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f«r Vf-rWIIXIAM E. SMITH.
, a l Xoninees ol flic Demo
cratic Party.
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-11ENRY R. HARRIS.
I -MILTON A. CANDLER.
\MES IL BLOUNT,
t. N. TRAMMELL.
,LEX. H. STEPHENS.
jliinett McMillan.
u—FIRST DISTRICT.
E. LESTER.
igist is prep®
minerals to be exliib-
KPpir.
Official
State
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death by fa
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Professor
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pose; of testin';
tion. lie is o:
extends tbrougl
nessee.
Quitman enjo;
three little alligati
Tuuilin is stilll
pendent schedule
Before he allowed
better of his judj
upon as a rising
bo should get elecl
aid of negro votes,
i bearing more than
squares and forms is
umbus. .
luscogee county are
efforts to nominate
lslature.
en bunt cows after
A Card from the Burke County Dele
gates.
Herndon, Burke Co., Sept. 5, 1874.
Editor Morning A'cws:
I am requested by the delegates of this
county, attending the Blackshear Con
vention, whose names appear thereto, to
send you for publication the accompany
ing communication, which fully explains
itself. I was one of the delegates ap
pointed from this county to that Conven
tion, and in Savannah, on my way there,
was taken sick, and could not go further.
But I concur in all that is said by the
delegates in reference to combination
with the Chatham delegation. I never
saw but ono of that delegation, and that
one was Mr. McArthur, whom (in coin-
T JJ Miller, Esq., alternate
ty) I called on at his store,
conversation with Mr.
en delegation. In the
;ed between us, I did
a who the Chatham
to support, nor did I
■ession on his mind, I
Burke delegation would
left him with Mr. Dell and
room to take my bed. I did
ho the other members of the
delegation were until I saw their
the proceedings of the Conven-
blished in the Morning News of
I did agree with my colleagues
’eft my room Tuesday night,
port of Mr. Hart ridge would
tion to our own constituents
istrict. Besides this, there
derstanding among ourselves
and no purpose expressed to combine in
favor of or against any one.
Most respectfully,
J. B. Jones.
pany with
from this
and foi
DeU, oj
few wi
notl)
to
was smothered
ie other day.
that the Cliatta-
cliokc-d with sand
t State Geologist,
ity for the pur-
uine in flint sec-
pn that the vein
goi’gia into Ten-
to cripple the usef 1
m n-eh.. io tno an
glit of twenty-
her day.
on the inde-
ilpli county.
l to get the
vas looked
Dw, even if
be by the
|is enough
whose
tion. w ascertained
—than Mr. 'inmlmit
Messrs. II. C. Glu
make mid t. B. Jones
nated for the Legislate
ciats of Burke.
Mr. Dan llobinson, of
vas seriously wounded the ol
a drunken man named Vernier'
Mr, J. 1>. Wade, of Brooks coi
a stalk of cotton grown ou ordin:
which contains one hundred and!
three matured bolls. Mr. Wade
patch of twelve acres of cotton
which lie will gather twelve bales of
ton.
A negro died in Bibb county recently
ami preparations were made by • his
friends to bury him. When everything
was complete, however, nnd there was
nothing io do except to sing a hymn or
two, a party of negroes came over from
Crawford county and claimed the right to
take off the dead man and bury him.
This was denied, and after some threats
the Crawfordites retired. The next day,
however, t'no same party, armed with
flubs and knives, broke up the funeral
procession and carried the dead negTO
over into Crawford and planted him. We
hardly know which side to sympathize
[with. The right of an able-bodied
I negro to boss a funeral should not be
Rumpled upon.
A Madison county man has been arrest
ed in Atlanta for adultery. He says it’s
[mighty rough to lie in jail while Brother
! Beecher shoves the lusty croquet ball.
Houston and Jones counties will make
only about fifty per cent, of an ordinary
cotton crop.
A worm with a head on each end has
[startled Atlanta.
Mr. William Thompson! a well-known
(mechanic, dropped dead in Macon the
[other day.
Two nc-grocs attempted to outrage a
[yoang white girl in Atlanta ou Wednes
day. They made their escape.
The fiftieth annual session of the Grand
lodge of Odd Fellows of the United
[States will commence in Atlanta, Ga., on
Monday, September 21st, in the hall of
the House of Representatives in that city.
This hoffy is composed of representatives
forty-six Grand Lodges and thii'ty-
Graud Em
Burke County, Sept. 5, 1874.
The undersigned delegates from this
county, attending the recent Democratic
District Convention at Blackshear, have
heard with surprise and regret that the
impression was made upon the minds of
delegates of other counties represented
that ws had made with the Chatham dele
gation an agreement and obligation to
support in that Convention a man only
from Chatham.
