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J. H. EST1LL,
Savannah, Ga.
Affairs in Georgia.
Jlf year of j ubilee has come, and Georgia
jubilates. ....
I B BiDyon, who was convicted in the
state* District Court for embezzle-
D eni of money from the Atlanta National
j^has been sentenced to five years im
prisonment in the penitentiary.
% Tuesday morning last a fight took
-icebetween two negro prisoners confined
Fulton county jail. One of the party, a
pr0 by the came of Crosby, accomplished
tee muscu ar-jawed feat of biting off an ear
of his opponent.
Xhe Chicago Inter-Ocean thinks that
(joorgia ought to be investigated. “Barkus
jj fillin.”
Tbecase of the city of Griffin vs. Inman,
Smcd&Co., hhs been decided by the Su
preme Court against the city.
Xhe Atlanta police have donned their
tfinlcr uniforms, which consists of blue
eioth lrock coats, long, with brass but-
p- 3 a ad pants of the same goods, and now
itu&pleasure to be taken iuto custody by
them.
L. J. Gartroll, of Atlanta, is spoken of as
the right man in the right place, if elected
to the United States Senate. Yea, he would
iiorn that or any other position, but then
re hire got the right man in the right
pjeein the person of T. M. Norwood.
Aiimta will soon be wrapped in the folds
o; the “old flag.” The Times says “that
one hundred United States flags of various
i^.’S have been received, and will be used
in the decoration of the Markham House
then the great Democratic rally comes off.
The hotel will be brilliantly illuminated.
The Kimball House will also be decorated,
isd the National will not be behind its
nr&’.s in this; line.”
The Atlanta Commonwealth has this item:
“Officers White, Starnes and Drake, of the
lice force, who were sent in parsuit of Mr.
Delos Jett, who killed Eckridge la9t Tues
day night, succeeded in capturing him
wont ten miles from the city, and he is now
injiil awaiting his trial. He does not ap
pear to be moro than eighteen years old,
icd has au honest look. He is said to be
uindustrious yoaDg man, and has been in
the employ of Messrs. "Eddleman & Brown,
of this city. Mr. Eckridge, also, was well
thought of, and has many friends and rela-
tives left to m <urn his loss. He was about
twenty years old.”
The garden attached to the office
I the Cuthbert Appeal was en
tered by some person who stole
therefrom about seventy-five collards, thus
throwing the worthy editor on the kindly
chari.y of his neighbors. He says : “If he
or she will come up and give us enough
bacon (the thing we most need) to grease
the balance left us we won’t say a word.”
Heard county holds her nominating con
tention for county officers at Fjranklin on
the firs: Tuesday in December.
A competitive examination for a vacancy
iothe United States Military Acadamy for
'he Fourth Congressional District, will take
P^cv a! LaGrange on the 28th day of No
vember.
Sr. Felton has an invitation to preach at
Sayrna, Cobb county, to-morrow.
Gorkin Fannin county on the Marietta
Ld Murphy Railroad is progressing finely.
The line through the county is more than
hilf graded.
The cotton receipts at Columbus for the
** son since September 1st Lave been 32,-
510 bales.
Jasper Kirk was killed last Wednesday
evening, six miles from Marietta, by tbe dis-
ebarue of a gun in the hands of Johnny
ary, ten years of age. Supposed to be
accidental. ^
-he McDuffie Journal says: “Friday after-
tOun last a negro house on the plantation
Mr. Willie A. Johnson, occupied by Alex,
•a and family, colored, was burned.
Thomson and his wife were at work in a
t '-d some distance off when the fire oc-
c -rrcd. They had left their two children—
0De a ^° Qt three years old, the other an in-
au: in the house. It is thought that the
clothes of the elder child caught at the fire-
aQ d that she ran under the bed, thus
the house. Miss Dora Johnson, od
^covering the fire, ran to the burning
, entered and carried out tne infant,
Ca - Jid not see the other child. When the
“ er arriv ed she and Mies Dora again en-
j ere d * llie Bouse and succeeded in getting
, ° ell * fcr child out, but she was already
Dr ned to death. The house and contents
* tre consumed, and the corn crib, some
*enty yards off, also caught fire, but Mr.
* -s n and Mr. Thomas Lazenby, with tht
«6»ance of some nogroes who had arrived,
« Bora, who drew the water for
a eiD ’ 3ac ceeded in extinguishing the
«b°ut loss.” The noble conduct of
if ora * 8 worthy of enduring record.
°®son has received rince the 1st of Bep-
iTe^ r 1)a * e8 °T cotton—430 bales in-
. * se 0Ter kst season’s receipts for the
time.
Jonesboro Views' agricultural editor
hem ?remeIy nDha PPy* Hear him: “Ifour
j • efcrVf 8 us right, we have not seen
the °.‘°. turn *P tli ia year.” We incline to
tion r?j5- 0n lilat “ turni P8” is more a ques-
digestion than memory.
r night, between 2 and 3 o’clock, the
jp. U rr ° U6e of ^ r * Henry T. Crowder, ol
I Aether, containing sixteen bales of
0D * Wa » burned,
the work of
"r-* on the property. The loss is
A W d at about $1 » 300 -
in (v 5 DUl uber of Democrats assembled
^ l 6r -T e 00 Frid *y^tlaBt toin-
br, Feltoi°^‘“fications over the election of
, f otr Ule uoa8t8 °T fewer loafers thaD
t0W ? ^ tS 8ize in Hi® South.
AhLin ^ V ^ ie fexpects t0 conuect with the
tf?. a flroad by a narrow guage rail-
in
It is believed to have
t an incendiary. There was
110 distant period.
road at
>notou 1 to°ti d ,i74 li H| faaa in AU&dU now
n cotton DiW nty . c * lims lhe championship
Brown 12 P .^ ln e foe this season: Ardis V
f e, sch’el J" lr r8 . 0f , a(?e ’ 185 pounds cotton;
t-ton“ V yea, B i03 Pounds
169 PnoodR ,. t ; nUet ' Colore,j i 21 Tears old,
'erj dn-thi 11 '! 1 ' in a da y- The cotton was
Th . s ’ “ be ‘ DB but little dew -
U ilethr.n ^ e ^s B * a Annual Conference of
'ill’be held 3 : Episcopal Church South,
'sn, of *2. Ssudersvillo, bepinuing on
nu, ,g December nexL _ The people
ctert
ertiin Th. ory preparation possible to
nd all visitors meInl)e ^ 8 ° f tba ^°“^ eren ce
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J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
A United States flag now flits in the
breeze, far above the top of the courthouse
in SandersYille. It was hoisted on Saturday
last by the patriotic citizens of that go-
ahead plao®, amid the loud huzzas of a
large, enthusiastic crowd, and the sweet
musical strains of the 8ilver Cornet Band
headed by Prof. Guttenberger.
