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SIN. HANCOiI AND MBS. SIJBBATI’S
MURDER.
It htving been suggested that the •»>*
nation of General to the Nat.onal
Democracy as their candidate for the Fr
St£r?’ s
ehows that General Hancock had no con
nection with it whatever-
THI BAFID ttROWTH Os FALL BITIB
The Providenoe Journo* furnishes some
interesting statistics respecting the material
progress cf Fall R«ver, whtch has been
quite remarkable. In the ten years from
1860 to 1870, the population increased
from thirteen to twenty-seven thousand.
Sinoe 1870 the rate of progress has been
still greater, and steps have already been
taken, which will go very far toward doub
ling the population of the city. Including
the additions to the mills already in opera
tion, and the mills either now in process
of building or about to be commenced, the
whole number of spindles that will be add
ed to those now running amounts to 456.-
000 making the whole number that will be
in operation when the new mills are com
pleted, 1,008,237. The Journal says :
Os new mills and additions now in pro
cess of erection, and all or nearly all of
which will be in complete running order by
the Ist of April next, there are :
Spindles.
1. The Merchants addition 28.^0
2. The Granite. No. 2 40.000
3. The Durfee, No. 2 43,000
4. The Stafford, new oompany 3AOW
5. The Wampanoag, new company.32,uw
6. The Wetamoe, new oompany 3AtKW
7. The Slade, new company 3AWW
Os mills already commenced, but which
will not be completed before the close of
next year, there are :
8. The Naragansett 25-000
9. The King Philip. £*-000
10. The Richard Borden oO.OW
Os mills fully decided upon, but not yet
commenced:
11. The Teoumseh 20,000 or 40,000
12. The Davol
13. The Robeson •••;•;
14. The Linen Mill, addition .....40,000
All these mentioned arc designed for
the manufacture of cotton doth. Steps
have also been taken for the ereotion of a
tagging mill, which will turn out 2,000
bags per day.
THK BTATK BPAD THIKYBB.
There seems to be much uneasiness and
discontent in the public mind in regard to
the investigation and arrests which have
been made among the Btatc Road thieves.
Public sentiment demands the exposure
and punishment of the leaders in the
wholesale robbery and thieving which has
been carriad on in the management of the
State Road, and is restive under the an
nouncements made every few days that
one of the small fry of the oonoern has
been doteotod in the robbery of the insig
nificant sum of a few thousand dollars.
The people everywhere ask daily “what
about tho chief of the robberß, Blodgett ?’’
“Why arc not the frauds of Bullock un
earthed, and why is Fatty Harris not ex
posed 7”
Wc are informed upon what wo consider
good authority that these ohiefs of “the
ring of Stato Road thieves” are not neg
lected. It has taken some timo to get at
tho evidence against thoso big rascals, who
had tho oloverness to covor their tracks
better than tho smaller thioves, but that
within a few days past those conducting
tho investigation have boon put upon tho
track of theso leaders of tho ring, and that
they aro now collecting and arranging the
evidenoe against them preparatory to their
early arrest. Already largo sums have
been traced to the hands of Blodgett and
his Ring, and large sums are still behind
to be reckoned for. It requires some
timo to forret out these villanies, and ar
range and prepare tho proof. Those con
ducting the examination aro diligently at
work, and hopo in a few days to make
somo disclosures, which will startle the
public, prepared as it is for astounding de
velopments.
Wo learn that tho oonduot of the At
torney Gonoral of the State has greatly
interfered with the rapid and full exposure
of theso State Road frauds. Bullock is
absent from tho Stato, and in his absence
it appears that Exeautive affairs are man
aged by Farrow or'Blodgett, or both. It
is stated that in important matters tho
Attorney General has declined and re
fused co-operation with those who are at.
tempting to forret out thiß late wholesale
thieving, and that his oonduot has pro
duced muoh delay in the matter. Blod
gott, Harris and others .of the leaders are
in muoh troublo and will leave no stone
unturned to baffle a thorough investiga
tion into their late oonduot as officers of
the road. To catoh these “ big fish ” it
bcoame ncoessary first to hook some of the
minnows. The latter having been bagged,
wo shall soon havo some fine angling so
the former.
THK COTTON CROP OF 1810-11.
Through the oourtesy of the editors es
the Commercial and Financial Chronicle,
we have received an early oopy ot their
elaborate report on the cotton crop of the
South for 1870—’71. The admirable facili
ties whioh tho proprietors ot the above
able commercial journal possess tor the
collection of information through its agents
in all parte of the country, gives it peculiar
advantages in making up a oorreot and
complote aooount of the cotton movement
in this country. Tho result of their state
ment (the main particulars of which were
given in a special telegram to the Charles
ton News, on Saturday last) is as follows :
Receipts at the shipping p0rt5....4,022,154
Direct to manufacturers overland. 228,923
Southern consumption 91,240
Total crop 4,352,317
The overland movement shows an in
crease ot about fitly per oent. over the pre
vious year —say 228.923 bales in 1870—’71,
against 153,825 for 1889-70. There is an
extended statement in explanation of their
method of calculating the ootton sent over
land, which exhibits much industry in in
vestigating the intricate question of the
amount of the staple going by railroads
through the West to manufacturers. In
addition to the usual items composing the
sea island crop, they add the growth of
Texas received at Galveston, which
amounted to 704 bags. The enormous
growth of the year has been disposed of as
follows:
Exported to foreign ports during
the year bwles 3,166,<42
Sent to Canada by railroad direct
from the West
Burnt North and South 5,535
Now on hand, September 1, 1871
At Northern ports 55,765
At Southern ports •••• 49,049
At Providenoe and Northern in
terior markets 39,476
Taken by spinners in the North
ern States 1,008,956
Taken by spinners South 91,240
Total bales 4,422,445
It is a satisfaction to notice that the
great product of the year has rapidly
passed into the hands of consumers, which
gives hope that, with the large consump
tion now taking plaoe, the limited orop
coming forward will find an active demand
at paying prices.
The financial Chronicle’s full and
elaborate statement will be found of great
interest to the general merchant as well as
the operator in ootton.
Mr. Stephens and the Democracy!
—ln a reoent number of the Sun Mr.
Stephens, in speaking of the unconstitu
tional amendments, says: “We hail as
friends all those who aoquiesoe in them
as de facto , bnt not de jure parte of the
organic law."
Mr. Stephens has made a hard fight,
but we always thought there was little or
no difference between him and the people
he was fighting.— Savannah Republican.
HOLDKN.
The notorious Holden, who has been
hanging around Washington for several
months under the pretence that he was
afraid to return to his home in North
Carolina, has obtained an interest in tne
Washington Daily Chronicle, aod will
take editorial charge of that rampant and
unscrupulous Radical sheet. We con
gratulate the honest people of the old
North Bute of their haply deliverance
from this Radical monster.
TIIK PLOT AND THK CONSPIRATOR.
“General Grant has gone to the front — .
the army will move to-morrow!’’ How
vividly the old familiar telegram seems to
repeat itself in the garish light of contem- 1
porary events! There is no longer any j
doubt about the plot, and there is no
longer any donbt about the conspirator.
The sorry mask is no longer of service, and
it is cast aside. The lying legend of
“ peace,” plucked away, reveals the naked
sword, just as the sudden floating of the
black flag and the gleam of hungry cut
lasses transform the peaceful cruiser into 1
the dreadful pirate. King Log is suddenly I
transmuted ioto King Stork, and there is
a woful splashing already in the frog-pond.
The Gatling guns have already taught the
friends of peace to look about them, and
they stand in the predicament of Seneca’s
Romans, whom he represents as trembling
lest the slaves should perchance discover
how few the masters were. It would, in
deed, be horrible if the rascals should find
out how few the prescient patriots are in
this imperilled land.
The plot is virtual C'aesarism, and the !
conspirator is confessedly the President, j
No matter what, nor how virtuous and j
patriotic the pretext, to use the reserved
forces of tho Government towards the
perpetuation of his term of office, is con-
spiracy against tho life of the Republic.
This is what has been done, is now doing,
and General Grant is the conscious, pre
pense conspirator. He has set his hand
openly to the plough, and he is not the
man to turn back from the furrow, nor to
falter through dread of the heat of the
day. Casey went from him, as the arrow
flies, and ordered and consummated the
military usurpation at New Orleans. To
him the Cabinet came, bidden by him,
prompted of him, and the orders in Coun.
oil for the military occupation of South
Carolina immediately ensued, deferred
only by an incident. The hand that has
done thus much will reach further. The
bayonet that piods will stick—the Gatling
gun that menaces will speak on occasion.
New Orleans was warned and did not heed,
so the blow fell, definitely. New York has
been warned and threatened, has not
heeded, does not mean to heed —the blow
will fall there, too, in good time. We re
peat it, the hour for concealments is past,
the conspiracy is ripe, the conspirator
stands revealed —“General Grant has
gone to the fr> nt—the army will move
to-morrow 1” Washington Patriot.
THK SUPREME COURT 0? NEW YORK
CONSTRUES A OKORLIA STATUTE.
