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H. C. STEVENSON, Manager.
Jefferson Davis’ progress through va
rious towns on his way to De Sot >, Mo., is
represented as extremely cordial.
Another haul of counterfeiters and bogus
greenbacks is announced from New York.
Now that kind of money may be called
“rags” with much confidence and without
any controversy.
A Negro preacher in Atlanta, in the pay
of speculators no doubt, is urging the
negroes to move to Mississippi. Well, let
them go if they wish: but it strikes us that
Mississippi i3 a bad place for negroes at
this particular
The Augusta papers are making rapid
strides in the way of improvement in all
departments. We hope they are receiving
the patronage they deserve. For political
news and views, contributed by good cor
rvspondents in various parts of the Stab*,
they are not surpassed by any of our State
Journals.—ltome Courier.
Some months ago. Judge Sparnick, of
the Aiken Probate Court and editor of the
Tribune of that place, was presented for
malfeasance in office, mainly the misap
prepriation of trust funds. We have been
informed by Major W. T. Gary, counsel
for the Judge, that the grand jury failed to
find a true bill.
The Political beehive is swarming. Our
dispatches this morning are largely t iken
up with the assemblages of different par
ties. In New York the Republicans have
declared for hard money, rapid specie re
sumption and no third term, lu North
Carolina the Democrats are moulding tho
State Convention. 111 Maryland the Radi
cals are making common cause with the
Potato Bug Know Nothings. In Pennsyl
vania the Democracy are reported to be
even more pronounced than the Ohio plat
form 011 the greenback question, but mid
night dispatches indicate a difference of
opinion on that subject.
Daniel li. Whitaker, LL. 1)., of New
Orleans, is in Augusta, and honored us with
a visit yesterday morning. Dr. Whitaker
comes amongst us for the purpose of in
troducing to the attention of our citizens
the New Orleans Monthly Review, a publica
tion which reflects the best and soundest,
as well as tiie most brilliant, evidences of
Southern talent. We have been much im
pressed by tlie high scholarly tone of the
articles in this Review, and rejoice
that our section is not utterly de
void of a vehicle of thought which
m ay compare favorably with similar pub
lications at the North. Dr. V hitaker was
for a number of years editor of the South
ern Quarterly Review, of Charleston, S. C.
He ims secured as subscribers to his New
Orleans magazine many of the most in
ti uential and honored names in all the
Southern States. We trust that he may
meet with that success in Augusta whicli
his reputation deserves, not to speak of
the signal merit of the literary feast which,
every thirty days, he spreads before his
numerous readers.
A Paris telegram states that 500 German
pilgrims had arrived in that city on the
way to the miraculous Grotto of Lourdes,
and escaped all molestation. If men and
women choose to visit the shrines of their
faith, no matter what their faith may be,
what a monstrous infamy it is that some
jack-iu-the-box statesman- 'should make
a disturbance about it, and thereby
instigate mobs without any faith at
all to maltreat these pious crea
tures, some of whom, God knows,
failing to receive anything kind from their
fellow mortals have turned to religion for
support and comfort. It is better to be
lieve in a superstition than be destitute of
all belief in spiritual things ; or, in the
language of Wordsworth, condemning the
material and earth-earthy tendency of the
world—
Great God ! I’d rather be
A Pagan nurtured in a creed out-worn
So might I, standing on this pleasant Jea,
Have glimpses that would make me less
forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn!
The most forcible idea we have of heaven
is that, if there were uo other inducement
to strive for it, the mere getting rid of
rascals who trouble us here and constitute
a hell itself, would be amply sufficient.
Mk. Noi bhoff’s letter to the Herald
concerning affairs in Georgia is, In some
respects, an unfair document. Any one
would suppose that the State was really
decrepid and retrogressive in agriculture
and wealth. Gov. Smith has made a state
ment to the contrary, which is quite as
good as Mr. Nokbhoff’s jeremiad. The
Herald correspondent has acknowledged
that the negroes in this State have accu
mulated more property than in any other
Southern Commonwealth. Does he mean
to say that the whites have not kept pace
with the blacks? Such a monstrous para
dox bears its own condemnation on its very
face. It may be that Georgia
showed last year a larger list of
commmercial failures than any other
Southern State, but it must be remem
bered, on the other hand, that her bonds
are six per cent, premium in New York,
and, in spite of .Bullock & Co.’s plunder
ing, she could liquidate her entire debt by
the sale of her property. Before the war,
Georgia and South Carolina credit was as
high as the highest. Mr. Norbhoff's Re
publican friends have been the architects
of our changed condition, from which we
shall rally when the North, perhaps, is on
the descending scale. What Mr. Nokdhoff
says about the Homestead exemption, and
the folly of planters in borrowing money
at usurious rates to make uncertain cotton
crops, is only too true. But they are
gradually emancipating themselves from
that thralldom. we are happy to believe.
Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, who has been
distinctly charged by his own partisans
with an endeavor to stir up bloodshed be
tween blacks and whites for political effect
and as an auxiliary to Morton & Cos., .has
•succeeded finally in accomplishing his pur
pose. His object was not only to give the
"bloody shirt” party a lift, in its desperate
strait, but also to put the State he dis
honors with his presence under martial
law. To this end, as our ’dispatches indi
cate, he has endeavored to get the Presi
dent to send an army into Mississippi
which but for him would be at per
fect peace. Governor Ames betrays
in his demand for troops a misgiv
ing of the success of the application. Well
he may. Lanbaulet Williams is no lon
ger Attorney General and Grant has had
his dose of Southern “outrages” and armed
intervention. Tlu> game played by Ames is
stale, Hat and unprofitable. The people of
this country have had enough of marplots
like Ames and are tired of sacrificing white
men to negro politicians. The Governor of
Mississippi is morally responsible for the
bloody deeds new going on in the State he
misgoverns. It speaks well for President
GbanJ and Attorney General Piebrepont
that they have kept strictly within the law
and compelled Ames to take the responsi
bility of hie crimes. Let the Yillain abdi
cate, get him to Massachusetts, and be fed
out of the pap spoons of bis rich father-in
iaw. The South is weary of §jjch vermin,
and so is the North.
