed for Europe to-day. A large number of the Catholic clergy and laymen assembled at the wharf. Members of the Catholic Union presented him an informal ad dress expressive of loyalty and devo tion to the Church and Holy Father. Tweed’s Bail. New York, August 7.—Tweed’s counsel gave notice of appeal from Judge Barrett’s decision refusing to re duce Tweed’s bail. A fussy and over-particular young lady was having her photograph taken, and just as the operator had got her down to the “perfect still business,” she suddenly threw up her arms and exclaimed : “There, I forgot to put my bustle on.” We met Oglesby on the streets of Washington one day in a linon duster, with a carpet-bag in his hand. “How long do you remain with us?” says we. “Long as my money lasts,” quoth he. “Good-bye, Oglesby,” says we, grasp ing his manly hand, “sorry your etay should be so brief.—Don Pif’t NEW YORK LOTTERIES. THE WAY BEN. WOOD HAS GOT RICH. The Dangers of Lotteries to the Poor— Their Protits for the Rich. [Special Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.] New York, July 28. During the spring I took occasion to exhibit through the columns of the Gazette the rottenness of the police system of this city, and the immunity enjoyed by all classes of criminals who could afford to bribe in a liberal man ner. Since then a commission has been appointed by the Legislature to exam ine into these abuses and my state ments have been abundantly verified. While the commission is dealing with municipal iniquity, I urge it to devote at least a brief attention to the lottery system, which is a vast abomination. Its magnitude corresponds with the genius of its master, Ben. Wood. This man has spent a quarter of a century, or thereabouts, in learning the busi ness, and has been a proficient student. He is to the lottery business what A. T. Stewart is to dry goods, or what Vanderbilt is to railroads. Ben. Wood’s character might be judged from the fact that he is Fernando Wood’s broth er, arcades ambo. It is doubtful if ever before these two brothers were more alike, with the sole exception, perhaps, of the twins of Greek mythology. One point of great similarity is their politi cal ambition. Ben. has been glorified in Congress, while Fernando has been both Congressman and Mayor. The country surely would perish were it not for such guardians. How Ben Got at It. Ben and Fernando are old residents of this city. They began poor, but had the common ambition to live without labor. So they turned speculators.— About twenty-eight years ago, I used to notice a tiny sign on a door-post in South street, which read “Fernando Wood.” He was then shifting along, shaving any one he could get hold of, and dipping into any parties of whom he could get credit. I need not refer any further to the honorable Fernando, for the history of the equally honorable Benjamin is more to our purpose. All idlers aud adventurers are addicted to the study of chance, and out of this class a few of the more lucky get rich. Ben. early saw the golden field of lot tery practice, and from small begin nings became its masterspirit. This is the way Ben got at it. Details of Luck, Ben’s little shop soon did so much business that he opened a branch, and then another, aud so on until several hundred were established. One may see in five minutes’ walk in any street inhabited by the poor various little of fices dignified by the name “exchange.” The shop purports to be a broker’s of fice, but what does a money broker do in these parts ? There is a screen be fore the door, and a curtain at the window, aud it is evident that what ever business is done here is not in tended for the public eye. But how does this office live? You may watch it all the forenoon without seeing any one enter. So you may all the after noon. Evening comes, aud now the scene becomes one of life. Here enters the mechanic, with his tools under his arm, just returning from his day’s work. He has all day been calculating on figures, aud now will take anew chance. Next comes a housemaid who has a dream book, and has dreamed a lucky number, which, of course, she must try ; aud iiere is a grocer’s clerk whose pilferings enable him to buy a ticket. In this way for several hours the business will rush iu, and will make up for the morning idleness. There are nearly 1,000 of these offices in this city, and the largest part of them is owned by Ben. Wood. He pays each manager a percentage on the business, and draws the lion’s share to his own purse. No wonder he could buy his way into Congress, and can run a news paper, besides living like a prince. Chief Customers. The fools are not all dead yet. The harvest of this class is larger than ever. Anything that affects chance is sure to take. Gift enterprises and similar swindles never fail to attract rich re turns, and of course lotteries have the same charm. There is a certain class which believe in luck. According to their doctrine there is a mysterious something which some people get hold of in a mysterious way, that is, in a way not easily explained. Some are lucky in fishing and always bring home a“‘mess.” Others are continually find ing money aud other valuables, while some have a knack of getting people to die and leave them fortunes. The writer, on the contrary, never had any gift in that line, never was good at the art piscatorial, never found money, never had a legacy, never made any thing in speculation, never