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eoKSTITUTIOKALIST.
A ROUST A, C3A.
SUNDAY MORNING, SEPT. 22, 1807
JI. It is the duty of the military authorities
e?i this District to secure to the people the ul
ir-ost freedom of speech and of the press consist
ent with lau> ; not to restrict either. No satis
factory execution of the late acts of Congress is
practicable unless this freedom is secured ana
ils exercise protected by the usual legal means.
11l No officer or soldier in this command
will thereafter interfere with newspapers or
speakers on any pretense whatever.
[Gen. Pope’s Order, June 3d.
“ freedom of speech and of the press , educa
tion, equality before the law, and in political
rights and privileges, arc the essentials of any
satisfactory reconstruction in the South.
[Gen. Pope’s Letter to Gen. Grant.
NO GAG.
We have no gag—[applause]—we have
no programmes for this purpose—[renewed
applause]—we have no gag on our pro
grammes. — Gov. Geary,
The dedication of the National, so-called,
cemetery at Antietam drew together a vast
and promiscuous crowd. Among that
crowd was Gov. Geary, of Pennsylvania,
the concluding sentences of whose harangue
we quote above. It seems that the regular
programme of proceedings had been accom
plished. Some Rev. Chadband prayed ; ex-
Gov. Bradford, of Maryland, orated ; the
bands tooted ; the people shouted and every
body, save a knot of Pennsylvanians, hav
ing had enough of tin; good thing, prepared
to return homeward. Just as the cars were
on the point of starting, the aforesaid Geary
appeared on the speaker’s stand and deter
mined, in spite of thunder, to have his say.
Those who desired to hear him remained ;
those, and the greater number, having no
such curiosity, departed. Whereupon, the
gorge of Jo/tN W. Geary rose wrath fully
he—made a fool of himself.
If space allowed, we might allude to the
bad taste of all such assemblies, but, for the
present, forbear. The fierce squabble of
contending factions, over the graves of their
dead bears its own commentary and re
proach. We relinquish criticism upon the
propriety of Antietam celebrations and
monuments, and turn to Gov. Geary and
his vaporing.
Surely, the man was mad when he de
clared that he and his party had no gag on
their programmes. Has Tennessee a tree
mouth? Has Maryland ? Has Kentucky?
Has the white race in the South ? No gags,
forsooth ! The success of his party depends
upon gagging. The tremendous struggle
of an enslaved people North and South is,
this day, to remove that gag. If the Geary
cabal dared relinquish the peculiar process
for a single season, they would be swept
from political existence.
What was the programme of 1865-’6O, in
which the dominant party secured its pre
sent omnipotent audacity ? It was an en
dorsement of the very policy now declared
abhorrent. It was adverse to military gov -
ernments, now relied upon lor perpetuity.
It was a constitutional amendment that
permitted the States to regulate franchise
as they pleased, ffrtd the people of tlu*
North been undeceived, they would have
dispersed the revolutionists they trusted.
Now, at length, the mask has fallen, and the
result is obvious rrom Maine to California.
As one State after another rises in condem
nation of the Radicals, the gag is instanta
neously applied by excluding representa
tion, as in the cases of Maryland and Ken
tucky and, as in the cases of Tennessee ami
other Southei-n Territories, by silencing,
through fraud, disfranchisement and intim
idation, the indignant, voice of the whit-;
population.
And yet, the irascible and virtuous Geaio
yells out: “We have no gags in our pro
gramme.”
Reaction. —The change of sentiment,
now taking place over all the land has
visibly affected the press. The Herald says
the Radical organs in New York have los ;
one-third of their subscribers within the pas;
three mouths. “ This falling off,” continues
the Herald , “is in consequence of the dis
satisfaction of prudent business men and
intelligent, fair-minded citizens with the
violent tirades and bloody revolutionary
schemes of the extreme Radicals, who are
ready to plunge the country into all sorts
of dangers and difficulties rather than lose
possesions of the spoils of the Government.
It is an indication of the reaction that is
going on aii over the Union, and that will
soon appear J.n Pennsylvania and New
York, just the *ame as it has been seen
already in California and Maine.”
The Supreme Judges of Georgia are evi
dently behind the times. Suppose they
should be convinced, even by the Northern
people, that Congressional tyranny was and
is unconstitutional—how would they feel ?
Will Hukluekt and Ac ret circulars con
sole them in the day of retribution ?
A Ghoui...—At a recent meeting of Jaco
bins in Ohio, a Democratic turn-coat, spoke:
Providence seemed to favor the Union party.
The yellow lever was in New Orleans, and the
men appointed to supercede Sheridan were
aflraid to go there. It might he that they would
be afraid to go until the Fortieth Congress met,
aud the probability was that if they did not go
till then they would never go at all. |Ap
plause.j
Here is a two-edged sword. If Provi
dence favored the Union party by sending
yellow fever to New Orleans, how does it
happen that a large per-centage of mortali
ty is among the Yankee residents ? If it
favored the party, why, oh ! why did it kill
poor Griffin who, as far as possible, was
as bad as Sheridan ?
Gens. Thomas and Hancock have, hith
erto, been considered men of \alor; but
our orator proves to the contrary. They
have, hitherto, been ranked in the front
line of the Union party ; but our orator
spits them like larks and roasts them as
heretics.
Complimentary. —The secret circular of
Hurlbert, the head-devil of registration,
is highly complimentary to Chief Justice
Warner. We suppose he likes the com
pany he has introduced himself to. The
Loyal League rises up and calls the Chief
Justice of Georgia blessed. As he is de
pended upon by the reconstruction party to
foster schemes of agrarianism, his recent
letter may be taken as an earnest that he
will decide in favor of the constitutionality
of the Sherman-Shellnbarger Bill.
For our part, we are inclined to the
opinion that he wished his letter to be re
garded as the effusion of a private citizen ;
but, in trapping a private citizen, one may
sometimes catch a Judge and sometimes a
General. .
Still Asleep.—Mr. Johnson is an
nounced as “ not yet seeing his way clear
enough.” The Radicals will open his eyes
pretty soon.
Sleep, Mr. Johnson, sleep and snore,
TIB the Radicals hid you sleep no more.
A TALK ON GRAPES.
i from the Transactions of the Richmond Coun
ty (Ga.) Agricultural Club, Sept. 14, 1867.
By P. J. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.
Notwithstanding all that has been said
vritten, and is daily appearing in print on
lie subject of the Grape, there is still a
,ack of information on its peculiar culture
mcl iu regard to the selection of varieties
or the Southern States.
This country, by its natural productions,
jeems to lie emphatically the home of the
Every where, from the barren sand
all t j the rich bottom land, is the wild
.•■rape to be found. Could it be possible
mat, where nature has been so lavish witli
tais treasure, the laud should never be that
>f vineyards ? Shall the beautiful appetln
foii of Finland, given to this country by its
■arliest discoverers, remain a vain one by
the.neglect of the successors of these men,
ivho early foreshadowed what the future
:ould do for it, providing man helped the
efforts of an all-wise Providence, which lav
ishly gave the elements of untold pecuniary
resources to him? Strange that this dis
pensation should have been overlooked by
nearly all early grape-growers; instead of
improving the native varieties, so abundant
everywhere, and making these the basis of
future success, they almost invariably look
ed upon foreign countries for a supply of
varieties to begin operations with. All
early failures are attributable to this cause
mainly, and it is only after years of repeat
ed disappointments that they came to the
conclusion, that the foreign grape is not
rdapted to vineyard culture. The experi
ments, however, had been tried by practical
oignerons, who knew the mysteries of its
cultivation, and with ample capital at their
command. There is no record of one single
case of continued success. Foreign grapes
will here give a fair and often a large crop
of fruit the first year of production, but
seldom will they give a second ; they utter
ly foil after one or two seasons of fruiting.
We may raise seedlings from foreign grapes;
these are not better than their parents, as
regards adaptability to the climate. 1 In;
peculiar structure of the type, vitis vinifern,
remains and, albeit all our efforts we must
at last abandon them.
Tlm*»ry leaches well, hut practical cxpt
rieuce leaches better; himl, as a result, the
early American grape growers commence l
realizing some prollis when they took the
native grapes for vineyard culture.
