Newspaper Page Text
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
Daily—one year $lO oo
“ six months 500
“ three morths 2 60
Tei-Weekly—one year 500
“ six months 2 60
Weekly—one year 2 00
six months 100
Single copies, 5 cts. To news dealers, 2J4 cts.
Subscriptions must in all eases be paid in
advance. The paper will be discontinued
at the expiration of the time paid for.
JAS. G, BAILIE, )
FRANCIS COGIN. ! Proprietors
GEO. T. JACKSON,)
Address all Letters to
H. C. STEVENSON, Manager.
“Pbobs” gives us some hope of rain to
day. We shall believe in it when we see it.
The cotton report of the Agricultural
Department, at Washington, for Septem
ber, is more favorable than many persons
expected. With a late frost, the crop bids
fair to touch, if it does not exceed, 4,000,000
bales.
From newspaper reports it would seem
that every prominent ex-offlcer of the Cion
federate army has been the recipient of an
offer of service from the Khedive of Egypt.
This Ls getting as bad as the Charlie Ross
mystery.
The death of Joe Crews will relieve the
people of Laurens, S. C., of a great incu
bus; but the manner of his taking off
should be condemned. Assassination is to
be frowned down everywhere. It is the
weapon of the coward, and violates the
great maxim of Christianity which leaves
to Goo the vindication of human wrong.
<>►
While Servia complains of the massing
of Turkish forces on her frontier, she is
threatened with invasion by a pretender to
the throne, who has an unpronounceable
name. Turkey or somebody has raised the
devil of the Eastern question and it does
not down at the bidding even pf the Great
Powers.
Sohuchap.dt A Sous, the New York
bankers who failed recently, were of long
and reputable stan< iug, the original foun
der of the house, Mr. Gebhardt, having
commenced the business more than 50
years ago. The Times says the firm had a
branch house in Savannah and correspon
dence all over the world. They were the
agents and consignees in America for the
bulk of the Holland gin Imported into this
country, but they gave up that branch of
their business last March, the clerk who
had charge of it for them making a sepa
rate business of it on his own account.
The ‘'shrinkage of securities,” especially
Western and Southern railway bonds did
the job for thorn.
Our Atlanta correspondence, always
very entertaining and racy, is specially so
this morning. We are shown how much
a celebration the Gate City got up in honor
of the water works, and how whiskey was
not “ the last man in the precession.” We
are shown, too, how palace rum mills are
inaugurated and ladies invited to assist at
their cor secration. It is also hinted that
the Herald anil Constitution are about to
consolidate ; the ancient f, es to fall
into ono another’s embrace and swear
they will “ never, never do so any more ”
a dream of the Centennial indeed, with
< 01. Alston burning sulphur for colored
lights, and chorus by the whole establish
ment: “The day of jubilee has come.” Our
corre-pondent also states that one of the
effects of this alleged consolidation would
be the immediate starting of another pa
per. A monopoly of the journalistic tie and
will never long continue in any place of
importance, especially when politics and
the press are intimately combined.
A writer in the Greenville News, con
demning the assassination of Joe Crews,
which was on ap ar with the killing of
bosses in Pennsylvania coal regions, with
not one thousandth part of the provoca
tion, calls attention to the fact that Gov.
Chamberlain offers a reward of SI,OOO for
the murderer, but did not take the same in
terest in bringing other criminals to jus
tice. He says: “Last fall, winter and
spring there was a band of desperadoes in
the up-country, robbing, beating and shoot
ing unoffending citizens, and in some in
stances killing them. Alarm, consterna
tion and dread filled the minds of the peo
ple, yet if any reward was offered by.the
Executive of the State for the apprehen
sion of these banditti, I never saw or heard
of it. Must I infer from the Governor’s
conduct that he means to ignore the claims
to protection of the quiet, peaceable citi
zens who have done no offending against
the laws, and will only take cognizance of
tne claims of those who, by a life of vice
and infamy, have made themselves con
spicuous and detestable ?”
Our Charleston correspondence reveals a
hideous condition of affairs in the “City by
the Sea.” By politic il amalgamation be
tween whites and blacks, Charleston has
been made a plague-spot, an Ashantee. It
seems to us that the “Conservatives" and
other “reformers” havjng had such poor
success in South Carolina, some straight
out Democratic leaders had better come to
the front and try, in this auspicious time of
Democratic triumph elsewhere, the virtue
of a different course from that pursued by
men who have so signally failed In
State-craft. We know not whether it is
too late, or whether, as Gen. Preston
thinks, the people have been too thorough
ly demoralized; but it seems to us that
some good old Simon pure Democratic
new papers and leaders in the Palmetto
State would do more good in six months
than anything else. One thing is certain:
expediency, trimming and attempts at po
litical amalgamation have been most hu
miliating failures. Any further experi
ments on that line will only drag the white
people into a deeper abyss, and the sooner
a square issue is made with the scoundrels,
the sooner will honest men get their own
again.
The cows in this city have been so much
in the habit of invading people’s premises,
that they violently resent any such thing
as a barrier to their entrance. Just now
our city gardens are green with turnip
plants. This crop the educated and bur
glarious Augusta cow looks upon as the
property of chartered libertines like herself.
In some instances nothing short of bolts
and liars can keep the predacious animals
aloof. Night before last, a neighborhood
was aroused by the persistent as
sault of a milky mother upon the
gate of a gentleman who has a ruta
baga crop coming on. When the beast found
that heavy weights on the gate baffled her
endeavors to open it or keep it open, she
made a furious assault upon the faithful
portal with her horns, and startled families
from their slumber, who supposed robbers
were trying to break in upon them. We
sympathize with owners of cows; we be
lieve it to be a glorious privilege to own
such stock. We are glad the city of Au
gusta has such wide and bountiful pastures
free of charge. But somebody’s cows
might get hurt if they are not taught bet
ter manners.
THE INDIAN COUNCIL.
Immense (fathering of Red Men.
Bed Cloud Agency, September 14.
The place for the council has been
finally fixed six miles from this point.
