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Affairs in Georgia.
, n0iv Bullock is said to be armed with
xhese little instruments, carried
1 Qd for the purpose of slaughtering lead-
110 .triots in the Democratic ranks, are
a wnveD ient for men like Bullock and
to have around the house in stormy
ter?
leather.
Augusta is said to bo organizing a senes
^refreshing ice-cream parties up the canal.
j 0 witiug up the sanguinary scenes in
, nnn ah (luring the Press Convention,
* Iglothorpe, of the Murphy Ogo, pays a
feeling tribute to his “Cousin Willie.”
I fie editor of the Augusta Chronicle has
obably ere this resumed his versatile pen.
the interests ot civilization we shonld
jj e t0 tnow his opinion of Sidney Lanier’s
Cantata.
Atlanta is a growing town. Blodgett,
Bollock aud Kendrick all found bondsmen
there.
Our young friend, Mr. Mungen S. Lake,
jjaerly an attacliee of this office, was mar-
agd recently in Lawtonville, Burke county.
A Miss Augusta P. Perkins.
He editor of the Geneva Lamp says that
rerv few good things were said during the
Press Convention, as he had a bad cold and
couldn’t talk. We know this to be true,
yhe Valdosta Times says that a mutual
^miration society has been established be-
neen tko Morning News and the Darien
ip.flte. This is quite true. Moreover, the
Mousing News admires all good Georgia
pipers, and we believe this admiration, ex-'
tept perhaps on the part of the Valdosta
Ema, is also mutual.
Im’t it about time for the bond ring to
begin business ? Their motto is, “No re-
norai of the capital—-no State Constitu-
uooal Convention—and no prosecution of
BiJical knaves.” All these issues will arise
in the campaign and then Kimball and his
friends will begin to show their hands.
Since visiting Savannah, Woods, of the
Ewkinsville Dispatch, has sold his last re
naming mule and bought a jug of editorial
night-caps.
An English walnut tree is growing in Ran
dolph county. It has been in bearing for
eeveralyears. Port Gaines also boasts of a
tree ot the same Bpeoies which will soon be
in hearing.
Mr. John L. Boyd was found dead in At-
iinia the other day.
Alluding to the Press Association, the
LtC-range Reporter says: “Jnst before ad
journment of the Association, it presented
ivery handsome silver piteher, waiter and
goblets to Mr. Estill. This was done not
mlely because of the handsome manner in
vhich he had entertained the members;
lot also in recognition of the extremely
hud relations he has always sustained to-
nrd the country press, of which the Asso-
ation is mainly composed. No daily
publisher in the State has evor shown him-
alf so true, so generous and so unswerving
ifriend to the country press as Mr. Estill,
nd it is no wonder his popularity is so
peat that they will not listen to any sug
gestion of a change in the Presidency of
tie Association. There never was a present
aade by any body of men with more hearti
ness than the ono alluded to above."
Quite recently a house occupied by two
colored families near Bankston, in Manroe
county, was robbed and set on fire. Two
children were burned in the dwelling.
The negro Bob Jackson, who killed an-
oiher negro named Ed. Clarke in Dooly
county about a year ago, was hanged in
henna on the 5th. He said on the scaffold
that he was guilty, and freely confessed
that he was going to heaven.
Biity-four thousand dollars’ worth of com
mercial fertilizers have been received at
HswkinBville since January 1st.
Warren Paulk, of Pulaski county, has sold
thirteen hundred pounds of meat this year
of his own raising.
The Darien Gazette remarks ; “Bichard-
son, of the Savannah News, is ackuowl-
eigefi by the members of the Press Asso-
cistion to be the best city editor in Georgia,
B not the whole South. A more Bocial and
clever gentleman cannot be found any-
vhere.”
The clothing of a negro girl caught fire
® Houston county recently, and she was
turned to death.
The Enquirer says that to Friday night Co-
nunlras has received 50,902 bales, 6,470 less
®*n last season to same date. The South
western Road has brought 3,439 bales—622
more than last year; the M. & G. B. R.
11,664—335 more ; the Western Road 1,203—
® less; the river 10,619—335 less ; wagons
19,34^-5,729 less ; the N. & S. R. B. 1,931—
less. The factory takings sL 9,904
HaleB against 8 ?G8 last year, an incre. >f
id*. ’ W®
The dog law is in full fdree in Atlanta.
Bullock's bondsmen are T'>l“ Alexander,
* I. Grant, B. E. Conley, Richard Peters
I. C. Peck.
The Albany Mews says the outlook of th£>
a °P« in Southwest Georgia is very cheer-
tog.
The Columbus Enquirer says that daring
6 cotton week ending Friday night, the
* est€ ' rn railroads of Alabama brought to Co-
en route for Savannah and New
or fc, 365 bales cotton—257 from Mobile, 104
^om Montgomery, 4 from Selma, 0 from
jWka, West Point and other stations, 0
&to\icksburg, 0 from New Orleans, 0 N.
• ft. ft. The total through movement by
jhii r^nte since September 1st, is 35,715
^.707 f rom Mobile, 7,795 from Mont-
goiaery, 1^*582 from Selma, 5,491 from West
.-M Opelika, cte,. 1,186 from Vicksburg,
* from Xew OrfeAQB, 55 by North aud
Qlli ftailroad. movement last
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
BYTMGRAfB
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, MAY
1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
—TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
Summary of Saturday’s Congressional
Proceedings.
SENATOR SPENCER EXCULPATED.
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
SI.IPPLERY JIM BLAINE AND
RAILROAD BONDS.
ms
TIIE NAVAL, STATION AT TYBEE.
30,348. Din'V 1 £ same time the
•'Mon
lotp &lld Girard Bailro »^ tw brought up
P ' thron eb, against 4,902
leadJournal: Mr. Wm. Means
hi. nw a B P??imen of iron ore .““ Qd ° D
fodgt ,’ n Houston county, whin?* 1 . t0
’‘aid Wf.]i m „ 118 wei 8ht and appearau'® 6 ’
■Wi w a* working, provided the'
Well fm f? nB1 derable. We think it might
^ e houn to em .P'oy his baud during
the Prospectiug to see how exten-
jNe’S 5 ot a mul0 ’ 8 tail > but a
“at of a . l . es wonderful exploits of
«J°hih e _. &n T®y s mules, and how Wash
Jh®. Wash K, a " 6 , 0f His innocent brother
l® 16 back ^n,i b v. UKll u a drove of mules some
fhor wanted t, H? 8 boeD >e Hing them out.
