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I'he Indians! and th> Army.
The Cincinnati Gazette does not think
the army ia the proper agent to he en
trusted with the management of the In
dians, and regards the President's pro
posed recommendation of the change ae
“confession that he is unable to make
the Interior Department honest, anti,
thoroforo, has to take affairs out of its
hands.” Asa piece of mere logic this is
unanswerable, perhaps ; it would be “a
strange confession for the President 4o
make with regard to the character of
own appointees.’' as the Cincinnati paper
remarks. But, says the St. Louis lie
pulAitan, the question is a practical one
The Interior Department has permit
ted the Indian Bureau to be corrupHj
mismanaged for years until its cost
of $3,000,000 under Buchanan has
been increased to $7,000,000 under
Grant with fewer Indians to be
taken care of now tlnui fifteen years ago.
All efforts to reform this maladministra
tion have failed; indeed, the head of the
interior department and his assistants and
agents proclaim outright that there is
nothing to be reformed : that the Indian
agents are all honest, and the conduct of
the bureau is above reproach. Under
these circumstances there seems to be
nothing left but to break the bureau to
pieces and hand the Indians over to the
army. It would be a humiliating ackaowl,
edgment of the incapacity of tbehiterjorj
department, no doubt ( ssi~t£s people are
Kiot *o much concerned about the honor
of tho interior department as they are
about reforming a branch of the service
which that department will not reform.
The War of Races ill Mississippi.
Wo publish this morning, from an ex
tra of the Clinton Clarion, a detailed
account of tho bloody conflict between
the whites and blacks at the barbecue
near that town on Saturday last. It will
be observer! that the full extent of the
slaughter was not known at Clinton when
the extra was issued, on Monday last. It
seems that after tho light at the barbecue
had ended and the negroes had fled from
the place, they were pursued by a portion
of tho whites, and other conflicts
ensued, in which a largo number
of negroes (our dispatch of yes
terday says about forty) wero killed
, and many wounded. Our latest dis
patches report all quiet at tho scono of
the disturbance, though it will be seen
that Governor Amos Ims made a requisi
tion upon tho President for troops; from
which we infer either that the ditlioulty
brought about by the negroes has not
been entirely quelled, or that miserable
creature Amos is dotormined to make it
a pretext for Federal interference in the
approaching State election.
These race conflicts, so much to bo de
plored, if thoy are not instigated by bad
men for political purposes, afford the
most convincing proof that the “experi
ment” of a mingling of races in a free
representative government is a most
costly and tragical failure. The present
antagonistic relations between the white
and black races cannot be permitted to
contiuuo. They must be changed so as
to preserve the peace and security of
oouiiiiuuity or tho discordant elements
of society m this once free country will
have to be hold in check by a strong des
potic government. Are tho American
pcoplejfyct to realize the fact that in
forcibly enfranchising the African slave
thoy have lost their own liberties.
The Government and the MbortNNippi
Troubles.
At length Secretary Fish lias been
found, and after another day’s telegraph
iug between that functionary, Attorney
General Pierrepout, Milksop Ames, the
Chairman of tho Democratic Executive
Committee of Mississippi, and the Slier
iff of Hinds county, a meeting of the
“government” at some point within the
territory of tho Union had boon agreed
upon for tho purpose of consultation as to
tho course to be pursued in reference to
the Mississippi unpleasantness. It seems
that all bauds wero in a terrible muddle
until Mr. George, of tho Democratic
Executive Committee, enlightened the
Attorney-General in regard to the law
governing tho case, showing that troops
of the United States can only be legally
called into service to suppress insurroc
tion against tho State Government. As
no such insurrection hns taken place, and
as peace and order prevails in Mississippi,
Pierrcpont has decided to postpone
the proposed government rendezvous and
consultation until after ho can receive
pooler report from Amos. The govern
ment is evidently disgusted with the
pusillanimous conduct of that miserable
paltroou, nud if no cross road or barbocuo
brawl occurs in Mississippi within the
next few days -which is not likely, after
the late experiences of the negroes in the
Clinton affair—wo shall probably not
hear of any proclamation being issued by
Grant, or of an invasion of tho State by
Federal troops. It is plain that Booby
Ames has managed this last “Southern
outrage "in hisdouiinious very badly. Asa
political mauiouvre it has not thus far
panned out worth a cent.
Pennsylvania Speaks.
The action of the Pennsylvania State
Democratic Convention on the currency
question is most gratifying and encoura
ging to the anti-money monopoly Demo
oraey throughout the Union. Ohio led
off in the struggle against forced resump
tion ami the national bank monopoly,
anil now the old Keystone State falls
gallantly into line. The seventh and
■ ighth rc-.i hitionsof the platform adopted
by the Peunsylvauia Democracy are
identical, word for word, with the eighth
and ninth of the Ohio platform, while the
declarations of both conventions as to
making legal tenders receivable for public
dues and the extinction of the national
hanks arc. with a few trifling verbal ex
ceptions, the same. Commenting on the
currency feature of the Pennsylvania
, platform, the Nashville American says:
“Ohio has spokeu for the West, and
Peunsylvauia for the East. The signifi
cance and importance of their utterances
be over estimated. All doubt
that the currency is to be the all absorb
ing issue of the Presidential campaign,
will now be dissipated. ‘Tlag money"
must win the day, and the fate of the
national bank mouopoly is already sealed.
If we leave had any misgivings as to the
result in Ohio the action of the Pennsyl
vauia Democrats has given us an as
suranee of victory which nothing but
defeat itself can shake."
DtrEKMiNKu. — An Independent con
temporary says: “ North and South,
East and West, on the Atlantic and on
the shores cK the Pacific, the body of the
Opposition are united in thought and
purpose upon the broad principle of re
form in the government, and they mean
to achieve it in spite of all the obstacles
that may be interposed, or the treachery
which may beset their path. They may
differ as to the methods of reaching this
goal, but, with an earnest resolution to
ga by the best road, there need be no
dissension on the way."
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The Cincinnati Enquirer suggests that
the New fork World will now drop the
“rag-money, lunatics” of Ohio and give
its attention to the heretics of Pennsyl
vania. They are nearer at home.
President Davis in Missouri.
Ex-President Jefferson Davis, we are
glad to learn, was not met during his
visit to DeSoto, Missouri, with any un
due affectation of cordiality, which
would have been distasteful to him as
well as disgusting to those who value
such exhibitions at their proper worth.
A Western dispatch says that Mr. Davis
was well received, but no notable de
monstration was made on the occasion.
He opened his speech by expressing
much pleasure in meeting the people of a
section of country with which he was
well acquainted many years ago, and felt
rejoiced at its growth and prosperity.
He came, he said, not to discuss these
questions which vex the minds and dis
turb the harmony which prevail among
the people. If there are any who still
entertain feelings of malice, or cherish
bitterness on account of the past, let us
withdraw from such. He declared what
ever might be the machinations of poli
ticians, whatever the views of policy and
designs of State craft might desire to
consummate in regard to the future, the
people of the great Mississippi valley are
one, and must always remain one people
in interest, in destiny and in social forms
and material progress. No man, no
course of policy, no deep designs of am
bitious men could ever dissever them.
In all the future they would surely stand
together. The great river bound them
together by ties stronger than any poli
tics could ever present, and they must
be united.
lie then spoke at considerable length
upon the vast agricultural resources of
the country, and the future development
of the commerce of the Mississippi val
ley and its great advantage and import
ance to the nation, and predicted the
time would soon come when fleets of
iron barges would float down the mighty
Mississippi, bearing a commerce greater
thuu that of the whole world. He advo
cated tli* building of a university which
should serve to confer highest education
upon the young men of the valley. The
/n at population which must soon swarm
this region will lead according to the sta
tus which they maintain in mental cul
ture. He urged the necessity of direct
trade with-Europe, and asserted specie
resumption was impracticable until our
exports exceeded our imports. He de
clan and Conoress had no authority to de-
clare that specie payments should be re
sumed at a certain day, and that in the
present condition of the country more
currency is neoded. The speech was
frequently applauded, and seemed at
least to give satisfaction to all his hear
ers.
The Democracy of Ohio and Pennsyl
vania in Line.
