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COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1872.
Volume-XLTV.-No. 38
The Weekly Enquirer.
JOHN H. MART IN.. * .7.7......... Editor.
COLUMBUSY '
THUR8D A V...... SEPTEMBER 12,1872.
—Tens* of M«bserl|itlou-o-
0»e Year In aflvMiee'- • |”., r i0.
Tlio flirty-Vsrk of R. M. Whlttley. -
The Radical carpet-bugger who has been
nominated for re-election to Congress by
his party of the 2d District Of Georgia, is
engaged in the dishonest and disreputable
bnsinoaa of franking copies of Harper’s
caricature representing Horace Greeley
exulting over tiro misery of Southern
women and children—tire caricature to
which was attached the sentence com
mencing ‘‘When the rebellions traitors
aro overwhelmed,'' Ao., which was falsely
ascribed to Mr. Greeley, and weioh the
N. Y. Tribune says was not written bim,
but by a present supporter of Grant.
Whiteley, of course, does not send this
circular to his negro supporters, but only
to white Democrats whom he hopes to
deceive nud excite by such means. The
copy which we saw, franked by him, was
sent to a gentleman whom he supposed to
be a “Bourbon" Democrat. The infa
mous character of this caricature has
been sufficiently exposed. We only allude
to the matter to say that Whiteley Is en
gaged in abusing hia Congressional privi
leges by frunking it.
Coventor** Klertlos.
The time for tho election of Governor
is drawing close to hand, and every Geor
gian who feels ouv interest in having the
State and its finanoe* protected, its honor
preserved, and a wine administration of
the laws, should go to work in earnest for
the re-election of Governor James M.
Smith, who has done so tuuoh for tho
Htate during his short term in office. Ho
has to u great extent reduced the expenses
of the Executivo Department, aud in
many ways saved thousand* of dollars to
the State. Th$ laws have been enforced,
and peace baa been brought bat of confu
sion, and things are now gliding on to
prosperity and the rc-establiahment of
honest government.
In order to Rocure Ihere-elcotion of the
present incumbent, every true Georgian
should become interested in tho matter
and use all honorable means in his power
to accomplish this end. The Radicals
have nominated the strongest man in
their party, and are working every way to
secure his eleotion,; consequently it be
comes necessary for the Democrats to
move in this important matter, and leave
no stone untumod that will influence one
vote for the Hon. James M. Smith.
[GriJfln Star.
A progressing election for Justice of
the Peace in the 1st district of Savannah,
on Saturday last, was abruptly broken np
about midday, on demand of the proprie
tor of the house in wrhich the poll was
opened. He had rented a portion of the
house for that purpose, but several dis
turbances having occurred, ha represent
ed that his family were shocked aud
nlarmed, and ordered tho parties holding
the election from bis house—a demand
which they complied with, thus bringing
the voting to a close. Tho oleetion was a
sharply contested one, and it was thought
the Radical candidate was ahead when
the polls wero closed. A new eleotion
will be ordered.
Julius Kaufman, the man who broke
up the election for Magistrate in Savan
nah, on (Saturday, has been arsested un
der the Enforcement act; so also has a
negro named Henry Wilson, who is
charged with interfering to prevent sev
eral negroes from voting, and with strik
ing one or two. Both were held for trial
before U. S. Commissioner Wayne, in the
sum of $2000 each.
The total official vote of- North Caroli
na, at the late election, has been publish
ed, as follows: Caldwell 08,£04, Merri-
mon 96,070—majority 1915.
Five negroes of Barbour county, Ala.,
have been indicted and arrested nnder
the enforcement act, for attempting to in
timidate others of their race from voting
as they please. Tbat is the way to make
a law, designed for infamous purposes,
react upon the part}’ passing it Throe
other negroes named id the warrant oould
not be fonnd. Those arrested wore to be
tried yesterday before U. 8. Commission
er Cochran.
The Democrats of Bartow' county have
nominated DavidY. btokely and Thomas
Tumlin tor Representatives; in ‘Coweta
couuty, Meant*. Anselm Leigh and A.
Moses; in Heard, M. C. Summerlin; in
Carroll, S. C. Candler; .in Elbert, Jaa. L.
Heard: in Wilkes, Messrs. T. A. Barks
dale and John Mattox; in Pike, John C.
Thompson.
A special to the World states that the
Geneva Tribunal has awarded for the
loam by the Alabama,’ Florida and Shen
andoah, a lamp turn of fifteen millions of
dollars, but it is added that it is not
known positively.
A dispatch received by oa yesterday
Strengthens this repori
Grant'a majority in Maine, in 1868, was
26,986. In 1871, in a lighter vote, the
Radioal majority for Governor was 10,-
626. Every district elected Radical Con-
i in 1870.
Col. R. H. Powell, of Union Springs,
President of the Democratic and Conserv
ative Congressional Convention of the 2d
District of Alsbams, has issued bis call
for the re-assembling of that Convention
at Union Springs on Wednesday, the 22d
test. The several counties ofihe District
are invited to send additions! delegatee.
And now ebmen the Hon. Joehoa • HU),
Republican Senator from Georgia, refit
sing to support Greeley as “a life-long,
persistent and intolerant adversary’’ of
the Democratic party, and declaring his
purpose to adhere to Grant! We thought
that wo were reading the letter of some
“Bourbon” Democrat (addreased to tho
Atlanta. Constitution) until wa looked at
tho close end saw it signed “Joshua Hill.
Wo never knew that the Hon. Joshua was
aooh an inveterate and sensitive Demo
crat before. W# refer him, for sympa-
fkjr, to Bon. Janes I* Seward.
VKUHOkr AHfl MAINE.
Tho .Democrats end Liberal Republicans
have not indulged any hopes of carrying
cither-of these States for Greeley and
Brown. The moot they hoped for from
either iq the late 8tate elections, in a
pmetirat way, was the gain of one or two
Congvemmen in Maine, and hi this, it
acetno, they have been disappointed. It
is. unfair, in giving tho returns for this
year, to-compere tltam wi|h those of last
year, because the vote in both States in
1&71 waa light, and of course the Radical
majority was proportionately reduced.—
The true twin of comparison is tho Presi
dential election of 18t*$, when the total
vote cost in Vermont waa near about a*
large aa that of last week, and when the
rote of Maine was large, but not so large
that oast on Tuesday last. Compared
with the heavy votes of 1868, the Demo
crats and Liberals have this year gaioed
about 6,inio in Vermont and 11,000 or 12,.
000 in Maine. These gains are not suffi
cient to affect rosults in those two strong
Radical Statem : bat the same per oentage
of gain ia all the States would in Novem*
ber cam' for Greeley and Brown the fol*
lowing Staten which voted for Graut in
1868: Alabama, Atkuunas, California,
Connecticut, Indians, Missouri, New
Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylva
nia ; borides Florida, which choee Presi
dential Electors by the Legislature in
1868 ; Mississippi, Texan and Virginia,
which were not allowed to vote then : and
TennesseeaLd West Virginia which went
for Grnnt in 1868, but which no Radical
olaiius now. With these changes against
him, where will Grant get his majority
from in November next? Aud gains for
the Democrats and Liberal Republicans,
no greater than theso just exhibited in
Vermont and Maiue, will give the above
named States to Greeley and Brown ; be
sides which, we have alroug hopes of car
rying Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, and
possibly Ohio.
