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OLD SERIES—VOL. LXXI NEW SERIES VOL XXXVII (Ttyronfcb anb WEDNESDAY . . JULY IC, 1873. TKRMH. THE DAILY CHRONICLE A SENTINEL, tbs oldest newspaper in the South. is published duly, except Monday. Terms : Per yew. $10; t-ix month*. $5; three month*, $2 50. THE TRI WEEKLY CHRONICLE A SENTI NEL is published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Term*: One year, $5 ; six month". $2 50. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE A SENTINEL is published every Wednesday. Term*: One year, $2 ; Mix months, sl. SUBSCRIPTIONS in all case* in advance, and no paper continued after the expiration of the time paid for. RATES OF ADVERTISING IN DAILY.—AII transient advertisement* will he charged at the rate of $1 per square for each insertion for the first week. Advertisements in the Tri-Weekly, two-third* of the rate* in the j Daily : and in the Weekly, one-half the ( Daily rate*. Marriage and Funeral Notices ! $1 each. Special Notice*, $1 per square I for the first publication. Special rate* will I be made for advertisement* running for a j mouth or longer. REMITTANCES should be made by Post Office Money Order or Express. If thi* cannot be ; done, prof set lon against losses by mail may be secured by forwarding a draft payable j to the Proprietor* of the Cbboniclk and Hkntinki., or by sending the money In a registered letter. Addre** WALSH A WRIGHT, Cnno.vin.K A Hkntinki.. Augusta, Ga. COMPLIMENT TO A YOUNG GEOR GIAN. We understand that Mr. Samuel Bar nett, a graduate of the University of Georgia, and at present Instructor in Mathematics in the State College of Agriculture, lias been elected Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Univer sity of Louisiana, with a salary of 82,(100. Mr. Barnett is a son of Mr. Samuel Barnett, of Washington. We congratulate our State University that other institutions arc selecting her graduates a» Professors. This Louisiana State University is the same institution over which Gen. Sherman presided previous to the late war. We learn that all the Faculty of the University united in recommending Mr. j Barnett for the Professorship to which he has been elected. THE WALWORTH CASE. The manner of tlic termination of the Walworth case—a cause crlebre of the criminal Courts —is another and striking evidence of the reaction against murder which is manifesting itself all over the j country. It is true that the offense for the commission of which young Wul-1 wortli has been convicted is one which j lias over been held in just execration by j savage and civilized countries alike. Parricide has always been held infamous, as no people and no law have been able to conceive a justification for the willful homicide of a parent. But the Wal worth case was an exceptional one in many respects. It was a parricide but attended with circumstances which stripped the crime of all its revolting features. Frank Walworth was the sou I of tlic slain, but it is hardly paradoxical to say that Mansfield Tracy Walworth j was not the father of his murderer. I Hinoe the early years of his childood the father had been estranged from his I family, had been abandoned by his wife | after she hart” endured at bis bands | every species of brutality which a cruel j and selfish nature could suggest. After I the separation his persecutions did not j cease but became daily more odious. [ Insults tlic most vile and threats against | herself and her children the most atrocious were contained in his let ters and those who have read these disgusting epistles have had revealed to them a heartlessness, a malignancy, a depiavity which has never been attain ed before. Frank Walworth, the idol of his mother’s heart and loving her with a devotion passing that felt by most boys, even for a mother, grew up regarding his father as the worst enemy of himself and his family, as the man whom he had most reason to dread and to hate. Day after day he saw his | mother terrified and made miserable by } the cruel outrages to whieh she was sub- j jeoted by the cowardly scoundrel who j had been her husband. At last the end I came. Maddened by conduct which it seemed would never cease, determined to free his mother from further insult, J he went upon his fatal journey to New j York. Whether he went to extort a | promise from Mansfield Tracy Walworth j or to end his brutality and his life to- j gether we know not The jury whioli ! sat in judgment upon his act decided j that there was no premeditation of the crime and doubtless their decision is sustained by the evidence. But the parri- 1 eide’s conduct met with no execration because he was a parricide. On the con trary, many attempted a justification of ; the act and predicted the acquittal of the accused. A New York jury, however, has dashed these expectations to the grottud, and young Walworth—rightly we think—has been convicted of mur der in the second degree. Notwith- 1 standing the provocation, notwithstand ing the vile character ami viler conduct of the slaiu, there was not sufficient justification for liis death. Frank Wal worth has no right to take the law into his own hands. Having done this he must pay the penalty. It would be a dangerous precedent to establish had he been allowed to go free, and had a jury declared that a man may murder one who insults and threatens another, even though that other should be his own mother. A DANGEROUS CUSTOM. If the example set by the two young men of Newark the other day is to be generally followed tlie most disastrous consequences w ill result to the country. Two cousins bearing the anything but eu phonious names of Nadler and Bulelier became enamored of a lady belonging to that class of females of whom Mr. Samuel Weller, Senior, entertained such a profound distrust and deep-rooted aversion—a widow. After paying their addresses for some time to the lovely ] object of their admiration they at last came to the conclusion, which would have occurred to some minds sooner, that there would be difficulty iu both of them marrying her—even sup- j posing that she was charmed with each —unless they should attempt the prac tice of a sort of reversed Mormonism, which the laws of the laud would scarce ly countenance or tolerate. Having ar rived at this point and neither being Trilling to yield his claims iu favor of his rival, they determinewto cut the Gordian love-knot by mutual and simultaneous suicide. Carrying out this sage deter mination the affectionate lovers patron ized the juice of henbane and the root of deadly nightshade, or the less roman tic but more swift and certain strych nine to such an extent that one of the noodles—Nadler— succeeded in extermi nating himself. Bulcher, with equally good intentions, failed and is now alive, sick and disgusted at present, but with a fair prospect of making it all right with the widow in the near future. -But whatever may have been the result in this instance it is the principle of the thing with which we must deal. What is to become of the country if the ad mirers of every beautiful girl or blooming widow—sometimes ranging in numbers from two to a hundred—are to act after i the silly and singular Newark fashion ? The suicidal mania would stop all mar riages and increase of population, and materially lighten the labors of the next census-takers. If the contending par ties were to fight over the matter that course, though bad enough itself, would be infinitely less reprehensible than the conduct of the Newark swains, for in j : that event there would certainly be a j ' survivor of the conflict, and the hand of j ; beauty would be the prize of the victor. | But no survivors of a suicide, ! and the lady whose charms instigate j the self-murder is left desolate, and j from a multitude of admirers is without ' even one. One must think of the lady ! as well as of the men. For instance, in the Newark case it is all very well for I Nadler and Bulcher, but what is to be | come of the widow ? THE SUPREME COURT. The .Savannah Advertiser , of a recent date, contained a well-timed and emi nently sensible article on the Supreme Court. There is no doubt that the Court has become a very cumbersome machine, and that it stands sadly in need of remodeling. The Court now sits fully ten months in the year, and the docket is literally loaded with cases. These vary in magnitude from twenty five to thousands of dollars, Some of them involve nico questions of law— commercial and constitutional—but the great majority of them have nothing at issue which has not already been ad judicated and re-adjudicated. Some thing must be done—some law must be passed—which will reduce the number of cases. The Judges cannot stand such arduous and incessant labor. The