•°ofideuce in u- J one > an d, reposing great
i* 1 ® to select thn broth ® r ’s judgment, told
il to him Tif Bt mule ln the lot and
o Vj big hd?' i J t hur . .“P wbo “ he went
!?* mule a. w, hh his bridle to catch
n^ole backed V 8 he 8hook the bridle
febfigat birr, 1 n' a eara . aQd oonimenced
then he , He ? naU y captured him,
k^oy eottiTnVrr^ e ^ en a tralne d
b , u f >n au ohl nn, d e hlm ‘ H ® ‘ben put
5 for out house and locked him
^»Mo ak k “P ln K- Next morning the
through “ 0 P Qe - Hehad made his
_^®6ha chimney fifteen feet high.
, Wh en
^.oolled on P c r nd P f° tested bis innocence
and B ® Ue bim if he was
h 6 Ponce d? vl COuld not teU 4 He in
D 6 also wept. poor > dear mother.
**L«ould he ;.v man cooWn’t act that
' H he was guilty ?
THE CASE OF SPENCEE.
Washington, May 20.—The Committee on
Privileges and Elections report in Sen
ator Spencer’s case that they have examined
the subject thoroughly and find nothing to
inculpate Mr. Spencer. They Bay that the
testimony taken by the Alabama Legisla
ture was ex, parte in its character, very
much of it hearsay and could not he re
ceived by the committee as evidence. The
question as to whether Spencer was elected
by the lawful Legislature was fully
settled in the Sykes contest and the
committee declined to re-open it. They also
say no witness testified that Spencer has di
rectly or indirectly given, or offered to give
money or anything of value in consideration
of votes or support, nor was it shown that
any of his friends had done so.
Senator Morton from the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, submitted a re
port on the case of Spencer with evidence,
and asked that the committee be discharged
from its further consideration. It was or
dered to be printed.
Saulsbury, of Delaware, a member of the
committee, said while he concurred in tho
conclusions of the committee so far as the
evidence taken was concerned, to the effect
that there was nothing implicating Senator
Spencer in bribery to secure his election
to the Senate, he differed from the
edmmittee as to the extent of evidence
taken. In his opinion testimony was ex
cluded which should have been taken. Tho
allegations filed as to the invalidity of the
Legislature which elected Mr. Spencer
should have been inquired into, and testi
mony on that subject taken. He did not
concur with the committee in excluding evi
dence on that point. At Borne future time,
he would state briefly, in writing, his objec
tions, and would ask to have them printed.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, May 20.—In the Senate,
Sargeant from the Committee on Naval Af
fairs, made an adverse report on the peti
tion of Captain John Lee Davis and the
officers and crew of the United States
steamer Colorado, asking to be allowed prize
money for participating in the capture of
New Orleans in 1862, and th» committee was
discharged from its further consideration.
It is stated on excellent authority that the
Committee on Buies have agreed to report
that Fitzhugh is not the proper person to
be an officer of the House.
The Committee on Claims reported a bill
making an appropriation to pay the claim of
Benj. Fenton and D. W. Fenton, of
Memphis.
There was a session of the Impeachment
Court.
In the House, Waddell, from the Commit
tee on Post Office and Post Roads, reported
back the bill authorizing a mail service to
to be put on the McMinnville and Manches
ter Railroad in Tennessee, and directing
that the earnings for said service shall not
be withheld on account of any government
claim against the road. Passed.
The navy appropriation was resumed.
A bill for the relief of G. B. Taylor and E.
H. Sackett, with the veto of the President,
was nailed up. The question was, shall the
bill pass, notwithstanding the veto? Yeas
46; nays none.
those crooked pay bolls.
Washington, May 20.—Ferguson, in
the Gibson Commiitee, after a pointed
assurance that what he said could
not he used against him, testified
that in 1872 General Sypher brought
him a bundle of pay rolls, some forty or
sixty, which he signed, several with real
names, bat mostly such as came into bis
mind. Wm. McLean, deceased, assisted
him. The rolls were blank as to amount.
Sypher took the signed blanks and returned
presently with the roll and money, paid wit
ness ninety dollars, and gave him and Mc
Lean money which was put in envelopes
and delivered to other parties. Witness
was not employed in the custom house. He
was engaged in electioneering.
THE PRESBYTERIANS.
New York, May 20.—In the Presbyterian
Assembly the Committee on Freedmen not
being ready to report, was made the special
order for Sunday next.
Rev J. McKenzie offered a resolution that
the Christian word, “Sabbath,” be used in
place of the heathen word, “Sunday,” in
church publications, and that ministers aud
Sabbath school superintendents be instruct
ed to nso their influence to discontinue the
name of Sunday. Referred.
The committee appointed by the last as
sembly on the subject reported that it has
been decided to hold the Presbyterian Al
liance Conference at Edinburg, Scotland,
July 4, 1877. A large number of reports
were handed in and referred.
Adjourned to Monday.
RAILROAD COLLISION.
Chattanooga, May 20.—A collision oc
curred this morning two miles south of
Kingston, on the Western and Atlantic Rail
road, between the freight and accommo
dation trains. Four persons were seriously
and three slightly injured. The accident
was caused by a freight train leaving King
ston ahead of time. The injured are all
employes. Those seriously, perhaps fatally,
injured are James Bell, engineer of the
freight train; John Bracket, James Harris
and Frank Eady, biakemen. Conductor
Rope, of the freight train, was one of the
oldest on the road.
THE BANK OF BUENOS AYRES.
PABis.May 20.—The Argentine Consul in
this city received a telegram from the Pro
vincial Bank of Buenos Ayres as follows :
“ In consequence of a considerable reduc
tion in the value of our produce in Europe,
and the heavy withdrawals of gold from the
Bank, the government ha3 issued a decree
suspending the redemption of the Bank’s
notes by giving them legal currency. This
decree in no wise affects the resources of the
Bank which will continue its operations with
out difficulty. The government will scrup
ulously meet its European obligations.
THE BERLIN CONFERENCE.
Vienna, May 20.—Andrassy, in the con
tention, said he believed the peace of Eu
rope is assured at least for some years by
the conference at Berlin.
London, May 20.—The British Govern
ment has notified Renter’s Telegraph
Agency that it has refused adherence to the
propositions of the Berlin Conference.
ThS correspondent cf the Daily Telegraph
at Constantinople telegraphs: “I have
good authority to state that Turkey will re
ject the Berlin proposal.”
England’s refusal.
London, May 20.-A Berlin dispatch to
the Pall Mall Gazette says the refusal of the
British Government to adhere to the
memorandum of the conference is felt here
as a seriouB disappointment. It is hoped
England will accede at a later stage. Eng
land will be advised of the steps taken the
same as if she had supported the present
measure, which will be presented to tho
Porte by the Russian Ambassador.
chandler’s intentions.
