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Wednesday, August 116, 1874.
Sea.cr.lie Caagrcaaioaal Nemaaatiea..
2ndDist — Hon. W. E. SMITH of Dougherty.
5th Diet.—Hon. M. A* CANDLER of DeK&lb.
6th Diet—Hon. JAS. H BLOUNT of Bibb.
9th Diet.—Hon- GARNETT McMILLAN ol Haber
sham.
Trust Them Hot
We learn from some of our exchanges
that some men who are very anxious to
go to the Legislature will not pledge
themselves to vote against the payment
of Bullock and Kimball’s bogus bonds,
but evade the question by saying that
question has already been disposed of.—
They know better; they know too well
that it will be the great question before
the next Legislature, and these men pro
bably want the agents of Clews and Kim
ball to know that they are not pledged,
or in other words that they are in the
market. They are willing to undergo
divers temptations. There is a report
current that the bondholders will have a
million of dollars ready for bribing the
Legislature, but this report does not seem
to lessen, but rather to increase the de
sire of these independent men to be
elected.
Be not too Sanguine.
The Savannah News says the bogus
bondholders are already badly whipped.
It is not safe to bet on that. Let our
friend of the News reflect that it only re
quires one-third of either house to de
feat the Constitutional amendment in
the legislature. We believe the Senate
consists of forty-four members. One-
third of which is fifteen. Three or four
of the Senators already elected are be
lieved to be favorable toward looking into
the equities of the bonds. Tliis is con
sidered presumptive evidence that they
already have some of the Kimball cur-
TAi>f*y secured up in the waistband of
their trowsers. There are several others
who it is believed have received some of
the bonds, who are anxious to be elected,
determined to be elected. So it
ithat the bondholders world
^many to control one-
,jmd when the lings
tw5 tTToTrftltrl of, the
ftnta and a million of dol-
ger is great. The safest and
to defeat the bondholders
legislature to call aConstitution-
ntion. Tliis will only require a
, and a convention is badly need
ed. the Constitution in other
| besides prohibiting the pay-
.of these fraudulent bonds. In a
Convention, many of the defects of the
present Radical Constitution could be
amended by which a large yearly saving
* expense to the State can be effected,
was repeatedly said during the last
L that the people of Atlanta would
lit the legislature to call a Con
fer fear a Convention would
r ' Vtlie capital. Does Atlanta control
^'legislature? If she does that is a
good reason why the capital should be
moved from Atliinta.
The Republican Party is Split and
Divided and Bent into Doll Bags.
From every part of the Southern States
we hear of divisions, dissentions and
quarrelling among the Republican lead
ers. Iu Florida the Republicans, in the
First Congressional District, divided and
held two Conventions and put forth two
tickets, and in the Second, or Jacksonville
District, they have re nominated the ne
gro Walls against the wishes and the
protest of many of the leading Republi
cans. If the Democracy of Florida will
act with wisdom and energy they may re
deem their State this Fall. In Georgia,
also, the Republicans are split up into
factions. In their attempt to hold a
Convention in the Sixth District after
two trials they broke up in a row and dis
banded. In Louisiana, Mississippi and
Arkansas, they are hopelessly divided. In
South Carolina they are split up into
factions, but we fear not so badly as to
give the white men a chance to redeem
the State. Bnt still we have hope even
of South Carolina and trust the time is
not distant when we can say, the day of
her redemption draweth nigh. Never
has the old Greek proverb been more
signally verified than in the Republican
party of the South. “Those whom the
Gods intend to destroy, they first make
mad.” They have become maniacs, and
we believe they are about to be destroyed
as a political party.
The Leonard Scott Publishing Com
pany’s reprint of the Edinburgh Review
for July is now before us, full of good
reading, as usual.
The first article, “Ocean Warfare,”
gives an explanation and description, free
from technicalities, of the new conditions
under which naval warfare will be waged,
and of the varibus weapons with which
modern fleets are armed.
Hebrew students will be much interes
ted in the article on “The Speaker’s Bi
ble,” now in course of publication in En*,
gland The general character and design
of the work are briefly explained; and
much minute criticism is devoted to the
manner m which the Hebrew text has been
dealt with.
Ait- Hi-, ••Nasmyth’s Physical History
of the Moon,” gives a description of the
appearance of the surface of the moon
and its probable formation, funded on
many careful telescopic observations.
A ball of molten liquid is the basis of Mr.
Nasmyth’s theory of formation; and he
advances some new ideas relative to the
cooling process, to explain the irregu
larities on its surface. The article also
gives some account of the astronomers of
the Greenwich Observatory and the ins
ntruments that have been invented from
time to time for taking lunar observas
lions.
Motley's “Life and Death of Barne-
veiut’’ is* welcomed with a long and favor
able review, the writer remarking, “we
can hardly give too much appreciation to
that subtle alchemy of the brain which
has enabled him to produce out of dull,
crabbed, and often illegible papers, the
vivid, graphic, and sparkling narrative
which he has given to the world.”
The fifth article takes up Hall’s “Mo
dera English,” criticising the style and
temper of Mr. Hall’s writings with much
severity.