Superior Courts can determine no case where the litigant wishes for time, for delay, or where lie is obstinate and un willing to yield. The evil is apparent ; cannot a remedy be suggested ? We hope to hear from some of our legal friends on the subject. THE SOUTH. The Chicago Evening Journal says : “It is exceedingly difficult to ascertain the real condition of the South. Dur ing a political campaign both sides are tempted to misrepresent the facts, and after the campaign interest in the sub ject flags. For mouths very little atten tion has been paid by the press to the South, Louisiana excepted. The great States which arc free from any special disturbance jog on unheeded. “ A traveler, who has spent several weeks in going about in Virginia, Ten nessee, Georgia and Alabama, writes that although lie took special pains to listen to the conversation of groups at hotels, iu the cars, etc,, he did not once hear an allusion to politics. This shows that the people are busying them selves with the ordinary affairs of life. The less prominence they give to politi cal topics the better. The great mass of the people will not, in a Withy state of society, devote very much time and thought to politics. “ The same writer says that the tone and manner of the people indicate no latent and irreconcilable bitterness in the hearts so powerful as to stand in the way of the most cordial co-opera tion for the advancement of their ma terial intyrpsts. They evidently begin to see that free labor, while it makes a change of base in matters of industry necessary, by no means cripples the material strength of the South; but, on the contrary, increases it. It is earnest ly to be hoped that business relations will unify the North and South, as they already have the East and West.” MR. DAVIB IN NEW YORK. Mr. Jefferson Davis, ex-President of the Southern Confederacy, recently paid a vist to New York and stopped at his ante-bellum quarters, the New York Hotel. Os course so soon as the news of the arrival of the Coufedrate chief tain was carried through the city the inevitable interviewer of tlie New York Earwig repaired to the hotel for the purpose of obtaining, by the usual bor ing and pnmpiug process, the “views” of the distinguished “Rebel.” But Mr. Davis, with commendable propriety and good taste, flatly declined to be inter viewed and with characteristic obstinacy declined to yield to the importunities of the Earwig attache.’ The latter, baffled, at length retired and beyond fragments of a cholera converation between Mr. Davis and the hotel proprietor, over heard by the reporter, iu which tlie former pronounced the gentlemen with the black valise now visiting Memphis and Nashville to be the genuine Jacobs from Asia, tlic euterprising journal had nothing to give its readers next morn ing concerning the ex-President. MACON AND BRUNSWICK RAIL ROAD CURRENCY. Governor Smith met a committee of the Board of Trade of Macon in consul tation with regard to the present and future status of this currency. Gover nor Smith has authorized George H. Hazlehurst, Esq., the receiver of the road on the part of the State, to con tinue to receive it at par for all freight and passage over the road, and an nounces his intention to do all he can to j sustain it. lie takes the responsibility ! of this action iu the full belief that it is I best for all concerned that this currency should be sustained. He stated further more that should there be any organ ized effort to break it down by skavidg or discounting it for the purpose of spec ulation, he would shut down upon it— i the currency—at once. He is assured 1 that the road can pay all its current ex- j ponses and take up the entire amount of currency now outstanding within a few mouths, and sees no reason for further j apprehension or uneasiness in connec- j tion with it. Mayor Huff has given in- ; struetions to have it received at par in payment of all taxes, etc., due the city. The Board of Trade has also resolved to ! receive it at par, and to act together to ! sustain it, MILITARY EDUCATION. It is a noticeable fact that there are 1 more youths iu the South receiving I military educations than in the North ern States. At West Point—almost the [ only Northern Military School—there ! were but forty-one graduates for the I present year. There were probably ten i times as many who graduated in the different Military Institutions of the i South. The Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, Virginia, alone furnished j almost as many graduates as the great national college. Those who think that the results of the late war have killed the military colleges of the South are vastly mistaken. On the contrary there is a greater need for them now than there ever was before. Not because another war is to be apprehended or de sired, in which educated soldiers will be needed, but because the young men of the South need more than anything else a thorough scientific education, and ex perience has shown that this can be better acquired in a good military school than in any other institution of learning. The best opening in life is now present ed to the skilled men of science, and a good education of this character will aid a young man more than friends or family influence. In nearly every South ern State the State Colleges (military,) have been revived and are in a flourish ing condition. Georgia alone furnishes an exception to the rule. No reason ex ists for this save the short-sightedness and parsimoniousness of the Legisla ture. Let us hope that at the next ses . si on broader and more liberal views will prevail, and that a suitable endowment | will be granted the Georgia Military In [ stitute at Marietta, THE FRENCH BRAVO. It is with peculiar and lively satisfac tion that we hear of the wounding of DeCassagnac in his recent duel with M. lianc. For once the newspaper bully, the “fighting editor,” the bravo of the press, has been seriously wounded by his antagonist, has come off second-best in a conflict of his own seeking. For once his superior skill in fence—which has emboldened him to insult and ma lign whom he pleased—has failed to pro tect him, and while his wounds heal he will have ample leisure to reflect upon the uncertainty of small-sword practice edJ of the cunning of fence displayed by the Communist. So long as M. Banc confines his phlebotomizing operations to such despicable desperadoes as De- Cassagnac we shall wish him all manner of success. TYPE SETTING MACHINE. The New York Daily News publishes an extra with a long account of the Delcambre type-setting machine— the article itself set by the new process. We have not the space for a description of the new invention. Mr. Delcambre claims for it simplicity, reliability and speed. An expert operator can set from three to four thousand eras an hour. Os course Mr. Delcambre believes that “he has solved forever one of the most im portant and intricate problems of the mechanic arts—a solution long sought by humanitarians, inventors, and other apostles of human progress. ” All such machines have been heretofore dead failures. They were boru of the san guine brain of their inventors but to die. If Mr. Delcambre is by any chanee successful, he will indeed confer a bene fit difficult to estimate upon the world. ADDS ITS VOICE. The Connecticut Legislature has added its voice to those of many sister States in condemning the salary steal of the Forty-second Congress, and has re quested the Senators and Representa tives from the State to labor for the repeal of the law. This action of the Legislature is noteworthy as showing how deep-seated the feeling of popular disapproval is, the lapse of time having brought with it no ameliorating in fluences, as it was fondly hoped, by those who w. re the principal movete in the steal, it would. There is no pro bability that the sentiment of the peo ple will have undergone any change by the time Congress meets in December, and in this case it would be wise for the members of that body to treat that sentiment with respect. A Washington letter to the Savannah News states that three distinguished “gentlemen from Georgia,” members elect of the Forty second Congress, have been drawing their increased pay regularly for the past three months—though they have neither taken their oath nor their seats. If this be true only four votes from Georgia can be counted on by the friends of repeal. FRANCE’S FUTURE. The Empress Euegenie has not lost faith in the future of the Bonapartes— she still believes that the destiny of the Napoleonic line is to rule France and the world. “Now that the wretched Thiers,” she says, “is gone; all moves. MaoMahon is President and loves France. The future is ours.” Hopeful words and brave, these of