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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/