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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, SEPTEMBER 27, 1S70.
It Must lie Defeated.
■We mean wliat we say. The infamous elec-
tion bill of Akerman and his associates must be
defeated, cost what it may. The people of
Georgia will not have tasted the full bitterness
of the cnp that has been pressed to thoir lips
for five years, until they pass under the yoke
fMa bill prepares for them. They could better
afford to give np half their goods and chattels
• than see this outrage consummated. We speak
'earnestly, for we feel deeply. We know, and
fyery honest man in Georgia knows, that this
bill was framed for the deliberate purpose of
killing the Democratic majority in Georgia at
the next election. Those who concocted it
know that there is such a majority, and that
this is the only way to stifflo it. Wo are just as
confident this bill is meant to cheat and swin
dle in Radical interests as we are that we are
writing this paragraph. Every one of its pro
visions bristle with the proof. There is not one
that docs not declare the shameful purpose.
If it becomes a law, a Democratic majority
of 20,000 will bo disposed of easily as a majori
ty of twenty. Bullock has the appointmont-
ment of those who will count the vote, and will
Bee to it that they are such tools as will not fail
him. If they do fail hiui, though, ho still has
the game in his own hands. Ho can revise
their count. Fraud and cunning havo coun
seled together and provided for every con
tingency. They havo not loft *a loop-hole for
honesty to creep through and proclaim the truth.
By taking away the right of challenge this bill
invites the grossest frauds on the part of the
negroes. They can vote to day in one county,
to-morrow in another, and the noxt day in a
third. Can any honest man see anything but
evil in this bill ? Can any honeBt man put him
self on the record in favor of its deliberate,
Shameless iniquity? We implore the Demo
crats and' honest Republicans of the House, to
Stay in their scats all the time. Let nothing
but n question of life or death move them to
absent themselves for one moment. They can
beat the swindle if they wish. We conjure
them to do it.
A Better Plantation Economy.
“Noname” in Houston oounty, sends us along
And earnest remonstrance with Southern plan
ters, which our stinted space, at this time, com-
pells us to Icy aside. He insists that great im
positions have been practiced on the people in
the matter of fertilizers, and that hereafter if
the planters buy any at all, they should deal di
rectly with the manufacturers, so that the rights
and interests of innocent intermediaries should
not be complicated with the transaction. If
the planter finds, upon experiment, that he has
been imposed upon, ho should have a remedy
the enforcement of which will not involve third
parties, who acted in good faith in the transac
tion. That seems to be but reasonable.
2. Noname insists upon the necessity of a
better arrangement with labor. The share sys
tem gives too little control of labor—holds it to
too lax a responsibility. Under it the planta-
tations are going to dilapidation, and planters
are not improving their pecuniary condition.—
There must bo a new system in which wages
shall command more economical, fair and man
ageable labor.
3. He sounds a well considered alarm upon
the whole system of Farm economy which is
rotten and wasteful. The cotton crop, he says
truly, must be based on the grain and provis
ion crops, and he who plants cotton on Illinois
com, St. Louis bacon, Kentucky mules, and
Tennessee and Massachusetts hay, is building
without a foundation. He is like the fool in
the New Testament, whose foundations were
Ml washed away by the first rain. It is a’rain
every time cotton is low, and his house is gone
accordingly. He has nothing to stand on but
cotton, and his luck is worse than the tradi
tional ill-fortune of professional cotton buyers,
because he is compelled to buy cotton at a k>gh
price in money every year, no matter what cot
ton sells for; whereas, the cotton buyer can
stay out of the market if he chooses to do it.
The ruin of a planter who grows cotton on
Northern and Western supplies, is as certain as
that two and two make four.
On the other hand, “Noname” contends that
the true method of the Georgia planter is to
farm and take things leisurely. Let them culti
vate abundance of com and small grains—keep
Bfock and raise stock and meat—husband all the
fertilizing material he can glean by this process
on his own place. Look well te a small area of
cotton—get out of debt—diminish his expenses
all he can-—quit getting advances and shindy-
ing for money—let his surplus lands lie out—
cultivate small areas well, and feel his way
carefully along until he can bless God he owes
no man a dollar, and has his bams, his meat-
house—his corn-crib—stock and poultry yards
full. This is the road to physical, financial, in
tellectual and moral health. All the other
kind of financiering with Western com and
meat and Massachusetts hay and warehouse ac
ceptances is the road to perdition. To which
41)0 Tkxeobabh axd Messences says amen l
What Shall We Do?
The remarks made by two colored speakers
Bill Styles and Floyd Snelson—in the meeting
last Saturday, deserve more than a passing
notice; they were full of interest and meaning
to the people. •
Stylos said ho still stood with the whites, that
the trouble heretofore had been to harmonize
the whites and blacks, and the trouble had been
in getting tho colored people to nnite with the
whites, bntthe time had come when that trouble
was no longer with his race, and if the white
people would move in the right direction, and
do this in time, his people would act with them.
Floyd Snelson said it was known ho had al
ways acted, heretofore, with the Radical party,
bat that he had understood the meeting had
been called to harmonize both raoes in the ap
proaching election; that he and his people were
ready and anxious that this should be done, and
that his influence would housed to that end.
bat that if the meeting was not for that purpose
he could not take part in it, bnt would stand by
his race and color.—Sumter Republican, 20th.
