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Atlantic and Gulf IJallroatl A .Snip.
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hditor Morning New*:
Til' f
m looking over your very interesting ;
ami instructive table of the trade end
commerce of Savannah, wo find the fol
lowing : ‘‘The trade that conies to our
city by the Atlantic and Gulf Kail road is
the life blood of our city, and brings not
pnly Southern Georgia anti Florida, even
to the Everglades, to us, while the trado 1
along the Central 1 tail road . . avy for
groceries, yet not near the quantity of
"dry goods and notions are .hipped over it
as over the Atlautic and Gulf Uaiir.md. 1
If such is the fact, and no nut dis-f
putes it, we believe, it i.s unite -niggix
tire of one or two thing... First, that
the merchants of Savannah have culti
vateal the acquaintance of the people and !
sought their trade, or that Savannah, be
ing their natural outlet, they come here
because they Lave no other point to go
to. The truth is, both have combined
to bring trade to the city. If. then, the
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad is the life
blood of our city as to trade, does it not
stand to reason that if tiie road could be
extended into Alabama to Pollard, that
it would send u still stronger stream of
trade to our city. That the door to trade
would be thrown wide open : that a
larger field would bo presented to our
merchants to canvass, and more trade
and business would bo the result.
A celebrated writer has said: “High
office is like a pyramid, only two kinds
of animals reach the summit: reptiles
ari l eagles," which, in plain words, mean
' !■:mts and men of geniusaud talents.
' bio begs his way by low acts; the other
'■mos by natural force of intellect. Let
apply the idea to trade. Wealth is
l i,lined by the low arts of cheating, or
' ‘ :-t, ■ by the shrewd, cunning, sharp
trb ki 4 an unscrupulous operator: or it
is nosh by honest energy, industry and
win* calculations, combined with broad,
lib n.i -ud expansive ideas as to increas
ing ami inducing trade. New York, Chi-
Mgo, Louis, Baltimore and even At
ianta understands well the best means to
entice trade. Thorn is none of your pic
ayuue policies and pound foolishness in
their calculations. Wo have got the
goods, say they; wo want tho customers,
and if they won't come wc will go after
them; if they have not got the means or
facilities of getting to our market, we
will help give it to them. Hence, rail
roads and canals are built by cities, for
without them there is no trade.
Savannah has been well paid for her
investment in the Atlantic and Gulf Kail
road. It has been her life blood as to
trade, and if tho stock never pays a dol
lar to her, yet she is a great gainer by
what she gave in aiding in its construc
tion. Our idea is this: Let our citi
/ons, such as arc able, take more stock in
it, and invito English capitalists to in
vest. The Savannah Brunch of tho In
tern&lionul Chamber of Commerce and
Mississippi Vnll< y Society is organized
for just such p i ' If tho Atlantic
and Gul:' ilm-M i . worth ho much to
Havana.c . let n . n, u ivi ■, people, make
it worth . “Jupiter helps those who
first tr) to help themselves,” and we
would not ell upon foreign capital to
help us unless wo show our faith
iiy helping ourselves. The exton
ion in r road to l’ollard is a
noccuaitj , and the road cun bo mndo to
pay wle.n it i really finished. Tho oh
jtetivo point i Bollard, and there aid it
to go. N < ("usiblo man expects to reap
a full cup from a half cultivated field.
I low many important inventions have
been lost to bii world jo I for a little
mom capital to hove perfected them.
Savannah as a city could well afford for
tho interest of trade, for tho building up
of tho city,for the commercial importance
it would givo her, to step ■ r\v and with
more aid. l>o it, howev. r, n, .‘injunc
tion with other aid, and o • > make
the completion of the road us be
yond porad venture.
The Huvaunub Brunch of the Missis
sippi Valley Society can b in;.... pow
erful auxiliary in the huddle ; up of Ha
vannuio’s interest, if her citizens 1! but
take proper interest in the subject. In
_ diHerenco never
good w> Init gaseous i '.;—_
co-operation ana material util somethin,•
substantial, retd and effective.
K. M. O.
Reconstructed.
An incident occurred in n Buffalo (N.
Y.) varieties theatre which was not in the
bill, and which even in that institution
of miscellaneous amusement was novel
ami startling. An “editorial excursion”
of six Mississippi editor , had been trav
elling-North, and wound up in Buffalo.
With a natural desire to see all that was
to bo seen, thoy visited the theatre ami
took seats in the parquet. When the
CUrain fell for the la .t time the manager
stepped forward and proposed “ three
hearty elieors for the Mississippi edit
ors,” a oall to which the audience heart
ily responded. A response hail to he
made, and Colonel Stuckhouse, of the
JJazloLiurat Vopialuui , was called on to
make it. 110 took the stage and made
ouo of the most original speeches, we
take it, ever heard in that queer place.
After comparing himself uud his friends
to the Queen of Hholm on a visit to Solo
moil’s dominions, he said :
Fellow-oUizeus of Buffalo, we assure
s.yo’l thatHhis nivasioii of ours is altogether
harmless in its object. We are not spy
ing out the land with any hostile intent.
No, we are much obliged to the few
bloody-shirt gentlemen among you, who,
for some inscrutable purpose Providence
may have in view, are allowed to live and
delay the year of jubiloo in this American
family, but we have had enough of war
rather too much of it. Our voice is
for peace. [ Applause.) We are like the
little dare devil boy who played around
the heels of a mule, got badly kicked and
his .'see frightfully mangled. He asked
' bis lather if the sears would ever disap
pear from bis face again. “No, sonny,”
roph> and the ire, “you will never be pretty
but then you will haven damn
more sense.” | Laughter and ap
Hus, W.- are not going into any more
Hrwi.i you fellows. If wo had known
'how confounded numerous you were
wha, ■■ ast resources you had what a
nation of git up and gitters you are —we
should uover have been guilty of the nb
surdif of trying to whip vou in the first
I'lao. ... „
S; pk in Now Yoi:u. - Elizabeth Ho
gau, of Now York, > domestic, committed
Mih'iii (it Batin day by taking Paris
• r,' fool, licpoismi at live o’clock
; iag, luuldn and at five Sunday
morn iUr are described
v iia lending j 1 ysieians as being of
the most t uribk nature, the patient
frothing at the mouth and contorting her
body in dei.ist every conceivable shape,
while ti. convulsions under which she
labored were continuous from the time
she took the fatal potion until death re
lieved her.
