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The Florida Methodist Commission, be
fore whom Dr. Hicks was summoned to an
swer charges preferred against him, have
rendered a verdict of 11 t guilty.
We add two more to the list of financial
wrecks, a British house which went down
yesterday with half million liabilities, and
a Wisconsin concern with six hundred and
fifty thousand on the wrong side of the
ledger.
We are sorry to learn that the keg of
nails and a skunk’s kidney which some body
threw into a small spring near Atlanta,
four or five years ago, and called Ponce de
Leou, havef almost played out. Before
that fellow threw.those things in we used
to get a drink of good water from that
spring.
WE saw a letter from New York yester
day to a young gentleman of this city, who
wrote inquiring the prospects of getting
business. The New York merchant told
him to keep away from there; that he
never saw such staguation in trade, such
scarcity of business, and such hard times
generally.
On last Thursday’, (after going to press)
we received a very pleasant call from Mr.
Jas. A. Bryan, the efficient and courteous
traveling ageut for the Augusta Constitu
tionalist. We were pleased to learn that
this high-toned and reliable paper was in a
nourishing condition. Under its present
able management it has improved wonder
fully. and now has no superior.—Greens
boro Herald.
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We take pleasure in publishing on the third
p tge Mr. Heard’s defense of the charges
made against him at Conyers. It will be
seen that he denies the charges in toto. Mr.
Heard was born and raised near and part
ly in Augusta, is very respectably connect
ed, and from the beginning we most capi
tally doubted the whole story, We all
know how excited a little village can get
over a small matter, even though it is only
a rumor, and we learn that many people
there discredit the whole matter.
Politics in Charleston are like fried
wool, mightily mixed. We see Bowen
leading one faction, he’o an emetic; Mackey
leading another, he’s a dose of epieac.
Wageneb leading ia some direction, and
we prefer not hiking any of him. Arcades
A mho—a vomitall. At the primary elec
tion day before yesterday, droves of
ourang-outaugs crowded the polls and
carried the day. It only needed the in
fernal noise of the gris-gris to make
Charleston that day a city of Dahomey.
If the spiiit of Sumner was permitted to
leer through sulphurous smoke it must
have enjoyed the sight most hugely.
The Atlanta Herald’a reporter has inter
viewed General Gordon, who has returned
from Mississippi. Gordon thinks the De
mocracy will carry the State this time; in
fact, they are sick of Radical sin and are
determined to do so. He says the main
tight of the Democrats will be made on the 1
Legislature, and thinks Lamar will be sent
10 the Senate of the United States. He has
hopes of two other Democratic Congress
men besides Lamar. We hope General
Gordon will prove a true prophet. Per
haps it is the fear of a Democratic victory
that has moved Governor Ames to plead
for the military occupation of the State.
Even with the “blue coats” on hand, we
trust the Democracy will triumph.
Cotton opens its annual sales dull and
weak. The reports are not at all favorable
the direct result, we think, of financial de
rangements both here and in England. We,
of course, have no advice to give to hold
ers, but no man on earth can accurately
predict the future of it. We have often
known it to upset the deliberate judgment
of every man in town, and, indeed, if it has
any fixed rule it is to go exactly contrary to
what everybody thinks. Wouldn’t give
a hatfull of shucks lor a bushel of cotton
figures. Justus it is securely bolted and
pinioned down and clinched on the other
side, it jumps out and walks off like a spir
itual medium juggler tied by a sailor’s ora
weaver’s knot. We hope, however, it will
soon reach at least twenty-five cents a
pound, and since we come to think, wouldn’t
object to a dollar. Are afraid, though, it
won’t bring either just yet.
We publish the currency platform re
ported to the Pennsylvania Democratic
Convention. It is neither for inflation nor
contraction, but advocates letting the vol
ume ol currency now afloat stand where it
is. It deprecates the policy of the Repub
lican party in making a forced effort to re
turn to specie payments, and declares that
the present deplorable condition of the coun
try grew out of this. It looks to us that the
Pennsylvania Democrats are in something
of a quandary to know what is best to do.
After the Ohio election, on the 12th of Octo
ber, everybody will know which way to
jump. Northern Democrats remind us very
much of old Gov. Reynolds’ sow. “John,”
isaid he to Ids son, “you go down that side
of the creek and I’ll go down this. I’ve
been along both and saw fresh roots but no
hog, and I’ll be hanged if I don’t believe
that old sow is rooting on both sides the
river at once.”
We publi h a great deal this morning
about the riots aud the political campaign
in Mississippi. Little Gov. Adelbert Ames
bawls loudly to Grant for troops! troops!
troops! to put down what he, in his cow
ardly fright and with a lying tongue, calls
an insurrection. Grant balks, refers to
Attorney General Pierbepont, and he con
sults about the matter. Meantime Grant
tells Ames he don’t exactly see how
troops can be used against what he
mawkishly calls " the insurgents,” un
less he first issues a proclamation
calling upon them to disperse. This
Ames don’t want to wait for. He
wants troops right now, and nothing short
of at least a corps will do him. In the dis
patches we don’t see where the insurgents
are, unless it is a general arousing of the
Democratic party all over the State with a
determination to oust Ames and his black
guards from power. The Clinton riot,which
occurred many days ago, in which the ne
groes first made an assault upon the white
people, and then got decidedly the worst of
it, and the Yazoo light in a Radical conven
tion, with which the white people had noth,
ng to do, except to arm for self protection,
when it commenced, are the pretexts upon
which this shameless scoundrel bases his
call. There was a collision yesterday
at Sartatia, Yazoo county, in which two
white men were shot by negroes. Ames’
whole idea is to surround the polls with
Federal soldiers and intimidate the sover
eign people in their exercise of their right
of franchise. The black Republican party
has disgusted tht) nation by this use of the
army. By his violence and tyranny in
Louisiana Grant destroyed the Radical
party from Boston to San FfkßCiseo. He
knows this, and hence his hesitation jn re
sponding favorably to frantic appeals of
Butler’s son-in-law.