We ore hopeful of the future when we see
such streaks of light as these. The spirit here
exhibited should be seduloosly cultivated in
every county in Georgia. The negroes are
learning many things very rapidly, and among
them the lesson of distrust and contempt for
the miserable white wretches who prate and
bellow about negro rights and wrongs in one
breath, and with the next breath tell them they
must not aspiro to office. We repeat it: now
is tho time to strike the iron. There are Snel-
sons in every county whose aid, by proper man
agement, can beseemed to harmonize their
class and secure good government for all.
The Democracy on Reconstruction-
The New York World defines the position of
the national Democracy on Reconstruction in
three columns. Radical reconstruction was
founded on an hypothesis false in law, that se
cession took tho rebel States out of the Union,
and tho result of the civil war gave the North
ern States all the sights of a belligerent over
Conquered territory. If the Radicals themselves
had foreseen what would grow ont of this claim
and exercise of plenary power over all the civil
rights and political institutions of the Southern
country, they never would have made them.
But it has been done. The acts have been
passed—the Constitution amended—the rights
’ of franchise conferred on the negro, and so on,
and the World takes it for granted that the Na- j;
tional Demoeratio party will not- attempt any.'
sew and further reeonstmotion through the
National government They will leave matters
of State administration to the States, and will
not stultify themselves by any attempt to tin-,
ker tho handiwork of the Radicals. They will
not interfere as a national party with negro suf
frage—because the Democratic party is, in the
abstract, a party of universal suffrage- 1 —and the
question of suffrage is a question to be decided
by the States under tho United States Consti
tution as legally interpreted. Finally, the Wqrld
gives due notice to the Radicals to quit parad
ing the Blair bug-bear—that the Democrats
mean as a party to overthrow reconstruction.
They mean to address themselves to practical
issues.
GrnuK-Axmcix Ooxfuxbts or Wub-
subs*.—The New York Blasts Zeitung says that
if the Administration has the least regard for
the nation or people of Germany, It mil at onoe
xeeaU Waahbunfe from Paris. The German
papers of the country complain generally of his
sympathy with Franoe since the deelaration of
the Republic.
That seems to have been an ’
like proceeding on the part of Mr. Koenig, of
Davenport, who agreed to commit suicide if his
wife would, and, while she resolutely held her
head under the water until death, lifted his
above the surface, and subsequently emerging
oooUy arrange* for her obssguics.
The Senate Tote on the Election Bill
—Democrats to Your Post!
The vote in the Senate on Akerman’s bill to
carry the next election in this State by fraud
and swindling stood 19 yeas, to 11 nays. Three
Democrats—Holcombe, Candler and Bums—
withdrew by permission, and four Democrats—
Wooten, Nisbett, Fain and Hicks—were ab
sent on leavo. Their seven votes would have
raised the vote against the bill to 18.
We protest against any Democrat or honest
man’s being absent from his post at such a time.
This trifling with such momentous interests is
reprehensible in the extreme. The people will
mark and surely punish all who are guilty of it
unless they can render an excuse that will stand
the severest test. Let there be no more of it
We demand it in the name of the people who
have so muoh staked upon the issue; we de
mand in the name of justice, reason, truth and
good government
Let the Democrats and honest Republicans
in the House camp in their seats, rather than
allow this infamy to triumph.
Tlic Bidden Works of Darkness.
Among the Press telegrams in our last issue,
wo had a note of the proceedings of the Na
tional Execntive Committee of the Union
League, held at St. Nicholas Hotel, New York,
Gov. Geary, of Pennsylvania, in the Chair.
One of the transactions is recorded m fol
lows: . -
Certain details of a secret nature were per
fected, designed to give effect to legislation in
behalf of a fair election recently enacted by
Congress.
This no donbt refers to the Georgia election,
and it would be one of the curiosities of politi
cal depravity to discover what <l certain details
of a secret nature were perfeoted” to supple
ment the audacious frauds which arc assuming
the form of a quasi legalization by tho Agency
in Atlanta, whose constitutional term of service
expired a month ago.
Radical View of tho Political Canvass
Georgia Given cp to the Democrats.
At a meeting of the Republican Congressional
Campaign Committee in Washington on Mon
day last, letters were read from all sections of
the country concerning the prospects of carry
ing the approaching elections. Senator Wilson,
Chairman, in his report, says:
From the South all the reports are of the most
encouraging character. In Louisiana and Ala
bama the Republican leaders are sanguine of
increasing the majorities heretofore given. The
committee do not entertain any hope of carry
ing Georgia, so that State is conceded to the
Democrats.
In the Northern and Western States the Re
publicans are gaining rapidly, so the committee
do not doubt that there will be a good working
Republican majority in the next Congress.
Delaware is set down Republican by a small
majority, and even New York is not considered
as lost, bnt it is in a position to be redeemed
from the control of Tammany by a hard and
vigorous fight. Senator Wilson reports that
Massachusetts will give a Republican majority
ranging from twenty to forty thousand. He
thinks that the Wendell Phillips ticket will get
an aggregate vote of twenty-five thousand, whioh
will be drawn about equally from both political
parties.
Mr. Wilson has no doubt of his own re-elec
tion to the Senate next winter.
What M. About Says of Prussia.
In an article in the Star of August 25, entitled
“A Holy Wrath,” Mr. Edmond About writes in
terms of extraordinary bitterness against the
Germans. He says:
We do not know our enemies. We were in*
nocent enough to believe them almost like our
selves. In the intoxication of suoceas they have
been unmasked, and we may read into their
very souls. • • • What they wish for is
now known. They wish to take and carry away
everything that we possess. They have as yet
rained muy two provinces; they now march up
on Paris in the nope of striking a great blow.
