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ADDRESS aU communications to
WALSH A WRIGHT,
CmtoyiCLV. asp CeyrrrcTToSAiJST. Augnsta/la.
WEDNESDAY, - NOVEMBER 7^1877.
KWITORIAI. MOTES.
Wendell Phillips speaks of the “acl
ing President.” He is at it again.
Jr the Democracy of New York carry
the State Senate, next week, it will be foi
the first time since 1809.
The Utica lit pi Mir an, brand-new Conk
i.rNO organ, calls George William Cur
tis ‘‘the apostle of swash.”
The most Northern telegraphic station
on the globe is at Gjesvor, Norway. It is
70 deg., 12,min., north latitude.
Warmoth’s pertrait painted on the wall
at the Louisiana House of Representatives
is to be painted out. Good enough!
The Duke DE Gaze* lias resigned his
place in MacMAnon’s Cabinet. The Mar
shal will have to bow to the will of the
people, or resort to a coup d'etat.
It is reported that when somebody asked
Mrs. Secretary McCrary if she had Mrs.
Belknap’s carriage, she immediately an
swered, “No, you won’t find any #f that
skullduggery about us!”
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that “no
interest is taken by Ohio Democrats in New
York’s State election. One good Western
Republican is worth Iwo New York Demo
crata. It is the bank power on top, no mat
ter how the State goes.”
Referring to Mr. Hayes’ visit the
Richmond Dispatch says : “There are some
small public officers—say, for fun, council
men—who put on more airs in a day than
the President does in a week."
The Nashville American thinks the Gov
ernment ought to do one more thing for
poor liondholilers: It should perforate
their bond coupons, so that its pets could
detach them without the trouble of using
the scissors.
Lcov Stone says ignorance, prejudice,
custom and the love of power carried the
day against the Colorado petticoats. But
she thinks the noble 9,500 who boldly pro
claimed their wish to share the suffrage
with their sisters “are the signers of the
tiew Declaration of Independence.”
Rev. Joseph Cook, the popular Boston
evangelical preacher, writes to a Republican
club that “if civil service reform can unite
old men in counsel and young men In action
the day of the disestablishment of the ma
chine in politics cannot be far distant.”
*•►- ———
The death of Senator Morton and the
elections which will he held in Pennsylva
nia, New York, Massachusetts, New Jer
sey, Minnesota and Wisconsin next Tues
day will practically slop business in Con
gress until the latter part of next week.
The New York Sun congratulates the
Hon. Edwin W. Stoughton upon his
happiness in finally securing the prize
which he lms chased through a highly
winding way from Democracy to Republi
canism and from Louisiana to Vermont.
T.he editor of the Columbus lime* saw,
the other day, a quotation from a letter
from Hon. A. H. Stephens, in which lie
states tiiat no apprehension need be felt
about the confirmation of Mr. Hilliard’s
nomination. He says that the dissatisfied
Republicans cannot muster strength enough
to defeat it.
The valuation of property in North
Carolina has increased near $30,000,000
since 1870, and that, too, in spite of the
long panic and low prices. In 1870, as the
auditor’s report shows, the property of the
State was valued for taxation at $120,910,-
219. 'flic returns this year show a valua
tion of $148,564,557.
The army bill, as it comes irom the com
mittee, will leave the force of the army as
it was vn the first of this month. But it
should be remembered that the measure ap
plies to the army for the current year.
There is little doubt that when an appro
priation is made for next year the number
of soldiers will be greatly reduced.
Before the old Pope dies be should lie
relieved of the imputation of saying “a
good riddance” when he heard of the death
of Thiers. Instead of that, he expressed
his regret that the Republicans of Fiance
had lost their most prudent leader, and
feared the country would now fall into irre
ligious Radicalism.
The IVibune has discovered why Cli'ca
go people are so exceptionally wicked. The
whisky absorbed there is made of a veiy
small amount of high wines treated copi
ously with water (Chicago river), old boot
straps, rotten cabbage, spirits of juniper
berry, old peach stones, fusel oil, nicotine
and molasses.
One of the venerable Wm. Allen’s most
reckless admirers, the Cincinnati Enquirer ,
wishes to send that frequently retired
statesman to the United States Senate, be
cause he has “an untarnished name,” is “an
honest man,” and has “brains enough for
two men." This approaches dangerously
usar to the darkey’s description of a “bigot
ed” man : “He knows too much for one
man, boss, but not enough for two.”
The gentleman who gave the true inward
ness of the United Slates Afarshalship and 1
who sara ho wt recvnnmaiuled far tb posi
tion by both Senators Hill and Gordon
is nat W. D. Trammell, the fiery untam
ed communist of Harris county, but W. T.
Trammell, of Griffin, a brother of L. N.
TrammkCl. With due deference to the,
opinion of Messrs. Hill and Gordon, we i
think the people of Georgia will lie perfect-1
iy satisfied with the appointment of Col.
A). P. Fitzsimons.
The Macon TeUgrajA ami Messenger
learns from undoubted autli irity that the
yellow fever has broken out in the little
town of Cedar Keys (Fla.), situated ou the
Gulf at the southern terminus of the Flori
da Railroad. The inhabitants are greatly
no! and all able to do so have left the
town. The lateness of the season will cause
the dreaded disease to scourge Florida
for some time to come. Frost is nat ex
pected before the first of December.
Complete returns of the recent election
in Baltimore show that Use Democracy of
that location Is not in a disrupting mood.
Colonel Kane. Democrat, is elected Mayor
by a vote of 33,178 to 17,369 for Thompson,
Labor Reform, and 535 for Warfield,
Straight Reform. The Democratic vote is
the largest ever cast, excepting that for
Governor in 1875. when it scored up to 36,-
958, while the Republican vote which was
25 571 for Mayor two years ago and of 22.068
for Pi evident last year, liasdwindled down to
17,369 w.th the Labor Reform added to it
Governor of Mississippi, made
a speech at Sardis, recently, in which he
made a vigorous athv upon the Inde
pendent movemeut which has been inau
gurated in that State. He said “The time
for the division of parUes had not F* me * u
Mississippi; it was ill-timed, uncalled M>r, 1
and if successful would be a calamity at
this time of the mere inception of Demo* '
cratic success and trial. If the malcontents'
and soreheads were so independent as to go
off from the party and nominate them
selves, they should look to themselves for
election; it was but a secret combination
with overthrown Radicalism or it was noth
ing, as the old Radical party mast furnish
the votes, or there was no strength in it,
for it had little sympaUiy with the intelli
gent voters anywhere.”
QUEER PROCEEDINGS.
The Christian Index , a Baptist paper
published in Atlanta, prints a communi
cation and an editorial condemning the
gambling which was permitted at the
reoent Bute Fair. We shall not attempt
to controvert anything that ia said off
the sin of faro, roulette or chuck-jack
or of the demoralisation which the pub
lic exhibition of such sinful games may
occasion. But there is one feature of
the affair) which, if we have been ecr
reetly informed, deserves the severest
reprobation. It is said that the sport
ing men paid the officers of the Fair the
steep snm of one thousand dollars for
the privilege of running games of chance
on the grounds, that the lame were con
ducted openly every day without any
interference being experienced, but that
on the last cay, after all the harm had
been done, the canny Atlanteee discov
ered that gambling was wrong and had
all the dealers arrested and bound over
for trial. In due time Atlanta justice
will mulct them to the tune of several
hundred dollars each; so that the money
which the visitors to the Fair lost in in
judicious speculations as to which pile
the jack or queen would fall on will
find a resting place in the Gate City.
It is farther stated that the managers of
the Fair still retain the one thousand
dollars paid them by the sporting men.
It is not difficult to arrive at the conclu
sions: (1) that the Fair Association
should not have sold the privilege to
violate the laws of the State; (2) that the
Atlanta officers of the law should not
have waited until the last day to make
arrests; (3) that the Fair Association is
in honor bound to return the thousand
dollars which it received. These con
clusions are based, of course, upon the
statements of the affair made to us. If
the facts are not correctly given denials
are in order,
THE C OTTON CROP.
The probable amount of the cotton
crop is the subject that always interests
at this time of the year, and we accord
ingly find, "a good deal of figuring ”
going on upon the subject. We gather
the following particulars from an article
on the subject in last Thursday’s New
York Bulletin : “To ascertain what this
year’s condition indicates as to yield,
through a comparison with last year’s
report of condition, we have, first, to
ascertain what was the yield accompany
ing last year’s condition, and next to
apply to that yield the percentage of dif
ference between this year’s condition
and last, at the same time also making
due ullowance for variations in acreage.
