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THE UNION & RECORDER.
Old
‘Southern Recorder'’ and “Federal Union”
[consolidated.]
MILLED GE VIL LB, 04:
Tnesday, Augrust 1, 1876.
National Democratic Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT:
SAMUEL J. TILDEN,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT:
T. A. HENDRICKS,
OF INDIANA.
The Democratic State Corjventioij
Meets in Atlanta to morrow (2d)
to nominate a candidate for Govern-*
or and select Presidential Electors.
The Augusta Chronicle ib Senti
nel sums up the vote as follows: Col
quitt 134, Johnson 88, James G,
Reese 2, Warner 4, McIntyre 8, Un
derwood 2, uninstructed 94.
NO CONVENTION
In fifty years;—no Convention for
ever, unless we elect pledged Sena
tors. If you want a Convention,
make your new Senators jiledge to
vote for Mr. Candler's bill of last
legislature, or its equivalent, and if
they vote falsely to their pledges,
punish them for it when they return
home, for they aro not responsible
at the ballot-box in. twelve years-,
which is the same as never. Senators
elected for four years and the three
counties of each District taking it
‘•time about, makes it twelve years
before it comes again to the county
whose Senator is elected in 1876
Georgia is at the mercy of three or
four false Seratois, if there should
be such in the next Legislature.
Make your new Senators pledge for
Convention, unconditionally, and
make them stand to it.
The States in which elections will
be held prior to the Presidential con
tost, with their several dates, are
these: August 7, Alabama; Septem
ber 4, Arkansas; September 5, Ver
mont; September 11, Maine; Octo
ber 4, Georgia; Oct.ob.-i 10, Colorado,
Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia; No
vember (!, Louisiana.
Tun Hamburg Riot.— A friend
writing ns from New York, says:
“Politics aro very quiet hero as
yet, but the Republicans make a
great deal of capital cf (he Hamburg
affair. They say if lire Democrats
get into power the r. eg roes will all
be killed. I do hope the white peo
pie will let the r.<gioes alone here
after Southern outrages are the
only hope of the Republicans."
Don’t (lie Northern people kiwyw
that where the Deiio-cvats are in
power the negroes are protected,
and that these riots occai only in
Stat s that me under radical rule?
Planters tyolel.
Read the advertisement in this
paper of the above named popular
Hotel of Savannah, Ga The proprie
tor, Mr. A. E. Carr, was formerly
the proprietor of Magnolia House of
Darien, Ga, and doubtless will.be
remembered by many of onr readers
who havo stopped with him at that
place. Mr. Carr has had charge of
the Planters Hotel not quite one
year, and notwithstanding the un
usually dull season, ho lias made
many improvements in the house and
built up a patronage equal to any
Hotel in that city. This Hotel is
centrally located, and is convenient
for persons visiting Savannah on
business. The price of board suits
the times being only $2.00 per day
with room.
Airs. M. E. Geary, proprietor of
the hotel at*McItae, Telfair county,
raised a watermelon in her vegetable
garden, this season which weighed
37 lb. The writer luul the pleasure
of eating a slice or two of it while
stopping there one day last week.
This melon was grown on thin pine
land, which shows what industry and
good caltmo will do. Do likewise
neighbor, and give a slice to
Traveler.
For the Union & Recorder
TO THE FARMERS OF GEORGE}.
Raise the price of cotton ! Stop
burdening yourselves, and your wid
ows and children if yon die, by fhe
endless “advancing" food, tools,
Lorsee aud money to your laborers!
SSiop glutting the cotton market
every Fall by the rush of l (borer’s
cotton before Christinas, in competi
tion with your own!
Ten miserable years’ mistakes are
gone and now the time, is come for
new contracts of labor, or lease.
Farmers, the rerneuy is in your own
hand. We must change our system.
No more “crop shares"—no more
“fourths," or “thirds,” or “halves.”
Away with the “metayer” system of
“shares." It loads the market with
laborer's cotton in conflict with your
own, thus mining the price of both,
and compelling you to keep under
strain all next year to “advance” for
the laborers to buy corn and meat,
and everything else for them. This
keeps the laborers in a beggarly, de
pendent state, and ciushes the farm
ers. We ruin our own market, and
farmer and laborer both live at the
mercy of the merchant. Now is the
time to cure all this by wise contracts
for next year, or next four years and
eleven months.
Take rents in “specific cotton and
cotton seed,' and by special contract
compel Jood culture on balance of
the lands. This is the way to full
corn cribs, full smoke houses, inde?
pendent Taborers and tenants, and a
high price for cotton. This is the
road for a happy South !
But be careful not to make “five
year" leases ; four years and eleven
months will do. If you say “five
years," the tenant, or his creditor,
and the Sheriff, can sell out the lease,
and put a new tenant on yon, against
your will. A new law got through
the last legislature silently on this
K int to yonr great danger. Better
ik out, or you will lose your rent,
nd lose your tenant. Five years is
HOW “a term for years ’ levyable by
the Sheriff for tenant's debt -, so do
not say “five years" in your leases—
«. four years eleven months.
^ ’ Lookahead.
Tfye Democratic aijd Republican Idea of tlje
Unioij aijd Goverijnjent Contrasted.
