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THE ATLANTA WEEKL Y SUN.
THE DAILY SUN.
Monday Morning..
.. September 4.
The California Democracy.
We very cheerfully give place to-day
To a letter from the “Young Giant” of
the West. The tone and spirit of the
letter arc patriotic, and true to the Consti-
tion throughout. With all such Demo
crats we can co-operate most heartily.—
We have no objection to those who accept
the “fraudulent amendments” as existing
facts, while the administration of the
Government is in the hands of those
who are clothed with power to enforce
them; but who do not endorse them a6
finalities. Wo hail m friends all those
who acquiesce in them as de facto, but
not da jure parts of the organic law. We
have not seen the Democratic Platform
of California upon which the present
canvass in that State is conducted; bnt
have no doubt, from tinstone and spirit
of the letter of our correspondent, that
the difference between him and us (had
we been in the Convention with him)
would have been a difference only as to
form and not one of substance, as to the
proper language in which the true posi
tion should luvve been set forth.
We have all along said but little about
the Ohio Democratic Platform. It is the
9th Resolution of the Pennsylvania Han-is-
hurg Convention against which wc war,
and war to the knife !
This is the embodiment of the “New
Departure” doctrine, against which we so
earnestly protest. This contains the es
sence of wlmt the New York World and
all its coadjutors are striving to get
the Democracy of the Union to adopt;
and this is just what our correspondent
shows that he is ^uite as little disposed
to do as we are; for according to the plain
letter and clear intent of that Resolution,
the object is to get the Democracy every
where, to declare that there was no fraud,
perfidy or usurpation attending the pro
posal or adoption of these Amend
ments at all—that they have been incor
porated in the organic law “in themanner
and by the authority Constitutionally ap
pointed;” in other words, that they are
not only de facto but de jure parts of the
Constitution; and that all discussion of
the gross usurpations touching their pro
posed and adoption is not only to bo dis
countenanced but “deprecated.” It is
against this position, and this most
shameful abandonment of all Right, Jus
tice end Truth, that wo war.
(5ur correspondent says that the Cali
fornia Democrats, in their State platform,
intended only to declare the three amend
ments arc “a settlement in fad of all the
issues of the war etc” and not to aver that
they had been adopted according to law, or
that they were in themselves either just
or right. On the contrary, ho says that
they have “an abiding faith in.the intelli
gence of the people to pronounce them null and
void at some future day”
This is our position exactly. This we
believe to bo the position of ninety-nine
Out of every hundred of the henest masses
of the Democracy in every State of the
Union. All that is wanted for a brilliant
victory in 1872, on these principles and
with this view is for them to get together
in common council and set forth their
purposes and principles in language
which will clearly express their common
ideas, and about which there can be no
mistake or misunderstanding.
We say, in conclusion, to our corres
pondent, that while we shall look with
interest and hope to the success of his
Stato ticket in the election so near at
hand; yet, wo greatly apprehend that
he will find, when the result of the polls
is known, that the party has been con
siderably “ handicapped” by a Platform
which did not give full utterance to the
true sentiments of the people.
A. H. S.
Good Fences—Good Supplies-Good Build
ing and Otlicr Facilities.
We have heard it stated that CoL A.
L. Harris, cx-Master of Transportation
f and ex-Supervisor of the State Road, has
his lot near the city fenced in a very sub
stantial manner—the same being made of
handsomely sawed timbers about the
length, breadth and thickness of railroad
cross-ties.
Also, that he has enough fire-wood, of
the very best quality—such as oak, ash,
beech and hickory (which can be obtained
in abundance between here and Chatta
nooga)—to lost for two years or more—a
very large amount at any rate—far be
yond the most liberal supply usually laid
in for one season by our most provident
and'wealthy citizens.
We also hear it alleged that some State
Road ex-officials have houses, fences,
stables and other improvements, made
of lumber that was dressed and
carpentered in the State Road shops,
and purchased, we know not where, nor
by whom paid for; that some persons in
town have counters, desks <tc., in their
business places, and furnituisr»ijBs4heir
houses, which were wholly
said shops; and that all vn£J
with State Road paint—upon what terms
and conditions we know not; neither do
we certainly vouch for the truth of these
allegata oas and reports, but in these
Unit s of general investigation, when
tends and peculations seem to have
been so extensive, and to have involved
so many, we think it proper to call pub
lic at U ntion to these things, and ask :
Hare houses, fences, stables, tf'C., been
built, andfmrnUin
of Stale Road officials, who have riot paid
the State full value for the materials
and service, with reasonable profit added?
