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MACON, NOVEMBER 7, 187G
A Baltimore beef trader, who has
been all over Pennsylvania in the line of
bis business, reports that that State is
bound to go for Tilden.
Art effort is being made to continuo
the Centennial exposition at Philadelphia
■until Thanksgiving Day, which is No
vember 3D. The regular closing day is
November 10. It is understood Ocneral
Hawley is in favor of tho continuation,
and will present the matter to the Com
missioners.
A Chinese drama is protracted enjoy,
ment. The performance usually begins
about 9 P. lf„ lasting until daylight,
when an intermission is taken until
night again. Four or fivo nights are
often consumed in a single comedy. The
Chineso families sometimes carry their
beds to the theatres with them.
GoYernor Tilden was registered on
Friday in tho Twenty-third election dis
trict of the Sixteenth Assembly district,
at No. 241 Third avenue. He said he
lived at No. 118 East Twentieth street,
had resided in the election district eleven
years, and in the Assembly district twen
ty-three years, and in the county thirty-
seven years, and was sixty-two yearn old.
New Yark Express.
Tildsn’b Probable Majority in Lou
isiana.—Wo saw a Concordian yesterday
in Natchez, a man of cool judgment, too,
who was trying to get a small bet that
Conocrdia parish would go for Nicholls
and 'Wilts. The best of it is that he
couldn’t find anybody to hot that it
wouldn’t go for Nicholls. In fact, os
things ore going now, we shonld’t he snr
prised if Tilden carried Louisiana by
25,000 and Nichols by 30,000 or 35,000.—
Notches Democrat.
The Mobile Register says there i3 reli
able evidence that it is tho intention of
the Radical committee, after using the
troops in Sonth Carolina which aro main
ly concentrated at Colombia and vicinity,
to suddenly transfer them, just previous
to the election, to North Carolina, in or
der that the intimidation of colored vo
ters may be carried out to an equal ex
tent in both States. Like all tho other
plots of the campaign, this one only
needB to bo exposed to be defeated.
A Great Wore, Indeed.—The St.
Louis Globe announces the arrival in that
city of Mr. Richard Ivers, of San Fran
cisco, who comes with authority to con
tract for forty thousand tons of irenplate
to be used in tho construction of a con
duit for conveying water from the up
lands of Sierra Nevada country to San
Francisco, a distance of one hundred and
twenty miles. The contract will amount
to about (2,000,000, and the Globe antici
pates that it will be given to the Vulcan
Iron Works of that city.
Centennial Sale.—There will be a
general sale of the main building and
carriage annex, agricultural hall, wagon
and pomological annexes, art annex, pho
tographers’ building, shoe and leather
building, judges’ hall, butter and cheese
bnilding and other structures belonging
to the Centennial Board of Finance No
vember 30th. Tho work of removal of'
goods will begin November 11th and be
finished November 31st, unless otherwise
authorized. Goods remaining without
authority will be sold for expenses.
The Use op Troops Rebuked by Ex-
Attorney Genrhat. yjxn
emnati, 0, October 31.—Henry M. Stan-
berry, er-Attorney General of the Uni.
ted States, in an open letter to tho En
quirer, denounces Grant’s proclamation
and cocseqnent ordering of troops to
South Carolina as entirely unwarranted
and unauthorized by tho Constitution
and by the facts in the case, as detailed
by the proclamation itself. The opinion
has been prepared with much care, and
is based on points of law and tho Con
stitution, which are defined with great
clearness.—Special dispatch to the World.
Longevity.—Dr. Terrell, himself an
aged man, and by no means given to ex
aggeration, tells us that thero is a negro
woman now living in this county aged
one hundred and sixteen years. Her
birth was duly registered, and the record
of it is preserved. The Doctor is eighty-
four years old, and remembers to havo
seen this woman a grown cook while he
was yet a boy; and the woman is hale
and active. Three maiden sisters (the
Mias Campbells) died some years since,
in this county, aged, respectively, one
hundred and ten, one hundred and twen
ty, and one hundred and thirty years.—
QordonsviUe Gasette.
The Charleston (8. C.) News and Cou-
rler says a colored man named Richard
Green, a staundh Democrat of Colleton
County, was riding his horse at a political
meeting at Ashepoo tho other day and
the horse slipped and fell, breaking its
leg and necessitating the killing of the
animal. Of course the Radicals in the,
vicinity raised a great laugh against
Green and told him that was what he got
for turning “Democrat” Tho gentle
men in the neighborhood, upon hearing
of the matter, immediately raised a
purse, and on Thursday last Mr. Capers
came to the city, purchased a fine mare,
carried her up on tho train, and pre
sented her to Green, who, to tho chagrin
-of hi3_ Radical tormentors, rodo his new
horse in the procession at Green Pond on
Saturday.
Good Manners at the Polls.
Without tho shadow of a shade of
foundation in fact, it has been alleged
that at the late St&to election tho exer
cise of the suffrago by colored Radicals
was hindered or obstructed by the whites
in Macon. We assert, on tho contrary,
that no obstacle whatever was interposed
to the deposit of any and every legal
ballot, and that for tho greater part of
the day, owing to negligence and press
ure of business engagements upon tho
whites, the polls wero left substantially
in the hands of the colored voters.
Now unpleasant talk comes to our ears
about schemes to get and keep posses
sion of the polls all day by the colored
•people. That is very had manners, as
well 03 unfair and illegal policy. No
body onght to havo possession of tho
polls except the proper legal authorities,
and all the voters, white and black,
should be on their best behavior—cour
teous and kind to all. A broad path
way to the polls should be kept open and
unobstructed all tho time, so that voters
without any distinction or discrimination
shall be able to movo up to them in sin
gle line, and move away in a continuous
current as rapidly as they go up.
The officers of the law, wo donbt not,
will see that this is done, and wo call
upon them to do it. Let no man wbo
wants to vote for Hayes and Wheeler
lack a proper opportunity, and we de mmnd
the same for the friends of Tilden and
Hendricks. Let there be a fair and legal
ballot—deposited in all courtesy, friend
liness and good nature, and let everything
be studiously avoided which may pro
voke disturbance. It is always easy to
kick up a quarrel at an election any.
where, but there fa not the smallest
reason for a quarrel in Georgia next
Tuesday. Tilden will carry tho State by
a very largo majority, and we doubt not
the whole Democratic tfeket for Con
gress will be elected. Let every Demo
crat set an example of perfect toleration,
good nature and good manners.