Washington, May 20.—The Herald says
Secretary Chandler intends to recommend to
the House the impeachment of Thompson,
one of his predecessors before the war, in
case the Senate decides it has jurisdiction in
the Belknap case, and that he is preparing
the case from the records of Congressional
investigation, which he states shows that
Thompson abstracted over $700,000 of the
public moDyes.
FROM PARIS.
Paris May 20.—A thousand students met
io discuss the organization of an interna-
■ students congress, which was pro-
tio. :
posed. . iliehlet’s funeral a large number
At Juft foreign students partici-
of province **
P&ted ’ ' THE PDTT KICZ '
,(« 20.—In the Senate,
Washington, M % memorial of the
Patterson presented commerce, remon-
Cbarleston Chamber oi . Qf the j uty on
Btrating against the reI ?°' H -waiian treaty,
rice, as provffied m the ±1- CoInm it-
which was referred to the i ina^
SUING FOB AN INJUNCTION.
New York, May 20.—Abraham MiUer,
with present plans.
wales.
London. May 20,-Wales’s reception was
gSi£a«Msvaa
loyalty to England.
FREAKS OF th* LIGHTNING.
op Wiley pro
of the Centen-
THE METHODISTS.
Baltimore, May 20.—Bishoi
sided. In the programme oi
nial services to-morrow Bishop Ames pre
sides. Bishop Simpson, Revs. Brown and
Mathews deliver addresses.
C. L. Bobinaon, of Florida, introduced a
preamble and resolution looking to placing
in civil offices only such as are known to
possess and maintain a true Christian
character and principles. Referred to the
Committee on the State of the Church.
Bishop Harris announced the special com
missioners on relations with the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, as follows : Bev.
M. D. C. Crawford, Central New York ; Bev.
E. O. Fuller, of Georgia; Bev. J. P. New-
nan, of Baltimore; Clinton B. Fisk, of St.
Louis; Enoch L. Fancher.
A resolution was offered removing the
disabilities of women from holding office in
the Church. Referred.
Dr. Curry was selected as editor of the
Ladles’ Depository.
The report of the fraternal messages of
the African M. E. Church assembled at At
lanta were presented.
Dr. Sherman and Brother Tate addressed
the conference.
The Committee on Episcopaoy sustains
Bishops Merrill aiffl Bowman, excluding wo
men from the deaconate.
The committee to which was referred the
resplutions abolishing certain conlerences,
which involves the color line, reported that
the proposed action was inexpedient.
BLAINE AND HIS BONDS.
New York, May 20.—Jos. B. Stewart
publishes a letter in the Tribune, denying
that he paid to the Hon. Jas. G. Blaine cer
tain bonds of the Union Pacific Railroad, or
that Mr. Blaine called at his office and re
ceived those bonds, and says Mr. Blaine
never was in his law office, or the office of
Stewart & Riddle, or Stewart Sl Stevens, in
the city of Washington; that he never had
any business transactions with him in any
shape or Jorm; and says: “I denounce as
faUe every statement to the contrary.
Let it come from what source it
may. I have thus aimed to repel a most
remarkable assault upon a citizen in public
life, in which I am made to appear in a
false, if not a criminal position.” He dis
claims anv unkind feeliog for Hon. A. G.
Riddle, aud refers to Mr. Knowltou as fol
lows: “Nor do I believe that Mr. Knowltou
intended to misrepresent any one, but mis
took some one of many persons who visited
my office about the period referred to for
Hon. Jas. G. Blaine, and in searching my
memory aud consulting what data I can
find, feel sure that it was Hon. Geo. W.
Chase, of New York, between whom and
myself many transactions occurred, some
ot which I remember were witnessed by
Mr. Knowltou, whom, being a favorite with
me in the office, I generally asked to attest
and witness such business transactions.
• FROM NEW YORK.
New York, May 20.—At a meeting of the
representatives of the Roman Catholic so
cieties and representatives of the clergy,
last evening in this city, to confer in regard
to a grand celebration at the laying of the
corner-stone of the church on June 14th,
the absence of tho Ancient Order
of Hibernians was commented upon.
Father Young explained that he had been
compelled by Vicar General Quinn to retract
the invitation to that order. Several An
cient Hibernians present asked for the Vicar
General’s reasons. Father Kearney replied
that the Vicar General has determined to
deem the order beyond the pale of the
church until it establishes ehapels in con
nection with meeting places, like other
Catholic bodies, and discards the mysterious
sign and passwords. It is understood that
several societies will participate in the cere
mony.
FROM LONDON.
London, May 20.—Sir Edmund Buckiev,
a member of Parliament, is declared bank
rupt. Liabilities two and a half millions.
The liabilities of N. & A. Fachiri, the
Greek cotton merchants at Liverpool, are
half a million dollars.
Alfred W. Dale won the Chancellor medal
lor the best English poem by an under
graduate of Cambridge. Subject—“The
Century of American Independence.”
A correspondent of the Times at Paris
says the explanation given there for the re
fusal of England to accede to the Berlin pro
gramme is that the British Government
considered that an armistice was stipulated.
PACIFIC MAIL.
New York, May 20.—Rufus Hatch has
brought suit on behalf of himself and other
stockholders of the Pacific Mail Stoamship
Company, against the officers and dyiectors
of the company, with a view to having a
mortgage of $2,000,000 on the steam
ships executed on the I3th of March,
last, declared void, and that the defendants
be enjoined from issuing or negotiating any
of the $2,000,000 issue of coupon bonds,
which mortgage, together with the bill of
sale, was given to Benjamin A. Ham and
Stephen V. White to secure.
A REDUCTION OF BATES.
New York, May 20.—The General Passen
ger Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company announces a reduction in excur
sion rates for the benefit of delegates to
Cincinnati and St. Louis. The price for
excursion tickets to Cincinnati will be $20;
St. Louis, $27, which is a reduction of fifty
per cent, from the ordinary rates. He also
states that it will be at the option of dele
gates starting from New York, either going
or returning, to stop at Philadelphia.
THE ARREST OF BULLOCK.
New York, May 20.—A requisition for the
arrest of ex-Governor Bullock was received
in this city a week ago yesterday, and a
Deputy Sheriff detailed to assist the officer
having it in charge. It was soon ascer
tained that the ex-Governor was not in this
city, and on the Monday following the ar
rest was made at Albion, Orleans county,
New York, from which place the offioers
started immediately for Atlanta.
MEXICAN NEWS.
Washington, May 20.—Captain Johnson,
commanding the Rio Grande naval forceB,
telegraphs Socretarv Roboson, under date of
Matamoras, May 20th. that General Esco
bedo’s advance had with him one thousand
troops, well armed, and ho judged from
seeing them pass that they were well dis
ciplined. He at once relievod the men he
had in the city. Escobedo will arrive to-day.
