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We publish a newsy and chatty letter
from Elko, S. C., this morning, from anew
correspondent, whom we hope to hear from
again.
Grant says he has only taken old Zack
Ch andler on trust. The dispatch is mud
dy about abolishing the office by merging
it into the War D partment.
If any enterprising bar-keeper in this
city wan's to make a dividend, let him ad
vertise “gin-twist.” We charge nothing
for this hint.
We received yesterday 1,785 bales of cot
ton ; since Ist September, 32,801. The sales
have amounted to 29,592. At S6O per bale
this would foot up $1,775.52.
We have two more heavy failures tele
graphed this morning—one in New York
and another in London—aggregating elev
en hundred and fifty thousand liabilities.
The dispatches this morning are exces
sively dull and singularly stupid. Nothing
happened yesterday in this country worth
recollecting one hour.
The Blue and the Gray met again yester
day at Elizabeth, New York, in one long,
loud, fraternal embrace. They were ad
dresse I by such sanguinary heroes as
Roger A. Pryor and Kilpatrick. The
wine flowed and the fatted calf died.
A CORRESPONDENT sends us an editorial
from the Washington Chronicle, on Port
Royal and liilton Head, with a request for
publication. We published it several days
ago, a fact which seems to have escaped
the observation of our correspondent.
Our special from Macon gives an outline
of the speeches made in welcome of distin
guished visitors and their responses. There
seems to have been the greatest good feel
ing between all hands and all around. We
regret not getting a regular letter from
our correspondent, but hope to give more
details to-morrow.
Thebe will be a notable hanging at New
nan on Friday. Brinkley, who murdered
his wife a year ago, will pay the penalty of
his crime with his life. His brother, I. C.
Brinkley, is one of the wealthiest and
most prominent men In Memphis. He has
done everything in his power to save him,
without avail.
The people of Jonesboro and Fayette,
Ga., broke open the jail on Sunday morn
ing, tied a rope around the neck of a negro
prisoner, and took him to tho scaffold upon
which his brother died three weeks ago,
and hung him. They had each committed
a nameless crime upon white women of
that vicinity.
The truce between Ames and his negroes
and the white folks of Mississippi carries
with it the disbanding of the militia and
storage of their arms under guard of
United States troops. The Democrats are
making a hard fight to rescue their State,
and ali good men hope they will be suc
cessful. The election comes off in Novem
ber, and is for members of the Legislature,
county officers and Congress.
In the Georgia news column can b 6 found
the details of the burning of a country
store and its contents, in Wilkinson county,
by a party of disguised men. The article
does not say so, but the inference is that
the store was a receptacle for stolen cotton
and other products of tho farm, as live
bales wore destroyed, and that tho dis
guised men were neighboring cotton plan
ters. It was a severe remedy and effective.
By an accident to the Augusta Water
Works day before yesterday, our paper did
not get to press until 6 o’clock yesterday
morning, and hence some of the mails were
missed. We run by water power. -In
cutting the main pipe on Upper Ellis street
the engineer lost temporary control of the
water. It was not repaired uutil neftr day
light. We hope our correspondents who
who wrote last night about not getting the
paper will accept this as an answer to their
letters and postals.
We give the conclusion of the report of
the Commissioners sent out to investigate
how subsidies voted by our Gvernment
are given to the Indians. Tho Commission
unearthed a mass of rascality which will
compare favorably with any other list of
given villainies committed under this Ad
ministration. They found the men engaged
in this work nothing short of a band of un
blushing thieves. The Commission strip
and lay them bare, ana a more sickening
and disgusting sight is not to be seen out
side of a chain gang. That the Indians are
a worthless set is no excuse for them.
Their rogueries are all the same as if taken
from a church of orthodox Christians.
The Creek nation has passed a law fining
any Indian who employs a white man S3OO.
This is for the purpose of expelling the
cutthroats and desperadoes who take re
fuge among them, and is, therefore a good
law. If it could only be extended to gov
ernment agents it would be still better.—
The law might be supplemented with a re
solution to put every man coming there
bearing a commission from Washington
under the surveilanee of the police, and that
he be restricted to only certain grounds
and privileges. The report of the Indian
Investigation Commission shows that
Grant has been sending the lowest down
scoundrels which he could rake up in the
Unite 1 States as representatives of himself
and his governmet to the Indian nations on
the western plains, and that his Secretary,
Columbus Dalano, was a full partner of
theirs, and chief among them was his
brother, Orville Grant. But when the
fountain is poisoned what may you expect
of the stream?
That drunken old whiskey tub, Zack
Chandler, has accepted the office of Sec
retary of the Interior. He is a blustering
bar-room puliy who keeps his hide con-
stantly saturated with liquor. With a small
amount of brains and the manners of a
sponge-holder for a prize ring, this regular
clown goe& into the Cabinet after having
been spewed forth by the people of Michi
gan, and after having won the disgust of
the people of the United States. There is
only one class who will welcome him back
to office—the denizens of newspaper row,
in Washington. He was, when in Congress,
the theme of their choicest-philippics.—
When all else about the capital was dry,
they could make up a good letter upon
Zack Chandler. In selecting him Grant
is consistent: when everybody else repudi
ates an old political hack, Grant picks him
up and gives him office. He is a man who
eminently^illustrates the power of money.
Without the remotest approach to that
ability expected, and sometimes found in
public men, a fellow t>l very limited educa
tion and of a very low order of morals, he
has by means of money kept afloat for
many years and actually bought a seat in
the Senate. The people of Michigan grew
sick and weary of him. But he now has
again managed to come to the surface. He
is a most cordial hater of the South. As
Grant communicates with the country
through the Secretary of the Interior,
leaving much to his discretion, Chandler
is the right man in the right place, from
his standpoint.
iOlje Slugtistfl Consfitoticmcifet
Established 1799.
