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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1873)
OLO SERIES —VOL. LXXX NEW SERIES VOL. XXXVII (Ttyrom'clr anb Sfnfiml. TERMS. TIIE DAILY CHRONICLE^SENTINEL, the oldest newHf.ipcr in tlie South, if) published daily, except Monday. Terms : Per year. 410: six months, 45; three months, *2 50. THE TUI-WEEKLY CHRONICLE A SENTI NEL is published every Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday. Terms: One year, 45 ; six months. 42 50. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE A SENTINEL is published every Wednesday. Terms: One year. 42 ; six months, 4L SUBSCRIPTIONS in all cases in advance, and no paper continued after the expiration of the time paid for. RATES OF ADVERTISING IN DAILY.—One sijnare one insertion, seventy-five cents ; and each subsequent publication for one week, fifty cents. Advertisements in the Tri-Weekly, two-thirds of the rates in the Daily : anil in the Weekly, one-half the Daily rates. Marriage and Funeral Notices 41 each. Kpecial Notices, 41 per square for the first publication. Kpecial rates will he made for advertisements running for a month or longer. REMITTANCES should be made by Post Office Money Order or Express. If this cannot be done, protection against losses by mail may he secured by forwarding a draft payable to the Proprietors of the Chbonici.e asd Hkxtinki.. or try sending the money in a registered letter. Address WALSH A WRIGHT, Chboxjcj-e A Kknti.skl, Augusta. Ga. WEDNESDAY JUNE 4, 1873. THE “CONSTITUTIONALIST” ANI) THE "CHRONICLE AND SENTI NEL.” From a notice published in the Con- Klilutionalixt yesterday morning by the proprietors—Messrs. Stockton A Co.— itnd republished in this paper, it will lie seen that the C<mxliltilionalist has sus pended publication—that its last issue lias been given to the public. A paper which for a quarter of a century was a recognized organ of Georgia and of the South which at one time wielded great power and influence—has ceased to ex ist. Like the M< IWU/7/ and the Courier, of Charleston; the Iribune, of Mobile; the .Mail, of Montgomery; the Journal and M>Hnenf/r r, of Macon; the Intelli gencer, of Atlanta, and many other Southern journals, it has been obliged to succumb to causes which its proprietors were powerless to control. While it was necessarily our rival and our competi tor, still the rivalry was honorable and j the competition open and manly, and we can sympathise with its friends who mourn its decease. It battled well for the right; it struck many brave blows for the South and her people, and none arc readier than ourselves to accord full recognition of its zealous service and successful labor. So much for the dead; now for the living. The suspension of the Constitu tiona/ixl leaves theCfIRONiCLK andSrnti- NK.r. the sole occtmant of the field of jour nalism in Augusta. How will this condi tion of affairs affect the city and its citi zens V We can safely answer that it will in many ways prove a benefit. Let us premise by saying that Augusta has just felt the effects of a change which is making itself manifest all over the South. The tendency of Southern jour nalism is towards consolidation. The weak are falling or else are being swal lowed up by the strong. And the result lias been mutually beneficial to both press and people. We have fewer papers and better papers. The quality lias in creased in inverse ratio to the quantity. Instead of small sheets run exclusively in the interest of politics and politi cians, the Southern press is making bold and rapid strides towards a wider field, to a more elevated position. In point of fact, most Southern cities are not able to support but one gpod paper, and when two or three occupy the ground the struggle is too sharp and se vere to justify the expense of a first class daily, and journalism has grievous ly suffered by being over-crowded. But by thinning them out, the publishers, the subscribers and the advertisers are all benefitted. The increased revenue justifies the publication of more and better matter, and the patrons of the paper get a superior article for less money. Instead of a merchant or citi zen paying twenty dollars per annum for two dailies, as most of them did, they will pay half the money for a better paper than both of the old jour- ( mils combined. The advertiser, in stead of placing his notices in two papers at double rates, obtains j for them a wider circulation and for himself double the benefits which he would otherwise have received for about half the expense. There will be no danger of anything like an oppressive monopoly. It will be to our interest to prevent competition by publishing a better paper without increasing the cost, and not by the adoption of any other or harsher policy. While we regret that cur neighbor was forced to retire, still we hope to conduct our own journal in such a way that the public will sustain no damage, but be actually benefitted by the change. There are people who think that news papers coin money. This is a grievous mistake. Few papers in the South have miule money siuee the war. The ex pense of conducting a newspaper now in our Southern cities is one hundred per cent, more than before the war. The average outlay then was about four hundred dollars. Now it runs up to eight hundred and a thous and dollars per week for anything like a good paper. With increasing expenses and a more limited field of subscription and advertising, there are but few cities in the South which can afford to sustain more than one paper of even average re spectability. Mobile, with a population of fifty thousand, and Charleston, with a population of forty-eight thousand, have; but one paper each—the Jteffister in the former, and the Xetrs and Courier in the latter. Competition is said to be the life of trade, but in the newspaper business iu small cities it is extremely hazardous, and ultimately leads to seri ous inconvenience and embarrassment. In assuming control of the Chronicle and Sentinel we made no flourish of trumpets defining our position and promising wonderful changes, preferring to allow the paper to speak for itself, knowing, as we did, that an intelligent community would be quick to perceive and appreciate whatever improvements might be made, and we have the best reasons for thinking that our efforts t$ please have been fully recognized and appreciated. Just as we conclude this article we j learn of two other suspensions of able ' and influential journals, proceeding, we believe, from the same cause—viz: over- i crowding. The Union, of Columbia, lias been consolidated with the Herald, and the Jit publican, of Savannah, will iu a few days, we hear, be merged with the Advertiser. A few may suffer by this change in journalism, but the public will be a great gainer by the policy of consolidation. Fewer and better news papers are what we need. - [From the Constitutionalist of yesterday.] SUSPENSION. By reference to an advertisement in another column, it will be seen the eo partnorshp heretofore existing between John L. Stockton and F. M. White has been dissolved by mutural consent, and that it, therefore, becomes necessary to saapeud the publication of theCbnstitu tionaliel. THE CRIME AGAINST LOUISIANA. The President’s friends are endeavor ing, as best they may, to defend his course in the affairs of Louisiana. The chief pretext is that his proclamation threatening martial law was made neces j sary by tlie violence and lawlessness which prevailed in the State, and was is j sued in the interests of peace and good or ! dor. If this be true, how is it that the j proclamation was not made when there was danger of a collision between bodies j j of armed and hostile partisans? Why was I General Grant dumb when General Al ; cibiades Deßlanc and his men held pos ' session of the parish of St. Martins and , successfully resisted the attacks of the Metropolitans ? And why does he now speak so loudly after the patriot leader ha* surrendered to the Federal authori ties ? When civil war seemed immi nent, when it had really commenced, and bloody conflicts had occurred, as at Colfax, the President remained silent, why did he find tongue only after the danger was over? Kellogg asked for aid many weeks ago; why this delay in supporting his creature ? These aie questions which naturully suggest them selves upon a consideration of the Presi dent's policy in Louisiana affairs. Will they be satisfactorily answered by his friends and apologists? THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. It was a sad story which appeared in our columns yesterday morning from the rescued members of the ill-fated Arctic expedition. Such a sickening recital of envy and malice, exhibited on such an occasion, has rarely been given to the world. One would naturally suppose that in a party of men who had isolated themselves from the world for the accomplishment of a great purpose, who were hemmed in by dangers on every