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The cholera has broken out in India in a
violent form.
We publish this morniug the report of
the Memphis Cotton Exchange upon the
condition of the Western crop.
Hon. W. D. Kelly has written a letter,
cordially accepting an invitation to the
State Fair on the 18th.
Judge McKinney, an eminent jurist,
and one of the judges of the Supreme
Court of Tennessee, died at Knoxville, yes
terday morning.
The mortality among the colored people
of the District of Columbia is frightful.
The Board of Health say that the difference
between deaths of whites and blacks is as
fifteen to forty-seven.
Wester ye lt, one of the mean monsters
who abducted Charley lioss, has been
sent to the penitentiary for seven years
and fined one dollar. We hope he will bo
induced to reveal tin fate of the poor little
boy.
Two of the victims of the firm of Dun
can, Sheehan & Cos., who bought foreign
exchange from them six days before they
collapsed, had all the members of the con
cern arrested upon a warrant charging
them with being cheats and swindlers.
Fenton has been a "Republican of note in
New York. The whereabouts of such men
are now so doubtful that it is necessary
for them to declare openly what ticket
they intend to support. The Senator is out
with such a letter.
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Foss Tweed has had another indictment
and another bond to the extent of one mil
lion piled upon him. That great and cham
pion thief of the United States is having a
hard time of it, but not half as severe as he
richly deserves.
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Cotton rallied yesterday, and went up to
13 cents in Augusta, with 969 bales receipts,
720 sales, and footing up 22 474 received
since the Ist of September. It was strong
and higher in Liverpool, as well as all
American points. We trust it will continue
to rise.
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The Radical Sheriff of Tallahatche
county. Mi s. Alcorn, a white man, and a
negro politician named Blackwell had an
encounter, in which twenty shots were
fired at the negro, killing him very dead.
As all concerned were Republicans, there
is not the slightest reason why troops
should bo sent there.
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We print, in another column, the experi
ence of a Nashville colored man of social
equality in London. He found in the Bri
tish Metropolis the land of jubilee. Tur
ner and Jeff Long need not bother their
heads about the coast of Africa, the land
of promise for the emigrating negro is
found. It is England, and we charge them
nothing for the information.
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The London stock market was yesterday
very much excited, especially about Turk
ish bonds. This indicates that brokers had
some news not given to the public. Turkey
is like Chicago, shingled all over with debt
so deep that it would’t pay out if sold out
at auction, or even at private sale! It
would be a rough bargain to take the
country off the Sultan’S hands and assume
the liabilities.
A delegation of prominent Mississippi
Republicans are in Washington asking that
troops be not sent to that State. They frank
iyjadmit that such a movement would remit
in the election of members of their party
too much depraved to be entrusted with
any office. And what is dumfounding, they
say that it is better to allow the Dem jerats
to carry the State! Well may we take hope
for our country when violent partizans
take such action as this.
1 he great contest in Ohio will terminate
day after to-morrow, the 12th. It is con
ceded by both parties that Allen, the
Deo. ocratic nominee, will be elected. But
ler says his majority will be thirty thou
sand. If it reaches fifty thousand, he will
be the n xt nominee of the party for Presi
dent. Shoul i he be defeated, it will settle
the iinauci.il question, for in that, event
hard money will be incorporated in the na
tional platform.
That was a lively chase of the Cuban
privateer, Uruguay, and a Spanish man-of
war. We can well imagine the excitement
on board the brave steamer which had
twice landed and was each time driven
awa by troops of the enemy, and finally
fell in with a war vessel. Had she been
. captured every man on board would have
i been put to death in a few hours, in front
.of a b'ank wall. We are glad she got safely
.into the port of Kingston, and under the
.guusrof the British Woodlark.
The Servian Parliament has voted down
a resolution to declare war against Turkey.
A new Ministry has been formed, the mem
bers being of the peace party, and, finally,
the Great Powers have declared they will
.not resist the invasion, of the country by
Turkish troops if Servia invites it. These
great Christian Powers have all along lent
all their influence in favor of the Moslem.
Their motive is purely mercenary. They
are largely interested in Turkish bonds,
which will not be worth more than Confed
erate money if the pending war terminates
successfully to the insurgents. Here is one
instance in which a public debt is a btess
igg, to be sure.
The Warren Superior Cofirt was in* ses
sion. last week. Our Warrenton letter gives
the proceedings in detail. General Toombs
was in attendance, aud made a speech in
rosponse to a serenade. Our representa
tive in the Legislature, P. Walsh, was also
serenaded and made a speech. General
loobbs’ speech was of the most violent
nature, very abusive, and, in short, a sam
ple of a ton of nitro-glyoerine after being
struck by a sledge hammer. As he grows
older he gr ws more bitter, which is all
wrong. .Ln this way this gre it man de
stroys most totally his power of inlluence.
Dr. David Wills, formerly of Atlanta,
now of Washington, D, 0., writes a letter to
the Sunny South, of which the following is
&u extract: “Speculations are rife to-day
as to who will be the successor of Secretary
Delano. Twenty names are mentioned,
but the ‘coming man’ is not yet revealed.
My choice is Governor Joseph E. Brown,
of Atlanta, and if the matter is not deter
mined before the President returns from
the West, I will take the responsibility of
pressing this appointment upon him. It is
my fixed purpose not to participate in po
litical scrambles here, but I believe it would
be doing a good service to Die whole * coun
try if * g entleman of such comprehensive
intellect and patriotism was connected with
the Cabinet, fiwch an appointment would
proveapeaci measure between the North
and South.” Dr. Wills *wsms to have in
fluence with Gkint, or thinks h has; but
the idea of Joe Brown’s appointment to
Delano’s vacant position, as a favor to the
;{South, is a triils-prepo-’terous.