Tlie Cotton Sensation.
After tho news in the earlier telegrams
in yesterday’s edition, that Russia had
kicked over tho peaco bucket, and had
about determined to abandon tho Turk
diplomatically, camo the healing tidings
that the armistice had been agreed upon.
This fact, in connection with short crop
estimates on this side, the evidence of an
increased demand on tho other, and tho
sensible conclusion that cotton at six
pence is cheap anyhow, all combined to
create a spirit in the Liverpool market,
and sales wait, up to about forty thou
sand bales at an advance of about an
eighth, while thero was a good deal cf
excitement in yarns nnd cloths among
manufacturers.
Yesterday tho excitement continued.
The sales of tho morning in Liverpool
were about 25,000 bales, with a buoyant
market, and in New York an advance of
a quarter cent was established. The
comments of the Liverpool papers to be
found in our telegrams are interesting.
Shall we havo at last a turn of luck all
round—politically and financially ? Shall
the skies brighten on tho Southern peo
ple once more ? Lot us hope as much.
An Iowa judge has decided that a man
may legally kiss a pretty girl if he can
swear he thought it was his wife. That
decision should ho denounced by nil good
men ns an open encouragement of per-
Political News.
The Associated Press to-day again re
laxes its rigor so far as to give us a few
political items. It speak® of a stampede
among the Pennsylveiminers—(the
Molly Magnires, we a- pyose) from the
Republican party. These rascals have
been for many years training under the
pay of tho Radical leaders in Pennsyl
vania and perpetrating all sorts of vio
lence. They have made some parts of
the coal regions unsafe for honest men.
and have committed so many murders
that vengeance could slumber no iongor
and Hartranft has been under the neces.
sity of hanging a good many of them.
The "stampede' 1 in question is doubt
less a scheme to coerce a pardon from
Hartranft under threat of voting against
the party of high moral ideas. It is
painful dilemma to Hartranft, but we
reckon so many bogus Radical registries
have been made in Philadelphia that
Hartranft can stand it. To illustrate
great outcry has been made out of the
New York city registry as fraudulent,
which shows a voter to every six inhabit
ants, which is the usual rate. But the
Philadelphia registry shows a voter to
between every three and four of the pop
ulation, and on 750,000 people numbers
more voters than 1,200,000 in New York.
If the Molly Maguires ail vote for Til
den, they will not offset the Philadelphia
Mollies.
The ■Washington press dispatch also
concedes New York, New Jersey, Con.
necticut, Indiana and perhaps Wisconsin
to Tilden, and claims California for
Hayes. It says the people in Washing
ton, three-fonrths of whom are depend
ent on party favor for a living, are very
despondent at the prospect of a change
in the fictional administration.
Radical Rascality.
A dispatch from Hon. Abram S.
Hewitt, chairman of the National Dem
ocratic Executive Committeo, to Colonel
Thomas Hardeman, Jr., is as follows:
Gross frauds havo been discovered in
one State in printing electoral tickets.
See to it that youra conform strictly to
your State laws, and aro accurate in
every particular. Notify county com
mittees to have tickets verified by per
sonal examination beforo distribution,
and watch for fraudulent tickets at the
polls."
Though coining at a late hour, this ad
vice should bo carefully heeded and ob.
served.
The "Ins" are determined to remain
in if possible, and are resorting to every
possible device to accomplish their pur
poses. False arrests by United States
marshals are constantly made—all tho
available army, duly equipped and fur
nished with ball cartridges, have been
sent to the Democratic front—tho Fed
eral officeholders are made to diBgorgo a
goodly portion of their salaries to furnish
the sinews of war—the bloody shirt still
inflames tho worst passions of the fanat
ical masses—tickets to the Centennial
on election day are offered without money
and without price to every Democrat who
will take tho early train from Now York
to Philadelphia on that morbing—and
last, but not least, it is oven said in ad
vance, that if the "solid South” votes
for Tilden ho will never be permitted to
take his seat.
Was over such frantic desperation
.beheld ? But this shows that our eno
mies have lost heart and hope, and all
that is necessary is for tho Democracy
to remain firm and steadfast, and see to
it that their every vote is duly polled on
election day. Let them do this'and a
glorious victory will crown their efforts.
AYIiolesale Fabrication.
Washington. November 2.—The Near
York World denies that tbo matter rep-
resented as being from its column? of
October 20th, 1870, being circulated in
circular form, headed ‘•R-ad. Ponder 1
and Reflect,” throughout the Southern
States, ever so appeared, and states that
it is a bold and brazen forgery.
The above was a t in ye»t=i-
day’s edition. In alluc nr to tbis im
posture two or three diyi ago, we as
sumed that the Badnsr.l Fxooative Com
mittee in Washing .... ... j ot pointed
it, might possibly »>av .si ;j.c article
copied into ths Wt.rld as an exaggerated
specimer or partisan tni*r-preien;ution;
but it had not even so mu jli feiu-Jation
in truth as that comes to. I. wa t.sited
forgery and falsification throi „eoui, and
done, too, in the great central headquar
ters of the Republicans, in Washington.
Surely stronger evidence of an utter and
desperato depravity coaid not be pre
sented.
THE SITUATION.
General Review of the Week.
Saturday Night, November 4,1870.
The cotton receipts ot tho five days
ending Friday night have been 4.778
bales—2.6S5 by rail and 2,093 by wagon.
Shipments for same day3 4.448, and sales
5,401 bales. The receipts are 402 bales
less than tho corresponding days of last
week—tho sales 304, and tho - shipments
v 558 greater. Tho business of today,
which will bo found reported under tho
appropriate head, will probably add
about a fifth to these figures. Tho ad
vance in quotations for middling cotton
during the week in this market has been
half a cent, and thero bas been a still
greater improvement ia’the tone of tho
market. Confidence in tbo cotton future,
so far as tho incoming crop is concerned,
has been much strengthened.
The general trade report of tho city is
about tho same as last week. If there is
any average difference—perhaps a little
less favorable. An important gain is re
ported in some branches and a little fall
ing off in others. Only some two or
three establishments complain of slack
ness. The bulk roport fair results, and
some exeeptionably good—better than
last week. On tho whole, tho general
trade of Macon may be confidently an
nounced as in a highly satisfactory con
dition.
