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C|umidf & JskntindL WEDNESDAY MORNING, JPLT (9, BOHK HOPE FOR CHICAGO. The Chicago Tribune says that “ in the reoent competitive examination for the Chicago High Sohool and Normal School, the number who passed an examination equal to the standard was 469. Os thesei 24. all girls, were admitted to the Normal School. Os the other 446, no less than 278 were girls, and oaly 167 boys. The total of the successful applicants was: Girls, 302; boys, 167. “Os the students in the Chioago High .Sohool, including the new and the oldest classes, four-fifths are girls. If the pro portion oontinues to increase in the fu ture u it has of late years, the girls will gradually, but rapidly, monopolize the school.” It is an old Georgia maxim that “ Good mothers make good sons.” Wesec, there fore, in the IVibune's statement, great hope for Chicago The next generation of Chicago boys will do better. We have never known an educated mother, how ever poor, who suffered her boys to grow up without learning, at least, to read, write and eiptaer. Kindergarten instruction may do for the crowded populations of Europe and the denser populations of Northern cities, Lut give us '* home training ” by good, well eduoated mothers, to make good citisens. OIK PROGRESS TOWARDS SPECIE PAY MENTS. The importations from July Ist, 1870, to the middle of June, 1871, are officially re ported at $337,000,000; for the same po riod 1869-70, $272,000,000. The increase is $66,000,000. The exports of gold from New York since January is $40,000,000 ; for the same period in 1870, $16,400,000. The increase in the last six months is $23,- 600,000. The last New York bank state ment shows that loans (oily banks) have increased from July, 1870, from $250,000,- 000 to $293,000,000, and the deposits dur ing the same period from $179,000,000, to $243,000,000. The specie reserve of the banks, during the same period, has decreased from $31,000,000 to $14,000,- 000. The general estimate of the gold production of the country is $70,000,00), so that it takes, at present, all the gold that is mined, and all the ootton we can grow, and all the pork, wheat, petroleum and other articles that we can export, to pay off our annual indebtedness' —make both ends meet. In the meanwhile Govern ment bonds, and State bonds, and City bonds, and Railroad bonds, are going abroad, swelling the amount of indebted ness, which we promise to pay ten, twen ty and thirty yoars henoe, and the annual demand for interest in gold. Let there be a single failure of a ootton orop, and the “ nation ’’ will howl, whether ootton be king or slave- THE RADICAL “UNPLEASANTNESS’’ IN LOUISIANA. There is an unpleasantness in the Radi cal oamp in Louisiana, which the St. Louis Republican says grew up in this wise : " Gov. Warmouth left the capital to recruit his delicate health amid the sa lubrious breezes of Pass Christian, lock ing the doors of the Executive office be hind him to keep out Lieut. Gov. l)unn (negro) who, by law, should exerciso the executive functions in his absenoe. After Warmouth’s departure Dunn asserted his right to he Governor, and repaired to the Executive office, broke open the door, and transacted some trivial official business. This was an overt act of war, and brought to a bead a soaroely suppressed quarrel that had long been brewing between the white Radicals under Warmouth, and the colored Radioals under Dunn. Shortly after the latter had lodged himself in the Kicoutivo office, Warmouth’s Secretary made a seoret raid ou the office, and car ried off to Pass Christian, ‘ he appointment book and the unsigned bills of the last Legislature. Dunn, in turn, it is said, has made affidavit charging the Seeretary, Bragden, with abstracting public docu ments from their proper office ; and thus the quarrel goes on from one thing to another in a very lively manner. The Governor is said to be too muoh enfoebled iu health to come baok and meet the daring negro on the ground, and the lat ter, therefore, has things pretty muoh his owd way. His colored friends admire his audacity, and he is daily strengthening himself in his position. The Federal offiuera are ioroed to take sides in the quarrel, and the United States Marshal, the Postmaster, and Collector Casey are all on the side of the Lieutenant Gov ernor. This fact would seem to indicate that Dunn is recognised as the stricter friend of the President than.Warmouth. ’’ THK NEW 10RK VIADUCT RAILWAY. The late»t sensation in railways is the New York. Street Viaduct Railway. For a long time the New Yorkers have put forward many projects to relieve the great thoroughfares from the deuse masses which throng the street, as if in procession. The street railways and omnibusses have proved inadequate to New York in motion. The underground railway has advanced so far, as an experiment, to convince the public that it cannot subserve tlie purpose for which it was begun. The Elevated Street Railway has proved a failure. The demands of the public daily becoming more imperative, aud threatening* to widen Broadway, and disfigure it with ad ditional street railways, to be laid and op erated in the centre of perhaps one of tlie fiuest streets in the world, has brought to determinate action such wealthy real es tate owners as W. B. Astor, A. T. Stew art, Hilton, aud others, who formed a company and are now engaged in the prac tical solution of affording adequate and quick transit to and fro of the busy, ac tive, jostling, crowded population of New York. This Viaduot Railway system is to ra diate from one great central depot. The way or viaducts upon which the rails are laid i» nothing more nor less than one continuous bridge of stone and brick, a aeries of arches, whose elevation is above the tops of the adjacent houses. Upon the line selected all the houses are to be purchased aud removed. The streets are to be spanned by three arches—one each covering either sidewalk, and the third and greater spanning the roadway or street proper. Two hundred men are now engaged in makiug the necessary survey. It is conjectured that the survey of the line for the first section from the City Hall to the great central depot, between Harristowu and Bleaker street, will be completed in two weeks, when the con struction' will be commenced. Starting from the depot at the northeast corner of the City Hall Park, it will cross Centre st. diagonally to the apex of the triangle formed by the City Hall place and Centre st. at tbeir junction with Chambers st. It will then cross Re&de, Duane, and Pearl ■ts. to Worth st. On this part of the line there will be eight tracks. From Worth st. the line will pass through the end of the block, aud cross Baxter st. at its junc tion with Leonard st., whence it will run between Baxter and Mulberry sts., traversing Bayard, Canal, Hester, Grand and Broome sts. to the great central depot, which will occupy the three entire blocks bounded by Marion and Crosby sts. on the west, Mulberry st. on the east, Hous ton st. on the north, and Spring st. on the •oath. Through these three blocks the road will oonsist of 10 tracks; between Worth and Spring sts. there will be four tracks. It is at the northern end of this depot that the eastern and western branches of the line start. The eastern branch will be constructed first, because the work is easier, the expenditure less, and its want greater. It is stated that the whole system will be let by sections! contracts to ensure ■peedy construction. It is proposed to utilize the space between the arches by building store rooms and ware rooms. STATISTICS OF COMMERCE AND NAVI GATION. Monthly Report of the Bureau of Statis tics, No. 10, now in press, gives the statistic* of our foreign trade for the first tea months of the current fiscal year, as compared with the corresponding periods of 1870. The Chief of the Bureau furnishes the following abstract: Uwatic eiporu(«p>- Forelm IVr.odf Import*. ci« vita**.) cxpoiU. S 2 098.63" . A, "“ 45,«M,»34 M.W.WS *,*H WS 381,717,554 M 3,777 214 SS,*6»i» For the ten months ended April 30, 1871, the exports exceed the imports by $13,272,123. while for the corresponding period of 1870 the imports are in excess of the exports to the amount of $7,084,492. The respective amounts of the total im ports (specie value) consisting of merchan dise and of specie and bullion, for the ten months ended April 30, 1671, were as follows: .. . Domestic r or«*a UerciMdlK *}H“ gj hp*cie Mid WulltoL. 17,25fc.21S 64,641.574 12 r J4..OL« TEN MONTHS ENDED APRIL 30, 1870. JjooMM*tic ¥ oreUcn Imports. export* Merctami.* 57 Specie ftod bullion 2i,490,u90 82,777,041 12.403*014 The comparative amount of our foreign commerce, carried in American and foreign vessels, and other vehicles, re spectively, daring the ten months ended April 30, 1871, were as follows : Domestic ex port* (mired ForeUn Import*. v*mwr.) exoortf. Aluricu Tru li *126,11.2 ml *149,*33,143 *7 M 0.4?? Far£*T... --. 2W.252.5i8 311.935,916 13.M4.Ml 12.2*3549 4 225,733 1.9*1,113 TEN MONTHS ENDED APRIL 30, 1870. Domcattc export* (mix- Foreign Iroportf. ?d vtluer.) export *. Americ*n vessel* $124.147.674 ’int Foreign vtmel* The value of foreign commodities re maining in warehouse April 31, 1871, was $55,884,488, against $55,794,102, April 30, 1870. The number and tonnage of vessels en gaged in the foreign trade, which entered into aod cleared from the ports of the United States during the twelve months ended April 30, 1871, were as follows : EnUred. Chared. Number. Tom. . Number. Tom. A mericM ve=*e!«... .10.646 8,672,473 10 *9l 3 ®D.D® Foreign VAMel* I**7? 6 978,941 19,274 9.990284 Total -.80,048 9,826.414 29 856 9,673682 TWELVE MONTHS ENDED AJ'RIL 30, 1870, Entered. Ctoared. Nurolrftr. Tors. Number. » ns. A tneritan vessel*... 