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Daily, avarv other day for oat' month or
longor, two-thirds above rates.
GKilltUA \KW.
Camilla really lain a brass liauii.
Atlanta is full of clothes stealers.
—Numerous parties are wending
their way to Tallulah Falls.
James Davis made 208 bushels <> |
wheat on ten acres near Jonesboro.
—Atlanta is building new cotton
warehouses. She counts Oil _35,000
ball’s next season.
Au alligator seven and a hall' feet j
long was captured near Foworsville !
last week.
Savannah sent a crowd or her
sons off to the penitentiary Thurs
day last.
Macon boys won’t let the lire 1
alarm aloue and the Bremen sav bad |
words.
They will coinmeneo laying iron ;
on the Georgia Railroad about the ‘
Ist of September.
—Kevill says Greenville bus the
sore eyes, caused doubtless by the
brilliancy of the Vindicautor.
Mr. IS. J. Drew, a young Twiggs
county man, shot himself accidental
ly in the right arm last Friday.
The 18th Georgia Regiment held
n re-union at Centre Hill, in Jackson
e maty, on the 17th inst.
-Rev. A. E. Cloud, editor of the
Jonesboro New*, while preaching at.
Fayetteville had an attack of coup de
soldi.
From the tobacco report of tbo
Agricultural Department for July,
there will be no scarcity of the
“weed” this season,
-The First National Rank of N--\v
nah has declared a semi-annual div
idend of six per cent. It is a sound i
and safe institution.
Savannah Advertiser: J. J. Me
Eeliau and J. Heine, of Coffee coun
ty, Imve been arrested and brought |
lyre, charged with sending counter- j
fell $5 notes to Commissioner Wade
to pay for a revenue license.
Milledgoville has suffered greatly '
from tires and storms within the past •
few years. Here and there are Umely
chimneys and broken walls. Vet the
people light against them. Every
where can he heard the sound of the
hammer and the trowel.
-Camilla Enterprise: Crops from
this city to Bethany church are as]
hue as -.ve ever saw. Especially is j
thecropof Mr. J. H Hall title and
a large, yea, an immense crop of corn ]
is growing on his place, and some of
it is as flue as could be desired.
—Col. Reed and Dr. Shaver now
own a controlling interest in the ]
Rockdale Register. Dr. Shaver lias
made Conyers his home, and propos- 1
es to devote himself to tlie Register.
As the editor of the Christian fader
he is widely and favorably known.
Hon. Henry \V. Hilliard has
written a letter to the Atlanta Con- 1 ,
stitutinn on the cotton tax, which
concludes as follows: “Every con-;
stdorntioU spirals to Congress to re- j
fund the tax. The measure has been,
too long delayed ; it ought no to In
adopted promptly.” The letter :
makes a strong argument.
The Meriwether Vindicator takes
more interest in the nxtention of the
North and Mouth Railroad than nny
other paper in Georgia. It speaks;
the sentiments of the people of that
county. The Vindicator puts the;
queSttSn in a strong light and urges
it upon the people.
The Iferalil says: The natural
drainage of Atlanta is excellent, and
with comparatively small expense,
a system of sewerage might be pro
vided which would prevent the accu
mulation of filth and staguant water,
and give us a continuation of that
unmistakable healthfulness for
which we are justly noted.
—Savannah News, 23d: We learn,
that twelve thousand watermelons;
will be shipped from Hollywood Sta
tion, on the Central Railroad, about ;
twelve miles from Augusta, on Thurs
day, for the North, via the Central ,
Railroad and steamer from Savan
nah. Thetrieljms will fill an entire]
train of fifteen box ears, eight hun- j
died to a eftr.
—Brother Revill makes the follow
ing mournful complaint: The wheat ■
crop turned out very well, the Vindi- \
color encouraging ail to hope for such ]
a consummation before and during
the harvest season, and yet no one
has sent us a saek.of flour or a bush- j
el of the new wheat, nay, not even a ;
biscuit lias been tendered us. .Indeed,
we don’t know that any one has
thought of making usa present afore
said. Talk of bribing the press! no |
one has ever attempted to purchase]
us; not since the wheat has been j
threshed.
Till; DAILY TIMES.
thk ( Ui:t:n of i HKi: tiiadi:.
F.X-ItIMMIsSIONUI DAVID A. IVEtIJi t.N
TtlK AUGUST ATLANTIC,
j That the question of l-’ci— Trade,
j as embodied in opposition tothe levy
! iug of taxes for any other than strict
1 ly revenue purposes, is to oone be
fore the American people as one of
the political issues of the next Presi
! iIonT in 1 campaign, canuot be doubted.
