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A STRICT CONSTRUCTION OK* THR CONSTITU TION—AM HON ICS T AMD ECONOMICAL ADMINISTRATION OV TUB OOVBBMMBBIT.
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Ragland & Wynne, Proprietors.
COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1872.
Volume XLIV-No 47
The Weekly Enquirer.
JOHN U. MARTIN Editor.
COLUMBUS:
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14,1872.
-Tfrmt of SnWrlutlon-
■ Year in Miva
$2.50.
The »w “Fnforcfeost" at Sm>nit.
The charge upon which iho Chatham
managers el' the late election were ur-
ro.4-*d, upon warranU iaaned by U. S.
(.'ouunis&ioner Stone, woa the throwing
out of the votes cast at the irregular boxes
in that county. The affidavit wan made
by a negro, mul it is said that District
Attorney l’arrow gave instructions to the
Man-hals for the immediate execution of
the warrants.
It is claimed that the act of the mana
gers was in violation of the Enforcement
law, which holds them to account for
“any neglect or refusal to perform any
net iu regard to such election required of
them by any law of the Uuited States, or
of any State or Territory thereof." Aa it
cannot be claimed that any law of the
United States prescribes the nnniber of
polling places to be opened in Chatham
county, the Uuited States officials must iu
this matter be undertaking to execute a
State law. The Enforcement act tuny
invest them with this power, but if so,
the i'uso is Another notable one to show
ho* completely the Federal authority has
invested itself with powers which up to
this time have been exercised exclusively
by the States.
Mr. lircelrf at llie Itolm Again.
Tim telegraph announces that M
(iieolcy again assumes editorial control of
the New \oik Tribune, and that in the
future it will ho conducted as uu inde
pendent political journal.
It has beon already said in some (pur
lers that the notuiuatiou of Mr. Greeley
wiih a great mistake, and in the deep dis
appointment at the result of the election,
it is possible that some of the old animus
against him personally may be revived.
It is a fruitless tusk at this lute day to dis
cuss the propriety of Mr. Greeley’s cau-
didacy, but no fair minded matt can fail
to suy for him that he bore himself with
wisdom, prudence and ability iu the can
vass, and did nil that a man could do to
ensure success.
In his return to the powerful press
built up hv his labors and his talents, ho
1ms given tho^highost evidence of the
sincere /.cal which nniinutes him in the
cause of national reform.
Before the turth has dried on the grave
of his wife, and with the shouts of a
Northern ralihlo ringing in his ears, tho
brave old man buckles on his harness and
again enters the lists to champion a cause
that will yet rise to a victory as grand iu
proportions ns has been its defeat. His
action must command the respect and
admiration of all who can appreciate the
inflexibility of purpose that disaster <
not divert from the discharge of duty.
And if in tho past tho South has had
reason to regard Mr. Greeley as a foe, she
will, in tho future, learn to look upon
him ns a friend—a friend whose power
and influence w ill be exerted and felt in
her behalf.
For tho next four years the administra
tion of Grunt will havo the Now York
Tribune hangiug on its fl ink. The blows
that have hit hoi to beon struck at Radical
ism from the South have fallen harmless
ly or recoiled with force. The assaults
that como from the rear will be deadly,
and the Tribune will lead the assailants.
For the first lime f-iuce the war tho South
will huvo a vehicle through which her
cause and her wrongs tuuy reach the ears
of the people of the North. The Tribune
and the presses which will follow its lead
will not desert the allies who stood by
thorn because victory did uotcrown un
effort that deserved it.
May we not put down this as something
gained from tho Democratic and Liberal
Republican alliance 'i
| Savannah Advertiser.
The fln»f States anil IlMrlrt*.
Alabama has chosen Grant Electors by
A majority of 55,500 or 4,000.
Florida is still in doubt.
Felhsiu (Rad.) is elected by a small
majority in tho 5td Alabama Congressional
Distric t, if tho fraudulent negro votes iu
Hassell and Loo are counted.
Freeman (Rad.) has beaten Glenn
(Dem.) about votes in the 5th Georgia
Congressional District.
Unofficial reports from all the counties
in the 1st Georgia Congressional District
show u majority of 11 votes for Sloan
(Rud.) over Rawls (Democrat), allowing
Hloan tho votes of tho irregular boxes in
Chatham. It is possible that the official
ret nr us may change this result.
It would appear that the Democrats
and on« Independent havo a majority of
2 in the Senate of Alabama, and the Rad
icals havo u majority of 4 in the House.
Greeley’s majority in ninety-seven
counties in Georgia is ll,4ti7—to be
increased.
The Alhaiiy News of Saturday has
reports from all but two of the counties
of the 2d Georgia Congressional District,
and estimates for theso two oonnties.
This showing gives Whitely (Rad.) a
majority of about 22ft votes over Wright
(Dem.)
Urol (Irontla District.
Tho Savannah Nat* of Monday says
that the official return for Camden county
shows Sloan's majority to be 70 votes less
than previously stated, and that thia pats
Rawls (Dem.) 40 votes ahead according to
the reports as they now stand.
“Ogoecboe" writes from Atlanta to the
Savannah Kant.* * ‘There is one fact which
I may mention, upon the authority of a
leodiiig Demnerjt from one of the Cher
okee counties, viz., that many persons
•long tho line of Sherman's march, be
tween the Tennessee and Chattahoochee
rivers, have voted for Grant, or staid
•way from the polls, in the hope that, if
re-eleotod, ho will favor the payment of
Their claims for property taken or de
stroyed by the Federal troops! Some
Democrats in those bounties through
which the great projected Canal will pass,
were also influenced by the expectation
tlut Grant can be relied upon to give hia
influence in behalf of (hat important
fpterpriM.'
k
The X. V. World anil Mr. Hrrelf).
The World, as is well knowo, was tho
leading Democratic paper that opposed
the nomination of Mr. Greeley by the
Baltimore Convention. After the nomi
nation it supported him ably and heartily.
Since the election, it s*»ys, in effect, that
the Tammany frauds, which broke down
the Democratic party of last year, made
it a necessity for the Democrats of the
whole country to effect a union with the
Liberal Republicans, and that they would
have accepted uud endorsed at Baltimore
any tick*, t that the Liberals might have
nominated—whither Adams, Davis,
Trumbull. Brown, or Greeley. This Le-
ing the dependent condition • •' tho Dem
ocratic purty, caused by i.. .efeat in New
York, the blunder committed in the nom
ination of Gieelcy was made by tho Lib-
oral Republicans, and was attributable to
a mistake as to his streugth in two partic
ulars—firs', they erroneously supposed
that his prominence as un anti-slavery
leader would enable him to divide tho
negro vote ; and sccoud, they hoped that
his loug and consistent advocacy of pro
tection would win for him uiauy Republi
can votes iu Pennsylvania, aud enable
him to carry that State.
