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the telegraph.
MACON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13,1808.
(Georgia, acricultihal society.
We trust that no man will suppose that it
ia intended that the Georgia State Agricul
tnral Society i9 designed to interfere with or
supersede in anyway the existence and oper
ations of local agricultural associations in
the State. On the contrary, it is ardently
desired that every county shall form its ag
ricultural club—and that every club will be
come auxiliary to the graud design of the
State Central Association, and contribute
universally to make up its membership and
assist in its administration.
The system of County Clubs will, in fact,
be incomplete without some Central Associa
tion, which may give unity and vigor to the
counsels and decisions of all upon every im
portant matter requiring consentaneous ac
tion. We hope, therefore, that every county
in Georgia will organize its Farmer’s Club,
auxiliary to the State Association, and in ac
tive correspondence with it,and if they choose
to hold County or District Fairs, so much
the better.
There can be no conflict in the great com
mon interest of arousing the productive en
ergies of Georgia. We must all redeem our
personal and public fortunes primarily Irom
the soil. We must increase the value of our
landed property—induce immigration—and
push recuperation and improvement onward
by a wise use and display of our productive
resources. The gods help those who help
themselves, and from this time forward let
us cast off sloth and despondency and resolve
that Georgia shall go ahead!
Never Mind.—Some of our boys are vexed
at seeieg the papers take from the Tele
graph without eredit. Never mind the
crodit—go on and help yourselves. There’s
a plenty more where that came from. The
supply is inexhaustible.
Plenty op Monet !—Plenty op Money 1!
Deacon Bard, of tbe Atlanta New Era, says
the majority in Georgia has been obtained by
“intimidation, corruption and purchase.”
Where’s the money to buy such a big major
ity? “Where, oh, where is the good Elijah?”
Tell us, O, Bard of the Era, and perhaps we
may come iu for a loan. Don’t you want to
try your hand at a borrow ? The man who
bought the Democratic majority in Georgia
must be iu funds.
Tiiopiues op the Sea.—The Floridian
says that fine Apalachicola and Cedar Key
oysters are selling in that place at two dol
lars per bushel. Tbe mullet fishing has be
gun, and fish are caught in large quantities
and sell at the fisheries at three cents apiece.
The coast (says the Floridian,) is literally
lined with parties from all parts of Georgia
and Florida, engaged in putting them up for
market. At Mash’s fishery, near the mouth
of the Ocklockonee river, upwards of 8,000
of these fish were taken in two days.
Too Big a Dog to Meddle with.—A
correspondent sends us certain suggestions
looking to provision against false returns.
These might do very well in a tight, but the
Democratic majority in Georgia is too big a
dog to meddle with. You ean’t make any
thing else of it than a majority, do what
you will.
Mbs. Dr. Mary Walker, with her abbre
viated skirts—her extended and ruffled pan-
tellettes—her dainty boots with a jaunty red
tassel—her gay scarlet cravat—her black curls
and little love of a jockey hat—we say Mrs.
Mary, our <loar old acquaintance, tripped
lightly over the classic stage of Cooper's In
stitute last Friday and gave the Democrats
fits. Old Peter smacked his lips and swore
’twas a vision of loveliness:
" Ah, Miss Mary.
Quite contrary.
How docs your garden grow ? ’
Thanksgiving.—Thursday, the 20th No
vember, i3 designated by the Governor’s
Proclamation, which appears in to-day’s pa
per, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.
If anybody thinks he has little to be thank
ful for, let him read the hymn, beginning—
“And arc we wretches yet alive?’’
An Awfcl Tight.—Private telegrams said
there was an awful pecuniary cramp in New
York yesterday. Silly people, to lock up
their money and then cry for it.
Voting for Costar, the Rat and Cock
roach Exterminator, for President.—A
story is told of a practical joker in a county
below, who went about among darkies on the
day of the election, representing himself as an
intense Radical. He 'had a lot of printed
slips of Costar with a picture of a big rat
upon them, which he distributed as “tickets”
to be voted. He cautioned each voter that no
ticket was genuine unless it had that rat upon
it; to stick it deep down into the pocket, and
show it to no man. About three hundred
votes for Costar were thus polled by the sov
ereigns of that county.
Query.—Would those votes have been
counted on a question of ratifying the Con
stitution ?
Personal Profits.—The Indianapolis
Sentinel gives a list of members of Congress
who were worth in 1860 $1,027,000, whose
assets now foot up $734,660,000. As they
are truly loyal Radicals, the presumption is
they will have over a thousand millions by
the end of 1872. It is gratifying to note that
some people know how to improve their op
portunities ;
How do the little busy Bads
Improve the shining hours.
And gather greenbacks by the sack
From every opening treasury chest when the
key is left in the lock.
“All is NOT lost,” says the Griffin Star,
commenting on the Presidential result. Not
a bit of it. We have a small balance in hand
and not a doubt that the Star is in the same
condition.
GRATIFYING ASSURANCES.
We are gratified by the assurances in the
Atlanta New Era of yesterday that, now the
election is over,"no further attempts will be
made to disturb the peace of Georgia. It is
to be hoped they will collect all the arms
which have been distributed among the ne
groes and prohibit midnight drills. The Era
says :
• The election of Gen. Grant is inspiring con
tidence in every direction. It will inaugurate
a reign of peace. If the disunion press of
the South are not satisfied with this result,
they will do well to seek homes elsewhere.
The people want peace and they intend to
have it
Revolution is now dead. We attended its
funeral at 6 o’elock on Tuesday evening last.
Our people inwardly rejoice over the result
A greater monster was cot known to our
people.
POLITICAL proscription.
The Atlanta Constitution-of Thursday says
that Robert Gray, W. A. Cochran, J. W.
Cochran, H. M. Landers, J. F. Bryant and
W. W. Lawless, were discharged from the
State Road for voting the Seymour and Blair
ticket
We took occasion some time ago to give
our opinions upon the general subject of po
litical proscription, and probably need not
repeat them. It is practiced, as we are in
formed, almost universally in the North, with
a good deal of success; but here, in Georgia,
where the field of labor i3 so abundant, and
the demand for it so active, we doubt wheth
er it can be made to pay in a party point of
view. We doubt, in short, whether it is
practicable, and whether it will not do as
much good- as harm.