10,416 3,431,900 10 242 2 Foreign vessel* 19 666 6,787,835 19,647 6 »y0,7J5 Totol .29 9il 9,:09,136 2J.789 9,250,939 This number contains a statement of great value, showing the foreigD countries to which the principal commodities, the growth, produce and manufacture of the United States, were exported (by quanti ties and values) during the calendar year ended December 31, 1870. The miscellaneous department maintains its usual interest. It contains the statis. tics of the trade of the Gciman Zollverein for 1869, exports from the Netherlands of the products of Java, &c. SENSATIONAL HISTORY, SO-CALLED. The Columbus (Tenn.) Herald gave to the public a sensational account of the difficulty which occurred in the Confed federate Senate, between the late Hon. Win. L. Yancy, of Alabama, and the Hon- Benj. H. Hill, of Georgia, while Confed erate Senators. The Chronicle & Senti nel has never republished the article, having good grounds for believing it sen sational. Hon. A. H. Stephens, in a late issue of the Atlanta Sun t says; Wo give our readers the foregoing arti cle, as we see it in several of our ex changes ; but in doing so we feel con strained to state that we have good reasons for saying that the account therein given of any personal rencounter that may have occurred between the parties referred to, in the Confederate States Senate, is not correct. It is but a caricature representa tion of the facts, so far as relates to the conduct of both of the distinguished Sen ators. Mr. Yancey is not in life to speak for himself. Whether Mr. Hill soels at liber ty to speak upon the subject at all or not, we do not know. But in behalf of both, we feel it a duty to say what we have in relation to the article, as it is now going the rounds of the press, and is calculated to produce very erroneous impressions. A KU-KLUX WITNESS. A special tolegram to the Philadelphia Press informs us as to the testimony of P. M. Shcibley, before the Ku-Klux In vestigating Committee, now in session at Washington City. Sheibley belongs to tbo Blodgett faction of Radicals in Geor gia, and was, we believe, a Secretary to tho Reoonstructing Convention, and late a Clerk in tho reconstructed House of Rep resentatives. Shieblev is a well-known Radical professional office-seeker, and is so distinguished in Georgia. His testi mony is as follows: “ I*. M. Sheibley, postmaster at Rome, Georgia, a native of Pennsylvania, and a resident of the South for twenty-three years, testified that he know of two indi vidual cases, in each of whioh he had been assured that a negro had been whipped by men iu disguise, and that twenty or more, at the dead hour of night, on or about the same time had entered Rome, but re tired without committing offenses. He also referred to other cases in which colored persous had iaformed him that negroes bad been whipped by so-called Ku-Kiux. The Democrats there were so muoh opposed to the reconstruction measures of Congress that they threw all possible obstacles in the way of the negroes to the enjoyment of civil aud political rights. The object of the Union League, as organized in 1867 in the State of Georgia, was to endear the people to the Government ot tlie United States, aud, as such, never com mitted any acts of violence. It, however, ceased to exist after the Presidential elec tion in 1868, or prior to the organization of the Ku-Klux Klan, and, therefore, the latter was raised iu antagonism to the former. Since tlie passage of the Ku Klux hill and the proclamation of the President of the United States, there has beep com parative peace in that part of Georgia known as the Cherokee purchase. The witness said, in his opinion, universal am nesty would greatly tend to a better stpte of feeliug. He was examined over three hours. ” The Savannah Custom House.—The Western Associated Press has the follow ing telegram from Washington, which will settle the question in regard to the Sa vannah Custom House. Here it is; Custom House Defalcations —For some time past the Treasury Department has had reason to suspect that the all airs of the Savannah, Georgia, Custom House were uot being conducted altogether satis factory, and concluded to set a watch upon proceedings. Reports received here charge that a defalcation has been discov ered amounting to $27,000, SS,OOO of which are covered by talse vouchers, and the balance by extra charges for lights, fuel aud other matters not authorized by law. The Collector's bondsmen are un derstood to be Governor Reed, of Flori da ; Gov. Bullock, ot Georgia; Ephriam Tweedy, cf Augusta, Georgia, and Gen. Littlefield, of North Carolina, and one other party of Ohio, whose name is not known. It is understood that a promi nent party ot Savannah is now on North for the purpose of raising funds to cover up the default. Attribute to Lee.—Among the toasts at the Alumni dinner, at the University of Virginia, was the following : General Robert E. Lee : “ His spirit still lives His signal deeds and prowess high Demand no labored eulogy. We saw his deeds ; Why should their praise in veise be sung f The name that dwells on every tongue No minstrel needs. Drunk standing, and in silence. Narrow Gauge Railroads.—We learn from the Columbia Phatnix that it is contemplated to run a line of this new style of road from Newberry to Laurens, and that another is proposed across Lex* ington county, to connect the Greenville and Augusta Railroads via Lexington Court House. We should be glad to see this matter fairly tested in South Caro lina, feeling satisfied that a fair trial would soon work a revolution in the entire rail road system, and prove of immense ad vantage to the State. [CORRESPONDENCE CHRONICLE 4 SENTI- | NEL.J LETTER FROM MADISON. The Friendly Relations Between Madison and Augusta—School Commencements , Exhibitions, Ac. —Madison and Griffin Railway a Fixed Fact—Crops in Morgan County. * Madison, Ga., July 11, 1871. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel : Time was when Augusta felt some in terest in the quiet, pleasant little city of Madison, and its seasons of rejoicings and moments of excitement were not seldom participated in by the people of Augusta. The similarity of the local characteristics of the two plaoes, and their close business relations, begot long since, and has main tained (let us hope to the present time), a common feeling and a common interest, which the future now bids fair to strength en. Madison, like Augusta, is built on a solid foundation ; its business men are enterprising, though unostentatious, and at all times reliable. The society of Madi son, like that of Augusta, is cultivated and refined ; and its ladies, like her’s, arc celebrated fer their beauty, their intelli gence of mind and purity of heart. Madi son, being the smaller and younger place, owes, do doubt, in a great measure, much of its present importance to its proximity to and relationship with Augusta. Both have been benentted by their intercourse, and they should feel a just pride in each other. The usual quietness of the place has been interrupted during more than a week past to such an extent that even the sobriety of age has been for the time laid aside for the more animated deportment becoming youthful scenes. College com mencements, concerts, exhibitions of youth ful genius and skill, have furnished ex citement for the young and unusual ani mation to the old. Madison looked really for the time as though she were again about to assume the proud position she occupied before the war, as a classic spot, a “Mecca of the mind”—a shrine of beauty. The commencement exercises of the Georgia Female College, under the control of President Brown, gave much encouragement to those who desire the guccess of that institution. The exercises in declamation by the pupils of Mr. Towns’ male academy,on the night of the 7th inst., were unusually interesting, and brought to light several yodthful orators, who did honor to themselves, and reflected great credit on their teacher. The crowning exhibition of the week was the concert, on the night of the 6th, by the pupils of Mrs. I. E. Kuff. It has been the privilege of the writer to witness several exhibitions of Hke character daring the present aod previous seasons, but none that displayed anything like the same taste in the selec tion and arrangement of pieces, or as much skill in their rendition. One of the marked features in this concert was the easy grace with which each performer sus tained her part. There was no confusion iu time or embarrassment of manner ; every thing was done with that quiet air, hut at the same time perfect exactitude, which indicates thorough training by a skilled instructress, who has the faculty, in a marked degree, of imparting knowledge and inspiring confidence. Madison is justly proud of Mrs. Ruff, for certainly few have ever displayed so much skill in developing musical talent as she. On yesterday the citizens of Madison took a vote upon the question of subscrib ing twenty thousand dollars to the Grif fin, Monticello and Madison Railroad. On counting the ballots the votes stood one hundred and six for the subscription, to two against it. As all the other coun ties have subscribed their proportionate share of the three hundred thousand to be raised, the road may now be considered a fixed fact. On to-day a meeting of the stockholders was held and delegates se lected to represent them in the convention at Indian Springs, on the 14th, when a President and other officers will be ohoseD. The road will certainly benefit Augusta, as it will send to her market thousands of bales of cotton which have heretofore found their way to Macon and other places, and will give to Madison an im petus whioh must ere long make her a town of no inconsiderable importance. The weather, at this writing, is very warm, the mercury standing at 94 in tho shade. Farmers in some localities begin to long for rain. The prospects for ootton and dorn in Morgan is hardly aQ average- Merccrius. Tlse Pennsylvania Manifesto, Address (f the Democratic Executive Committee of the Keystone State—The Political Issues of the Day Clearly and Strongly Stated —A Powerful Paper by lion. Jeremiah Black. The following are the material portions of the address to the Democracy of Penn sylvania by the Democratic Executive Committee of that Bt»te. The paper was