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A STRICT CONSTRUCTION OS THR CONSTITUTION—AN HONRST AND RCOIOSICAL ADMINISTRATION OS TUB OOI
Ragland & Wynne, Proprietors.
COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1872.
Volume XLIV.-No. 43
The Weekly Enquirer.
JOHN U. MARTIN..................Entfom
COLUMBUS:
THUKSDAY OCTOBER 17,1871.
-Th» *r flataerlpllaa—
Oue V«r Id e<ivi»iice |2.S0.
SAITS THAT SHOCI.D CIIU US.
The Democratic and Li band Republican
alliance, though generally accepted end
canted ost is good faith, was not qnito
so unanimous and effective in tho late
State elections as it will be in tbs Presi
dential election. We need not go into
argument to show why this was so. All
politicians know the reluctance with which
many men separate front their party asso
ciate*, eren when a regard for principle
sternly demands it. We see it exemplified
in Georgia in the course of men of both
parties. Hon. A. n. Stephens and his
lilllo party of “straights" acted generally
with the Democrats in anpport of Got.
Smith and the local Democratic tickets,
in tho late election, though they will not
go with them in November, and Mr. Ste
phens intimates pretty plainly that he
ptefera Grant to Greeley. On the other
band, Ike American Union, of Macon,
the oldest Republican paper in the Htato,
supported Walker and the Radical ticket*
in the recent election, but flfo* the nanien
of Oroeley and Brown for the Presidential
election ; and uo doubt ninoy Republicans
in the Htato follow its course in both
instance*. Why do we thus see bitter
auti-GreeloyilcB supporting Greeley State
and local tickets iu October, and Libera)
Republicans supporting Grant Htato oud
local tickets, iuteiidiug on both aides to
ehaugo their ponitioua iu Noveiubor? It
is on sooouut of the strength of party
association, which in these oases has pre
vented a separation froui old political
associates uutil the Presidential election.
Ou this poiut the Cinoiunati Enquirer
■ays: “We uiay rely upon it that Greeley
aad Brown are far stronger than any of
our local candidates. There ate, aa we
have ahown front the beginning, thou-
aands of Republicans who had made up
their winds to vote agaiuat Grant oud
la favor of Greeley, and that nothing
would induce to vote for any local or Htato
ticket that was not labelled and under
stood io be Reptildiean. We shall have
tho advantage of this voto in November,
and it is far larger than the Grant wen
daicolaie ou, as they will find to their
Sorrow. '
Another significant and noteworthy fact
Is this: In Cincinnati and other pitots
where a largo vote was cast by jtersons of
German nativity, the best results of the
Democratic and Liberal Republican alli
ance have been witnessed, showing that
whets the largest German vota la thrown
wo way look for the greatest Radical
lottos. Cincinnati has been a steady
Radical city, on national iaauea, since the
war, the majority of that party being
generally a)>oiit three thousand; but in
the late election Cincinnati gave the Dew-
ootatic and Liberal tickets a majority of
about fivt thousand votes and a gain of
two members of Congress. The number
of voters of German birth is much
greater, in proportion to the native popu
lation, in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota,
Wisconsin and other Northwestern States,
than ^n any State which had an election
last week, and wo may reasonably oount
on results similar to those in Cincinnati
whon they vote in November.
There nro other considerations which
encourage the confident belief that the
Presidential election—when old Republi
can leaders are to l»e voted for—will show
• much greater separation of Liberals
from the Radical rauks than the late State
elections exhibited. Onr intelligent and
observing friends arc taking these things
into consideration, and are not discour
aged by the results of the October elec
tions. They are massing tor the greet
Cow teat in November with a resolution
that la of itself “half tho battle."
or ft rOXftKKNKJOKAL KliKCTlOH.
Foil returns of the vote for Governor
show e Democratic majority of about five
thousand in our Congressional District.
Rut this should not compose onr friends
!• apathy or lure them into false security.
It was only e full Democratic vote that
gave us such a majority. Let the Demo
cratic vote be lessened by indifference or
over-con fidenee, and the Radical vote be
increased by the opposite incentives, and
the majority may be on tha other Ride.
Our latter-day experience in the Honth
ought to prevent our regarding any Dem
ocratic triumph as secure until we have
the full vote of the party to achieve It.
It is whispered about that the Radicals
will contest all elections n/feorgjW which
they have any hope of reveling (by the
flitaeieet pretexts of iotfmidationi ^fraud.
We have seen how readily Rw^cal Oon-
greaaes sustain this mode of defeating
the ehoice of the people when that choice
ia a Democrat. The surest wpy of pre
vail tiug it is to roll up aoch a Demoeiatic
majority aa to show the cry of fraud or
intimidation to be ridiculous. This can
be done in our District; and we have ia
•u Ron. Henry R. Harris a candidate
deserving end worthy of every Democratic
and Conservative vote, though the ma
jority should be twenty instead of five
thousand. Let the majority be large
for any emergency /
Ooaajurr You* Ticxam.—Wo notice that
some of onr exchanges publish tha name
of N. R. Casey as Democratic Elector for
the Fifth District. This is inoorrset; it
aboald be U. R. Casey. We trust that
the Democratic newspapers will give this
correction general circulation.—Augusta
Chronicle.
We make the correction, in accordance
with the suggestion of the Chronicle <t*
Sentinel. There ia another error in the
tieket, as publtabt«i by the Chronicle d
Sentinel and several others of ewr ex
change*, and wa take this opportunity to
sell their attention to it They print the
Mae of Judge Hudeoe, of the Third
Distriet, Wm. J. Hudson. It Aould be
Wm.T. Hudson.
Harry Bassett was again beat an by
Monarchist on Saturday last—this time hi
a four-mile race over dm Jefome Fade
Time, 7:8S$.
Herah Payton WUHi, state
Wdlit, wife of James Psrton, tbs esdijjd,
aad better known as “Fatty Fern, dM
jl Hew York oa Thursday.
Tftft SPIRIT THAT COIIAH8 SltiKHS.
The reverses of last woek in Pennsyl-
tala and Ohio have tested the integrity
and vitality of the Democratic and Liber
al alliance, and the test is gratifying and
encouraging. The allied perlite now
know that they can rely upon each other
in disaster as well aa when assnred of suo-
cees; that the principles for which they
oonteud will outlive this Presidential cam
paign, however it may result, and that the
day of triumph for an organization thus
united and panoplied is an inevitable
event. To despair of it is nothing 1cm
than to despair of the republio and of
popular government in any form; for the
despotic policy and corrupt practiooa of
the Radical Administration havo deprived
the citisen of personal liberty and the
people of popular government. The
struggle is to be for the recovery of theRo
rights by the people, and who can
doubt the ultimate result ?
The Atlanta Constitution, replying to
the expression by tho Havaunah Ac ten of
some doubts whether we in Georgia could
do anything further to break dowu the
Radical power in Penusy vauia and other
Northern States, gives some advico that
appears to us to be iu the right spirit.—
The Metes is a paper that came luto and
reluctantly into the support of Greeley
and Brown. The Constitution replica to
it:
We will show vou brother News. Wo
will do it cheerfully. Stand to your colors
and urge the poople iu your boat to do
their duty. Don't whine over re verses.