Indians are coming in large numbers.
The” 1 are becoming impatient at the
<leiay. Tnere will be about 25,000
Indians in council. Their camps ex
tend about forty miles along White
Earth Biver. The bluffs in this vicini
ty are covered with their ponies. Each
head of a family owns an average of 50
ponies. These are in an excellent con
dition, and the Indians themselves are
tvell clothed.
tH)£ Constitutionalist
Established 1799.
KING COTTON.
Report of the Department of Agricul
ture—A Rather Favorable Outlook.
Washington, September 15. —The De
partment of Agriculture reports the
condition of cotton better in September
than in August in Mississippi, Louis
iana and Arkansas, and worse 01 the
Atlantic coast in Alabama and in Texas.
The prevalent drouths of July were
succeeded by rains in August too co
pious for the best results in the Mis
sissippi Valley, and quite injurious in
heavy soils of the Eastern belt, caus
ing rust, shedding of leaves and fruit,
and to some extent rotting of the lower
bolls. There is a rank recent grr wth,
which will yield largely with a favora
ble and long autumn season, or {rove
a disappointment in case of an
early killing frost. In some parts
of the State of Texas the drouth
continued for nine weeks, but the sea
sonable rains since the middle of Au
gust, have placed the lields in high
condition in all except the most severely
parched localities. Losses from the
prevalence of insects will scarcely be a
fraction in calculating the product of
the present year. A few counties in
Florida and lower Georgia report the
caterpillar. The boll worm is more nu
merous in Lowndes county, Miss., and
heard from in a few other counties.
Lice are mentioned by some corres
pondents, and in Covington, Alabama,
the correspondent reports anew er.erny
which he calls a minute gnat, which
harbors on the leaves like lice,
producing widespread and serious
injury. As compared with Sep
tember, 1874, the only States now
reporting lower condition are South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and in
the Mississippi the improve
ment is very marked, particularly in
Tennessee and Arkansas, in which the
averages were very low in 1874. A large
proportion of the cotton area of the
country is represented in the Septem
ber returns, which include no less than
60 cotton counties in Texas and 76 in
Georgia. The State averages of condi
tion are as follows: North Carolina, 90;
South Carolina, 80; Georgia, 76; Florida,
75; Alabama, 81; Mississippi, 98; Louisi
ana, 88; Texas, 94; Arkansas, 99; Ten
nessee, 96.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Postal News—A Mississippi Delegation
Visit Pierrepont, but Get No Conso
lation.
Washington, September 15.—The Post
Office Department will dispatch mails
to-morrow morning by the fast trains
which have been lately put on. The
Department loses 25 cents a pound on
newspapers and 10 cents a pound on
merchandise between New York and
San Francisco. A railway mail is or
dered from Little Rock to Altus, 120
miles, commencing # October Ist. It is
claimed that the fast mail will give 12
hours advantage to Southern mai Is at
Louisville and St. Louis.
A delegation from Mississippi is here
consisting of Senator Bruce, Sheriff
Buchanan, of Marshall county, ex-Con
gressman Howe, Secretary of State,
Hill, Chairman of the Republican State
Committee, Warner, and John B. War
ner, editor of the Mississippi Pilot.
The interview with the Attorney Gen
eral lasted until after 2 o’clock. Pier
repont questioned each severally. They
agree that Warren county is quiet and
the emergency which demanded Fed
eral interference for the present is
passed. They represent that there
is no military organization in
the State except the White League.
They are of the opinion that no fui tlier
trouble in Mississippi will occur until
the Republicans attempt to hold meet
ing, then they apprehend such gaßer
ings will be broken up>. Judge Pmrre
pont asked why the Republicans did
not organize and defend themselves.
They replied that they had no organ
ization, and when they came in contact
with the organized White Leagues they
fled before them. They stated that the
sovereignty of Mississippi was unable
to protect itself without the aid
of the Government. If troops were
not sent before the election many Re
publicans would be interfered with at
the polls. Pierrepont said he had ad
vised Ames to perfect some military
organization to protect the people of
the State in political rights. He ad
vised the delegation to return borne,
consult with Ames about organizing
for protection, and should they fail to
do this and further trouble occurred
to let him know. Pierrepont is of opinion
that no further action will be taken
upon Ames’ requisition for troops.
FROM NEI\" YORK.
Army Reunion—Fever on a Vessel —
AErial Ladders Discussed.
Utica, September 15.—The reunion
of the Army of the Cumberland held
meetings at the Opera House. Grant
and Sherman were present, Grant
goes hence to St. Louis. The President
simply bowed to calls for a speech.
Gen. Hooker presides.
New York, September 15.—The Nor
wegian bark Falkner is here in distress.
All but a man and boy are down with
fever. She left Wilmington. N. C., ten
days ago for Rotterdam. When two
days out fever appeared.
At a meeting of Fire Commissioners
a resolution condemning the use of
aerial fire ladders as useless and dan
gerous was laid over until investiga
tion of the late accident.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
A Long Trip by a Palace Car—Super
intendent Appointed.
New York, September 15.—The Pull
man Palace Car Paoli, which left New
Orleans on the 12th, arrived on time,
without change, via the Kennesaw and
Midland and Virginia routes, the long
est continuous trip ever made by a
sleeper. The Paoli carries delegates
to the General Ticket Agents’ Coaven
tion, at Saratoga, on the 17th. The
delegates were feasted by the Balti
more and Ohio Company at Viaduct
Hotel, Relay Station.
Col. Chas. P. Ball, formerly Superin
tendent of the Western Railroad of
Alabama, has been appointed Superin
tendent of the Southern Division of the
Pullman Palace Car Company.
THE MISSISSIPPI FUSS.
Quiet Restored and an Agitator Jug
ged.
Memphis, September 15.—Persons
here from Tallahatchie county, Miss.,
state that all is quiet. Armed bodies,
both black and white, have dispersed.
Johnson, a negro, who is charged with
having instigated negroes to arm and
go to Friarson’s store in a body, is in
jail at Charleston. No more trouble is
apprehended.
