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The Daily Herald.
THB CASK OF YOUNG TERRY*
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1873.
THR HERALD PUBLISHING COIIPAYY
ALK1. ST. CLAIR-ABRAMS.
HENRY W. GRADY,
R. A. ALSTON,
Editors and Raaaftra.
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HERALD YOBLISHnfO OO.,
Drawer 93 Atlanta, Georgia.
Office on Alabama Street, nnr Broad.
NOTICE TO THB GRANGERS.
A Mass Meeting or the Gbanoxbs wni
TAKE EULCE IN MiCOS, ON TUESDAY NIGHT,
THE 28TH INST.
A Meeting or the State Geanoe mix
TAKE I-LACE IN MaCON, ON WeDNESDAT NIGHT,
OcTOBBB 29th. -
A FELL ATTENDANCE IS EXPECTED AT BOTH
Meetings.
j We pcblish, elsewhere, & remarkable stats*
! meat taken from the £olnmbns Enquirer, of
1 the suicide of a young boy Of sixteen, who
' deliberately blew his brains oat, because he
j was arrested in an attempt to rnn away to
j Texas. It will be fashionable now to write
I diatribes against tbe baneful books which in
spired this boy to lea re his home for a life of
romance and adrentnre.
And yet how unjustly !
__ The books which do more to produce the
<0 “runaway” spirit in boys’ breasts than all the
rest pnt together, are Mayne Reid's and Wil
liam Gilmore Sims, aad there is no health
ier reading that can be found for boys
than these very books. They make the
mind robust and strong ; they fill it with hun
dreds of useful suggestions, and educate the
boy fully in the infinity of resource that is
always coiled np in the breast of a brave and
sagacions man. The morals of the stones
are always good, - and the plot of
the book is (invariably) the escape of the
hero, ueually a boy or a simple minded trap
per, by bis own legitimate exertion from a
position of peril and privation. Besides the
general spirit of confidence in hamau sagaci
ty, hopefulness in apparently desperate
straits, and presence of mind on occasions of
imminent danger w ich these kooks teach.
The actual details recounted in them are of
great value to the young mind as a fund of
lesonrce and information. Wbat a world of
poetical knowledge—actual, useful knowl
edge of men and animals and the elements—
THE NOMINATION AND THE CIlAltUKS
OF UNFAIRNKS9.
When the system of nomination, pnt in
force on Saturday, vas adopted, we predicted
that it wonld prove more injurious to lbs
interests of reform than the old system of
voting by wards. How fully this prediction
has been verified may be seen in the excite- i does "The Desert Home, or “The Bnsh
COb. FARROW'S HUE OF THE STORY.
Elsewhere we print a communication from
Col. Henry-P. Farrow, in which he denounces
as false the statement that he is seeking to
injure either Major Smyth or Major Chamber
lain. With the truth or falsity of the state
ment we have little to do. Our information
was obtained from parties whose position
warranted our regarding them as good au
thority. Between them and Col. Farrow rests
the question of veracity. In saying that our
editorial “insinuated” the same theory, Col.
Farrow does ns decided injustice. We are not
iu tbe habit of indalging in insinuations.
What we said was that we understood there
was a contest between the District Attorney’s
and the Marshal's office, the former tryihg to
put out the latter. Suoh was oar understand
ing, oar information being to that effect. If
no such contest exists, and if Col. Farrow is
not endeavoring to injure Marshal Smyth, the.
falsehood cannot rest with us, bat with our
informants. While we cannot say that we
feel any special Iriendliness for Col. Farrow,
he is quite mistaken if he imagines thnt we
propose to do him injustice. To our bitterest
enemy we accord the fullest justice, insinu
ating nothing and stating nothing that is not
heard from responsible sources. Our blows
are always hit squarely and fully in the face.
We deal in no back-handed blows—not even
at men who seek to do us an injury.
THE NOMINATION I
Meeting of the Executive
Committee.
Allegations of Unfairness in
the Sixth Ward.
First
Be com
Third
Fourth Ward ; 71
Fifth W*rd 134
8ixth ward
Seventh Ward 43
J. WABLICK.
Firat Ward 160
Second Ward 163
Third Ward 38
Fourth Ward 113
Fifth Ward 244#
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward..
J. H. GOLDSMITH.
First Ward,. 1.
Second Ward 14V
Third Ward 45
A Card From Col. H. F. Farrow.
Office U. S. Attorney, District or Gi., (
Atlanta, October 27, 1873. J
To the Editors of the Herald:
My attention bas been called to an editorial
in your issue of yesterday, under the follow
ing caption, to-wit: “The Bribery Charges
Against the United States Marshal’s Office,”
and to statements made by Chap Norris, Jas.