side as with a wall, the bad pas sions of their nature would have slum bered until the peril passed. But in stead, according to the account of the rescued survivors, the crew -was divided into factions, petty hates and jealousies arose which grew until bad feeling culminated in the death of Captain Hall, not without suspicion of foul play, and the abandonment of a portion of the party upon an ice floe. The story would he incredible were it not so strongly substantiated. Bat as it is given there is little reason to doubt its correctness, and we have another and a crowning evidence of the depravity of human nature which can not be re pressed even beyond the confines of the habitable world, in the face of a horri ble death and in the midst of perils innumerable. DECORATING THE UNION GRAVES. In keeping with their cruel and cow ardly conduct of two years ago, the Washington Post of the Grand Army of the Republic gave notice a few days ago that they would not tolerate, on Decora tion Day—the 30th of May-—any floral tribute to the Confederate Dead interred at Arlington. But it appears that an outrage which was tolerated then will not be permitted now. The just and almost universal indignation which its perpetration excited has admonished the friends of the President and of his Administration tint it will not be pru dent or safe to connive at such an act for a second time. Accordingly the Wash ington Chronicle —the organ of General Grant in the National Capital—in com menting upon tlie resolutions adopted by the Grand Army of the Republic, makes the gwtsi-official statement that the Arlington Cemetery is not under the control of the G. A. R., but of the United States Government, and that the former has no power to prescribe rules for the conduct of visitors, or to prevent the decoration of any graves, whether of Union or Confederate soldiers. Only disorderly persons, the Chronicle says, will be excluded from the grounds. The blockhead bummers of the G. A. R. will be considerably disconcerted by this sharp reproof from the man whom they thought they were serving best by their malignity and intolerance. STATISTICS OF CRIME. Some impoitant statistics of crime were read the other day before the Social Science Convention, at Boston. It was shown that, in England, nearly forty-nine per cent, of the offenses com mitted by males were attacks on proper ty and person, while a little over fifty one per cent, were crimes growing out of sensuality, including under the latter term drunkenness and licentiousness. Those of female criminals appertain very largely to the latter class. Over seven ty-seven per cent, of the women brought before the Courts are as much their own enemies as those of the public; only twenty-two per cent, being savage or dishonest. The proportions in this coun try vary a little from the above. In Massachusetts forty-six crimes of vio lence and injury are perpetrated by males to fifty-three of sensuality. In New York the perpetration of crimes against person and property are still smaller. In England and this country women are more inclined than men to repeat their offenses. The average of female committals is nearly twice that of male. Thus, while one hundred males went to prison one hundred and eightv two times, the same number of women were committed three hundred and forty-six times. This shows that while the offenses of women are generally less heinous than those of meu, their refor mation is more hopeless. How much of this result is attributable to mental and moral constitution, and how much to the different treatment of fallen men and women by society, we shall not attempt to determine. FRANCE AND lt£R PRESIDENT. The King is dead; long live the King. M. Thiers has resigned, and General McMahon has surrendered the baton of a Marshal of France to accept the Presi dency of the young Republic. The hero of Algiers and of Magenta—the French scion of an Irish stock—has had the destinies of a groat nation entrusted to his keeping, and upon the zeal and the fidelity with which he discharges his trust depends the peace of Europe— perhaps the peace of the world. France, in deposing Thiers and elevating Mc- Mahon, has made almost as violent a change as when she substituted the Re public for the Empire. A people prone to extremes, nowhere has the national taste for novelty been more conspicu ; ously displayed, more strikingly exeni i plified, than in this revolution of the i twenty-fourth of May. For the States ' man we have the Soldier; for the littera- teur the writer of official dispatches; for the historian one who helped to make : history; for the man of words the man of the sword. Will the fortunes of i Franee change with her ruler—will her , people be benefitted by the bloodless triumph of the Conservatives ? For our own part and from onr own stand-point, we believe that both country and peo ple will have no reason to regret the change of administrations. M. Thiers did not give a firm and stable govern ment. Great man, as he undoubtedly is, he was not a great ruler. His gov ernment was a despotism without being strong, was a Republic without being free. From its very nature it could not be expected to stand loug against the assaults of hostile parties—it was esseu- tiallv weak. It is safe to predict of his successor that his errors, if he commits any, will be in an opposite direction. Whatever else he may do, he will cer tainly give to France a strong govern ment and rule with a firm hand. Is not this what is needed ? If he is incor ruptible, sagacious and bold ; if he up holds the national honor and makes France feared and respected ; if he adds to her material wealth and prosperity as ! , well as to her glory, is he not the man of j I all others to guide her fortunes and con- I trol her destinies ? Suppose his Presi- j dency does lead to the Directory, the ' Consulate, the Empire, what then ? j France has always been great under her Emperors, why should she be afraid of tl;e Empire ? BECOMING ALARMED. Forney's Chronicle, the Washington organ of the President, is disgusted with the recent Congressional Conven tion, at St. Louis, which it styles the “quasi rump Congress of the West.” It sees in it treason to tlie Republican party and proceeds to dilate upon it after this fashion : The session in the West of a qnarter I or a third the members of Congress elect, besides being in spirit if not in letter a quasi rump affair, is unequalled in the past history of this nation, and is believed to be without precedent in tho history of tlie legislative bodies of other nations. The effect can hardly be other wise than pernicious and mischievous, because the local prejudices and pas sions excited by it will naturally grow into a rebellious and insurrectionary feeling if the objects sought are not en dorsed and adopted by the whole body assembled in regular 'session at Wash ington. It is the business of the latter body, or of the whole Congress, to con sider and to act determinedly upon all questions affecting every part of the country, under .their solemn obligation of fealty to the Constitution and of re gard for the public good. Whatever popular conventions of citizens of a given locality, or State Legislature, may indicate as proper objects of Congres sional policy, is one thing, but for Con gressmen of such localities to get to gether to act separately and distinctly from the entire body is another and en tirely different thing. In so doing they transcend their proper duties, and go further in mischievous steps that may lead to disunion than did the Hartford Convention or the Southern Convention, that finally resulted in that civil war, the evils and mischief of which are not con fired to the facts of costs and carnage, devastation and inhumanity, but include a demoralization that seems to have reached every condition of life, and has lowered, if not irrevocably vitiated, the sense of honor and integrity that before had so high a p!ace > in the thoughts and acts of American citizens. The fearful demon of American politics is sec tionalism, therefore separate and dis tinct sessions or meetings of Con gressmen, or other Government officials of this or that portion of the country, is frought with dangerous complications. With a united South aud West in Con gress upon material issues, affecting the separate or united interests of the sec tions, a combination could be formed which would disentegrate the Republi can party. And it is tnis fear which alarms the Chronicle and calls forth its denunciation of the St. Louis Conven tion. Self-interest is the great motive power which influences and controls the conduct of States and peoples. If the West can make money by uniting with the South upon issues affecting its in terests, it will be anxious to combine in breaking down the influence which New England has heretofore exercised in the general protective legislation of the country. A NEW VIEW OF THE QUESTION. The editor ot tlie Columbus (Ohio) Journal, who was at first disposed to be hard upon the back-pay Congressmen, and to bo especially severe upon those members who received the swag and then attempted to make capital for themselves by donating it to schools and colleges, now repents and takes the back track in the following article : In appropriating $5,000 to themselves from the Treasury, our Congressmen did but enlarge the prerogative of the peo ple’s representatives. They might have taken Washington’s old breeches from the Patent Office. They might have taken the Washington Monument—but they didn’t. Somo people will continue to complain of them, bu t we are mute from this moment. We apologize to the whole human race for everything. Asa rash and blinded Sunday-school scholar, we may have spoken disrespectfully of J. Iscariot. The experience of the last six months shows that Mr. Iscariot may have been a gentleman who was much misunderstood by the people of the pe riod. Some Scribe probably placed the thirty pieces of silver where he thought they would do the most good, and when poor Judas thought that he had bought into a law suit (Hon. P. Pilate, Chief Justice), he went and hung himself. That was where he made a mistake. He ought to have sent the money down to the Capernaum Female Seminary, and then appealed to the generous confidence of a constituency with whose feelings and interests every throb of his heart beat in unison. The editor of the Gali lean Telegram would have made a very nice thing of that, and the Honorable J. Iscariot would have been oue of the most prominent candidates at the next election. GRANT’S DEFENDERS SOUTH. The manner in which General Grant's conduct in the affairs of Louisiana is defended by some of his few Southern admirers is as absurd as it is humiliat ing. They profess to find iu the Presi dent's unwarrantable interference with the affairs of a sovereign State nothing but a desire to enforce the laws ; to dis cover iu the support which he has given his creature the usurper Kellogg, iu his overturning a legal government of the people and setting up in its stead a corrupt tyranny with United States bayonets, nothing more thau an effort to carry out and execute the judgments of the Courts. This is going a little in advance of the bitterest members of the Radical party. The leading organ of that party—the personal organ of General Grant—the New York Times, holds the President responsible for the condition of things iu Louisiana and reminds him that “his own appointees in Louisiana are, to a lamentable extent, responsible for the bitterness and confusion which prevail there, and that had he in 1871, as we-then urged him to do, removed Messrs. Casey and Packard, and com pelled their associates and successors to keep out of State politics altogether, his present action would either nexer have been required, or, if required, it would have come with a much better grace. - ’ W hat does Senator Carpenter—a leading Republican Senator—say: “There is nothing in all the comedy of blun ders and frauds under consideration more indefensible than the pretended canvass of this Board. The following are some of the objections to the va lidity of their proceedings ; 1. The Board had been abolished by the £ct of of November 20. 2. The Board IT is ,under valid and existing injunctions, restraining it from acting at alt. 3. Conceding that the Board was in ax is to nee and had full authority to canvass the returns, it had no returns to can vass." And he adds : “ The proceed ings of Judge Durell and the support given to him by United States troops resulted in establishing the anthority l de facto of Kellogg and his associates in State offices and of the persons de clared by the Lynch Board to be elect ed to the Legislature. We have already seen that the proceedings of that Board , cannot be sustained without disregard i ing all the principles of law applicable AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 4.-1573. to the subject and ignoring the distinc tion between good faith aud fraud.” Tlie ablest, the bitterest and most ma lignant partisan of the Administration is Senator Morton. This is what he thinks of the Court and its decree: “The conduct of Judge Durell cannot be jus tified or defended. He grossly exceed ed his jurisdiction, and assumed the exercise of powers to which he could lay no claim. His order issued in the Kellogg case to the United States Mar shal, to take possession of the State House for the purpose of preventing unlawful assemblages, under which the Marshal called to his aid a portion of the army of the United States, can only be characterized as a gross usurpation.” The above is what the Radical press aud politicians think of the President’s course. This is what a leading Demo cratic journal—the New York World —. has to say on the subject. We commend it to the consideration of our readers : Nothing can excuse him for having en tered upon a course which subverted the lawful government of a State ; which, upon no evidence, transferred its offices to nnelected officers ; aud which, to sat isfy the greed of his most unworthy relative and most unscrupulous parti sans, maintains the intelligence and virtue and property of the State in sub jection to an ignorant minority. It is certain that the lawfully elected Gov ernor of Louisiana, McEnery, and all those whom he guides and counsels, will do nothing to provoke a collision with Federal force. It is equally certain that their legal and passive resistance as tax payers to the Kellogg despotism they will continue to interpose to the extent of their ability. Were the Fed eral arm withdrawn, that passive, law ful and bloodless resistance would quietly put an end to Kellogg’s usurpa tion in thirty days. As it is, Louisiana will remain the standing shame, the in effable disgrace of the Republic until the arm of a usurped and superior power is bidden back to its lawful bounds. CONFEDERATES IN EGYPT. The Egyptian Kliedivo evidently ap preciates the military talent of the lead ers of the Lost Cause. Many ex-Confed erates Generals have already found a home and plenty upon the banks of the Nile, and in return for high pay and honorable positions teach the art of war to the descendants of the Ptolmies. Recently the Khedive has secured an other recruit in the person of Gen. R. E. Colston, of Mississippi, who held tlie position of Major-General in the Con federate army. Gen. Colston accepts a professorship in the polytechnic school of Cairo, and a colonelcy in the Egypt ian army. COCKBURN VS. CUSHING. The book upon the Geneva arbitra tion and award, published a month or more ago, and written by Mr. Caleb Cushing, one of the counsel entrust ed with the couduct of the American case, has provoked a reply. Con taining the comments of counsel upon a cause which could not be regarded as ended, the book was one which we think most honorable lawyers would have refrained from publishing. But when in addition to comments Mr. Cushing devoted the greatest portion of his space to a bitter and malignant assault upon the representative of England—Lord Cockburn—an attack unwarranted by any facts, malicious as it was uufounded ed, its author subjected himself not only to the censure of his brethren of the bar but of all fair and honorable men. The charges were of such a character that the party attacked is forced to reply, but with better taste and a nicer sense of propriety he has delayed his answer until the termination of the litigation. As the telegraph in formed us yesterday that Great Britain had accepted and confirmed the award, Lord Cockburn’s promised defense may expected in a few days. COMMISSION SWINDLES. The Chicago Tribune is exposing a growing evil, or rather an outrageous swindle, in regard to false quotations of prices of produce. A case in point was reported to us yesterday. One of our merchants received a dispatch from a commission produce merchant in a Wes tern city stating that he could purchase bacon at a certain price. Tlie merchant here telegraphed to another commission house in tlie same city, asking the market price and received a reply quoting prices a quarter lower. In large transactions a quarter of a cent makes a serious differ ence, and the rascality of this imposition and fraud should be exposed. Brokers in large cities can readily combine and swindle both small dealers and pro ducers by fietitous representations of the market in any line of trade. But every part of the commercial world is overrun with deceptions and frauds of one kind or another, which extena into and embrace every commercial centre and almost every department of trade. We reproduce and endorse what the Chicago Tribune has to say upon this subject: Some doctor barley with brimstone, others make “patent coffee,” and still others manufacture bogus tea, or imita tion oysters. The American Grocer has recently done a good work iu exposing wholesale swindles in canned goods (?) ; where a single oyster or half a