C\u mists .Constitutionalist
Established 1799.
FROM NEW YORK.
Arrest of Members of the Firm of
Duncan, Shermau & Co.—Yacht
Race.
New York, October 9.—Orders of ar
rest were granted on Wednesday last,
against Wm. Butler Duncan, Wm.
Watts Sherman and Francis H. Grain,
of the late banking firm of Duncan,
Shermau & Cos., on complaint of W. A.
Ferdinand, and W. and Chas. G. Roeb
ling, who charge the firm with fraud in
having sold them a bill of exchange on
London six days before their suspen
sion, and when, as alleged, they knew
it would be dishonored. Orders of ar
rest were executed on Thursday, and
e ich of the defendants gave bail in
$5,000.
The Resolute and Comet came in to
gether. The Comet wins by time al
lowance of 17 minutes 38 seconds.
The German Savings Bank, on Fourth
aveuue and Fourth street, is enforcing
the 60 days notice rule.
New York, October 9.—lnformation
received here from Kingston, Jamaica,
says that during the chase of the Uru
guay by the Spanish war vessel, there
came a moment when capture seemed
inevitable. Senor Rosado, the com
mander, took the necessary measures
to blow her up, with all on aboard,
rather than furnish a repetition of the
Yirginius affair, himself holding a slow
match, which was warmly disputed by
L. Prado, eldest son of President Pra
do, of Peru. The chief engineer, a
stoker aud one of the crew had died of
Chagres fever.
THE WESTERN COTTON CROP.
Report of the Memphis Cotton Ex
change.
Memphis, October 9.—The Cotton Ex
change crop report for September con
tains 120 responses of the average date
of September 30th. Of these, 17 report
the weather warm aud dry; 43 clear,
dry and cool, with occasional showers;
60 wet and cold; 54 report serious dam
age by rust; 27 blight; 60 rot; 35 injur
ed by storms; 49 no damage. The total
damage reported for this department
is 10}’ per eent. The commencement
of the picking season averages Septem
ber 16th; report progressing well, 85:
progressing slowly, 31; report the crop
opening slowly, 62; retarded by sick
ness, 20. In Mississippi, retarded
by political troubles, with frost
at the same date as last year; 16 report
thau the crops will be about the same
as last year, 95 better and 10 not so
good. Estimated better crops than last
year, 24 per cent.; 90 report laborers
well disposed and will harvest the
crops, unless deterred by sickness; 51
report sickness of various kinds; 23
report negligence from political causes;
8 report many laborers abannoning the
crops; 5 report pickers waiting for
higher wages; 80 report frost at the
average date of September 20th; 2 re
port the crops killed in the Mississippi
Valley; 78 report no damage; 40 report
frost; 101 report that wheat, rye and
grasses have been and will be sown
this fall; 44 estimate the same acreage
as last year; 33 increased acreage; 18
report none raised. The estimated
average increase is 21 per cent, in the
aggregate. For North Alabama there
are 16 respouses—l reports dry, warm
weather; 3 cloudy and coid, with oc
casional showers ; 12 wet and cold ; 8
report serious damage by rust; 10
damage by storms ; 3 no damage ; es
timated average, 9 per cent.; the av
erage date of commencement of pick
ing was September 18th ; 1 reports
progressing well ; 15 slowly—cause,
sickness aud slow opening, with frost
at same date as last year ; 5 estimate
crops about same ; 3 less ; 8 better ; av
erage estimate, 6 >2 per cent, better ;14
responded to other interrogations, that
laborers are well disposed to save ci ops;
6 report delay from sickness.
Memphis, October 9.—One reports
some abandonment on account of low
prices; one reported pickers waiting
for higher wages; two report frost Sep
tember 20th, but no damage; three re
port no frost; all report that wheat,
rye and grasses have been sown this
fall; eight say about the same as last
year; one reports less, seven more, than
last year. The estimated average in
crease is s P er cent.
Minor Telegrams.
Hartford, October 9.—Additional
circumstances increase the probability
that Drew committed the Langmade
outrage.
Chicago, October s.—The railroads
East, on fourth class freight, increased
five cents per 100 pounds.
Bay City, Mich., October 9. — Early
yesterday morning the house of Geo.
Forrest was entered by some person
unknown, who poured a quantity of
acid on the face of Mrs. Forrest as she
lay asleep. She is horribly burned aud
will loose her eyesight. The outrage
is supposed to have been committed
by a man whose suit had been rejected
by the girl who lived and slept with
Mrs. Forrest.
Boston, October 9.—John Glow, of
the Jefferson Borden, plead guilty to
mutiny, and was Sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary.
Memphis, October 9.—Fire was in
ceudiarily started iu two rooms of the
fifth story of the court house at the
same time. Loss, $12,000.
District of Columbia Mortuary Record.
Washington, October 9.—The mortu
ary record of the Board of Health for
the week ending October 2d shows that
the rate of mortality of the white pop
ulation was fifteen per one thousand
per annum, while the mortality of the
colored population was forty-seven per
thousand for the same peiiod. The
previous records of the Board exhibit
similar facts showing the decrease of
the African race iu the District of
Columbia.
MISSISSIPPI WAR OF RACES.
A Fight Between White aud Black Re
publicans.
Memphis, October 9. —All quiet at
Friar’s Point. A difficulty at Charles
ton. Tallahatchie county, originated be
tween Sheriff Aleorn and a negro named
Blackwell—Blackwell abusing Alcorn
and other Republican leaders. He was
arrested by Deputy Sheriff Hall. Black
well then shot Geo. Hail (white). Black
well was pursued by the Sheriff aud
others to the back room of a grocery,
where he was shot fifteen or twenty
times and mortally wounded. All Re
publicans.
Death of Judge McKinney, of Ten
nessee.
