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. POLITICAL.
GOOD NEWS FROM WISCONSIN
AND ALABAMA.
Official Vote of Wisconsin—Tlie Demo
crats Carry tlie Whole State Ticket
Except Governor — Overwhelming
Victory in Alabama for the New Con
stitution.
Milwaukee, Wis., November 18.—
Official: Luddington, Republican, for
Governor, eight hundred and forty
one majority; Parker, Democrat, for
Lieutenant-Governor, one thousand
two hundred and one. The Democrats
eleet the balance of the State ticket.
Montgomery, Ala., November 18. —
The majority for the ratification of the
new constitution will not be less than
fifty thousand, and may reach sixty
thousand. Only four counties in the
State gave majorities against it. The
remaining sixty-ono were overwhelm
ingly in its favor.
The Union League in Motion.
New York, November 18.—The Exe
cutive Committee of the Union League
of America have called an annual
meeting of that body at Philadelphia
on December Bth, to consider national
politics, public school interests and
protective tariff.
Democratic Victory In Chattanooga.
Nashville, November 18.—A special
from Chattanooga announce the elec
tion of Mr. Fort, the Democratic can- j
didute, for Mayor, over Mr. James, the
present incumbent. The Democrats also
elected the City Marshal and half of the
Aldermen. The contest was very ex
citing. There is great enthusiasm and
burning of bonfires, while the Mayor
elect is being hauled over the city on a
hose carriage by enthusiastic firemen.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Bids for Bags—The Inter-Oceanic Ca
nal— Immigration Statistics—Treas
urer New Stopping Treasury Holes.
Washington, November 18.—J. C.
Feltman. of Albany, and John Light
house. of Rochester, were the lowest
bidders for mail bags.
The Inter-Oceanic Ship Canal Com
mission met at the Navy Department
and examined the maps and report of
the survey of the Napipi Atrato route.
Lieut. Frederick Collins, who was in
charge of that survey, was before the
commission and examined at length as
to the advantages afforded by that
route. Adjourned till Saturday.
Immigration for September at New
York shows a falling off compared with
September 18,1871, of 7,000, nearly one
half.
The committee to investigate the
Second Comptroller’s office, regarding
alleged fraudulent irregularities, has
commenced its session.
The Seeretary of the Navy will
recommend tne organization of a small
naval establishment at Port Royal,
South Carolina.
Treasurer New has paid into the
Treasury $3,000 stolen therefrom since
his administration. There were two
thefts, one of SI,OOO and another of
$2,000. The guilty parties were undis
covered.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A Fatal Fire—More Whiskey Develop
ments—Powder Mill Explosion.
Craigvale, Ont., November 18.—
Dennis Cunningham’s house was burned
last night and four children perished in
the flames. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham
narrowly escaped.
Sr. Louis, November 18.—James
Fitzroy, chief clerk in the Assessor’s
cilice, testified that he knew of the I
coming of agents Brooks, Brasher, Yar
gan and Gavitt some days before their
arrival; informed the distillers and
told them to strengthen up under
orders from Joyce. The witness had a
conversation with McDonald at the
Planters’ House, in which McDonald
said he wanted $5,000 to remunerate
some parties in Washington for infor
mation received from them. Witness
raised the money and threw it over the
transom of the door of McDonald’s
room, as agreed upon with him. Wit
ness was present when $4,800 was given
by Joyce to MeKee at the Globe office.
McKee said to witness : “Fitzroy, this
is a sacred thing. You must keep it
secret.” Witness replied he would do
nothing to injure himself.
St. Louis, November 18.—The
McDonald trial is still progressing
amid great excitement. The first wit
ness, B. H. Engelke, rectifier, testified
that he was urged by Joyce to pur
chase crooked whiskey, and always re
ceived advance notice of agents coming
from Washington, and that Avery
used to send the ring information of
any danger. Witness testified to pay
ing money for what was called the
“ campaign fund.” From 1872 to 1875,
the ring was composed of McDonald,
Joyce, Fitzroy, McKee, Maguire, Pa
trick Newcomb and Grosvenor, of
the Democrat. The latter got SI,OOO to
“ let up ” on Maguire when the
latter was seeking the nomination for
'Mayor of the city. Joyce once said to
witness, “My friend Babcock writes
me there is hell to pay; we are in a
scrape and must get out of it.” Wit
ness admitted being a party to several
indictments here, and had pleaded
guilty to some of them, hut had not
considered, and did not know what ef
fect his testimony to-day w’ould have
upon the indictments still pending.—
Another witness testified to Joyce’s in
dustry in collecting money for the ring.
Gorham, Me., November 18. —Two
mixing mills of the Oriental Powder
Works exploded. None hurt.
FAILURES.
“Brick” Pomeroy and Other Bricks
Tumble Down.
New York, November 18.—Mark M.
Pomeroy, editor of the Democrat, has
gone into bankruptcy. Liabilities,
$140,000. Liningston & Cos., real estate
brokers; Seiler & Maxwell, boot and
shoe manufacturers, and Jonathan
Frost, of the Springier House, sus
pended yesterday.
Boston, November 18.—A. & A.
Jacobs & Cos., wholesale provision
dealers, have suspended.
FROM NEW YORK.
Dedication of a Masonic Temple-
Grant’s Iron Coffins Getting Ready
for Spain.
New York, November 18.—The new
Masonic temple was dedicated to-day.
General Taliaferro, Grand Master,
officiated.
Considerable activity prevails at the
Gosport Navy Yard. Orders have been
received from Washington to thorough
ly fit out the monitors Lehigh and
Montauk with all possible dispatch.
Stye Augusta Constitutionalist.