Barnum pays his balloonist §,200 a
day.
ATJGTJSTA. GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Servian Complications—A Pretender
with, a Terrible Name Threatens
Prince Milan’s Throne.
Vienna, September 15. — A reply of the
committee of the Servian Scuptachina
to Prince Milan’s address will make no
demand for war, but contain strong
censures on Turkish rule.
London, September 15. —Dispatches
to the Morning Standard contain the
following • “ Servia complains to the
Powers of the concentration of a Turk
ish army atNissa. The report that the
siege of Trebigne had been renew T ed is
unfounded. Insurgents infest the
neighboring roads, but are not able to
blockade the town.
Peter Karogeargiewitch, a pretender
to the Servian throne, is about to
march into Servia with a corps of vol
unteers. His adherents there contem
plate a revolution in his favor.
Herzegovina’s Comb Cut—The English
Turf.
Constantinople, September 15.—The
Herzegovinians now appear willing to
negotiate with the consuls. Latest
encounters terminated in favor of the
Turks. Emigrating families are re
turning.
London, September 15. —Craig Millar
won the St. Leger stakes, Raffle second,
Earl Dartry third.
All English View of the Turkish
Troubles.
London, September 15.—The Times
publishes a telegram from- Vienna
which contains the following: “How
ever contradictory accounts may be of
recent skiimishes, two facts are in
dubitable. The Turks traverse the
country in every direction. Their
object is to open communications and
relieve and strengthen more exposed
military positions on the southwest.
This has been thoroughly done. The
road to Bilek and Trebigne, and from
the latter to the Austrian frontier and
down to the Suttorina has been opened
and the block houses repaired and
garrisoned, Of course the difficult
work remains of dislodging insurgents
from their mountain strong-holds, but
approaching Winter will soon make
those positions untenable. As for
hopes of assistance they become daily
fainter. Circumstances seem to favor
the mission of peace of the Consular
Commission.”
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Explosion and Conflagration—Marine
Disasters.
Georgetown, Ky., September 15. —
Yesterday the clerk in Barlow’s store,
while loading a pistol exploded it. The
ball lodged in a can of powder, which
exploded, blowing out the front of the
store, setting fire to the building, which
was consumed. Four other buildings
were wholly or partially consumed.—
Loss, $50,000. The clerk and another
young man were dangerously injured.
Key West, September 15.—The
steamer Zodiac, which left Nassau on
the 6th, was burned with her cargo.
All hands were saved by boats, which
were afloat twenty-four hours when
picked up. The fire is supposed to
have been caused by the spontaneous
combustion of old oakum.
Chicago, September 15. —The schoon
er Pamlico, from Queenstown, Ireland
for Chicago, is supposed to have been
lost on Lake Michigan.
Crooked Whiskey Men A Colored
Husband Gets Tilton-Mad and Com
mits Murder and Suicide.
San Francisco, September 15. —Dis-
closures made by revenue officers indi
cate extensive whiskey frauds, partici
pated in by dealers, distillers and reve
nue officers.
St. Louis, September 15.—Fineman
& Cos., of Kansas City, and Jno. Shee
han, of St. Joseph, plead guilty to
crooked whiskey, throwing themselves
on the mercy of the Government.
Clarence A. Wood, colored, shot his
wife and himself. Jealousy. He left
a letter wishing his father, who lives in
Macon, Ga., to be informed.
FROM CHICAGO.
A Blast Episcopal in Favor of Dr. De
Koven.
Chicago, September 15.—1n the Epis
copal Diocese Convention to-day the
committee appointed to take action on
the letter of Dr. De Koveu, explaining
his position and declining the nomina
tion of the Convention, brought in
a series of resolutions recording
their solemn disapproval of any
Constitutions or Canon or any
construction of a Constitution or
Canon that puts it in the power of
standing committees, composed of
clergymen and laymen, to sit in judg
ment upon its doctrinal views or upon
the life and manners of a Bishop-elect,
deeming such constitution and canon
inconsistent with the laws of the church-
Catholio and in contradiction of that
principle of the common law that a
man cun only be judged by his peers;
also declaring unchanged confidence in
the faith, unshaken loyalty to the
church and eminent fitness for the
episcopate of the Rev. Jas. DeKoven,
D. D., Warden of Racine College, who
was at the special convention in Febru
ary last elected to the vacant episco
pate of this Diocese.
FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
Sale of Refining Works —Transfer of
Coin —A Better Financial Feeling
Prevalent.
San Francisco, September 15. — The
sale of the San Francisco assaying and
refining works, and also the acid works
under the same management, was to
day consummated, the purchasers be
ing Flood and O’Brien. These works
have been largely under the control of
the Bank of California for some time,
and have been supplying the Mint with
fine bullion for several years.
The National Gold Bank and Trust
Company had $150,000 in coin trans
ferred through the office of thesub-
Treasurer. Considerable amounts are
reported to have arrived, or are close
at hand, from New York to the Bank
of California and the Hibernia Bank.
There is a marked improvement in
mining stocks to-day, both in volume
of business and prices realized. Only
one Board is in session, but the in
creased business of the California
Board will hurry up the opening of
other Boards which now expect to re
sume in two weeks.
A clergyman, meeting a little boy of
his acquaintance, said : “ This is quite
a stormy day, my son.” “ Yes, sir,”
answered the boy, “ this is quite a wet
rain.” The clergyman, thinking to re
buke such hyperbole, asked if he ever
knew of any other than a wet rain. “I
never knew personally of any other,”
returned the boy ; “ but I have read in
a certain book of a time when it rained
fire and brimstone, and I guess that
was not a very wet rain.”
LETTER FROM C J UtLESTON.
A Reign of Terror—VSlat “Breaking
the Color Line” Mea-The Fright
ful Results of
—A Specimen “Consu%cative” Negro
-How Bowen Manipf ates Affairs—
Joe Crews—Dots. |
I
[From Our Regular ( respi_.ident ]
Charleston, i 1 ptember 14.