To exhibit theso gains in Vermont and
Maiue more definitely, we give compari
sons of the full vote of 1868 with the vote
of 1872 kh nearly as heard from. Vote
for Vcrmout in 1^68—Grant 44,178, Sey
mour 12,051—majority 82,122; in 1872—
Rad. .*18,224, Dcui. and Lib. 14,6*08, with
69 mmII towns to hear from, which (says
n dispatch of the Otli,) are expected to in
crease tho ltepublicau majority to 25,000
or 26,000. Maine iu 1868—Grant 70,426,
Seymour 42,696—majority 28,080; in
1872—Radical 70,46", Rem. and Lib. 66, -
166—Rad majority 16,680. (The vote of
187‘i is partly ascertained aud partly esti
mated by Telegraphic report, which see
elsewhere. It shows the whole increase
iu the vote to he on the Democratic and
Liberal side.
Mr. C. C. NcNmith, the solitary dele-
gate (so called) from Alabama to the Lou
isville “Straight-out" Con vent ion,addreas
ed a letter to the President of tbat body
announcing that he “withdrew Alabama
from the Convention”! So our good
Democratic and Conservative) friends
across the river cau console themselves
with tho knowledge that they went
“straight" out of that concern, whether
they ever went straight in or not. Mr.
NeHuiith says in his letter that he “alone
bad nerve enough to enteT au appearance
for Alabama,” and the reader ought not
to overlook tho significance of the expres
sion. There used to he an expressive
(if not a dictionary) Georgia word—-
“aatumacy"—and Mr. NeSmitb might
well have substituted it for “nerve”.
However, as be alone entered Alabama
(the people having nothing to do with it)
and as unanimously “withdrew” the State
when he came to the conclusion that the
objeot of the Convention had been de-
feated and persistence in the foolery
would only bring “ridicule and lasting
oontempt," the Democr ts of the State
ought to he too grateful for his last action
to disputo with him about terms.
Tho New York World says that Gen.
Dix, the Radical candidate for Governor
of New York, telegraphed to a Federal
Collector iu the South, at the commence
ment of the war, “If any man attempts
to haul down the American flag, shoot
him on the spot!" and that Mr. Moses,
the Radioal candidate for Governor in
South Caroline, was the man who did tear
down the American flag from Fort Sum-
Secretaries Rout well and Delano
will have to qualify their protest against
“clasping hands across the bloody chasm”
ho as to allow an affeotionate and hearty
clasp between Dix and Moses.
Col. Richard Sims of Bainbridge, one
of the moat prominent lawyers of South
western Georgia, died last woeki
Gev. Hwitti, Ex-Hey. K. Brews, sad
the Liberal gepablleea*.
Editor* Columbus EnquirerAs I
have heard the inquiry made several times
lately, as to how the liberal Republicans
in Georgia would vote as to the State
Demoeratic ticket for Governor, Ac., I
will simply say, that, while in Atlanta
about ten day* rgo, I heard Ex-Gov.
Joseph E. Brown remark that he should
vote for Gov. Smith, And that he believed
tbat most if not all of the Liberal Repub
licans in the State would do the same.
Judge Walker and Gov. Brown are
warm personal friends, and have been so
for very many years; they were both
together, too, as Reoonstructionists in
1867 and 1868. Bnt Gov. Brown votes
against Judge Walker because, as he says,
“he is the Grant candidate for Governor.”
A gentleman Afterwards remarked, how
ever, that, as Gov. Brown had always
troen a Democrat, and had only professed
tp be a Republican in 186H, to aocomplish
his own purposes, he believed' his voting
for Gov. Smith now, (especially in view
of the action of the Convention in July,)
was more for the purpose id folly identic
firing kimtelf again with the Demoeratic
fang, than fin any other purpott; tad,
to be (teak witk Meeere. Edtten, I
aw of that opinion, mjeelf.
Howe ter, the Liberal Bepubliaapa, it
they Lave hatf th. benae . common m.e
.ought to have, would be sure to onto the
bemoentio ticket for governor and a!
ben of the Legislature In October, aa tha;
can but knew that auoh a vote would not
only aid the Qrealey electoral ticket in
Georgia, but would - alao aid the same in
other State., in November neit.
Kwwa
(From ih*> Atlanta Comtttutlnn.
The lulled State* Senate.
The Senate bim 74 members—22 against
and 62 for the Grant Administration.
March the 4th,-1878, 24 Senators retire.
Of these 18 arc f6r mud 6 against the Ad
ministration, leaving' 84 for and ill
againt.
The retiring Senators are Cameron,
Pomeroy, Patterson, Morton, PooL Cor
bett, Gabon,' Sherman, Cole, Conk ling,
Howe, Harlan, Nyc, Kellogg, Spencer.
Sawyer, Morrill of Vermont and Ferry of
Connecticut. Sherman and Ferry have
been re-elected: Patterson, Cole and
Harlan have been replaced by Wadleigh,
Sergeant and Allison. Pool, of North
Carolina, will be succeeded by a Demo
crat.
The retiring opposition Senators aro
Hill, Vickers, Trumbull, Rice, Blair aud
Garret Davis, of Kentucky. Vickers and
Davis are replaced by Dennis and Mo-
Creery.
There are chances, and good ones, that
Coukliug of New York, Morton of Indi
ana, Cameron of Pennsylvania, Osborn
of Florida, Spencer of Alabama, Kellogg
of Louisiana, and Nye of Nevada, will be
replaced by opponents of the Administra
tion.
The retiring opposition Senators will
either be returned or replaced by success
ors of tho same view, unless Trumbull
should be an exception.
This will pnt tho Senate 28 against and
46 for the Administration, breaking its
two-tbird* majority. A great triumph
this, and the result of the Greeley move
ment.
Mr. (lrcelp)*a Effort* Toward Becaaclllatloa.
Gen. J. D. Imboden publishes a long
letter in the Richmond Whig, addressed
to Col. Geo. W. Bolling, of Petersburg,
Vs., relating incidents iu Horace Greeley *
past personal efforts to further the cause
of reconciliation in Virginia and other
Southern State*. The General asserts
tbat, bnt for Mr. Greeley's skill as a paci
ficator, Virginia would be to-d*y in as ter-
riblo a condition as Houth Carolina. Tha
following letter written to General Imbo
den recently by Mr. Greeley, ia not only
significant bnt interesting ;
“New York, June 20, 1872.—My Dear
Sir : 1 hnve your letter to Mr. W. Reid.
“I would not wish to publish anything
with respect to a private oouvernation with
Piesidont Johnson without his assent.
