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Newspaper Page TextA ITHICT OoaiTRUCTIOS Of TUB CO.ViTtTtl MO.V—A!S KO.VKIT AVI* KCU.tO.VICAL AOtUIVISTHATIOV OR THB OOVKRKKIKT. — Ragland & Wynne, Proprietors. COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1872. Volume XLIV.—No. 45 The Weekly Enquirer. JOHN II. MARTIN Ebrob. COLUMBUS: THURSDAY OCTOBER 81,1872. •*.50. THE PRISON F.M AT SATAHVAI. Three of the Wilkinaoo ooenty prison ers—Robert Hyman, Jethro Vallanding- liain aud William Diokaoa—vert before Commiftsiotier Stone, on preliminary ex amination, on Friday and Saturday. They were charged with the morder of Mathew Deoaon, Sheriff of Wilkinaon ooonty, on the ^Tth August, 1871. WUey Deaeon, non of the deceased, testified that thirty or forty men took him (wittneee) from his home on the night in question, and car ried him with them in their search for Mathew Peasou ; that they had masks on, aud wore clothes different from eommon dre-ses, being striped red and whits; that he did not recognize any of them; that they released him at a negro house to which they went in search of Mathew Deoaon, and told him to go home; that hia father and a negro woman ware killed that night and their bodiee sank in a pood near by : that the tracks and othar indica tions snowed that a large party, soma on horseback, took them to the pond and were concerned in the killing. Charleston Cummings, negro, swore that he saw the party go to the hones in which Reason was supposed to be; that he was badly a cared and ran off to the awauip, where, soon afterwarda^the party of men passed within ten steps of him, carrying Reason with them; that ha then heard Reasou call ltob Hyman by name aud curse him; that be (witnem) also knew Hyman by sight and saw him in the crowd; that he lisd no mask on; that the witness had run of! with only hia shirt on, which he took off and placed under hie stin to prevent the party from seeing it; that he also kept his head down most of the time to pro vent their seeing the wkites of his eyee; that he bad never said much to any white man abput what he Raw, except Mr. Fittman, and “never gave him much idea abont it”; had epok- en to anothor white mau about the affair, but “didn't leave any sense with him." Israel Mitchell, colored, followed pretty much in Uuunuiogs' track; had aeeu the party aud ran away to get out of their reach; that he knew Dickson and Valandiugham by their voices; be, too, had never told what he sew, except to Cuimuiugs. He aaid the men were all dressed in citizens' clothes. Examination not conoluded. All the witnesses testified to a negro woman being taken out with Deaaon and killed at the same time—plainly suggest ing Home other than a party or political oause for the murder. The W llklsiioa Prlaessra. The examination of the case of Measra. Dickson, Vallandingbain and Hyman, charged with the murder of Mathew Dae woo in 1871, was continued at Savannah on Monday. The only witness examined on that day was Walter 8. Barron, white, for the Government. He testified to the fact that a party of disguised men were searching for Mathew Deaaon on the night in question, but aaid that ha did not rec ognize any of them—would not be afraid to tell if he knew. He knew all the pris oners. The party had him in ooatody for n short time, but dismissed him with an admonition to mend hia morals. He made the following statement of the c plaints against Mathew Deaeon, confirm ing the suggestion that he wee killed for causes with which politics had no oont lion. He was living with n negro woman who had tkreo children, whom aha aaid were tho children of Mathew Deaaon; *‘0110 complaint was that ha left hia family and was liviug with this negro woman; and thon that he kept a grocery, about which there was a good deal of disorder; his wife was partially insane; it was rumored in the town that a day or two before he had treated hia wife vary badly; 1 hoard be slapped her and knocked bar down." (The negro woman referred to was no doubt the one taken out with Deason and killed.) At the conclusion of this witness' testi mony, on motion of the District Attorney, the Commissioner discharged the defend ants Dickson and Vallaodingham, and con tinued the case against ltobt. Hyman. The Death Hr*. Greek/, Though previous reporta of the state of Mrs. Greeley 's health had lad ua to antici pate the announcement of bar death madi by telegraph yesterday, it will be reoeived with general regret at the Booth, and with sincere sympathy for tba band, whose late political ent position have so warmly attached our people to him. The blow falls upon frl— at a timo when the hopes of millions reach out to him as the chosen of a cause by which they task to rsform the Government and restore the harmony and equality of the different eeotio— of the country. It must have stricken him at a time when he was already by the great responsibilities of hia tion aud perhaps depressed by late partial reverses to the political party of whieh ha is so prominent a leader. May etraogth be vouchsafed him to bear with raaignation his great affliction. Mr. Theodore Nottingham, eon of Dr. Nottingham of Macon, was thrown from a buggy in that city on Sunday morning, and received fatal injuries. The registration of voters for the tion was closed in New York city on Sat urday. The total registration to 153,592 —about ten thousand less than the late fraudulent icgtotry iu Philadelphia. Bat the Radi • ds t xerled themselves as greatly to curtail the registration in New York as they did to swell tbit of Philadelphia— the design being in New York to as many foreign-born citizens from the polls; and it to stated that when the registration closed thousands of them ware surrounding ths fsgtotr— vainly trying to gat their names on the Rate. The lateet telegraphic reporte ehow that the hors# malady is ooming nearer South. Its grsat and rapid extent may well arouse fears that it will spread over the whole joemtiy. L A Oraftrak Casa Baqalrta OcsftraU Btaudlra. If nothing else indicates that the Ad ministration looks for n hardly contested Presidential election, and fears the result, the extraordinary means which it to using to carry it certainly affords such an indi cation. Never before was money so lav ishly need and fraud so boldly resorted to, aa in the Northern States at this time ; and never before has the military power of the Government been brought to bear oo heavily on the South, to intimidate the people, as now. These are not means that a party strong with the people and confident of euoceee would resort to. They are rather measures by which to beat the people. They are desperate meas ures, because of the danger that a resort to them will injure the party adopting them. And there to good reason to believe that they will injure Grant. If there be political virtue and independence at the North—if there be still in the South the spirit that defies tyranny and oppression —the retort to such base and high-handed means to force the re-election of Gen. Grant will overwhelm him and his party at the Presidential election. We never before had an election in whioh the party in power to flagrantly attempted to cheat, corrupt and overawe the people, os this. It subjects our system of government to a naw trial, and we cannot despair of the result without deapaiiing of the capacity the American people for self-gov ernment. Pa sis, October 24, 1872.