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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY CONSTITUTION AUGUST 15, 1876
Tlic Atlanta Constitution
WEeKLY EDITION.
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THE CAMPAIGN.
rut: most exciting in a quar
ter or a century.
A President and Governor (o be Elected
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THE MONEY QUESTION.
ATLANTA AS A SUMTER RESORT.
‘Last winter,” says a correspondent
ol the Tallahassee Floridian, “Atlanta
sent quite a number of her people to
dwell within jour highly favored state,
whose attractions during the cold
months of the year are unsurpassed by
any other section of our common
country. This summer I notice that
Florida sends some of her people to
spend the warm months in this, the
coolest and most delightful city in the
south during the heated term; Monti-
cello, Tallahassee and other cities in
your part of the state are represented
here by ladies and gentlemen who do
no discredit to the ‘land of flowers.* **
Atlanta has many attractions for
summer visitors, among which are a
cool, bracing atmosphere, freedom from
mosquitoes, libraries and mu-ical and
literary entertainments, and mineral
springs in abundance. The waters of
Ponce de Leon, West End and of our
Chalybeate springs are remarkable for
their strength and curative oroperties.
SOUTHERN RAILROADS.
The rej»eal of the resumption act by
the house fitly supplements the busi-
nesM-like, rommon-MiiM letters of the
two governors. The house did not re-
j<cal the entire act, hut it did rejteal the
lime clause that the acts of the repub
lican party had made impracticable
and a menace—the shadow and not the
substance of resumption. We give the
bill passed by the house:
Be li enacted, that the resumption day clause
In section Ui ee of an act to provide for the re-
sumption of aprcic paymenta, approved Janu
ary 14,1*75, which clause la la the words fol
lowing, vlx: ’And on and after the fir»l day of
January. 1879, the mreuryof the treasury shall
redeem in coin of the United titati* the .ega)
h-ndrr nous then outstandings on their preseu-
taiion f«r redemption at the offl't; of the aaaiat
ant treasurer of the United butca In Uie city of
New Verb, In Mima of not leaa than flfty dol
lar*, * be and the same ii hereby repealed.
Tins action is in strict accordance
with the St. Louis platform, and with
the letters of acceptances. The house
then provided for the apj*ointment of a
commission, to tie composed oft), to in
vestigate the silver question and the
l>est means of facilitating the resump
tion of sjiecie payments. The report is
to tie presented before the firat
day of January, in order to give
the next session time
Consider its recommendations. This
not only harmonizes with Governor Til-
den’s letter, but for the present it dis-
|m*cs of the {tending silver hills and all
kindred legislation. The report of the
commission is next in order on the cur
rency question. That commission iato
Is* coinjHiscd, if the senate concurs, of
three representatives, three senators
and three exfierts.
The excellent letters from onr candi
dates together with the action of the
house of representative's,makes the par
ty invincible, for alt now aland fairly
ami squarely on tin* St. lamia ld»t-
forin. If the democratic |»arty can not
march to victory now when there is
not a break in its lines and when the
ablest and most practical of statesmen
are its bead, it can never hope to do
so. We believe that it will prove in*
vincible, for we have confidence in hu
man reason and human honesty.
No better evidence is needed of the
manner in which Gov. Ti Men’s letter is
accepted than the comments of the
fractions organs of the extreme
greenback wing in the west. The Cin
cinnati Enquirer declares “we are now
ready for the tight,” and adds: “ We
had feared that Mr. Tilden would not
concede so much to the sentiment of
the great west, to the j**ople of the
country, as did the St. Louis platform.
But lie goes further, does more. If any
western democrat had been nominated
for the presidency it is doubtful whet tier
he would have put into his letter of ac
ceptance such pronounced professions
,in favor ot the western belief concern
ing the currency. We do not think
that any western candidate who could
have U*en nominated would have been
in his accepting letter so brave in de-
feme of the friends of currency reform
as Mr. Tilden has been generous and
statesmanlike. We ojqioaed the nomi
nation of Mr. Tilden. When nomina
ted we gave him support. With his
letter tiefore us, we cordially call upon
our friends everywhere to give him an
earnest support, lie has left no excuse
for a third party, lie has left no excise
for rebellion or “bolting” among dem
ocratic ranks, lie has made noble and
statesmanlike concessions to the dem
ocracy of the wist, by reason of which
tie deserves their support.”
RIVERS AND HARBORS
Afttr weeks of discussion, of amend
ments and counter amendments, of ef
forts to cut down the aggregate and yet
maintain* particular a| propiationa
on the part of each seeator who had an
axe to grind—after all this and much
more the river and harbor appropria
tion bill pvssed the senate. If footed
m» just $5 000,000. It will have to run
the gauntlet now of a conference
c uumittee; but it will surely
l»e perfected, for many of the mem ben-
can not afford to go home without
securing an appropriation to go
with the old flag.
The senate bill reduces the appro
priation for the Coosa river from $40,-
000 to $30,000; for the K'.owah river,
from $15,IXX) to $10,000, and for the Oc*
tnulgee from $25,000 to $ 15,00a Gen.
Gordon protested against tl»e amend
ment to strike out $5,000 for the port of
Darien, but it was agreed to. of the
$270,Oik) appropriated by the terms of
the bill for the Tennessee river,
$15,(M0 are to be expended above
Chattanooga, and the balance upon
Muscle ShoaR The appropriations for
the French Broad, lliawassee and
Clinch riverain Tennessee were struck
out. The bill appropriates $40,000 for
the incidental expenses of harbors for
which there is no special appropria
tion, and for “examination and survey
of such rivers and harbors as in the
judgment of the secretary of war will
aubeerve the gener interests ol com
merce."
The senate bill will be substantially
adhered to, and the president lias ex
preseed a willingness to sign it. Tue
dual vote in the senate on the passage
of the bill was yeas, 34; nays, 11. The
only southern senators who voted in
the negative were Mr. Cockerell of Mis
souri, and Mr. Jones of Florida.
The conferees on the part of the sen
ate are Messrs Allison. Sergeant and
Hansom; on the part of the house,
Messrs. Hereford, Reagan and Dannell.
Their report will tie speedily presented
and speedily adopted, both houses hav-
The Chicago Railway Age of the 3d
instant reviews the railroad enterprises
of the states of the south. Railroad
building had progressed so rapidly in
these rich and prosperous states before
the war that their mileage exceeded
that of any similar number of states in
the west. Then came the war; end the
Age graphically outlines its disastrous
effects on not only the roads, buton the
business of southern companies. All
were left bankrupt, their roads and
their customers alike ruined. None,
a vs the Age, who traversed the war-
harrassed regions in those dark years
will ever forget ttie spectacle of ruin pre
sented at frequent intervals along the
great highways.
When peace returned it found tie
finances and business of the entire
south so deranged that the problem of
restoring the wrecked railway system
was vastly more difficult of solution
than that of building it all anew
in ordinary times would have been.
But railroads were indispensable and
the work was begun, and earned on in
spite of the most adverse circunstances.
The Age gives the following table of
southern mileage taken from the latest
authorities:
Mika in two.
Virginia 1.379
North Carol! 'a... v:i7
south I Aiolina ... 971
•rglM - 1,4X1
THE SCHOOLQUESTION.
In accordance with “the spirit of the
age” and the wishes oi all denomina
tions, of Catholics as well as Protest
ants, the boose last week initiated a
movement to forever lift popular edu
cation out of politics. This action of
the house took the form of a constitu
tional amendment which reads as fol
lows:
No state shall make any law respecting an ea-
tablohment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercises there©!; and no money raised by taxa
lion in any state for the support cf public
schools, or derived from any public fond there
for, nor any public lands devoted thereto, shill
ever be under the control of any religious sect or
denomination; nor shall any money so raised or
land so devoted be divided between religious
sects or denominations. This article shall no
vest, enlarge, or diminish legislative power in
tourrer*.
This would constitute the sixteenth
amendment. It is essentially Mr.
Blaine's proposition, the only difference
being the addition of the words “or
denomination" after the word “sect,”
and the addition of another sentence.
A considerable discussion arose in the
house over the added sentence; but
Mr. Hoar explained that "all, such pro
visions of the constitution were
to be enforced solely and were en
forced sufficiently by the power
of the supreme court of
the United States to declare
GOOD BOAD&
This is the golden opportunity of the
men who want better country roads.
