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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1872)
OLD SERIES —VOL. LXXIX. (Cijroniclf ant) £mtmcl. Terms of Subscription. daily. O e month • 1 0® Tlii»e month# 2 50 One year I® ®® TKI-WEEKLY. One year t 5 00 Hix month# 2 50 WEEKLY. Ml ci out ha C n# year 2 00 WEDNESDAY NONEMBER 6. THE MBMIHBIPPI' TENNESSEE AND ATLANTIC CANAL. There Booms to be an earnest move ment for effecting a hearty co-operation of all the States interested in the great project for connecting the waters of the Mississippi awl Tennessee with the At lantic Ocean, through Georgia. The fea sibility of the project has been asserted by eminent engineers, acting, we believe, under the authority of the Government as well as that of the State, and their preliminary report is now of file in the War Department at Washington and will bring up at the next session of Con gress the enterprise for consideration. To facilitate harmonious action and co operation, we see that Gov. Smith, at a large and influential meeting at Atlanta, lias proposed a convention of Governors of the several States, directly and indi rectly to he interested. This is the first step in effecting an active and energetic combination. A convention comprising the Governors of Ohio, Indiana, Il linois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, and indeed Os lowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, com bining harmoniously to secure the suc cess of the project, and acting in concert, cannot fail to exert a large and powerful influence, both in determining public opinion and public action. Hitherto we have not been disposed to attach much importance to the move incut which initiated this magnificent project not because of want of faith in its practicability; for that necessarily de pends upon the decision of scientific experts after topographical and instru mental surveys—but from a failure to perceive such a combination as would secure the financial resources adequate to so great an undertaking, however beneficial or practicable it might be. Rut in the proposed combination our doubts vanish The interests are harmo nious, awl the benefits of the enterprise— which will be to the fertile valley of the Mississippi in the West, and to the Booth, what the Erie canal is to the Northwest are immeasurable. THE PROPOSED EXPANSION OK THE CURRENCY. Simultaneously there is a demand in tne business circles of Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Chicago for the re-issue of $■ 11,000,000 of legal tenders, retired and canceled during the Secretaryship of Mr. MoGullooh, Johnstou’s Secretary of the Treasury. The demand does not meet, with favor in the commercial cir cles of New York and Boston. The moving cause which leads to the de mand for this expansion of the currency is the habitual and periodic stringency of money, usually occurring when the agricultural productions of the country ure to “be moved” or carried to market in the Fall, working grievous injury to commercial interests, and damaging the honest labor of the country by depress ing prices below the legitimate values determined by supply and demand. This spasmodic control by “locking up,” at the great controlling money centre, the currency to depress prices, is becom ing exceedingly onerous and grievous to the commercial us well as the farming interests of the country. The remedy proposed is expansion. But expan sion is not desired by those who are largely interested in Government se curities, because its tendency is to lower the gold value of these secu rities. New York, therefore, proposes a return to specie payments and a flex able currency—a modification of the existing National Bank arrangements, which would insure the return of Na tional Bank currency for redemption ut the center when the currency was re dundant and admit of the issue of such currency without limit, but without altering the existing security, when activity in business calls for expan sion in circulation. In other words, the New York remedy, as we under stand it, is a reciprocal conversion of Government bonds into legal tenders and legal tenders into bonds by the National Banks, according to the ex igences of trade. The West, while not suffering more than the South by these spasms at. the money centres, grows res tive', under the immense losses that the artificial control of ft “lock up” oc casions. and begins to growl; and com mercial and agricultural interests all over the country are combining against a system which permits so great an evil US a “look up” to disturb so greatly, at the will of large capitalists, the busi ness interests of the country. We look, therefore, for early Congressional action liv the next session probably adopting some modification of the New \ork remedy in any event to legislation w hich will either prevent or restrain that artificial contraction and expansion in the volume of the circulating medium which now disturbs and renders uncer tain and hazardous business interests throughout the country. 'l'llK ENFORCEMENT ACTS IN NEW I VORK. Tl u . North begins to roup souie of the traits sown by Radicalism. The en forcement acts were specially designed , for Southern rebels, to awe them into : subjection; but like all general laws, ; their application extends to all parties . and over the entire country. In their 1 special application now at the North j they arc brought to hear by the party in power against Democrats and against Liberal Republicans. This exteusiouin : their application displays the enormous power which has been eoutided to the Executive, and makes luminous the strides which the Great Republic—“ the best Government the world ever saw"— lias made in centralization. To-day the dissenting and recalcitrant Liberal Re publican is disloyal and as obnoxious as a Democratic copperhead, simply be cause he opposes the. Administration which has failed to “Let us have peace.’ The particular ease which agitates the Northern public mind is that of Mr. G. H. Heinrichs, a citizen of the United Butes, but a German by birth, who was arrested on a warrant issued by United States Commissioner Davenport, who acts as Supervisor under the “Xational \ Election Law," charged with the a vice j latiou of the provisions of that law. A deputy, appointed by the Supervisor, j visited Mr. Henrieks, claiming author- j ity under the “National Election Law” of verifying the registration list, made J under and by the authority of the j laws of the State of New York. Mr. j Heiuricks refused the deputy admission to his house, demanding his authority. ; Threats were given as the return far this demand, and the deputy endeavored to force his way into the house,but was re sisted. Foiled in hisattempt, hereturns w ith a w arrant, arrests the defender of the domicil, and hurries him away to prison, leaving his storehouse unguard ed, to be cared for as best it may. Sub sequently Mr. Heinrichs is bailed in the sum of $5,000, for the offense of resist ing a deputy official in the discharge of his duty, under the National Election Law of the, United States fso-called ). This transaction wears the air of that imperialism to which the South has been made subject anti to which she is still subject. Commissioner Davenport as sumed to be the impersonation of the Government in New York, just as Swayze and others assume in Georgia, and ar rogate powers superior to all Btate laws, and executes orders fearlessly and sum marily. The New York Commissioner holds that the law authorizes the Commissioner, or his deputy, to “verify lists and that in the exercise of this authority deputies have powers equal to those of census takers, and may enter houses, demand answers to questions from the inmates, and arrest all who resist or refuse to re ply. / As originally of force, it is conceded that the law, as it stood, gave arbitrary powers to commissioners and deputies fully equal to those which he claims. But at the last session of Congress a supplemental and amendatory act pro vides expressly that the supervisors “ shall have no power or authority to make arrests or to perform other duties ” than to be in the immediate presence of the officers holding the elections, and to witness all their proceedings, including the “counting of the vote and the making a return thereof.” But Commis sioner Davenport declares that this clause does not apply to cities having over twenty thousand inhabitants, and that the powers of arrest given by the law, as first enacted—to-wit: powers equal to those of the Census Commis sioners—still remain with the United States Commissioners, under the “ Na tional Election Law,” in such cities. Accordingly, lie bails Mr. Heinrichs, and proceeds to make