The universal language, in 1787,
after the adoption of the present
Constitution, was, in allusion to it:
“The Federal Constitution,’’ and all
the Lexicographers defined “Federal”
to be confederate, relating to a league.
In a letter to Sir Edward Fewen-
ham, dated the 20th of July, 1788,
General Washington said the new
government was a “Confederated
Government." In his first speech to
Congress, in 1789, he hoped the Sen
ate wonld at all times, co-operate in
every measure which may tend to
promote the welfare of this confeder
ated Republic.
* Mr. Madison invariably spoke and
wrote of the Constitution, as a “Fed
eral Constitution.” He enumerated
all the powers of sovereignty as exis
ting under the articles of Confedera
tion and declared of the new Consti
tution : “The proposed change does
not enlarge the powers (of Congress)
it only substitutes a more effectual
mode of administering them.”
Some of the States (among them
Virginia and New York,) expressly
declared that the powers granted
should be resumed whenever neces
sary to their happiness and wellbeing.
Were itneces-mry, we could show that
all the State Conventions, which were
held to ratify the Constitution, recog
nized the new Constitution as a “Fed
eral Constitution”—as “a compact”
between the States, just as the old
articles of Confederation, constitu
ted a compact between them. The
leading and controlling speakers in
all the Conventions, spoke of it as
the “Federal Constitution," the “Fed
eral Government,” and some styled
it simply “The Confederacy.”
Mr. VVebster was said to have been
at one period of his life quite latitu-
dinarian in his views. In a speech
before the supreme Court in 1839 he
said: “I am not prepared to say
that the States have no national sov
ereignty.”
Again ho said : “The law of es
cheats which exists in all the States,
is also the exercise of a great sover
eign power.”
Again he said: “The States of this
Union, as States, are subject to all
the voluntary and customary 1 iws
of nations."
The Supreme Court declared:
“They aro Sovereign States.” Again,
the court said that “the same law of
comity prevails among the several
sovereignties of this Union.”
Subsequently, Mr. Webster said,
in a speech made by him at Capon
To the Friends of Gov. Johijson.
Editors Union <k Recorder—
If the returns of the primary
meetings show that, under the cir
cumstances, Gen. Colquitt is the
popular candidate for Governor, this
| manifestation of popular sentiment
is in no way di-oaraging to Gov.
Johnson. Everybody knows his
ability, honesty and high stai- -.;an
ship and everybody award- : him
the credit of being to-day, oi t ihe
greatest, purest and best nmn of
Georgia. Now, my proposition is
this, that as the office of Governor
of Georgia, under present circum
stances is bnt a subordinate position,
I proposo that Gov. Johnson with
draw his name from the Gubernato
rial Convention. Then let every
man of all parties unite and place
him soon where ho can better serve
us; that is to say, in the U. S. Sen
ate. I ask any candid man conld
he not do more for Georgia in the
U. S. Senate, than he with, all his
talents, could do for us as Governor
of Georgia—as such he would be
unknown ; bnt as Senator the whole
South wonld be represented before
the nation and the world. Then
his reputation would be national
and universal, not local. He is too
great and too good a man to be put
in a subordinate place. The great
field of Federal politics requires
him—not one State. Let Johnson
retire from the petty contest for
Governor and be what all of us de
sire, a U. S. Senator.
One who Voted fob Colquitt.
We think he conld do more for
Georgia as Governor.—Ed.
Written for the Union Sc Recorder.
MUSIC, MATHEMATICS AND
MIND.
The effect of mnsic upon the mind
has been felt and acknowledged in
every age of the world. No one,
who has listened to its varied strains,
is unaware of its power, and the emo
tions are gay, or serious, solemn,
plaintive, tender or comical, accord
ing to their character.
Its connection with mathematics is
not so evident to those who have not
studied the art, or acquainted them
selves with its scientific characteris
tics. But for the equipollent forces,
the spheres in our solar system,
would shoot wildly from their orbits,
and with the sun and comets would
soon terrifically demonstrate “the
rush of matter and the crush of
worlds ” Forces of a very different
character are essential to the pro
Springs, in Virginia, on the 28th of i duction of harmony, or melody, viz :
June, 1851, “I have not hesitated to j Tones and rhythm. The first have
say, and I repeat that if the northern
States refuse willfully and deliber
ately, to carry into effect that part
of the Constitution which respects
restoration of fngitive slaves, and
Congress provides no remedy, the
South wonld no longer be bound by
the compart. A bargain cannot tie
broken on one side and still bind
the other side.”
Even as late as 18G0, the Senate
of the United States declared, by
resolution, that the States were “in
dependent sovereignties”—that the
government was “Federal and found
ed on compact.” This is only a
small fraction of proof that we
could produce to show, that fmw.
the 4th of July, V? 7G, to the elec
tion of Wr. Lincoln in 1860, each
tlie States of the American Union
was recognized us a free, sovereign
and independent State.
At what time then, and when,
where, aud under what circumstances
did the States of this Uniou, take
oft' their robes of sovereignty and lay
thorn as trophies at the feet of the
consolidationists. We defy any man,
North or South, to furnish the proof
that any State had heaped on the
souls of its people, a curse so bitter
and atrocious. Wo defy any central
ist to bring forward a name, from
northern boundaries, so herculean in
mental power, so deeply versed in
political science as Daniel Webster,
to offset his matured convictions
which wo have briefiy quoted above.
