Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877, December 02, 1874, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextgUtonttl^anS WEDNJiSDAY...DECEMBER 2,1874 MUNICIPAL NOMINATIONS. The nominations in the First Ward Tuesday night completed the Demo cratic ticket for members of the City Council. Of the twelve members of the present Gonncil nine have been re-nomi nated. Only three changes have beeD made—two in the Fourth Ward and one in the Third. In the latter the incum bent bad moved out of the ward and was not a candidate for re-nomination. The general verdict has been one of ap proval, and such a verdict is well de served. The present Council has labored faithfully and conscientiously to subserve the interests of the city and its members have shown themselves eminently worthy of the confidence reposed in them by their constituents. It speaks well for the conservatism of the people of Au gusta that they make so few changes in their officers. When they get a good man in offioe they usually keep him there until he declines further service,and the city always has a good government. For instance, in the First Ward*, Mr. Manta will soon commence his seventh term; Messrs. Sibley and Thompson their third. In the Second Ward, Mr. Poubnellk is entering his sixth term; Me ars. Babrktt and Evans their fifth. In the Third Ward, Mr. Philip is enter ing his fifth term and Mr. Bennett his fourth. In the Fourth Ward, Mr. Cabwile is entering his third term. Mr. Estes has been Mayor for four years, and will be re-nominated without opposition next Saturday. A majority of the Conncil, it will be seen, has not been changed for several years. While on this subject we have a sug gestion to make for the next municipal campaign. It is this: That no ward meetings be held until after the regis try lists have closed, and that no person be allowed a vote or voice in such meet ings unless he be a registered voter. No man should have the right to assist in making a nomination who has not the right to vote for the nominee at the elec tion; and at a municipal election only persons whose names are on the registry lists are permitted to vote. This is the only just and proper rule to adopt, and we hope to see it rigidly enforoed dur ing the next campaign. THE EDGEFIELD ARREBTB. From the Edgefield Advertiser we learn that the threatened arrests have commenced in that county. The first victims are Colonel Robebt B. Hughes, Rev. E. T. Walker, Colonel John Cheatham, Messrs. J. H. Hollings worth, John Coloan, Sr., Wm. Pabk man and Charles Holmes. Squads of mounted infantry are raiding the oonnty day and night in search of other parties, but many of those for whom warrants have been issned were warned in time to make their escape. These men fly, not because they fear punishment for any arime which they have committed, but because, though couscions of their inno cence, they know that they will be dragged to Columbia and tried before a jury packed to ensure their conviction. Rev. E. T. Walker, the Episoopal minister and a man universally revered and be- Isved, was arrested at the instance of a negro whom he had declined to hire af ter the election. The others were all ar rested upon affidavits charging them with intimidating voters, yet in every in stance it is susceptible of proof that the party upon whose oath the warrant was issued did vote, and voted the Republi can ticket. This fact certainly shows very conclusively the baselessness of the accusation. The chief instigator of these outrages is one John B. Hubbard, who holds the position, we believe, of United States Marshal. He was for a long time one of tho State oonstables under Soorr and Moses, and is a man of notoriously bad antecedents. He was employed by Stanton as a spy to assist in working up the case ugainst Mrs. Surratt. He was Btationed, if wo are not mistaken, in a oell next to tho one oooupied by that unfortunate woman, in order that he might overhear her conversation. He subsequently appeared as a witness against her and did his utmost to se cure her conviction. He boasts of his connection with thatfcrime and is report ed to have said that "for forty dollars and a gold watch (the reward which ho received for his services) he had as soon hang a woman as a man.” General Gordon in Kansas. —The speech delivered by Senator Gordon, of Georgia, at the jubilee at Atlanta, on the 6th instant, was creditable to his head and heart. At its conclusion he asked his constituents to commission him, in their name, to pledge on the floor of the Senate their fidelity to the Union, their rcquiescence in the laws, good or bad, until repealed or changed in a constitutional manner, their support of all rightful authority, and their cor dial friendship for every man and all men of all sections who will aid in restor ing peaoe to the sections, justice to the States, liberty to the citizens, purity to the departments of the Government. All should heartily unite with the Sena tor in the inoulcation of these principles and kindly sentiments. —Leavenworth Timet (Hep). The President continues to treat the • people of Louisiana not only with oruelty and injustice, but with contempt. When he was informed that a delega tion of citizens were upon the eve of going to Washington to remonstrate with him against turning the State over to the tender meroies of Kellogg, Casey and Company, he telegraph ed that they need not oome. A week or ten days ago the citizens of New Orleans petitioned the President to re move the Federal troops from New Orleans as there was no. longer any necessity for their presence. It is now stated—and the information is said to oome from official quarters—that Gen. Grant has decided that he will not even reply to the request. Colonel Mosby —the third term guer rilla—puts “ bad mouth ” on the De mocracy. He says “ the Democrats will not behave with moderation,” and seems to think that if the Republican party be properly reorganized it will be successful in the next campaign. The wish is father to th •> thought with Col. He is a blatant third-termite, and means by a proper reorganization of the Republicans the adoption of a policy which will make General Grant the next candidate of that party. An exchange furnishes the painful in telligence that as Mr. Bret Harts con cluded his lecture in Brooklyn a few nights since he was served with a writ— the commencement of a suit against him for a debt contracted several years since in California, and which he forgot when he left the Pacific coast And has it come to this, that a poet and a littera teur must pay his debts like an ordinary mortal ? Has genius no greater privi leges than those enjoyed by the common herd ? Alas and lack-a-day! The New York Herald says that amongst the guests at a recent reception by the Young Men’s Democratic Club, at Delmonioo’s, “there towered the tall form and distinguished face of Lieuten ant-General Wade Hampton, the great Confederate cavalry officer, and this gen tleman was seen to shake hands across the table, which contained partridges and saddle rock oysters, with Major- General Avebill, who led many a charge of the Union horse in the shadows and passes of the Blue Ridge.” The independent Republican Con gressman from the Charleston District of South Carolina is a practical miscege nationist. He has educated and mar ried a colored girl whom a correspond ent of the New York limes declares is a lineal descendant of General Thomas Sumtkb, the Game Cook of the Revolu tion. COTTON MANUFACTURING IN GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH. The last number of the New York Financial Chronicle contains an inter esting article on "Cotton Spinning in the United States.” The tables which it gives are complete, and furnish some valuable information to those interested in the material prosperity of the coun try. Especially will an analysis of the figures presented reveal some gratifying facts to the Southern people, and to the friends of the South all over the country. The number of cotton mills in the United States is 847, which run 9,415,383 spin dles. The North, East and West have 650 mills and 8,927,754 spindles. The South has 18T mills and 487,659 spin dles. The disproportion is large bat not larg -r than the disproportion in population, wealth and extent of terri tory. It mast also be recollected that the Financial Chronicle , in violation of the rules of the geographer, classes Mary land with her 21 mills and 110,260 spin dles, as a Northern and not a Southern State. The arrangement of the table pits one section against three, the South Against the Union. If we oompare section with section the result is more encourag ing. It is true that the Eastern States have 489 mills, while the South, exclusive o) Maryland, has only 187; but New England has always been the chosen seat of man ufactures, as the sterility of the soil and the severity of the climate have prevent ed the energies of her people from seek ing any other ohannel. The Middle State'-; however, including New York and Pennsylvania—empires within them selves—have only 140 mills, 4T less than the South. The great West and North west have only 10 mills; so that the South has really a larger number of cot ton mills than the Northern and West ern States combined. In 1870 the num ber of spindles in the South was 262,221; in the Northern, Eastern and Western States the nmrber of spindles was 6,851,779. In 1874 the South has 487,- 629 spindles and the North, East and West 8,927,754. The Sonth has increased her spindles nearly one hundred per cent.; the increase North has amounted to less than thirty per cent.