RUMORS OF ANOTHER MASSACRE
London, May 20.—A special from Paris to
the Telegraph says that a report was ro-
ceivedithere that the Mussulmen inhabitants
of Piedor in Bosnia, under the pretext that
the Christians were about to leave town,
massac-ed a hundred Christians, inclnding
women and children. The Turkish troops
afterwards attacked the place.
-EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP.
. Scranton, Pa., May 20.—At an explosion
of fire damp at the Oxford air shaft of the
D. L. and W. Railroad Company, in this
city, one man was killed instantly and four
others seriously scorched and otherwise in
jured. The explosion was cansed by an ac
cumulation of gas in the lower vein coming
in dontact with a miner’s lamp.
FROM HAVANA.
Havana, via Key West, May 20.—There
are rumors of a great tight iu the jurisdic
tion of Colon. No particulars have been
received. Two hundred wounded soldiers
have been brought into Cardenas.
It is rumored that the government will
shortly increase its export duties on sugars
and leaf tobacco.
THE JERSEY CITY EXPLOSION.
New Yore, May 20.— Che official report
of the Kendrock explosion at Bergen tun
nel, Jersey City, gives the number of houses
injured at five hundred and fifty-two. The
damage is estimated at about $100,000. A
largo number of suits have been commenced
against the railroad company.
SMALL POX ON A COOLIE SHIP.
San Francisco, Cal., May 20 The Colo
rado had several cases of small-pox among
the Chinese and they were put off at Yoko
hama. The Quartermaster was attacked af
terwards, but there were no other cases.
The Board of Health is proceeding against
the Captain for a violation of the quaran
tine regulations.
DEAD.
St. Louis, May 20.—Miss Julia Matthews,
the English opera bouffe singer, died in the
hospital here yesterday, after an attack of
rheumatism and malarial fever.
Scranton, Pa., May 20.—George Peek, D.
D., the pioneer of Methodism in this region,
and brother of Bishop Jesse Peck, died here
to-day, ln his 79th year.
DELAWARE JUSTICE.
New Castle, Del., May 20.—Ten crimi
nals, white and colored, were flogged at the
jail to-day, the number of lashes for each
ranging from ten to thirty. Before the
whipping, three of them, two white and
one colored, were publioly exposed in the
pillory for an hoar.
nominations.
Washington, May 20.—Charles E. Mayer
was to-day Dominated as District Attorney
for the Northern District of Alabama, and
Z. B. Hargrove as Postmaster at Borne, Ga.
DIED OF HYDROPHOBIA.
Newark, N. J., May 20.—Henrietta Sar-
— n aged twelve, bitten by a pet Spitz dog,
which wt'it mad, died of hydrophobia after
intense suffering. Four others were bitten
by the same dog.
BURNED.
Lyons, Iowa, May 20.—Ira Stockwell’s
saw mill was burned, oaused by lightning.
Loss $60,000.
L WITHDRAWN.
Washington, May 20.—Mr. Haskins, Re-
withdrawn from the New Or-
THE NAVAL STATION AT TYBEE.
Washington, May 20.—In the House com
mittee cu the naval appropriation bill,
Randall proposed the following amendment:
The Secretary of the navy is hereby direct
ed to organize a naval board of five com
missioned officers in the navy, as soon as
practicable, whose duty it shall be to ex
amine fully and determine whether in their
opinion any of the navy yards can be
dispensed with and abandoned, and if
so to report the same; and, farther,
to inqnire as to the propriety of
establishing a naval rendezvous at I'vbee
Island or at Cockgpnr Island in Georgia,and
whether any government property at said
navy yards can be made available and suita
ble for such purpose, and said Board shall,
through the Secretary of the Navy, report
to CongreBg at the commencement of the
next session the result of their inquiry.
And the sum of $2,000 is hereby appropria
ted to meet the expenses incurred by said
Board.
BOWING RACE.
Boston, May 20 The race for the honor
of representing Boston in the coming inter
national race at Philadelphia attracted eight
thousand persons. It was a mile and a half
and turn, and the best working boats to be
rowed on the gnnwale for a purse of one
thousand dollars. W. S. Loring, of the
Howard University Club, was appointed
referee. The contestants were th6 Faulkner
Hogan crew and Boston crew. The Faulk
ner Regan crew was the first to round tha
stake boat and to finish, and kept an eaBy
lead, winning by three lengths. Both crews
claim a fonl.
The referee decided that the race mast be
rowed over again at 9 a. m. on Monday.
After hearing the claim of fouls put in by
both crews. All bets awaited the final de
cision.
the jetties.
New Yoee, Msv 20.—The Secretary of the
South Pass Jetty Company received a tele
gram from Captain Eads to-day, stating
that the steamer New Orleans of fifteen feet
eight inches draught passed through the
jetties this morning.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Washington, May 20.—It is stated that a
strong movement is on foot to seonre the
appointment of Supervisor A. P. Lutton as
Collector at Philadelphia iu place of Seth I.
Conly, present Collector.
PARDONED.
Washington, May 20.—Hope H. Sl&tter,
of Mobile, convicted of killing Michael
HusBey a couple of years ago, is pardoned.
■Mrs. Slatter leaves for Albany to-night with
the documents.
NEGRO KILLED.
Atlanta, May 20.—Dan Griffith, white,
shot and killed a colored man in Covington
to-day. Cause, benzine. *
GUARDING THE JAIL.
Louisville, May 20.—The police and mil
itary guarded the jail all night, but the
lynchers from Oldham county did not ap
pear.
LOCOMOTIVE EXPLOSION.
Chicago, May 20.—A locomotive exploded
in Lake Shore depot to-day. Two were
scalded fatally.
POWDER EXPLOSION.
Wilmington, Del., May 20.—An explosion
this morning at Dupont’s powder mill killed
four men.
THE MURDERED CONSULS.
London, May 20.—The widows of the
murdered Consuls receive $200,000 each.
THE STATE CAMPAIGN.
The
Importance of Attending
-Heelings.
Primary
Liberty County, May 19th, 1876.
Editor Morninq News:
We are soon to have a State oonvention
to select standard-bearers for the De
mocracy in the important elections—
State and Federal—to come off this year.