The Democracy of Ohio are elated and
encouraged by the action of the Pennsyl
vania Democratic Convention in reaffirm
ing the financial plank in the Ohio plat
form. The Cincinnati Enquirer says:
“This indorsement,coming from the earn
est 1 iemocrats of the Keystone State, will
carry encouragement into every nook and
corner of Ohio. It will strengthen the
hearts and stay up the hands of those
who are lighting tho battles of the people
here. Last year Pennsylvania was vir
tually given over to the money
power. This year the Democratic
party the party of the people—takes up
the refrain, and the opposition to contrac
tion, National Bank robbery and cla&s
legislation gathers mighty force. The
movement will be irresistible. When the
great Democratic, party of the second
Stuto of ~tiie Union proclaims revolt
against the money power it means some
thing. It moans that the men who toil
and who pay taxes have discovered their
oppressors, and have also discovered a
remedy. The peaceful revolution com
menced here in Ohio has now been fairly
inaugurated. It will not end until the
grand object is attained. The Demo
cratic ticket will sweep Pennsylvania by
50,000 majority in November. Before
that time Ohio, strengthened and sus
tained by this declaration of yesterday,
will have sent greeting with ;50,000 ma
jority for Allen. Standing shoulder to
shoulder with the gallant Democracy of
the Koystone State, we extend our hearty
congratulations.”
It is becoming every day moro and more
certain not only that the currency ques
tion is to be the paramount issue in the
approaching Presidential campaign, but
that it is the issue upon which the people
will triumph over the combined forces
of tho corruptionists, the consolidation
ists and the money monopolists. To the
Democracy of Ohio belongs the honor of
having taken tho bold and manly step
which has lifted the politics of the whole
country out of the narrow limits of
sectionalism and prejudice, thus disarm
ing the “bloody shirt” demagogues who,
by appeals to their passions and preju
dices, sought to blind the judgment of
the people, and thus to perpetuate the
power of the most corrupt factiou that
ever disgraced this or any other country.
Contraction.
On Saturday the President of the San
Antonio National Bank, Texas, surren
dered its entire circulation, withdrawing.
S7S,(XX) in bonds and depositing $67,500
in greenbacks. On Wednesday last the
Western National Bank of Baltimore re
tired sl*o,ooo of its circulation, with
drawing SIOO,OOO in United States securi
ties. On Monday the National Gold
Bank and Trust Company of San Fran
cisco retired of its circulation $200,000,
by depositing with the Assistant Treas
urer in New York that amount of gold.
On Tuesday the First National Bank
of Charlotte, North Carolina, surrendered
$22*1,000 of its circulation, the Sixth
New York National Bank $67,500, and
the First Jamesburg National Bank of
New Jersey S27,(XX). Under the law
banks surrendering all their circulation
are compelled to go into liquidation.
Forty five thousand dollars is the amount
required to be kept if the bank is to re
tain its certificate of organization.
The amount of the contraction of the
currency since July 1, 1871, is nearly
forty million dollars. There has been
deposited with the United States Treas
urer, under the act of June 20,
since July Ist, 1874, over twenty
eight million dollars in greenbacks
for the retirement of that amount
of national banking circulation. The
balance of deposits of banks in liquida
tion previous to that date was nearly four
million dollars, while the amount of
legal tenders canceled for the circulation
of new national banks has been since
January last, when the law went into
effect, $7,755,000. Prior to that date
and after the passage of the act of June
20, 1874, the national banking circula
tion issued was $11,601,802, making in
round number* an actual contraction of
legal tenders and national bank notes
amounting to $28,000,000.
The New York World takes credit to
itself i'or having helped the honest
Democrats of Pennsylvania to collar and
throw down the knaves of We Treasury
ring in the Erie Convention, “but," says
the World, “it was too big a job to get
the rag-money fools down. ' The World
wiU find the rag-money fopU ar e -argely
in the majority and hard to pot down, npt
only in Ohio and Pennsylvania, bat
throughout the country, not being en
tirely confined to the Democratic party,
either. „
Liberiy of Conscience,
The Democrats of Ohio have been sc
verely denounced for the passage by the
Legislature of what is known as the
Gegb&n law, which reads as follows :
An act to-secure liberty of conscience in
matters of religion to persons impris
oned or detained by authority of law
Section. 1. Be it enacted by the Gene
ral Aetembly of the State of Ohio. That
as liberty of conscience is not forfeited
by reason of conviction of crime, or by
reason of detention in any penal refor
matory or eleemosynary institution, or
auy house of refuge, workhouse, jail or
public asylum in this State, no person
in any such institution shall be
compelled to attend religious wor
ship or instruction of a form which
is against the dictates of his or
her conscience; and it shall be the duty
of every director, trustee, superintendent,
or other person having in charge any such
institution, to furnish ample and equal
facilities to all such persons for receiving
the ministrations of the authorized clergy
men of their own denominations or per
suasions, under such reasonable rules and
regulations as the trustees, directors,
managers or superintendents shall make,
but no such rules shall be so construed as
to prevent the clergymen of any denomi
nation from fully administering the rites
of his denomination to such inmates;
provided such ministration entail no ex
pense on the public treasury.
The Legislature of Massachusetts
passed the following enactment, at its
late session, but the Republican journals
do not denounce the Republicans of that
State therefor:
“An act to provide for religious instruc
tion in prisons.
“lie it enacted, etc., as follows: Section
1. No inmate of any prison, jail, or house
of correction in this Commonwealth shall
be denied the free exercise of his religious
b lief and liberty of worshiping God ac
cording to the dictates of his conscience,
w ithin the place where such inmate may
be kept or confined; and it shall be the
duty of the officers and boards of officers
having the management and direction of
any such institutions to make such rules
and regulations as may be necessary to
ci.rry out the intent and provisions of
this act.
“Section 2. Nothing herein contained
shall be so construed as to impair the
discipline of any prison so far as may be
needful for the good government and safe
custody of its inmates.
“Section 3. This act shall take effect
upon its passage.
“[Approved April 15, 1875.]”
Will some casuist please state the
difference in these enactments, and ex
plain why one is made a political issue
and the other is not ? We can discover
no ground of difference in criticism; and
can only explain the varying treatment
on the hypothesis that the Republicans
desire to invoke religious hatreds in their
aid whenever they can safely do it, in
stead of seeking to allay the dangerous
passion.
Negro Military Companies in North
Carolina.
The Wilson Advance calls attention to
the fact of the existence of an intense
military spirit among the negroes and
the formation of military companies in
Wilson and adjacent counties. The Ad
vance says “they are enrolling the Union
League members, and not only drilling at
night, but holding secret meetings,which
extend far into the night.”
What are the objects of these drillings
we do not understand. Perhaps like the
Georgia negroes, they “are preparing for
the Presidential election.” Perhaps they
are deluded into the belief that they can
only carry the election by such organiza
tions.
We have little fear of trouble with the
colored race in this State. There is the
most amicable feeling between them and
the whites, and that will not be disturbed
except through bad external influences.—
Raleigh News.
If, as would seem from these secret
combinations and military organizations
in the South, the negroes are possessed
with the idea that they are indeed a
hostile race in our midst, and that they
are to achieve any rights or privileges
not now enjoyed by them, or that they
are to subjugate the whites by military
power, they are a most deluded set of
idiots. They should have sense enough
to know that what they do not enjoy by
law and by the assent of the white people
they can never achieve by arms, and that
any attempt on their part at military
domination would be the signal for their
destruction. The worst enemies of their
race are those incendiary white wretches
who, for temporary political ends, fill
their minds with discontent and incite
them to acts of violence. Their best
security while their lot is cast with the
white race, is in peaceful relations,
mutual confidence and good will between
the races.
The Johnson Murder.
Gainesville, Fla., Sept. 10,1875.
Editor Morning News:
You doubtless recollect the murder of
one Dr. Johnson, a Radical State Senator,
on the 21st of July last, at Hart’s Road,
near Fernandina. It appears that the
Governor offered a reward of one thous
and dollars for the murderer, and the
county of Nassau, in which the murder
was committed, a like sum. Mr. H.
Richard was arrested at his farm this
week by a United States Marshal on the
charge of violating the revenue laws, and
brought to this place, with the design of
taking him to Jacksonville, to answer the
charge, on the following day, by train,
which left at twelve o’clock m., but from
some cause or other, he was hurried off
the same day. He arrived here, just
after dark, in a hack to Palatka, and was
then taken to Jacksonville by boat. I
learn the Marshal had two negroes with
him, well armed. After leaving Gaines
ville, the prisoner was informed that he
was arrested as the supposed murderer of
Johnson. Richard’s friends assert that
they can prove he was at home on the day
Johnson was killed, and look for no trou
ble whatever in clearing him. For the
sake of the lrage reward, though, these
“honest” Radicals may have considerable
false-swearing, and use every possible ef
fort to come in possession of the money,
which they would scruple at nothing to
get. The night after the arrest of Mr. H.