That no inconsiderable proportion
of American manufacturers, as the
I result of recent hard experience, are
j furthermore likely at no distant day
to unite iu demanding tin aliandon
! luent in our national fiscal policy of
ultra protection as In itself destrue-
I live or till protection, may also be re
j gtirded as a matter reasonably eor
| tain. Under such cireumstunoes,then,
I wtili a view of aiding the average
| eitizen, win) has not given special
attention to finance and political
! economy, to form in respect to those
i questions tin opinion which lie may
J soon have to express tit the
! polis, it is proposed lu-re to present,
without claiming originality for
either language or illustration a sim
ple statement of the creed of Free
Trade, as viewed from an American
standpoint, and of the reason for
i which its advocates s-e -It its recogni
tion as a cardinal leatnre of our
j future national fiscal legislation.
FREE TRADK DEFINED.
Free Trade in its fullest accepta
tion, as recently defined by Chev
alier,’’is the free exercise of human
power and faculties iu all commer
cial and professional life; it is the
liberty of labor in its grandest pro
portions.’' In its more teaclinical
amt present political sense it, means
tile freeing of the exchange of all
commodities and services between
j man and man, irrespective of rosi
] deuce or nationality, from all arbi
trary artificial obstructions and iii
! terfurences resulting from legislation
j or prejudice,
RELATION OF FREE TRAPK AS AN I'nlNO-
Ml< SYSTEM TO TAXATION
AND KKVKNIJE.
On this point t here is no little pop
ular misconception, which hasdoubt
less been often intentionally en
couraged by a common assertion of
the advocates of Protection that "the
aioptiou of Free Trade as a national
fiscal policy necessarily involves a
resort on the part of tin-State to di
rect taxation as a means of obtaining
revenue.” The truth, however, in
respect to this matter is as follows:
I The eommandof revenue being abso
lutely essential to t lu: # existence of
| organized government, the power to
compel contributions from the peo
ple governed, or, a* we term it, “to
tax,” is inherent, in every sovereignty,
and is essential to its existence. So
j far tile advocates of Free Trade and
I Protection fully agree. The former,
I however, maintain that in the exer
cise of this power the object of the
! tax should be rigidly restricted to the
i defraying of legitimate public expen
! <litures or, in other words, that taxes
| should be levied for revenue purposes
I exclusively and that, subject to such
limitations, the question as to what
I forms taxation would best assume
becomes one of mere experieneo and
expediency; preference being always
given to those form; whkdi involve
I the least waste cost and personal an
noyance in collodion, which are most
productive of revenue, and interpose
l the minimum of interference and re
strictiou on commercial intercourse.
' Free trade as an economic prim i- le
I is not, therefore, ns is often assumed
, and supposed, necessarily antagonis
j tic to the imposition of duties on irn-
I ports, provided the end sougnt. to be
attained is simply revenue and the
circumstances of the State render
such form of taxation expedient.
Protection, on the other hand, on the
I ground of advantages accruing di
! redly or incidentally, advocates and
I defends the imposition of taxes on
imports for purposes other than
I those of revenue. Protection, there
fore, to the exact, extent to which it
i attains its object, is obviously autag
j onistic to revenue, inasmuch as
] revenue is received only on thoe 11
: commodities which come in, while
I protection is secured only when the
importation of commodities is re
j strided or made, difficult.
INCIDENTAL WIDTH3TION.
The adjustment of a tariff for reve
nue in suuti a way as to afford, what,
is termed “incidental protection”
an idea much favored by American
politicians is based on the supposi
tion that by arranging a scale or du
ties so moderate as only to restrict
and not prevent importations it is
possible to secure a sufficiency of
i revenue for the Htato, and at the
same time stimulate domestic manu
factures hy Increasing the price of
competitive foreign products. That
! the double object thus aimed at is
I capable of attainment cannot be
i lot tilted, but that tin- project is also
one of the most costly of all meth
ods of raising revenue, will become
evident if it is remembered that,
while revenue to the State accrues
only from the tax levied on what is
imported, another tax, arising from
the increase of price, is also paid by
tlie nation upon all tiiat. is sold and
consumed in competition with the
foreign article. A tariff for revenue
so adjusted as to afford incidental
protection is therefore a system which
requires tile consumers, avlio at - the I
people, to pay much in order that the
State may receive little. With these
preliminary statements, the essential
points of the argument in favor of
Free Trade, ns uontradistiuguished ]
from Protection, may bo stared as
follows;
THE HIUUKST i Oft OF PHOWBIIT*.
Tile highest rigiit of property is the
right to exchange if for other proper
ty, That tills must lie so will at once
appear if it is remembered that, if all
exchange of property were forbidden,
each individual would be assimilated
in condition to Robinson Crusoe on
his uninhabited island; that is, lie
would be restricted to subsisting on
what he individually produced or
collected, be deprived of all benefits
of co-operation with his fellow-men,
and of all advantages of production
derived from diversity of skill or di
versity of natural circumstances. In
the absence of all freedom of ex
change between man and man, civili
zation would obviously bn impossi
ble; and it would also sopin to stand
to reason that to the degree in which
we impede or obstruct the freedom of
exchange - or, what is the same thing,
commercial intercourse—-to the same
degree we oppose the development
of civilization.