@je Stopste Constitutionalist
Established 1799.
MISSISSIPPI WAR OF RACES.
Bloodshed in Yazoo County—Gov.
Ames Loudly Calls for Troops—
Which Grant Considers—And Don’t
Think He’ll Send—But Asks Ames
to do His Ow n Fighting.
New Orleans, September 9.—The
Vicksburg Herald's special says there
was a riot at Sartatia, Yazoo county.
Dr. Mabin and Charles Rose, whites
were wounded. A company left Yazoo
City for the scene of action.
Washington, September 9. —Presi-
dent Grant has sent a telegram to Ad
jutant-General Townsend, directing
him to instruct the officer commanding
the troops in Mississippi to give Gover
nor Ames such aid as may be necessary
to maintain order and protect life in
that State, if the insurrection is too
formidable to be suppressed with the
means at the Governor’s command.
Before sending such order to the com
manding officer, however, the President
directed the Adjutant-General to con
sult with Attorney-General Pierrepont
as to the legality of such contemplated
military proceeding. Accordingly these
gentlemen had a consultation on that
subject at noon to-day.
Action on the President’s telegram
will be deferred until it shall be. de
cided whether a proclamation shall be
issued addressed to the insurgents, the
President having requested the Secre
tary of State and the Attorney General
to consider whether such a proclama
tiod is necessary. The Secretary of
State being absent from Washington,
the Attorney General is making ar
rangements to telegraph for a confer
ence with Secretary Fish, and may
leave here to-night for that purpose,
unless he shall be advised in the mean
time that the Secretary is on his way
to Washington, which is thought pro
bable, owing to the present trouble in
Mississippi.
Later.— lt is definitely known that
no action 'will be taken by the War
Department until after the issuance
of a proclamation and the reception
of information of a disregard of its re
quirements by the insurgents. The
available troops in Mississippi are two
companies of the Sixteenth Infantry at
Jackson, two of the Thirteenth at
Vicksburg, and five of the Third In
fantry and four of the Thirteenth at
Holly Springs,and four of the Thirteenth
at Baton Rouge. Official telegrams will
probably be sent to Gov. Ames to-day,
asking him whether it is not possible
he can be aided in preserving the pub
lic peace by calling upon law abiding
citizens, so as to avoid the necessity of
resorting to Federal force to suppress
the disturbance.
Vicksburg, September 9.—The regis
tration of votes have been suspended
in this county. Registrars report they
eannot perform their duties safely.
Labor on the plantations is not re
sumed.
Washington, September 9.— The
whereabouts of the Secretary of State,
with whom the Attorney-General is to
•consult before action is taken, regard
ing Mississippi, is still unknown.
THE WAR ON THE ISTHMUS.
Preparations for tlie Conflict The
Foreign Consuls.
Panama, August 31.—The people of
Panama aud the Isthmus continue in a
state of trepidation, their fate depend
ing 011 the result of the conflict between
the States of Magdalena and Bolivar
aud the Federal Government. When
the former are conquered, than comes
the turn of Panama.
Aspinwall. August 31. — Bolivar has
received 500 rifles through Aspiu
wall, where the attempt to stop them
caused excitement. The English Con
sul has asked for a man-of-war
to be stationed at Aspinwall. Presi
dent Pirez called for three thousand
additional men. A decree declaring
the Government of Panama in a state
of war against the National Govern
ment is published. Another decree
calls for a forced loan of one hundred
thousand dollars. The treaty of peace
awaits ratification. Meanwhile, both
parties are' refitting. Foreign Consuls
are requested to take care of transit as
the Government is unable. Several
men-of-war of different nations are in
line of battle at Buenos Ayres, and are
ready to bombard the town should out
rages be committed on foreigners. The
State of Santander is reported to have
declared against the General Govern
ment.
THE ERIE RAILROAD.
Dicectors Asked to Resign.
New York, September 9.—The Tri
bune says, as result of the visit of Sir
Edward Watkins, representative of
Englsh shareholders and bondholders
of Erie, it is officially state I that
17 directors of the company have
agreed to resign if called on to do so,
but it is not expected that more than
three will be asked to withdraw S. L.
M. Barlow expressed an intention re
signing as a director, but will probably
continue as counsel for the company.
J. B. Brown, a sugar importer of
Portland, Me., and J. L. Welse, of
Philadelphia, a retired West India
merchant, succeed Bai low and Roberts
on the Erie Board, the new Directors
recommended by English stockholders.
Gen. Spinner accepts the nomination
for Comptroller.
THE TURF.
Lexington Races.
Lexington, Ky., September 9.—The
races over the Association Course were
quite interesting. To the astonishment
of everybody Bob Woolley was beaten in
the first race by Harper’s Tenbroeck,
who v. T as sold in the field, the time be
ing the best on record for the distance
of one mile and five furlongs, 2:49%.
Harry Bassett’s time for the same dis
tance was 2:50. First race, oae mile
and five furlongs, won by Tenbroeck;
Bob Woolley second and Emma
third. Time, 2.49%. The second race,
a selling race, one and an eighth mile,
was won by Kilburn ; Astral second
ami Effie Moore third. Time, 1:57.
The third race, two and one-eighth
miles., was won by Big Fellow ; Stein
bok second. Time, 3:51%.
New* York Races.
New Yorjc, September 9. — The first
race, mile dash, for all ages, was won
by Vanderbilt; B. F. Carver second
and Camden third. Time, 1:44%. The
second race, mile and a quarter dash,
was won by Countess ; Burgoo second
and Wyndham third. Time, 2:15%.
The third race, mile heats for three
year olds, was won by Vernango ; Pa
permaker second and Jack Trigg third.
Time, 1:47% and 1:47.
Mr. Davis in Missouri.
