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Old Series—Vol. 25, ]STo. 122. THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. Ja3. 0. Bailie, Francis Cogin, Geo. T. Jackson, PROPRIETORS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 1 ' .11?, one pear $lO 00 <. months ft 00 " months 2 60 TANARUS: i-Weekly, one year 5 00 " o mouths 260 Weekly, one year 2 oo “ o months 100 Single copies, 5 cents. 1o news dealers, 2]/ t cents. On and after this date (April 21, 18751 all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Subscriptions must in all cases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. Advertisements must be paid for when hand ed in, unless otherwise stipulated. (dirnspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Ht •jecte l communications will not be return ed, and no notice taken of anonymous commu nications, or articles written on both skies. Money may be remitted at our risk by Ex press or postal order. All letters should bo addressed to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager, * Augusta, Ga. Thk new trotting queen of the Amer ican turf is named Lulu, the laurels of Goldsmith Maid and American Girl having been won by her at Rochester, on Saturday, in grand style. m |IB Spindles.— The Lowell Machine Shop is said to be iiliing orders for full ma chinery for an 8,000 spindle mill at Rome, Ga.; a 0,000 spindle mill at Greenville, S. C., and a 4,000 spindle mill in Western Mississippi. _ -—► ■ The acceptance of an invitation to deliver the annual address before an Illinois State Agricultural Fair, by Jefferson Davis, has elicited some pe culiar comments from the Republican press. We publish two specimens this morning and leave the reader to draw his own conclusions therefrom. Governor Smith’s speech at the Dal ton Agricultural Convention was a sen sible and admirable effort. We give, this morning, the Atlanta Constitution's report of it. Among the many persons prominently spoken of for our next Governor, the present incumbent is not behind in the race. Ho may succeed himself. - - The death of Solomon Cohen, of Sa vannah, recalls an incident of the Charleston Convention. He opposed the bolt of the unti-DouGLAS delegates, and when he gained the platform to de fend himself he made a speech to the remaining Convention in favor of re openiug the African slave trade ! They were dumb-fouuded, and for several minutes didn’t know whether to whistle or laugh, but finally agreed upon the latter, and enjoyed it greatly. “L,” the occasional correspondent of the Chronicle and Sentinel, is either mistaken or has been misled about the authorship of the Moultrieville letters to the Constitutionalist. These letters were written by our regular Charleston correspondent, Mr. J. A. Moroso, who has been sojourning upon Sullivan’s Island, and not by “a young gentleman of this city, who had been spending some time in a country place in Geor gia.” The Constitutionalist has an able corps of correspondents in South Carolina, and always gives the freshest and most reliable intelligence of what transpires in the Palmetto State. One of the loud-mouthed boasts of Republican rule is freedom of speech. As an illustration of what this means, Ahrens, the juryman who befriended Bowen, when on trial, attempted to as sassinate the city editor of the Charles ton News and Courier, Mr. John A. Moroso, who had criticised the fellow as he deserved. Mr. Moroso’s pistol was too much for the cowardly assail ant, who ran like a scalded dog, when he saw it. We hope there is justice enough left iu Charleston courts to teach this would be murderer that he cannot club editors with impunity. If Mr. Moroso had succeeded in “ vving iug ” Ahrens, it would have only been what he richly merited. Our foreign dispatches record that a statue of Arminius, improperly called Hermann, has been unveiled in Ger many. He was Prince of the Cherusci, born about 10 B. C. Ho is known as the liberator of Germany from the Ro man yoke. By deceiving Varus, the Roman commander, ho gave the signal of insurrection, and attacking his ene my’s forces, almost exterminated them. Varus committed suicide, and many of ids surviving chiefs were enslaved or sacrificed to the gods. When the Em peror Augustus heard of the loss of his army Tie exclaimed, “Varus, give me back my legions !” Germanicus sought to avenge the defeat of A arus, and finally a great battle was fought. The Germans were beaten, but renewed the struggle, and compelled the Romans to retreat. Arminius perished by the hands of one of his relations. His name was a watchword of popular en thusiasm during the risiDg against Na poleon iu 1813, and he bids fair to live iu song, story and statuary while the Teuton race endures. FROM UTAH. Indian Disturbances Apprehended. Corinne, Utah, August 16.—Reports received hero to-day state that the In dians recently expelled from this t alley for an attempted raid upon Corinne have not returned to their reservations as ordered. Government officers and reliable parties returning from Cache Valley say that Pocatello, with his en tire band and several smaller com panies, is encamped near Logan, ‘4O miles from here. They number 1,500, and are being supported entirely by the Mormons and are under the con trol of the Mormon church. Consider able apprehension i9 felt by the people cf this city that another attack will be made. The citizens have been fur nished with needle-guns and other arms belonging to the Government, and pickets are stationed around the city every night. A warrant for one cent was drawn by the Treasury Department on Monday. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. Turkish Forces Mobilizing to Move Against Herzegovina—Cruelties of the Insurgents—The London Times on the Commercial Situation—Span ish Fandangoes—Unveiling-of Her mann's Statue. Lond in, August 16.