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The Sunday Constitutionalist.
We will, to-morrow, Sunday morning, is
sue an extraordinary edition, twice as large
as upon any other day. It will contain
telegraphic news from all points of the
world, correspondence, miscellaneous arti
cles, and the usual editorial commentaries.
This edition of our paper is well nigh uni
versally read by the population of Augusta
and vicinity. Three and four times the
usual number are sent out upon the trains
leaving the city and sold along the roads
leading therefrom. Advertisers will see
from this statement of facts the advantages
presented of communicating with ninety
per cent, of the reading po> tion of Augusta
and the surrounding country.
California shook with an earthquake
yesterday.
Have you heard anything from Ohio
yet?
The letter of E. P. Clayton to Mr. Aus
tell, of Atlanta, should excite the sympa
thy of all for the misfortunes of his house.
The California earthquake yesterday
made a mistake in locating. It should have
set up business in Cuyahoga county, Ohio.
“What’s the name of your bull yearling?”
“Bill Allen ?” “He wasn’t elected,” “ I
haven’t named him yet, tnen.”
Two poisoners met with summary death
at Clinton, La., yesterday. A man was
shot in the woods and a woman hung on
the Court House Square.
According to the Madiid Epoca news
paper, Spain has fully determined to cut
loose from the gov- lament of the Vatican
in her religious matters.
All the railroads leading from Pennsyl
vania to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, could
have declared a six per cent, passenger
dividend the day after the election.
—
Cuyahoga county defeated ancient Wil
helm Allen. There was always some
thing treacherous about Indians, and old
Cuy has not proven an exception.
Of the thirty babies born in Augusta on
the 12th, not one of them will be named
Bill Allen. The plain reason is they
were all girls. His defeat had nothing to
do with it, whatever.
New York houses continue to steadily go
down under the pi assure of the times. Per
haps a few more Radical victories will ar
rest the destruction, and then again, per
haps not.
• -•-
The best explanation we can gi ve of the
late Democratic defeats is, this is an “off
year.” But we don’t want the year to get
off too often. Next year, for instance, we
want it to be on hand, entirely.
Grant has been to Colorado. While there
he presented a stud-horse to a man “for
the purpose of uniting the party.” Some
body "had given him the horse and he
was mean enough to refuse to pay the
freight on him to St. Louis.
We attributed the defeat of Bill Allen
to the New York World. This seems to
have been a mistake, for we have since
learned it had only thirteen subscribers in
Ohio, and they had all been disfranchised
for grand larceny.
How much Cincinnati bacon will yoq be
able to buy next year? That town polled a
heavier vote for the Badical ticket the
other day than the weight of a drove of
hogs. Guess we’ll contract on bacon from
this out. There are too many Radical
' ‘skippers” about it to be healthy.
Little Adelbekt Ames again ! We were
highly in hope of not hearing from him
any more, in at least six months. He thrusts
himself forward, however, through the
United States Marshall in a dispatch to
Pease, the language of which would be ap
proved by the Grand Turk. His rebellious
subjects having sworn loyalty to his per
son, and entered into solemn pledges of
peace and good will, he has graciously sus
pended military operations against them.
His minister plenipotentiary at Washing
ton will so inform his most exalted and
gracious master.
Poor old Radical Cincinnati! It always
hated tho South and the Southern \ eople.
It has stuck to that party and seen Chicago
burn and pass it i 1 growth, St. Louis re
ducing it to a foui th-rate concern, and even
Louisville will leave it in the lurch in a few
years. Its merchants are world-wide
known as picayune skinflints, mistrusting
everybody, its people at large as narrow
minded bigots in politics and religion, and
exceedingly vulgar In manners. The high
est education a man ever attains there is
to kill and clean hogs! They have coarse
complexions, large feet, and would skin a
Ilea for its hide and tallow, especially if
they could shove the tallow off for butter.
Trade opened well in the fore part of the
week, but dulled off at the dos\ There
was an active demand for cotton yesterday
at for Good Middling. There is no
reason why the elections this week should
have a feather’s weight with our commerce.
It is our special business now and for all
time to come to raise enough provisions to
Jive upon and save from thirty to forty mil
lions of dollars worth of cotton every year
with which to buy the necessaries of life.
ILet’s quit buying the corn and bacon from
Radical Ohio. That move on our part
would quickly elect all the Bile Allens
running. The vote of the Northwest next
year wilt greatly depend upon the amount
of trade the South sends there. If little,
then the very ground will swell up with
Democratic voters.
The dispatches published this morning,
say 'that Hates is elected Governor of
Ohio by 4,000 majority, that the Senate is
Radical by 2 votes and the House by 12.
The dispatch from Washington to the Bal
timore Sun, that it was not a party tri
umph, that it was financial, hard or soft
money, and that upon a tri il of strength
between the parties, pure and simple,
would result in a Democratic triumph by
40,000 majority, is important. Washington
politicians who are not carried away by
the noise of the hour, so say. Had the peo
ple of Ohio been called upon on the 12th to
face the question of four more years of
Radical rule of the Federal Government,
the result would have been far
different. The real issues upon which the
Presidential battle wili be fought were but
remotely introduced into the Ohio election,
and the people not aeked to determine
them. It was a light on the skirmish line
before the siege train came up. Nor was it
a defeat, all this aside. It is the small ad
vantage of 4,000 in a grand total vote of
500.000, the Democracy coming out of the
battle with 30,000 more men than they ever
had before. The change of only one vote
in every hundred will turn the scale, and it
is the Republicans who are losing ground
now and the Democrats who are gaining
strength all over the country by the elapse
pf time.
@lje Slwgitsta Constitutionalist
Established 1799.
THE OHIO ELECTION.
