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J. H. EST1LL,
Savannah, Ga.
risk,
THE t)Ll>
>TORV TOED OFF NAN*
ticket.
>ou Journal.]
i now, 1 ’ f ai l she,
•orutul, wearied air,
the waves to where
ei the sea.
• a id utli Crusade,
-'its would come once more,
i prosy shore
ii'tit be made.
Our u
Our b
The lev-
lie lool
Was 1
• rji11s' liirlds cur page;
iipit). No martyr wakes
>m sleep. No hero breaks
• stupid age."
r in sad surprise;
artless and so blase?
bravery to-day
■ro in her eyes 1 '
“And ye
A hero
D?aic shore
)oen," said he;
vr here might be
armor wore.
ed coast
t went down
lie town,
\ ere lost.
And t!
Had cut
Had filing
i wo who caught an oar
r a moment; they
Kt n for many a day,
■d on many a shore.
**gin to sink
ble weight; he knew
ot Boat the two,
11c uid not shrink ;
••His fact
He rli i
riend might save,
: to give him choice,
i a ringing voice
i, strong and brave
ruled an Alpine height
i the arching sky
ne must go—good-bye—
*uh was lost from sight.
■as saved, but now alone
•ars that voice repeat
-U<»i bless you!’ clear and sweet,
roar and winds that moan!’*
t their scornful curl,
now with tenderpiin,
I like a summer rain
lastes of the girl.
ero! ‘greater love
a’’ passionately thrilled
tones; her face was tilled
i all words above.
1 to
Wat*-
Tram
himself apart—
anguid cynic’s face
i’.h radiant, tender grace—
iv she has a heart!’’
Parsons,
A Hairs
It ant
in Georgia.
;t rtaiu parties in Dalton
are endeavoring to civ ate the impression that
the editor of the Enterprise is not a simon
pure Democrat, if he is not, he succeeds in
hidiug the fact from the readers of his pa-
: upon the Enterprise as one
t Democratic weeklies on our
We suspect that the trouble
le fact that Mr. Hanburv re-
his paper an “organ.”
of the Covington Star, who
ar guard of the Eleven Able,
per. Welo
exchange list
arises from i
fuses to maki
The editor
acts as the r
says that we misrepresented Col. Clarke’s
position on the Columbus question. We re
gret this with all the ardor of our nature,
and beg leave to state, by way of correction*
that while the Colonel has, at times, picked
plums in the neighborhood of Columbus,
and witnessed the ravenous grasshoppers
shake the morning dew from their manes
in the suburbs, he has never, so to speak,
made a habit of residing in the city proper.
If the editor of the Covington Star is of a
forgiving nature he will at once observe
that our error was geographical rather than
historical.
col. 11. A. Alston is a candidate for the
Legislature from DeKalb.
A Macon man who lost ten dollars at pool
the other night has grown economical. He
refuses to let his wife repay a pan of meal
orrowed from a neighbor. Truly,
• era ot reform and retrenchment*
Clarke, of the Atlanta Conslilu-
*een appointed a member of tho
ate Executive Co-aunttee.
u about fifty years of age at-
utrago a six year old negro
> county tho other day. He
that si
this is
Col. E. V.
lion, has l>e(
Democratic
A negro n
tempted to
child in iii
escaped.
About th
about time f
bah ? Then
the Thomas
supply its p:
Mr. Mcililiin, of Washington county, died
suddenly of apoplexy on Saturday.
Tkv Columbus Times, will be issued as a
ih after the 1st of September. Col. John
H- Martin,the veteran editor,will still control
its columns.
A neg
tempted
James A,
Thomasville Fair: Isn’t it
r South Georgia to open the
is no State Fair this year, and
die Fair can be made to fully
she way
frum his t-mph
and the
Mr. i;
flition oj
ment f<
not p e
office i
Birable*.
girl th rteen years of age at-
set tire to tho dwelling of Mr.
:iuons, of Atlauta, in order, as
that she might be discharged
The flames were put out,
turned over to a policeman,
t A. Morris has resigned his po-
-f of the Macon Fire Depart-
L ‘ reason that his . business will
him to give the duties of his
* uti >n which be deems de-
~;i i Horticultural Society met in
Macon venter,
t/ 8 ^ ^ Hurdle, of Athens, is dead,
e miuera.1 spring at Athens is still at
tracting attention.
Alex. Mills
colored, has been committed
; rtUal • a charge of murdering Mr. John
* • was found in the river near the
> t city.
inwealth learns from a
^fca..euian Jr Oxford that the learned di-
and President of the college, Dr. Atti-
- ,r Hay good, has already added to bis
*1'! **cauU seventy-five now students,
fca *k° 8e already in attendance.
ople i f North Geargia will
ted at the Thomasviile
i,r . oth as exhibitors and visitors. Come
■y>Bwr:fy
dowu
do.
AU r i See what the
wiregrass region can
thl IUOt *° u Richmond delegates to
D 6re8sionaI Convention of the Eighth
instructed to vote for Mr.
! !l vs was voted down at tho meeting in
A^'usta on Friday.
gusv ^ me8 I: ’ R an Hall, editor of the Au-
isL is off on a visit to
* aryIa H his Maryland.
‘ Peaking of Senator Norwood, the Green-
Tille (s pi x-
’• Aewa says : ‘-Whenever Geor-
^ a refuse to acknowledge the great abili"
° ^ 0!a Norwood,and forget the work
j. Lfc '^ &ce ^ or them, and the great amount
" ,r formed, they forget their ablest
3 ^ 8 -uxuaud best friend.”
and °, A , ^ eus Watchman thus pointedly
from Uily remar ks: Some of our papers,
dwarf tt* 18 CaU8e to us unknown, attempt to
‘Ont\i 0 ^ oaventi °Q question, by holding
L 1 ^ oa that the main issue is the loca-
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17. 1876
ESTABLISHED 1850.
tioa of the State capital—while all who
know anything about the matter, know very
well that this is an affair of secondary im
portance. It is true, the people have a right
to determine where their capital shall be lo
cated, and in order to give & fair expression
to their wishes should be left perfectly
free to select whatever place they please,
and not vote under duress, as they
did in the adoption of the negro-scalawag
constitution. The primary object of the
convention is, and should be, to allow the
people of Georgia to frame a Constitution
tor themselves. The organic law under
which we now live, was framed for them,
and not by them. It was framed by men
from Skowhegan, by corn-field negroes and
by men who never set foot in the counties
they pretended to represent until the day
before the election. The manner of its
framing, outrageous as it was, is not the
most objectionable feature. While it has
some wise provisions, there are many glar
ing defects. Being the offspring of a hun
gry horde of office-seekers, it sought to
benefit that class of the community at
the expense of the masses of the
people. Being the organic law, and
being corrupt, it matters not who may
bo in power, the people can never
prosper under it. No corrupt fountain can
send forth pure waters. If the people want
wholesome laws, wise and just, they must
go to the fountain-head—tho Constitution.