prepared by ex-Seeretary Jeremiah S. Black: The Executive Committee of the Dem ocracy ot this State, to whom the follow ing address was referred by the recent State Convention, now present the same to you as embodying some of the reasons which actuate and control the organiza tion they represent: We here solemnly renew our often-repeated declaration ot fidelity to the great principles upon which our party has acted from the time of its first organization. Our ultimate objects are those of our fathers when they adopt ed the Federal Constitutior, viz : ”To form a more perfect union, to establish justice, to insure domestic tranquility, to promote the general welfare, to provide for the oommon defense, and seoure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” We sincerely believe that the Government of the United States, ad ministered as it was in former days, with a direct view to the advancement of these principles, would do lor us and our child ren all that any people ean reasonably de sire from the political system under whioh they live. We are equally sure .that if not carried out in tho spirit of those by whom it was framed it must become a ourse instead of a blessing. Situated as we are, obedience to the fundamental law means not only the honest performance of sworn obligations, but freedom,, peace, and prosperity to all classes of the people. Oa the other hand, the usurpation of undelc gated power is not only a crime in itself, but the fruitful parent of other crimes, and will lead, as it has already led, to in, definite misgovernment, corruption, and tyranny, subverting all liberty, and ren dering the rights of ail men insecure. When we speak of the Federal Constitu tion, we mean the whole instrument, with all its amendments, and acknowledge the equal obligation of every part. Several of those amendments were carried by brute force and by frauds upon the public will so glaring as to take from their authors all claim upon our respect. But we can not deny that they have actually become a part of the Constitution; nor can we avoid that fact, nor get behind it, by showing the oorrupt misconduct of the men who at that time controlled Congress and mas tered the State Legislatures. Whosoever swears to support the Constitution must perform all that is “nominated in the bond.” Any change which experience and reason shall prove to bo desirable must be made in the prescribed way, and not by revolutionary and disorderly means. THE DECLARATION OP 1871. No candid person will deny that the leading men in power at Washington have been unfaithful to their dutiep. They have broken the pledges they made to the people, and, in reckless disregard of their oaths, they have violated the plainest pro visons of the Constitution. They have deprived the States of their sacred right of self-government in matters purely lo cal. and disarmed them of the power to enforce their own laws for the preserva tion of order within their owd boundaries. They have passed bills of pains and penal ties, operating on mibiona at once, .with out regard to the guilt or innocence of the parties. They have trampled on all the securities of life, liberty and property. They have treated the habeas corpus law with contempt, and denied the right of trial by jury. They have sent out swarms of their hireling agents with instructions to kidnap, imprison and kill free citizens for political offenses, without judioial ac cusation. without warrant, and without trial. They have not cnly trodden upon the great principles embodied in the origi nal Constitution as it came from the hands of its framers, but even the amendments, which they themselves interpolated, have been broken without remorse whenever it suited their interests. In defiance of the thirteenth amendment they hare doomed many persons to the worst' kind of “slave ry or involuntary servitude” in the public prisons, without the pretense of any “ crime whereof the party was legally convicted.” In tha of the four teenth amendment they have abridged the “equal rights” of whole masses of white citizens. Without the least re spect for the right of universal suffrage, guaranteed by the fifteenth amendment, they have interfered both forcibly and fracfdulently to prevent fair ejections, and to set them aside after they were held. These outrages upon justice, liberty and law have been perpetrated, not during the conflict of a civil w*r«-Sot in the mo menta ot wild passion or heated excite ment—bat in cold blood, upon deliberate reflection, in a time of profound peace, in full view of the consequences, and their authors have followed out this line of policy, step by step, with a persistency which shows their fixed determination for the future, as in the past, to he bound by no oath and held by no promise. The two last and most "important of their anti-con stitutional measures show more distinctly than others their settled design to strangle the liberties of the nation, and take per petnal power into their own hands. The force bill authorizes the President, not only to invade the States at his pleasure, but by declaring martial law to subvert all government, except what consists of his mere will. Under the election law hie cannon is planted directly against the freedom of State elections. Already the bayonets of the Executive have gleamed around the polling places in the cities of New York and Philadelphia. Who can mistake the meaning of these preparations for the next Presidential election t Who doubts that warning and rebuke are needed now to prevent the Administration Yrom carrying out its purpose by force? If the warning be not given by the people or fail of its proper effect, can we hope for peace ? It seems to "us an error to suppose the American people tame enough to be kicked under tlie yoke of a despotism, or ignorant enough to be juggled out of the great inheritance of free government which the fathers left them. ’ • ROTTENNESS OF THE ADMINISTRATION, We complain of our present ruler« for lawless usurpation of power. Power Dot delegated is always abased. In this, as in other cases, usurpation has been accompa nied and followed by corruption. Frauds without number, and almost without limit, have been committed on the public. Men of the worst character for common honesty are permitted to occupy the high est places. Os the money collected from the people, and not stolen before it reaches the Treasury, a large portion is squan dered by Congress on party favorites or oorrupt rings, and on base combinations of public plunderers. The enormous extent to which this financial corruption has been carried on will become manifest to any one who compares the expenditures of the Government during the six years which followed the civil war. Both were periods ot peace, and there can bo no ex cuse for more than a small increase corre sponding to the ratio in which the popula tion Las advanced. But where the ordi nary expenditures for the fiscal year ending Junel, 1870, exclusive of Indian annuities, pensions, and interest on the public debt, were $148,069,922 43, for the year end ing June 1, 1860, the expenditures for the same purpose were but $55,918,188 72. Here is shown the difference between the ordinary cost of carrying on our Govern ment when its agents are honest, and the cost of the same thing when its officers are so destitute of moral principle as to disregard all legal limitations upon their own authority. A free, anperverted rep sentative government is simple in its ma chinery, easily maintained, and “dispenses its blessings like the dews of Heaven, un seen and unfelt, save in tlie beauty and freshness they contribute to produce; ” the secure tranquility of a regal es'ablisli inent may some times be a compensation for the burdens it imposes, but a rotten re public is at once the most costly, the most oppressive, and the most unsteady of all political structures. * *" * * THE ISSUES. It will surely be admitted that all American citizeus who believe these facts to be irne, are bound by the sacred obli gations of patriotism, honor, and con science to oppose this state of things, and by opposing end it. The persons interest ed in preventing a change will ask how, to what extent, and by what means we propose to make the reforms. The ques tion is a fair one, and we will answer it briefly. It will be the duty-of the Demo cratic party, and, to the extent of our au thority, original or delegated, we hereby pledge ourselves and our associates, so far as in us lies— 1. To put the ship of State onoo again on her constitutional tact, and hold her head firmly and steadily to that course. 2. To protect the individual citizens of all parties, classes, and creeds in the en joyment of life, liberty, pioperty, reputa tion, and the pursuit of their lawful busi ness, by an impartial administration of justice in the ordained and established courts. 3. To preserve the powers of tho Gen eral Government in their whoso constitu tional vigor as our sole defense againßt foreign aggression, the safest bond of union between different sections of the country, and the only sure promise of general pros perity. 4. To maintain, unimpaired, the re served rights of the States, not only be cause they are guaranteed by tho Federal Constitution, but because the States alone can safely be trusted with the management of their owu local concerns. 5. To reduce the expenditures of the Government by confining its appropria tions to legitimate objects, by a rigid sys tem of accountability and economy, and by abolishing tnuph of the unnecessary and pernicious maohiucry with whioh it is now encumbered. 6. To moderate the burdens of the peo ple, not only by ceonomioal administra tion, but by a system of taxation upon foreign imports as well as domestic pro ductions, which shall be just and equal in its operation upon the property and busi ness of the country, not enriching some while it impoverishes others, and not opeD to the frauds now habitually practioed. 