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The Greor«:ia ^W'eekly Telegraph.. •
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9,1863.
The Loyal Leagues in Alabama—The
Columbus Enquirer says: A gentleman gives
us the following in rega**! to the strength of
Leagues in several counties in Alabama, and
their intentions: On Sunday they met at Mrs.
Comer’s place, below Hatchechubbee, well
armed, numbering about six hundred. There
is another League at Spring Hill, numbering
three hundred; another at Enon, numbering
four hundred; another in the neighborhood
of Silver Run, numbering five hundred,
another at Union Springs, numbering eight
hundred, and one near Eufaula, numbering
one thousand. They are thoroughly armed
and equipped, for the purpose oi taking the
polls in these localities on the day of election.
The scoundrel Speed, we understand, is the
chief of the concern, and directs their pro
ceedings. They have issued, ec we are in
formed, a placard to the effect that if any
negro or person belonging to their League is
found missing, they will hold the people of
said neighborhood responsible.
Southern Trade with Baltimore.—The
Sun says that trade in that city with the
South has revived considerably daring the
past few weeks. The city is at present being
visited by quite a number of business men
from that quarter, who, it is understood, find
no difficulty in having their wants supplied
in the way of purchasing fall and winter
supplies. The steamers to Savannah, Charles
ton, "Wilmington and nearer porta are carry
ing out full cargoes of assorted merchandize,
and return laden with the valuable products
of the soil. On the whole, the trade between
Baltimore and Southern cities i3 more lively
at present than it has been for many years.
Rope.—The Sun says: Among the institu
tions in Columbus that are now established
on a firm basis, is the rope manufactory, sit
uated on North Commons. We understand
that within the last few months the concern
has shipped to different points somewhere in
the neighborhood of 250,000 pounds of the
best of hemp rope, besides a considerable
quantity taken by the merchants of Columbus.
Large quantities of choice cotton rope arc
also manufactured and sold by the Eagle and
Phoenix and Columbus Factories. To be in
dependent is the best means for a country to
acquire wealth and importance. Whatever
the surplus may be can be sold elsewhere.
Cotton at the Port.—The New York Times,
of the 2Sth ult, gives the receipts of cotton at
New YorK for the week ending that day at 7192
bales, and since September 1st at 14,621; estimated
6tock 14,0C0. The 'receipts at all the ports to the
same date, since September 1st, are 52,500 bales,
against S0,000 the same time last season; exports
10,500 bales, against S000 last year. Stock at the
ports 51,000 bales, against 7S,000. Estimated
stock at all the ports August 31st, 1668, SS,1S0
bales, against 80,296 same time last year. Crop ot
1S6C-7, 1,951,983; of 1S67-8, 2.430.S93; receipt
from doseof war, May 1st, 1865, to September 1st,
1866, 2,571,000.
THE
CAMILLA AFFRAY—-CAPTAIN
FIERCE’* LETTERS
Judge Pierce, of Indiana, a brother of Cap t
Wm P. Pierce, the Radical candidate in the
, Second Georgia District, called on us yester
day and asked, as an act of justice, the pub-
■lication of his brother’s statement in relation
to the Camilla riot, responsive to that of
Hon. B. H. Hill, which we reprinted some
days ago. The Judge is evidently a man of
talents and intelligence, and^both are native
Kentuckians; but Capt. Pierce is an old
line Kentucky abolitionist, and has been a
follower of Cassius M. Clay, from boyhood.
Up to the time when it became necessary, in
the interests of Radicalism in Georgia, to
stir up a hostility among the negroes to the
whites, and to array the former in quasi mili
tary organizations carrying fire arms of every
description, Capt. Pierce bore a good name
among the people. We have heard him very
kindly spoken of by his neighbors, and we
think he was universally respected.
We freely give him all the benefit that can
enure to himself from bis own statement of
this sad and deplorable affair at Camilla; but
here are a few of the ugly points in the mat
ter which he does not explain :
1. Why did the negroes go to Camilla at
all? It was six miles out of their way—a
bit of a piny woods place, with hardly a
negro there. All the negroes in the entire
region domiciliated at least six miles away;
and if it was a well-intended political meet
ing, most evidently it would have been
located to suit the convenience of the popu
lation intended to be influenced by it.—
Whoever before beard of going away from
the people to hold a pnblic meeting ? No,
no! It is clear from this fact, and the
abundant evidence of numerous threats by
the negroes, that the crowd went there in
tbe spirit of menace and bravado.
2. Why did they carry weapons ? Capt.
Pierce says because they had them, and it is
the custom in Georgia. We never heard of
such a custom before it became tbe custom
of the Radicals to arm and drill negroes for
political purposes. Such a thing as an
armed crowd—carrying muskets and shot
guns to a political meeting, was never before
seen or heard of in Georgia, and it ought to
be made as heavy a crime as incendiarism,
under statute. We say the man who leads
an armed mass to a public meeting in
Georgia, goes there for a fight and expecting
one, and when a man goes for a fight, he is
responsible for tbe breach of peace.
3. Why did they refuse with scorn, when
they got near Camilla, to stack their arms
LANDS IN MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA.
We copied yesterday and placed in juxta
position, two. jottings of land sales—one in
Maryland and the other in Virginia, in order
to institute a comparison in the mind of the
reader; but the paragraphs were separated in
making up, and the whole design frustrated.
We may say- the sales were contemporaneous
—one took place in Lancaster coufaty, Vir
ginia, of 1400 acres of improved land, which
was pnrch&sed for $9000, or say a little short
of sixty-five cents an acre. The sales in
Maryland were in Prince George’s county,
one farm of seventy-five acres at $30.05 per
acre, and another of 208 acres at $33.25 per
acre. We note these sales because all oc
curred in tbe strictly rural regions of the re
spective States, and they indicate such a wide
difference in valuation. Bat as tbe lands of
Virginia are generally superior to those of
Maryland, and the climate is better, while
both States have a mixed population, it is
improbable that any such difference will long
exist. There is a wide margin for specula
tion, not only in Virginia, but in all Southern
lands, which before long will attract the
notice of capitalists. Most of the fortunes
in Georgia have been made by operations in
land, and tbe time is not distant when more
will be realized in tbe same way.
A Radical Love Storv.—The gentle
Miss Anna Dickenson has just produced a
“highly moral” Radical novel, in which the
hero and heroine are a gushing Fifth Avenue
youth, with fair complexion, eyes deeply,
darkly, beautifully blue, and flowing flaxen
ringlets; and a flashing quadroon. Now,
Anna, that is dodging the issue. Be honest,
and make a good, strong Ethiopean Dinah
the counterpart—Dinah of tbe rich, coal,
black—fat and glossy—Dinah with the
kinky hair, tight enough to luf de heel—
Dinah with the thick lip—the wide mouth
and the glorious array of ivory—Dinah
strong, but not symmetrical of limb—with
the ancle planted faithfully in the centre of
the foot and the hollow thereof making a
hole in the ground. Fight the “godless
prej udice against color,” Anna,with a fair case,
and don’t evade it with quadroons or octa-
roons. Give us a love story of a blonde and
a black and not a blonde and a “brunette.”
