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OLD SERIES—VOL. LXXVIII. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. UA-lUYi One month - $1 60 Three month* 2 50 One year 00 Tltl-WEEKLV. One year $ 6 00 Six month* 3 50 Three month -• 2 00 WEEKLY. Throe month*. I 1 ■*} Six month* } “j ■ff” <iAT-MQ[t<lK€. JILT tt. «HOW HE XIC£B KM.’ - The letter of Mr. Copeland, to the New York Journal of Commerce , in this morn ing’s issue of the Chronicle & Sentinel, gives a detailed and truthful account of the outrageous peculations of the Radical Administration of llufu3 B- Bullock, Blodgett & Cos. THE CKNBI'S. As yet wo have no official report of the Federal census. We presume, however, that the report will be in readiness by the. next session for the use of Congress. The next elections will tako place under the apportionment to be made by Congress upon the basis of the official census report, anJ tti. pat.irtnmon* " a * mill alter t’uo distribution of political power. One of the greatest changes, it is con ceded, will be the great increase in political power to the West. Looking nearer home, tho report will excite deep interest as indicating the movements of our Afri can citizens. Every one remarks that the curront of Afro American citizens, true to a great law of nature, is towards the bud. This is the well settled opinion derived from daily obsirvation. There has been, of course, an exceptional movement to wards larger cities and towns, but this applies equally to both the white and black population, and was not materially tile general question relating to the blacks. Tho receipt of the offijial figures will en able us to measure the volume and mark the direction which has taken place in population throughout tho States. I’KKSIDKMIAL. A great movement to make Gen. Win field S. il tnoock tho next Democratic can didate for the Presidency is engineered in St. Louis, under G. T. Glover, a leading lawyer of the State ; ex-Senator Trustcn Folk, Mr. Mantz, President of the Atlas Insurance Company, and many others. Hancock is exceedingly popular there, where he married his accomplished wife, and his genial manners have made him hosts of friends. A number of conserva tive Republicans iu St. Louis and the State favor Hancock’s nomination, among whom aro Senator Sehurz and ex-Sonator HendcrsoD. Mr. Glover is a leading friend of Hancock in the State, and a man of great intellect. It is only recently that he has turned his attention to politics. It was be who mado tho reoeption speech welcoming Senator Sohurz from Wash ington ; and an allianoe between these two menwvill securo the suoooss of the Han cock tiekot in*Missouri. Morton, of Indiana, is also a possible candidate to succeed Grant. “Barkis wil lin,” even though Barkis says Grant first, last and all tho time. There is policy in this. Os Grant, the Boston Transcript (Rep.) says: “President Grant’s Adminis “ tratiou has moro to fear from the syoo " phantie fawning of camp followers than “from any honest criticism of thoso who “ aided in placing him in power.” Logan considers himself the only man in the Republican party capable of beat ing tho Democracy, and is working like a beaver to secure tho nomination of his party. Poor old Greeley is moving heav on and oarth to accomplish tho same ob ject, but as yet has mado no headway with tho Radicals. The moro politic and hrewd Republicans aro backing Grant against tho field, bciug well convinced that Ulysses, with lus fifty thousand office-hold ers, will absolute control of tho Re publican National Convention. CKO 1* I’ROHPKCrS. The crop accounts, from all portions of the South, agree in the statement that the •orn crop is better than was ever known before. Our own observation in the east ern anil middle conutios of this State— the heretofore great cotton growing re gion—leads us to the conclusion that ail abundance of corn will bo made for the home supply—a cohdition of things which has uot, within our memory, existed here before. A large area has been planted, and the crop is better than we have ever known it. This valuable cereal is now beyond the danger of untoward seasons.. All through this section tho corn, except that grown on bottom land, and which seldom suffers for want of moisture, is so far ma tured as to be safe from excessive heat and drought. With largo corn crops we shall find no difficulty in raising meat. We trust and believe that Georgia planters are at last realizing the importance of raising full supplies of previsions of all kinds. On all sides and from every quar ter wo hear of diligent efforts directed to this important matter. The cotton crop is backward and tho stand defective. In some localities it lias suffered materially from bad and imperfect cultivation, and the grass has materially injured the young plant. It is yet too early to say with any degree of confidence to what extent the crop will he short. The diminished era planted, and the universal bad “stands” must, under the most favor able circumstances, make the crop less than that of last year. Favorable weather during this amt the next month may, how ever, secure to the planter better results than the prospjets just now seems to in dicate. Cotton is a coquettish plant, and we never know what it will do until it is gathered and prepared for the market. Munificent. —Among recent gifts to | Princeton College have been $2,500 (rotn Henry Clews, of Wall street, with which \ an organ has -been purchased for the ! chapel, and $117,000 from John C. Green, a retired merchant of New York, for the I erection of a library building,this sum being , in addition to SIOO,OOO previously received i from the same giver. We have no Greens at the South that a * e able, however willing, to bestow such munifieent dinations so worthily as to en dow institutions for learning. But a rightful appropriation of the Government land donations ought to compensate meas urably for their absence. We hope that the appropriation for Georgia will be re ligiously kept and sacredly used, so that we may Lave an institution that will com pare favorably with those of the North. Col. E. H. Bottle, of Warrentou, writes a long letter, republished in the Clipper, in reply to false, scurilons and malicious charges made by the notorious Chap Norris, and published in the Geor gia Republican. Chap Norris is notori ously infamous, and charges coming from him can injure the character of no one, much less a gentleman of Col. Pottle’s position in the State. We suggest to the Colonel that “the game-he is pursuing is not worth the candle.” Mr. Bonner's horse Startle trotted half a mile to saddle in 1.5} at Fleetwood Park, Friday rftemoon. His stable oompanion, Bruno, a four-year old, afterwards trotted a mile to harness in 2.25}. He was driven by Carl Barr, wEo weighs 2Q3 pounds. 1 NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD BUND FROM A CARPET-BAGGER'S CARPET. BAG. AND WHAT COME OF IT. When the carpet-baggers and tbeir al lies took possession of the so-called Rebel States to achieve the loyal reconstruction of their govermerits, to make them Re publican in form, they found the Treasury vaults of the States swept and garnered by the bummers who hail preceded them. Bat reconstruction was imperative, alike to fill the carpet-bags of the loyal Repub lican carpet-baggers, as to effect a recon struction which would be loyal enough to satisfy the cravings of a Republican Con gress. Money being wanting, there yet remained credit, and it was to State cred its and corporation credits alone the car pet-baggers and their aids and allies, tbe scalawags —whom theloyal carpet-baggers had inducted into pnwer, and the taxing power which they usurped—that they look ed to to replenish the empty coffers of the respective State treasuries, and to fill their empty carpet-bags. And right “ loyally ” did they do their work. Ilut these 'mis sionaries of Northern morals were not al ways suffered to retain their spoils. Doubt less the carpet-bagger’s principles were fully understood by national patriotic Congressmen, ft was right to spoil the enemy, and the “war was not over,” was the loyal Republican cry. Rut as between the patriotic Congressman and loyal car pet-bagger, the national representatives laid down the principles that “ a fair di vision was no robbery,” as cardinal amoDg loyal knights, “ Who would rob a hermit of bis weeds, ilia few books or his beads, Or maple dish,’’ Much more a State or a Railroad cor poration of credits, that oould be vended in the brokers’ market. These bonds be came so plentiful in W asliington, acd so desirable, as to lead one indiscreet carpet bagger to declare that he carried Sen ators in his breeches pocket. But it tarns out at this late period that a loyal Radi cal Congressman, with generous liberality, franks a North Carolina Railroad bond to his friend, a tailor, as a souvenicr of loyalty. Tho facts, of this remarkablo case, as elioted by judicial inquiry, are as follows : Addison il. L-iflin, now a loyal represen tative of the administration, as Naval Offioer at the port of New York—cf Her kimer, New York—formerly, and for sev eral terms represented Herkimer District in Congress as a loyal Republican. About St. Valentine’s day, in February, 1870, John Hartman, a tailor residing there, received a letter, and upon opening it found (hat it contained a bond of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad of North Carolina, of tho par value of SI,OOO. Ho kept it for a time, but considered it worthless, though sub sequent inquiry revealed tho fact that it had some value. Afterwards he sold it to his son Douglass for SIOO. Tho rc reocipt of tho bond by Hartman was gen erally known, and much comment arose from the fact that it was sont to him in an envelope bearing Mr. Liflin’s frank. At last Mr. Laflin heard of tho matter and sent a demand for the bond, which was refused. Laflin claims that he had re ceived the bond for safe keeping from his brother, Byron Laflin, who was one of the oarpol-bag representatives in North Caro lina. Byron was gay and festive, as all loyal missionaries of reconstruction are, except duringsohool hours, whon a Visitor at some benevolent Bureau Sohool of the nation’s wards, or at a chosen God and morality Mooting House, where grave decorum was demanded. And Byron at Washing ton, where the name and place mado tho inspiration irresistible, and withal, “being reasonable,” but “a mild sort of ayouth,” had a “frolic” of such extent and dimen sions that Addison, his careful lov'mg brother, doomed it ncocssary to look after him, and particularly necessary to take from him a SI,OOO bond of the Wilming ton, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad Company, as ho now alleges for safe keeping. How many more bonds of like nature wero taken by the providential naval officer from his “frolicking” brother, Byron, docs not appear. Neither does it appear that thcro was any reason why this particular bond should ba enveloped, and franked, and mailed jto John Hartman, tailor, Herkimer, State of Now York, postago free, under tho frank of gentlo Addison Laflin, Representative in Cosn j gress about St. Valentino's day. But thero is little reason to doubt but prudent Addison took from wayward Byron his carpet bag, as every loyal brother would do, and it is hardly possible that festive Byron’s carpet-bag should contain only one bond of the Charlotte, Wilming ton and Rutherford Railroad Com pany,* or else the sober, prudent, vir tuous Addison would have been more care ful to nurse the slender fortune of his Byronic brother, carpet-bag representa tive in the National Congress from the re constructed State of North Carolina. The inference is both natural and conclusive that bonds of the Wilmington, Charlotte aod Rutherford Railroad Company did so abound in Byron’s cirpet-bag as to pro voke but little solicitude, and that, in all probability, Addison LrfliD, M. ,C., State of New York, franked as Pub. Doc., to John Hartman, tailor, Herkimer, State of New York.on or about St. Valentine’s Day, of the year 1870, this identical bond, as a iving tribute of distinguished loyalty to the knight of the goose, to show abundantly what sort of a goose a loyal M. 0. pluoked. Butthe tailor put but little value on a bojd of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruther ford Railroad Company ; but the tailor’s I fortune “became noised abroad.” The I gentle Addison, M. C-, hearing the re port touching John Bartman’s receiving the bond, franked Pub. Doc. by Ad dison Laflin, M. C., demanded the bond, and the demand being refused, sued John Hartmau for its market value, i Judgment was given for the plaintiff in the sum of $756, the assessed value of the bond. But Hartman being nulla bona, | and the judgment worthless, the “wild, | wayward,” festive carpet-bagger, Byron, j instituted a criminal prosecution against i the impecunious tailor of Herkimer ooun ty for larceny; but the prosecution fails, aod the tailor is acquitted. And now the : tailor has indicted Addison—late loyal M. C., now General Grant’s naval officer for tho port of New York—for perjury, and the grand jury has found a true bill. Will any one knowing the whereabouts of A. J. Fairfield (a hatter by trade), and Mary, his wife, give the undersigned any information they may have of the above parties. The last heard from them they were at Rome, Ga., aod left that place on tbe evacuation ot the Confederate army. It is supposed that the said Fairfield went to Baltimore, Md., as that was his Bative home. Will papers throughout the coun try give publicity to the above, as it will be a great blessing to the distressed chil dren, who wish to learn the whereabouts of their parents. Address, W.H. Collier, Madison, Ga.— Madison Appeal. Atlanta is getting steam well up on the subject, of tbe Georgia Western Rail road. A public meeting was held the other night iu front of the Kimball House, aad speeches were made by Cols. Adair, Glenn, Capers and Campbell Wallace, the newly elected President. Plunge the lower end of a thermometer into the gsound. If the mercury goes much below 60° there is no use in putting corn seed in. Corn planted as late as June 10 will often overtake corn planted May 10. Tiie Last Railroad Horror. DETAILS OF THE AFFAIR, The fqllowing particulars of the Nash ville and Northwestern Railroad accident are taken from the Nashville Union and American : The accident occurred at the bridge i over Uarpeth river, one mile the other | side of Newsom’s station. As the engine i and baggage car had reached the other | aide of the river, the bridge sndilenly gave way, and three coaches were precipitated into the river. The engine and tender had cleared the bridge, the baggage car was nearly on a balance, tbe hind tracks hanging unsup ported over the break, but tt e tront and body held it on the track. The smoking car, which came next, went directly down and was a complete wreck, appearing as a disordered, broken mass. Next to this came the ladies’ car, which plunged, front end foremost, into the water, to the depth of some seven feet, and stood nearly per pendicnlar. The sleeping car, being last, followed, end foremost, striking just at the edge of the water, the rear end resting against the bridge abutment above. It was about half-past nine o’clock when the accident occurred, an hour and ten minutes after the train left the depot in this city. An inquisition, taken at the office of R. IL Groomes, on Cherry street, on the 4th of July, 1871, before P. W. Brien, Coroner Os the fo* tho county afore said, duly commissioned and qualified ac cording to law upon tbe view of the bodies cf J. G. Hornbcrger, John Marshall, Alexander Wright, Charles Campbell, John E. Crockett, Wylie C. Howard. William Crockett, Mrs. Charles Campbell and child, Miss 11. Jor.es, of Ohio, and Miss Emma Yeatman, then and there lying dead; and upon the oaths of J. IS. Daehiell, foreman, G. T. Thompson, Thos. 8. Hays, J. F. Demoville, T. 0- Morris, Hiram Vaughn and R. A. Fraley; good and lawj'ul men of the coun ty aforesaid, who bclDg sworn and charged to enquire on the part said State, when, where and after what manner the said persons came to their deaths, they do aay upon their oaths that having reviewed the above bodies do agree unanimously that the cause of their deaths was occasioned by an acc dent on the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad, by the giving away of the bridge No. 7, across the Harpeth river. The verdict of the coroner’s jury gives the names of the dead so far as is known, but it is feared that others went down with the wreek, and wero either drowned or crushed beneath the debri.q of the suspend ed train. Among the names of the dead aro Charles Campbell, his wife and child, of Edgefield. Mr. Campbell was formerly the well known member of the firm of Campbell & Spire, wholesale dealers in queensware and china ware. The circum stances attending tbe death of Mr. Camp bell aod his family are peculiarly distress ing- He has been in bad health for over a year. Early last spring he visited Florida, where he remained several months, Bnd returned to his home much improved in health, but the warm weather of the past weeks had weakened him con siderably, and he had concluded to spend the balance of the summer at Kingston Springs. With his wife and child he left on the ill-fated train, and tc-day a father, mother, and a largo cirole of relatives, mourn the untimely death of the husband, while kindred also weep over the remains of his beloved wife and child. Mr. Camp bell was an enterprising and upright citi zcd, and enjoyed the esteem of the com munity at large. In connection with his death, it is not inappropriate to say that some years ago he retired from.business for the purpose of studying for the min istry, and close attention to his books no doubt helped to create a disease which was hurrying him to the grave. Truly do wo sympathize with his family in a be reavement so sad. In addition to the name of Mrs. Camp bell referred to above, Mrs; F- Dunn, men tioned among tho killed was the wife of Thos. M. Dunn.E-iq., of Kingston Springs, formerly Sheriff of Cheatham county. Mis. Emma Yeatman we formerly Miss Moon, and the wife of Captain Wro. E. YeatmaD, of Memphis. She and her husband were en route for tho Springs to see their parents. . Wiley Howard who was among the killed, was a resident of Chapel Hill, Tonnes,see, and late a student of Cumber land University. Ho was on his way to seo his half-brother, B. F. Boyd, at Boll’s Station, on that road. ■ John E. Crocket and his soon, William Crockett, both of whom were residents of Chapel Hill, Tennessee. The latter was a clerk in the house of E- T. Williams, at that place. Mrs. Borns and child, ■ living near Smith’s Station, two hundred yards be yond the wreck, {for