“I did visit him just before Congress
assembled after his inauguration. 1 snp-
poned I was invited by him, lint would
not Assort it i( be disseuted.
i did ad vine him to call three repre
sentative Northern men and three equally
eminent Southern men to counsel biiu
aa to the boMt mode of pacifying and liar-
moui/.iug the oouutry. I Baked bim to
advise those to remain in the White
House as his guoats until they should have
agreed upon a plan of reconciliation—he
meeting aud consulting with them when
ever hia daily duties should permit.
“1 did suggest to hitu as conferees on
the part of the North, Gov. John A. An
drew, of Massachusetts, Gerrit Hmitb, of
New York, and Judge Rufus P. Hpauld-
ing, of Cleveland, Ohio.
“I did propose that he should designate
and invite Gen. Robert E. Lee as one of
the conferees on the part of the Honth.
“If I named another Southern man to
him, I cannot uow recall the circum
stance.
“Ho much I feel at liberty to riste, lie-
cause it refers solely to my own notion in
the premise*. Ah to Mr. Johnson's part
of toe colloquy, 1 cauuot apeak without
his permission. Bnt you are at liberty to
send this letter to him, and ho may state
what be said on the occasion or not, as ho
shall see fit. I can remember nothing
more of consequence said by me on this
occasion, except tbat I pledged myself to
support to the utmost any plan of recon
ciliation which tho conferees should agree
upon and he should adopt and reoom-
mend. Yonis,
“Horace Greeley.
“Gen. J. 1). Imboden, Richmond, Vir
ginia.”
The I'flre of Cotton.
We learn from Edwards A Co.’s (Liver
pool) laat circular, the following facte in
relation to the probable price of the cot
ton crop this fall. We hope cotton plant
ers will not be disappointed in realising a
good price:
“Toe increased maohinery of the world
will need five per cent, more, or sey
3,700,000 bales, to feed it this ooming
season, and it may fairly be presumed
tbat thin quantity will go into consump
tion at the average price of the last two
yearn, say 9|d., and, therefore, we do not
think a crop of even fonr millions will be
able to reduce the average price below
9d. to 9jd. for middling Orleans, nor do
we think that such a prfoe can be reaohed
till the weight of it in felt in European
markets.”
The AUhaau A Chattanooga lUllroad.
It iH reported that letters wero received
in this city yesterday from Radical sourc
es, to ibo eff ect thut Judge Bradley, one
of the AnHociatc Justices of the Supreme
Court, had rendered a decision in the Ala
bama A Chattanooga Railroad case at
Cbambern, in the White Mountains of New
Hampshire, at tho instance of the first
mortgage bondholders, whereby the or
ders of Judge Buhteed are set aside and
the rights of the Htate of Alabama subor
dinated. We hear that these letters Htate
tbat Judge W. B. Haralson, of DeKalb
county, sod L. H. Rice, of Boston (a near
relative of i he Htantons), have been ap
pointed the Receivers, end that the order
authorises them to bond the company to
the amonnt of $1,600,000, to put the roed
in good running order and provide all the
necessary equipments. All persons ara
arid to be onjotued from interfering with
the management and control of the road.
If th ;< < information proves to be true, it
vlrtoally takes the control of this impor
tant road from Governor, end places it
again in the hands of Htanton end his
confederates.—Montgomery Adt., 18Ui.
The Fibst Frost.—The persona who
keep a diary of public events tor the ben?,
efit of coming generations osn writs dowp
on tho page for to-day (Kept. 4) “First
frost of the Keeton/ It wasn't henvy
enough hereabouts to do any damage to
•peak of, bnt lutthsr up the river, in
Franklin oonnty, it was much more se
vere, and must have done considerable
damage to tobaoco, which in that section
ia not half harvested. In this vioiuity the
growers, warned by the hint of the reeent
oool weather,have been working like beav
ers for the last week,getting the precious
weed iu, end probably more than two-
thirds of the crop in Hampden county, is
now harvested, end if there is no heavy
frost before the week is ended ell of it
will be without harm.
[Springfield (Maes.) Union.
Good Faith or the Liberal Republi
cans.—The Liberal Republicans in North
Georgia, from ell I can hear, are eoiing
in good faith. They not only support
Greeley and Brown, but they working for
them, and for the Democratic Htate ticket
generally. This, l aru assured, is true
also of such leading Liberals aa ex-Gov.
Brown; Dr. Angler, Bate Treasurer;
Mr. Dotting, Secretary of State, and Mr.
Madison Bell, Comptroller General. Tha
last named gentleman reports almoet en
tire unanimity in the northern oountiea,
among those who have hitherto acted with
the Repoblicans, bnt who are now united
in support of the Democratic nominees,
State , and National. The tame remark
will apojytp tho northwestern conn tie*
With the exception of a personal friend
or oliegt, the Radical candidate for Gov
ernor will reeeive bat few white votes.—
Atlanta Corr. Saw. News.
BoeroN,—Cotton dull. Middlings 22c.
Bales 900. Bales 7000.
TIIK ALABAMA LYNCHING.
FULL DETAILS OF THE FLORENCE TBAnf.PT
—THE MURDERER OF HlXtElN PBUHONH
MURDERED IN TURN.
[From tlio Lauderdale Tlmc-i, flth ]
We give below the facte - oh wo gather
them of the hanging of' Tom Cleric and
the two burglars iu our town last night;
THE CRIME.
Tuesday evening a gentlemnn of Athens
caiue to this place and brought informa
tion that, on tho night previous, nine
houses had boon burglariously entered in
the town of Athens, and much valuable
property stolen therefrom. He said that
the parties supposed to have committed
the burglary wore coming toward* this
place, and advised tho citizons to bo on
the alort. But no one thought anything
of it, and all rotirod oh usual, little ans-
peoting burglars in our quiet towu. Du
ring the night th# houses of Jtxlgo Ailing-
ton, Jah. Ifancock nud It. T. Hiuiptou
were entered, gold watches stolen from
the latter two.
About half-post two o'clock that night
two men wero Keen ou tho Btroota driving
a Horrel marc to a buggy. Suspicion won
at once fixed upon theso oh tho guilty par
ties, sbd at HUuriHO yesterday morning
four men went in Pursuit. It wi»h ascer
tained tbat they had gone in the direction
of Waterloo.
tiik capture
of the robbers waa off coted by Messrs.
Wm. E. Blair (City Marshal), Win. Burks,
Wm. Joiner und W. 1J. Worsen. The
robbers had stopped for dinner, and wero
about unhitobing (they wore traveling in
n fine top buggy drawn by a son el mart*)
their horso near the residence of Esq.
Pettypool, a few miles below Gravelly
riptiugH. They offered little resistance,
but exploded much surprise hh Mr. Blair
aud otnera rode up, the Marshal doiuuud-
ed their surrender, aud telling them that
he intended to “go through thorn like a
dose of sails.' A non veil of their persons
discovered nothiug, hut on examining tho
buggy the pill of u breastpin w«H observ
ed sticking through the lining of the bug
gy top. The party immediately went “up
Mtuiiw," in the lunguugo of one of tho gal
lant gontlciueu, ami found there eight
matrix h and haudsful of breastpins, ,te.