This is emphatically the chance of the
men who believe in having roads that
can be used in bod weather, as opposed
to those who would have ns go on
straggling through quagmires as our
fathers did before os. For this is the
time when the honest voter is called
upon to choose bet ween a score or more
cf men who are anxious to serve the
state in the legislature. If therefore
you want good roads, select the man
that will vote, if elected, to change our
present abominable highway laws.
Now is the time for the road-improvers,
for the men both of town and country,
to make themselves felt on this subject;
and we hope they will take good care
to send up to Atlanta next winter
enough members to convince the bal
ance that good roads are the mo6t eco
nomical and altogether the best policy.
The present method of repairing the
roads is almost no method at all. It
does not result in a gradual
annual improvement. In nineteen
out of twenty the roads of the
state are no better,than they were twen
ty years again other words^ll the labor
we do expend on the roads is wasted,
lor the careless^uperficial work leaves
them in a condition to require just as
much more work next year, and there
Florid*...
Alabama.
MiMliaippi
IjouitiUuui .
Texaa
Kentucky
Total miles**.. 9,182
1'AIM 15.919
contrary acta oi state legislature*
null and void. Whether t^e no iirprovement as the years go by.
fence be added or not, the amendment This is sheer waste and shiitlessness.
This system of 111,000 miles of rail
roads, some 110 in number, cost about
six hundred millions of dollars. They
have passed, says the Age, "through
Inals and experiences such aa their
northern connections know nothing of,
bnt we believe they have seen their
worst days. The south is rapidly re
turning to prosperity, because she is
learning that in a diversity of indus
triesand in the development of interna!
resources lies her strength. The man-
agctnenl of most of her roads has fallen
into able and energetic hands, and
steady progress toward prosperity is
made yearly.” The Age thinks rail
road construction in the south is by no
means finished, and that the end of
the next ten years will see a vast at di-
lion to the present mileage and
resjsifiding increase in wealth yind
prosperity U.e K n>.U n ...
gion of the south.
Georgia is the leading railroad state
of the south. She has more miles of
railroad than anv of her neighbors, and
it is ncnrly all owned by her own peo
ple. We lielieve the Age’s conclusions
are true so far as onr own roads are
concerned. They are well managed;
•hey are yearly improving both in con
dition and business, and all have
future, not excepting the long road
reaching to the sea that the state ha'
seized. ISetter days are *h*ad. and
with them will crone better loads for tlie
iron horse. We, too, need more roads.
With the exception of the Georgia
Western we do not perhaps need anoth-
er trunk line, but there is not a trunk
line in the state that wrotM not be
greatly Ih-uctitled by the construction
of narrow-guage feeders. The inex-
(H'nsive narrow-guage is the coming
guage in Georgia; for we need branches
to roads already built more than addi
tional main lines.
THE VICTOXY IX At.ABAU t.
The Montgomery Advertiser brought
out its famous gang of roosters yester
day. They strut and crow across two
whole pages. And well they may; for
the democracy of Alabama have won a
noble victory—a victory that will en
thuse the democracy all over the conn-
try—a victor y that tells the friends of
reform in the north that there is not
only hope, but positive assurance of a
glorious triumph in November if they
will do their part. It is a victory that
puts the whole south on tlip Tilden and
Hendricks line. We believe even
South Carolina can be carried. The
negroes at Knfaula and many other
places in Alabama voted on Monday
the d.mucralic ticket, and what the
colored men of Aialuuna have done,
the colored men of South Carolina can
lie iiulmvil to do.
Wo have not of course full return*
from the election, but enough is known
to justify the statement that Gov.Hous
ton has received double the majority he
did in 1874. His majority then was
13,190; this year'th© independent dem-
tn-ratio ticket" dictated by Zach Chand
ler is beaten at least twenty-five thous
and votes. The rest of the state ticket
will have nearly as large* majority,and
the next legislature will Ih* overwhelm
ingly democratic. This insures the
election of a democratic Unitod States
senator in the place of Senator Gold-
thwaife, w ho is also a democrat. No*,
diah and the other “independents"
disappear from view behind the shower
of straight democratic ballots that fell
on Monday all over our sister state.
Even in Mobile they were beaten 1,415
votes; in Barbour county, 3,200, a? d in
Houston county nearly a thousand.
Let these figures suffice for the present.
The election for members of congress
in Alabama does not occur until the
general election in November; but the
election of Monday indicates that the
democrats will at least hold their own
when congressman are chosen. Tne
present delegation is composed of six
democrats and two republicans.
The next state election is that of Ar
kansas, September 4; to be followed by
that of Vermont, September 5.
We note, says the Griffin News,
with pleasure the correspondence l*e-
tweea Hon. John H. James, of Atlanta
and a committee of many citix- ns of
that city, in which he is tendered a seat
in the next house, as a representative
of Fulton county. The compliment is
as delicue as it is deserved, and may
be regarded as a recognition of Mr.
James’ personal worth and political in
tegrity. by the people of his city and
county. He has accepted the tendered
candidacy,and we trust he will receive
the nomination, and be elected without
would mean exactly the same thing.
The object of the addition, so Mr.Hoar
of Massachusetts was compelled to ex
plain, was to commend the proposition
to the state# in which there are “grext
anxiety and jealousy" in reference to
the powers of congress. Mr. Hoar in
other words had to confess that federal
interference has become very unpopn
lar. The proposed amendment leaves
the power of congress over the subject
unaffected. It has none now, and it
would have none if the amend
ment became a j»art of the constitu
tion.
Only five members voted against it
•Messre. 4 Blackburn, of Kentucky,
Bradford and Forev, of Alabama, John
B. Clarke, of Missouri and Caldwell, of
Tennessee. Messrs. Cook, Felton,
Hartridge and Smith, voted for the
amendment. The other members of
the Georgia delegation did not vote.
This action of the house, if
followed up and adopted by the
senate and the states, would for
ever take the religious question
out of national politics—a very desira
ble consummation; but whether it is
finally adopted or not, the passage of
the amendment by the democratic
house has silenced Z\ch Chandler and
all the oilier republican managers who
intended to mske political capital by
apjieals to religious prejudices and by
efforts to stir up religious strife during
the campaign. It has knocked them
out of half their stock in trade, for they
chiefly relied on appeals to the fanati
eism,bigotry and intolerance existing in
such states as New* Jersey and Ohio to
overcame the popular demand for re
form, purification and retrench
ment. It lias spoiled tons of republic
an campaign literature that bad been
prepaired to show an alliance between
the Catholic church and the democratic
party. Republican senators will scarcely
put themselves on record against this
amendment. It is destined to become
a part, and an important and valuable
part, of the federal constitution.
TENNESSEE ELECTIONS.
TuKKreHEc politic* sometimes assume
strange position?. In the late county
elections we note that a larger number
of the counties in east T« nnessce divi
ded the votes between republicans and
democrats, either electing a democratic
trustee, or rice rerm. There may be
wisdom in this, but it is a rather singiu
lar exhibition to be witnessed in this
day of heated political parlizansliip.
One splendid feature of the east Ten
nessee returns is the certain defeat of ca«
det-]»eddling, pension-stealing Roderick
Random Butler, of Sugg Fort cla'm no
toriety as well, in liis attempt to regain
the circuit bench of the first circuit.
He was elegantly walloped by Hon.
J aim A. McKinney, a noble and able
gentletn.in who comes from the honse-
hvld t»f famous jurists in Tennessee.
Another interesting feature we note
in the overwhelming defeat, as it ap-
j»ears, in the Greene county primary
eleclion, of Andrew' Johnson, the only
son o! ex-President Johnson. Youug
Andrew is a man of some abilities, but
was badly beaten by one who is report
ed to be of no considerable qualifica
tions for the position—that of represent
ative in the legislature. The primary
is pronounced by the Greeneville press
as a gross farce and to have been man
aged or not managed at all in a most
• •utrageons mancer. As this was the
first attempt to nominate by a primary
it remains to be seen whether young
Andy will not pursue the reliable
course of his father and appeal at once
to the clear suffrages of his constitu
ency,
In the Presbyterian church south
there are 12 synods, 63 presbyteries,
1,079 ministers and licentiates, 189 can
didates, 1,820 churches, 41 licensurcee,
47 ordinations; members added on ex
amination, 7,603; whole number of com-
mnnicants, 112,183; total contributions
$1,138,700. The largest Presbyterian
church in the south, is the First Pres
byterian church. New Orleans, La.,
which numbers 700 members, the sec
ond is the Walnut street church, St.