From the Atlanta Sun we copy the fol
lowing condensed statement of an import
ant law case, and one in which a great
many peoplo in this State aie interested,
which has lately reached a final decision
before the Court of Appeals in Now York.
Tho case was that of W. M. and R. J.
Lowry vs. Wm. 11. Inman. It was an
action in which a stockholder of the North
western Bank of Georgia was sued in the
Superior Court of New York city, on a
section of the aot incorporating the bank,
which proved that without any action
against the stockholder, his privato prop
erty should be bound by a judgment against
the bank, and that the sheriff should levy
an execution against tho bank Ui on that
private property, in satisfaction of judg
ment against the bank.
Tho case was heard before Judge Mc-
Cunn, on the 2d of June, 1869, and de
cided in favor of the defendant. The
Judge held that tho legal construction of
the section of the act of incorporation ip
controversy was that it does not impose
on the defendant a liability which may
be mado tho ground of an action in per
sonam against him ; but that it charged
and binds his property so as to subject it
to execution in satisfaction of a judgment
agaiost the bank. Tho only effeet of the
statute is to bind the property of the in
dividual corporator* and bind it sub modo
only, by subjecting it to levy on an execu
tion against the bank. He held that it
was beyond the competency of tho Court
to expand so narrow and restricted a lia
bility into an absolute personal responsi
bility for the debts of the bank, which
may be enforced any and everywhere by
an aotion in personam against the defend
ant. . .
If it had been the design of the Legis
lature to charge the person as well as the
property of the stockholder, they would
havo so provided: whereas, on tho con
trary, his liability is carefully restricted to
the hazard of an execution against his
property, and tho right of redress on per
sonal action against him is negatived.
It is evident that no action against the
defendant oould be founded on this statute
in the courts of Georgia, and a fortiori he
oould not be pursued personally in the
courts of New York:
The Jfcdgo held further that, contem
plating tho section under review, in all its
parts and provisions, it was nothing more
than a mode of execution prescribed by
the Legislature of Georgia. Assuming a
judgment already rendered, in favor of a
creditor, against an individual corporator
of the bank, it proceeds to designate in
what manner and by what means that
judgment shall be satisfied. In a word, the
statute provided a remedy only and im
posed upon its own ministerial officer the
duty of enforcing the remedy.
An appeal was taken from this decision
of Judge MoCunn, and the case was car
ried before tho Court of Appeals of New
York city, where it was heard on tho sth
of the piesent month, and the judgment
of the lower Court affirmed.
This ends the case which, as was stated
above, is one of great interest to many
persons in this seotion ot the State, who
have been watehing with some degree of
anxiety the progress of /he suit before tho
New York Courts.
B. B.
Ben Butler, in his endeavor to get to be
Governor of Massachusetts, is parading
himself as the most popular man among
the negroes that there is in the United
States. He says: “Isl am not sustained
in more cabins by the prayers of the
oolored men than any commander in the
army, I will never appear in public again.”
The New York Tribune illustrates him
thus:
“ Here’s yer nice roast chicken," cried
an aged colored mao, as the cars stopped
at a Virginia railway station. ‘‘ Here’s
your roast chick’n, ’n taters, all nice and
hot,” holding his plate aloft acd walking
the platform. “ Where did you get that
chicken, Unole?" asked a passenger.—
Unde looked at the intruder sharply, and
then turns away, crying, “ Here’s yer nice
roast chick'n, gentl’m’o, all hot ; needn’t
go in de house for dar.” “Where did
you get that chicken?” repeats the in
quisive passenger- _ “Look ayer,” says
uncle, speaking privately, “is you from
de Norf ?” “ Yes.” “ Is you a friend of de
cullud man?” “I hope I am.” “Den
don’t you nebber ask me whar I got dat
chick’n- Here’s yer nice roast chick’n,
all hot.” m
A l*te Washington dispatch says:
11 The Administration appears to be re
tracing its steps on the proposition to de
clare martial law in South Carolina. The
Cabinet meeting which was appointed for
to-day to dispose of the question, has been
indefinitely postponed. Two faots have
contributed to this result. The first is a
protest from influential Republican quar
ters against 6uch a step, and the second is
the entire absence of any confirmation of
Senator Scott’s bugaboo story as to the
oondition of affairs in that State. The
War Department reports from officers of
the army on duty in South Carolina uttei
ly fail to mention any new outrages, as al
leged, and the Department therefore has
no intention of issuing a circular letter of
instructions, as has been reported. ’
All Absent. —The President left Wash
ingtoa about the first of June for Long
Branch- He is still absent. The Secre
tary of State is also absent. The Secre
tary of the Interior is absent, The Secre
tary of the Navy is absent The Postmas
ter General is absent The Attorney
General is absent. The Secretary of War
is n ot absent He is the only exception
among the representative men of the Gov
ernment 1
THK RADICAL NOMINATION FOR GOV
ERNOR OF NEW JKRBKY.
The New Jersey Republicans are not in
as good spirits over Mr. Wal-h’s nomina
tion as they would like to have it appear.
It turns out that the recent Convention
was one of the most stormy and disgrace
ful every known in the aouals of the party.
Kilpatrick had set his heart upon receiv
iag the Gubernatorial nomination, and on
the morning of the Convention he was
übiquitous, and his efforts for himself
were almost superhuman. He had thirteen
rooms hired in one hotel, and decoyed
thither as many venal delegates as he
could find. His proceedings were con
ducted openly and unblushingly, and it
was the common talk among some of the
delegates that they had been approached
with offers of pay if they would support
the Genera).
Previous to goiDg into the nomination a
friend of the “flying cavalryman,” Kil
patrick, attempted a vindication of his
character which, however, the Conven
tion refused to listen to. Hoxie said it
had been charged that Kilpatrick took
with him t> Chili a mistress, and that he
was in a house of prostitution when the
news of the death of his wife reached him.
All of which he pronounced a “lie-e-e-e!”
But it seems that the Jersey Radicals had
no patience to hear Gen. Hoxie. They
put him down with cat calls and yells, and
finally he was declared out of order by
the Chairman. After the nomination wns
over Kilpatrick was put upon tbe stand
by a few of his rowdy friends for a speech,
which is thus reported;
He wore a determined, angry look, and
stepped quickly forward and expressed his
thaDks at having been called to address a
convention whieh bad just defeated him.
He continued in a bitter tone :
“ I regret that my friend was not allow
ed to-dav to defend me before this Con
vention from the slanderous stories which
had been revived against me; stories
which were concocted to injure me in my
absence, and were long ago proved to be
false. Ido not deserve this. I, who have
been shot through five times by rebel iron;
I. who was trying to defend the State ot
New Jersey from the Copperheads who
would destroy her when these storiest first
began to be circulated. I can new go
back to my beautiful home in Sussex, and
there may not be one who will shed a
tear for me —none but my wife and little
ones will cry over my defeat. [Voices;
‘ General, you arc drawing vour pay
now !’ and faint hisses]. Enough of
this”—and Kilpatrick broke off into a
labored panegyric on the Republican party,
which would, he said, be the one to give
suffrage to women, should civilization pro
nounce it judicious. He lauded Grant to
the skies, and thought that the soldier
who saved the Republic was best entitled
to its choicest gifts.
Tho speech was a very unwelcome one.
It showed how badly the General felt over
his defeat, and many of the delegates
were afterward loud in their disapproval
of its sentiments. Every one seemed to
be of the opinion that the speaker had
done himself an irreparable injury in a
political point of view. It was openly de
cided that he should not be permitted to
take the stump in the coming campaign.
It was noticed that he gave no pledge to
support his eidevant rival, Mr. Walsb.
English Immigration and Direct Steam
ship Communication with the South,
Mr. Wm. M. Lawton, President of the
Agricultural and Mechanical Association,
of Charleston, S- 0., is at present in Eng
land. In a letter to Gcd. Hagood, dated
at Eastham, Cheshire, near Liverpool,
August Bth, he says :
Os course I am called upon for informa
tion about America—the position of our
South, its future, aod especially as to the
supply of cotton. I am, therefore, obliged
to talk a good deal, and when necessary,
stand up for Southern people and their
material interests. I believe that I could,
with very little proportional money, in the
way of subscription by our people, only as
a manifestation of their accord and en
dorsement of tho enterprise (in fact such
assurance has been made to me from two
sources), have a line ot steamers put on
between Charleston and Liverpool this
autumn, to carry emigrants to the South,
and bring back cotton. It is surely the
interest and policy of the South to enter
into this busineGS. The culture of cotton
alone will never build up the fortunes of
the Southern States; and lam impressed
with the idea that your position as Presi
dent of the State Agricultural Society, and
the strong men who form that Association,
can build up our unfortunate Mate. At
my time of life, there is little for me to
gain,-in any way, by my efforts, but I will
do my best to promote tho futuro welfare
of our people.
Upon whioh tho Savannah Morning
News comments as follows:
“ What Mr. Lawtou says oould be ac
complished in tho way of establishing di
rect steam communication between Liver
pool and Charleston could, with equal
facility, be accomplished in the establish
ment of a line of steamers to Savannah.
