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OLD SERIES—VOL. LHIII SEW SERIES-OL. Mill. TKKMB. r IK DAILY CHRONICLE k HESTISEL, U>c <Mt* h''*v*kter in me Buft, i* pablUbed *UUy, - M *w*ly. T>rm* : yr,flO; six months, $5; three month*, $2 SO. T IF TUI-WKKKI.y CHI.OWIOL* A SBHTIHEL is oaUMti-d ersrr Ta**d*jr f Thursday *nd Hatur djj* Term-*: One year, IS ; ■ months, $2 50. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL is pnb lUh-,1 every Wednesdsy. Terms : One year, $2 six 111)0'L*, |2. B\ rrs or ADVERTISING m DAILY.—AI! tr*n- B i r ,r Advertisements willbe charged at the rate of $1 p-*r nqaar * for each ibssrtlOD for the first Adv rtisements in the Tri-WtsekJy, two thirds of the rat** in the Daily; and in the Week It, on*vbalf the Daily ate*. Marriage and Funeral Notices, $1 each. Special Notices, $1 p. r 'jnar*? for the llr*t pnPlication. Special r-ite* will be made for advertiiementa running for a raonlb or kmger. SUB-iTBIPTIOMS in all esses in advance, and no pajwr ooDtiuand after the expiration of the time paid for. BKXI?TANCBB ■honld be made by Poet Office M jney Orders or Express. If this caun'it be and .T -, pr teettoo against losses by mail nay be by forwarding a draft payable to the Proprietor* Yd the Chronicle k Hentxmkl, or by sending the money in a regiatered letter. ALL COMMUNICATIONS annoancmg candidate* for office— from County Constable to Member of Congress—will be charged for at the rate of twenty cents per line. All announcements must be paid for in advance. Address WALSH k WEIGHT, Cheoxiclk k Skvtikri, Anguata, G, Cfjrontcle anh Sentinel. WEDNESDAY JULY 21, 1875. The Boeclicr pipers propone to educate pub lic opinion up to a belief in Beecher's inno cence. In time, when the main facte are for gotten, public opinion may change, bnt there will always boa few unemotional persons who will never quite agree with the pastor that the I’rodigal Hon watt a better man than the good fellow who stayed at borne and made the old folks comfortable. Initio l’omeroy in to bo banged, and the In dian story writer, the autiior of hie woe*, smiles a ghastly smile and starts in on anew chapter of‘-War Whoop the Avenger, or the Blood Tub of the ltoariug Mohawk." The In dian story writer and the incompetent father of the large and ignorant family are American institutions that must bo protected, if it takes all the ropex and all the hangmen that all our money can buy. The Graphic declare** that “the combined debt and annual taxation of New York aggre gate the enormous mini of $214 a bead for every man, woman and child in the city—thrice an great an any other city in the world.” Thin in terrible. Upon the shoulders even of tlio baby born no longer ago than the begiiining of tide paragraph it pile* a pecuniary obligation of more than two hundred dollars, and where tho poor little devil is to get the money to meet it with goodness only knows. There is a good deal in a name, sometimes. When a member of the Court of tho first King of Siam got out of tobacco, and wanted the King to accommodate him. he used to have to eay: -'Hondech l'hra I’aramindr Maha CUula longkorn I’atmdr Debia Maha Mongknt I’uru- Biaratue itajarawiwyugse War itniahougse l'ar ibat Warakhattiarajanikarotama Cliatnrantana ramamaba Cliakrabartirajaßaogkas l’aramad liariumiika Marajadlnraja I’aram.uiarth I‘abitr l'hra Chill Chom-klow Ckow Yuhua, do you happen to have any of the weed about you?” It has more than onco been given out that General Grant loves Delano with a love sur passing that of woman, and that is the reason ho will not lot him go. The seriuUH part of all (his loving, however, is, if tho President in sists that Delano shall stay, that official will inevitably liavo to meet General Pope's charges and “ Mr.” Marsh’s statement, and a lively investigation of "Brother Orville's” contracts. To theso disagreeable termini Dolano is surely approaching. Tho quiet tdiados of Ids Ohio home must bo preferable to Washington. It is rumored in Philadelphia that John Wes temett, the brother-in-law of one of the ab ductors of littlo Cliarlio lluss, and who was ar rested and confined some time siuco as a con spirator in the abduction, lias made an impor tant confession as to the abduction of the boy, which promises well for his recovery, though it furuishos no information us to his present wlioreabouts. In this connection it is worthy of mention that it was one year on Thursday last since tho disappearance of Charlie Boss, since wliieli time every oxpedieut has boon re sorted to in order to ascertain liis whereabouts. Public horror of 1 the heaviest variety was re ceh'tly stimulated iu an Indiana small town by an announcement of the appearance of “the Micropus Leneopteros, belonging to the family of Kipjantihe of the true bugs; suborder of Hvleroplera ." Women wailed; children bowled; men armed tliemselvos with swords and great revolving pistols to encounter tho monster. Seeing the mischief which his science bad made, the able editor as soon as possible issued an extra explaining that the Mioropus-Leucop teros-Kygaiiidin-Hoteroptera was only a ohiuoh bug. Then joy returned, and they breathed .beautifully onco more. Howell's forthcoming Nowspapcr Directory sliotvs the failure of ono thousand newspapers in this oouhtry during the past year, the loss to publishers, subscribers andailvorti.ierswmomit ing to over tight million dollars, the Republic, of New York, alone losing half a million. Among those who went into tho newspaper business and lost heavily thereby wore 275 merchants and advouturors, 815 school teach ers, 57 lawyers, 4 blacksmiths, S3 plasterers, 10 farmers, 200 fanatics of various classes af flicted with literary leanings, 100 ambitious, but visionary young men. who drew upon their fathers, and thus suddenly exhausted large margins of tho paternal capital, and 0 lottery men. Business is very dull in New York. There are more empty stores on Broadway than have been known for years past, and even the Com missioners of Emigration arc suffering from the prevailing torpor. The number of immi grants who have arrived hero during the past six mouths is 50,50'*, a falling off of 28,662 from the corresponding period of last year. As all ;\ew arrivals pay a poll tax. which is devoted to hospital purposes, the duances of the com mission are badly affected. The revenue will not half (>ay expenses. Already one mortgage has been placed upon tho bnilding, and au oiher will soon become necessary. Unless business revives or a uew war breaks out on the continent of Europe the commission will lie in a s *d way. On opening a bale of cotton at the mill of one of tlio largest Liverpool spinners, the other day, much 1 surprise was manifested at the discovery within it of a box of lncifer matches bearing the fallowing label: " Supe rior telegraph matches, manufactured by Cap plae A Marstou, St. Lotus, pverv box war ranted.” The matches were of ha ordinary kind, and on one or two of them being tried they were found to iguile with the greatest readiness. Tho oottou came to Liverpool from Mobile, and the most serious consequences might h&vo resulted had the least amount of friction beeu applied to the lucifers during the voyage, or even after the cotton had reached its destination. A Danbury girl took this method of enriug her toothache: "With a piece of stout twine *>ie made a loop, which she put on her tooth. •Then site took a bit of soap and rubbed it on the floor, opposite the back door. The other etui of the twine she fasten*! to the knob of the closed door. Theu she took a position on xho soaped boards and commenced to lean back. When she had acquired a slope of about forty-five degrees, the soap suddenly took bold, and she came down on tin? floor with such force as to knock a pair of ten dollar vases from a mantel up stairs. And there she sat. reaching out for breath, when the affrighted family made their appearanee, while tho of fending tooth dangled from a string against the door." The Journal ties Connaissaiuv Medicates states that the French horticuluturists have followed the example of the English ones, and peopled their gardens with toads. These rep tales are determined enemies of all kinds ol snaals and slugs, which, it is well known, car t in a ew.'itle night destroy a vast quantity ol lettuea, carrots, asparagus, etc. In Paris toads ■ are sold at tM rate of fifty cents per dozen •The dealers i* the uninviting merchandise ieop it in large tubs, into which they plunge their bare hands and acme.'and without any fear of the poisonous bite to which they are supposed to expose themselves. Toads an also kept in viueyards. where they devour dm ing the night millions of insects that escape the pursuit of nocturnal Unis. The new office of the New York Post is about ten stories high, and ail other newspaper buildings in this country are becoming preteo tK>us. if not positively tremendous. Fifteen cen ,*urie* from now the New York Try-datly Time* ' DsmocratSxpoun'ier-Eagle - Adterlistr- JSortkiijn triean will have an item something like this: “About half an hour ago while the Carbonic BU‘- Pro P eUin l Disintegrator and Evcawtion-Comp elle r was at work among some of the grand o’<* rain * on Broadway, a petrified tooth-pick was juried to the surface. The ruins are supposed to bi' those one of the gigantic newspaper edifices of n.'