As a matter of personal comfort and con
venience, it is better to have those about you
who concur with you in opinion and actioD,
and therefore, it is presumable that in em
ploying labor the preference would naturally
be given to that class, other things being
equal. It is equally clear that noisy, officious
partisans will be troublesome and disorderly,
and therefore everybody will avoid them .so
far as possible. It is presumable that, in
case of discharging laborers, every man
would prefer to retain those who best har
monize with him.
But beyond these general suggestions,
which are not at all proscriptive, we should
seriously doubt the policy of attempting to
go—and the practicability of going. If oes-
half of the negroes of Georgia have voted the
Radical ticket, surely the people cannot af
ford to lose their labor, and should not do it,
if they could. It would be folly to put so
large a class in a position, where they must
steal or starve.
With judgment and forbearance upon tbe
part of the whites, it will be impossible to
control Georgia by negro suffrage, and every
election hereafter will show the colored vote
a less important element in our politics. Let
us go on, and leave such proscription as we
have noted at the head of our article, to the
other side. Georgia is doing well enough.
How much of a Democratic majority would
you have ? It looks as if we could fill your
order to almost any amount
PREPARE YOUR WHEAT FOR PRE
MIUMS.
Mr. W. W. Turner, Secretary of the Put
nam County Agricultural Society, notifies
farmers that handsome premiums will be of
fered by the Putnam County Agricultural
Society for the best yield per acre of small
grain crops. We hope farmers will take due
notice and prepare to contest for the pre
miums.
The State Agricultural Society will, no
doubt, also offer substantial premiums of tbe
same character, and thus afford a double
cliance to contestants.
The contest set on foot by the Athens
Farmer’s Club last year led to results which
opened the eyes of tbe people, and did more
to disclose the capacity of Georgia for the
production of wheat than a hundred labored
essays might do. We have no doubt tbe
State Agricultural Society will shape the
great Fair in Macon next Fall upon this hint,
so as to stimulate production and show to the
world and to ourselves, (for we need the in
formation as much as aDy body else,) wliat
the State can do on specific areas of land—
in wheat, rice, rye, oats, tobacco, com and
cotton.
The people themselves need to understand
the benefits of thorough culture and liberal
fertilization, and we want intelligent farmers
in tbe outside world to correct their judg
ments upon the productive capacity of the
State. These are founded upon census returns
and represent an amount of poor farming of
which the Western farmer has no conception.
The census returns show an average of less
than a bale of cotton to the four acres, and
of every other crop in the same proportion.
We have seen that the Athens premiums
showed forty-three bushels of wheat to a
single acre and we have little doubt a spirited
contest in cotton production will show three
bales or more to the acre. Furthermore, we
imagine upon a fair estimate of expenses, they
will be tbe three cheapest bales on the plan
tation.
We hope all field-crop premiums will be
based on tbe idea of testing productive
capacity as well as quality. A nice bale of
cotton may be elaborated from a poor and
unprofitable crop, and be the work of a poor
farmer; but tbe man who shows tbe largest
number of bales and bushels from the fewest
acres, may be presumed to understand his
business, and to contribute most efficiently
to the wealth and agricultural reputation and
character of the State.
Peterson’s Ladies’ Magazine for Decem
ber is on hand, and may be found at Havens
& Brown’s.
Wade on the Cotton Tax.—Mr. Acting
Vice President Wade was howling on politics
the other day in Cincinnati, and nttered the
subjoined howl upon the cotton tax:
“You remember we put a tax upon cotton,
the only thing under God’s heaven by which
we could get anythng out of the rebels, they
having rendered it necessary that we should
incur this great debt in defence of the gov
ernment ; and they howled about the tax on
cotton, and the whole Democracy of the
North, out of Congress and in Congress, made
such an outcry against it, that they induced
soft-headed Republicans to repeal it. The
year before we got about $28,000,000 out of
that cotton-tax, and it came out of tbe very
men, of all others, that should give some of
their substance to pay off that accursed debt
that we were forced to incur. But we threw
off that tax, and this year did not get one
cent of it. I would not agree to it. It was
a magnanimity that degenerated into weak
ness. We ought to have made them pay it,
and this year we might have got $40,000,000,
instead of $28,000,000, and let the Democracy
howl. * * * Now, sir, is not
thi3 too bad?” etc.
Brother Wade has spoken his mind on the
subject, and now let us hear from the rest of
the brethren. __
Talbotton Superior Court.—The Ga
zette says:
The adjourned term of the Superior Court
of Talbot county, Hon. E. H. Worrill presi
ding, met on Monday, and was adjourned
from Monday evening until Thursday morn
ing. Very few lawyers from a distauce in
attendance.
The Gazette says of Judge E. H. Worrel:
This gentleman, oue of the ablest and most
profound jurists and upright judges who ever
occupied the bench in Georgia, has received
the appointment for the Chattahoochee Cir
cuit For the fourteen years that Judge Wor
rill has presided, he has uniformly sustained
a character for justice and ability rarely at
tained by those who wear the judicial ermine.
We are satisfied that bis re-appointment to
the position he has long filled with so much
honor to himself and credit to the State, will
be received with universal. gratification
throughout tbe circuit.
nos'T. prejudge , GEN. GRANT’S ad.
MINISTRATION.
Wo arc glad to see, among all. our Geor
gia contemporaries^ a disposition to suspend
judgment upon the incoming administration
of Gen. Grant ’ This is not ohly right, but it
is sound policy. Gen. Grant we know, is a
historical democrat, and many of his friends
assert that he has by uo means degenerated
into a radical. Wendell Philips and the ab
olitionists denounce him as heartless and
faithless in the cause of negro supremacy.
Vallandigham and many other democrats
predict that the aggressive radical element of
the Republican party will quarrel with Gen.
Grant in the course of a year.