O. Dowda, S. A. Darnell and others, upon \ the other vetea
being interviewed by the Herald special re- j to meet to-night at 8 o'clock. Soon after the adjourn-
porter, in which my name ha3 been used. | m0Dt of tho meeting several of the managers and
"Jerks of the sixth ward arrived, but none of them
Forty-Seven Unnumbered
Tickets Found in the
Ballot Box.
The meeting of the Central Executive Committee
was called to order at 8:30 o'clock yesterday morning,
at the Recorder's Court room, to receive the vote
from the respective wards and to make a consolidated
return. Mr. Evan P. Howell was called to the chair.
All the votes except tbe Sixth being there, they pro-
oeeded with the connt and made the return from those
wards. About the time that the count com.
nidLced, a protest, signed by Charles A. Collier,
was sent to the Committee, giving reasons why the
Sixth Ward's vote shonld not be counted.
Mr. Howell said there was no objection to any ex
cept the 8ixth ; that he thought It was proper to pro
ceed with the connt of the other wards snd to send
for the mansgers of the Sixth Ward.
Col. 8. B. Spencer suggested that the managers of
the different wards meet in convention and give in
their respective votes.
Mr. Newman said that as there was a pro
test against the Sixth Ward, that the managers
of that ward and the ballot box^s be sent for. The
managers were sent for, but ap to 10>£ o’clock none of
the managers of the sixt'i ward had appeared, and as
counted th) meeting adjourned
znent which has grown out of the alleged ir- i Boys, or “Robinson Crusoe, or
regularities in the Sixth Ward. It is not our I Family Robinson" contain,
purpose to express any opinion on the merits ! They are each of them the stories of a
of the case. That we leave the Executive ! good. Godferring people, being cast out on
Committee to do, and we coll upon its mem- j an island, or lost in a desert, with no re-
bers to perform their dnly fearlessly j sonrces BaTe P°ssibly a few remnants saved
and impartiallv. We shall do Col. Spencer j from thc wrcck of ,bo w »g° n or the Bhi P- J' et
justice bv saying that we do no t i building up around themselves by a qniet
believe he would accept a nomination ! B ‘ n(, y of nature, and a careful adaptation of
fraudulently obtained. We also feel assured one circumstance to another, a home, and
that Judge Collier is the last man who would I fiUin g U wlth comforts which tbe denizens of
foroe himself on the people against their will. ! the city, and buyers from markets, and ba- ........
, . . .. . . j 7<x|*q niiolit mvv \nd which biit onn ipniipr them, X dctiie to submit a brief stii.cmc.it .
At the same time, in the interest of political, “'8 Lt tnT - ■ And which but one reader j Saturday Inst Mr W S Gradv came to 1 >« —- .u.u.
morality, we trust that the allegations 0 f: m a thonsind may ever have a s.mtlar lot ot j Mr«i7 to I Po-Uvei, that there wa, on,, 17 blank vote, pnt in
unfairness will be rigidly investigated. If a : be called upon to woik out a similar baIya- ( re p 0r t er j or the Herald and informed me ! the ballot box. If any mere were found, then they
majority of the Democrats of Atlanta voted ! t* on » none of them will rise from the • that he desired to interview mo concerning I were put there by the mon who tampered with the
/nrMwenlHur nn mol,! in of ! perusal of one of these books, with-! alleged corruptions on tho part c f certain ballot box. To an inquiry made by some gentleman
0 * ® ou t « robuster mind a deener sense * United States Deputy Marshals and revenue as to how it was that out of the 47 unnumbered votes
tempt a reversal of their choice by fraudulent out ° robuster mind, a deeper sense , officers ftnd the p r ^ se c a tion8 instituted, or to
means. If, on the contrary, Colonel Spencer ais owu power, and a firmer , j U6 tituted against said officers. I was po-
is the choice of a majority, his claims to i in lte beneficenc ® of Providence and the ! lite and courteous to him, but at the same
... /' • j- • j i i eoodness of God. which will tend creatlv to 1 time most emphatically declined to be inter-
recognition are paramount to all md.v.dual | ^ ^ \irne « fta jhta ! ™*ed mafters pending in a court
These matters having been thrust before the
public through your columns, and my name ; m7 Austin hTd'theVrilyVheeU and
having been so f-eely used in connection with ' of tho mimger, cam.
know anything about tho ballot box. Ooe or two said
Later one
i who laid that
Austin throw the vote, out
On Saturday last Mr. W. S. Grady came to j of ‘ho window. Two of them raid
preference.