%\)t SUurastq Constitaiwnafet
V
Established 1799.
FROM CONYERS.
THE HEARD CASE.
The Defendant Bailed to Answer for
Attempt at Rape.
1 Special to the C< nstitutionalist |
Conyers, Ga., September 8, 1875.
J. T. Heard, who was arrested Con
yers on Monday night, on a warrant
charging him with raping the two
daughters of Mrs. Chamberlain, at the
hotel, was brought before Hon. A. L.
Davidson, Judge of the County Court,
and Justice M. M. Bentley, this morn
ing. The warrant for rape was with
drawn by counsel for the prosecution,
and two other warrants were issued
charging him with assault with intent
to rape. After consultation by the at
torneys for the defendant, they agreed
to waive a preliminary examination and
tendeied a bond and security in the
sum of $2,000 in each case, which was
accepted by the court. The citizens
here are generally quiet and are satis
fied with the disposition of the cases.
Heard left on the 2:39 o’clock train for
Atlanta, this afternoon. The prosecu
tion was represented by Messrs. A. C.
McC’alla, J. C. Barton and W. P. Reed,
of this place ; the defendant by Gen. L.
J. Gartrell, of Atlanta ; Judge James S.
Hook, of Augusta ; and Col. A. C. Perry,
of Conyers. J. P. T.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A Preacher in Trouble—Arrest of
Counterfeiters.
Waterville, Me., September B.—Col.
Kent, of the United States Secret Ser
vice, arrested Rev. W. W. Randall, a
revival preacher, on suspicion of hav
ing passed dollar bills raised to fives.
New York, September B.—Two Ital
ians were yesterday arrested at the
Grand Central Depot, having in their
possession a largo quantity of ten dol
lar counterfeits on the First National
Bank of Philadelphia and the City
Bank of Poughkeepsie. The plate
from which the bills were printed was
cut by the notorious counterfeiter, Tom
Ballard, now in the Albany penitentia
ry, and during the past nine years has
been altered to print counterfeits of
twenty-eight different national banks.
Bank Robbery—Fall of a Building—
Injury to Workmen.
Greenville, Ivy., September B.—The
bank of F. B. Hancock & Cos. was rob
bed of $27,000.
Jackson, Michigan, September B.
The walls of Bennett’s new building
fell, burying eight workmen. Three
were taken out badly injured but alive.
Burning of Stables and Mules—Geor
gia Distillers of Crooked Whiskey
Sentenced.
North Platte, Neb., September B.
The hay stables and fourteen mules
belonging to the Government were
burned.
Atlanta, September B.—The United
States District Court has been in ses
sion three days, and during that time
eighty-three parties have been convict
ed and sentenced for violation of the
internal revenue laws, principally illicit
distillers.
Assassination of the Notorious Joe
Crews —Fatal and Destructive Explo
sion.
Augusta, Ga., September B.— Joe
Crews was fatally shot this morning by
parties unknown near Laurens Court
House, S. C. Charles Bollin, who was
riding in a hack with Crews, was seri
ously wounded. Crews lias been prom
inently identified with politics in Sou tti
Carolina since Reconstruction.
Newark, N. J., September B.—There
was an explosion in a celluloid factory,
on Mechanic street, in the central part
of the city, at 6 o’clock. About 30 men
were in the building at the time, but
some escaped uninjured. Three were
taken out bp the firemen, one of whom
was dead, and the others are not ex
pected to recover. It is supposed that
twelve or more remain in the building
without hope of rescue. The building
was destroyed by the shock, and the
flames broke out in every direction.
Firemen are playing on the bricks so
t hey can look for bodies supposed to be
in the ruins. Most of the employes are,
however, accounted for. Some build
ings on the opposite side of the street
caught fire, but were put out. Three
buildings adjoining, occupied by Phil
lip Meyer’s railroad lock factory, G. &
J. Simmon’s saddle factory, S. Stewart,
coffee roaster, and the Denny Gas Ma
chine Manufacturing Company, were
destroyed ; also Bryant’s livery stable.
Loss, $175,000.
Mabrid, September B.—Quesada has
his headquarters at Tefalla. He re
ports that the Carlist General Dorre
garay is marching towards Tolosa.
His forces are reduced to a handful.
The Pope and the American Cardinal.
Rome, September B.—His Holiness re
ceived Cardinal McCloskey at 7 o’clock
this evening. The Rector of the
American College and the Cardinal’s
Secretary accompanied him. Two
Cardinals and several prelates greeted
him at the Hall of the Throne. He
was immediately asked into the Pope’s
private apartment where his Holiness
rose and embraced him. They re
mained together alone for half an hour.
Upon leaving the Vatican, the Cardinal
was again complimented by the pre
lates.
The date fixed for holding the Con
sistory is the 24th instead of the 9th.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Cardinal McCloskey in Rome —The
Lourdes Pilgrims—Troops for Cuba.
Rome, September 8. —Cardinal Mc-
Closkey has arrived.
Paris, September B. —Five hundred
Belgian and some German Pilgrims,
to Lourdes, have arrived here. There
was no molestation or excitement.
Madrid, Septembers.—The LaEpoca
says one thousand ex-rebel soldiers
leave to-day for Cuba. A regiment em
barks on the 15th inst.
A Spanish Fandango—Cardinal Mc-
Closkey's Affairs.
Santanber, September 8. —The Alfon
sist General Quesada has moved his
forces from Victoria to Tafalla.
Rome, September 8. —Cardinal Mc-
Closkey will have a private audience
with the Pope to-night. The American
Consul paid his respects to the Cardi
nal to-day.