Thu Wot Id, iu the course of its article,
acknowledges in a just nud proper man-
uor the manly bearing of Mr. Greeley
during tho cuuvaks, as follows:
We have nothing harsh or ungenerous
to suy Hgiuust Mr. Greeley or agonist Air.
Greeley s earliest Democratic supporters.
Mr. Greeley did not nominate huuself,
oven ut Ciuciumiti; uml his utmost unan
imous enilor-euient at Baltimore was not
his work, hut the work of tho Democratic
delegates. Even if we have reason to
blame them, we have no reason to blame
him. He has borne himself in tho cun-
vuss with fsukless propriety; and how
ever freely we tuny think it our duty to
criticise his earlier or his future conduct
nud utter:>nets, it does not be in our pen
to write one word of ceusuro on tho bear
ing of Air. Greeley during the five months
that ho was the Democratic candidate for
President. Ami even as to the original
expediency i.ml wisdom of nominating
him it becomes us to ►peak with modest
reserve. Wo do uot presume, at this late
day, to set up our judgment against that
of a mnjorhy of the most eminent, ex
perienced aud trusted statesmen of the
Democratic party. The fact that they
approved wl i.o wo vehemently dissented,
should teat It us a reasonable distrust of
our own judgment, oven though the re
sult seems to prove that we were origin
ally right, uml that they were fundament
ally wrong. Nothing is easier or cheaper
than to bo wise alter tho event; audit
seems more pertinent to inquire into tho
sources of their mistake than to arraign
them for want of toivsight.
Wo cannot doubt 11. d if Mr. Grocley
hud been elected, l;o would have been en
tirely loyal to his Democratic supporters.
Wo havo tin* fullest confidence in his
fidelity to nil honorable obligations. But
we nevertheless hold fast our lirst opinion
that his nomination by the Democratic
party was a speculation and u blunder
** lieu ii I a tins” t lie Vote.
Tho arrnat by Federal officials of the
election immngeis iu Savannah, for their
construction and mode of execution of a
Matt law, lias already been reported and
commented upon.
Wo suppose that tho mission of Feder
al officials and soldiers to Seale, Ala., is
for u like purpose. Reports have reached
us that llio Slate supervisors there have
discovered largo fruiuls in the Radical
vote cast, and were purging the polls.
It was feared, no doubt, that the ousting
out of the fruudulont vote would endan
ger the cloctiou of somo Radical candi
dates, aud the Federal power was there
fore invoked to prevent it!
It is not unlikely, we think, that the
same power will arbitrarily decide the
question iu Barbour county oh to the reg
ularity of tho election at two of tho
boxes there, and of course decide it in
favor of the Radical ticket. We live in
an age of progress !
Wo copy the material portions of the
oditoriul of the New York Tribune
which tho Atlanta Sun tries to find
pressions indicating that Mr. Greeley is
now ready to support tho Administration
of Gen. Grant in its present policy. The
reader will bo ouubled to judne for him
self how unfounded and i!h ,i such an
imputation is.
We also copy from the Tribune of tho
8th an article evidently written by Mr.
Greeley, giving his “conclusions" drawn
from tho election. It is worthy of eon
sideration.
Hit r hour County, Als.
The Eufaula Time* of this morning nays
thut tho vote of Barbour county lias uot
yet been fully counted, owing to irregu
larities in tho election at Fort Browder
and at box No. 1 in EufuuU. If cither
of IheHo is thrown out, the Democratic
county ticket is elected : if both are
counted, the Radical county ticket has a
small majority.
Platform or the New York Sun.—Tho
New York Sun an non rices tho following
platform for tho next campaign :
“I. No centralization. No extension
of the functions of the Federal Govern
ment. 2. Congress and the President to
be deprived of ell excursive and unau
thorized powers assumed during anil since
the war, and to bo brought back within
the limits of the Constitution. 8. The
States to control their own affairs, aud
especially their elections. 4. Reform of
the Civil Service. ft. Restoration of spe
cie payments. (5. Revenue reform—all
internal taxes to be abolished ; the tariff'
to be put on a revenue basis. 7. Ouly
one term for the President. 8. No re-
election of Grunt in 1870."
We are ready to “clasp hands" again
over that platform.
Discovery of buhl iu Virginia.
Washington, November 12.—The pres
ence of auriferous metals in Virginia in
the neighborhood of the Potomac, Rap
pahannock and other streams, as well as
in the foot hills of the Blue Ridge, has
long been knowu ; but the location of a
C eunauent quartz mine or reef has not
eeu thoroughly demonstrated until late
ly. For a } oar past parri> H of experience
have l.oeti < ng«gt»l in developing a mino
near Kelley's lord, iri.e mtiuj from Rap
pahannock station, in tho neighborhood
of a well knowu place for deposits, they
* * ' Id-
have found a suites of well defined goh
bearing veins, located in a mound three-
fourths of a mile from the river. The
surface rock of the decomposed quarts
bears a strict resemblance to the oro tak
en out in tho richest district of California.
A shaft eighty feet deep cals three viens
at a depth of fifteen, forty-five and seven-
ty-flvo feet, yielding rook worth $G0 to
$>100 per ton. The deposit seems to be a
basin of veins, showing fall gold with car
bonates, aud not Ralphs tee. Three tun
nels are now being worked through rich
rook, and everything gives evidenoe of
permanency.
A VERY FI LL V0TK IX ALABAMA.
Making all duo allowance for a fraudu
lent Radical cote of not Us* than three
thousand, the counties reported in the I
table on this page show that there has
been a larger turn out of voters at the
How Qrant Knew lie Would be Re-Elected. |
recent election by fifteen thousand than
i. W
at any previous eloouou in the State,
did uot suppose that the reserve vote
would foot up Much a total! Our table
proves the following increase in the sev
eral counties over tho voto for Governor
in 1870. Iti Elmore Ibeto was an increase
of 71, in Conecuh 108, Pike lil7, Mont-
guinety 100, Lowndes 141, Perry 281,
Colbert 381, Cbmilbcrs 411, Calhoun 502,
Baker G2U, Lee 1,010. Total 4,M0. Bul
lock polled 123 mid Henry 20 less than
they polled in 1870— leaving net increase
of 4,55t57 iu one-fifth of tho State. The
same ratio, if preserved throughout, will
give uu Aggregate increase in the State of
1 ."•,<»7t». Of this increase, according to
the ratio already known the Democrats
will have A,2(5!* and tho Radicals 10,410,
making the tolul voto of tho State stand
ns follows: Lewis 88,12(5, Herndon 81,-
70ft ; Lewis' majority 3,420. The official
figures will not greatly vary this estimate.
It is therefore a great error to suppose
that the people did uot como to the polls.