dozen strawberries does duties for a pound, while “green peas" are raised from those that have been dried. All these things are swindles, and ought to be denounced as such, not only in general terms, but in specific language, that poinis to the Bwindier as Nathan did to David— “ Thou art the man.” So, too, the com mission man who sells at one price and reports a lower price to his principal, is a swindler, .though a part of his ill gotten gains be donated to the church, and ought to b-e made to attend divine service in the penitentiary. It is really a wonder that hon est traders have not long since taken concerted action to clear their respective lines of business of the swindlers, who really rob the honest trader as well as the public. The-dishonest commission man can always afford to underbid liis conscientious rival, in the matter of per centage charged for services, and lienee not seldom jets the bulk of the trade, out of whiclr he grow s rich, while the other can scarcely pay office rent. We note incidentally that ono way in which these sharks may be foiled is for honest dealers to take pains to post the public prints in regard to the real selling prices of goods that are good, both in condi tion and quantity. Balance of Trade. —The Secretary of the New York Chamber of Commerce has prepared a statement of trie foreign trade of this country as transacted through the port of New York, includ ing tables of exports and imports, cover ing in detail the fiscal year ending with Jane 30th, 1872. From this report it appears that the total imports of the country, deducing re-exports, were $617,- 569,569, gold valuation. The exports, at gold valuation on the basis of gold at 10 per cent, premium, were§500,199,144, giving an excess of imports over exports of §117,369,825, gold value. The im ports were in excess of exports in our trade with Cuba, Brazil, China, France, Canada, Germany and Mexico: and the exports were in excess of imports with Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Pern, Russia, Spain, Hayti, Chili and Danish W. I. The excess of imports from the Island of Cuba alone is $54,156,336, nearly one-half of the whole balance of trade that stands against us. The sum of om exchange with countries in North and Sonth America and the Caribbean sea are about three hundred millions, or twenty-five per cen.t. of our total foreign exchanges. COTTON. Review of the Meek. [From tho Financial Chronicle.] Friday, )}. m., May 23, 1873. By special telegrams received to-night from the Southern ports, we are in pos session of the returns showing the re ceipts, exports, Ac., of cotton for the week ending this evening, May 23. It appears that the total receipts for the seven days have reached 34,044 bales against 41,031 bales last week, 43,770 bales the previous week and 48(046 bales three weeks since, making the to tal receipts since the first of September, 1872, 3,378,514 bales against 2,641,119 bales for the same period of 1871-72, showing an increase since September 1, 1872, of 737,395 bales. The exports for the week ending this evening reach a total of 42,542 bales, of which 29,807 were to Great Britain, 4,849 to France, and 7,886 to the rest of the Continent, while the stocks, as made up this evening, are now 327,529 bales. From the foregoing statement it will be seen that, compared with the corres ponding week of last season, there is an increase in the exports this week of 27,- 704 bales, while the stocks to-n ght arc 121,509 bales more than they were at this time a year ago. The market the past week has been quiet for cotton on the spot, though du ring Wednesday and Thursday there was some improvement in the demand aud a steadier feeling generally. This improvement was due to better advices from Liverpool, but private cablegrams were received, stating that the renewed life there was due to reports pub lished in Liverpool of very bad weather iu our Cotton States.— These reports not being supported by late information here from the South, our market lost this improved tone, and to-day was dull, and so closed, but with out change in the quotations. For fu ture delivery the market has shown similar changes, though they have been more marked. Prices were drooping till towards the close of Tuesday’s business, when, witli better private advices from Europe, they took an upward turn, and in the course of Thursday a considerable advance was paid. May contracts, which had sold on Tuesday at 18J, touched 18 31-32, and other months showed a similar or greater rise. Before the close, however, a reaction set in and a portion of the advance was lost. To-day prices nearly returned to those of Tuesday and closed weak, sales being made after ’Change at 184 c. for June and 17c. for December—the latter with seller paying brokerage. The total sales of this de scription for the week are 69,900 bales, including free on board. For im mediate delivery the total sales foot up this week 8,240 bales, including 3,109 for export, 4,876 for consumption, 255 for specnlation, and in transit. Os the abovo 1,137 bales were to arrive. Weather Reports by Telegraph.— Our advices to-night by telegraph show an improving condition of the crop. They have undoubtedly had a cold late Spring throughout the South, very simiilar to our own, and as a general thing cot ton is small, but good progress is now being made, and the present indications ar’, we think, increasingly favorable. In some sections there has been consid erable rain during the week, but we have received no complaints on that account. At New Orleans and Mobile the weather has been warm, sultry and wet, raining more than half the week, but at Mobile the latter part of the week has been clear and pleasant ; the crop is developing promisingly. This rain does not ap pear to have extended over the whole State, as our Montgomery dispatch states that it has been warm and dry at that point through the whole seven days. At Selma there has been no rain except on one day ; the crop is developed promisingly. From Colum bus we Rave failed to receive our usual weather telegram. Our correspondent at Macon telegraphs that on three days in the earlier part of tlie week they had rain, but the balance of tlie week has been pleasant ; the dispatch adds that the young cotton is small, owing to the late Spring. At Charleston they have also Rad some fine showers, which were much needed. It has rained one day at Memphis, hard, but the remainder of the week has been pleasant ; planting is now about completed, and the condi tion of the crop is said to be only moderate. At Nashville it has rained on two days; there are less complaints about the crop now, and it is in a rather more favorable condition. The thermometer at Memphis has averaged 73; at Savan nah, 73; Macon, 78; Mobile, 76; Mont gomery, 74. Consumption of American Cotton to November Ist. —A correspondent sends us a statement of the movement of American cotton for the balance of the season, and asks us to point out what errors there may be in it. Believing the subject to be of some interest at tlie present moment, we give the following as our own view of tlie approximate supply for Liverpool, up to November Ist, using our friend’s figures so far they are applicable : Stock of American on liand at Liver pool May 16 366,000 American afloat for Liverpool May 16. 200,000 Exported week ending May 16 not in cluded in afloat 51,395 Exports to Liverpool to Sept. 1 from May 16 300,000 Exports from Sept. 1, '73, to Nov. 1, '73, (which will arrive) 60,000 Total bales 977,395 The portion of stock now held by Eng lish spinners, which they can use if desired 80,000 Total supply for Liverpool to Nov. 1 (24 weeks) .1,027,395 Total consumption, if we accept Smith, Edwards & Co.’s estimate (33,000 bales per ivee«) 792,000 Stock of American in Liverpool Nov. 1 would be 265,395 These figures are of course only an approximation. We allow nothing for exports from Liverpool, having deduct ed that in the estimated future move ment from this side; and, on the other hand, it is not at all unlikely that the consumption of American may be less than it has been during the earlier part of the year, as the India cotton now coming on the market is much superior in quality to the last crop. Os course, either very unfavorable reports with re gard to our growing crop, or very low prices for cotton, mi .-fit induce spinners to stock up ; but, otherwise, the above may, we think, be taken as less than the stock of American cotton at Liverpool is likely to be at the date specified. Bombay Shipments.— According to our cable dispatch received to-day, there have been 43,000 bales shipped from Bombay to Great Britain the past week and 10,000 bales to the Continent, while the receipts at Bombay, during the same time, have been 42,000 bales. From the foregoing it would appear that compared with last year there is an increase this year in the week’s ship ments from Bombay to all of Europe of 6,000 bales, and that the total move ment since January 1 shows a decrease iu shipments of 51,000 bales compared with the corresponding period of 1872. Gunny Bags, Bagging, &c.