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THE ATLANTA 'WTiyKiKT.Y SUN, FOB THE WEEKENDING OCTOBER 16, 1872.
THE ATLANTA SUN
Oovernor
Smith and tele Greeley 8tr-
enuli ilpeeok.
Id the Atlanta Constitution of Friday,
fte 4tli inst., we saw a report of a speech
OUtde by Governor Smith on the occasion
ot a serenade the night before.
That report, in full, is aa follows:
«■!«! ItOUMMKKT—IBU IM1CIM »T OOT. UOIB,
BOM. B. H. IIILL AMD BOM. CIMOIMMATTJI^rSSrLS*—
CHEAT EWTBCMAMt. , ■
T..t oigtit, la response to the call mad* in tin
HtuiitulMn. a largo crow A heeded by a band of mu
4c. proceeded to tba Exocutlra Mauoion.
General Oarltngton male a fow remark*, when
•or. Smith addressed tba largo assemblage. Ho woo
repeatedly and eutbueiaatically cheered. He regret
ted that he could not addreoa the people ot length.
He drew a coutraet between the Democratic and
Bnpul>lic*n GuL^ruatorial Coorentioce. The brut
represented the virtue, InteUigoace, end wealth of
Georgia; ihe latter ignoraoce, stupidity and Federal
efflce-bolJere. The majority on Wednaeday bad
■tld In emphatic tarma that virtue and honeaty
aboutd rule Goorgta. 1 . acSEut
There wae another b'ttle to be fought. if it wae
■bt won the Tlctory of Wednesday would lose iu
fruita. Grant repreaentad ceatraliaed despotism;
Greeley repreee* ted a party claiming equal rights
ter all,and an ecoaoaalcal and honeat adminletrallon
sjf the Government. Whom will yom ehooeet [voice*
He gave good advice to the Straights. So far as
State right* were concerned, A. H. Stephen* and
Greeley we to Identically together. It wae atrange
that Democrat* war* alretd to tiuet themeeleea with
Greeley! He luheriled nothing but Democracy from
ffl* father. He wae not afraid to truat Wmeelf with
gfreelev. Greeloj could not make him believe whet
iedidw "
get want to. Loud call* ware made for Hou
E. H- Hill. He reepended in an eloquent and im-
paaiioned effort CoL 0. Peeples alao responded to
tell* in one of hia bappioat effort*. A full report of
jj the * pec die* will appear In the afternoon edition.
high an*
The^'V f
a VermAia
le first Wedni
t-,
We are assared from a very
ihoritalive source, on which we implie
dly rely, that the above report of Gov
ernor Smith’s speech on the oocaaion re
ferred to, is not correct, so far as it rep
resents him as having said without qual
ification, that the positioas of Mr. Gree-
|py and Mr. Stephens were identical
upon State Bights; we, therefore, for
bear comments which we should other
wise have made upon that portion of it.
We also forbear much tbat might be
gtfid about the general character of this
speech on the occasion of its delivery in
View of the well known facts as to how
Qov. Smith’s election was carried. It
Was a triumph of the Georgia Democ
racy, bnt no triumph of Greeleyism.
We have, however; something to say
apon what we accept as the true version
Of it on the main point alluded to. This,
in substance, was, that—
«• If Mr. Greeley were a truthful man,
standing npon that Platform, [the Cin-
cinnati] he was as much pledged to
carry out the doctrine of State Bights
*' as even Mr. Stephens himself; that
** Mr. Stephens stood upon the Constitu-
“ tional right of the'States to seli-gov-
“ ernment, and would stick to it; that
•• Mr. Greeley, by accepting the Plat-
“ form referred to, had declared for the
“ same thing, and if an honest man, os
" he was universally considered to be,
“ he would stick to it.”
With this modification of the language,
our readers need not be assured, we sup
pose, of our utter astonishment, that any
man of Gov. Smith’s intelligence should
have so expressed himself in reference to
the positions of Mr. Greeley and Mr.
Stephens upon the subject of State
Bights. No two men on the continent
hold more diametrically opposite princi
ples upon this subject than Mr. Greeley
and Mr. Stephens do. This is well known
to all who are acquainted with their
speeches and writings upon the subject,
from the time they both entered public
life to the present time.
Nothing is better known to the intelli
gent readers of The Sun than, that Mr.