Hayes’ Majority 4,ooo—The Republi
cans Have Two Majority in the Sen
ate and Twelve in the House.
Columbus, October 15. — Neither the
Republican nor Democratic Committees
have received any additional returns
this morning. The Senate is still in
doubt. The result cannot be deter
mined until full returns are received
from Wood county, where it is report
ed the counting is delayed by fraudu
lent votes polled.
Later.— The news just received from
Wood county claims that heavy frauds
,were. practised in Perrysburg, which
will probably necessitate the throwing
out of votes polled there. If this vote
is counted Hayes’ majority in the coun
ty will be 469, and it elects one Repub
lican Senator. If thrown out, Hayes’
majority in that county will be 732, and
both Republican Senators elected. In
either case a Republican Representa
tive is elected, which gives the Senate
to the Republicans by two majority
and the House by twelve majority.
Hayes’ majority will probably now be
over 4,000.
The Ohio Election—Not a Party Vic
tory—lts Effect on Coming Events.
[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Suil]
Washington, October 13. — The Ad
ministration adherents were very loud
to-day in claiming the result of the
Ohio election as an indorsement of the
Administration. This is stoutly de
nied by the anti-administration Repub
licans, who say that the issue on which
they won was hard money. They as
sert that on a question of indorsing
the course of the Administration, Ohio
would go for the Democrats by 40,000
majority. It is admitted by the more
intelligent and less prejudiced class of
Republicans that the election of Hayes :
cannot be in any sense regarded as a
party victory. The great paramount
issue was the question of sound money, !
and there is no doubt that Hayes’ ma
jority is more than made up by Demo
cratic votes.
The effect of this election, it is con
ceded, will reach very far. It cannot
fail to have a disastrous effect on the
Democratic prospects in Pennsylvania,
and it will do much to weaken the
chances of Mr. Randall for Speaker. It
will bring forward very prominently
Governor Tihjen for the Presidency,
and it effectually squelches the aspira
tions of Governor Allen in that direc
tion. It will also tend to widen the
differences and increase the bitterness
between the leaders of the hard money
Democracy of the East and tbe leaders
of the inflation Democracy of the
West. It and the Republican
victories in the other States which
held elections yesterday, establish
the further fact that the Democrats are
not going-to have any walk-over in the
Presidential race. It looks now as if
the Democracy was in no better con
dition chan in 1868. Although, as said
above, the result in Ohio may not be a
Republican victory, it is certainly a
Democratic defeat. The history of the
Democratic party in the last ten or
fifteen years shows that when its pros
pects have been of the brightest they
have been invariably marred by the in
judicious acts and utterances of those
who assume to direct its destinies. It
is now time that the people should
hesitate when such men come to the
front.
Toledo, 0., October 15. —A special to
the JSlade says Wood county gives
Hayes 469 majority. Also that both
Republican candidates for Senators are
elected.
Columbus, October 15—Midnight.—
Returns are received from all the coun
ties, which are considered correct as
can be obtained until the official re
turns are received by the Secretary of
State. These show Hayes’ majority to
be 4.753. The official returns may vary
this count 300 either way. The Re
publicans have a majority of seventeen
in the House of Representatives, and
three majority certainly and possibly
four in the Senate. The balance of the
Republican State ticket is probably
elected. The official returns must de
cide the respective majorities. The in
terest in the election remained at fever
heat until the returns from Wood
county to-day settled the political com
plexion of the Senate.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Meeting of the Cabinet.
Washington, October 15.—The Cabi
net met at 12 o’clock to-day. Assistant
Secretary Cadwahader represented the
State Department, and Assistant Secre
tary Cowan the Interior Department.
Department Report of Cotton.
The Agricultural Department reports
an improvement in the condition of
cotton during the past month as indi
cated in Alabama, Louisiana and Ar
kansas. The depreciation in Missis
sippi is slight, from 98 to 96, occasioned
by storms. The destructive equinox
tial storm wasted and stained much
fibre in Southern Texas, reducing the
State percentage of condition from 94
to 88. In North Carolina and Tennes
see September was cold, and the har
vest is late, with less (favorable pros
pects of a top crop. A reduction of
percentage of Georgia from 76 to
71 is caused by storms and the in
creasing prevalence of rust. South
Caroliua is three per cent, lower from
similar conditions. In several counties
of Florida the caterpillar has been in
jurious. Taking a survey of the whole
field, the reduction of condition since
September returns is an undoubted
fact, though the depreciation is slight
as compared with October returns of
last year. Crop prospects are worse
in South Carolina, Georgia and Flori
da, but decidedly better in all States
from Alabama westward. The per
centage of condition is as follows:
North Carolina, 85; South Carolina,
77 ; Florida, 70 ; Georgia, 71 ; Alaba
ma, 94 ; Mississippi, *96 ; Louisiana,
90; Texas, 88 ; Arkansas, 103 ; Ten
nessee, 90.
Appointment.
The President signed the commission
of Win. S. Alexander, Postmaster at
Jacksonville, Ala.
The Cabinet was two hours in ses
sion. Routine business. No appoint
ment of Secretary of the Interior.
Earthquake in Jamaica.
Washington, October 15.—The Sig
nal Office reports a severe earthquake
at 1 a. m. of the 15th at Kingston, Ja
maica.
Earthquake in California.
San Francisco, October 15.—A sharp
shock of an earthquake was experi
enced here about 6 o’clock this evening.
Vibrations from east to w r est. Advices
from Santa Clara Valley, south of San
Francisco, mention the occurrence of a
similar shock there. No damage re
ported.
Seven persons in one Nashville family
have harelips.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Spain and the Vatican.