—The market for bagging has ruled very quiet ! the past week. Sales as recorded foot J up about 2,000 rolls; about 500 rolls ; Ludlow at 13c. cash, 500 rolls Ludlow at 13c. cash, and 500 rolls Boston at 13c. j cash. We hear that 13‘c. was offered ; for 500 rolls more Boston, and 18 Jc. was ; asked. The market is not animated, but it is steady, the price being 13@13ic. : cash for immediate delivery, and i 14i@14;C. for Summer. There has been | but little doing in bags, the market be ing very quiet. The quoted price of bags j is 14i@15c., according to weights. The market for butts has met with more ac tivity lately, but at falling prices. The week opened with the market at 2c. less discount and 2 l-16e. on time. At the close of the week the price may be quoted at l;c. cash. The reported sales for the past week foot up about 3,800 bales, part at 2 l-16c. time, 2c. time, 2c. less discount for cash, 1 15-16 c. cash and lie. cash. The recent arrivals and telegrams showing increased shipments from Calcutta, have caused the market to decline. Visible Supply of Cotton Made Up by Cable and Telegraph. —By cable we have to-night the stocks at the different European ports, the Indian cotton afloat for all of Europe, and the American afloat for each port as given below. From figures thus received, we have ; prepared the following table, showing she quantity of cotton in sight at this date (May 23): Stock in Liverpool bales . 752.00(1 Stock in London 160.250 Stock in Havre 144.000 Stock in Marseilles 17.250 Stock in Bremen 52.750 Stock in Amsterdam 83.000 Stock in Antwerp 33,000 Stock in Hamburg 37.500 Stock in Barcelona 67.750 Stock in Trieste 18.500 Afloat for Great Britain (American i... 215.000 Afloat for Havre I American and Brazil) 31.000 Afloat for Bremen (American) 11.000 Afloat for Amsterdam (American; 5,000 | Total Indian cotton afloat for Europe . 4t>3.000 Stock in United States ports 327.529 | Stock in inland towns 05.879 j Exports from United States tliis week. 42’542 Total 2,526,950 j These figures indicate an increase in , cotton in sight to-night of 92,490 bales, ! compared with the same date of 1872. THE COURT OF CLAIMS. MORE PLUMS FOR SOUTHERN CLAIMANTS. Another Batcfi of Judgment —Tli e Lucky Litigants—The Estate of Thus. Metcalf Gets the Largest Slice—The Questions Decided. Washington, May 26. —The Court of Claims has rendered the following judg ments for cotton saized by Gen. Sher man’s forces at the time of the capture of Savannah, and sold by the United States: In favor of Williamjßattersby for $87,014; in favor of William Battersby and Andrew for $3,940; in favor of Win. Battersby aud Octavus Cohen for $7,881; in favor of Wm. Battersby and tlie ex ecutors of Tlios. S. Metcalf for $485,242 —the latter being the largest single judgment ever rendered by the Court of Claims. Battersby is an alien sub ject of Great Britain, who has resided for 30 years in Savannah. The other parties are citizens of Georgia. The cotton claim of Wm. S. Miller, another British subject, was dismissed on the ground that the cotton for which he sued was purchased by him outside of the Union lines and in violation of the regulations then in force. Judgment was rendered for $155,554 iu favor of Charles Green, of Savannah, who is a subject of Great Britaiu. The main question in this (the Green) case was, whether an alien domiciled during the rebellion within the insurrectionary States could be guilty of the crime of treason against the United States. The Court of Claims, following a decision of the United States Supreme Court at the last term, decides this question affirmatively, but also holds, under the same decision, that aliens guilty of treason by failing to observe their obligations of qualified al legiance, were included in and pardoned by the President’s amnesty proclama tion of December 25th, 1868. A decis ion was rendered in the long pending case of Eliza J. Atocha, administratrix of Alexander J. Atocha, deceased. Atocha was a native of Spain, but a nat uralized citizen of the United States, who did business as a banker in the City of Mexico, and was expelled from that country during the revolution of 1845, which overthrew tlie Government of Santa Anna. The United States having, by treaty of Gaudnloup and Hidalgo, as sumed the claims of its own citizens against Mexico, Atocha presented his claim for losses caused by his expulsion, and it was rejected by the commission appointed to examine such claims. Sub sequently, in 1865, Corigress referred the claim to this Court, which now ren ders judgment in favor of Atocha against the United States for $207,- 459 37, being the balance of the three and a quarter millions provided by the treaty of Gaudaloupe-Hidalgo for payment of claims of citizens of the United States aga’nst the Government of Mexico, which now remains unapplied to that objecti Judgments will also be ren dered for $92,598, in favor of Wm. W. Cones, of Memphis, for cotton seized by the Government, and in favor of Harvey and Levisy for $42,306 for work aud damages in building a bridge for tlie Government at Rock Island. In the case of the executors of John J. Piatt, a claim for supplies furnished the army in the war of 1812, the Court found that tlie Government was justly indebted to Piatt to the amount of $131,509, but were equally divided upon a subsequent question, namely: whether a judgment for part of the debt under a private act of Congress, does not bar a recovery for the balance now. Mr. Piatt, after press ing this claim upon the Government for many years, died in a debtors’ prison in this city. The Court, after hearing 'argument in the Hot Springs cases, ad journed till next Monday, when an ad journment will probably be ordered until October. , LOUISIANA. TRIAL OP (JEN, DeBLANC, ET ALS. A Dark Cloud of Witnesses—How a Tool of Tyranny Makes Affidavits “on General Principles”—The Case Submitted Without Defense—Trium phant Acquittal. New Orleans, May 26.—Generals De- Blanc, DeUlonet, and others, from St. Martinsville, were up this morning for trial, and charged by L. T. Martin with conspiracy, etc., or as commonly called, Ku-Kluxism. The witnessss for the prosecution being called, J. L. Been, colored, was sworn : Reside in St. Mar tins, and am a planter. Have resided there thirty years. I am acquainted with the prisoners. Know nothing against them. Witness here desired to hear the affidavit read, which was done. Knew nothing of no such offense being committed by prisoners. I was at St. Martins in May. Knew of no colored people hindered in the exercise of their rights as citizens. Victor Pochon, colored, one of the parties named in the affidavit, and a member of the bayonet Legislature, testified: I know the prisoners. I never knew of their doing anything against the colored people. I did inform Mr. Martinett that the Fusionists intended to resist the police in our parish, and asked him to obtain United States troops to preserve the peace. I, how ever, knew of no offense being commit ted by the prisoners. None of them did anything to any colored man that I know of. I was present at the time of the troubles. I only saw two of the gentlemen there. I saw them where they usually were, in town by themselves and quietly walking together. Question by the defense. You say you wanted soldiers to preserve the peace ? ( Answer. Yes, I did, because I did not desire the people hurt, and I knew, at least they said, that if United States troops came all would be quiet. Gustave Baker, colored, resides in St. Martin and is a teacher ; I know the gentlemen (the prisoners). I do not know of their intimidating colored peo ple. There were rumors to that effect, but no one credited them. The rumor was that if the police were whipped, the colored people would next be attacked. None of the colored people believed this, however. I did not see any of these gentlemen skirmishing with tyie police. Know nothing about their being con nected with the affair. They never kept me from attending school or did anything against any colored men. Theogine Castell, colored. I know the gentlemen (the prisoners). I know of nothing against the gentlemen. They never intimidated any colored men in the parish to my knowledge. I saw them in St. Martin. They had no arms or weapons and were peaceably walking about, tending to their business. Chas. Hercure, colored. I keep a store in St. Martin. Know the gentle men. They never intimidated any col ored people or any one else. Never in timidated me. Saw Gen. Deßlanc after he was arrested, not before. They are all quiet and peaceable. I have known them for years. Gen. Deßlanc has been a friend of the colored people. Adolphe Pratt, white : I live in St. Martin. Know the gentlemen. Was there all the time. They never hurt any colored people. I did see them ‘ once, Messrs. Declanet