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Address, Thoh. Gilbert & Cos.,
Columbus, Ga.
Oua Congressional District—Harris
Elected.— Harris county gives 147 radi
cal majority. This is official.
Meriwether gives Harris an overwhelm
ing majority—how much not reported.
< 'hattahoochee county goes by 40 to 50
votes for Harris. At Jamestown the vote
was C 5 Democratic, 10 liadical; Cusseta,
17 majority for Harris, 9 for Greeley.
Talbot county giveH 200 majority for
Greeley.
Marion county gave Harris 192 and
Greeley 182 majority. O’Conor received
live votes. The entire vote polled was
048.
An Augusta telegram gives Greeley S(H)
majority in Troup. Os course Mr. Harris
received more. At LaGrango Harris re
ceived 207; Bethune 150.
Harris is now undoubtedly elected by
a handsome majority.
Superior Court —Judge James John
son Presiding — Third Day. —Court met
at 9 a. m.
Following cases were disposed of ;
Columbus Iron Works Company vs.
Sankey & Shorter, complaint, verdict and
judgment for $l5O for plaintiffs.
Hall, Moses & Cos. vs. Shankey & Shor
in', complaint; verdict and judgment for
$377 for plaintiffs.
Thomas Hargraves, use, Ac., vs. Henry
McCauley; verdict and judgment for
plaintiff for sl,Oll 81 principal and
$354 40 interest.
Jas. W. Craig vs. Valentine Wildman—
John W. Hart, garnishee. Garnishment
abated by death of garnishee.
L. T. Downing, assignee, vs. Geo. It.
Forbes, assumpsit, dismissed by plaintiff.
White, Pfister A Cos. vs. Mary L. Jones,
administratrix of Jno. A. Jonos, deceased,
account —verdict and judgment for plain
ill! for S2OB 40 principal and S2OO 09 in
terest.
Pending argument in the case of J. F.
Winter vs. if. 11. Epping A Cos. The
Court adjourned until this morniug at 9
o’clock.
The session will probably continue six
weeks.
Writ of Lunacy. —For several years
Mr. S. B. Warnock, one of our wealthiest
oitizous, has been in feeble health. Ho
is the Warnock of the well-known linn of
Warnock A Cos. of the Alabama Ware
house. He is a bachelor. For some time
it lias been whispered that he had lost his
mind and that he was a harmless lunatic.
Vestorday his brother sued out a writ of
lunacy, which was tried before Ordinary j
Brooks and a jury composed of Dr, Bacon |
and twelve other well-known gentlemen. I
The jury found that Mr. Warnock was in [
a state which made him incompetent to j
manage his business, and appointed j
Messrs. John T. Warnock, a brother of !
him tried, and Mr. Yf. L. Salisbury, his
former partner, as his guardians. The ]
jury left the custody and safety of the
person to the discretion and best judg- j
meat of the guardians. The estate is a j
very large one.
Official Majorities in Lee County— j
Badicals Elected.— Grant received 90 I
majority. The liadical (national and [
State) ticket received about the same,
varying from 93 to 118 —Smith, for Audi
tor. receiving the highest, and Norris, for
member of Education Board, the lowest.
We give the majority for each county
office.
For Senator, J. L. Pennington received
202 majority; S. G. Jones and Tom Peddy,
for Representatives, 201 and 207 respect
ively. G. \Y. Hooper, for Solicitor, 215.
The balloting showed unblushing ras
cality and fraud. The county has between
3,(HR) aud 3,100 voters, yet 5,259 votes
were cast. At Opelika the Radical ma
il city was 1,092 —total vote 2,310. This
vote w ill be contested by the Democrats,
as it ought to be. Fraud cau be clearly
proved.
About twenty Georgia negroes got on
ti:■ 1 morning tram of the Western road,
and 75 or 80 more just across the river at
lii'owneville - the latter gang was headed
by Frank Ford, colored, who is a defeated
Radical candidate for the Legislature in
this county hist October. All are snp
p >sed to have voted in Opelika in answer
t ' Pennington’s (Alabama Grant elector)
circular requesting them to do so.
Off For Texas. —Mr. Samuel Piper.
wtu» for the past seven or eight years, has
tilled the office so acceptably of mail
agent on the Western Railroad, has re
sigin-d that position and left for Sulphur
Springs. Texas. We wish friend Sam suc
cess in his ue .v home.
Mr. Fred Wilhelm, formerly a clerk
in the Columbus post office, has been
appointed to the position Mr. Piper
resigned. Mr. W. will no doubt prove
.in acceptionable officer, as he is an oblig
ing, courteous young gentleman.
1 KEAsuiiE Liken from the America.-
Three hundred thousand dollars in treas
ure has been takeu from the wreck of the
sunken steamer America on the Pacific.
Tin four holes found iu the tank con
tinuing the treasure is not attributed, as
at one time supposed, to have been made
by thieves, who afterwards tired the ves
sel. but is now ascertained to have been
there previously, made in the tank for
the stanchions to go through from the
orlop io the main deck.
I’ook the Premium.—The premium of
¥'•'9, at the Augusta Fair for the largest
yield of cotton on live acres of laud fer
tilis'd with Phienix guano, wns taken by
Cnpt. J. \\. F. Little, of Harris county.
( onsolino. —A prominent lawyer aud
politician was consoling himself and
friends yesterday on the defeat of Greelev
by saying, that if his candidate did not
get the blue, he secured the red ribbon
for being second best.
(>n the first Tuesday in December Ellis
A Harrison will sell, at auction, for the
trustees, W. H. Chambers and W. S.
Shepherd, the splendid river plantation,
known as the A. C. Flewellen place, in
Stewart county'. On the following Tues
day they will sell the products and proper
ty on the place. See notice for descrip
tion. There is no better cotton planta
tion in Georgia.
A negro held a cotv while a cross-eyed
man was to knock her on the head with
an ax. The negro observing the man’s
eyes, in some fear inquired, ‘"You gwine
to hit whar you look ?" “Yes. ”j“Den, "said
Cuffee, “hold de cow yourself!”
See tax notice of Collector J. A. Frazer.
Policy, Principle and Necessity.
We propose in this brief article to make
such remarks as time and space will per
mit upon the causes of the late defeat of j
the Democratic and Liberal Republican
party. Under the circumstances, we sin
cerely regret the result, but at the same j
time, both as a citizen and journalist, We
cannot hold guiltless the active agents
that created and developed the moral and
political elements which we think will
prove disastrous to the whole country.
No doubt, many members of the Haiti- j
more Convention were actuated by an- j
selfish and patriotic motives; some forced
principle to yield to policy and that
brought about the unpleasant necessity I
on millions of compelling a choice of ad- )
mitted evils, and thereby adding another 1
verification to the words of Holy Writ—
“ Never do evil, that good may result.”
Lot. it bo granted that Gen. Grant was the
military tyrant and base usurper he was
represented by enemies, and that Mr.
Greeley was tho generous friend of the
Houtlx and general humanity—the wise
statesman and noble writer and patriot as
commended by bis zealons partisans,
still, the Conventions which nominated
the latter, at once erected an insuperable
harrier to his triumph. They attempted
the impossible when it could have been
avoided, and sacrificed principle to rotten
and crooked policy without necessity
when they essayed to weld discordant
political elements into intimate union, and
convert by a single effort things dissimilar
with things essentially similar. How
wise and prudent men could reasonably
hope to change life-long passions, preju
dices and moral and mental convictions of
millions in an hour or a few months, must
now excite general and special wonder.