Richard, Mr. Robert Richard’s corn
house was set on fire by some
negroes, and it and its contents con
sumed, causing him a loss of over five
hundred dollars. When the fire was dis
covered, Mr. Richard sent his sons to
endeavor to extinguish it, whereupon
four guns were discharged at them,
fortunately doing them no injury. We
have a beautiful state of affairs here.
The Governor fills every county office,
even the most petty, and the only quali
fication necessary for the applicant is to
be a good Radical. So, you see, a Demo
crat stands a poor chance in this State
when he endeavors to get justice. I
omitted saying that Mr. H. Richard’s
residence is about seventy miles from the
scene of the murder, and it is stated that
he did not know Johnson. His arrest
was caused by his being the owner of a
cream horse —the color of the animal
said to have been ridden by a stranger —
who was. at Hart's Road on the day of the
murder.
The President has appointed Judge
Alexander White, of Alabama, Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah.
This is the Mr. White, who, in the Con
vention of 1565 argued against the aboli
tion of slavery, and desired God’s thun
ders to blast him if ever he proved re
creant to the Lost Cause, and in 1867
urged the people of Alabama to spit upon
tfce reconstruction acts, immediately
afterwards going over to the Radical
party. Last year this man was defeated
by 15,000 votes when he sought a re
election to Congress, and this, coupled
with the facts that he voted for the Force
bill, made the last speech for it, and was
its author, sufficed to commend him to
Mr. Grant's gratitude. So promptly
Messrs. Hazleton, Dnell and White
received thei? wages goring the past
month, that saeh of the if fellows as re
main unpaid will do well to call on the
President while he has anything to give.
SENATOR THURMAN OX THE
SCHOOL QUESTION.
Interference of tbe Protestant and Cath
olic Priest hood* in Elections.
Senator Thurman, in his speech at
Cleveland, Ohio, August 28, had very
little to say about financial issues and
very much about the school question, the
Republican politician, finding their party
as much divided on the greenback issue
as are the Democrats, having forced the
other issue. The following was the clos
ing passage:
l o hear a Radical stumper talk of the
Catholic church, you would think, if you
knew no Letter, that all the members of
that church are under the absolute do
minion of their priests; that the priest
Las but to point his finger, and his whole
flock vote for the party to which he
points. There never was a more un
founded assertion, never a greater libel
pronounced against a body of American
freemen. In matters of religion the
Catholic reverently receives the instruc
tions of his spiritual guide; in secular
matters he acts, as other men act, upon
the dictates of his own judgment. There
are tens of thousands of Catholics who
vote, and have always voted, the Republi
can ticket, and if the number of such
votes is diminishing, it is not because of
priestly dominition, but because the
spirit of Kuow-Notbingism again stalks
abroad, and threatens to obtain complete
possession of the Republican party.
It is not many years sirce Archbishop
Hughes, of New York, and Archbishop
Purcell, of Cincinnati, were open sup
porters of Lincoln’s administration, and
were much applauded by the Republican
leaders for that support. Then not one
of those leaders was heard to utter a
word about priestly interference in poli
tics, or priestly domination. On the con
trary. these venerable prelates were
lauded to tbe skies by the Republican
party, and their example everywhere
cited as an inducement to Catholics to
vote the Republican ticket. Nay, fur
ther, President Lincoln manifested his
high regard for the Archbishop of New
by sending him on a mission to
Europe, and the whole Republican party
applauded the act. But did the course
taken by those eminent prelates—none
more eminent or better entitled to the
regard of their flocks and of mankind
control the Catholic vote ? Every man
of you is ready to say no; for it is as no
torious as that the sun gives light to the
earth that the great body of Catholics
continued to vote as they had been accus
tomed to vote —the Democrats continued
to be Democrats, aud the Republicans
continued to be Republicans.
It is a little curious to bear Republican
speakers denounce what they call the in
terference of the Catholic priesthood in
politics, and then turn over a few pages
of history and see what the Protestant
priesthood has done, not only with the
approbation, but encouraged by the loud
plaudits of these same Republicans.
Have you forgotten the petition to Con
gress of three thousand (I think that was
tbe number) Protestant ministers, de
nouncing the policy of a Democratic ad
ministration, and with what a flourish of
trumpets it was presented and applaud
ed ? And is it not an undeniable fact
that no Democrat ever suggested or
thought of assailing a Protestant church
because of “that priestly interference in
politics ?” Is it not an undeniable fact
that, though the form and language of
the petition was criticised, though it was
said that it was of questionable propriety
for the petitioners to appear in their
clerical character, and not in their simple
capacity as citizens, yet no one was found
to deny their right of petition, or to vili
fy their churches because they exercised
that right ?
Have you forgotten the advent in
Washington of a large body of Protestant
clergy of Chicago, who almost assumed
to speak in the name of the Almighty
when demanding of President Lincoln
the issuance of the emancipation procla
mation, and is not every man of you a
witness of the fact that “priestly inter
ference in politics” occasioned no Demo
cratic assault upon a Protestant church,
when, on the other hand, it was lustily
applauded by the Republican leaders and
the Republican press? Aud yet these
same leaders and this same press are
ready to go into spasms if a Catholic
priest has the audacity to exercise his
right as an American citizen, and express,
however modestly, a political opinion
that is not orthodox according to the
Radical creed.
Fellow-citizens, I am not a Catholic,
and I have no desire to draw comparisons
between the Protestant and Catholic
priesthood; but since the latter are so
freely denounced for what is called their
interference in politics, it may not be
amiss to ask a few plain questions.
What man ever heard a political sermon
from a Catholic pulpit ? I am sure I
never did, nor did I ever read or hear of
one. What man can number the politi
cal sermons preached from Protestant
pulpits, from that of Henry Ward Beecher,
in Plymouth Church, down to that of
the humblest edifice whose spiret points
to heaven ? What man ever heard of a
Catholic priest making a stump speech ?
I am sure I never did, nor do I believe
such a thing ever occurred. But who
can tell how many Prostestant ministers
have taken the stump, from Henry Ward
Beecher down to the Granville Moodies ?
What man ever heard of a Catholic priest
beiDg a candidate for office? I know
that I never did, nor do I believe that
any of you ever did. But how many
Protestant ministers have held and hew
many yet hold office, from the halls of
Congress and the State Legislatures down
to the humbler offices of the county, the
city and the town ?
Fellow-citizens, you will much misun
derstand me if you suppose that, in any
thing I have said, I mean to censure, much
less condemn, any Protestant church or
any Protestant priest. On the contrary,
I stand here to defend the rights of every
church, and to maintain that every man,
be he Christian or Jew, Protestant or
Catholic, priest or layman, believer or un
believer, shall enjoy, to the fullest extent,
his rights as a citizen; that he shall have
the rights guaranteed by our constitutions
—Federal and State —the right of free
speech, the right to petition the law
making power, the right to vote as he
sees fit, the right to hold office, and,
most sacred of all, the right to worship
Almighty God according to the dictates
of his own conscience. I stand here to
maintain that he shall not be traduced
and proscribed because he exercises these
rights; that a vindictive prejudice shall
not be excited against him because he ex
ercises them ; that he shall be, to all in
tents and purposes, what the Constitu
tion makes him, a free man. I stand
here to denounce the agitators who would
practically deprive any man of these rights,
to denounce the Know-Nothing spirit
that seeks to reduce Catholics and foreign
born citizens to the status of a de
graded class in the community, to denounce
the hypocrisy that pretends that our schools
are in danger or tfiat our legislation is con
trolled by any priesthood whatever ; and I
stand here to appeal to you, whatever
may be your religious belief or disbelief,
whatever are or may have been your po
litical affiliations, whatever may be your
calling or occupation, whatever may be
the land in which your eyes first beheld
the sun, to set the seal of your condemna
tion upon the most heartless, insincere,
illiberal, anti-American and dangerous
attack upon freedom of conscience, the
rights of the citizen, the peace of society
and the welfare of your government, ever
made in America since the Know-Nothmg
banner, twenty years ago, went down in
the dust.
Potash Farrow! Phcebus, what a name,
what a man, what a history! He is a
native of South Carolina, from whence an
ill-wind for Georgia blew him across the
Savannah. During the days of the Con
federacy he had some sort of employment
furnishing potash for our powder works.
He has since its decease been a drum
major in the Radical ranks. Grant has
kept him pretty steadily in office, bj
which he made meat and bread. But his
impecunious, hungry brethren, who have
for years stood outside with empty
mouths and watched him devour rich
slices of government pork are about to
prevail upon Grant to lead him out and
let one of them go to the table. They
represent to the President that Potash is
fat and sleek, and that they are reduced
to a mere skeleton. It is impossible for
them to get through the winter unless
they either get office or go to honest
work. They prefer office. There is
nothing left for Potash but to step down
and oat and say;
“Oh! momentary grace of mortal man,
Which we more hunt for than the grace of God;
Who builds his hope in air of your fair looks,
lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,
Beady with every nod to tumble down !”