Mr. Webster was a sentinel who
kept guard over the Constitution of
hie country and the liberties of the
people. It was his regard for jus
tice, for the rights of all, that made
his fanatic people close in his face,
tho door of Faneuial Hall, where his
eloquence had so often shaped to
mortal sense a thousand glories and
immortal thoughts for the public
good.
Referring to the duty of his peo.-
ple to abide by tho compact on the
slavery question, he said in his Vir
ginia speech : “It is written in the
Constitution.”
He added: “I am as ready to
fight and fall for the Constitutional
rights of Virginia, as I am for those
of Massachusetts.”
These grand and patriotic words,
and acts, subsequently, in accord
ance with them, recoiled upon his
noble brow and his political fortunes
at home, for they fell upon the frosty
hearts of fanatics, and they doomed
him to the sacrifice of political cru
cifixion. But his fame outlives
their hate, and as
‘•The Gun'* last lay
Hangs o’or the sen, a fleece of lire sin! ame
liiyst’’
so will time encircle his name with
the bright halo of patriotic purity
and nobility. We have now made
good our purpose to show the ab-i
surdity of the declaration in the Cin
cinnati Platform of the Republican
party, that the United States is a
nation and not a leaguo. To avoid
prolixity (for we desire that our ar
ticles may be read) we defer until
our next issue the striking contrast
between the Republican and Demo
cratic platforms on this vital ques
tion.
THE BILL OPENS.
A Serenade to Gen. Oolqnitt
Tnesday Night.
Atlanta Constitution 30th
The “ball” will be opened next
week on Tuesday night, by a sere
nade to Gen. Colquitt, at the Kimball
house.
Gen- Colquitt, Gov. Smith and
Hon. Thos. Hardeman, Hon. Mil-
ton Candler, Col. Hester, Col. Ba-
senger, Col. Wofford, Col. Nichols
Col. Snead and other distinguished
speakers will entertain the assein
blage. Two brass bands have been
engaged. The Kimball bouse will
be brilliantly illuminated, and a
grand affair may be expected. It is
possible that Gen. Gordon, and Hon.
B. H. Hill will both be present Mr.
Hill is due in Athens next week, and
an effort will be made to havo him on
hand.
The parlors, halls and corridors
up stairs will be reserved for ladies,
the committee, speakers and guests
of the house. Let everybody turn
out and let the state see the masses
of Fulton’s democracy.
Fuller details will be given on
Tuesday morning.
Exactly! That’s the way to manu-
factnre enthusiasm for favorites and
swallow country dolcgt'ff.
their duration, their space and vol
ume. Their magnitudes of tirao,
musical literateurs speak of as hav
ing their geometrical progression,
ami they are expressible in fraction®,
which exhibit in numbers, the parts
of a unit of time which each bar con
tains. Tones in space, aro magni
tudes of sound, and their distances
from cac'u other, that is between any
two sounds, are regulated by the
nicest mathematical divisions.
Any one who has listened and ob
served, moat have seen the necessity
of due proportions between the voices
and the instruments, between tho
keys and the chords to produce such
vivA-.-.-iy and hair .my as the ear
lights to hear ami the heart to sjm-
pathizo with.
It is evident, then, that in :ufc-
touching music is founded u; the
nicest mathematical proportion* and
rules; perhaps I should say rules cf
similar and equal exactitude. For
one might be a good composer of
music with a slim acquaintance, or
no acquaintance at all, with mathe
matical science, just as one might be
able to write rhetorically who had
not even read tho pages of Lord
Karnes or Mr. Blair. But our ob
ject is not to enter into a labored
disquisition upon the connection be
tween music and one of the knottiest
branches of science. It is rather to
treat of the influence of mnsic upon
tho human miDd. Euclid, called the
father of Mathematics, whose ele
ments have never been surpassed,
turned from the severity of his geo
metrical analyises, to write a treatise
on the divine art of music. He was
the first writer who taught the math
ematical doctrine of sounds.
In tho third chapter of Genesis,
and before the flood, we aro told that
Jubal, the son of Samuel, w as the
brother of all such as handle the
harp and organ. We read, also, of
Moses’ triumphal song after the pas
sage of tho Red Sea by the Israelites
and on the same occasion, Miriam,
the prophetess, and sister of Aaron,
“took a timbral in her hand, and all
the women went out after her with
timbrels and with dances and Miriam
answered them: “Sing ye to the
Lord, for he has triumphed glori
ously; the horse and his rider hath
ho drawn into the sea.”
How fervid, soul-touching and sub
lime those songs must have been,
there on the shore of that miraculous
sea. They must have thrilled the
bodies, as well as the souls, of those
chosen people of God as if by a
mysterious incantation. No plash
of boat had been heard in crossing
over from tho oppressor’* land;
their dresses were not dripping with
water, nor wore their sandals bedrag
gled with mud. The spirit of their
God had moved over the waters and
a dry pathway was opened unto their
feet. Bright and silvery the moon
beams rested over the quiet sea when
it bad closed over their pursuing ene
mies. They were safe; their souls
were full of gratitude, and it burst
forth in those triumphal songs of
praise and prayer. Who can esti
mate the happy effects of those
strains upon their spirits. The deep
sorrows of the past were washed
from them by the showers of those
tender and exalting strains, songs of
gratitude to their Heavenlv Father.