other arrests upon similar grounds. The powers claimed and exercised by Commissioner Davenport are just such powers as are exercised in Imperial Governments—in Prussia, Rus sia and Imperial France—and are exer cised by the officers of President Grant just as the officers of an Emperor would exercise theirs in the administration of an Empire. The Republicans of the North desire a strong government, and see in Grant the embodiment of the principles of a strong government. Verily, they have it—in defiance of the Constitution of the United States and its provisions, which secure the people against unreasonable searches and seizures in their persons, houses and property, and which provides that no warrants shall issue except upon pro bable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. THE HORSE EPIDEMIC. The telegraph still continues to bring us disastrous accounts of the spread and extent of the distemper which prevails among horses in New York and other Northern localities. This disease seems to have originated at or near Toronto, Canada. From this point it spread to Montreal, and thence to Portland, Bos ton, Springfield and other towns and cities in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. It has appeared in Chicago and Bt. Louis. But tlio chief line of its ravages has been Buffalo, Lookport, Rochester, Syracuse to New York. The attack of tlio disease lasts about ten days. It seems to be conceded as evident, from the facts recorded and observations made, that the spread of the disease is due to the atmospheric in fluences and not contagion. One result which may be predicted as the conse quence of this epidemic, is the substitu tion of steam for horse power in all large cities as the motive power for transpor tation. Supervisors of Elections. The following circular, issued by Mr. A. W. Stone, Chief Supervisor for the Southern District of Georgia, we find, on comparison with the acts of Congress regulating the matter, to be correct, and therefore publish for general informa tion : THE ACT OP CONGRESS JUNE 10, 1872, AU THORIZING THE APPOINTMENT OF SUPER VISORS OF ERECTIONS. “ Whenever in any county or parish, in any Congressional District, there shall be ten citizens thereof of good standing, who, prior to any registration of voters for an election for Representa tives in Congress, or prior to any elec tion at which a Representative in Con gress is to be voted for, shall make known in writing to the Judge of the Circuit Court of the United States for the district wherein such county or parish is situate, their desire to have said registration or election both guard ed and scrutinized, it shall be the duty of the said Judge of the Circuit Court, within not less than ten days prior to said registration or election, as the case may be, to opeu the said Court, at the most convenient point in said district ; and the said Court when so opened by said Judge, shall proceed to appoint and commission from day to day ami from time to lime, and under the hand of the said Judge, and under the seal of the said Court, for such election district or voting precinct in said Congressional District, as shall in the manner herein prescribed have been applied for, and to revoke, change or renew said appoint ment, from time to time, two citizens residents of said election district or voting precinct in said county or parish, who shall be of different political par ties jvud able to read and write the Eng lish language, and who shall be known and designated as Supervisors of Elec tions. * * * * * Provided, That the: Supervisors herein prodded for shall have no power or authority to wake arrests, or to per form other duties than to be in the im mediate presence of the officers ho/diug the election, and to witness all their I proceedings, including the counting of I the votes and the making of a return • thereof.” act of congress approved 28, 1872. “Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, ! That the better to enable the said Su- | pervisors of Elections to discharge their duties, they are, and each of them is j hereby authorized and directed, in their i or his respective election districts or i voting precincts, on the day or days of registration, on the day or dap when registered voters may be marked to be challenged, and on the day or days of j election, to take, occupy aud remain in ! such position or positions, from time to : time, whether before or behind the bal- 1 lot boxes, as will, in their judgment, best enable him or them to see each person offering himself for registration or offer ing to vote, and as will best conduce to their or his scrutinizing the manner in which the registration or voting is be ing conducted ; and at the closing of the polls for the reception of votes, they are, and each of them is, hereby required to place themselves or himself in such position in relation to the ballot boxes for the purpose of engaging in the work of canvassing the ballots in said boxes contained as will enable them or him to fully perform the duties in respect to snch canvass provided in this act, and shall there remain until every duty in respect to such canvass, certificates, j returns, and statements shall have been wholly completed, any law of any State or Territory to the contrary notwith standing." To the Supervisors (if Election appoint ed under the provisions qf the fore going Acts of Congress : To You having been appointed Super visors of Elections for the Election District in the county of , in the Congressional District, State of Georgia, as a good citizen of the United States it is your duty to ac cept and serve. It is required of yon that you do so. Your duties are clearly defined in the aforementioned acts. Carry ont the requirements of these acts, no more and no less. And make your report immediately after the vote is counted to A. W. Stone, Chief Supervisor of Flections for the Southern Judicial District of Georgia, Savannah, Ga. LETTER OF HON. JULIAN HART RIDGE IN REPLY TO HON. A. H. STEPHENS. Editor Savannah Advertiser: On my return home I have been shown an editorial in the Atlanta Sun, over the initials “A. H. 5.,” reviewing and eriti ciaing an address delivered by me at Savannah on the political questions of the day. lam aware that Mr. Stephens, the author of the criticism, would not have devoted his time and the space in his paper to this address, but for the fact that I am a candidate for Elector for the State at Large, on the Demo cratic ticket, and as such an advocate of the election of Greeley and Brown. He seizes hold of any declarations on my part which seem objectionable to him, to use them as the doctrines of the party I have the honor in part to represent. It is for this reason I ask space in your paper to reply to the article of Mr. Stephens; for I an unwilling that his assertions as to what my position is should go forth uncontradicted, and thus create an impression that I, and my associates, as he styles them, maintain any such doctrines as he attributes to us. Mr. Stephens derives his ideas of what my speech was from the report of it in the “Morning New*:” Speeches made without notes of any kind ure never very accurately reported. But for the purpose of this communication, I am willing to assume that the report referred to gives substantially my views as expressed. The copy of the Sun which contains the criticism of Mr. Stephens, sets forth also the, report of the speech criticised. Could I hope or expect that all who read the remarks of Mr. Stephens would also peruse the address, I would be satisfied; for in that case the poison would carry with it its own antidote.— But lam not vain enough to suppose that all who may be attracted by a de nunciation from Mr. Stephens will do me the justice to seek the true merits of the matter attacked. Tn the article of Mr. Stephens there is a tone of bitterness almost personal in its character, which, under the circum stances, I can afford to pass unnoticed ; and I shall direct my efforts simply to an exposure of the false premises as sumed by Mr. Stephens in reference to my address and the illogical conclusions drawn by him. The great cause of complaint and at tack is, that I appealed to Democrats to vote for Greeley and Brown “on prin ciple.’’ I said then, and 1 repeat now— if I could not appeal to my countrymen to vote in the way I designate on prin ciple—if it were not for the principles involved —I would not whisper a word in favor of the candidates. I said then, and repeat now, I am the advo cate of no man and no set of men ; hut seek to show my fellow-citizens that the principles of local State government and personal liberty “ are best to be main tained by voting for these candidates”— Greeley and Brown. From these propositions, and kindred ones, bnt all enunciating nothing more nor less than what I have above stated, Mr. Stephens deduces the conclusion that I advocate all the principles of Mr. Greeley. In order to give some show of truth of his assertion, he is careful, skilfully, to isolate particular expressions, and leave them unaccom panied and unexplained by the context. This may be a politic course for one seeking to mislead; but it is certainly open at least to reprehension in a statesman and public journalist who j desires to convince the people of the ! propriety of his own views by argu ments based only on truth and reason. When Mr. Stephens declared in his criticism that 1 advocated the election of Greeley and Brown “on principle,” he should have added on what principles I did so, as set forth in the address it self. I maintained and still maintain that under “the exigencies of the times,” as proclaimed in the platform of the Georgia Democracy at Atlanta, in July last, the principles of local State, govern ment and personal liberty can be best sustained by voting for Greeley and Brown. The platform adopted at Cin cinnati and reaffirmed by the Democrat ic Convention at Baltimore, expressly recognizes these two great principles; principles which are the cardinal and life-giving features of Democratic faith, and have been so since the time of Jef ferson. I was opposed to the nomina tion of Greeley at Baltimore; more so to the adoption of the Cincinnati platform, because of certain features in that plat form repugnant to the feelings of South ern men. But when the wisest and best men of the Democratic party, in Conven tion, nominated Greeley and adopted the Cincinnati platform, it became prop er matter for deep and serious considera tion whether that platform did or did not recognise the great and vital prin ciples of government advocated and sus tained by the Democratic party. In the present juncture of political affairs, and indeed at all times, the right of each State to local self-government, and the security of the personal liberty of the citizen, are the two great, leading fun damental principles upon which rest all our rights of person and property; the enjoyment and possession of the two will obtain for us all the blessings po litically we can desire. I repeat, the Cincinnati and Baltimore platforms and Mr. Greeley’s letter of ac ceptance guarantee these two principles to us. The same platform requires the subordination of the military to the civil power, and the preservation of the writ of habeas corpus. Mr. Stephens urges that these rights of local self-govern ment, the writ of habeas corpus, etc., are in the Democratic platform adopted at Baltimore made subject to the “right ful control” of the General Government. This is true, but it is nothing more than Jefferson himself recognized, and the Constitution of our own State admits. No one can object to the exercise of the “ rightful control” vested in the Federal Government by the Constitution. It is to bring back the General Government to the limits of a “rightful control” that the Democratic and Liberal parties are now in alliance. It is to circum scribe the Federal power with the re strictions of a “rightful control” that we seek to drive out of power an admin istration which for four years has exer cised and enforced an unlawful control. It was in this view, and this alone, of the principles contained in the Cincin nati and Baltimore platforms, that I urged my countrymen to support Gree ley against Grant. And I challenge any fair-minded reader, who is not so pre judiced, either politically or personally, as to lie incapable of arriving at an hon est conclusion, to peruse my speech as a j whole —not isolated expressions or dis torted fragments—and say that he can derive any other impression as to un meaning and object than such as I have ! herein designated. With wliat show of reason or sem ! blance of truth, then, can Mr. Stephens : say that I, and those who tliink with j me, endorse the Reconstruction, En forcement and Ku-Klux acts ? The proposition is as wanting in a basis of fact as it is illogical in argument The assertion of it is only an effort to play | upon the feelings and prejudices of the ! people. Mr. Stephens says: “Mr. Hartridge | must know that Mr. Greeley’s platform : is in direct antagonism to the principles of the resolutions of 1798- 99, and to the Jeffersonian Democratic party from that day to this.” I have sought to show that such is not the case, and that the great fundamental principles of Democratic faith are recognized in the j platform referred to. In the adoption of those two principles in their platform at Baltimore, the representatives of De mocracy there assembled gave np no rights of the States, or of individual citizens, but reattinned the doctrines of Jefferson. The Liberal Republicans, in promulgating these principles at Cincin nati. abandoned the policy and course of the Radical party , headed by Grant, and planted themselves on Democratic faith. The triumph of this platform in the next election will secure the right of self-government to the States, and thus overthrow the power of centralization at \ Washington, which is the cause of all onr evils—a power now represented by i Grant and his followers. Let me quote j from the language of a distinguished Virginian—one whose Democracy is at least as pure as that of Mr. Stephens— one who was bom and reared within the influence of the lives and the graves of Jefferson and Madison. I refer to Robert M. T. Hunter. In a speech re cently delivered in Virginia, referring to Mr. Greeley and the combined parties supporting him, he uses this language: “If we pnt this leader and this party in the rale, does anv man doubt that we shall stay the further progress of the AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY" MORNING, NOVEMBER •6, 1872. concentration of all power in the hands of the Central Government, and the further tendency toward imperialism in | onr political institutions, if, indeed, the ! two things be the same, as we have always been taught to believe, until the people can be brought np to the resene ? ; In such a contest as this, ran any TYr ; ginlan doubt as to the side he will take f ; Remember, it is a question of popular ! rights—aye, of American liberty itself.’ i Mr. Stephens says that I, “with the 1 adroitness of an advocate whose object | is to ‘make the worse appear the better j cause,’” in my speech, brought in the names of Davis, Johnston, Gordon, and j others, to induce the belief that in all 1 I said I was but fallowing their lead. Here comes in again this unfairness of statement and this distoition of facts so | common in this article of Mr. Stephens. The simple perusal of the speech will I show that I never urged that I was but I following their lead in all that I said; but simply that when wo saw such men | as these taking the path of support of i <Jrerlry , we surely could follow their I lead without dishonor. By what pro- I cess of reasoning they reached their conclusions, I never pretended to jndge or declare. And I am willing to repeat 'the a-sertion, and ask the people of Georgia whether they do not believe with me, that if Johnson and Gordon vote for Greeley, we can do so likewise without disgrace; and whether they think such men would support a candi date whose principles carried into power will continue and perpetuate Ku-Klux and enforcement laws, and all the evils now maintained by Grant. Not all the sophistry and ingenuity of 51 r. Steph ens ; not all the influence of his name or the persuasive power of his tongue, or his pen, could induce our people to believe that sucli men are advocating tin election of a man, and establishment of principles, antagonistic to their rights. Mr. Stephens says : “Whatever of honor, or its contrary, there may be in one calling himself a Democrat to sup port Mr. Greeley ‘on principle,’ will be left to Mr. Hartridge and such of his as sociates as are ready to abjure the faith of their fathers, aud swallow Radicalism in its most odious forms.” I have already shown what was meant by supporting Mr. Greeley on principle; and how false is the assertion that by so doing I “anil my associates” advocate the principles of Radicalism. And lam willing to let my fellow-citizens decide who “swallows Radicalism in its most odious forms,” the man who advocates the election of a candidate pledged to reform and the maintenance of the rights of the States, and the subordina tion of the military to civil power, or the man who openly defends the finan cial course of Grant, and by his writings divides the Democratic party aud se cures the continuance in power of the present