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OLD SEMES—KOL. XCI NEW SERIES- VOL. XL. TERMS. THE DULY CHRONICLE A SENTINEL, the oldest newspaper in the South, is published duly, except Monday. Terms : Per year, slu ; six months, $5; three months, #2 SO. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE A SENTINEL is published every Wednesday. Terms : One year, $2; six months, #l. THE TBI-WEEKLY CHRONICLE * SENTI NEL la published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Terms : One year, $5; six months, #2 SO. SUBSCRIPTIONS in all cases in advance, and no paper continued after the expiration of tba time paid for. BATES OF ADVERTISING IN DAILY.—AII transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of #1 per sonare each insertion for the first week. Advertisements in Tri-Week ly, tl per square: in Weekly, tl per square. Marriage and Funeral Notices, tl each Special Notice#, tl perequare. Special ratee will be made for advertisements running for one month or longer. ALL COMMUNICATIONS announcing candi dates for office —from County Constable to members of Congress—will be charged at the rate of twenty cents per line All announce ments most be paid for in advance. Address WALSH A WRIGHT, Ctjromcle aitii WEDNESDAY AUGUST 2, 1876. A company has been organized in St. Louis to build anew hotel that will cost $2,000,000, contain 2,000 rooms and ac commodate 3,500 guests. We conld have borne up under the lots of Sitting Bull, bat, alas ! Crazy Home has also gone to the happy hunt ing grounds. “Insatiate archer, would not one suffice.” It is estimated that at least 2,000 persons have died from sunstroke throughout the country during the present heated term. The death rates have everywhere increased to a fearful degree. The statement is made that Lieuten ants Hodgson and Mclntosh, killed in the Custeb fight with the Indians, were both young and promising Georgians, recent graduates of West Point, and still beardless boys. The Democracy of fedgefield county, Sooth Carolina, have followed the lead of Newberry, and pronounced in favor of a straight-out ticket. There will be neither possum policy nor defeat in Sonth Carolina this year. There will be a Bquare fight and a splendid victory. The organs now propose to make Gen. Gabtbbll the other elector from the State at large beoause he was a good boy and “came down.” What are they goiDg to do about James and Under wood and Warner and Mclntyre in the event that they should be good boys also and “come down.” Facts are stubborn things. When Samuel J. Tildkn was inaugurated Gov ernor of the State of New York the canal ring was a power in the State. It has been shattered to atoms by bis sturdy and well directed blows. When he was inaugurated the State taxation was $15,- 000,000 per annum ; it is now but SB,- 000,000. “Mb. Thomas Wbntworth Hiooin bon,” who says betook part in the re cent Fifth Avenue Conference, writes to the Times that Prince Rivers was Color Sergeant of his regiment during the war, and is a man of “uncommon men tal and physioal power, and a natural leader of his people.” Can Prince Rivers say e? mnoh for Thomas Went worth Hiooinson ? August Belmont recently declared that “no more clean-handed, upright and sagacious counsellor has belonged to the New York bar in bis (Belmont’s) time than Samuel J. Tilden ; that he ia one of the few statesmen capable of ful filling the pledges made in the masterly Democratic platform ; and that while his (Brlmont'b) choice was Bayard, he heartily concurs in the choice of his The Gainesville Eagle , alluding to the withdrawal of Colonel Hardeman from the Gubernatorial oanvass, says one of the results will be “to complicate the election of United States Senator by the next Legislature.” Does this mean that Colonel Hardeman retired from the Gu bernatorial oonteat in order to enter the race for United States Senator? If it does, how will the Colonel’s candidacy complicate matters ? Read us this riddle. - According to a Washington telegram to the New York Herald, a newspaper reporter’s mistake, or the ecoentrioity of electrioity has made Congressman Maokky, of Charleston, tell the truth for ouce in his life. Mr. Maokby is made to say the region around Ham burg is very dangerous and that a white mau’s life is hardly safe there. A white man’s life is hardly safe and that is just the reason why the whites wish the in cendiary militia-men disarmed. Thb constitutionality of polygamy ia about to be settled forever by a test ease of considerable importance which is soon to come before the Snpreme Court of the United States. George Reynolds, of Salt Lake City, was con victed iu the District Court of the crime of having a plurality of wives, and sen tenced to a fine and imprisonment. The oase was then reviewed by the Supreme Court of Utah, which confirmed the seutenoe, whereupon an appeal was ta ken to the Supreme Court of the United States. There has been a little talk about nominating Mr. Carl Schurz as the Re publican candidate for Congress in the First Distriot of Missouri. Thereupon, the St. Loais Globe-Democrat, the lead ing Republican paper of the State, ex claims that Mr. Schukz “must do pen ance for recent short-comiugs before he can hope to be honored again with a position of trust in the Republican party.” The New York Sun thinks this is “encouraging to Gov. Fenton, John Cochrane, and other Liberals who are supporting Hayes,” The present House of Representatives will have it to say, to its lasting credit, that when the appropriation bills are all passed they will show a reduction of up wards of 833,009,000 from the appro priations made by the last Republican Congress, and of more than $60,000,000 from the estimates 1 1 the departments for the year ending June 30, 1877. The redaction was effected by hard, honest work, and a determination to lop off ex cresences and to extirpate abases. Had it not been for the Republican majority in the Senate sixty millions per annum would have been saved to the tax payers of the nation. Upon rare occasions some wealthy man makes a sensible devise of money for charitable purposes. Such a devise is that of the late Augustus Hembnway, of Boston, who left SIO,OOO to be dis tributed “as much as possible among those most worthy, avoiding all snch as make two paupers where there was bat one before, and those with any appear ance of sham—where the managers de rive pecuniary profit from the manage ment—my wish being to aid the worthy poor, and to assist those who are willing themselves, when able, and to smooth the last hoars of the dying poor." During the past six months there have been 113 failures in Georgia, with lia bUities amounting to $2,747,591. evidently a mistake. The correspondent of the News and Courier, whose account of the meeting in Edgefield is published elsewhere in the Chronicle and Sentinel this morn ing, says that Generals Butler and Gaby made speeches “severely denuncia tory of the News and Courier and the Chronicle and Sbnninel.” Until we receive more anthoritative information on the subject we shall take the liberty of doubting the correctness of the state ment made by the correspondent of the News and Courier, and of believing that he was mistaken as to the language used by Generals Butler and Gabt. In the first place Generals Butler and Gaby would have communicated directly with the Chbosiclb and Sentinel if there had been anything to complain of in its re port of or its comments upon the Ham burg affair. General Butler was in the city a few days ago and had a conversation with a reporter of the Chronicle and Sentinel In this conversation there were no “denunciations” of this paper. In the second place we do not believe that Generals Butler and Gaby were “se verely denunciatory” of the Chronicle and Sentinel for the very good and suf ficient reason that it has done nothing which deserves denunciation. So far as the Hamburg troubles are concerned we published a full account of them, based upon information given our reporter and what he saw himself. This it was our duty as journalists to do. If any mistakes were made in the first publica tions they were subsequently corrected by our reporter, and by the letters of General Butler. We do not attempt to suppress facts, for that would not hare been politic or, what is of vastly more inportance to us, right. We knew very; well what accounts would be written by Radical partisans and we knew equally as well how the sileuce of the Southern press would be misconstrued. We censur ed in severest terms the killing of the pris oners and for that censure we have no apology to make. We repeat it now. It was a deed of wanton cruelty aud we have the