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Newspaper Page TextOLI) SERIES—VOL* LXXVIII. (Ltiramclc £ Sentinel. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. daily- One month -•* f J Three month* * One year - 10 0,1 tiu-wkekly. One year t ® C® Hr month* " Throe month t W WEEKLY. Three month* I I 00 Six month* 1 60 One year 3 00 WRDMIf.ffAI MOKVIXfc, BKPf 13. THE COTTON CROP. There are no end to the speculations on the growirg crop of cotton. One fact, however, is certaio, and it is this : That the crop of 1871 will fall far short of 1870, owing, in the first place, and mainly, to the decreased area of land planted in cotton, and, in the second, to unfavorable seasons. The cotton factors of Augusts, whose in telligence and probity will compare favor ably with the factors of any othe* city, North or South, have estimated that the present crop will not exceed 3,275,000 biles. This estimate was not made hur riedly, but after careful investigation, and repressnts the concurrent opinion of thirty-two gentlemen engaged iu the cot ton business. It is, therefore, entitled to as much credence as any estimate yet made. In this connection wo pablish the fol lowing circular from E. J. Donnell, cotton broker, 133 Pearl street, New York : Notwithstanding thn bombardment of telegrams from the South complainiog of drought, rain, worms, rust, and, when the catalogue is exhausted, prediotiog bad weather and all sorts of disasters in the future, I am under the necessity of stating that on the whole the weather during the week has been favorable. The rain has been pretty general, yet not of that kind that is bkely to do injury. It is quite cer tain that up to the present time no iujury has been done by worms. Whether the drought has done any material injury—I mean to an extent that will mako any material difference in the total crop—is doubtful Everybody in the trade will re member August, 1869, and the outcry in Georgia about cxcessivo drought and rust. I here was hardly a man in Georgia inter ested in, or acquainted with cotton culture that would not have been willing to testify an oath that it was his opinion that half the crop wai lost from these causes. When tho bales were counted, it was found that Georgia had supplied more than her usual share of tho orop. I con fess that single ixperioncc makos tho very sceptical of reported injury to the cotton plant by drought in Augast. In June, or even July it may do injury ; possibly, un dcr some peculiar circumstances, it may do so in August, but under ordinary circum stances I am justified in doubting it. That tho crop is early is now not denied. A telegram was rcoeived to-day from Nashville, ropotting a sbipmeot of some new cottoD. This is a month earlier than last year aud is quite in accord with the information I hod reccivod from the north ern belt of the cotton region, upon which tho crop statement in my last circular was based. Tho crop iu that section may now he, almost, pronounced safe. It is so far advanced that a killing Irost at tho earliest dato on record would do no rnoro injury than it would havo done last year on the 15th of November. I hear of receipts of new cotton at all interior towns much iu excess of tho same time last year. I have ropcatedly directed attention to tho mod erate sizo of the plant as a favorablo indi cation for a good crop. It is equally im pel taut as indicating an early crop. Thoso who have read my circular oarefully will remember how and why 1 feared a high temperaturo and drought in Juno and July. Such weather would have produced a large rank plant, all wood and foliage. Such plants produce little fruit, and are (Xtiemely liablo to injury from the weather. It is in tho Boasons that produco such plants, and in such seasons alone, that wot ms are very destructive. It will bo remem'-ered that I suggested thethoory that injury from worms might be the con scqucnco of this unnatural rankness of growth. When I ascertained that tho plant was of modcrato size and well fruited, the first doubt crossed my mind as to the extent of tho growing crop. When l afterwards ascertained positively that the wholo northern half of tho cotton region—l mean half, not as to area, but as to production one yenr with another, was, early this month, in a condition promising a yield, in proportion to acreage, twenty fivo per cent, greater than last year, I was startled as from a dream. It is a curious evidence of how little is really and correctly known in Now York about the crop that I havo found only three men in tho city who had anv accurate knowledge of the condition of tho crop in this northern belt. They never even had tho curiosity to in quire why it was that not a word was heard from that region about tho crop. Tho wbolo trado have been busy reading dispatches from New Or leans speculators about worms in Alabama, and from Montgomery speculators about worms in Mississippi. One house tele graphs drought in the morning, and excessive rains in tho afternoon (a fact) ; another telegraphs "the drought oontinuos, and the worms are increasing” (also a fact), two things about as likely to exist togother as a water-spout and a conflagration in the same spot. Hearsay reports are received from highly respectable gentleman, whose personal observation does not extend be yond their own counting rooms and the streets of town in which they reside. One voluminous if not luminous, lottcr-writer on the crop question says tho rust is as bad as a killing frost, and adds it is the general opinion that the worms will strip tho cotton plants early next month. Count less letters and telegrams of this character are shown on Change with the most disin terested liberality and positively without regard to cost, whilo hundreds dovour them eagerly like men hungry for knowledge. Yellow fever is reported epidemic in Charleston. Tho sensitivoncss and excita bility of our speculators at tho present time was shown in an incident to-day. On receiving a dispatch from Charleston re porting the epidemic, some parties rushed into the market to cover their shorts, and scarcely drew breath until it was done. It tho epidemic should spread to the other Southern ports it will increase largely the overland shipments and bring much cotton to New York that would otherwiso go to Europe through the Southern ports. I should think this would not be very alarm ing to short sellers. The demand for contracts lias been great ly increased this week by the energetic efforts of the "bulls” to frighten the “ bears."’ It is rumored that there is a clique, or combination, or ring, or syndicate (which is, 1 believe, the latest name for such things), to receive the cotton on September contracts, Os course nobody will sell September short under such circumstances. It is quite probable that we will receive here 50,900 hales new cotton in September, every bale of which will be suitable for delivery on contracts. Onr spinners are not in a needy condition, and if they should need any cotton they can find it iu their favor ite markets in Tennessee, any time trorn this forward. ritosrKCT. Monday, August 28th, 1871.—The statement in my last circular as to the crop prospect excited some surprise, and also some resentment. One of the most amia ble of my friends told me, not without in dications of temper, that it was the most ridiculous document he ever saw in print. I did not mind this in the least; in point of fact, 1 am used to it. It will not take long to justify me. Al ready attention is being turned to the sub ject in the light in which I presented it. I see some rays of light shooting up from the horizon, and it will not be long before the sun rises and chases the darkness and mists from hills and valleys. The facts cannot be hidden much longer; they are revealing themselves already. An intelligent gentleman from Missis sippi says the crop look* quite as well as at the same time last year, but he esti mates the total at three millions. When asked how lie reconciles his facts with his estimate, he says the ripening and picking season must necessarily be bad. Therein is the key to the whole situation as it stands. We all began the season with the firm conviction that it must be a bad one, and nineteen-twentieths of all the bad reports and opinions we hear of the crop proceed from this conviction. When the conviction is shaken or slum bers, any kind of anew rumor wakes it np again into new strength. The burden of nearly all the complaints we hear from the South, is what must happen soon, and not what has actually taken place. I will again repeat a faot in the history of the cotton trade, to which I have more thaD once called atten ion. Short crop speculations in August and September arc always disastrous. I know of no exception to this, and there is none on record. Let not the planters be de ocived or deceive themselves on this point. They can reap no profit from such a movement, bat only loss and dsappoint menh The reaction from such early ex citements is never loDg delayed. It is generally certain to come on the market with the now crop, and too often spoils the best part of their selling s«a6on. As a general rule the planter may be sure that when he helps the speculator he hurts himself. The exceptions to this rule are few and tar between. lam not ignorant that these views are very dis tasteful to some speculators, and are ridi culous to the Dew fledged orators of the CottoD Exchange, the tyros of the trade, whose