Please allow space for a few thoughts
from one who is not a political aspirant,
but an humble citizen concerned for
the weal of his State. If the utterance
of the State convention is to accurately
express the views of the masses, such
result must be attained through the
action of the counties in primary meet
ings—hence the importance of these
assemblies. Were they fully attended
we might hope that the principles
and policy enunciated by the gen
eral convention would command the
assent of the people, and the
candidates presented would receive their
united support, thus avoiding divisions
aud insuring success. But, how often is
it true that the primary meeting, which
assumes to speak for the whole county,
really speaks the sentiments of but a
small fraction of it, composed mostly of
professional politicians and their hangers
on, while the great bulk of disinterested
citizens took no part at ail in the
proceedings which are credited to
the whole county. The oonsequence
is that action by the State Conven
tions, based upon the action of the coun
ty meeting, is liable to misrepresent the
preferences of the Democratio masses
and breed dissatisfaction, division and
defeat. Now, what is the remedy ? It
would seem to many, upon the bare state
ment of the case, that the remedy is with
the people themselves. If they would
have the primary meeting#represent and
not misrepresent them, let them be
present and make their voice heard in
them. Let the delegates charged with
the responsible duty of making up our
electoral ticket and nominating candi
dates for Gubernatorial and Congressional
honors, be themselves the choice of the
counties they claim to represent, and
not merely of a few trading, schem
ing politicians and their personal
and political friends. And in order to do
this let the people turn out en masse to
their country meeting. The above ob
servations apply with equal force to
nominations for the State Legislature.
According to the prevailing practice,
how often does a small minority of citi
zens bring out a candidate who is not the
first choice of the people, thereby de
feating their will and incurring the hazard
of defeat.
In a popular government like ours,
popular rights must be maintained by
popular action. Let the people, even at
some inconvenience, attend their county
meetings, and not leave all to the politi
cians. Unus Populi.
A gay deceiver of Chatfield, Minn.,
happened to have a name which pecu
liarly fitted his character. It was Thom-
rose. He was a very sweet scented speci
men for snch a high latitude as Chatfield.
Mrs. Dusenberry loved-him, and told her
husband all about it. He was an easy
going sort of a man, and agreed to divide
their household effects with his wife and
leave her to follow her own bent. They
were making a division of the things
quite amicably when in stepped Mr.
Thomrose, and handed the wife a letter
in the presence of her husband. This
was intended to make the separation
more “binding.” Mrs. D. stepped into
a side room to read the letter in private,
leaving her husband and Thomrose to -
gether. It was more than Dusenberry’s
good nature could stand. He collared
Thomrose, dragged him out in front of
the house, knooked him down till he
couldn’t get “up any more, and then
fanned him with a board until he was
tired. He then returned to the house
with the board and asserted himself as
the head of that family. He informed
his wife that he had changed his mind
about the separation, and had repolved
that she should not leave his bed and
board. The board settled it.
Suicide of an Extensive Manufactu
rer.—Mr. Edgar Farmer, one of the
most prominent citizens of Newark, N.
J., and the senior member of one of the
most extensive trunk factories in the
country, was found hanging dead in the
loft over his stable Tuesday morning.
For some time past the deceased has
given evidence of mental derangement.
He imagined that he was in a destitute
condition.
The Sultan of Turkey was lately met
at his palace gate by a crowd of fifty pe
titioners, who humbly kneeled in the
dust. He learned that they were his
cooks, and that they had not been paid
for thirty-three months. Thereupon he
fell into a terrible passion and dismissed
bis Minister of Finahee in diagraoe, and
ordered the oooks to bA.paid—absolutely
po thing. <
LETTER FROM ADRIANUS.
A FltrMi Storj—Item by tbe Carrier
Dove—A Perilous Position—Under Brick
Hot Earth—A .Man if cat Swindle—Be(in-
nlnc to End—Frolic and Fan—Leavings
of a Sieve—Filtering*.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Jacksonville, May 20, 1876.
hardly possible.
This is a straggling, persuasive romance
from actual life of the pachydermatous
variety. Its opaque characteristics, as
here related, will be ascribed to the impe
rious necessity of condensation, and not
to any absence of stem dramatic
talent. The frequenters of the soirees
and balls occurring in Jacksonville du
ring tbe past winter, are still haunted by
an evanescent remembrance of a vivacious
damsel, whose voice was music “such as
sometimes kings command at nightly
revels,” and whose eyes were dazzling
as a constellation ablaze. At all events,
not a few rhapsodists would describe her
thus from memory, and we will designate
her as Pascalina. There might also have
been observed amongst the many visitors
who sojopw-ed in Florida, a young
man who seemed to have been
ereated with the especial design of
acting as an admirer for the maiden
so fair, so rare, so dear. He was her con
stant attendant and escort everywhere,
and him we will for the sake of convenience
call Robert. Naturally enough, the om
nipresent gossip disposed of the two
strangers by making them prospective
partners in the matrimonial business, and
for once the prevalent fiend was well nigh
correct. (This should be chapter the
second.) About twenty-five years since
a boy was born in the city of New York,
of poor but not undesirable parents, and
his father dying shortly after his birth,
his mother, being plunged into the gulf
of irresistible adversity, was compelled
reluctantly to relinquish the care of the
infant to others—a family in comfortable
circumstances, who adopted him for
good. The mother disappeared, and
was never again heard of by her son, who
was taught to believe that those with
whom he lived were his own father and
mother, but having remarried about five
years later she gave birth to a girl at
Baltimore and died, leaving the offspring,
the exact counterpart of herself, to be
reared by a considerate widower, who
certainly spared no pains in the educa
tion and accomplishment of his child.
Time flew with winged footsteps, and
our hero and heroine grew according to
custom. Robert came on a pleasuring
tour to Florida to enoounter his destiny
and likewise did the entrancing Pasca-
lina. To meet her was to love her, as
younkers deep and manifold in this
neighborhood will testify. Pascalina and
Robert saw, admired and became simul
taneously captivated with each other.
You are all not unacquainted with the
style of these things, and m due time
the wedding day was marked out on a
calendar. The ceremony was to be per
formed at a certain temple in Baltimore,
the groom’s supposed mother was
to appear in honor of her daughter-
in-law, and the car of time seemed
to lag slowly and more slow. Finally
the day arrived, as days will often, the
bride arrayed in the daintiest fabrics and
most gorgeous bridal accoutrements,
radiant with diamonds and the panoply
of her majestic beauty, neared the altar
to alter. The most impressive silence
prevailed throughout the church; a
solemn, ominous stillness reigned around
the officiating minister, when Roberts’s
putative mother started back affrightedly,
riveted her eyes'upon Pascalina’s im
mobile countenance, and as if given
the power of utterance by some weird
recollection gasped, “Your name ?” The
girl looked up in astonishment and terror
and replied to the woman, “Your mo
ther’s first husband’s name ?” She did
not know. The woman simply exclaimed
in agony, “my heaven it is so,” and
swooned away under the excess of her
feelings. The marriage underwent a
postponement in consequence of the ex
citement, and then came a deluge of
expostulation and entreaty from that mis
guided woman to induce Robert to
abandon the idea of an alliance with Pas
calina without acquainting bim with the
secret of his parentage. Too weak to
proceed to acknowledge to the boy she
loved that he was not her child, the
erring creature hazarded everything by
concealment. Now when a determined
woman engages to interpose barriers in
the way of two lackadaisical lovers the
obstacles are occasionally insurmountable,
and in this instance they were completely
so. Pascalina and Robert when they pe
ruse this in the Morning News, will learn
for the first time that they are both chil -
dren of the same mother, and the knowl
edge of thiB fact will indubitably extract
much of the bitterness from their hearts
and may redeem this article from the im
putation of irrelevancy.