Plant your gushing, fair-haired Adonis
squarely beside his Dinah of the ebon bue.
Let Henry Augustus overflow with the
“passional and emotional” at honest Dinah’s
feet, and win a sweet giggling consent in
Gullah. That, dear, gentle Anna, will be
treating the topic with fairness; and if you
and go into town and hold their meeting can charm the Miss Flora McFlimseys, of
Ground Peas.—They are being exported
from Columbus to a very considerable extent
One gentleman has shipped, via Bainbridge,
to New York, within tbe last month, one
hundred three bushel sacks. The prices
given or received, we are not posted upon,
but are assured that the trade is very re
munerative.— Columbus Sun.
New Jersey Subsiding.—An article in
the New York Times says that the coast of
New Jersey is fast disappearing under the
action of the waters, and more than a mile
has gone since the revolutionary war.
Vote Increased.—The World says the
increase on the Presidential vote of 1804 in
the five States which have voted has been
85,983—of which the Democrats have gained
73,074 and the Republicans 12,909.
Obstructions to Hell-Gate.—The New
York papers have been occupied for months
in discoursing about the “obstructions to
hell-gate.” There are as few of them in
that locality as any place we know of.
Registration in Alabama.—The Mail says the
Senate bill passed tbe House yesterday with a few'
unimportant amendments. The bill is designed
to enable the negro counties to be registered, and
to ent off the white connties. In the distant white
conntie6 there is barely time in which to give rea
sonable notice. White men! be ready to take tbe
oath and register!
“Let us have Peace.”—The Memphis
papers of the 3d assert that six thousand
stands of arms and ammunition have been
shipped by the Loyal Leagues of Missouri, on
tbe Bell of Memphis, for tbe negroes in that
city and Little Rock, Arkansas.
“Not a Deficiency but a Surplus.”—
The New York Times figures a surplus of
Government receipts over expenditures for
tbe current fiscal year. Tbe figures would
be more satisfactory if made after tbe
election.
Important Dispatch—Good News from
the North.—The mail says at the grand
mass meeting held at Selma on Thursday, a
dispatch was read from ex-Governor L. E.
Parsons, announcing that Pennsylvania and
Indiana were safe for Seymour and Blair,
and advising our people to nominate for
Congress only such persons as can take the
test oath now required of Congressmen.
The Rains in Sumter.—The Americus
Republican says: We have never known so
much rain to fall in the same length of time,
as fell in this section from Friday evening
last until Sunday evening. The injury in
the country is great, both to cotton and mills.
Every mill in the connty, with the exception
of one or two, has been washed away. The
turnpike has also been seriously damaged,
but will be repaired in a day or two. It will
be a week or two before the mills will be re
paired sufficient to commence operations.
Getting their Forty Acres.—The
Charleston Mercury is credibly informed that
the Democrats of Marion, South Carolina,
have purchased and presented to each of tbe
fifteen negroes who had the courage to go
to the polls and vote with and for their old
masters, with the title deeds to forty acres
of good land near that town.
The Homestead Bill.—This number of
the Telegraph contains the very liberal
homestead bill recently passed by the Geor
gia Legislature. It exempts from levy and
sale all homestead and personal property to
tbe value of three thousand dollars in
specie, which exemption must be claimed
and established as directed by the act to
which we refer the reader.
Nebraska Election.—We see on reference
to the documents, that the Nebraska State
' election took place Jast Monday.
peaceably and like common folks
These are among the main point: V
require solution, and the lack of : valuation,
as well as the concluding portion of Capt.
Pierce’s letter, tells the whole story just as
clearly as if the reader were there to hear it.
Capt. Pierce says Johns and others, in Ca
milla, had made threats that the meeting
should not be held there! We have seen that
Camilla was clear away from the bailiwick,
and involved six miles travel to hold it there.
Well, then, the threat was to hold it in that
remote place as bravado—defiance—and tbe
response was, by some of the Camillians, ac
cording to Capt. Pierce, it should not be held.
The situation was well understood by Capt.
Pierce’s crowd, and it was on its metal. They
would “ hold it any way,” (as they stated),
and would not lay down their arms, because
they meant to bold it in their own way and
to teach these people of Camilla a lesson.
Well, now, any crowd, white or blqck, that
attempts to take possession cf a little Georgia
town in that fashion is reasonably sure of a
fight at short notice. It only needs a single
man with whisky in his head to set it in op
eration.
Capt. Pierce talks in the style of Wendell
Phillips about not submitting to have a pad
lock clasped upon the God-given powers of
speech. The expression is suggestive of the
ideas on which this Camilla meeting was
gotten up and carried out. It was all bra
vado. They went there to show the Cainil-
lians what they could do. The Camillians,
indignant and apprehensive, attempted to
prevent the meeting. Tbe negroes refused
to come to any accommodation and the fight
resulted. When blood begins to flow, the
devil of carnage is unchained.
A man can exercise his “God-given pow
ers of speech,” anywhere on earth so as to
kick up a fight in five minutes, and be can
exercise it as freely and as widely in Georgia,
with impunity to himself, as in any other
place under the skies. A man or a party who
want to keep the peace can do it without
the sacrifice of a single right, thought or feel
ing; but he or they, when careless of conse
quences, can raise the wild devil about their
ears quicker in New York, Paris. London or
Boston, than they can in the wild woods of
Georgia.
A political leader of an ignorant people,
(in which capacity Capt. Pierce was acting,)
should never have taken his followers six
and ten miles out of their way, armed and
in a menacing attitude, to a little town of
two hundred inhabitants, in order to vindi-
‘ M i'Uun Square, with the bold and lively
contrast of the picture, then you will have
done something toward destroying this
“unchristian prejudice against color.”
speech” at the risk of a fight! When a man
is brought to the point of renouncing a prin
ciple or forfeiting a right or fighting for it,
he may make fight with a clear conscience.—
But he who goes about in quest of adversaries
should not risk more than his own neck in
the Quixotic expedition.
Tbe Georgia Air-line Road.
