The Weekly sun. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1870-1872, October 25, 1871, Image 4
THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN-
THE DAILY SUN.
Monday Morning...
,.. .October 23
“Cold Comfort.”
tor by th« next Legislature, we repeat, we have no
special favorite. There are many good and true
Democrat* in the 8tate, to whom the “ineligibility"
clause of the ••fraudulent amendment’’ doet not ap
ply—a* well aa a great many to whom it doct. All
that we urge ia, that in making a eel action, the mem
ber* of the Legislature shall not act upon tho prin-
etple of a r'vr.gnition of the validity of this unparal
leled fraud and ururpation of clearly defined Con
stitutional rights. Let them exclude no one because
of this li/ability," to-callnl. No good can be se
cured by such a conrse, while infinite mischief may
result from the precedent.
Mr. Stephens gives very strange and
We publish elsewhere an article, under
the above heading, taken from a late is
sue of tho Montgomery Advertiser. “
Wo commend it to the consideration kicked advice to the people of Georgia,
of all those who counsel our Legislature ; The Constitutiou -of the United States
to select no one for United States Sena-1 provides that certain persons, described
■ , , ■ -1 ..in the Fourteenth Amendment, shall not
tor, who comes under the “ban of the , ^ mi i—.
“disability” clause of the 14th Amend
ment, so-called, in order that the State
may be surely represented. If the De
mocracy of North Carolina are unrepre
sented in the United States Senate, be
cause they were “so foolish” as to elect
Governor Vance, who was under this
“ban," how much worse off are they than
the Democracy of Alabama are, who
elected an able man of their choice, who
was not under that “ban,” but who wa3
known to be opposed to Radicalism?
This article, in ontline, covers the whole
question.
The dominant Faction at Washington
intend to perpetuate their power by usur
pation. Tho Imperial Organ boldly an
nounces that they will admit no one to
the Senate, even if he is not under the
“ban” of the 14th Amendment,
“unless his skirts are clear of”
what it is pleased to style “Kukluxism.”
That is, it is here boldly asserted by this
Organ of the Administration, that the
Party in Power will establish even fiber
qualifications than those set forth in the
'Conslilution as they claim it to have been
amended, whenever it suits their pur
pose!
And yet the Organ, which has the au
dacity thus to proclaim, and avow the
purpose of the Ruling Dynasty, to en
tirely disiegard the obligations of the
Constitution, even as they themselves have
made it, has the still greater audacity to
speak of tho perjury of those who take
an oatii to support the Constitution; bnt
■ who do mot suppose that they thereby are
bound, either in law, or conscience, to
. pay tho least regard whatever to infa
mous interpolations in tho sacred instru
ment, which rest alone upon “usurpa
tion, fraud and perfidy.”
Perjury involves both matters of fact
and law; and the Imperial Organ here
openly proclaims that the members of its
Party in the Senate intend to consummate
the act in its greatest enormity in tramp
ling on tho Constitution of tho country,
even as- they claim that it now is; and in
trampling on the liberties of the people,
'•as well as the rights of the States, when
ever it suits their purpose of Centralism
and Empire 1 The issue is thus distinct
ly made, and it should be squarely met
by tho people at the polls, and at any
election they are called upon to make!
What will avail any concessions to the
exactions of Power, thus demanded?
We repeat, what we have often said be
fore, that the oDly proper course for the
people, anywhere, iu all the States, is
patiently to bear the ills that are upon
them, until, at the polls, and in ell other
Constitutional ways, they shall, as they
can, rightfully and jieacefully rectify all
these wrongs, by driving the authors of
from Power. This can be done,
and will be done, in this way, unless a
majority of the States are in favor of
Empire. This we do not believe. It,
however, never will be done, and never
can be done, by yielding a voluntary
concession to admitted usurpations.
-Power is ever encroaching. If an inch
- of right be voluntarily yielded, on de
mand, an ell will soon be called for in
-like manner.