I»uis, Mo., and the third is the First
Presbyterian church, Nashville, Tenn.
ing settled down to ihe conclusion that opposition. We need as good legists-
the gross sum appropriated should nor j tore aa we do governor*. Return James
exceed five millions.
by all means."
The growth of the Protestant churches
in this country during the first century
is set forth in the following figures, the
first set show ing the number of minis
ters and churches in 1776
.. . MiuiKter*. Churches
MelhoctUt*
><* -
iTv»t>y:t*iiHU»
• A>u^rvg«tiuiukii5>>
Lmhciana...,,....
K« formed German
Rrlormed Dutch
h'lMMvut lians
Moravian*
140
In 1870 there are as follows:
Ministers. Cbtnebes.
--.■0 453 40 00
-»MJ » A9
7.9*14 9.82:
Betormed (n raua
K*iunnc*J Dutch
£pi'*cohUUm ..
Letters of acceptance from president
rial candidates have varied, since Mon
roe’s time, from one day to forty-two
days. The two extremes were Henry
Clay’s, which was given to the public
on the day that he was nominated, and
Governor Tilden’s. President Monroe
took five days; Polk fourteen. Can two
days; Buchanan, Lincoln and McClel
lan ten days; Grant, nine days the first
time, and five the second' time. Of
late the time of acceptance has been
lengthened, for Seymour took twenty-
three days; Greeley, eighteen days;
Haves, twenty-two days, and Tilden
forty-two da vs.
— 1 Gainesville Southron ; Messrs,
Hartridge and Candler should have
the grateful thanks of everv true civil
serv ice reformer in the land for their
manly efforts in the fights in congress
over the appropriation bills. They’aie
ibe kind of stuff to send to cong ess —
men who can watch and fight as well
as pray.
The result of this policy is severely
felt by all classes, although they may
not know it. Bad roads retard the
growth of towns, keep down the price
of forming lands, and levy a tax in
time, ii not in damages, on every one
who uses them. This subject especially
relates to the material prosperity of the
former. If the roads that lead to mar
ket are well nigh impassible for a part
of the year, he is the greatest sufferer.
His lands are depreciated in value,and
on e7ery load of produce that be draws
to market in bad weatUer he is severely
taxed. The extra wear and tear of an
iroals, harness and vehicles in Georgia
would, in a single year, put
our roads in admirable condition,
so that a light annual highway tax
expended, under an intelligant plan,
would keep them so. That however is
impracticable, but the adoption of a
system which would lead' to a gradual
annual improvement is not impractica
ble, and is needed as few other things
are needed in the state.
Good roads would wonderfully vita
lize the back districts of the state,
which in turn would impart a new vig
or to the towns and railroads that they
feed. They would pave the way for a
revolution in material things that
would be astonishing. At present we
are stuck in the mud. We are literal
ly so a part of the year. This need not
be. Let every man therefore who
wants better roads find out which
one of the numerous patriots that seek
his ballot for a legislative honor, is in
favor of a better highway system, and
vote accordingly, thus aiding to put us
all in a way to tret out^f the mud.
THE CENTENNIAL HARVEST.
What crops! The produce bulls are
dead, and the chronic crop grumblers
have not a word to say. From the
coast to the Rio Grande, from the Ohio
to L*e Gulf, come reports of glorious
crops. No crop is poor this year. The
very soil seems to have exerted itself
to celebrate the centennial by bringing
forth fruits to fill the hearts of strug
gling men with joy. Plenty of food
even a snperabnn«l»nvc of it, ia assured
for one whole year. Some say we have
made enough for two years, but that
will prove an exaggeration, lor man
nd beast will live hereafter untram
melled by the spectre of want.
AU crops are good, as we have said.
The cotton crop is perhaps too good,
and no worms appear to lessen it. New
rice is coming in, and it is known
that the crop will be larger than last
year's. The hot weather and seasona
ble showers throughout the sugar belt
will put that crop far beyond all pre
vious post bellum figures.
The foou crops of the south are near
ly all mode. Texas does not know
what to do with her surplus of corn,
wheat, rye, oats, and barley. She can
not sell any of it to the rest of the
southern states for they have raised
their own breadstuff*, except possibly
a deficiency of wheat iu some of the
states that planted too much cotton.
An abundance of corn is a fixed fact ii
every southern state. The crop is being
contracted for at twenty five cents a
bushel in Texas, and at twenty-two
cen* sin Memphis. The cribs will soon be
fuU to overflowing, and a good share of
it will fortunately have to be turned
into bacon. And there is no hog cholera.
We need not only an abundance of
corn, but we need a superabundance of
it, so that our formers will be forced to
keep hogs in order to consume the
corn they cannot sell. It has comeat
last, and so has a fine crop of sweet po
tatoes, and of all other food crops, ex
cept, in Georgia, wheat and peaches.
Wbat is true of the south is also true
of the northeast. The wheat is har
vested, and the harvest is fully up to
the average. A grand corn crop
hastening to maturity. The oat crop
is unusually good. The potato crop is
enormous. H »y has produced for be
yond any previous year, and the apple
crop is large. Taken altogether, says
the Toledo Blade, the form products of
the northeost will exceed those of last
year from thirty to sixty per cent
Even the northwestern states will do
what they can to make this a year
of plenty; and from over
seas come similar reports
handsome crops. A kind Providence
has blessed the whole worid. And
what a world of happiness flows from
a knowledge of full corn cribs and
smoke-houses!
Here in Georgia we have to admit
that it is a most remarkable season
We have no corn to buy, and if we had
no bacon, no hay, no mules to buy
abroad, wbat a happy people we
would be? We can and
should produce all the bacon,
hay and mules that we need. Let us
resolve to do so next year, and laugh at
hard times. We can face the times
very serenely as it is, and we only wish
that other parts of the country were as
well off. _
BRE4D OR BLOOD
This was the cry of fierce, determin
ed men at Cincinnati the other night
We will have,’* said one of the men
from the esplanade, “bread or blood.
I mean what I say." It is hard to
starve, said Gen. Cary to them, when
but a pane of glass is between the per
ishing and bread, and yet revolution,
be told them, must b» avoided. The
hastily collected gathering at Cincin
nati was more threatening than any
other that has been held in the coun
try, but similar meetings in New York,
Newark and Jersey City show that la-
bores and even skilled employees are
ip such a state of want that bread riots
are imminent. In New York dty alone
it is estimated that 200,000 are unem
ployed. Chicago also has a vast num
ber clamorous for employment, dissat
isfied and suffering. There is not a
city or manufacturing district in the
north or west that is not full oldistree
The general stagnation of business has
reached down from the merchant and
the millionaire to the workingman, and
cases of actual starvation are not un
known. The people are dying, says
the Brooklyn Argus, with food all
around them and none within their
reach.
All this is occurring, not in the long,
trying winters of the northern climate,
but iu midsummer, when work is or
dinarily plenty, life easily sustained
and clothing and fuel almost unneces
sary. What will the situation
be when the winter sets
m? This question troubles
the baker, the butcher and the green
grocer of northern cities. It troubles
the man o ( wealth; it distresses the
hearts of all thinking men.
It may be safely asserted that the
country has never known so much
summer poverty. Why is it? There
is a cause fer all things. There U no
lack of food, or fuel, or clothing in the
land. The harvests are superabund
ant—never were better. Prices oi all
the necessaries of life are low, and yet
men are starving, factories are idle,
busine a is paralyzed. We may be
sure that the men who are in direst
want understand the situation. They
see that the fifteen years of unmitigated
unlimited republican rule have brought
the masses to the verge of dispair,
while they have enabled the few to
pile up colossal fortunes. They see
the result even if they cannot explain
the financial legislation and misgovern-
ment that has made it, not only possi
ble, but unavoidable. The day of
reckoning is at hand, and the plun
derers and monopolists, the fond grab
bers and jobbeis are to be driven frum
power, if the signs are not deceptive.