The people understand this thing—they
want a constitution of their own—but they
will never get it until they compel candi
dates for the Legislature to pledge them
selves to vote for an act leaving the question
to bo settled at the ballot-box. 'J be Legis
lature seems to be afraid of it—the late con
vention dodged it. Let tbo people take it
in hand and compel candidates for the Leg
islature to take ground for the present
fraudulent constitution or in favor of a con
vention to frame a new one.
Atlanta correspondence Griffin News : It
is generally believed by the knowing politi
cians, that the Smith ring throughout the
State are trying to put men in the next Leg
islature favorable to Smith for United States
Senator. The plan to do it is in a quiet
way, and thus defeat the wishes of the peo
ple. County meetings in various parts of
the State would do’well to have an eye to
this, and clip the corrupt move iu its in-
cipiency.
Saudersvillc Messenger: Never before has
the labors of the husbandman in this county
promised so large a return. Better crops of
corn or cotton never grew upon our lands,
and if a fair price can be obtained this year
for the products of the soil, our planting
friends will pay out of debt and Lave a
handsome surplus. The prospect at this
time is truly encouraging, and it is to be
hoped that we will all be able to realize our
most sanguine expectations.
Thomasville Enterprise : Wo call the at
tention of all parties to the call from the
President of ttie Fair Association for a meet
ing of the stockholders on tLe 21 li inst. We
hope that not only the stockholders, but all
others who feel an interest in this institution
will be present. We have the finest oppor
tunity now that we ever bad of making a
success of our fair. We have no State Fair
to contend with, and only one or two fairs
anywhere in the State, and the reputation
of this association will, with a little effort
on the part of our people, make the best
thing in the way of a fair that has ever been
held in this or any other section of tho
State. Come up, and lei’s all pull together.
Sandersville Messenger: As the time of
our di.-trict fair approaches, we hear of
much that will increase the interest in the
exhibition. Everywhere around, as in this
and adjoiuiug counties, arrangements are
beiDg made to make it the best agricultural
fair ever held in Middle Georgia. The Hod.
Benj. H. Hill has been invited to deliver the
annual address; and the railroad, now in the
course of construction, will be completed,
aud will be quite a convenience to visitors
coming to the fair. And the twelve counties
which participate iu the district fair are
vieing with each other as to which shall
exhibit the greatest number of articles on
the occasion. To the people of the several
counties we say let every one do all they
can, be it much or little; and in this way
strive to make this fair the pride of Middle
Georgia.
Columbus Times: Yesterday at three
o’clock passed away another immortal soul
of the old regime that illustrated tbo South
and Southern women. At that hour Mrs.
Homer Y. Howard, Sr., died. There was no
one in the community but “knew her, and
to love her” for her many deeds of charity
and benevolence. Wasted with years, she
sank to rest yesterday, in her G8tk year.
She was the sister of Hon. Peterson aud
Col. Mike L. Tbweatt, and the sister-in-law
of Maj. John H. and T. B. Howard. Around
her clustered the Christian virtues that this
world gives to humanity. She met the dread
summons with composure aud fortitude,
talking to her friends about it as a short
journey to the shores of eternity and bliss.
Conscious of her end, she summoned her
friends around hen, aud left with them re
membrances for the present, and bright
hopes for the future. She was indeed “of
the salt of the earth,” and many of the
poor and distressed will weep over the death
of their friend.
Judge Collier declines to become a candi
date for the Legislature from Fulton coun
ty. In bis card declining the nomination he
says: I am decidedly opposed to the primary
election system for nominations, as provided
for by the Democratic Executive Committee
of this county, aud which has been prac
ticed in this city and county for the last few
years. The system or mode at present used
is of recent origin and may be regarded as
the modern Democracy. The objection
to it, as practiced in ibis city aud coun
ty, grows out of the fact mainly that
there are not, nor can there be under
that system, any checks or guards against
repeating, false counting or illegal votiDg.
There are no oaths to be administered to
voters or managers. No penalties for ille
gal voting, for repeating, for extracting bal
lots or for stuffing ballot boxes. It will not
do to say that nothing of that sort will oc
cur at the primary election to be held on
xi_ . — Tt is tn lxr* Knnail That it
the 25th instant. It is to be hoped that it
will not. Doubtless the Executive Commit-
tee and the managers of the election will
do all in their power to prevent anything
of the kind, but who is so stupid as
not to know that they wiil be perfectly
powerless to prevent such things ? Is the
history of primary elections, heretofore held
for candidates in our city and county, worth
nothing to onr people? We, as a city and
county, have not to this moment recovered
from the shock which the recent primary
election produced, and which has been made
a course of reproach against our community
throughout the entire State. ^ Shall this
course of conduct, so humiliating to our
selves, and which has disgraced us in the
eyes of others, be so soon repeated V Shall
liquor shops be thrown open, and your
streets be thronged with drunken sots for
days before the primary election, waiting
for livery stable carriages te be sent around
for the purpose of hauling them to the polls
to deposit their votes for the man of their
choice (?) ? Shall all these things be re-en
acted ? We shall see. Dear in mind that
these primary elections are, for all practical
purposes, the ones in which your officers
are selected, and it is by this irresponsible
mode you are to have your representatives
in tho Legislature, as well as your county
officers chosen. Others may, if they choose,
participate in or accept the nominations
made in that wav, but for myself, I must
made in that way, but for
respectfully be allowed to decline.
Senator Bayard received the honorary
degree of Doctor of Laws at the recent
commencement cf Delaware State Col
lege. The same degree was conferred
upen the Kev. Robert B. Fairbairn, war
den of St. Stephen’s College at Annan-
dale, New York, and the degree of Doctor
of Divinity npon the Rev. Thomas S.
Savage, of Rhinecliff.
The Danforth locomotive works at Pa
terson, N. J., have been discharging their
men lately, till now three hundred out
of five hundred are without work. The
city is now full of idle machinists and
mechanics.
A law has been passed in Germany for
bidding the construction of school-rooms
with windows on both sides of the room.
It is said to be proven that rooms so
lighted are injurious to the eyes.
The completion of the translation of
Comte’S “System of Positive Philosophy”
will soon be published by Longmans of
London.
The bank of Tehama county, Cal., has
declared a dividend of one per cent, a
month for the six months ending June
30 That does not look like hard times.
South Carolina Affairs.
Mr. J. W. Cannon, near Abbeville, sowed
four bushels and one peck of wheat and
made ninety bushels.
A train on the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad, on Monday night, made
the distance from Charlotte to Columbia,
one hundred and ten miles, in three and a
half hours..
A heavy hail storm passed over Winns-
boro’ on Tuesday, damaging trees and gar
dens.