Stephens’ chief opposition to Mr. Gree
ley’s election to the Presidency, is, that
he is not pledged, by his acceptance of
the Cincinnati platform, or by any word
ever written by him, to maintain any
rights of the States, or of the people of
the States, which may, in the opinion of
the central authority, conflict with its
controlling obligation to enforce what
it may deem to be the equal, civil and
political rights of all the inhabitants of
the States respectively—including, in
his view of “equal rights” everything
pertaining to the status, and civil rela
tions of those inhabitants. It is also
Well known to the readers of The Sun
that Mr. Greeley, in his letter of accept
ance, has distinctly stated his under
standing of the Oinoinnati platform on
this point, and what that understand
ing is.
In this letter he announces, as plainly
as language can do, that, according to
his “doctrine,” the States have no rights
in regulating the civil or political rights
of their citizens, which are not “subject"
to the rightful control ot the Central
Authority at its discretion.
When did ever Mr. Stephens maintain
such a monstrous doctrine, upon the sub
ject of State Bights ?
Mr. Greeley, to-day, stands “pledged”
to cany out the “doctrine” and princi
ples of all the Enforcement Acts oi Con
gress, even the Ku-Klux Act, with all its
enormities I And if he is elected, and is
a “truthful man," he will carry them
oat I
Will Governor Smith, or any defender
of Mr. Greeley, assume to deny this ?
Mr. Greeley not only sustained all the
outrages of the reconstruction Acts, by
which the Governments of ten States of
the Union were upset, and their citizens
put under military despotism; but he
now stands “pledged” to stand by and
carry out the principles npon which these
most flagitious usurpations npon the
rights of the States were perpetrated 1
If he is a “truthful man,” will he not
do it if elected? Will Governor Smith
. or any defender of Mr. Greeley assume
Hus?
did ever (Mr. Stephens stand
-7 «B0h iot
there be any worse “Centralized Despot
ism” than that abovs stated, which Mr.
Greeley represents?
Mr. Greeley stands “pledged” to stand
by “hi* record,” and if he be an “honest
and truthful man,” he will oertainly do
it.
Itfis because Mr. Stephens knows him
well and believes he will, with unswerv
ing fidelity and inflexible purpose, so
adhere to his life-ieag principle* and
doctrines that Mr. Stephen* so “in
flexibly” opposes his election.
The very “Centralised Despotism”
which Gen. Grant represents was in
augurated under the auspices of Mr.
Greeley; and one of the great objects of
his election is to get the principles upon
which it was founded indorsed and sanc
tioned by’the Democratic Party.
There is no reason, therefore, for op
posing Gen. Grant on the score of these
principles, which does not apply with
greater force to Mr. Greeley—the “mas
ter spirit” of the Badical Jacobins with
whom originated that centralized des
potism under which the Sonthem States
have groaned for the last six years. He,
in all these usurpations, was? “the Power
behind the throne, greater than the
throne itself.”
The idea that Mr. Greeley stands as
much pledged to carry out the doctrine
of States Bights as even Mr. Stephens
himself, is too preposterous for further
comment. A. H. S.
Nominated tor Ceafr***.
met
folltlcal Item*.
— Thirteen States already have O’Oonor
and Adams electoral tickets in the field.
— The Jefferson (Texas) Times repu
diates Greeley and supports O’Conor.
—The Palisade (N, J.) News hoists the
names of O’Oonor and Adams.
Lpjen. Grant npre-
—A distinguished merchant of New
York city says O’Oonor will poll 60,000
votes in that city.
—Connecticutt has placed an electoral
ticket in the field for O’Couor and
Adams.
—Eight Texas papers have renounced
Greeley, and proclaim their intention to
support O’Conor and Adams.
— The Fort Wayne, (Ind.) Free Press
refuses to support Greeley or Grant, and
waits for the O’Oonor ticket.
—The New Orleans Patriot renounces
Greeley and Brown and denounces Grant
and Wilson.
—The Ashville, (N. 0.,) Democrat,
which hoists the names of O’Oonor and
Adams, heads its tickets with these ring
ing lines:
“Bing out the old, ring In the new,
Bing out the false, ring in the true.”
— Hon. Fred W. Horn, ot Wisconsin,
a prominent leader among the Germans
of his district, declined to run as the
“Liberal” (6o-called) nominee for Con
gress, and has since been announced on
the O’Conor ticket.
