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Old Series--Vol. 25. No. 122.
It will be seen by referring to our
news columns that an analysis of the
Tote at Rome, for and against compro
mise, was determined by a negro bal
ance of power. The beauties of the
XYth Amendment have had another
practical illustration.
The Herzegovinian insurrection is as
suming colossal proportions. A battle
has been fought and the Turks de
feated. Russia encourages the Monte
negrins to take part in the war, and
no doubt wants a pretext to join in it
herself.
We publish this morning the report
of the Commission appointed by Judge
Snead to investigate the treatment of
prisoners at Hallahan’s brick yard, to
gether with much of the evidence. At
the time of writing this “M” (as we call
the paragraphs in this column) we have
read neither, and have formed no opin
ion about the matter.
Up to this time a full list of the suf
ferers by Duncan, Sherman & Cos.
has not appeared. The New York
Tribune throws some light upon the
operations of the firm. From the fuss
made about it, we thought the letters
of credit held by travelers amounted to
a million or two, but it now turns out
only $130,000.
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The remains of Wm. A. Graham will
arrive at the Capital of North Carolina
to-day, and from thence will be taken
to Hillsboro for burial. We remember
him as walking as the peer of the states
man of the purer and better days of the
Republic. Alas! how few of them are
left. And nearly all now living are off
duty. Their places are filled by small
creatures educated in chicanery, sel
fishness and sectional hate. This makes
his death the more melancholy.
The official returns of the North
Carolina election are given this morn
ing. Instead of the Democracy being
defeated it has carried the State, but
“mit a tarn tight squeeze.” Its all
right, however, and those Radical
sheets which raised such a yell yester
day and the day before will now have
to make explanations as best they can.
We ourselves thought the old State
had gone over to the Philistines and
said so, but now take it all back.
The rains in Georgia continue. We
hardly think there is a dry spot left
from the Chattahoochee to the Savan
nah, Chatanooga down to the seaboard
and the Florida line. At Columbus,
where the loudest bawl came up about
a drouth, there was a great storm Mon
day afternoon, and two and a half
inches of water fell upon a dead level.
It has been raining all over the State.
Crops are doing finely. North Georgia
never had a better one, the prospects
are good for a full average in the mid
dle counties, whilst in the Southern
tier of counties the corn crop will per
haps be 20 per cent, short.
A correspondent of the News and
Courier, writing from New York, says
roguery is so rampant in all depart
ments of business there, that the in
genuity of man has been taxed to de
vise some method of checking it in
stores, street cars, etc. In the street
cars the conductor was obliged to use
a “ bell punch.” This worked tolerably
well for a season, but has proved a fail
ure at last. Judging from the corres
pondent’s revelations and confessions,
we should say that the whole North is
lioney-combed with dishonesty and im
morality. These are some of the “re
sults of the war.”
The death of ex-Governor Graham,
of North Carolina, leaves a vacancy in
the delegation to the Convention. Latest
reports stated that the political divis
ion stood 60 Democrats, 59 Republi
cans, and 1 Independent Democrat.
The loss of ex-Governor Graham to the
Democratic side rather complicates
matters, as 61 would make a majority.
The Charlotte Observer, cognizant of
the trouble ahead, says : “The same
rules, regulations and laws which ap
ply to the Legislature apply also to a
Convention, and the Governor is au
thorized to order an election to fill a
vacancy in a Convention, just as he is
to fill one in the General Assembly. We
can hardly believe that His Excellency,
Governor Brogden, will, in defiance of
right and justice, assist his party in
stealing a majority from under a
shroud—snatching a victory from the
icy hand of death.”
The Union-Herald, of Columbia, S. C.,
says Parker is taking his ease in his
in-hospitable quarters. There is noth
ing new to chronicle, or rather herald,
in reference to him that would interest
the public. If not at liberty, he is cer
tainly at rest. When Patrick Henry
said, “ Give me liberty or give me
death,” he didn’t mean that kind a fel
low enjoys after coming from captivity
on a lightning rod with S7OO added to
his personal importance, and 10,000
friends read} 7 to shake him by the hand
(or neck); and even his little unfur
nished room in the county jail is pre
ferable to a life in the woods. A small
piece of paper, in his own hand-writ
ing, containing tho following parable
from the Scripture, was found in his
possession : “ Yea, mine oivn familiar
friend, in whom I trusted, which did
eat of my bread, hath lifted up his
heel against me.”
They’re getting tighter every day.
Not that they A re not pretty, not at
all, that you knoiv. But really, in
about two weeks, at tiils rate, they’ll
have to get one skirt made ! or each—
each—well, each limb, if they *f4nt to
walk at all. And—ha 1 who knows hut
that is the way they propose so attain,
pantaloons ? Is there strategy here? —
Jnier-Ocean.
Sto |ailn (Ennetihitioruilist.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Capital Notes.
Washington, August 12.—The Secre
tary of the Treasury refuses to remit
the fine incurred by the steamer Ply
mouth Rock for carrying passengers in
excess of the legal allowance.
Rev 7 . S. D. Hingman telegraphs the
Indian Bureau, under date of Chey
! enue, August 11: “The Indians at
Cheyenne and Standing Rock consent
to go to Red Cloud Agency. Council
agents are instructed to furnish them
with rations for the journey, and attend
personally if possible. There will
probably be three thousand Indians at
the Council, besides those belonging to
the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agen
cies. It is important that presents
should be sent for them and horses or
dered to be purchased. The failure to
remove the whites from the Black Hills
is causing trouble.”
Special River Report.