On Sun, - .day morning one of the keep
ers of (N utnil Park found the body of a
man b ’; • a a bench in one of the alley
\> iv N ii the dead man was a revolver,
•me * u her of which had been dis
’ ns., • The corpse was removed to
the hi il, mid there it was discovered
Uni! . 1 let had penetrate . heart,
b papers discovered in ii,c p. a acts it
wa iscertained that the d-'fid i m s name
was Andreas Fuchs, a hom* .r. In
jhK' of ie pockets a iott r v. und in
>h the following p “My
mind is not enterprising, ami tin. drives
m> to despair.”
V lao Spiritualists are moving to '■>
m U a seminary for anew system ot tin
■ tiou at Btslvidera, New Jersey. Dr. !S.
■ Brittan is the President of the asso-
Hluou, aud Misa Bell Bush is Secretary.
Hi-'neudship. love and truth ” is their
Hollo. They propose to raise a general
fund of fifty thousand dol
lars in two thousand shares of twenty
' dollars each, and they have an hou
r\ 1 ird of some two hundred advi
u.-uding Hon. Henry (i. Stobbens,
Whitman, liev. O. B. Frothingham,
Miss Busan B. • Anthony, Mr.
k , gent, lion. Alfred Burr, Itev.
Brown, Auna Dickinson, Wni.
i Howitt, Baron de Potet, Prosi
f :he SocielU) Magnolique, Paris;
i! or. it General ltassolls, cx-Minister
r Madrid: Alexander W, Scott,
. Commodore Halifax, and Daniel
A:* > lome, cosmopolitan. The semi
• •••. bt, be conducted ••with a view to
to -on grebe naive nature and equal edu
u* s of both sexes,” and investments
i Feral, spiritual and reform eocie
t • > are hoped for.
trial of hie NEGRO insur
rectionists.
The VlHilary Still Gaardin Ihe Prisoner.
—A Heavy Kiprnm to ib- remit?—
Kvrryihina IJulct—The Kiniflpadrr* In
dtried—.Kornpc of the Moot entity of
Thrm—The tonnmel for Procreation and
Ocfcanc—Thc Prisoner* In Court.
(Special Corr*pondencc of the Morning New*.)
SxxDcaaviixK, August 31, 1875.
My previous letters have given yonr
readers all the important facts connected
with the attempted insurrection, and the
preliminary steps taken to bring the
accused ringleaders to trial. When I left
here on Saturday, the 21st of August
the day Governor Smith spoke to the
people of Handersville—it was supposed
that the prisoners then under guard
would lee examined on the following
Monday, aud all but a very few of the
guilty ringleaders discharged. For some
reason, however, this step was not taken,
and much to my surprise, on my arrival
here Sunday afternoon with Judge John
son, I found the Court House yard still
occupied by the military companies,
keeping guard over nearly a hundred ne
groes, the great mass of whom were
mere dupes of the discontented negro
leaders in the insurrectionary movement.
A HEAVY, UNNECESSARY EXPENSE TO THE
COUNTY.
The failure to discharge these prisoners,
either as innocent of any purpose to
knowingly do wrODg, or to appear when
needed for judicial examination, has cre
ated a large bill of expense for the county,
and at the same time kept up a useless
military display. As soon as it was
ascertained that the conspiracy was
“nipped in the bud,” the necessity for a
formidable display of this kind ceased to
exist. With the discharge of the mass
of prisoners would have come relief from
a hundred duties and responsibilities that
have daily perplexed the over-burdened
public officials of the State and county.
With a dozen ringleaders safe in jail, and
the people thoroughly awake to the im
portance of being prepared for an emerg
ency, a half-dozen extra policemen could
have guarded the jail and preserved order
in tho town. Why this step was not
taken I cannot say, but I know that the
Governor recommended aud expected that
such would be the case. Ever since the
court opened the two military companies,
with bristling bayonets aud clinking sa
bres, have surrounded the temple of jus
tice, and “tattoo” and “revillie,” and
“guard mounting” and “dress parade,”
have served to break tho monotony of
tho morning and evening hours.
THE MIr.ITAIIY COMPANIES NOT TO BLAME.
I do not blame tho military companies
in this matter of prolonged service.
They have nobly heeded every call of
duty, and deserve tho grateful thanks of
tho people of tho State for their prompt
response to the first alarm, and lor the
efficient and faithful services since ren
dered in guarding tho prisoners. Still, I
think that a discharge of prisoners should
have been made last week, and that the
court should have been opened this week
without the presence of a single armed
and uniformed soldier about the temple
of justice. Tho Washington Dragoons,
after doing patrol duty in scouring the
county,transformed themselves into “dis
mounted cavalry” and joined the Wash
ington Itittes in doing guard duty at the
court house. Both companies have done
efficient service, and deserve honorable
mention in this connection. The Kiflesare
officered by Geo. W. Peacock,Captain; W.
E. Watkins, First Lieutenant; F. J. Hop
kins, Second Lieutenant; J. E. Whelan,
Third Liouteuant; S. M. Northiugton,
First Sergeant; J. B. Barwick, Second
Sergeant; J. T. Barwick,Third Sergeant;
A. S. Barnes, Fourth Sergeant; N. M.
Jm don, Fifth Sergeant: 0. M. Northing
ton, First Corporol; L. E. liobersou,
Second Corporal; 0. J. Joiner,
third Corporal; T. F. Brantley,
I Fourth Corporal. The officers of the
,1 uto GttpiTlili, A.. 'l'u**
button ; First Lieutenant, J. M. Minor:
Second Lieutenant, F. A. GuttenLcrgcr,
third Lieutenant, W. K. Thigpen; First
Sergeant, O. H. Rogers; Second Ser
geant, CJ. A. Wall; Third Sergeant, J. P.
Biddle; Fourth Sergeant, W. J. Joiner;
Fifth Sergeant, H. Q. Ward, First Cor
poral, J. ]>. Davis; Second Corporal, G.
W. Newsome; Third Corporal, T. G.
Smith; Fourth Corporal, J. W. Moye;
Quartermaster, J. 0. Harman; Surgeon,
J. E. Roberts.
THE COUBT PREPARING FOB BUSINESS.
Court opened at the usual hour on Mon
day and proceeded to oiganizo without
delay. There was no unusual excitement
on the part of the people, although the
court house was crowded with whites and
negroes (who were about equally divided
in point of numbers), anxious to hear
Judge Johnson's charge. The grand jury
was immediately called, and Colonel T.