In reference to what is said in the ar-
■tiole, quoted, by the Imperial Organ,
upon the subject of “Kukluxism,” and
our teachings leading to such results, we,
here, barely say, that no one knows bet
ter than the Editors of the Chronicle, that
mo one in tho United States is further
from teaching any snch doctrines than
we are. They know full well, that our
counsels, from the beginning, have been,
and are, patiently to bear ell the wrongs
of maladministration, until they can be
properly righted, through the established
instrumentalities of the Constitution.—
Law and order have been our motto, and
our political watchwords through life;
and especially ever since the usurpations
of Reconstruction commenced.
Wc, moreover, say to th% Editors of
the Imperial Organ, if they wish to know
the real and true origin of what they are
pleased to style “Kukluxism,” they have
only to consider the monstrous outrages
upon Popular Rights, which have marked
those admitted usurpations which they
defend. They should recollect that—
•The flesh will quiver
Where the pinchers tear,
The blood will flow where
The knife is driven.”
"This great truth we state, simply as a
fact in nature, and not in any spirit, oth
er than that of deep regret and mortifi
cation, at everything of the sort, and es
pecially at the horrible cause of the ori-
. gin. A. H. S.
From the Montgomery (Ala,) Advertiser.
Cold Comfort,
The "Washington Chronicle, edited
bv the notorious Holden, and the Ad
ministration Organ at the Capital, al
together worthy of the Administra
tion it represents, does not give mnch
encouragement to the idea of send
ing ineligible men to Congress. We
lay it before our readers as one of the
signs of the times:
Mr. Stephens, in a late number of The
Atlanta Sun, referring to the election of
a United States Senator by the next Leg
islature of Georgia, says:
In relation to the election of a United States Sena
hold seats in Congres. The members of
the Legislature of Georgia are sworn to
support the Constitution with this
amendment. Mr. Stephens advises them
after having thus sworn, to breaktheir oath
by disregarding the Fourteenth Article.
Can such men be trusted? No wonder
there are swarms of Knklux in Georgia,
when leading men like Mr. Stephens ad
vise the people to perjure themselves to
gratify their hatred to the Government of
the United States.
Georgia may elect a banned Senator,
but he will not get his seat. She may
elect an unbanned Senator, bnt we do
not believe even such an one will be ad
mitted, unless his skirts are clear of Ku-
kluxism.
Sometimes as in the case of our
Senator from Alabama an “unbanned
Senator” with his “skirts clear of Ku
kluxism,” is not admitted to his
seat. The Radical chiefs allow the
people to be represented when they
choose, and refuse them representa
tion when they choose. The rule is
no longer one prescribed by the Con
stitution and laws; it is what a Rad
ical caucus may determine to he the
will of the Radical Party.
The Northern Democracy.
We have, heretofore, (since the lgte
elections) given the opinions of able and
true Democrats in Maine, New Hamp
shire and Pennsylvania, as to the real
sentiments of the honest masses of the
Party in these States, upon tho false
movement of their leaders in the recent
campaigns in those and other Northern
States. We now give an utterance on
the same subject, from that sterling
champion of Jeffersonian principles,
“The Democrat," published at Ottumwa,
Iowa.
These indications, to say nothing of
thousands of others, clearly show that
the masses of the Northern Democracy
do not, any more than the masses of the
Southern Democracy, sanction or ap
prove the “fraudulent amendments,”and
that they are ready to stand “shoulder to
shoulder” with tho friends of Free Insti
tutions everywhere, in a rescue of the lib
erties of the country, in the contest of
1872, upon the square issue of Constitu
tionalism against Centralism and Despo
tism.
The Editorial referred to, is in the issue
of that paper of the 12th inst., and is as
follows:
5*‘Tl»e New Departure.”
It is earnestly to ba desired that those
Democrats who strongly urged the New
Departure and forced it upon the party
are now satisfied.
We lost California; Maine went Repub
lican by an increased majurity; Con
necticut ditto; Ohio goes Republican by
20,000; Pennsylvania by 15,000; Iowa
will roll up 40,000; everywhere we
have lost since tbe “New Departure” was
taken.
