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WALBH 4 WRIGHT,
CHBONICLE 4 CoNSTITCTIONALIHT,
Auguste, ua.
rPITIIKItI. IWTIto.
Poaozsi and Folgery sound viry much
•like. _
Gov. St. John is laying pipe for Inoall*’
■oat in the Senate.
Civil. Service Reform is about dismissed
a* • barren ideality.
iMDxraniBATiBM in South Carolina is lead
ing to bloody reprisals.
A mam cannot be a Democrat and against
Democracy at the same time.
Tax boy* will not listen to lea* than 40,-
000 majority for Mr. Stiphkns.
Tkb colored vote is said to be much divid
ad at the North and in some Southern
State-*.
Col. Cash, bad whiskey and negro suf
frage are making portions of South Caro
lina a hell on earth.
Db. Fklton has confident hopes of three
thousand majority. He may be the victim
of misplaced confidence.
Sxsato* Wisdom has grown rich since he
has been in Congress, and the Grangers want
to know how it happened.
Th* New York Time* sneer* at Gen. B.
F. Butleb a* "a leading Democrat;” but he
ianot a circumstance to Chalmzbs or Ma
hosb as a leading Republican.
Enoura statistic* show that there is
much lees crime committed in Ireland than
in England, during any pericd.
Thb Courier-Journal believes that a tariff
* for revenue only would make the South the
greatest iron producer in the world.
Thb New York Republicans are an un
happy family, and Gbovbb Cleveland’*
nomination has-not added to their har
mony.
Thb Express Company offers to take con
tributions for Pensacola tree, bnt the con
tribution* do not appear to be forthcoming
from this city.
Tjra negroes ought to elect either Smalm
‘ "'"’or Laz rather than Maokzy. It is a wonder
that some simon-pure blaok man does not
run in that District.
Thb “Greenback” candidate for Governor
of South Carolina, used to clamor for the
blood of negroes as Owen Glendowzb did
for the gore of Scot*.
Thb good Deacon Richabd Smith hopes
that the Independents will see to it that
Georgia's Congressional delegation shall not
be solidly Democratic.
Tbb Washington hotels are being reno
vated for the coming Congressional cam
paign. The Arlington is to be turned into
a grand palace by millionaire Cobcob in.
Jat Gould utterly denies that he ever
tried to buy the control of the Associated
Press. Then, if that be true, the Herald
and Tones squealed without being stuck.
Govbbnob, Bute House officers and mem
ber* of the Legislature are to be elected on
the 4th of October, next Wednesday. Con
areasmen are not elected until November
7th.
Col. Oats*, of Alabama, is a lucky man.
He is a hero of the war, has succeeded in
all undertakings, has a comfortable fortune,
a beautiful wife, and no competitor for
Congress.
Hbnatob Jones, of Florida, was. from a
Washington account, jilted by one Newbury
port belle, of tender years, but managed to
capture a mature and wealthy widow from
the same place.
Bbothbb Willingham says his hand is
»til» at the editorial beljows, but will not
•ay w?iom he favors for Governor. “The voice
is the voice of Jaoob. but the hands are the
hands of Esau 1”
Whbn M. »b Lesmp* recently grew in
dignant at the English in Egypt, he tore
off a paper collar of British make and danced
on it. Hi* exact language, accompanying
the dar.ee, must be imagined.
Advjvb in the will of the late Mosbs Wil
liams, a Boston millionaire: “I have never
looked for a large income, but have sought
the greatest security of the principal; gov
erned by this rule, I have met with few
losses, and to this I owe my large estate."
Pbbhaps it would have been just as well
for our Carolina friends to have let Mo-
La*>b cavort over the State and make an ass
of himself. He may be made a martyr by
a- rotten-egg campaign. The Republicans
. want a fir«t-class Southern "martyr” just
now.
A State is pretty badly off which ha* Rot
choose between Mitchell and ex-Attor-
■ aey-General Williams.— Springfield Republi-
| ran. About on a par with the State that has
I selected Oliveb Ambs for Lieutenant-Gover-
II ccr, eh?
Sbnatob Hawley’s paper thinks the re
| cent rainfall has done the country much
' more good than harm. It ha* filled the
springs and streams, which were sadly in
need of filling, and has given th* citiea the
■ most thorough cleansing they have had in
a long time.
Ox Monday night next, Mr. John T.
Fobs is to be complimented with a benefit
to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his
entrance into theatrical management. He
ahcnld have a rousing reception from the
'people of Baltimore.
Why is it the colored people admire sc
frequently the most preposterous white
men in political life? Fobtune, of th<
GA**, is an intelligent man, an I yet he falli
down and adores s. monkey like W. R
Moobe, of Tennessee.
A Gasfield Republican, Mr. Etefhkxscx
Bays of the recent Saratoga C-onventiot
that he “never saw one where there was «
much cheating, lying and underhand*
-work. 7 The grand old party ha* becom
debauched by its Southern alliances.
Thb New York Journal of (bmnterce says
Th* Egyptian collection in the Historical So
cietr contains abundant illustration of th*
Wfißffi —‘ civilization which adorned th<
Nile Valley four thousand years ago, am
which wa* the direct ancestor of our own
Without any book of revelation or sacred hit
tory, these collections abundantly refute th
cmnmon error of a ala** of modern teacher
who reiterate the blunder of falsehood ths
the human family wa* onoe a family of aavagw
The savage or menial of to-day is th
M nge or menial of the past, a* the Egyj
Maa monument* show.
A a’CKT ESCAPE.
The Democrat* at Syracuse, in conven
tion assembled, had a lucky escape. The
i Republican Convention had been captured j
! by Abthub, Conkling and Gould, and I
I high hopes were raised in Administration j
I circle* that the Democrats would either ,
: make a characteristic blunder or else tall 1
I into the band* of men who would repeat j
the cat and dog fight of a few years ago.—
To expedite this anticipation and make it
I possible. Jar Gould put forth his powers '
jof persuasion. The man he wanted wa* I
i Congressman Flo web, who has an office
ion Wall street or in that vicinity, and is
in elose communion with the brokers
I 'there. The sagacious correspondent of the
I Time* confesses now that he and his po
litical sympathizers confidently expected '
Mr. Flowxb's nomination, and that such
I' a candidate would have carried joy to the
whole Republican camp. The nomination
lof Gbovb* Cleveland changed Republican j
i preparations from glee to mourning, and ,
I the correspondent frankly confesses that 1
now the hearts of thousands of Republi
cans will not be in their work, because
they have been “ duped and betrayed and <
feel their disgrace keenly.”
Mr. Floweb is no doubt a good sort of i
Democrat, as times go in New York, but his i
nomination at this time would have given i
no hope of reform to the masses of the 1
Democracy and to that floating vote which 1
decides elections one way or the other. Mr.
Cleveland is a model man and ought
to be acceptable to the overwhelming ma- 1
jority of voters in New York. If the people <
are in earnest they can elect him, in spite of I
Abthub's patronage and Gould's money and !
influence. But it will be no child's play. <
The nomination of Cleveland, however, I
looks like a lucky inspiration, and an ea- 1
cape from “the usual blunder" was an <
alarmingly close shave. •
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HARD TO PLEAIE. 5
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In choosing candidates for public office, (
the convention system was first adopted, at j
the close of the war. As this disappointed ,
some malcontent aspirants, the elections ]
were held by primaries. This disappoint- t
ed the same soreheads or another crop of <
malcontents. Two years ago, when a col- (
ored man was running for the Legislature, ,
Judge Twiggs and his friends adopted a s
plan of their own to shake out some of their f
white competitors for the purpose of com- ]
pletely flanking the colored candidate, t
Now, by some mysterious coalition and self- t
constituted ring-dictation. Independent ]
Democrats, so called, are found in the t
field with LoNGSTBBirr, Fabbow and the t
Black Brigade behind them. They yell
out against “organization and rings.” r
That is their stock in trade, plus f
an overweening vanity and Inst for office. ,
Gen. Jackson, in his glorious speech, com
pletely eviscerates the whole corpus of such
ambition. He also demonstrates that there
must be organization, and that a few ener
gstic leaders will always become masters of
the situation. The Radical ring, from which 1
Independents draw their aid and comfort, *
gets no denunciation from these men, who c
are using it to destroy Democratic unity. 0
The sin of Democracy, according to Twiggs 1
A 00., is it* organization. If the “rings” of
Richmond county had not relaxed their ®
grasp and allowed the organization to be- ’
come enfeebled, no Independent candidate
would have risen here to make a tirade against e
them and the civilization they maintain. *
A few weak-minded or sour white men may 5
bo caught with the clap-trap of Gabtbell ’
and Twiggs; bnt the vast majority will not e
only see the necessity of organization and
leadership, but hasten to repair the ram- ‘
put that offers the only barrier to Long
stbeet, Pledge* and their black allies, led ’
by Independents who go about the State in
the travesty of Democratic reform.