Since the advent of the Catawba, which
gave the start to American grape growing
and wine making, and which, for many
years, with Isabella, made up the list of the
then wine grapes, viniculture has made im
mense progress, as well in the application
of sound principles in its culture, as by the
production of numberless new varieties,some
of which are now fairly rivaling in quality
with many of the good European varieties.
A few years more of this steady inarch of
improvement, and America will have no
need to ask any grapes from Europe or
Asia, to supply that requisite feature of a
winter evening party, “Manama Gkaiucs.”
However, from u scarcity of varieties of a
few years past, we have fallen into another
■ evil, which is the endless list of grapes of
, fared to the planter. It seems that the
great object has been to mystify; and, if
1 this indiscriminate manner of ottering new
1 grapes for general culture is continued by
■ parties interested, the result will be that a
distrust will arise as to grape growing. To
avoid these consequences, the trade must
address itself more to the interest of the
community, and advocate the planting of
but few, but well tried varieties, and dis
card any that will not prove generally pro
fitable.
The aim of all disseminators of grapes
must be to supply the wants of the public
with varieties that benefit the country at
large, and at prices that will enable the
farming community to plant vineyards, and
not make it a matter of self-speculation,
solely because a grape succeeds well in a
particular locality. This is as much to
their interest as to that of the planter, and
in the end more remunerative to them than
by endeavoring to sell a few plants at high
prices and of untried varieties. It must in
evitably result in loss to the dealer event
ually, and the few dollars derived from that
source will come back to him in the shape
ol‘ numcrou« and varied recriminations.—
Little things, dressed up in big words are
like the ass in the lion’s skin ; as soon as
they are found out they become objects of
contempt.
It is true that the cultivation of the
grape lias not been very remunerative since
1801; but reports from almost every section
of the country are more favorable as to the
present year’s crop, and give us the hope
that the period of decay, which has been sc
fatal to viniculture, has at last reached Its
limit, and that a more favorable era is com
mencing.
While on this topic of decay h few worth,
arc required.
Various reasons have been given as to
the cause of decay; almost every culturist
has his theory ; I have mine, like others,
and I am satisfied that my previous ideas
as to this decay have proved wide of the
mark, as well as those of more experienced
vignerons. Neither wet nor dry weather,
old or young yincs, soils too porous or too
retentive, long or short pruning, thorough
cultivation or entire neglect, had anything
to do -with the general cause of decay. One
or the other of the above may cause partial
decay; but it cannot influence the grape
prop throughout the country. A soil re
tentive of humidity will, by itself, be con
ducive to decay in the fruit; another, of too
arid a nature, will tail to supply the requi
site sap to the vine when most, needed, and
by either cause the grape crop will fail.
Still we have seen, during the past four
years, the reverse of what we could expect.
For instance, grapes would rot in a soil
which all yignerons Would select for the
site of a vineyard; and Pfoduc? sound
fruit in a low soil underiayed with stiff
pipe clay. This is contrary to all past ex
perience.
Some years the rot would commence
upon the appearance of a rainy season in
June; at others, it would be arrested upon
the cessation of rain. Old vines in general
will fail sooner than younger ones, their vi
gor being impaired by previous excessive
crops. Whenever a vine is allowed to over
bear itself, it seldom recuperates afterwards,
even if the supply of nutriment is- more
abundaut than is generally the case. We
should be satisfied with a moderate crop
of fruit; we can exiiect this for a long pe
riod of years; but if the vine is allowed to
produce in one year three times as much
iruitas it should naturally produce, it is to
the detriment of its future fertility and vi
gor.
Overbearing, at first or second produc
tion, is one of the great causes of the early
exhaustion of our vineyards. The land used
for a vineyard is generally impoverished by
previous croppings. The vine finds in it a
few remaining constituents requisite to its
growth and production of fruit; being a
voracious feeder, it absorbs these readily
and in a short time. A year or two of hea
vy producing of fruit exhausts the soil of
nutritive elements; and the vine,finding no
jlonger a supply of nourishment, begins to
decline in vigor and fertility; and, once
stunted in growth it seldom recuperates,
even if after-treatment is such as to return
a new supply of nourishment to the soil.
The tendency to overbear should be cheek
ed ; but how few persons have sufficient
■courage to cut off a portion of the brandies
in Spring ? It is essential to remove
one-half of the brances asjjoon as tliey ap
pear, the remaining half wfll be more de
veloped, the berries large;.-, the quality im
proved, the weight of the fruit as large in
the end, as if all the branches were"left,
and the vine will not exhaust itself so much.
By overstraining nature fails; and it is
!easier for a vine to perfect a dozen bunches
than to attempt to do so for double that
■number. Our finest specimens of fruits,
| such as pears, peaches, apples, etc., are the
consequence of a moderate crop of fruit
iqion the trees, caused either naturally or
artificially, by removing a proper propor
tion of the flowers, or, better still, the flower
buds, as soon as they appear.
It is a wrong policy to desire to enjoy too j
soon; Festina lente, should be the niotto of
the fruit grower, although it is in opposition 1
to the rules of young America. To revert 1
to the subject of decay, the main cause :
seems to be purely “ climatoi," and can be
compared to an epidemic in man, or epizoo
ty iu animals; it will make its appearance
suddenly, and often as suddenly cease.
This was the experience of French vine
growers, although the character of the dis
ease there differed from the American grape ■
rot. We may henceforth have a long period '
of sound fruit crops, and perhaps be visited ,
again by the rot, after a longer or shorter
time. But one thing is certain, that the de-1 ]
cay, this year, was less destructive than at <
any period since 1862, the year of its first
appearance.
Can the grape be cultivated here with a
fair prospect of profit ? is a question that is
first asked by new beginners. It can be an
swered in the affirmative, provided the right
varieties be planted.
The Concord has been pronounced at th
North and West, the grape for the “million,"
and the poor man’s wine grape. This is
irue for those sections; but not for the
Southern States. We have a grape indige
nous to the country, which is more deserv
ing that appellation for us: one that will
thrive on a rocky hill as well as in a rich
bottom; never failing to produce a crop of
fruit; never having been known to rot, and,
above all, needing no experienced hand to
trim it. i refer to the Scuppemong. Its ca
pacity of production is fabulous, when com
pared tol other viueyard varieties. Vines
planted six years ago, upon land that would
not produce ten bushels of corn to the acre,
in average years, have produced one and a
half bushels of fruit each, and this is the
fourth crop. They were planted without
regard' to the arbor training, under which
mode the Scuppernong attainsiits, largest
size, but simply trained upon a ■wire trellis
four feet high ; the distance twenty feet in
the row. What will an acre produce at
this rate, and what will it produce, if pro
perly trained, and planted in a rich soil ?
Instances of a single vine covering ope
acre of ground are numerous, and sixty
barrels of wine its product in a single sea
son. These are exceptions which vine
growers must not all expect to realize. But
they are merely giveu as an evidence of its
wonderful fertility. Its culture is the sim
plest of all modes, and the outlay required
to establish an acre is insignificant, as com
pared with the prices of the new varieties.
Enough of the former to plant an acre can
be procured for the price of a half dozen
new comers.
The next best wine grape is the Clinton,
whose merits are now sufficiently known to
give it its rank among the great wine
grapes of the country. It is of Northern
origin, but improves as it is brought south
ward. It is very prolific, and makes a
heavy bodied claret. Other varieties arc
coming into notice, and bid fair to make
valuable additions to this class of grapes :
such are the “ Tres Seedling,” Ac.
Our good table grapes are becoming nu
merous. First comes Delaware, which
seems to thrive everywhere South. Isabella
bids fair to even excel the Delaware; ils
quality is superior to any of its class; so
far it has not decayed, although, from the
short time of Its introduction South, we
cannot for am decided opinion as to its ulti
mate behaviour; still, two years’ fruiting,
during which it bore perfectly sound crops,
and this during a period when many other
varieties, of like recent introduction, decay
ed, is a fair beginning and likely to end
well. Hartford Prolife is as yet our besl
very early grape. As a profitable market
fruit it stands first in order. The bunches
and berries are large, of line appearance,
fair quality and stands carrying to market
better than any other variety. It is not so
liable to drop its berries like in Northern
Slates. Its earliness will always make it
command a high price. Miles is better in
quality, fully, if not a little earlier, but not
so line in appearance.