knowledge, if they have any, must have been gained in a very few months, or at most years as speculators, and conse quently partisans, must iu fact, have been a miraculous birth, and sprung into life fully armed aud equipped, like Miner va from the br*in of Jupiter. To such people a third of a century's study, with the disinterestedness of a spectator, the zeal of a lover, the distrusting care and paiDS-taking of a student—perhaps iD some degree a thinker, counts for nothing ; of course it does, I would be very glad to please every body, but 1 would rather be right than be popular. Allil BTA AM) LOCISVILLK RAILROAD. We are pleased to learn that Adam Johnston, Esq., was yesterday unanimous ly elected President of the Augusta and Louisville Railroad. The charter of this road, notwithstand ing no State aid was asked for or granted, is one of the most liberal and comprehen sive of any ever granted by our State in existence. It is the only charter for a road running west from Augusta, and our Louisville friends may feel assured that under its provisions a railroad will at no distaut day be built. The mercantile and business interests of Augusta will be vastly advanced by the construction of the proposed road, which has heretofore been endorsed by our paper. THK TARE ON LOTTO J. We call tho attention of planters to the chargos made in tho following. It this practico is pursued by our people with the view of defrauding any one, it is very rep rehensible ooaduct, and should bo discon tinued. A taro of 30 or 35 pounds to the bale for bagging and tics seems to be un precedented. We hope the evil com plained of will be remedied by its discon uanco on tho part of thoso who may have offended in a matter of such questionable propriety. Honesty is always the best policy: IMPORTANT TO PLANTERS—TIIE TARE ON COTTON. We are receiving from manufacturers of ootton goods in different parts of the coun try what seem to bo very reasonable and woll founded objections to the very hoavy taro that is likely to be put upon cotton bales this season. Tho general complaint is that nothing but the heaviest bagging is called for this season, and that with this and tho six iron straps used in binding, the tare will be from 30 to 35 pounds to the bale. List season there was but little or no complaint on this score, for the reason that bagging was high and cotton low, and tho light Dundee was used to a very great extent. One manufacturer writes to us that he lately purchased 51 bales of up laud cotton for his mill, oovered with htavy India bagging and bound with iron hoops ; tho tare averaging 30 pounds on halos of 441 each. In this instance the loss on baggiDg and hoops amounted to about 7 per cent., and it is but natural that manufacturers should complain of the injustico to which they are compelled to submit. Wo oommend this matter to the atten tion ot the cotton planters and factors at tho South as an evil which should be promptly remedied. Wo understand that a movement is on foot arnoDg manufac turers to combine for their own proteoiion against what thoy consider a gross injus tice, and should such a combination be or ganized it is probable they would demand allowance for part, it not the whole tare, as is done by the Liverpool buyers. We havo not, as a general thing, much faith in the effioaoy ot trado combinations as a means of reforming evils of any kind, but tho injustice of being compelled to buy cotton, with no allowaoee for a taro amount ing to 7 per cont. of tho gross weight per bate, is one which would justify the man ufacturers in adopting rigorous measures for their own protection. It is safe to assume that, when no allowance for tare is made on ootton at present prioos, wrapped in heavy bagging and bound with iron straps, the planters and factors mako an average profit of 100 per cent, on the ma terials used in baling; and were Northern consumers to demand a tare allowance to the amount of one-half tho weight of wrapping and straps, they would have no reason to complain. It would be good policy, however, to render such a oourseon the part of tho manufacturers unnecessary by conceding the very reasonable demand that, in baling ootton, no heavy bagging, unneceosary straps, or other cheap mate rials, should bo thrown in as make weights. Light bagging answers every purpose, and unless tho demands of man ufacturers are considered in this matter they will bo justified in taking measures for their own protection.— New York Daily Bulletin, August 31sf, 1871. Tins District Court Sustained. —The Supreme Court of Georgia has sustained the organization of the District Court. The following is the decree: Michael Gormley vs. J. H. Taylor, District Attoiney. Mandamus. District Courts. Vacancies. Governor’s authority to fill vacancies. Constitutional law. McKat, J. When the Constitution creates an office to be filled by the appointment of the Governor by the advice and consent of the Senate, but legislation is necessary to carry the constitutional provision into ef fect, and an act for this purpose is passed, which, by its expressed terms, does not take effect until the day after the adjourn ment of the Senate, the office is vacant, and may be filled by the appointment of the Governor, until filled as provided by the Constitution. It is immaterial wheth er the office has become vacant, or is va cant by having never been filled. In the latter case he may fill it, under section 66 of the Code, which authorizes him to ap point all officers, and fill all vacancies, unless otherwise prescribed by the Con stitution and laws. It is the duty of Courts, in passing upon the constitutionality of laws, not to pro nounce against them except in a clear case, and to make every intendment possible in favor of their constitutionality. Art. 3, sec. I, and par. 3 of the Consti tution prescribe - that “ the first meeting of the General Assembly shall be within ninety days after the adjournment of this Convention, alter which it shall meet an nually on the second Wednesday in Jan uary, or on such other day as the General Assembly may direct,” and tha f ”no ses sion of the General Assembly after the second under this Constitution shall con tinue longer than forty days, unless pro longed by a vote of two-thirds of each branch thereof.” Toe session of 18(0 may, in a very just and proper sense, be the first or the second session, as provided for and specially required by this Constitution, so as to exclude from the two sessions called, and extra sessions. The session of the General Assembly which met on the 4th of July, IS6B, more than 90 days after the adjournment of the Convention, under the order of General Meade, though a legal session, was a call ed, or extra, or irregular session, and not one of the sessions contemplated by the Constitution. The session of the General Assemb y ot 1870 it may be affirmed, was not a ses sion \ fter the second session under the Constitution. The act of October 27, 1870, to assess a tax to pay the salary of the District Judges and Attorneys, is sufficiently definite, since from the census of 1870 the amount due from each county can be apportioned, aDd the tax books in the Comptroller General's office will point out the property to he taxed. Lochrane, C. J., concurred. Warner, J., dissented. Mrs. Oliphant, whose writings have been very popular in this country, until recently never received a cent from an American publisher. She proposed ap propriating the amount to a monument commemorative of the event* [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE CH&O.NICLE A SENTINEL.] Tlie Virginia Springs. THE SWEET. Editors Chronicle <& Sentinel: When the White Sulphur grows too crowded for cimfort, and when those who dissipate in mideration sigh for rest, the incomparable icfuge for all the weary is the twEET Siring, which is situated, by the merest scratch, in Virg’nia proper. The Sweet Spr:ogs are distant from the White Sulphur just seventeen miles. Eight of these miles could have been made by railway to Aleghany station ; but our party preferred staging it all the way. There was nothing to regret in this de termination, for the mountain road is ex cellent as well as most romantic, and the horses of thi3 region used for stage pur poses are full of spirit and pluck. All the way to Alleghany station the road runs along a stream calhd ‘‘Dry Greek,” which, in some places, is indeed very dry, and, in others, bold and resolute. There was a battle fought here, during the war, which eventuated very disastrously to our dear Northern brethren, so-called. What with cheerful talk and the exhilaration arising from an intercom munion with sublime scenery, we contrived to make the miles very short indeed. Early in the night, we reached the Red Sweet Springs. Proceed ing but a mile farther, we came to the “Old Sweet” Springs, which, even in the darkness, were revealed to us »s some thing rather miraculous for tho Virginia mountains. Everytfiing here in the way of board, lodging and bathing is on a scale of perfection not known, I believe, else where in Virginia, and how anybody who loves comfort in all its protean shapes could go to any other Springs is beyond my comprehension. Vast sums of money have been expended by the proprietor, Col. Oliver Beirne, to make this watering place the best in tb3 South aDd how well ho has succeeded let all testify who have had the luck to visit it. There is one immense building, built most sub stantially of brick and elaborately