The banks continue to report money
plenty and few or no borrowers on their
terms. Payments are prompt and gen
erally far beyond all recent precedents,
There has been so little rainfall the
’past week that the drought is substan
tially unrelieved. The streets and roads
nro very dusty. A sharp white frost was
visiblo this (Saturday) morning, with a
mercury at 41, but it rose to 02 by ten
o’clock, with an easterly wind and some
promise of rain. The health of the city
continues excellent.
The Political Situation.—A steady
and rapid progress of the cause of Tilden,
Hendricks and Reform is too manifest for
dispute by any reasonable person, and
next Tuesday both parties will go to the
polls impressed with the idea that the
probable result must be tho election of
Tilden and Hendricks. This impression
has been, until lately, aeentimentof slow
growth. It has gradually crept on the
public mind since tho September elec
tions. Vermont and Maine showed a
growing opposition, and indicated that
the old sectional bloody shirt scare for
the Union had lost its potency. Ohio,
Indiana and West Virginia established
that conclusion, and ever since then rea
son, patriotism and the sober second
thought havo been at work powerfully
for the Democracy—till, operating with
steadily progressive force, tho situation
in tho Radical camp is now little short of
panic.
All the various expedients suggested
by desperation have failed and reacted
on the inventors—the bayonets—tho
forgeries—the Southern claims and the
national credit scares have all worked in
turn like an African boomerang, and now
we come to the last one of all—that tho
^election of Tilden and Hendricks must
necessarily result in another civil war—
they themselves vowing by all that is
good or bad that they will never submit
to Tilden’s inauguration, but will resist
it “at tii® ouuiea'a mouth.- With this
effort to get up an anti-Tilden fright they
come, as we believe, to the end of their
row, and when the votes are counted
they will subside.
We expect the election to show
strength for Tilden beyond the common
estimate' of “ States certain ” for him,
and resulting from the votes of floaters
and waiters on Providence who like to
be with the winning side, if they know
where to find it. There is much hopeful
talk from Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, showing at least a “fighting
chance” in eaeh of these States, and we
do not see why New Hampshire should
be despaired of. Sho gave last year a
Radical majority of 172 in a total vote
for Governor of 78,414. The year before
she gave a Democratic plurality of 1,405,
and in 1873 her Democratic candidate
for Governor was beaten only 2,407. If
the New Hampshire Democracy are alive
and awake, we see no reason why they
should not carry that State.
We are strongly in hope that when the
figures of next Tuesday aro counted, it
will appear that Tilden, if ho has not a
solid South to back him, will be found to
havo a greater popular, it not electoral,
strength in the North in his favor than
Hayes; and if so, the politicians who
talk of bayoneting him out of the Presi
dential chair will conclude that silence is
better than words.
To sum it all up, wo havo strong and
high hopes of a propitious result all
round; but we are ready to accept de
feat, if it comes, with resignation and
composure. For, after all, let us remem
ber that an all-wise and all-eontrolling
Providence shapes tho governmental suc
cession just as much in a republic os in a
government born to the purple.
TILDEN’S SPEECH.
Peace— Reconciliation—Fraternity-
Prosperity.
On Thursday night tho New Jork city
and county Democrats had their' last
grand demonstration and a great army
with banters and torchlights moved from
seven o’clock in tho evening to a quarter
past one Friday morning. Wo suppose
it was even a grander Eight than that of
tho dcmonstiation just a week before,
which one cf our citizens, who saw it,
says was a spectacle which a man does
net often live to witness more than once.
At the close of it, Tilden being called
out, spoke tho few pithy and pregnant
words which will bo found in tba. tele
grams to-day—words so full of cheer and
hope to every patriotic heart—words
which even now are thrilling millions of
breasts from the Atlantic to ths Pacific
shores—from the St. Lawrenco to tho
Gulf of Mexico—words whoso glorious
spirit pours such a tide of loathing and
contempt on the bloody shirt and all the
traders and peddlers in sectional hate and
national discord—words worthy the chief
of a nation of forty millions of freemen,
and worthy tho aspirations of the Na
tional Democratic party.
Mayor Davenport. /■
Yesterday, this gentleman, who after
a long siege of active official duty in be-
half of his follow-citizens of Brunswick,
was himself stricken down by tbe fearful
pestilence, visited our sanctum. He is
still suffering from great debility and
loss of appetite, but hopes to improve
by a short change of scene and climate.
Tho Mayor showed U3 a dispatch to
Mr. W. F. Jonos, dated November 24,
which announced five deaths from fever
in tho previous 24 hours.
Tho weather is warm and very unfavor
able, and he earnestly implores all absern
tees to remain away until the disappear
ance of tho disease is officially made
known. Strange as it may seem, despite
every precaution which has been taken,
and tho moat emphatic remonstrances,
tho poor exiles will come home, though
almost to certan death. Doubtless many
have exhausted their means and have
no other alternative.
On tbo one hand, gaunt want and ac
'tual suffering must be encountered, whilst
on the other, perhaps they may be so for
tunate as to escape tho contagion, and
enjoy the asylum of their own homes.
Poor souls, how much are they to be
pitied. Up to this period our sympathies
havo been powerfully enlisted in behalf
of those of the resident population wbo
were unable to escape from the awful
visitation. But now the overflowing
streams of benevolence from all sections
of the Union have in a great measure re
lieved their necessities, and the condition
of the survivors begins to improve.
But those who abandoned homes and
business, and were forced to fly elsewhere
for safety, etraightened as many of them
are in their circumstances and srftbout
tho means of subsistence, are really at
this time greater objects of sympathy
than the denizens of the afflicted cities.
To such we can only express tho hope
that a killing frost and freezing weather
will soon remove their unpleasant
quarantine and blockade, and restore
them to their homes once more.
And such undoubtedly will bo tho
case. The ides of November are
here, and Boreas ere long will let loose
his stormy retinue from their icy cave,
and dispel and drivo far away the poison,
ous exhalations which so long have brood,
ed over these devoted cities. God grant
tho hour of their deliveranco may speed-
ily ftwiro.
Examine Your Tickets Closely.