A colored man named Samuel Scott was
accidentally hurt yesterday while coupling
the engine of the Picayune train to tke cars
after it had arrived at the Union depot
Augusta. *
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel has
this in reference to the engineers’ strike on
the Georgia Railroad: “The chief topic of
conversation upon the streets yesterday was
the engineers’ strike at tbe Georgia Rail
road. The same inconvenience, though
certainly to a greater extent, was ex
perienced as during the delay of mails
travel and the stoppage of freight following
the burning of the Oconee bridge last
March. Out at the railroad depot and
offices the same holiday appearance was
noticeable; small knots of employees were
gathered around at different places to
discuss the situation, every one waiting for
something to turn up, while prospects of a
compromise seemed as remote as before.
The full cause of the troubles, to
gether with statements from both sides,
were given in yesterday’s Chronicle
and Sentinel. A reporter conversed
with several of the engineers in the
course of the afternoon, and found their de
termination unshaken. They stated that
they were open to negotiation from the offi*
cials of the road, but would remain easy and
firm in their present position. It was ru
mored during the day that an engineer for
merly of the Macon aud Western Road, to
gether with another from a road which we
aid not learn, had been employed. The au
thorities are advertising for hands, as will
be seen from the columns of the Chronicle
and Sentinel. The firemen, many of whom
could have been constituted runners in this
emergency, have sided with the engineers.
We learn also that several of the engi
neers not members of the Brotherhood
are standing up to their associates who
are connected with tLat organization. The
conductors, of course, have donned the
neutral slippers and shuffle around with
easy dignity and careless grace until the
war is ended. The conductors of the trains
now out remain with them to guard the
property of the road, while the engineers
silently lounge around their pulseless ma
chines, awaiting orders from headquarters.
The down day passenger arrived in the city
yesterday afternoon at four o’clock, on
schedule time, the locomotive S. Thomas
being manned by the veteran Stulb, and tbe
train in charge of Michael Welsh, conductor.
A considerable number of delegates to the
Presbyterian Synod, now in session in this
city, arrived, together with a number of
others passengers, among them Col. S. K.
Johnson, Superintendent of the road, iuat
returned from Atlanta. Judge King, as
yesterday reported, leaves the whole mattor
iu Mr. Johnson’s hands. The business
men, particularly tbe cotton factors, are
feeling the strike keenly. Large quantities
of cottou already shipped now lie idle upon
the road, and tbe stock at tbe depots along
ths route is rapidly accumulating. The
falling off in tbe receipts is readily shown
by a reference to the circular of the Augusta
Exchange. On Wednesday, 1,730 bales were
received, the heaviest- anv day this week,
while yesterday onlj* 668 bales, showing a
failing off of 1,062 bales, or an average de
crease of say 900 bales per day.”
South Carolina Affairs.
The gin house of Mr. Flood at Wedge-
field, near Columbia, was burned ou the
night of the election by Republican negroes,
who had threatened him for voting for
Hampton. Sixteen bales of cotton were de
stroyed.
Hendricks, Captain of the Charleston po
lice, requests the citizens to report irregu
lar behavior on the part of the police force.
The voting in Barnwell county was dono
very quietly except at Bobbin’s, where the
Radicals, finding that they were to be beat,
fired upon the whites, killing one and
wounding others.
Mr. Meitzler who keeps a saloon on King
street, near Queen, was seriously threatened
on Wednesday’s riot. His establishment
was brick-batted and tbe lives of his family
endangered by the pistol shots that were
fired at the house.
The Abbeville Press nominates Gen. Sam
McGowan for United States Senator.
An attempt was made to burn the gin and
cotton house of Mr. E. J. Moody, in Marion
county, last Saturday night.
Tbe Standard and Commercial, tbe organ
at Port Royal, has ninG columns of forfeited
land advertisements. No wonder the organs
die hard.
The gin house of Mr. P. S. Wilds, with five
bales of cotton, near Darlington, was de
stroyed by fire on Tuesday morning last
about four o’clock. Loss $800; insurance
$425. Cause of fire, incendiary.
Large numbers of colored men are peram
bulating the streets of Beaufort saying they
have been turned off by their former em
ployers for voting the Republican ticket.
Well, let them perambulate.
A young man by the came of Lindsay was
shot from arnbnsh by some party unknown,
near Prosperity, Sunday afternoon, while
riding along the road. Two shots took of
fset, one in the back. The wounds are con
sidered mortal.
The Camden Journal says : “ There seems
to be little doubt that the returns from tbe
Court House, Red Hill and Liberty Hill
boxes, Kerstiaw, will be thrown out on the
ground of fraud, intimidation and irregu
larities. If this be done it will give Ker
shaw county to the Democrats by one t ou-
sand majority.
Three of the colored men that voted for
Tilden and Hampton in Dae West,
on the 7 th instant, were between
eighty and one hundred years old.
One of them said ho was a full hundred. A
purse of money was made up and distrib
uted between them after they had voted,
and thus the white people “intimidated”
the old negroes.
On Monday afternoon the house of Mr.
Charles Folk, who lives on Broad river,
about twelve miles above Columbia, was
entirely destroyed by fire. There was no
body upon the premises at the time eave
Mr. Folk and his wife, wiih her three weeks’
old infant. Mrs. Folk barely escaped with
her infant. The fire was unquestionably
the work of an incendiary. Mr. Folk lost
everything that he possessed in the world,
including money, clothing, live' stock,
vehicles, etc.
Col. John H. Evins, member-elect to Con
gress from tbe Fourth district, is, with tbe
exception of Col. Jamos Farrow, who was a
member of the Confederate Congress, the
first member Spartanburg has had for some
lime. The last member of the United States
Congress from Spartanburg was Gen. Thos.
Moore, the grandfather of Col. Evins, who
was first elected in 1808 and served several
:erms. Col. Evins should feel a just pride
in being tbe successor of his grandfather
from the old iron district.
Mr. J. Byrd Riley was moat brutally mur
dered near Greenwood, in Abbeville county,
on last Wednesday evening at the house of
Bluford Jones. He was shot in the stomach
by Bluford Jones, and after he had fallen
uis skull was badly smashed with an iron
puker or some such instrument. Au inquest
was held over his body by Trial Justice Tar
rant, acting Coroner, and a verdict found
tbat he had come to his death in the man
ner and form aforesaid. On Thursday Blu-
ford Jones, Mack Jones, Barbara Jones and
Martha Jones, all colored persona of one
family, were brought to Abbeville court
house by a squad of United States troops,
then on duty at Greenwood, and lodged iu
jail to await the action of the grand jury.
The iDquest into the cause of the death
of Mr. E. H. Walter, is still in session. A
number of witnesses were examined yester
day but no conclusion was reached other
tbai the fact that he was killed by a police
man.
Tbe board of State canvassers have
ssnt down to Charleston for the poll lists
and managers’returns which came in with
tbe boxes from the various precincts in the
oounty, and which had not been forwarded
to them. These poll lists and returns were
in the ballot boxes, which for the last two
or three days have been lyiug in the county
treasurer’s office wholly, unguarded. The
papers called for are understood to have
been sent to Columbia by express last night,
and it is important to bear in mind the fact
tbat those who bad access to them must
also have had access to the ballot boxes
«hM> ooaUm*4 tbs ballots.
BY TiWUHi
FLORIDA REDEEMED BDT
DISENTHRALLED.