— The Prairie du Chien ( Wisconsin )
Courier, on the day it flaunted to the
breeze the names of O’Conor and Adams,
printed 1,500 extra copies, and the sup
ply was exhausted in two days by orders
from the multitude of O’Conor men in
that section.
• — X) r . Van Evrie, editor of the New
York Day-Book, which has hauled down
Greeley and Brown and hoisted the name
of O’Conor and Adams, recently had an
interview with Mr. O’Conor, in which
that true patriot expressed his determina-
tion'to make no objection to the nse of
his name as a candidate.
—Thirty French citizens of California
held an informal meeting in Nevada City
a few days ago, denounced Greeley and
Grant, and pledged themselves to sap
port O’Conor and Adams. The evident
motive for which Greeley is supported
by a numbf-r of “any-thieg-to-beat-
Grant men,” they conceived to be an
outrage to reason.
—Here’s what Horace Greeley says
about the Southern soldiers, editorially,
in the New York Tribune, April 10th,
1861: We have had some experience of
the Southern soldier in the regular ser
vice of the army and navy, and should
feel obliged to describe him as a person
too avaricious to resign, and too coward
ly to fight; a person who acts as a spy in
his own camp; who unlocks the gate of
his country’s fortresses to his country’s
foes, and then, having made all the mis
chief his little head can plan or his weak
hands execute, skulks away and hides
among his peers in meanness. This ap
pears to be a pretty fair sketch of the
class who hold responsible positions, and
are supposed to represent the flower of
the countiy.
A Congressional Convention
Forsyth, on the 8th ibafc., composed •(
Delegates from the counties in the old
Fourth Congressional District, at whieh
j. W. Hudson, of Putnam, was Preai
dent, and L. Carrington and L. B. Onb-
ftnina, Secretaries.
The following were plaoed in nomina
tion: M. Grieve, of Baldwin ;H. D. Ca
pers, of Newton; W. A. Baid, of Putnam
E. S. Griffin, of Twiggs; E. W. Bsek, of
Spalding.
Mr. Grieve was withdrawn on the 9th
ballot, Capers on the 21st, and Griffin •*
the 30th. After the 53d ballot, a oo:
xuitte of one from each oeunty wm ap
pointed by the chair to agree npon and
recommend a candidate. After a half
hoar’s consultation, they recommended
Mr. Beck, who was then nnanimonaly
nominated.
We notice by the Griffin News that
Mr. Beck was serenaded Tuesday night,
after the result was known, and he and
others made speeches.
Jeff. Long Rices t* Sxflala.
The Macon papers have published
that the negro voters of Bibb, prior to
the election, were Harangued, drilled
and instructed in the work which Badi
cal leaders expected them to perform en
election day, viz: take possession of the
polls and hold the same, so as to pre
vent the white people from voting, and
thus control the election, as on two pre
vious general elections sinoe the *ar,
and that the tnrbulence and bloodshed
there, are due more to his inoendiaxy in
fluence thou any ene else.
We see iu the last number of the Ma
con Enterprise that he has had posted the
following handbill about the city:
Hass Meeting.—Tlio colored people are Invited
to assemble in front of the City Hall on the evening
Of the 7th.
Iam blamed by many for advising my people to
go to the poll9 without arm* on election day, and
thus subjecting them to be shot down without any
meanB of resistance or self-defense. I wish to ex
plain my reasons lor giving the advice I did.
J. J?. Long.
Tlie Senatorial Contest In tlie 18tb .Die-
Special Dispatch to the New York Times.
Atlanta. Ga., Oct. 4.—Tne sixty-three counties
heard from give Smith a majority of over 30,000.—
Lees than half the negro vote was cast. This is ad
mitted even by The Atlanta Son, one of the prin
cipal Democratic organs. In many places the ne
groes were driven away from the polls, although
they had paid their poll taxes, and held receipt* for
the *ame. In Troup county, the day before the elec
tion, the tax collector's bondsmen surrendered his
bond, tliu* leaving no one in the county authorized
to receipt for the payment of poU taxes. This de
vice kept 700 or 800 negroes from voting.
Authenticated reports of ballot-box stuffing by
Democrats com* In from all parta of the State. In
some counties where the negro vote was in a me-
joritv of from 800 to 1,000, and where there are a
respectable nnmber of white Bepnblicans, the
Democrats count 1,200 and 1,500 majority.