Let the South, then, withhold judgment
and maintain a candid and conciliatory de
meanor towards the new administration. A
hostile and denunciatory tempor will only
aid the Radicals, if they need any aid, in
warping Gen. Grant to their views and pol
icy. 'I (Tr . vi |
If the General is disposed to give us a fair
construction and a good government—that
is all the Southern people want ! He
will merit and receive our approbation. He
will win for himself a more glorious name,
as a Pacificator than he has done as a Con
queror. It might well be that the South,
which he has scourged remorselessly as a
military foe, springing into new prosperity
and happiness under a friendly and benign
administration, should, at the end of four
years, raise her united voice and insist upon
his acceptance with their universal consent
and approbation of another term of office.
No people were ever in tho condition and
temper to be so effectually won by kindness
and conciliation as are tbe Southern people
now. It is in the power of Gen. Grant and
the new administration to make them fast
and warm friends—simply by a fair, Consti
tutional and conservative administration.
By discarding prejudice—by shutting his
ears to detraction and falsehood—by admin
istering the government for the good of the
whole country, and not in the interests of an
intolerant, selfish and turbulent faction, he
can bind tbe South to him as with hooks of
steel.
The South wants repose—order—security
—law—good government. She wants to feel
that she can rest confidently upon the bene
ficent disposition and purposes of the Gen
eral Government.
This feeling will insure the most active and
zealous co-operation upon the part of the
people with the Federal Government. This
feeling will dispense at once with all necessity
for troops and expensive provisions for the
maintenance of order and justice. It will
compose the relations of races, for nothing
will contribute to that result so much as a
conviction upon the part of the blacks that
they standg no better at court than the
whites do.
We say, then, let us wait until it is proved
that General Grant doe3 not mean fairly by
the Southern whites, before we denounce his
administration. Some of tbe Georgia Rad
ical papers say we are to have an era of
peace and good will, and it 13 time it should
come. It may be that we shall have a revival
of the good old days of Monroe and cry, “We
are all Federalists—we are all Republicans!”
Who knows? Let us pray for it
SAVANNAH ITEMS.
♦We condense the following from the Sa
vannah Morning News: . ,
After Bradley.—This notorious villain
was seen in the city yesterday, and Coronor
Harden, as was his duty, on the verdict of
the jury of inquest held on the body of Mr.
S. S. Law, caused a warrant to be issued
against him, by Justice Philip 31. Russrll.
The warrant was placed in the hands of offi
cer Kauffman, who, accompanied by a detach
ment of police, went to Bradley’s house, at
the corner of Broughton and Lincoln streets.
It was thoroughly searched, but the scoun
drel could not be found. Dr. Cliff's place
also underwent a close scrutiny, and other
places were also looked into.
It was expected that he might try to leave
by the New York or Baltimore steamer, and
they were searched before sailing. As Brad
ley could not be found, a general warrant
was issued, authorizing any officer of the city
or county to arre3t him wherever found. He
had not been arrested up to a late hour last
night.
Young Samuel S. Law, Esq., the victim of
Ethiopian outrage and resistance to law and
order, was buried in the presence of a vast
concourse, on Thursday. Dr. Axson officiat
ed, and the body of tbe lamented youth was
lowered to the last , resting-place amid the
lamentations of the whole city.
James Bryan, one of the policemen killed
by the rioters, was buried on tbe same day.
R. A. Reid, policeman, another victim of
the rioters, died from his wounds on Thurs
day. - --
The city was picketed Thursday and Fri
day, and bodies ot armed negroes were seen
scouting and lounging about, but no attack
was made upon the city.
One Rossiter, an ex-policeman, got into a
quarrel with policeman Morgan, and shot
him dangerously.
Florida—A Queer Constitutional Pro
vision.—A Quincy correspondent of the Sa
vannah News writes:
“The weather is quite cold for this season
of the year in Florida. - A heavy frost fell in
this vicinity 'last night, and at this time, 8
o’clock r. M., it is colder than the morning.
“To-day we witnessed the inauguration of
the County Court for Gadsden county, under
the new reconstructed State Government,
Under the present Constitution of the State,
all testimony must be reduced to writing and
subscribed to by the witnesses, which is a
great bore to the mdmbers of the bar, jury
and witnesses, and consumes the time of the
Court to a great extent., This is entirely a
new feature in the jurisprudence of our little
State.” te
The Assassin of the Post Office at
"Work.—We have.in our possession two let
ters that have received the attention of the
“ assassin ” of the post office. They are both
from Louisville, Kentucky, one addressed to
Blount & Chipley, the other to Bedell & Co.
Upon the first is drawn in pencil a dagger
dripping with blood, and the word Chipley
underscored. Upon the back of the latter,
written in pencil, with an evident attempt to
disguise the handwriting, appears the follow
ing : “ Repent, for the hour of retribution
approaches 1” We regard this as a clumsy
attempt to throw the responsibility on the
Louisville office. These and other little mat
ters are being looked into, and we take it
that tbe hour of “retribution” is much nearer
than the assassin imagines.—Col Sun.
Reports from Paris are still conflicting in
regard to peace and war. The Journals of
Pari? assert that the Emperor Napoleon still
adheres to hia promised-policy of reducing
the French forces, and report that there are
now only 854,000 men in service. On the
other hand, it is reported that the Minister
of the Marine is buying up a large quantity
of oak for the purpose of building in the
government ship yards two hundred boats of
light draught, suitable for navigation in
shallow streams and rivers.. ...
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A vigilance cpmmittee in Gilmer, Ne
braska, hanged five desperadoes on Friday,
Danger .of Holding on too Long.
Bryce & Co.’s circular of 80th October, has
the follqjrgijfrJ f <. J">X
General Remarks.—The receipts last
week, as advised by mail, appear quite lib
eral, exceeding 50,000 bales, and the tele-:
graphic advices point to a larger total for the
week ending to-night. The receipts thus
far, although they appear liberal,' are really
small, if we consider how exceedingly for
ward the season is in tbe Southwest; and a
careful examination of the tables will show
that all the increase thus far for this year is
at the ports of Galveston and New Orleans.
Comparative statements of the crop can only
be made with similarly forward seasons, and
when this is done the out-turn promised is in
significant enough. Estimates of the crop
from the South are rather larger this week,
owing to the favorable picking weather; at
this point two and a quarter to two and a
half millions of bales seem the favorite
guesses, if the crop be counted as it was last
year. If we assume that the American crop
will reach the outside figure of 2,500,000
bales, tho probable consumption of the world
bids fair to surpass the probable supplies.