Rain has damaged the crops in Williams
burg.
Mrs. John Lomax died at Long Cane, in
Abbeville, last Thursday, after a long ill
ness.
Col. C. S. Mattison, of Anderson, has
made forty gallons of cider from the apples
of one*tree, and has the fruit for as much
more.
A committee of three United States grand
jurors has been sent hv Judge Bryan to
Pickens to examine the county jail and dis
cover the cause of the escapes that have
been effected from it.
An unknown negro knocked a stepson of
Hugh Wilson, Jr., from his horse last Fri
day on his way from Kirkpatrick’s mills on
Turkey creek, Abbeville county. The hoy
cried out and tho villain escaped without
doing further damage. *
The wife of Mr. R. H. Mounco died in
Spartanburg on Monday last.
Mrs. H. H. Scudday, of Anderson, and
Mrs. J. F. Townsend, of Cokesbury, died
last week.
The Abbeville Medium reports that Cullen
Lark and John Hamilton have been arrested
as being concerned in the murder of Joe
Crews.
Trial Justice Bruce, white, of Abbeville,
denies that he ha3 ordered any cartridges
for the colored militia. He says he is desir
ous of properly performing his duties,which
are those of peacemaker.
The Barnwell Sentinel complains that in
that town the streets are choked with weeds,
the bridges barely passable, firearms are
discharged in tho corporate limits, rude
hoys bathe at the bridge in daytime, and
there is no marshal to report them.
The citizens of Lowndesville, Abbeville,
have organized a labor reform club.
Mr. Larkin Barmon died in Abbeville
county last Saturday, at tbo extreme ago of
seventy-five years.
The physicians of Spartanburg will or
ganize a medical association.
On Tuesday evening last, in Greenville, a
colored drayman, Henry Froneberger,
picked up one hundred and eighty dollars
on the street and returned it to the gentle
man who had lost it.
Messrs. W. Waddy Thomson, E. C. Oiiver
and George W. Nichols appeared in Spartan
burg court last week for examination on pe
tition to practice law. They were admitted
and took the oath of attorneys.
Mr. S. H. Langston, of Anderson Court
House, had a severe attack of paralysis on
Monday.
Mr. Willingham, of Allendale, last Sun
day morning found the fence enclosing his
crops fired in three places. The fires were
extinguished and steps have been taken to
detect the incendiaries.
Mr. J. H. Allen’s store was entered on
last Sunday night, iu Spartanburg, and
robbed of goods amounting to several hun
dred dollars in value. The bui glars entered
by a back cellar door, and from there came
up into the store aud plundered until they
were satisfied.
Dr. James Oliver, iu a letter to the Port
Royal Standard and Commercial, protests
against the working of roads on St. Helena
duriDg August, as freshly turned earth ia
midsummer is productive of malt.rial fevers.
December and January are the proper
months for such work.
A cattle thief, Grayson, arrested in Co
lumbia, on tbo 9ih inst., by Chief of Police
Radcliffe, escaped from the station-house on
the same night, through the negligence of
policeman Pompey Adams, who allowed the
prisoner to wain in the yard without a guard.
Adams has been suspended and Chief Rad
cliffe is in search oi the thief.
Mr. C. A. Reed, of Anderson, has a patch
of “Central American” or “red rust proof”
cotton, which attwets much attention.
The color of the leaf is red, and at a dis
tance has the appearance of rust. It is
claimed that the lint of this cotton is supe
rior to all other varieties of upland cotton,
and that it will stand excessive heat and
drought without shedding scarcely any of
its forms. Mr. Reed has also a magnificent
patch of Cheatham cotton, averaging five
feet in height, aud heavily fruited.
Susan Dickinson, Anna’s sister, >a now
one of tlis editors of the pizerne (Pa.)
Leader.
Negro Intimidation of Negro Demo
crats.
[From Ihe Huntsville (Ala.) Democrat.]
On Monday last, in the court yard in
this city, John M. Davis, a negro, de
clared his purpose to vote the Democratic
ticket, and twenty-five or thirty Radical
negroes surrounded him and threatened
him with violence if he should do so.
Captain Dan Coleman, Solicitor elect of
this Judicial Circuit, walked up and re
monstrated with them on their illegal
conduct. They disregarded his friendly
advice. Among many variations of abus
ive and threatening language were the
expressions : “God d—n you, if you vote
the Democratic ticket you’ll be a dead
man.” Captain Brandon fold them that
Captain Coleman was the Solicitor,
and that they were violating the
law. One of them replied : “Law. hell!
there’s no law in this country.” Capt.
Brandon replied, “That is a matter to be
settled in the court house.” Lawrence
Gurley, a mulatto negro in the employ of
Mr. Tscbopi, stepped up by Capt. Cole
man’s side and cursed Davis and threat
ened to whip him. Captain C. replied :
“You lay your hand on him, and I’ll land
you in the penitentiary.” The negroes
persisted in their violent language, until
affidavits were made before Judge Rich
ardson, warrants were issued, and three
negroes—Lawrence Gurley, Francis Titus
and Win. Johnson—were arrested and
taken before Judge Richardson. They
were bailed in $200 each, for their appear
ance to answer. The names of the dis
orderly mob were unknown, but they sub*
sided.
Elijah Robinson and Green Cross, Dem
ocratic negro voters, were passing along
the Whitesburg Pike, near the Willis
Harris place, when a crowd of negro
wenches, supposed to number forty or
fifty, prepared with stones and switches,
surrounded them, poured out their vials
of abuse, threatened to stone and whip
them, and every Democratic nigger. Rob
inson and Cross defied the black viragoes,
and they proceeded to pelt them -with
stones. The men escaped without serious
injury, but the women will be likely to
learn* by sad experience, that the
law against intimidation of voters
applies to women as well as med.
One poor old Democratic darkey,
whose wrinkles, frosty head, dim eyes
and bent form indicate an age near four
score years, excited our sympathy and
compassion, yesterday, by his touching
expressions of fear of his own race, and
appeals to Captain Colemau to “give him
some protection papers.” Captain C.
wrote him a little document warning all
persons not to molest the old man, and
threatening all who might do so with the
penalty of the violated law—the coal
mines or the penitentiary. We assured
the old man that the white Democrats
would protect the colored ones at all haz
ards, and he left apparently with a heavy
burthen lifted off his heart.
Congress Hall and Clarendon Hotel at
Saratoga have advertised a reduction of
rates.
It has been proved by the New York
Board of Health that the adulterated milk
is watered after leaving the dairies.
The New York police force numbers
2,900 men.
Montreal’s population is 148,000, ac
cording to a recent census.
A niece of Maximilian is the acknowl
edged bell© of Saratoga.
The geological survey of Colorado will
be printed this season.
BY TELEOIPB
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
THE INDIAN WAR.