Washington, August 12—7:30 P. M.—
The Mississippi river will rise slowly at
stations between Cairo and Vicksburg
and continue to fall at stations above
Cairo. The Mississippi has fallen twen
ty-two inches at St. Louis and one inch
at Cairo, risen one inch at Memphis,
Helena and New Orleans, and two
inches at Vicksburg. The river will
continue to fall at Cairo and stations
above that, continue to rise slowly
between Cairo and Vicksburg,
and possibly reach the danger line at
Memphis during Friday night or Sat
urday. The river is now forty-four
feet eight inches at Cairo, thirty-three
feet ten inches at Memphis—two inches
below the danger line ; forty feet three
inches at Vicksburg—nine inches below
the danger line; and forty-one feet
eight inches at Helena, where it is one
foot and eight inches above the danger
line.
The Red river has risen four inches
at Shreveport. Rains have prevailed
in the river sheds of the upper Ohio
and lower Mississippi.
DUNCAN, SHERMAN & CO.
Inside Views of the Great Failure.
New Yorr, August 12. —The Tribune
says the discovery has been made that
a large amount of the indebtedness of
Duncan, Sherman & Cos., held in this
city, is “accommodation paper,” in the
form of drafts drawn on them by a con
fidential clerk in their office, accepted
by them, and sold to various banks
through note brokers. The announce
ment is also made that letters of credit
for which the father of Mr. Duncan
has become responsible will amount
only to about $30,000. Mr. Duncan
claims that the transactions are legiti
mate, while prominent bankers say
they are irregular.
Members of the firm of Duucau,
Sherman & Cos. regarding the state
ments in the Tribune, said the
bills were placed in a manner which
seemed perfectly legitimate to the
firm, and according to the practice pre
vailing to-day with houses of good and
extensive credit. The amount of ac
ceptances issued is about $1,200,000, of
which $550,000 are held in Rhode
Island. A considerable part of the
balance of the other parts is in New
England. Regarding letters of credit
of which Alexander Duncan is respon
sible, he stated the aggregate amount
of this form of indebtedness of the
firm is about $130,000, for which Alex
ander Duncan had deposited $200,000.
THE WESTERN* TmON TELE
GRAPH COMPANY.
President Orton Denies the Jay
Gould Story.
New York, August 12.—President
Orton, of the Western Union Telegraph
Cos., in a letter to an afternoon pa
per, says the Western Union Company
can use to advantage and may abso
lutely require within the next twelve
months 10,000 miles of additional wires.
If these additional facilities can be
acquired of companies now using them
in competition with us cheaper than
we ean erect them, clearly it would be
to our interest to buy out such compa
nies rather than erect new wires, but
we have made no proposition for the
purchaso of any competing lines, and
no proposition has been made to us
that would be for the interest of the
Western Union to accept. Mr. Orton
also refutes allegations to the effect
that he had entered into a conspiracy
or an arrangement or was a party to
an understanding with Jay Gould look
ing to the turning out of certain of the
present associates in the Western
Union Board at the annual election in
October and the substitution of Gould
and his friends.
New York, August 12.—The trial of
Tilton vs. Kinsella, for libel, is set for
the first Monday in September. Kiu
sella published in the Brooklyn Eagle
that Tilton was saturated with insan
ity, and reporting several of Tilton’s
relations as insane.
i
tSe dead statesman.
Preparations for tlxe Reception of the
Body of Wm. A. Graham.
Raleigh, August 12. —The remains of
ex-Gov. Graham will arrive in the city
at 2 o’clock to-morrow by special
train, and will lie in state at the capi
tol until 7, when they will be removed
to Hillsboro for interment. The flag
on the capitol is displayed at half
mast. Business in the city will be en
tirely suspended while his remains are
here.
NORTH CAROLINA OFFICIAL.
Sixty Democrats, Two Independent
Democrats and Fifty-eight Republi
cans.
Raleigh, N. C., August 12.—The elec
tion for delegates to the Constitutional
Convention foots up 60 Democrats, 2
Independent Democrats, and 58 Repub
licans, showing that the Democrats
have carried the State.
A Baltimore aud a Chicago Failure.
Baltimore, August 12. —Cuttle &
Boardley, know as the New York Tea
Company, failed. Sixty thousand.
Chicago, August 12.—State Street
Savings Bank failed. Deposits thirty
seven thousand. Available assets seven
thousand.
Fire in San Francisco.
San Francisco, August 12.—The plan
ing mill, tub factory and lumber yard
on Front street is burning. It is feared
the wind will drive tbe fire to tho heart
of the city.
Seizure of Liquor Establishments.
St. Louis. August 12.—The liquor es
tablishment of Sadler & Cos., at St. Jo
seph, has been seized. Other seizures
will follow. W. T. Sumbro, of Sedalia,
was arrested for contrary to
law.
AUGUSTA, GA„ {FRIDAY MORNING, zVXJOITST 13, 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The Herzegovinian War—The Situa
tion More Serious.
London, August 12.—A special to the
Standard says great numbers of Mon
tenegrins have joined the insurgents.
It is asserted on good authoiity that
Russia will not prevent Montenegro
from aiding Herzegovinians.
Constantinople, August 12.—The
Turquie, (uewspaper), of this city, says
the situation in Heizegovina is be
coming grave. Bands of insurgents
have descended into the plain and at
tacked Tiebigne, burning and pillaging
in all directions. A force of about 3,000
men, chiefly Dalmatians and Montene
grins is endeavoring to destroy com
munication between Mostar and Heve
cine. Fifteen hundred Dalmatians and
Herzegovinians are marching on Bock
toche. Montenegrins and Dalmatians
are also aiding insurgents with money
and provisions.
The presence of a Servian corps on
the Turkish frontier seems to furnish
encouragement to the insurgents.
Bonn, Germany, August 12. —The
conference of Old Catholics, called by
Dr. Dollinger, was formally opened here
to-day. The session will last three
days.
London, August 12.—An obstinate
fight is reported from Sclavonic sources
near Belchia, between Kinzegevinians
and Turks, in which the Turks were
routed.
Liverpool, August 12.—The Ameri
can Team sailed on the City of Berlin.