NOT
-TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
Audaeitv
Leaden
Status.
and Villainy of the Radical
—A True Expose of our Preaent
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Noon Telegrams.
THE SITUATION IN NEW ORLEANS.
A DECISION OF THE LOUISIANA
TURNING BOARD.
RE-
FLORIDA SECURE.
Warlike Preparations in Russia.
Alarming Condition of the Pope.
THE SITUATION lit LOUISIANA.
New Yobk, November 17.—The Herald’s
New Orleaus special says: “Gold rates
here to-day are ten per cent, above New
xork. The banks aro calling in all their
call loans, particularly on State and city
securities. Our people are drawing their
mouey out of the banks and putting it in
go.d ; still, there are no signs of anything
serious.
“The committee appointed by the Dom-
ocratic visitors to prepare a reply to the
Republican letter of refusal have been
at work up to a late hour.
It consists of Senators Trambull and Doo-
litHe, Governor Curtin, cf PennsyPvania,
Ottendorfer. of New York, and Judge J. B.
Htallo, of Ohio. In subatanee, it will sub
stantially say, among other things, that
they admit no official powers have the right
to interfere with the internal affairs of
the State of Louisiana, but they are
here at the request of an organization
or a great political party, where
they meet the representatives of the opposi
tion, selected by the President himself for
the same purpose, and, as he says in his
army orders, for the fake of securing an
honest count of the vote actuallv cast. In
reply to the statement that tbe Vico Presi
dent has the authority to count tbo votes
they take direct issue, and assert that
Congress itself, consisting of the Senate and
the House, has been solely invested with
such powers.”
New Orleans, November 17.—Governor
Wells, for the members of the returning
board, states that in all cases of contested
polls from any cause the Democratic State
Committee would be notified, aad the board
would b^ar argument from both sides.
New York. November 17.—The Tribune's
New Orleans dispatch says: “The latest
returns of the »lection in Louisiana received
ia this city show that the Republican major
ities are, in tbe aggregate, smaller than they
have been supposed to be.”
FLORIDA.
New York, November 17.—The Heralds
Tallahassee dispatch says : “The official re
turns continue to come in without, however,
changing the estimate I sent you two days
ago, giving the State to Tilden bv from 400
to 700 majority. A prominent Federal of
fice-holder here reduces Til den’s majority to
229, but I cannot vouch for his figures.”
WARLIKE PREPARATIONS.
London, November 17.—Correspondents
fay : “The entire Polish contingent of the
Russian army has been scat out of the
Polish provinces for service in the field.
The Russian garrisons remain in Warsaw
and other Polish cities. A number of Rus
sian officers who intended to quit Belgrade,
have been ordered to remain. Soldiers on
furlough in Ireland are ordered to join their
regiments.”
THE POPE’S CONDITION.
New' York, November 17.—The Herald's
London dispatch says the Pope’s health is
again very alarming.
FAILED.
London, November 17.—Hamilton <fc Co.,
colliery owo&rt, have failed. Liabilities
$600,000.
County,
Radical Fraud in .Monroe
Florida*
Cedar Keys, Fla , November 14.—
Editor Morninq JYeics: The votes of
this county were canvassed in Bronson
on Monday. Mr. Drew’s majority was
285. Mr. Tilden’s majority was a few
votes less. W. B. Hodge, Deputy U. S.
Marshal, went to Bronson on Saturday
and demanded the ballot box of this pre
cinct, which gave a Democratic majority
of 50. Those having the boxes in charge
refused to let him have it, whereupon he
became quite boieterous. The news
spread all over the county and about one
hundred and fifty men were present on
Monday to prevent any violence or
intimidation of the canvassing board.
The beard met in the court house, and
Major Fowler, County J udge, was ap
pointed chairman. The returns being in
perfect order, were canvassed without
any objection. The board discharged
their duty fairly and impartially. Mr.
Hodge failed to put in an appearance.
There is no doubt at all about onr
having carried the State. Mr. Drew’s
majority is at least 1,500. These lying
Radicals, however, through instructions
from Zach Chandler, are claiming the
State with the evident purpose of trying
to change the result. L. G. Deunis, the
most unmitigated scoundrel of the whole
horde of Florida carpet baggers, stuffed
the ballot-box at Archer, Alachua county.
The returns showed a Democratic major
ity of three at that precinct. Dennis
stuffed the box through a black tool by
the name of Black, and made it appear
that the Rads had a majority of 300. The
total Radical majority in the county was
only 498 ; this 300 added would swell it to
798. Parties cognizant of the facts in
the case say that it was tbe most bare
faced swindle ever attempted—that a ten-
year-old boy could have done better ; and
yet the board of county canvassers gave
their sanction to the fraud by counting
the votes as Dennis had them.
The sentiment in this county is solid
against being cheated out of the election.
We don’t want a man forced on us for
Governor who has been repudiated, and
who has been branded to the world as a
thief by a prominent member of his own
party. We shall exhaust every peaceful
means to get our rights, but wc don't in
tend to be cheated. We believe the nonest
sentiment of the American people will
frown down the high-handed measures
of the Radical party. J. L G.
Guide to conversation with a dealer in
bric-a-brac:
You—I have just such another vase as
that. Would you care to buy it ?
Dealer—That depends.
“About what it is worth?”
“O, these vases are very poor stuff.”
“Still you would give something for it?”
“Besides, they are a drug in the mar
ket.”
“Still, name a price.”
“Well, seeing that it is you, I will give
you ten francs for it.”
“Very good, I will take this one for
twenty francs.”
“Not much you won’t.”
“But then it is very poor stuff, and
such vases are a drug in the market.”
“Well, seeing it is you, 1 shall let you
have it for forty francs. You won’t have
it? Well, bring me your vase and we will
come to terms for it, anyway.”
“My vase? I have none.”
“But you said you had one the exact
match for this that you wanted to sell to
me, and wished to know what 1 would
give you for it.”
“O, that to find out precisely what
these vases are worth. Good morning I”
Dealer (aside)—“Scoundrel!”
Threatening the Life of Governor
Vance.—At Charlotte, N. C., on Satur
day, Manuel Lord, a notorious negro
politician, was arraigned for making
threats egaiust the life of Gov. Vance.
He was charged with having publicly de
clared that Gov. Vance would never live
to be inaugurated -Governor of the State.
After hearing the cast, the Mayor decided
to continue it for the purpose of ascer
taining if any further prco f of his guilt
oould be secured.