satisfaction of knowing that ninety-nine hundredths of the people of Georgia and South Carolina agree wi h as in this opinion. We have never fail ed to condemn such acts before and we shall certainly not hesitate to do so now. THE AUGUSTA AND HARTWELL RAIL. ROAD. We have expended years of valuable time and vast sums of money to reach Charleston, and what has it amonnted to ? Just nothing. What is the use, therefore, of continuing to agitate a dead enterprise ? Surely we have learned enough by this time to act more wisely in the future. Charleston may intend at some future day to do e imething, but that day is too far distant to be relied upon. At present she has no aid to bestow npon the enterprise, and apparently dues not want to be annoyed wilh the matter. So he it. Ae the writer told her citizens in the late Convention, we can get along without her aid. We have a better, cheaper and shorter outlet to the sea, with enthusiastio asauran -es of hearty co-op eration. Augusta, one of the most beautiful of all our Southern cities, has come squarely to the front, as we felt assured she would, and promises to do her whole duty in the premises. More than one hundred of her leading mer chants and business men have already signed a request for the next Convention to be held there, and a o rdial welcome is extended to the delegation. This is the way to do business. On this side of tho mountain everything is moving ahead just right. A corps of engineers are at work surveying a route from Maryville to the Little Tennessee river, some eighteen m : les. The iron has been purchased to lay the track. The above is from the Knoxville Age of a recent date. We are glad to see the prospects for the completion of this important line brightening. Augusta and Knoxville and the whole country between these terminal points are deeply interested in the success of the enter prise. We believe they are now ready to give it assistance that will ensure its success. We have not the slightest doubt of either the ability or the in clination of the Georgians to build the line to the mountains, provided our Tennesse friends will meet us at Rabun Gap. The Angnsta and Hartwell Road has a charter which contains a reason able grant of State aid—fifteen thousand dollars per mile—and this with the sub scriptions which should be easily ob tained ia the oity of Augusta and in the different counties through which the line passes will suffice for its construc tion. On the other end operations seem to be actively progressing and the Ten nesseeans are evidently in earnest. We hope great good will result from the convention which is to meet here this year. AN ANTI-COTTON LAW.' Dr. H. D. Tobbit, of Burke county, Georgia, has constructed and forwarded to the New York Sun an “anti-cotton law,” which he desires to have enacted, and whioh he considers to be the only salvation for the South. Dr. Torbit’s law provides that every Southern planter shall be taxed twenty dollars for each acre of cotton he may plant over five aores. Its object is to prevent the plant ers from raising so much cotton, and to oompel them to raise corn, wheat, oats, and sugar, whioh they now draw from other regions. He holds that this law would make the planters prosperous and contented, and give them plenty of money. He argues that the downfall and bankruptcy of the once prosperous South his been brought about by cot ton, which costs the planters more than it gives them, considering their outlay for the mules and implements, the corn, fodder and provisions which they are compelled to purchase. He desires that bis law should be made an Issue in all elections, and that every candidate should be required to pledge himself to its support. The Sun very properly says : “ A great deal has beeu said in pist years about the subject which Dr. Torbit wishes the Sun to take up, and the planters have often been urged to raise the cereals, provisions, and other sup plies needed for local consumption. But we cannot advocate the passage of any such law as that which Dr. Torbit has drawn up for restraining the production of cotton. It is not the business of Congress, or of any State Legislatnre, to undertake the regulation of matters of the kind. Congress has no more power to encourage the raising of corn in Geor gia than of tobacco in Wisconsin ; and it has no more right to limit the culture of : cotton in the South than it has to limit the building of cotton factories in Mas sachusetts. The Southern planters, as well as the Northern farmers, mast themselves study and regulate their own interests respecting the crops that are grown on their soiL” The United States Supreme Court has just decided in reference to the liability of a State officer for obeying Confede rate authority daring the war, that it was not a Federal question, aad the case was dismissed. The defendant had lost money belonging to the State of Tennessee, and the Court held that a trustee cannot be held responsible to his cestui que trust for the loss of a trust fund, if the loss has not been oc casioned by his own laches or bad faith, and that the delivery of the trnst fond in this case by the defendant into the hands of the Confederate authority nnder an order which he dared not dis obey excused him from liability to the plaintiff. MORTON AND THE HAMBURG DIFFI CULTY. Senator Morton, it is said, will call for a committee to investigate the re oeDt riot at Hamburg, in South Caro lina. There is, says the Courier Jour nal, quite as much reason to send a Congressional committee to Newark, N. J., to investigate the slaughter of seven white men daring a desperate riot which occurred there the other day. That bloody tragedy Morton ignores. It occurred in a Northern State, where he claims that “law and order” always ex ist. In his zeal for the protection of “human rights” Morion should his attention to the alarm which exists ia lowa, where tramps roaming about the country in bands one thousand strong, boarding railroad trains, bully ing the farmers through the country, and stealing whatever they can lay their hands on. These are desperate men who would not hesitate to commit mur der if it was necessary to obtain plun der. lowa, however, is a “sound Re publican State,” the home of the patriot Belknap, and Morton closes his eyes to “outrages” there committed, as he did to ruffianism in Indiana when he was Governor of that State. GETTING DOWN TO HARD PAN.* It is interesting to read from any quarter that retrenchment hat at last reached the household service. A New York paper states that woman cooks are now willing to take sls who formerly got S2O a month, and that cham bermaids have lowered their ideas from sl2 to $lO. Perhaps even the rest of the statement, that some families who formerly employed only one servant now do their own work, may have some comfort in it. It will probably be some tune before ill-health results to the fam ily from over-work in such case or super ciliousness to the discharged servant. If these leveling times put the relations between each parties on a sounder basis than has pre vailed in this country of late years, that will be one more of the good turns these times are said to be doing the country. Neither will the transfer of private coachmen and footmen to horse-cars aud restaurants, said to be common now, ruin the country .—Philadelphia Times. The reduction in prices that is men tioned at the North also obtains to some extent in the Sonth. That is to say, in the prices of some things there has been a reduction approximating ante bellum figures, while in other there has been no sensible depreciation of prices. One of the cruellest phases of the present condition of business is that while the wages of mechanics and salaried em ployees of every description have been greatly reduced the cost of living in some important particulars has not been diminished in proportion to this reduc tion. Wages, and in this word is in cluded salaries, have been reduced in the South from twenty to thirty, and even forty per cent—so that the em ployee who once received eighteen dol lars q?er week is now getting twelve dol lars and sixty cents or, perhaps, only eleven dollars. If the decline in values had been uniform this redaction would have been apparent rather than real and no one would suffer by that which af fected all alike. If the purchasing power of eleven dollars is equivalent to the purchasing power of eighteen, it evidently makes no difference to the em ployee whether he receives the one sum or the other. But, un fortunately, such is not the case. In some articles there has been a decline proportionate, to some extent, to the fall in the price of labor. House