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FRO 31 COLOMBIA.
(j oV Hampton M&Kes a Formal De
mand Upon Chamberlain for Posses
sion of the Executive Department,
Which the ‘‘Reformer’’ Refuses.
Washington , December 19. The
Herald.’* Columbia dispatch says the
Democratic programme of memorial
izing Congress for its recognition of
t l,e Hampton government, and of
otherwise arriving at a peaceful solu
tion of the present complications, is
being carried out. Gov. Hampton and
his jadvisers were engaged to-day in
framing a memorial, which, when com
pleted, will be promptly forwarded and
presented to both Houses of Congress.
Ia further pursuance of the plan, Gov,
Hampton to-day made a formal de
mand upon Chamberlain for possession
of the Executive department of the
■mverntnent. The following are copies
of this correspondence between the
two Governors:
State of South Carolina,
Executive Chamber,
Columbia, December 18. 1876.
Sib -As Governor of South Carolina,
chosen by the people thereof, I have
qualified in accordance with the consti
tution. I hereby call upon you as my
predecessor in the office, to deliver up
to me the Great Seal of the State, to
gether with the possession of the State
House, the public records, and all other
matters and things appertaining to
said office. Respectfully your obedient
servant, Wade Hampton,
Governor.
D. H. Chamberlain, Esq.
State of South Carolina,
Executive Chamber,
Columbia, December 18, 1876.
Sir— l have received the communica
tion in which you call upon me to de
liver up to you the Great Seal of the
State, etc. Ido not recognize in you
any right to make the foregoing de
mand, and I hereby refuse compliance
therewith. 1 /
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
D. H. Chamberlain, Governor.
Wade Hampton, Esq.
New York, December 19.—A Herald
Columbia special says Hampton has
established the present temporary
Executive Department at the rooms on
Richardson street formerly occupied
by the State committee. Chamberlain
bolds forth in the Executive Chamber
at the State House, guarded by United
States soldiers and his special con
stabulary, who admit no one but Re
publican members of the press and a
few other privileged persons, including
members of the House and Senate and
the committees of Congress, when
properly identified by some well known
Republican. Regardless of Chamber
lain’s refusal to deliver up the Great
Seal, records, &c., Hampton is slowly
proceeding to establish his govern
ment.
General M. C. Butler Elected United
States Senator.
Columbia, December 19.—1n the
Democratic House to-day, there were
79 Senators and Representatives pres
ent. This being a legal quorum of the
joint assembly, a ballot was taken for
United States Senator, resulting in the
election of M. C. Butler, he receiving
04 out of the 79 votes.
Nothing done by the Republicans or
courts to-day of any iuterest. Every
thing very quiet.
ALABAMA.
Splendid Condition of State Finances
—Thirty Thousand Salmon Placed in
the Alabama River.
Montgomery, December 19.—Gover
nor Houston has placed funds with the
National Bank of the State of New
York with which to pay the interest
due January Ist on Alabama new bonds
issued in exchange for old ones by the
commissioners to adjust the State debt.
Holders presenting coupons to the
above bank will be paid. The Gover
nor has also money with which to pay,
Jauuary Ist. the iuterest on State obli
gations.
D. S. Cary and J. J. Stewart. In the
employ of the Uuited States Govern
ment, last, night placed thirty thousand
young salmou from Lake Michigan in
tne Alabama river. They left North
ville, Michigan, on Saturday In cars
tilled with lake water. They changed
water every three hours. The fish
reached here all well aud healthy and
were successfully placed in ihe river.
The fish were about an inch long aud a
few weeks old.
The weather here is cold. Thermom
eter 20 at daylight.
LOUISIANA.
Evidence Before the Congressional
Committee.
New Orleans, December 19.—Ex-
Governor R. C. Wickliffe testified be
fore the Congressional Committee that
an organization of regulators was got
ten up while he was ia Kentucky;
knows nothing of its constitution or
modes of procedure; had a conversa
tion with Col. Powers, who was in com
mand of it; don’t know who succeeded
him; have no knowledge of armed
bodies moving over the country at
eight; think the change in the vote of
West Feliciana parish was due to the
interest taken by the whites and the
arguments used by them, promising a
just and economical administration
and a proper application of the school
fund in the event of Democratic suc
cess ; know of no ether threats of dis
charge or anything of that sort being
used by any one; received circulars
from Col. Patton, Chairman of the
Democratic State Committee, in which
he said, “You cannot convince a negro
by reason but may by positive state
ments often repeated.” Witness did
hot agree with the views of Col. Patton;
he found the negroes readily convinced
by the arguments he employed ; no
other means were used to influence
them to vote the Democratic ticket.
New Orleans, December 19.—Coun
sel for the Democrats and Republicans
filed formal statements before the
Senate investigating committee. They
propose to support, by testimony the
reports of political visitors as made to
the President cn one hand, and the
memorial to the Senate on the other.
The testimony before the House com
mittee is cumulative jof troubles of
colored men, who voted or were sus
pected of voting the Democratic
ticket.
Minor Telegrams.
Portland, Me., December 19.—Gov.
Grover has left for Washington.
Halifax, December 19.— The bark
Minerva was wrecked and the mate
lost. The schooner Maggie McLenon
wrecked and two men and three
children were lost.
San Francisco, December 19. — A pri
vate dtapatcb from Fort Youma, re
ports the steamer Montana, hence from
Mexican ports, was burned. Total loss.
Passengers safe.
®Jj£ Augusta Constitutionalist
CONGRESSIONAL.
Proceedings of the Senate and House
Yesterday.