The Richmond Dispatch of the 20th ismuch
elated over the bill extending State aid to
the Georgia Air-line Road, and says:
We published yesterday morning a most gratify
ing and important annonneement with reference
to tbe Georgia and Soath Carolina Air-line rail
road. The State of Georgia, acccordiDg to this in
telligence, which was altogether correct, had, by
act of her Legislature, determined to lend lor the
construction of that road 312,000 per mile for that
part of it which lies within her boundary. This is
about haltthe length of the road—say 105 miles.—
South Carolina and North Carolina, as‘well as
Georgia, have granted the company the privilege
of holding lands and other property without liml-
of holding lands and other property without limi
tation. Mr. Buford, tbe energetic and sagacious
President of the Danville road, is made the Presi
dent of this air-line road. To his efforts may be
attributed the success of the enterprise before the
Georgia Legislature and those of the Carolinas.
This road, according to one authority, will
shorten the distance between Atlanta, Ga., and
Charlotte, N. C.,214 miles. That diminution of
distance settles the question of competition be
tween the Danville route add all others from the
Northern cities to the Gulf.
The completion of this air-line will be a matter
of immense benefit to Richmond. With proper
exertions on the part of our citizens it will give
them the control of the trade down to Alabama. The
Danville road is peculiarly a Richmond road. Owing-
to its situation heretofore—the long prevention of
a line of connection between Danville and Greens
boro, the break of gauge at the latter place, now
that this connection is effected, and the discrimin
ating and hostile policy which has been pursued
by the North Carolina roads, in connection with,
and probably under the influence of, the Seaboard
and Roanoke Railroad—it has not achieved for this
city that which under more favorable circumstan
ces it would certainly have accomplished. But
this air-line road through Georgia and South Caro
lina will supply the Danville road with a shield
seven-fold thicker than the seven-fold shield of
Ajax, and enable it to dictate terms and extort
from connecting lines equality and reciprocity,
such as we have ever been ready to concur in.
About Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio.
The Washington correspondent of the Rich
mond Dispatch writes as follows:
Notwithstanding all the boasting that the
Radicals are bringing into their campaign in
Pennsylvania, there are many indications that
they entertain the most positive anxieties
about their condition in that State. They
are using money in extravagance, and hope,
by the aid of the almighty dollar to accom
plish the election of the candidates on the
13th instant, and then their leaders send word
there need be no fear of defeat in November.
If they carry Pennsylvania this time, they as
sert, New York will go Radical beyond a
doubt; but if the Keystone State goes against
them all will be lost. The confidence of
leading Conservatives about the result of the
canvass in Pennsylvania isshaking the nerves
of Radicals here, who want to know whether
there is any ground for the bold expressions
of opinion that meet them from Democratic
circles. Very few bets of any amount are
being indulged in by parties famous for thus
backing up their impressions, which is one of
the guarantees that the election will be close.
Reports from the West are not unfavora
ble. Indiana is counted upon for tbe Demo
crats by every well posted member of the
party in this locality. Ohio will be close,
though it will gain considerably in the Con
gressional districts. Vallaf&igliam’s chances
of beating Schenck in the third Congressional
district are looming up every day; and pri
vate letters from that State are teeming with
encouragement for the Democracy. Parties
who have arrived here from Cincinnati an
nounce that the mass meeting held in that
city on Monday night last was one of the
greatest ever held in the State and that the
Republicans in that city were dismayed and
astonished at its magnitude and enthusiasm.
If Pennsylvania goes Republican on the
13th instant, .there will be no probability of
a quorum of members of Congress here on
the 16th of the month; but should the Dem
ocrats carry the State, we may look for a
meeting in earnest. Additional legislation
will then be brought into operation immedi
ately. Judging from the indications, there is
a good chance of the meeting.
The Financial Question.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Charleston Cou
rier says:
Delmar’s statement of the deficit of $150,-
000j000 in the estimates of the Treasury has
excited a great deal of interest. Some per
sons, among whom is a distinguished finan
cier, a former Secretary of the Treasury,
maintain that Delmar is correct in his statis
tics in spite of the denials made. Men who
formerly were sanguine as to the ability of
the United States to deal with its financial
difficulties, are taking a more gloomy view,
cate the “God-given powers of thought and, They look for a large and alarming increase
of expenditures by the army, necessitated by
the hostile attitude of the Indian tribes on
the great plains and the unsettled condition
of affairs South, which they begin to look
upon as chronic. While the Republican party
is bound hand and foot to the bondholders,
its unconciliatory policy South seems to open
up a field of indefinite expense. If Grant is
elected, it is thought there will be an increase
of the army, and the coercive policy South
will be persisted in until the eyes of the
country are compelled to be opened by the
frightful extent of the expense thereby in
duced. Thoughtful people see financial
trouble ahead from thiB cause.
The Selma Demonstration—A Beauti
ful Spectacle.—The late Democratic dem-
stration in Selma must have excelled any
thing during the campaign. The Montgom
ery Advertiser describes one feature in the
grand procession as follows:
Next came thirty-seven young ladies on
horseback, each one accompanied by a knight
bearing a small flag.
The ladies were beautifully dressed, each
one representing a State, and bearing upon
their left arm a shield upon which was in
scribed the name of the State represented.—
They were the “observed of all the observ
ers,” and never has the scene been surpassed,
if equalled in Alabama. It thrilled the soul
of every beholder; and then and there was a
fitting time and occasion for eveiy man to
swear again his allegiance to his fair country
women and pledge them their protection
against insults, outrages and wrong, and that
the institutions of our common country,
which have cherished and advanced refine
ment, excellence and virtue shall be forever
perpetuated.
Dam Broke.—The dam across the Chat
tahoochee, in Columbus, broke last Saturday,
and all the mill proprietors said “dam it
again. That’s twice the dam center has
broken.” Did tbey swear ?
Alexander H. Stephens.
"INTERVIEW OF A RADICAL WITH MR. 'STS-
V. PHENS—A NEW REASON GIVEN FOR THE
COLLAPSE OF THE REBELLION.
TVathinolon (Sent. 23d) correspondence of the Raleigh
(xV. C.) Standard—Radical.]
A few evenings since I sent my card to
Alex. H. Stephens, not with much expecta
tion that he would accede to the request ofa
Republican newspaper correspondent lor an
interview. I was disappointed, however, for
in a few minutes I was ushered into his rpom.
Time does not deal very gently with the ex-
Yice President of the Southern Confederacy,
who so earnestly deprecated secession and
the recourse to force to break up the Union.
He appeared feeble, almost decrepit. His
voice is shrill and cracked. His face is
ploughed into a thousand lines and wrinkles,
is pinched and scared-looking. His uneasy
eye belied tbe quietude of the rest of his
features and told of a spirit still restless and
active.