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BLACK AND HILL. g
Hon. J. 0. 0. Black will address the peo- 1
pie of Richmond county, to night, at the ’
Masonic Opera House. Large as the place
is it will not begin to contain the people 1
who desire to hear him speak upon the is- 1
sues of the day, and more particularly those
that concern the political, social and com- *
mercial welfare of the South and the whole
country. That Mr. Black will discuss these 8
themes in his own eloquent and powerful
way goes without saying. His oration will
unquestionably rank with the best evoked
by the campaign, and the momentous dan
ger of the hour. He has and can have no
sympathy with the disorganizers of the In
dependent faction, and their eulogies are
wasted upon him when the duty he owes him
self, his country and his people are concern
ed. We do not wish to anticipate, in the least,
what the favorite son of Richmond County
has to say. Onr present purpose is to hold *
up his hands in the good cause by repro- *
during the prophetic and admonitory words '
of Senator Hill, whose last legacy to hi* 1
fellow citizens of Georgia was an appeal to *
them against being misled by just such (
men as are now masquerading as better *
Democrats than himself, bnt really the 1
most dangerous allies of the common Radi- E
cal enemy. Senator Hill, then most cruelly *
and fatally affiioted, had, in the months of *
December and January, published an inter- '
view with Mr. Gbadt and a letter to the
detailing the whole coalition
conspiracy. Later on, January 20tb, the
Senator received an invitation to address .
the people of Rome, in this State. Hie 1
official duties and, als* I the disease that i
killed him, prevented acquiescence, at the i
time, but he hoped to comply with the in- 1
vitation, later on, and it was, to the last, his t
greatest trial that he could not appear be- i
fore his people and warn them, as he had i
in the past, against the machinations of the <
Federal Power in alliance with the disaf- t
feoted element* in the South. Though he 1
failed ever to rise in hi* mighty presence to <
fulfil the promise of January 20, be could (
not forbear summing up what was in his j
mind. We cannot do better than to repro- ,
dace his letter. Here it is: ,
United States Senate, i ■
Washington, January 20,1882.1
Gentlemen— *•••••
This coalition must depend for it* success on 1
the extent to which its author* will be able to '
deceive what ire known as Independent Demo
crate. While I have always been in accord with
the Democratic organization, yet my relations
with the Independent Democrats have not been
at all hostile. Indeed, I have been often charg
ed with being largely responsible for the suo
aa**e* of the Independents in Georgia, and es
pecially in the Seventh District. All the time
my motive* have been patriotic, and my great
purpose has been not to allow local dissensions
to succeed in engendering such divisions a*
would prevent a cordial reunion ot all true
Democrats whenever that reunion should be
come necessary against th* common enemy.
When, therefore, I saw an adroit coalition
formed for the express purpose of using the
Independent Democrat* to bring the Republi
can party back into power in Georgia, I frit it
wa* my special duty to warn th* Independent*
of this attempt, not only to deceive but to de
bauch them. I believe there are no truer Dem
ocrats, in principle, than the Independent* in
Georgia and in the Seventh District, and I be
lieve they will be sapeciaUy emphatic in their
rebuke of the few, oom trusted but now eoured
and disappointed leaders, who are seeking to
carry them where these very leader* have
premised them a thousand time* they would
, never go—by a back door into the Republican
, party, and into the ultra Radical wing of th*
, Republican party at that.
Mark you.T have not charged that the**lead
ct* have formally joined the Republican party.
That would end their power to deceive. They
call themselves Independents, that they may
retain their power to deosive. But 1 hava
' charged, and now repeat, that they have joined
a coalition, the *ncoe** of whiahiti* intended
’ shall enure to the benefit of the Republican
party in the government of Georgia, and bring
f Georgia to the support of the National Bepubfl.
can party ta 1884. For the eometoM* of thi*
. charge lam more than willing to b* held re
’ sponsiMe before the people of the State. Tin*
' coalition originated here. It* authors and pro
* muter* are and have been the very worst eoe
! nrie* of the Southern people. The coalition is
1 not founded on a single principle, nar animated
‘ by a tingle desire to benefit the people of th*
South—black or white—nor of the Union. It
* fa not a party, but a coalifton. It fa a union of
* differing and incongruous elemecto to get the
rpoila of office, State and Federal, by appealing
*' to tilth* lowest instinct* of men under false
• pretenae* of reform. It fa the vary toweat type
'- of political intrigue and combination, and fa a*
familiar to th* student ot pdOUatl history kt
Republic* a* are the symptom* of diaeaae in
the human body to the student of medical his
tory. Buch coalition* are always the product*
of a general condition of political corruption,
I and the extent to which the people allow them-
I selvea to ba deceived by them ha* been held by
; all great historians to be the exact measure of
the decay of popular institution*.
I do not say that all those who have gone into
this coalition are themselves aware of the full
1 significance and character of the movement
I Men who are always in a soured temper of
| mind are always available material for the
more artful and designing, and those able but
' bad men who inaugurated this coalition have
calculated that the Independents of the South
have become sufficiently soured against the
Democratic organization to be easily available
for Republican use. With the exception of a
very few, I predict they will find themselves dis
appointed.
The coalition has commenced an early can
vass, but its early failure will be visible to the
naked eye before the grass of ffpring, unless
the people of Georgia have become more will
ing to be the victims of political intrigues than
at any former period of their history. With
high regards, lam very truly yours, ‘
Bena. H. Hill.
Significant as these plain words were in
January, they have become prophetic now,
and bear upon them the consecration of the
grave. Orators may elaborate these detail*,
and tremendously intensify their scope
and purport, because men and thing* have
rapidly developed since last Winter. But
the substantial truth remains as Senator
Hill stated it, and the next time Judge
Twiggs and Gen. Gabtbell eulogize Benja
min H. Hn.i., they should at least let their
audience understand exactly what that
grand statesman thought of their plot. Had
Senator Hill lived he would have made
Georgia vocal, from the peaks of Rabun
to the ocean shores of Chatham, and
from the Savannah to the Chattahoo
chee, in denunciation of the Indepen
dent Democratic coalition with the Rad
ical Syndicate. Such disorganizer* he
would have made tremble and feel
ashamed. But though the tomb has
claimed him, his spirit walks abroad and
his voice is still resonant, as a “distant tor
rent’s fall. Where he laid down his life
mission, other orators and patriots will
take it up and bear it on. Stephens’ glori
ous tones have penetrated every nook and
corner in th* State, quelling dissent and
rousing the clans of Democracy to make
another struggle against the open and dis
guised foe. The noble language of Henby
R. Jackson makes a grand chorus with the
the Commoner's melodious and spirit-stir
ring articulation. And now comes J. 0. 0.
Black, worthy of a place with the best and
brighest of our public men, who will take
the clarion that Ben Hill witched the world
with, and sound a rallying strain tjiat may
remind us that there is living yet a voice
fit for the sucoesf orship of him who was the
most eloquent of men.
■'—re-
COTTON MANUFACTUHK.
Both Old England and New England are
becoming convinced, more and more daily,
that the South is unrivalled as a manufac
turer of ccarse cotton goods. The spindles
of New England are not increasing. Those
of the South are, to a marked extent. Cot
ton manufactures are going up in this sec
tion, all the time, and we see it stated that
Mr. M. Gunby Jordan, of Columbus, Ga„
who is thoroughly acquainted with this sub
ject, predicts that there will be an increase
of at least forty-five percent, in the spindles
in the South during the present business
year, and that the Southern consumption
will reach four hundred thousand bales, or
one-qnarter that of the North.
Senator Fbye, in a speech in Congress,
declared that the New England manufac
turers were, night and day, anxiously study
ing how to make a secure seven per cent,
dividend. The writer further inquired of
the Senator if that were correct, how
Northern capital could be long kept out of
the South in enormous investments. He
said that the South would get all the money
she could wish for in the course of time and
when ready to receive it.
The President ol one of our Augusta
mills, when at the North, was asked if his
mill would pay 10 per cent. His prompt
reply was : “I should consider it a failure
if it does not." The Baltimore Journal of
Commerce, comparing the statistics, North
and South, says : “In no case have we heard
“ of any Southern mill declaring less t’. an
“ 10 per cent, annual dividends, and in
“ every case in which only this per cent.
“ was declared, a large amount was taken
“ from the earnings and used for repairs,
“ additions to machinery and increasing
“ the size and capacity of the mill, while
“in maoy establishments the profits of
■■ cotton manufacturing raiiged as high ae
“ 50 per cent, a year.”
In this connection, we are pleased to see
that our youngest mill, the John P. King,
is rapidly approaching completion. It will
be built in the best style with the least
money of any edifice of a similar character
in the United States. Mr. Estes watches
every detail and is a miracle of business
administration. He will make the King
mill a success from the start. It may be
said with something like absolute truth
that he has a personal acquaintance with
every brick that has gone into its construc
tion.