Things have come tc this pass now
that decent citizens cij not walk the
principal streets of Cha jstou without
running the risk of be Ig insulted in
the day or clubbed in t night-time.
Particularly is this the ,se in Meeting
and Broad streets, am in the imme
diate vicinity of the ' lourt . House.
There are gathered i ally all the
worst roughs of th> Bowen gang
of negroes, now * led colored
“ Conservatives ” am an occasion
al riot makes things ceedingly un
pleasant not to say dangerous for
sufch gentlemen who i not affiliate
with the “Conservaties’ it whose busi
ness calls them in tha locality. Let
me relate a case which lappened this
afternoon and which L repeated with
slight variations 2 or 3 ? lies daily. One
Ben Mills, a negro, who vas convicted
of leading the negro rio ■ rs in Charles
ton at the time the Sav >nali base ball
club visited this city, .nd who was
sentenced to 12 month* mprisonment
in jail, but was pardoi : I out by that
prince of jail deliverers; j ’*ob*j. K. Scott,
has lately developed (to a staunch
supporter of General Wagener for
the Mayoralty anil < c :ssquently a
full-fledged colored Coe, , rvative.
This ruffian, who is i eof Bowen’s
most pliant tools, was 1 -cted a dele
gate to the Conservali; ' Nominating
Convention which indi. Id some white
Conservative to air his j |-viouß history
in the public prints. £ ;|ce the expos
ure of his jail record fills has been
mere intensely Conserv fve than ever.
In plain terms, he has 1 3-n on a drunk.
This afternoon he was ifiore intensely
drunk than ever, ands.ibout 3 or 4
o’clock stationed himsel*|mderthe pro
tecting shadow of th<*vOurt House,
where his master, Bowe | always keeps
a dozen or two of his and iS ky roughs on
guard, and deliberately let to work to
assault and Insult all pi £.ers-by whom
he knew to be not Con Irvatives. An
old gray-headed gentl< i tan who was
passing with his little f! i indchild, and
who this black beast t >ught was not
a Couserative, was t; ; upon and
most outrageously insu nd. This col
ored “ Conservative ” d< I gate next pa
raded up and down the reet flourish
ing a bludgeon and cun g and swear
ing to an extent which 1 ould scarcely
be tolerated in Asha| se. Ho then
tackled a white Trial Jr : ice, whom he
also cursed and insultei , and was final
ly arrested and taken o the station
house, whence he was >ailed in the
sum of ten dollars. I t : >uld add that
the entire performance nk place with
in sight and hearing of he police sta
tion, but no arrest was ade until the
Trial Justice called up i a policeman
for protection. This i the way the
municipal canvass is b ig conducted
here, and I am at a lossi > imag aeany
remedy for it out a Vkl jance Commit
tee. It is § |
Impossible to I’jjinish
One of these ruffian-? through the
courts. Bowen, their r fster, has the
manipulation of almost lie entire ma
chinery of the court, ai 1 when the ju
ries are organized the; lire generally
found to consist of i |i pimps and
henchmen. It is true that since the
election of Judge Reed Some reforms
in these abuses have hi fi effected, but
the Sheriff still manip | tes things in
such a inaner as to etffie the court
and pack the jury boxe l It is done in
this way : Say forty gjurymeu are
drawn from the jury I lx to serve for
the ensuing term of fie court. In
Charleston, out of the. I forty names
there are generally abo ten or fifteen
decent white men. No $ then, Bowen,
the Sheriff, has the |immoning of
them. His deputies s !*:ct the ten or
15 summons referred i put them in
their pockets and when f e court meets
return them non est mventus. The
Judge then says: Mr. f Jeriff, make up
the panel from the bysi liders. Where
upon 15 pimps and tool Iff the mighty
Sheriff, who have been lept ready for
the occasion, are trotte< Jnto court and
the jury panel is con, £ete. This is
about the way things a: jj conducted in
this city, and it will ’ | readily seen
that, under such a systr |, there can be
no protection for life I property for
those who do not tak | any stock in
Bowen and his pilfering fang.
The Killing of .1 | Crews.
The readers of the Ci Ititutionalist
have doubtless been al *ady informed
of the death of Joe ( !>ws from the
wounds received in t * recent cow
ardly assassination, 'j re act is uni
versally condemned in ibvery part of
the State; for, althoug Crews was a
bad man, an uuscrupt Sus politician,
and an unscrupulous frislator, there
must always be somet! I g repugnant
in the act of waylayi | a man and
shooting him in the ba I, be ho never
so wicked and deservin |ff death.
The Centen £al.
A project is on foot |oking to the
formation of aregimenf be composed
of the white companii |in the State,
for the purpose of att Ming the Cen
tennial at Philadelphia * ext year. It
is to be called the Pain -| to Centennial
Regiment, and it is i fought that a
steamer can be charter* *at such a rate
as will enable a largo Amber of our
people to attend. \
Charleston J lites.
The cautionary signa ilare flying at
the signal bureau and t | usual equi
noctial gale is expected liily.
All the fire companie* |i the city are
to be furnished with a Apply of new
hose. I
The aggregate numb' sof deaths in
the city for the weekeu ijjug September
11, was 42—17 whites a £ 25 negroes.
| Qui Vive.
A TWIN-MOUNTA If MOUSE.
Mr. Beecher Inclines t | ‘ Grace, Mer
cy and Pei |
" f
Twin-Mount: in I Use, )
Eugi j 30, 1875. f
District Attorney Britto f
Dear Sir : Your let commending
to my attention certaii Considerations
which incline you to lolinquish the
criminal suit against IV | Moulton and
Mr.-Tilton, was duly r fdved and con
sidered. I think that views which
you present are soun Sand wise. It
would seem to be a'- fuatic that no
suit should be carric ]j; on in which
neither individuals nor sbiety can hope
for benefit. Should y f, la your fur
ther discretion, enter a l>lie prosequi, I
believe all right think c|s citizens will
regard your act with af iobation when
made aware of the reas >|s.
