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ESTABLISHED 1799. (SKR
The Situation.
Constitutionalist Office, 1 A ,
The news from Florida shows that
Tildes and Dkew both carry the Sfate.
la fact Republicans seem to give up
pBEW even in a contest, but hope to
throw out votes enough to bring the
Haves electoral ticket to the front.
Thri they are unable to do, and the
last reports show that their Retbrning
Board is not equal to the situation.
This Board by a vote of two to one de
cline to canvass the returns on the
ground that they must wait the expira
tion of thirty-five days. If they do so
there will be no electoral vote from
Florida as the electors must vote for
president ou the first Wednesday in
D:eetnber, less than thirty-five days
after election.
The Democrats however have ap
plied to the Florida Supreme Court for
a writ to compel the Board to com
mence their canvass at once, and there
we leave them.
In Louisiana, the Returning Board
unanimously agree to count the votes
in the presence of five gentlemen from
each party. The Democrats have filed
a plea to the jurisdiction of the Board
and the matter is under advisement.
Anew complication has arisen in
Sew Orleans growing out of the fact
that in a strong Republisan Senatorial
district, where there were two Radical
local tickets, one Republican candidate
for Senator distributed ballots having
upon them the names only of the two
electors-at-large and the one from that
Congressional district. This omission
ctuses the other five electors to fall
bibiud their colleagues over 3,000 votes
—3 fact of great importance to us in
this crisis.
The count of votes in South Carolina
has been concluded as appears from
our latest dispatches. Only one thug
Is settled and that is the election of
Wade Hampton for Governor. This is
admitted by everybody. The final
count will be made before the Supreme
Court to-morrow and what the result
will be on the electoral ticket and the
other State officers will not be known
until the decision of that Court is ren
dered. We await that decision and, in
the meanwhile, let us have peace.
MR. SEYMOUR ON THE SITUA
TION.
Why he Believes the Republican Lead
ers Will be Compelled to Acquiesce
in the Election of Mr. Ti den.
Special Dispatch to the Phila. Times.
New York, November 15.
Horatio Seymour, being asked by a
Sun correspondent as to the result of
the present controversy, answered : “1
think it will be settled by general acqui
escence in the election of Mr. Tilden.
The liepublicans cannot afford to be
come responsible for a miscount in any
of the Southern States. They can afford
to go out of power, but they would be
utterly ruined if they should accept
power through fraud. If part of the
vote of Louisiana were to be thrown
out in order to make Hayes President
and he should assume the office
under such circumstances, he
would be known everywhere as
Kellogg-Hayes. From the day of his
inauguration the people would mistrust
him. The better class of men in the
Republican party would condemn the
policy of the leaders, the party would
lose its strength in every locality, and
the government would fail to command
the respect of citizens generally. On
the other hand, if the Republicans
gracefully submit to whac is clearly the
will of the majority of the people, they
will be in a good position to recuperate
their strength; they will continue to
control the Senate for two years at
least; they will have a most powerful
minority in the House of Representa
tives; they will be relieved from all
further necessity of protecting or
defending bad men in the South,
and they will be free to select
new leaders, uutrammeied by the
bonds which power always imposes. I
am confident that the rank and file of
the party takes this view of the situa
tion. I was talking with two Republi
cans yesterday, neighbors of mine, and
I simply explained to them that Mr.
Tilden had a very large majority of
the popular vote, and without a mo
ment’s hesitation they said: ‘Then he
ought, by all means, to be President.’
i’he exact working f the electoral
system is not very generally under
stood, but every American understands
tue doctrine of fair play.” In conolu
®t°n, Governor Seymour asserted his
belief that the Republican managers
would be forced to retire from their
present untenable position in regard to
me Presidency. “If they do not,” he
added, “their party will surely suffer
annihilation.” B.
THE VERMONT POSTMASTER.
Seat in the Electoral College to
be Contested.
t XTPELIEH ! November 18. —Hon. E.
■' Phelps has been retained as counsel
by the Democrats to contest Post
master Sollace’s seat in the Electoral
College.
Washington, November 18. —The sit*
uatiou in Vermont, gathered from
specials, is that the Democrats will
contend for everything that the law al
lowg in the ease of Postmaster Sollace.
happens that Amos Aldrich, on the
democratic electoral ticket, has four
m°re votes than his colleagues. Ald
t’.ch believes, after consultation with
e miuent counsel, that he is entitled to
a seat in the Electoral College, and will
a,J fead his right to the end.
The Marshal of Brunswick, W. S*
main, has volunteered to open and air
hie houses of refugees, and make them
nt for occupation on their return, if
JJJJf will forward keys to him, he
W’ l B#e that the houses are carefully
Guarded while open to the light and
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LOUISIANA.
Republican Ineligibility-Fatal Rad
ical Errors in Their Electoral Ticket.
New Ouleans, November 18 D i
stated that two of the Republican eh ’
tors are Federal office holders
YV ashington, November 18 —The
Heralds New Orleans dispatch savs
Gov Curtin has informed your com*
received g the °® cial
C t fil n e R f urni °g Board are
rnose of live parishes in which no in
which bv 18 alhß , ed or in
which, by a mistake of the local Re
publiean politicians, only the names of
or tLrDiK I rH t ? rS Ht huge - the one
i >r the District, appear upon the ticket
leavi ? the balance of the Repub-
I can electors running behind their
ticket some 1,900 votes. All these nar
mbes are Republican by a large ma
jority, and it is known that othS simi
lar errors exist, which will increase the
discrepancy to nearly 3,000 votes.