Tiie Democratic aud Consorvativo vote
increased heavily, and Greeley received
at least nine thousand more votes in Ala
bama than Seymour did, und more votes
than were cast for our Stute ticket in 1&70
by several thousand. But tho increased
negro vote in Northern and Western Ala
bama, aud the importations from Georgia
aud Tennessee, together with heretofore
Democrats who patriotically voted to se
cure bogus “loyal claims" by selling
themselves to Grant and Lewis for the
occasion, and other Democrats who
skrauk from theiv duty from various mo
tives—all taken in combination, lost us
tho State. But wo now know tho utmost
strength of the Radical omnium gather-
um. The negro vote has been polled to
the Inst man; and it is impossible to ima
gine a combination of circumstances
inure fortnunte for the Radicals, or un
fortunate for the Conservatives! The
certainty of Grant's election, and the
impulst s and interests suggested by this
fact alone, cost us at least four thousand
votes. With the Semite under our con
trol we will hold the Radicals in check in
nil their prollignto schemes for two years,
aud then taking effectual measures to
prevent their frauds, wo will again drive
them from the Uapitol! Let every umn
stand firm aud mist the effort to dis
grace him ; and as the noble and heroic
Robert Bruce failed soveu limes to free
Scotland from the British yoke hut finally
succeeded, uud crowned his loiiutry with
bU*Hr.ings, and won an imperishable name
in history for himself, we will accomplish
I lie deliverance of our Stute !—Montgom-
ry Advertiser, UW/i.
[Atlanta Com-8|iuiuteiiro 8nuii.mil, Niws.J
Arum fur Lroraiii.
Tho Governor made application to tho
War Office at Washington, first of Octo
ber, for tho quota of arms coming to
Georgia under the law providing for an
uuntiul distribution ut aims to the severs!
States. Tho arms Imve nut boou received,
though they were promised by the middle
of October at latest. Pei Imps they will
bo sent now that the Presidential election
Under uu act passod by the Legislature,
in August, lust, it was made the duty of
tho Governor “to distribute such arms as
ho now has, or may her out ter vocoive, first
to Hitch companies as were organized uud
existing prior to tho first day of January,
18(50, i.h have already, or may wilbiu the
next three umiithH after the passage of
this act, reorganize ; and as to such com
panion, prcfoionoo shall bo given accord
ing to their original priority." Tlio act
further provides that “in nil caReaof com
panies organizing since January 1, 1872,
und, notwithstanding their complying
with all the ru es and regulations pro
scribed by the Governor in order to se
cure arum, it Hhrdl bo within his power to
furnish arms or not, according to his dis
cretion." Such is tho law, and the com
panies, as well as tho Governor, must
conform to it. Tho quota duo tho State
of Georgia amounts to only soino $25,000
iu money, and, when received, will be
sufficient to arm only a few of the oldest
companies of infantry and cavalry. No
guns were asked for tho artillery compa
nies, owing to tho great cost aud tho
small amount due the State.
Ogeecuek.
The Fluid h DUtrlrl.
RETURNS FROM ALL THU COUNTIES
All tho counties composing tho Eighth
Congressional District havo been heard
from, and tho voto stands as follows:
Wright. DiiIRmp. Clayton.
Columbia.
Elbert «i»7
Glusooelc 2!»2
Greene ATI
Hancock (5:58
Hart 334
Jefferson A12
Johnson 8552
Lincoln 80A
McDuffie 5V.*7
83
2A3
180
Oglethorpe 4 AH
Richmond .2,(#A!I
Warren 488
Washington 1,2ft I
Wilkes A8I5
Taliaferro 121
•XI
!I,IJ73
1,238
(5,280
Total voto 17,101
Wright’s majority ovor Clayton 3,118
“ “ “ J)ii Bose 8,41ft
“ “ “ both 2,18ft
All returns are official except from Tal
iaferro. —A ugusto (7/ronicle.
The Lowery Outlaws.—Tho Lumber-
ton (N. 15.) ltobesouiau tolls us that Ste
phen Lowery was present at a Justice's
Court in Burnt Swamp township, in tbo
Hcnffletown District, on Suturday, the 8d
instant. Ho was armed to the tooth, hold
ing iu his hands all tho timo a Spencer
ritle, and having his belt stuck full of re
volvers. There wero on the ground u
largo number of mulatoes and hull a doz
en whites. He seemed entirely at ease,
and during the progress of the trial man
ifested considerable interest iu it. Tho
trial was held in the church, a close log
building, from which il would huve been
impossible for him to escape otherwise
than by the door, yet he seemed to feel
no apprehension, nud but for Iho fact that
ho constantly held his ritle iu hia hands a
stranger would uot Luvo seen anything in
his mauner to betray the peculiar relation
iu which he stood to society.
g
“Personals" of tip* Washington Patriot
we find tho following: “Ex-Gov. Bullock,
of Georgia, who is at preseut in Paris,
occupies a magnificent residence in the
Champs Elysees."
The Chicago Tribuuo prints the follow,
ing epizootic note : “Oxen arc now be
ing imported ut a rapid rate. 'Ihn de
mand i* not yet rupplied, and good ani
mals meet wiih ready sale. A country-
man atood five yoke by the Chamber of
one hour walked away with $1,250 in hia
pocket, leaving the oxen to the mercies
and abasea of their new owners. There
were ox markets all through ths business
portion of tho city, and about them gath
ered merchants, ox-drivers and cariosity
seekers. The average prices were from
$150 to $250. Metchauts are generally
i airing at
baying their oxen, bat some sre hiring «
$10 a day, with driver."
The Union Pacific Railroad is baviog a
snow plough constructed that will weigh
fifty tons and will require three locomo
tives to move,
WHAT IS A “picket"—A SPY?
New York, November 8.—A Washing
ton special reports tho following as Presi
dent Grant's views on his re-election:
Ilia first election he considers an honor
pnid to hia military services; hia second,
the nation's approval of his political ad
ministration and a popular vindication of
hia personal character. Long before the
Philadelphia Convention ho foresaw hia
success. Tbo nomination by tho coali
tionists gratified him aa much as it nar
rowed tho contest to two candidates. Be
sides the character of the opposition gave
complete assurance of the result. He waa
surprised at the affright roccivcd by Rome
Ho pub l ieans at the Baltimore nomination
and ho was thereafter urged by political
giants to tuAko various changes in hia
Cabinet. Munv of liis friends hod won
dered at his indifference, but one helping
cause of that indifference which was
known to but few, was bia knowledge of
the fact that during the campaign the Re
publican National Committee has a picket
in every Greeley camp of any consequence
from one end of the country to the other,
and knew day by day evory phase of the
coalition situation, ns well the coalition
managers themselves.