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6tn. Toombi and the State Road Inves
tigation.
General Toombs left the city on Sat
urday evening, going home for a day or
two. While here he became billy ac
quainted with the facts connected with
the State Road investigations and the de
velopments in prospect. He fully indor
ses all that the friends of the people have
done in the matter, and has, himself,
most heartily entered into the cause and
will lend the powerful aid of his great
intellect and legal ability to the ferreting
out of frauds and the punishment of the
perpetrators.
We congratulate the country upon
having secured his able assistance in
these prosecutions.
Gov. Bullock and H. I. Kimball.
The Savannah Advertiser of. the 2d in
stant contains the following, from its
special Washington correspondent:
Henry Clews, of New York, financial
agent for the State of Georgia, was here
last night, trying to explain Bollock and
Kimball’s financial problem. Clews says
since the publication of Angier’s testi
mony, he has had great difficulty in ne
gotiating Georgia bonds. His efforts to
suppress further publications of the facts
regarding Bullock’s fraudulent issue of
State bonds proved an entire failure.—
Clews says that Bullock exhibited to him
a pardon, wherein he (Bnllock) had par
doned Angier of malfeasance in office.—
This will be news in Georgia.
The Atlanta Fair.
This grand entertainment will com
mence at Oglethorpe Park on the 16th of
October and continue five days. Prepa
rations are being made for an exhibition
which will eclipse even the Fair of last
year. The premium lists have been
made out and published, and the induce
ments offered exhibitors are very liberal
Twenty-five thousand visitors can be
comfortably accommodated, and the rail
roads, with their usual liberality, will
charge only one fare during the week.
Our citizens are making ample arrange
ments to accommodate all who may
attend.
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BLOODY AFFAIR IN DECATUR.
One Man Mortally Wounded and Anoth
er Badly Hurt.
About six o’clock on Saturday evening,
a man by the name of Sizemore, a shoe
maker by trade, and another man named
Thrasher, a former Sheriff of DeKalb
county, had an altercation in which Size
more was stabbed so severely that his
life is dispaired of. After he was cut he
seized a stick and struck Thrasher a se
vere blow over the head, inflicting an
ugly wound. Thrasher has left, and our
informant states that Sizemore’s attend
ing physician says there is no hopes of
his recovery.
Both gentlemen were citizens of Deca
tur, and near neighbors, and the wives
of each witnessed the affray. They both
fainted at the bloody scene, and the ex
citement created was terrible for that un
usually quiet village.
Where is Gov. Bullock 1
We would like to know what has be
come of His Excellency. A Chicago
dispatch announces that he passed
through that city a day or two ago on his
way to California. Can this be true ?
If so, what can bo his object ? Is he
afraid to return to Georgia at this par
ticular Juncture ? What business has he
in California, or anywhere else, save at
his post, using all the patronage and
power of his official position, to assist in
the patriotic work of hunting up those
who have “appropriated” the people’s
money to their own use ? Is he afraid
that he, too, will be investigated ? We
would like to know what has become of
the Governor.
A MAN KILLED.
election, which is to be held on the 6th
of September.
At that time we elect all State and
county officers, as well as three members
of Congress, and no party was ever more
devoted to their cause, or used their time
and means more freely to elect their tick
et than the Democrats of California are
doing at this time, and no people ever
dreaded Radical rale more than we do.
I had the honor of being a member of
the State Convention that adopted our
platform, and I am certain that a Conven
tion of truer Democrats never got to
gether than wc had there. Some of
them had been locked up in Fort Alca
traz during the war, -while many others
were not allowed to practice their profes
sion because of theh: political opinions;
but they stood true and firm to the par
ty, and suffered persecution for doing so.