TO RESTRICT EXCHANGES REAFFIRMS THE
PRINCIPLE OF SLAVERY.
Any system of law which denies, to
an individual the right freely to ex
change the products of his labor, by
declaring that A, a eitizen, may
trade on equal terms with B, another
citizen, but shall not under equally
favorable circumstances trade with
COLUMBUS. GA., SUNDAY, JULY 25, 1875.
(who liver iu another country, re
alll nils in olloci the principle of sla\ -
cry; for hoi It slavery and the arti
ficial restriction or prohibition of ex
clmnges deny to the individual the
right to use the products of his labor
according to his own pleasure, or
what may teem to him the beet ad
vantage; or, in other words, the
I practical working of both the sys
] tom of human slavery and the sys
tem of Protection is to deprive the
individual of a portion of the fruits
| of liis labor, without making in re
j turn any direct compensation. The
argument that is generally put forth
by the I’toteytiouists in justification
! of legislation restricting freedom of
exchange, or In defense of the pithily
| expressed proposition that “it is hot
ter to compel an individual to buy a
I hat for $5, rather than to allow him
to purchase it for three,” is that any
i present loss or Injury resulting from
I sucit restriction to the individual
' Avill be more thou compensated to
I him indirectly, as a eitizen of the
| State. But this plea is the same in
character, and just as legitimate, as
that which was formerly put forth in
defense of Iho system of negro slave
ry, namely, that the system was real
ly for ttie good of society meaning
thereby tlie master- would be fully
compensated to him, through discip
line id the world to come. It is also
to be noted that this same species ol
argument namely, indirect or future
individual or social benefit as a justi
fication lor present personal restric
tion or injury has always boon made
use of in the [last ages ns a vindica
tion and in warrant of persecution on
the part of the State for heresy or un
belief, and also of the establishment
of State religions and enforced eon
ortnity thereto.
THE ABUTMENT VoH KUKK TRADE AS Alt-
OtIMKNT FOR ABUNDANCE.
The general result for which all
men labor is to increase the abun
dance or diminish the scarcity of
ihose tilings which are essential to
their subsistence, comfort and happi
ness. Different individuals are en
dowed with different natural capaci
ties for making the various forces of
nature and variety of matter avail
able for production. One man is nat
urally fitted to excel as a farmer, an
other ns a mechanic, a third as u nav
igator, a fourth as a miner, engineer,
builder, or organizer and director ol
society, and tbo like. The different
countries of the earth likewise exhib
it great diversity as respects soil, cli
mate, natural products and opportu
nity. Lt would seem clear, therefore,
in order that there may bo the great
est material abundance, that each in
dividual must,follow that line of pro
duction fur which ho is best, fitted by
natural capacity or circumstances,
and that, for the determination of
what, that line shall lie the prompt
ings of individual self-interest and
experience are afar better guide than
any enactment of Legislatures and
rulers possibly can be; and finally,
that tlie greatest possible facility
should be afforded to producers for
tlie interchange of their several pro
ducts and services. So true, indeed,
are these propositions that mankind
in their progress from tlie rudest and
most incipient social organization to
higher degrees of civilization invari
ably act in accordance with them,
and, as it, were, instinctively. Robin
son Crusoe on his uninhabited island
and the solitary settler in tlie remote
wilderness follow of necessity a great
variety of occupations, as those of the
farmer, hunter, builder, blacksmith,
fisherman, tailor, and the like. But
as rapidly as the association of others
in the same neighborhood admits,
the solitary man abandons his former
diversity of employment and devotes
himself more or less to exclusively to
a single department of industry, sup
plying his want, of those things'which
he does not himself produce by ex
changing I tie surplus product of his
own labor for tbo surplus product of
others’ labor, who follow different in
dustries. It is to be further observed
that settlements in all new countries
commence, if possible, in close prox
imity to navigable waters, so as to
take advantage of natural facilities
for intercommunicat ion between man
and man for the purpose of exciumg
ingservices or eommodities; and that
if commenced inland one of the first
efforts of tlie new society is the con
struction of a path or rood which
will enable its members to hold com
munication wi t h some other settle
tlemonts or societies. Next, as pop
ulation and production increase,
the rude path or trail gives
way to a Avoll-deflnod road, the
ford to a bridge, tlie swamp to a cause
way, the pack carried upon tlie backs
of men and animals, to the wagon
drawn by horses, the wagon to the
railway car, the boat propelled by
oars and sails, to the boat propelled
by steam, and finally the telegraph,
annihilating space and time; all ef
forts and achievements having the
single object of facilitating intercom
munication between man, and re
moving obstructions in the way of
interchanging human services and
commodities. Free exchange be
tween man arid man, or, or what is
the same thing, Free Trade, is there
fore, action iu accordance with the
teachings of nature. Protection, on
the other hand, is an attempt to !