The paper entitled ‘ Canon of Beauty
in G- ~li Art” will be attractive to art-
i touts, attempting, as it does to detect
Li define the subtle laws of proportion
a uou guided the great sculptors of anti-
^ O tner articles are, a long and favor
able review of Guizot's History of France,
with numerous extracts; a very interest
ing account of the life of the philologer,
Richard Cleasby, and his labors in Ice
landie literature; and a review of the
Journal of Henry Cockburn,” a continua
Oon of the “Memorials of his Tim*v" l>y
the well-known Lord Cockburn.
The Louisiana Legislature.
The flimsiness of the protestations of
the Radical party of Louisiana in regard
to reform, is evidenced by their nomina
tion of candidates for the Legislature of
that State. A more corrupt body of leg
islators than those composing the Kel
logg Assembly could not be found, per
haps, except in South Carolina, and even
with the latter it would be a hard pull
for the precedence. Yet in the face of
this, the contempt with which these So-
lons are held by even their Radical breth
ren at the North, and the bankrupt con
dition into which the State has been
brought by their rascalities, the present
members have been renominated in al
most every parish. These nominations
have received the unqualified approval of
the Radical organ in New Orleans, which
has been assuring the people of the State
that the party in power would put for
ward able and proper representatives.
The issue will now have to be squarely
made at the polls, and we are assured
that if Rie Conservative citizens of Louisi
ana, lovers of honest government, will
put forth the proper efforts and be true
to themselves the result will be a glorious
one. The Radicals will make a desper
ate effort to retain their supremacy, and
it will require a hard fight to overcome
them. But with good men as candidates
and “honest government” as a motto, toe
friends of honesty must succeed. When
this success is attained the State will be
regenerated and its credit restored.
Then, and not till then, will there be hope
for toe people of Louisiana. As it now
stands, with burdensome taxes and prop
erty almost worthless in consequence,
the situation is not enviable
Macon and Brunswick Railroad.
The Atlanta Constitution “hoars at
the executive Department that on toe
12to instant toe Governor informed Mr.
Geo. H. Hazlehubst, receiver for the
State of the Macon and Brunswick Rail
road that, upon mature consideration, he
had determined that the public interest
required that the property of this road
in the hands of toe agent of the State
should be disposed of probably as early
as next December; and and at the same
time suggested that he would probably
deem it proper to make a change in the
receivership, simply for the reason that
it would not be proper for toe chief offi
cer of toe road to continue to hold the
antagonistic position of receiver for the
State while steps are being taken to dis
pose of the property. Accordingly on
the 15th instant Dr. E. A. Flewellen,
Superintendent of Public Works, and
receiver of the North and South Road,
was instructed to relieve President Haz-
lehurst, and in entering upon his duties
to make out and send to the Executive
office a particular inventory of all pro
perty and assets of eveiy kind belonging
to the company turned over to him by the
late receiver—who also was requested
to make out and render at an early day
an account current in detail of the finan
cial transactions of toe road under his
administration, together with a memoran
dum of any outstanding indebtedness in
curred since the State took possession of
the road. WTien otherwise directed, Dr.
Flewellen will make monthly reports,
commencing with September.
The Gubernatorial Canvass.
It is stated with somo degree of cer
tainty that Gen. Robert Toombs will be
placed in nomination for Governor at the
proper time, and it is said lie will concen
trate a great many votes against the
question of compromising the fraudulent
bond debt, on account of liis unvarying
hostility to such a measure and his vol
untary service as counsel for the State in
protecting her interest, political and
financial. Another party, it is said, will
support Hou. L. N. Trammell, and they
hope, in the event of his nomination for
Congress, to give him a strong support.
In this connection Col. J. H. W. Under
wood, of Rome, is spoken of as Supreme
Judge, to succeed the present incumbent,
Judge McKay. Col. Trammell's position
on the bond question is not generally
known.
It is pretty generally conceded bere
that Col. Trammell will not obtain the
nomination for Congress in his District.
Col. James D. Waddell, it is believed, is
now the strongest man. It is, however,
said that Col. W. H. Dabney holds the
balance of power. There are still others
—old politicians acquainted with the
science of modem politics—who bet high
and knowingly on Gen. P. M. B. Young.
The nomination occurs on the second of
September.—Chronicle Sentinel.
The St. Louis Globe heads the Beecher
statement in this way: “The Feather
that Breaks the Camel’s Back. ” “Beecher
Irretrievably Wrecked upon the W eak
ness of his Own Statement.” “His Cross-
Examination Thin, Transparent, and
Evasive.” “He Signally Fails to Refute
a Single Charge.” “Baffled in his Des
perate Efforts to Crush Tilton."
The political rivalry of two colored
members of the South Carolina Legisla
ture has thrown the county of George
town into a spasm of war. The dispatch
es tell of bloodshed, besieged houses, and
gathering reinforcements ; and as there is
no respect for law or authority in South
Carolina, it is hard to say whether toe
riot will last a day or a week longer.
Meanwhile, it it a comfort to know that
one of the men who caused the trouble
haB been wounded, and that the other is
in jaiL—N. Y. Tribune.