drew a prize or even owned a lottery ticket. What ever he has got is the fruit of plodding labor. Iu other words he is not a lucky man, and he is very thankful for it. Worshipers of Luck. Others, however, as has been stated, are worshipers of luck, and their be lief is well expressed iu the language or one of them to the writer. “It is better to be born lucky than rich.” It is maintained by these people that there are lucky days and numbers, and if one can only contrive to be born on a lucky day, and then also continue to get a lucky number iu the lottery, “why he needn’t work for a living ; only let him go in and win,” etc. Out of tins lucky class Ben Wood has made his fortune. With reference to lucky num bers, I am unfortunately so poorly in formed that I cannot speak accurately, but Ben Wood can, and so can all his agents. There is a prize to be drawn, and they know that the man who draws it must strike boldly and not faint. “You drew a blank, you did,” said one of these agents to a disappointed youth who came to inquire. “I knew you would. You haven’t cheek enough to bring luck toward you. Try again, and go in strong, and you may fetch it next time.” Yes, that is the rule, try again. How Tliey Talk. Just listen to the gospel of this fel low : “If you have had a run of bad luck, why just keep on, for it is a rule that luck must turn. Only keep on, for you may stop just the minute be fore the turu comes. There’s a fellow that lost steady for two years, but he knew the thing must change after a while, and so he drove right along till the luck changed, and he drew 850,000. ’ Good doctrine that, at least for Ben. Wood, and to illustrate its practical ef fect I may refer to the defaulting tel ler of the Fulton Bank in this city, who, a few years ago, was sent to State prison for robbing the bank. This man confessed that he had for the space of one year, expended 8100 per day in lottery tickets. Pretty well for Ben. Wood, but who is to blame? Perhaps if the young man had only bought one more ticket he would have drawn that 8100,000, for which he subsequently but vainly served four years iu Sing Sing. Among this class who believe in lucky numbers are clerks and even business men, while women of the town are largely addicted to lottery ex citements. The Colored Man’s Sin. The colored people of this city are notorious for the same vice. Indeed it seems almost universal among them, notwithstanding the pulpit objurgations of their preachers. 1 well remember hearing a colored Boanerges denounce “playing policy,” as it is commonly called. I presume that the profits made out of the colored devotees of the policy business in this city, are suffi cient to afford Ben. Wood a handsome income, and he certainly should re member this when joining in the cry against “the nigger.” Perhaps if it were not for the “nigger” the Honorable Benjamin might be obliged to work for his bread. What About Lucky Numbers? I am told, but I cannot speak from experience, that to dream of a number three times entitles it to be called “lucky.” Three, five and seven are lucky numbers, and if you try them your chance is good, unless a more lucky person than yourself be a ticket holder, in which case his luck may be so strong that there is no going against it. I know a man who is well satisfied what are lucky unmbers, and the only reason why ho has never drawn a prize is because some person who was “born to good luck” carried it off iu spite of the lucky number. There is no sight when these fellows are around, aud on that account men must keep on trying the lucky numbers. One of these days there will not be such a born lucky man iu the list, and then the lucky number is bound to fetch the prize, “hit or miss.” A Tempting Display. In the policy shops the drawings for the year are carefully displayed, and are continually studied by the fortune hunting crowd, in order to Team what are the lucky numbers. I have refer red to three, five, seven, etc., but these, though lucky, may be made still more so by a lucky combination. Now here are a few of these combinations, say 334,077, 335,077, 335,707, etc. Who can tell which of these three contain just the right arithmetic to enchain that mercurial “something” which we called “luck?” One may see men, women, and even children, studying these lists with anxious gaze, and even trying to read each other’s faces, or catch the figures which they are penciling with nervous hand. There are washer women taking shares worth five cents each, and even children are accommo dated with chances at one cent apiece. From this juvenile rate the tickets range up to five dollars, and even fifty dollars. Drawings. These take place twice a day—noon and evening; that is, they are thus re ported by telegraph from the offices which, of course, are located out of this State. Out of every batch of seventy-five tickets, or chances, thirteen petty prizes are drawn. There is a slang or “patter” peculiar to this trade, and one hears at the shops such terms as “gigs,” “saddles,” “horses” “cross gigs,” words which refer to the differ ent chances. The headquarters of the business are in the Bowery, and at 294. Murray & Cos. are supposed to repre sent the ex-Congressman, editor, and Hon. Benjamin Wood, Esq, etc. He employs about forty clerks, of whom only two or three are visible at a time, the others being hid by a screen. How to Conceal. As this business is by statute crimi nal, every precaution is used to conceal the managers. No one can answer any questions except that “ he is clerk.”