the widowed Empress. She has lost her husband, but she has a son and for him she is working out a way to the throne. Con fident as is her language, there is some ground for her belief that France is re turning to the sway of the Bonapartes. If MacMahon chooses to play Monk, the restoration may come to-morrow—and he is an ardent lover of the Empire, at tached to the Empress, a cool, clear headed soldier and not over ambitious himself. His election to tlie Presidency was justly considered a triumph of the Monarchists and the only monarchy which the Hero of Magenta ever recog nized or served was the one founded by the first and re-established by the third | Napoleon. To restore the Empress and the Prince Imperial will be easier and safer than to attempt the creation of a dynasty of his own. Let MacMahon remember Monk, who declined to suc ceed the Protector, and earned the un flying gratitude of his country by the restoration of the Stuarts. Let him espouse the eause of the widow and the orphan, and let him give to France Na poleon the Fourth—another ruler from the race which made her the proudest and the greatest nation in the world. Before the victim of Sedan has been a year in his tomb all this may b i accom plished, and France may enter upon a new era of prosperity and splendor. BARON REUTER'S CONQUEST OF PERSIA. When the Shah of Persia and Baron Beuter alighted at Charing Cross station enterprising England had an opportuni ty of gazing upon two men who were the principal parties to one of the most ex traordinary contracts in the history of modem national development. From the “King of Kings" the Baron, whose fame is now great as a founder of a stu pendous new system, has obtained the exclusive right to construct railroads, work miues and establish other produc tive enterprises within the Shah’s do minions. For this purpose he can take Government land free of expense and use all natural material required, such as quarries and gravel pits furnish. De posits of gold, silver, precious stones or other minerals found in the royal lands of Persia may also be worked by him free of charge, and such private proper ty as he may require must be surrender ed to him at ordinary prices. First, he is to construct a railroad from Rescket, on the south shore of the Caspin, to Ispa han, Persia’s ancient capital, a distance of four hundred miles, and after it is finished, seven per cent will be guaran teed by the Persian Government on a loan of §30,000,000, which the Baron may obtain where most convenient. He also receives the entire control of the Persian custom houses by paying 3100,- OOOayear for twenty-five years, moretkan the Government now receives, which is about §1,000,000. All these immense i commercial privileges, which cover a ! great number of subordinate and inci dental concessions, the Baron and his | successors are to enjoy for seventy years by paying the Government from fifteen to twenty per cent, of the net earnings. 1 At the end of that time, if the Govern ment is disposed to buy the works of the Reuter Company, it must do so at a liberal valuation. t r Mumble-peg is now the favorite amuse : aeut of the average Maconite. Twenty-five cents each is paid by the j City Council of Macon for uncollared [ canines. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 16, 1873 AS IT SHOULD BE ? \ From the appointments recently made in South Carolina, it appears that Sena ! tor Patterson, of that State, is the prin cipal adviser of the Administration in j the matter. This is decidedly appro priate. Patterson bought his way into ! the United States Senate, and by so do ! ing proved himself worthy to take his I seat by the side of the Camerons, Clay tons and Hipple-Mitchells of that body. These are the men who understand how to work the party machinery so as to do themselves the most good, and they are influential friends to have in their re | spective States. placing a good share : of the appointing power in their hands j Grant binds them securely to him, so j that he can command their services j when needed. ’ A CARPET-BAGGER. [From the Wilmington (N. C.) Journal.] A desire having frequently been ex pressed in certain quarters to obtain a correct definition of the term carpet bagger, we subjoin, as one of the best we have ever seen, the response made by General A. R. W r right, of Georgia, to a similar interrogation submitted in the Ku-Klux investigation, before the Special Committee of Congress. It may be found on page 301, volume VI, of that delectable history entitled the “Ku- Klux Conspiracy,” and reads as follows : “Question. Speaking of carpet-baggers, will you define what you mean by the term ; I should like to know what you mean. “Answer. I will give you any assistance I can on that point. I mean a man who goes down iu the South to make his fortune by politics, to stir up strife be tween the races, and try to get office as Governor or Judge, member of the Legislature or Senator; men who go there with politics as a trade ; low peo ple, without reputation or standing at home, who go there hoping that in the upheaval of society they may make something by it.” THE COMING ISSUE. The New York Herald, of the sth. in an editorial article written with a great deal more ability and force than the leaders which usually appear in the col umns of the American Trimmer, reviews the past epochs of our country’s politics and forecasts the nature of the coming issue. While professedly friendly to Gen. Grant; while giving him credit for saving the Republic in time of war and for gov erning it wisely and honestly (God save the mark !) iu time of peace; while im plying that a second term of the Presi dency was a just reward of distinguished public services, the Herald fears that the personal ambition of the President ■will make Csesarism—the assumption of continuous power—the issue which the people must determine in 1876. The writer thinks that the presentation of such an issue will be a suicidal act. Grant, though the leader of his party— as completely its master as was ever Jef ferson or Jackson cannot hope for success a third time. “ Great as General Grant has shown himself to be, and powerful as his party un doubtedly is, the suggestion of a third term, seriously accepted ou his part, would be virtually to leap from the Tarpeian Rock and leave a name in his tory to be remembered with the names of Burr and Arnold. ” The metaphor is a little mixed, perhaps, but the lan guage is certainly strong and emphatic enough. The foresight of the Herald is not very remarkable, its prescience in political affairs has been generally any thing but extraordinary, but occasional ly, in its wild wanderings and blind gropings, it stumbles, accidentally, upon the truth. Every important act of the President’s since his second inaugural seems to indicate that he is preparing for a third term, that Csesarism is to be the issue—Csesarism with all its tryanny and corruption, its viciousness and its depravity without the prosperity, the glory and the grandeur which made its despotism endurable. To this com plexion must it come at last unless the people remain true to them selves and true to the faith of their fathers the founders of the Republic. But while the Herald has discovered the fact it is not the first to discover the truth. Like other jour nals and other professed party leaders it has been blind, because it would not see. Sagacious statesmen foresaw and depicted the evil more than a year ago. Charles Sumner, whose Repulicanism is as undoubted as his talents, told Con gress and the country of Csesarism from his seat in the Senate more than a twelve months since. Horace Greeley, the great journalist, the man able, honest and sincere, whose untiring exertions, whose perseverance, unflagging industry and indomitable will, made him the founder of the Republican party and contributed in no small measure to its subsequent victories and long continued success, saw the danger and sounded a warning in the columns of the Tribune. Other Republicans saw it and sought to save the party from the suicidal nomination at Philadelphia. When they became convinced that further exertions within party lines would be useless, they re nounced their allegiance. They deter mined to act for themselves, and the Cincinnati platform and the nomination of Horace Greeley was the first formal protest against the one-man power. The Democracy, losing sight of lesser evils in the presence of great and immediate danger, coalesced with the reformers and fought with them, shoulder to shoulder, the battle of ’seventy-two. But the strategy of the enemy caused the true grounds of quarrel to be ig nored and forgotten. The conflict was waged upon false issues, and the Cincin