After replying to a few inquiries relative
to his health, which he said was all he could
expect at this period of life, he opened a con
versation relative to the South and his own
State more particularly, by the remark that
he did not see much to be surprised at in tbe
condition of affairs in that section. Hecould
spear with certainty about Georgia. The
people there were anxious for peace; they
had lad enough of war and bloodshed; they
were weary with the clash of contending po
litical elements; they sighed and longed for
repo*. “I am,” said he, “but a mere ob
server, so far as politics are concerned. I
have retired forever from public life, and
whatl may say one way or the other is but
an individual opinion, entitled to no partic
ular weight. I represent no party, no faction,
no interest.”
The old gentleman pleasantly gossipped
on in this strain for several minutes, occa
sionally pausing to whiff the small pipe which
he smoked incessantly.
“I have no doubt,” said he, “that time will
heal our difficulties and troubles, and that
under constitutional lawB we shall be as bappy
as we once were.”
This word“constiuiional,” hit on, perhaps,
accidentally, started him on a new train of
thought. His eye brightened up, the tobacco
wreaths curled up faster and faster, and he
broke rather inpassionatelv:
The real causes—ideas—which animated
and influenced the leaders of the Southern
people at the outbreak, and previous to it, of
the late war are not, in my opinion, clearly
understood. It is my belief that four-fifths
of the men who led the movement did not
seriously contemplate the disruption of the
confederation of the States. Their theory,
my theory at least, was that if we could suc
ceed in obtaining from the North a recogni
tion of the State sovereignty principle, we
should all come together again on equal
terms and form a new Union. After the fall
of Richmond, you of the North, even we of
the South, and the world generally, indeed,
were astonished at the collapse of the rebel
lion.
It is a mistake to suppose that the South
was physically beaten then, and that she was
utterly incapable of making any further effort
or of prolonging the contest almost indefi
nitely. Before the war the people of the
South saw the gradual centralization of
power in the whole country. "We saw that
the Union* composed of equal and independ
ent sovereign States, was drifting into some
thing that hardly differed from a monarchy
except in name. We placed ourselves firmly
against that tendency of the day. We re
solved to battle against it when we saw that
it could not be combatted by other means.
As I said before, we never (the majority cf
the leaders) contemplated nbsolute independ
ence. Well, war came. Year followed year,
bringing to us and to you more and more
bloodshed and misery, and desolation and
ruin. By and by the more thoughtful of our
people saw that we were arriving precisely
at that state of things to resist and ward off
which we took up arms, and that tbe experi
ence of Europe and of the old World was to
be learned by us.
It was much the same with us as it was
with you in Washington—power had become
centralized and the reins were lield by one
or two men. When we on our side saw this,
our people lost heart, we asked “what are
we fighting for ?"’ and we gave up the contest.
There was no arrangement, no understand
ing ; the sword was laid down by a sort of
tacit consent that we had departed from our
first ideas of the war. We had abandoned
the course we had mapped out, and there was
no return to it.
Mr. Stephens said nothing more on this
subject. * It was hardly my province to argue
against his theories in the action, or tbe
speeches of some of his followers and asso
ciates to seek for arguments to be used against
him.
In reply to a remark of mine relative to
the Kn-Klux organization in the South he
said:
“Well, if there are any armed secret societies in
the Southern States 1 am not aware ot their exis
tence personally. If there is in this world any
thing I do hite and abhor, it is secret political bo
dies. I do not think there are any inGeorgia. In
fact I do not know anything about them at all ex
cept from what I see in the public prints. Yen
know my record against the know Nothing party.
I have not changed in any respect since then, so
-far as such people are concerned. I am under the
Impression tljt it is all pure imagination, except
probably in portions of Tennessee. It may be that
excitable yonng men in different sections of the
country formed themselves into oath-bound clubs
in the hope that they would become component
parts ot this Kn-Kluk Klan, which was said to have
existed somewhere. An effort was made in the
Ashburn trial to prove some 6uch fact, but in my
opinion it utterly failed. In my own State every
man does jmt as he pleases, says what he thinks
and no one interferes with him. I look on all
these stories zs manufactured purely for political
purposes ”
Mr. Stephens appeared very anxious Indeed to
throw discredit on the tales of outrages and riot
coming up tons almost daily from the South and
sought to impress on me the utter falsity of them.
I questioned him somewhat on the Sulphur
Springs mission, and General Rosecranz’s pro
ceedings there. He had the utmost confidence,
he said, In Rosecranz, and believed him to he ac
tuated by very pure and patriotic motives. He
agreed with Rosecranz fully in the professed ob
jects of his mission, and thought that the men
who signed that celebrated manifesto were sincere
in their professions.
I had Intended to ask Mr. Stephens some ques
tions on other points, but several friends called on
him, and 1 was obliged to leave
I make no comments on his statements end
opinions, but leave you to infer his sentiments on
the situation generally from his own words, which
I have retained as far as possible.
Pluck.—We admire Fitzpatrick’s pluck.
The following card shows exactly where he
stands, and that “clicks” cannot control him.
Fitz is right, no “regular nominee” ought to
yield the field to disorganizers, or disap
pointed aspirants:—[Constitution.]
House of Representatives
Atlanta Oct 3d 1SG8
Some of the republican organs of this state,
Are pleased to inform the community at
large, That the regular nominee of the fourth
congressional district, Has come down, For
the sake of harmony. And to make room for
another, I avail myself of this opportunity to
say that I have not come down Neither do I
intend to come down, This is to notifi tbe
citizens of the 4th congressional district that
I am the regular nominee, And I intend to
fight it out on this line if it takes all winter
1 will not be controled ly clicks
Respectfully
your obt servt
James Fitzpatrick
A Fixe Specimen.—We were shown on Wed
nesday last, by onr friend Captain Asbwy, a very
beautiful piece of native gold, weighing ninety-
seven pwts., taken from a deposit miae where he
is operating in White county. We regard Capt.
A. as being one of our best practical miners.
Where such pieces as this can he found in this
gold belt,- there is no doubt but what there is
‘‘more o#ihe same sort.”—LaUoruga Signal.
A*T ACT,
To provide for setting apart a Homestead
oi Realty and Personalty, and for the
variation of said property; and for the
full and complete protection and security
of the same to the sole use and benefit of
families as required by Section First of
Article VII of the Constitution, and for
other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by authority of the General
Attenilly of the Mate, etc., That each head of a
family, or guardian, or trustee of a family of miDOr
children, shall be entitled to a' Homestead of realty
to the value of Two Thousand Dollars in specie, and
personal property to the value of One Thousand
Dollars in specie, both to be valued at the time they
are set apart, and no Court or ministerial officer in
this State eball ever have jurisdiction or authority
to enforce any judgment, decree or execution against
said property so set apart, including such improve
ments a* may be made thereon from time to time,
except for taxes, money borrowed and expended in
the improvement of the Homestead, or for the
purchase money of the same, and for labor done
thereon, or material furnished therefor, or removal
of encumbrances thereon; Provided, the same shall
have been set apart and valued as hereinafter pro
vided.
