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' * AINBRIDGE "TWEE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S EIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." Volume 4. BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1875. Number 49. I WEEKLY DEMOCRAT iybuhibd Every Teice-ada* BEN. E- RUSSELL, Proprietor. rFi;T! siNG HATES AND RULES. efi : ..p.irnts inserted at $2 per iiqpnrc insertion, and !*1 for eatlr subse- ,., r( . is eight solid lines of this lyp<*. '■ niiulc with contract advertisers. • iD'itices of eight lines are ^1 o'per ‘ ,, r s">(> per annum. Local notices titan three months are subject to .- . nt rite 4 . ,r rii ct :i*ivortiser» wtio desire their fid- , elil ci)H chaugcd* must give us ^ two . n<ni«*e. nJ in_. ilvertisfemcnt*. milewotlrenvi »e ! c I in contract, will lie charged 20 j er «<|uare. '.Itge and obituary notices, tributes of I, unci other kindred notices, charged 11- advertisements. * _ •rtisements must take the run of the as we do not contract to keep them in irtietilar place. : iitnoementH for candidates are blfi, it ,r one insertion. - are due upon the appearance of the [cement, and the money will be uollecU led by the Proprietors. -Till adhere strictly to (lie above rules, LjU .lepart from them under no circuin- TKiiMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. * annum, in advance, - - , $2.00 i,intha, in aIvance, - 3.00 three at »nths, in advance, - on iv. in advance; - 10 The ’Publicans j^rrere three of them sitting lazily o signs. I), re's goin to be anodder ’Publican here pooty soon, de folks say," An' we all niggers got to sVribe, base Vti i’is is cummin' nigh onto bun’." eriiie nuffln," said the third,-as he mil up liis cotton suspenders. ‘T’se will iiis ’Publican business, I is. iat 1 hear de preacher readin’ iu de it ’bout de ’Publicans. Why, when k'l himself was on de yearth, dey 'fo sit in de high places at de front .ni d " town and lake up taxes and •:n -nl< front de tolks. Alt' now dese limns doin’ de same ting, don’t you Now, dey non't git no more ’sess- n eiifert dis niggur fur no ’lections, ‘ A'rtrtild I'VtfUiv ...• bULti—tlo lriijdiidt. ■situation in Georgia- [From the Tribune. Staff correspondent.] Augusta, Ga , August 31.—In for mer letters written since 1 came to this State. 1 have said that the condition of the colored people here was better than “it was elsewhere in' the South, and that there was less cause lor discontent among them in Georgia titan ip any other State. The more extended my observation has been the 11100 convin ced have i become of the truth of this assertion. The negroes, as laborers, are not difficulty* deal with. Like ai! ignorant people, they are suspicions of th ;>iVwho arc superior to them in in telligence and ednea'.ifn, and it cannot i>p denied, that some white people. source of all government was the “big house," where the master lived. His self interest induced Itiui to see that the .......... negro children on his place to be indus- affair, trious and did not contract any had ' habits that would impaii their useful ness dr their value. These restraints TIIE SPEAKING had progressed ronsideratyf.. Judge A. ” Johnston, DemocratifipCbnservativ ui uii'-u »aiut . ^ tvovimuw IV, tIUHIlSI WU, ViltlVV upon the young among the colored peo- j nominee for the State Senate, had conclu- ro pie have, since the war, been almesten- j his address, and Captain II. T. Fisher dri tirely removed. Colored parent®, never j et ii( 0r of the Daily Times (Republican!. R»i having been accustomed to the care of had been speaking probably ten or fif- wi /.ten plr.ltlrpn imt.iir.*}ilV :il- <—— t * .. ..: -u* rate Cotton Tax Suspended- ExfU TivK Dkp’t. State ok Georgia I Atlanta, Ga., Sep. G, 1875. ) Hon. IV m. L. Goldsmith, Comptrol- T Gfiier.tl: Whereas. a petition has fccun pre- il ti> me by a number of the citi- Morgan county, representing the Tax Receiver of said county included in the digest of taxes re- nod by him for the year J , '75, as iblo, a!! cotton held by farmers and ‘Infers on the 1st day of April last, lias required said farmers and pru ts to return the same as taxable; petition praying that an order be by this department, suspending Election of said tax until the next ingot'the general assembly; aud. hereas, in the opinion of manyper- it was not the intention of the Titure in enacting the act of 1875, impose a tax upon products in the "Is of the producers thereof; and it a matter of the first importance to Queers that the intention of the Leg- tnre in this regard should be clear- mderstood. and that they shou'd not unreasonably limited as to the time bin which they may dispose of their duets, and thus be placed to that ex within the power of speculators; hereas, The public interest can no injury by granting the prayer r ’ - ** * * x i • dealing with them, take little or no pain to make them understand the exact na ture of their