Avery little enterprise or outlay of capi
tal on the part of our merchants would
suffice to achieve so desirable an object,
tho only thing in fact needed to put our
city far ahead of all rivalry this side of
New York. The steamers aro already
afloat in the Mersey, and the capitalists
stand ready on the other side to put on a
line of ships between Liverpool and Sa
vannah, whenever tho proper steps are
taken by our merchants. We have good
reason to believe that such an enterprise
at this time would be pre-eminently success
ful. An association of leading Savannah
merchants who would take sufficient stock
to identify them with the enterprise, by
sending a competent agent to Liverpool,
could have a line of steamships organized
and in actual serviee in a few months. By
taking advantage of the present strong
fecliDg throughout the South in favor of
the introduction of European emigration,
full passenger lists would be secured in
addition to tbe freights whieh the facilities
thus afforded for speedy and direct iropoi
tation would induce, while our cotton
would supply the return cargoes. Tbe
establishment of a steamship line to
Liverpool would not only make Savannah
the entre-port for a large amount of Eng
lish commerce which now goes to New
York, but would greatly increase our re
ceipts of cotton for direct foreigh ship
ment.
“ Will net some of our public-spirited
jnd enterprising merchants and business j
men mo?e at once in this important mat
ter ?”
[.From the LaQrange Reporter.']
Democratic Success in 1872.
We take it for granted that every man
who claims to be a true Democrat desires
the success of the party in the Dext Presi
dential contest. On that point, we be
lieve, the great masses of the party,
throughout the whole country, are per
fectly united, The great strength of tho
party lies in its unity and harmony and
adhesion to principle; If these do not
prevail and control, the party becomes con
tused. and may become disintegrated and
scattered into factious elements, and gen
eral discord wi.l result in defeat and shame,
and the ruin of the whole country —
losing to the people their liberties and
freedom.
There can be nothing more certain than
that the best interests of this country hang
upon the success or defeat of the Demo
cratic party. The tendency of the party
in power is decidedly and unmistakably
towards centralization and despotism. Its
legislation for the past fivo years has been
directed to that end. Little by little, and
step by step, it has advanced from one po
sition to another, until now, Mr. Senator
Morton, the mouth-piece of the adminis
tration and of his party, boldly proclaims,
ip a public speech at St. Louis, the neces
sity of a “consummated centralization.”
This is the end the Republican party is
striving to bring the Government to;
and it behooves every lover of freedom to
raise his voice against every tendency of
the polities of the country in that direc
tion.
There is no political organization in ex
istence that promises shelter and protection
to the American people but the Demo
cratic party. Hence, the great necessity
that that party should stand 'firm to the
principles upon which our republican gov
ernment was founded, as a bulwark against
the dashiDg billows of a centralized des
potism, which is lashing its furious and
almost relentless waves against the ram
parts of our civil liberties. There should
be no weak places in that bulwark- It
should be made irresistible, and well se
cured by adhesion to the aims and pur
poses which actuated and guided our
fathers in the formation of a great Re
public, to secure which their patriotism
prompted them to risk their liras and
make every sacrifice.
At Last— Fatty Harris, Master of
of Transportation on the State Road un
der Blodgett, and ooe of the leading
members of the Ring, has been arrested
on a charge of stealing from the State
Road.
Letter from Hart.
Hartwell, Ga., Sept 10th, 1871.
Editors Chronicle <t Sentinel:
I noticed in your paper recently a “Let
ter from Hart couaty,” signed “5.,” in
which theie are some palpable misrepre
sentations, and I want to inform the good
people of this State and elsewhere, that
read your paper, that we are thankful we
hav’nt many such men as Mr. “S. ” in our
part of the country.
The crops are badly injured by the pro
tracted drouth. But while our crops
were suffering for rain God has bestowed
copious showers of divine love upon his
“worshippers,” filling their souls to over
flowing, and causing many to shout and
praise Him aloud. Christians have been
revived, sinners converted, and scores add
ed to the church.
There have been over two hundred and
fifty united to the different churches in
this county.
There is certainly no one in this county
who thinks the Lord is troubled with
deafness, not even Mr. “3.,” but we awful
ly fear that the Lord will turn a deaf ear
to his entreaties unless there be a
speedy cbaDge.
We are happy to say that we have a
Good Templar's Lodge in Hartwell, which
was organized tbe 17th June. Our ranks
are increasing as fast as we could expect,
theie being only about one hundred and
fifty inhabitants in our little village.
We have forty members, all in good
standmg, and I am perfectly satisfied that
not one has violated the pledge. The
prospect is, there will be many accessions
to our ranks very soon.
Tne cause of Temperance, although the
order is in its incipient stage, has doue
wonders for us.
Mr. “S.” informs you that the prica of
liquors has “ diminished from ten to five
cents a drink,” which is not so. He
further says : That “jugs are in great de
mand from the fact that the Good Tem
plars have retired from behind the bar to
behind the jug.” The first impression he
would make is that they have quit drink*
ing, the next is that they have not. Bat
his statements conflict, and he makes two
palpable mis-statements to boot.
1 expect Mr. “S-” has appropriated
as many and as large jugs to his own use
as any other one man since peaches were
ripe enough to l ‘bile.”
We have a quiet, pleasant, and beauti
ful little village. The climate is pure and
healthy; the water good and cold (we
never need ice); tbe people kmd, so
ciable, and religious. Therefore, I hope
this will disabuse the minds of yourself
and patrons of the unfavorable impressions
that Mr. “S.” would make.
If I pretended to be as smart as
he does, I would make less mistakes or
quit writing for tbe papers. It is bad
enough for a man to pour forth his ignor
ance in a ridiculous strain every day at
home, without letting the world know it
by having it published in the papers. I
think that “Letter from Hart county”
was a “ killer" to his authorship. His
subject was sublime, but ho made a ridi
culous fai'ure.
I don’t pretend to be much of a judge,
but my decision is, that it was a very poor
thing, very weak, trashy, and my humble
opinion is that tho author is a “ slack
wad.”
With these remarks, gentlemen, I have
the honor of subscribing myself
A Good Templar.
The Money of Hie People—What
has Become of it I And Where
It Goes 1 ■
Whatever may be the result of the
campaigu in Ohio the thoughtful portion
of the country will feel that Gen. George
W. Morgan has rendered Bignal service in
late able speech on the 'rue condition and
state of the finances. This is not present
ed in a dry and abstract manner, with long
lists of dull figures, but so plainly and in
telligently as to be understood of all, and
to command at onoe the assent of the
judgment. There aie but few who com
prehend the extent of the taxation with
which every department of life, however
humble, is burdened. The enhanced price
of support and of every material of life
fully attest the enormity of tho revenue
which is derived from the labor and toil of
tho millions who claim this country as
their own.
All of us havo this surface view. To
some, tho ready explanation, that this is
rendered necessary by the large debt of
the war, seems sufficient without any
other enquiry or investigation, Few even
scrutinize further, or probe to its depths,
the real amount every year taken from the
pockets of the people, and the immense
sums squandered in an extravagant and
ruinous administration of public affairs.
Senator Sherman, in a written speech,
eulogistic of Gen. Grant’s administration
and that of tbe Renublican party, mado
the bold avowal: “ From the very close of
the war to this hour we have been reducing
taxes.” Mr. Sherman is not only a United
Stales Senator, but Chairman of the Com
mittee of Fmanoe. this statement Gen.
Morgan entirely refutes, not bv theories,
but by facts. lie well says: “I am one
of those who believe that a public speaker,
who will deliberately misstate facts, does a
great public wrong, Instead of being the
friend, he is tho enemy of the people, as
he is the enemy of free institutions, the
betrayer of tho party which has confided
in him.”
General Morgan shows:
First. That the taxes raised the first
year of peace by the Republiean party
wero six hundred and nineteen millions of
dollars, against seven hundred and twelve
millions of dollars during the four years of
war.
Second. That the Federal revenues for
the four years succeeding the war were
one billion one hundred and seventy-four
millions of dollars more than the amounts
collected during the four years of war.
Third. That since the close of’ the war
there has been drawn by taxation by the
Government at Washington out of the
labor and resources of the people two
billions seven hundred millions of dollars.
Nearly double the whole amount of the
entire expenditures of the Federal Govern
ment for the period of eighty years, from
the first inauguration of George Washing
ton to the close ot the late war.
Fourth. That out of this vast sum there
has been paid but three hundred millions
of the public debt, leaving the immense
sum of two billion four hundred millions
of dollars as standing against the general
expenditures for the support ot the Gene
ral Government since the cessation of hos
tilities.
Fifth. That while the whole public debt
is less than two billions four hundred thou
sand dollars,there has been raised since the
war, by Federal taxation, two billions seven
hundred thousand dollars. More than
sufficient to have paid the whole National
debt, and yet with all this, there has been
but three hundred millions of dollars can
celled, while the rest of these vast figures
has been wasted in an administration of
affairs, expensive and oppressive enough
to amount to confiscation.