® years, say 1875, and it is conjectured that this footh-pick, which, by the way. is a very curious specimen of the workmanship of antiquity, may have •once been used by the ancient poet Bryant J GENEIUL HENRY L. BENNING. The announcement of the death ol General Benning was a 'painful surprise to the people of the State who loved and honored this distinguished Georgian, j Hexby L. Henning was a native of Co lumbia county and was born there in 1813. He was early admitted to the bar ami soon gave evidence of the talent which was to win him in after life so splendid a reputation. Moving to Co lumbus, he married the daughter of Col. Seaborn Jones, at that time the leading lawyer of Southwestern Georgia. His father-in-law made him his partner, and ; the connection brought a large practice which his own ability ever afterwards ; retained. In politics General Besning ' was a disciple of the strictest sect of, the State Bights school, and never lost an opportunity to declare his adhesion i to the doctrine of State Sovereignty, j He was for several years one of the I Judges of the Supreme Court of Geor j gia, and while on the Bench rendered many important decisions. He carried j his State’s Bights opinions upon the Bench with him and in one case decided that the decisions of the United States Courts were not binding npon the Courts of the Stab* As might hath? been ex pected, he was an ardent advocate of se cession, and did everything in his power to withdraw Georgia from the Union. When secession was succeeded by war, he showed his faith by his works, and fought in maintenance of the principles which he professed. He early entered the army as Colonel of the Seventeenth Georgia Regiment anil was soon made a Brigadier-General in the army of the Confederate States. He bore himself so bravely in the many battles in which his command was en gaged and displayed s-uch patience and fortitnde in the camp and on the march that he won the sobriquet of “Old Rock,” which clung to him until his dy ing day, and of which we have reason to believe he was prouder than he would have been of any patent of nobility. At the battle of the Wilderness lie was seriously wounded and rendered nnfit for further service in tho field. After the war General Running, who had suf fered severely from its effects, resumed the practice of his profession and con tinued actively engaged in it up to tho time of his death. When the corrup tion and nsurpationsof Grantism alienat ed from the Republican party such leaders as Greeley, Sumner, Schurz, Davis and Trumbull, and such journals as the New York Tribune, the Spring field Republican, the Cincinnati Com mercial and the Chicago Tribune, Gen eral Benning saw that with the co-opera tion of the South there was a chance to overthrow Radicalism and its attendant infamies, and earnestly advised a coa tion between the Democrats and the Liberal Republicans. He was one among tho first men in the State to advocate such a course. Tho meeting in Rich mond county and the speech of General Benning in Columbus started the ball in motion in Georgia, made the move ment a success in this State and greatly contributed to its success in other States. General Benning did not wait to follow, bnt led the way himself. When the State Convention assembled in Atlanta July, 1872, and it was feared that there would be a bitter struggle over the question as to what policy Georgia should be committed to pursue, General Ben ning was in attendance as a delegate from Columbus and came to Atlanta fully determined to stand by tho cause which he had espoused. But he was as prudent in counsel as he was valiant in the field and if we are not mistaken warmly advocated the adoption of the course which was adopted and which while it preserved the harmony of the Convention also put the party in Geor gia in a position to accept the action of Baltimore. General Benning was a delegate from the State-at-Large to the Baltimore Convention and is generally understood to have been one of the three delegates from Georgia who voted to adopt the Cincinnati platform as well as nominate the Cincinnati candidates. Tho State Convention which met after wards and ratified the action of the dele gates made General Benning an elector for the State-at-Large on the Greeley ticket and he took an active part in that memorable campaign. While the immediate issue of the Gree ley movement may have been disas trous there is good reason for believing that indirectly it has been of great bene fit to the South and to the country, and that to it was largely due the splendid victory of last November. Recently Gen. Bennixg’s name was mentioned in connection with Gubernatorial honors, audit he had desired or would' have ac cepted a nomination his chances of suc i oess would have been good in anypOnven j tion which might have assemjugS in Georgia. Gen. Benning was tniT em bodiment of honor and of chivalry—a Pm in politics, a Bayard in the field. His nobility of soul, the loveliness of his character and his unstained public and private life, together with his great tuind and splendid talents, won for him the respoot, the admiration and the love of all his people. General Sherman denies in the most positive manner that he set fire to the Eatontou Factory. He says he never was in Eatouton in his life ; consequently could not have been cognizant of the j rohbiug of poor factory women and girls j “of such articles of jewelry, as that, peo i pie have, torn from their fingers, pockets i and drawers.” The Courier-Journal promises to have the statements of its correspondent substantiated, or else apologized for and withdrawn. In the last number of the Charleston Stews and Cburier we find what professes to be the judgment of General Lee on the March to the Sea. Our Charleston cotemporary ! says: “ When Gen. Lee visited this State, I “ not long before his death, a gentleman ; “ who knew him well asked his opinion “of Sherman’s conduct. This, it must “ be reniepibered, was several years after “ the war, when there were the same “ means that there are now of forming a “ true judgment. What passed is given “ as follows: D. H.—‘Gen. Lee, I desire “to ask a question, which you will “ please not reply to if there is any im propriety in it.’ Gen. Lee—‘Ask it, “sir.’ D. H.—‘Was Gen. Sherman, in “ his march* through the country, jus “ tiffed, under the usage* of war, in “ burning our homes over the heads oi “ onr women and children while we were ** in the field ?’ Gen. Lee arose from “ his chair with his eyes brightened, and “ said: ‘-Yo, sir ! no, sir ! It was the aci “of a savage. He was not justified un- “ der the usages of war.’ ” The State canvass—for the election of members of the General Assembly—has opened in Yirgiaia. The State Execu tive Committee has issued au address to the people reciting the importance of the contest and calling upon the Demo crats to preserve the harmony and or ganization of the party. Independent candidacies are denounced and the peo ple urged to support only the regular Democratic nominees. The Virginians have doue nobly since the war and their State is the only one in the South which has never had a Kadieal Governor or a Radical government. There is no rea son to doubt that the Conservatives will carry the State by the usual large ma jority next Autumn. TILDBN’S CAMPAIGN. The New York Herald, of a recent date, contained an editorial article on the prospect of the different Presiden tial candidates, On the Republican side the Herald narrows the contest down to WASHBUBNB and Brlstow, with chances decidedly in favor of the nomination of the former. It saya: On the Democratic side Tildex seems to lead, but bis prospects are subject to many contingencies. If the Democratic inflation ists should carry Ohio this year his chances will be worthless, because in that event the inflationists wi'l be strong enough either to control the Convention or to compel a compro mise, and Tildex took such bold hard money ground in his annual message that he can neither be an inflation candidate nor a com promise candidate- But if the Ohio Demo crats should be badiy beaten the Tildex Pres idential stock will be at a premium, provided he does not get at loggerheads with a Demo cratic Legislature next Winter. It is essential to his success that the New Yors delegation support bitr, and if he should quarrel with the next Legislature his chances would be worth nothing, even if tho inflationists lose Ohio next FalL But, subject to these contin gencies, Mr. Tildex's chances seem very good for the Democratic nomination, especially when we consider the weakness of his com petitors. Thc&max is as good as dead since , fit*OtitO blnndur:'HkifSfifitKsnfs'm ttesamo predicament Bince the inflation platform of the Indiana Democrats last year, and ho is, moreover, an object of a settled hostility with the Ohio Democracy