Administration, thus strength ening its hands to continue in future the same career as in the past, deriving ad ditional boldness from an apparent en dorsement by tire people. Julian Hartridge. SOUTH CAROLINA ITEMS Up to Wednesday night the ascer tained majority of Moses for Governor footed up 31,940. Mr. Jacob Levin, of Charleston, died on Friday morning of congestive chills, at Yemassee, on the Port Royal Rail road. John D. Reeks, convicted at the 51 arch term of the United States Court of violating the internal revenue laws, and sentenced to one year’s imprison ment iu the jail at Greenville, S. C., has been unconditionally pardoned by the President. A personal difficulty occurred on Tues day night between two colored men farming together on Dr Moon’s planta tion, near Chappell’s Depot, Newberry county, resulting in the killing of Blu foril Nelson by Anderson Williams. Borne disagreement as-to the division of the proceeds of their crops is assigned as the cause of the quarrel. Measures have been taken for the arrest of the alleged murderer. At the late election two amendments to the Btate Constitution were adopted, with but little opposition. One of them changes the day of holding the State election, so that, every four years, both the State and Presidential election will take place on the same day. The other amendment prohibits any addition to •the State debt, without the approval of a two-thirds vote of the people at a general election. The Governor has pardoned John Arc- Cord, of Abbeville, who was convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill, at the February, 1872, term of the court, and sentenced by Judge Orr to twelve months’ imprisonment at hard labor. Also, George A. Berry, of Richland,who was convicted f grand larceny in two cases at the October, 1870,term of court, and sentenced by .fudge Melton to three aud a half years’ imprisonment at hard labor. The pardon of Thomas DeHay, of Fairfield, who was convicted of aid ing a prisoner to escape at the March term of the court, 1872, and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in the peni tentiary, has been cancelled by the Gov ernor. Governor Scott, on Alonday, notified State Auditor Gary that Ills office no longer existed, and that his books aud papers must forthwith be turned over to the Comptroller General. This action of Scott is based upon the act passed by the Legislature in March last, en titled “An act to abolish the office of State Auditor, and confer the duties of his office upon the Compt roller General. ” The Comptroller General, Neagle, made a demand upon the State Auditor to surrender his office, which was refused when Scott immediately ordered Gary’ commission to be cancelled. Gary stood in the way of the levying of the enor mous taxes required to pay the interest on the fraudulent bonds issued by Scott and his ring—estimated at twenty-six mills on the dollar. Hence his removal. The Comptroller General now has full sway at the tax-payers, aud will, it is thought, make his levy in a few days. The American Peddler —George A. Townsend has been gathering legends of the “Long Island Pilgrim Fathers,” and adds this bit to the common stock of traditional lore : “ ’Twas only ’bout seventy years ago,” said the driver who carried ns, “that the Easthampton folks undertook to git the better of a peddler that come among ’em with the measles. He was as smart as a fish-hook, and, measles or no measles, he would go to meeting next day, being Sunday, in order t’hev it understood that he had arriv. Everybody know’d him ! The landlord of the tavern where the peddler stopped sez : ‘Don’t you go to meetin’ man, with them measles cornin’ aout all over you !’ ‘Yes, I will,’ sez the man, ‘for,’ sez he, ‘a trade is a trade, and there is no place like a meetin’ to advertise notions. I’ll go and hear the Word expounded!’ And go he did. Now, you see, the landlord told the peo ple, and, says he, ‘that peddler all brnk out with the measles, and he went to church among the children.’ The young men got right daown mad, and made it up to whip the peddler ; but hearin’ tell of the feeliu’, had gone over to South ampton. Haowever, they gave chase, and tuck him up and fetched him back, and there they ducked him in a horse pond, and rid him on a rail. Waell, now, wliat do yon think that pesky ped dler did ? He sued the town through lawyer Aaron Burr, and rekivered SI,OOO damages! And, by George, he give ninety on ’em the measles, and twenty two died ! ‘A trade’s a trade,’ sez he, as he left town.” “What did they punish the peddler for?” said the retired capitalist of twen ty-six ; “for having the measles, or go ing to church ? The measles is a fair swap for a good many of those long sermons which will never let you br. ak out." “They thought ’twant proper respect, I guess,” said Jehn, with a wink, “to dress up in anew suit of measles to go to worship in.” The Passaic Falls have been for prac tical purposes shorn of most of their beanty. Many changes have recently taken place there. There has been erected, just at the edge of the iedge of rock over which the water falls, or fell, a dam to insure a supply of water for the reservoir. Another dam owned by the Society for the Encouraging of Use ful Manufactures, about three hundred yards from the falls, has been raised to force more water into the raceway. He now. at certain seasons of the year, there is no water at all going over the precipice. Coffey county, Kansas, has preserved, canned and dried at least SIO,OOO worth of peaches this year. The prevailing style in ladies’ jewelry just now is massive, solid and wofully expensive. CRIME. Battle, Murder and Bnrgl&ry—Radi cals Mob a Colored Democrat -Three of the Party Arrested-Murder Up Town Yesterday-Burglary Sunday Morning. During the twenty-four hours ending last night Augusta was almost as lively as New York city, in a criminal point of view, and there was no scarcity of items for the reporters. Within that space of time a murder was committed, a colored man was mobbed for opinion’s sake, and a daring burglary was perpetrated. THE MOBBING T J' Os the colored man was a very aggra vated offense, and one which the juries should severely punish. Tliere is a col ored man named Stephen Brown, a resi dent of this city, who is a respectable, orderly'aud industrious person, but who, like a sensible man, believes that the whites are his best friends, and, there fore, has always acted aud voted with the Democratic party. By so doing he incurred the hatred of mauy of the intolerant colored men who wish that no negro shall vote except as they may dic tate. This feeling has not be-en confined to Augusta, but has extended icross the Savannah river to HamburgA vliere the Radicals are in the ascendoii.ys^d bold er and more lawless than in Augusta. On Sunday night Brown wished to at tend church in Hamburg, and went across the river, accompanied by Iris wife anil Louis Williams, a colored min ister, and his wife. They entered the church, and Brown conducted himself in a quiet and orderly manner. But it seems there were present several men who work, and perhaps vote, in Augus ta, but who live in Hamburg. These men saw Brown in the congregation and thought it a good time to vent their hatred. They circulated the intel ligence, and a large number of bad men heartily joined in their plans. Whoa church was over, and the congregation was dispersing, a large crowd of men commenced cursing him, and calling him opprobrious epithets. They endeavored to get hold of him, and their purpose was evidently murder, but ho clung to the preacher, who was with him, and several of tire more re spectable colored men had the manli ness to take his part, and stand between himself and death. The mob was arm ed with every variety of weapon, and made several ineffectual efforts to seize their victim. They charged upon his defenders several times, but were re pulsed. The men who were defending Brown then began to retreat towards the bridge, in order to bring him to the city. When near the middle, of the river, and while within the jurisdic tion of Georgia, the mob, enraged at seeing their prey about to escape them, made another rush, aud this time were successful. They seized . upon Brown and beat him with sticks, staves and bludgeons. The blows were showered upon his body, arms and head until he was almost rendered insensible. His wife was maltreated and some of tire wretches threatened to throw her iu the river. In the meantime the noise of the encounter was heard upon this side of the stream and assistance rendered Brown just in time to save his life. The men who were beating him, cowards as they were, ran back to Hamburg as soon as they saw that their victim was re ceiving