* St. Louis, September 9.—Mr. Davis
addressed the De Soto Agricultural
Fair, and was well received, but there
, po notable demonstrations.
POLITICAL.
The Milwaukee and Erie Democratic
Conventions.
Milwaukee, September 9. —The Re
form Democratic Convention nominated
a full State ticket.
Erie, Penn., September 9. —The Com
mittee on Platform reported progress,
but did not complete their work last
night.
The Platform of the Pennsylvania
Democracy.
Erie, Pa., September 9. —The Plat
form Committee stand 25 to 24 on cur
rency resolutions which are as follows :
That the contraction of the money cur
rency and circulating medium hereto
fore made by the Republican party,
and further contraction proposed by it
with a view to forced resumption of
specie payments has already brought
disaster to the business of the country,
and threatens general bankruptcy, aud
whilst we expressly enunciate the
principle that sound currency should
be gold and silver and redeemable
therein, we are opposed to either a
contraction or inflation of present cur
rency, and would leave the restoration
of legal tender to par in gold to be
brought about by promoting the in
dustries of the people and not
by destroying them ; that the policy
already initiated by the Republican
party of abolishing legal tenders and
giving National banks power to fur
nish all the currency, will increase the
power of an already dangerous monop
oly, and the enormous burdens now
oppressing the people without com
pensating advantage, and that all the
National bank circulation be promptly
and permanently retired, and full legal
tenders be issued in their place ; that
the public interest demand that the
Government should cease to discredit
its own money and should make it
legal tender, receivable for all public
dues, except where respect for obliga
tion of contracts requires payment in
coin ; the extinction of the present Na
tional banks and the establishment in
their stead a system of free banks of
discount and deposit, under such
regulations as the States respectively
may prescribe, and no paper money ex
cept such as may be issued directly
by and upon the faith of the Federal
Government, affording practically a
currency based on gold and silver, and
other property of tlie whole people of
the country. Persistent efforts are be
ing made to commit the convention to
a more positive inflation resolution. At
one o’clock the convention adjourned
till three p. m.
Later. —A platform was agreed upon
in committee at a late hour last night,
but was adopted by a majority of one,
The currency plank is so distasteful to
the minority that they threaten to
bring in a separate report, and have
the difference settled in open conven
tion. A fear of such action has pre
vented the presentment of a majority
report to the convention, and an ad
journment was had to afford an oppor
tunity for a harmonious compromise.
Delegates generally express the opin
ion that a discussion of the financial
resolution in open convention would be
exceedingly unwise, and every effort
will be made to have the minority re
port suppressed.
Still Later. —Oa the reassembling,
at 3 p. m., the Committee on Resolu
tions reported the following platform:
Resolved, That we hereby declare our
unfaltering devotion to the fundamental
principles of Democratic government, as
enunciated by Thos. Jefferson in his iirst
inaugural address, to wit: Equal and ex
act justice to all men, of what soever state
or persuasion, religious or political. The
support of the State governments in all
their rights as the most competent admin
istration for our domestic concerns and the
surest bulwark against anti-liepubliean
tendencies. The supremacy of the civil
over military authority, economy in the
public expense, labor may be lightly bur
dened, the honest payment of our just
debts, and the sacred preservation of the
public faith; freedom of religion, freedom
of the press, freedom of persons under pro
tection of the great writ of habeas corpus,
and trial by juries impartially.
Second, That the widespread depression
and suffering which affected every busine-s
and employment that is capable of being
touched by legislation show, beyond a
doubt, the ignorance, inefficiency and wick
edness of the leaders of the party that has
ruled the State and nation for a period of
years, calls for their immediate and per
manent removal from the places which
they have so long dishonored and dis
graced.
Third. That the undue multiplication of
public officers and the inordinate increase
of salaries, emoluments of office, are among
the many evils which Radical rule has
forced upon the country: and favoring an
economical administration of the Federal
and State governments, so that the people
may be as speedily as possible relieved
from the burden of taxation with which
they are now seriously oppressed, we call
upon our Federal and state representatives
to strive by all proper means to reduce
them both to the very lowest practical
number and amount.
Four, five and six refers to State affairs.
Seven and eight. That the contraction
of the money currency and circulating me
dium heretofore made by the Republican
party, and the further contraction pro
posed by it, with a view to forced resump
tion of specie payments has already
brought disater to the business of the
country, and threatens general bankrupt
cy. We demand that this policy be aban
doned, and that the volume of money be
made and kept equal to the wants of trade,
leaving the restoration of legal tenders to
par in gold to be brought about by pro
moting the Industries of the people, aud
not by destroying them.
Eighth. That the policy already initiated
by the Republican ‘party of abolishing
legal tenders and giving the national banks
the power to furnish all the currency will
increase the power of an already danger
ous monopoly and the enormous burdens
now oppressing the people, without com
pensating advantage, aud that all the na
tional bank circulation be promptly and
permanently retired and fult legal tenders
be issued in their place.
Ninth. That the public interest de
mands that the Government should cease
to discredit its own money, and should
make its legal tenders receivable for all
public dues, except where, in respect for
the obligation of contracts, it requires pay
ment in coin.
Tenth. The extinction of the present na
tional banks, aud the establishment in their
stead of a system of free banks of discount
and deposit, with such regulations as
the States respectively may prescribe, and
no paper money except such as may be is
sued directly and upon the faith of the
Federal Government, affording practically
a currency based on the gold and silver and
other property of the whole people of the
country.
A hire In the Woods.
Ogdensbijrg, N. Y., September 9.
Forest fires are raging furiously about
one mile east of Massena. The fires
started this morning, and now cover a
tract a mile wide and five miles long.—
The wind is blowing a gale from the
south. The farmers are deserting their
dwellings. Large tracts of standing
timber are swept down, and the fire
runs through the swamps and fields
of standing grain.
The Fugitive Murderer Sharkey.