Madrid, October 15.—The Epoca, of
this city, has an editorial article ex
planatory of the note recently sent to
the Vatican. “The note,” says the
Epoca, “points to the religious condi
tion of Europe, and makes the deduc
tion that Spain cannot be exceptional.
It expressed a wish to negotiate for the
modification of some of the articles of
the Concordat of 1851, which can never
be executed.”
The Spanish note in reply to the
Vatican is conciliatory. The Ministry
explain that they were defeated. The
note asks the Vatican to consent to a
settlement on as broad a basis as pos
sible.
Gales on the English Coasts.
London, October 15. —There were
heavy gales around the coasts of Great
Britain yesterday. Tho telegraph has
already announced the wreck of several
coasters, and the loss of a number of
lives.
The AVar in Turkey.
Constantinople, October 15.—The
following news is official: A force of
2,000 insurgents have been defeated by
Turks. One hundred and sixty were
killed. The rest took refuge in Monte
negro. Seventeen villages hitherto
strongly insurgent have submitted to
Turkish authority.
Violent Debate in the Bavarian Par
liament.
Munich, October 15.—A violent de
bate occurred in the Bavarian Cham
ber of Deputies ou the address intro
duced on the Bth inst., by the Ultra
montane party, calling for the dismis
sal of the Ministry.
Deputy Freitag (Ultramontane) re
proached the Government with display
ing insufficient independence in its re
lations with the Imperial Government.
He also stated that if the Governmnt
displayed less fear of being domineered
they would easily find allies in the
Federal Council in opposition to Prus
sia. His speech was liberal and tem
perate. He closed speaking because of
the insults of the opposite side. Fi
nally the address was passed by a vote
of 79 to 76.
—a
FROM NEW YORK.
More Failures—Butler ou the Finances
—lndictment of Dolan.
New York, October 15.—Moses L.
Herman & Cos., woolen dealers, at No.
22 Walker street, failed yesterday. Li
abilities $200,000, and .assets $95,000.
The principal member of the firm is a
brother of the Herman who suspended
Wednesday.
Harris Rothstern.a hatter, yesterday
made an assignment for the benefit of
his creditors. • Liabilities $37,069.58,
and assets $l2O 45
Gen. Butler lectured on the finances
at Cooper Institute. The Instilute was
filled.
The grand jury have indicted Dolan
for the murder of Noe.
On Cotton Exchange to-day suspen
sion of the firms of C. J. Methurn &
Cos., C. B. Camp and Dufais & Ebert
was aunouced. Liabilities not stated.
These failures were caused by a rise in
cotton.
LITTLE GOV. AMES.
A Fool Dispatch to Washington.
Washington, October 15.—The fol
lowing was received here to-day:
Jackson, October 14.
To Hon. 11. li. Pease, Washington:
Military operations have been sus
pended by Gov. Ames, based upon the
most full, ample and minute assurances
of the leading citizens of the State that
there shall be peace and a fair and free
election. They would not undertake to
answer for the lawless, but they guar
antee to aid the civil officers in the ex
ecution of the laws. The Governor ex
presses himself wholly satisfied with
the assurances given, and believes that
they are made in good faith, and will
be carried out to the letter. An im
proved feeling prevails, especially
among the whites, and a general desire
for peace prevails among all citizens.
Good citizens are greatly encouraged.
[Signed] J. L. Lake, Jr.,
U. S. Marshal.
The Attorney General stated at the
Cabinet meeting that he is in receipt
of information which he deems au
thentic, to the effect that both parties
in Mississippi have agreed to terms
which will prevent further troubles in
that State, and a peaceable election is
confidently anticipated.
Brutal Outrages.
Binghamton, October 15. —Minnie
German, aged 9 years, while walking
with a younger sister, was waylaid
and outraged. The children’s screams
brought two ladies to their assistance.
At the same time a party of men came
up and tbe ruffians escaped to the
woods. Subsequently <t young man by
the name of W. Lovert was arrested
and identified. The officers had trou
ble in keeping the people from him.
The girl may die.
New York, October 15. —Tbe colored
Coach Drivers’ Association, while re
turning from a pic-nic, were assailed
by rowdies. Two were killed and seven
assailants arrested.
Atlanta, October 15. — Edmonson,
the negro that raped a white woman in
Fayette county, was captured iu this
city to-day.
THE FATE OF PRISONERS.
Shot to Death ami Hung at Clinton, La.
Baton Rogue, October 15.—George
Antoine, of New Orleans, and John
Isair were arrested here yesterday by
deputy sheriff Woodward, charged with
being accessory to the poisoning of Dr.
J. W. Sanders, and taken by a deputy
sheriff and posse towards Clinton. Re
ports here say John Isair was shot to
death on the road, and his sister-in
law liungin the Court House square
there. Mrs. Isair is here but was not
disturbed.
THE TURF.
Lulu Fails to Beat Herself.
Rochester, October 15. — Lfilu ran
against her time of 2:14, making three
trials. Time, 2:16‘ 2 , 2:14%, 2:16. Lu
cille, Goldust and Thos. L. Young ran.
Best time 2:21.
Albion Jockey Club.
Nashville, October 15.—Track heavy.
In the first race, mile heats, Sue Wynn
winner; Truesilale second. Time
I:sG>£. Second race one and a half
mile dash, Sallie Gardner winner; Ari
zona dead heat between Fannie Malone
and Damon for third place. Time 2:45.
Fall of 1,000 People.
Greenfield, 0., October 15. —The
seats around the race track fell with
1,000 men, women and children, severe
ly injuring a large number.
AUGUSTA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1875.
THE OHIO ELECTION.
A BUNDLE OF OPINIONS-YOU
PAY YOUR MONEY AND TAKE
YOUR CHOICE.
A Bugle Note from Pennsylvania.