Established 1799.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Appointments Denied—Failure of a
Branch House of Russell Sturgis—
Germany Prodding up the Bishops
—Conspiracy at Rangoon.
London. November 18.—The appoint
ments of Messrs. Halker and Geffard to
the Attorney and Solicitor Generalship
respectively, noted yesterday, are now
denied.
The failure of the Manila branch of
the house of Russell Sturgis & Cos., is
reported here.
A special to the Pall Mall Gazette from
Berlin states that the Prussian Govern
ment is preparing proceedings before
the ecclestiastieal Court against the
Archbishop of Cologne and Bishop of
Treves. The object is to depose them.
Rangoon, November 18.—A conspiracy
to seize the arsenal and burn the town
of Rangoon has been discovered by the
authorities. A great many Burmese
have been arrested on suspicion of
complicity in the affair.
Confirmation of the Insurgent Victo
ry—King Alfonso Resents Don Car
los’ Cheeky Letter—Cuban News.
London, November 18.—The Insur
gent. victory at Gatschko has been fully
confirmed.
Madrid, November 18.—Gen. Quesa
da has been commanded, by a Royal
order, to henceforth receive no commu
nication from Don Carlos, except an
announcement of the unconditional
submission of himself and his positions.
Havana, November 18.—Five men,
sentenced to be shot this morning, have
been pardoned by the Captaiu General,
at the intercession of Senor Rubi, the
Royal Commissioner, and several ladies.
The United States steamer Gettys
burg has arrived here.
Mill
FROM LOUISVILLE.
The City Hall Saved From Destruc
tion—The Hay Seed Men in Council.
Louisville, November 18.—The fire
was confined to the tower of the City
Hall. The loss will be less than the
insurance, w r hich is $45,000.
The National Grange convened to
day. All the States and Territories,
except two, are represented.
Report of the Executive Committee
of Grangers.
Louisville, November 18.—The re
port of the Executive Committee was
discussed in regard to the business of
different agencies. The report says
some cities are doing a very large busi
ness, and have in the aggregate mil
lions of dollars, while in other respects
they are unsatisfactory and fall short
of the benefits which ought to be re
alized. The commission system of the
Order is said to be false in theory and
unjust to members, and therefore,
in the minds of the committee, an
other method of selling is deemed
neecssary for the good of the Order.
Such a system the committee begs
leave to submit as plans for a future
day, and is satisfied it will meet with
general approval. In conclusion, the
committee recommends the employ
ment of lecturers to canvass the coun
try and make known the true aim and
objects of the Order, thereby correct
ing the wrong impressions which now
exist in the minds of many worthy peo
ple concerning the Patrons of Hus
bandry.
LOVELY WOMAN.
Strong-Minded Females and Weak-
Minded Males in Convention.
New York, November 18.—The
Woman Suffrage Convention met, Col.
Thos. W, Higginson presiding. The
annual report of the Executive Com
mittee was read by Mrs. Lucy Stone.
The report stated that during the year
there had been evidences of substantial
gain. The opening of Smith and
Wellesby Colleges for women indicated
a growing sense of ‘the need of better
ed ucation for the sex. The successful
working of co-education of sexes is
fast removing all objections to the sys
tem. Professional schools even are
being thrown open to women. The move
ment was also progressing steadily in
other countries. Addresses advoca
ting woman suffrage were delivered by
Mrs. Emma Malloy, of Indiana, and
Henry W. Blackwell. Resolutions were
then presented reaffirming the princi
ples of the Association and demanding
equal rights for women.
A European Railroad King.
[New York Mail.]
The story of the rise, reign and ruin
of a great railroad king over in Eu
rope, named Strousberg, has been
among the late news items from
abroad. In his days he has been a
sort of George Hudson, with the differ
ence that, instead of making money
and wielding power by means of cooked
accounts, as did Hudson, Strous
berg grew rich and powerful by
means of road-building contracts
which his wonderful enterprise en
abled him to obtain almost on his
own terms. After a long and success
ful course of railroad building iu Aus
tria, the results of which have been
vastly beneficial to that empire, he
began a career in Russia on the full
tide of that nation’s newborn zeal for
internal improvements. There he se
cured, by processes not perhaps always
beyond suspicion, enormously profi
table contracts, and under these con
structed hundreds of miles of railways.
His weakness appears to have been his
willingness to take his pay iu bonds or
stocks or similar securities instead of
iu very hard cash. This plan, how
ever, * greatly facilitated the get
ting of contracts, although it
compelled him inevitably to be a
speculator. When Germany offered
also an open field for his illimitable en
terprise and ambition he went thither
and did for that nation what he had
done for Austria and Russia; miuiug
money, as it were, with every spadeful
of earth his army of laborers threw up.
But, meanwhile, the great contractor
had burdened himself inordinately with
railroad securities, which, liowover
slightly as representatives of value,
were destined to die on his hands, like
the jockey’s horse, and he found their
weight heavier than his hands could
bear. One speculative venture after
another was tried and failed. Desperate
schemes, of the forlorn hope style,
were his final resources; and these
failed, too. Then came the crash, and
Strousberg fell. A prison at Moscow,
litigations at Vienna, and enforced
bankruptcy at Berlin, rounded off his
railway kingship, and his sceptre has
departed. Iu the train of his misfor
tunes have come financial troubles to
others, of course, and like a row of
bricks, other operators, dependent upon
or opposed to him have toppled down
to destruction. Continental money
markets have been disturbed seriously,
and even London has felt the jar. And
so another Railway King has lost his
crown and kingdom. .
SPAIN AND CUBA.
WHAT THE LONDON “ TIMES ”
THINKS OF THE AMERICAN
NOTE.