Washington, December 19.—1n the
ou Appropriations, reported
without amendment, the House bill
makmg appropriations for the payment
or pensions during the fiscal year end-
Xr UDe 30th> lb7B ’ Placed on the cal
hiito* 10 ? eDate , then Passed a number of
Jected°tof Pm ' atS ch “‘aoter, loot ob-
Judiciar y Committee hav
ing m charge the matter of exacting
copies of telegrams, will report to
guards* B ° me restrictionß aQ d safe-
The Ways and Means Committee
agreed to adjourn from Saturday to
Wednesday of this and next week.*
m the House, routine.
nnn°f rtiflcati^ U bUI, a PP ro Priating
©250,000 for repairs of armament and
torpedoes, passed. An amendment was
offered by Reagan, appropriating SIOO,-
CKX) for commencing the fortification on
Galveston Island, but excluded on a
point of ordf*. *
Tho statues of John Winthrop and
Samuel Adams were accepted from the
State of Massachusetts, and are to be
placed in the Capitol,
A resolution for an adjournment from
next Saturday to Wednesday, the 27th
and from the following Saturday to
Wednesday, 3d January, was adopted.
in the Senate, the petition of John
li. latuall, of Georgia, for removal of
political disabilities, was presented.
Several private bills were passed
and the Massachusetts statues ac
cepted.
Mitchell’s Oregon resolution was dis
cussed all day without aciion.
FOREIGN NEWS.
TlieEastern tiuestion—French Affairs.
Constantinople, December 19.—Mid
hat Pasha has been appointed Grand
Vizier of the Turkish Empire, in place
of Mahammed Ruchdl Pasha.
London, December 19.—A dispatch
from Berlin to the Pall Mall Gazette
states that six or eight weeks’ exten
sion of the armistice is assure. The
plenary sittings of the conference will
not be held until after Christmas.
The prolongation of the armistice to
March seems confirmed. Turkey de
sired it and Russia was not ready for
hostilities.
Paris, December 19.—The Siecle, Min
ister Simon’s organ, states that the
government contemplates making
changes among the Prefects. The Ee
publique Franvaise, Gambetti’s organ,
continues to attack M. Simon.
Rome, December 19. —At the Consis
tory, held in the Vatican to-day, Rev.
John Spalding, of Louisville, was ap
pointed Bishop of the new see of Peo
ria, in the United States.
Central American and Cuban News.
San Francisco, December 19.— Gov.
Villagraner, Governor of Lower Cali
fornia, lately deposed by the revolu
tionists, is here. A reign of terror pre
vails throughout the fiontier region of
Mexico. Many families, with their
effects, are crossing the line. The In
surgent Governor, Morreno, has levied
824,000 tax on the people to support
his government.
Havana, December 19.— The follow
ing is a report of the principal actions
between the Spaniards and insurgents,
officially published here: In the juris
diction of Santa Clara the Spaniards
destroyed three salt pits and sixty
three huts belonging to the insurgents,
killing six ®f the latter. In the juris
diction of Santiago a Spanish column
of troops, with 100 cavalry, defeated a
party of 600 insurgents and dispersed
them, killing twenty-seven men and
capturing thirty-five horses and ten
mules. The loss of the Spaniards was
twelve soldiers aud three officers killed
and twenty-six wounded.
THE INDIANS.
Gen. Crook’s Annual Report—Sitting
Bull Again Defeated—End of the
Sioux War.
Washington, December 19.—General
Crook’s annual report says the miners
in the Black Hills did not violate the
treaty until long after the Sioux had
ceased to regard it. The miners have
not suffered as much from the Sioux
since they went to the hills as they did
before on the border. He claims that
his command, with less than 1,000 men,
fought and beat Sitting Bull’s band in
the battle of the Rosebud only a week
previous to Custer’s disaster. He
thinks the government has treated the
Sioux with unparalleled liberality,
which they have repaid with raids only
limited by the endurance of their
ponies.
Gen. Sherman has advices from Gen.
Miles that after his last council with
Sitting Bull he had a regular stand up
fight, in which the Indians were
driven from the field and scattered
over the Yellowstone in the direction
of Fort Peck. A large number took
refuge at Fort Peck, and are now
under charge of Gen. Hagen. Gen.
Miles expresses the opinion that the
Sioux war is over, for some years at
least, and that the hostile3 will come in
and surrender before winter is over.
—i m i
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
News and Gossip from the Capital.
Washington, December 19.—The
Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections continued the investigation
of alleged incompetent electors. An
other is claimed from Tennessee, who
resigned a naval cadetship for the
Confederacy.
The first Pullman sleeping cars from
Boston to Danville, by way of the Vir
ginia Midland Road, passed south at
two o’clock this morniDg, having lert
Boston yesterday at nine o’clock.
These cars make close connection with
trains for Florida and are intended es
pecially for invalids going South.
Here is a specimen brick of a Re
publican newspaper in the way of head
ings stretching over nearly a quarter
of a column of the San Francisco
Chronicle- Of course Eliza Pinkston is
the heroine of this piece of Republican
bulldozing.
‘A Horrible Tale of Rape and Mur
der-Unparalleled Brutality—A Re
publican Dragged from His Bed and
Butchered— Murder, Lechery and Mur
der—A Colored Woman Outraged and
Hacked to Pieces, Like an Enraged
Tigress she Fights the Slayers of Her
Babe-A Man Disemboweled and
Thrown Into the River—Eliza s \ io
lators Attempt to Kindap Her Last
Night— Recognizing One of the Vil
lains, He Tries to Shoot Her, &c.
BEN HILL.
HIS LATEBT NEW DEPARTURE.
More Opinions of the Press —No Com
promise With Fraud.