There is no other rational method of
using this sort of data, and all authorities
agree in adopting it. The cotton ex
ohange, the bureau of agriculture, and
the Chronicle, each getting their reports
from independent sources, agree in fix
ing the acreage of the present crop at
about 12,000,000 acres. Accommodat
ing ourselves to the supposition that
1870 was an average year as to condi
tion, then, on the basis of that year’s
yield of 48 95 of a bale per acre, we
shonld have a yield on this year’s 12,-
000,000 acreage of 5,876,000 bales, less
1,298,000 bales for the 22 1 per cent,
difference between the 83.6 per ceat, of
October condition this year and the
105.7 per cent, of Ootober condition in
1870, giving as a net result 4,578,000
bales.” A correspondent of the same
paper says : “Comparing this with pre
vious October reports, 1 find that since
1870 (normal year, so to speak), but
three years show a smaller average than
this, viz.: 1871-2 crop, 2,974,000 bales;
1873-4 crop, 4,174,090 hales. In 1870-1
the acreage was 8,885,545; the avenge
condition in Ootober was 105 7, and the
crop 4,330,000 bales. In 1877 the acre
age was 8,840,864, and the average Oc
tober condition, 83.6, The crop, there
fore, should be 3,425,000 bales.”
A MEASURE OK JUSTICE.
In the Senate last Wednesday, Senator
Gordon, of this State, presented the pe
tition of a large body of colored men,
endorsed by Bishop Holsev, of the col
ored Methodist Church, and a num
ber of colored ministers, in relation
to their deposits in the broken Freed
man’s Savings Bank. This is one of
the matters which should receive prompt
attention. Legally the United States
Government is not, of course, obliged to
pay a cant; morally it is bound to make
good to the deluded and defrauded de
positors in this bank every cent of their
losses. The circumstances of the case
and the character of the depositors com
bine to take it out of the technicalities
of the law and to constitute the refund
ing of the deposits a debt of honor
which a nation as well as an individual
can not ignore without incurring dis
grace. The corporation was the crea
ture of Congress; it was born professed
ly of a desire to benefit the negro, to
teach him habits of thrift and economy,
to interest him in the prosperity and
welfare of tho country by making him
an owner of property and a tax
payer. The bank was under the
special care of the United States
Government. The General of the
United States army— O. O. Howard,
the “philanthropist” and “Christian
soldier”—who was at the head of the
Freedman’s Bureau was made the
President of the corporation, and igno
rant people may have readily fallen into
the error of believing that both institu
tions were backed by the same power.
The bank went into operation imme
diately after tire war, when the negroes
just emancipated from slavery were un
able to read or write, and knew nothing
of public affairs except what they were
told by designing and unscrnpnlous
men bent only on making money out of
their victims. The colored people were
taught that it was unsafe to put their
money in any other bank—that all other
bankers would deceive and swindle
them. They were told that the Freed
man’s Bank was created by Congress
especially for their benefit and protec
tion; that it was sustained by the same
Government whio’n had delivered them
frutu the bondage of olaVory and which
had conferred upon them all the politi
cal rights of freemen aod citizens. It is
a fact, as notorious as it is fortifying,
that ninety-nine per cent, of the de
positors in this institution believed that
the prompt and certain return of their
money whenever they might choose to
call for it was guaranteed by the JJnited
States Government and that in trusting
their money with the bank they were
virtually trusting it >;th the Govern
ment. Acting on this belief, and anx
ious to lay up something against dis
ease aud old age, colored men and wo
men—plantation laborers, domestic ser
vants and mechanics—brought their
little earnings and turned them over to
the “Government bank.” Haw cruelly
they were deceived is known of all men.
The Christian soldier and philanthro
pist and his associates lent their savings
right and left on worthless securities to
enrich friends and accomplices, and
when the end tame shat the doors of
the parent bank in Washington and of
all tiw branch banks scattered through
out the South and oooly told their vic
tims “the bank had suspended.” The
depositors learned toe late that they
had been doped and that the Govern
ment, which they had thought was to
hold them harmless, was not legally
bonnd to refund a single cent of their
losses. Advantage was taken of their
ignorance, of their faith in the Govern
ment, and they were basely and cruelly
wronged. We believe that under the
peculiar circumstances of the ease, Con
gress should go outside of the letter of
the law and grant that relief to the de
positors to which they are entitled in
equity and good conscience. We hope
that Southern members will take the
matter in hand do everything in
their power to secure restitution.
■ — * ’,w "
Tse Kentuckians say that where they
made their mistake in the great race was in
putting Beck in the judge’s stand instead
of Joe Bradley. They saw it as soan as
the result wss as nsuaced.
SENATOR MORTON.
The death of Senator Mobton is a
great blow to the Republican party. He
was their foremost champion and most
masterly advocate, Other Senators may
have surpassed him in particular talents,
bat not one of has faction had or has
the complete armory of gifts which con
stituted him'the leader par excellence.
He was a formidable enemy to Democra
cy and to the South; but usually an
open and manly one. He io dead. God
has laid His finger upon him, and the
hand of man, though a mortal foe,
shonld be taken off. We prefer to think,
jn this hoar, only of his better faculties.
He may have been as sincere and honest
in the use of his intellect and power as
the best of his antagonists. At all
events, we prefer to think so, Many of
his partisan friends will believe that he
died too soon. We are of opinion that
his great career was fitly ended, and
that length of days would have brought
only political disappointment and per
sonal calamity. He himself recognized
this, and, if he did not pass away as a
saint, he at all events died as a philoso
pher. It is to be said in his favor that
he did not abase his high trust to make
merchandize of it. His poverty is hon
orable, especially in these days when
statesmanship in seats of authority is
often gilded by suspicions opulence. It
is not the least creditable to his memo
ry that his last hours were spent in the
task of pacification and fraternal union.
The bitterness of old associations per
ished on his dyiDg conch and his last
agony was spanned, we are glad to know,
with the rainbow of peace and, we hope,
of promise. The South then can afford
to recognize in him a redoubtable as
sailant but an honorable one. She has
not one unkind word to murmur over
his grave. What good of him she can
speak she will utter most cordially; she
can also afford to recognize the fact that
with him has departed the spirit that
animated one of the most remarkable,
one of the most memorable, and on© of
the most monumental of American
statesmen.
GOOD AND RAD FARMING.
In the speeches of the Presidential
party at Richmond the topic most dwelt
upon was agriculture. The President
and Secretary Sherman talked like
farmers who understood tho subject,
and the comparisons drawn between
Virginia and Ohio were kindly and in
teresting. It was shown that diversi
fied agriculture and small industries
had done more for Ohio than anything
else, and that she did not begin to be
come a wealthy Commonwealth until
the wheat mania was beaten out of the
heads of her planting population. Tho
Ohio people formerly oluDg to wheat
culture with the same tenacity that, our
people cling to cotton; hut the present
generation of Buckeyes have gotten over
that hobby bravely, and now what wsr
considered the very source of wealth
production is only of secondary impor
tance, just as the gold of California is
of relatively small acoount compared
with her magnificent tillage.
The President seemed to think that
Virginia was the paradise for emigrants,
especially for those who wished to pre
serve the type of the race from which
they sprang. He dwelt upon the fact
that nowhere was there a finer people
physically, aDd the cheapness of good
lands must be specially attractive to
men of small means who wished to come
to the Old Dominion.
The staple of these addresses seemed
to be fashioned upon an old argument
or assertion which we find in the Atlan
ta Independent :
If a good Vermont or New Hampshire far
mer Bhould work our Georgia farms as ho
works the rooky, sterile New England lands,
he would produce such crops as were never
seen in this country. If our thirty-five thous
and farmers would work Georgia lands as the
good Northern farmers work their lands, the
agriculturists of Georgia would be the money
lenders of the State.
This may he true; but it is equally
true, we are informed, that nearly every
Northern man who came to the South
and turned farmer provod a dismal
failure. It may be that when Vermont
and New Hampshire men come hero
they either follow the plan they find
prevailing, or else they discover that
methods of agriculture suitable
to their old homes are not
adapted to their new settlement.
The records of the South aro
filled, since 1866, with the wrecks of
men who came from New England to
teach our people how to raise cotton,
sugar, rice, corn, peaches, etc., etc.