A Mabbiage and a Tbagedy.—At Itoi-
ca, N, Y-, an old man named Taber was
stabbed yesterday afternoon by a young
man named Thompson, The latter mar*
ried Taber’s daughter Thursday night
against the will of her parents. After
toe marriage the girl returned to her
father’s house. Yesterday at neon the
young man wefit to Taber s house and
claimed her. An affray took place, re
sulting as stated above. Taber is sup
posed to be fatally injured.
The Republican papers, we observe,
almost universally tage toe side of Henry
Ward Beecher. There is no mystifica
tion in the matter, but they try to kick
up a great dust about it. The points
made by Tilton have not been met in the
defense made by Beecher. Tilton said
that Beecher confessed to having had
criminal intercourse with Mrs. Tilton to
Mr Moulton. Mr. Moulton has been be
fore toe Plymouth Church Committee se
lected by Beecher, but none of them dared
to ask him whether any such confession
had heen made or not. The statement of
Beecher from first to last is improbable,
unreasonable, and admits enough to con
firm the charges of Tilton. The Repub
lican press might M well cease sustaining
him in toe face of all the evidence, just
as toe Democratic press ceased to sustain
Boss Tweed. Mr. Beecher has been ren
dered infamous, and all the whitewash
applied by the Republican press will not
avail with the public—Cincinnati En
quirer.
Crops Injured by the Bust.
Goldsboko, N. C., August 22—The
Carolina Messenger has reports from its
special correspondents in the counties of
Wayne, Greene, Lenior, Duplin and
Johnston that toe rust is doing alarming
damage to the growing cotton, which less
fhnn a week ago was doing well and look
ad never more promising- The sudden
change in the atmosphere from cold to
hot and the extremely dry weather is
resigned as the cause by toe fanners.
The Radicals of the Seventh Senatorial
district have nominated Joseph P. Smith,
of Thomasville, as their candidate.
Col. James McDonald, the Democratic
candidate for toe Senate from the Seventh
district, pledges himself to vote, if elected,
against the payment of the bogus State
bonds fraudently ieeued by ex-Govemor
jMt*.
Affldn in Georgia
In Atlanta, Fatty Harris and Foster
Blodgett are considered Competent Wit
nesses. This is another reason why toe
capital ought to be carried back to Mil-
ledgeville.
It isn’t magnanimous to crow over it
perhaps, but the bond ring is the worst
whipped institution that ever made a track
in Georgia
It is said that Col. Beecher, of Brook
lyn, stands in need of the services of a
Competent Witness. Where is Fatty
Harris?— Sav Metes.
A man may forget his business, liis fami
ly, and all his sacred obligations of life,
but be always remembers where he got
that counterfeit bill.
The editor of toe Jessup Georgian, Mr.
G. W. Harris, is the democratic nominee
for representative from Wayne.
Hon. H. D. McDaniel, of Walton was
unanimously nominated at Social Circle
as toe democratic candidate for senator
from toe 27th district.
George Deadwiler, of Jackson, was
unanimously nominated for senator by toe
democracy of the 33rd district, at the con
vention held at GiUsville.
It is thought that Hon. Thomas Hard
eman will be sent to toe Legislature from
Bibb county, and in that case he will
doubtless be elected Speaker of the
House.
It is said that while General Toombs
doesn’t care to go to Congres, he would
be willing to be elected Governor of Geor
gia. Well, he would make a good one
for to his qualities as a statesman he adds
that of one of the most successful finan
ciers of the country.
Whitely has gone up into Randolph
county, where there is a bolt from the
Democratic party headed by an ambitious
person named Tumlin, who is running
an “independent” schedule for the Legis
lature. It is singular that “independent”
candidates always carry grist to the Rad
ical mill. Tumlin’s bolt is nuts for White
ly and his gang to crack.
A car on toe Western and Atlantic
Railroad was broken open in Atlanta re
cently and some kits of mackerel stolen
The property was found in a colored
store. Whereupon the proprietor was
confiscated by the police.
The Atlanta Constitution says: “No
arms of any description are in possession
of toe State for distribution. None have
been received since toe last quota from
the General Government was distributed.
An independent candidate for the Le
gislature has blossomed in Murray county.
Hanged if toe holders of the bogus bonds
don’t mean business.—/Savh. Metes.
Captain William M. Hammond and Mr.
Isaac Alderman have been nominated for
the Legislature from Thomas county.
Col. Seward, of Thomas county, is act
ing with toe Democrats this year.
•Judge William M. Reese has been unan
imously renominated as a candidate for
Senator from the 29th Senatorial Dis
trict.
Houston Home Journal: Foster Blod
gett writes to the Atlanta Herald from
•parts unknown” that Mr. Abrams, of
toe Atlanta Noios, wrote his biography in
1871. Now we know that Abrams didn’t
write it, just because Blodgett says he
did.
This from the same paper: The Atlanta
News scrapes the whitewash off of Kim
ball about as fast as the ‘leading citizens"
put it on. If toe honest people of the
State do not all subscribe for the Nwes,
they will be guilty of shameful ingrati
tude.
And this: The demand for the return
of toe State capital to Milledgeville is
becoming stronger all over the State.