The days of miracles are past, and surely
the fanaticism which could expect to work
out such an untold event, must have
equalled that of Peter the Hermit who,
about the close of the 11th century, hurled
Europe against Asia in a foolish, religious
crusade. Don Quixote when most moon
struck—when he mistook his Dulcinea del
Toboso for a rich, lovely princess, aud
flocks of sheep aud windmills for dra
gons and giants —never committed a
greater blunder, and one we think will
be never repeated. Although the politi
cal record of Mr. Greeley is bad, we be
lieve ho has a noble intellect, a kind heart
and a most excellent personal character,
and regret with thousands, that ho should
have been so ruthlessly sacrificed by the
ill-judged zeal of friends, and now suffers
under both domestic and political afflict
ions and disappointments. We hope he
will yet, as an editor, be wiser, happier
and more useful than as a President and
realize the couplet:—
“More true joy, Marcellus oxiled feels,
Than (Jassar, with a Senate at his heols.”
Asa philosopher, we commend to him
in adversity, the heroic example of Aris
tides and the noble sentiments of Themis
tocles :■ —“My sentiments are suitable to
my present misfortunes, and I am pre
pared to receive favors, if you are recon
ciled to me, or, if you retain any resent
ment, to disarm it by my submission.”
I am still ready and willing to “clasp
•bands across the bloody chasm. ” Wo
hope, too, he may if he retires to Chappa
qtta, at some time and under other and
more favorable circumstances bo called
like Cincinnati!,s of old, from his cabbages
and potatoes to save and wield the des
tinies of a great nation.
Montesquieu has said that a republic
must always act on the defensive ; it can
not afford to lose a principle in politics or
in social morality without danger to the
whole structure of its rights. It has all
the powers of evil constantly picking out
the chinks in its armor through which to
stab it with their poisoned weapons.
In the election of Mr. Greeley, we
would have lost a principle both in politics
and in social morality. Crime against
government may be punished, but there is
no remedy against treason against a whole
people—the subversion of their morals
and principles. We conclude aud agree
with Montesquieu when he says “that
more States have perished on account of
corruption of morals than because of the
perpetration of national crimes.”
Iu this regard, we admire the American
people iu not following certain leaders in
the violation of political morals and con
victions. This is our consolation in the
hour of defeat aud present darkness of
our country.
ALABAMA CORRESPONDENCE.
dike county largely democratic.
Troy, Ala., Nov. 6, 1872.
Eds. Sun: Owing to a heavy rain dur
ing the entire trip from Columbus here,
your correspondent was unable to obtain
election news at the various stations or
the route. At Union Springs we learned
that the ballot boxes were “stuffed" las)
night after tb« voting was over, aud that
Judge Black to-day threw out about a
thousand votes. We could not obtain any
reliable estimate of the result of the elec
tion at that poiut.
Pike county, true to her ancient Demo
cratic faith, is all right. Greeley has
1,841 to Grant about 500, and the State
ticket 1,900. Our Democratic majority
will help the other portions of the State
where Radicalism prevails.
Ww. H. Parks, Esq., one of the ablest
lawyers of this city, is elected State Sen
ator over James Tolmfd, by 651 majority.
He will make an able and honest member
of the Senate of Alabama.
Joel I). Murphree, Esq., iselected Rep
resentative to the Legislature over all
other candidates, having a majority of
733 over Capt. J. D. Gardner, who had
the next highest, vote. Mr. Murphree is
one of our most successful and substantial
citizens, aud his election is hailed with
; joy.
! Henry C, Wiley, Esq., the present ener
getic and popular Solicitor for the coun
ty, is re-elected over Judge B. W. Starke
aud Capt. L. 11. Bowles. The vote is as
follows: Wiley 1,030: Bowlesß63; Starke
444. This vote is quite complimentary to
Mr. Wiley. Sidney Herbert.
COMMCNICAOKD.
76!!!
The omen, the magic numbers, above
recorded, augers a happy reorganization
of all patriots ou the line of the Jefferso
nian Democracy which still remains intact,
with its banners flying and its ranks com
pact. They must gather their strength
together, and work with renewed vigor to
j compensate for tlieir ignominious fall to
; earth. They must endeavor to overthrow,
by harmonious action, the despotism which
; wftS secured by the fallacious sacrifice of
i principle to “policy;” a despotism en
suring its existence for the next four
years.
Gentlemen! Democrats! you. who in
the “slough of despond," chose to accept
the “ least of two evils,’ or “ anything to
beat Grant,” and who were assured by
your trusted leaders, that the object could
be easily accomplished, have now the op
portunity of judging of the ill-advised
course of action you pursued. It now be
comes necessary' to retrace your steps;
“to ascend backwards to the pure atmos
, phere.” aud to follow your chosen leaders
to a united Democratic victory, though
their mistaken zeal once led you to defeat.
Nov. 7tli, 1872. *
White Labor in the South.— The pop
j nlar fallacy that white laborers cannot en
dure the heat of the cotton, sugar and rice
' plantations of the South is exploded by
the New Orleans Picayune, which says
that white laborers are working in the
fields all over the State of Louisiana the
year round as low down as tide w'ater from
the Gulf of Mexico, and on the islands
along the Gulf shore. And these labor
j ers are not more sickly' than colored men,
or men who stay in the shade.
! The late Win. H. Seward left an estate
■ valued at $400,000.
SATURDAY OTORMNO, YOV. 9.
Mx’soogee Superior Court —Judge t
Johnson Presiding—Fourth Day.— r The ;
Court met at 9 a. m.
Grand Jury found two larceneyand one I
murder indictment.
The Judge instructed the Grand Jury ;
to appoint a committee of three to ex- I
amine the Clerk’s office and report to the
next Grand Jury. He said the office was
the most important in the county. The
Clerk, besides keeping the Court dockets,
has to preservoand label all legal docu
ments correctly; that owing to the negli
gence of previous officers many papers '
had been lost, or were missing. He said, i
and reiterated it, that he did not mean to j
reflect upon the present Clerks (Messrs.
Pond and I Joyd) who had done all in their
power to restore order and correctness to
the office and keep it properly. He pre
ferred that the committee be composed of
gentlemen who knew something abont
law.
Interesting Case—lmportant to All.
—-Yesterday in the Superior Court a case
of much interest was tried. The charge
of the Judge will dissipate the erroneous
views of many regarding the duty of the
city. We allude to the case of Mr. Jas.
L. Howell, of Chattahoochee county, vs.
the city of Columbus. The case is about
as follows; In 1869 Mr. Howell was cross
ing the lower bridge, when his horse be
coming frightened at the shaking of the
planks, and in endeavoring to stop him
the horse backed against the railing. The
railing being rotten gave way, and the
horse was precipitated below and killed.
Mr. 11. brought his action against the city,
claiming that by reason of the neglect in
keeping the bridge repaired, his horse was
killed and he damaged S4OO. The de
fense introduced no testimony, but relied
on the law applicable to the case.
Judge Johnson charged the jury that, if
they believed the bridge was in a passable
condition, they must find in favor of the
city; that the city was not required by law
to keep the bridge in any certain condi
tion, nor to keep a railing at all, the rule
being that it must be kept in such condi
tion as a prudent driver could pass in
safety; aud if an accident should happen,
it must be the result of neglect on the
part of the city, without any neglect on
the part of the plaintiff whatever, in order
to make a ease.
The jury wore out some time, but finally
came iu with a verdict for the city.
Counsel for Howell, Blanford & Craw
ford and B. A. Thornton; for city, Pea
body & Brannon.
Election Now Assured. —The election
of Mr. Henry R. Harris as Democratic
Congressman of this District, is now fully
assured. His majority would have been
much greater had it not been for the in
difference and apathy of the whites.
The following are his official majorities
ill the counties named: Muscogee 162;
Marion 192; Chattahoochee 40; Troup 510;
Heard 285; Carroll 542—total 1,731 certain
majority.
Meriwether county, it is authoritatively
statod, has given him 308 to 400 majority.
In Coweta two precincts, Senoia and
Sharpsburg, give him 209 majority—indi
cating 400 by the county.
Only Campbell and Douglass counties
to hear from, and these caunot affect the
result.
Bethune has thus far won only two
counties —Talbot by 200 majority, and
Harris by 118.
Mr. Harris is certainly elected by over
2,000 majority.