Havana, September 9.— The fugitive
murderer, Wm. J. Sharkey, has been
banished from Cuba, aud to-day was
placed on board the Spanish steamer
Marsella under guard, with strict or
ders for the captaiu of that vessel to
land him in San Domingo.
AUGUSTA. GA., U RID AY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
England and China—Th ; Rebellion in
Turkey.
London, September 9. -China sends
two joint ambas .. lors t( Great Britain.
Server Pasha presides o’er the meeting
of foreign consols at Me itar. •
The Turkish Gove:am ;nt forbids the
publication of other tha i official dis
patches.
A New French A Imira’.
Paris, September Q .— Admiral Roze
has been appointed to t: e command of
the French Mediterran ?an squadron,
vice Admiral de La Roi eire Noury, a.
Bonapartist.
Paris, September 9. \ Bonapartist
banquet was held at E ireux on Sun
day last, at which a ! itter was read
from Admiral Baron < e la Roncreie
Le Noury, commander if the French
Mediterranean squadro ). This letter
was afterwards publisnt 1 in the Cou
rier De Leure and ha* created great
excitement and viol ;nt comment
among all supporters o the constitu
tion. The Admiral date \ his letter on
board the Magenta, Se itember 2, and
expresses his regret at iis inability to
be present at the ban [uet. He says
his constant desire i to associate
himself with every man festatio.i look
ing to the uniou of th Conservative
party, says he is a Con ervatfve in my
eye, whatever 'action to which he may
belong, who repudiates the doctrine of
the Revolutionists of t le 4th of Sep
tember, and of their sectaries. This
passage and the follow ng are bitterly
attacked by Republica i and Orleanist
journals : “ I shall not*cease to be the
devoted servant of the Government of
Marshal MacMahou, so ongas he shall
not be borne outside c ’ Conservative
paths, in which to-day i concentrating
his most ardent efforts, I ut I assert that
when the moment come ; France should
become free to choose, and thus once
more take her place art' mg the Euro
pean hierarchy which it denied her by
her present form of Go’ arnmeu!:.”
Yesterday, when he Irst learned of
the publication of this letter, Marshal
MacMahon called a com cil of Ministers
to take cognizance of 1 le matter, and
the Minister of Marin*, who was ab
sent from Paris, was su mnoned to re
turn to participate in t) is council.
The Journal Officiel o this morning
publishes a decree app fluting Admiral
Roze commander of tht Mediterranean
squadron, vice Roneeire Le Noury,with
out comment.
Spanish Nt ws.
Madrid, September '. —Jovellar has
resumed the Ministry of War, and
Rivera the Captaincy * leneral of New
castle.
The California Lane Ducks.
San Francisco, Sept smber 9.—lt is
stated the Bank of Cal fornia, Bank of
Nevada, and the Sto :k. Boards will
open about the 15th.
San Francisco, Sep ember B. —The
meeting last night at Union Hall was
largely attended. The irowd filled the
street to listen to ope i-air addresses.
In the hall the add esses delivered
were devoted mainly t * attacks on the
Bulletin and Call for th< ir course during
the recent campaign at and since the fail
ure of the bank of Cali ornia and death
of Ralston. Ia the o )en-air meeting
resolutions were reai censuring the
Associated Press for elegraphing so
called talse reports, the reading of
which was greetei with many
cries of “No, no,’ as was the
case with other r solutions read.
It was evident that many of the
audience were present aerelyas obser
vers, and that the vo e by which the
resolutions were adop* id did not rep
resent by any means t e sentiments of
the whole assembly.
There is no percepti )le run on the
United States Treasui y to-day for re
demption of gold note! of the National
Bank and Trust Comp my.
The Regents of the -Rate University
have elected D. O. Mil s as Treasurer,
vice Ralston. The Fin ince Committee
of the Board reporte 1 that the Uni
versity will lose nothii g by the failure
of the Bank of Calif rnia, being pro
tected by the late Tre; surer for $150,-
000.
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Minor Tele rams.
New York, Septemb r 9,—Sir Chas.
W. Dilke, Radical member of the
British Parliament, an ved here yester
day en route for San Francisco and
Japan.
Chicago, September 9.—Three fatal
accidents on the Chic igo and North
western Road last nig t. Heavy rains
washed bridges auct ci lverts.
Washington, Septen ber 9. —The mail
leaves for Port au Pri ice aud Hayti on
the 15th.
Virgil G. Stockbrid je is appointed
Chief Examiner in the Patent Office.
THE INSURIECTION.
Trial of Wrightville Prisoners—One
Acquitted and th * Rest Turned
Loose.
Augusta, Ga., Septer her 8. —A special
term of Judge Johns m’s Court con
vened at Wrightville 'or the trial of
insurrection negroes. Bills of indict
ment were found aga; nst 11 persons.
Jake Hicks was put o> trial first. After
exhausting nearly thifee panels a jury
was obtained. One w|tness swore that
the prisoner stated tbLre would be hot
times in future, that there would be
fighting and that he would hold his
gun level. There was some proof that
the prisoner said that the lands would
be divided aud eac i colored man
would get his forty acres
and male. Judge Jo! nson charged the
jury that the eviden e was not suffi
cieut to convict, an* i that no verdict
against the prisoner mould be render
ed. After an hour’s absence the jury
returned a verdict o not guilty. All
other prisoners wen discharged aud
court adjourned. T 1 is ends the pros
ecution, except agailfct two leaders
Morris and Merki ;on —who, it is
thought, have left the State.
J. T. Heard, charge 1 with attempting
rape on two little f iris at Conyers,
publishes a card, in which he denies
the charge. Public f leliug against him
has toned down, as it is thought Heard
will prove his iuaoeei ce.
The Nevada Troub e Exaggerated.
San Francisco, S< ptember 9.—Dis
patches from the s at of the Indian
outbreak in Nevada indicate the trou
ble probably exaggt rated, but troops
are being forwarded .o tho spot.
