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Chronicle anti sfmuul. WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 11 National Democratic Nominees. FOB PRESIDENT, Horace Greeley, Os New Yobk. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, J}. Gratz Brown, Os Missouri. State Democratic Ticket. FOB GOVERNOB, JAMES M. SMITH, Os Mpscooee. p RESIDENTIAL ELECT OJIi 8 . Fob the State at Laboe. WASHINGTON POE itp’r?pt<W AITEUSATES. AWoiSum E :.v.v.v:.v.v:.:oPDJ^A a: H. HASSELL o^HOESTON ELI WAKIiEN OF HOUSTON. Oistbict Electors. First District 11. O. Tcbneb. of Brook*. Bwond District—lt. N. Ely. of Donoherty. Tliird District —W. J. Hudson, of Harris. Fourth District— J. M. Pace, of Newton. Fifth District Dr. H. It. Casey, of Columbia. Sixth District Jasl'Kß N. Dorsey, of Hall. Seventh District—E. D. Graham, of Dade. Alternates. First District—J. ItrvEas. of Laurens. Hocoml District—A. L. Hawes, of Baker. Third District—T. F. Smith, of Coweta. Fourth District— T. F. Newell, of Baldwin. Fifth District— A. M. Bodoeks. of Burke. Sixtli District—L. J. Allred. of Pickens. Seventh District -It. A. Alston, of DeKalb. DOUBLE duty. A good many of the delegates to the recent Louisville Convention have queer stories told of them. And now comes the Wilmington Star and states that after Major C. W. Cassette, of Raleigh, had voted the entire Radical ticket at the recent election in North Carolina, he went to Louisville as a “Straight” and voted for Charles O’Conor. the seventh district. Tho Seventh District finds some trou ble in selecting a candidate for Congress. The Convention rnet in Cartersville on Thursday, and four gentlemen placed in nomination: General P. M. B. Young, ,T. A. W. Johnson, Dunlap Scott and James I). Waddell. After balloting for a long time without any of the candi dates getting a majority of tliovotes, the Convention adjourned until yesterday, when the struggle was to have been re newed. I) EMOUItAT I< I CONVENTION—BTH DISTRICT. In pursuance of tho invitation of the Chairman of tlic Executive Committee of the Democratic party of the Fifth (now Eighth) Congressional District, several members met on the 20th August, in this city. No quorum being present, it was decided that no nuthoritativo ac tion could bo adopted, but in view of tho necessity of placing a candidate for Congress early in tlio field, the members present determined to suggest that a Convention be held of tho Democratic party of tho Eighth Congressional Dis trict, on Thursday, the 12th of Septem ber next, in this city. *ln compliance with tho request of tho members, wo now announce that tlio Convention of the party will bo held at that time. GRAND STATE MASS MEETING. By Authority of the State Democratic Executive Committee. A great State mass meeting of the Democracy will be hold in Atlanta, on tho 17th of September, 1872. It will boa grand occasion. Tho fol lowing speakers of national famo are expected to make addresses : Governor B. Gratz Brown, candidate for Vice-President. lion. D. \V r . Voorlioes, of Indiana. Hon. CarlScliurz, of Missouri ; Gen. M. C. Butler, of South Carolina ; ex-. Governor Zob Vance, of North Caro lina, nml other great public men. The Democratic papers in tho State are requested to publish this. Thomas Hardeman, Jr., Chairman State Executive Committee. I. W. Avery, Secretary. DEMOCRATIC NOTICE. Atlanta, Ga,, September!, 1872. To the Sult-ElcT '-s : I am frequency solicited to furnish speakers to tho respective counties, and the Executive Committee are anxious to do so, and will respond to all such ealls as far as they are able ; but they have not the means to defray the expenses of tho speakers desired. Having no “governmental fund” at their disposal, and no army of office-holders upon whom they can levy contributions for campaign purposes, it is suggested, as eminently proper, that those counties desiring speakers should pay their trav eling expenses. It will be but a trifle, and great good can be accomplished in this way, at a very small expense. Counties, therefore, desiring speakers will notify the Chairman or Secretary. We want and urge county meetings throughout the State. Tnos. Hardeman, Jr., Chairman. I. W. Avery, Secretary. THE RADICALS M ILL NOMINATE. The impression seems to have been form ed by many of our citizens that the Radi cals in this and other counties will make no tight for members of the Legislature and Congressmen in the coming cam paign, but will confine their exertions towards securing the election of their candidates for President and Governor. We think this impression erroneous, and that nnless it is removed mueh harm may be the result. There is no doubt but that the black and white Radicals are thoroughly organized in this State, and that they are capable of making a vigorous struggle. They have a candidate for the Presidency and for the Gov ernorship in the field. Why should they neglect or refuse to run candidates 1 for Congress and for the Legislature? If j they arc organized for this campaign, j why are they not for others ? If they will come to the polls to vote for Grant and Walker, why will they not come also to vote for Congressmen and members of the General Assembly ? What will it I avail them to elect a President if ho has j a hostile Congress opposed to him, or what will they accomplish by trying to elect a Governor if they are willing for his hands to be tied and his mouth closed by an unanimous Democratic 1 Legislature ? These are all questions ! which the Democracy should weigh well, j and consider, when they are told that their candidates will have no opposition and that the Radicals will only fight for j Grant and Walker. The Radicals have j no idea of doing any such thing. They : will put a full ticket in the field in every 1 county of the State where there is the i slightest cliauco of success, and the 1 Democrats must uot allow themselves to believe that they will bo permitted to walk over the course. Democratic Meeting in Washington CorNTY.—From private advices we learn that the Democracy of Washington county held i mass meeting in Sanders ville on last Tuesday, the 2d instant A large number of citizens were pres ent, and a good deal of interest mani fested in tho proceedings. The following delegates were selected to represent the county in the Eighth District Congressional Convention,which will assern'Me in t!lis cit ? on the 12th j instant: MessT 8 - Grecu Brantley, Henry ' Taylor, George Kelley and Dr. B. D. j Smith. • It was determined to postpone till an other time the nomination of iijli,’ , Bdates for the Legislature. THE RADICAL “STRAIGHT" FLANK MOVEMENT. The Lynchlmrg Virginian notes the Radical plan of action in the “Straight movement” which lias lately been devel oped by the Lynchburg Congressional Convention. Substantially it is the same as that alleged to be in contem plation in Georgia, and this is, that the Radicals will forbear making nomina tions in those localities and for those offices where a “Straight,” running as an Independent, can bring sufficient aid from the Democratic ranks to secure snccess, uot otherwise attainable by Radical strength. The plan, however, does not seem to work smoothly at the start, and causes a good deal of dissatis faction among the “wards of the nation.” Wo copy from the Virginian tho follow ing extract from tho Lynchburg Con gressional Convention, to exhibit the workings of the plan and the manner in which the colored soldiers received it, and as well the enthusiasm it provokes for Grant: Mr. Thomas Y. Mosby, of Bedford, said that as the floor was too weak to stamp he would move that “we give three rousing cheers for Grant and raise the reof. ” The suggestion of Mr. Mosby failed to elicit any response. Mr. John W. \Voltz, Secretary of the Republican State Central Committee at Richmond, arose and said he was not a member of the Convention, but was sur prised that the proposition to give three cheers for General Grant had met with no response, and now he proposed them again, and Mr. Woltz, leading off with a°“liip,” “hip,” they were cheerfully given. Captain J. F. Wilson offered a resolu tion declaring it inexpedient to nominate a candidate for Congress at this time, and authorized the Congressional Exec utive Committee to call this Convention together at any time before the election, whenever they deem it necessary to in sure the success of tlio Republican party and the election of General Grant. “Hon.” Frank Moss opposed the res olution, and said, “If we vote for that resolution, its to vote for Foot John son, and tlieys jes a few men here who wants to elect Foot Johnson, and lie didn’t intend to vote for Foot Johnson for nothing lie could think of; and if you adopt that resolution, its jes saying tho Republicans are afraid to nominate a man. He aint made no pledge to this Convention, and he intends to support Greeley, and lie’s running as a Conser vative,"and no Republican ought to vote for him; and I will go home and tell my people, and tell it on tho way, we can’t get nothing from him.” Mr. Wood called the “honorable” gen tloinan to order, and said that Mr. John son’s name was not before the Conven tion, and that the question under con sideration was the adoption of tho reso lutions. Moss) “I have a right to express my opinion. It has been assorted that if we make no nominations here, it was jes telling the Republican party they must vote for Foot Johnson. It was tolled from hillside to bottom, and everybody knowed that, even the children. He was for a nomination.” The Chairman decided the “honor able” out of order, as it was not proper to discuss the claims of any one unless their names were before the Convention. Mr. Wood offered a resolution endors ing Grant, &c., but being unable to read it in an intelligible manner, it was handed over to the author, Mr. John W. Woltz ; but upon a second reading it was discovered by Able Hunter, the colored member from Bedford, that the resolution in pledging the support of the Republicans of the district, it only included “ 117;. the Colored Rcpub licanß." Ho had no idea of any such thing as binding the colored Republicans and not the whites. Frank Moss hadn’t noticed the word colored in there, but if it was there, for G—d’s take it out. Mr. Woltz endeavored to explain the reason why the colored brethren were only embraced in tho resoution, but it was no go ; tho negroes couldn’t see it in the same light the author did, and tlio ticket hail to be scratched before Cuffoe could swallow ' it, and with this alteration, so ns to include the whole Radical tdement, the resolution was adopted. Mr. Rives moved that tlio Convention now adjourn, subject to tho call of tho District Congressional Committee, which was adopted. Tun Opportunity of Carolina.