Vienna, August 12.—The Trenulen
blatt reports that the Count Andrassy
has conferred with the Rusian and
German Embassadors, and they have
agreed to support Austria in any
recommendations she might make to
Turkey looking to the pacification of
Herzegovina.
The Bonn Catholic Conference.
Bonn, August 12. —1n attendance
at the Old Catholic Conference,
there are about thirty English and
American clergymen, and several
Achimandrites and Bishops of the
Eastern Church. Among the American
divines are Rev. Drs. Langdon, Neven,
Potter and Parry. Dr. Dollinger opened
the proceedings with an address which
lasted an hour. He treated of the re
lation of the dogmatic controversy be
tween the Latin and Greek Churches
to the whole course of ecclesiastical
history. At the conclusion of his ad
dress the Conference entered upon the
business for which it had met, which
was the consideration of Dr. Dollin
ger’s plans of confederation and inter
communion among seperated churches.
This union is to be based on a
mutual recognition of primitive which
may enable each church to admit mem
bers of other communions to its privi
leges in respect to divine worship and
Christian sacraments, at the same time
an actual fusion or the sacrifice of
national or traditional peculiarities of
form or church constitution is not con
templated an ambiguous expression,
etc., and an ambiguous expression of
the substance of the Christian doctrine
and practice as taught by the bible and
fathers of the ancien tchurch, and is
sought as the real band of union. The
discussion of this subject occupied the
remainder of to-day’s sitting.
Abyssinia aud Egypt.
Cairo, August 12.—The Abyssinians
are making preparations to invade the
Egyptian frontier, which is not suffi
ciently guarded. The Khedive lias sent
reinforcements to tho troops on the
border.
Levy for Men and Money.
Madrid, August 12.—A decree was
issued to-day ordering a levy of one
bundled thousand men. The levy em
braces the age of 19 and upwards.—
Another decree orders the issue of
sixty million pounds of consolidated
inteiior scrip to pay the floating debt.
A man of war was at Victoria bom
barding tho town of Lequeitio on the
Biscayian coast.
SALE OF TIIE NORTHERN PACIFIC
RAILROAD.
It is Bid in at a Nominal Price.
New York, August 12.—The North
ern Pacific Railroad with all its fran
chises was sold by order of court and
bid in as iutirity by the purchasing
committee, consisting of Livingston,
Billings, Stark, Moorehead, Hutchin
son and Dennison, representing the
general body of the bondholders who
have or may hereafter assent. No com
petition. Price nominal. The sale re
sults in the transfer of tho company’s
property to bondholders who, upon a
surrender of the bonds, will receive the
stock on the reorganized company.
THE TURF.
Saratoga Races.
Saratoga, August 12.—Dead heat be
tween Ozark and Milner, in two mile
race, for three year olds, time 3:43J4,
stakes divided. Penniugton won the
mile and a half for all ages. Time, 2:40.
Brgand won one mile and a quarter,
selling race. Time, 2J£.
FROM SALT LAKE.
Trouble with Mormon Indians.
Salt Lake, August 12.—The women
and children have been sent from Co
rinne from an apprehension of an In
dian attack. A company of troops has
left for Corinne. The News, a church
paper, says the stories of hostile In
dians aie circulated to create a feeling
against Mormons. Indians are at
Corinne for peaceful purposes. Major
Bryant, who has been at Corinne all
day, thinks matters are threatening,
and has ordered two additional com
panies there. The Indians are Mor
mons, and claim certain grounds
granted them by the Mormons.
Damage by Floods.
Williamsburg, Mass, August 12.
Mill river reached its highest at mid
night. The abutment of tho stone
bridge here is destroyed. The road is
badly damaged, which wiil delay travel
a day or two. People in villages fled
to the hills.
Newark, N. J., August 12.-A storm
and great damage in Orange valley.—
Dams, bridges, roads and crops swept.
Damage estimated at $75,000.
Springfield, Ma-s., August 12.—The
dam and reservoir of West Branch
Mill Creek swept. No loss of life re
ported.
It is now fashionable in New York to
have a big negro carry the family in
fant around in place of the nurse or
governess. If some aristocratic fool
should go to church barefooted, there’d
be lots of other fools to follow his ex
ample.
DEATH OF -JT OLD LAWYER.
An Open Lett v to the President.
Philadelphia, August 12.— Horace
Binuy, tne oldes member of the Phila
delphia Bar, is dead, aged 97. He
graduated at Hs :vard in 1797.
The Telegraph publishes an open let
ter from Wm. V Icli to Grant on what
he terras the libr fA us attack of Secre
tary Delano upo.il Walker, t r Clerk of
the Board of In| m Commission. Said
libel was concoct! I by Assistant Secre
tary Cowan, with* the cordial approval
of Secretary Dtfmo. Welch charges
Delano with mifdug a willfully false
report to the President. He concludes:
“It may seem stiluige to others that I
should have wri&an this open letter,
but the necessity! was laid upon me to
write and I couki not with proper re
speet to myself iLddress you in any
other way, as ycr have in every in
stance closed yogi' mind to evidence
that must have I onvicted any other
man.” §
FROM THE wILACK HILLS.
Red Cloud aid Spotted Tail.
Omaha, Augustg2. —General Ruggles
has just receive! the following from
Fort Laramie : i
“A courier froi the Black Hills re
ports Rod Cloud, potted Tail and oth
er Indians are ne< '• Harney’s Peak, de
manding comper ation for damage
done their count y, and that Pollock
wished to know i Crook has any or
ders for him in case he meets the
chiefs.
Minor 0 slegrams.
New York, Aug st 12.— A Bismarck,
Dakotah, dispatc a ays Robert Henry
was killed within two miles of Fori
Abraham Lincoln and stock ran off.
The next night an Indian ran in a par
ty cutting hay. gAt Standing Rock
agency the Sioux, held a pony dance,
rode into the qui iters of the military
commander, and ram pled tents and
blankets unuer th tr horses’ feet, as if
to provoke a collie >n.