Steamer Lost.
London, Septembei 9. —The steamer
Martin, Weiner Shie ils, for Hamburg,
is believed to be lost with her crow.
Au English Failure.
Liverpool, Septen; ier 9.—Seffer &
Sons failed. Liabilit 38, $500,000.
SOUTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS.
LETTER FROM CHARLESTON.
How Primaries are Manipulated—
The Bowen-Wagener Cabals Sweep
the City—A True Ring-publican
Form of Government —The Reign of
Mumbo-J umbo—The Census -Wealth
of the City—Dots.
[From Our Regular Correspondent.]
Charleston, September 8,1875.
There was enacted in Charleston to
day one of the most lugubrious farces
that has ever been heard of in the his
tory of this municipality. I have hereto
fore endeavored to give the readers of
the Constitutionalist an insight into
the peculiarly muddled political canvass
which now agitates the people of this
city, a canvass in which Republicans
and Conservatives are so mixed up that
it is almost impossible to tell the one
from the other.
This peculiar mixture of unseemly
elements culminated to-day in an olla
podrida which beats any political mix
ture that the world has over seen. To
day the Conservatives held primary
elections for delegates to the nominat
ing convention, which meets on Friday
next. There were two parties in the
field, viz., the Wagener party, com
posed of the German element of our
population, backed by the very worst
element in the Bowen negro gang, and
the true Conservative party, who at
tempted to elect delegates unpledged
to any candidate. Gen. Wagener’s
friends have formed an alliance with
Bowen and secured a majority in the
Conservative Executive Committee. —
They next went to work, and, by a lib
eral use of bad whiskey, organized all
the vagabond negroes in the city into
Conservative Campaign Clubs.
This was done, of course, for the
purpose of enabling them to vote at
the primary elections which were held
to-day. Well, the elections came off,
and I am almost at a loss to find words
to describe them. The polls were open
ed at noon, and were at once surround
ed by a host of dusky “‘Conservatives"'
—negroes of the lowest class—the
veriest of vagabonds in the city, who
had been organized by Bowen to “help”
Gen. Wagener.' There they stood with
Wagener ballots in their hands ready
to vote, and, in order to do so, to swear
that they were Conservatives The
farce was conducted somewhat after
this style:
Manager—Are you a Conservative?
Negro voter—Yes sah!
Manager—Did you ever before vote
the Conservative ticket?
Negro voter—Yes sah!
Manager—Vote him.
Upon which this new fledged Conserva
tive would sling in his ballot and then
waltz off to the nearest liar room to re
fresh himself with a drink of “conserva
tive” whiskey. Sometimes the formula
of the questions would be varied and
then the colored Conservative (having
been instructed to answer “yes” to all
questions would be hoisted on his own
petard as witness the following:
Manager—What’s your name?
Negro—Ned Robinson.
Manager—Are you a Republican ?
Negro voter—Yes sah, red hot.
Manager—Pass on.
And the darkey Democrat was at
once hustled out with a well developed
Ilea in his ear. But this was not all.
Negroes were brought up whose lies
would shame Annanias, and totally
eclipse Mark Twain’s Sandwich Island
liar; swore they were Conservatives
when it was perfectly welt known
to all that they were the dirtiest
pimps of Bowen and would
do his bidding to the utmost; swore
they had always voted the Conserva
tive ticket, when it was well known
that they were of the lowest scum of
the Radical ring which has so long
plundered the tax-payers of Charles
ton. All these distinguished wards of
the nation came up to the Conservative
primaries and voted for Wagener dele
gates. The white Conservative element
did not come out at all—it nover does
—and the consequence can readily be
imagined. The Wagener ticket swept
the entire city, and a Conservative Con
vention has been elected by the lowest
dregs of the negro population of the
city. That the Convention, which is
called a Conservative Convention, is not
a representative of the Conservative el
ement in the city, is best proven by the
figures. To begin with, the entire vote
polled was about 2,000, of which about
1,200 were negroes, and the balance
whites. The actual voting strength of
the whites in this city is 5,622, of whom
only 800 voted to-day, and the majority
of these were the friends and partisans
of General Wagener. Aud then the
delegates elected ! I blush to speak
of some of them. About half of the
forty-eight are negroes of the worst
class of colored society, and negroes,
too, many of them, who have always
been outspoken Radicals. I may men
tion that all the delegates elected are
pledged to support General Wagener,
and hence his nomination is a fixed
fact. But I very much mistake the
Democrats of Charleston if they swal
low this outiage. The canvass prom
ises to become exciting, but it is now
narrow'ed down to the two candidates,
Wagener aud Cunningham. It is of
course impossible for your correspon
dent to predict the course of the Con
servative element, but I think it is
generally understood that theCuuuing
ham ring of the Republican party will
allow them to select one-half of the
Board of Aldermen, and that they will
support the Cunningham ticket, under
these conditions, in preference to the
hybrid affair that must necessarily
grow out of the Convention chosen by
the “conservative” negroes to-day.
Tlie Census of Charleston,
which has just been completed, gives
us very gloomy prospects for the fu
ture. In five years the population of
the city has increased from 48,956 to
56,540, but the increase is largely in the
negro race. The white population has
increased 1,779 anil the negroes 5,839.
When it is considered that the yearly
mortality among the negroes is over
100 per cent, greater than that among
the whites, this will seem a little
strange, but it is to be accounted for
by -immigration. The city is flooded
by negroes from the adjacent sea
islands, and this will be found to be the
case all over the State. Thero can be
no disguising the fact, unless some
miracle intervenes, poor old South
Carolina is destined to become the
San Domingo of the South. As
white supremacy and decent govern
ment is restored to the other Southern
States the negroes emigrate to South
Carolina, where they already have a
voting majority of 50,000. I greatly
fear that this majority will be increased
by the census, which is now being
taken, to 75,000. But to return to the
city. In 1870 the votiDg strength of
the two races was whites, 5,182; blacks,
6,049. In 1875 it is whites, 5,622; blacks,"
6,822, showing an excess of the negro
vote amounting to 1,200. Another cur
rent fact is that of the negroes there
are 6,406 more women than men and of
whites the feminine majority amounts
to 1,588.