8.
(Concluded next week.)
VBB GBOXLGXA P&S8S.
Let the friends of a Constitutional
Convention see to it, that the Sena
tors to be elected this year are in
structed. If Convention is defeated
it will be by the Senate.
It is positively asserted that if
Gee. Colquitt is nominated for Gov
ernor, Judge A. R. Wright of Rome
will be an independent candidate. We
earnestly hope that such a condition
of things will not be brought about
We regret to learn that a fire oc
curred at Findlay’s Foundry in Ma
con, on Friday morning, destroying
the wooden buildings belonging to
these extensive works. While the
loss was heavy, wo are glad to learn
it has not embarassed the Messrs-
Findlays as they announce their read
iness to fill all orders as heretofore.
The Atlanta district meeting of
the Methodist church assembled at
Stone Mountain, Thursday. Rev. J.
E. Evans, presiding elder, presided.
Mr. R. J. Redding was elected sec
retary, and G. W. Martin, assistant
secretary.
Augusta, Ga., July 26.—Two ne
groes stopped Mr. Delph, a mers
chant of this city, on the highway, 9
miles from Augusta, and leveled
their guns at him, and made him
give up his money and watch.
The contest in the third congress
sional district is virtually over, ac
cording to the figures presented in
the Americus Republican. Gen.
Cook has carried Macon, Snmter,
Stewart, Coffee, Dooly, Telfair and
Lee counties—twenty delegates out
of thirty-six. Col. Kibbee has car
ried Pulaski, Wilcox, Dodge and
Montgomery; eight delegates. Schley,
Webster and Taylor have not been
heard from, but the Republican be
lieves Gen. Cook will get enough
delegates from those counties to give
him two-thirds of the convention.
Mr. James M. Smith, of Ogle
thorpe county, on a ten acre field
grew seven hundred and eighty
bushels of oats, of the rust proof va
riety. There was an orchard in part
of the field and a portion of tho land
was considerably waebed.
Telegraph <6 Messenger, 28th nit:
Ater a lingering illness of ten days
Mrs. Caroline Louisa Blackshear, rel
ict of the late Janies Blackshear,
Esq, expired at the advanced ago of
a few days more than three score and
ten.
The deceased was a daughter of
of the late Gen. John Floyd, and her
husband a son of tho late Gen. David
Blackshear, two distinguished names
inseperably associated with the early
history of Georgia.
She was a most estimable and
Christainly woman, and possessed,
both by inheritance and culture, a
high order of intellect and those love
ly virtues and graceful accomplish-
moncs that endeared her through a
long life to all that knew her.
Sho had been in declining health
for three years, but bore her suffer
ings with a Christain faith, believing
on earth “that her Redeemer liveth,
and that her soul should see God."
Wrek of Prayer —The week be-
gining on the 4th inst. will be ob
served by tbw» MotWlitA. CYiurUh as
a week of prayer, in accordance with
{ tLa nsu 1 recommendation of the
College of Bishops.
j If the people of Georgia desire a
Constitutional Convention they
should look after their legislators,
particularly the new Senators. The
light against the convention will be
made in the Senate.—Sav. News.
Decatur enjoyed a cantata recent
ly which was under the direction of
Miss Nora V. Harrison, one of the
most accomplished musicians in the
South.
The Valdosta Times says that
Lowndes county will probably sup
port Hon. H. G. Turner, of Brooks, as
a candidate for Congress in the Sixth
District
The same paper, alluding to the
Governorship, has this: “Though
there is no chance for Col. McIntyre
this time, yet the eonfidencc thus ex
pressed, where he is best known, is
complimentary to that gentleman.
Would that Georgia could honor him
with this the greatest gift in her
power.”
Gainesville college commencement
came off last week. During the
term just closed there were 125 pu
pils ou the roll. The annual address
was delivered by Hon. H. P. Bell.
His theme was, “Whims, and their
uses in the development of our men
tal resources,” and never was a sub
ject more brilliantly handled.
Mrs Gordon, formerly of Eaton-
ton, died in Colnmbns the other
day-
A young lady of Sandersville sat
upon a horse the other day and kill
ed a squirrel with a pistol.
Griffin News: There are scores of
people who complain of having noth
ing to do, aud we have found a job
for them. The “hoppers” are all the
rage and it is said they can be driven
out like partridges. The net is set, a
crowd with a bush get behind the
“birds” and drive them along in a
hurry. This would be nice fun and
give employment to people who
have nothing to du and would do
good service to the country.
Mr. Walter D. Adair of At la a is
dead.
Mrs. Meriweather, widow of Judge
James A. Meriweather, died in Eaton
ton last Tuesday.
Watermelon syrup is getting to be
quite fashionable among enterprising
farmers.
A Western settler—The contents
of a six-shooter.
So far as respectability is concern
ed, a hog is more of a man than an
habitual drunkard.
Don't talk politics this weather—
its warming and dangerous.