Knoxville, Tenn., October 9.—Judge
McKinney, late Judge of the Supreme
Court of this State, died at half-past
five o’clock this morning. Extensive
preparations are being made for his
funeral at 2 o’clock p. m., to-morrow.
His funeral will be attended by State
lawyers, etc., from all parts of
the State.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The Spanish Civil War.
Hendage, October 10.—The bombard
ment of San Sebastian has been re
sumed.
The War iu Turkey.
London, October 9.—Servian Depu
ties met at the residence of Prince Mi
lan, aud rejected the motion for war by
a majority of 62 to 21.
Belgrade, October 9.—lt is reported
anew Servian Ministry has been
formed, and that its members belong
to the peace party.
Excitement in the London Stock Mar
ket.
London, October 9.—The Stock Ex
change is animated. There is consid
erable excitement iu the foreign mar
kets, particularly the various issues of
the Turkish loan.
Trouble Betw r een the Hague and Ve
nezuela.
London, October 9.—A dispa! ch re
ceived from the Hague announces that
the Venezuelan Minister Plenipoten
tiary, with his secretary, left there on
Saturday for Brussels. The announce
ment derives its importance from the
known relations between the two coun
tiies, and suggests the inquiry whether
the movement noted indicates a rup
ture of diplomatic relations. Diplo
matic circles say probably not, as in
such cases usually there is no attempt
at secresy.
London, October 9.—The Pall Mall
Gazette’s special from Berlin says: “It
is now proposed, in execution of the
contemplated reforms, that the admin
istratiOTi of disaffected provinces be en
trusted to a Governor General enjoy
ing the confidence of the Christiau sub
jects of the Porte. The proposal seems
likely to succeed, though it is not likely
the great Powers will guarantee re
forms, notwithstanding the insurgents
still insist upon it. The Consuls at
Mostar are negotiating and endeavor
ing to pacify the insurgents through
the medium of the clergy.”
Cardinal McCloskey.
Rome, October 9. —Cardinal MeClos
key, who is about to depart for America,
bade farewell to-day to the Pope and
Cardinal Autonelli. Much emotion
was manifested at leave-taking.
German Military Estimates.
London, October 9.—The Fall Mall
Gazette’s Berlin special says it is report
ed that Germany will demand this year
an addition of six million marks to the
military estimates.
Death of a French Deputy.
Paris, October 9. —M. Dezanneau, one
of the Deputies iu the Assembly from
Loire luferienre, is dead.
Cholera in India.
London, October 9. —The Bombay
Times reports a severe outbreak of
cholera in the provinces of Mysore.
The Mississippi Troubles.
Washington, October 9.—The Star
has the following version :
The Attorney General of the State of
Mississippi, ex Senator Pease, Post
master of Vicksburg, Miss., and Dis
trict Attorney Wells, of the Northern
District, culled on the Attorney Gen
eral this morning to present to him the
situation of affairs iu that State. They
represent that the recent troubles are of
a personal nature, and are now over.
1 hey do not want Federal troops sent,
into Mississippi. They set forth that
if troops are sent Into the State tho ne
groes will elect to office men plastered
over with indictments for various mis
demeanors. If troops are not sent into
the State they are of opinion the Leg
islature will be lost to the Republican
party, but that the successful candi
dates will be lovers of good order, and
a law-abiding and patriotic Legisla
ture. They thiuk the reverse, howev
er, will be overcome in time for the
Presidential issue, and that in that
campaign the Republican candidate
will receive a majority of the votes
cast iu the State. Tho Attorney Gen
eral advised the delegation to remain
here until the President’s return, and
reiterate the statements made to him
to the President.
CHASE OF A PRIVATEER-
Exciting Race Between a Cuban Fili
buster Steamer anil a Spanish Mau
of-War.
Kingston, Jam., October I.—The fili
buster steamer, Uruguay, had a very
narrow escape from capture by Span
iards, off the coast of Cuba. Sailing
close in shore, under cover of the night,
she effected landings during two eve
nings, but was so close to the Spanish
encampment that they fired upon her
with rifles. Subsequently she encoun
tered a Spanish war steamer, which
chased her for sixteen hours, close
along tho Cuban coast, in daylight, but
she escaped and headed for Jamaica,
reaching Port Royal Monday night,
the 7th inst. She requires repairs and
has been ordered to land her arms and
ammunition at Fort Augusta. Mean
while tho ship Woodlark, takes charge
of her, with steam up.
One of the crew of the Uruguay died
of fever yesterday, aud three others
have gone to the hospital.
Metropolitan Miscellaneous News.
New York, October 9.—Another suit
was instituted against Tweed in the
name of the people to recover nearly a
million. Order of arrest served yester
day, returnable October 31st. Bail
million. At a fire in Williamsburg a
large five story brick building used for
manufacturing purposes and occupied
by families was burned, estimated loss
$50,000. One hundred persons ousted.
Chas. H. Fisher, representing himself
as manager and proprietor of the mer
cantile bureau aud collection company
of America was arrested. Charges
that the Bureau is fraudulent and for
embezzlement. Ex Senator Fenton
has written a letter saying he feels it
his duty to suppoot in the present can
vas the Republican candidates. Mayor
Wiikham has requested the resigna
tion of police commissioners Matsell,
Voorhees and Disbecker. Charges of
malfeasance were brought against
them.
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
and the Postal Telegraph.
Cincinnati, October 9.— The Cincin
nati delegates to the National Board of
Trade, in their report to the Chamber
of Commerce, recommend the Chamber
to use whatever influence it might have
with the members of Congress to the
end that the General Government may
purchase existing lines and manage the
whole telegraph business or the coun
try. A resolution was offered iu oppo
sition to this, declaring-that the Cham
ber does not commit itself iu favor of
the project of a national postal tele
graph. This question, which has been
the subject of many discussions iu the
Chamber, came up for final disposition
to-day, aud the resolution against com
mitting tno Chamber in favor of the
postil telegraph was carried by a con
siderable majority.