In the agricultural states of the south
bountiful harvests sent by the kind
hand of blessed Providence, aided by
our own industry and economy, have
averted the worst features of the
present crisis. The world must have
our cotton, sugar and rice. We have
not much to buy in return fortunately,
and what we do need can be had for
low prices. We are strengthening in
fact. We are getting out of debt We
have no bread riots, no cases of starva
tion. But this does not release us
from the necessity of maintaining the
policy by which we have been saved
from ruin, nor does it lessen the need
of vigilance and union in the grand
effort to drive the party from power
that has well nigh bankrupted the
country.
OC1 NEXT GOVERNOR.
Many people 6peak of horse powers
without understanding just what, that
standard of measuring force means
Before the power of steam was general
ly known, says the New York Herald,
horses were u ed to raise coal and other
heavy bodies. Mr. Moots, in his ex
periments, carefully compared the rela
tive power of the different breeds of
horses, and found its average equal to
raising33,000 pounds one foot per min
ute, or what is equivalent, to raise 350
pounds 100 feet, or 100 {>ounds 350 feet
during that space of time, w hen attach
ed to a level or sweep of a given leugth.
The total amount expended last
year in the south by tbe Peabody
trustees was $99,150. Virginia received
$20,050; South Carolina $5,000; Georgia
$8,550; Florida, $3,700; North Carolina,
$8,300; Alabama, $5,800; Mississippi,
$11,800; Lousiana, $2,000; Tennessee,
$14,000, West Virginia, $12,000; Texas,
4,550. West Virginia and Tennessee
received larger proportionate amounts
than any other states, because they
have made more effort to foster and
promote a public school system. The
amounts jiaid South Carolina, Florida
and Lousiana are proportionately
small, because of their failure to foster
public education; the idea of the trus
tees being to help those who help
themselves. There are, however,
000,000 children attending schools, in
part supported by the Peabody iund-
There will be over $100,000 for distrib
ution the ensuing year after paying al
expenses.
John A. Hyman, the negro congress
man from North Carolina, is a natural
member ol the republican party. He
will however probably retire soon from
congress and become a candidate for
the North Carolina penitentiary. He
has realized so for about $20,000 out of
his salary alone. He has victimized
nearly all traders and business men in
Washington, Baltimore, and cities of
his own state. His plan was to pur
chase goods and property of every de
scription and make payment in orders
on the sergeant-at-arms of the house
when there was nothing due there,
small army of traders have beseiged
the office of s©rgeant-at-arms during
the session armed with these orders for
payment and were promptly notified
that they were worthless. In one in
stance, after giving an order for a large
amount and getting value received he
came immediately to the sergeant-at-
arms and notified him to pay no atten
tion to it He even attempted to
square his board bills in this way. He
has overdrawn his pay to time five
hundred dollars. Things are coming
to a focus, however, and music will be
furnished for Hyman to dance to.
Colombo* Enquirer.
Georgia has not within her bounda
ries a nobler gentleman than General
Colquitt, the nominee of the democrat
ic party. His election by a heavy ma
jority is assured. All required was
the nomination that hsd been secured.
The least majority he can possibly get
will be 75,000.
Augusta Constitutionalist.
We suspend for the present the pub
lication of our Colquitt column. The
last information-deceived was as fol
lows : Total number of counties, 137;
total number^for Colquitt, 137. No
more to hear from. We shall begin
the publication again in October, with
the same result as above.
Dalton Citizen.
To support and vote for Alfred H.
Colquitt will do violence to no man’s
conscience. He is good for the demo
crat or republican, the white man or
the black man, and while placing his
name at our mast head as the purest
symbol ol true democracy,we call upon
all to rally around his standard, and
give him an even 100,000 majority.
Rome Courier.
The convention with an unanimity
unparalleled in the History of Georgia
politics, has nominated Gen. Colquitt,
and with his nomination ouropDosition
ceases, and w8 shall accord to him a
willing, hearty and active support. We
believe that His triumphant election is
necessary to the perpetuation of demo
cracy in the state, and with it the pres
ervation of good government. We
trust that all^ood democrats will recog
nize the imjjortance of unitv and a
hearty acquiescence in the will of the
majority, and will acccrd at once their
undivided support to its nominee.
B«iu bridge Democrat.
Gen. Colquitt has never been our
choice for the position to which he has
been called, but now that his nomina
tion has been accomplished, and the
sovereign will of the people of Georgia
has dropped the mantle of office upon
his shoulders, we accept the verdict of
that people in good earnest, and will
do all in our power for the nominee of
the party. Nor can we say that we
feel any misgiving lor the future. Our
opposstion to Gen. Colquitt has been
based solely upon the idea of personal
preference, and our knowledge of the
character of the man leids us to be
lieve he will make Georgia a wise, pru
dent and just executive; and that in
him are embodied those grand princi
ples of purity, honor and patriotism
which underlie and are only safeguards
of good government
Augusta Chronicle.
\) e have urged with all the ability
that we possessed the claims of one of
Georgia’s mo6t honored sons—but we
yield to the will of the majority and
give to General A. H. Colquitt a full,
hearty, unreserved support. We do
this with no hesitation or regret, for
we know that lie is in every way com
petent for the high office to which he
will be borne—that he is a patriot, a
Christian gentlemen and a true demo
crat. In his hands the honor and the
interests of our great state will be eafe
—the one ever untarnished, the other
advanced to the fullest anu highest
prosjierity. Let us hope, then, that all
differences of the past being forgotten,
we shall, as one man, with one siugle
purpose, unite to give our standard
bearer a majority that shall make him
not only the choice of a party but the
choice of all of the people of Georgia.
WHEN SAMMY COMES IN.
By jon public hall, at the dose ol the day.
Theta stood a white man and hi* head i
*oJS5i he rebuked the republican din—
' There'll never be peace till Sammy cornea ii
"Oar country'! half rained with sectional Jars;
Though the war u long over. Ua debts are deep
•can;
Kay^woanda opened fresh by the vampires of
And they’ll not stop bleeding till Sammy comes
“The^pcople are victim* ot thlevea in high
Whose deeds are exposed to eternal disgrace;
Still with Hayes they are hoping, dull cattle, to
win.
But there mow will be muaty when Sammy
comes in.
If the sons are free as the sires that h&ve been.
—"Sl'a rtaal- — **■ - *
come in.
They’ll rise in their might and make Sammy
Thk Thomasville Times calls atten
tion to what Georgia is doing for the
education of the colored people. In
Thomas county, for example, there are
fifteen colored schools that average
thirty-five pupils. The teachers are
paid from ten to fifty dollars a month.
The number of these schools will,with
in two weeks, be increased to twenty,
and in no case has an application for
such a school been refused. The Times
commends these facts to the attention
of colored men, and asks them to re
pudiate their so-called friends who use
them to get office, and yet do nothing
for them.
The reports of Gen. Grant’s poverty,
which were put in circulation to make
plausible a job to give him a permanent
pension, are now denied. The New
York Tribune says he owns, with one
one small exception, every particle
of property which he possessed when
he assumed the duties of chief magis
trate. Like the property of others it
has lost a little of its value, owing to
the times. There is not a mortgage on
any o! his property. The exception
stated above was the sale of real estate
against which he holds a mortgage. He
goes out of office a rich man.
ABANDON.
Slug tbeir merry roundelay-
“TOERISO 1» I LG HI31.S ’•
A 84. Louts Drummer's Experience
Willi a quick-Wilted Mississippi
Girl.
The shark of Long Branch, with his friends *nd
his k 1 -
■e woi
iu!"
Georgia Gossip.
Doug asville Medium.
James Clinton was found guilty as
principal in tbe first degree of the mur
der of James Seals, and his imnisment
is fixed at imprisonment in the peni
tentiary for life. John F. Sisk was ac
quitted.
Cutbbert Appeal.
—John F. Kiddoo has been appoint
ed treasurer of this county for the un
expired term of Thomas Coleman, de
ceased.
Perry Home JoumsL
—Hon. L. M. Felton's hogs are dying
with the cholera with distressing rapid
ity. Out of 100 at one plantation 75 are
lead, and 50 out of 75 at another.
LaUr&uge Reporter.
— 1 The engines on the Atlanta & West
Point railroad now burn coal instead of
wood. Good idea.
—Mr. L. D. Hutchinson, of this coun
ty, has sold 250 bushels of corn of last
years crop, since June 1st, and is rais
ing enough now to sell more os soon as
it is gathered.