All candidates must be sound on that
and the fraudulent bond question.
Under the head of “Not Competent,”
the Eatonton Messenger has this: We
hate these bitter personal quarrels that
are carried on now-a-days in the newspa
pers, and scarcely ever allude to them.
But of one point concerning that now
pending among some of the Atlanta edi
tors we wish to speak, that is, with re
gal'd to Blodgett’s testimony. What he
says proves nothing. He is not to be
believed on oath. A more artful, intri
guing, shameless mau than Foster Blodg-
et does not live on earth. There is no
statement he would not make, if he con
sidered it necessary to carry his point.
To bring in such a person as witness is,
to say the least of it, in bad taste. Tho
man is beyond the pale—an outlaw-—and
to recognize him at all, as being fit to
speak even anything, among honest men,
is a grave offense against the State that
he has so outrageously plundered. It is
like a part of Atlanta, however, to do just
this thing. This adds one more to the
black-bead roll of sins that is surely crea
ting a profound feeling of indignation
toward the Gate City, and which will cul
minate in great detriment to her future
prospects.
Maj. E. W. Andebson, one of the most
prominent citizens of Wilkes county, died
last Tuesday.
The presentments of toe last grand jury
of Campbell county, the Constitution
says, “earnestly recommend that no more
licenses for the retail sale of liquor in the
county be granted, on the grounds that
most of the crimes spring directly or in
directly from toe traffic, and that the
county only received last year §99.75 for
licenses, while §2,000 would not reimburse
it for the expense ft incurred on account
of the sale of liquors, to say nothing of
the other bad effects.”
Col. Frobell, in company with an engi
neer, has been . prospecting in North
Georgia preparatory to surveying the
route of a donble-traek railway authoriz
ed by Congress. This road is intended
to connect the navigable waters of the
Tennessee with the South Atlantic ports.
It will doubtless be several weeks before
this road is built and in running order.
The prominent names before the Con
vention of toe Ninth Congressional Dis
trict were those of Hon. B. H. Hill and
Hon. Garnett McMillan. The contest
between these gentlemen was very close
until the forty-seventh ballot, when Mr.
Hill’s friends, in order to bring about uni
ty, cast their votes for McMillan, and he
was unanimously nominated-
Mr. John C. Carmichael, one of the
oldest citizens of Greensboro, is dead.
Suafiowers,
They are rich in honey and are conse
quentlygood neighbors far bees. Oil,
hardly to be distinguished from olive oil
by any one but an expert, may be extrac
ted from the seeds, in the proportion of
one gallon to ope bushel.- One acre will
produce something like fifty bushels of
seeds. The seeds, too, make food, not
unpalatable for human beings, and very
good for animals and poultry. The Por
tuguese and the American Indians make
a kind of bread from them, and roasted
they may be ground and
stirate for coffee. The stalks may be
used as bean poles while growing. Dry,
they make passable roofs for sheds and
the like, and burn readily on toe hearth.
The ashes are very rich in potash. Alto
gether it is a very useful plant, and to'
crown all, it has a reputation which toe
scientists have never disproved for ab
sorbing malaria, and acting as an effect
ual screen against that scourge of low-
lying districts, fever and ague.
To core a Cough, to relieve all irrita
tions of the throat, to restore perfect
soundness and health to the most delicate
organization* of toe human frame—the
lungs—use Dr. Wistar's Ralsatn of
Wnd Cherry, which is still prepared with
the Sana ears in the selection and com
pounding of its various ingredients as
when it was introduced to toe pnhlie by
Dr. Wirfnrowr forty jmm ~—
Special Correspondence of the Chrome & Sentinel
THE RIDGE SPRANG TROUBLES*
Ridge Sfbino, S. C., August 19,1874.
Depabtube of the “Geobgia Tigebs.”
Hearing on the streets of Augusta yes
terday the news of the anticipated diffi
culty between the whites and blacks at
Ridge Spring, we decided to join the
Augusta party which was then being or
ganized, and with that party “off to the
front” We boarded the afternoon train
at the south corner of Broad and Wash
ington streets, there being pesent nnm
bere to tell us tearfully “Good bye and
God bless you.” After toe train left toe
city we were counted and were found to
number fifteen well armed men. We chose
our leader by acclamation, and the unani
mous choice, fell on one who already bore
the scars of battle—gained in the hard
though fruitless struggle for Southern
independence. A South Carolinian born,
he naturally felt a deeper interest in toe
expedition which the party was to under
take than one who did not snstain toe
same relation, and knowing this we felt
that we could not do wiser than to make
him onr Lieutenant.
Nothing of interest occurred until we
reached the vicinity of Pine House, where
it was ominously whispered that a bar of
iron had been placed across toe track to
obstruct or injure the train. Then it was
that the “Georgia Tigers” sprang to their
guns and cautiously peered from toe win
dows of the car in order to anticipate any
attack that might be made by aggressive
parties. The train, however, passed quiet
ly along without hindrance and we were
forced to the conclusion that the whis
per was a false alarm.
Oub Arrival.