The Case or I)r. Bratton.— Washing
ton. Noranber 8.—The British Minister
has called tho attention of the Heeretury
of State to the cose of Dr. Rufus Bratton,
a citizen of South Carolina, mho wus for
cibly abducted fioiu Canada, lust Spring,
assisted by a Canadian officer mimed
Cromwell. Cromwell, it will be reiuoiu-
bored, was recently sentenced to three
years imprisonment for this net—the prin
cipal witness being l)r. Rrattou. It was
uot supposed that any farther mention
would be mado of the ease, but it appears
that Bratton was released by the Uuited
Stales authorities on bail, und not return
ing to South Caroline, tho securities were
intoruied thut the bail bond would be for
feited if Bruttou did uot return. He
therefore iippcnled to the British govern
ment for protection. The British Minis
ter, under instinct ions from tho home
government, reminds tho Secretary of
State thut Her Majesty's Government
dues not toleiuto interference with her
laws, and that tuo proceedings against
Bratton having followed liis abduction
from British territory they must bo can
celled. Tho Attorney General has there
fore instructed United Status District At
torney Farrow, at Charleston, to dismiss
the bail bond and discharge tho sureties
of Bruttou, uud to pluco the proceedings
nguinst him as far as practicable in tbe
same position us before liis forcible ab
duction from C.iuiulii.
MUliilmtit Outran? in dUshcock County.
FROM KAIt TO EAR.
In Glascock county, near the lino divid
ing Glascock und Washington counties, is
a bridge known us Kitchens' bridge.
About one hundred yards from this bridge
a young man named Reuben Armor Las
recently erected a small store house,
where ho hns been keeping a small stock
of goods suitable for the country trudo.
For two or three weeks past Mr. 11., u
friond of Mr. Armor (wo withhold his full
inline for tbo present), has boon ou a visit,
staying in the store, and sleeping in the
back room with Armor, which was occu
pied as a bod-rooiu.
Ou Saturday afternoon Armor, who was
drinking, had a difficulty with some per
sons, the particulars of which our infor
mant does not know, at n house in the
neighborhood. When ho name to the
store, late in tho afternoon, there wero
marks and bruises on his face, which
would iudioato that lie hud been figbtiug.
if ‘
He stated to his friond thut he had hud a
difficulty, giving the names of the partios,
and that he bad been mist rent oil, there
being several of them against him.
THE MUIIDEU.
A little past 12 o’clock HuturdAy night
some negroes, passing, called ut tho front
door of tho store, awuking tho two men,
who were asleep in tho buck room, stat
ing thut they wished to ruuko sumo pur
chases. They wero informed that the
hour was unscasonublo and they could not
get what they wished. A few minutes kv
ter a gentle rapping was heard ut the
door, and a voice which was recognized
as that of a mail living noHr by asked ad
mittance. Mr. B , who hud put on
his pants, opened the door, when a man
iu u black hood and gown, covering com
pletely hia body, with a navy pistol in
hAiul, pushed himself inside past Mr. B.,
who, though much startled, demanded his
business. No reply was made, but the
pistol was turned from Mr. B. uud point
ed at Armor. Two other men in siuiilur
disguise now cairn* in; Armor was seized
forcibly, being totally uuurmod, and car
ried out the door.
A fourth man in disguise, armed with n
musket or carbine, (minted it toward Mr.
11., who grappled with hia wonld-be-tuur-
dorcr. la the scuffle the guu was tired,
uml the third finger of Mr. Ik's left bnud
shot off. Another one of the disguisod
men coming up just at this juncture, Mr.
B. was very wisely “seized with a leav
ing, ' which he effected by means of a
window in the tmek room, which the little
negro boy who slept on the floor in the of
fice* had already opened to effect his own
escape.
Mr. B. ran from tho houso some dis
tance, and lay out iu the woods until day,
when he called for some of the neighbors
to go with him to tho store, where they
found Armor dead, his throat cut from
ear to ear, and his head crushed and man
gled. A Corner's jury wrh summoned,
uud a verdict rendered that the deceased
came to death by tho baud of somo un
known parties.
Great excitement and indignation ia
felt in Glasscock and Washington.
Mr. B., from whom wo obtain the fore
going particulars, came to Atlanta tbis
morning to procure from tbe State or
United States authorities the immediate
arrest of the murderers. He states thut
he know’s who two of tho disguised men
were, and has proof to convict them.
We are satisfied of the truthfulness of
Mr. 11.'s statement.
Tho nmrder cannot be attributed to any
political causes, unless tho murderers
were Radicals, for Imth Mr. Armor and
Mr. II. were known to be Democrats. The
outrage is evidently caused by a personal
animosity, aggravated by that evil provo
cative of so much crime und unhuppiuosa
in our land—strong drink.
[Atlanta Sun, 12th.
The Now York 8un thus comments up
on the result of the Presidential eleetion :
The returns from tho several States
ahow that the Liberals have been faithful
to their pledges, bnt that • sufficient
number of Democrats have abstained
from voting or have voted for Grant and
Wilson to give them a decisive majority.
By tboir contentions and divisions the
Democrats enabled tbe Republicans to
elect Lincoln iu 18(50, und again in 1801,
aud Grant in 18(58. But cover before d d
all portions of the Democratic party con
tribute so much aud so directly to the de*
feat of their Presidential candidate an in
the contest which has just oloeed. Not
only did • large body of Democrats re
frain ‘ ~
from voting for Groeley, but anoth
er large body of them voted for Gen.
Grant; and to tbeee two classes, rather
than to the Republican perty, ha is lo-
fi for his ele etlon to i Moond term.
dotted
Tbon tecta iUn.tr.te ia a vnjr .biking
m.un.r tbo instability of p»rtte* tad tho
inconsistency of politicians.
Boston, Not. IS.—Twenty-one thou
sand dollars’ worth of propsrty has bsen
rtooTsrcd from tbisvss. Gas was (anted
on to day after (wo nights of dtrkitm
■r. amity's fosrli.loss.
From the N. Y. Tribune, Nov. A]
Tho geueral roanlt of our late Presiden
tial election indicates that—
I. The objections to General Grant's
rale originally urged by Senators Sumner,
Schurz, Trumbull, Ac., wero forcible and
well grounded. Many of tho most re
spectable of tbe journals which, on oitLer
side of the Atlautic, vigorously urged the
President's re-election now insist that the
abuses thus proclaimed must be ackuowl-
edged and corrected; some of them de-
mutid, in addition to the reforms specifi
cally promised at Philadelphia, others still
more rrdioal and thorough.
II. But, where thousands admitted that
the criticisms aforesaid were just, far
fewer wete ready to nocept tho only alter
native presented. They any they would
have supported Adams, or Davis, or
Trumbull; but not Greeley. Hence the
vote is quite light, even in States and dis
tricts where the contest was spirited.
no sympathy for those they still regard i
rebels. On the oontraiy, they hold that
* % % * * d ...
these have been treated more leniently
than they deserve. The majority will tol
erate, not approve, the gift of office to a
Longstroet, an Akermun, a Settle, who
has been baptized into tho Republican
others shall bold office where they can
prevont it.