for defeating Pendle ton in 1868. Batabd is, perhaps, the most popular candidate the Democrats conld nomi nate; but be is as strenuous a hard money man as Tildex, and on a hard money platform Tildex's chances are the best. With Wahh bubne leading the canvass on cne side and Tilijex on tho other it would be ‘‘a very pret ty fight.” The Herald is professedly an inde pendent paper, and is no doubt perfect ly honest and impartial in its estimate of the strength and purposes of Presi dential aspirants. Besides, there is strong corroborating evidence of the correctness of its intimations concerning the Tilden programme. Mr. Tilden and his newspaper allies propose to kill off every real or supposed rival in the West, and leave him but one formidable antagonist to contend with in the North. Their plan is to bring about the defeat of the Ohio Democracy this Fall and tho repudiation of their platform. It this can be accomplished they imagine that Allen, Thurman, Hendricks and Pendleton will all be slaughtered and that the West will be left without a prominent candidate for Presidential honors. Their persistent and bitter war fare upon the Ohio platform is really a warfare upon all the prominent party leaders of the West. They insist upon making “hard money” a prominent issue in local and national politics, not because they care anything about the currency, but simply because they think hard money a capital card in the hands of Mr. Tilden, and one which well played will win him the Presidency. To increase his chances of success they are perfectly willing, nay, anxious, to have the Democrats defeated in Ohio. This can be the only meaning of the World's daily appeals to tho Ohio Democracy to repudiate the “rag-money platform.” The only way to repudiate the party platform is to defeat the party candidates and this Governor Til den and tho World are seeking to ac complish. If their treacherous assaults succeed they will then put all the blame upon the rag-money platform. They will maintain most stoutly that Allen was defeated not be cause he is in favor of inflation, for they do not dare to assert that ho is, but because he did not oppose and de nounce the platform upon which lie was running, and which he had every reason to believe reflected the .views and wishes of the great majority of his party in Ohio. They will bo eager to swear that the Democrats cannot elect any candi date who is not the uncompromising ad vocate of hard-money, and that, there fore, Thurman, Allen or Hendricks must not be nominated. The excellent Mr. Tilden will fill the bill exactly, and must be selected as the party’s candi date under penalty of incurring on a larger scale the defeat sustained in Ohio. We hardly think that such a treacherous policy will command suc cess. The plot is too thinly concealed to deceive the most unwary, and Mr. Tilden and his friends can reap onfy shame and humiliation from an attempt to carry into execution. The people of the Sonth, at least, will never consent to make the next national campaign upon financial issues. They are perfectly willing to let these issues remain in abeyance while they fight for something dearer than money. If the Ohio Demo crats are defeated their defeat will be properly charged to the account of Tilden & Cos., and this firm need expect no favors from the party which it has so grossly betrayed. We think, too, the people of the South have determined that the President should be a man from the West, and their votes in the National Convention will settle the question of a candidate. We are tired of the domination of New York and Tammany Hall. It has been fruitful of nothing in the past save blunders and disaster. We are not will ing to be agaiu sacrificed to its selfish ness, its corruption and its folly. It is time that Tammany Hall was made to understand that it does not own the Democratic party of the conntry, and that it will not longer be allowed to rale and ruin the organization. We publish this morning a letter written by Mrs. Sherman to the Louis ville Courier-Journal, denying, in the most emphatic language, the truth of some highly spiced statements made by a correspondent of that paper. Unfor tunately for General Shermen, his army committed so many acts of vandalism on its march to the sea, and his own statements and admissions have beeu of such a damaging character, that people are prepared to believe him guilty of any crime with which he may be charged. Mrs. Sherman writes, with all the indig nation of a devoted wife, to deny two of the stories published about him, and whatever may be the faults of the hus band, one cannot help admiring the spirit and devotion of the wife. With regard to the burning of the “ monas tery” in Columbia, Sfrs. Sherman sup ports her denial of the charge by citing as witnesses General Ewing and Major Comyn, of her husband's staff, • We have not. yet abandoned the hope that the capital of the State will be car ried back to Milledgeville. The editor of the Gainesville Eagle, who has here tofore strongly championed the canse of Atlanta, now says : “It is needless to disguise the fact that there is a growing disposition on the part of the people in sections of the State heretofore opposed to it, to remove the capital back to the grounds and house occupied by the fathers in the ‘better days of the Republic.’ We know of some of the best men in this section— men of means and influence—who are openly in favor of it, and it may be, if that question is submitted to the next Legislature, that there will be a change in the votes of a number of the repre sentatives from counties which have heretofore stuck to Atlanta ‘like grim death to a gray horse.’ ” Speaking of railroads, a wag re marked that they are built of three gauges, viz : Broad gauge, narrow gauge aud mortgage. AUGUSTA. GA., WEDNESDAY.:MORNING. JULY 21. 1575. | SBW ENGLAND IDEASONE WORTH IMITATING. j The Chicago Tribune, in a rather temperate i article, considering the provocation, finds fault with General Pkeston’s speech before the ' Alumni of the University of Virginia. The i South Carolina orator dwelt w.th roach asperi | tv and. after a wholesale fashion, npon “New : England ideas.” Admitting that General \ Preston is incapable of appreciating Puritan, so-called, theories, attention is called to one i "New England idea,” winch the South may profitably imitate. The Tribune says: "In New England, every man works, either as em ployer or employee. Every man puts his hand to the anvil, the loom, the forge, or the plow, or devotee his abilities to mental and intellect ual labors, thinking, planning, designing, cal culating and directing. It is a great bee-hive of industry and activity in which there are few drones. Now, is this an idea which the South needs more than any other ? One canse—and perjiapa the most prominent canse—of the dis order and nnprosperous condition of the Sonth lies in the fact that the labor of the South iB performed by one-half of the population, and that the other half lives npon those who labor. Therefore there is no surplus of production for profit. The idle man eats np the surplus produced by the laboring man. All this might be remedied if the South accepted the New England idea that every man should work and produce a surplus with his own hands.” — Con stitationaUstj oS We confess that we are getting just a trifle tired of the lectures which our perfect brethren of the North are so fond of inflicting upon the lazy and dis solute Southerners.' There is a sort of Boriboola-Gha flavor in these homilies which interferes considerably with their effect. The Northern Mrs. Jellyby is sweeping the horizon with a telescope in search of an object of charity (to the ex tent of moral lectures) while her own household is decidedly in need of that attention which she is so liberally be stowing upon foreign affairs. Since the war the South has been making such a lavish use of sack cloth and ashes on ac count of her great crime, has acknowl edged so often and so penitently her wickedness and her folly, and has re ceived with such patient humility all the reproofs which virtue and intelli gence have seen fit to bestow, that every editor on the prosperous side of Mason and Dixon’s line when in want of a sub ject, every preacher in want of a text, and every orator who finds his speeches getting stale, lectures the profligate South. We think that it is about time a halt was cried; about time for Northern speakers and publicists and parsons to attend to the morals of their own section. In the above article the Chicago Tribune rings all the old changes with which we are so familiar. In NewEngland everybody works, every body is prosperous and everybody is good. In the South everybody is idle, worth less and vicious. Let ns see how much better New England is than the South, how much more industrious, how much more virtuous. The six New England States—Maine, New Hampshire, Mas sachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut—have a population of 3,475,- 000. Of this number, on the first day of Juue, 1870, 20,005 were paupers— people who did not “put their bauds to tho anvil, the loom, the forge, or the plow,” and who did not “devote their abilities to mental and intellectual labors, thinking, planning, design ing, calculating and directing.” In the six Southern States, the first six on the census table Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi—the population is 4,404,000, or nearly 30 per cent, larger than the population of New England.