nati movement encountered a crushing defeat. Now the campaign must be re commenced; and though the last fight was lost and the enemy has the prestige of success, the prospects for victory will be better than they ever were be fore. Caesarism, which formerly lay in ambush, now rears high its brazen front, and there is no mistaking the char acter of the foe. Unless the masses have become accustomed to misgovem ment—unless the Democracy have lost their ancient courage and forsaken their ancient faith—victory must come to us in ’seventy-six. Honor to a Georgia Baptist. —A Washington dispatch states that after an exciting contest the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, near Charlottesville, have elected Noah K. Davis, President of Bethel College, Ken tucky, to be Professor of Moral Philoso phy. The new Professor, who is an ear nest Baptist, graduated at Mercer Uni versity, Georgia, and at Yale. He was recommended in the strongest terms by Jno. S. Broaddus, the professors of seven Southern co'leges, and a host of leading citizens and scholars. SnciDE of a Bride. —Mrs. Wesley Shelley committed suicide in Granite ville, S. C., Monday morning, by shoot ing herself through the head. Her maiden name was Blum, and she had been married less than a month. Do mestic unhappiness was the cause of the rash act. ♦ Fire in Granite villb. —The resi dence of Mr. Edward Machem, in Gran iteville, S. C., was destroyed by fire on Monday morning. THE CRUEL CODE. Opiiions of the Pretes on the Recent Marders HealthyjPublic Sentiment —Lit the Laws toe Enforced. Walworth apd Rhett. [From the New York Herald ] Tilt duello, of whi£i we have had a terrible instance in tlfe Rhett and Cooley case tt New Orleans, and lately, also, at Richnond, Ya., springs from the same false ind unchristian; notion of honor and morality. It is a remnant of the semi-iarbaric age, mistakenly called the age of chivalry, when every man above the level of a serf had his lance in rest or some other deadly weapon ready to take the life of his e&emy. This mis called and, as we said,'unchristian senti ment of chivalry still exists. It exists not oily in the United States, but iu Europe and throughout the world, though of late years it has been dying out as intelligence and more liberal ideas prevail. It ia not many years since men of the highest position in Europe —statesmen and those who ruled na tions—met to fire deadly shots at each other, after the ancient semi-bar baric plan, for the purpose of settling some difficulty or tq satisfy a punc tillio of honor. Bnk, fortunately, we rarely hear of a duel now among the highest and most cidjifated people in Europe. lilYhe United States it is still practiced, particularly in the South, and often in cases that are as absurd and Quixotic as they are criminal. Young Walworth, no doubt, had imbibed this idea of freely using the pistol from his social relations and education. It is but a short step from the so-called cliivalric code of defending one’s honor by the pistol to using that murderous instru ment to protect a beloved mother or family under supposed danger. All this is contrary to onr Christian and nine teenth century civilization. It is the remnant of a barbaric age. The law is the proper remedy for evils, and if that cannot be always obtained at the mo ment it is the duty of civilized and Chris tian men to submit or wait rather than commit crime. Our morals in this re spect—in respect to using the pistol— need improving, and the improvement should begin with the educated classes. Death ou the Field of Honor. [St, Louis Republican.] Our dispatches from New Orleans an nounce the fatal result of a duel between Col. R. B. Rhett, Jr., of the Picayune, and ex-Judge Wm. N. Cooley, growing out of newspaper articles. The details are sickening, and will, we hope, serve to give fresh impulse to the now nearly universal condemnation of duelling throughout ilie civilized world. Two gentlemen, attended by special friends and surgeons, reach the point of meet ing by the same train. With much po lite formality forty paces are measured off, and the belligerents placed opposite each other, armed with double-barrelled shot guns. Two exchanges each are made, when the party who had been in vited to this dismal ceremony falls, pierced to the heart, and dies in six minutes. Ana then—such is the tele graphic narrative: “The gentlemen engaged in the affair exchanged the usual civilities, and sepa rated with the expression of mutual re spect and consideration.” What a miserable mockery is this cold-blooded specimen of genteel mur der, with its precedent, subsequent and concomitant ghastly etiquette ! We ask not who was in the wiong in the quar rel leading to the conflict. Whatever the merits of the controversy, Judge Cooley’s death leaves them precisely as they were, and Rkett’s superior marks manship settles nothing as to the just ness of his cause ; while, assuming him to be a man with sensibilities like his fellows, his triumph on the field be queaths to him a shuddering memory that must haunt him through life. And yet individual members of society, be tween whom lios.ile feelings become engendered, are perhaps not so much to blame for the resort to this so-called “ chivalrous code” as the local senti ment that, cool and unprovoked, tolerates and thereby encourages the horrible practice. Is it not time that the last vestige of this duelling spirit should disappear ? Murderers Must Hang. [Detroit Free Press.] The ridiculous affair of the New York broker and coal dealer, who walked into the neighboring Dominion a few days since with the avowed intention of im bruing their hands in each other’s blood, and who cuipe back without so much as a smell of what Dick Swiveller would call “the sanguinary” on tlieir garments, has been followed by a real duel iu which there is nothing ridiculous. The affair referred to took place on Tuesday in the State of Mississippi, between ex- Judge William N. Cooley, of New Or leans, and R. B. Rhett, Jr., of the same place, editor of the Picayune. The weapons used were double-barreled shot guns and the distance forty paces. The results of the encounter thus far have been the death of Judge Cooley, who fell at the second fire, and, presumably, the vindication of Colonel Rhett’s repu tation for courage. There ought to be other results than these. The survivor ought to be arrest ed and punished for the murder he has committed, just as any other murderer would be. If there is any public senti ment in Mississippi which sees any dif ference in point of criminality between deliberately shooting with a double barreled gun a man whft has consented to be shot at, and shooting in the same manner a man who lias not so consented, it is an unenlightened public sentiment, and needs reforming. It is high time that the barbarous idea of washing out dishonor in blood was abandoned ; bat it will never be thoroughly abandoned until the laws against it are administer ed promptly and decisively. Let a few such duels as the one recently fought in Virginia and this Mississippi murder pass unnoticed and the revival of the “code” to' which W 6 referred yester day will have been practically accom plished. The Duello Proves Nothing. [Selma (Ala.) Times.] We publish elsewhere the details of I the unfortunate duel which occurred a : few days since between R. B. Rhett, Jr., j and Judge Cooley. We do not propose i to discuss the “Code,” nor to say that duelling is right or wrong. We do not I consider it always an evidence of per ! sonal courage to fight a duel, nor do we consider it an invariable evidence of ; cowardice to decline a challenge. Brave men have refused to fight, and cheap reputations have been made bj challeng ing non-combatants. The bearing of the | “Code,” as applies to individual in stances, is a thing to be regulated by the parties immediately interested. We regret the necessity that occasioned the death of Judge Cooley, and we regret more, that as noble a man, as gallant a Southron, and chivalrous a gentleman ; as R. B. Rheß, Jr., had to commit the I act of killing. Onr sympathies all go to j Rhett, and if either had to be killed, we i j are glad that Judge Cooley had to fall. We are confident that we reflect the sen timent of the whole white people of the j South. But then, we ask, what has been proven by the duel ? Has the status of facts been changed by the fight and its ; results? Cooley believed in the “Code;” Rhett, Jr., was schooled under its i teachings; both were brave meh; they | met, exchanged a couple of shots, i Cooley fell, a victim to the “Code,” and ! the facts remain just as they were. In the language of the Augusta (Georgia) j Chronicle and Sentinel, we ask: i “Does Cooley’s death prove that the ! Picayune did assail Longstreet, Herron j and the rest of the Kellogg Returning ) Board as grossly as it did Mr. Hawkins, or ; that CoL Rhett, the editor of that paper, j is not an ‘artful dodger’ or a ‘willful ; falsified ?’ Is it settled that Judge ! Cooley was in the wrong, because his I ball went wide of the mark, while that • of his enemy was lodged in his heart ? Surely not. This bloody relic of barba i rism, this modern substitute for the an i cient ordeal of battle, with more than its ! folly and less than its justification, can i settle nothing, can prove nothing. The j Code may make men murderers; it may ; carry desolation and heart-siekness to j happy homes and families; it may make 1 women widows an J children fatherless, i but it can furnish no guide to the dis i covery of facts; it is powerless to deter j mine a disputed question.” 1 A young man named Harry West, son of Mr. Chas. A West, Jr., a well known merchant of Charleston, was shot and killed in a billiard saloon in that city by Jas. A. Dnffas. Duffas was arrested. John Harden, who killed Elbert Har den, in Beech Island, some time since, | made an unsuccessful application for | bail, in Aiken, last Thursday. He was I sent to Edgefield jail, where he will re i main until September, when he will be i tried. COTTON. Review of the Meek. [From tks Financial Chronicle.] | Thursday, p. m., July 3, 1873. By special telegrams received to-night j from the Southern ports, we are in pos session of the returns showing the re ceipts, exports, &c., of cotton for the six days ending this evening, July 3. It appears that the total receipts for the six days have reached 12,428 bales against 17,686 bales last week, 19,672 bales the previous week and 18,245 bales three weeks since, making the’ to tal receipts since the first of September, 1872, 3,498,219 bales against 2,697.472 bales for the same period of 1871-72, showing an increase since September 1, 1872, of 800,747 bales. The exports for the week ending this evening reach a total of 21,613 bales, of which 12,533 were to Great Britain. 2,375 to France, and 6,705 to the rest of the Continent, while the stocks, as made iip this evening, are now 196,417 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 11,651 bales, while the stocks to-night are 70,129 bales more than they were at this time a year ago. We have only four days’ business to report this week, the Cotton Exchange having adjourned froui Wednesday even ing, the 2d, to Monday morning, the’ 7th iust., the adjournment covering two bank days, which is something unusual in an American business organization. And yet this simply indicates the rapidly developing tendency which exists among us at present of extending the holiday season; so strongly in contrast with the severer ideas of only a few years since.. During the four days the market for 3pot cotton has been very quiet and quotations unchanged, presenting no feature of interest. A moderate busi ness has been credited to consumption and speculation, but nothing for export. The sales for speculation have un doubtedly been purchases to apply on contracts in cases where the buyer in sisted upon having the cotton instead of a settlement. On Wednesday the market was dull and unchanged, and so closed. For future delivery the opening on last Saturday was weak, and prices were lowered 3-16@Jc., but there was some recovery later in the day. Monday was decidedly firmer. Tuesday, after ’Change there was a decline to nearly Saturday’s prices; and on Wednesday there was a further decline of l-16@1c.; an exchange from August to July was made on Wed nesday of 1,000 bales at a cost of per pound. Very little has been done for the next crop. The latest sales of futures reported were for July 20 7-16, for August 20R for September 18 13-16, October 18J. The total sales of this description for the week are 35,100 bales, including free on board. For im mediate delivery the total sales foot up this week 3,081 bales, including for export, 1,610 for consumption, 1,471 for speculation, and in transit. Os the above 72 bales were to arrive. Weather Reports by Telegraph.— Our reports by telegraph to-night indi cate better weather in the South, and therefore generally show an improving condition of the crop. Still much re mains to be done, and a continuance of good weather will be needful to get the plant everywhere in good condition again. Our New Orleans telegram states that they have had two days’ rain, one day heavy and one slight. It has rained on two days the early part of the week at Mobile, the latter part of the week being clear and pleasant; the re ports with regard to the crop are more favorable, as good progress is being made in clearing the fields of the weeds and grass. At Selma they have had two heavy rain storms, and generally ac counts with regard to the crop are more favorable, but some plantations are in very bad condition still. At Montgomery one day’s rain is reported, with the rest of the week pleasant but hot. They have had three days’ rain at Columbus: as the week closes a favorable change is noticeable. At Macon crop aooounts are more favorable; they have had two days’ rain, and good progress is being made in clearing tlie fields of weeds. There have been occasional showers at Charles ton, but the planters are making favor able progress in getting rid of the weeds and grass. The weather at Augusta has been warm and dry all the week, very hot and with no rain. Our Memphis correspondent states that tlie plant looks strong and healthy, and that good pro gress is being made in clearing the fields of weeds; largo tracts of land under cotton are being abandoned, not being able to keep the grass and weeds down; there has been one rainy day, the rest of the week being cloudy. At Nashville there has been rain on two days this week; our correspondents state that the weather is now bright and warm, and the crop is developing promisingly. The thermometer at Montgomery lias aver aged 88; at Columbus, 87; at Macon, 86; at Memphis, 85. Stock of Cotton in Nf.w York. —We are indebted to Chas. B. Easton, Chair man of tlie Statistical Committee of the Cotton Exchange, ior the following statement of the stocks of cotton at New York, June 30, 1873, by actual count: In warehouse 52,855 In Brooklyn 6,970 Ou wharves 8,073 On shipboard not cleared. 5,681 Total bales 73,579 This gives the stock by actual count 73,579 bales, which is a very close ap proximation to the running count. Bombay Shipments. —According to our cable dispatch received to-day, there have been 15,000 bales shipped from Bombay to Great Britain the past week and 5,000 bales to the continent, while the receipts at Bombay, during the same time have been 6,000 bales. Gunny Bags, Bagging, &u. —There has been nothing further done in gunny cloth f the price is nominal at 10l@llc. The general inquiry for domestic bag ging is good, but there is no disposition on the part of either buyers or sellers to operate; higher prices are looked for, and holders are not anxious to sell; the market rules strong at 14c. Jute is in moderate inquiry, but trans actions are chiefly in a small way. Jute butts are again on the decline, and with increased offerings the market is de pressed. A DREADFUL CRIMINAL. * Capture in Clay County, Ky., of a Man Charged with Thirteen Murders. [From the Lexington (Ky.) Press, July 1 ) The sheriff of Clay county and a party of four armed men arrived in, the city yesterday, having in charge, two men, named James Turner and Francis Pace, said to be men of the most desperate character. The immediate cause of their arrest was the murder, 1872, of two men named Middleton and Fields, whom they waylaid at night on the public high way. The history of Turner is one of a very startling nature. Although of good family and in easy circumstances, yet his love for deeds of cruelty was such that he disregarded all laws of society in gratifying his savage passions. During the war he became the leader of a band of guerillas, who harrassed or murdered in cold blood all Soathem sympathizers on whom they could lay hands. In Har lan county, on the Virginia line, lived an old man named James Middleton, a re spectable old citizen, whose sons, David and William, enlisted in the Southern army. In 1863, Turner, with his bush whackers, scoured that county. For fear of their attacks, and knowing their des perate characters, old Middleton left his home and fled into Lee county, Virginia. They heard of his retreat, and following, captured him and brought him back to Harlan county, Ky., on the Virginia line, where they put him to death in the most cruel manner. Tying him to a tree they cut off his ears and oose, and tore off his nails, besides