Specie shipmen > to-day nearly half
a million.
San Francisco, August 12.—A fire
last night burnedhtwo blocks. Loss,
$60,000.
Boston, Augus<- 12. —A bridge be
tween Huntington md Russell, ou the
Albany and Bosh a road, was forced
from its fouudatu is. No passengers
from Albany to 1 * clock.
SUPREME CO UR* DECISIONS, AU
GUbT jo, 1875.
Set-Off—Dower —N wly Discovered Ev
dence—Alimony- Usury and Custom
—Counsel’sßigli a— Fi. Fa. —Libel.
We renew this myrning our condensa
tions of tlio decision? of the Supreme Court,
of Georgia, the Ju!' Term, adjourned to
August, having fair!; opened:
Dobbs vs. Prothro,; xecutor.—To a money
deman 1 by A’s execr ots. I> cannot plead
as a set-off that urn* ' r the will he is enti
tled to an amount ii !ich larger than such
demand, it not appij : ring that the estate
was solvent or wh; [ the amount of the
alleged legacy was. *
Sewell vs. Smith etml.— Smith died intes
tate in 1850, leaving if widow and two chil
dren, who resided of the land of which S
died owner until 187 kvhen the widow died.
Held—there having Wen no administration
on Smith’s estate, ;K l the widow having
never in fact elect* | between her dower
and a child’s part—tjht dower was barred
by failure to apply within seven
years from ttie huHand’s death: Code,
sec. 17G4 (4), and tbtj Aegal presumption is
that the widow ele<|>d to take a child’s
part. |
3 illey vs. the State! What was known to
defendant before tridf -but only brought to
light by him afterwards, is not "newly dis
covered evidence.” $
Gardner vs. Gar Auer—“Courts cannot
well be too cautious fujallowing temporary
alimony and couns*;f fees in this class of
cases”—divorce. “1? she complainant is
able to contribute Awards her support,
she will be expected do so, and not sit
down and fold her fluids and depend ex
clußively upon the lj j>r of her husband,
and the income of hiiL -nall estate to sup
port her in idleness—£ ch is not the policy
of the law.” Tempfery alimony of $4:)
per month reduced t* -S2O, defendant hav
ing by a trust prov ed for his daughter
during minority.
Sugart vs. Mays—Tjhis is the first decis
ion per Bleckley, J |
1. A plea to an actiU of ejectment which
attacks a con the defendant
to the plaintiff, as Mfiug part of an usuri
ous contract, is nothin equitable, but a
strictly legal defense! nd to make it avail
alile, no tender or (per to pay the debt
which the conveyaijo was intended to
secure is requisite, efein though the deed
may amount, in equity, to a mortgage.
2. A deed, absolute jfpon its face, made as
the part of an usurit||£j contract, to secure
a debt infected wif h u>,. ry, is void as a legal
title; and on it the gf|,;ntee who has never
been in possession, eifc not, in an action of
ejectment, recover t‘,i> premises of the
grantor. T
3. Where tho questi gji is as to whether a
particular transacting, was a loan with an
absolute deed to lai(| taken as security,
and bond for titles gi tui by the lender, it is
not competent to pijjp/e that tho alleged
lender’s custom and H- -actice were to lend
on such security, th J ) being no evidence
suggesting sucli a pifjr course of doafing
between him and the; present alleged bor
rower, or that the latt*j- iiad any knowledge
of it as practiced wit* others.
Judgment reversed! i
Irwin .t Anderson, SV. T. & W. J. Winn,
for plaintiff in error.' ;
Geo. N. Lester, for ii pendant.
Van Dyke vs. Ma:j pi et at.— Litigants
have a right to be fu > heard by counsel,
and it is error for to cut tho ar
gument short by the approaching
close of tho term. lij; such cases a post
ponement, at tho imiknee of either coun
sel, should be allowed||
Anderson vs. Blyth*||-An execution com
ing regularly into th o' Sheriff’s hands will
he presumed to remai’ji there in default of
evidence to the coutnpy.
Hooper vs. Martin.ijWords importing a
criminal participatloiaby B. in A.’s alleged
offense are .actionable jpr se, 13. movante.
You can .any datf see fashionably
dressed girls on theptreet turning and
smiling at a tall wcjian of thirty-five,
a six-footer, who tramps along with a
modest black dress § tnginga half-foot
from the ground. j|er shoes are large
and coarse. She is liddy Morgan, and
the best live-stocli| reporter in the
country. She earnsifc in. honest penny
in a sort of masculme way, but she is
kind-hearted and ;|ie-natured. She
was formerly the keeper of Victor Em
manuel’s stables. jut she is an Irish
girl. \
Vicksburg Herald won’t be long
before Mississippi j o es will change
the form of sentencing a prisoner, and
will say : “Sam Jon**, stand up. You
have been tried and gonvicted, and are
sentenced to State plson for an indefi
nite period, as it is < jrite likely you will
be pardoned out as § soon as the Gov
ernor finds out whatjjp rascal you are.”
DUNCAN, SHERMAN & CO.
A GOOD WORD FOR THE BROKEN
FIRM.
Ruin of tbe American Cotton Produc
tion-Some of tiie Results of the
War.
[N. Y. Day Book.]