Monticello, November 16. — Your
correspondent in a letter a few
days prior to th9 election, foreshadowed
not only the plans, but the frauds about
to be perpetrated upon the people of
Florida. Your readers were then in
formed of the object of the Radical lea
ders in registering thousands of boys,
illegal and fraudulent voters. This was
the only means by which they could
1 overcome the largely increased Demo
cratic majorities. Happily they have been
foiled, but it almost seems like an inter
position of Divine Providence. That you
may understand what we have had to con
tend against, I will state that in the
county of Leon alone they voted more
than one thousand in excess of their
largest possible voting strength; in Jeffer
son counly six hundred votes in excess of
their legal voters, and so on through all
the “black belt” counties. Only, the
nearer we got to Stearns’s headquarters
the greater the fraudulent vote. Skilled
and experienced ballot-box stuffers were
brought out from the North. They were
the men who introduced the double
ballot—a small ticket inside of a larger
one, so skillfully folded that the smaller
one would drop out. Then, by the con
nivance of the clerk, who was to write
the additional names to correspond with
the double ticket, the fraud was
complete. Besides, they had corps of
drilled “repeaters,” many of whom have
already been detected, and in many
cases the most unscrupulous mana
gers of election. The truth is, in Jeffer
son county the election was a perfect farce
and an outrage upon decency and
honesty—a conspiracy to defraud the
Democrats out of the election—first by
the most outrugeous intimidation of the
colored voters, and secondly by all manner
of rase dity. Had they been satisfied
with a few hundred illegal votes they
might have escaped detection, but
Stearns had put Jefferson county down for
2.500 to 2,600 majority, aud his man
agers, in their zdil to accomplish
the task allotted them, overreached
themselves. The destruction of the
tr -stle on the railroad between Monticello
and Madison disappointed many “re
peaters” who, having already voted once
or twice in Jefferson, wished to go “one
better” in Madisoa. There is already
enough accumulated evidence of intimi
dation, fraud and attempts at fraud, re
peating, illegal voting, irregularity arid
rascality to set the whole vote of Jeffer
son county aside. Should the State
canvassers not do this we feel quite
satisfied that the Democratic caudidates
for the State Legislature will' either suc
cessfully contest the election or that a
new election will be ordered.
We certainly have the Legislature in
both branches by a majority of four in
tbe Seuato and ten in the House, so you
may say we havo Stearns’s hands tied,
without going any further. But we have
done better tnan this—we have elected
the Tilden aud Hendricks electoral ticket;
Drew and Hull Governor and Lieutenant-
Governor, and Finley and Davidson to
Congress. To many the returns here
seem to be in a muddle. In order to clear
this up, and give your readers au autben
tic and intelligent view of the present
status of affairs, I have arrange! the fol
lowing table—giving the correct returns
as far as received and, where no return a
nave been received, tbe most reliable aud
impartial estimates—for much of which
lam indebted to Mr. S. Pasco, the inde
fatigable Chairman of the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee, and to Col.
F. R. Fildea, of the Constitution:
FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
According to the New York World?t ta
ble, Tilden’s popular majority is 368 500t
his gains over Greeley were 1,139.000
Radical Majorities.
Escambia 175
Gadsden 459
Jefferson 1,922
:.eon 2.019
Democratic Majorities
Calhoun
Franklin 90
Hernando 4S
Hillsboro 614
Ho mes, est. fm ’74..245
Jackson 9G
Lafayette 248
Levy 2SS
Liberty 65
Manatee 300
Monroe 6‘
Polk 46'
Santa Rosa 25
Sumter ?4<:
Taylor 171
Wakulla 1S3
Walton 6<Nf
Washington 284
6.044
Democratic majority, 467.
SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
4,575
Democratic Majorities.
Baker S9
Bradford 55 4
Clay 16 1 "
Columbia 8'
Hamilton 294
Putnam 3S
St. John's 177
Suwannee 174
Volusia 31c
Dade, esf. from ’74.. I 1
Brevard “ “....77
Orange 74S
Radical Majorities.
Alachua 497
Duval 799
Madison 392
Marion 5S4
Nassau 1J4
2,S47| . 2,335
Democratic majority, 462. Majority in
both district , 929. Tilden will run one
or two hundred behind the State ticket.
The above has been carefully and im
partially prepared, and no deductions
made for Radical frauds and illegal votes,
or any addition to the votes of the five
white counties yet to hear from, but
which will certainly give an increase of
from 20 to 50 per cent.
The foregoing figures, on a fair canvass,
will not vary much from the true result.
The Democrats will protest against the
counting of 3,500 to 4,000 votes ou ac
count of intimidation, fraud and illegal
ity. This would make the Democratic
majority correspond with about what we
claimed prior to the election, after a care
ful poll of the entire State.
The Radical managers had their plans
well arranged, and the majority which
each “black belt” county was to give
set down iu advance, and had the med
dlesome and irrepressible Democrats not
interfered with these well laid schemes
all would now be lovely for Stearns aDd
his disconsolate followers.
In proof of the above, E. C. Weeks, one
of Stearns’s friends, told Mr. T. L. Olark,
of Monticello, on the morning of the 9th,
both of them then in Taylor county,
thirty miles from the railroad, and before
they could possibly have heard any report
of the voting, that Alachua couuty had
given Stearns one thousand mnjority.
Well, Alachua did not give the one thous
and majority, but only four hundred
and ninety-seven; yet Stearns sticks to
his original figures, made prior to the
election, and claims the one thousand.
But the flimsiest and most audac.ous
thing, I have yet to tell: Disappointed
and foiled in piling up a sufficient ma
jority in the “black belt,” and determined
to hold on as long as there is the ghost
of chance of imposing upon the public,
W. J. Purman, the present sweet-scented
member of Congress from the First dis
trict, the man who sold the cadetship,
and then saii he didn’t, and whom, ac
cording to the Sentinel, the organ of his
own party, ‘‘is fly-blown with corruption
and never drew an honest breath, now
says, oh! horror of horrors, that they
have been imposed upon and defrauded
by the Democrats • that, in the white
counties, we have made false returns and
raised the figures. This in face of th9
incontrovertible fact that the entire can
easting board in each and every county
are the appointees of Stearns himself,
and are generally his sole party repre
sentatives in those counties. This is
almost as bad as the charge brought by
a negro in this county, that the Demo
crats had defrauded, them out of 750
votes, because they had that many men
registered who did not vote. They voted
600 in excess of their legal voting
strength, and still they are not happy.
I said Florida was
redeemed, but not disenthralled !
And true it is. We have elected our en
tire ticket by good round majorities over
and above all tricks, frauds and illegal
voters, as I have already shown; but the
bad men who rule the Republican party,
who, from long tenure of office, have
oome to think that we belong to them, will
not concede the fact. In spite of figures
absurd and ridiculous claim that Hayes,
Steams & Co. were elected, but have been
cheated out of th6ir victory, and in their
desperation and frenzy telegraph for
Chandler, money aud troops. Tell it not
in Gath ! But, to the astonishment of
all, and to the shame and disgrace of
the Radical party, this great outrage
upon our free institutions is consumma
ted. “Chandler, money and troops” have
come. The capital hill at Tallahassee is
even now bristling with Federal bayonets.
Why? What for? There is no insurrec
tion here, no occasion for soldiers, no
war nor rumors of war. The purpose is
patent and the intention plain. The ob
ject and the sole object in sending for
“Chandler, money aud troops,” is to
count Tilden and Hendricks out
and to count Hayes and Wheel
er in. We can only protest. We
are under a heavy bond to keep the
peace, and we intend to k^p the peace.