We did not hear of the report or sus
pect the existence of such impression un
til on our way home, el§e we would have
contradicted it at the Convention. And
now we ask the use of your columns to
deny that such obligation was made or
even thought of, and to convey this
denial to the members of that Con
vention representing the other coun
ties of this district. True, that
after the first ballot we did, in
every subsequent one, vote without a
division for Mr. Hartridge, but this was
the result of consultation among our
selves, and in accordance with individual
preference, before leaving home for the
Convention. Possibly such an impres
sion may have grown out of some remark
made by some of us in conversation,
wliich, however, was never intended or
expected to lead to such an understand
ing. Wo very much regret it, and to pre
vent its natural effect upon the.harmony
and good will, so much to be desired in
the future associations of the respective
counties of the district, wo positively
deny that such combination was ever
made by us. J. B. Heath,
It. C. Chance,
G. O. Warnoch,
A. E. Perkins,
J. B. Mit.t.er.
Hugo on “ The Scandal.”
ictor Hugo, according to the Wash-
m Capitol, writes from Paris:
;or. Don Piatt:—I press your hand
lute you.
,ve been heard of by me. I, Vic-
novelist, dramatist, poet, poli-
smau, philosopher of social
cial and religious problems
the church you Ameri-
uth is the most colossal
of—Bah! Je suis fran-
—lite I will not say it.
iwful centuries moving
grooves startles us by
if this something morally
E a lie—a sphinxian cen-
ranslucent paradoxes ?
l let loose in a commu-
lockers is—wliat?
he aisles of ages roll
magic oj
Do wq
and .
SaxonsX
Iu Pa
not pre
The c_
Eh bis
ng revolutions! •
a takes the negro and
) a Caucassiau by the
love our own wives
also ? You Anglc-
practieo it—but wo do
moi: je i
Let thd
limi table.
Let the]
awful disk
Let the ]
twilight.
The Lor 1
Cannot;
some roach
to tell the J
The Plyr
Fate is fa
ear and wh
Whence ?j
O legions
fore is life ? J
jees badinages. Pour
l away into space il-
: from the crags of
et the bats beat the
his own.
American invent
el men and women
!ars have tried it.
nee bends to my
ave failed.
□gels! Whero-
Hugo.
How a Wd
Hubband.-
ry Her
a case of cool-
aon which
itrated in
_ which is
and pru-
induced
is wages by
thirty-nine representatives are ne-
redited to the coming” session. Past
■rami hires are permanent members of
He Grand Lodge, being entitled to speak
tfid serve on committees, but not vote
Unless they are representatives. Eleven
j|Mast Giand Sires are living; ten have
J ^' e ^* Favorable arrangements for the
r -Icsrsioii to Atlanta have been completed,
and rnemoers of the order will leave this
^eek for the Empire State of the South,
Fhere great preparations have been made
y the Southern Odd Fellows to receive
0 Tisitors i "ho wiH gather there from
framr^j ani Territory of the Uniot),
p“C u SrSr aDy ’ switzeriand ’ and
ji^J^^ge Reporter: We hereby take the
S ri treu “ o£ a11 thesurvi-
A ’ N ' V - t0
M’ednesdav 0°^ ° E Atbmta ’ Ga -, on
■ State Frir ?u° ber 21 > 18 ^> during the
by G e _ ”, -addresses may be expected
this PriLa , La wton, who organized
of Vm "i e au ^ ca rried it to the valley
'founded La- 000 str0D & and who fell
battle of c? ng our command at the
Whose dL S *“^ 5bur 6i Geo- Gordon,
brigade s . tlc , gulslle d valor lendered his
i ^eci jot j! i ~ ame historical, will
' led the Gen- C. A Evans, who
the difltinm! , cbar ge at Appomatox,
Gordon ““.rH successor of Gen.
^Kade’xHu’ 1 i last eommander of our
5-011 rnlnf 0 be present and address
- 31st, “ OUtls of the 13th, 26th,
inents a!1{ i *? th and G£ st Georgia regi-
IStb deoroio^K .¥ a i or commanding the
battalion, are earnestly x*e-
' ,J aj-. OUCv ooiujiiunicato with, the
omcc-rs of each company in
"rrer irasonnu fepart 6* — - - •
depositing $20 a month with her. The
arrangement promised to become a grand
financial success. Every month the faith
ful husband handed over $20 to his good
wife, who carefully laid it away in a safe
place. Month aftermonth rolled on untU
ten $20 pieces, aggregating $200, had
accumulated, when the wife thought it
would be wise to deposit the same m a
savings bank. Accordingly one mom-
aggagssfesgs
much satisfaction, congratulating herself,
no doubt, upon the fact that the mterest
on the deposit would in a few
vears amount to quite a sum, and one
worth having in case of misfortune an
bad luck in life. But then came thede-
noument. The cashier reedUy disrov-
ered the peculiarity of the com. The
twenty dollar pieces were wortHeai uni-
t a tion s of the genuine com. The true facts
in the case at once flashed across the nnnd
of the good woman Her husband b i£
spent his wages, and in order to fulfUi
his pi*omise and keep up his monthly de
nosUs hadpuTchaBed a lot of imitation
twenty dollars known as >wl:“5*^_
How the matter u a? settled m the family,
being of a domestic and private nature,
we have not been inquisitive enough to
ascertain, and leave for all to imagine.—
Margsville (Cal-) Appeal
[New4)rleans Times ot Wednesday.)
Tuesday’s morning Times reported that
up to two a. m. of that day the White
League troops continued to rest quietly
on their arms, although in imminent ex
pectation of orders to move on the ene
my, and this move, it was understood,
would involve the capture of the State
House and the Third Precinct Station at
Jackson square.