Lawn dresses and lawn covered
hats are raging. Maidens all for
lawn.
At a meeting of tbo Executive
committee of Bibb county, it was re
solved that tho names of candidates
for Congress be placed beforo the
Democracy of the county, and bal
loted for on the 2Cth of August
next, and the candidate receiving the
highest number of votes cast, shall,
with the chairman of the Executive
Committee, name six delegates, who
shall represent this county at the
District Convention in Milledgeville
on the Gth of September next.
Irwinton Southerner: A few days
ago Mr. William Bntler and bis step
son, Mr. Frank McGowan, accom
panied by several young men, were
bathing in Cedar creek, in this coun
ty. Mr. McGowan plnugrd in head
foremost into the creek, and disap>
pearing from sight for a longer time
than is usual with divers, his com
panions became alarmed and com
menced searching for him, and found
him some distance from where he
plnnged in, with his head out of the
water and apparently suffering. They
removed him home and sent for Dr.
Carleton, who pronounced him hope
lessly paralyzed from concussion of
the brain. The water was only four
feet deep, and his head struck the
bottom with sufficient force to pro
duce the result He is paralyzed
from bis neck downward, and is un
able to move band or foot, but is per
fectly conscious, and can talk fluent
ly. His limbs and body are insen
sible to pain, and the pricking of the
flesh with needles and pins produces
not the slightest sensibility. The
only joint in his body which he can
move is his right shoulder, but the
arm and hand attached to it are com
pletely paralyzed.
We regret to learn that typhoid
fever is prevailing as an epidemic at
Dulnth. Mr. Collins, one of the
most thriving and energetic young
men of the place, died a week or two
since, and were are, we are informed,
twenty cases in the immediate vicini
ty of the town now.
Look oat for a Masonic dead beat,
who dings his name on hotel regis
ters as “Robert Harris, Fayetteville,
Ala.”—Constitutionalist.
Compiled for the Union Sc Recorder.
FROM WASHINGTON.
July 24.—The Senate proceeded
with Impeachment. Manager Jenckes
and Counsel Black addressed the
court.
In the House, Mr. Hill of Georgia,
from the committee on Ways and
Means reported back the Senate bill
extending to the 1st of Febuary next
the time within which lands held by
the United States under the several
acts levying direct taxes, may be re
deemed. After some discussion the
bill passed.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
Nothing of serious import has oc-
enred in the Indian war since the
last report. Generals Terry and Crook
will unite their forces as soon as
possible and then active measures
will be taken against the Indians.
The President has signed the sil
ver and army appropriation bills, al
so the resolntion removing Beaure
gard’s disabilities.
Thos J. Brady was confirmed as
second Assistant Post Master Gen
eral. All the Democrats of the com
mittee on Naval affairs have signed
the report concerning alledged
abases in the Navy, &c.
Burleigh, Repnblican, also signed
it believing it was substantially just,
but says he has no sympathy with
so much of the report as is of a par
tisan character. The minority con
sisting of. two members are prepar
ing a statement of their views upon
the subject.
A new extradition treaty is now
being negotiated between the gov
ernment of England and the United
States.
The Chairman of the Independ
ent Greenback party of Indiana saw
they will stand by Peter Cooper for
President and their own Stale Lick
et.
A man lashed to tho track of the
Central Pacific Rail Road was killed
by the train near Trucko.
FOREIGN NEWS.
There has been some fighting be
tween tho Turks and Servians.
Daring the last ten days the Turks
lost 300 killed and 560 wounded, tho
Servians is fully 2,500, with five can
non. It is stated that the Turks will
not attack until a general advance is
made along the line. Servian pros
pects are gloomy,
The prospects are good for wheat
crops in England, and generally on
the continent wheat has declined one
shilling per quarter and will proba
bly go lower.
FROM WASHINGTON.
July 25.—The only interesting
portion of the proceedings of the
House, was a personal explanation
of Mr. Lamar of Mississippi, refuting,
some unjust charge s made by thr
Washington Republican. His ex
planation was satisfactory to his
friends and as the charge had refer-
enc mainly to some apparent incon
sistency in his views from which no
injury can arise to Mr Lamar, or tlm
Democratic party, we pass over it as
of no serious importance.
In the Senate, Mr. Gordon intro
duced a bill to establish a competent
and non partisan revenue corps. Re
ferred to the committee on civil
service. Impeachment picoAoJin^s
were resnmed; Mr. Carpenter spoke
in defence. He will conclude to-mor
row.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
The prospects are not considered
good for the adjournment of Con
gress before September. The Naval
committee will give Secretary Robe
son another opportunity for his de
fence to the conclusions reached in
relation to the transactions with
Jay Cooko & Co. The hearing will
be private. The committee report
that Robeson has expended in mon
ey about $170,000,000, has used or
disposed of the material of more
than 70men-of-war, besides other ma
terial; has contracted liabilities to
several millions of dollars and has
to show only 147 vessels, 71 less than
belonged to the Navy when he took
charge of the office as Secretary of
the Navy.
FOREIGN NEWS.
July 25.—The London Telegraph’s
Vienna special says: It is asserted
that Austria has demanded immedis
ate satisfaction because of the in
fringements of neutrality by a Turk
ish man of-war at Klek.