But will the great American people
pie submit to this unparalleled outrage
and infamy ? Will the grand Dfmocratic
party, fresh from a most animated, en
thusiastic aud victorious campaign, sub
mit without a murmur? No ; they have
rftreaSy spoken, not only through their
press, but through their con
stituted authority have sent us
words of hope and good cheer.
They tell us that, if we have the votes,
“to stand firm, and the Northern Demo
cracy will see us righted.” With this as
surance who can doubt but that the result
will be the vindication and triumph of
the entire Democratic ticket, and Florida
redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled.
Of course our election has now assumed
national proportions. Wo have au un
scrupulous and wily foe to deal with, but
our cause is in good hands. Not only our
own State Executive Committee are true
and tried men,, but our officers elect are
present iu person, also Governor Walker,
Colonel Call and Colonel Daniel, rein
forced and backed up by Hons. Joe E.
Brown, Julian Hartridge, and Generals
Lawton and Phil Cook, and others.
The Hon. Wm. Archer Cocke is the only
Democrat on the State canvassing board.
He is a gentleman of fine legal attain
ments and literary culture, is of old Vir
ginia stock and well grounded in consti
tutional principles. Grant has not got
soldiers enough to intimidate him, nor
Chandler money enough to buy him.
Reform.
LETTER FROM PHILADELPHIA.
Close of tbe Exposition—Political Exel>e-
ment in the City of Brotherly Love.
WIDE AWAKE.
IIo>r !Ur. Bellamy Tried to Ke< p His
E>e» Open in 1 burch and the Woes it
Brought Upon Him.
Hayes gained over Grant only 2,000, and l the most convincing, and in utter defl-
in a single Atate, Rhode Island. | \anoe of truth and honesty, they set up the
[From the Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye.)
The other day Mr. Bellamy, of Pond
street, read in a religious paper the fol
lowing paragraph:
“Many very good people are annoyed
by sleepiness in church. The following
remedy is recommended: Lift the fool
seven inches from the floor, and hold it
in suspense without support for the limb,
aud iftoeat the remedy if the attack re
turns.”
Now, Mr. Bellamy is a very good man,
and he is subject to tbat very annoyance,
which in his case amounts to a positive
affliction. So he cut that paragraph out, in
accordance with the appended instruc
tion, and pasted it in his hat, .and was
rejoiced in his inmost soul to think that
he had found a relief from his annoy
ance. He hoped that Deacon Ashbury,
who had frowned at him so often and so
dreadfully for nodding, hadn’t seen the
paragraph, for the Deacon sometimes
slept under the preached word, aud Mr.
Bellamy wanted to get even with him.
Aud Mr. Driscoll, who used to sit in the
ul*oir, a'ad cover his own sleepiness and
divert attention from his own heavy eyes
by laughing in a most irreverent and inde
corous manner at Mr. Bellamy’s sleepy
visage and struggling eyes and head—
how 8 the good man did want to get it on
Driscoll. So he chuckled and hugged his
treasure, so to speak, in his mind. He
was so confident that he ha! found the
panacea for his trouble that he went to
the minister and told him what a burden
his drousioess had been to him, but tbat
he had made up his mind now to shake it
off, and to continuo to keep it off, and ho
was certain that he had sufficient strength
of mind and force of will to overcome tbo
habit. And the minister was so pleased,
and commended Mr. B-llamy so warmly,
and said that he wished he had one hun
dred such men in his congregation, that
Mr. Bellamy was so elated, and happy,
and confident that ho cou d hardly wait
for Sunday to come to try his new method
of averting drowsiness.
Sunday came, however, and soon
enough, too, for it was Saturday after
noon plumb, chick, chock full of men
with bills, overdue notes, trifling
accounts, little balances, pay-roll, rent,
narrow-gauge subscriptions, political
assessments, and one little thing and an
other, almost before Mr. Bellamy knew
it, although it hadn’t been here half an
hour before he had some suspicion of it,
and was soon very confident of it. Sun
day morning found the good man in his
accustomed place, devout and drowsy as
ever. The church was very comfortably
filled with an attentive congregation, and
Mr. Bellamy was soon cornered up in one
end of the pew, and the strange young
lady who sat next him was attended by a
very small white dog that looked like a
roil of cotton batting with red
eyes and a black nose. The open
ing exercises passed off without inci
dent, and the minister hadn’t got to sec
ondly when Mr. Bellamy suddenly roused
himself with a start from a doze into
which he was dropping. His heart fairly
stood still as he thought how nearly he
had forgotten his recipe. Ho feared to
attract any attention to himself, lest his
precious method should be discovered,
and slowly lifted his left foot from the
footstool and held it about seven inches
in tbe air. As he raised his foot the
strange young lady shrubk away from
him in evident alarm. This annoyed Mr.
Bellamy, and disconcerted him so that he
was on the point of lowering his foot and
whispering an explanation, when the dog,
which had been quietly sleeping by tbe
footstoui, opened his eyes, and seeing
the uplifted foot slowly descending in
its direction, hastily scrambled to its
feet and backed away, barkiDg
and yelling terrifically. The young lady,
now thoroughly alarmed, jerked her feet
from off the footstool, which immediately
flew up under the weight of Mr. Bellamy's
foot, and the dog, excited by this ad
ditional catastrophe, fairly barked him
self into convulsions. Deacon Ashbury,
awakened by the racket, came tiptoeing
and frowning down the aisle, bending his
shaggy brows upon Mr. Bellamy, who
actually believed that if he got any
hotter he would break out in flames that
not even the beaded perspiration that
was standing out in his scarlet
face could extinguish. The young
lady rose to leave the pew, Mr. Bell
amy rose to explain, and as he did
so she was quite convinced of what
she had before been suspicious—that he
was crazy. She backed out of tbe pew
and sough* . -««. iry's protection.
Mr. i a ■ r attempted to whisper an ex
planation to the Dtaoon. but that austere
official motional him br.ck to his seat,
and as die miniver paused ur‘il the in
terruption should cease
undertone that wa°
church
“You’ve bet
Bellamy.’
Mr. E^Iiamy s.
covered w th com
of garment* and a
happiness w*^ great
he looked up into
collconvisrd witi_ i
his handkerchief
shaking w th suppr* r»seu ' -
After service Mr. a.
through the servi. th
traction f >r the e tiro
waited foi his pfi or > . an
more effort to * :pl> a h‘i-
escapade. JBnt the ain ster
mon had been qu t< pou -d by the affair,
waved him in siien o. and t>am. quite
coldly: , „ _ ,
MNever mind: Brjitcer . llamy; don't
apologize; yoo men - well. I Jar
say; but if yt aiake so r uch diatn v -
anoe when yes **rc w believe
would prefer ic Kave yc steep quietly
through every irrhofc 1 preach.”
a severe
jver the
again, Brother
is aaf. quite
vith a
and his ul -
vvated when
id saw Drie-
nt, stuffing
mouth and
ter.
vuo was all
itre o f at-
'o: gregatiob,
i madn one
unfortunate
whose aer-
[From a Lady correspondent of the Morning
News.]
