About Georgia weekly telegraph and Georgia journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1869-1880 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1870)
► ■r * Vfc?' • fr vV™t , *. m .1. ££ •*,r X y .»/ -■ i *»* - *•* The Greorgia, "Weekly Telegraph, and. Journal <fe Messenger. 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. 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Author of I sidlogy of the Uorsel' “ Modem Emi Purchasers will please ailk for & copy «" Cattle Owner’s Guide ” grat-i *ORD& SMITH, r Im w. hunt a co„ GENERAL AGENTS, Uhm.il | For sale by all Druggists. »pr5-d*w R O SADAH 4. -;;N, «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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