Don’t give up the battle until the fighting
is over. Deuouuce the frauds of the foe.
Arouse the people. Keep up a brave
heart. You are evidently discouraged,
and wo aro glad to boo that you Maud
almost alone in your dishoartetiuient.
Send out the bold notes of dofiunee to a
malignant enemy,and ntter words of ring
ing cheer to the Conatitutiou-loviug pa
triots iu your roach.
Do you suppose that because Oraiit's
administration has tiought and defended
Pennsylvania out of one Bute election
that liberty and law are dead ou this con
tineut ? Have you so little hope aa to be
lieve that constitutional government is a
defunct thing among freemen because a
despotic, rotten dynasty, with the peo
ple s money it has stolen, hits engineered
a I vase fraud upou tho citizens of Pennsyl
vania ?
In thirty-seven Htato* on the 5th of No
vember will the groat Proaidontinl battle
of 187*2 be fought. That battle is not
decided against the Domoeracy because
the Radicals have cheated us of Pennsyl
vania.
From all over tho country we are ro-
joioed to see the words of choer und
courage coming from the Demo.-ratio
journals.
Join iu those words. Htimnlate your
people. Rally the ranks. With undaunt
ed nerve aud resolute faith contiuuo to
work for victory.
rlttnnna of lh>- UulU-.i Slut
tl.itir rrwOiin-, Hul.Jiw i to tlioir l^hoaia, who havo
n-itorvcdWo (hoinaolvM •miilo civil ami roliKioua
froo.hmi ami <*.|i>aalitjr tatloro the law."—-PreUdenti
Proclamation.
Woudor if President Grant, while wri
ting the al>ove, thought of the white poo
ple of the eleven States of the Hontb as citi
zens of the United Btatea? Wonder how
he construes “government is Uieir crea
tors, subject to their bebeeU," to the 40,-
<W0 whites of Honth Carolina, and tho
thousands of Texas, Louisiana aud MiHsis-
sippi? Wonder what his ideas of “free
dom and equality Iks fore tho law” are,
when the victims of the Enforcement act
are passing in review beforo his miud V
Wonder if his thoughtful hoart is ever
disturbed by the dancing chains and
pain-drawa groan* of the Albany prison
ers, who, snatched away from home by
his prowling minions, confronted by nnb-
orned witnesses, tried before courts or
ganised to convict, ware sentenced and
hurried away to distant prisons, while
home, property and dear ones aro left to
the mercy of the “wards of the nation"
ami their mereilees setters on ? Wonder
if his pious sou) sends up grateful inscouco
to the Throne above while he roads Par-
row’s and Hale* telegram of “outrages in
Georgia,” and asking for troops to sub
ject the government of Georgia to tho be
hest of her people ? Wonder bow thought
ful our President ia while considering
Lewis, Pelham, Dougherty and other Ala
bama politicians' appeals for troops to
give “ample civil freedom” to the good
people of Alabama on election day? Won
der if tbeao dear ones of our President
won't go down on their knees on the 28tb
of November next and with the “wards"
send up grateful acknowledgements to
the almighty President for bis kind con
sideration and many favors, especially for
the glittering bayonets and jingling sa
bers so mercifully forwarded on the 5th
of that month? Then, Oh! won't the
nostrils of him who rulotb in Washington
annff afar off tho oders of the aacrifiioe as
it eomes flavored with essence de’Afrique,
and won't his great heart, swelling with
love aad mercy, fold the dear ones to his
cover their bareheads with
ad their torn feet with “san
dals of gold," aad with fatted calves and
Government pap feast these dear citizen*,
whose government is their ereeture and
whose behests are law ? Aud won’t the
‘poor white trash” feel the “occasion”
one well osloulaCed to arouse their grati
tude and call forth uttoranoea of thoukful-
toeo benign a Government, won’t
TBfcf ? G., or Russell.
A Maw KIM af Khetlee PraM.
11m Baltimore (Jasctte of Thursday
•ays: “One of the moat successful
menus of fraud devised and
put Into practice by the Philadelphia Rad
icals on Tuesday, was the game of per
sonation. They first imported into the eity
a gang of New York rowdies, and then
marched them from poll to poll, to vote
on the names of prominent and well-
known Democrats. Eight hundred Depu
ty Vailed Btatea Marshals and one thou
sand Silial peUooiaen guarded lire bal
lot-boxes, and permitted Uieae hired ran
Oela to vote where, when, and aa often aa
they Flawed. Uudn* of napoo table
ottiaeni went to the fcUa to da, Mil their
a>4 fennd. to Mr snaamiat.
that “they had ntat already." Whan
*»T taanhi—lil wtWtha vilHaaawfco
warn tho* beaely engaged to debaaaUng
tha ataattra fraaelliOi, they war* la ~
■ mi w» www, roc swam is swsu
HHtwafW d<Jn By Id my flgaft they
The Vlllalsosn Plat A§rslsRt Georgia.
Private advices from Washington leave
no doubt as to the plot whioh ia being
hatched there, with a view to control and
“count" the voto of Georgia in November.
This is tho “cat in the meal tub” of which
we warned our readers; but tho precise
proportions of which we could not then
discern. Tho aocret of the Atlanta dis
patches before and after the election, and
the uuaecountable abstinence from voting
on the part of Radicals and negroes, are
now explained. There is a money job, as
well as a political one in it, too. Wash
ington advices say: “It is believed by
well informed persona that there is a se
rious design in Administration olrcles to
throw out the electoral vote of Georgia
aud to subjoct that Htato to a third milita
ry recouatruction, iu order to farther the
designs, now only partly accomplished, of
Himon Cameron and Secretary Delano
upon the Georgia railroads. There will
be an endeavor to work up public opin
ion, so as to furnish excuse for these acts
nud for excluding tho members of Gon-
gross to be elooted in November next, un
til tho organization of the next Honse of
Representatives shall havo been perfect
'd. Federal troops w ill probably be sent
lown to Georgia und Louisiana, with di
rections to back up tho carpet-baggers in
an}’ sharp practice at the elections. The
feeling against Georgia in Government
circles nud among the Grant tucu iu this
city ia intensely bitter.”
Grant's privnto organ, tho Washington
Chronicle, publishes daily editorial arti-
des, telograuis, etc., iu respect to Geor-
^iu, charging that tho Into Democratie
majority if sixty thousand was the result
of intimidation of tho uogroos.
To counteract those wicked designs, in
addition to the positive denials sent from
this city from this office, and other
sources,und published iu Northern papers,
our energetic Mayor, iu combination with
several of our host known citizens, lias
scut North a formal ami anthorilutive
contradiction of the slanders of Hale, At
kins, Turner .V Co., which wo trust uill
shame or terrify the plotters bore and at
Washington from attempting to carry out
their plot, which has tho doublo object
of fraud nud pluudor. Forewarned is
forenrme.1, and if wo aro to enjoy the
fruits of onr late victory we must be wide
ake.—Sit can nah lb publican, loth.
