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National Democratic Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT:
HORACE GREELEY,
or VZW TORX.
* FOR VICE-PRESIDENTs
B. GRATZ BROWN,
or MIS0OCBL
State Democratic Ticket.
FOR GOVERNOR:
JAMES M. SMITH,
or MUSCOGEE.
luucttox ocxoaaa g
FOB CONGRESS:
LUTHER J. GLENH,
or rutroH court tt.
Uuktiob lotnom 5J
Fulton Democratic Ticket
fob house or nsruuxirrATiTBS:
CLARK HOWELL,
W. L. CALHOUN,
X. F. HOGE.
»*1
FOB OKDIMAUV:
DANIEL PITTMAN.
FOB mKIUFF:
A. M. PERKERSON.
FOB CLERK SUFKRIOR COURT:
W. a VENABLE.
FOB OUUSTV TREASURER:
a M. PAYNE.
FOB TAX RECEIVER:
A. O. GRIER
FOR TAX COLLECTOR:
a R HOYLE.
FOB COUNTT SURVEYOR:
B. F. WALKER
FOR CORONER:
WILLIAM KILE.
Ixlxctios jisr.RT 1J
ATLANTA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER I.
When the Klcction Ce:
Democrats, the election for Governor and
Biemlien of the Legislature cornea off on
Wednesday, the 2nd day of October.
The election for President and Congress
men comes ot! on llic 5lb day of November.
Don’t be mistaken atmut it. The law has
been changed, bringing on the election for
Oovcrnor and legislators a month before the
election for President and Congressmen.
iridlcjllne and Misrepresenting
Friends.
Wo arc pleased to see that both Mr. Ste
phens and the general manager of the Snn
acknowledged that its misrepresentation
about the Democratic srlxir was indiscreet and
improper. Let it !w a little more fair nml
fust hereafter to brother Democrats and it
will escape such indiscreet improprieties.
So far as Mr. Stephen's long rejoinder to
our alleged designation of the Sun as a Radi
cal journal is concerned, he will sec by refer
ence to onr article, that we did not so desig
nate it, and that his rejoinder is aa“indiscreet
and improper" aa well as uncalled for and
venomous as the mistake about the arbor.
Deraoc-afs, Par lour Pall Tax so aa
to Voto.
Democratic friends, pay up your poll tax
for 1871 so aa to vote. Hundreds of yon are
thus disfranchised by your own act You
would grumble powerfully if the Radicals
did iL You would think it a hardship to be
prevented from voting for tho man of your
choice, nnd from defeating an administration
that your judgment tells you would be against
the public interest.
Yet you are as i Actively disfranchised
by your failure to obey the law and pny a
miserable trifle of two dollars, as you could
he by ihfe most despotic disfranchisement act
of a hateful reconstruction.
The emergency is pressing. The issue is
good government for four years against mis
rule for tho same time. The.barrier to your
voting yourself a reign of prosperity and
good rule is two dollars.
Pay it up nnd vote. Pay it up and help
defeat Walker nnd Ids carpet-bag dynasty.
Pay it up aud h'-lp elect Smith and an honest
regime.
Urcat public and private interests are at
■take. The Radicals are paying the taxes
of tho negroes to beat Smith. It is well
worth their while to get an administra
tion that will restore to lifo the illegal
debt of six millions of Bullock bonds
now worthless ss rags. It will pay them to
pay a few taxes to get hold of the public
treasury to ro-imbur&c themselves with in
terest
Does anybody suppose that they would not
get back their thousands of dollars lavished
in paying black poll taxes?
Democrat- , pay your poll tax.
Greeley Speeches,
It is curious how tho Radicals and the
Democrats who oppose Greeley, fall into the
identically same rut of attack. There proba
bly never was a set of speeches delivered
that afforded fewer salient points of quarrel
to ban z advene criticism upon than Greeley’s
talks in bis Western tour. And there never
was an abler impromptu succession of ad
dresses. His ideas have been not only un
objectionable, hut statesmanlike in the high
est degree. They havo contained the most
commendable sentiments admirably ex
pressed.
The Radicals have in vain sought most
zealously to And something to assault in them.
Their labored depreciation is so vague as
to bo utterly Ineffective.
They, however, have in common with the
Democrats who oppose Greeley sought to
ridicule the noble expressions of good will
to the South, and break their force by under
rating their sincerity and questioning their
disinterestedness.
Such a course proves how hard-driven
Greeley’s opposers are for material to ol ject
to him. Finding no ground for argument
they seek to belittle.
Such a course carries Us own antidote.
The Alabama and Chattanooga Ha >d
In another column will be found an account
of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
muddle taken from lue Chattanooga Times.
It is inaccurate ia some particulars. The
telegraphic operator alluded to was not the
regular operator at Trenton, but merely
Stanton's interloper, whostepped in the office
while the operator was temporarily oat, and
who waa using the telegraph without an-
thority.
The special train seized by General Wof
ford went down with the regular train.
The status of the matter is that the
Governor is determined to hold the road in
Georgia until Georgia’s liability is made se
cure. The authorities sought to run the
trains over the road In Dade against the or
ders of Gem rul Wofford, Georgia’s agent,
and in violation of an agreement with him,
and also without securing Georgia’s indorse
ment, and hence the stoppage of the trains.
Governor Smith does not intend to permit
the use of the part of the road in Georgia
under the new arrangement, until Georgia ia
made secure against loss.
This is the simple status of the matter.
Just as soon as Stanton makes Georgia safe,
he can get the road, and not before. There
is no dancer u! any conflict of jurisdiction, as
no court will or can take the road out of
Georgia’s control until she is made secured,
and when she is made saf she is ready to
yield the road.
The Campaign la Georgia.
The Democrat* are at work indeed earnest.
We get daily reports of meetings and
speeches.
In Augusts, on Wednesday, General Ben-
ning and Colonel Julian Hartridge delivered
powerful speeches to an immense meeting.
Colonel Hartridge thus boldly grappled
with his theme:
The speaker was greeted with immense ap
plause, which lasted several minutes. On Us
subsidence Mr. Hartridge advanced to the
front and stated that he was not present to
night to address them in an apologetic way.
It had been the habit of many persona in ad
dressing assemblages in this cause to apolo
gise for their course. He was there for no
such purpose; he waa there on the behalf of
no individual or act of men, but be was there
to ask his fellow-citizens to vote for the can
didates be represented, Greeley and Brown
[applause] upon principle. He would show
that the principles of government. State*
rights and person*] liberty are best to be
maintained by voting for these candidates.
This is the true position and we are glad
to tee Bcnning and Hartridge and Colquitt
and other Democratic advocates of Greeley’s
support, fearlessly and broadly patting the
matter right where it ought to be pat.
Greeley represents the great cause of con
stitutionalism aa opposed to centralism, and
our people can the sooner get their consent to
give him their hearty support by realizing
this idea.
Colonel Hartridge thus emphatically put
the question:
He defied any one to show better Demo
cratic principle* than were contained in the
Cincinnati platform. If Greeley stood upon
a platform inimical to the Booth we should
discard him and declare that our Convention
was in the wrong. If we believed him our
friend we should give him oar support He
declared that Greeley had planted himself
upon our platform, and we had sacrificed
nothing in taking him.
The speaker here read the Cincinnati plat
form aa adopted at Baltimore.
He showed that the fir t plank was taken
almost literally from Jefferson’s inaugural
address. The second platform demanded
universal amnesty. Did any one object to
that? We wanted no more war. There
were some who didn’t dri%k enough blood
during the war, when there waa plenty to
drink, and wished another fight, but the bone
and ainew of the country wanted peace;
This plank promised peace and the removal
of the disabilities of every Southern man
fron Jiffmon Davis down. [Applause.]
This party which asked our support
wished to clasp bauds across the bloody
chasm, and not, as Grant’s myrmidon
had said, to fill it up with Bouthern dead.
Jefferson never framed a better declaration
than that contained in the plank which pro
claimed the right of self-government. All
other issues faded into insignificance com
pared to these—amnesty, peace, local self-
government, the subordination of the milita
ry, the elevation of the civil authority; per
sonal security, and the rights of the citizens.
The right of personal liberty, which bad
been battled for for more than a half cen
tury, was the one which made us freemen
This platform guaranteed that right,
aud we could vote for it if it con
tained nothing else. Even in oar own borders
we had seen what evils the disregard of this
right by the party in power has entailed, and
fur this plank alone we should give Greeley
our support. Where were any better doc
trines to be found from the resolutions of
1798 down to the present time? We did not
betray the Democratic party at Baltimore,
but we placed the Liberal candidates upon
ourplatform. Wby.then,shouldourbrethren,
the Jeffersonian Democrats, separate from
us?