J. Smith, its former ablo and efficient
foreman, selected to preside over its de
liberations. Of tho charge given thorn
I need add nothing to what has already
been said. The prudent course of the
jury i feer their retirement to their room
shows that they fully hooded its timely
words of wisdom. They retired before
noon on Monday, yet it was late Tuesday
afternoon before they succeeded in find
ing a true bill against any of the accused.
This was owing to the extreme care which
they exorcised in weighing the great mass
of testimony before them. They were
determined to make no presentments
except upon evidence sufficiently full and
reliable to justify such a stop. The fol
lowing is their official action in regard to
the ringleaders:
A TBUE BII.L OF INDICTMENT.
State of Georgia , Washington County:
We, the grand jurors, selected, chosen
and sworn, for the county of Washing
toil, to wit: Theophilus J. Smith, fore
man; Lawson Kelly, George W. Kelly,
Sr., Littleton L. Adams, John W. Lay
ton, Charles 1). Hardwick, William J.
Jordan, John J. Brown, William J.
Archer, Hugh L. Peacock, David S.
Burns, Francis M. Brantley, Thomas D.
Cullen, John E. Harrison, James Barron,
Lafayette W. Watkins, Doctor F. Cham
bers, Benjamin S. Jordan. John It.
Wicker, William ti. Bailey, Henry Tay
lor, William Waller, in the name and be
-of the citizens of Georgia, charge
and accuse Prince It. ltivers, Joseph
Morris, Francis Uurkcrson, Corday Har
ris, Asa Gilmore, Neil Huston, alia* Neil
Wood, and Jerry Simmons, of the county
and State aforesaid, with the offence
of an attempt to incite insurrec
-1 tiou, for that the said Prince It. ltivers,
Joseph Harris, Francis Murkerson,
Corday Harris, Asa Gilmore, Neil Hus
ton alias Neil Mood and Jerry Simmons,
in the county aforesaid, on the twenty
fourth day of July, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five, niul on divers other days
before aud since said day, and before
the finding of this •'true bill,” with force
and arms unlawfully and feloniously did
attempt by persuasion of the colored
citizens of said county and the adjoining
counties, and organizing the male colored
citizens of said county into military com
panies. oath-bound to follow the orders of
their officers, and by falsely representing
| to Jake Mooreman, Benjamin Davis, Ben
j jamin Wright, John Chillis, Jas. Wright,
I Tobe Norris. Gilbert Duggan, and other
male citizens of color of said counties,
j Unit the laws of said State generally, and
; especially as to juries, public schools,
and the tenure of real aud personal prop
j erty, are partial to the white citizens
j and unjust and oppressive to the colored
j citizens of said State, and of said coun
j ties, and by other means to the jurors
i aforesaid unknown, to induce the said
Jake Mooreman, Benjamin Davis, Ben
jamin Wright, John Chillis, Jas. Wright,
lobe Norris, Gilbert Duggan, aDd other
colored citizens of said counties to
join in combined resistance to the law
ful authority of said State, by which
jurors arc euipanneled, public" schools
are organized, and rights of property
are secured, with inteut then and
there to the denial of said authority
in said counties, and then and there in
tending that said denial of said authority
should bo by the colored citizens of said
counties manifested by acts of violence,
to wit: by the practical abrogation and
subversion of laws in said counties un
lawfully by the burning of the court
houses and consequent destruction of the
evidences of the tenure of the land in
said counties, and by the forcible and
unlawful taking away from the white
citizens of said counties their lands and
household property, and unlawfully and
forelby appropriating the same to the
colored citizens of said counties, and by
the indiscriminate, unlawful killing of
the officers of said counties, and all
other of the white citizens thereof who
dared to oppose them in their said nefa
rious design, contrary to the laws of said
State, the peace, good order and dignity
thereof.
August special term, 1875.
John W. Robison,
Solicitor General.
William W t abthen, Prosecutor.
COUNSEL FOB PROSECUTION AND DEFENCE.
As soon as this indictment was read in
court, Judge Johnson immediately order
ed the prisoners to be arraigned before
him for trial, but the Solicitor General
reported that Gen. Prince K. Rivers,
Gen. Joseph Morris and Captain Dennis
Murkerson, the real ring leaders aud
guilty plotters of the insurrectionary
movement, had escaped capture, but that
Rev. Corday Harris, Asa Gilmore, Serg,
Neil Huston, alias Neil Wood, and Rev.
Jerry Simmons, were under arrest, aud
would be brought into court. Ex Attor
ney General (of U. S. G .) AmosT. Aker
maii, announced himself as counsel to
defend Harris aud Simmons, and all
others who were not provided with pro
per counsel. The following gentlemen
were also announced for the defence: J.N.
Gilmore, of this place, Col. J. M. Stubbs,
of Dublin, S. G. Jordon, Esq., Col. B. D.
Evans, E. S. Langmode, Esq., und Thos.
Evans, Esq., of Handersville. Attorney
General (of Georgia) N. J. Hammond an
nounced himself as leading counsel for
the State, with the following gentlemen
as associate counsel: Solicitor General
John W‘. Robinson and Salem Dutcher,
Esq., of Augusta, assisted by Col. W. H.
Wylly, G. C. Brown, Esq., Col. R. L.
Rodgers and Capt. J. A. Robson, who
had been engaged in the preliminary ex
amination. It will be seen from the
above lists that both the prosecution and
the defence are represented by gentle
men of ripe legal attainments and large
experience in cases of a complicated and
important character, Messrs. Hammond
and Akerman being ranked among the
best lawyers in the State.
THE PRISONERS IN COUBT.
The Sheriff, assisted by a military
guard, soon produced the bodies of Har
ris, Gilmore, Huston and Simmons, who
were formally arraigned by the Solicitor
General, and, in answer to the bill of
indictment, pleaded “not guilty.” Ex-
Attorney General Akerman then demur
red in general terms to the bill, for the
reasons already given you by telegraph.
Attorney General Hammond replied in an
appropriate manner, and Judge Johnson
overruled the demurrer, and ordered the
Sheriff to prepare a panel of forty-eight
j urors. The accused are ordinary
looking negroes, although Harris and
Simmons, both of whom are preachers,
seem to be sharp, energetic and clear
headed. Gilmore is probably innocent,
yet he has intelligence enough to have
kept himself out of the affair. Huston
is younger, looks stupid and lazy, but I
am told he was Orderly Sergeant of his
company. The mail is ready to leave and
1 must leave comments for another letter.
Sidney Herbert.
X. C. Thompson, the Georgia Winne
bago.