Ou opening a drummer's Bnteliel, which
was in the buggy, tiles, sama and other
bnrglarioUH instrument s were found,
atnougat which was a murderous riuug-
sbot.
At this part of tho game the countenan
ces of thu robbers fell. They seemed to
give up nil thought of esc po, and to make
up their miml* to sutler tho pcnully of
the law (if they could not by hoiiio ing'ori-
ouh trick mauago to brink jail). Their
arum having beou taken, they were placed
in tho buggy, aud, with their captors bo.
fore and bolnnd, turned toward Florence.
Just above Gravelly Springs the party
is joined by one of tlio many ubiquitous
candidates now canvassing tlio county,
and further on by the marshal of Athens
and his companion. Tho prisoueis, who
were elegantly dressed, expressed much
annoyance at the heat und dust, seeming
not to care much for anything rise.
Florence turned out cn mount , ns tho
party rode in town, and much cxcitotueui
prevailed.
At night it culminated in
the HANOI no.
The jail being insecure, Sheriff Hudson
had aniumoned eight men in addition to
the jailor to guard tho prisoners. About
midnight a great crowd oaino to tho jail
and doumuded tho keys. Tho guard re
fused to give thorn up, and fired ou tho
mob. It ia h.tid that the tire was returned.
Atunyruto, tho jail doors were broken
open aud the guard disarmed. Tho colln
wherein Tom Clark uml the robbe: i woio
confined were also broken into, ami tho
three men tuken out and carried imme
diately to nn adjoining squate, nml
hanged by the neck until they icne dead.
The three wero suspended iron) n tree
which atauds in the roar of tho rito of old
Masonic Lodge.
Iu tho morniug the oilizeus found them
there. Ode was identified as Tom Clark ;
one was a abort, stalwart man, with the
initials F. It. and a star, in Indian ink, on
his right arm, and two hearts pierced by
an arrow on his loft hand; and one is sup
posed to be ■ - - Gibson. We under
stand that ouo of tha robbers directed his
portion of the $865, iu money, which was
fonnd on thoir persons, to bn sent to his
sister, Miss Kate Bohiloc, ol' Iudiannpolis,
ind. The man attempted to osenpo, wuk
shot by some person unknown, reoup-
tured, und hung with tho others. It is
the opiuiun of Dr. Hannuiu, who exam
ined bis wouud, that douth would have re
sulted from the pistol shot. The younger
robber marched up boldly to the tree and
requested the executioners to hold him
up and drop him, instead of drawing him
up. Tho prayers of Clark were agoniz-
ing, nud were heard by the citizens living
near. Clark \h said to have killed sixteen
men during his life.
THE 1IUR1AL.
The indignation of citizens at tho out
rages of theso men was so grout tbat tho
ladies of the community,and many of tho
oolored people, requobted tbo mayor to
have tho bodies buried outside tho ceme
tery. Esquire liioe, iu accordance with
tbia request, ordered thut tbo bodies be
interred in one of the old fields near our
town.
Messrs. Hanoock and Simpson identi
fied their watches among those found iu
posaesMion of the burglars.
We hope that people at a distance will
not socuae onr citizens of lawlessness for
this act. We are an law abiding as any
people in the land; aud only when driven
by the highest law of nature's God—self-
preservation—would our community take
the law iu their own hands and mote out
to theaa murderers and robbers tbo just
punishment for their enormous crimes.
If ever mob law was justifiable, it was in
this instance. Tom Clark, who boasted
tbat he hod murdered, in cold blood, six
teen men,deserved banging sixteen times
over. The others, no doubt, would have
•lain their soores if they had found it nc-
eesaary to cover their viitAiny. They
were murderers at heart,and entered your
dwelling with the formed design to slay
•very man who might be awakened and
attempt to defend his household.
These men have ouly met their deserv
ed end. Let ell such take warning. This
was no Ku-KInx affair, but simply the le
gitimate effect of indignant and outraged
pnblio feeling. Fearfully and quickly has
the hand of retribution overtaken them,
bnt it was only justice asserting her
claims upon three of the most hoartlesa
villains that ever cursed the world.
We are opposed to mob law, hut these
men met e death richly deserved, and
over their fete we shed ue tears.
The thanks of the community are due
Messrs. Blair, Joiner, Burks and Warson,
for their prompt action iu making the
ceptore.
Coroner Ed. Brown mitnmonod a jury
and held an inquest this morning. The
verdict waa tbat the partioH came to their
death on the night of tbo 4th instant by
strangulation l>y hanging ut tho huuds of
parties unknown.
Collapse of Heavy Ironclads.—The
United Servico Gazette says : “Heversl
ships of oar doDble-botloaied irooaUd
float ore abowiog siffno of wookneM below
tb.tr wotor-liiio plating, conMquent, m it
it i* oappowd, oo tbo working of tb.ir
onormoatl; bo»»y orioor-pUtod topoldos
oo > eomporatinljr wook bottom frnme-
work. Tbo oollopoo of boovy iroaol.do
bailtnnocenn craio.ro on thin principle
eppeen to be o qoootioa of tiigo only, end
tbot not of long duration."
Now You, 8epl, 11.—Cotton oeey.—
Boko 2215 beloe. Dplendo -'1 J, Orleeno
is eon to.
Ptaasylvaala ProMlvril for tha nuaerratlr and
Liberal Republic** Star* Ticket la October.
The following circular hue been tamed
by Hamuel J. Randall, Chuirumn ut ibo
Democratic State Committee of Pennsyl
vania:
Philadelphia, Sept. 4, 1872.
Much care and industry has been taken
to impress tha voters of the btato with
tho bolief that an uuusual and exoesrive
majority will be given against the Demo
cratic and Liberal Republican Statu
ticket at tho October election in the city
of Philadelphia. This boast ia baseU
npou contemplated frauds, made possible I
under the iufamoua end partisan Registry
law. The ubjeote of these stahiueutH
are to eucourago tho Radicals of the Htate,
uufi to arouse a revival from their present
depressed aud hopeless condition, aud
secure what they now lack—energy and
enthusiasm—during thu canvass. Our
friends in this and other Stales need huvo
no apprehension as to Philadelphia. It is
true si'homes of fraud are bring arranged,
aud will be attempted on tho ouy of elec
tion; but they will fail of execution.
Vigiianoo has already been und will con
tinue to be exercised to expose and pre
vent their consummation. Tho result in .
Philadelphia, with tbo aid of thousands l
of high-minded Republicans, will be a
surprise to our friends and to our oppo
nents. 1 am without fear iu this respect.
One plan of fraud commenced I will men
tion, with the view of exposure and over
throw. It has come to my knowledge,
and is susceptible of proof, that largo
numbers of colored men—generally
young—have been brought iuto the State
from the ueighborlioods of Harrisonburg,
Vu., and Charlestown, W. Ya., to vote at
tho elections iu October and November.