— While all of the Southern States have, since tho war, been plundered, op pressed and misgoverned, the hand of tho robber and tho tyrant has rested heavier upon South Carolina than upon any of her sister States. In Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, though all of them were at first under tho control of United States officers or carpet baggers and scalawag plunderers, still the people knew their strength—that at the first fair election they would bo able to expel their oppressors, and events have justified tho confidence which they felt in themselves. In South Carolina the aspect of affairs has been vastly dif ferent. An immense black majority resisted all their efforts and defeated them in every struggle. Every attempt to break the strength or diyide the forces of their enemies seemed futile, and year and after tlio native and foreign plunderers led the blacks to the ballot-box in an unbroken phalanx. But this year the Conserva tives have n chance for a partial triumph, if not for ft complete victory. So indignant were a- portion of the Radicals of that State at the outrages perpetrated upon tho people iu the nomination of General Moses, that they refused to submit, and have placed an opposition ticket in the field, headed by Tomlinson. The indications now' are, that the bolters will carry off a heavy force from the Republican camp and make the result of the next State election very doubtful. ’ Now is tho time for the Conservatives to gain a footing in the Government,' which will eventually give it over to their "hands. With the divisions and feuds existing in each county in the State, they ought to be able to secure a majority iu the Legislature, even if they fail iu electing a Governor. This, itself, will be a great triumph, when we reflect how tho State has been plundered for the past four years by a dishonest Legislature, aided by a corrupt Executive. The Prospects in Maine and Illinois. —Senator Trumbull arrived in New York from Maine, on Sunday last. When questioned about his opinion of the re sult in Maine, he replied; “ That the i election would be very close. The Grant j party are making the most desperate efforts to insure success, oml have sent not only their best speakers, but have furnished all the necessary funds to further any project suggested by their State Committee. Many of the leaders claim that they will carry the State by : an increased majority, while others ad-1 mit that the majority will be reduced. ’ The organization of the Administration 1 party is complete in every village, town j and city, and nothing has been left tin- j done to defeat Kimball. The Liberals j have also worked very hard. They, of ! course, have many obstacles to couteud j against not met with by the Grant party, j but are performing efficient service. On J close calculation some of the Liberal ; leaders think that at the outside Fer ham will not have over B,(KX) majority. Others are under the impression that Kimball will win. I doubt it, though, for reasons I have before mentioned. In reference to the Senator's own Stato he said he believed ‘ that it would be car ried by the Liberals,’ and based his opinion on the fact ‘ that the friends of Greeley had long since made the most active preparations for a hard fight; they were fully organized, and the slight defection which'was reported to exist iu the Democratic ranks was gradually passing away, and the other two parties were joined and working harmoniously. Senator Trumbull left the city last night for Illinois. He will stop at Ohio and deliver one or two speeches in that Stato, after which he will proceed on his journey. He intends to work unceasing ly through the West until November.” The 801 l Worm.— Mr. Robert J. Woodward * Lowed us yesterday three or four stalks of cotton, well boiled, which were ruined by the worm. The insect had eaten into the boll and literally .des troyed the cotton. We hear of consider able complaint of tbs and also of rust; and save»'»i l ezi«rienced planters have told us their oropa are seriously injured. —Griffin News. THE PUBLIC DEBT. An exchange Hunks it might seem to a casual observer that there could lie no graditions in idiocy ; that when once an utter absence of intellectual faculties should be shown to exist it could make little difference how many rays of light should thereafter be abstracted. This is not so ; and the proof is, that the Grant organs, both those which are really edited and those which run them selves, keep inanely repeating from month to month that “ Grant is reduc ing the public debt,” that “ tho Admin istration is paying the debt with unpre cedented rapidity,” and a dozen other parrot phrases that grow more meaning less the oftener we hear them. The lack of intelligence contained in the as sumption that Grant or liis Administra tion was or is paying the public debt, is manifest idiocy, but the repetition of such a statement in the face of facts and figures denotes a state of mental dark ness compared to which simple imbe cility is a magnificent intellectual en dowment. Neither Grant nor his Administration has any more to do with paying the pub lic debt than the humblest citizen in the land who pays a cent of tax. They who furnish the money aro those who pay the debt, anil who also pay Grant anil his Administration for carrying tho money to the nation’s creditors. The proposition that the hands are to be credited with the work of the .head, or the servant with the work of the master, is too absurd for argument. Jf these periodical trumpeters of Grant’s praises for wliat he has no hand in doing wish to render him a real ser vice, let them—instead of proclaiming that he has paid 50,000,000 of tlxe debt in the last month—show why it is that lie has not paid 810,000,000 of it with the money which the people have given him for that purpose. They will find their hands quite full enough for the next month in proving that he and his Administration havo faithfully collected that which is due to the people and hon estly used it. This is one of the labors for which they are employed and paid by the people, and the people will be better satisfied to find them doing it than to hear of them junketing at water ing places, stumping the country to keep themselves in office, and demanding ap plause because they have devoted any portion of the public money to public purposes. And the people have all tho better right to a little knowledge on this sub ject, because the rate at which the debt is now being extinguished, instead of implying peculiar virtue or honesty in Grant or his Administration, implies a conspicuous lack of both. We have shown before, upon as goodjauthority as that of Mr. Boutwell himself, that the average reduction of the public debt under Grant lias been 83,000,000 per month less than it was under Andrew Johnson, notwithstanding the fact that tho necessary expenses of the Govern ment under the latter were far greater than they now are, or at least ought to be. An ounce of such fact as this is worth a ton of the theory that placidly hymns Grant’s praises for doing illy and inefficiently what his employers have a right to have done well and thoroughly. Democratic Mectlngin Johnson County. Pursuant to previous notice, the citizens of Johnson county met at the Court House, in Wrightsville, Sep tember 2d, 1872. On motion of Col. A. W. Daley, Capt. T. W. Kent Was called to the Chair, and A. F. Daley requested to as Secretary. Tho Chairman-very briefly stated tho object of the meeting, when, on motion of Col. Daley, a committee of five was appointed by the Chair to draft reso lutions. Committee —Col. A. W. Daley, J. E. Hicks, Dr. R. H. HiglitoWUr, John F. Norris, J. R. C. Allen, when the follow ing resolution was presented and adopt ed : Resolved, by the Demooratic party of Johnson county, in meeting assembled, That the Chairman appoint three dele gates, with power to appoint their own alternates, to represent this county in the Convention to assemble in the city of Augusta, on the 12tli mst., for the the purpose of nominating a candidate for Representative to Congress for the Eighth Congressional District. The Chairman appointed Col. A. W. Daley, W. A. Tompkins anil John 11. Stapleton, Esqs. On motion, tho meoting then took into consideration tho action of Laurens in regard to nominating a candidate for Senator for the Sixteenth Senatorial Dis trict. After considerable discussion, tho fol lowing resolution was adopted : Resolved, That as there exists groat dissatisfaction in Laurens county in regard to the nomineo for Senator, that we will not interfere with their proceed ings, but will leave tbfe citizens of Lau rens to settle their own difficulties ; but are willing and ready to co-operate with them whenever requested. The meeting then adjourned sine die. T. W. Kent, Chairman. A. F, Daley, Secretary. P. S.