Sec. 2. Every person seeking the benefit of this act,
and of said section of the Constitution, shall make out
a schedule and description of the personal property
claimed by him to be exempt under said section of
the Constitution from levy and sale, and hand the
same to the Ordinary of tbe county in which he re-
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sides, and shall apply to the said'Ordinary for an
wuw vvuulj uui.wyM w u were oe none,
some other Surveyor, to lay off his homestead allowed
by said section of the Constitution, and to make a
plat of the same, which order the Ordinary shall issue
at once and give to the applicant.
Sec. 3. When said schedule has been so filed, and
said application haa been made, the said Ordinary
shall publish in the Gazette in which Sheriff’s sales,
for said county, are published,not more than twice, a
notice as follows: A. B. has applied for exemption
of personalty and setting apart and valuation of home
stead, and 1 will pass upon the same at—
the -day of———186—, at my office.
C. D., Ordinary,
filling said blank, eo that all persons may.know the
time for action by the Ordinary on said petition/
The time fixed by said notice shall not be less
Sec. 4.
than ten nor more than twenty days from the date of
the order of the Ordinary to such surveyor. The sur
veyor to whom said order shall be delivered by the
applicant shall lay off the homestead on or out of the
land claimed by the applicant, and make a.platof the
same, and make an affidavit that the same is correctly
platted and laid off. and that the same is, to the best
of bis knowledge and belief, not worth more than two
thousand dollars in specie, and return the same to the
Ordinary before the day appointed in the order for
passing upon said application. Should any connty
surveyor fail to comply with his duty, as prescribed
by this act, he shall be, by said Ordinary, punished
for a contempt of court.
Sec. 5. If, at the time and place appointed for pass
ing upon said application, no objection shall be urged
by any creditor of the applicant, tbe Ordinary shall
endorse upon said sohedule, and upon said plat, ap-
roved, thi3 the day of “ x “ ^
Ohio Election.—"We are informed by a
gentleman who was an active canvasser for
the Democratic ticket in Ohio in 1867, as
well as 1868, that the Democratic prospects,
so far as visible signs are concerned, are bet
ter now than they were last year. The num
ber of Republicans who attend our meetings
is greater, and they give evident marks of
approval and approbation.—Cincinnati En
quirer. > : - V*;,-
proved, this the -—; day of ——, 1S5—, (filling the
blanks), and shall sign the same officially, and hand
the same to the Clerk of the Superior Court of bis
county, who shall record the samein abook to be kept
for that purpose in his office.
Sec. 6. Should any creditor of the applicant desire
to object to said schedule, for want of sufficiency and
fullness, or for fraud of any kind, or to dispute tbe
valuation of said personalty, or the propriety of the
surrey, or the value of the premises so platted as the
homestead, he shall, at said time and place of meet
ing, specify the same in writing thereupon, unless the
applicant shall so alter said schedule or plat, or both,
as to remove said objections; said Ordinary shall ap
point three disinterested appraisers to examine the
property concerning which the objections are made
and to value the same, and on their return (which
shall be made under oath) if either be found to be too
large, such alteration shall be made in said schedule
and in such plat as the Ordinary may deem proper to
bring the same within the limits of the value allowed
by said section of the Constitution, and he shall then
and there approve said schedule and said plat, as re
quired by the fifth section of this act, and hand the
same to the Clerk of the Superior Court of his county,
who shall record the same as required by section the
fifth of this act; Provided, That either party dissatis
fied with the judgment shall have the rightto appeal,
under the same rules and regulations and restrictions
as are provided by law in cases of appeal from the
Court of Ordinary.
Sec. 7. If the applicant seck3 to have a homestead
set apart out of town property, exceeding in value
two thousand dollars in specie, and it cannot be so
divided as to give a homestead of that value, he may
make application to the Ordinary, and upon satisfy
ing him that this is true, said Ordinary may pass an
order that should said property (describing the same)
thereafter be sold by virtue of any order, judgment,
or decree of any court in this State for two thousand
dollars in specie, or its equivalent in currency, of the
proceeds of such sale, or the whole of the said pro
ceeds, if they do not exceed that amount, shall be, by
the levying officer, paid over to the Ordinary for the
time being, to be invested by tome proper person, to
bo appointed by the Ordinary, in a home for the bene
fit of the family of tbe applicant, which shall be ex
empt as if laid off under this law, and shall cause the
Clerk of the Superior Court to record said order in
said book.
Sec. 8. Should any ministerial officer of this State,
upon being shown a certified copy of such order, lail
to retain and pay over to said Ordinary said pro
ceeds. as above required, or should any Ordinary re
ceiving the same fail to appoint said person to have
the same invested, and turn over the proceeds to him,
and said officers and their securities, respectively,
shall be liable to said applicant for said money, and
twenty per cent, interest thereon, while they respect
ively wrongfully withhold the same or any part there
of.
Sec. 9. In all cases, before the approval of said Or
dinary can be demanded as aforesaid, the applicants
shall pay the costs of said proceedings, including the
Clerk’s cost for recording thi
esame, to the Ordinary.
He shall be bound for such costs if he approves the
same; the said officers shall each have for his said
services the same fees as are now allowed him by law
for such services: Provided,nevertheless, thatifany
person, filing objections to said schedule or plat, shall
fail to have the same sustained, he shall pay the cost
of said proceedings.
Sec. 10. Any officer knowingly levying on or selling
said property thus made exempt from sale, shall be
guilty of trespass, and the wife or family of the
debtor may recover therefor for their exclusive use.
Bec. 11. Said property so set apart cannot be
encumbered or alienated by the husband, but if tbe
same be sold or encumbered by him and his wife
jointly, (in the case of husband and wife,) or with the
approval of the Ordinary for the time being endorsed
on the encumbrance or deed, said enoumbranco or
deed shall be valid as if said property had never
been so set apart.
Sb®. 12. Said property so set apart shall be for the
use of the wife or widow, and children during her life
or widowhood, and at her death or intermarriage, be
equally divided between the children of her iormcr
marrage then living.
Sec. 13. Should the husband refuse to apply for
said exemption, his wife or any person acting as her
next friend, may do the same, and it shall be as
binding as if done by the husband. Should any trus
tee or guardian of a family of minor children lail to
apply for said exemption, the Ordinary may, upon
application of any next friend for the minors allow
him or her to act in lieu of such trustee or guardian,
111 ill ill UCi if uui> vii cutu uuetcu v* &uuiuiau«
and this shall be as binding as if done by the said
guardian or trustee.