A Frenchman learning the English
language complained of the irregular
ity of the verb “to go,” the present
tense of which some wag had wrhten
out for him as follows: “I go; thou
startest; he departs; we make tracks;
you cut sticks; they absquatulate or
skedaddle.”
BLOODY SHIRT AMES.
HE WANTS THE UNITED STATES
ARMY.
Failing to Get Comfort Out of an Old
Executive Proclamation He Makes
Formal Demand for Bayonets—A
Desperate Attempt to Save the Radi :
cal Party.
Washington, September B.—The fol
lowing dispatch was received at the
Executive mansion last night, from
Governor Ames, of Mississippi:
Jackson, Miss., September 7, 1875.
To His Excellency, U. S. Grant, Presi
dent, Washington, D. C.:
Sir : —Domestic violence, in its most
aggravated form, exists in Certain parts
of this State. On the eve of the Ist
inst., unauthorized and illegal armed
bodies overthrew tho civil authorities
of Yazoo county, and took forcible pos
session of said county, from which the
Sheriff, the peace officer of the county,
was compelled to flee for safety, and is
still a refugee. The Sheriff of this,
Hiuds couuty, reports that since
the 4th instant he has been
unable, after every effort, to maintain
the peace and protect right. He re
ports various murders by unauthoriz
ed armed bodies who are scouring the
country. Warren county is also repor
ted as being in a state of terrorism
from the demonstrations of still other
unauthorized armed bodies, and a feel
ing of insecurity pervades in other
counties of the State. After careful ex
amination of all reports, I find myself
compelled to appeal to the General
Government for the means of giving
that proteetion to which every Ameri
can citizen is entitled. I do not now
make formal application under the pro
visions of the Constitution of the Unit
ed States, but telegraph you to know if
you can and will regard the proclama
tion issued by you in December last, on
the application of the Legislature of
this State, as still iu ’oree ? The ne
cessity for immediate action cannot be
overstated. If your proclamation of
December last"is not in force, I wiM at
once make a formal application in ac
cordance with the provisions of the
Constitution of the United States.
(Signed) Adelbert Ames.
Governor.
Mr. Luckey, Private Secretary to the
President, immediately seut the above
dispatch to the President at Long
Branch, and a reply was sent directing
him to submit the dispatch to the At
torney General, ask his advice, and an
swer Ames as to whether the proclama
tion of last year could be construed as
now iu force. The telegrams were
handed to the Attorney General last
night, and this morniug that officer
submitted to the President his deci
sion that the proclamation of Decem
ber last cannot be construed as uow in
force. This opinion was communicated
to Governor Ames as directed by the
President in the following dispatch:
Executive Mansion, j
Washington, D. C., Bept. 8—?.0 A. M. )
Governor Adelbert Ames, Jackson, Mis
sissippi :
The President submitted your dis
patch of yesterday, asking if the pro
clamation of December last is still iu
force, to the Attorney General, who de
cides that it is not iu force. I notify
you of his decision by direction of the
President.
[Signed | Levi P. Luckey,
Secretary.
Washington, September B.—The fol
lowing telegram was received at the
Executive Mansion this evening and
immediately forwarded to the Presi
dent, at Long Branch, by Mr. Luckey,
his Private Secretary:
Jackson, Miss., 1
Sept. 8,1875—5:30 P. M. )
To President U. S. Grant, Washington,
D. C.: Domestic violence prevails iu
various parts of this State beyond the
power of tiie Stato authorities to sup
press. The Legislature cannot be con
vened in time to meet the emergency.
I, therefore, iu accordance with
section four, article four of the
the Constitution of the United States,
which provides that the United States
shall guarantee to ever State in this
Union a Republican form of govern
ment and shall protect each of them
against invasion, and on application of
the Legislature or of the Executive,
when the Legislature cannot be con
vened, against domestic violence, make
this my application for such aid from
the Federal Government as may be
necessary to restore peace to the State
and protect its citizens.
[Signed, | Adelbert Ames,
Governor.
Sporting News.
Lexington, September 8. —Hazen won
the mile heats. Time, 1:43%. 45, 47%.
Vagrant won the three-fourths mile
dash, two year olds. Time, 1:18.
Lexington, Ky., September B.—The
first race, one and a quarter mile, was
won by Richards’ Katie, Steinbok sec
ond and Kilboru third. Time, 2:11%.
The second race, a mile dash, was won
by Egypt, Astral second, Katie Pearce
third. Time, 1:44%. The third race,
a dash of a mile and three quarters,
was won by Col. Nelligan, Oxmore sec
ond. Time, 3:11%.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Spurgeon is getting “pussy.”
Cameo rings are fashionable.
Bears are plenty in Vermont.
Mills are starting up everywhere.
The Graphic pictures Keely’s phiz.
We are becoming a nation of beer
drinkers.
Where’s Hole-in-the-sky Boutwell
these days ?
The Eastern question—Broiled Tur
key or stewed.
The summer resorters are still mak
ing home runs.
California ladies have struck against
wearing earrings.
“Glycerine will remove freckles.” So
it will a house.
Know Nothingism doesn’t take in
Ohio worth a cent.
Piece makers—Steam, gunpowder
and nitro-glycerine.
Seventy-seven per cent, of Ireland’s
population are Catholics.
“No ballot, no babies,” is the West
ern female suffragist’s motto.
There are 360,000 less dwellings in
Iroland now than there were in 1811.
All flowers will droop in the absence
of the sun that waked their sweetness.
The Yale students who cut off the
Chinaman’s queue thiuk the operation
exqueuesable.
Coleridgo says : Good prose is proper
words in proper places—poetry the best
words in the best places.
Happiness consists in shutting our
eyes to all that is around us, for when
they are opened they see through a
mist of falling tears.
AUGUSTA. GGY., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1875.
POLITICAL.