—The Biih Public (Ministerial organ) of to-day makes the statement that it is improbable that the Hon. Eliha B. Washburns, who aailod for the United States on the 15th inst., will return to his post as American Minis ter to France, haviug been offered e neat in the Weahiuton Cabinet after the Presi dential election. The papers on this aide of the Atlantia profess to have found out that Waah- bnrne will take Fish's place, as Secretary of State. It to alao said that Fish dcairea the position of Minister to Orest Britain. Boston people sro trying to solve the rvsnt girl problem by importing Swed ish girls. Having brought a t-rge num ber of them over from lltuir native shores, it is found that the people must go to work and learn Swedish or teach the girls English. Otherwise there are going to be into iiinderataudingn in the negotia tions between drawing-room and kitchen. They have accordingly adopted probably * " alternative, the more difficult alternative, and eatab ltohod a free school for the girls.—Ere. These “Boston people,” the reader will bear iu mind, could very eaaily have ob tained negro girls for that work, and Bos ton does love the negro to dtotraotion. The oolored girls, too, already understand the Ungaege, end would require no ex pensive teaching in that line. But then, you eee, Boston, which so delights in making other people respect and exalt negroes, bee no nse for them “to hum.” Boston will tend four thousand miles for Swedish girls, paying one hundred dollars apieoe for transportation, and spend forty or fifty dollars apieoe oo them to teach them to speak English, before she will have negro servant girls from the Sooth! Ilkftl Arrest* la Row Yerk. The people of New York city ere con siderably exercised by what are celled domiciliary visits” by Grant's officials and the arrest of a number of oitizena for refusing to submit to them. It appears from the reports published that one Dav so port, a United States deputy marshal, undertook the job of ascertaining the politics of every registered voter in the city, with the objeot, it to oharged, of bin daring or retarding the votes of the Dem ocrats and Liberal Republicans on the day of the election. The plan of opera tions waa to visit eeoh man at hto house and ask him questions toaohing the elec tion until hto politics were ascertained, end to report eooordiogly to headquarters. The first man who refused to be cate chised, end ordered the inquisitor from hto house, was s German citixen named Heinrich. Ha was st ones arrested for “resisting a special deputy marshal in the discharge of hto duty.” This was on Sat urday night, aud as no writ of habeas cor pus could ha obtained and heard on Sun day, Heinrich wee imprisoned in jail until Monday. Since that time—the case of Heinrich having put tba psople on their guard—quite e number of citizens have refused to be interrogated by Devenport’s specials, and have bean arrested on the same ohafigs. But at the lateet acoounto such proceedings ware stirring up so much indignation that Davsnport either oould not procure or deemed it imprudent to ask for more warrants, and the pros pect was that hto “little game” would be •topped when only half completed. Tha sneaking and underhand manner in which this inquisition was carried out shows that tba Administration doss not yet feel itself strong enough to do openly at the North what it would no doubt have done directly and consummated by force if need be at the South. It also affords forthar proof that tha President and hto official tools are carrying oo tha contest with a consciousness that “a desperate oeee requires desperate remedies." Offi cial espionage, trickery end money at tha North, and Federal bayonets et the South, are tha means railed upon to de feat tha popular will on tha 6th of No vember* At any othar period in our his tory, eneh resorts would have aroosed a storm of indignation which no corrupt appitonosa and no exercise of power could quell. How will it be next week ? DIRECTLY RET THIS TIRE. Whatever may be the issue of the ap proaching Presidential election, the fight between the two opposing parties has been fairly made upon the policy to be pursued towards the South. The Demo crats aud Liberal Republicans distinctly declared in the outset that the right of local self-governoieut should be restored to the 8ou’ hern States; that the people of those Sta'es should not further be de prived of the writ of habeas corpus ; that the centralizing progress of the Federal Government should be arrested; aud that all proscription on account of the rebellion” should cease. They have maintained these declarations throughout the canvass without equivocation or qual ification. The Radicals, on the other hand, made a boost of their harsh meas ures towards the South, and declared that their policy of the post should be contin ued in the future. Their leading orators in tbe oanvass—the representative men of the party, who most authoritatively an nounce its purposes—Morton, Boutwell, Delano, Ac.