Concord, will long remain as one of our
good grapes. Its skin is rather too thin to
stand carrying to distant markets; but it
is very prolific, of fine quality, and will
doubtless make a good wine, although no
experiments have as yet been tried upon a
large scale.
Ontario, or Union Village, when well
grown, rivals in size the Black Hamburg.
It is a splendid looking grape, of good qual
ity, and lias decayed less than many of the
heretofore considered reliable grapes. When
the Warren and Black July find a suitable
soil and situation, no grape can compare
with either in the peculiar textflrc of the
fruit. The vinous flavor of these varieties
belongs only to the type of summer grape
(Vitis Ostivalis) from which they originate,
and they are all well described by Down
ing, when he calls them “ bags of wine.”—
Otlier varieties have their merits; but they
alone have given more satisfaction general
ly than others; and we must bd satisfied
with them, especially if tu derive
profit from grape-growing ; and, until better
varieties are prod need,-we -must take them,
us they combine variety enough to satisfy
the most fastidious taste.. _
Hybridizing lias been much experimented
with of late; but very few qf the so-called
hybrids are really so ; they are, in most in
stances, true natives of either the labrmca
or Oslioalis type. To Dr. Wylie, of Ches
ter, 8. C., belongs the credit of having
achieved the best results. The thanks of
all American grape growers should be given
him for liis efforts in improving our native
varieties by scientific and patient labors,
and the fruits of these labors will, at no
distant day, largely benefit the country.—
His experiments have been, by taking the
native species as the female, and using the
jjollen of the foreign varieties as males.—
| The offsprings show more foreign charac
j iers than native ones; proving that the ex
periments were successful. By this process
he has produced Delawares with the most
exquisite flavor of the Muscats. Clintons as
large as Concords, and with a Muscat or
i Chasselas flavor. By cross impregnation,
taking his hybrid varieties as male, he has
produced from the wild Halifax a most ex
quisite wine grape ; and the most pleasant
feature with hits hybrids is, that they have
not been ip the least subject to decay, al
though he states that the ground ip which
they are planted is not a suitable oue for a
vineyard.
The best soil for a vineyard is a dry cal
careous loam, one coutaing natural salts
and a proportionate quantity of vegetable
matter■ It is fulilo to expect a heavy grape
crop upoii soil too poor tq be used for the
cultivation of corn.
The different varieties of grapes will
make different wines. Nearly all the vari
eties belonging to f lie Fox grape ( Vitis ,lai
brusra) will make a Ilock. They are bet
ter suited to Hie production of white wines
than red ones, when iioOff by themselves.
The Catawba, the Venango, Ac., give a
rough wine, when fermented upon the
skins. The Concord, from its thinness of
skin, contains iess acid matter, and will,
therefore, make a- palatable ref! 'vine. The
Labruscas should have a portion of Ostiva'tes
mixed with .them, when a red wine is de
sired. For instance, Catawba gnd Isabella,
with a third: Clinton, Warren or Black Ju
ly, will give a superior re<l wine. The Osti
valis class are more akin to the French
wine grapes. The Clinton will give a line
Claret; Ohio, or Jacques, something more
resembling a Burgundy; Pauline, Warren
and Black July will produce wines vary
ing from a Sauterne to a Madeira. Scuper
nong will make a delicious Muscatel.—
Enough for all tastes; and it is to be hoped
that, as we have the elements of success in
our hands, we shall no longer allow them
to remain unproductive.
An Indignant White Soldier —A
Word with the Bark on It.— A white
soldier writing from Bryan, Williams coun
ty, says:
So great has been my prejudice against
the Democratic party that I have not even
allowed myself to read yours, or any other
Democratic i>apor. But I take pleasure in
informing you that 1 have “changed my
base” since hearing the speech of Jim Ash
ley in the court-house the other day. When
he told me and my brave comrades in arms
—as he did tell us—that if we wouid not
vote for that cursed abomination, negro
suffrage, we “ looked like cowards, would
walk to the polls like cowards, would vote
like cowards, and arc cowards.” lie told a
cowardly lie, and if he should tell me so
personally, then, so help me God, I would
cram the infernal lie down the throat of the
poor “ fancy ” bloat. And I have only to
say for myself and a corps of my comrades,
that a party composed of men who will sit
and applaud such vile slang as the Itepub
licands did at thp meeting to-day, shall
never have another vpte from us.
Great God! only think of it! Because
we happen to think that white men are
still competent to run this Government, \ye
must have the charge' hurried in our faces
by a stay-at-home brawler: “ You look like
cowards, you will walk to the polls like
cowards, you will vote like cowards, and
you are cowards.”
With us Ashleyism aud all other kinds of
Radicalism are played out.
Yours, for the clean Democratic ticket,
White Soldier.
Baptist Growth.—iu twenty-flve years the
Baptist denomination in this country has gain
ed sixty-nine per cent, in churches, seventy
seven per cent, in ministers, and ninety-eight
per cent, in members; and in twenty-seven
years the contributions for borne and foreign
missions have increased three bnndred and
eighty-four per cent.
In the Depths.
ANONYMOUS. M'
, - i €
Take back your books I they only irritate
My wretchedness—and leave me; you can coma
When I am dead, and coldly speculate > : *
(Fearing no scoff from lips unkissed and dumb)
On how much sorrow woman-life can hold, * s
And how much sin whose name should be untold.
No doubt you thought to do some good I Bafyou
Have kept your charities aloot too long ; ™
I tried once to begin my life anew,
When I in courage and in youth was stroniM*
But what could I do, when the whole world trm
With scornful foot upon my faith in God ? ><
What brought me here ( Forgetting naught can give
So fair a front to sin as love 1 And so
Forgetful once, found henceforth I must live
The downward life ; and there are depths so low
That all your hospitals and books and prayenj
Will fall to snatch us up the pluuging stairs?*
But sometimes, when (he bright clouds stand ajar,
I think my child steals to the heavenly gate,
And thrusts her white hand through the golden bav
Thai keeps her back ; and wistfully I will,
And strive with aim and shuddering'eyes to see
Across the gulf that shuts the world from me.
No, no, pray not! your prayers can only tire ;
Dearer to me the Romish priests, who dole
For fitful penance, or for scanty hire,
Direct salvation to the sinful soul.
Repent t If my child’s loving hands coul.l fail
To draw me back, what can your words avail J, a
'
Yet, had she lived, perhaps witli her sweet aid
I might have lost rememberancc ol the past,
And gained some good ; ah ! you whose homes are
made
In sunny spots, should realize at last
How hard we find it to escape oar sin,
Or find a hand to help ns to begin.
Now go! her tender face alor e shall keep •
Its pitying watch, as death draws greedy nigh ;
And pull the curtain back, lest I shall sleep’
Aim lose my last look at her happy sky. .
You think it sad to die so ! but, my feet.
Reel gladly down, their promised rest to meek-
“Sjf*
The Yellow Fever in Galveston^r
The Galveston Bulletin has the following in
formation : *•' U*.
September 4th —Gen. Grifflu’s only son and
Us nurse died last evening. All the army sur
geons are dead of sick. The entire family of
Gen. Potter are down. The Commissuraliffiee
for the Dislriet of Texas is closed, MajoteNash,
the chief commissary’s wile and child and all
his clerks being sick. A physician yesterday
charged a sailor one hundred dollars for lour
visits. Total deaths, 35, of which 30 were ol
yellow fever.
September Oth —Dr. Hanna died yestpcday.—
Oar telegraph office is reduced to one operator ;
that ol' Houston is in the same condition. —
Deaths, 17, all of yellow fever. y 5»
September 0th —The mortality heavies. Dr.
Rowe and lien. Griffin’s only son arc among
the dead. The demands on the Howard Asso
ciation are very heavy. The burial of a girl of
ill fame was a most affecting scene. Lieut.
Garretson is attacked ; this completes the shall'
and leaves the General alone. Total deaths, 25;
of yellow fever. 111.