—a difference of fully sixty per cent, in our favor. Should this ratio of increase be main tained for the next ten years the end of the decade will find the South the manufacturing section of the Union. The position of Qeorgia in the South is as gratifying as the position of the South in the Union. Of the 187 mills 42, or nearly one-fourth of the whole number, are situated in this State. Tennessee is the only State which has as many, and her mills are all very small. Qeorgia baa as many mills— lacking two—as Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mis souri and Texas. Of the 487,629 spin dles Qeorgia has 137,330, or over one fourth of the whole number. The 42 mills of Tennesseehave only 47,058 spin dles. Qeorgia has nearly as many spin dles as Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Texas combined. Of the 128,526 bales of cotton nsed in Southern manu factories, 39,920 were consumed in Qeorgia. It must also be reoollected that a large proportion of the capital employed in the mills of South Caro lina is furnished by Georgia, though the spindles run with this money are credit ed to Carolina. THE ENFORCEMENT ACT. It would seem from the recent pro ceedings is Alabama and Louisiana that the Enforcement act is capable of being stretched to a fearful extent, but the severest twist which this extraordinary statute has reoeived was administered a few days since by a Sonth Carolina Radical Judge. Of course his name is Maokey. Only a Mackey is capable of such a feat. In his charge to the grand, jury of Fairfield county, he ordered that body to investigate certain commnn’ca tions which had recently appeared in the Winnsboro News, and to report whether the authors of these articles and the editor of the News had been guilty of conspiracy under the Enforcement act. It seems that during the recent campaign there were several colored men who rendered themselves particu larly obnoxious to the white citizens by their bitterness of speech and violence of conduot. There were others who aided the whites in their efforts to seouro good govern mont and honest officials. The com munications roferred to simply advised the white people when hiring laborers to give the preference to the latter class. The writers all stated that they had nothing to say against those colored people who had simply supported the Republican ticket; they only wished to show the negroes who had been so bit ter against the whites that the whites eonld get along without them; their war cry had been “stiok to your odor," now let them seek employment from their color. These artioles Judge Mackey construes to be a violation of the En forcement not, and deoides that they constitute a conspiracy to deprive men of a riglft to vote for members of Con gress. The men alluded to had already voted the Repnblioan tioket and had eleoted their candidates. The election had taken plaoe several weeks before, but writers and editors are to be indict ed for oonspiring to' deprive citizens of the right to vote. The makes the of fense oognizable by United States Courts; Judge Maokky wishes the of fenders brought before him in order that he may demonstrate how much worse than United States Courts are the State Courts of South Carolina. The Tribune says that the Winter outlook in New York is very gloomy.— The destitution promises to be much greater than it was last year when it taxed the metropolis very heavily to sup port the starving citizens. The num ber of persons now out of employment is estimated as high s ninety and not lower than sixty thousand or between five and eight per cent, of the entire population. And the probabilities are that this number will increase and not diminish as the Winter approaches, for business is getting duller and the op portnnitiei for employment more re stricted, The men and women who are unable to sell their labor will be unable to support themselves and will have to be fed by the public. The prospect is not encouraging certainly. What is true of New York will also prove to be true of all the large cities in the country. Instead of supporting these thou sands in idleness the authorities of New York and other cities had better seleqt such men as are of good character and pay their way to the South, where they "an easily obtain employment and fair wages for their labor. Macon wishes to set herself right with regard to the State Fair. Commenting upon the letter of General Colquitt to the Chronicle and Sentinel, the Isle graph and Messenger says : “If Macon is expected to ’run’ the “next State Fair as she did the last one “held here, we are pretty sure our peo “ple will willingly resign their claims to “Augusta. If the State Agricultural ’’Society choose to hold their Fair here “Macon has no sort of objection—pro “vided, of course, she is not oalled upon “to foot the bills.” Judge Poland admits that his con nection with the gag-law injured him politically and declares that the news papers treated him badly. He says the bill was brought to him by Boss Shxf erd and Harrington, and that General Butler asked him to report it. He had no idea that it applied to newspapers or libel suits and still maintains thatino man can be arrested under its provisions for libel. Innocent Poland ! How for tunate for him that he will not be again exposed to the arts of those oaiming men about Washington. Messrs. Hillyard A DeGraffenreid are suing the Georgia. Railroad for $50,000 for the kilting of Miss McDowell by the switch engine, in Atlanta. QUACK DOCTORS. Those who put faith in quack doctors and their nostrums will do well to take warning by the fate of the Philadelphia gentlemen who trusted themselves to the tender mercies of Dr. William Thompson. Dr. Thompson, or "Old Dr. William Thompson,” as he styled him self in his advertisement, declared that he possessed remarkable remedial pow ers in all kinds of complaints, and that he bad cured 12,000 out of the 14,000 oases under his care. He styled himself the "greatest natural physician of the nineteenth century,” and gave numerous testimonials showing his peculiar pro ficiency. Two or three days was the time set by him for relieving the ail ments of his patients, and such wonder ful professions did he make that many unwary people who had songht relief from their ills in vain were induced to call upon this devotee of Escnlapius. The Republic says that a short time ago Mr. Robert D. Cummings, the proprie tor of the Merchants’ Hotel, and Mr. WrsKoop, a well known business man, being indisposed, paid a visit to the sanctum of this physician, for the pur pose of availing themselves of his as tounding treatment They fonnd him situated inelegant stylein Walnut street, west of Broad, one of the most popu lous and aristocratic sections of the city, and they made known to him ►heir complaints. The first was af fected with dyspepsia; the other with oatarrb. In thete diseases "Dr.” Thom pson professed very great aptitude, and seated that upon the payment of 820 be wonld cure them in a few days. They went home, feeling satisfied that their sanitary state wonld be materially im proved ; but their complacency soon changed to a pang of remorse. After taking the medicine (Mr. Cummings states that the preparations for both were precisely similar, notwithstanding the difference in the nature of their ill ness), both were taken sick, and soon became so prostrated that death stared them in the face. Mr. Cummings, in a few days, by the use of antidotes, recov ered his health, but Mr. WYNKoopis now lying at the Merchants’ Hotel in sd almost hopeless condition, the doctor declaring that his oase is erxtremely bad, if not incurable. When the first named believer in quackery was well enough to attend to business he informed the sage of the effects of his medioine, and de manded reparation. This the venerable imposter declined to make, alleging that he did not prescribe the drng, bnt sold it as a preparation. The matter, how ever, was plaoed in the hands of a New York lawyer, and "Old Dr. Thompson” departed in search of green fields and pastures new. EDITORS* WORK. The Cincinnati Oauette has a sensible and timely article ou the editorial sanc tum and its visitors, from whioh we make the following extracts : Not all who visit editorial rooms are intruders or bores, but a great many are, and these are so numerous that aU visitors are looked upon with some de gree of suspicion until their business becomes known. It is never pleasant to be interrupted in editorial work. It has a tendency to make men oross. There is a pressure upon editors. They work nearly all the time under a pressure. Often their ideas do not flow freely, and when they are not pleasing themselves they are not in a m ood to spend much time upon those who interrupt them. We suppose it is safe to say that three fourths of those who call to see " the editor ” have no business properly with that individual. Often they do not know him personally, and in order to find him they interrupt ’naif a dozen or a dozen men, who important work to dQ, and only a limited time to do it in. Then, if they r eoeive short answers, they feel aggrieved and talk about impolite treatment. The editorial looms of a newspaper establishment are private, and are only to be visited, except as a