We started out with the intention of being
non-committal, and shall adhere to that in
tention. It is not for ns to prejudge the case.
(Have charges of unfairness have been
brought. Forty-seven unnumbered tickets
were found in the ballot box of
the Sixth Ward, whereas it is
said that only seventeen such votes were pot
in the box before tbs polls closed. Again it
is asserted that men went from ward to ward
voting under assumed names and that some
of them voted in every ward. If these state
ments are facta they ought to be ascertained
and made public. We have had enough of
ring rule. It is time for good men to act. No
matter wbat the result may be, we insist upon
the Executive Committee investigating fully
and deciding fairly. Until it has decided who
are nominated, there arc no nominees. Only
those that the Executive Committee declare
nominated are the nominees.
MISCONSTRUING THE
MEANING.
HERALD'S
We have received the foilowing communi-
cation:
Atlanta, October 27, 1873.
To the Editoas of the Hebald :
future life.
We believe very strongly in these books of
stirring, eventful life, as pabulum for the
young mind. They are far better and health
ier food than the namby-pamby books which
teach that the only way for a boy to be good
is to keep bis hair plastered down over his
ears, to never climb a tree, and to die young.
These books are unnatural, and if foroed upon
the boy, will, like tbe nasty pill which the un-
wise mother forces between her child's teeth
withont the alleviative sngar, produce nausea
and disgust.
And even if these hearty, soulful, klood-and-
inorrow-making books do occasionally stimu
late the yonDg hero to essay a voyage of ad
venture and discovery on his own account,
they are not to be cast aside for that reason.
One of tbese “runaway” escapades is nothing
against a boy. They all want to do
it. Adam is very probably the only
man who conld have serionsly averred
that be didn’. want to run away from home, at
some time or other in his boyhood. Those
who don't go, or try to go, merely tail to do
so beoauso they haven’t the enterprise, or
energy or skill to arrange the details of the
elopement. In ninety-nine cases ont of a
hundred they are brongbt back home, spank
ed by their parents, lectured by their Sunday
In yonr paper of yesterday, you say that School teacher, and worshipped by their ns-
Col. Spencer “will go into office with the full ; sociutes.
knowledge that an overwhelming majority of
the virtue, the intelligence and the integrity
of Atlanta are opposed to him and voted
against him.” Some of my acquaintances
have construed this language into meaning
that a large majority of those who voted for
CoL Spencer were disreputable characters. I
have denied this, and expressed the opinion
that you meant to imply, that a majority of
the virtue, intelligence and integrity of At
lanta who took prominent part in the canvas
were against Col. Spencer. I voted for Judge
Collier, bu‘ some of my friends did not, and
it is on their acconnt that I write this.
Very respectfully, yours,
A Mechanic.
The case of young Terry is an anomaly.
We are totally unable to discover any suppo
sition which can explain his motives, and we
must confess that we look upon his death as
a pure accident, the pistol being taken up
probably in a fit of pardonable braggadocio,
and fired by an incautious pressure of the
fingers upon the trigger.
The usual rule in such esses is that the
youDg knights errant come home docilely,
and at once go to carrying out in the horse
lot or the garden those Utopia schemes they
had planned for tbe prarie or the forest.
We aregla 1 that we have received the forego- j
='g letter, b< cause we have been asked severalj
questions con erning the editorial referred to, ! ma -j
- - * * .1. — . U- ... : A n..l .1 . i AL-i A V. — MAAAniieev “ f ! ®
A SWEET DOCUMENT.
This tender missive reached ns in last
which makes it evident that the meaning of
what we wrot: has been wholly misconstrued
‘Editors Herald—Stop sending me your
{ paper. Independence may be a good thing,
l.y not a few persons. Oar correspondent is . but j haye had cnougU of it from ycu . If i i causes, t
right iu his construction. For ns tohava^., th# Dower> z wonld not only 6top wy
charged that a large majority of those who vo- 1 ‘ 1 JanlI€8 1
in which I. am tbe prosecuting attorney, or
■ concerning anything likely to come before
that court or its grand jury.
I condemned in the most positive terms tho
interference of newspapers with matters
pending before a grand jury or a court, and
expressed to the reporter a hope that the
Hebald would not do so. I gave him no in
formation whatever concerning the matters '
inquired after, and regret that others did.