“One of the Most Peremptory Mes
sages “ King Alfonso’s Ministers
Cannot Alford Even to Dally A
"Spirited Foreign Policy”—The
“Times” Trusts American Common
Sense Will Not be Offended by Span
ish Pride.
[London Times, November 3.]
A war between the United States and
Spain on account of Cuba would be all
but inevitable if American dispatches
could be construed as literally as those
of European countries. No European
Government would send such a note as
that which President Grant lLas caused
to be delivered to the Cabinet of Madrid,
unless it were ready to fight; and any
Government with a sense of self-respect
would fight rather than yield to such dic
tation. As there is, happily, little rea
son to fear that President Grant means
to be taken at his word, we may look
at his demand quite calmly. The pre
cise terms of it, as our American
correspondent said yesterday, have not
been made public, but they may be
gathered from the well known views of
the President. It seems that it was
presented so long ago as September by
Mr. Caleb Cushing, the American Min
ister in Madrid.
It stated that the insurrection in
Cuba was only one degree less im
portant to the United States than to
Spain. While American interests are
injured no redress can be obtained,
except by a circuitous appeal to Mad
rid. The cause of the disturbance, and
consequently of the mischief inflicted
on American citizens, the President
thinks, is the existence of slavery and
the dominion of Spain. He had hoped
that Spain would have put an end to
the quarrel of her own accord, but,
since she has merely fanned the flames,
he tells her what she ought to do. She
ought to set Cuba free and permit it to
become an independent republic. It
will become free in spite of all her efforts
to keep it in subjection. A continu
ance of present relations has this dan
ger—that it may some day force the
United States to interfere. The Presi
dent does not positively say that they
will interfere, but he plainly gives Spain
to understand that they might at any
moment be left no choice, and that he
has made up his mind how to act when
an emergency occurs.
ONE OF THE MOST PEREMPTORY MESSAGES.
If suclt was really the language of the
note, it is one of the most peremptory
messages ever sent to a State, even of
the second or the third rank! It is none
the-less offensive because much of it is
true. Slavery has done indescribable
mischief in Cuba, as it does everywhere
else. It has brutalized the slave
owners almost as much as the bond
men themselves, and it gives a peculiar
savagery to the wasting contest on the
Island. Many partisans of Spain are
fighting for slavery rather than for the
rights of the Crown. The colony also
costs Spain far more than it is worth.
But for the drain of men and money to
put down the revolt, Spain would have
long ago concluded the Carlist war. Nor
has sho much chance of permanently
reducing Cuba to a state of peace. If
she could drive Don Carlos across the
Pyrenees, and if she could add a few
more millions to her debt, it would be
easy for her, no doubt, to send such
an army as would put an end to the
revolt for a time. But the United
States are so near, and disaffection is
so easily fanned by a people with a
genius for fillibustering, that such a
pacification would be a mere reprieve.
The cooler minds in Spain can scarcely
expect that she will long retain Cuba,
and, perhaps, they would gladly aban
don it if the pride of the people would
permit them.
PRIDE FORBIDS SPAIN TO SURRENDER.
But, in truth, that pride forbids any
statesman or party even to hint at a
surrender of so great a remnant of
Spain’s once vast colonial empire. The
Spaniards are still the same proud
race as they were in the time of Philip
11., and, so long as Cuba is still theirs,
fhey feel they can put on imperial airs
despite recurring pronunciamentos,
chronic civil war and a bankrupt
treasury. Republicans, Alfonsists and
Carlists all compete with each other,
therefore, in loudly refusing to give up
the “Pearl of the Antilles.” But even
if they were less eager to keep it, they
would resent the summons of a foreign
Power to set it free. If anything
would unite the Carlists and Alfonsists,
it would be the necessity of defend
ing Cuba against aggression from with
out. King Alfonso's Ministers could not
afford even to dally with such a threat
as that which is said to have came from
President Grant. He and they would
be ruined if they were to take it even
into consideration. The case is one of
those in wnich courage is not a virtue,
but a necessity; and they would be forced
to resist the summons even if it had came
from Prince Bismarck instead of Presi
dent Grant. As yet they do not seem
to have answered the note; but they
can scarcely fail to make as haughty a
response as if Spain were still the
greatest Power in the world.
“the loftiest phrases.”
They will gratify the pride of the na
tion by the loftiest phrases in the vo
cabulary of Christian pride, and they
will deal them out all the more freely
because they can scarely believe that
the United States intend to strike.
Meanwhile, it is said, orders were given
on the 25th of last month to prepare
five iron clads and ten frigates for the
Cuban station. Reinforcements are al
ready arriving at Havana. These prep
arations have caused much restlessness
at Washington, aud the government is
said to be also preparing its navy for
action. Bight sloops-of-war are under
going repairs, ten iron clads are “ready
for outfit,” and the Navy Department
hopes that the fleet will be well strength
ened by the end of the year. If the
United States were seriously deter
mined to set Cuba free, there could be
but one end to a contest with Spain.
The richer, more vigorous, more com
pact nation would, of course, ulti
mately wiu.
Spain’s fleet formidable.
But it Is almost equally certain that
the United States would not win at
first. Weak and embarrassed as Spain
is, she Itas more available fighting power
at present, for her fleet is ready and it is
really formidable, while by turning the
war against the Carlists into a merely de
fensive contest King Alfonso could spare
a large body of soldier's for service in
Cuba. The United States, on the other
hand, would have to equip both an army
and an effective fleet, and before that
could be done Spain might gain some
cheap glories. Nor can King Alfonso’s
ministers dismiss the reflection that if
Spain must lose Cuba it would be
better for her to lose it in a contest
with a great power like the United
I
A.TJGRJSTA.. TLItTRSD-AY, NOVEMBER 19, 1875
States than In a series of skirmishes
with half-armed insurgents.