Philadelphia, November 13.—On Fri
day the exposition was pronounced closed,
though the buildings and grounds are
still open to the public. Great prepara
tions had been made for the closing cere
monies, but the heavens were unpropi -
tious. The rain came down in torrents,
and the wind was sharp enough to cut
one ia two. Quite a number of visitors
were in attendance, but such weather
would damp the courage of the most in
veterate sight-seer; and wet feet and
dripping umbrellas are not very con
ducive to good temper. “Madam, you
must move your umbrella, you are digging
the points into my.eye3,” “Sir, you are
tearing my umbrella out of my hand,'*
“Confound it,’’etc.,were the pleasant littie
amenities which were heard on all sides.
Au attempt was made to carry out the
programme in the judge’s hall, where only
a favored few could see or hear, and the
highly sensational act of the stopping of
the large engine in Machinery Hall by the
reverenced hand of U. S. Grant was cur
tailed to an order given by telegraph
“Oh! most lame and impotent conclu
sion.”
Before the visitors left,the work of de
molition had commenced. Tne Japanese
were particularly expeditious, drawing
large packing cases from under their
platforms, and hammering away at the
close fence which on Saturday completely
enclosed their section. The change made
in a few hours was perfectly marvelous.
“The lights had fled, the garlands dead,
the banquet hall deserted.”
The Swedes have followed the example
of the Japanese, keeping off every prying
eye with heavy curtains. The British
have drawn ropes around their sections.
Mexico and Brazil wires, and boards with
“positiyeiy no admittance,” while great
swathing cloths cover many of the figures
aud cases. A few visitors stray about the
halls, but ia lieu of the aggressive see-it-
all-or-die crowd of the past months, they
are like lost sheep who are meandering
about an unsatisfactory pasturage.
Sad as the scene is, I must acknowledge
I enjoy it, for I am now permitted to ex
amine in peace the exhibits which are yet
unpacked, and in the withdrawal of so
many, others come to view which are
well worthy of interest, but which have
been heretofore overshadowed.
But chiefly do I eDjoy holding my own
once more with the conductors and car
drivers, taking my seat with dignity in
stead of being thrown in like an old
clothes bag, packed like bacon and
shouted at like cattle. The boarding
houses also have changed their style:
even as the Pennsylvania Railroad pro
vided cattle boxes for the visitors, the
housekeepers took up their carpets,
bought a quantity of oid army cots and
crowded a dozen or two into one room.
To be a “Centennial boarder” was just to
bo a stranger who was to be taken in and
done for in a fashion anything but re
spectful or comfortable; while, if the
slightest remonstrance was made, ho
would be told to take himself off, as there
were plenty of others who would apply.
X iw I imagine tbe opprobrious name of
“Centennial boarder’’ will bs dropped
and some effort will be made to make a
guest comfortable.
election excitement.
The Quaker City has lost her reputa
tion for quiet and order. She has been at
fever heat for a week, and on Thursday
and Friday the excitement amounted to
perfect frenzy. All the principal street*
were filled by bands of men carrying
various devices and shouting at the tops
of their voices. I saw one squad with a
log house on wheels, which they dignified
with the name of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,”
while a big negro represented “Uncle
Tom/’ And on my return from the ex
position grounds our car was stopped by
another wild crowd carrying brooms to
sweep the Democrats out of the city,
Hayes being elected, so Forney said
Chesnut street was comp etely blocked
up by tbe excited multitudes, whooping
like demons as each fresh telegram was
run up on the
bulletin boards.
It has long been a question in my
mind whether telegraphs and so
many daily newspapers are really
a benefit to mankind. It is now
decided. As to the bulletin boards here,
they are a perfect nuisance. At one mo
ment up would go the bulletin before the
Times office, “Tilden elected—large ma
jority!” Exulting shouts from the crowd.
Another moment a bulletin before the
Press, “Hayes elected—South Carolina
and Florida gone Republican.” Wild up
roar, yells, cries for speeches from tbe
editors, to which the Republican editors
were absurd enough to respond, very
much (in the present state of affairs) as
an ass brayiDg in a lion’s skin. And so
on with every imaginable startling an
nouncement, until it wa9 a perfect mira
cle that there was not a regular battle,
or that half the people did not die of
apoplexy. Of what avail was it
for the Times to come out with
tbe paternal advice that the “won’t-go-
home-till-mornings” should go home to
their beds relyiDg on them—the daily
papers—for reliable information in the
morning, when they kept contradicting
themselves all day and half the night,
exciting the people until they rendered
the night hideous with their howls. The
last two days have been quieter, people
are waiting with enforced patience for
the result from the “so called” doubtful
States, but even the little news boys are
betting. “The last news!” cries a boy of
eight. “Who is elected ?” Ia*k; “Hayes?”
“No, Tilton.” “Are you sure?” “Ye-;
Ill bet all I have, seventy-five cents. ”
The bulletin boards to-day announce
“They are waiting.” It is a pity but that
they had “waited” before setting the
people nearly wild—with false reports.
Of one thing I am assured by my late
experience; all this pleasant appearance
to Southern visitors, these expressions of
kindly feeling which have been so pro
fusely given to us of late, these offers to
bury tbe memories of our “late un
pleasantness,” is just so much bosh when
comiug from a Republican. They will
not bear the test of the slightest opposi
tion. The bitterest feeling hao shown
itself in this contest—“Shall we let the
South rule ? Shall rebels try their hand
again ? We trusted once; we would be
fools to trust again. The election of
Tilden is the victory of the South.”
Such are the cries on every side. With
the Democrats I find the utmost de
termination to hold to an election they
consider fairly won. “Philadelphia,” I
hear them say, “is the stronghold of Re
publicans. We will show them even
here the Democrats will no longer see
the South oppressed. The South shall
now have a large party to back her.”
While the moderates on both sides ac
knowledge there must be a change made
in a c juntry where a true account of votes
oan no loDger be obtained, when we have
reason to believe the present officials
will use fraud and violence to carry an
election.
We have still another cause for excite
ment in our house—news from Savannah.
v e are very anxious to get home. After
the first question of the morning, Who is
ted follows, What news from Sa-
van: ah ? Several of our party left last
p? ght f having heard of a frost. To-day,
w( are grieved to see by your Saturday’s
. aper, e are yet warned not to return.
t .iladelphia, when not in an election
upi>ar, is a charming city for a visit,
out ur a home, I will live and die in
Dix; . and j am dying to get back.
S. E. G.
P •—Amo*.g the exhibits from Cana-
u-, n re is an Ox ! manuscript book, “The
Origin*! Survey of Mason and Dixon’s
Line,” P-ce $500. How often w# have
h% ' crumc tc viitk L*e said line wan
on Felioi piled.
WON’T STAND IT.
The Totea Lecally Cut Mnit be Counted
and IVo BI*od Nonsense.
The Chicago Tribune (Rep.) closes an
editorial in its Monday’s issue as follows:
We do not believe, therefore, that the
moral sense of the American people will
consent to or tolerate that the election of a
President of the United States shall be de
termined and decided by throwing out the
votes of several thousands of legal voters,
legally polled, in any State of the Union.