In the language of General Morgan,
“ Senator Sherman makes the statement
deliberately, ‘ that from the close of the
war to the present hour’ the party in
power has been steadily reducing taxes.
What are the facts ? The entire revenue
| of she Federal Government during the war
' smounte4 to $712,000,000. This revenue,
as you b re aware, results from the various
systems of taxU’Oß. Now, instead of the
taxes being reduced, 12 the very first year
of peace following the war the Federal
revenues amounted to $619,000,000, or,
within $92,000,000 of the whole amount
collected during the four years of war.
And during the four years of peace fol
lowing the war the amount of taxes col
lected from the people was $1,886,000,000,
against $712,000,000 collected during the
war This the learned Senator calls a re
duction ot taxes. He says, ‘ since the
close of the war down to this hour the
taxes have been reduced, and yet the offi
cial report of tho Secretary ot the Treas
ury, which I hold in my hand, shows that
during the four years of peace following
the war $1,174,000,000 more money was
collected by way of taxation than during
the whole four year,' of the war. And yet
Senator Sherman, in ibe face ot these
facts, dares to tell the people that ever
since the close of the war their taxes have
been steadily reduced. How is it possible,
citizens, after this for any good and worthy
man of the Republican party to place con
fidence in the statements ot Senator cber
man ? How can the people act wisely and
well in the discharge of their duties
as electors, when they are deliber
ately misinformed as to the condition of
the country by the acknowledged leader of
his party in the Senate? , ,
“ "Taxation has been steadily reduced
since the war,’ ” says Senator fcherman,
and yet during the six years of peace, since
the conclusion of the war, the men in
authority at Washington have col ected
$2,700,000,090 —$2,700,000,000 oollected
from you 1 Taken from the profits of your
crops! Taken from the proceeds of your
toil! Taken from your wives and your
children comforts and necessaries which
they might have otherwise enjoyed, ihe
money you would have laid by to purchase
a farm tor your sons you are forced to pay
into the hands of tha tax-gath to be
stolen by him, or squandered alter it
reaches the Treasury! Twenty-seven hun
dred millions of dollars’ Why, sirs, the
amonnt is so stupendous that Done ot ns
neither I nor you nor any other man
can, without some standard of measure,
form any idea of what that enormous sum
means. , ,
“ I will suggest a measure a standard
by which you can convey to your own
minds some idea of what the sum ot
$2,700,000,000 means. .Citizens, from the
time of the inauguration of George » ash
ington down to the inauguration ot Abra
ham Lincoln, a period of over eighty
years, the entire expenditures of the Fed
eral Government, including the cost of the
three years war with England, the two
years with Mexico, the thirty years of
Indian wars—less payments on the public
debt —was less than $1,400,000,000. And
yet we find that the men in power, in six
years ot uninterrupted peace—peace at
home aod peace with the world—extorted
from the people in that brief space of time
$1,300,000,000 more than was expended
during the entire time of our history from
Washington down to Lincoln 1
“ What has gone with this sear r ul sum?
What has gone with that fabulous amount
of money? We know where it came
from—from the pockets of the people;
from the toil of the people; from the in
dustry of the people. Where has it gone?
I have called and call again upon Senator
Sherman to tell the people what has be
come of those $2,700,000,000. He don’t
reply ; he will not reply, because his an
swer, if truthful, would raise a hurricane
which would sweep him aod his from
power.
"‘Why,’ sayssoma one, ‘wehaveag reat
debt; we require this $2 700,000,000 to pay
that debt.’ Yes, mv friend?, but $2,700,-
000,000 is $300,000,000 more than the
whole debt. The debt is less than $2,400,-
0(0,000, and in six years of peace Sherman
and his allies have collected from you $2,-
700,000,(100. How much of the debt did
! they nay ? Up to the first day of the present
month of August, the entire reduction ol
the public debt amounts to only about
$300,000,000. Now take that amount
from twenty-seven hundred millions and
you have twenty-four hundred millions
left. What has become of it? Whose
pockets has it filled ? Whose splendid
palaces has it built? Who are the men
that riot in luxury upon this fabulous
amount of money taken from the people
in the shape of taxation ?”
There never has been a greater delu
sion than the party in power. It has
prevented a complete restoration by its
misrepresentation, for partisan purposes,
of the sentiments and opinions at the
South. It repudiated a united land. It
has studiously endeavored to promote dis
sension and prostrate the civil at the foot
of military authority. It has vaunted it
self upon its successful management of the
finances. And yet at the very first firm
handling the bubble bursts and a condi
tion of taxation disclosed which exhibits
an extravagance and wanton expenditure
at once ruinous to prosperity and fatal to
honest self-government.— Charleston Cou
rier.
Newspapers and Belles.— The New
port correspondent of the Boston Trans
cript says:
Sitting on the hotel piazza the other
morning, watching a group of young
ladies, I overheard a curly-headed little
maiden, who was frizzed and panniered,
and puffed in the height of the style, ex
claim, " Oh, I like the Independent the
best!” A moment before 1 could have
swora that la petite never looked at a
newspaper, and, somewhat surprised, I
took the liberty of listening further. “ The
Tribune 6uits me,” said her black-eyed
companion. “I take the Evening Post,”
chimed in a stylish, saucy-lookirg girl, who
was pelting somebody over the railing with
pond lilies—a beautiful bunch, by the way,
whieh live minutes before I had seen a
gentleman selecting for her from a little
urchin’s basket. And when, I wondered,
do you girls get time to read the newspa
pers? “Fold them four double, of course,”
was the next sentence I caaght, and, more
puzzled than before, I very impolitely
walked near the group, when everything
was made cleai to me by the blonde little
one saying, “I had rather have a newspa
per any day than the best pannier that was
ever made in Paris.” I fell back into my
seat, uncertain whether to laugh or to feel
provoked with tho chatterboxes, who had
strolled off to lay siege to a party of gen
tlemen just from the beach. Think of it,
Mr. Tilton! Think of it, Mr. Greeley!
Did it ever occur to you what a bustle you
make in fashionable circles?
Another Democratic Victory.— The
Democrat^have carried the Macon Sen
atorial District. From the Telegraph &
Messenger we publish the following about
tho election Tuesday :
The election hero yesterday was a very
quiet and peaceable affair. Tho Rads
didn’t rally two hours before day, as is
their custom, and take possession of the
polls, and they didn’t rally at any time, or
during the whole day. The Democrats
had the polls from the beginning, and
made a clean shucking of the whole thing.
It no doubt excited the disgust of Mr.
Tinley to sec leading Radicals working
hard for Col. Simmons all day. And it
was funny,
The following is tho official vote of the
city—2,l73 votes being polled:
Thos. J. Simmons 1,698
James Tinley 475
Simmons’ majority 1,223
We have unofficial returns from Rutland
district of this eounty, in whieh Mr. Tin
ley resides, whioh give the vote : Sim
mons, 43 ; Tinley, 17.
Telegrams from Forsyth and Barnes
ville, received yesterday afternoon, show
that tho election in Monroe and Pike coun
ties went as it did in Bibb—all one way.
At 5 o’cloek r. m. at Forsyth 405 votes
had been polled—all for Simmons.
At Barnesville the vote stood: Sim
mons, 255’; Tinley, 66.
To sum it all up, Mr, Tinley is the worst
beaten man that ever aspired to office in
Middle Georgia,
The Washington correspondent of the
Lonisville Ledger states that a movement
to replace Sumner at the head of the For
eign Relations’ Committee is again being
agitated. It is now said that Cameion is
satisfied with the honors he has gained in
that position, and is tired of its responsi
bilities, and is perfectly willing to be as
signed to some place which has more
money and less labor in it, The Wash
ington treaty being out of the way, Grant,
who is desirous of uniting the party as far
as possible, will, it is also said, use his in
fluence to have this consummation brought
about.
A Hypocritical Knave, —Gen. Noyes,
in a late speech, said he wanted “ the
hatred and animosities generated by the
late war to die away,” and in the next
breath suggested that the ablest, truest
and most popular men in the South should
be excluded from amnesty by name. If
not a hypocritical knave, ho is a fool; for
nothing could tend more directly to in
tensify and perpetuate hatred than the
outrage he suggests. Think of such a
narrow-minded, ill-informed shculder
strapped coward as Edward F- Noyes
recommending that the right to vote be
denied to Alexander H. Stephens 1
[Democratic Northwest.'
Beast Butler’s Gubernatorial As
pirations.— His brother Jacobins in
Washington do not look with favor on the
beast’s candidacy for Governor of Massa
chusetts. A dispatch to the Baltimore
Sun says:
Republican officials here are expressing
intense disgust at the course Massachusetts
politics are taking and at the great disor
ganization which seems to prevail in the
Radical camp there. The general feeling
here in official circles seems to be, notwith
standing that Butler claims to represent
Qen. Gr aDf i that a Democratic triumph in
the State would be preferable to Butler’s
election as Governor.