AUGUSTA. GA„ SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1875.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
The Governor and the Murderer
Brinkley—Bardisms—Dr. Worrall—
Amusements —{- Street Arabs A
Queer Cupid—Dots.
[From Our Regular Correspondent.]
Atlanta, October 8.
The Governor nas directed a jury to
be summoned to inquire into the mat
ter of S. B. Brinkley, the wife murder
er, of Newnau, aud determine whether
he is insane as alleged. If proven in
sane, his sentence will be commuted to
life imprisonment; if not, he will hang
on the 29th. A counter petition, from
some of the best, citizens of Coweta
county, is on file at the Governor’s
office, praying that the law take its
course and that the Governor make no
interference. It is thought that the
plea cannot be substantiated, and that
Brinkley will pay the penalty his hor
rible crime deserves.
Bard.
You remember that John Bard, son
of the old man, stabbed Willie Spencer
at company drill one night some time
ago, was tried and fined one thousand
dollars. John gave bond and went to
Montgomery, and was announced as
the junior proprietor of the Alabama
State Journal, of which Samuel, his pa
ternal ancestor, and formerly Governor
of Idaho, is editor, Samuel petitioned,
iu his best style, Gov. Smith for a re
mission of the fine. Yesterday the pe
tition was refused; and now John will
either have to call on his bondsmen to
pay the fine or serve twelve months on
the public works, an avocation some
what distasteful io ordinary people,
and probably will be to John.
Dr. Worrall.
Despite tho frauftic efforts of some to
give this man a ba;d reputation, he has
won for himself I quite a number of
friends hereabouts who are satisfied
that he is right side up with care. Geu.
Beauregard has written a letter to E.
T. Paine, secretary of the Direct Trade
Union, in which ho expresses himself
satisfied that Dr. Worrall, though once
a member of the Warmoth crew, is
endeavoring to rehabilitate himself in
public opinion, and that he has suc
ceeded unaided iu organizing in Eng
land, tho “Mississippi Valley Trading
Company,” au enterprise promising
much benefit to thp South.
Amuse Aaeutical.
The season of Hmusements opened
here Monday nigl'it, with May Tem
pleton and troupe, to tolerable houses.
On Wednesday night Duprez & Bene
dict’s minstrels played to the hall
chock full. They [return here on the
27th, and give a benefit to Frank Du
rnont, one of then; members, who had
the pocket-picking- trouble here last
Fall. Next Monday and Tuesday
uights Howe’s London Circus will
amuse us. Sheri lan, Mack & Day’s
variety combination are booked for
October 18th, 19th find 20th. After that
time nearly every |iight of the season
is engaged. {
Lazz yroni.
It is getting alituietoocold for street
beggars. You caii’t expect the little
barefooted girl, wi i;h a big bonnet and
pinched face, to extend her hands in
the frosty air and illicit a contribution
to buy a little meaufor a sick mother.
But there is one pyior, miserable devil
who flattens his attenuated frame over
the grating of the Kimball House, who
liugers still, despite the blasts of win
ter. No man, unless lost to all sense
of respect and benevolence, can pass
heedlessly by this Wretched object and
refuse to drop him an odd nickel. He
sees you coming down the street, and
his mouth waters. He begins to wipe
away the tobacco spit that has congre
gated iu sweat-like drops about a
mouth that resembles a coal-hole, aud
then, dropping his under lip to give a
sadness to his voice, says, as you near
him, “Mister, gimme nickel,” and as
you pass on by, your mind occupied
with graver matters, you turn the cor
ner in time to dodge his benediction,
“Go to hell, you -—;” but you keep
on. If some respectable man would
come along and entirely kill this leech,
he would add greatly to Atlanta’s en
terprise, and prove himself a genuine
progressionist.
Cupid.
In one corner of the vestibule of the
gorgeous Big Bonanza drinking saloon
is an elaborate chair, under which are
deposited, when not in use, the brush
and blacking of one of the blackest
black boys you ever saw. He is the
sole proprietor of that chair, and is the
challenge bootblack of the community.
He is the victim of more diabolical
mischief, the butt of ridicule aud the
objective point of everybody’s boot
end. If a horse runs away and smashes
things, this boy is the first to get dam
aged; his corns are trod on, his tools
get stolen, he is cheated and swindled
by nearly all his customers, and yet he
lives on, a monument of heaped-up
abuse, an uncouth statue in black mar
ble, and rejoices in the somewhat clas
sic name of Cupid!
Aqua Pura.
Every now and then we stump our
achiug toes against burrows in the
principal streets, made by water rent
ers. The people have not generally
rented the water as yet. Every man
seems to wait for ilia neighbor to try
the experiment. It will take a long
time to force it into general use. There
are too many good wells about here
now. But, then. Atlanta is growing. A
few years from now and we will see
water from the water-works used ex
clusively—well-water considered too
old-fogyish to use.
Light’d.
You can form no idea of the exten
sive trade here in iightwood, or kind
ling. Atlanta being a coal-burning city,
kindling is a necessity and there is a
capital demand for it. There are num
bers of families who support them
selves on the sale ofithese fat splinters
alone. You have only to shoulder au
ax, hunt you up a pine stump, chip ofl
the splinters, put them in uniform buu
dles, and they bring you five aud ten
cents a bundle, sure pop. Usually the
trade is engaged in by small girls” and
boys, who hawk it about the streets ;
and the retail grocers, recognizing its
claim as a household commodity, have
embraced it in their stock. Many a
penny goes for this item.
_ Martha.
A Freight Train Knocks Down a
Depot.