THE GEORGIA STATE FAIR.
SECOND DAY-
Speeches of the Great Men in Attend
ance—A Fraternal Outpouring—Good
Words All Around—The Rifle Shoot
ing—Savannah Ahead—Richmond to
Shoot To-Day.
| Special to the Constitutionalist.!
Macon, Ga, October 19—Many are
still arriving at the State Fair. There
is general regret at there being no
racing, causing many to stay at home.
Fine weather continues.
Machinery, rifle shooting and speech
making were the special features to
day.
General Gordon delivered an address
of welcome, saying we must be indul
gent to each others’ faults, and a know
ledge of each other would bring mu
tual respect and love.
Senator Bayard said the glory of
Georgia is the glory of the whole coun
try—her joys and sorrows are shared
by the whole Union.
Gen. Hawley, the next speaker, com
menced: “Gentlemen, friends and coun
trymen —Brothers, [wild applause] my
visit is not for curiosity but to ex
change thoughts and sentiments, and
to extend a cordial invita'ion to visit
the nation’s great jubilee.” He spoke
of the value of such gatherings. lu
the words of Col. Lamar ou the death
of Sumuer: \“My friends, know one
another, that you may love one
another.” The people of the North
and South do not differ so much. All
come to Philadelphia next year. The
lord intended it to be a united country;
make it so. To soldiers, he would say:
“We won victory against brave men.
Make up friends and win each oth
er’s heart? Don’t argue old difficul
ties, but be cordial in a manly way.
Congressman Kelly : “In the name
of the City of Brotherly Love, come
under the shadow of Liberty Hall,
where Georgia aided in making the
Declaration of Independence, and see
how utterly the people of the North
have buried in oblivion the memories
of the war.” He saw Atlanta stricken
by the ravages of war in the spring of
1867, and see with joy her prosperity
to-day. He disagreed with the idea of
the late Mr. Sumner to obliterate the
names of battles or flags. Keep them
as specimens of American valor.
Ex-Mayor Fox: “Prepare to take
part in the Centennial. Georgia must
spread specimens of hei* great resour
ces before the world next year and
show such men as Judge Kelly what
you can give for capital in sugar cane,
cotton, rice and corn.”
Tho speeches were received with
much applause. They were free from
clap trap. The boys in grey and sur
vivors association met. General
Hawley attended, receiving a warmer
reception even than at the fairgrounds.
Rifle shooting not over. Savannah
ahead. The Richmond Rifle Club
shoot to-morrow, a. m., with prospects
winning. Not many people from Au
gusta here.
[From the Macon Telegraph.]
The State Fair cannot be said to be
fairly opened. Everything is bustle
and business in the park, and a vast
amount of goods were taken there yes
terday, but not one in ten of those who
are exhibitors are ready. People are
always slow in this matter, but they
are slower than usual this year. In
fact, we think almost the whole of to
day will be consumed in getting goods,
machinery, etc., in position ready for
exhibition.
While the fair will not be so exten
sive as the one two years ago, we ate
satisfiedthat it will be a creditable ex
position‘of the productions and resour
ces of the State. Some of the depart
ments are unusually excellent, and the
exhibition includes many interesting
and novel features. A vast improve
ment was made yesterday, and goods
were still being hauled to the grounds
up to the very hour of closing the
gates. In addition to this we know of
many goods now in the city which have
not yet been taken to the grounds, but
will be to-day and to-morrow.
Machinery Hall is nearly filled with
machinery and implements, and near
to it are half a dozen engines and a
large number of horse powers, presses,
etc., that cannot be exhibited inside a
hall.
The poultry department will compare
favorably with any exhibition ever
given in the country.
Floral Hall is rapidly assuming that
aspect of beauty which has alwaj's
made it a favorite resort of fair-goers.
It is going to be very handsome.
The first floor of Premium Hall is
filling rapidly, and promises to be in
teresting. The same may be said of
Mechanics Hall.
The stock department is not full, but
a number of good horses are there,
and some exceedingly line cattle and
hogs.
There was a very fair attendance
upon the grounds yesterday, but it*vill
be much larger to-day. Every train
last evening came in crowded with peo
ple, and every stranger who came was
the avant courier of more cbming.
We are satisfied that the attendance
will be large.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Zack Chandler Accepts.
Washington, October 19.— Ex-Senator
Chandler has accepted the Secretary
ship of the Interior.
Chandler was sworn in. He partici
pated in the Cabinet meeting. The
President says he regards the appoint
ment as temporary, as he shali again
urge, he thinks successfully, that the
•Indian Bureau be transferred to the
War Department.
Appointments.
Horace Welch, Postmaster at Mar
shal, Texas; Geo. Buck, Postmaster at
Calvert, Texas.
The next Legislature of Georgia will
take due notice and govern itself accord
ingly that it will be called upon to incorpo
rate “The African Emigration Society,”
with H. M. Turner as treasurer and with
a capital of $3,000,000, to be loaned H. M.
Turner. Thus heeled, H. M. Turner pro
poses to take enough darkies to Africa
to turn it from its wicked way to
Christian life. No man who belongs to the
Legislature, who desires the spread of the
Gospel, will vote against giving him these
three millions.
MISSISSIPPI POLITICS.
The Treaty of Peace Between Ames
and the .White Folks.