— He does not know who pays him. inas much as his weekly stipend is sent him in an envelope. He obeys a superior clerk, or if he be the head clerk him self, he can not tell who is employer. Someone has requested him by letter or through an agent, to go to the place and do duty, aud so he is there. Ah ! Ben, the Congressman, knows how to evade laws as well as to make laws, and there in his den he moves the pup pets called Murray & Cos., safe from all danger and legal interference. Other Tools. Not far from Murray & Cos. is the office of Mclntyre & Cos., and besides these there are also Simmons & Cos. and Sturges & Cos., but these latter are small compared with the patriotic Ben jamin. We may at least thus conclude Trom the fact that Murray & Cos. re ceived during two months, nearly 8400,- 000. Now, supposing that the other three coucerns reached only 825,000 in the same time, here is more than half a million invested in this accursed sys tem in the brief space referred to. But the two months referred to are the dullest of the year, and taking a fair average, I am forced to believe that more than 84,000,000 are annually taken in by the above establishments. Now this would be a large amount if spent by the rich,but when weconsider that it is taken by the poor, the case becomes greatly aggravated. Just think what a fine thing it would be if that sum were deposited by this needy class in a savings-bank. Still more, let us suppose that even one-half of it had been annually deposited during the past ten years, what a difference it would make in the condition of the masses these hard times. But between the tap-room and the policy office, the doom of the poor man is almost sealed. Of these two evils, I am inclined to be lieve that the latter is the more des tructive. Chances of Gain. Like all other gambling institutions, the chances of lotteries are greatly in favor of the owners. It is a well-ascer tained fact that of every hundred ticket-buyers not three make a “hit,” that is, a large prize. The ruinous ef fect on children may be judged from our previous statement that chances are offered at one cent each, which in duces an incessant gambling among newsboys, bootblacks, errand-boys, and youth generally. Lottery Managers. It has been learned that the man agers of the concern, 294 Bowery, are five in number, viz: Colton, Franz, Bauch, King and Benjamin Wood, and that the latter signs all the receipts, and the concern goes by the name of Murray & Cos. The gross receipts of the policy shops in this city average 815,000 per day. Of this sum the shop keepers retain one-eighth, which makes a profit in their behalf of 81,875. Effect of Lotteries. It is well known that the excitement inseparable from this nefarious pur suit unfits any one for business. No man can succeed unless his mind is on his work, and no man can have his mind thus fixed if it is devoured by the furore of the policy shops. Me chanics and other employes frequently lose situations because their minds are off their business, dreaming over chances at Ben’s machinery of fraud. Ah ! Ben, you are rich aud kuow not what it is to suffer cold and hanger, and you are hardened against the suf fering of others, which makes you great; but they say that sometimes the handwriting appears on the wall, 4,11, 44, and that these mystic num bers carry an interpretation you dare not tell, even to Knickerbocker. BROTHER SHEARMAN. A LEGAL PILGRIM IN ENGLAND. The British Public Beguiled by a Men dacious Brooklyn Pettifogger—Bull ing Beecher Stock by Lies and Slan ders—How the Dog Returns to His Vomit. [New York Times.] Mr. Shearman has been making a speech in England which it is quite im possible for the newspapers to pass over unnoticed. We do not know whether the people in England have any idea who or what Mr. Shearman is; perhaps it will help them to understand him if we mention the fact that he was one of Jim Fisk’s most active lawyers, aud the man who was personally mixed up with the grossest of the scandals which were perpetrated in the time of the corrupt Tammany Judges. He either suggested them or carried them out. There was no so-called “legal” infamy too great for this man Shear man to be engaged in. This is a mat ter of history, proof of which we are ready to furnish at any moment, in court or out of it. This same lawyer is now on a sort of lecturiug tour in England in behalf of Mr. Beecher.— So long as he stuck to his brief, we should probably have allowed him to go on unquestioned ; but the pettifogger goes far beyond his instructions, and defames the whole body of the American clergy, to say nothing of American women. He told a meeting in London that Mr. Beecher had not been guilty of any “impro prieties.” Ho had, indeed, kissed Mrs. Tilton, but if this was wrong “a vast proportion of American society must be condemned, for Mr. Beecher was really more cautious in his relations with ladies thus brought up in his church than was usual among the clergy in America.” Then what on earth is usual among the clergy iu America? Many a husband or father must have asked himself this question when he heard Shearman’s statement, and when he remembered that Mr. Beecher acknowledged in his evidence that it was his habit to kiss Mrs. Tilton whenever he met her. More cautious than the American clergy generally! Yet