Rather Strange. —lt seems that in this
country a teacher has to educate both
pupils and parents. Some of the latter
imagine their boys should boss the in
structor, and the latter should be pun
ished in case he flogs the fiedgeing when
he commits gross indiscretions. In older
countries, especially in England, the flog
ging system is applied to the sons of
Lords as well as commoners, nor is the
young breeches-wearer allowod for a mo
ment to think himself a man in the school
room. If he does, the police and courts
attend to his case. The most successful
teachers are those who flog hardest, when
a thrashing is deserved. This process
wonderfully brightens intellects and
brings out ideas of decorum. The master
must be master in his school room. The
courts in Columbus thus far have sus
tained teachers in reasonable corrections
of pupils, and we hope ever will continue
to do so. If they act otherwise, schools
had best be broken up.
What Has Been Proven. —That in this
county the Democrats can give the Radi
cals a clear start of five hours and then
beat them by a handsome majority. No
fear of Radicals being elected to office in
this county, provided the Democrats
nominate fairly popular men. There are
too many whites and colored Democrats
in Columbus. All they ask is that there
may be no clique nominations. A nomi
nee fairly chosen can always be elected,
no matter whom the Radicals may put in
the field.
Valuable Mill Property for Sale.—
The attention of mechanics seeking agood
investment in steam power, is called to
the advertisement of Joseph Minchener,
of the Conecuh Steam Works, Troy, Ala.,
who is offering his well-established busi
ness for sale at a great sacrifice, as he is
obliged to change his place of residence.
Persons desirous of obtaining full par
ticulars cau consult Mr. H. Castleman,
Real Estate Broker, of this city, or ad
dress Joseph Miticheuer at Troy.
Gen. Meade. —He died on the 6th in
Philadelphia of pneumonia. He was a
native of Pennsylvania, and was descend!'
ed from a Spanish family. He graduated
in West Point, saw military service in
Mexico and during the late war in this
country distinguishad himself as a corps
commmander in the Union army, and al
so as the commander of the Federal forces
at Gettysburg. He was the head of this
military district during the first recon
struction of Georgia, succeeding Pope,
and was hated by all in this section, for he
was responsible for the brutal treatment
of the Ashburn prisoners.
Savannah and Memphis Railroad.—
Major Green, the Engineer and Superin
tendent, will soon begin the construction
! of a first-class bridge over the Talla
; poosa river. The last location of ten
j miles beyond the river not only presents
j the lightest grades and least curvature,
j but also saves a mile of distance, and cost
$25,000 less than any former location.
Much credit is due Mr. W. H. Wells,
young engineer in charge of party.
The Mobile and Girard Railroad.—
Since June Ist the passenger receipts
show an increase of SSOO compared with
the same period last year. It is expected
I that by the end of this month the in
; crease will roach SI,OOO. People move
i about more than formerly. This is due
: perhaps to a large cotton crop. Iu July
and August the receipts were less than
I those of tho same months last year.
j The Georgia Election. —Very meagre
| returns are received. The State has gone
; for Greeley by a small majority. It is
yet questionable whether Col. Glenn is
defeated for Congress. Three counties
are yet to hear front, and he has only si)o
, majority against him.
The Straights have polled about 3,000
I votes.
i Handley Defeated.— The returns thus
, far received indicate the defeat of Hand
ley, Democratic candidate for Congress in
the 3d Alabama District, unless the many
: illegal votes polled in Russell are thrown
out. Chamliers county, gives him 457
majority.
A California dairy contains twelve hun
dred cows, the milk of which is churned
I into butter by steam.
GEORGIA ELECTION.
Stewaet County.—lt went Radical.
Col. Jack Brown, Independent, got more
votes than Gen. Phil Cook, the regular
! nominee.
The Savannah District.—A dispatch
from Andrew Sloan, Radical candidate
for Congress, in the Savannah District, to
Mr. Walter Johnson, states that his elec
tion is certain. We hear that a prominent
politician stated several weeks ago that
many citizens intended voting for Sloan in
preference to Rawls on the ground that
the former could be of more use to Savan
nah. Chatham gave Sloan 1239 ma jority.
The following should have reached us
last night:
Atlanta, Nov. 6.—The election for
Congressmen in this district is very close
and doubtful. Young and Bell, Demo
crats, are elected.
Augusta, Nov. C. —Official returns re
ceived from counties named, give Greeley
the following majorities over Grant and
O’Conor : Richmond, 409 ; McDuffie, 357 ;
Wilkes, 106 ; Warren, 72 ; Baldwin, 563 ;
Troup, 500 ; Randolph, 99 ; Terrell, 399 ;
Bartow, 476. The following counties give
Grant majorities over Greeley and O’Con
or : Clarke, 107 ; Morgan, 198 ; Lowndes,
11; Dougherty, 728; Mitchell, 18; Sum
ter, 617 ; Thomas, 802; Macon, 187. Re
turns come iu slowly. Gen. Wright is
elected to Congress in the Bth District, by
3,000 majority. The Republican gain is
heavy, as compared with the Governor’s
election. There will be a gain of abont
3,000 by the Republicans. The returns
indicate the election of 7 Democrats and
2 Republicans to Congress. It will take
several days before the official returns can
be given from the State at at large.
The Atlanta Herald has this:
The Congressional Race in Georgia.—
It is with tolerable eertainty that we can
this morning predict that seven out of nine
of the Congressional Districts have gone
Democratic.
Our estimate, based upon dispatches too
tedious to publish, is as follows :
Majority.
Ist District, Rawls, dem 1,000.
2d District, Whitely, rad 300.
3d District, Phil Cook, dem 800.
4th District, H. R. Harris, dem 2,200.
sth District, J. C. Freeman, rad 800.
6th District, J. H. Blount, dem 3,000.
7th District, P. M. B. Young, dem....1,800.
Bth District, A. R. Wright, dem 2,600.
9th District, 11. P. Bell, dem 3,000.
We still have hopes that Wright will
carry the Second District against Whitely,
though our dispatches scarcely justify the
hope.
[Andrew Sloan, the Republican candi
date for Congress in the First District,
telegraphs the certainty of his election
over Rawls.] —Eds. Sun.
Vote of Chatham County. Rawls
(Dem.) received in the city 733 majority.
Rawls fell behind the Greeley electoral
ticket about seventy votes, and Sloan ran
ahead of his ticket about sixty-five votes.
Outside the city 1241 votes were polled,
1,239 of which were for the Straight-Re
publican ticket. The questions as to the
legality of the management of these pre
cincts (which is most seriously questioned)
was to have been determined by the mag
istrates Thursday. If adversely, the
county will be Democratic by 847 majori
ty; if favorably, the Radical majority will
be 1,239.
Talbot County.—Tho following is the
voto:
FOIt PRESIDENT.
Grant 794.
Greeley 677.
O’Conor 28.
Grant’s majority 117.
FOIt OONOEESS.
Bethune 808.
Harris ..715.
Betliune’s majority... 93.
Gen. Cook Elected.—Our exchanges
say Gen. Phil Cook is elected to Congress
by 2,000 majority. Stewart county gave
him 640 majority, while she only gave
Greeley 355. Stewart gave O'Conor 13
votes.
ALABAMA ELECTION.
Russell County.—We have tried our
best to get something official from this
county, but have not yet been able to
learn any data authoritatively. The Rad
icals claim the county by 1,520 majority.
The Vote in Gieaed.—Total vote cast
867, of which Grant received 655 and
Greeley 205. The entire State ticket will
vary but little from this.
FOE STATE SENATOR.
W. B. Harris 646 |J. W. Johnston.2l2
FOE REPRESENTATIVES.
Miller 625 I Nix 217
Treadwell-. 629 j Henry 216
SOLICITOR.
Martin 640 | Mitchell 207
Chambers county gives 450 Democratic
majority.
Rapier, colored, is elected Congressman
by 2000 majority. Bullock county gave
him 1800.