When we arrived at Ridge Spring w®
found the place alive with armed men-
Numbers were at the depot to see us a
light, and as we stepped to the ground
we were greeted with earth-shaking yells
of “Hurrah for Georgia” and “Hurrah for
the Democrats,” to which we responded
with a hearty good will. Our leader then
announced to the South Carolinians as
sembled the object of our visit, which
was to assist, not lead them in their anti
cipated trouble with the negroes. “We,
said he, will not act without your co
operation.”
The Beginning of the Trouble.
We learned in toe course of the even
g that on the previous night the negroes
liad assembled in large numbers at Ridge
Spring and had used very insulting lan
guage toward the whites, and had made
many threats relative to their lives and
property. As the whites were very ins
ferior in point of number, no effort was
made to disperse the blacks. They car
onsed and revelled in the essence of the
Civil Rights bill until the night neared
its end. They promised to return on the
ensuing night (Tuesday), with increased
numbers, to “whip out” the whites.
The Whites Prepare.
Such carryings on and such insulting
threats exasperated the Sonth Caroli
nians, and they determined forthwith to
meet the issue fairly and squarely. They
sent to Augusta for arms and ammuni
tion, and congregated in considerable
numbers at the Ridge. When our party
arrived the town was quite warlike, in its
appearance. Here and yonder stood
groups of men, all armed—some with
shot guns, some with muskets, some with
rifles, and some with pistols and knives.
The spirit of determination was expressed
in their faces, and that they were ready
and anxious to wipe out the many insults
and indignities that have been forced
upon them in the last few years was very
evident. The planters say that they do
not believe it is toe desire or the inten
tion of a great many of the negroes to
molest or in any way displease the white
people of South Carolina. The difficulty
is with the Radical white and black poli
ticians. They go about the country and
make violent speeches against the white
people, inciting tho negroes to open riot
and bloodshed.
An Infamous Renegade.
Several parties affirm that a white
man, whose name, as near as we can re
collect, was MeDevitt, recently made a
speech at Ridge Spring, in which he
said that the negroes could, and ought,
to whip the whites. “The fight will come,”
said he, “and when it does come, let me
advise you to divide yourselves into two
separate parties—one to fight the white
men, the others to kill the white women
and children.” Numbers have sworn to
kill MeDevitt on sight. The inhuman
and infamous wretch was on board the
train that carried the Augusta party to
Ridge Spring, though it was not known
to the members of the party. Henry
Smith, colored, is another who has used
his influence against the whites. The
tone of his speeches would rank them
with that of MeDevitt in the intensity of
their ill feeling toward the white people.
This delectable gentleman lives at Ridge
Spring, though he has not been at home
dining the last day or two. He has gone
to Columbia professedly to raise troops
to fight toe whites. The “Tigers” sear
ched every train that has passed here last
night and to-day for him, bnt in vain.
Arrest of Bowie.
Harrison Bowie, said to be from Au
gusta, has also made speeches against toe
white people. This afternoon he was
taken on a warrant sworn out by a party,
charging him with attempts to disturb
the public peace, from the 5£ o’clock
train. As we entered toe train he was
seated in the ladies’ car reading a pam
phlet. He was a little wayward at first,
but as five or six persuasive pistols and
guns* along whose barrels glanced flash
ing, angry eyes, covered him, he thought
better of the matter and yielded. When
he was pulled off the car it was with diffi
culty that he was kept from being shot.
His father, who does not seem to be at
all antiquated, rushed up, exclaiming:
“That is my son, what do you mean to
do with him ? The answer he received
was a gleaming pistol in the hand of a
“Georgia Tigeu” held right in his face.
He was only saved by being dragged out
of the crowd by some white men, who did
not wish to see him shot. Harrison Bowie
was very much frightened and certainly
did not relish “the situation,” A bond
of one thousand dollars to keep toe peace
was required of him, and failing to give
this he was sent to the Lexington jail.
He would have been kept at the Ridge,
but fears were entertained that he might
be shot before morning—and hence to
save him he was sent to Lexington
The Negroes Afraid and Promise to Give
Up their Arms,
South Carolina negroes are deathly
afraid of Georgia white men, and know
ing that there was a party at the Ridge
from Augusta who answered to toe appel
lation of “Georgia Tigers,” and also know
ing that the South Carolinians were all
thoroughly armed and ready for the fray,
they (those near Ridge Spring) have
consented to bring in all their arms and
have them stacked at the Ridge by 12^n.,
to-morrow. Onr party, now covered
with glory, will leave for Augusta to mor
row morning at six o’clock.
The Number or Msx at the Ridge.
Companies of men would come in
from all quarters, and it is estimated tW.
at no time while he were at the Ridge
Spring were there less than two hundred
well armed and determined men. At
Batesville, ten miles beyond, there were
as many,] and at other places more. All
this goes to show that toe white people
of South Carolana are in earnest when
they say that they have stood as much as
they intend to stand from the negroes
and white Radicals, backed up by an in
famous government They will
Free South Carolina, or Go Dows With
SnG
As for ourself, we do not think that
there is any serious cause for alarm on
the part of toe whites in toe neighborhood
of Ridge Spring. Negroes are naturally
great cowards, and in this part of the
country theyjhave been terribly frighten
■ ed by the developments of tbs last two
j days. Some have come iu to intercede
for mercy already, and all we have seen
are disposed, professedly, to behave them
selves in the future. But our epistle is
getting long, so we will close. If it is
convenient, we will give yon some of the
minor incidents to-morrow.