make things better tbun nature j
made them. Free Trade, or the inter- j
change of commodities and services
! with the minimum of obstruction, by i
rendering commodities cheap,tends]
to promote abundance. Protection,
by interference ot placing obstruc
tions in the way of exchanges, tends
to Increase the cost of commodities
!to tlie consumer, mid thereby pro
motes scarcity. Protection, effected
by legislative restriction on ex
changes, acts, therefore, in the same
manner as ail other things which
render transportation onerous; or,
in other words, it is an obstacle in
tiie same sense as a bad road, a pre
cipitous range of mountains, an in
tervening desert, or a wide expanse
of ocean abounding in risks to navi
gation ; the general effect of all
which is to augment in various de
grees to consumers the difference be
tween the producer's and the ven
dor’s prices of commodities. All the
people of the United States instinct
ively rejoice at the announcement of
every new discovery in the construc
tion or propulsion of vessels, where
by the time and cost of transporting
commodities across the Atlantic
from Liverpool to New York, or across
the Pacific from China or Japan to
San Francisco, are diminished; and
yet they do not revolt at the incon
sistency of imposing taxes, for pur
poses other than to meet the necessi
ties of the State, on tiie landing of
the commodities thus transported;
which taxes are precisely equivalent
in effect as regards the consumer, to
the substitution or slow sailing ves
sels or small tonnage in tlie place of
ocean steamers, or to so wiaeiiingtnc
expanse of ocean to be traversed that
the time employed in transportation
(and the.consequent increased cost of
freight and risk) shall be expressed
by months rather than hy days, A
few illustrations derived from the ac
tual experience of the United States
are here pertinent to the argument.,
Upon tin- coast of Novo Scotia, witli
iu a short distance of the United
States, there are coal-mines of
great value, which, unlike uny
others in the whole world, are
located so advantageously in respect
to ocean navigation that almost, by tiie
action of gravity alone the coal may
be delivered from tbo mouth of the
pit upon tlie deck of the vessel. Now,
tor yours tlie Government of the
United States imposed a tax on the
landing of this coal within its territo
ry, of $1.25 per ton. But if we assume
tiiat coal upon a well-managed rail
road can he transported for one cent
per ton per mile, the effect of t his tax
upon the people of New York and
Now England is precisely equivocal
to a removal of these coal-mines of
Nova Soot ia from a point on the sea
board to a location 125 miles into the
interior was a benefit to the people
of the United States, a further aug
mentation of their distance from tin
seaboard to 500 or 1,000 miles would
lie a still greater blessing, and tliut
their absolute annihilation would be
tlie superlative good of all. Again,
some years since, an English engi
neer, Mr. Bessemer, devised a new
process for the manufacture of steel.
He did not claim to make anything
new; he did not claim to make steel
of a quality superior to Avhat was
made before; but bo did succeed iu
showing inanKiud how to make au
article indispeusible in the work of
production cheap, which aviis before
dear. Immediately on the assured
success of the invention tbo advooats
of protection in the United States
asked Congress to impose sueha duty
on tho import of this steel as would,
though a consequent increase of its
price to American consumers, almost
completely neutralize the only bene
fit accruing from the knowledge and
use of the now process, namely, its
cheapness, and they succeeded in ob
taining, nnd still (1875) retain a duty
that in a great degree accomplishes
such a result. What; this result prac
tically lias been may lie illustrated
by stating that in 1872 the Michigan
Oontral Railroad relaid its track at
Detroit with steel rails costing s!>7
.gold) per ton, while at a distance of
half a mile (across the Detroit River.)
the Canada Southern Railroad was
laying down the same kind of rails at,
a cost of S7O (gold) per ton. Will the
reader here ask himself who pays tlie
tax thus levied in perpetuity on this
road, or, what is the same thing, on
the privilege of using it, and whether
any corresponding benefit in perpe
tuity accrues from t he tax? From the
above propositions and examples it
would seem evident that the direct
effect of a protective duty, when it is
really operative, is to compel, on tlie
part, of the community employing
such an agency a resort, to more dif
ficult and costly conditions of pro
duction for the protected article; and
also that when a community adopts
the protective policy it commits itself
to the indorsement of the principle
that the development and propaga
tion of obstacles is equivalent, to, or
tbo surest method of, developing or
propagating riches a policy and a
principle Avliij'.li, if logically and prac
tically carried out, would lead to dis
use of all labor-saving machinery.
(CONTINUED IN NEXT JHSUE.)