matter of favor by those who have business that con cerns the editor. The best way, if peo ple have something to say to an editor, is to write that something down and send it to him. This would save time on both sides, and answer a better pur pose, nine times out of ten, than per sonal interviews. We desire to put in a general word for editors, in the hope that visitors who make raids upon them and consider themselves entitled to a large portion of time which they can not yield without neglecting business that can not be p* stponed, will have mercy upon the craft. A newspaper is a sort of a tread-mill in which the work is never done. It revolves without ces sation, and has none of your eight or ten-hour measures toindioatethe length of a day’s work. A veey grave charge is made against the Philadelphia publish ing house of J. B. Lippinoott & Cos. Tt appears' that they obtained from the Edinburgh publishers duplicate stereotype plates of the new edition of Chambers' Encyclo paedia, so that the work might be issued simultaneously iu America and Great Britain. After receiving them Lippin oott & Cos. made extensive and wholly unauthorized alterations, and then pub lished it as the original work. For in stance, the definitions of protection and free trade were taken out altogether, and artioles inserted in their stead lauding the first and condemning the latter, though the writer of the ency olopcedia had written against protection and in favor of free trade. If these charges be true, and of their truth there seems to be but little doubt, the Ameri can publishers have done an unwise and an warrantable act, and one whioh will greatly injure the sale of their publica tion. The Savannah News is informed that during the next session of the General Assembly a bill will be introduced look ing to the appointment of commis sioners for the purpose of registering births, marriages and deaths. While we are not as yet convinced that the creation of anew office is necessary we are in favor of a law which will require the registration above mentioned. It is ari important matter and one whioh has b een already too long neglected. A correspondent informs us that on the 25th instant one hundred white im migrants—men, women and children— left Covington Station, on the Georgia Railroad, for Texas. They were resi dents of Newton and Jasper counties. This is a bad sign. We cannot expect to keep the oolored people with us if the whites set the fashion of emigrating to Western Eldorados. Hon. A. D. Nunna'lly died at his resi dence, in Griffin, Monday afternoon. Col. Nunnallt was a Senator in the Leg islature of Georgia from 1868 to 1872 and took an important part in the work of that body. At the time of his death he was Mayor of Griffin. THE INDIANS. Two Georgia Children Recaptured from the Choyenne Indians. Chicago, November 27.—The follow ing is an extract from an official dispatch ofOolonel Miles, received, at Lieutenant- General Sheridan’s headquarters this morning. It refers to the girls whose rescue from Indians was announced sometime ago: " During the fight two white girls were recaptured from the Indians. It appears these sis tors—Adelaide and Julia German, aged three and seven years, respectively—were captured in Kansa/J, en route "from Georgia to Colo rado. They state that their father, mother, brother and one sister were mur dered, and that thoy and two older sis ters w ere kept prisoners. They have no positive knowledge of their whereabouts. Their story of woe an and suffering is sim ply to o horrible to relate. They were almos t naked and near ly starved. They are no wnnderchargeo;f Surgeon Waters, and will receive everyc are and attention, and when strong enon gh to endure the journey will be forwarded to Leaven worth- I most earn estly recommend that runple annual prov ision be made for these children by the Government out of tb.e annuity appro] iriation for the bene'St of the Cb.eyennt> Indians.” It is officially stated that no whites have entered tlie Black Hills region since the military expetlition. About seven t< >ns of fish were received in Savannah last Taeeda.v from Florida. The Macon Streetß&ilivad mules have been sold, by or tier of CVourt, to satisfy laborers’ liens. BENCH AND BAR. And he said he would not sit down and that the Judge might fine and be d—d. Wherefore this refusal to be seated, this permission to mulct coupled with a permit to roast? Sing heavenly muse the amenities of Bench and Bar. Mr. Jnßtioe Lynch was, and is for aught we know, the presiding Judge of the Fourth District Court of New Or leans. The local historian does not give much information concerning his life and lineage, but, from words used by one of the actors in this drama which we are about to describe, it is probable that he was & New Orleans lawyer of mediocre ability and flexible principles who entertaining acceptable opinions concerning the legality and loveliness of the Kellogg regime, had been clothed with the ermine and elevated to the bench by that pnre patriot and eminent statesman. As we have said,, his name is Lynch, which is a very good. name for a Judge in the Southwest He dis covered that Kellogg was a good Gov ernor and a lawful Governor; and Kel logg. determined not to be outdone in kindness and proceeding upon the statesmanlike principle of you tickle me and I'll tickle you, discovered that Lynch was a bright and shining legal light, whose splendor it wonld be foul shame to hide under the boshed of a briefless barrister's seedy robe. So Kel logg set Lynch the legal light upon a hill—made him in fact Judge of the Distriot Court aforesaid with a hand some salary, to be drawn whenever the tax payers down, and with such perquisites aa attach to the Bench under the carpet-bag dispensation. The lawyer who had an objection to sitting and none at all to the future punish ment of the Judge is named Dbouet— which smacks of Creole blood and the waspishness of low latitudes. He had been a Judge and perhaps did not have so high an opinion of the attainments of the Court as he should have had as a loyal citizen. He is also a man, like Midshipman Easy and other great char acters, fond of argnment and disputa tion, in order, of course, that the truth may be reached; for when the Judge ruled a certain question propounded by the lawyer to a witness inadmissible he sup plemented the ruling and attempted to stop the expostulations of the advocate by a reqnest that Mr. Dbouet “would not continually dispute with the Court.”— Here we feel it our duty to interject an opinion of the perfect reasonableness of the Judge’s request. While argu ment may be beneficial to the cause of truth it is not usually conducive to harmony and kindly feeling, and that there are pleasanter companions in the world than a disputations person no married man will deny who has a wife fond of "arguing the question.” Mr. Dbouet, with the blindness of his kind, denied that he ever disputed with the Court, and then turned again to the wit ness. Judge Lynch ordered the witness to leave the stand and requested Mr. Dbouet to take his seat. Mr. Dbouet thought he would like to ask the witness a few mure questions, and, failing that, would like to argue .the point with the Court why said questions should not be propounded and why the said witness should not make reply. The Court de clined to argue or be argued with and informed the disputant that he must either sit down voluntarily or upon compulsion. Whereupon, with abnormal and exasperatingcalmness, the lawyer stated that he “ had been sitting all day—he had a headache and thought standing would afford him relief.” The Judge did not stop to investigate or dis cuss the hygienic question presented by the answer or the propriety of turning the halls of justice into a hospital for ailing advocates. For not doing this he maybe blamed by some super squeamish people who entertain extravagant notions concerning the care of the sick. But here again we must side with the Judge. To have indulged Mr. Drouet in his un reasonable demaud would have been to set a precedent fraught with more dan ger to the judiciary than even the subor dination of Courts to the wishes of Con gress and Presidents. Imagine, if you please, twenty or thirty lawyers stand ing up during the session of Court and staring the Judge out of countenance under a plea of headache; or the same lawyers lying on top of their desks with a volume of reports for a pillow, and every man of them curled up under the persuasive twist of a cramp colio su perinduced by lobster salad at un seasonable hours or oysters which had been too long out of the water. Who could have any respect for such a tribunal, or who could witness its most solemn proceedings without being irresistibly moved to laughter ? Judge Lynch, therefore, very propefly declined to accede to such an unrearionable demand, and ordered the sheriiT to pnt Mr. Droctet in his seat, and, if necessary, to use a pile driver to accomplish the feat. The law yer replied that he did notadmitthe seat ing power of the Court, and he should decline to sit. At this point the Court recognized the futility of further words, and contented himself with imposing a fine of fifty dollars and ordering the man with a headache to jail for twenty four hours, apparently thinking that rest and solitude would help an aching head even more than staudiug bolt up right in a Court room. At this point, too, vanished lawyer Dbo get’s