* * * What difference is there between
King William and a brigand like Passatdre of
Takos Arvanitakis ? The difference that there
is between a robber and a petty thief. Their
mode of action is identical; night marches;
manoeuvres concealed by the shade of forests,,
tricks on all occasions, attacks when the pro
portion of the two opponents is as five to one,
assassination, conflagration and pillage. Of all
this France is not ignorant Weknowwith what
a race of rascals we have to do.
HaironiKa Wheat a* Ohicaoo.—In a sarcas
tic vein the Chicago Tribune makes the follow
ing answer to a correspoadeht:
“The history of a carload of wheat after it
leaves Fulton, if it is consigned to Chicago, oan
be told in a few words. It is first confiscated
by the railroad company. The real owner has
no more control over it than he has over the
tides of the Pacific ocean. It is brought to
Chicago and delivered to a warehouseman. An
inspector, appointed by the Board of Trade,
pronounces upon its quality, and the owner gets,
a receipt calling for so many bushels or pouads
of a similar grade or quality of wheat, to be
delivered after tha payment of two cents per
bushel, which is to compensate the associated
robbers for taking the man's. property away
from him. Then, if the weather is warm or
damp, the value of the receipt is depredated
by a process called “posting.” It is immaterial
what becomes of the wheat, because the lawful
owner has nothing to do with that. He has
only to do with the receipt We learn, how
ever, by inquiry, that Ihe most common his
tory of a carload of wheat shipped at Fnlton
now is that it does not oome to Chicago at all;.
or, if it does, that it passes through the city in*
a red car, and finds its destination at Roches
ter, New York, Albany or Boston, without dis
turbing the sersaity of any Ghioago warehouse
man.”
A Bxsubbbctiok.—The Pennsylvania Repub
licans have nominated Andrew Stewart, for
twenty-one years a Whig member of. Congress,
candidate for the 21st District Stewart is 80
years old, bnt made a campaign speech in
Allentown on the 10th.
OosvKDZBAn Memobial Association.—A Me
morial Supper and Fur for the benefit of the
Association, taken place in Macon on the even
ings of the 3d, 4th and 5th October next See
the advertisement of Mrs. Winship in thtq edi
tion. irrf ■
Tna Hon. O. 0. Clay, while driving through
the streets of St Panj, Minnesota, on Friday
Uet, had hie buggy upset, and was thrown ont
with snah violence aatooauae tha fracture of
several of his ribs.
The Georgia Press.
The Chronicle Sc Sentinel says Prince, the
carpet-bag Postmaster of th&t city, has had great
trouble in finding bondsmen, and thaf one of
them is a notorious developer named George
W. Chapman, who had to ran away from Augus
ta to escape the vengeance of a gang of laborers
on the Port Royal railroad, who were reduced
to the verge of starvation by his failure, cither
to pay them wages or furnish them rations.
The Ohroniole gives the following particulars
of two horrible murders, committed on Monday
night, by negro Ku-Klux in Barnwell District,
South Carolina:
On yesterday, afternoon a gentleman from
Barnwell county, South Carolina, arrived in this
city bringing intelligence of two horrible mur
ders which had been committed in that county
daring the night, previous. From this gentle
man’s story it appears that on last Monday night
about half-past seven o’clock two colored des
peradoes named Lewis McCreery and Juba
Johnson, and armed to the teeth, visited the
house of a negro man tiring near Windsor, a
station on the South Carolina Railroad, in Barn
well county, and distant about twenty-five miles
from this city. Stopping a short distance from
the oabin they called the inmate by name and
asked him to come out, as they wished to see
him on business. Either from fear that fool
play was intended, or from habitual caution,
the negro, when he came from his house
brought his gun alongwith him. As soon as he
came to where McCreery and Johnson were
standing they eapaged him in conversation, and
ono of them asked permission to examine the
fire-arm. Without waiting for a reply he
snatched the. gun away, and the two assassins
commenced firing upon the victim with thei;
revolvers. He must have been mortally wound
ed or killed by the first two or three shots, bet
the ruffians contined firing until no less thaa
fourteen shots had pierced his body.
Leaving the'body of the murdered man whem
it fell, the oolored Thugs resumed their marcl,
and about tea o’clock at night they arrived near
the house of a white man tiring a few milei
from the house of the negro whom they hal
killed. Here their murderous tactics were re
peated, but with less .success than in the firi
instance. Hailing as before, they called tiu
man out and asked him to give them a chew of
tobacco. Almost immediately they fired upot
him, but fortunately their aim was defective
and the man was only wounded, not killed. Hi
managed to retreat into his house, and, barri
cading it, armed himself and set the ruffians at
defiance. Deeming it unwise to continue thi
attack, the Thugs retreated and sought blood
shed in another quarter.
At about half-past eleven or twelve o’clock,
the assassins halted in front of the cabin of ai-
other negro some miles distant, and woke him
up and called him out of his house. As soor
as he came fairly into view they fired upon him
and killed him—shooting him in several places.
At this house the ruffians seemed to have be
come surfeited with blood, and determined to
suspend their murderous operations. They re
treated in the direction of the Edisto river, and
nothing more, we believe, has been seen of
them.