Sec. 14. Nothing herein contained shall be construed
to prevent any debtor, who doc3 not wish to avail
himself of the benefits of this act; from claiming the
exemption allowed by section 2013 of Irwin’s revised
Code, and, should he claim them, then, he shall get
the benefit thereof by complying with the law pre
scribed in this act, but no person who shall be allowed
tho exemptions under these laws shall take any ben
efit under this act, nor shall any person, who shall be
allowed the exemptions under this act, be allowed
tho exemptions under said laws, except the articles
named in parts 10.11. 12 and 13 of said section 2013;
Sec. 15. Be it enacted, etc., That all laws and parts
of laws in conflict with tbi3 act be and the same are
hereby repealed. _ Benjamin Conley,
President of the Senate.
A. E. Marshall.
Secretary of tbe Senate.
R.L. McWhorter,
Speaker House of Representatives.
M. A. Hardin,
Clerk House Representatives.
Approved October 3,1868.
Rurvs B. Bcllock,
„ Governor.
Office Secretary of State, )
Atlanta, Ga„ October 5,1S63. J
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing pages
contain a true and correct copy of the original act on
file in this office. Given under my hand and seal of
office. David G. Cotting,
[Seal.l Secretary of State.
The Preacher’s Parrot.—In a certain
neighborhood there lived a very pious old
preacher, who prided himself on the pos
session of a pet Poll parrot. Some of the
mischievous boys of the place had taught
the parrot to swear, much to the chagrin of
the old gentleman. On entering the house
one day he was much grieved to hear his
pet swearing with a will at the old cat.
This was more than he could stand, and to
punish her took the blasphemous bird from
her porch and repeatedly plunged her into
a tub of water that was standing near.
When Poll was released from her master’s
grasp, she crawled under the stove to dry
her feathers. Shortly after, a female servant
found a chicken nearly drowned in the slop-
bucket, and taking it from tbe bucket, she
put it under the stove to dry also. The par
rot quietly surveyed the new comer for a
moment, and then comically turning up one
eye.sagely chattered the following words as
plainly as she could, “you been saying dam,
too, have you ?” The preacher was so pleased
by the quaintness of Poll’s remark that be
never afterward punished her for swearing.
At Last the circle has been squared.—
There is a drill on exhibition in Brooklyn
which bores a square hole.
Three-quarters of a million of dollars
were realized by the sale of pews in the
Jewish Temple in New York.
Kaolin has been found in San Joaquin
county, California. It is silicate of alumina,
and can be quarried in a soft state in immense
bodies, becomes hard on exposure, and might
probably be rendered available for building
purposes, if not found valuable for the pur
poses of manufacuture. The famous polish
ing powder for jewelry, known as electro
silicon, is an inferior description of eleotro-
silieon, and is found diffused through
silicious rocks.
„ ' if- ...
A negro wdman piously observed in Dan-r
ville tbe other day, that there wasn’t any
thing left for " the poor negro now,’ but. to
; drink liquor and praise God.
General News.
Richmond, October!.—It has been raining violently
all day. Wind east.
Savannah, October 4.—Heavy gales from the north
east last night, irhich continue. It has rained unceas
ingly since midday Friday.
Atlanta, October 4.—Last" night Walker (colored),
formerly of Savannah, left Atlanta for Blakely, South
western Georgia, to organize a Grant Club* He was
called out of his house at night and taken into Cal
houn county and shot by nnknown parties. The col
ored people of Atlanta have made up a subscription
and sent for the body of Walker, which will he
brought to Atlanta.
Northeast winds and rains for past three days.-
Washington, Ootober 5.—San Francisco advices
from Arizona state that owing to the withdrawal of
the military, the Indians are becoming bolder. Thir
ty persons were killed last month.
Destructive rain for three days, flooding the entire
country. A number of cattle belonging to Texas em
igrants were drowned.
Surratt’s counsel deny the statement that they as
sured the District Attorney that Surratt would be
forthcoming to answer any charge. Surratt being
discharged, they are in no way responsible for him.
Fortress Monre, October 5.—The British schooner
Blanche, from Bohemia for Baltimore, is a total loss,
twelve miles below Cape Henry.
New York, October 5.—.The brig Abby Watson,
from Wilmington, N. C., for Kennebuk, or a port, is
here in distress. She lost a part of her cargo. The Cap
tain and crew are sick.
Mobile, October 5.—The Register, in its leading
editorial this morning, takes strong ground in favor
of the immediate annexation of Cuba, in view of the
success of the Spanish revolution. It says: “The will
of the people plainly demands this, and the Govern
ment should take immediate steps to secure tbe prize
at once.
Salem, Mass., October 5.—The anti-Butler Repub-
lican mass Convention to-day unanimously nominated
Richard H. Dana for Congress.
London, October 5.—A Madrid dispatch says Ma-
doz, has resigned the Presidency of the Junta.—
Aqnirresucceeds, who appointed Serrano, General- in-
Chief.
Fortress Monroe, October 5.—The schooner Lotta,
is ashore in the middle grounds, five miles southwest
of Cape Charles.
Savannah, October 5.—The storm abated this
morning. There is some little damage by water in
tbe city. The Captain of the steamship America, re
ports ver7 heavy weather, bnt no marine disasters
have been reported so far. Many sailing vessels are
due. Steamihips that cleared on Saturday remained
inside the bar till Sunday morning. It looks fair for
fine weather to-morrow. The wind is moderate from
the northeast. Below is the ship Gardener, from New
York.
Charleston, October 5.—A private dispatch from
John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, announces
his acceptance of an invitation to visit and address
the people of this State. He is expected about the
end of this week.
Savannah, October 6.—The Savannah Republican
was sold by the Administrator to-day. It goes into
the hands of Col. J. R. Sneed, its old editor and pro
prietor. he takes possession immediately.
Memphis. October 6.—Four thousand stands of arms
have arrived, consigned to Little Rock, Arkansas,
supposed to arm the negroes. No steamboat would
take them as freight to Little Rock on any terms
San Francisco, October 6.—This city has contribu
ted $13,000 in gold to the earthquake sufferers.
St. Lous, October 6.—Capt. William Donelson,
charged with killing a negro on the steamer Republic
Eeveral months ago. is bailed on $10,000.
Washington, October 7.—Forty-two Bishops and
one hundred and fifty Lay delegates are present at
the Protestant Episcopal Convention at New York
to-day.
Gen. McClellan has a grand reception at Philadel
phia to-morrow. No political emblems will be al
lowed in the procession. Eighteen Generals are
among the managers.
The propeller Perseverance was burned to-day fif
teen miles from Putneyville. Fourteen, including
the Captain, of the nineteen on board perished.
New Yore, October 7.—Guttman discharged Rol
lins, Hart and others implicated, declaring there wu
nothing in the evidene to justify his holding them.
A man named Hancock challenged T. C. Ham, of
Florida, to fight a duel. The meeting was arranged
for to-day, when Ham, tbe seconds of both parties
and all bnt Hancock, who fled to Philadelphia, were
arrested.