It is rumored that General Tcher-
najiff, in an interview with l’rince
Milan, mentioned tho advisability of
an armistice.
A dispatch from Belgrade says the
Servian army under Gen. Laoh en
countered tho Turkish army at Yav-
or and was successful after a seven
hours fight. Several of the Turkish
guns were dismounted. Two other
minor Servian successes are also re
ported.
. Official dispatches from Cons‘an
tinople say a portion of the Turk
i8k army crossed tho Servian fron
tier and defeated the Servians, killing
three thousand men. It also burned
throo villages. The Turks also rout
ed the Montenegrins near Nevesinji.
FROM WASHINGTON.
July 26.—Tho Virginia contested
election case, Platt against Goode,
the sitting member, occupied mainly
the attention of the House. It went
over without action.
In Senate the impeachment trial
was resnmed and arguments con
eluded. The court adjourned to 12
o’clock when the Senate will proba
bly retire to discuss the verdict.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
Mr. Sherman, chairman of the Fi
nance Committee of *he Senate, ex-
pressee the * inion ti at the Senate
will psss tl- biM authorizing the
coinage of : si; er ■ iollar making it
a legal tern’ for twenty dollars.
Bout welt pronounces the abstract
of his Mississippi report published
this morning, bogus
Senator Caperton, of West Vir
ginia, is dead, from gont of the
heart.
The minority report of the Naval
committee, signed by Harris, of Mas
sachusetts; Danford of Ohio; and
Hayes of Alabama, allege that the
majority report is unfair, fallacious,
and grossly nnjust to Secretary
Robeson and other officers.
Father Ryan’s Lecture.—As we ex
pected, a large audience assembled
at the Church of the Sacred Heart,
last evening, to listen to Father Ry
an’s lecture on “Human Character as
Moulded by the Church.” In the
outset of his remarks the distinguish
ed speaker said that he came before
the audience without a formal intro
duction. Such an introduction was
not necessary. Once friends always
friends. He then took np the sub
ject of his discourse and for an honr
and a half received the attention of
his auditors. It was a masterly efs
fort, and replete with eloquence and
gems of oratory. We trust that he
will deliver another lectnre before he
leaves Augusta.—Chronicle ifc Sen
tinel.
The Ice Cokpany.—This company
In Augusta, is doing a prosperous
f
business. The Chronicle says: At
the begining of the summer season
the company had a reserve of six
hundred thousand pounds, manu
factured during the winter. This has
all been exhausted, and ready sale
found for all that is manufactured
daily.
Reinforcements will reach Gen.
Crook by the 2nd of Angnst. He
will then have 25 companies of cav
alry and 10 of infantry with 200
Snake Indians. Gen. Terry's forces
can scarcely reach him before an
other fight occurs. The Indians
are ejcamped near Gen. Crook and
are evidently preparing for the
struggle. Gen. Crook, it is said, will
attack the Indians after the reinforce
ments alluded to shall reach him,
foreign news.
London, July 26.—Tho Daily
Mews Belgrade special says: “The
Servian war has virtually collapsed.
Henceforth the aggressive is quite
abandoned. The deepest despon
dency reigns in Belgrade. I have
some reason to believe that the of
fer of mediation on the part of
Great Britian would be favorably en
tertained by Prince Milan's advisers,
though I have fears they are victims
to Russian intrigue.”
The Mews’ Vienna special saye a
great battle is expected to day near
Widden, where the Turks have 30,-
000 men. A St. Petersburg dispatch
says England has remonstrated with
Russia against tho proceedings of
the Moscow Slavonic Committees
FROM WASHINGTON.
July 27.—The Sonate adjourned
after reading the Journal out of re
spect to the late Senator Caperton.
The House after passing tho bill
for the completion of the Washing
ton Monument, adopted a resolntion
in honor of Senator Caperton and
also adjourned.
general intelligence.
It is thought that Representative
Faulkner will be appointed to fill
Senator Caperton’s unexpired term.
The evidence in the case of Judge
Humphreys, of the Supreme District
Court, shows incapacity, but no ju
dicial corruption was developed.
The Democratic caucus voted 50
to 25 in favor of the repeal of the
resumption act Not over half the
members attended.
The Democrats of the 11th Illinois
District, nominated R. M. Knapp for
Congress. It is regarded as a green
back triumph.
New Yobk, July 27.—In the suit
of the St. Louis, Alton and Terre
Haati Railroad Company against
Samuel J. Tilden and others, the
order heretofore granted extending
the time for the defendents to answer
to the first Monday in October has
been modified, by a consent of coun
sel, to be the first Monday in August
A longer time has not been deemed j
necessary.
The Democratic Convention of
Louisiana nominated Gen. Francis
H. Nichols for Governor, and L. A.
Wiltz for Lieutenant Governor. Gen.
Nichols commanded a Louisiana
brigade in the army of Northern
Virginia and lost a leg and arm
during the war. The Convention
also nominated candidates for Con
gress.
A convention of Prohibitionists,
lu«a in Louisville, Kentucky, to or
ganize a National Varty. Gen. Green
Clay Smith, their candidate lo* Inci
dent, was present and made a
speech.
Commodore Vanderbilt is suppos
ed to be in a dying condition.