But, in spite of all this, the fact ap
pears to be substantiable that the South
does suffer from poor farming. We do
not hear this from Northern men alone,
but from Southern men who are expert
iu their calling, and whose sole desire is
to uplift their native section. These
home critics admit that there is good
farming in the South, but they are
forced to concede likewise that it is an
exception and not the rule. They
“point with pride,” too, to the fact that
where a good farmer can be found he is
always a prosperous one. A notable
work is being done,in the way of enlight
enment, by Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken, in
South Carolina, by the Joneses in
Georgia and by Daniel Denneft in
Louisiana. The latter gentleman tells
his readers that in parts of Europe far
mers take sandy and gravelly barrens
and convert them into rich farms and
gardens, aud make money out of them.
This has been done in England, in Flan
ders, and in many portions of France
and Germany, and many other countries.
He adds : “Look at some of the lands
in Louisiana that nature made rich and
farmers have made poor. Look at far
mers scratching twonty acres of pine
lands to make an amount of corn or cot
ton that good farmers produce on two
acres of lands originally the same aa the
indolent and thriftless farriers now cul
tivate. There are pine land farmers who
have from to twenty thousand dol
lars at interest, by the side of farmers
who are too poor to afford ‘store cof
fee,’ and who usually drink com coffee
and sassafras tea. Tho pine lands,
which are called the poorest lands in
Louisiana, when cultivated by good
farmers, may produce a five hundred
pound bale of cotton to an acre, or forty
bushels of corn, or fifteen to twenty
bushels of rice, or from one to two hogs
heads of sngar, au irom one to three
barrels of molasses besides, and other
produce in proportion, and nothing but
house fertilizers used.”
What is true of Louisiana is relatively
true of Georgia. We need in tfeis State
and in tho whole South good farmers as
the rule and not the exception. When
that shall have become the case abund
ant prosperity will indeed dawn upon
onr country, and not till then.
Col. Richard Lathers, formerly of
New York, then of Charleston, and now
again of New Fork, is the Democratic
nominee for the Senate fom the Ninth
District. The Times wishes him beaten
because he was a pro-slavery man in
1860 and hoisted the Palmetto flag on
his house at New Rochelle when South
Carolina seceded. The Times is not yet
conciliated, but Col. Lathers will pro
bably be elected all the same,
Ex-Mayor Oakey Hall has appeared
in New York as suddenly as he disap
peared. He went away only to obtain
“mental rest,” Mr. Hall seems to be
a good deal of a lunatic and a good deal
of a rogue. He should be sent to the
insane asylum for five years and to the
penitenriMT f.° r the same term. This
treatment might ou to hoth his feverish
brain and itching palm.
It is to be hoped that the bill intro
duced by Mr. Cox to abandon the issue
of 20 cent pieces from the mints will
beoome a law. Coins of that denomina
tion are not needed, and they are often
palmed off upon unsuspecting persons
as quarters.
Rev. D. E. Butler declined a re-elec
tion to the office of Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Georgia.
We publish this morning the call of
the Chairman of the Executive Commit
tee of Jefferson county for a meeting of
the committee next Saturday. The meet
ing is to be bild for the purpose of call
ing a County -Convention to nominate
candidates for the Legislature and to
tend delegates to a District Senatorial
Convention. We trust that there will be
a full attendance of the committee on
the meeting and that the Convention
will be held at the earliest day possible,
as the time of election is rapidly ap
proaching. The Richmond delegates
have suggested the 14th instant as the
time for holding the Sanatoria! Conven
tion, but we feel convinced that the
delegates from both Richmond and
Glascock will wait any reasonable time
on the action of Jefferson. We have
never believed for an instant that the
Democracy of -Jefferson wished to de
stroy their party and break down all the
barriers between themselves and the
common foe. They know too well what
mischief would follow such a false step,
and they will not take it. Jefferson is
in line with her sister counties, and will
fight under the flag of the true Demo
cracy in December next.
a m
GEN. N.JRJFORREST.
THE STORY OF A CAREER NEVER
LIKELY TO BE REPEATED IN
AMERICA.
fils Proposed Duel With Kilpatrick—The
Motto that Illustrated Ills Success as a
General.
Memphis, Tenn., October 29.—Gen
eral Nathan Bedford Forrest, the well
known Confederate cavalry officer, died
at 7:30 o'clock this evening at the resi
dence of'liis brother, Col. Jesse Forrest.
He was born in Bedford eounty, Ten
nesee, July 13, 1821. In 1834 his fnther
removed to Mississppi, where he died
in 1837, leaving a large family depen
dent upon his son Nathan. Young For
rest, accepting this responsibility, be
took himself to farming. He was able
to devote only a few of the Winter
months to acquiring an education. He
labored steadily, and energetically and
by 1840 had, by good management,
placed his family in comfortable circum
stances. In 1842 he removed from his
farm to Hernando, Mississippi, where
he entered into business, remaining
there until 1851, when he again removed
to Memphis, Tennessee, where he be
came a real estate broker and dealer in
slaves. By 1859 he had acquired a for
tune, and disposing of the greater share
of liis business in Memphis be pur
chased extensive plantations in Coa
homa county, Miss., and became a large
cotton grower, acquiring still another
fortune in a few years. He was opposed
to disunion in theory, but was an ar
dent advocate of State rights, and
when the Southern States seceded he
joined the Confederates unhesitatingly.
In the events that followed he bore a
conspicuous part. The natural energy
of his character kept him pretty con
stantly in the public eye. He joined
the Tennessee Mounted Rifles in June,
1861, as a private, but in July, at the
request of the Governor of the State,
he undertook the raising of a regiment
of cavalry. In this he was successful.
He equipped the men largely from his
own private means, and was chosen
their Lieutenant-Colonel. The regiment
was moved into Fort Donelson in Octo
ber. Its first engagement was with the
United States guDboat Conestoga at
Canton Landing. General Forrest bore
a conspicuous part at Fort Donelson,
and when it was determined to sur
render he remonstrated, and before a
flag of truce was sent he was allowed to
attempt an escape with his command.
The attempt was successful, General
Forrest reaching Nashville easily with
the main part of his force. His regi
ment was increased in March to ten
companies, and he was made its Colonel.
In 1862 General Forrest was engaged at
the battle of Shiloh, where he was
wounded. In June of the same year he
was assigned to the command of the
cavalry at Chattanooga, and took part
in the attack on Murfreesboro, July 13.
The same month he was appointed
Brigadier General, and was put in com
mand at Murfreesboro. He was in com
mand of a brigade at the action of Par
ker’s Cross Roads and at the battle of
Chicamauga. Transferred to Northern
Mississippi in the latter part of 1863, he
was appointed Major-General shortly
after and given the command of For
rest’s Cavalry Department. In April,
1864, Forrest led the successful attack
oil Fort Pillow. This post, forty miles
above Memphis, was held by a garrison
of 557 Federal troops, including 262
blacks, and after a day’s fighting was
carried by the Confederates at the point
of the bayonet. The slaughter among
the garrison was so groat that the en
gagement has been familiarlv known, in
the North at least, as the “Fort Pillow
massacre,” and the odium of it has been
generally made to rest, though unjustly,
upon the shoulders of General Forrest.
In February, 1865, Forrest was made
Lieutenant-General, and in May of the
same year he surrendered his army at
Gainsville. After the war he was Presi
dent of the Selma, Marion and Memphis
Railroad Company until 1874, when he
resigned.
General Forrest was not an educated
soldier, but he had that within him—-
energy, daßh and pluck—which goes to
make a successful cavalryman. That he
was successful, his remarkable marches
and numerous victories fully attest.
More than one unwary Federal General
went into camp in fancied security
thinking the enemy a hundred miles
away, and before morning was awakened
by an attack in force, against which he
was powerless. His excuse at head
quarters would be that it was Forrest
who had made the attack. The cavalry
man’s movements were as rapid and ec
centric as those of a guerilla, yet he car
ried with him' always a large and
well-organized force. Someone
asked him just before the close
of the war, when his victories made
him particularly conspicuous, what was
the secret of his success. Iu his own
homely way he said that it was by “git
ting the most men thar fust.” Summer
before last, when General Jndson Kil
patrick was canvassing Indiana for the
Republicans, he spoke of General For
rest in such a way that the latter chal
lenged him to fight a duel. As soon as
the challenge was sent General For
rest wrote to General Basil Duke, of
Kentucky, that, in case his invitation
was accepted—which he did not doubt
for a moment—he would call on Duke
to be his second. The letter further
said that in the necessary arrangement
he would like General Duke to insist
that the duel should be fought on
horseback with sabres, as that was the
proper way for two cavalrymen to meet.
General Duke at once engaged for his
principal a steed for the encounter—a
horse recommended by his owner to go
over a church steeple if necessary—and
awaited General Kilpatrick’s reply.