Democratic Committee )
Rooms, Philadelphia, j
. October 13,1875, 2 o’clock a. m. )
To the People of Pennsylvania:
The indications are that the friends
of reform are defeated ii|i Ohio. It has
been a gallant and boljji light by the
people of that State against the money
of the Federal Treasui v(and the money
of the banking institutions of the coun
try. It has been an issue between the
honor and integrity cf the masses
against official power. We sympathize
with the men who have fallen in de
fense of those sacred rights guarauteed
to them by the Constitutional laws of
the country. By the power of their
own money, raised from them by op
pressive taxation, they have fallen.
But the issues presented in the con
test which has transpired in Ohio are
not those which are before us in Penn
sylvania. The people of Ohio are au ag
ricultural people. The great staples
of Pennsylvania consist of her iron,
her coal, her manufactories and me
chanical industries; these have first
felt the baleful influences of a profli
gate government and a ibad system of
national legislation. Wa, of Pennsyl
vania, have been the first to feel the
rod of oppression and tyranny. The
people of Ohio have yet!to learn what
it has been our misfortune to realize;
had they but have been sensible of the
wrongs we suffer, the power of the
money of tho Federal; Treasury, and
the corrupt and demoralizing practices
of the who used it could never have
beaten down the honest yeomanry of
Ohio.
What, therefore, is our duty as Penn
sylvanians? The disasters of our
friends iu Ohio should encourage us to
combat this insolent foe with a deter
mination and zeal that nave no limita
tion. The obligations ive owe to our
selves, to our country, to our families
aud to the cause of goc ? d government
imperiously demand thii of us. The
desolation of our manufacturing indus
tries, the depression oft tho wages of
labor require that we should enter into
the approaching contest with all our
courage, with all our energy and a set
tled determination on our part that
nothing shall be left undone which the
emergency requires at our hands. We
cannot afford that the hard earnings of
a busy life of labor shall be exposed to
the executioner’s hammer, nor can we
stand aud endure that terrible burthen
of taxation which is exacted from us.
Let us go into this contest under the
broad banners of reform. Let us
stand by the organization that has
been formed and the resolves adopted
by the Democratic Convention at Erie.
Let us merge every personal consider
ation and look only *o the common
good iu the relief of a suffering and
distressed people. Let us battle for
our homes aud firesides before the
mercenary power of a mercenary gov
ernment shall rob us of them.
Fellow-citizens, the issue before you
may be the last one between the power
of incorporated wealth on one side and
the integrity and honor of the popular
masses on the other. Let those who
are attempting to impoverish and ruin
you understand now thiit the hour of
determined resistance sias came, and
that it is your purpose to make that
manly resistance which-’the emergency
of the occasion requires.
Hendrick B. Wright,
Chairman Democratic State Commit
tee. %
Reform the only Hope of Democracy.
[N. Y. Herald.]
This disreputable canvass and dis
astrous election have blighted the fair
est hopes of the Democratic party.—
With its worst elements! led by a dema
gogue like Governor Allen, with Gov
ernor Tilden running the party in this
State to promote his ambitious person
al aspirations, and tho’ prospect of a
bitter quarrel and bandying of recrimi
nations between their followers, the
immediate prospects bt the party are
not brilliant. The Democratic defeat
in Ohio carries, as its inevitable conse
quence, a Democratic defeat in Penn
sylvania, and a diminution of the Dem
ocratic majority in New York by the
new hope and courage that will be in
fused into the Republicans.—
There is but one way to retrieve
these misfortunes. There is no
salvation for the Democratic par
ty but by making Administra
tive reform the paramount issue,
and reuniting the party in a strenuous
opposition to the abuses which have
prevailed in President, Grant’s admin
istration. It was absurd to raise any
other banner than one inscribed with
reform; but we trust it is not too late
for tbe Democracy to be consolidated
on that basis. The inflation issue has
united the Republicans on the currency
questions and widened the breach be
tween the Democrats. The only hope
of the party lies in the action of the
House of Representatives when Con
gress assembles. If the House devotes
itself to investigations and exposures,
if it succeeds in dragging a great mass
of hidden corruption to light and cover
ing the administration; with disgrace,
tho Democrats may yet; fight their way
to power as the champions of reform.
There is no hope for the party on any
other issue.
Not Much of a Showier After All.
[Columbia (S. C.) Union-Herald (Rep.).]
Ohio elects Hayes by ten thousand
majority. The effect of this election
upon the spirit of the two parties will
be altogether out of proportion to tho
real significance of it. Republican
editors will place the State in the
column of those sure for their candi
date iu 1876, while the Democrats will
sorrowfully remove it from their list,
where it has since 1873 been a chief or
nament. The true place for it, how
ever, is in the doubtful bolumn, unless
later returns should swell the majority
to thirty or forty thousand. With a
voting population which, in times of
excitement, may be swelled to six hun
dred thousand, the change of one vote
in a hundred will give an election to
one or the other party by ten or twelve
thousand majority. Avery slight mis
take in making platforms or nominat
ing candidates would peril Republican
success.
An Inflated Political View.
[N. Y. Times (Hep).]
The decision in Ohio must be follow
ed by similar verdicts m other Dates.
The Republican party alone can be de
pended on to steer the nation clear of
the financial ruin to which demagogues
like Allen and Cary vbuld inevitably
conduct it. That party does not con
struct two different boss of principles
for two different sections of the coun
try. It does not offer hard money to
the East and rag money to the West
and South. It braves unpopularity in
many parts of the country in order
that it may preserve the national
honor untarnished. It can never
have a harder fight to wage
than that which was brought to
an end yesterday in the State of Ohio.
A comparatively small portion of the
bonds is held in the West and South.