13 General Grant Insane ?—The
Washington correspondent, of the
New York Mercery, has nearly a col
umn to show that there is reason to
believe that President Grant is becom
ing insane. He says that Represen
tatives, Senators and private citizens,
who since last Monday have returned
with interviews with the unfortunate
President, all have agreed and pub
licly referred to it as a tact that Pres
ident Grant exhibits the most decid
ed indications of insanity. A Balti
more physician, who met him last
Wednesday, thinks it is a case of
softening of the brain. The corres
pondent says ho is very irritable,
seeks silenco and solitude, without
even the company of his usual cigar
or the excitement of stimulant. He
is the victim of insomnia and his
eyes have the look of suspicion and
distrust peculiar in cases of soften
ing of the brain. He gets up and
walks about Washington at night
thinking he is incog, bat be is usu
ally followed by two policemen who
walk in protecting distance. He
thinks, all of those aronnd him,
charged with offences, are the victims
of malice. “Was I not called a cot
ton thief (ho wonld say) when in Ten
nessee?" Has it not been said that
even I sold appointments.”
It is thought that the cause of his
malady was his disappointment in
not getting a third term, and the
rapid and terrible exposures of his
Cabinet and other friends. Perhaps,
if this account is oven partially true,
there may be mere method and pur
pose in his madness than is suppos
ed.
Archbishop Connolay of Halifax,
has gastric fever, with symtoms of
congestion of the brain. There is
little hope.
interest ’ General Bntler charges
that the negroes wero tho aggressors
and the whites not to blame, that tho
emissaries of Chamberlain were the
instigators of the riot, and his ap
pointees could have prevented, but
did not prevent it that the com
pany, called militia, was not militia,
but a band of rioters and highway
men and that he is responsible for
the riot &c.”
As this matter is going tho rounds
of the northern Radical papers for
partisan purposes wo will publish
next week this powerful exposition
of General Butler. He challenges
investigation and avers that he can
make good every statement which
his letter to the Herald contains.
The republican papers aro assert
ing that Gov. Hendricks is an infla
tionist. The Ledger Standard, of
Indiana, says his position is substan
tially that which ho always held, that
there should bo a steady approach
to specie payments but not by a pol
icy that wonld completely paralyse
every industry of the country, such
as the Radical Resumption act will
produce.
FOREIGN NEWS.
A change in the rule of Turkey is
an accomplished fact Abduz Ham-
ed-Effendi, a younger brother of Mu
rad Effendi, is regent of the Empiro.
Tho Servian Generals in council
of war* accused each other of inca
pacify.
Nothing of serious import is found
in the latest dispatches.
FROM WASHINGTON.
July 29.—The Senate had no ses*
sion to-day.
In the House there was a long
debate on the reports of the com
mittees on Naval affairs. The mat
ter went over to Monday.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
There is no truth in tho report
that Gen. Crook had had a battle
with the Indians. Some of the In
dians seem disposed to sue for peaco.
Additional news will bo looked for
with interest.
The Bill which passed both Houses,
extending the time for redemption
of lands sold for direct taxes, was
called up by Mr. Hill, of Georgia,
to have it amended so as to exclude
the possibility of its beiDg construed
to effect national cemetaries. The
bill, so amended passed.
The Democrats, of South Carolina,
have resolved to contend for suprem
acy in that state by a “straightout”
contest. They should have done this
all tho time. That is the only hope
of securing good government for the
state. Thousands of colored people
will see that their prosperity as well
as that of the whites, depends upon
tho success of the Democracy.
No additional foreign news of im
portance.
Report of tlje Naval Committee.
FOREIGN NEWS.
There are reports of Austria and
Prussia’s arming. Various encount
ers without much resalt have taken
place between the Turks and the
Servians and Montenegrins. It is
difficult to arrive at the truth of the
results, but it would appeal- that the
two latter have been worsted in the
main. These small insurgent pow
ers aro not strong enough to cope,
without help, with os formidable a
power as Turkey undoubtedly is.
They must be sustained by promises
of some ono at least of tbo great
powers. Russian intreague has been
long suspected.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Jnly 28th.—The House proceeded
to the consideration of the reports of
the committee on Naval Affairs. The
majority of the committoe, make a
most damaging exposition of the
administration of the Naval service
for tho past seven years by Secreta
ry Robeson. We publish the report
elsewhere in this paper.
There was considerable discussion
in the Senate on the diplomatic bill.