We bear from several sonrees that the
Radicals, being perfectly Atisfied that
there is no hope for their presidential
ticket in tho State, aro printing tickets
with the names of the Democratic elec
tors on them and the Radical candidates
for Congress for tho particular district in
which it is expected to vote these tickets
at the bottom. Look at your tickets and
see that they are all right in this re
spcct before you vote them. Oar friends
fa tbe Second district particularly are
urged to ses that no such trick is allowed
to work down there.
Mrs. Jane M. Walker, President
Folk’s sister, wbo.died at Columbia, f an immense audience last week.
Tenn., recently, left 102 grandchildren j out for thunder from tho Prairio State on
nnd great grandchildren. J tbo 7th of November next!
Tbe Prospects in Illinois.
Col. Dan Morrison, who has been can
vassing Illinois for several weeks, arrived
in St. Louis on Monday. The Republican
of that city says He gives n. flowing ac
count of the pre-pect® in the Sucker
State, and unhesitatingly expresses the
opinion that Stewart will beat Cullom at
least 15,000 votes for Governor, and tho
contest for President will be so close that
no one con safely predict the result. Ho
expresses every confidence that the Leg
islature will be carried against Logan.
The leading men on the Democratic
side are all act'to, and the people sternly
resolved to win back the State to reform
and good government. Tbe most marked
accessions to the reform movement are
from the German-American elements
and the original abolition forces of tho
StAte.
At Quincy, the Hon. O. H. Browning,
bosom triend of Lincoln, and a former
Secretary of the Interior, ono of tho pu
rest and best of Illinois statesmen, pre
sided over the meeting in tho opera
house in which Mr. Morrison addressed
Look
"Wbat Wo Must Do on Tuesday
If thero is any man in Georgia who is
not now thoroughly alivo to what ho
ought to do and must do next Tuesday,
wo are sorry for him. Wo havo done our
level best to rouso the torpid and inspire
tho sluggish, and if they still slumber
they cannot be waked up at all. They
would sleep on the very verge of Hades
itself. But we bolieve all are fully awake,
and that they will prove the fact on
Tuesday. We look for an unbroken, do
termined line next Tuesday. We claim,
and expect to have, that day the biggest
vote Georgia ha3 ever cast. We expect
to show tho Radicals what Georgians can
do when thoroughly aroused. We havo
given the monster many drubbings, but
we must give him the finishing stroke on
that day. Tbo thing is cosily done.
Only put forth your strength. Just let
yourselves loose, so to speak, and the
problem is solved.
That is all we ask. The stako is richly
worth it. Tho occasion demands it.
Every impulse, every hope, every inspir
ation that stirs and informs men with
blood in their veins pleads for it in tones
that cannot neither bo muffled nor resist
ed. Wo aro not worthy a victory if wo
fail how to stretch out our hands and
grasp it. Shall wo doubt or dally ? No,
a thousand times no. We will do our
whole duty and gain the grandest vic
tory on record for free government and
tho cause of truth and justice. Victory
is in tho air. Ono moro pull together
and wo aro out of the woods.
A Distinguished Visitor.
Dr. Wm. Butler, who is announced to
occupy the pnlpitof the Mulberry Street
Methodist Church this morning, and that
of First Street to-night, is a very emi.
nent divine who is spending a few days
with Colonel Nutting of oar city, and*
consents to discourse to the two congre
gations mentioned upon “Mexican Evan-
geiization.” All who attend these ser
vices, wo feol sure from the gentleman’s
reputation, will be amply repaid, and
hope he may havo very full
audiences. Dr. Butler, who spent
a number of years as missionary to
India, passed through the horrors of the
notable "Sepoy Rebellion,” and has writ
ten perhaps tho most learned and valua
ble book on India now extant—has more
recently been connected with missionary
work among tho Mexicans, and is at this
timo superintendent of a mission in Mex
ico. The Doctor has been spending a
few months in the United States in the
interest of tho work under his charge,
and fa now on his return trip to the City
of Mexico.
Lamar on Confederate Claims.
Vicksburg, Miss., November 1.—Hon.
L. Q. C. Lamar arrived here to-day. In
an interview, he expressed himself pleas
ed with Tilden’s letter on the Southern
war claims, and indorsed it fully. He
said the policy of paying these claims
was instituted and developed to its'pres-
onfc extent under Republican administra
tion. It was passed on the idea that the
Government was bound to do two things >
first, to protect tho right of tho emanci
pated class, and second, to take care of
the interests of Union white men in the
South. Every one of these claims is
founded on an invidious distinction
agahut the moss of Southern people who
were engaged in tho movement for seces
sion, who sympathized with it, and,
therefore, aa far as attention wjb direct
ed toward tbo matter, these claims were
regarded with general disfavor by the
Southern people. As to the Confederate
debt, Lamar said no one has any real ap
prehensions about that. It fa a debt due
from and not to the Confederates.
The Fatal Effect ot Seir-Uorernmcnt
Upon the African.
The wholo world is familiar with tho
deplorable results of emancipation in St.
Domingo and Jamaica, though in the lat
ter island tho event was accomplished
peaceably, and under the auspices and
sanction of the British Government.
Still, no good has ensued, either to tho
liberated bondmen or the general inter
ests of humanity.
In aland teeming with fertility, where
nature almost a3=ume3 tho role of unas
sisted production, and tropical fruits in
lavish abundance, supplement tho sub
sistence of tho natives, what do wo be
hold?
The rapid decline of all mechanical
and physical energy—magnificent sugar
estates, once models of neatness and
profitable investments, half cultivated,
neglected or abandoned — the people
sluggish and thriftless—civilization ret-
rogiading instead of progressing—fet-
tishism and barbarism gradually regain
ing their ascendancy over tho eupersti-
tious masses—tho staple products of su
gar, ccffeo and spice3, once the source of
a princely revenue, now, not raised in
sufficient quantities to supply tho wants
of the people — lethargy and slowtb
where formerly, under European influ
ence, all was life and industry, and, to
cap tho climax, the entire stoppage of
any increase in population and the rapid
deterioration and diminution of the in
habitants.