fur nished. This is the hotel proper and eon tains tho great dining room. The Ball Room immediately joins the main build ing. Then, in a grand semi-circle, are detaehed dwellings and the Central Hotel, all built of brick and of the handsomest design. There are a few cot tages built of wood, but as clean and neat as a Dew greenback, and two rows of rooms called respectively “Broadway” and tho “Elbow.” loto these latter are deposited, as a general thing, all old or young bachelors, grass widowers et id omne genus. All of the brick buildings are illuminated with gas. The tutelary genius ot the “Elbow” is a colored boy named Jeems, who must be mentioned here in eulogy, for he is, with out exeoptioD, the best waiter in the world. All who know what it is to suffer the persecutions of bad attendance at other watering places feel disposed, when they meet “.Teems,” to hail him as a bene factor of the human race and to feo him as never waiter was feed before. lam told by others that Jeems is one of many good servants at the Sweet Springs, and this aloDe is high recommendation. The fact is, there is no room for complaint on any seorc at theso Springs, for Mr. Beirne has lavished his wealth on them without stint, and is constantly improving the grounds, edifices, etc. Now and theD, when new to the place, some young ladies are accustomed to feel ennui, iD conse quence of a lack of tho tremendous hilarity of the White Sulphur. But this feeling soon gives placo to an ecstatic satis faction with every body and every thing. There comes upon one such a per fect repose, suoh marvelous vitality, such supramortal gladness that mind and body and soul are for once, if never again, in perfect harmony with each other. I attribute this exceeding calm to the waters principally, and, secondarily, to the moun tain air and superb eookery. The bathing establishment is a large and handsome brick edifice, divided in two compartments, tho one for gentlemen and the other for ladies. The bathing pools are sixty-five feet loDg, thirty-five feot wide, and from five to six feet deep. Theso pools are fed from innumerable springs at tho bottom, with a capacity of eight hundred gallons per minute. The vast quantity of carbonio acid gas (fixed air) contained in them causes the surface of tho pool to simmer, in many places, like champagne. The water is transparent and biilliant. The very sight of it makes ono long to plunge into it. The tem perature is fully seventy-six degrees, which never varies at any season of the year. So stimulating is the water that a novice will never comfortably exceed two minutes of immersion, and a quar ter of an hour is as much as anybody can endure, except boys and frogs. Os its virtues I cannot speak too highly. It is especially potent in paralysis, neuralgia and uterine affections. To the sick it gives health and to the healthy it imparts a vigor which must have been the physi cal glory of primordial man. Two aston ishing cures of paralysis, of recent occur rence, may be recorded, one of which came under my personal observation. A young man from Richmond, whose right arm had been paralyzed by a fall in the State House, when the awful accident in the Court Room happened, was cured by a single bath. When he first entered the pool his arm hung powerless by his side. As he rose to the surface, after plunging in, he waved the harmed member about with perfect ease, exclaiming, with tri umph, “ I can use it again! I can use it again!” Ex-Mayor Lennox, of Washington city, came to the Springs paralyzed. He had to be lifted from the stage and carried to the pool. After two immersioos, he was as spry and active as any youngster and manifested e/ery sign of a thorough res toration. The taste of the water is rather insipid, but becomes more palatable with the ad dition of a little common salt. Its effects, though, are beneficial in every way. In point of health and appetite, the writer was regarded most favorably; but his powers were vastly increased and he gain ed a pound of flesh per day. I am told, and have every reason to believe, that dyspeptics forget, in a few days spent here, that they ever had a liver, or else the liver is taught subjection by the thermal waters. The amusements are ten-pins, a shoot ing gallery, dancing, deer and pheasant shooting, etc. Attached to the bathing is a delightful ante-room where cards may bo played. Many and many a game of whist did we play there and many a julep, brewed by the unrivalled “Ben,” did we “worry down.” Gen. Toombs and family spent the larg er part of the season heio. The General avers that there is, taking it all in all, no place of the kind, in Europe or America, that he likes so well. He certainly bore upon his person evidences of the truth of this statement and looked twenty years younger than he really is. He was, in many respects, the most distinguished man I met in Virginia, and although some writers for the Richmond press attempted, in a mousing way, to ridicule and belittle him, he was universally admired by all who met him and could afford to smile at the puny efforts of those who neither un derstand nor appreciate the grand Titan who, unlike them, dares to refuse accept ance of a situation which his soul abhors and which his intellect condemns. Homeward bound, I encountered Col. Mosby, the famous partizan. I regret to say that Mosby is a “ Ne-v Departurist,” and that he sneers at what he calls “ the Stephens platform.” I told him the “ Stephens platform” had saved Georgia by an immense majority, but that Virginia had a right to go her own way. He smiled grimly and passed on. At Washington, in company with some very charming Georgia and Kentucky friends, I loitered for a day, at the Arling ton Hotel, which is certainly the best in the city, and as palatial as any in the country. Through the kind courtesy of Mr. Ben. R. Shekell—late a Georgetown College boy—our party were permitted to inspect the splendid dwelling of Mr. Cor coran, the great millionaire and philan thropist. The conspicuous charm of Mr. Corcoran's house is the picture gallery. Here is the original statue of the “ Greek Slave,” for which ever so many thousand dollars were given. The pictures are very valnable, and some of them exquisite and immortal. Presumptively, several by the “ old masters,” are most precious, but I liked those by the new masters a great deal better. One of the latter, Rebecca at the Well, captivated all of us by its rich coloring and glorious beauty. A chapter could be written about this gallery, but I cannot write it now. When these lines shall have reached you I hope to be in Augusta, which, in spite of “modern improvement,” and, in spite of the “results of the war,” is the dearest spot on earth to me, because it is home. Roundabout, AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1871. Letter From Our Traveling Correspondent. Keokuk, lowa, Aug. 28, 1871. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel : After a protracted stay in Augusta and vicinity, I took passage iu one of “Pull man’s” sleeping cars on the Georgia Rail ; road for Atlanta, and found this palace coach anything but a luxury, between adult-snoring and baby-squal'ine, with | other little annoyances sufficient to keep one awake. I often wished myselt any place else, and concluded, if possible, to avoid all such put up concerns, and let others eDjoy the luxury ia future, for you know a young man like myself is not ac customed to thS squalling part of the pro gramme, and to pay two dollars a ticket for that kind of music the entire night, with closed doors, disgruntled me con siderably ; but day dawn brought the con cert to a close, wheD I took quarters at | the “Hi Kimball” establishment, which was an agreeable change, as there was do crowd, and to all appearances not a baby on the premises, or if any they were all asleep. About half a dozen ladies and gentlemen sat down to breakfast, and I could not but admire the tranquility of the whole interior, which of itself was refresh ing to a weary traveler. The “Kimball House” is really a good specimen of a tavern for a country town like Atlanta, and would do credit to a larger plac°. The poor man who built it deserves much praise for his energy and publio spirit, provided he gets his money honestly, for I I learn he was penniless when he came to Gerogia, and is now said to be worth mil lions, which, if true, should encourage emigration to the “Empire State. ” Kimball never gets above his business, and is ever ready to snatch at anything. He can run a railroad, a bank and a hotel at the same time, and keeps as good a table as the market can afford, but it is not quite equal to the Globe or Planters of your oity. Atlanta seems to be a dull place at this season of the year, and the only excite ment during my stay was the examination of those State Road thieves, the particu lars of which must be familiar to your readers before now. It would seem from the evidence before the Court that the hardware business has been very lucra tive where they got the patronage of the State Road ; but a guilty coDscienco must be a terrible barring when a man is placed upon the stand, and some others may yet disgorge their ill gotten gains when they are pressed into close quarters. What a blessed thing it would be for the people of Georgia if all the rogues about the capital could be made to think that honesty was the best policy. Poor Alexander tasted the forbidden truif, but it sowered