September Sth — At least B, (XX) people have
been sick, and there were about 15,(XX) unae
cliinated persons in the city. Deaths previous
to past week, 689; during the week, 152. Total
during the season, 711. There is a call for
lady nurses, both for pay' and as volunteers ;
of the latter there are a number of kind souls
who are doing good deeds in a quiet, unosten
tatious way. We could tel, were wc permit
ted, stories of some, who are supposed to have
no higher ideas of duty' than a new bonuct or
the latest waltz, that would iu their zeal and
devotion to the good work, put to shame many
ol the sterner sex. Those who know the un
written history of this epidemic, well know to
whom we allude. I fit shall ever please Proydenee
to unite us around tl.e festal board once more,
wc shall join in that time-honored sentiment,
“ the ladies ; God bless them,” with an unction
and a bumper that never greeted it before. The
merchants of New York have contributed nobly
to our wants. Dr. Gantt died to-day. Deaths,
15 ; by the fever, 14.
September 10th. —On Sunday the deaths ran
up to 33. Mr. Flake, proprietor of the bulletin,
is down, hut not with yellow fever; Mr. Whill
den, assistant editor, was taken with lever on
Saturday. Patients who go out on recovery
have a relapse and die. They might as well
order a coffin while they are iu the street; they
will want it. The disease is now spreading
among the higher class. Mr. MeMurphy, Gen.
Sherman’s son-in-law, is dead ; he was but lately
married. Major Adams, physician Os (his post,
is among the dead. Total deaths, 32^ all by
yellow fever.
The deaths during the fever season bf 1853
were 53(5; in 1854, 404, with a population of
0,000. In 1858, 844 ;in 1859, 182, with an esti
mated population of 8,000. jn 1804, popula
tion, by actual enumeration, 4,400, deaths, 350,
ot whom 111 were soldiers. Deaths from July
24 to-September 0, SOtl, with u population, ne
eording to assessor’s census, of 22,500. which
includes 15,000 imacclimatcd persons. In 1853
the fe<fct*c<*sed November 28; in 1854, Novem
ber 5; in 1858, November 14; in 1859, Novetn-
iu 1884, November 20. There are but
of the deaths being numerous
(er the 26th ol September.
[Correspondence Boston Post.
Sketches at Niagara*
To sec the falls and objects around it will
cost about fifteen dollars. The cataract, iu all
ts human surroundings, is an irritating swin
dle from beginning to end. Between cabmen,
.ruides, waiters and beggars, with board at the
aighest notch, the American side is intolerable
enough, hut among the Canadians there are
only penitentiary birds. A yellow skinned
woman at the so-called museum, near Table
Rock, stands ready to scalp you, and then sell
vour hair. You arc carried against your will
into oil-skin breeches, let down a ladder that
sets all your nerves and prayers going, drench
ed with spray, driven 'up the ladder again,
penned in a dressing-room, and then bullied
out ol three dollars by a negro man whom I
conceive to be the husband of the white woman
atorepaid- The most appropriate architecture
for the Canada side of the falls would be a
penitentiary. Such a godless, soulless, miser
able lot of convicts never paraded to the gal
lows as go at large under the smoke of Niaga
ra. Gamblers ami counterfeiters are numerous
here, on both sides of the river, there beiug
good facilities for the refuse of either Govern
ment to rob or cheat, and escape beyond juris
diction.
The competing railways (hat c-foss the river
have filled (he banks with their sign hoards,
and the railroad sharper is a conspicuous ele
ment iu every foreground. A few people ot
wealth take collates here in the summer ; a
shabby scattering of poor restaurants is noticea
ble lor the use of people who would see Nia
gara between two trains. The noble English
man is a frequent portrait at the falls with his
blown wbjskers, gray eyes, wild necktie, spot
ted dogs on his cuffs and collars, a rise in his
coat-front, shoes that are of the shapejbf rolling
pins, and a frowsy coat, lull ol pocket flaps. 1
met one of these noble persons during my visit.
He had a red-book which is consulted often,
and seemed to bo looking at a crow on a tree
top, just past the rapids.
“ 1 beg pardon, fhn surel” lie said: “ but is
that a awk or a beagle yonder ? fly guide
book, look ln-re, yon know, beg pardon, daih
say, lias this passage: ‘The Indians reside in
such numbers around Niagara, that (hoy have
been aple jo preserve tlie aboriginal naiae,
whereas, the Americans, with their well-known
want of refinement, would wish to call the
cataract Saw Mill Falls. ’Awkes auf beagles,
as well as panthers, (also called by tlfcse singu
lar people painters), bears, and bundocs may
tie seen here. From the latter circumstance aii
insignificant hamlet on the AniericuijKdetakcs
its name!’ “ Now, beg pardon !” saiiPtuc Eng
lishman, “as f ’aren't seen a awk, a beagle, ora
buffalo since 1 left Montreal, I thought that ob
ject yonder might be one!’ ”
"Essex, Mass., lias a little girl three years
oj<l who plays over two hundred pieces on the
piano.”— Exchange. r *
At a Sunday-school celebration on Long
Island lately, prizes were given to those chil
dren who recited from memory thr greatest
number of Bible verses. Os course She luerie
monie performances were many and wried, and
were all accounted wonderful by the listening
parents of the seycral prodigies. 'file achieve
ment of one infant phenomenon is recalled to
mind by the item above quoted. A little pale
laced girl of only four years old actually gab
bled off one hundred and eleven verses of Bt.
Mark’s Gospel. Did the mothers of the two
hundred tune girl or of the hundrcdnnd-elevcn
verse martyr ever suspect that tliefe children
are being slowly, perhaps, but nojc the less
surely, murdered by the stupid, criminal vanity
of their dotiug parents » If those two unhappy
babies are iiot soon turned out doom to wade
in the mud-puddles and play with the pigs,
tunes and texts will speedily have done their
perfect work, and the children will taking their
last sleep under the roots ol the clover and the
daisies.— IV. f. Times.
What does the New York Gazettf mean by
the following: “ Sad are the storied that float
in upon us from the carnival lif at Long
Branch, Saratoga, and pther of the fashionable
summer resorts. Frivolities we expect. A
measurable amount of dancing ar 1 gaiety is
not surprising. But we do not lot i for such
reports as those which are left tqj pp*l os by
the ebbing season. We do not Jpk to see
ladies and gentlemen who are pifruiuent in
metropolitan social life engaged ii downright
carousals. We mean drinking, an l -drunken
ness—-uot one whit short or lesi This has
been the shame and curse of the season. It
has left a blight which will sadden 1 fe through
long years. It has, to our certain knowledge,
taken two persons stright down to death.”
The tobacco crop in Western Missachusetts
will be half as large this year as last
(From the Atlanta Opinion.
Gen. Pope's Election Order.
Hrad’qtrs Third Mimtary Distric, )
(Georgia, Alabama aud Florida,) V
Atlanta, Ga., September 10,1867.
General Orders, No. 69.
I. Whereas, By the terms ol an Act ol
Congress eutitled, “ An Act to provide for the
more efficient government of rebel States, pass
ed March 3d, 1867, and the Acts supplementary
thereto, it is made the duty of the Command
ing Geueral of this Military District, to canse a
registration to be made of the male citizens of
the State of Georgia, twenty-one years of age
and upwards, and by the terms of said Acts
qualified to vote, and after such registration is
complete to order an election to be held, at
which the registered voters of said State shall
vote for or against a Convention for tbe pur
pose ot establishing a Constitution and civil
government for said State, ioyal to the Union,
and for delegates to said Convention; and to
give at least thirty days’ notice of the time and
place at which the election shall be held ; and
the said registration having been made in the
State, of Georgia, It is ordered :
11. That au election be held in the State ot
Georgia, commencing on Tuesday, the 29th day
of October, 1867, and coutinuiug three days, at
which the registered voters of said State may
vote “ tor a Convention,” or “ against a Conven
tion,” and for delegates to constitute the Con
venlion, iu ease a majority ol the votes given on
that questiou shall be for a Convention, and in
ease a majority of all such registered voters
shall have voted on the questiou of holding
such Convention.