[Augusta Constitution aUst.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Summary of the Week’* Dispatcher.
SHOYING THE QUEER.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
FIBST DISPATCH.
Blount Springs, Ala., September 11.
—Several counterfeiters were carried
through here to-day. handcuffed, to De
catur, .Alabama, where others of the gang
are now under arrest. It is a branch of
the great Western counterfeiting party.
The examination will be held on Monday,
as other prisoners go up to-morrow from
Tuskaloosa. I shall be ‘there and report
the trial, as their proposed operations
were to have extended throughout Geor
gia. These arrests have stopped a great
swindle in its infancy.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Blount Springs, Ala., September 12. —
Other prisoners passed here to-day. The
examinations are transferred to Hunts
ville on Tuesday. The Alabama and
Tennessee prisoners are of all classes—
rich farmers, prominent merchants and
public officials. Some are innocent and
ethers guilty. These arrests will break
U P “ gigantic plan to flood the entire
South with counterfeit money, the most
of it from St. Louis. Igo to Huntsville
to-morrow, and will write up the affair,
which is creating the most intense excite
ment in this section, owing to the high
positions occupied by the accused.
AMEB'S PLOT.
Jackson, Miss., September 9.— The
following dispatch was sent the United
States Attorney General to-night:
“To Honorable Edward* Pierrepont,
Attorney General of the United State*—
There are no disturbances in this State,
and no obstructions to the execution of
the laws. There has been a conflict at a
political meeting, and some subsequent
disturbance of the peace, but everything
is quiet, and the Governor’s call for
United States troops does not even pre
tend that there is any insurrection against
the State Government, as required by
the revision of the United States stat
utes of 1875, pages 10 to 34. Peace pre
vails throughout the State, and the em
ployment of United States troops would
but increase the distrust of the people in
the good faith ef the present government.
“(Signed) J. H. George,
“Chairman of the Democratic State Ex
ecutive Committee.”
Washington, September 10.—The At
torney General to-day telegraphed to
Governor Ames requesting information
regarding the present condition of affairs
in the recently reported disturbed por
tions of Mississippi, and is now expect
ing a reply.
A dispatch has been received in re
sponse to the telegram from the Attorney
General inquiring as to the whereabouts
of Secretary Fish, announcing that that
gentleman is at his country seat on the
Hudson, and that he will meet the Attor
ney General at any point he may desig
nate, to confer upon the subject of a
proclamation
To this telegram the Attorney General
replies, informing the Secretary of State
of his telegram of this date to Governor
Ames, and delaying the proposed confer
ence until after a reply to that telegram
shall have been received, the character
of which, it is judged, may be such that
no further action will be necessary by the
General Government.
Later —A telegram has just been re
ceived by the Attorney-General from the
Sheriff of Hinds county, Mississippi, re
porting that perfect peace prevails
throughout that county. The peace offi
cers arc not prevented from executing
the legal process, and good citizens, the
Sheriff telegraphs, will aid him in the
discharge -of his duties if needed. The
Attorney-General expressed the opinion
that the difficulties were at an end. He
will await a response to his telegram of
this morning to Governor Ames.
akb&st op counterfeiters.
NashVihoe, Tenn.', September 12.—A
special from Decatur, Ala., to the Ameri- (
can to-day says that United States Mar- '
shal Bauer arrived there this afternoon
with J. C. Graham, of Gainesville, Sum
ter county, R. S. Nell, of Alexander, and
Geo. Sampsons and J no. H6nler, of Tus
caloosa, Ala., who are charged with
counterfeiting. B. B. Bowers, now
under arrest for counterfeiting, was fore
man of the last grand jury of Greene
county. Stewart, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and superintendent of
a Sabbath school, was also arrested.
Bowers had on his person one hundred
dollars in counterfeit fifty cent frac
tional currency, and S3OO in coun
terfeit five and twenty dollar legal
tenders. Bowers is socially and finan
cially prominent, and can give bonds for
twenty thousand dollars. Dunn and
Garner, of Tuscaloosa county, in charge
of a deputy marshal, are en route. A de
layed train was the cause of their non
arrival. Deputy United States Marshal
Wheat, from the middle district, arrived
to-day, having in custody W. W. Gordon,
of Lynnville, Tennessee. Gordon, in
his section, has commanded the respect
of the community. He had evaded ar
rest for several days and was particularly
wanted. It is claimed that his connec
tion with the counterfeiters is im
portant.
THE NORTH CAROLINA CONVENTION.
Raleigh, N. C., September 10.—The
Convention commenced work to-day in
earnest, and the standing committees
wer ? appointed by the President. About
125 ordinances were introduced to amend
the present constitution. An ordinance
was introduced and referred to reduce
the number of Supreme and Superior
Court judges, and to be appointed by the
General Assembly instead of elected by a
popular vote; fixing the pay of members
of the General Assembly at S3OO per
annum; reducing the number of county
commissioners; fixing the term of the
Governor and State officers at two years
instead of four; providing for the non
suspension of the writ of habeas cor
pus, for separate schools for white
and black children; modifying the ap
pointing power of the executive; fixing
the salaries of the Governor and State
officers; abolishing the Senate branch of
the Legislature; prohibiting convicted
felons from holding offices or sitting on
juries; providing for the compromise of
the public debt, etc. The only resolu
tion introduced by a Republican was one
for adjournment sine die, which lies over
under the rules. A majority of the
committees are Democratic, with the
ablest men of the convention as chairmen
THE NORTH CAROLINA CONVENTION.
Raleigh, N. C., September B.— The-
Convention completed its organization
to-day. All the officers elected are
Democratic. Immediately after the or
ganization, Mr. Tourgee, Republican,
offered a motion to adjourn sine die. This
was defeated by a strict party vote. One
Republican, Mr. Woodfin, and the inde
pendent, Mr. Wilcox, dodged the vote.
An ordinance was introduced by Badger,
of Wake, providing for the relief of ex-
Governor Holden from political disa
bilities. Referred. A resolution by Judge
Buxton, to seat the Republican claimants
for admission from Bobeson county, lies
over. The death of Hon. W. A Graham
was announced by his colleague, Mr.
Turner, and suitable resolutions were
adopted. Pending eulogies, the conven
tion adjourned till to-morrow.
ELECTRIC BREVITIES.
Augusta, September B. —J. T. Heard,
who was arrested in Conyers, Ga., on
Monday night,on a warrant charging him
with rape on two little daughters of Mrs.
Chamberlain, had a preliminary examina
tion to-day. He was bound over in the
sum of $2,000 in each case to answer at
the next term of the court, on the charge
of assault with attempt to rape. Heard
hos left for Atlanta. The people of Con
yrs are satisfied with the disposition of
the case.
Joe Crews was fatally shot this morn
ing by parties unknown, near Laurens
Ciurt House, South Carolina. Charles
Bollin, who was riding in the hack with
Crews, was seriously wounded. Crews
lus been prominently identified with pol
itics in South Carolina since reconstruc
tion.
FAST THEE.
Lexington, Kt., September 9. —The
races on the Association Course were in
teresting. To the astonishment of every
body, Bob Wooley was beaten in the first
race by Harper’s Tenbroeck, who was
sold on the field, the time being the best
•n record for a distance of one mile and
ire furlongs— Harry Bassett’s
time for the same distance was 2:56.
TERRIBLE DISASTER.
Chicago, September 11.—On Lake
Michigan early yesterday morning, the
propeller Equinox, from Chicago to Bay
City, Michigan, with a cargo of salt, and
towing the schooner Emma A. Wayes,
loaded with lumber, was overtaken by a
storm about 2 o’clock yesterday morning
near Point au Sable, two hundred and
eighty miles north of Chicago. Captain
Woodworth, of the Equinox, came to the
stern of the vessel at that time and called
out to cut the lines. This was doue, and
the propeller careened and sunk in a few
minutes. He had on board a crew
of nineteen men and Captain Dwight
Scott, of Cleveland, the well
known lake Captain, who was accom
panied by his wife and grand-daughter,
a total of twenty-two persons. The first
intimation the schooner had of the catas
trophe was the shrieks of the drowning.
The Wayes could render no assistance
whatever in the terrible sea that was
running, and the entire crew of the Equi
nox went down. The schooner arrived
here this morning.