CAEOM ON THE BED.
About twenty years since three ruffians
began a turbulent demonstration at the
foot of Ocean street, and were promptly
apprehended by the then Marshal of this
city. They made no sign of anger until
a few nights thereafter, when one of the
trio sneaked stealthily up behind the offi
cer at the comer known as Hoeg’s Block,
discharged a pistol into his spinal
oolumn, and inserting a bowie knife into
his back, twisted it until the Marshal
dropped a bleeding corpse upon
the spot. The feeling of horror which
seized every one at the recital of this deed
was such as to leave an ineradicable im
pression in the minds of all quiet people.
Superstition allied with dotage and puer
ility was not slow in taking possession of
the ground, and there exist at this day
old men who fondly assert that they have
seen, even six months ago, unmistakable
indications of gore around the place.
But the conflagration in Hoeg’s block,
perpetrated by an incendiary, for whose
detection and conviction the National
Board of Underwriters have recently
offered a reward of $2,000, in January
last, destroyed all traces of that assassi
nated Marshal’s blood, and also destroyed
all traoes of a man by the name of Hib
bard, who engineered a billiard establish
ment in the second story of No, 5 in that
range. Hibbard became mysteriously
and suddenly invisible; and, as no one
has beheld his form since, it is reason
able to conjecture that he was buried
upon that lurid night beneath the falling
walls of those buildings. Hibbard is
known to have been a person of singular
habits of frugality, and it is thought
probable that he had a considerable
amoont of money when he be
came a victim to fate and
a pile of heated bricks. Hi® body
may yet be exhumed from the debris at
the excavation for the pnrpose of re
building progress, and as we are desirous
of divesting this supposition of its sensa
tional aspect, if Hibbard is not dead he
will eonfer a favor by oalling around with
the information himself, otherwise we
shall insist upon the fact that he was
crashed to death at the specified time,
even though his remains shonld never be
brought to light. Before endowing this
man with animation again we want the
best kind of evidence—that is himself.
A REVELATION.
It will be distinctly remembered that
at the incipiency of a certain street rail
road scheme we pronounced the whole
affair in terse and rigorous language a
deliberate swindle, and invited tbe popu
lace, who gaped in amazement at our
hardihood, to “ please await develop
ments.” The developments after loiter
ing inexcusably by the way, have arrived
at last, not to put too fine a point upon
it, they have descended with such invigo
rating velocity, and in such a tremendous
volume that it appears to be impos
sible to avoid them or ignore them.
In the first instance the Btreet
railroad under consideration is, as pre
dicted, rapidly assuming the proportions
of a nonentity and a nuisance. A few
ragged rails litter up one of our back
| streets, and It may be prophesied that
this is all there will anr be of a certain
railroad until some oflh forced to buy
the present characterless and manifestly
moneyless projectors out. It is gratify
ing to relate that no citizen of Florida
was so far deaf to our kindly warning
as to contribute toward the maintenance
of a sinking fund by entrusting
his dollars to the originators of this ad
venturous and dolorous arrangement.
Will somebody award us the credit of
being somewhat familiar with the pecu
liarities of such inventors as the manip
ulators of this abortive game? They
must needs wait for a purchaser of the
franchise which was surreptitiously ob
tained, and praotice extortion on him—
hang him
STILL A LENGTH AHEAD.
The amphibious, luminous, irradiating
Dockray bids fair to distance the con
spirators against the vindication of his
character. Just to avert this consumma
tion a clerk failed intentionally to enter
the indictment against Freddy upon the
record. His villifiers battled deter
minedly to have the indictment quashed,
while nominally laboring to have the
error rectified, as was Freddy. They
argued perhaps that he would never be
able to delude another grand jury to
present him while they were around and
knew it, and that by his expulsion from
court upon a technicality they would
aceomplish a victory in depriving him
of the right to burnish up his
reputation even if they do happen to be
the sufferers. But on Monday Dockray
was in the United States Court, con
fronting his adversaries with his wits
about him, and succeeded in having the
Judge order that the record be made
nunc pro tunc. Freddy was likewise suc
cessful in having himself, upon the re
fusal of th6 motion to discharge the pris
oner, bound over to the December term
of court in the sum of twenty-five hun
dred dollars, and the imminence of an in
fliction npon the persecuted Freddy in the
shape of a complete release may be in
ferred wh6n the statement is made that
he is oharged with the embezzlement of
$5,000. F. A Dockray will yet be re
venged of his maligners.
CASES AND TRIALS.
In the Circuit Court this week the
grand jury found a true bill against Albert
Barton, the nigger who murdered a com
panion by beating his brains out with a
ponderous cudgel in February last. Up
to this writing Barton is unable wholly to
comprehend why he should be imprisoned
for such innocent diversion. The trial
of officer Nolan for defending himself
against a nigger inebriate in April, will
probably take place this week also. The
grand inquest for this term is composed
of eight niggers and seven white men.
THE BOSTBUM.
Whenever in this locality an ambitious
lecturer swings an elongated invitation to
himself, bearing an interminable list of
eminently respeetable names, who all
agree in requesting an oration, it seems
to be the fashion that his audience shall
be disreputably sporadic and not worth
the candle by any means. If empty
benches could listen approvingly, or even
pay an admission fee, the disappointment
might be endurable. Put not your faith
in these chronic signers of compliment
ary calls.
ALMOST A FIGHT.
Even the atmosphere during the week
jastpassed was redolent with a sanguinary
odor, and rumor had a bloody affray be
tween two old boys in prospect. But the
hero of a clammy anatomy and lowly
tout ensemble merely fawned upon a bluff
celebrity, and craved an explanation or—
or—and there the matter has remained
ever since. Needless to remark that
somebody should be written down an ass.
DECAPITATION BY MACHINERY.
As a flying on dit, it may be said that
the phat and pursy Stearns is resolved to
wield the official axe with an unusual
vigor henceforward, and has begun to
lop off some of the excrescences of his
accursedly corrupt administration. If
his incident accidencv has decided npon
no cessation in this business, we shall
conclude after a while that the Morning
News has accomplished more than we
expected, in infusing a small degree of
shame into the composition of an Execu
tive who has hitherto appeared to be des
titute of that ingredient of some people’s
natures entirely.