—The sentiments of the meet ing were almost unanimously in favor of General A. R. Wright as the candi date for Representative in the next Con gyess. Secretary. The Duuoan-Kellev Keiicountrc. We havo already published a tele graphic account of tlio difficulty between Blanton Duncan and Dr. Keller, in Louisville, on Monday last. The Ledger, of Monday afternoon, gives the follow ing fuller account of the affair : About half-past one o’clock this after noon an exciting affair occurred at the Galt House. Colonel Blanton Duncan, Chairman, &c., liad driven there in his stylish carriage, and entered the hall. He became engaged in conversation with several gentlemen, among them General Custar, of the Pnjted States army, who jocularly remarked : “ Colonel, I under stand yon have set your price; that- you are going off to the highest bidder,” To this Colonel Duncan replied : “ General Custar, you must not make such a re mark. I ilo not allow anyone to say such things to me.” Dr. James M. Keller, an ex-Confeile rato surgeon, of this city, and a strong Greeley man, who was in the party or knot that had gathered, egjd: “I have heard that you said that you were going to sell out to the highest bidder.” To this Colonel Duncan replied: “Whoever said so told a it-4 lie.” Dr. Keller said: “I am responsible for part of the statement, and you must retract the d—d lie." Col. Duncan replied that “the statement was a d —d lie, and that he would not retract.” At this Keller struck him, and a scuffle •ensued. Friends rushed iu immediately and separated them. The wildest excite ment prevailed, and the friends of each seemed disposed to take a hand. Bob Woolley said that part of Duncan’s re marks referred to him- He stepped back and placed his hand Unbind bim and called Duncan a white-faced son of a b—ti. Duncan w as surrounded by his friends, and did not or could not make any at tempt to get at Wooley. Eeller's frieuds hurried him into an ante-room. Wool-i ley was also taken away and the excite- ■ ment quieted down. A few minutes afterward Keller got into a buggy with j Dr. Yaudell, and rode away from the hotel. Col. Duncan remained at the j hotel forborne little time afterward. There were no marks of Keller’s blow on his face, and he (Duncan) says that! he warded it off with his arm. When asked if the matter would end there, j CoL Duncan replied that it would so far as he was concerned ; that he had not ■ been hurt, and that he could not fight all the Greeley men in town. Greeley a Negro Trader.— Napoleon, Arkansas, always .was a lively place. On the loth ultimo there- was a Grant Convention in Napoleon, composed of j 500 negroes and 6 whites. The success ful nominee for the Legislature, in the course of his speech accepting the nom ination, said he has known Greeley a long time, and for many years of his life Greeley was in the negro trade and noted for his severity with the whip. He brought forward an old darkey who swore “dut »aßsa Greeley had popped it to him many a finie afore breakfns ami tnk de hide off ebbe.77 time,” and dosed bis moving testimony with, “Gol-' ly, how old Boss Greeley did whip ilis i nigger,” Second Congressional District. [Special TOegram lo the Savannah News.] Albany, Ga. , September 4. The Convention of the Second Con gressional District assemble!! to-day, and nominated, by acclamation, after the eighth ballot, Gen. G. J. Wright, of Dougherty county. The greatest har mony prevailed. It was the most enthu siastic and intellectual body ever assem bled in this District. Tho people are unanimous for (ireelev and Smith, and are confident, with our popular standard bearer, of defeating the Radicals. The latter are working hard to control the colored vote. Speeches were made by Messrs. Wright, of Dougherty ; Harris, of Worth ; Harper, of Terrell ; Flem ing, of Decatur, and others. The peo ple aro wide awake and determined to work hard, wfcieh will insure snecess. R. L. G. General Farnsworth, in a speech re cently made in Illinois, gave the people of that State an interesting scrap of Georgia his tor}’. He said : During the existence of the Recon struction Committee of the House of Representatives, I was a member of that committee, and assisted in framing tlio various bills that were passed. I gave my hearty concurrence to the bills that were framed and passed for the Original reconstruction of the rebel States. When these bills had passed, and these States, in accordance with tho provisions of these bills, hail elected officers, Legis latures, members of Congress, had adop ted constitutions in accordance with the provisions of our bills, I was disposed then, after these States had been set upon their feet again, to grant them the same rights that wo in Dliuois or in any other State enjoyed. [Cheers.] If there is anything like union among tho States, anything like fraternity and equal rights, you must give to ouo State tlio same rights that another possesses ; when it was proposed, therefore, to reconstruct some of these States, I did not agreo to it. We will take tho caso of tho State Georgia. Georgia, in pursuance of the law that we passed, was reconstructed, sent its members to the House of Repre sentatives, who served through a Con gress ; their Senators wero not admitted, being kept out on the ground of ineligi bility or something of that sort ; their Legislature assembled, but there was informality of tho organization of it, anil some of the members were voted out improperly, as their own Suprme Court afterward decided. They had a man for Governor there of the name of Bullock, who, before the rebellion, was sent down to Georgia by the Adams Ex press Company, from tho State of New York, as an agent of theirs. lie was there through the war, and being a gen tleman of policy, changed the name of his express company during tho war to the Southern Express Company. He was cheek-by-jowl with Breckinridge, Davis, and all tho rest of them, carry ing their messages and dispatches for them, was in heartfelt sympathy with them during the war, keeping, however, his precious body out of harm’s way by making himself more useful to them than in another capacity. After tho war he became one of the most radi cal of tho Radicals, and got elected tho first Governor of that State. He came up to Washington when he found there was a Legislature in Georgia that he could not manipulate to vote, bonds or sell railroads, and to do other things that he required in his financial policy. He came to Washington and asked us to reconstruct the State. Ho wanted us to turn out that Legislature, call them together again, and make every one of them take what was known as the “ test oath,” which we had provided should bo taken by officers of the United States. They had taken the oath prescribed by their State Consti tution, but if ho could make them take the test oath ho could weed out a great many members of the Legislature and leave a body of men ho could handle. He came to Washington ; he was check by-jowl witli the President ; Morton, of Indiana, became one of Iris intimate friends, and Chandler and the rest of them. Dan Voorliees on Grant's Bourbou Allies. [Groenvillo, Ind. (August 28), Disjiatch to Chi cago Tribune.] D. W. Voorlioes was introducoil by Judge D. S. Gooding, and was .warmly greeted.- His address occupied two hours. It was excellent iu matter and telling in effect. Alluding to tlio Blan ton Duncan business, lie spoke as fol lows; “I have told you that I had great respect for that class of Democrats who found it necessary to reason them selves into the support of Mr. Greeley. I belong to that class -myself, and have reached the position in which I stand in this canvass by a careful survey of the field of duty, and not lrom impulse or mere personal inclination. I have weighed fho calamities which will secure to the country from Grant’s re-election against the benefits which aro procured by the election of Greeley, and have taken my stand accordingly. [Ap plause.] We hear, however, of another convention to take place at Louisville. I have no word of abuse to hurl at tho men engaged in calling it, but their pur pose cannot be mistaken. Every intelli gent man in the United States knows that it is a movement solely in the in terest of Grant, and directly tending to his re-election, the prolongation of the ruin of the South, and tho further growth of corruption in every depart ment of tho Government. If any one conceives it his duty to support Grant let him do it openly and directly. But let no one deceive himself, or be de ceived, as to the purpose and result of that convention. [Applause.] It is the hope of the Grant party. It is in tlio mouth of all his followers. It is praised by his adherents. It is contenanced by Morton and upheld by the money of the Administration ring. These facts arc full of warning to the Democrats who honestly desire the success of their party ancTreformatiOn of public affairs. [Applause.] Let us, then, stand by the only man who can defeat Grant and bring peace and reconciliation to the country. ’Mr. Greeley may not have been your first choice, as .ho was not mine, but he is now the only choico we can make by which to accomplish this great anil noble end.” Italian Immigration.