Taken all in all, there has, perhaps, never been,
on this continent, an election fraud comparable with
the one perpetrated in thie 6tate two day* ago.—
Considering a fair elsctiod impossible under the
existing Democratic rule here, and unwilling to
subject the negroes to further outrage and perional
danger the Chairman of the Bepnblican State Cen
tral Committee will call a meeting of the Committee
and propose the withdrawal of all candidates and
electors on the Bepnblican ticket, thus declining
any participation whatever In the November elec
tion . This course has been earnestly recommended
by the leading Bepublicans in the State, and will, in
aU probability, De adopted by the Committee,
Smith, the Deinooratio Governor-elect, made an
inflammatory speech last night, in which he declar
ed for Greeley and Brown. In the coarse of his re
marks he said:
“I will nee anything for the purpose of beating
Grant. If the devil himself, coming np from the
internal regions, smelling of brimstone, was a can
didate for President under the present circumstan-
ces, I would take him rather than take Grant."
Thi* speech was vociferously applauded by the
Democratic audienoe, and it is published in one of
the Democratic papers im« morning.
Several warrants have been issued in this city for
parties charged with violating the Election laws,
"j? M Ud* wa* a State election, and the State Courts
will exercise jurieaiction, no one expects the con
viction of the guilty parties.
Telegrams, letter* and special mesaengars from
all portions of the State show universal and outr*-
gemts interferences with the freedmai'e suffrage,
coma.
[Associated Press Dispatch.]
Atlanta. October f. — The DaaaoemtU majority
h ** b ~ a toereeeed by two-thlrda. Many negro**
bn swindled by their
Badteal whit* -Meade." U many place* the na
pe** attempted to eetee tee voting ateeesaad set
poee Attempted to sate* the veMag ateeesaad set
“P this, refused tarots at all,
though invited ta do oo. and premised the tallest
They did this in eamr to get a pate* **
Oar readers will recollect tbat the
Senatorial Convention to nominate a
candidate for Senator in the 18th Die
trict, composed of the counties of Bich
mond, Jefferson and Glasscock, which
assembled in Augusta, disagreed and di
vided. Jefferson and Glasscook claimed
the nominee, and Bichmond wanted to
put in its man. The other two counties
claimed that Augusta had hod the Sen
ator since 1862, and it was time to give
it to the rural portion ot the District.
The Bichmond delegates persisted, and
the Convention split—the Bichmond del
egates nominating Hon. Claiborne Snead
and the other delegates nominating Jeff.
G. Cain, of Jefferson, who was elected
on Wednesday last by 196 majority.
GEORGIA HEWS.
— Col. George A. Gordon, of Savan
nah, died on Saturday.
— Daniel W. Voorheeswill
people of Columbus “in a horn” on the
30th inst.
—Mr. Bobert T. Humber of Stewart
county, was married to Miss Willie El
der of Bandolph county, at Cuthbert on
the 26th September. ^
—A jolly ratification meeting appoint
ed in Savannah for Monday evening,
has been postponed nntil the latter part
of this week, “for reasons best known”
to the managers thereof.
—Mr. Kirlin, paymaster of the Port
Boyal Bailroad, was robbed of §400 oh
Sunday. The money was extracted
from his trunk in his tent where he wais
camping on the road.
— A “Grand Bonsement” is advertised
for Columbus on the 30th. The “gal
lant Yoorhees” will address the people,
blit whether it will be by telegraph or
“in a horn,” is not stated.
—A man named Hill, employed on the
North & South Bailroad, near Borne,
was assaulted the other day while return
ing to camp, by a madman, and beaten
to death. Mr. Hill was a resident of
Adairsvilie. The madman, named Year;
wood, was arrested and placed in jail.
— Justice J. M. Berrien, one of the
managers of the election in Savannah,
was arrested on Monday, charged with
a violation of tlie Enforcement Act, anti
was arraigned before the United States
Commissioner in that city. An investi
gation was postponed for a lew days’.
These persecutions by the United States
officials are denounced by prominent Be
publicans in that city.
Death from Glanders.—A glandered
horse owned by Boswell C. Minor, of
Steuben, N. Y., in blowing his nostrils,
threw a drop of the poisonous matter
into one of Mr. Minor’s eyes. He im
mediately wiped it out, as he supposed,
but in a short time (within twenty-four
hours) his eye began to swell and pain
him. Medical aid was procured, and his
case pronounced by able physicians a
hopeless one; that the glanderons matter
had so permeated his system that he
could not recover. Hi* flesh turned pur
ple* and he was pronounced poisonous.