This brings us to a personal matter of
which we shall briefly speak. The editor
of this paper, before the Democratic
State Convention assembled, did all that
he could to secure the right kind of a
platform for the Iowa Democracy. He
went as a delegate to the convention, and
finding that a large majority of the dele
gates were in favor of even the
extreme views of Mr. Yallandig-
ham and that they would, in all proba
bility, be forced upon the convention,
accept the compromise resolutions
which were offered by General
A. C. Dodge. We accepted the plat
form—not because we liked it—but for
the sake of peace and to secure harmony
in tbe ranks of tbe Democracy. Those
delegates opposed to the New Departure,
could have inaugurated at Des Moines a
feud which would have split the party in
twain. We preferred, however, to do
our fighting inside the organization, and
to direct our fire against the common
enemy.
Willing to allow the New Departurists
to try their policy for one brief summer
willing to support the ticket nomi
nated—we, however, are not willing to
allow ourselves to be dragged any longer
at tbe chariot wheels of Radicalism. We
have submitted long enough; we have
carried out in good faith our agreement
to lie still during the campaign, but tbe
campaign is over.
Now, Good Bye, New Departure!
Now, for a return to first principles!
Now, for a revival of Jeffersonian De
mocracy!
The Democrat will have something
more to say on this subject next week,
and will more fully set forth the policy
which we believe should be pursued in
the future.
to his tools, thus trampling under foot
Article XVth of the amendments to the
Constitution, which provides that “the
right of the people to keep and bear
arms sliall not infringed.” He has a3
much right to disarm all the military
companies in Virginia, and to compel each
in an of them to deliver his arms to Un
derwood’s subordinates, as he had to
place the people of South Carolina at the
mercy of the negroes; for, of course, the
negroes will be allowed to keep their
arms.
If Grant chooses, he can be President
for life, or king, or emperor, or whatever
be would like to be. The Northern peo
ple were utterly demoralized by the ■war.
They never knew much about constitu
tions and laws, and even the little they
once knew they seem to have forgotten.
They gave the Republicans a new lease
of power in two great States on Tuesday
last, and Grant takes this fact as evidence
that the people of those States, and of
the North generally, approve of tbe usur
pations of Congress, and wish them to
enforce tbe unconstitutional laws passed
by that body. He cannot be charged
with having acted without that sort of
warrant winch justified Napoleon in his
usurpations. The people consent by their
votes to their own degradation; to the
destruction of the Constitution; to the
rootiDg ont of liberty and the defense of
liberty; to the establishment of a military
despotism. They know, of course, no
better than the French did what they are
doing; but that makes no difference.—
Napoleon had his warrant. Grant has
his. Let us see if the latter has the pluck
to benefit by his.
Your Threats Will Fail.
There is a determined effort being made
to prevent investigation of the conduct of
Governor Bullock, and save him from the
consequences of any misconduct in office
of which he may be found guilty. "We
cannot understand what a few persons
mean, by what they say, if this is not the
object. It is freely predicted th; t, if Bul
lock is impeached and removed from
office—no matter what proof may be ad
duced—in less than thirty days thereafter,
the whole country will be put under
military rule, and civil government sus
pended. This unmanly prediction is
very quietly, bnt with a very confi
dent air, whispered around by some
who profess to be Democrats; and
by some who claim to have aided, by
their individual influence, in saving ns
from military rule in days gone by, giv
ing individual pledges for good behavior
in the future.
A few persons belonging to these and
like classes, are uttering warning notes
of the consequences of so rash an act as
removing from office a Governor who
may be convicted of high crimes and
misdemeanors. The plea is, apparently,
that General Grant will support and up
hold convicted felons and public plun
derers, and punish the people who im
pose the’penalties of law upon the per
petrators of snch crimes.
Those who urge this plea are either
lacking in nerve to do right, or are aim
ing to cover up, apologize for, and pro
tect, wrong doing. The same unmanly
plea was urged most vehemently, and
threats even were made, before Holden,
of North Carolina, was removed; but he
was found guilty of grave offences, and
turned out. The honest men of the Leg
islature were not deterred from perform
ing their duty by such predictions and
threats.
We trust the Legislature of Georgia
imitate him in courtesy, candor, clear
ness and conduct. If, in these particu
lars, he is so immeasurably their supe
rior, when non compos mentis, what would
he be in case his mind was sound and its
faculties were in perfect harmony? We
rather imagine the difference is only the
slight one which the lunatic said existed
between his opinion and that of the
world—“The world thinks I am crazy,
and I think the world is crazy.” The
world will hardly hesitate to say that it
would be wiser and better if tbe slander-
of Mr. Stephens had half mind
enough to be crazed in like manner with
the eminent patriot, writer, speaker and
statesman. We despair, however, of
such a happy consummation, as there is
a class of persons who have not the sense
or sensibility out of which madness of-
times springs.