The failure of Duncan, Sherman &
Cos. is one of the most significant as well
as saddest things that has ever hap
pened in tho commercial world of New
York. This house began its existence
twenty-five years ago. It was compos
ed of first-rate business men—men who
combined British honesty and solidify
with American energy and enterprise,
aud with the prestige of a close connec
tion with the great house of Baring
Brothers, no American house ever had
such a promising future before it, and
we venture to say not one ever pur
sued a more liberal or manlier course,
or more strictly honorable than this
great house, which, despite its large
capital and connections and its
admirable business managers, now
lies a ghastly ruin for fools to
gape at and honest men to mourn
over. When the war began and the
Abolition chiefs at Washington had the
address and cunning to “ rope in ” the
great moneyed institutions of the
North, and offered almost any terms to
bankers and speculators for their
money, the great house of Duncan
Sherman & Cos. stood aloof, and though
it made no special opposition to the
“ government.” it did not participate
in the stupendous robbery of the pro
ducing classes, while concerns like Jay
Cooke & Cos., Clews & Cos., Cisco, and
others, have, under the forms of law
and the practice of “ loyalty,” reduced
the masses to the same abject depend
ence, poverty and misery that so
mar and disfigure the Old World.—
And yet, this great house, with all
its prestige and fair dealing, has
gone down! Why is it? What does it
mean? Why simply this— Duncan, Sher
man & Cos. are dragged down by the
ruin of the American cotton production.
No such desperate struggle has ever
been witnessed on this earth as that of
American planters, for ten years past,
to save the cotton production, and the
great house of Duncan, Sherman & Cos,
have mainly borne this burden until at
last it could be borne no longer, and
they have succumbed. Great numbers
of planters have indulged the fatal no
tion that cotton could be grown by
white people. A still larger number
could not believe that the Northern
madness and folly could bo so utterly
stupid as to continue a “policy” that
must bankrupt tho North as well
as themselves, and, therefore, lived
hard aud worked hard, and patiently
bore their burdens, with full faith that
the North would come to its senses
and “ let up ”on them. Thus, year af
ter year, for ten years, this patient
struggle with literally the power's of
darkness has gone on, but instead of
relief every year has ouly increased
their suffering. Year after year things
have, of course, continued to get
Worse, for the habit el’ labor liao grad
ually been lost by the negroes, and the
South is rapidly reaching tiie point
where, if the Northern rule is contin
ued, they must rise up and cast it off,
or themselves—in the Gulf States—
abandon their country and leave the
negroes to drift back into their natu
ral Africanism. But ignorant and fool
ish people at the North say, “ look at
the large cotton crop, with its increased
price, worth more than that of 1860.”
And this absurd statement silences
many, though a single word may ex
plode it—if it costs a hundred millions
more to raise such crop than they get
for it, of course the planters are a hun
dred millions poorer for having raised
it. A few simple elementary truths
underlie this whole question.
First—Each race has his own indus
trial adaptation, just as all animals
have their own specific center of
life, and white labor can no more
grow cotton of commerce than that of
the negro can be made to pay growing
cereals.
Second —The negro, of his own voli
tion, short of a reconstruction of his
physical organism, can no more grow
cotton, sugar or anything than he can
change his color or become a white
man in any other respect.
Third —Thus, for the growth of cot
ton, sugar, or tropical production of
any kind, and consequent civilization,
there must bo the brain of the white
man and the muscles of the negro, or
in other words, the so-called master
aud so-called slave, and either of these
absent, production and consequent
civilization aro necessarily as impossi
ble forever, without anew creation al
together, as animal life without atmos
pheric air.
These are no speculations or conjec
tures of any kind —they are natural
laws fashioned and fixed forever by
the hand of God—plain, palpable and
unmistakable to those who, like the
writer, have studied them, and more
over, daily demonstrated in all history
and all about us. A hundred years ago
San Domingo, under the rule of the
white man, exported one hundred and
twenty millions worth of sugar ; now,
with the white brain absent, it does
not export one pound; and so in
Africa ; everywhere the negro gathers
from the earth’s serfaee spontaneous
products sufficient to live and multi
ply his kind, but of course is
useless, as absolute a blank in
what we call civilization as the
lower animals are. Meanwhile, we
have already lost the once grand
American cotton production, for the
moment the point is reached that the
foreign and not the American standard
governs tho price, the end lias come,
the commerce, the ship-building, in a
word, all the profits of cotton growing,
have passed out of our hands. Aud
think of this—great heavens, think of
this—Providence blessed us with the
material, all the material not only for
boundless and exhaustless wealth, but
with the means of boundless benefi
cence to mankind—to the poor,
useless and “heathen” negroes as
well as the sweltering multi
tudes of our blood and kind, and all
these gifts of heaven are trampled un
der our feet, and we are blindly and
sinfully marching to national bankrupt
cy and unspeakable miseries for what?
Why, to enforce an “idea” of Wendell
Phillips and a horde of miserable luna
tics, that negroes are “colored men,”
and with education, etc., will finally be
reconstructed into beings like our
selves, Men and brethren | shall we
not halt in this frightful march to na
tional perdition? Will not tho sane
men come to the front, and demand
restoration of the White Republic, and
perdition and death to the world, the
flesh and the devil, that resist such
restoration ?
Murder of M. Hennessy at Millett’s
Station.
Savannah, August 12.—A special from
Milletts station, S. C., says M. Hennessy,
a merchant, was killed in his store this
morning by unkaown parties.
RIVER OBSERVATIONS AND
FLOOD PREDICTIONS.
The Danger Line of the Great Water
Courses of the Country—How the
Signal Service Foretells Freshets.
[Reported for the Baltimore Sun.]
The system of telegraphing through
out the country the rise and fall of the
principal rivers of the West was start
ed during the year 1872. Before that
time no systematic or reliable reports
were obtainable, and shippers and
those interested sometimes experienced
great difficulty, because boatmen, by
reason of interested motives, frequent
ly gave false reports, and in many in
stances caused delay or advance of
shipments to bo held back or ground
ed on shoals, while the parties giving
the information took the benefit of the
knowledge. There was no information
in time of floods. Various commer
cial associations urged these facts,
when the chief signal officer, with the
approval of tho Secretary of War, es-
tablished gauges at the regular signal
stations located on the rivers aud com
menced reporting the height of the
water above low water mark. These
reports have continued daily at 3 p. m.