on his stomach. If Bullock could be induced to swallow such an emetic he would have no use for a twenty thousand dollar barn. I passed by his farm, spent three days in the neighborhood, and was almost induced to visit it by odc who assured me that it would oost that sum. I was almost sorry that I did not stop and look at it, for I am inclined to think that he will have to import his forage, as there don’t seem to be grain enough in that section of country to feed his horses. Passing along the W. & A. Railroad, it appeared very evident that the country to Chattanoogo had suffered for want of rain. From all accounts the wheat crop is almost a failure, and corn which promised well a few weeks previous had been ruined. Clover and grasses have done well and the hay crop is secure, but the high local freights operates seriously against farmers alone the line of the State Road. Joseph BrowD made a very patriotic speech the other day, urging farmers to devote more attention to the cultivation of grasses, when Col. Tancey completely demolished him by showing that farmers in Kentucky had a decided advantage over any along his road, that all way-freights were so ex orbitant he could better afford to import hay from Kentucky to Athens than raise it on his own farm, and so far as he was concerned, he would never send a bale over the road until they changed their policy. Brown’s patriotism is mere sel fishness, and if railroads continue to pursue the present policy the country will be ruined. A merchant from Montgomery assured mo that he could transport corn cheaper from St. Louis than from Atlanta. So long as that continues there is no use in urging planters to cultivate more corn and less cotton. If you could only see the corn fields of Illinois and lowa, you would think that bread and meat must be cheap in future. I could make contracts for corn in many places along the line of railways at 15 cents per bushel, and pork packers tell me they expect to buy hogs at 3 cents before Christmas. Now what encouragement is there for Southern farmers to attempt to supply their own markets with any kind of provisions when yoor own railroads are working against them in favor of Western men? The lands of upper Georgia are good enough for hay and grain, and more profitable than cotton culture, if the farmers had a fair showing, hut under this grinding policy in local freights there must be a rebellion some day, and the sooner it comes the better for all classes. It is well to reduce through freights to the lowest possible point at once, but let way freight be in proportion ; then, and not till then, can your farmers and merchants cease grumbling. Louisville and St. Louis are getting an immense Southern trade owing to cheap transportation, and Chicago comes in fora full share. The latter two cities are great competitors, and it is hard to say which has the advantage. I see a wonderful improvement in both places within the past two years, and am inclined to think Chicago has the advantage, though it may be I am prejudiced in its favor, as I have many agreeable acquaintances among its business men- Here 1 met two of your prominent merchants purchasing elegant furniture for the Augusta market and I was not surprised when they told me that they had long siDCO discovered that this was their best market for that class of goods. Shrewd men in other lines of busi ness may have made like disooveries. I see no reason why immense quantities of Augusta sheetings and shirtings could not he disposed of here as readily as in New York ; and if two more mills should be erected there they will find a large outlet for their goods in this direction. The merchants here are active and well posted. Evdn at this early day they seem to te familiar with the quality of the Langley Manufacturing Company’s goods, and ex press an opinion that they promise to be superior to anything ever introduced in this market. Unless you have visited this great young city you can form no idea of its rapid growth and your readers wou’d hardly believe what might be said respect ing it. So pleased am I with everything here that it is my intention to return in a few weeks (after snuffing the air of the llocky Mountains) and spend more time in becoming familiar with its surroundings I intended to say something about my trip to Keokuk, but, having taxed your patience too much, I will sav no more about the West, lest you should think 1 might better employ my time. Rambler. THE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL FAIR. St. Louis, August 26. —Ten thousand dollars have been subscribed by citizens of St. Louis, and paid to a committee, for cotton premiums, to be awarded at the St- Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Fair in October next. Fifteen hundred dollars have also been raised, to be used in giving cotton growers in attendance a suitable reception and grand banquet, at which Governor Gratz Brown will make an address- Among the judges to award premiums are the most prominent busi ness men and planters of the South. A WOOLEN EXPOSITION, to be held here in connection with the Ag ricultural and Mechanical Fair, during the first week in October, promises to be a great success. Already 5,000 feet of space have been engaged, and applications for room from all eections of the country are being received daily. The display of ag ricultural machinery promises to be unu sually large. Fifteen acres of ground, be sides a building 250 feet in length, are to be allotted for this department. The following is going tho rouLds: Capitalists and others dealing in or invest ing in bonds lately issued of the State of Georgia, should be very careful that bonds they may purchase have the genuine signature of Treasurer Angier affixed to them. All others will be considered bogus. Treasurer Angier and Comp troller General Madison Bell had given notice that they have no official knowledge of any bonds of the State having been issued since January, 1871. Atlanta already has one mile of street railroad. Letter from Our TraTeling Coi respondeut. NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION. On the Wins, August 28, 1871. Editors Chronicled: Sentinel: The lightning through freight lines now connecting Angnsta with the great West have served to introduce, in the most pleasant manner possible, St. Louis and. her straightforward business men to your city, and her equally straightforward mer chants. mistress of trade. The growth of St. Lonis is wonderful. She commands admiration on all sides as she sits mistress of trade, distingnished for energy, and destined to rejoice in even more widely extended borders. In keep ing with her thrift and the better to preserve her successes honorably won on honorable fields, she has inaugurated and is handsomely maintaining one of the finest systems of public instruction on this or any other continent. HER SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL HOUSES. With a population of over 310,000, St. Louis has upwards of fifty schools, averag ing five hundred pupils each. Six of the schools are for the colored race. Daring the last scholastic year, she expended on account of teachers’ and superintendent’s salaries, $313,407 45 , janitors, $28,- 935 58; officers, $8,410 43; supplies, in cluding fuel, $17,323 20; improvements, furniture, etc., $49,360 82; rent, $24,- 789 46; new buildings and lots, $191,- 895 60—a grand aggregate of $534,122 54 The school buildings are marvels of beauty. The High School, Fifteenth and Olive streets, was built in 1855 at a cost of $50,000. For architectural finish it is second to none in the country. The Ben ton, Clay, CliDton, Douglas and Humboldt structure? are very neat and attractive. The buildings are not only pleasant to to look upon as to their exterior, but are unexceptionable as to their interior ap pearance. They have high ceilings, splendid furniture (physiologically con structed) and adequate means ot ventila tion. The Beoton cost $30,000; the Clinton $45,000, and the Douglas $34,000. THE PUBLIC SCHOOL POLYTECHNIC BUILD ING, in which the National Teachers’ Associa tion held its reoont sessions, which I am about to report, is of magnificent propor tions, as you will readily conceive upon be ing advised that it cost, furniture included, $378,532 68. The average cost of tuition a year in this system of schools is sls 86 per pupil. THE ASSOCIATION met on the morning of the 22$ inst., at the Polytechnic Hall—present fully five huadred members, representing nearly every State in the Union. Ml J. L. Pickard, of Maine, presided. As soon as the Association was ready for business, the President introduced to the members His Excellency B. Gratz Brown, who came forward, amid cheers, and delivered a chaste address of welcome. He briefly reviewed the progress of the school work in the State. Missouri had been faithful to her duty and trust in providing means of education for ali; she had eight thousand teachers in her public schools ; and annually sets spart one fourth of her entire revenue for the sup port of general education. He regarded education as an aid to social life, chiefly serviceable as furnishing better facilities for the protection and provision for our self and family. There was danger in educating the head and negleoting the heart. He was withal a skeptio in the matter of the views usually held aDd ad vanced on education. Instruction should be more practical—looking to the life of the present, not