(Atlanta Telegram, 18th)
Tho Southern people are in no hu
mor for compromises. They want noth
ing that is not right and they do not
believe in the doctrine that Mr. Hill has
put before the country with regard to
Hayes. Our people honestly and firmly
believe that Tilden is the elected Pres
ident of this country, and that he
should be inaugurated at all hazards.
Georgians believe It and are not ready
to accept Hayes upon any platform or
by any compromise.
They say that the belief is growing
that we do not make much question as
between Tilden and Hayes. This fact,
if fact it be, would at once and forever
dash the cup from our lips and give
over to the Hayes-Graut conspiracy
the whole fruits of our recent victory.
We deuy that these things are true.
We insist that the South has no quar
ter to ask or give fu a contest with
scoundrels, traitors and thieves. We
hold that Tilden 1 as been fairly elected
and must be legally and peacefully in
augurated. We look to our party lead
ers and the people’s representatives in
the lower House of Congress to insist
and demand that it shall be done. We
pledge, as we think we may, the full
and earnest support of the South to
every lawful effort in this Dehalf,
Now, let the people speak. Let us
no longer give our friends cause to sus
pect our fidelity to the faith and our
confidence in the justice of our cause.
Let the people speak, we repeat.
Can Democrats be Bribed ?
(N. Y. Express.)
There is a deliberate attempt made
and making in Washington and else
where, and to all appearances with the
consent of Governor Hayes, to offer
places in the Cabinet to men like La
mar, of Mississippi, and to Hill, cf
Georgia, if they will forego their oppo
sition to Hayes and take part in the in
famous work of counting him in to the
Presidency. The thing is impossible.
The false imputation of bargain and
corruption between two of the purest
men in the land brought upon Henry
Clay aspersions upon his character,
which malicious tongues never ceased
to utter and ignorance always believed.
What would the country and the
world say of a Southern Democrat ac
cepting office at the hands of the chief
of a party put in office by General
Grant’s bayonets and counted into of
fice by the Returning Boards of Flori
da and Louisiana? “Is thy servant a
dog that he should do this thing ?”
The Sentiment the South.
N. O. Democrat.
These utterances of Mr. Ben Hill
many interpret his views on conserva
tism and of the duty or the South, but
we do uot hesitate to affirm that they
grossly misrepresent the views and
seutiments of the Southern people in
this crisis. They cannot see wherein
the nomination of Governor Hayes was
“a defeat of the political belligerent
element of the Republican party,” or
of the “military element to be dreaded
in the civil administration of all free
governments,” when all the appliances
of perjury, fraud and violence have
been adopted by Governor Hayes and
his partisans to force him upon the
country, and while the military power
is being used, in his interest, to a
greater extent than ever to overturn
legislatures and control elections.
If Mr. Hill uttered these sentiments,
he is upon the verge of political trea
son, and has already made up his mind
to sell the trust the people of Georgia
have confided to his keeping for place
and power under the administration of
the man whose fraudulent claims he
seems anxious to advance.
Mr. Hill has discovered anew sort of
conservatism—the conservatism which
is produced by the spectacle of a fif
teen inch shell. We have never before
heard the emotion produced by the
spectacle of a fifteen-inch shell classed
as conservatism, and it is scarcely dig
nified for a representative of any free
people to maintain in a high debate
upon one of the most threatening ques
tions which have ever disturbed the
country, that he and his people will
be controlled in their action by any
such feeling, be it cowardice or con
servatism.
Mr. Hill’s reported utterances, we
again affirm, do not interpret the sen
timeits of the Southern people. They
are, indeed, acting upon a conserva
tive line ; but their conservatsim is a
wise and manly conservatism. They
propose to stand, in any extremity, by
the Constitution, the laws and the
Union, and they stand ready, when
called upon, to defend these, if neces
sary, at the point of the bayonet. If
the Northern people have the will and
the patriotism to resist the inaugura
tion of a President by fraud, they will
find an army of soldiers in every
Southern State ready to obey the call
of the country.
The conservatism of the South does
not consist in a willingness to acquiesce
in a gigantic fraud, and in the disgrace
of the Republic. Its people stand by
the Constitution and the Union; they
stand against the revolutionary
schemes of Grant and Hayes to subvert
the government of our fathers; they
stand against the frauds, and crimes,
and schemes of wicked, ambitious and
violent men to subordinate the best in
terests of the people to a gang of of
ficeholders and a ring of desperate
politicians.
They do not want war any more
than Mr. Hill does, but they seem to
have a deeper rooted hatred of fraud
than he has. They want peace; but
they want the peace of law and justice,
and they would rather have that
peace, even if they have to fight for it,
than acquiesce in a peace based on the
ruins of the Constitution ; which can
only be secured by recognizing vio
lence and fraud as forces in our poli
tics, and proclaiming, that place, pow
er and public honors are the legiti
mate prey of those men who are most
lawless, or who can enlist in their ser
vice the most skillful and unscrupulous
perjurers and rogues.
The people of the South await the
action of the Northern people. If the
latter shall call them to join in a move
ment to preserve the Constitution and
the laws of our common country, they
will be ready. If there shall be do call,
they can but bow their heads in shame,
and recognize the fact that the Repub
lic has proved a failure.
St. Lopis, December 19.—C01. Henry
01 mstead, sentenced for whisky frauds,
has been pardoned.
Boston, December 19.—The residence
of Hollis Hunnewel! was burned. Loss
375,000. A chambermaid was suffp
cated.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1876.
THE GREAT CONSPIRACY.
A Scheme to Construct a Special
House of Representatives to Sup
port Hayes.