otherwise mu tilating his person; after which they sat around him, watching him slowly die of his sufferings, the object of their ribald jests and most inhuman torture. In the same year David and William Middle ton learning of the frightful death which their father had died, returned to their home in Harlan, bent on revenge. Here Turner succeeded in killing David Middleton, and then escaped with his band from the vicinity, pursued by a party of Southern troops, who hear! of his depredations and were in search of him. He is chwged with many other mur ders, amounting iu all to thirteen. One of his victims was the sheriff of Lee county, Va., whom he caused to be stripped and buried alive in a mud hole. Until the close of the war Turner’s naipe was a terror to the country over which he and his band of outlaws roamed' at will, killing or maltreating the defense less, but avoiding always a conflict with a body of armed men like themselves. Their deeds were dark and and many a tale of horror is told along the Virginia and Kentucky line of Turner’s blood-thirsty bushwhackers. There are those in this city at the present time, who served ill the army of Virginia at the period of which we write, and who recollect the terror whieh the very name of Turner inspired iu the bosoms of those who were compelled to remain in the counties subject to his raids. He spared not women or children, and no one was ever known to experience mercy at his hands. 1 After the war Turner returned to his home in Lee county, where he went to work as a farmer and amassed quite a fortune. It is said that lie is now worth ten thousand dollars. He could not refrain, however, from deeds of violence, and.more than once he had to flee from his home to evade the officers of justice. In 1872 William Middleton, accompanied by a man named Fields, traveling on horseback, came to the place where Turner lived. At the pub lic inn Turner learned the direction the travelers were to follow, and taking ■with him Francis Pace, they lay in am bus h for them. Building a fire iu tlie road, they took their places in the brush, and as the men passed on horse back, and came into the light, th« con cealed murderers opened fire witlrirfatal effect. This last outrage So shdjked the community and enraged them to such an extent that they rose in arms and pursued the murderers until cap tured. They were carried iu irons to Clay county, to await trial, under a strong guard the while. Finding it im possible to try them at tlie last term of the Clay Circuit Court, and it being too expensive to keep guard over them for several months, the authorities sent them to the jail at Lexington until Oc tober, when their trial will come off, and they will be delivered once more to the sheriff of Clay county. Here no rescues are possible, and Jinlgo Lynch lias no power over the jailer, so that it is likely, when the proper time arrives, they will be handed over to the proper officers to meet their deserts at the hands of that justice they have so foully outraged. FOREIGN NOTES. How- a Fall- Parisienne Lost Her Dia monds, The Paris correspondent of the Swiss Times writes: “With its unfailing fertility of resource, the Eixftxro re counts the following extraordinary his tory: ‘There are in Paris two or three women whose scandalous fortune has re moved them from the demimonde, and placed them in a world apart. One of these women is notorious throughout Europe for adventures, and has dia monds said to be worth eight million of francs. Amongst the most intimate of her visitors was a Sir Joseph D., a gen tleman of distinguished apparance aud perfect manners, whose advances were not discouraged by Madame . It would seem, however, that the fascinat ing Englishman sought her diamonds, for ho turned out to be the leader of a band of robbers admirably organized. His plans were deeply laid. In the month of January last year he persuad ed the husband of Madame , for she was married, that liis rooms would be marvelously improved if the ceilings were painted with frescoes, and he re commended fin Italian artist, who came from Milan, and, as one of the band, profited by liis presence in the apart ments to take impressions of all the locks. A month afterward the English man persuaded M. that liis wife’s diamonds were not secure, and advised him to buy a safe from an English maker whom he could recommend. The safe duly arrived. At the end of two months ‘Sir Joseph’warmly recommend ed one of his friends, a jeweler of Munich, who was anxious to copy the magnificent jewelry for the Empress of Austria, and Madame granted the wish. Copies having in this way been obtained, a valet who was in the interest of the Englishman having access to the deposi tory of the jewelry by means of false keys', gradually abstracted the gems aud replaced them by artificial ones. The deception passed unnoticed until a friend of Madame, on the eve of a visit to London, borrowed a single stone sup posed to be of immense value. In some business transactions with a noted Lon don jeweler, the stone happened to be called in question and the jeweler de clared it to be a mere imitation. The police were put upon the track and so the affair came to light. I may be per mitted to add that it would not be strange for an Englishman to pass him self off under a false title, even in France, where too strict an investigation into these is by no means prevalent. ’ ” A Social Study from the British Me tropolis. London, June 15.— Things have come to such a pass in London that to marry and remain “in society ” .on, less than £3,000 a year is a perfect impossibility. Now, the men and women with £3,000 a year are few; to remain in society is more valued than domestic life outside of that charmed circle ; and the conse quence is, that marriages “ in high life” yearly become fewer. There are other consequences of a still more painful na ture ; one hears of them,, every once in a while, at the Divorce Court. I have just been reading of one of jthem. A pretty little woman with yellow hair—a Becky Sharp, if you please, but a Becky Sharp as Becky may have been—had been married to an army officer who had nothing but his pay to live on. They were happy for one year ; they quarrel ed the second year ; the third year they were happy again, for the little woman had discovered a plan for always giving her husband good dinners, keeping her self smart with jewelry, and yet asking him for less housekeeping money than before. One day came an anonymous letter revealing the secret of this finan cial feat, and—you know the rest. The little woman was sworn in the witness box, and asked by a counsel whether the captain had been brutal or neglectful. “ Ok, no,” she sobbed, “he was always kind; but he used to look so miserable at seeing me poorly dressed, and at having such bad dinners; and I was afraid he might take to dining away from home and leaving me, and I couldn’t bear the thought of it, for I loved him more than—than anything on earth, and do now.” The little woman wept her blue eyes red, the honest cap tain cried like u boy ; but the Sickelis ian mode of arranging these things not being in vogue'here, he insisted on liis divorce; got it; and his wife is now walking the pave at the Haymarket. Cathcart. Chicago to the Sea, Proceedings of a railroad meeting, held in Hartwell, Ga., July Ist, 1873, in the interest of the great railroad enter prise which is now being proposed from Chicago to the seaboard via the Augusta and Hartwell Railroad. Read the minutes of our last meeting, which were unanimously adopted. At our last meeting the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : Whereas, We have- heard with great gratification that there'is -a prospect of the Augusta and Hartwell Railroad be ing built in connection with a great through line from the West to the sea ; and in consequence of formidable eom pition from two rival routes, to-wit: One by Anderson and the other by Athens, it becomes essential to the suc cess of the Augusta and Hartwell Rail road that the nearest, most direct, and cheapest route, shall be selected for the location of said road; therefore, Resolved, That the route we propose, as such, is to follow the line of the Blue Ridge Railroad to Seneca City (the junction of the Bine Ridge Railroad with the Air Line Railroad), thence to Andersonville, thence down the valley of the Savannah river to Augusta. Motion made and unanimously car ried that invitations be sent to the fol lowing gentlemen to be present as speak ers: General Harrison, from Anderson, S. C.; Dr. Casey, Augusta, Ga.; Dr. Wilkes, Lincolnton, Ga.; Hon, Elbert Rucker, Ruckersville, Ga.; Hon. Henry Moore, Geo. T. Jackson, Esq., Augusta. And also this invitation is extended to all others interested to be present as speakers, along the line from Walhalla to Augusta, Motion made and earned that a com mittee of invitation be appointed, who shall solicit speakers to attend this meeting. The following were appointed: Dr. Clark, of Ruckemlle, and Dr. J. L. Turner and Capt. J. F. Croft, of Hartwell. Motion made and carried that the Sec retary be requested to send a copy of these proceedings to the Chronicle and Sentinel,, of Augusta. Adjourned until the first Tuesday in August next. E. W. Seidel, Secretary. Savannah negroes steal gas pipes, grates, window fastenings, Ac., from un occupied houses. ... _ h.