of the past. He was averse to compulsory education. In conclusion, the Governor gave re newed assurances to the Association ot a warm welcome to St. Liuis and Missouri, their homos and their fraternity of feeling. Mr. Pickard acknowledged, in fitting terms, the kindly welcome so eloquently tendered. Several interesting little speeches were made by the presiding officers of sections higher, normal and elementary education, and that for superintendents, into which the General Association is divided. Mr. Tappan, of Ohio, said they were all prsud of being school-masters. He assured his Excellency that no part of a human Icing is forgotten in the education tho Association advocates. True teachers felt that the very acme of their work was moral education- Mr. Edwards read a very interesting pa per on “Model Schools in Connection with Normal Schools.” The objeot of such schools is to insure the after success of young teachers. It is essential that they see the practical application of the princi ples they learn in the normal school, and have their own powers and skill tested by praotice. The essayist mentioned the following as the three uses of the model school: Ist. They are to serve as models of good teaching and governing ; 2d. They are to furnish apprentice work to the novitiate in teaching, and 3d. They are to furnish opportunity for experiments in education al nrinciples and methods. It was urged that in addition to the va rious ways of noting the work of the. pu pil-teacher, it will be useful to constitute the senior class in the normal a visiting committee, and to require them to write careful reviews of the teaching they ob serve, noting its excellencies and defects, and giving reasons based upon a sound philosophy ior the opinions expressed and conclusions reached. Dr. Edson, of lowa, stood up in de fense of the classics. He felt the want of normal schools, and expressed the hope that ample provision would be made in them for giving teachers a thoroughly classical education. Gen. John Eaton, Jr., U. S. Commis sioner of Education, read an exhaustive paper on “Superior Instruction in Rela tion to Universal Education.” Mr. E. E. White, of Ohio, presented a paper in which ho thoroughly discussed “Methods of Teaching Primary Read ing.” The essay was brimful of practical instruction. The subject is a most im portant one. It could not have been en trusted to a more competent man. I re gret I cannot offer you a synopsis of the paper. But an abstract would break the charm —hence you must wait for it in full. Mr. White is one of the foremost sehool men of this age. His is a silvery tongue. I hope your citizens will have an oppor tunity of listening to the distinguished gen tleman at the meeting ot the Georgia Teachers Association in May next. A NATIONAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION. Mr. Wiokersham, < the able Superinten dent of Public Instruction in Pennsylvania, addressed the Association on “A National System of Education.” The address was based upon a bill, introduced into Congress by Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, and con sidered last session. That bill was post poned and comes up regularly in Decem ber next. It provides (I quote from mem ory) that if any State shall, within a cer tain period, have failed to establish a system of public instruction, Congress may provide one for suoh State ; general and sufficient tax for the support of said sys tem ; and empowers the President to ap poiotthe State School Superintendent. All teachers are employed by local superinten dents. A direct tax of $50,000 annually is directed for school purposes to be as sessed and collected by the first Asst. Col lector of Internal Revenue. In the event dissatisfaction should be expressed with 'a system in operation in a Btate, it is proposed to have it optional with the President to supplant it with the national system. Mr. Wickersham arrayed himself square ly against aDy such innovation. He re garded the step as subversive of the rights of the people. The proposed system would throw the whole matter of education into the arena of politics, reeking as it is with immorality and corruption; it was un-American aDd impracticable. Mr. Wickersham’s speech was well re ceived. Apropos of Mr. Wickersham, I give you here a resolution offered by him on the last day of the sessioD, and unanimously adopted by the Association: Resolved, That this Association will look with favor upon any plan giving pecuniary aid to the struggling educational system of the South that the General Government may deem judicious. Mr. Wickersham deserves commenda tion for his earnest and manly fight against this “new departure” in public education. It may not be improper for me to men tion here that there are now before the public two books from the facile pen of Mr. W-, entitled, respectively, “Methods of Instruction,” and “School Economy.” They are invaluable works, and should be in the hands of every teacher. “Loraine,” at Augusta, Georgia, can supply the de mand for said books- I write you again to-morrow. Loraine, The Confederate Monument. Editors Chronicle A Sentinel: The 12th day of October next will be the anniversary of the death of General R. E. Lee. Oa that day the published circulars of the Augusta Confederate Monumental Association announce that the award in their lottery will take place. I presume that this announcement is based on the supposition that all the tickets will be sold. I am an old maD, Messrs. Editors, fast approaching the period allotted to man on this earth. I know something of the herculian labors of all such undertakings. I remember the inception of the lottery for the Greene and Pulaski monuments, “The Masonic Hall,” the Fire Company, and other schemes of like character; with no disposition to find fault with the agents, with the press, or with any one, but simply to suggest that the ladies be enlisted in the cause, I write this. I know that should they take it in hand the monument will rise. Without their aid it will be labor—great labor. The agents may do their duty in every part of the State and of the 80018. But the ladies will go over the same ground and do forty times as much in as many hours as the men have taken days. The ladies of Columbia county organized an association recently to aid in this laudible enterprise, and appointed Vioe-Presidents in the dif ferent sections of the county; one of these, in a ride of a few hours, collected fifty dollars. The cause is good—the feelings of all our people are ialisted in its success. All the parties connected with the enter prise are gentlemen for whom the writer, in common with all our citizens, has a high regard. They will, no doubt, do their duty thejr whole duty. The labor, great as it surely is and may be, is “ a labor of love.” Yet I would be better pleased to see our fair ones at work. Let them in every village, town and city organize. Their co-operation will insure success. And success toe must have. The monu ment must be erected. The heroism of the Southern soldier; his cool courage in the hour of danger; his impetuous daring in the confliot; his ready obedience in camp ; his cheerfulness on the march; bis constancy under defeat; and when destitute and suffering from hunger, wounds or sickness ; his patience and piety have won for him the admira tion of all. The untombed bones; the nameless graves; the armless sleeve; the woodm leg ; the battle worn scar, should be doar to the people of the South. The cause for which thoso bones are whitening; those graves are sinking; those sleeves are vacant, and those scars received, may be forever lost. But these were not in vaiD. The noble tenants of the shallow graves 1 Tho recipients of those wounds won and bequeathed to the people of this Southland something of which thev may well be proud—THEIR CHARACTER. The Southern people, conscious that they were the rightful owners of this price less heritage, have, with cheerful self reliance, borne all their misfortunes. It was the proud consciousness of character, not lost, but sustained, felt by every child, woman and man, that gave the energy necessary to our recuperation. Now that we see “the silver lining on the cloud,” let us not forget the promises made to the departing soldier as he left home and kindred and all that was dear. “Come raise this cenotaph on high For men who did not fear to die.” Let us remember what is due to posteri ty, not one of this, the generation who witnessed tho deeds of those “who wore the grey,” should pass away without be ing permitted to contribute to the per petuation of their deeds and to the Cause in which they fell. The Confederate monument, tho tomb of those who suffered for constitutional liberty, will be the Mecca of generations yet to come. Appreciating the value of this structure in the education of our children, I can but agree with the poetess, and say to the True matrons of the “ Sunny South !” Your aid we earnestly invoke ; And maiden, with the sweet red month. Some soldier-lover kissed—who spoke Your name the last, as calm in death He sank, as if ’twere your embrace; And with his very latest breath He blessed you, till a still, white face, Unruffled—peaceful in God’s lore, His sorrowing comrades bent above. Come one! come all 1 and proudly rear A monument, whose tall white spire Moonbeams shall kiss through endless years, And patriotism’s sacred fire Hallow its dome—children unborn Will cluster round