IS THE NOTE “SPREAD-EAGLEISM?”
But we do not anticipate that the
result will be so grave. Perhaps the
contents of the President’s note are
less fiery than they are represented to
be by the American press. Perhaps he
has used threatening language loosely.
American diplomatists have been
known to do so, and there is no reason
to believe that President Grant has a
mastery over the delicacies of political
speech. If Mr. Caleb Cushing had any
hand in the composition of the note, it
might easily betray a little “spread
eagleism” without doiiig violence to
the rhetorical reputation he won by
his reply .to Sir Alexander Cock
burn’s judgment on the Alabama
claims. But the more probable
explanation is that President Grant
is not unwilling to try whether the pros
pects of the party or of a
third term can be brightened by a “spirited
foreign policy.” A largjt party in the
United States would certainly like to
annex Cuba, aud another large party
would be glad to see it. formed into an
independent republic. The insurrec
tion hinders American trade so much
that peace is loudly demanded by many
of President Grant’s countrymen who
care little what may become of the
island. All those classes would be
gratified if the President should give
Spain peremptory notice to quit, aud if
she should obey.
THE GOOD SENSE OF AMERICA INVOKED.
But the success of such an experi
ment will depend partly on the degree
of skill with which the note has been
framed, and partly on the behaviour of
Spain. If it has left a sufficient means
of dignified escape, all may be well, for
the Government of the United States
will not have hound itself to do any
thing, and yet it will helve hinted that
some day it may do a gn*a t deal. Cheap
hopes of one day governing Cuba
may have a certain j electioneering
value ; but the diversions may be dis
astrous to President 13-rant’s party
if the note has been sl> insulting as
to draw forth a deflai’t reply. We
cannot believe that the good sense of
the American people >vould permit
them to be provoked into a war for
Cuba by any pitch of Spanish haught
iness. The majority of them will re
flect, when they coolly look at the dis
organized state of Cuba, that they
would only increase their present diffi
culties by the annexation of so unruly
an island. We refuse to believe, then,
that the warlike preparations in the
United States faithfully express the de
liberate intention of the President or of
the people.
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
Four burglaries in Mason on Tues
day night.
Macon’s door mat fiehd has been
sent to the penitentiary, j
A slight fire occurred,- on Tuesday
night, iu the Muscogee Mills, at Co
lumbus.
In consequence of the sickness of one
of the principal performers, the Mont
gomery Operatic Troupe failed to ex
hibit at Columbus.
William Hall, of Atlanta, rented his
farm at Round Mountain, near Rome,
with the stock upon it, to a Mr. Wilson.
The tenant levanted after disposing of
the stock.
Four negroes have %uen arrested in
Stewart county charged with robbing
three stores and burning (hem iu Lump
kin last week. They enceavored to im
plicate some white men but failed. The
negroes are in jail.
F. E. Burke, the Cashier of the First
National Bank of Americas, exhibits a
pear of the Bartlett variety, which
measures six inches iu circumference.
It was taken from a tree that is now
very full and ripening, and of the
second crop. I
S. D. Hamburger, who for the past
two years and a half has been book
keeper for the house of H. Myers &
Bros., of Savannah, has suddenly dis
appeared, and an examination of his
books revealed a number of clerical
inaccuracies.
Mark Hammons aud Isaac M. Brown
low, who, with their families, went to
Texas about six yeais ago, ha,ve re
turned to Cumming, with the determi
nation to make it their future home.
Emmett Dodd has also returned to
his old home in the same place.
Thos. N. Lewis, a thriving young
merchant, and Miss Louis), J. McLean,
one of McDuffie’s most- lovely and
accomplished daughters, iwere married
on the night of the 11th, at the “Ham
ilton Manor,” the home of the bride,
which is situated only a pleasant ride
from Thomson.
The remains of midshipman E. K.
Mallory, of the Confederate Navy, were
exhumed recently from the cemetery
at Columbus and taken to Portsmouth,
Va., and placed in the family burial
ground. He was buried in 1874. What
was left of the body was put in a hand
some coffin, and it has already left for
their final destination. The father of
the deceased, who lived in Portsmouth,
died a short time since.
A sailor named McDonald, from Nova
Scotia, killed himself on Tuesday night
by taking a dose of arsanic at Macon.
There was upon his person a piece of card
board, on which was written in pencil
the following address: “G. D. Ernst,
318 Pearl street, New York.” There
were also two ferrotypes in his pocket.
One was a picture of himself, and the
other a group of three—himself, an
other man and a lady—all* apparently
genteel looking people. Both the pic
tures were taken by a New York artist.
Macon Telegraph: “The wholesale
robbery of cotton, hogs, chickens aud
every other article of value in the coun
try, by lazy and villainous negroes, de
mands some more potpnt treatment
than the tortuosities of the law can af
ford. Farmers give thei'r laborers one
half of all they make, aibl not content
with that, they seem beat upon steal
ng the other half. In Lfe, Dougherty,
Baker, Terrell, Raudol|>h and other
counties the evil has grown to bo ruin
ous and insupportable. It is there
actually a question of bread and ex
istence, to the planters.”
Atlanta Herald: Senator John B.
Gordon received a long letter from
Hon. A. H. Stephens an day before
yesterday, iu which t|uit gentleman
stated that he was tjo very much
unwell that he had Mule hopes of
getting to Washington next March.
Mr. Stephens then requested Gen.
Gordon to repair to residence in
Crawfordville at once, tis he desired to
consult him upon some matters of im
portance. In response to this urgent
call General Gordon left yesterday
morning for Crawfordvifle,where he is at
the present writing. We sincerely trust
that Mr. Stephens will soon be able to
resume his seat in Congress. His
friends were somewhat, disturbed on
yesterday as to his condit ion.