—have eularged upon the platform by protesting agninst “clasping bauds over the bloody chasm," by justify ing tbe exceptions to the amuosty act,aud by the bitterest denunciations of tho Southern people. Grant, himself, has acted in accordance with the spirit of his supporters by a revival of tho Ku-Klux prosecutions, giving strained construc tions to tbe Enforcement act to admit of the exercise of his tyranny, aud by again covering several of tbe Southern States with his bayonets. The iHsuo has thus been fairly joined, and upon it the Presi dential election haw been made to hinge. There is no complication with the bond and curreucy questions, tho validity of what had heeu accomplished in the way “recouatruuliou,” the tarifl', Ac., as there was in IKON, but the question bss been narrowed dowu to one of nntioual reconciliation and sectional equality on the one side, or continued bitterness slid oppression on the other. Mr. Greeley iu all his many speeches during the cam paign, has thus clearly presented it and phttticaily declared himself for tho de li verauce and equality of I bo Soutb. By their choice between Grunt utid Greeley, the animus of politicians towards the South will hereafter be determined. The opposing policies, thus brought direotly iuto conflict, must hereafter continue to divide (Mkrties, because they have no oth er nuclei for their organizations than these. And if nut fully successful in this Presidential contest, it is hardly a matter of doubt that tbo just, trauquilizing aud generous policy of the Democrats and Liberal Republicans must at an early day win for them a triumph as complete as it will be beneficent. A reporter at the Mooon Et f srprise, returned from a visit of investigation to Barronoy, has com# to tba oonolosion that spiritualism waa tha agency of the strong* doing* thflra, and Mrs. Surranoy tbo mo- dram. Ho intimate* that aha to tha an* oonocioas madiuai, and hto conclusion in tba matter —as to be drawn from tha aingla fact that aha slou* waa praasnt when all tbe manifestations occurred, they having oaaaad in bar absenos. Ha says that they have not boon witnsmad sines Friday night last, and srpnmu tb* bop* that they will never b* repeated. la tha randar aattoflad with this aotn- tion 7 W* are not. Judge 0. 0. Hamaaook waa nominated for Mayor of Atlanta, at tba preliminary riarit— bald on Saturday. Tbo poll stood—Hammock 1,000, Roaob Clfi, Span- oar 587. , D. F. Hammond annoaaoas Mmaalf independent aandldata. At a great Democratic meeting held in New York city on Saturday evening lost, Mr. Abram S. Hewitt, one of the speak ers, related his experience with one of Davenport's “speciul deputies," ns fol lows : The other day I was told that there is a man dowu stairs in my own house who wanted to see me. On going down stairs I was told he “wanted to take the oensus.” 1 told him to go ahead. He aaid he waqtud me to give him Rome in- Iliad no informs- formation. I replied tion to give him. lie asked me if I de clined. I said I do decltue to givo you any information whatever. (Applause.) He then said I was making uiysolf liable to arrest, to which I replied, “I know what I am shout, and os I am in a hurry E ou will oblige me by getting out of this ouse and goiug sway. ' (Applause.) (Applause.) He went away. After he had gone—it was well I did not know it before—after he had gone I was informed that be had rung tbe door-bell, and without asking the ser vant any question he hod gone up stairs to the apartments where my wife and children were. He met my wife at tho head of the stairs, and she requested him to go dowu again and I would come down to him. Now, 1 say I am responsible for my sets by virtue of my long residence in this city, and I say that this is an inva sion to which no citizen who respects himself will ever submit—(applause)— and I aay to Mr. Davenport—(hisses and groans)—I say to Mr. Davenport, and I suppose the reporters will take care that he hears of it, that 1 have not been arrest- yet, and if he wauts a fuetuan worthy i /. of hto steel he can apply to Abram Hewitt. (Applause.) lie will have to “fight it out on that line" until we lain whether the individual oitizen has got any rights worth protecting and pre serving or not. (Applause.) 1 now move the adoption of these resolutions. Jno. 8. Bigby having withdrawn from iba contest in this District, he has been succeeded by Hon. Marion Bethuno, whose letter of acceptance to tho Repub lican Executive Committee is being cir culated all over tho District.— 1 Vest Paint Netes, .TOth. Tbe City Council of Savannah has re quested Gov. Smith to adopt measures to prevent the introduction of the horse oontogion into this State. lie is referred to the 1405th section of the Revised Code for hto power in the premises. Editor Enquirer .-—There was an amendment enacted to tho lute Election Law, making it imperative that all ticketo should be printed on white paper, aud as it has been customary to use colored pa per in printing ticketo, it is essential that the country should be well advised ms to this law, as doubtless that all ticketo cost that are printed on oolored paper would be thrown out. I think it will be well enough to keep this fact prominently be fore tbe people. Respectfully, F. G. Wilkins. Don wot Pennsylvania Need Rxcon- btbuction Tbo New York Tribune evi dently inclines to the oninion that it does. “Hugh Mara shot Revenue Inspector Brooks, in Philadelphia, iu the interest of the Whiskey Ring. Pardoned for this by Gov Geary, he shot Alderman McMullen. He belongs to the Pennsylvania Ring, just as Haggerty, the Voucher Thief, t>e- looga to the New York Ring. We said, before tbe October election, that the etory of Pennsylvania pardons would be inoom plete without tbe pardon of Mara, tha political assassin. But Mr. Swope, Dto- triot Attorney and eervantof tbe Ring, did better; be brought Mara iuto court, adroit tricks with tbs sad, by a series of law, aaot forth this mao, who bears tbe blood of two half accomplished murders on bis bands, a freeman and a citizen. Yerkes la pardoned, Mara is oloared of Brits, and Hartraoft lives—a prosperous fteriloaean. Is there eny suoh thing as law or justice in Pennsylvania? Why should wo ask? Simon Cameron to an honored ettiseo and Senator of tbe United The Radical Pretext for Hcronstrsctlon. Tbe New York Express says that “the reconstruction of Georgia is threatened by the Grant press on mauy sides, which only means this: “The psekiug of a Stato Legislature by sots of Congress, whioh will adopt the Bullock Wall street bonds. “It is to stop tliis sort of interference by the Federal Government, in tho inter ests of carpet-baggers and the bondhold ers out of the State, that the election of Greeley becomes indispensable for the publiu peace and public security." There to little doubt but that thore is a desire for such a reconstruction on the part of tbe Bond Ring, as thore to hut little doubt that they hope for such a dis parity between tbe Democratic majority that was given for Govornor and that which will be given iu tbe Presidential election as will support a charge of fraud, violence and coercion. Every vote, therefore, which fails to reach the ballot box, or which takes off from the nomi nees of the Democratic party, will be construed to afford such desirable ovi- denco. Vote, then, the Greeley ticket— the Demoorntic ticket. Unity gives atreugth and secures peaco and quiet ness. Voto for Peace, Reconciliation and Universal Amnesty. Those who voto on the sido of old Jeffersonisn principles will be reckoned as rebellious, and as against peace and reconciliation by Radi cal plotters.