7. To preserve the public credit by the prompt payment of the public obligations. * 8. To consecrate the public lands to the use of the laudless people who need it by a system which will secure a sufficiency to all, and stop at once the loQg series of •swindles by which so many millions of acros have been given away to those who already have more than enough. These are some of the duties whioh lie before the people if they desire to see their government administered with a decent respect for the Constitution of their fathers or with tolerable ftonepty in financial matters. We. have notoßtufortbodoxy.no dis abiliti* for nor discripaination against former political antagonists. We caDnot and da not object to bygone differences, provided the citizen be truly and faithfully devoted now to the interests and- institu tions of the whole country and all the in habitants thereof. Our object is not revolution, but restora tion ; not injury to our opponents, but an assertion of opr own rights and those of onr fellow-oitiaens. By order of the Demooratio Executive Committee. William A. Wallace, Chairman. Heathen New England, A Heathen, Colony in Hew Hampshire Under the Eye of Massachusetts Civili zation, [f rom Special Correspondence of t(ie Bos ton Bost.] South Seabhoojc, N. H., July 6, 1871. It rather startled society to be toM by the Newburyport Herald , a short time since, that there was a heathen settlement in New England ; that in the very centre of our moral and social refinement there was a depraved and ignorant community which was a disgrace to the civilization of the nineteenth century. leaving the good people of Newbury port behind, crossing the Merrimack, and, by an easy transition, exchanging the Old Bay Stste for the Granite State, one quickly finds himself in an almost entirely uninhabited region, surrounded on etfery side by barren hills and shady nooks, en tirely untortured by the abominations of modern art. Finding his way as best he can through the rough and narrow high way, the traveler saddenly comes upon the scene of a low marshy district, which a group of rickety shanties tells is the abode of some specimens of the genus homo. To satisfy what had become a greedy curiosity, your correspondent enters the village settlement, camp, or what you i will, and there he finds—what? Nottwo ! score miles from the Hub of the universe, ; hardly out of sight of the Quaker poet i IFLittier, nor beyond the reach of the ; echoes that not a century since resounded jat the thunder tones of George bitfield's ! preaching —there he came upon a scene, 1 the adequate representation of which defies j the pen, pencil, or brush. Entering the j settlement, the road turns abruptly to i the right, and you are immediately ‘brought into the midst of the “heathen | district.” It is now known as South Sea j brook, and is distant from Newburyport j only about eight miles, and from Hamp ton and Salisbury beaches by a less dis tance. Geographically it belongs to New | Hampshire, though it is, by no means, | beyond the possible influence of Massa j ohssetts enlightenment. OEIGIX OE THE SETTLEMENT. . Generations ago there lived, in what was then the township of Hampton, a family by the name of Souther. By some j kind of social ostracism, little heard of ; now-a-days, this family were banished the i village on account of their kleptomaniac tendencies and bad infinenoes generally, and in bumble submission to their fate i they sought this locality, and, entirely cut j off from the rest of the world, they began j leading the iife of hermits. They never l held any intercourse with the world out i side, and they relied on their ability to I endure privation and what the immediate vicinity afforded them for the means of subsistence. Subsequently they were joined by two families of kindred tastes and sentiments, Eaton and Souther by name, and by intermarriage of a Mormon type they now number between five and jix hundred people. For nearly a century they hod no schools, no church, no morals nor culture of any kind. Jheir brutish tastes and unbridled passions led them to 5 state of positive barbarism, They look ed upon niviliged people as their nkll”! enemies, and the neighboring people con sidered them as altogether beyond the roach of salvation. They built for them selves rude huts, and, without distinction of family, lived together in utter degrada tion. No mother knew her child after it had left its cradle, and no father knew the number of his progeny. Their dress—if it could be called dress—was scanty, a meal-hag or horse blanket, with which to cover themselves, being considered a luxury. A book or newspaper was as rare with them as if the artof printing had never been discovered, aid their language became such as only ther emotions could indicate. What wonder is it, then, that they were regarded as hopeless cases? The people who knew of them thought that they could not be helped so loug as they remained in this ooadition. Not so thought the Rev. Wm. A. Band, who, having heard of this people, deter mined, about five years since, to see if something could not be done by which they could be brought under the intisenee of Christian civilizition, and thereby bo raised from the abyss into which thej had falleD. Mr. Rand ii quite a young man, stout and erect as a pillar, and his general appearance indicates that muscular Chris tianity is a part of his creed. His eye sparkles like a crystal when he speaks of his people, and you feel that you are stand ing before a zealous Christian and a noble man. Your correspondent learned that ser vices are held in the church twioe or three times a week, and here Mr. Rand tels his people, in a plain, practical way, the duties which they owe to themselves and to each other. He has started a sohool in the district, and by making them feel the need ot culture, the people learn as eagerly as they eat. He has introduced shoemiking among them, aud, by fostering habits of industry, has taught them how to depend upon themselves for a decent and com fortable support. Officers of public order be has caused to be appointed auioDg them, by whom all disturbances are quelled and order maintained. Oa accoaDt of their piratioal character they have been nicknamed “Algerines,” after the corsairs of Algiers. Passing down a crooked lane, your cor respondent came upon a group of shanties, none of which measured over twenty by ten feet from corner to oorner. They are raised out cf tho suirounding mire by posts driven into the ground, and look more like abandoned mud-scows than abodes of humanity. In front of one of these houses your corrmpondent stopped, and there met his gaze through an open slit in the side of toe house an elderly dame of by no means prepossessing ap pearance. She was clai in a ragged piece of cloth, which hung to her body by means of a rope lied around her waist, and her foul body was a sight that would provoke an agent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. En tering the room, around her were gather ed some fifteen or twenty children, none of whom were over six or seven years of age, and all were huddled together in the only room in the house, the size of which was, perhaps, fifteen by twelve feet. In this room they cook, eat and sleep. An old rickety bedstead sttnds in one corner of the room, and on it is some loose straw and a blanket. No ehignons aro here, but long dishevelled loiks that look more like fly brushes than human hair. Small editions of humanity were scattered around the room “ what haint got noddings on,” and they stare at you from out their hazy eye in mute astonishment. You are loth to believe your own eyes as you stand and gaze on this sickening picture. “Is this all your family, Mrs. Eaton ?” your correspondent asked of the mater familias. (The ohanees are only three to one against you that you will be right if you call ary person you meet Eaton, as every one’s name is either Eaton, Dow, or Souther.) “Kee-kee neow, kee-kee neow,” answers Mrs. Eaton, “ How’d you ken my name war Eaton ?” “Ob, I’m well acquainted with your family, Mrs. Eaton.” “Them children’s mine; ‘them’s my gran’-dartors.” “ How many children have you, Mrs. Eaton ?” “ Five—seven—no—six,” but she finally concludes that she don’t know, or rather that she can’t conceal her ignorance on the subject. “Where is your minister, Mr. Rand, this afternoon?” your correspondent aske, for effect. “What, crazy Rand, you mean? Dunuo —don’t care. Hope he’s dead.” “ Why, Mrs. Eaton, isn’t your minister a good man ?” “81-r-r-r! God maked his body and bis soul, but the devil maked his ac tions.” “What ha3 lie done that displeases you, Mrs. Eaton ?” “Done? I sh’d like to know what he haint doue 1 Er" ennybuddy fetches a stick of wood to the Christun Lodge (the church) he calls it tharvin’, and he says if a buddy takes anpything as don’t belong to ’em it’s thaiving’. He’s a disgustin’ scoundrel. That he is !■” “ That’s so,” ohimed in Mrs. Eaton No. 3, the mother and grandmother; “ he’d better stick ter preachin’ and go where he’s wanted. Round hoggin all the time and keepin all he gits, and then preachin’ to us about stealin’.” Spying a form by the roadside a little way in advance, your correspondent said good-bye to Mrs. Eaton and passed on. “ Ab, Mrs. Dow, gathering flowers are you?" “My name ain’t Dow; its Souther,” replied she in a harsh voice that came from a head under which something made of ticking was put, and a string tied around the neck to support it over her black greasy back. “1 see you have a tasto for the beauti ful, Mrs. Soqtber, v “ No, I never tasted on’t. Some folks stills flower leaves" and tnakelmoney on’t. 