— Of this number only 5,355 wero paupers —14,710 less than tho number of pau pers iu New England. In other words, the six New England States, with a population of 3,475,000 have 20,065 peo ple who do nothing, while six Southern States, with a population of 4,404,000 have only 5,355 paupers—people who “live upon those that labor.” The six Southern States with one-fourth more population have only one-fourth as many paupers as New England. Georgia has a population of 1,184,000; Massa chusetts, 1,457,000. Georgia has 2,181 paupers, Massachusetts has 8,036-273,- 000 more population, four times as many paupers. Florida has a popula tion of 187,000, Rhode Island, 217,000. Florida has 147 paupers, Rhode Island has 1,046 —30,000 more population (17 per cent.), 899 more paupers (600 per cent). With regard to crime, we find that in the New England States, with their population of 3,475,000, there were 3,967 persons in prison on the first day of June, 1870; in the six Southern States above named, with a population of 4,404,000, there were 3,165 persons in prison. With 1,000,- 000 less population New England had 802 more criminals—and criminals are called the fruits of idleness. Massachu setts with her 1,457,000 people had 2,526 criminals, while Georgia with 1,184,000 people, had 737 criminals. It is in the face of such facts and figures that journals like the Chicago Tribune have the effrontery to taunt the South ern people with their idleness and vice and to hold New England up to us as a model of industry and morality. We have shown that New England has in proportion to population a very much larger per centage of paupers and crimi nals than the South. Until the Tribune can disprove the figures of the census it will do well not to institute offensive comparisons between the two sections. We are idle enough and bad enough, Heaven knows, in the Sonth, but we at least have the comfort of knowing that we are neither as lazy nor as vicious as those who profess to be so greatly our superiors. When the North represses pauperism and crime in New England it will be time enough to turn its atten tion to the South. It had better look after Caddy and Peepy instead of ex pending all its sympathy upon the benighted heathen of Boriboola-Gha. The cool effrontery of the New York Times is decidedly refreshing in this warm weather. In speaking of United States bonds it says : “ These bonds “ are about the best security the world “ has to offer to-day, and they are being “ eagerly taken up at home and abroad. “ So much the more reason is there for “ suppressing all talk about tampering “ with them even in the slightest de “ gree. No one can desire to see the “ credit of the United States reduced “ to the level of the State of Mississippi “or Georgia.” Reduced to the level of the credit of Mississippi or Georgia. This is unquestionably cool! We would like for the Times to show how and when the credit of Georgia has suffered, since Bullock k Cos. were driven from power. In the very issue of the Times from which the above extract was taken its financial columns prove the baseless ness of its assertion that the credit of Georgia has been destroyed. In its financial article the Times quotes the bonds of the Southern States as follows; Georgia7’s, 96; Arkansas,32; Louisiana, 33; North Carolina, 20; South Carolina, 32; Tennessee, 49; Virginia, 37. The new, or Nutting, bonds of Georgia are to-day bringing a premium of from two so three per cent. It is a great pity that the credit of every State in the Union cannot be ruined with similar rgsqlts, A max does not load himself down with ■ the alphabet for nothing. Mr. J. A. H. St. Andrew, editor of the Farmville (Ya.) Mercury, has been trying to fight a duel. The friendly peace officer ar rested the parties, and averted the fatal consequences of a “meeting." FRAKK F. BLAIR. DEATH OF THE SOLDIER AND STATESMAN LOUIS. Sketch of His Last lfcl|)Pß— I The Final Catastrophe Accelerated by an Ac cident-Eloquent Eulogy From Gen. Sherman. St. Louis, Mo., July 9, 1875.—Gene- ral Frank Blair, after bedridden for more than two yeafil, expired last night at half-past eleven 'o’clock, at his residence in this city. Over two years ago he sustained a stroke. W paralysis, which forced him to retixp from pnblic life and made him a confirmed invalid. After his paralytic attack he also be came afflicted with sqflfc'ning of the brain, and the decline p his mental vigor was plainly perceptible. He had not been able to speak wise last Fall. Three montiis ago, as elagt resort, the operation of tranfnsion df blood was performed upon him, operation was performed by Drs. Wfanklin and Farrar, of this city. T#s ounces of blood were drawn front. tSe arm of a strong, healthy man and Ipfisfused into the veins of the opera tion was repeated three tip&a, the last being seven weeks ago. 'Jhe treatment seemed to improve him extent, and his physicians had strong lmnes ’Tolly recover. TfenrKars intimate friends, however, who knew the latest cause of his malady, always believed that it was a distemper beyond the phy sician’s skill. His family physicians were always hopeful. During the pres ent Summer he has taken carriage rides quite frequently. One day last week he descended the stairs without assistance, and went about the room unsupported. Yesterday afternoon he was taken out for a drive, and returned in about an hour apparently much refreshed. He was placed at a front room window by his family, where he could look out and enjoy the breeze. Shortly afterward, being alone, he arose and made an ef fort to go to an adjoining room. While passing from the first room he was sud denly seized with vertigo, and before as sistance could reach him he fell to the floor, striking with his light temple the corner of a bureau. The fall stunned him, and he was picked up in an insen sible state. Dr. Farrar was immediately summon ed and every effort made to revive the General, but without Success. He re mained in a comatose state, breathing easily and apparently suffering no pain. It was evident that bis end was near, as his pulse was slow, his heart beats get ting lower and lower and his features growing rigid. At half-past eleven he quietly breathed his last, dying painless ly and without a struggle. Surround ing his death bed were the General’s wife and eight children. Besides his family no others wero present, except Dr. Farrar and Mrs. Samuel Simmons, a friend of Mrs. Blair. It is an acknow ledged fact among General Blair’s best friends that his paralytic stroke was su perinduced by political disappointment, and his case must be regarded as a stri king illustration of the In 1870 Frauk Blair headed the Libe ral movement in this State, and it was to his influence chiefly that the Confede rate element owed their enfranchise ment. In that year he was elected to the Legislature from this city, and”in January of 1871 was chosen to fill the unexpired term of Senator Drake in the United States Senate. It is a well known fact that a compact was made between Blair and the Democratic party leaders that at the expiration of his fragmentary term in the Senate he was to be returned for six years, and that the leadership of the party in Missouri was to be accorded to him. Blair took this agreement upon the part of the De mocracy in good faith and did splendid service in putting it upon a firm footing. At that time lie was in magnificent health. In the Winter of 1872 occurred the memorable Senatorial struggle be tween General Blair and Hon. L. Y. Bogy, in which the latter came off vic torious. Biair now saw that he had which had prot^^w^^iouifso^ its soi emn pledges and had utterly ignored its promises to reward his services. His Defeat Hurt him very much and was the source of keen despondency, and it was mani fest that his physical health became affected from that period. Two years ago he was appointed to the position of State Insurance Commissioner, but it was a lamentable fact that although his services to the Democratic party had been of such an eminent character it took an extraordinary effort to have him confirmed by the Democratic State Sen ate, and this was only done by the unanimous vote of the Bepublican mem bers iu his favor. This glaring proof of ingratitude was too much even for the vigorous Blair, and the shock was so great to him that shortly thereafter he was stricken with paralysis and has been helpless ever since. The best Demo crats here acknowledge that Blair was treated badly and that their party broke faith with him in a most inexcusable manner. The position of Insurance Commissioner he held up to the time of his death. It was his only means of support. Though General Blair’s