The Health of the City,
continues good and the merchants
from the interior, aud several from
Augusta, are coming into the city
freely to make their Fall purchases.
The number of deaths last week was
37—viz : 9 whites and 28 negroes. Of
this number only two were white
adults. In the diseases there are not
included malarial fevers of any kind
whatever. It is none too late for yel
low fever.
Charleston Notes.
The capsized bark, Ziba, has been
raised and placedeon her keel. The job
cost the owner $4,000.
The city is infested with black bur
glars, from whose raids no man’s house
is exempt.
The supply of Southern peaches and
tomatoes having been exhausted,
Charleston dealers are now importing
largely from the North.
The drought has lasted 70 days.
There are as yet no signs of rain.
Joe Crews, the famous Laurens Rad
ical, was shot and mortally wounded in
Laurens county to-day while riding in
a buggy.. Crews was one of the most
incendiary Radical members of the
Legislature, and was arrested several
weeks ago for the murder of Dr. Shell,
in Laurens county, in 1868.
All the Augusta visitors to Sullivan’s
Island have left for home, the warm
spell being about over.
Qui Vive.
Court Term in Aiken.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.]
Aiken, S. C., September 9, 1875.
On Monday last the usual summer
dullness and almost Sunday quiet of
our town was broken iu upon by the
advent of a mixed and varied multi
tude from the rural districts, who had
come to attend the Semptember term
of court. The streets and squares
around the old Town Hall, in which his
Honor Judge Maher, on the score of
economy, had concluded to hold the
county assizes, presented quite an ani
mated appearance.
Law Range and vicinity, where most
do congregate the future Cokes, Little
tons, Storys and Blackstones, of the
Aiken bar, was also alive with anxious
clients and wise counselors, all eager
for the fray ami ready to fight it out
even to the “last ditch” if it took all
summer and the proceeds of the next
cotton crop to get there.
The civil cases are of minor impor
tance, but the criminal docket is a full
one, including several murder cases.
All the prisoners, to the "number of
nineteen or twenty, for want of a coun
ty jail, are crowded into the little town
guard-room, which is only about 15x18
feet square, a regular ‘ black hole”
concern, and seldom used before for
any other purpose than a police station
for municipal malefactors, for short
periods of twenty-four or forty-eight
hours at the longest. Yet, strange to
say, these people, who are all negroes,
with two exceptions, seem quite happy,
and pass most of their waking hours
iu chanting plantation songs andcamp
ineeting melodies.
Amongst the criminal arraignments
which, from the nature of the offense
and official position of the accused,
excites most Intense feeling in the com
munity is that of Henry Sparnick, edi
tor of the Aiken Tribune and Probate
Judge of the county. In the arraign
ment before the Trial Justice, an ac
count of which appeared in the Consti
tutionalist of some weeks ago, the
charges set forth were for the appro
priation of monej’s belonging to the
estate of John E. Marley to the amount
of $3,000 and refusal to pay over the
same when due.
On the preliminary examination the
offense was not denied. The accused
gave bail for his appearance and the
case went up to the grand jury at this
September term of court. As in the
Parker case, it has been made a party
affair by the Radical ring of Aiken
county, amongst whom a‘re Elliott,
Hayne, Lee, Brayton aud other lights,
and probably not without good reason,
as it is believed that a part of this
money went to carry the last county
election for the ring ; and that is why
they have shouldered the Probate
Judge to carry him over the slough
out of the clutches of the law. The
first move of this corrupt junta was to
secure such a grand jury as could be
manipulated at will. This proved an
easy matter, inasmuch as the jury
commissioner was one of their own crea
tures and ready to do anything for his
party.
The bill of indictment was ably drawn
and handed to Solicitor Wiggins on
Monday morning last, but this over
scrupulous officer of the law whose
business it was to look after the inter
ests of the people, if not in the Ring,
played into thr hands by keeping the
bill back until Monday evening under
the plea that he did not like to submit
it until after a careful examination.
In the mean time a caucus was held
by the counsel aud friends of the ac
cused at the house of a noted Radical
where the Solicitor was staying.
The element to be manipulated was
summoned, instructed in their duties
and given to understand what was ex
pected of them.
On Tuesday the public learned about
the caucus and how much the jury had
profited by the manipulative process.
Report says they stood in this case pre
cisely as in all other cases where poli
tics or color came in question—seven
white for a bill and ten colored and
one white Granitevillian for no bill.
Aud thus the ballot has stood until this
(Wednesday) morning, when the fore
man, W. G. Wood, came in with a re
port of no bill. In the interim this
gentleman has several times appeared,
before his Honor, the Judge, followed
by his dissenting colored flock, to have
the law read and wholesome advice ad
ministered. Aud it has been given with
much force and wisdom. But as well
might his Honor have addressed the
enlightened citizens of Dahomey, or
the dusky man-eaters of IJiji, so far as
coming to any decision not found in
the bill of instructions decreed by the
magnates of the infamous Aiken ring.
Segel.
Every man is cut out to be a philoso
pher. His friend, his wife, his children
wonder at his oracular power. Guard
this crown of life, for when it shall ap
pear that those reverence x°u no more
the world has lost its reverence for you.
The perfumed Perkquins of the Cin
cinnati Times suggests the probability
that Dr. Mary "Walker’s tongue is run
by the Keeley motor. If the Doctor
ever meets him, probability will give
place to the torture of an awful reality,
if she is a oonstant purchaser of fresh
ourrants.
Many persons rail at fashion as if
she were tho daughter of evil, whereas
she is the mother of art. Her dominion
is acknowledged by all, and she is often
the only evidence in which a rude man
acknowledges the sway of a higher
power than brytishness,
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 32.