Mr. Vvells, of the Returning Board
Tr Jt d lF t ’ 88e i and ? ,etter to Senator
irumbull and others providing for a
committee of five of each party to be
Pt-nt during the counting of the
The Times’ New Orleans dispatch in
timates that the Chairman of the Dem
oeratic (Louisiana) State Committee
will be allowed to nominate a person
Board Vacan * : i dace on the Returning
Proceedings of the Returning Board.
New Orleans, November 18 —At 12
o'clock there was quite a gathering at
the room of ttie Returning Board.
Messrs. Casauave aud Weils, members
or the Board, were therm ; Judge Trum
bull, Judge Stalls, Gov*. Palmer and
cx-Congressmau McHenry, of the
Northern Democrats, and the Demo
cratic Committee, which has charge of
the evidence to be presented oh the'
part of the Democrats, were present.
There were a number of Republicans
present also. There was a delay in the
meeting on the part of the Board on
account of the absence of Anderson
and Kenner.
ihe B >ard met at 12:30, and author
ized the Sergeant-at-Arms to procure a
room Tor the meeting of the boartL A
resolution-offered by Geu.' And.-fton,
inviting the presence of five gentlemen
rrom each party of Northern Demo
crats aud Republicans in the city, was
adopted. Col. Zreharie tiled a pfea as
to the jurisdiction or the board which
thereafter wen. into executive session.
Another Communication Sent to the
Republicans.
New Orleans, November 18.—The
foliowing communication has been for
warded to visiting Republicans similar
to the document sent to the Democrats;
Office Board Returning Officers,
State ok Louisiana, State House,
New Orleans, November 8.
Hon. Jno. Sherman, St. Charles Hotel ,
New Orleans:
Sir: At a meeting of the Board of
Returning Officers, held this day, the
following preamble and resolution, in
troduced by General Thos. C. Ander
son, was unanimously adopted, namely:
Whereas, This board has learned
with satisfaction that distinguished
gentlemen of national reputation from
other States—some at the request
of the President of the United States,
some at the request of the National
Executive Committee of the Demo
cratic party—are present in the city
with a view to witness the proceedings
of this board, in canvassing and com
piling the returns of the recent election
in this State for Presidential Electors,
in order that the public opinion of the
country may be satisfied as to the truth
of the result and fairness of the means
by which it may have been attained ;
and
Whereas, This Board recognizes the
importance which may attach to the
result of the proceedings, and that the
public uaiud should be.convinced of its
justice by a knowledge of the facts on
which it may be based; therefore, be it
Resolved, That this Board does here
by cordially invite and request five
gentlemen from each of the two bodies
named, to be selected by themselves
respectively, to attend and be present
at the meeting of the Board while en
gaged iu the discharge of its duties
under the law, in canvassing and com
piling the returns, and ascertaining
and declaring the result of said
electiou for Presidential electors, in
their capacity as private citizens, of
eminent reputation and high character,
and as spectators of the proceedings in
their behalf, of this Board.
Respectfully, etc.,
J. Madison Wells,
President Board of Returning Officers.
Senator Sherman has answered for
the Republicans and accepts the invi
tation. No reply has as yet been re
ceived from the Democrats.
FROM WASHINGTON.
News and Gossip from tlie Capital.
Washington, November 18.-*—Judge
Humphreys in the District Court, made
a decree iu the case of Admiral Porter
and others, of the North Atlantic
Squadron against Confederate cruis
ers destroyed, involving §1,500,000.
The decree finds that, for want of
proof, the captors are entitled to on
ly one half of the Texas, valued at
§53,520, and the Beaufort, valued at
sl2 000.
Chandler received a dispatch from
Congressman Hoge, of South Carolina,
saying the Board of Canvassers have
finished the count. Hayes and Wheel
er’s majority is 600. This is official.
Ex-Representative Frank Morey has
been appointed general appraiser of
merchandise for the South.
The State Department has advices
from Amsterdam of the formal open
ing of the great canal to the North Sea.
The death list for the year shows 194
whites and 594 colored in this district.
Nearly two thousand dogs were offi
cially slaughtered during the year.
Minor Telegrams.
New Yore, November 18.—Thomas
Ellis, detaulting teller of the National
Park Bank, has bean arrested.
Montreal, November 18.—A flour
barrel, containing the dead body of a
voung woman, was brought from Sorrel
bv the steamer Montreal this morning.
The man in whose possession it was
round has been arrested. An investi
gation wifi be held.
Ottawa, November IS.—J. D. Levin,
of New Brunswick, has been appointed
a member of the Senate, vice John
Robertson, deceased.
The Sumter Republican says: “The
I large dwelling house of Dr. John M.
j r Westbrook, on his piautation, eight
miles east of Americus, was set on fire
by an incendiary on Friday night last
and totally deployed together with
everything in it. fhe dwelling was oc
cupied by renters. The doctor’s loss
is about §1,200.”
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Board of Canvassers Counting
the Votes.
Charleston, November 17, midnight.
; the Board of Canvassers are count
ing the votes as ordered by the Court.
Considerable progress has been made,
but no figures furnished.
Hayes Carries the State—Protest by
the Democrats.
Columbia, November 18.—The result
of tabulating the returns of the County
Canvassers gives the State to the
Hayes’ electors by majorities ranging
from 230 to 1,133. Counsel for th 9
Democratic candidates immediately
tiled exceptions to the aggregation, on
the ground of irregularities, errors and
omissions between the managers of fre
tiw ris aud the statements of the Comity
Canvassers, which they claim vitiates
the above result. The Supreme Court
will, it is understood, direct the Board
in its duties as to the legal count.
A Close Vote - Full Returns in by the
County Canvassers.