— The Emanci pazione, an Italian journal, has collect ed statistics on tho subject of tlio emi gration of tlio Italian population to the Atlantic ports of the United States. Prior to 1860 the emigration of tho Italians was less than one hundred per annum. Tho number, however, rose to J ,382 iu 1860, and, gradually increasing, amounted 3,756 in 1871. During tho last six years tlio total emigration amounted to 13,455 persons. In the United States, exclusive of California, there aro 55,000 Italians, of whom 34,000 are men and 21,000 are women. Tlio Italians come from the following provinces: Ligura, 13,950; Sicily, 9,870; Naples, 6,150; Piedmont, 5,460; Tuscany, 4,810; Rome and the Romagna, 4,580; Lombardy, 3,890; the Emilian provinces, 1,920; Venice, 1,870, and other provinces, 2,500. This emigration is attributed to the miserable condition of the agricul tural population of Italy, which, it is stated, is aggravated by the introduc tion of high farming and the driving out of the old system of dividing the profits between the landlord and tenant. The Ghicago Grain Corner.— A Chi cago paper says the collapse of the. cor ner in wheat sent that commodity down to one dollar and ti n cents, being a de cline in twenty-four hours of forty-nine cents. The wildest rumors are afloat re garding failures, but nothing definite can be ascertained until pending con tracts arc settled. A list of "fourteen unsound firms has been made up, and an evening paper gives the names of five persons vhat have fallen in the struggle. A competent judge estimates *2,500.000 j the amount extracted from the “shorts,” j while a capital of only 8750,000 was j used in the operations of the corner. The collapse is due to the refusal of the j national banks to extend aid to the Syn j dicate. A veterah operator declares that 1 the result will be more disastrous to the j board than the great fire. The corner I was certainly the greatest ever attempt ! ed here. The wheat market has resumed a steady tone, several heavy speculators I purchasing for cash at one dollar and | fifteen cents. I Effects of the Caterpillar in j Georgia.— The Macon Telegraph, of I Friday, says: We are of opinion that ' the general anticipation is a loss of | one half the yield anticipated a month ! ago. The worm is everywhere. We ! saw Yesterday stalks of cotton from the plantation jfr. T. G. Holt, a few ihiles from town, in which the leaves were stripped to the fibre and the young bolls fatallv attacked. Not a caterpillar was I. visible in this field last Monday, and ! vet on yesterday the process of almost I total destruction was well under way. Georgia, in all probability, will not much exceed last year’s crop. An Active Man. —A white man in Middle Georgia recently administered a correction to his wife, her sister, his sister and his mother-in-law, all in the course A< a morning. The £Jri f&n Ncu’s advertises hint tS ftn infallible female regulator. A SECRET NO LONGER. How the Administration Engineers the “ Straight " Enterprise. [From the Detroit Free Press.] It has been evident since a very early day in the campaign that the Adminis tration party, in its fear of defeat, was prepared to resort to any means of se curing a renewed lease of power. Os course it has endeavored in tho prosecu tion of its most deeply-laid schemes to preserve the utmost seeresy, and thus far it lias been tolerably successful; so mueh so that while it has been rumored and more than suspected that the whole machinery of the so-called “ Lonisville movement ” was being operated by the Administration for its own purposes, and that the petty local managers were the merest of puppets in its hands, the direct evidence of these facts was want ing. That evidence, or a large portion of it, we are now in a position to sup ply. We have recently been placed in possession, from a perfectly reliable source, of some facts in relation to the secret workings of this “ movement” which accord so well with tho external indications as to leave room for no doubt whatever as to their genuineness. The following aro the facts referred to : Within i few days after tho Baltimore Convention, and when it had become apparent that some few Democrats were dissatisfied with the nomination, it oc curred to a leading member of Grant’s kitchen cabinet that some capital might' be made out of fostering and encourag ing such opposition to Mr. Greeley as might be found among Democrats. The idea when communicated to his fellows found favor iu their sight, and it was resolved to act upon it at once. Iu pur suance of the resolution, instructions were issued to several leading papers iu the Administration service to encourage tho feeling of disaffection among the Democrats to the best of their ability. It became apparent, however, after a short time, that this feeling of disaffec tion was dying out. A meeting of the kitchen cabinet was called, this time not more than five hundred miles from Indianapolis, and at this meeting it was insisted that all which was needed to make tho movement a partial success wero a candidate and an organ. It was resolved to havo recourse once more to the almighty dollar, anil after consid erable discussion, the following pro gramme was agroed upon : Charles O’Conor, of New York, was to receive a professional retainer of 850,000 for allowing the nse of his name as a candidate at Lonisville, and tho Chicago Times, which had already coquetted somewhat with tho movement, was to be guaranteed an indemnity against tho loss to. its circulation which was sure to accrue from the open advocacy of a third nomination. Subsequent to this meeting, and during Chandler’s recent visit, a meeting was hold in this city, at which measures were adopted in the interest of Grant for pushing the movement in tho Western States. It was resolved to appropriate a Sum of money for uso in each State, and the amount allotted to Michigan was ten thousand dollars—five thousand to be paid to the local engineers, and the other five to bo expended in pro curing delegates and paying expenses. How far thoso arrangements have been carried out wo leave the public to judge-. It is quite certain that Charles O’Couor is being approached on the subject of a nomination at Louisville, and tho Chi cago Times has all the premonitory symptoms of an entire readiness to be the organ of tho movement should the other part of the agreement be carried out and Mr. O’Conor accept the nomina tion. Confirmation of the agreement con cerning Michigan is found in this State. The lettors recently published in the Free Press, showing that men have been approached with offers of a trip to Lou isville, with all expenses paid, if they would go as delegates, self-appointed, are very significant, especially as the offers emanate from one who, however willing to devote a little time to the gratification of private revenge, is well known as one who would not spend his own money in pulling Grant’s chestnuts from the nre. Democratic Meeting In Oglethorpe— Nomination of Candidates for the Legislature. Lexington, Ga., September 3, 1872. Editors Chronicle <fc Sentinel : The Democracy of "Oglethorpe county assembled to-day in Convention for the purposo of nominating candidates for the General Assembly and county offices. The Convention was organized by call ing Col. D. C. Barrow to the Chair, and appointing Dr. Jarrel and John F. Smith Secretaries. The Convention proceeded, by ballot, to nominate candidates, anil after sovoral ballots Mossrs. John T. Hart and M. W. Willingham wero nomi nated. They are both young men of talent, with high cultivated qualifica tions for tho office. Lexington, Ga., Soptembor 3, 1872. Messrs. Hart and Willingham: Gentlemen —Tho Democracy of tho county, in Convention to-day, nominated you as candidates for the Legislature, and the undersigned were appointed a committee by the Convention to notify you of your nomination and request your acceptance. Respectfully, 11. Kinnebrew, Jasper Haynes, John F. Smith, It. Stokley, O. H. Arnold, Committoo. Gentlemen of the Committee: With thanks we accept tho nomina tion, and, if elected, will earnestly serve every interest of our constituency. Rospoctfully, John T. Hart, M. W. Willingham. The New York Woj'ld mentions a sig nificant fact. It says : “In 1867 Ho race Greeley was a membor of the State Constitutional Convention which assem bled in Albany to reviso the Constitu tion of tho Stato. Nineteen of his Re publican colleagues in that body have already publicly declared their" prefer ence for Greeley over Grant for the next Presidency. Seven otlior Republican members of that body havo refused to do anything to aid the election of Grant. Every Democratic member of the body who is alive supports Mr. Greeley, while tho Clerk of the Convention, and all the officers, except tho President, also favor Mr. Greeley’s election.” - „ v Now Hampshire Democrats will not vote for Grant, and not' many for the Bourbon candidate; Edmund Burke, tho veteran Democrat of Newport, a loader in his party for more than thirty years, offered to bet 81,000 the other day that .not fifty Democrats in the ■ whole- State would* vote for Grant, and nobody would take the wager. On the other hand, he reports in Newport, Unity, Plainfield, and other towns in his vicinity, a sufficient number of Gree ley Republicans to carry the State by 4,000 majority if the other towns do as much. Col. Tappan reports the same thing in the towns about Bradford. Mass Meeting at Warrenton. —There was quite a large and spirited Demo cratic meeting at Warrenton on Tues day. General John B. Gordon delivered an able and impressive address. The meeting was also addressed by Gen. A. R. Wright and Hon. D. M. Dußoso. Messrs. 