Memphis, October 19. —In the so
called treaty of peace between Govern
or Ames and the Democratic State Ex
ecutive Committee, at Jackson, Miss.,
whereby the militia was disbanded, the
committee assured the Governor that
there was no other desire among whites
than that peace should be preserved,
the laws enforced and a fair election
had, and that the leading whites would
do all in their power to this end. The
Governor responded that in view of
this assurance he would meet tter
views as far as possible, and would or
der all the militia companies to dis
perse and return to their homes. It
was agreed that the arms of these com
panies should be deposited in the de
partments in the neighborhood in
which the companies were raised, and
b e guarded by United States troops,
and be removed only by order of the
Governor. The arms would not be de
livered to the militia except in case of
riot or insurrection which could not be
suppressed by the civil authorities.
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.
Reunion at Elizabeth, New York.
Elizabeth, N. J., October 19.—The
line was formed for a march to Wa
verly. The Veteran Reunion to-day
surpassed any thing ever seen in this
city. At Waverly Gen. Kilpatrick, Prior,
Halstead and Siegel. Captain Edwards
“Confederate” and Captain Ropes De
livered addresses. There were recita
tions, music, etc. Returning from
Waverly they were witnessed by ten
thousand citizens; whole city ablaze
with lime lights, torches fireworks and
transparencies. The line marched
through Broad street, countermarched
to Sheridan house, where there was a
large display of fireworks, addresses
delivered from balcony by Captain Ed
wards, Gen. Holstead, Captain Town
send and Rev, Mr. Kieffer. Grand sup
per and entertainment given waited
guests at Sheridan House.
MINOR TELEGRAMS.
Salt Lake, October 19.—Brigham
Young was ordered by court to show
cause of failure to pay the $9,500 ali
mony to Eliza Young.
Paris, October 19.—Prof. Wheatstone
is very ill of congestion of the lungs.
Halifax, October 19.—The schooner
Emeiiue, of Boston, for Port au Prince,
encountered a huricane on the 10th.
The crew were taken off.
London, October 19.—A special from
Vienna says Herzegovian Insurgents
are preparing to attack Zubei. Turks
concentrating there. It is believed a de
cisive battle is pending.
New York, October 19.—Exports gold
from London since middle September,
half, million.
THE CREEK NATION.
A Law to Expel White People.
Okmulgee, I. TANARUS., October 19. —The
Creek National Council passed an act
to prevent citizens of tho CrSek Nation
or those residing there by permission
employing citizens of the United States
under penalty of S3OO for each offence,
the object being to rid the Nation of
intruders from the States.
THE TURF.
Baltimore Races.
Baltimore, October 19.— First race
three-quarters of a mile dash for maid
ens of all ages, Lizzie R. Ist, Spright
2d, O’Neil 3d—time, 1:20.
Second race—Dixie stakes, two miles,
Tom Ochiltree winner, Victor 2d, Joe
Cerms 3d—time, 3:42 54-
Third race—One mile, Cyrie Ist, Pa
role 21, Davis’ c. h. F. 3d—time, 149.
Fourth race—Two mile heats, Radi
won—time, 3:50*4. 3:4654-
FOREIGN NEWS.
London, October 19.—Advices have
been received here from Lisbon stating
that the British bark Bachael Black
wood, from Liverpool for Charleston,
is there in a leaky condition.
Heavy London Failures.
J. and W. Dudgeon engineers, failed
for half a million.
Greenock, October 19. — The steamer
Virginia arrived here Snnday, from
New York for Glasgow.
From Cuba.
Havana, October 19.—More steamers
have arrived from Spain with rein
forcements.
Marine News.
Washington, October 19.—The Signal
Service Observer at Sandy Hook re
ports the schooner Ocean Pearl, re
ported ashore on the 17th, off.
Liverpool, October 19—The ship
Ironsides, from Liverpool for South
West Pass, which put back September
29th dismantled, has resumed her voy
age after repairing.
FROM NEW YORK.
Failure of a Whiskey House.
New York, October 19.—John H.
Cuthbert & Cos., whiskey rectifiers, have
made an assignment. Their liabilities
are $150,000. _
Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad.
Little Rock, October 19. — A contract
has been entered into for the completion
of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Rail
road, a distance of forty-five miles be
tween the present terminus and Fort
Smith.
Convention of Universalists.
Lynn, Mass., October 19.—The gen
eral Convention of Universalists in the
United States will be held in this city
for three days, beginning to-morrow.
Delegates representing churches in
nearly every State will be present.
The English Earl of Dunraven lias
bought a large piece of land in Estes
Park, Colorado, and intends to preserve
the game there for sporting purposes.
The neighboring settlers do not ap
prove of this, and his lordship will
probably have to employ a large force
of gamekeepers.
“Miss Alcott, the authoress,” an ex
change says, “refuses to wear zebra
stockings, and makes her bustles out of
a very small evening paper.” Then
there is some use for a very small eve
ning paper, after ail.—[Courier-Journal.
Gov. Osborn says that the surplus
grain raised in Kansas this year, if load
ed in cars, would make a train 1,600
miles long.
Mary Hackney, of Lyon county, Ky.,
is subject to fits. At least, by actual
count, she has had 3,028 since the 10th
of last J uly.
Chicago is indignant at the Slawson
box.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1875.
INDIAN AGENCY COMMISSION.
REPORT OF THE INDIAN INVEB
TIGATION COMMISSION.
Wholesale Condemnation of a Huge
Baud of Knaves.
Washington, October 19.—The In
dian Commissioners report in conclu
sion :
We respectfully present the follow
ing summary of recommendation, the
most of which have already been dis
cussed in their proper connection:
1. That agent service he removed.
2. That J. W. L. Slavens, of Kansas
City, Mo., be excluded from ali partici
pation in further contracts under any
department of the Government; that
E. R. Threlkel, of the same place, be
excluded from all future employment
as inspector; that no bids for supplies
be hereafter received from J. H. Mar
tin; that D. J. McCann be excluded
from future contracts with the Govern
ment.