The former tquad was ticketed to Har
risburg, nud the latter squad to Chambers-
burg, in this State. Numbers, iu like
umuner, have been located in Erie, Clari
on, nud other counties. More are expect
ed. 1 uow call upon tho DmnoerutH in
every election district in the Stute to form
“vigil&uce committees” to wutchoud pre
vent the success of these attempted cheats
aud meet all kindred efforts. Coder tho
constitution those oolored people not hav
ing been residents for cue year, are de
barred from the privilege of tho electivo
franchise, and iu every instance such us
are nnkuown in the communities where
they seek to vote should be fully question
ed and made to prove their right to vote,
before ullowing the deposit of their bal
lot. 1 cull upon Democrats for vigorous
organizations, irud I invoke special vigil
ance in the northern, southern and wes
tern border counties of tbo coiuiuon-
werith. Victory iu October is curtum.—
I make this declaration with full appreci-
ul ion of its import, aud tho weight which
should attach to such a statement, when
emanating from one whom high confi
dence has beeu placed. 1 state it from
conviction, and it is made ufler careful re-
rnviow aud full knowledge of the condi-
tiou and tendency of tho public mind
throughout the Htuto. The contest is sim
ple. it is au issue between capacity, and
botwon honesty aud corruption, in the iu-
tmo administration of the State.
Tho people will make overwhelming
choice in favor of futuro good govern
ment, with a majority beyond thu ruuch
of ballot-box polluters.
Sam. J. Randall,
Chairman.
lUitlml nriPRiteN to Lustallli*.
PAR!) Fnosr FISK CONRAD.
To the True Democracy of the United
State*:
Representing the Seventh District of
I'oniisylvauiuiu the Convention assembled
in tbm city under tho call of Blanton
Duncan, 1 made several attempts to-day
ia tho Convention to be heard. This was
denied me, ami in the most disuouiteoiis
manner by the Frosident, who himself
occupied at least two hours iu
a io ilisli gasconade about Dickon's Dolly
Yardeu. My object was to expose the
treachery of the Cuiueron-Jlurlrnnfi
thieves of my own State. The Feuutiyl-
vauia delegation was composed of ail
Graut men excepting myself, not one ol
whom ever intended to vote for the nomi
nee of this Convention. Their transpor
tation to this Convention was obtained
und paid for by the Graut people. My
own und those of fivo others, each repre
senting a District iu i'enusyivuniii, 1 pro
cured iu tho office of the Grunt State Cen
tral committee of FennsyIvania, at Phil
adelphia, corner of Eighth and Walnut
streets, over a well-known tailoring es
tablishment. For this tiuusportation I
lmd au order from Sipes, Chairman of thu
Bourbon Stale Central Committee of
Pennsylvania; that order was obeyed by
thu State Treasurer of Pennsylva
nia, Bob Mackey, who is well
known ns ono of Cameron's subjects.
The band of music that nccouipunicd us
wan furnished and paid for by the same
Grant people, aud our little hnnner, that
was carried by George Mouutjoy, is the
same thut desiguuted the seuts in tho Rad
ical Convention of the 5th of June, of the
Penn, delegation tbat nominated H.
S. Grant, and which waa presided over by
Thomas Settle, the rebel of North Caroli
na. This is the sum and KuDstunee of
what I intended to say had tho President
allowed me to proceed, and I now assure
all my Democratic friends who may
chance to soe this communication that
what I have ntated here are facts, all of
which I am prepared to prove.
W. Fisk Conrad,
Seventeenth Congressional District of
Pennsylvania.
The New York Herald, ordinarily obse
quious euongh to the power thut be, thus
exhorts the Administration. Referring
to wb&t Mr. O'Conor describes as Gener
al Grant's persistence in iufiictiug “mis
ery” on the South, it says:
“We warn the President of bis danger.
The people are tired of the iuccssuut ex
citement kept up by the politicians, aud
they say, with Senator Sumner,'the war is
ended ; there must bo an end also to bcl-
ligereut passions, and the freedmun, as
sured of his rights, must outer upon a
new career of happiuess and prosperity.'
The violent tirades of Woudell Phillips,
Gerrett Smith, Boutwell and others, who
pom irto the years of the ignoraut ne
groes the poison of suspicion And hate,
and who urge upon them a resort to civil
war rather than a submission to reconcili
ation, are revolting to the public mind.
Sensible men caunot fail to see tbat the
doctrines advocated by Greeley must lead
to peaoo and happiness, while the doctriue
preached by the Radioal aupportera of
President Grant must lead to bloodshed
aud suffering. *If Greeley is elected,
arm, concentrate, conceal your property;
but organize for defence,' is tho advice of
Wendell Phillips to the negro, ^lack
men, be not deceived by this cry for re
conciliation. Your old oppressois will
never be reconciled to yuu, nor should
you be reconciled to them,’ cries Gerritt
Smith, and Boutwell, Harlan and the
rest echo the words. To whut can such
teachings lead but to contii urd discord
and hatred, sad eventually, perhaps, to a
bloody aud oruel war of races? Aro the
financial interests of tho oountry safe nn
der snob hasted appeals to the passions of
ignorant men? If General Grant is to
bo re-elected it will be by the support of
tbs moneyed und btuinoss classes of the
country, and it ia timo for them to moke
it a condition of their support that this
reokleas playing with Are shall so longer
hazard tha safety of their lives and prop
erty. It is time for the people to let all
p&rtiea understand tbat whatever candi-
dates may be successful the Administra
tion of the next four years must give con
stitutional freedom to the Southern States,
take the iron baod of military rule from
the throat of that section of the Union
and let the whole flatten have peace/’
GItKFI.KY OK Wit A NT.
A Went lo lit© I'Mpk.
Cutuukrt, Ga., August 84, 1872/
Editors Telrgradh: Tlio Republican
party of Georgia have been so long led, iu
the main, by bad men, thut must of the
good tuou of the parly are tired of tbo
power they aided iu sotliug up in tho
State. They have so long disappointed
the hopes or the colored race of good' thro*
thut organization, that many ot tho best
nud moat thoughtful of the oolored people
do not uow regard Georgia Radicals as
their safest allies or best friends. 1 feel
that I do no violence to truth iu asserting
that iu this State that party has beeu so
routed aud demoralized »s to bo hopeless
in u single-handed contest with the Con
servatives hi.<I Democrats. Their only
ground of itopo ia in the action of disaf
fected men of onr pAity, either rrfliving
to vote, or voting iu a third party ; cither
of which serves every purpose of an alli
ance with them. The loader* Adroitly
Leek to pnt usou the defence of onr devo
tion to principle. They who have not a
kind emotion for Democratic principles—
have no opinion in accord with the tirno-
houored party, but seek its destruction—
some with a smile and a kiss urge ns to
stnml in the last ditch for the old Demo
cratic Flag—others with the venom of a
serpent iu their hearts, aud the scowl of a
demon ou tbeir faces, are franking and
circulating documents nud appealing to
tlm people to move in hostility to
their party. AU of whom—I speak of
leuuors aud not the people they are gul
ling and misleading—know full well, that
our failure and defeat is the sanction of
ProsidAtit (hunt's oppression and abuses,
by the American people, and the renewal
of hi* power for four yearn more. We
aro to he met with tho accusation that iu
voting for the men who are the nominees
ofihe Liberal wing of the National Re
publican party, aud of the National Dem
ocratic part}', we become Republicans,
abandon our principle* and organization
aud leave every ni.iu free to not vote, or
to vote, even tor Graut, if be chooses to
do so, without impeachment of bis devo
tion to principle or party. This is the
doctrine they seek to instil in tho minds
of our rank and file, aiul whioh bos al
ready found u l-xlginout in m-my caudid
iniuiiH. It is to that class that 1 write.