1 This is a true picture of Jamaica, where,
out of a population of about 400,000
souls, 15.000 only aro white, and in igno
rant, benighted and revolutionary Hayti,
the spectacle is even moro lugubrious
and unsatisfactory. Thero wo have, re
produced, tho tyranny and despotism of
Dahomey without the barbaric splendor
and simple habits of tho people of that
savage country. The true principles of
government ssem to be utterly unknown,
and anarchy, a burlesque upon royalty,
or communistic mobocracy alternately
predominate. Nor fa tho condition of
Liberia and Sierra Leone much better,
albeit the leaven of the gospel, and mis
sionary influence, is constantly poured
into them, to say nothing of a stream of
recruits from more civilized regions.
For ahalf century, nil the efforts of tho
Colonization Society and philanthropists,
aided by tho subsidies of the whole uni
verse, have barely sufficed to keep alive
the so-called negro republic of Liberia,
which was once tho Mecca of the enfran
chised African.
But how stands the record in enlight
ened and refined Americr, where four
millions of slaves of Ethiopian descent
were set freo by a single stroke of the
pen, end invested with even greater
rights and prerogatives than wero accord*
ed to thoir former owners ?
Statistics, and irrefragable testimony
establish the striking anomaly that just
in proportion to tho perfect freedom
enjoyed by these manumitted bondsmen,
amounting even to uncontrolled self-
government in several States, have they
retrograded in population, wealth and
civilization.
Witness the condition of South Caro
lina, Louisiana, Alabama nnd Mississippi,
and contrast the status of tho blacks in
Georgia with what it was under the ne
gro and carpet-bag regime of Bollock.
To particularize, let us see how the Af
rican race ha3 flourished in Carolina,
where they have ruled the State, and
monopolized all control of public affairs
for moro than eleven years. According
to a carefully compiled statement by tho
Charleston Journal of Commerce, taken
from the census of 1860 and 1870 respec
tively, it will be seen that the black pop
ulation of South Carolina in the first
named period amounted to 412,230, and
in the next decade (1870) after emanci
pation, it was but 415,814, showing an
increase only of 3.494 souls, or less than
one per centum. Yet, as every one knows,
in this State moro than any other has
the problem of negro self-government
been in process of solution without hin
drance, and under the powerful support
and fostering care of the Federal Execu
tive.
But how stands the record in Georgia,
where the reign of tho African and his
carpet-bag auxiliary was very brief, and
came to an inglorious termination ?
In 1860 tho negroes numbered 465,093,
and in 1870 649,142, making a gain of
84,044, which is equivalent to seventeen
per cent. And oven this is far short of
slavery times, when for the decade end
ing in I860 the increase was thirty-three
per cent., and at the next count, in 1860,
twenty-one per cent.
But just see the difference between the
two States. Unless tho whites regain the
ascendancy in Carolina tho declino of the
negro population will continue almost in
arithmetrical progression, and, gradually
they will die out like tho Indian.
Tho only hope, then, for tho freedmen
fa under the genial care and protection of
his white friends and employers. And
their numerous defections from the Radi
cal ranks m the present canvass through
out the Southern States, show that they
begin to realize this salient fact.
What God has decreed man cannot
undo, and thero fa no " higher law” that
can elevato the negro above the white
race As well may yon attempt to make
the leopard change his spots or tho Ethi
opian his skin.
T)IE GEORGIA PRESS.
What Gen. Gordon Thinks op the
Result in South Carolina.—Wo find
tho following in the Atlanta Constitution
of Thursday:
Gen. Gordon has just returned from
Charleston, S. C., where ho went to join
tho Democrats of that city in celebrating
Hampton’s day.” Tho Senator is full
of enthusiasm on Carolina, and says that
he has not the„sha4ow of a doubt that it
will go heavily for Hampton. He puts
Hampton’s majority at from 8,600 to 15,-
000, but thinks it will bo about 12,000.
He says it is simply impossible for tho
Radicals to withstand the onset of the
Hampton legions. The colored troop3 aro
breaking away from them in perfect bat
talions. In ColletoD, the county ad
joining Charleston, and a very heavy no-
gro county, over seven hundred negroes
were in tho Democratic procession and
are ardent and pronounced Democrats.
They are outspoken, bold and enthusias
tic. Tho Radical negroes cannot intim
idate them, and they are getting
fresh accessions every day! Tho
Radical lino is giving way at all
points, and in many places wholo bodies
of voters fall out of ranks and march
over to the Democrats. Tilden will carry
tho Stato by a decided majority but will
fall probably 1,000 votes short of Hamp
ton’s poll. There is a considerable body
of white Republicans, such a3 Mackey,
Cooke, Senator Robertson, etc., and Re
publican negroes like Delaney, who will
vote for Hampton, but will slick to Hayes.
This election, however, fa not now largo
enough to endanger Tilden’s getting the
electoral vote; and Gen. Gordon consid
ers South Carolina as certain a Tilden
State as Georgia. Ho pronounces tho
demonstration in Charleston, organised
to greet Hampton and his friends, the
grandest he ever saw. There were 10,-
000 Democrats in procession, and hun
dreds and hundreds of them colored men
They frequently stopped tbe carriage
containing Gen. Hampton, and would
impede it for a half hour at a time,
white and black, crowding np to got to
’shake hands with the hero of tho
hour. Gen. Gordon says that from tho
timo he entered the carriage at the hotel
until he reached the stand, ho saw not
less than 45.000 people. Tho streets
were filled with transparencies, etc., and
the whole city had on its holiday clothes,
Every class of tho people are determined
to frfi9 the State from the dominion of
thieves and plunderers. Many of the
merchants in the contested counties will
not open their stores after Satnrday night
until Wednesday, but will devote Sunday
to praying and Monday and Tuesday to
working for “Hampton and reform.”
Tho United States troops, Gen. Gordon
says, aro behaving well, and give no
cause of complaint to tho white people.
Indeed, tho Democrats do not consider
the presence of the troops as any bar to
their victory, or even an obstacle.
Refeebixo to tho earns subject the
Chronicle and Sentinel quotes a correspon
dent of tho Cincinnati Gazette, now in
South Carolina, as saying that tho con
test will be close but that Hampton will
win. He also thinks that the national
contest will bo tho closest contest ever
known in the country, but that if New
York goes for Tilden he will certainly be
elected.