(Signed) Yours If cerely,
Hi V . Beecher.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
The Water Works—That Great “Cele
bration ” —A Sad Spectacle—The
Finest Whiskey Palace in the South
—Ladies Invited to Inspect It —Unan-
imous Gambling—Jack Brown Mad
—Newspaper Consolidation—A Spi
der in the Padding.
[From Our Regular Correspondent ]
Atlanta, September 14,1875.
It is with pain and bitter anguish
that I again allude to our prevailing
water works in these hastily written
letters. My very bowels gripe me at
the dose ; but with the assurance that
this is the last time my pen unbends,
its anger soothed, and I may manage
to worry through with it this time.
It was the tiual test, you know. Six
streams of mineral water were thrown
through au inch nozzle to the height
of 153 feet. Other tests were made,
and all proved satisfactory, which
demonstrated that Atlanta has water
works that will do her immense good.
The town is too young and hardly out
of the woods enough to know the use
fulness and utility of water works yet,
but she is growing wonderfully.
The day was not without its usual
modicum of incidents. You remember
the metropolitan press predicted that
the town would be as full of strangers
and guests as it was on the 4th of July.
Now, I’ll tell You who were here. That
vast multitude of strangers comprised
in Mo the Mayor of Chattanooga and
a few of her Aldermen, and two of them
insurrectionists; Mayor of Covington
and Jennings Clay, of Macon. Even
Cousin John Thrasher, of Norcross,
didn’t come down. But the Atlanta
progressive celebrated the day on his
own hook, and about as much whiskey
went down that crooked way as there
was water thrown from the works. The
station house was full of the bloods
and the metropolitan police were kept
busy all night carting the respectable
citizens home. The water works are a
success ; success to the water works.
A Palace Bar Room.
It is said of a lady well known
throughout the world as a member of
the demi-monde that one day, while on
the banks of a purling stream, a glass
of the pure crystal water was given
her to drink. As she held up the glass
abrim with purity itself, admiring it as
if it was a tankard of Bacchus’ oldest
vintage, she said: “Ah ! how nice this
would be if there was only a little sin
in it.” What a world of meaning was
there in that remark !
Saturday was the opening day of the
ilnest whiskey shop iii the South.
Whiskey was free, and the dead-beats
reveled and quaffed their bacchanalian
nectar with a gusto truly charming.
Just below the Kimball House this
gran4 saloon juts out into the street in
a moidest sort of way. The vestibule
is fretted with costly fresco work, and
floored with a monster foot-mat bear
ing the name of the gilded den. Paus
ing to marvel at its cost, you shoot into
the bar-room, and then you are dazzled.
Think of a mirror costing $2,500, of
lace curtains that cost SIOO each, of
lamps that cost $790, of frescoing that
cost is9oo, and carpets that cost S7O0 —
and Ujll for a barroom ! It is indeed a
palace affair—rich, costly and inviting—
a monument to enterprise, a funeral
pyre of ruined households. In the up
per story the parlors are equally as
well and richly furnished. These
rooms are said to be for the use of
clubs and for social reunion. A day
has been set apart for the ladies to
visit and inspect the establishment.
Think of that, will you ? Ladies in
vited and urged to go and visit this
bar room and faro bank by a city
press. Ye gods and little fishes ! The
press want the ladies to see where
their husbands and sons spend their
after supper hours, and inspect the
magnificence of the establishment.
We know 7 very well where our hus
bands and sons go. We know too that
those parlors fitted up so elegantly are
not for social reunion but for nightly
fights with the tiger. It is there that
the clerk parts company with his em
ployer’s money; it is there that the son
forgets his good mother’s teachings
and steeps his soul in sin ; it is there
that the husband robs his wife and
children and himself; it is there that
the sinning man throws off his mask
and feels at ease with his fellows for
no peut up utica limits his words to
respectable conversation or bridles his
passions. There is the pride of a
mother’s life —her heart’s idol—staking
money not his own upon the card a
a fickle devil whispers to him to risk.
Dollar after dollar slips through his
fingers—now in the full flush of luck,
now penniless. Here is the old man
whose hair is as white as that of grand
father in the Old Cusiosity Shop, and
gambling, as that foolish old man did,
to retrieve a fortune and lay up for a
rainy day. Here is the mechanic, with
his pocket swelling with his month’s
wages. After working like a slave all
the month, his money runs into the
faro bank in a few short minutes, leav
ing little ones at home to wonder if
papa lost his money on the street, and
why the finder don’t feturn it. Yes,
yes ; it is here you fiud all grades and
classes of men intent on one common
purpose—to beat the tiger. But how
seldom is the tiger vanquished ?
Considering the severity with which
Judge Hopkins treats this class of
offenders, the number of gambling
houses here is truly appalling. Along
Marietta street and about the Kimball
House are quite a number of them, and
they are crowded with patrons of the
game nightly. One reason, perhaps,
for the large number here is that the
United States Court draws scores of
countrymen into the city for witnesses,
&c., in illicit distillery cases, to say
nothing of the other attractions to the
rural gent; and gamblers look for these
verdants with as much earnestness as
hotel drlimmers look for a lodger.
Usually, however, their best and most
paying victims are the small farmers
who bring in their load of a few bales
of cotton and apply the proceeds to
whiskey and faro. When a thorough
bred strikes this kind of a victim he
runs afoul of a “Big Bonanza.”
Jack Brown.
They say Jack was mad when ho
discovered that my little bird let the
cat out of the bag. Well, Jack should
remember that so long as a man does
the clean thing in any phase of life,
there’s no danger of his being held up
to the public as a fraud. 1 didn’t tell
half that I was told, only enough to
show how appointments are obtained
at Washington.
Amalgamation.
I think I can with safety say that
the two newspapers here will soon con
solidate, after the fashion of the Nash
ville papers. From a private but re
liable source, I learn that negotiations
are pending looking to that object. In
case they should, in less time than 60
days a little independent paper will
shoot out from strong hands and be
come the people’s paper. Parties are
at work now figuring up for this event.
