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fcups and Jacts. jjj * ~ . ^ ? The operations of the mechanical ap- g pliances in a watch factory have become q so rapid and systematic that it is possible ? to take the raw material from stock in the morning and have a watch running from v them by noon. g ? The Ohio Legislature has enacted a law ? prohibiting all dealings in "margins" or c "futures," and persons so concerned in such n transactions are pronounced guilty of gamb- i( ling, and subjected to heavy fines and im- a prisonment as gamblers. ? The Syracuse Courier is authority for * the statement that the friends of ex-Presi- ( dent Arthur will work for his nomination as Governor of New York this fall. They j intend, if successful, to make it a stepping-; D"/-IrvnfJul nnminofiAn in 1 3WUU %AJ 111U X ICOlUUUbiai UVlUlUUUvu ?u *wv. ? The railroad commission of Alabama { ' rendered a decision some days ago in which , they hold they cannot regulate freight charges from points outside of the State. Some j complaint was made to them that charges were greater from New York to one point in the State than another. ? The frauds in the pension system recently unearthed in Philadelphia were of the most glaring nature. Pensions were regularly drawn for 102 men long dead and by 7 widows who had married years ago. The agent is to be sued for the recovery of the money thus wrongfully paid. ? The Massachusetts Legislature has killed the woman suffrage bill by a vote of 130 to 61. Last year the vote stood 144 to 50. t The women suffragists are making slow f progress in that State, for such a bill has *been up in every legislature since 1865, and 1 the vote for it this year is smaller than any s year except last year. r ? An immense crowd gathered in front (c of the court house in Richmond, Ky., last p Thursday to witness a public sale of ne- \ groes. They were sold into slavery to the ? highest and best bidder. One man brought 1 $88 for 12 months' service, one $14 for three S months, and a woman 25 cents for 12 a months. The sales were made under the e vagrant laws of the State. e ?The business failures throughout the ^ country for the week ending last Friday, as Q reported to R. G. Dun & Co.'s mercantile 1 agency, number for the United Stases 225 v and Canada 23, making a total of 248 against I , 208 the previous week. The failures in the t Southern and Pacific States are unusually r heavy. In other sections, particularly in , the Western States, they are below the ' * average. * ? The secretaries of the Young Men's * Christian Associations of the United States t and Canada met at Chattanooga, Tenn., h last Thursday, in their annual Conference, h Thi9 is theirfirst meetingsouth of Baltimore. a About 750 delegates were present, representing every State in the Union, and leadaiart TT**J4a/1 CJfr* +aci onrl t ILI^ il99Ut'mtlUI19 Ul cm: \j Lil i/CU auu Secretaries from England and Germany ii were also present. ? Governor Bate, of Tennessee, visited Mr. Jefferson Davis, at the latter's home, Beauvoir, Miss., on Monday. Mr. Davis told r Governor Bate that the recent reports of his e illness were prematurely exaggerated, and g that he was enjoying exceeding good health, with the exception of a slight attack of v rheumatism in his ankle. Mr. Davis walk- v ed erect and looked his former self, with the a exception of his white hair and whiskers. n ? The Philadelphia Press, a Republican 8 paper, says: "Fred Douglass declares that ? if he is relieved of the fat office he holds in Washington he will go abroad. This ? attempt to intimidate the Executive by * desperate threats will hardly succeed. As a a matter of fact this Administration seems d possessed of the madly heretical idea that v it can run the Government without Doug- d lass. We advise the latter to secure his passage before the rush of summer travel 0 begins. He must go." c ? The Russian, German and English royal ^ families are closely allied by blood and ^ marriage. It is said that the women of the v families have exerted a powerful and effectual influence to preserve peace, bringing g in their relative the King of Denmark as arbitrator. The women are right?God bless t them!?and they represent beautifully what a Mr. Medill aptly declares to be "the growing sentiment of the world that war, unless it ^ be fought for freedom, is disgraceful, and that a war like this for a petty valley in rr Asia would be a crowning disgrace." b ? At a meeting the other day of promi- v .. ~:aj?-v~? lit;LI li rill?t?II5 UI WllCttllO It/ CUllSIUCi {j the feasibility of continuing the exposition fl for another year, there was much debate, r( and it was finally determined to send a ^ committee to Washington to ascertain if the government will permit the exhibits to re- t< main another season and to ask the War p Department to garrison the grounds with ^ troops to save the expense of a police force. ^ On the report of this committee will rest a the question of reopening or not. There M appears to be no trouble in raising the ne- g cessary funds to meet the expense. 0 ?The members of the Utah Commission u recently declared in Washington that the ti effect of the late Mormon "declaration and tl Erotest" would do the Mormon cause more a; arm than good. First, because it is a bold, a unqualified declaration in favor of the dog- a ma of polygamy. Secondly, the leaders p who formulated the document have induced t( the whole Mormon people apparently to in- e< dorse the declaration. While there are, no t* doubt, many dissentions, yet all have allow- E ed themselves to be placed by the leaders a in an attitude unanimously indorsing poly- w gamy. This, of course, will be used by outsiders as an argument for stringent legislation." ? The way they lynch negroes in Kansas ri is thus described in a recent dispatch from r< Great Bend, in that State: "The lynching a: of George Mack, the negro who killed his o employer, was more terrible than at first a supposed, the crowd having thrown a rope ft ffround his neck and dragged him half a mile at the tail of a horse before he was Is strung up. The Sheriff had stopped the p train on which he was bringing his prisoner u from Kansas City, and had alighted a half is mile outside this place, but a mob from b Ellenwood was on board and they got off ti too and seized the negro. After dragging I d him a short distance behind the horse it w was found that he was dead, but the yelling p crowd, wild with excitement, went on to h the billiard hall in Great Bend, where ai Mack had committed his crime, and there p another crowd was met and the negro | hanged to the awning and bullets fired into j ir him." d T ? The ordinance board of the United ! e< States army has recommended the construe- , cj tion of a monster war balloon for the use j ^ of the government, and Gen. Russel Thay- ^ er, of Philadelphia, the inventor, has re- I D ceived instructions to begin the work. The I board recommends that a balloon of seven j C) tons ascending force be constructed and j _ that trials be made with it. It will cost: p nearly ?10,000. It will be the largest balloon ! _ ever constructed, with a diameter ot 00 feet ? and a length of 18o feet. The "dirigible j c( war balloon," as it is called, is a cigar shaped ! j, machine pointed at both ends, and unlike 1 D ordinarv balloons, will sail through the air {l LUngJ iuuiimiJty. n jd niMitii mice limes us long as it is wide. General Thayer claims . that he can lay a city in ashes with it in i J? a night. Tons of dynamite percussion j * bombs may be carried into the clouds and tj dropped while the balloon sails over a camp ? or fortification or fleet of ships. q ? Moses Caton was hanged at Morganfield, | n Ky., last Friday. The usual exercises were e, observed on the scaffold. A great crowd of r( people gathered to witness the hanging, j (j The execution was to have been private, r( but the people of Union county threatened that if a fence was built around the scaffold ! they would tear it down. It was thought d best to allow the public to gratify their cu- e: riosity. Caton protested his innocenee. The d crime of which he was convicted was slow u torture and finally murder of a widow, aided b by a woman, whom he had married in order d to secure a little property and whom he had > taken to his home to live with. The woman ii was named Fritz. This woman had been tl living with Caton. She has been sent to the a penitentiary for life for her connection with s< the murder, and the trial of Caton's two sons s< as accomplices will begin soon. a ? It now looks as if Miss Ada Sweet, the h pension agent at Chicago, will retain her a office, despite Commissioner Black's re- d quest for her to resign. The President has d the appointment of all pension agents (of S whom there are but eighteen), and Miss w Sweet knew this when, instead of protest- g ing to General Black, she wrote to the Pros-: o: lent direct. The Chicago Pension Agency ays better than any in the country, except | Columbus, Ohio. Miss Sweet made out of j he United States in 1884 the comfortable i um of $7,618.95 in salary and fees, while I Commissioner Black's office only has a 5,000 salary. However, Miss Sweet had o pay for clerical hire and other expenses, rhich reduced her perquisites considerably, ecretary Lamar is said to sustain Miss Sweet, and to have been much annoyed by Commissioner Black's request for her resiglation. Secretary Lamar wears his hair Dng, while commissioner Black has none at 11 to speak of. Ibc fJatftviUe #uqithw. YOKHV1JLLK. ?. I. : THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 14,1885. ATLANTA COMMERCIAL CONTENTION. Advices received from every State in the Jnion show that the National Commercial Convention to beheld in Atlanta, Ga.,on the 9th, 20th and 21st instant, will be a grand uccessand National and non-political in all espects. Large delegations from San Franisco, Omaha, Leadville and other Western ointshave been appointed and will attend, addresses will be made by a number of d? inguished citizens representing different Itates. Over five hundred delegates have lready accepted and preparations for their ntertainment on a grand scale are being arried on. Fine opportunities will be ofered visitors to see the best parts of the iouth at a nominal expense during May, rhich is the pleasantest Southern month. Resident Cleveland has declined the inviation to attend the Convention. It will be emembered that when the members of the Ulanta delegation called at the White louse during their recent visit there to get he President's final reply to their invitaion, the President asked leave to postpone lis repiy until May 10. He did so because ie hoped that circumstances which forbade t that time his acceptance of the invitation night so change in the course of a month hat he could with propriety leave Washngton for the proposed trip. THE MANITOBA REBELLION. J. M. Rae, Indian agent at Battleford, arived at Winnipeg last Friday. He is inlined to take a very gloomy view of the ituation. He thinks that all the Indians pill be up in arms and that a bloody Indian par is unavoidable. He says the Indians re well armed and trained. The Governaent, he says, entirely underrates the trength of the Indians and the seriousness of he situation. The Indians with bows and rrows will fight as well as troops. He hinks the whole country will be aroused nd all tribes put on the war path. The Inians do not fight like white men, and they pould be most formidible enemies. He lid not consider Factor McLean and the ther white captives had any chance of esape in the world. They might be alive et, but would be sure to be murdered after he first battle took place in which Big Bear pas interested. The following dispatch frotn Winnipeg ives the situation at latest dates: Reports from the front are to the effect hat a battle between Middleton's forces nd Riel, at Batouche, has been raging since esterday morning. It began by the canonading of the log and earth works of the nsurgents by Middleton's artillery corps, 'he result so far is understood to be a drawn attle. An attempt will probably be made, phen the works have been reduced, to storm he position simultaneously from front and ank, when frightful fatalities are likely to esult, as the enemy are well armed and eadly in aim. During the battle one of Middleton's batsries was almost surprised by a number of tebels, who crept up through the bush, not i eing discovered until but twenty yards disint. They made a rush forthe guns, firing nd yelling as they ran. Capt. Howard, pho operates the Gatling gun, saw the daner, ran the gun a couple of yards in front i f the battery and opening fire literally lowed the Rebels down. Those remaining jrned and ran from the gun. Reaching he shelter of the bush they opened fire gain and Howard's escape from injury was larvelous. The bullets were flying all round him, but he gallantly maintained his osition, and the Rebels, unable to stand the irriblefire, returned to their pitsconstruct[1 in a ravine running from the river. Afjr a gallant but vain effort to drive the Lebels from the rifle pits, the French scouts nd battery men retired. Middleton's los3 'as 1 killed and 8 wounded. CROP^REPORTS. The May report of the Department of Agiculture at Washington, issued last Friday, ] slates to the progress of spring plowing, nd of cotton planting and to the condition ' f winter grain, meadows and pastures. It ' lso reports prevailing rates of wages of ' trm labor. I Cotton planting, though comparatively ' ite is well advanced, fully four-fifths of the roposed area having been planted. The I sual proportion of seed on the first of May ' i probably five percent, greater. Last year { ut two-thirds of the area was in germina- * on at this date. The rains in Texas have elayed work in planting. Everywhere it \ as begun late, but the progress has at most J oints been unusually rapid. The plants < ave been slow in germination on the dry j reas and have not yet made their ap earance at many points. i Spring plowing in preparation for plant- ' lg is everywhere late. Last year at this 1 ate it was estimated to be two-thirds done, his year it is scarcely six-tenths. The * sti mated average of a series of years ex?eds seven-tenths. Less than half of this * ork is done in the Eastern States. In New ' 'ork, Ohio and Michigan, a much larger 1 roportion is