A Bertrand, with | shot guns. Do not know whether they were connected with any body of men 'or not I was not disturbed and nobody was hurt. I saw a fight, but did not recognize any of the gentlemen there. Monroe Baker, colored : I reside in St. Martin and keep a livery stable. Know prisoners. They never troubled the colored people at all. The police : were the only people that made any dis turbance. They went out one evening I and after shooting came back again, i Two of them were shot. They forced Ime to receive them. I never saw the ■ prisoners make any disturbance. Gen. Deßlanc, whom I have known for a life time, has always been the best friend of the colored man. Lablane Adair, colored : I am a preacher and reside in St. Martin. Know the gentlemen. They never hurt anv colored people or intimidated them in j the least degree. It is true the colored ! people were frightened, but the white j people talked to them, and they found 1 they would not be hurt. The police ! came and fired, which was returned. I kept ont of the way. I have a place j there and own a plantation. After firing the police came back. I did not go .ont after the police came. Alcede Neasie, white : I reside in St. Martin. Am clerk of the' Court. The prisbners never intimidated anybody, except the Metropolitans. Never in timidated any colored people. The (ITT » i ■ 1 , rTTFV prisoners went out to camp. I saw them When they left town. Col. Deßlanc com manding, They went quietly on horse back, armed with shot guns. It was on the 4th of May. They went about two miles from town. They were organized about ten or fifteen days. They had a list, with names signed, to resist the police. None of the prisoners’ names were signed to this, however. I saw them every day quietly in town. Never heard them say anything against any - body but the police. I was elected clerk of the Court, but nobody ever kept me out of it by intimidation, only through the Courts. Mr. Sonnet, clerk at the time, did. He did not resist mo by force. I was elected on tlie Republican ticket. All the officers were white men on this ticket, the same as the Fusion ticket. The Fusion officers never made any effort at intimidation of ns. We are now in office and nobody intimidates us or attempted to. The Fusion clerk of the Court kept me out by an injunction. This has, however, been dissolved by Judge Castell in private chambers. No regular judgment was made. This was done iu the private chambers.— There is someone claiming Judge Cas ■tell’s office, which has never been de cided. Judge Castell held court only once since the stli of May. Fontinell, white: I am Deputy Sheriff. I know the prisoners. They resisted tho Kellogg government and the Metropoli tanjpqlice. Tin y said they would not submit to the Kellogg government. The colored people had nothing to do with this. They were let alone and not in terfered with. Edward Jost, colored: I live in St. Martin and am coroner of the parish. Do not know any but Mr. Bertrand. Never saw any of the gentlemen doing anything to anybody. None of the prisoners ever intimidated any officer. They never troubled the colored people. Martinell Swann: All I know of these gentlemen was in St. Martins. Some time before, I received information that the Fusionists intended to resist the po lice. I was afraid they might hurt the col ored people. The three gentlemen ex amined stated to me tluit they then were not themselves intimidated, but other colored people were. Did not hear that colored people were gi >ing to be hurt, but 1 was myself afraid of that faot, and I could not get the soldiers to go unless I made the affidavit. Therefore I did it. Ido not know, however, of anything they did. I only made the affidavit on general principles, having an idea that they were leading the Fusionists. In fact, I thought Deßlanc would be there. I had no other knowledge. I also had a letter stating that there was going to be a fight. It was written by those men who said they wero not intimidated this a. m. lam a member of the Legislature —Kellogg’s Legislature. Thought the McEnery Legislature also acknowledged me. I said on affidavit that Pochon, Meyers and others were intimidated. They sent me a letter with that fact. [The letter read in evidence. It stated that the Fusionists intended to fight the police at all hazards. They assured him that it was the belief of the colored peo plo that they might be attacked, though they intended to keep out of the fight, believing that the Fusiionists under Gen. Deßlanc were good uieiq and only in tended to resist tlie Kellog ggovernment. J I made the affidavit, as I have said, to bring up the troops. I consulted Judge Billings and Kellogg;. The latter ad vised me to make this affidavit. I refuse to answer who else advised me. Gen. Grant advised Marshal Packard to use United States troops when he wanted them, and that js one of the reasons I did it. I saw Govern or Kellogg the day I made the affidavit. He then said the police could hold on, but I didn’t be lieve it. The evidence for the prosecution was now closed and the counsel for the de-. sense, intimating that they could not offer on their own behalf anything stronger than had already been shown, submitted the case, whereupon the Com missioner said: “ this case there is no proof to justify the detention of the prisoners. I regret that there should be those im bued with, fears which impel them to suggest %> others the making of affida vits with but just cause. Those who en gage in this kind of work should look better to be attending t;o their own busi ness. To be sure the defendants have been unjustly put to expense of time and money, but this is a sacrifice they must be content to end'are for the good of the body politic.” Kellogg’s Attorney General this morn ing filed in the First District < onrt an information against M. M. Cohen and C. R. Rally, jointly charged with at tempting to murder W. P. Kellogg—the assassination case. The parties were bailed iu $5,000. THE GALLOWS. THE LAST EXECUTION IN GEOR GIA. Hanging of Nick Boswell in Eatontou —The Crime, the Criminal and the Punishment—Composure of the Con demned—The Leap Into Eternity. [SPECIAI.LT REPORTED FOR THE CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.] Eatonton, Ga.. May 24, 1873. HANGING NOT PLAYED OUT. Hanging in the State of Georgia is fast becoming a thing of no uncommon occurrence. Justice, which seems to have been sleeping during the past de cade, appears to be awakening, and now the man who, a few years ago, could with impunity imbrue his hands wilful ly and maliciously in a fellow creature’s blood, for such a crime almost invariably forfeits his life upon the scaffold. It should not be otherwise. The safety and security of society demand the pun ishment of those who wantonly infringe its laws. The last execution which took place in the State was that of Nick Bos well, colored, who was hanged in this place yesterday, at one o’clock, p. m. He was convicted during the March term of Putnam county Superior Court of the murder of Robert G adden, also colored, and sentenced to be hanged on the 23d day of May. Efforts were made to in duce the Governor to commute his sen tence to imprisonment in the penitentia ry for life, but these proving ineffectual, that sentence was eiecuted upon him yesterday. THE CRIME. The circumstances attending the kill ing, as shown by the evidence adduced on the trial, were substantially the fol lowing : In January last, the negroes of the community in which both of the parties resided met for the purpos'o of having a kind of social reunion. Many, no doubt, were partially intoxicated, and among others the perpetrator of the crime. There was, however, no evidence to show that there was a general melee ; none to show that these parties were, before this gathering, on unfriendly terms. But in the midst of the festivi tives, according to the testimony of several witnessed, Boswell drew his knife and deliberately, and without provocation, stabbed Gadden in the bowels, the force of the blow causing his entrails to protrude. Gadden, after being stabbed, lived but a short while, and when dying declared that Boswell had killed him. On the testimony 1 of several witnesses that they heard these dying declarations, and of one, that he saw the crime committed, the jury predicated their verdict of guilty! ALMOST AN ESCAPE. I will mention here that shortly after the commission of the homicide, Bos well was arrested and brought before a Justice of the Peace, but there being in sufficient evidence to convict, he was released. More facts being discovered, he was again arrested and committed to jail to await trial at the following term of the Superior Court, at which he was convicted. When asked if he had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he simply replied, “They all say I did it, and I reckon I will have to stand it.” # While the Judge was sentencing,him, fa* atood unmoved and perfectly indifferent. In