mutual transactions or to allay their suspicions. This class of persons often have trouble in settling with their help and are not always suc cessful in securing good workmen. On the other hand, it is the universal testi mony of planters with whom 1 have taiked in Middle Georgia, that when the negroes are fairly dealt with, and are made to Understand the fact, they are.generully industrious and content ed. THE FttEEDMEN FAITHFUL UNDER GOOD MANAGEMENT. A gentleman who has planted exten sively ever since the war, and who has now on his place 130 colored men, told me the other day that he never found any £roumc iu sioually he has found among his hands a man of bad character, a thief, ora tri fling fellow whom he has been obliged to send away, but the respectable negroes who remained have always sustained him in getting rid of sucit men. He told me that he believed that.the white people in a great number of cases where trouble arose in settlement, were mor ally though perhaps uot legally respmisi- ble. The negroes during the wot king, season are accustomed to draw in ad vance a part of their wages, or to bor row money on their share of the crop. Being unable to keep accounts they are often surprised and disappointed, when the crop is gathered or the year closes. t.o find Ili:it. Ln-o-or habiting ii: mil. 11110 O their own children, have naturally al lowed them to grow up almost without parental supervision or training The very fact that the young among the ne groes are now afforded some opportuni- „ IL , ties of education has made parental dis- | cipline, where an attempt lias been made i* »’ «/ “ 4 t ‘ u petitioners; it is therefore Mered. That the Comptroller in- t tiu- several tax collectors of this t" suspend the collection of the p n cotton and other products in "inds of farmers and producers on first day of April last, until the ; meeting of the geucr&l assembly his State. ^ •1 amf.s M. Smith, Governor, the Governor: J- W. Warren, Sec. Ex. Dep’t. ATTEMPTED RAPE- ^citement in Conyers—Arrest of a Traveling Agent- l^ial dispatch to the Chronicle and kntinel ] Conyers, Ga., Sep. 7,1875. -° e James T. Heard, a drummer for ant - Rankin & Lamar, attempted to 'he two little daughters of Mr. ‘Oatborlain last night, at the White- -1 House in this place. Heard en- : , or induced the girls, aged respcc- 9 and 11, to enter his room, and attempted to commit the horrible J*"*-, I he girls escaped made aiplaint. Heard denied l^fe charge trn * n lamination left \ i ! t * le =i r h*’ story. « ; ®berlain then attacked Bev erely. The flj to* * - an< ^ con fi n ed in jail, ' Cti7,^ ait8 & Preliminary trL„ !l ®e H We , r ^ ® uc i 1 excited, and'l Ire! : , • r ®’ 8 Kfe was in danger, . *rri v ,‘ n ! r J tri al is set for to-morrow , . Ju( lge Hook, of Augusta, M huu: j. p T. i of the >tand that they" iiav*C IVOt been swindled. The gentlemen to whom L have referred gives to each ot the freoduicn on his pdace a pass-book, and. during the whole year, whenever he advances any money or provisions to a negro he carefully enters it in his book. As some of the negroes can read and write and arc consulted by those who cannot, any mistake is soon discovered. At the eua oi the season he makhs out a careful statement of account for each one, with copious explanations, and gives it to him, directing hitn to take it to some of bis feifbws who can read, and have it fully examined in connec tion with his pass-book, and wheu the negro returns, perfectly satisfied that that the statement is correct, he pays him the balance one. In this way he easily satisfies every one of his hands that he is dealing honestly with him, and in the last ten years he has never had a misunderstanding with one of them in regard to a settlement. This gentleman’s negroes rarely leave him. Last spring a neighbor, who had some trouble in getting sufficient hands for his plantation, tried to induce one of them with his family to move to his place. The negro, after thinking it. over, said that he knew that the laud was better than that on which he was working, and that he could make bet ter crops, but that as it would he ex pensive moving, and he was well satisfi ed where he was. he thought it would he worth about $100 to change. Many of the negroes on the same plantation have bought land in that vi cinity. Their employer has encourag ed them in this, atid has taken pains to sec that their deeds, contracts, etc., have been correct. He has not advanced them money but when they have under taken to pay for lands in such annual installments as they could reasonably expect to raise, he has agreed to insure them against loss by a failure to meet their contract® by reason of sickness or misfortune. 