IV. Whichever party carries in Ootober
two of the three central States—Pennsyl
vania, Ohio and Iodiaua—is morally cer
tain to choose the President in November.
Tbero has been no exception to this, save
in 1824, when Jackson carried Pennsylva
nia and Indiana, aud had a plurality of
the electoi s chosen, but Adams wus elected
by the House.
V. Theso two Slates hnving gone for
Grant iu October, not only was the con
test virtually given up iu the North, but
thousands of the so-called rebels went
over to Graut, believing this their short
est way to perfeet reconstruction—that is,
to secure for themselves a practical
Thus General Kershaw, of South Curoli-
uu, at one time urged his fellow rebels to
run no ticket against Grant, as tbiH would
enable them to appoal with effect for
Federal sympathy us against their lusoully
Stute rulers.
VI. The Republicans bavo won a peril
ous triumph. Johu Randolph said that
was tho best possible majority.—
Wheu the old Reuublicuu putty had
Pi
chosen Mr. Monroe President with only
one elector dissenting, it dissolved, uud
run four candidates at the next election.
YU. Though the Democratic parly
broke into fragmeuta, uot ouo of these
haa distinctly proposed a return to the
anti-negro policy of other days. On the
contrary, tho Bourbons, who urged ull
manner of objections to Greoley, said
nothiug of his devotion to equal rights
regardless of color. We may fairly con
clude that there will be no further formi
dable, systematic opposition to impartial
VIII There is little or no complaint,
from suy quarter of violence or terrorism
ut the polls. Blacks and whitoH swarmed
around a thousand polls, struggling zeal
ously, but scarcely u blow whh struck nud
no serious riot occurred. It is thus set
tled thut whites and blacks may vote to
gether without a broach of tho peuco—
“rebel" aud “niggor" treating ouch other
with forbeuruneu aud consideration.
From tlio N. Y. Tribune, November 0.
General Grant was yesterday ro-elooted
to the Presidency by the popular votes ol
every Nortborn State, with Uiose of South
Carolina, aud possibly of two or threo
other Stutos below the line. We judge
that his streugth in the Electoral College
will ut tho vory lowest, rise to 2(50 out of
the wholo 8(5(5. There is scarcely a par
allel to the completeness of the rout uud
tho triumph. Democrats have vied with
Liberal Republicans iu coutribu'itig to
it, some of them by voting directly for
Graut electors, mntiy inoro by neglecting
to voto at all. For the present the Lib
eral movement hooidh crushed.
Well, wo did our best to stem it, believ-
ing firmly 1. That uo President should
be re-elected while wielding the enormous
patronage of our highest station- holding
that each should be shielded from ail
temptations to use those powers for per
sonal ends. 2. Thut this country was iu
great need of a genuine Civil Service Re
form which should restore to hor office
holders thut freedom to think, decide.,aud
act on political issues which is their birth
right, but which they cauuot enjoy uudci
the present system, aud which should en
able them to give their days to the public
duties for which they are paid, rather than
to putrohng aud elootioneeringiu tho par
tisan iuterost of their patrou aud chief.
8. That tbe war-wasted, tax-plundered,
debt-covered, half-bankrupt South should
be cheered with a well-grounded hope of
bouester rule and brighter days, wherein
the carpet-bagger shall cease to pluuder
as the Kn-klnx Kluu have loug since ceas
ed to alarm aud outrage.
It did seem to us thut the time had ful
ly come for a National reconciliation,
whereby the destinies of tbe South should
be confided to tbe better portion of her
people of both raoes, and tho master spir
its of such travesties of Republican itile
as South Carolina and Arkansas bo made
to quail under the frown of Federal au
thority, aud either reform their waya or
relinquish their abtiBed power. Aud it
soeined to ua that saoh enormous defalca
tions as Paymaster Hodge’s $474,000
ought at least to be explained before pow
er is returned to the hands which wielded
it while such great frauds went ou for
years undetected. But the peoplo have
decided otherwise, and we bow to their
decision.
Tho wealth of the couutry, and ( special
ly the incorporated wealth, rallied to the
support of General Graut, and poured out
its millions in bis behalf. It did not gen
erally deny that his civil career had been
faulty; it merely insisted that that of his
competitor had been and would bo inoro
so. Then our manufacturers, bankets,
etc., were nearly all makiug money, ami
they deprecated any change whatever,aud
especially a change which they feured
might prove radical and fundamental. Mr.
Boutwell in the Treasury had satisfied
them that he was trying to keep the dis-
count on greenbacks rauging botween 10
and 14 per oeut., so that the devices aud
straggles of the gold and stock gamblers
should create no “pleasure" or “panic."
W hethor the means employed wero legal
or otherwise was to them a quite subor
dinate consideration—the issue of mil
lions of uew greenbacks, or susp sales of
millions of gold, troubled them not—so
long as the end were attained of making
or keeping money easy and the disparity
between gold ana legal-tender as nearly
uniform as might be.
General Graut has a new fonr years'
lease of power, with a Congress of which
' as to three-fourths of either House
two-thin
will support him zealously. lle has every
facility for effecting the reforms he is
said to meditate, especially that of the
civil service, while the abolition of the
uuich-abuscd privilege is so squarely
promised that its success would seem to
assured. For whatever reform ho
may give ua, he shall have from the
Tribi * **• ‘ *
•one cordial recognition and praise—
tort, he shall have, in tbe
where be falls short,
future as in the past, frank and fearloas
criticism. And, while there are danger
ous tendencies dsveloped by this canvass,
the
oon-
wbiob foreshadow a government by
rich and able few, subsidizing and w»-
trolling such portion aa they may require
of the ignorant, penniless, venal many,
let tie never despair of the American Re-
public!
The New York Tribune, of Wednesday
as e pithy heed Une; “The liberal Tn-
tmph Postponed,"
AllOt'T THK Kl-KM'X.
now- THE (GOVERNMENT PROOIEDB TO OBTAIN
WITNESSES.
Policeman Burns found s suspicions
looking negro ovor in East Macon yester
day, who seemed to be hangiug about as
if he would like to sequostrate something,
or, if not bent on such purpose as that,
was at least a candidate for the office ot
vagrant. He was a tall, uncouth looking
fellow*, whose clothes were a wonderful
combination of dirt aud patch-work, aud
who looked as if ho were more in
need of a squaro meal than anything else.
Bums took the fellow in churge and
brought him to the barracks. His ap-
pearauco was so much like tlmt of ouo
who had been hiding out that the officer
thought it uot improbable that he wus tho
uogro who made that diabolical uttempt
ut rape lust week.
When brought to tho barracks nud
questioned, the negro gave the following
account of hiumelf : His name is Moses
Barfield, and he lives in Wilkiusou conn-
ty, about five miles from Gordon. Ho
has been working all tho year with Mr.