We say in our platform, “that.we re
gard the three several amendments to
the Constitution recently adopted as a
settlement in fact of all the issues of the
war, and that the same are no longer is
sues before the country,” and this seems
to meet with some objectors throughout
the country. I do not believe that a sin
gle member of our State Convention
meant to say that the amendments were
right and just, or that lie indorsed them;
nor do I believe that one would have ta
ken the oath of the Medes and Persians
never to change the Constitution when
they find it oppressive, and have power
to do so. We all look on the 15th amend
ment as unjust and un-American, in tak
ing the control of suffrage from the
States, but at present tne amendments
are in full force, with the whole govern
ment and army to enforce them. ■
We do not admit that these amend
ments were adopted according to law; we
do not admit their-justice; we know they
take the Government too far from the
people," and we have abiding faith in the
intelligence of the people to pronounce
them null and void at some future day,
and to let the States govern their own
suffrage; but at present we consider that
all the issues of the- war are settled and
must remain settled until the Democratic
party gets strong enough to. undo the
evils and give to the States their former
rights.
California will be the last State in the
Union that will give up the struggle
for State Rights, for she is in continual
dread that Congress will confer the right
of suffrage on the Asiatic heathens that
are crowding to our coast and taking the
labor from our own race. We expect for a
Radical Congress to do this to strengthen
their party, and for that reason we are terri
bly in earnest in trying to get aDemocratic
Congress and Democratic country that
will give back to California the right to
control her suffrage; but yet we can see
no good to come to us by agitating this
question of the amendments, and there
fore, we let it rest for the present, and
do all in our power to repeal the “Bayo
net bill,” the “Ku-Klux bill,” and to get
the right of franchise for all the white
mal9 citizens of the United States. Af
ter that is accomplished by a Democratic
Congress, we will be able to look to the
amendments, and hold then, as we do
now, that we have a perfect right to
change any laws that we may consider in
jurious to the country.
So far as California is concerned, I do
not believe that the right of fran
chise will ever be taken from
the negro, for we have but
few negro voters in tbe State, and they
are with but few exceptions native-born
Americans; but we claim the right to say
who shall or shall not vote in California;
and if wo ever get the power in Congress
we intend to exercise that right, notwith
standing that some of our Southern
friends say with our opponents, that we
have made a “New Departure.”
Our canvass is the most exciting that I
have ever witnessed, and both parties are
working bard to win the fight; and if we
succeed, you Georgians may set us Dem
ocrats down as a happy party; bnt if we
must die (though we fully expect to win)
we will die like men, and work harder at
the next election.
I intended to say something of the
condition of onr delightful State, but my
letter is long enough. I will only say
that notwithstanding we have "a dry year,
our people are probably as independent
as any State in the Union can boast of.
G. W. G.
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POLITICS IN GEORGIA.
His Hcatl Cut off toy the State Road
Train.
We learn that a man named Fawcet was
ran over near Stegall’s Station on the
State Road on Saturday night, and his
head literally severed from his body by
the cars. He was intoxicated and two
bottles of whisky were found near bis
person. It is supposed that he had laid
down on the track and gone to deep.
Stegall’s Station is just above this city
in Cobb county.
For The Axlajtca. Sex.
California Correspondence.
Petaluma, Cal., Aug. 14,1871.
Hon. A. H. Stephens: Dear Sir—I see
from reading The Sun that you oppose
that part of the Ohio Platform, called by
our opponents, tbe “New Departure” of
the Democratic party, and that you say
of those who accept it, that they “en
dorse” it.
No man has greater respect for your
opinions than myself, for, living in the
South as I did (in Alabama), I endorsed
your political views before, during and
since tbe war, up to tbe present time;
but I must say that you do not draw tbe
proper distinction between tbe words
accept and endorse.
In our Democratic platform of Cali
fornia, we accept wliat you style tbe “New
Departure,” but we do not admit here
that we have made any new departure
from Democratic principles. On the
fe, of material, and i contrary, we are devoted to the old prin-
From the Homo Commercial.
Democracy—Bourlionisin.
If the principles of Democracy were
correct twenty years ago they are correct
to-day. If to be a Democrat twenty years
"ago was to be a Bourbon, we are a Bour
bon to-day.
The principles of Democracy are based
upon the true nature of the general gov
ernment, and are applicable only to its
federative system. So long as this fed
erative system lasts, just so long will
there be fonnd honest advocates of those
principles and truths we call Democratic
and which were first enunciated by Thom
as Jefferson. "We believe in the Democ
racy that boldly and fearlessly announces
its policy and principles, and will stand
by them always, without forever watch
ing for a plank in the enemy’s platform
upon which to jump and cry “ah is lost.”
"We are of that class who believe in the
old Jeffersonian theory of government,
and are in favor of squaring our princi
ples and measures with that theory.