Gen. Breckerhoee, a leading Radical
of Ohio, in a letter to the Cinoiocati Com
mercial, published some days ago, says
Grant was nominated for President be
cause “he was then in a position to com
mand a nomination from one parly or the
other, and we took him rather than let the
Democrats have him.” Now Grant oc
cupies no such position and Gen. Brecker
hoff, with a large number of leading Radi
cals, is in favor ot letting him severely
alone. Indeed, Breckerhott confesses that
if the Radicals nominate Grant they will
be beaten.
All Revenue Suits to be Pressed.—
The Attorney General and Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, in view of the fact
that the sessions of the United States
Courts throughout the country very gen
erally convene in October and November,
will instruct District Attorneys to press suit
in all Internal Revenue cases in their hands.
Particular instructions will be issued in
all cases against ex-Collectors of Internal
Revenue, against whom balances appear
on the books of the Internal Revenue De
partment.
The exports of petroleum from Philadel
phia last week amounted to 905,935 gal
lons. It was sent to the following ports;
Stettin, Gibraltar, Hull, Genoa, Antwerp,
Liverpool, Bremen and Marseilles. Ten
ships, fifteen barks and one brig are now
loading.
It is asserted that Missouri has iron in
64 counties; lead in 43; coal in 36 ; cop
per in 21; marble in 11; zipc in 27; fire
clay in 16 ; barytes in 10; nickel in 6, be
sides granite, tin and plumbago, gypsnm,
alum and antimony. It is said that the
nickel used by the mint is from Missouri,
and the product has lately increased very
largely,
Crop Prospects;
The Thomasville Enterprise reports as
follows, on the cotton prospect of that sec
tion:
The Cotton Prospect.—Oar fine era
report the prospect as anything but prom
ising in this section. The boll worm Con
tinues its ravages, which in some.localities
amount to almost a total destruction of the
young bollp. The storm also did consider
able carnage by blowing down the stalks,
whipping off the bolls and forms, and mnd
dyiog and scattering the open cotton. Be
sides this, the top crop, which promised
well a month ago, seems to be doing but
little, and without an improvement, with a
favorable and late fall, it will prove a fail
ure. An intelligent farmer told us yester
day that he did not believe the cotton crop
of Thomas county would be more than
half as great as that of last year. Another,
who is farming upon the best lands in this
section, planted for 150 bales, but now
hopes for only 80. Upon the same lands
last year, with less artificial appliances,
125 bales were realized.
A late number of the Wilson (N. C-)
Piaindealer speaks thus of the crops in
that sectiou:
“Along the entire route of a trip of
forty miles or more through portions of
Wilson, Edgecombe and Pitt, during the
past week, wo observed that the cotton
crop, whichlwas extraordinarily promising
five or six weeks ago, has been more or
less injured by the cold spell which came
about the first of August. Everywhere
we hear from in our section of tho State
comes the same unfavorable report.”
Crops in Edgecombe and Nash.—A
correspondent of the Norfolk Journal,
writing from Battleboro, under date ot
September 9th, says that from conversa
tion with a large number of prominent
farmers in the counties of Edgecombe and
Nash, and from visits to several large
plantations, he is satisfied that the yield
of cotton will be one-third les9 than it
promised in July. The cold weather in
the latter part of July, succeeded by a
drouth, produced a blight which has
proved most disastrous. There has been
an immense shedding of bolls and prema
ture opening, which makes the cotton
fields, thus early in September, “ white
unto tho harvest.”
The corn crop is better than usual, and
fine crops generally will bo made.
A Sketch of Augusta.— Tho current
number of Appleton's Journal contains an
article on Augusta, with a so-called sketch
of the city. Tho sketch purports to have
been taken from Summerville, and is an
exceedingly poor one. Another illustra
tion gives a scene on the Savannah river
in front of the town, which is a fit compan
ion for the first picture. Its most con
spicuous feature is an impassib'e mulberry
tree, with surroundings equal iy unnatural
and absurd. Hero is what tho author
says about tho town :
la these pictorial (ravels we hurried
from Charleston to Lookout Mountain
without pause; let us now return for a
single brief glance at one of the most
charming of cities. Augusta is on a broad
plain. Tho wooded and winding Savan
nah waters one of its sides; handsome
villa-crowocd hills environ it on others. It
is a city of broad avenues, richly shaded
with antique trees, end all about aro signs
of culture and prosperity. The war laid
no devastating hands on its handsome
streets or its embowered villas ; unlike so
many of the Southern cities, it stands
with the beauty and grace that the years
have given it, unimpaired by misfortune
and uninjured by fire brand or assault.
The wide avenues of Augusta may claim
the palm for beauty among city thorough
fares. The principal one—it is called, I
think, Greene street —is lined with fine
mansions; tall spreading trees not only
grace the sidewalks, but a double row,
with grassy spaces between, run down
the centre of the ample road-way.
This sets beautiful park grounds be
fore every man’s door ; and the chil
dren phying under the trees, and
the roaming cattle that are allowed to
gather in the grateful shade, give the
scene a domestic peace that is very charm
ing. Here stands the City Hall, a really
fine building, of venerable age, set in an
ample green amid.tho trees, and having
about it an air of.dignity and reposo. The
building and grounds are kept with scru
pulous care, and the scene has more of the
rich, quiet charm that pertains to an Eng
lish University town than is usually found
in our rude, new-made American cities. A
tall granite column standing before the
hall in the green of the road-way, com
memorating the signers of the Declaration
of Independence irom Georgia, adds dig
nity and finish to the picture.
The main business street is also wide;
it is lined with handsome shops, in which
may bo noted abundant signs of activity ;
and it is thronged with great crowds of
rude, curious vehicles from the country.
The teams are sometimes of one ox, some
times of an ox and a mule, sometimes of
two oxen and a mule as a leader ; but,
whether one or many, whether disregard
ing the Levitieal injunction, “ Thou shalt
not yoke thine ox and thine ass together,”
or not, both teams and vehicles present
uniformly a sustained dilapidation, and an
ingenuity in ugliness that is very striking,
The oxen are small, shriveled, mean ; you
see none of tho massive, broad-flanked,
huge-limbed, wide-browed, polished, and
ponderous oxen of the North. The ve
hicles, for the most part, are very long and
narrow, sometimes with a low, white cov
ering of cotton cloth, affording an aper
ture about big enough for a man to climb
into. The wagons look as collapsed and
shrivelled as the cxeD. They are, in a
majority of cases, driven by negroes, who
are dilapidated and lazy ; but, io making
old rope, and leather a hundred times
worn out, serve for harness, these African
teamsters display an ingenuity that
amounts to genius.
Cotton appears to be the product brought
in by these wagons. There are other
vehicles mainly employed for bringing in
Sre-wood—“ lightered,” as the tern, is in
the South —which aro not bigger than
small packing-cases, and hold sometimes
as much wood as a stout-armed Irish
woman could carry in her apron ! One
shrivelled-tip ox constitutes the team, and
too often the driver belongs to that spirit
less class known as “ poor whites.” Mr,
Fenn essayed to sketch one of these queer
little teams, but, as soon as ho brought out
his sketch-book, the driver, apparently
alarmed, and irritated by the laughter of
some of his companions, started briskly off
with his miniature wagon. Wo could
only secure his compliance with our wishes
by buying out his whole stock in trade.
His price was twenty-five cents 1 This
transaition led to confidences; and we
learned that he had come in nine miles
from the country with his armful of wood,
and expected to return that night! A
man and ox travelling eighteen miles to
sell a dozen small sticks of wood for twen
ty-five cents |
We give a view of Augusta from Sum
merville, a suburban town of handsome
villas, situated on high hilta two or three
miles from the city. A line of horse-cars
runs from the town to the summit of the
range. Here aro situated many villas and
cottages, embowered in trees, with broad
verandas, handsome gardens and many
signs of wealth and culture. The scene is
more Northern in its general feature than
Southern ; the houses are like our own,
and the gardens not essentially different,
although the Spanish bayonet—that queer
horticultural caprice, with its bristling head
of pikes—shows a proximity to tropical
vegetation. These heights form a part of
the famous sand-hi Is of Georgia, and a
characteristic feature are th; rich red tints
of the roadway .
The Savannah river is one of the charms
of Augusta. The shores aro tolerably
high, and Dear the city are lined with resi
dences. Along the banks bordering the
city are many old mulberry trees, whose
knotted and warted holes, anp gnarled,
fantastic, picturesque roots, washed by
many rains and freshets, Mr. Fenn’s
pencil has felicitously reproduced. Active
scenes are witnessed on the banks of the
river, where wood-boats appear in great
numbers, and where small 6tern-wheeled
steamers come up and bury themselves to
their smoke-pipes in cotton bales. Augusta
is an important cotton market, its situa
tion at the head of navigation on the
Savannah giving it good facilities for
shipping. Hence cotton centres here from
all the surrounding country, and at the
proper season great piles of bales can al
ways be seen massed upon the stream,
while boats are loading with all that
picturesque animation which marks river
shipping.