The following appeared as a commu
nication to the New York Sun of Fri
day last:
For some reason or other the leaders
of the Democracy here, particularly in
the Senate, seem slow to comprehend
the scope of the policy inaugurated by
the Republicans in that body. The
view of that policy currently accepted
In Democratic circles ia that the Sen
ate has set about investigating the re
cent elections in five Southern States
merely for the purpose of making par
tisan reports to offset reports of a
similar character which, it is presumed,
the committees of the House will make
in the other direction. This view falls
to cover the real design of the Senate
Republicans.
Tbeir programme is vastly more
comprehensive than the mere formula
tion of reports for the purpose of af
fecting popular sentiment. It contem
plates nothing less than to lay the
foundation of anew scheme of recon
struction, which, while incidentally in
volving some features of the old plan,
will differ from the latter in one essen
tial. This essential is that the new
scheme of reconstruction resolved upon
by the Senate does not propose Fed
eral interference with the governments
of the State in matters pertaining to
local affairs solely, but assumes the
right of supervision over all elections
of persons to fill Federal offices; that
is to say, Senators and Representatives
in Congress.
Tne readers of the Sun will rember
that the text of Senator Edmund’s
resolution, under which the sub-com
mittee of the Committee on Elections
are now acting, directed the examina
tion to be so conducted as to ascertain
whether, in those elections, the Consti
tution of the United States had beau
violated. The theory of Mr. Edmunds
and bis followers, who embrace, with
one or two exceptions, the entire Re
publican force in the Senate, is that the
self-preservative powers of the Federal
Constitution involve the right of either
branch ot Congress to act concurrently
with the Executive in the event of the
other branch violating or sustaining
violations of that instrument. They
hold that the House of Representa
tives is now engaged in sustaing or
abetting certain States which, or citi
zens of which, have violated the Con
stitution at the late election.
These violations, as understood by
Senator Edmunds and his followers,
consist in denying to certain citizens
or the Uuited States the right to vote
for Representatives in Congress, and
In abridging that right by intimidation,
etc. They hold that certain Congress
ional districts in Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama, North Carolina and South
Carolina were carried by the Demo
crats in a manner and by methods
which constitute violation of the Fede
ral Constitution and the amendments
thereto. And lastly they hold—and
this is the practical end and aim of
their whole scheme—that the Seriate
and the Executive are bound by theft 1
oaths to support the Constitution, to
refuse to recognize as legally constitu
ted a House of Representatives in
which the Democratic members re
turned from those distcicts may be al
lowed seats.
The sub-committee3 of tho Senate
Committee on Elections have begun
their work, aud the full committee will
probably not be ready to make its re
port until very near the 4th of March.
That report will recite that in ten, and
perhaps twelve, Congressional districts
in the States I have named, Represen
tatives were chosen in violation of the
Federal Constitution ; that those Rep
resentatives are not entitled to seats
ia Congress, and that any House
which may admit them to seats is not
entitled to recognition by the Senate
and the Executive as the legal House
of Representatives of the Federal Con
gress. The effect of this scheme is at
once apparent. Counting these ten or
twelve members whom tho Senate has
selected for slaughter in this manner,
the Democrats cannot have more than
seven or eight majority in the
next House. If, upon the organization
of that body, all the Republican
members withdraw, leaving only the
Democrats, aud if of the number of
Democrats ten or twelve are declared
to have been elected in violation of the
Constitution, and beuce not entitled to
seats, the remainder, whose right to
seats is not questioned, will not consti
tute a quorum. Therefore, according
to the programme of Edmunds and his
followers, tne Democrats in the House
of the Forty-Fifth Congress will be un
able to organize that body so as to se
cure the recognition of the Senate aud
the Executive. But the Republicans
will refuse to join the Democrats in or
ganizing the House. They will organ
ize a House of their own and seat
enough members from these districts
to give them a quorum, whether they
have certificates of election or not.
And this House is to be recognized by
the Senate aud by the new Executive,
who, having been counted in by fraud,
shall have been inaugurated by force.
The remainder of the programme be
comes self-suggestive when we take
into account tho proceedings of the
Republican party for the last ten
years. The Republican House, as
recognized by the Senate and the Ex
ecutive, will be placed in posses
sion of the Hall of Representatives, if
necessary, by military force. The Dem
ocrats, that is to say that portion of
them who will be recognized by the
Senate and the Executive as entitled
to seats, will be permitted to enter the
hall, but the ten or twelve Southern
members who are to be designated by
the Senate as having been returned in
violation of the Constitution, by intim
idation, etc., will be excluded. And if
necessary, a Brigadier-General will be
on hand to act as doorkeeper.
I have only to add that the above is
not mere conjecture. It is an exact
statement of information that I have
received from a Republican who is in
position to ascertain the designs of his
colleagues in the caucus, but who does
not endorse their conclusions, and who
will at the proper time, in all proba
bility, oppose their policy. The fact
that such a policy is not only contem
plated, but has actually been inaugu
rated, ought to be placed before the
country for examination and disoqs
sion. It is not for me to express an opin
ion touching questions of constitution
al law, raised by statesman and jurists
of the character of Edmunds, Morton,
Boutwell and Spencer, not to speak of
John J. Patterson, Hippie, Mitobeliand
Jerome Chaffee, of Colorado, In the
presence of such legal acumen and in
the face of men so surcharged with
constitutional lore, I do not venture an
opinion. But I record the facts; and
the statement above act forth wifi
be found categorically true between
this time and the convening of the
House of the Forty-Fifth Congress,
which may take place in special ses
sion, on call of President Hayes, some
time about the middle of April, but
which will probably be deferred to the
regular time, next December.
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE.
CONSUMPTION AND SCROFULA
CURED.