Itisprety well ascertained that these mur
ders are but tho beginning of a series of at-
Radlcal Negro Equality.
In districts where the colored voters are in
the majority over all the tehites, then it is clear
ly their right and their duty to elect a colored
Congressman; bnt in districts where they are
in the minority, and must depend upon the
whites who assimilate with their party for suc
cess, it certainly seems to ns that those whites
should be consulted, snd it is a well known fact,
that very many men who incline to the Repub
lican party, and would vote for a candidate of
their own color, cannot overoome their preju
dices sufficiently to vote for a oolored candi
date.—American Union, 22d.
That, if possible, is a still more lively illustra-
trion of so-called negro equality than the Union
gave tho negroes last week. A party Conven
tion is supposed to represent purely a party
constituency. A Radical party Convention re
presents the radicals in the district; and a
Demoeratio Convention wonld represent the
Democrats. Bnt the Union’s proposition is to
count the Demoeratio voters into a Radical
Convention, so as to count out the negro can-
(uidates!
Who, then, we ask, virtually makes the nom
ination—the Radical majority, inside the Con
vention, or the Democrats outside of it? The
Union says yon must count the white Radicals
in a^istrict—(and-thure may besay-fonr or fivo
hundred of them,) with the white Democrats,
and if both together count more than the ne
groes, then a white man must be ran. Who,
then, we repeat, determines the character of
the nomination ? Here are, say 400 white voters
and 10,000 negro voters represented in a Con
vention; but the 400 say to the 10,000 stand
aside —yon must ran a whi. ran because there
are 10,000 white Democratic voters in this dis
trict, and the 10,000 white Democrats and 400
white Badioals outnumber you! But say the
negroes, what have we to do with the JDemo-
eratsf Here, in the Convention, are 10,000 of
us and 400 of you—why should we give up our
choice to so small a minority? “Because you
aro block and we are white,” is substantially
the -answer of these swelling advocates and
apostles of “no distinction on account of race,
color, or previous condition.” Nothing else
oan be made out of it, sift it as you will; and
so practically Radical negro equality boils down
to this proposition: In districts where we stand
no chance at all, you may ran; but wherever
our success is possible, staud aside, darkey, lor
one of us is worth a dozen or twenty of you.
Now the political* proposition with^ which
these Radical scallawags and carpet-baggers ap
proach the negroes is one of perfect equality—
“no distinction on account of colorbut we
ask again, what sort of equality is this ? What
kind of “no distinction on account of color” is
this—when they demand that overshadowing
majorities shall give place to contemptible tittle
minorities in the selection of candidates—that
three or four hundred white voters shall givo
tempts on the part of tho Radicals of South jjje law to ten thousand black ones—simply be-
Carolina to precipitate a war of races in that
State, by charging them npon the Reform party.
The dramatic season will commence in Savan
nah on Monday, October 3d, with the Harvey
troup. Mr. W. P. Sheldon, late of the Oates
troupe, is the comedian.
Barnsville is talking about a new county with
itself as the county site. A meeting is colled
on tho 2Gth to consider the question.
The Gazette has the following items
Upson Counts Raileoad.—'Work on this road
is going on vigorously, and we understand the
track is in good running order as far out as Mr.
Red. Graddick’s four miles from town.
The farmers have had fino weather the past
week for cotton picking. We understand that
cotton is opening very rapidly, and, from the
way wagons have been pouring in with the
staple daring the week, we think the majority
of the farmers intend to sell os soon as they can
get their cotton ready for the market.
The revival in the Hawkinsville Baptist
Church closed on Monday night, with fifteen
accessions to the church.
Ia a difficulty at Fellowship Church, twelve
miles from Hawkinsville, on Saturday last,
Tom Smith shot and wounded Henry Nazereth.
Of the rerival at Payne’s Chapel, Atlanta,
now going on the Sun says:
About one hundred and sixty have united
themselves with this church, while qnite a large
number of converts have been united with
other churches. With some four or five excep
tions all of these converts are adult men and
women, while most of them are of middle age.
About fifteen families, husbands and wives,
have joined the church since the beginning of
the revival. A few nights ago, when an invi
tation was extended for those to come up who
wished to be united with the church, several
ladies and gentlemen went from different parts
of the church, and when they met at the front
of the altar there were four husbands and their
wives in the number— a most singular occur
rence, Taken altogether, this revival is ono of
the most remarkable that has ever taken place
in the State.
The firat case of Grecian bend in Cartererille
occurred Monday. The Standard thns describes
it:
It was a young man afflicted with the disease.
On rising in the morning before breakfast he
took on an empty stomach two large green ap
ples, and a few moments afterward he went to
the honey keg and gulped down a half pound.
In abont thirty minutes the bend was perfect.
How the Trick was Done.
From the reports of the proceedings in the
House, Wednesday, found in the Atlanta Era,
of yesterday, we make the following extract.
The mottos to reconsider the bill to divide M&-
oon into wards and otherwise amend the city
charter, was under discussion:
Mr. Fitzpatrick remarked that telegrams had
been received from Maoon, saying that a pub
lic meeting had been held there last night favor
ing this mil—that he did not believe the men
whose names were on the petitition alluded to
by Hr. Scott were opposed to it—and that the,
said petition was gotten up in opposition to a
a bill to extend the limits of Maoon, eto.—that
he was not surprised that the Mayor and Coun
cil of Maoon opposed the bill, to* ihsy hod
been bolding fat offices for four years, and
doubtless wanted to prolong their term—but, Cody, Ik F. Livingston
that all-men there nearly, regardless of oolor or T ‘ : ’" ” ” ”
polities, favor an election, and he was surprised
that the gentleman from Floyd wonld oppose
giving the people a ehance te hold an election.