I regret that we did not visit the great
new cotton factory in Augusta; but our
time was too limited. Augusta has been
quietly solying the problem whether cotton
fabrics can be manufactured profitably in
cotton-growiDg sections by establishing and
successfully working a large factory, which
now employs nearly a thousand operatives.
A canal, which brings the upper floods of
the Savannah to the city at an elevation of
forty feet, supplies ample water power for
factories, and is encouraging an extensive
embarkation into manufactures. It is nine
miles long. The United States have an
arsenal at Augusta, on the Summerville
hilis. Here, during the war, the Confede
rates bnilt extensive workshops, which
now have a curious interest to the visitor.
Oar giance at Augusta has been necessa
rily very brief. No doubt there are many
places of interest that we omitted to see;
but our impression of the general charm of
the plaoe could scarcely have been en
hanced by closer examination into details-
It might with justice be entitled Queen of
the Savannah-
Commission Reduced.— Measrs Beall,
Spears & Cos,, cotton factors, have reduced
their commission for selling (Otton to one
and a quarter (1|) per cent.
OFFICIAL, COTTOSI STATEMENT.
Washington, September 15. —N0 cot
ton crop reports purporting to have come
from the Department of Agricultare during
the past month have been genuine. The
items in circulation, often contradictory in
tenor, assumed to be official, have had no
origin iu the statistical data of that office.
The returns of August and September in
clude reports from about four hundred
cotton growing counties, representing a
very large proportion of the cotton area.
Those for August point to an average con
dition of the orop almost identical with
that of the preceding report—the averages
for Alabama and Mississippi being the
same; those of Louisiana, Arkansas and
Tennessee being higher, aod these of other
cotton States lower. The State averages
ot the September report aro somewhat
lower than those of August, though the
principal depreciation occurs in the States
which yield a small proportion of tho crop;
while the reduction is slight io the im
portant district represented by the States
of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana. The per centage of full condi
tion in the first week of September, as
averaged from all attainable data, is thus
stated: North Carolina, eighty-two; South
Caroliua, eighty ; Georgia, seventy-eight;
Florida, seventy-five; Alabama, eighty;
Mississippi, eighty; Louisiana, seventy
seven ; Texas, eighty-one; Arkansas,
ninety-five; Tennessee, ninety-six.
There are reports of injuries by the boll
worm and caterpillar mainly in Mississip
pi and Louisiana, but no evidence that a
general or very serious loss from insects is
probable. Rust is common in the Atlan
tic States, and to some extent on the Gulf
Coast. Drouth has been injurious in the
Oarolinas and Texas, though the reports of
rain fall through the South indicate a fail
supply of moisture, the distribution of
which has been somewhat more unequal
than usual. At one point in Georgia the
fall in August was nearly fourteen inches,
and in parts of Florida it amounted to
twenty-three inches. These variable at
mospheric conditions have increased the
prevalance of rust, and caused the destruc
tion of both leaves and fruit. These draw
backs, though greater than those reported
in September of last year, are not suffi
ciently serious to excite apprehensions of
a greatly depreciated yield. They are re
ported each year in some portions of the
cotton area. In the record of last year
there was considerable complaint of dam
age to the cotton crop from rust, worms
and unfavorable August weather. These
facts do not point to an enlargement of
the expectation hitherto indulged. If they
are reliable, the most favorable season
could scarcely bring a crop exceeding
three and one-third millions of bales. If
the growing season should be short or
unfavorable, three millions would be a
good result, and with a combination of
unfavorable circumstances, the product
might, be still further reduced.
That staunoh llopublican journal,
Harper's Weekly, says with great force
and pertinency that the people of the
United States can contribute to extond
republican liberty only “by carefully pre
serving the conditions under which alone
liberty is possible."
Thereupon an anti-Grant Republican
journal says : Now, the first of these con
ditions is most impressively laid down in
the Holy Bible, in the Book of Proverbs.
Tno fourth verse of the tventy-ainth
chapter of that book expresses as follows
this indispensable condition of preserving
liberty: “The king by judgment estab
lished the land ; but he that receiveth gifts
overthroweth it."
A Kick at Civil Rights.— The Wash
ington Chronicle has the following card :
To the Editor of the Chronicle :
On tho 31st of August, 1871, Hon. R.
B. Elliott dinod, by invitatiou, with a gen
tleman. at tho place known as “ The Na
tional Dining Saloon,” on Twelfth street.
A man by the name of Samuel 11. Clark,
of Ohio, now a clerk in the Post Office
Department, caused considerable disturb
ance about tho matter. Said Clark claims
that a “ nigger has no right” to dine at a
restaurant where he takes his meals; and
also stated that if he (Clark) “ had S3OO
in his pocket to purchase the Court with,
that ho would take a chair and break the
and nigger’s head.” I am informed that
Clark was dismissed from the Treasury
Department on the ground that he was a
Democrat of the worst sort.
One Who Was Present.
Overland Transportation. The
great facilities offered by tho Pacific Rail
roads for transportation from the Pacific
to the Eastern markets would seem to in
dicate that, for tho future, they are
destined to become the highways of the
trade of Asia, bringing across this conti
nent the great wealth that for centuries
has flowed in other chancels. The steam
er America, of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company, left Yokohoma, June 22. with
500 bales of silk, under a through bill of
lading for Liverpool, for which a time con
tract of fifty-three days was given. The
silk arrived in San Francisco on July 12,
came across the continent by tho Pacific
Railroad to New York, thence by the
Cunard steamer to Liverpool, which place
it reached in forty-3even days from Yoko
homa, or six days inside of oontraot time.
This is at least thirteen days shorter than
the route by the Suez Canal, and demon
strates the superiority of the American
route as compared with the Suez route,
and is very important as indicating the fu
turo course of the China tiado with
Europe for all valuable articles, wheD time
is of importance. By the Northern Pacific
route fully three days, or the time be
tween San Francisco and Portland, Ore
gon, will be saved, making a difference of
sixteen days in favor of the American
route.
Debts of a Wife. —The Supreme Court
of Illinois has decided that a man is not
liable for the debts of his wife, contracted
by her before marriage, on the ground that
the Legislature having, by act of 1809,
taken from the husband all control over
the earnings of his wife, has logically and
necessarily also swept away the law
making the husband responsible for the
debts contracted by his wife when she
was femme sole. And now, as the wife
cannot be sued, there is a demand that the
Legislature shall complete its work and
invest every married woman with the
right to make wills and separate contracts,
and the right to sue and be sued.—Pa
triot.
The produce dealers of St. Louis have
adopted a system of grading corn into high
mixed, low mixed, white, yellow and re
jected, and a meeting to urge the same
change has been held in Chicago, the two
first named grades to take the place of No.
1 and No. 2.
Ihe Riforma annonnoes that, in conse
quence of the complaints of the Italian
press, such of the Garibaldian prisoners in
Germany as possess private means to pay
the expenses of their journey home, have
already been set at liberty. The rest are
awaiting the arrangements now being
made by the Prussian military adininistra
tion for sending them to the Italian fron
tier.
Tho Lynchburg Neves, Ist inst., is in
formed that a United States soldier was
stabbed and killed at Pamplio’s depot a
day or two previous. It is stated that the
soldier had rudely jostled a lady on the
train, knocking her bonnet off; her escort
had some words with the soldier about it,
the latter drew a knife, when the other
also drew and stabbed with fatal effect.
A girl nine years of ago arrived at a
town in Central lowa recently, having
traveled unprotected all the way from
Western Kansas, and bringing with her
two sisters, one an infant, which she car
ried in her arms, and the other three years
old. Her parents had emigrated to Kan
sas and had both died there, and she de
termined to return to lowa.
On the subject of the monstrous diffusion
of decorations on tho Continent, a corres
pondent gives us the opinion which an ex
alted parsonage entertains of the order of
which he is the grand master. “For my
own part,” says the good-natured Victor I
Emmanuel. Kirg of Italy,” “there are
two requests I never deny to anybody—a
cigar and a cross of St. Maurice.” One is
of as much account as the other. —Pall
Mall Gazette.
A novel wedding took place a few days
ago in a shoe manufactory in Cleveland.
Two of the employees were placed on an
elevator, and were married by the Rev. D.
C. Osborne. This over a spring was
touched, and the couple ascended to the
fourth story. Returning in a few mo
ments, Mr. Osborne congratulated them
on their happy bridal tour. Cake was
then served on large sole-leather plates.
The farmers of Dutobess oounty are
greatly excited over a disease of singular
virulence which has broken out among the
cattle on some of the farms. The animals
when first taken seem to droop their
head?, refusing to partake of food ; when
urged to walk about, they do so with much
apparent difficulty, dragging their toes on
the ground, expiring alter a short sickness,
ending their lives with fearful gasps for
breath- It is not yet known the nature
and seat of the disease- Nine qows of one
herd died in a few days last wee*.
There grows in Nevada a species of
wild-peaeh which is exceedingly hardy
and will live nearly eyerywhore that the
sage bush eau ex at- It is found especial
ly frequent in Carson valley, Hnmboldt
valley and on the hills around Reese river.