We regret that our space will not per
mit ns to give the whole of Mr. S.’s ar
ticle to our readers.
Awards mude at Oglethorpe Park.
ECHOLS A WILSON
Were awarded premiums on the follow
ing articles:
For the best harrow for all work; side
hill plow; two-horse turn plow, cast; one-
horse steel mould plow; grain cradle;
grain fork; manure fork; prong hoe; best
and largest collection of agricultural and
horticultural implements; cider mill and
press; cane mill; syrup evaporator; thrash
er separator; clothes washing machine;
clothes wringer; corn-slieller; lever horse
power; railway horsepower; second prem
ium for forage cutter recommended; corn
and cob crusher; vibrator churn; ox yoke;
apple and peach parer; garden wheelbar
row; grain fan mill, sulky horse-rake,
spring tooth.
MAKE. W. JOHNSON,
took premiums" for steam engine, for
agricultural purposes; portable grist
mill; smut machine; cotton seed huller;
cotton gin feeder.
PROF. B. F. MOORE,
got premiums on ornamental drawing,
penmanship; practical penmanship.
MBS. A. C. LADD,
was awarded premiums on tapestry in
frame; pair pillow cases, $5; infant’s car
riage blanket; sofa pillow; hair work in
frame.
M. G. WHITLOCK
took premiums for best stallion over four
years old; horse colt over six months;
brood mare with colt; thoroughbred
mare with colt; Morgan stallion; single
harness horse or mare; saddle horse;
horse colt over five months; fastest trot
ting (single harness) horse or mare; fastest
pair of trotting harness horses.
MASTER F. H. WARING
received premiums for best mare over
four years old; filly two or three years old;
Morgan mare; pony under 13J hands
high; best preserved mare or horse over
twenty years.
O. H. JONES & CO.
were awarded premiums for pony, under
12 hands; walking horse; pair of mules,
matched open to the world; harness and
saddle horse, open to the world; combi
nation saddle and harness horse; fastest
single harness horse or mare; best cow;
best milch cow, excluding grades.
COLONEL RICHARD PETERS,
premiums for stallion, over four years
old; Alderney bull, three years old or
upwards; best heifer; best lot of fat
steers.
OTHER PREMIUMS
on horses were awarded as follows: Best
two to three years old Georgia raised
stallion, J. Hughes; best pair of blooded
trotting mares, Timberlake; best single
harness horse or mare, E. Tweedy; best
jack, M. G. Dobbins; best buggy and
saddle mare, combination, E. F. Blod
gett; fastest pair of harness horses,
Wootten & Taylor; largest thorough
bred filly, under two years, A. M. Mason;
. , (largest thoroughbred stallion, one to
will not heed these evil predictions, but three years, W. Kenny; best Georgia
will discharge their duty to the State raised stallion, two to four years, H. W.
and the people, and take the coxise- Sexton; best Georgia raised stallion, J.
etables. W. A. Slaymaker was awarded
the premium for the best printed book
and the best display of school furniture.
Messrs. G. H. & A. W. Force got pre
miums for best dozen ladies’ shoes and
best dozen gents’ shoes. J. W. Brumby
got medal on best wagons. Messrs. Hun-
nicutt- & Billingrath got medal for the best
drainage tiles. Pemberton, Taylor &
Co. took medals on pharmaceutical pro
ductions and perfumery. Plumb &Leit-
ner, of Augusta, got a medal for best case
of family medicines. Smith & Motes
got the premiums on photographs. O.
R. Lane got the premium for oil paint
ing. Mrs. Di. John M. Johnson got a
premium for best and most economical
made lady’s walking costume, .worn by
herself, and best embroidered sacqne.—
Jerry Lynch took the premium on shirts
and coats. J. H. Nichols, of Nacoochee,
took the award for the best collection of
oil paintings. Miss E. Sterclii had the
best display of paintings and drawings by
a teacher. Miss Ormond, the best draw
ing in pencil and best water color paint
ing. John Maier exhibited the best fruit
and flower painting. * J. H. Mills, of
La Grange, the best landscape painting.