Columbia, S. C., November 18.—The
Btate Board of Canvassers have tabu
lated returns for all State offleeifs ex
cept Governor and Lieutenant Gov
ernor from full returns of County Can
vassers. The vote is close, aud the re
sult so doubtful that it will take cor*,
rection of numerous clerical errors to
determine who are the success
ful candidates. Returns show that
Hayne, Republican, Is re-elected
Secretary or State by 2,270.
Elliott, Republican is elected Attorney
General by 7 votes. Hagood, Dem
ocrat, Comptroller General by 256.
Thompson, Democrat, Superintendent
oT Education by 442. Kennedy, Republi
can, Adjutant and Inspector General by
161, aud Cardozo, Republican, Treas
urer, by 208. Corrected returns will
change these results on Monday, so as
to give the Attorney-Generalship to the
Democrats, and the Superintendent of
Education to the Republicans. Hamp
ton’s majority is about 1,144 over
Chamberlain's.
FLORIDA.
The Status of Affairs—Dead-Lock
Between Democrats and Republi
cans as to a Canvass of the Votes.
Tallahassee, November 18.—The
situation seems to be just this: Each
party claims the Stato on the Presi
dential ticket. It is pretty well con
ceded that the Democrats carry their
State ticket, though the Democrats
base their claim of the electoral ticket
ou the official returns received here, as
follows: It is ordered that the count of
the votes and the cauvass of the same
shall be done in public.
The Democratic Gommittee have ar
ranged to have sworn duplicates made
of the official returns made in each
county and forwarded. They have re
ceived from all save 6 counties,
ail Democratic. Their estimates, based
on these unofficial returns, gives Drew
and Tiiden both a clear majority. The
Republicans will furnish no figures,
stating that they will await the official
returns.
Many stoutly claim that Hayes has
carried the State. However, it is pro
bable that Tiiden will have a majority
of some 300 or 400 ou the returns as
made officially by the county can
vassers. The Republicans claim that,
even admitting this, they will be able,
by proving frauds, to overcome this
prima facie majoiity and establish the
State for Hayes. The fight before the
State Board will be very bitter. The
Democrats, besides defending their
majority for Tiiden, will attack the re
turns in Jefferson, Alachua and Leon
counties, which are the Republican
strongholds.
They claim to have discovered a glar
ing fraud iu Alachua, where the return
of the election inspectors was raised
219 votes and forged their names to a
new return. On yesterday the Demo
cratic State Committee addressed a
note to the Board of State Canvassers
requesting them to proceed at once to
a canvass of such county returns as are
already in; they based this request upon
the fact that a great mass of tes
timony would come before the board
from both sides, and that its proper
presentation and argument would take
a long time, and that, as the United
States law requires the Governor to
issue his certificate to the Presidential
electors ou the 6th of Dec., it is neces
sary to begin at once in or
der that a fair hearing may be bad.
The Board this morning declined to
commence the cauvass—Cocke, Demo
crat, voting aye, aud McLin aud Cow
gill, Republicans, voting nay. The Re
publicans declined on the ground that
the law reads: “On the thirty-fifth day
after the election, or sooner, if ail the
returns are in, the canvass of the vote
shall be begun,” and that, as the time
has not yet expired, and all the returns
are not yet in, they cannot legally begin
work. The Democrats claim that there
is a clause allowing the canvass to
begin at any time, and to canvass such
returns as have arrived, not closing the
canvass to the exclusion of any county
for non-arrival until the thirty-fifth
day has come.
Steps will probably be taken to see
if there is not in the Supreme Court
some power to force the canvassers to
begin work. The Democrats aver that
the delay is meant to either force the
Governor to issue certificates without
a canvass when the 6th of December
arrives, or to open the canvass at so
late a day that there will be no time
for a full aud fair djscqssion of the
frauds involved,
Sad Death.
The Atlanta papers of yesterday contain
an account of the death of Mr. Samuel C.
Robinson, which occurred on tlie State
lload on the previous day. He was acting
as brakeman, and was on the top of a
freight train, which, while passing under
the bridge over the road at Oglethorpe Park,
his head came in contact with a timber of
the bridge. This occurred before daylight
Mr. Robinson must have been instantly
killed, as he was not missed until tlie train
stopped a|. the next station, when he was
found desd on top of the ear. ,§spn \yas a
splendid fellow, and an old journalist He
is probably better know’n throughout the
State for the last four years as the Worthy
Grand Secretary of the Independent Order
of Good Templars, of which organization
he was a zealous advocate.
Sfiaken Up.
That popular young officer, John W
Clark, almost had his hand shaken off yes
terday by the numerous friends who ’were
calling on or meeting him and congratu
lating him upon hi# elevation to the Cap
taincy of that popular company, the Rich?
mond Hussars. Johnnie, however, stood
the ordeal well.
AUGUSTA, GA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1876.
FOREIGN NEWS.
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LATEST FROM THE OLD WORLD.
The European War Cloud—Peace or
War Hangs on Turkey’* Decision.
London, November IS.—Correspond
ents say Russia is raising fresh trou
bles abowt the line of demarkation.
The Times, is a leader, sums up the la
test phase of the situation. Qn Tur
key’s decision to-day, in regard to the
conference, hangs the question of
peace or war. There may be war even
though the conference meets, but it
must be taken that Turkey’s refusal
to participate In the conference wodld
be considered as her acceptance of
war.
A Reuter dispatch from St. Peters
burg says the moblllzatiou of the Sani
tary Corps has been ordered, and the
Empress and Graud Duchess, it is
stated,.have assumed, the patronage of
these alfhirs.
Rome, November 18.—A telegram
from Constantinople says Turkey
.agrees uueo§di|lo4lj|r|tbjfcfyfdiaiica
Foreign Miscall Any.