THE NEW POSTMASTER.
The intelligence has b6en derived from
a source estimated as authentic that
within one week the quondam darkey
Congressman, Josiah T. Walls, will be
insinuated into the position of Postmas
ter of Jacksonville, vice 3. S. Adams, de
ceased. This appointment has been con
cocted for the purpose of shelving that
incorrigible nigger, and carries his sup
posed influence irreclaimably over to the
Conover faction. Adrianus.
Atrocious Crime—An Innocent Citi
zen Murdered by an Illinois Outlaw.
Nashville, Ills., May 17.—Particu
lars reached this city this evening of a
terrible affair which occurred at Johan
nesburg, in the western portion of this
county, this afternoon. A cooper, called
the Californian, name unknown, who had
been there but a short time, had a diffi
culty with another party, in which he got
worsted. He then went to his room and
armed himself with a revolver. The
first person he met after coming on the
street was Judge Moellman, whom he at
tempted to shoot, but on being assured
that he was mistaken in his man he pro
ceeded to Peters’s store, where he found
Fritz Grendeman, and placing his revolver
against Grendeman’s head fired, killing
him instantly.
He then went to his room, and jnst as
parties wero making arrangements for his
arrest he appeared with two revolvers,
and flourishing one in his hand threatened
to kill any one attempting to arrest him.
Constable Herman Wilkins started to
make the arrest, notwithstanding the
warning, whfe the Californian fired at
him, a distance of thirty yards, the shot
taking effect in his brain and killing him
instantly.
By this time quite a crowd had as
sembled, and armed with shot guns and
revolvers, started in pursuit of the mur
derer, who was attempting to make his
escape. By reloading and shooting, he
kept the crowd at a distance, and at last
accounts they had not succeeded in cap
taring him.
Tbe first man killed had nothing to do
with the difficulty with the Californian.
After killing Grendeman he attempted to
kill Judge Moellman, firing three shots
at him before Moellman took refuge in
the mill.
The citizens are so excited that in the
event of a capture they will doubtless
lynch the murderer on the spot. There
had been a meeting of the creditors of R.
Wintker & Co., which aocounts for the
crowd being present. The murderer is
about five feet ten inches high, of dark
oomplexion, black beard, no moustache,
and had on a brown jacket, cotton over
alls and black hat.
Death of a Victim of Black Fbiday.
—J. N. Perkins, in former years a part
ner in the well-known Wall street bank
ing house of Winslow, Lanier & Co., is
dead. At a later period he was a mem
ber of the firm of J. N. Perkins &
Co., which failed on “Black Friday,”
for five hundred thousand dollars. Shortly
afterwards his wife died, and his own
health failing, misfortunes came thick
npon him. He had a splendid property
at Norwich, Connecticut, which had to
be sacrificed for his creditors. Latterly
he was employed at a small salary by a
broker’s firm.
A poor tramp who obtained a supply
of food from Professor Perkins’s little
daughter, in Iowa City, and afterward
obtained employment in the neighbor
hood, held the act of kindness in grate
ful remembrance when, a few days later,
the ohild was drowned. He watched the
river incessantly for days. Finally he
found the body lodged in a tree-top. He
carried it three miles to a house, and
then went and earned the news to Iowa
City. Some good may come ont, of
tramps, after alL
GOING TO THE WALL.
A General Embarrassment Anions the
Massachusetts Manufacturers—Heavy
Woolen Failures.
A dispatch of the 16th, from Boston,
says : The manufacturers of Massachu
setts are passing through a serious ordeal
just now. This is particularly true con.
ceraing tbe woolen manufacturers in the
extreme western part of the State, many
of whom have lately' failed altogether or
been obliged to partially or wholly sus
pend operations. The failure oi the
Berkshire Woolen Company, of Great
Barrington, which is announced to-day,
is the latest and one of the largest of the
many previously announced. The lia
bilities are estimated at not far from
$400,000, and by the suspension over
two hundred hands will be thrown out of
employment. This is the only manufac
turing establishment of any importance
in Great Barrington. It was organized
forty years ago by the late Asa C. and
John Russell, and the mills are among
the finest in the country. The corpo
ration had been under the management
of Farley A. Russell since the death of
Asa C. Russel], one of the founders.
The Johnson Gingham Company, of
North Adams, has also failed, with heavy
liabilities, but it is not unlikelv that ar.
rangements will be made by which busi
ness will be continued in the course of a
few days. The immedi&te cause of the
suspension was the placing of attach
ments by William C. Plunkett and James
Hunter & Son, also the market deoline in
the price of gingham, pi which they were
the chief American manufacturers. They
had a capacity of 5,000 yards per day,
employed two hundred hands, and did
an annual business of about $250,000.
Little is known as to the extent
of the failure, as most of the paper
is held in distant parts of the country.
Burlingame & Darby have a claim of
about $61,000 against the company
for manufacturers’ supplies. There is said
to have been a misunderstanding between
the commission house aud the company
concerning the payment of a draft, and
the company decided to let it go to pro
test. It is believed that the concern can
run and save something, and the affairs
will probably be adjusted very soon.
William C. Plunkett, of Adams, holds a
mortgage of fifty thousand dollars
against the property. The mill is the
finest one in Berkshire, beautiful in all
its appointments.
There have been about a dozen failures
among the Berkshire woolen manufactn.
rers within a couple of months, and as
many have suspended operations. The
mills of the Plunkett Company, in Hins
dale, are among those which have been
idle for nearly a year.
No Chance for Tilden.
[Baltimore Gazette.]
The opposition to Mr. Tilden in New
York has assumed a character that ren
ders his nomination at St. Louis almost
ont of the question. His failure to se
cure the pledged delegation a few weeks
ago virtually ended his canvass, and the
feeling that was then developed against
him has since increased in strength and
volume to such an extent, that it would
be folly to select him as the standard-
bearer of the Democratic party in the
coming campaign. No man who cannot
carry his own State ought to be nomina
ted, and that, it is now manifest, Mr.
Tilden cannot do. The only real strong
argument in his favor that he would ob
tain the large vote of New York in the
electoral college has been swept away,
and when that is gone he drops completely
out of sight as a Presidential candidate.
The opposition to him which has been
smouldering for so many months has at
last broken out into a vigorous flame.
His opponents have thrown off all dis
guise in the matter and come out in open
and defiant opposition to his pretensions.