family have expressed a desire to have his funeral simple and unostentatious his remains will doubtless be buried with great pomp and public demonstrations. His father, Francis P., also his mother and brother, Montgomery Blair, are liv ing at Silver Springs, near Washington, and are now en route to this city to take a last view of their dead kinsman. His death has cast a gloom over this entire community, and the people, without distinction, unite in paying the most graceful tributes to hiß manly virtues. Tribute from General Sherman. Among the touching tributes is that of General Sherman. Your correspon dent met him this morning as he was coming down town to his headquarters. Upon being asked if he had heard the announcement of Blair’s death, Sherman replied : “ Yes, poor Frank is gone; poor Frank is gone.” Then the General mused a moment and said, with some warmth, that some expressions of his had been distorted into reflections upon Mr. Blair’s character as a soldier, and that great injustice had been done to him thereby. “ I always had the most exalted regard for Frank Blair,” pur sued General Sherman, with much forci bleness of manner. “ I always regarded him as one of the truest patriots, most honest and honorable men and one of the most courageous soldiers the coun try ever produced. I never lost sight of the services he rendered the country on the outbreak of the war, and I fully concede and always have conceded that to his boldness, promptitude and firm ness, more than to anything else, the country is indebted for the preservation of St. Louis as a strategic point, and for the salvation of Missouri. Frank Blair was a noble, generous, honest man. He was brave, frank, sincere and unselfish. His virtues will live forever, because they reflected good upon others, while his faults will be buried with him, beoanse they harmed no ope but him self." The General’s manner indicated that he thonght his utterances in regard to General Blair in the “Memoirs” had been wilfully and maliciously misinter preted, and when asked if he had any objections to the publication of the tri bute he had paid to the memory of the departed statesman and soldier, instant ly replied : “None ! none 1 I will be glad to have it published. I desire to go on the record as a very warm eulogist of Frank Blair.” The members of the old First Missou ri Regiment, of which General Blair was its first Colonel, have called a meet ing for to-morrow, and will probably decide to accompany the remains of their old commander to his grave, and other organizations may determine to do likewise. A pale man with long hair got into the car. It was a paid day, apd the seat near the stove was occupied bv a man and an inquisitive looking boy. The pale man backed up to the stove and re marked; “Man run over just now.” The inquisitive looking boy sprang to his feet and rushed out of the car like a maniac. The pale man settled down in the vacated seat and explained: “He run over the track ahead of the engine; he wasn’t struck. The New York Tribune, consoling Eu rope qa the deatlj of SR Christopher Wren and Michael Angelo, informs her that our Mullett will soon be and then, in a spirit of admonition and liber ality, says; “Receive him, Europe; listen to him meekly; profit by his remarks, and take his ‘cussing’ kindly. And Europe ! if you want him—there’s noth ing mean about the Great Republic keep him.” CORTINA’S CAPTURE. How Col. Parr&t Bearded the Lion of the Rio Grande in His Den. [Brownsville (Jfer.) Letter, 3d, to the Chicago Inter-Ocean .] Day before yesterday the denizens of this bailiwick were intensely excited by reports which came thick and fast from the land of “ God and Liberty.” Lieu tenant Colonel Mamiel Parrat, of the Ninth Cavalry, regular army of Mexico, had arrived at Matamoras a few days before. He was attended by two cav alry soldiers. He seemed to be a mere “looker on in Vienna.” He visited, talked, took his pleasure, and it was taken for granted he was whiling away his time. On the morning of the Ist instant he reviewed the troops under Colonel Cristo, the commandant at Mata moras. After the review he handed Colonel Cristo an order to turn over his command to Colonel Parrat. Cristo obeyed—Parrat sprang into the saddle, placed himself at the head of the cavalry, Moved Off at the Gallop, And in a very short space of time he saluted General Juan N. Cortina, who was jnst outside the city. “Good morn ing, General. Yon are my prisoner.” The boss thief of the Rio Grande coolly replied; “Your prisoner, sir? I be lievo I here.” Colonel Uui'w a fmper irnfn nis pocket and said : “ General, do you recognize the signature of the President of the Re public ?” The head centre of murderers and cattle thieves bowed, nnclasped the belt of his six-shooter and handed the weapon to Colonel Parrat. He waved his hand to his followers and told them to return to Matamoras. Colonel Parat marched into town with his prisoner. Words can not describe the scenes which followed. Citizens stood aghast, lost in the wonderment. Merchants, saloon keepers, and others closed their doors. General Cortina’s friends were amazed. His enemies jubi lant, Rumors floated, as it were, upon the winds. Some people were fright ened out of all sense of propriety. Some rushed to the Brownsville ferry. All Entertained Fearful Forebodings. Meantime General Cortina was pro ceeding iu the direction of a cuartcl —a house where they quarter troops. He was ushered into a room. Four soldiers were placed at each door and at each window; outside of these a line of senti nels was posted. The man who came to this frontier as a commandant of the line of bravo, the representative of the President and the supreme Government of Mexico, was in durance vile like any other felon might have been. The peo ple conld with difficulty appreciate the fact. The man who had defied courts, who had prevented the execution of the orders and decrees of superior judges, who was the protector and defender of criminals and outlaws, who was the op pressor of men who differed with him in sentiment, who had set on foot expedi tions to invade the United States, who visited fire and sword upon the people of Texas, who had grown rich by plunder ing Americans—the champion of Mexico and Mexicans, who had reddened his hands with the blood of Americans, and had become the favorite of the Mexi can masses—the-pet of the populace, the beau ideal of robbers and assassins, the representative of the Mexican sentiment of hatred and revenge entertained to ward Americans—this true Mexican of Mexicans, upon whom the mantle of leadership had fallen, and who was to redeem Texas from the grasp of the ab horred “Gringos,” upon this terror of the border sacrilegious hands had been laid, and he had been dragged to a prison like a pelado ! The thought was overpowering—it could not be endured. While Colonel Parrat was attending to the arrest of the chief he had others en gaged in arresting, disarming and im prisoning his policemen and followers. Judge Castillo Montero and other offi cials were arrested. Whoever asked for General Cortina was marched off to the calabosa at once. Troops were stationed at the Custom House and other points in the city. Artillery was placed to Sweden the streets wilh.grapq. and, .canis ter. Mounted patrols scoured the town in every direction. An expression of discontent subjected a citizen to arrest. An officer turned over a prison and “fourteen policemen and ten uneasy citizens” to the officer who relieved him. An order was published notifying the public that in the event of an attempt to rescue General Cortina his guard had been directed to kill him. Groups of citizens were promptly dispersed. Citi zens were prohibited the use of fire arms. Colonel Cristo published a proc lamation in Which he stated that Gen eral Cortina had received repeated orders to report in person at the capital of the Kepublic, as was his military duty so to do, and that the President of the Ke public had given orders, through the Secretary of War, for his arrest, and that Colonel Parrat had executed the same. WOMAN’S LOVE. A Woman Travels Many Miles to Com mit Suicide on Her Lover’s Grave. [ Troy Press, July 7.] The readers of the Press will remem ber that a few weeks ago the body of a man was found one Sunday afternoon on the banks of the Poestenkill, and near him was found a small phial that told but one story—suicide. The man was a stranger, and no one seemed to know anything about him. His dress and personal appearance indicated that he was man well-to-do, and from letters, &c., found in his possession it was learned that his name was Peck. He had -come from the West and was evi dently going to the home of his mother in Washington county, when he deter mined to put an end to his life. This he did, and little by little the story of his trials was brought out. Financial troubles and disaster, from ali accounts, stared him in the face, and it was then supposed that he had been crossed in love and his life made miserable. He had been an honorable, upright man, and his financial ruin was too much for him, and he determined to end a life that had become miserable. Now, the sad sequal to the case is to be told.