rent is cheaper now than it has been in some time, though the f.til has been greater in the rent of large houses than in that of small houses usu ally occupied by men of moderate means. A six or eight room house in an eligible portion of the oity does not pay its own er, at present rates, more than five or six per cent. The staple articles of dry goods are also as cheap or cheap er now than they were in 1860. Men’s clothing has also been cheapened to some extent. But here the shrinkage ceases. Servants’ wages are as high now, as a general rule, as they have ever been. The cost of food is about the same as it was five years ago. Nearly everything that comes upon the table is purchased at inflation prices. Butchers’ meat, fuel, vegetables, poultry, butter, and most of the ordinary grocery sup plies are still high, and these things constitute the principal expenses of liv ing. The man who has been cut down from eighteen to twelve dollars per week finds his weekly bill for supplies but little smaller than it was before the panio—unless, indeed, necessity has made him reduce the quantity pur chased. Until this state of affairs is remedied, until the fall in values be comes uniform and bears upon every thing with eqnal pressure, the poor man must continue to suffer. THE BAYONET IN THE SOUTH. The proofs multiply, says the New York Sun, that the Republican man agers will try to carry four or five Southern States this Fall with the bayonet. The States to which we more particularly refer are Mississippi, Louis iana, Arkansas and Alabama. They may also find it neoessary to use the same means to avert defeat in Florida, and even in South Carolina, in both of which the party is weakened by bit ter feuds. Ten days ago Gen. Auger issued an order at New Orleans creating the Mili tary District of Baton Rouge, to be composed of six counties or parishes of Louisiana and five counties of Mississip pi. Troops were assigned to the new district, and Col. Brooke placed iu command. The soldiers are posted at strategic points and the commanders are required to report to Col. Brooke without delay, “giving him such in formation concerning their command as may be useful to him.” Col. Brooke, by a special order, is authorized to move his troops to any part of his dis trict whenever he shall think it best, and to preserve peace and order “by the use of every means within his con trol.” Nothing whatever has occurred to call for a speoial military raid against the eleven oounties in question. It may be regarded, therefore, as the initial step in a line of ooercive policy whioh,accord ing to well founded reports, is to be carried out this Summer and Fall in the half dozen States we have men tioned. Mississippi will receive the particular attention of the military satraps. Sena tor Morton takes a peculiar interest in that State; and as he has been the star | diest champion of Grant’s Southern measures, he mu3t have all the ! troops that may be necessary to i hold the whites of Mississippi |in awe while the carpet-baggers j stuff the ballot-boxes with votes to suit themselves. The Vicksburg Her | aid tells us that in pursuance of this policy, besides the troops in the Baton Rouge district, there are soldiers at Fort Gibson and at Vioksburg, and that the commander at the latter post thinks he shall soon call for more. The Herald says that the negroes of that section are told by the military commanders and the carpet-baggers that it is Gen. Grant’s order for them to vote for Hayes and Wheeler, and that they will be put back into slavery if they do not obey. Louisiana will be looked after with special solicitude. We learned several weeks ago from a trustworthy source AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1876. that Gen. Sheridan had agreed to go into the Gulf States and take command once more, and give the people a touch of his previous tactics. The uprising of Sitting Bull may perhaps delay his de parture. But as Sheridan’s chief weap on iu putting down the savage seems to be the telegraph, he might possibly strike him from Vicksburg and New Or leans as effectively as from Philadelphia or Chicago. It would be an interesting sight to see Sheridan by and by leave the extermination of the Indians of the Northwest to inferior officers and troops, while he, with the flower of the army, was engaged in putting down the white “banditti” of the Sonthwest, because they would not keep qniet when Casey, Packard, hpesckr and the rest were car rying the elections by fraud, forgery and perjury. Unless deterred by exposure and in dignant protests, we may soon see the supporters of Hayes dotting the Gulf Stat-s all over with military districts, modelled upon the pattern of the one just established at Baton Rouge. NOT TRUE. We find the following paragraph in the Colnmbia Union-Herald Cham berlain’s personal organ : “Several Georgia Democratic papers “threaten to bolt if Colquitt is nomi “nated. There is certain to be an inde pendent candidate this Fall in Geor “gia, and he is almost as certain of be “ing elected.” This is not a correct statement. There are not “several Georgia Democratic pa pers” that have “threatened to bolt if Colquitt is nominated.” There is not a single Democratic paper in Georgia that has threatened to bolt if Colquitt is nominated. All assertions and insin uations to the contrary lack the essential element of truth. If General Colquitt is nominated he will be cordially and ef ficiently supported by the friends of Hkrsohel V. Johnson and by the friends of the other gentlemen whose names have been mentioned in connec tion with the office of Governor of Geor gia. We shall treat all independents as Radicals, except where flagrant unfair ness is nsed to obtain a nomination, and the State will give the Democratic can didate a hundred thousand majority next October. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. The Boston Globe says the official sta tistics of the foreign commeroe of the United States for the fiscal year just closed are not yet completed, but the returns of the exports for the four lead ing ports give an idea of the volume of the export foreign trade during that period. The total for 1876 is $367,142,- 279, against $347,316,933 in 1875, and $393,136,776 in 1874. An analysis of the figures for these years shows, among other interesting features, that the sec ondary ports of Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore have increased their business at the expense of New York, which in 1874 was credited with an ex port trade of $304,189,133, against $258,- 997,931 in 1876. The excess of exports over imports during the fiscal year was $76,000,000. In the previous year the imports of merchandise exceeded the ex ports by over $19,000,000, thus showing a “balance of trade,” whatever that may mean, against us.* Our exports of specie and bullion in 1876 exceeded the imports by $53,000,000, which, added to the ex oass of merchandise exports, makes the surplus or exports, goods aud speoie combined, $127,000,000. Notwithstand ing this large “balance of trade” in our favor, generally business has been no better than during those periods when the “balance” has been largely against us ; that is to say, the encouragement of native industry, by excluding the pro ducts of fereign industry, wherever these come into competition with commodities which native industry can produce, has not made the country any richer, nor made prices any lower. In fact, “bal ance” in our favor does not appear to have made any perceptible difference in our national or material prosperity. GEN. BUTLER. In the recent debate in the House of Representatives on the Hamburg affair, Mr. S alls, of South Carolina, is re ported to have used these words : “Gen. “Butler might have been in the days “he (Mr. Jones of Kentucky) knew him “everything he has stated in regaid to “him, but I can tell him that since Gen. “Bcjtler left him he has either got in “to bad company, or has been badly ad “vised, for there has not been a row or “a riot in South Carolina, since recan “struotion, in Edgefield, that Gen. But “ler has not led; he has been the lead- “er of every riot or outrage perpetrated “npon the good people of that State.” Gen. Butler is amply able to defend himself against the falsehoods of the Radical party and the attacks of iis in dividual members; but we deem it only an act of justice to say that the writer of this was present at a riot in the town of Aiken, S. C., in 1868, caused by a brutal attack made by Radical negroes upon a colored Democrat, who had that day made a speech for Seymour and Blair. There was a large gathering of Democrats in the town, and th 9 