Tlie Greenback Platfo in in Pennsyl
vania—A Mild Radici l Victory—New
Jersey Election R turns—Califor
nia’s Legislature.
Erie, Pknn., Septeml er B.—Reports
agree that the platforn| will be about
the same as that of Ohio probably more
strongly greenback am; auti-National
Bank.
Santa Fe, September 8. — Elkins, Re
publican, is probably ; e-elected Con
gressional delegate.
Jersey City, Septembi r B.—Hoboken,
Patterson and Elizabet . report major
ities for constitutional amendments.
Newark, September Indications
are that all the constiti tional amend
ments are adopted by ten to thirty
thousand majority.
San Francisco, Sept< mber B. —Full
returns show the Seuafe to stand 17
regular Democrats, Independent
Democrats, 8 Independents and 7 Re
publicans. I
San Francisco, September B.— The
Assembly has 35 regul|r Democrats ;
Independent Democrat*! 10; Republi
cans, 3. The Independents tie between
a Democrat and Independent in Yuba
(Dam ?) j
Proceedings of the Nevj York Repub
lican Convention—Hard Money, A
Headlong Return toSpf'cie Payments
and No Third Term. ?
Saratoga, September j 8. —Tho Re
publican State Convention was called
to order. Hon. E. D. Morgan made a
brief speech. He should extend the
hand of fellowship to hi| countrymen
who were unfortunately fed to take up
arms against us. Let there be no step
backward in return t*) specie pay
ments. B. Cornell was elected temporary
Chairman. A resolution declaring oppo
sition to the third term was referred to
the Committee on Resolutions.
Saratoga, September B.—George Win.
Curtis was elected permanent Chairman.
Nomination—Fred W. Seward for
Secretary of State.
The Committee on Resolutions re
ported a platform. The first resolution
is that the National Government should
remain in the hands of those who sus
tain the guarantees of the amended
Constitution, and, in pursuance of past
action of the Republican party and its
good results, the welfare of the coun
try requires a just, generous and for
bearing National policy iu the South
ern States, a firm refusal to use mili
tary power, except for purposes clearly
defined in the Constitution and the
local enforcement of national authority
by those only who are in sympathy
with such a policy and will heartily
support it. The second resolution de
mands honesty in every branch of the
State and National Governments, and
prompt punishment of malfeasance in
office. The third, fourth and fifth are
local. The sixth states that further
inflation of the currency under any pre
tense would be a public calamity. The
interests of honest industry and com
mon welfare demand the speediest
possible return to specie payment. The
eighth: Recognizing as conclusive the
President’s public declaration that he
is not a candidate for renomination,
and, with the sincerest gratitude for
his patriotic services, we declare our
unalterable opposition to the election
of any President for a third term. The
ninth relates to schools. The tenth is
an endorsement of the Administration.
Efforts to strike out the eighth resolu
tion failed. The platform was adopted
with applause.
Francis E. Spinner was nominated
for Comptroller. Adjourned sine die.
Proceedings of tte North Carolina
Convention—The Democracy in tlie
Ascendancy.
Raleigh, N. C., September B.—The
Convention completed its organization
to-day. All officers elected are Demo
cratic. Immediately after organiza
tion Mr. Tourgee, Republican, offered a
motion to adjourn sine die. It was de
feated by a strict party vote. One Re
publican, Mr. Woodfin, and the Inde
pendent, Mr. Wilcox, dodged the vote.
An ordinance introduced by Badger, of
Wake, providing for relief of ex-Gov.
Holden from political disabilities, was
referred. A resolution by Judge Bux
ton to seat Republican claimants for
admission from Robeson county, lies
over. The death of Hon. W. A. Gra
ham was announced by his colleague,
Mr. Turner. Suitable resolutions were
adopted. Pending eulogies the Con
vention adjourned till to-morrow.
Proceedings of the Maryland Repub
lican Convention—A Union of Radi
cals andKuow-Notliing Potato Bugs.
Westminster, Md., September B.
Iu tho Republican State Convention,
Wm. J. Jones, of Cecil, was elected
President. The Chairman of the Com
mitte on Resolutions said, after con
siderable debate, he was iustrueted to
present a resolution favoring co-opera
tion with the independent movement,
and the appointment of a committee of
one from each couuty to confer with all
organized friends of reform with a view
to the selection of candidates, to report
at an adjourned meeting! Adopted.—
There were two nays. Tile Convention
adjourned to meet at |ialtimore on
September 22d. |
Proceedings of the Pennsylvania
Democratic Conventioii —A Split on
the Currency Question.
Erie, Pa., September 6 —Convention
met at noon. Called to irtierbyJohn
Miller. Committees on ct ntested seats,
platform and permanent organization
appointed. Recess.
Hendrick B. Wright of Luzerne
county, Permanent Chair man, was ap
plauded when he said t e Democrats
favored hard money. .’he applause
was greater when he averred they
were not in favor of s; eedy resump
tion. The Platform Cu l mittee asked
more time to complete thfiir work. Re
cess.
It is understood that he committee
are unable to agree on at irrency plank.
.
Minor Telegri ins.
Chicago, September 8.- -The fifteenth
biennial session cf thi Potnologica!
Convention convened. } ivery State is
represented.
Cincinnati, Septembe: B.—Business
is generally suspended ii honor of the
opening of the Sixth Indj strial Exposi
tion. 1
Boston, September B.—“ The following
officers of the American Pharmaceuti
cal Association were cl osen to-day :
President, G. F. H. Mark le, of Boston;
Vice-Presidents, Dr. Ho fman, of New
York; T. Roberts Baker, .if Richmond,
Va.; C. F. G. Meyer, of S . Louis; Trea
surer, Charles A. TuLj='; of Dover, N.
H.; Permanent Secretary, Professor
John M. Marsch, of Phili delphia.