GORDON AND LAMAR.
GRAND OVATION AT HOLLY
SPRINGS.
Eloquent Appeals to tlie People to
Drive Out the Horde of Carpet-Bag
gers —Review of the Radical Lead
ers Who Have Ruled aud Ruined
the State.
[Special Dispatch to the Courier-Journal.
Holly Springs, Miss., September 6. —
To-day has been a grand one in the in
terest of the Conservative Democrat
party’ in this portion of Mississippi.
From early dawn till the noonday sun
shot its heated rays upon this lovely
land of ours the people in vehicles, on
horseback, on foot and by train came
pouring in to hear Georgia’s Gordon
and Mississippi’s Lamar, the great
statesmen orators of the South, speak
in reference to Radical rule and Radi
cal ruin in Mississippi. The crowd was
so immense that it filled the large
Court House here to such a jam that
the Court House yard had to be resort
ed to in order that the people might
hear from these truly great men. Not
withstanding the efforts of the Radical
leaders to keep away every colored
man from the audience, quite a
number came and listened to both
speakers throughout, manifesting an
enthusiasm that they could not conceal.
Gen. Gordon's Speech.
A fine band regaled the audience un
til the first speaker, Gen. Gordon, was
escorted to the stand and introduced
by Co*. JL W. Walker in a beautiful
and hajfpy flow of oratory. To do jus
tice to the speech of Senator Gordon
would require more space than is here
allowed. I shall only tell of it briefly.
Not a word of it was uttered but seem
ed to carry with it a weight and an im
pression that told of the mind and
manhood of him who stood there like a
giant, striking for liberty, truth and
virtue. He talked of Mississippi and
the dreadful disasters that threaten to
crush out her very existence. Review
ing the entire career of the Republican
party since it went in to power, he told
of its costly, its cruel, its unconstitu
tional and its selfish administration.—
He went back to the olden times, and
followed up tho course of events to the
present day r , with a statesman like
ability and clearness that was as match
less as it was convincing. He paid high
tribute to the courage, chivalry aud
patriotism of the Federal soldiers, ac
knowledging their just claims to all
this. He did not believe that one of
them sanctioned the rule of the carpet
baggers. These last—where were they
when the war was waged and danger
lurked in the air and bullets ttew?
Why didn’t they come to the front,
when patriots by the thousands wheeled
into line and moved in an awful silence
into *a field of death ? Where were
they when cannons belched forth mis
siles that carried away thousands of
the noble and gallant sons of America?
They were peacefully in the rear wait
ing for danger to lie still. When the
battle flags of both armies were folded
away forever; when the brave men of
both armies said the war is over and
peace must reign, the army of plunder
ers came from their hiding places,
homeless, friendless, and almost name
less, and said, we will wage war upon
the fallen. So they did, and Mississip
pi writhes to-day under the terrible
charges of the carpet-bag corps. Her
oppressed and chain-ridden people
called out iu their agony for a relief,
for a change, and it must come.
His language to the colored people
was simply grand and touching. He
addressed them as his friends and
countrymen. He took up every charge
the Radicals had brought against the
Conservative party, and answered them
all with a candor and force which made
its impression. He appealed to the
colored men as Mississippians to come
back to their people aud friends, and
drive out the carpet-bag plunders.—
His arraignment of the Republican lead
ers was unanswerable, iu fact, he defied
them to answer.
Many United States soldiers were in
this audience. He called upon them,
upon the black and white citizens all
alike to rise up like truly noble pa
triots and save our common country
from destruction. He asked the men
before him to look upon Mississippi as
their common mother, waiting in her
distress, weeping in her shame, and
calling on them to rescue her. He
asked them to remember that in her
bosom rests the dust of our fathers,
our sons and our children, and that
there with them we must shortly lie.
He asked them to put away party
lines, to forget party issues and answer
Mississippi’s wail for help. Comparing
the condition of the black man in Geor
gia to his condition in Mississippi, he
showed how much better it was there
than here.
The close of his speech was magnifi
cent. He is a manly person, over six
feet in height, with a fine eye, noble
face and large Roman-shaped head.
He stands like a mao, every inch of
him. Such a man as Gordon is seldom
born. They live unto many genera
tions. What a splendid model for the
young men of the South to follow!
What a glorious example for the mo
thers of the South to point out to their
children. The champion of truth, vir
tue, chivrlry and liberty, Senator Gor
don stands to-day one of the purest
and best men in the nation.
The Speech of Col. Lamar.
Now, as Georgia’s Senator takes his
seat, Mississippi’s Congressman oomes
to the front. Lamar is there, but he
is not himself, for he is worn by the
hard service he has done and is still
doing throughout the State. His voice
is hoarse, his body wearied, as he tells
the people of Holly Springs that
twenty years ago he stood upon that
spot and thanked them for the dis
tinguished compliment they had con
ferred on him iu nominating him for
Congress. He felt that the great voice
of the people on that day, now twenty
years gone by, had a charm to it that
snatched victory up and planted it in
flaming beauty upon the standard
which it was his honor to bear. “This
people are not my constituents to-day,
but my heart beats with pride to know
that their voices and their good wishes
are with me.” What glorious recol
lections ho had of the people of this
city. “Its brave men, its lovely
women, its talented bar, its thriving
business, and, indeed, the very atmos
phere has about it an attraotion, a
grandeur, that makes my heart throb
with pride when I remember that here
among you, on this very spot, I came
to be a Mississipplan.”
Col. Lamar then commenced a polit
ical argument. His hoarseness left him
and he was himself again. Ho spoke of
the State politico, and of the Congres
sional investigation of the Vicksburg
riot last November. He tPOk up Ames*
and Brown’s testimony. He clung to
the facts with such force that there
was no room left for doubt as to the
guilt of Gov. Ames in instigating the
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killing of those negroes on that dark
aud bloody day. He referred to a great
many dee’ds of tho Republican party,
and spoke of its opposition to peace,
honesty and prosperity. He made a fine
argument in favor of anew rule, and
the dethronement of Ames and his
party in Mississippi.