London, November 18.—Owing to
depression in the coal trade, morethau
lptk) miners have bean thrown out of
employment in the Northumberland
collieries.
Business on the Stock Exchange has
been flat throughout the week, in <A>n
sequence of the warlike exhibition of
dispatches and adverse nows about a
conference. All changes have been in
a downward direction, though none
were so heavy as during the war panic
last month.
AT AN END!
The Strike of the Engineers on the
Georgia Ro<*d Terminated--Work
Resumed and all Trains on Sched
ule Time.
We have to congratulate the public this
morning, no less than the officers of the
road and the striking engineers on thf*
peaceful termination of the strike of the
latter, which has so seriously affected the
operations of that road for the past four
days. A| '7 o’clock last evening the en
gineers ditermined-trf nestnne ’ 4 wi4 at the
old rates, subject to the following condi
tions, which were drawn up by President
King:
Ist. All new engagements to he held sa
cred and faithfully fulfilled.
2d.—Any further service Deeded may be
filled from the former employees, but on
condition that when selected and taken back
into service they must comply with the
rules of the company, and engage in ,no
more strikes prejudicial to the company’s
interests.
In filling the deficiency,, the oldest em
ployees, unexceptionable in other respects,
shall be preferred.
The new engagements alluded to in arti
cle one, in the above, are those engineers
who have cbrrie to the rescue ot the road
during the strike.
The regular night passenger train
went out on time last evening under
command of William Reaney, one of the
striking engineers. All trains have resum
ed their schedules, and hereafter we hope
no more trouble will arise between the
workmen and officers of this road.
A Thumb Cut Off.
Yesterday morning Mr. Jacob Seymour,
an employee of the Augusta Factory, had
one of his thumbs so severely cut by the
machinery in the weaving room of the
factory that it was found necessary to am
putate it. Dr. M. M. Tessier Jperfonued
the operation, taking the thumb off above
the first joint. It was found that one of
the leaders of the arm had been been pulled
out fully eight inches by the accideut.
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Personal.
We were pleased to welcome, yesterday,
to our sanctum, Mr. Hans, the efficient and
gentlemanly agent of the New York Free
man's Journal. We have, from time to
time, shown the quality of the Journal by
cotispictions quotations from its columns.
We wish Mr. Hans much success.
Miss Willie Hackle, an estimable
young lady of Macon, aged fifteen
years, is dead.
Dr. Walker, of Warrenton, has been
playing the old man aud the rude boy
in the apple tree. The other night he
treed a negro up one of his purest
Shockley varieties, but without arguing
the point with grass, he seized his new
breechloader and telling the colored
cuss to look out, he fired. The Clipper
thinks it a little curious that the Dr.
missed his nigger on the wing while he
is such a good bird shot. Its our im
pression that the Dr. was agitated.
Times: We hear that preparations
are being mado.by our moneyed citizens
to have three days racing at Oglethorpe
Park, commencing on the 29th of the
present month. There will, we learn,
be a number of horses sent to this city
from Macon, Columbus, Augußta, Grif
fin aud other cities in the State. Al
ready a purse or about §6OO has been
raised for the purpose of making purses
to be offered. The programme of the
races will be circulated in a lew days,
when further particulars will be given.
The yoqng people of Lexington will
give some charades Friday evening,
November 24th, the money raised
thereby to be appropriated to paying
off the amount yet due ou the Masonic
Hall. From the high character and tal
ent of the ladies and gentlemen who
have charge of the affair, we feel safe
in predicting an entertainment of more
than ordinary merit. The object is a
good one, and we hope a full house
will greet the performers.
Columbus Tmes : We learn from a
private letter that Alex. W. Harris, for
merly of Girard, Ala., and'a son of
Hon. W. B. Harris, of that town, has
been elected to the House of Represen
tatives of the New Jersey Legislature.
was ejectetj from ope of the Jersey
City districts, we b&teve. Re is a Dem
ocrat, and he was derisively called by
his Radioal opponents a "rebel carpet
bagger.’’ He is probably the first of
that, class who has been elected to any
legislative position in the North. We
hope that higher honors await him.
Oglethorpe Echo: Several of our
merchants are preparing to bring suits
agqipst tb?> Georgia BailroaH for cj a pi.
ages, growing out of the stoppage of
the trains, and the consequent non
shippage of cotton received at the
depot. The staple has fallen one cent
per pound in Augusta within the past
few days, wfilph'tha tperebants will
pave to lose —pnless the courts decide
that the railroad must bear the loss,
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GEORGIA SYNOD.
Saturday, November 18.
The Synod met in the Presbyterian
Church at 9k, a. m. The Moderator
conducted devotional exercises.
The Committee on Publication made
a report iu reference to the publica
tions of the Synod, which was adopted.
The Gommittee on Oglethorpe Uni
versity reported that the money arising
from the sale of the Neal house, after
paying claims of the University, were
invested.
The report on Columbia Theological
Seminary was made and adopted.
The report on the spiritual state of
the churches showed the churches gen
erally in a growing condition.
▼he Committee on the Religious In
struction of the Colored People made a
verbal report, showing that some good
lmt! been accomplished in tbis field,
and greater good may be accomplished
by a patient, persistent effort upon the
part of the church and ministry. The
Synod pledged a hearty support to Dr.
C. A. Stillman as President of an insti
tution established especially for the
education of colored ministers.
A GENTLE REBUKE.
The Synod passed the following reso
lutions in reference to a real or seem
ing indifference upon the part of some
churches to sending representatives to
the Synod.
