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■onslituthm. Terms at Subscription: WEEKLY constitution per tuna P 00 All ratwcrlptluB* Are payable etrlctly In advaaet »o«», at the explaUon of the time for which payment • nude, nale** pterion*! j renewed, the name of the •ohecrlbc r will be stricken from oar books. 4 f3B r> Clab* of Ten |25 00, sods copy of the paper sent free to the s^ttcr-op. 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.”