Joe Whitehurst. About one o'clock Mon
day night, he was uwakened by some one
knocking at bis door. lie weut to the
door aud found a white muu there, who
guve his name as Johusou. Tho man
wanted Moses to walk out with him as ho
bad something to say to him. To this
Moses objected, as he did uot like to w alk
out with u stranger at that time of night
After some persuusion, however, he put
on his shoos and cauie out. Johnson,
called, then asked how fur it was to tho
nearest station, as be wauted to como to
Macon by (he first train. Here the par
ties were joined by a negro named Chur-
lie Robinson, who seemed to have piloted
the umn to Barfield's house. Barfield of
fered to show them the wuy to tho station,
and while on the wuy thither, Johnson
pulled out a paper und told Barfield that
it was a warrant for liis arrest, and that lie
would have to come to Mucou with thorn.
At the stutiou they took the tr<tiu,Johu-
soii giving Barfield a ticket, and all throe
came to Macou. At tho depot they were
uiet by “Gol. ’ Sneed, who is understood
to be acting iu tho capucity of a United
States detective. Burficld wus taken iu
charge by Suocd, uml be saw the man
called Johusou no more during tbe day.
Sliced took him first to Wheeler's saloon,
aud they took a drink together, lie then
took him to 1*. Perkins' bur-room, on
Mulberry street, and they took auother
drink together.
Sneed then proceeded to business. Ho
usked lt.ii field if he did not know all the
white men iu Wilkinson county. Being
auKwoicd affirmatively, lie next asked him
if lie did uot know something about Ku-
klux. To this ho received a negative
swer. Sneed insisted that he did, aud
urged him to tell what he kuew. Ho said
he been led to believe that BailloUl hue
something, and he wanted to nscurtaiu
what it wus. Burficld continued to ust
his iguoruuco, until Suced said : “By
I believe you uro iu conclusion with
them."
Finally, nfter another drink had been
taken, Sneed proceeded more directly to
busiuess. Hu said ho wauted witnesses
against the Wilkinson county Kuklux,
and he hud hcuu led to believe that Bur-
field uould swear ugsiust them, and thut,
il he would go to Sivanuah und do so, lu*
would get his board and tico dollars and a
half a day for every day ho wus away from
Ins work.
This was a tempting offer; but the no-
gro still persisted that he knew nothiug,
and would not sw-eur to a lie for two dol
lars and a half a day.
Hu was finally turned over to another
negro named Joe Morris, to see what
could be uiude out of Linn Joe insisted
ou Barfield's going to Havaunub, and
urged upon him the tempting inducement
ot $2.50 a day, just for swearing against
ku Klux. Hu still refused, however, aud
was left with tho injunction to meet
Hueod at Perkins’ ut sun-down, wheu they
were to havo n full understanding in re
gard to the matter. .
In the meant une, how ever, Barfield got
hungry, aud being furnished with no ra
tions und having no money to buy food,
he wout over to Lust Macou, to the resi
dence of a w hile man w hom lie kuew, aud
got something to eat. Here ho was ar
rested, as uhovo stated, by officer Bums.
He had iu his possession a tieket ovor the
Central Road to Havannuh, which he said
had been given him by the uiun calling
himself Johnson. lie thought it was a
ticket only to the station nearest his
home.
Barfield was released from tho barracks
just before train timo lust night, aud ut
once mude tracks for the depot, where he
iuteudud to take the truiu forborne, lle
claims to be uu industrious negro, says
he uevor has votod, and has never beeu
to an clectiou, uud Luh uevor been chased
by tho Ku Klux. He couldn't swear lies
against the whito men, not even for $2.50
u duy.—Macon Tel., 155th.
Novel Ueturas of an Klrrfloa.
A COLORED SUPERVISOR AND IIIS NOTCHED
SHINGLES.
A gentleman who 1ms junt relumed
from Screven gives the fuHuwing limits
ing account of the election at the Mobley
Pond precinct, in that county, which, even
in theso serious times, will cause a smile
to illumine ths countenance of a straight-
out. It uppears that Jeff Brown, n uo
gro, was commissioned by Stone, United
States Commissioner, to act us supervisor.
As it was one of the illegul precincts, il
was necessary in order to carry out the
itudieal programme to wail until ten
o'clock, but when that hour airiv^dtho
presiding Magistrate wus so overcome by
old Johu Bariuyeoru thut it Wt*s impossi
ble for hor him to open the polls ucuord-
itig to law.
In this emergency Jeff Brown, the su
pervisor, who was anxious to curry out
the iustructions of the Radical cabal, ap
pealed to a gentleman, who was one of
the freeholders, for udvice. The gentle-
iimu advised him to form the voters in
liue aud march them to tho frout iu fives,
according to the way they wanted to vote,
aud tully tho vote ou a shingle by cutting
a “notch" in it for each live. In this
nmnuor each purty was tallied on a sepa
rate shingle. At the end there was un
odd tile of three for Grant. Browu here
upon again appealed to Mr. , the
freeholder, for adviee us to bow to count
the threo. After some deliberation the
odd count was put down by cutting a
small notch in the shingle, und the elec
tion closed.
Provided with these undoubtedly illegal
returns for the Mobley Pond Precinct,
Supervisor Brown (colored) started with
them to Havannnh to deliver them to
Stone. Lost night he was hunting about
town with a Greeley and ltawls shingle
under one arm and a Graut and Sloan
shinglo with the “small notch" in it, un
der the other, enquiring tbe may to tbe
Custom House. If tboso returns on sbiu-
glos uro not received, wanants should be
issued at once fur the arrest of every
white man for a violation of the enforce
ment uct, iu fooling Republican voters ol
Sere von county.—Sac. Nats, 11th.
A I, AllASU LKOISLATUtE.
A Walk (hr a Wafer.
London, Nor. 7.—Sergeant Bates, the
Auioriuau pedestrian, has mado a wager
that he cad travel on foot through Eng-
long without molestation, bearing the
banner of tbe Uuited Stataa unfurled.
He aet out from Glasgow Tuesday morn
ing in the coetume he adopted in Ameri-
oe, and oarrying the flag ou a short staff.
Iie proceeded to Kendall, whonoe he will
walk to Laneaster. His route from tbst
point will be through Preston, Bolton,
Msnohester, Msoolesfield, Birmingham,
Warwick and Oxford, to London, where
kU trip is to todi
opulilici
Tho following members are electod as
far as heard:
SENATE.
1st District—Limestone and Lauder
dale—!). Coleman.
2d District—Franklin and Lawrence—
J. C. Goodloe.
3d District—Morgan, Blount, Winston
and Mariou—W. H. Edwards.
4th District—Madison—«S’. Murphy.
ftth District—Jacksoo, Marshall and
DeKalb—one Democrat.