Montgomery, Nov. 6. —Dispatches and
reports received here indicate Democratic
gains as follows, based on the vote of
1870 :
Henry, 700; Jefferson, 300; Barbour,
600 ; Clay, 100 ; Dallas, 500 ; Marengo,
2,000 ; Lee, 100 ; Lowndes, 200; Bullock,
300 ; Pike, 500 ; Mobile, 10,000 ; Baker,
2,000. The Republican gains are as fol
lows : Tuscaloosa, 300; Shelby, 250 ;
Madison. 1,200; Greene, 1,300; Sumter,
1,200; Morgan, 300; Colbert, 400; Law
rence, 400 ; Lauderdale, 200 ; Conecuh,
”00.
Both sides are confident of the State.
Most Republican strongholds have been
heard from, while the strong Democratic
counties are inaccessible to telegraph, and
have not been. The election of Bromberg,
Liberal, to Congress from the first dis
trict, is conceded, as Turner aud Joseph,
(both col.) rep. candidates, divided the
vote between them. Rapier, (col.) is
elected from this district probably by one
thousand. Handley (dem.) is re-elected
from the 3d; Hays (rep.) is re-lected from
the 4th; Caldwell (dem.) from the sth,
and Sloes (dem ) are re-elected.
Mobile, Nov. 6. —Mobile county gives
Gt'eeley 578 majority. Bromberg, Liber
. ~al, over Turner, Radical, and the present
member of Congress, 1,630.
Alabama Counties. —Henry gives. 1,800
Democratic majority; Macon 1,200 Radi
cal. Both parties claim the State.
Barbour county goes Radical by 206
votes, a loss to that party of over one
thousand votes since the election of 1870.
The postoffice officials of Columbus
claim that they have advices which show
that the State has given the Radicals
5,000 majority.
Intense interest was manifested in this
city yesterday over the result of the State
election which seems at this writing to
have resulted in the triumph of the ne
groes and their allies by from twenty-five
hundred to four thousand majority. The
gains for Lewis in the northern counties
j have been larger than any one had calcu
i lated on. aud have certainly lost us the
I State, if the State be indeed lost. The
l respective gains thus far reported are as
\ follows :
Democratic—Barbour 1,200, Chambers
200, Dallas 600, Henry 100, Jefferson 300,
Mobile 650, Montgomery GC-2, St. Clair
300, Marengo 1,500.
Radicals—Butler 600, Blount 200, Con
eenh 150, Colbert 700, Elmore 150, Greene
1,300, Hale 700, Lauderdale 300, Law
| rence 600, Macon 600, Limestone 500,
i Madison 1,200, Morgan 800, Russell 1,000,
I Shelby 200, Sumter 1,200, Tuskaloosa 700.
Ou these totals the Radicals are over
i 5,000 ahead. This swallows up Lindsay's
! small majority of 1,740 and leaves them
3.300 margin.
In the first district Bromberg (Lib.) is
• elected to Congress. In the second the
I contest is close, with chances favoring
Rapier. In the third the returns indicate
! Handley’s election by two or three hun
dred majority. Hays in the fourth dis
trict is re-elected by about four thousand.
Sloss in the fifth district has six thousand
1 majority, and Caldwell in the sixth has
1 six or seven thousand majority.
The Legislature is very close with the
chances favoring the Democrats. It is
said that the loyal claims business did the
1 mischief in some of the counties of North
Alabama—the Radicals having promised to
pat’ all such if Lewis were elected. Me
hope to have something more definite by
to-morrow morning. —Montgomeiy Ado.
8 th.
The grossest instance of humbug we
have met with iu a long time is that of
an individual who advertises for sale- a
■ Siberian bloodhound, which he calls “A
1,” when every one possessing the ordi
nary rudiments of an English education
[ ought to know that the best is K 9.
IS IT EVEN SO?
One of North Carolina's most distin
guished sons lies buried in Hinds county,
Mississippi, an old and almost deserted
village, without even a head board to mark
the spot or an enclosure around the grave.
Hon. Charles Fisher, of Rowan county,
one of the most distinguished men of his
day, died at Hillsboro’, Miss., on his way
home from the south on the 7th of May,
1849, where his remains now lie as above
stated.
Will the Legislature of North Carolina,
which is shortly to convene, or even the
County Commissioners of Rowan, permit
the remains of tlieir most illustrious son
thus to remain in obscurity.
His name adorns the brightest page of
our State history. He represented the
county of Rowan in the State Senate in
1818; the Salisbury District in the U. S.
Congress in 1819; re-elected to the same
in 1820; from 1821 to 1836, he represented
his county in the House of Commons, and
1831-32 was the speaker of that body,
where he presided with marked distinc
tion, when it was composed of such men
as Nash, Henry, Eccles, Hill, Bragg and
others. He was a member of the State
Convention of 1835, and in 1839 was again
brought forward as a candidate for Con
gress, and was elected over the talented
and popular Dr. Pleasant Henderson, by
a majority of 183 votes.
He was again nominated by the Demo
cratic party in 1845. This was the most
exciting and important canvass of his
life. Wheeler says : “The District was
large; he addressed his fellow-citizens at
every place he possibly could, at great
length, and often twice a day; sometimes
active in writing and sending printed
addresses to the people.”
In this election he was beaten twenty
seven votes by the Hon. D. M. Barringer,
the present Chairman of the Conserva
tive Committee. This was the only de
feat he ever sustained before the people.
He was afterwards nominated by his party
for Governor, but declined on account of
ill-health.
This is but a brief sketch of the his
tory of this great man whose neglect
by the State, by his county, by the people,
we complain of. We have been already
authorized by the Hon. D. M. Barringer
to say that he will contribute liberally to
this object, but we think the Legislature
of North Carolina should take this matter
in hand and make an appropriation for
the purpose.— Raleigh News.
Hon. Charles Fisher was the father of
Col. Charles F. Fisher, who was killed at
the head of his regiment at the first
battle of Manassas, and the grand-father
of Miss Frances Fisher, the distinguished
young authoress. He was the intimate
friend and Congressional associate of the
Hon. John C. Calhoun. We knew Mr.
Fisher from our earliest boyhood until
business led him to find an unrecorded
grave as above described.
The sketch of his political life by the
News is correct, and we sincerely hope
its appeal will bo heeded by the Legisla
ture, or the people of Rowan and the
citizens of the old, historic, English,
borough town of Salisbury.
As individuals and as a nation we exhibit
less reverence for the ashes of our own
illustrious dead than any people on earth.
Italy is full of statues and monuments
commemorative of her painters, sculptors,
historians, orators, heroes and poets.
Franco scatters flowers or piles the cannon
of a thousand victorious fields upon her
dead minstrels and warriors. England
gathers tho dust of those who have borne
her flag on field and wave from every land,
that it may at last mingle with kings and
conquerors—with those who once touched
undying harps or commanded listening
Senates. Only a few days ago the Scottish
residents of New York presented to the
people of New York, in a spirit of reverence
for native genius, a statue of their great
est poet, historian and novelist. It now
stands in the Park of that great city, a
memorial to millions of him whose prolific
brain and magic hand made the corpse of
Scotland’s beauty, virtue and valor, once
more instinct with life and spring upon
its feet. Shall it be said that strangers,
in a strange land, can render such honors
to their benefactors, while the tombs of
Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson
and other once loved orators and states
men, be covered with thorns and briers ?
If neither brass or marble can call back
the departed spirit, they at least in some
degree, can perpetuate the memory of the
loved and lost. They could stimulate the
youth of our land to deeds of noble action
and infuse into them the heroism of Nel
son, when as he bore down on the com
bined fleets of France and Spain and
shattered them forever, exclaimed with
dying lips—“ Victory, or Westminister
Abbey!”
COMMUNICATED.
The Baltimore Swindle--How it was Brought
About.
Nearly three millions of democratic
voters were stricken aghast, when they
learned that the delegates chosen by them
to represent their interests at the late
Baltimore Convention, had nominated
Horace Greeley for President and adopted
the platform of the “liberal republi
cans,” as a democratic platform. It
would, doubtless, have been better, had
Southern delegates kept out of that Con
vention, leaving to those from the West
and North the selection of candidates, and
the framing of a platform of principles,
so we would have been free to accept or
repudiate them. But it was otherwise.