When we state that there was no meeting of
the people held Tuesday or any other night
favoripg tips bill, and that with probably one
dozen: exceptions, every white man in Macon
and a good many colored men are bitterly op
posed to the proposed change, the publio will
have np difficulty in properly stigmatizing the
creature who; was guilty of such a misstatement
as this.in his ohampionship of the iniquity.
France and Connection.
The Hartford Times, of the 16th, calls the
present the Great Cider Year, and says:
Not in the old days of forty years ago, when
apples were abundant, and every other farm in
Connecticut had its cider-mill, was there seen
such a mass of apples. In towns around Hart
ford they cover the ground under the trees, and
can be bought, we are told, for 15 cents a bush
el, by anybody who will pick them up. Suoh
cider-mills as still remain are overloaded with
business; and about the distilleries the apples
tie in heaps, being brought by the farmers from
far and near.
Now it is an ill wind which blows nobody
good. The champagne wine oomdry of Franoe
is in the hands of the German armies, and the
great stores of this wine at Rhalms and Chalons
have fallen a victim to tho casualties of war.
Champagne mast hereafter find its base in rider
and let the Connecticut apple men realise the
felicities of the situation. Their cider mills
will not groan for naught.
cause they are black. It is a clear confession
of imposition and false pretence, which we
leave the negro politicians to digest as well as
they can.
i False Economy.
Under this bead the Chronicle & Sentinel, at
ihe suggestion of one of the largest cotton buy.
ersof that city, calls attention to a practice
ihat well deserves to be characterized as above:
It is complained that, with a false idea of
economy, some of them are using old guano
tags for packing their cotton, in order that the
expense of purchasing new bagging may be
aToided. We hope that not many of the Mid
dle Georgia planters have adopted this penny-
wise and pound-foolish policy; bnt certain it is
that some have done it, and it will work them
serious injury. The saoks which are thus used,
were filled with guano and other commercial
fertitizera purchased last spring and are now,
apart from their filthy condition, perfectly rot
ten and wlnlly nnsmted for the purpose to
which they have been applied. The conse
quence is that every time the holes packed with
this material are handled, portions of the
covering are torn off, and a3 they pass through
a good mtny hands from- the time they leave
the planter's press until they reach the port
from wheace they aro to be shipped, they are
completely stripped when delivered at the
wharves of the vessels, and the cotton, neces
sarily, much injured. In addition to this the
stripping off of the covering and the exposure
of the cotten causes serious loss from stealage,
as there is nothing easier than for every suc
cessive draymen to rob the bales of ten or
twelve ponids each as they pass through his
hands.
Several holes of cotton packed in this material
have been brought to Augusta recently, and the
cotton buyers aro fearful that a good many of
the jdenters will nse the guano bagging.. Sev
eral of the buyers have determined to rejeot all
such bales.
We do not know that any planters hereabouts
are practising this system of economy, but if
they are, we commend the foregoing to their
consideration.
FISK MAKES DISCLOSURES.
District Convention.
Fobsxth, September 21, 1870.
According to previous appointment, a Con
tention of the Demoeratio party of the 4th Con
gressional District met this day in Forsyth for
the purpose of nominating candidates for the
unexpired term of the 41st, and the foil term of
the 4 2d Congress.
On motion of G. W. Adams, Maj. B. F. Ward,
of Batts, was called to the Chair, and T. B.
Cabaniss, of Monroe, and J. J. Hunt, of Spald
ing, were appointed Secretaries.
Upon a call of the counties composing the
District, the following delegates appeared and
enrolled their names:
Baldwin—T. F. Newell, F. O. Furman, Sam’l
McOomb. V
Bibb—J. B. Camming, T. J. Sommers, Jack-
son DeLoache, James Tinsley, O. A. Nutling,
R. W. Stubbs.
Butts—Henry Fletcher, B. F. Ward.
Henry—Elijah Foster, David Knott.
Jasper—L. A. Lane, T. R. Williams, M. W.
Pope, J. C. Key, Jas. Henderson.
Jones—Samuel Barron, F. S. Johns cm, Jr.
Monroe—G. W. Adam*, B. H. Jfcllner, J. F.
Childs, T. B. Cabaniss.
Nowton—Ed. L. Thomas, J. F. Mixon, M. D.
Lippiscorr’s Maoaeiss for Ootober is out,
and a lively number. It oontains part sixth of
Sir Harry Hotspur—An attack on the Western
Union Telegraph—an article npon Prussia—
another upon house keeping with Chinese ser
vant* in San Franriaoe, and much other inter-
letting matter. To be found at tba book atone.
Pike—R. V. Reid, C. F. Redding and J. A.
Hunt.
Putnam-r(5y Proxies) T. F. Nowell, Sam’l
McComb, F. C. Furman.
Spalding—J. T. Banks, J. D. Stewart, J. J.
Hunt, Di H. Johnson. . •>:
Twiggs—J. A. Barclay.
Upson—E. A. Flewellen, J. L Hall.
Wilkinson -AllenL. Barge.
On motion of T. F. Newell, Esq., it was—
Resolved, That a majority of two-thirds of
the votes east shall be necessary to constitute
a nomination.