The following table seems liberal as to tbe
supply of the raw material; and we think
the consumption is underestimated, rather
than overestimated, present prices ruling:
Consumption of tho united States,
per week .17,000
Consumption of tho United Kingdom,
per week 48,000
Consumption of tho Continont, per
week .55,000
Fifty-two wocks in a year X 100,000—5,200,000
As supplies we have the following :
Crop of tho United States ...2,500,000
Receipts from India .1,500,000
Receipts from Egypt 450,000
Receipts from Brazil 50O,C0O
Receipts from West Indies,
etc...... 50,000-5,000.000
Leaving a deficit of. 200,000 bales
to be withdrawn from present stocks. Under
these circumstances it will be difficult to
make much of a decline, unless it appear that
the supplies will be increased, or the con
sumption diminished. These events can only
be brought about by higher prices early in
the season. If a shilling per pound be reaohed
and maintained for a few weeks, consump
tion will be reduceed to a very small figure,
and an immense amount of Surat take
to water as soon as packed. The result will
be that we would find stocks accumulating at
all the portB, and holders at the mercy of
consumers, who will naturally force down
prices, until increased consumption again
makes a balance of power. In several of our
recent issues we dwelt upon the various phases
of consumption and production, and endea
vored to show the identity of interests of the
raisers and users of the “fleecy staple.” We
find so strong a desire among planters to hold
their cotton until prices are forced up to a
point where consumption will be checked,
that we must call attention to the probable
fact that, by bridging over tbe present scar
city, through a reduction of consumption,
caused by famine prices, they are insuring
low prices in tbe spring, when the accumu
lated stocks of American begin to be count
ed with the Indian shipments, which will be
heavy in proportion to tbe dearness of the
stock in Liverpool. Tho slight frosts which
have occurred in parts of the South, have
done little or no damage, up to this period,
in consideration of the forward state of the
crop, we think but little apprehension need
be felt on the subject.
The Great Issue.—In an eminently
thoughtful and impressive speech of J. Q
Adams, delivered at Albany, New York, this
gentleman uses words of warning and admo
nition so eminently fit and appropriate to
the present juncture that, though the elec
tion is over, we cite them for the attention
of our readers. Said he:
“I will not close my speech as I began, as a
Democrat or a partisan; but I will, in con
clusion, pray you, as American citizens, to
try, in this supreme cris'13 of our fate, to rise
above party or section, to stretch out beyond
this little shred of time, to forget this heated
canvass, and, as citizens ot tbe great Repub
lic, contemplate tbe long reaches of her grand
career. Shall it be that we must tread over
and over again the old course, from liberty
to license, from license to anarchy, from an
archy to despotism ? Must it be that we are
to furnish auotber failure of constitutional,
regulated liberty ? Can it be that in our
hasty impatience of transient troubles we are
madly bent upon leveling with the earth the
temple that our fathers builded ?
Ob, my countrymen, these, our trials are
but transitory, if you will but be patient. Iu
a little while, if you will be steadfast, they
will pass away, but if, on Tuesday next, you
register your resolve to return no more to tbe
old ways, we shall wander on in this dismal
revolutionary wilderness, no man can tell
how long or how far. Have you been so
much happier since you abandoned the faith
of your fathers, to follow after these strange
gods that you still cling to them 2 Has the
path been so pleasant since you wandered
from the ancestral track that you would not,
if you could, regain it? No, my friends, let
us retrace our heedless steps, and, for the fu
ture, cursed be he who removes the anient
landmarks.”
Truer and more solemn words than these
were never spoken to the American people.
The Money Crisis.
Tiie cry of “hard times” come3 up from
all sections of the country. A great change
has been felt in the markets within the last
sixty days, and the effect is being felt more
and more.
The Chicago Times, of "Wednesday, refer
ring to the financial trouble in the West, says:
“We are on the eve of a financial crisis.
From every direction comes the ominous cry
of hard timfes. Ob every hand—in every de
partment of trade and industry—prices are
falling. Every man iu business is losing
money—save him whose business is lending
money. Money cannot be collected when
it is due. It cannot be paid by those who
owe. Farmers,*who have counted on the
profits of a bountiful harvest, are con
fronted by the dismal fact of a market
almost fifty per cent, lower than it was 60
days ago, and still falling. Already the less
er buyers are broken up, and the larger ones
are trembling in dismay at the prospects be
fore them. Half a million of dollars will not
cover the losses in this city alone from the
shrinkage in grain values within the last 30
days. In every branch of trade and - indus
try, the losses are correspondingly great. In
eveiy thing prices are falling and trade is dis
appearing. Labor is in tbe same category of
decline, with winter approaching, and the
prospect of employment daily growing less.
The fact is, the nation has been spending
more than has been earned. We have paid
in taxes during three years of peace, the
enormous sum of FIFTEEN HUNDRED
MILLION8. The property of our State is
mortgaged.for the full amount of its assessed
valuation, and yet the reign ot extravagance
and corruption and ruin goes on. We see
what Radicalism is costing the country, and
we see its inability to bring the nation back
to a condition of soundness and safety.
Redistillation and Rectification.—
The difference. between these two methods
of treating crude spirits. is a matter of se
rious controversy at tbe internal revenue de -
partment in Washington. The commissioner,
it is reported, is willing to concede that the
whisky, after its first distillation, may be re
turned to the still from which it came, with
out making the manufacturer liable, to be
taxed as a rectifier, bnt asserts that to pass it
into a second still on the same premises is a
violation of the law which forbids the recti
fication of spirits near a distillery. The
point has been referred to the Attorney Gen
eral, who has very recently decided that
no separate tax accrues upon what is known
among distillers as singlings, doublings and
backings—the whisky after one distillation
being singlings, and becoming doublings by.
redistillation. The tax, he thinks, should
attach when the distilled spirits go to the re
ceiving room for sale. This decision, it is
Btated, will put in operation many stills now
idle nnder the regulations of the commission
er of interna} revenue.
BY, TELEGRAPH.