During freshets observations are taken
and reported every few hours. These
reports are daily becoming more valu
able as the condition of the rivers is
better understood, and it is of frequent
occurrence at St. Louis, New Orleans,
Cincinnati and Pittsburg, for the price
of freight to rise or fall considerably,
according to the condition reported.
Citizen Observers.
The importance of this work having
been established, the services of some
twenty citizen observers located at dif
ferent points have been secured, and
these send reports at dangerous sea
sons, and effort is now being made
through the mayors or other proper
authorities in each village upon tho
Western rivers to establish gauges and
report all facts in reference to tho dif
ferent interests at the villages or places
at which gauges are established, or in
the vicinity endangered by overflow.—
This would combine the local and the
central or national agencies in the same
way that the militia and the regular
army and navy form the national de
fense in time of need.
The Danger Level.
The study of the rivers, made neces
sary by freshets and overflows, re
quired to be established for each por
tion of the river courses a certain level
or depth of water, a rise or fall above
which is held to be dangerous to river
interests. A “danger level” had to be
established, based on a minute exami
nation of the different rivers. Tho
data collected gives the danger point
on the gauges as follows : St. Paul, 14
feet 6 inches—at this height houses and
crops ou lower ground, between St.
Paul and La Crosse, are flooded ; La
Crosse, 18 feet, bottom lands over
flowed between La Crosse and Du
buque ; Davenport, 15 feet—this rio
ondangroro buildings at Buffalo, Musca
tine, lowa, and Keithburg, Illinois;
Keokuk, 14 feet 6 inches, injures Gov
ernment dams and improvements at
the foot of the rapids ; Warsaw, 18 feet,
overflows some bottom lands, which is
increased in extent very considerably
by another foot of water ; Alexandria,
lowa, would suffer at nineteen feet on
Warsaw guage ; St. Louis, 39 feet—at
this point water commences to damage
buildings in the city ; any sudden rise
endangers merchandise ou the levee;
at Evansville, 111., the adjacent country
from the Kaskaskia to the Mississippi
floods at 30 ft., St. Louis gauge; Cam
merce, Mo., the Mississippi overflows
western banks at twenty nine feet on
St. Louis gauge; Cairo, 111., 40 feet,
overflows country back of Cairo; forty
one feet overflows country in Kentucky,
opposite; forty-five feet overflows coun
try from twenty miles up tho Ohio to
Columbus, Kentucky, and extending
three miles back from the river. At
forty-seven feet it commences over
flowing the Missouri l auks, aud at that
stage is dangerous levees to around Cai
ro; Point Pleasant, Mo., floods at 51 feet
on Cairo gauge; Osccoela, Ark., floods
at about 41 feet on Cairo gauge; Mem
phis danger line, 34 feet, overflows
country opposite; thirty-four feet seven
inches Hoods Memphis and Little Rock
Railroad; Helena, Arlc., 40 feet; levees
show weakness at this point. When
water falls to four or five feet above
low water it endangers navigation.
Vicksburg, 41 feet; danger ou levees
commence. Northern Louisiana and
Texas Railroad overflowed and ceased
running at 42.85 on Vicksburg gauge;
Grand Gulf, Miss., levee broke at 43.05
feet ou Vicksburg gauge. At New Or
leans the zero of the gauge is high
water mark of 1874, and the “danger
line” is two feet six inches below. At
1.30 feet below it creates great alarm.
Belle Chase, Greenwood, and Pointe La
Hache crevasses occurred at 0.4 feet
on gauge.
The Missouri river—Omaha, “danger
line” 16 feet; at 15 feet smoke stacks of
steamers may strike bridge; Plats
mouth, Neb., 16 feet 7 inches; to farms
on east side of river. Leavenworth,
Ark., 21 feet, danger confined to farms,
Kansas City 21 feet; Camden, Mo., 18
feet on Kansas City gauge. The St.
Joseph and Lexington Railroad will
suffer at 21 feet ou Kansas City gauge;
Lexington, Mo., 21 feet. Twenty-four
feet six inches will drive out settlers
between Camden and Crooked river,
and 32 feet will flood out all bottom
farms between Lexington and Bruns
wick. Brunswick, danger line 11 feet;
damage to farms, Boonville, Mo., 23
feet; damage to farms, Jefferson City
22 feet. A fall of the river to one foot
on gauge endangers navigation.
Ohio river—Pittsburg, danger-point
20 feet; floods lower part of city ; low
ost known water is nine inches. A sud
den rise of either river is dangerous to
merchandise on banks. Marietta, Ohio,
32 feet, danger to farms ; 24 feet will
cause steamers to lower smoke-stacks
when passing bridges. Cincinnati—
danger line 50 feet. At 50 feet the wa
ter commences to overflow lower part
of city. A sudden rise of ten (10) feet
or more, at any stage of water, endan
gers merchandise on banks ; danger to
property slight. Louisville, Ky., 21
feet; the danger of boats striking
bridge at or near high water is consid
erable—the bridge being only one hun
dred feet above low water mark. Three
feet of water on falls is equivalent to
eight feet in channel. Evansville, Ind.,
34 feet; zero six feet above bed of
river. Over 34 feet causes heavy dam
ages to farms, flooding twelve to fifteen
miles back. Paducah, Ivy., 40 feet,
damaging farms.
At New Geneva, Pa., the danger line
is 18 feet, at which point property ou
banks is endangered. Oil City, Pa.,
one foot six inches on this gauge is
equivalent to one foot six inches of
water on “Charles Riffle,” the shallow
est point between here and Pittsburg.
Confluence, Pa., danger line 15 feet 6
inches, property on banks endangered.
Freeport, danger line 12 feet. Nash-
ville, Teuu., 42 feet endangers build
iugs in Nashville aud Edgefield. Any
iise over one foot per hour is danger
ous. Shreveport, La., danger point 58
feet on gauge. From bed of river to
high-water mark, 1849, is 65 feet. Lit
tle Rock, Ark., the zero of this gauge is
two feet above bed of river, and the
danger mark is 30 feet. This zero is
used by all river men, aDd is, that re
ported by the Memphis and St. Louis
Packet Company. At 30 feet on gauge
the plantations above and below the
city are flooded. The lower portion of
the Arkansas valley is flooded at 25
feet on Little Rock gauge.