He lingered in agony about twenty days
before expiring. His friends were com
pelled to bury him early the next morn
ing, and with him the entire bed and
bedding on which he had lain.—N. Y.
Nexus.
The SStte Senatorial District.
We are glad to see from the official re
turns that Major Joseph A. Blance has
been elected State Senator from the 38th
District. Maj, Blancs is a young lawyer
of fine abilities, and will make an atten
tive and efficient member of the Senate.
Many of the 1st Georgia Beguiars will
glad to see “Joe,” as he familiarly
be
called, in the Senate.
Close Vote.—In Hart county, Moms
4. Duncan was elected over Allan S.
Turner by one vote.
Murderer’* Coeftulee.
An Ohio axekaege contains a confas-
■ion made by a murderer who committed
the horrid deed under circumstance*
peculiar atroaity—almost anheard of in
the annals of oriaaa.
His luta was Barclay. He
to nave been, and ho donbt was, hang
last Friday, at Columbus, Ohio, near
which city the foul deed was perpetrated
In November, 1871, he conceived tba
design of robbing a seen named Garner,
who raaadad twaaty miles from Oolnm
bus, in Delaware county, and hauled
aheap, begs, As. to Columbus for J. B
Bask, using a wagon with a large rack or
pen in the bad, and with a doable end
gate in the rear; that he frequently car
ried large sains of money with him on his
homeward tripe. Barclay had formerly
lived with him, and knew what hia busi
ness was.
He fixed npon Monday, the 27th of
November, 1871, for the work. Ha want
to Busk’s stable in the morning, and saw
Garner’s team being hitched up, and
accepted and invitatian to ride with him
“up town.” Garner stopped at a bank
and got some money— Barclay didn’t
know how much. Between toe bank
and Buak’s store Barclay made up his
mind that he would assault Garner that
day.
At Bulk's, while Garner and Busk
were in conversation, Barclay quietly
went out and walked to a hardware store.
He had a revolver in his pocket, but
didn’t want to use it At the hardware
store he inquired for a hatchet, but see
mg some hammer*, bought one
of them , and then proceeded
round toe eorner of North street,
witoont looking back, and then to
hunt’s cobnbks,
which point he knew Garner would pass
in going home. He entered Hunt’s
grocery and asked for whisky.
He remained there for twenty minutes
(looking out for Garner in the meantime)
and then passed over to Tresenrider s
grocery to get a bottle. Having pro
cured the bottle, he was starting back to
Hnnt’s to get the whisky, when he saw
that Garner had passed toe Corners and
was a half a square distant. He gave np
the liquor and ran after the wagon,
IN THE WAGON.
The team was moving rapidly, and it
was difficult to get in the wagon. He
unfastened the lower tale gate and let it
drop, and then raised the gate whioh
swung on hinges at the top of the rack.
He crawled in and secreted himself under
Garner’s high seat, the rack and bed
being constructed so that no one could
see him from tlie front, and pulling his
coat up over his head, laid down on the
floor of toe bed.
THE FIRST ATTEMPT
to commit an assault was made at a point
where the Johnstown road crosses a
ravine a short, distance from the Central
Ohio railroad track. Barclay climbed
out of tbe rear of the wagon, and to the
top of the rack, with the hammer in his
ffknd, and was just about to move over to
the seat and strike when be perceived two
vehicles coming down the hill but a short
distance away, and meeting Garner’s
team—one a bnggy. and directly behind
it a wagon containing household goods.
Barclay was alarmed and rapidly retreated
to his hiding place in toe wagon.
ANOTHER PLAN.
This failure set Barclay to thinking as
to which would be the next most
favorable place to commit the deed. He
settled on toe covered bridge across Alum
creek, and being well acquainted with
the locality* concluded that to avoid ob
servation be must strike the blow at one
certain point. The bridge crosses the
stream diagonally; he must get inside
the bridge before making a move, or he
would be seen by men who were husking
corn on the west side of the creek; and
he must not be more than one-third of
the way through toe bridge, or he could
be seen by people who lived on the east
side. Therefore, he must be ready the
moment toe rear wheels of the wagon-
struck the bridge.
THE MURDER.
The instant the rear wheels touched
the floor Barclay expertly swung the gate
and threw himself to the top of the rack.