Then came his peroration. Hia eagle
eye glistened in its splendid glances as
he paused aud seemed to measure the
men before him, aud weigh the grand
thought that made his every nerve
tremble with emotion. Like a lion
ready to leap, gathering his full power,
the splendid speaker broke the silence
with the finest flow of oratory that
ever charmed an audience. He likened
Mississippi to a mother, her citizens to
her sons, aud then asked them: “Gan
you hesitate? Can you stand here idle?
Can you listen to her cries for help and
not go?” He called upon the young men
to be worthy of their fathers, their
country, and the proud blood that
coursed through their veins ; to rise
up and go forward to gather the glories
that await them, to remember their in
tegrity, and in this hour of their coun
try’s distress to scorn to rise to power
when their principles are going down.
“It cannot be that you will lose sight
of virtue, honor and manhood. Mis
sissippi was not made for slaves. Her
sons must gather their strength, and
hurl it at her oppressors with a force
that will leave her grand, proud and
free forever.”
Cheer after cheer rent the air as La
mar closed, and cheer after cheer went
up for Gordon and for Georgia.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
An Absorbing Topic —A Newspaper
Squabble Brother Grangers in a
Row The Tuscan Art A Lost
Spring Blue Monday —“ Crooked
Whiskey.
[From Our Regular Correspondent.] |
Atlanta, September 7,1875.
The all-absorbing topic of conversa
tion to-day has been the lawsuit of tae
Herald vs. Grange. The fact that One
is a corporate institution of $60,000
cash capital, and the other being foun
ded on a rock and controlled by some
of the wealthiest men of Georgia, has
given this affair a dash of importance
that makes it interesting. All Atlanta
is stirred up from the bottom, and the
issue assumes gigantic proportions,
whilst the interest evoked is in keeping
with the great popularity of plaintiff
and defendant. Tho great suit grew
out of the publication in the Grange of
numerous editorials which charged that
Hi Kimball had a controlling interest
in the metropolitan press, and that Hi
edited the editors of that paper. This
“walked down the aisles of literature,”
as Ham had it, and the papers through
out the .State took it up, sprinkled it
with a little editorial pepper, and sent
it along. By the time it all got around
to the metropolitan press it was too hot
to swallow, and yesterday Col. Alston
rushed up stairs into the Grange of
fice and announced that “he had com
menced suit against James P. Harrison
& Cos. for SIO,OOO, and would reply to
the Grange articles to-morrow.”
The Colonel’s paper this morning,
according to promise, contains a non
pareil card to the public, together with
a stunning leader from the young edi
tor with a “powerful mind;” and in the
card the president and manager of this
paper say that “Mr. Kimball does not
nor never has owned, directly or indi
rectly, one dollar’s worth of stock in
the Atlanta Her aid," etc. Now, to the
unsuspecting people, who live beyond
the broad acres of Atlanta, this sweety
ing denial would be enough to dispel
tho faintest suspicion; but to us ft
sounds like bluff. Of course we couldm
swear that such is the case, but nine%
men out of a hundred here will tell you
that Kimball does own stock in it, and,
as the metropolitan press editorially re
marked sometime ago, that it would
take Beast Butler as a stockholder, we
see no reason why Kimball should be
debarred this glorious privilege.
ffhe metropolitan press attributes
the animus of the attacks of the Grange
to the defeat of its proprietors for
State printer. This is absurd. During
the heat of tiie canvass for that office,
when Alston, Harrison and Estill were
putting iu their biggest licks, Mr. Har
rison rendered the Herald invaluable
service, and had it not been for that
service the Herald would not be among
the things thet are to-day. That action
alone will clear Mr, Harrison of a
spiteful motive in allowing the publi
cation of the offensive articles. The
whole affair is unfortunate. If ever
brought to a trial it will lift the cover
from a good many things in the Herald
management and personelle that had
better remain lost to sight and to mem
ory dear. However, if they oan stand
it, I guess I can. The Herald is not
superpluperfect, as it thinks, and
should remember the old adage of
glass houses and stone-throwing.
Ponce De Leon.
The many friends and patrons
throughout the United States and Can
adas of this famous resort will regret
to learn that tho keg of nails has so
far disappeared that the water tastes
almost like any other spring water, and
the little bag of asafoetida that flavored
it has been appropriated by some
daring villain, and the waters have lost
their heaiing and curative virtues. In
oonsequence of this deterioration tho
street car lines have reduced the fare
to five cents to induce travel. This is
very sad, but I wanted to get ahead <K
the future historian.
Cheap Dentistry.
The competition between rival dent
istry is red hot. One advertises to ex
tract molars and incisors for the small
sum of 25 cents, and another adver
tises to haul them out by the cart-load
for nothing, and in addition presents
each victim with a chromo. He further
advises all to "gum along and have’em
pulled.” This is tooth-in. The chro
mes draw the customers, the dentist
draws the teeth, and the customer then
draws the ohromo. Very attractive is
a rapid gait oity.
The Vacation Over.
Yesterday all the little boys and girls
who had been resting their ideas dur
ing the summer, put on their bibs and
pinafores, slung their satchels and
tripped along to school. All the pub
lic schools opened with crowded classes.
Nearly three thousand Ideas are learn
ing to 3hoot, which is a fair shov/ing
for a city the siso of Atlanta.
Crooked Distillers.
The number of illioit distillers brought
hero and tried by the United States
Court is simply enormous. Thirty-five
were sentenoed yesterday, some to fines
and some to imprisonment. Why on
earth this wholesale punishment doesn’t
stop the illegal business is a mystery.
It keeps the marshals and deputies
busy bringing them in, and the rnouu
taina are full of them yet. Martha,