Now, no such conclusion cun be proper
ly drawn from tho support of thu Dcuio-
oiatio party of thu L'.bcral Republican
nominees, us tdixs of ihut patty. Such
conclusions come not from sober reason
and sound judgment. It jh tho result of
erroneous coui.sul, prompted iu pome ca
ses by covert design to destroy the unity
of tlio party, and in others by a feverish
resentment at the oottisn of onr parly
leaders — tinder a condition * of nfi'airs
which tho leaders and | euplo combined
hud no power to alter, to-wit: the hope
less minority of the party, and onr utter
wuut of power to Mipplunt onr political
enemies in a strict party contest, lienee
it was that iu our parly, guided by the
best minds upon the coutiuent, State af
ter Stute, and sui t ion after section, fell
into lino with tho Liberal Republicans, iu
advance of the Noti.mul Convention. If
Georgia, or any other Ktute, lmd deter
mined under tho advice ot our beloved
leader, Mr. Stephens, to resist tho cur
rent, it would have amounted to isolation
und incivism, not to say aid to the Grant
wing of tho Republican party.
Iu u Republic or Democracy, all power
is asserted through tbo aggregate musses
by representation. All changes iu tho
Government policy or administration must
bo effected through the action of organ
ized party. Individual opinion founded
never so well in truth, nud not engrafted
on a party creed, or made the Lads of
party action, is only r.peeululive. There
is no effect in individual effort, however
Herculean, tin less it is in concert with nn
oigauized muss we call a party. Tt is the
duty of nil to aid iu giving the party prop
er direction. It is the right of all to pro
test against wrong. But iu a case like
this, he who seeks to defeat, or refuses to
aid his own party, virtually aids the other.
Sixdi will be the client of non-action.
Now whnt will be the effect of the pro
posed organized action by tbo few who
refuse to support Greeley aud Brown,
however eminent they may bo for talents
aud public virtue ? is there a busis for a
national organization in the face of tbo
giout unity at Baltimore ? Can they cur
ry any Htate ? If not, wind good beyond
a mere protest, which they have already
soloiuuly entered, can result from it ?
Is it pructicul statesmanship to refuse
to accept any proposed change iu punci-
plus, men, or administrative policy ; any
thing to soften tho rigor of oppression
that has been so long visited upon th)H
subjugated aud reconstructed Ruction of
thu Union, because all is not granted
which we think we are entitled to ? Is it
wise to chuuHO starvation in sight of plen
ty because our appetite cannot be tally
and at once satisfied ?
Now' I do not cl dm more than usuul
judgment or patriotism, or deny them to
all who honestly and conscientiously re
fuse to voto tor Greeley—I wish to deal
fairly with all. Whatever they may say
of the ('incinnati movement uml the can
didates, 1 am assured by the events of the
past, and the present, situation; by the
aulecedculH uml preseut position of tho
leaders who got it up, and those who have
fallen into it, that it sprung out of, was
produced by, aud iR bared upon upposi.
turn and hostility to the nbuaes of the
Grant wiug of the Republican party—
their repeated and fiagrunt violation of
(ho Federal constitution aud tho rights of
the people, aud disregard of all tho linages
of good government. We must all be
convinced that tho men, Republicans
though they ho, who pnt forward aud are
now supporting Greeley and Brown, and
will bo his advisers aud supporters it elect
ed, are a better cIuah of men than the
Mortons, Harlans, and Butlers who Mir-
round Hud control President Graut. Aud
now that the great torrent of Democracy,
North, South, East and West, has ming
led waters in the grund aud sweeping pop
ular wave, there cau bo no ground to
doubt, that the host that will support and
exercise influence over them, are infinite
ly a better constituency than the extreme
Radicals that nphold Grant's administra
tion, uud sre seeking to re-elect him.
With this strong conviction of mind, And
having uo Democratic candidate in the
field, und no hope of seeing ono brought
out Hint cau effect anything but mischief;
having no power to elect Mich a candi
date, nud uo resources from which to
draw men to swell the Democratic party
to the staudard of a popular majority,
and in decisive preference to tho re-elec
tion of Grant aud the perpetuation of his
abuses aud oppression, 1 shall not hesi
tate to voto for Greeley aud Brown.
Their party has Assorted, and they, what
ever sins they may have committed in the
past, have uow fully avowed adhesion to
local self-government; the supremacy of
civil over militaiy authority; the iuviulu-
bility of the writ of bubcuh corpus; tho re
turn ot the nation to the methods of
peace, mid the constitutional limitations
ot power; the reform of the civil service
from the diHgimtiug abuses <T this admin-
istrutioa; an economical government, and
a system of taxation that will not appress
the industry of tbo country. Now tbat
we have no party with {rower to assert ev
ery truth we held sacred, shall we stand
aloof and allow these we held in common
with the Liberal-Republicans to bo re
pressed by the election of Grant ?
The great newspaper cannonade, by
those refusing to go with tho national or
ganization, has been upon the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments. It was a
solemn protest against the manifest in
tention of tbo national party to treat
them as parts of tho organio law io actual
foroe. Aud, after all, the Jeffersonian
Convention, at Atlanta, on the 20th,
whoae platform won drawn by Mr. 8te-
phciis, doe* not so much as mention
them. Tho reosou is, they sre parts of
thb Federal Conutituliuu, and protest as
we huvo done and may do against tho illc-
? [al und fraudulent method and means of
heir adoption, they can uow only be
uhauged am any other part of that instru
ment may. The Democratic party of
Georgia does not abandon principle. V.it,
with that of the United States, abandons
the issua ; ceases to make opposition to
these amendments a part of our party
creed. We have no national party. to
carry to the pulls in opporitiou to ttieiu.
•Tiro Democratic mind of all sections,
pretesting that they aro wrong, assents to
the proposition that there is uo power to
undo them ; ttiAt they have acquired the
force of organic law, and that opporition
to thAin is useless aud hopule**. - None of
us feel, in Georgia, that we sanction the
iruud uud wrong by which they wete
forced upon the country by simply cens
iug to offer opposition to them.
If we had made a Democratic platform
at Baltimore it would have contained no
i >luuk of hostility to theso amundineutH.
f wc had uomiuated u National Demo
crat he would have beeu defeated iu overy
Htate if he had gone into the oanvanri to
open theNo amendments uud set them
aside. If eeusiug to war on these amend
ments is a ground of complaint, it in one
we should have had in a Democratic
platform and in Democratic candidates.