The New Y’ork Express, which is the or
gan of a party in New York politics with-
out whose assistance hardly any man can
be nominated or elected to office in that
city, or even in the State, printed a sig
nificant double leaded editorial last
Wednesday evening, in which it says that
New Y’ork has no ciaims for the nomina
tion this year, and that common courtesy
toward otherStates should prevent the pre
sentation of a candidate by her. Bat it de
clares “Gov. Tilden and some of his per
sonal friends have decided differently, and
hence the controversy. The Governor’s
claim is urged principally npon the
ground that he is the sole reformer. Any
letters patent for reform to be issued
should ran to the Democratic party, em
bracing all the States that contributed in
electing an opposition Congress, that
have been and are now engaged in un
earthing the frauds of the last dozen
years, and to no single individual.” The
Express then proceeds to examine Mr.
Tilden’s reform record, and closes by
inviting a discussion of the whole subject
by the Democratio press.
The position assumed by our New,
York cotemporary will, we have no doubt,
be indorsed by the large majority of the
Democratio papers of the country. There
is in all sections of the country, not only
among the leaders of the party, bnt away
down among the masses, a feeling that
New York has had more than her share
of the Presidential nominations for the
last twelve years. McClelland was vir
tually a New Yorker; them we had Mr.
Seymour, aud last Mr. Greeley. Are the
other States so barren in men fit to lead
the party that it must again go to the
Empire State and select another one of
her favorite sons? The suggestion is
absurd, and Mr. Tilden’s personal follow
ers, in pressing him so earnestly, have not,
we are afraid, the true interest of the
party at heart- There are at least a score
of men in the Democratic ranks who are
his peers in every respect; who have as
much, if not more, of the confidence of
the country than he has; who are as
strong with the people, and would com
mand as many votes on the score of popu
larity alone. Then, again, there is
another feeling in the country, and it
might as well be expressed—that what is
called “ the New York influence ” in
Democratic politics is regarded with
jealousy in nearly every State in the
Union. Mr. Tilden is considered to be
its. exponent and - representative, and if
he is the nominee of the party he will
not receive that solid, earnest support
which it is so desirable the next Demo
cratic candidate should receive. The Ex-
press, no matter what may be its motives,
has done the parly good service by open
ing the discussion of Mr. Tilden’s pre -
tensions and calling for an expression of
opinion on the subject. Better have it
now, before the blunder is made, than
afterward, when it would be too late to
repair it.
Crazed in a Revival.—Thirty years
ago, William Fair, a prominent citizen of
Indiana county, Pennsylvania, attended a
revival meeting held in the manner of the
Primitive Methodists. He became a re
ligions enthusiast, and, imagining that he
had committed “the unpardonable sin,”
lost his reason, and passed his entire
time in praying and singing. He be
lieved his wife and family prevented his
obtaining pardon for his sins, and became
so violent toward them that it was found
necessary to place him under restraint.
A room was fitted np with stoat oaken
bars at the doors and windows, and he
was imprisoned therein. The skill of
the best physicians has failed to restore
his mind, and he has remained in con
finement since 1845. His cell is as com
fortable as it can be made, and he has
every attention. For thirty years he has
occupied every hour in the day with
lamentation over his lost soul, in piteous
appeals to God for pardon, and in sing
ing revival hymns unknown to church
goers of to-day. By pacing up and
down the floor of the room, and by con
stant kneeling in particular spots, he has
worn great hollows in the boards, which
it has been necessary to renew several
times. The unfortunate man is over
eighty yean old. He is tall and appar
ently in the best of physical health. His
hair and beard are of extraordinary
length. He keeps his person and apart
ment neat and clean, but allows no one
to approach him. He will not engage in
conversation, his whole attention being
given to hie intiweaei ‘
The Outrage Mill.
The recent outbreaks in Louisiana and
Mississippi are very strange affairs. If
any local excitement previously existed in
thoee neighborhoods, we have had not
the smallest intimation of the fact.
Everything seemed to be quiet and good
natured, and yet all of a sudden bands of
negroes rise to the achievement of sack
ing cross-road stores, murdering the pro
prietors, distributing among themselves
the arms and ammunition found therein
and organizing armed forces whioh me
nace the peace and safety of the neigh
borhoods.
Who or what set such proceedings as
these on foot ? , We need not tell any in
telligent Southern white man how easily
the negroes can be misled, betrayed and
scared into such follies. Experience and
observation have taught us all that a few
intriguing and nnscmpnlous politicians,
setting on foot tbe most idle and ground
less reports of unfriendly purposes on
the part of resident whites—of schemes,
for example, to remand the negroes back
into slavery—can stir up a perfect frenzy
of passion and alarm, and set the negroes
in any neighborhood into organizing—
oath taking—arming—drilling by moon
light, and so on, through all the weary
and sadly, comical performances of the
past ten years.
All that is a matter of history among
us—within the personal observation of
all—firmly believed, if not actually
known to be, part and parcel of the regu
lar campaign tactics of the white Badical
fuglemen scattered through the Southern
States and bent on working out their per
sonal designs at all hazards ; and we all
know that the only hope of permanent
immunity from such inflictions is a good,
solid Democratic majority which renders
such expedients hopeless and useless in
the way of carrying elections.
But now a crisis has arisen. It is be
ginning to be doubtfnl whether the Cen
tennial enthusiasm is going to work with
much power; and exposure has revealed
nothing but foul wrong and villainy in
the public administration. Nothing is
left to Radicalism for electioneering ma
terial bat the old capital of Southern
outrages and massacres. Morton gets np
his committee to .start the outrage mill,
aud the House is foolish enough to vote
him money to pay expenses. The com
mittee is just about to start, aud here
are big fusses in Lousiana and Missis
sippi starting contemporaneously. There
is a large piece of villainy at the bottom
of this business. In our opinion, it is
“got up” regardless of expense to the ne
groes, by Radical intriguants, with the
single end of saving the Presidential elec
tion, by another grand appeal to the sec
tional prejudices and misjudgments of
the Northern people. The reports of
these disturbances are very meagre and
unsatisfactory, but we trust they will be
carefully inquired into.—Macon Tele
graph.
Supposed Murder by Highwaymen.—
Jacob Holtz, aged sixty-five, living at
Jenkins’s Hotel in Barclay street, New
York, was found unconscious on Wednes
day night last at Forty-second street and
Park avenue, his throat cut and his
clothes covered with blood. He was
taken to the New York Hospital and
cared for, bat it is feared that his wounds
and subsequent exposure will produce a
fatal result. The police believed that he
was robbed by highwaymen, who after
wards attempted to murder him.
Cowardly Assassins.—Capt. B. H.
Langston, Deputy United States Marshal
of Springfield, Mo., visited Ozark county
a few days ago, for the purpose of serv
ing United States warrants npon some
illicit distillers and counterfeiters, and
while riding along the road in a buggy
was fired upon from the brush by some
unknown assassin. One shot took effect
in a leg, and one in an arm. The wounds
are supposed to be fatal.
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