6. That the papers relating to the
account presented by D. J. McCann
for transportation of the property,
stores, &c., of the Red Cloud agency
from the old to the newdocation be re -
ferred to the Department of Justice for
examination and action. ;
7. That the distance .'rom Cheyenne
and from Sidney to the Red Cloud
and Spotted Tail agencies be accurate
ly ascertained by measurement with
out unnecessary delay.
8. That anew and careful enumera
tion of the Sioux around the Red Cloud
and Spotted Tail agencies be made,
and that the agents be required to
make an enumeration of the Northern
Indians as they may come in for their
supplies, and to keep a record of all
issues made to them.
9. That bids for flour land other pro
duce be received at some suitable point
in the West, instead of New York.
10. That bids for wagon transporta
tion from the railroads to the agencies
be also received at suitable points in
the West.
11. That the office of Superintendent
of Indian Agencies be abolished, and
the duties connected therewith be
transferred to inspectors!
12. Tbat the feasibility of dispens
ing with the services of a freight con
tractor between Eastern cities and
terminal points of railroad transporta
tion in the West be considered.
13. That in accordance with the pro
visions of the treaty of 1868, army offi
cers be detailed to inspect all issues of
annuity goods, and that All inspections
of Indian supplies and ; beef be made
under the direction of the Commis
missary General of the Army.
11. That a carefully devised system
of accounts, uniform for all agencies,
be established with the mode of issu
ing and accounting for al! articles defi
nitely prescribed.
15. That the agencies differing great
ly, as they do in the amount of intelli
gence and capacity required to con
duct them, be so graded as to estab
lish for the important ones salaries
sufficient to secure the services of
thoroughly trained and competent men.
16. That the Red Cloud and Spotted.
Tail Agencies, which art) now off the
Sioux Reservation, be removed to some
suitable point nearer the Missouri river.
17. That a Commission of army offi
cers be appointed to consider the prac
ticability of organizing an Indian sol
diery for police and similar duty.
18. The establishment of a United
States territorial government over the
Indian Territory.
19. That suitable persons possessed
of the necessary legal qualifications be
appointed to prosecute for all wrongs
against Indians, and to defend their
rights and interests as far as they may
become the subjects of adjudication
before the Courts.
20. That all future legislation for the
Indians, and all dealing with them, be
bassed upon the policy of bringing
them as rapidly as possible under the
same law that governs; all other in
habitants of the United States.
21. The consideration of such addi
tional legislation as will develop and
apply the general system of dealing
with the Indians suggested under the
previous head of general observances.
(Signed.) Thos. C, Fletcher,
Benj. W. Harris,
Chas. 3. Faulkner,
Geo. W- Otherton.
A faro bank never “busts.”
King Alfonso plays croquet.
All Hans will welcome Von Bulow.
Lydia Thompson is sick in Edin
burgh.
A raffle in Boston is for a 116 pound
squash.
The Marquis of Lorno has written a
poem.
Republican music—torn song of the
shirt.
A. T. Stewart is not o? a sociable dis
position.
Patti mixes her drinks—claret and
champagne.
Joaquin Miller dresses like a gentle
man now.
The population o" China cannot be
approximated.
The Dodge-Jewefi wedding presents
are set at SIO,OOO.
Gabriel Conroy is tho title of Bret
Harte’s new play.
The best way to keep house—Don’t
put a mortgage on it.
A Connecticuter married the third
day after burying his wile.
Cars having the SlaW/son box are
known as bob-tail cars cjut West.
The barrel oigans M London play
Moody and Sankey hymL tunes.
There is only one athf Ist in Ireland,
according to recent returns.
A brakeman on a Nev: York railroad
has been fined five dollars for replying
“Yes, sir” to a common looking pas
senger.
Russia is going to indulge in street
railways, bell punches, and all that sort
of thing. A Yankee, of course, has the
contract.
Baraurn will build an immense struc
ture near Fairmount, including circus,
menagerie, restaurant and first-class
hotel.
Boston has a fellow who has become
so nervous from coloring his hair that
he can’t keep still long enough to pay
his debts. ! *
The Deposit (N. Y.) fyuorier relates
that a man who had a leg amputated
recently, subsequently Veit a peculiar
twitching around the toes of his re
maining foot—a eensaiion as if a cord
was tightly tied around them. Last
Monday his friends dug up the box in
which the amputated - eg had been
buried, and, on opening 1 it, they found
a long blade of grass Intertwining the
toes. It was removed, and, strange to
say, since then he ha i been entirely
free from the uncomfortable feeling.
mm , m , m ,,
Moody and Sankey; is the latest
tioket for ’76.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
LETTER FROM CHARLESTON.
Coming Elections-—Bowen and His
Complications—Business Notes —The-
atrical.
(From Our Regular Correspondent.]
Charleston, S. C. October 18,1875
Speculation is already rife in our
midst as to whether in the State elec
tion next Fall, Bowen will be the suc
cessful candidate for Sheriff of our
couDty. In the late city contest many
contended that Gen. Wagener was seri
ously injured by tbe support which
Bowen gave his ticket, and among
those very persons there are some who
now openly aver that the notorious
Bowen will be triumphantly re-elected
Sheriff. Their assertions are based upon
the presumption that the Germans,
who were united in their support of
Gen. Wagener, will lend their aid and
influence to Mr. Bowen in his candi
dacy, and thus secure him a fair city
vote which, if obtained, together with
the immense county vote that he can
poll, will insure his election beyond a
doubt. Your correspondent does not
agree with these gentlemen, as far
as the German vote and influence are
concerned, for he believes the Germans
are too patriotic and too deep-thinking
to allow the disappointment conse
quent upon the defeat of Gen. Wag
enener, to induce them to lend their
aid to a man so infamous and so un
scrupulous as Sheriff Bowen. But the
question may be asked : Why is it that
this notorious Radical, Bowen, sup
ported the Conservative candidate?