SPECIAL PREMIUMS.
By Sharp & Floyd—1st. Not awarded.
2d. For the largest and prettiest baby
not over twelve months, Judge Pittman,
one set silver, $20. 3d. For the best
boy declaimer, sixteen years of age and
under, Joseph S. Cook, silver watch, $25.
4th. For the best loaf of light bread,
made at home by any member of the
family, Mrs. R. Foster, silver castor, $10.
By J. C. Kimball—Best and soundest
bushel of Irish Potatoes, Georgia raised,
(provided a certain statement is furn
ished,) Dr. B. Hamilton, $20.
By Chamberlin, Boynton & Co—For
the best loaf of wheat bread. Mrs. L.
Rutherford, velvet rug, $10. Best loaf
com bread, Mrs. W, P. Robinson, Brus
sels rug, $10. For the best dozen of
plain biscuits, Mrs. E. G. Caban iss,
velvet ottoman, $5. Best pound cake,
Mrs. E. G. Cabaniss, velvet Cossack, $5.
By McBride & Co—For the best dozen
jars of fruit, put up in Victory Jar, Miss
E. J. Haile, gold band tea set, 26 pieces,
$10.
By Crittenden & Co—For best ten
pounds of butter, Georgia made, Mrs. J.
J. Jenkins, $25.
By Lawshe & Haynes—For the largest
variety and best executed specimen of
darning, one set India Coral, Mrs. J. C.
Courtney, $100.
By Pemberton, Taylor & Co—For the
finest specimen of crochet work, Miss
Sophia Miller, Toilet Set, $25.
TELEGRAMS
quences.
“When the Legislature meets, it will, of
conrse, investigate the charges which will
be preferred against tho Governor. It
will, we have no doubt, make a calm and
impartial investigation, uninfluenced
either by passion on the one hand, or fear
on the other. If he is found to be in
nocent of any wrong doing,. he will be
vindicated, as he ought to he. If he is
found guilty, of crime or misdemeanor,
he will be turned out of his office, as he
ought to be. Those who are trying to
hush up investigation, or to save him
from punishment if fonnd guilty, by ap
pealing to our fears and prophesying
evil, are wasting their breath. Such, at
least, is onr judgment in this case.
We believe the Legislature is com
posed of men who are made of sterner
stuff than to quail or shrink from public
duty, before such wickedly intended
prophesyings.
B. Farmer.
h. lewis & co.,
took premiums for soda biscuit; lemon
biscuit; butter biscuit, and wine biscuit.
SOAP.
Hitcl^pock & Co., got premiums for
best hard soap and best display of Geor
gia made soap; while Mrs. J. M. C. Reed
took the premium on soft soap.
CROPS.
Best ten acres of clover hay, (36,000
lbs.)—rH. C. Bodgers, of Milton county.
Largest crop of sweet potatoes, per acre,
J. C. Ragsdale. Largest crop of Irish
potatoes, per acre, Dr. B. Hamilton, of
Dalton. Largest crop of ground peas
raised, per acre, A. P. Boggs, Augusta.
Largest crop of field peas, per acre, J. C.
Ragsdale; variety of bread corn, J. C.
Ragsdale; variety of stock corn, J. C.
Ragsdale; bushel of field peas, J. C.
Ragsdale; bushel of sweet potatoes, J. C.
Ragsdale; bushel Irish potatoes, Dr. B.
Hamilton. Honorable mention was
made of hybridized cotton, raised by
Prof. Rutherford, of Athens. Honorable
mention of Roper com, raised by T. L.
Anderson, of Wilkes county.
CARRIAGES, FUENITUBE, &C.
Under this head the following awards
were made:
Full-top family carriage, Kimball Bros.
For fine family carriage, McBride & Co.
Victoria, A B. Landis, Mount Joy, Pa.
The Issues Before the Country
’ Narrowing Down to the Ah'
sorbing ONE Between Consti
tutionalism and Despotism.
The Biclimond Dispatch, which has
heretofore taken The Sun to task for
what were deemed its “extreme views,"
upon the proper issues before the people
in the contest of 1872, in a recent num
ber, thus discourses upon the present
situation and the prospect before ns:
Another Step Toward Despotism.