1 have cited this case sim ply to show that the negroes, when nr meriy managed, are generally good faithful workers.and that they are not aVajs to blame when uiisunderstand- ings arise. Col. Gilmore of Sandersville, told me that he could remember no sin gle case since the war where a .p antcr who has has treated his help fairly and considerately, has had any trouble m getting the negroes to work for him. the rising generation. The negroes who are most frequently in trouble 0 in Middle Gcorgi^-those who fail to excute their contracts, amt who are brought into the courts accus ed of crimes—are those who have grown up within the last ten years, and l have in a previous letter mentioned the tact that the better class of people, white and black, apprehend far geater trouble governing and controlling the rising generation than they have experienced n dealing with those who were former- Ikslaves. The reason for this is very lily learned. Before the war the pa- J of colored children had htt»e or ttrol over ’hfcir offspring, lhe to exercise it more difficult tliau it would otherwise have been. The ne gro boy or girl who has learned to read and write looks with a kind of con tempt upon ignorant parents and refuses to be governed by them. The result of this is very obvious: colored boys and girls are growing up in idleness and ate contracting vicious habits; they are sure to become danger ous members of society. While I was in Montgomery, Ala., last year, at the invitation of the Superintendent of the Public Schools. I visited a number of the schools of that city,white and blnek. Captain Bush, who has taken a greater interest in the education of the colored people of Montgomery than any one else, told me then of the trouble to be apprehended front the fact eulered pa rents neglected or were unable to gov ern tLcir children, and said that educa tion, instead of remedying the evil,seem ed to aggravate it. Of a number of young colored men who had been sent froth Montgomery to Howard Universi ty and other Northern institutions,-very few, if any, had turned out well> Near ly every one had become the victim of vice in some form. It is notorious throughout the South that chastity is much more rare among young negro girls now than before the war. Then it is true, some of them were forced, to submit to the lust of their owners, but generally the desire of the masters to have their slaves all marry and raise large families was the main cnnsidoratiou As old' Uncle Joe, a ne- and west of the centre. We arc thus par- half It mile, by. the public road. They titular about the grounds so that our were joined by fresh men from the town readers may fully understand the whole which put attend to their pursuit, but 1 did not prevent THE MASSACRE. Young Mr. Thompson, of Raymond, not being able (it is thought from wounds) to reach the road crossing in time, went directly south across some fields to the Raymond road where lie was caught up „,.. 0 probably ten or fif- with by mounted negroes and murdered, teen minutes. A party of eight or {en at least a mile and a half from the barbe- young gentlemen having scut to 'Clinton cue grounds. for a liottlc of whiskey-while Judge John- Mr. Sibley also failing to reach the ston was speaking, and not caring to hear crossing in time, kept directly across the Captain Fisher, public road into a large field, in which lie i,eft the grounds was also caught up with and butchered, to take a social drink. They walked The bodies of these men were fearfully down the hill, crossed the tittle branch and atrociously disfigured and mangled. They were robbed of all they had about their persons, their boots and other pieces of clothing. The murder of Mr. Charles Clinton was as cowardly and brutal au act as was ever perpetrated. It will be remembered that the barbecue grounds were bounded on ti»e north by the Chilton place—this was Mr. Charles Ghilnton’s residence. lie had been at the barbecuo in tiie moruiug but had carried one or two friends home with him to dinner. They were sitting in ii is house talking when the firing began. They, with the ladies of the house, ran out on the gallery to see what,was the matter. Soon after they got out Mr. Clin ton, observing a crowd of negro women and children coming around the feuee, ran-down to his gate to let them iu tiie yard for protection, as he did not know the exteut of the fighting it Iv'ing^nearly an eighth of a mile away, lie op ned the gate and called them in, aud after some of taem had availed themselves of his kind- uesstlie turned and started back to the bouse, wheu a parly of negro meu who were leaving the ground’s fired upon him and struck him iu the back, mortally wounding him. He was carried into his house, aud died iu an hour and a half The wanton atrocity of this deed will be bettor understood when it will be remem bered that all of tiie fighting was ai the southwest and south of, and on the grounds, and Mr. Chilton was at the ex treme northeast comer of the grounds, and was at no time mucli nearer than an 'Tf,’“*t’he young**girls vtore hrgrefit tear of the “big house." Speaking ol