—Avgusta Chronicle. Thirl Annul Mr of tho Columbus Industrial Association. A Juvenile Kueni). Wo find iu the snirit of the Ago, pub lished in Raleigh, N. 0., an important let ter from Charles E. Taylor, Professor of Latin, iu Wake Forest College. Tho Professor says that lust Christmas, D. S. Ratusoiir, a student of 17 yerrs of age, catuo to hto room aud told him that a warrant was out against tho said studeut for conspiracy nud murder. Ramsour explained with much feeling and youth ful ingenuousness, that some time hoforo he hail with a few companions ridden a few utiles iu night, and returned without molesting any one. This was dune, says Professor Ta)lor, in that spirit of frolic, or desire for adventure, which would lead any hoy of hia ago to do tbo same. On the night of December TO, 1871, tho Col lege was surrounded by United Stutcs troops and tho boy taken from tho Hull of hia debating society ami hurried off to Columbia, S. C. Hu wits kept in pris on without trial until April. Then the charge of murder was struck out of the indictuiont and then Ramsour, by advico conspiracy i. e. he did not deny riding with his compuuions ou tho night in ques tion. Thoro nppours to bo no ovedouce that Rauisour committed any crime what- ovor. Ramsour however was Henteucod to eight years confinement in the Peni- tiary, nud fined $100. He is now iu the State Penitentiary ut Albany; he will be dto- churgod, unless ho dies or is pardoned in April, 1880, when ho will bo twenty-five years old, his hopes of an education all gone, lito whole lifo blasted. lie to a member, utul his father is a deacon of the Baptist Church, and Professor Taylor bears witness that bis couduct while aslu- dent was most exemplary. In alluding to this letter the New York Tribune says: We wish that those of our readers who have the good fortune to live under a government of laws and not of soldiers, would consider carefully tho case of this unfortunate boy. There to uo ev idence that ho liaa ilouo anything crimi nal. Hto trial is represented to have been a farce to him, the upshot of it has been and will bo a tragedy. A few casts like his occurring in New York would be pret ty sure to breed an insurrection more or Iohm goneral according to their number, and yet a newspaper here is uot permit ted to speak a word iu favor of common justice and the simplest mercy without being virulently charged with disloyalty even by such benevolent men as Wiiliaui Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Fred erick Douglas, and Gerritt Smith. It to curious, is it uot ?—Mobile Tribune. Grass-hoppers aro making an exten sive tour iu Northern Texas. An ex change says: Their appearanco has put a stop to the sowing of wheat, which will have to lie delayed till towards Christmas. With this exception they con do but little dam age, as it has been so dry few turnips were up, and it is getting too Into to plant. We beliove the common theory here is that they coute from Utah, Wyoming and other Northwestern Territories, and trav el South to the Gulf, at intervals descend ing to feed, rising nguin, und continuing their journey southwurri. Many remain along tbe line traveled, which is supposed to be seventy-five miles wide. These stay until killed by the cold weather, having in tbo mean time deposited their eggs, which are hatched out by the warm sun in the spring. As soon ns the young crop gelt heir wings they start in a northeast direction, and go back to the hotnea left by their parents in the fall. These mi grations occur at no regular periods, but at iutervala of five or six years, and pre sent s phenomenon worthy the study of our naturalists. We learn that parties just in from the Indian Territory report them so thick there thst thev patter in the face like hail Jo as one rides along the road. If* How it Works—Tup. Expects or the Fair.—While passing the farm of an old geutlemsn some two miles north of the city, we noticed hint and all hands busily manuring and preparing a piece of land on the road aido. Inquiring whut lie was up to, at this time of tbe year, he replied, “that be was going to show at the next Fair the hoaviest yield of oats ever made on an acre, in this section. " And he will be apt to do it, for be seldom fails, if he trie*.—Evfavia Times. The Evils op Annexation.—Tho San Juan decision will be exceedingly tiu- { deasant news to the inhabitants of that aland The country is, it seems, the best sbeep-raisiug land ou tbo Pacific have amassed large fortunes in the busi ness. During all these long years while the dispute between England and the United States has been pending they have paid no taxes and have had no duties on their importations. Tho announcement that they are part and parcel of these glo rious United States will be spoedily fol lowed by the erection of tho cnatom-house aud the assessor's office. There is uo doubt that if they bad been consulted in the matter they would have remained for- evor out of tbe Union. — Washington lie- publican. Value or Pencil Written Notes —A subscriber asks tbe New Y'ork Journal of Commerce the question : “Is a note writ ten in pencil, and signed in pencil, legal?" The Journal answers in the affirmative. Story on Promissory Notes, (one of the highest authorities,) in his first paragraph touching the requisites of this form of obligation, declares that “a promissory note must be in writing, cither iri ink or pencil; that ia to say, the signature of the promisor must be ho; the body of the not* may be printed.” This is conclu sive ; but tb* court* in a great many omn, and without s dissenting judgment, have confirmed this rule. A note promis ing to pay a certain amount of money is merely an evidence of indebtedness, and s note without the signature of the prom isor to good, if there to evidence that the promisor intended to exeeuto it; that is to say, with the additional evidence men tioned. Th* note is prims facto evidence of tb* indebtedness. Tb* Indianepolis Sentinel publishes tbe names of thirty negroes who voted * s lets thirty times each at ths late election in rty turn I (Kate, This Fair opened yesterday uuder fuvor- able auspices. Tbe crowd, as