It turned out, however, that such a
move was not ordered, and comparative
quiet reigned throughout the city until
morning. The White League pickets were
extended in consequence of an appre
hended raid by the peelers, and noctur
nal wayfarers found the matter of travel
ing homeward a tedious and difficult task
—the strictest surveillance being exer
cised by the pickets, and the man who
failed to offer a satisfactory account of
himself, found that ho was debarred from
pursuing his travels.
The appearance of the city in the lo
cality bounded by Canal, Poydras, Ba-
ronne and the river, was that of a city in
a state of thorough military defense,
every street crossing being barricaded,
and bulwarks of street cars looming up
on every hand—-the vicinity of Common
and St. Charles streets especially being
blockaded by cars to the number of about
fifteen.
At about one a. m. Tuesday Metropoli
tan pickets were thrown out on Chartres
street, and other parallel avenues, as far
as Canal street. When this became
known a White League squad was order
ed forward, and the Metropolitan pickets
being charged, the major portion of them
threw down their arms and fled, while
those who were unable to flee fast enough
were captured and taken as prisoners to
the White League guard house.
In addition to these departures from
the Metropolitan ranks, a large number—
about one hundred and fifty—deserted
from the State House and Jackson Square
Station, and retired to their homes, so
that it was pretty well indicated that the
peelers were a very much demoralized
party.
At eight o’clock on Tuesday morning,
intelligence was received at General Og
den’s headquarters that the State House
had been voluntarily surrendered by the
Metropolitans there on guard. At once,
three companies were marched to the
scene, where, arriving, it was found that
the doors of the building were open, and
that it was vacated, save by three persons
employed there as porters.
The citizen soldiers forthwith took
possession, and it was then learned that
at about eight o’clock the three hundred
Metropolitans, stationed in the State
House, marched down stairs, passed out
into Boyal street, and down that thorough
fare to the Jackson Square Station, leav
ing behind them, in the Capitol, aU their
arms, and dispatching a messenger to the
White League camp, with the intelli
gence that they had voluntarily sur
rendered.
About 8:30 o’clock in the morning a
number of Metropolitans appeared out
side Jackson Square Station, and waving
their handkerchiefs to the crowd already
ili possession of the State House and
about it, a coni'erence immediately took
place, and the police having signified a
desire to bring hostilities to a close, sur
rendered themselves, their arms and am
munition to the Leaguers. They were
paroled, and citizen soldiers took imme
diate possession of the station. Thus
the last remnant of the Metropolitans is
overthrown.
Major W. A. WeUs was reported in
Tuesday’s papers as having been mor
tally wounded in Monday’s engagement
by a shot through the head. Latest ad
vices indicate his condition is not alto
gether hopeless, and that with constant
and watchful care he will .Icover.
In this connection reference is made to
the fact that Major Wells was alluded to
as being a clerk in the United States As
signee E. E. Norton’s office, and thus,
quite naturally, was created the impres
sion that he was arrayed against the
White Leaguers. On the authority of
Mr. J. P. Kondean we herewith state that-
Major Wells was in command of a com
pany of White Leaguers, and it waswhile
leading his column that he received his
injury.
The impression had freely prevailed on
Monday that no negroes appeared on the
streets, in fear of molestation at the
hands of the League. This was erro
neous, the negroes freely circulating
through the city, except at the time of
the fighting, when they concluded, in
common with many others, that it was
softest to retire. They seemed to under
stand that no injury was intended them
by the League, and accordingly appeared,
save the more prominent colored office
holders.
It was rumored Monday that a large
body of colored men were in the neigh
borhood of Treme Market under arms.
Some White Leaguers repaired to the
place indicated, but they were not to be
seen, though it is believed that they had
been there.
The First Precinct Police Station was
taken possession of by the Leaguers early
on Tuesday morning. They had.no diffi
culty in occupying the place, the only
person in the building being an old
watchman.
Early on Tuesday morning seven cof
fins were seen coming out of the Custom
House. They were supposed to contain
the bodies of policemen who'died in the
building from their wounds.
Throughout Tuesday morning -the ut
most excitement and enthusiasm pre
vailed on the streets. The papers were
seized upon with avidity by the people
for the account of the previous day’s -
fight. The Leaguers up town were taken
care of by the housekeepers in their
vicinity, who furnished comforts to them
and kindly cheer. The majority of the
stores that were closed on Monday even
ing still remained shut, .and these were
included between Julia and Canal streets :
np town, the more remote. places con
tinuing business as usual. The only lines
of street cars running up town, on Mon
day night or Tuesday morning, was the
Baronne and St. Charles streets road.
The four companies of the Third Kegi-
ment, which, arrived here from Holly
Springs Monday, were stationed inside of
the Custom House. All the entrances to
the building were guarded, and even ap
proach thereat is impossible. At the
head of the iron stairs at the main en
trance was placed a guard of soldiers in
close line round, ready with their guns
pointed at the door. This precaution
was taken as they anticipated on attack.
Many wounded police were taken from
the Custom Honsi under guard, and not
a few dead. It is understood that all
the higher officers of the Kellogg govern
ment are in the building, and food and
elothes are being carried in there.