SENATOR BAYARD.
POLITICAL VIEWS AFTER A VISIT
SOUTH.
Discontent Subsiding’ with the Increas
ing General Prosperity—Finance—A
Policy for the Democratic Party.
[Wilmington (Del.) Correspondence of the
New York Tribune ]
Senator Thomas F. Bayard has a
beautiful country seat a few miles from
this place, overlooking the Delaware
river. I visited him there to-day, and
had a long talk with him.
Mr. Bayard is tall, lithe and active,
young in years and younger still in
looks, having brawn as well as brain.
In conversation, he is sprightly, pass
ing rapidly from one subject to another,
and using terse expressions. In man
ner he is not so reserved as most of
our public men are, and he soon puts
his visitors at ease. He has recently
returned from the South, where he has
met and conversed with many promi
nent men, and the political interests
and industries of that section were
naturally uppermost in his mind, when
our conversation began.
He bad been received everywhere, he
said, with extreme kindness. He had
made speeches at Richmond, Raleigh
and Macon. There was much less sec
tional jealousy than there had been.—
Southerneis were glad to welcome
Northern men among them, and to let
them know that the South had been
misrepresented by those of the carpet
bag stripe for political purposes. As
an evidence of this, Mr. Bayard said
that Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, had
been treated with marked respect.—
This showed the absurdity of the
bloody-shirt stories which were con
stantly flaunted before the country by
the administration people as evidence
of the South’s disloyalty and the unfit
ness of its people to govern themselves.
At Macon, Ga., there were upon the
platform besides himself aud other
speakers, Gen. Hawley, of Connecticut,
who represented the Centennial
Exhibition’s interests, and General
Colquitt, of Georgia. In the course of
his remarks General Hawley said he
had met General Colquitt upon South
ern soil before, but it was under dif
ferent circumstances from those which
now surrounded them, and from that
meeting he had the best cause to
recollect General Colquitt. It was in
an engagement at Olustee, Florida,
where he left one thousand eight hun
dred of his men, besides leaving rather
precipitately himself. That night a
meeting of ex-Confederate officers was
held, to which General Hawley was
invited. After the object of the meet
ing (to build a home for Confederate
orphans) had been stated, there were
loud calls for General Hawley all over
the house, but unfortunately he had
gone to Atlanta.
THE COLORED PEOPLE’S CONDITION.
In speaking of tlie colored people of
the South, Senator Bayard said he
believed that the Democratic party
could not and did not rely upon any
portion of their vote. They were too
solidly bound together by the secrets
and oaths of their societies to vote any
ticket but that which these societies
put into their hands. Therefore the
safety of the South depended entirely
upon the white people’s maintaining
their political organization, undisturbed
by factions or merely personal am
bitions. He would advise them'* to re
lax no effort to maintain their organi
zation until their equality in the Union
under the Constitution had been
thoroughly secured. Everywhere and
from all classes he heard expressions
of satisfaction that the institution of
slavery was at an end. The superior
economy of free labor was adftitted on
all hands, and while the interference of
the carpet-baggers and adventurers
still, in some degree, prevented the
kindly adjustment of the new relations
between the races, yet mutual good
feeling was rapidly and surely assert
ing itself, and producing its natural
results of peace, good order and secur
ity. If left to themselves and undis
turbed by the suggestions of
the Republican politicians aud
the officious interference of the
government, the antagonisms of race
would almost entirely disappear. The
colored people finding their rights of
person and property and political privi
leges uninterfered with, and, indeed,
protected, by the local government, no
longer would assert them violently and
with threats of appealing to Federal
power. The Civil Rights bill had
proved to be a dead letter iu the South,
and no one seemed conscious of its
existence. The colored people every
where in the South recognized their
social inferiority to the whites, and sel
dom endeavored to avail themselves of
the opportunities offered by the vari
ous clauses of this bill for claiming
higher social privileges. He had been
told by a steamboat captain on the
Savannah river that once or twice
colored people had endeavored to get
passage with the whites, and he obeyed
the law in each instance, but it was
proved in every one of these instances
that the colored men had been made
the catspaw of some carpet-bag politi
cian, or of some business rival. The
people of the South are making rapid
progress in recuperating their shat
tered industries.
INDUSTRIAL PROSPERITY.
“ Everywhere iu Virginia, North Car
olina and Georgia, and where the peo
ple of the South have been suffered to
regain control of their local affairs, the
greatest improvement in the appear
ance of the country and industrial pro
gress is manifest. All the way from
Washington to Richmond the restora
tion of the face of the country by good
tillage, fencing and improved farm
buildings, is delightfully apparent. In
Georgia the advance in prosperity is
remarkable, and with such advance
ment the people feel proportionate en
couragement to perform all the duties
of good citizenship. Such facts should
speak eloquently and forcibly against
the policy of force and proscription re
commended by President Grant and
the Republican party, aud which came
so near being adopted by the last Con
gress. In agriculture the people of
the South are doing well. They are
rapidly appreciating the value aud nar
cessity of diversified industries, and of
varying their crops so that the acreage
of cotton will be curtailed in favor of
the various grains, and cattle-grazing
receives its due proportion of atten
tion.
CURRENCY AND THIRD TERM.