Martha,
GEORGIA.
THE NEGRO EMIGRATION MOVE
MENT EXPLAINED.
The State Finances —The School Sys
tem and its Local Importance—ln
dustrial Condition of the Blacks.
Alpine, N. J., Sept. 11,1875.
To the Editor of the Herald:
Among the latest news from Geor
gia I notice a report of an emigration
movement among the colored people
of the counties v iu which the rumor of
an insurrection recently excited alarm.
I think it probable that the excitement
in those counties will alarm some of
the blacks and lead them to think of
removing to other States ; but it would
be a mistake to suppose that the west
ward movement took its rise thus. I
mentioned in a previous communication
that at least 25,000 colored people had
left the State in the last five or six
years. In Atlanta I had some conver
sation with a negro who had been one
of the leaders in this movement, and
he gave me a number of in
stances where colored farmers had re
moved to Mississippi or Arkan
sas, taking with them mules and
farm tools, in some cases enough to fill
tw T o or three cars. This man remarked
to me that when he was younger and
during slavery times, he had noticed
that many white people, even planter’s
sons, removed from the State, and
when any of them returned for a visit
home they proved usually to have
prospered by the change. “I thought
if it was good for the whites it would
be good for our folks, too,” he said,
“and so I always encouraged all that
wanted to try it?’ He had started a
son-in-law to Louisiana, where after
two years he found him prospering.
He had visited Aikansas and Missis
sippi also, and confirmed to me my own
observations that in these States the
colored people thrive, and are generally
secure in their rights. He thought
Arkansas the best of all the States for
his people, but showed me also pamph
lets recommending certain parts of
Mississippi, which he was distributing
among his people.
I do not know, by the way, what bet
ter evidence one can have than this of
the generally satisfactory condition of
the colored people in those States. The
testimony of a colored man—a suffi
ciently shrewd fellow, I judged him,
who had traveled through the regions
he spoke of, and whom I saw from his
conversation to be a stickler for the
“rights” of his people—ought to go
very far to satisfy Northern people.
Such disorders as are now happening
in Mississippi will injure that State,
but they are strictly local and sporadic.
He told me, what I knew otherwise
also, that emigration agents come into
Georgia from different counties in the
three States I have named in search of
laborers. I know myself a single county
in Northern Louisiana which has drawn
in the last seven years not less than
4,000 colored people from Georgia and
Alabama. • These agents make known
the fact the' rich lands lie open in the
sections they represent, and not infre
quently they are ready to pay the ex
pense of a l'amily’h removal. The late
fall and winter, after the crops are
made, is the season of removal; and
the man I speak of thought, from what
he knew, that not less than 5,000 would
leave the State next winter. This, bear
in mind, was long before the so-called
insurrection.
I confess that to me this readiness to
better their fortunes by emigration
seemed one of the best signs I saw in
the South of the real independence of
the negro, and I found it most fully de
veloped in the very State where, ac
cording to the commonly received re
ports of Republican politicians, the
negro is still in a condition little better
than slavery. If this were true, of
course, he would not be moving away,
for he would be tied to the soil. Nor
do I believe Georgia will sustain a se
rious loss by this emigration. It will
make room for white emigrants, and
Georgia is peculiarly fitted to receive
and utilize a white farming and manu
facturing population. It is not proper
ly a planting, but a manufacturing
State, as I have before said.
Negro Property Owners.
I recur for a moment to the remark
able return of over six millions of pro
perty owned by the negroes of Geor
gia, to say that it is the only official
report of the kind I have found in any
Southern State. Arkansas, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, long under Re
publican rulers, yielded me no such in
formation. Only in democratic Geor
gia had the rulers sufficient intelligent
curiosity to ascertain what practical
progress the negro had made under
freedom. The result is, of course, very
gratifying and surprising. It speaks
well for the negro’s industry and his
growing power of accumulation, and
it speaks well for the justice and fair
dealing of the whites toward the blacks.
Georgia has at this moment but one
Republican journal, and that is a week
ly—the National Republican— printed in
Atlanta. From that I take the follow
ing editorial comment on the condition
of the colored people. It seems to me
a little harsh, but it comes from a Re
publican :
What is the record of ten years of free
dom? In the matter of temperance has
there been progress? Nay; in this respect
the freedmen are a thousand per cent,
worse off than they were in slavery. Rare
ly do we find a strictly temperate man.
Very nearly all drink, in town and out,
young men and old, and the women, too.
Thousands spend a dollar for whiskey
through the week, and on the Sabbath put
a, nickle or nothing in the contribution box.
The freedmen of Georgia spend in a half
year for liquor as much as they have paid
for schools since emancipation. Is this a
matter of which they should be proud? To
whom is the infliction of this wrong due?
What has been done for schools? A little
money has been raised, but not a hun
dredth, ir a thousandth, part of what has
been spent for tobacco, and shows, and
shot-guns, and finest One show hero last
winter is said to have carried away $3,000
of the colored people’s money, more
than their voluntary contributions to
schools in this city since the year
1865. In ten years not more than one
in nine or ten has learned to read in the
State, or out of 550,000 not more than 60,000
or 70,000, and these very largely through
the aid of Northern missions. This year
taxes will be paid on an aggregate of $7,-
000,000 of property, or less than sl3 a he id.
This is the showing of a decade of freedom
and lii ir opportunity. For it in some mea
sure the whites may be responsible, but the
responsibility lies chiefly with the peo, Je
themselves. They have probably ecrnwt
from $35,000,000 to $45,000,000 a year and out
of it should have saved a large percentage.
But there has been improvidence and waste
on every hand. Not quite, but ver y nearly,
as poor and ignorant are the freedmen to
day as when emancipated, and their ignor
ance and their poverty, quite as much as
the “ prejudice and hate ” of the whites,
serve to keep them where they are and
what they are—hewers of wood and draw
ers of water.