The elections took place in the great
States of Ohio and Pennsylvania on
Tuesday. General Grant waited twenty-
four or thirty-six hours to learn the re
sults of them, and then issued a procla
mation which violates the Constitution
of the United States. (We do not charge
him with perjury, for the reason that the
scienter is lacking. He does not know
what the Constitution is, nor when he
does violate it.) He has invaded a State
in defiance of that provision of the Con
stitution which makes it his duty to
await the call of the local authorities be
fore using the Federal power in any
State. He has ordered the citizens of
South Carolina to surrender their arms
From the Columbus (Ga.j Sim, 19th October, 1871.
The Montgomery Advertiser and
Mr. Stephens.
A few days ago, the Montgomery Ad
vertiser charged Mr. Stephens and his
friends with a disposition to rejoice over
the defeats of Democracy in Ohio and Buggy, no top, McBride & Smith." Bug
Pennsylvania. Why such assertions are gy, 171111 top, McBride & Co. Pony
made without the least proof, and why
the Montgomery Advertiser should invent
such wholesale defamation to be echoed
by others against Mr. Stephens and his
Democratic friends, excites especial
wonder and contempt. The fame of Mr.
Stephens for virtue and ability (and never
have these qualities been more clearly
and forcibly exhibited than since his
brilliant editorial career) are too firmly
established in the affections and convic
tions of Georgians and the whole South,
to be battered down by the weak paper
bullets of a few conceited brains. It is
the attempt of the Liliputians to pin
Gulliver to the earth. Like the giant of
Libya every time he is touched by the
mud of his enemies, his strength is re
doubled. He stakes them off with the
power and grace the eagle towering in his
pride of place, scatters the dew-drops
from his plumage. Because unable
themselves to explore the depth or reach
the height of the political argument,
they make up their mental deficiencies
by pecking at Mr. Stephens personally.
They call him “Bourbon,” “Bed Hot,”
“Revolutionist,” and to cap the climax
of abuse, they assert he is “crazy!” We
would that his tradneers could exhibit
the same method in their madness and
Phaeton, with top, A T. Finney. Set
parlor furniture, Chas. Bohnefcld. Bed
room furniture, Chas. Bohnefeld. Dis
play of upholstery, A Ergenzinger.
A. C. LADD A CO.
took premiums on lightniDg rods, bitu
minous coal and lime.
The Scofield Rolling Mills showed the
best bar of railroad iron and for pig iron.
The Howe took the premium for the best
manufacturing machine, and the Singer
as the best family. Mr. J. Warlick ex
hibited the best cooking stove for wood.
Mrs. W. P. Robinson got the awards on
light rolls, sponge cake and dried apples.
Mrs. R. M. Young for the best 20 pounds
butter. Fechter & Mercer got the beer
premium, and Goodyear got it on ale.
The Atlanta Ice Company got a medal,
and F. E. Block got four on the products
of his candy factory. The Muscogee
Manufacturing Company got premiums
on sheeting, shirting, and rope. Dr. B.
Hamilton took three premiums on apples.
AVM. HACKEE,
took premiums for etching on glass; gild
ing on glass, sign painting.
PHILLIPS & CREW
received the premium for display of pic
ture frames and piano covers.
A Lambert took six premiums on veg-
New Orleans, October 21.—The Me
tropolitan policeman, Leschinsky, has
been convicted ot murder, without capi
tal punishment, for clubbing Charles
Harrison to death last September.
Cincinnati, October 21.—It is reported
that the woodlands in Campbell county,
Kentucky, are burning fearfully. Alex
ander, thirteen miles from Newport, is
threatened.
Richmond, October 21.—The applica
tion for an injunction against the Vir
ginia and Tennessee Railroad, entered
by J. E. Tyson, of Baltimore, was dis
missed this morning at the instance of
the applicant, he withdrawing his mo
tion and paying costs, &c.
Philadelphly, October 21.—The Na
tional Committee of the Union League
have met, Governor Geary presiding.—
A communication was received, request
ing a thorough reorganization of the
League in Louisiana. The National Coun
cil have been called to Philadelphia on
December 13th.