—As we go to prose, we learn from a
reliable source of a source ol a serious
difficulty in the adjoining county of
Morgan, last Tuesday, between Mr.
Elias Uuarks, brother of our worthy
fellow-citizen Joel J. Ruarks, esq., and
a Mr.Harper. It seems f hat Mr.ltuarks
and Mr. Harper had a misunderstand
ing about Borne cattle, which resulted
in a personal rencounter. The wife and
son of Mr. Harper and a son of 31r.
Ruarks’ became involved in the diffi
culty. Mr. Ruarks was seriously cut
by the elder Harper. Harper and his
wife were shot by young Ruarks, and
young Ruarks was shot down by Har
per, jr. None of the parties were mor
tally wounded.
—The only man in Troupe county
who does not want to go to the legis
lature will leave for the centennial im
mediately, to keep from being tom to
pieces by the maddened throng of can
didates in their wild hunt for votes.
Greensboro* Herald.
—Mr. Jas. F. Hart was elected a trus
tee for Union Point high school, at the
recent meeting of the board, and Dr.
\V. A. Moore was made president, and
T. M. Bryan, secretary, at same meet
ing. These are the very best selections
that could be made.
MARRIED IN GEORGIA.
—J. W. Arnold to Miss Hattie Dil
lard, of Oglethorpe county.
—Robert A. Nesbet to Mrs. Cora C.
Hunter, of Macon.
—John Treblecock, of Rabun, to
Miss Ella Morecock of Towns county
DIED IN GEORGIA.
—J. D. Kendrick, of Marshalville.
—George Martin, of Pulaski county.
Mrs. Eliza J. Johnson, of Wilcox
county.
SAD SUICIDE.
A IFOBTJIT LADY TAKES UEJi OWS
C iJFjr.
A Stricken ltnstMind nml a Eert-avctl
Family
Lithonia early yesterday morning
was the cue of one of the saddest tr&gedie
that has ever occurred In that quiet village. Dr
W P Bond, a leading physician of CeKalb coun
ty, and a popular Christian gentle man, waked
up before day and discovered that his wile had
got up and left the room. Mrs Bond, a most ex
cellent lady, has been sick for several months
and for two weeks past has scarcely left her bed.
Her husband felt alarmed about her absence,
and immedia'elv began to search for her.
Upon going to the carriage house, be was horri
fied to find her hanging there between the-
houae and the buggy, and dead. She had fas
tened a rope to the boose aud hong herself. Her
body was quite warm bnt life had fled. She
leaves behind her several children, some of
them nearly grown.
Everything was done possible to resto'e her.
It is thought that har weak physical condition,
and the losa of an esteemed lady friend. Mrs.
Cbupp, who died Suuday night, so preyed upon
her mind that it led to tnr self-destruction. Mrs.
Jacob Chupp, the lady .friend alluded to, died
very suddenly about church time Sunday even
ing. The sympathies of the public are with Dr.
Bond and family it^helr Mid bereavement.
AL AMA’S ALLELUJAH1
TERRY’S TERROR.
DABIXO HABRA8SKEXTS BY SIT-
TING BULL'S REDSKINS.
Iwo Attacks by (be Indiana—They
Destroy a Carso of Wheat—
Bsattrisg the Soldier*—
hives Lost, Scalps Secur
ed and Dancera In the
Diatancc.
Just for pleas;
Bad and bit
Lift their g i
Scaling, g ad to add their treasure
. ...jastforp'easare!
Bad and bun.-om se k tbe lignt;
Lift their growing f<ce* bright.
Breathes its evienoe low and rare;
Bounding into cairn oomph teoeai
hammer day ao royal fair.
Jut for beauty : ja-d tor beauty!
J ost for blearing! i ust for blessing!
Sits my soul amid it all;
Drops her cares and burdens small:
Peels the touch of a it* cazeasmg,
bofl in benediction ialL
Memphis Avalanche.
A few flays since the train which left
the Mississippi and Tennessee depot,
bound south, had among its passengers
a young lady, a lair daughter of Mis
sissippi, one of that kind of girls who
possess a modicum of the femiuiae
quality denominated “snap,” quick
Wlt »«[ea^y tongue, modesty enough
td deroct impertinence and courage to
rebuke it. Another passenger in tbe
cars was a specimen of the genus homo,
vclept a “nice-young man," faultless in
his dress, of well-balanced head, so far
as the parting of his hair was concern
ed, which was separated in the middle
with geometrical precision, the comb
ing of which consumed much valuable
time which might have been employed
in putting something under the scalp
which might have been of service to
him. Like most “nice young men,’,
this one was very fond of the ladies’
and seemed to think a young lady,
whether a stranger or not, should feel
flattered in receiving attention from
him. Seeiug the young lady seated by
herself, and thinking she was traveling
alone, the young man took his seat be
hind her and tried to draw her into a
conversation. The young lady was an
noyed and made exhibition of her an
noyance, but without effect on the
“nice young man," who was so persist
ent that he aroused the voungla *
curiosity to know who and what it was
that embodied so much cheek and so
little brains. $he finally asked him
his name and occupation, and was told
that he was a “touring pilgrim,” repre
senting a St. Louis firm. At Hernan
do, where the train stopped a few min
utes, there were several donkeys pas
tured near the depot, and the voung
man pointing to them said to tbe young
lady:
“I was raised in the city and do not
know anything about the country, can
you tell me what kind of animals these
are?”
To which the lady replied with a
mischievous smile:
“I, too, was raised in the city, but
judging from the noise they make and
length of their ears I should think they
were ‘touring pilgrims’ trom St. Louis.
Don’t you think so, papa?”
This question was addressed to an
elderly gentleman, who was sitting op-
nosite, intently reading a paper.
The judge replied, "Ves, daughter, 1
and continued reading. The young
man, whose face suddenly assumed a
healthy glow, remembering that he had
business to attend to in Hernando,
hastily seized his valise and left the
train.
A Noble Show ing ana Painful Con-
Ms con Telegraph & Messenger.
Gwinnett county cultivates the pres
ent year in corn 32,825 acres, wheat 11,-
934, oats 5,950, rye 141, field peas
2,044, clover 81. cotton 15,651, tobacco
34, sorgum 771, ground peas 19, *weet
potatoes 640, melons 109, gardens 250,
orchards 2,188. Total number jf acres
in cultivation 73,447.
But now mark the tact, only three
hundred and forty-five hired hands
have been employed in the whole
county.
All that vast area is sowed, plowed,
hoed and harvested by the sturdy white
sons of the soil, who are rapidly growing
comfortable and independent.
This is very evident when we read
that the farmers keep 2,577 milch cows,
own 11,143 nogs, 5,844 sheep, 455 goats,
2,841 horses and mules, and will slaugh
ter next winter 5,936 fat hogs. They
also raised last year 308,214 bushels of
corn, 49,521 bushels wheat, 35,659 bush
els sweet potatoes, 1,680 bushels
Irish potatoes. 29,221 zallons syrup,
2,427 bushels peas, 2,890 pounds tobac
co, 3,755,199 pounds fodder, and sold
5,322 bales oi cotton, 5,510 pounds of
wool, 7,216 pounds of honey, besides a
large amount of dried fruit, wine, etc.
As stated above, all those vast pro
ducts were reared by white labor save
an insignificant portion, and generally
by the owners of the land and their
sons. This looks like thrift and plenty
once more and the harbinger of better
times.
But how stands the record in Chat
ham county, where only negroes till
ihe soil ? There the whole number of
milch cows is 224; work oxen 22; horses
and mules, 224; whole number of hogs,
474, with forty to kill next foil; only
104 sheep; 5 goats; two white laborers,
and seven hundred and twenty-
six colored. What a con
trast! And yet there are no richer
lands in Georgia than are to be found
in Chatham. The difference between
the products of the two counties may
be ascribed solely to the a*healthiness
of Charbam, and the unreliable nature
of negro labor.
The negroes work as little as possi
ble and steal all they can lay their
hands upon. And that comprises the
whole story.
GLORIOUS AND OVEJlUUELM-
ING DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.
Special to the Constitution.
Tin* First Note.
Montgomery, August 7.