Burke county is oat of debt, and on
the first of January will have a surplus
of (4,000 in her treasury. When tho war
closed she was (30.000 behind,
Three Hundred fansines3 men of At-
of
Stop the Sale ot Liquor
On Tuesday next and study to avoid all
exciting causes to disorder, ill-temper
and bloodshed. The laws of Georgia
prohibit open dram shops on election
day. Let the county authorities every
where see that this law is enforced. Let
us know the result in Middlo aud South
west Georgia by counties os early as
possible.
A Word In Behalf or onr Patriotic
Merchants.
Now that it fa generally understood
that all the stores will be closed on Tues
day next, wo trust that our citizens, and
housekeepers especially, will remember
the fact, and lay in their table supplies,
and do all other necessary shopping the
evening previous. Thu --rill tender it
unnecessary for any doors to be opened
in the morning, which' fa very desirable,
&<< post experience has eh'iwa that It is
almost impossible to clow np after trad
ing bogins.
Much is expected of the store brigade,
and • they oxo entitled to the thunka uf
the country for their patriotic interest in
this most important election.
Grace Greenwood’s description of her
ride on a cow-catcher fa a notablo in
stance of the power of tho English lan
guage to bxpres3 much in a few words.
Here it fa: “I shall never do that again.”
lantahavo agreed to close their places
business from one to fivo o’clock on Tuc3
day next, election day.
Messrs. E. M. Anderson and J. J.
Waring, of Savannah havo been corres
ponding lately with a view, on the part
of the former, of pistols and coffee for
two. But Waring can’t see it, and has
had Mr. Anderson put under bonds to
keep the peace.
Mb. Thomas J. Walsh, for thirty
years a merchant of Savannah, died Wed.
nesday, aged seventy years.
The Can Can in Columbus.—Thus
tho Columbus Enquirer: “Sold! badly
sold!" was the universal expression of
the immense audience that left the Opera
Heuso lost night at tho close of Madame
Bentz’ entertainment. No ladies were
thero. Tho chairs and gallery were oc*
copied with men. The outer circle down
stairs was mainly vacant. The show is
an unmitigated fraud. Ail were on front
seats who could obtain them. The yonng
men walked into tho house and not
sound could bo heard, but whenover
married man or an old stag would make
his appearance, loud cheors and yells of
“ hqre ho comes” would strike the ceiling.
Tho young men had back seats and tho
old ones were in front with opera glasses,
The Atlanta Constitution 13 pleased to
learn that Mr. Stephens is still improv
ing in health, and that ho expects to go
to Washington this winter.
Mr. H. M. Edoz, has taken editorial
chargo of the Griffin Press and Cultivator.
May he never grow dull.
In Spalding Superior Court this wee^
Mrs. Sears received (8,700 damages
from the Central railway for the loss of
her husband by an accident on that
road.
Nih Easley blew tho top of his head
off tho other day in Walton county.
Whisky.
Among the warrants in tho hands of
Federal deputy marshals in Sonth Caro
lina, says, the Constitutionalist, "there fa
one, we learn, for tho arrest of an old cit
izen of Beech Island, Mr. William Fos
ter, 77 years of age, bom in 1799. The
warrant has not been served yet, but
tho old gentleman says he fa ready when
the marshal fa ready, and is prepared to
prove his innocence of any charge against
him. From what he has heard, the war
rant charges him with being engaged in
the Ellenton affair. He says he has not
been in that neighborhood for many
yeirs. It fa said that warrants for two
young boys, one five and tho other eight
years of age, wero issued, charging them
with intimidation.’*
Kino! We find the following in the
ColumbuB Times:
"Tho colored man raises everything
that fa raised in tho South, except hell.”
—Robert G. Ingersoll.
Right as to the exception. Bob. It was
reserved for the carpet-baggers to do
that, and for the poor negroes to take the
consequences. That they did it pretty
effectually is evidenced by Bob inger-
coll’s discovery that there was a hell to
be raised, for he nover believed in one
before.
Says the Atlanta Constitution: We all
know what a shrewd man Col. G. W.
Adair is—always ready, eyes open, good
judgment and the best man to drive a
trade in the State. Sometimes, but
very seldom, ho stumbles. A few days
ago a bank man from the Stato of New
Hampshire called in his office to examine
the title papers to some city property
that he was about to purchase os an
investment. Col. Adair was partly in
terested in tbe negotiations, and of
course did his very best to satisfy the
bank man about the matter. In playing
tho agreeable he incidentally touched on
politics. "Now,” says the Colonel, “you
will find politics different in this State
from the New England States, Here all
tho best people are Democrats—compell
ed to bo so—and the dead beats, negroes
and loafers aro Republicans. With you
it fa tho other way. I’m posted. I know
the respectable people there are Repub
licans, and the roughs, dead beats, vaga-
And tfiinraa aro Dam/mwita 99
bonds and thieves are Democrats.’
•Well,” says the bank man, "I don’t
know about that. I’m a Democrat my
self.” CoL Adair changed the subject.
But before they parted the bank made
the purchase.
If that bank man had declined to
trade, and, in addition, had then end
thero administered a rebnko to Adair for
his gross and gratuitous slander upon
the Northern Democrats, he would havo
done just exactly tho right thing. We
are very sorry he didn’t.
The Griffin Press learns that Dr. Rob
ert Btyan was dangerously stabbed re
cently at Hosier’s store, in Jasper county,
by some men named Tyler.
Wm. Fondeb, of Burke county, will,
says the Jefferson News and Farmer, make
this year on a three mule farm, fifteen
bales of cotton to tho mule. He has
also made an abundant crop of corn.
Letters for Matilda Goez and Walter
B. Hill, Macon, aro held for postage in
the Savannah office.
The Atlanta Constitution states, upon
tho authority of Mr. Gregg Wright, of
tho Chronicle and Scritinel, that ex Gov,
Johnson says ho “ would like to bo Sena
tor if the place could be won without a
a scramble.”
Tub Senatorial Race.—An Atlanta
correspondent of tbe Chronicle and Senti
nel—Mr. Martin V. Calvin, by name—
writes that paper as follows on tbo sub
ject: Tbo incoming Legislature will have
some very important work to do, but none
of greater import than tho selection of a
United States Senator to succeed Mr.