ex-, citement was intense against those who had committed the outrage. Sev eral pistol shots were fired, and it was only due to the coolness and wise counsels of General Butler and Gen eral Wade Hampton that blood was not shed. These gentlemen urged and beg ged the white men to avoid excitement, and to bear the insults of a drunken ne gro who was standing near them using most opprobrious and violent language. One of General Bltler’s soldiers—one who had served with him in the army— was so inflamed with anger that he could scarcely keep his hands off the negro— but to General Butler’s earnest appeal he answered. “Well, General, for your sake I’ll bear it—but its d—d hard to stand.” “I know it is,” said General B , “but think of the dreadful conse quences of a riot and try and bear it.” He and General Hampton promised to use their efforts to find out the perpe trators of the outrage and bring them to justice. And thus one riot, which for a while threatened to be a serious and bloody one, was stopped by the man now publicly charged with leading all of them. General Butler may have been the means of preventing other riots but we mention this one, because it came under onr own observation, and because it proves “Mr. Smalls” statement to be false. For if General Butler did not lead one riot, he certainly did not lead all. The United. States Senate passed a bill on Saturday appropriating SIOO,- 000 for the completion of the Washing ton monument at the National Capital, provided the entire control of the work and all the rights of the society which has nnsucoessfally endeavored to com plete it are transferred to the Govern ment. It is understood that this ap propriation will form only a small pro portion, probably less than one-third, of the entire sum required to complete the monument. Strong objections to the design of that structure were made, and it was even said that its foundation was insecure—but the objections were over ruled, and the Senate, at least, ia fully determined in these Centennial times to honor the immortal Washington, GUASSHOPPERS IN GEORGIA. Damage to the Cotton Crop, The following letter was received by a gentleman in this city yesterday from a planter of Newton county; Covington, Ga., July 24 —I send you a bnndle of cotton stalks that have been stripped by the grasshoppers on my farm. It is the most thorough and com plete destruction of the plant that I have ever seen. They commenced only last night or yesterday, and have de stroyed, in all, abont an acre. I have tried burning and drowning, there being in a ditch of water three or four feet deep which was dammed. We drove hun dreds of thousands into if, but the at tempt to drown them was a failnre, as they navigate with an awkward degree of success which is exasperating. Fail ing iu this, I had spread some straw about ten feet wide and one htndred yards long; as many as conld be driven on this were burned, having set fire to the straw in several places at the same moment. Many thousand were killed in this manner, yet so great was the num ber that those burned would not aver age one in a hundred ot those in the field. I then put all hands at work to drive them out of the fielf into the woods. We succeeded better in this, but may find them back in the field to morrow. It is anew elemeit, and one which I regard as serious. The fact that these grasshoppers are of the most vora cious and destructive kind; that they have eaten corn and are eating cotton, and that they are in many localities, goes to show that they are a dangerous ene my to the crop. They may totally de stroy it. I have a lot of thegrasshoppers strung and will send them to yon in tbe morning. They have enormous months, most of them red heads aid are very damaging; the excrement tiey drop is very great considering ther size and the short time they remain on the cot ton plant. * The stalks are now on e:hibition at the Augusta Exchange. Tfoy are en tirely denuded of leaves, bar: and even the ends of branches. THE GRASSHOPPER?. Report of tbe First Appearance otbe Plague. [Butts County Argus.] Mr. Alfred McWatkins roorts the appearance of a deluge of grsshoppers in one ot his large wheat stufole, fields. The field contains abont thirtyfive acres, and within the past week i has been almost stripped of the customry fereen vegetation. On Sunday the ineots were nearly full grown, and he was watching their operations with seriou interest. So far as grass and briar ltves were concerned the field had been ompletely denuded, and the army was gathering at the north fence line, as if ireparing for another raid. [Griffin News.] From all parts of the surounding county we hear complaints o. the ap pearance of the hoppers, Syriads of them are even now at work on he farms of R. P. Johnson and othei in the northern suburbs of the city, gorging themselves on the products ofa year's industry. Mr. Johnson report them in his clover, on his stubble Jnds and elsewhere, of all ages and s;es, from the patriarch hopper to the yoth on his first legs. Mr. Barham, of Hery coun ty, was in to see us yesterday and in formed us that the grasshopers were eating up the corn in his viciity. He reports the pets of a green dor and smaller than the ordinary hoper. He saw a field near his farm, behupng to a neighbor, in which everv Ude was stripped from the corn. [Huntsville (Ala ) Democrat Mr. Daniel A. Mosely, who/sides at Hazlegreen in this county, bid us last week that millions ot had appeared, first in his liarwsted wheal field, and they hopped tieno} fc o his cotton and corn adjoining and igd de voured the leaves of on* aud bltj es 0 f the other, to the amourt of an a ro or two of each, when hs began w r on them with fire and faggot, fie qded by four hands, with bushes h fie*'*! ■’rove them as easily as ‘irl/ysout of the cotton and #**>- the /heit stuo ole, rney settled o straw pre viously scattered near the firnrvw, and the straw was theu set on :re, and Mr. Mosely said he reckoned ie consumed two or three barrels ol t/em. We un derstand the grasshoppeis have pade inroads in other parts olthis county. One of the Messrs. Lank told u? last year that the grasshopprs appeared first in his clover field, am he tuned in his hogs, and the grasshppers would nestle at night under th clove?, aud were devoured greedily b the hogs. Mr. Albert Johnson, of Cojert, informs the editor of the North Alabamian that lime plentifully sprikledon the stalks of the first couple ofrowsof corn will prevent the grasshopprs fiom en tering the field and dam'gig tbe rest. [Griffin Press and Cult'ator \ The news comes to us dilv oncern ing the grasshoppers, and he fuestioc ot how to retard their progr.ss las caus ed many farmers either to omeor write to us to find out a remdy. In the Northwest, where the grasaopfers first made their appearance, tfey were the sam9 as are appearing in nr State to day. The first year they dd aut little or no damage to the crops,bulthe sec ond year they came a tbrnand fold greater in numbers, and ahmd;ed times larger. The effect of theii devastating reign was not felt until the seejnd year, which found the people ptrfetly igno rant how to get rid of (Jem and not until they had nearly destroyd every vestige of herbage could the inabitants devise a remedy to destroy thin. We should now be benefited by tfeir expe rience; hence we give it, Staw wns procured, and scattered in acrescent form about three or four yads wide, and thirty or forty yards log. This was done on the side of the fid where the wind would assist in drring the grasshoppers. When this was lone the straw was set on fire, while hads were employed to keep up the firewith the straw held in reserve, while otfcrs went through the field with bushes ad drove the grasshoppers into the fire. The seo ond year after this remedy wa applied the grasshoppers ceased to xist. If our people do not go to wor and de stroy the seed of these pests, ext year they will come so numerouly that bleeding Kansas will oompare a us as a a decent second rate hotel to ur being a charitable poor house. Whia we be lieve but little damage can btdone by them in their inoipiency, still we know that if their seed is not destDyed, star vation will surely come uponli* another year, and he who does not Jo his duty to keep down such great destroyers, commits an omissive offeise that is criminal—that will be severiy punished by the natural laws. THE STANDARD-BEARERStF REFORM. A Glorious Ratification Meetinc in New York —The Speakers and the Speeaea—The .Sen timents of the South. New YotK, July 26. —Agreat Tam many Hall Democratic ratifiation meet ing was held last night. There were three stands outside of tbr hall. Mr. Chas. A. Dana, editor