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a ithiot. camannoii or tm OoSutitvoi«x-ao iioorot ajiA nomioMion ad.u.hi.t'uatmin of the Mveiurert. Ragland & Wynne, Proprietors. 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«.