He thus referred to the amendments:
The Jeffersonians object also to the plat
form because it recognizes the 18tb, 14th and
l$th amendments. What are they? The
tilth amendment, which made the negro
freeman, was adopted in 1805 by a Georgia
Legislature, under the sign manucl of that
noble old Rom*n, Charles J. Jenkins. The
14th amendment disfranchised some GOO of
our citizens, yet the very platform of onr can
didates makes this a dead letter by say
ing no man shall be disfranchised. The
4 lasts amendment gives the right of
suffrage to the negro, now raised to the level
of citizenship. Are any of you prepared to
take that right away? Do wc not know that
such is not the course of revolutions? He
would remark, however, that;* majority could
always makcauy change in the Constitution,
despite ail the platforms ever framed. We
cared nothing for these things. We wanted
peace, liberty, and equality. Elect Greeley
and Brown and we wonld obtain all these.
Elect them aud we will also get a majority
of Congressmen. Our friends, our brothers
will control the destinies of the nation.
Colonel Hartridge thus eloquently closed
Achilles sat angry in hit tent, refusing to
battle upon the Grecian aide, because bis fair
captive Brisels bad been torn from him, until
the dead body of his friend Patrocluswas
marred by the apear of Trojan Hector, and
then be rushed forward to the field and joined
his friends once more. The SuaigUts saw be
fore them something more than a friend. They
saw their beloved mother Georgia, bleeding
aud in chains; let them come to her assist
ance. [Applause] Let us as Georgians
stand together, aide by aide and shoulder to
shoulder, in this impending straggle. Let as
be united in this determined contest for civil
liberty, undivided in participation in the
glorious triumph that awaits us.
NEW YORK LETTER.
The Cm*F*lltaa City-Life By Day
and By Nfybt—Crimes sad Reuraa-
xrildstery af Lave la Switzer
land—Felly et Sending CBIIdren
Abroad (or Kdacatlen-TBe ralltl-
cml Sltnnslen—Pennsylvania* Ohio
Indiana all fer Gresley-HlS
Election Certain Enthusiasm
Cladllay-Bis Western Speeches—
Governor Smith’s Ks-electlen-Im.
parlance of a Henry Hajortty—The
Basinets Sanson, Etc.
A Heath Carolinian Describing the
Helen of Terror and Fraud us he
has seen tt-A (.rent Heeling.
The lion. Ellison a Keitt, of South Caro
lina, followed, and substantially said:
Mg Friend*: I come from the far-off South,
which has been ground down into the dust by
Grant’s tyrannical rule, to ask your support
for Horace Greeley and R Gratz Brown as
the next President and Vice-President of the
United States; Horace Greeley, the great
peacemaker, the author of reconciliation, a
true and honest man, who dares to do right
and baa the co ifiJence of the entire people
of this country. The gubernatorial chair of
South Carolina is polluted by a thieving ad
venturer from O bio, Robert C. Scott. A com
mittee who were appointed to investigate the
financial affairs of the State by the Legisla
ture reportet that Scott ana Barker, the
Treasurer, had fraudulently issued over
$6,000,000 of bonds. A resolution wss sub
mitted to the Legislature impeaching Scott
and Barker. These two carpet-baggers had
the effrontery to buy up the Legislature, who
not only screened them from the law, bat
legalized the Izrails.
Scott armed the negroes, and on the eve of
election caused ball cartridges to be dis
tributed among them as if on the eve of bat
tle, but be would not allow the white* even
to carry a weapon. One company met a
poor while man and shot him down in cold
blood, and this arming of the negn
been the cause of all the troubles in
county.
They t-K>k possession of the town of Ches
ter ana boasted that they wonld kill ail the
white men in that town and dance on their
graves.
Out of throe hundred and eighty-five con
victs sent to the penitentiaries of tho State,
Scott has p-inl ned three hundred.
The Legislature of South Carolina is com-
posed of one handled and aixty-fivo members,
of whom one hundred are negroes.
Base and low as it msy seem,* room is ac
tually set apart in the State Capitol of Sooth
Carolina for a faro bank. The doors of the
legislative halls at Columbia are thrown open
to the most worthless and debased creatures,
who hob-nob with the members aud act most
disgracefully. The expense of this branch
of the government last year was $1,400,000.
By their mismanagement and fraud* they
have increased the debt of the State from
$6,000,000 to $29,000,00a The poorer classes
have been so oppressed by the taxes and de
mands of this terrible bayonet rule that not
only have the officers of the law taken their
last cent of money, but they have even been
forced to sell their last milch cow to satisfy
their greed at sheriff's sale.
The judiciary of the State coaid not be
more vile or corrupt. If there is a grog shop
or faro bank in the town it is in their booses.
Every one is on the verge of bankruptcy, our
asylums for the Insane are supported by pri
vate charity, our Stale prison is supported by
hiring out the services of the convicts to
work on the farms aud plantations, and our
schools are closed.
If any one should tie unfortunate enough
to give offense to th ee in power, there is no
earthly chance of his escaping the serverest
punishment, no matter whether he be inno
cent or guilty.
These, my friends, are some of the reasons
whv we of the South implore you to give
your suffrages for Greeley and Brown. We
of the South, whose homes have been desola
ted by this rule, now beg of you to vote for
reconciliation and peace, and we give you the
higher, stronger evidence that we are in
earnest by heartily supporting Horace Gree
ley and the Ciiicinnstuplatform [ Tremen
dous applause.]
Now, my friends, the two sections of the
country are pinned together by bayonet. By
the election of Horace Greeley we shall be
once more reunited by the principles of
brotherly love and mutual esteem. All we
ask is that the government of the South may
be in honest bauds Capital and labor will
then have a chance to restore the most beau
tiful and fruitful country in the Union to
its pristine strength, [trad and prolonged
applause.]
It is rumored that the Italian Government
is going to give the Pantheon at Rome for a
place of Protestant worship. This is the
most ancient church in the Eternal City.
BEN. HILL.
He Bends Word to tbe People of
Georgia from New York.
A.ii Appeal tor the State-
Smith Must he Elected Over Walker.
Editorial Correspondence of the Constltuitno.
New Yobx, September 23,1872.
Night has dosed in upon this vast coem
politan ci’y with its population of nearly*
million of souls. The roll of vehicles is dy
ing away, and tbe ham of busy trade has
almost entirely disappeared.
No sound disturbs the ear save the rumb
ling of the street car or the occasional shriek-
iegof a ferry boat crossing the broad waters
of the Hudson, upon which are dancing the
reflected lights from motionless fleets ot ship
ping in L.e harbor. But now begins the
fearful nocturnal life of New York, its
shameless scenes of revelry, its wild orgies
and crimes of every name. This is one of
the unpleasant experiences of a sojourner in
this metropolis, for as the shadows of night
gather about the dty the thoughtful mind
recurs to the contrast between New York by
day and New York by night—the business,
magnificence, life of the one, and the shame,
want, kideoosness, death of the other.
THE FRIGHTFUL ROMANCES
in real life revealed before the police courts
of this city are many. The sensational
novelist can find ample material in the hun
dreds of cases tried almost daily to furnish
basis for the most horrifying and bloody nar
ratives. But there is evermore of thrilling
romance in real life than in fiction.
An illustration comes from the regions
about the far famed lake of Lucerne in Swit-
A WILD STORY OF LOVE,
preferring death to disappointment. An
American girl sent to Switzerland to com
plete her education under charge of a govern
meets a Polish yoatb, in the land of the
Swiss, also for the purpose of study. They
fail in love. The mother arrives from Amer
ica and seeks to separate them. Tbe lover
follows in disguise, and the baffled mother
determines to quit the country. The lovers
meet, and the desperate young Pole fires a
ball into the temple of tho girl and another
Into his own. Neither shot proved mortal,
bat the young man loses bis sight—is blind
for all time. I trust you have copied the
story in full from the New York Press. We
here see the folly of sending girls away from
the restraints, Influence and guardianship of
home for education. Several years ago I re
member protesting against this policy about
to be adopted by an Atlanta lady. Girls
ought to be educated at home, and the Col
leges of Georgia furnish ample facilities for
the education of Georgia girls, aud the
practice of sending them North or into dis
tant States is wrong and injudicious to a
very great degree.
Among thccrimcs committed in the past
few days is
A SHOCKING HOMICIDE.
At a social gathering of acquaint nnccs,
men and women, a difficulty occurred be
tween two men, brothers-in-law—the wife of
one being the sister of tho other. The men
quarrelled and came to blows, when one was
•tabbed to the heart with a pair of tailor’s
acisors and died instantly. A poor, frantic
woman found herself in the presence of a
dead husband and his murderer, her own
brother.
I promised to write you on the
roUTICAL FROSFECTS.
I am delighted to state that from this point
of observation, the prospect is not only
bright, but grows daily brighter. I have
made special effort to inform myself. From
the facts I have gleaned, from the National
Democratic and National Liberal headquar
ters, and other sources, I ain entirely per
suaded that Horace Greeley wili be elected
President The great contest now waging
is for the possession of three States,
PENNSYLVANIA, onto AND INDIANA.
Two of them, Pennsylvania and Indinns
will be carried by at least a majority of 10,-
000 each, and Ohio, though less sure, is confi
dently claimed. These elections if Democrat
ic, render Grant’s defeat beyond doubt. The
Liberal Democratic movement North has just
received a great accession in the person of
EX-QOVERKOR CURTIN,
of Pennsylvania. He was in Europe till
recently, and thither the Radicals sent special
messages to secure his influence, so vastly
Important they deemed it He was tho great
war Governor of the Quaker State, and is
admitted to have as great popularity as any
of her statesmen. Helias written a powerful
letter for Buckaicw, the Democratic nominee,
and has entered the canvass actively.