Rochester, October 9.—A freight
train on the New York Central, running
forty miles an hour, left the track and
dashed against the walls of the depot,
demolishing part of the building,
crushing the engine tender, and a good
part of the train. The engineer and
fireman were crushed to death.
A wm
The Cruel Abduct ar of Poor Little
Charley Ross.
Philadelphia, October 9.—Wester
ve!t, implicated in (he abduction of
Charley Ross, sentenced to seven years
solitary confinement and fined sl.
COUNTY EDUCATION BOARD.
Quarterly Meeting at the City Hall.
The regular quarterly session com
menced in the Superior Court Room at
11 a. m. yesterday. Nearly all the
members were present, and in the ab
sence of Hon. J. T. Shoemake, on motion
of John Vaughan, John S. Davidson,
Esq., was elected President pro tevi.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and confirmed.
Maj. A. H. McLaws, Secretary of the
Board, made his usual report, and was
as follows:
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
Board of Education:
In the First Ward, the plan to grade
the schools, is being strictly observed
and successfully carried out. The two
rooms of the commodious building,
which was erected during the past edu
cational year, have been appropriated
to the use of the lower, or first and
second primary classes. These grades
have been already advanced. At an
early period a second building, now in
process of erection, on the Ellis street
front of the same lot, will be ready for
the pupils of the first grade. An effi
cient lady teacher has already been se
lected.
Great credit is due the intelligent
Trustees of this District for having es
tablished the schools under their imme
diate supervision on a firm basis, and
secured to all the children therein the
benefits of a thorough primary educa
tion.
The large area of the Fourth Ward,
divided by the Ist, 2d and 3d levels of
the canal, creating a necessity for the
establishment of two schools, each of
the first and second primary grades,
has presented serious obstacles to the
labors of the local Trustees.
Their funds have been diminished by
renting and furnishing rooms indis
pensably required for the occupation
of the numerous pupils.
These energetic Trustees have se
cured a lot fronting on upper Broad
street, and will at an early day erect a
suitable building, so much needed, to
give effect to their earnest efforts in
the discharge of their obligations as
members of the Educational Board.—
For the present they have secured
rooms from the Augusta Factory, at a
nominal rent, on the south side of the
canal. The schools of this District ri
valjthose of the First Ward in the abil
ity and efficiency of the teachers.
Owing to difficulty of obtaining other
rooms, the Trustees of the Second
Ward, accepted the generous offer of
the Sisters and thus derive all the ad
vantages of those well known educa
tors, for one female school.
Ia St. Patrick’s church which was ob
tained free of rent, aud furnished with
desks, was established a school for
boys. This has now been opened in the
old parsonage.
I learn, that, during the present term,
arrangements may probably be made
with the Trustees of the Augusta Free
School by which one or more classes
may he established in that building.
In the Third Ward, the two small
rented rooms near the water tower, on
the south side of the canal, have been
supplied with desks and one blackboard
iu each.
To the teachers in this ward much
credit is due for their energy and per
severence in overcoming the difficul
ties to which they have been subjected.
Tkese schools are crowded with pupils.
I :ake pleasure in referring again to
the Sisters, to whose generosity this
ward also is indebted for the advant
ages of a superior female school'.
Through the commendable kindness
and public spiritedness of the able
professors of the High School in the
village of Hephzibah, all the children
of that district are afforded the bene
fits of that popular institution of learn
ing. The amount legally apportioned
to this district is insufficient to pay the
salary of one primary teacher.
In Summerville, the Trustees have
an excellent school house, for which
they are indebted, in part, to the citi
zens of that district for liberal con
tributions in its erection. This school
is well attended, and under the charge
of a lady teacher of such remarkable
excellence as to deserve special com
mendatory notice.
In the 119th and 121st Districts, the
local Trustees have liquidated their
entire indebtedness, and profiting by
experience, have economically but so
thoroughly organized their that
every child in those large and sparsely
settled distiicts has an opportunity of
attendance, under well qualified teach
ers.
In the “New District,” taken from
the 119th, a like efficiency is observa
ble in the watchful guardianship of the
Trustees. They have opened an addi
tional school at the church at Harris
burg with an efficient instructor.
The educational advantages in the
123d District have not been neglected
by the local Trustees. Their schools
hare been increased from two to four,
and are continued Ur a longer period
than those of any other district. We
hope that the attendance during the
past will iuspire the teachers with
grout energy in the discharge of their
duties during the coming year.
In the 121 th District, notwithstand
ing the efforts of the Trustees, there
dots not seem to be a desire on the
part of the people in a portion of the
district to avail themselves of the ad
vantages offered.
'lhe schools have not been well at
tended. Most men and women have an
intuitive idea of the value and neces
sity of education. There are but very
few parents that fail to comprehend
that the respectability and social happi
ness of their children upon
their enlightenment.
The system of public schools has
been thoroughly tested and its oppo
nents are to bo found chiefly among
those who do not favor, for selfish rea
sons, the dissemination of intelligence,
but would exclude all who are too poor
to pay for its benefits. To reach this
latter class is one of the objects of the
grand system of public instruction,
whose blessings are seen more and
more, as it is practically and skillfully
developed. To so devolop your law is
the Bworn duty of the Local Trustees—
and only those who are in favor of the
system can be expected to so success
fully execute its details as to attain the
desired ends.
The Colored Schools, all of the Pri
mary grades, have made satisfactory
progress. The teachers are attentive
and efficient. The pupils neat, cleanly
and apt. They are remarkable for tneir
regular attendance.
It is due to the teachers, that I should
commend them for their efforts to in
culcate order, neatness and as high a
standard of morality as is possible to
be reached.
I respectfully solicit your body to ex
tend invitations, to all citizens, females
as weil as males, to visit these schools.
I can assure a)’ good citizens that
they will derive much pleasure from
their visit.