—A dispatch to the Standard reports that all Turkish regiments in garrison in Roumelia and Bulgaria have been ordered to march to Herzegovina. The insurgents have burned some villages and massacred whole Mohammedan families. The Times says: “Almost nothing was doing in discount Saturday, and the rate was nominal. It was the same with money, which is so excessively cheap that banks and discount houses refuse to look at any but the very best paper, because it is not worth while to take any risk. For the struggling tra der the present torpor is worse than dearer money might be. With a rate to tempt business, he might get some accommodation ; but now he gets none. The simple result of this must be, that many houses of small means will suc cumb. Cheap money is, therefore, about the most severe purifier of the market that could be conceived at the present moment.” Advices from China say the treaty of commerce between China and Peru was ratified on the 7th inst, Berlin, August 16.—A colossal statue of Hermann, the ancient German hero, was unveiled to-day near Detmold, in Westphalia, before an immense con course. Emperor William was present. The unveiling of the statue was the oc casion of a grand national festival. At Detmold the Emperor Wiiliam and other distinguished visitors proceeded to Mount Grothenburg, where the monument to Herman is erected when the ceremony of unveiling was per formed in the presence of 15,000 spec tators. Superintendent Gen. Koppcn delivered an historical address and Privy Councellor Preuss the inaugural oratioD. Madrid, August 16.—General Quesa da, after a sharp fight, has captured the Carlist position at Lunco, on the Villareal road. The Carlist force men-* tioned on the 10th inst., as having passed through Berga, with the expec tation of surprising the Alfonsoists en gaged in the siege of Seo D’Urgel ap proached to within three leagues of the besieged town, but the movements of the royal army necessitated again their retreat to the mountains. Death of a Bavarian Prince —Rose- Colored Report of the Carlist Com mittee —European Crop News. Naples, August 16. —Prince Charles Theodore, great uncle of the Kiug of Bavaria, fell from his horse to-day and was instantly killed. London, August 16.—The Carlist Committee here report that they have received official advices from the com mander of the troops defending Seo D’Urgel to the effect that the Alfonsists have captured none of his positions, and have lost 1,500 men dining the siege. The citadel and fort are intaet. The garrison has 45 guns, and are well supplied with ammunition and pro visions. Oue of the Alt'onsist batteries has been silenced. The besieged have made several sorties with success. The Mark Lane Express, in its re view of the crops for the past week, says: “Unsettled weather has been very unfavorable for harvest work, which is everywhere delayed, and the high temperature has put wheat in some danger of sprouting, while its condition must necessarily be unsatis factory. The London market from constant arrivals of foreign grain has not shown activity or tendency up ward. The Paris market has felt some reaction, and rates have giveu way some ls.als. 6d. per quarter. It now seems confirmed there, as well as here, that neither samples nor quantity will come up to last year, while the condi tion is greatly jeopardized where gath erings are not complete. In Austria and Hungary the same sort of result is loifked upon as certain, and Northern Europe has had much the same wea ther. Therefore samples must partial ly be affeoted. Russia reports very un equal growth, being most affected by early drought, damage from which subsequent rains could not repair. Bel gium and Holland have been much in terfered with iu their harvest, and the spread of the potato disease is no lon ger doubtful. The International Society in Canada— Blackmailing Employers—The Old Catholics—Sclavonic Complications. Montreal, August 16.—A branch of the International Society of Europe has been formed here. It holds week ly meetings. Several wealthy employers of this city have received blackmailing let ters. One manufacturer received a let ter demanding that $3,000 be paid in one month, and if not, fire would visit his property and death come to his family. Bonn, August 16. —In the Old Catho lic Conference, to-day, Dr. Dolliuger announced that an agreement as to the doctrine of procession of the Holy Cliost had been attained on essential points. The communication was re ceived with rejoicing by members of the Conference. Ragcsa, August 16.—Intelligence has been received from Sclavonic sources that the insurgents in Herzegovina have stormed Fort Govan3ko, near Pivi, and captured the town of Metakia. Vienna, August 16. —A dispatch from Agsam reports an insurrection broken out in Turkish Croatia, in the district between Ivostainiczaand Dubicza, along the Austrian frontier. The insurgents had surprised a guard-house, killed the guards and seized their arms. FROM MEMPHIS. Business Failure—New Cotton Ex change—Diabolical Attempt to Cut the Levee—A Bloody Reprisal. Memphis, August 16.—Keathoper & Cos., grocers, iiave made an assignment. Liabilities $46,000; assets $86,000. The Cotton Exchange moved into a new building, said to be the finest in the country except the Savannah Ex change. The Ledger learns that an attempt was made to cut the levee at Beulah, near Napoleon, on the Arkansas line. The police discovered the villains. A fight ensued in which one was killed, two wounded and the fourth captured. FROM BOSTON. Trouble Between Irish and Italian Laborers. Boston, August 16.—A serious trouble is threatened at Danvers, owing to jeal ously between Irish and Italian labor ers on the new insane hospital. About sixty Italians made a raid this morning on an Irish boarding house, damaging the interior considerably and driving the occupants away. AUGUSTA, GA., TUUj-lULXY iMORNING, AUGUST 17, 1875. FROM WASHINGTON. Yellow Fever Bulletin—Naval News- Death of Commodore Morris—Grant Puts His Foot Down on Fraudulent Officials. Washington, August 16.