The answer, from all the information I
can gather, is this : The Mayor, be
cause of his opposition, as County
Commissioner, to the passages of Bow
en’s claims, incurred his dislike, and
Mackey, (an old enemy), the Independ
ent Republican leader, being hand in
hand with the Mayor, the wily Sheriff
determined to kill two birds with one
stone ; to knock off the political head
of tbe Mayor and to indulge the grati
fication of personal feeling in the de
feat of Mackey. For these reasons is
the belief current that he sided with
the Conservatives. But as almost a
year must elapse before the State elec
tion takes place it would be useless to
indulge, at present, in any surmises
concerning that event. Your corre
spondent only mentions that the coun
ty election is already talked of, in or
der to show that our people are divest
ing themselves of the political cloak of
apathy in which they have hitherto
shrouded themselves.
Our wharves are crowded with ship
ping and business of every kind seems
to have received a wonderful impetus.
The wholesale merchants of East Bay
and Meeting street are jubilant in the
encouraging prospect of a splendid
Winter trade, while the retailers of
King street are kept constantly busy
in feupplying the demands of tneir fair
lady customers. The hotels are well
filled with country merchants, who not
having any epidemic or sickness of any
kind to fear, have flocked to our city to
see the sights and to make their pur
chases.
Th© theatrical season will be Inaugu
rated to-night by the appearance of
Duprez & Benedict’s Minstrel Troupe
on the stage of our beautiful Academy
of Music. Emanuel.
A NEWSY AND CHATTY LETTER
FROM OF ELKO.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.]
Elko, S. C., October 19, 1875.
The low prices for cotton, to which
planters are necessarily obliged to sub
mit, are casting a despondent and
somewhat sombre appearance over the
faces of a great many of the planters.
The recent reaction in the market has,
to some extent, added a stimulus to
business in general; and now that there
has been a killing frost in this section,
we look for still more animation in
business circles.
Planters around here variously esti
mate their crops from one-half to three
fourths of an average Labor (freed
man’s labor) iu its present state is a
great drawback to the planters now,
and in fact to the whole country at all
times. What we want in this country,
together with a sound financial basis,
is complete utilization of our national
resources, especially our labor.
This country (I speak of South Caro
lina) is carrying along with it a dead
weight. Labor when rendered useless
by iuertia not only retards our onward
and upward progress, but sinks us
deeper and deeper into an abyss from
which we are powerless to rise, save
through the removal of the cause.
With cotton at twelve cents per po\md,
and only two thirds we may say of our
immense labor brought into action,
how is it possible for us to make the
raising of the staple even remunera
tive?
Yet what are we to do without this
cotton ? It is the chief production of
our land, and one of the chief produc
tions of the world. We cannot do
without it. the world can’t get along
without it ; such being the case then
why is it, we cannot make it remunera
tive even at ten ceifls per pound for
middling? We want and sorely need
reformation in our labor.
How many negroes have we living
among us with nothing but a poor old
“lien” mule and a few acres of rented
land, who eke out a miseable existence
from one year’s end to the other ? In
numerable quantities of them. Ali
these have to live; who ever heard of
one perishing ? It would actually be a
God-send to the country if the non
workers were to.
But they are not going to do any
thing so creditable to themselves; so
we may as well throw up the sponge
and be content the best we can. But
while we remain content with the pres
ent lamentable status of affairs, let us
not be idle.
If we have not the “Simon pure”
remedy in our power for such a draw
back, we certainly have the treatment
for temporary and then to permanent
alleviation.
Our Town
is a small and, some would say, quite
a pre-historic one ; though of late it
has put on anew garb, and for its age
may well rank with others that have
labored, under Jike existing circum
stances.
We have seven stores doing business
here, and enjoy as fine and as fertile
surrounding country as any other
town cu the South Carolina Railroad ;
though we are loth to say that from
some pretext the company has not yet
built us a depot, notwithstanding the
fact that we ship from here annually
large quantities of cotton.
Business is exceedingly quiet for the
time of year. Very little money aflor.t,
and tanglefoot in abundance, yes “lots
o’t” Sigma.
If his line had’nt broke, Capta* a
Church, of Yarmouth, would hav Q
caught that sea serpent.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
REFLECTIONS AND OPINIONS ON
THE OHIO ELECTION.
Some Clever Figuring' —A Peep Be
hind the Scenes from a Hard-Money
Cupola—The Germaus as Bill Allen
Slaughterers—“ Rag Money” as a
Democratic Scarecrow.
[From a Special Correspondent.]
New York, October 16, 1865.
Arriving in this city last Wednesday
morning, the day after the Ohio elec
tion, I have improved the opportunity
thus afforded me by learning the opin
ions of all sorts of men, of every shade
of political belief ; and, having made
the proper comparisons and carefully
examined the returns, am able, I think,
to make a diagnosis of the disease
which has resulted so fatally to Uncle
William Allen, and consigned him,
forever probably, to private life in his
county of Ross (which, by the way,
gives him a majority 421 less than in
1873.)