Charts of Basins.
In the starting of this new work
there had to be prepared a chart show
ing the basins of the principal rivers
and the limits of the water sheds of
each from the best attainable authori
ties. This has been completed, and a
large slate has been constructed in tiie
the chief signal office at Washington,
on which aro outlined the grades of
the beds of the rivers at the different
parts of their course from the head of
navigation on each to the mouths by
which they empty into other rivers or
into the sea. The reports as received
by telegraph are immediately tran
scribed on tho slate, and tho flood
waves traced in this way and their
movements noted from hour to hour
and from day to day. With this prepara
tion it is comparatively easy to know,
an unusually heavy rainfall being no
ted within any water-shed, into what
river it flow ; to mark next tho rise of
that river as given by the reports, and
by knowledge of tho rapidity with
which the currents move in different
depths of the river the flood-wave can
be traced in the same manner through
out its course to the sea.
By carrying out this plan, with an
increased number of stations, properly
located, and a better knowledge of tho
rise and fall of the rivers and the dis
tance traveled daily by freshet waves,
it seems almost impossible for a flood
of any magnitude to occur without
warning of its approach being given
several days in advance. This is with
regard to the great rivers and water
courses of the country. In time, when
the signal service grows to meet the
public demands, the subject will be
more minutely handled, so as to serve
all districts, large and small.
Spiders as Weather Prophets. —Tho
spiders were wise prophets yesterday
morning, for their wonderful instinct
taught them that the day would be fine
and that the sun would shine on their
gossamer houses. Therefore they
spread their pretty lady mantles on the
drenched grass aud patiently waited for
the storm to pass away. Tho morning
broke with a dreary outlook, but when
wc saw these fairy structures spread
thickly over the lawn aud hanging with
dainty grace upon the pendant branches
of a fuchsia in full bloom, we felt sure
that the little workmen knew what they
were doing. Neither were our humble
friends mistaken in their calculations,
and snugly sheltered undr their oii
very tents they doubtless enjoyed the
sunshine quite as well as the superior
race, whose perceptions in regard to
the condition of the elements are far
less delicate and reliable than the in
stinct possessed by these insignificant
insects. We have watched the lady
mantles for many years, and seldom
have the spiders proved false prophets.
—Providence Journal, Aug. 5.
The mother of poor Grirawood, the
young Chicago journalist who went up
with Donaldson, being in delicate health,
was kept by her family in ignorance of
his disappearance until a day or two
since, when having given up all hope of
his return, they told her the exact
situation of affairs. She had in the
meantime, being a great reader, won
dered why she could obtain no papers,
a matter she at once understood when
she learned that they had been hidden
from her for fear lest the news of his
being lost might cause her death. She
considers that the family acted wisely
in doing as they did, as the alternate
hope, fear and uncertainty relating to
him in the first low days after the bal
loon ascension woul l have been harder
to bear than the almost absolute knowl
edge she now has of his death.
Born in Him— Old Sambo Shute,
long since gone across the dark val
ley, was a worthy man in his way, aud
genial withal; but Sambo would occa
sionally get drunk. One day his em
ployer took him to task aud read him
a lecture, at the close of which he asked
him if he didn’t think he would do bet
ter for the future.
“Dun’o, mas’r,” said the darkey,
scratching his head.
“But what do you think?”
“Well, mas’r, I’s feared I think not.”
“Sambo, what do you mean? Do
you mean that you will not try?”
“ ’Twouldu’t be of use, mas’r. Fact
’twas born in me. Rum is my nat’ral
drink. Yer see, afore I was born, my
father and mother were boff bought on
the cost of Africa an’ paid for in rum.”
A Suffering Capitalist.— “ Yes, these
are awfully hard times,” says a LaSalle
street broker, as he stood on his steps
talking to a friend, last evening.
“Mighty tough, I expect,” was the
reply.
“Why,” said the broker, “I’ve been
investing and investing for a year back
—a pile of money I assure you—and I
find I’ve been losing like fury.”
“Indeed ?”
“True’s I’m living. If I’ve lost a
cent, I’ve lost more than $300,000.
“No ?”
“Certain,” continued the broker,“ and
what cramps me most and makes me
feel the worst, is that fully $l5O of it
wa3 my own!”
Then the friends retired to a seclud
ed place and “smiled.” —Chicago Jour
nal.
m\
There is a man in Paris, named Du
casset, who saw the head of Moreau, the
murderer, when it fell from the knife
of the guillotine into the jbasket. He
has seen it ever sine—sometimes fall
ing, sometimes going up. Lately seve
ral other heads have joined it. They
bounce against one another all around
him, and come plump into his face, and
feel cold and disagreeable. He has
been taken into custody, aud deprived
of his liquor.
It has been shown, says the Detroit
Free Press, that Shakspeare was a
Catholic, an Episcopalian, and an
atheist. Equally plausible is the proof
that he was an attorney, schoolmaster,
a soldier, a chemist, a farmer, a doctor,
and a sailor ; and a learned French
man demonstrates beyond dispute that
nobody but a butcher would have
closed Hamlet with a heap of carcasses.
But as good must always come out of
evil, so a leading American journal has
at length settled the matter beyond
dispute by discovering that Shaks
peare was so profound, so wise, so
witty, and so virtuous, that he must
have been—a printer !
-New Series--- 3, No. 10.
ENGLISH JUSTICE.
The Pro and Con. of It.
[Chicago Tribune.]
The notable cases recently before the
English courts have given a fresh se
ries of proofs that Trans-Atlantic jus
tice is not as blind as it is apt to be on
this side of the ocean.