furnished. In the northwest < 'here corn, potatoes and other late planted 1 ops are grown the work is in smaller roportions. i The injury to winter wheat crops was < reater than appearances indicated on the < rst of April. The roots were killed in the } intral belt, even worse than was supposed, ti New York the snow protection was am- < le except in spots, and in Michigan no < mterial injury occurred, but in the Ohio 1 'alley and in Missouri, the reports of the j mdition are much reduced. In the South J slight improvement in the prospect has < L'curred. The average of the condition in i le principal wheat growing States is as 1 llows: New York, 9G; Michigan, 100; * hio, 59; Kentucky, 45; Indiana, 70 ; Illi- < ois, 42; Missouri, 00; Kansas, 02. The gen ral average is 7U, instead of 77 in April, a I ?duetion of nine per cent. The reports in- j ieated the production of winter wheat to j ?ach two hundred and fifty million bushels, j An Indian Execution.?Mitchell Anerson, a Choctaw Indian 17 years old, was xecuted at Fort Smith, Arkansas,on Thurs-' ay last, according to the custom of that j ation for the murder of another Choctaw oy named Winchester, last summer. An-j erson was convicted in the Court of the j lasabaltoubee district, and was sentenced ! i February last. He shot Winchester while | le latter was passing along a lonely road, j nd then horribly mutilated his body and j icured $1",. The condemned youth was j ?ated on a blanket in an open space with i piece of white paper pinned over his! eart. The executioner knelt before him, nd with one shot killed him. Anderson enied his guilt until within the last few 1 ays, when the decision reached by the ! j upreme Judge convinced him that there j J ras no hope, when he acknowledged his uilt and said his father was the instigator ' ( f his crime. I ] THE SOUTHERN BAPTISTS. The Southern Baptist Convention, numbering 512 delegates, assembled in the Baptist Church at Augusta, Ga., on Wednesday, the 8th instant, and was called to order at 10 o'clock by Moderator P. H. Mell. The ! morning was consumed in admitting State delegations. Delegates were present from Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, ! Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri,North Carolina, South ! Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Two ladies were in the Arkansas delegation, and a committee of five?consisting of J. M. Jones of Virginia, Basil Manly of Kentucky, J. H. Kilpatrick of Georgia, J. M. Carroll of North Carolina and M. B. Wharton of Alabamawere apppointed to report on'the question of admitting the delegation. Majority and minority reports were presented, the for mer for admitting and the latter for excluding the ladies. The lady delegates were Mrs. M. D. Early and Mrs. .J. P. Eagle, the latter the wife of the Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives. The majority and minority report concerning the admission of the lady delegates were discussed at length. The Convention had a novel question to consider, and the debate was very spirited. Dr. Manly, in behalf of the majority of the committee to which the question was referred, favored a strict construction of the organic law and admission of the lady delegates. He said that if he had been in Arkansas he would have objected to the selection of lady delegates, but he thought the Convention had no right to object to their admission. Dr. Jones of Virginia, in support of the minority report, opposed the admission of the ladies. He said: "If the Convention favors the admission of women, we will be flooded with them." He favored standing by the custom of their fathers and the Word of God. He hoped the lady delegates would be rejected. Rev. R. M. Wharton of Alabama said the question was not whether women wanted the privilege of being delegates, but one of loyalty to the Constitution. "Shall legally elected delegates," he asked, "be excluded by ex post facto Judge John D. Stewart and Rev. J. H. Kilpatrick opposed the admission of the ladies. Hon. J. P. Eagle of Arkansas, whose wife is one of the delegates, forcibly advocated the admission of the ladies, who, he said, not only contributed, but did more mission work than the men. Dr. Hawthorne opposed the admission of the ladies. He thought it was wrong in principle. Rev. M. E. Howard and Mr. Early favored their admission. A ? o 4-n Ir An onrl ?v?inAT?IKr A vuw wns liicu laivuii auu tuc ?*_* t uw* * cj report was substituted for that of the majority. The Arkansas delegation obtained consent to withdraw the names of their lady delegates; whereupon the report adverse to their taking seats was also withdrawn. Rev. Dr. Mell, who had been Moderator since 1863, Revs. Reuben Jones of Virginia, J. C. Furman of South Carolina, Redding Andrews of Texas and H. C. Wallace of Missouri, were elected Vice-Presidents. At the opening of the afternoon session Hon. J. C. C. Black, delivered an address of welcome, which was responded to by Dr. W. E. Hatcher of Virginia. The afternoon was consumed in reading reports of the Boards of Home and Foreign Missions, which were referred to special committees and made special orders for Thursday evening and Friday morning. The report of the Treasurer of the Board of Foreign Missions shows $1,144 balance on hand and the report of the Treasurer of the Board of Home Missions shows a balance on hand of $1,613. The annual sermon was delivered on Wednesday by Rev. J. L. M. Curry of Virginia. On Thursday the Convention was called to order by Vice-President Reuben Jones, of Virginia. Reports of the Vice-Presidents were received, and the reports on foreign missions were referred to select committees. A resolution to consolidate the home and foreign mission boards was introduced, but was ruled out of order. An address on ministerial education was delivered by Dr. Manly, of Kentucky. Dr. J. W. Jones of Virginia, offered a resolution referring the question of the eligibility of women to seats in the convention, to a committee of one from each State. The resolution was adopted. On invitation Dr. B. Manly, of Kentucky, addressed the convention on ministerial education. He offered a resolution expressing the sense of the convention that an earnest prayer should be made for more laborers to be sent into the harvest. He had not come, he said, to ask for money, but men to work and qualify themselves for higher work; men called of God who would devote themselves to work, men who have truth in themselves. This is the great need of the church, and we should not neglect the opportunity in our reach. Our master requires us to pray to the Lord of the harvest to send forth more laborers. Men may make themselves Presidents and other high officials, but true ministers of the gospel get their appointments from heaven. Prayer offered by us implies our readiness to seek out those whom God has appointed to do his work, and help them prepare for it, and to support those who are engaged in it. A seminary has been established to help those whom the churches have presented as in their opinion is called to this work. Dr. Manly's resolution was adopted. Rev. T. C. Teasdale, of Mississippi, who was president at the meeting at