—Brannon telegraphs that the Superintendent of National Cemeteries, J. W. Keough, is dead. His wife is down. The rest are doing well. J. W. Murtagh, proprietor of the Re publican, has brought suit against the District Commissioners for $47,000, balance due on printing the tax list. He has already received $50,000. The claim is based upon a specific contract of one dollar per line. The Navy Department has advices from Rear Admiral Reynolds. His llag ship, the Tennessee, passed through Suez canal easily. Commodore G. N. Morris, U. S. Navy, is dead. Morris commanded the Cum berland when the Merrimac sunk her in Hampton Roads. Certain statements having reached the public through St. Louis newspa pers and other sources, that the Presi dent of the United States and the Sec retary of the Treasury are not in full accord in their efforts to bring to jus tice all who have been engaged in the violation of Internal Revenue laws, in relation tax oh distilled spirits, the President, in a communication re ferring thereto and forwarded by him to the Secretary, has made the follow ing autographic endorsement: “Refer red to the Secretary of the Treasury. This was intended as a private letter for my information and contained many extracts from St. Louis papers not deemed necessai’y to forward. They are obtainable, and have no doubt been all received by the Federal of ficials in St. Louis. 1 forward this for information, and to the end that if it throws any light upon new parties to summons as witnesses they may be brought out. Let no guilty man es cape, if it can be avoided, and instruct those engaged iu the prosecution of fraud to be against all who insinuate that they have high influence to pro tect them. No personal consideration should staud iu the way of performing a public duty. (Signed) U. S. Grant. July 29, 1875. A Clothing Fraud. There is a $20,000 irregularity in the clothing account of the Marine Corps, caused, it is said, by a collusion be tween an inspector's clerk and the man ufacturers. A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. Railway Casualties and Marine Dis asters. St. Louis, August 15.—A special to the Republican gives addit.2 nal infor mation regarding the accident on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad hist night. It says ; “The rail was removed fifty feet from the eastern end of Bea ver creek trestle, and the engine and tender made a sheer plunge of twenty feet into the creek below. The forward express car was hurled across the track and demolished. The engineer and fire man went down with the engine, but were only slightly bruised. No one else was injured. Some people at Hu ron think the rail was removed by some citizen in that neighborhood for spite, but the general belief is that the de sign of the perpetrators was robbery, although no attack or attempt to rob was made.” Cincinnati, August 15. —The express train struck a rear car of the mail train which was moving on the switch at Loogate, Ind. Mr. Flora, mail agent, was killed. Knoxville, Tenn., August 16.—The steamer Hugh Martin exploded her boil er at Washington Landing, on the Ten nessee river, Saturday afternoon, caus ing a complete wreck of the boat. Capt. Jake Fritts, one passenger, one engi neer from the Cincinnati Southern Rail road name not known, and a boy and man standing on the bank, were killed. Henson, pilot and Hood, mate, were badly hurt. Fritts, clerk, slightly hurt. Several deck hands and deck passen gers were hurt. The Martin was a light stern-wheel boat, built for the passenger and freight trade between here and Chattanooga. London, August 16. —The ship Afri cana, from Bombay for New York, be fore reported off Point Alfred by the C. G. Hope iu distress, has been aban doned in a sinking condition. The crew was taken off and landed at Point Alfred. The bark Velox, from Montreal for Queenstown, abandoned by the crew August Bth and a prize crew put on board from the White Star steamer Republic, was safely taken into the latter port on the 15th inst. Toronto, Ont., August 16.—Steamer Rothsay Castle, while entering Toronto harbor with 300 excursionists, struck a sunken snag and rapidly sank to the upper dock. The passengers were ta ken off by tugs and landed safely. Wreck of the U. S. Steamer Rio Bravo. New Orleans, August 16. —The U. S. Steamer, Rio Bravo, from New Or leans for Rio Grande, encountered a Southerly gale 15 miles off Sabine light on the night of the 13th and was driven asiiore 10 miles east of Sabine light. No lives were lost. Everything was saved except the vessel, which is reported badly wrecked, but may be saved if the weather abates. TUe Navy Department has details of the wreck of the Rio Bravo. The com mander says he was compelled to run her ashore or risk the loss of all aboard. Had the ship not been strong and a good sea boat, she could not have sur vived 8 hours. The Rio Bravo was formerly the Planter, purchased at New Orleans for police duty on the Rio Grande. LULU! 2:16 1-2, 2:15 1-2, 2:17! Rochester, N. Y., August 15.—The free-for-all race brought out Goldsmith Maid, Lulu, Nettie and American Girl. The betting was four to one on the Maid, and, with her out, fifty to four on American Girl against the field. Lulu broke up badly on scoring. The first heat was won by Goldsmith Maid, in 2:16>2, with American Girl a good second, Lulu third and Nettie fourth. The second heat was won by Lulu, in beating the Maid half a length— Nettie third and American Girl fourth. The third heat was won by Lulu, in 2:ls)£—she crossed the wire a length and a half ahead of the Maid—Nettie third, and American Girl saving her distance. The fourth heat and race was won by Lulu, in 2:17, leading the Maid by a head only—American Girl third and Nettie last. These are the best four consecutive heats on record, ami Lulu has taken the place of Gold smith Maid, as queen of the trotting turf, FROM NEW-iORK. Another Cuban Expedition—Duncan, Sherman & Co.’s Assets and Liabili ties. New York, August ltt—The Uruguay, Captain Rudolph Sommers, which left Hoboken on the sth jstopped at Red Hook, where the Spat! sh Minister rep resents that she embal ked war mate rial. The Revenue cj tter, Mosswood returned after an ill ffectual chase, with instructions to br ; ig tiie Uruguay back. Captain Somm s was formerly of the United States L ivy, and knows the Cuban coast. He 1) n ded the Edgar Stuart expedition. • The remains of Vice? President Mum ford were taken to Roc| ester for inter ment, accompanied b* a number of officers of the Western jlnion Telegraph Company. 