-.,:. BILL ARP ON HIS TR AVELS. j A Racy Letter From the Georgia Hu I inorist—A Trip North—What a Blind 1 Man Saw—Staging— Eating Houses — j Judge Underwoort’a Eggs —An Eye j Shop—The Miracles of Science! ; Rome Ga Jowly 1873. I Mr. Editor— Suit': I like ‘travelliu | now-a-days. It aint what it used to was. i Im not an old man by no means ns I can j prove by Mr. S. Arp, if necessary,butlcan j recomember when folks used to stage it all the way to New York—bumping about all day and all night long-—tellin stories and swappin lies along the way and becumiu as well acquainted on the j trip as if they had been raised iu tlie ! same town. j Nevertheless I dont like stagein. 1 ; was glad when the cars come along ! with their stuff’ bottomed seats upon which a man or a woman could set up so dignifide and rattle along so easy and smooth—perusin the butiful country, aud speiu the trees and the fields and the lamlskapin by. I recomember when I thought, it was tlie most delightful bis ness in the world, but then when tlie uight cum on and the limbs got weary and the neck limber it wasont so beau tiful tryin to sleep, I have thought on such okkasihns that if, a man or a wo man could pnly rokliue just a little—or could find a gftod place for the head to rest or could stretch out' the legs (I mean a man’s) how delightful it would be. But there was nary a place. Thanks to Col. Pullman for liis great invention. T am obliged to look upon him as a public benefaktor, a promoter of human comfort. Now a days a manor a woman call stretch forth in peaceful seklusion and be warbled to sleep in na tures owu attitood. The rolling of the wheels is like a soothing lullaby and puts one to sleep as gently as the hum of a spinning wheel does nil old fashund baby. A man with a large corporosity remarked that it dident suit him alto gether, for when he was down lie was still top-heavy, and the rockin of the car from side to side shifted his gravity in such a way as to keep liis head and liis feet ou a strain catcliin up. Ho said it was a great help to make side props of pillars when you could get om. A short time ago I started from the Mountins of Georgia to see if I could find my way to New York and back without a guide, My companion was Gonrul Black, an old fashioned man, who was teetotasliioUsly blind. He was going to Baltimore in the hope that Dr. Chisolm could remove the skales from his eyes. The Genrul was in liue spirits, for he had hopes of once more fookiu upon natures butiful and lovly face— and womans too. To a man who lias been led about for four long years iu affri can darkness its a mighty bigthingto see. At times he seemed serious and anxious about thg venture ho was making. I cheered him up all [ could, and as Wo jurneyd along through tiro Dutiful' valleys of East Tennysee I fed his blind eyes through his memry. I expatiated upon the rivers and the mountins and the crops and the nice little towns and the butiful women who got on and got off'at the various stations. “Tlieres a fine oman Genrul,” sed I. “Is she young and is she purty.” sed he. “Slio ' stops as young and proud as a fine blooded filly bookd for her first race at a fair,” sed I, “and she is as purty as a pigeon just takin her mate.” The Genrul heaved a long sigh and said nothing, but nobody ever will know liow bad lie wanted to see that Tennysee gal. By and by we came to the dinner house at Rogersville; and this reminds us that right hero is the place where Judge Underwood always calls for eggs fried on both sides and loose in the mid dle. He says its the only place in the world where they cook ’em that wiiv. A good eatin’ house is a good tiling on a railroad, and saves a power of cussin’. If a man wants to hear genuine cussin’ let him open his ears at Grand Junction ou the Memphis and Charleston Rail road. The same mail never throws but ono dollar away on that tavern. I heard of a man telliiT the landlord, anlio.givc him liis dolfiir, that lie'looked upon liis eatin’ house as a regular swindle. The landlord to ik the money and the slander as serenely as if it was a compliment, but iu a few days lie got an important dispatch from Mobile, for which lie paid two dollars. He opened it and read : “My Dear Sin—l told you theothor day in my haste that your eatin’ house was a swindle. I now repeat the akkusation at my leisure. You will please pay the Western Union two dollars, and charge it to Fly Blose.” I hear that the railroad campanies is goin to employ a man by the year as a secret inspector of eatin houses and publish their standin once a month on their tikot. They arc going to rank em from a hundred down to nothin, sq that travellers can lay in enuf vittels to skip over tlio swindels. It will be better for the health and better for tlie temper and save a power of cusiiig. Big John has a] iplide for the place. When we readied Alexamlry wo took a steamboat for Wasliinton. The Gon rul dident want anything but coffee and as lie couldeiit get up the steep little stairs I politl ly informed the landlord '•that there was a blind man below who wanted a cup of coffee. He suapd me off as short as pie’ crust and romarkd that he wasent runin the coffee business just then. I kep my temper and tried him again with the same result. I then tried a darkey but lie referred me to the Boss. The Genrul gftt no coffee and sed he could do witEonf it but lie would like to know that landlords name. A man standin by sed it wds Fox—but he changed it directly and sed it was Wolf, and tlie Genrill romarkd that more like ly it was dog. I think that foliar was mad because he couldent sell more of his vittels. Passing through the nations capital 1 gazed upon the marble pile whose doom pierced the clouds and sed to the Gen ul, “There is a grand old buildin.” He replied mournfully, “ I can't see it, but I recomem her it. It is a magnificent structure, but it is a whited sepulker, and has been the birthplace of more villainy than all the gamlilin hells of Christendom. It is the birthplace of inikwity in high places.- If there liad_ never been a hell one would germinate’ spontaneously from the corruption that breeds within its walls,' like maggots breeding in the karkases of the dead. Hypocrisy, avarice, lust and lie dwell there, and their foul influence spreds from this central fofeus to the very con fines of the Government. If the honest workin people who really Support the. nation at the anvil and the loom and the plow handle knowd one-half of Ihe devilment that is laid and hatched in that buildin, and could realize that all the stcalin and plunder c’lm out of their sweat and their toil, they would raze it to the ground, anti scatter its polluters to the ends of the earth.'” The Genul’s sightless eye balls rolled around wildly, but he soon subsided into a state of melancholy reflektion. Arrivin’ at Baltimore, an honest Irishman drove us to Dr.” Chisolm’s eye-shop. Tho Genrul made ine take an Irishman, for he said they wouldn’t de ceive strangers. We found tho Doctor up to his eye-brows in eyes, was two rooms full of patidntg, and not a sound eye among ’em. Thinks Ito my self, if this is his bigness, there’s more sick eyed people in the world than I ever dreamed of. After a little while the Genrul was led to a room in the hospital where he washed the travel off and dressed himself in anew suit of store clothes, and got the hang of'the room by feelin’ all around for the buro and the bed and the fire-place and the winders. We then went down to inter view the Doctor, who had purty well gone through the eye bisness for that day. After makin’ his pleasant akquain tance he took the Genrul into a room as dark as Afrifey and throwd a lokomo tive head light right into his eye-balls. In a minute or so he remarked “all right, Genrul, I’ll send you home with out a guide in two weekH.” He then showed me an eye as big as a Ifrokyhut, which I suppoos cum all the way down from old Gog or Maygog, and he took it all to pieces and explained the concern to my entire satisfaction. He showd me the irisli and the pupil and the cataline lens, and the conjunktioir, and the sky roket, and the