(•tti District—Cherokee and Calhonn—
T. B. Cooper.
7th District—Walker, Jefferson nnd
St. Clair—G. W. Hewitt.
8th District—Sbelby und Bibb—It. W.
Cobb.
!*th District—Tuscaloosa aud Fayette—
J. M. Martin.
10th District—Talladega and Clay—A.
Cunningham.
1 Ith District—Chambers, Randolph nnd
Cloburi.c—J. J. Robinson.
12th District—Coosa and Tallapoosa—
J. A. Terrell.
155th—Lee—J. L. Pennington. ^
14th District—Macon— H’. M r . Was*.
15th District—ltusaell—
K*th District—Bullock—It. F. lioi/nl.
17th District—Haibour—
18th District—Autauga aud Kluiore—
C. S. U. l)oester.
V.Uh District—Montgomery—A.
Wilson.
2oth Dist.—Lowndes—J. 11’. Jones.
21st Dist.—Dallas—Jere liaralson.
22ml Dist.—Perry—A. 11. Curtis.
28rJ Dist.—Hale—G. M. Dunlin.
24th Dist.—Greene uml Pickens—
25th Dist.—Sumter—Radical.
2(5thDist.—Marengo—J. H. Dcrtcn.
27th Dint.—Choctaw, Clarke und Wash
ington — I )emocrnt.
28th Dist.—Mobile—Peter Hamilton.
2!*tli Dist. — Baldwin and Monroe—J.
D. Driesbuch.
550th Dist.—Wilcox—It. II. Ervin, Ind.
81st Dist.—Butler and Conecuh--E. W.
Mariin.
82ml Dist.—Covington, Crenshaw and
1’iko—Democrat.
38id Dist.—Coffee, Dale nnd Henry- J.
M. Curuiichael.
Democrats in Romau.
Italic.
HOUSE.
Autauga—Patterson.
Baldwin—Yuughu.
B.ttbour—
Bibb—Ouo Democrat.
Blount—St. John.
Bullock - C. 11. Davis, Perry Matth
A. .S’. Sjiceil.
Bulb r—W. V. Cloptou.
Calhoun—J. M. Reufroo.
Clm iu t»u r s— McCoy—I larrow.
Cherokee—One Domocrat.
(5 hoe taw—T* A. Slater.
Clarke—One Democrat.
Clay—J. H. White.
Cleburne—W. P. llowell.
Coffee—C. S. Lee, jr.
Colbert— S. Corsbio.
Conecuh—N. Stallworth.
Coosa—Daniel Crawford.
Covington—E. J. Maucill.
Crenshaw—J. J. Owens.
Dale—One Democrat.
Dailas-riftj*. White, 11. Cochn
three other Republicans.
DcKulb—
Elrnuie—Hannon.
Fayette—Wm. Musgrove.
Franklin—W. W. Weatherford.
Greene—S. \V. Cockrell ami one
Uopublicnn.
llale—Threo Republicans.
Henry—One Democrat.
Jack son—J. H. Cowan and
Brown.
Jefferson—Ouo Democrat.
Lauderdale—B. F. Taylor.
Limestoue— Lamb.
Lawrence—Thomas Simpson and John
Musturson, independents.
Leo—8. G. Joues and Thomas B. Ted
dy, Independents.
Lowndes—IF. 11. llanhr, January
MauU and one more Republican.
Macon—Two Republicans.
Madison—Three Republicans.
Marengo— C. IF. Dustan, Thomas and
Threat.
Marion—A. J. Hamilton.
Marshall—U. K. Boyd.
Mobile—A. It. Muiining, Leroy Brew
er, D. C. Anderson, J. II. McHugh, J. F.
Draxler.
Monroe—S. A. Barnett.
Montgomery—N. H. Cloud, J. M. Levy,
11. ICUsworth, />. Steele, aud 1.. J. HY(-
liatM.
Morgan—Smith.
Perry—Three Republicans.
Pickens—L. M. Stone uud Gresham.
Pike—J. D. Murphreu.
Randolph—Loccern.
Russell—
Shelby—A. M. Elliott.
Ht. Clair—Ashe.
Sumter— Three Radicals.
Talladega— L. E. Parsons nnd X. S.
McAfee.
Tallapoosa—II. P. Smith ami W. II.
Whatley.
Tuscaloosa—N. 8. Whit Hold and N. II.
Browne.
Walker—Ono Democrat.
Washington—J. W. Faith.
Wilcox—John llruee, 1. D. Me Cash ir,
and Willis Meriwether.
Winston—
KollorlouR Agitation In Knrope.
There seems to be a wonderful fermen
tation in religious topics all ovor Europe.
In Italy, tho Government and paopla
arc in antagonism with the Pope and
order of Jesuits; riots in Rome, directed
against a Jesuit Professor, bad to be put
down by the military, tbe police being
insufficient; Germany is agitated by the
expulsion of the Josuits, the opposition
of the Bishop of Ermeland to tbe Gov
ernment, und tho Congress of Old Oatbo-
iiiH propose to excommunicate their Pope;
excited about the question of
Franco
tho infinite amount of syeeches, letters
to the papers, writings of able editors,
meetings, resolutions, synods, congresses
and conferences, shows that that people
must have most voracious Appetites for
polemics.
: Tho Dissenters had large and entbuai-
1 astie meetings in Birmingham and Brad
ford, favoring Disestablishment, and the
Buplists had a conference in Manchester.
In the Church, tho Archbishop of Canter
bury hnR been “charging" the members
of his extensive dioccso with advice and
instruction to an inordinate length; there
havo hecu synods and conferences in
many of tho cathedral towns ; and lsst of
>dl, to crown all, there has been a Con
gress of Episcopalians talking for four
• lays, and almost breaking np in a row, on
the importance of sustaining the Church
with the State. They must have had a
woarisotno time of it between High
Church nud Low Church, the Ritualist
uml Broad Church, each trying to oheok-
mate liis neighbor, but all wishing they
could do something that would quiet the
public mind, and bring the people to a
fixed uniformity of thought and mind, so
its not lu distract things.