In a moment more, and before the wagon
was fifteen feet from tbe entrance to the
bridge, he was at Garner’s back. Baising
the hammer he aimed a blow at Garner’s
neck, intending to stun him, and struck,
at the sometime calling “whoa” to the
horses.. On account of Garner’s fur col
lar and overcoat being closely mnffie’d
around his neck, the blow missed its des
tination and struck Garner behind toe
The horses stopped when perhaps
twenty feet from toe entrance, and Gar
ner reeled in' his seat and show
ed signs of recovery. Barclay
raised the hammer for a second
blow, bnt the deadly weapon slipped
from his hand and fell on toe floor of toe
bridge in the rear of the wagon. Bar
clay had his revolver, but preferred
other means; be supposed that Garner
had a revolver, and concluded that
speedy action was necessary. Seizing
Garner by toe shoulders, Barclay threw
him to the floor of the bridge, to the left
of toe wagon, and jumping off himself
he lit with his feet in his victim’s face.
Supposing that Gamer was sufficiently
stunned, Barclay commenced to un
fasten his overalls to get at his money
hut Gamer attempted to get np and
cried out “murder.” Barclay attempted
to kick Gamer in the neck, but kicked
him on toe shoulder. This not proving
sufficient to qniet the wounded man,
Barclay ran for his hammer, and return
ing with it delivered Gamer two blows
in the forehead. Barclay Bays that at
this time Gamer’* for collar had worked
np over his face and eyes, and he (Bar
clay) don’t believe that he was recog
nized.
THE FATAL BLOW.
buggy, occupied by two or throe persons,
approaching tbe bridge, witbin probably
fifty yard*. For a moment he jumped
behind the wagon; then ran on* of the
bridge at the east end, in the direction
of Frank Dean’a house, then down toe
bank of the creek, and across the creek
to a point under the bridge beneath
Gamer’s team, and then stopped to watch
the bnggy. As soon as he saw that it
turned up a road along the creek bank
instead of orossing tbe bridge, as he an
ticipated, he moved down the creek.
THE BLOOD I COAT
which Barolay wore was au important
link in the chain of circumstancial evi
dence in the trial. Barolay accounts for
the blood spots in this way: After strik
ing the first blow, and while he was bend
ing over Garner and taking the pocket-
books, toe prostrate mau, in his strug
gles for breath, spurred blood from his
nose over the garment. On the trial one
witness testified that toe spots looked as
though there had been an attempt to
wash them out, and another witness saw
traoks under tne bridge in such a position
as to lead to the belief that the murderer
had stopped to wash out the evidence of his
guilt. Barclay says these were the tracks
he probably made when he stopped to
watch the buggy.
THE FLIGHT.
Barolay threw the hammer in the water
under the bridge, and started down the
creek. On the way down he emptied
the pocket-books and threw them away.
Ha crossed the cr» ek several times, to
avoid going on the public highway, stop
ping once or twice for a drink, and reach
ed the Centi al Ohio Bailroad traok by
way of the lane past too Water Gure es
tablishment. He kept to the railroad
track till he struck toe road lend
mg to the first-toll gate on the
Johnstown road; then he came in past
Hunt's comers and struck straight tor
the depot, where he purchased a ticket
for London. Daring the half hour that
interxened before train time he went to
Yau Bureu’s restaurant, and got a valise
whioh he had left there. Proceeding to
London he stopped at the Pilfer House
all night. The next day he deposited his
money, drew it out again, etc., his story
being generally identical with that de
veloped in the testimony. He tells
where he was during toe remainder of
the week, and how he found himself Sa
turday night at Manuel Cook’s house af
ter a spree at Somerford, Madison coun
ty, in bed with two other persons.
THE ARREST.
Barclay gives a graphic and some
what humorous description of the arrest,
He laughed yesterday as he related the
circumstances, most of them familiar to
onr readers. Barclay told the officers
that he was innocent, and only wanted a
fair trial; he was told he would get it ii
he shouldn t be hung before he g otto
Columbus. He relates the familiar story
of how he was hungup by the bauds on
the way to Columbus, to induce a con
fession.
Barclay’s hopes.
Barclay says that at no time after the
muder did he reveal his guilt to any one.
He allowed his counsel to defend him on
the question of identity, but atone time
during toe trial studied industriously as
to whether he should testify, and by bis
own testimony reduce toe crime to man
slaughter. He finally concluded to
take the chances on identification.
