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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily— one year $lO oo " six months 500 three months 2 60 Tri-Weekly—one year 5 00 six months 2 50, Weekly—one year 2 00 six months \IOO Single copies, 5 cts. To news dealers, cts. Subscriptions must in all cases 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. 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. —■—— 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. —■ • 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 To Advertisers and Subscribers. On and after this date (April 21. 1875,) all editions of the Coifttitutionalist will be sent free of postage. Advertisements must bo paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. Announcing or 'suggesting Candidates for office, 20 cents per line each insertion. Money may be remitted at our risk by Express or Postal Order. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected Communications will not be re turned, and no notice taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. 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,