Mrs. Tilton’s brother swore that once when he entered a room where Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton wore shut up together, he saw “Mis. Tilton mak ing a very hasty motion, and with a highly-flushed face, away from the po sition that Mr. Beecher occupied.” “It was such a situation,” he added, “as left an indelible impression on my mind.” If incidents like these occur in the relations of a pastor with the female members of iiis congregation, when that pastor is “unusually cautious,” what must be the general character of such intercourse? Of course, this man Shearman wantonly and wickedly li beled the American clergy. Yet, we suppose there will be many in England who will believe his vile slanders. Ac cording to a report in another paper, Shearman said that “it was the com mon practice for gentlemen and cler gymen to kiss the wives of their inti mate friends.” It may be Shearman’s practice when he is visiting in Brook lyn, but if he tried it on anywhere else he would soon find himself kicked out into the street. This unscrupulous “ lawyer ” then said that the charge against Mr. Beech er was entirely und simply the result of a conspiracy, aud that the whole case “ rested upon the word of Mr. Moulton, a man of very low origin, whose word, even in commercial mat ters, was in very bad repute.” In reali ty, Moulton’s testimony was of far less importance than the evidence which is contained in the letters of Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton. That is testimony which Mr. Beecher will never be able to live down. In the review of the evidence published in this journal just after the trial this fact was strongly dwelt upon. In the revised edition of that review there are some important additions, among them a comparison of quotations from tho letters of Beech er, Mrs. Tilton and Mrs. Morse. We extract from this comparison a few passages, the authenticity of whicii even Shearman would not dare to dis pute : Mrs. Tilton to her Husband. “When, by your threats, my mother cried out in agony to me, ‘why, what have you done, Elizabeth, my child?’ her worst sus picions were aroused, and I laid bare my heart then, that from my lips, and not yours, she might receive the dagger into her heart." “Did not my dear child. Florence, learn enough by insinuation, that her sweet, pure soul agonized in secret, till she broke out with the dreadful question ? I know not but it hath been her death-blow,” “When you say to my beloved brother, ‘Mr. B.’ preaches to forty of his mistresses every Sunday, then follow with tae remark that after my death you have a dreadful secret to reveal, need he be told any more ere the sword pass into his soul !” (To her mother.) “I should mourn great ly if my life was to be made yet known to my father; his head would be bowed indeed to the grave. Beecher to Moulton. “f ask, through you, Theodore Tilton’s forgiveness, and I humble myself before him as I do before my God !” “Ho iTilton] had condoned his wife’s fault. He had enjoined upon me with the utmost earnestness and solemnity not to be tray his ivife, nor leave his children to a blight." “if my destruction would place him all right, that shall not stand in the way. I am willing to step down and out. Ido not think that anything would be gained by it. I should be destroyed, but he would not be s ived. E. and the children would have their future clouded. To live on the sharp and ragged edge of anxiety, remorse, fear, despair, and yet to Eut on all the appearance of serenity and appiness, can not be endured much longer.” In the revised edition of the Review there are other equally remarkable pas sages quoted, and pray what do they all refer to? “Oh, nothing,” says Brother Shearman, “merely a little pleasantry on both sides. You see, Mr. Beecher had known Mrs. Tilton from childhood, and when he spoke of east ing a blight on Tilton’s children, he was merely in fun. It was all a joke between the parties!” This was the sort of argument which Mr. Shearman used to find answer very well when he went to plead before Judges whom his client had, to his knowledge, carefully bribed as a preliminary step in the pro ceedings; but he will probably find it less successful before the bar of public opinion. What may be thought of Shearman in Euglaud we do not know; what will be thought of him here is that he is an impudent rascal. New Series—Vol. 3. No. 6. THAT FLOOD. The Bladder of an Inflationist Pricked by Authority—Opinions of the Louis iana Press. [New Orleans Times.l Although a feeling of uneasiness during c >ntinuous rains is perhaps natural, apprehensions of a serious flood are not well founded. Disasters, similar to that of 1873, owe their origin to a combination of circumstances. An nually the Mississippi’s banks are twice filled from natural causes. The melting of the snow on the eastern range of mountains, which occurs only in the Spring, Alls the Alleghany, Monouga hela, Ohio, Cumberland and Tennessee. Quite frequently they overflow their banks, and in the narrow valleys great destruction of property occurs. This volume spreads out over the broad ex panse of the Mississippi is compara tively insignificant, and the rise of a few inches is the sole indication that the waters above have swollen. Later in the season the same phenomena are manifest in the West. The snow on the Rocky Mountains and plains swell to enormous proportions the tributa ries of the