He depended on toe testimony of
tbe boys at Hunt’s Corntrs (to
whom, at their request, he had given
some tobacco just before he entered the
wagon) as the weak point in the chain.
It was strange that thos9 boys could
identify him when older persons with
whom he conversed at that point could
not positively swear he was a man. The
boys, he believes, could not have identi
fied him, if the officers hadn’t posted
them. If he nad procured a second trial
he would have got off on manslaughter.
The question was, said he, killing to per
petrate a robbery, or killing accidentally
while in the perpetration of a robbery.
The doctor’s testimony, he is quite con
fident, would have helped him to make
out a case of manslaughter.
CONFIRMATORY OF THE CONFESSION.
In toe course of his disclosures to the
officers, Barclay described the spot, ac
cording to the best u£ his recollection,
where he had thrown away the pocket-
knife which he had taken from Garner’s
person. The Sheriff and an attorney
visited the locality (on Alum creek) and
made extended search without success,
but as they were about to give up the
hunt, a rabbit sprang out of the thicket
near them, and directed their attention
to the very spot where the knife laid.
It was a common two-blaaed knife with
a white handle, and a German silver
shield. By exposure to the weather it
had become much rusted, but it is un
doubtedly the knife thrown away by
Barclay.
Three blows with the hammer and the
fall not having proved sufficient to quiet
Garner, Barclay gave a fourth—a hard,
crashing blow that fully accomplished
toe murderous work. Barclay then pro
ceeded to tear open the murdered man’s
overalls, and reaching his hand into the
pants pocket he took out a small pocket
book containing four or five dollars, and
a_small two-bladed knife. From toe in
side coat pocket he took a larger pocket-
book containing enough to maba the to
tal amount of the money robbery about
$213, and a common day-book.
ALMOST DMOOTflUB.
Barclay then teok«d «p m4 sew a
The Question of Mixed Education.—
The report of the committee, appointed
by toe Harvard University board of over
seers, to consider the question of admit
ting youug women as students in the
University, is against it, at this time.
The report was accepted and the com
mittee discharged. Co-education of the
sexes, however, is making some headway
in the country.
Four colleges in New England, among
them the University of Yermont; Cor
nell University, in New York; the Swath-
more College, in Pennsylvania; Oberlin
and Antioch Colleges, in Ohio; the State
University of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Iowa and Kansas, make no
distinction on account of sex. There is
one institution of the sort, also, in Mary
land, in Carroll county.
[The following poem, by » blind rolla . no ^
the Tecbe, we. written on being told th»t h!.‘
»on we. eheelng . .unbeem th*t -I
floor.]
man redding da
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•unbeem that played upo**
LITTLE SUNBEAM.
I am s eon, an only eon,
A little truant ray,
That lingers ’round the homestead i
To drive the gloom * way.
For, ohl this world la full of care
Aa counties* tnoueaud* know. ’
And I must do my little part ’
To scatter light below.
An aged father need* my care—
He needs m» by hie aide—
He need* my little eye* to see,
My little hand* to guide.
3 he aun, the moon, the star* aboTe,
For others brightly beam;
But, be it day or be it night,
'Tiaallthe same to him.
Iu vain the lovely buds unfold
In beauty to beguile;
Though loved ones place them in his hand
"He cannot feel them smile." *
And, udder yet, my little face
My father cannot eee.
And scarcely knows hie darling boy
When climbing on hia knee,
But yet it waa net always se—
H* once teheld tho day,
And yonder aun shone brightly down
Upon his boyhood way.
The lovely flowers once sweetly smiled
Around his happy home;
But darkness dropped her veil of night,
And left hit world in gloom.
O, I would give the world—if mine—
Hie vision to restore,
And make the glorious sun aa bright,
As cloudies* as of yorsl
To deck the firmament on high
With bright, celestial flower*,
And redlume one* again
This gr«en, glad earth of ours.
To tear away the veil ol night
That wraps the earth in gloom,
And let hie eyes enraptured gaae
On children, wife and home.
But, as I know this cannot be.
I'll strive by every art
To soothe the eerrow of his soul.
And cbesr his lonely heart.
I’ll cuU for him the sweetest flowers.
Will sing my sweetsst lays,
And be the sunbeam of his lifs.
The oomfort of his days.
The sands of life are running low—
Hie lamp cf life burns dim—
But, joy to think I in heaven abovo
There wiU be light for hint.