All parties here agree that had the Ohio
Democracy made a vigorous, straight
forward and manly assault upon the
Republican party, its actings and do
ings, or rather misdoings, for the last
ten years, Allen would have been elect
ed by a good majority—moderate the
Republicans admit, overwhelming the
Democrats assert. But no such issue
has been made. The Democrats forced
the fight on the currency question; the
Republicans cheerfully joined issue.
The result is as we see.
I have examined returns from 85 out
of 88 counties, which, with estimates
from the other counties, give Hayes,
Republican, 4,700 majority, a gain of
5.500 over 1873, when Allen had 817 ma
jority, and of about 22,000 over ’74, when
Bell, Democrat, for Secretary of State,
led his Republican competitor 17.000
votes. Of the 85 counties, Hayes car
ried 40 and Allen 45. Out of the 40
Republican counties 16 show gains for
Allen over the vote of 1873, and out of
the 45 Democratic counties 8 show
gains for Hayes over same vote, show
ing that, as a general thing, each party
increased its majorities in its own coun
ties, there being a heavier vote polled;
the exceptions being that in a few Dem
ocratic counties some hard-money
Democrats voted for Hayes, and in
some of the mining Republican coun
ties, men out of employment voted for
Allen, but in only 3 counties did the
Democrats gain over 500 in a county,
their highest gain being 800, while the
Republicans make larger gains in 9
counties, and in 4 gain over 1,000 each,
and in 1 over 3,400, their gains over
topping those of the Democrats enough
to change a minority of 800 to a ma
jority of 4,700. Four counties in the
State produced this result, or rather
the German vote in those counties.— *
The Western German has generally
been a Republican; he was for Fremont
and Freedom in 1856, made a good,
wide-awake Lincoln man in 1860, cor
dially supported the war, as cordially
voted for Grant in 1868 against the
greenback platform of the Democracy,
and never had his eyes opened until
the asteuudiug rascalities of the Grant
administration came to light through
the Credit Mobilier frauds and kindred
developments. In 1872 a few turned their
backs on the Republican party. In
1873 they marched in squads, and ia
1874 they came over to the Democracy
almost in a body. But while the
Germans are not Administrative Re
publicans, they are to a man bitterly
opposed to a further inflation of the
currency and are, in fact, hard money
men. So this year they retraced their
steps and voted for Hayes. I have said
four counties decided this election;
here they are: Ashtabula. Cuyahoga,
Franklin and Hamilton. The first is
the Republican stronghold in the west
ern reserve with a large German popu
lation; the second contains the city of
Cleveland and has always been a Re
publican county, until last year when
it gave the Democratic State ticket 707
majority and elected a Democratic
hard money Congressman, by- over
2.500 votes; now the Germans go over
in a body and Hayes has over 6,000
majority; the third is the Democratic
stronghold of the State, in which is the
capital city, Columbus, but the German
vote tells ahd Allen’s majority of 2,297
in 1873 is cut in half, the Republicans
gaining 1,188 votes; the last comprises
the city of Cincinnati, Republican
generally till 1872, Democratic since
with two Congressmen in this as well
as the last Congress. Now Republi
cans carry the county by over 800
again, of nearly 1,600 over 1873 and
5.500 over 1874. The telegraphic
dispatches significantly say :
“The Germans generally voting
for Hayes.” In these four counties the
Republican gain over 1873 is over 8,300,
and over last year over 14,000. Is there
anything more to be said? But the
school question hurt the Democracy,
it is asserted. If so, why is it that Al
len carried, as he did, three more coun
ties this year than in 1873. If the pre
judices of the people are to be appealed
to ..on the ground that a triumph of the
Democracy would prove a death blow
to the common school system, to whom
is such an appeal made if not to the
country people generally throughout
the State ? And if in spite 9f such ap
peals Allen not only holds his own but
gains three counties, it seems idle to
suppose that like appeals to people in
the cities were more effectual. Again,
it is said that Eastern money bought
the voters, and to this is due the elec
tion of Hayes. Of course the beaten
party makes this charge. It is easy to
make, but very difficult
if it is true, why didn’t they use their
money iu the mining districts, where a
dollar was a godsend to a man out of
employment for weeks and months ; yet
these same districts invariably showed
gains for Allen. The currency ques
tion, and nothing but the currency
question, beat us. In the first place, it
is contrary to all Democratic tradition
that a Democrat should favor as a cur
rency anything but notes redeemable
iu gold and silver. In the next place,
the fight was not between contraction
and inflation, but the Democrats de
clared themselves in favor of a further
issue of greenbacks, and the Republi
cans merely took the negative on that
proposition. Again, it is a matter ol’
record that the Administration took no
hand in this fight. No Administration
politician of any note appeared on the
field except {Senator Morton, who re
tired at an early day. The Washing
ton people feared that if they said any
thing the peo{.e of Ohio might take
into consideration some of their short
comings. How glad they were that the
Democrats raised a side issue, which
let them alone, and from which now
they hope to realize a complete viotory
next year.
The Ohio election teaches us a good
lesson. I trust we may profit by it.
Argent.
A Cecil, Md., oarsman got a thump
on the spine from a leaping sturgeon.
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 64,
JEREMIAH S. BLACK.
A Great Jurist’s Opinion of the Money
Question—Debasement of the Cur
rency a Radical Crime—The Legal
Tender Act Unconstitutional —Total
Ruin of the People to Follow Re
sumption.
[Extracts from World’s Correspondence.]
Reporter—What of the Pennsylva
nia platform and the money question ?