'That’s what I’m doin’.” “ Where’s the parson this afternoon?” your correspondent inquires, striving to be provincial in his speech, after his last attempt to he urbane. “ ! who’s Parsons ? Dunno no such critter.” “ Your minister, 1 mean.” “ Parsons! his name aint Parßons; it’s Rand. Dunno where he is, don’t oare. He pretends to talk to the boys and gals ’bout carry in’ on, but nater is nater, and I dunno’s it’s enDy o’ his buzniz.” GATHERING) OF THE CLANS. By this time the whole neighborhood had gathered around your correspondent, and looked on him as though they didfft know what a white uhirt or a steady gait indicated in a person. There were old and young, tali and short, male and female. Wero it not for a eonsciouness of your mental superiority over them you would oonsider your life iu danger here, but you feel as though you were standing in the midst of dumb brutes, who would obey your beck as readily-as a poodle dog obeys his master’s whistle. Look at them, and they shirk from your sight as quiokly as they conveniently can. With their mouths wide open, and tongues ex tended, they work upon your feelings in a marvellous manner. "Is that your boy, Mrs. Dow ?” con tinued your correspondent, upon seeing a lean three-footer, with a heavy double barrelled shot-gun on his shoulder. “No, I wouldn’t oun ’im. He’s my grandaiter’s.” “ Yer lie, yer lie !” lisped the unterri fied juvenile ; “ I hain’t yer boy, nor yer grandarter’s either. I wouldn’t oun yer.” “ Well, Mrs. Dow,” you look as though you had a hard time to get along in the world.” • “Ah, sir,” she moans, “the Bible says that accidents and misfortunes shall happen to men, but I believe they come to women just as much.” “Why don’t you like your minister, since he is doing so much for you, Mrs. Dow ?” your correspondent continues, “Done for us 7” she ejaculates. “Bah ! did yer hear what a piece he put in the paper about us 7 Called us heathens and sicb. If he don’t have to smart for that then I’ll give up !” Naturally enough, the women do all the talking in this settlement. The men are sleepy and shiftless, ami look too stupid to say anything. With a little civiliza tion there has come a great deal of poor rum, and out of perhaps two hundred meu whom your correspondent saw there, not twenty coum walk straight. Their bleared eyes and sunken countenances in dicate a stupor which no amount of sur prise can overcome. Drunkenness auu other vices of kindred ilk must needs exist there yet awhile. Civilization must pre cede thorough social and religious culture by a long ifUsianes. The women are now in the habit of picking berries and carrying them to the neighboring villages to sell. On these hawking expeditions they use all the arts which a Jew or a gipsy ever conceived for getting rid of their wares. “ Please, woman, ” they will say, “bay my ber ries; give me old clothes, bread, shelter, anything; ” and they will fall down on their knees and beg for what they cannot steal. Their children are dying or their husband is sick anything for effect. Lately a woman went to Newburyport to sell her berried, and was surprised to find that a more energetic neighborhood had been around ahead of her and supplied the market. “ Did that woman tejl you that her husband was sick, or that her children were dying ? ” she said to a lady who’had bought of the early comer. The lady replied that she did. “ Well, ” replied the Amazon, “she is a liar ; she's the awfnllost liar in our town, and she hasn't got no husband nor children neither. And now, woman, won't yon bny some berries? for my husband is sick and my children are dying—give me old clothes—bread shelter—anything ” —and she sold her berries. With a ; l their igno.auce prejudices there is yet a certain nobleness in their natures that is all the more admirable when put in contrast traits. They are as emotional and as easily moved aa the Roman mob which Mare Anthony persuaded, and their grati tude is really Temarkable, aud you peed but a paper dime to make them your sworn defender, Bat a short distance from this place there are numerous well-built houses, the land is in a high state of cultivation, and ihc transition is so sudden that one won ders at the possibility of two so different classes of people living so near together, and having no more it fiuence upon each other. They look upon, their ignoiant neighbors as unfortunate people, bat they .never dream that a little aid and sympathy could change their misfortune to happiness and their sorrow to gladness. In the heathen district proper the field's are entirely run to waste, and everything like agricultural enterprise among the people is out of the question. There are no barns nor out-houses of any descrip tion —everything that can afford the slight est shelter bemg the abode of their house hold gods. From these they seldom move, acd the stench that goes out 6f them is sickening. Grand old elms stretch their stalwart forms over the place, as if to re lieve it of some of its uncouth and Darren appearance. Under the shade of these the children that cannot be accommodated under the narrow rocf are playing iu the mud and covered with filth. what’s to be done ? is the question that suggests itself after seeing the degradation into which they have fallen. After all, isn’t the banner of Christian civilization being carried a little too high to do the good it might do ? While men are rushing off into the up per atmosphere of doctrinal disputes and theological puzzles, the blind beggars die by the wayside for want of food. To lot a man expire, and then bury him, is not what the parable of the Good Samaritan intended to teach. Here, almost in our very midst, is a people who might reason ably envy the happiness of a Fiji Islander or a French peasant. To be 6ure they are now receiving some help from Mr. Rand, but to bring them up to the con dition which they ought to he brought up to, time, labor and money in abundance must by had. “Though they are a wick ed acd ignorant peonle,” says Mr. Hand, “I believe that Gcd put them in the world for some good purpose, and I, be lieving that they are worth making an ef fort for, am going to try and save them.” Is it too much to hope that their wants wfll be attended to, their condition improved, and this disgrace to modern civilization blotted out ? Meanwhile, who will pro pose a fair in aid of the Heathen of New England, or the Algerines of South Sea brook. Decisions or the Supreme Court of Georgia. Delivered at Atlanta, Tuesday , July 11, 1871. [reported expressly for the consti tution, BY N. J. HAMMOND, SUPREME COURT REPORTER. J Alexander Murray vs. Wm. Walker- Equity, from Union. Lochrane, C. J. . Where a bill was filed for specific per formance of a contract made relative to the purohase of lands, and the notes fi r the balance due had been deposited with an agent, who received Confederate cur rency, and such currency had been also re ceived from such agent by the principal and used by him, and the jury decreed'that the title should be made to the complain ant, and defendant moved for anew trial, whieh was granted by the Court. Held, That the taking of the Confed erate currency by the principal and its use by him was a ratification of the aot of his agent, and that the verdict of the jury was sustained by the evidence, and no rule of law being violated in submitting the case. It was error in the Court below to grant anew trial. Judgment reversed. Weiborn & Fain, H. P. 8011, for plain tiff in error. Geo. D. Rica for defendant. A. L. Reid vs. Wm. Goodwin. Foreclo sure of mortgage, from Dougherty. Lociirane, C. J. Where A and B being partners executed a mortgage iu the partnership name upon all the partnership property to A, one of the partners, and A transferred the mort gage to R, the plaintiff in error, who was proceeding to ioreolose the same on the individual property of B, the other part ner, and upon the trial the Court ruled out the mortgage as evidence, and a ver dict was taked for B. Held, That individual properly is not embraced by a mortgage executed by part ners on their property, except it is spe cifically set forth and described, and that the Court eommitted no error in its hold ing under the facts of this case. Judgment affirmed. Hines & Hobbs for plaintiff in error. Vason & Davis for defendant. Sarah E. Kilgo, etui, vs. M. 11. Van Dyke. Equity, from Lumkin. Lqchkane, C. J. A and B entered into a contract of part nership, by which A was to turnish goods to B, who was to sell them, and after the first costs of the goods were paid, the profits were to he equally divided, and after B’s death A filed his bill against his widow and heirs to recover the balance he claims due to him, and set up that in asmuch as B, during the copartnership, had used funds arising therefrom in im provements, etc., on certain property, which the widow had set off as a home stead under the laws of the State, his debt had a lien thereon. A demurrer was filed to the bill which, was overruled by the Court. Held, That the Court erred in overruling the demurrer, as the debt due by B in his lifetime constituted no lien on his proper ty that would deprive tho widow of her right to homestead as against his creditors therein, nor was tho use of such funds un der the facts, within the exceptions in said act, for money borrowed, labor done, or material furnished, etc., and that the claim of A against the estate of B was of no higher dignity or more equitable consider ation than other debts due by him, and that his remdy is oomplete at law, and the administrator on the estate of B is a ne cessary party to the enforcement of such ordinary debts against the estate. Judgment reversed- H. P. Bell, R. A. Quillian, for plaintiff in error. John A. Wimpy, J. N. Dorsey, for de fendant. Jimpsey A. Hunter vs. The State. Mur der, from Brooks. Lochrane, C. J. Where in a criminal case the defendant applied for a change of venue, upon mak ing affidavit that an Impartial trial could not be obtained in the Courts where the homicide was committed, and the Court overruled the application, and went on with the trial, and obtained a jury: Held, lsf, That this was not error in the Court, and that the provisions of the Con stitution clothes the Superior Court with power to change the venue when the pre siding Judge is satisfied an impartial jury can not be obtained in the couDty, and while the Judge may, in his judgment be come satisfied of this fact by alinude evi dence, still we hold that the most satis factory method of arriving at such con clusion, as wejl as the most within the contemplation of the provision of the Constitution, is to tost the question by trying to get a jury in the county where the crime was committed. 