During our domestic war, with its
exciting and terrible events, education
was necessarily neglected. It is greatly
to the credit of the people of our State,
that though utterly prostrate and dis
heartened by the failure, after a costly
and bloody contest, to secure their
rights under the Federal Constitution;
though despoiled of the greater part
of their natural wealth, they did not
forget the importance of educating the
children who clustered around their
desolate firesides, or as was the case in
too many instances, around the places
where their firesides should have been.
This thought, surrounded as they
were by poverty and sobbing suffering,
aroused our people. They saw beyond
these evils of fortune—beyond even the
shadows that darkened their future;
that not only the happiness but the
liberty, the national existence of their
children depended upon their mental
enlightenment.
The energies and efforts which these
thoughts aroused will make the coming
generations worthy monuments of their
ancestors, heroic as any who illuminate
the annals of the world. But in noth
ing was that heroism more brightly
shown than in their sacrifices to rescue
their children from ignorance aud in
evitable degradation.
The public school system of this
county is one of the results of the ter
rific struggle shortly after the war and,
in our darkest hour, six public-spirited
individuals, all of wnom are, I believe,
members of your body, assembled in a
private office and inaugurated the
movement.
These parties can wish for no greater
reward than that which springs from
the reflection, that but for your action
a majority of the two thousand chil*
dren, who have annually attended your
schools would have been deprived of
all the advantages of education.
The system has been perfected by
the most generous sacrifices of all
clat ses.
You commence the present school
year with an able corps of teachers.
Without reflecting on any one of the
number, we may name Drs. Washing
ton and Pettigrew, Mrs. Peck, Bailey
and Carmichael, Misses Fleming, Stew
art, Holliday, Norman, Ponce, Patter
son aud Barnwell, and Mr. O. I. Seago,
and R. B. Day, as adding to experience
that other important qualification
active, life-giving energy and profes
sional enthusiasm.
The higli moral character of all the
public schools has deservedly secured
the confidence of the entire community.
It is conceded that the local trustees
have faithfully carried out the laws
and exhibited great prudence and wis
dom in their management of the
finances.
Peimit me to hope that the law re
quiring the local trustees of each dis
trict to keep a record of their official
acts be strictly enforced, thus prevent
ing confusion. I would ask that the
Finance Committee be authorized to
rurnish a book, in which the names of
all the children annually attending
school shall be recorded by the Com
missioner. Respectfully, &c.,
A. H. McLaws,
Commissioner.
Jur.v 9, 1875.
COUNTY SCHOOLS.
First Ward—White schools, males,
60 ; females, 56; colored, males, 43 ;
females, 60; total white, 116; total
colored, 103; average attendance,
white, 81 * colored, 68 ; total, 149 ; cost
per month per pupil, 85 cents.
Second Ward—White, males, 73 ; fe
males, 35 ; colored, males, 53 ; females,
59 ; total white, 108 ; total colored, 112 ;
average attendance, white, 80; color
ed, 76 ; cost per month per pupil, 79
cents.
Third Ward —Whites, males, 87 ; fe
males, 66; colored, males, 80 ; females,
78 ; total white, 153 ; colored, 158 ; av
erage attednanee, whites, 120 ; colored.
117 ; cost per pupil per month, 80
cents.
Fourth Ward—Whites, males 109, fe
males 75; colored, male 73, female 90;
total whites 184; total colored 163;
average attendance, whites 137, colored
133; cost per pupil per month 79 cents.
119th Dist—Whites,males 47, females
30; colored, males 23, females 19; total
whites 77; total colored 42; average
attendance, whites 68; colored 34; cost
per pupil per month sl.
121st District—Whites, males 61, fe
males 89; colored, males 17, females 18;
total whites 150; total colored 35; aver
age attendance, whites 112; colored 22,
cost per pupil per month 80 cents.
123d District —Whites, males 43, fe
males 41; colored, males 97, females 67;
total whites 84; total colored 164; aver
age attendance, whites 62, colored 100;
cost per pupil per month 92 cents.
124th District—Whites, males 75, fe
males 63; colored, males 20, females 15;
total white 138, total colored 35; aver
age attendance, whites 93, colored 23;
cost per pupil per month 81.
1269th District —Whites, males 54,
females 34; colored, males 26, females
24; total whites 88, total colored 49;
average attendance, whites 60, colored
40; cost per pupil per month, 60 cents.
Summervdle —Whites, males 17, fe
males 23; colored, males 36, females 38;
total whites 40, total colored 74; aver
age attendance, whites 27, colored 49;
average cost per pupil per month 71
cents.
Hephzibah—whites, males, 20, fe
males, 22; colored, males, 20; fe
males—; total, whites, 42 ; total col
ored, 20; average attendance, whites,
30; colored—; cost per pupil per
month 33 per cents.
Totals—whites, males, 646; females,
534 ; colored, males, 487 ; females, 468;
total, whites, 1,180; total colored, 955 ;
average attendance, whites, 870, col
ored, 662; cost per pupil per month, 78
C6DtS.
Total salaries, 81.604.50; total rent,
862.
It was unanimously resolved that a
votes of thanks be given to Major
McLaws for the very able report pre
sented to the Board.
Dr. J. A. A. West, from the Commit
tee on Text Books,made a report recom
mending Derry’s School History of the
United States. Adopted.
Several applications for teachers’ po
sitions were presented. It was de
cided to grant certificates to some, and
others are to be examined by the Com
missioner.
The Finance Committee reported as
follows, and the report was adopted:
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First Ward $ 502 75 $lB3 61 $319 14
Second Ward...... 1,203 91 120 00 1,083 91
Third Ward 1,693 69 340 95 1,352 71
Fourth Ward 1,386 69 356 00 1,030 69
Summerville 432 82 284 67 198 15
Hephzibah.. 104 33 10 00 94 33
1.19 th District 221 15 115 0o 106 15
121st District 391 65 185 40 206 25
1.23d District 635 16 440 76 194 40
124th District 505 22 300 36 204 86
1269th District 83 15 92 54
$4,709 62
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 67
COUNTY BOARD.