The tree grows to about the height of a
man's shoulder in the most favorable
localities, but is frequently found not over
a foot high. In the spring of the year the
plains are covered with the beautiful pink
blossoms. The fruit has the perfect form
of the peach, is greenish, with crimson
tinge, and of small size. 1
Telegraphic t Summary
Versailles, September 14, noon.—ln
tho Assembly to-day, a message from
President Taiers was received, the reading
of which lasted half an hour. Thiers says
the members have well earned a suspen
sion from their arduous labors. He prom
ises, in meantime, to work incessantly
for the reorganization of tho country, and
frankly asks tho Deputies to ascertain
from their constituents at homo whether
the country wishes for reconstruction
based on the glorious traditions of a thou
sand years, or for the abandonment of tho
Ship of State to a torrent leading to the
unknown future. In brief, whether the
people want Monarchy or Republic. Tho
message was cooly received. Some pas
sages were greeted with laughter. The
AssemDly then proceeded to discuss and
finally adopted the bill providing for pro
rogation of the session from the 17th of
September until the 4 r h of December.
The main feature of tbe bill is tho ap
pointment ot a committee of twenty-livo
to control the Government during the
recess.
London, September 14. neon.— The as
sociated employers of Newcastle have
4,116 men working, with con-tant addi
tions, and will soon restore former activity
to the factories.
Dispatches from various points show
that the cholera is dreadful in the Central
and Southern portions of Prussia.
Paris, September 14, noon.—Disarma
ment of the National Guard has com
menced. Tncre is no resistance —tran-
quility prevails everywhere.
Versailles, September 14, evening.—
A conference regarding customs is pro
gressing between Germany and France.
It is thought that concessions will secure
the evacuation of all but six of the French
departments.
London, September 14, evening.—An
unknown American brig foundered off
Lands Eud. All hands lost.
Bullion has increased over half million
pounds.
Ooe ease of oholera has ccourrcd at
Newcastle.
Versailles, September 14, night.—
In the Assembly to-day, Gen. De Cistey
stated that two additional courts martial
for tho trial of Communists will shortly
be appointed. He said there are now but
152 Judges to examine the oases of 30,000
prisoners, including 750 oonvicts. Even
with additional courts, tho Government
will probably bo obliged to relcaso 12,500
of tho prisoners without trial, as it is im
possible to sentence rnoro than one hun
dred monthly.
Washington, September 14. —Major
Hodge, in a letter to the Secretary of
War, confessing the defalcation, impli
cates a banking house in New York, who,
it is said, he states knew that tho money
used in speculation was Government
money.
Major Hodge, in a letter, confesses to
$450,000- He does not mention the name
of the Now York firm which knowingly
used the money. He asks lenienoy, and
begs that a small provision bo made for
his family. Hodge has about $50,000
worth of property.
New York, September 14. —The Sun
says that Mayor Hall intended, in the
event of Connolly’s resignation, to appoint
General McClellan, who had boon ap
proached aod reluctantly consented to take
the office. Tho Sun is assured that tho
Mayor intends to procecjl for Connjlly’s
impeachment.
Tue bondsmen of Norton, the defaulting
post office clerk, had a private meeting.
The settlement of the matter was refetred
to ex-postmaster Wakematt.
Connolly to-day, in connection with
Mayor Hall, signed a warrant for fifty
thousand dollars to pay laborers. Con
nolly’s friends say that he will not re
sige—certainly not until Judgo Barnard
has decided the injunction matter.
Chicago, September 14 —In the
Episcopal Diocesian Convention Bishop
Whitchouse narrated incidents of his re
cent visit to Christ’s Churob. Ho cen
sured the wardens for continuing to cm*
ploy a degraded minister, and disposed of
the wardens by degrading them.
New York, September 14.—Tbe sub
joined report in reference to tho present
condition of affairs in Louisiana was for
warded to-day to the Secretary of the Na
tional Council Union League of America,
by Thomas W. Conway, State Superin
tendent cf Education for Louisiana, and a
member of the League :
To Thos. G. Baker, Scc’y H. U. S. L- of
America:
The Counoils of the League will be dis
continued. Gov. Warmouth’s administra
tion has secured a state of perfeot peace in
every part of the State. The Ku-Klux
have died under it, aod I see no need for
the League longer as a means of peaceful
ly securing the rights of loyal men.
1 Signed] Thos. W. Conway.
Springfield, Mass., September 14.
The State Democratic Convention, Ed
ward Avery, presiding, nominated John
Quincy Adams for Governor. The reso
lutions accept the new ameudmonta, and
denounce prohibition,
San Francisco, September 14.—The
latest returns indicate that the Democrats
have two majority in the Senate, but tho
Republicans have two majority on joint
ballot.
A band of Cochise and Apaches, leav
ing the women and children on the Peace
Commissioners’ reservation, in New
Mexico, dashed into Camp Crittenden,
Arizona, oapturing sixty-threo Govern
ment cavalry horses, just recruited for
an expedition.
Lieutenant Wheeler’s exploring party
wero abandoned by their escort near
Camp Hualapa, Arizona.
Wilmington, September 14.—A man
representing himself as J. Keller, called
at the First National Bank to-day and of
fered to sell a registered United States
bond, No. 1,488, issued under aat of tho
3J of Marob, 1865. Tho bond is of the
denomination of SIO,OOO. He was ar
rested by the Doputy United States Mar
shal, and tho oaseoamo no before United
States Commissioner McQuigg, this after
noon, but was postponed until tc .morrow.
Tho bond is caveated by tho Treasury De
partment.
New York, September 14.—The New
York Union Torpedo Works, near Fulton
street, exploded, by which six persons
were killed and seven or eight woundod.
The buildings wero shattered.
Three employees wore shattered beyond
recognition. The explosion was caused
by dropping a box just brought up on the
truck. Tho truck driver was blown to
atoms, The wounded arc horribly mu
tilated. The business was carried on in
direct violation of law.
Troy, N. Y., September 14. —Tbe Na
tional Association of Spiritualists elected
Viotoria Woodhull President.
St. Louis, September 14. —A dispatch
says that the Express iffioe in Ellis oounty
has been robbed of $20,000.
Saratoga, September 14.—Park Place
Hotel, and a large portion of the Crescent
Hotel, have been burned.
Baltimore, September 14.—Deteotivo
John Richards, whom Welber shot just
before suioidmg, died to-day.
New York, September 15.—Postmas
ter Jones and others responsible to the
Government, have resolved to pay the de
falcations in the Now York post office.
Tho fire in the hold of tho Columbia,
from Glasgow, panicked the passengers.
The crew, by hard work, extinguished the
flames,
Jacob Vanderbilt, President of the Stat
en Island Ferry Company, was arraigned
for manslaughter, and pleaded not guilty.
Judge Bedford oharged tho grand jury
to consider the oonsniracy in Wall street
to lock up millions of gold. Judge Bed
ford concluded : “The culprits ought to be
brought to ppeedy justice-” Many lead
ing Wall street brokers are implicated.
Roseiizweig has beec indioted for abor
tion.
The proprietor of tho torpedo establish
ment has been held in ten thousand dollars
bail,
The ship St, Lawrence, from Bremen
for New Orleans, was wreoked on Turks
Island. All saved.
At tho conclusion of arguments in the
injunction case against the city officials,
this afternooD, Judge Barnard pronounced
a decision granting the motion for making
the injunction permanent.
Versailles, September 15, noon,—A
bill has been adopted authorizing Thiers
to conclude a customs treaty with Ger
many. It embraces provisions for Alsace
and Roraine. The details reduce the Ger
man troops in France to 50,000.
Vienna, September 15.—The Provis
ional Diets of the Empire have opened
their sessions. The Emperor will recog
nize Bohemia's rights by public coronation
and taking the oath at Prague.
Brussels, September 15.—The Bank
of Belgium has advanced the rate of in
terest to 4£.
Berlin, September 15, noon.--Therc
were 93 dcw caees of cholera at Konigsburg
on the 12th instant and 63 deaths ; on the
13th there were 68 new oases and 45
deaths. The disease has disappeared
from Dantzig, and is merely sporadic at
Steotin.
City Mexico, September 2.— One hun
dred and forty-seven members were at the
preliminary meeting of Congress. The
whole number is two hundred and twenty
seven. Resulted in favor of Juarez in the
temporary organization, Juarists were
selected as the Committee on Credentials
by a vote of 79 to fig, Tho opposition,
alarmed by this vote, left tho hall, depriv
ing the meeting of a quorum.
It is reported that I)<az is for peace, aod
will move against any revolutionary at
tempt.
City Mexico, September 6.— The Ju
arists are sure of tho organization, includ
ing the Committee on Credentials. Strong
revolutionary threats have been made.