The first effort to disrupt and disband the
democratic party, was made in the Con
vention of 1808 at New York, when the
Mephistopheles Frank Blair, second in
command with Gen. Sherman, on his
“March from Chattanooga to the Sea,”
managed by cajoling with Southern dele
gates to get himself nominated as a candi
date for Vice-President with Seymour.
That action defeated us iu that election,
more than any other cause.
In 1872, at the Convention, the Me
phistopheles again appeared on the scene
in person and by agents, and l>y soft flat
tery, cajolery, and other appliances, ac
tually got the Southern delegates to
consent to the nomination of their life
time enemy, Greeley, for President, and
Gratz Brown, a relative of the Mephisto
pheles, for Vice President. A convenient
arrangement, had it been successful!
Greeley, an old man, would probably die
off early in his term, and then would
come the relative of the Mephistopheles
as President in fact! Well, the true men
of the party, young and old, would not
stand it; hence the humiliating defeat of
the Coalition. Neither will they stand
such things in the future. There is but
one hope and one relief for the Democracy
henceforward. The Coalition which
united upon Greeley and Brown is scat
tered into fragments by its terrible defeat.
Let all who do not propose to join Grant’s
party attach themselves, for future politi
cal action, to the only anti-radical organi
zation—-that of the Jeffersonian Democ
racy. There you are safe. There you
will be happy. * *
i November Bth, 1872.
| The interest in the Woodhull-Clafiin
I case has been heightened to some extent
Iby the ridiculous side of it. It seems
i that the irrepressible George Francis
; Train turned up as the knight of the im
i prisoned dames. The Herald gives the
j following characteristic correspondence
i between the parties:
St. Nicholas Hotel.
I will go your bail. I am satisfied the
cowardly Christian community will de
stroy you, if possible, to cover up the rot
ten state of society.
George Francis Train.
To which the following answer was
made :
I might have expected that a matt not
afraid of nations and thrones would snap
his fingers in the face of a cowardly so
ciety, and your kind offer shows your
courage and your manhood ; but conscious
of right I prefer to be independent and
remain v. here lam for the present. Hav
ing come to our aid the first, -we shall be
i the last to forget it.
Victoria C. Woodhull,
Tenn. Claflin.
Boston proposes to become a second
Venice. This she will do by extending
several more bridges over the waters
which divide her from her suburbs, and
by draining, reclaiming and filling in the
marshes which border the Charles river.
THEATRES-THE DRAMA.
The Southern advent and late visit to
our city of the celebrated New York ac
tress, Mrs. Bowers, makes it opportune to
say a word about theatres and the drama,
and their mental and moral influences
upon a people. The drama is simply a
story represented by action, and as the
principle of imitation is inherent in not .
only man, but birds and beasts, the drama
in some shape must be coeval with the
rudiments of society, and practiced in
some form by every nation. The war
dance of the Indian and African, although
wild and rude, is as essentially a dramatic
exhibition as the splendid plays of JSschy
lus before a refined Athenian audience, or
the greater comparatively modern Shake
speare, whose stage is the civilized world
and whose genius is the inspiration and
utterance of a common humanity.
We are aware that many sensible and
good people are opposed to theatres and
dramas, not only because the representa
tions are offensive to modesty and morali
ty, but also on account of the supposed
want of refinement and good character of
the actors and audience. The objection
is well made in many instances, but if
pushed to an extreme, it would be appli
cable to churches and lecture-rooms. We
do not tear tho one down because a hy;>o
crite occasionally enters its door, or close
the other against every quack peripatetic
who expounds the science of moral and re
ligious perpetual motion, or how to be
come wise, great, rich, good and happy
by artificial procreation. Christ himself
did not refuse companionship with publi
cans and sinners, not because He had any
special affinity or respect for such charac
ters, but because He well knew that crime
was the parent of suffering, and that He
came into the world to console the afflict
ed and to heal the sick by precept and ex
ample. We admit for the argument, that
many of His professed followers are too
fastidious in this particular and would
prefer to hear from Eev. or Mr. and Mrs.
Grundy if such conduct was dignified or
fashionable according to the latest religious
etiquette!
If the drama is an evil which cannot be
extirpated or exorcised except by the in
troduction of seven devils for one you
cast out, would it not be well for the best
society to give its influence and thereby
elevate it to its original intent and purity?
The great authority, Shakespeare, tells
us the purpose and end, both at the first
and now, of playing was and is to hold,
“as ’twere, the mirror up to nature; to
show virtue her own feature, scorn her
own image, and the very age and body of
the time her form and pressure.” If it has
been corrupted and perverted from its end
both “at the first and now,” surely with
the efforts of the educated, the poor wit
of the circus-clown and the seductions of
the leg-ballet, would, and could be super
seded by the excellent fancy and infinite
humor of Falstaff; the nobility of Othello;
the guilty ambition of Macbeth; the sor
rows of poor Ophelia and King Lear, and
the splendid intellect like street bells out
of tune ami harsh, of the speculative and
philosophical Hamlet. Lord Macaulay
tells us that at no period of English his
tory had amusements become so licentious
as under the Restoration—that tho Puri
tans thought it a sin to laugh, and sanctity
to talk through the nose. They regarded
fun as the wild antics of diabolism. Is it
any wonder that when the restraints which
Puritanism imposed upon society were
removed that people should bound into
the opposite extreme ?
Actors, like everybody else, will study
thoir interest, and their patrons will give
“form and pressure” to their plays and
entertainments. If they prefer obsceni
ties in dress, or speech instead of imper
sonations of wisdom, purity and heroism,
where the carcass is there will gather the
eagles.
We welcome such actresses and such
plays to our city as Mrs. Bowers and her
troupe, and Mary, Queen of Scotts, and
Elizabeth of England. It may stimulate
the young and the public, to study the
characters of one who was the most beau
tiful and unfortunate of her sex, and
whose sad fate caused even the execu-
J tioner to drop a tear upon and kiss the
I hand soon pulseless; aud of another, cold,
ugly and tyrannical, but of such will and
power as to make the wliite-cliffed Isle at
which the ancient Roman shivered when
he named, everywhere feared and re
spected :
“Her own shall bless her;
Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn,
And hang their heads with sorrow.”
Georgia State Agricultural Society.
Office at Atlanta, Ga.,l
November 1, 1872. >
By order of the Executive Committee
the following is published as a
PRELIMINARY PREMIUM LIST FOR 1878.
COUNTY PREMIUMS.
To the county making the largest
and best display (conditions to be
explained hereafter) s>l,ooo
Second best do ">OO
Third “ “ BOO
Fourth “ “ 200
FIELD CROPS.
Restricted to crops produced in Geor
gia, or by citizens of Georgia.
For the most economical result, with
full report, on the following crops :
PROVISION CROPS—CEREALS.
Corn, five acres $. r >o
Wheat, one acre , r >o
Oats, one acre f>o
Rye, one acre 50
Barley, one acre 50
SWEEPSTAKES.
Best result on one acre in any cereal
crop, the competitor to make his
own selection 200
HAY CROPS.
Clover hay, one acre, minimum two
aud a half tons 50
Lucern hay, one acre, minimum two
and a half tons 50
Native grass hay, one acre, minimum
one a half tons 50
Cultivated grass hay, without clover
two tons s<*
Pea-vine hay, two and a half tons 50
Corn forage, four tons 50
SWEEPSTAKES.
Best result on one acre of any forage
crop, tho competitor making his
own selection 150
COTTON.
One acre, not less than 2,500 lbs. lint,
full explanation to be given here
after ...... 500
ROOT CROP.
Sweet potatoes, one acre, 25
Irish potatoes, one acre. 25
Turnips, one acre 25
Ground-peas, one acre 25
Beets, one acre 25
Chufas, one acre 25
PEA CROPS.