“Upon the subject of the currency
and finance in general there is very
little fixed opinion among the masses
of the Southern people, and sound
information is assuredly needed. Being
totally without banking facilities or
circulating medium of any kind at the
close of the war, utterly impoverished
and wituout capital, especially bonds
of the United States Government,
national banks of issue could not be
organized, and local banks of issue on
the basis of any other kind of capital
were made impossible by the United
States statute taxing them out of exist
ence. Hence there was a great cur
rency hunger, which in some localities
still exists, and which it has been
sought to satisfy by the issue of
due-bills and tokens by railroad
and car raauu’acturing companies,
city railifcad companies, and the
like. Such due-bills aud tokens are
used freely as a circulating medium
all over the State of Georgia. I rely
upon the good sense of the Southern
people to perceive that it is to their
interest to bring the currency, as soon
as possible, to a specie basis, and to
maintain their good faith to perform
their duties as citizens of the United
States in upholding the honor and
creditof the Government. Everything,
therefore, that tends to encourage
good feeling between the sections, and
assists the people of the South to re
gain their prosperity and interest in
the well-being of the country, secures
aud consolidates the sentiment against
theories of inflation and repudiation.
“General Grant is certainly seeking
to be renominated for the third term,
and those who depend upon him at all
in politics are afraid to declare against
him, notwithstanding any unpopularity
he may have with his party. It is a
plain fact that no man who desires or
expects Gen. Grant’s favor has ven
tured to make a public declaration
against his nomination for a third
term. It is my belief that Gen. Grant
is as much determined upon the third
term as he was upon tho first, and even
more so. We all know the dogged de
termination of the man, and he will
insist upon a third term even at the
cost of the dangerous and unworthy
resort to sectarian aud religious strife
as an issue in the canvass, as suggested
in his Des Moines speech. His course
in Louisiana aud his propositions to
tho Government of Arkansas all show
how daring and utterly unscrupulous
are his methods of accomplishing his
political ends. His summary decapita
tion of Pease, aud his other appointees
in Mississippi, because of their refusal
to sustain Governor Ames in his war
upon the liberties of that people, is a
fine illustration of his regard for civil
service reform, and shows what we
may expect in tho future iu the event
of his re-election.”
THE BEST POLICY FOR .DEMOCRATS.
In regard to the National Democratic
Convention in 187 G, Mr. Bayard said :
•‘Discussions in regard to its action
would be at this time, of course, prema
ture. The duty of the Democratic
party in the mean time is to maintain
its organization by insisting upon an
adherence to its time-honored and con
stitutional principles. Its great object
should be to obtain the confidence of
the country, and the only way to do
this is to prove that they deserve the
confidence of the country. There should
be no avoidance of any important issue,
and the personal ambition of candidates
should be totally disregarded, and the
interests and welfare of good govern
ment should alone be kept iu view.
The Democratic party should not only
seem to be, but be in fact, the
trustworthy guardian of the nation’s
honor and credit and of the
just interests of every citizen.—
The country is sick of the low tone
which has characterized President
Grant’s administration in almost every
department, and the better classes of
his own party are as sick of it as any
of us; but, unless they feel sure that a
change of administration is to produce
real reform and not expose the country
to new dangers, they will probably take
no action against his re-election. I
think that General Grant’s re-election,
in the face of his utter unfitness for the
place he occupies, aud his marvelous
incapacity to appreciate the high na
ture of trust of power and its respon
sility, would cause me to despair of the
capacity of our people for self-govern
ment, and, indeed, of the continuance
of civil and religious liberty in this
country.”
Mr. Bayard spoke in very compli
mentary terms of Gov. Tilden. He said
Gov. Tilden had done a great deal for
New York State. Such work entitled
Gov. Tilden to all praise and to high
reward from the Democratic party.
All this time Mr. Bayard had not
spoken of himself; but when he was
asked how ho regarded the proposition
to place his name at the head of the
Democratic ticket next year, he said :
“lam no bidder for office. lam stay
ing at home, leading an honest life and
trying to be right.”
“ You would ‘ rather be right than bo
President,’ ” said I.
“ That is just the situation,” said Mr.
Bayard.
—
Wlro Is Responsible for Fraud ?
The Journal of Commerce charges the
Government with responsibility for the
whiskey frauds committed on the rev
enue, because a Federal storekeeper
weighs every pound of grain used iu
distilling ; a Federal gauger measures
every gallon of spirits made. If these
men do their duty, fraud is rendered
well nigh impossible. While they con
nive at violations of the law, all the
stamps, registers and various other
cheeks which human ingenuity may de
vise, are powerless to prevent decep
tion. Every new precaution on the
part of the Government only stimu
lates the inventive faculty to over
reach it.
The “vigorous prosecution” of the
bondsmen of more than forty store
keepers and gaugers caught in the
swindle, will make men cautious about
giving security for officials whom they
do not strongly think to be honest;
but no person meditating the commis
sion of a fraud will hesitate long out of
regard for the pockets of his bonds
man. A “vigorous prosecution” of the
detected storekeepers and gaugers will
be most to the point; but the Govern
ment has not done more, save in a few
instances, than turn its unfaithful ser
vants out of office, Every one of these
men should be punished to the full ex
tent of the law. The Commissioner
need not flatter himself that the forty
thieves he has caught are all of that
class out of the two thousand three
hundred who have an equally good
chance to rob.
His Advice.—A farmer living just
out of Vicksburg was reading in an
agricultural paper, the other day. an
article headed—“Be Kind to Your
Cow.” He went out to milk with a
heart full of kindnets, and, as he sat
down, he whispered: “So, boss—
stand round—good creature—hoist a
little, there, you intelligent, kind
hearted old bossy.” About two min
utes after that, his wife heard him
yelling and whooping, andassheian
to the door, he called out: “ Bring me
the axe, Maria, and the spade, and that
big club, there, and the butcher knife,
and that shot" gun, for I’ll be darned if
this old hellion shall ever live to kick
me in the jaw again!”— Jlcksburg
Herald.
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 89
LETTER FROM CHARLESTON.
A Specimen Radical Solicitor —The
New City Council—A New Paper to
be Started—Amusements.
[From our Regular Correspondent.]