Our Railroad.
The incorporators of our Branch Rail-
ad, under a new phase which the matter
has taken, now have in aeriuus contem
plation the building of a nurrow gaugo
road, to connect with the North and South
>ad. now being built from Columbus to
onto. The proposed road to intersect
the N. .1 S. road, between Hamilton und
•Iambus, ia about sixteen miles from
Iholtoii. Tho distnuco is otdy about
double that of tho Talbotton niul Geneva
mto, while the route is fur belter, and
to road being narrow-gauge, the coat
will be but little more than tho other
route. Many living on the proposed
rotito who have not subscribed, will sub
scribe liberally, and as the road will be of
direct benefit to Columbus aud LuGruuge,
large subscriptions from those places may
bo expected.
The matter is only iu contemplation
j>w, and no decision will be made until
Macou aud Columbus are heard from ou
tho other road subject. Talbotton is
bouud to have a railroad, aud there is no
use in pulling hack. “What is to he will
be, if ituover Ih.”—Talbotton American.
A Flouida Hhu'-Oanal.—At the meet
ing of tho National Board of Trado, to be
held in New York this mouth, the plan of
a ship-canal across Florida will come up
for discussion. Without eutoring ou Lhu
real merits of the question—the cost of
the canal, the feasibility of the work and
the prospect of its profit or loss to the
makers —wo tuny properly glance at the
outline of the proposed enterprise as ex
plained by tho Mobile Board of Trade, a
body which has tukou zealous interest in
The Florida ship-canal has been
talked and written about for a quarter of
a century. Routes havo been surveyed.
Of these the most preferable one is
thought to he from the head of Tampa
Ray, ou tho Gulf side, direct to the Atlan
tic coast, a distance of about one hundred
and tseuty-live miles. The harbor of
Tampa Bap is said to he good, with depth
of water for frigates, aud channels
through the bar requiring but little deep
ening; and no protecting works are nec
essary. Ou the Atlantic coast there is an
iushoro depth of twouty seveu and twen-
ty-oiglit feet, but a breakwater will be
needed. This canal, os any ouo can see
on a map, would suvo vessels trading be
tween tho North Atlantic and tha Gulf
from a passage of About five hundred
miles around lower Florida—a poaaage
beset with concealed reef*, and danger
ous. Tho Mobile circular before us esti
mates tho increased insurance, on aeoount
of the risks of tho present route, at $2,-
1176,000 annually, and this, it is argued,
iu ten years would pay for the canal. But
precisely bore we need a * carefully pre
pared estimate of cost before an iutelli-
8 ent opinion can be formed. That the
roll commerce and the Golf cities, es
pecially Mobile, would be greatly favored
by the oonatuotion of the cunal is a self-
evident truth. It remains for more com
plete surveys and estimates of costs to be
made, and then we can pass a wiser judg
ment on the schemes than we ean possi
bly do at present. —A. Y. Journal Com
merce, llf A.
A PiirrouiAi. Kuanuku.—Grant's organ
—Harper's Weekly, “A Journal of Civili
zation"—iu its lust issue, illustrates the
slanders which tho Grant press hsvo pub
lished about Georgia because her people
have dared to givo a majority to the
Democratic ticket. Ouo sheet of this
journal of halo is devoted to Nast'a au-
f ;raving of an “election sceue iu Georgia”
ant Wednesday w eek. In front of the
polls two colored troops lie daed, pierced
by rebel bullets, with the Unitod Htales
tlig beucath them. A ferocious looking
Georgia Democrat stands with one foot
on the flag and the other ou the dead
body of oue of the uegrocs. In one baud
he holds a revolver, while with tho other he
“clasps bauds across the bloody chasm”
with Greeley, who is dancing in high glee
on the other side of the corpses. In the
back ground is a voting precinet, which
the Georgia Domocrats aro busily en
gaged in stuffing with fraudulent ballots.
The fore-ground exhibits a boat of “loyal
colored men” retreating from a “murder
ous band of rebel ruffians,” who have al
ready shot many of them down. These
are the kind of slanders upon the white
men of Georgia whioh the uraot journals
are circulating'over tho oonntry In order
to injure ns and our Btate.—Augusta
Chronicle.
Chinese Shoemakers.—The Spring*
field (Mums.) Union says:
The hold experiment of C. F. Samp
son, a heavy shoe manufacturer of North
Adams, iu the importation and employ
ment of Chinese laborers, inaugurated
some twenty months ago, has proved to
lio a complete succor*. Of the original
fifty laborers first set at work forty-sight
still remain, nud aro in all respects first*
class workman, industrious, faithful and
reliable. Daring the time they have t
employed they have so fully mastered the
difficulties of Iheir work aa to be able at
tha present time to produce larger raanlte
every week than the asms number of
white hands were accustomed to do two
jffttfe Ago. They work steadily, ask for
no holidays, and aava their tamings to a
miserly degree. No objection has been
rug&t against thorn aa being lioantiooe
“ potato. In a word, their o«tvaid
and industry have bean beyond
otfc.ni to ntefce • similar sxperiuapt whoa
jn similar n##d»
Wjremlaf Terrlterj-Anatlier AdnlalitraUoa MB. GBEKLEY ON THE POLITICAL SITU A
....no
Total
..1,471
Defeat
The Territory of Wyoming, hitherto
Republican, and now represented in Con
gress by a Republican delegate, has just
ohoaou a Liberal Republican os bis suc
cessor by the following vote:
A dm. Aid.
Counties Jones. Hteele.
fiGfi
2G1
572
180
100
1,742
Mojority for Colonel Bteel (Liberal),
271. The defeated candidate, William T.
Jonoe, is the present delegate. His ma
jority two yoars ago was 205. Liberal
gain, 500.
The Prrmluai Bale afst. laisl*.
The five hundred dollar premium of
fered for tho best bale of Ga. cotton ex
hibitod nt tho Bt. Louis fair, was awarded
to Capt. T. G. Holt, jr., of Bibb county.
Tho premium was awarded yesterday
morning, and Capt. Holt was promptly
advised by telegraph. Tho bale of cot*
ton which carried off this premium was
grown in Bibb county by Capt. Ilolt, gin
ned on a Gullet steel brush giu, and was
forwarded to Bt. Louis by the enterpris
ing warehousemen, Messrs. Campbell &
Jones.
Judgo J. W. Knott, also of this county,
was a competitor at the same fair, aud
cornea away with tho socond premium,
$250.—Macon Telegraph, 15th.
8tate Executive Committee op Ala
bama.—Tho two Htato Committees, tho
Democratic aud Conservative Committee,
and the Liberal Republican Committee,
met in joiut session on yesterday iu con
formity with the notice previously given
through the nowspapers. They appointed
by a un&uiiuous vote the lion. Robert M.
1'ulton, Alternate Elootor at large for tho
Btate in the place of the Hon. A. C.
Hoard, the successor for Elector at largo
of Wm. U. Figures, Esq., deceased; Col.