MOBK KVIDKNCK.
Mr. Geobge 0. Gobham, editor of the
National Republican, at Washington, is “a
Stalwart of the Stalwarts.” His attacks
upon poor Gabfield, during the Conkling
matter, were of the most ferocious character.
It is supposed that the daily doee of just
such literature unhinged Guiteau’s reason
and fired his brain to madness, so that the
assassination of the President became, in his
distempered fancy, a necessity, in order
that the Republican party should be united
or rescued from destruction. On his trial,
Guiteau charged that he simply carried into
execution the language of Stalwart
journalists, and, to the last, he never
could understand how the beneficia
ries of his crime did not come to
his aid. Os course, Mr. Gobham was
properly shocked at the fact that a lunatic
or devil in human shape should so interpret
the paper bullets of his brain. Rut, while
responsible for the death of the Presi
dent, Guiteau always claimed to have had
low*r inspiration from Radical papers that
attacked Gabfield and accused him of
breaking up the party. This was an unfor
tunate conjunction for Mr. Gobham, who,
of course, had not the least idea of violently
njuring anyone in authority. Now. that
the bullet of Guiteau has made Abthub
President and Gobham hie organ, we
naturally look to the JCotionai Republican
for some inkling of the designs of the Ad
ministration,' especially at the South. We
are the more inclined to do this because Mr.
Gobham, the editor, was the discoverer of
Mahon*, and has been that renegade’* most
devoted champion and ally. Now, the otm
fidential agent for Abthub and Mahons has
been trying, in conjunction with Republi
cans and Independent*, to make North Car
olina what Virginia ha* been made-a Re
publican State. Returning from a visit to
Mr. Abthub, in New York, Mr. Gobham
makes th* following statement :
The President, being told that representa
tion* had been made-to the effect that he wm
indiffarent to the *uoce**of the coalition ticket
1 in North Oarolina, replied, with muiffimnpharia
and energy, that it was wholly unfounded, and
' that, on the contrary, hews* most earnest iz
th* hop* at *ucce*a. He held it to be the ticket
' of the Republican*, duly endorsed by the R»
publican Convention, and hoped that every Re
-1 publican would yield tt hi* support. The Pre*
1 ident wa* very earnest, and raid hsdeeiredhii
1 approval of th* coalition to be plainly under
-1 stood.
The coalition in North Carolina thus en
’ dorsed is exactly the same a* that in Geer
. fia, which Gen. Lohgsxbkkx assures us h*
i Mr. Abthub’* most distinguished endorae
- meet and beat wishes. It is the same at
- tempt to fasten Republicanism on the Stat,
* and help it* perpetuation at Washington
* Independent*, railing themselves “Über
1 al*” are relied upon to do th* work of thi
* common enemy, and a part of their plan 1
to profess Democretie principles while work
ing with the Radieal mmhine behind them
t There fa not much hope of success in Geor
, gia, thi* time; but the Mitering wedge ha
, be*n made. Neath Carolina presents a bet
i tor field of
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4, 1882.
•retie margin there i* not very con
siderable. It will be seen that Nortl
Carolina, after Virginia, is marked fat
•nnrifiee. South Carolina has also beei
torn with faction, under a “Green
back” humbug. The slightest success in
Georgia, of Independents, will precipitate
upon ns a hell on earth.
We thank Mr. Gobham for his candor. B
the Independents of Georgia, who are the
natural allies of the North Carolina “Lib
ends” and South Carolina “Green back era,”
persist in playing into the hands of the
Guiteau Republicans, the organized Demo
cracy must make the most determined and
unanimous effort to crush them and their
work*. All the evidence shows that Inde
pendentum is Radicalism in disguise, and
the man who vote* against the organized
Demoeiracy, in October or November, playe
into the hands of the Administration at
Washington and the Black Brigade at horn*.
THE SAME OLD COON.
The Republican leader* at Washington
fearing that power wa* elipping away from
them and their faction, consequent upon the
death of Gabfield and rise of Conkling-
Abthub, per Guiteau, resolved to make
missionary ground of the Southern States
to rave themselves and their cause from
wreck and ruin. The candidacy ot avowed
Republican* for office was known to be
useless, in many localities and State*, and
so, encouraged by the treachery of Mahons
and the discontent of Felton and his cabal,
a coalition was proposed whereby Indepen
dent Democrats, so-oalled, were to be as
sisted by the Radical machine and negio
votes, to restore the Jacobins to power.
Senator Hill unmasked Mahons and the
coalition. Anybody, with half an eye, can
see it now. In Virginia, the renegade Dem
ocracy were called Readjustee. In North
Carolina they are styled “Liberals.” In
South Carolina, they are tricked out as
“Greenhackee.” In other Southern States,
notably in Georgia, they are known as “In
dependents." No matter what they may be
called, they are the same conspirators and
have the same design. The Chbonicle has
piled up evidence mountain-high, in proof
of this. We not only have the testimony of
the late Senator Hill, bnt such good Repub
lican evidence as Gobham, at Washington,
and Lonostbbbt, at Atlanta. Mr! Gobham
distinctly and frankly declared, over and
over again, that the next House and Presi
dency would be lost to the Republicans,
unless Southern Independents helped to
prevent it. He felt satisfied that an Inde
pendent was a Radical in masquerade and
■aid so substantially. We have also the
open statement of Gen. Longstbeet, the
Federal boss and pap-aucker, in thia State,
that the Republicans hoped to regain
control of Georgia by the success of In
dependents, and that thi* was President
Abthub’s expectation and reliance. It
would seem, from such unimpeachable tes
timony from such eminent sources, that no
white man in Georgia, claiming to be a
Democrat, could doubt, for an instant, what
Independentism really is, and what the
leaders of Independent proclivities real
ly had in view. The care which Inde
pendent orators take to avoid any attack
upon the Radical Power behind them, and
the abuse heaped upon Democratic organi
zation, should have made even the dullest
white man comprehend the meaning of
such treachery.
Mr. Abthub, the accidental President, is a
Stalwart Republican, raised in New York,
and familiar with the machinery that has
been perfected during twenty years of
usage. He is now laying pipe for an
other term, and hopes, in one way or
another, to corrupt Southern men in
interest. To effect that purpose more speed
ily and securely, he is now attempting to
create revolt and aohiam in the Democratic
ranks. He proposes to divide first and
conquer afterward. He finds instruments
ready made among disappointed aspirants,
who call themselves Independent Demo
crats; and these men are now engaged in
an effort to create discord, so that the Radi
cal Adminiatration may perpetuate its
power. We understand the danger, and
concede the craft and skill of its authors
and aiders; but, thanks to the memory
of Senator Hill and the living admo
nition of our orators and editors, the
South has been forewarned, and will
prove herself forearmed. Every day makes
the coalition more and more odious and its
leaders more and more certain of overthrow.
But, no effort should be relaxed between
this time and the balloting day to not only
vanquish the common enemy, but give him
his coup de grace.
OUT OF THEIR OWN MOUTHS.
The Independent agitation in South
Carolina is called a “Greenback movement.”
Now, not one negro in a hundred thousand
has the slightest conception of what is call
ed the Greenback controversy; hut the
whole black mass, in South Carolina, with
honorable exceptions, is told that the riff
raff put upon such a platform, by Radical
bosses, means hostility to the white man and
Democrats -in South Carolina. The coali
tion in the Palmetto State is juat the same as
In Georgia, differing only in nomencla
ture. For example, Smalls, the ex-convict
and Radical negro Congressman, in the
place of Geobge D. Tillman, ia thus re
ported as having spoken at a convention of
his party :
We are assured of the fullest support of the
Administration, and if we go in with the Green
backers we will be doing juat what the'Presi
dent wants us to do. I have heard that the
Greenbscker* have put up a very weak ticket,
and although it is not a* strong as we would
like to have it, it fa just a* strong a ticket a* we
could get from them. Let us take their ticket
and see what we can make out of it We can
not elect a Republican ticket, but by combining
with Qreenbackere we may be able to efect tame
thing.
Substitute “Independent” for “Green
backer,” and the Georgia reader can see
that what Smalls, the black ex-convict, de
sires to accomplish in South Carolina, Long
erxESTandPLEDGEßhope for in Georgia. And
yet white men in Georgia, calling them
selves Democrats, declare that they will vote
the ticket so admired by Smalls, Abthub,
Fabbow 4 Co.!
Another negro, in the same convention,
fa thus reported :
The only ralvation, the only hope of the Be
publfcana in this State was to unite with any
faction that would defeat the Democracy in
1884. If we eanwin in this election by com
bining with the Qreenbaokere now, we can then
make a straight Republican fight and run in
everything'from Governor to Coroner. Let
those who can win in the Republicen countie*
go ahead rad make straight nominations, bnt
if we endorse the Greenback State ticket we
will have done all we can now accomplish.