111. It shall be the duty of Boards of Regis
tration iu Georgia, commencing fourteen days
prior to the election herein ordered, aud giving
reasonable public notice of the time aud place
thereof, to revise for a period ol live days the
registration lists, and upon being satisfied that
any person not entitled thereto has been regis
tered, to strike the uamc of such person Iroui
the list, and such person shall not be allowed
to vote. The Boards of Registration shall also,
during the same period, add to such registry
the names of all persons who at that time
possess the qualifications required by said Act,
who have not been already registered.
IV. In deciding who are to be stricken from
or added to tbe registration lists, tbe Boards
will lie guided by the law aud the Acts supple
inentury thereto ; and their attention is especial
ly drawn to the supplementary Act dated .Inly
19th, 1867.
V. The said election shall be held in each
conutv at the County Scat, under Lite Superin
tendence of the Boards of Registration as pro
vided by law, and in accordance with instruc
tions to lie hereafter issued to said Boards.
VI. All Judges and Clerks employed in con
ducting said election shall, before commencing
to hold the same, he sworn to the faithlul per
formance of their duties, and shall also take
and subscribe to the oath of office prescribed
by law lor officers.ol the United Stales.
V4I. The polls shall he opened at each voting
place during the days spec ified, at seven o’clock
in the forenoon, and closed at six o’clock in the
afternoon, and shall he kept open between
those hours without intermission or adjourn
ment.
VIII. The commanding officer of the Dis
trict ol Georgia will issue, through the .Super
intendent of Registration for that Slate, such
detailed instructions us may he necessary to the
conduct of said election in conformity with the
acts of Congress, and as far as may he with
the laws of Georgia.
IX. The returns required by law to he made
of the results ol said election to the Command
ing General of this Military District, will he
rendered by the persons appointed to superin
tend the same, through the commanding offi
cer of the District of Georgia, and in accord
auce with the detailed instructions already re
ferred to.
X. No Registrar, who is a candidate forelec
tion as a delagato to (lie Convention, shall
serve as a Judge of the election in any county
which he seeks to represent.
XI. All public bar rooms, saloous, and other
places for the sale of liquors at retail at the
several county seats, shall be closed from six
o’clock on the evening of the twenty-eight day
of October until six o’clock on the morning ot
the first day of November, 18(17. And the Sher
iff of the county shall he held responsible for
the strict enforcement of this prohibition, by
the arrest of all parties who may transgress the
same.
XII. The Sheriff of each county is further
required to lie present at the place of voting
during the whole time that the polls are kept
open, and until the election is completed, and
is made responsible that no interference with
the Judges of election or other interruption of
good order shall occur. And any Sheriff or
other civil officer failing to perform with ener
gy and good faith the duty required ol him by
this order, will, upon report made by the
Judges of election, be arrested and dealt with
by Military authority.
- XIII. The following extracts trom General
Orders, No. 30, from these Headquarters, me
republished herewith, for the information and
guidance of all concerned :
“ XII. Violence, or threats of violence or any
other oppressive means to prevent any person
from registering his name or exercising his po
litical rights are positively prohibited ; and it
is distinctly announced that no contract or
agreement with laborers, which deprives them
of their wages for any longer time than that
actually consumed in registering or voting, will
he permitted lo be enforced against them in
this District; and this offense aud any previous
ly mentioned in this paragraph, will cause t.hu
immediate arrest of the offender and his trial
before a Military Commission.”
“ XIII. The exercises of the right of every
duly authorized voter, under the late Acts of
Cobgress, to register and vote is guaranteed by
the military authorities of this District; and ail
persons whosoever arc warned against any at
tempt to interfere to prevent any man from ex
ercising thi= right, under any pretext whatever,
other than objection by the usual legal mode.”
XIV. The State Senatorial Districts of Geor
gia, as established by State laws, being found
convenient divisions of the State for the pur
poses of representation in a State Convention,
are hereby adopted, aud the following appor
tionment of delegates among said Districts is
irit.de jn accordance with (he provisions of the
second section Os tire Supplementary Act dated
March 23d, isfi7:
To the Ist. District—Counties of Chatham,
Bryan and Effingham, eight delegates.
To the 3d District—Counties of Liberty, Tat
nali aud Mclntosh, two delegates.
To the 3d Dis|,rjft—Counties of Wayne,
nieree aud Appling, oue delegate.
To the 4th District—Counties of Glyun,Cam
den and Charlton, one delegate.
To the 5Lh district—Counties of Coffee, Ware
ana Clinch, oue delegate.
To the fllb District—Counties of Echols,
Lowndes and Berrien, two delegates.
To the 7lh District—Counties of Brooks,
Thomas and Colquitt, three delegates.
To tin; Bth District—Counties ot Decatur,
Mitchell and Miller, three delegates.
To the wtb District —Counties of Early, Cal
houn and Baker, three delegates.
To the 10th District—Counties ol Lee,
Dougherty and Worth, four delegates.
To the lllh District—Counties ot Clay, lian
dolpb aud Terrell, four delegates.
To the lath District—Counties of Stewart,
Webster and Quitman, three delegates.
To the 13th District —Counties of Buintwr,
Schley and Macon, flyc delegates.
Tq the 14tli District—Counties of Dooly, Wil
cox and Pulaski, four delegates.
To the 15lh District —Counties of Montgom
ery, Tel lair and Irwin, fine delegate.
To tlie liith District —Counties ot Laurens,
John and Emanuel, two delegates.
To the 17th District-Comities ol Bulloch,
Screven and Burke, five delegates.
To the 18tli District—Counties of Richmond,
Gl.'iscsoek and Jefferson, seven delegates.
To llielhth District—Counties of Taliaferro,
Warren and Greene, five delegates.
To the 20th District—Comities of Baldwin,
Hancock and Washington, six delegates.
To the Slst District—Counties of Twiggs,
Wilkinson and Jones, four delegates.
To the 22d District—Counties of Bibb, Mon
roc and l’ike, eight delegates.
To the 23d District—Counties of Houston,
Crawford and Taylor, live delegates.
To the 34th District—Counties of Marion,
Chattahoochee and Muscogee, five delegates.
To the 25th District— Counties of Harris,
Upson and Talbot, five delegates.
To tlie 261 h District—Counties of Fayette,
Spaulding and Butts, three delegates.
To the 37th District—Comities of Netytop,
Walton and Clarke, live delegates.
To the 28th District —Counties of Jasper,
Putnam and Morgan, live delegates.
To tlie 29th District—Counties of Wilkes.
Lincoln and Columbia, five delegates.
To the 30th District—Counties of Oglethorpe,
Madison and Elbert, four delegates.
To the Slst District—Com lies of Hart, Frank
lin and Habersham, three delegates.
To the 32d Diet Hot—Counties of White,
Lumpkin and Dawson, two delegates.
To the 33d District—Counties of Hall, Banks
and Jackson, three delegates.
To .the 34tli District—Counties of Gwinnett,
DeKalb and Henry, live delegates.
To the 35th District—Counties of Clayton,
Fulton and Cobb, seveu delegates.
To the 36th District-Counties of Coweta,
Campbell and iyierrlwethcr, live delegates.
To the 371 h District—Counties of Troup,
Heard and Carroll, five delegates.
To the 38tli District—Counties of Haralson,
Folk and Paulding, three delegates.
To the Sttth District— Counties of Cherokee,
Miiton and Forsyth, three delegates.
To the 40th District—Counties ol Union,
Towns and Rabun, two delegates.
To the 41st District— Counties of Fannin,
Gilmer and Pickens, two delegates.
To the 42d District—Counties of Bartow,
Floyd and Chattooga, five delegates.
To the 43d District—Counties of Murray,
Whitfield and Gordon, three delegates.
To the 44th District—Counties of Walker,
Dade and Catoosa, two delegates.
/ John Pope,
" Brevet Major General, Commanding.
Official: Brevet Col. H. Clay Wood, j
Assistant Adjutant General, 1
Foreign.
BY STEAMSHIP TO SEPTEMBER BTH.
The royal mail steamship Russia, which lett
Liverpool at 2, p. m., on the 7th, and Queens
town on the Bth instant, arrived on the 17th.
The suspension is reported of Messrs. Vero
uin Brothers, of Moscow, in consequence ot
large transactions in cotton. They have lour
cotton mills, and their liabilities are estimated
at about a quarter of a million sterling.