Judge Black—One of the worst and
basest things ever done by the anti
constitutional party since it first came
into power, in 1861, was the debase
ment of the currency, which was then
the best in the world —solid gold and
silver. I say one of the worst, for I
admit that the destruction of jury trial
and habeas corpus— kidnapping, rob
bing and killing men and women for
their political opinions—handing over
whole States by fraud and force into
the hands of unconvicted thieves and
unflogged negroes may be just as bad.
But how could anything be worse than
the measures which expanded ail nom
inal values and actually compelled
creditors, public and private, to ac
cept one-third of their debts as a satis
faction for the whole?
R.—Was the Legal-Tender act un
constitutional ?
Judge B.—Of course, it was and is,
and will be as long as it lasts. The
decision of the Supreme Court compels
us to submit to it. But no court on
earth can make any one who lias read
the Constitution believe that the Gen
eral Government has power to come
between two citizens of a State and
determine how their contracts with one
another shall be executed. Congress
had no jurisdiction iu such matters. It
belonged to the Slates, and the States
have bound themselves not to exercise
it in such a manner as to make any
thing but gold and silver coin a legal
tender. A promise to pay dollars can
not in the nature of things be per
formed by offering pieces of paper. If
a man agree to deliver a certain quan
tity of pine boards can Congress say
that the promise shall be fulfilled by
the tender of buckwheat straw ?
R.—But Congress has said that a cer
tain kind of paper shall be lawful
money of the United States, and does
not that make it money.
Judge B.—No. That which is not
money at all cannot be lawful money.
If Congress declares that straw shall be
lawful boards of the United States,
that will not make it so, for that is
trifling with the common sense and
reason of the thing. If this kind of
transubstantiation can be effected by
mere legislation, don’t you see where it
will lead? The States as well as the
United States may evade the constitu
tional interdict by saying that paper
which they desire to make a legal ten
der shall be gold and silver coin. The
whole dealing of our opponents with
the currency is full of shams and delu
sions. Like all violations of a great
fundamental truth, it must be atoned
for. It has doubled the national debt,
increased the debts of the States and
all municipal corporations, tempted in
•dividuals to engage in wild enterprises,
depressed agricultural industry by the
most enormous taxes ever imposed,
robbed labor of the bread it has earn
ed, demoralized the publ'c service and
lent corruption wings to fiy. It has in
deed brought us to hard times. Those
who suffer these exfils do not find much
consolation in the fact that the salaries
of officers have been doubled, that
speculators have got rich, and that the
colossal fortunes of great capitalists
have been swelled to ten times their
former bulk.
R—Are we to infer from this that
you favor immediate resumption ?
Judge B.—No; that does not follow
from anything I have said. The main
evil of expansion is that it must, in the
course of time, be followed by contrac
tion, and contraction is oppressive in
proportion as it is rapid. The Erie
Convention is not to blame for its natu
ral unwillingness to pluck down imme
diate and total ruin upon the heads of
the people. The abolition Procrustes
has stretched us out until all our joints
are dislocated. Shall we not protest
against the proposal to shorten us by
amputation? The injury already done
us must not be aggravated by a con
traction for which we are unprepared.
Our enemies have put the financial lo
comotive on the wrong track, tied us in
the rear against our will, and dragged
us behind it over a very rough road,
and we are badly bruised; must we now
let them reverse the engine, go back
upon us and crush out of us the little
life we have?
R.—But would a forced resumption,
however early, be followed by conse
quences so fearful?
Judge B.—l do not know the com
mercial situation of the country*Well
enough to answer that question, but I
am sure the best men iu the Common
wealth sincerely believe that the pres
ent distress would be greatly increased.
Jefferson Davis—The Confederate Lea
der Caned at the Place of His Birth.
On Monday Hon. Jefferson Davis,
escorted by a large number of the citi
zens of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, visited
Fairview, where a grand reception was
given him. The whole population of
the surrounding country had gathered
there, and as the procession moved into
the village it was met by a band, which
greeted Mr. Davis with “My Old Ken
tucky Home.” He was escorted to the
residence of Mr. Andrew J. Kenner,
who now lives in the old Davis home
stead, and was taken into the room
where he first saw the light. After a
few moments he came out and mounted
a stand erected for the purpose, and
thanked the people for their reception.
He said he had stood in the room
where Shakspeare was born and felt
the impress that his matchless genius
had left; he had visited the homes of
the greatest men of history and of our
time, but had never felt as he then felt,
after an absence of sixty-six years.
Mr. James Wiles then mounted the
stand and presented Mr. Davis with a
handsome gold-headed cane, in the fol
lowing language: “In behalf the citi
zens of Fairview allow me to present
you this cane, made from a locust tree
that grew in this yard, planted by your
father. Please accept it as a suitable
memento and reminder of the place of
your birth.”
Mr. Davis returned a three-fold
“thank you,” and added that he had no
other language to express his feelings.
After partaking of a bountiful feast,
supplied by the citizens, Mr. Davis left
in a carriage for Clarksville, whence
he will go to Memphis.
During the day a negro rushed up
and shook Mr. Davis’ hand, and told
him be fought under him for four
years.
"When Walker, one of the negroes
committed to jail, charged with as
' sault on the negro man at Bassford’s
brick-yard, Saturday night, when asked
what he was brought to jail for, he
replied: “Ise brought here on ex’biticn
sar,” meaning suspicion.
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GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
Jonesborough (Oct. 18th) dispatch to
the Atlanta Constitution : Clarke Ed
mondsou, the negro charged with rape,
was taken by several hundred men on
Saturday night and hung upon the
same gallows from which his brother
lately swung for the same crime.