If the Liberal Republicans at Cincin
nati hud gone no further than to assert
that opposition to these amendments has
ceased to be nn elemout of strife between
the natioual parties; every caudid man
would have boon compelled to accept it as
a truth and simple enunciation of historic
development. But wlxn they offer to
pledge ns that no matter what the light of
experience may demountrate ; tm mutter
what changes iu public opinion future
abuses rnuy develop, we will never reopen
the question of restoring tho rights of
the States, the l'\deentice hi/stcm which
our fathers ordained, uud of limiting the
powers of the general government by
other rules than wbafthe Congress und
1'resident may rugA'd as “appropriate le
gislation,” they ask us to go it step be
yond what our consciences cannot endure.
Neither statutes nor constitutions are un
alterable iu a government of free people.
Under thu popular favor for subjugation
j and reconstruction, through tho agency of
these iiuiendiuent*, a tidal wave of pus-
sion has swept tlx* Government far into
! the enrieut of consolidation and central-
J ism—the catastrophe so much dreaded by
| the authors of our Fiderulivo system In
process of lime Hie very amhora ot lluso
inuovMliouH iimy see their consequent
evils, und desire to apply the remedy.
The wave may recede and leave us u:i the
rock of cut Hlitntiomd liberty, where our
fathers placed us.
But our controversy* is not now and will
not theu be with the colored man. Hu,
as u freeman, will need good goveruiueut
ns well as we. Graut, by the rtwurd, aud
Greeley, by the pen—the two great agen
cies that move tho eivil world—huvo uni
ted and worked together to set him fv
and clothe him with civil uud political
franchises. Let him remain free to thu
end of time. But iu order to do »
necessary for him to use ull his franchises
wisely and for the preserva ion of good
government : that he should aid the bet
ter uml more eulighten cluss of his liber
ators und us, iu correcting abuses uud op
pression Hint grew out of thu bloody
struggle, und the consequent demoraliza
tion utxi corrupt ion thiough which the
country is passing. The colored race are
not our enemies but our friends. They
are by far the best laborers this section
will ever lmvc, and no three millions of
ignorant und dependent people could sup.
ply their places Irom any part of tlx
globe, who wuuid be so agreeable and
useful, or so peace! ill und orderly. 1 am
uot only for protecting them, but m.i for
using them for allies tor the preservation
of their liberty uud rights and ours,
agninst the usurpers und public plunder
ers that oppress them uml us. It is time
for the disuussiou of the negroe s free
dom nml political right* to cease. Tho
public mind of both sides of thu bloody
chasm accepts them us settled aud fixed.
It is time for the colored man to dismiss
his fears tliut tho carpet-baggers are con
stantly trying to keep excited about be
ing put buck into slavery. It is timo toi
him to unite with hia true friends to do-
viso ways und means for the good of both
luces. We have other aud greater isRttos
to settle, in which the colored man uml
all lovers of peaco aud order and good
government can and ought to unite with
us. They are issue* of janree and princi-
On the other side, reckless, unbridled,
licentious, grasping and crushing power
thut is impervious to hbuuie, measured by
uo limit but gratification, and checked by
no consideration* of virtue or honor. On
the other ride, principle* based on truth
uml right, uud have tbeir origin iu com
mon with liberty i<*ulf. They ure tho sit
pri macy «<f civil t vor military power, and
the writ of habeas corpus, which will bo
forevery si.crtd and dear to tho weak and
poor whether white or black ; the right of
nelf-govcrnmeut by the States and honest
administration; the relief of the people
from onerous burthens of taxation* grow
ing out of recklees extravagance and offi-
ial dissipation aud public plunder.
The issue involves the question wlieth-
or thu political aud civil institutions of
this country, and with them political and
civil liberty, shall go down amid the rag
ing pussiona of the hour, or be suatchcd
from tho hand of usurpers and tyrant*
and be preserved to bles* mankind of tho
present and future ages.
In this great cause we have formed an
all ance with many good men who have
Iceu opposed to tm, and with many whom
we have had cause to hate. Stauding on
this ground of common safety, we made
common cause against a common foe—
tho powerful parly in power at Washing
ton. It is a party great in numbers aud
powtr to do evil—a party bereft of con
stitutional principles; opposed to State
right* and to the supremacy of civil over
military power, and to atable 'ocal gov
ernment that is the shield of the citizen
and the guaranty of law and order—a par
ty whose thirst for prolonged powerty is
stimulated by hatred, and whotte favored
mean* of aucceas is fraud and force;
whose crimes thut blacken the record of
the continent in the past and disgust oiv.
ilized men everywhere, can ouly bo
equalled by being repeated with increased
fury and less restraint by themselves in
the future if they carry this election. It
is the party thut, aside from its licensed
{ (tendering and peculation*, spends two
lumlred millions per annum more than is
necessary to an economical government;
that bu* placed a burthen of billion* ul
publio debt that will be a galling yoke
upon the oecka of the poople for ages to
come, and that goe* on year after year iu-
creusing the burtheu and heightening the
yoke. It has proven false to the colored
man, Aud has placed odious proscriptions
on whito men. It has sent a swarm of
carpel-bugger* all over the South on mis
sions of theft and plunder, seeking every
where to nllienate the race*, enourugiug
violence, arson aud murder, in order to
ooulrol aud vote the colored men aud get
offloe. They took charge of the ballet
box, framed organio law6 for poople to
whom they were strangers, and many of
them atill disgrace these States by hold
ing seats in the Congreas of the Union.
It is Against this pflrty, and- to hart it
from power, that the alliance is formed.
It is against this party tbat the masse* of
American people North, Booth, East find
West, white and oolored, are'rlsiflg io as
sert their might by the peaceful mean* of
the ballot; and I pity the man, whito or
blaok, in this eectfoh, who cannot see the
difference between ns mid them.
Grant sinks into insignificance when we
think of the gnat party that has oontrol
yfhim. The «amo is fro# of oar candi
rifite. fiii/rerovd to u* is odious, bnt it is
nmdo on tactics that juo pstst auil settled.
Ho is tho lender of rv great revolution
against.evils of which ho wsi, iu part, tho
author. Ho I* said to be^honcst. Ho
avows his position ou present in, ties, in
which, in niitrly points, v.e agree'with him.
Uo will not ask un to approvo his past
•course"; wo need not nsk him to condemn
it. Wo want hiiu t . 1 rroak (Fo power’ thut
oppresHcs Via, to gukn.nt>•< v. hat hin letter
and platform promibo in favor oi justice,
law, older, pC;:< o,'ni. 1 the constitutional
rights of the States u: d»r tlio Constitu
tion fairly construed. *>u rlroso terms w-o
aro willing tu meet uud tril l him and tho
loader* who have put him forward. Upon
thofie terms wo inny jurily hope to lay
again tiro .foundation of national honor
and integrity, - ''And interital ffoaee, union,
nml order. ’ Truly yours,
lIsnRfiRT Fitxdeu.