Hatli NiilN ! till* f|uetlun.
| Senator Sargeant, who keeps the
country from tipping up by-staying
on the Pacific coast ami waving the
“bloody shirt” for the Administra
tion, lias been making a remarkable
speech, which tlie Administration or
guns quote approvingly. Here Is an
extract: “Have you thought, fellow
citizens,’’said he '‘that the reduetion
of the National debt has boon $l2B a
minute since you have sat hero and
I. commenced talking V Taking the
average of the whole time, tin- reduc
tion of the debt has gone on at that
rate. Why, take your watch and look
at it. Hoe the second-hand as it Hies;
at each tick of tlie second-hand two
dollurs liming the whole time since
Grant’s inauguration, by Guy and by
night, upon week day and uponSun
j day—two dollars per second in gold
lias gone off the National debt,”
To which the Chicago Time* adds
this strain ; “Have you ever thought,
fellow citizens, that you are being
taxed at the rate of $2,01)8 a minute V
Taking the average of the whole time
and comparing it with the National
and local taxation the levying of tax
cs is going on at that rate. Hee tlie
second-hand as it. llies; at each tick
of that second-hand since the begin
ning of the year 1875, by day and by
night, Sundays and weekdays, $31.50
| per second has gone out of the peo
-1 pie's pocket. And while tlmt $34.50
Lvasbeing taken out of the people’s
pocket only $2 per second was being
i taken off tlie public debt.”
SlOinc <m the WnrPfttli,
Ohicaoo, July 2-4. An official report
received at Lieutenant-General Shori
ilmi’s headquarters, states that in tho
recent attack made by the brute
,Sioux Indians on the Tonca agency,
j two Sioux were killed and ono
I wounded; that about fiA-e hundred
I Toncas left their reservation for the
I avowed purpose of hunting, and are
1 now in camp on the Verdigris creek,
about thirty-five miles from their
agency; that a party of 288 Sioux
warriors have left their reservation
Avitli the intention of visiting the
Tonca agency and massacre!ng the
whites and Toncas.
Yellow Fever at Fort llurani-a*,
RpoSal to tlie Tiliifts by S. k A. Lin'-.]
Pensacola, Fla., July 24. -There
are thirty-eight cases of fever at Fort
Barancos- only two deaths. It will
doubtless go through the command.
There is no sickness here or at the
Navy Yard. The quarantine is very
strict, f will notify if a ease occurs
here.
(Signed) J. P. Jones.
Mayor of Pensacola.
• •
Nix VlcatliM from KxplOMion.
lowa City, July 24.—Six men were
killed by the explosson in Close’s
paper mill. The sixth was a Scotch
man named Walter Lynton, who was
in the cup straw chamber over the
exploded tank. He was seen to go
up with the tank and over it to an
estimated height of 500 feet falling
lie went through the roof of a paint
shop seventy yards away from tho
mill, knocking’ a hole through the
shingles and the inch sheeting be
neath and breaking) two rafters. He
was found lying on the floor of the
room beneath.
COTTON CONVENTION.
! last year’s crop to be compiled au-
I tir.STA THE PLACE OF NEXT MEETING.
Greenbrier, White Sulphur
Springs, Ya., July 24.—Mr. Johnson,
of Savannah, moved that all tho cot
ton exchanges represented at the
Convention should use as official the
figures of the next crop statement, to
be compiled by a committee appoint
ed from the National Cotton Ex
change for that purpose. Adopted.
The Convention then received tlie
report of tlie committee upon tho
plan pursued by the Now Orleans
Cotton Exchange to secure correct
information and make up tho official
crop statement for 1874 and 1875. It
was favorably received. It was re
solved to adopt the same plan for tlie
National Cotton Exchange reports
In future.
The report of the committee ou
definition of false and fraudulent
I>acked cotton and mixed cotton was
received. False and fraudulently
(lacked cotton was defined as such
bales as may contain any foreign
substance, water packed bales, or
bales containing damaged cotton in
the interior without indicating such
damage upon the exterior of Un
bales, and such bales as are plated or
composed of good cotton upon the
exterior, and decidedly inferior
cotton iu the interior of the bales in
a manner not to be detected Avithout
opening the bale. This definition
was unanimously adopted and made
official.
It, AA-as moreover resolved Unit re
clamation for sueli cotton to be sold
should lie made within one hundred
days after its arrival, and bo present
ed to the seller at a point of ship
ment within thirty days thereafter.
The same committee reported the
following definition of mixed packed
cotton: Where such bales as contain
more than one quality of cotton, of a
lower quality, being so situated in
the bale that no design or false or
fraudulent packing appeals ; the
difference, however, in the qualities
must, be equal. At least half tlie
grade in the bales sold ns low mid
dling and above, and one full grade
in the bales sold as below loav mid
dlings. This was adopted and made
official.
There avuh an evening session at
which the subject of locating the Na
tional Cotton Convention aviis brought
forward. The committee Avns in fa
vorof Augusta, Ga.. and the report
aviis adopted. But no president or
directors being elected from that
place rendered doubtful tiie possi
bility of obtaining u charter. This
fact, was pointed ottt by Mr. C. W.
Rowland, of Cincinnati, who made a
motion tiiat the Executive Council be
authorized to change the domicile in
case such contingency should arise.
This ivns adopted unanimously with
out discussion. Mr. Rowland also
made a motion that the Executive
Council be instructed to obtain a
charter and provide a seal for the Na
tional Cotton Exchange Association.
Adopted unanimously.
H\y YNN.ltl.
CELEBRATION.