i^roviaence, R. I., related incidents of that meeting from which the Southern members withIrew to organize the Southern Baptist Contention, in August, 1840. The brethren present then were asked to stand up and 15 rose in their places. They were: Dr. P. H. Mell,of Georgia; Reuben Jones, of Virginia; J. S. Bledsoe, ol Texas, S. B. Durham, E. Watson, Jonathan Miller, S. II. Gletsen, T. P. Smith and J. A. Lawton, of South Carolina; E. R. Carswell, of Georgia; J. L. Burrows, of Virginia; H. W. Mcintosh and S. G. Hillyer, of Georgia, C. F. Irwin, and Henry Talbott, of South Carolina. Hon. W. Buchnell, president of the American Baptist publication society, made i practical address on mission work and advocated the co-operation of women in the work. Dr. Bidding, secretary of the society, made i stirring address upon Bible work. The afternoon session was taken up with t discussion on foreign missions. The com- j nittee to which the question of the future i work of the foreign board referred reportid, counciling renewed efforts and the exaansion of the work. The committee to which the treasurer's eport was referred reported that it was July audited and found correct, and considering the stringency of the past year, quite gratifying. There were several speakers on the subject )f foreign missions, but the feature of the exircises was an address by Dr. T. D. Powell, nissionary to Mexico, and addresses by two lative Mexicans,Senor Ilodreguezand Senor Martinez, who are the first converts that iver attended a convention in this country ind that at their own expense. They made very interesting and instructive addresses, ihowing the progress of the work in their :ountry. On Friday, the third day's meeting of he Convention, a committee was appointed :o nominate new boards. The morning hour was consumed in dis-1 mssing the report of the committee on wo-1 nen's work. At present each State has a :entral committee of women who collect )ne-third of all given to missions. The com-; nittee ask the women's central committee ! :o collect for the home, State and foreign nissions. This was fervently opposed by j he foreign mission secretary, Tupper, as his j x>ard had created a woman's committee, :en years ago and fostered them ever since jntil now they have become indispensable.' Dr. Bailey, of Florida, urged unity of vork by the women's central committee in .'ollecting for home, State and foreign missions. The reports of twelve State VicePresidents showed increased interest and jifts. Dr. Eaton's amendment commending to ;he women's central committees the newspaper, the Heathen Helper,, of Louisville, Ky., caused a warm discussion. After the recess, hymns composed for the pccasion by Miss Martha Louisa Eve and Dr. Lansing Burrows, of Augusta, werei sung, and Dr. J. L. Burrows, a member of j the convention of 184o, delivered a historical sermon. Rev. H. A. Tupper, Jr., read the report of the vice-president, which shows good progress in all the States. Senator Jos. E. Brown introduced a resolution in reference to divorce. It was made the special order for 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The resolution declares that the ; New Testament authorizes divorce only for adultery and that no Baptist minister should be allowed to marry a man having a living wife, unless divorced on that ground. The work of the church at home and abroad is most satisfactory. During the past year contributions for home and foreign missions were large, considering the financial condition of thecountry. All agree that the present and future of the church is most encouraging and the convention feels enthusiastic over the work before it. Dr. P. H. Tucker, of Georgia, reported on the Cuban mission at Key West, Florida. All thp mrtnpv PYnpnrlprl nn this mission already has been contributed by unknown parties and only secret charities will be devoted to this. There was an extended debate on the ratio of representation in the convention, which resulted in the striking out of that provision of the constitution which allowed one delegate to the convention for $500 expended in State work. The effect of this will be to limit the ratio of representation to the moneys that pass through the home and foreign mission boards. The resolution was passed by a vote of 162 to 160. The discussion occupied two hours and was participated in by a number of prominent delegates. John D. Stewart, of Georgia, president of the home mission board, offered a resolution providing for the founding of an Institute among Indians to educate them to the necessity of sustaining missionaries sent among them, which was adopted. On Friday night the Convention assembled in the form of a mass meeting and was addressed by a number of selected speakers. On Saturday, the fourth and last day of the Convention a collection of thirteen hundred and fifteen dollars was taken up for the New Orleans mission. The foreign and home mission boards were announced. At the afternoon session the consideration of the question of the basis of representation in the Convention was again taken up. Dr. Link of Texas, said they should make the representation smauer. ?o targe a oouy was a burden upon the community where the Convention was held. Notwithstanding all the hospitality extended the expenses of this Convention would be between fifteen hundred and two thousand dollars, even with the reduction proposed. The Convention would not consist of less than six hundred delegates. Mr. Carroll of North Carolina, thought the proposition to cut down the Convention so much very unwise. It struck him that the evident effect of a small Convention would be a sense of discouragement and it would make a very unfavorable impression. Mr. Thomas of South Carolina, said it wasn't every place that desired to have the Convention meet there that could entertain so large a body, especially if every delegate entitled to a seat on the floor was present. The Convention would then consist of fully two thousand delegates. He disagreed with Mr. Carroll that a smaller convention would be inefficient. He thought the delegates would feel more responsibility if they represented more. There were probably members here who expended fifty dollars to get to the Convention when they didn't represent more than one hundred dollars. Mr. Stout of Alabama, was opposed to any further reduction of the representation. He moved to lay the amendment on the table. The motion was adopted. The Chair announced that the hour for the special order, Senator Brown's resolution as to divorce, had arrived. Mr. Bailey of Alabama, moved to discharge the special order. Senator Brown hoped the motion would not prevail. The motion was lost by a vote of 121 to 132. Senator Brown said he had amended his resolutions somewhat, and presented them as follows: Resolved, That in the opinion of this Convention, the act of fornication committed by a married person is under tho New Testament dispensation, a cause, and the only cause, of absolute divorce from the bonds of marriage; Resolved farther, That it is the opinion of this Convention that no minister of the Gospel is authorized by the New Testament to join parties together in the bonds of