1 The following entry -Jus made in the Clerk’s office of the j Common Pleas Court to-day in the m. Iter of assign ment dated 27th July)* 1875, of Wm. Butler Duncan, Willirf|i Watts Sher man and Francis H. Gufun, to Wm. W. Shipman, August 16th-j1875: Received schedule of debts a j I inventory of assets, debts and liabijlues $4,910 138- 09. Assets nominalltj amounted to $2,119,369 04. Assetss;|. tually amount ed to $2,835,853 53. || British PostayfService. New York, August | —The British Post Office Department has notified the agents of the Hasnburg-American Steamship Line thaf American and other mails for Greaf; Britain, by ves sels of that lin will; hereafter bo as sorted at Plyrm. .ih lost Office or on the railroad from Pljj?oouth to Bristol, instead of being sent, to the General Post Office in Londoft for assortment, thus securing a morelprompt delivery of mails to all parts o? England. M ECCLESIASTICAL. Dedication of a Church—Holy Orders Bestowed. Scranton, August l(| r The Church of St. Thomas, at Archibald, was dedica ted with imposing ceremonies, conduct ed by Archbishop Wood, of Philadel phia. Bishop Quintan, of Mobile, preached the sermanJ New York, August 16. —Rev. Thos. Fitzgerald, of Mt. S};, Mary’s College, Emmitsburg. ,vas rlred to the Di aconate yesterday, bv Bishop Laugh lin, in the Cathedral qt Brooklyn. FROM NEW (ORLEANS. Damage to t?Ke Crop. New Orleans, August 16. —The Price Current says private jdvices from the country complain of fust iu cotton and much rain. Estimates of receipts of the new crop for this.-month are much reduced. f . —— Railroad? hale. Chicago, August It? The Rockford, Rock Island and St. Louis Railroad was sold at auction under) if decree of Judge Drummond, of the limited States Cir cuit Court, on forechl ore of mortgage. H. Osterbere, of Gerjifiny, who repre sents bondholding invests, bid $1,320,- 000, and took posses|iion of the road and its interests. • i S Minor Telfckrams. Cleveland, Augusta! 6.—Chas. G. Fin ney, for many years president of Obor lin College, died suddenly of heart dis ease. J Chicago, August —Mrs. Emma Hess died of an overhhse of geisemium. The responsibility lit# between her hus band, who prescribed the dose for headache, and the apothecary’s boy, who compounded it. -f Eufaula, Indian r |'f uritory, August 16 —The election of! Chas. Thompson, who ran against Uo-J. , is asserted by Thompson’s friends i by five hundred majority. j St. Louis, August :|ls —C. R. Stinde, hoot and shoe deafer has failed for SIBO,OOO. Charleston, August 15.—The first bale of new cotton ;'bas been received here. It is eight days earlier than the first bale received Ja?> year. Matamoras, AugU!|||ls. —lt is believed tht three sloops ofiHar, constructed in England for Mexico,|i|’e now on the way to Vera Cruz, and f l be put on the Rio Grande to pro&fet Mexican inter ests. | TWO PICTURES. Breaking the ‘ <T-olor Line.” [Constitutionalist’s |Chronicle and Son- Charleston Cor re-.- j tinel, Ed.it o r ial pondence, Sunday, ; Sunday,August 15.) August 15. | ]?' I’he white people General Wagoner is bf Mississippi have an amiable and osti- determined upon a mable old gentle- desperate effort to man, very popular fwrest the govern among the German *nent of that State element of our pop- hiorn the control of ulation; but besides Athens and plunder these, very few peo- \ij-"s. The blacks in pie have much faith [that State have a in his litness for the fiterg< numerical ma position. During the bjorlty, and hereto two years of his ad- Store, have been band mini strat ion, al- j.*l solidly against though he was elect- fjjfcho native whites, ed by the Conserva- j*The counsels of s-ucli tives, ho seoruel to ;?men as L. Q. G. Ln - t'ear, or at any rate ,>ruar lias at last to seek to conciliate (-broken the color line the negroes. What- Sand given the no ever his motive ho |g roes an opportuni iilled up the police sty, if they have the force with them, and £ desire, to rescue the ononooccasion when estate. We have no the Longshoremen Creproach for Mr. La inaugurated a series | war. in advising the of riots in the city abandonment of the instead or promptly j 'color line.” The crushing it out an l only hope of the arresting the rioters j C o n s e r v a t i ves in who were negroes, J Mississippi is to di- Mavor Wagener fair- i vide the negro vote ly knuckled to them, | With this vote east and for two weeks | solidly against them they rioted around i; they have no hope of doing whatever their f success. Their only evil minds prompted? chance of safety lies them to do. When? in destroying the his term of office ex-| color line. Even il pired lie was again# unsuccessful, still nominated by thus they are right. How- Conservatives; but# ever bitterly it may the negroes whom? be condemned hymen lie had endeavoredot narrow minds and to conciliate voted! s' rong prejudices, against him and thc| tue Carpenter-l>ut- Conservatives rattier, 1 r campaign of 1870 disgusted with hisf < oened the way tor podey did not makes the deliverau e of much of an effort-Stne people of South And besides all thlsg Carolina—a doliver- Bowen and his cc -fi ance which will eer horts imported sev-j taiuly and shortly be eral hundred voters* accomplished, from Edisto, stuffedy ' two or three ballot? boxes right under: Wagoner’s nose, and'j ■-> carried the election;. * against him. % Two hundred tlpwsand Americans, not one in five huh: 1 if and of whom over saw prairies, moun^ailis,canons, falls br other Westejjp sig&tr, are over in Eu rope hoofing it a'felmd through heat and dust. i f A case involving the ownership of a hog, which owns phit her ears nor tail, is vexing the Co|aty Court of Clark, Ky., and is threat ming to divide the county into two bftteT factions. —| Lou isville Ledger. I JEFFERSON DAVIS. Vhat tlie Chicago Radical Papers Say About his Proposed Trip to Illinois. [Chicago Tribune, Rep.] The whirligig of time brings about some very curious changes in political events. Mr. H. P. Kimball, the Secre tary of the Winnebago County Agricul tural Society, makes the novel an aouncement that Jefferson Davis, the ex-President of the late rebel Confed eiate States, will deliver the annual ad dress before the Society, on the 14th of next month, at Rockford, 111. The oc casion will be a notable one, for the meeting of extremes, if for no other reason. Mr. Davis will meet the most practical, thrifty, industrious and in telligent body of farmers on this occa sion that he ever addressed or that can be found