Election News from Washington.
Washinotoh, November 5.—An early change In the
Secretarjship and Treasury is brooming - probable.
Present calculations give the Democrat* seventy-five
members «f Congress, a gain of twenty-seven.
Californians here have. no doubt tfc* the State is
Democratic. The Democrats lose five and gain three
Federal Senators.
Dispatches from the Western State# show nothing
interesting beyond a general falling off from the Re
publican majorities as first reported. A liberal calcu
lation gives Seymour ninety-three electoral votes.
Trenton, N. J., November 5.—Seymour’s majority
is about two thousand- The Congressidtal delegation
stands threo Democrats and two ReptWiaans. The
Democratic majority on joint ballot is six.
San Francisco, November 6.—The ship, Japsnj
sailed for Hongkong with 6781,000 in treasure.
The Republicans claim California by from one
thousand to fifteen hundred. Axtell (Dem.) is elcct-
c<l to Congress.
Nevada gives one thousand Republican majority,
and sends Fitch (Rep.)'to Congret3. Doth parties
claim Oregon.
The Election.
Auousta, November 5.—Returns from forty-five
counties foot up a Democratic majority of 24,003.
Eighty-seven counties to hear from. The Democrats
claim tho State by over 40,000 majority.
Wilmington, N. 0., November 5.—Returns thus
far, show Democratic gains in nearly gll the counties*
bat it is not generally thought'the gains are sufficient
to overcomo the former Radical majority of twenty
thousand. Shober, Conservative, cortainly elected to
Congress in the 9th District. Partial s from the
7th District indicate the election of Durham, Conser-
sative.
Hartford, November 5.—Grant’s majority is 3141.
Total vote of the Stato 99,000.
Montgomery, November 5.—The negro counties of
Alabama which gave Grant majorities' have been
nearly all heard from. Tho majorities, it is thought
by the Democrats, will be easily overcome in the
white counties. They seem very confident that Ala
bama has gone for Seymour by a handsome majority.
Montgomery, November 5.—No official returns
have yet boen received of the election in this State.
The registration and voting, in the negroe counties,
was unusually full, while the white oounties, In many
instances, had no opportunity of registering. Tho
Legislature is still without a quorum.
Charleston, November 5.—Tho returns from the
Stato come in slowly. Anderson, Greenville, Spartan
burg, Lexington, Oconee and Pickens counties give
largo Demoeratie majorities.
In Abbeville tho contest is close aid the result
doubtful.
Columbia goes 25S Republican majority.
From tho seaboard counties, which form tho Re
publican stronghold, returns come in very slowly.
It is impossible to stato tbe general result in the
Stato with certainty, but tho indications aro that tho
Republicans have carried it by a reduced majority.
Tho Democrats claim to have elected t$ro Congress
men.
New Orleans. November 5.—Returns from? the
country parishes show tho same disparity in tho vote
—it is as groat as in this city. St. John, St; James,
St. Charles, Concordia, West Baton Rouge, West Fe
liciana, and Iberville and Algiers, give Republican
majorities. Claiborne parish, with Only thirteen
hundred white votes on tho old registry, gives twenty-
nine hundred Democratic majority. St. Helena par
ish, with tho same disparity in registry, gives ono
thousand Democratic majority. The corrected Dem
ocratic majority in this city is twenty-three thousand
six hundred. The entire Demoeratie Congressional
delegation elected. The Democratic majority in the
State is not far from thirty thousand.
August A, November G.—Returns from seventy
counties give a Democratic majority of over 30,000.
Charleston, S. C., Novembor G.—Returns from
the interior show the Republican majority in the
State will bo largely reduced. Reed and Simpson,
Democrats, aro certainly elected to Congress from
the 3d and 4th Districts, and Rowcn, Republican*
from 2d District: 1st District in doubt, hat favor the
Republicans.
Raleigii, November G.—Tho election returns aro
yet so incomplete, that it is impossible to say with
certainty how tho State has gone. Tho general opin
ion is, that it has gone for Grant by a foaj trity of five
thousand, more or less. *•
Large Democratic gains wero made in tho 1st, 2d,
3d and 4th Congressional Districts.
Cobb, in tho 1st, Heaton, in tho 2d, Dawson, in tho
4th and Lash, in the 5th Congressional Districts, all
Radicals, are elected.
The roturns indicate the election of Shorter, in tho
Gth, Durham, In the 7th, and possibly SlcKoy, Dem
ocrat, in tho 3d District.
Wilmington, November 7.—Returns are sufficient
to show that tho Stato gives Grant a considerable ma
jority, though it is believed the Conservatives have
made largo gains. Tho esthnato given by the Morn
ing Star on Wednesday approximates correctness.
That gave the State to Grant by 9,800 majority.
Returns from the monntain district received to-night
show tho election of Plato Durham (Conservative).
Tho Congressional delegation stands: five Republi
cans and two Conservatives; the Democrats gain one.
The official connt increased tho Republican majority
in New nanover county, including the city of Wil-
mington, to 1678; Republican gain 345.
Augusta, November 7.—The returns continue to
increase. Tho Demoeratie majority, from pre3ont in
dications, will reach forty thousand.
The Excitement in. Savaomah.
Savansah, November 5.—The negrses disbanded
last night, bnt are again assemblingat Telfair planta
tion. They aro said to have D. S. muskets, evidently
newly furnished. Tho excitoment in the city contin
ues. Tho citizens are on the alert for any alarm,
Hopes are entertained that no collision will occur.
Every precaution is being taken by the civil and
military authorities to preventit. Young Law, killed
by negroes on the night of tho election, was buried
to-day. The funeral was very tyrge. Another police
man died this evening who was shot «e the riot,
From Washington.
Washington, November 5.—General Can by relieves
General Reynolds in Texas. Canby will also be As
sistant Commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau for
Texas.
Gen. Meade telegraphs Grant that the election was
quiet throughout his department, except at Augusta,"
where the military suppressed a disturbance, and at
Savannah, where the polico restored quiet.
Schenek and Morgan havo decided for no session
this month.
The Debt Statement will appear to-morrow, and will
show a decrease of $4,000,000.