Ihe names of Col. W. J. Lawton, of Bibb,
S. Boynton, Esq., of Spalding, and L. H.
Briscoe, of Baldwin, were pnt in nomination,
and Ihe Convention then prooeeded to ballot for
a candidate for the 42d Congress.
Upon the sixth ballot, Col. W. J. Lawton,
having received a majority of two-thirds of the
votes cast, was deolared duly nominated as the
Democratic candidate in the 4th Congressional
District for the 42d Congress.
On motion of Mr. D. Cody, Esq., the nomin
ation was made unanimous, and Col. Lawton
was also unanimously nominated as a candidate
for the nnexpired term of the 41st Congress.
On motion of Oapt L. A. Lane, a oommittee
consisting of Capt L. A. Lane, CoL J. D. Stew
art and Maj. T. F. Newell were appointed to in
form CoL Lawton of his nomination, and re
quest his aooeptanoe of the same.
On motion, the proceedings were ordered to
be published in all the Demoeratio papers of the
DistrioL
The Convention then adjourned sine die.
B. F. WARD, Chairman
T. _B._Ca*an3s,| S6cretarie8 _
J. J. Hunt,
New Yobk in a Weaving Wat.—The Sun, in
a leader nnder the head of “Shall the Republi
can party of New York be saved?" calls upon
the leaden and the State Committee to take
down the Radical ticket and put up some nomi
nations whioh will be responded to by the peo
ple. He says “as the ticket now stands, they
an doomed not only to defeat, bnt to annihila
tion."
A Characteristic letter from the Versatile
Author of the Woodbine Allusion—Who
Paid Grant's Subscriptions ?
Cincinnati Commercial If. T. Special, 18th. J
James Fisk has written the following letter to
the Sun:
“To the Editor of the Sun—Deab Sib : I no
tice in your issue this morning an article headed
‘Gen. Grant Euchred;’ which reads as follows
‘The President went to Long Branch on the
steamer Plymouth Rock, on Tuesday last, and
in going off the boat, exhibited a pass on the
New Jersey Southern railroad; bnt, as Admiral
Fisk had given orders not to pass any of Gen.
Grant’s family on any boats of the Narragansett
Steamship Company, his railroad pass was re
pudiated, and the President’s fare was demand
ed, notwithstanding his light bower, Col. Tom
Murphy, tried to push him through. John Hoey
of the Adams Express, hastened to Grant’s res
cue, got him a ticket and he passed along.’
“This order, now going the rounds of the
papers, is so different from the real orders is
sued to the commanders of steamers owned by
the Narragansett Steamship Company, that I
am compelled, in justice, not only to the corpo
ration I represent, bnt also to the individual
against whom the garbled order appears to be
specially aimed, occupying the exalted position
of Chief Magistrate of this country, to lay be
fore the publio the genuine order, and to give,
at the same time, my reason for its issue. That
there was any intontioa »l anb-
scriber to fhiH letter that the President of the
United States or any of his family or staff,
while traveling on the steamers of the Narra
gansett Steamship Line, shonld not bo treated
with the greatest courtesy as ladies and gentle
men, is entirely erroneous. The simple truth,
and the whole trath, is that an order was issued
to allow them the privilege of paying for such
accommodations as they might call tor, and
this is the beginning and ending of the order.
I issued an entirely different one, you will ob
serve, from that copied Into your journal from
the Boston Transcript. My reason for taking
this course, viewing the matter in a common-
sense light, was that I was weary of fornishiog
free transportation to the President and his
many relations over sea and land, as I.did to a
very great extent last summer, particularly os 1
had not the satisfaction of knowing that the civ-
ilities exlended were appreciated, never having
been thanked for the effort I had made in the
matter. On reviewing the transactions of the
past year I found that I had not only furnished
a large amonnt of free transportation, bnt that
1 had been allowed tho great privilege of sub
scribing to Mr. Grant's charities. In the final
settlement of the gold speculations of the fall
of 18G9, in which I supposed and still believe
the President was a partner with us, I find the
following item charged to my account.
“One half of Grant’s subscription to the
Rawlins fund, five hundred dollars.’
“The circumstances are simply these: A
subscription was started for the widow of the
late lamented Rawlins. The President placed
his name at the head of the list for ono thous
and dollars. Mr. Gould followed for a similar
amonnt, and their signatures were followed by
others for various sums. Mr. Gould, having
himself paid the amonnt set opposite his name,
was called upon by an agent of the President to
advance the money for his, the President’s sub
scription, and this he did, taking it for granted
this disbursement was part and parcel of other
moneys passing through the hands of Mr. Cor
bin. I was, of course, charged my proportion,
but I should never have found fault with this,
nor would I havo even mentioned it, were it not
for the manner in which the President gossiped
about me in tho Fall of 18G9. Why he did so
after what I had done for him is only known to
Him who makes tho apples round. Taking all
the circumstances of the case into considera
tion, and feeling not like Micawber, waiting for
something to tnrn np, bnt, to a certain extent,
broken in spirit, not being even thanked for
what I had done, I determined, after quietly
communing with my own heart, to restore my
peace of mind by henceforth treating the Presi
dent of the United States, and all connected
with him, as becomes the high position he oc
cupies at tho head of this great nation, ignor
ing his treatment of me, and never, for one mo
ment, assuming that I deserved any thanks from
him or bore the slightest resemblance to a gen
tleman. ,
“The result of this determination was the
issue of an order that whenever the President,
or any of his family or staff, traveled on any of
the steamers of the Narragansett line, they
shonld be treated with the greatest respect, but
not upon any other footing than that of ladies
or gentlemen. That the article reported in
your paper as having been sent to the Boston
Transcript was published either to belittle mo
or to make political capital, there can be no
doubt, and for some few days there have been
whisperings that it emanated from .oqe npon
whom the President has recently bestowed the"
most lucrative office in his gift, in spite of the
notorious fact that this lucky individual has
steadily voted the Democratic ticket for the last
twenty years.