M. L. Htansel of Pickens, Alternate Elec
tor for the Fourth District; and Willis
Rrowor, Esq , of Lowndes, as a candidate
ou tho Hoard of Educutiou for the Hocoud
District.
Mr. A. Y. Glover having declined the
electorship for the 4 tli District, in conso-
queiiee of his candidacy for the Legisla
ture in Greene county, Muj. Moduwell,
hi* alternate, succeeded him as candidate
for Elector.—Mont. Advertiser, X'Mh.
The Conokkshionat. Elections.—TIio
returns, corrected to the lutest hour, indi
cate the following to bo the result: In
Pennsyl vauia the Democrats aud Liberals
elect nino Coiigresmeu and tho Republi
cans eighteen. Under the new apportion-
meiit the presold representation is twen-
ty-soven ; under the old apportionment,
tweiity-foiir. Tho iiresout delegation
stands: Domocrats eleven, Repulilicaus
thirteen. In Indiana, in the late election,
the Democrats elect four and tho Republi
cans seven. The present delegation stands
five Democrats to six Republicans. In
Ohio the Democrats elect ton aud tho
Liberals ten. Tho present delegation
stands five Democrats and fourteen Re
publicans. In Nebraska, Converse, |)om.,
is elected. In tho thrno Htates the pres
ent delegation stands twenty-one Demo
crats and tbirty-threo Republicans--dif
ference in favor of tho Republicans, 12.
Under the late election the representa
tion will stand 21 Democrats to Il.'l Re
publicans—Republican majority, 12.
\Sarunnah Metes.
The above does not inclndo two Re
publicans elected for tho State at Large
in Indians.
Th* Peaa*flv*ala Fraud*—Ail dr mu of the Lib
eral State Committw.
To the People of Pennsylvania:
The successful consummation of a
measure of fraud iu this city, that must
appall ttliko tho guilty nuthors and their
no loss guilty rcspootablo abettors, lies
made Philadelphia appear to givo tho uu-
oxuuipled majority of over 20,000 in favor
of continued corrupt rule iu Pennsylva
nia.
With every ehannol of power ready to
add in executing tho systematic defiance
of tho popular will; with debnuoh aud
pliant oanvossors to register 25,000 fraud
ulent names; with tho most desperato re
peaters of three cities to voto the regis
try ; with abundanco of monoy,plundered
from the people to pay them; with elec
tion officers selected expressly to reooivo
every vote offered iu fuvor of the Riug;
with a police force to pilot ropeaters to
their localities And protect them m poll
ing illegal votes; with officers of tho law
to guarantee their imumuity from punish
ment, and with a large prepoudorauco of
onr citizens, who claim to be the chain-
piona of morality and reform, giving their
unqualified sanction to wliat they knew
to be a deliberately-planned pollution of
tha ballot box—the result is but the logic
al result of the rulo that is now supreme
ly enthroned in our city and Btate.
Nor was this gigantio system of fraud
confined to Philadelphia. In the princi
pal cities and towns throughout the Htato
thousands of illegal votes have boeii
polled. Tho Liberal cause was thus over
whelmed in Reading, Cheater, West Ches
ter, Columbia, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh,
and other localities, while tho rural dis
tricts exhibit largo and uniform gains. I
•m warranted iu announcing that the
large majority polled for Uartrauft is
wholly fraudulent.
Friends of good government, let no tri
umph of lawlessness deter you from giv
ing your best energies to the canse. The
highest prerogative of a free peoplp has
been violently usurped by insoleut and
debauched power, and the people must
resent it, aud resent it prompt, or give
unquestioned license to wrong. Now,
more than ever in this contest, is the elec
tion of Horace Greeley to the Presidency
a supreme necessity, if peace and honest
government aro not to perish from the
aunals of our history. Right most tri
umph sooner or later, and it will yet tri
umph in this desperate struggle if tho
a le shall prove faithful to themselves,
eir laws, and to thoir country.
A. K. McCluiie,
Chairman of liberal Republican Com
mittee.
PHiLADStmiA, October 8, 1872.
The Battle Mill ftavlaf.
The Btate eleolion boa gone against us.
The Radioala have tho certificate, just as
Mr. Senator Gray had it in tho First dis
trict, last winter; but a fair contest— a
fair examination—soon settled tho matter
and unseated the holders of the false
certificate.
A similar proceeding must be had in
Hartraaft'a case. Onr people in Phila
delphia must institute proceedings pre
paratory to a contest, and press the oaso
or forever after hold their peace in regard
to Radical frauds.
Aa regards the still pending contest,
Maryland, W. Virginia, Virginia, N. Car
olina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansaa, Tcnue**ee, Kentucky,
Missouri, Delaware, Now Jersey und Now
York, polling an aggregate of lt';i Electo
ral votes, arc entirely certain for
Greeley and Brown. Twenty-ono addi
tional vote# only are re a ui red to ensure
the auoceee of onr candidates. Indiana
and Connecticut will givo ua the required
number—both of thee# Btatea era almost
entirely aura for ns. We have an even
ohanoe for Pennsylvania,' Ohio, and IUi.
nofs, and more than that for Oregon and
California.—Pittsburg Post, 12th.
The ooRon crop in this aectioa, it ia
ftefcecally conceded, will be gathered by
the 20tn of this month. It baa opened
nnnanaUy tariy—having been stripped by
Che caterpillar—and the season for pick
ing haa been favorable.
[Cuthbert Appeal,
TION.
An interviewer on bobalf of the New
York Herald gives a report of a conversa
tion with Horace Greeley on Friday last.
He went to find out how* the results of
lest week’s elections had affected the feel
ings of the Liberal and Democratic nomi
nee for the Presidency. He found Mr.
Greeley at a private residence in the city,
in company only with his secretary, aud
the two were busily engaged answering
letters, of which they hod a largo num
ber. Mr. Greeley looked minimally wall,
and appoared “as cheery and active as a
ericket on tho hearth." We omit the
preliminary conversation, which related
to the Baltimore reception and to agricul
tural fairs, and copy tho interviewer's re
port of what w&a said about the electious
and the political prospects:
“In regard to tho roRult of tho elec
tions, Mr. Greeley, would you state to tho
Herald your opinion regarding tho cffoct
the October olectiona may havo upon
THE FINAL CONTEST ?”
Tee Philosopher throughout this desul
tory conversation had boon employing
his time either iu writing (seldom resting
his pen even when he was uusworing a
question), or glancing nt his letters, but
now he put his autograph with his usuul
tlourish to the letter he hail written, anil
turned to tho Herald reporter with n
choery face. “Certainly," he said, “I
would say this: Our people aro
NOT LIKELY TO GET FUIUUTENED
by tho October rcsulta. Wo intend to do
our best to tho ond. 1 think wo can
surely count upon 128 olootornl votos in
the Honth, aud 1 think the North will givo
us tho rest. Undoubtedly there were
frauds perpetrated in the Pennsylvania
election—frauds that affect tho whole
American scheme of Helf-goverumeut
more disastrously than they cuu affect me
personally, and I believe the principles of
the liberal moveineut are si> deeply im
bedded in the minds aud hearts of our
people that onlv similar fraud can insure
the succors of tuo other sido iu November,
and it must he remembored
TUAT FRAUDS CANNOT BE DIFFUSED
so readily ovor thirty-soven Htates as over
three."