of tb Sun, pre sided inside the hall and mide a vigor ous speech. Besolntions wre adopted pledging the nnited strengh and snp port of their Democratic felDw-oitizens to Tilden and Hendricks, aid express ing sympathy with the men if all ranks, and especially mechanics ant laborers, who feel so mnch the evil ffect of the Republican maladministratnn. Hon. John Hancock, of Texas, sail that the great demonstration refntec the asser tion that the New York Demerats were divided. He spoke of tie disgrace brought on the conntry by tb Republi can party, and said, thougl they did their duty during the war, the Demo crats who were also true to the Union had now to rescue the conn tit from Re publican corruption. He lenounced military rale in the Sonth anl declared that Southern men are loyal p the fl ig. Governor Walker, of Virginia said the great demonstration will vitalize the Democratic faith throughout our com mon country. The South yould give ten out of eleyen electoral yqtes for Tilden and Hendricks. M o *- Charles E. Hooker, of Mississippi, in ex-Con federate, said if the men who crossed swords during the war could control the Government we world have had ten years of prosperity in tfie South. Hon. Mr. Tarbox, of Massachusetts, contrast ed Tilden and Mayes, and as a Union man declared bis belief ip tee loyalty of the South. The lost speaker was Hon. Mr. Franklin, of Missouri, an ex-Con federate, who said the bad come back to the Union and meant to The rains continue, and the prospect for a large corn crop on uplands were never more promising. THE RUIN OF OUR NAVY. ONE REBULT OF THE WICKED RULE OF SECOR ROBESON. Two Hundred Millions Expended, But Not a First-class Vessel, Nor One Powerful Rifled Gun—Contracts iu Violation ot Law. W ashington, Jaly 23 —Whatever else may be said of the forthcoming report of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, it shows unmistakably that the freak of President Grant in appointing an obsenre New Jersey lawyer as {secre tary of the Navy, at the solicitation of some of his personal friends in Phila delphia, has cost the country millions and millions of dollars, and has resulted in the ruin of our navy. The re ort will deal with other matters; but this featuie of the subject is one that will impress every one who has the honor of the country at heart. The report will review a great many of the principal abuses that have grown up in the administration of naval affairs under Secor Robeson, but at present I will only direct attention to the con clusions that the committee have ar rived at in regard to the points already mentioned. They will say : The first inquiry in regular order pre sented to your committee was as to the past as well as to the present condition of the United States Navy. There has been expended on the navy, from the time of its organization np to the close of the fiscal year endiDg June 30, 1875 as appears from the reports of the Sec the Treasury, the vast snm of $939,779,925 67; more than one third of which has been expended between the year 1864 and the present time. By way of making a comparison, which will be easily understood by the Honse and tbe country, your committee call attention to the fact that the expenditure for the navy for the fourteen years commencing at the close of the fiscal year 1847, anc extending to the close of the fiscal year 1861, as shown by the table below, was $159,456,839 18; while the expenditure for the seven years extending from the close of the fiscal year ending Juue 30, 1868, to the close of the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1875, was (as appears from a statement prepared in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, and submit ted herewith by this committee) the sum of $160,037,481 49. Here is the statement, by years, for the period from 1847 to 1861: Expenditures for the Navy. 1848 $ 9,408,476 02 1855...$ 13,327 09511 1 848 9,786.705 92 1856.... 14 074 834 64 1850 7,904.724 66 1857... lfollflMU 1 851 8,880,681 38 1858 14,053,264 64 48 52 8,918 842 10 1859 14.69J.927 90 1853 11,067,789 53 1860.... 11,514,649 83 1 884 10,790,096 32 1861.... 12*887)156 62 • Total $159,456,839 18 From these statements it appears that the expenditures for seven years under this Administration have been, in money aotually paid out, in excess of the ex penditures for fourteen years imme diately preceding the oivil war. But before the conclusion of this report it will be made apparent that in order to get at the actual cost of the navy during this period of seven year*, a consider able addition must be made to the sum above set forth. It is appropriate in considering the present condition of the navy to take into account the expendi tures upon it since the eloße of the war; and to show these, your oommittee sub mit the following table, compiled from the reports of the Secretary-of. the Treas ury down to the close of the fisoal year endiDg June 30, 1875, aggregating $381,- 130,905 35: * ’ Expenditures for the Navy. 1865 $122,617 434 07 1871...$ 19,431.927 21 1866.. 32,285,662 00 1872... 21,249 89 99 1867.. 31,034.011 04 1872... 23.526.256 79 1868.. 25.775,502 72 1874... 80,932.587 42 1869.. . 20.000.767 97 1875.. 21,497.626 27 1870.. .. 21,780,229 87 - Total $881,130,905 35 Now, whether we look at the sum which has been expended since the close of the war, or at the amount expended under, the present Administration, as has been already remarked, other sums are to be added in order to ascertain the "resent actual conditionjof the navy, to year em fiawtl numbers, say $20,000,000 But even this does not show the true amoupt of ex penditures made by this administration of the Navy Department, beoause the large sums ot money that have been ob tained s' oe the advent of the present Secretary from the novel business of ex change and barter introduced by him, it is believed for the first time in the ad ministration of public affairs, are not in cluded. Your committee are somewhat at a loss in estimating the amount real ized in this business. The original cost of ihe articles disposed of by the Secre tary of the Navy or his subordinates would amount to several millions of dol lars, while the amounts apparently real ized for these articles are comparatively small. Taking the su®s shown to have been expended from July, 1868, to July, 1875, aggregating §100,037,481 49, and adding §20,000.000 expended fop the fis cal year ending June 30, 1876, and add ing also the loss on material improperly exchanged or bartered away, $20,000,- 000 (assumed), we have the sum of $200,000,000 expended by this Adminis tration for and on account of the navy. Dissecting these expenditures, we find that for construction and repair, steam engineering, and ordnance, about $50,- 000,000 have been actually expend ed, and that these branches of the ser vice are liable to be charged with the greater part of the sums realised in the exchange and barter business. Taking from other heads of expenditures what is properly chargeable to the construc tion of ships of war in all their parts, your committee do not think they are far wrong when they estimate the sum properly chargeable to expenditures of this kind at $60,000,000; and in the pro gress of this report they will endeavor to make it plear to the IJouse that if this large amount of money had been proper ly expended it would have given the country a very efficient navy. In this connection, it is to be remarked that while it is shown by the evidence of the heads of bureaus, of paymasters, and of contractors, that only one or two bu reaus had, on the 30th of June,lß76, any unexpended balances, several of them, to-wit, the Bureau of Construction and Repair, the Bureau of Steam Engineer ing, and the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, were largely in debt, haying exceeded the appropriations made by Congress and contracted liabilities, in utter disregard and violation of law. The other bureaus, with the exception of the Bureau of Yards and Dooks, have contracted but small indebtedness. From the best information which your committee have been able to obtain, they are satisfied th t the present liabilities of the Navy Department in excess of appro priations are between two and a half and three millions of dollars, while the con tingent liabilities of the department upon contracts entered into and not yet completed amount, in our opinion, to about two and a half millions more. This judgment is based upon exhibits of the condition of the department made by its own officers, and upon the fact that in almost every instance where your oommittee have asked a contractor whether the department was indebted