Salt Lake, October 21.—The polyga
my trials are progressing. The Mormons
plead that they had no intention of com
mitting'a crime by the plurality of their
marriages, and that intention was essen
tial to conviction; they could not be guil-
ly of adultery, because they married ac
cording to the usage of the Mormon
church. A number of additional arrests
for lasciviousness have been made.
Baltimore, October 21.—The commit
tee has reported against the representa
tion of minorities and changing the name
from convention to council.
All canons that have been adopted are
to take effect on the first of January after
the adjournment of the convention.
The committee reported against changes
in the canon regarding the intrusion of
ministers into the parishes of their min
isters.
New York, October 21.—The admin
istration .ving of the Republican party
to-night nominated Franz Seigel for
Register; G. C. Barret, for Supreme
Court Judge, and Charles P. Daly, for
the Court of Common Pleas. The ticket
is the same as was nominated last night
by the Reform Democracy.
To-day the largest single contract for
railroad construction ever made for work
in the United States was closed by Colo
nel W. D. Mann, executive officer of the
Mobile and Northwestern Railroad Com
pany. The contract is for the entire line
from Mobile to Helena, Arkansas, 350
miles, and to be completed by December
31, 1873. They will commence at once,
and put five thousand men to work as
rapidly as they can be gathered. The
iron for a large section of the road is now
being made in Great Britain.
Rome, October 21.—The Cardinals ad
vise the Pope to quit Rome to preserve
bis independence. The Pope has almost
determined to depart when the Italian
Parliament is convoked.
Port-au-Prince, October 21.—The
commander of the Spanish man-of-war,
having demanded the delivery of the fil-
libustering steamer Hornet, the Haytien
government refused to comply with the
demand, whereupon the Spanish Consul
hauled down the the consular flag, went
on board the man-of war, which at once
started for Havana for instructions.
Berlin, Oct. 21.—A distinguished pre
late, an emissary of the Pope, was re
ferred to Emperor William and to Bis
marck for an answer as to whether it
would be allowable to bold the approach
ing Conclave outside of Rome, in some
of the towns of France, for instance.—
Bismarck evaded the reply of the Em
peror, and sent an autograph letter of
sympathy to the Pope.
Paris, October 21.—While Prince Na
poleon was on his way to Marseilles, the
train stopped at the town of Yalence,
and the people, who had heard of the
Prince’s journey, gathered aronnd the
railway station and demanded his sur
render into their hands. Being informed
that he traveled under the safe conduct
of the government, they vented their
hatred in hisses, yells and threats, and
followed the train until it had passed the
limits of the town.
Charleston, October 22.—The Jr.
tional Colored Convention met in Co
lumbia on Wednesday, Lieutenant Gov
ernor Ransier, of South Carolina, beinp
permanent President. On Thursday,
lutions, indorsing President Grant’s ad'
ministration, were introduced and J
ferred. re "
Resolutions were adopted, advocating
the preservation of the reconstructed
state of governments and laws, and the
continuance in p^wer of the Republican
party, also indorsing those Republicans
who have come to the South from the
North, and deprecating any attack upon
any class within the Republican ranks
Resolutions were introduced, 0 n
Friday, deprecating emigrations to Lj.
beria.
Congressman Elliot, of South Caroli
na, submitted yesterday, an address to
the American people. It asks for a more
perfect recognition of the colored people
in the work-shops, and all other indns
trial pursuits that they may become pro- •
ficient in their mechanical sciences, and
thereby protect skilled artisans from
having to compete in the market with
workmen of inferior capabilitv.
It asks from Congress aid for the edu
cation of the poor children of tbe South
It demands one standard of duty and pol
icy for "all citizens, and no special favor
but to deal with all alike. It affirms that
the colored citizens have no desire to
strike a line of action not common to the
whole people; and concludes with a hope
for a speedy abolition of slavery in every
part of the world. J
One fever death was reported yester
day and one to-day.
Salt Lake, October 22.—The verdict
iu the case of Hawkins, charged with
adultery, was guilty. The penalty is
from three to twenty years imprisonment.
This is considered a test case, and it vir
tually places polygamists at the mercy of
their first wife, who, under the act, is
the only person who can proceed against
him.