If this be Bourbonism then we are
Bourbon. «
The New Departure.
The “Hew Departure” is a cowardly
abandonment of Democratic principles—a
burnish somersault from the true faith to
Mongrelism. Its only claim upon the sup
port of honest men is that it is a piece of
diplomatic hypoen'sy. It lacks the wisdom
of conservatism; the audacious strength of
Bourbonism, and the turbulent glory of
“progressive” fanaticism. It is tame, in
capable, deceitful! Its triumph is a Radi
cal victory l Its defeat is a fitting conse
quence of its lying stupidity.—Rome (Ga.)
Commercial Aug. 30/A 1871.
POLITICS IN TEXAS.
begged nor driven into any kind of de
parture from it.
In fighting the common enemy, an in
vitation is extended to all good men,
“whatever may have been their past po
litical preferences, to unite with the Dem
ocratic party in removing from place and
power those who now control the State
Government, in order to release the peo
ple from oppressive revenue and unequal
taxation, to insure an honest administra
tion of the laws and an honest and eco
nomical expenditure of the public mon
eys, and to throw the regis of justice and
protection over the person and property
of every individual whatsoever in the
State of Texas,” in the language of the
platform itself.
We fight standing on that platform,and
most earnestly desire that every good
man within the broad limits of the State
will come to our help, and the help of
the Democracy, to aid in putting a stop
to the vice, demoralization and crime,
now daily, if not hourly, perpetrated by
the thieves, robbers and cut-throats, who
in one shape and another control the
State Government. As a Democratic
paper, we support the Democratic party
as now organized in Texas, on the plat
form before mentioned, adding nothing
thereto—taking nothing therefrom. A
strong, unscrupulous and vindictive ene
my is in our front; our blows are' at him.
We have no quarrel with friends. The
platform is our common ground. If we
act together, onr united strength will
surely overcome the foe. When the vic
tory has been won it will he time enough
to discuss what shall or shall not go into,
and make part of the next platform,
State and National, When such plat
forms shall he adopted, this paper will be
fouud standing “fiat- noted” on them,
and working with all its power to achieve
success for the party and uphold its
standards.—Democratic Statesman [Austin,
Texas,) Aug. 24th, 1871.
in thi shops,
chanlcs In Ot
l'.longing to the Stale, by me-
- pay cf the Slate, for the use
j ciples, and we are at this time in the midst
o! a most exciting canvass for the State
From the Democratic Statesman.
Tlie “New Departure. 55
The question is sometimes asked by
th ose who have not read the paper, ‘ ‘Is the
Democratic Statesman a New Departure
journal?”
Upon that subject our answer is short,
plain and to the point—no 1
This paper is planted on the Democrat
ic Platform adopted by the general con
vention which met at the city of Austin,
January 23, 1871. There is no such idea
I or expression in it We can neither be
POLITICS IN IOWA.
From the Ottumwa Democrat.
Democracy aiul Radicalism— 1 The Posi
tion Occupied l»y Hie two Parties in
Wapello County.
For the purpose of contrasting the
positions occupied by the two political
parties in this county, we print below the
resolutions introduced by Mr. Sanford
Kirkpatrick, in the Radical County Con
vention, which were rejected by au over
whelming vote of the Convention, also
the resolutions which were unanimously
adopted by the Democratic County Con
vention. Let the people decide which
party is the one working for the interests
of the farmer and laboring man:
EIRKPATEICK’S RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, That this Convention nominate candi
dates for the offices of County Commissioner, Rep
resentatives and State Senator, who will subscribe to
the following, viz:
1. The equal taxation of all property within the
State, except where exceptions have been made by
Congressional law.
2. Xo require plaintiff to give bond and security
for all costs before entering suit.
3. To abolish the office of County School Superin
tendent. s ;
4. To reduce the salary of the County Treasurer
and County Auditor one-third, and strict economy
in allowances for sheriff and all other county ex
penditures.
aiiiBy the rejection of the above resolu
tions the Badicals of this county place
themselves on record as being opposed
to equal taxation aud econopoy.-
THE DEMOCRATIC RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, By the Democracy of Wapello county in
Convention assembled:
1. That we are in favor of the repeal of the law
enacted by the last General Assembly authorizing
townships to vote taxes for railroad purposes.