The returns indicates sweeping dem
ocratic victory. Houston’s majority forgoveru-
will not be loss than 20,(WO, anti probably go
much higher The democrats have made gains
everywhere heard from, anti wiU Ua*e a large
majority iu the legislature.
^utrt Elfftlon—-45.000 Majority.
Mobile. Ala., August 7.
The election passed off without any
disturbance. Thi* county gives over 500 demo
cratic majority. Returns from the state as fsr
as heard from indicate large democratic gains.
The democrats claim the sUtc by 2S.OOO major
ity.
And Still They Come—30,000 Strong:.
Montgomery, Ala., August
The returns show* democratic gain*
every where. Enough has been received
warrant the statement that the democratic ma
jority will be thirty thousand. Many counties
heretofore republican send democrat* to the
legislature aud ihe majority on joint ballot will
be very large. The vote by congressional dis
tricts show seven of them democratic an
republican. As lar as heard from there has not
beeu a disturbance of any kind in the stale,
and good feeling prevailed every where.
KENTUCKY'# CANTER.
Henry Wateraon. Over w he: ml ugly
Elected, etc.
State Politics.
DEMOCRATIC.
—Harris county ballots in each mi
litia district on tne second of Septem
ber with ten aspirants for representa
tive in the legislature.
—Douglass county declares for Henry
R Harris for Congress in the fourth dis
trict and sends E. Pclk and VV J. Wad
dy delegates to the congressional con
vention.
—Dodge county favors G. C. Kibbee
for congress. A convention of dele
gates, to be elected on the second Nat
urday,12th of August, meets August
17th, to nominate ^representative.
—Hon. C. J. Ussery has beeu nomi
nated by the democrats of Randolph
county for th3 legislature.
—Putnam county endorses the nom
i nation of Dr. J. E. Godfrey for the
senate from the 28tli district
—J. J. Burch has been nominated
for representative in Elbert county.
—Col. G. W. Jordan has consented
to run for the legislature in Pulaski
county.
—Lincoln county meets September
5th, to nominate a candidate for the
legislature.
—G. A. Mallette has been nominated
for representative from Camden
county.
—Hon. R. H. Tatem has been nomi
nated for representative in Dade
connty.
—Col. A. J. Smith of Glenn has been
nominated for senator from the Fourth
district.
—Troup county hereafter nominates
candidates foi legislature and county
offices by primary election.
—Baldwin county sends Blount dele
gates to tbe congressional convention
—Columbia county holds a primary
election for representative on .the sec
ond Tuesday in September.
—J. C. C. Black and Pat Walsh are
announ%d for re-election as represen
tatives Irom Richmond county.
—Thomas Willingham has been
nominated for representative in For
syth county.
RADICAL.
—The radicals of Muscogee county
have elected A. T. Calhoun, J. W Ar
nold, V. J. Jones, colored, and M. W
Thweatt, .white, delegates to the nidi
cal congressional convention at West
Point.
—At a republican mass meeting near
Mr. Reuben Miller’s place, in Morgan
county, on Saturday, T. P. Suffold was
nominated for the senate, and D. S.
Johnson for the house.
YMISTRESS’ BOOTS.
nearly strike me dumb,
A“d 1 tremble when they come
Pit-spat—
Th,. citation means
Th«*o hoot*are Geraldine’s—
Think of that!
Oh, where did hunter win
So delectable a skin
For her feet?
You lucky little kid.
You perished, so you did.
For my sweet.
The fairy stitch gleams
~ “ esidt
,'ixie*
V ho tipt those fanny tags
And these toes.
Chanced to view
near tbe tide,
fi he wonld ha'
For tbe two!
For Gerry’s debonair
And innocent, and fair
Asa rose:
She’s an aigel in a frock.
With a fascinating cock
To her nose.
The simpletons who squeeze
Their extremities to pleats
Mandarins,
W’onld porltive’y flinch
Cinderella’* “lefts and rights"
To Geraldine’s were frights;
Aud I trow
The damsel. defUy shod.
Has dutifully trod
Until i
r.flnce i
iyPuss(
These to don;
*" hand awhile
•. dear, and I'll
Put them on.
SISK lit A ft QUALE.
Ten Prisons Druwnrd in Patnam's
Pond.
Telegram to the constitution.
Whitehall, N. Y., August 7.—Sun
day afternoon ten persons were
drowned while crossing Putnam’s
pond, Essex connty Thirteen were in
a small row boat. When about three
rods from the shore, in eight reet of
water, a aquall struck the boat which
immediately capsized. The names of
the drowned were: Johnson and wife,
John McAlister and wife, John Bur-
land and daughter, Peter Osier, Adolph
Livingston, Mr. Hold.n and Miss L , , ,
Thatcher. The bodies of all but Hoi-1 been changed into dwellings or given
den were recovered. | np to other secular uses.
Louisville, August 7, 1876.
The county elections were held in
this state to-day Bourbon coun’y elected
democrat sheriff by 301 majority. Fayette coun
ty elects democrats by 800 majori y. Campbell
county increased democratic majority. Kenton
county, 1,410 democratic majority. Boyd
ty—republicans elect whole ticket, except Sher
man. Mason county—Elliot elected for ju-’ge
of the court of appeal* by an estimated majority
of 7,0 0 to 8,000.
In the congressional election to day Hcury
Waterson was elected by au overwhelming
jority. only a few scattering votes being cast for
Heady, independent democrat. The republi
cans had no local ticket in the Held.
Abel elected sheriff'. Young Henry Clay was
beaten for prosecuting attorney by a few votes.
-Levy’s wife presented to him
cottage organ capable of nocturnal runs
;m the coroupattc scale such as be
never dreamed of before.
—One may see Lotta every day at
Newport, playing croquet with all the
zest she puts into her play playing in
her child characters on the stage.
—No one can walk along the plat
form of a railroad depot and glance in
at the car windows, without noticing
the total absence of beauty that char
acterizes the average American nose.
—Children die in New York as sand
tliea die on summer evenings. The
wife of au undertaker told a reporter
last week that she had with her own
hands prepared 130 iufants for burial
iu three days.
—Brooklyn Argus: There is a Cincin
nati pork merchant so mean that lie
can’t see a fat man running for a rail
road train without being deeply pene
trated by the sentiment of the exclama
tion: “YVhat a waste of lard !”
—“My dear,” said a gentleman to
his wife, “our new club is going to have
all the home comforts.” “Indeed,*’
sneered the wife; “and when, pray, is
our home to have all the club com
forts ?”
—Miss Bennett, sister of James Gor
don Bennett, has no intention of tak-'
ing the veil. She is at Newport, en
joying herself after the manner of belles
and h iresses. She rides frequently, in
the most becoming of habits, a $3,200
thorough hied, said to be the finest
saddle-horse in the country.
— A thirsty toper, in a barroom.flung
down his sixj^nce and then filled his
glass to the brim with whisky. “Hold
cn!” exclaimed the bartender, in appa
rent astonishment, “There’s a chromo
$oes with that drink,” and tearing off a
portion of the end of a cigar box, he
politely handed it across the counter.
—A robin fell while building a nest
in a Newburyport tree, and his legs
caught in a web of twine in which he
had become entangled. An interested
crowd assembled, and the bird was
rescued; but one of his legs was broken,
and a physician, after trying to set it,
performed an amputation. The robin
is uow as well as ever, and again at
work on the nest.
—The new sultan of Turkey has
three wives, but the first is his favor
ite. This is being “true to your first
love.” She is a very shrewd woman,
for the sultan told her to pick him out
two other wives. She did so, picking
out two of the most beautiful
women she could find, but thev are
very stupid, having nothing but their
beauty to recommend them, while she
i« a very intelligent lady. The wisdom
of her choice is very plain to any think
ing mind.
—Paul Boy ton,after swimming about
for several days to the edification of
north Germany at Fried richshafen, left
that lively port on the 14th of July on
a swimming tour around the world,
lie is to go by way of Seooa, Venice,
Vienna, Moscow, 6t. Petersburg, South
Russia, Turkey, the Suez Canal, Bom
bay, Calcutta, Madras and Java to
Australia, Siam, China, Japan and San
Prancisco, whence he will return to
New York by the Isthmus of Panama.
As he is to give exhibitions wherever
he stays for a couple ot days, he will
probably find no difficulty in keeping
his head above water.
The New York Drmocrarj.