Enthusiasm is rapidly kindling in the Lib
eral ranks. Greeley’s great and
POWERFUL SPEECHES
ont West are having wonderful effect The
Radical press seem struck with stupefaction
and are unable to say scarcely a word against
these masterpieces of statesmanship and elo
quence. Victory is looming op; even the
New York Herald secs it and is striking
stoutly for Greeley.
But tht people of Georgia onght to arouse
themselves, and strike a blow for tho great
cause. They have the opportunity. Gov.
Smith should here-elected by 25,000majority,
and the news would send a shoot of joy
throughout the North and West, and the
notes of victory would be re-echoed with,
swelling enthusiasm. Our friends arc look
ing for Georgia to do this, and let us not dis
appoint them.
TOR FALL BUSINESS
has opened well. The hotels are all crowded
with merchants and traders from tbe Sooth
and West The sale of goods is very heavy.
1 see here quite a number of Georgians.
Among these 1 met, at the Grand Central, Mr.
Parsons and his charming bride, formerly
Miss Mattie Bozeman. They expect to reach
home in perhaps a week, having enjoved a
delightful Western and Northern tour.
The crowds have returned from rammer
resorts to the city, and hence the bazaars of
fashion are filled with the ladies. C.
7o tie topic of Georgia:
Our State election is approaching, and it
wonld be impossible to overestimate its im-'
portanca
After years of wrong, losers and sufferings
which all of os fell, and with stragglings and
sacrifices which some of ns can never forget,
we succeeded in dethroning Radicalism in
Georgia, and regained possession of our gov
ernment. From tnat day order has been es
tablished; crime has been punished; law has
been supreme; property and life have been
safe; prosperity in every business has in
creased, and not a single Kn-Klux outrage
has been heard oL In view of these great
results, I had hoped that we should never
•gain see an effort to re-instate Radicalism
in Georgia.
But, encouraged by our Democratic divis
ions, which I nave believed and still believe
are more apparent than real, and stimulated
with the hope, and aided by the appliance of
Federal patronage, this evil of evils—Radi
calism—is bold enough to make another or
ganized effort to repossess the places of power
which it desecrated and from which it has
been expelled. Do not commit the folly of
supposing there is no danger. Inside the
8tate there are secret plottings which seek to
take you by surprise. Outside, gigantic
powers are at work tc reforge your chains.
On whatever other points we may differ,
I beseech you by every thing we can
prize, that we make a cheerful
solid fight against our deadliest common en
emy Radicalism in our State affairs. The
day after the election in October, if Radical
ism shall triumph, every man in Georgia may
estimate his property, of whatever kind, aa
depreciated fifty per cent, in value, and the
depreciation will continue to rale. Bat if
Radicalism shall be defeated—thorough
ly defeated—every man, the day after
that defeat, may estimate his p—
erty a3 increased fiifly per .cent in
ue, and the appreciation will go on until
Georgia shall rank with the richest and
geatest States on the continent It matters
not if onr best Lined were President of the
United States we could not prosper if Radi
calism ruled in our own State. It matters not
it our worst enemy be President wc shall
prosper, more or less, if Radicalism shall not
rale in our State. All we can get, all we are
entitled to, and all we desire from the Fed
eral Government is non-interf.-reace with
our domestic affairs, aud, this much being
granted, we shall find in ourselves all the
springs of sore and ever-growing prosperity
and happiness.
Then let all differences and jealousies and
acrimonies be hushed 1* Elect Governor
Smith by fifty thousand majority. Do not
be (ontent with less. Judge Walker is no
thief, but he is the candidate of every thief
who has d& polled you and slanderul yon
that lie might despoil.
Judge Walker is no carpet-bagger, but he
_ the candidate of every carpet-bagger who
has made you poor in the past, aud would
make you poorer in the future. His nomina
tion was suggested and urged by men in
office in Washington. I know this fact. He
was preferred because he was conceded to be
perfectly honest and capable, and because, in
this way, your fears might be allayed, your
selves might be rendered indifferent, and
'bus, uiiilcr cover of his personal worth, the
monstrous coalition of thieving carpetbag-
geis and misguided negroes hope to ri gam
the power they have lost in Georgia.
Governor Smith is as honest and capable
Judge Walker, and he represents, aud will
continue to represent, you and your interests.
But above all considerations—State or
National—make sure of your Legislature.
The Democratic majority must not be
small one. Carry every county in the State,
and make the Legislature unanimous if pos
sible And it is possible. Let Georgia be as
solid for the right—her rights—as Vermont
is for the wrong—Georgia “wrongs!”
Let us have a thorough, complete and over-
helming victory in our State election in
October, and Radicalism will never again at
tempt to raise its hydrohead again in Georgia.
From the foulest of political leprosies we
and onr children shall he free and forever
free!
Pardon me for my earnestness. I am in
position to know the damages I would avert.
[ knew, too, what it has cost me—cost from
friends as well as foes—to help to rid my
State of the foul domination of Radicalism;
and tbe very thought that it may regain that
power is horrible and revolting. I dread
another ordeal ot Radical rule in Georgia, as
the already exhausted patient dreads the re
turn of a paroxism which his feelings assure
him must take his life. I will forget all the
personal wrongs of the past, and agre e to re
tard every man as a friend who will now
lelp to avert such a dire calamity.
The preservation of order, peace and pros
perity in our State, and the assurance ef these
ilessings to our children,are the great results
to be secured by success in our October elec
tions. But these are not the only results.
A majority of fifty thousand for our State
tickets in October, will give us an easy and
still greater success in November. It will
also add cue hundred thousand votes to our
Liberal and Democratic tickets in the North
ern States. It will settle the result in many
donbtfnl Congressional Districts in these
States. It will be glorious inspiriting news
to our struggling friends in Pennsylvania,
Oliio and Indiana, whose State elections come
off a few days after onr Georgia State elec
tions. It will help to make Hendricks and
Bnckalcw Governors in their respective
States. It will add Democratic strength to
both the (senate and House of Congress, and
may make the Liberal and Democratic nomi
nees President and Vice President of the
United States!
Money, force and fraud made North Caro
lina speak a donbtfnl voice. Money, fanati
cism and fraud made Vermont and Maine
speak a voice of cheer to our enemies. It is
the glorious privilege of Georgia to speak
next in order I A thrill of joy electrifies
every fiber of my frame when 1 feel, as I do
feel, that neither money, nor force, nor fanati
cism, nor fraud, nor all combined, will be
able to stifle the voice of my own dear old
Commonwealth 1 Let her speak—nay, she
will speak—tho first clear, ringing, sounding
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER*
Greeley 6nwiayAa4Uaa-Greeley
Ob ike srxup-trilMa-Iiscal Mut
ters,
Washington, September S3,187*.
It is the opinion of impartial observers
here that -Mr. Greeley’s prospects have
brightened of late, and even the most in
veterate OtSkcrs are fain to admit that such
is the case; Two weeks hence we shall
know pretty certainly what the result in No
vember will be. On the 8 th of October next
three great States, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Indiana hold elections. Hr. John D.
Defrees said last evening that the
Liberals could afford to lose two
of those States, while the Grantites
cannot afford to lose one. Ue counts on all
three for Greeley. It should be recollected
that Ohio has twenty-two electoral votes—
but seven less than Pennsylvania, and with
Ohio for-Qreelev in November, a majority
can be ctAalcd on, exclusive of the Keystone
State. Advices received here from all sources
agree in representing the Liberal Republican
movement stronger in Ohio than in any other
Statu In Indiana, Mr. Hendrick's will be
elected by not less than ten thousand
majority, and a Liberal will succeed the
Satanic Morton in the United States Senate
on the 4‘Jiof March next The Liberals are
hopeful as to the result in Pennsylvania, and
count confidently ou the election of
Mr. Buckalew. This ia by no means assured,
however. The Radicals openly boast ol con
templated frauds; they are already import
ing negriFVotes by the th< usand, and are
prepared to spend money like water. On
the other hand, the Democrats and Liberals
have not fihea inactive. They are stumping
Politics In Walton County.
Monroe, Walton Co., Ga., Sept. 24(h.
The delegates to the Democratic County
Convention met to-day in Monroe for the
purpose of nominating a candidate for repre
sentative in the next Legislature. C. ]L.
Bowie was chairman, and Wm. II. Stroud
and Wm. H. Hill were secretaries. The
names of Hugh A. Carithcrs, Dr. W. S. R.
Hardman and Major Henry D. McDaniel
were before the convention. On tbe second
ballot, Msjor McDaniel received tbs requisite
majority, and was unanimously nominated.
A committee waited upon him, and condon
ed him to the Court House, where he ad
dressed the convention and citizens, accept
ing the nomination.