Leonard.
Putting off Happiness.
No one can settle down in a European
city or village, says Dr. Holland, and
observe toe laboring classes, without no
ticing a great difference between their
aspirations, ambitions and habits, and
those of ^responding classes in this
country. The European expects always
to be a tenant; toe American intends be
fore be dies to own the honse he lives in.
If city prices forbid this, he goes to the
suburbs for his home. The European
knows that life and labor are cheap, and
that he cannot hope to win by them the
wealth which will realize for him the
■dream of future ease; the American finds
his labor dear, and its rewards company
lively bountiful, so that his dream of
wealth is a rational one. He, therefore,
denies himself, works early and late, and
bends his energies, and directs those of
his family into profitable channels, all for
the great good that beckons him on from
the far-off, golden future.
The typical American never lives in
the present If he induges in a recrea
tion, it is purely for health’s sake, and at
long intervals, or in great emergencies.
He does not waste money on pleasure, and
does not approve of those who do so. He
lives in a constant fever of hope and ex
pectation, or grows sour with hope de
ferred or blank disappointment J Out of it
all grows the worship of wealth and that
demoralization which results in unscru
pulousness concerning the methods of its
acquirement. So America presents the
anomaly cf a laboring class with unprece
dented prosperity and privileges, and un
exampled discontent and discomfort
There is surely something better than
this. There is something better than a
live-long sacrifice of content and enjoy
ment for a possible wealth, which, how
ever, may never be acquired, and which
has not the power, when won, to yield its
holder the boon which he expects it to
purchase. To withhold from toe frugal
wife the gown which she desires, to deny
her the journey which would do so much
to break up the monotony of her home-
life, to rear children in mean ways, to
shut away from the family life a thousand
social pleasures, to relinquish all amuse
ments that have a cost attached to them,
for wealth which may or may not come
when the family life is broken up forever
—surely this is neither sound enterprise
nor wise economy. We would not have
the American laborer, farmer and mechan
ic become improvident, but we would
very much like to see them happier than
they are, by resort to the daily social en-
rments which are always ready to their
ad. Nature is strong in the young,
and they will have society and play of
some sort. It should remain strong in
toe old, and does remain strong in them,
until it is expelled by the absoxbing and
subordinating passion for gain.
“Giving In.”—It is better to yield a
little than quarrel a great deal. The hab
it of standing up, as people call it, for
their (little) lights, is one of toe most
disagreeable and undignified in toe world.
Life is too short for the perpetual bicker
ing which attends such a disposition;
and unless a very momentous affair in
deed, where other people's olaims and
interests are involved, it is a question if
it is not wiser, happier and more prudent
to yield somewhat of our precious rights
than squabble to maintain them. True
wisdom is first pure, then peaceable and
gentle.
Alabama Radical Convention.
Montgomery, August 21.—The Repub
lican convention elected L. E. Parsons
President and nominated Peters, Safford
Felder for the Supreme Court, Lewis for
Governor, McKinsley for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Bingham for Treasurer, N. H.
Rice for Secretary of State, Foster for
Superintendent of Instruction, and Tam
er for Attorney General.
There have been many angry scenes in
the convention. Busteed and White are
leaders of the factions in the contest for
Congressman at large and over a plat
form.
Lived it Down.—An honest blacksmith
was once grossly insulted and his charac-*
ter infamously defamed. Friends advis
ed him to seek redress by means of law,
but to one and all he replied, “No; I
will go to my forge and there in six
months I will have worked out such a
character and earned such a name as all
the judges, law courts and lawyers in the
world could not give me.” He was right.
It is by honest labor, manly courage, and
a conscience void of offence, that we
assert our true dignity and prove our
honesty and respectability.
Very Good.
This year, at least, the Southern cot
ton States have shown their capacity to
produce food for their own consumption,
man and beast. The crop is safe, for it
is made, and it is more than ample. The
fact marks an era in our material history.
It is the starting point of agricultural in
dependence and a general prosperity. It
will save these States fifty million dollars
of expenditure for living. When we re
fleet that the cotton crop for the last sev
eral years has sold from two hundred and
fifty to two hundred and seventy millions
per annum, and that out of that $50,000,
000 had to be abstracted for bread, some
idea may be formed of the value of the
present grain crop. It is a lesson that
has taken long years to teach the South*
em farmer, and this result should make
the lesson a permanent one. We are
greatly indebted to the grange influence
for the teaching.—Mobile Register.
The Fate of old Women Amoif tho
Coloado River Xa dians.
The life of an Indian maiden is blithe
and merry for a few yeatf, but when she
becomes a wife she is soon broken down
with the pains of motherhood and the
heaw labors which fall to her lot, and she
soon becomes wrinkled, garrulous, cross,
scolding, in fact an old hag. Of course
such hags are not pleasant company in
toe belief of toe Numa such old hags grow
uglier and meaner until they dry up and
whirl winds carry them away, when they
are transformed into witches; and lest
such a fate should befall old women, they
are taught that it is toeir duty to die
when they are no longer needed, and if
they do not die by natural means in rear
sonable time, they must commit suicide.