Saratoga, August 8.—The demo
cratic state convention will meet on the
30th instant.
Tbe Centennial Murder.
Tamworth. N H., August 8.—S. \V.
Cone murdered Paul Williams. It is
the first murder that ever was perpe
trated in the town, and great exertion
was necessary to save Cone from being
lynched by a crowd of five hundred
citizens.
Tbe TexnM Pac’flr.
Philadelphia, August 8.—The an
nual meeting of the stockholders of the
Texas Pacific railroad company was
held to-day. Thomas A. Scott was re
elected president, Frank S. Bond and
John C. Brown vice-presidents, and
George D. Krumbhaar treasurer.
Accident to « Centennial T rain.
Cixcinxatti, August 8.—A train due
here at 7; 30 over tbe Louisville <& Cin
cinnati short line ran off the track yes
terday near Glencoe. One passenger
coat h and three sleei*ers rolled dowrn
an embankment. Ten or twelve hurt,
none killed. Isadora Hernsheim of
New Orleans, had his knee dislocated
and his head cut. An infant child of
M£ Kickman, of New Orleans, had its
head badly cut, and W. II. Dee ves,
also of New Orleans, had his hip cut.
—Buddhism is losing ground in Ja-
jn. Within the last six years 600
Suddhist temples have been devoted
to other purposes, and since 1873 sev
enty-one in one district, or ken, have
Telegraph to the Constitution. -
Braelng for the Bnt tic.
St. Paul, August 8.—Gen. Crook,
from Goose creek, July 16, writes that
Gen. Terry had determined to attack
the Indians on tbe arrival of his supply
train, but about that time learning that
the Indians had been reinforced, he
concluded to defer until the arrival of
eight companies of the eighth cav
alry which he exp. cted the last of July.
Crook is rationed to the end of Sep
tember. Crook will cheerfully serve
under Terry if Terry thinks best, when
he joins him. Crook, when reinforce
ments arrived, expected to have 1,600
figlitiug men and some friendly Indi
ans, and will move without further de-
Uy.
Tbe Steamer Atlncuml.
Washington, August 8.—A dispatch
from Bismarck says that the steamer
Carroll, from Terry’s camp with sick
aud wounded, was attacked by the*In
dians and a running fight of two hours
and a half ensued. One soldier was
wounded.
RHUleriDg with Ihe RrflMklnn
The Far West, with provisions for
Terry’s camp, was overloaded and was
obligtd to leave her wheat upon the
bank. Returning for it thev found the
Indians had destroyed it. Col. Moore
was on board with three companies.
The Indians bautered them out to
fight. A few shots with a small can
non dispersed them. Scouts went out
from the boat to reconnoitre and the
Indians cut them off. Moore refused
to scud them help, and the captain of
the boat called for volunteers, ami
with eight soldiers went ashore and
rescued them.
Uncomfortably KltnntraL
Neither Crook nor Terrv are com
fortably situated. Terry has fallen
back eighty miles. Crook is moving
to join Terry but is constantly harass
ed. •
Tbe Texaa Trailer*-
Leavenworth, August 8.—Rumor
comes here from northern Texas that
a large body of 2,000 or 3,000 Indians
are encamped on the north fork of the
Red river twenty or thirty miles from
Fort Elliot, and great fears exist
among the people of that section that
they meditate mischief if not war.
They are well armed and have abun
dant provisions.
Hone to the War.
Cincinnati, August 8.—The Commer
cial’s special from Crook’s expedition,
Tongue river, 4th inst, via Fort Fetter-
man, says: General Merritt was joined
yesterday by the Fifth cavalry and the
entire command stripped of all imped
iments, wutli a supply of rations and
ammunition on pack mules, start to
morrow for a fifteen days’ raid. We
move down Tongue river on Cooner’s
old trail of 1866. Whether we will
come out at the agemvea on the Yellow
8tone is an open question. The Sioux
have proceeded eastwardly down the
Little Horn in so leisurely a manner
that they seem to invite a battle. When
vou hear from us there will either have
beeu a battle or a great race.
Coining In.
Washington, August 8.—Tlie war
department has advices that many In
dians coining into the reservation have
guns captured from the Seventh cav
alry.
C’OMMOl>OKE VANDERBIET.
An E*tlraatc of bn* Yn*t W>altb.
In conversation with a rei»orter re
cently, a gentleman well acquainted
from hi« official duties with the real es-
tate ami stock markets of this city, and
having a large acquaintance among
business men, said current rumors for
several years have ascribed fabulous
wealth to William B. Astor, A. T.
Ste vart and Cornelius Vanderbilt
Their fortunes are said to exceed $80,-
000,000 each, and are popularly sup
posed to reach $100,000,000.
1‘ersons unacquainted with the
ways of making money and the num
erous incidental losses of business
men, have no idea of the error of the
popular lielief as to the wealth of our
rich men. Mr. Astor was worth in all
not more than from $45,000,000 to $50,-
000,000. Mr. Stewart’s fortune did not
exceed $25,000 000. These acquainted
with his business affairs know that he
was constantly carrying a heavy mar
gin ot indebtedness on his purchases—
not beyond his ability to carry, and
not sufficient to embarrass him—but
materially lessening the aggregate
worth of his estate on a final settlement
and winding up of his affairs. Mr.
Vanderbilt has not needed to own a
majority of the stoek of the New York
Central and Hudson River railroads.
It lias been sufficient for him and his
sons, with a few chosen friends
to control $40,000,000 of the
stock. Had his death not
been so long anticipated this valuable
property would probably be subject to
the flucl nations of the market for a time
after h : s demise, aud a forced sale of
t!»e stock wonld not yield the figures at
present quoted on the market, but bis
best friends do not anticipate anything
like a convulsion. In view of this con
tingency, it is understood in the inner
circle/)! tbe commodore’s acquaintance
that he has disposed of his immense in
terest in the stock to his sons, which
will effectually prevent a panic and
keep the control of the roads in the
hands of those who have so long man
aged them. Mr. Vanderbilt will not
let the public into the secret of his for
tune. He is willing enough to be
considered worth $1,000,000,000,
but the exact figures never will be
known outside of his family, if he can
avoid it The actual value of his es
tate cannot even be estimated with any
'jertainty. To say that he is worth
from forty to sixty millions of dollars
is as near as anv outsider can get at it.
The market value of the stock owned
by him must be taken into account, to
gether with the general depreciation in
all kinds of business, which must nec
essarily affect the property and real es
tate of these railroads, and depreciate
the worth of tbe franchise.”
The commissioner of taxes and as
sessments have assessed Mr. Vander
bilt’s personal estate for 1876 at $3,000,-
000, an increase of $1,200,000 over
previous yeara.—Tribune.
THE HELTON CASE.
Wbat He it* Wf»nt«l in Carroll Coun
ty For.
Yesterday Mr. Beddingfield, 'the
sheriff of Carroll county, came to this city for
the purpose of carding back with him Mr J C
Helton, for whom he held a warrant Helton
w«* arrested two days a^o by the p Ice, and
locked up in the guard bouse. To a r porter of
the Constitution, tbe sheriff made the
FOLLOWING STATEMENT ABOUT THE C*8K
Helton is a citiz.-n of Carroll county,where be
married the daughter of a very well-known citi
zen, and has a family. He conducted himself
tolerably well until July, 1875, when he was
charged with having attempted to commit a rap y
upon the person of a Miss Long. The young
lady’s story about the affair was that she was re
turning home from a mill, along a road through
the woods, when Helton approached her from a
clump of biuhestoonc side. He stopped her.
aud after some conversation mafic an
insulting proposal. This she instantly
refused, when he attempted to seize her and she
He pursued her some distance, usim* ob
scene language, but she succeeded la m. kt * r
her escape. She laid her case before the & ran I
jii'yai the October term of the superior «<ur,
bnt they refused to indict him for assault with
intent to rape, and instead found a trui bill
against him for using obscene language to a
female. This bill was subsequently quashed for
some informality, and at the next term of the
court the girl swore out a wa-rant against hi.u
tot the latter offense. He gave bond, hfs
fJther-iu-lav* becoming hla surety. Subsequent
ly some trouble arose in the family, and upon
bis father’s announcing his intention to give
him up.Helton took leg bail. Since then he has
been an iuformer in the employ of the int* r. al
revenue department here aud tad been engag
ed in travelling through the district hunting up
contraband whisky. Ihe sheriff starts back
with his prisoner this rooming.