0. S. Dußose and T. N. Poole were nominated as candidates for the Legislature. The following gentlemen were selected to the Congressional Convention, to bo held here on the 12th instant: Lewis Jones, Dr. W. J. Walker, E. V. For rester, C. E. McGregor. George W. Price, colored, was, until recently, an officer in the Custom House at Wilmington, N. C. At the late elec tion he ran as an independent candidate for Senator against the Grant nomineo. The sequel is told by .Grant’s Wilming ton organ, which says: George W. Price, Jr., has been re moved from his position in the Custom House in this city. Mr. Price followed his own judgment in the election matter, and has no one to censure for his misfor tune. Grant will not tolerate freedom of opinion among office holders. The mnn who favors Greeley or opposes the plans of the Grant party, will be sure to have his official head decapitated. Cultivation op the Ink Plant in Europe.— For many years* the juioe of the ink plant _ (Coriavia Thymifolium) has been used in South America as an ink, as it flows freely from the pen, and,' although of a reddish color at first, it becomes very black in a few hours. It does not attack steel pens, and is said to be absolutely ineffaceable. Quite re cently attention hag been drawn to its superior properties, gml extensive efforts are now being initiated in Paris and elsewhere in Europe fop the purpose of multiplying this plant and bringing it into general use, DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA. Delivered in Atlanta, Tuesday, Sep tember 3, 1872. [Reported Expressly for the Consti tution, by Henry Jackson, Supreme Court Reporter. ] Colquitt & Baggs tv*. Harriet. M. ; T;trver. Injunction, from Twiggs. Warner, C. J. ' This is a bill filed by the complainant against the defendants, praying for an injunction to restrain the foreclosure and sale of certain described property which hail been mortgaged to the* de fendants by Wm. B. Tarver and Ben jamin M. I'arver, the sons of the com plainant, The Court granted the in junction, to which the defendants ex cepted. The complainant alleges in her bill* that she is the widow of H. 11. Tarver, deceased; that by his will the property embraced in the mortgage, or a considerable portion thereof,was charged by the will of her late lmsband with her support and .maintenance during her natural life or widowhood, in lieu of dower out of his real estate. The prayer of the bill is, that the amount to which she may be entitled for her support and maintenance shall bo ascertained, and be first paid to her out of the mortgaged 1 property as constituting a prior lien or charge thereon. There is no good, legal or equitable ground shown by the com plainant’s bill why the mortgages should not be foreclosed, as between the mort gagor and mortgagees the foreclosure of the mortgages as to the debts duo by the mortgagors to the mortgagees will not, in any manner, affect the complain ant’s rights to her support out of the mortgaged property; provided, the samo is not sold under the judgment of foreclosure; in that case, her rights might bo complicated. In our judg ment, the codicil to the testator’s will does not adeem or revoke the first clause in his will, which charges his estate with tho support and maintenance of the complainant during her natural life or widowhood in lieu of dower, and slio is entitled to have tho amount ascertained and decreed to her, to which sho may bo entitled out of the mortgaged pro perty whiqh was owned by tho testator at the time of his death, or which has since been purchased with tho trust funds arising from the sale of the property charged with lior support with notice to tho mortgagees that it was so purchased with tho trust funds aris ing from tho sale of said property. The record of the probate of the will of the testator was notico to the mortgagees that tlio property specified therein was charged with her support and mainten ance, but would not be notice as to other property purchased sinco tho testator’s death with the trust funds arising from tho salo of the encumbered property. In view of file facts of this case, wo shall direct that tho injunction be so modified as to allow tho mortgagees to foreclose their mortgages against tho mortgagors, but restrain them from soiling tho mort gaged property described in the testa tor’s will, and so much thereof as was purchased with the trust funds arising from tlio sale of tlio property charged with tlio complainant’s support, if the complainant shall allego in her bill that tlio mortgagees had notice that it was so purchased with tho trust funds, at or bc foro the date of thoir mortgages, except ing the Frederick place, tinder their judgment of foreclosure until tho com plainant shall first ascertain by a decree if the Court on tho hearing of her bill what amount she is entitled to for her support and maintonanco out of the mortgaged property. Let the judgment of tho Court below be affirmed with instructions. Lyon & Irwin, W. K. DeGraffenried, for plaintiffs in error. Lanier & Anderson, Whittle & Gustin, contra. Wilcox, Gibbs & Cos., vs. J. 11. Turner. Certiorari, from Rockdale. Warner, C. J. This case came before the Superior Court on a certiorari from a Justice- Court, complaining of errors in the rulings of the Justices on tho trial and •of the judgment of the Justice Court, under the evidence in tho case. On tlio hearing of the certiorari in the Su perior Court, the Court sustained the certiorari and ordered anew trial ; whereupon the defendants in certiorari exoepted. It appears from the return of the Magistrates who presided on the trial in the Justice Court, that a pos sessory warrant was sued out by Wil cox, Gibbs k Cos., against Turner, to re cover tho possession of certain promis sory notes and lions which had been in the possession of White, tlioir agent, payable to them or to their order, and that tho same had been fraudulently taken possession of by Turner under some pretended claim, without lawful warrant or authority. It also appears from tho ovidence had on the trial of tho possessory warrant, that D. T. White was the agent of Wilcox, Gibbs & Go., for the sale of guano ; that tho notes and liens in controversy were taken by him, as their agent for thoir guano sold by him, and were payable to them or to their order. Wlion Wliite was called on for a set tlement for tlie guano sold, he said that lie had lost the notes and liens taken by him therefor, and mado affidavit to that fact, and then the plaintiffs took his note for the amount of the notes and liens alleged to have been lost by him, with a stipulation that when tho notes and liens should bo found tho amount thereof should be credited on his note. Tho notes and liens were subsequently found in tho possession of Turner.— How, or in what manner, lie obtained possession of them does not appear. There is positive evidence that White, as tho agent of tho plaintiffs, had no au thority to transfer or to dispose of them, but the evidence does not stop there. Inquiries were made about the loss of tho notes, and particularly of Turner, tho defendant, who stated to different persons, who were examined as witnesses, that ho did not have or know anything about the notes; stated to Albert that, in his opinion, ho would never see these papers; that White had lost or destroyed them in some of his drunken sprees, and you will never see or hear of them. Thoso notes and liens wore in the lawful possession of tho plaintiffs’ agent, pay able te their order. Their agent had no authority to transfer or dispose of them, and Wore represented by their agent to havobeeu lost, and have since been found in tho possession of the defendant, who denied knowing anything about them when inquiries were made of him by per sons interested to know tho truth of the matter. The fact that the plaintiffs took the note of their agent for the amount of the supposed lost notes, with the stipulation that when found tho same should be credited thereon, does not prevent the plaintiffs from recover ing the notes and liens when found in tho possession of tho defendant. The supposed lost notes and liens when found may be a much better security for tho payment of thoir guano than their agent’s note. If wo exclude the evedinco as to the saying of I). T. White, and the evidence of Ansley as to his belief that the notes had been wrong full}’ taken possession of by the defend ant, which was the only evidence object ed to, and admitted, still there iH quite 'sufficient evidence to sustain and sup port the judgment of the Justices which was rendered in the caso. Tho question in the case was, whether the defendant had the possession of tho plaintiff’s lost notes and liens under sufficient lawful warrant or authority to authorize him to retain the ■ possession thereof as against the plaintiffs, under the state ment of facts as disclosed in the return of the'Justices, and in our judgment he had not, and that the Court below erred in sustaining tho cerfioriari and order ing anew trial in the ease. Let the judgment of the Court below be reversed. S. F, Webb, W. W. Garrard, for plain tiffs in error. A. C. McCalla, Clark & Pace, contra. J. C. Varner vs. James S. Boynton, c.t. . al. Injunction, from Butts. MoCay, J. Where, in a marriage settlement, cer tain property was settled upon the wife for life, remainder to the husband for life, remainder to the heirs general of the husband. 