There the bondholder is too often
looked upon as a “bloated aristocrat”
who lives upon the hard earnings of
the poor. After a victory there, there
ought to be no doubt about Pennsyl
vania, and none about New York. It
would be an indelible disgrace to Penn
sylvania if she took sides with the in
flationists at the very moment when
even in Ohio the demagogues were re
jected. New York, loaded down with
John Kelly and Tammany, can still less
afford to cast in her lot with the party
which is substantially for flooding the
country with spurious money and
swindling the national creditor.
A Know-Nothing Hurrah.
[Cincinnati Gazette (Rad.).]
The full Catholic vote did not save
the Democracy from ruin. Either that
vote was not as united as it was
pledged to be, or there was not enough
of it to go very far.
They sang a Te Deum in Rome over
the massacre of St. Bartholomew, but
there will be no joyous celebration in
the Sistine Chapel of the result of the
Ohio election.
Shocked But Not Vanquished.
[Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) ]
The State election yesterday was
marked by events of the most extra
ordinary character. The Democratic
ticket was assailed, and the platform
upon which it was nominated, bitterly
opposed by the organs of the so-called
Democracy of New York. They urgently
called upon the people to beat our
nominees aud to elect our Republican
opponents. That it had some influence
on the result is beyond question. There
are thousands of Democrats in Ohio
who formerly lived in New York and
who keep up a connection with their
old homes through the medium of New
York papers. We thus lost very con
siderably through this Eastern inter
ference in our politics. But this was
not all. The wealthy Democrats of
New York contributed large sums in
behalf of Hayes and against the re
election of Gov. Allen. In the mean
time, he had words of encouragement
from Republicans, such as Wendell
Phillips, Wm. D. Kelley, Benjamin F.
Butler, Peter Cooper aud others. This
indicates that we have now anew is
sue which is destined to radically
change the permanent organization of
parties. We are but in the beginning
of anew era of American politics. We
have inaugurated, and only inaugura
ted, the fight of the oppressed masses,
of the tax-payers against the privi
leged classes that are represented by
National Banks, gold-bearing bonds
aud gold gamblers. It is not to be
supposed that such a powerful combi
nation can be suppressed and brought
to terms by the result of a single elec
tion, let it bd what it may. The peo
ple who have engaged in this struggle
have enlisted for the war. They know
it may be long, aud are certain it will
be desperately contested. It required
a quarter of a century’s agitation in
Great Britain before the repeal of the
corn laws was effected—before the la
boring masses could obtain untax
ed bread. A similar period was re
quired for Catholic emancipation and
passage of tho reform of the represen
tation in Parliament bill. The war
against African slavery lasted a third
of a century before, by the follies of its
opponents, it was crowned with suc
cess. What is called the greenback
movement is as certainly destined to
succeed as the other great questions
which we have alluded to above. It is
only a question of time. The contrac
tion of the currency will be stopped.
There will be an increase of it sufficient
to meet the demands of business. The
increase will be iu Government legal
tenders. The National bank notes will
be retired ; their place will be supplied
by greenbacks. The bonds of the United
States will be taxed by the Federal
Government as other property is taxed.
Tho interest-bearing debt will be re
duced, and the non-interest-bearing
one will be increased. This we shall
proclaim in the hour of victory or in
the hour of temporary defeat.
A Daily Post Across the Atlantic-
We are promised a pigeon post be
tween Europe and America. This won
derful project, which, if successful, is
destined to supersede in a measure the
submarine telegraph, will be accom
plished by means of an “ocean-homing
bird” of great docility and intelligence,
which has lately been found in Iceland,
and which has already proved its
ability to fly at the rate of 151 miles au
hour. The birds live only in wild,
rocky regions, and the land telegraph
or common errrier pigeon will be re
quired to supplement their labors. A
pair of these birds, in a recent experi
ment, brought dispatches from Paris
to a lonely part of Kent, Eng
land, ten miles from London, in less
than one hour aud a half, and tbe dis
patches were forwarded from that point
by press carrier pigeons, the whole dis
tance between Paris aud London being
accomplished iu exactly one hour and
a half. The owners of these birds are
now engaged iu training aud propaga
ting them, and propose to establish a
daily mail next summer between Amer
ica and Europe, the whole distance to
be traversed between sunrise in one
hemisphere and sunset in the other. If
the trans-Atlantic experiment is suc
cessful, the birds can be brought to
this country and domesticated in some
rocky region of New England, whither
they will bring in European letters,
printed in miniature, within twenty
four hours of their date.
General Telegraphic News.
Newburyport, Conn., October 15.
Hon. William Cashing, the youngest
brother of Hon. Caleb Cushing, is dead,
aged 52.
Boston, October 15.—There was quite
a run on the Home Savings Bank. The
bank paid all who came without exact
ing the notice.
London, October 15. —Advices receiv
ed here announce the Dutch ship Wil
lem Poolman, Capt. Yalck, last from
New Castle, June 3d for Portland,
Oregon totally destroyed by fire at sea.
Crew saved.
Augusta, Me., October 15.—A fire in
the steam mill of the Kennebec Land
and Lumber Company, east side of the
river. The mill with its valuable ma
chinery and two lumber houses was
consumed. Loss, $50,000. A derrick
fell, fatally injuring Herbert L. Beale,
and severely injuring Chas. Diplock,
members of the Pacific Fire Company.
Three brides found a New Haven in
Hartford, Wednesnay.
A man’s word is worth $1 gold, when
sent by cable.
HARD TIMES.
THE CAUSE OF HARD TIMES
PRACTICALLY DISCUSSED. .
Short Metre vs. Long Metre.
[Nashville American.]