REPORTED FIGHT OF TERRY WITH
THE I.YDIANS.
Three Hundred Soldiers and Seven
Hundred Indians Killed.
ENGLANDWILLISn TO MEDIATE IN
THE Tt’ROO SERVIAN STRUGGLE.
South (Jnroliuti Democrats in Council.
THE STRUGGLE IS THE EAST.
London, August 1G.—The war party at
Belgrade is gaming strength on account of
recruits from Russia and other points, aud
the growing impression is that one great
power at least will adhere to the fortunes of
the Servians. The Turks are delaying
operations to give an opportunity for peace
propositions, but they will have, to win
another battle.
The Czar has telegraphed to Belgrade
that he will stand god-father by proxy for
the young prince.
The Montenegrins defeated tho Turks at
Ruci.
A special dispatch to the Daily Telegraph
reports that ihe English Consuls at Belgrade
and Constantinople have been directed to
mform the Servians and Turks, respectively,
that if they will consent to a mediation of
the powers, England is willing to act.
A dispatch to tho Daily Telegraph from
Constantinople says the Turks are inclined
to issue a decree for the deposition of Prince
Milan, and to nominate his successor. Eng
land has protested against this course
through her ambassador.
A dispatch from Belgrade to the Daily
Telegraph Hays Mme. Merkus, who estab
lished a hospital at Shalatz, a town of Ser-
via, forty-four miles west of Belgrade, has
been arrested for expressing republican
opinions to the wounded Serviaus. She was
taken to Belgrade with a view to her expul
sion from Servian territory.
Belgrade, August 10.—The Turks have
reached Jabloncza. The Serviau Colonel
Autiticli is gathering strength to defend
Krusevatz, from which place roads lead 10
Krugezevatz. Tho fall of this place would
open the Morava valley to the south of Gen.
Tcheruayeff’s position, which would thus bo
turned.
London, August 16.—The Pall Mall
Gazette publishes a dispatch from Berlin
which says that mediation by the powers
on the basis of the reestablishment of the
status quo before the war is considered im
minent. It is reported that the Czar is
anxious for a speedy termination of the war,
and has personally besought the Emperors
of Austria aud Germany to offer their good
offices to tho belligerents for the purpose of
securing peace. News received here from
Constantinople contradict the reports that
separate negotiations have been entered
into with Montenegro.
THE STRIKING BRAKESMEN.
Cincinnati, August 16.—The Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad strike is virtually
ended. The following was issued last night :
Vincennes, August 15.—To Agents : The
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad will be open
for its regular business of all kinds to
morrow (Wednesday) morning.
(Signed) J. E. Gomperling,
Superintendent.
The result of the stride is that the men
are paid and discharged, leaving the pay in
the luture reduced.
REPORTED FIGHT WITH THE INDIANS.
Washington, August 1G.—A Bismarck
special says a party that arrived from the
Black Hilis bad a skirmish with the Indians,
losing one killed aud one wounded. There
is nothing further of Terry’s fight, except
that Captain Weston, from Benton, beard
that Terry fought the day before he left,
losing 300 killed. The Indian loss was 700
killed.
EXCITEMENT AMONG THE CRETANS.
London, August 16.—A Times' Athens
dispatch says in consequence of the Porte’s
refusal to grant the demands of the Crotan
Assembly, great excitement prevails, and
a rising has been imminent. The Cretans
ask advice of Greece, aud the latter urged
them to appeal to the great powers aud
await tbo result, which they will prob
ably do.
SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS.
Columbia, S. C., August 16.—W. W. Har-
lee was elected permanent President of the
State Democratic Convention last night.
There is no action to-day as yet.
ATilden and Hendricks ratification meet
ing will be held to-night.
* LORD LYTTON.
London, August 16.—A dispatch to
Reuter’s Telegram Company from Simla
says the report is untrue that Lord Lytton
contemplates resigning tho Governor-
Generalship of India next year.
BURNED.
WESTroRT, N. Y., August 1G.—A fire here
last night destroyed all the business portion
of the town. Loss $75,000. Iuceudiarism
was the cause.
LIVINGSTONS 8 STATUE.
Edinburgh, August 16.—The statue of Dr.
Livingstone, the African explorer, was uu-
veiled here yesterday.
FROM PARIS.
Paris, August 16.—It is stated that Gen.
Berthout will shortly be appointed Minister
of War rice Gen. Decissoy.
GRANT.
Washington, August 16.—The President
leaves for Long Branch Friday or Saturday.
James Kedpath is the man who be
lieves that Belknap is the victim of a
“gigantic conspiracy.” He is also the
man who wrote the report of the Bout-
well committee on Mississippi affairs.
Further comment on the nature or char
acter of this report would be superfluous.
— Worcester Press.
Sir Salar Jung, Minister of the Nizam,
the chief whose inability to visit the
Prince of Wales caused such an official
fuss in India, has been presented with
the freedom of the city of London, an
honor justly voted him for his conduct
in the Sepoy mutiny.
The oldest son of the late Gen. Robert
E. Lee is now one of the most substantial
farmers of Fairfax county, Va. A local
paper describes him as having “just
passed our office, sitting behind a line
pair of mules that seemed to know that a
master hand held the ribbons.”
The word has gone out from Zach
Chandler’s committee room, and the
obedient Republican organs set up a
simultaneous shiver at the prospects of
80,000 officeholders turned out at one
sweep.—Poston Post.
“Reform is necessary,” say the Demo
crats. “Troops are necessary,” say the
Republicans. That is one salient point
of difference between the two parties.—
St. Louis 7 imts.
San Francisco has a strong man who,
with 400 pounds on his back, 400 on his
breast, a 200 pound bar on bis neck, and
a man on each end of the bar, dances,
wearing shoes that weigh 75 pounds.
“Howard Glyndon,” the writer, is
Laura C. Redden, a deaf mute. She has
been a pupil at the school for mutes at
Mystic, Conn., and has learned to use her
voice.
One of the street railroads in Paris
uses a locomotive without a furnace. It
has a reservoir of superheated water,
which furnishes a supply of 3team.
An old negro was paid his wages in sil
ver half dollars. He gazed benignly upon
them as they lay in his palm, grinned as
though in triumph, and exclaimed; “Dat’s
de stuff de rats can’t chaw!”
Kansas is bound to complain. Last
year she sent out grasshopper missionaries
begging for bread. This year she says
there are not men enough in the State to
harvest the enormous orop of grain.
Ericsson is experimenting, with the ob
ject of obtaining mechanical power from
the direct action of the sun's rays.
They called for the Hayes and noes
down in Alabama, and most everybody
voted “no.”—Detroit Free Pr*ss.
15 THE HOUSE OF HIS FRIENDS.
A Radical Organ Show* I p President
Grant—Some Startling Revelation**.
