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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
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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.