to him or not, the answer has heen in the affirmative. Bills approved, amounting to over $700,000, lie in the office of the Paymaster at New York unpaid, and similar bills, amounting to over $75,000, lie in the office of the Paymaster at Phil adelphia. We have the testimony of various contractors, proving that for months their bills have not been met, and in one notable instance—that of Mr. William Mathews, of New York—a claim of over $12,000 for interest on un paid bills is presented and filed in the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing; while in another instance it is manifest from the testimony of Seyfert, McManus & Cos., of Philadelphia, that they have been anxious to prooure “old iron” from the department in payment of their bills Judging from this state ef facts, your committee must believe that whenever the true condition of the Navy Depart ment is ascertained its liabilities will be found to be between seven and tflfl mil lion dollars, Resulting f;o® the disre gard of late, f 1 not crimi nal, administration of its affairs. We come now to look at the condition of the navy in its material. The follow ing is an extract from tfie report of the Secretary of the Navy; “ft is gratifying to be able to report that the navy is now in a stronger and more efficient condition than it has ever been at any time, at least since the com mencement of your administration. It is not very strong in tfie number nor in the classes of its ships; but what there are of them are in as good condition as practicable to keep such materials of war under the various and trying condi tions to which they are, in the nature of their service, constantly exposed. 4 far larger portion than usnal of our wooden •hips are ready for service; our irpu-clad fleet is efficient; our store houses are fairly stocked with ordnance, equip ments, and supplies, and we have on hand a fair supply of the best material for tbe building and re: air of ships. The service has been placed iu this state of efficiency, compared with what exist ed a few years ago, by utilizing, except iu the case of the eight sloops built un der special appropriations, what could be spared from the current appropria tions, and from the appropriations made duriug the Cuban emergency, and ap plying these means practically and steadily toward putting what was worth saving of the navy, as it existed, in as permanent good condition as the state of the ships and the at command permitted. The wisdom of this policy is, I think, illustrated by the strength of our position to-day.” This statement of the Secretary is at tempted to be sustained by the sworn testimony of the head of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, Mr. Isaiah Hansoom, and other bureau officers; but when we remember that it is Mr. Han soom’s own work that is called in ques tion, and hence the deep interest he must feel in any judgment that may be passed upon it, and when it is shown by the recorded evidence in this investiga tion that he is not altogether a reliable witness, and further, when your com mittee have contrary information (whioh is herewith presented) from the active head of the navy, Admiral Porter, who, in his facts and opinions, is sustained by almost the entire body of his fellow officers in tbe navy, they may and do deny the acouracy of the rose colored statement made by the Secretary; and, as showing the true and actual condition of our navy at the present time, your committee beg to call the attention of the House to the sworn statement of that gallant and efficient officer. Says Admiral Porter, in his testimony before this committee on the 29th, of Mav 1876 (Miscellaneous, p. 416): y ’ “The amount calculated for these gradual additions tojthe navy may ap pear large in the aggregate, but it is iu fact small when compared with the ap propriations estimated for from 1866 to 1876 ($251,799,000), which, after deduct ing pay of officers and men and expen ses of tho Marine Corps, amount, for navy yards, repairs, equipment, and building a few small vessels, to an aver age of $18,200,000 annually. This, too after an expenditure of $280,000,000 during the war, which ought to have left us a powerful navy. With all this ex penditure, we aro not at present pro vided with a single first-class vessel, either for defense or for fast steaming, nor have we one powerful rifle-gun in the navy.” Again, on page 412, he says : ''® ur navy, taken as a whole, is worth nothing, and the sooner the country understands the faot the better. It would require a great stretoh of cred ulity to make one believe that the navy is in the flourishing condition repre sented by Chief Constructor Hansoom in his late report to the honorable Secre tary of ‘the Navy. Probably he believes what he says, that ‘the powpr of our iron-clads for harbor and ooast defense, where the fighting will be done in smooth water, must be considered equal if not superior, to that of a large num ber of sea-going iron-olads of foreign nations; and that ‘no officer in com mand in one of our monitors would hesi tate to engage in action, in smooth wa ter, any sea-going iron-clad, .vessel yet afloat, except perhaps a few of the lapcmof tvrnn II? largest type.'" Again, on page 405; Many officers of the navy who now hold prominent positions were in the service in its palmy days, and can draw a just comparison between its condition now and then. They have seen it recede from the high position it once heid, and realize its inefficiency to protect our in terests at home or abroad, yet they have been obliged to stand quietly by and witness the navy go fro u bad to worse without power to prevent it.” r ' "VA do puiuut It, Tbcso were no flew facts or opinions of the Admiral of the Navy. In his of ficial report, made November 7, 1874, to the Secretary, among other things’ he says : Mimpared say that our soldier armed witn 'k pisioi encounter ing a mounted man clad in armor and carrying a breech-loading rifle. It would be easy to imagiue how little chance the man on foot would have, should such a conflict occur." These facts and views are fortified and sustained by a large number of dis tinguished officers of the navy, who have responded to certain interrogato ries addressed to them by a circular let ter. The fifth of those interrogatories was designed to elicit their “opinion as to the present degree of efficiency of our vessels of war, compared with the navies of the principal powers of the world, class for plaas. If the comparison is unfavorable to the United states, what is the reason for it—in construction, ma chinery, materials, or in want of har mony in building?” In realy to this inquiry Vice-Admiral Rowau (answers to circular letter, p. 2) says: “Our cruis ing vessels of war, as compared with the navies of the principal powers, are in ferior; lamentably so in speed. Most of our wooden ships compare favorably in model aud construction with foreign ships but the want of speed, owing to defective steam power, places them at the mercy of small armored oruisers with heavy rifled guns. Many of our steamships now on the navy list are ut terly worthless, and should be sold or broken up,” 1 Rear-Admiral Leroy (Norfolk, p. 9) says: “From my observation, thevessels of our navy are inferior in construction, speed, armament, and other properties, to nearly all the vessels I have me* l be longing to foreign nayies. We continue our obsolete type, while foreign nations advance. I refer to our cruising ships, and not to the vessels of the ‘monitor’ class, which I consider valuable fpr coast and harbor defense.” Rear-4dmival Almy (answers to cir cular letter, p. 7) says : “lu answer to question fifth I will State, it is my opin ion that the speed and efficiency of the United States vessels of war are, in gen eral, inferior to the speed, efficiency and accommodations of the vessels of war of other principal navy powers Some times the fault is ths model, sometimes it is in the character of the engine; soipetiqies it is in defective steam power, and sometimes it is in all of these. Then, again, there is in the battery and the fighting equipments of the ship. There seems to De a decided want of haygiony iu the different paval bureaus, to judge from the results pro duced in the way of ships constructed for the navy. |f they would consult aud deliberately discuss matters more thoroughly and harmoniously, the na tion would have much better results.” Rear-Admiral 6. R. P. Rodgers (an swers to oireular letter, p. 9) says : “As compared with <the navies of the chief foreign powers. I thipfc °U r own inefficient, in its more powerful ships.” The report of the Board, of which Ad miral