[Alleghany (Pa.) Mail (Rad.) August 2.]
The administration of President Grant
will be renowned in history as the period
of the greatest political corruption iu
this country, and the culmination of the
ring combinations which had their origin
and birth with Gen. Grant prior to his
election to the Chief Magistracy of the
nation. There is an unwritten chapter
in the biography of Ulysses S. Grai t
that when published will crimson the
cheek of every honest American, and dim
the lustre of a name that might have
shone with the brightest effulgence.
Grant’s ruling passion is the love
of money. He inherited from bis
parents nothing but ignorance aud
poverty. The nation supplied him
with a military education, and
his depraved nature found a congenial
employment in giving free rein to its un
bridled appetites and passions. Still the
strong desire of his nature was to become
rich, not by honest endeavor and econo
mic savings, but suddenly and without
effort on his part. “Anything to make
money” was his darling motto. After he
graduated at West Point and retired
from the service with the.rank of Cap
tain, all bis attempts to improve his con
dition cr make money enough to decently
support himself, were miserable fail
ures. Fortune frowned on him, and
everything he touched went against him.
Immediately preceding the war he was
reduced to the utmost straits. Captain
Grant around St. Louis was a common
“bar room hanger on.” He was very
fond of whisky then as he is now, but be
was too poor to indulge in the costly
luxury of drinking it, unless when in
vited to join in a social glass by his more
fortunate neighbors. Gen. Grant is not
devoid of a certain kind of shrewdness.
He early discovered that selling whisky
was a money making business. Like
Col. Sellers, his cupidity was inflamed so
that he could see “millions in it.” Hun
dreds had made fortunes in trading
in liquors, and why not he ? Here was
formed in Capt. Grant’s busy brain tho-se
schemes of plunder which cropped out iu
later years in the formation of the
famous whisky rings, that have brought
so much scandal on those connected witfi
them. These corrupt combinations bid
not their origin in the revenue service,
as is erroneously supposed, but were the
results of General Grant’s deliberate pur
pose and cunning plans to become sud
denly rich, and which were matured and
carried out the very first opportunity
when he became clothed with power. It
was some time in the summer of 1862 that
the first whisky ring was formed. Gen.
Grant was in command of the Depart
ment of the South, with his headquarters
at Memphis, Tennessee. It was during
this time that General Grant’s famous
whisky orders were promulgated. The
occasion of these extraordinary prouuu-
ciamentoes is still fresh in the memo
ry of a number of living witnesses. We
speak what we do kuow, and testify to
what we have heard and seen with our
own ears and eyes. It is the veritable
truth. At the time of which we are
now writing whisky was selling in Mem
phis at from forty to fifty cents per gal
lon, and all other liquors in the same
proportion. Gen. Grant, through his
friends, united aud purchased all the
available liquors in the market at that
place. After it had been bought and de
livered into the hands of his friends and
agents, Gen. Grant suddenly discovered
that there was entirely too much whisky
coming within his lines. He immediately
issued a positive order prohibiting any
more liquor from being transported to
Memphis. In three days after the is
suance of the first famous whisky orde-r,
the price of whisky advanced from fifty
cents a gallon to from three to five dol
lars per gallon, according to quality.
This order was maintained and
strictly enforced until all the liquors
were consumed within the lines, or more
properly speakiDg, until Grant’s agents
had sold out and raked into the pool an
immense pile of greenbacks. Shortly
afterwards Gen. Grant suddenly discov
ered that liquor w r as again needed within
the lines for hospital and me icinal uses,
but no new order was issued until his
partners and agents had time to visit
Cairo and buy up every gallon of liquor
available in that city, besides having
large quantities shipped from St. Louis
to Cairo, awaitiDg the fresh order remov
ing the restrictions. Next followed the
famous order No. 2, which took off all
restrictions and opened up the whisky
trade again in Memphis. Gen. Grant’s
agents, in the meantime, being fully
posted, had their shipments all made and
their liquor on the way and in maikel
before outsiders knew anything of the
order. Of course the market was com
pletely glutted, and the price of whisky
immediately declined at Memphis to fifty
cents a gallou. Now mark, as soon as
Grant’s friends’ heavy invoices had been
received, the General discovered that
there was so much liquor shipped that
there was imminent danger of demoral -
izing the army, and at once issued an
other order to prohibit any more liquor
from coming within the lines. Whisky
again went up on the issuance of tiie or
der, from fifty cents to from three to five
dollars. What is strange no person had
any large quantities of liquor on hand
but General Grant’s par nera, who reaped
a rich harvest of this skillful manipula
tion of the market. General Grant’s
share of the plunder must have been
enormous, as some of his partners amass
ed a large fortune from this first venture.
Colonel William S. HilJyer, for instance,
one of his staff officers, accumulated
enough money in a few months to go to
New York aud engage in tho banking
business.
We have briefly sketched the begin
ning of the whisky ring-*, and Gen.
Grant’s first connection with them. Is
it any wonder that when Gen. Grant
became President Grant he should re
member the associates of his earlier and
humbler days? Is it not creditable to
his head and heart that he still has a
kindly feeling for his old chums, who
assisted him so successfully and profit
ably to bull and bear the whisky mar
ket? There is probably no business
which promises so large and certain a
return to the investor of capital as the
trade in whisky. It is something in uni
versal demand. Men will part with any
thing on earth, or what may be gained
in the future, for it. Its free use is the
scourge of the race. It annually destroys
a larger number of the human family
than war, pestilence and all other
causes oombined. Enough money is
spent in its consumption to drive poverty
from the land and Christianize the world.
The business in its multifarious forms is
a perfect bonanza. Of this Gen. Grant
was early convinced, and hence his eager
ness to become rich always found him a
willing accomplice in any scheme of
plunder in this direction. The immense
sum which he realized by his first venture
at Memphis acted like the first taste of
blood in the wild animal, it fired General
Grant’s cupidity to fever heat, increasing
in intensity year after year, until the con-
t'olling passion has consumed all that was
lovely or attractive in his character. In
terpreted in the light of the little episode
which we have related of his early life,
the mysterious sympathy and leniency
shown to the criminals convicted of
robbing the revenues cf the government,
especially in connection with the illicit
liquor business, will not be surprising io
any pereoD. The Republican part}* never
made a greater mistake than by choosing
General Grant to represent the grand
principles of that party. His administra
tion of the government has been personal,
strictly limited to the advancement of
his interests and that of his family. In
no senoe was the “little man of destiny”
a atp-esman. It is the bitter fruit of civil
war that it entails on a nation as rulers
£ brood of selfish, vain, ignorant and
conceited military men. President Grant
is & conspicuous illustration of this ob
servation. The country is sick of Grant-
ism, which is oDly another term for in
competency and misrule. The people
are particularly tired of ring combina
tions. Chief ameng them is the whisky
ring. To-day it is the strongest and
most powerful force in the government-
It is almost omnipotent in its
way. The press, the State and National
legij-l&tures, and even the judiciary, bow
to its behests, and seem powerless to con
trol its monstrous usurpations or punish
its venal >nd coirupt practices. We
charge President Grant with concocting
and fostering this infamous combination,
and eight years of his misrule has mainly
been devoted to maintaining and develop
ing its malign power and permanence.