Colonel James H Blount, Democratic can
didate for Congress in this District, being
present next addressed the people. Tbe pro
ceedings were harmonious. and the result
satisfactory to the people in the count-
Tbe proceedings were ordered to be pal
lished in the Tub Constitution, Atlanta
Sun the Athens Watchman, and the Walton
Journal. The meeting then adjourned fine
die. C. L. Bowie, Chairman.
Wm. IT. Sthoud.^ ^j
Wm. U. Hill,
Civil Service Keform.
The New York World continues to pour
hot shot into the beautiful civil service re
form projected by Mr. George William Curtis,
and carried into eflect by Ulysses a Grant.
It instances the case of Frenchman’s Bay,
customhouse district in Maine. The whole
foreign trade of (hat district for 1S71-72 was
Import- ....$9*8
Export* both'Ag
This immense business was sup .i intended
f.y the following officials:
flUIT.
NK Sawyer, Collec or $i,S10
Xom$ Hale, 8ped*i Depa y
DPMarerea, Deputy
John U Hill. Deputy
II D Combs IMraty
Sam cel Dutton, J
1.SA0
$6 935
In Indianapolis there are two Danish Lu»L
cram CMigxvgstions, one in connection with
the Norwegian Synod, and the other inde
pendent.
THE SEVENTH IOWA DISTRICT A POLISH LADY KNOUTED.
The Fierce Romance of a PoUtlcal The Official Whipping in Public of Alex-
The Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad.
Contort.
Error and Bitterness.
andrina Kossowltx—The Penalty
of Sympathy With Rebels.
The State of Georgia Strikes
for Honey.'
At a gathering of the Poles in the little
I village of Kcrnst on the Southern Nnieman,
I on tbe 29th of July last, when all thought
I themselves secure from tbe intrusion of any
note for her own and the nation's redemp
tion I Benj. H. Hill.
New York, September 21, 1872.
General Campaign Rates
INDIANA AS REPORTED BT TUB CINCINNATI
COMMERCIAL.
From what I have seen of Indiana I pre
dict : First, Hendrick’s election by 10,000 to
15,000; and, second, Greeley’s success by
20,000. J. Q- T.
A son of tho late Joshua R. Giddings, the
life-long Abolitionist, is Chairman of the
Liberal Republican Committee of Ashtabula
county, Ohio. He has enrolled the names of
more than a thousand Liberals in Ashtabula,
which is one of the strongest Republican
counties in General Garfield’s district,
now toe retting stands.
Tbe belling at Chicago stands thus: Fire
to four the next Legislature of Utinois will be
Democratic-Liberal, and the same odds that
Lyman Trumbull will be returned to the
Senate Even that Koerner will be the next
Governor of the Slate. Five to four that
Grant will carry the State by 15,000 majority.
One hundred to seventy that he willcaiTr it
by 7,000.—Mete York Herald.
the State>$horoughly, and are taking steps
to secure .the detection of fraudulent voted.
It will be A bitter fight, though. A recent
dispatch from Philadelphia to a Republican
journal published in New York, says:
“Between Senator Cameron’s high-handed
management and proscription of all who hap
pen to diflrrnilhhim, and John W. Forney’s
apostaqr, it is pretty certain that Buckalew
will cany the State In October, and for simi
lar reasons it will be lost to Grant in Novem
ber. If the issue were personal between
Grant anfi^Iieeley, the former wonld get the
electoralwote; but the President ha* put the
bulk of the Federal patronage into the hands
of Cameron, and he has controlled it with an
eye singju-to Cameron’s benefit. He has
crushed, or attempted to crush, men instead
of conciliating them, and will vera likely
present to the candidate of the National
Republico^party, in November next, s lost
State.”
Colonel Forney’s position U the su! ject of
much disct&sion. It has been stated that he
is ostensibly only against Hanranft,but that
in due time he will come out for Greeley also.
This doesjptt stem probable from the fact
that he is announced as about to take the
stomp for Grant in Ohio. It Is, however,
susceptible of proof that Forney’s friends
brought Curtin into the Liberal and Demo
cratic movement. Curtin has already de
clared against Hartranft, and in good time
will announce himself for Greeley.
MB GREELEY ON THE STUMP.
There has been a difference of opinion
among Mg. Greeley’s friends as to the wis
dom of his present speech making tour. At
the commencement of the campaign Mr.
Greeley himself did not contemplate deliver
ing any addicsscs, save those he had pre
viously engaged to deliver before cer
tain agricultural associations. He seems
to have reconsidered the matter, and
it is for the best that he did so.
He has been received everywhere with
great enthusiasm, and has strengthened
himself immensely by his truly admirable
speeches. Tbe fact is Mr. Greeley is about
the only ojdidatc for Presidential honors,
within this generation, who could be trusted
by his frfends, without trepardation or
cuogriu, to appear before the public and say
what ho thought fit and in the manner
he pleased. Daring his recent trip
westward he made nine or ten speeches in a
single day, and in none of these addresses did
he repeat a sentence or make an awkward
statement. * An achievement so difficult is
only possible to a profound, connected, logi
cal thinker, and a master of language wherein
titty to express his thoughts. It is doubt
ful whether even Mr. Seward, who was
always rich in resources and singularly hap
py in his brief speeches, was ever capable of
a more creditable performance than that ot
Mr. Greeley cn route to Pittsburg. His
speeches are neither rambling, bungling nor
egotistical^ They ore the utterances of a
man who is master of himself, lord of bis
own thoughts, and conscious of his own
force to express it. They will bear dissection,
and it will require keener scalpels than those
wielded by Radical editors to lay bare any
nonsense or weakness in them. Take Greeley’s
address to tbe Cincinnati Chamber of Com
merce. It has a true business ring to it, and
cannot fail to win tbe votes of business men.
I should like to see Grant on the stomp be
side Mr.zfirccley; but to get at the relative
abilities oPjJie two men, it is only necessary
to complre the speech delivered by Mr. Gree
ley in Portland, Maine, a few weeks ago with
the oi.e Grant made in the same city lutyear.
WILSON’S WOBBLtNQS.
Senator Wilson’s cowardly concealments
nnd still more cowardly eqivocations are get
ting him into a perfect Bnarl of embarrass
ments. First, he denied that he was
ever a Know Nothing. This charge
was then proved upon him by the
iaconlcstible evidence of Albert Pike
supplemented by other gentlemen of like
truthfulness. Then the Senator admits that
he belonged to the order for awhile, but never
uttered any of the bad sentiments against
foreigners that have been attributed to him,
and never sympathized with the ideas or ob
ject of the order. A letter written by him to
a German is brought to light. His friends
first deny the authorship, but it being proved
that it was written for him, the Senator ex
plains that it was “ unauthorized.”
Tbe Ilev. Dennison, of this city, in his
zeal for temperance, writes to a chief in
that cause charging Grant with habits
of undue ambition, and citing Senator Wil
son as haring said, in a conversation in the
letters rooms, that “Grant drinks too much;
I have told him so.” This the honorable
Senator at once denies in a quibbling and
petulant letter. Whereupon the Rev. D.
comes forward, reiterates tho words, states
circumstances, and offers farther to sus
tain the truth of the Senator’s
marks by producing “persons and pa-
ers." Thus far the Senator has not returned
to tbe charge and is not likely to do iL
His adversaries have so dexteriously used
the weapons to be found in .his shuffling
record that he Is pretty thoroughly
ham-strung,, while the race ta not yet half
over. Mr. Wilson’s whole tronblo lies in his
traditional want of moral courage. If he
joined the Know Nothings, as many good
men unintentionally did, why not own it
manly fashion, and not resort to petty ex
cuses, compromising makeship and dodging
equivocations?
LOCAL POLITICS.
The local campaign is more fairly inaugu
rated in Washington. For delegate to Con
gress there are three candidates in the field—
the present incumbent, General Cbipman, a
Grant Republican, Mr. L. G. Hine, the peo
ple’s candidate, nominated by the Democrats
and Liberals, and Mr. F. A. Boswell, Repub
lican who is opposed to the Board of Public
Works’ Ring In mostof tbe districts candi
dates for the House of Delegates have been
nominated, the Democrats and Liberals con
centrating their forces on one candidate,
while in many districts there are two and
even three Republicans in tbe field.
The first registration, which closed on Sat
urday, shows a large felling off in both tbe
white and colored vote. In the latter there
is a decrease of 7,000. Probably half of that
number have already been exported to Penn
sylvania.
The contest herejis not strictly a party one.
It is the Iona fide citizens—the tax payers,
against a ring which now rules to ruin.
Tommy Hauck.
Flora the New York Herald]
THE SEVENTH IOWA DISTRICT.