Tbe Loudon Times says the Bank of Eng
land’s account exhibits a feature without pre
cedent except on one occasion fifteen years
ago. The amount ot bullion held exceeds the
amount of the note circulation in the hands of
tbe public. On the 26th of June, 1852, when
consols were about 101, ex-div., a similar cir
cumstance took place. The excess of bullion
over circulation was then £700,128, aud on the
present occasion is f 9,342 ; but before the end
of the month, from the absorption of notes that
fakes place at the bnuk on account of revenue
payments, a much larger difference is likely to
he witnessed. At present tbe bullion held by
the bank is nearly £2,000,000 above the extra
ordinary total temporarily reached in 1853, and
there is every symptom of a further rapid aug
mentation.
A correspondent of the Times notices as a
warlike symptom that large arrivals ol oats
from the North of Europe were being tran
shipped Iroui the port of London to France.
The total quau lily to the preseut time is esti
mated at 1,000,000 quarters.
Mr. James Sanderson’s annual report esti
mates the wheat crop in England aud Scotland
to be under llie average. Barley ten per cent,
above average. Oats fifteen per cent, above,
average. Beaus fully average, and peas much
below average. The potato crop is producing
an average yield, but Lite quality, from an ex
cess (if moisture in the soil, is rather inferior,
fn the western and southwestern counties of
England the disease is very rreneral, the turnip
crop generally singularly good, pastures very
abundant, and a larger and better yield Os bay
was never secured in England.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times writers follows : “No business at the
Bourse, but plenty ol Chassepot rifles in store.
Thus may lie summed up the present state ol
affairs here. Not only on the Paris Bourse, but
throughout France, very little business is doing,
for confidence seems gone and credit dead. It
is the natural consequences of a nation’s desti
nies resting entirely in the hands of one man,
that his smallest word excites alarm, and his
most candid utterances find but hesitating ac
ceptance. The present feeling is one of mis
trust and apprehension as to the future, and
the pursuits of peace naturally suffer lor it.—
The prevailing opinion undeniably is that next
year will bring war. Whether or not it is pre
destined to do so, the belief alone sufficies to
work incalculable mischief. The state of
chronic apprehension and restricted credit
seems ol late to have spread from France to
other nations, and all Europe suffers lor it. —
The Emperor’s speeches, even the. most pacific
of them, have persuaded nobody that the hour
ot action is far removed, and the French Ad
ministration is bestirring itself lo he ready for
all eventualities. Besides the accelerated liianu
lacturc of the new l ilies, which it may be urged,
is not unnatural when once the adoption of
that weapon has been decided upon, other pre
parations of a more significant nature are being
made.”
Latest Nows by Mai!.
EUROPE.
Berlin, Sept. 17.—King William of Prussia
will visit Rastadt during the present week, on
invitation of the Grand Duke ol Baden, who
has requested his Majesty to hold there a re
view of the military forces of the grand duchy.
The Cabinets of Berlin ami Vienna are engaged
in negotiating a commercial treaty which will
relieve trade between Germany and Austria
from many restrictions, and will tend to make
the business relations of the two countries more
satisfactory than they have been at any ttme
since llie late war.
Lisbon, Sept. 17.— The steam frigate Minne
sota, Captain James Alden,. one of the United
States practice squadron, arrived at this port
to day.
The Minnesota has on hoard the graduating
class of midshipmen from the naval school at
Annapolis, Maryland.
[Special Telegram to the Herald.
THE INDIAN WAR.
Leavenworth, September 17, 9, P. M.—A
general attack was inade by the Indians to-dav
upon Hie grading parties at the end of the track
of the Union Pacific Railroad, eastern division.
Seven men were killed. Great excitement pre
vails at the forts.
All the stock of a Government tra'ui has been
captured between Walker and Fossil creeks.
White men are suspected of instigating the
late outrages ou this route.
[The Press Telegram.
St. Lours, September 17. A Western dis
patch says that five stage stations hciwetm Hays
City, Kansas, and Fort Wallace, were attacked
by Indians on Friday, and forty mules and
horses were captured aud one man killed and
several wounded.
Yesterday morning forty wagons were at
tacked east of Hays City, thirty animals cap
tured, two drivers killed and one wounded.
Large bodies of Indians are all along the
road and threaten lolal destruction to travel. —
They are burning all the hay and grass on the
route.
An Omaha dispatch says that the Montana
volunteers had a fight with the Sioux and Crow
Indians on the Yellow Stone river on the Ist
inst. Two whites were killed. The Indian loss
was not known.
Isn’t the “champion ” business about, as (he
Bowery vernacular hath it, “ played out ?’’ We
have billiard champions, fighting champions of
halt a dozen sorts, heavy weights, light weights,
middle weights and catch weights; baseball
champions, somersault champions, wrestling
champions, quoit champions, running, leaping,
swimming, shooting, walking, singing, dancing
and skating champions. Eaeli trade has its
champions; there is a type-setter, a efllf-butdier,
a chair-maker apd a score of others, each of
whom claims the championship iu hi 9 own par
ticular department. Then we have champion
yachts, horses, skiffs, billiard tables, dfec., and
the cry is still they keep coming. In Washing
ton Market, not long since, there was an ex
citing race between rival butchers for the honor
of the sheep-skinning championship (fact), and
their bright example has been emulated in tlie
city of Madison, Indiana, by two ambitions
youths, who waged a hundred dollars on the
issue of sixty minutes’ pig-sticking. N«w, we
submit that this is getting dangerous ; it won’t
be long, al. Ibis rate, before we shall have eager
struggles for the honor ol being accounted the
champion eofliti maker and the champion grave
digger; then, naturally, we shall have rival doc
tors fiercely bleeding, blistering, scarifying and
dosing—each striving to win bis championship
by furnishing in the least tin\e the most uia’.fe
rial to fill both the coffins and tlie graves. But
the theme grovys grim and ghastly—champion
us no more champions.— N. Y. Timex.
Divorce Made East.—The New York
Timex, is showing the various devices that are
resorted to in New York, as elsewhere, to make
divorce easy. Alter quoting from the adver
tising columns ol some of Ihc oily journals, the
cards of certain legal gentlemen who propose
to procure Sbsolute divorces from the courts
of several States without publicity or l'cc till
successful, the editor says:
Very many of these divorce suits are con
ducted in a inauner so exceedingly confiden
tial, that one of the parties most interested is
noL informed ol the proceedings at all, until
astounded by the presentation of the decree.—
We were cognizant of a case wherein an esti
mable lady, innocent of all wrong and ignorant
eveu of any dissatisfaction on the part of her
husband, parted with him affectionately at the
steamboat dock as she started on a journey to
see some friends; some hours after, iu
the privacy ol her stateroom, she found leisure
to examine a paper her husband had handed
her at tlie last minute, and discovered it to lie a
copy of a decree ol divorce rendered by an
Illinois Judge. Before the steamboat hail been
si? hours gouc, tier late husband had married
another woman. Numbers of these confiden
tial divorces are obtained for unworthy pur
poses by the most rascally means.
A Woman’s Answer to an ATirmsT.—A
wriLer illustrating the fact that some errors are
lifted into importance by efforts to refute them,
when tticy need to lie treated witli contempt
and ridicule, observes that all the blows inflict
ed by tlie Herculean clnb of certain logicians
arc not half so effectual as a box on the car of
a celebrated atheist by the hand of some charm
ing beauty. After having in vain preached to a
circle of ladies, he attempted to avenge himself
by saying: “ Pardon my error, ladies; 1 did not
imagine that in a house where wjt lives with
' grace, I alone should have tlie honor of not be
lieving iu God.” “ You are not alone, sir,"
answered the mistress of tlie house; “my horse,
my dog, my cat, share tho honor with you ;
only these poor brutes have tbe good sense not
to boast of it.”
We are told by a foreign journal that pine
apples made iu Paris, from turnips, are doli
eious. The turnips arc saturated with an ap
propriate syrup, which confectioners know very
well how to manufacture. If pineapples, why
not peaches? and if peaches, why not ornnges,
figs, grapes, Long Island watermelons, Bartlett
pears and Newtown pippins? Let some inge
nious Yankee invent a rutabaga lathe, by means
of which he can work that succulent vegetable
into the forms of various fruits, then let him
saturate them with the proper syrups and the i
thing is done. But of course such a wonderful
discovery will not rest here, nor will the juices '
| of fruits be the only ones employed.