While a great banking monopoly ex
ists, receiving the profits of almost
double the capital it possesses, wring
ing immense profits from the govern
ment, from rich, from poor, from all,
there can be no prosperity.
So long as corruption aud peculation
shall exist in every branch of the gov
ernment, so long as steamship and
railway lines subsidize the government
to be subsidized in turn, so long as
Legislators and Vice-Presidents com
bine to form great companies to de
fraud the government, so long as there
is reckless extravagance and profligate
expenditure, so long there will be no
return to a State of prosperity. So
long as government fosters a privileged
class of protected manufacturers to
feed and grow fat from the profits of
the field, the workshop, the store—the
manifold occupations of the unprotect
ed many—the business men, the la
borers, the farmers, the professional
men, who pay tribute to the protected,
almost equal to the profits arising from
their vocations, so long will business
languish and trade grow weaker and
weaker. So long as Government, by
every act, favors the East at the ex
pense of the South aud West, the North
at the expense of the South and of the
great masses of all sections, so long as
everything used in protected manufac
tures is admitted duty free, and every
article manufactured for the consump
tion of the masses is taxed for the
benefit of the protected, so long as
one section bears all the burthens
and receives no benefits, there can
be no healthy business, no sound
trade, no prosperous industries,
no adequate production, no prop
er return for labor, no sound finance,
no sound currency. Hence while the j
currency should not be neglected the ;
Democracy should attack the Ilepubli- j
can party upon these great vital issues, !
which lie at the foundation of the Gov- j
eminent, at the base of society, and un- j
derlie all healthful industry. Thus it ;
will restore prosperity aud sound trade
and sound currency, by restoring the
conditions under which alone prosperi
ty is possible. Skirmishing on the out
skirts, skimming the surface aud fail
ing to reach the bottom of our politics,
the Ohio Democracy have sustained de
feat. It now remains for the National
Democracy to lay the lesson to heart;
and out of disaster to bring success to
the party, peace, wise administration
and prosperity to the country —not
abandoning, but in its fullest sense,
with the broadest understanding of the
entire field, just beginning the crusade
against monopoly.
A Manufacturing City.
[Washington Chronicle.]
Columbus, Ga., is putting in a claim
for being the most enterprising manu
facturing city in the South. It is situ
ated on the left bank of the Chatta
hoochee river, at the head of naviga
tion, more than a hundred miles south
west of Atlanta, a rather less distance
west of Macon, and equidistant be
tween it and Montgomery, Ala., and
about two hundred miles north of the
Gulf of Mexico. With the latter it has
connection by means of a tolerably
good water channel, along the river
passing its front, aud the Apalachicola,
further down. It is on the western
border of Georgia—Alabama being di
rectly across the river a few miles, say
twenty, below the half-way point of the
distance from the Florida boundary on
the South, to that of Tennessee ou the
north. The population of Columbus,
in 1870, was 7,401, and the county of
Muscogee 16,603. The presumption is
that at the present time there are in,
in the city alone, 10,000 souls.
For a long time Columbus has been
known as a fine manufacturing point.
Upon the river front she has remarka
bly fine cotton factories and several
miles of splendid water power still un
occupied. There are two other cotton
mills in the heart of the city, engaged
in producing valuable and special lines
of goods. These, altogether, consume
eight thousand bales of cotton, deliver
ed almost from the fields in which
grown, and, iu some cases, literally gin
ned from the seed at the factory.
Then, there are stove works in success
ful operation; machine shops and foun
dries in full blast, producing every
thing that is required by the best kind
of skilled labor, be it a plowshare or a
steamboat; and a bagging factory is
soon to go into operation. So much, in
a general way, for manufacturing. We
doubt if any Southern city can make a
better showing, whether large or small.
Now let us look at some other mat
ters, outgrowths of the fact that this
plaice has been made an industrial
hive where labor is respected. The
banks have maintained their integrity,
and there are three of them, and two
savings institutions in the bargain.
These indicate the thrift, economy and
prosperity of the working classes. The
insurance companies are strong and
well conducted, and prompt iu settle
ment. The public schools challenge
comparison with any in the Uuited
States. Light draught boats are pour
ing the rich products of Georgia, Ala
bama and Florida into the lap of Co
lumbus, and river transportation com
petes with that of several railroads; so
that the carrying business is conducted
fairly and cheaply. The surrounding
country produces cotton as the great
staple; but, latterly, the cereals have
become very abundant. Five hun
red bushels of corn are now made
where only fifty were produced five
years ago; oats, on@e almost unknown,
is now a common crop. Every farmer
has his rye, wheat, cane and barley
patch, and also his pea fields and there
are many barns filled with home-made
hay. Mowing and reaping machines
have ceased to be curiosities. Small
farms are the order of the day, the
dwellings on which are dotting the val
leys and the hill sides. And, to crown
all, in the poetical language of the
Times, from which we have been glean
ing the above, “the suggestive strain to
our familiar ears of negro melodies, is
heard again in the cabin and corn field,
fond reminders of ‘auld lang syne,’
full of significance and of promise.”
Long ago—long before that period,
when war, with its ruthless and deso
lating influences, laid its hand upon the
South—we remember well how lovingly
a relative, one who lies now quietly
resting in the churchyard, at Colum
bus, would depict the grand future
of the city of his adoption—and,
knowing the value of his opinion
when living, we are now prepared
to endorse the concluding sentiment of
the Times, when it says: “All that we
need is, cheerfulness, enterprise, con
fidence in ourselves and the future of
our city, and the prosperity of the past,
we so much lament, will, dwindle into
insignificance in comparison with_our
future.”
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 61
HARD MONEY.
A Couple of Connecticut Statesmen
Discuss the Financial Situation.