TIIK I,fl-lvf.I.'X TKIAh AT Kl'FAlTA.
Wo copy from the Kufnulq Times' tho
testimony of the printyplo*' witness exam
ined on Tuesday, in tho oaso of tho prose
cution of certain Radical negroes for tho
violation of tiro Enforcement act. Tho
testimony v.«s sustained in sonio of.it*
particular* -anti tiro main one**—by that
of* a colon d woman. It will bo : t oo that
ilillodgo Holt make* oyt a case, against
tho negro Ku-Klux fully as strong n* sonic
brought against a number of white men in
North and .South Ukrmihil and Alabama,
who wore Rent'to tiro Albany pot itfittinry
for Jong terms mid heavily lined for as
saults or attempted intimidation. N«vf
lot us see whut will bo done when tho
iadieal bull has gerod the DcmocnUjq
ox:
Tho first witness* was Mijlodgo lbflt.ee !-
cd, who Klulcd in spbsbiiire, - that on
Friday night, August '.'rh, la*!, u crowd of
about 175 men went to l.in houso in this
city, about 2 o'clock, and made u groat,
noise there. Hh not tip from bod and
went to tho door, when he hoard Austin
Geary say : “If you put your foot on tho
ind, damn you, you’ll never pnt it.
it ore again.” 'Jhon they begun to sing >v
Sing about ‘old Horace Greeley come
tumbling down the 1x11/ NVilne.-.i went
to tho gnto und said: “Gentlemen, re
spect Wo and my family.’' Tlh y Then re
plied : ‘Hurrah for Milled} .- Holt, ad- n
Democratic liegro, who cave* tor him r
Witnom repeated his r< .pi M, win n Aus
tin
•Dan
ind >
nut <
that f
• fan
iy. it you
never got iu your house jx.rin/ Witness
then went oi'tho gnleuiMTom Thomas
smd : ‘Let old Mulcdgu IAolt go. tho
d- -n Democratic rr.se.d Lo is going to
shoot : let hitu shout : wo huvo come
hero for tlmt purpofO. Richard Hurt
Ujuii witid : ‘J lx Sod- n Demo ratio no-
groe*—it would bo a good phut for us to
take them cut and mob them, anyhow.
Witness then wont t-» Dob Frierson's
bouse, the crowd ptuxwiLg him: ie pm -
ed through tiro house and out at tie buck
door, uml tho crowd ran around to hc.id
hilu, but lie (lodged tho crowd and went
up town a ml got two policemen and went
back, when the crowd had all leffb.it Aus
tin Goaty, who wa* talking to Unit’:, wife
it the gate. Witness was positively cur
tain that Tom Thomas, Richard Hart and
Austin Geary, wore tho otic* who threat
ened to mob hint.
Tun Last Cotton Choi*.—T'ho Now
York Chronicle, uiukcs tho cotton crop of
tho year 1871 -2, amount to 2,974,:if>2
bales. Tho statement is it:; follows :
Receipt* at the ports 2,7;'.‘J.2>u
Houthorn consumption 120,ot)o
Overload *hipuient* to tho nulls 122,0.16
Total crop 2.974,.*152
Export* for tiro year 1.957,511
<*f tbo above aggregate, 16,845 bales
were sea island cotton.
Tiro total consumption by tho mills
North was 977,540 bales, .nixl that by tho
mill* Honth 120,050 bales, making u total
Amcricati consumption of l,< 97,5lo bales.
In referring to this statement, tho New
Orleans Ficayune of Sunday last, says :
This tol d ia certainly much smaller
titan was expected. Tho overland movo-
u ent i* exceedingly below any estimate*
that wo have hoard, of nud the accuracy of
tho figure* is much doubted. The New
Yprk Cotton Exchange will shortly is. no
a Statement of tho crop, which we sup
pose will bo generally adopted as authori
ty.
CHARLESTON COURIERS HT.VTftMflmi'.
iBnle*.
Itoceipf* at Forts....: 2,769,26:S
Overland receipts - 121,646
Southern couKUtupl ion,including
Virginia 120,000
Stock at interior towns, not in
cluded in receipt* 2,86-1
8,018,218
3Iorc UlotulMit'il in Arkunsu*.
Little Rook, Sept.. 9.—Parties from
Pope county report that Saturday a civil
officer nud posse, who had a writ for that
purpose, attempted to nrrost. Deputy
Sheriff Williams on tiro charge ol' firing
at and attempting to kill Harry Fainter
at Dover, ut the timo the iutkr shot und
killed County Clerk Hickox. Williams
refused to bo nrroated, aud was shot and
mortally wounded.
Sunday night, about twelve o'clock, ii
few of Hhoriff Dodd's militia entered Rus-
sellville aud set lire to thoofitco of tho Tri
bune, an anti-Admini*t rat ion paper, which
was burned to tho ground. Gen. T'phaiu
won in Russellville nt the time. Tho lat
ter went to Dover to day. Tho Governor
has received dispatches from hint this
evening, but thoir content* have not boeu
made known.
The Treaty of Washington.
Washington, Hopt. 8.—A semi-official
artxlo in tho Administration organ hero
riato that the Geneva arbitration ho*
awarded for the Alabama claiip-s the round
sum of sixteen or seven toon millions of
dollar*. The idea i* thrown 'out by tho
depnatiuent articlo that tlio Him Juan
Island may bo awarded by tho German
Emperor to Great Britain, in considera
tion of tlii* success at Geneva, but this
suggestion is evidently made in order to
cover tip tho defeat of the Stnto Depart
ment in tho matter of tho three thousand
million* of indirect claims.
[y.ouiqrillfl Courier.
Tho Alnbaiiis ,aml ChnltatiooKii Jtailroad.
According to tho Clmttnnoogu papers,
at lust tbia largo railroad bus emerged
from its difflcnUies. A company of Bos-
touian* has bought the road front tho
State lor $£»3lp,000,.aud appointed J. C.
Stanton, the Superintendent.
Stanton, since hi* overthrow, ha* inter
ested hi* ftieuds North, aucceedod in
forming*tho company mentioned, and
now ha* ouco more tho control*-of tho
road ho built. Tho butt ter is a curious
illustration of whafc pIuekTtnd energy can
do. vAuyeor ttgo feejeft in.disgiace and
financial ruin. The road ha* been to*siug
in tha agonies of innnmetable complica
tions and vioisitfides since suspended,
seized, levied on, grabbed by whole aud
pieoemeal, abused, tho subject of tight*
and law*-suits, pitched about ltko u Bhuttlo
opok from legislature* to courts, fought,
over like a bono bjr a sot of huugry cur*.
Georgia has had her interest it which hs*
been the theme of numerous contest*.
At length,'if the Herald speaks truly,
the long agony i* over, and wo may ex-
peot to 88. tho grout oujerprwo «>lwve.I
of it. eiub«rriuMu]oiil» I'&jouk- a " oll-be-
h„ed wd Ja^Cabl. railway, .lopo.t.ng
“elf “h disnily. .nd quilt.-g It. d«.