whose getting off they had rung the car to stop, were among the killed. Mrs. Lynch, living near Newsom’s, w»3 killed outright. Deputy Sheriff Pendergast, of Dixon county, was killed. Miss H. Ettic Jones, of Huntsville,Ala., in whose trunk a certificate was found, signed by R. S. Rust, Cor. Sec. F. A. S., recommending her as a successful teacher, bearing date June 26, 1871, was also among the killed. Wcgive below a list of the wounded, which, however, is not believed to be full: Thomas Waio, of tho firm of Wain & Walker, hatters, of this city, very consid erably bruised, but not dangerously hurt. W. W. Ghee, brakoman, leg bmkoD. Miss Sophronia Heard, of Trenton, Toon,, was on her way home with lier cousin, J. W. Scott, freight agent. Her head is badly cut, besides having severe bruises, and it is feared she is seriously injured internal ly. She is cut on the forehead and badly bruised all over, but is resting quietly. She is at the Nicholson House, well cared for, and will go to her relations, near Li vergne. this evening. Mr. Scott and Miss Heard were sitting just to the right, of Mr. John Marshall, on a seat opening both ways. When the shock came he fell and they upon him. He was uoarly suffocating and asked them to get off him. Miss Heard told him she was so fastened in the rubbish that she could not move. He then told her he knew she would get off if she could, and be soon eeased to speak or breathe. Mr. Crutcher, formerly of this place, and Mr- Brown, of Johnsonville, wero both slightly injured, but they went on the train to Dickson county. Capt. Wm. E. Yeatman was injured considerably in the lungs, and his brother Thomas Yeatman received injuries in the spine. Both are at the Maxwell House and being cared for. V. Haile, Point Isabella, Indiana, is mentioned among the wounded. His in juries, however, are only slight, . Thos. M. Dunn, husband of the lady who was killed, was badly hurt in the back, and received injuries which it is thought may prove fatal. John Campbell, ot this city, son of the late Rev. John P. Campbell, . had his head cat and leg considerably bruised. Mr. Wilhoite, of this place, had his leg broken. _ J. M. Thompson, of Amherst Court House, Virginia, had his hip injured ai*d was cut in the face. Miss Clem Leake, of this oity, had her arm and wrist fractured. . W. Walker, cf Union City, had his jaw broken. . Tbe conductor of tho train, Mr. Landis, hail his leg broken. Two brothers named Pegram were also wounded, bnt only slightly. S. S. Brown, of this city, jaw broken and internally injured. Robert Daniel, Bedford county, arm broken. Conductor Davis had passed over the bridge, No. 7, with train No. 4, at o o’clock p. m., coming to Nasoville, and passed safely, the bridge being regarded id a sound and safe condition, bridge No. 7 was built four years ago, and is ot tbe Howe truss pattern. The bridge beyom it was torn away last year and retmil , but No. 7 was not deemed unsale and was permitted to remain. Train bccS, to which the accident occurred, lett Na»n ville, bound west, at 8:20 p. m. Monday evening. The train was composed oi one baggage car, one second class car, one first ladies coach and sleeping car, and between fifty-five anil seventy-nye I passengers. The train arrived at Reli- I view, twelve miles from Nashville, at I 9;10, on time, and dropped several pas sengers. It proceeded two miles further on to bridge No. 7, over Harpeth, and the scene of the disaster, 14 miles from the city. On reaching the bridge Conductor R. L. Landis rang the bell to DOtily tbe engineer that he had a passenger to let off at Smith’s Mill, a flag station about fifty, yards beyond the bridge. The speed of the train was slackened at this signal, and as soon as the the engine struck the bridge, tbe engineer felt it giving way, aftd soon the crash came. Had the train been running at the usual full speed when crossing, the conductor is of opinion that it would have passed safety ; but running AUGUSTA, GtA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1871. : 3lowly, with a view to stopping it, it was ; precipitated below. The locomotive aDd ! baggage car passed safely. The lady who was going to get off at the flag station was among the killed. The train fell a distance of 24 feet, there being ten | feet of water below at the time. The I ladies’ coach and the sleeping car jammed j into each other, the other ear tumb ling crosswise, the wreck falling in the river in tbe shape of aT. The sceue that followed beggars description. The screams of the living, the frantic efforts for life, tbe groans of the wounded, and bleeding forms of the dead to be resaueu i from the wreck, so recently full of hope i and lusty life, presented a sa 1 and a sick ening scene, the like of which has never before been witnessed in this commupity. Most of the killed must have bfen killed outright, or have died in a few minutes af ter tho crash. Mr. Landis, the conductor, is badly hurt. A deep abrasion appears across the temple penetrating to the bone, and several inches in length. His leg is also badly broken and badly shattered- He is at the Commercial Hotel, and in a fair way to recover. The Paris Commune. HEINRICH HEINE ON THE RULERS OF THE FUTURE. A HALF FULFILLED PROPHECY. An illustration of the gift of prophetical insight, which has been often attributed to poets, is given by a very interesting ac uouut by “R. G. ” in the current number of the Ixmdrm Spectator, of certain antici pations by Heine of tbe mad doings of the Paris Commune. “It. G.” writes : it may interest some people to know what Heine, the most gifted' of recent Germans, on whom, according to Mr. Mathew Arnold, fell the cloak of Goethe, thought, felt aud predicted on the Commune. His let ters from Paris, written thirty years ago to the Augsburger Allgemine Ze'tung during his long expatriation, arenot, very widely known in this country ; we accord ingly translate the following extracts from them : PROPHETIC WORDS. “ Had I lived in Rome in the time of the Emperor Nero, and been correspon pondent of tbe Bcetia Post, or of the un official journal of Abilera, my colleagues would have steered at my having nothing to report on the State intrigues of the Empress Dowager, for instance, at my not even mentioning the grand dinners at which the Jewish King Agrippa every Saturday entertained the Diplomatic Corps at Rome, and at my constantly speaking ; and on tho other hand, of those Galileans, of that obscure gang which, consisting chiefly of slaves and old women, dreamt away its vapid existence in visions and struggles, and was repudiated even by the Jews. My well-informed confrerers would of a certainty have smiled particular ly ironically if I had perhaps had nothing better to relate to tbe CouU fete of Caesar, at whiijh Lis Gracious Majesty himself played the guitar, than that a few of these Galileans were smeared with pitch and set on fire, and thu3 illuminated the Golden Palace. That was, iudeed, a very remavk able illumination, and it was a cruel, thor oughly Roman jest that the sc-ealled ob scrui had to serve as light to the gala of ancient voluptuousness. But the jest was marred ; these human torches scattered sparks at which the old Roman world,with all its rotten splendor, burst into a slime ; the number of this obscure gang became legion. Caesar's legions, in their struggle with it, had to lay down their arms, and the whole Empire, by land and sea, now belongs to tho Galileans. It is by no means my intention here to relaose into homiletioal considerations. I only wish to show by au example in what a triumphant manner the distant future might justify the predictions with which I have often spoken of a little congrega tion that, very like the Peeks ia pressa of the first century, is at present despised and persecuted, but which is spreading a propaganda with a warmth of faith and a sinister spirit of destruction that also re call the Galileans’ beginnings. I moan the Commune, the only partv in France worthy of earnest atteoiioD. The confes sion that tho future belongs to the Com mune, I make it in a tone of forctiudiug and of the greatest anxiety, which is not,alas,by any means, a mask. Truly, only with fear and trembling can I think of the time when these dark picture stormers shall attain empire; with their horny hands they will break up those marble statues so dear to my heart; they will shatter all those fan ciful playthings and gewgaws of art which poets loved so much ; Jdiey will cut down my laurel groves anil plant potatoes there; the lilies, which neither spun nor toiled, and yet were as gorgeously arrayed as Solomon in all his glory, will be uprooted from the soil of society, unless, forsooth, they take a spindle in hand ; the roses, tlioses lazy brides of the nightingales, will incur the same fate; the nightingales, useless songsters, wtll be expelled ; and, ah! my ‘ Rook of Songs’ will serve the grocer for paper bags to pour coffee or snuff into for the old women of the future. Nevertheless, I frankly acknowledge this same Communism, that is opposed to all my interests and inclinations, exercises a spell on my soul from which I cannot free myself; two voices in its favor rise in my breast; two voices that will not be silenced, which perhaps are, after all, only diabolical instigations—but, be that as it may, they master me, and no power of exorcism can overcome them. For the first of these voices is the voice of logic. ‘ The devil is a logician, ’ said Dante. A horrible syllogism entangles me, and if I cannot refute the proposition, ‘All men men have a right to eat, ’ then I am forced to submit to all its consequences. When I reflect on this I run the risk of losing my senses; I see all the demons of truth daricing round me in triumph, and at last the high-souied despair of my heart seizes on me, and I cry out, ‘lt is tried and con demned long since, this old society. Let it have its due! Let this old world be destroyed, in which Innocence was over ridden, in which selfishness prospered so famously, in which man was preyed upon by man 1 Let them be utterly over thrown, those whited sepulchres on which falsehood and flagrant injustice sat en throned !’ Aod blessed be the grocer who will one day make bags out of my poetry to pour coffee or snuff into for the good, honest old women who, in our present un just world, would have to go without these loxuries. Fiat justitia pereas mundus ! The second of the commanding voices that held me prisoner is still more powerful and devilish than the first, for it is the voice of hatred, of the hatred I bear to a party, of whicht ha gieatest opponent is Communism, and which, therefore, is a common enemy of ours. I speak of the National party in Germany, those false patriots whose patriotism consists only in a stupid aversion to foreigners and neigh boring nations, and who daily pour out their gall on France especially; all my life long I have loathed and combated them, and now that my sword is sinking from the grasp of a dying man. I feel com forted by the conviction that Communism, which will find them the first thing in its l ath, will give them the coup de grace ; and by no blew with a club assuredly, but I by a simple kick, the giant will crush ! them, as one crushes a wretched worm. ; That will be its first step. From hatred ito the representatives of nationalism. I | could almost feel affection for the Com j munists. At all events, they are no ; hypocrites, with religion and Christianity constantly on their lips ; the Communists, in truth, have no religion (nobody is per fect) ; the Communists are even atheists (which certainly is a great sin), but they acknowledge as chief dogma the most ab solute cosmopolitism, a universal love for all peoples, an equality of possessions, and a brotherly relation of all men, the free citizens of this earth. This fundamental : doctrine is the same as the Gospel once preached, so that, in spirit and in truth, the Communists are far more Christian than our so-called patriots, those narrow minded eharapions of exclusive national ism.” IL THIERS. Heine bits on the Vendome Column a3 the first victim to Communistic fury, and speaks of M. Thiers in what seems almost prophetic language: “The mind of M. Thiers overtops every intelligence around him, though there is more than one of lofty stature among them. He is the cleverest head in France, although it is re ported he says so himself. He ean speak from morning till midnight unwearicdly, continually putting forth new, brilliant thought, flames of intelligence, delighting, instructing, dazzling the hearers; fire works, so to speak, of eloquence. And yet be conceives rather the material than the | ideal requirements of mankind; be per ceives not that last link by which earthly phenomena are attached to heaven; he I has no understanding for great social in stitutions. In one of his recent speeches he owned, with almost simple candor, how little he trusted the immediate future, and how every day was a respite. He has a sharp ear, and already distinguishes the howling of the wolf Fenri, announcing the kingdom of Hela. Will despair at the in evitable not some day suddenly impel him to over-violent measures!” This, and much more in the same strain, Heine wrote in !84i*. Half of' what he foretold has already happened ; the future must show hov far he is right ic his maiD point, the final triumph of the Socialist Party. G eat Treasury Frauds. Radicals Peaching on Each Other— Serious Charges Against the Treaswy Department—The 'Late Chief of the Secret Service Department of the In ttrnal Revenue Office Unfolds a Tale of a Stupendous Fraud on the Govern ment. Washington, Jaly 4 —Considerable sensation bas been produced bv the pub lication, in the National RepubHcan, tho Aaninistration organ in this ci!y, of statement'* purporting to come from Col. Clifford Thompson, who was recently called upon to resign his position as Chief of the Secret Service in the Internal Revenue Bureau. The story is as fol lows : Saturday night the town was alive with rumors that authentic information had been given, coming, it was alledged, from Colonel Clifford Thompson, who recently resigned his position as Chief of the Secret Service department of the Internal Revenue effiee, to the effect that tho animus exhibited in causing him to break . his conneetion wth the Treasury Depart ment was beenusi he knew too much of certain transactions lately discovered, and which would scent ta prove that recently a stupendous fratd fwsslteen cimmiffed. “ The matter, laid to have been hid be fore the Secretary of the Treasury, was as follows: Som« mouths since a man by the name of Sione, formerly a distiller in Brooklyn, received propositions from cer tain parties in the Treasury Department that they could furnish him a large quan tity of genuine United States bonds at a liberal discount, and that under the work ings of tho Treasury Departmont there would be no danger of discovery. After some diplomacy, Stone became oonvinced the propositions canid be carried out, and proceeded to try »nd raise $20,000 cash. For this $20,000 Gere was to be delivered to him at Newark, New Jersey, where he was to meet the other parties to the oper ation, $60,000 in United States Bonds. The bonds were taken to Newark, but owing to delay in ribing the money, StoDe did not oorne to time, and the bonds were brought back. • “A short time subsequently Stone sent word he had fixed the question of cash and to bring the bonds to Newark. They were takeu there, and the money changed hands. Subsequent tiansaotions followed this one, under the agreement that so much cash should ba paid down, and that Stone should share the profits with the parties furnishing the bonds. “ After collecting a large number of the bonds, Stone went to Quebec, and from there sailed to Europe, where he is be lieved to have put the hoods on the mar ket in small quantities in tho different European citiep. Stone carried to Europe with him a young man by the name of Sprague, who was his olerk while a distill er, and who materially aided him in the disposition of the bonds. “ About the first of June Stone came back to Quebec, where he divided about $400,000 made in his now mode of nego tiating a public loan. After this division of spoils Stone resailed for Europe imme diately, and is now in St. Petersburg. “ In his first efforts to raise money Stone communicated a portion of his pfaDs to two or three parties from whom he at tempted to borrow. Those individuals, from fear or morality, declined to go in, but kept an eye on Stone. “The information received from Stone was quietly imparted to one or two parties in strictest confidence. Tho confidence was so strict that it reachod the ear of Col. Thompson, then chief the revenuo detectives. He immediately told the whole story to Gen. Pleasanton, and asked his advice as to what to do. Pleasanton ad vised him to go to Secretary Boutwelland lay tho mattcr.before him, as such matters were not within the jurisdiction nf tho In ternal Revenue Bureau. Cel. Tnompson laid the ease before Mr. Boutwell, and was laughed at for his pains. Boutwell as serted that such things oould not be in his department. Oh 1 ’twas impossible, im-. possible, sir. Thompson insisted that the account came to him with such circumstan tial correctness that he thought it ought to be looked into; but if Mr. Boutwell differed with him, it was none of his (Thompson’s) business, and he would drop it. “ Subsequent to this Col. Cross and Mr. VV hitney Frank, of New York, came down here, accompanied by a New York lawyer named Herbert, and told to Mr. Boutwell substantially Thompson’s story, and of-- sered, if authority bo given them, logo to Europe, oapturc Stone, and bring all the parties to justice. Os course, they wanted to be compensated, if they succeeded, and so stated to Mr. Boutwell. The Sec retary laughed at them, aS he had done at Thompson, and they left without meeting the hearty co-operation they expected. “ During the discussion of the case by Herbert, Cross aod Frank, one of them suggested that possibly the* parties who were abstracting these bonds were substi tuting counterfeits for them, so as not to alter the size of the packages. As soon as Cross and Frank left, the Secretary ap pointed, as the public is aware, a commit tee of three from bis office to examine the bonds, purchased and undestroyed, to see it they could find any counterfeits amQng them. This committee reported that there was not a single counterfeit bond among tho seventy millions examined. This examination was to make the minds of the people easy if a report should get out that the bonds purchased by Mr. Boutwell and kepi in the Treasury unde stroyed were being stolen and counterfeits substituted. “ This iB the whole story as related to Mr. Boutwell, aud whether be