in the United States. He will meet men who thoroughly understand their profession, who cultivate the grouud in a skillful and even scientific manner, and whose farms are better improved and tilled and more beauti ful and productive than farms in al most any other part of the country. Hp will meet men who come from New England and represent the New England idea of work and economy—men who are well read, who believe in universal education, who can discuss political as well as agricultural questions, and who are skilled work men in the noßle field of agriculture. But this is not all. He will visit a county which is not only the banner county of agriculture, but the banner county of National Republicanism since the war, and of opposition to State sovereignty with Jefferson Davis as its embodiment during the rebellion. Among the Winnebago tribes he will find Republicans outnumbering Demo crats five to one, the latter being con fined chief!}" to the Irish population. He will visit this gem of a county framed in a setting of strong Republi can couuties—Boone, Ogle, Stephen son and Rock, the latter the banner county of Wisconsin Republicanism. He will speak in a section of country which made a more determined assault on the secession movement which he headed than perhaps any other part of the United States ; that single county furnished five or six complete regi ments ; which helped to send out Farns worth, Hurlbut and Smith to fight him, and which sacrificed thousands of the very flower of its young men in over throwing the cause which was cham pioned by Mr. Jefferson Davis. In view of these things, it will become Mr. Davis to eonfi.no himself to ag ricultural topics. He should stick to subsoils, composts, roots and small grains. If he has any suggestions to make relative to improved breeds of cattle or modes of cultivation, the far mers will thankfully receive them. If he can show them how to grow larger crops of cattle, or get larger prices, to make their soil more fertile or to guard against the dangers which always threaten the farmer, they will listen to him gladly. He should keep quiet on State sovereignty; he should make no allusion or shod no visible tears over the Lost Cause, for the farmers of Win nebago have Lost too many of their sons iu overthrowing that cause, and have not an iota of sympathy for it, or any cause to remember it with any other feelings than those of satisfaction that it has been forever lo;;t. 'He should ad vance no statements tending to revive suggestions of sour apple trees or the marching of John Brown’s soul. He should attempt no justification of the right of secession—that odious doctrine which lie sought to put in force by de stroying the National Government. He should not give utterance or even allude to any of those heresies which cost Winnebago county so many of her brave sons. The fathers of those young men do not want to hear Jefferson Da vis on political topics or secession rem iniscences. They are ready to forgive and forget the past, and to cultivate feelings of amity and harmony in the future. One of the readiest methods of doing this will be for Jefferson Davis to come amongst our farmers and talk agri culture with them, and to keep his Lost Cause out of sight; to exehauge information, imparting to them ‘-what lie knows about farming,” and receiving from them what they know, visiting their elegant farms and accepting their hospitality, and seeing for himself how they live and operate their lands, so that he may return to the South and inform his people how and in what manner Northern farmers couple in telligence with labor, and thus crown their work with success. It is a curious fact that this county, per haps the most intelligent agricultural county in the United States, which always voted against and which fought so unauimouly against Jefferson Davis, should have invited him to address its farmers, but it shows that they can overlook their prejudices and resent ments, and the sad consequences which grew out of the rebellion of which this man was the chief fomeuter and leader and that they are even pleased to send for him to address them upon topics which are of practical interest to them, and which have a bearing upon the future welfare of the South. If Mr. Davis does nor abuse this confidence, his address may be productive of very valuable results. Jeff Davis Invited to Illinois. [Chicago Inter-Ocean, ltep.] Jeff Davis has been invited to deliver the annual address before the Winne bago, 111., County Agricultural Society, and has accepted. The action of the officers of the Society in bringing about this engngement is a gross insult to every decent man, woman and child in the State. The cemeteries of Winne bago county are dotted with the graves of fallen soldiers ; the firesides of hun dreds of families there are desolate ; the widows and orphans of those who fell fighting Mr. Jefferson Davis and his treasonable adherents are scatter ed through the length and breadth of the county, and yet the murderer and despoiler is invited to partake of the hospitalities of its people, and lecture to them and their children on the du ties of citizenship! What spirit of evil actuated these officials when they thus extended the honors of their or ganization to this felon who goes to his appointment even now at the sufferance of the hangman? For Jeff Davis has never been released from arrest. He is not even at large on parole. He is out simply on bail, and may be tried for high treason to-mor row if the Government wills. Was there no other man among the thou sands of distinguished speakers in the land whom Winnebago county cared to honor ? Must the incarnation of trea son, must its chief representative be invited into a loyal and patriotic, State to speak to the fathers, mothers, wives and children of those whom his mad ambition has slain ? Do they not lay a premium on conspiracy and treason by this act ? See what it is to attempt the FORK. life of one’s country! Honor, dignity, the selection of the parracide above all others for the post of public teacher ! Is not the reward an enticing one ? * * * * * * * * If Mr. Davis wishes to canvass the North, we have no objection. We should be willing to insure him perfect immunity from personal violence, for, however, distasteful his presence would be in this region, the devotion of the people to the principle of free speech is too strong to give way before even righteous indignation. But when a so ciety picks him out above all others to occupy the position of honor iu its an nual celebration, the act deserves the contempt and reprobation of all honest and patriotic men. If Tweed had been chosen as orator for this 'occasion, public sentiment would have boiled over in wrath, and yet how immeasura bly greater is the crime of Davis, than that of the New York convict! There is no offense that so shocks the moral sentiment of the world as treason. Jefferson Davis was born upon Ameri can soil, educated at West Point at the national expense, clothed with dignities and elevated to honor and position by the people. And he betrayed them.