Field peas, one acre 20
Beans, one acre 20
money CRors.
Cotton, one acre, minimum two thous
sand pounds per acre 50
Tobacco, one acre 50
Cane, Southern, one acre 50
Sorgho, etc., one acre , 50
Rice, lowland, minimum sixty bushels
peraere 50
Rice, upland, one acre 50
Broom corn, one acre - 50
CROP BY BOY UNDER SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE.
Cotton, oue acre 25
Corn, one acre... 25
Premiums will be offered to encourage
j fish culture, and premiums similar to
I those offered in 1872, for samples of field
j crops, garden and orchard produce and
the like. Samuel Barnett, Sec’y.
N. B. —The press of the State is res
! pectfully requested to extend its usual
courteous co-operation, in publishing the
foregoing list.
FLORIDA ELECTION.
Tallahassee, November 6.
Returns come in very slowly. T waive
i counties heard from give Hart, the Repub
j lican candidate for Governor, 8,000 ma
jority over Bloxkam, the Liberal candi
date. Five of these counties liave always
polled very heavy Republican majorities.
There are’ twenty-seven counties yet to
| hear from. Both parties claim the State
by a very small majority.
Mummies do not look as though they
were in a hurry, yet it is certain that at
first they must have been pressed /or
time.
TELEGRAPHIC.
ELECTION NEWS.
Washington, November 7. The Re
publican majority in Indiana is between
18,000 and 23,000.
Republicans carry Mississippi by 30.000.
Returns from West Virginia show large
Republican gains.
Democrats claim Arkansas.
Republican majority in Maine 30,000.
Grant carries California by 5,000 to
8,000.
Wisconsin carried by 15,000. Con
gressional delegation unchanged.
Stanard, Republican, is elected in the
3d Missouri Congressional District.
Democrats claim Missouri by 30,000 to
40,000 majority, and nine Congressmen.
Grant's majority in Oregon is 20,000.
Texas election is progressing quietly.
Louisiana —It is believed that the Lib
erals are ahead, aud that Sheridan, Con
gressman at large, Darrell and Morey are
elected. Syphers and Shelton Districts
will require official count. No opinion
ventured regarding the result in the State.
Tennessee is claimed for Greeley by
20.000. Maynard leads Cheatham 1,000.
Johnson is far behind.
The World estimates Grant's popular
majority at 500,000; the Times 700,000.
Grant carries Nevada by 20,000.
J. P. Jones will succeed Nye in the U.
S. Senate.
Kendall (Dem.) is re-elected to Con
gress from Nevada.
Coghlan, from California, is defeated
for Congress. Lntterell succeeds him.
Grant carries Oregon by 20,000.
The New York delegation stands: 20
Republicans, 0 Democrats.
The Times claims Virginia aud Louisi
ana for Grant, and claims New York State
by 50,000.
A special claims Virginia for Grant by
3,000 to 5,000.
Eldridge, from Wisconsin, is elected.
The Republicans concede Kentucky to
Greeley by 0,000 to 10,(X)0.
The "election of Sloan and Whitely, from
Georgia, is claimed.
Michigan elects eight, and probably
nine Republican Congressmen.
Havemeyer is elected Mayor of New
York by 50,000 majority.
The 12th New York district elects
Charles St. John, Rep., by 300 majority.
New Orleans, Nov. 7. —Unofficial re
turns from 37 parishes, outside of New
Orleans, give net Republican majority of
9,534. Net Republican majority in same
parishes in 1870, w r as 18,150. Ihe re*
maining 10 parishes in 1870, gave a net
Republican majority of 1,215. With
the same ratio of gains tho Liberals carry
the State by a handsome majority.
Washington, Nov. B.—Woodson for
Governor runs ahead of Greeley in Mis
souri. Parker 200 ahead in the 9th Mis
souri District. Crittenden elected in the
7th Missouri.
Indications from Arkansas are that the
State has gone for Grant by 2,000 0r3,000
majority, and Baxter elected. Hodges
elected from the Ist, Snyder from the 2d
and Gunter from the 3d Districts.
Republicans have carried four Kentucky
Districts, with two doubtful. The State
gives Greeley from seven to ten thousand
majority.
Mawn elected from the Bth Missouri
District.
Whitehead elected in the (Jlh Virginia
District. Republicans claim the sth.
Republicans claim 3 Congressmen from
Maryland, including Spence, independ
ent. Maynard’s plurality in Tennessee is
about 10,000. Republicans elect seven of
ten Congressmen. Illinois Legislature
80 majority on joint ballot. This defeats
Trumbull.
The Secretary of War in his report re
grets that one-sixth of the army is de
tained in the Southern States East of the
Mississippi river.
Montgomery, Nov. 8. —The Republi
cans have carried Alabama by 4,000 to
6,000. The entire Republican State ticket
is elected by a small majority. Four Re
publicans certainly, and probably five,
elected to Congress to three Democrats.
The Legislature is in doubt, but fourvotes
will cover the majority either way.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 8. —Seventy-four
counties, polling 00,000 votes, gives
Greeley 5,621 majority. O’Conor vote
468. Freeman is elected in the sth Dis
trict, and Rawls probably elected in the
Ist. Democrats are elected in tho 7th,
9th and 6th Districts. Others not certain.
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 8. —Com-
plete returns have been received from
only seven counties. Grant's majority is
10,851. Houghton is elected to Congress.
Richmond, Va., Nov. 8. —Sixty-eight
counties and cities have been heard from,
most of them officially. The Democrats
lose in the State 17,050, while their gaiu is
only 1620, showing a decrease of 15,000 on
their side. This loss leaves about 3,500
of the Conservative majority of '69 to be
overcome in the remaining thirty-four
counties. If the Republicans gain in the
same ratio in these counties Grant’s ma
jority will be about 3,000. Republicans
certainty, viz: Smith, Platte, Stowell and
Thomas, and possibly Secur, in the First
District, who is opposed by Braxton. The
Conservatives will certainly elect Hunton,
Harris, White and Bonds.
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 8. —Complete
county returns give Greeley 19,000, Grant
16,000. The Staights polled 336 votes.
Stodard, Winsstone and Mcßride are re
elected to Congress. The Liberals have
the Legislature.
Galveston, Nov. 9.- —Texas is largely
Democratic, with four out of six Con
gressmen.
Richmond, Nov. 9.—Should some losses
and gains occur in unheard-from portions,
Grant will carry Virginia by about 3,000.
Baltimore, Nov. 9. —Greeley’s majority
will not reach 1,500. The delegation
stands 4 Democrats and two Republicans.
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 9. —The re
sult of the election in this Stale and in
Nevada, is very significant. Conklin, Re
publican, the candidate of the railroad
monopoly for Congress, who is defeated
by Lultorel, Liberal and Democrat,
ran 2698 behind his ticket. Page, an
other railroad candidate who is elected,
ran behind Grant over 4,000. The Cen
tral Pacific Railroad interest named both
these candidates in this city.
The Railroad question was taken en
tirely out of politics in Nevada. Kendall
for Congress, who has a good record
against the railroad monopoly, although a
Democrat, is elected, while the State goes
20,000 majority for Grant; and J. P.
Jones, who is opposed to the monopoly,
secures the United States Senatorship.
New York. Nov. 9. —-The Tribune con
! cedes Virginia, Alabama and Tennessee
: to Grant, and claims Georgia, Kentucky,
i Louisiana, Maryland and Missouri. Texas
is doubtful. Gives Grant 4,209 in Ohio,
and 129,000 in Pennsylvania.
FOREIGN.
London, Nov. 7.— Tim Standard upholds
the principles on which the Southern
States seceded from the Union as opposed
| to Republicanism, which it denounces as
deification of passions of temporary majori
| ty and as identified with personal and politi
cal corruption. In consequence of the
i supremacy of the Republican party States
! are loaded with enormous debts; foreign
holders of their securities receive nothing.