abnormal oalmneas; he became as fiery as a well regulated Creole should become under such circumstances, and resorted to in vective and profanity with a readiness whioh showed him master of both. It was then that the Coiurt was informed that it could send to jail and he d—d ; that it csould fine and be d—d. It was then that, in a sud den burst of frankness, and with the dogmatic style of a man who states a proposition the correctness of which can not be denied, he informed the Court that he (the Court) was “ a d—d usurper,” that he was “ a scoundrel, a liar and a d—d New Orleans rough.” The Court, evidently astounded by the suddenness of the assault, and stnnned by the epithets which flew from the invalid’s tongne, was dumb, while the lawyer pursued his researches into the family tree of the Court, slashing among the roots, boughs and branches and damning them in heaps. He ended his oratory with a threat to use such violence upon the person of the Court that the Court would be compelled to maintain a perpendicular position for some time to come. As soon as he could recover, the Judge had his sentence carried into execution and the disputatious barrister was hurried to prison. How he emerged from captivity* or when, the local historian fails to tell, but it seems to us that a life time of imprisonment and a fine as large as the national debt would scarcely be sufficient punishment for such contempt of Court. Db. Hamilton’s statistics of suicide in New York show that more married people grow weary of life than single ones, and that widows and widowers are better satisfied with their lot than .tither single or married. On the same princi ple, we suppose, that a man who has been traveling in a storm all day appre ciates a fire more than the man who ha s been sitting in a warm room. Men, also, seek death oftener than vromen. Of 359 who have committed suioide in New York daring the past three years, 275 were males, 87 females; 198 were mar ried, 118 unmarried, and only 43 widows and widowers. With regard to seasons, July is the best and December the worst month for suiciding—the former month numbering 20 and the latter 4 cases. Of classes, clerics like it beat—the pro portion being 34 clerks to 10 laborers. Of means, poison is preferred, and of poisons arsenic is the favorite ; shooting comes next, and hanging last; 212 ont of 600 broke up house-keeping with the bowl, 147 with gunpowder, and 135 with the cord. Savannah will have a parade of fan tasies on Christmas day. OUR ATLANTA LETTER. The State Rosd—Hour it Has Been Managed—Put in Thorough Repair— A Prospect lor Dividends— : The Air Line Muddle—Minor Matters. bSjpacioi Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.} Atlanta, November 26,1874. The State Road and the Lessees. The lessees of the Western and Atlan tic Railroad held their quarterly meet ing yesterday. A majority of the com pany were present, including Judge Jno. P. King, of Augusta; Messrs. Nut ting, Holt and Johnson, of Macon; Mr. Walters, of Baltimore, and CoL L. W. Cole, of Nashville. If there was any business of importance transacted it has not yet transpired. It is, however, sap posed that no important measure was adopted, as the session was brief. This morning the lessees left in a body on an excursion over the road, and to the Dade County Coal Mines, in wbicl some of the lessees are largely interest ed. Since Governor Brown’s acqniesence in the appointment of General Wm. Mcßae as Superintendent there been no disturbance in the policy and management of the road. The financial condition of this road has been a theme of speculation ever since it came under the control of the lessees. For a long time it was reported, official ly and otherwise, that the expenditures of the road were greatly in excess of its income. These reports seemed very in consistent when it was remembered that several years ago the road paid a month ly installment of $50,000 into the State Treasury, and the general impression with the public was; that these reports were circulated with the design of dis couraging the Seago-Blodgett Company from contesting their cause before the Courts for the purpose of declaring the lease fraudulent, null and void. It was said seven or eight months ago that the road owed over $800,000; but in the face of all these representations it was believed that the road was mak ing money. It is now reported that the road is in better condition than it has been for twenty years, and the impression is gaining ground that the lease company has appropriated all its net earnings to repairs, to the purchase of new engines, and new roll ing stock. It is probable, that now the company has placed the road in first class order, that they have met the great majority of their obligations, and will soon begin to realize handsome profits from their investment. In five years it is predicted that the State Road will be one of the most profitable pieces of property in thq State. Having expen did large amounts of money on the road, without any corresponding income for a number of years, and having at last made the road prosperous and highly profitable, it is highly probable that the lessees will be averse to permitting the road to revert to the State at the expira tion of the term of lease, about fifteen years hence. Having amassed large fortunes the lessees will probably at that time be in a condition to purchase the road; and if a fair and equitable price be offered, they will find not a few of the leading men of the State who will favor its sale, on the ground that it will al ways while under the immediate control of the State be operated as a political machine and become thereby a source of corruption. These are the specula tions indulged in by many of those who are interested in its future. The Negro Emigration. There is a pretty general sentiment among the negroes of this section, espe cially those in the cities and towns, to emigrate West, and were it not for the f%ct that they are without the necessary means, it is believed there would be in the next few months a tremendous egress of this class of our population. This de sire does not prevail so generally in the country as in the cities and towns, where the negroes are in constant communica tion with emigration agents. They are influenced by two other causes also. La bor during the present depressed state of business is very scarce, and town ne groes find it difficult to make an honest, and under the present administra tration still more difficult to make a dis honest living. Many of them, moreover, are captured by the fabulous stories of uegro prosperity in Mississippi and Louisiana. Some negroes who have gone from this section to those States have amassed considerable property, and others have become distinguished as legislators, Congressmen and Judges. These stories of prosperity and fame have made Louisiana and Mississippi a sort of paradise and Eldorado in the eyes of the discontented, and they are anxious to leave Georgia, which they fancy is a hard country to live in. Large numbers of negroes who own small lots in the city and in the suburbs announce their willingness to sell their property at a sacrifice, in order to obtain the means to emigrate. Romulus Moore, a colored politician and hotel keeper of this city, has called a convention of his fellow countrymen to assemble here on Mon day, 30th November, to consider the propriety of organizing a colony to set tle in Texas, Arkansas, or some other Western State. Whether or not he will obtain a large attendance it is impossi ble to say. It is safe to predict, how ever, that his proposition will meet with considerable favor, unless the city and town negroes can find employment, a thing very improbable unless business revives. # Minor Topics. Col. Buford, recently President of the Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Rail road, and at present receiver of those portions of it lying in South Carolina and North Carolina, has acquiesced in the appointment of Col. L. P. Grant as receiver of that portion lying in Georgia, has issued his proclamation, command ing obedience to the new receiver, and everything promises to be "lovely” again. The employees have begun to work with renewed energy, hopeful that the road will soon be in a condition to meet all its liabilities. * * A peti tion requesting Dr. W. H. Felton, Demo cratic Congressman elect from the Seventh District, to deliver an address in this city is being circulated. It recites that in consideration of the fact that while all his friends have perfect confi dence in his patriotism, integrity and Democratic fealty, there are others who still remain unconvinced of his full alle giance to Democratic principles, and for that reason desire to have him define his political faith publicly. The petition is signed by nearly all the leading men here, among them Gov. Smith, Dr. H. Y. M. Miller and Col. R. A. Alston. The Doctor will probably deliver his address within a period of two weeks. * * * The Holman Opera Troupe have been greeted here with the warmest approval. * * * The next excitement is the election of legislative officials, the cen tre figure in which is the election for Speaker. Messrs. Hardeman, Bacon, Anderson and Hoge it is understood are still in the field. * * * The election for city officers occurs soon, bnt elicits no interest, as the Democratic nomina tions two months ago virtually decided the question. * * * Winter