the rising generatiou ol colored people gen erally, Old Joe said: “They aiut no uioe ’count dan dat cigar what yoji is smokin’ when you throw it out oi* your rnout’.” JURIES AND SCHOOLS. Some of the negroes are not wholly satisfied with the politics of this State, and it is not at all strange that they should not be, since it is Conservative, although 1 have failed to discover any really serious grounds for complaint. I have heretofore referred to the discus sion among some of them of the jury question. By law, no distinction is to be made irt selecting juries, on accouut of race, color or previous condition of servitude. In the practical execution of the law colored men are not put upon juries, the reason given being that they are not “intelligent” citizens and only such are eligible. I don t believe the dissatisfaction on this account is very widespread, and I have been surprised to find it manifested to a much greater degree among those negroes who are ig norant and shiftless and who cannot in any event sit on juries, than among the thrifty and intelligent. If it were not for the negro demagogues like Morris, who agitate this question for their own sinister ends, it would never be heard of: The colored people have all the risrhts in court that white people have, and they do not complain that they are not dealt justly with there. ttTf. fiUTNTON BIOT- The Beginning, the Results, Casual ties- Incidents- Etc, [From the Clinton (Miss.) Clarion, Sep tember 6.] 1 For several weeks it has been under stood that there would be a Radical mass meeting and barbecue at Clinton, on Sat urday last. 4th iust., to which everybody, however, was inytted to be present, irrespective of party or race It was lanrely at tended by negroes, there being ftifly two thousand present who had gathered from every, section of the county. Besides half a dozen or more white Radicals, there were probably twen ty otter white men. It is said that as the negroes marched through Clinton that they were sinking songs to the effect that they were going “to bury Clinton and kill Democracy" that day. THE GROUNDS. The barbecue was given in a grove about three-quarters of a milt west of Clinton. It is bounded on the north by the Chilton place, on the south by the railroad (running through a cut about twenty feet deep), east by a public road and the west by a very small branch down a steep hill. From the Chilton place to the railroad it is about eight hundred yards, and from the public road to the branch about nine hundred yards. The speakers’ stand was very nearly the cen- (which was about 250 of 300, yards from the stand) to the west side, about ten feet. Here there was twenty or mote small cot ton wood, or willow trees, bqt no mider- glowth whatever, and the limbs of tiie small treCs were from ten to fifteen feet above the ground. On the ‘ast side of the branch, we will say, the.; is an open place extending to the foot of the hill. This opening i3 not. more t tan twenty yards wide. THE ORIGIN—ONE ACCOUNT Of THE DIFFI CULTY. When they stopped and wjre drinking a half dozen or more r.egroe j headed by one who claimed to be a sort of commit teeman approached them. The leader said that they could not drink there. Tlu-y replied that they had left the grounds on purpose not to violate the rules, and that they wi re now far enough away. They were then ordered in atr insulting tone to goffurther. They declined to do so and one of them raised the bottle- to his lips. The committeeman jerked it away from him and was immediately knocked down by the gentleman from whom lie took the bottle, and the fight commenced by tie negroes who accompanied the leader, fir ing.into the party of gentlemen. TIIE ORIGIN—ANOTHER STATEMENT. Another statement, made by a colored man, and corroborated by several white persons, is that a difficulty commenced near the stand, by a remark which was made by a white man, on the speech of Fisher, which was resented by a -w-j.v;e I'tnu'imnuiJ.i|t un; wnite inkm bore him,rapidly away down to the brum V The colored man aud a uumlior of others of his race pressed down upon them, the colored man swearing that the “dam white man should Dot hit him and live.” Charles s' 0 **?