Kilpatrick, however, declined to fight,
on the ground that ho and Forrest “did
not move in the same social sphere.”
Had this duel taken place, it doubtless
would have been conducted in a style
delightfully dramatic.
I.IKUTENANT-t-ENEHAI, N. B. FORItENT.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Forrest is dead ! The great cavalry
man has “passed over the river and now
rests under the shade of the trees.”
He was certainly an extraordinary
man. We believe be was about
the only General on the Confed
erate side who never suffered de
feat. Victory always perched upon his
banner, and be proved himself a man of
immense brain and untiring energy.
When the story of the struggle for
separation is written no name will
shine brighter than that of Gener
al Forrest, the groat Confederate
cavalry leader. He was tt sans peur et
sans reproache.” Death has claimed
him, as it claimed Lee, Jackson and
Ewell. The Sonth is bereaved at his
death, for General Forrest impersonated
all her ideas of chivalry and honor. He
is gone; but let young Southerners grow
up with the spirit of Forrest m their
hearts—determination, will and energy.
He made himself what he was—a great
man, a great soldier.- He had the love
of the Southern people, and now that he
is dead they shed the same tears that
they did when Jackson and Lee was
taken away. His memory will always
be creep in oui hearts, and may he rest
in peace. The name of Nathan Bedford
Forrest will inhabit the Temple of
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both under the influence of whisky, had
an altercation recently in; York county,
in the course of which the latter was
badly cut.
FORTY-Ft™_ CONGRESS;"
DISCUSSING THE RESUMPTION
ACT REPEAL.
Reconsidering* Recommittal—Dilatory Mo
lions Coastline tho House Morning HnOr-r
Tactics of the Opposition—Temporary Ad
journment of Comma
Washington, November I.—Morri
son, of Illinois, and Luttrell, of Califor
nia, were the only Western Democrats
who voted against the repeal of the re
sumption act. It is thought that Con
gress, by a concurrent resolution, will
take a recess to allow New York and
Pennsylvania members time to go home
and Vote.
The bill to repeal the resumption act
oame up before Um House, ou Ewing’s
motion to reconsider the vote of yester
day, recommitting it. The vote was re
considered, but no further progress was
made, the morning hour (to which the
consideration of the bill is restricted)
having been used np in voting by yeas
and nays. Thß opposition having re
sorted to the tactics of delay, there is
ho possibility under the rules of the
House of having final action on the bill.
It can only be considered in the morn
ing hour, and the morning hour can al
ways be used up by dilatory motions.
The only alternatives are to report the
bill again, and have it referred to the
committee of the whole on the state of
the Union (which would subject it to
interminable debate and amendment) or
to press it under a suspension of the
rules, and this would require a majority
of two-thirds. The House adjourned
to to-morrow, with the understanding
that it then adjourn to Tuesday, and
theu without business adjourn to Thurs
day.
Tlie Silver Bill and Resumption Act—Abolish
ing Free Hanking—Split Among the Infla
tionists.
The Star says : The Banking and
Currency Committee did not agree this
morning upon the silver bill, as was ex
pected. There was so much wrangling
in the committee over the repeal of the
resumption bill that the entire two
hours were consumed in the discussion
of that subject. Some of the Western
members who have been anxious for the
repeal have discovered that the Ewing
repeal bill absolutely abolishes free
banking. This is really the purpose of
Ewing, who wishes to substitute green
backs for National Bank notes, but
most of the Western Republican infla
tionists are friends of the National
Banking system. It soems possible,
therefore, at the very outset, that the
inflationists are liable to be split into
separate factions upon this issue.
In consequence of serious complaint
that the United States Circuit Judge
does not hold his Court in Mississippi,
General Chalmers has introduced in the
House of Bepresentatives a resolution
of inquiry te know from tho Attorney-
General the cause of this failure in jus
tice.
.Mexican Depredations—Firebrand in the
Ultra Camp~Sustaining the President in
Withdrawing Troops.
Schleicher, of Texas, offered a resolu
tion calling upon the President for all
information relating to the condition of
the Mexican border in Texas, and to any
recent violation of the territory of the
United States by incursions from Mexi
co. Adopted.
Goode, of Virginia, asked leave to
offer a resolution declaring that, in the
judgment of the House, the action of
the President in withdrawing the Fed
eral troops from the States of South
Carolina and Louisiana was wise, just
and constitutional; that it has con
tributed in a large degree to the resto
ration of peace and harmony throughout
the country, nd is entitled to receive
the cordial support of all men who
realize that while there is a North and
a South aud an East and a West, there
is but one country, one Constitution and
one destiny.
Phillips, of Kansas, objected.
Butler, of Massachusetts, suggested
that it should be referred to the Com
mittee on Education and Labor, and the
matter dropped.
The Committees—Abnut the Army Reduction.
Chairman Harris has called the Elec
tions Committee of the House for to
morrow at 10 o’clock. The Privileges
and Election Committee adjourned to
to-morrow on account of a premature
report of Morton’s death. The Banking
and Currency Committee directed Mr.
Ewing to report back a bill repealing
resumption and demands its passage,
after an hours’debate. It also appointed
a sub-committee consisting of Messrs.
Buckner, Eames and Phillips, on the
silver bill. They will hold an early
meeting to act on the subject.
The Secretary of War, General Sher
man, Adjutant-General Townsend, Quar
termaster-General Meigs, Commissary-
General McFoely and Chief of Ordnance
General Beset were before the Appro
priations Committee of the House ad
vising against a reduction of the army.
The bill will probably provide for 23,-
000 men with some reduction of staff
officers.
The Senate—Withers, Smithsonian Regent—
Executive Session—The New York Custom
House.
In the Senate during the morning
hour the Vice-President appointed Sen
ator Withers, of Virginia, member of
the Board of Regents of the Smithso
nian Institution in place of Mr. Steven
son, of Kentucky, whose term of service
expired on the 4th of March last. A
number of bills were introduced and re
ferred to appropriate committees. The
Senate then, on motion of Mr. Sargent,
went into executive session, and when
the doors were reopened, adjourned.
The Senate confirmed LeDuc Com
missioner of Agriculture. In executive
session Stanley Matthews wished to
know why the New York Custom House
nominations were held in committee.
Mr. Cockling said that the affairs of
the New York Custom House were in
the hands of capable men and there was
no urgency. The scene was quite vigor
ous and resulted in defeat, it is said, of
Matthews, whose movement amounted
to a demand for immediate considera
tion of the nominations. The result was
that the committee will not consider
these nominations until next week.
The President has recognized Osmond
C. Howe Vice Consul of England at
Pensacola. Department statement de
crease during the month was 4} millions.
In treasury coin, 131 millions; currency,
15 millions.
A Question of Privilege.
An ir,justice was done Senator Ran
som in the statement that in anticipa
tion of Mr. Morton’s death he had
spoken for his seat on the floor of the
Senate. It is the custom of Senators to
apply for seats they think may become
vacant, and to put down their names for
the same sometimes two years in ad
vance. During the last session of the
Forty-fourth Cougress Senator Ransom
pleasantly informed Senator Morton
that he should apply for his seat, as he
expected that the Indiana Senator would
be beaten in the next Senatorial elec
tion. Owing to the ill health of Mr.
Morton at that time Senator Ransom,
with charaoteristio delicacy, asked Mr.
Bassett to reserve the ohoioe of tho seat
for him, but not to put down bis name
on the list. Since the unexpected se
verity of Mr. Morten’s illness within the
past few days several other Senators ap
plied for the seat, and as no name was
on the list, to prevent any one from se
curing the seat which Senator Ransom
had applied for last Winter, his name
was put down for the same a few days
since, withoui his knowledge or any
consultation udth him*
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Archer, Gainesville, Ga.; Shaw, Tar
boro, N. C.; Wallace, Y’orkviile, S. ('.
SUBSTITUTE FOB EWING’S RE
SUMPTION ACT.
Fort’* Bill Aectpted—Effort to l.ay It on the
Table Defeatel—The Bill Goes Over— Ad
journment Through Respect to Morton.
Washington, November 2.— The bill
to repeal the Resumption act came np
again in the House daring the morning
hour, and Evintr, of Ohio (who has
charge of it), withdrew the motion to re
commit, acoepttd Fort’s bill as a substi
tute, and moved the previous question.
Hale, of Maine, moved to lay the bill on
the table. Motion defeated—loß to 140.