will take any action on it remains to be seen.” The New Cancer Cure. A SUPPLY EXPECTED IN AUGUST—HOW IT IS OBTAINED. [ Prom the N. Y. Tribune ]. No discovery in the medical world could be received with greater rejoicing—a cure for consumption, perhaps, excepted—than the new cancer remedy ; lor while cancers arc less frequently met with than con sumption, they present a certain,, linger ing death in its most awful form, and they are hereditary. It is not surprising then that the announcement of a cure should call out innumerable applications for the cundurango. The steamer Ocean Queen, which arrived at thi3 port from Aspinwall Saturday, brought intelligence that a large supply of the plant may be expected in the Aspinwall steamers due here on the Ist and lath o*'August. About three months ago the State De partment at Washington received a few pounds of the cundurango from the Gov ernment of Ecuador, through its Minister to this country, with a communication de scribing if. But little importance was at tached to the matter at first, and it might have been neglected altogether, had not Dr. Bliss been given a small quantity of the plant by the Ecuadorian Minister, who happened to be under his care. I hough skeptical as to its virtues, he be gan to use it in his practice, and obtained such surprising results that the limited supply of the remedy in Wasbiugfon was soon divided among eager applicants. About fifteen cases of cancer have been treated with it in this coumry, and in all I its use has been attended by a wonderful improvement of the patient, though the I necessarily small doses given have been I insufficient to produce its full effects. I Mrs. Matthews, the mother of Vice-Presi dent Colfax, has been nearly cured of a cancer which it was feared would end her life within the year, although she had i taken less than five ounces of the cundu j rango when the supply gave out. The I wife of George C. Gorham. Secretary of 1 the Senate, and a lady in Utica, to whom | some of the remedy was sent by Secretary I Fish, are among the other sufferers whom Ia few ounces have nearly cured. The mode of administering the plant is very i simple, it being merely steeped in boiliDg water, and the infusion taken internal'y. As the news of the discovery gained cir culation, a great number ot applications for the remedy were sent to Washington from all parts of the country, twenty or ! thirty letters a day being received by Dr. ; Bliss, and an equal number by the State | Department. Many persons, refusing to 1 believe that the supply was exhausted, went themselves to Washington from dis tant points, in the fruitless effort to ob tain the precious drug. Dr. Bliss, when convinced that the cundurango was a spe cific for eancer, sent an order few 500 pounds of it to a business house iu Guay aquil- He soon learned, however, that, as it was not an article of commerce, it was impossible to obtain it by ordinary commercial methods- He therefore dis patched his partner, Dr. Keene, as an agent to procure a supply. To facilitate his mission. Dr. Keene was given an offi cial character by an appointment as bearer of dispatches to the Government of Ecua- dor, and was supplied with letters of recommendation by President Grant, Mr. Uolfax, Mr. Fish, and otbei prominent persons. He writes that the task of obtaining the cnndarau<?o is more difficult than was ex pected. she road** to the Loja district are rough gnd unfrequented, the rainy season is- not yet over, the streams are swollen, and dangerous to cross; and the Indians are disposed to throw every ob stacle in the way of foreigners, of whom they are deeply jealous anil suspicious. However, when he wrote he was on the point of starting for the interior, and was confident of procuring a supply of the cundurango in season for it to reach this port early in August. On arriving in the Loja district he will hire a force of Indians to gather the plant, aud bring it down from the mountains where it grows at points so high as to be inacessible to beasts of bunlen. It will then bo packed on mules, aud transported to the coast. Dr. Keene found that orders for cundu rango had been received at Guayaquil from persons in England, France, Italy and other countries, to the Governments ot which the Government of Ecuador had furnished samples. None of these orders had been filled. Ex-Governor L. L. Gibbes, of Idaho, sailed from this port for Ecuador last week, Dr. Bliss having en gaged his services in aid of those ot Dr. Keene. National Issues— Letter of Hon, John Quincy Adams. Somo short time since, Mr. J. T. Treze vant, editor of the Augusta (Ark.) Bulletin, wrote a letter to Hon.' John Quincy Ad ams, of Massachusetts, upon political mat ters; expressing, among other things, the apprehension that', as. he puts it, “with Grant’s vast patronage, most unscrupu lously used, he would not yield the Presi dential chair, even if defeated before the people in 1872; and that our Republic, like its predecessors of old, is so rapidly drifting into the channels of corruption, the people in despair may look to one mil itary leader as the only means of saving them from the utter ruin threatened by another.” This was the general scope of the letter, to which the following is a re ply, dated at Quincy, Mass., June 5,1871: Dear Sir— l cannot pass over, silently, a letter which gratifies me as much as yours, which I receive 1 to-day.; and yeti feel shy of speaking to you or any citizen of the “subject States.” I dislike to earn the retort—“Oh, it is very easy to preach; but suffer as We have, and then tell us how you feel, and we will listen.” Ido try to take it' home to myself; and Ido not doubt that, under similar circtuns stauces, I should be to-day an “unrepent ant rebel”—sore, angry, beaten and defi ant. And with me it would doubtless be as it has been with you, that “the tender mercies of reconstruction had been harder to bear than all the horrors of invasive war.” I should have been galled by mis government, robbed by imported knavery of the pittance which the war had spared ; exasperated by willful and persistent mis representation, and cruelly condemned to hopeless impotence for the imputed.guilt ot cowardly crimes I abhorred. I should have been condemned, too, to hold my per- - siJnal liberty at tile nod of a mercenary carpet-bagger or the whim of a military satrap. I say that I fear I should have been an “ irreconcilable.” In such a ease. I think I should be sulky; but I know I should be silly if I yielded to tho feeling. For, whence must my relief come if my last estate is to become worse than the first? Is there a man outside an asylum who thinks that by suoh a course the “ lost cause ” can bo regained ? By whom, then ? If by the North, believe me that the experiment of secession has satisfied us that no cause is worth a civil war. That war has confirmed, beyond a shadow of a turning, tho destiny which decreed that there shall be but one confederated people of the North Anerican Union. No. Rebellious I might be ; but weak enough to await the resurrection of secession I do not think I could be. You and I, and your friends and neighbors and mine, are of one blood ; we were once “ fellow citi zens;” and tho old-time kindness • mmt linger yet in spots. Our fathers were “ brethren,” and that must count for something. The whole political problem of the future toms upon the answer to tho question, “Shall wo live together as friends or enemies?” Now, tho whole in ternt.l policy of tho present administration says war. Reconstruction meant war, and the Ku-Klux bill declared war. • This Union is now held together by force. Certainly, if this is to be permanent, it would have been better to have parted at first. If the struggle to cast out slavery overthrow .the Constitution, what chance is there for a “free” government, if the North is to rule the South ? South Caro lina is to-day the most shameless parody on republican institutions since republican Rome bestrode all the nations ofjtho an cient world, put the sword to iheirthroats, stripped them bare, and then lacked words to laud the loveliness of liberty. You can not bo subject, aod we be long free. The untrammelled exercise of local self-govern ment by tbe people of the States is tho salt which preserves our whole system. Take that away, and our frame of polity will rapidly rot into despotism. There fore it is that, not as a partisan, but whol ly as a fellow-citizen, I trust that all the good citizens of the seceded States will frankly and honesty acoept tho revolution ary changes which have been forced upon the Constitution, and with them cheerlully adopt the new relations of amity and po litical and civil equality towards the eman cipated olass which these changes involve. And therefore lam glad when I see the noble spirit of your letter pervading the aouthern people as it does, despite the malignity of a partisan press, while the sterling sense of Mr. Vallandigham has reformed the Northern Democracy. And it matters not what man may be chosen to lead us so long as his heart is large enough to hold his whole country, his soul brave enough to embraoe a Confederate as a brother, and his platform wide enough for every American citizen to stand upon. To compass this end something of sacrifice is required of us all; much of self-control is demanded of the South. You and all I hear assure me that the attempt will be made; and if made honestly and in earn est, iit cannot fail. Again thanking you for your letter, 1 am. &0., J. Q. Adams. A Man Mistakes his Wife for a Burg lar and Cuts iier to Pieces with- a Bowie Knife.