— The body of Mr. Peck was taken to the home of his mother in Hampton, Wash ington county, and buried in the village cemetery. Last week a young lady arrived at Fair Haven, Vt., on an even ing train from Troy. She desired to be taken to Low Hampton, several miles distant. A conveyance was secured.— The owner of the establishment, who lived in Hampton, accompanied the young lady. During the ride the lady did not talk much, but once asked where the house of Mrs. Peck was. She also inquired for the burial ground of the place. Her questions were readily an swered, and when the conveyance arrived in front of the burial ground she asked to get out. The driver, Mr. Streeter, saw that she desired to remain, and not knowing what to think of such strange actions, began to reason with her, tell ing her that the ground was damp and she was likely to take oold. She finally consented to go home with Mr. Streeter, who promised her that his wife would awaken her early in the morning and she could visit the burial-ground. During all this time she did not once disclose the ob ject of her visit, or why she desired to get out at the little village burial ground. At 4 o’clock the next morning she awoke and proceeded to the burial plaoe, and soon found the newly made grave of Frank Peck, her lover. She remained beside it until 7 o’clock, when a brother of the daceased came along and at once recognized her from a photograph he had seen. He made himself known to the miserable girl and pressed her hard to accompany him to his mother’s home. She would not hear to bis words, so he sent his sisterjto her, and the two women, companions in sorrow, soon found the way to each other’s heart, and they returned to the house of Mrs. Peck.— The young lady, when questioned con cerning Frank, said that she thought his only trouble was brought on from financial embarrassment. When she told him that she had enough for both, he did not seem to notice her. She ad vised him to return East to his friends, and he left the Qhio town to obey her wish. She did not see or hear anything of him after that until the dreadful news came to her that he had committed suicide. Deep and bitter anguish was her’s when the sad news was brought to her. She conld not rest until she saw the grave that contained all that wae dear to her on eartlj. She remained quietly With the Peck family until Mon day of this week. On that day she again wandered to the grave of Frank Peck, and, seating herself on the green mound, determined to end her ex istence then and there. She had in her pocket a good sized bottle containing laudanum. There, in the still of the day, when all around w as blooming in beauty, this girl, who had hardly cross -64 her teens, took a dose that was in- tended to be fatal. She laid the bottle down by the grave, with a piece of paper on which were written directions con cerning the disposition to be made of her body, and where money was to he obtained with which to defray expenses. This done she arose and walked to the house of Mr. Streeter, where she intend ed to sleep away her life. She had taken an overdose of the drug and it caused a sort of intoxication and sick ness. The result of this was that she vomited the deadly narcotic, aud her life was saved. It was undoubtedly her intention to take the drug on the first night of her coming to the place and die on the grave of the man she loved. The action of Mr. Streeter prevented this action, and saved her life. Had she been allowed to remain in the city of the dead during the night, the morn ing snn would have found her still in the embrace of death. The young lady is highly respectable and beautiful. COTTON—A CONTRAST. To the Editor of the New York Daily Bulletin: Sixth months ago (December 18th) the receipts at the ports were over 300,000 bales in excess of last year, and the vis ible supply was 376,000 in excess of the previous year (or of any previous yearh ceipts are more than 300,000 bales be hind last year—the visible supply over 200,000 bales less (and less than for sev eral previous years same date), and gold is over 117. Six months, ago the gene rally received estimate of the incoming crop was 4,300,000. The Financial Chronicle, which had come to be looked upon as a sort of an oracle in cotton matters, announced with much positive ness that 4,300,000 was the minimum figure, whilst the probabilities were in favor of several hundred thousand bales more. The India crop was confidently expected to go 100,000 to 200,000 over the previous year. Many mills were running two-third time, aud had been for months, and much was said of bad trade iu Europe aud America. Now, it is absolutely certain that the current crop was over-estimated 500,000 to 600,000 bales, and India 100,000 to 200,000. The mills are running full time, and the cotton trade is proven to be not bad — but good— by the export returns of Great Britain (showing 21 per cent, increase since Ist January) and a large increase in this country ; by the build ing of new mills all over the world (twenty large ones in Lancashire alone this year), and by the dividends now bing declared. Six mouths ago the be lief was general that the capacity of this country for growing cottou was almost unlimited; that a four million crop was a small one, and that four million bales of American cotton was too much ; and the receipts up to that time and the sta tistical positiou warranted such a belief. Now, he is a blind man who does not see that four millions is a large crop, and that that, quantity is not enough to sup ply the world’s needs,- How can it be otherwise when the crop has averaged but 3,722,000 bales for the past six years, and the visible supply is muoh less now than for many years at same date, and would be half a million bales less if spinners had taken their usual supplies during the past six months. Six months ago cotton was higher in Liverpool and in New York (difference in gold considered) than now. July 9, 1875. D. H. W. DARING BANK ROBBERS. A Vermont Cashier and His Family Bound and Gagged—How the Money Was Saved. [Boston Advertiser, 3th.] About midnight on Tuesday, Mr. Chas. A. King, cashier of the Barre (Vt.) National Bank, was aroused from his sleep by four masked men, who, af ter binding and gagging his wife and daughter, and putting handcuffs on him and a halter around his neck, forced him to go and open the bank. When the .sleepers, were, fi.vak.awakiuied. Mr. King was tolrftb 'get tip and dress, which he did, delaying as long as possi ble. Tho burglars tore a* pillow case in two strips, made a small gag, and put it on Mr. King’s mouth. They then re quested Mrs. King to get up, which she did, wrapping a sheet around her. One of them took the child in his arms. Go ing down stairs with the mother and child, leaving Mr. King with a keeper, they placed two chairs in a small bed room and seated them. Screwing some rings into the floor, they strapped their ankles to them with leather straps and tarred ropes, placed handcuffs on their wrists and otherwise secured them.— Leaving them in care of a young man about twenty years old, charging him to keep a close watch, they proceeded with Mr. King to the bank, one walking some five rods in the front and the other in the rear, while a third led him. The front and rear guard, taking the keys, went to the bank, while he was left be hind a short distance. After reconnoit* ering the premises they returned and took him into the bank. Mr. King opened the vault, taking as much time as he could. Here they found $1,300 in unsigned bills, which had been received from the Government the previous evening. These they im mediately appropriated to their own use; also about S3O in revenue stamps. Inside of the vault was a safe secured by a chronometer lock, which had been set to open at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning. It contained all the valuables of the bank, some $3,000 in currency and a large amount of bonds. One of the fellows ordered Mr. King to open tho safe, when he informed them that it had a time look. They then probed the keyhole to see if it could be opened with powder, but finally gave up the work. All this occupied about an hour, after which they took Mr. King back to his house, placed him in a chair beside his wife and child, and strapped him to it and the floor. The gag was then ta ken out of his mouth, and the family given a glass of milk and water and a cup of cold chocolate, which Mrs. King told them where to find. All this time there were three lights burning about the house. The burglars were also joking each other and eating and drink ing. They finally took their departure, about 1:30, a. m., bidding Mr. King and wife “good-bye” with mock courtesy. They were present about au hour and a half. Mr. King released himself in about fifteen minutes and gave the alarm. The telegraph operator was aroused, and dispatches were forwarded to St. Albans and in all directions. To one of these there was received a reply from Brad ford, stating that persons answering the description of the burglars had crossed the Piermont, N. H., bridge at 6, a. m., with Sheriff Jackman in close pursuit. The burglars had two teams. They were perfectly armed and equipped, and wore white dominoes over their faces, and brown overalls. A dispatch from Plymouth, N. H., yesterday evening, says: Two.of the robbers jumped from the train this side of Rurnney, near Quincy station, this noon. They drove to West Rumney, left their team and walked to Rumney and took the train there; but, as detec tives were on the train, one of them got frightened and jumped off. The train immediately stopped and ran back to the place, bat no one eould be found. — While the detectives and others were looking after the one that jumped, his partner very coolly stepped from the train and made tracks for the woods. No one bat the conductor saw him, and he thought nothing of it at the time, but supposed there was only one of them.