San Francisco, Septem er B.—A com
pany of United States t oops left on a
special train for the seer a of trouoles
in Nevada. Nothing nev financially.
-
The Airnee stocking, re learn from
a fashion paper, is out. Out where
at the heel ?
LETTER FROM RUTLEDGE.
Hot Weather—Tlie Crops—New Cotton
—Swallowing Glftss—R elig io u s
Topics.
[Correspondence of tiie Constitutionalist.!
Rutledge, September G, 1875
We are having the hottest weather
we have had this summer. There has
been no rain in over two weeks. Fall
crops are suffering. Cotton is opening
very fast. Tlie first bale of new cotton
was shipped from this depot on Satur
day last, to Daniel & Crowley, of Au
gusta. It was gathered off the farm of
A. J. Williams, and ginned at the Hue
needle gins of YTning Bros. Fifteen
hundred pounds of seed cotton turned
out a bale weighing five hundred and
fifty pounds. There will be several
bales ready for shipping from here in
ten days or two weeks.
A Bad Swallow.
A little boy about thirteen months
old, son of Wm. Gregory, Jr., our tele
graph operator ; was playing witli a
bottle on the floor the other day, when
he broke the bottle and swallowed
several pieces of glass before his
mother discovered h im. Dr. J. J.
Montgomery was called in and ex
tracted some pieces from the child’s
throat, then gave it medicine which
caused a lot of small pieces to pass
through without any injury to the
child. He is now well and hearty.
Camp Meetiug Notes.
Avery interesting camp meeting is
going on at old Salem camp ground, in
Newton couuty, between Covington and
Conyers. There was a very large
crowd there on Saturday and Sunday.
Dr. Means preached one of the best
sermons on Saturday night that was
ever listened to by that congregation.
It is enough to say it was one of the
Doctor’s best efforts, and it had the
desired effect. There was a power
ful ingathering of mourners: and
Sunday Rev. William E Evans
preached the morning sermon. It
was eloquent, well-timed and wholly
freighted with Jeep thought and sound
religious doctrine, lie held that large
audience spell-bound for an hour,
which seemed to throw around them a
halo of light that made them see what
dangerous ground they stand upon in
this siuful world. Mr. Evans is begin
ning to show age by his general ap
pearance and silvery gray hair, but
has not lost any of his force and bril
liancy of speech or singing. There is
a power about his singing that sends a
pointed shaft to every heart.
There was some little excitement at
the camp ground on Saturday evening,
caused by a negro coming therefrom
Henry county and reporting that there
was a band of negroes arming and or
ganizing to come there that night to
break up tiie meeting and take#lhe
town of Conyers. It did not ainouut
to much. They did not come, and the
camp meeting went on all the same, as
if such a report had not been circu
lated. A report of a negro insurrec
tion does not excite the people in this
portion of the State.
On Sunday morning Dr. Haywood
called upon the congregation for ap
propriations to Emory College in a
short speech, which was responded to
by about S2OO being paid up aud sub
scribed in a very few minutes.
Spectator.
Tlie Drifts to the Democracy.
[Springfield (Mass.) Republican—lndepen
dent.]
The success of the Democratic party
in California is another indication of
tho increasing drift of political power
all over the country in that direction.
Nothing now seems to stand in tho way
of the Democratic organization carry
ing the Presidential election next year
but a split on the currency question. If
they carry Ohio in October, such a split
would seem to be Inevitable; if they
are defeated there will be so pointed a
rebuke to the inflation element in the
party as practically to suppress it, and
give the Democracy quite as plain a
field on that question as the Republi
cans have. The great factor, how
ever, in the current polieal revolu
tion is a settled dissatisfaction with
the Republican administration, and a
desire for a change per se, without
much assurance or evidence, in tho po
sition of the Democracy, that such
change will bring improvement. There
is a good ileal of material force and
something of intelligent instinct also,
however, in the feeling that any change
will be an improvement —that nothiug
short of dismissal from power can
teach tho Republicans the virtue of
new ideas, and that there may be at
least enough new men among the re
stored old Democracy to bring iu new
policies and new principles. Tho old
appeals have lost their force. The
voters will not bo frightened by the an
cient sins of the Democracy, nor held
by the past virtues and glories of Re
publicanism. More aud more certain
does it grow that, as between the De
mocratic party and the Republican
party, the voters next year will choose
the Democratic. No ordinarily good
nominations by the Republican party,
no ordinarily bad nominations by tlie
Democrats, can be hopefully relied
upon to change this drift. As against
Tilden, it would probably be impossible
for the Republicans to make a party
nomination that could carry the coun
try. Neither Blaine nor Washburne,
the ablest of the old Republican lead
ers, could be relied upon to do it.
Bristow would be strong, but, under
the present aspect of affairs, not strong
enough. Even Bayard or Thurman
would stand the better chance in a con
test with either of these best three of
the Republican leaders. When the
Republicans of Massachusetts are
finding it difficult to choose a
candidate out of their own party
ranks that they can elect Governor
this year, what hope can there be of
the country in any ordinary party con
test ? What this paper has long ob
served, that only a party revolution,
either through candidates or over
sharp public questions, can prevent the
Democratic party from obtaining pos
session of the Federal Government
next year grows more and more ap
parent and is so confessed, not only by
all the most impartial observers of the
political situation, but by many of the
Republican politicians themselves. —
The organization, the machine is carry
ing them to a sure defeat. Such a
ticket as Charles Francis Adams and
General Bristow, united, might
redeem their lost cause, but only
because, while it might party
names the same, it would force a party
revolution. A ticket of any less power,
appealing any the feebler to the great
moral, patriotic and reformatory sense
of the nation, can give little hope of re
sisting the drift of feeling and of events.
In this, or the sharp division of the
Democratic party between rag money
and gold money, are surely seen the
only possible rays of light for the Re
publicans. Mr. Adams would be sure
to lead them to victory in Massachu
setts. They may get it here without
him. They have no reason to expect
it in the potion.