Qoldshorough was the senior officer, includes the inspection of all kinds and classes of vessels then at the navy yards, conclusion of the ma jority was that of all the vessels visited, no one. in its judgment, ia fit—consid ering the combination of qualities which alone cap constitute efficacy in a vessel of war in these times—to ernise at large in war with an impunity commensurate with her class, or to cope with the cruis ers now possessed by the more formid able naval powers of Europe. Centennial (TFosWngto* Capital} The Centennial visitors in Washington move in swarms very much like Kansas grasshoppers, bat they don’t eat so much, there’s the difference. The re ceipts at the Exposition are far below the anticipated average, and the capital is disappointed in its hopes to realize something as a side-show. These travel ers move on an economical A proprietor of one of oar hotels says that' two respectable looking men, with their wives, en,goged rooms the other day af ter inquiring if the place was conducted on the European plan. They dcoiined to take supper, but for breakfast order ed tea and tupst fot; four—expense eighty c?sts. Shortly after enjoying their frugal meal they adjopraed to see the sights and did not xet&rn anti] dark. Refusing an invitation to sop, they dis appeared in their rooms. Shortly after ; wards one of the gentlemen took the pitcher from the r*a*h-basin and, after a short absence, returned with that vessel filled with milk and a loaf of firesfi un der his arm. The quartette left in the early train for bqme without even, a cup of coffee to warm their digestive appara tus. About fiye hundred of these pil grims visite tbe White House daily; every one is dressed In a brown linen duster and armed with a palm-leaf fan, and they respond to the prophetic idea of an exodns of carpet-baggers from, tbe Southern States, $2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID ATLANTA AND WEST POINT RAIL ROAD Annnol Meeting of the Stockholders in At lanta. [Atlanta Constitution ] The annual meeting of the stockhold ers of the Atlanta and West Point. Rail road was held yesterday at the office of the Superintendent. Hon. John P. King, President, presided. Coi. B. C Yancey, J. F. Moreland and W. B Berry were appointed a committee on proxies. They reported 3,920 shares represented by proxies. A committee from the Georgia Railroad, consisting of L M. Hill, Stephens Thomas, George Hillyer, and Josiah Sibley, represented 4,000 shares, 2,431 shares were repre sented in person, making 10,351 shares in all. This is perhaps the largest rep resentation for years. Dr. H fl. Cary moved to proceed totheel-ction of seven directors, whioh motion prevailed, and Col. B C. Yancey, J. P. Morelaud, and W. B. Berry were requested to act as tellers. Col. N. D. Speer, whose name had been mentioned for the position of director, gracefully declined. Upon counting the ballots the following was the result : J. P Kiug, 9,967; F. Phini zy, 9,967; B. C. Yancey, 9 967; W B Berry, 9,967; J. S. Big'bv, 9,967; J. F Moreland, 9,967; L. M~ Hill, 9,883; M. T. Walker, 74. Mr. L. M. Hill was elected in place of L. B. Lovelaoe, deceased. He thank ed the convention for the honor, and paid a handsome oomplimeot to Colonel Speer. The report of the Suoerintsnd ent, Col. L P. Grant, showed the fol lowing as the operations for the fiscal year ending Juue 30 ; Gross Earnings. From passengers $ 99,211 50 From freight 170,344 99 From mails 12,151 98 From express 4,525 56 From Government transpor tation and miscellaneous.. 7,265 25 Total $293,498 98 Ordinary Expenses* Conducting transportation..! 50,265 69 Motive power 55,753 78 Maintenance of way Maintenance of cars 11’298 96 Rent of Central and Georgia Railroad tracks 7,000 00 Taxes 4,625 91 Legal expenses 850 15 . $178,905 02 Addition to property $ 10,000 50 Net over all expenses $ 99,539 56 The report of President King was an able and succinct document. After the adjournment of the convention the Di rectors met and unanimously re-eleeted Hon. John P. King, President; Colonel L. P. Grant, Superintendent; W. P. Orme, Secretary and Treasurer. The Board declared their usual semi-annual dividend. A WOMAN’S EXPERIENCE, Ridiculous anil Amusing .Scenes at a Recent Train Robber; i n Missouri—The Story as Told by a Woman—Efforts ot Passengers to Hide their Valuables, etc., etc. f Jefferson City Correspondence [July 13) of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.] Concerning the Missouri Pacific ex press robbery, Miss Peabody, an ex- Jefferson City,lady, and now teaching school at Denver City, who was on the captured train, gave the following inter esting statement to the Jefferson City Tribune reporter : “After leaving Ofcteryille,” said Miss Peabody, “I was dozing in a reclining chair, probably fst falling asleep. Sud denly the train was brought to a halt, and a moment later a man rushed hur riedly through the car. I believe he was the express messenger. Someone asked him what was the matter. ‘The train is being robbed, that’s what’s the matter,’ he hurriedly replied, and kept on. Then all was commotion and con fusion. Including myself, there were three ladies in the car, I eonfess that I was terribly frightened, and thought I ftlmn M r> i . that there was no one haudy to ontch or care for a person in a faint, aud con cluded to omit this part of the pro gramme. Meanwhile shots were fired on the outside, and we could hear num bers of men cursing and swearing. 1 suppose the shots were fired for the pur pose of intimidation. I believe our car was next to the smoking car. Directly the car door was throwq opeD, and iu stalked two of the robbers. The leader put his haDfi on the shoulder of a brake man and said, ‘Here, I want yon,* and hustled him out. We thought they were going to shoot him, but I suppose now they wanted him to identify the ex press messenger. It was rare fun—l mean it is amusing to look back at it now, nothing funny in it then—to see the passengers concealing their valu ables. Here you would see a man yUli his boots off, cramming his greenbacks in his socks; several—Ml Marshall, of Fulton, among the rest—tossed their cash, watches, etc., into a coal box; others were up on the backs of seats hunting holes for their pocket books. Wherever anything oould be oonoealed something was sure to find its way. The conductor, excited and nervous, hur riedly passed through and told all who had valuables to take care of them. The most ludicrous incident I can now recall was when a sanctimonious individual, evidently scared out of his wits, broke forth with the old familiar song, ‘ I’m going home to die no w\ore.’ His quiver ing, doleful yoice echoed through the car with lugubrious effect. Some cf the male passengers were uuguUant enough to interrupt him with the remark that he had better he getting his money out of tbe way instead of starting a eamp meeting, Haying finished the hymn he arose and gave in his experience. He stated that he had been a follower of the Lord for ever so many years; that he was a true and consistent member of the church; that he bad never wronged a fellow being, bpi that if he was doomed to be murdered he wanted his forwarded to his family in New and to write the® that he had died true to the faith and in the hope of a glorious resurrection. The tumult outside continued. We could distinctly hear them pounding away at the Adams Express safe, and their coarse oaths and imprecations at being delayed. Occasionally shots were fired. The leader of the robbers, a tall, fine looking man, accompanied by one of bis comrades, parsed through the car. ‘You need not be hiding your money,’ said the leader, ‘we do not intend to disturb you.’ He wore a red handkerchief over his face, with holes cut for his eyes aDd mouth. Below tbe handkerchief ap peared his beard, very long, but proba bly falsn Ris companion was smaller and a rougher-looking man. His mask was simply a white, handerchief tied over the lower portion of his face. The Upper part was plainly visible. He re marked that we must consider them an awful set of reprobates. The inquiry for arms showed three pistols in our c, One of these was owned by a lady. Throughout the whole affair she remain ed perfectly cool and collected, and re fused to accommodate a gentleman with tbe loan of her pistol. When someone : said this was the work of the James boys she laughingly remarked that her name was James,but she hoped none of her rela tives were engaged in suoh disreputable business. The newsboy had a pistol and made bis way to the front platform. Looking up the blnff, he descried the figure of a man and fired. In an instant the shot was returned. Tbe ball passed between tbe plucky newsboy and a gen tleman who was aiso on the platform, and both of them sought shelter without ceremony. Thi king that the xopbers might fire through the windows, I got off the chair and position on the floor. The saaptHßohious New Yorker, who going away to die no more, , thinking, doubtless, that \ was engaged in prayer, softly approached and asked if I was prepa'sd to die ? I was not in a humor to enlighten him upon the sub ject. We were detained about an hour, When the robbers, having accomplished their purpose, gave ns permission to proceed. It was one of the episodes of my life I shall never forget.” Ooxton at Intebiob Towns.