We spoke yesterday of N. C. Thomp
son, of Rockford, Illinois, the man who
notified the Winnebago Agricultural So
ciey that he would not send anything to
exhibit unless the invitation to Jeff. Da
vis was revoked.
His father came to Georgia about forty
years ago from New England, and com
menced business as a tin peddler. He
eventually turned up as a merchant in
Derry, Houston county, where he was
known for many years as a skin-flint,
shrewd and cunning, though very illiter
ate. Ha ground a considerable fortune
out of the people of that county, which
he kept in money chiefly, though he at
times owned a few negroes, among oth
ers “Black Frank.” When he saw the
war coming he bundled up and went off
to Rockford, Illinois, where he at once
became loud in his denunciations of tl e
South and everything Southern.
The old man died last year, leaving at
least three sons living. Among them was
tiiis N. C. Thompson, noticed yesterday,
who was the party who refused to take
stock in tho Fair. Ho was born and
raised in Perry, and, with his daddy,
shook the dust of Georgia off his feet in
time to keep out of the Southern army.
IR liuil u In oilier mimed Frank, whom he
had put in jail at Rockford, after the war
ft was reported that this was done for the
reason that Frank Thompson sympathized
with the South. At any rate, Frank re
turned to Perry, where he became a con
firmed drunkard, died in a horse stable
and was buried at the expense of the
county. For several months before his
dealt he lived upon the bounty of a negro
wench, who kept a shanty she called a
boarding house. This N. C. Thompson
is therefore of plebeian birth, and, though
born in Georgia, he has not a drop of
Southern blood in his veins, we are glad to
state. The South is incapable of pro
ducing such men.— Augusta Constitu
tionalist.
Wliat Tilton is Doing.
[From the Golden Age.]
People frequently ask us, in person or
by letter, what Mr. Tilton is doing? Not
having seen him for a long time, and
being sadly deficient in the faculty of
evolving information from our interior
consciousness, we assailed that gentle
man with an impertinent interrogation,
to which he returned the following char
acteristic reply, which, though marked
“private,” we give for the benefit of those
whom it may concern ;
No. 174 Livingston Street,'
August 22, 1875. /
Dear Mr. Clarke : You ask how 1
spend my time ? The items are these—
each day’s history repeating itself. I. Out
of bed at 6 o’clock in the morning—the
workingman’s hour. 11. A cup of coffee
and a crust of bread—nothing more.
111. Feed my sparrows at the window
sill of my study—those tiniest gamins of
the street who flock to my window, not
suspecting that I’m a dangerous charac
ter. IV. Five solid hours at my writing
desk—a fair day’s work for the brain.
V. Breakfast at noon. VI. In the after
noon, according as the weather vane of
humor points, I go somewhere with
Florence, or take a long walk by myself,
or rummage among books, or receive
friends. VII. These summer evenings
are generally softened and melted away
by Florence and her piano—and I listen
and weep, and thank God for my daugh
ter. VIII. The odd moments are put to
use in picking up the threads of old
studies where I threw them down a year
ago. Y’ou who know the interruptions
incidental to a newspaper office, will envy
mo my morning solitude, into which no
intruder dares to break—except (just at
present) a little kitten that climbs up to
my work-table and coils herself asleep
round my inkstand.
Hastily yours, Theodore Tilton.
Death in a Ball Boom. — On Sunday
evening during the ball for the benefit of
the French overflowed, in the main
building of the Fair Grounds, a tragedy
occurred which it is thought has already
terminated in the death of Capt. U. D.
Terrebonne, a steamboatman, who was
shot in the chin, receiving a mortal
wound. The evening had passed plea
santly, nothing occurring to mar the har
mony of the occasion until Capt. Terre
bonne, who seemed much under the in
fluence of liquor, entered the room and
pulled the hair of a young lady, at the
time dauciug in a set of lancers with Mr.
Ducros. The lady immediately called the
attention of hi r partner to the affront,
und he instantly expostulated. Fierce
words arose between the two men, when
Terrebonne,slapping Mr.Ducros upon the
face, stepped back as if to draw a re
volver. Before he had an opportunity to
fire. Mr. Ducros presented a pistol and
shot him under the chin, the ball pene
trating his neck. The greatest excite
ment prevailed, and numbers of ladies
left the room. Mr. Terrebonne was
taken out by the police, and conveyed to
his residence on Esplanade street. At
midnight it was reported that he had ex
pired, but this rumor was-not confirmed.
Mr. Ducros at once surrendered, and was
taken to the Fifth Precinct Station,
where he was locked up for the night.—
-Veto Orleans Times.
Arrested fob Passing Counterfeit
Nickel. —Two men, named Brock and
Rhein, were arrested at Kingston, N. C.,
on Friday, charged with passing a num
ber of five cent counterfeit nickel. Brock
had about half a gallon of the nickels
about his persoD. He declared that _his
father made the moulds, which were re
covered by the Sheriff. The side of the
counterfeit with the “five” on it was well
executed, whilst the shield was a misera
ble failure.
Textile Products— Freedom and Free
Trade.
[from the Nashville Psion.)
Export*. 1575. 1874.
Cotton $190,638,625 *211,223.580
VG,oi 62,154 72,169
Impoits, 1875. 1874.
Wool $ 11.069,701 $ 5,250,306
EUx 1.092.405 942,03s
Woolen goods 43.990.039 46,853,188
Linen [roods 16,602,277 17,472,755
Cotton goods 27,657.981 28,193, >l9
If we place the cash value of the cotton
exported in the last two years in one sum
and divide it by two. the annual crop in
round numbers sent abroad is worth two
hundred million dollars. The figures are
from the Bureau of Statistics in Wash
ington, are instructive in many ways,
and withal very suggestive. While ex
porting two hundred million dollars worth
of cotton a year, which requires a great
deal of plowing, planting, working the
crop, hand-picking, and other labor, in
volving more or less injury to the soil
from washing and leaching rains, we
imported within the last fiscal year over
eleven million dollars' worth of wool,
which can Le produced without any plow
ing. any washing of the soil or injury to
it whatever, but with a positive benefit
to the land for all tillage purposes, and
to the nation as a whole. Nor did we
stop at the consumption of $11,0611,701
worth of wool in 1875. We imported
ne.arly forty-four million dollars’ worth of
woolen goods in addition to all this for
eign wool. Surely a high protective tariff
neither protects the American manufac
turer nor the American wool-grower.