matrimony when either of said parties has a living husband or living wife, from whom said parties have been divorced foranv other than cause aforesaid. Mr. Brown spoke at length in advocacy of his resolutions. Mr. Hoyt, of Greenville, S. C., moved to lay the motion on the table. Lost by a vote of ninety-two to one hundred and sixty-six. The resolution was then put and carried by an overwhelming vote. The Convention adjourned at half past 11 o'clock on Saturday night. At the last moment a motion to reconsider the vote adopting Senator Brown's resolution on divorce was adopted and the resolutions were laid on the table by a vote of one hundred and ninety-six to ninety-three. Senator Brown was not present. The constitution was amended so as to read "brethren" instead of "members," thus excluding women from the Convention as delegates. The committee on time and place recommended that the next Convention be held in Montgomery, commencing on the Friday before the second Sunday in May next. Dr. Hawthorne of Georgia, was designated to preach the Convention sermon. The evening session was devoted to the usual closing resolutions and religious exercises, and the Convention adjourned. THE FINANCIAL SITUATION. The sudden and generally unexpected change in the aspect of the dispute between England and Russia has worked a very considerablechange in opinion as to the business oultook here. We never had any faith in the expectation that a war?at least under present currency conditions?could be of benefit to trade in this country. And yet the prevailing beliefdid notaccord with that view; a hope, born it may be of desperation, existed, the loss of which has left very many of our leading markets with a much flatter tone than was apparent a week ago. But other than that, nearly all conditions remain as heretofore. Even with regard to the crops, there is very little that is new. The season is still backward everywhere? an unusually cold wave with snow and ice being reported in the - northwest as we ? *- *i ~u wrilf I IIUUJ^II UICIC "j?,y uc iiuuaiu^ uu- | favorable in such conditions if the summer | proves an average one. Yet the start in wheat has been so disappointing that a disposition exists even now to accept a gloomy forecast of the corn prospect, because planting has been so much delayed. That only serves to indicate the state the public mind is reduced to, which looks forward months to find a basis of adverse assumption. Telegrams show that cotton is developing finely. Increased caution has been further induced by fresh anxieties respecting our currency. We have remarked upon one phase of tins question in a subsequent column, and gave reasons therefor believing that the public is unduly disturbed. Of course, the further advance in sterling exchange natu- j rally increases the unsettled feeling. But it i should be remembered that the banks are > very strong; and they would easily bear a foreign drain of twenty million dollars or more. And although one cannot but lament the folly that thus drives capital away from us, at a time when we are in the depths ofj commercial distress, yet our readers have j the consciousness of knowing that they have 11 fought faithfully against the encroaching ; evil, and though they must suffer with the rest, they are at least not the cause of it. i < Could our people only learn by this expe-1 i rience the unwisdom of attempting to fix values by statute, or of interfering in any i way with the natural movements of money ] ir. i+u i.mi-17 nf aOppHnor exchanges. the ex- ] Ill HO ? , ... perience would not be dearly bought.? New \ York Financial Chronicle. j i Fike ix the County.?We understand that a large quantity of cut wood was burned on Monday last on Mr. W. 8. Wilson's < place, four miles west of Rock Hill. We i are told that a negro man set a stump afire l to hold fire for his pipe, and that the blaze i was communicated to a pile of wood near j by, about 110 cords, destroying the whole 1 of it. If our information be true, Mr. Wil- i son's loss will be not less than $150.?Hook 1 J fill Herald, 1th. I ? GAFFNEY AND RUTHERFORD RAILROAD. WHAT THE PRESS HAS TO SAY ABOUT THIS IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE. From the Qaffney City Inspector. This road, which is to be only a link in a chain that will connect the Ohio river with the Atlantic coast, is now under contract, and we have every assurance that a large force of hands will very soon be put on the road, and the work will be pushed rapidly forward. The road has been located to Marion, N. C., and from Gaffney to Chester, S. C. There have been unavoidable and worrying delays, but our people may rest assured that the road is a dead certainty. We should not make assertions, if we had not assurances from the managers of the Constructing Company that fully warrant them. Chester Correspondence News and Courier. The surveying party of the railroad line between Gaffney City and this point are i. _ r it.:- _? mu- i:..A wumu a iuntj 01 mis pmce. liib nut? as i surveyed crosses Broad River at Howell's Ferry, passes by Bullock's Creek Church, York county, New Bethel and Capers' Chapel Churches in this county, and on to Chester. In returning, the party will survey a line by Hoodtownand Hickory Grove, York county. A member of the surveying party informed me there was considerable apathy in regard to the road among the people living along the line this side of Howell's Ferry. These people, he said, expressed their unwillingness to vote for a tax in favor of building the road. My informant stated that another line would be surveyed from Gaffney City by way of Wilkesburg, in this county. This line would not pass through Chester, but Winnsboro. He also stated that another line would be surveyed from Gaffney by the way of Lowrysville in this county. This line, he further said, would not pass through Chester, but Lancaster. The direction of the road from Gaffney depended upon the interest manifested, and the amount of money obtained in behalf of the road. That line would get the road that contributed the largest amount of money. From the Chester Reporter, May 7. C'apt. O. A. R,amseur, chief of the corps of surveyors of the proposed line of railroad from Gaffney to Charleston, arrived here yesterday afternoon, having completed a preliminary survey irom umnney iu mis point. This survey crossed Broad river near Howell's Ferry, thence to Bullock's Creek church, and then on the Quinn road direct to Chester. The Company will return in a few days to Gaffney, to run another line. The final location of this line will depend upon the aid extended along the line. If Chester wants the road it must show it by its work. From the Chester Bulletin, May H. Mr. A. Urquhait representing a New England syndicate and C'apt. 0. A Ramseur, chief of the corps of surveyors of the contemplated railroad from Gaffney City to Georgetown and Charleston, .reached this place Wednesday afternoon, having completed a Sreliminary survey from Gaffney City to lis place. The preliminary line runs by Howell's Ferry where Broad River is crossed, thence to New Bethel church near Bullock's Creek, thence by Chapel church and crossing Sandy River