usual on opening days, was not very large, owing doubtless to the fact thst first days are not generally very interesting, they being devoted principally to preparation. En tries were made daring the day, and at night tho display was much larger aud handsomer than that of the morning. The Grounds presented a handsome aud im proved condition, aud the display of flags, which streamed from alt the buildings, gave a very animated and brilliant appear ance to the place. The maiu avenue was overarched by a fine display of streamers and flags of all nations. The tnoruiug opened cloudy and threatening, aud the Directors began to express feats that uu- pleasant weather would soon interfere with the programme of the wcok, blit to wards evening the clouds broke away, { giving evidence of continued pleasant weather. The Opelika Brasa Bund dis coursed very creditable music from tho baud stand during the day. Largely in creased crowds are expected to-day, nud for each successive day during tbe woek. IN FRONT OP THE AMPHITHEATRE. The display iu front of tho amphithea ter was not possessed of as much interest as usual. Owing to tho lateness of the hour when stock men arrived upon the grounds, there was no exhibition of live stock iu the forenoon. Iu the afternoon there were Home races, with the following result: 1st. Bony race—2 entries—purse Jk 10- quarter stretch. Won by Shepherd's pony in 01 seconds. 2d. Trotting match by 4 yoar olds and tinder, mile heats; .‘I entries; purse $50. Klink's maro, Katie, John Kyle's colt, and .Jamison's colt—best two iu three. Won by Kliuk, iu 8:05 and 8:87. 8d. Running match—half mile dash- purse Ik50—seven entries. Purse divided between three fastest nags, to wit: An derson's grey, McDougsld's colt, aud liar- field'a black gelding. Timo, 1 minute. exhibitors' rooms. We learn from Class Superintendents thut tbe display iu all departments is bet tor than for tho past two years, though owiug to the fact that entries were boiug made throughout yestorday, we foutid it difficult to arrivo at correct data as to what really was to bo seen. The follow ing will give some idea of the grounds aud exhibitors' department at noon. Class A.—C. A. Klink and It. A Ware, Superintendents—In this section so noticed displays of sewing machines, including Hinger, Wheeler A Wilson, and the Domestic. Middlebrook and Kent illustrate tho leather aud harness depart ment. J. Euuis has on exhibition a fine lot of hardware, hobs, spokes aud wagou material. The stove and tiuware business is represented by J. M. Rennett and W. 11. ltobarls A (Jo. F. Landon A Co. aud •I. D. Cartor have show oases of gentle men’s hats. R. A. Ware, J. I. Griffin nud E. C. Hood make a fiuo show of drugR, perfumes, toilet articles, Ac. The following additional merchants make oreditablo displays in their line. Mi.litte ry—Mrs. Leu and Howard. Clothiug— Thomas A Presoott. Dry Goods—M. Jo- soph A Hro., Virginia Store, Boatrite A Clapp, J. J. Whittle, Chapman A Vers- tille. Fancy Groceries, Confections, Toys, Ac.—Cargill A Daniel, O. C. John son and A. L. Harrison. Books and Sta tionery—W. J. Chaffin and J. W. Posse. Other merchants perhaps aont iu their show cases during the afternoon. Class 1).—T. E. Blanchard, Sup'dt.— This is the ladies' fancy work and orna- mentul department. The display is fully equal to that of previous yeara. We saw many beautiful quilts and countcrpHUi w, ladies' and children's drosses, specimens •f fancy needle work, embroidery, knit ting, netting, Ac. This department will doubtless bo tbrongod during the week. Class E—Art Department—John King, Superintendent.—This department is as usual very attractive. In it are many beautiful specimens of pictures, includ ing numerous photographs by Van Riper and Williams. It contains also choice coleotions of floral offerings, sent in by the fair ladies of Columbus and viciuity. In the west end of this gallery is a charm ing grotto mounted with flags, busts, aud a flne lithograph of the pariot Lee. Thu Art Department to always a place of inter est, and no better man could be placed at its head thau Mr. King. Class B—C. A. lledd. Superintendent. Here we And agricultural implements, ma chinery, field crops, Ac. There to a fiuo display of agricultural implements con tributed chiefly by Holstead A Co., who, we understand, have made aeveuty-fivo entries. The display of gins, mowers, reapers and plows is very creditable, though up to last evening the machinery department was not so full as usual. A portablo Iloadley engine, for whieh Mr. Goetohius is ageut, is iu readiness to fur nish the necessarry motive power. In agricultural products aud cereals, the sup ply on exhibition to excellent. The speci mens of home-made hay are especially de. serving of praise. We noticed a couple of barrels of XXXX flour from the Geor gia Mills at Macon. Our own mills, wc believe, ere not represented. Class O—E. T. Shepherd, Superintend• ent.—In this department will bo found atook, poultry, Ac. There are an un usual large number of fine horses ou the grounds, including e number from Ms con, Montgomery and Eufsuls. The dis play of goats, cattle end hogs, though not so large, is creditable. Among the fine hogs we notioed entries by Wm. Perry aud Boykin Jonas. The display of poul try is excellent. This department will doubtless receive large additions to-day. MANUFACTURER. Tho dtopisy over which every (rue South- era man must feel emotions of pride is thst made by our several manufactories. The Eagle A Phenix of our eity makes a truly grand display of fabrics, suoh as osnaburgs and sheetings, stripes, checks and ginghams, cotton blankets, jeans and caasimeres. On tbs list of tba latter arti cle we notioed a naw and superior pattern whioh will oompare favorably with similar goods made in this oountry. The Colum bus Mills make a fin# display of osna burgs, shootings and shirtings. OleggA ffittr BjflwMW yttlfiw wit?