In our report of yesterday we men
tioned the name of Mr. Levi as having
been wounded. This was a mistake, and
arose from the fact of Mr. L. conveying
a wounded man, Joseph Souare, home.
The principal thoroughfares of the city
were patrcUed last, night by small de-
tachments of Geneijd Ogden’s command
and squads of the
lice force. There
swviviu
ttatrS;W*- 8 0f eaoh
to noHfv i_ • e C0Lt1 mauds and urge them
10 notify- - commands and urge them
survivii m ^°V soq 5 ov by letter, every
Hie o£ their company, of
from,,, , “F'ated reunion and urge their
lt W‘’ict U< ? n - aucc 0,1 Wednesday, Oc-
" 18 'L W. B. Jones,
Late Col. doth Ga.
. • D. N. Sveer, ‘
-lajor and Q. M.. G’s. Brigade, -
The French Government is not so poor
but that it can still vote money for the
support of the opera and_the drama, lne
Assembly, before its adjournment, voted
a subvention of 1,604,000 to the theat
Grand Opera, 800,000 francs?
nuation Fund, 20,000 francs; Theatre
Francois. 240,000 francs; Opera Comique,
140.000 francs: Theatre Lynque, 100,uou
francs: Odeon, 60,000 francs; Conserva
toire and its branches in the provinces,
22 000 francs ; Conservatoire de Dijon
(new subvention), 40,000 francs;, and
various, 20,000 francs.
A Lady Burned to Death.—At W olf-
boro’, Now Hampshire, on Saturday even-
ing, Fannie Home, a maiden lady aDouc
‘1 yearsirf a 1 "
all, and only two
reported at the difti
having been found,
in some quarters that
James L
■ly appointed po
lio disturbance at
ixicated men were
it police stations as
rumor prevailed
was the intention
t to lead amove-
of the State
of Gen.
ment for the occupi
House. This force, it %ms alleged, would
comprise employees of lie Customs De-
■ such of the members of the
former police force as hid remained in
the granite building, an! those of the
State officials who might in intent enthe
acquirement of martial mown. This
story had some credence g,ven to it "by
reason of its circulation bung followed,
later in the evening with a Hport of the
intention on the part of' sfuie colored
men in the Third District r % initiate a
difficulty. This reported intoition, crea
ting, ns. its execution necessadly would'
have done, the concentration (f a large
portion of Gen. Ogden’s comma-I in the
locality threatened by the colorol rioters
would have left the State House ®m]—
however, for the public peace, no one of
these and other like stories were verified;
mid the night passed off without any in
cident worthy of moment.
At the Third Precinct Station, os at all
others, the utmost vigilance is exercised;
patrols are stationed at all the comers
approaching the place. In the station a
number of men are in the court yard and
upper stories, on the qui riee for the sig
nal of danger.
Skirmishers are out deploying all the
surrounding Btreets, and every person
that is not just the wrinkle is closely
interrogated as to his business and desti
nation. An attack on that station, expect
ing to take the boys unawares, would
result in a bloody disappointment to tho
aggressors.
At about nine o’clock a telegram was
received at the Fifth Precinct Station
from headquarters, commanding one hun
dred and fifty men to report at Clay
statue without delay.
The" order was immediately obeyed,
Capt. O’Neil having any number 'of vol
unteers who were eager for the fray.
Upon reporting at the place of meeting
an order awaited them to return to the
station.
The negro church on Morales, between
Mandeville and Marigny streets, has,
since the commencement of the troubles,
been an object of suspicion to the White
Leaguers, as it was supposed by them to
be a place of concealment for arms and
ammunition.
These suspicions were strengthened by
the unfounded rumor that prevailed im
mediately after the disastrous defeat of
the Metropolitans, that the negroes were
contemplating an uprising, and no more
convenient place of distribution of arms
could be imagined than the church,
where they could assemble without ex
citing suspicion.
Last night at about ten o'clock a' car
riage was seen cautiously approaching
the church, which the ever-watehful
White Leaguers thought boded no good
to the cause.
The circumstance was at once reported
to Tom O’Neil, in command of the Fifth
Precinct Station, who immediately sent
a detachment of men to the place to in
vestigate the matter.
Arriving at the church it was surround
ed by the White Leaguers^ who effected
an entrance without molestation, who
carefully searched every nook and cor
ner, but failed to find anything in the
shape of arms or ammunition.
THE COUSHATTA TROUBLES.
Testimony of Colored Witnesses.
[Shreveport (La.) Times.)
The evidence of a number of negroes
taken before tile Citizens’ Committee of
Safety at Coushatta is before us, and, as
clearly as possible, proves the plot and
•purpose of Twitchell, Dewees, Edgerton,
and “ their crowd,” to bring about a mur
derous conflict between the whites and
blacks in the town on - the night of the
27th of August, after the agreement made
that both parties should do all in their
power to preserve the peace. •
It is impossible for us to give all the
evidence, but we will give a portion,
showing the plot, and simply remarking
that, the mass of the evidence sustains
that given. We should also remark that
the Henry Smith referred to as the com
mander of the negroes, is a fierce negro
and was the bosom friend, confident and
lieutenant of H. J. Twitchell.