near the road and coming into town by the Fair Grounds. Another preliminary line will be run by Wilkesburg and in the direction of Winnsboro. Mr. Urquhait informs us that the road will undoubtedly be built, but the line will be determined upon by the amount of aid given along the line. The survey that has been already made to this place is the proper and best one to Georgetown and Charleston. This route will run by Rossville and the Catawba Falls, the finest water power in the world and no superior agricultural country in the State. The Company will make a great mistake if they fail to run the road through this place. From the Carolina Spartan, May 0. We do not like to be misrepresented, and especially by the Greenville Daily News. He stated last week that two hands were employed on the railroad between Georgetown and the Cranberry Iron works, which road is to run by GafTney City and Rutherfordton. Such statements do harm and raise expectations as to the early completion of the road that will not be realized. A citizen of Rutherford county was in town Monday, and stated that there was only one hand at work on this road, and his name was Granger Goode. This is the tirst case in all the history of railroads where one man has undertaken to grade a railroad. He must feel very lonesome when he starts out with his shovel and pick and dinner pail in the morning. Bre'r Williams will now please give us a little more time to. complete this road. From the Greenville News, May 7. Our apology is due our neighbor of the Carolina Spartan and the Gaffney City and Itutherfordton Railroad for the statement we published that the latter flourishing enterprise is being vigorously pushed to completion by two men who are employed in grading. It now seems that there is but one man, and the Spartan names him. He has a very large contract, and is doubtless a remarkable person. He ought to have a monument as the lirst man in all the history of American railroad building who tackled the job of grading a three hundred mile line alone, unaided save by his own wheelbarrow, shovel and pick-axe. It is not recorded that he has even a mule, a plow or a dynamite cartridge. THE EUROPEAN WAR CLOUD. The following London dispatch of last Saturday gives the European situation at that date, which at latest advices, is unchanged : The continued uncertainty of the political aspect tends to restrict the amount of business done on the Stock Exchange, with the result that each small transaction exercises a disproportionate effect on prices. The greatest anxiety is felt about the vote of credit, which will come up in the house to-dftv. nlthoue-h it is unlikelv that the re suit will be adverse to the ministry, especially if Lord Hartington's statement of the London policy proves satisfactory to the Liberals. The current rumors of the resignation of Earl Lufferin arise from the inference that he disagrees with the government's policy and the fact that Dufferin accepted his position with the understanding he was to take the full responsibility of the government in India. It is rumored that the Russian dispatches by courier differ somewhat from the summary first received by telegraph, but it is expected that the discrepancies of statement can easily be rec- , onciled. It is estimated that almost half the vote of credit hits already been absorb- , ed in the war preparations so far ordered, I which are now advanced too far to be rescinded. The work of equipment for the ( Soudan,, however, has almost ceased. The ( greatest efforts are being directed to naval ] armaments. The proposed submission of the AngloRussian difficulty to arbitration is the prom- j inent topicof comment in the leading Lon- , don journals this morning. The wisdom | of the government's present policy is called , in question and the success of the arbitra- j tion is doubted. The statement of the St. Petersburg Offi- j rial Messenger yesterday as to the motive , and scope of the arbitration and as to the policy of the Cabinets of Russia and England in recrard to frontier negotiations and the work of delimination dees not strike i the Standard as calculated as having a sooth- ; ing effect upon wounded British suscepti- \ bilities. Far from this, it expresses the ( hope that "the cruel, patronizing blunt- ] ness" of the Messenger's language "may ] sting Mr. Gladstone" to resent such a tone t and quicken him to make "another speech j worthy of the British Minister." In the t opinion of the Standard, "the fate of Herat ] is now the main question that confronts ^ England. This question cannot be ignored ] in the present negotiations. No Russian c pledge, however binding, which would only c relieve us of a diplomatic squabble, ought } to prevent us from taking such action as will ^ affectually forestall any possible eventuali- c ties." ?i The Times refers to the report current in ] Vienna that Herat is not mentioned in any c af the English negotiations with Russia, j and says: "If the government think the s Tate of Herat may be left to the caprice of j the Ameer and the treachery of the local governor on the success of a pretender, they had better tell the country their opinion, r and either give place to others who are more } far-seeing or abstain from wasting money r and prestige in half-hearted measures which t deceive nobody, and least of all, Ru99ia." Discussing arbitration, the Times expresses doubt as to the existence of any documents or dispatches respecting the agreement of March 16, which are sufficiently definite for the purposes of arbitration. "More than this," it says, "such a 9mall point as the view each party took of the agreement is in any case an exceedingly difficult one to dis- 1 pose of by arbitration." Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, May 11?An unfortunate accident recently befell Mr. Jason Hicklin and family while driving home at night from Richburg. While driving quietly along a colored man was observed walking in front of the carriage, and instead of getting out of the way he continued in front of the car-1 riage for a considerable distance. For some reason he struck a match, which frightened the horses and caused them to run. Mr. Hicklin not being able to stop them, they ran until the carriage was turned over. The occunants were thrown out, but all es caped injury with the exception of Miss Sue Hieklin, who was painfully hurt and has ever since been suffering much. The Lee Light Infantry, under command of Capt. G. J. Patterson, was inspected by Adjutant-General Manigault on last Wednesday afternoon. The company, handsomely uniformed and with arms shining, presented a fine appearance. They passed the ordeal of inspection in such a manner as to receive the encomiums of the AdjutantGeneral. After inspection, the company, under command of Mtyor J. K. Marshall, their former captain, executed various military movements on the public square in fine style. The company entertained the public on Wednesday night in the Court House with a plume drill. The crowd was so great that even standing room was at a premium. The judges on tne occasion were General Manigault, Major J. K. Marshall and Mr. C. H. Hutton. Two hours were