The Secretary o‘f War has departed for West Point,
to he absent ono week.
The Freedman’s Bureau, except regarding educa
tion, has ceased in the District.
The evening papers deny the rumors of a change
in the Secretaryship of the Treasury,
Reynolds will resume command of his regiment
on the 26th of November, stationed at Austin.
Missouri gives Grant about 20.000 majority.
Washington, ^November 6.—Gen. Rosecraz leaves
New York for Mexioo by Saturday’s steamer.
The President has si gned the extradition treaty with
Italy.
Secretary Soward has returned. .
The London Times, discussing the election,'holds
that though the Democrats are beaten and represen
tation in Congress is largely against them, they are
yet a'powerful party, and must greatly Influence the
policy of tho government. The rocoess of Grant, no
one is disposed to regret. .He has fairly won his high
rank by hard work, by real devotion to his conntry,
and by services whieh will live long in its remem-
berance. He ’ is no politician and will take his offioe
with more freedom than if he had nttered all the
shibboleths of party.
An application for an appeal in the Surrattcase was
dismissed. Surratt is now. absolutely free.
Mr. Johnson, Demoorat, telegraphs from California
that he is elected to Congress.
■ The Judges in Philadelphia threw out the Fourth
ward on acoonnt of frauds, making the offioial ma
jority 5812.
Washington, November 6.—Minnesota gives 12.00&
majority for tho Republicans. Donnelly is certainly
defeated.
Washington, November 6.—Grant left Galena yes
terday. He will spend several days on the routo. He
writes that he wonld much prefer returning home
quietly—without any demonstration here—suggesting
that a few days after his arrival his friends can visit
him at his residence.
A delegation of Democrats from New York are here
urging McCulloch's removal. He expresses a willing
ness to retire on the slightest intimation from the
President,
Government expenditures for October were 821,750,-
000, exelusive of interest.
Henry S. Hoyt is appointed Supervisor of Revenue
for Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Revenue to-day 8284,000.
The Debt Statement shows a decrease of 87,500,000.
Headqrs. or the Army, Adjt. Gen.’s Office,l
Washington, October 31,1868. J
The following order has been received from the
War Department, and- is published for the informa
tion and guidance of all oonoemed i
“Soldiers may, for oertain offences not strictly mil
itary, he sentenced by a general court-martial to eon-
flnement in n penitentiary: and if any State or mili
tary department has made a provision by law for the
confinement in a penitentiary thereof of persons wi
der sentence by oourtsmartial of the United State*■
the department commander may designate such pen-
iten tJLry as a place for the execution of any such sen
tence to penitentiary confinement: hut if no such pro
vision has been made by an; State in the department,
the record will be forwarded to the Secretary of War
for designation of a prison; the authority which has
designated the place of confinement, or higher author
ity, can change the place of confinement, or mitigate
or remit the sentence. The same rules apply to pris
oners sentenced by military commissions, so long as
the law under, which the military commission acted iii
in force: but when that law ceases to be operative,
the President alone can change the place of confine
ment, or mitigate or remit tho sentence.
By command of Gen. Grant,
E. D. Townsend. A. A. G.
The annual report of the Freedmen’s Bureau, jast
made by Gen. Howard, shows an expenditure during
the year of $3,977,000. He sees Bo necessity for con
tinuing the Bureau beyond new year’s day, at which
time it expires ,hy Congressional limitation, and his
recomendations for the future look only to continuing
the Freedmen’s Hospitals at Washington, Richmond,
Yicksburg and New Orleans. The estimate for all of
which amount to only $90,000. The educational work
and that of aiding freedmen to collect their claims, ns
it ia already, provided by law, shall, continue till
ftirtber action is had by Congress; but the Bureau
will havo surplus funds enough to go on in this work
without further appropriations. The school expen
ditures during the past year was $2,000,000, of which
the freedmen paid $360,000, Northern benevolent
societies $700,000 and the Bureau $94,000.
Washington, November 7.—The naturalization
treaty with Bavaria is officially proclaimed.
Washington, November 7.—Secretary McCulloch
decides that he has power to issue legal tenders re
deemed but not cancelled, provided, the amount out
standing dees not exceed five hundred millions.
Charles Hedges has been appointed Supervisor for
the Northern District of Ohio.
Canby visited the President to-day, preliminary to
his departure for Texas. ,
The present complexion of the next Congress is :
Senate,57 Republican to 11 Democrats; House, 142
Republicans to S3 Democrats.
Latest, dispatches from Minister Johnson do not in
dicate that details for the settlement of the Alabama
Claims have assumed a definite shape.
Negotiations for the right of way over the Isthmus
of Darien is progressing favorably. Seward and the
Colombian Minister are in perfect accord.
McCulloch has been ordered to reissue ten millions
three per cent, temporal^ loans to relieve the money
market.
Gen. Horace Brooks, of the 4th artillery, succeeds
Canby here.
A special from Lexington, Ky., says that Barnes,
Republican, carried the Rigbth Kentucky District by
two thousand majority.
Tho following is Grant’s letter declining a recep
tion :
“I will make no formal reply, but I wish you would
say to the gentlemen in charge of the movement that
I would much prefer returning quietly home without
any demonstration. I appreciate their motives, and
will take the will for the deed.’’
Customs from the 26th to the 31st ult., inclusive,
?,2,064.000.
Private advices from Memphis state that Clayton
declares’martial law in eleven counties of Arkansas.
From Florida.
Tallahassee, November 6.—Two thousand stands
of State arms in transit by tho railroad from Jack
sonville here, were seized by unknown persons last
night near Madison. A special train with a detach
ment of soldiers left here for the place of the robbery
at fonr o’clock this morning.
Hamilton is renominated for' Congress by the Re-
pnblicans. ' •
The Legislature is yet in session. It will probably
adjourn to-day.
W. M. Saunders, a colored man. is out as an inde
pendent candidate for Congress.
Later.—Harrison Reed, Governor of the State, was
impeached by the Legislature to-day, charged with
high crimes and misdemeanors in office. The charges
wero preferred by Horatio Jenkins. President of the
late Constitutional Convention, Three-fourths of
tho members present, voting in the affirmative.