What, then, is it good for ? Good to
make the consumers of woolen fabrics
made in the United States pay from two
to three dollars extra into the pockets of
home manufacturers where one dollar is
paid into the Federal Treasury as an im
post duty on woolen goods." It is this
dishonest trick that gives to a protective
tariff all its money value. To the extent
it checks free trade it secures the home
market to monopolists, with an advance
in price.
By using the strong arm of a partisan
and corrupt Congress, its favorites stop
their woolen factories for months, reduce
the wages of all laborers to their own
terms and still hold their forty million
subjects to the necessity of buying their
goods rather than cheaper and better
goods manufactured abroad, because the
law encourages them in this iniquity.
Yet this is called a free country, where
all citizens have common and equal rights
before the laws of the nation! Never
was there a greater falsehood uttered or
attempted to be disseminated among
a people who had the benefits
of spelling-books and new-spapers.
Civilization has no freedom more
valuable to the citizen than free
trade with all the world without the
let or hindrance of politicians, manufac
turers, or monopoly of any kind. Rob
bing by the use and abuse of law is one
hundred times more harmful to the pub
lic than all the illegal robbing done in the
United States. It is in the very nature
of things that every wrong done by legis
lative act tends to the perpetration of
still greater wrongs in violation of law.
All injustice violates a principle which
rises in stern rebuke and opposition. Re
sistance and rebellion are nature in arms
against misconduct. If bad men enact
bad laws, the latter react on all the sub
jects of such laws to produce ten bad
men where one existed before. There is
altogether too much legislation for the
public good.
As quack doctors want every man,
woman and child to swallow and praise
their nostrums, so quack law-makers in
sist that the whole community shall be
bound with withes at the ankles, and
cords at the wrists, so as not to run, nor
walk, nor work with any freedom of mo
tion in violation of their restricted, nar
row-minded ideas. Forty million people
are tied firmly by a law of Congress,
hand and foot, to keep them from cut
ting their own throats if the National
Legislature allows them their natural lib
erty. Lunatics require protection and
tlxe care of others, and what would be
come of all the helpless pets of govern
ment if the law gave them no advantage
over other citizens ? But protection to
them means robbery of the public.
Without free trade in labor and all
its products with foreign laborers there
can bo no free labor in the
United States. That labor is not free
which is denied the right to purchase a
woolen coat or a linen shirt where it can
be had for the least labor. Any restriction
compels idleness, lowers tho standard of
' comfort, robs industry of its just employ
ment and reward. The best interests of
American labor demand that we advance
from cotton culture and the impoverish
ment of land to wool growing and to the
general improvement of the soil, rise
from a most injurious protective tariff to
free trade in wool and all woolen goods,
acting on the principle that we need
neither crutches nor stilts to walk with
the rest of mankind.
Who made American mechanics crip
ples for life, that farmers must contri
bute a large bounty every year to keep
them from starving ? ' How shall we
characterize that antiquated system of
legislation, which treats the manufac
turers of salt, iron, steel, edge tools,
cotton, woolen, linen and silk goods,
public paupers, incapable of self support,
unless the law of the land secures to
them special favofti in perpetuity ?
Legislating money out of one man’s
pocket into that of another, is doing a
pick-pocket business under another
name. It is time to discard all sucli
primitive ways and means of getting
rich, and develop true productive indus
try in all classes alike, with favors to
none. Free trade, free labor and a liberal
currency will build up a united and har
monious nation, with no strikes for
higher wages among operatives, no mo -
nopolies in the necessaries of life, nor in
the circulating medium of the country ;
no turned out old fields that fail to pay
taxes; no demagogueism and instability
of policy, which destroy all confidence
both at home and abroad. Nothing is
stable, nothing reliable, but truth and
justice. Falsehood first misinforms, and
then misleads its followers to their ruin.
Our government is on the wrong traek.
THE FIRST STEAMBOAT.
A Georgia Invention.
The following letter explains itself, and
shows that the first steambeat ever con
structed was the invention of a Georgian,
and that it actually navigated the Savan
nah river long before Fulton built his
steamboat which was seen successfully
in 1801.
This is a historical reminiscence of
which all Georgians should be proud.
The letter is taken from the archives of
the State:
Augusta, Sep. 26th, 1790.
Sir; I make no doubt but you have
often heard of my steamboat, and as
often heard it laughed at. But in this I
have only shared the fate of all other
projectors, for it has uniformly been the
custom of every country to ridicule even
the greatest inventions until use had
proved their utility.
In not reducing my scheme to practice
has been a little unfortunate for me, I
confess, and perhaps the people in gen
eral; but until very lately I did not think
that either artists or material could be
had in the place sufficient. However,
necessity, that grand science of inven
tion, has furnished me with an idea of
perfecting my plan almost entirely with
wooden materials, and by such workmen
as may be got here, and from a thorough
confidence of its success, I have pre
sumed to ask your assistance and patron
age.
Should it succeed agreeable to my ex
pectation, I hope I shall discover that
source of duty which such favors always
merit; and should it not succeed, your
reward must lay with other unlucky ad
ventures.
For me to mention to you all the ad
vantages arising from such a machine,
would be tedious and indeed quite un
necessary, therefore I have taken the
liberty to state in this plain and hum
ble manner my wish and opinion, which
I hope you will excuse, and I shall re
main either with our without approba
tion
l T our Excellency’s most obedient and
very humble servant,
Wh. Longstreet.
To Gov. Telfair :
He afterwards did build the steamship,
and Rev. C. W. Howard says his grand
mother told him she saw it make the
trial trip.
It seems that the fact that the Bank of
California’s weakness and the intention
of its managers to suspend was known in
New York several days before that event
took place, and the Treasury Department
was warned to withdraw any funds it
might have on deposit in that bank.
Mr. George Grant’s stock farm covers
the enflre county of Ellis, in Kansas.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Ngnntr; of the Week’* Dispatches
THE NEGRO INSURRECTIONISTS.
[Special Telegram, to the Morning News.
Sandersville, via Texxille, '
August 31. >
TBUE BILLS.
The Grand Jury this afternoon re
turned true bills against Rev. Corday
Harris, “Gen." Joseph Morris. Asa Gil
more, “Gen.” Prince R. Rivers, of South
Carolina; “Capt.” Francis Murkison.
Neal Houston and Rev. Jerry H. Sim
mons, charging them with attempting to
incite insurrection through oath-bound
organizations, the plain purpose of which
was to burn the Court House, thereby
destroying land titles, to murder the
white people and tike their property.
THE ARRAIGNMENT.