This is the famous Des Moines District. I of the numerous spies who keep toe Russian
where Frank Palmer was annihilated this I officials informed of toe malcontents among
year by John Kasson, toe old member who 1 them, Alexandrine Koesowitz, a young lady
had held toe District for many yean. This I whose father, toe younger son of a formerly
was a very exciting contest, and Palmar lost noble Polish family, was killed in the recent
it through toe unscrupulous bitterness and I troubles at Warsaw, expressed her sympathy
unmanly persecution which he allowed to be I with the unfortunates whon Russian severity
visited upon Kasson by his editor, one Clark-1 had murdered or sent into exile. The meet-
son, of toe Des Moines Register. This man ing was purely a social one and
Clarkson succeeded Palmer himself am toe I none dreamed that anything said there
editor and as dispenser of toe federal patron-1 would reach the ears of spies,
sge in the district, and his paper wss probably for all present were known to be
toe State organ of the party. He is a type of I Poles, and firm haters of the harsh rule un
toe brutal sort of being who too often in toe I der which they then lived. Still, as the
Western country gets control of a merely young girl, in her passionate remembrances
partisan journal, and with a retaining fee in I of a father’s love, deplored his death, ex-
one hand uses toe other to ransack toe priva-1 pressed her sympathy with rebellion and her
cy of domestic life for mere political advan-1 detestation of her oppressors, she was con-
tage. This time he overdid toe business, and tinned lest her loud tone would enable people
his brutality toward Kasson redounded upon at toe window to hear her. With a hasty
toe head of his master, Congressman Palmer. I glance os though to read in toe faces of those
The following are the particulars: I about her who should betray her, toe young
Kasson is a lawyer of Dea Moines, and a I lady relapsed into silence. When ten (/clock
man of fine talent, appearance and spirit, I arrived, the latest hour of Polish gatoci
with a good brown complexion and beard 1 toe company separated, and toe young
and natural power among men. He was mar-1 accompanied by her affianced, Julian Temen-
ried to a fine wife, and had the respect and I skv, went to her home
admiration ot toe State; but in on evil hour, I If, in passing from toehouae ot the gather:
In Washington dty,he was inveigled into an I ing she had been more observant, Alexmn-
intrigne wGh a loose female, who was struck I drina would have seen toe maliciously Irium-
wito his fine looks, and toe proofs of his adul-1 phant glances cast after her by Catherine
tery were brought home to his family In a ] Merkofi, a woman of about thirty-five, a Pole
way which admitted of no apology nor de- by birth, and a sympathizer with her unhap-
nisi His wife immediately prosecuted him py countrywomen whenever her own passion
for a divorce and obtained it, and toe evi-1 waa not concerned, and, from toe subsequent
dence of bis pecadillo was spread over the proceedings, it seenu that in this case the bad
State to his instant political ruin. been superseded in toe affections of the young
While Kasson deserved his fate he bore np Dr. Temenaky by toe more beautiful and
with all toe manliness and contrition of a I younger Alexandrine Koesowitz.
bowed spirit under it, divided his property On the following dav, shortly after rising,
voluntarily with bis divorced wife, and es- Alexandrine was seized in her own home, a
corting her to toe railway station aa she left I short distance from Kemst, by two Cassacks
Des Moines never to return—for she speedily I of toe guard at toe garrison, and taken before
married again in SL Louis—he returned back toe petty judge.
into the city a crushed and lonely man, Do- The yonng lady of nineteen, handsome
termined to fight it out there and I and trembling, produced no feeling of pity,
recover character among toe commu- Having at first denied toe accusation, she
nity which knew him, he_ gained | was confronted with Catherine Merkoff. and
And 8tops two Trains at Tren
ton on the A. & C. R. R.
The Independent Sovereignty of
Dado About to Vindicate its
Rights.
Prospect of a Conflict ;Between
tho United States and
Oeorgia.
anew the confidence of men oil “wisest I then acknowledged her offense. In passing
censure” and pity and consideration again I sentence, toe petty judge said that her sedi-
attended him, bat every time that bis name I cious utterances might have warranted him
was broached for public station toe story of I sending her before a higher tribunal,
hit weakness waa paraded by toe unscrupu-1 where the penalty would be death;
lous enemies In his own party, and spite and I but in view of her youth and contrition,
jealousy dragged his empty hearthstone into I he should merely order her to receive
toe light of day to show the stains nearly I thirty-five lashes of the knouL Almost be-
faded there. Few people believed that Pal-1 numbed with shame and terror, toe girl was
mcr & Co. were any better; only not found led away to be prepared for punishment, for
ouL in Russia all sentences save that of death are
Kas3on steadily rose and grew to be a new I carried oat immediately after they have been
man, with a new reputation among hisheigh- pronounced.
burs. There was absolutely nothing to be Word having been sent to the officer com-
said against him but this old offense, and toe mending the troops, a guard of two hundred
people knew all about it and began to dislike 1 men were ordered into toe garrison Bquare,
toe traders in the scandal worse than toe actor and too executioner of toe troop wss called
of iL Finally, as this Congressional canvass npon to be ready to carry out toe dutira of
opened and Kasson came forward to ask toe I his office. In half an hour after the sentence
party’s support and the nomination the inexor- ] hid been given the troops had been formed
able Sullivan Clarkson opened again toe in a hollow square, in the centre of which
cloisters of toe past and outraged human had been placed a scaffold, standing on four
nature with bis nasty depiction of Kasson’s I legs, toe top ot which was on inclined plane,
misery. There was no chord of the man’s Beside this stood toe executioner, having in
nature he did not hack; no sense of sorrow his muscular hand toe knouL This weapon
that he did not arouse. The people of the I consists of a stick or handle, two feet long.
Drs Moines district were outraged at this | with a lash four feet long ot soft leather, t»
cowardice and took Ktsson’s sin upon their the end of which is attached, by a loop, a
shoulders and resolved once and for ail to piece of flat raw hide two inches wide and
rebuke these ghouls ot toe political press. two feet long. In the hands of aa experienced
It came out that Clarkson, while resident nun the niece of raw hide can be made to cut
in Des Moines, was drawing a salary of $2,1 like a knife.
200syearatWashingloncity,wberehenever As toe executioner stood facing toe scat
did a stroke of work. This kind of civil I fold, Alcxdrina Kossowilz was brought to
service reiorm did Palmer no good. More- him by her guard, and in a few moments
over, Clarkson, Pa'mer & Co. were guilty ot her clothing was removed to toe waist, de-
a modified form of housebreaking in their I spite her almost mule appeals to be spared
anxiety to defeat Kasson. They asccr- toe shame. Aa she pleaded she was bent on
tained that one Long, of this region, had toe plain, her hands strapped to toe two up-
written to Horace Greeley to procure sup- per corners, and her ankles secured at toe
; iort tor a Greeley newspaper; and that | feet of the structure. One of toe execution,
i Ireeley had replied to La
ferring him to Grinnell, Kasson and
“his friends in Iowa. To get this 1 ..
convict Kasson of being Greeley’s friend, and exeentioner stepped suddenly backwards, and
so beat him in the Convention, toe Palmer- with sharp crack toe thong fell on toe back
ites broke open Long’s desk, stole the letter of toe sobbing girl,cuttings livid streak from
and left $400, either to express triumph or I her right shoulder to her waist. A terrible
compound with the Penitentiary—toe highest I tremor passed over her, and a low cry escaped
price ever paid for a living man's common-1 her lips, bnt it was toe only sound she ut-
place autograph. I tered, and were it not for toe blood which
The robbery did not avail. The Greeley-1 soon commenced to flow, it might have
ites still in toe party were rather mollified to- seemed that the whipping was being done on
wards Kasson. Everybody was disgusted toe naked back of a corpse. When the lash
with Palmer and his dog, Clarkson. It was I had been given toe young lady was nnfaat-
dcciared that General Dodge, of Council I ened, and, with her clothing rudely thrown
Bluffs, who snpporicd Palm> r, was merely a I over her, she was taken to prison, and there,
flour contractor with toe Indians, growing after thanking the Judge for his mercy, ac-
rich only half legitimately, and sustained by I cording to the necessary formula, she was
Palmer aud Harlan. Dodge, therefore, I delivered over to her friends,
throngh the Iowa man on the Republican Fire days afterward, toe Gazette of Wiina
National Committee, and thick with James I contained this announcement:
F. Wilson, did Palmer no good, although “The Polish criminal, Alexandrine Kosso-
he“bled,” aa usual, for his friend. Grant witz (daughter of toereliel, Peter Kossowilz,)
favored Palmer also; but Kasson wiped him | who was knouted for seditious utterance on
out by one of toe most decisive votes known I toe 29to of July at Kemst, while submitting
in convention, and Mr. Palmer has Mr. Clark-1 her lacerations to medical treatment, in toe
son to thank for iL The Palmerites now boose of the physician, Kemcnsky, stole a
threaten to vote for the Greeley candidate, I vial of prussic acid, with which she ended
who will probably be O. L. Palmer—a rural her days.”
merchant of Sheridan, Lucas county. There
IOWA.
The contest in Iowa is mainly to break the
back of toe regular party, prepare toe way
for the great party predicted for 1874 and
pick np a portion of toe Congressmen.
WHAT IS TO DE OVERCOME.
In Iowa General Grant in 1868 had 46,000
majority. At the last State election Carpen
ter, Republican, carried it by 41,000. This
Mr. Grinnell, ei-Congressman, affirms can
be reduced one-half this year, and three-fifths
if Pennsylvania and Indiana “go rigUL”—N.