Valcey Dennison testified in substance
that he and a number of other negroes
were gathered under Homer Twitchell’s
house on the night of the 27th of August
while a dancing party of tho white.peo-
ple was going on near by. Smith, the
wi tness, testified, gave one of the men a
gun amd distributed ammunition to the
men while under the house. Bob Dewees
gave him a box of caps to distribute. Bob
Dewees passed back and foith from
TwitcheU’s house to the party two or
three times; then came and said the
white people were too strong for us at
the party.
I heard Henry Smith make remarks a
great many times about thrashingnegroes
for voting the white ticket. We came to
gether by command of Smith in the night
time armed, and I suppose by orders of
Homer Twitchell. I don’t knqw ■ how
Smith gets his living; think Mr. Homer
Twitchell supports him.
Henry Smith obtained authority to
gather all the men together from Homer
Twitchell and Bob Dewees. The object
was to attack the citizens of Coushatta.
Wacf^Hampton carried all orders from
Henry Smith; he got his from Dewees
and Twitchell.
Paul Williams, a negro desperado of
the parish, made the following statement,
boldly and defiantly confessing that it
was he who shot Mr. Dickson. His con
duct before tho committee was extremely
boastful and insolent.
Williams said:
I shot Mr J. It. Dickson; I did; now
gentlemen, you can take* me and shoot
mo, or hang me, as you please: I know I
deserve to die, and I prefer to be shot; I
came over to this side and went under
Homer Twitchell’s house; I was told to
come, because the white people were
coming to kill the black people; Dan
Dailey, Louis Johnson and myself went
down the field, when Dickson possed;
Louis Johnson snapped a cap at him, and
I fired both barrels; Dewees was running
forward and backward as courier; I was
told Homer Twitchell gave his gun to
some man; Henry Smith was in com
mand; Homer Twitchell and the rest
of his crowd are to blame for the
trouble;- Dewees and Edgerton were
riding from the party to the
colored men; Homer Twitchell told us to
go home, the white people were too
strong that night; Dewees counted the
white men; ;ve were ordered by Homer
Twitchell to fire on any of the white peo
ple when they came; Dan Dailey led us to
Twitchell’s house, and we went into the
yard at the back gate; Henry Smith de
livered shot to the men; Homer Twitchell
stayed at home while we were there; when
we left he went to Scott’s house; Henry
Smith told us to stop.at certain places; I
shot Dickson in his back; it has been ru
mored for some time among the Radicals
that there would be a fight between the
whites and blacks, and the minds of the
negroes have been greatly influenced by
these rumors.
The testimony of theBe two negroes
was fully confirmed and corroborated by
that of Louis Johnson, Tom Irvin, Wash
Morgan, Dan Dailey, Ben Smith, Charley
Scott and Centre Beaird.
The testimony shows that many of the
negroes were reluctant to engage in
Twitchell, Dewees and EdgertoiTs mur
derous enterprise, but they were threat
ened, bullied and terrified into it Those
living on the opposite side of the river
were told that the Ku-Klux were in their
neighborhood and that they must come
to Coushatta for protection; others were
told if they did not kill the whites the
whites would kill them.
Hopeful Worcto from the North.
The Texas Cotton Crop.—The Galves-
tan Neva of the 9th insfc says;
It rained yesterday or the day before in
most sections of Texas, and the fear is
that the fall may in some have been ex
cessive, to the injury of cotton in the
lock. As to benefiting the plant many
parties think that rain can do no good
now, but may do much harm. This be
lief, however, is probably liable to some
qualification.
There is certainly much discordant
opinion and consequent inquiry as to the
extent of the damage to the crop by
drouth throughout the cotton region.
A Columbus dispatch of the 8th to the
Houston Telegraph says:
There has been an exceedingly heavy
rainfall along the line of the Galveston,
Houston & San Antonio Railrod west of
this point. The cotton crop has been
great!} damaged, as the dry weather had
caused it to openrapidly of late, and the
fleecy bolls were thus at the mercy of the
etonn.
The wicked Voltaire is_ receiving the
uuishment duo to the various bad things
one in his days of nature. Barton is
rilineJuA-itta-
[New York San.]
Is not the act justifiable? No man can
study the facts and recall the history of
the last few years without admitting that
if ever any people had good reason for
this last dread resort, it is the people of
Louisiana. Jf insurrection can be justified
under any circumstances whatsoever, it is
right and just in their case. No body of
men ever had a greater provocation or a
more perfect cause for such action; and
never, from the beginning of civilization
to this day, was any Commonwealth sub
jected to wrong and outrage by a more
contemptible set of miscreants than
these land-pirates in Louisiana. But for
the brutal, law-defying assistance of
Grant's soldiery, these wretches could
never have got into power; and their vic
tims, seeing themselves despoiled not only
of their possessions—the best property in
New Orleans will not rent for enough to
.pay the .-taxes—hut of every political
right and personal chance of good, and
having nothing more to lose except life
itself, may well choose to perish in a last
sharp contest, rather than to struggle on
in the misery and despair which their
oppressors alone offer them. * * Such
is the result of nine years of reconstruc
tion and six years of Grantism. This is
the sort of peace which tho country re
ceives from a military President who
annuls a popular election and overthrows
a State government in order to take the
electoral votes of the State for himself,
while he maintains his brother-in-law in
power to plunder, and assures to an in
comparable gang of robbers the prolonged
opportunity ot unlimited booty. And
yet there are those who still prate about
moral ideas in the Grant .party, and who
fondly imagine that the American people
will suffer such a state of things to be
indefinitely continued.