Harris, Gilmore, Houston and Sim
mons were arraigned, and pleaded not
guilty. Amo? T. Akerman appeared as
counsel for the defence, and demurred
on general terms to ‘.be indictments. He
supported his demurrer by a very able
argument which excited great interest,
specially among the colored portion of
the audience, who filled at least half of
the court house, which was crowded to
excess. Mr. Akerman was fervent and
earnest in his delivery, and, with a single
exception, made no political allusions.
While his points were well taken in the
main, they were not suffici nt to warrant
the court in sustaining the demurrer.
akebman’s argument.
The time and p<ace, counsel said, was
all right, but the circumstances of the
case were not sufficient to warrant the
finding of the indictments. No acts in
themselves lawful could be criminal. The
charges themselves were vague and un
satisfactory. Military organizations were
lawrful, although they might be foolish.
American law allowed men to do foolish
things and to be fools. No oath is un
lawful in such organizations. Burning
the court-house would be arson: killing
the officers and people would be murder;
taking their property would be robbery.
There is nothing in all this, said counsel,
to show real resistance to the lawful au
thority of the State such as to warrant
the name of insurrection.
ARGUMENT OF COL. HAMMOND.
Attorney General Hammond, leading
counsel for the prosecution, made a brief
argument in reply to Akerman, showing
very clearly that the things charged all
tended to make up a successful insurrec
tion, when linked together, as they were
in this case. He showed with great clear
ness that the prosecution was right in
framing its indictments as it had, and
maintaining that there was no intention
on his part, or on the part of the State
to do the prisoners any injustice.
THE DEMURRER OVERRULED.
Judge Johnson overruled the demurrer
of the defense, and ordered the Sheriff
to be prepared with & panel of forty-eight
jurors at nine o'clock to-morrow morn
ing, when the work of impaneling a jury
will b§ begun.
THE PRIRONFas’ COUNSEL.
Everything is quiet and orderly hero to
a degree. In addition to Akerman, the
prisoners will be defended by a large
number of able lawjr-s in this vicinity,
and they will have every advantage that
an impartial Judge and legal acumen can
give them.
a correction.
Avery grave error occurred in iny re
port of Judge Johnson’s charge yester
day, where he was made to say—address
ing the jury—“You aud I are here in a
political capacity.” What he did say
was, “You and I are here in a judicial
capacity.” Judge Johnson has been most
positive in his efforts to avoid ail political
issues and to treat the accused as though
they were white prisoners.
Sandersville, VrA Tsnnille, Sept. 1.
TRIAL OF CORDAY HARRIS.
Court assembled promptly at nine
o’clock, and a jury was struck without
delay. The first of the alleged insurrec
tionists placed upon trial was the Bev.
Corday Harris.
EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES.
Attorney-General Hammond examined
the witnesses for the State, and Akerman
cross-examined for the defence. Twelve
witnesses were place! upon the stand, all
but one of whem were white.
The examination of these witnesses
elicited nothing of an important charac
ter tending to connect Corday Harris
with the acts of Morris and Murkerson,
though there is no predicting what
further developments will be made.
THE RINGLEADERS.
There is evidence of a very strong
character against “General” Morris and
“Captain” Murkersen, both of whom
have fled from justice, and have thus far
been successful in eluding the officers of
the law. Nothing of an important char
acter, however, has been to-day brought
out against any other parties, beyond
what is contained in the confessions of
Moorman and others, which have already
appeared in the Morning News.
NEGRO PRISONRRS RELEASED.
The grand jury came in during the
morning with an appeal to Judge John
son to discharge from further custody
thirty of the prisoners, who are thought
to be merely the dupes of the designing
ringleaders. The appeal of the grand
jury was made upon the ground that the
release of these negroes would promote
the ends of justice. They were accord
ingly set at liberty by the Solicitor Gen
eral.
Sandebsvillee, via Tennille, Sept. 2.
THE TESTIMONY.
The testimony in the case of Corday
Harris closed this morning at 11 o’clock.
Able and eloquent arguments were made
by .Hammond P.nd Akerman, both of
whom exhibited great fairness in the
treatment of each other. Full justice
was done the prisoner, and Judge John
son delivered a calm and concise charge.
NOT GUILTY.
The jury were out about two hours and
returned a verdict of not guilty, thus
clearing Corday Hams of the charge of
an attempt to incite insurrection. The
testimony was insufficient to connect him
with the guiltier of the ringleaders, whose
fate will be more certain if they are ever
brought to trial.
POSTPONED.
The other cases are postponed until
the regular term, as an extra session of
the Circuit Court of Johnson county
will commence on Tuesday next, at which
time the insurrectionists of that county
will be tried.
THE LAWYERS.
Attorney General Hammond won high
praise for his impart al conduct of the
case for the State, and ex-Attomey Gen
eral Akerman lias astonished everybody
by his ability, eloquence and the manly
and honorable course which he has pur
sued in the defense of the accused.
EMIGRATION MEETING.
The negroes have called a mass meet
ing of their race, to be held here on the
18th, to select two men to send to one or
two States for the purpose of finding
some suitable place for said people to
emigrate to. This looks like a purpose
to leave this county.
akerman’s advice.
Akerman, in his closing speech, ad
vised them to stay here aud live in peace
with the whites, and he also counselled
the whites to make efforts to pursuade
the negroes to remain in their old homes.
His appeal was peculiarly touching, and
will no doubt do much good to both
races.
THE CASE OF I)R. lIICKS.
[Special Telegram to the Morning Sews.]
Live Oak, Fla., September 2.
THE COMMITTEE.
The church investigation into the
charges against the liev. Dr. Hicks, by a
committee of the Methodist Church, be
gun here yesterday at ten o’clock a. m.,
Dr. Feeler presiding. The committee
consisted of the Rev. Messrs. Partridge,
Moore, rhillips, Fitzpatrick and Miheau.
Dr. Hankins and Collier are of counsel
for the church, while Hicks is represent
ed by Col. White.
THE CBOSS-EXAMEtATION.
The investigation thus far has been
conducted with the profoundest solemni
ty. Only three witnesses have been
examined, and all have been subjected to
the most rigid cross examination by
White.
HUE EYING WITNESSES.
One of the witnesses objected to being
tantalized by White, and to being plied
with questions foreign to the issue ; and
even the Secretary refused to act longer
if the same questions were to be reiterated
over and over again to no purpose.
A LITTLE ROW.
The chairman remarked that he would
submit no longer to the court being
used for the manufacture of evidence for
other purposes. Objections were also
raised to the conduct of the defence by
White, he being employed by Hicks as
attorney in the civil prosecution for
slander now pending.