is here at last. Halifax. THE CITT BY THE SEA. [Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel. 1 Charleston, November 26th, 1874. This being Thanksgiving Day, busi ness for the most part is suspended, and the suburbs of the city abound with holiday hunters, who generally take ad vantage of similar occasions to try their skill in marksmanship. The informa tion received here of Elliott’s election to the Speakership of the House has elicited manifest disgust. Besides this, it is intimated that an attempt will be made by the Legislature to unseat the Charleston delegation. It seems that by the Constitution of the State either House is invested with the power of making a choice of its members, and the Republicans will heartily oppose the Charloston delegation. Such is the opinion of the Radicals, but by what rule in arithmetic they can wipe out 2,666 majority of fairly polled votes is what the Conservatives have yet to learn. It is asserted that Bowen spent $5,000 to secure Elliott’s election, and will remain in Columbia during the sitting of the Legislature in order to farther his plans. Buttz will probably continue the fight against Mackey for Congressional hon ors; it is said he will make an attempt at Washington to prevent Mackey from drawing his pay. Preparing for the Holidays. The King street merchants are mak ing active preparations for the Christ mas holidays. Already the toy shop windows present a kind of Noah’s ark appearance, much to the delight of the young folks and gamins, who collect in promiscuous crowds to enjoy the free shows. Since last night the thermometer has fallen fully tea degrees, and those who enjoyed the fine weather yesterday in h'ght clothing are to-day muffled in the thick robes of Winter. * *. There is as vet no cine to the mysterious death of L'aniel Wilson, the man found dead near the post office. He was a member of thf longshoremen, and his funeral was attended by a large number of white aL'd colored members. * * The sound of the hurdy-gurdy is heard in the land. Yibginiub. Knights Templar. Memphis, November 27.—The Great Republic, the Idle Wild and Thompson Dean, with Commanders of Knqjhts Templar, from St Louis, Springfield. Illinois, Cairo and Terre Haute, arrived here to-day and were received by the Cyrene Commandery of this city, at 10i, p. m. The steamers left for New Or leans. THE COTTON CROP. Circular of P. A. Hirseh. New York, November, 1874.—Some parties have taken exception to my com parisons of this year’s cotton crop, ac cording to the Agricultural Bureau’s September report of condition, with the year of 1870, asserting that it is not known what is meant by ?he Bureau's designation of an aven.g j crop, and that, therefore, my comparing this year’s September condition with the crop of 1870-’7l is unauthorized. Those who make this objection, 1 am inclined to believe, have not had time or inclina tion to study the subject quite as thorou ghly as 1 have done, or that objection would not have been made. By looking at the report of the Bureau of Septem ber, 1870, they will find that the condi tion of the cotton crop is there given as follows, viz: North Carolina, 105; South Carolina, 105; Georgia, 105; Florida, 115; Alabama, 100; Mississippi, 100; Louisiana, 108; Texas, 109: Arkansas, 110, and Tennessee, 100. This gives an average for all the States of 104}, or 4} per cent, above what the Bureau, or rather its agents, call an average condi tion. As stated in my September circu lar, the average yield in 1870-71 was 216 lbs. of lint cotton per acre; deduct 4} per cent, from that leaves 206 lbs., per acre, and this, then, would be the re sult of what the Bureau calls an aver age condition of the crop in September of any given year. Cau there be any donbt about that ? It will be seen, therefore, that I acted advisedly when I took the year 1870 for a standard in my comparisons and when I called the crop of that year a full one. Had I desired to strain a point, the result of my calcu tion would have been 2,913,000 bales, instead of 3,050,000 bales, as the aggre gate crop of this year, or 4} per cent, less than the figure named since the September condition of the crop of 1870 was just so much an average condition. The reports of the different Cotton Exchanges give about the same result if the answers to the question, how will the yield this year compare with the last ? mean increase or decrease in ag gregate yield of cotton and not in the yield per acre, about which there ap pears to be some doubt. I take for granted that they mean increase or de crease in the total yield. If they mean per acre, the total crop, according to the Exchanges, would bo considerably less than it promises to be according to the Bureau reports. Some people seem to be under the impression that I have made an estimate of this year’s cotton crop in my September circular, and that I have assumed the figure resulting from my calculation according to the report of the Agricultural Bureau, as my own estimate.. That is an unwar ranted conclusion, as everybody who has carefully read my circular must admit. However, as we have now corroborative evidence in the reports of the Cotton Exchanges for the different departments, I will venture the assertion that this year’s cotton crop will not exceed 3,- 250,000 bales, and may be less than 8,- 000,000 bales. Those parties who, in September last, in answer to inquiries from Liverpool as to the authenticity and correctness of the Bureau report, made use of such phrases as these, “allbosh,” “grossly ex aggerated,” “stupidly incorrect,” “ridic ulously false,” etc., etc., may have cause to regret them. When we consider what authority they had for suoh answers beyond their own opinions, founded on nothing but a preconceived notion that a dry and hot Summer must make a large cotton crop, and ignoring all facts, it seems astounding that any intelligent person should be found to take their statements in preference to woll authenticated reports from all sec tions and from various sources. Id. advance in Liverpool would have been more than a legitimate oonseqnenee of the Ag'ricultural Bureau’s report of con dition of the crop in September, and that market was in a fair way to advance and might have done so to the extent named but for the denials of tliecorrect ness of that report. If we in this coun try do not, with all the information we have, believe in a small cotton crop and are willing to supply Europe at the present low price, we cannot blame our .European friends for accepting the situation and saving 30 or 4u million dollars, to which extent this country wi ll be the poorer ia consequence of the large crop estimates persisted in by al.irge number of influential members of our Cotton Exchange. If it be asked, why I take the September report as a basis of my calculation, rather than Oe toboror November, I answer that that seems to be the time to approximate the nearest to a correct estimate of the cot ton crop, because the plant has then about reached its maturity, or at least shows -what it mav do for the balance of the season. In October, or later, the estimate cannot be so correct, because a great part has already been picked out. I readily concede that a large portion of the crop matures after September; but when people lift up their hands in wonder and astonishment at the beauti ful October weather, and estimate the immense number of bales it will add to the crop, they .forget they have done the same thing the year before. Everybody knows that fine, sunny and mild weather during Autumn is the distinguishing feature of our climate, and that one year seldom differs much from another in that respect, except, perhaps, in early Autumn, when we may have more rain in some years than iu others which may affect the quality of cotton, but only in a slight degree the quantity.’ As to unusually early frosts of sufficient severi ty to do much damage, they do not occur oftener than perhaps once in twenty years. These are my reasons for believing the Ist of September to be the proper time to make an estimate of the cotton crop, and the results of the last four years ha ye strengthened me in this belief. I admit that even the bulls may consider it for their interest to encourage the idea of a large crop at this time; for the lower the price goes the greater the reaction will be when the small crop be gins to develop itself; and what the consequences will be if we go on ship ping so extensively to Europe, in conse quence of large crop estimates, and we discover in May next that there is not enough cotton left to supply our own spinners, every one interested in the staple may easily imagine. FROM THE PACIFIC COAST. The King of Hawaii on His Way to the United States—Accident to a Whaler. San Francisco, November 27.—The steamship MoGregor arrived from Aus tralia and Honolula. The King of Ha waii is on his way here in the United States steamer Benecia. Before his departure from the Sandwich Islands he reconstructed his Cabinet. He also ap pointed Prince Delewhoka as Regent during his absence in the United States. The Prince has also been proclaimed as successor to the throne. John Norton, chiel mate of the whaler James Allen, with Alexander Collins, Thomas Barker, John Seypan, Carlos Ambler and Charles Bryer, seamen, went in a boat from the same vessel and struck a whale. The line got foul and they were drawn down and all perished. Another Child Stolen. * Freemansburg, November 26.