The Indian ring is only another member
of the same hydra -headed monster that
receives its life from the parent whisky
ring. Its most conspicuous operators
have escaped punishment, and those who
have been convicted are assured cf a re
prieve from the pliant Executive of the
nation. Is it a matter of surprise that
Babcock, Belknap and the brood of cor
rupt rascals ihat are the bosom friends of
the President, should escape with im
punity and defeat the cuds of justice?
However, we shall have to erdure
patiently this condition of things until
we cau get rid of Grant and his pernici
ous policy. The swelling tide of popular
reform, we believe, will sweep from
power and place the imbecile Executive,
together with his brood of corrupt
myrmidons, and it is the supreme duty of
every intelligent voter to see to it that his
successor to the White House shall be a
man who will not perpetuate the malign
policy that has impoverished the people,
paralyzed the industrial and commercial
interests, and brought a prosperous
nation to the verge of bankruptcy and
ruin.
Southern Cotton Mills.
[From the New York South.]
It is gratifying to note in the Southern
press ti.e indorsements of ideas repeat
edly expressed in the columns of the
South, regarding the transfer of the idle
mills and operatives from the cold, inhos
pitable climate of New England to the
genial clime where the cotton grows, and
where it is manufactured with rich profits,
at the same time that Now England mills
are stopping to keep out of bankruptcy.
When such a transfer would be of such
vast benefit to all parties concerned, the
apathy of them all is fairly aggravating.
The delay is eating up the capital of the
mill owners and the savings of the idle
operatives with a terrible future before
them aud their families when their money
is gone. The Southern people engaged
and interested in the culture of cotton,
too, are losing valuable opportunities that
might redound to their country’s p;os-
perifcy by not making more progressive
movements in the matter.
Some estimates now published in the
issue of the South of July 22d, which
show that a capital of forty thousand
dollars is sufficient to establish a cotton
mill with a capacity of over five thousand
yards a day. Then, with the addition of
five thousand dollars worth of machinery,
the wool of a neighborhood could be
worked into jeans. The profit on the
investment is over eighteen per cent.
What a Godsend would such a profit be
to the New Ergland mill owner. These
estimates are based on the old-fashioned
machinery being used. With the adop
tion of the new machinery which is in
successful operation in Corinth, Missis
sippi, the capital necessary to establish a
mill is reduced more than one-third. Then
with the trouble and expense of baling
rendered unnecessary by spinning the
cotton in the seed, the expense of raw
material must be considerably lessened.
So that with a capital of thirty thousand
dollars a cotton mill can be established iu
the South near the cotton field. Now it
does seem perfectly reasonable to believe
that in spite of the universal poverty of
the Southern people there are many sec
tions where a capital of thirty thou-aud
can be raised, from among the citi
zens, anetthat there are many more sec
tions where half or a third of that
amc unt cau be raised by doing which
some capitalists at the North might be
inspired with sufficient confidence to
furnish the balance. If a dozen mills
engaged with the machinery for spiuning
cotton without its being injured by the
gin, and then having to go through five
machines to repair that injury, it would
be proving the faith of the Southern peo
ple by their works, something they have
been rather too backward about doing.
The actual running of a few cotton mills
in the different sections of the South
would be the most powerful lever to
move the idle capital, machinery ai.d la
bor of the North, where no one is being
benefited, to the South, where the entire
world would share the benefits.
Some efforts are being put forth by the
journals of the South, published in the
interest of the graugers. Such efforts are
commendable, and, in time would, no
doubt, bring forth good fruits. But the
class of people who belong to that order
are fully occupied in the culture of cotton,
and in studying the most economical
means of producing it and other crops to
give their attention to an enterprise that
requires considerable management to be
come successful. Then for them to raise
the necessary capital requires too mauy
stockholders. They would without doubt
come forward and contribute their mites
towards suck an enterprise. Such un
dertakings, in their infancy, should be
by a few men; business men are better.
Of course it is highly important that the
utmost confidence should exist in each
other’s honesty and integrity of charac
ter. Other enterprises are undertaken in
the South and made successful, and there
certainly can be no reason why by this
method the South cannot be made the
Kingdom of King Cotton, with the King
so firmly seated on his throne that no
thing can dethrone him, and no more
bloody wars can break out.
A Missouri Scandal.—St. Louis,
August 10.—A remarkable scandal is re
ported to-night by a special from Kansas
City. A grocer named Morland attacked
the Rev. D. A. Madera while driving
along the streets in a buggy, accompa
nied by his wife. Morland pulled the
reverend gentleman from the buggy, but
was then attacked from behind by Dr.
Stark, who struck Morland with a stone.
Morland turned upon Stark, when the
latter tied, closely pursued by Morland,
and the minister escaped. This affair
was occasioned by the secret marriage of
Mattie Morland to Philip Fox, Mr. Ma
dera officiating, which enraged the girl’s
father aga nst both tfie minister and his
newly made son-in-law. Fox, some time
since, was thrown into disgrace by being
detected in forging tickets and coupons
in the Kansas Pacific Railroad office,
where he was engaged as head clerk.
Morland went on the young man’s bond,
aud was astonished on Monday, when
told that Fox had returned, and had en
ticed his daughter Mattie to wed him in
secret. The bride is the handsomest girl
in Kansas City.
The flaneur of the London Court
Circular, being hardly pressed for trifles
the other day, reported an intellectual
exercise which lately occurred at an after
noon tea party of his friends. The party
who made the most rhymes to a word
given, of course in a metrical form, was
adjudged the winner. Rather a neat aud
ingenious stanza was made, the word set
being “Arragon.” It ran:
’Tis said there lived in olden days
A gentleman of Arragoa.
And, a* a cook, his wife he’d praise
As just a perfect paragon.
To name ttrtarc she would supply
The right amount of tarragon;
And so when she was oat he’d cry
(Iler name was ?aJ): “Where’s Sarah gone?’’
The following, contributed seriously to
the London Morning Post by the Earl of
Winchelsea and Nottingham, belongs to
the same famik:
They were fool, they were crooked,
They could hardly have been scurvier.
The diplomatic dodges that
Made a fool of Servia!
Now ’twas “piano,” then “andante,”
And at odd times “allegro;”
Some folks put faith in KusHa,
And some in Montenegro.