the tablet fair, And read—to Olio’s page unknown— Os heroes, whom onr Christian prayer In loving brotherhood unite On marble column—spotless white. O! Southern widow, scarce a wife! O! mother, mourning fond hopes blighted; O! maid: lamenting that yonng life To whom your heart’s pure love was plighted, Aid us! —for “ mightier than the pen ” Are woman’s eyes made bright by love. Awake—arouse! true Southern menl And raise the loved and lost above, A monument, whose crown shall be A statue of our Robert Lee ! Respectfully, H. B. C. THE TRUNK TRAGEDY. IDENTIFICATION OF THE VICTIM—A TER RIBLE SEQUEL. Father, Mother and Child Dead— Rosen zweig's Servant’s Partial Confession- Miss Bowlsby's Seducer's Suicide — Dis coveries in the Murderer's Den, The following particulars of the identi fication of the body of Miss Alice Bowlsby, of PattersoD, New Jersey, as the corpse in the trunk, and the suio'de of her seducer, are from the New York papers: THE STORY OF THE IDENTIFICATION of the murdered girl is a singular one, and exemplifies the very small chances of the discovery of a great crime. Among the many who visited the Morgue to see the body was Dr. Theodore G. Kinne, of Pat terson, New Jersey. The Doctor looked at the body, and turning to Warden Bren nao, who accompanied him to the Morgue, said: “I am sure I know whose body that is. It is the body of Alice Bowlsby, a girl I have known, aud who resides in Patter son.” He recognized it from a vaccination scar on the left arm below the elbow, a most unusual circumstance, and which scar he knew was on Miss Bowlsby’s arm in precisely the same place as it appeared on the body in the Morgue. On Wednesday evening Dr. Joseph M. Parker, dentiet, of Patterson, with Dr. Kinne and Captain Cameron, proceeded to the Morgue. The body of the girl had been boxed up in the mde coffin for ship ment to Potter’s Field, where it would have been interred in a separate pauper’s grave. Warden BreDnan took the body out of the coffin and invited Dr. Parker to examine it. Dr. Parker no sooner looked into the mouth and examined the teeth than he exclaimed, “My God, this is Alice 1” When he grew sufficiently calm to explain, he said that from his own work as dentist he could swear it was her body. He said it was he who extracted the molar teeth that were gone, and directed the at tention of Warden BrenDaa to a scar on the right jaw, caused by an ulcerated tooth, and also to the filling of two upper teeth in the left jaw. This filling, which the Doctor took out, he seated he had put io, and could swear to. ANOTHER LINK IN THE CHALN. Inspector Walling at once became con vinced that the identification was a real one These facts are known in regard to Alice Bowlby: That she was the daughter of respectable persons residing at No. 42 Water street, Paterson, New Jersey ; that she had been on a visit to an aunt in Newark, and left her aunt’s residence a week ago Wednesday morning, taking the quarter-pas. nine o’clock train, and stating that she was going home ; and last, that she never went home, but that coming to New York city all trace of her was lost, until on Saturday her body was found m the fatal trunk. Drs. Parker and Kinne were questioned as to the dress usually worn by Miss Bowlsby, and among other articles they described a blue silk scarf, which she frequently wore. Ihe inspector, calling to his assistance Captain Cameron and Sergeant Randall, proceeded to the Rosenzweig mansion and commenced a third and thorough search of every hole and corner in the place, and at length found in a stove a blue silk scarf, which Drs. Parker and Kinne identified to the best of their belief as the one worn by Miss Bowlsby. Then they came to tho rear basement, and in the tub at which the servant girl, Jane JohnsoD. was wash ing on Monday, was a lot of wet clothes. The inspector took eaoh piece out separ ately and examined it carefully. At last he came to a plain hemmed white lawn handkerchief; his keen eye noticed some indistinct marks in the right hand corner; he brought it to the window, held it up and gave a shout of exultation, for there, plain and tangible, though slightly blurred, were the tell-tale-letters, tho convicting link in the chain of evidence agaiost the murderer—“A. A. Bowlsby.” BREAKING THE NEWS. About 7, a. m., Thursday, the news of the identification of Miss Bowlsby’s re mains was broken to her widowed mother, at Patterson, by Drs. Parker and Kinne, who, od the evening preceding, had iden tified the body at the Morgue. The grief of the mother and younger sisters was too terrible for words to express. Eight days previously, Alice had left the home of her aunt, Mrs- Elizabeth L. Williams, iu New ark, to return to her mother’s house, in Patterson. She did not arrive home on tho day which a letter written to her mother by her had fixed, and inquiries were sent to Newark for in formation of her. Word was return ed that she had left Mrs. Williams’ house, where she had been staying about three weeks, and ought to have arrived at home the same day. Then the search for the missing girl commenced. Her uncle, Mr. Charles E. Sandford, of Patterson; her cousins, Henry Sandford and John Wil liams, of Newark, and Dr. Kinne, the family physician, gave nearly all their time for several days to endeavor to trace her. Henry Sandford, on visiting the Morgue thought he recognized the body of the then unknown murdered girl, and it was subsequently identified positively by Drs. Parker and Kinne. Until Thursday morning, however, neither Mr. Sandford nor the doctors had hinted their suspicions regarding the body at the Morgue to the bereaved mother. Mrs. Bowlsby, with her three daughters, worked at dress making, Alice having been employed re cently in an establishment at No. 163 Main street, over th e office of Drs. Parker and Kinne. Alice and her sisters were highly esteemed, and net only Alice’s mother, but all her acquaintances, be lieved her to be strictly virtuous. WHO WAS THE BETRAYER? In answer to inquiries made Thursday morning, the friends of the family state that they could not say who was the se ducer of Alice ; they suspected a young man, whose name would not be given until the inquest should bo held. Dr. Parker was reluctant to give any information ex cept that the murdered girl was well known to him as a pure, high-minded girl, whom he would never havo suspected under any circumstances. He thought he could identify the man who was responsi ble for her oondition when she went to Dr. Rosenzweig’s; but he believed that she had gone there alone, and that the maD whom ho suspected had nothing to do with the murder. The Dootor exhibited a pho tograph of the deceased, a tall, well-form ed and intelligent looking blonde, with bright, laughing eyes, full lips and smiling face. It was learned by tho statements of Mrs. Williams, of Newark, that Walter F. Conklin had been very much attaobed to tho young woman, and had visited her at Mrs. Williams’s house in Newark three days before Alico left for Now York. Mrs. Williams did not hesitate to say that ho was responsible for Alice’s misfortune. SUICIDE OF CONKLIN. At 1 o’clock an event occurred in which all the city were convinced that Mrs. William)’ supposition was oorrect. At that hour Conklin committed suioide in Dale’s silk mill, whore be was employed. A large crowd gathered immediately around tho building, and within an hour the news was spread through Patterson. Conklin arrived at the mill early yesterday morning, looking pale and nervous. He remained at his desk during tho forenoon, conversing but little, and when epoken to concerning the absorbing sensation caused by the reports in the morning papers, spoke of it as a matter of no consequence to him. At noon he did not go to dinner ac cording to his custom. Whilo the other clerks were at dinner one of the men em ployed in the mill heard a pistol shot. He raa immediately to the office, and found no one, but going into tho large fire proof room, where tho most valuable silks arc stored, on the floor he found Conklin’s prostrate form. Blood was flowing from a wound baok of the left ear, where the bullet entered. A revolver was found on the floor besido him. When tho physi cians arrived they found that tho wound was fatal, the bail having lodged in the temple. Within half an hour lie was dead. Coroner Butterworth was immediately summoned, and viewed the body. In ono of the pockets was found the following note, in Conklin’s handwriting : “I have long had a morbid idea of the worthlessness of life, and now to be obliged to testify in this affair and cause unpleas antness in my family, is more than life is worth. “Good-bye, dear father, mother, broth er, aod sister. Walt.” In his pocket a card was found, on which was written, in his own hand, “11* E. 24th at.” About M'ss Bowlsby’s movements after she left Mrs. Williams’ houso in Newark, but little can be learned- Her mother, who went to Newark with her, returned home, having left Alico only money enough to pay her fare from Newark to Patterson. When she left Mrs. Williams’ house at 9 o’clock on Wednesday last, she had only eighty cents. She could cot, therefore, have paid RoscEEveig the amount which he would be likely to have demanded. FACTS AND INCIDENTS. On Monday, the 21st ult., Miss Bowls by was met io company with another Pat terson woman, by Wm. J. Healey, 82 Main street, Patterson. Mr. Healey states that he met Alice twice in Broad stay, near St. Paul’s Church. The woman