A Danbury man was looking at his
yard Thursday afternoon. He was
looking at it in such a way as to easily
attract the attention of any neighbor
who might have a lot of unemployed
time on hand. Such a party pretty
soon joined the observer, and immedi
ately took an all-absorbing interest in
the contemplated improvement. From
this subject they rapidly drifted into
finance.
“Pretty tough times,” observed the
neighbor.
“Yes, they are that, an’it’ll be tough
er before we’re over it, 1 imagine,” was
the answer.
They were both sitting on a saw
horse under an apple-tree, near the
back door, when this conversation
commenced. The owner of the prem
ises was chewing on a bit of straw,
and the neighbor was mechanically
pulling tops from the plantain in
reach.
“ What do you think of this money
question which has got into politics
this year ? ” inquired the neighbor.
“ I think it will be settled, one way
or the other, before another Presiden
tial election is over,” replied the own
er. “You see, the matter is being ’*•
“ Ezekiel! ” pronounced a sharp voice
from the stoop.
“ Well, what is it ? ” he curtly in
quired.
“ I wish you would got me a pail of
water.”
“In a minute—as I was sayin’, the
matter is bein’ pressed with unusual
force. Tiiere lias been this effort for
years, to come down to a specie basis,
but nothing definite has been reached.
Now, I imagine this campaign will set
tle it.”
“You believe specie to be the best
currency, of course.”
“ Certainly ; what does the iucrease
of paper money amount ”
“ Ezekiel 1 ” came the voice from the
stoop.
“In a minute—all the paper you
might print from now till ”
“Ezekiel!”
“Thunder and lightning, Maria, what
is the matter?” he possibly ejaculated.
“I want you to get me a pail of water;
I’m waiting for it.”
“I’ll get it in a minute if you’ll just
hold your breath. You might, as I said,
print money till doomsday, an’ if you
ain’t got the gold to back it, what is
it goiu to amount to ? As far as ex
change is concerned, among ourselves,
I will admit that paper—”
“Ezekiel!”
“Good gracious, Maria, what do you
want?”
“I want a pail of water; I’ve told you
a dozen times. If you don’t hurry up
with it you’ll have to go without din
ner.”
“Where is the pail,” snapped the an
noyed husband, seeing it in her hand.
“It’s a pity if I can’t get a chance to
say a word without being put out every
minute.”
Seeiug him rise up, she sat the pail
down on the stoop and retired, and he,
helping himself to a fresh straw, said :
“As I was sayin’, paper is well enough
among ourselves as a matter of ex
change, but what are we going to do
for imports ? We can’t get along with
out gold then. And what are we going
to do when this money is called in, if
we haven’t gold enough to redeem it ?
Now suppose, for instance, that I had
ten—.”
“Ezekiel!” came the voice again, but
he did not hear it.
“ —thousand dollars in cash, and
supposin’ I wanted to use forty thou
sand dollars. What do I do ? I take—”
“Ezekiel! why on earth don’t you
stop that gab of yours, and get me a
pail of water ?”
“Yes, yes ;in a minute—an’ I take
my paper on the market for that
amouut. Here is ten thousand dollars
in cash, you see, and here is the —
woosh —gar —ooh! ”
And just here the gasping husband
was awed into silence by seeing his
neighbor dash over the fence in a drip
ping condition. The forty thousand
dollars on paper was not there, as
might have reasonably been expected ;
but a pail of indifferent water was
there, hurled with all the force and
fury an exasperated woman is capa
ble of.
And as the choking expounder of
specie as a basis reached out spasmod
ically for his breath, the interested
neighbor, with fully two-thirds of the
contents of the bucket in his hair and
under his coat collar, sped across the
lots with a vehemence that was really
marvellous as an exhibition of speed,
and with a silence in regard to the
cause which was born of twenty years
of married life.
A NEW TRICK.
Two Costly Messages by Telegraph.
[Baltimore American.l
Michael J. Ash, doing business at No.
124 Light street wharf, was yesterday
swindled out of $223 under singular
circumstances. A man, about twenty
eight years of age, pretending to be a
messenger of the Franklin Telegraph
Company, appeared at the store of Mr.
Ash, and handed him two telegrams
purporting to come over the wires of
the above-mentioned company. The
dispatches were signed “ Wheeler,”
Washington, and as a certain Mr.
Wheeler, of Washington, is a customer
of Mr. Ash, the latter had no doubt of
the genuineness of the dispatches. The
telegrams were addressed to “ Michael
C. Ash,” one of them being as follows :
“ If you have some good second-hand
anchors on hand, let me know it, please.
I can give you a good figure for them.
Wheeler, Washington.”
The other telegram read as follows :
“ I also want a good condition chain,
about fifty feet long. Wheeler.”
The man handed Mr. Ash a book,
asking him to place his name under a
certain figure, as an acknowledgment
of the receipt of the telegrams. Mr.
Ash did so, but later investigation
showed that he had appended his sig
nature, not in the book, but on a cheok
for $223. The bogus messenger had
skilfully placed a blank check under a
page of the book, and only the edge of
the check could be seen. This was done
so cleverly that it escaped detection.
Later in the day an officer of the Na
tional Union Bank told Mr. Ash that
he had a great notion to refuse pay
ment on his check for $223, as the sig
nature was different from that in whioh
Mr. Ash’s checks are usually signed. In
answer to inquiries, Mr. Ash was told
that a man, answering the description
of the bogus messenger, had presented
a check calling for the amount above
mentioned, and Mr. Ash learned that
he had been imposed upon. The man
was apparently a German, five and a
half feet high, and weighing about 140
pounds.
Jack Frost is in a Kentucky jail.
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GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
North Georgia had frosts on the 13th
and 14th, wilting, withering, chilling
and killing every green thing of the
genus vegetable.