There is the Baker case, in which tho
culprit Colonel, a popular soldier and
an intimate friend of the Prince of
Wales, got not only a fine of $2,500,
which could be easily paid and forgot
ten, but a year’s imprisonment, which
will leave an ineffable stigma upon
his character. The influence of rank
and wealth could not save him. He has
not been idolized outside the court
room either; testimonials have not
been tendered him; and he has not
been invited to go on a lecturing tour
as soon as his temporary detention was
over. His own demeanor in the court
room wa3 not without a lesson for
other defendants in crim. con. cases.
He did not .laugh merrily during the
arguments of plaintiff’s counsel, nor
did he seek to screen himself by in
sinuating charges against the women.
Another prominent defendant—this
time in a civil suit—is Sir John Hay,
who sold his name to the somewhat no
torious “ Canadian Oil Wells Compa
ny ” for £I,OOO. This sum was paid
him, and then paid by him for stock in
the company. Ho and the other mem-
bers of the corporation victimized
a number of foolish Englishmen.—
When tho bubble burst, Sir John
w.is sued for £I,OOO. Tho Vice-
Chancellor gave judgment against him.
He appealed to the Lords Justices, who
have just affirmed the judgment and
indulged in various uncomplimentary
remarks about “bribes” and “English
gentlemen who condescend to become
the hired retainers of unknown Ameri
can adventurers.” So Sir John Hay
has had to refund his £I,OOO bribe.
Defendant No. 3 is one Laughlin
Freeman, merchant and shipowner of
Waterford, Ireland. L. F. got ready to
send to sea a brigantine, the timbers of
which wore so rotton that decayed
fibres could be scooped out by the hand
ful. He wrote to his agents : “ 1 would
be inclined to renew former insurance
at 8 guineas if I thought there would be
no danger of Plimsoll.” To which tho
agents replied: “We don’t think there
is any danger of Plimsoll interfering,
at all events on this side, as they don’t
appear to he so much on the lookout
over here.” Principal and agents were
both mistaken, however, aud Mr.
Laughlin Freeman goes to prison for
two months aud pays a line of £3OO.
This is the best side of the shield.
When we turn the reverse, aud study
English justice in ecclesiastical and
laud cases, there is less praise to bo
given. In the latter, there are too
many protracted litigations, which
end like the case of Jarndyce vs.
Jarndyce, described with such ghast
ly humor in “Bleak House.”
And the latest reported Church case
io uf .remans vs. Cook. Jenkins has
been excluded from tho communion
the Church of England. Belief in
God is usually considered the pre
requisite to communion, but the Ilev.
Cook tells Jenkins that he must be
lieve in the Devil and in eternal dam
nation if ho wants to celebrate the Last
Supper. This view of the case has
been sustained by the courts, and Jen
kins repudiates the Devil at tho cost of
being repudiated by the Church.
Getting Rid of Her Daughter’s Beau.
She lives down on Baker street, and
she has a daughter about eighteen
years old. The old lady retains all her
simplicity and innocence, and she
doesn’t go two cents on style. The
other evening when a splendid catch
called to escort the daughter to the
opera the mother wouldn’t take the
hint to keep still. While helping her
daughter to get ready she asked:
“Mary, are you going to wear the
shoes with one heel off, or the pair with
holes in ’em ?”
Mary didn’t seem to hear, and the
mother inquired:
“Are you going to wear that dollar
gold chain and that washed locket, or
will you wear the diamond father
bought at the hardware store?”
Mary winked at her. and the young
man blushed, but the old lady went on:
“Are you going to borrow Mrs.
Brown’s shawl, or will you wear mine?”
Mary bustled around the room, aud
the mother said:
“Be careful of your dress, Mary;
you know i’ts the only one you’ve got,
and you can’t have another until the
mortgage on this place is lifted.”
Mary remarked to her escort that it
promised to be a beautiful evening,
and as she buttoned her glove her
mother asked:
“Those are Mrs. Hardy’s gloves, ain’t
they? She’s been a got^Lneighbor to
us, and I don’t know how you’d man
age to go anywhere if she didn’t live
near us.”
Mary was hurrying to get out of tho
room, when the mother raised her voice
once more and asked :
“Did you run into Mrs. Jewett’s and
borrow her bracelet and fan ? Yes, I
see you did. Well, now, you look real
stylish, and I hope you’ll have a good
time.”
Mary sits by her window in tho pale
moonlight and sighs for the splendid
young mau to como and beau her
around some more, but he hasn’t been
seen up that way since that night. The
old lady, too, says that he seemed like
a nice young man, and she hopes ho
hasn’t been killed by the street cars.— ■
Detroit Free Press.
Cliatauqua Lake.
[Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Last night a correspondent's curiosi
ty was aroused (an awful thing), and I
overheard the following:
Ho—“ You have ensnared me in the
meshes of your golden hair and drown
ed mo in the liquid depths of your vio
let eyes ! What am Itodo ?”
She—“ What a jolly death to die for
a young man ; you should recommend
it!”
He — “ You doubt my sincerity ?”
She—“ Nay, nay, Clarence, yon
wrong me ! You are too sincere.”
He—“ Don’t you think just a little of
me?”
She-“ Y-e-s.”
He—“ And may I—may I kiss— ?”
She—“ There comes ma!”
He—“ Durn the durned luck !”
The marriage of Dr. Livingstone's
daughter, at Hamilton, Scotland, to Mr.
Alexander L. Bruce, one of the partners of
a well known Edinburgh firm (Messrs. \\ il
11am Younger <fc Cos.), on tho 25th of July,
w r as an event in the fashionable world. Tho
bride received presents from nearly all
parts of the globe. The venerable Dr. M of
fatt, tho African missionary, performed
the ceremony, and the little town of Hamil
ton had on its best holiday attire. It was
in the neighboring mills of Bantyre, tho
weaver boy Livingstone learned his Lati
declensions, while working at the loom,