2. That we are in favor of equal taxation, and to
that end demand that all property, (except that held
by religious, charitable or benevolent societies), gov
ernment bonds, as well as lands, railroad beds and
aU railroad property, horses and cattle, hear an equal
burden according to value in defraying the expenses
of the Government.
3. That We are in favor of strict economy in all
public expenditures audalso a reduction in the sala
ries of officers. Federal, State and county.
4. That we are opposed to selling the farms of the
poor to land-sharl:s and extortioners for taxes, while
a large portion of the wealth of the country is cx
empt from taxation.
5 Ttmt as one of the grievances complained of by
our Tevolutionary fathers was that King George sent
swarms of officers to harass them and eat out their
substance, so we demand of our Legislators that all
useless offices be abolished and that we bo relieved
as much as possible of the heavy burthens of taxa
tion.
G. That wo cordially invite all citizens of the
county, no matter what may have been their party
preferences heretofore, to unite with us- upon this
declaration of principles and assist uS in electing
those to office who are pledged to support the plat
form here enunciated.
The Democratic nominees stand square
ly upon this platform. The Radical can
didates were nominated in a convention,
which refused to adopt resolutions in fa
vor of economy and equal taxation.
It is for the people to bring in the ver
dict as to which party occupies the cor
rect position.—Ottumwa [Iowa) Democrat,
24 Aug., 1871.
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Country Homes—A Rare' Opportunity.
We invito the attention of all who want
houses in the country, on favorable
terms, to the advertisement of Hon. Wm.
F. Wright, of Newnan, Ga. This is a
rare opportunity, and should be im
proved.
Refused It.
The Auditing Board of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad—Maj. Hillyer,
Judge Walker and Col. Conley—have
audited an account to reimburse those
who have engaged in the prosecution of
the State Road plunclerers, to the extent
of what they have actually paid out of
their own money in procuring the arrest
of those who are charged with the frauds
upon the public.
This account, thus audited and allow
ed, we are told, was yesterday present
ed at the Executive office that a war
rant might be issued for the pay
ment of v the same; and that Mr.
Scrtt, in charge of the office, refused
upon the ground that he could not issue
a warrant for this purpose without the
investigation and sanction of the Gover
nor. Perhaps this position is correct.—
We do not know and shall not give an
opinion—only we learn that Executive
warrants for the payment of money are
being made .out for other parties every
day.
refuses to issue one to pay the expenses
of detecting and effecting the arrest of
those who are charged with the perpetra
tion of the same forgery!
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A Voice from Pennsylvania.
_ -, Pa, Aug. 30, 1871.
J. Henhf Smith, Manager Atlanta Sun:
Dear Sir: I would be glad to place The
Sun in the hands of every voter in this
State, and shall do what I can to circulate
it. Meantime send it to me regularly at
this place, for which I inclose you $2.
The campaign of 1872 will be an earn
est one. Live issues will be met squarely;
and the Democratic party will be a unit
on the great question.
The great truth is being firmly im
pressed on the minds of the people, that
the varying interests of the different
portions of this vast country-aside from th
correction of the great frauds and revolu
tionary proceedings of the dominant
power—demand the adoption of the
great principles so clearly defined and
so ably advocated by Mr. Stephens
in the columns of The Sun, viz: the
acknowledgement of the sovereign right of
local self-government, and regulation of
all internal affairs, by the States them
selves—subject only to the Constitution
of the United States. Lesser issues will
claim our attention in different localities;
but upon the most important question
we will all be arrayed upon the side of
truth, under the guidance of such lights
as The Sun. It will be made a “ live
issue” in this State, in the coming cam
paign.
The hope of carrying a majority of
the people by dropping what some call
“settled controversies,” and making the
contest upon the personal merits of can
didates, or by adopting a platform with
unsound planks in it, is found to be too
shallow, and cannot receive the sanction
of men of political experience, who have
the success of our cause at heart.
Yours, truly,
Ben. Butler.
It seems from Butler’s own confession
that he practiced stealing before he be
gan his raid upon the silver spoons and
silk dresses of the ladies of New Orleans.
He is now a candidate for the Radical
nomination for Governor of his State.
The following recent utterance of his will
no doubt help him to secure that nomi
nation. He said:
“I do not love slavery much better
than men who prated much louder about
it. I see that I am told by every Spring-
field paper that I voted thirty-seven
times for Jeff. Davis. I did—to preserve
the Union. They tell you that every
time, but they don’t tell you that the
boat on which I came away from Charles
ton had a fugitive slave.”