— One of the men was oaptnred this after noon, a short distance from Quincy sta tion, and about half mile from where he jumped from the train. He was fear fully bruised, having a bad wound over his eye and several bad bruises on his body and legs. He could walk hut a short distance at a time before he would fall down. They tracked him in the grass to a small clump of bushes, and ip the middle of them he was found lying, with the brakes and bushes pulled over him, completely covering him up. When found he pretended to be asleep, and offered no resistance, but allowed the sheriff to put the handcuffs on and take him to Jones’ Hotel, Bumuey. When they first spoke of taking him back to Barre, Vt., he said he would not go without a re quisition, but since then he says he will go. When questioned about the robbe ry he said hie knew nothing about it They asked him what made him jump from the train % He replied that he did not jump, b.ut fell off. He refused to give his name, tell where he is from, or where he was going, and i a wry reti cent. He is about five feet nine inches high, very solid built, weighs about 183 pounds, has light blue eyes, rather soowl ing, heavy mustache, and taken alto gether he is rather"a tough looking fel low to run foul of; and if he had not been wounded he would have given the officers a hard tussle before they cup to red him, and he intimated as much to the sheriff', John Bailey, Jr., of Wells River, Vt., who arrested him. He will be taken to Wells River to-night, and then to Barre in the morning. There were four ooncerued in the robbery. They hired a team at Montpe lier, Vermont, yesterday, to go to Barre, then two of them took a team, after the robbery, and came to West Rumney, with the officers in close pursuit. The oth- er two took the Randolph road, with an officer on their track. When the cashier was found he was just alive. The other robber that got off the train has not been seen or heard from up to this time, 9:30, p. m., but it is thought lie can not be far off, and will bo captured. MARRYING FOR MONEY. A Rich Man’s Only Daughter Cap tured In Spite of Him. [Correspondence of the London Afetos.] Paris, June 24.—M. Breon, a wealthy laud owner in Burgundy, seventy-five years old, formerly Mayor of Montbard, iu which little town he still resides, is the plaintiff' iu an extraordinary cause, the arguments in which are yet unfin ished, before the Civil Tribunal of the Seine. He demands a decree declaring uulland^ lo marriujj^ivf M. Paul Besson, an advocate of the Court of Cassation, and a Deputy for the Jura iu the National Assembly. The grounds of his demand are, that liis daughter married without his consent, and that the actes rcspectucux (respect ful summons) by which girls over twen ty-one may dispense with their parents’ consent were irregular. The case, as opened by the counsel for the plaintiff, was that Mile. Breon, reputed one of the greatest heiresses in "Brittany, the only survivor of four children, was always in delicate health, and that the family physician recommended her father to keep her from marrying as long as possible. Hhe was placed, in the Convent of the Saored Heart in Paris. The medical man of that establishment ordered her to pass a season at Salins, in the Jura, where there are mineral waters enjoying a certain celebrity. The father at this time had become blind, and was unable to look after his daugh ter so closely as might have been wished. Nevertheless he accompanied her to Sa lins. There she made the acquaintance of M. Vital Besson, a merchant of Cha lons sur Saone, who was staying there with two daughters. It is alleged that M. Vital Besson, knowing the great ex pectations of Mile. Breon, then and there conceived the idea of making a match between Iter and his brother, M. Paul Besson. To this end he encour aged a great friendship between her and liis two daughters, which at a dull watering plaoe seemed The Most Innocent Thing in the World. When the season was over, and Mile. Breou went back to the Sacred Heart, an assiduous and gushing correspon dence was kept up between the young ladies. Some time before, .tlieLady Superior of the Convent had asked M. Breon what were his views with regard to auy offer of marriago that might be made to his daughter. Ho replied that she was not old enough to be married, and that he thought nothing of the sub ject for the present. But M. Paul Bes son, who had been set on the track of an heiress, eallod on the father on the strength of the acquaintanceship of his brother and nieces at Salius, and when the latter, in the course of conversation groaned about his bad health, offered himself as his factor to take care of his property. The old man was not so simple as to close with this overture, which seemed to him strange and im pertinent. He bowed M. Besson out of the room. Shortly afterwards he re ceived the prospectus of a school found ed by several bishops and eminent per sonages, among whom he remarked the name of M. Paul Besson. This associa tion with bishops of the barrister who had canvassed to take his affairs in hand missed the effect intended. It only rendered M. Breon more suspicious. brother, and desired to have bothing more to do either with him or his family. His dislike to the Bes sons was augmented by subsequent ly finding out that the Lady Superior of the Convent had all along patronized M. Paul Besson, and encouraged him to be A Suitor For his daughter’s hand. He wished then to take her away from the Convent, and asked his sister-in-law, Mile. Maria Lambeuf, if she would take care of her and prevent any suitors from having ac cess to her without his knowledge. Mile. Lambeuf replied that she could not take upon herself any such responsibility, and so the young lady was left some time longer at tlm Convent, the blind father not knowing what to do with her. When the next long vacation arrived she went to her father’s house, No. 68 Rue des Ecoles. She had been designedly furnished with M. Octave Feuillet’s novel, “Le Roman d’un Jeuue Homme Pauvre,” in the hope of its producing the impression on her mind that it was a fine thing for a rich girl to marry a man with nothing. M. Paul Besson, a staid advocate, upwards of forty, paced day after day for hours opposite Mile. Breon’s windows, looking up and sighing. The cure of Moutbard, backing tlieLady Abbess of the Sacred Heart, facilitated secret interviews between the lovers. In the country, while H’ile. Breon was staying with her aunt at St. Sorniu, the pertinacious Lothario found means to take her to Dijon, and to get her there to sign before a notary a “respectful summons” demanding the father’s con sent to the marriage. But this sum mons did not indicate, as the Jaw re quires, where the young lady was domi ciled. Subsequent summonses, dated from other places, are alleged to be equally defective. The allegation of the father is that he was all along pur posely kept in the dark as to the where abouts of his daughter, so that he never had that opportunity of solemnly re monstrating with and advising her, which the law entitled him to have. The marraige was celebrated in all haste at Versailles, four clerical deputies, MM. Keller, Nuina Raraguon, Paul Cotton and Mcrveiileus du Vignaux, attending the bridegroom as witnesses. M. Paul Besson, marrying thus elan destinally without the father’s consent, did not get a half-penny with his wife. But in France a father cannot disinherit a child. M. Breon was very old, and whenever he died all his vast property must go to his only daughter. He, how ever, at once instituted the present suit, and, although the sickly young lady died shortly after tho marriage, he goes on with it to prevent the husband from being his heir. M. Lucien Brim, one of the most prominent Legitimists and clericals in the Assembly, is counsel for his comrade, M. Paul Besson, and will speak for him next week. In order to understand the full bearings of the case, it is essential to explain that, according to French “manners,” antes respectueux are the most disrespectful things in the world. It is only in very extreme and exceptional eases that