We take it, therefore, that the votes
actually polled in these five “bulldozed”
parishes of Louisiana will be counted, no
matter what may be the result produced
upon the election by so doing.
If the facts be as stated, and we have
tried to collate them fairly from the state
ments of both sides, the Republicans of
Louisiana and of the country have to
bear the consequences of the panic which
seems to have so stricken the colored
voters in these five districts. We look
upon it as r calamity because we know of
no legal remedy. There is no precedent
known to any election law that we ever
heard of where the votes of persons not
voting, and not offering to vote, can be
counted, no matter how strong may be
the presumption that if such votes had
been polled they would ha^ e changed the
result. In 1874 the Democrats elected
at least fifty members of Congress in Re
publican districts because Republicans
stayed away and did not vote. For the
same reason the Democrats elected the
Governors of several States and a major
ity of the Legislature in several States in
1874. No such thing as offsetting the
vote actually polled by that not polled
has ever been recognized at any election
in any State in this country. Even in
the desperate conflict in Louisiana four
years ago both parties claimed the elec
tion, but both parties assumed the vote
counted to have been polled.
It is claimed by the Democrats that
their party will have a majority of the
whole vote of the State, over and above
their vote in these parishes; but, while
this ought to settle the matter, it n.ay
not do so, if the counting of the non
polled vote be insisted upon by the other
side. If, however, the Democrats do not
have a majority 6xeept by counting the
votes in these five parishes, and the re
sult in the State depends on their being
counted or not counted, then the issue
will be a direct one, and one upon which
the country will promptly reach a judg
meat, and NO CANVASSING BOARD
WILL DARE ATTEMPT TO PUT THE
JUDGMENT OF THE NATION AT DE
FIANCE ; and the American people will
never engage in a civil war to uphold the
counting of votes never cast or offered to
be cast, or to reject lawful votes le
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A Sad Mistake—Two Brothers Shoot
Each Other.
The Alleghany City (Pa.) Evenirg Mail
of Saturday, says :
“A sad affair occuired at about two
o'clock this morning at the family resi
dence of Geo. li. Riddle, President of
the Franklin Savings Rank, in this city,
and ex-member of the Legislature, by
which two of his sons were accidentally
shot, one of whom is thought to be fa
tally injured.
“The particulars of the affair, a3 far a
could be learned, are as follows: The
faini.’y resides at Springdale, on the
West Pennsylvania Railroad, about six
teen miles from this cry. At the hour
men tioned different members of the family
| were aroused by the noise of burglar*,
i who were evidently trying to effect an
j entrance into the double briok mansion.
They were distinctly heard conversing
outside, and to frustrate their designs
the male portion of the house armed
themselves with revolvers and shot gUDs
and proceeded to investigate the conduct
of the prowling marauders outside.
“One version of the affair has it that
four of the sons duly armed by a prear
ranged agreement to go in a body, started
out of the front door. Joseph, who is
one of the victims, returned to the houso
for the purpose of getting his hat, and
forgetting in the moment of excitement
to follow each other, he absent-mindedly
proceeded out of a rear door to join his
brothers. At that hour of the morning i t
was very dark, and when Joseph came
around the side of the house he was taken
for one cf the burglars. Before an
explanation could be made Edward dis
charged his revolver at Joseph, the bail
entering his left breast and penetratiDg
his lungs. Joseph also was under tho
impression that the parties before him
were burglars when he heard the click of
the revolver, and simultaneously with tho
report of ti r .a sh 1 discharged the
load in J :-guu. which la
the thigh of his brother Edward, maki '
a flesh fciand. It not pronounced
dangerous, white the injur;©*, iHfahifd
by Joseph Riddle are of a serious char- |
acter.
[No. 1,416.]
Notice in Bankruptcy.
T HIS is to give notice that on the 301 h day of
October, A. D. 1876, a warrant in Bank
ruptcy was issued against the estate of David
Newman, of Albany, county of Dougherty,Jand
State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a
bankrupt on his own petition, and that the pay
ment of any debts.and the delivery of any property
belonging to such bankrupt, to him or for his
use, and tbe transfer of any property by him,
are forbidden by law; that a meeting of the cred
itors of the said bankrupt, to prove their debts,
and to choose one or more ast-ignees of his es
tate, will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be
holden at the law oidce of Warren Jfc Hobbs,
at Albany, Ga., before Isaac Beckett, Esq., Reg
ister, on the TWENTY-NINTH DAY’OF NO
VEMBER, A. D. 1876, at 3 o’clock p. m.
W. H. SMYTH.
novl7 2t U. S. Marshal, as Messenger.
[No. 1,433.]
Notice in Bankruptcy.
T HIS is to give notice that on the 24th day
of October, A. D. 1S76. a warrant in Bank
ruptcy was issned against the estate of Thomas
J. Pratt, of Cuthbe r t, county of Randolph,
and State of Georgia, who has been adjudged
a bankrupt on his own petition, and that
the payment of any debts, and the delivery
of any property belonging to such bankrupt,
to him or for his use, ana the transfer of any
property by him, are forbidden by law; that a
meeting of the creditors of the said bankrupt,
to prove their debts, and to choose one or more
assignees of h s estate, will be held at
a Court of Bankruptcy, to be holden at the
law office of A. Hood, Esq., at Cuthbert,
Georgia, before Isaac Beckctr, Esoulre, Regis
ter, on the FIRST DAY’ OF DECEMBER, A.
D. 1876, at 10 o'clock a. m.
W. H. SMYTH,
novl7-2t U. S. Marshal, as Messenger.
[No. 1,427.]
Notice in Bankruptcy.
T HIS is tc give notice that on the 5th day of
October, A. D. 1S76, a warrant in Bank
ruptcy was issued against the estate of Moses
Allen, of Brown’s Station, county of Terrell,
and fctate of Georgia, who has been adjudged
a bankrupt on his own petition, and tbat the
payment of any debts.and the delivery of any pro
perty belonging to such bankrupt, to him or for
his use, and the transfer of any property by
him, are forbidden by law; that a meeting of the
creditors of the said bankrupt, to prove their
debts and to choose one or more a-tigntes of his
estate, will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to
be; holden at the law office of A. Hood, Esq.,
at Cuthbert, (-a., belore Isaac Beckett, Esq.,
Register, on the FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER,
A. D. 1876. at 10 o’clock a. m.
W. H. SMYTH,
novl 7-2t U. S. Marshal, as Messenger.
[No. 1,439.]
Notice in Bankruptcy.
T HIS is to give notice that on the *d day of No
vember, A. D. 1876, a warrant in Bank
ruptcy was issued against the estate of William J.
Tompkii 6, of Lumpkin, county of Stewart, and
State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a bank
rupt on his own petition, and that the payment
of any debts, and the delivery of any property be
longing to such Bankrupt, to him or for his
nse, and the transfer of any property by him sre
forbidden by law; that a meeting of the cred
itors of the said Bankrupt, to prove their debts
and to choose one or more assignees of his es
tate, will be neld at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be
holden at the law office of Allen For*. Esq., at
Americus, Ga., before Isaac Beckett, Esq , Regis
ter, on the THIRTIETH DAY OF NOVEM
BER, A. D. 1S76, at 9 o'clock a. m.