CONDITION OF GEORGIA.
What the State has Lost by Emigra
tion—Profitableness of Manufactures
—The Small Farmers her Most Pros
perous Class.
Alpine, N. J., Sept. 4, 1875.
To the Editor of the Herald :
One evidence of a general lack of
prosperity in this State I came upon
even before I entered Georgia is tlie
considerable number of emigrants, of
both colors, who are leaving the State
for Arkansas, Texas and Mississippi,
aud parties of whom I frequently spoke
with at railway stations.
Georgia has lost in this way since the
conclusion of the war, I have reason to
think, at least 50,000 people, half of each
color.
The fact is that Georgia, though it is
still essentially an agricultural State,
has its greatest future as a manufac
turing region. It has a great deal of
valuable water power; also coal, iron
and other mineral wealth; it has a
great deal of land better fitted for small
farms and varied agriculture thau for
either cotton or corn, and it has ready
to the hands of manufacturing cap
italists a very numerous pop
ulation of “ poor whites,” whose
daughters make excellent factory oper
tors, and to whom the offer of this
species of labor is a real rise in the
scale of civilization. The cotton plan
ters are not, as a class, either wealthy
or prosperous ; but the few cotton fac
tories are, even in this day of general
depression, very remunerative ; the
iron and coal works are in a good con
dition, and tho farmers of Northern
Georgia are said to be doing well in all
respects. I have been surprised by
the unbroken prosperity of the cotton
mills in Georgia. The Augusta mills
have paid a yearly dividend of not less
than twenty per cent, since 1865, and
the stock is quoted at 168 to-day, and
none is for sale. The product is 275,-
000 yards per week. The Eagle and
Phoenix mills, of Columbus, built since
the vitar, with a capital of $1,000,000 and
25,000 spindles, have paid au average
dividend of over 18 per cent., and have
a considerable surplus. No stock can
he bought. The Graniteville cotton
mills, which lie in South Carolina, just
across the border line of Georgia, were
not fairly started until 1867 ; aud since
then, lam told, have paid off a debt of
$75,000, increased their capacity from
15,000 to 23,000 spindles, built over 40
houses for operatives, aud have mean
time paid an average dividend of over
twelve per cent. But all these mills
have done a much more important
work beside ; for all of them give em
ployment to the gil ls and women of the
poor white class, to whom such labor
is, as I have said, a real and very im
portant step in civilization. They make j
excellent operatives, I am told, and the j
factory life not only improves their own
condition iu a remarkable degree, but.
adds greatly to tho comfort of their
parents, and is, perhaps, the only
means of redeeming this large popula
tion from a somewhat abject and de
graded condition.
Cotton Factories Prosperous.
I think I can see that the cotton
manufacturer has several important
advantages in this State over his rivals
in the Northern States. He needs no
such solid and costly dwellings for the
workpeople ; land is still cheap; lumber
for building is cheap ; fuel is unusually
cheap, the operative class is, I suspect,
more manageable and more easily made
intelligent than the rude, imported
labor now used in the North; food is
and must long remain cheaper, the*
mildness of the winter is certainly an
advantage, and there is an air of com
fort and contentment about these
Southern factories which is very
pleasing. The operatives are usually
very nicely lodged in cottages and are
evidently happy and pleased with their
life.
It is among the factory workers and
the small farmers of Georgia that we
find the chief prosperity of the State.
Here there is little or no debt; money
circulates rapidly, improvements are
seen, and there is patient, hopeful la
bor, thrift and enterprise, which affects,
as it seems to me, the whole popula
tion. I heard here and there of in
stances of poor mechanics working
steadily and earnestly, in a New Eng
land way, at their trades, making labor
respectable, accumulating property and
taking honorable places in their com
munities; and some such men talked to
me of their past and their future, of
the hopeful change which the extinc
tion of slavery had produced in the
prospects of their class, in lauguage
which showed me that there is a new
born hope of better things in the poor
white people of the State.
When you strike the cotton region
affairs are not so prosperous or happy.
In the first place, the cotton farmers
and planters—the large land-owners,
less energetic than the population I
have spoken of above—have suffered
from two bad laws which fostered their
lack of business capacity and love of
ease. The homestead law reserves to
a land-owner a homestead of the value
of 53,000 iu gold, exempting this from
seizure by creditors. To this, I believe,
was added SI,OOO worth of personal
property. Of course, in au agricultu
ral region, so large an exemption can
be easily made to cover a very consid
erable amount of property. To this
was added a lieu law—fortunately re
pealed by the last Legislature—whieli
enabled the planter to borrow on or
mortgage bis uuplauted crop ; the fac
tor who furnished him tools, manures,
food and clothing having, by this
law, the first claim on the crop.
Of course he also secured the
handling of it. I have seen the
evil operation of such a law in Louis
iana in the slavery times, and in the
Sandwich Islands more recently. It is
ruinous, for it offers a prize to inca
pacity and unthrift, enables men to
undertake planting with insufficient
capital, and deranges the whole indus
try. In Georgia the Homestead law
doubtless increased the evils of the
Lien law, and between the two it re
sulted that the planters fell over head
and ears in debt. A great many of them
were regularly a year or more behind
hand, and if the orop—which is more
precarioqs iq this State than in some
others —failed or fell short the factor
took all, and the laborers, employed to
a great extent on wages, often lost all
their pay, except what they had con
sumed during the year. I do not doubt
that in some oases such loss and wrong
fell upon the negro laborer through the
recklessness or dishonesty of the plan
ter, but I am satisfied also that much
oftener the planter would have honest
ly paid if he could, and that he, as well
as his workman, was the victim of a
bad business system and of his lack of
capital and of business thrift. It was
one of the incidents of the Reorganiza
tion of labor on anew basis in a t tate
where the culture of cotton is less cer
tainly remunerative than in more fer
tile regions. To show you how the
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 31.
lien law worked, here is a statement
made to me by a planter of the charges
which he had known to be paid for ad
vances made by a factor. Ho instanced
to me the case of a planter who requir
ed from his factor a loan or advance of
$5,000 to make his crop. For this
he paid one per cent, per month, to
which I was assured seven per cent,
per annum was sometimes added,
making really nineteen per cent.