The morning hour expired and the bill
went over. Several motions to adjourn
over were made and defeated. The
House adjourned till to-morrow in re
spect to the late Senator Morton, and a
committee of seven was appointed to at
tend his funeral
The Senate Adjaarna Till Tneaday—llouorg
to Seaator Morton— Urn nill After Conk
ling’3
The reading of the journal of yester
day’s proceedings was dispensed with,
and the death of Senator Morton was
announced by Senator McDonald. A
resolution, submitted by him, provided
for the appointment of a committee of
six Senators to attend the funeral of the
deceased Senator, and was agreed to.
The Vice-President designated Mc-
Donald, Don Cameron, Bayard, Booth,
Davis aud Burnside. The Senate then,
at 12:10, as a mark of respect to the
memory of the deceased, adjourned until
Tuesday next. - .
All flags are half-masted in respect
for Morion’s death, which excites regret
from bis opponents and deep grief from
his personal friends, am Q n& whom are
many of his most hearty political ene
“Snator Ben Hill, of Georgia, in hope
of the exit of Conkling, has filed an ap
plication for his chair in the Senate
Chamber.
TIM) a—l OiauWaKplJH Army Uil
—Twentj-two Tliouband the Basie—Five
.Million Reduction Already—Special Order
for Wednesday.
Washington, November 2. The
House army bill was reported aud made
A special order for Wednesday next. It
provides that the army shall continue of
same foroe as of yesterday, November
1, aud forbids recruiting beyond what is
necessary to maintain that force.
The Committee on Privileges and
Elections, after addressing a resolution
of condoleuce to Mrs. Morton, adjourn
ed, subject to a call of Chairman
Mitchell.
The House Elections Committee or
ganized. Colorado will be the first in
order.
it is stated that Potter having re
signed, Speaker Randall (the committee
not having organized) stiil controls the
Chairmanship of tbe Committee on the
Texas Pacific Road.
The Committee on Ways and Means
paid their usnal visit to the President
and Secretary of the Treasury. The
Committee on Foreign Relations or
ganized and considered a representative
at the French Exposition. Tbe army
bill provides that cavalry regiments may
be recruited and kept np to 100 men to
a company for service on the Mexican
frontier, provided this does not increase
the total force of the army. The bill is
on a basis of 22,000 men, rank and file.
The clause of the bill forbidding the
use of the army for political purposes is
omitted as unnecessary, and the esti
mates of the War Office are reduced by
five millions.
Assistant Surgeon John H. Knsmau is
ordered to report for duty in the De
partment of tbe Gulf, relieving Assist
ant Surgeon Wm. G. Spencet.
The Speaker appointed as a committee
to attend Morton’s funeral—Messrs.
Hanna and Cobb, of Indiana; Wilson,
of West Virginia; Burchard, of Illinois;
Davidson, of Florida; Banks, of Massa
chusetts, and Townsend, of New York.
The Private Calamler—The Debate On the
Resumption Act—How Fort’s Bill Differs
With the Committee.
Washington, November 2.—The army
bill appropriates twenty-five and three
quarter millions. None of the commit
tees have taken formal action on adjourn
ment of the extra session. Banning in
troduced a bill for increased pay of let
ter carriers prepared by a convention
now iu session here. The call of com
mittees being concluded, the Speaker
stated that the Committee on Banking
and Currency had the floor for the re
mainder of the morning hour.
Conger, of Missouri, moved to go into
committee of the whole on the private
calendar. The Speaker declined on the
ground that there will be no bills ou the
private calendar, and he added that the
Chair ought to exercise a little common
sense in such matters.
Conger retorted that if the Chair was
making an effort in that direction he
(Conger) was unwilling to interfere with
him. [Laughter.]
Ewing, of Ohio : “I am instructed
by the committee for the purpose of
giving that opportunity for debate aud
amendment about which gentlemen on
both sides of the House seem to be so
licitous, to ask uuanimons consent to
substitute for the committee’s bill that
presented by ihe gentleman from Illi
nois (Fort), and that the substitute be
made tbe special order for Tuesday, the
13th instant, and from day to day, until
disposed of, with the understanding
that two amendments may be offered be
fore the previous question is de
manded. The committee conceives
that its bill is of precisely the
same effect as that proposed by
the gentleman from Illinois. The
committee’s bill proposes to repeal the
whole of t!ie] third section of the re
sumption act. That third section
repealed all the restriction on banking
(as to the amount of bank currency and
its distribution) that existed ou the 14th
of January, 1875. If that third section
be not itself repealed, the former re
strictions and limitations repealed by it
will not be restored. That is true as a
proposition of law, and it is specially
provided in the Revised Statutes (sec
tion 12, chapter 2) that whenever an act
which repealed a former act is itself re
pealed such former act shall not be
thereby repealed unless expressly so
provided. The committee, therefore,
believed aud still believes and has no
question about it that if its bill
becomes a law banking will bo froe. The
bill of the gentleman from Illinois was
proposed under the apprehensson that
the repeal. of the third section would
restoro the restrictions on the aggregate
amount of banking currency and its dis
tribution. For the purpose of quieting
any fears of that sort the committee is
willing to accept the amendment of the
gentleman from Illinois as a substitute
for its bill.” The Speaker informed him
that this could not be done without
unanimous consent. Objection was
made. Hubbell, of Michigan (a mem
ber of the Banking Committee), inquired
of Ewing what amendments he would
permit to be offered.
Ewing replied that any two amend
ments might be offered that would be
agreed upon by the opponents of the
bill.
Hubbell : “Will you allow me to offer
a substitute ?”
Ewing repeated his proposition.
Hubbell asked that his substitute be
read.
Ewing objected on account of time.
Hubbell—“Then I object to your
proposition.”
Ewing—“Very well, I now yield the
floor to the gentleman from Illinois to
offer his amendment.”
Fort thereupon offered his amend
ment.
Ewing—“l move the previous ques
tion on tho bill and amendments.
Hale, of Maine—“l move to lay them
on the table.”
The motion was defeated—yeas, 108;
nays, 140. The Speaker then announced
that the morning hour had expired.
The Silver Dollar.
Among the provisions of tho silver
bill, upon which the Committee of Bank
ing and Currency agreed to-day, are that
the silver dollar shall not be a legal
tender for contracts made from its de
monetization to the passage of the act,
and also limiting the amount for which
it shall be legal tender.
The Resumption Act Repeal—Efforts to
Drive It from the Morning Hour—Recoin
ing the Silver Dollar.
Washington, November 3. —The bill
to repeal the Resumption act again
came up in tbe House, at the morning
hour, and an effort was made by its
friends to have an arrangement made by
which it could be taken out of the
morning hour and made the special or
der for one week, with leave to diqcuss
it and offer amendments; but an abso
lute objection was made by Willis, of
New York, who characterized the bill
as an attack upon the National credit
and said that it should be kept ont of
the House. No progress was made with
the bill.
A bill to recoin the silver dollar and
restore it to its legal tender value was,
after a sharp struggle as to its reference,
sent to the Committee on Coins,
Weights and Measures, Stephens, Chair
man. Adjourned to Monday.
Secretary Thompson assured the Com
mittee of Naval Expenditures, which
visited him to-day, that he would give
them every assistance in investigating
operations of the Navv during Robe
son’s administration. He also said he
would co-operate with the committee in
reducing the expenditures of the De
partment.
CRIMINAL ANNAIiS.
Two Murderers Expiate Their C'riines Upon
the GnllqwM*
Washington, Braufokt County, N.
C., November 3. — NathaD P. OvertoD,
white, aged 34 years, and Noah Taylor,
colored, aged 34, were yesterday exe
cuted in the jail yard here for the mur
der, two years ago, of Wm. Grimes.
A Crazy Woiifan Forsakes Her Husband and
Drowns Rer Bairns.
Trot, N. Y., November 3.—The wife
of Stephen May, of Mechanicsville, stole
ont of her house while her husband.was
sleeping, taking with her four of her
children, aged 9,6, 4 and lj years, threw
them into a deep swift running creek,
in the rear of her premises, and jumped
in herself. The eldest child managed
to reach the shore and gave the alarm.
The mother and one child were rescued.
The bodies of two others were found
two hours afterward.
A Champion Free Lover.
Boston, November 3.—E. H. Hey
wood, prominently known as a leader of
Free Lovers in this State, was arrested
on a charge of circulating obscene lit
erature, and bailed jn the sum of $1,500.
TENBROECR AND PAROLE.
The Great Race Postponed—Tenbroeck the
Favorite.