The Permanent Junta will bo installed
September 161 b. _
A proounciamento has been issued in
Zacatecas, and forced loans levied in
smaller towns,
Cincinnati, September 15.—The In
dustrial Exposition has rcooived the finish
ing touches. Cotton gins from New
Orleans are in operation. Owing to the
lateness of the ootton crop tho time for
entry of raw ootton has been extended to
October 6th. The Chntnber of Commcroo
has offered,fin connect in with Exposition,
p L em '“ m3 <n cotton to nearly
$2,000. Premiums are offered for tho
brat and second best bales each from
lexas, Louisiana, Kansas, Tenncsseo,
Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. A
grand cold medal is offered by the Expo
sition for tho best bale from any of theso
States.
Washington, September J 5 —Revenue
Supervisors Corwin, Fry, Dutcber and
Sutton arc consulting with Douglass for a
more efficient collection of the tobacco t ax.
The sentence of Satanta and Big Tree
has been commuted to imprisonment for
life.
Bondsmen of derelict revenue officers
very generally ask a continuance of suits,
but Commissirncr Douglass declines to
aooede. The Government is determined
to press suits in all these cases.
Mobil*, September 15.—Coroner Paine
yesterday arrested E. P. Sprague, U. S
Inspector of Boilers, and Hugh Barney
and Bill Murray, owners, on the charge of
manslaughter, in accordance witli the
verdict of the jury of inquest in tho Ocean
Wave disaster case. The inspector fur
) nished bail in the sum of live thousand
dollars, and the owners two thousand dol
lars each.
St. Siptomber 15.—The
Demooiatio State Convention passed reso
lutions commendatory of Gcnctul Haaoock
as a soldier and oitizen.
New York, September 15.—The secret
meeting called by ex-sheriff O’Brien, to
organize) the Democracy in opposition to
Tammany, was thinly at'ended. But. two
of tho notables specially invited attended.
The proceedings havo not transpired.
Philadelphia,Soptember 15.—Hannuli
Roberts, colored, supposed to bo 103 years
old, was burned to death by her clothes
taking fire.
Lewiston, Me., September 15.—Tho
first killing frost ooourred this morning.
Auburn, September 15.— ltcv. Jacob
Van Veehter is dead.
New York, September 16,— The injunc
tion against tho New Y’ork authorities
cannot bo dissolved until the General
Term in December.
The injunction does not clog municipal
affairs, there being twelve millions free in
the treasury.
The World says; “It is of courso utter
ly impossible that Comptroller Connolly
should remain in office now. His retire
ment is merely a question of hours’ time,
perhaps, possibly of days, certainly not of
weeks. It he does not resign now, the
Mayor cannot avoid impeaching him, and
the stigma affixed to his administration by
Judgo Barnard foreshadows the sentence
that would inevitably he passed on him by
the Court of Common Pleas, if lie is fool
hardy enough to brave the trial. Ho lias
no reason to expect that the Court of
Common Pleas would treat him with more
tenderness than Judge Barnard. We aro
confident that lie will not brave such a
trial, and wo hope to hear of his resigna
tion iu the courso of the day.”
Another mooting of tho Committee of
Seventy was held ntthe Chamber ot Com
merce yosterday. Tho only business of
consequence was the appointment of a com
mittee to draft an address to the people of
the State, advising them of tho necessity
of anew city charter.
The joint oommittco of oitizens and su
pervisors report no ovor issue of oity or
county bonds, and that tho amount was
oorreotly stated in August at $7J,750,001».
The sub-committee for tho investigation of
details will report next week.
Governor Hoffman had a privato inter
view with Hall and Connolly to-day. Tho
friends of Connolly propuso a mass meet
ing, to protest against the action toward
Connolly by tho three Tammany chief
tains.
The Kings county grand jury brought
in many indictments, inoluding, it is be
lieved, the cases of Dr. Perry and Madame
Van Buskirk ; also, the cases of Jacob
Vandoibilt, Captain Braisted, and othors
oonncitcd with tho Staten Island Ferry.
A preliminaiy meeting of about two
hundred of Comptroller Connelly’s friends
was held this evening, in the room at
oorncr of Duano and Ooutro streets, to
prepare for a publio demonstration in his
favor. Moses Daly was appointed Chair
man. Tho only speakers wore ex-Coronor
Gover and Peter McC >rry, of tho Irish
People newspaper, both of whom express
ed faith in the integrity ot Connolly ;
blamed Judge Barnard lor making a dis
tinction between tho defendants ; and de
clared that all tho defendants ought to
stand shoulder to shoulder. Resolutions
wero passed to tho effect that the singling
out of the Comptroller for saorifioe was tho
result of a conspiracy of tricky members.
Lake Shoro dividends will bo officially
announced to tho Stock Exohango Mon
day. Terms. of dividends, forty per cent,
in stook, or, in other words, a division of
fourteen millions among tho stockholders.
Tho oompeny makes up GGJ per cent, paid
on the script on the new stock, aod re
seives tho right to call up 33$ por cent, in
cash. When this is all paid tho script
will be made full paid stock. Tho cash is
to bo called up in installments, and only as
the company needs the money.
London, September 16, evening.—The
Mont CenisTunnel was Ira/ctscd in thirty
eight minutes. Tho air was cxocllcnt,
and tho rails perfcoily level.
Duko Alexis’ squadron is at Plymouth,
whero it remains a week.
Tho leaders of the International Society
have promised tho London weavers that
they will prevent tho importation of for
eign workmen.
Tho Labor League denounce tho intro
duction of foreign workmen into English
shops as a dangerous political expodient-
Tho British wheat crop is represented
as disastrously deficient.
Clark, tho American bond forger, has
been sentenced to eighteen months im
prisonment at hard labor.
Versailles, September 10, evening.—
A majority of the Assembly is known to
be favorable to the project of tho law for
the customs treaty with Germany, includ
ing Alsace and Lorraine—a result of which
will be the evacuation of the departments
of Aisne, Aube, Cole D’Or and Jura, by
the German troops. The debate upon the
bill introduced by Count de Telusat, au
thorizing tbe signing of such treaty, will
take place to-day.
Gen. Changituier is dangerously ill.
Tho Alsace custom question proves a
troublesome one, and fears are expressed
that unless it is quickly settled the ontiro
trade of Alsaeo will go to Switzerland in
stead of Franoe.
Tho court martial, to-day, sentenced tho
agent of tho International Society, M.
Parry, to imprisonment, and certain sol
diers to death for passing over to tho in
surgents on April 4th,
Lyons, September 10.—A proclamation
tr-d.iy announces the disarmament of tho
National Guard, All arms in possession
of the Guard are required to bo surren
dered within two days, and fines and itn
prisonmcDt follow failure to comply with
the terms oi tho proclamation. Regular
troops replace tho National Guards when
disarmed.
Dublin, September 16. —A meciing
will be held Sunday in the suburbs of
Herold’s Cross. Tho object is to take
steps to prosecute the po’icc for dispersing
the rcoeut assemblage in Phoenix Park.
New York, September 16. Professor
D. H. Mahon, West Point cduontor, ono
of the most distinguished military office's
of the day, suicided by jumping from tho
Weat Point beat.
Prolessor Mahon went on board steamer
Mary Powell, this morning, at West
Point, on his way to New York. Nothing
peculiar was noticed iu his manner. About
an hour after going on board ho jumped
from the steamer, forward of tho wheel,
into the river. He was undoubtedly
struck by the wheel, as his body did not
come to the surface, floats wero lowered
and every effort mado to savo him, with
out success. His act was undoubtedly
deliberate, as his coat and over-shoes were
found in the vicinity whero he mado tho
fatal jump. He went on board the steamer
with his hou6C-keeper, who seemed to
bavo suspicions that tho old gentleman
was in trouble. He said to her, “Don’t
follow me about.” He sueooeded in get
ting away from her and dLappearod. He
was seen to make tho fatal leap by one of
the pilots, who gave the alarm. Professor
Mahon was a man alk uc h, vnaiy years old,
apparently hale and hearty. Search will
bo made at once to recovo* his body.
Boston, September 16.—Charles T.
Simonds, Treasurer of tho Chelsea Gas
Light Company, attompted suicide, and
will die. He was oharged with indecent
assault on a boy.
Washington, September 1.6.—Th0
Treasury has issued an elaborate state
ment, exculpatory of itself in the Ilodgo
defalcation. Hodge’s bonds arc lorty thou
sand, and his property ja estimated at fifty
thousand.
Grant is here.
The Mexican Claims Commission re
assembles next week.
Wm. M. Meredith, of Pennsylvania,
and Cabb Cushing havo been appointed
counsellors to the Geneva Arbitrators.
Tho War Department will commence
proceedings against the bankers of default
ing Paymaster Hodge.
Lowell, Mass., September 16.—Tho
City Council had a special meeting to con
sider the prevailonoe pox. It
prevails in all classes. Eleven new oases
occurrod to-day.
Burlington, Vt., September 16.
Lyman Cummings, the oldest lawyer in
this oity, is dead ; aged, 78.
A negro barber, for attempting to out
rago Alderman Johnson’s wife, was held
in twenty thousand dollars bail;
New York, September 16.—Specie
shipment over $250,000.
Ex-Judge Stuart, a criminal lawyer, is
dead, of typhoid fever.