There is but one feature of your editorial I
C re to notice, and that is the insinuation that
I am seeking to do injustice to Mar
shal Smyth or bis Chief Deputy, Major
George D. Chamberlain. In so far as your
editorial asserts or insinuates that I am seek
ing to involve, wrongfully, either of those
gentlemen in these alleged corruptions, it is
not true,and have never, by act or word, inti
mated anything of the kind ; but, upon the
contrary, have uniformly exhonorated both
of them on all occasions where these matters
have been spoken of.
The only official communication which I
have been called opon to meke in regard to
these alleged corroptions was to Mr.
Thomas D. McAlpine, a Special Agent of the
Revenue Department,who were sent here last
July to investigate these oharges. I knew
nothing of each charges being preferred at
Washington, nor did I know anything of Mr.
McAlpine or his errand here until the day he
arrived. His presence here was without any
agency or knowledge on my part. He spent
some time in making his investigations, and
before leaviog placed in my hands certain
charges, which it was desired I should have
investigated before the Grand Jury. He ask
ed me before leaving to communicate to him
my views as to these matters, and it Whs my
duty to do so, and I performed that duty. In
his report made to his superior officer, dated
Sept. 12,1873, he used the following language,
to wit:
“I am sustained io charge of corruption in
the Marshals office by the Hon. H. P. Farrow,
United States District Attorney for this Dis
trict. He says, to use his own language, that
while he bas no reason to make a charge of
such a character against either Marshal
Smyth or his Chief Deputy, George D. Cham
berlin, yet there has been unmistakable cor
ruption on the part of a number of deputies.
There have been instances iu which deputies
have been detected and fled the country—
others have been tried and escaped on techni
calities—others are now indicted, and oth
ers will be indicted at this term of the court.
The District Attorney has been surrounded
by unusually embarrassing circumstances,
arising from the jury Rystem he found in ope
ration when ho came into office last year. The
absence of any system in business, and other
together with the fact that he has not
time to give that attention to irregu-
Fourth Ward.
Fifth W»rd 346
Sixth Ward
SeveLth Ward 82
W. P. SIMMONS.
First Ward 272
Second Ward 122
Third Ward 130
Fonrth Ward 156
Fifth Ward 349
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 66
la refell
presence.
Mr. Dodd—1 was in the engine house
•Hi ,
C. W. HUNNICUIT.
First Ward
Second Ward
Third Ward
Fourth Ward 137
Fifth Ward 220
Sixth Ward
Sevenxh Ward 117
J. A. HAYDEN*.
First Ward 145
Second Ward 142
lhird Ward 137
Fourth Ward 121
Fifth Ward 175
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 83
L. a. McDuffie.
First Ward 236
Second Ward 108
Third Ward 136
Fourth Ward 135
Fifth Ward 324
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 84
A. L. FOWLER.
First Ward 2G3
Second Ward 166
Third Ward 67
Fourth Watd 157
Fifth Ward..
here th-?
8ixth Ward vote was being counted, and in compao}'
with several other gentlemen. About 11 y t o'clock I
noticed a number of tickets being counted that wera
not numbered. I spoke to Alderman McDalBe, of
tbe Sixth Ward, who is oue of the cxndlda'es nomi
nated, of what I saw. We then asked Mr. Austin how it
was that soma of the tickets ware not number ed. He
stated that they had neglected to number the first
seventeen tickets polled. We then asked Mr. A —" —
to allow us the privilege of examining the votes •*-
reedy counted. He aft first refused, but upon mj slat-
tug that we only wanted a fair nomination, he reluc
tantly consented and handed the hat containing the
votes to Alderman McDuffie. Mr. McDnfiie
took tbe votes out of the hat and counted
them. We found that out of the number of
tickets counted by him, that there were 36 votes
not numbered. Oat of those tickets there was only
one for Collier and the reat for Spencer. The balance
of the vote was coanted by Mr. C. A. Collier iu my
presence, ont of which we found II unnumbered
votes, making in all 47 votes that was not aam-
173 i
A very largo majority of these votes were exact’y
alike in color and size.
C. A. Collieb’s Statement.
Th# reporter then called upon Mr. Charles A. Col
lier and solicited a statement from him concerning
the unnumbered votes at tho Sixth Ward precinct
which wa give below.
I was informed that there were serious ii regular i.
ties being practiced at the Sixth Ward polls, and went
there to protect my father’s interest. Soon after 1
entered the hall, I detected tickets being called and
counted that were not numbered. After about two-
thirds of the votes had been counted tbe managers
changed tbe plan of counting in order to facilitate
bosicers. At that time Ur. McDuffie, candidate for
alderman in the Sixth Ward.Mr.Oreene, T.J. Dodd.and
myself, requested the managers to allow us to examine
the votcj already counted, in order to ascertain the
number of unnumbered votes. Mr. Austin etxted
that seventeen votes were polled when the polls were
, IIM1 275 i fir8t opened, before Ihetr attention was called to the
Sixth Ward | fset that it was necessary to number them, that when
Sevculh Ward.