Rerrlsn County Comes to the Front
as a Health-Centre for Consump
tives.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
The resources of Georgia are almost
ilimitable. Her people are scarcely
cognizant of her grandeur, her unde
veloped wealth and natural advantag
es. Hundreds yearly flock to Northern
watering places when we have as good
in our midst. Scores visit Hot Springs,
Arkansas, when, as the subjoined letter
will show, we have a more wonderful
spring in our State.
Quite a number of the citizens of At
lanta have tried tho virtues of its
waters for scrofulous complaints aud
were speedily cured.
The following letter details a won
derful cure by this:
mineral spring near milltown, ga.
At Bank’s mills, near Milltown, Ber
rien couuto, Georgia, is a spring, the
water of which possesses very decided
medical properties. The value of the
water for the relief and cure of disease
is, I believe, of quite recent discovery.
I first heard of the spring in 1874, from
friends living in the State of Georgia,
and such were the reports I received
that I became interested and was anx
ious to have a test of its virtues uader
my own observation, but had no op
portunity of doing so until January of
the present year.
In 1875 the health of my brother,
J. B. Herron, of the Smithsonian Insti
tute, began to fall and he passed into a
rapid decline. His disease was phthisis
(pulmonary consumption), the exciting
cause of whioh was doubtless a wound
through the lungs, received a few years
since. I need not give a minute de
scription of his symptoms or a history
of tne case. There was a general im
pairment of life, and the functions of
nutrition were so prostrated that the
tissues wasted by disease could not be
repaired. He expectorated a great
deal. His breathing became very la
bored, and he could not speak above a
whisper without briuging on a parox
ysm of coughing.
I had the counsel of the boat medi
cal talent in this city in his case, but
the treatment proved only palliative.
His case was considered hopeless, and
I was told he could never recover.
Asa last resort I was anxious that
he should go to Milltown and test the
value of the spring in his case, and
after a great deal of persuasion I in
duced him to go, and I accompanied
him. When we left this city it was
not expected that he would return
alive, aud on the way persons who saw
him predicted that he was beyond ail
earthly remedies.
We arrived at. the spring on the 20th
day or January, and ho immediately
commenced to use the water. For a
few days I could discover uo change in
his condition, but in about a week the
change for the better was very marked.
His circulation improved rapidly, night
sweats were arrested. His cough
gradually subsided, and there was a
better performance of the principal
functions of the body generally. He
regained his appetite and strength.
His vitality was raised, and there was
a rapid renewal of life. He returned
home in March, and has not been ab
sent from the institution on account or
sickness a day since his return.
I used the water freely myself, aud
its effects were soon very perceptible.
I became rapidly invigorated. There
was a renewal of mental and physical
activity, and I could perform more
labor with less fatigue than I had been
able to do for years.
I have no personal knowledge of
other cures affected by the waters, but
I have been informed of quite a num
ber of well authenticated cases, princi
pally or pulmonary and scrofulous
cases of deranged menstrual function
in females aud diseases resulting there
from, and in every case of this nature,
in which the water has been tested, it
has proved specific. Some of these
cases were very remarkable, and were
it not that a detailed account or them
would make this article too long, I
would relate them.
For healthfulness, the locality of the
spring is unsurpassed by any section
of the United States, and is less sub
ject to sudden changes of temperature
than many places I have visited fur
ther South.
Invalids and others who have a
taste for hunting and fishing will find
there unlimited opportunities for its
gratification, as game is abundant and
the fishing is unsurpassed anywhere I
have visited North or South.
So confident am I as to the great
value of this spring in connection with
the genial climate and other pleasant
surroundings that, wheu consulted, I
shall invariably recommend invalids
who contemplate goiog South to visit it.
The spring is the property of Henry
Banks, Sr., of Atlanta, Ga. The ac
commodation for cure can be had in
the neighborhood at very reasonable
rates. Vaidosta, on the Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad, is the nearest station
from which conveyance can be readily
obtained.
What I have written is entirely in
the interest of invalids, as I have no
pecuniary interest whatever in the
spring. But I have an interest in it
far above any pecuniary consideration,
for under my own eyes I witnessed its
curative effects in case of one who is
very dear to me, who, from a condi
tion considered hopeless one year ago,
has been restored, and is now enjoying
a reasonable degree of health aud
strength.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 4th, 1876.
C. S. Herron, M. D.
The “intelligent” vote of the country
was given Hayes, was it? Let us see.
The four Northern States which cast
their vote for Tilden—Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey, aqd Indiana—
contain 1,499,566 white male adults;
number of illiterate in these, 104 508,
or? per cent. The other Northern
States contain 4,255,825; number of
illiterate, 382,953, or 9 per cent. Mas
sachusetts has 394,031 white male
adults; number of illiterate, 30,920, or
8 per oent. New York has 894,175
white male adults; number of illiterate.
58,234, or Q}4 per cent. Rhode Island
has 57,312 whito male adults; number
of illiterate, 5,922, or IQ per gent, Now
Jersey has 190,461 white male adults;
number of illiterate, 12.216, or 6 per
cent, Th moat denst-iy illiterate of
the Northern States it will be preced
ed voted for Hayes.
NORTHERN DEMOCRATS.
WILL THEY FIGHT FOR LIBERTY?
Col. Donn Piatt’s Opinion—“ Still as the
Breeze, but Dreadful as the Storm”—
Grant’s Army Powerless.
iWaabinfton Capital.]
Grant is concentrating troops at
Washington city, and says with exas
perating insolence, that be will see
that Hayes is inaugurated. Ex-Gover
nor Noyes of Ohio, Hayes’ nearest
friend and adviser, we learn, prououn
ces all opposition to military inaugura
tion as Democratic brag and bluster
that will end in smoke. General Conily,
editor of the Hayes organ, who is to be
Rutherford's Secretary of War, holds
the same language in the same tone.