Rome Courier: And when Foster
Blodgett returns shall we look for
Rufus B. Bullock? And shall Blodgett
be welcomed with a banquet at our
State Capital ?
Marietta Journal: The picker-room
of Roswell Factory caught fire the
other day, and but for the pluck and
energy of those in control the entire
concern would have been reduced to
ashes. * * They are getting numer
ous, Col. Forsyth, of Rome, has dis
covered in Paulding county a rich cop
per mine, which will realize S6O to the
ton.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, President
of the Soldiers’ Association, has issued
the following call: “The Survivors’ As
sociation of ex-Confederate Soldiers
and Sailors of Georgia will meet in Ma
con on the 19th day of October, 1875,
at 12 o’clock a. in. All Conferate sol
diers and sailors in Georgia who feel an
interest in the social and benevolent
objects of the association are earnestly
requested to attend. The Executive
Committee will hold a preliminary
meeting in Macon on the 18th, and
every member of the committee is re
quested to attend.
Albany News: The cotton crop of
Southwestern Georgia is evidently fall
ing short of our estimates, if the re
ceipts to date are to be accepted as in
dices. Our cotton statement shows a
much greater falling off than 25 per
cent., and we have no reliable informa
tion that planters are holding back
their crops in proportion to the deficit
in receipts. It is true that the crop is
later, and is not being gathered as rap
idly as last year, aud it may be that
this is mainly the cause of the short
receipts. It would, however, be ex
travagant to insist upon more than
three-fourths of a crop.
Covington Star: We saw a pair of
gourds, last Monday, which a Newton
county beauty learned to swim with.
It might be well to state that we did
not see the girl during the time she
was exercising her muscles in the wa
ter. Wish we had. * * Col. S. K.
Johnson, efficient Superintendent of
the Georgia Railroad, has postponed
running that fast train from Augusta
to Atlanta, on account of the illness of
one of the officers of the road. The
Colonel desires that all the officers of
the road take the ride, even if they
have to be strapped to their seats in
order to keep their scalps on. The En
terprise will give due notice of the time
and day when the lightning train will
pass Covington depot. * * * *
A Covington lady desired a setter pup.
Her husband brought her one and she
named it Ed. Ed has been at the lady’s
house just two weeks. Up to this time
he has killed nine little chickens,
chawed up one mattress, carried off
two pairs of shoes and destroyed one
parasol and three pairs of stockings.
The pup has also run every cat from
the place and ate the pig's tail off, be
sides poking its mouth into every dish
and plate of eatables which has been
cooked on that place. No eggs have
been found since the first day the dog
arrived. In a month Edward will be
large enough to kill sheep, and then
the good lady will have a few hours of
peace.
HANGED AT EIGHTY.
A Texas Octogenarian Dies Upon the
Gallows—Game to the Last and Full
of Blasphemy,
[Dallas (Texas) Commercial.]
Mr. Lambkin, who is just in from
Granbury, gives us the particulars of
the hanging of old man Mitchell, and
the killing of Jeff Mitchell, while at
tempting to convey poison to his father.
The readers of the Commercial are fa
miliar with the particulars of the kill
ing of the Truitts, and the arrest aud
conviction of Nelson Mitchell for mur
der in the first degree.
Although every effort was made to
secure the commutation of the sentence,
Gov. Coke was grim in his refusal, and
on Friday last the officers proceeded to
put the sentence into execution.—
Mitchell, who is a man of eighty years
of age, made several attempts to com
mit suicide on Wednesday night, by
hanging himself with a chain that he
had wrenched from the door, but hi3
heart failed him.
He Spent the Night in Cursing
the Sheriff aud officers, and on Thurs
day night a guard was placed in his
cell to prevent self-destruction. On
Tuesday night the guard about the
jail discovered an armed man crawling
toward the jail, and not knowing how
many others there might be, fired. The
next morning the lifeless body of Jeff
Mitchell, yonngest son of the doomed
man, aged about 21, was found ou the
ground, the whole top of his head
blown off. He was armed with a double
barreled shot-gun, and had a brace of
Colt’s revolvers buckled around him
and all heavily loaded. In his pocket
was found a large vial of laudanum,
wrapped with rags, which he was evi
dently conveying to his father. The
oldjmau asked that the body be brought
into the jail that he might see his son
and was much affected. Near by, his
horse was hitched, his hat and shoes
tied to the saddle.
The Execution
was attended by nearly five thousand
people. A little after one o’clock the
wagon containing the doomed man,
seated on his coffin, proceeded to the
gallows. The rope was tied with the
hangman’s knot, and the aged mur
derer arose to address the crowd. His
address was directed to the young, and
he took occasion to assert his inno
cence in the strongest terms. Ee de
nounced the Truitts ; said they had
swindled him out of SI,OOO, and had
caused all the trouble. The murder of
his eon he denounced in the most bit
ter terms.
During his speeoh a quarrel in the
crowd came near creating the greatest
excitement, but was finally quelled.
The old man spoke for near a half
hour, said he was ready to die, and
then ordered the sheriff to proceed
with the execution. He was
Pluck to the Last,
and died without the least exhibition of
fear. The Mitchell-Truitt tragedy has
created the utmost excitement in Hood
county. The results may be summar
ized as follows: The killing of the two
Truitts, of Jeff Mitchell, while convey
ing poison to his father, the hanging of
the old man,-two men (Shaw and Owen)
in the Penitentiary for life, and Wm.
Mitchell and Milt Groves fugitives
from justice, with the hand of every
man against them and a price upon
their heads. Truly, it is a terrible cul
mination of a petty quarrel.
The oonfesaiou of the executed mau
is in the hands of his attorneys, ancj
Will be printed in a few day.