“Did you expect, evon with fraud, that
tho oilier party would poll so heavy a
majority in Pennsylvania ?"
“No, but at tho aamo time I feared for
Pennsylvania, notwithstanding tho evil
character of tho Republican nominees
there, more Ilian I did for Oliio, because
onr friends were well organized iu Ohio
and greatly lucked organization in Penn-
syl vauia. Iu at least one speech in Penn
sylvania I strongly urged organization,
auil explained the need of it."
Here Mr. Greeley was handed a lotter
by O'Dwyer from a gentleman in Florida,
who offers to sell him an orange orchard
for a stipulated suui, that sum to bo paid
only whon the gontIonian calls for it on
FKXSIDKNT OBKELKY AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
The cliocrful sago smiled when ho perused
it, and replied to it iu its turn after re
quests for autographs aud “correct poeti
cal quotations” wero answered, hut wlieth-
or ho closed Iho bargain or declined it is
mystory that may never bo fathomed.
“Will you make any morn tours this
canvass V" naked tho reporter.
“I do not know," responded the liberal
chief. “I will visit a unuibor of agricul
tural fairs, and if our friends think my
services aro ueeded in tho field 1 will
chourfully acquiesce."
Thu reporter thereupon made his adieus
and withdrew, leaving tho philosopher nt
his desk immersed in hi* papers aud his
letters, bending steadily to'his pen—the
weapon with which ho has won so many
renowned victories of peace—und as the
Western sun streamed in ui»ou him it
lighted np a faco undaunted by ilisuster
aud still as hopeful and cheery as iu the
early day* of May.
I't'SBMylvanls—llosr llartraaf't nan Counted In.
[Coritt«i>onili>ur« Now York Tritium*. |
Philadelphia, October 8.
Tho city returns began to nrrivo at the
Liboral lioadquarlorN at about 8 o'clock.
As soon ns two or throo wards bad boon
reported it became purloctly evident that
tho Hartranft election managers wore
manufacturing majorities in tho most out
rageous manner. Men who had bceu at
tho polls all day, and who had conauli-
datod tho carefully kept tally lists kepi at
the precincts in their wards, aud who had
oomo in an hour boforo with assurance of
heavy gains for Duckulew, were astounded
to find tho officials reporting immense
Hartranft majorities. All confidence that
these officials would limit their frauds so
as to bring them within bounds that
would not bo scandalous, ami evidently
criminal, vanishod at onco. It became
plain that they mcaut to take no risks ou
tho Htato, And would put tho city vote
largo enough to overcome any possiblo
ad verso voto in tho country. “We aro
sold out!” was tho disheartening remark
that passod from mouth to mouth. Well
authenticated roporta of frauds continue
to come in. A number of respectable
gentlemen, well koowu iu their precincts,
bring information to tho Liboral bead-
quarters that thev and others were pre
vented from voting by the juilgos ou tho
ground that thoir uarncs had already boen
voted ou. They wero all Republicans,
but had declared their intention to vote
for Buckalew. In the two wards where
the negroes chiefly live, tho policemen
stood at the polls, put a ballot in every
negro’s hand wbou ho oauio up, and made
anre that he voted it. Tho frauds which
have been moat cffectivo, however, have
boen perpetrated iu tho count, which has
been entirely iu the hands of the corrupt
city authorities. These tueu had every
thing at stake on the result. They under
stood very well that an honest Biutu Ad
ministration would bring thoir crimes to
light, and they were dotermiued to win at
any cost.
The vote of nearly every city east of
the Alleghanies is lurgely affected by the
akillfully devisod frauds committed by the
Grant manager*. In Reading the fraud
ulent votes are estimated at 5<H); in Lan
caster 1,000; in Harrisburg 500; and iu
Cheater 300. In Chainherahuig the negro
colonists from Virginia wero driven off,
and the Liberals made a gain.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has this con
soling paragraph: “The temporary back
set received iu tha late eleotiona may be
calculated to shako faith iu the lumosty
and good sense of the American people,
but the Liberal party is stronger to-duy
than it ever was. It ia put together upon
the peculiar principle which characterized
the construction of tho Milesian gentle
man'a fence. He built it four feet high
and six feet wide, so that when it fell
down it would be higher than it waa be
fore. That's the style of the political or
ganization which has a mission to defeat
thieves and oonapiiouisla."
Toweiis.—TbeGwlnuett llerulil ipforiUR
os that tho Uuitod Htates Coast burveyora
have just oomploted a tower fifty-one feet
high upon a bill near the churches in
LawteuooviUe; the object ia to euable
them to gat a oorrect topographical map
of tha BUta. On* wae built Id Hall coun
ty, ob# In Forsyth, one near Norcvoss,
and they now propose building one on
tttone Mountain-
It maj be curious, and all that, but it
ia a significant fact that wherever, ia
Tneadfejr'i eleotiona, there were Demo
cratic and Liberal gains, it waa in locali
ties largely populated by Germans. The
Germans tamed the tun in Cincinnati*
Cleveland, Toledo and other poinfti in
Ohio.—#, Louis Republican,
Flow tho Now York World, lUtli.
NO VALTMHNO NOW!
The time has come for testing the cour
age, constancy, party stauchnoss, fidelity
to associates—or to express it all in one
word—the manliness of all truo Demo
crats. This is no time for any Democrat,
least of all Democrats who accepted Mr.
Greeley by the compulsion of parly dis
cipline, to flinch. The soldier who throws
away his musket and takes to his heels at
the first puff of adverse fortune, lacks
that resolute steadiness which is tbo first
element of manhood. If, ia the varying
turns of war, wo happen to lose an im
portant battle, it is manly aud soldier-like
to rotrent in good order, with lines un
broken aud disciplined step, to a position
where the reserves can bo brought np and
preparation made for agaiu meeting the
enemy with miquailiug hearts and indom
itable courage. No matter whether a
gonoral was assigned ns in accordance '
with our wishes or against onr protest. '
Our honor binds us to bo men ; it forbids
us to withdraw after a mishap, the faith
nml pledges which onr protest against tho
original orror did not prevent us from
giving. We trust that it will bo found
that thoso of us who wuut farthest in dep
recating the uoiuiimtiou of Mr. Greeley
so long ns remotiHtruucu wus iu order,
will allow themselves tho most faithful
nml unshaken in tho hour of adversity
aud peril.
For our part, after the disappointment
at Cincinnati, wo preferred, both ou
grounds of principle and expediency, to
go iuto the contest tinder a Democratie
leader liko Mr. Houdrieks or Judge
Church rather than join forces with the
Liberals with atieh a candidate oh Mr.