they are resorted to by anybody pretending to be respect able. A love match under any circum stances is in good society considered not the thing; and that a young lady just out of a convent should look down com placently from a balcony upon an ad mirer promenading in the street is something more shocking inFrance than the utmost propriety of Mayfair can oonceive. ( “Arrah, me darlint,” cried Jamie O Flannigan to his loquacious sweet heart, who had not given him the op portunity to “ge* in a word even edge wise” during a two hours ride behind the little bay nags in his oyster wagon, “are ye afther knowing why your cheeks are like my ponies there?” “Shure and its because they’re red, it is ?” quoth the blushing Bridget. “Faith, and a better raison than that, mavourneen. Because there is one of them aich side of a wagon tongue.” Galesburg, Illinois, has a population of 13,000, and not a whisky or beer sa loon is to be found or is permitted in the place. Notwithstanding this fact, however, there is more liquor consumed therp than in any city 'of its size in the State, and the secret bottle has taken the place of the open bar. Cause, rigid prohibition. Galesburg has always been the head-centre in Illinois of New England reformers. A bad little boy in Aberdeen rubbed cayenne pepper dust all over the back of his jacket. The school master thrash ed him briskly, bnt dismissed the school immediately, to run to the nearest chem ist for eye water. Matchless maid—the kitchen girl out of lucifers. NUMBER 29 THE STATE. THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS. Judge Bartlett refused anew trial in the Cash case. Governor Bard has received his sus pension papers. Wheat is worth from 95c. to $1 05 per bushel in Ringgold. Both the Baptist Churches of Macon are without pastors. Anew Presbyterian Church has been organized at Lithonia. Macon is moving in the matter of a Confederate monument. Workmen have commenced improving the Newton House, Athens. Mrs. M. P. Ellis and family have left Columbus to live in Memphis. Jas. T. Tankersley has been commis sioned Sheriff of Columbia couuty. Neither the day nor the night train will be taken from the Athens branch. Win. T. Manning has been commis sioned Tax Collector of Lincoln county. Thos. B. Hollinhead has been com missioned County Surveyor in Lincoln county. Rev. James Mcßride, pastor of tho Sec-*., ond Baptist Chnrcli iir ‘Macon, has re signed. The Atlanta Street Car Company has declared a semi-annual dividend of fivo per cent. The Brunswick Appeal is going to discard the patent inside and go back to tho old form. Thomas F. Lackey, of Atlanta, lias been arrested, charged with assault with intent to murder. Recent heavy rains in Jackson oounty are said to have damaged the crops con siderably iu several localities. In Columbus, the other night, n four year old son of Rev. J. O. Branch fell from his bed and broke both arms. Prof. W. E. Reynolds has boon re elected principal of the Union Point High School for tho ensuing year. J udge Samuel Lawrence, of Atlanta, is solicitor and traveling agent for tho Northwestern Mutual Life lusurauce Company. Mr. J. F. Morrison, of Jackson coun ty, was crushed to death last week by machinery at the tan yard of tho Messrs. Randolph. Capt. W. H. Branch, of Greeucsboro, delivered an address at the examination exercises of tho Union Point High School last week. The Rome Commercial has been told of tho discovery of a fine sulphur spring just beyond Dykes’ Creek, on the Eto wah river. A pair of coach-whip snakes wrapped themselves • around a negro in DoKalb county the other day and gave liim a sound lashing. The Senior Class of the University pre sented General Wm. M. Browne, Pro fessor of History, 10 volumes of the English Classics. The Rome Courier says Thomas Mara blc has been licensed as captain and first pilot and William T. Smith as spe cial mate of the Mary Carter. Miss Mary M. Heard, of Elberton, read a composition upon “Queens With out Scepters” at the Commencement Ex ercises of Wesleyan Female Collcgo. Mr. Washington Kelly, of Jones coun ty, had an attack of vertigo in Macon the other day, causing him to fall to tho ground and bruise his face severely. When Judge Pitt Milton Browu, of tho Griffin News, goes to tho Kimball House in Atlanta, he gets “dingnation” hungry waiting for the dinner bell to ring. A little daughter of Mr C. B. Culver son, of Floyd couuty, while picking blackberries the other day, received a snake bite, from which she died in a few minutes. J. B. Scarrat becomes associated with Cob B, F. Sawyer in the proprietorship of the Commonwealth, and will direct partments. The negro who waited on GeneraTßem" ning has been arrested on the charge of stealing the pocketbook, containing SIOO, and the watch of tho General while he was dying. The commissioners of the Macon and Brunswick Bead will not sell it at present, but will run it in the interest of the State till the Legislature meets. John A. Grant is Superintendent. Anew secret order is about to be or ganized among tho negroes of Atlanta, to be named “Tho Order of Jonathan and David.” It is not intended to be a political but a purely benevolent, social and moral organization. The night of the lltli the house of Mr. Ed. Hutchinson, of Oglethorpe county, was burglarized and fired by a negro boy, who was subsequently caught and put in Lexington jail. The house and its contents were consumed. Hon. A. H. Stephens has returned to his home from his trip to Atlanta and Southwest Georgia, improved in physi cal condition and encouraged in his hopes for the future by his intercourse with the people in the sections he has visited. Mr. J. R. Lumpkin, of Texas, who is now on a visit to Rome, brought with him a stalk of cotton, grown in Milam county, Middle Texas, which was plant ed the 6th of April and pulled up the 6th of July, is four feet and a half high and has on it 130 bolls and forms, many of them three-fourths the size of a hen egg. The Macon Telegraph publishes tho Chronicle and Sentinel’s report of Mr. Stephens’ Fourth of July speech and says: “It is of far different stamp from the ordinary character of such perform ances. * * * * We commend it to the reader ns one of the most instructive and impressive papers which have ever em anated from Mr. Stephens.” Colonel John Thomas Glenn, Solicitor- General of the Atlanta Circuit, has opened himself to an interviewer on the Beecher question. Colonel John Thomas cannot find it in liis gizzard to believe H. Ward guilty, save only of an “indis cretion.” Now, will Col. John Thomas rise up and explain to tho Court the '‘modus operand)” of an indiscretion ? The Monroe Advertiser says: “It is rumored extensively m Atlanta that Judges MoKay and Trippe, of the Su preme Court, will resign at an early day, and it is thought that Hon. Hope Hull, of Augusta, and Col. L. E. Bleck ly, of Atlanta, will be appointed to the positions. Wo heard the rumor so often while in Atlanta that we are persuaded it is true.” Hon. Col. Dr. 11. H. Carlton, editor of the Northeast Georgian, Athens, is the agent for the State of Georgia for the celebrated Patman’s Patent Right Snake Trap. He will promptly attend to all orders and will take great pleasure iu giving full particulars of the modus operandi ot this remarkable invention, which is destined to do so much towards exterminating the venomous reptile crea tion. When you clip a piece of poetry from a newspaper to send to your sweetheart be careful to see that the other side doesn’t contain a full advertisement of Bradfield’s Female Regulator, as did the piece which a Macqn chap sent to his sweetheart the other day. To make matters worse, he had written on the back of the dipping-*-or the side which contained the advertisement—“ Darling, please send tins back,—John.”. And “Darling” sent it back to “John.” We hope our Augusta Johijs will takp wgru iDg> ' ; .. Eastman’s Business CoJlegp, in At lanta, was soldoiit “under the hammer” the 13th, in consequence Of judgments against Prof. Magee, the proprietor, who left the city some days since. Tho Herald says that Prof. Moore, of Moore’s Business University, purchased the right, title and furniture of the College and will consolidate it with his Univer sity. Prof. Magee’s private effects were also sold. Among them were several i articles belonging to one of the noted demi-mondes of Atlanta, including her picture, which brought five cents. “J. H. E.,” writing from North Geor gia to the Savannah News, says he was informed that there is living within six teen miles of Toccoa Falls an aged man named Vandever, who is said to have wandered into this country in 1816, and who claims to have been the first white man who ever beheld its grandeur. He was a hunter, trader and fighter, such a one as the boys read about in dime novels. Vandever says that there have been a great many changes since be camo there. A few years after his arri val there was a tremendous earthquake, and the ground trembled and shook for three days, and that during that time the large rock which lays at tho foot of Toccoa Falls was thrown down.