who ac companied her ho knew, but cannot re member her name. Conklin is known to have gone to New York on the fatal Sat urday, returning in the evening. His fa ther is one of the owners of the Dale Silk Mill, where Conklin was employed, and the latter drew a good salary as bookkeep er. On Wednesday evening, while Drs. Parker and Kinne were looking at the re mains of Alice in New York, Mrs. Bowls by and young Conklin were conversing about her in Paterson. Conklin called to inquire it anything had been heard from her, and appeared to be concerned for her safety. Mrs. Bowlsby, who was almost crazed with alarm for her daughter’s safe ty, suggested that the body lound in the trunk might be hers. Conklin said, “Oh, no ; that couldn’t be Alice.” Conklin was about twenty years of age. He had visited Miss Bowlsby for over two years, but had not confined his attentions exclusively to her. He visited Europe last year, but returned in September, re suming upon his return his intimacy with Miss Bowlsby. He was a young man of good appearance, tall and well proportion ed, and dressed with scrupulous neatness. In the mill where he worked no one knew of his acquaintance with Alice Bowlsby, aud with the sad news of the suicide came the first intimation to Mr. Conklin, Sr., of his son’s intimacy with the murdered young woman. CONFESSION OF ROSENZWEIO’S SERVANT. The woman Jane Johnson, servant at the house of Hosenzweig, told the follow ing story to Warden Brennan, in a cell at the Eighteenth Precinct Police station last evening, after viewing the clothing found in the trunk, and hearing a description of the body it had contained: “On last Wednesday afternoon a young lady, like the one you have described, entered Dr. Rosenzweig’s house, at No. 687 Second avenue, by the parlor door. After enter ing the door she was immediately taken up stairs by the doctor, and taken into his private room. The doctor came into the house, on the run, at the basement door, about two minutes before the young lady came into the_ parlor door. He walked to the kitchen door and looked in at me—something very unusual for him to do. To the very best of my opinion, he closed the kitchen door after looking at me, When he left, I opened the door easy, and looked after him. I listened, and ran up to the parlor floor, wheD I saw the young girl going up to the second floor- I took no more notice of that affair on that day; but I listened to see if I could hear her going out, which I failed in doing- The same afternoon I asked Rosie, the doclor’s daughter, who that lady was that went up stairs. Rosie replied that she wa3 a patient who wanted to see her father. I again asked Rosie, on the follow ing day, if that lady was in the house yes. She answered, “Oh, no; her friends took her away last night.” 1 said, “How could she go in all that rain, when you told me she was so very sick?” Rosie said, “They bad a nice carriage and wrapped her up so she could not take cold.” I thought all that story was true until (his excitement took place. After the jady came to the house, Rosie went immediate ly op stairs and remained there for some NEW SERIES—YOL. XXIY. NO. 37. time ; theD she returned to the kitchen. In the evening, Mrs. Rosenzwcig called to me from up stairs to make a cup of tea. and to have Rosie bring it up to her ; I thought this very queer, as I always took Mrs. Rosenzweig’s meals tc her. On Saturday morning Mrs. RoseDZweig camo to me and said that Mhe wished me to hur ry up with the kitchen work, so that I could take the children out riding ; I got through the work about 12 o’elook and left the house with Rosie and the two children. It was a great pleasure to me to go out in the air, it was so rarely that Mrs. Rosonzweig allow ed me to leavo the house. I remained away about one hour and a half. This is all I remember of the circumstances con nected with the girl being in tho house. I recognize the comforter (quilt), striped on cue side, with large figures, which was found in tbc trunk, as one that was used upon Mr. RoseDzweig’s bed- The chemise found iu the trunk I never saw before ; it probably belonged to tho young lady; I recognize the diaper found in tho trunk as one belonging to Mrs. Rosenzweig’s baby. I never saw the trunk before. Notice to Alabama Claimants. Washington, August 30.—Tho follow ing circular was issued from the State De partment to-day : Department (f State, August 30.—Ap plicants who havo not already filed in the Department of State their claims against Great Britain, growing out of aots commit ted by several vessels, which have given rise to tho claims generally known as the Alabama claims, are requested to do so without delay, in order that they may bo taken into aeoount in presenting tho aggre gate claims of tho United States to be brought before tho tribunal of arbitration which is to meet in Genova in the month of December next. It will not be necessary for claimants who have already filed their claims, sus tained by proofj to tako any steps under this notico, unless they may have addition al proof to file. The papers already filed will be withdrawn. Tho claimants must prepare themselves proof of their claims. This Department will, on application, forward to the claimants a copy of the treaty and circular, showing the form of proof that is advised by the department, in absence of all rules by the tribunal, which will pass on the same early atten tion. Claimants who have not filed their claims are invited to do so iu this notice. H. Fisu, Secretary. OTHER OLAIMS AGAINST ENGLAND. The Department gives notice to all cor porations, or individual citizens of the United States, who have claims against Great Britain arising out of the acts com mitted otherwise than by Confederate cruisers between April 13, 1861, and April 19, 1865, inclusive, to send forthwith to Robert S. Hall, of the State Department at Washington, a statement of their re spective claims, showing the name and residence of the claimant, nature and amaunt of claim, with a brief general statement of the time, place and circum stances of the transaction out of which the claim arose. It is expected the Com missioners for the settlement of these claims will meet during the month of Sep tember. State Heirs. A clerk in the Atlanta post office is mysteriously missing. The death of Judge Torry, of Columbus, is announced. The boll worm has made its appearance in Monroe oounty. The man who killed his son in attempt ing to kill his wife, escaped from jail at Kingston the other day, but was recap tured. A negro went to sleep on the track of the A. & G. R. R., near Dixie Station. He will never sleep on a railroad any more. The second Fair of the Macon Oounty Agrioultural Society will be held at For syth, October 6th and 7th. Bainbridge will soon have a steam laun dry. The washerwomen can then strike and be hanged to ’em. Col. T. J. Simmons, of Bibb, was nomi nated for the Senate on Wednesday last, by the convention of the 221 Senatorial District. Our Saturday Night is tho namo of a weekly journal to bo established in Macon on the first of October, by Messrs. Lines, Wing & Smith. At the close of tho Atlanta Fair next October, several grand horse races will enliven the people, for purses amounting to $3,900. A negro boy attempted to outrage the person of a little girl thirteen years old, in Atlanta, on Wednesday. He was after wards captured, but managed to escape. The Savannah Advertiser, of Thursday, learns from a private letter that tho Sa tilla rice fields aro under water, and that it would be impossible for any craft to find the navigable channel to any ol the streams or landings. The gods evidently do not love that branch of the Jones family who live up iu Northeast Georgia. JohD Jones, aged 87, is a sprightly hand in a shingle mill on the Air Line Railway, near Gainesville, and his mother, who lives in Haborsham, counts 114 summers. Singular Case of Female Adven ture, Devotion and Death.— One of tho most remarkablo instances of woman’s attachment to man and heroism under ad versity came to our notice to day. To begin at the commencement wo will state that in 1860 a young lady in the city of Auburn, Now York, tho daughter of wealthy parents, eloped with a young man named Niles, a railroad engineer, and both proceeded to Cleveland, Ohio, and afterwards to Toledo. They wero pursued by an infuriated brother of the young lady, and in the latter place, to avoid detection, after the marriage ceremony had been per formed, tho young lady arrayed herself iu male attire. In this disguise, aiad while selling apples, she passed her brother sev eral times on the street without recogni tion on his part. Shortly afterward, early in the war, the two went South to Nashville, Tennessee, whero Niles procured employ ment as a locomotive engineer, his wife engaging as fireman, still keeping up her disguise. Between Nashville and Chatta nooga a shot from a rebel inflicted a se rious wound upon the engineer, and he was taken to the Government hospital at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. His wife fol lowed, and to her careful nursing Niles owes his life. "When sufficiently recover ed to endure the hardships of traveling, they returned to Cleveland. A few months later the alleged gold discoveries at Man dock, Canada, attracted them thither, and the wife accompanied her hu-band, still in masculine garments. The vicissitudes of her career, exposed to hardships and acci dents, were too severe, however, and a few weeks since she died at Cleveland, after a brief illness. Niles, who is now in this city, is a man of about 40 years of age, and does not refer to i,..c heroic de votion of his wife but in terms of the warmest admiration. — Oshkosh North western, Aug. 18 th. The fruits crops in the Carolinas, Geor gia and California are reported to the In ternal Revenue Bureau nearly if not quite as good this year as last, and the fruit dis tillers expect to do a fair business in the coming season. In Virginia and Tennes see the crops are poor, except on the mountains, and even the peaches are bad ly diseased. In other fruitgrowing States the crops will be rather small. Opposed to Grant. —Senators Sumner and Fenton, John A. Logan, Governor Garey, Governor Bullock, and others, met at Auburn, New York, last night, for the purpose of considering a plan of opposi tion to the renomination of Grant. It is reported that these parties have been in correspondence with ex-Secretary Sew ard, and propose to support him in 1872. It is said that Seward will accept.