Savannah, July 24.—The committee
from the St. John’s total absteinance
and benevolent society, having in
charge the preliminaries for the great
O’Connell centennial, to take place
at the Fair Grounds on the oth of
August. There will be but one
solemn higli mass on the occasion
and aside from the oration (lie re
mainder of tlie day will bo devoted to
pleasure and sports of various descrip
tions.
i-etiton for discharge in b.ank-
HUI-TCY.
Petitions for final discharge iu
bankruptcy were filed yesterday by
Richard F. Walters, of Leesburg, nnd
Joseph King, of Columbus.
u. s. commissioner’s court.
The cases of J. J. MoLeltan and J.
Heine, of Douglass, Coffee county,
did not come up for a hearing before
U. S. Commissioner Wilson yester
day. Heine is charged with passing
a counterfeit five dollar note. He
gave bowl for his appearance at, tlie
U. S. District Court and returned
home. McLellan, who is charged
with violation of tlie revenue laws,
gave bond for examination yesterday,
but failed to put in an appearance.
It is supposed he lias gone-home niso.
CRAINCROP.
NEVA’ YORK HERALD ON THE ISSUE.
New York, July 24.—The Herald's
commercial article says at present
there is an immense amount of grain
on the move —probably over two
million bushels on canal, two million
on lakes and four million in transit
to Great Britain. Tlie prospect trade
in grain this year will be fully as
great, as in the fall of ’72. Crop re
ports from various States published
to-day are substantially as follows:
Alabama small grains hurvested
well; crop promised better I ban in
1874. Arkansas—3o percent, increase
in acreage; corn crops promise well.
California—drougth in places injured
grain; it is estimated there will be a
surplus of 300,000 bushels of wheat.
Connecticut, Colorado und Delcota—
crops promise well. Indiana—one
half of average wheat crop; corn
backward; oats average. Illinois—
rain storms done much damage, but
tiie general prospects are good for an
average crop. Kentucky—fruit prom
ises poorly; wheat crop light, but the
grain crop generally will be up to tbo
average. Massachusetts—hay one
halt to two-thirds crop; corn promis
ing. Maine—potatoes and grain are
backward; average fruit crop.
Allot Ik-1- I'nlllillll lit Trouble.
New Orleans, July 24. -In the First
District Court nil information was
filed by the Attorney General against
E. T. Horwlg. It contains two counts.
First, obtaining money under false
pretences. The sum herein involved
is $2,550: and it is charged that Her
wig, while Chairman of tho Senate
Committee on Contingent Expenses,
and supervising and auditing the ex
penses uf tlie Senate 1874, did-issue
vouchers on tlie following fraudulent
claims, and obtained warrants from
tin- Auditor by representing tiiat the
claims wore just and legal. The sec
ond count is obtaining money under
false pretences. This charge is simi
lar to the former, but relates to war
ranto drawn by Herwig on vouchers
issued in 1875 to the amount ot $440.
Bail was fixed in the sum of $3,000 by
Judge Abell, and the capias served.
Uctnriiiat tnn In i In* Presbyterian tiiurrh
London. July 24. The Constitution
adopted by the Presbyterian Council
has been made public. Tlie name
given tho new union is, “Alliance of
tlie Reformed Churches of the
World.” All churches are included
which hold to the Presbyterian sys
tem and creed. The preamble of tho
Constitution recites that tlie objects
of tho alliance aro to demonstrate the
unity of belief among Protestants to
organize mission work, promote edu
cational and social reform, and op
pose infidelity and religious intoller
ance.
Mai-on District roiiterrnre.
Perry, July 24. Still the Conven
tion goes on, which is very grand and
ono of tho largest that has ever been
held in this city before. Tiie exeur-1
sion train brought a great many dele
gates down to-day, which was from
Marslialville, and the regular triiin
brought about twenty-live more.
There is expected about 400 more on
an extra train Sunday. The town
now is crowded and all are having a
very nice time.
Tho weather was awful warm to
day. The thermometer stood nt on
degrees in the shade.
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No Tidings from Donaldson.
Chicago, July 24. No tidings have
yet, been received from tho balloonists
Donaldson and Grimwood, and as no
part of the ballon lias been picked
up on the hike, it, is generally sup
posed that they were carried far
northward, landing in the forests of
Northern Michigan, the Lake Supe
rior region or Canada.
Ciei-iiinii> nl tlie CrntriiniHl.
Berlin, July 24.—Tho list of Ger
man exhibitors at the Philadelphia
Centennial exhibition, who intend to
exhibit in the art department, is 800.
The large manufactories on tlie
Rhine and iu West Phila nnd Saxony
will be especially represented. An
Imperial Commission lias been ap
pointed to obtain mere room for the
German deportment in the exhibition
building.
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A Fool Drowned, anil Another l"ri
vented.
Cincinnati, July 24. —Wm. During,
a resident of this place, lust night
rushed from liis residence in a fran
tic manner, flourishing a pistol fol
lowed by his wife, and an excited
crowd to the river, where he rushed
in and was drowned. Tho crowd pre
vented his wife from following him.