97 !
E. MAIlfcU.
found in the box, only two or threo of them
Collier and the rest for Sponccr, Colonel Spencer said
that possibly the men who wore counting these un
numbered votes did not look for Collier votes.
Through the courtesy of the Central Executive Com
mittee we are enabled to publish below the returns
from six of the Wards, and the protest entered by C.
A. Collier, giving reasons why the vote of the sixth
ward, as reported by the managers, shonld not be
counted, also the statement of the managers of the
Sixth Ward:
FOR MAYOR.
John Colei kb.
Firet Ward 29.)
Second Ward...
Third Ward 68
Fourth Ward 146
Fifth Ward 279
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 120
B. B. Bpknckb
First Ward 22 J
Second Ward 129
Third Ward 129
Fourth Ward 151
Fifth Ward 276
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 60
FOR COUNCILMEN.
W. H.BBOTHERTON.
First Ward 158
Second Ward 143
Third Ward 38
Fourth Ward 124
Fifth Ward 214
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 84
J. F. MORRIS.
First Ward.. 222
Second Ward 89
Third Ward 145
Fourth Ward 112
Fifth Ward 227
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 63
J. B. GOODWIN.
First Ward 249
Second Ward 131
Third Ward 113
Fourth Ward 131
Fifth Ward 197
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 57
A. HAAS.
First Ward 228
Second Ward 222
Third Ward 69
Fourth Ward 179
Fifth Ward 374
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 118
W. D. ELLIS.
they were so notified, thay immediately commenced
j numbering, and that we could take their word for it.
Second ^Vard ^ that there were but seventeen unnumbered votes in
Third Ward. .... ................... .. .. 1 (/J j the box. Mr. Dodd again a?ked to be allowed to ex
amine the votes already counted; that he wanted noth a
ing that was not perfectly fair. Mr. McDuffi* joined
in this request and Mr. Austin handed the hat con
taining the votes already counted to Mr. McDuffie, who
then examined every ballot in presence of Mr. Willie
Spencer, son of 8. B. Spencer, Mr. Dodd, Mr.
T. J. Pollard and myself. Every vote was carefully
examined by Mr. Mc’jaffie and Mr. Spencer, and th^
were satisfied that every ticket laid aside was num
bered. Of this batch examined there were thirty-five
for Spencer and one for Collier.
After tho rest of the tickets were counted by the
Third Ward 133 1 ®stagers, I examined them in the presence of Mr.
Spencer, Mr. Pollard, Mr. Dodd, and another gentle
men, (name not known,) and in that batch we found
eleven (11) unnumbered tickets, eight for Spencer acd
three for Collier.
Afterwards, in the same presence, we counted ail
the tickets, pieced them back in the ballot box and
left them In charge of the managers and clerka.
MB. POEEABD’6 STATEMENT.
T. J. Pollard corroborates the statement of Mr.
Collier, with this addition ; In separating the nn-
numbered from the numbered ticket, he saw a ticket
with number one on it. That ebortly after the
change in the manner of counting the votes was be
gun, Mr. Ksely, one of the managers, gave up his
scat and the ballot box to some one who he (P) docs
not know, and that this substituted party drew from
the ballot box daring the remainder of the count the
ickete, and handed them to Mr. Lambert.
After the counting was completed, Mr. Collier and
myself, with the willing consent of the managers,
took the box aid counted therefrom the tickets, they
being d. posited in my hat, and we found 351, which
Mr. A u ft in informed me was the number of votes en
tered upon the register during the voting. After
counting,the tickets, Mr. Collier and myself replaced
them in the box from which we had taken them, and
Mr. Austin, one of tho managers, placed the box upon
the table. Mr. Collier »nd myself then left the hall,
about 2:3) or 3 o'clock, leaving the three managers,
threo tal’y-aheet clerks, and not nore than three or
four ethers.
Fourth Ward 104
Fifth Ward 187
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 4'1
J. M EORISG.
Firet Ward 209
Second Ward 188
Third Ward 43
Fourth Ward 143
Fifth Wa d 221
Sixth Wa-d
Seventh Ward 103
J. LANGSTON.
First Ward 247
Second Ward 121
Fourth Ward 146
Fifth Ward 323
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 92
j. c. McMillan.
First Ward 388
Second Ward 251
Third Ward 155
Fourth Ward 231
Fifth Ward 412
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 142
It. M. FARRAR.