Substitute again, Georgia reader, “Inde
pendent” for “Greenbacker,” in the above
paragraph, and understand that when you
vote for Independents here you rejoice the
heart of the blackest Radicals in Washing
ton, and inspire Smalls and Mackey and
Lee and their piratical crew of ignorance,
barbarism or rascality with the hope of an
other saturnalia.
We are sorry for the white Georgian who
can march to the polls, in October or No
vember, and vote against his party and his
race, thereby delighting the bitterest ene
mies of both, here or elsewhere! Young
man or old gentleman at the edge of that
abyss, be warned in time 1
THK CONaRESHIONAI, CAMPAIGN.
SpMCl* ky Hom- Srabora Rce*c a*
WrichiavlU*—Jakaaaa Ceaaty Solid
For Him.
(Special to Chronicle and Constitalonahit)
Wbioktsvillz, September 28.—Hon.
Seaborn Reese opened the Congressional
campaign here to-day, in a telling speech,
to about six hundred people. Johnson is
solid for Beaae. D.
Tte* o*l—*
It will be of interert to many of our read
ers to know that the comet, of whieh so
much has been said, can be seen by early
risers. The star or point of the comet is
very brilliant, and is to be seen very near
the horizon, and almost exactly in the East,
while the immense tail stretches away up
to the southward. It can be seen at ite
beat juat about 5 o’clock, and win well re
pay even those who love their morning nap
m getting np to see it.
Hon. J. O. Clemente will at Pow
-1 dra Spring*. Saturday, October 7th, st
one o’clock, p. m.. and at Smyrna, Satai*
. day night, October 7th.
THE GREAT CITY.
j OBSERVATIONS IW the NATION’S Mffi
TRO POLIS.
Western and Sou th era Merehaata Par
ehaaing Good*— The Political Qaestiue
—Probability of the Democrat* Carry
lag the State—The Theatree—Corala*
Home From The Spring*.
(Cor. Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
New Yobe, September 23. —lt is needless,
perhaps, to tell you that New York ia lively.
There is never a time when it is not, even
in the middle of Summer, when other places
are suffering from dullness. Bnt just at
thia time it is particularly busy. The hotels
are crowded with Western and Southern
merchant* purchasing goods for the Fall
and Winter trade. It is easy to distinguish
them wherever yen see them, and local
characteristics are as distinct as if they came
from other countries. They usually haunt
the great wholesale stores way down
town and yon stumble on them in every
nook in these narrow ways. The American,
whether he be from California or Georgia,
is at home anywhere, and he goes along in
this great city, amid all the noises and the
rushing life, as unconcernedly as if he was
in hie own quiet little burg. Turning from
any one of the contrasted cross streets that
form a sort of labyrinth in old New York,
into Broadway somewhere near the Astor
House, one is for a moment bewildered by
the dense mass of humanity that ia pushing
its way from daylight until late in the night,
along the pavements of that wonderful thor
oughfare, which was once, we are told, the
peaceful path of the fat Dutch cows. If we
have just arrived we are tempted momenta
rily, as the rural visitor once was, to stop and
wait until the procession has passed. But this
procession never gets done passing. Present
ly we drop into this stream of life and are
borne along with the current. Among all these
people the stranger could not feel lonelier
if he was in the heart of a vast forest. Ut
terly unknown, he ia conscious that he is
of no more weight in mighty throng
than a grain of sand on the seaahore. There
is nothing like Broadway to take the conceit
out of a man.
Politic*.
The nomination of Folger by the Repub
lican convention at Saratoga, was a stalwart
victory and ia credited, however justly, to
Arthur, Conkling & Co. It is doubtful
whether Cornell had much chance from
the start, but the recent discloaures in refer
ence to bis stock jobbing transactions
weakened what chances he ever had. Folger,
who is the present Secretary of the Treas
ury, is very rich and a stalwart of the stal
warts. He has filled several public posi
tions with good repute, but is
not regarded as a man of mnch executive
ability. But he is a respectable candidate,
and if he was not handicapped by Arthur
and Conkling, ha would be the strongest
man the Republican party could pre
sent. There are already signs of revolt, and
it is pretty certain that'Folger will not poll
the full party strength. The Daily Repress,
of Buffalo, a paper possessing much influ
ence, has sounded the note of warning, and
the limes, of this city, perhaps tho most
respectable Republican journal in the
Union, is not at all pleased. The Demo
cratic Convention at Syracuse made a very
strong nomination in Grover Cleveland,
who is the present Mayor of Buffalo and
occupies pretty much the same position in
that city that Pattison does in Philadelphia,
having been elected last year on a reform
ticket, .receiving a much larger majority
than any one else on the ticket. He is
very pc polar with the masses and no doubt
is entertained among the Democrats of his
election. The Republicans themselves
seem to anticipate defeat for their man Fol
ger. The settlement of the differences of
the New Yorjj county and city Democracy,
at least temporarily, insures a full
vote in this city for Cleveland. New
York is naturally a Democratic btate, and
can be led back into the fold by a little
good management, in this city, while cam
paign flags are flying at various points,
there is very little outside talk abont poli
tics. People are too much interested in
the almighty dollar to occupy their time
diacussing political matters, and unless
yon bring the subject up yourself you
will never hear anything about it from
men you meet.
The Theatres.
The theatres which have been closed
during the Snmmer, have all opened again
with new attractions. It is noteworthy that
there is more than the usual share of opera
boufi'e and that at each place where it ia
presented there are large audiences night
ly. At the Fifth Avenue, the lively Pari
sian Diva, Theo (pronounced Tao) is put
ting money into the pockets of the manage
ment. Her repertoire includes “La Jolie
Parfumeuse,” "Les Cloches de Oorneville”
(Chimes of Normandy) and “La Mascotte.”
At the Bijou a strong company is perform
ing ‘ ‘Patience. ” “A Daughter of the Nile’ ’
is having a good run at the Standard, with
Miss Laura Don, the author, in the principal
role. There is not very much in the piece, but
people go to see it more from curiosity than
anything else. At the present time when
tho papers are full of Egypt.anything about
the Nile will draw. William Horace Lin
gard and his wife, Mrs. Alice Dun
ning Lingard, have lost none of their
old time popularity. They are play
ing to very good houses at the
Windsor. The company supporting them
is rather awkward but the Lingards con
trive to make up for the deficiencies of
others. It is a notable fact that New York
audiences are far more indulgent than those
in smaller cities and that companies con
tinue to do comparatively well here that
would play to a beggarly account of empty
benches elsewhere. This is due to the
cosmopolitan character of the population.
“The Romany Rye” which is on the boards
at Booth’s, is a big card. Wednesday night
Modjeska and Miss Anderson occupied
boxes at Booth's to witness this play. It is
said that they passed their time more in
looking at each other than at the play, The
Alcazar, Forty-first street and Broadway
is having great success with a melange of
amusement, including two goraeous ballets
alone worth coming to New York to see.
They rival Eastern magnificence.
The “Lights O’ Londoh,” at Wallack’s,
Maggie Mitchell, at the Park; Minnie Pal
mer at Haverley’s, and “Mankind” at
Daly’s, are all well patronized. “Es
meralda,” which you will soon have an
opportunity of seeing in Augusta, is
as popular as ever at that charming theatre,
the Madison Square. It is to be succeeded
on October 9th by Mr. Bronson Howard’s
new play, entitled "Young Mrs. Winthrop.”
The success of every play put on the stage
at this theatre has been phenomenal, but I
attribute this as much to the fine manage
meat as to the excellence of the playa them
selves.
Coming Hom*.
The approach of Fall is bringing back
Summer sojourners at the seaside, the
springs and other fashionable resorts, in
shoals. It is said that the belles have not
found these places so enticing this year, as
heretofore, on account of the remarkable
absence of the opposite sex. It is hard to
say why Tom, Dick and Harry have stayed
away, but it is true all the same.
Perhaps the general mass have had a better
time than the fashionables. The facilities
for travel about New York are so great and
the fare so that there are few people
who cannot visit some of the Snmmer re
sorts. There are steamboats that take peo
ple up the Hudson and back for a mere
trifle, others that carry them to Long
Branch or Coney Island, as cheap or cheaper.
One needs only go to Coney Island any Sat
urday afternoon during the season, to be con
vinced of the ease with which poor people,
hard working men and women, in the me
tropolis, can get a breath of fresh air and
enjoy the fine music, which is free to all,
after a week of hard worit. Perhaps the
pale-cheeked shop girl, who has been meas
uring tape or selling glove* behind the
counter of some Sixth avenue store, day
after day, appreciates this melody and en
joys this expanse of surf, more than the
ennuyed belle, who is sighing for new
heart* to conquer, and in whosa eyes this
great throbbing ocean is but a big lot of
water after all, not worth thinking about.