consumed in deciding the result of the competitive drill. Mr. William Lewis won the prize. Major. S. P.Hamilton presented the plume with some very appropriate remarks. At the close of the drill, this exInnf nrvmnurttr /iKonrrnrl mnHfl nf On. ^cu^uu uuiupaiij viivii luvuv v* vm tertainment. In company with a number of invited guests they repaired to the Marshall House, where they sat down to a fine supper given by them in honor of AdjutantGeneral Manigault. Capt. G. J. Patterson presided with grace on the happy occasion, and was gracefully assisted by his worthy assistants, Lieutenants Brice and Heath. General Manigualt was called upon to answer the toast offered in honor of "Our State," and discharged his pleasing task quite happily. Mr. T. C. Gaston spoke in behalf of the Lee Light Infantry In such a pleasing manner as to elicit considerable cheering. His remarks led to an increase of the members of the company to the extent of two regular and eleven contributing members. The toast to "Woman," met with an enthusiastic response irom the young and handsome editor of the Bulletin. The "boys" were quite rapturous in their applause. The surveying party of the railroad line between Gaffney City and this place reached here last week. Last Friday was the big day and the closing day of the meeting of the Grand Lodge of Knightsof King Solomon. The prominent feature of the day's exercises was the procession of the members of the order, arrayed in showy regalia, from their Lodge room, up Main street, to the Fair grounds, where addresses were delivered by prominent members of this colored society. The orator of the day was Rev. M. C. Young, of Farmville, Va., who consumed the greater portion of his time in speaking of the origin, progress and benefits of the Knights of King Solomon. While referring in general terms to tne coioreu race, ne muue an luciueuuti allusion to politics. He said he had no tears to shed over the defeat of Blaine, as the downfall of the Bepublican party was due to its rascality. This is Memorial Day at this place. Mr. J. K. Henry will deliver the address. The day will be honored by a parade of liremen and soldiers, in addition to the usual interesting exercises. Miss Sue Hicklin lies in a critical condition, in consequence of injuries sustained a few days ago when the horses ran away with her father's carriage. The injuries are far more serious than they were at first supposed to be. Farmers are complaining at the effects of cool weather. m. CROPS IN THE STATE. ? Good farm labor is difficult to obtain in Beaufort county. ? The oat crop in Edgefield county is put down at less than half of an average crop. Wheat is more promising. ? Pickens Sentinel: The "knowing ones" are now predicting that there will be two thirds of a good wheat crop. Wheat, oats and cotton have all suffered for want of rain. ? Anderson Intelligencer: We learn from a gentleman living in the fork section of the county that the outlook for the farmers his section it is not very encouraging; the small graiu crop is very short and a good rain is needed badly. He thinks there will be plenty of fruit, though the peaches are nearly all killed. Cut-worms are doing considerable damage in the vegetable gardens of the city. ? Keowee Courier: The peach crop is not a failure in Oconee county, though it is spotted. Numbers of orchards are full and some have a light crop, and in others there appears to be an entire failure. The apple crop promises a bountiful yield, while plums, pears and cherries are an average. The seed in the ground in many instances cannot snront and grow on account of the ex treme dryness of the soil. Very little cotton is up. Corn is doing better and some are giving it the first working. Small grain 1 is small for the season, and the prospect for oats is poor. 1 Bayard Not Popular.?Secretary Bay- | ard feels keenly the criticisms that have 1 been passed upon him since entering the 1 Cabinet. There is no doubt if his friends ; are to be believed, that he regrets leaving his comfortable surroundings in the Senate ' for a position that is made intolerable to ( him by the importunities of oftice-sekers. ' Mr. Bayard, since his entry into public life * has always been known as an aristocrat, but 1 his reputation in this respect never did him j any harm. When he was in the Senate he 1 was further away from the people and his 1 austerity was not felt. As Secretary of ( State, however, where it is necessary that j lie should give audience to scores of people iaily, his aristocratic characteristics stand ! :iut boldly and people who feel agrieved at J liis icy reserve abuse him roundly the mo- ( ment his back is turned. Placed by the side of the President and * the other members of the Cabinet the con- ( trust is startling. The President is agreea- * ale to everybody. Manning, while dignifi- ! id is never austere ; Lamar, Whitney, Vi- 1 las, and Endicott are extremely pleasant u nen in all the relations of life, while Gar- ) and, who prides himself on his Jeffersoni- * in simplicity, is one of the most approach- ] ible men in the world.?Philadelphia Times. , He Murdered Eight People.?At Bo- 1 iito, fifteen miles from Fort Stanton, New c Mexico, about three o'clock on the morn- l ng of Gth instant, Martin Nelson, who was 1 >ccupying a room in the house of M. S. 3 Maybury with Dr. Wm. H. Flinn, late of a Boston, arose from his bed and while comnitting a robbery in the house, shot and tilled Dr. Flinn. The firing having aroused ( he family, Nelson then shot and killed Mr. r Maybury, his wife and two sons. He also r rounded fatally a little daughter of Mr. t Maybury. A neighbor, being alarmed, t a me to the house and he, too, was shot c lead. It was supposed that the murderer 1 rnd remained in the house and ten citizens d vatched it to prevent his escape. At 7 ^ >'clock A. M. the guard was surprised by I l shot from the rear, which killed Herman 1" leek, one of them. Nelson then came f lown the street firing his Winchester, but rJ le was finally shot dead. Nelson, when t ane, was an orderly citizen. He came to j c ionito from Nebraska four years ago. a ? A negro girl, living with her parents h in the plantation of Mrs. Stevenson near a iVinnsboro, was so severely beaten by her u nother-in-law and her father the other day s hat she died shortly afterwards. a SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Church met in Columbia yesterday. ? The Air Line Railroad annually pays into the treasury of Pickens county $6,800 as taxes. ? There has been frost in Oconee county during the past week, but the fruit crop, nevertheless, promises a fair yield. ? A new stamping mill is in operation at the Haile Gold mine, Lancaster county. Its capacity is 200 tons per day. ? The new Court House at Bennetsville was dedicated on the 2nd instant with appropriate ceremonies. ? James Henderson blew down into the chimney of a lamp and the resulting explosion and fire nearly destroyed his house and himself. ? The present system of road working is disturbing the citizens of Friendship township, Clarendon county. They greatly disapprove of their existing road law. ? The President has appointed Mr. B. F. Huger, postmaster