[New York Tribune.]
That there has never been a day for
two years when the Kellogg administra
tion could sustain itself without the help
of the Federal army we have all known;
but none of us at the North were aware
how empty and unsubstantial this fabric
of usurped power really was" until yester
day. One faint demonstration against the
barricades exhausted it. The revolt lifte-l
its head at sunset, and in the morning
the government of Mr. William Pitt Kel
logg had utterly vanished. Mr. Kellogg
had just enough strength to call upon
Attorney General Williams for “more
troops,” and with this characteristic and
familiar cry he went into ignoble retire
ment It is just as we would have it.
There is a stern poetic justice in the com
plication of events which throws upon
the power that first thrust him into the
Governorship the odious task of putting
him back there again after the people
have expelled him. Gen. Grant must now
carry his crime against Louisiana to ils
logical consequence. He upheld the
usurper; he will now use the army.of the
United States to dispossess the govern
ment which he knows to be the legitimate
one. We wish him joy of his occupation.
[New York World.]
It would have'startled the good^ieople
of the North, we venture to believe, if
they could have been told in tho spring
of 1865,’ when they supposed the civi:
war to have been brought to nn end by
the surrender at Appomattox Court House
of the remains of the Confederate army
of General Lee, that in September, 1874,
they would be called upon to witness and
to acquiesce in the abolition of the most
vital guarantees of the American Constitu
tion in the second commercial city of tho
United States, by a combination between
General Grant, of theUnitedStatesarmy,
and General Longstrteet, of the Confede
rate States army. Yet this is precisely
what the good people of the North
are called upon to witness and to ac-
quisce in now at New Orleans. * *
Since the King’s troops with Major Pit
cairn at their head marched upon the
citizens of Boston, assembled in King
street, and bade them go to their homes,
there has been no such plain nnd peremp
tory challenge given in this country to
the right of popular assembly, by armed
force, as this. * * Whatever may have
been the practical wisdom or unwisdom
of Kelloggs opponents in their recent
opposition to him, the interference of
President Grant to indorse the action of
the Confederate General Longstreet in
marching upon a popular assembly will
finally test, not the party fealty, but the
loyalty to liberty itself, of tho whole Re
publican party.
— [Philadelphia Telegraph, Radical.]
There is something more in this pre
sent difficidty than a white man’s party
movement; and a true spirit of statesman
ship, whether in tho White House or
among the people of the country, cannot
fail to recognize the fact that the men
who are now under arms at New Orleans
for the purpose of forcing the abdication
of Kellogg have suffered wroDgs which
they would be unworthy the name of
American citizens did they not resent.
Had such a game as that which Kellogg
has played in Louisiana been attempted
in this or any other Northern State there
would have been an appeal to arms long
ago;' and in judging of the conduct’of the
New Orleans insurrectionists our people
should consider for a few moments how
they would like it themselves to be dom
inated over for two years by a gang of
ruffians, and then be threatened with dis
franchisement because there was a pros
pect that an appeal to the ballot-box at a
reasonably honestly conducted election
would result in the usurpers being driven
from power and perhaps brought to pun
ishment.
[Chicago TribnEc.J
Had this Kellogg usurpation been at
tempted in Ohio, Illinois, or Michigan,
it would not have been tolerated one day
by the people of either State; nor could
all the army and navy of the United
States have induced or compelled them to
submit to .such an atrocious despotism
and fraud. What has taken place in
the cr
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.
hotels anti iastaimwte.
Ideas and Plans or the State Commis
sioner.
[Extracts from an Address by lion. Gnst&vns J.
Orr.]
GLOBE HOTEL,
Louisiana twenty months after the crime
was first committed would have taken
place here on the instant, and no Federal
troops nor Executive proclamations would
have been interposed -or coold have
availed to restrain the outraged people
from hurling the usurpers from their
places.
The Terrible Deed op a Drunkard—
Incendiarism and Suicide.—Special cor
respondence of the Baltimore American
from Westminster, Md., September 14 th,
gives the particulars of a terrible affair
that had just occurred near Manchester,
in that county. A German named Leon
ard Graeff, with his wife, lived on a val
uable little property belonging to his
wife, not far from Manchester. Graeff
was an elderly man, addicted to liquor,
and very abusive and cruel to Bis family.
A gentleman of Manchester, named Ever
hart, had a mortgage on the Graeff prop
erty, and being unable to get his money,
commenced proceedings to foreclose the
mortgage. This seemed to incense Graeff
greatly, and he made many threats against
both Everhart and his own wife. On
Thurslay last he went to Manchester, and
spent the day in drinking liquor, and re
peating his threats of violence. He went
home about dark, and shortly afterwards
the citizens of Manchester observed a
bright light, in that direction, appearing
as if a house was on fire. This presently
became a certainty, and a large crowd at
once hastened in tiiai direction. On ap
proaching GraeiFs, it was seen that his
bam was on fire. Every effort was made
to extinguish the flames, but in vain. It
was learned, after the fire was over, that
Graeff, incensed at the prospect of hav-
- ^excited
on
delib
erately eet the barn on fire with his own
hand; after which, he started towards a
large thicket a little way from the house,
where he was subsequently discovered
covered with blood, his throat cut from
ear to ear in the most horrible manner.