1875.
October 9th—Balance on hand per
July report $7,666 54
August 23d—Received from Tax Col
lector 1,000 00
EXPENDED.
June accounts $1,977 24
July accounts 726 46
Checks issued before,
paid since 89 90
$2,793 60
Checks issued; not
presented $55,102—738 50
5 928 04
In bank $4,888 04—51,040 5,928 04
After the discussion of some routine
business, the Board adjourned.
It is due the Board to say, its pro
ceedings were marked by dignity and
fairness, a lack of unnecessary speech
making, and a determination to jeal
ously guard the interests of the color
ed people as laid down in the Consti
tution aud laws of Georgia.
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LOUDIN’S TURN NOW.
How a Nashville Darkey Got His
Civil Rights in England Social
Equality Among the “Blarsted” Brit
ishers.
T. J. Loudin, one of the Nashville
Jubilee Singers now in England, writes
as follows to the Pittsburg Gazette:
I have never known practically the
meaning of the word freedom in its
highest sense but three months in my
life, and though ;it is with shame for
my own boasted land of freedom I say
it, yet it is true that those three months
have been spent in Great Britain. And
I now affirm that no black man born
aud raised in the United States of
America can realize what it is to be ab
solutely free. And I further assert
that no black man in America can Teal -
ize what he suffers, aud what a de
pressing and humiliating influence his
manhood aud higher nature is under,
until he is able to rise above aud
breathe an atmosphere untainted by
the deadly and polluting poison or
American prejudice. Tnink what it
would be to be able to go to any hotel,
restaurant or confectionery, or any
place of amusement, aud not simply to
be able to make your way in at the
point of some law, but to be absolutely
welcomed—no better, but just the
same as any other man who pays his
money—and then not be stuck away
in some hole or corner, lest some of
the other customers will see you
and become indignant because a
“nigger’s” money pays for just
the same as his does, and
is just as gladly received ! If it is pos
sible, just imagine what it is to be from
home at meal time, and, without the
slightest hesitation, walk into any res
taurant or eating house, aud get what
you want, without any one to make
you feel uncomfortable, and not be
compelled to walk by half a dozen or
more places in order to find some man
who dares defy public opinion at the
risk of his business, by letting you
have, in some secluded nook, what you
want, aud taking your money for it. If
you go into a store for goods the clerks
do not all suddenly get too busy to
wait upon you, and cast a significant
smile at the one, who, after all, is com
pelled to wait upon you, or who hap
pens to be just as willing to wait on you
as any one else, as if to say: “Ah! you
have to wait ou a nigger,” as is very
often the case iu America. If you en
ter a “bus” and there is no American (I
meau white) there is no one to draw up
her dress lest you black it, or to turn
up his nose or look scornful at you.—
If for any reason you walk the streets !
with a white person of either sex, no J
one says, “Look at the nigger with a
white person,” or looks upon the one
with you as if henceforth they are to be
regarded as lepers. Perhaps some will
say that this is because we are “Jubi
lee Singers.” If so, to such I would
reply, I was a Jubilee Singer in Ameri
ca before I was iu Eugland.
How different was the treatment here.
For three weeks they sang iu one of
Mr. Moody’s meetings. A hall had been
built for him in the east of London,
with seatings for about 12,000 people.
The choir consisted of about 100 per
sons. Seats were assigned to us in
front and next to the stand. Every
member of the choir received us with
the utmost kindness, and, instead of
trying to insult us, they tried in every
conceivable way to make us feel wel
come, aud near the close of the series
of . meetings a tea was given for the
stewards, officers and choir, about 175
in all. We were invited. We spent an
hour or more sociallj 7 with them before
tea, then promtscously the ladies and
gentlemen coupled themselves off, and
arm iu arm went into the tent to par
take of the sumptuous repast provided
for them. No two of the Jubilees sat
together, and no one was there to in
sult or in any other way make us feel
unwelcome. We were simply treated
as any white people would have been
under the same circumstances.
We stopped one day iu London at a
fine private boarding house in Queen’s
square. While we were there, or
rather the day we got there (for we
were out at the time of which I now
speak), a man from Indiana came there
and engaged board for himself and
family. He sent his luggage and was
to come himself the next day. But
when they came the next morning we
were just through with our morning
devotions, and, of course, all in the
house. They walked in and saw us
aud walked out and left us ; went two
doors below and sent for their traps.
The landlady did not know what on
earth to think of such conduct. We
knew ; but, for our country’s sake, we
were ashamed to tell her. But had
they known it they need not have
gone, for we left in a couple of hours
ourselves.
Ou reaching the station (or depot, as
you call it) we saw a tall man and
woman, whom we suspected of being
Americans. Soon our suspicious were
confirmed when we saw him lookiug
after some ponderous trunks marked
“Ky.” Wo resolved to have some fun
at. our friend, brother and feliow-citi
zen’s expense. So, as there are eleven
of us, we could pretty well have one iu
each of the first-class compartments of
the train, and the last I saw of our
good Kentucky brother he was hurried
ly passing from one compartment to
another, evidently lookiug for a first
class compartment without an “infer
nal nigger.” Whether he succeeded or
not I am unable to say, but I know we
got to Edinburgh “just the same,” and
we stopped at Darling’s Regent Hotel,
a first-class temperance hotel, where
may be seen floating from the flagstaff
the stars and stripes in honor of our
presence. Some of us have been fool
ish enough to think that some of our
fellow-countrymen, of whom there are
many in the city, feel like tearing it
down when they come to learn for
whom it is hoisted, and find that it is
to do honor to negroes.