—At 4 o’clock this morning the startling dis covery was made chat the infant and only child of Mr. Allen Class had been stolen. During the night some person or persons had entered the dwelling and taken the little one out of the cradle, which stood at the side of the bed in which lay the mother, unconscious of what was going on. The excitement is very great and many theories are ad vanced. However, the case is a mys tery, and baffles the skill of the police and others, who have been unremitting in their search for the missing child. The case will be thoroughly sifted. Another Account. Freemansbd: o, Pa., November 27. The mother of the supposed stolen in fant has confessed that she threw it in the river. She is supposed to have com mitted the. act while insane. Freemansburg, Pa ~ November 27. Early yesterday there was excitement over the reported stealing of the infant of Allan Goss from the cradle during the night. Unremitting search of citi zens and authorities resulted in finding the body of a child in Lehigh river, which was recognized as the missing baby. Evidence indicates that the mother threw it ml Mrs. Goss was ar rested and coveyed to Easton jail This morning there is much feeling against the woman. Thieving Mississippi Officials. Vicksburg, November 26.—The grand jury of this county, composed of ten negroes and seven whites, has returned eight indictments against T. W. Cardoso, the colored State Superintendent of Edu cation, for forgery and embezzlement, while the Circuit Clerk here has six in dictments against A. W. Dorsey, Clerk of the Circuit Court, for forgery and embezzlement, and five indictments against G. W. Davenport, the colored Clerk of the Chancery Court, for forgery and altering the records. Mrs. Fry in Distress. New Orleans, November 26.—The family of the late Capt Joseph Fry, of the ill-fated Virginias, is reported to be in a really pitiable condition. Mrs. Fry has seven children, the youngest only four years of age and the others ranging upward. They were left in destitute circumstances, and the small contribu tions bv generous persona, immediately after Capt. Fry’s death, are completely exhausted. THE AUGUSTA JOCKEY CLUB. Permanent Organization Effected—Ar rangements for Races m January. Pursuant to adjournment, a meeting of the Angnsta Jockey Club was held Thursday, at 12 o’clock, at the Augusta Club Boom. The meeting was called to order by the Chairman, Robt. H. May, Esq. The committee appointed nt the pre vious meeting reported through their Chairman, Col. Lewis Jones, that the list of membership had been increased to fifty-seven. Ho bad no doubt but that at least a hundred names could be obtained in a few days. He bad no in formation in regard to the charter of the old organization. Probably Major J. B. Cumming, who was the President of that Club, and was now present, conld impart the desired information. Major Cumming said the charter was no longer of force. It expired some time since. Colonel Jones moved that a committee of five, to nominate permanent offioere for the Club, be appointed by the Chair man. Adopted. The Chairman appointed Messrs, Lewis Jones, John A. Bohler, T. J. Jen nings, Geo. Kernaghan and J. B. Har riss as the committee. After due deliberation the committee reported the following names : For President—Maj. J. B. Camming. For Vice-Presidents—Gen. M. C. Butler, Col. Thos. C. Barrett. For Directors—Maj. J. B. Cumming, Gen. M. C. Butler, Col, Thos. G. Bar rett, W. F. Herring, T. G. Bacon, James A. Gray, Thos. J. Jennings, Jno. A. Bohler, Ker Boyce. For Secretary—Col. Lewis Jones. For Treasurer—-Kobert H. May. For Timers—Ker Boyce, J. B. Har riss. For Starting Judge—Thos. J. Jen nings. Maj. Cumming said that before the Club took any action on the report of the committee he thought it due to it that he should state he knew nothing whatever of the duties of a' President of a Jockey Club. The Chairman thought the committee cojild not have made a better selection for President. The report was unanimously adopted and the gentlemen mentioned above de clared duly elected. Col. Lewis Jones moved that the President appoint a committee to fix the time and arrange a programme and nurses for the first race meeting of the Club. Col. T. G. Bacon that it best to post pone the races until some time in the early part of January, a week or two be fore the Charleston races. If the races took place during Christmas week, as he had first proposed, only three stables would be present. If, however, they were postponed for two weeks several more stables would be able to come. Augusta should now occupy the same position, in regard to races, that Char leston did before the war# In that city in ante helium, days race week was a time of general rejoicing. Every body went to the raoes and the meeting was, in fact, observed as a general holi day. Col. Jones’ motion was put and car ried and the President oppointed as the committee Col. T. G. Bacon, and Messrs. R. H. May and T. J. Jennings. Mr. May moved that the Chairman appoint a committee of three to draft a Constitution and By-laws for the govern ment of the Club, and report them at a meeting to be held in the Club Boom next Tuesday, at 12 o’clock. Colonel Jones moved as an amendment that the committee already appointed be requested to discharge this duty. Mr. May accepted the amendment, and the motion as amended was adopted. Mr. May moved that the committee appointed at the first meeting to obtain new members continue their labors, and that three others be added to the oom mittee. Adopted. The Chairman appointed as the addi tional members of the committee Messrs. John A. Bohler, J. M. Turpin and J. B. Harriss. The meeting then adjourned until Tuesday, at 12 o’clock. The following is a list of the membe rs of the club: Robert H. May, T. J. Jennings, Geo. H. Kernaghan, E. R. Schneider, John A. Bohler, General M. C. Butler, T. W. Car wile, James A. Gray, W. E. Whe loek, J. H. Dugas, T. M. Bones, Josiah Mosher, P. Otis, Ker Boyce, J. R. Ran dall, T. G. Barrett, T. D. Caswell, J. B. Cumming, P. L. Cohen, J. J, Doughty, J. W. Clark, J. O. Mathewson, R. Pot ter, W. A. Beall, Henry Myers, J. M. Turpin, T. G. Bacon, Lewis Jones, W. W. Barron, H. H. D’Antignac, Col. Lewis- Jones, J. D. Fraser, Ishain Fannin, John Satterlee, J. W. Crawford, Gen. M. W. Gary, A. A. Olisby, C. R. Stone, N. Heggie, J. B. Pournelle, Thos. Mur ray, R. J. Loyall, E. H. Pughe, Peter Gritz, C. H. Phinizy, J. S. Bones, Alex. Philip, Erwin Hicks, 11. H. Hicks, Jas. Barrett, P. Kelley, J. J. Gregg, J. B. Harriss, W. Daniel, S. W. Mays, W. F. Herring, W. P. Crawford. An Old Book.- Judge Samuel Levy has in his possession the oldest book, perhaps, in this section of the corantry. He rescued it some time since from parties who were using it as waste paper, and had it bound. Several leaves had been torn out of the front, so that the exact date of its publication is -not known. Its yellow ness, queer type and general appear ance, however, denote that it is of con siderable antiquity. It is a copy of the English Statutes from Edward 1., A. D. 1300 to James I. Some of these stat utes are curiosities in the way of legal lore. One of them, passed in the year 1300, readb as follows: And Forasmuch as the King hath granted the Election of Sheriffs to the Commons of the Shire, the King wilL that they shall cluise such Sheriffs that not charge them, and that they shall not put any officer in au thority for Rewards or Bribes, and such as shall not lodge too oft in one Place, or with poor persons or Men of Religion. Another statute, headed “None Shall Report Slanderous News Whereby Dis cord May Arise,” is as follows : Foras much as there have been oftentimes found in the Country Devisors of Tales whereby Discord or Occasion of Discord, hath many times Arisen between the King and his People or Great Men of this Realm, For the Damage that hath and may thereof ensue, it is commanded. That from henceforth none be so hardy to Tell or Publish any false News or Tales whereby Discord or Occasion of Discord or Slander ay grow between the King and his People or the Great Men of the Realm, and he that doth so shall be taken and kept in prison until he hath bronght him into the Court, which was the first Author of the Tale. Passed A. D. 1275 Anno Tertio Edward I. Suppose any who should “ tell any false news ” was “taken and kept in prison ” at this date, how many prisons would the different counties have to build ? The London Lancet pretends to know how a man feels when his head is cut off. It says: “Our readers may remem ber that rather less than four years ago we had to refute the theory of Dr. Pine], that Tropmann’s head having lost under the guillotine the sources of common sensation, yet retained hearing, sight and smell, with the whole apparatus of consciousness and intellect. The trank, he maintained, died quietly and pain lessly from hemorrhage in the course of a few minutes; but the braiD, shielded by atmospheric pressure, retained its blood and consequently its life for no fewer than three hours. It is still neces sary, it seems, to reassert the fact that, while the brain possesses a considerable quantity of blood after decapitation, the blood rapidly becomes venous for want of oxygen, the condition being like that in complete asphyxia, in which con sciousness vanishes in ninety seconds. The physical shock sustained from the guillotine would of