* checks. King’s factory exhibits very su perior yarns and the Troupe factory Kouds in a contribution of osnaburgs, stripea and checka. All their goods re flect great credit upon the eatabltohments which produced them, aud are oalculsted to impress tho public with the great man ufacturing importance of Columbus. side HitowH, Ac. There are numbers of them on the ground, among them are O. B. Lesley's enriosty exhibition, containing the largest woman, the fatteHt boy, the hugest snake and tho best looking Circassian lady ever scon in this country. Another show con tains O'Hara, the great walktot, an Egyp tian mummy, 8000 years old, besides m- Frotn the AiIhdU 8iid, 27tl». A Short Blofraphlral Sketch of Hr. William Desghertj’. Mr. Dougherty was about 08 years of age, haviug been born iu Clarke county iu the year 1804. Hto father, who was himself a distinguished lawyer in that day, died while William waa a young boy, and his training devolved on hto mother, who, it is said, was a woman of remarkable dis cretion aud unerring judgment. With instinctive wisdom sbe taught her sons Charles, William aud Robert to work, and thereby developed iu them a magnificent constitution, alter which sbe sent them to school. William Dougherty graduated at tho Btate University, then Franklin College, under the Mipervtoton of the celebrated Dr. Moaes Waddell, about the year 1827. Hu Htudiod law probably with his broth- tuerous other things. Then there are fly- { er Charles, was addmitted to the bar. and ing horses, etc., all of which help to keep up the interest amt excitement. Alto gether, the Fair of 1872 protniseato equal in nil respects those previously held here, and wc think wo may promise a day of pleasant recreation to all wishing to at tend. SECOND DAY. There were about three times as many people in nttendatK-o yesterday ns on the previous day, aud a considerable number more than for the corresponding day of lust year. We learn from Directors that tho gate receipts for the past two days were more than for the first three days of last year. All trains arriving in the city were crowded. A very full delegation canto dowu from Talbot county. All de partments of the Fair were much fuller than ou Tuesday, and as a matter of course, objects of interest woro corres pondingly numerous. TIIINOM NOT HERETOFORE MENTIONED. Iu paiming over the grounds and through tho several halls we saw a num ber of articles worthy of monlion, not enumerated in yesterday's report. B. 8. Liddt ll of Lee county, bus ou exhibition his loom pickers. Rooney A Warner make a creditable display of furniture. J. W. Brooks and C. J. Moffett exhibit handsomely tilled show cases. Situ Hen drix of Columbus enters a steam bug ex terminator and patont water drawer. Mr. F. Lambert of New Y’ork, has on ex hibition an Ice King Refrigerator, patent sewing umchino treadle, wuHbiug machine and clothes wringer, and an earth closet. Wm. Korner shows some of hto Columbus made trunks, which reflect much credit upon his skill. Mr. Rogers, of Opelika, lias on exhibi tion n patent breech-loading shot gun, which to much admired by sportsmen. McLaren, a Columbus blacksintb, colors a superb article of horse aud mule shoes. The Atanta Hoap Works have a fine dis play of toilot soap. Mrs. A. B. Bostic ex hibits a silver spoon which has been iu her fiimily for one* hundred years. Con- sidcra!de additions wero tusdu yesterday to tho field crop department, prominent among which we noticed some mammoth pumpkins entered by Munro, and a fiuo lot of Hwoot potatoes ontcrod by J. M. Leonard. The tino hull of Mr. Adams', of Stewart county, which took the pre mium at Eiifnuln, is also on exhibition at our Fair. There aro hundreds of other meritorious articles, which time and space will nut allow us now to enumerate. EXERCISER ON THE GROUNDS. The following awards were made in the horse show of the foreuuoti: Best stallion, I years old and upwards— first premium to Joro Waters of Albany, for Lis horse Jitn Hall; second to Jack Chambers of Augusta. Best stallion under I years of age- first premium to 11. McCauley. Best mare I years old and upwards— first premium to Jack Chambers. Best mare under 4 years of age—first premium to W. A. McDougald. Best pair of carriago horses—first pre mium to PttticU Doughtie of Eufuula; second premium to Johu Osboruo of Columbus. Best pair of mares- first promiutu to C. A. Redd of Columbus. Rost buggy mare or gelding—first pre. miuni to Wm. Smith of Columbus; sec ond to Punch Doughtio of Eufaula. Best saddle mare or gelding—first pro- miuni to Carr, of Kentucky. Rost walking horse—premium to — Kennedy. GOAT RACE. This feature was of interest to tbe littlo folks. There were font' entries—two white and two colored hoys. Distance one hundred yards. Race won by Frauk CoJzey—time 15 j socouds. FOOT RACE. In this race the entries wero eight or ten American citizens of African descent and ouo Indian. Quarter alrotcli. In dian made tho best time. Purse $10, di vided as follows: $5 to El Montroule, *8 to Wesley Mitchell, $2 to Ned Sultobuiy. TROTTING MATCHES. Of these there were threo. The first was for horsos which had never beaten 8:80. Tho following entries woro made : Lyons' grey stalliou Henry, McIuto*b'a Rob Roy, Tyler's Gipsey, Doughties Eu faula Roy. l'urso $75. Firat heat won by Eufaula Roy iu 8:4 j ; second by Gip- soy iu 8:2 ; third by Gipsey in 2:54$; fourth by Gipsey in 8:2. Won by Gipsey. Second premium to Eufaula Ray; third to Rob Roy. Second Trot—In this contest tho fol lowing outriea wero made for homes which had nover beaten 2:45 : Kennedy's b. g. Hum ltoid; Klink's b. g. Hamoatriug; Tyler's s. g. Tacoo; McDougald'* b. m. Emuia. Purse $150. Firat heat won by Tacoo in 2:47 j ; second by Enuna in 2:45j; third heat, Kennedy's and Kliuk'* horse < withdrawn, and boat won by Em uia in 2:47$; fourth by Tuoco in 2:47; fifth by Taoco in 2:58. Won I»y Taoco, best three ill five. Third Trot—This was a coo teat be tween double teams, for a purse of $50— aingla daait. Two entriee, by Tyler and Pounds. Heat won by Tylar, in 3:14. commenced the practice of the law in La Grange about tue year 1880. Here he married Miss Turner of that place. Here he made hto reputation as a first class lawyer, and without solicitation was once elected as representative of Troup county iu the Legislature. This was the only office he ever held. He rotuained at IiaGrange until about the year 1850, all the time being acknowledged as the head of the bar. He then removed to Columbus, where ho was for some lime, closely eugaged in the bank cases whieh were agitatlug the country at that time. His prosecutions here created for him nu merous enemies, but he pttrsned with un flinching zeal what he oouceived to be his duty, despite the opposition his ooumo provoked. (We omit tbe Sun's statement of Judge Henning's relations with Mr. Doiigluriy and the bank cases, because it is incor rect. ) From Columbus Mr. Dougherty remov ed to Athens, where he reuiaiued hdiuo time, still engaged exteuHively in the practice of law In all the Courts of the State and the Uuited States. About this time he purchased an elc- Yalker county, where ho aud his family have ever siuce spent mauy