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VOL. I. TERMS OF THE Columbus Daily and Weekly Times. PUBLISHED BY THE DAILY TIMES CO. DAILY: (INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.) Ono War. $s 00 Six Months 4 00 Throe Months * 00 On** Month. 75 (W* paying pottage.) WEEKLY: One War $ ‘2 00 Six Months. 1 °0 (Wo paying pontage.) IIVTK"* OF AIIYERTHINC. !T 'g £Sto3D-cs in *■ (0 1-5 *- | ‘ 904imbs 533335358885331 3t33.3J.533355_8.3l S6 —-s3y..\Y i' 55333358335355! 333f3388388888 stj)iKn r. 52>.|833385.5.3838! 3S§!B*aS3gSgSS3| a „,uo K( : 3858333833858 J! BS©BoSc*23iS3*!yßiD | •• ■ wi|)oon v ggggggggggggggj smuojv s| ggggggggggggggl ** , BBB3iSSBBB3 : 3S2j Isslssagi^ssss! i 33833338333838 I :xl por “t. addiliunal la Lix-nl Column. jliui iarfo anil Funi'ral Notices sl. 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. - 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. • ♦ • 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. ♦ 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. ■ • 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. —- - ■ 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.