succor. Brown was brought back to this city and carried to his home. Yesterday morning he gave the police a description of a number of the men who attacked him, and also their names. Several of them were recog nized anil three of them—Thus. Carroll, Bilas James and Richard Anderson—were arrested. Another—Butler Edwards— was found at the machine yard of ATr. Win. 11. Goodrich, on Reynolds street, lint jumped over the hack fence, swam the river and made his escape. The other parties were committed, and we under stand that Solicitor General Jackson intends having them all indicted for riot. We hope that if guilty, they will he convicted and punished to the full extent of the law. BURGLARS’. On Sunday morning a daring burglary furnished a first-class sensation to the lower portion of the city. It seems that a little while before daylight Mr. H. T. Jordan, who lives on the north side of Ellis street, between Lincoln and Houston, happened to got out of bed, ami, before lighting the gas, heard a rustling as of clothes near the foot of the bed. Looking intently at the spot he discovered the dim outlines of a figure, but before he could spring upon him the man rushed to the door, ran down stairs to the back door, which was unlocked, and made his way through the yard into the garden. Mr. Jordan, unarmed and cn deshabille, fol lowed in close pursuit. In the garden the thief endeavored to climb the wall but failed, and Mr. Jordan came near capturing him. The burglar eluded his grasp, however, struck at him, and then retraced liis steps through the yard, through the house, ont of the front deor aud into the street. Mr. Jordan followed him up the street until the fugitive came to a high gate, over which he leaped and made his escape. The noise brought several persons to the spot, but no trace of the runaway could be discovered. The burglar was a negro man, aud made liis entrance into the house through a low window which he unbolted aud raised. He then unlocked the doors of the building, in order that he might have a means of retreat if dis covered. His presence was detected before lie had an opportunity to steal anything, though if Mr. Jordan bad slept a few minutes longer he would un doubtedly have lost his watch and his money. The third sensation was a murder, Which was committed yesterday after noon, about half-past two o’clock, in the upper portion of the city. From the testimony taken at the Corouel-’s inquest, we obtained the following particulars of the affair : It seems that early yesterday afternoon John H. Zeely, a colored mail living near the intersection sf Mills and Pond streets, was on the street under the influence of liquor. David Craw ford, also colored, caught hold of him to carry him home. When near his door the drunken man fell in a ditch, but soon recovered himself. Crawford ! carried him in. his house, where i his (Zeeley’s) wife was sitting, then | left him and went back to a place, [ accompanied by Maria Munroe. In a few minutes Zeeley came into the street and started towards Munroe’s- When he entered the yard Crawford, who was in one of the rooms, snatched np a cavalry carbine and went to meet him. They met near the corner of the house and some abusive words seems to have passed between them. Crawford then raised his gun, took deliberate aim and fired. The charge (small shot) en tered Zeeley’s head, near the mouth, i penetrated to the brain and caused death to ensue almost instantly. As ; soon as Zeeley fell Crawford partially S reloaded his gun and swore that he would kill any negro who attempted to | arrest him. A policeman arrived a few minutes afterwards and captured him without resistance. He was taken to the City Hall and committed until this morning. He admits the shooting but declares that he was only using the gun t and frighten Zeeley, and that it was dis charged accidently. The Coroner’s jury fouud that the deceased came to his death from a gun shot wound inflicted by a weapon held in the hands of David Crawford. The Confederate Monument.— Our readers will see, from the address of the general agents in another column, that the time is rapidly approaching for the close of the effort to honor our lamented dead. Whether the attempt to build a monument to perpetuate their fame and our gratitude was wise or unwise, it was inaugurated, and has been persistently kept up for a long time. Society is the creature of necessity and self-interest, and as such has been acknowledged in all ages to be under obligations to those who, in their individual character, main tained and defended it in eminent de grees. We will not undertake to show iu what ways, and to what extent, States and nations liavp become indebted to in dividual effort in literature, science, art, statesmanship and arms. That is un necessary for our purpose. In the weak ness or degeneracy or malignity of our race, wars will sometimes occur. These are the instances in which a people are more dependent than in any other upon the valor of their sons, and there is danger in the battles, sieges and terrific encounters which follow. Obligations, in this respect, differ from those of any other. Life is involved—the shedding of blood. They are not merely the obligations of friendship. They are of a deeper, tenderer, sadder nature. They spring from the heart-touching fact that our friends, onr kindred, our sons, have given their lives in our defense. He who can contemplate this fact with indifference has a heart as cold as an iceberg, aud proves that lie, at least, was unworthy of such defenders. The Confederate States called upon then gallant sons to defend the positions they had taken, and never was a call more cheerfully and gloriously answered. We are now called upon, whether wisely or unwisely, as we have before stated, to honor them in a peculiar way. The call has been publicly made, and is known at home and abroad. How shall our people answer it ? We trust with a generous and grateful response. Let our people stand surety for our heroes’ fame, as well as their own. We again ask attention to the address of the gen eral agents, which will bo found in another column of our paper. Something About Pills. —The mod ern era of explosions influences even the contents of the pill-pox. Borne pills prescribed by a physician in England contained, it is reported, one-half grain nitrate of silver, one-sixtli grain extract nux vomico, and one-lialf grain muriate of morphine, together with cons. ros. and extract of gentian. They exploded in a very short time, evolving a consid erable amount of heat. A similar case is reported to have occurred at Notting ham, England, where the physician pre scribed pills containing four grains of nitrate of silver, one grain muriate of morphia and extract of gentian. The lady patient, who had the box about her person, was badly burned by the explo sion. Despising all such chemical, de tonating pellets, the Chinaman goes in for those of a thoroughly animal char acter. Thus, a druggist at Ningpo in vites the public to swallow “pills manu factured out of a whole stag, slaughtered with purity of purpose, on a propitious day.” It appears that the wealthy whole sale druggists are in the habit of pur chasing large and handsome stags, which they expose in a pen at the door of the shop, until “a propitious day” is select ed for the animal’s conversion into pills, when he is deliberately pounded entire into pulp, from which pills are made. After all, these must be greatly prefera ble to the “explosive” sort. Unparalleled Outrage.