Toronto, October 20.—The engineer
in charge of Division G., of the Canada
Pacific Railroad survey, reports that two
whites, belonging to his staff, and five
Indians, were bm-ned to death by fire in
the woods.
Washington, October 20.—The Secre
tary of the Treasury, directs that, here
after, all disbursing officers, as
Agents of the United States, except pen
sion agents, drawing checks or money
deposited to their official credit, with the
Treasurer of the United States, or any
of the assistant Treasurers, anti United
States depositories in favor of themselves,
or bearer, or in favor of any person
other than a public creditor, must state
on the face or back of tho check, the
object or purpose to which the avails
are to be applied.
Chicago, October 20.—The loss sns-
teined by McCormick’s reaper establish
ment is $750,000. It will be rebuilt im
mediately.
St. Louis, October 20.—The National
Police Convention organized to-day. Jas.
Brown, Mayor of St. Louis, is President.
Ninety delegates are present.
Philadelphia, October 20.—The Led
ger says the failure of O. T. Yerkers, Jr.,
& Co., involves a loss to the city of $478,-
000. It is hoped that the assets of the
firm will save the city from a loss. $150,-
000 of the State funds are also in jeopar
dy. In both cases the city and State of
ficials had loaned money to the specula
tive firm without legal authority.
Detroit, October 20.—Reports of
wrecks of lake crafts continue to come in.
Much wheat is lost, but comparatively
few lives.
The two missing boats of the steamer
Colburn have been saved. Twenty per
sons are still missing, among whom are
Commander Gilbert, Durmont, an In
dian agent, and a Mr. Smith, together
with all the women on board.
New Orleans, October 20.—The
schooner Liberty lias been sunk in Lake
Pontchartrain. Three persons were lost.
A large Railroad Convention is in ses
sion at Shreveport, transacting business
harmoniously. St. Louis, Memphis,
Vicksburg, Kansas, Arizona, New Mexico,
Louisiana and Texas, are represented.
Reports were read favoring the early
completion of the Southern Pacific Rail
road.
Baltimore, October 20.—The report
of the Committee on the State of the
Church,is generally cheerful,but they say
they cannot, however, close their eyes to
the fact that iu Southern and South
western dioceses, there are still great
weakness and depression, and the recov
ery of the church in those old jurisdic
tions, from their great calamities and
deep poverty, has not been as rapid as
was hoped, and most earnestly desired.
An elaborate discussion is progressing
over the joint report on the Ritual.
Gloucester, October 20.—A purse of
a thousand dollars was given Captain
Knowlton. who rescued the schooner
Horton from a Canadian port.
Boston, October 20.—Judge Pitman
has accepted the prohibition nomination
for Governor. The President and suite
arrived at six this evening, from Port
land, and proceeded to the Revere House,
where they took supper, and left at half
past 8, via the Boston and Albany Rail
road for New York.
Portland, October 20.—Grant had a
stirring reception to-day. Responding to
a serenade he said: “I have a vivid recol
lection of visiting your city six years ago.
This is the second time I have been in
your city, and am much pleased with the
reception here as well as at other places
I have visited in your State. If.I do not
come oftener than I have heretofore I
shall not make many more visits before I
shall be quite an oldfman.”
Bangor, October 20.—The Dominion
Minister of the Fisheries and Marine dis-
avows’a rumor that a British craiser was
sent in pursuit of the schooner Horton.
Augusta, October 20.—A severe shock
of an earthquake, lasting ten minutes,
was felt here.
New York, October 20.—The Wash
ington Fire Insurance Company of this
city has suspended.
• A petition of review from the proceed
ing in the Bankruptcy Court, in tho mat
ter of the Chattanooga Railroad Compa
ny, Avas argued to-day, before Judge
Woodruff, who reserved his decision un
til to-morow.
The schooner Hattie Haskell, from St.
Mary’s, Georgia, for Montreal, has
been wrecked. The captain and crew
were saved.
The Commercial Advertiser siates the
total losses of the Insurance Companies
at $57,740,000. Henry P. Freeman has
been appointed receiver to wind up the
Market Fire Insurance Company. John
J. Cook has been appointed receiver of
the Atlantic Insurance Company, oi
Brooklyn, which suspended yesterday.