— He was the head and front of a con spiracy that sought to destroy the country and turn to dead ashes the structure reared by the fathers of the Republic. Benedict Arnold, for a crime far less than this, was doomed to per petual exile, and his name anathema tized by all human kind. And yet we so far forgot our honor, our dignity, our duty, as to throw upon Jefferson Davis the mantle, not of charity sim ply, but of distinction, and thus re ward and commend his unnatural crime. We do not know as to the result of this performance. It is said that the bitterness at Rockford over this step is extreme, and Mr. Davis may have the sense to cancel an engagement which should never have been made. If he persists in coming, let the ominous si lence of the people tell him why he is tolerated ; that reverence for law, and not forgetfulness of his great crime, lends him protection. '* WOODRUFF. A Remarkable Career. The career of Woodruff, the ipillion aire defaulter, whose escape from Cali fornia was last week announced by tel egraph, is a remarkable one. Some years ago Woodruff was a resident of Lynchburg, Virginia, holding a com fortable situation, in good social stand ing and professing devout piety. Sud denly he fell from grace, and his friends were mortified by his detection in ras cality. He was enabled to escape pun ishment by absconding, and for years after nothing more was heard of the follow in Lynchburg, except, perhaps, by his wife, who remained in that city, and became the object of much sym pathy. About the time that Woodruff dropped into a sea of security, how ever, John Miller emerged upon the surface. He appeared at Sacramento, and was employed as a clerk by the Union Pacific Railroad Com pany. Agreeable in manner, en tertaining iu speech and generous to the degree of extravagance, he soon surrounded himself with influential friends, aud in a brief time he was ap pointed to the responsible office of Sec retary of the Western Department Company. He daily grew in popular favor, individual wealth and official prestige. He permitted none of hi.s associates to know that he had a wife in the east, and under si false name married a wealthy lady, to whom he had been introduced by a deluded friend. He bought a magnificent man sion, and so lavish was his display of wealth in household adornments that a director who was a guest of the Sec retary suspected robbery, and an inves tigation disclosed the fact that his de falcation approaches $1,000,000. Wood ruff was arrested and forced to surren der all his available gains. And this is the story of Woodruff, alias John Miller, the millionaire defaulter. The estimable lady who was wronged by him still occupies the noble mansion which is ornate with the obsolete mon ogram of “John Miller.” Two White Women Sold at the Door of a Missouri Court House for Five Cents. [Springfield (Mo.) Leader, sth.] The sale of the two miserable crea tures, Mollie Mitchell and Ida Jones, alias Lask, did not take place accord ing to the announcement made some two weeks ago, on account of their being non est when the time arrived. They turned up a few days since, and this morning were duly offered to the highest bidder at public outcry at the front door of the court house. This kind of property does not seem to be in much demand, at least when offered in a public way. Mary was first pre sented. She stood up before the glar ing crowd with the nonchalance of a brazen statue. The auctioneer spoke eloquently of her valu able qualities, but did not re ceive a bid. Mary retired apparently disgusted. Ida then came forward with agile step and smiling face. The officer again and again asked, “How much ?” After complimentary remarks to several gentlemen, Ida pointed to Bud Fagg aud said : “That’s the fel low I want to go with.” Bud bid five cents. No one seemed willing to ad vance on this, and she was knocked down to him. He borrowed a nickel from Judge , aud took possession of his property. Bud only intended to buy one, but subsequently learned that the sale embraced the whole of ’em. This is a serious subject. It is al most incredible that such things could be in this enlightened land of churches and benevolent societies. We shall not undertake to say who is to blame, but there is certainly a screw loose iu so ciety wnen such facts exist. • An Honest Ikisiiman Puzsled.—“Den nis,” said District Attorney Phelps to his man, “ get me a copy of tho Inde pendent that has an account of our first boat race.” “Yis, sur,” said Dennis, as he hurried off. He returned in a moment with a puzzled look on his frank, good-na tured face. “Did you say the Inde pendent, sur ?” he asked. “ Yes.” “ That’s a religious paper, sur.” “ Well, I know it.” “ An’ is there a boat race in a relig ious paper ?” “ Certainly, Dennis, you evidently don’t know how to run a religious pa per. You’ll find a full account of the boat race in the Independent .” Dennis bustled away. “ Begorrah 1” said he, “ I don’t un derstand the ways of these papers at all at all.” —— The latest agony in stationary is Beecher note paper. It has a “ragged edge,” and whatever is written on it iqeans something else. GOT. SMITH’S ADDRESS. The following speech of Gov. Smith is one of the best we have ever read from him. It was made before the State Agricultural Society at Dalton: Gen. Colquitt introduced Gov. Smith ! to the Convention, the