All the members arc not in attendance. Gov. Reed
will contest tho case. His friends claim that the body
in session is illegal. It may adjourn to-morrow.
From tho best accounts, the parties who destroyed
the State arms on the railroad last night, must have
forced the care at Madison. They broke open cases of
riilesand broke and destribnted them all along the
track for several miles. The ammunition suffered the
same fate, and co3t tho State320,000.
Tallahassee, November 7.—About nine o’clock
last night, citizens to the number of one hundred or
more were summoned by the city and county author
ities to hold themselves in readiness to aid in quell
ing Cany riot. At eleven o’clock, there were no in
dications of trouble and the force was discharged.
The cause of the call was the conflicting orders from
Gov. Reed and Lieut.-Gov. Gleason, and fears were
entertained that tho colored peopla would be called
on to support tho action of the Legislature. The citi
zens are uneasy to-day, but will not interfere, except
to aid in preserving the peace, when prompt assist
ance will be rendered. The rumors on the streets to
day, that plantation negroes have been notified to
come in to-night, may be doubted.
One company of tho 7th regiment, about thirty
strong, is posted here.
The Legislature adjourned this morning till Janu
ary. No quorum present.
When the impeachment resolution was passed, sev
eral members held seats and voted, whose seats had
been declared vacant, by a proclamation of the Gov
ernor, by reason of tho members accepting and occu
pying other offices.
Gov. Reed refuses to recognize the action of the
Legislature and declares it to be illegal.
Lieut.-Gov. Gleason this morning demanded pos
session of the Executive Department and was refused
by Gov. Reed, who has bronght suit against Gleason
and Alden, Secretary of State, by the Circuit Judge,
for conspiracy against the Government, and they are
now nnder arrest. This case will he sent np to the
Supreme Court. The general impression seems to be
that Gov. Reed is in the right.
Later.—The case of Gov. Reed vs. Lieut.-Gov
Gleason and Secretary Alden, before Judge Coke, was
this evening put over till Friday next.
The following proclamation has been issued:
_ Executive Chamber. ' > '
Tallahassee. Fla., November 6.1868.1
Whereas, The Assembly of.Florida, as duly or
ganized in extraordinary session, held by virtue of a
proclamation issued by tho Governor of Florida,on the
3d day of November, A. D., 1868, haring impeached
Harrison Reed, Governor of Florida, for high crimes
and misdemeanors in office and elsewhere, under tho
provisions of the Constitution of the Stato of Florida,
the said Harrison Reed, Governor of Florida, is de
barred from exercising the functions of the Executive
office of the State, and the administration thereof de
volves upon the Lieut..Governor. Now, therefore, I;
Wm. H. Gleason, Lieut. Governor of the State of
Florida, do issuo my proclamation, taking possession
of the Government in all its parte, and I hereby call
upon all citizens ofthe State to support the Govern
ment, obey the laws of the State, and preserve peace
and quiet. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set myhand and caused the greatseal of the State to
he affixed, this 6th day of November, A. D., 1SS8.
(Signed) AY, H. Gleason, Lt. and Act’g Gov.
By the Lieutenant and Acting Governor.
Attest—Gso. J. Alden, Seeretary of State.
_ Executive Depasture*, )
Tallahassee,.Fla., November7,1868. >
To the Sheriff’ of Leon County, State of Florida :
Sir : I am. nnder the Constitution .'and laws of the
State, the rightful Governor thereof, and shall con
tinue to exercise the power and authority, and dis
charge all the duties belonging to the Executive de
partment, until the Judicial tribunals of the State
shall determine otherwise. To the determination of
this Judiciary I will, like any other good oitizen, yield
peaceful and immediate obedience.
(Signed) Harrison Reid,
Governor.
The following ere the articles of impeachment:
“First. He has been guilty of falsehood and lying
while transacting business with the members of the
Legislature and other offioers of the State.
“Second. I charge him with incompetency, inas
much as he has filled commissions to officers in blank,
and other irresponsible persons having issued them.
“Third. He has issued'a proclamation declaring
many soats of the Legislature vacant, before the
members duly eleoted and returned had resigned, or
their legal term of service expired.
“Fourth. Ho has been guilty-of embezzlement, he
having taken from the State Treasury securities and
money, and sold such securities and then foiled to re
turn a portion or all of the preoced* of the sale to the
Treasury.
“Fifth. He has been guilty ofcorruption end bribery,
he having bartered and sold prominent offices in the
State to sundry persons, for money to himln hand
paid, and for nominating suoh persons to the Senate
for confirmation.
“For and in consideration of these, and many other
crimes and misdemeanors which have oome to my
knowledge, I ask at the hands of the Assembly the
impeachment, for high crimes and misdemeanors, of
Harrison Reed, Governor of Florida.
“ Horatio Jenkins, Jr.”
Gov. Reed ooeupiee the Executive (rooms iu the
capital as heretofore. No guard was at the capital
at one o’clock this morning or at half-pest seven to
night. Apparently, our oitizen* fear trouble to-night,
but, as no one could profit by it, hop* none.
„ - From New w
IfEw Orleans. November 7La„
to reinforce Gen. Rousseau durin’ V? tr %
Dtanou, to the election, have C* , e ^
command. The Republican h u “ ^1
Gen. Roussfou from attach* «f\i ** Set
North. It says: His position darialt^ 1 ^ 1 .
b« been a most difficult one. and W* r <
what were his views and wish** « „
disposal to enforce those views ami •
pose to do a gallant soldier the
correctly before the world' gS* ° f
from civil life, and was well kcowr aWea ”‘ : '"
ocrat, and it is part of the ju, t;
to say that he disavowed with r ** -«
partisan bias in the administration "m? 1 ' 1 ®- 1
When violence and riot threatened u. ^ •**
mation, the troops at his command J J 1r ° rst
ful to request forces to be dispatchei £
Opelousas. He responded by l \ Fri C
troops to be eent immediately to >C n ° ri * w “‘-' l
fore they could move, the dbordc,
creased to such a degree that not» dt
spared. And knowing his weakness ! ? as ' :e:
immediately to the Secretary of Tv 66 U!t
questing that more troops be **•
him. The Secretary of War order^p 8 '*
dispatch at once from Misdanppi Vi, ,, e “- ««w
could be spared. Through the leader
parties, he made constant efforts to ■
faction. Justice to him, therefore *2**1
to our friends that he was earr.c-t
in his endeavors to protect life and’preJS*
From Alabama.