“Mr. Editor, I beg of you, in justice to my
self, to make this letter publio. Give me the
advantage of having my side of the Btory read.
I trust that some will believe, if not many, that
now, in my waning years, the best part of my
life having been given to the service of tho pnb-
lic, I am determined, no matter what treatment
I may receive personally, I shall never forget
the duty I owe to the public, the corporation
whose interests I represent, and to myself, and
I shall take cate that, no matter who may be
traveling nnder our charge, they shall, one and
all, be treated with the utmost courtesy and
consideration.
'“The Republican press endeavors to moke
party capital out of this, instead of placing my
order before the public as it was actually issued;
an order I will Bay, in conolasion, which was
simply intended to impress upon the officers
and men nnder my charge that they, as well as
myself, are bnt the servants of the publio.
Yours, respectfully,
“Jakes Fisk, Jb.”
Colonel Fisk showed a reporter a check paid
to Butterfield foe Grant’s subscription. The re
porter said:
“Colonel, thin cheek is dated September 11,
1869. That was before the great gold earth
quake, when you and Gould and Grant'and
Corbin were all good friends, wasn’t it?"
“Tea, we were all on terms ef the warmest
affection in those days. Butterfield was in tbe'
family circle too; ho got up all the Rawlins
fund. He sent around to Gould and otheu
thousand-dollar-men to meet at the Sab-Threap
nry, and when they got there Butterfield out
with his subscription paper, and showed a tele
gram from Grant to head the list with his,
Grant’s taame, for a thousand dollars. This was
done, and then Gould and others put down their
names, and afterwards Gould was asked to pay
Grant's subscription, and that check you are
holding in your fingers was Gould’s response
to the calL I didn’t know anything abont his
paying it till I found five hundred of it charged
to me. By the way, I’ve a letter written to Mr.
Dana on the subject already, which I’ll show
you before you go.”
“Did Mr. Gould see President Grant after he
•paid the subscription for him? "
“Yes; he met him at Corbin’s. You remem
ber Grant went on from Saratoga, or some
where, to Washington, to attend Rawlins’ funer
al, and then returned to fashionable dissipation
again. On his retsrq, he stopped In New York
a short time, and it was then tint Gould met
him at Corbin’s.”
“Was anything said by Grant about the pay
ment of the subscription ?”
“Yes, he thanked Gould for paying it; said
he was much obliged, and so on. You see
Grant and his party thought we were made' of
gold, and had this building packed with moi»y
They’d already got $125,000 of us, and expect-
ed to get enough before the gold speculation’
was ended to make all their multitudinous re
lations rich. On that eooasfon Gould’s particu
lar lay was the independence of Cuba. Gould'
is a fearful patriot, and the greatest of living
statesmen. He knows more about the material
“A party speculation. Dick 8chell, Bancroft
Davis and a lot of Grant’s relations got up a
scheme to make a big pile out of Cnba, and so
went back on their recognition of the revolu
tionary government. A proclamation of recog
nition had aotually been written, and was all
ready for promulgation, and would have been
issued in a few days bad it not been for that
scheme. Tbe speculators, through Bancroft
Davis, got hold of old Fish and fooled him
blind. Fish was never offered money, but he
was fooled by those who heard the chink of coin
in the scheme. Gould thinks Cuba would have
been one of this Union to-diy if Rawlins had
lived. You ought to- talk with Gould abont
Cuba. He can show you just how much the
island wonld be worth to this country as a mar
ket for our surplus products, as a place of win
ter resort for our invalids, and for onr rich
folks up North, who would like to save firewood
during the cold season, and all that sort of
thing. Gould has got the hardest and levelieat
head on all public matters that you ever saw, Mo *
you bet 1”
“One question more, Colonel, as to that Raw
lins subscription hy Gram. That subscription
was made in honor of the memory of his dearest
friend. It was a sacred offering upon the altar
of friendship. How then conld he allow it to be
paid by a straDger ?” :r--jflP
Fisk—“I’ll tell you how. Grant is not only a
greedy little wretch, but he’s a fool. He don’t
know anything; he hasn’t brains enough to
comprehend the position in which such a thing
places him before the country. All he can see
in tho matter is, mat- to cavas jv thousand dol
lars by it; he is too destitute of sensibility to
comprehend what you say about the subscrip
tion being a sacred offering upon.the altar of
friendship. He i3 incapable of true friendship,
and never felt any of the sentiments which true
friendship inspires. To snm him up in one
sentence, he is tho national hog.”
The Senate or the -Penitentlary-
SouthCaroltna Politics.
A correspondent of the Charleston Courier re
lates a conversation os it occurred at a political
mass-meeting at Kingston, South Carolina, be
tween Hon. R. B. Carpenter, the reform candi
date for Governor, and one Powell Smythe,
Radical candidate for State Senator:
Judge Carpenter was alluding to the heavy
increase of taxes, when Powell Smythe inter
rupted him, saying : “May I ask you a ques
tion, Judge?”