members rising i in a body to receive him. Gov. Smith stated that it was not his purpose to make a speech ; that we were too prone to talk instead of act ing. So far as he was able to judge | from the reports of the Convention, the | people were on the line of policy ad vocated in his speech at Athens. The agriculturists are the people. In your hands is the destiny of the State. You can’t escape from the responsibility if you desired to. The progress of the country depends upon you. If Georgia (ioes not take the position God intend ed she should it is your fault. The tri umph of every other industry is de pendent upon you. In your hands lies the elovatiou of the State. How is the State to be elevated ? Some say by diversified industry. That is true. But all these industries* are based on you at last. Unless you prosper there will be no means to prosecute the others. The great enemy of Progress is Ig norance. The people are always right. Every pulsation of the public heart is in the interest of public virtue. How to remove ignorance, you ask. I re spond : Educate the People! There are some measures established during my administration that nothing can deprive me of the honor. They are the settled policy of the Govern ment. One measure is our System of Public Education, which I hope to see perfected soon. I do not approve of it as a whole. I have never concealed anything I thought from the people. I have no secrets. Do you know what I think of the system ? I will tell you. I think that from five to ten normal schools should bo established iu the State to make # Education Free indeed. I would give §5,000 per an num to each school. We have commenced at the wrong end to educate our people. Seventy five cents don’t educate anybody. It only gives enough to make them fool ish. Then commence at the head. — When Aaron was consecrated the oil was poured on his head and ran down his beard to the hem of his garment. Do not anoint the feet, for the an ointing oil never ascends. Establish Higher Educational Institutions, where you can educate men and send them out to enlighten the world, Put six educated men, yea, only two in the midst of darkness and ignorance, and they will dispel them. Two or three years ago the North Georgia Agricul tural College, at Dahlouega, was start ed with an endowment of only §2,500. We can’t begin to enumerate its ad vantages. Iu my opinion it has done more good than a dozen institutions in the State. We need three or four nor mal schools in Southwest Georgia, and in Middle and North Georgia. I was glad to see the deputation of gentlemen from England here. I want direct trade and all its blessings. When we are independent we will get direct trade and immigration. Who hunts a poor man ? The only practical way to achieve independence is by building up our own industries. To encourage immigration we must make every man feel that his person and property are secure and the law su preme. We can’t develop our own re sources by getting in convention and simply talking about them. It requires acts. This rests upon you. We have people enough. There are 1,400,000 people in the State. If we do our duty immigration will come. When we show them that we are independent of them they will cbme. When wo show them we are able to do without them they will be gin, to cultivate us. There is room enough. If they don’t want to come we can do without them and manage without them. [Applause.] I was glad to see that you passed resolutions endorsing the Centennial. I revere the principles of 1776. Mr. Conrad, of Philadelphia, who is South ern in his feelings, told me he was glad to see the South getting back to her duty. I responded that “it was our day and our principles. Hurrah for the Fourth of July!” I expect, Deo volente, to bo at the Centennial. The only great good I see iu it is giving the people of the North and South au op 'portuuity to mix and mingle with each other. The masses of the North don’t know whether we are quadrupeds or bipeds. They think we have a negro for breakfast every morning. They were astonished when* I was there to hear me utter the language of a hu man being. We differ as to policy, yet all agree that right is right and wrong is wrong. The English deputation told me that they had closelj’ investigated matters, and Georgia was ahead of her sister Southern States. If we get along to sqjt ourselves why care we for praise abroad ? Who ever knew a poor man to have a large circle of friends ? Let each man have his barn and store house full, aud friends will surround them. The Geological Survey. I am pleased to see your apprecia tion of the labors of the State Geolo gist ; upon the survey depends a knowl edge of our resources. Men have walked all their lives over hidden wealth, without knowing it. I want the time to come when at the capital the productions and minerals of every co inty and of each district in the county will be on exhibition at the c ipitol. The people of Georgia are the most independent people iu the world if they knew their resources. Georgia is an e npire iu her productions, in her territory, and resources. She raises tho products of the torrid and temper a 3 zones, and is capable of supporting a population of Two Hundred Million People. Much depends upon perfecting this survey. The Department of Agriculture is another beneficial institution. The people want light, and hence require a department under the regulations of law, responsible for their acts, and sup ported. It is the duty of the Commis sioner to disclose all the facts to the people. The ravages of the worm for a single season on the fruit crop will pay half of the national debt. It is the duty of the agriculturists to sustain these departments. Keep Up the Association. It is said that w r © are now foremost among the Southern States,—l at id among the Northern States. We are pot as rich because we have not stolen. W© have retained our integrity andoqr uufailiug devotion to liberty. Keep up your association. Hon. Mr. Shorter, of Alabama, told me lie was New Series-Vol. 3, No. 13 proud of old Georgia, his native State, and held her upas a perpetual example to the people of Alabama, his adopted State. Look at our sister States!