New York, November 2.— The great
race between Tenbroeck and Parole will
not be run to-morrow, owing to the se
vere storm prevailing, which will render
the track unfit. The match was made
with the stipulation of a fair day and
good track. The betting on the race is
heavy ; several wagers of 81,00‘J to SBOO
have been laid in favor of Tenbroeck.
Both horses are in good condition.
Abyminla va.'EaJVt.
London, November 3, —A special dis
patch from Alexandria says: The King
of Abyssinia again threatens to invade
Egypt with 120,000 men. G3n. Gordon
is expected at Massowob to negotiate
with him.
STOPPfM mmATION.
CHOKING UP PLEVNA’S LAST RE
MAINING ARTERIES,
Tfae Rehova Road Picketed—Cannoundins
Turkish Detachments Ghazi Osman’s
Peril—Outlets f.r Retreat Gradually Cut
Off.
London, November I.—lt appears
from a Bucharest telegram, dated last
night, that an effort is being made to
gain possession of the Plevna and Ra
hova roads. A Roumanian force which
has been stationed between the rivers
Vid and Iskra yesterday made a recon
noissanoe along the Danube iu the di
rection of Rahova. At Vadeni they
found a Turkish detachment occupying
some earth works. A Roumanian re
port states that after a brief cannonade
the Turkish magazine exploded, and the
garrison retreated in the direction of
Rahova; two companies of Roumanians
occupy the redoubt.
A special from Vienna says that the
uneasiness at Constantinople about
Ghazi Osman’s army is by means ground
less. It is true there are the roads in
the direction of Widden and Vratza
which do not appearjto have been olosed,
but these ere of little avail for supplies,
and are very poor substitutes for tbe
Sofia road in tbe ease of retreat from
Plevna. While there were only detach
ments of Russian cavalry ranging west
of the Vid aud all important points on
the road were held by the Turks, re
treat oould have been effeoted with tol
erable facility, but now that the Musco
vite army may be said to be in the rear
of Plevna, and on a most direct line of
retreat, a retiring movement by the oth
er routes becomes a rather doubtful
matter.
Tvro Evacuating Battalion. Captured at
Han.au Kalek.
London, November I.—An eye wit
ness telegraphs from Erzeroum : “As
the Turks were evacuating Hassan
Kaleb, on Tuesday night, the Russians
surprised their rear guard, taking two
battalions prisoners. The Russian loss
is insignificant. The enemy’s approach
was utterly unexpected. The Turks now
occupy a formidable position at Deve
boyun. [Note, —Deveboyun is the last
defensive position east of Erzeronm.
Call for Troops at Constantinople—Further
Kussiau Victories—Murktar Not Vet Oiven
Up.
Constantinople, November I.—lt is
officially announced that 226,795 men
are to be immediately called out for ac
tive service. A majority of these are
members of the reserve. The draft will
leave 333,412 registered members of the
reserve. A considerable force of Rus
sians is concentrated in the Hain Bog
haz Pass. *
A Russian official dispatch says: “The
total number of prisoners captured at
Dnbnik and Telisehe was seven thous
and, including two Pashas, two hundred
officers and an English Colonel in
the Turkish service. After the victories
at Dubuik and Telisehe, Russian scouts
approached Radomirze, and Ohevket
Pasha, with twelve battalions, fled from
there without waiting to destroy the
bridge, which is now intaot in our
hands. Our cavalry is pursuing Chev
kot Pasha.” A Renter telegram from
Constantinople reports that twenty bat
talions of Turks have taken up position
at Kurkajuk, near Bogan. The Russians
are advancing by way of Olti to Farn
Erzeroum. Iu official circles Ghazi’s
position is considered critical but not
desperate.
THE FORTRESSES OF KARS AND
ERZEROUM.
The Deviboytui (’rest—lmpregnable Fortifi
cation*— Can Mouktar Plant the Ramparts
with Mon —Erzeroum Well Garrisoned
Though Assailable—Shocking Condition of
Kars.
London, November 2.—Apropos of
Constantinople telegram saying that
Mouktar Pasha’s position is critical, the
following are extracts from a review of
the Asiatic campaign in yesterday’s
Times from the pen of Captain Nor
man, lately a correspondent with Mouk
tar’a army and expelled by the Turks
for unfriendly criticisms : “The Devi
boyau, the crest of a range 2,000 feet
higher than the surrounding plain, pre
sents every facility for a most deter
mined resistance. If Ghazi Mouktar
can reach this in safety and throw 25,000
men into the very lormidable works
that under the able direction of his
gallant Hungarian chief of staff, Gen
eral Kohlmann, have been recently con
strueted, Deviboyan should defy a
frontal attack, and at this season a flank
movement over mountains 8,000 to 9,000
feet above the sea presents almost insur
mountable difficulties. As to a flank
movement from Olti and Pennek, it may
be checked by the troops from Pennek
under Hassan Bey, who will ocoupy the
works at Guirji Boghaz, a pass where
the three roads from Pennek to Erze
rotun converge. E>z oroum is not a very
formidable fortress, but under the able
direction of General Kohlmann the
enciente has been repaired, the parapets
considerably strengthened, magazines
placed under the ramparts, detached
forts fully provisioned, arrangements
made to insure an adequate supply of
water and more than 100 Krnpp guns,
varying from fifteen to twenty centi
metres oilibre, mounted ou the walls.
The city, however, is very unhealthy,
typhus fever having been rife all tbe
Bummer, and, moreover, it is very in
adequately provisioned as far as tbe
civilian element is concerned, all stores
having been seized by the Government
for the use of the troops.
Referring to the reports from St.
Petersburg of negotiations for the
Surrender of Kara*
Captain Norman says: “I cannot
credit the rumors that the commandant
has entered into negotiations for the
surrender of that fortress. lam aware,
from personal observation, that very
large supplies for both small arms and
artillery were thrown into the place dur
ing July, August aud September, and
that the commissariat store houses were
completely replenished. It was danger
ously denuded of troops during tbe oc
cupation of tho Aladja Dagh. If Moukh
tar Pasha was enabled subsequent to
his defeat on the 14th of October to
leave a garrison of the same strength as
he did in April, there should bo no fear
for its safety. If, however, he was un
able to do so tt is more than probable
it will fall by a coup d’main, but it will
not be starved into submission.”
[Note— The garrison in April consist
ed of twenty-nine battalions, numbering
less than 500 men each.]
Russian Cos in inn. m!e I'M Quartering Around
Plevna—Heavy Russian Defeat at Dubrlk
aud Great Losses.
London, November 2—A special
dispatch from 13ogol, about eight miles
south of Plevna, has the following :
The Czar arrived here on the 27th of
October. Grand Duke Nicholas has his
headquarters here. General Todteben
is • t Tuckenitza, with his staff. Prince
of Roumania’s headquarters aro at Po
radin. An attack on Lilische simulta
neously with the capture of Dnbrik, on
the 24th ultimo, waR repulsed with a
loss of one thousand men. The loss at
Dubrik was three thousand men. Every
brigade and regimental commander was
killed or wounded, and as nearly all the
officers of guards are personally known
at headquarters, the fact that two hun
dred officers have been placed hors du
combat has cast deep gloom over mem
bers of the staff at Bogol.
The bombardment of Plevna continues
in a desultory way.
Siilicman Looks Over tlie Disaffected States.
London, November 2. —A Vienna cor
respondent telegraphs as follows : “Me
hemet Ali has arrived at Salonica, en
route for his Herzegovinian command.
He will establish his headquarters at
Novi Bazar, which is convenient for op
eration either against Montenegro or
Servia. Militia from Constantinople
are to be sent to reinforce him.”
Siliatria Threatened With Investment.
A special dispatch from Sumla says :
“Silistria is threatened with investment,
but is exceedingly strong in its defense
and fully armed. The garrison is in ad
mirable condition, and commanded by
Selami Pasha, one of the ablest Turkish
Generals.
around about pi.evna.
Reserved at Byzantium—Reinforcement, for
Unman —A Russian Mebeme to Pierce the
Balkansßeiofe Subduing Plevna—Repulses
Along the Orchanie Road.
London, November 3.—A Vienna cor
respondent telegraphs as follows : “It
is said that there are still from 25,000 to
30 000 regular troops in and around Con
stantinople. The council of war has
ordered these troops to start immedi
ately for Orchanie and Sophia to relieve
Osman Pasha.”
A Bucharest dispatch says it is report
ed that the Russians are forming an
army of 70,000 men, with which it is de
signed to cross the Balkans and advance
upon Adrianople without waitiDg for the
fall of Plevna.