2. Where the witness for the State ad mitted upon cross examination that he had given a different statement, upon examina tion at the inquest, and stated his reason to be fear of the accqsed with whom at the time he lived as a servant, and that he had made a similar statement to that, then given, to the brother of the aocused ; and alinude evidence was admitted to show his conduct and appearance upon the former trial as a part of the original evi dence offered by the State. HddL, That this testimony, under the facts in this oase, was properly admitted and the theory of the defense, let in, upon cross-examination by them, the facts dis closed by the evidence in this case. 3. When in an indictment for murder the evidenoe showed the accused to be a rejected suitor and the deceased an ac cepted suitor, rqmori of the approaching marriage and of such engagement was brought home to the accused and was offered and admitted by the Court as a fact to show motive for the crime. Held, That it was properly admitted, as a fact or circumstance in the case—every fact or circumstance sheddiqg light upon the transaction will be permitted to go to the consideration of the jury, either in at- I testation of innocence or pointing to the perpetrator of the crime, and the facts of ! this case show its importance and math- ! riaiity. 4. Ylhen in the argument before the ! jury, counsel for the State contended that j confessions were the highest species of ! evidence, and the counsel for the defend- i ant insisted it was not, under the rule laid j down in the Code, and the Court refused , to charge the jury that iy was not the highest evidence, but charged the jury in j the very language of the Code on the sub- | ject of confessions. Held, That this was not error. It was : not the duty of the Judge to classify the j evidence as to its weight or consideration, or intimate any opinion thereon. 5. When the evidence in the case was mostly, if not entirely, as to its material parts, circumstanstial, and the Judge charged the jury, as to their rights under ander the facts, if they found their verdict upon circumstantial evidence, reading from the Code, Held, That this was not error, for the reason that the iurv by an->v charge were only instructed as to their legal rights in the premises. . , . - 6. Where, upon the trial, alter some oi the jury were in the box, but the whole not empanneiled, and in the presence of the Court, those sworn were seen by coun sel for accused reading a newspaper which contained an article reflecting upon the counsel for prisoner, etc., and no motion or notice was then taken in regard there to, Held, That this was not such irregulari ty upon the part of the jury as wou'd be sufficient to set aside the verdict, and that such acts transpiring in the Court room and in the presence of (he Court and of counsel, when not objeoted to, will not be favorably regarded after the verdict. 7. When a juror upon a criminal case has been placed upon trial and accepted by the Court, and is afterwards impeach ed by affidavits, and counter affidavits sus tain him and his 00-jurors, and show he was the very last tp find a verdict against the accused : Held, That the juror appears by the proof exculpated of any prejudice arising from previous statements made by him, and this Court will not set aside the ver dict of the jury upon such point. 8. When all the facts in the case sus tain the verdict, and the law has beeD fairly given in charge : Held, That the Court will not interfere with the judgment of the Court below re fusing anew trial. Judgment affirmed. Haniell & Hansell, J. L. Seward, W. C. McCall, C. R. Harden and A. T. Mc- Intyre. for plaintiff in error. W. B. Bennett, Solicitor General, and H. G. Turner, for the State. The Georgia Company Its. R. J. Castle bery. Certiorari, from Lumpkin. McCay, J. A corporation, though af the same namo with a partnership, doing business by the same agent before the grant of the charter, is not the same person, and to make it liable for a debt due from the partnership a paral promise by the Presidout, without anew consideration, is not sufficient. There must be a writing signed by tho party to be charged, or by its agent ex pressly authorized, or it must bo shown that the incorporation has received the consideration. Judgment reversed. George D. Rioe, R. A. Quillian, for plaintiff in error. John A. Wimpy, for defendant. 1 W. A. Smith and J. W* Looper vs. Wm. Ii- Dyers el ul. Illegality, from Dawson. MoUay, J. 1. A judgment in Equity, directing the removal of trustees for mal-administratron, and that they pay a certain amount into the hands of a receiver, that it may go into the hands of anew trustee, to be managed aooording to tho terms of the trust, is not such a debt as the plaiutiffs in tho bill, the boneficiaries, ate bound to pay taxes upon. 2. A judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction is conclusive, between the parne parties, as to all matters at issue, and when executors are removed,’ under a judgment, from their trust, for waste and mismanagement, they cannot, under the Relief Act of 1870, deny that they have mismanaged their trust. Judgment affirmed, with damages. M. L. Smith, J. N. Dorsey, Wior Boyd, for plaintiffs in error. H. P. Bell, Geo. D. Rico, for defend ants. Thomas A. Parsons vs. The State. Lar ceny, from Laurens . MoCay, J. The rulo that a conviction os.nnot be had on the uncorroborated testimony of an ac complice alone, only applies to eases of felonies. In misdemeanors, the complicity of the witness goes to his credit, and the jury are to judge of his credibility from all the facts and circumstances as in the case of other witnesses. 2. Under the whole facts ol this case wo affirm the judgmont rofusing anew trial. Judgment affirmed. Rollen A. Stanley, Jno. T. Shumate, Hansell & Hansell, for plaintiff in error. W- B. Bennett, Solicitor General, for the Stale. Nicholas Cruger vs. C. M. Clarke. Mo tion for new trial, from Dougherty. McCay, J. When a question of fact has been fully submitted to a jury, who have found a ver dict, and the Judge below refuses a now trial, this Court will not roverse the judg ment unless there be a very strong oase against the verdict. Judgment affirmed. Smith & Jonos, Hines & Hobbs, for plaintiff. D. 11. Pope, for defendant. The Connecticut Borgia. The Shocking Record of Her Murders— Damning Evidence at the Preliminary Trial—Unabashed Demeanor of the Accused. Our readers have been made acquainted with the circumstances connected with the arrest of a- Mrs. Sherman, at Derby, Con necticut, charged with having murdered, within the period of a few years, throe husbands and eight childron, in every in stance by tho facile and Bure and readily concealed method of poisot). The monster woman, whose career in murder has thus at last been arrested, is but forty-seven years of age, although bearing a load of guilt upon her soul which it would seem centuries of crime could not have accumulated. She is a native of New Jersey, lost both parents in infanoy, and was married to her first husband at the age of seventeen, by whom she had several children, six of whom, all under ten years, and the husband himself, died very suddenly within a year. Her second husband, whom she married soon after the disappearance of her family, which it does not appear excited any suspicion of wrong, was an old man of property, who died, suddenly also,within fourteen months of the marriage, bat not without exciting some suspicions in the minds of the doctors who attonded him, which, for reasons not stated, they never made known. The third and last husband was married to her some ten months since, having four chil dren by a former wife, whom he intro duced into the new family. Iwo of these children, a girl of fifteen years and an in fant of eleven months, died suddenly within six or eight months after their relationship to their step-mother, aod still without arousing suspicion, although it is remarkable that all these sudden deaths occurred from the same cause, or with the same symptoms of disease—cramps, vio lent fever and vomiting. After the death of these stepchildren, there seems to have been a disagreement between Mrs. Sher man and her husband, which led to their living partially apart. He fell into un steady and wasteful habits, and estranged himself more or loss from his home, and recently he died with thp same suddenness and under the saipe circumstances which had attended the death of the eleven in dividuals of the family who had preceded him. Suspicion being now aroused, a ; post mortem, examination was had, aDd the unquestionable presenoe of arsenic in the stomach ascertained. The bodies of the two children also were exhumed, and ample proof discovered of their having been poisoned. l The preliminary examination of the fe male monster was commenced on Thurs- day at Derby, Ct., the scene of the un timely end of her victims- Although there is no positive evidence that she ad ministered the arsenic, there is evidonce that four of those deceased persons died from the effects of that drug, viz: her last two husbands and her last husband's two children- There is evidence that she had arsenic in her possession, and that when called upon to account for its absenoe was unable to do so. Professor Baker, the chemist who made an analytic examina tion of the stomachs and livers of the de ceased persons, testified unequivocally that arsenic was found W ihose organs in suffi , cient quantities to produce death, and [ that death did result from the presence of I this poison. All that remains to be done I is to prove that Mrs. Sherman is the per son who administered the deadly medi cine. Circumstances oaD point to so. one i else, aDd circumstances poiftt ueroely at her- she appears to regard the serious , charge as a very light matter. During the trial, and while the doctors who at tended