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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo " six months 5 00 “ three months 2 50 Tri- Weekly—one year 5 oo “ six months 250 Weekly—one year 200 six months 100 Single copies, 5 ets. To news dealers, i'A cts. Subscriptions must in all eases be paid in advance. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE. \ FRANCIS COGIN, Proprietors GEO. T. JACKSON.) Address all Letters to 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. 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Rejected Communications will not bo re turned, and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. 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,