It was
deprecates the manifest indifference of
many of its ministers and church ses
sions as regards attendance upon its
meetings. 2nd, That the Syuod re
minds them of their obligations in this
matter, and appeal to them to avail
themselves of the inestimable privilege
of uniting in the councils and deliber
ations of the Synod, where we may
mingle our devotions and sympathies
aud renew our vows. 3d, That our
churches be reminded of the constitu
tional rule requiting them to defray
the expenses of their ministers aud
eldeis in attendance upon the sessions
of the Synod.
NIGHT SESSION.
The night session was opened with
prayer by Rev. Mr. Buttorf, of Ma
rietta. Rev. Dr. J. N. Waddell, of Mem
phis, was introduced by the Moderator,
aud proceeded to address the Synod in
behalf of the educational interest of
the church. Dr. Waddell said “he was
somewhat embarrassed, since he would
be forced to tell his audience that
which they knew. He detailed with
great clearness and force the educa
tional system of the General Assembly
of tho Presbyterian Church South.
The law of Christ’s kingdom is that
the strong shall help the weak, and
hence the weak have a right to expect
help from the strong. Those Synods
tiiat have toe .’east money frequently
supply a greater number of young men
for thfHniuistry than those which are
rich; these young men must be educated,
and since they are not able to pay for
their educatian, therefore, if the church
secures the services of these men, prop
erly qualified for the office of the min
istry, these Synods which have the
rnejms must contribute for their edu
cation. The Educational Committee
have been very much embarrassed in
their efforts to meet current expenses
because of an old debt vvhich for years
has been against it. This debt is now
about §2,200, which amount we hope to
reduce to §1,200 during the year with
out drawing upon tho contributions
made lor current expenses. The in
ciease of the churches is greater than
the increase of the ministers and I
think, said Dr. Waddell, tha" the cause
is, that to be a candidate for the min
istry is to be a candidate for poverty.”
The Educational Committee aid young
men who are studying for the ministry
only to the amount of §175 per annum.
This certainly is not extravagant, but
tho committee has not been able to pay
this allowance. The Georgia Syuod
contributed §1,340.90 to the educational
fund, while its candidates have omy
drawn about §3OO.
The Georgia Synod has contributed
about 14 cents on au average for each
member. If this amount was doubled
in this Synod, and ethers wouid do
likewise, it would doubtless increase
the candidates for the ministry. The
noblest, bravest and most eloquent di
vines in the Presbyterian church have
been beneficiaries of the educational
fund. I say this in answer to objec
tions which are ■ sometimes urged
against the system as tended to dete
riorate men.
The success of the Presbyterian
church, in a measure, depends upon
ihe success of the Board in raising
money to support poor young men who
are candidates for the ministry, and
who cannot obtain an education with
out aid. The United States educates
her army officers, and pays from five
to six hundred dollars a year and re
quires but two years’s service; while
the church grudgingly pays one or two
hundred dollars a year, and demands
a life time service in return.
The soldier of the corps needs to be
educated for the warfare wnich awaits
him in the great contest for souls.
Texas now needs 100 ministers, Arkan
sas is iu need of ministers. In all the
States there is territory which could be
profitably occupied, aqd these fields
demand an educated ministry. We
now have fifty candidates iu our roll,
at the same time last year we bad
ninety. I hope others will be added
during the year.
The Doctor referrred to the effort
now being made to educate colored
ministers, and heartily commended the
enterprise as worthy of support. The
weight of the Doctoi’s address came so
heavy upon one brother that the chair
iu \yhicfi hp wgs seated broke down.
Rev. Dr. Lane, of Athens, made a few
remarks, latqeutipg tpe falling off in
the roll of candidates for the ministry,
and thought the church should be
alarmed at this state of things.
Rev. J. H. Nall, of Columbus, offered
a resolution of thanks to Dr. Waddell
for his able address on behalf of educa
tion, and commended the work to the
churches. Mr. Cleaveland aqd Dr.
Irvine made brief remarks. Dr. Irvine
thought the bynod should enjoin upon
the churches the duty of supporting
the educational enterprise of the
church, and that all the Presbyteries
should co-operate with she Educational
Board.
Rev. T. D- Smith suggested that the
synodical year be from the }st of Oc
tober ty the l s t of October. The sug
gestion was adopted.
Rev. J. H. Nall moved that the
clerk use his discretion as to what por
tion of the minutes shall be published.
A vote of thanks to the families who
have so generously entertained the
members of t.he Synod, and to the
which h&ye tendered the
use of their pulpits, was unanimously
adopted. '
Dr. Lane moved that 500 copies of
the minutes be published. Adopted.
On motion of Dr. Jmue, the stated
plerk was authorised to place the me
morial of Dr. Joseph Sty les on file, and
pmit it from the minutes.
The appointments for to-day will be
found in our church notices. The
Synod adjourned to meet in Columbus
on Wednesday before the third Sab
bath in November 1877.
led by J. W. Wallace, the Synod
united iu singing
“Christians, brethren, ere we part,
Evqry voice aud every heart a
Join, and to out- Father raise
One last hyttmof grateful praise.”
The Moderator concluded with
prayer and the benediction.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Only two hundred aDdtea candidates
for post master in Newnan.
The Gazette complains that olvility is
a scarce commodity in Elberton.
The adjourned term of Green Su
perior Court meets to-morrow, 20th.
the gin house of Dr. W. M. Jarrell,
of Oglethorpe county, was burned Tues
day night.
Never before in its history has El
berton been called upon to deplore as
many sad casualties as have happened
recently.
Twenty-five negroes In Rockdale
county voted for Markham under the
impression that they were in the At
lanta district.
Many of the good people of Wilkin
son county are preparing for new
graves for their families by selling put
in Georgia aud going to Texas.