He’ll need no hand to guide him there.
In those bright realms of day;
“For God, the Son, forever reigns.
And scattera night away.”
And should I, too, be called from earth
To join my father there,
In heaven he would not know my face—
He never saw me litre.
But I would softly breathe my name—
-Lhat name so dear to him,
And gazieg fondly in hia eyes—
Those eyes no longer dim;
He’d know me, and what rapturouB joy
Would then and there be given,
When he would first behold tbe face
Of his dear boy in heaven.
. Westoyr
Babnum’s Great Show.—We have a I
communication from Mr. Barnum, in I
which no says he has fitted out the great- ]
est traveling exhibition on earth—the
whole of which he intends to bring to aD
tho principal cities in the South during
the coming winter.
He says it is larger and more compre- j
hensive than any six shows on eartb- II
having nearly one thonsand iaen and ' ’
horses attached to it. He has a whale
nearly 100 feet long, and a Museum
along, with the show of nearly 100,000
curiosities, including rare and unique
specimens in every department oiNaturo! If
History, Works of Art, numerous ingeni
ous and expensive mechanical human 11
figures and automatons, made in Paris at SI
an almost fabulous cost, as well as living pi
human phenomena; tons making up s m
Marvelous Combination, such as hisjB
given his great New York Museum set ;,
much celebrity for thirty years.
The Menagerie contains several hund- . Jj
red living wild animals.
The Boman Hippodrome and Mam-j
moth Circus consists of 40 Tnorough-|
Bred Arabian Hoi'ses. 25 Irained (
50 of thr best performers in the world,
a large company of extraordinary
nasts, Acrobats, Aihletes, &c. One
admits to all — the price of that
et being the same as is is charged
common circus.
Clesniagt from our Exchange*.
Pennsylvania produces more horses
than any other State except California.
The fruit crop of Kansas is estimated
this year at §2,800,000.
White Hat is a new Kansas town which
intends to make its influence “felt” for
reform.
A single California plantation has turn
ed out §30,000 worth of cotton this year.
Henry County.—For Governor:
Smith, 925; Walker, 354. For Senator:
Winn, 745; Bryan, 409; Juhan, 35. For
Bepresentative: Morris, 868; Jaokson,
21; Smith, 13; Lemon (col.) 275; Wilder
(do.) 11.
Gen. Sigbl, in speaking of Greeley’s
nomination by the Cincinnati Conven
tion, in a late letter, characterized it m
tbs most surprising and barefaced triok
that ever occurred in American politics.
A Dead Woman Turned to Wax- j
Ten years ago tliis month, Mrs. Ati
Beese, mo'.her of Mrs. Mary Owens, c
this city, died from overwork, and "
buried in the Lakeville Cemetery,
the time of her death she was in 1
fifty-third year, a medium-sized,
kept woman,and weighed, as nearly asc
be remembered, about one hundred a'
fifty pounds. Some time ago Mrs. 0»<
determined to remove her mother si
mains to the cemetery here, and on S
urday last the grave was opened by -
city sexton, E. Peak, and Mr. Deal
toe firm of Myers &Deal, and they fo£*
themselves unable to handle the ccP
on account of its great weight.
supposed that the corpse had be
petrified, and on raising the coffin i
the grave it was opened, and akh°
petrification had not token
corpse was as perfect as the day»
plaoed in the coffin.
After it had been brought to thtf
a more careful examination wasgivt^'
It was estimated to weigh about*
hundred pounds. The whole body
perfectly preserved, even to such F
as the tongue, which could be n (
back and forth in the mouth. l c
pression of the face was retain&V
the color of the face was natural, * •
for its waxy appearance, i'h® £ ,_J
when exposed to the air, fell t° . Ill
This is the first instance known
this kind of conversion of the JJ'
dead body into what is technically,
“adipocere”—the product of the u
position of flesh, which looks W®,
macetic, although there aremanvo^,
record where the bodies of so*®”: ,
buried in trenohes, in ’
grounds at Shiloh, have beenrein ^
This change rarely occurs --- , c[
the interment has been niade^
places, as was first brought f ^ )
t Drouth -- -j
notice in 1871 at the Cemetery ^
Innocents in Paris.—South
Tribune.
Hancock County.—Smith ^ f
809. For Bepresentative gQ j
i
Calmer 987, Moseley 808, 'I
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