the victims were giving their tes timony, she maintained the role of lpjured innocence, and stared unabashed the court room, her pier elaok eye never once win Jag under tue most deter mined look of her prosecutors- But when Professor Baker took the stand and gave his testimony as to the finding ot the poison, stating that in the liver alone- of her second huJband, Hurlbut he round a sufficient Quantity o; aisenhi to kill threo men, ch; became exceedingly nervous, and for the'first time her eyes sought refuge behind her fan. She soon recovered, and played her previous part up to the ad journment of the court. She is by all who have seen h"- as *ne most ac complished and shrew that ever oecame publicly known, and yet, strange as it may appear, this class of women always set the heads of a class of men crazy. Mrs. Fair is another woman of this character. i New fork has a large floating popula tion who live in canal boats and river crafts, belonging to the city houses, and moored a greater part of the year along the river fronts. The females and chil dren are a singular class, and though familiar with everything that pertains to the river are aa- ignorant of the ways of the city as persons-reared in the country Connecticut has a superior class of dogs, if we may judge from a canine specimen owned by J. S. Trowbridge, of Canaan. ; Trowbridge made a journey oij Lorsfib&ck , one day, and missed his Jog. The next day be missed his wallet, containing and on the second day the faithful beast was found in ttye fftad watching the money, which was entirely safe. Telegraphic Summary Washnqton, July 13.—Hon. John H. Clifford Las been elected President of Harvard. Orange demonstrations throughout Ire land yesterday were attended With little or no disorder. Austria has an army of half a mil lion. Von Buest said, in supporting esti mates, that now was tho best time to re organize and strengthen the army, as it would excite no distrust. At the close of tho procession, the Orangemen, putting their regalia in their pockets and leaving their banners with the police, mixed with the crowd. Osoria was hanged at the yard arm of tho steamer Neptune at Neuvhas. Cebralino was buried with pomp. The Porto Rico and Jamaica cable has beon interrupted again. The steamer Barangriella has been lost. The Court Martial for the French Com munists has been indefinatcly postponed. A Provincial paper correspondence says: “Germany is confident in her own strength, and watches wi ll oalmness and sympathy the redevelopment of France. Her only desire now is to bring about, as spoedily as possible, the re-establishment of friendly relations.’’ Dr. Joseph Bell Alexander, of Mobile, is dead ; aged 47. Boutweli has returned. The duplicate originals of a convention, establishing an exchange of postal money orders between tho United States and England, have just been received. It has been executed on the part of England and uow awaits tho signature of the Post master General and the President. Each order is limited to ten pounds when is sued in England and fifty dollars when issued in the United States. McDonald, superintendent of the money order system, who oonoluded this convention, has goDe to Berlin lor the purpose of establishing a similar convention between tho United States ami Germany. Judge A. R. Wright, of Rome, Ga., an ex-member of both CoDgrosses, was before the Ku-Klux Committeo. He believed in Ku-Klux ; but it was a polioo and not a political organization. The negroes be haved better than was expected. Enough witnesses are boro to occupy tho commit tee to the end of next woek, when it will adjourn. , „ New York, July 13, noon.—Col. Clark, of the 7th regimont, reports that aftor tho Orangemen had passed the spot, tho mob fired, killing Page, when the 9th regiment commenced an in ii-crimiuato fire, without orders. The 9lh fell baok, crowding the 7th on the pavement. The firing was kept up for some time, although an adjutant begged Lieut. Col. Brain to hold his men in. WheD the 7th reached the corner of 29th street, shots were fired from a win dow, and a single shot was fired at the window by a soldier, acting under orders. Several more shots were fired from the same spot, when several volleys were then fired into the window.. This, Col. Clark claims, was all the firing done by the 7tb. Tho 22d did not fire a shot. Members of the 9th say they fired no shot till young Pago was killed. There wero several futile attempts at a riot during the night, which were easily suppressed. New York, July 13, evening.—Allis quiet to-day. The laborers arc at work. All disquieting rumors provo unfounded. Heartrending scenes ooour at tho dead houses. Seven thousand people passed tho dead for the purpose of identification and curiosity. Occasionally a woman would throw herself on tho coffin containing a kinsman. All workmen who left the boulevards and parks yesterday, contrary to positive orders, have boen discharged, and Gor mans and Italians employed in their stead. At time call this morning but few laborers were missing. Two regiments roaiain on duty. The police have renewed their regular lino of duty, but can bo concen trated at short notice. All arrested with arms were committed for examination, and tho others discharged. Over four hundred Mormons, who ar rived at Castlo Garden yesterday from Scandinavia, in the steamer Minnesota, leave this afternoon for the West. London, July 13.—Czar Alexander, of Russia, Empress Marie Alcxandriana and Grand Dukes Vladimir and Alexis are at Friedreiohshafem, a town of Wurtomborg, on Lake of Constance. Alexandria, July 13.—The differences between the Egyptain Government and the Fronoh Cousul General have been re ferred for settlement to the French cabinet. Paris, Juno 13. —The Government has dispatched a representative to England to endeavor to induce the British Govern ment to consent to modification of the treaty of commerco between France and England, bearing date January 23, 1860. A grand oustoms conference is suggested to be held in Berlin, to embraco delegates from all the European States. Cincinnati, July 13. —The managers of the Industrial Exposition have determined on special piemium9 for raw cotton from the States of Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Missis sippi, each State competing with itself, in addition to the grand medal offered by the Exposition for the best hale in the whole country. The Chamber of Com merce and merchants have already raised $20,000 as cash premiums to exhibitors from the respective States for this spe cialty. Washington, July 14, noon.—The semi-annual exohango of tho Morocoo dealers resolved to resist the move of shoe manufacturers for a ropcal of the tariff on Morocco and serge goods* A committee was appointed to oppose tho matter in Congress. Mayor Hall assumes tho whole respon sibility of Kelso’s order forbidding the Orange procession, and argues that the result proved the wisdom of Kelso’s order. The Police Commissioners, Democratic and Republican, were unanimously in lavor of Kelso’s order. The tax collectors of Missouri have seized thirteen of tho Iron Mountain Rail road engines, a lot of lumber belonging to the Marine and Dry Dock Company, and •the property of the North Missouri Rail road, for non-payment of taxes. The grand jury proposes to indiot the rioters tor murder, and utterers of incen diary speeches as accessory. A severe storm passed over St. Louis. One person was killed. A oonventioD of Kentucky Baptists, at Louisvillp, offer $300,000 to remove the Baptist University from Greenwich, S. C., to an eligible point in Kentucky, provided Other Southern States raise $200,OOt). Rafail Quesada, with two hundrod Von ezuelian?, landed in Cuba. Spanish re ports say they were closely pursued and maoy killed and much of their stores cap tured. Deaths from the New York riot, 56. More of the wounded will die. The regi ments are still quarreling over the ques tion, which fired uselessly. There is no question about the excellent behavior of the police. Their conduot is upiversally praised. The entire amount of five-fwcntics ol ’62 outstanding is four hundred and ninety millions. While it is true that va rious suggestions and propositions have been made for its absorption, nothing has vet been determined by the Seoietary. It can bow be officially stated that the new loan has not been withdrawn from the market. John McGJraw, a shipping merchant, of New Vorki |s dead ; aged, 70. The rotary bleacher in Howland’s pa per mill exploded, demolishing the works. Two more riot wounded are dead. Washington, July 14, evening.—No more applications for soldiers’ discharges will be entertained, as the army is uow rc duoed to thirty thousand, The remains at Long Branch till the filth of August, when be goes to California. He is not coming to Wash ington unless emergency requires it. Tho Attorney General has gone to North Carolina to made a speech. The Ku-Klnx Owumittce examined Treasurer Ander, oi Georgia, and Mayor Anderson, of Savannah. The testimony fully sustains the deplorable financial con dition and bad management. The evi dence fully sustained the current state ments of venalty and incotnpotency of persons in power in the rospgqtive States. The Cotton Crop— CffEoial.— The July returns do got materially ohango tho cot ton urop prospect reported in June. Se ■ vere rain storms havo continued to ob struct cultivation and check its growth in the States upon the Gulf o<>ast. The States of Mississippi, Ala bama and Florida average lower in condi tion tbau at tie date or the last report. The Georgia and Texas averages remain "unchanged, and an improvement i&indi cated in the Carolinas, Tennessee and Arkansas- The per ceoUge in each State, as compared with the July statement of last ve-r, is as follows: July, 1870, North Carolina, 94 per cent.; July, 1871, 99 per cent. South Carolina, 90 par cent.; July, 1871, 100 per cent. Georgia, July, 1870, 101 per cent-; July, 1871, 82 per cent. Florida, July, da7o, 9b par cent.; July, 18,71, 88 per cent. Alabama, July, 1870, 102 per cent.; July, 1871, 81 per cent, Mississippi, July, 1870, 95 per cent.; 1 July, 1871, 80 per cent. Louisians, July, 1870, 101 per oent.; July, 1871, 75 per cent- Texas, July, 1870, 97 per cent.; July, 1871, 93 per oegt. ' Arkansas, July, 1870, 101 per cent-; July, 1871, 90 per eeot. Tennessee, July, l® 7 ®! 