itself, moreover, paralyze all nervous function too com pletely to admit of consciousness taking place during the brief interval necessary for the thorough deoxidation of the j blood in the brain. Beyond the momen tary impact of the descending knife on the felon’s throat, no further sensation can be felt.” In the Registry of Deeds office, in Dublin, there is an ingenious invention by which through the agency of a me chanical index jnd the use of printing and photography, searches in that office are to be facilitated. The invention comprises the substitution of a simple mechanical index for the numerous books now in use, and the application of printing and photography in producing the transcripts or copies which are re quired. The index is placed in a wooden case about the height of an ordinary office desk, and consists of a roll of suit able paper, which is coiled round cylin ders, which in the model are turned by handles at the side. If a person wants to know whether there is a charge af fecting the lands of a certain person, he tarns the handle of the left-hand side, and in a minute brings up the particu lar letter under which is the name he wants. The rapidity of the registration will be understood when it is explained that instead of having the memorials compared and copied by writers, the deeds are photographed, the printer gets the plates as his copy, and the originals, instead of being left to be thnmbed and manled and torn by persons who have to refer to them, are deposited at once in fire-proof safes. The Chatham county Radicals are go ing to make a trial for the different county officers. WASHINGTON NEWS. Tom Scott Will Take $70,000.,000. Washington, November 25.— Colonel Thomas A. Scott was in town, and an nounced his purpose, openly, to come to Congress at the approaching session and ask aid for his Texas Pacific Boad. He says he wants $70,000,000 in ail to com plete the road. This he proposes to raise on forty year bonds, the interest of which, at five per cent., gold, he pro poses to ask Congress to guarantee. To secure the Government, it is proposed to turn over all the land grants, all ma chinery, track, rolling stock and appur tenances, and to issue the bonds as fast as the road is completed, in seotions, at the rate of $30,00G a mile for the plains, and $40,000 a mile for the heavy grad ing. Colonel Scott sSys he is confident that he will never be obliged to ask the Government to pay a coupon, and that it is proposed to pay the interest on the first four years out of the proceeds of the bonds. Bnmored Withdrawal of Mr. Fish- It is understood that Secretary Fish will retire from the Cabinet early in December. The reason for so doing is that his health will no longer permit him to remain in public life. For some time past he has been complaining.,and his physicians have warned him that un less he has rest and a change of -diet and scene, he may at any moment be stricken with apoplexy. For this reason alone he will retire from the office to whioh, through six years of la borious service, he has become very much attached. His successor has not [ yet been named. It is believed to be the President’s intention to tender a Cabinet appointment to Mr. Blaine, and it is not regarded as probable that in the reorganization of the Cabinet two members will be selected from New Eng land. A Railroad Sale Reversed. Washington, November 23. —Jackson et al. against the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas Railroad Company and others, appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana. This was a proceeding to set aside a sale of the proparty of the railroad company made to the appellees joined with the com pany in the action, on the ground that it was in favor of the stockholders, and was made to place the road unencum bered in the hands of a clique. The Court below sustained the sale, but this Court reverses the decree, declaring the sale to have been fraudulent and void, and ordering the reinstatement of the appellants’ bill, which was dismissed below. Justioo Strong delivered the opinion. Verdict in the Safe Burglary. Washington, November 27.—The ver dict in the safe burglary case was : Wil liams acquitted. Jury hung on Har rington and Whitley. Letter by Mr. Stephens. Washington, November 27.—The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens has this day viritten a letter to the Mobile Register, defending himself from the attacks of that journal on account of his utterances on the Louisiana question. Mr. Ste phens holds that it was the President’s duty to enforce Judge Durell’s decree, but says that the law under which Durell acted was unconstitutional, and that the order of Durell was, in respect to the Legislature, illegal. In respect to the Arkansas question, Mr. Stephens is de oidedly of opinion that the Hon. Volney Noltaire Smith has do case whatever. The Philadelphia Press. The negotiations which have just re sulted in the transfer of a controlling interest of Forney’s Philadelphia Press to Col. Alexander McClure have been going on for some weeks past, and were not anticipated at the time when Col. Forney left for Europe. The sale is re garded as a logical consequence of the late political revolution in Pennsylvania. The price paid by Col. McClure is $250, - 000, and this comprises only one share— more than half of the paper. Col. For ney retains the balance. The Press is esteemed the leading paper of the State, and has an income estimated at $50,000 per annum. Under Col. McClure’s mifti agement the paper will represent the var ious opposition elements that defeated the State and city rings and Grantism. The change in editorial control does not, however, take effect until the Ist of January next. The first energies of the paper under McClure will probably be devoted to the elections to be held in February next under the new Constitu tion, for the . councils, police magis trates, and other officers of the munici pal government of Philadelphia. These are now in the hands of the most cor rupt ring in the country. The Guber natorial campaign of next Fall will be the next objective point; and to this end the Pennsylvania politicians are already addressing themselves. Ex- Governor Andy Curtin is expected to be the candidate of the Democrats and Liberal Republicans, and Gen. Hart ranft of the city and State rings of Grant and Simon Cameron. As the election is in a large measure the key to the Presidential campaign of 1876, great efforts are to be made by the Re publicans to carry it; and the Adminis tration, alarmed at the new attitude which the Press is to ns.-ume, is under engagement to co-operate with them by a free use of the executive patronage. During the late canvass the Democrats did not have a single important paper in the city of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, November 28.—C01. McClure confirms the reported purchase of Forney’s Press, but denies the re port Col/Thomas A. Scott and ex-Gov ernor Cnrtin will be interested in the paper. The paper will be independent, without having in view the advancement of any particular men. Washington, November 28.—James Russell Lowell has declined the mission to Russia. The Star says some ten days since, by direction of the President, a telegram was sent to Kenneth R. Cobb, Esq., In ternal Revenue Supervisor, notifying him that his resignation was required. Mr. Cobb arrived in Washington yes terday for the purpose of securing his retention in office, but the President in formed him that he (the President) had made up his mind to make the change and it must be made. Mr. Cobb’s district comprises the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Ala bama and Louisiana. Mr. Cobb had not tendered his resignation up to half past two o’clock this afternoon. CAPITAL YS. LABOR. General Strike of Longshoremen, NhwYohk, November 27.—A general strike of longshoremen went into effect this morning. They have struck all over the city, whether receiving the old rates—4o oents an hour for day work and 80 cents an hour for night work—or ; not. The men at work on the French line consider themselves under an obli gation to the company, and are finishing the work on the steamer France for •nothing. This they soy is only right, as the company have paid them regular rates all along. The same course was pursued at the pier of the Atlas line. About 1,000 policemen are scattered along the piers on North and East rivers, and a police boat is moored at a con venient point ready to convey men to any point, where trouble might occur. New York, November 27.—The long shoremen, in endeavoring to enlist own ers of sailing vessels in their behalf on the pending controversy, have only succeed ed in uniting them with the steamship men. A general strike is expected to day on the docks of Brooklyn, Jersey City and Hoboken. The uniform sched ule of rates prescribed by the longshore men has been adopted. In many in stances this schedule is actualy lower than prices now paid. Trouble is anti cipated to-day, and the police have made ample preparations to repress dis orders. The Hamburg Steamship Company, which has docks at Hoboken, to-day of fered to pay S6O and $65 a month to twenty-four longshoremen and forty cents an hour for overwork, which was refused, and all belonging to the long shoremen there are out. The coal heavers in the employ of two firms who furnish coal for steamship companies in Hoboken, and for several lines in New York, also went off on a strike until the demands of the longshoremen ar9 ac ceded to. Everything is quiet. Oat of Employment. Pottsville, November 27.