1 [New York Times. i
BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
■ ■
PVorn Washington.
Washington, September 20.
Sheridan and Sickles are here. Hancock
leaves in a few days for St. Louis.
A Cabinet, meeting to-day lasted two hours.
Grant was absent.
Revenue receipts to-day, $260,000.
Brevet Lieut. Col. C. A. Reynolds, Q. M., is
assigned to duty at Mobile.
Chase has gone to Ohio.
Dr. Luke Blackburn has left. Canada tor New
Orleans under the recent amnesty.
The Bureau ot Indian Affairs has received
nothing confirmatory of the extraordinary de
mands of the Indians on the North Platte.
The National Council of American Mechan
ics assembles in Baltimore on the 24th iusl.
Hancock, Sheridan and Sickles dined togeth
er to-day. Their presence creates little sensa
tion,
A. T. Stewart is dead. He left $70,000,000.
Gov. Fenton had a prolonged interview with
Grant to-day.
From Chattanooga.
Chattanooga, September 20.
The Crutchfield House was totally destroyed
by fire at (i o’clock to-night. The fire was
caused by the breaking of a number of kerosene
lamps in the oil room, where the waiter was
carrying them. The Haines caught the oil in
barrels, which flashed up and spread all over
the house in ten minutes. Little property was
saved except in the lower stories. The fire
originated in the wooden addition, and ascend
ed, catching the upper story of the brick part
There were several narrow escapes, but no
lives were lost. No water was near aud no en
gine in town. The water was applied through
500 yards ol hose from the fire engine o( the
machine shop of the A. & C. R. R., hut too late
to check the fire. Other houses near were
damaged by sparks, but not seriously. Loss,
$150,000; insured for $45,000 in the Etna, ol
Hartford, Home, of Now York, and other com
panies. The walls are nearly all down.
rorri New York.
New York, September SO.
Reports are current here of trouble in tin
Stouiugton Batik of Connecticut. The cashier
is said to lie missing.
The Arizona brought $ 1,351,000 and Panama
dates to the 12th iust.
A. A. Burton, late Minister to Columbia, de
nies negotiating lor the annexation of the Isth
mu . to Die United States.
Two Americans were killed and one wound
ed in Carlhagena.
Nothing new from South America.
The Hudson river steamboats Dean Richmond
and C. Vanderbilt collided near Uoundout at
one o’clock this morning. The Richmond
sunk in mi hour. The Vanderbilt is little in
jured. None lost.
From Savannah.
“ WAR OK RACES.”
Savannah, September 20.
Col. E. Bucks and overseer, Mr. T.ancaslcr,
ot Camp Pickens, Charlton county, Oil., had a
dillicully with the negroes working on tin
place, which resulted in shooting a negro in tin
thigh. The next day—Sunday—two armed no
groes went to the house and demanded satis
faction of Lancaster. Several shots were ex
changed. One negro was killed and the olhei
wounded. Mr. Lancaster was badly wounded,
and his horse was killed. Lancaster and Mi.
Nugaser left Monday for St. Mary’s. An armed
band of thirty negroes seized them. Nugasct
escaped by swimming the river. Lancaster was
left in the hands of the negroes, and it is feared
they killed him.
Foreign.
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Manchester, September 20.
A strong police force while taking the
Fenians, Kelly aud Deasy, to the depot, were
attacked by i mob and the prisoners were
rescued; one policeman was killed and several
injured. Many rioters were seriously injured.
Manchester, September 20 P. M.
Another policeman is dead. Kelly is still.at
large.
From orth. Carolina.
Raleigh, September 20.
The Raleigh Register , edited by Daniel K
Goodloe, the recognized organ of the Republi
can party of this State, denounces the recent
Radical Convention, and in bitter and scathing
terms, ex-communieates Holden and his coad
jutors. The party is certainly hopelessly divid
ed. The Constitutional Union men will hold
an immense mass meeting next Friday, 2711 i.
All the most influential and prominent citizens
have signed the call."
From Richmond.
Richmond, September 20.
Another negro to-day sued the Richmond and
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad for non
admittance to first class car upon a first class
ticket, purchased in New Tork. The Company
have determined to stand a suit, so as to test
the question for railroads South.
Thermometer here, in the shade, 95. (No
wonder they object to (he negro.)
Gen. Mullot’d enters upon the duties of his
office, as Revenue Collector “here, October Ist.
From the West.
North Platte, via Omaha, Sept. 19.
The Commissioners held a council with Spot
ted Tail, Turkey Leg and other Chiefs to-day.
The Indian ultimatum is the withdrawal of the
troops from the Powder River country and
abandonment of Suiokey Hill and Pacific Rail
road. They also demaud guns, ammunition
and presents.
The Commission will reply to-morrow. War
seems inevitable now.
From IST ew Orleans.
New Orleans, September ‘JO.
Gen. Mower has issued an order similar to
that Gen. Canby regarding Confederates sell
exiled, who have since returned and now sub
ject to parole.
Interments of yellow fever deaths to 0 o’clock
of this morning were (SO.
From Ohio.
Columbus, Ohio, September SO.
Thirteen guns were fired on Sheridan’s ar
rival hist night. lie lett eastward this morn
ing.
Marine IST ew.s.
Wilmington, September SO.
Sailed—Steamer Fairbank, for New York.
Weather clear and warm.
Savannah, September SO.
Arrived—Steamship Leo.
Cleared—Ship Tasmania, for Liverpool, and
schooner J. N. French, for Wilmington.
Queenstown, September SO.
The steamer Detroit, from Shields for San
Francisco, putin hero leaky.
Charleston, September SO.
Arrived at. quarantine—steamship Georgia,
from Havana to New York, short of coal.
New York, September SO.
Arrived—Steamers Arizona, from Boston,
and Ontario, from Liverpool, with 280 passen
gers. ___
Markets.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
Liverpool, September 19— Evening. !
Notwithstanding moderate activity cotton
declined fully % ; sales, 12,000 bales; uplands,
9%; Orleans, 9%.
I-.IVBKPOOI., September 20—Noon.
Corn, 40@435. Others unchanged.
London, September 20—Noon.
Consols, 94%. Bonds, 73.
New York, September 20—Noon.
Stocks excited and pauiey. Money, 7. Gold,
143%. Sterling, 9%@10%. ’62 coupons, 14%.
New York, September 20—P. M.
Stocks active, but lower since call. Money,
7. Gold, 143%.
New York, September 20—Noon.
Flour firm for low grades. Wheat steady.
Cora unchanged. Rye and oats steady. Mess
Pork lower, |24 18%@25 25. Lard quiet.—
Whisky steady. Cotton quiet at 24%@25.
Freights quiet. Turpentine, 59%. Rosin quiet
and unchanged.
New York, September 20—P. M.
Cotton is dull and declining ; sales. 700 bales
Flour dull and declining; Stale*
$8 25@11; Southern steady; common to choice
new, $lO 30@13 75. Wheat dull and lower
amber State, $3 50. Mixed corn, $1 24@1 26’
2; l i 8 ., d r OC,i . nh, !f ; ° hio - Pork heavy at
$34 35 Lard steady at Whisky
Groceries generally dull. Naval stores
dull. Rosin, s4@B. Freights quiet.
Bai.timoke, September 20.
Coflee—very small sales Rio at 18%, gold.—
Flour firmer; family and extra advanced 50c.,
superfine 25c.; common and medium grades
strong at previous rates. Wheat firm, closed
advancing; prime red, $2 50@2 70 ; choice,
$3 75@3 80. White Corn, $1 25 ; yellow
sl, 33. Oats, 60@68. Rye, $1 IS@l 30. Pro
visions—better feeling; shoulders, 15 ; rib
sides, 17%; clear rib, 18@18%; mess pork
steady at $35 ; bulk meats in good inquiry, but
held above views of buyers. Lard—Western
14>£.
Cincinatti, September 20.
Flour firm, tendening tip. Corn steady and
unchanged. Provisions and Lard unchanged.