It is an animated scene on the beach one of
these afternoons, with the thousands of
people moving about and the surf filled
with bather*. At night there are displays
of fireworks, and it is not until a very late
hour that the waves are left alone.
Some benevolent people have been send
ing poor children out into the country dur
ing the Summer for two or three weeks’
sojourn among the tree* and the flowers.
They eome beck with rosy cheeks and de
lighted with their experience. Occasional.
IMPORTANT HOTICK.
Food For RcMcctloM—Attira* A* a Cottoa
Morlut.
Editors Chronicle and Cbnstitußonaiist :
The Athens Banner-IFatcAnmn of the 22d
inst. says : “The reason that Athens rank*
as the best cotton market in Georgia is that
the staple is not eaten up with exhorbitant
charges. In Augusta, Atlanta, Savannah
i and other trade centres it costs from $1 50
to $2 to handle a bale, while here it rardy
exceeds 25 cents. Our cotton men do a great
i deal of work themselves, own their own
warehouses and can afford to work for lew.
It i* predicted that onr cotton receipts will
increase over 50 per cent this year, as far
mers find that they save money by wagon
. ing their crop from even on the main line
t of the Georgia Bailroad, a distance of 30 or
r 40 miles, rather than ship it to either Au
( gusto or Atlanta. One leading business
. man, a delegate to our late railroad conven
tion, remarked that it would pay the for*
. mere of even Warren, McDuffie and Eich
t mond counties to sell their cotton in Ath
ena.”
i In the interest of Augusta, would it not
be well to investigate this matter? D.
The fashion of short sleeves never made
t pretty arms; but it ia more than probable
. that pretty am* made short sleeve* feahion-
INDSTINCT PRINT ! ,
THK RESULT OF INDEPENDENTISM.
. Negnm in a Santk Corolla* Tow*, Sap
pratlag tho ladepradaat Candid*!*,
Bt*rl * Rtot Fir* o* th* White
People.
J (B|y Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
; Chablest.in, September 28.—A special to
the Newe and Courier, from Lancaster, says:
“A political meeting was held here yester
day and was addressed by Col. Cash. About
the close of the meeting a difficulty arose
, at the stand between a white Demo
i orat rad • colored man, which resulted
in the former being wounded in the head
by a blow with a stick or stone. At
thi* time two or three pistol shot*
were fired near the stand, bnt none was
hurt. Soon after this a large procession of
colored men, on horses, came upon the
streets, one of the number having a large
pistol buckled around his body. The negro
pointed the pistol at a white man and said,
“There’s the damned rascal who did the
shooting. ’ The white man gave him the
lie and the colored man fired. Immediately
several Shots were fired by white men and
the colored man fell dead. A number of
shots were then fired by white and colored
men and three other colored men were
killed and many wounded. The authorities
soon succeeded in restoring quiet, which
now prevails. It is believed that the
trouble is over.
MAJOR BARNES IN ATLANTA.
B* I* Eathaataetioally Received—A Fla*
Speech—Splendid Impreealon—The CaatC
or Democracy Advanced.
(Special to Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Atlanta, September 28.—Major George
T. Barnes, accompanied by M. P. Carrol),
Esq., arrived in the city this evening. Maj.
Barnes came at the request of the Young
Men’s Stephens' Club, and was met by them at
the depot, with a band of music. A large crowd
was, also, present, and his reception was
enthusiastic. He spoke to-night at DeGive's
Opera House, to a large and intelligent au
dience. His speech was sound, logical and
convincing. He illustrated, forcibly, the
jeopardy in which the Democratic party was
placed. He showed that there could be;
and were but two National par ties. Demo
cratic and Republican. There could be
no such thing as Independentism. He
said that we should not sleep over
our rights; that we must make a strong
fight, unless we wished to be subjected
again to the infamous rule which we en
dured in 1872, and suffer again the out
rages which characterized the Administra
tion of Grant. He argued upon the an
cient origin of the majority rule. Before
the battle of Marathon was fought, a conven
tion was held. It was only decided by a
majority of one that to-inorrow they would
fight, the minority yielding to the majority,
and a victory resulted. So let the minority
of the Democratic party submit to the ma
jority and march on to victory.
The speech was received with enthusiasm
and sunk deep Into the hearts of the
audience. Major Barnes, by his speech to
night, endeared himself more than ever to
our people. It was complimented on all
sides as the strongest speech of the cam
paign.
Judge Lester also spoke and the audience
dispersed in a happy hum or, enthusiastic
for Democracy. E. Y.
GEN. GARTRKLL IN 1870.
A Card From Hon. W. D. Tutt and a C«r
tlficate From a Citizen of Atlanta.
Editors Chronicle and tonstilutwnaHst:
In my card of last Tuesday, I endeavored
to show that I did not intend to do Gen.
Gartrell any injustice in my Market Hall
speech. Since the publication of my card,
I have received a certificate from a citizen
of Atlanta, which, fully bears me out in the
charge which I made, that Gen. Gartrell
stood at the polls in Atlanta during the
election of 1870, and worked against the
Democratic ticket. Please publish it.
In a paVer known as the Critic, published,
I am told, in Atlanta, in last; week’s issue I
was charged with wanton I7WK in saying
that General Gartrell deserted the battle
field. The public will un clerstand that I
never made any such charge. Yet, I cannot
see how Mr. Wallace, the editor of the
Critic, can grow so indignant st the charge
when the charge was openly and notorious
ly made in this same Critic, on the 29th
day of July, 1880, and while Mr. Wallace
disclaimed any personal responsibility for
the charge made, yet in an editorial of the
same issne he says that the ant hor is a per
fectly reliable man, responsible, and a gal
lant Confederate soldier in t lea. Gartrell’b
old regiment, the immortal 7tli Georgia.
Now, I call upon an enlight' aned public to
say who has done Gen. Gartr< ill the greatest
wrong, the man who charg< »s him with a
want of allegiance to the Det cocratic party,
or the man who endorses th. t> reliability of
the man who charges the General with
cowardice ? • ‘Bring in anotl ler horse.”
W. I). Tutt.
The Certificate,.
[oofy.J
This is to pertify that I was a candidate
on the Democratic ticket for the office of
Tax Receiver during the <daction of 1870.
During this election Gen. L. J. Gartrell was
pushing the negroes up to tlxe polls to vote
against the Democratic ticket. Gen. Whit
Anderson, who was at that t ime Marshal of
the city of Atlanta, said to G en. Gartrell in
my presence, “Genera), yoia ought to be
ashamed of yourself. The So uth has honored
you in the past, and here you are now
working against yonr race -and color. lam
expecting a riot, and I thia k yon will be the
first man shot.” About th: is time a pistol
was fired on the other ra de of the Court
House and Gen. Gartrell left, or at least, I
saw nothing more of himu
[Signed] A. G. Gbieb.
Atlanta, Ga., September 2iith, 1882.
EVILS OF IN'OEPE NDENTISM.
A Pointed Couun.unteatro n On tb* Sub >
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist :
The people of Georgia and South Caro
lina are so closely allied socially, politically
and financially, that whatever affects one
doee more or less the other. The Inde
pendent movement that 'ha* been inaug
urated by the Republican party of the
Nortii, for the purpose of dividing the Dem
ocratic party and defeating it at the pend
ing elections in the Southern States, and
ultimately destroy them, has met with
some success in procuring candidates who
are willing to lend a willing hand and to
sacrifice principle in the vain hope of try
ing to secure the honors and emoluments of
office.
I well remember that when your State
was controlled by (and our State under a
much worse curse) the carpet-bagger, that a
friend said to me: “I met Col. Twiggs in the
city to-day and had a long talk with him,
and it is his opinion that it will be many
years before Georgia will be relieved from
the party now ruling her people, and from
what he says I fear Georgia, like Carolina,
is doomed for a long time to have the rob
ber band to rale over them.” May not the
expression of such opinions secured him
the appointment of ‘he Judgeship of your
Circuit under the Radical administration ?
His views coincided so perfectly with what
they most desired should be the permanent
government of your State. This was his
first fatal political error, and his next was
deolaring himself a candidate in opposition
to the regular nominee of the Democratic
party. This will be bi* political death
knell. I regret it. He wa* a brave
soldier, and nature seems to have lav
ished on him her choicest gifts—courage,
intellect and fine physique. What more
could aha have done ? Georgia, like Caro
lina, has never failed to recognize the in
trinsic worth of her sons when they are
true to her moat cherished principles—true
Jeffersonian Democracy—which is the only
foundation and hope to the people of the
Southern States. But whenever her sons,
however distinguished may have been their
ancestors, attempt to produce discord, and
divide and crash out those principles, which
are held dear to the heart of every true
Southerner, and for which we have been so
long contending to preserve, then it be
hooves every one, and it is the sacred duty
of every lover of his country to wipe out
forever those who would destroy her peace,
happinea* and prosperity, and to consign
them to an eternal political death.