Charleston, S. C., Nov. 17th, 1875.
Doubtless your readers are all aware
of the fact that the most important
circuit iu our State is represented by a
solicitor whose acquirements in law
are about equal to his claims to respect
ability. With the influx of the Bowen
popular tide, there floated upon its
surface one C. W. Buttz, a waif from
the North or East. About three years
ago, Mr. Buttz was elected to the office
of Solicitor of this circuit, and in his
official capacity as the representative
of the State, in criminal prosecutions,
he has totally failed to induce that
confidence in the people which is always
bestowed upon a meritorious officer.
In a recent Important murder trial, the
title of which, for obvious reasons, I
conceal, the Solicitor remarked devel
oped the fact that the deceased was
separated from his family, and thereby
fixed upon his memory the stigma of
harshness. Why did the Solicitor
make this declaration, and why was
the case conducted in such a lukewarm
and insipid manuer, are questions
that are constantly asked. The answer
is not difficult to give. A prominent
politician defended the prisoner, and
to your correspondent’s mind those
few words contain a solution of the
questions.
Our new City Council has been duly
inaugurated and gone into office. All
the city officials have been chosen, and
of course the disappointed candidates
are loud-mouthed iu their denuncia
tions of a policy which has confined
them to the retirement of private life,
while the chosen ones are united in
their praise of the discernment and
sound judgment evinced by the new
Council in their distribution of the
loaves and fishes.
In my last letter I mentioned that
strenuous exertions were being made
to establish another daily paper. Since
then, the project has taken some defi
nite shape, for I perceive that notice is
given of an application to charter the
Charleston Publishing Company, under
whose auspices, I understand, the
newspaper is to be issued.
The “Troubadours” have been play
ing here lately to full and apprecia
tive audiences. Their mirth-producing
power is as remarkable as their natu
ralness in their different castes of
character. Emanuel.
South Carolina General News.
Rev. Allan McCorquodale, of Bishop
ville died on Sunday last. His widow
is very sick.
The grand jury of Georgetown re
turned ten indictments against one
board and eight against another of
the County Commissioners of that
county.
Col. Aiken, President of the Agricul
tural Society, answers tho complaints
of the New Era, in which that paper
attempts to throw mud at the manage
ment of the Fair.
At a recent meeting or the citizens of
Bordeaux Township, various names
were put in nomination as candidates
to be recommended to the Governor
for the vacant post of Trial Justice,
and Mr. Lewis Harmon was elected.
Abbeville Medium : “ Abbeville coun- '
ty ‘ruled the roast’ at the State Fair
last week, and, in addition to the capi
tal prize of three hundred dollars as a
county, bore off more individual pre
miums than any two counties in the
State. This shows what a litflo enter
prise will accomplish.”
A Mercantile Protective Association
has been formed by the merchants of
Donnaldsville, Due West and Honea
Path, with the following officers: T.
A. Hudgens, Honea Path, President;
J. M. Cochran, Due West, Vice Presi
dent ; J. McMosely, Hodges, Secretary;
James Agnew, Donnaldsville, Treas
urer.
On the 20th ult., the barn house of
J. M. Dennis, Esq., of Bishopville, was
discovered to be on fire, and in a short
time, with all of its contents, amount
ingin value to something like five hun
dred dollars, was utterly destroyed. His
dwelling house and other outbuildings
would have been burned also, but for
the extraordinary exertions of the
neighbors to save them.
News and Courier, 18 th: “To-day
being the last of the General Sessions
term, the persons convicted during the
session will be sentenced by Judge
Head. The term has been a remarka
bly heavy one, some eighty odd cases
having been disposed of, embracing
almost every crime in the calendar;
but there has been no convictions of
the higher order of offenses.”
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
Tlie British to Get Some Good Meat
and the Best of Oysters.
Philadelphia, November 18.—The
steamer Illinois took a quantity of
dressed beeves, sheep, poultry and
oysters, which it is proposed to deliver
fresh in Liverpool by means of the re
frigerating apparatus.
- Turf News.
Charlotte, November 18.—Mile dash
—Springlet, 1; O’Neil, 2 ; time, 1:49%.
Mile heats—Egypt, 1; Harkaway, 2 ;
time, 1:48%, 1:48%. Two miles—Mary
Long and Vanderbilt, dead heat; time,
3:55%.
Desired an Exhibition.
[From the Virginia (Nov.) Enterprise]
A Chinaman at Truckee, being detect
ed the other day in an attempt to steal
a piece of rubber hose, was kicked
around the entire block by the irate
owner, and after he had thoroughly ex
haused himself and worn out the seat
of the Celestial’s pantaloons, John
calmly propounded the following
question: “Wha for! You no likee
lendum?”
A Young Start in Life.
[Boston Globe.]
Robert Collyer, in his lecture last
night, told this story: He was at a
children’s party one Christmas Eve,
and on seeing a little boy sitting in one
corner who was not dancing, he ap
proached him, and asked him why he
did not join the others and dance. “I’m
not danthing,” said the boy solemnly,
“because I don’t think danthing ith the
great end of life.”
A Mystery Indeed.
[Liberal Christian.]
Mamma thought it right to refuse
the child something upon which his
heart wa3 desperately set. Finding
that there was no hope for him, the
youngster burst into tears, and ex
claimed: “Why, then, what did they
bora me for?”
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Rejected Communications will not be re
turned, and no notice taken of anonymous
letters, or articles written on both sides.
YON BULOW.
HIS OPINION OF WAGNER AND
LISZT.
Tbe Music of the Present and the Fu
* ture.