Missouri, that river is also enlarged, and wo have the “June rise.” If by accident these two freshets come in conjunction, or one of them were followed by continued local rains, apprehension would be justified. At the present sea son this is impossible. The melt ed snow which accumulated in the valleys of the Cumberland and Alle ghan'ies, reached the Gulf in the latter part of April. That from the West swept past the city more than a month ago, and were the rainfall of the West even doubled, its accumulations could not materially affect the Lower Missis sippi. The apprehensive forget that numbers of low places, bayous, and other outlets stretching along its banks for hundreds of miles, absorb vast quantities of this surplus fluid. High water is first indicated by the filling up of these receptacles, and frequently water backs up into the interior, a dis tance of ten or fifteen miles. It is safe to assert that a rise of thirty feet at Pittsburg would not increase the depth of the Mississippi more than a few inches at New Orleans. The steady decline in wheat is the surest indication that the reports which constantly reach us are more or less ex aggerated. That streams confined with in narrow banks rise with alarming ra pidity is undoubted true, and equally is it the case that great local suffering is the immediate result, but the effect of neighborhood disasters upon the aggregate products of the country is inconsiderable. From the present out look we have nothing to apprehend, but on the contrary, much to be sincerely thankful for. Our crops are assured, the cotton is already opening, and were it possible for the worm to make its ap pearance now, which is not the case, his devastation would amount to noth ing. The corn is being harvested and the rice crop will be gathered within a very few weeks. Nothing save a sud den and severe frost could disastrously effect the cans and such a calamity is not anticipated. The recent unseason ably cool weather might, were great imprudence exhibited, produce ague and fever, but old residents are too well acquainted with the peculiarities of the clime, to run any great risks. All things considered we are having a most fortunate year, and one upon which we are to be heartily congratu lated. [N. O. Picayune.] We are pleased to observe that the alarm as to a possible overflow in Lou isiana is subsiding, even faster than the waters which inspired it. Our readers will probably recollect that in the Tues day afternoon’s edition of the Picayune we pointed out the improbability of any such disaster as the Associated Press reports would lead us to apprehend. And that view of the case appears now, in the light of subsequent events, to have been eminently accurate. W T hat the signal office terms the “Central Mississippi,” to-wit: between Cairo and the lower Arkansas counties, will suffer some further injury, and no doubt a great deal of distress and even ruin is to be expected among the bottom lands of Arkansas and upper Mississippi; but that there can ensue anything like a general inundation need hardly be discussed with serious concern now. Our diagnosis receives the verification of facts, and the Memphis Ass. Press man, with his “inevitable over flow,” requires explanation. Crops. Upland corn in many sections is very poor and a great deal beyond redemp tion. In the lowlands it is good. Cot ton has improved under the influence of the rains, but they have been and still continue to be very partial. The situation is not very encouraging. Wo hear of some places where no rain has fallen since May. People generally are living very close and economizing every way. We hear cf some planters who have discharged a good many of their hands. The warehouse-men have not advanced near so much as last year. Much cotton business, however, that went elsewhere last year will bo brought here the coming season.—Co lumbus Enquirer. The Prescription Question. Mr. Editor : In your issue of Satur day “Mechanic” thinks it hard that a druggist would not prescribe for his sick child,though perfectly willing to sell him medicine. It is a druggist’s busi ness to sell drugs, but, by way of in ducing people to deal with him, he can not prescribe for diseases (unless he be a physician as well as a druggist) with out laying himself open to a tine of SSOO for the first offense and an impris onment of two months for the second. For the last half century the laws of Georgia have been very strict in requir ing that only duly authorized physi cians should prescribe and duly author ized apothecaries compound medicines, and upon reflection your correspond ent will see the propriety of such regulations. Otherwise the helpless bodies of the sick would be the prey of ignorant pretenders, dabbling hap hazard with dangerous drugs. The law is for the benefit of all classes, and so far from the legislation of Georgia bearing hardly upon mechanics, it has always treated that useful portion of the community with particular favor. In the first Constitution of the State, adopted ninety-eight years ago, he who had “any mechanic trade” was a quali fied elector, while no one else could vote unless he owned property to the value of ten pounds sterling and was a tax payer ; and in the present Constitu tion the mechanic and laborer alone have a lien for their material or labor, which the Legislature itself cannot take away. _ In these days no lady appears per' fectly unruffled,