I must con tees that it is a singular coia
cifient, that about the time Judge Twigg*
declared himself ra Independent candidate
in your State for Congress, his kinsman W.
H. Duncan should have declared himself a
Radical candidate for a like position in tills
State, in opposition to Hon. G. D. Tillman.
Let the people of Georgia and South
Carolina determine to bury Independentism
ao deep at the next elections that they win
nevar again dare show their hydra-heads, and
by the eternal elect Alexander H. Stephens
Glovarnor ot Georgia, and Hugh 8. Thomp
son Governor of South Carolina, and onr
candidates to Congress in defiance of the
machinations of the Republican party of the
Ifcrth. Dkmocbat.
There isn’t a white Gartrell or Twiggs
man to ba found ia Oglethorpe county.
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
SIDHT9 AND SOUNDS ABOUT THE
CAFITAL.
A S- nsation—Political Mattei*—On Trial
Ft r Marder— Maj. Barn**’ Speech.
(Cor. Chronicle and Constitutionalist).
Atlanta, Ga., September 27.—1 n vulgar
parianee, Atlanta “takes the cake.” There
are more scandals, more business, and more
everything here than any place I know of.
That is true when you let Atlanta people
tell it.
Daring the past few days I have heard so
many scandals, so many little delicate
pointe about certain failings of the people,
that lam quite dismayed. To the ordinary
newspaper correspondent matters of this
kind bring a keen relish. They are delicate
morsels that he roll* under his tongue and
saps life from—that is the essence of life;
matter for correspondence. But to me,
they are somewhat revolting. Just now I
know of three that are anything bnt pleas
ant to speak about. Two of them are ao
revolting in detail that I could not mention
them. The third is bad enough, but not
quite ah equal of the others. I will give
that.
In a certain Alabama town there lived a
gentleman of culture and standing. He did
a good business, was respectably connected,
and welt thought of. No one dreamed that
he was aught but a pure man. But circum
stances and facte show different. He had
for a mistress a bright mulatto girl. He
paid her every attention, furnished her
money, and carefully provided for her every
want. But he was keenly jealous. He for
bade her to speak to any man save himself,
denied her all society, and made her a cap
tive in her house. She rebelled against his
tyranny, and came to Atlanta and stopped
with a poor colored woman. He pursued
her. He traced her to Atlanta and imme
diately came here. As soon as he found her
whereabouts he came to her, and after beat
iag her in every manner a brute oiuld think
of, told her it she did not obey him he
would kill her. and then cut his own throat.
Atlanta is worked up over it, and it is the
common gossip of the town. As yet the po
lice have taken no cognizance of his abuse.
The Postal Matter Again.
I hate to complain so much about our
postal force, but if no complaint is made
there is no hope of a remedy. Complaints
come from every quarter, and a gentleman
here after reading my correspondence
about it this evening, said, “You are right,
but you didn’t hit them half hard enough;
they are more than negligent,and I,for one,
want to see them attended to.”
In giving a reason for this delay and ir
regularity of the mails, I attribute it to in
efficiency of a number of negro employes.
I have information that there is, at present,
running on the night express of the Geor
gia Railroad a negro postal clerk who can
scarcely read. I learn further that when he
strikes a name he can’t read, he just throws
the letter or package in a pile and carries it
to Augusta. From there, of course, it is
sent back up the road the next day, and so
it sometimes reaches its destination two or
three days late, or a week, or perhaps not
at all. ' These are all facts, and you can
most any time hear a complaint from some
body. A radical reform is needed in our
post office.
On Trial For Murder.
It will be remembered that sometime in
March last, an old man by the name of
Hioks, living in Gwinnett county, was shot
down in his own yard by four United States
Revenue raiders. These four raiders were
Robert Bolton, Brentland Freeland, Charles
A. Miller and James T. Self. They were
arrested shortly after the commission of the
deed, but released on small bonds.
The grand jury of Gwinett county, how
ever, found a true bill against them and in
dicted them for murder. Under this indict
ment, their trial was commenced this morn
ing in the United States Court, Judge Mc-
Cay, presiding.
During the morning, the prosecution de
veloped the fact that these fonr raiders had
gone to Hick’s house ; that they came from
a still house in the woods ; that old man
Hicks came out of the house into the yard,
and the men began firing on him. Hicks’s
son Walter then came ont. He is an idiotic
fellow. They began firing at him and he
ran ofl. Hicks was fatally shot down.
The defense claimed that the Hicks family
began the fuss by throwing rocks at them ;
and they acting purely in self-defense.
The trial will continue to-day.
Major Earner Speech.
Major George T. Barnes will address the
people at the Opera House to-morrow. He
will speak upon the political situation gen
erally. I have no doubt that a large crowd
will be in attendance. Major Barnes is a
favorite here and his popularity as well as
the cause he advocates, will draw many to
hear him.
Squib*.
Passing along Whitehall street this morn
ing, an old gentleman—apparently from the
country—saw the banner of General Gar
trell floating to the breeze. "Who is run
ning agin Mr. Stephens for Governor, Gen
eral Gordon ?” I told him that it was Gar
trell. He looked at me in amazement for a
few minutes and said: “Yon must be mis
taken, or General Gartrell is distracted. He
won’t stand no showing agin Aleck Steph
ens.”
Judge Twiggs was here the other day.
He claims that he is a good Democrat, that
he believes in nominations, but don’t
think Colonel Reese represented a majority
of the people of the District. I can only
say that Judge Twiggs should have gone
into the nomination if wanted to ran, and
not wait to bolt as soon as it was over.
Whether Colonel Reese represents the voice
of a majority of the people of the Eighth
District will be known in November, and I
surmise it will not result as Judge Twiggs
thinks.
John Cashin, an old resident of Augusta,
but who has been living in Atlanta several
years, left this evening for your city, where
he contemplates going into business. John
has inany friends here and they regret his
leaving.
Frank Teams, an employe of the State
Road, was baoly injured this afternoon.
He was standing on a switch engine as it
passed under a bridge. A projecting piece
of iron in the bridge knocked him off.
No. 1 engine house was sold yesterday.
It was bought by the city for $10,200. The
money will be divided among the members.
It is said that this company was very
(wealthy, and that the members will get
nearly two thousand dollars each.
Speaking of fire companies, the new sys
tem of a paid department is working ad
mirably, and Atlanta people wonder why
they never thought of it sooner. E. Y.
AUGUSTA AND NEW ORLEANS.
Through Lin* By Way of Th* Pensacola
and Atlantic Railroad.
The yellow fever now in Pensacola has
not impeded the work on the Pensacola
and Atlantic Bailroad. This road will open
up a new route from New York to New Or
leans and bring Augusta within tweoty-foui
hours of the Crescent city, via Savannah
and Pensacola, which must prove of benefit
to our cotton manufacturers. Pensacola has
the only natural deep water harbor on the
Gulf of Mexico, and is consequently a very
important shipping port. Freight can
always be secured at Pensacola for cotton
goods for all leading ports in the West In
dies, South America and Europe, and at
very low rates. Probably onr manufactur
ers may look after this new field for enter
prise on the opening of th ! s road in Janu
ry next. W. D. Ohtpley, Esq., is the orig
inator of thi* very important line. Mr.
Chipley has overcome great obstafiss in ite
construction. The Bridge of two and a half
miles over the Escamlia river, is one of the
wonders of railroad engineering. It is
completed and trains are running over it.
CAPT. BASSETT’S GREAT BECHET.
The Jealous Care Will* Which He Guard*
Daalel Webster’* Chair.
(From » Washington Correspondent.)
Daniel Webster resigned his seat tn the
United State* Senate July 20, 1850. His
desk is still in the Senate Chamber, but
which one, where it seta, and who fa the
lucky Senator that has it, are secrets to all
the world except Capt. Bassett, whom Mr.
Webster brought here when a mere boy,
and put him in position as a page eighteen
year* before he resigned. Capt. Bassett
has held a place in the Senate from that
day until the present, being Acting Assist
ant Sergeant-at-Arms now. But to the story
of the desk: As above stated, the possessor
of it or ite number is as profound a secret
to the Senator who sits in it as it is to an
Egyptian mummy. Capt. Bassett’s reason
for keeping all knowledge of the number*
of Mr. Webster’s, Mr. Olay’s, Mr. Oslhoun’*
seats a secret fa that, knowing and under
standing the desire of the average Ameri
can citizen, both male and female, for
relics, he fean to give the secret away,
lest the desk would be chipped sway by
piecemeal by the curious who throng tho
Capitol every day. There has been no
change in these desk* from the day they
were brought into the Capitol until now,
other than the annual coat of varnish.