Y. Herald.
The town of Ocanio, Wisconsin, has three
hundred German voters—only seven of them
go for GranL
If yon want to know what Carl Schnrz’s
eloquence and logic have done in toe “great
West” wait till election time rolls aronnd.
The tramp of Germans changing from Grant
to Greeley, inspired by Schuiz, can be heard
throughout the land.
rg* Hon. Wm. Eaton, a leading Demo
crat in Connecticut, who did’nt like toe
Greeley movement, said in the State Con
vention there, this week: "It is said that
there are Democrats who wili not vote the
tickeL To snch I propose to address myself.
I did say at a dinner table, some time ago,
that I didn’t like to take medicine till I was
sick. [Laughter.] Well, I got sick, and
ont of 5\©00 Democrats in this State,
49,000 were taken sick about the same time.
This dose is toe cup marked ‘Greeley’—is toe
best medicine we can take. Adams wonld
li-.Lve pleased me belter, bnt Greeley is the
nominee, and he is attacked with more vio
lence by his late political friends than any
other man ever has been. And what for?
Because he means to stop toe stealing. [Ap
plause.]
HOUSTON COUNTY.
Colonel Glenn Hakes a Coed Speech.
Perry, Ga., September 27th, 1872.
Editore Confutation: Oar candidate for
Cengress in this district. Colonel L. J. Glenn,
made a rousing speech here to day to a large
crowd of whites and negroes. At the conclu
sion of bis address. General Warren told toe
people some wholesome truths which we
think onght reproduces good resnlL Colonel
Glenn is doinggood service in this part ef toe
district, and we hope to see him triumphantly
elected.
The Radical ticket for toe Legislature in
Houston is thought to be a meaner one, and
toimbody more depravity than our delegation
in toe last General Assembly, which was
headed by Joel R. Griffin.
Limestone.
HOUSTON COUNTY NO. 2.
Perry, Ga., September 28,1872.
Editor* Confutation: Yesterday, Colonel
Luther J. Gleen made us a visit and a speech.
He came among us a stranger to almoet every
man in toe community, but before he left we
felt convinced that we had for a standard-
bearer in toe Fifth District a man truly
worthy of Congressional honors. A large
crowd, white and black, was in attendance;
toe speech was clear, forcible and convincing
and had a splendid effect on toe audience.
We have a large negro population, but yen
may rest assured that Houston is going to try
and excel herself this time.
Genera! Eli Warren, of this county, was
called on and made a few remarks on local
politics. The General is an “old Roman;” be
is not afraid to tell the truth and to tell it
plainly. Two or three Rads that were present
fairly writhed under his withering denuncia
tions. He skinned them, and then rubbed in
salt We are thoroughly aroused, and will
try to do better than we did at toe last elec-
, lion. Leon,
are only 2,000 votes to be changed to beat
Kasson; hut he is said to be next to a Lib
eral already, and to have no great affection
for GranL
Speeches af Han, Horace Greeley
STANLEY’S AFRICAN.
What the Primitive
Thinks of Snnday
Allenton, Pa., September 28.—Mr. Gree
ley spoke here as follows: “I understand
that the gentleman who is a candidate for
r oar suffrage, in addressing this borough not
rag ago, asserted that if I were to be chosen
President, all toe furnace fires of Lehigh
Valley would be speedily put out Now,
Sambo I WIow citizens, it seems to me incredible that
such statements should be made. That
I am a Protectionist, all men know,
bnt that I would veto any bill fairly
_ , „ , passed by toe Congress of the United States
Corrapoiidmw CtnctnnxtlCammercUL] | mo jjfyi n g or changing toe tariff is certainly
In calling at Mr. Stanley s lodgings, which I j Jo not believe in the government by
are at a private hotel in Duchess street, a few rings, but I believe just as little in toe
evenings ago, 1 had a sensation, such as I government by one man a favor. I don’t be-
imagine Poe’s student must have had when [[eve in the government of toe veto, toe veto
opening his door ta response to the gentle I power of toe President is not given to enable
tapping, he found “darkness there and noth- £] m to reject any bill for which he wonld
ing more.” Presently ont of this darkness refused to vote if a member of Congress,
there came, if not a raven, a boy u black ss ], ot on ] y be employed in certain great emer-
a raven. He was so bladt—^toil little negro I gmzjta when corruption or recklessness
—that for a time I only saw his pa^ed measures through Congress
buttons, for he now appears _ in all which should not stand a test of
that glory of gilt buttons, fixed in a row I enquiry. I tell you, friends, I believe in leg-
down nls breast, which is toe livery of Lon-1 fetation by Congress and not by the President,
don door-opening boys. To my inquiry for I t should, myself, approve and sign bills
Mr. 8tan!ey, toe boy, who ia ahoot eleven w blch has a fur majority in Congress, al-
toe wiset poll
j-, , , _. - —. K „—, fellow citizens.
teeih outdazzimg toe row of button*, he ran I j, therejone so unintelligent as not to know
to toe front of toe porch, and, with an ex-1 thi t the prosperity of toe iron interest of this
preserve pantomime, ejoctffated the word I gantry depends not at off on tariff, but '
“ ouL I at once recognized him as the ser- that all over toe world iron is in gi
vant whom 8taniey has brought back with j demand asd is ael ing at prices
him, and who appears now in every photo-1 near iy double those of three years
prapher’s window. I could not but deplore I Tho world is iron hungry;
iis investment in a civilized costume, as he y ie wor ]d fe calling for more and still more
is much better looking in toe photographer’s iron . i ron ^very high in all countries, those
garb, even though hU appearance in it which have free trade as well os those which
might be such as would lead toe Cincinnati have pmtcctisn, and is high because more is
ladies to indict him as a rude nnl-l wanted than can bej produced. It is not
sanca However, I proceeded^ to inter-1 probable that for five or ten years hence there
view him. His limited knowledge of the I w m 50 w much more iron in the world
English language, or my imperfection in I that prices will not be above cost, making
Zanzibareae, made the process difficult, but | here and everywhere just like any othi
he kindly called to oar aid a servant maid pSdalT There is les. J iron in the 7 world
who had managed to invent some method of I than is needed; consequently the price has
communicating with him. Not the least re-1 gone up, not because of the tariff, but in all
markable fact, by the way.about Mr. Stan- ] countries which have free trade as well, and
ley, ia the rapidity with which he acquired fe morally certain to remain high ‘
the language of the African tribes with whom I a considerable number of years,
he has mingled.’ He converses with UiU boy believe that if the duty bad been fixed
with the utmost ease, and tells me that after I ten dollars per ton at the close of the war,
he had been out there a month he found the I .„H remained there, we shoald have had
language no difficulty whatever. But to re- double our number of furnaces, and been
turn to toe lad whom the servant maid called I supplying ourselves with iron very much
Colonna, but who was little suggestive ef a I cheaper thin we can now get iL or could get
column or of the noble Roman who bore that fe if the tariff were taken off iL
name. He began to sing a merry song, I such is my position very plainly stated,
and his feet showed an inclination to I y on understand, and I tell you now, it is not
keep time to bis music. It was Sunday fe, dre power of any legislation on earth to
evening, and the servant maid, being of s pi-1 p n t out toe furnace fires of Lehigh Valley,
ous frame of mind, rebuked this, and uttered 1 0 j Pennsylvania, for many years to come;
the word “Sunday” with a sternness which W ilkksbakra, Pa., September 28.—At
would have given some of your neighbors th eovigrfamia 8cranton yesterday, Mr.
£h” S 3!rhM(Vitama!S^8nS«» Rnn’ *P° ke “fullowa: Gentlemen,there
is one idem, there is one subject I have not yet
I vT'itUSSi *• t 7 at Jp°l° nna I touched upon in my journey thus far through
SJwm 9y;.°° toe States of Pennsylvania, Ohio and India-
I ^ 1 have been asked the question constant-
>y »p° n 8118idea: wh8t wUt New York d » in
SSSsfflSS £ss"B^rsasK-'afSl
dently/’Isaid. “Ask him if he likes Monday.;’ to my ”tate°i
T Wt q toe tl t»v’a iD o>imt«ian^ ! ^briSLtenri? which 1 h,Te y et bccn * “d that
mind, toe boy s countenance brightened. u , BreM deal, for in the State
r^Aa^^momv^'him^fhfe^SI OMoaSwSlS in the State of Indiana toy
cannot defeat toe Lilieral and Democratic
parties without great frauds ore committed,
him with The State of New York, between toe two
•gam rebuked him with toe word "Sund-y, nartiet on a fair vote is evenly b*I-
Smt a*Staote^MS 1 “beiL" I ^enAhe I SI?<f “ced, about ten thousand either way in
toe^ntiSS ” h tvS change of vote will throw toe election over to
Say good-night to ^toe gentlemen. ^Tbe j one jjde or toe other. Today toe Demo
critic party of the State of New York ‘
and so mded tbe interview I united "and will poll its foil vote. We have
Here I ^vrenuu^at toe toneof Livmg- n0 , Ies3 ttst 50,000 of Liberal Republicans;
8t °P e * le . tt ?" r h88 heat albitt« pdl for toe tatIdo n0 , think, considering all things, '
orthordox here to swallow, and they would 1 grcat e ff orts the government has made w
have been very glad if they could have been office-holders, postmasters, collectors w
P™*jd f<>rK^"“- Dr^LlTinjtatoy waa aent revenQfi „ d its other vast resources,
? I do not think, trader these circumstances,
for a moment, think or rounded limbs in- , h , r safe'v say that we shall have a
steulofi^rottis.ortotokrnore.ff toerffins 1 ^ “?50$0 Ltoe” £j°rit"but
wrought by the slave kidnappers than Uiat I jj ^ states of Pennsylvania, Indiana and
wrought by Satan,fills them with desponden- 0hl „ ^ ^ Te a ma j or ityfor to?Liberal candi-
<7 »“d surprise. _ M. D. C. dEt£3i New York will give more, rather than
Indiana and OmoT-ftominent Republi- [h^’wbole^'X^reSgto'toe^’fre’t’^d
ST admitf hS," I *-« d-e time, three eifeera]
another Radical, an ex-Senator, says that toe
German vote in Ohio is gone, and wonders [ G9“The outhorof the“Wide,Wide World 1
why the Grunt men did not buy up Hassanrek I stiff lives on Constitution Island, in toe Had-
and stop iL The depression of the Grant son river, between. West Point and Cold
men here has been very marked for days pasL I Spring. The lady owns toe island, and per
and is only equaled by the exultant confidence I forma her literay work in that charming lo
ot the Liberals, I colity.