If a Democratic journal had said
these things it would have been called
prejudice, and I should not have
thought of quoting it. -They are the
words of the Republican and colored
organ. *
The State Finances and Public Schools
While I am speaking of the DemO'
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 37
cratic management of the State, I think
it right to call attention to the satis
factory financial statement, which com
pares remarkably with the condition of
Louisiana, Arkansas and other South
ern States which have been under Re
publican control. The State debt is but
$8,000,000, and the credit of the State
stands high in New York and abroad.
In January of this year there was a
surplus in the Treasury of over $1,000,-
000. The cost of the State Govern
ment for 1874 was but $776,000. The
counties have no debt of any conse
quence. The cities have some, but not
a very heavy indebtedness. It is alto
gether such a showing as these Demo
crats need not be ashamed of. It has
one weak spot only —the expenditure
for schools. Goorgia had no free
schools before the war; and the system
makes but slow headway in the State.
The present Superintendent of Public
Instruction (a Democrat) is a zealous
and efficient officer, and he looks for
ward to better days. There was appor
tioned by him for the support of schools
in 1874 only $265,000; and the schools
are open, in general, less than three
months in the year. For the present
year the school tax will yield only $270,-
000. Last year there were 135,000
children iu the public schools, an in
crease of 50,000 over 1873. In 1873 there
were actually attending school only
63,922 white and 19,755 colored children;
in 1874 the numbers stood 93,167 white
and 42,374 colored children. This was
out of a total of 218,733 white and 175,-
304 colored children within the school
ages. There is still in many coun
ties some prejudice against colored
schools, but it constantly decreases ;
and you will notice that more than
twice as many colored children at
tended schools in 1874 as in 1873. At
lanta has a colored university, and the
Legislature appropriates yearly to
wards its support SB,OOO, the same
amount which is given to the old State
University, The Governor and Super
intendent of schools both desire that
this appropriation shall be diverted to
a colored normal school; and there is
some ignorant prejudice in Atlanta
against the teachers iu the University,
on the ground of their sitting at table
with colored students, which is thought
to promote <r social equality.” It is not
denied, however, that the school does
good work; and I imagine the teachers'
can best instruct the pupils iu the
minor morals by eatiug at the same
table with them. One cannot help
feeling a little contempt for the people
who here in the South make themselves
needlessly unhappy about “social
equality.” I was amused at a
sensible planter—a Democrat and na
tive Georgian—who said to me: “It is
absurd in us to make such a fuss; there
is scarcely a man of us whose children
are not suckled by negro nurses; our
playmates were negro boys; all our re
lations in the old times were of the
most intimate; and for my part I would
as soon ride in a car with a cleanly
dressed negro as with a white man. It
is all stupid nonsense, and makes us
absurd in the eyes of sensible people.”
The feeling takes the most ridiculous
forms, too. For instance; iu Atlanta
and Augusta colored people are allowed
to ride in street cars; in Savannah they
are forbidden. Why the difference? Is
a Savannah negro less clean, or is a
Savannah white man a more noble
being, than those in the other two
cities? As showing the relations of
the two races, I found on a wall iu Au
gusta a poster giving notice of a col
ored railroad excursion to Port Royal,
stating price of passage and time re
quired, and at the end a notice that a
special car would be provided for such
of the white citizens as would like to
take advantage of this opportunity to
see Port Royal, and special accommo
dations for their comfort would be at
hand. The whole affair was under the
conduct of colored men. The Superin
tendent of Schools told me that there
was less prejudice against colored
schools in the sourtliern counties where
the negroes are the most numerous,
than iu the northern part of the State.
Condition of the Blacks—Wages.
The negroes in and near the cities
and towns are usually prosperous.
There are many colored mechanics,
and they receive full wages where they
are skillful. Near Atlanta and other
places they own small “truck farms,”
and supply the market with vegetables.
There are fewer black than white beg
gars in the cities; and a missionary
clergyman surprised me by the remark
that the blackberry crop, which was
ripening, was “a blessing to dozens of
poor white families of whom he knew,”
who lived half the year in a condition
of semi-starvation. He explained that
these people would not only sell black
berries, but that in the season they
largely lived on this fruit. These are
the kind of people to whom factories
would be a blessing.
In the cotton country the planter
usually pays his hands $lO a month, by
the year, with a house and ration. The
ration consists of three pounds of ba
con, a peck of meal and a pint of mo
lasses per week. The laborer has also
a “patch” of land for a garden, and
Saturday afternoon for himself, with
the use of the planter’s mules and tools
to work the garden. They work from
sunrise to sunset, and in the summer
have two and a half hours for dinner.
The cotton pickers receive fifty cents
per 100 pounds in the seed and are fed,
or sixty.five cents per 100 pounds, if
they feed themselves. The ration costs
about fifteen cents a day. Most plan
ters keep a small store, and sell their
laborers meat, bread and tobacco on
credit, the general settlement being
made once a year. The women
receive for field work $6 a month
and a ration, and I was told that
they insist on receiving their own
wages and will not let their husbands
use their money. They form an im
portant extra force for pressing work.
One of the most intelligent planters I
met in the State told me that his la
bores cost him about sls a month—
wages and ration. He added (what
surprised me) that the best planters
prefer to pay wages rather than let
their land on shares, and that the
wages system was growing in favor al
so with the negroes. I found this con
firmed by other testimony. It is very
different in the other States I have
seen —except, indeed, North Carolina—
and I imagine the poverty of the soil
is a main reason for it. In Mississip
pi, Louisiana and Arkansas the plant
ers told ‘me it would be poor policy to
pay wages. Certainly it is the poorest
system for the negro.
Planting on Shares.
Where the negroes plant on shares
the planter furnishes the land and
mules and feeds the mules. The negro
furnishes labor and feeds it and gets
one-third the crop. He pays for one
third of the feitilizers. The planter
gins the whole crop. Wtmre negroes
rent land they pay “50 pounds of lint
or ginned ootton for thirty-five or forty
acres of land —as much as they can
cultivate with one mule—and they keep
up the fences and pay for the fertiliz
ers. “In this way,” said a planter to
To Advertisers and Subscribers.