These conferences had been held to
reconcile the differences between the
House and Senate. The latter ad
hered to its amendments and a farth
er conference was agreed to.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
General M. C. Bntler has address
ed a letter to the Editor of the Her
ald on the subject of Got. Chamber
lain’s fancy sketch, of the “Hamburg
Horror,"addressed to Senator Robert
son at Washington. General Bntler
says: “No man knows better than
Gov. Chamberlain that what he
stated in that communication to
Senator Robertson la false in every
essential particular. -No one knows
better than himself that he has pub
lished it in the bloody shirt outrage
Washington, July 25.—The Naval
Committee, after quoting tho testi
mony which the principal officers of
the navy have given in relation to the
present worthless character of that
arm of our national defense, says:
It appears that in 1869, when the
present Secretary took charge the
navy bore on its register two hun
dred vessels by authority of law;
eightjsloops of war and two torpedo
boats have been added thereto, and
fuat Vj purchase three more, to-wit:
The Dispa tell, VW Rio Bravo, and
tho Seaweed have been auuv-A, .vot
ing two hundred and sixteen vessels
which should now appear on the
register, hut in fact according to the
Secretary’s last report there are only
147; so that 71 vessels have disap
peared, and counting up to tho pres
ent time, it is more, becauso several
vessels which have been sold since
December last have disappeared-
Your committee have therefore to
report to tho House that the present
Secretary of the Navy has expended
in money about $170,000,000; has
used or disposed of the material of
more than seventy ships of war, be
sides other material; has contracted
liabilities amounting to several mil
lions of dollars, and lias to show as
a result, a navy whose condition is
described in the testimony of its
chief officer already quoted. With
their rapidly disappearing navy be
fore them, whilo they are painfully
conscious of the amount of taxes of
which they have paid for its support,
tho people may well ask how these
results have been brought about,
may well feel that with the 203 ves
sels on band when the present Secre
tary assumed control of the depart
ment, and with the expenditure of
$170,000,000 of their money since
that time, the nation should now
have a navy in which it conld take
pride, one adequato to tbo defense of
its commerce and its honor; and, fail
ing in this, they may well inquire by
what means this great waste of their
resources has occurred, and exact of
those who have had charge of these
interests a faithful and rigid account
of their trust, and if it be not given,
demand that those officers, in the
language of one of the popular plat
forms of the day, “Bo punished with
unsparing hand.” Believing, as has
been intimated in the testimony of
the Admiral of tho Navy, that by a
wise and honest administration, sixty
or seventy millions of dollars of the
sums expended upon the navy dur
ing the last eight years could have
been saved; believing that if, upon
the other hand, the sums expended
had been wisely and economically ex
pended, a navy conld have been crea
ted such as the conntry requires—a
navy which would be now the pride
of our own people, and tho admira
tion, if not the envy, of other na
tions, as was onco tho proud fact in
the history of tho American navy,
and believing further that this im
mense waste of the public money
and property has been illegally, if
not criminally brought about, your
committee have now to submit to the
House the reasons upon which their
opinions npon this subject aro based.
The following elaborate details, un
der the captions: Politics in the
navy yaids, favoritism on contracts,
frauds and abuses, straw bids and
the like, illegal purchases, barter and
exchange, corking accounts, etc. The
report concludes:
While your committoe does not
hesitate to recommend that all of
ficers of the navy who have been con
nected with any of the frauds and
corruptions disclosed by this inves*
tigation shall be brought to speedy
trial before a court martial with a
view that if unjustly charged they
may be vindicated and tbat if guilty
they may be speedily and rigorously
punished and the service relieved,
yet they do find in the case of the
Secretary some embarrassment in re
commending what shall be the meas
ure and manner of his punishment
arising from the present condition of
the law as viewed at least by a por
tion of yonr committee. The law as
it now exists 6imply declares that no
person shall be employed or con*
fcinue, abroad to receive or pay mon
ey for the use of the naval service,
contract or otherwise, who has n
been or shall not bo, a PP° ,n H ^
and with tbe advice and count er
the Senate. No punishment is b*ea
for 4 a violation of this statute, so in
card to the provisions of the
requiring advertisements to 8 ™ ’
bonds to be taken and fi Hed,
ditnros to be kept within 1mi; of ap
propriations, contracts ant, P . j
es to be in pursuance of
law, repairing of vessels
vious ascertainment of «****£’ by
the board of snryey, and other in
stances. Again, in case of failure to
make reports to Congress, the pun
ishment is fixed at a fine of notmore
than one thousand dollars and
less than one hundred dollw^, is
violation of this, or a violation of tho
other laws referred to. ^ lien n “°
punishment is fixed, such crimes ant
misdemeanors are punishable by im
peachment under tho Constitution
of the United States. Again, if a
public officer, charged with custom
duties, fails and neglects to discharge
them, but permits bis subordinates
to perform them, and they do so in
violation of the law, is such public
officer thereby guilty of an impeach
able offense under the constitution.
Your committee while they have well
formed opinions of their own on these
questions, yet in view of the vast a-
monnt of proof taken and tho numer
ous legal questions involved have no
desire” to precipitate the discussion
and determination of so grave a ques
tion as the impeachment of a high
officer of the Government upon^ tho
consideration of the House without
having a full examination of the law
and facts which may bo involved
therein, they therefore submit to tho
House the following resolution and
recommend its adoption*
Resolved, That these legal ques
tions, together with all tbo proof tan
ken by this committee, bo referred to
the committee on the judiciary, with
power to hear additional testimony
aud argument if they see fit to exj
amine, and report whether such vio<*
lations of the law as aro referred to
herein, constitute, and are impeach*,
able offenses under the Constitution,
and if so, then they shall report ar
ticles of impeachment against Geo.
M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy;
but if they shall find that under ex
isting laws such acts and doings of
the said Secretary are not impeach
able, or otherwise punishable, then
they shal report what additional
legislation, in their opinion, is neces
sary to make said laws sufficiently
punitive to protect the public ser
vice.
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