Captain Bassett has a memorandum record
of their numbers, and places, which h*
keeps under lock and key, and will, when
he comes to shuffle off this mortal coil,
furnish to the proper person all the infor
mation relative to these desks, in order
that their history may be carefully pre
served and handed down to future gener
ation* a* mementoes of Webster and hfa
associates in the Senate. There are three
other desks in the Senate chamber which
curiosity hunters would like to be able to
*ee and know that they were the right
ones.. These are the desk* of Jefferson
Davis, of Mfaefasippi; Stephen A, Douglas,
of Ulinofa; and Charlee Sumner, of Mas
aaehuaette. Mr. Davis’ desk occupied the
•aaae petition in the chamber that Mz.
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
Beck’s does now, but it is not known to
anyone except Captain Bassett whether or
not it is the same one. Mr. Douglas was
in the same place as that occupied by Mr.
Pendleton, and Mr. Sumner was in the
place now occupied by Mr. Dawes. In
1862, when the New York Zouaves were in
the city, about twenty of them went into
the Senate Chamber early in the morning to
destroy the chair and desk that had been
occupied by Mr. Jefferson Davis. Just as
they ware in the act Captain Bassett put in
his appearance, and asked them what they
were about. They quickly told him that
they were going to destroy the seat and desk
because they were the ones used by Jefferson
Davis. Captain Bassett suggested to them
that their mission in Washington was to
?rotect public property, and not destroy it.
hey saw the point, and Captain Bassett
proceeded so to change the numbers of the
desks as to be able to say to all who might
inquire that the desks that were used by the
Senator* were not now in the same places,
as they bad been changed around for the
express purpose of preventing them from
being mutilated by relic and curiosity hunt
era.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Nsw Oblkans, September 28. —Dr. Bros
nabaum’s drug store, Rivera’s billiard sa
loon and barber shop were burned to-day.
Fully insured. The loss is not stated.
Nnw Yobk, September 28. Another
death, making three in al! from tire col
lision of the trains in the Hudson river tun
nel, recently, was reported this afternoon
at the coroner’s office—that of Elizabeth Ann
Uromlin, a school teacher, 35 years old.
Chilucothb, Mo., September 28.—The
fire at Pattonsburg, Mo., Tuesday night,
was more disastrous than was at first stated.
Eighteen stores were burned, besides a
number of dwelling*, and the total loss
reaches $60,000. The origin ol the fire is
unknown.
Philadelphia, Pa., September 28.—The
recent heavy rains loosened the foundation
of the tenement house, 993 Wallace street,
and about four o’clock this morning it fell
while eight or ten occupants were asleep in
bed. All were taken out of the debris in
the cellar. Three are badly injured. All
were bruised but no lives were lost.
Cincinnati, 0., September 28.—Twelve
thousand dollars worth of diamonds and
valuable jewelry were stolen at the Exposi
tion building shortly after the doors were
opened this morning, from the exhibit of C.
O. Skamp. The diamonds were insecurely
kept in a show case fastened with two small
padlooks, and the owner had no ope in
charge to guard the property. A visitor to
the Exposition saw two men go to the case
and open it with such apparent ease as to
give the impression that they were the own
ers. After selecting all they wanted they
quietly walked away. Ten minutes after
ward the theft was discovered.
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RAILROAD MATTERS.
Lease Os th* Chester And Lenoir Narrow
Gause By the Charlotte, Columbia And
Augusta—Yearly Report Os the Latter.
(Special to New* and .Courier.)
Columbia, September 24.—As indicated
last night, the Chester and Lenoir Narrow
Gauge Railroad has been leased to the Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Com
pany for a period of ninety-nine years.
The leans was effected on Friday at a'meet
ing of the stockholders which was held at
Gastonia, the vote standing 981 for to 190
against the transfer. The conditions of the
lease are that the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad shall declare a dividend of
one and a half per cent, on the stock of
the leased road, to be paid semi-an
nually, one-halt of the first dividend
to be paid on October 1. The lessees
also guarantee the completion of the road to
Newton, on the Western North Carolina
Road, by the first of July, 1883, andthecom
pleticn of the road to Lenoir, Caldwell
county, North Carolina, in eighteen months
from the date of lease. The lessees assume
all the bonded debt and all the floating
debt of the road, amounting to about $280,-
000. The bonded debt is $250,000, of
which amount $23,000 is yet on hand,
which will be used for the completion of
the road to Newton. The road has been
mortgaged to secure the $250,000 of
bonded debt. The lessees are authorized
to issue bonds on the road from Newton to
the North Carolina terminus, the proceeds
from the sale of the bonds to be used tor
construction, equipment and improvement
of the railroad property.
Seventy-two miles of the road are now
laid, the distance from the present termi
nus to Newton being eight miles. From
Newton to Hickory, on the Western North
Carolina Road, the distance is ten miles,
and from Hickory to Lenoir the distance is
twenty miles, making a total of thirty-eight
miles of track yet to be built to the North
Carolina terminus. This part ot the line
has been graded, and moat of the masonry
has been completed. ■ When finished the
road will be 110 miles in length from Ches
ter to Lenoir. It will open a new country,
very rich in agricultural products and min
eral resources. Lenoir is the outlet to the
great Watauga Mountains, one of the finest
sections of North Carolina. It is fifty miles
distant from the Cranberry Iron Works, to
which a road is now being built from Bris
tol, Tenn. The lessees of the narrow gauge
road desire to complete it to Lenoir early
next Snmmer, and will make a strong effort
to do; and with Lenoir as a basis a most at
tractive country for Summer resorts will be
opened. The lease of the road has been ac
cepted by the people living along the line
with great cordiality, and running, as it
does, through a new and rich country, it
will be quite a lucrative piece of property
to the new owners. Under liberal manage
ment it will be of great advantage to the
Southern markets, supplying them with
hay, corn, flour, meat and a great many
varieties of fine fruits, which now have to
be transported for long distances at ruinous
eharges.
The Directors of the Cheraw and Cheater
Narrow Gauge Bailroad will meet at Lancas
ter on next Friday. The Charlotte, Colum
bia and Augusta Railroad Company have
also made a proposition to lease this line,
and, as a majority of the parties in interest
are said to favor the transfer, the lease will
doubtless be effected.
Yearly Reporter the Charlotte, Colombia
and August* Railroad.
I give below some of the figures from the
report made to the Railro id Commissioner
of the condition and operations of the Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad for
the year ending June 30 last. The general
exhibit shows that the total income of the
road was $590,935 47; the total expense,
including taxes, $464,166 72, and the net
income $126,768 45. The cost of construc
tion and equipment of the road on June
30, 1881, amounted to $5,132,846 35, to
which should be added $55,737 63, the cost
of construction since June 30, 1881, mak
ing the total cost of road and equipment,
including the last fiscal year, $5,188,583
98, or $27,217 71 per mile. The total debt
of the road is $2,795,155 04, the
funded debt amounting to $2,506,000 and
the unfunded debt to $289,155 04.
The total income of the road from all
sources, not including that from the Atlan
tic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad, which is
now operated by the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Road, was $590,935 17, as
follows; From local passengers, $114,-
032 68; through passengers, $54,209 28;
mails, $24 657 60; express and extra bag
gage, $8,19871; other sources, passenger
department, $,659 28; making the total
earnings of the passenger department
$206,757 55- Tfee sanjiqga from local
freight amounted to $221,399 03; from
through freight,' $153,202 24; from other
sources of the freight department, 92,-
292 92; making the total earning# of tho
freight department $396,894 19, which
added to $7,283 43> the income from all
other spuroes, foots gp $590,935 17.
The expenses of the road for (he mainte
nance of ways and buildings amounted to
$184,000 94; maintenance of motive power
and oars, $114,522 63. oonducting trans
portation, $107,433 78; general expenses,
not inoluiing taxes, $28,949 50; taxes in
South Carolina, $27,443 39; in Georgia,
$1,063 13; in North Carolina, $744 35,
making altogether $29,250 87, or total ex
penses, $484,166 72.
The main line of road owned by this com
pany fa miles in length, and the total
length of the road operated in South (Caro
lina, 179 mile*. The road ha* forty-two
stations in this State, and ha* fifty-four
mile* of steel rail*, twelve miles of which
were laid during the past year. The road
ha* 20 locomotives, 19 passenger cars, 206
freight cars, 4 express and baggage cars,
and 21 other oars. The total freight, local
and through, carried during the year
amounted to 164,342 ton*. The passenger
trains ran twenty-six miles per hour, and
the freight trains fourteen miles.
OUR. SINTER REPUBLICS.