I New York World.l
In answer to a question as to whether
the Wagner school is making much
headway in Germany, Dr. Von Bulow
said that Wagner has many imitators,
but none worthy of being classed with
him. His imitators, so far, have shown
no special talent, at least in the line of
composition for the stage, and have,
therefore, had very little success. But
the influence of Wagner is making
itself widely felt in the performance of
classical works. The Doctor then be
gan to tell of Wagner’s great genius
and eloquence, and related how, some
years ago, he was present with him and
Liszt at Zurich, when the conversation
turned upon the movements and
nuances and Interpretations of Beetho
ven’s iast sonatas, and especially of
the last sonata in C minor, Opus S,
played here by Rubenstein, “ and,
therefore,” added the Doctor, “ the
only one I shall not play here.” Liszt
and Wagner differed in their interpre
tations of this work, and Wagner got
so excited that he jumped up and made
a most eloquent and vigorous speech
in support of his views. He spoke so
well that he convinced Liszt, who gave
in on the spot and acknowledged him
self in error.
The ioctor explained the difference
betweea the old and njw schools of
music by quoting an anecdote of a
Minister of State under Louis Philippe,
who had just gone into office and was
asked iin what respect his administra
tion would differ from the preceding
one. “Mon cher,” he replied, “nous
ferons exactemeut la memo musique,
seutement nous tacherons de la faire
mieux.” “And this,” said Herr Von
Bulow, “is the case with us. In Wag
ner’s heart the richest melody in exist
ence is in Beethoven. When Wagner
conduc ts an orchestra he does not cor
rect the indications of Beethoven, he
only completes them.” Wagner is of
opinion that Beethoven’s music has
still to be made popular and intelli
gible by the real interpretation, but in
interpreting it is necessary to read
between the lines and discover the
complicated polyphony and make it
clear to the ear of the listener. Dr.
Von Billow then explained that poly
phony (the giving of three or four
meiodi ?s at once) is the special feature
of the new classical school, and that
one of the difficulties it has to encoun
ter is the training of tbe human ear to
the perception of two or three melo
dies at, the same time. This is now
more easy than it was in Beethoven’s
time, for then the instruments were
not as perfect as now, and iu rendering
Beethoven’s musio in our time we can
give notes that the instruments in his
time did not have.
Dr. 'Von Bulow spoke admiringly of
Beethoven and called him “the Colum
bus of she new school in music.” Wag
ner, he thought, was to some extent a
follower of Gluck in dramatic truth and
in perfect accordance of sentiment and
tune. Gluck, however, he said, was a
poor musician, of whom Handel had
spitefu ly remarked, “My cook under
stands more of counterpoint than
Gluck.”
Herr Von Bulow next spoke of Liszt:
“ I cannot give to Liszt,” he said, “ the
same place I give to Wagner as a
composer for orchestra. His principal
merits are in composing for the piano,
and in this lino lie has had pupils like
Raff, who Is well known in this country.
Liszt’s instrumentation is splendid. He
is more harmonious than Berlioz, and
less extravagant. In the Dante sym
phony, it is true there is a great noise,
but this is no reproach ; besides, it is
a solitary exception. But Liszt cannot
attain the same plane as other great
masters, because his music is based on
homophony, and not on polyphony,
which is the special character of the
German music. Besides, Liszt’s life la
against his being a great composer;
.he is too much in the world. Great
Composers cannot be society men, or
men of the world. Look at Bach ; he
was like a hermit, and Beethoven’s
deafness, which was a great curse, was
still, in some respects, a blessing.
Hearing too many voices outside you,
you cannot heed the voice of God
within you.”
The Italian school, Dr. Von Bulow
thinks, is iu decadence. It has been
corrupted by Paris, as the French
school, was corrupted by contact with
others. “ Internationalite," said he,
meaning the mingling together of dif
ferent styles, “is the corruption of all
art —ax least in music. Donizetti’s ‘Don
Pasquale’ is real Italian opera, but
Donizetti was less happy in ‘La Figlia
del Reggimento’ when he became vul
gar and a precursor of Offenbach.”
Continuing,the Doctor said he should
greet an Italian composer who had
studied the good Italian schools, but
he saw no promise of such a one. The
Italians are making a feeble effort to
imitate Wagner, but in fact they mock
him because they do not understand
him. They avail themselves of the effects
of German music, but they do not
know how to use them. When they
performed “Lohengrin” and “Tann
hauser ” they failed. “ Onee Italy wa&
the cradle of art,” continued the doc
tor, “ and therefore, as an Italian jour
nal recently said, it is no wonder all
their musicians are asleep.” Of the
new opera, “ Die Folkungen,” recently
brought out la Leipsic and criticised
in a late number of the World, the doc
tor said it was a weak imitation of
Wagner, and probably reached the
dignity of “ respectable rubbish.”—
Apropos of this, he quoted the follow
ing, written by himself in a friend’s
album in England:
In art hate respectability,
And respect ability.
Supreme Court of Georgia, i
Atlanta, Nov. 17,1875. j
AUGUSTA CIRCUIT.
No. 1. Argument concluded.
No. 7. Wm. H. Gallaghan, adminis
trator, vs. Timothy R. Vaughan, ad
ministrator. Year’s support, from
Richmond.
Joseph Ganahl, for plaintiff in error.
Frank H. Miller, contra.
Pending the argument of Mr. Miller,
the court adjourned until ten o’clock
a. m., to-morrow. — [Constitution.
The wife of old Jones, on Carondelet
street, has been cultivating her mind.
Jones says he wishes she wouldn’t. For
instance, she read that article in the
Scientific Monthly proving that cali
coes and cheap goods of that descrip
tion are poisonous, and she
worries him to death by and eclaring that
if he wishes her to live c 0 raise children
he must prevent ’ u er untimely demise
by dressing v tl6r in silk.—[New; Orleans
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