The Porte has issued to the populace
official assurance that Plevna is amply
provisioned and can hold out for
months. A dispatch from Sophia says :
“ Fighting continues on the Orchanie
and Pievna road. Chevket Pasha occu
pies a position commanding the junction
of the Orchanie and Plevna and the Ot
chanie and Lovatz roads. The Russian
advance has been repulsed with heavy
loss. Reinforcements are arriving
rapidly. An attempt to retake Telische
will be made immediately.”
•
I have used Dr. Ball’s Cough Syrup
and found it the best cough remedy I
ever tried. -W. P. Clarke, 920 Walnut
Street, Philadelphia, November 27,
1875.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Abbeville’s fair is in full blast.
The Columbia boys are drilling nightly.
Hard evil lo is infested with burglars.
Diphtheria has disappeared in Colum
bia.
Union county will have a fair on the
6th.
Mr. James Sanders, of Barnwell, is
dead.
Greenville is advised to repair her
roads.
The Charleston College reopened yes
terday.
Flint Hill. Fairfield county, will not
be a post office.
Newberry tax payers seem to be re
markably prompt.
The Winnsboro Herald wants the bell
punch in Carolina.
Woodville Academy iu Edgefield coun
ty needs a teacher.
A genuine imported Irish cock has ar
rived in Charleston.
Greenville seems determined to have
a library association.
Judge Kershaw seems to have done
good work in Fairfield.
Charleston’s jail holds one hundred
and thirty-five prisoners.
Edgefield will have a meeting to-mor
row over her branch railway.
Senator Sammy Green, of Beaufort,
has handed in his resignation.
The Rifle Battalion of Charleston will
attend the State Fair in a body.
Cardoza’s case came off yesterday in
Columbia. Smalls next Monday.
The artillery men in Charleston will
soon have another target practice.
There are 150 criminal cases for trial
at the Charleston Court of Sessions.
A son of Mr, W. H. Sloan, of New
berry, died the other night of cronp.
Charlie Minort. colored member of
the House fr m Richland, has resigned.
Captain Tillman Clark is goiug to
build a large hotel at Pine House Depot.
The Advertiser says that Edgefield’s
cemetery is in a very shameful condition.
A man named Gunter, in Aiken coun
ty, recently shot James Gantt in the
head.
The Charleston Custom House exami
nation is developing some rotten re
cords.
Tho Aiken Courier-Journal wants all
Boards of County Commissioners abol
ished.
Rev. Dr.'Girardeau has been assisting
in a satisfactory Presbyterian revival in
Chester.
Mr. David Campbell, a woll known
citizen of Fairfield, died on Tuesday
morning.
Mr. W. Y. Fair and Mrs. Sems, in
Newberry, lost their gin houses by fire
last week.
Mayor Mauldin, of Greenville, was
recently thrown from his horse, sprain
ing his leg.
Mr. Winthrop Williams is filling the
chair of Mr. Graham in the Comptroller
General’s office.
Dr. L. C. Stephens, of Newberry, will
be surgeon on the staff of Brigadier-
General Bamberg.
J. C. Willingham has been elected
Captain of the Richardson Light Dra
goons, of Barnwell.
The movement to change the Trial
Justice system to County Courts seems
to be gaining favor.
A Columbia man writes the Charles
ton News that four Augusta companies
are going to the fair.
The Comptroller-General has extend
ed the time for paying State and county
taxes to Novembet 15th.
The nomination of Y. J. Pope for the
Judgeship of the 7th Circuit has been
received with much favor.
It was reported that Mayor Agnew, of
Columbia,*bad received the Collector
ship of the Chailestou Port.
Prof. Joseph P. Pritchard, of New
berry, has been eleoted rector of the
Cokesbury Conference School.
Speaker Wallace will forthwith call
for an election for a Representative in
Richland and Kershaw counties.
A correspondent does not think that
Sumter county is able to subscribe to
the Georgetown and Chester Road.
The Columbia Register shows that
from ’73 to ’76 $184,704 74 was the
amount unpaid ou ti;e school fund.
Ex-Revenue Collector L. Cass Carpen
ter is a defaulter to the General Govern
ment to the amount of about $3,000.
Hon. C.C. Memminger, of Charleston,
is mentioned for the Chairmanship of
the Committee on Ways and Means.
Hon. Jno. H. Evins has been placed
on the Committee ou Military Affairs,
and Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken on Agricul
ture.
Mr. W. I. Gregg, a former resident of
Columbia, was stabbed through the
lungs, in Marion, by E. P. Ellis, who
escaped.
The Governor has pardoned Monday
Gaillard, Jack Grant, Jack Wineglass,
James Osborn and Stephen- Grant,
Oombaliee rioters. ,
The Barnwell People is authorized to
say that Judge Maher is not and will
not be a candidate for the vacancy on
the Supreme Bench.
Rev. W. T. Hundley, of Virginia,
from the Chesapeake Bay region, has
accepted the call to fill tho Baptist
Church at Edgefield.
Mr. James Chapman, while ’possum
hunting, near Aiken, last week, killed
an otter measuring five feet in length
and weighing forty pounds.
Samuel W. Maurice, Esq., editor of
the Kingstree Star, has been appointed
as aide-de-camp to Governor Hampton,
withjthe rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
The Register says that Mr. Graham,
who was killed Saturday, was enjoying
a practice of SIO,OOO a year when Can
by’s infamous order drove him from his
profession.
Abont fifty ex members of the Legisla
ture have testified before tbe Investigat
ing Committee that Patterson tried to
bribe them to vote for him for United
States Senator.
If the Supreme Court shall decide
that the election viva voce of Judge
Shaw was unconstitutional, every Cir
cuit Judge on tbe bench, except Judge
Kershaw, will lose his seat.
THE TWENTY-NINTH DISTRICT.
Who Shall be the Nominee ?—Hon. W. D.
Tutt the Man for the Place.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
As the approaching election is at the
present time the most interesting topic
of both the press and the people, I will,
with your permission, make use of a
short space in your columns in reference
to the same in the 29th S notorial Dis
trict. This District will vote solidly for
ratifying the Constitution, and also
(with the exception of Wilkes, whioh
will give a majority in favor of Milledge
ville), will vote solidly for Millodge
ville. This county (McDuffie) will re
elect Dr. Jas. S. Jones by an almost
unanimous vote for the Lower House.
But the question whioh now agitates
this people is, who will be our next Sen
ator ? Some hope to avoid strife by the
re-election of Judge Reese. Why foster
such a hope, when Judge Reese has
already publioly declared that he could
not serve tbe people again on account
of his failing health aud pressure of
business? Nor would it be justice to
Judge Reese for the people to
endeavor to force him to serve
them again, if they could. The
Judge is now in the “evening of life,”
and ne:d3 rest; he has served the peo
ple in both a judicial and legislative ca
pacity, long and faithfully, and the peo
pie love and revere him. Therefore
Wilkes county is considered out of the
race entirely, therefore the candidate
must be chosen either from McDuffie or
Lincoln (as Colnmbia is also out of the
race). Now should Wilkes combine
with any one of these counties that one
will nominate her candidate. The dele
gates from this oonnty aro the only
ones which go instructed; they go in
stmeted to vote for Colonel H..C. Roney,
of this place. Lincoln claims that she is
entitled to the representation this time ;
McDuffie and Wilkes claim that this dis
trict has long since abandoned the rota
tion plan. Now if Lincoln feels thus
why should she not cast her votes on
next Tuesday in the District Convention
for her honored and worthy son, Hon.
W. D. Tntt, the man who was nurtured
and raised among her grand old hills,
and who loves her even as a ohild loves
its mother, and who feels as deep an in
terest in her welfare and prosperity as
any son that to-day treads her gracious
soil; the man who, when the first olarion
note of war was sonnded, took up arms
in his country’s defense, and who stood
by her “colors” through all of her wear
isome marches and through the battles
fierce and wild, and who, after four long
years of suffering, danger and privation,
was one of the last to yield up his arms,
and with a heart saddened by his coun
try’s woe, return to his homo. What
has he done since then, men of Lineoln ?
Did he not toil on your ragged bills as
an honest farmer for several years ? Did
he not represent you in the Legislature,
and ably too ? Now, one word more,
and I have done. It is thought by
some that Col. T. is no aspirant for the
position; in one sense of the term he is
not; his name was not before the ooun
ty convention, neither has he ever an
nounced himself a candidate, but he is
willing to serve the people; he does not
want the people to serve him. He says
now, and has always said, that he will
not seek the office, the office most seek
him. He is no politician, but a quiet,
unassuming, business man, one who
lovee his country and his people. Think
of it, delegates; there are some who are
candidates for nomination, wljo, if they
were actually nominated the people
wonld not eleot. Cast your votes for
Col. Tntt, on the 6th, and save strife
and secure an able and worthy Senator.