1. Held, That the husband took a vested remainder in fee ; 2. That where the husband, with the consent of the wife, invested a portion of the estate so conveyed in real estate, taking from the vender a bond for titles, his heirs at law have no right to follow the proceeds to the injury of the vendor, a portion of whose debt is still unpaid. 3. \V here the husband has diverted a portion of the income of the trust estate and invested tho same, without the con sent of the wife, in real estate, and sub sequently with her consent invested a portion of the corpus of the estate in the same real estate, the heirs at law of the husband have no right to in the remain der of the corpus, as against the right of the wife to be reimbursed for so much of the increase as was so diverted and invested. Judgment affirmed. Speer & Stewart, Peoples & Howell, for plaintiff in error. James S. Boynton, B. P. Trippe, rep resented by John J. Floyd, contra. F. M. Chandler and Brazell Bradford vs. Wilson D. Nichols. Intruder’s war rant, from Rockdale. Wot *A *, J, An intruder’s warrant does not lie against ope who, ip good faith, claims the riglit to the possession of the prom ises 1)0 is sought to bo ejected froni, and if tl}G defendant in such a warrant make*) the counter affidavit required by the Code, and it appear on tho trial that he does in good faith claim the right to the possession, the jury ought to find I for the defendant. Judgment reversed. A, C. McCalla, James A. King, repre sented byNewnan & Harrison, for plain tiffs in error. Clarke & Pace, contra. Lewis Scofield and V. A. Gaskill vs. A. ' M. Perkerson, Deputy Sheriff, ct at. Martin J. Hinton, 1 1 at. vs. same. In junction, from Fulton. Montgomery, J. 1. On tlie abolition of tho offices of tho Western ana Atlantic Railroad, the Comptroller General became tho proper custodian of tho books and records of the road, and tho duty of causing the true amount duo by defaulting officers of the road to bo ascertained devolved upon him. 2. Tho Legislature has authority to appoint, by resolution, a committee of tlieir own body as ministerial agents to audit and state the accounts of tlio offi cers and agents of the Western and At lantic Railroad. Wliero such statement shows an officer or agent in default, and is transmitted by the committee to the Comptroller General, and he thereupon issues executions against tlio defaulting officer and his sureties, this Court will presume that he satisfied himself of the correctness of tlio committee’s report in inspection of the books ami accounts of tlie Western and Atlantic Railroad, and adopted it as his own. 3. Tlie Courts will not entertain juris i diction to enjoin such execution on tho ground that there is a suit pending, at the instance of tho State, against tiro de faulting agent and their securities on thoir bond, or on the ground that the amount for which the agent is a defaulter was fraudulently used and embezzled by him. Judgmont affirmed. B. H. Hill & Sons, 1). F. & W. 11. Hammond, Pope A Brown, A. B. Cul berson, Gartroll & Stephens, Peoples &. Howell, for plaintiffs in error. - N. J. Hammond, Attorney General, J. T. Glenn, Solicitor General, contra. McCuy, J., did not preside in this case. NATIONAL CONVENTION OF AMA TEUR OARSMEN. Adoption of a Code of Racing Laws. The National Amateur Convention, which convened in Now York, was a i most important, one, and its proceedings can hardly fail of interest to all boating men. Tlie adoption of some standard for determining who are oligible to engage in amateur aquatio contests has long been felt to bo an essential to tho sta bility and dignity of amateur aquatics in this country. At the recent Conven tion, some fifty clubs were roprsented, and a national association was formed. Tho committee appointed for tho pur pose mad'o tho following roport, which was adopted e afire : New York, August 20, 1872. To the National Convention of Amateur Oarsmen. : Mr. President and Gentlemen— Your conimitteo, who wore instructed to present for your consideration a defini tion of tlio amateur oarsmen and a code of boat-racing laws, beg leave to submit tlie following : Wo define an amateur oarsman to be one who does not enter in ail open com petition ;or for either a stake, public, or admission money, or entrance fees ; or eompeto with or against a professional' for any prize; or who lias never taught, pursued, or assisted in the pursuit of athlectic exercises as a means of liveli hood, or lias not been employod in or about boats, or in manual labor on the water. In the foregoing definition all of your committee concurred except. Mr. Rico, of Boston, who contended for “open competition” for prizos other than money. CODE OF BOAT-RACING DAWS. . 1. All boat races shall bo started in the following manner: Tho starter, on ' being satisfied that tho competitors are ready, shall give the signal to start. 2. If -tlio starter considers tho start false lio shall at once recall tho boats to their stations, and any boat refusing to start again shall' bo disqualified. 3. Any boat not at its post at tlio timo specified shall be liable to bo disqualified by the dmpire. 4. Tho umpire may act as starter as ho thinks fit. Where he does not so act the starter shall be subject to liis con trol. 5. Each boat shall keep its own water throughout tho race, and auy boat de parting from its own water will do so at its peril. 6. A boat’s own water is its straight course, parallel with tlioso of the other c.ompoting boats, from tho station as signed to it at starting to tlio finish. 7. Tho umpire shall he sole judge of a boat’s own water and proper course during the race. 8. No fouling whatever shall bo al lowed; the boat committing a foul shall bo disqualified. 9. It shall bo considered a foul when, after the race has commenced, any com petitor by his oar, boat, orperson conies into contact with the oar, boat,or person of another competitor, unless m tho opinion of the umpire sncli contact is so slight as not to influence tlio race. 10. Tho umpire may, during araco, caution any competitor when in danger of committing a foul. 11. Tho umpire, when appealed to, shall docido all questions as to a foul. 12. A clium of foul must be made to the judge or the umpire by the competi tor himself before getting out of liis boat. - 13. In caso of a foul the umpire shall have the power— First—To placo the boats, except the boat committing tlio foul, which is dis qualified, in tlio order in which they come in. Second—To order the boats engaged in the raco, other than the boat commit ing tho foul, to row over again on tho samo or another day. Third—To restart tho qualified boats from the placo whore tho foul was com mitted. 14. Every boat shall abide by its acci dents. IC. No boats shall bo allowed to ac company a competitor for tho purpose of directing his course or affording him other assistance. Tho boat receiving such direction or assistance shall bo disqualified, at the discretion of the um pire. 16. Tlio jurisdiction or the umpire ex tends over the raco and all 'matters con i nccted with it from tho timo the race is specified to - start until its finul termina tion, and his decision in all eases shall lio final and without appeal. 17. Any competitor refusing to abide by the decision or to follow the direc tions of the umpire shall be disqualified. 18. Tho umpire, if ho thinks proper, may reserve his decision, provided that in* every case such decision be given on the day of the race. 19. Boats shall ho started by their stcorers, and shall have completed their course when tho bows reach the “finish.” 