—Spe cial to Savannah Advertiser • Arrested.— From information received from Newberry county, the Columbia Union learns that Ed. Calmese, who is charged with the murder of Ben. Thomas, alias Blair, mentioned in the Union of the 23d ult., was arrested and lodged in jail on the 18th instant, Calmese is said to have had two accomplices, who have fled to Augusta. The proof is said to bo very conclusive against Calmese, Book. Notice. A TBRRnjLE Temptation-A Novel by Charles Keade-Harpcr & Brothers’, New York, 18< 1. D. Quinn, Augusta. Were it not for the fact that tho namo of tho author stares in blazing capitals from the cover of tho book, ono would soarcely believe that Charles Reado had anything to do with its pages. There is nothing in it which give evidonoo of tho same pen that produced “Very Hard Cash ” and “ Put Yourself In Ilis Place.” It has neither tho power of his other works nor can it wield a tithe of their influence. It was evidently written to sell. Recog nizing the axiom that “tho filthier tho book, tho more ready its sale,” Mr. Reado has acted upon it and tho result is a work whioh is fully as nasty and disgust ing as anything whioh has emanated from Paul de Kook or Balzac. It is the tributo of prostituted talent to a depraved public taste. Its pages are spun out to almost the usual length of novels, but it boars no more romembrance to a novel than Wal Whitman’s stilted balderdash does to pootry. It has no intricate plot with two or three sets of characters acting and re acting upon each other and from whoso complex movements is finally evolved tho” oatastrophe or startling denouement.— Tho story in a nut shell is as follows: Sir Charles Bassett, a Lon don rako, falls in love with and wins tho heart of Bella Bruce. His oousin, heir at law and, consequently, his enemy, Rich ard Bassett, attempts to break off tho match and is assisted, at first, by Rhoda Somcrsot, alcador of the demimonde, who had long enjoyed the patronage of Sir Charles. In spite of rival and mistress, the marriage is oonsumated but no chil dren bless tho union. This addles tho husbands brain and he is put in tho luna tio asylum by his relativo, Richard, tho bete noir of the pieoo. Thereupon tho wifo feigns pregnancy, foists the child of an unmarried female servant—who has carried on an intriguos with tho oousin— upon Sir Charles as his own and effects his rolcasc. Tho pretondod heir turns poacher and thief, and has his noso put out of joint by another and bona fide baby. A burglarious csoapadc of tho servant’s ohild finally causes tho truth to come out, tho boy is shippod to Australia and tho family feud is healed by tho marriago of the rightful heir to Riohard Bassett’s daughter* This is tho story. And to mako it interest ing—as a sauoc for tho otherwise vory in sipid broth—wo have tho conversation, tho homo and the manners of tho dashing and illiterate courtezan, tho coarse intriguo be tween Richard Bassett and tho servant girl, tho wicked deceit and imposition of the heroine, the low cunning and depraved nature of the oousin and tho insufforablo oonooit of a novel writing egotist, named Rolfe, and whoso real namo we shrewdly suspect to be lleade. Tho very high sea soning, however, has suited tho public taste —whioh will bo content with nothing but impurity and vioo—and it has boon greedily devoured. Tho sovoro and mer ited censures of tho press, whorover it has made its appearance, has only caused it to be more eagerly sought after, and tho au thor has reaped his expected harvest. Wo oan oloso this necessarily briof notioo with a hearty endorsement of tho remark of a re viower, who says that fifty years ago tho most popular novelist was Scott, and tho most popular Dovel “The Heart of Mid lothian.” To-day, Mr. Reado and his books arc the rage, and rapid and mclanoholy in deed the doscont from Jennie Deans to Rhoda Somerset. The Court in a Fix.— The Jefferson News and Farmer publishes the following good story in its last issue : It becomes our duty to chronicle one of the most extraordinary outrages upon the sanctity of the judicial ermine that wo have ever known, the particulars of which we succeeded in obtaining from tho unfor tunate gentlemen themselves: It seems that on Sunday morning last, his Honor and the Attorney General, hav ing hired a horse and buggy for the pur pose, started about 6 o’clock a. in., from Augusta for this place, where, according to law and Governor Bullock, they wero to hold the District Court on the day fol lowing. It was soon discovered that tho fiery steed they had hired, which required two men to hold him in Augusta, was a venerable relic of by-gone days, got up for the occasion. The 2:40 pace at which he tore through the streets of Augusta soon subsided into a four mile an hour trot, and this, before they had come fifteen miles, into a walk, out of which it was impossible, with any appliances at their command, to move him ; the usual persuasion was employed until neither gentleman was able to raise a hand to strike. The sun was down and they wero still many a weary milo from Louisville, when it became evident that, tired of walking, the horso wished to stop, and it required tho joint influenoo of tho whole Court to koop him moving at all— midnight camo, and still with indofatigablo zeal, they plied the rein and whip—when, at 2 a. m. they reached big oroek —tho water was up but fordable. It was like plunging in Erebus, for the darkness could almost be folt; but into tho crock thoy plunged; steadily tho horso advanced (the lord is 75 yards across)—ho reached the middle—tho wator running through tho foot oi tho buggy like Nia gara, when thoir progress was suddonly ar rested : visions of disguised horsemen with long bright barrelled repeaters had been dancing befoto their immagination, when thoir progress was suddenly arrest ed in the middle of tho creek ; water four and a half feet deep all around. Tho croaking of thousands of frogs, the hooting of owls, the deep bellowing of alligators made night hideous. Dead blown at last, the faithful old horso oould not raiso a foot, and thus they were. Was ever an Honorable Court iu such a fix ? Hero was an “estoppel” with a vengeanoe ; what was to be done ? Blackstone, Ohitty, Vatte), all wero siient—thoir case was not one not provided for by law. Even Chancery afforded no relief. Seated in their buggy with their feet on the dash to keep dry, their horso immovablo and a hell of waters roaring around. In the hopo of obtaining relief they halloed until they oould only squeal, but no help camo. Hour alter hour passed, while heavy swarms of mosquitoes demanded their blood. Day dawned at last and with it renewed efforts wero made to persuade, or compel Dobbin to move, but he was in sensible, there ho stood and there the Court sat. At last, about seven o’clock, a lriendly contraband, driving a cart, came to their rescue ; he waded in, took tho horse by the bridle and led him to dry land. In two hours (by 9 a. m.) the Court accomplished tho four miles to Louisville, where it arrived tired, sleepy and hungry, but apparently in good spirits. Communication Between Charles ton and Savannah Stopped.— At tho request of tho Mayor, all communication between Charleston and Savannah by rail has been discontinued for the present. The day train from Savannah will run as far as Yemassee. A day train will also leavo Charleston for Yemassee, lor the benefit of those living aloDg the lino of the road, but with tho distinct understanding that there is to bo no transfer of passen gers, mails or baggage to tho Savannah train. From tho notice of Captain A. P. Butler, agent of tho Savannah and Charleston Railroad, it will be seen that until further notico the night trains havo been discontinued. Tbo mails now como via Augusta. Crops in Burke. —A correspondent writing from Burke county, says; “The recent rains have greatly injured the cot ton crop in this section, causing it to cast off its fruit and rust. But where the crop was cultivated and manured, the prospect is not so gloomy, provided we realize any thing like a fair price for it.” The story of the discovery of Forrest er, the Nathan murderer, iu Scotland, is disputed by another detective, who lias run him into a hole in New Mexico. Prince Bismarck is so overwhelmed with letters, mostly from persons unknown, that, while at Varzin, he will only open those from relatives or particular friends.