— A gentleman from the neighborhood of Grimes county, some five miles from Navasota, where the sad dest occurrence which we believe we have ever recorded took place, on last Saturday night, gives some particulars ad ditional to those which have already been published. We refer to the accidental killing of his wife by Briggs Goodrich, a kind husband, as we learn, and a sober, industrious and respected citizen. There were, it seems, several robbers in the house, and Mrs. Goodrich hearing them, had aroused her husband, and he (not being able to find his pistol) had ta ken a bowie knife and was in pursuit of the thieves. He had struck at one of them, and another hail passed him inside of the house, aDd beseems to have has tened outside and around to the wiudow of his own bed-room, which he knew to be hoisted, with the expectation of inter cepting the escape of some of the burglars. It is said that chloroform had been used by tbe thieves, bat not sufficiently to pro duce stupefaction. Y’et it is likely that the feeling of faintness caused by the in halation of the chloroform induced Mrs. Goodrich to rise from the bed where she had been left by her husband, and go to the window for air. There-she was found by her excited husband, and, as the night was so dark that he could discern only the outlines of the figure, he .naturally imagined he saw one of the robbers about to pass out through the window. Then came blows, bearing all that tbe hmnan mind can conceive of the terrible—blow** by which a husband took the life of his own wife with the knife. We learn that he is distracted, and cannot be trusted alone, but is guarded constantly to pre vent the commission of suicide. Mrs. Goodrich is represented as a very accom plished and noble woman, Lnd it is said that she died with words of sympathy for her unfortunate husband upon her lips. In the utter consternation and desolation which followed the terrible tragedy, we are informed that the only child of the marriage, which is still almost an infant, was seen pillowed upon the slain mother’s breast, begging her to awake and grant it an evidence ot recognition. Houston {Terns) Union. .* The Massachusetts Temperance Alliance is doing a great work (on paper) by send ing its ageDts among infant schools, where in over 4,000 little boys and girls have been persnaded or frightened into signing a pledge to abstain from stimulants here after. The Journal of Commerce Commission at the isouth. Letter No. 14. [Correspondence of the Journal of Oom . weree.] Atlanta, June 23, 1871. I have not yet soon much of Ailanta- But I have seen enough to convince me that the city of Atlania has a8 much ‘.‘vim” in it as any inlaud Southern city I have yet visited. I presume that fact arises from several causes. But prominent, aud in fact supremely great among the causes is that this is the hub, not tbe hub of the universe, as they' say Boston is, but the hub of the South, audits spokes are rail roads which pomt to each corner of tho oontmcDt. To speak of Atlanta as a city it would probably be better first to learn mere about it; so I dismiss it for the present to speak of TIIE VINANCES OF GEORGIA. This is the capital of' the State, and here the Governor lives and the Legisla ture meets. The taxes flow to this cen tre, and the money is paid out here. Men who steal, steal bore. As to tho great question of finances, only the ridiculous aspect is presented here. Tho finances are the taxes, and they aro absorbed by the politicians. It will be remembered that tho Ku- Klux Committee requested the Executive of each State to forward answers to cer tain questions touching their debt, taxa tion, election laws, ifee. In response to that request tho Treasurer of the State of Georgia forwarded information, of whioh 1 will make a brief abstract. Governor Bullock had printod in New York and sont here State bonds amount ing to $6,000,000. $4,000,000 gold, and $2,000,000 curronoy, $500,000 of the cur rency bonds were canceled in Ne.w York and returned hero. He also had printed $2,760,000 State gold bonds under the act of 1870 granting subsidy to tho Brunswick and Albany Railroad Company. About $5,000,000 of all these bonds were sent to New York iu January last. In addition to this, large amount of bonds have been promised “in aid” of railroads. The indebtedness of the State at the commencement of the war was $2,114,500; at the close of (he war it was the same, with tbe addition of accumulated interest of about $60U,000. The $3,900,000 issued in 1866 was to fund the matured State bonds and interest, and to put the Slate Railroad in repair. A further amount cf $600,000 of Stato bonds was issued in 1868, but not used .by the Governor until last year. These with tho bonds previous ly issued made the legitimate bonded debt of the State in January, 1850, $6,544,500. To this must be added, but which may not yet be all sold, the new gold State bonds ...$ 4,000,000 Currency bonds sent to New York • 1,500,000 State gold bonds under act granting aid to the Bruns wick and Albany Railroad. 2,760,000 $14,804,500 At a very low estimate we will place the bonds endorsed as -subsidy to build new or repair old railroads, already made necessary or issued at 5,923,000 Total... $20,727,000 I do not much like the looks of the ac counts of the State of Georgia. They sug gest broken promises. Hero I find bonds due and unpaid, matured in 1859, 1862, 1803,1804, 1865, 1868, 1869,1870, amount ing to about $170,000, witii a prospect of its being increased during 1871 by .bonds maturing this year, amounting to $150,- 000. In 1808, sterling bonds held in Eu rope, amountyig to £15,000, and £3,000 interest, became due. They have uot been paid. • that awful railroad job. During the year 1870, the Legislature granted State aid, or what we would call in the North, subsidy, to railroads, which bear enumeration, for it may be of inter est to those who desire investing in the stocks. The aid granted was as follows: Albany and Columbus Railroad, $12,- 000 per mile. Albany. Mobile and New Oilcans Rail road, $12,000 per mile. Americas and Florence Railroad, $12,- 000 per mile. Atnericus and Hawkinsville Railroad, $12,000 per mile. Amerieusand Isabella Railroad, $12,- 000 per mile. Athens and Clayton Railroad, $15,000 per mile. Atlanta and Bluo Ridge Railroad, $15,- 000 per mile. Atlanta and Lookout Railroad, $15,000 per 8 miles. Augusta and Hartwell Railroad, $15,- 000 per mile. Brunswick and Albany Railroad, SB,OOO additional per mile. *- Camilla and Cuthbcrt Railroad, $12,000 per mile. Chattahoochee Railroad, $12,000 per mile. • Columbus and Atlanta Air-Line Rail road, $12,000 per mile. Dalton an'd Morganton Railroad, sls - per mile. Fort Valley and Hawkinsville Railroad, $12,000 per mile. Georgia S‘aboard and Northwestern Railroad, $12,000 per mile. Grand Trunk Railroad,sl2,ooo per mile. Great Southern Railroad, $12,000 per mile. . Griffin, Monticello and Madison Rail road, $15,000 per mile- Lookout Mountain Railroad, $15,000 per mile. Macon and Brunswick Railroad, $3,000 additional per mile- Marietta, Canton and Ellijay Railroad, $15,000 per mile. McDonough Western Railroad, $12,000 per mile. Memphis Branch Railroad, $15,000 per mile. Newnan and Americus Railroad, $15,- 000 per mile. North and South Railroad, $12,000 per mile. North Georgia and North Carolina Rail road, $12,000 per mile- Oomulgoe and North Georgia Railroad, $15,000 per mile. Polk Slate Quarry Railroad, $15,000 per mile- Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama Railroad, $12,000 per mile. South Georgia aud Florida Railroad, $12,000 per mile. St. Mary’s and Western Railroad, $15,- 000 per mile. There you have thirty-two railroads, whose bonds aro endorsed by the State Legislature- Tney cover a distanco of more thaa 2,000 miles, and amount iu value of endorsement to probably $35,- 000,000. True, tho State guarantees the bonds only in an anticipatory sense, but with the inducements held out in amounts of subsidy, it is reasonable to believe that every dollar granted will be applied for. THE OEY IS BEI'UDIATION 1 It will be noted that this extravagance in subsidizing railroads was started in an extra session of the Legislature, held after its legally adjourned day—(he last session hell here. In order to make the beat of it a law was passed adjourning the session over till next fall, so that the old Legisla ture might get the pickings, and the Dew one, which is Dc-mocra'ie, might not assemb'e to undo what that Legislature did. A great cry has been raised through Georgia about repudiation. By that they mean repudiation ol tho subsidy bonds. Many gentlemen of financial note protest ed against a direct repudiation, believing it would be misunderstood, and damage the credit of the State. So they made up a case for the Supreme Court of the State, on certain points, 3nd it will be tested when tbe Court meets about two weeks irom tc-day. The points arc like this: First—The Constitution Jof the State provides that the second session of a Leg islature must adjourn on the fortieth day after its {meeting, unless a vote of two thirds nf both Houses shall extend the time. Qacstion —Was the necessary two ! thirds vote secured ? Plaintiffs say it was not, and