deed, he did not seem to realize the full force and meaning of the proceedings. EXPIATION. The execution had been ordered to take place in private, no spectators be ing permitted to be present except a guard and the friends that the prisoner might wish to have around him. How ! ever, early Friday morning jieople be gan to collect in town from the surround ing country, determined, if they could not witness the execution, to soe the criminal removed from the jail, and fol low him until the high enclosure sur rounding the gallows should forever ex clude him while in life from their gaze. After entering this enclosure the con demned man gave out and united in singing, in a tone in which there was no perceptible. tremor, the hymn commencing: “Why do we mourn de parting friends ?” When this song was ended he mounted upon the scaffold and knelt in prayer, earnestly praying that “the example which was aliout to be made of him might be a warning to all others.” At the conclusion of a second hymn and a prayer, offered by the at tending clergyman in his behalf, lie bade farewell to kindred and friends, shook hands with the sheriff, and with the utmost composure stepped upon the drop. When asked by the minister if he was prepared to (lie, he answered firmly, “I am.” The sheriff mounted the gallows, read aloud the judgment of the Court, ordering the execution, and as ho read the concluding sentence, “may tho Lord have mercy on your soul,” the condemned man responded “Amen. ” The noose was arranged over his neek and the fatal cap that forever shut out the world from his view was adjusted. When everything was in readiness the preacher again asked him wliat song ho wished his friends to sing. He said, and these were his last words— “any you wish”—aud as they entered upon the hymn, “Why Should we Stand and Fear to Die?” The final momentr four minutes before ono o’clock, so which all were anxiously looking, ar rived; the cord supporting tho drop was severed, aud the body fell clear six feet, with a dull, heavy tliud; remained sta tionary fora while, and then drew up its shoulders twice iu succession, but there was no violent struggling, not a twitch ing of the fingers, nor moving of the legs. The neck was broken. The pulse, however, continued to beat for fifteen minutes Rfter tlie falling of the drop, and then lie was pronounced dead by Dr. Nisbet, the examining physician. At the expiration of twenty-two minutes the body was cut and iwn and delivered to bis friends, to be disposed of as they wished. When the cap was removed his features appeared natural; there were no indications of his having suffer ed any intense agony. G. A SAD SCENE. A Brooklyn Quarrel-A Law Student Kills llis Mother. New York, May 26.—A sad domestic tragedy was enacted in South Brooklyn last evening. George Roderick, aged 20, resided with his parents at No. 105 Ninth street, near Second avenue. Yes terday morning he went on an excursion with a party of friends to Fort Hamil ton, and returned to tho city about 6, p. m. While walking along Second avenue, on his way home, ho met Thomas Fit lum, and was engaged iu conversation with him when another acquaintance, James Corcoran, advanced toward them from the opposite side of the avenue. They noticed that he was considerably under the influence of liquor, and, be ing anxious to avoid him, quickened their steps until they reached Roderick’s house. They then halted, and Roderick had liis hand on the gate, and was abo.'t to open it, when Corcoran ran up and caught him by tlie arm, at tho same time exclaiming, “Do you want to fight?” Roderick replied that ho did not oaro about fighting and requested Corcoran to remove Ins hand. But this the intox icated man refused to do and continued to jerk away at his coat-sleeve. Fitlum then got hold of Corcoran and was striv ing to pull him away from tho gate, when Roderick criodj “ Tom let him go!” This Fitlum did and tho two men then endeavored to pacify their friend, but their efforts were unavailing, as he became wild with passion and in sisted on fighting with them. Finally lie broke away from Fitlum, who had again seized him, and dashing up to Roderick struck him several blows in the face. Roderick drew back and placed his hand in his coat pocket. Corcoran perceiving this, exclaimed, “ I hear that you have a revolver; well I’ve one too,” and at tho same time he struck Rode rick another blow, which was returned. Mrs. Ann Roderick, aged 50, who lmd witnessed the quarrel from tho parlor window, where siie had been seated, ran out at tliis moment aud stepped in be tween her son and Corcoran just as both had drawn their revolvers. She besought the drunken fellow to go away, and was urging her son to enter tlie house, when Corcoran made an effort to push her aside and obtain possession of his oppo nent’s weapon, During the struggle the revolver held by Roderick was dis charged, and a hall entered the right eye of his mother, who dropped dead instantly upon the sidewalk. Seeing what had been done, Corcoran quickly ran across the Hamilton avenue bridge, and was arrested for drunkenness by an officer of the Third Precinct, who had no knowledge of tho tragedy. Young Roderick was horror-stricken at the terrible fate of bis mortlier, and throw himself upon tlie ground beside her body, weeping bitterly. Tlie neighbors assisted Mr. Roderick in conveying the body of his wi e into the house, and the grief-stricken son gave himself into cus tody of Sergeant Driscoll, of tho Eighth Precinct. He was locked up in tlie station house with Fitlum, wlio is held as a wit ness. The young man is a student in the law office of Messrs. Morris Sr l’ear sail, and bears a good reputation, llis father is engaged in the wholesale drug business in New York. KILLED BY 1118 SON. A Fearful Domestic Tragedy. [Prom the Savannah News, of yesterday.] The victim was Elders Ditterich Meyer, who'Opened a retail grocery and liquor store in the basement. He was gen erally reputed a peaceable man in the neighborhood whon not under the in fluence of liquor. But unfortunately it seems this was frequently the case, and numerous disturbances in the domestic circle resulted from this, until it became generally known that Meyer and his wife did not live happily together, the cause of which is alleged on one hand to have been the result of his drunken sprees, during which lie beat his wife terribly. On the other hand, it is as serted that tho wife was of .a jealous dis position, and was very high tempered. However this may be, it iiad only the result of arraying the son, a youth of eighteen years, named August, against his father, and they had several difficul ties in regard to tho treatment of his mother. These, however, had resulted in nothing but harsh words and a few blows. Things went on from bad to worse, however, and bad feelings were engendered. It appears that, mixed up in this unfortunate case of domestic in felicity, was “a strange woman,” whom Mrs. Meyer conceived had alienated the affections of her husband. Upon this subject rnanybitter words had occurred, and yesterday eventuated in a bloody tragedy, which occurred In tho store when only husband, wife and son were present, and which is somewhat shroud ed in mystery. It appears that during the morning Mrs. Meyer, according to her statement, discovered her husband, under suspicious circumstances, in an outhouse on the premises. A difficulty immediately ensued, when, it is assert ed, Meyer seized his wife and roughly used her, and on entering the store the quarrel was renewed, aud the bad feel ings excited increased as the day ad vanced, culminating in the afternoon in another row, in which it appears tho son was concerned in some manner. Meyer, in his anger, threw a pitcher at the head of his son. No further difficulty oc curred at the time so far as we can learn, and the son shortly after went out. In 'the meantime another disturbance oc curred between Meyer and his wife, in which it is asserted he struck her iu the mouth, the blow causing the blood to low. A few minutes after the son August re-entered the store, and seeing the condition of his mother, inquir ed the cause. Upon learning it, August denounced the conduct of his father, who replied, it is said, “Go to hell; I’ll kill you both if you don’t like it.” Shortly after uttering this remark, and before many more words were spoken, a shot was fired from a pistol, followed quickly by another, and Ehlers Ditterich Meyer lay stretched upon the floor of his store a dead man, both the shots fired having taken effect in the right and left breast. Immediate ly after the killing, August Meyer pro ceeded to the barracks and surrend.