The ink was scarcely dry wherewith we
sd announced toot the A. & C. R. R. mud
dle was settled, when, behold you, it is dis
covered that it is just began. Law suits
to the righL and injunctions to the left, at
tachments on one side and seizures on the
other are beheld, while in toe distance looms
up toe stalwart form of Uncle Samuel him
self, who is said to be about to take a hand
' ,toc fighL
The Times yesterday stated that the peo
ple of toe State of Dade were not going to
ntepose anv obstacles to toe running of the
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad, bat it
would appear from developments made yes
terday that we have *11 of us been hollowing
before we got out of toe woods Not that
toe State of Dade his done any thing, but be
cause a dependency, or rather an oily of that
sovereignty, known as the 8tate of Georgia,
has concluded to take a hand in this fighL
General Wofford, toe receiver for Georgia,
promptly vacated his office when Judge Hor-
rslson demanded possession in Chattanooga,
and telegraphed to Governor Smith, of Geor
gia, for orders in the premises.
Those orders come by letter and by tele-
iph. They were explicit and stringent.
. _c sum ana substance of them was “hold
on to toe railroad and all its property in
Georgia, and don’t let go, nor allow toe trains
to run through the State until Georgia’s claim
is settled”
Armed with these orders General Wofford
and Mr. Graham, the attorney for the Dade
county creditors, proceeded to Trenton night
before last (Tuesday) in s hock. They showed
the Governor’s orders to the Sheriff of Dade
and he summoned Ins posse and when toe
mail train arrived at Trenton yesterday
morning, toe Sheriff took it in out of toe
weL _
In toe mean time Attorney General Ham
mond and Marshal Chamberlain, of Atlanta,
hsd arrived in this city. General Hammond
wished to sec General Wofford. No infor
mation could be hod from Trenton. Mr. Stan
ton telegraphed to know what was going on,
and C. O. Whitney, Superintendent of the
telegraph, was about to reply, when ho was
summarily ejected from toe office.
Still it was determined by Mr. Stanton to
send down a special train tor Gen. Wofford,
and this was doDC. As soon as this train ar
rived toe Sheriff quietly butdetermindly took
tbis in out of toe wet also. He afterwards
took too train and ran up to Wauhatchie
with Gen. Wofford, Mr. Graham and m num
ber of other gentlemen, who desired to es
cape from toe State of Dade, but as soon as
they hod got off, the train backed down to
Trenton, where it now remains in toe custo
dy of toe Sherifl.
Gen. Wofford and Attorney General Ham
mond, left for Atlanta lost night for further
instructions.
The United States Marshal, Mr. Chamber
lain, declined to interfere without an order
from liis own courtrand Mr. Stanton on be
half of toe Receivers, boa sent to toe Clerk
of the Court at Mobile, for an injunction in
accordance with toe following paragraph of
Justice Bradley's order:
“It is further ordered that on irjunclion do
issue against toe defendants and all persons
claiming, or acting by, tonmgh or under them,
or either of them, and all other persons, to
restrain them from interfering with toe said
Receivers in taking possession of and manag
ing said railroad and property.”
When this injunction arrives and is served
npon toe Sheriff of Dsde county, on interest
ing and exciting conflict of jurisdiction mv
or mav not bo raised. Wc fear that it wii
be an J then there is no telling what degree of
mob spirit may be excited, nor when the
Receivers will be able to operate the road.
We understand, tost toe Receivers are su-
thorized under toe decree to apply a portion
of the money raised, under the power con
ferred upon them, towards liquidating the
claims of toe State of Georgia.
At least this paragraph in toe decree of
Justice Bradley might be so construed:
“It is further ordered tost the said Re
ceivers, with any funds in their hands as each
Receivers, whether raised by loan as afore
said or derived from receipts accruing from
said property, shall have authority to pay
such sums as may be necessary to clear and
perfect the title to toe right of way .or to
any property formerly claimed by said rail
road company, and claimed to be embraced
in said first mortgage.”
Tbe claim of toe State of Georgia now
amonnts to about $240,000.
It ia also stated that efforts have been made
and will be continued to forfeit the charter,
and sell and tear up toe track, but whether
this can be accomplished or noL wc do not
know.
Wehope that this new muddle will be set
tled as soon os possible, and trust that there
may be no conflict between the officers of toe
United States Court and those of toe State of
Georgia.
Georgia has certain rights which ought to
be protected, bnt it seems to us tost she could
have been just os well protected without
slopping the road at this time.
We shall await with interest the progress
of events.—Chattanooga Timet, 28TA.
AN EXPLANATION OF GEN. WOFFORD'S ACTION
IN SEIZING THE TRAINS AT TRENTON—-THE
GEORGIA SIDE OP THE QUESTION.
Editor Timet: I respectfully ask permis
sion to moke a statement to toe public
through your columns, relative to toe action
of 6 a Wofford, in toe Alabama and Chat
tanooga matter.
It is well known to all who are familiar
with toe history of too company, that toe
State of Georgia endorsed toe bonds of the
company for about two hundred thousand
dollars, and that the statute authorizing this
endorsement provided that the Governor of
toe State should seize toe road and all prop
erty of toe company in toe State of Georgia,
in case toe company failed to pay the interest
on the bonds so indorsed, and that he should
hold possession of toe road and ita property
until toe interest was paid, and in case of
continued default for six months, toe Gov
ernor was suthoriz-.ti to sell toe nnd and ita
heorder of toe Bankrupt Court direct
ing a solo of toe road expressly reserves to
Georgia all her rights in relation to the road
aud its property, these rights were toe right
A LEGEND OF BT. CHRISTOPHER.
BT JOSS MULOCK.
[“Aprobos. a Syrian blacksmith of renown-
_J stature and wonderful strength, having
determined that he wonld serve nose but toe
mightiest king, went seeking him throughout
the world. Falling to Bad whom he sought,
so long ss he trusted to his own guidance, he
finally asked a thoughtful hermit to tell him
what to do. Ue directed him to station him
self on toe back of a dangerous ford, where
many pilgrims yearly last their lives in cros
sing, and to carry over all who required his
aid; aud thus humbly serving his fellow-men,
he might serve the greatest King, and hope to
eHim.
Ere long, Christ the Lord, who holds the
seas in tbe hollow of His hand, came to toe
fording-place in the guise of a little boy, and
asked to be carried over.]
“Carry me across f’
The Syrian heard, ross op sad braced
Hie huge limbs to the seesat-met toll;
“My child t see bow the waters boll 1
Tbs ulght-blset heaves* look wgry-rsceft ;
But life U little loss.
‘TB esrry thee with Joy.
If need* bet eefe ss s nestling dote;
Per. o’er tbis stresm. I pilerlms I rloj.
In service to ooe Christ, a Kin*.
Whoa I have noser seen, yet love."
“I thank thee,” uOd the boy.
Cheerio 1, Aprotms took
Tho burden on Us shoulders gnat.
And stepped Into the waves o
ouu AW tsswro 1AUUU wvaw vuu tiKUl
of posession and toe right to sell as before
stated. When toe State of Alabama bought
toe road, she took in subject to these rights.
Tbe State of Georgia was no party to toe
bill under which Messrs. Rice and Haralson
were appointed receivers, and could not be
bound in any decree in that case. No court
would attempt to deprive her of her rights
without a hearing.