W. H. SMYTH,
novl 7 2t U. S. Mar.-hal, as Messenger.
i <“
njptcy ’
tau
of
Anouitr Bemocratic Yicioi ■
[Jacksonville Union,.
We are called upon to chronicle
achievement of one J. C. Thrasher,
this city, in a personal assault upon Rev.
W. W. Hicks.
Thrasher had been indulging freely in
threats of violence against Mr. Hicks at
the depot in this city, and when politely
questioned by the latter in regard to the
matter, struck Mr. Hicks in the face.
This act of violence arose solely be
cause of Mr. Hicks’s political opinions,
and the expression of them during tho
campaign.
The Democrats of Jacksoi#ille should
congratulate themselves that they havo
so valiant a champion. Thrasher weighs
at least two hundred pounds, and is a
powerful man. Dr. Hicks is a man of
small stature, and obviously unable to
cope with such an assailant.
Nothing save political differences oould
occasion such an assault, for Dr. Hicks
is a cultivated gentleman, and courteous
to all.
We suppose this shameful assault will
be called a “purely personal matter’’ in
Democratic parlance, and “deprecated,
a3 usual, so as not to offend the most fas
tidious.
About forty years ago there was in
Pennsylvania what was called the “Buck
shot War.” After the people had decided
at ihe ballot box that a Democratic Gov
ernor was elected, the party in power,
headed by Thaddeus Stevens, determined
they would not give up the game, and
undertook to change the returns so as to
make it appear that Joseph Ritner, the
Whig and anti-Masonic candidate, was chc
sen by the people. Somehow or other the
holiest yeomanry of the old Keystone
State got it into their heads that the
majority should rule, and in this firm be
lief they swarmed to Harrisburg in resist
less crowds to prevent the consummation
of the infamous crime. They went there
in their majesty and might, and asserted
their sovereign rights in 6uch a positive
and unmistakable way that very soon the
bold conspiracy melted before the peo
ple’s wrath like snow flakes before the
morning sun. In the meantime, while
the snow was melting, Thaddeus and two
of his cowardly companions, overcome
with terror, jumped out of tbe back win
dow of the capitol and fled into the dark
ness, which protected them. The storm
then passed on, the Democratic Governor
was inaugurated, and all was quiet on the
Susquehanna. Tue history of forty years
ago may be repeated in the centennial
year!—Baltimore Gazette.
That pretty poetry about the ballot be
ing “a weapon surer yet and stronger
than the bayonet,”executing “a freeman’s
will as lightning does tbe will of God,”
is suspended until further notice, from
GeD. Grant, Zach Chandler aud the New
York Times.—Fashville American.
Posters:
T HE MORNING NEWS JOB OFFICE ha* tea
most extensive assortment of WOOD TYPE
INO. 1,431.]
Notice in Bankruptcy.
mve notice that on the 17th day of
■■ 'l~ s a warrant in Bank-
raa tent*. - ; *■» of William
ftad John A Fa. i uh: [dually,
s fniton, cojurtLire. ot I>awaor.,
0< Terrell, ami State of 'usortfa.
who *L>vt been adjudjred Bankrupts oo
•.heir own petition, and -hat th»_ payment ol any
di'bfc*, and the i: ,: • ry of any property he-
to Bach uankrupts, to Them f r for their
LSO-. »ad Lie traLetero^ any j periy by tliesa,
ur. : i* t a i ini of rb m-i.
tors of the »u.- .ueir debt*
aad to choose one or more aesigr • ; .
estate, will be held at a Court ot
to be holden at the law office of A. Hood, Esq.,
at Cnthber, Georgia, before Isaac Beckett, Esq.,
Register, on the FIRST DAY’ OF DECEMBER,
A, D. 1876, at 10 o’clock a. m.
W. H. SMYTH,
nov!7-2t U. S. Marshal, as Messenger.
[No. 1,425.]
Notice in Bankruptcy.
T HIS is to give notice that on the 15th day of
September, A. D. 1876, a warrant in Bank
ruptcy was iasned against the estate of Render-
son Cobb, of Americas, county of Sumter, and
State of Georg a, who hJ been adjudged a Dank-
rapt on his own petition, and that the payment
ot any debts, and the delivery of any property
belonging to such tank nipt, to him or for his
use, and the transfer of any properly by him,
are forbidden by law; that a meeting of the cred
itors of the eaia bankrupt, to prove iheir debts
and to choose one or more assigne* s of his es
tate, will be held at a < ourt of Bant ruptcy, to
be holden at the law office of Ailen Fort, Esq.,
at Americus, Ga., before Isaac Beckett, Esq.,
Register, od the THIRTIETH DAY OF NOVEM
BER, A. D. 1876, at 9 o'clock a. m.
W. H. SMYTH,
novI7-2t U. 8. Marshal, as Messenger.
[No. W22.]
Notice in Bankruptcy.
T HIS is to give notice that on the 4th day of
September, A. D. 1876, a warrant in Bank
ruptcy was issued against the estate of Miles
Base, of Americua, county of Sumter, and Slate
of Georgia, who has b eu adjudged a bankrupt
oa his own petition, and that the payment of any
deb ?, and the delivery of any Droperty belong-
ing to such bankmpf, to him or for his use, and
the transfer of any properly by him, are forbid
den by law; that a meeting of the creditors of
the said bankrupt, to prove their debts and to
choose one or more assignees of his estate, will
be held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be holden
at the law office of Allen Fort, E*q., at Ameri
cas, Ga., before Isaac Beckett, Esq., Reg'ster, i n
the THIRTIETH DAY OF NOVEMBER, A. D.
1S76, at 9 o'clock a. m.
W. H. SMYTH.
novlT-2t U. S. Marshal, as Messenger.
S TAl'E OF GEORGIA, Chatham Cocntt.—
To all whom it nay concern: Whereas,
Ellen C. Benges will apply tor Letters of Adminis
tration on the estate of Frederick Be. ges, late
of said county, deceased.
These a e, therefore, to cite and admonish all
whom it may concern, to be and appear before
said court to make objection (if auy they have)
on or before the FIRST MONDAY IN DECEM
BER NEXT, otherwise said letters will be
granted.
Witness, my official signature, this third day
of November, 1876.
JOHN O FKRRILL,
nov4-8,4t Ordinary C. C.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
A LL persons indebted to the estate of Thomas
Smith, M. D., late of Chatham cooniy, de
ceased, are requested to make immediate pay
ment to me; and all thos • holding claims against
said estate will present them, duly attested, with
in the time prescribed by iaw.
ROB. P. MYERS.
Administrator ad col. estate Thomas fcmitb.
Savannah. Ga., November 1st, 1S76.
nov4-S6t
A. L. HABTK1JIUE,
Security Broker and Beal Estate Agent
Battereby’s Bnilding, Bsy Street.
C AREFUL attention will be given to the safe
or purchase ct SECURITIES [and REAL
ESTATE. LOANS negotiated on' reasonable
terms. nov6-3m
Profefl'" ^i»J and Business Mem
^unnmn