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Tlie Mounlutn Meadow Mansacre.
Salt Lake, July 24.—There is great
excitement over the details of the
Mountain Meadow massacre, as re
lated by Bishop Smith, who turned
State’s evidence. A not pros, has been
entered in his ease. All but children
too young to tell were killed.
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I Nuuk (mi fcteunier DlMcovered.
Port Huron, Mich., July 24.—A
fisherman, who lives at Sand Beach,
Avhile lifting his nets lately discover
ed the canvass of a large vessel en
tangled in them. The vessel lies
about five miles from shore in seven
teen fathoms of water, half way be
tween Sand Beach and Port Huron.
Tho wreck is supposed to be that of
tho Dundonburg, which was sunk by
propollor Empire State some years
ago.
Tlie schooner Dan Marble sprung a
leak near Long Point Wednesday,
und sunk nine miles from the Point
in twenty fathoms of water. The
crew took to small boats and were
rescued by schooner Mount Blanc.
What Carpenter Knows Annul It.
Milwaukee, July 24. A recent con
versation between a newspaper cor
respondent andcx-Henutor Carpenter
on the subject of tiro third term ques
tion, Is published to-day, in which
Mr. Carpenter is reported us saying,
that in his opinion, Gen. Grant will
be tlie candidate of tho Republican
party for tho third term, on a hard
money platform, and that Judge
David Davis, of tho U. S. Supremo
Court, will be the Democratic candi
date on a greenback platform, and
that greenbacks will win.
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Weather Utatement.
Washington, July 24. During
Sunday in the South Atluntic and
Gulf States, Tennessee and Ohio
Valley stationary to falling barome
ter, southwest to southeast winds,
and partly cloudy weather will pre
vail with occasional rains. Rising
temperature from tho West Gulf
States to tho Ohio Valley.
No Fair.
Lawrence, Kb., July 24. Tiie State
Board of Agriculture have doeided
not to hold a State Fair this year.
NO. 175
Marine Inlrlltoem-r.
New Orleans, July 24. Arrrlved -
Steamship Hudson, from New York :
St. Louis, from Liverpool; 0. W.
Lord, form Havana; bayk Atler,from
Rio Janeiro; brlgStellp, from Pasca
goula ; schooner Excelsior, from ltua
tau.
Cleared Steamship State of Ala
bama, for Liverpool; New Orleans,
for New York ; Vanguard, for Phila
delphia; Amite for Pensacola; bark
Constance, fot Barcelona.
Savannah, July 24. Sailed- Steam
ship H. Livingston, for New York;
Wyoming, for Philadelphia; Sara
gossa, for Baltimore; Oriental, for
Boston.
Arrived Schooners W. R. Beebo
and J. G. Stover.
Ilratli ut n Well Known l awyer.
Buffalo, July 24.—Oscar Folson, a
well known lawyer and one of the
most prominent citizens of Buffalo,
was thrown from ills carriage while
driving last evening and reoeived in
juries about his head that caused
death about midnight last night.
An liiMii-niire I’oniiiany t)iilts minlnenH.
St. Paul, Minn., July 24. -The
Minnesota Life Insurance Couipuny
quits business, having reinsured its
outstanding risks in the North
western Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany of Milwaukee. The directors
found it impossible to build up a life
insurance business here.
MALARIA!
Read, Reflect and Act.
II one gram ot Vaccine Virus, talcuu from the
cow’h utltlur ami kept dry for yearn, then iuolh
tened, and tin l kcenuat point of a Lancet dipped
in it and drawn gently on the arm, ho m not to
draw the blood, will ho impregnate and change
the entire system as to prevent the party so vac
(dusted from taking the most loathsome of dia
*-hh< h (small pox) for an entire life; again, if the
Celebrated Kucalyptus tree will change an uuln
liabitablt’ malarial district into a healthy, salu
brious clime, by simply absorbing from the at
mosphere tho poison malaria, why will not the
proper remedy, properly applied, neutralize and
destroy tho poison, known as malaria, and thus
enable purlieu to inhabit malarial districts with
| impunity?
We claim that there Is Huch a remedy, and that
we have prepared it, and applied it, and proved
it in our Anti-malurial or Euehymial Belt—aud
that persons who will wear thin Bolt may inhabit
the worst malarial district**without the fear o:
having any diseases arisingTrom malaria; snch us
(’hills and Fever, Billions or Intermittent Fever,
Yellow Fever, Jaundice, Kularged Liver and
Spleen, Indigestion, Constipation and Hem
orrhoids, and that it will cure all the above dis
eases, except the worst cases of Billious aud Yel
low Fever.
This is called au Anti-malarial or Kuchymial
Bdt. as it corrects the humors of tlr oody and
produces a healthy action, invigorating the sys
tern, and thus enabling it to per.orm its various
duties without fenriug the effects of malaria iu
i the least.
| It has been tried in thousands of cases without
a failure.