The Savanuali 'News pays a very high
compliment to Dr. DcGraffenreid, of
Columbua, who came to'that city and
remained during the epidemic.
At the Upson Superior Court one
negro was sentenced to be hung, and
another to the penitentiary for ten
years, and there was a general jail de
livery.
The .Jefferson News and Farmer put
forth Jack Orr, of that county, as the
best pick up for a young lady iu search
or a leap year husband, to be found iu
the State.
Gazette: Radicalism in Elbert has
been interred to such a depth that we
never look for its resurrection. Not a
vote in the county Tor Hayes. Send us
the banner.
A subscriber to the Columbus Sim
voted his subscription receipt for that
paper at the late election. And yet
people still talk of devotion to princi
ple, and so forth.
The recruiting office at Atlanta has
succeeded iu gathering quite a number
of colored recruits, who have started
for the far West ou the trail of Sitting
Bull and Crazy Horse.
Columbus Times: Magili is getting up
an excursion to Tilden’s inauguration.
Governor Smith and several others
have spoken for berths. Tho Governor
has been hoping for a birth twenty
years.
Savannah News: Doctors Reed and
Nunn leave to-day for a trip to Europe
by the Anchor lino of steamers, which
sail from New York. Both of these
gentlemen have well earned respite
from their arduous professional labors,
which have been of a nature to wear
out ordinary men. Dr. Reed has been
in the city during the whole epidemic,
and was the first physician to sound
the alarm. His labors have been sim
ply immense, especially when it is con
sidered that his health fur some time
lias been delicate. Day and night
during the entire long session of the
epidemic he has been going. Stricken
himseif, he scarcely gave himself time
to convalesce, when he was again up
aud at tiro enemy -^-disease.
A Rhinoceros that Drank Nine
Buckets of Chloroform.
[From tho Cincinnati Post.]
“My dear sir,” said the press agent,
as we stepped iu front of a cage con
taining a hyena, “the hyena is the
meanest and dirtiest of beasts, yet he
is a great curiosity. Now, you are not
very well posted in the show business,
aud so I will tell you all you need to
know. This hyena is the fourth one
ever captured, and cost the owner of
this show §20,000. Twelve meu were
slain before the beast was caged. It is
very hard to keep u hyena alive iu this
climate, and wo have to feed him on
solid tenderloin and milk.”
As Mr. Dumont paused for breath,
we took the opportunity to tell him
that there were four hyenas in our own
Zoo, that the keepers' up there hadn’t
very much trouble iq keeping them
alive, aud thqt they oftener got tough
flank than tenderloin.
For a moment the man of much
show information looked at us iu a
pitying sort of way, then with a light
sneer on his face remarked: "You have
been deceived, air. Those animals are
only ‘Hyeneses Domesticates,’ or iu
other words, domesticated hyenas;
they are a cross between a eayote and
a wolf. People are often imposed upon,
but we’il let that pass.
“Here in this next cage is the only
i hiuoceros ever iu captivity. Old John
Robinson secured tfie hide of a rhinoce
ros and had it sewed ou over an ordi
nary ‘mujey’ cow. The cow stood it
for about two months and then died.
Then Robinson hsd tjie fiide stuffed
aud got the credit of having exhibited
the rhiuooeros in this country
But, sir, ours is the first Jive one ever
imported, and it cost us §60,000 to set
him.”
“What has become of his liorn?” in
quired our young man, as he noticed
that the ‘first rhinoceros ever brought
to this couutry’ lacked that prominent
nasal appendage.
“Now, that hqru has a Uttle history
of itself,” answered the pres* agent
“Tom that’s what we call the beast—
lost his horn at Erie, Pa. You see, we
got him in the show at Titusville, and
we had to keep him in a sheet-iron
cage seven inches thick. At times he
would get very bad, and one- day he
battered out the end of his den with
his horn. It took eighty men to recap
ture him. Theq we gave him nine
buckets of chloroform, and while he
was sleeping we sawed off his horn.
Since then Tom seems broken-hearted,
and is as docile as a lamb.”
When the cage containing what our
unsophisticated young man supposed
was au orcfiuary monkey of an un
usualjy terge si?e was reached, Mr,
Dumoht proceeded to thus enlighten
him;
“The mammoth beast, I dare say, you
have no idea of. It is the great gorilla
of Africa, the strongest beast in the
world. His strength exceeds that of
fourteen meq. He is a terribly vicious
brute, and since he has been in ourpos
session, he has killed nine keepers and
an infant son qf the proprietor of this
show. This gorilla is supposed to be
about eighty-seven years of qge, and
we have owned him for nineteen years
ourselves. H e coat us originally $32,-
729 87 but the expense of keeping him
or WifiPthen years will swell
that amount greatly’ The proprietor
of this show wouldn’t take "§9,00Q,000
for him to-day,”
AFFAIRS IN OLD WILKES.
Court Week—The Election—Grand
Illumination and Torchlight Pro
cession in Honor of Tiiden, Hamp
ton and Reform - “The Hornet’s
Nest” Sends Greeting to the Pal
metto State-The Constitutionalist,
Etc., Etc.
(Special Correspondence Constitutions Ist.
Washington, Ga., November 15.