that the body was organized in violation of law. Second—ls the body was illegally in session, are not its acts illegal ? It re quires no reasoning to answer that ques tion. The decision of the first point will govern the secoud. It would, therefore, be a good thing for those who think of investing in the rail roads named, in expectation of tbe subsi dies, to wait a few days aod be governed by the Supreme Court decision. My oninioD, based on good grounds, ft) that tho Court will decide that all thcacts ol the session during which they were grant ed were unconstitutional. GOVERNOR BULLOCK AND HIS ECONOMY. Gov. Bullock lives in the best private residence in Atlanta. The Legislature paid SIOO,OOO of State funds for it. Gov. Bullock is not as economical as he might be. Witness a comparison of expenses QDder his administration and those of his predecessors. The Bnllock legislature, from its organization in July, 1868, to NEW SERIES—VOL. XXIV. NO. 29. January, 1871, cost for its expenses over $1,000,000 cash. From 1855 to 1862 (seven years) the en ire cost was $866,000. Last year the legislative expenses were greater than for any five years before the war. The clerk hire expenses last year were $82,000, being two clerks for each three members of the Legislature. The legisla tive clerk hire from 1860 to 1863 was only $48,000, and part of -that was paid in Confederate money. The cost of the en tire Legislature, clerks anil all, in 1862, was only $62,849. In 1870 the cost was sixteen times that amount. Governor Bullock’s incidental expenses amounted, up to November last, to $23,800; those of his nreileoessor to $350 for fifteen months. Governor Bullock’s extra printing to November last looted up $76,000. llis predecessor got along a year with $1,070 for that purpose. Among other expenses of tho present Govornor are: $34,000 attorney’s fees for work the Attorney-General should bavo performed; $40,000 for executive clerks, fully four times what tho law allows, or has been customary at any time; $300,000 for special services to his predecessor’s $7,412, or in the ratio of forty to one. He hired Mr. Conley to make an analysis of tbe State Constitution, and took 10,000 copies at $1 15 oaeb. They afe worth probably 20 or possibly 25 oents each at retail. The Stato Road—tho Western and Atlantio—paid to thq State last year $45,000, but at the end of the year it was found that it aocuinulatcd a fliating debt of $700,000, and tho Stato was obliged, to assume it. There must bavo baen elegant pickings for somebody in that transaction, because it is well known that tho road, well equipped as it is, does a business that pays handsomely. Bofuro the war it paid a very largo portion of all the State ex pense-. As the Congressional Ku-Klux Committee does not pay mo for unoartb ing these evidences agaiust tho real Georgia Ku-Kluxes, 1 propose to stop. Every one seems to be talking of them, but l get my data from tho books, uud there are plenty more where I left off. THE LAST KU-KLUX OUTRAGE was the reoent offer by Governor Bullock of largo rewards for tho arrest and de livery (not oonviotion), of allegod Ku- Kluxos. Three days ailer bo issued his proclamation 1m commenced drawing war rants on tho Siato Treasurer, amounting to $1,500 each. It would seem by this that Governor Bullock wants to raise a Ku-Klux Klau of his own, for the purpose of creating bogus outrages in order to secure tho offered re wards. This is the only organized Ku- Klux Klau in the State of Georgia. THE CHIPPEWA CHIEFTAIN’S STRATEGY. The pooplo all through tho Stato of Georgia express considerable dissatisfac tion at the manner in whioh the Slate Road was leased. It appears that Senator Cameron, known in Pennsylvania as tho Chippewa Chieftain, Secrctaiy Delano and others, determined to lease the State Road if they oould. They appealed to tho Leg islature, honestly of course, as Mr. Came ron does to the Pennsylvania Legislature, and had a bill passed as they dictated ic. The bill was do framed that the securities to be fuanished could not be provided by any other party, and no matter who should bid against them they would get the road at their own price. The bids were opened and the road was leased to Cameron & Cos. for a term of twenty years for the sum of $25,000 per month. Security for $8,000,000 was given that the road should ho returned in as vood condition as when tho lessees took it. But tho shrewd Senator from Loohicl had the contract so worded that no penal sum attaches m case of failure to perform the contract. Tho security is not held liablo for payment of tho rents', and by some adroit provision, which requires its delivory over to the State in certain contingencies, it is made optional whether the lesseos keep the road one month or twenty years. Therefore Messrs. Cameron & Cos. are simply trying an experiment. The complaint is that even in this trans action, out of whioh tho people ol' Geor gia expected so much good, the Legisla ture oould not act without duplicity. It is not probable, however, that any man in tholStato would dosiro tho oontraet an nulled. Tho road has beou so corruptly managed of late years that any lease of it is preferable to the State’s possession. POST OFFICE ANNOYANCES. Yestorday, having only two throe cent postage stamps on hand, 1 placed them on a letter .to the Journal of Commerce anil sent it to the post office. After the evening mail had gone the letter was returned (the hotel envelope having identified the sender), marked in two places “Hold for postage, ” postmarked, and tho stamps canceled. In another place it was marked “ Due 3 cents. ” Now it is a well known fact that the law reads as follows; “ All letters deposit ed for mailing, paid only in part, shall he forwarded to destination, charged with the unpaid rate, to bo collected on deliv ery. ” The regulations of the postmaster- General then define a “ rato” to he three cents, anil say any letter must ho forward ed if prepaid by three cents. I called on the Postmaster of Atlanta, aud he says he does that thrng every time n letter is not folly prepaid, if he cun find the party send ing it, hut If not he lets it go forward. It is surprising that the postmaster, who is a very intelligent man, should not know better. I argued the point with him a long time, hut he would not be convinced otherwise than that the practice adopted by him is sustained by law and regulation, and by custom in all post offices of the United States. W. P. O, Hints bn Cunning Fruit. The season when fruit will be plenty is fast approaching, aud those housekeepers who have seen how much their canned fruit was enjoyed the last winter, will bo making calculations to put up a largo sup ply tbe present summer. There is noth ing healthier, and really hardly anything cheaper than canned fruit. It may seem unnessary to thoso who are already adepts at the art to write any'biog on this subject; but T ean assure such that there aro hundreds of bushels of fruit spoiled every year in this town alone. A lady not long since was telling me that last fall she put up three baskets of a9 handsome peaches as were ever gath ered, and every bottle was spoiled. I constantly hear tho ladies talking about their spoiled fruit. There is another re mark I often hear, and which seems ab surd to me, “ My fruit always whitemolds, and I think it improves it.” Thero is a thick, leathery white mold, which often forms on tbe top of the fruit, and which can bo removed whole without affecting, apparently,, the flavor ol (he fruit ; but it is not desirable to have even this sort of mold. It would be out of the question to send such bottles to a long distance, as the mold would be spread all over the fruit, if it did not impart any unpleasant flavor. There is such a thing as having bottled fruit without any mold whatever. I think the reason white mold forms is that the lid of the can is not applied soon enough, and many ladies consider this as part of tho process. Only yesterday a friend told mo that she always waited three or four minutes after the fruit was in tho bottle before she put on the lid. “It lets out the air,” she said. 1 looked surprised. “You know there are always bubb'es of air to come up.” “Oh, yes!” I said, “ I know ; but always run a knife quickly down the inside, and that brings them up.” The quicker the lid is applied the better, and it should not bo disturbed UDtil you wane to use tho fruit. In regard to the air-bubbles, which often form while the bottle is filling,a little care will obviate the and fficulty. In putting the fruit into the bottle, do uot pour it in such a way as to olose the whole mouth of the bottle, because that prevents the escape ot the air; but rather let the fruit slide gently down the side of tho bottle. Itcao be done just as quickiy this way as the other. The secret of having bottled fruit keep is, to have a perfectly air-tight cover, and to be sure that the fruit perfectly boils all throughout, before putting it into tbe bottles, and then to be quick about putting on the cover, and letting the cover alone until you want to use the contents of the bottle. It is not necessary to let out the steam or air after the cover is on. Do not plaoe a string under the rubber for this purpose. Do not insert a pen knife under tho rubber (according to some directions) to let out air (I know a lady that learned this lesson after her peaches bad all fermented). It is not ueoessary to bury the bottles in tho earth, or to havo a dark vault made in the cellar for tbe. purpose. Mine keep per fectly, without mold, on a shelf in a rather light cellar. It you bottle your fruit in the right way, it will keep almost any where but by the stove. If you don’t do it right, and let in tho air with a knife or some other way, it won’t keep, no matter where you put it. Qf oourse, if you have not done it right, it will keep longer in a dark, cold place, but it will suooumb to the atmosphere in the end. Bottled fruit, put np in a proper manner, will keep lor years, if desired. I had some splendid peaches at a friend’s tho other evening, aod she said she did uot know whether thoy wero two or three years old. But she knew they wore not last year’s, (or she did not put up any, as .she had used up all her empty bottles for ohcrrios, plums, raspberries, etc , and as sho had several bottles of peaches on hand, she did not think it necessary to buy more bottles for a fresh supply. Prospects of tlie (tot ton and Corn Crops. From the Journal of Commerce. Meridian, Miss., July 2, 1871.