* b, an^fOliu witfiout avail. The white man w< ed across the branch, the negro suing, leaped over the branch, a-,, — the act of grappling the white \^au'Y71ten THE FIGHT BEGAN, j, The wliife men drew their pistols and re turned theijre, and two of the negroes fell dead side by side. One o^ them was the leader of the party. The white blood was up. They jumped,the branch, cross ed the opeu place, and charged the retreat- negroes. The negroes returned volley for voHey, and without effect. A num ber of negroes were wounded, but how many is not and probably will never be known. THE STAMFEDE. As the charging party mounted the hill top, the whole mass meeting broke and ran! leaving wagons, horses, mules, chairs, hats aud coats. They ratterwUn every direction, as if a regiment of £alry was coming over the hill. j THE RETREAT. When the whites reached tj| op of the hill thev found that in flie cx^ ement of the railroad cut-^tVfiUe thejYwere exe- cuting.this movement, protnj/ .uous firing had begun immediately ardSfod the stand, between the few white there .and the negroes. When thi^ift^4iad,gotten di rectly south of and about fiftynk ards from ton where it crosses the raUrf^l. THE RALLY OF THE NEOROES. YVhen the mo vement began *»e cry rang out among the negroes : damn ed white men, they are mnny^ "Ral ly, rally, Republicans “Q** r ge ’um‘ etc. About three hundred negroes re sponded to the call, and led on by the Wilburns, young Caldwell aud others, they pursued, keeping up an incessant fire upon the whites. The white men now- reached a small open field which skirts aiong the railroad. Quite a number of them were wounded. Up to this time the retreat had been covered by a few who had joined the aany from the stand, but by the time they reached - the railroad, these also had exhaustedAhe loads in their pistols, except one who had reserved his fire, r % THE CROSSING BEACHED. The gentleman with the loaded pistol took his stand upon it, and that one gustol saved the lives of the whole party %hd were fortunate enough to reach them in time. With it the advancing qp--oes were kept at bay until tbe others were on wiifiun. u iiurtiLi tnt'nmt valuing directly away from his residence. That he/ ss shot bv men who were roaming from the tight,‘find probably had not been near where it was, as the grounds, were very large. Tin-: wounded WHrrES. Caldwell, Sr., the State Senator, attempt — ed to interfere and stop the difficify £ ^Tliere were five or six whnes wounded, .... n i.iii> nun wi* "" ' •- Messrs. Neal and White.supposed to be Messrs. Neal and White.supposed to be mortally,-the others variously—from seri ous to very slight. THE KILLED AND WOUNDED NEGROES. There was said to have been five or six negroes killed on and around the grounds, but we saw only two there—two had fal len at the first fire, right at the branch. There was also near them a big pool of blood, which indicated that another iiad also fallen there. These two were said to have been from the Bvram neighborhood. It was said that three others were lying in the fields near by, but we did not see them WOUNDED. ITow many negroes were wounded it was impossible to ascertain, but two were Iving at Charles Caldwell’s residence in Clinton, anil one reached Jackaon Satur day evening. RE-ENF ORCEM FNTS. As soon as the wounded whites reached Clinton, telegrams were sent up and down the road for aid. It was now about 5 o'clock in the evening. Immediately a hill they found tun in me ^ V*™ - train from Vicksburg, with one the charge they had emp tei r pu o ., hundre< j an( j g tty meni wa8 on the way, and had no more ammumtimf hey bore companies from Edward’s and Bol- ol to U* south St**? , °™ td ™ d - a “T°d „d».ne news spread, ns it were upon the air, into the country. squads of men departed from every di rection. THE JACKSON MEN. In this place all was excitement. In in the country, and, as soon as it was day light, a cavalry company, mounted princi pally ou horses aud mules captured outlie battle field, went out to investigate the truth of the reports. It was reported here yesterday that this party was killing ne groes in every direction, but there is no authentic informat ion that any were killed, but it is very probable that two or three who were known to have participated in the pursuit of the whites, were killed if they were found. . AT JACKSON. Most of the Jackson company returned on a special train in the morning. Some of them who left came back half way on foot, where they got a wagon, in which they came the remainder- of the way. Here they found a great deal of EXCITEMENT, which was momentarily increasing as squad after squad of country negroes ar rived and gathered around the Mansion. The news spread from house to house and man to man that the negroes wero demand ing arras of the Governor, and the whites began rapidly to collect in numbers in front of the Capitol. Sheriff liaruey ap proached Capt. Frank Johnston aud re quested a conference between leading white citizens and leading negroes. This conference was soon brought about aud there the negroes said that they wanted no nnns and no .fight; that those who were coming in from the country were seeking protection, and that was what they wanted; that they understood that a large liody of whites were moving ou the town, killing as they came, and were already within four or live miles of this point, aud they were momentarily expect ing them to reach hero.' The white, peo ple assured them that if protection was what was wanted, they should have it. Audi soon so many of Capt. Johnston’s company as could procure horses, accom panied