Chicago, September U. —The Post ami
Mail, in an account of the disaster to
the Equinox, says: The drowned
Captain was Dwight Scott, of Cleveland,
who was formerly owner of the Iron
sides, S. D. Calliwell and Governor Cush
man, the last named having been a
flour dealer up at Buffalo three years
ago. The two passengers were Miss Mi
nnie Scott, the Captain’s daughter, aged
nineteen years, going home from a con
vent, where she was being educated; and
Miss Hattie Scott, aged seventeen, a grand
daughter, who lived in Cleveland, traveling
for pleasure in the Equinox. Captain
Scott was sixty years of age. He has a
son in business in Cleveland. The story
of the disaster is told by Captain
Lusk, of the schooner Emma A.
Wayes, which arrived off the harbor
at eight o’clock last night, and was brought
in this morning. His schooner was being
towed by the lost propeller up to within
a few minutes before she went down.
The storm struck the lake with great
force, but the two vessels ploughed their
way without misfortune until two o’clock
Friday morning. The orews of both
vessels were ready for duty, that of the
schooner being constantly engaged about
the sails and rigging. The fury of the
storm was terrible. It seemed several
times that certain destruction awaited
them. No signs, however, came from
the Equinox that all was not right
aboard her. Her speed was retarded,
but she held her course and steamed
ahead. The night was pitch dark and
the water running high. The storm
created such a faarful din as to make it
almost impossible to hear anything but
the warring elements, while the light
ning flashing athwart the sky afforded
the only possible glimpse of the dread
scene. When off Point au Sable, at 2
o’clock Friday morning, when Captain
Lusk heard a voice from the propeller
shouting to “cast of your line,” which
was immediately followed by the shrieks
of women. For a few minutes all was
still. The crew of the Wayes were
meanwhile loosening their line, when
the voices of women from the
propeller were again heard, sound
ing to those on board the schooner
as though they cried “we are
drowning.” The line was already loos
ened and the connection between the two
vessels thereby severed, when suddenly,
as Captain Lusk was peering through the
darkness at the receding propeller, it ap
peared to top over and almost before he
could move she disappeared. This was so
sudden that no one on board the schooner
seemed to have an idea of the situation.
For a moment it seemed as though the
propeller had steamed away and was lost
to sight in the darkness, but there could
be no doubt that the steamer had been
swallowed up without warning or sign of
wrong until the order came to cut loose.
THE RECENT RIOTS IN MISSISSIPPI.
Washington, September 12.—Within
the past two days a number of telegrams
have been received by the Attorney Gen
eral from people of both political parties
in Mississippi, stating that it was now
substantially quiet in the recently dis
turbed portions of, that State, but for
greater caution the Attorney General
telegraphed, on the 10th inst., in response
to a dispatch from ■‘Governor Ames ask
ing for Federal interference, the follow
ing :
Justice,! _
\ v&bn i her 10. )i
To Gmtrnor Ames, Mississippi:
The United States toftes have been
put in readiness. No orders have yet
been given for them to move, and no
proclamation has been issued. Every
thing is ready in case there is such an
insurrection against the State govern
ment as cannot be put down by the State
military forces, aided by all the powers
of the State government and the aid of
true citizens.
(Signed) Edward S. Pierrepont,
Attorney General.
This was telegraphed early on the morn
ing of the 10th inst, but no response was
received thereto from any source until
yesterday, when a telegram was received
by the Attorney General from ex-Senator
Pease, now Postmaster at Jackson, say
ing the excitement has subsided and that
civil force, composed of good citizens of
all political parties and of sufficient force
to protect life and property, can be had
in any county in the State. No effort
has yet been made by the State authori
ties in this direction, until all legal means
have been exhausted. lam of the opin
ion that Federal interference is unwise
and impolitic, and will only tend to
aggravate the evils.
Senator Alcorn, of Mississippi, was
present when this telegram was received
by the Attorney-General, and confirmed
its statements.
The Attorney-General on the 11th inst.
telegraphed again to Governor Ames as
follows: “In my dispatch of yesterday
morning, in which I mentioned that
troops were held in readiness, I asked
whether the situation of the insurrection
was such against State authorities that
the State Government and the aid of
loyal citizens could not put it down. I
have received no reply to this. ”
No response came until between eleven
and twelve o’clock last night, when the
Governor sent to the Attorney General a
very long telegram giving, in explana
tion, that it was a question of race, and
he still thought that there was a neces
sity for troops. The Attorney General
has made a full report, sending all the
telegrams and communications by special
messenger to the President to-day, astf
expects to receive further suggestions
from the President to-morrow.
THE MISSISSIPPI TROUBLES.
Washington, September 11. — Senator
Pease, of Mississippi, telegraphs to the
Attorney General that all excitement con
sequent upon the disturbances at Clinton
have subsided. There has been no dis
patch from Governor Ames. The Attor
ney General is not changed in his view
that the whole trouble is completely at
an end.
The reticence of Governor Ames ex
cites comment. He has been officially
asked for the grounds on which he based
his constitutional appeal for Federal aid,
and also for a report of the present con
dition of affairs. The silence of the Gov
ernor is remarked as disrespectful. The
cautious course of the Attorney General
meets general approbation.
PRESIDENT DAVIS IN CALLOWAY COUNTY.
St. Louis, September 11.— Mr. Davis
spoke at the Calloway County Fair, held
at Fulton, to-day. Avery large crowd
gathered from all sections in that part of
the State. He was introduced by Gov
ernor Hardin, and made nearly the same
speech he delivered at De Soto. He was
very enthusiastically received, and was
frequently applauded. Senators Bogy
and Cockerill were present, and responded
briefly to calls to speak.
THE CATTLE DISEASE.
London, September 11. — The executive
committee on the foot and mouth disease
have asked the Privy Council for an or
de# to prevent the holding of market
sales or fairs throughout Warwickshire.
The disease prevails considerably in the
county of Norfolk, the last return show
ing three thousand cases recorded there
during the week. The cattle, sheep and
pigs are effected.
COMING TO GEORGIA.
Louisville, Ky., September 11.—T.
D.Worrall, Managing Director of the Mis
sissippi Valley Transportation Company,
who has been looking about Louisville
for the American headquarters, gone
to Georgia.
A BRACE OF KNAVES.
New York, September 11.—Governors
Kellogg and Warmouth, of Louisiana,
occupied the manager’s box at the Park
Theatre last evening.
FROST.
Port Jervis, N. Y., September 11.—
There was a heavy frost in this section
last night. It is feared that buckwheat,
corn and other late crops are injured.
THE MAINE ELECTION.
Portland, September 13.- -Forty towns
give Conner (Republican) 12,470, Roberts
11,381. Last year the same towns gave
a Republican vote of 10,961 and a Demo
cratic vote of 8,766, showing 1,089 Re
publican majority in 1875, against 2,196
in 1874, or a loss of 50 per cent.
10:30 p. m. Sixty towns give Conner
Last year the Republican vote was 13,-
357, aud the Democratic vote 10,385.
Biddeford was carried by the Demo
crats by 197 majority for Roberts, aud
two Democrats are elected to the Legis
lature. Twenty towns give Conner (Re
publican) 5,029, Roberts (Democrat)
4,060. In 1874 these towns gave 4,536
Republican and 3,176 Democrat, a Re
publican majority of 969, against 1,360
for the same time last year. The Re
publicans lost 391.
With the exception of six towns,
which gave 62 Republican majority last
year, Androsscoggiu county returns 623
majority for Conner, against*7os last year.
Both Senators, all the Representatives
aud the county officers are Republican, a
gain of one Representative. Lincoln
county has gone Republican by about 40
majority, gaining three Republican Rep
resentatives and losing one. In Waldo
county 16 out of 26 towns give Conner
2,065 and Roberts 2,016, a gain of 484
for the Democrats. Probably four out
of eight Representatives are elected by
the latter, together with Senators and
the county ticket.
Franklin county returns about 250 Re
publican majority, who also elect a Sena
tor and two Representatives. The Dem
ocrats elect three Representatives. One
hundred towns give Conner 21,620, Rob
erts 19,138. Last year the Republicans
were 18,772, and the Democrats 14,228.
The Republican majority this year is
2,482, against 4,544 last year. Seven
teen towns in York county give Conner
115 majority, against a Republican ma
jority last year of 737, a loss of 622.
Conner has probably' carried this county
by 150 majority, against 745 last year.
One hundred and twenty towns give
Conner 26,643, Roberts 24,140, against
23,042 Republican and 17,897 Democratic
last year. Seventeen out of twenty-eight
towns in Kennebec county give Conner
4,404, Roberts 2,960. Hancock county
is very 7 close—probably Democratic by
about fifty majority.