8a nor cent; July, 1871, 98 per oent. While no estimation oan at this early date, be authoritatively made, this information leads to the _foyb?Wf{ Con clusions : With a reduction of 19 por oent, relatively low condition, ana a sea son an long as that of 1870, there should he gathered, a orop of 3*200,000 bales, or about as large as that of 18C9; with a season, of with an early frost ana a very unfavorable season for pieking, 2,700,000 bales. Tho prevalence of insects, with other unpro pitious oiroumstanowould probably re duoc the crop to 2,500,000 bales, and a steady improvement of the plant for sixty days, with the longest and most favorable pickidr season, nrghfc carry the sggrrgato up to 3,500,000 bales. This is present ®d ® s , . fair statement of the range of probabilities, based upon the most ex tensivo and reliable data and uninfluenced by the clamors of the speculators of the Cotton Exchange. It is reported, on autborily, that Sen ator Spencer says that Collector Miller, of the Port of Mobile, was removed in direct violation of tho tenure of offico law. High authority says the removal was for politi cal reasons only. Paris, July 14, noon.—Members of the Commune will be tried together. Arrests continue. Journals devote editorials to the approaching municipal election. Madrid, July 14, noon.— l’ho Cortes passed the bill indemnifying tho Bank of France for annulment of the treaty re garding the Spanish leap. London, July 14.—Tho Times, of to day, mnkes the New York riot the text for an urtiole upon tho condition of affaris in Ireland, which oonoludes as follows: “If Irish fends are as inexplicable in America as they are in Ireland, the more sanguin ary Irishmen must ask themselves whother Irish nature is not more responsible for the troubles in Ireland than English mis rule.” Reports oomo from Nico of riotous con duct and cries of “death to thft Frenoh.” New York, July 14.—Revenue officers, supported by fifty marines, in Brooklyn, made a raid on distillers and captured one distiller and smashed one still. Three marines were wounded, Chicago, July 14.—A terrible hurri oano occurred at St. Joseph, Mo. Four or live persons wero killed by lightning and falling trees, ar.d many hurf. Loss, $200,000. Washington, July 15.—The arsonal at Rio Janioro has been burned. Loss, - £300,000. Akerman instructs the District Attorneys to make extraordinary exertion in the ex ecution of the Ku-Klux bill. Whenever they hear of outrages they shall procure warrants from tho Federal Commissioner, arrest the parties accused, and have them hound over or committed till the eusuing term of the Federal Court. Virgil S. Lusk has been appointed Special Assistant Dis trict Attorney to push the harsh features us ill© Iran Iu KunU Onfullim. Federal troops have been planed at his call. The Chronicle thus concludes an editorial on the subject: “This action on the part of the Attorney General displays a disposi tion to execute tlie Ku-Klux law in earnest, and shows that the Administration is evi dently determined that it snail bo rigidly executed to the very letter.” A Confederate Captain, uamed Tallia ferro, planting near Macon, MUs., testi fied that 15 colored men wero killed and many whipped in that vicinity within tho past voar. There is an organized hand of Ku-Klux in that county. Talliafcrro at tended several of its meetings, though he never took tho required oath, tho supposi tion of thoso present being that he was initiated by tho Captain of tho band, who oan swear in a member. His friends and neighbors all belong to tho band. Tallia ferro gave the committee the details of tho organization, signs, grips, etc. Ho onoo wont on a raid with a band, and was present when several negroes were whip ped. Their object was to obtain entire control of the negroes, and mako them vote as the leaders wished.- No proscou tion has or could bo instituted in that county. Nobody dare proseouto. Tallia ferro was a witness beforo tho grand jury at Oxford, Miss*, and on his testimony several membors of tho Ku-Klux were in dicted. SUNDAY NIGHT DISPATCHES. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. Washington, July 16.—Tho July re turns of the statistical division of tho De partment "of Agriculture show a marked increase in the average of corn, amounting to fully three millions of acres, of which two millions are duo to tho determination of the Cotton States to supply themselves with bread and meat. It is assumed that the area in oorn equals forty-two millions of acres, or more than halt of tho total acreage of all tilled crops. The only States failing to inoroaso their aroa in oorn are New York, the New England States, and the Pacific States. The per ccutagu of increase, in other States is as follows . New Jersey, 2; Pennsylvania, 1; Dela ware, 3; Maryland, 1; Virginia, 5; North Carolina, 9; South Carolina, 12; Goirgia, 10; Florida, 7; Alabama, 11; Mississippi, 14; Louisiana, 15; Texas, 15 ; Arkansas, 24 ; Tennessee, 7 ; West Virginia, 5 ; Kentucky, 3; Missouri, 10; Illinois, 6 ; Indiana, 4 ; Ohio, 3; Michi gan, 3 ; Wisconsin, 7 ; Minnesota, 11 ; lowa, 15 ; Kansas, 50; Nebraska, 30. The condition of winter wlierh on tho first of July, was somewhat above an average. The spring vnricty presented a worso ap pearanoo than has been reported for seve ral years at tho same date. Tho ripening of whiter wheat has been fully a week earlier than usual, and a large proportion had been rut at the date of the returns. Never was there a better promise in .early spring, and the comparative prevalence of insects and local injuries from drought ha ve been the principal drawbacks. Tho States showing comparatively low condition are as follows: New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut. Virginia and all the more Southern States, except Texas, while Kentucky presents an aver age of 35 per cent, deterioration ; Indiana, 7 per cent., and California, 17 per cent. Among tlie States showing high averages are Ohio, 4 per cent, above; Michigan, H; Illinois, 7; Missouri, 8 ; Kansas, 7 ; Ne braska, 10; Oregon, 1 per cent. The’win ter wheat of Ohio mul Wisconsin is in high condition, but insignificant ia aroa. The section having tho largest area of winter wheat is tho odo in whieh its condition is highest, though a majority of the winfar wheat States report comparatively r,oor condition. Tho only States from cvhich favorable reports of spring wheat aro re ceived are Maine, New York, Nov/ Hamp shire, Connecticut and Oregon. The per oentages below an average are as follows • Missouri, 36; Illinois, 30; Indiana, 2; Ohio, 7; Michigan, 4; Wisconsin, 2i); Minnesota, 30; lowa, 18; Kansas, 15; Nebraska, 11. The chin-.m bug has been very destructive to spring wheat. After allowing for the inoroase in acreage and the largo yjeld of winter wheat in good wheat districts, the loss in the spring Ya rioty must reduoc tho aggregate yields somewhat below an average. The hay crop will be a comparatively small one. Potatoes promise un averago yield if they escape drought and rot in the future- Notwithstanding the prevalence of tho Colorado bug, continued vigilance has partially averted loss. COTTON 'MOVEMENT. New York, July 16.—7, ho cotton movement has been very Receipts at all the ports for this week. 15,385 bales, against 18.468 last week, 18,197 the previous week, and 22,664 three wooks since- The total receipts since September Ist, 1870, aro 3.945,832 bales, against 2,854,081 for the corresponding poriod of the previous year. Exports from all ports for tho week, 7,083 bales, against 19,623 the same week last. year. Total exports for tho expired portion of tho cotton year, 3,076,042 bales, against 2,147,187 for tho same time last year. Stock at all ports, 176,199, against 176,746 tho time last year. Stocks at iuterior (owns, 17,107, against 30,686 last year. Stock at Liver i pool, 661,000, against 593000 last year. Cotton afloat for Groat Britain; 93,000. against 70.000 last year. Indian cotton afloat for Europe, 538,832, against 422,000 last year, The weather South during the week was favorable for tho growing plant, being generally dry and hot. Cotton opened strong, but afterwards deoliced slightly under increased pressure* to sell. The sales for the week reached 80,000 bales, of whioh 72,000 bales wero for future delivery and 14,000 bales on the spot and to arrive. Os tho spot cotton, exDortcro look about 1,850 bales, spinnors. 3,700 bales, aud speculators,s2s talcs. FROM WASHINGTON. Wasiiinuton, July 16. Commissioner Pleasanton sent to the • President for ap proval an order consolidating the Inter nal Revenue Districts in Virginia and Ala bama. Henry Howard haz been appointed, by tho British Government, agent to receive claims against tbo United States under the treaty. Tie gives official notice that ; such ohims must be sent to him here. Tho United States Government has not yet aDpointed an agent. Corrected deaths from riot, 44. Income tax from the city of Brooklyn, complete, shows four hundred and sixty six thousand this year, against a million and a hah last year. There was ono murder in Now York and one m Brooklyn last night from dis putes over the riof. KHCELLANEOhS. San Franciroo, July Its.— Gold plains as rioh as California or Australia have been found in Sonora, Mex : co, attracting thousands. The America, flew Hong. Kong, has arrived with a largo cargo of teas and China goods.. She had fine weather the entire* trip. Fondulac, Wisconsin, Juno 16.—The Lake House and twenty others has been burned. Several- firemen hurt, and one child burned to death. Bath, Me., July 16.—John Shaw, for forty years Canbicr of tho Lincoln Bank, is dead; tyjed,7'l. foreign. Paris, July 16.— Proceedings have been oommencod for malfeasance against tho purchasers of arms in America.