Louisville, September 20.
Superfiue flour, $7 50. Corn, shelled, $1 10.
Mess Pork, $25 ; shoulders, 14*14; clear 6ides.
18 %. Lard, 13 %.
Bt. Louis, September 20.
Flour firm at $7 50. Corn advancing, $1 10
13>4. Provisions firmer. Mess Pork, $25 25.
Bacon shoulders, 15 ; clear sides, 18%. Lard.
14%. Whisky heavy.
Wilmington, September 20.
Spirits Turpentine quiet at 54. Rosin steady
at s3@6 50.
Mobile, September 20.
Cotton—The demand is good, principally tor
better grades ; sales, 600 bales ; middling, 21c.;
receipts for the week, 2,145 bales ; exports same
time, 1,748 bales ; sales same time, 2,375 bales •
stock, 5,097 bales.
New Orleans, September 20.
Cotton —Sales, 150 bales ; dull and unsettled;
low middling,' 31%c., nominal; receipts for the
week, 771 bales ; exports same time, 493 bales ;
stock, 17,018 bales. Flour steady and firm;
superfine, $9; double extra, $lO 12%. Corn
scarce and advanced 5c.; white mixed, $1 20 ;
white, $1 30. Oats held at 80 ; sales at 75c.
Pork dull ; holders ask $27 25. Bacon steady
and firm ; shoulders, 16 ; clear sides, 19% ; su
gar cured hams, 25%c. —jobbing rates. Lard
quiet and firm ; prime tierce, 14%. Gold, 143%
(a) 144. Sterling, 56@53%. New York Bight.
% premium.
Charleston, September 20.
Cotton is somewhat easier ; sales, 60 bales •
middling, 22(«>32% ; receipts, 80 bales.
Savannah, September 80.
Cotton *is dull and declining; sales, 74 bales ;
receipts, 311 bales; middlings, 21%@22.
Augusta Market.
Ounce Daily Oonstitiitio.jjai.is'l'; }
Fmoiv, September 20--P. M. (
PIN ANIMAL
GOLD- Buying at 142 aixl selling at 14.!.
SILVKR-—Buying at 130 and selling at 132@133.
STOCKS AND BONDS—Sonic; sales of Central
Railroad Bonds were made to-day at and Georgia
Railroad Stock at 77(b'7S.
COTTON—The market to-day was quiet, with
some little demand at about 21 for middling • offer
ings rather light. Sales of the day foot up 124 bales,
as follows: (i at 10, 7at 10%, 22 at 20, 4 at 20 It, 13 at
21, 7at 2l.if , 40 at 2L.U , 7at 21 , 3at 22 and 15 bales
on private terms. The receipts were 144 bales,
WHEAT—lied, $2 00@2 20; white, $2 20@2 40.
CORN—Prime white, $1 Sotsl 55; yellow and
mixed, $1 35<«!l 40.
BACON—Shoulders, lfi,'.<©l7; B. ft. sides, 18jf;
C. R sides, 10M ; C, sides, 20ta'20f£ cento.
Ri vf.k News —No arrivals or departures yesterday.
River, 3.V. feet at the bridge.
Extraordinary Trial.
prosecution for barratry.
A case oi peculiar interest, and of ~ p unusual
character, was recently tried in the criminal
court of Berks county, Pennsylvania. William
Barnhard and Joel Kelchner, Justices of the
fence and Constables, respectively, of Rich
mond township, were indicted for barratry
an otlense. defined to be. “ the habitual moving,
exciting and maintaining snils ami quarrels,
cil.liiT iifc 1 1 \v or otherwise,” nud under (he
statutes of (his Commonwealth, punishable bv
lines and imprisonment.- It was alleged by tbir
Commonwealtli IhutJtbijge defendants conspired
together to make business for their respective
ofliers, for (lie sake ol the emoluments thereof,
ami that a large number of suits were institu
ted upon their instigation against citizens for
offenses of a petty or trivial character, and
such as are generally considered unworthy the
attention of a magistrate or constable. For in
stance, the docket of Squire Barnhard showed
that from the 20th ot December, 1860, to u e
14th of February, 1867, fifty-eight prosecutions
had taken place before him, nearly all for
drunkenness aud profanity, thy fines and
amounting to ove- S2OO. The Informations
were drawn up in the hand writing of Justice
Barnhard, and the ’process served by Constable
Kelehner, who lived lor a considerable time in
the family of the .justice. The defense averred
the. officers had acted in the strict line of their
duty, and that the punishments inflicted were
justifiable and were for the public good, and.
that many of the offenses were committed in a
wanton spirit for the purpose ot provoking the
officers. The court charged that the presump
tiou was always in favor of officers and their
official acts and records, aud that they could
only convict upon being satisfied that the de
fendants had tortured, wilfully perverted, and
corruptly applied the law for other purposes
than the ends of public justice. The jury, after
deliberating an hour and a half, rendered a ver
dict. of not guilty, hut put the costs upon the de
fendants. The costs must have been conside
rable, as nearly the whole township were pres
ent as witnesses on one side or the other. The
trial attracted much Interest and occupied con
siderable time.
United States District Court—His llov
or judge Erskine, Presiding.— We give a
brief summary ol this court’s business on yes
terday. Isaac Fraser, of Gwinnett county, was
convicted of the illegal distillation of spirits,
but was recommended lo the mercy ol the
court, liis sentence, wc believe, was not pro
nounced yesterday.
Bartlett Turner, of Dawson county, pleaded
guilty to the same charge, and w as sentenced by
the court to one day’s imprisonment and to
pay a fine ol £IOO. There! are extenuating cir
cumstances connected w ith this ease, which ac
counts lor the lenience of His Honor.
A. D. Nmially, of Griffin, was admitted to
pract ice.
Ihe Grand Jury brought in forty-six true
lulls, mainly against persons violating internal
revenue laws in various parts of the judicial
district. The jurors were discharged with the
thanks of the court.
A mis trial was made in the case of Daniel A.
Lowry, former postmaster ol Catoosa Springs,
against whom a balance of £O7 is claimed by
the Government. The defendant pleading pay
ment, the jury could not agree, and the case,
therefore, goes over lo the next court.
Robert McWilliams, of-Campbell, having'
been arrested and brought here, charged with
violating internal revenue laws, not proving
the person lor whom the warrant was intend
ed, was discharged. This, we learn, resulted
from a confusion of names, there being another
of the same uamo in the above county.
[Atlanta Intelligencer.
Unpleasant, ip Truk.— ln Philadelphia, one
pleasant Sunday evening, an old lady whose
failing eyes demanded an unusually large prayer
book, skirted for church a little early. Stop
ping on the way to call on a tricud, she laid her
prayer book on the centre table. When the
bells began to chime she snatched what she sup
posed to be her prayer-book, and started for
church. Her seat was at the chancel end ot
the gallery. The organ ceased playing. The
minister said : “The Lord is in Ilis Holy Tem
ple, let all the earth keep silence before Him.’*
In the effort to open her supposed prayer-book,
she started the spring ol the music box which
she had taken instead. It. began to play—in
her consternation she put it on the floor. It
would not stop—she put it ou the seat.it
sounded louder than ever. Fiually she carried
it out while it played the “ Washing Day,” an
Irish jig tune.
A Canadian boy, in the quiet town of St.
Catherines, had beeu punished by his father
with solitary confinement lor lying. 11c show
ed, i'll his release, that he had been employing
his time in theological reflections, instead of
using it for self-mortification. He asked his
father :
“Pa, did you tel) lies when you were little ?”
The father, perhaps conscience-smitten, en
deavored to evade the questiou. But the child
persisted :
“ Did you tell lies when you were little?”
“Well, uo,” B.aid the father ; “ but why did
you ask V”
“ Did ma tell lies when she was little ?”
“ I don’t know, my son, you must ask her.”
“Well,” retorted the hopeful, “ one of you
must have told lies, oryou could not have had
a boy that would do it.”
[Church Monthly for September.
Attorney General Stanbery is preparing an
opinion setting forth that all persons pardoned
by the recent amnesty proclamation have a right
to register and to vote.
Dr. Asch, of General Sheridan’s stair, was
attacked by yellow lever after reaching St.
Louis.