Trot, N.Y., October".—Moore & Son’s grain ele
vator was burned, with two hundred bushels of grain,
to-day.
New Yoes. October 7.—Additional Darticulars of
the naval engagementin Haytien waters state that
the batteries 041*0111 Grove Island, silenced by Galata
since manned the Alexandre. Petien and his troops
on shore stormed and took the place.
From Louisiana.
New Orleans, Ootober 4.—The Republicans have
renominated J5. H. Syher, for Congress, from the
First District, and nominated L. A. Sheldon, for the
full term, from the Second District, and J. Wills
Menard, for Coleman’s unexpired term. MeB&rd is a
negro, and announced himself as a candidate for
renomination in a circular, from which the following
is an extract. He says:
“The time has fully come to test the professions
and principles of those who now control tbe Republi
can patty of Louisiana, and that it is a sacred duty
to themselves, the colored people, to see that
the colored race is not sold oat by a few trading,
treacherous white Republicans in Louisiana, as it haa
been in Georgia. This State is entitled to seven
Representatives in Congress; are jiot the colored
people entitled, at least, to two of them? Is it not
onr duty to see that, at least, two colored citizens are
selected to represent in Congress, tbe £0,500 colored
voters of Louisiana ? The ballot means equal repre-
sentat on as well as equal rights, and if men are still
to be debarred from the hails of Congress, or even the
White House, on account of the color of their faces,
then Reconstrnction and Republicanism are lamenta
ble failures. The reward of the long oppressed race
will not be adequate, and the great cause of equal
rights will not be finished until the colored man is
seen in every department of this Government. It is
necessary that the Forty-first Congress shonld possess
more backbone than the present one, in order to fix
a plain provision in the Supreme law of the Repub
lic, that shall confer the ballot on every citizen,
regardless of race or color, North, South, East and
West.”
Citizens are willing and ready to take the oaths
prescribed by the Registration laws.
New Orleans, October 7.—Lieut. Lee oi the Freed-
men’s Bureau r who was sent by Maj. Hutchings, in
charge of the Bureau here, to investigate the troubles
at Opelousas, reported this morning that the immedi
ate cause of the outbreak was a personal difficulty be
tween the editor of the St. Landry Progress, a Repub*
lican paper, and three citizens, growing out of offens
ive articles in the Progress. The sailor is named
Bently, who was also a school teacher. He was caned.
The report immediately circulated among the negroes
that Bently was killed, and couriers were dispatched
to arouse the negroes on the plantations, and in an in-
GMSAT
®EW Y0BX. ■ &
Ninety Thousand De^ crmt . ~
nst n a -
GREATEST PUBLIC MEETING
New Yoke, October The Dem*». * I
last night was the grandest public dem^l
known in tbu city. aWtlUt »>i'>nI
An experienced Captain of Police «•
number in the toreh-light proce»; nm Wll0ltej tie I
THOUSAND. PrOCew,on «2iIXET7|
After the procession bad been j 0 i ned b .
from the adjoining connties it extend*/* etaiio ^ I
length. ^ ten xaii es : a I
The scene on Union Square was grand ■
beyond description. <Und 1B&5J .
The main stand represented the "TFvht » I
ERTY,” and was brilliantly illumS
light stretched from it to Tammany H.ii 8Wa »
The streele in the vicinity seemed liten.ii i
with Calcian lights, rockets, fire-painW f 0a ^ I
minated baloons. Wtotusgt ng |
The main stand,facing Broadway w. t i
attraction outside of Tammany Hall ,i.i eait#r <! I
were six other stands at which speech tht * I
an immense throng, roughly estimatedI
MILLION, men, women and children. ^»I
The crowd stretched compactly down b
Eleventh street, while the cross street,I
with citizens. u " e; t I
Gen. Baldy Smith presided, and said he I
hundreds of thousands of soldiers who ti
results of the war must be lost forever - J* M
change in tho policy of the Government. ’
A letter from Gen McClellan was reed, ** .
daily endorsing the Democratic candidates] a,llt1 'I
From Virginia.
Richmond, October6.-To-day, as fortv nf.v
tonvicts hired out to work on the '
convicts Hired out to work on the I
Ohio Railroad were going on the Central ,~ i I
Covington, they overpowered the WardTr 4
beyond GordonsviUe, and twenty-f GW
while the train was going at full speed T™. I
stantly killed by the leap and two mortally, ^ l
The rest of those who leaped off escaped.
P. B. Gratton. Official Attorney, to-day .
opinion to the City Council, that the cityicS, “I
issued during the war, amounting to am-.- , 1
million, cannot be paid while the AleizndriTr ‘ -i I
tation isin force, as it forbids payi cgioydt ^H
curred to carry on the war.
J ohn Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts j v l
to-day on his way to Georgia. ’ “***•
From Alabama.
Montgomery, October 6,-The Governor has ** I
the Registration- bill passed by the LegW-w 1
Both Houses have passed bills providing fmw* I
tion. Tbe Senate bill makes it a misdemeanor h
any person to challenge a voter, punishable by
and imprisonment. The Probate Judge o’V'
connty is to designate any number of voting
desires. This is done to have all tbe Toting a -
Court-house. Tho Democrats denounce tbe Begh»
tion and Election bills as frauds. It took five dsvs
last February, by General Meade’s order, fer then’
groes to vote at the Court-house.
Foreign News.
Madrid, October 5.—Serano has arrived. The cries I
are down with the Bourbons-sovereignty cithereo-l
pie-religious liberty—free education. Espertero is I
at the head of the movement. A ministry his bee: 1
formed. Serano is President, and Primis minister c: |
war.
Washington, October 6.—Advices from Hayu, r: |
the 2d inst., says theHaytion man-of-war, <v.
attacked the rebel-cruisers, Sylvan and T.ih. I;. I
Sylvan was sunk and thcLiberte bun.--a by beret; I
crew.
Salvanehai gone on to Galatea to bombard XL-. |
ragoane.
Telegraphic advices from Mexico, of the SdtA,!
states that Juarez sent a message to Congress, !>]
seating a cheerful picture of affairs in the Reprifr, I
and expects that Congress will ratify treaties w-:l u* |
United States.
Paris, October 6.—The latest news from Bis I
Janeiro states that Lopez had arrived at Sen Pemc-I
do with ten thousand men. Twenty thousand AT.:>iI
had occupied Pelar’s Relief Port of Paraguay, u |
form a base of operations against the Paragons:
position at the mouth of Tehigaary.
Madrid, October 6.—Gen. Prim has arrive!. H:|
was enthusiastically received.