— The fol lowing is the result to date since Sep tember Ist of the following towns for the past two years : 1875-6 1874-5 Augusta 165,888 174,188 Macon 53,711 66,573 Eufaula. 38,725 30,692 Columbus 51,280 57,865 Montgomery 70,705 58,715 'Selma 86,903 74.865 Nashville 49,089 58,313 Memphis 467.527 320,746 Atlanta 63,417 59,545 Shreveport 121,146 93,107 I 1,168,390 994,339 SOOTH CAROLINA. ~ PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES. Mr. W. H. Tutt has dissolved his con nections with the Lexington Dispatch. The late rains have greatly improved the crops prospects in Lexington coun 'y. Dr. J. A. Stuart of„Ninety-Six, made twenty-two hundred and fifty bushels of small grain this year. Gov. Perry has written a long letter to the Greenville News, announcing his opposition to primary elections. L'he Pee Do Telegraph Company have all of their poles cut, and expfot to have the line completed by August 20th. Corn iu Colleton o nnty promises a fair yield. Cotton is doing exceedingly will, and the prospect of fruit is fair. The Lexington Dispatch still flies at its mast head the name of George W. Williams, of Charleston, for Governor. A little son, five years old, of Mr. Sid ney MoFaddin, of Clarendon, was killed on Monday last, by being run over by an ox cart.. Judge Northrop has decided to make Spartanburg bis temporary home New berry will be disappointed at this judi cial decision. The Marion Star is iu favor of prima ry elections in that county, it fears a defeat if the candidates are put forward by a convention. Jeff Puller, a colored man living near Ookesbury, says he is a happy man n Living nothing to eut, nothing to wear and nothing to do. Marion has the first, white barbershop ever opened within its corporate limits. &uch an institution in Anderson would be welt patronized. M r - John Hamilton, a young man of Pickens county, was drowned in Mr Berry s mill pond, near Easley Station on Friday, the 14th inst. A writer in the Marion Merchant and farmer nominates Gen. Wm. W Harl lee asa candidate for the Democratic Gubernatorial nomination. The shop of the Wilmington, Colum bia and Augusta Railroad, at Florence, will be completed and ready to be mov ed into by the middle of August. Col. H. T. Peake, so long and favorably connected railroad interests of South Carolina, has recently left the State to take a position on the Texas and Pacific Railroad. Charles Jones, of Edgefield, one of the buglars who broke into Agnew & Bonner s store at Due West, suoceedcd in making his escape from Abbeville jail one night last week. Primary elections are becoming popu lar among the Democrats throughout the State, and a large number of eoun ties will nominate their candidates for* county officers by this system. Sam Williams, colored, from Belton, was shot in the leg with bnck shot in a difficulty with a white man named John Wilson, at Doanaldsville, no last Tues day. Wilson has not been arrested. There are now about 1,239 white men in Abbeville oounty who would be willing to accept office, and the number of sable gentlemen who would be willing to do the same thing are beyond num ber. A meetipg of the Oounty Democratic Club of Richland oounty will be held at Seegers’ Hall, in Columbia, on salesday, the 7th August next, at 12 o’clock, m., to elect delegates to the State Democratic Convention. The primary election in Pickens coun ty will take place on Friday, 18th of August. The adoption of this system, says the Sentinel, will make the Demo cracy of Pickens five hundred votes stronger in November. In the possession of the Gibbes fami ly. Goiumbia* there is the original draft of the temporary constitution of South Carolina, dated 26th March, 1776. The doonment was drawn by John Rut ledge, and contains thirty-six articles, inst., foAlie murder ef Adam Hackett some three years ago, at Ninety Six, is still hopeful of his escape from the awful fate which the Court has d< cided. Col. J. S. Cothran, of Abbeville, made a stirring address to the members of the Ninety-Six Democratic Club last week, in which he advooated the straight-out policy in this campaign, and demonstra ted the advantages to be derived from such a programme. Democratic meetings will be held at the following places and times in Sumter county, when speeches will lie made and clubs organised, Lewis Chapel— Saturday, July 823, 4, p, m ; Privateer —Saturday, July 29th, 11, a, m.; Retd’s Mill—. Saturday, July 29th, 4, p. m. Only a portion of the Washington Light Infantry have so fir reao hed home, but all of these speak in lowing language of the open banded generosi ty of their welcome North. The formal! acknowledgments of the Washington Light Infantry will doubtless be defer red until later in the month, when the entire membership has come home. Rev. Mr. Pearson, of Due West, has another heir. He thinks of naming him Samuel Tilden, after the Centennial standard bearer of the Democracy. Mr. Tilden is a batchelor and worth about five million dollars, the boy will be christened Samuel Tilden Pearson as soon as the rich bachelor shall forward draft to the father for one hundred dol lars. MARKHAM HOUSE. Atlanta, Ge.,, July 23, 1876. Editors Chronicle and Sentinel: Delegates to tbo Gubernatorial Con vention are engaging rooms at the Mark ham House, which, as during the ses sion of the Legislature, will be the headquarters of the Democracy, and the theatre of all leading movements and negotiations of the campaign. The State Democratic Executive Com mittee has, since the Markham House was opened, held all of its sessions in the reading room of this hotel by ar rangement with Col. Hardeman, the Chairman of the committee, Col. Owens, the proprietor, having tendered the oommittee the use of that room, and Col. BtardemaD, for the oommittee, hav ing accepted it. At the last session of the committee, when it settled the time for the Couventioß, the committee ad journed to meet at 9 o’clock in the morn ing of the 2d day of August in tbe same reading room of the Markham House. This will be tbe last meeting of the oommittee, as the Convention will appoint anew committee for the next four years. The Markham House will thus continue to be the headquarters of the present State Executive Committee. What tbe new committee will do is un known, as it is not yet in existence, and will not be until created by tbe Conven tion. D. the centennial exhibition. The Financial Condition of tbe .Show—A Cheering Outlook. Philadelphia, July 26.—The cash re ceipts at the Exhibition pates thus far exceeded SBOO,OOO. In addition to this $40,000 has been received on beer and soda sold within the grounds, and a large sum has been received from manu facturers, who pay 1 j per cent, on all sales of articles tuanufactured at the Exhibition. The other concessions have been so arranged as to contribute peri odically to, increase the daily receipts so the cash returns at the stiles cjm but one of many sonrefs of revtnue. The original estimate of daily receipts, as made by President John Welsh, of tbe Board of Finance, prior to the open ing ol the exhibition, will, from present indications, prove rather below than above the mark It is still confidently believed a dividend can be declared soon after tbe exhibition closes. The num ber of paying visitors to the exhibition to-day was 21,914. ACCIDENT Oil SUICIDE? Sad Death of a Londoner in North Carolina. Wilmington, N. C , July 26—G. R. Ronndelia, a young Englishman who had recently purchased lands iu this vicinity, was found dead in his room at the Manning House this morniDg, shot through the head with a pistol ball. A discharged pistol was found by his side. There are no suspicions of foul play, and public | opinion is divided as to whether it was a case of suicide or acci dental shooting. His family resides in Lond on. _ During the recent tornado a couple of Pennsylvania boys were up in a cherry tree stealing cherries. The tornado car ried off the cherry tree, and neither the boys nor the tree have been seen since. Moral: Never tell a lie.