Irwinton Southi'o7i: Mr. Wm. Solo
mon, of Gordon, who was run over by
a passenger engine on the Central Rail
road about a month ago, and had his
right leg so badly crushed as to require
amputation, died on last Friday from
his injuries. For a long time hopes
were entertained of his recovery, but
his nervous system was so severely
shocked by the accident that he died
on the day above mentioned. He was
buried on Saturday with Masonic
honors.
Atlanta Herald: Dr. Thomp
son, so well known to the people of
Georgia, has a pocket knife which he
has carried every day since 1821. And
it is a good one still. * * * The
down train on the State Road Sunday
night brought a giant and giantess.
Their aggregate weight was nine h\yi
dred and forty pounds. The woman
was nearly eight feet high, and the
man over seven. She is as tall sitting
down as an ordinary man standing.
Conductor Moore had a mind to charge
them double fare, but was afraid to
bother around them much. They went
to Macon to exhibit themselves in a
side show.
The Savannah Hews publishes the
following bankrupt roll for last week :
Petitions in voluntary bankruptcy, as
follows: Jacob Champion, Lumpkin,
Stewart county; Simon M. Mabry, For
syth, Monroe country; Joseph F. In
gram, Forsyth, Monroe county; Pe
titions for final discharge, as follows :
Monroe Glower and William McCom
rnon, Forsyth, Monroe county. Final
discharge granted in chambers to the
folio wing parties : John Deason,
Lumpkin, Stewart county; MaxKemp
ner, Augusta, Richmond county. Oa
the petition of John J. Cohen & Sons,
bankrupts, of Augusta, praying for a
meeting of their creditors to consider a
propositionjfor compromise, the same
is ordered to be held before Mr. Regis
ter Foster, at the Central Hotel, Au
gusta, Ga., on the 27th day of October,
1875, at 10 a. m.
Atlanta Constitution: Ve were shown
yesterday, by Justice MeConneli, a
most interesting relic in the shape of
an old towel made in 1814. This towet
was once the property of Caroline Bon
aparte, Queen of Naples, and sister to
the first Napoleon. She married Mar
shall Murat, xifter his tragic death,
his son was, it will be remembered, ex
patriated from France, and came to
America. He finally married a Ken
tucky lady, and settled in Florida,
where he lived for many years, in much
style. He died before the war, but hia
wife, Madame Murat, survived until a
few years ago. They had no children.
This towel was one of the few relies of
the past glory of his family which he
brought from Enrope with him. After
the death of Madame Murat, it passed
into the hands of Mr. Gadsden, the ex
ecutor upon her estate. He sent it, a
few days ago. to J udge McConnell, who
has forwarded it to the State Fair. It
has the Napoleon coat-of-arms upon
it, and is of very fine material, em
broidered in silk. It cannot fail to at
tract much attention.
Irwinton Southron: We learn from
reliable parties who visited the spot,
that on Saturday night last a band of
disguised men went to the storehouse
of Mr. Robert J. Smith, at Cool Springs,
iu this county, and awakening Mr. Wil
lie Smith, the clerk, ordered him to re
move the books and papers of his em
ployer, and his own personal effects, as
they intended to fire the house. They
then inquired for the barrel of kero
sene, and after assisting him to remove
his trunk and the books of the store,
they saturated the building with oil
and applied the torch, and the
house and all it contained was
soon a pile of ashes. The house
was the property of the estate of the
late Willis Alleu. Mr. Smith was con
structing a two-story building across
the road from the one he occupied,
which was fired by the disguised men,
and was also consumed. There was
also five bales of cotton outside the
storehouse, which the clerk begged
permission to remove, but was sternly
refused, and it shared the fate of the
storehouses. A scrupulous regard for
the property of persons not conuected
with the store was observable. They
carefully removed to a place of safety
the tool-che3t of Mr. O. G. McCoy, and
a cage and bird belonging to the clerk.
The loss is estimated al*abouts6,ooo ;
no insurance.
An Apostolic Blast Against the Tie
backs.
1 Lexington, Ky., Apostolic Times.]
The pain we feel makes us hesitate
to*illude to some things in this connec
tion, especially as those for whose
benefit we speak are supposed to be in
capable of defending themselves. At
the risk of bordering on indelicacy, we
declare our conviction that the way in
which some women now dress to ap
pear on the street, and even t 9 enter
the house of God, is immodest, and
that, too, in the strongest meaning of
the word; it has long been unbecom
ing, but now it is no exaggeration to
say it is immodest. Is it any won
der that lascivious men and boys crowd
the corners of the streets, leering and
making sport, and uttering obscene
jests, when those who ought to be ex
amples of modesty are passing by?
Even in the public prints we read the
half-jeering, half-lewd exhortation,
“pin ’em back! pin ’em back.” That
Christian mothers will allow their
daughters to so appear—and even
themselves so appear—is a mournful
testimony to the degeneracy of the
times. Do we speak plainly? Not
more than the evil demands. But we
speak kindly and in sorrow. We won
der that the sisters who reflect upon
the outrageous fashion a single mo
ment don’t go home and make a bon
fire of the abomination, larger and
more needed than that which con
sumed the wicked books of Ephesian
exorcists.
A letter containing money, which was
mailed at Ravenna, Ohio, in 1861, has
just reached Cobb, Andrews & Cos., at
Cleveland, forty miles distant.
Mark Antrim, a deaf mute, dying re
cently at Antrim, N. H., his funeral was
attended by fifteen deaf mutes, to v
whom the sermon was interpreted by
signs.
The Hon. George Bancroft, if his
health permits, will live during the win
ter in Washington ; otherwise he will
spend the months of January and Feb
ruary in Florida.
The Japanese Government has quite
a number of iron-clads in its navy, but
they are tied up for fear that they wfi|
sink if put to auy practical use,