MORE NEGRO TROUBLES IN MISSISSIPPI.
Memphis, September 13. —Passengers
by rail report trouble with the negroes in
Tallahatchie county. The whites had
sent runners to Oakland for assistance.
The citizens of Grenada are organizing
and arming. It is impossible to obtain
reliable reports.
Memphis, September 13.—A gentleman
from Charleston, Mississippi, reports that
last Thursday two negroes who, it is
claimed, live in Arkansas, registered.
Warrants were issued and they fled from
the constable and posse, who ran after
them, Evans and Buford, of the posse,
firing at them. The negroes in the vi
cinity of Trenton, hearing of the affair,
armed to the number of seventy and de
manded that Evans and Buford be given
up to them, and behaved very riotously.
On Saturday a large number of armed
negroes assembled at Trenton. The
whites sent the county Treasurer, Stew
art, who is also Deputy Sheriff, and Jerry
Robinson to try and induce them to dis
perse. They threatened to hang both
Stewart and Robinson, who returned in
haste and notified the citizens. The ne
groes are swearing vengeance. Calls
have been made on Oakland, Charleston
and Grenada for assistance. Parties
from those points have gone to Fraison’s
store, where the trouble originated.
ELECTION IN MAINE.
Portland, September 13. —The elec
tion is progressing quietly. In the larger
cities the contest is animated. Iu Ban
gor the Republicans assert that the Demo
crats are resorting to trickery, but they
already claim the city. Conner’s friends
claim Augusta, where a large vote on
both sides is being polled.
Later. — Portland gives Conner (Re
publican) 2,436, Roberts (Democrat)
2,551; the Democratic majority is 115,
against a Republican majority last year
of 1,032. The following places give
Democratic majorities: Cape Elizabeth,
130; Deering, 60—a gain of 51. Bangor
gives Roberts (Democrat) a majority of
123, against two Deraocrnts apd one Re
publican electee} to the Legislature in
1870. Roberts carried the city by over
600 majority. Eastport gives Conner 267,
Roberts 133 ; Belfast gives Roberts 503,
and Conner 501, a Democratic majority
of 210 from last year; Bridgeton gives
Conner 362 and Roberts 298; Augusta
gives Conner 943, Roberts 778, and elects
two Republican members to the Legis
lature. The Republicans carry Saco by
171 majority for Conner, and elects one
delegate to the Legislature; South Ber
wick gives Roberts a majority of 37, and
elects all the Democratic candidates for
the Legislature.
CIVIL RIGHTS DECISION IN NEW YORK.
New York, September 13.—Judge Gil
bert, of the Supreme Court of Brooklyn,
to-day rendered a decision in the Civil
Rights case, wherein W. F. Johnson, a
colored man, sought to compel the Prin
cipal of the Public School to admit his
son thereto, instead of sending him to
the school provided for colored children.
The Court holds that common schools
are public charity; that benefits confer
red by them are a free gift from the State,
and, like every other donor, the State
may prescribe in what manner and upon
what terms and conditions a*gift may be
enjoyed.
In conclusion, Judge Gilbert says that
the statute, by guaranteeing full privi
leges, does confer the right to enjoy
them in common with any class of per
sons or any particular school, and that
nothing has been shown from which it
can be inferred that the relator has been
deprived of equality of privilege, to
which he is entitled. A motion for man
damus was denied.
THE RECENT MISSISSIPPI TROUBLES.
Washington, September 13. It is
probable that the President will return
to Washington to-morrow or next day,
when a Cabinet meeting will be held to
consider the Mississippi troubles and de
termine what action shall be taken on the
demand of Governor Ames for Federal
interference. Attorney-General Pierre
pont this morning telegraphed to the Uni
ted States Attorney at Jackson, Miss., to
inform hinrwithout delay of the present
condition of affairs in that part of the
State. He also telegraphed to Governer
Ames that he had forwarded to the Presi
dent at Long Branch, by special messen
ger, all telegrams in * regard to the
troubles, and now awaited the further ac
tion of the President.
STATISTICS.
Washington, September 11. — The re
port of the of Vital Statistics of
the District of Columbia for the week
ending September 4th, shows that the
rate of mortality of the whites was nearly
20 per thousand, and of the eolored
nearly 59 per thousand. The rate of in
crease of white population by births over
deaths was l|and 4-5 per thousand, and
the decrease of colored by deaths over
births 34 and 67-100 per thousand. Such
marked difference in the mortality of
whites and blacks has existed for some
months past. Various meetings have
been held by prominent colored men to
discover a remedy for this decrease of
their race, but without success.
MISSOURI OUTLAWS.
Kansas City, September 13.— Three
outlaws entered a saloon outside of the
city limits, locked up the proprietor,
robbed the house, and ravished a woman.
The proprietor escaped and gave the
alarm. The outlaws fired on the police,
wounding a detective. The police re
turned an ineffectual volley, when a fierce
hand-to-hand fight ensued, resulting in
the capture of the outlaws. Considerable
money was found in their possession.
The house was a disreputable one.
A TENDER OF SERVICES.
Vicksburg, September 11. One
hundred men, who did not know there
was an insurrection in Hinds county
until they saw Governor Ames’ dispatches
to Washington, have tendered their
services to go to any part of the State
for the protection of the lives of the
people.
A sad sight was observed last week at
Malden, Mass., a boy of eleven summers
vainly endeavoring to guide his drunken
father home. His progress was con
siderably embarrassed by the fact that
he was a good deal drunker than the old
man.
Fatally Shot by Negroes.— Mr. A. D.
Venable, a well known resident of Appo
mattox county, Virginia, was shot in an
altercation with some negroes last Satur
day, and his injuries are of a very serious
and probably fatal character.
COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON.
What the Papers Say of the Morning
News.
I Biinbrklge Democrat.)
Iu thin issue will be found a prospectus of that
niaguiticent daily, the Savannah Morning News.
It is without doubt the fullest, the freshest, the
ablest aud the most-read paper in the State. The
News is a great newspaper which has few rivals.
[Albauy Artel.]
The Savannah Weekly News is one of the largest
and most interesting Weeklies published iu the
South. The Mousing News, from which the mat
ter is taken for the Weekly, is the peer of any
Daily we have—being admirable edited in all its
departments.
| Marianna ( Fla.) Cbnrwr.]
We publish elsewhere the advertisement of the
Savannah Mousing News, the best and newsiest
paper iu the laud, and should l>r in the hands of
every merchant. The Weekly is a large four-page
paper, noaliy printed, containing the cream of the
Daily aud l ui Weekly editions.
(Toombsboro (Wilkinson County) Appeal.]
The News is a most excellent paper, second to
none iu the Slate or South. We always feel grat
ified iu examining its cent nts. We welcome it
always to our sanctum. Sir. J. H. Estill is the
Proprietor; Col. W. T. Thompson, ( Maj. Jones)
editor.
[Montgomery (Ala.) Adoertiter.]
The News is indeed a first-class journal, and one
which it should be the pride of Georgians and
Floridians to sustain. It occupies a proud place
among the leading Dailies of the South. Parties
desiring information atxuit Georgia or Florida,
should cultivate an acquaintance with the columns
of the Savannau Morning News.
[Congress (Rockdale County) Register.]
We call the attention of our readers to the
prospectus of the Savannah Weekly News, in
another column. This is one of the very best
Weeklies published in the South, aud deserves a
wide circulation. It is edited by Col. W. T.
Thompson, author of "Major Jones' Courtship,”
and J. C. Harris, the brilliant paragraphist.
[Darien Timber Gatetle.)
As we have said before, the Savannah Morning
News needs no praise, as It is one of the things
that speaks for itself. Now, any one wishing to
subscribe for the liest Daily or Weekly in Georgia,
can do so by handing us the amount which will be
duly forwarded. We are anxious to see the News
have a large circulation in Mclntosh.
[Barnesville Qaidte.)
In this issue we give a brief advertisement of
the Savannah Morning News. We would notice
the merits of this excellent journal, but its merits
and reputation are too high with all newspaper
readers in its reach, to be enhanced by any notice
we might give it. We consider it one of the best,
one of the ablest odited, aud ouo of the newsiest
papers published in the State.
[Thomaston Herald.]
In this issue we give a brief advertisement of
the Savannah Morning News. We would notice
the merits of this excellent journal, but its merits
aud reputation are two high with all newspaper
readers in its reach, to be enhanced by any
notice wo might give it. We consider it one of
the t-st, one of the ablest edited, aud one of the
newsiest papers published in the State.
[Cave Spring Enterprise.]