victorious humor, and tne erie oanal, and the corny eopia and the cataract. I always thought that the cataract was somethin’ growin’ on the, outside, and that he out it off with a thin bladed knife, but he sed the eye ball was a room, -and the pupil was a winder, and' the sqein’ was done from in side the room, anil the cataract was a curtain that got in betwixt the organ of sight and the winder, and he had to go into the room with a knife and cut away the curtain and then the sight was re stored. Siuoe these explanations I hav had a very high respekt for my eyes and for sience too. I learned the whole bisness ; as well in 20 minets as if I had studid j eyes for a year, and Ive seriously thought ! it my duty to open an eye-shop at home | NUMBER 29 Just for the sake of sufferin' humanity, jhe Doktor remarked that some talks learned a heap quicker than others, and I thought at the time he was alludin’ to me. Eyes, I think, Is my specialty—my fort. Ive always had a mekanikal eye, and my mother snys I cut my eye-teeth easier than any of the boys. N«t morn in lie set the Genrul up in a ,)ig barbers chair, and techiu a spring it laid down with him just like it had sense, and the Doktor propped his lids open with a parcel of small wire crow bars, and he told the Genral to look (fount all the time. Then he cut into his eye-ball with about as much indiffer ence as he would have cut into the eye of , a, potater, and as the General flinched he told him to look down. The General lam looking down.” “No you are not, says the Doktor. “I toll you I am” says the Genral. The Doktor cut away a lick or two and says: “Genral if you don’t look dowuyour eye will be ruined.” “I’m looking down all T can,'’ says the General. “I’ve lost control of my optic nerve. I believe you would ex pect a man to look down if yon was cuttin- his head off.’’ The 'Doktor says, “111 have to give you chloro form.” The Genral says “I won’t take it -+go on with your butchering." Well, was jierhaps the funniest quarrel yiN ever heard; but the Doktor went on, and tkrowiu down his knife, he took another little instrument and-.dug round inside that eye-ball like ho was picking the good ies out of a hickory nut. Then lm took sum bull dog pinchers and pulled that cataract out shore. Ho took the curtain from behind that window in a jiffey, and then turned the Genrul qver ‘to tlm ten der case of Mrs, Bryan and Miss Banks, sisters and ladies of Charleston,' who have charge of the hospital. Tlmi*-- kindness and attention to the Doktor'ff patients is equalled only by their refine ment of manners and their Coniodrit in dependence. Born ricli and raised ricli, they did not hesitate as to their duty when the crash of’the war. wiped out their property, and they gladly akeepted the offer so kindly made em by Dr. Ghisolm. . ‘ , I will jump over a fortnight just now to say that the operation was a grand success and the Genral 'is at home pur sum his daily avokations as in dftys of yore, full of thanjes to. Ood and grati tude to sciepbc and Dr. Chisolm. The doctor showed me a-bottle full of catar acts'floating about in/spirits like littlo milky peas,, and I couldent help think ing how much of gloomy helpless nml melonkolly had bean tul'nod' into joy- . ful day by tjie teaehins of science and tfho skillful knife of this eminent sur geon. I asktyl my friend Walker of Baltimore if he lcnetv him, “Ofgjpursal do,” sed he, “everybody ought to know him. He’s a gentleman find hq’s a Chris tian and as for eyes he lmseut got an equal. He’s the kindest man to his poor patients you ever saw and has restored more sight for nothin than any .okkalist in ameriky.” I journiyd from oity to Now York the Sentar of space aiifl iu mv next, will recount some things that be fel me in that respectable town. Yours plesantly Bill Abk A BUG IN A MAN’S HKAj), ' It Made Him CrazyXUeinpt Suicide. '•) ■ Some days before the cloffe late session oi the East Tennessee Univer sity, a student from Georgia was oho day taken suddenly ill, and so deported himself as to attract, the attention of his fellow-students. His. first evidence ot any trouble was one eight after a diyeuH sion with a student oyer the Modoc war. He gave it as his opinion that’ there.wfts no glory to be gabled by fightmg wlittle baud of persecuted Indians. On closing the discussion he remarked that, he be- ‘ 'ieved lie would go'out and kill himself. He went out. of the building, and tliii students with whom he' had the con# versation notiepd that ho went beyond the grounds to which the students of the Umyemuty yte.tr. Hinjlial , n >. ycAit i'Rlifking ho meant to carry out ms threat, his friend hastily summoned a few students and followed after, him down towards the rivep. They finally found him lying onz’t.ho brink of Second crock, with a I urge .stone in eaeh'hand-, evidently abbot to execute his On seeing his fellow students approach ing, he started to’ tnrow himself down the bank, but they Were too quick 'for him. With great,, difficulty they got him back-to his room. Several times during the night lie tried to kill him self with a knife, a bayonet and several other weapons' By* eloso watching lie was prevented from inflicting any vio lence o$ his own person. Several doctors examined Jjim, but -they differed os to the origin of his troubles. He con tinued morose, flighty and violent for a few days, lmt finally seemed to quiet down. ..A 'fiqV days after the attempt, at suicidq , lys began feeling something wdrking down towards his ear, and by some effort h A finally took from his neall' ■ a gdoa sized, dead black bug. It had his ear without liis feeling it. Its.movements in the intervpr Os Ids head had evidently boon attended with in6re serious results than hsually fol low that operations of such small crea tures. .The head is evidently not a con venient place to carry bugs. He is now all right,— Knoxvilft Chronicle, .July 3. • ; Crop Prospects. ■Woodvilde, Greene Cotnty, Ga., \ July 8, 1873. J Editors Qhrojiicle and Sentinel: Iu my communication of the 6th June I stated that crop prospects in this sec tion we're anything but favorable, and that cotton had been damaged by con tinuous rains, grass, &c., at least 25 per cent. Time lu'fd proven beyond all doubt the truthfulness of the assertion, and to-day lain fully satisfied that. Greene county ■will not make, with the most favorablo > seasons from now out, more than two-thirds of tho coitoif it did tI»C paftt year. Iu Greene and Ogle thorpe counties hundreds of acres have been; turned *out, and hundreds more will not pay the cost of cultivating, gathering, Ac. Occasionly I hear of splendid lots of cotton that hasbeen well cultivated, • and even of those some re pent them eery poorly fruited. Cotton on red lands is better than that on sandy, and where it has been well work ed looks promising. Corn is good where it has been well cultivated. Bottom or low ground corn generally very sorry. A poor- crop of wheat, a good crop of oats, and wo have had, I assure you, an extra good crop-of grass. D. GEORGIA ITEMS. Flower thieves infest the town of Hparta. Chickens ami eggs are very high ■ in Griffin. Grass flourishing iu tho vicinity of Brunswick. The crop prospects of Early county continue good. “Seeing Ghosts” is the new name for delirurrl tremens in Brunswick. A Savannah firm will soon commence shipping lumber from Brunswick. The commencement exercises of Mon roe Female College will begin next Sun day. . * The colored people of Rome ocle brated the Fourth by au excursion to Alabama. Foot races by moonlight is the fa vorite amusement of the average Macon colored troop. A large number of strangers attended the commencement exercises of Griffin Female College. - A race takjes place in Columbus next Saturday, between the well known Bower’s and Jsbell ponies. Hart county has a hen 21 years old which in her 20lh year laid eggs and hatched a dozen chickens. A gay and festive hawk threw a min now through a window at an old lady, near Summerville, tho other day. Bishop Gross is in Americus. He preached to a large congregation at Col lege Chapel, last Sunday morning. At liens was visited by a violent storm of wind last Saturday afternoon. -There was no serions damage to property. A Grange of the Patrons of Hus bandry was organized at Montpelier, on last Thursday, and at Perry, on Friday. The statement that Mrs. Dr. Churllie, of Macon, died from an overdose of mor phine was a mistake. She died of heart disease. Several prisoners from Haralson coun ty made a desperate attempt to break jail in Rome, a few days ago. They wet i foiled in the attempt. Tl;e-election for “Pence, or No Fence,” in Scalding county, Monday, resulted in the triumph of the “fence” side of the quCuuou by a large majority.