Greeley. Rut after Mr. Greeley hod been
foiRy nominated at Rultiuiore, we owed
the party the Rune nllegianco as if it had
heeded our advico; uud every good Demo
crat will bo iih true to him till tho end of
tiio canvass as all Democmts would have
been to Mr. Houdrieks or nny other tried
Democratie leader. The Liberal Repub
licans have acted towards us, since tho
Rallimore Contention, with siuourily and
houor; and if a mistaken estimate was
made of their strength, the error was
equally Hlmrctl between them aud the
Democratic majority at Haltiuiuro. Mr.
Greeley's conduct uud bearing iu the cau-
vukh liuvo been unexceptionable, and in
some respects admirable. He bus acted
with groat prudence under very trying
circumstances.
It is a ba/.ard< am experiment for auy
Presidential candidate to make speeches ;
but Hr. Greeley passed through that per
ilous ordeal in a manner which raised the
public cstiiiiiito of liis diHcroliou mul
abilities, lie did not make his Western
trip of his own volition, but lit the in
stance of the Democratie National Com
mit too. It is scant and inadequate praise
to say that be acquitted bimselt with
faultless prudence. He so performed tho
task imposed ou him as to extort tbo
homage of every man capablo of appre
ciating vigoroutt wisdom aud uurivalled
fact, it is not very difficult for a candi
date to uuiko safe speeches when purty
lines aro strictly drawn. Rut a former
Republican, uctiug with other Republi
cans in a new nlliuuco with the Democrat
ic party, trod at every step upon delicuto
ground, liis success in inukiug forty or
fifty otf-hnud speeches within less than a
Yoiiuight, during the fatigue of constant
travel, and lulling into no blunders though
talkiug with unrestrained freedom, was a
marvellous exhibition not merely of readi
ness, mental resources, and talouts, but
of exquisit tact auil wisdom. Many Dem
ocrats who supported him boloro from a
more sense of purly obligations, have sup
ported him since from u new pcrccqttiou
of his intellectual qualifications, if his
nomination ut Rallimore was a mistake, it
was our mistake, not liis. Hu has borne
himself no well since, that tho party is iih
much bound to him aa it would huve boen
to the most thorough-going Democrat it
could have put into the field. We can
not sworvo or waver now. * * * *
it is an error to suppose we havo noth
ing to fight for unless wo are stroug
enough to elect our candidates. It would
indeed be a great udvuutago to get pos
session of the Government and have tho
initiation iu public measures. Rut the
Democratic party may be uluioKt equally
imuful in uuother way, provided it is
strong enough to its opposition lelt and
feared. If wo keep on striving for the
highest prizo jvo cannot fail of gainiug
the second. In what reniuins of the can
vass wo must contest the ground inch hy
inch, yielding nothing without a strenu
ous contest. We may yet gain tho Presi
dency, although tho proMpoct is dark; bat
if we keep up tho fight with vigor we
cannot fail to array against Gen. Grant a
powerful opposition which he will be
impelled to respect, and to which the
Republican party will succumb before tho
end of hia second term. Let us be faith
ful to our personal engagements, aud,
above all, faithful to principle.
Tim l'srty of the Future.
In a lotter to a Liberal Republican club
in Raltimore, written a few day* before
the late elections, Whitalow Reid, Esq.,
cditor-in-chief of the Now York Tribune,
wrote ns follows:
“The great central Htates, whoso for-
tnno it often is to prononucc in ndvnnce
the vordict of tbo nation, have boon inun
dated with money frommi Administration
more reckless in its nse tbnn any other iu
our political history. Each Las boon
traversed by hundreds of Fpoakers, stim
ulated by offico-holding electioneers, or
ganized and drilled by civibservico ma
chinery. Iu tho face of all this, we have
good reason to know that we have to-day
an honest majority iu each of these Staton,
with a victory in only one of them ; we
have ovoiy reason to hope for triumph in
November. In any case, wo have the in
spiring certainty that we have organized
the party of tho future. We umy be
cheated of victory to-morrow, and that
this victory iu November may be made
less sure, hut no closo student of polities
cuu doubt that the party now united and
consolidated in tho uupport of Greeley
and Rrowu is absolutely eertaiu to rule
soon and long.”
One Hundued Thousand Majoiiity
Next Time.—The Dullock rump again
threaten bayonet luw at elections and po
litical persecutions iu tho Courts. The
rnuip assumes to be tho political agents
of tho Administration. Farrow, the con
science-keeper of tho late fugitive Gover
nor—Bullock's Attornoy-Gouoral for the
State—comes to tho foreground os cap-
taiu-gcueral of the rump, aud leader un
der bayonet lawn in politiuul persecution.
Roll up a majority of one huudrod thou
sand, aud Farrow—hi* hones deferred
and designs defeated—will flee tho State,
following tho footsteps of the illustrious
predecessor whom ho served os con
science-keeper aud legnl adviser during
his rulo of riot aud plunder; nud the rump
will take up their carpet-bags aud depart
with him. Let us have, then, a majority
of one hundred thousuud for peace and
reconciliation aud delivorauco.
rAugusta CheoniSc.
Horn.him. Down.—Advices from Wash
ington state that the office-holders, who
had been jubilant and excited for some
days past, aro considerably soberd down
by tho newe from Indiana. One dispatch
states that “they have been very curious
to hear from the Liberals* whather the
field is to bo surrendered to them* or
whether they will have to fight in Novem
ber for every State. The answers they
get, and the firm tone of the liberal jour
nals have convincedItbem that every foot
of ground in the United States will he
fought over in November next, and ia by
no means oonsoliug to these ofllee-hokf-
ers, who see before them a prospect of
being bled onoe more for oaaupaigh
Tho I,literal OstlQOk—AatM2rcel#j Democrats.
fportal Co clip Cincinnati Commercial.]
New Youk, Oet. 12.—Though insisting
that Grant is already the next President,
the admiuiatratiouisU here are secretly
troubled over the loss of Indiana. They
claim that Pennsylvania settles the contest,
and virtually that Situon Cameron is boRa
of the Uuited Btatea. But the liberal*
and Democrats continue resolute aud per
fectly united. Not a word of dissenaion
has been spokon by auy newspaper or po
litical organization iu tbo East heretofore
supporting Greeley. A fair calculation
of the electoral vote will show how very
formidable Greeley remains. Tho Times
says, with evident chagrin : “Tho Gteo-
leyitea chirp a little in weak fashion ovor
the crumb offered them by the nominal
election of Hendricks by a few hundreds,
fraudulently obtained in Indiana,” aud
goeH ou to aRsert that Ilendrioks will be
Governor olect only uutil the Legislature
meets.
The World is decidedly more cheerful,
hoping to hoar good news from Illiuoi*,
with its powerful Liberal leaders and its
territory sandwiched between Miaaonri
and ludianu. There is nothing, it says,
to throw us into ostaeies of confidence
and oarelcoA hope, but there is nothing to
discourage or daunt us.
General Banks, now in town, says that
Greeley will receive a larger number of
votes than the Liberal ticket at the re
run t elections, and in Ohio alone at least
fifty thonsaud more votes.