This they seem very willing to do rather
than to meet that terrible fate of being
transformed into witches and being com
pelled to live in snake skins, and wriggle
about among the rocks, their only delight
being to repeat the words of passers-by
in mockery. I once saw three old women
thus voluntarily starving themselves. I
rode up to what was almost- a deserted
camp, the three old women only remain
ing, sitting by toe fire and intently gaz
ing into toe embers. They seemed to
heed not my approach, but sat there mum
bling and groaning until they rose, each
dragging up her weight with a staff and
then they joined in sidewise, phuffling,
tottering, senile dance around the Are,
propped np by their staffs, and singing
a doleful song. Having finished which,
they sat again on their heels and gazed
into the fire, and I rode away. On com
ing to the new camp of the tribe the next
day, and inquiring of Chui-or-au-um peak,
their chief, why these women we left behind
and what they were doing, I waa inform
ed they had determined to commit suicide,
fearing lest they should be transformed
into witches.
A Prediction.
Hon. Fernando Wood was lately
viewed by the Saratoga corrspondent of
the New York Sun inrelation to tosjnej.
on toe political situation rn toe Rejato
can camp. It wiil be found m toe end
that Mr. Wood's views are about ngit,
for it is of no use to deny that the sixty
thousand office holders have got toe rert
of the party under their thumb. The re
porter, “Eli Perkins,’ says: ..
Yesterday Wash McLean, of Cincinnati
and Fernando Wood were talking on toe
balcony of toe States about toe next Presi
dential campaign. ,.
“Is Grant working for toe Democratic
nomination, Mr. Wood? I asked.
“No, sir; Grant is working for the^re
publican nomination,’’ replied Mr. Mood.
“The Democratic party will never go outr
side again for a Presidential candidate. It
will ran a dog before it will run General
Grant.” , . ,
“What is General Grant doing?
“He is ‘laving his pipes’ for a third
nomination by toe Republican party, and
he'll be nominated, too. I have private
means of knowing that Grant holds the
reins in his own hands, and that the mat
ters are being fixed so as to compel his
renomination.”
“Will other Republican candidates be
in toe field?” ....
“Yes,” replied Mr. Wood, “but they
will be Weak, no one being strong enough
to cope with Grant, and by convention
time every candidate will be whipped in
to the traces and Grant will be nomina
ted. I know what I am talking about,
and you see if it doesn’t come true.
Significant.
The Western Press dispatches say
that at the State convention of toe Penn
sylvania Radicals at Harrisburg, on
Wednesday, after the nomination had
been made and a platform adopted,
resolution endorsing General Grant
toe event of his candidacy for a third
term was voted down with load shouts
of disapproval.” Grant has evidently
lost his grip in Pennsylvania. This is
rank treason, flat rebellion, and will wake
np toe pap suckers with a vengeance.
As toe first formal response by Grant’s
, own people to his proposed candidacy
for another term, it is indeed significant.
The Bond Ring at Work.
j A citizen of Savannah, at present on a
visit North, writes us as follows from
New York:
“Before I left Saratoga Springs I hap
pened to be in company with some bank
ers at the Clarendon who hold some of
the fraudulent Bullock and Kimball Rail
road bonds, and heard them say that
they were determined to have toe State
recognize them if it costs half million of
dollars. They stated that two hundred
thousand dollars of that amount is alrea
dy made np, and that if more is required
to buy up the Legislature it mil be forth
coming. I am satisfied these men mean
business, and that they have their agents
now in Georgia who are attending to then-
bond interests, and who have engaged
several broken down politicians, lawyers
and defunct judges to forward their
; scheme. So you may rely upon it, the
| money market will be easier this winter
in Georgia, particularly at Atlanta. Be
I assured if you do not put honest men in
the Legislature these “innocent holders”
will carry their point. I think I can put
my hand upon some of the men in Geor
gia who are engaged in this dishonest
work, and when I return to Savannah I
will have a talk with you on the snb
jeck"
Will not the tax payers of Georgia see
to it that only good and true men—men
who can be relied on to vote for the Con
stitutional Amendment forever prohibi
ting the recognition of the eight millions
of bonds fraudulently and illegally issned
by toe Bullock banditti, are sent to rep
resent them in the Legislature this win
ter? Now is the time for the people to
speak through their primary meetings,
and to make their will in this matter
potent and effective by sending men to
the Legislature in whose integrity they
can implicitly rely.
Che Great Orloff Diamond.
A writer, speaking of the Orloff dia
mond, says: “We beheld the scepter
of all the Russias tipped by toe Orloff
diamond. Of course we were disappoint
ed. The scepter resembles a gold poker,
and toe ‘mountain of light’ which we had
pictured to ourselves as big as a walnut,
with a haze of glory surrounding it, was
no bigger than a hazel nut. But for all
that it was brilliant, clear and beautiful.