These gentlemen do uot appreciate
the situation. They are misled by the
patient forbearance of the Southern
people and the quiet caution of Demo
cratic leaders. They jump to the con
clusion that because a majority of the
people, feeling secure in their right,
are slow in their auger; that they are
cowed, and it is only necessary to call
out a thousand or two thousand regu
lars to awe them into silence.
A little more of this sort of thing
another move looking to an armed
support, and a hundred thousand
soldiers lining Pennsylvania avenue,
as many pieces of artillery as hedged
in Malvorn, under the shadow of the
Capitol, would not make it possible for
Rutherford B. Hayes to march from
the White House to the Senate cham
ber. And were he to escape the wrath
of an outraged people and the very
muskets called to tils support there is
no body-guard that could be organized
that would make his official life beara
ble.
Restrain your sneers: keep back your
insulta, gentlemen. Admonish your
drunken President to be more careful
with his handful of soldiers. You are
speaking to more than one-half of the
American people, who, through the
ballot-box, have demanded that you
vacate the place you disgrace; and
they are not likely to rest easy under
such insolence.
Precisely such conduct as this
brought on our late civil war. The
South honestly believed what these
creatures of Grant pretend, that their
opponents would not fight, and so ex
pressed themselves. They wakened
to the i fact ttiat manhood was not
sectional. The difference between the
two lies in the fact that the South
gallantly met the storm their vanity
provoked, while the men who have fat
tened in office on plunder, with the
horde of political bummers at their
heels, are uot likely to be daugerous.
They speak for themselves. The peo
ple they misrepresent, like the people
they insult, if left to themselves, would
quietly adjust a complication that is
daugerous only because the insolence
of office comes from men who are with
out sense and without patriotism.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Tha boys aud girls of Pickens arc
catching no end of rabbits,
Georgetown luxuriates on canvas
back ducks at sixty-six cents a pair.
Happy Georgetown.
The Radical office-holders of Ker
shaw county can’t get sureties for their
official bonds. “Hold de Fort.”
A meeting of the Survivor’s Associa
tion is called on the Ist of January, to
be held at the office of Messrs. Arthur
& Arthur, Columbia.
The steamer Planter on her last trip
from Georgia brought 950 bales of
cotton, 106 tierces of rice, and a large
quantity of turpentine. This is the
heaviest freight of the season.
The barn, with stables and shed at
tached, of Dr. J. I. Treutham, neur
Fiat Rock, Kershaw county, was burnt
on the night of the 6th instant, and
with it a year’s supply of fodder, a
buggy and harness, plantation uten
sils, &e. Incendiary. Loss S6OO. No
insurance.
Widie Ware’s gin house, one of the
best in Greenville county) sixteen miles
from the city, on the Augusta Road,
containing two gins, but no cotton, (as
we are informed) was burned on Thurs
day night last. There had been no lire
about the place for several days.
The Georgetown Times says : “Cot
ton and rice factors in Charleston re
fused to make advances to planters
uutil our political troubles are satis
factorily settled. Planting operations
will bs seriously crippled, and intense
suffering must be the lot of many who
ignorautiy became instrumental in
bringing ruin aud death upon the
State.
On Friday last a negro on the train
of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad, between Augusta and Co
lumbia, used some insolent language to
a lady passenger. A gentleman near
by went to the protection of the lady,
when the negro cursed and struck
him. In defending himself Trom the
brute : s attack the gentleman used bis
knife, and the negro was left at Lex
ingtoa in a dying condition.
The following are the monthly ship
ments of cotton from Blackville this
season: September—To Charleston,
1,081 bales; to Augusta, 47 bales. To
tal for September, 1,128 bales. Octo
ber—To Charleston, 1,662 bales; to Au
gusta, 64 bales. Total for October,
1,829 bales. November —To Charles-:
ton, 1,111 bales; to Augusta, 101 bales.
Total for November, 1,212 bales. Re
capitulation—September, 1,128 bales;
October, 1,726 bales; November,
bales. Total number or bales, 4,066.
Bad Phrases. —ln sanitary reports, as
well as in the parlance of many who
ought to know better, a curious phrase
is often used to describe the wealthier
classes—“the better classes,” It would
be interesting to know the reasons lor
the use of this phrase. The unjust in
ference which may be drawn from such
language is that poverty involves a de
fect of goodness. Such an expression
might be expected in aristocratic gov
ernments, but seems strangely out of
place in a Republican land. It |s
great portion of the country 'that are
not wealthy who in their vigorous
health, the result of labor and plain
living, have preserved the vitality of
the human race, and who, in their sim
ple virtues and creative industry, de
serve. if any class does, to be called
the “better” part of mankind.—Ball
more gun,
It may be urged that churches are
not so likely to be crowded as thea-:
tres, but history shows that fires In
them have proved even more fatal to
human life than all the theatres that
were ever burned, and while our build
ing inspectors are visiting the theatres
they might as well look at the churches
too. Six churches in New York have
been ordered to provide greater means
of egress.—Baltimore Gazette. *
GEORGIA NEWS.
The hog cholera, Is still at work
about Dahlonega.
Rev. A. G. Nunnally aud family are
noyv citizens of Rome.
Dr. William D. Jones, an old citizen,
of Floyd county, died near Rome on last
Thursday.
Marble slabs will soon be plaoed over
the graves of Federal soldiers in the
Marietta Cemetery.
The Chioatnauga was frozen over last
Saturday, a phenomenon not witnessed
before in twenty years.
Mr. Orlando Peck, of Savannah, had
his right leg broken in two piaoes by a
bale of cotton falling on it.