-red himself, stating that hekilled bis father. He was taken m custody and placed in confinement. Further than this state ment nothing was gleaned 'from him. Three witnesses were examined, whose testimony we give below. Carrie Wil son, the woman whom Mrs. Meyer states she caught with the deceased in the morning, was called in and testified that she knew nothing whatever of the case, and was upon Jones street, in company with a friend, when she heard of the killing. Miss Wilson denied most posi tively the assertion of Mrs. Meyer that she had seen her with Meyer in an out house, and swore she had not spoken to deceased the entire day. The jury were considerably nonplus sed over the evidence, and were nearly an hoar and a half making up a verdict. NUMBEII It will bo seen by tile evidence tin' slightest information is gi.eii^HH gurd to who did the shooting. Meyer informed us personally that nߧ did not see the pistol; did not know wuoß tired it. No pistol was produced, and i the only clue tho jury hail as to who did the shooting was th ough tho surrender of young Meyer, and his acknowledg ment, which, however, was not made on oath or to the jury. Catherine Moyers testified—l am the wife of the deceased; I was present when my husband and my son August Meyers quarreled; I caught my hus band having improper intercourse with a neighbor, Carrie Wilson; when I up braided him ho threatened to kill me and his son; I was present when the shots were fired; I heard two shots; I eannot tell in whose hand the pistol was; there were only three persons present, myself, deceased and our son, all in the store; I was near the street door; my husband was standing near the door leading into the outry and my son was between deceased ..and myself, in a triangular position; I was distant from deceased about eight yards and my situ was distant from me anil deceased about four yards; I am not certain whotlier I turned toward deceased or from him, but I turned toward* him after tho first shot; the two shots were fired in rapid succession; deceased did not fall-after the first shot; he fell almost immediate ly after the second shot; deceased did nor move nor speak after he fell; I saw deceased many times with a weapon, he had in fact a pistol with him at the time, threatening us frequently; our neigh bors know this: deceased attempted to kill his own son with a water pitcher this evening; my son stepped out im mediately after the occurrence; I hero f show you the marks of violence done mo by deceased. Recalled—My son had come in nbout ten minutes; he was perfectly sober; my husband was sober, too; when my son came in I told him his father hail beaten me, and 1 showed him tho marks of violence; when ho upbraided de ceased about this, he said, “ You may go to hell, or I will kill you both;” my son made no answer; I could not tell if deceased hail a pistol in his hand; my son was friendly with deceased up to the occurence. After a long consultation, tho jury rendered tho following verdict, about 121 o’clock, four of tho jurors, as will bo seen,'signing tho same under protest, believing that tho act was committed in self-defense: “ We, the jury, find that Elders Dit terieh Meyer came to his death from tjvo gun shot wounds, ono in tho right breast and one in the corresponding left, the gun or pistol to have been fired by deceased’s son, August Meyer, in the store, corner of Price anil Charlton street, 27th May, about!! o’clock.” A New City in the South- " k The South has always dreamed of having a great city of her owh —n South ern metropolis ; if not a New York, at’ least a Boston, which lias pride in other tilings beside bhlk—a real provincial capital, with a provincial aristocracy. Sho fancied she had it when the Nation al Capital was moved from Philadelphia to Washington. Washington was the geographical heart of the country, and it was thought it might become tho Paris or tho Berlin of tho South, if not the London of the Continent. But there were two obstacles, both of which proved insurmountable. In the first place there was slavery, and in the sec ond, Washington was 200 miles from the sea. It lay far inland, up a circuitous river, but not a harbor inviting to the shipping of all nations. But now a century Ims gone by in an exceedingly short space of time—in fact, since 1800, slavery is passed, and the most effective motive that over moved human effort has been planted in the negro mind, 4,000,000 strong. There is to be a cotton crop of 5,000,000 bales— two thousand million pounds of cotton a year, and increasing on that. There is to bo also a now seaport, or a seaport rediscovered after being forgotten for a century, because, although it was known to the Government, nothing led to it from inland, and, consequently, it lay unused and almost unknown to ships. It seems now, therefore, as if the South might realize its old dream of commer; cial importance, and have a city of its own, not equal to New York, but short ly challenging Boston. Citizens of the great metropolis can afford to help her build a competing emporium, since they have quite out-grown any feelings of jealousy, and may even rejoice at such wholesome competition as sho can setup. Thore is one reason why the splendid harbor of Port ltoyal has attracted so little attention heretofore. It is situated half-way between tho long-established ports of Charleston anil Havannah, both of which have had railway connection inland, with old steamer lines to New York; and it is qnly recently that, the harbor has been perfectly buoyed by the Coast Survey Board. Now, how ever, under tho late Professor A. I). Baclie, it has been thoroughly furnished in this respect; and it is officially an nounced that it can bo entered by "any vessel yet built, without a pilot,” the only direction necessary being to sail in and out by the colored sides of tho buoys, which every sailor understand^. The late completion of the railroad - from Port Poyal to Augusta gives a through trunk line of communication to Nashville, St. Louis, Memphis, and all the principal distributing points of the South, at the sametimo connecting witli tho ports of Savannah and Charleston. And there is this remarkable fact to bo observed, that the southwestern trend of the Atlantic coast, below the capes of Delaware, gives a much nearer lino of transportation from St. Louis, the great center of the Mississippi Valley, to Port Royal, than to the Northern ship ping ports of New York and Boston. While freights may be lower over the Northern roads for the home markets of the Eastern States, it must bo much cheaper to take tho Southern ro#ds for all products intended for foreign mar kets, ns the following tublo of distances clearly shows : * Mill*. Will*. St. Louis to New York.. ..1201 ..To I'ort Poyah.. .OKI Louisville to Now York... 968. .To Port Itoyal... .75:1 Memphis to New York .. .1945. .To Port Itoyal 727 Cincinnati to New York .. 861. .To Port Iloyal 860 Cincinnati is tho point from which, going West, tho distan’ces favor tho Southern route. This little table may do a world of good for tho bread-and mcat eaters of the North. It says to the great consolidating and monopoliz ing railroad lines which govern our tables, “ Reduce your freights or you lose trade.” Here, certainly, are th’e principal con ditions, now first realized by the Houth for tho building up of anew city on their own delightful coast. It needs only enterprise and perseverai*e to suc ceed; and all should liail tho project as a very important part of the grand work of Southern reconstruction, in which the Houth can hardly fail to receive the cor dial co-operation of Northern capital and Northern skilled labor.— New York 'Jribune. Frost Statistics. —The following in teresting frost statistics is taken from the Charleston Nwh <V Courier, furnish ed that paper from a record in a meteo rological journal, kept in St. John’s Berkeley, for the last twenty-eight years, from 1846 to 1873. The latest killing frosts have occurred as follows, viz : 1846 March 17 I 1851) April 24 I 18-17 April 17 | 1860 April 3 1848 March 17 1861 March 25 1849 April 20 1862 March 28 1850 April 1 1863.... April 10 1851 March 21 1864.... April 17 1852 April 9 1867. .. .April 7 1863 March 29 1808.. . March 22 1854 Ma yl 1869.... April 15 1855 April 12 1870. .March 19 1856 April 6 1871.... March 1 1857 April 23 1872 . March 22 1858 April 28 1873. . . .April 26 It will be observed that cotton planted at the usual time, about April Ist, and on to the 15th, would be killed or se riously injured eight years of the twen ty-six noted above. Vegetation inuynot have been entirely killed in all of the above dates, but iu some instances partially, as on the 20th April ; and generally young cotton, if not killed by frost, sickens and con tinues to die, requiring continual sup plying, causing irregular stands. It is a safe rule always to keep a replanting of seed. The Wreck of the Atlantic. Halifax, May 27. —The schooner An nie Brown, chartered by the New York Wrecking Company to carry goods from the wrock of tho Atlantic, has been seized by orders of tho Vice-Admiralty at the suit of Edward Brown, James Couland and others of Prospect, who claim 88,000 as compensation for saving life and property at tho time of tho wrock.