Norwood. Naturally enough _ a wide
spread and increasing interest is felt in
this question: Upon whom will that
high honor bo bestowed? Senator Nor
wood will be a candidate for re-election;
it is said that Hon. B. H. Hill would pre
fer the Senate to the House; and frequent
mention is made of Gov. Smith’s name
in connection with tho position. It has
not as yet been positively announced that
his Excellency cherishes any special de
sires for the office, but ho has hundreds of
friends who believe him equal to any posi-
tion within the gift of the people of this
country, and will not bo slow to press his
claims if circumstances authorize such
action. Besides, it has become a custom
to transfer Governors to the Senate. My
observation teaches me this, that if Gov.
Smith desires the place he has only to
say so. So great fa his personal magnet
ism and so thorough his knowledge of
men, that there fa not a man in Georgia
who can successfully compete with him
for any office within the gift of the peo
ple. From all that I can learn, Mr. Hill’s
following fa not sufficiently strong to
carry him into the Senate. The opinion
is generally expressed[that the particular
field for Mr. Hill fa found on tho floor of
tho hocso. He ha3 already doso efficient
work there, and his past experience qual-
ifiea him for the accomplishment of a
much larger amount of good. Governor
Smith ontofthe way. Senator Norwood
will bo returned to tho Senate. This will
result from an appreciation of hfa ability
and faithfulness, as well a3 a recognition
of the wise policy pursued by the South
ern States from the establishment of the
Government down to 1861, viz: Tho
retention in Congress of every man
who proved* himself competent and
watchful. It wa3 a steady adherence
to this policy that gave the South so
powerful an influence in the government.
When her Senators or her Representa
tives rose to speak to a question, the
country stood ready to hear something
wise, and the country was not deceived.
Remarking the source of the South’s
strength in the halfa of Congress, New
England and the other States made haste
to adopt the same policy, and they ad
here to it to this day. Now the people
desire to havo that policy re-adopted—
hence tbe prospects for Senator N.’s
chances for re-election are really good.
Senator N. lacks personal magnetism;
that is, he has not the power of so in
spiring those with whom he is brought in
' contact that they will at the mention of
his name, bo ready to toss up their hands
and declarehim unequalled. But he pos
sesses this powerOne never hears him
speak, or reads what he has spoken, but
one exclaims, he is a man! So that, if
re-elected, Senator Norwood will have to
attribute bis success to a conscientious
discharge of the duties imposed upon
him, and what higher compliment can be
paid a man?
Good News from Florida.—Hon. B.
H. Hill, who bas just returned from
Florida, tolls a representative of tho Con
stitution "that tho election of Drew, the
Democratic candidate in that State, was
absolutely assured, and that Tilden would
not run one whit behind. He puts the
Democratic majority at not les3 than
5.000, and possibly &3 high as 8,000 or
10,000. Says ho: “It is simply impossi
ble to beat a people so inspired as the
Floridians arc. Thero is an enthusiasm
abcut them that is absolutely irresista-
ble. They nre determined to redeem
their State, and just as sure as the sun
rises on the 7th of November they are
going to do it.” Mr. Hill calls attention
to tho fact that the Northern settlers in
Florida, who reallr hold the balance of
power, and who have formerly been
strongly Republican, will now vote tho
Democratic ticket almost withont excep
tion. Florida may be put down as a cer
tain Tilden State.
Over in Fayetto county Davo Hop-
good, a negro who has always voted the
Democratic ticket, fa about to get hfa
mule nnd forty acres sure enough. His
white friends havo already bought him
tho former, and ho will be given the land
after the election.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says there
are now ten companies of Federal sol
diers in Edgefield, S. C., and tbat a squad
will be stationed at each precinct in the
county.
The Griffin News states tbat tbe stock
holders of the Savannah, Griffin and
North Alabama railway had a lively time
at their Newnan convention on Thursday.
Tho warmest debate was gotten np over
a fund of (21,000 now in the hands of
tho company’s treasury. One member
wanted this divided out among the stock
holders, and let tho road go to the devil.
Judge Boynton offered a resolution to
appropriate a portion of this sum to pay
the claim of Grant, Alexander & Co. This
was lost, and the matter finally died of
itself—leaving the fund in the company’s
treasury. Mr. Wadley was re-elected
president, with all of tho cld board of
directors except one.
We learn from the Columbus Enquirer
that 944 bales of cotton were sold in that
city on Thursday. Market active, with an
eighth to a quarter advance. Tho re
ceipts wero very heavy.
The Houston Home Journal ha3 these
items:
The Suckeb Club.—The suckers re
turned last night from the Ocmulgee
swamp, where they had been hunting
and fishing during the week. They haci
a fine time, caught a considerable quan
tity of fish, killed 193 squirrels, and all
camo home sober.
Fox.—Tho Messrs. Felton and Hatch
er, on Wednesday morning, had a very
exciting race of 35 minutes. They caught
the fox alive, digging him out of hfa den,
following him Cl feot in a circuitous
direction underground. They brought
him to town, where they will keep him a
few days and then have another race.
It fa a very large red—one of the biggest
we ever saw.
Sad Accident.—Baskin Phillips, son
of Mrs. Phillips, of Perry, was seriously
injured the other day by being violently
thrown from a horse two mUes above
Knoxville, Crawford county. He was
riding rapidly when hfa horse became un
manageable and ran .into a buggy,
throwing Baskin into a rocky gully. He
received severe and most probably fatal
internal injuries. He bos not been able
to more or speak since the accident.
The nnluckiest darkey in the State
lives in Harris county. Soon after the
war he had ono arm torn off by a cano
mill. Last week ho lost the other in the
same way.
The Wilkinson Appeal ha3 these items:
Caft. Thomas H. Rowe, of Dnblin,
Laurens county, made 500 bushels of
corn thfa year on ten acres of upland
The gin-house of Mr. H. F. Solomon
in Twiggs county, was burned last week
by a negro, who has confessed tho crime
and also that he was hired to do it bv *
white man of that county.
Mb. J. K. B ban an, sheriff of Twigt, 3
county, an! several other substantfal
citizens are making preparations toG T
T.thfafal!.