“Vox Populi.”
Thomson, Ga,, November 2, 1877.
ATLANTA’S FUOFIMITION.
Um Legality Questioned—She Caunot Comply
Wily Her Proposition ns It Now Stands.
[Correspondent* of Columbus Enquirer
Certaiu papers in the State are keep
ing constantly before the public Atlan
ta’s great proposition to give the State
of Georgia land, and on it build her a
Capitol. Not content with this paid or
gratuitous advertisement they seek and
publish opinions from legal geutlemen
upon the subject. In a recent number
of the Constitution is an article from
the pen of that able lawyer, Col. Porter
Ingram, ou this subleot. Now, we do
not take issue with Col. Ingram. We
admit that the city of Atlanta can do
everything permitted her by that clause
of the new Constitution which reads as
follows :
“If any municipal corporation shall
offer to the State any property for lo
cating or building a Capitol, and the
State accepts said offer, the oorporatiou
may comply with such offer.”
This clause gives the power to the
municipality of Atlanta or any other in
the State, but the section from which it
is taken says that tbe authority by which
the municipality appropriates money
mnst be delegated by the General As
sembly. If the city of Atlanta had made
a proposition she could not raise one
dollar without authority from the Gen
eral Assembly, prescribing the mode of
raising the money aud delegating through
charter privilege her right so to do;
moreover, it would require an act of the
General Assembly, as representing the
State, to accept the city’s offer. Tho.
charter of Atlanta, ns |it now stauds,
oonfers no power on its Oity Council to
give away the public property, nor any
power to tax the people at largo to raise
money to give away. See chapter 1874,
page 116.
The present Constitution does not give
City Council, aud not even tho city, this
right; yet the proposition is paraded
before the public aud intelligent men
are asked to vote on it. “The Mayor
and Counoil of Atlanta repeat aud de
clare that Atlanta will give ten acres of
land and two hundred thousand dollars
to Georgia!” The same number of
men in Columbus could make tbe same
proposition, and in luw it would be just
about as binding.
If this Mayor and Council were to
pass another ordinance levying a tax to
raise tho money, it would not ba worth
any more than their present proposition,
i, e. , the paper it was written on. Any
citizen tax-payer could stop them in an
hour by a writ of injunction, which the
Superior Court could not and
would not refuse. A oareful read
ing of Colonel Ingram’s opinion
will show that that astute lawyer
says “upon any fair construction
of the clause in the Constitution, I thiuk
that no Court could hesitate to hold that
the city of Atlanta can both donate land
and build a Oapitcl.” Two things are
necessary before any Court would bo
called upon to pass on that question.
First, tbe new Constitution must be in
force; second, the city of Atlanta mnst
make the proposition. Neither of these
things have been done, nor can they be
done until after the election, if then.
The question of the location of the
Capitol will have been settled by a vote
of the people long before either of these
conditions could arise. Where, then, is
the voter to be caught by this gilded,
high-sounding advertisement of the
Mayor and Council of Atlanta ? But
suppose the new Constitution is in force
aud the city of Atlanta, by a unanimous
vote of its tax payers, offered to build
Georgia a Capitol; even then it would be
questionable whether or not she had tho
right to make the offer or carry out the
proposition. The Courts have been very
strict in their construction of all law's
granting taxable powers to municipal
corporation. Some weeks ago was pub
lished in your paper a “brief” upon this
subjeot, in whioh the following estab
lished principles wore given and backed
by the city authorities :
1. Municipal governments, especially
town governments, are very strictly lim
ited in their power,and can do no act and
contract no debt and raise taxes for no
purpose not duly authorized by charter.
2. Town governments are mere trus
tees, and have no power to apply town,
taxes aud town lands to any uses but the
strict uso of all the inhabitants,
3. The State itself has no power to
grant power to a City Council to givo
away the publio property nor any power
to tux the people at large to raise money
to give away. Private property cannot
be taken by taxes or any other means for
private use, nor even public uso without
being first paid for.
Any one desiring enlightenments up
on these propositions is cited to the fol
lowing:
U. S. Supreme Court in oases of Citi
zens’ Saving and Loan Association of
Cleveland vs. City of Topeka—No. 729,
October term, 1874. Two Cent Law
Journal 156, Alcott vs. Supervisors 10,
Vol. 689.
People vs. Salem 20, Mioh. R. 452;
Jackson vs. Andover 103, Mass. 95; Dil
lon vs. Municipal Corporation, Seo. 587.
Cooly on Constitutional Limitations,
pages—l 29, 175, 487, 489.
Lowell vs. City of Boston—American
Law Rev. July, 1873. Jenkins vs. And
over 103, Mass. Rep. 74.
The question, then, of the location of
the Capitol is one of dollars and cents to
the tax payers of Georgia. In last Tues
day’s issue of your paper appeared some
figures showing the difference in cost to
the State for the government nine years
in Atlanta, nine years in Milledgeville.
That difference was seven million five
hundred and twenty four thousand five
hundred and six dollars. Let the voters
“put this in their pipes and smoko it.”
Again, eleven thousand dollars, by es
timates made, will make now the Capitol
in Milledgeville, inside aud out. Two
thousand will do the same for the Exe
cutive Mansiou. Seven thousand is a
largo margin for cost of removal. This
is a total of $20,000.
If Atlanta retains the Capitol tbe Stato
will ha7e to give away the State House
in Milledgeville, nor can she use tho
“Operry House” (as the Widow Bedott
calls it) in Atlanta. That is too shaky.
Anew building will have to be erected,
and if anew Capitol building is ever
started in Atlanta nobody can say what
it will cost or when tho Legislature -will
get through donating to it. Snppose,
however, it takes two hundred thousand
dollars. Here, then, is twenty thousand
against two hundred thousand—Mil
ledgeville vs. Atlanta. Tax payers,
young men (whowillsoon be tax payers),
colored poople (you who are working
hard and accumulating property), all of
you, “ put this iu your pipe and smoko
it.”
TIIE ACCESSIBILITY OF ItIILLKIMIK
VILLK.
A Reply to Senator Illll’a Statement.
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger
has the following facts and figures,
which effectually answers Mr. Hill’s
argument, or rather statement, of the
superior accessibility of Atlanta to
the mass of the people of Georgia,
and per oonseqnence its superior
adaptability as tbe capital of the
State to Milledgeville:
Counties and parts of counties
nearest Milled~e olle 80
Counties and parts of counties
nearest Atlanta 57
Majority of counties nearest Mil
ledgeville 23
Population of 80 counties and
parts of counties nearest Mil
ledgeville 706,994
Population of 57 counties and
pa:ts of counties nearest Atlan
ta 488,344
Majority in favor of Milledgeville. 218,650
i Number of polls in 80 counties and
parts of counties nearest Mil
ledgeville 122,584
Number of polls in 57 counties snd
parts of counties nearest At
lanta 86,345
Majority of polls in favor of Mil
ledgeville 36,289
Value of property in 80 counties
and parts nearest Mi11edgevi11e..5187,635, 336
Value of property in 57 counties
and parts nearest Atlanta 108,218,414
Balance in favor of Milledgevillo...s 29,416,922
Total number of miles of railroad
in Georgia.. 2,210
Number of miles nearest and cen
treing at or in the vicinity of
Milledgeville 1,6144
Number nearest and centreing at
or near Atlanta 595 J
Preponderance in favor Milledge
vUlß 1,019
Uniformed Postal Officials.
The Postmaster-General has issned
the following order:
“Inasmuch as the public interests
seem to require that all employees of
this department who, in the perform
ance of their official dnties, aro obliged
to handle the mails in public, should be
known by some outward designation, it
is, therefore,
“Ordered, That each railroad post
office clerk, route agent, mail route mes
senger and local agent be, and is hereby
required to provide himself a uniform
within sixty days from this date, the
same to be worn at all hoars when on
duty, and to be made according to the
accompanying specification.
D. M. Key, Postmaster-General.”
Columbus, Ga., August 24th, 1877.
Dr. C. J. Moffett :
Dkab Doctor— We give your “Teethi
na” (Teething Powders) to our little
grandchild with the happiest results.
The effects were almost magical, and
certainly more satisfactory than from
anything we ever used.
Yours very truly,
Josephs. Key,
Pastor of St. Paul Church.
Mr. Samuel C. Youngblood, of York,
is dead, '