— A gentle man from the vicinity of Gordon called at this office yesterday, says the Macon Teh graph, and made the following start ling disclosures : On Wednesday night, about 2 p. m., a baud of ten United States soldiers led by some brevet official, appeared at the dwelling of Dr. J. B. Terrell, in quest of the Doctor and his son, who were from home. They entered the house and searched the promises in the rudest manner, violating with tlieir ruffian pres ence the sleeping chamber of two young ladies, and even tearing from their per sons the bed covering which protected them. Disappointed atnot finding their prey, they then visited other domicils and arrested and bare away with them Messrs. Win. Fountain, Win. Califf,Wm. Bridges, Frank Kennington, Edward Walker, railroad agent, and Jas. Foun tain. Not content with thus outraging the homes and persons of their victims, these exemplary representatives of Rad ical law oroceeded to rifle the pockets of one of their prisoners, Mr. Wm, Foen tnin, of about sls. For the truth of this ter characteristic act our informant has the authority of the brother of slr. Fountain. Zinc Water Tanks. —Of the nnhealth fulness of these for domestic purposes, there would seem to be no doubt. A recent French periodical contains an ar ticle by 51. Zinrek, who had examined water which had long been kept iu such tanks anij who has found that the water dissolves so much the more zinc as it contained more chlorides, such, for ex ample, as the cliloride of sodium. The water also takes up larger quantities of zinc in proportion to the length of con tact. Boiling does not, however, pre cipitate the zinc from water charged with the metal. A sample of the former was tried, in which the chlorides were in small proportion, but which had been a long time in a zinc tank ; as much as 15 grains of zinc was found in each quart. To prevent this state of things, M. Zin rek advises that the tanks be coated in side with an oil paint, with ocher or asphalt for the base ; but no minium, ceruse, or carbonate of zinc should be used. Fifteen grains in a quart seem an enormous proportion. Ought not the use of such tanks to be discarded altogether. Free Tnnos fob White and Color ed. — From the Griffin Star, we learn that Prof. Orr, State School Commis sioner, delivered a most excellent, sound and interesting lecture on Saturday last, at the Female College in that city, upon the subject of education, and more par ticularly the bearings of the free'school system upon the subject. He maintained and demonstrated clear ly that the very salvation of Georgia de pended upon a thorough system of free tuition, not only for white children but colored ones. For the latter, he believed that ‘further than reading, writing, and the rudiments of arithmetic, the race was not competent to take education, only in exceptional cases. But this much they should have at any rate. The Professor alluded to the States and cities where such a system has been in operation as proof positive of the cor rectness of his opinion. The Selma (Ala.) Fair.— The annual Fair of the Central Agricultural and Me chanical Association of Dallas county, Ala., will be held at Selma, on 12th November, and will continue for five days. We acknowledge the receipt of a complimentary ticket. MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GKOROIA. They Establish a Branch at Dahlouega —Hon. D. W. Lewis Electe«i Princi pal—Dr. E. M. Pendleton Elected Professor of Agricultural, Horticul tural aud Mechanical Arts, iu the University of Georgia. [From the Atlanta Constitution, 25th.] The Board of Trustees of the Uni versity met in this citv on yesterday morning, according to the call of the President, at the request of the Pru dential Committee. Present, Gov. James M. Smith, ex-Gov. Charles J. Jenkins, Major M. A. Cooper, Col. W. 1/. Mitch ell, Hon. B. H. Hill, Col. Bonj. C. Yancey, W. Hope Hull, Esq., Dr. It. D. Moore, ,T. J. Gresham, Esq., Hon. Dun lap Scott, Col. J. A. Billups, Major Lamar Cobb, Col. N. J. Hammond, and Pope Barrow, Esq. The meeting was opened witli prayer by Col. W. L. Mitchell. Minutes of the annual meeting were read and con iirmed. A communication was read from the Chancellor, with a report from President Brouu. The were present., also, W. P. Price, President of the Board of Trustees of the North Georgia College, and A. G. Wirnpey. A basis of agreement was agreed upon and ratified by the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia. The North Georgia Agricultural Col lege at Dahlouega conveys to tho Trus tees of the University of Georgia the use and control of the buildings and real estate at Dahlouega for. such length of time as tin; Trustees of the Uni versity of Georgia shall continue to per form its part of the stipulations. The University of Georgia shall pay annually §2,000 from the interest of the Agricultural Fund donated by Congress, as long as the same remains intact in their hands, to pay one or more teachers in the institution. The principal is to be elected by the Trustees of tho Uni versity of Georgia. The control of de tails and tho management of the insti tution and the appointment of subordi nate teachers shall be in the bands of the local Board in Dahlouega, subject at all times to the revision of the Trustees of the University of Georgia, in whom is vested the ultimate power of legislation. This arrangement is on condition that after 1875 one hundred male students shall be kept at the institution in Dah lonegu—a proportionate sum to be paid for a less number, but to cease when the average number for one year shall be reduced below fifty. The expenses of repairs of building, furnishing, warm ing, etc., and the pay of teachers be yond the §2,000, shall be raised by the local Board, and the Trustees of the University of Georgia shall not bo liable for any debt of said college beyond the §2,000. Nothing contained in the agreement is to prevent the North Georgia Agricultu ral College from deriving the full bene fit from any appropriation hereafter made by Congress for establishing a School of Miners in connection with said institution, or any other appropriation given for its benefit by Congress. We learn that the buildings to be used by the North Georgia Agricultural Col lege cost the United States §70,083 33. The College will open on the first of January, 1873. Hon. D. W. Lewis was elected Princi pal of the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlouega. Dr. E. M. Pendleton was elected Pro fessor of Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechanical Arts in the University of Georgia. Captain S. L. Cherbouier was assigned to the duty of Inspector of Military Tactics. This is a synopsis of their ac tion, so far as our reporter could obtain them. A New Southern Product. —There is a plant growing very abundantlyin our piny woods and in the pine forests through out the South known as the “Deer Tongue.” It presents a bunch or tuft of light green, tongue-shaped leaves, springing immediately from the ground, the leaves measuring from six to eight inches in length, and about one incli in breadth. From the centre of this bunch of leaves starts up, as the season advances, a straight stalk, rising to the height of from two to three feot, and terminating in a collection of bright purple flowers. The leaves aro very fra grant when bruised, having a strong va nilla odor. “This little plant—a growth peculiar to the lower States —is now,” says the Mobile Register, “attracting no little at tention as articles for scenting tobacco and wrappers for fine cigars. Even at this time it is commanding a high price in the market, and as it becomes better known, tlie demand for it will doubtless be greater. We are confident that the day is not far distant when it will figure as one of our most important products, aud since it is climatically secured to tho South, and can be grown to perfec tion upon our poorest pine lands, the freak of good fortune which brought it inti notice is like to prove a freak to us.” The Forty-Third Conoress. —The impression prevails amongmany persons that the act of January 22, 1807, re quiring anew Congress to assemble on March 4th, immediately on tho adjourn ment of its predecessors, is still in force, but this law was repealed by the thirtieth section of the United States statute, approved April 20th, 1871, and to be found on page twelve of the laws passed at tho first session of the Forty- Second Congress. The repealing sec tion is contained in a deficiency appro priation act, and tho entire statute is well worth examining, as a curious il lustration of the incongruous measures that are crowded into one bill during the expiring hours of a session of Con gress. The Forty-Third Congress will not meet until the first Monday of De cember, 1873, unless sooner called to gether in extraordinary session. Parceling Out Florida. —A corre spondent of the Savannah Netus, writ ing from Mouticollo. Fla., states that a growing disposition is expressed in that section of the State to annex West Flor ida to Alabama, tack Middle Florida on to Georgia, and to allow East Florida to constitute the State. This indicates the restivenesi am' dissatisfaction of the people in a strong and forcible light. A Wonder. —Mr. W. A. Kennedy, of Atlanta, who lives on Deeatiu street, has a pear seedling that came up iu 1864. It bore its first fruit in 1871, when it had two crops—the second not ma turing. This year its first bloom was seen the last of March. The first crop matured the second week in Juno. The seooud blooms appeared the last of July. The seoond crop matured the first of October. The third blooms appeared the middle cf September. The third crop is a healthy, unmatured fruit of the size of a pigeon’s egg at this time, the 16tli of October. And the tree has its fourth blooms on it now. This is a wonder. Three crops of fruit in one season, two of them ma tured, one-half matured, and still an other crop in the blossom from the last of March to the middle of October, con stitute a marvel in fruit experiences.