—Hon. I. A. Bush is a young man
about thirty years of age. a lawyer of ability
and a successful fanner, a liberal, honest, dev-
thorough going, wide awake, sober and an
industrious gentleman. He is devoted to the
democratic party aud to the best interee U of the
state and ol his district. He represented his
county in the legislature ably four years, and
for that reason will be perfectly at home, and
ready and competent for business, should ha
be elected, as won aa he eaten the senate chant
her—Exchange.
SCALPING SENSATIONS.
7UE MYSTERIOUS WAYS OF TIIR
NOBLE BED MAN.
Telegram to the Constitution.
Cneyessr,August 7.—On the return
trip from Dead wood the stage was at
tacked at Macon creek. The stock was
stolen, the mail-hags cut open and the
coach destroyed. One passenger was
wounded.
A camp of fifteen Indians was sur
prised ami attacked at old Bridge’s
ferry .forty miles north of Fort Laramie,
by a party of herders. One Indian and
two ponies were killed, and fourteen
ponies captured
Baker and Davis’ train, while return
ing from the Hills, were attacked near
Owens’ ranche, 25 miles sonth of Fort
Laramie yesterday, losing ten head of
horses. A sergeant, eiclit culvarymen
and a number of ranchmen started in
pursuit hut failed to overtake them.
Considerable excitement exists among
stock men in the valley and horses are
being corallcd.
Oust is with 65 Utes arrived at Raw
lins to-day. Thev proceeded to Ft.
Steele to be armed, and will then start
north to join Gen. Crook’s .command.
One company of the fourth calvary
left early this morning for Fort Lara
mie,another arrived this evening. They
move north as fa“t as they arrive, sev
eral companies of the 14th infantry are
enroute from Utah.
In (lie lloselmil.
Providence, It. I., August 7.—The
Journal has a dispatch from an officer
at the mouth of Rosebud, dated Aug.
6, saying “The reinforcements are near
ly all up and we will probably move on
the Sioux about the tenth.
4>tiM«liun ludinn* Sensible.
Ottawa, August 7.—The latest ad
vices received by the government from
Northwestern territory, are to the effect
that the Canadian Indians luid refused
all Incentives to take part in hostilities
against the United States. The
report telegraphed from Cheyenne
that Sitting Bull is being joined by
stragglers from British territories, is
probably a canard.
The KiirknpooH UTCih>«1“
Chicago, August 7.—A San Antonio
despatch received this morning at Gen.
Sheridan’s headquarters says: A small
command under Lieutenant Buffer,
founds Kickapoo and Li par camp in
Texas and attacked it, killing two and
capturing four Indians and one hun
dred horses.
A ItrqufNl .for l»cacc.
A request from the agency Indians to
the Indian commissioner, to use his
inilueuce in having operations against
the Hostile Sioux suspended until they
could have an opportunity to confer
with them in the interests* of |»eace,
having beeu referred to the proper au
thorities of the war department, in the
absence of the general of the army,
have beeu referred to General Sheri
dan, whose views are momentarily ex
pected here. The general opinion
among army officers is, that there will
be no compromise listened to,and that
all that can bo done is to prosecute the
war aud punish the Indians who have
violated the treaty stipulations and
gone on the war path.
Washington, August 7.—Bout well's
Mississippi committee have made their
report. In view of the condition of
affairs which they represent exists in
Mississippi, they suggest In conclusion
three remarks:
Firat—The laws may be passed by
congress for the protection of the rights
of citizens in the resj»ective states.
Second—That the states in anarchy
should be denied representation in con
gress
3. That the constitutional guarantee
of a republican form of government to
every state will require the United
States, if these disorders increase or
even continue, and all milder measures
shall prove ineffectual, to remand the
state to a territorial condition, and
through a system of public education
and kindred means oi improvement,
change the ideas of the inhabitants and
reconstruct the government upon a re
publican basis.
►.*-<
luv iuirs sum:
A True Statement of llic .Miwi<ts'|>|il
Case.
Tclcgaxn to the Gomtitntion.
Washington, August 8.—The report
of the minority, of the Mississippi in
vestigation committee, has been con
cluded. Striking out the counties
where fraud may he supposed to have
nullified the elections in those f-ptcial
few localities, still enough lawfully and
peacefully elected members of both
houses remain unini]»eached in any
quarter and by any witness, to form
more than a quorum * duly qualified to
organize the bodies according to
the constitution of the state
of Mississippi. Interference by the
federal authorities in the state elec
tions and internal affairs, has, since the
clore of the war frequently taken place,
and never without deplorable and dis
astrous results, and on the other hand
the applications of minorities defeated
by the (Kqmlar vote, to be nevertheless
installed in office, has never been de
nied by the federal authorities without
such denial being followed by heuefi-
cient results Such interferences have
always been followed and very natu
rally by local discontent and disorder,
as in the case of Louisiana and Alabama,
while Tennessee, Virginia, North Car
olina, Georgia, Texas and Arkansas
are living proofs in their increased
prosperity and tranquility of the wis
dom of non-interference.
OF THE ODO-S EX 1.0 W -
Meeting; ol tbe CJrami To-Day
Hjnxial to ihe Constitution.
Dalton, Ga., August 8 1876.
The grand encampment had a har
monious session Uvdxy nnd elected th» follow
ing officers: W <i Grainling. Atlanta, M W « I»;
T A Askew, Savannah, M K H I*; W A Trout.
Barnes v I He. <i S W; H t» Aeinchba ker, Colum
bus, GJ W; J G Dcitz, Macon, GS; T A Buike,
Athens, G T.
The Grand lodxe opens to moTv.v T Sie ses
sion promhes to be In teres inn
AEARAMA'ft ELLtllOA.
Every County bnt Kev> I»« n»orrnllc
Montgomery. August 8.—Returns
continue to show large democratic
gains.' Out of 65 counties every one
will give a democratic majority except
six or seven. The democrats will have
27 out of 33 senators and at least 80
out of 100 representatives. This secures
a democratic successor to Goldth waite,
present incumbent and a democrat
in the United States senate. Quiet pre
vailed throughout the state.
The Territory of I’cmlun*.
Washington, August 8.—The senate
passed a biff to establish the territory
of Pembina, out of the northern part
of the territory of Dakotah.
Another Mnriler.
New Orleans, August 8.—E. A. Car-
lion, colored, was shot dead by Jas.
Guinault in the civil court building.
The difficulty was alxjut a law suit
Guinault is in prison. •
Mils. Ilona, of Corpus Christi, is fair
ly entitled to her nsm'; ot the * t^ttl.r qu < „ „t
Tex**, feheowns75,000 ncnsiof Un i. mV .,>-*.1
J-y twenty three mile- of fence, on which i o-o
heeves per annum are rattem-d for mark-1 l'icr
haibard. who aied M>ua* year* since, refused to*
offer of (UO.fO^fot one brand or his stock, which
hM S been largslT incr oacd since. Mr. Weller’s
vice concerning widows is not likely u* be r -
K fried auy where in that section of Texas at
The silver glut is ruining the bur
glars. polid stiver'Is scarcely w.,rth stealing «
urrent London rates, and as for plated ware.
***■"— “ The Brooklyn bur
the sideboards in
e above taking it The Brooklyn bur
cat ri the silver ou the '** * -
Monroe-place and threw aside tbe
thieves
5 lar who teat ri the siiVwi
Ion roe-place and threw
betrayed the business instinct of the
In Nevada bufglan consider it low toned to stc*
silver In any form, and the San Francisco Hi lie
tlu is forced to admit that unWs there is a
speedy advance in the price o! silver bullion ih
California thieves will have u» abandon th
trade and earn an honest living like otiiy
folks.
- Great harm and discomfort is
caused by the use of purgatives which
gripe and rack the system. Pawn**
PurjcUive Pill* are free from all impure
matter, and are mild aud health-giving
in their operation.
- At this season of the year cram; s
and pains in the stomach and bowels,
dysentery, diarrhtea, Ac., are quiet
common, and should be checked at
once. Johnson’« Anodyne Liniment is the
best article that can be used in all such
cases, and shonld be kept in every
family. Used internally.