A physician was summoned, and be pro
nounced the man to be still alive. Graeff
was taken to his home, and lingered for
an hour before he died. He was buried
on &
The first State Teachers’ Association
that ever assembled in Georgia, met in
Atlanta after the war, and again the sec
ond year thereafter. At this meeting a
report looking to this measure was read
by. Mr. Calvin, an eminent teacher of
Augusta, and I moved a resolution to ap
point a committee of five to draft a sys
tem of public schools, which was adopted.
The committee was composed of myself,
a native of this State, in which I have
spent my life; Mr. Mallon, tho able Su
perintendent of Public Schools in At
lanta. He is a native of Ireland, but for
twenty years was connected with the best
schools in Savannah; Mr. Calvin, of Au
gusta. a native Georgian, whom I taught;
Hon. D. W. Lewis, whom you all know,
and Dr. John M. Bonnefl, of Macon,
who, though bom in the North, was fully
identified with tho interests and feelings
of the South, and was truly Southern in
every impulse of his heart, for I knew
him like a brother.
By agreement, each one of us drew up
separate plans, and when we met, they
were all submitted and referred to one
person from the whole of which to draw
up one report that would meet the views
of all. That duty.devolved on me, and I
prepared tho report, which was required
to be submitted to the Executive Com
mittee of the State Teacher's Association
for their approval. One of these was Dr.
Tucker, long a resident of your county,
another Dr. Means; another Prof. W.
Leroy Brown, and another Prof. W. D.
Williams, of the State Academy for the
blind. That committee, with the report
before them, were in session nine hours,
considering and discussing it, and sub
mitted it to the Association unchanged;
and that body discussed it for about the
same length of time and adopted it sec
tion by section; and then appointed a
committee to lay it before the Legisla
ture and urge the adoption of the meas
ure. It was exactly our present school
system, and now you know who were the
authors of it.
This system has already done an im
mense amount of good. Under it there
was distributed last year $250,000. This
year, there has been set apart and is now
being distributed $265,000. It is, as 1
have shown, the work of white men—of
Georgians and Democrats; and if you will
add to these two amounts the $174,000
raised and paid over on the school debt
of 1871, wo have the grand total of $089,-
000 which has been raised and expended
by white Democrats in Georgia since
1872, for the education of white'and black
all alike. This is what has been done by
the men whom the colored people have
been taught to dread.
I have recently issued a circular to the
School Commissioner and Board of Edu-
cation in each county, in which I have
clearly set forth what I think to be our
true policy, to increase the school fund
and the usefulness of the system.
I want the Legislature to pass a law
conferring the power upon the separate
counties or school districts, of local taxa
tion, by which to supplement the school
fund. I do not propose for the Legisla
ture to levy a tax, but to give the local
boards the power to tax. These- men are
required to be freeholders, and are gene
rally men of prominence, who represent
the property interests of their vicinity.
They can be removed at any time from
office by a two-thirds of the grand jury.
I want tho law to place a limit upon the
amount of tax they may levy; and I want
this tax not to be levied at all till after
the matter has been submitted to the peo
ple of a cOunty or school district, and by
them indorsed at the polls. With these
safeguards I don’t think any man ought
to be afraid of 'this law. I learn that an
additional tax of 98 cents on $1,000 in
this county would double the school fund
in Greene, and I think this small tax
would double the fund in nearly every
county in Georgia, and am very suro it
would enable the people to have free
schools from four to five months in every
year all over the State. (The County
Commissioner spoke and said it would
enable Greene to have six months schools
every year.)
Now, you intelligent men, and men of
property, think of this.
And I want the school fund thus raised
to be used simply for the support of
elementaiy schools, free to all ahke, rich
and poor, white and black. I would have
every child taught at public expense , to
read and write, cipher, and keep ac
counts; and I would most earnestly recom
mend the colored people to aid in choos
ing wise and just men, who will secure
to all, these benefits.
And I would have tho Legislature give
the people of every school district, or
sub-district, the power to tax themselves
to establish a high grade of schools for
themselves, if they think proper. Now,
if tho people of the Greensboro sub-
district wish to establish a high school,
or graded schools, let them do so; and if
persons outside of the district want to
send their children to a high school
which you are supporting in this district,
let them pay something for it.
I especially want the County Commis
sioners and Board of Education in each
county to consider these propositions in
my recent circular, and take action and
report to me.
Another measure I want the Legisla
ture to adopt, in order to increase the
school fund, is to levy a poll tax of three
dollars a year. I appeal to every honest
and industrious man—no matter how
poor he may be; and I appeal to these
colored men here to know if they would
not be perfectly willing to be taxed three
dollars a year as a poll tax, instead of one
dollar, if they could thereby have the
privilege of sending their children to
school six months in the year, free, in
stead of paying only one dollar, as you
now do, and have only _ two or three
months school. I would" like to know
right now what your belief on this propo
sition is; I therefore ask every able-
bodied colored man in this house, who is
willing to be taxed three dollars a year,
as I have stated, to stand np. (Every one
in the house rose to his feet.)