This office lias been kindly favored for the last
three months with the Daily Morning News, and
we regard it as one of the best newspapers in the
Southern States. Its articles are short, pithy,
well written and to the point, and its whole man
agement comes up to what we conceive to be the
highest standard of newspaper excellence. Hence
we cheerfully commend it to the patronage of all.
[Baltimore Trade Review.]
The Savannah News Is one of the most im
portant of the Southern) journals published. It
is issued Daily and Weekly aud is widely circulated
throughout the State as well as in South Carolina,
Alabama and Florida, and is an admirable adver
tising medium for our Baltimore merchants,
especially those who wish to transact business iu
the States named. Send for a sample copy and
rates.
[New York Insurance Chronicle.]
The brightest and best newspaper iu Georgia,
aud perhaps in all the South Atlantic States, is
The Savannah News. It is a familiar friend in
nearly every household of Georgia, Alabama, Mis
sissippi and Florida. In the latter State its circu
lation exceeds that of all the Florida newspapers
combined. It is enterprising, able and reliable —
hence its success.
[Franklin (Head County) News.]
The Savannah Mousing News is decidedly one
of the beat—if not the best—papers in the State.
It is edited with an ability unsurpassed, and con
tains more reliable news than any paper on our
exchange list. Wo say this in n spirit of flattery,
but because it is the truth. The News is a favor
ite of ours, and it is now placed within tho reach
of all who want a good, neat, reliable newspaper.
[Tuskaloosa (Ala.) Blade.\
The attention of the public is directed to a no
tice of this admirable paper, to be found in
another column. It stands at the brad of all the
■Pile.Georgia papers, the front rank
in FlorltU*. Mr. 13. If*Jtichardsou, formerly assist
ant editor* of the Mobile Trtimne, is SE V..J bxi.v.*-,
nah News, which fact alone will' guarantee the
paper an extensive circulation in Alabama, as he is
a most competent newspaper man and able writer.
[Warronton Clipper.]
The good old times are coming again. We are
impelled to this remark by the fact that the old
standby of Georgia Dailies, the Savannah Morn
ing News, is again upon our table. It is the same
newsy, sparkling and brilliant, yet dignified, safe
counsellor of former days. This is why we have
missed it so sadly; for to try to run a country
newspaper without the News, is like ‘‘playing
Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out.”
[Jacksonville (Fla.) I*ress.]
The Savannah Morning News is too well known
in Florida to require any endorsement from us.
It is unquestionable one of the most ably conduct
ed, as well as one of the most enterprising journals
in this section of the country. Aside from its ac
knowledged and admitted claims in this respect,
it is as sound as a dollar on the Southern side of
politics. With all these requisites, no wonder
that it is so popular with the pei iple of Florida.
[Mellonvillo (Fla.) Advertiser.]
The Savannah Morning News is confessedly the
first journal in Georgia. The skill and sagacity of
its administration, the vigor and wisdom of its
editorial conduct, the attentive and appreciative
recognition of the tastes and wishes of its readers,
above all its staunch democracy on which there
has never been blot or blemish, anil its faithful
loyalty to Georgia, have raised this journal to the
high pre-eminence it enjoys.
[Thomasville Times.]
The readers will not fail to notice the advertise
ment of the Mousing News. We do not see
why Estill should advertise in this section—for
everybody takes the News— or ought to. Those
wishing to draw inspiration from a pure and un
adulterated democratic fountain, enlivened and
sandwiched with Harris’ incorrigible drollery,
will not fail to subscribe for the Savannah Morn
ing News, which is unquestionably in the very
fi ont rank of the leading Dailies in the South.
[Monticello (jFla.) Constitution.)
The Savannah Morning News deservedly ranks
among the most useful, enterprising and newsy
Dailies in this country, is a strong champion of
the rights of the people, and fearlessly grapples
with and exposes error in every form. It gives
special attention to Florida news, and occasionally
contributes of its influence towards the restora
tion of good government in this State. We would
bo pleased to learn that it had double its list of
subscribers at every post office in Florida.
[Lumpkin (Stewart County) Independent.)
We call attention to the advertisement of that
sterling paper, the Savannah News, and take great
pleasure in saying that it is one of the best Daily
papers we know of. It is well managed, and
is edited in all its departments with ability
equalled by few and surpassed by none. It is the
first paper we read, and it never grows dull to us.
It is a Democratic Light-House whose keepers
never slumber nor allow their lamps to grow dim.
If you want to read a first-class paper, one doubly
worth its price, subscribe for the News.
[Hamilton (Harris County.) Visitor)
The Savannah Morning News not only has an
efficient commander, in the person of Capt. J. 11.
Estill, but is manned by competent officers and
crew Col. Thompson, the chief editor, has been
connected with the paper tor many years. Lieut.
Harris, the assistant editor, though young, is
one ot the best news gatherers and wittiest
writers in the State. The city editors keep their
columns well filled with local reports. All these
influences combine to make the News one of the
best papers in the South.
[Jonesboro News.)
The Savannah Weekly Morning News is offered
One Dollar at six months. It gives ail the im
portant news of the State, and, in fact, of the
whole world, carefully sifted and in such form as
to be tempting to the appetite and easily digested.
It is worth more for its real advantages to the
individual and family, than a barrel of whiskey, a
box oi tobacco, a thousand cigars, fifty-seven
games of billiards, a basket of artificial flowers,
an acre of trails, a hogshead of cosmetics aud
thirty-nine pounds of confectioneries, all com
bined, and yet it cost only One Dollar.
[Crawford (Oglethorpe County) Echo.)
In another column will be found the prospectus
of the Savannah Morning News, the leading
Georgia newspaper. The deep and learned ed
itorials from the pen of our esteemed friend, Col.
W. T. Thompson, the spicy “Georgia Items ” of
the inimitable Harris, and the superb local col
umn under the superintendence of Mr. Richard
son, all combine to render the News not only one
of the best papers in the State, but in the world.
So if our friends desire a live, reliable, wide-aivake
journal, they should, by all means, subscribe for
the Savannah News.
[Opelika (Ala.) Times.])
We refer to a notice in our local oolumns of that
capital paper the Savannah Daily News, it is not
only one of the best papers in the Empire State,
,^ 16 , States. Its polished and accom
plished editor is a veteran journalist, and one of
the best of our humorous writers, and our friend
Harris, is a regular brick. The paper reminds us
very much of the Jxmisville journal, and Boston
Post, in their palmiest days, under Prentice and
Charles Gordon Greene. After taking our Weekly
Times, we advise all our readers to subscribe for
that invaluable and able paper, the News, pub
lished at Georgia's great seaport, Savannah, Ga.
[Borne (Floyd County) Courier,
Attention is directed to the advertisement of
this most excellent paper. Mr. Estill, in tho con
duct oi the Morning News, has called around
him an editorial staff not inferior to any in the
State. Cob W. X. Thompson, ot "Major io ae’
Courtship” fame, and now the oldest active who,,.
in the State, has been connected witli that mdS
since its establishment, in 1850. Mr ,1 C Harris
a young man of great promise, and the princinai
wit aud humorist of the Georgia press, colonel
Thompson s first Lieutenant. Between the two
and a corps of city reporters, the News is made
one of the best papers in the South And Estill
understands how to conduct the business sue
cessfuliy. .
[New York Forest and Stream.]
We direct attc ntion to the card of The Savan
nah Morning News, in another column It is
one of the best newspapers in the South and coi
tains much intelligence of special interest to thus,
who wish to visit that section. Its chief editi
is Colonel William T. Thompson. a veteran of the
Florida war, as well as of Southern journalism
and widely known as Major Jones, author r t
“Major Jones’Courtship," and other humorous
papers. He is familiarly acquainted with ev. rv
portiou of Florida, and his paper contains coni
ous notes of current events in that State
commend The News to those who would like tr
read a reliable Southern journal, or wish to brin.’
their business before the people of Florida .me
the South Atlantic States.
[Palatka (Fla.) Herald.]
The Savannah Morning News has always been
deservedly popular in Florida, aud has consistent
ly devoted a portion of its space to Florida
interests. Its circulation of the local current
news of the State is alone a very attractive teat ir. ■
to Floridians. To those of our readers who Cos - ',,
a journal fully up to the requirements f tho
times in every respect, we can most heartily com
mend either of the editions of the Morning Nkw,
In the extent aud variety of its reading matter
in the elaborate thought—fulness of its editm
rials—iu the vivid freshness of its correspondence
and special telegrams—and iu the sparkling
genry of its news paragraphs—it unquestionably
takes the lead among Southern Dailies accessible
to Florida.
[Warrenton Clipper.]