Firat Ward 228
Second Ward 204
Third Ward 72
Fourth Ward 199
Fifth Ward 297
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 94
First Ward 297
Second Ward 184
Thi.d Ward 146
Fourth Ward 158
Fifth Ward 320
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 72
JOHN KEELEY.
First Ward 434
Second Ward 262
Third Ward 183
Fourth Ward 2Si
Fifth Ward 518
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 170
J. F. BOZEMAN.
Collier's Statement.
E. P. Howell, Chairman Central Ex. Committee:
Dear 8ir—As the representative of Judge John Col
lier I protest against the connt of votes as reported by
the managers for the sixth ward on the following
grounds, to-wit:
1st. Because there are in the ballot box forty-seven
(47) votes that were not numbered by the managers,
and are not numbered. The managers themselves as
serting that but seventeen (17) votes were placed in
the box by them without beiug numbered.
2nd. Bccanee there were more votes polled than
there are voters in the ward.
Respect ful'y.
C. A. Collier.
The chairman of the Executive Committee calls a
meeting of tbe committee to-night, at seven and a
half o’clock, at the Bec rdir’s court room, to settle
the differences existing.
Whst the Managers of the Sixth Ward
Buy.
The undersigned, managers of the Democratic nom
ination lor the Sixth Ward, held in the city of Atlanta,
on Saturday, the 25.b, for Mayor and Councilmen for
said city, certify that there were 351 votes cast; that wo
failed to number the first seventeen tickets, not know
ing that it was required to number tbe tickets; bat
from eighteen up we numbered them all. There were
351 names polled, Mr. W. D. Adair being the last man
that voted. Upon counting out the tickets,we found that
Mr. 8pencer recieved 23S votes for Mayor, and John Coi-
Greensboro.
, Unities in tbe Marshal's office, impelling the
.paper, but 1 wonld slop tbe IIebald alto- execution of tbe laws which be otherwise | First Want.. 150
tedforCoL Spencerwere not virtuous,notmtel-, ^ el k er ,. j would have given them. And that while be
ligent, and not honest, would have been for us ; —
We have stricken the name of the writer off is disposed to make some allowance for the
to have been guilty ot a gross libel npon one- j oar books, and shed a bucket fnll of tears j ‘ ;la J s °f persons who are necessarily resorted
i ifiL- -. . _ .» zi a* i , „ . . _ to for tbe perlormauce ot much of tbe dredg-
half this community. A moment s reflection whlle performing the tragic act. How fortu-! ery o{ tha {o mce bnt ftftfr ma king nil proper
' i nate a thing it is for ns that he has not the ' allowances the corruption and culpable iu-
woald convince any person that no each mean
ing was intended. When we wrote of “tbe | power to smash the IIebald altogether,
virtue, the intelligence and the integrity of Itnt suppose he had the power, what then ?
Atlanta,” we referred especially and particn- Lie would stop the first paper published in
larly to the active leaden on both sides—to Atlanta for years which has dared to confront
the men who bring forward candidates snd eT (] s ftn d to dcnoucce them
conduct political campaigns.
Unquestionably bad we believed it at all
likely that our meaning wonld have been mis-
coaetrmd wo wonld hove boon more explicit ;
bat as it never entered our mind that any per
son wonld Imagine no ineane enough to pub
licly libel an entire oommunity, we wrote as
the artiolo appears. Our friend, “A Mechan
ic,” may rest assured that the day we believe
only one-half tho men who voted for Colonel
Speneor (muoh lorn n majority) not virtuous,
not intelligent, and not honest, on that day
we shall take our deport are from Atlanta and
seek some more congenial place of residence.
That last is that because we did not horrah
over the result of the voting it became neces
sary to And fault with ns, and so tbe editorial
referred to has been seized as the pretext
Aside from the feet that nothing wee farther
from ear mind then to slender belt the voters
of the oity, to gratuitously insult Colonel
Spenoer by saying that non# bnt men of dis
reputable ehemeters voted far .him, if tbe
friends of “A Mechanic” will bear in mind
that probably seven hundred of those who
voted for CoL Spencer ere onr patrons, they
will not require even this article to convince
them ot their error in the construction they
have placed npon onr language.
The barber of the Joliet penitentiary shaved
thirty-two men in an hour and a half.
He wonld stop a paper which has disdained
official patronage obtained by a sacrifice of
wbat ia good and right and proper.
He wonld Btop a paper which is not ashamed
to print how every dollar it ever owned came
into its money drawer.