I Republicans are responsible also for the
1 insurrection in Cuba, anarchy in Mexico
i and the murder of Emperor Maximillian.
i Brussels. Nov. 7.—Twenty miners fell
‘ 100 feet at Mamburg; nine killed.
The London Daily Telegraph referring
to the re-election of Grant, says no one
i deserved better or his country, or is
worthier of a place among the industrious
: men who have twico held the Presidential
office. Englandhashadcausetocomplainof
many things, but President Grant’s policy
, towards her has never been wilfully petu
lant or hostile. The Telegraph hopes the
i United States will now take care of Mexi
co and Cuba. It believes that the West I
and East demands their attention.
Foreign, Nov. 7. —Great enthusiasm in
Rheims over the evacuation by the Ger
mans. Buildings were decorated yester
day with French colors and flowers, aud
at night there was a general illumination.
The theatre was opened last evening for
the first time since the occupation, and
the Marsellaise was performed by the or
chestra in response to calls from the
audience.
London, Nov. B.—Dundas, Liberal, is
elected from Richmond.
The Russian bark David, from New
York, wrecked.
Madrid, Nov. B.—Carl is ts who entered
Spain at Figuiras cut the telegraph be
tween Figuiras and Geneva, and captured a
Government courier.
Nice, Nov. 9,—Cardinal Lnigikmot,
Vice Chancellor of the Roman Church, is
dead.
Dresden, Nov. 9. —Six cases of cholera,
three of which were fatal. Two were
Americans —one child and a young lady.
The police authorities say it is only cholera
morbus. The first case came from Perth.
WASHINGTON.
Washington. Nov. 8. —The President
attends Meade’s funeral.
It is stated that Howard succeeds
Meade.
Washington, Nov. 9. —lt is stated that
Langston, colored, will succeed Solicitor
Bristow. Congressman Bingham succeeds
Curtin as Minister to Russia.
Washington, Nov. 9. — The Katie Put
nam Troupe have concluded a great en
gagement at the National Theatre, aud
depart to-morrow for a Southern tour.
The stockholders of the Patriot have re
solved to suspend publication Monday.
No abatement of the horse disease in
Chicago. It has reached Cincinnati.
Some cars are running here, drawn by
feeble homes.
NEW YORK.
New York, Nov. 7.—The Tribune will
hereafter be a thoroughly independent
journal.
New York, Nov. 7. Man ton Marble
has been restored to health aud resumes
the management of the World to-morrow.
Clialles, the libeled broker, declares he
will spend SIOO,OOO to convict Woodhull
& Claflin. The impression is they will
be sentenced to a full term if convicted.
Buffalo, Nov. 7. —The Canal stables
here burned with 50 horses.
New York, Nov. 7. —Flags are half mast
for Meade.
New York, Nov. 9. — Delegates repre
senting all Southern steamboat trades
leave Sunday to attend the General Con
vention of steamboatuieu at Cairo on the
14th inst.
THE HORSE DISEASE.
Pittsburg, Nov. 7. —The horse disease
is spreading. Street cars and one of tho
largest iron mills compelled to suspend
operations.
No street cars in Chicago.
Pittsburg, Nov. 7. —The malady is
spreading rapidly and seriously affecting
business. Several Iron Mills have stop
ped for want of coal. The mules have
been attacked.
Charleston, Nov. 7. —The horse mal
ady, though prevalent, don’t interrupt the
commercial business.
Morrison, Dem., carries the Seventeenth
Illinois District, leaving the delegation
12 Republicans and 7 Democrats.
Grant’s majority in New Jersey is 14,-
000.
Grant's majority in Nevada is 2,000.
MARYLAND.
Baltimore, Nov. 8. —Penitentiary par
tially burned; lose $22,000.
The Marshal of the Police furnishes
tho following: Just before the closing of
the polls a crowd of 1,000 persons, or
more, were gathered around the polls at
the northwest corner of Fayette and
Broadway. A party of men, mostly col
ored, left the crowd and proceeded about
midway to Broadway, when they turned
and deliberately fired upon the crowd in
front of the voting place, killing Isaac
Boss, aged 16, and mortally wounding
Jno. Conway, aged 35. Another boy re
ceived a flesh wound. Immediately after
firing the party broke and ran, when those
fired into returned the shots. Some 18 or
20 shots in all were fired, and it was all
done in a minute’s time. Previous to the
firing, which was wholly unexpected, no
disturbance whatever had occurred.
MEXICO.
Matamoras, Nov. 9.—A letter from
President Loredo and the Minister of
foreign relations state that the Mexican
frontier Commission will strictly investi
gate complaints as to cattle stealing, and
that the Mexican government will aid that
of the United States in putting an end to
all disturbances. The Mexican govern
ment is resolved to foster Internal Im
provements to connect Mexico and the
United States and to encourage Foreign
immigration.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston, Nov. 7. — This afternoon the
mutilated remains of a man was found in
two barrels floating on Charles river,
near Cambridge. The body was in one
and the head and legs in the other. The
body was well dressed, and also bad a
gold watcli on it.
PENNSYLYAN IA.
Scranton, Nov. 8. —A caboose car, con
taining thirty-five laborers, precipitated
190 feet into a creek. Seven were in
stantly killed, and four fatally hurt. Iu
another accident three were killed and
seven wounded.
TENNESSEE.
Nashville, Nov. 9. — Brown is elected
Governor by from 3,000 to 5,000 majority.
Greeley’s majority is 3,000. Whittlehorne
is elected in the 01b District. Republi
cans and Independents have the Legisla
ture.
INDIANA.
South Bend, Nov. 7.— Colfax, in a card,
says : I am not a candidate nor an aspi
rant for any position, Senatorial or edi
torial, State or national.
SHIP NEWS.
Cincinnati, Nov. B.—The steamer Kate,
with 450 bales cotton, sunk at Helena,
Ark. People saved.
MARKETS.
New York, Nov. 9. —Cotton lower;
sales 891 bales; net receipts 481.
Sales of futures to-day 1.>,:>00 bales ns
follows: November 18 5-10, Decem
ber 18J; January 18J, I8jj; February 18§,
18 11-16; March 18 13-16, 18j; April 19,
19jt; May 19j.
Gold H3s@ll3jf.
St. Louis, Nov 9. — Flour dull and
unchanged. Corn dull and unchanged ;
No. 2. mixed, 83. Whisky steady at 90.
j Pork steady at sl6. Bacon quiet and only
in jobbing demand. Lard unchanged;
| steam 7|c. on spot.
! Cincinnati, November 9.—Flour dull
j and unchanged, s7<o>7 25. Corn firm; old
: 42. Pork nominal $lB 50. Lard steady;
j steam 7§: kettle Bacon nominal;
| shoulders s|; rib sides 10; clear rib sides
| lOj. Whisky 91.
Louisville, Nov. 9 — Grain quiet; corn,
mixed 45; white 47. Flour steady; extra
i family $6 50@7 25; fancy $8 50(a9 75.
1 New mess pork sls. Lard, tierces Hi;
kegs 94. Shoulders 5); no sides hore.
j Whisky steady at 91.
New Orleans, Nov. !). —Cotton in fair
i demand; good ordinary 17j; low mid
! dlings I Tf; middlings 18|; net receipts
2,525; sales to-day 1,000 —last evening
j 2,600; stock 114,242.
I Memphis, Nov. 9.—Cotton dull ; mid
dlings receipts 1,701; ship
j ments 1,339; stock 26,545.
Mobile, Nov. 9. —Cotton quiet and firm;
good ordinary 17 j; low middlings 1
i middling 18|; not receipts 1.427; sales
i 300: stock 24,890.
! Galveston, Nov. 9. —Cotton steady;
' good ordinary lOjfelfi); net receipts 1,-
492; sales 0(H); stock 44,030.