— Many are oppressed with debt. How is it with Georgia? I attribute her free dom from these evils to the influence of these associations. The 7 per cent, bonds bring iu New York 100 cents in the dollar, in a hostile market, and, as Gen. Toombs would say, “hostile ooun try.” §2,500,000 of our bonds have been bought recently by one citizen in New York. We don’t ask any odds, only to bo let alone. I expect to retire at the end of my official career, aud if I cau suc ceed in doing right to its close I will be satisfied. I have been honored be yond my deserts. The glory of my life is that my people have beeu recon structed iu fact aud deed, and in re constructing themselves have placed themselves upon a platform of Equal ity and Independence. During the delivery of this address the Governor was frequently inter rupted by hearty and continuous ap plause. The Convention was more than pleased with it. Col. J. L. Sweat offered a resolution of thanks to Gov. Smith for his able address, aud requesting a copy for pub lication in the proceedings, which was unanimously adopted. DEATH OF SOLOMON COHEN. [Savannah News, August 16.] The announcement of the death of this estimable and honored citizen, wiiich occurred at his residence in this city about ten minutes to twelve o’clock on Saturday night, will occasion genuine regret in this community. For some time past Mr. Cohen had been in feeble health, but was not con fined to the house. On Saturday af ternoon ho retired to his room after dinner to enjoy his usual nap. A short while afterwards his wife entered tho room aud eugagad with him in conver sation, during which he made the re mark that if he lived until the morrow he would bo seventy-three years of age, and pleasantly alluded to the hap piness of their married relation. Pres ently ho ceased speaking, and in a few minutes her attention was attracted to the peculiar manner in which his head was reposing, and upon approaching closer she discovered that he was un conscious, ‘having beeu stricken with apoplexy. Dr. T. J. Charlton was at once summoned, but failed to restore him to consciousness, and he died about the time stated. Mr. Cohen was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, on the 15th of August, 1802, and was, consequently, within a few minutes of beiug seventy-three years of age. He entered the profes sion of law at an early age, and prac ticed in his native town until 1838. Ho had previously represented George town District in the South Carolina Legislature, when he removed to Sa vannah. Here he continued his pro fession, and at once took a lively inter est iu all affairs affecting the prosperi ty and interest of his adopted city. His abilities, energy and liberal ideas were appreciated, and be was frequent ly elected to positions of honor and trust by his fellow-citizens. lie repre sented Chatham county in the Legis lature with satisfaction to his constitu ency aud credit to himself. He also represented the city in the Board of Aldermen, and was one of the most zealous members of that body. Mr. Cohen was postmaster of Savannah during the latter part of President Pierce’s administration and the entire period of President Buchanan’s admin istration. He was iu the office at the commencement of the war, and was continued in the position under tho Confederate Government. Mr. Cohen was one of the original inaugurators of our present model sys tem of public school education, aud was a most active member of the Board of Education, and always evinced the greatest interest in every measure cal culated to foster and encourage educa tional projects. In 1860, Mr. Cohen was elected a member of the Georgia Delegation to the Democratic Convention, to go to Charleston, and took a prominent part in the deliberations of that important body, and was one of tho seven who remained at the Convention after the withdrawal of the delegation. Tho following incident in connection with that stirring occasion will be of inter est : On Thursday, May 3, 1860, when tho late Gen. Henry L. Benning introduced the resolutions of withdrawal adopted by the Georgia delegation, and under which twenty-six of the thirty-three left that body, Mr. Cohen ascended the President’s stand and addressed the convention. “He was a State rights' man of the Calhoun school, but he felt it to be his duty to remain here.— He was actuated by a patriotic pur pose to remain here and endeavor to produce conciliation. He implor ed the North to pause. There was a wide and widening guff betweeu the North and South. He begged the con vention not to increase it. Georgia was a unit. Let them not argue from his presence here any division in lier s mti rnent on the great question. He went into a history of the growth of the anti slavery sentiment of the North, pre dicting how tho arch-fiend, Seward, would ride on the waves of faction into the Presidency. In view of these facts, he asked them if tho South was not en titled to the guarantee she has been asking for the last three days. Ho in tended to stay here till the last reme dy was exhausted.” In 1866, Mr. Cohen Was elected mem ber of Congress from the First Con gressional District of Georgia, but, as is well known, was not admitted. ’ Ho was for several years cashier of the Central Railroad Bank, President of the Union Society, President of tho Mlckva Israel Congregation, and was one of the original directors of tho At lantic andOulf Railroad, and had also, duriug his long and honorable careei\ occupied many other prominent posi tions in the community. Mr, Cohen’s immediate surviving rel atives are his wife and two daughters his brother, Octavus Cohen, Esq., and’ a sister. His funeral will probably not take place until Wednesday, in consequence of the absence of several of the mem bers of the family. The chief jewel in the crown of the truly benevolent man is his sympathy for the poor. We have heard of a family in this city, on the point of starvation, whoso sufferings were brought to the attention of a Christian philanthropist, and who promptly came among them like a good angel and re freshed their souls by the reading of copious extracts from the Book or Job. Saratoga has such poor gas that compositors put iightniug bugs in their cases to enable them to read manu script,