He wonld stop a paper which has songht
only the good of the people and whieh bas al
ways endeavored to stand between the hard
toiling, honest masses, and the cliques, the
rings, the ruffians of politics and the thieves
of the lobby.
Btop the Hebald ! Poor fellow, yon wonld
be far more hart by its stoppage than any one
of its editors and proprietors! Happily for
yonnelf, as well as for the public whom we
serve, yon have not the power.
Elsewhere we publish the statement of Mr.
D. C. McCord of alleged ill treatment at the
theater last night. It does appear to ns that it is
a very easy matter for a polioe officer to be
have with politeness to citizens. Even had it
been necessary to request Mr. McCord to take
a seat, tbe rcqnest conld certainly have been
made without offending and ontrag: ig the
feelings of a respectable man. We trust that
tbe authorities will teach the officers wbAt
politeness means. Because u man wears the
uniform oi the police it does not authorize
him to exeicisc his authority in the brntal and
nngentlemanly m inner, in which it wonld ap
pear, Mr. McCord has been treated.
I efficiency cannot be tolerated.”
Tbe foregoing extract from Mr. McAlpiue's
report is correct, as 1 stated it to him, and is
in nccord w ith all my utterances on the sub
ject. The people of this community can judge
whether I am seeking to do injustice to either
of these gentlemen. 1 find, as reported in the
Hebald, that Norris and others insinuate
that I am not pressing these investigations as
I onght, while others think that I am show
ing over zeal in efforts only intended to re
move obstacles from my path. The reported
interviews contradict the editorial, bnt I leave
these parties to reconcile their own differ
ences. I shall endeavor to discharge my dntv
without caring whether those prosecuted think
I am too vigorous, or those urging the prose
cutions think I am not as vigorous as I ought
to be, and withont caring whether the Hebald
approves or d isapproves wbat is done.
It is my steadfast purpose to discharge my
doty wherever it may lead me. Dnty shall
be tbe monitor which directs. I shall prose
cute to the beet of my ability all who violate
the law, if their crimes become known to me,
and while I shall leave nothing undone to
bring all private citizens who violate the law
to just punishment, I shall endeavor to use j
double diligence and vigor in tbe prosecution ward.
S:coiid Ward 155
Third Ward 37
Fourth Ward 127
Fifth Ward 224
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 104
R. C. YOUNG.
First Ward 270
Second Ward 117
lhird Ward 140
Fourth Ward 151
Fifth Ward 319
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 67
D. A. BATIK.
First Ward ......178
Second Ward 1H6
Third Ward 40
Fourth Ward 127
Fifth Ward 207
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward 102
J. O. KELLEY.
First Ward 255
Second Ward 119
Third Ward...
Fonrth Ward..
Fifth Ward....
Firat Ward
Second Ward...
Third Ward....
Fourth Ward....
Fifth Ward
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward.
J. O. WATKINS.
of all offloers who, after being trusted by tho Fourth Ward lie
Government, betray the trust reposed in them j Fifth Ward 189
and violate the law they were sworn to obey | ’.7.7.7*7.7.7!!".*.7.7.*”.7.'66
and execute, for I regard them the greatest ‘ B PITTMAN.
of nil criminals. viniw.rd * 193
And now, Messta. Editors, permit me to : geoond 78
say in conclusion ns to yonr insinuation that Third Ward 87
I am attempting to injure Major Smyth and , Fourth Ward JJJ
Major Chamberlain unjustly by lending too | Ward. .....................................
ready an ear to false charge s against them , Seventh Ward.... 3'
that I pronounco it a baso fabrication, every |
line of which is false, and the party furnish- ^ ^ ^ ^
ing you tho information upon which t aid in- ' s^Vud Ward
sinuation was b u*c-d viands branded with | Third Ward,
falsehood.
Respectfully,
Hknky P. Farrow
THE FAIR - EXECUTION OF A NEGRO TOR MUR
DER— LENT’S ClBCUS, ETC.
Greensboro, Ga., October 17, 1873.
By request I call to report the success of
the Greene County Fair Association. It closed
on Saturday last, with satisfaction to the as
sociation and citizens of the county.
On Friday George Copeland, colored, was
executed for tbe murder of Miss Richards—
his offense being Arson, rape and murder.