The past week has been an eventful
one to the citizens of this place. First
on the boards came the fall term of the i
Superior Court, which convened on I
Monday, the 6th, his Honor Judge i
Bartlett presiding, in the absence or
Judge Pottle, who was detained at his j
home In Warrenton, in consequence or i
sickness in his family. After deposing
of a large amount of business, both j
civil and criminal, the court, on Friday 1
evening, took a recess until Tuesday
of this week. Next in order came J
THE ELECTION,
which passed off very quietly. Not a
disturbance of any kind occurred iu
any part of tb> comity -not ev - etl a
solitary old-fasliroobi) “drunk” came I
under our observaiiliiL Avery large
vote was polled -the largest since
1867. The following was the result:
Tiiden and Hendricks, 1,139; H iyes 1
and Wheeier, 2; Stephens, 1,113; total,
2,254. S vcral days before the elec- i
tion an arrangement was made lv our |
citizens with the Western Union Tele- I
graph Company, by which we Were ea- !
abled to receive the i'uii election re- j
turns us furnished by the Associated,
Press. Ou Tuesday night a large
cr ovd assembled in the office of the
Arnold House, anxiously waiting to j
hear tidings of the result of the great
couiest. Upon the reception of each
telegram pointing to the success of the
Democracy, cheer after cheer rang out
upon the clear night air for Tiiden,
Hampton aud South Carolina. The
most intense excitement prevailed dur
ing the whole week, and never before,
on any similar occasion, has such en
thusiasm been manifested by the citi
zens of old Wilkes.
THE JOLLIFICATION.
On yesterday morning a large num
ber of our citizens met in the Court
house for the purpose of devising some
way in which to celebrate the glorious
victory achieved by the Democracy
throughout the Union,and particularly
the redemption of the noble old Pal
metto State from the clutches of the
i adical thieves, rogues and scoundrels
who have been sucking her life’s blood
for the past ten years. Dr. H. F.
Andrews was called to the Chair, and
M. P. Reese, Esq., requested to aet as
Secretary. After the object of the
meeting had been stated by the Chair
man, on motion it was resolved to have
a grand torchlight procession and such
other jollification as might be deter
mined upon by a committee of arrange
ments, which the Chair then appointed
as follows: M. P. Reese, H. B. Pope,
John T. Erwin, M. M. Sims and Fred J.’
Ludette. A committee was also ap
pointed to collect funds to defray the
expenses of the celebration, composed
of the following gentlemen: A. W. Hill,
Pied Pope, J. C. Stummer, J. M.
Hackney, Sr., B. F. Barksdale, Reuben
Callaway and E. T. Shubrick; after
which the meeting adjourned.
At 7 p. in. several kfindted persons
met at the Court House, where the
committee of arrangements had pre
pared torches, lanterns, transparen
cies, etc. Wm. M. Sims, Esq., and Mr.
Fred Pope (than both of whom no bet
ter selection could have been made)
were chosen as marshals. At half-past
seven the procession moved off in
charge of the marshals, who were
mounted on fiery chargers, headed by
the cornet baud. After marching
through the principal streets of the
town, the procession returned to the
point from wiienee it smarted, where the
vast assemblage was addressed by the
following distinguished gentlemen; His
Honor, Judge E. H. Pottle, Gen. D. M
Dußose, Col. C. W. Dußoae, Capt. John
U lieed, Hon. F, H, Colley and
13. S. Irvin, Esq., all of whom
made eloquent, patriotic and soul-stir
ring addresses. Au effigy of Chamber
lain, which had been carried in the pro*
cession on a rail, was then thrown into
the bonfire in the middle of the square
and consumed, auaid the cheering of
ihe crowd and the discharge of hun
dreds of firearms. The celebration
dosed by the firing of large torpedoes,
under the direction of Mr, Brewer
Pope, who, in fact, was the leading
“t’lrit in the whole affair. The house
tops, balconies and piazas were throng
ed with fair women, aud many public
buildings and private residences were
beautifully illuminated, Sttimmer’s
building, the GateUe office, the resi
dence of Dr. Andrews and of Miss Fan
nie Audrews deserve especial mention
-particularly the fatter, which was
brilliantly illumihated by huudreds of
candles artistically and tastefully ar
ranged in every window in the house.
The whole demonstration was cer
tainly the grandest and most gorgeous
ever witnessed in this section of the
State,
THJfi CuUHX
-'’.'assembled on Tuesday morning,
Judge Pottle presiding. No business
worthy of mention was transacted,
save the final disposal of the some
what celebrated Pounds murder case,
which has been on the dockets of the
courts of this and Hancock oounties
for the past nine years, and which has
attracted considerable attention
throughout the State. The defendant,
Pounds, plead guilty to voluntary man
slaughter, and was sentenced to the
Penitentiary for three years.
THR CONSTITUTIONALIST,
1 am p,eased to say, has a large Lum
ber of friends and subscribers in this
place, and its arrival each day is
looked for with more eagerness than
that of any other newspaper in the
State, and it is daily growing more and
more in publio favor.
I would be derelict in my duty as a
correspondent were 1 to close without
a word in praise of the fair and accom
plished young lady who so ably and
efficiently presides over the mysteries
of the electric current in our telegraph
offloe. During the week just past
she has stood faithfully at h§r post,
keeping her office open sometimes until
midnight, for the purpose of receivin' l '
the very latest election newa, and
putting our citizens ip possession of
the same at the same "time it is made
pubiic in other places. The style in
which her office is arranged and fitted
up is a marvel of taste and neatness;
it looks as snug and oozy pa any parlor
m the land. Kind, obliging and ac
commodating, she is highly esteemed
by all who know her. p. j.
p l( l<w ,——
Mr. Jamas fi. Heard leased the
county convicts of filbert, and sent
thpm opt U> his plantation to work.
Mr. ficard has pot, head of the three
convicts since, *
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
A SOLDIER’S VIEWS.
GATH TALKS WITH PLEASON
TON.
What the Ex-Cavalryman and Ex
ile venue Collector Thinks About
Politics, the South and the Army
- His Observations Abroad.