Charleston. Nov. 9. —Cotton dull;
middlings 17|@17j; low middlings 17§;
; good ordinary 174; net receipts 2,121;
sales 200; stock 38,303.
j Savannah, Nov. 9. —Cotton in moder-
I ate demand; fair offerings; good ordinary
> low middlings lli&lii;. nrid
-1 dlings 18@18|c; net receipts 4,092;
1 sales 2,235; stock 73,519.
latter from South Carolina,
COLt'lißlA. S. Nov. 7. 1872.
the election
passed off' quietly in Columbia. y er _
few whites voted. Nearly or quite a |]
the negroes voted for Grant. A lew votes
were cast here for O’Conor. The Greeley
vote seems to have been very lj. ht in
Richland. I have not heard the exact ve _
suit of the election in tins county, p)
managers are very slow about let tuns ;i le
result be known. Very few munis j Wv „
been published from ihe, precincts thron.,l,
out the State, but I suppose iron, Wl . lt
has been published that the white Vl
.wan very small. 1 doubt if Greeley h as .
largo a vote in ibis State as Tomlinson 01,
tained iu (Ictober.
THE FOURTH ANNUAL FAIR
of the South Carolina Agricultural
Mechanical Association began her,. ol
Monday, 4th. To-morrow Friday Sti,
tho last day. Many visitors have attend,
ed the Fair; and 1 suppose the uioat () f
the citizens took some holiday on account*
of it. Everybody seems very well pleased
with the exhibition, and it is thou.,fit the
Fair will prove a success financially.
THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
now bits fifty-two students, an excess of
I two over the number iu attendance diu-iif
j last session. The Senior Class uiuuheis
9, the Middle 25, the Junior 18. Several
more students are expected to aruve with,
iu a few weeks. E. I{. R_
From the Savannah Advertiser.
A Negro for Grant's Next Cabinet,
GRANT DESIRES TO MAKV. KIIIENDS WITH THE
SOUTH.
Washington, D. C. Nov. 7- There is a
determined effort to have the colored ele
ment recognized in the formation of tie,
next Cabinet. For that purpose the
claims of John \V. Langston, a negro lav
yer in Washington, and formerly n Radi
cal political missionary iu the South, for
Attorney General, are put forth in a stiou.;
editorial of the Washington Chronicle of
this morning. The article was written by
by ex-Son ator Harlan, the intimate friend
and counsellor of Grant, was evidently in
spired at the White House, and is con
sidered a feeler. It is well known that
Grant is disposed to acknowledge tho val
ue of the colored vote by bestowing upon
some member of that race the highest po
litical preferment, and if the recommen
dation is made strong enough, there is no
doubt but that Langston will be made a
Cabinet officer. It is certain that Lang
ston is the most active and energetic of
bis race, and stands in a position
where any recognition of him would he
considered a recognition of his people.
His claims are being urged by Fred Doug
lass and all tho prominent colored men m
the country, especially from the South,
and by a large number of white Repub
licans, both from the North and South.
The President this morning, in conver
sation with your correspondent, expressed
a desire for peace throughout the country,
and said lie would labor for that object;
that lie was a friend of the South and was
anxious that the people of that section
should look upon him as such. Now that
the excitement of the political con test was
over, and all vexed questions were settled
for the next four years, he hoped the peo
ple of the South would devote themselves
to tlio developing of the vast resources of
their section and kind relations between
the two races, etc., in aid of which they
would find no more kind friend than him
self.
An Important Decision on the Law of
Bank Checks —The Court of Common
Pleas in Philadelphia has recently decided
quite an interesting question iu reference
to the duty aud liability of banks, where
there is to the credit of the maker of the
check a less amount than that named in
the check.
William P. Rayfield, Agent, on the Bth
of October, A. D. 1866, drew his check
for $726, on the Commercial National
Bank of Philadelphia, to the order of
Thomas Bromley, to whom the check was
delivered.
Mr. Bromley retained the check in his
possession for several years afterwards,
and then presented it to the Bank for
payment. He was informed by the Fay
ing Teller that there was only $239 to tiia
credit of Mr. Rayfield, the Drawer of the
check.in Bank. Mr. Bromley then claimed,
first, that he was entitled to the payment
of the amount then in Bank, on account
of the check held and presented by lorn,
and on the application being denied, sec
ond, he offered to deposit a sum of money
in the bank, sufficient to cover the face
of the check, if the bank officer would
pay him the $229. Both propositions
were refused, and upon this action was
brought. The decision of the court was
turned upon the first.point made. It held,
that where a holder of a check offers to
take a less sum than the full amount of
the check, it is the duty of the bank to
pay it to him, and endorse the amount
paid on the check.
The following is the, language of the
court: “If such a check is an appropria
tion of the whole sum for which it calls,
if so much is in the hands of the banker,
it is an appropriation of any smaller sum
which may be in his hands if there be not
sufficient to pity the amount of the check.
In such a case, if the holder of the check
is willing to receive the smaller sum. as
the bank is entitled to retain the check as
evidence of payment and of the holders
right to receive the money, it should en
dorse the amount of its payment on tho
check, and isseu to the holder a certificate
of having received the check from, and
having paid so much on account of it.
A Card from Horace Greeley.— New
York, Nov. The Tribune tu-nmrr.>W
will publish the following:
A Card. —The undersigned resumes the
editorship of the Tribune, which he relin
quished on embarking in another lino of
business six months ago. Henceforth it
shall lie his endeavor to make this a thor
oughly independent journal, treating all
parties and political movements with ju
dicial fairness and candor, but courting
the favor and deprecating the wrath of no
one. If he can hereafter say anything
that will tend to heartily unite the whole
American people on the broad platform of
universal amnesty and impartial snflrago,
he will gladly do so. for the present,
however, lie can best commend that con
summation by silence and forbearance.
The victors in our late struggle can hard
ly fail to take the whole subject of South
ern rights and wrongs into early and earn
est consideration, and to them for the
present he remits it. Stuce he will never
again bo a candidate for any office, and is
not iti full accord with either of the groat
parties which have hitherto divided the
conntrv, he will be able and will endeavor
to give a wider and steadier regard to the
progress of seience, industry ami the use
ful arts, than a partisan journal can do,
and he will not be provoked to indulgence
in those latter personalities which are the
recognized bane of journalism. Sustained
by a generous public, he will do his best
to make the Tribune a power in the broad
er field it now contemplates, as when h’i
irmn freedom was in peril it was in the
arena of political partisanship.
Horace Greeley.
New' York, November (», 1572.
The Case of Hr. Bratton. IDi.dd/iy
ton, Nov. 8. —The British Minister has
called the attention of the Secietai)
of State to the case of Hr. Id 1 -
Bratton, a citizen of South
lina. who was forcibly abducted fm’ l
Canada, last spring, by an American e
tectivenamed Hester, assisted by a < Md*
dian otticer named Cromwell. Cromw -
it w ill be remembered, was recent*.! «'
teliced to three years imprisonment to f
this act—the principal witness being •
Bratton. It was not supposm. iba*
farther mention would be made e- 1 1
case, but it appears that Bruit m w. s 1
leaed by the United States anthmib S '’.
bail, anil not returning to South ( 'sroji
the securities were informed that tlm '
bond would be forfeited if Bratton 1 ,
return. He therefore appealed tothelmß
government for protection. The l*™-
Minister, under instructions from •
liorue government reminds the Secmtai
of State that Her Majesty's Government
does not tolerate interference with nt*
laws, and that the proceedings
Bratton having followed lbs abduct <>
from British territory they must be sa
celled. The Attorney General has tm e
fore instructed United States District j
row, at Charleston, to dismiss toe
bond and discharge the uretiesot >•••••
ton, and to place the proceedings »g'*' .
him as fai' as practicable in tnesaim U s
tion as before his forcible abduction 1
Canada.
A barber of Titusville, while cutting the
hair of a rural customer, ran his siiea
against some haid substance. "
proved to be a whetstone. The old
mer said he “had missed that whets ■ *
ever since haying time last July, am * *
looked all over a ten-acre lot tor i , 1
now remembered sticking it up °' fcl
ear.”