of their sum mer mouths. The place, called “McLe- more's Cove,” to said to be one of the most beautiful iu Georgia, and the plan tation oue of the most desirable in tho country. Since the war he located his headquar ter* iu Atlanta, where hto office has been situated ever since. Two years since his health failod him, wheu he retired from the practice of htoprofeHs on, in a degree, lie was uuder medical treatment here, and had considerably improved, wheu, upon (he advice of some of his physi cians, he went to New York for medical advice. He was accompanied by hto wife aud a faithful body servant, who was de voted to him as oue of hto children. He had been there but a few days beforo he was seriously ill with affection of (ho heart and lungs, it to said. He died on hto sou, Charles Dougherty. Mr. Dough erty was for a long while a Trustee of the State University, to whose interest, advancement aud prosperity he was much devoted. lie was emphatically a lawyer. He de voted time, talent, energy aud all, to hto profession and the science of law. lie repelled all solicitations to enter politics; they were distasteful to him. He was ofteu spoken of for Governor and Su preme Judge, but he aiwaya discouraged auy proposition tending to promote him to civil or political office. lie was amiable, but firm; zealous in the prosecution of business ; emphatic in his utterance of opinion ; a mau of fine conversational powers, of pleosaut aud agreeable manners—neither exquisite nor good practical souse, unerring judg ment, aud sound discretion, lie never sought popularity, yet he was always popular. The tieorgia Seaatonhlp. The interest iu the Senatorial election by tbe Legislature next winter is iuereas- ing. There is authority for ssying that Gov. Smith has uo thought of entering the lists for Senatorial houors. Ho thinks that it would be iu exceedingly bad taste, to say tbe least of it, for a mau who has just been chosen Governor of the State by 00,000 majority, to deoliue the office, aud ask tbe people who have thus honored him, to give him another position. There to reason for saying, however, that the names of the following gentlemen have been mentioned in this connection with their consent, viz.: Hon. 11. V. Johnson, Gen. John B. Gordon, Gen. Henry L. lienniog, Dr. H. V. M. Miller, Hou. Geo. N. Lester, Hon. B. H. Hill; and, if their disabilities are removed in time, lion. Thomas Hardeman aud Hon. J. W. 11. Underwood. Gen. Alfred H. Colquitt will not, I understand, be a candidate ; other wise he would probably be the mau. [Atlanta Car reap. Sac. News. 8]m‘< ml Dir'paMi to lit lliilUtuoro Sun. Washington, October 28.—Protniuent ludtuns Uete, not particularly friendly to iSeuator Morton, aud who are thoroughly conversant with political affairs in that State, plaoe uo credit wliutever upon the statement that there is u conspiracy aiuoug the Republicans aud Democrats to defeat hto re-electiou to the United States Senate. As the Legislature now stands a defection of five Republican votes com- btued with the Democratic vote would ef fect this result. But it is stated, with the memory ot the past exciting canvass fresh in their minds, however much they might feel so disposed, this number of igre of Ohio, arrived in Hon. Johu A. Bin; Radical member of this hto way . - Alabama, where he will employ moat effort* to carry that Btate for Grant. Daring hia few hoars' stay here he waa in eloee oommunion with Col. Blanton Don* i eity yesterday with hia Secretary, on way South, following the military to barns, where he wiU employ hto ut- can, at hia quarters in the Galt House.^As the reenlt of this interview, we await Cot Dunoan's t*ext movement in tha (uteres! of Gtpny—Lqv Qouritr, WA, Republicans would hsrdly dare to vote egaioet the regular nominee of the perty. There ie much more confidence hero in Liberal circles of securing tho electo ral vote of Illinois for Greeley than any other Western State except Missouri and Indiana. The advices from there are to the effect that if a full Democratic vote can be relied upon, the Liberal defection is great enough, especially among tbo Gormans, to overcome the tremen dous majority whioh Grant bad in 18G*. It ia considered certain that whichever way the State may go iu the Presidential iasue, Trumbull will be returned to the United States Senate, as the Republican majorities will be almost wholly confined to a few populous northern couuties. It is conceded even by Republicans that the balance of power iu the November elec tions in this Hut* will be alino«t wholly with the largo clast of workmen who are now employed in reconstructing Chicago. Very enoouragiug advices have been received here to-day from Ohio as to the prospects of tbe Liberals in November. It to stated that the Democretio vote, es pecially in the middle counlic-s, will be polled in full, the lack of which vote lost the State substantially in the Stato elec tions. Tue Goudon Prisonxhs.—A squad con- efoliug of between fifteen aud twenty Federal soldiers entered Gordon, Wilkin son county, on last Thursday night, and foroad from their beds the following riti- sene of tbe county: m _ James T. Kirkpatriok, Wm. T. Foun [Macon Enterprise, 26th. 'I In* IMITrmiri'. Tho Washington Morning Chronicle, whieh is Grant's own paper, is alarmed at tho fact that tbo Governor of Georgia is organizing tho militia, and says, with a degree of impudence that is quite refrosh ing : The less the Governor of Georgia does of thut business tho better. The experiment of arming at Macon and Sa vannah brought forth hitter fruits at tho Into election. As a recent law of tlio State forbids men to corno to the polls ariuod. the Governor is tuking a very sin gular course to socuro respect for it hy arming tho militia. NY hat in to occasion an outbreak in Georgia or any othor State at tho coming election ? The blacks will not rebel if they arc permittod their rights. Make ample provision for a free ballot, os the Constitution demand*, and tLo result will bo cheerfully acquiesced “If this movement to being made in Georgia, it is a part and parcel of that t< rrorism by which it is expected to pro vent tho colored voters from coming to tho polls, or to intimidate them after they come. The arming of tho old rebel ele ment is a very poor indication of reconcil iation." Now, tho editor of tho Chronicle hin had the fortune, or misfortune, to live in South Carolina, and no man knows bettor than ho that t lie colored people of thin Stato are armed and equipped with breech binders ant! ball, eat fridges beforo each election, and that the whites aro ontirely excluded from the militia organization. Why don't tho editor of tho Chronicle mention this fact in conuoction with arming of the “old roV.ol element" in Georgia ? Is it bccauso ho loves tin* negro more, or his white brethren leas, or is it because his mnater Grant foars the verdict of tho people iu November ? Charleston Courier. Wnimrlc in the .tdialiiintintioii Itanki. New York, Oct. 25.