The Judge—“Certainly, if you will allow me
afterwards to ask you one."
Smythe—“What was the tax on slaves in
18<;<5 ?”
The Judge—‘‘There was not a slave in the
United States in 18GG.”
■ Smythe—“I mean in 1865 ?”
The Judge—“There were none then.”
Smythe—“Well, I mean in 18G4.”
The Judge—“I don’t know—at that time I
was not here,-1 was on the other side fighting
in the Union army. And now for my ques
tion !”
“Are you the man who had a wife and six
children in Clarendon, and went to Colombia,
joined the Scott Ring, got rich by bribery, and
married another woman there ?”
The crowd—“Yes, that’s so; he’s the man.
Smythe, (sheepishly)—“I wasn’t married to
the first one !”
The Judge—The children were your own ?
Smythe—Yes! but she was not my wife; I
only lived with her!
The Judge—Yoa were in the Legislature two
years ? Now Til tell you a law that you don’t
seem to know anything about. That law makes
man and woman, who have lived together as
you have in this case, man and wife; and if you
don’t mind you will go to the penitentiary as a
bigamist, instead of going to the State Senate!
This was too much; the crowd, white and
black, who knew of Smythe’s villainy, yelled,
and the poor devil Blank away in the crowd.—
He never asked another question, and I don’t
think ever will again.
Refuses to be Comfobted.—Bonn Piatt has.
heard that Colfax is about to retire from public
life, and lifteth np his voice in protest as fol
lows :
“I am pained to hear through rumor that
reaches tyese lonely wilds, that my friend and
model Christian Statesman, Schuyler, is about
to retire from active political life. Schuyler
ought not to retire. I protest against his re
tirement. What in the old scratch will become
of me without the Christian Statesman to con
template and write about ? Asa Catholic keeps
his cross and skull to remind him of the awful
uncertainties of this life, so have I held the
Christian Statesman before my eyes as a warn
ing against political ambition. I note him sit
ting serene, in a perpetual Btate of grin, high
in official greatness, while men of brain and
impulse have gone down in- cruel disappoint
ment, to be heard of no more. The wicked
and irreverent Gath tells me that Schuyler re
tires from politics to become the President of
the Young Men’s Christian Sewing Machine As
sociation at a salary of twenty thousand dollars
a year. This is well. The sewing machine is
to be made a high moral instrument. This is
a high mission, but not so high as the one late
ly held by Schnyler in demonstrating an eco
nomical government. As biain is expensive, a
great luxury, in fact, Schuyler has shown ub
how we may dispense with the article. Vive le
Schuyler l Let him reoonsider.”
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«d greatness, than Grant and
all his Cabinet put together. Gould is posted
upon everything; Hia theory is that, if Cuba
were a free repnblie, our trade with the island
would be immense, and that the Cubans would
be among our Te?y best customers for whest.
floor, coarse cotton goods, pork and other pro
duce. So he went in strong with Grant to ao-
knwledge the Cuban Republic, and ahowed him
how certain tho island, if onoe severed from
Spain, wonld be to seek annexation to th
United Statea. Gould qaoted to Grant what
old John Qnineey Adams said about it, as given
in the Encyclopedia Britannica. “That pas
sage,” continued CoL Fisk, “seemed to impren
Grant greatly, and he said *Cuba wUl be inde
pendent before Janury, 1870.’ Mr. Gould then
quoted Rawlins’ dying words about Cuba, or
whftt Rawlins said at a Cuban meeting. I for-
get whioh, and Grant said, ‘Those were not
Rawlins’ exact words. What he aotually
was muoh more beautiful and forcible the
report in the papers.’ ”
‘A W1 ^ t . do «PP<»* made Grant turn tafl
in Caban hnawin, OokmaLV
Mobeistown, New Jersey, through a keen
detective, lately found out aU about numerous
Incendiary fires which had so driven the people
to their wits ends that they oould not sleep. The
deteotive quietly wormed himself so completely
into the good graces of the hand of incendiaries
as to be enlisted as one of their number and
started out with them to fire the most valuable
part of the town, and thus secured the arrest of
the squad in tbe very act. Some eight have
been held to answer. The considerations mov
ing to this diabolical work were very slight. The
parties confessed th&t they were hired to do it
by the keeper of a grogshop for as muoh liquor
as they required. The barkeeper employed
them for the benefit of his trade. He kept op
posite an engine house, and on fire nights was
able to sell sometimes as mueh as two hundred
dollars value In drinks. And these were the
motives for inflicting heavy loss and a feeling
of great distress and insecurity upon a large
town for a period of more than a year.
.Business complications ia no vise connected
with the present proprietorship and editorial
management of the Standard, render a suspen
sion of the paper necessary for the present. In
a short time our patrons and the publio wUl be
communicated With and our plans for the future
developed. W. A. Smith & Co.
The above appeared in Holder's Raleigh of.
gan of Sunday last. It shows how rapidly the
Radical corpse is rotting in that State aince the
Democratio victory in August. When the Dem-
orats of Georgia redeem this State we shall see
the Standard’s prototypes following its example.
Deprived of their fpt subsidies plundered from
the public treasury, and execrated by the people
whose rain they have so long and venomously
sought, they will sink out of sight and only be
remembered with a curse.
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