They can be obtained trom the proprietors in
any quantity nt the Powell Building, Junction ol
Broad and Peachtree streets, Atlanta, (*#.
Price for a single Belt $3, or $0 with a guaran
tee that it will ouie or the money refunded.
N. B.—None genuine without the trade mark
is stamped upon them.
Drs. LOVE WILLSON, sole proprietors in the
United States. Address,
LOVE 1 WIIJXON.
Room No. 8, Powell Building, Atlanta, U.
A liberal discount made to the trade.
Read tho following oertificatee:
Atlakta, Ga., June 5,1878.
Messrs. Love fc Willhok: Gentlemen—-In April
lust 1 was taken sick with regular Fever aud
Ague, having it every alternate day. After it hud
run ou me for two weeks. I was induced to try
one of your Anti-malarial belts; ao I discarded all
medicine, and simply wore one of your Belts, as
directed, and my Ague became lighter each suc
cessive time thereaiter for Borne three or four
times, when it left me entirely, with a good appe
tite and clear skin; and iu future, if I should ever
ha vi! a Chill or Ague, I would want one of your Pads,
aud no physic. Wishing everybody that may be
so unfortunate as to have Chills and Fever may
be fortunate enough to get one of your Bolts,
1 aui, respectfully, etc,,
W. J. WILBO*.
Atlanta, Ga., June 3,1875.
Dns. Love k Wuxsow:
On tbo iirst day of December last I was taken
w ith chills and Fever in Thoiuasville, Southwes
tern Ga., and was trusted for the same by three
eminent physicians who were able to stop it only
for a lew days at a time. It made such inroads
ou my constitution that my physician pronoun
ced me to be in the first stages of consumption,
wh cu I accidentally met up with Dra. Love A Will
sou’s Anti-malarial Bolt, which has entirely cured
me. 1 have had but one chill since, and that waa
tho first doy after putting it on. lam now iu aa
good health as 1 ever was in my lile, and think
this Belt a God-send to the afflicted.
J. M. Mathews.
Cannon llodsk, Atlanta, Ga., June 4,1876.
Homo nine years ago l contracted malaria in
Savannah, Ga., from which I have sufferod, at
times, ever siuco, until I met up with Drs. Love &
Willson’s Anti-malarial Belt aomo three months
ago. 1 have worn it continually, aud have had no
chill aiuco, and find my general health, which
has been poor, much improved. I would recom
mend it to others sufioriug with malaria.
B. A. Wallace.
Macon, Ga., June 4, 1875.
Friend Hodgson: I received your letter of the
20th ult., on yesterday, I have been off on a fish
ing excursion and Just returned.
The people of thia town don’t chill worth a cent
yet. 1 have aold two of the pads, and that 1 did
the very hour I first received them, one to one of
our conductors, and to Mr. Vaughn, a Clerk in
tho office. They both say that they tried Quinine
and other remedies, aud that they felled till they
put on the pad; since then they have bad no more
Chills or Fever, aud they recommend them to ev
erybody. ***** Alex. Mathews,
The above pads were sent for ua by Dr. Hodg
son, who is addressed as above,
J. T. Love,
J. B. Willson.
For sale by
DE. F. L. BROOKS.
,t 22 4m
Administrator’s Sale.
If TILL be sold on the first Tuesday in August
VV next, In front of Rosette, Kills & Co.’s
auction store, on Broad Street. Columbus, Ga.,
between the legal hours of sale, fifty acres of laud
off of lot No. twelve (12), In the 2th district of
said county, begiuiug at the northwest corner ef
said lot, and bounded on east by lands of Mrs.
Martin, and west by James Patrick, and aouth by
the Express Rood; also, \\ acres of land, begin
lng uorth at the Southwestern Railroad at the
west corner of Warner Johnson’s lot, running
along said line of Warner Johnson to the Lump
kin Hoad, then west along the Lumpkin Road to
lauds lately belonging to the estate of Seaborn
Jones, then uorth along Jones’ line to the rail
road, then along the railroad to the beginning
point, containing 1% acres; also, % of an acre,
bounded north by Mr. Hall's wagon yard, east by
lands of his (Hall’s), and south by a ditch, west by
lands lately belonging to estate of Beaborn Jones.
The last two tracts of land situate and being in
Coolyville. Sold as tho property of Jane Cooly,
deceased, for benefit heirs and creditors. Term*
cash. CARY J. THORNTON,
jy2 ouw-iw Administrator.
City Tax Executions.
rIE Council having failed to extend tho time
for paying City Taxes beyond July Ist, the
Ordinance requiring executions to be issued
against delinquents will be carried out withont
delay. Executions are now being issued, and If
paid before July 15th the cost will be remitted;
after that date the coat will be added to amount
of Tax. M. M. MOORE,
jy7 2w OlerkjCouncil.
W. F. TIGXEH, Dentist,
Randolph atreet. (opposite Strapper's) Columbus
'anl ly) Georgia.