—Serious dissen sions havo broken out iu tho Administra tion organization in this city, owing to tho arbitrary rway exercised by the Cus t-un-hoiiso clique in the nomination of local candidates. Neaily throe-fourths ot the nominations for Congress, Stuto and eity offices havo been conferred on United States officials holding minor positions in the custom-house and internal revonm- koi vice. Many Republicans aro tired of this monopoly. It is probable thodinson mouh will terminate in an open split in some of tho nt-Horiution i before the elec tion. Since tho wrangling began it ha a 1 inked out that the Administration inaim gars have iniulo a compact with O’Brien tgivo him $40,000 aa hooii ns ho should havo raised ten political banners, and that when this number had been raised tbo Hinu agreed upon waa refused, and only $20,000 was offered to O'Brien. Profits »r Ti-lovrHliliimr. Tho recent official report of tho Freai dent of the Western Union Telegraph Company to the stockholders (puhliahed iu the Baltimore Sum is tho first which lias been publicly made Binco July 18, 18«'*!», and for that reason to calculated to attract more thau usual interest. A com isutoou of the report for 1809 with tho one just made reveals some circumstanced in the condition und operations of that company which aro. to way tho least, ex traordinary. Tho number of messages sent in tho year ending Juno 80, 1887, according to the report of IH»;u, was 10,007,708, and the receipts $5,788,0*27.00, giving an av erage receipt per messago of 57 cento The number of messages sent in tho yeai »tiding Juno 80, 1872, was 12,444,499, and the receipts $8,457,095.97, giving auav- »rage receipt per message of 08 cents, which shows that tin* average tariff of tha t ompuny has been increased 20 per cent jq live years, notwithstanding tho compo lion which has sprung up in tho mean timo and forced a reduction of rates be tween important points, ft nkauld be I*01-110 in mind that these figures include the messagos for the press, which aro fu: uishod at a lower rate than privAto raes sagos. If these facts are corroctly stated by tho President of the Company, they point most strongly to tin* necessity of a postal telegraph, by which tho rates for telegraph messages shall bo reduced aud not incrcubcd from year to your. The capital stock of tho company is not given iu tho report as yet printed, but on ly twenty-seven millions were roprosont od iu tho ineoting, and it is believed that tho stock lias been reduced l>y purchaau very far below tho forty-one millions re portod in 1809. The earnings of tho company since 1800 are now stated to ho over seventeen rail lions, accounted for ns follows : Dividend, $4,857,879.84 : inlorcst ou bonds, $1,898,401.98; construction of linos and purchase of telograph property, $10,881,412.91. Tbe company possesses 82,082 miles of lino, carrying 187,199 miles of wiro, an in crease of 17,901 miles of lino, and 50,748 miles of wiro since July 1, 1800, exclusive of lines purchased aud paid for iu stock of tho company since July 1, 1881*. From the stiitemont of the report for 1872 th»* inference is naturally drawn that the line-* and property of tho company havo in creased ton millions of dollars in valno or rather in cost sinco I8t»(*. On glancing at the report for 1859, how-over, we find iliac of this increase 7,9(58 miles of line and 18,127 miles of w iro had boon built, up to the the date of that, report, at a cost-*f $1,288,870.11, at which rate the entire extension since 18(5<I would coast $8,107, 577. Tho equipment of these lines, to gether with tho purchase of patents, real estate, Ac., can nsrdiy havo cost over $200,000 more. The management is now almost exclu sively in tho hands of shrewd Now York capitalists, and it is supposed that when the postal t olograph is adopted a hold at- omi)t will bo made to induce tho Govern uicnt to purchase the Western Union lines ou tho basis of their stock valuation Hard Up.—Grant’s friends who ar<« playing the O'Conor dodge iu Illinois havo u hard time getting nominees that will stick. The electoral ticket he has official ly published tho other day iu tho Chicago Times contained soverul names that have beou withdrawn, and still was uot com pi etc. Now, Mr. John Van Nortwick cre ates another aching void by requesting the editor to inform tho committee that ho ij a resident of Louisiana, and doeu not wish his naiuo used as un doctor for Illinois. Tho Sucker Straights are thus caught in the samo trick their Michiguu brethren wero. If they will go to tha uiosH-grown tomh-stoin u for names, suoh exposures will bo less imminent and tha Bad Company.—Wi a art credibly in foroad that Col. Jack Brown, tha “straight-out" candidate for Oongreea.has written to Ool. W. F. Edwards, ax-Radi Ml mwabar of Ood«tm», •Mking through him Um rapport of tho lUdiMl port* (or Ooootmo. How to thto lot MraifM.— Oumtir BtyuMuan. proHijncU of their canee uioranpproprtoti- ly repreec-i y represented.—SI. I.ou\t UepubliMh. Nrmt Youk, October United SUlei Menthol Hharpo, after consultation with Kleotion Supervisor Davenport, directs tho arrest of women refusing to answer questions concerning their male relative.,' right to vote. A large number of arrests are to bo made in the nett threo days. Dommiaiiiuuer Davenport boa adjourned the ease ot Charles lluaney, who was re. cently arrested by a Deputy Marshal for failure to answer questions under tha atoetion law. Hussey's counsel urgently requested a hearing. It tot ‘ understood that Davenport is going to aond all the election caeca beforo tha United States tiraud Jary. Anotuoii Isstali.most or Ku Rnvx PntaoNXOH.—A United States Deputy Marshal with Messrs. J. B. Carroll, Lsw- renoa Butts, Perry Whiten and Frank dona*, all oitiuns of Wilkinaon county, end aaid to bo implicated in tha murder of Daaeon, for which several prisoners * law days, have bean on trial for the past 1 . . arrived by tha Central railroad train yog. Iwdoy.—tianannah 4<i**r(twr, 29th,

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Weekly Columbus enquirer. (Columbus, Ga.) 1861-1873, November 05, 1872, Image 1