Capt. W. W. Paine, has been nomin
ated to fill the vacancy in the Chatham
delegation to the Legislature.
The thermometer went down to 20
degrees in Columbu3, the coldest snap
In that locality for many years.
Jeff Anderson, a noted desperado of
White and Lumpkin counties, has been
arrested and confined in the Dahlonega
Jail. .
Angellne Robertston, colored, of
Heard county, last Saturday night
lighted her pipe and lay down in front
of the fire to sleep, and now “she sleeps
in the valley.”
Mr. Edward Solomon, of La Grange,
was knocked down and robbed by an
unknown party last Mondaj night.
When be recovered, he was short over
nioe hundred dollars.
David Ayers, of Camilla, has 3,500
sheep, which cost him annually, per
head, fourteen cents. From each sheep
he clips three pounds of wool, which he
sells at thirty cents per pound.
Rev. Sam Adams, a colored minister
of Thomson, gives “patting” frolics to
aid bis cenference, and it is said that
Sullivan of the Advance cuts the most
superb pigeon wings of any man at the
“pats.”
Anew steamer is being built at Borne
for Oostanaulaand Coosahatchie rivers.
Col. Sawyer, of the Courier, has got
the position of headlight on one of
them. This makes two steamers for
those rivers.
Rome Courier: Atlanta jubilated,
and the next day Hewitt issued a con
gratulatory addtess to tho Democracy
of Union. This shows the tremendous
effect Atlanta has upon the moral cour
age of the nation.
Watson, of the Maoon Telegraph, has
laid in his Christmas supplies for the
little Watsons. Hanged if he won’t
have to employ a returning board pret
ty soon to have them counted in. They
are numerous, and keep on being so.
Thomson Advance : On last Friday,
the down way-freight truln, on the Ga.
R. R. ran over and killed three cows,
just above the 38 mile post. One of
the cows became hitched to the brakes,
and was dragged to Thomson, a dis
tance of over a mile.
LaGrange Reporter: The Atlanta &
West Point Railroad is doing a nig
business now, in both passengers and
freight. We understand that the earn
ings of the road up to the first of Di
cctnber this year, equalled the earnings
of tho last year. It is not an uncoin,
mon thing for three freight trams to
come down the road together.
Savannah News: Mr. James W. Hef
fernan, a machinist in the employ of
the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad, met with
a very serious and prinful accident on
Saturday. He attempted to pass be
tween two cars of a tralu, not observ
ing that an engine was attached to the
same. Just as he was between the
cars the engine backed, and he was
caught between the sills of the oars
and severely if not dangerously mash
ed.
Savannah Neu/s : We learn that Mr.
Eugene Kelly has secured tho services
of Mr. W. G. Butler (who supervised
the erection of the new Cathedral)
as Superintendant of the building of
the block on Bay street, destroyed by
fire on the night of the 25th of August
last. The building is to be done by
“day’s work,” and no expense or
trouble will be spared in rendering the
new block substantial and couvenieut
In every particular, and an ornament
to the city.
A singular and distressing fatality
recently occurred near Red Clay. Mr.
J. A. DeArmond died on the 21st of
November, Lethes E. DeArmond, his
only daughter, on the 23th, Mrs. Pa
tience DeArmond od December Ist,
and Mr. W. J. DeArmond, who assisted
in nursing them, is expected to die
from the name disease—malarial re
mittent fever. The house where this
occurred is situated upon an elevation,
and no cause can be assigned for
death’s strange visitation. Certainly
this is a case deserving attention from
the State board of health.— Dalton En
terprise.
The editor of the Washington Gazette
publishes the following a3 his rates ot
charges for marriage notices, and
which we think cheap and liberal
enough : All notices of marriages,
where no bridecake is seat, will be set
up in small type, and poked ia an out
landish corner of the paper. When a
handsome piece of cake is sent, the
notice will be put conspicuously
large letters ; when glove? of other
bride favors are added, a pleoeof illus
trative poetry will be given in addition.
When, bswever, we attend at the cere
mony in person and kiss the bride, it
will have especial notice—very large
the moat appropriate poetry
that can be Legged, borrowed or stolen.
According to statistics given in some
of the papers of that oity, there are
now in New York 45,373 skilled me
chanics out of employment. And this
enumeration takes no account of un
skilled laborers at all. It includes 800
masons, 1,200 stonecuters, 2,000 brbk
layers, 3,000 carpenters, 1,000 plaster
ers, 1,500 painters, 1,500 iron workers,
1,000 printers, 1,200 tailors, 1,000 cabi
net makers, 2,000 cigar makers, l,oofi
machinists—men whose wages ahc.uid
average not less than 81'* a Week. Here
are 15,200 idle mea t yjbo because idle,
prevent the circulation of $200,000
weol*. through the whole cQuatrv
labor is, to a most unusual extent,* un
employed, and trade stagnant. And
yet with this idleness —no earnings and
no spendings—there are those who
may be mainly responsible for It by
political policy who are willing still
further to jeopardize the interest of
the people by forcing party success
without reference to the means to the
end.
- >
Our great American statesmen do
not keep themselves well informed.
Gen Banks was amazed to find the
United States soldiers in possession of
the South Carolina State House; apd
Judge Abbott to discover th*i whe
Edgefield and Lauren? vibie not
thrown out to sirry the State for
Hayes! They, bad' 'bette'r subscribe
for and, read some intelligent daUv
newspaper, '
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
A POTHOUSE PRESIDENT.
STOLID, STUBBORN AND DANGER
OUS.
Vanity of Appealing to Him for Ile
dress or Jnstice-A New Edge Giveu
toChariea O’Conor’a Knife—Grant,
or Galena, the Centennial Disgrace.