Hon. J. G. Thompson, Chairman of
the Democratic State Central Committee
of Ohio, writes: “The Democracy are
full of pluck and ready to ronow the
fight. Tlioy know what is wanted, and
are ready to meet Iho demand.”
It iN felt iu New York that the Liboral
prospects ore by no menuH dosperate;
that they will brighten each day till No
veiubor 5th, and not until tho closo of
the great general battle call the vote of
tho Electoral College be determined.
The Post has a table to-night showing
that the Staten thut havo gone Demo
cratic Rinco I8t»8 have an aggregate elec
toral vote of RIM. Its argument that
Romo of these will revert to Grant ia pal
pably inconsistent.
The Hun says : “The cose stands after
the October election precisely as it stood
before. Tho people know Gen. Grant,
alao tbo facta respecting the party that
supported him. Once it waa a great and
honored party, of noblo aims aud patri
otic impulses. Now it is represented by
Hiiuon Cameron, John F. Hartranft, and
Oakes Ames. Tho people also know Mr.
Greeley. His recent speeches have re
vealed bis genius iu a new aspect, aud
they feel that ho is a greater man Ilian
they had supposed. Tho party that Rnp-
I iorlN Greeley is essentially a uew party,
u this new purly the whole of the Dem
ocratic organization does not appear to be
included, und this is what renders its suc
cess uncertain. If the whole of the Dem
ocrats liAd goue heartily into this new
combination, ita number* aud tboso of
tho Liberals would assuredly have formed
tho great majority of the whole people.
Rut unluckily thero is a considerable pro
portion of tho Democrats who aro unwil
ling to adopt tho uew platform or to aup-
port its candidates. Those straight-out
Democrats are not many, Imt they aro
enough to elect Grant, oithor by directly
voting for him or by refusing to vote at
all. The only doubt is whether, after all,
whon it comes to the pinch, they will
prefer Grant to Greeley. Thia decision
is with them, and if Grant is elected it
will bo by Democratic support.”
Wilkea’ Spirit remarks concerning the
October elections: “Money, unworthy in
fluences, and tho cnrrnpt use of official
patronage will enable the Government to
turn the scale in closely balanced district a
—blit thero will always remain enough of
honost purpoflo in tho body of tho coun
try, if it l>e rightly stirred, to cafry the
day iu spite of any fraud. For this revi
val we must now look to tho Democracy,
and not to the Liberal Republicans alone,
for they hnvo done more than could havo
hoou expected of them. It will not do
for Huliou Democrats to Ray that Greeley
Hhoiiid not have heou forced upon them
as a candidate, for it is clear that Orooley
has cut more doeply into the Republican
ranks than any other candidate oould
have done."
Tlie Cotton Crop.
Messrs. Perry Nugent, U. De Gas,
Harrison Watts, Victor Meyer, J. F.
Kraemor, John R. Lafltte und Itl&hard
Flower, the Committee on Statistics and
Information of the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange, have sent in tbo following
statement of information concerning the
cotton crop iu the Htates named:
Are rage of Estimates.
Mississippi—Proportion opened by 20th
September 75 per cent.; Date of co'niple-
tiou of picking 10th November; Deere*ho
of yield per acre, aa compared with 1870,
35 per cent.
Louisiana—Proportion oponod 80 per
oent.; Picking completed 10th Novem
ber ; Doorcase of yield 40 per cent.
Texas—Proportion opcnud45poroent.;
Picking completed 1st November; De
crease of yield IlO per ceut.
ArkansoR—Proportion opened 05 per
cent.; Picking completed 1st December ;
Decrease of yield 45 per oent.
Touuessee—Proportion opened 05 per
ceut. ; Picking completed 15th November;
Decrease of yield 10 per cent.
Alabama—Proportion opened 07 per
cent.; Picking completed lat November;
Ducruoao of yield fill per cent.
South Carolina—Proportion opened 55
per cent.; Picking completed 15th No
vember ; Decrease of yield 22 per oent.
North Carolina and Virginia—Propor
tion opened 45 per cent.; Picking com
pleted 20th November; Decrease of yield
27 per cent.
Georgia—Proportion opened 50 per
cent.; Picking completed 15th Novem
ber ; Decrease of yield 25 per oent.
Florida—Proportion opened 80 per
cont. ; Picking completed 12th Novem
ber ; Decrease of yield 40 per cont.
Gov. Kmith.— It woe our great pleasure
at Zubulou last Wednesday to hear a brief,
pointed and forcible* Hpeech from Gov.
Biuitb. He characterized tho Radical
party as hating humanity, liberty und
honesty. Uo referred to Mr. Blephasw,
tho prophet and guide of tho “Straights,”
aud drew the couolusion that iu his feeble
atato of health, confined to hit bed, and
unable to get out aad aee bis neighbors
aud be with them* he waa not fit to be a
leader. Mr. Stephens has arrived at the
period whore ho should retire, aud not
stimulate a class of men who esteem it an
evidence of fidelity to ‘‘principle” to pre
fer national dishonor, official corruption,
aud ooctional hatred under Grant to har
mony aud houesty under Greeley.
f 7 fumnston Herald.
Arran the Rattle—Opinions
> at Democuavig UnanquAUTEEH.—Gov
ernor Welker of Virginia* ex-benator
King, W. D. Rishop, of CuuuecUcut,
Waldo nutehiiiH, General G. W. McCook,
Horace F. Chuk, James H. Thayer, aud
many other notabilities, called at the
headquarters yesterday. The opinion
prevailed that if the emotion had taipn
placo a week earlier the result In
Pennsylvania would have been
very different. It ia auapoced Hm> Mr.
Routwoll’a operations in wall Mn
for tha purpose of rail
tion porpoeea in Penney] _
known that there waa on
of spirit at the ReDubUoan
about a weak ago, and M
n elaaMvoui ippaaLdaota iHMapi 1
(or non «•«, OMwr Opitaat
woro alluded to. For ImIido*, • ***k
i*o th* hotting in tatairlTui* wm mot-
to «v«n on tbo two oonfltrtotooi — m J\
i World,
Why HnOrlrh. Boat HI. Tlrket.
After hll, Hendricks ton [u enough
ahead of his tiokot to boot even the “book
counties." The roaRon for bis hnceess ia
not to much his persons! popularity as the
Identity established in ths publio estima
tion between bis candidacy and that of
Qreoley. The fact could not be dodged
that a vote for Hendricks was a vote for
Greeley, and the sennit Rhone that Gree
ley'. strength waa greater than that of any
other candidate iu Indiana. There are
alao symptom, of Greoley'a superior
strength in Ohio. Iu this county, lot iu-
stance, it ia clear that about four hundred
Republicans who would not vote a Demo
oratio ticket, voted for Wiley in conse
quence of the suggestion that the vote
tor him should he made end accepted as a
lost of Greeley's strsngth.—tineinnnti
Commercial.