Bullock’s Barn.
A correspondent of the Chronicle and
Sentinel, alluding to one of the parties
implicated in the frauds who have volun
tarily refunded what he obtained impro
perly, says he tasted the forbidden fruit
and it soured on his stomach,' and adds :
If Bullock could be induced to swallow
such an emetic he would have no use for
a twenty thousand dollar barn. I passed
by his farm, spent three days in the
neighborhood, and was almost induced
to visit it by one who assured me that it
would cost that sum. I was almost sorry
that I did not stop and look at it, for I
am induced to think that he will have to
import his forage, as there don’t seem to
be grain enough in that section of coun
try to feed his horses.
Reduction of Letter Postage Be.
tween tlie United States and
Germany, "by the Direct Mails
via Bremen and Hamburg, Re
spectively.
On the 30th of August Hon. Joseph
H. Blackfan, Superintendent of Foreign
Mails, Post Office Department, "Washing
ton, D. C., by order of the Postmaster
General, issued the following notice,
which is of special interest to many thou
sands throughout the United States :
An arrangement has just been conclu
ded between the United States and Ger
many, to take effect on the 1st of Octo
ber next, which reduces the rate of in
ternational postage for prepaid letters
exchanged between the two countries by
the direct routes, via Bremen and Hamburg,
respectively, from 7 to 6 cents per each
single rate of half an ounce or under.
Unpaid letters so exchanged are to be
charged with double the prepaid rates; and
the insifficiently paid letters with the
postage for unpaid letters after deduction
of the amount prepaid.
It is particularly to be observed that
this reduction applies to letters only; so
that all correspondence other than letters
posted in the United States for Germany
will continue subject to the same rates of
postage, and to the same conditions of
compulsory prepayment as are now appli
cable thereto.
Postmasters will levy and collect post
age accordingly on and after the 1st of
October next.
A NEGRO PREACHER ARRESTED.
A Nevada man, anxious to rnarrv
young lady of his acquaintance, learLi
that her sister was about to marry
without her knowledge procured a iW
riage license, flattering himself that h
could spring the question upon her l
that in the excitement of her sister’ s' in •
riage she would consent to follow suit**"
Tlie idea was a brilliant one, but the T
tempt to carry it into execution waT'
woeful failure. 5 a
Albert Harrison, Jr., twenty-one vean
old, enraged by the violence of hvs in
toxicated father towards his mother iT
Philadelphia, on Saturday night, seized
a small sword and ran it through his
body, inflicting a dangerous wound.
then went to a police station and gave
himself up. He is said to be a quiet
sober young man, and his father is a hard
working, industrious man, who occa'
sionally gets drunk, and is then vevJ
troublesome.
A Chain Gang Convict Arrestcfl vrliilc
Baptizing tlie Brethren.
We have heard it stated that Mr. Scott
was, by some means, induced to issue an
Executive warrant very promptly! —per
haps out of its regular order—before oth
ers which were previously filed—for the
payment of one of the heavy claims
against the State Road (and which recent
developments indicate, was either large
ly, if not wholly fraudulent,) but he now
A notorious negro who, a year or so
ago, was sentenced to the penitentiary
from Augusta, was placed along with oth
er convicts in charge of Grant, Alexan
der & Co. on the Air Line Railroad. He
escaped and came to this city. For some
petty theft he was arrested and tried here
and sent to tho gang for six months.—
Last Friday he escaped again, and on
Sunday fobbed a house about sixteen
miles north of this city and came on here.
Sunday, officer Langley, of the city police,
arrested him at a baptizing, where he was
performing in the capacity of minister.
He certainly leads an exciting life. He
was immediately returned to the Air Line
works.
Mr. D. H. Craig, late general agent of
the New York Associated Press, is sa ^
to have perfected his new system of He
graphy, to the development of which he
has been devoting his time and means
for three years past, with results that can
hardly fail to effect an entire revolution
in telegraphy, by reducing its cost to a
rate very little above the present rates of
postage. It is claimed that by this new
automatic system it is perfectly practica
ble to transmit with absolute accuracy
over a single wire, more than sixty thou
sands words an hour—a speed more than
sixty times greater th in by any of tho
systems now in use. Telegrams which
under the Morse system now cost several
dollars will, it is said, be reduced to a
comparatively few cents; which, if true
will make its value almost inestimable to
the press, the mercantile community and
the public at large.