(Philadelphia limes.)
To appeal to President Grant or to
I^ro m sP, mmedi . atelir about Wm in this
h re tm atreßß .i,° f tbe cou Qtry, would
be idle as the wail of the winter
winds - in Philadelphia, and
surrounded by honest influences, he
issued two military orders which
inspired ail parties with faith in his pa
triotism and Integrity. Nor did he em
ploy fair words to mislead the nation.
He counseled with honest men and ap
proved their appeals tor the higher
easure of right iu all the agencies he
<uld employ to reach a just result of
the disputed election. But when he
returned to the mire of Washington
and counseled with Chandler and
Cameron, ue was made to stultify hitn
self, and was dragged down to the
petulent partisan ebullitions of the
bar-room political brawler. His vol
untary address to the country in
answer to Mr. Hewitt, speakkj £
President of the United States on £
issue of the gravest national moment
was a pitiable special plea for the pi
ty whico the President represented tn
wtfh hi H° WQ arrl abounded
with the clap-trap about sectional
cST.V!; 1 " av - iS!
cnecK or a Kellogg or u Patterson ir
giver, in presence t decent
And . q laity disgraceful to tho P esi
deut wua hts message to Congress mi
Which tie descends to the
partisanship at toe cost „ f trmh
furms.i a cheap certificate for .-arpet
bag bdllit-tMe v'ee. by h wholesale rp
iutegrlt 3'of tbe vote
ffinir y pt g iOlUu Strict of Vir
ginia. Even m these evil davs of
avJr“ge“'.j4Ku“uo“r l u^ ro '^ ovl !
JVKSrs: p.r„rS
but when it comes from thb President
otth.Pnited States Ip
SSsma of tbe nK, U •
chair ot Washington. 0 tv, aboat i lb “
auoh a President would be a waste of
respeot for authority and Waßt ® ° r
well understands tbafi?ou^freeirav^
ErinSJEX
its* grandest* tbe t ßacrifice of some of
zsrs ai,u 1 “'nJs r 3t b ;
the cfTorta nf Vki', ? ot ln defiance of
partisan® Vic,ous and Petulent
parusan who has yet a few dava in
whieh to vex a faithful people f or the
generous trust and honor thev havo
acoorded him. y na ' d
Take ( i rant’s Essence uf Liberty.
(Courier-Journal t
J^S.‘^‘o™ 0 I t-sp O " P is b :
oiSKfiSLiSf'* *° ““Sot.
Except in Indiana, I flud Dr Grant’s
remedy very ,>opular. q P M
GrtSSat”"'! 8 ' 1 al ”* y3 * ook Dr -
Uent 6W 's e U,e P a -
Hr. Gtaut’s Essence may breakdown
some constitutions h,.. o aown
tirely with nine. b “ 11
Always, after a hard ride I take
be“o D re 3 wmS ee ' I ° ae t ““~P<fol
derfuirSi 8 “ '“jSST-
I have no hesitation in saying that
for overcoming a troublesome Krt
Saenw 0 bot,erttaa Grant's
I would recommend to all persons of
ffiSS’d habl S Dr -
DltehS hi m ? scarcely have accom
plished its sittings without frequent
draughts of this valuable medkK
Wo And that (Itif*^,,
fre 6 ut“^t Prb . auC63 a
ugout. Mixed With a little whiskv
however, it will cure anything.
Avkbt,
m,. , , Billy McKee,
-,53? kOo6 , rt ‘ fy tbat Uur ‘o£? a severe
attack o. autumnal constipation su
peiiuduced by extraordinary mathc
uit^?Dr I ‘ i US ti G a ’ Bevon bot *
. or Dr. L. S. Grant s celebrated Ls
tnDi?e ’ K° and th ? 111 b ?P e soon to be able
to be about the White House.
R B. H.
Pro Bono Publico,
JOte lWor of Ute x. r. Eve„ mg
Permit me to give the poor people
valuable suggestion. I have irncomin
n/ a^ y i P^ aCt,Cal experience that paper
between the shirt
affords a much greater protection
SriL. th L°° ld 0u
ftn „ ‘ an Y newspapers
coft at t U H purpc we obtain awLrni
coat at little no cost. *mrrn
Py^aoXAtu—Wanted to know thA
IJSSSSJPI 00 jameaa Blaic
appointed by the Governor of Maine to
ate iQ the , United States Sen
ate He is a man of dignified bearinc
and muoh given to dramatic business
with i^irrlim at hQ haS wandered off
witn a strolling company of players to
‘he Jading role in the
Guards. Address office or the Ex^
in h
ehita. It says It should be called We
JHJS f* obwMJ. trtc
Ku d Wichita rivers and a
nro U ° f - mountias > and the
nUcSo rouUQC4atoa eorrect as ap
plied to the name of these rivers ami
mountain*,—a. o. Tones anU
Grant’s assassin Jim Jams is con
btantiy grinning at him through the
bettom of a tumbier. “Spirits to
night have brought more terror to the
soul of Ulysses than could the sub
stance of ten thousand rifle clubs led
on by Gen. Hampton.”
Both Gov. Claflin and
Grant agree that the llhode islLnd
Dorr case was a pre- Mont
ence* 1 Bu?hla-!t'““^ r,Sln lnterfw
"SbuffiaSnSS ,r m . the
Captain Nares, at the dinner recently
fand D h° l i he A i rct L C ex P IorCTB In Eng
land, declared that the North Pde
would yet be reached.
.. Th* Kttdicale have undertaking a big
•joj) io, South QuoMna, Florida Louis*
itgU', iiwl tke United States generally.