by Col. W. II. Taylor, Deputy Sherriff, wore on their way to Clinton to inform the people there what had occurr-' ed. A committee was also sent to Gover nor Ames to inform him that the men- of J ackson were able to protect tbcmstdvea, anil -willing to project the negroes if they were for peace, and also wlmt had been agreed upon. - - i | ftTtn j |ii i ■■■ H ill-UlfW •from the whites and blacks alike the par ty reporter fin*inbr gone along with the war was off with a fruce flag to the breeze, carried to assure any fleeing negroes that the war \Vas ended and peace made. This reporter having gone along -with the party; went also with the peace party to see how affairs were in Clinton, and to see the treaty confirmed. AGAIN IN CLINTON All was found quiet in Clinton, the dead had been buried, such negroes as chose to come in (we saw about a dozen) did so un molested. But the pickets were out, and seventy-five or a hundred whites wjio yet remained under arms and ready any oiwcr gonev. The treaty of peace was accepted and approved, with the understanding that the pickets would be kept out that night, and the men under arms until the news should be sent to the negroes ?n the country. And the Clinton war hail reach od the end. John C- Breckinridg's Will- j St. Paul Pioneer Press, August 271] The will of John 0. Breckinridge was presented lor probate yesterday and filed. The usual order was issued for a hearing on the 23d.of September. The j following is the first part of the will: I I, John C. Breckinridge, ofthe city i of Lexington and State of Kentucky, { being of disposing mind, do make this my last will and testament: First—After the payment of my debts, which are few and small,and the expenses of a modest funeral, I • direct that my wife, Mary Q Breckinridge, shall shall receive out of the proceeds of my estate $10,000 which is not to be charged as part bf her distributable portion of my estate; and in like man ner my daughter is to receive $3,000; but this sum is given for convenience as an advancement, and is to be charg ed as a part of her distributable por* tion These sums are to be paid as soon as may be without a sacrifice of property. Second—I leave to my wife all the household and kitchen furniture, ex cept the furniture in the room of my daughter Francis, which is to be hers absolutely, and neither of them is-to be charged in respect of these items. Third—Those articles, whose value lies chiefly in the associations' - connect ed with them, as family pieces, pic tures. military relies, and the like, I" leave with my wife for distribution between herself and the children, and this I trust cutirely to her discretion and affection. The will distributes the. remainder of the property equally between his wifi) and his children! JTis wife. James B. Beck and John R. Yiley are appointed executors. Africa- Commodore Andrew H. Foote, of the Uni ted States Navy, spent many years of his life on the coast of Africa, in command of a .vessel tor i lie suppression ofthe slave trade. He had peculiar advantages for forming a correct opinion of African civilization. He n^-ofe a book on. t he subject, andfVe-give be low the result of bis conclusions : The African lias never reached, until the settlement, of Liberia, a higher rankjhai^ft^, rt iW ^WWlJSTdgar-plums. No philosopher among them has caught, sight of the niyste- ries oi Daturc ; no poet hits, illustrated heav en, or earth, dr (tie life of man; no states man has done anything to lighten’or bright: en the links of human policy. In fict, if all that the negroes Of All generations have ever done were to he obliterated from recol lection forever, .the worid would lose no great truth, no profitable art, no exemplary form of life. The loss ofall that is African would nffoct no memorable deduction from anything but the earth’s black catalogue of ime. If the whole negro nation were swept away there would not .remain a monament on the face or their oontiLettt to tell that swh a race of men had occupied it, Africa is imiTtv af *Lr>—Mn-rcry—uniim - which she suffered ; for her people made it, as well as suffered-if. rrrtlv soutll OI ana aixmvjuiw»^u= — r , the speakers stand, they Wet joined by less than thirty minutes a company of over the other white men, not than ten fifty men, with Frank Johnston as Captain • nnilhi-r Tliev were ft&oving a and If. L. Saunders as Lieutenant, was little south of east, to get intdnhe railroad formed and collected at the depot. It was cut and to the public roacfW Utg to Clin their intention to have the east hound passenger train return with them to Clin ton, but being informed that mounted men were needed, they dispersed to mount themselves. Immediately after, however, tliev heard that the Vicksburg lightning train had reached Clinton and was on its way for them. Soon they were on hoard and off Jor the seat of war. On the way down.me drain was fired into, one lmll