>-•-« —
A Chinaman is a source of sore trouble
to your true Californian. Both political
parties in the State recognize the fact,
and the leaders have paid the poor com
pliment to their respective followers of
introducing into their platforms resolu
tions opposing Chinese immigration.—
Not that the highly respectable Califor
nians are afraid of the morals or religion
of the heathen, but of his competition in
labor. In point of fact, however, it is
conceded that the Chinese are disappear
ing from the Pacific slope. The highest
number ever there is stated by the Sac
ramento Union at 52,000, and the pres
ent number is placed at only 30,000. It
would seem, therefore, that the sound
and fury of the political orators were un
called for, while the hopes which our
Eastern matrons had indulged that the
Mongolian was to release them from ser-
vant-galism are destined to be dashed.
A colored clergyman in Maryland, who
seems to have been gradually losing con
trol over his flock, has struck upon a
very ingenious method of punishing
backsliders and regaining his influence.
A few days since and old woman died in
Sumter county, in that State, who had
at one time been a member of his con
gregation, but bad fallen so far from
grace as to have ceased to attend the reg
ular service of the church. The pastor
attended her funeral, and as a fearful
warning to her surviving friends, ordered
the remains to he interred with the head
downward. He then preached a sermon
over the closed grave, and terrified his
hearers by declaring that the spirit of the
deceased had already gone te the infernal
regions, and that theirs would follow, on
their heads also, if they did not immedi
ately reform their lives. The device re
ally has the merit of originality, and
promises to work as well as did that of
the Chinese priest in Nevada, who saw
his charge casting longing eyes on a hog
pen, and prevented them from despoil
ing it by representing that ono of the
animals was possessed of a devil.
THE HOWE FAMILY.
Three Thousand Howes at Fra*
luiughaiU] Massacliusetts--Ova-
lions,’'Poems and Dinner.
Harmony Grove, Framingham, Mass., {
August 31. J
Over three thousand members of the
Howe family have gathered here to-day,
including representatives from every
State in the Union, and from several for
eign countries. A mammoth tent is
erected, in which dinner is laid for over
three thousand persons. The Howe fami
ly were called to order about 10 o’clock,
by CoL Frank E. Howe, of New York.
Prayer was offered by Rev. William A.
Houghton, of Connecticut, after which
Col. Howe, President of the day, gave a
family welcome for all to all. The song
of welcome, written by Julia Ward Howe,
was sung by the audience. The oration
was then delivered by Hon. Joseph Howe,
Secretary of the Dominion of Canada,
being received with applause throughout.
He concluded by expressing the hope
that the two countries would soon be
united as one great family. Another
song, written by Caroline Howe, was fol
lowed by a pretty poem written by Julia
Ward Howe; whicli was then read, crea
ting great pleasure. A brilliant address
by Judge Howe, of New Orleans, and a
song by Mrs. Hinckley, of San Francis
co, followed. A few short speeches con
cluded the literary exercises. At 1 o’clock
the dinner began.
At the dinner of the Howe family over
3,000 people sat down. Large arrivals
from distant points came on the ground
during the day, having been detained on
New York roads. Illinois, Ohio, Wis
consin, Iowa, Oregon and South Ameri
ca were represented, in some instances
by whole families. The poem' by Mi's.
Julia Ward Howe was the gem of the
literary exercises. After dinner, Colonel
Howe, Rev. Francis Howe, aged eighty-
two, «<f New Bedford; John Howe, of
Providence; Rev. Dr. Dewolf Howe, of
Philadelphia; Mrs. Caroline Howe, of
Portland, Me.; Mrs. Louisia G. Benton
Howe, of Bombay; William Howe, of
Bombay, N. J., and Dr. Greeley Howe,
of Natick, made speeches. Resolutions
were adopted thanking Elias Howe, Hon.
Joseph Howe and Colonel Frank E.
Howe. The youngest representative of
the Howe family present was four months
old aud belonged to Boston. After its
presentation to the gathering. “ Anld
Lang Bayne,” was sung, general conver
sation followed, some very ancient relics
were inspected, dancing succeeded ana
was continued until sunset, when the
largest family gathering ever held iu
New England separated, nothing occur
ring to mar the day’s enjoyment.