of the city of Charleston, vice W. N. Taft, commissou expired. There was only one application for this office. ? Lancaster Revieiv: A party of fishermen in the river came across what is known as a "loop snaae" on j? rinay last, aoout iwu yards long. It is the first of the kind ever found in this section of the State. Its movement is exactly like that of a caterpillar. ? Barcus Richardson, a colored man recently released from the Penitentiary at Columbia, has been ordered to leave Clarendon county. He is believed to have been connected with the shooting of the Misses Brew. ? Sea Island JYetcs: Phoebe Jenkins, probably the oldest colored person in Beaufort county, died on Tuesday last at her home on Sam's Point, Ladies' Island. The deceased was said to be 120 years old at the time of her death, and was quite a large girl during the Revolutionary war. ? Mr. E. Richardson, of Sumter, has growing in his yard a flower that entraDS humming birds. Several of these little birds have been caught by their bills becoming fastened in the flower. It is certainly a curiosity in the shape of a flower. ? The investigation into the accounts of ex-Treasurer Mills, of Chester county, has proven to be a costly thing for the county. The costs amount to $646.15 and the attorneys' fees $500, which make $1,146.15 in all. The question is now raised as to whether the State should not bear a part of the expenses. ? Major D. F. Bradley, of Pickens, who was recently appointed collector of the internal revenue for this State, went to CotvtA?nin/y tirifK LlQ Ka*\H luiuuiti *? cuucouaj iiiUiuiuK mvu mo wv/i*v* in his pocket. It is justified as required by law, and is for $120,000. He will enter upon the discharge of his official duties in about a week. ? On the 1st instant Thomas Dean and one Mays, white laborers on J. G. McCall's plantation, Marion county, were leading their mules to work, when Mays kicked Dean's mule. Dean took the singletree from his plow and struck Mays over the head, fracturing his skull. Mays is dead, and Dean has escaped into North Carolina. ? Sheriff King made a search through the Chesterfield jail on the 30th ultimo and found in the cell of Bob Short near half a bushel of bread and meat. Bob explained that his family were at home suffering and had no one to provide for them. The sheriff gives it as his opinion that Bob thought of breaking jail and was providing for the future. ? The Governor has appointed Dr. P. E. Griffith, superintendent of the State lunatic asylum, Colonel T. J. Lipscomb, superintendent of the State penitentiary, and Prof N. F. Walker, superintendent of the State institution for the deaf and dumb and blind, as delegates to represent this State at the twefth national conference of charities and corrections to be held in Washington, I). C., on the 4th of next month. ? Last Saturday night a white shoemaker, who was tramping from Ninety-Six to Co- * lumbia, stopped beside the railroad between Newberry and Prosperity to cook something to eat. While thus engaged he was approached by three white men, two of whom seized him by the arm, while the third, with a pistol pointed at his head, robbed him of his pocketbook, containing $73 in cash and a $50 note. The highwaymen also took the man's hat and a bottle of whisky which he had in his pocket. The name of the shoemaker has not been learned. ? H. L. Brown, a recent settler in Oconee county, hailing from Williamsburg county, was arrested by sheriff Breazeale and lodged in jail at Walhalla last Monday upon warrants for two offenses. The first warrant had been issued in Georgetown, upon the charge of obtaining goods under false nrptonsps and forwarded to Oconee. The latter warrant, sworn out in Oconee, charges him with arson in attempting to burn the dwelling house of Mr. G. W. Sadler, in West Union. Brown recently removed to that county and purchased the property of Mr. J. J. Hooper, in West Union, where he has since livea. MERE-MENTION. Congressman "Sunset" Cox, of New York, has at last decided to accept the mission to Turkey. Major-General McDowell, who commanded the Federal troops in the First Manassas battle, died in San Francisco on the Gth instant. Unusually heavy rains fell in Western Texas last week, inflicting heavy damage to property. Two hundred moonshiners are to be tried in Nashville, soon. The Republican State Convention of Virginia will be called on the loth of July next, and the Democratic on the 29th. Col. Wm. Johnston was elected Mayor of Charlotte in the recent municipal election. The situation at Plymouth, Pa., shows very little improvement. Several deaths have occurred within the past few days, and nearly a hundred families ure now in needy circumstances. Hard frosts prevailed in the West last week, and on the 7th considerable snow fell in Minessota. Two incendiary efforts have been recently made to destroy the Children's Home?an orphanage institution?at Covington, Ky The Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor met in St. Louis, Mo., last Tuesday. In Patagonia they tinea man two joats for killing his wife. The law is very strict on the subject, too, and if the fine is iot proinptly paid he is compelled to marry igain. That makes him hustle around for the goats. A dynamite cartridge was maliciously exploded in the porch of a house on Third street in Charlotte, N. C., last Sunlay morning, with the effect of shattering the building. Two women occupied the louse, but neither of them was hurt. At Marlboro, Md., the other day, a lad 15 years of age ate a quantity of dried peaches, and shortly afterwards was taken with convulsions, which lasted twelve hours, when leath resulted. The boy suffered terribly, md all efforts to relieve him proved fruitess. Maxwell, the murderer of Preller n a hotel in St. Louis, has been arrested at Vuckland, New Zealand, and a requisition vill be sent by an officer from San Francisco it an early date. By the election of a Republican from Cass county to ths Illinois legislature, in place of a Democratic mem)er who died a few weeks ago, the Repubicans now have 103 votes on joint ballot, a lear majority, with power to elect any one ipon whom they may unite. The El >aso Time* says: New Mexico spent last -ear for liquor $6,485,000 and for churches ind schools, $45,000. Col. Ivy's Condition.?'The condition of jol. J. M. Ivy's health has improved very nuch of late, but he is still confined to his oom in consequence of the old wound in he left shoulder, from which he continues o suffer very greatly. In this respect his ondition has not improved much since ast week, though the swelling in the shoulier has nearly all disappeared, and the inlammation has abated considerably. The tains are not continuous, but come on at requent intervals. They sometimes last or hours, however, and are intensely severe, ["he physician now thinks that the ball in he shoulder moved when the fall was reeived three weeks ago, and Col. Ivy is now ,ble to locate the position of the ball with aore precision than ever before. He is lopeful of being much better in a few days nd we are sure the community will join is in the hope that his recovery may be peedy and permanent.?Rock Hill HerId, 1th.