20. In turning races each competitor shall have a separate turning-stake and shall turn port to starboard. Any com petitor may turn any stako other than liis own, but does so at his peril. • In tho recommendation of the fore* going laws for boat racing, your commit tee are unanimous. Txrr. Stevens Battery. A Star re porter who visited this ship at Hoboken on Saturday found that she is far from being finished; it is estimated that to complete her would cost $500,000 more. She has already cost $2,000,000, and when finished would uot bring over $1,000,000 at the outsido; so she is an expensive experiment, if not a complete failure. During the Franco-Prnssian war overtures wero made by the Prussian Government to purchase this vessel, and papers wero actually drawn up. Tim stipulated price was $1,200,000, but for some reason or other tho negotiations fell through, fortunately, perhaps, for Prussia, for the ship would never bo able to get one hundred miles from Sandy Hook. The possible uso to which sho can be put is for harbor defense, and even then she would he almost yow erless against two or three vessels, for if one should strike her within twenty feet from her stern it would completely dis able the machinery and leave her at the meroy of her enemies. Sho is furnished with two propellers, the shaft of which leaves the vessel about forty feet from the stem, where it begins to narrow down almost to a point. The ship is .almost sharp at both ends, so should a ram, or even an ordinary vessel, strike with force in this part, sho must lie dis abled.—New York Star. CONDJTIQN OF THE COTTON Gbol' — Gatekpo/lars, Rust, Etc. —'Old practi cal farmers inform us that thoy have never seen a poorer prospect for a cot ton orop iu this section of tho State than the present. Caterpillars, rust and rain are paying sad havoc. Many fields are entirely riddled of tho leaves, and the worms have oommenced eating the bolls. Tho bottom lauds are suffer ing intensely with rust, and the large, 1 beautiful stalks which promised such a splendid yield have not more than one half fruited. One of Lockett & Jordan’s places— from which they expected at logs! cue thousand bales will gut produce more than three and this is about the general average. —Albany News. In Virginia they hqil the juice ol watermelons, says the Lynchburg Hc publlcrm, and make a syrup which re sembles honey both iu consistency and taste, Sickening Story of Crime. Tho telegraph has previously noticed the case of a man who was detected near Maryville, Mo., driving an emigrant wagon containing the decaying bodies of five murdered persons. His second con fession, extorted from him at the end of' a rope, wo copy as follows, from the cor respondence of tlio St. Louis Republi can: Ho gave his name as Tauzey, and said it was not Coburn, as stated in his first confession. That his home was at Mount. Ayr, lowa, where ho had a wife and one child. The parties ho had murdered were five in number—a man with his wife and two children, and another man who was unmarried. He said they were traveling in a lumber wagon, and that they woro returning from Kansas to their home in Minnesota. Ho met them first on Thursday, tho 15t.1i. Having no money aud traveling in the samo di rection, they kindly asked him to join them, which he did. The wagon being large, they all, six in number, slept in it. The married man, lus wife and two children, slept on a platform raised on the front of the wagon, while tho re maining two slept in the bottom of the bod below. Last Sunday night they camped with in half a mile of a house near Burr Oak grove. At this place the wretch con ceived the plan of murdering them and making way with their horses and wagon, thoir cattlo (throe or four in number) and whatever money they might have in tlieir possession. After having murdered them, lie intended to secrete them in the brush on. Clear Creek, near by. That Sunday night, little dreaming of tho blackhearted wretch they had taken under their shelter and the awful fate that awaited them, they laid down in tho wagon for tlie night, and all save the murderer were sen ml asleep. Satisfying himself that all were sleep ing, ho took a loaded pistol which lay in the wagon and placing it at tlie heail of the man who was sleeping by liis side fired. He instantly killed him. Tho married man being aroused by tlio report of tho pistol roso up, anil thinking Tanzoy had fired at a strango deg which had boon annoying them during the night by barking, said “Good! Good!” Tho assassin imme diately turned and shot him, and then jumped from the wagon to tho ground. Tho wounded man attempted to follow him, when Tauzey seized an axe and dis patched him at ouoo. Tho agonized wife of the murdered man was umv run ning around tlio wagon uttering fearful cries, and fearing that she would alarm the people at tlie farm house near by, he also killed her with an axe or club, just which ho does not remember. Tho two infant babes, aged tlireo and fiftoou months, now aloile remained liv ing, and it seems that ho did not dispose of them until some timo after the rest had been killed. When asked how he could have the heart to kill the two helpless children, lie replied that ho did so with reluetanoo, hut that wlion he had murdered their mother they annoyed him with their piteous cries, and being alarmed lest tlio noise should lead to his detection, lie cut tlieir throats from •ear to oar, and thus completed liis work of destruction. After tho confession had boon made, two hundred determined men collected at the placo where tho prisoner was con fined, and it was plain that they inten ded to take tho law into their own hands, and moto out to this inhuman wretch tlio speedy justice ho so richly deserved. The prisonor having finished this con fession, was bound hand and foot and taken to n black walnut treo, tlio place selected for liis exooution. Arrived at the fatal spot, Tauzey was cool and col lected, perfectly unmoved, proving him self to boa man of iron nerve and one of the most hardened villains the world had ever known. A rope was then placed around his neck, one end thrown over tlio limb of a tree, when Tauzey was told his timo had come, and that ton minutes would bo given him to make any last request. Ho replied that ho would like to live until ho could seo his wife, and when told that his request could not bo granted, ho said ho had no further remark to mako. Many stalwart harnlp then took hold of the rope, drawing him clour from the ground, and just as dark was coining on last Thursday evening, tho soul of Tun zey, the murderer, was launched into eternity, there to appoar before his God, with his hands yot red with tho blood of his five victims. Ho died almost without a struggle, and was buried beneath tho very treo on which ho was hung. Several of our loading physicians had an interview with the deceased before liis exooution, and all were of opinion that ho was perfectly sane, and all agreed that ho was tho most thoroughly depraved specimen of human nature that they had over met. • A Sick Mother Losses Her Child Overboard—The Conductor Refuses to Stop the Train—The Child Found Dead. —Tlio Fort Scott (Kansas) Moni tor relates the following sad story of an accident on tho Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad last weok : “A train bound for Texas had on board a large number of travelers and emigrants, among them a lady with a little boy aged soven years, who had tlio ague. When about sixty miles below the State lino tho boy, who had boon walking about tlio cair during tlie evening, fell off. Thin was not known by tlio mother until the train liad gono two miles, and tho lady sought the conductor and asked him to back the train, which he refused to do. The lady then asked the con ductor to stop the train and let her got off, which ho also refused to do, and, in spite of her tears and entreaties, carried lior down to the next station, wliero she was compelled to stay over night, and wait for an up train the next morning. On returning tho boy wuh found. lie had crawled up the embankment among tlie grass, and resting his curly head among tho wild flowerg of the prairie, and drenched with the terrific thunder storm of Friday night, lie was dead.” New Method of Storing Grain.—A plan li*s boon submitted to tho French Academy for storing wheat in portable sheet-iron granaries, in which a vacuum is maintained equal to at loaat from three to four inches of mercury, this being sufficient to destroy all insect life (although a moro perfect vacuum is pre ferred) and to insuro tlio evaporation of any moisture in the grain. The appa ratus is of cylindrical form, placed ver tically, and with convex top and bottom. Tho fop is provided with an opening through wliicli tho inlet of the grain is led, with a valvcd pipe, through which tho air is exhausted, and with a gaugo by which the degree of exhaustion is in dicated. The grain is removed through an opening in tlio bottom. In an exper iment wliero living insects wore intro duced in largo quantities with tlio grain, was found that they were all killed be fore doing mischief, and at tlio end of six months tho wheat was found to bo in as fine condition as at the outset. Extraordinary Suicide.