A Norwegian gentleman, now on a
visit to the Centennial, has a cane in his
possession on which is engraved: “A gift
from Charles V., 1672.” This cane, which
is over two hundred years old, was given
by the King of Norway and Sweden to its
present possessor’s grandfather’s grand
father. /
DRAINAGE AND IRRIGATION.
How all Our Bottom Lands May be Re
claimed and Fertilized.
[From the Columbus (Ga.) Times.]
Among the subjects presented to the
State Agricultural Society at Gainesville,
was one by Mr. James Y. Carmichael, of
Coweta county, which we think deserves
the attention of farmers generally. Mr.
Carmichael is an old and very successful
farmer, who has devoted many years to
experiments with a view to the preven
tion of injury to bottom lands by fresh
ets, and to their reclamation and fertili
zation by the use of the water which
without control proves so inju
rious and destructive. We had
several conversations with him, and
thus acquired a thorough understanding
of the plan which he has found to be the
only effective one. Mr. Carmichael lias
applied for, and expects soon to receive,
a patent for his invention; but we give a
description of it, accompanied by a rough
diagram, with his knowledge and consent.
He is an enthusiast on the subject, and
believes that his system will revolution
ize the mode of reclamation and drainage
of low lauds throughout the country. We
believe that it has great merits, wLieh
will at once be apparent to farmers, i ud
that its general adoption would be a
measure of great benefit.
There are, as every agriculturist kne wt»,
three wavs iu which water overrunning
low lands greatly injures them. One is
by its washing off the top or alluvial .-.oil
in many places; another is the wash ng
out of gullies, and the third is the depos
iting of beds of sand above the rich soil.
All these injurious effects Mr. Carmi
chael’s plan is intended to prevent, and
we believe tLat it will do it. Most fai m-
ers, when they undertake to drain apiece
of bottom land, cut a deep ditch or st ries
of ditches, with a view both of drain
age aud of confining the water in times
of freshets. They may succeed in eff< ct-
iug the first object—pretty good draii age
—but their attempts to confine the w..ter
in ditches and prevent its destructive
sweep over the land in the winter and
spring are generally failures. Mr. Car
michael’s plan is to cut shallow instead of
wide and deep ditches, and to utilize the
water instead of carrying it off iu a
sweeping current, with its rich sedim* at,
transporting the “cream.” of the soil in its
unchecked course to the rivers. He c its
a main ditch, not exceeding four fee : in
depth, and for small streams not exc ed-
ing two feet, through the bottom near its
centre; then he cuts shallower lateral
ditches from the main ditch to the foot of
the hill or rising ground on each side of
the bottom. The following diagram will
represent his plan:
Iu this diagram the top line repres ;nts
the head of the valley, and the lower one
the lowest part. The double rule in tho
centre represents the main drain or ditch,
and the diverging, oblique lines repr< sent
the shallower lateral ditches. The dark
line at the bottom is also a ditch and lain,
w’hich must be made strong, and ought
to have willow or other trees planted
upon it. It will have to be cut deep
enough to raise on the lower side an em
bankment sufficient to hold the surplus
water. There must be gates at the foot
of the main ditch and at the intersection
of each lateral ditch. In times of
freshet the bottom can thus be over
flowed in a boeiy, or by sections, acjoid-
ng to the volume of water. If th j fall
from the head to the foot of the bottom
is five feet, the lower dam should be five
feet high, and then, when the lower por
tion is covered to the depth of five feet,
the upper portion will be barely covered.
If the overflowing is done by sections,
the lower part of a section may be cover
ed by two feet aud the upper by only an
inch or two of water. In time fand
not a long time at that; a much nearer
approach to a level will be effected by
the greater deposit made by the
deeper watqj. It will be seen that by
this plan there can be no direct cur
rent oveiflowing the land. It will be
altogether a hack water overflow which
washes off nothing, accumulates no sand
beds—but, instead of these destructive
processes, deposits evenly and gently a
rich alluvial sediment. The value of this
sediment has been demonstrated on Mr.
Carmichael’s bottom lands, where it
amounted in a single season to several
inches where the back-water was deepest,
and increased production three-fold.
If irrigation is desired in the summer
the gate of the first section may be closed
and that section overflowed: then the
same water may be let into and made to
overflow the second section, and so on.
We omitted to say in the proper place
that the embankments on all the d tches
must be made by throwing the dirt on
their lower sides. Mr. C. runs his fur
rows parallel with the main ditch, so the
back-water starts from the ditch at the
lower end of each section and runs up
the furrow to the head of the bottom, or
to the next embankment above.
This plan may be applied to the small
est as well as the largest piece of l ottom
lands. No sectional divisions will be
needed in the small tracts, and few or
none in large tracts where the fall is very
slight. It will also do as well for river or
creek bottoms as for those with small
streams. A levee two or three feet high
along a river bank, reaching from one
high spot to another, with ditch s two
feet deep intersecting the levee and run
ning back from it to higher ground in the
rear, will be sufficient to prevent washing
or destructive overflow, and to retain the
rich deposit.
We believe that we have thus made the
system intelligible. It comprehends the
reversion of the current over the lands in
times of freshet; their improveme nt by
the retention and distribution of the
sediment in the water, and the easy irri
gation of the land in seasons of drouth.
It is truly remarked that the fertility
of our lands is yearly being washed down
to the rivers. The plan presented above
contemplates the retention of this rich
soil, and the restoration of the original
fertility and evenness of the bottoms.
All the ditching for the double purpose
of drainage and irrigation will not exceed
that of the customary big ditch for
drainage only; and the latter fails in
times of freshet to confine the water and
prevent its destructive washing effects,
while Mr. Carmichael’s system derives
the greater benefit from the greater
overflow.
The Rev. George H. Hepwortb, of the
Church of the Disciples, New York, has
assumed the debt of the society, amount
ing to $125,000.
The Prince of Wales’s^Indian presents,
which are now on exhibition, are so
popular that upwards of $2,000 are
weekly taken at the doors.
On the morning of the 18th inst. the
planet Venus will be only about forty and
a quarter millions of miles from us.
The “Sbaughraun” will be run for
seventeen weeks at Wallack’s Theatre.
Three hundred and sixty German news
papers are published in this country.
stjfs Florida sbgross,
How the Colored Pe*ple were Swindled
by the Republican Manager* of the
Freedman'* Bank.
The following document is circulating
in Florida: The unpaid loans due the
Jacksonville branch of the Freedman’s
Bank, August 1, 1874, as per report of
Robert Purvis, one of the Commissioners
appointed by Congress (and himself a
colored man), comprised, among many
others, the following:
O. B. Hart, $5,401. Security—City
lots, which sold under foreclosure for
less than $1,200.
E. H. Reed, $1,042. Security—Vacant
lot worth $500.
F. A. Doekray, $6,514. Security—
$6,000 approved accounts of projected
railroad to St. Augustine, and $10,000
Memphis and El Paso Railroad bonds,
both worthless.