Augusta, Ga.,
Corner Sroad and Jackson Sts.
NO. 11 REYNOLDS’ SQUARE*
(Formerly Planters' Bank,)
SATA5AH, GA.
Globe Hotel
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with all the
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DEPOSITS received subject US Check at
and Interest allowod l > i^rr'ement..
Gold, Stocks, Bondi. and Foreign and Domicile
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Collcct-ons made on aii accessible points, and
promptly remitted for in New York Exchange at
Together with the addition of a new Veranda,
making it one of the most complete Hotels in the
country, and is now ready for the accommodation
ieTraY ** ~ * "
of the Traveling Public.
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P. MAT, Proprietor.
BRE
No commissions charged on Collections made Jr
the city.
Merchants' Cash Boxes, and other Valonblcs. re
ceived on special deposi t (u»d deposited In the large
Fire Proof Vaults of the Banking House)
to owners’ orders, at ar y and ‘
ing hours.
Exchange on Atlanta and
suit purchasers.
JAMES HlIvTEK,
BROKER,
150, 158, ICO & 162
DEALER IN
BRYAN STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Coin, Securities & Exchange,
No. 110 Bryan Street,
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JLA securities placed in my hands for sale at
current rates. Real Estate bought and sold on
commission.
f JMIE Proprietor, having completed theneccs-
_ sary additions and improvements, can now
t fier to his guests all the comforts to be obtained
11 other Hotels at less than
HALF THE EXPENSE!
Mr. H. J. THOMASSON will take charge of
the Real Estate branch of my business, and will
give his personal attention to the leasing ot houses
and collection of rents. sepl-tf
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ON THE
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Has been added, where guests can
AT ALL HOURS
Order whatever can be obtained in the market
ROOMS, WITH BOARD,
$1 50 PER DAT.
Determined to be
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Ail I ask is a TRIAL, confident that complete
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PROPRIETOR.
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the
SCREYEN HOUSE
Will remain open this summer, and solicits the
patronage of those visiting Savannah. Families
and others wishing to board permanently during
the summe r can make advantageous "
R. BRADLEY «
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& SON,
Proprietors.
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IL. J. Guilniartin & Co.!
COTTON FACTORS
—AND—
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i Agents for Bradley’s Phosphate, j
S JewelPs Mills Tarns A Domestics. Ac., Ac. *
! Bagging and Iron Ties for sale at lowest :
market rates. «
Prompt attention given to all business i
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AND GENERAL
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Cor. Bryan and Drayton Sts.,
SATANNah,Ga.
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128 Bay Street, Savannah,
COTTON FACTORS!
Commission Merchants.
T IBERAL cash advances made <
JLJ menta.
Promptest attention rend: red to all basin
committed to them, and proceeds of sale* re
mitted by Express when ordered.
Bagging and Ties sold and advanced o
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guished assistance of Prof. L. O, Emerson, of
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ailed for the
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A Human Skudl in Solid Bock.—A
veiy strange discovery, interesting to
geologists, is reported by the Osage Mis
sion (Kansas) Journal. A human skull
was recently found near that place im
bedded in a solid rock, which was broken
open by blasting. Dr. Wen-ley, of Osage
Mission, compared it with a modem
skull which he hod in his office, and
found that, though it resembled the lat
ter in general shape, it was an inch and a
quarter larger in greatest diameter, and
much better developed in some other
particulars. He says of the relic: “It is
;hat of the cranium of the human species,
of large size, imbedded in conglomerate
rock of the tertiary class, and found
several feet beneath the surface. Parts
of the frontal, parietal and occipital bones
were carried away by explosion. The
piece of rock holding the remains weighs
some forty or .fifty pounds, with many
impressions of marine shells, and through
itruns-a vein of quartz, or within the
cranium crystallized organic matter, and
by the aid of a microscope presents a
beautiful appearance.” Neither Ly ell nor
Hugh Miller, it is stated, nor any of the
rest of the subterranean explorers, re
ports anything so remarkable as this dis-
ery at Osage Mission. The Keander
n comes the nearest to it, but the
Neanderthal bones were foun4 in loam
only two or three feet below the surface,
whereas this Kansas skull was discovered
in solid rock.
A newspaper correspondent in Wash
ington, In an interview with General
Sherman, has elicited from him an opinion
that the United States troops ordered to
the scenes of recent disturbances in the
South can do little or nothing toward en
forcing order. They simply make arrests
and turn the guilty persons over to the civ
il authorities for trial and punishment.
There their legitimate functions will cease
unless martial law be declared by the
nnirnrm.
SAVANNAH, GA.
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Letters ou the Art of Playing the Plano,” and of
“.Schumann’- Maxims.” It is now a book of SCO
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AND
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Bagging and Ties advanced on Crops.
Liberal CASH ADVANCES made* on Consign
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signed to us or to onr corrcsi»ond«:w iu j;
New Yc
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—AND—
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