— Dr. Jewett, of North Haven, Mo., a liberally edu cated but very eccentric old man, on Friday last wont into his office, emptied a can of kerosene about tho room, severed tho femoral artery in both thighs and set firo to tho place. The neighbors seeing tho flames run to tho scene, and found tho old man with but a single garment on, in tho midst of the fire ami weltering in his blood. Thoy dragged him out, but ho was past recovery and died immediately. He had no family and lived alone. Franco has 4,500,000 acres of vine yards, producing 900,000,000 gallons of wine annually, or an acreage of 200 gal lons per acre. About two-ninths of it arc exported, leaving about 700,000,000 gallons to be drank by 88,000,000 French people, or 18 gallons to each person an nually. Tho celebrated “Bean Hickman,’’who formerly lived in luxury by assessment levied on verdant Congressmen, and who constituted himself “tho class of fash ion and mould of form," now lias to find boarding with a negro family in a back ally in Washington, The greatest comb factory in tho world is in Aberdeen, Scotland. There are thirty-six furnaces for preparing tho horn and tortoise shell, and no less than 120 iron scrow presses worked by steam power. The knowing ones tell us that the only way to get pure I’ort Wine is to go to Oporto, raise tho grapes, press the wine, put it into the cask yourself, and ride on it all the way home. Mrs, Wilder, a Kansas woman, has found out how cartridges are made, by trying to drive one into her bedstead with a hammer, but she thinks she could eat better if sho had a pair of jaws. A can of nitro-glyeorine exploded at Rouseville, Pa., blowing a man, named Wm. H. Payne, completely to pieces and scattering his flesh and bonos over a ten acre field. The young Emperor of China Is de scribed as very effeminate, with no ca pacity for businoss, and as inordinately fond of displays and theatricals, and is easily ruled by his wifo. A Memphis local editor, who got drunk, was slued five times tho usual ponalt.y, on tho ground that he ought to set a good example. Walnut stumps are becoming an arti cle of merchandise, and many of them are very valuable. The curly grain of the roots isusod for veneering, and some stumps are worth $l5O, after being prop erly worked into shape. The Value of Old Papers—The \ Lutheran Church in Luck. —The Ha- ' vannali Advertiser, of Saturday, says that many years ago Gefioral Degen feldt, in llalle, Germany, died, be queathing a legacy to the German Lu theran churches at Savannah and Ebeno zer, established by tlio Salzburgers who came to this State soon after tho first arrival of Oglethorpe. The bequest was given in trust to the Board of Directors of the Orphan House in Halle, for the benefit of tlio churches of the descend ants of the Salzburgers, the interest or proceeds to be paid over upon proper demand. Two payments were made about twenty years apart, the last hav ing been paid some twenty-throe years ago, sinoo which time the matter was entirely forgotten or neglected. No record of the previous payments was to bo found on the church books here, and nono of tho members of the present congregation knew anything of tho cir cumstanoo. A short timo boforo tlio arrival of tlio present pastor, Rev. Dr. Bit.tlo, Homo mention was made by a member of the congregation of the existence of such a legacy, but as no one had any recollec tion of tho matter, it was permitted to drop, and nothing moro was said until Dr. Bittle came to take charge of tho , pastorate, when incidental mention was made of tlio circumstance in liis.preseneo. His interest was immediately excited, and lie made such inquiries as would lead to an intelligent understanding. No information was to bo gained from the church roep'ds hero, and those at Kb onozer, on tho Savannah river, about ■ twenty-four miles from tlio city, having been placed in au empty trunk and buried to prevent destruction by Sherman’s army, woro left too long under ground and so much damaged by dampness as to boos no use afterwards. Dr. Bittlo addressed a letter to Rev. Dr. Tliolook, Professor of Theology in Hallo, and laid tho oase before him, with tho request that ho aid him in ob taining any money that might bo duo tho churches. Dr. Tliolook, in reply, informed him that ho could do nothing unless sonio moro definite information could bo obtained. After much .effort to learn something definite nothing was gained, until one day Mrs. Thomas Purse, while overhauling some old pa pers of lior father’s, Mr. Joseph Felt, camo across an old letter, which, upon examination, contained tho desired in formation. Upon this Dr. Bittlo was encouraged to make another effort, and proceeding to draw up tho necessary documents had thorn signed by tho President of the Board of Trustees of the Lutheran Church liore and that at Ehonozor. Tho signatures woro certified to by tlio Ger man Vice Consul and sent on. In duo course of time a draft on the Merchants and Planters’ National Bank of Augusta, was received from Germany for #712 25. in gold. This was forwarded to tlio bank, aud on Tuesday tho trustees re ceived from Augusta tlio amount of tho draft in ourrenoy, #797 72, to be divided between tlio two churches. The Close of the Cotton Year. —As n mattor of iutorost to our readers, wo publish tho following synopsis of tho cotton crop roport for the year ending August 31, 1872. Tlio cotton year of 1871-’72 closed on Saturday, August 31, and tho statistics of orop receipts and l exports show some marked changes from those of tlio previous year. Tho re ceipts at all tho sonports for tlie year just closed woro 1,285,313 bales loss than tho previous year, while tlio exports show a doorcase of 1,205,333 bales.— Tho stock of cotton ul all tho seaports is 53,120 linlos loss than for the corres ponding dato last year, and tho stocks at tho intorior towns show a decrease of 0,091 bales. Tho amount of American cotton alloat for Great Britain is 59,01 Kt bales loss than this day last year. Tim above figures represent clearly tho great falling off in tlio yield of oottt/ii for the year. Tho total receipts since September 1, 1871, are 2,724,189 bales, agaiiißt 4,009,- 502 for the corresponding period of the previous year, showing a doorcase sinoo Soptomberl, last year, of 1,285,313 halos. Tho total exports for the expired portion of.tlio cotton year uro 1,959,432 bales,, against 3,404,705 bales last year. This stock at all the ports is 45,920 1 illicit* against 90,010 bales last year. The stocks at intorior towns are 4,035 bales, against 10,720 bales last year, Tho stock of cot ton in Liverpool is 891,f1U0 bales,against 501,000 bales last year. Tlio amount of American cotton afloat for Great Britain is 8,000 bales, against 07,000 bales last year. The amount of Indian cotton afloat, for Europe is 303,000 bales,against 502,000 bales last year. Coronet, Dunoan is smartly troubled in his Kentucky relations by the publi cation of a letter of his to Hon. T. L. Jones, member of Congress from Ken tucky, in which ho attempts to explain his agency in helping out the applica tion of General Burbridge for an office in tho Internal Revenue Department. Ho handed a paper for signature to the, members of Congress from Kentucky, recommending General Burbridge for tho office. But thoy wouldn’t Hign, and Colonel Duncan “gavoup.” His apology is: “Somoof Burhridge’s friends wore aiding mo in tho attempt to recov w my property, and their request to mo to aid them in this point was promptly acceded to as a quid pro quo." Tho grand or Grant Colonel was thus helping a man who is styled “the most detested citi zen” of Kentucky. Colonel Duncan is tho devout follower of tho morality of Major General Falstaff, whose motto was, “ May God help him who helps mo.” A Fat Mun’h Convention.— The first Annmd Convention of Fat Mon is to bo. hold at Put-in-Bay Island on the 10th instant. All partieH weighing 200 pounds arid over will bo permitted to deliberate with tho Convention. Blim ones will be welcome. Speeches, leeturos, remling, recita tions, whistling, wrestling, jumping, racing, rowing, fishing, swimming, sing ing, dancing, eating, drinking, etc., etc., will constitute the amusements while convoned. It is expected that tho dele gates will carry thoir wives, bo they fat or lean, long or Rhort, thick or thin. Tho heaviest man in tho Convention is to ho President of tho same. Steam Ca.nai, Boat. —ln a triid trip of tho steam canal boat Tom Baxter, last Saturday, it was claimed that all tho requisitions of the New York law, offer ing a premium of SIOO,OOO for successful steam propulsion on the Erio Canal, had been siuamssfully filled. The boat mado three mises an hour —was ninety feet long, and had a carrying capacity of 7,000 bushels. Sho would consume three tons of coal on tho trip from Troy to Buffalo. Tho Erio Canal is 352 miles iu length, and is open for navigation 215 days out of 308. A boat towed by homes travels one mile and a half per hour, and tho towago costs from 35 to 59 cents per mile. A steam canal boat will run three miles an hour at less ex pense. Utiijzino Corn Cons.—The availabil ity of corn oobs-as a source of supply for jaitash bus been suggested. Analy sis lias shown that those contain over 7J in 1,000 of carbonate of potash,'or twico ns much as the best kind of wood. In consideration of tho average produc tion of corn in tho United States, it is estimated that nearly 25,000 tons of car bonate of potassa may be annually ob tained from this source, to suy nothing of a considoruhlo quantity of chloride of potassium. Geoboia Bonds in Fiunkfout. —Tho Exohango of Frankfort, Germany, has, says a late dispatch, “excluded from its regular transactions any new issue of Georgia bonds until holders of tho State aid bonds aro satisfied as to their soundness.’’ In this the Exchange acts wisely, and it is to bo hoped that their investigations will enable them to dis criminate betwoen tho gonuine, lawful bonds of tho State of Goorgia anil the bogus issuos of Bullock, Clews & Cos. A Cincinnati paper boasts that Cm cmnati is tho Dost market for olioaii jovr elry in the Western country. One house alone has sold $275,000 worth iu tho past year^