ORDER RESTORED.
After speeches pro and con, order was
restored, and every thing is progressing
smoothly. There are no fears of a white
washing verdict.
THE SEMINOLE NEGROES.
Washington, August 31. The War
Department has transmitted to the In
dian Bureau a letter from Colonel Hatch,
at Fort Texas, in relation to the Semi
nole negroes, the former slaves of the
Seminole Indians. He says there are
about 500 men, women and children of
this race living in Texas, and they desire
to be sent to a locality where they can
earn their own living. They ask for
lands suitable for cultivation on some
government reservation, and if the gov
ernment cannot furnish it they beg to be
sent to Florida, where, without owning
lands, they can obtain them to work till
means are created by their labor to enable
them to purchase. Colonel Hatch says
that the land in Texas is not susceptible
of irrigation, is worthless for purposes
of cultivation, and all good land is owned
by capitalists or men. In the meanwhile,
there is much good land in Florida still
vacant. When they were transferred
with the Seminoles from Florida to the
Western Territories, their women and
children were kidnapped and sold into
slavery by the Indians and bad white
men. This forced them to flee into
Mexico. They were induced then to re
turn by promises which were never ful
filled. They are now living in great des
titution, bordering upon starvation. A
few of them are employed by the gov
ernment as Indian scouts, which is their
only means of support. He says they can
easily be sent to Florida at a very small
expense. If not, they will return to
Mexico, go to the mountains below San
Carlos, about one hundred and fifty miles
west of the Rio Grande, depredate on the
ranches of Texas, and furnish an asylum
for deserters from this frontier. They
aro a distinct race from the Seminoles,
and are like all negre es, except they ai e
accustomed to hearing arms, are brave
and daring and superior to the Indians
in fighting qualities. Col. Hatch advises
that they be sent on the score of economy.
Rations could be issued to them till
they could find means for their own
living, and the old men say that the
Florida fisheries would furnish them
abundant food. Gen. Orid recommends
that they be sent. Gen. Sherman, in
forwarding the letter, says: “I have re
peatedly reported to the Indian Bureau
the destitute condition of these Seminole
negro Indians, but without eliciting any
favorable reply from the Interior
Department, and now forward this
as a last hope that this deserving
people will receive some attention.”
A TRAGIO SUICIDE.
New York, September 1. —At a clam
bake given by Congressman Odell, other
Congressmen and prominent persons be
ing present, a young 4 Italian named
Vi&nni, of the Italian Minister's suite,
and of a prominent family of Rome,
committed suicide under very singular
circumstances. Dr. Doremus, one-of the
guests, announced that Mr. Yianni, who
possessed very remarkable dramatic tal
ents, would favor the company with an
Italian recitation in imitation of Rachel.
The young Roman then took a position
in the centre of the group and began his
recitation. His voice was clear and well
controlled, his gesticulation highly dram
atic, aud he seemed to quiver with pas
sion, while the expression of his face was
startling. Once he interrupted himself,
and, turning to Senator John A. King,
he said: “You understand it, Alean.”
He then resumed and finished with the
exclamation, in Italian, “God,who judges
all, will judge this.” He then took a pist
tol from the outer pocket of his coat,
and, placing it to his temple, fired, and
fell partly on his face perfectly motion
less. The spectators exclaimed “wonder
ful!” and applause had commenced, when
Doremus rushed forward exclaiming
“Great God, gentlemen, he’s killed!”
Many at first thought that this was a part
of the entertainment. On lifting the
body the horrible truth became manifest.
Dr. Ellis probed the wound and pro
nounced the case hopeless. He lived
half an hour but never spoke. No cause
is assigned for the terrible act.
A SAD TRAGEDY.
Cincinnati, September 1.- —A man
named Peterson enticed farmer Trusty’s
daughter to this city. Trusty, finding
her, took her home. Peterson followed,
making threats against the old man, and
last night approached his house.
Trusty took a shot gun, determined to
kill Peterson on sight. Trusty’s son,
aged nineteen, hearing his father’s inten
tion, approached to dissuade him, when
the father mistook his son for Peterson,
and shot him dead.
LIVELY TIMES.
San Francisco, September 1. — A dis
patch from Tucson, Arizona, says a
wealthy merchant of Tucson and a natur
alized citizen of Arizona, who went to
Sonora to collect bills, was arrested on a
charge of furnishing arms to the insur
gents. There was no trial, but he was
ordered to pay $20,000 or he shot. His
grave had been dug, when the messenger
arrived with the ransom. The roads are
lined with refugees flying from the im
pending revolution.
CATHOLIC SYNOD.
Dublin, August 31. —The Synod of
Irish Archbishops aud Bishops of the
Roman Catholic Church, summoned by
Cardinal Cullen, on the express authority
of the Pope, met at Maynooth to-day.
Cardinal Cullen presided. The proceed
ings were held with closed doors. It is
understood that the education question
will be the principal subject of the de
liberations before the synod.
KU-KLUX IN THE COLLIERIES.
Pottsville, Pa., September 1. — Tfios.
Sanger, the inside boss at the Lehigh
colliery, was killed by five strangers. An
other man was shot in the bowels, and
two others are reported killed. Sanger
bad trouble with the miners a year ago,
and since has received “ coffin” letters
ordering him to leave the country.
TEBBESTBIAL CONVULSION.
Kingston, Jamaica, August 11th. —A
very smart earthquake was felt in the
island of St. Thomas on the 3d instant.
The shock was of considerable duration,
and the damage, which was trifling, con
fined to overthrowing crockery and glass
ware and cracking walls. The people
were much alarmed.
bismabce’s hand.
Berlin, September 1. — A ministerial
order has been issued declaring that the
Bishop of Paderbom has forfeited his
rights to citizenship by his departure
without leave from the city in which he
was interned.
BANK ROBBERY.
Louisville, September 2.— The Plan
ters’ National Bank of this city was
robbed of a large amount this morning
about daybreak. The teller of the hank,
Louis Rehm. was discovered near the
bank on his way to the police station. He
could hardly speak at first, but after a
while he informed the detectives that
three men had taken him from fils bed
during the night aud proceeded to the
bank, where they forced him to deliver
the keys, with which they opened the
safe and abstracted money. Rehm alleges
that he was chloroformed and stabbed in
the side, where there is a slight wound.
The bank officials refuse to give informa
tion regarding the affair, further than
that depositors lose nothing. The
amount stolen is believed to be nearly
SIOO,OOO.