Copenhagen, October 6.—The King’s speech :: I
Regsday, announces negotiations with Pmsiia, re-|
garding Schleswig and Holstein, is without resit
The ratification ef the sale of St. Thomas aricfiel
Islands to tha United States, is postponed fee <k|
^ Madrid, October 5, night.—The DefinhireP.vd
sional Constitution of the Provisional Gws~2:::,|
with Serrano and Prim at the head, is ecnsiiere-Ja:- [
complished.
London, 0:tober7.—Theship Americ»nE:;>,fiis|
London for New York, put into Falmouth, leaky.
Madrid. October 7.—The Provisional Jana »-i|
free the children of the blacks in anticipation of the|
aboltiion of slavery by Cortez.
Georgia Legislature.
Atlanta, October 6.—In the House & bill to c::: I
porate the Land and Immigration Compm: T b|
passed. After passing bills of local interest onIy,ths|
General Assembly adjourned sine die.
The Speaker of the House said: “We met as I
gers, personally. Politically our feelings were till
embittered by the extraordinary teachings
who should have known better. We separate to-hlI
almost as one people in sentiment and common i—er-1
est. Listen not to the teachings of politics! shs^l
This is onr Government; let us correct the evilsth-. 1
may asise, by appealing to the intelligence and
dom ofthe nation, and not to the passion of a aw-1
Let our motto be wisdom, justice and moierst ’ I
and aU will be well.” _ _ [
The Assembly will reassemble in January. 1--I
members separate with fraternal feelings toward fl -l
other. _ . I
Gen. Meade reviewed the garrison in this J
day, comprising eleven companies ofiDfzntry. sc-w-1
f cavalry, and two of artillery.
From‘Washington.
Washington, October 5.—General Howard dR.<* I
having received Gen. Sibley’s Camilla report. r
Washington, October 5.—Since the _ L
nouncing the deposition of Isabella, no official & I
munication is held with the Spanish " e ** , ‘*' ’ I
will there bo until the Junto of Aqnirre aecrei« ™ i
resentatives. The Legation retains its oScui-|
bnt matters are postponed.
Collins returns on Saturday.
Revenue to-day $1,700,000. . ■
Rosecranz was in New York yestcrdiLU I |
leave for Mexico.
The weather has become clear and cool- .
Col. Wynkoop, agent of the Arrar»h ce ,. J
enne Indians, is here. He represents the “ I
within his agency as having fled south of tiie *
The two tnw-l
credibly short time they were flocking folly armed to
Opelousas, apparently being folly organized and pre
pared for such an occasion. Several bodies of negroes
were met and dispersed by the efforts of sensible and
moderate men of both negroes and whites, acquainting
them with the facts regarding Bently. One body,
however, of twenty-five or thirty, led by a negro who
called himself Captain, refused to disperso when or
dered, when a fight ensued, in which two negroes
were killed and fonr or five wounded, and fire or six
whites wounded, two very severely, and a number of
horses belonging to the whites killed.
Tho negro calling himself Captain was one of the
killed. Eight of the party were captured and lodged
in jail, the balance dispersed. Orders given by the
civil authorities, disarming the negroes, were exe
cuted with some difficulty, but effectually, and arms
belonging to negroes are now is the hands of the
authorities.
Opelousas and the Parish are perfectly quiet. Dnr-
ing the excitement the material ofthe St. Landry
Progress was scattered and a portion destroyed. One
white man was ambushed while riding along the road
alone, and riddled with balls, by three negroes, the
latter of whom were aU caught and killed. Another
white planter wa3 reported shot while sitting in his
houEe. Troubles existed only in the Parish of St.
Landry, within a radius of twenty miles from Ope
lousas. The adjoining parishes are perfectly quiet.—
Lieut. Lee reports that he could learn of bnt two
whites killed and eight‘or ten wonnded. Five ne
groes killed and fifteen or twenty wonnded, bnt he
expresses the opinion that tho number of casualties
will exceed these, as negroes in some instances resisted
disarming and had to be overpowered. None of the
white Radicals suffered except Bently, and he only in
the loss of printing material and the caning received.
Lieut. Lee reports quiet restored, and everybody
pursuing their ordinary oooupations. No farther
trouble is apprehended. The white inhabitants ofthe
pariah outnumber the blacks.. Armed and mounted
patrols, however, were still being kept up.
GRAND DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN
CONNECTICUT.
State
Gone Democratic bv an Estimated
5000 Majority.->
sas river, Gen. Sully pursuing them,
aggregate 2406 warriors.
The Debt Statement wiU probably 8i>pea *’.'’
row. The increase will be comparatively
Robert J. . Walker, by consent Secrctsiy ^ *
loch, examined the Treasury books. His res
froa
tain Delmar. .
Washington, October 5.—Nothing yet
Connecticut municipal elections.
Walker’s statement indicates that . jLfol
rate of increase the debt will be doubled i- _ A
year?, long before which, unless better cone- -*
Tail, the Government will be bankrupt. ...
Washington, October 6.—Partial returns
nectieut indicate a Democratic majority ■
THOUSAND. English’s majority in ISbj ***• ^,1
Washington, October 6.—Mr. Bewsrd ^J
and will continue to recognize, Gom as rep
Spain until Spain names a successor. _ ■
There was a full Cabinet to-day, except .j.,1
The Debt Statement‘.shows a net d«r«-’I
debt of $970,000; coin in the Treasury ’ |
rency $13,365,000. ,t lS nrt 6:: l
McCulloch thinks the disbursements for
month will be lighter than last, and that tM “ ^j
Statement will show a further decrease
Soptember disbursements aggregate SSO.Oti. 1
Revenue to-day $249,000.
Gen. Sibley tel«#raphs from Atlanta that tn
report will be mailed to-morrow. Many P I
claim there has been joggling. _
Washington, October 7.—Wm.F. Bitchi*’ ^ . c f|
glitor of the Richmond Enquirer, and
Anna Cora Mo watt, is not dead. . fti 1
Cuban affairs have not been discussed i _ regH^' 1
net, nor has Mr. Seward expressed ans |
ing Cuba since the inauguration ot
troubles.
Revenne to-day $233,090. .i l >ns» lte: "l
Governor English, of Connecticut, had a I
^General Him^ock‘tefegraphfhopefuUy of ^
^The^upreme^Council of the I
Union viaifced the President to-day. T order I
fe“*d to hi* havfog been amember ofthe oru ^
'“SnstmTfromtiieasttothe30th, ** 1
millions. ’ ■
Hartford, October 6.—The municipal elections oc
curred throughout .the State to-day. The Democrats
gain largely. The majority in this city (Hartford) is
750, being a Democratic gain over last Fall of500 and
Spring election of 100. The Democratio majority in
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eighty-three Connecticut thirteen-^I
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vote ia small. Both paWiee claim gains
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