It all resulted in dry discussion® of his-
torieal narratives, and barren specula
tions, tending to no tangible object. The
question with the people is, what the
church is going to lx*, not what it haa
been aforetime. But tho Congress dared
not to rut too closely on reform. The
High Church nnd Low Church kept dis
cussing the outer fringift of subjects on
which they most fiercely disagree. High
Church and Low Church are eager to ex
pel one another, and both are anxious to
get rid of tho Broad Church party. And
iho Bishop of lVtersborough went so far
, nml
.all
church cun get on bettor without being
hi -und to tho State. “In God’s name," he
ci ies, “loavo tlio Establishment! To re
main in the church, to take its emolu
ments, to hold to its privileges nnd offices,
and, at. tho same time, to declare you
mi iwi to compass its destruction, is a
cottrso of proceeding which I can not
reconcile with honesty."— Nashville
Union.
oilier
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i.t lD(l.|ici|(lc|
i ill llo:
Kc|mi
Tutuu Congressional District.—Wo
give below tbe result in tbis District as
tar as heard front. The following coun
ties givo Gun. Cook majorities:
Webster ftp
Stewart (5 lu
Schley 50
Taylor 288
Dooley 21*0
Tuloski 4(51
Dodge 140
Tho following counties give Col. Brown
majorities:
Sumter 504
Macou 204
Loo 100
Tbo above count, which is official,gives
Gun. Cook a majority of 1*510 votes. The
remaining counties to be board from lire
Montgomery, Telfair, Wilcox atul Irwin.
If we take the voto given Gov. Smith in
those counties as s criterion, Gen. Cook s
majority will reach 25(H) iu the District.—
Sumter Republican, 12th.
The German Holders or Georgia
Bonds.—The American News of FrAitk-
fort says, under dale of October 18th :
At the last mooting of the Georgia Com
mittee the resolution was adopted to send
Mr. W. W. Murphy to Georgia for tho
purpose of securing the rights of the Ger
man bondholders sud to make them par
ties to tho suit which is now peuding in
court there. The Committee is in cor
respondence with some of tho leading
bankers in New York, and they all advise
the Geruiuu bondholders to bo represent
ed at tho next term of tho court iu Atlan
ta, which will bo held about the middle
of November next. Distinguished coun
sel have been returned, and we earnestly
hope that, even if the State of Georgia
should insist on the repudiation, yet the
road itself will fetch enough to pay the
bondholders.
Mr. W. S. Brown Arrested.—On Fri
day evening a warraut waa auad out
against Mr. Brown, charging him with
TP ..... . “
the killing ot John H. Grant. He waa
ariaatad on Saturday by Sheriff Mann,
and waived examination, and his bond is
to be fixed by Jodge Greene. In the
mean time, he remains in the onstodv of
tho offiotr. Mr. Broun moot emphatical
ly deniee having inflicted the fatal wound
and ia confidant of
oenve
Hcpurl cl' tlio Secretary of War.
The unnuul report of the Secretary of
War commences by complimenting Con-
gross for Huuh completeness of last year’s
legislation that little room was left for le
gislative recommendation. The Secretary
recommends the establishment of military
prisons in place of tho present system ol
studing army couvicts to State peniten
tiaries. Desertions from the army have
fsilon off greatly during the past year.—
Ho renews the recommendation that tho
extra lieutenant to each regiment bo dht-
pensed with, as vacauoies occur, .and thua
save $1(50,000 par annum. He recoin -
mends raising the intellootual standard of
ui.mission to West Point; also the sale of
several arsenals disused at the Sonth aud
elsewhere, and urges the establishment of
g( ticral arsenals on the Atlantic and Pa-
citic slopes.
Tho progress in experiments with im
proved heavy ordnance, und with breach-
loading small arms, is slow.
tlo considers channel obstructions And
torpedoes, protected by heavy batteries,
us vuluublo tor harbor defenses, and tho
experiments with torpodoes havo beeu
successful in determining the kind to bn
used, aud the Secretary recommends the
storage of iu * t ,odoes for tho defense of
New York and other harbors.
Tho now system of inspecting disburs
ing officers’ accounts is in full operation.
lie concludes by regretting that one-
sixth of the army is still detained in tho
Southern States, east of the Mississippi
river, nnd hopes the improving sooial
condition will soon reliove that force for
frontier sorvice,and also says the military
expondituf-es are on a descending seal*.—
Haiti more Gazette.
(inirifia State CoIIck** of Agriculture aud Me
chanic Arts.
From a circular received, we see that
tho State College has a faculty of ten pro
fessors aud instructors and one hnndrad
and twenty-six students; that it offers six
separate courses of study in agrioultore,
engineering, practical chomistry, etc.,
uml bus established a chemical labratory
fur instruction iu practical ohemiltry.
Scholarships giving free tuition are grant
ed for cuch member of the House of
Koprcsotatives.
Dr. Peudleton, well known to the peo-
of Goorgiu and tho South, is the Profes
sor of Agriculture and Horticulture.
Il is desigued, tho circular states, when
tho resources will permit, to provide com
modious laboratories and thoronghly equip
the m with modern apparatus; to provide
it
an experimental farm and furnish it with
improved agricultural implements; to es
tablish a plant-house for illustrations in
botany ; to place in tho industrial muse
um modols of implements and machines,
products of agriculture, of manufacture
uud tho mochanic arts generally ; and to
provide for students a reading-room with
reviews, magazines nnd the prominent
agricultiusl journals.—Atlanta Conititu-
Shocking Affair.—The gin house of
Mr. Green Harper, of Monroe county,
was consumed by fire on last Saturday
night, and five persons perished in the
flumes. It seemH almost incredible that
there should be such loss of life, bnt so it
is reported to us. Names of victims :-
John und Joe Spruce, two of Harper's
~ of Har
bors, and two negro boys. One <
pei's boys is still living, but expected to
die. They wero ginning at night, and
'dentally sot the lint room on fire with
a luntoru. — Grijfin Star, 12th.
How a Rattlesnake Bites.—A writer
chambers' Journal contradiots a popu
lar belief as to tho manner in wuoh
ouakes bito and inject their poison. He
says:
“I can only speak for the rattle snake,
it is truo; with every other venomous
reptile tho orthodox acoounts may be oor-
root, but the rattlesnake does not send its
poison through its fangs. It is alwsya
said that tho two fuugs, which answer
somewhat to tho Imumn ‘eye-teeth,’are
hollow and perforated at tho bottom, and
that the poison flows from the reservoir
through this canal to the point of tho
fang, and thence into the wound. Tho
rattlesnake's faug is certainly hollow, but
tbo point is solid, and the poison-bag, to
use a very homely simile, may be com
pared in its position to a gum-boil; when
the animal strikes, the pressure instantly
causes a drop of venom to run down out
side the tooth into the puncture.
“I dare say this will be
controverted,
and I therefore at once givo an authority
to be referred to. Mr. W. H. Mority,
chief surveyor of tho North and South
niug through Colorado and New 1
is a skilled naturalist, who has killed sev-
eral hundred of these reptiles, 1ms osre-
fully examined them, and has mads them
bite when in a position to watch them,
and he can apeak from more experience
than almost any living that the> poi
son u injected in this mauner deaonbed.
This accounts for tho fact that raUltsnska
bites are sometimes harmless wheo the
sufferer is Litton through doth; the pois-
ia confidant of establishing his kino- on is absorbed by the doth, rad Mff|
\i% Ipjoad <ju#eUon.—Qrifiti Office, find* its way into ths flash fet ill* 4