piercing 'ender. A line of skinntsh- efs was thrown out, and the train moved slowly down the road. A light was seen half a mile in front. It quickly went out. When the skirmishers reached that point they found the road piled up with heavy timber. It was removed ‘and soon after they reached Clinton, which now had the appearance of an armed camp. Ever} road was picketed and the watchword was given. SUNDAY MORNING, about day-dawn, two negroes were killed by the pickets. One of them, when shot, was in his shirt-sleeves and bare footed, and, as he was known to be a sort of lead er, appearances indicated that he was go ing into town as a scout or spy. Ali night 1 repores were being brought in that the ne- ro£^^pS3tUe 1 S way to Chktonrwhichwaaoff about gr'oes were marching at this or that place Beecher- Mr. Beecher has conducted himself since his trial in a manner s i offensive to decency, so inconsistent with his sacred calling, and so out-of' reluti >n ti the character he claims for h::.;><;it : tut his partisans ask the public to bil e-. is his, that we are not s trprL <1 to u a*- startling reports as to his actions. The following, however, from the Vv hite Mountains correspondence of the Lx. press, is almost two disgraceful for be lief: v # “The Beecher excitement is quite died out. At first there was a great rush to see him, and hear him, but now the fun is over, and last Sunday his entire audience did not exceed two thousand people. He Ls to return to Brooklyn this week, much to the dis pleasure of the Barrens, who keep - the hotel where he is staying They have given him his board and fifty dollars a week to stay and preach at their- house. He thinks they are making too much money oat of him, and demands that they pay him two hundred dollars a week. The Barrens say this is too much, and Beecher says, “All right, gentlemen. I go home this week.” “If. vou do, we will sne you for breach of contract; for, Mr Beecher, you agreed to stay till the third Sunday in Sep tember.” Beecher coolly replies, ‘Sue away, if you like. I should think af ter what you have seen of my success in the law business, that you would know better than to undertake a suit against me.’ The Barrens are furious. The say they have done everything for Beecher; that they defended him in the newspapers, and have petted him al ways. But they can’t help themselves. When Mr. Beecher makes up his mind to go, he will start if a whole regiment opposes. The previous report that Mr. Beecher was a dead-head at the Twin Mountain House, paying his way by exhibiting himself there was discreditable enough; but the above is an outrage to honor and decency that we are not able to be lieve even of Mr- Beecher-—K.Y-Sun, Bishop Gilbert Haven- In its issue of Sunday lart the New York 'ferhl.l published, under the heading of •‘O onions ofthe Religious Press.” the fol- Vvvirrr ii; regnri! to the vile old misccgcna- tor wliose name heads this article : “The Independent has a characteristic' ' in- eo'umu article from the pen of the M.-!- >-li-«t Itishon Gilbert TIaVen in which he a-h-e -JefUniost vigorously the doctrine f a- V-amotion of the races on this couti- II ' *. The Bishop thinks Garrison and ■ r 'hiilips .IH a very unwise thing when they dissolved the old Anti-Slavery Society. He calls for its restoration, that it may ‘ding : dong in this behalf until equal rights arc, in fact and not in name, secured to all the peo ple of thislond.’ " It is just snch old fanatical agitators that have kept up a constant tunuoil in this coun try for the past fifty years/ r This old cleri cal humbug and Radienl politician has prac ticed his vile social equality in Georgia, and we copy the above allusion to tho slimy old, i restore to wire all decent white people and respectable colored people against his evil influences, which can only have the tenden cy to bring trouble to both races. No re spectable white families can totorate the presence of shell a vile creafiirc to their hos pitality.—Routt Courier. Forewarned, forearmed—(Our reporter before dinner): “Beg pardon, my lord, but could your lordship kindly oblidgeme by giving me a hint as to what your lord- ship is going to say in reply to the duke when his grace proposes your lordship’s health ♦” His Lordship: “How can I tell you what I’m going to say until I’ve heard what the duke says f" Our repor ter: “Oh, I can oblige your lordship with what his grace is going to say, I’ve got it all in my pocket.” A colored man, employed as a deck haDd ou a propeller, was rushing around town yesterday, and inquiring where the polls were. “Polls? Polls?” repeated the citizen, “why, there’s no election go ing on now.” “There hain’t ? f ‘No, sir.” The man stood for a moment looking greatly disappointed, and turned for tho river with the remark: “And now do programme is to find dat sleek gpahg aaa who said dey was paying s’^-qoHars a- piece for voters l” t j-*-•