The above confirms our statement mode
the other day that Hendricks' bold advo
cacy of Greeley had hslped him, while in
I’onnaytonnin Bnckalews position of ig
noring Greeley hurt him. Buokalew ia
laid to havo been for Greeley, hot kept
that iaane outside of the contest aa much
aa posaihlo. On the other hand, Hen
dricks look bold, open ground for Greeley
and beat his ticket.—Atlanta Count it u-
tion.
T.x., Finance.
Tho following figures are from a slate
meat of Heptember 20tb, furnished by
the Texas Btate Comptroller in response
to iuquiriea:
1. Assessed value of property in the
State for the year 1871, per rolls, ie 7—0,
21)0,524. For 1872 bat few rolls havo
l»oou received, which have not yet been
oumpiled. 2. Total taxation for 1871 ia
*i;,.!0!),8IG 15. .% The fund to he oi-
[icndod in erecting achuolhouaoa does not
imaa through thia office. Thia character
of oxponditurea should be mndo front the
t per oont. school tax levied by the Board
of School Directors, which iB provided by
law “for the purpose of building achool-
housea and mniDtaining schools." The
amount of thia tax upou above valuations
for 1871, if oolleeted, would be $2,202,-
!K>5 24, and ia subject to the uncontrolled
disbursement of tbo Superintendent of
Public Instruction. Thera haa been dis
bursed (from funds received at tba State
Treasury) during the finoal year ending
August Hist, 1872, to tescbctH and em
ployee, the sum of .74'.W,f*!li; 14. For this
dislmraaiueut voucher! have been filed in
this office.
4. The debt of the Stato on March 4th,
1872, was *1*228,DO!) 00. Tho present in-
dchtednuss is $2,724,002 00, The pros,
neclive liability of the Stato, arising iron*
laws providing for subsidy to railroad
ooinpauias, is #12,000,ouo, to ba paid in
beuds of tho Stato, bearing 8 per ceut.
interest, and redeemable in thirty years,
ninkiug an annual roquirouient of $1,200,-
000, to which may be added tho auuuul
interact upon aubeiating debt, whioh will
closely approximate $160,000.
6. The amount of contingent end print
ing exponsea uf the Legiatetnre in 1870
anti 1871 waa $164,282 70. The amount
of the contingent and printing expanses
of the Legislature in 1850 and I860 was
$17,211 78; difference $14 7,071 02. The
mileage and per diem of tho Legislature
fur 1870and 1871 waa $626,456 45. Mile
age and per diem of tho Legislature for
185!) and 1860was$82,788 20; ditt'erenco
$642,068 16.
Dibts of tuk Btatks.—Tha amount of
tho debts of the different Btatea of the
Union foots ap an enormous aggregate.
Taken in detail their liabilitiee range from
$27,872,250 to $200,000, New York hav
ing the largest, and Iowa the Mealiest. —
Louisiana ranks next to New York, $20,-
244,752. Tho debt of Massachusetts ia
only a triflo smaller than that of North
Carolina, $20,560,664, and about $2,000
more than that of Pennsylvania, whioh ia
$28,666,876. Alabama ia credited with a
debtof $25,181,067; Missouri, $20,800,-
000; Georgia, Honth Carolina, Maryland
and Arkansas range from $18,267,500 to
$11,200,000. Tbe debt of Ohio ia $500,-
600 more than that of Maiuo, $7,212,(ski,
and Florida's debt ia $461,425 loss than
Connecticut's, which is $5,769,200. In
diana, Texas and California aro between
threo end four millions each in debt;
New Jersey and Rhode Island about tbo
same, $2,500,000. The debt of New
iiampahtre is $1,968,000; Nevada, $700,-
000; Vermont, $412,000, and Oregon,
$300,177. These are entirely separate
from tho national debt.— Balt. Ornette.
I street wen
Imtobtant Oasis—Footxb Bnonam's
HxciismXH.—It will be remembered that
tbe Comptroller General issued fi. fas.
against toe securities of Foster Blodgett
uo bis bonds aa Treasurer aud Superin
tendent of tbe Western A Atlantia Rail
road, and that Judge Hopkins refused to
unjoin them, ana tho Buprome Court
affirmed bis judgment. The bills were
amended and a seoond application for in
junction waa made. After argument this
morning Judge Hopkins again refused to
enjoin the 11. fas.
■pe A Brown, Peeples A Howell, D.
F. A W. li. Hammond, and B. H. Hill A
Houb for tha securities; N. J. Hammond,
Attorney General, for the Btate.—Atlanta
Count., 151 A.
A Stab Buffiiaue Bmnoxu.—A Wash
ington lotter asys detcotivoe who have
relumed to that city from Philadelphia
furnish abundant proof of tbe eleotion
1reads in Philadelphia. In one instance
e Washington oolored man was followed
anti] he hiul votod nine timoa, each time
dUgabdng himself, and finally appearing
in green spectacles and • while nook tie.
Couni ixixa Nnono Votkas.—Loot week
Colonel M. G. Harman, who in lace is not
unlike his brother, Ifsjor J. A. Harman, a
prominent Republican of Augusta, went
down to Harrisonburg on busmans. Go
ing along ths stroot ba waa accosted by a
negro he bad nsver seen before, and the
following conversation snsnod:
Coffee: “Why, Major, how la yon?
Glad to use yon down ham."
Colonel Human i “How do yon do."
Coffee: “You don’t recollect me. 1
wm in Urn Convention at Richmond with
yoo."
Colonel Human: “Ob, yes. Wall,
why ain't yon in Pennsylvania V'
Coffee: “Ah, Major, I'm gwine dar to-
onuw. Dey done give me $40 and my
aspensas."
Colonel Harman: “Why, yon ought to
have more than that."
Mhs: “Ob, I'm gwine to get more
'fore I'm done. I'm gwine to got a hone
liter a while."— Staunton Vindicator.
We regret to hear that Goa 1. J. Gilmer
wm seriously wounded at bis rasMsaca
last night about 8 o'clock, by n negro
«u. The wife of the man who inflicted
-jo wound waa ia tbo employ of Gen.
Gilmer aa a eook, aad fled from tbe bru
talities of bar husband to Gan. G. fot pro
tection. While intaaposing to astro the
iss, Gon. O. wm atrnok over ttxahoad
several ttosM with on iron pofcar, sad thu
wonads an vary aaatena. In eommon
with tba satin eimmsaWy, wa oarneotiy
hops that Gan. Ottmsr will aoon recover.
[MmUfomti, Aehtrti—r, IMA.
The -KaawviBa Chronicle of the 13th
_eL sash: ’“Tha flannaae Court yeatar-
day ■■tend two jadguxwta efcteteadiu
ttmOttfltttei liigl eenata laat Jnly faadam-
‘tfliSttmir ir tee momurable froohoi of
March, 1867. The eeaes havo been In
the ooart ever etooe, bat yesterday ten
lad than. They heM that tha
ia responsible for tee tea of
the fl ood. for though « waT“tha
actof God," yet m aa*Ug*Me wm provan
tba road te net swing Manor
Xrteto “»• tea gooda teapns tefi*.
Tba judgment# MMHBt to $3,000/