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^4# <3§*JSKgi® <£*feppff ntft Jtemgtr FRIDAY OCTOBER 15, 1880. The Last I.vdigkity to Maine It la now raId that Garfield will be sent to Maine as a visiting statesman. He has large experience in making aflidavits, and can work up a beautiful case for Davis. At a recer.i police trial in London two individuals swore, under cross-examina tion, that “they got their living by buying cheap violins and by doctoring them up to repiesi.it old ones, and selling them such.” The first sentence of death in Kentucky of a white murderer of a negro has just been accomplished at Shelbyville. The ciime v. us particularly atrocious, the per- pentrator being an cx-convict and the vic tim a young girl. Gen. Grant says that Hancock’s two telegrams were sent at a cost of 8100. Feriiaps their importance justified the ex pense. The country cannot judge, be cause tiioy never have been published. They wore nJieial, and should be on file. Let us have dm telegrams! , , Eli'EH Daxiei. Franklin, a Camp- belliu: preacher, delivered a political ser mon the other day in favor of his brother Campbeilite, Garfield, at Fairview, Ind. “Ill had the power,” he said, “which Christ had over his enemies, no Democrat would be ii-aie to vole at the next election.” Georgs S. Waireb is being prose cuted iu Philadelphia for marrying bis niece. The Pennsylvania law on the sub ject says that “no woman shall marry her mothers brother,” and Walker’s iawyer argues that It does not forbid the brother to marry tue niece. A decision has net been readied. An aged miser was found murdered in his bouse, at Niles, Mich., and $500 ot his hoar*: was missing. For months the mys - •cry of the crime was not penetrated. At length a quiet, respected fourteen-year-old boy of tire neighborhood began to spend msney freely. Being accused of the mur der, he confessed his guilt. A rniVATS letter from Indiana says that the Republicans are speeding an enormous amount of money there, mainly contributed by office holders, the national banks, and brokers, in league with* John Sherman. They make no secret of this and openly boast that they have “fixed” the State for a Republican majority. Heavy Mast Year.—A Bowling Green K-n.) paper says: This is a most rema stable year for mast iu this vicinity. The growth is soenormustbattbe brandi es of the lives are aboiately breaking off and failing i<> the ground. Every species of mast, irom the dwarfish bazleuut to“the gigantic oak, is burdened with Iruit of its kind. ' On the Tram i*.—Mr. Hayes lias’ aban doned Lis .civil service, reform, and, in im itation of Grant, is going all over the country exhibiting himself. He does not create the tenth part of the enthusiasm that Grant's menagerie did. The animals au not to well trained, nor the equipage so, gorg<sous in appearance. As a show,, the Grant caravan was a success, but Hayes’ effort is a miserable failure. Georoe Washington Childs, mor tuary bard, and Anthony Drexel, the wcalhy banker, have.bought six hun dred acres of land twelve miles from Phil adelphia, and intend to make it a popu lous suburb. The enterprise is not so much speculative as benevolent. Persons of moderate means can buy lots on credit, and will be assisted to build houses. The place U on the rennsylvauiaRailroad, and will lie called Wayne. A Proposed Present.—Hf. Alexan der Williams, of Boston, has in his pos session a massive walking stick which formerly belonged to Tnoinas Hancock, uncle of John Hancock of revolutionary faule. It is in a perfect state of preservation, and is more than one hundred and fifty years old, and has the name of Thomas Hancock on its finely carved head. Mr. Williams proposes to present this valua ble relic to Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, when be becomes President of the United States. _ How Oub Colored Citizens Voted. The Savannah llecorder (Norwood) says: The negroes of Chatham county hart so little confidence in Colquitt’s promises and record that they, yesterday refused to S t him but very little support. Look at , colored vote as shown in the resnlt. in many other counties also, among them, notably Baker, Colquitt, Thomas, Morgau, Fulton, Bartow, Webster, Chat tahoochee, Echols, and others, the ne groes voted very generally for Norwood, acd they were more or less divided in every county iu the State. The prepon derance of the colored vote, however, was for Colquitt, because of his friendly per sonal relations, and so was a pronounced minority of the whites. To the Front.—Thomas A. Edison and Menlo Park have been quiet, and have been overlooked by tbe public dur ing tbe great political excitement. Mr. Edison, lwwcvcr, in tbe October number of the Jforth Americttjt Jlevlew, comes to the front again in the electric light, and claims a success complete iu all depart ments. And he talks enthusiastically of the time when electrical engines will be employed on the Pennsylvania railroad, and says he can readily obtain a speed ot fifty to sixty miles an hour with less danger of accident than occurs with steam; for the rails transmit the energy that moves the train, and the instant the engine leaves the " track this energy ceases to be in communication with it. The Washington pieacnere have issued a circular to the churches throughout the coon try calling forcarncst prayer “that God Will forgive our great national sins; tim; the foundations laid by our fathers and cemented l<y the blood of our broth ers may remain unshaken; that the peo ple may withstand temptation to wrong doing on the day cf Lire election, and that the candidates preferred by tbe majority of the actual citizens of tbe republic—the candidate who will be true to tbe genius oi our institutions, to tbe best interests of our nation and common humanity, and helpful to tbe cause of temperance, puri ty und true religion—may be elected, and ijiat the political party may prevail whose -uccess will most conduce to financial, civii and inoral prosperity at home; to j.ca hi and respect , broad, and to the fa- v or of tho God of our fathers.” That is cert licly a prayer which every Democrat can offer. Its favorabie answer will be me election ot Hancock. The Georgia State Election. Toe Moral to ee Drawn From It. The only important moral to be drawn from tbe election last Wednesday is to be gathered from tho absence of votes, and that, rightly considered, is alarming. Ap parently uot half the people voted, and the absentees embrace a very large pro portion of our most intelligent and ex- einplaty population. It was tbe resnlt of a profound