MURDER AND MARRIAGE.
Dayton, Ohio, September 2.—Yester
day William Dawson. ex-Colonel of an
ludiana regiment, while attending a wed
ding party at Barlow’s Hill, having re
fused admission to six .roughs, was
stabbed by James Murphy in the abdo
men, aud died in a few minutes. Three
hundred persons gathered around the
jail last night with the avowed purpose
of lynching Murphy, but were prevented
by the entire police of the city.
THE CALIFORNIA ELECTION.
San Francisco, September 2. —A few
scattering returns from the city do not
furnish any indication of the vote. The
Independents are very confident that they
have elected the most of their city otfi
cers, excepting the Mayor, which is
loubtful. There are no later returns
from the interior.
PLAYING SOLDIERS.
Paterson, N. J., September 2. —At
Haledon Pond, Wallace Messerue, aged
nine, was shot by his brother, Clelland,
aged fourteen, while playing soldiers,
both having shot guns, which they found
in a closet The older boy raised his gun,
not thinking it was loaded.
FROM BOMBAY.
Bombay, September 2. —Heavy rains in
Baroach District will necessitate the re
planting of a large part of the cotion crop
there.
negro shot.
Cairo, Illinois, August 31.—Elijah
Storias, colored, while resisting arrest,
was shot and killed by Jas. K. Lane.
A RADICAL PLOT.
An Attempt lo Incite .Murder mid Rob
bery in Our Midst.
[From the Valdosta Times.
Learning that an attempt bad been
made by an unknown white man to se
duce Dan Thomas, a well known colored
man and leader of the Republican party
at this place, into exciting a prejudiced
and discontented spirit among the col
ored people of the county for the purpose
of murder and robbery, we interviewed
Dan and drew from him the following
particulars:
“On the night of the 12th or 13th an
unknown white man on horseback, hail
ing from Illinois, called at the house of
Ned Burgman, a neighbor of mine. Ned
answered the call, and the stranger asked
him (Ned) to conduct him to the house
of one of the leaders of the Republican
party of the county, as he had some im
portant instructions to leave with him in
regard to a meeting soon to be held in
this vicinity. Ned knew that I had been
a leader, and I being the nearest one to
his house he brought him to me. lie
began his conversation ■with me by in
quiring my standing in the Republican
party of the county and by earnestly
urging me to keep his instructions to me
a profound secret from any one—except
my own race. I did not like his ap
proach, but said nothing. The man con
tinued : a couple of men will address the
colored people of this county on the Kith
inst., and I desire you to circulate, si
lently, the appointment among them to
come to the meeting, and to come well
armed, as they will, probably, have a
difficult job to consummate. I didn’t
like this kind of talk, and I questioned
him thusly:
‘Where are you from ?’
‘From Illinois.’
‘Did you fight in the Union army ?’
‘Yes.’
“I here questioned him further in re
gard to his connection with the United
States army and the war, hut found him
apparently more ignorant of the real
facts than I was myself, and I, therefore,
returned to the subject of the meeting :
‘For w.hat purpose is the meeting
you wish me to get up besides-the ad
dresses ?’
‘For the purpose of securing to the
colored people of Lowndes county equal
ity with the whites in every respect, and
to institute plans to force the white peo
ple to employ you at higher wages. ”
“Why do you think the colored people
should demand higher wages for their
labor ?”
“Because their present wages are not
sufficient to furnish them with the ne
cessities of life.”
“But suppose the white people should
sternly refuse to give us higher wages ?”
“Then you must get up secret meetings
and arrange a concert of action to kill
them, and appropriate their land, money,
etc., to your uses.”
“At this juncture of the conversation
I discovered that he wanted to get me,
as well as the balance of the colored
people in the county, into trouble, aud
that he yad some hellish end in view. I
got mad and told him he was mistaken in
regard to the colored people of Lowndes
county not making a living. He then
said I would be paid five dollars per day
for my services. I told him that I did
not want to hear any more of his propos
als, I worked and made a living for my
self and family, and all the colored people
who would work could do the same. I
told him further that he had some nefari
ous scheme on foot, and that I would
have nothing to do with it. He saw that
I was mad aud couldn't be taken in by
him, and he remarked ‘that I might
be a fish, but he was too smart to be
fished by me. ’ He then commenced cursing
me, and, among other things, called me
a d —d liar, and swore he would blow my
d —d brains out if I ever divulged what
he had told me. I stepped into my house
to get my gun and he rode off towards
Mr. Duggin’s at a gallop. I ran after
him around the corner of D.'s palings,
and intended firing upon him, but was
prevented by someone coming up the
path between us. He went from my
house to Shack Brown’s, on Mr. Jimmie
Wisenbaker’s place, where he stayed all
night. I heard he kept his horse in the
woods and dodged about himself iu such
a manner as to prevent the white people
on the place from seeing him. I heard
of him next at Mr. Remer Young’s place,
where he told the colored people a simi
lar story to the one told me ip regard to
tlie meeting and addresses.
“On Tuesday, tho 17th, I went to the
river fishing, and while there I saw him
ahe second time. He was riding leisurely
olong the road. We discovered each
tther almost instantaneously, and he
recognized me, probably from my hat, it
being the same I wore when he saw me
at my house. I recognized him by his
dress and conduct, for as soon as he saw
my gun he fled through the swamp. He
was riding a different horse from the one
he rode when I first saw him. I have
not seen him since.
We give the above statement of Dan’s
upon its merits, but we are assured that
it is not entirely a myth ; circumstances
have occurred and the evidence of white
persons have been given, to corroborate
portions of it. A white lady will testify
to the truthfulness of his statement in re
gard to the chase around- Mr. Duggin’s
palings, and a large party of negroes
came from Captain McKay’s, Remer
Young’s and other places to be in atten -
ance, is conclustve evidence that a report
had been circulated in regard to the
meeting and addresses. We think it bears
significance enough that our people
should heed it as a warning, and be ever
on the alert. The sedition in Washing
ton and other counties of Middle Georgia
is a fair sample of what we may expect
from the credulous negro when his
prejudiced mind becomes sufficiently
aroused.
Elections occur this year in several
States, which have been considered Rad
ical strongholds, but the power which
that party has exercised in these States is
waning, and in the death struggle the
leaders are catching at every straw which
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Radical party, and we do not hesitate to
express our belief that this unknown
white man is one of the many sent South
by Radical politicians to excite “Southern
outrages,” hoping they will materially
affect, to their interest, the elections in
Ohio and other Northern and Western
States this fall.
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