Then the arrangement was that the
factor should buy all the planter’s sup
plies for him, and for this service he
charged him two and a half per cent.,
and billed the goods to him at “time’*
prices, which added eight or ten per
cent, to their cost. Then the factor sold
the planter’s crop, and charged for this
two and a half per cent, again. I should
not have believed such a system possi
ble had I not seen precisely the same
thing regularly done .by the sugar
planters in the Sandwich Islands two
or three years ago. Of course, no busi
ness except the slave trade could bear
such a drain. Some planters com
plained to me that they could never
get advances from the banks, who pre
ferred to lend to the factors, but this
will hardly surmise any business man.
The profits were great enough for the
bank and the factors to divide.
One of the natural results of this
system has been discontent among the
negroes—the laborers, who often lost
their wages. At least 25,000 of them
have left the State-, and this emigra
tion, which last year already began to
alarm the planters, has not ceased. It
has been increased by other causes, of
which I will, by and by, speak; but I
am satisfied, from conversation with
leading colored men, that the lack of
prosperity here and the well founded
belief that they could do better else
where has beeu one of the main causes.
Repeal of the Lien Law.
The repeal of the Lieu law has, of
course, left the poor and improvident
among the planters without credit, and
tbey are naturally in poor spirits. But
they will presently see that it is their
salvation. Already they are planting
more corn than ever before. They see
that to raise bread and meat enough
for their laborers will keep them out of
the hands of the factors. More corn
wiil bo harvested in the cotton region
of Georgia this year than iu any year
since the war.
I have given this statement of the
industrial condition of Georgia because
it is certain that many of the incidents
of Georgia society grow mainly out of
the fact that the State, and particularly
the planting region, is far less prosper
ous than the cotton regions of Arkan
sas, Louisiana or Mississippi; and is so
mainly for the reasons I have given—
the poverty of the soil, the precarious
ness of the crop in the far southern
countiers, where it is peculiarly ex
posed to the attacks of insects, and the
poverty and unthrift of the planters.
That you may not think I have over
stated this lack of prosperity, I give
you here some figures from a mercan
tile report, whic I find in a Georgia
journal. The business failures amount
ed in the last six months to the great
sum of $2,950,215. This is a greater
loss by far than is reported from any
other Southern State; greater even
than in South Carolina, as the following
figures show. Iu fact Georgia liabili
ties are double those of almost any
other Southern State, and more than
ten times those of Arkansas :
Alabama $523,000
Arkansas 211,000
Florida 235,000
Georgia 2,956,000
Louisiana.. 630,000
Mississippi ~ 1,045,000
North Carolina 263,000
South Carolina 2,042.000
T en nessee 325,000
Texas 1,153,000
Virginia and West Virginia 1,383,000
Total $10,767,000
The liabilities of Georgia amount to
nearly one-third of the liabilities of tho
twelve States—the liabilities of Geor
gia and South Carolina together amount
to nearly half the liabilities of the en
tire South. Georgia compares as follows
with other larger and wealthier States ;
Indiana $1,860,000
lowa 43C.000
Kentucky 2,456,0'0
Missouri 2,328,000
Ohio 2,594,000
Georgia 2,956,000
Now you must remember that, unlike
Ohio, Indiana or Missouri, Georgia is
almost entirely an agricultural State,
and that her factories and other purely
business enterprises have been almost
without exception prosperous. These
figures show the condition mainly of
the planting interest and of those
businesses intimately related to it.
Charles Nordhoff.
Letter from Bismarck.
[Philadelphia Ledger.]
Some lew mouths since a very line
cane, beautifully mounted and with au
appropriate inscription, made from,* the
original timber taken from Indepen
dence Hall during alterations that were
then being made, was presented to
Prince Bismarck. The gift was con
veyed by the German Consul’ at this
port, Charles H. Meyer, to Berlin,
whence it was taken by the German
Ambassador to the United States,
Baron Yon Schloezer, to Prince Bis
marck at Varzirr. The receipt thereof
is acknowledged in an autograph letter
to Colouel Murkle, in the following lan
guage :
Vakzin, July 4, 1875.
Colonel M. Richards Murkle, Philadel
phia :
dkaij Sir: You have had the kind
ness to send me, as a support in my
olden days, a cane cut from the timber
of the belfry from the height of which,
ninety-nine years ago to-day, the old
bell first rang in honor of that grand
commonwealth whose ship bells to-day
give full and welcome sound in all the
waters of the globe.
I beg you will accept my heartfelt
thanks for this historical reminiscence,
which I shall honor and carefully pre
serve and hand down to my children
with other relies of remarkable years.
This day is one which never fails to re
call to my mind the happy hours which
I spent on many a 4th of July with
American friends; first with John La
throp Motley, in Goettingen* in 1832;
again with Mitchell C. King and Amory
Coffin.
Would that you, my dear Colonel,
and I, might always be as healthy and
contented as we four young fellows
were forty-three years ago at Goettin
gen, celebrating the 4th of July.
Y. Bismarck.
A curious incident in the career o-
Gutenberg, the inventor of printing
not mentioned in any of his biogra
phies, has been discovered in an old
Italian manuscript, recently brought, to
Paris -by a monk. The manuscript
states that Gutenb.egg was tried at
Mayence in 1422 for the assassination
of his uncle, and was only acquitted
after a long imprisonment. '
Post masters m Wyoming aye eleoj,
ed honorary members ol| fire compa
nies, and are selected to pass the hat in
church.