Milton S. Littlefield, $11,422. Security
—Three diamonds, two carriages, $16,000
railroad bonds, stolen from the State,
and from which nothing can be realized.
E. M. Cheney, $2,088. Security—Cer
tificate 41,166 shares J. P. & M. Railroad,
and $100 bond of the State of Florida.
(The latter cannot be found, and the
lormer is worthless.)
J. J. Holland, $2,185. Security—
Chattel mortgage on stock, which proved
worthless.
F. E. Little, $7,653. No security.
Advanced by W. L. Coan, cashier, (his
father- in-law), to make good his defalca
tion to the State as Tax Collector.
W. L. CoaD, $1,04'.). Over-draft.
C. L. Mather *fc Co, $8,544. Security
—Chattel mortgage on stock, which
proved worthless. The “Co.’’ was F. E.
Little, son in-law, as aforesaid.
Allen & Farrar, $21,345. No security.
Coan, as cashier, obtained judgment, and
had C. L. Mather appointed “Receiver”
and he proved a receiver indeed, for the
next account on the list is :
C, L. Mather, receiver, $34,202. No
security!
The above list comprises a total of
about one hundred thousand dollars actu
ally stolen from the hard earnings and
savings of colored men, women and child
ren of the State of Florida, by their self-
styled “friends,” (but in fact their worst
enemies,; the Republican managers of
the Freedman's Bank.
Iu every instance the colored people
have been defrauded by Republicans of
money sacredlj- entrusted to the Freed
man’s Back. Not one Democrat appears
on the list of defaulters.
The deception and robbery practiced
on the colored people of the State of
Florida by the Freedman's Bank at Jack
sonville and Tallahassee is but a sample
of the treatment received by their colored
brethren at Washington and throughout
the South at the hands of the Republican
leaders into whose clutches their hard-
earned savings were entrusted. The Re
publican wire-pullers fool the colored
man into voting them into fat offices and
show their gratitude by stealing the
money which should have provided the
colored man and his wife and children
fond, clothing and a home !
Let the colored men of Florida consider
well these truths, and open their eyes to
the fact that the Republican leaders are
using them only as tools for the accom
plishment of their own selfish purposes !
Let them al*o remember that the only
efforts so far made to right the wrongs
they have suffered through the Freed
man’s Bank, have been made by Demo
cratic Congressmen.
Let them understand that their true
road to prosperity and independence lies
in throwing off the shackles with which
Republican wire-pullers have bound them,
and asserting their independence in po
litical action.
“Until After the EIection. ,,
[From the New York Sun.]
One of Senator Morton's political lieu
tenants was recently appointed Second
Assistant Postmaster General, as another
of them had been previously promoted to
the head of that department. The ma
chinery of the Post Office is therefore en
tirely in his hands, and will be used with
out scruple to affect the coming election
in Indiana. The public wiil be able to
judge of the character and qualifications
of this Second Assistant by the descrip
tion which he gives of himself in a letter
written two years ago, when another elec
tion was pending. Here it is :
“Rooms State Central Committee, >
“Indianapolis, September 3, 1874./
“Dear Sir—I desire to call your atten
tion to the horrible scenes of violence
and bloodshed transpiring through the
South, and suggest that you give them as
great prominence as possible in your paper
from this time until after the electinn.
“Thomas J. Brady, Chairman.
"■Editor of Union, Rensselaer, Ind.”
Those “horrible scenes” were got up,
and the order to keep them prominent
“until after the election” reveals clearly
enough the subject for which they were
to be used. Brady obeyed Morton’s or
ders in 1874, and now he is repeating the
same game, with the difference that the
national post office, with all its vast ram
ifications, is made the tool of a partisan
plot to mislead the country.
Tyner, the Postmaster-General, was a
back-pay grabber, who pretended to vote
against that infamous act in certain
stages, but who was always present to
vote the other way when summoned by
Ben Butler. He was among the first to
rush for the spoils, and then attempted to
justify the robbery by specious and false
devices that deceived nobody.
He was a candidate for nomination to
Congress recently, but the people utterly
rejected him, and then Morton gave him
a seat in the Cabinet, and subsequently
appointed Brady to assist him in de
vising schemes to carry Indiana in Octo
ber. All these things will react on their
contrivers. The people, who foot the
bills and pay the taxes have their eyes
wide open.
Zach Chandler Playing “Possum.**
Washington, August 13.—Mr. Chandler
has found out that there is a Mr. Redway
in his department, and that he has been
assessing the clerks two per cent, on their
salaries, and quite a commotion exists.
Mr. Redway was sent for by the Secre
tary, and by him ordered to go around
with his subscription list to notify the
clerks that they take their names off, and
that the subscription was voluntary. Poor
Red way was the subject of much merri
ment in the department on Saturday. The
Secretary has gone back on him. None of
the clerks, so far as heard from, have had
the courage to drop their names. In the
impending reduction in the force, the
chance of dismissal is too great. But the
Secretary cannot escape by making Red
way a scapegoat. I give you an incident:
When Redway went around with his list
on the first day he struck Clark, a re
corder in the land office. Clark de
murred. Redway told him he must put
his name down or the Secretary would
relieve him. After Redway went out
Clark went to see the Commissioner of
the Land Office, and reported what Red
way was doing and had said. The Commis
sioner sent for him (Redway; and wanted
his authority. Redway told him that he
had the decided orders of the Secretary,
and had not communicated them, as he
had been ordered to do. The Commit
sioner hud nothing more to say, and Mr.
ltedway went od. Everybody knows
that Redway would not have the audacity
to act as he has done without orders
from the Secretary. But everybody
who knows the Secretary knows he would
not hesitate to go back on an unfortunate
fellow whom he had placed in & false
position. There will be an interesting
time collecting these assessments. The
new law, the legislative bill; will prevent
the payment. Clerks who pay will be
liable to the penalty.
The Baltimore Sun's Washington cor
respondent announces this melancholy
fact: “Carpet-bag delegations, which
have been here recently soliciting funds
to help them, are very much chagrined,
and say all the money is now going to
Maine and Iudiana and Ohio.” This is a
bad state of things. Where are Daven
port and the Department of Justice?
Where is ‘the Freedman’s Bank—the
whhky rings—Boss Shepherd—the real
estate operators—the sandstone compa
nies? Is all virtue departed ? Is there
no help for the needy ?
Stanley’s letters to the Herald grow
more and more wonderful, and Mr. Ben
nett does well in trying every day in his
editorial columns to make them look
probable. But he has yet to exp ain how
it is possible for an exploring party to
shoot ducks after all their ammunition
has been so spoiled by a tempest that
they cannot use it against the natives. It
would seem no harder to shoot negroes
with wet powder than wild ducks on th9
wing.—Hew York Sun.
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