Milking a Cow.—Mr. E. Bullock has
an unruly cow. Her heels aro very light
and sho kicks as strongas Tump Ponder's
roanmulo. Ho milks her himself Th
is not a woman in the county thatccnU
perform that operation. A gentSf
iniorms us that ho was presenfthe othe-
day and witnessed the rnilkina onem
Mr. Bullock took his pigging
the pen. He walked up cn the left .
tho cow, regular dairy £
and then with great vehemence te
to scream “so! so now!” After renSf
ing this exclamation about a down
fames ho stooped down and took bJu
of tho teat. In tho twinklin, ofin ««
the cow kicked and Mr. Bulfack fallen
of th ° fence ' When he started
for the corner ho commenced the excla-
motion, "So, you old heiferI” aIu-T
syllable of which was finished while hn
was on his back. Ho picked himSf uo
onf Eror D h ed f C0UP! ° ° f r ° PeS - POt
the Sw" 13 and tied that end of
the cow to tho fence. He then went tn
work to lasso her left log, and euSed
*«* ed *>™ Severn! 1 fames.
! n i? f 8t - K C e , d lhe cow across tho
pen and finished hfa milking cneratirm
That cowisstretched no^w*e?kd»
Inman Relics.—We were shown a few
; days ago, byH r . II. H. Bloodworth.a
stone relio taken by him from an Indian
mound on Black lake, near Oconee river,
in this county. The stone fa 0 f a red
brick color, so hard that it successfully
resists all attempts of our lapidaries to
cut it. It is shaped like a revolving fan,
is about 31 inches in length and 2 inches
wide, thick m tho centre and thin at
the edges. Notwithstanding its great
hardness, through it3 centre a J inch
round hole has been drilled perfectly
true for 31 inches. Tho mound from
which this stone was taken contained
only stono relid. Two other mounds
near by aro filled with human bones.
Those mounds are from six to ten feet
high, and one of them is now under cul
tivation, and by the action of tho ele
ments its height has been reduced four
feet. Mr. Eloodworth first saw these
mounds sixty years ago, and was one of a
parly who examined the largest after the
Harrison fresh, and he saj3 it was com
pletely filled with bones, and tho sur
rounding soil for the space of half an
acre also contained them in largo qaan*
The Washington Gazelle says a large
nember of negroes living in tho lower
part of Wilkes connty had a Sunday
school celebration and barbecne one day
this week: Everything passed off plsae-
antly until a short time after dinner,
when many of the negroes com
menced yelling and screaming, "Oh,
Lord! Oh, doctor! I’sepizenedl I’se
pizened 1 ” It appears that the farmers
in the neighborhood have been missing
their hogs and sheep for some time past,
and bad determined to catch the thieves
by feeding several of their hogs on
strychnine. This was done, which ac
counts for the unearthly yells and the
big commotion among the aforesaid ne
groes on their “day of jubilee.” Some
eight or ten, wo learn, are still in a very
precarious condition.
Chickens are very plentiful in Augus
ta at $2 25 to (3 75 per dozen.
We find the following in tho Ogle
thorpe Echo:
A Madman's Freak.—On Monday last
while a gentleman from Washington,
Ga., wa3 traveling through our county,
and when near Mr. G. T. Howard’s, miss
ed his way, and seeing a wagoner near
at hand, asked him the directions to Lex
ington. The man responded that ho
knew the way, but would see the horse
man (whose name we suppress) in hell
bofore he would tell him. The gentle
man, confounded at such an unparalleled
reply to a civil question, remarked:
“Yon aro the the biggest fool I
ever met.” Without another word tho
•wagoner unloosed a pistol from his
side, and before the horseman was
awaro of hfa intention, fired, tfyo ball
passing through the ear of the horse ho
was riding, also through tho sido of his
hat, brushing tho head. The gentleman
was armed, but supposing his assailant
drank, dismounted, and before tho
wonld be assassin could fire a second
shot, was upon him. With tho butt of
bis pistol ho knocked him senseless, and
after belaboring him sufficiently, left him
bleeding in the road. The* man was
taken up by a gentleman who chanced
to find him, and soon recovered. What
could have actuated the fellow to make
this deliberato assault upon the life of an
entire stranger, is a mystery we cannot
fathom. The wagoner wa3 a stranger in
our country, being a peddler of tobacco.
Attention! Houston County
Democrats!
•Wo have been furnished tht following
intercepted correspondence, which fa pub
lished for the information and gaidacco
of all concerned. It needs no comment:
Perry, Ga., October 29,1876.
Hon. TFm. Markham: Dear Sir: I
saw Mr. Holomon in relation to his ac
cepting the position of supervisor at
York precinct, in this county. He said
he wonld act, but he must have protec
tion to keep tbe roughs from running
over him rough-shod. There are at
least 300 Republicans at that precinct,
and I think it essential that some one be
sent to that place to protect Holomon in
the discharge of hfa duty. I know he
will do hfa utmost to pole aa large a vote
for the Republicans as possible, if for no
other reason than to show up their swind
ling in hfa own election for representa
tive. Mr. McCoy said to me there had
been, for several days past, quite a nnm-
,ber of letters passed through the post-
office from this place to McPherson, the
Clerk of the United States Court, for
what purpose we can only conjecture.
You had better look to the delivery of
the commissions to the supervisors. I
have seen the most of the leading colored
men since I saw you and they all tell mo
that there will be a universal turn out nari
Tuesday week. So mote is be.
Yours respectfully,
W.D. Pierce.-
We have also received with this letter
the following postal* card: "Hon. Wm.
Markham,Markham House, Atlanta, Ga.:
Dear Friend—Mr. Pierce has mailed yon
an important letter, which he has per
mitted my reading of. Whatever fa done
in this case must bo done quick. Republi
cans are very sanguine of success.”
Yours, J. C. McCoy.
McCoy is postmaster at Perry and the -
date of his card is November 2d—last
Thursday.
Complimentary to Gen. Gor
don.
The Charleston Journal of Commercs
refers in the following flattering terms to
Gen. Gordon’s speech in that city on
Monday last:
We publish in full tho speech of tho
distinguished Senator from Georgia, de-
! . ' n‘ yesterday. It is an effort of
-J K-- i.t strength and eloquence which
will produce a decided impression in the
impending canvass. Gen. Gordon takes
a broad and comprehensive view of the
groat mortal straggle in which the peo-
tple of the United States are engaged for
tho rescue of constitutional government
from overthrow, and the establishment of
peace between the races of the Sonth,
white and colored. We oommend the
speech to our readers for its intrinsic
merit. The form, voioe and elocution of
Gen. Gordon are also remarkable.