It is slightly flat in front and pointed
behind, and perfectly symmetrical in
shape. It is said to have a slight yellow
hue, but that was not perceptible in the
somewhat obscure chamber. Many are
toe histories attached to this stone. Some
believe it to have been part cf an immense
brilliant which was cut into three ; but
the most likely supposition appears to be
that it formed the eye of an idol, and was
stolen from a temple near Trichinopoly.
It was sold, resold and sold again, each
time at a higher rate, and refused by
Catharine on account of its enormous
price. It waS ibought at last by Prince
Potemkin, and presented by him to his
royal mistress, the price paid to the ven
der—an Armenian merchant of the name
of Sazareff—being 450,000 silver ru
bles, a life annuity of 2,000, and a patent
of nobility. The Orloff diamond weighs
a little above eight carats more than toe
Koh-i-noor before it was cut, bnt the
Russian diamond has a slight flaw, and
toe English brilliant is considered to be
the most valuable.”
SIMMONS'
The New York Democratic Oaw—Hon
will meet at Syracuse Hiffi—bwr Iff
An Unwholesome Season.
The closing days of winter and the
early days of spring are very trying to
the feeble and sensitive and are apt to affect
unpleasantly even the more robust and
vigorous. Nothing can be more uncon
genial to toe nerves or more depressing
to the spirits than damp, chilling winds,
fogs and cold rains, and of such unwel
come visitors we have a superabundance
at this season. Common prudence sug
gests, therefore, toe propriety of fortify
ing toe system against these insidious
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experience of more than a quarter of a
century points to Hostetter’s Stomach
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what is required to meet and overcome
toe unhealthy elements now present in
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son makes upon toe system and the con
stitution, can be readily acquired by tak
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spring months. The nature of this cele
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The Memphis
the esse when it says: “The talk'about a
general war of races is too preposterous
to receive serious attention. Neither
nee wants that; bat the time seems fully
to have come when the question most bis
peaceably settled at the polle whether the
whites are to rule or the negroes mill the
Sovihem States.” <
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The Bamboo Tree.
Probably this tree subserves more pro
poses of usefulness than any other in the
whole range of natnre. The Indian ob
tains from it a part of his food, many of
his household utensils, and a wood at
once lighter and capable of bearing g-reat-
er strains than heavier timber of the same
size. Besides, in expeditions in the tro
pics under the rays of a vertical sun,
bamboo trunks have more than once been
•used as barrels, in which water much
purer than could be preserved in vessels
of any other kind, is fresh for the crew.
On the western coast of Southern Asia,
the bambo furnishes all the materials for
toe construction of houses, at once pleas
ant, substantial and preferable to stone,
which toe frequently .recurring earth
quakes bring down upon the heads of the
owners. The fact that toe bamboo is
hollow has made it eminently useful for a
variety of purposes—it serves as a mea
sure for liquids, and if fitted with a lid
and a bottom, trunks and barrels are
quite frequently made of it. Even small
boats very often are made of toe largest
tranks, by strengthening them with
strips of other wood where needed. In
one day they obtain toe height of several
feet, and with the aid of a microsope their
development can be easily watched. But
the most remarkable feature about toe
bamboo is their blossoming. With all
this rapidity of growth they bloom only
twice in a century, the flower appearing
at the end of fifty years. Like other
grasses, they die after having borne seed.
The highest of toe bamboo is the Sammot.
In tracts where it grows in the greatest
perfection, it sometimes rises to the
height of one hundred feet, with a stem
only eighteen inches in diameter at the
base. The wood itself is only an inch in
thickness.
London's Poverty.
A London correspondent of toe Cin
cinnati Enquirer says: “Every day I
meet the most pitiable looking objects,
imploring charity only by there looks,
for they dare not reach forth a hand.
Begging seems to be a poor investment
here. They don’t get rich and retire
like they do in America. I never saw
such squalor and wretchedness in my
lifetime in America as I can see in Lon
don streets in one day. I don’t like the
extremes here. Here the papers are
howling because the government does
not expend more money in buying paint
ings for the national art gallery, while
under the very shadows of that magnifi
cent edifice people are writhing in pover
ty. Another thing that strikes me are
toe innumerable charitable institutions I
see on every band, all supported by pri
vate charity. They have asylums for
cripples, blind, the aged and the orphans.
But there is no charity in English law
like there is in the Ohio statutes. These
people are cared for here only when they
cannot care for themselves, and often
not then; while the broad humanity of
onr law gathers toe young under shelter
—not merely to shelter, but to educate
and nurture into manhood and woman
hood and useful citizenship. The sub
jects of English charity go from the
asylums to the graveyards, while they
in our country go from this kindly shelter
into active and useful life, and repay an
hnndrsd-fold the money expended for
their comfort by the state.”
v Second District
The Democrats of the Second Congres
sional District met at Albany yesterday
mad nominated a candidate. The follow*
ing dispatch shows the result:
Albany, Ga., August 20.—Capt ^V- E.
Smith was nominated on the thurtietc
ballot Entire harmony prevail* A
will be held to-night Hon.
Jaa. I*. Seward is expected to apeak
the Vmocncj.