J [Special Correspondence of the Philadelphia
Times. |
New York, November 15.
j The other night, while the- military
i friends of General Anson McCook were
eathered at his headquarters to assist
McCook’s election by getting in his
j way, I saw the whitish complexion and
light hair and small black eyes of Al
: fred Pieasontou, the former commander
j of great bodies of cavalry iu the Fed
eral army, a graduate of West Point
i and Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
for a while under General Grant. "Ah,
General, you have been a long*time iu
j Europe.” “Yes; I went away to
take recreation, and am sorry
Ito iiud the country so em
: ieally situated in its politics On
imy return, it ought not to have been
! like this.” “How is your brother, die
j General, of Philadelphia, who Is raiding
. calves and pomegmuaUs under i,W.
[ glass ?” “Very well, and blue is
: pot a humbug. He has produced \ ©rv
extraoldiuary results hi that wav. This
1 ‘brave overhanging fii matnt U,’ you
1 know, whence we get oar light a 1 ,i
warmth and covering, is nothing Inn
blue. My brother makes it a nrti
1 bluer and keeps off the wind. It is
wonderful. That’s where he fattens
his calves. You musn’t sleep under
blue glass.” “Because one might get
up a bull calf?” “Nevermind: But
here’s rain ou election eve, and the Be
publican party has made no provide •
for gum shoes. It is almost disjheari.
ening.”
“Why, you don’t fear that the South
is going to make any great trouble?"
“Yes, I do. I’m seriously of the belief
that a return to power on their part
now, while the fightiug generation of
the rebellion is yet lusty will be a mat
ter of infinite difficulty and regret
They will be the solid element of the
Democratic party, and always Were bet
ter organized and shrowder than the
Northern Democrats. They will be the
union itself, aud transfer to it as the
people in title, the ideas, greeds and
resentments they have held. We were
never able to agree among ourselves
and maintain an inflexible sectional
policy like rhe South. When they flew
to arms we had them at a disadvantage
But they will return again, if thev n
tura now, to make no more such mis
takes. This government will be re
moulded by them, as the British aris
tocracy enters into every channel of
government there. The Southern pen
, Pj e assist Qieir leaders, and we in the
North are T&rting and warring about
everything.*
“How can they affect, for example,
the army of. the United States?” “1
nflW ß r bOW ybU , a ein B le instance:
o-r ,of the —— Regiment,
whom I know very well, Void me that
after the Custer massacre, where two
companies were slaughtered, recruiting
had to be beguu for them. ThoseGor
dnn and Hampton fellows in the South
who saw that regular companies were
to be ordered among them, shipped the
lull complement of rebels right aw&v
and enlisted them, and sure enough
they were sent straight back, and mv
mend told me, ‘General, mv whole
company is made up of rebels, and I
don t know what I should do if we had
a fight in South Carolina.’ ”
The General’s exact statement of
t.ns point I should not print if I aecu
ratery remembered it,because he prob
ably does not want any officer ideuti
fied. He said : ‘‘The reorganization
of the army of the United States would
be aruoDg the certain acts of the Ton
federate resumption of power. They
have a marvelous prescience and skill
for seeing what they want and how to
do rt. I fio patronage of the army was
especially considered by them when
they were rich and easy. How much
more so when they arc poor and with
out other avocation ? The Confederate
■nicer is found in Egypt, Brazil, Tur
key, Cuba and over the world.”
“Well, General, I have heard North
ern men say that the South had now
neither capacity nor perception, and
that its whole galaxy, iu and pm of
Congress, was incapable.”
“They are very remarkable people. I
mean their good, official families,” said
i leasonton, “They possess a noncha
lant cruelty and administrative vigor
worthy of Turks. Why, sir, their power
to keep intimidated that great negro
population is extraordinary.”
“But they have lost their prestige in
Europe/ “I’m not sure of that In
England they had a warm support du
ring their revolt, and It is not extinct.
There was Geneial Dick Taylor, of
Louisiana. Hu was not long ago in
troduced to the Prince of Wales aud
the Prince’s favor got him into his
club. Such was his popularity with
>N ales that he had control of the revis
ion of the Americans to be presented,
to the Queen, and General Scfiouyk
had less social influence You see iu
England mere money, without relation
to a social position, is nothing at all
I o have been presented to the Oueeri
is an honor for life. Of Itself, it make*
the person presented the standard of n
local or relative circle. The old milita
ry and social aristocracy of the South
sharing .Lnglibh uotioua on these ciues
tions are favorites where w© are not
Ihe English, jealous of their distinct
ions iji military, family or ether rank
perceive the same severe discrimiua-’
tion among Southerners, and they dis
like our Northern familiarity and assu
rance.”
Heavy on the Lexington swell -
The Echo says: We a t th '
supper last Wednesday nk-ht in Let
ington, that the young giSs and T^o-’
fessional heart-breakers? standingout
doors awaiting the arrival of the *£
S;,f°! ,| " S! " 1 by lbeir or
brothers As soon as the old g*nts or
brothers had purchased tickets for tlm
ladies, the heart killers, with all
the sweet smiles and dignity of a
i reach dancing master, steps in and
asks to accompany the fair ones home.
‘How high iah dat,” for sharp finan
ciering-' K
The Atlanta Commonwealth teUa the
following: Yesterday a distinguished
attorney from Southwestern Georgia
was addressing the Supreme Court on
an intricate question of law, and beiu -
frequently interrogated by the Chie*’
Justioe, deliberately paused, as if t*.
frame an answer to the question, and.
said, “May it please your Honor, car.
you tell me whether Tiiden is elected
or not? The court smiled audibly.
and the speaker proceeded withoat fur
ther interruption.