— Atlanta Constitution. People from the country about Macon report the picking of the cotton crop as rapidly going forward—that if the weather continues as fine it now is, the whole of it will be gathered by the 15th or 20th of November. Two-thirds have already been gathered, ginned, baled, and either on the road to market or already there. The gin house of Mr. John A. Patman, near Watkinsville, Clarke county, was burned on Friday night last, together with twenty-three bales of cotton, fif teen of which belonged to Mr. Patman. Fire supposed to have been incendiary. ♦ The Wisconsin marshes are yielding alternate crops of intermittent fever and cranberries. A company at Pleasant Valley, N. made a half million bottles of champagne this season. “Extending your shop front into the newspaper” is the latest definition for advertisements. NEW SERIES—VOL. XXV—NO. 45. HEBREW' GENIUS. Intellectual Triumph of J. P, Benja min, the New Rival of D’lsraeli. It was announced by “cablegram” that J. P. Benjamin, Confederate Secre tary of State and Minister of War, at the instance of the Lord Chancellor (Hathaway), has been raised to the rahk of Queen's Counsel, the leaders of the English bar. The London Standard says: \Ve trust there are none of Mr. Benja min's former co-patriots aud competitors in the Courts of tlio United States who will not rejoice to hear that their com rade has achieved success in his now ca reer,, and is once more restored to n po sition not unworthy of his talents and industry, however far below that which lie might have held, and did once hold, in his native land. Benjamin is now an old man, but as an English barrister ho is probably the youngest that ever appeared in a silk gown. Twenty years ago, at the age of forty, ho was among the foremost plead ers of the United States,' and represent ed Louisiana in the Federal Senate. Ten years ago he had resigned that position oil the Recession of his State, aud was' first Secretary of War and then Secre tary of State in the government of the. ill-fated Confederacy. In tlio former post it was liis misfortune to be officially responsible for evils and disasters which no resources at bis command could avert; to have, tinder the supreme direc tion ot a chief, whose special aptitude aud experience were those of a war min ister, to maintain without money, with out ships, without artillery, with scanty supplies of arms and ammunition, and very inadequate numbers, a life and death struggle against the overwhelming power of the North. His vindication lies in the fact that it took four years to crush the Confederate States. As Sec retary of State and director of the for eign policy of tii<* government, he was confessedly as successful as the circum stances permitted. In 18(15 the fall of Richmond sent the Confederate Govern ment into banishment, and the capture of the President finally dissolved it, Mr. Benjamin was fortunate) to escape into exile—a ruined man, n great lawyer, a man of fortune and posi tion iu his native land, late First Minister of an incipient Common wealth, lie had to begin life again at the age of fifty-five in a foreign country, and without any of tlio advantages of fortuuo, interest or connection which he had won in the course of a long and laborious career. Must men would have sunk into despair- and apathy, finding their own fortunes and the hopes of their country ruinod by the same blow, and compelled at so advanced an age to start again with all the difficulties of youth, but without the strength aud spirits of youth to conquer them. Not a few would have been simply stunned by the depth of the fall. Not so with slr Benjamin. The late First Minister of lus country recommenced life as a law student; the leading lawyer began again to learn the laws of another coun try. , He was called to the bav after a year s study—a becoming and rightful concession to his years and learning, but one which, as slr. Benjamin would be the first to acknowledge, scarcely any bar but that of England would have made in favor of the foreigner and an exile. Still the former leader had totake rank as the junior or juniors; and in that position it is very difficult for a barrister to obtain lucrative or important business, seeing that the etiquette of the bar places the lead iu every case in the hands of the seqior counsel engaged, aud that the junior s work is at once the least distin guished, the worst paid and the fullest of mere drudgery. slr. Benjamin had but this one incidental advantage, that the close of the war had entailed certain suits between the United States Govern ment and the agents of the Confederacy in Europe, and in some of these he was retained by the latter, and the conduct of the cause left in his hands. Such a man needed only an opportunity of proving liiß quality. Mr. Benjamin forced solicitors to recognize him as one of tlio best lawyers at the common law bar; his professional brethren treated him with generous respect and con sideration, and within six years from his admission to the bar, he has achieved a position of which the rank now be stowed is but the formal sanction aud acknowledgment. Nevertheless, wo give Lord Hathaway credit for a just and graceful act, as we give credit to the bar for their prompt decision to call 51r. Benjamin after a year’s study, waving all technical rules and usages in his favor. He had such faro as good will and courtesy would give to a stranger, and nothing more. The victory he has achieved is due to no favor or interest, but purely and simply to his unques tionable superiority ns an English law yer, after bnt seven years spent in Eng land. Grand Division Sons of Temperance. --This body continued its session in Savannah on Tuesday. Tho regular or der of business was transacted, which was of a nature particularly interesting only to members of tho order, and which will bo reported to them in the subordinate divisions by tlicir represen tatives. Under tho head of “ The Good of the Order," a resolution was offered ap pointing a committee to draft a set of resolutions, oarnbstly asking the minis try of the Gospel, tho Christian aud re ligious community, and the preps, as the great medium of communication, aud seoond to no other in its inlluonoo, to join with the order iu its efforts to advance this great cause of humanity. After the adoption of this report, the Grand Division adjourned to meet nt Spring Hill, near Augusta, on tho 4th Wednesday in April next. Internal Revenue.— The Commis sioner of Internal Revenue will be vory brief in his annual report. Tho late changes iu tho law work so satisfactorily that no recommendations for improve ment can be suggested. The rovenuo from whisky, malt and liquors is largely increased. The amounts realized from tobacco are twenty per cent, beyond calculations. The troubles with brew ers will be left to Congress for action. The present uniform tax on tobacco has been found to work especially favor able. Tho number of distilleries, es pecially iu tho Southern States, has in creased in an unprecedented manner. It is estimated that under the reduced figures the revenue from internal sources will amount to §12.5,000,003, which is $20,000,000 above the figures agreed upon by the financial authorities when the reductions went into effect. Love Powders.—A country youth in quired at a Savannah drug store, re cently, for ten cents worth of “love powders"— “something that wonld’ntstir her much, but would make her dream of him nights.” The urbane drug gist’s clerk put np some magnesia, anil cautioned the purchaser not to give his victim too much at a time, but rather win her affection by degrees. The Largest Grain Elevator in the United States.