Traaty Between Mexico and G mate mala.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
City ot Mexico, baptembar 28.—Yester
day a treaty was signed by Benor Morieal,
the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs,
and Sen or Herreta, the Guatemalan Min
ister, definitely establishing the boundary
lines between the two countries. The line
propored many yew ago, by Mexico, was
accepted. There fa evidence of cholera or
cholera morbus in the State of Chihipa.
There ware twenty-eight death* in one day
in Uxtla, a town of five thousand inhabi
tants. A similar disease, but less violent,
appears in that region every year, caused
by cutting dye wood. The Government
ha* taken measure* to prevent the spread of
the epidemic, by establishing • quarantine.
There fa alarm in the infected region.
TO* kaval Aeadimy.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Annapolis. September 28.—Among the
successful candidates for Naval cadetships
•re Joseph N. Allison and H. L. Howard, of
Texas, and W. H. Oaldwell. of Tannaaaea.
IMPORTANT CAPTURE.
A Notorious Incendiary Captured By An
Augusta. Officer.
It will be remembered by the readers of
the Ohbonicle that on the 17th of last Feb
ruary the gin house, saw mill and grist mill
of Mr. Eli Lockhart, of Lincoln county,
were burned. At the same time a quantity
of cotton was stolen, some of which was sub
sequently recovered. The suspected incen
diary was one Claude Eubanks, colored,
who escaped, but for whom rewards have
been offered. For some time officers have
been upon the track of the incendiary. On
last Tuesday, however, Lieut. A. M. Pra
ther, our skillful and vigilant detective and
polios officer, who had tracked him to
Charleston, arrested him there, and with the
aid of a requisition upon Governor Hagood,
brought him to Augusta yesterday morning
and lodged him securely in jail.
THE HARVEST MOON.
Why It la So Culled, and What is the
Significance of the Season.
The radiant crescent of the past few eve-.
nings rounded last night into a full-orbed
luminary, appearing at the horizon like a
ball of fire, shaping and softening down as
it rolled up the sky, into a silver shield.
The ’•* harvest moon ”is the lunation in the
season of harvest, or about the time of the
Autumnal equinox, when the moon is full,
or rises immediately after sunset, for sev
eral consecutive days—a phenomenon owing
to the small angle made by the sun’s path
and the moon's orbit with the horizon at
this season of the year. It is called the
harvest moon for obvious reasons. It
was supposed by reapers in the olden
time that the moon had been mount
ed in its brilliant setting to afford
light for the sway of the scythe and the
ply of the string of the gleaners. It was
found ont, however, that this kind of after
dark business did not pay. There was more
loss and stealage than there was gain in
point of time. It is also in violation of the
genius of the eight hour law, which applies
to all classes of laborers except horse car driv
ers and newspaper editors. It was also ascer
tained by the old farmers that the male and
female reapers lost more time in “boning”
than they gained in work; it being under just
such bewitching circumstances that Ruth
and Boaz got up a pleasing diversion, in
which Ruth married the landlord, got the
gleanings and beat Maud Muller's best re
cord. About this season of the year and
this tin* of night also, the same sort of
thing is going on in hay-rides, and spooney
couples are every evening reaping a harvest
of misery and malaria. The present moon,
however, is believed by Georgia astrono
mers to be a forerunner of victory of the
Democratic party, holding that during this
lunation independents will cease from
troubling and lamplighters be at rest. The
harvest moon is a success.
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COLUMBIA SUPERIOR COURT.
Glowing Compliment to Judge Snead-
Short Seulon of the Fall Term.
The Superior Court met at Appling last
Monday and adjourned Tuesday afternoon—
the shortest session known in Columbia
county for years past. All the criminals ar
raigned plead guilty.
The grand jury paid the following high
co npliment to Judge Snead :
“In taking leave of Judge Snead, whose
term of office as Judge of the Augusta .cir
cuit expires with this session of the Court,
and who, we learn, has declined to be a can
didate for re-election, we desire to express
our appreciation of his ability and the pub
lic usefulness of his judicial career.
We express the sentiments of the citizens
in saying that Judge Snead will carry into
his retirement the approbation of the people
of this county and their best wishes for his
happiness and welfare.”
To this Judge Snead feelingly responded
as follows :
"Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen of the Grand
Jury :.
■ ‘ln taking leave of you I desire to return
my sincere thanks for the high compli
pliment you have just paid me.
Os course a consciousness of duty per
formed, of having done what one believes
to be right, is sufficient of itself to sustain
an honest man in official position; but it is
pleasing at all times to receive the oom
mendation of our fellow-citizens.
When I took my seat upon this bench I
took an oath which is registered in Heaven
to hold the scales of justice equally balanced
between the high and low, the rich and the
poor, the humble and exalted alike. That
oath I have sacredly kept, and I know that
I have discharged my full duty with fidelity,
if not with ability.
In a few more months at the most I shall
lay aside the ermine, conscious that it is as
spotless as when I received it, and I beg to
assure you that it will be a pleasing reflec
tion for me to carry to private life the ap
proval of the generous and true and law
abiding people of Columbia county.
Gentlemen, thanking you on behalf of
myself and the county for the faithful
manner in which you have discharged your
duty you are finally discharged.”
Solicitor-General Wright was also the
recipient of complimentary mention by the
grand jury. No recommendation was made
as to a successor of Judge Snead upon hia
retirement.
THE TWO PARTIES.
Nominations and Other Political Mat
ters.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Fred. Douglass’ Position.
Washington, September 27.—Frederick
Douglass has been interviewed in regard to
the published statement that a prominent
colored man is about to stump Virginia for
the Straightout Republicans, coupled with
the conjecture that Douglass is the man.
Douglass says he has no intention of stump
ing Virginia. His sympathies are with the
Mahone movement, but he does not intend,
to go to Virginia to speak.
The New York Democracy •
New Yobe, September 27.—The New
York county Democracy have written a let
ter to tne Chairman of the Tammany Hall,
Tammany anti-Kelley, Irving Hall and the
Gelman Democratic organizations asking
for the appointment of committees to make
the necessary preparations for a united
Democratic ratification of the ticket nomi-
at Syracuee. The fetter urges that all
local differences be laid aside. 8
A Triangular Fight.
Chiblebton, September 27.—1 n the Re
publican Convention of the 7th District
after a bitter struggle which has lasted just
one week, E. W. M. Mackey (white) was to
day nominated for Congress on the 251st
ballot, receiving 21 out of 39 votes. A
stormy scene ensued, Mackey’s colored
competitors, Lee and Smalls, charging him
with having secured his nomination by
bribery. Lee displayed, as evidence, a
promissory note for $250 given by Mackey
to a delegate for his vote. It is understood
that there will be no Democratic candidate
in the district and Lee and Smalls %re ex
pected to run against Mackey—rnakine a
triangular Republican fight. "
Baltimore, September 28.-The Demo
crate of the Third Congressional District to
day renominated Fetter L. Hollitzell, and
m the Fourth nominated J. V. 8. Findlay.
Birmingham, Ala., September 28.—The
Republican Convention of the Seventh Con
gressional District, at Blount Springs, to
day, nominated unanimously Arthur Bing
ham, of Talledega. His opponent is W. H
Forney (Democrat), the present incumbent.
Ltnchbubg, Va., September 28.—The
Chairman of the District Committee posi
tively denies the reported withdrawal of
Collector Rives, the coalition candidate for
Congress. Rives’ opponent is Hon. Ran
dolph Tucker.
Philadelphia, September 28.—At the
Democratic Convention held here to-day
the following nominations were made : For
Sheriff, Jno. L. Grime ; for City Treasurer,
;/ or Jod 8 e Common Pleas,
i 1 for Begister of WiUs.
Charles F. Isemenger; for Congress for
Jno- Cadwalader; Second
District, William W. Dundas; Third Dis
trict, Samuel J. Randall.
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STUBBORN MORMONS.
They Determined To Hold On To the Offi
ces, Despite Congress.
(By Telegraph to the Ohroniole.)
Salt Lake Cm, Utah, September 28.
Governor Murray, in obedience to the law
of Congress providing for appointments to
fill the vacancies occasioned by failures to
hold an election in August, has appointed a
number of officials throughout Utah. In
defiance of this law and the Edmunds’ bill,
which disqualified polygamists, the appoin
tees of the Government have been refused
the records and places to which they have
been appointed. This organized nullifica
tion is in obedience to the orders of the
Mormon leaders. Those who think it
criminal to hold over, are whipped in by
the Council and threats and the polygamists
are holding on, Congress to the contrary,
notwithstanding. Write of mandamus were
applied for yesterday to enforce the titles of
the officials appointed.
A. aad K. R, R.
Wednesday next, October 4, is the day
appointed for the annual Convention of the
stockholders of the Greenwood, Laurens
and Spartanburg Railroad Company and for
the quarterly meeting of the Board of Di
rectors of the Augusta and Knoxville Rail
read Company, whereforp the meeting last
named has been postponed until October
111, next.