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PULPIT AND FASHION.
The Pullback War.
[Chicago Tribune.]
Now that the Herzegovinian revolt
begins to dwindle away before the sav
age assaults of the Turks, another
speck of war looms up on the horizon,
which will attract more general atten
tion than the Selavic insurrection. This
is a war between the church and fash
ion, between the holy ministers and
lovely woman, between the surplice
and the pullback. Upon several occa
sions, and in various parts of the coun
try, the parsons have earnestly, and
evidently with much alarm, expressed
their consternation and indignation at
the manner in which woman persists
in pulling her dress back. Some of
them argue with the sisters of their
flocks in a tender and pathetic kind
of way. Others plainly denounce
the pullback as indelicate, and
revealing more of outline, shape,
and anatomy than auy masculine eye
but the sculptor’s should behold.
There are others who launch the
fiercest fuiminations of pulpit wrath
against all who continue to pin, tie or
pull back their dresses. Among the
latter is the Catholic curate of St. John
Baptiste, in the Province of Quebec,
who has boldly taken the bull by the
horns and announced that no wofmm
shall partake of the Sacrament iu his
church who wears her dress low in the
neck and who puds it back. Most of
the clergy are rather diffident, and
handle the Pulback delicately; but
this curate goes at it as Luther went at
the devil, and flings his inkstand with
clerical vim and righteous wrath.
On the other side, there is great ac
tivity iu the female camp. So far from
being intimidated, they are preparing
for a forward movement by pulling
their dresses still further back, even at
the risk of walking completely through
them in front. The latest bulletin re
lative to the fall fashions in New York
(and what woman in New York does
every woman from Eastport, Me., to
San Francisco will do) comes from Jen
nie J une, w r ho is recognized as a fash
ion authority the country over. Sho
furnishes the startling news that skirts
are to be tied back tighter than ever.
The mysterious details of the. Pull-back
are given as follows :
“A plain walking-skirt does not now
measure more than three yards round
at the bottom. The front and side
breadths are gored so that they can bo
set on the bands perfectly plain, leaf
ing all the fullness to be massed into
three inches at the back. The demi
trained skirts are wider. These have
gores set in so that they form a fan
shape or peacock’s tail, which is spread
over anew and peculiar touruure, a
distension very narrow' at the waist
and almost flat, but which gradually
swells out until it acquires its greatest
depth and width at the bottom of the
skirt.”
We do not know what this all means,
and the average male reader will proba
bly flounder hopelessly in the melange
of tucks, gores, demi-trains, tournures,
and peacocks’ tails. It is not necessary
to know what it means iu detail. It is
sufficient that lovely woman has
got tier back up, and is going to pull
harder than ever, without inquiring too
nicely how she is going to do it. Jen
nie .Tune intimates that they'will find
great difficulty iu going up stairs, and
that they cannot wear them in tho
street “ without the risk of a shocking
contretemps.” We doubt this very
much, but, even if it should be so. the
male creature will bear the effects of
such catastrophes with eqanimity, since
woman will be tho only sufferer. Tho
only interest which the average man
now has in the matter is as a witness
of the struggle between the minister
and the Pullbacks. If the present Pull
back has exercised the clergy to such
an alarming degree, what will be tho
effect of the new retrogression upon
them? It is doubtful whether tiiey
will receive much sympathy; it is
equally doubtful whether they ought
to have much. They made the first
hostile movement, struck the first
blow. They might have shut their
eyes to it and gone their way iu blissful
unconsciousness where the tightest
part of the female dress is located. In
striking this blow they ran their heads
against a well-known and inevitable
law of tho female being:
When a woman will, sho will, you may de
pend on’t;
When she won’t, she won’t, and there’s an
end on’t. '
They should have known, therefore,
at the very onset that she would pull
back against any mandatory or impe
rious edict from the pulpit. Pulling
back against compulsion is her forte,
whether it be physically, mentally or
morally ; and, where she has no se
verer task than the pulling back of her
dress, she will keep at it until she suc
ceeds, if she has to walk clear through
the front of it. We therefore look for
a very lively campaign this fall be
tween Fashion and the Pulpit.
The latter has had many fights of
this kind in its day. It has fought
female fashions and male fashions.
It has fought panniers, hoops, low
neck dresses, short skirts, bare should
ers and backs—in fact, everything but
the pull-baok. This is anew enemy,
and, as every bewitching woman, from
the scrubber in the kitchen to my lady
in her drawing-room, is pulling or
pinning back, the number of the pull
backs is legion. We fear, therefore,
that the clergy will be overwhelmed by
sheer force of numbers. We fear that
the shocking oentretemps which Jennie
June predicts may yet take place if the
ministers continue to interfere with the
pull-backs.
When the colored sisters start to or
ganize a s’ciety, the greatest difficulty
is about selecting a ’propriate name.
But they have just hit it down at Jack
sonville, Florida. They call themselves
“The Rising Daughters of Sepulcher.”
Somebody in London has taken the
trouble to couut the number of letters
in a few of the oyolopeedias. He found
that the English Cyclopaidia contaius
140,000,000; the Encyclopaedia Britan
niea, 118,000,000; Appleton’s Cyclopae
dia, 65,000,000; Chamber’s Encyclopae
dia, 54,000,000.
The most attentive man of business
on reoord was he who wrote on his
shop door: “Gone to bury my wife;
return in half an hour.” He was no
relation to the lawyer who put upon
his office door: “Be back in five min
uthes,” and returned only after a
pleasure trip of three weeks.
A poor little girl in the Fourth Ward,
New York, as she was dying, said ; “ I
am glad I am going to die, because
now my brothers and sisters will have
enough to eat.”
Eighty-nine of the four hundred and
fifty-five inmates of the Northern In
diana penitentiary were honest Gran
gers before their incarceration, while
there is but one lawyer and one patent
right man,