Montgomery, November 7.—Tbe 1 ■ I
tbe entire day in dheujsia.- whcW^^^I
ginning of a new session or the eontim,, ^'l
session. ll ‘
Returns from thirty countie. E ; Ve g, j
Blair majorities of 14,521, and (
23.600. The remaining counties are
counties and will probably givejSev ^
sufficient to overcome the mrOoritieT'T^
sssfe Ihe retua “
General Kews.
Cincinnati, November 5.-The tart-
zoap factory exploded ta-dav iniurir., "
Richmond, November 5.-lb e p®?,'* 1 ****
was destroyed by fire to-day. iT:t -ntii
Savannah, November6.-Ihenegroe,,., ■■
to-day. Bnt two small fights have orcunei
San Fbancisco, November6—S1I-.4*
are felt almost daily. A sharp shock
seconds last night, caused alarm. Jfe
Fortress Monroe, November 6-The w-
Spit Light-house boat has been repkcel T-
two lights as per chart. " !i £
Lynchburg, November ^-The National Bn J
two large commission houseswere burnt thi--
on Mam street. aLE
Harrisbubg, Penn., November 7—for c
arrived here en route for Washington Y®!
bowedthanks to the cheers of the ^
was introduced. "msm
Foreign Jews.
Edinburg. November o.-The Court of 1 W
final appeal, decided adversely to female 1
, It .. 13 f.'atedthat'Dulee cmie* iETitatUmfor
election m Cuba upon a programme o' liben
tion—a Cuban administration, estiblUhinsTj,
of the press and adivision of theLlandinto three}-
vinces and the suppression of unpopular its-dafo
The papers of Gaulios assert that the miHsi
the Provisional Government unanimously C n
Montpensier’s succession.
The Kingof Prussia, in opening the Diet up-
“New sources of revenue are needed toceui
creased expenses. The relations with forty. .J
tries are friendly. ”
Spain will recognize Mexico.
Olozaga has pronounced for a monarchy.
Contreras is appointed Captain General c
Rico.
Berlin, November 7—The Ministry in i
duced a bill confiscating the property cf the e
of Hesse.
Paris, November?.—Queen Isabella is t
Brussels, November 7.—The Madrid i
ent-of thelndependenceEelge, writesthatt!
sional Government will not entertain r.-o;
for the sale of Cuba.
Lisbon, November 7.—Accounts have bees rexil
of tho annihilation of the Portugese ez;eli:i:j|
Mozambique, South Africa. The expiahkaec:
ofsix hundred soldiers with artillery. Only «xj|
caped to the coast; the natives capturing ereuiq
Havana, November 7,—Later adviie-i-cnla
say Gen. Caulo has arrived. The Grari fry b
found a true bill against him.
Another insurrection is apprehended
Maximilian’s confessor, with preen’ fax i::3
peror of Anstria for the lawyers ub defaJei J
imilian, has anived.
.. Congress passed a hill allowing all leant* u
arms.
Escobedo has commenced operate’ i
rebels in Tamaulipos.
Tbe Disturbance Honday M*b
The Democratic processiou or. iksl
night was subjected to repes'.e-.' ; ' - -1
crowd of Radical negroes that folta'I
No attention was paid to insulting tforJi a
other irritating provocations, bat wir
was assailed with a brickbat and a |
shot, the spirit of resentment was a
On'Oglethdrpe street, not far from thel
House, these continued provocationsbnj
on a conflict, which resulted in tbe
one negro, man and the wounding of c
two others; and also in tbe woun
white 1 man. The negro killed wai l
George Logan. A coroner's inquest,
yesterday, over the body of Log&n,t
long investigation of the manner o,
death. The evidence given by negroes»
claimed to have been near him
killed was very contradictory, and m
parts was "directly contradicted by ot*®
timony. Some swore that he was •
man on a white horse; others that
was on a -black horse. Some teste--*
the man "was riding in one direco-•
others in another. AnatUtopt wo m
one or two negroes to implicate a
of this.city, who proved by themostp ]
and unquestionable testimony that be 1
from the scene of the disturbate J
man was killed. The range 0 , g
which entered the man’s nect .
trated in an upward direction’,.^
cated that tbe shot could nrt have b«
by a man on horseback. i
jury was that Logan came t° his a. i r
pistol shotfiredby some personnn*n<J ..
that the inquest did not believe
could have come from a man oa
We understand that there is uncer J |
which side Logan supported. ,
Frank Bly, a colored Democrat,
of the men wounded.
Another disturbance, which tu * Y|
rious results at one time^aiose u J
sault committed on John WeMj® .Y
colored Democrat, by a crowd J a
groes. They seized, beat and str
and were threatening to ki!_Lhnn _
ty of Democrats came to •
This Radical interference ..
cratic procession had no provee • ^
liate it. The Democrats have nev -
fered with Radieal processions or
this city, and have never been
in any disturbance of tbe P e J^: 0
to have been the policy anddeste
Radicals to incite conflicts and cw (
shed. And, as is usual with
in so dastardly a manner, they “ r
luded adherents scampered as soon (
ment was provoked and retaJ«
menced. .
There was some feeling in tue • e
day, particularly among the ne a
by distorted accounts of the off _
the previous night, but the whi
and determined, and fortunately'
lisions were prevented.—Odum
The State Tax on Railroad
President Hinckley, of the j «*
Wilmington and Baltimore
time since notified the
BUte of Delaware thataftertbe ls-
would not collect the ‘
imposing a Ux upon *”^ force d.
on travel, and cannot be enfort^,
is the first railroad P^tfeot w ^
this ground m this section
it is not improbable that
of the Baltimore and Ohio Com^
black stripes.
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. ! to be df^conessee iaih* church. *■ illuminate Lonaon.
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i garnering np paper, caucue, appies, ana t i nepiump utue wiaow nu&oct twitea but I chip. ’
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