—Hero 1 am, at the eastern end ot the State of Mississippi, having penetrated tho cotton belt from the Atlantic ooean, through South Carolina. Georgia and Alabama to Mississippi, and had the best opportuni ties for judging the condition of the crops. The rolling lands will, it the season is now favorable, mako a seveh-eighths to a lull crop of the planted staples, except where through negligence the grass has been allowed to got too far ahead. That is the fault of the planter, in tho lowlands it depends entirely upon the drainage. In some spots tho too frequent and very heavy falls of rain have drowned tho plants, and in others the grass has got too far ahead of the crop. But the planters aro becoming soared, and both whites and blacks are now working the plantations with probably more energy than they ever worked in their lives before. They have an idea that the crop will be very short, and that they will roacive splendid prices tor ail they save. Mauy afield that would have been abandoned last year in its pres ent condition is being cleaned, and will yield a good crop, unless somo groat draw back ocours. Last your cotton was cheap, there was an immense yield, and a con siderable amount of it was wastod on the plantations and never counted in the actual yiold. This year every scrap will bo saved and baled. My cstiuiato, based on reports from every section of every Stale through which I have passed, and Mississippi, will dcvialo somewhat from Mr. Oapron’s. Tho clearest ostimate of aereago in cotton will average 15 per coni, less for tho whole South, which would take 15 per oent. from the crop of last year if the yield wero the same. That would givo as the estimated full yield about 3.600,000 bales. Tho host ostiuiatc that oan be made now is that tho whole orop will, with oareful culture and favorable woatbor, and no un expected reverses, lose one-fourth of a crop. That would still givo 2,700,000 bales, and with tho savings and twistings and energy that will be displayed to mako the most out of it, it is reasonable to ex peot that tho yield will bo about 3,000,- 000 bales. As matters look now tlie re sult to producers will be that many a planter will be ruined, white mauy will make fortunes on this year’s orop. But the average result will probably ho to bring more pro tit to the planter than he has experienced sinco the war, unless some great and unexpected misfortune de stroys tho crop. 1 have seen somo most excellent Holds of cotton—as good as wero raised last year up to this time. Then again there aro some sorry looking cotton fields iu low places. But every man, woman ami child is now at work, plow ing, hoeing, pulling up grass, and using determined endeavors to savo the crop. These efforts cannot fail to have a good effect. The corn crops is almost a failure in tho average lowlands, and in somo it will only be good to feed, stalk and ear, to cattle. Still in the uplands thoy have promise of .a pretty decent crop, and, on tho whole, the average will probably be a little less than will he needed for homo supply. By shipping from good to poor crop localities much freight expense will ho saved .on corn, and in that way corn will bo cheaper South-after this crop than for many years before, counting, of course, on a yield based upon present indications. A good season from now may help it considerably, or a bad one ruin it. Mauy pluntors have good corn and had cotton, and nice verta. A good many reports from hero must bo taken with a grain of allowance. They oome from despondent planters, Now your farmer, the world over, is a consti tutional growler. Bui your plamor iu the Gulf States has got so disoouragod by talking of tho misfortunes ho suffered dur ing ami growing out of tho war that ho believes thero ih no hope lor him politi cally or materially, and that even Provi denoe has desorted him and the planters as a class. They got together and talk gloomily till they boliove th# worst. Why, no less than five planters have talked to mo in tho deepest earuostuess about an anticipated inroad of tho boll-worm on ootton, and I venture a belief that not one of them has seen a boll-worm this year or the remotest indication of tho probable appearance of that infliction. These statements are, of course, founded on indications, and while’l believo they represent tho exact condition of affairs now, I would not, if. J wore a speculator, invest a cent on these or anybody’s figures as to the probablo yield, for the reason that somo favorable or unfuvorablo cir cumstances might change the predicted result three or lour hundred thousand bales either way. W. P. C. The Alleged Ku-Klux Outrages.— The Aetes says the prisoners confined in Chatham county jail on Saturday after noon, to answer the charges preferred against them as engaged in the late Ku- Klux outrages in Washington oounty, whose oases were commenced ou Saturday and continued until Monday morning, in order to allow them timo to produce tho necessary witnesses in their dofenso, wore brought into tho United States Courtroom at 11 o’clock. Additional counsel—Hon. Ilufus E. Lester, of our city, and Col. Beverly B. Evans, of Sandersville—wore present to aid in the defense. A number of witnesses, citizens of Washington, wore present to testily in behalf of the pris oners. Counsel made a motion for a severance, which was overruled by tho Court. After the examination of all the wit nesses, by request of counsel, the prison ers were each permitted to make their statement to Court, which they proceeded to do, showing where they were, on tho night of June 17th. At the conclusion of the testimony Court took a recess until 8 J o'clock in the afternoon, at which time the argnmeut was opened by Oupt. George A. Mercer for the defenso. Ho argued the points in volved in the case for some time, and then took a lengthy pn<l Very close examination into the testimony, showing a nuin - her of inconsistent and contradictory statements on the part of the witnesses for the Btate. His argument was able, terse and conclusive, lie was fol lowed by Mr. Lester, who devoted his attention particularly to tho constitutional provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the aot of Congress approved April 20th, 1871, to enforce the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to tho Con sdtution of the United States, and for other purposes, showing that there was do intention on tho part of Congress to legislate on tho private rights of individ uals in the States, and that oven if the charges set forth in the warrants wero established beyond a doubt against the parties accused, that none of thoir private rights, as guaranteed to thorn by the Constitution, were infringed. In short, that it was in substance no more than an aot of assault and battery, for which the parties had their romodies. Mr. Lester mado a very lengthy argu ment upon these points, which he sus tained in an able and masterly manner, showing much familiarity with tho- consti tutional question. Ho then sifted tho evidence as his colleague, C'apt. Mercer, had done, and finished bis argument. Tho case was concluded by the argnment of Col. B. B. Kvans, of Handersville, who took a general review of tbo law and tho evidence, making a very able and interest ing defense for his clients. After tho arguments of eounnrl the Court consulted a short time, and linally the prisoner;) were diseharged, and all re turned to their homes in Washington county by the train last night. Thus ended the Ku-Kiux outragos in Wash ington, county, on tho night of .June 174 b, at least so far as those citizens aro con cerned- , Tho oynocophalus*, that gentlemanly equestrian of Lent's circus, having booonio tired of a pubiio life, retired into privacy the other day, and Ilia friends have been unable to find him. Three Texan women wero rooently shot whilo robbing a house. One of them, while dying, said : “My father forced mo to steal for him before I was ton years old, and God surely will not punish mo for a father’s crime.” A conductor who was recently discharged from ono of the city railroads told a friend, confidentially/ that whon he was thus em ployed, he never took home loss than $7 a day. He said that it ho had been paid pi or 15 he wouldn’t have fallen $7. Kail road companies may take the hint.—Ai Y. Timt.