The road and oil ita property in Georgia
were loop since seized bj toe Governor of
Georgia, in consequence of the failure of the
company to pay toe interest on toe bonds
indorsed by the State, and Gen. Wofford has
for nearly a year past been in possession of
the road as agent for the State; When
Judge Bus teed ordered a sale of toe rood, he
not only protected toe rights of Georgia, but
if lam not mistaken directed toe assignees
to negotiate with the Governor for toe settle
ment of Georgia’s deltt, before toe sale. This,
however, was not done. Judge Haralson
met Gen, Wofford here on Monday last, and
was shown Governor Smith’s written in-
structions to the General, toe substance
which wss that no one shoald be allowed „
take possession of toe road until an order
shoald beobtsiaed from toe Governor. Judge
Haralson was distinctly told tost be could
not get possession without an order from toe
Executive DepartmenL Tbe train which
went out on Tuesday was ran under protest
of toe State of Georgia.
The seizure of toe trains at Trenton was
made by toe State because toe Receivers bad
ignored toe State entirely and proposed
take possession in spite of her.
The State of Georgia waa in possession—
her possession waa guaranteed by law, and
published by order of toe Bankrupt Court.
She was not a party to toe bill under which
toe Receivers were appointed. Her rights
had not been adjudicated. Under these cir
cumstances it seems to me that a business
man wbo wanted to get possession of the
road onght at least to have applied to too
Governor for possession, and submitted to
him toe anthonty under which he claimed
possession. If this had been done perhaps
all trouble could have been avoided, but if
I am correctly informed no such application
has yet been made; Governor Smith it a
reasonable man and will do nothing but what
he thinks his duty as Governor requires him
to do. While tots is true he is also a man of
firmness, and will not be run over rough
shod without an effort to protect the State by
all proper, legal, means.
Gen. Wofford being necessarily absent, _
ask that this statement be published in justice
to him. D.
No new developments were made yester
day in regard to toe seizure of toe A. & C.
R. R., by order of toe Governor of Georgia
further than tbe fact that a telegram was re
ceived by tbe agent of toe Receivers to the
effect that Gov. Smith proposed to hold on
to the road until Georgia’s claim was settled.
Times 27ft.
gtligiaas Apartment.
“Wbo *rt th«m r* er’el be, wTd
Strnpgling In tbe middle of tbe ford;
u thon looker-1, It eecan to me
Tbe wbo’e world's load I beer In tbee.
Yet—** * Po # the e»ke of Cbrlet. thy Lord,
Carry me,” add the child.
No mere Anrotms *wem*d.
Bat seined the farther beak: end then
A rolce crit-d, -lienee Chrittopboroe be ;
For. carrying, thou best carried Me,
The Kire of angels end of men.
The Master tboa hatt aerred.”
And, In the moonlight V.ne.
The saint aaw—not tbe wandering noy,
Bnt Him wbo wilked upon tbe aea.
And o'er tbe plains of Oa’Uee,
Oh! H
An<t brief tbs space 'twist si
If thoo. Lord Jams, on as ay.
Through the deep waters "V oar w*J,
The bardeu that Chri ■tophoros bore,
To carry ran rawr I
Religious Information.
B-PTIiT.
The Baptists in England number one to
every ninety-seven of the population.
The average salary of eighteen Baptist
preachers in North Carolina ia a trifle over
]I25 a year.
The second National Baptist Snnday-
School Convention is to be held on the 30th
of November, in the Ninth Street Baptist
Church, Cincinnati.
Tbe Baptists ere engaged in ruining a fund
of $5G0,000 to aid new congregations in toe
erection of bouses of worship. Over $390,-
000 ora already secured.
In England and Wales toe Baptists have
300 churches of not more than 25 members
each, 1040 of from 24 to too members, 840
of from 100 to S50.140 of from 250 to 500,
33 of 500 and upwards.
The Woman’s Baptist Missionary Society
has now seven missionaries and four Bible
women, wbo depend for their support upon
tbe women of the Baptist churches. The
sisters at the West have three missionaries
and two Bible women in tbeir employ.
Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, in a late sermon In bis
Tabernacle, stated that in seven of tbe lead
ing Ritualistic churches in London tho sub
scription to foreign missions only reached £7
13a 2d., and yet toe incumbent in one of
these churches savs that the coat of his choir
alone was about £1,000 a year.
Rev. John T. Jones, a frugal and indus
trious Ottawa Indian, recently dint, leaving
his entire property, worth about sixty thou
sand dollars, to toe cause of the Baptist Min
isterial Educational Society in toe State of
Kentucky.
raESUTTElUAN.
There are four Presbyterian Synods in
Ohio. Cincinnati Synod has 18.363 member*,
Cleveland 17,7%, Columbus 14,494, Toledo
7,476, making a total in tbe Stale of 58.0G6
communicants.
Rev. AY. E. McChcney, of tlic Presbyterian
mission in China, was shot by pirate* on toe
night of July 9, while on a preaching tour.
The Presbyterian churches in Ohio con
tribute more to toe General Missionary Board
than to the feeble churches within the State.
New York has 129 Presbyterian ministers
and only 00 churches, Cincinnati has 79 min
isters and 48 churches, and Chicago 63 min
isters and 32 churches.
Tho Home Mission Board of toe Presby
terian Church is called npon for ten new min
isters to supply the work on the Pacific coast,
and more are needed.
METHODIST.
T Methodist Episcopal Chareb in Canada
numbers 31,103 members, and 226 traveling
preachers. The increase of numbers for toe
last year was 225.
EPISCOPALIANS.
The Episcopalians have eght parishes in
New Orleans, ail growing and prosperous.
The clergymen are usually young men, full
of activity and zeal
CONOBEOATtONAUSTS.
The Congregationalista have sixty-four
church organizations in Missouri, with a
membership of 2,736. Forty-one church ed
ifices are already completed, and others in
coarse of construction.
The statistics of toe Protestant Episcopal
Church in New Jersey show 121 clergymen,
144 churches and missions During toe last
year 2,080 were baptized, and 1,152 confirmed.
The present number of communicants is 11,-
Tho number of Congregational Churches
in Maine is 243, ministers 158, of whom 60
are pastors, 32 are without pastoral charge,
and the remainder ore stated supplies. Tbe
membership ot the churches is 19,462 of
whom 806 were received last year, 544 by
profession.
The strength of Congregationalism in Illi
nois b in toe northern part of toe State.
The whole number of churches is 251, of
which 39 have settled pastors, 134 acting pas
tors, and 78 are vacant Ail these churches
are toe result of missionary effort, mostly
within forty yean.
The Congrcgationslbts of Vermont have
201 churches, 218 ministers—63 churches
have pastors, 91 acting pastors,2 are supplied
by licentiates, and 40 are destitute. Tho
average salary paid to ministers Is $960.
In Kansas there are 78 Congregational
churches, with a membership of 2)225. Of
these 6 have pastors, 57 acting pastors, and
15 are vacanL Sixty-two missionaries have
been sustained, wbo have ministered to mare
than 125 congregations, taking possession of
the outposts on toe frontier. Twenty-five
more devoted missionaries are wanted for the
present year.
CATHOLICS.
The Old Catholic movement b developing
the greatest strength in Austria. They are
sending ont missionaries to all parts of toe
Empire, preaching reform with snch success
that they have already coroiled a large body
of members.
Tho Roman Catholic mission in toe East
embraces 18 Bishops, 278 missionaries, 311
native priests, 24 colleges, 436 school*, 89
orphanages, and 609,533 church members.
Bishop Bedell, of Ohio, calls upon all toe
churches of hb diocese to offer np prayer, on
next Sunday, for toe Convocation of toe Old
Catholics, now in session at Cologne;
MISCELLANEOUS.
A new Moravian congregation (German)
has been organized at Unionvillc, Michigan,
not far from toe head of Saginaw Bay.
The Quakers are progressing with their
church edifice in the eastern part of Colum
bus, Ohio.
The Friends’ Mission at Matamoras, Mex
ico, is in a highly prosperous condition. An
tonio Lopez, toe pure Aztec, takes a deep in
terest in toe labors of toe missionaries.
The minutes of toe Lutheran Synod of
Pennsylvania for 1873 show 181 ministers
327 congregations and 63,548confirmed mem-
ben.
The Lutherans and Methodists in Bosh- -
nell, Hlinois, are united in erecting a church
edifice for toe accommodation of both con
gregations.
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
The lesson wss Luke 5: 1326. Jesus with
drawing himself from toe multitude for
prayer; and Jesus healing toe man of the
palsy and forgiving hb sins. Of coarse the
tittle girls, in toe application, told me «>»««.
in imitation of toe example of Jesns, we
ought to go away and pray—that little giris
should leave their playmates and go Ire them
selves and pray—led by toe example of Jesus.
They told me that as the men brought toe
man sick of toe palsy to Jesus, so we ought
to bring our friends to Him, and never mind
tbe difficulties and obstacles, but preserve.
But when I catpc to toe question of toe Pha
risees," Who can forgive sms bat God alone?”
I asked toe tittle girls, “Wbo can forgive
rinsPj Therepl^wsLrorecctiy,“Qodalone."
“Can anybody but God forgive tins?”
“Yea,” said toe girls. “Who?" One of these
tittle girls, Katy, said, calmly, “The Virgin
Maryi” while another, Lena, aa promptly
said, at toe same breath, "The blessed Vir-
gin.”