—The over supply of coal threw out 1,500 workmen in this region. Suffering during the severe months is apprehended. Masonic. Nashville, November 26. —Geneva Grand Chapter of Masons assembled this morning. The Committee on Jurispru dence presented a report, which was adopted. A resolution was adopted re cognizing the Grand Chapter of West Virginia; also, a resolution approving the doings and decisions of the General Grand High Priest for the past three years. The Chapter took a recess, at 11, a. m., to attend divine service. Ship’s Crew Massacred. San Francisco, November 27.—The cutter Lapwing, with a crew of four white men and several native sailors, while on her passage from New Cale donia, stopped at the Island of Santa Crnez for provisions. The Saroges massacred her captain, officers and all the crew but one native sailor. No names given. Mayor Spencer has made a call upon the people of Atlanta to assist the Tns* enmbia sufferers. FOREIGN NEWS. Bnusia to Recognize the Spanish Be \ public. London, November 26. —Dispatches from Berlin say that Prince Gortschakoff Ims directed the Russian representative at Madrid to report without delay on tho progress ol Marshal Serrano’s govern ment towards the consolidation of its powers, with yiew to a formal recog nition. The Standard states that there is reason to bc-lidvethat the recent inter view between Bismarck and Gortschakoff resulted in the removal of their personal difficulties; also, iu adoption of common policy between Russia and Germany, in consequeuce of which the former will speedily recognize the present Govern ment of Spain, Russia’s previous refusal to do so having been owing to Gortscha koff's personal influence. Cuba. Havana, November 27.—The Ex change room recently opened by brokers for the transection of business was to-day closed by order of the authori ties. The principal merchants and bank ers doing bnsiness hero desire gold as a base for exchange. Frightful Disaster. Paris, November 26.—A frighful dis aster occurred on the great St, Bernard. A traveling party was overwhelmed by an avalanche and eleven persona were lost. Bnenos Ayres. Rio Janeiro, November 27.—A Direc tor in the Bank of Bueuos Ayres has telegraphic advices that the Indians abandoned General Mitre, who fled.— The railroads are all working. Montivedio, November 27. —The re port that the Argentine insurgent chief, Aredoudo, had defeated the Government General Retocoa, is confirmed by ad vices received to-day, which state that Aredoudo captured ltetocca’s artillery and took many of his men prisoners. The Argentina Government has issued a proclamation prolonging the state of siege for ninety days. It is stated that the insurgent ‘leader Tabada, with 5,000 men, lias entered the province of Cor doba. • Italy. Rome, November 27.—A bill giving Garibaldi $20,000 annually is progress ing favorably iu tho Deputies. France. Paris, November 27.—The memoires of Jaurez, President of Mexico, concern ing Maxamilian and Bazaiue, are about finding type here. Dean Stanley. London, November 27.—Dean Stan ley has been elected Rector of St. An dre w’s University over Salisbury by five votes. THE FAMOUS POMEBOY CASE. The Way Clear for Its Discountinance. Chicago, November 24.—A Topeka, Kansas, special says that “information is secretly imparted that the way is clear for a nolle proseqai in the famous ,Pomeroy case. Shawnee ceunty has been compelled to bear the burden of the expense of the prosecution. The tax payers complain of the heavy costs, and the County Commissioners have about determined to request the County Attorney, Mr. Regan, to abandon the case. It is said to be the intention of a friend of Pomeroy, a man of some poli tical influence and a member elect of the Legislature, as an inducement for favorable action on the part of the Com missioners, has assured the oounty authorities that he will secure the pass age of a bill in the Legislature making the State responsible for the expense al ready incurred by Shawnee county. If this scheme fails the Pomeroy managers will seek to influence the County Attor ney elect, who will the prosecution. 'Mr. Thomas Regan, the present County Attorney, has never flinched from the performance of his plain duty. The correspondent was in formed that every influence possessed by the shrewdest and wealthiest politi cians has been employed without success to induoe him to enter a nolle prosequi. THE GREAT RACE. Occident the Winner. San Francisco, November 28.—The weather is favorable for the $6,000 purse race to take place to-day between Fuller ton and Occident—Chicago having been withdrawn. Fullerton sells first ohoioe .in pools, but at smaller Odds that were expected after his victory of Saturday last. The race is mile heats, best three in five, in harness. Later.—Occident won the $6,000 purse race to-day in three straight heats. The attend nee at Bay District Park to witness the $6,000 trot, best three in five to harness, between Judge Fuller ton and Occident—Chicago having been withdrawn—was rather small. In the pools before the race Judge Fullerton was selling favorite at SIOO, Occident at $65. In drawing for position Occident won the pole. The track was in fine condition, notwithstanding the recent heavy rains. At seven minutes past three they got off. At tho half mile pole Fb Her ton was in the lead, which he maintained until entering the home stretch, when Occident made a splendid dash, gaining the first place and coming in a length ahead of his • opponent time, 2:19. This result immediately changed the pool sell ing, Occident being $530 vo $320 on Fullerton. In the second heat Fuller ton broke badly twice—at the quarter polo he was 13 lengths behind, but gained ground rapidly. He was too far behind, however, to come up with Oc cident, who again passed under the wire a length ahead—time, 2:25. The third heat and race was won by Occident in 2:20}. Fullerton led to the half mile pole when Occident shot ahead, main taining the lead to the finish. NEW YORK NEWS. New York, November 28.—A manu facturer of fraudulent belt punchers for car conductors has been arrested. Twenty conductors using the devioe have arrested. The longshoremen’s strike is un changed. Both parties are firm. All steamers advertised left to-day except the Inman steamer City of Manchester, which leaves Tuesday. The consequence of the conviction of Sigismund Sehawb for selling liquor in defiance of the Excise law is that the rush of liquor dealers to the Board of Excise rooms yesterday, for the pur pose of taking out licenses, was over whelming. The amount of money de posited to pay for licenses was $14,000, and then a large number were not at tended to. Owing to the diminished demand for sugar, refiners in this city and vicinity are considering the expediency of di minishing the production. G. Wolff, of the late firm of Wolff A Levi, of New Orleans, has been arrested and sent to Ludlow Street Jail. Wolff is believed by attorneys for creditors of the firm to* have goods to the amount of $40,000 secreted somewhere in the city. A telegram from Tuscumbia to a firm here says : “ Have buried most of the dead. Collect money, elotning, glass, sashes, or anything for the sufferers. Call on your Mayor.” The distress is much greater than we thought. One third of the city is in ruins. . Booth’s Theatre is to be sold at auc tion Thursday. Deaths the past week, 621. The decision of the Court of Appeals on the appeal of Beecher’s counsel from the decision of the Brooklyn City Court denying him a bill of particulars of the charges made by Theodore Tilton, may be looked for Tuesday week. Boger A. Pryor will appear in the Court of Appeals for Tilton. The Committee of the National Board of Free Underwriters, who have just visited Chicago to inspect the improve ments made there with a view to safety against fires, are busily engaged pre paring their report, which is to be sub mitted to the Executive Committee Monday. The Resident manager of the Imperial Insurance Company of London, who is a member of the visiti g committee, this morning said he thought that the result of their observa tions would be favorable to the renewal of business relations of the National As sociation with Chicago, but it might be that the Executive Committee would de cline to make any recommendation further than to submit the matter to the several companies, and leave to the judgment of their officers the propriety of re-establishing agencies there. Connsel on both sides in the_ Beeeher- Tilton suit have notified Chief Judge Nelson, of Brooklyn, that they will be ready to go on with the trial of the case December Bth, and the Judge ordered the Deputy Clerk of the City Court to prepare a panel of 1,000 petit jurors. A Birth in Jail. Bathurst, N. 8., November 27.—The wife of the murdered man Paulin, now under sentence of death, gave birth to a male child yesterday in jail. Gallian, before his execution, confessed to the paternity of the child. Mrs. Paulin has been sentenced to be hung on the sth of January. An individual nnder the name of Kirchbaum imposed upon a number of Hebrew merchants in Savannah and was committed to jail on the charge of swindling. Rev. J. L. Lencht, of New Orleans, published a card in th e Israelite stating that Kirchbaum is a villainous imposter.