Btauding in tlio very front rank of Georgia
journalism, the Savannah Morning News hardly
needs the agency of the advertisement, which
appears in another column to-day, to recommend
it to any who may be in need of a first-class news
paper. Edited with care aud ability, conducted
upon a high plane of moral principal, aud withal
presenting the news of the day iu a most oompact
and readable manner, it deservedly stands second
to no Southern journal.
Col. Thompson has devoted the best part of a
lifetime to the editorial profession, and the News
now lias the benefit ol his ripe experh a . j
political judgmeut, while Mr. J. C. Uu
news, editor is recognize*! as the Mark 1■ > f
the Georgia Press.
[Louisville (Jefferson County) .Votes and 1
It is not even necessary for us to praise
in commendatory language of the S.t
Morning News. It is a paper widely kn
one of the best in the South; aud the woud
is, how any thinking reasonable man, v
without a family, who can read, or get a
else to read it for him, can do without it.
From the Morning News you eau get the news
from all parts of the country, aud sometimes in
less than twelve hours. It is a paper of such
value that when it reaches home there is a contest
about who shall read it first. A better advertising
medium aud a more reliable one, cannot be found!
If you desire to keep posted iu politics and the
affairs of the outside world, you must tuko the
Savannah Morning News.
[Greenville (Meriwether County) Vimik xttor. ]
In another column appears the prospectus of tho
Savannah Morning News, established in 1850, and
then as uow, edited by the prince of veteran journal
ists, \V. T. Thompson, author of those humorous
books, Maj. Jones’Courtship aud the Chronicles
of Pineville. From the care taken in the prepara
tion of its editorials, aud tho broad views aud
profound thought displayed iu them, Major
Thompson is justly entitled to the sotn-ii/wt old
Reliable, while the Georgia column under tho
control of J. C. Harris, sparkles with so many
witty paragraphs made up from Georgia exchanges,
that a country editor is never at a loss where to
find a column of news ready furnished, wherewith
to amuse and entertain his readers. To all desir
ing a first-class paper from Georgia’s metropolis,
we cordially recommend the Savannau Mousing
News.
[Americus Republican.]
We have loug since regarded tho News as one of
tho best papers published in the South, and hut
few superior to it in the Uuion. The mechanical
execution and general make up of the paper, can
not bo excelled, while as a reliable commercial
aud political paper, it ranks among the foremost.
It is a strong champion of the rights of the peo
ple, aud fearlessly grapples with and exposes error
iu every form. Col. W. T. Thompson,
active editor in the State, lias been con t i
the paper since its establishment, iu 1
C. Harris, the humorist of the Georgia I'
Col. Thompson's right bower, while
able city reporters make up tin- edito
the News ; and Mr. J. H. KsUU has bi
tor of the News siuoo 1807 aud uudei aud le
to conduct a newspaper. Here's to 11 on
the proprietor and editors : May the Nkm .
tinue to prosper, aud ever hold its pr *ei
position among the journals of tho da\
[Washington (Wilkes County) I, :•
All our readers who are interested m tin -oibje,
and who desire to obtain late and noahl. :■■!
genee from Savannah, and from all ts i th
world, and who desire to ke. j> poste nah mat
tors of interest, and who delight to I. >up with
the occurrences of tho day, and who n : bate
constantly at hand a supply of goo sly ami
literary reading, and, at tho same , -|, t()
read a political paper of the dome id stripe,
aud to obtain sound views upon all .. ip st,, ,sul
do well to refer tesour advertising columns, and
peruse ) tlio auamiucemont of ti Savannah
Morning News. This is an excellent paper and
and is published in a Daily a Tri-We- ijy and a
Weekly edition. The Weekly is a large end band
some sheet, containing a great an: hi of varied
f -xl lWMlixg innie r, xe! l'-‘rt.iful'’
adapted to those who have only wo U
■fes.and to those who cannot ato. ~, t.,,
B>pers. TheTri Weekly is a most exet lie.
Rid gives three times a week, all the e v
most convenient form. The Daily is
leading papers of this State and sectio. it.,
thorough newspaper, aud gives all the latest news
to its readers, at the oarliest possible moment.
It is ably edited, and we take great pleasure in
oommendiug the Morning News, in any one of its
forms, as Weekly, Tri-Weekly or Daily.
[Crawfordsville (Ind.) Journal.]
Elsewhere will bo found au advertisement of the
Savannah Morning News. Tlio desire of many
in this vicinity to know more concerning Florida,
cannot be better attained than by reading tlio
News. There arc no daily papers in Florida, (and
but few of any other kind worth anything) and the
News lias a Daily circulation of some 2,000 copies iu
that State. This leads its editors to pay consider
able attention to Florida affairs. Aside from this,
the News is an excellent paper. The writer of this’,
was for a year, intimately connected with the
News Office, aud knows whereof he writes when
ho says that iu all the requirements that go to
make up an enterprising journal, the Morning
News is far ahead of any paper in the entire
South. Its proprietor, J. H. Estill, has “a nose
for news,” and doesn’t hesitate to spend money
to get it. The editor-in-chief is Col. W. T. Thomp
son, familiarly known throughout the country by
his nom de plume of “Major Jones,” anil whose .
Georgia sketches are to be found in almost every
household. He is assisted by Mr. J. C. Harris, a
vigorous writer, with a fund of burner as keen
and finished as that of Mark Twain, and withal a
genuine poet, whose fugitive pieces have gone tlio
rounds of newspaperdoin time and again. AH
who desire a paper from that section will get more
than their money’s worth in the News.
Changing His Name.
The Brunswicker relates the following;
The other day a young African asked us
if it was “agin the law” to change his
name. We replied that, if ho had a good
name, he had better keep it, as a good'-
name was one thing to be desired in this
world. j
“I’se got a putty fair name,” he said,
“w’at I’se had eber since de war, but it
won’t do for dis chile any moah.”
“Why, what’s the matter with it?” wo *
asked.
“Well, you see, boss, dar’s a fool nig
ger come hyar from Chillicoffee, an’ lie’s
buzzin’ around wid my name, an’ no two
niggers can circurugate i% de same town
unless one or de uder ob ’em hab a
different procognem.”
“Perhaps you can prevail on him to
adopt another name.”
“No, sah; I offered him foah bits an’ a
rahzor to call hisself somethin’ else ’sides
Geowge Washin’ton Jones, but the yaller
fool won’t do it.”
“Yellow, is he ?"
“Yes, sah; an’ dat’s what makes me no
injurious about it. He says de Joneses
was de fustest families of Firginnv, an’
dat he’s condescended in a direct line
from dem, an’ eonsequenchly darfoah
walues de name moah exceedu lan
underwise.”
“So you propose to off with the old
name and on with the new?’
“Somethin’ like dat, Is pose, boss.
An’ I wants to ax you de favor to jest
some disappropriate name dat n de or a
cullud pusson ob standin’. I dWMf
soshate w'id de common, low clas>
gers, an’ I wants a name out o’ de: • MM
comprehension—wat dey can’t . t -ou, ■
know.”
“ How’ll Benedict Arnold do ?
“De Arnold am tonish, i r .., but"!
dar’s too many Dennys an’ Dicks around.
Try anudder one, boss.”
“ Well, Algernon Sartoris, how’s that?”
“ Dat s superlagant! Algerneyman Sar
toris Arnold —dat’ll do for some ob de
name. Please reach for anudder one,
sah.”
“ Why, that’s name enough. How
much do you want, for goodness sake ? ”
“Boss, you must ’member dat Ise
deekin m de church, an’ ’prietor ob a
house an’ lot.”
“Oh.' yes; well —let’s see —Bill Alim?
“ Dat’s too common.”
“ Abraham Lincoln ? ”
“Too ordinary, sah. Git up higLer.
“Phil Sheridan ?”
“Higher yet, sah, if you please.”
“William Tecumseh Sher
“Stop, sah —dat’s nuff —needn’t f<el no
furder. Wilyum Cherkumsey-that
sounds like ole Kaintnck—Wilyum Chor
kumsey Algerneyman Sartoris Arnold.
Yes, sah, dat’ll do— no low-class nigger
can git inside' o’ dat. You’se de solm
witness, boss, dat dat’s my name from
henchfo’th on to all precedin’ time. Fse
obliged to you, sah. ”
As he walked majestically away, repeat
ing the name over to himself, he was the
proudest nigger in Brunswick. And yet
Shakspearesays there’s nothing in a name.
Colonel Kent, of the United States se-J
cret service, arrested Bev. W, W. BauAj
dall, known as a revival preacher, at WaJ
terville, Maine, on suspicion of
uttered and passed one dollar
bank bills changed to fives.