It has been settled that SSOO will not
buy a St. Louis aldermau.
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HOUGHTON INSTITUTE.
Reply of Mias McDonald to Mr.
Shecut.
Editors Constitutionalist :
I have no desire for the notoriety
arising from a newspaper controversy;
but, as silence might be construed to
my detriment, I am compelled, how
ever reluctautly, to appear before the
public, for the purpose of denying the
charges contained in the letter of Mr.
Shecut, published in your paper of
Friday. Believing that injustice had
been done me, I laid my grievances
before the proper tribunal—the City
Council. The whole question involved,
according to Mr. Shecut, was one of
competency or incompetency; but Mr.
Sheeut’s effort to array religious pre
judice against me, through the press
butjeonfirms suspicions entertaiued by
me for sometime. I am forced to be
lieve that it is not so much, after all, a
question of competency, as a ques
tion of religion. I will reply briefly to
his charges. Mr. Shecut accuses mo
of endeavoring to impress my religious
views ou the minds of the children
under my charge. I aver that I have
never, either directly or indirectly,
sought to influence them with my reli
gious faith, that I have studiously ab
stained from it, bu£ that I have always
endeavored to inculcate truth, mod
esty and propriety.
As to Goodrich’s History of England,
I did not, aud do not now consider it
a proper text book for a public school.
Goodrich’s History of the United States
is universally discarded in the South
because of its intense partisan bitter
ness. Goodrich's History of England
is exceedingly offensive to Catholics,
and for this reason ought not to be in
troduced into a non-sectarian school
like the Houghton Institute, which is
supported by tax-payers of all denomi
nations. An intelligent and impartial
public will admit the propriety of my
objections.
As to my competency for the past
six years, I refer to the reports of the
late Rev. W. J. Hard and Mr. J. C. She
cut to Council. The present Principal
says in his letter that Mr. Hard deemed
me incompetent. Mr. Hard is dead,
and cannot speak, bat I put the follow
ing letter in evidence:
Mr. Hard’s Letter*
Augusta, May 2d, 1872.
Miss Jane McDonald, First Assistant
Female Department, Houghton Insti
tute:
Dear Miss McDonald: For your con
siderate note of yesterday and the very
kind terms iu which it was couched, I
return my thanks. I assure you there
is not a sentiment in it to which I do
not most cordially and heartily re
spond. The compliment paid your
reading class I know to be deserved. I
have long experienced pleasure in the
accuracy with which they have been
taught and their continued progress.
With much regard, I am very truly,
your friend and colleague,
W. J. Hard.
After Mr. Shecut was elected Princi
pal I received from him tho following
note, without date:
MR. SHECUT’s LETTER.
Miss McDonnald— l congratulate you
upon the success of your classes iu
reading and spelling. Miss Crombe is
a very excellent reader, so also Miss
Schirmer, Miss Kempner, and others.
They made 83.14 in reading, white tho
boys made 79)4- In spelling, the girls
are ahead. lam very much pleased.
Very respectfully,
J. Outhbert Shecut.
I submit a copy of my letter to Coun
cil, which I request you to publisn aud
much oblige, Yours respectfully,
Jane S. McDonnald.
Augusta, Ga., October ]#t, 1875.
To His Honor the Mayor and Members
of Council :
Gentlemen— l beg leave herewith to
petition your honorable body on ac
count of certain grievances from which
I have suffered in the assignment of
teachers at the Houghton Institute by
the committee entrusted with the same,
in pursuance of a certain ordinance
passed at a meeting of your body on
the first Monday in September, 1875,
immediately before the annual election
for teachers to the Houghton Insti
tute.
I respectfully call your attention to
the fact that, having been duly elected
to fill the position of First Assistant in
the female department of the aforesaid
Institute, in the year 1869, under the
administration of the Hon. H. F. Rus
sell. I have been entrusted with tho
same position by his worthy successors.
I have never had any charges preferred
against me (to ray knowledge) until tho
present time.
The first intimation I had that any
change was intended to take place rela
tive to myself was after the election,
when I was amongst the favored can
didates. I applied for the same posi
tion I had held for six years, that is,
First Assistant iu the Female Depart
ment. To my surprise, on assuming
the scholastic dqties, I was assigned to
the Primary Department, without any
hearing whatever.
The first three years I served under
t,he Rev. W. J. Hard (Principal H. I.),
who was considered an able teacher,
during which time all things were
very amicable and satisfactory, and
the same kind relations continued be
tween the present incumbent and my
self until within the past year, when
there was some difference of opinion
concerning a history which he had in
troduced into tho Institute.
On examining it, I found parts re
pugnant to my feelings and principles,
and as I had to be the instructor of it,
I kindly asked the Principal (Mr.
Shecut), as a favor, to select some
other author instead, as the purchase
of the books had not been made, which
he peremptorily refused. Nor would
he agree that certain passages might
be skipped.
Since that time his manner has en
tirely changed towards me, and at times
has been very ungentlemanly, which
the teachers and pupils can testify,
for no other reason than the aforesaid,
so far as I know. I have been recently
Informed that he expressed a determi
nation sometime ago to deprive me of
my position, so I presume the recent
move was carrying out his plan; as I
understand the cause of my removal
was at the suggestion of Mr. Shecut,
who deemed me incompetent as a
teacher.
I will now respectfully refer your
honorable body to the quarterly reports
to Council of the Institute for the past
six years, by both Mr. Hard and Mr.
Shecut, which speak for themselves, if
I have, or have not, given satisfaction
a their assistant. And if the reports
are not true, who is responsible ?
I send you this, gentlemen, that you
may consider if justice has been award
ed to, Yours, most respeotfully,
Jane S. McDonald,