On various occasions he implicated others of
his race—but he admitted, just before he was
executed, that he did it alone, and no one had
anything to do with it bnt himself, he having
committed all the offenses with which he was
charged. The rope was cot at 12 o’clock,
which, from the fall, broke, bnt not without
tier K« for M.y 0 r : .,d th.c.ndMat«f u rCo O ncto.n h lelt tho V)( . lim jn „ dvi oondition .
received th. Dumber cf vote. u per trily -bee.8 Ho afterwards bung up and remained
kept iu laid ward »ud herewith returned. There | ftbout twenty-five minutes, until the physician
were only .eventeeu tickets ro: numbered. When we j pronounced him dead.
were counting oat st night, several partie. cue into . E;lr)y t^js m0 rning (OcL 27th,) crowds be-
the room and overhauled tho ticket*, and took them , gjm to coino into town to see Lent’s mam-
aud put them in hats and recounted them, and took ! moth circus and animal show, which promises
them over the protest of the managers, stating that | to surpass anything in its lino. It requires
they represented one of the candidates. The number | two trains of cars to travel. Large crowds
of tho voles or ballots agreed with the list of voters, j had gathered, and notwithstanding the strin-
beii.g two lose, according to their count, and if there j gency of money matters it will carry away a
were any tick ;ta not numbered after the first i
teen, (and ttaeaa managers believe there were
they we *e not numbered through mistake. „ _
After these parties came in and overawed the mana- | sen ^ 1° relieve the sufferers at Memphis and
gers and handled the tickets, agaiust the will of tho bhreveport.
managers, the said managers did not feel that they
could certify to the tickets as being nuUmpered with,
but the result of said election or nomination is fa’r as
given by tho tally sheets and the list of voters here
with returned, the tickets having been scattered after
beiDg handled by these said partie*, who were not
managers.
The folio aring we certify to bo the vote for Alder
men in said ward, to-wit:
first ward.
J F Mori is 181
J B Goodwin 196
W H Brotberton.. 63
A Haas. 188
KKUORD WABD.
John Keelj 818
W D Ellis 13J
J F Bozeman 91
THIRD WABD.
ven- I large amount of money from the conutry.
one.)! The writer would have preferred that the
money spent in this way shonld have been
Just before I be train left the depot a shoot
ing scrape occurred between three brothers
aud a brother-in-law—the brother-in-law do
ing the shooting, bnt lortnnatelj- no one was
hurt The origin of the difficulty was strict
ly a family matter. Great excitement pre
vailed when the train moved off.
J. W. Winfield.
RC Young 224
J G Rally 218
D A Bsstia 71
OWEN LYNCH.
167
FOURTH WABD.
John H Flynn 199
...» ...7... i4j
J CWstktns .169
FITTS WABD.
J. H. n.YBS.
First W.rd
Fourth Ward l'i?
Filth W«<l »»«
Sixth Ward
Seventh Ward ...,110
J A Hay (ten
SIXTH WABD.
JM Boring....
62
264
238
KKVHMTH WARD.
258
JCMcMUUu...
RM Farrar
H. I). Austin, )
Job. Lambert, [ Want Manager*.
John W. Owkn.)
ALDKUMAN DODD INTERVIEWED.
WMAT HK HATH
BOUT 1 HK FOBTT-MCVKM UNNUMBERED
VOTES.
Report r— Al
the e is soms atr«st ts k sbont the
Not only does suicide appear to rnn in f.m -
i ilies, but the particular mode of release from
life and its burdens. Mr. J. C. Hoadley was
su old and highly respectable citizen of Fair-
field, Michigan, and bad no family trouble* or
other distressing cares that were known to his
friends. His brother drowned himself at De
troit a few years ago, and Hoadley grieved at
this tragic incident in his family, moved ont
of town and away from deep watei. But he
apparently took the family skeleton along.
He bought a farm with a shallow creek run
ning through it, ond th* temptation to pass
through tha gate into th* better land became
too strong to be resisted. Without say known
provocation hs went to the ereek, lay down ia
three feet of water, and died. His body was
found by his family a few hoars after hs had
been last seen by them, lying £ooe downward*,
with the back of his coat almost dry. He
had left bis hat with hia wallet under it on
the bank, to show that hu death was not su
aooidenk
A Chines* celebrity has turned up ia 6ao
Francisco. He was educated in Pennsylva
nia, and lived lor a time at Washington,
where he imbibed republican principle* and
a desire to propagate them ia tha Celestial
Empire. H* went home, organized secret so
cieties for the purpose, nod made a wild at
tempt at revolution, which of oourse tailed.
After many vicisaitudes he returned to Oeli-
tornis, where he has devoted himself to de
feating the infamous objects of tbe Hip Yee
Tong Society. The society offered $1,500 for
his assassination, and the attempt of some
oue to gain this prise was what brought him
to light. His name is Wong Say Kee.
Not a esse of necessity—A cigar east.