-—A floating elevator is now iD the coarse of construction in New Orleans of double tho capacity of any other floating elevator in the United States. It will be finished and in active operation in November, three or four weeks lienee. It will be able to deliver to the receiving ships 10,000 bushels of grain an hour —100,000 daily. Ijlght Bales This Year. —A friend, who holds the position of agent at one of tho Central Railroad depots, writes us that so far this season (perhaps ow ing in part to the exceedingly dry weath er) the cotton weights fall considerably short of those of last year. Last year the average weight to tho bale at this station was 487 pounds. This year, so far, it is only 435 pounds—fifty-two S >unds short of last year’s average. ere is noarly eleven per cent, short, and if this deficit is general it becomes a vastly important element in figuring up cotton receipts this year. —Macon Telegraph Matamobas, October 28 —) commis sion lias been appointed to invcKßgate tlie complicity of uncials with tlie Rio, Grande catHo stealing. Cortina has able lawyers preparing his defense. LADY VILLULA. BY THE AUTHOR OF “ OINX’S BARY.” From tho fit. Paul’s (Loudon) Magazine, Lady Pillnla was nearly eighty years of age, with the withering marks’of time deeply written on her features and mit tened hands. Yot no small vitality re mained in her frnino. She had nothing to do, so she took modicino. With little interest in those who were about her t.o attract attention, she fixed it on herself, and that port of the body which bocamo the sonl and specific object of her re gard was her intestines. It is affirmed by physicians that one may, by nervous concentration of thought upon, one spot of the body, iuduco or aggravate a local morbid action. This was Lady Pillula’s peculiarity. Her passion was pills. Os these she was at once an artist, a con noisseur, and a miser, Vnst collections of empty pill-boxos lumbered her room. She tooK pills before she roso in the morning, before breakfast, at eleven in tho forenoon, at one. She took Hollo- * way’s as an appetizer for lunch, and counteracted the eHoots of that Untimely meal with tho celebrated anti-bilious {■pills of Cockle. Her dimipr was inaugu rated by three boluses of rhubarb, and concluded with aloe. Her nocturnal podophyllin was never omitted. Slio scanned the newspaper every morning for one purpose, the discovery of-new pills; while her sister, Lady W., sought, the columns of fashionable intelligence, and Lord W. perused tho stock lists, she was busy registering tue latest novelty in pilhilat invention. On the first occa sion of her reading the advertisement "3T" tho notorious Rovnlonta Arabics, headed, “ No more pills or any other medicine,” the announcement proved too much for her, anil she fainted. She only recover ed on the exhibition of a whole box of “Brandreth’s,” One form of pill she abhorred, namely, the minute globules of the homeopathists. Thoso she con demned as utterly unworthy of a trial by any adult interior. The most agreeable surprise you could pass upon her was to present her with a box of now pills. She would take thorn tho same evening and pronounce on their qualities tho next day with the pre cision and gusto of a connoisseur. In deed, the mania affeoted her morality. She became morbid in pursuit of her fancy; invading her sister’s boudoir, or even Lord W.’s dressing-room, in the hope of finding some stray box of lior condiments. If a visitor happened to carry such specifics about with him, or left them in his room, Lady Pillnla took tithe of them. She luvd several times been nearly poisoned. Once she swal lowed a number of buckshot which an incautious sportsman had turned into an empty pill-box on unloading his gun. In another instance some glass beads met with a similar accident. One item of comfort to be extracted from this strange but authentic case, should not pass unmarked. Notwith standing the vast numbers of portentious patents, from tho exhibition of which innumerable consequences were pledged to ensue, Lady Pillula’s organs seemed contrived to resist them nil. It w/is only affected by the blue pill in unusual quantities, or prescriptions administered by her physicians; the hnrmlessuess of most patent pills was a source of vexa tion to her, though it proved the sim plicity of materials with which peoplo arc gammoned. Lord W. used to amuse himself occa sionally at his sister-in-law’s expense. He asked Savory of Oorbyn for their la test inventions, and brought home boxes of them. Ho himsolf slily mixed some rare and monstrous compositions, rang ing from pitch to beeswax or bread, and was entertained to find that the old lady placed some of these high in her stair dard of excellence. When, however, ho twitted her with her credulity, and with the perils to which she was exposing herself by her unreasonable addiction to such fraudulent devices, she replied upon him rather sharply : “Everybody takespilis of Homo sort,” sliesaid. “ SomoswalTow opinions whole sale without knowing much of what is in them. Some people take their priest’s prescription uh if it were certain to contain a specific for their souls.— Others take their political ideas from political quacks, and gulp them with the most credulous simplicity. I have seen you take for granted any pill tho editor of the Chimes makes up for you of a morning, aud have known you to bo tho worse for it. Otliher peoplo”—hero she lookod wickedly at her brothcr-in- Official Meanness. —This Adminis tration has done many moan tilings, but tho meanest of all its meannesses, was the dismissal of Cmlet Digges from the Annapolis Academy, which wo announc ed yesterday. Tho simple facts are, that this youth mot the colored cadet, Conyers, in tho grounds, that they came to blows, aud that tho wliito cadet Hog ged tho black follow, as ho probably de served, for somo impertinence. It was nothing clso, after all, but a boy’s quar rel, such as has occurred a hundred times before, mixed up, perhaps with a littlo of tho “irrepressible conflict.” Now, tho practice always has been, in such cases, to liavo an inquiry anil to ad minister tho discipline of the institu tion to whoever violates tlie rules. That would not answer a partisan pur pose, however, on tlie eve of the Presi dential election, so the Navy Depart ment disgraces the service with an order, which, so far from being a stigma upon the youngster against whom it was ma liciously directed, is a burning stain upon the man who was despicable enough to soil his epaulettes witli such filthy flnnkeyism. When the negro cadet at West Point was convicted of lying and other offenses which are punished with expulsion, and which made him nn unfit companion for the youth of that academy, he was par doned and forced upon their society, in defiance of honorable principle which is professed and inculcated in that institu tion. This partiality was entirely parti zan, and prompted only by the low mo tive of gaining negro votes. Under a system where the firßt law of military organization is thus sacrificed, and men dacity is officially protected, it is easy to see-what the future of Annapolis and West Point must be.— Washington Pa triot, October 24. The Reaction in the English Iron Trade. —Recent mail advices from Eng land show that the tendency to a decline in tho price of iron in that country still continues. In North Staffordshire an other reduction of £2 per ton on finished iron is announced, making bars £l2 10s, hoops £l4, best plates £ls, and other kinds in proportion. In South Stafford shire there is also a decline, with an un settled and downward market for com moner qualities. In Monmouthshiro and Soutli Wales the iron-masters liavd issued to the workmon tho usual pre liminary notice for a reduction in wages in consoquenoc of the recent decline in iron. In Wolverhampton the iron trade is extremely dull, notwithstanding tho recent decline of prices, and iron-mas ters complain of a difficulty in obtaining orders. As there is an impression among buy ers that a further decline must take place, they limit their orders to actual pressing requirements. Taken altogeth er, the iron market may be described us in a transitory condition, with prospects of a still further reduction and a conse quent readjustment of wages. The man ufactured iron trado has of course con formed to tho fall in metals, and nearly all descriptions of heavy Birmingham goods are quoted at a reduction of from 10 to 20 per cent. But owing to the an ticipations of a fnrther decline, manu facturers cannot obtain new orders even at tho red need rates, and their opera tions are, for the most part, limited to filling old orders. —New York Bulletin. Smith’s Official Majority.— Wo be lieve that the official majority of tho Democrats in the late State election lias never yet been published. Henco wc give it below: Smith • 103,076 Walker 41,452 Smith’s majority 61,024 This is obtained from the Executive headquarters, and is absolutely correct. It is a fearful denunciation of Radical misrule in Georgia, and will have a ten dency to make scalawags hide tlicir heads, and the luscious carpet bagger steal his carpet-bag from the pawn broker’s shop, and hie liis dirty carcass to that blessed country where tho wooden nutmeg flourishes and tho flan nel sausage ever wends its savory links. —A tlanta Jfveald. Howard After tlie Indian Agents. Washington, October 28. Howard fn vors the removal of many Indian agents. Ho says that when tho agonts pay fif teen thousand dollars for a position, the Balary of which is only fifteen hundred dollars, there is something wrong, and a reform is necessary.