On and after this date (April 21, 1875,) all
editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent
free of postage.
Advertisements must be paid for when han
ded in, unless otherwise stipulated.
Announcing or suggesting Candidates for
office, 20 cents perline 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.
me, “ I know one man who made $250
clear in a year over and above his sup
port, and another who lost $150.” He
added that the negroes, ou the whole,
preferred the wages system ; and this
is mainly, I imagine, because the arti
ficial manures are costly and an uncer
tain element iu making a crop. This
means really, of- course, that it costs
more money to make cotton in Georgia
than in the other States I have named.
A third of a bale to the acre is the aver
age crop in Georgia, but in Mississippi
they expect to get from three-quarters
to a bale per acre without manure.
A planter from one of the “back
counties,” where the negroes are most
numerous, told me they were a most
quiet and docile population. “I live in
the midst of several hundred,” he said,
“with no white faraily within several
miles of mo, and my people are never
in the least alarmed. I have not a fire
arm in the house half the time. Treat
them honestly,” he said, “and they are
all right.” This man amused me with
some stories of how the blacks were de
ceived by a set of white rascals for
some years after the war. Among
other things, these fellows brought red
and blue sticks, which they sold for $1
each to the negroes, wherewith to
“stake off” the land whioh the
Government was to give them. Tbo
blacks used also, when they went to
the polls to vote, to bring halters with
them, for the mule which Gen. Grant
was to give them, I would like to know
what gracious wretch it was who spread
all over the South, among the blacks,
the story of “forty acres and a mule,”
which has caused bitter disappoint
ment to many thousands of credulous
negroes, and appears to have been used
mainly to induce them to vote the Re
publican ticket. In Louisiana several
negroes told me that Gen. Sutler, they
understood, would make them this gift;
but usually it is from Gen. Grant that
they expect it, and they are very ready
to vote for him.
The planter of whom I speak told mo
that the young negroes who had grown
up since the war worked less steadily
than the old hands. He added that in
his county some blacks owned as much
as 250 acres of land, and many were
doing well on their own farms. “If it
were not for the petit larceny they
would all do well.” He kept a colored
school on his own plantation. The
black people liked it, he said. They
are fond of hoarding coin, especially
since the Freedtnen’s Bank failed,
which caused loss to many of them,
and they are quite ready to buy gold
and silver coin at a premium.
Charles Nordhoff.
Minor Telegrams.
Louisville, Ky., September 15.—The
track of the Elizabethtown, Lexington
and Big Saudy Railroad, lying in Fay
ette county, Ky., was sold to General
Leslie Coombs for $5. He held judg
ment against the company for damage
to his house. lie bought the track at
sheriff’s sale.
Washington, September 15.—Senator
Bruce, of Mississippi, with a delegation
from that State, had a long interview
with the Attorney*General this morn
ing.
Indianapolis, September 15— Rev.
Alex. Martin, of Virginia, has been
elected President of Ashbury Univer
sity.
Savannah. September 15. —The schoon
er Sarali E. Douglass, from Nassau to
Norfolk, arrived at Tybee this morning
with the crew and passengers, and
the British and United States mails
and specie from the steamship Zodiac.
The mails will be forwarded this eve
ning.
Cincinnati, 0., September 13.—Dr.
W. S. Chipley, for 20 years Medical
Superintendent of the Kentucky Insane
Asylum, takes charge of College Hill
Asylum, in this city.
“The Banking Business.”
[New York Herald.]
In reading the report of the trial of
Theodore W. Brown in connection with
the larceny of the public treasury, we
are impressed with an obseivation
made by Ottman,, one of the accused
party, to a detective. Ottman, as our
readers will remember, is charged with
having taken from the Treasury $47,000.
For this robbery he is now under ar
rest. When Ottman took the money
he scarcely knew what to do with it,
and iu his anxiety to have it suddenly
out af his hands*he led to his own cap
ture. Detective McDevitt says that
“Ottman was anxious to invest the
in the banking business,
and employed witness for that
purpose.” This resolution of Ott
man to become a great banker
only shows the condition into which
our busiue3s has fallen. We have no
doubt that if Ottman had come to New
York, established a banking house and
gone into business, he might have
made a great deal of money; that he
might have, like Jay Gould, made res
titution to the Treasury of the $47,000
he took from it, and might have become
a “great power” in the street, a “king”
among railroad brokers, his name a
“terror” to the market. Ottman de
sired to enter into the banking busi
ness, but he was too precipitate. Ho
did not make haste slowly. He got
into the hands of the police and was
arrested. Instead of becoming the Jay
Gould of Washington and making “res
titution” to the Treasury, he will prob
ably go to jail and think over the op
portunities he has lost.
An Argument for Religious I'olerance.
[Church Union.]
The following is a characteristic in
cident in the life of Deacon Bolles, who
was an eminent type of the age in
which he lived, for personal and pri
vate worth, both as a man and Chris
tian.
When the Baptists of Hartford be
gan to hold public services, an over
zealous member of Df. Strong’s society
called upon him and asked him if he
knew that John Bolles had started an
opposition meeting.
“ No,” said he ; “ when—where ?”
“ Why, at the old Court House.”
“ Oh yes, I know it,” the Doctor care
lessly replied, “ but it is not an opposi
tion meeting. They are Baptists, to be
sure, but they preach the same doc
trine that I do. You had better go
and hear them.”
“No,” said the man, “I am a Presby
terian.”
“So am I,” rejoined Dr. Strong, “but
that need not prevent us from wishing
them well. You had better go.”
“No,” said the man with energy, “I
shan’t go near them. Dr. Strong, ain’t
you going to do something about it?”
“What?”
“Stop it, can’t you?”
“My friend,” said the Doctor serious
ly, “John Bolles is a good man, and
will surely go to heaven. If you and I
get there, we shall meet him. and wo
had better, therefore, cultivate a pleas
aqd acquaintance with him here.”
No female ever wrote an opera.
Very particular persons have small
ears,