and un conquerable disgust with the political situation—a conviction that the politicians have sacrificed the interests if the ^people and the State to personal interests and fends. It is the record ol a terrible judg ment against the Democratic party— “mene, mcne, tekel vpharsin”—“thou art weighed in the balance and found want ing.” Never was such an indignant and dis gusted people. The men of discord may shout over or deplore the result, such as it Is, but tbe men of sense, who arc able to weigh tbe situation and to comprehend its auguries, feel like putting crape round their hats. Within our memory and ex perience, which runs back in politics forty years, we never saw a campaign so inef fably, remorselessly and irredeemably stupid, senseless and ill-favored in every part, parcel and particular. If there has been redeeming sense, virtue or patriotism in it, it has been invisible to tbe naked eye. We have been able to think of noth ing so much as a dog-fight, and tbe loudest yelpers have been tbe best fellows. We suppose, however, that nothing bet ter can come of a mere persona! fight, when tbe attacking and repellent forces arc confined to tbe argumentum ad homi- nem. Of one thing we may be sure: that, if tbe Georgia Democracy do not in tbe future make amends for tbe past, their course will be rapidly downward to tho level of the contempt of all good men. If tbe men cf age, sense, experience and standing in the counties do not take direc tion of pnblic affairs and bold tbe inflam mable and irresponsible in check, wc may as well “bang np the fiddle and tbe bow.” Tlie Genius of Georgia is careful, consid erate, conservative and patriotic. She is not a good theatre for coup <Vetats, tricks and surprises. We must move along with justice, judgment and equanimity, or the State will not long be moved by the Dem ocratic party as it stands. Hancock and Grant; We are sure every man of sense in America has been struck with the wisdom and self-pcssessiou shown by General Hancock when Grant’s brutum fulmen telegram was shown to him. He was calm as a judge. Not a pulse quickened. Not a single word or gesture showed irri tation. He had not a word of passionate challenge or resentment. He must first know distinctly what Grant had said about him. The telegram was mere hear say evidence. He was slow to believe that any personal ill-will could have be trayed the General into an attack so groundless and unbecoming. When lie could ascertain from tbe most direct source exactly what General Grant de sired or intended to say against him, he would meet tbe charges with the utmost ■promptitude. Tillthen be bad nothing to say. How admirably this comports with all that we have seen or beard from Hancock! Tlie same careful, scrupulous, honorable, high-toned gentleman and elevated pa triot, with a massive head on his shoul ders. A man not to be distuibed by pas- slou or carried away by impulse—unsha ken in the perfect integrity of his own character and purposes, he feels superior to malice or falsehood. We feel perfect ly confident that this last and desperate partisan assault will miscarry more fa tally than any of its predecessors. The Election Laws in Indiana. Republicans Caught in the Act of Importing Negro Voters. One cause of the anxiety expressed in reference to the result of the approaching election iu Indiana is the loose and defec tive character of the election laws in that State. A sojourn for six months in any part of the commonwealth, without regard to immediate previous residence in a par ticular township or county, is the only qualification required of a voter. Hence, any imported stranger has only to be car ried to some locality where be cannot be identified, and if lie takes the oath, when administered, bis vote is forthwith re corded. It is easy to see, therefore, that any number of colored persons ipay be intro duced from the South, and voted at will without dispute, unless proof to convict them of false swearing " can be adduced. That the Republicans are preparing to utilize this foreign element is made suffi ciently apparent by tbe following inci dent, which we condense from tbe Courier- journal : On the 4th or October two negroes, Berry Mosby and Richard Davidson, were sent to Indianapolis from Bowling Green, Ky., by Rev. A. Alicnsworth, a colored Baptist preacher and Republican elector from that State, and directed to report to the Republican committee, who would take care of them until after the election, and pay them well for their services. Alicnsworth told them he had sent many others of their race to Indiana within the last six weeks to vote for Porter, and that it was a very easy way to make money. Tbe affair camo to light in this wiser On the trim from Louisville with the ne groes was a Democrat wlio represented himself to be a mail agent living In In dianapolis and In full sympathy with them. They were pleased with his ad vances, and gladly accepted ol an offer .from their new friend to show them to the Republican State Central Committee rooms. ~- Upon arriving at Indianapolis, they were taken'to the “Hotel Bat06” and pro vided for. Mr. Rice, secretary-of the State Central Committee, was informed of their where abouts and introduced as a leading Re publican. Mr. Rico then presented Mr. Neff, Warden Murdock and otbeis to tbe negroes, as members in high standing in tbe “God and morality party.” The two negroes, completely deceived, made a clean hreaat of everything, and told of a number of their colored friends who bad come to Indiana to vote for Porter. Many more, also, were expected to follow that week. Said Mosby, “There will be lots of us here on election day."” They were taken ostensibly to tbe custom house to be furnished with funds and permanent quarters, but in reality to tbe office of C. B. Rockwood, chief supervisor of elec tions, and greatly to the surprise of tbe poor fellows, a demand made for their arrest, on tbe charge of coming into the State to vote at the election next Tues day. The over-scrupulous Rockwood, how ever, refused to mako the arrest, on the ground that the “fnfenf” to commit an offense was not a legal offense, so long as the act had not iu reality been perpetrat ed. At this stage of the proceedings a young whipper snapper deputy United States marshal stepped up to the negroes, and said, “There Is no warrant against you; you can go.” The darkies then sloped incontinently, despite the protest of the gentlemen who sought to prevent a high crime against the laws of the State. From the above, it will be seen wliat a difficult task tbe Democrats of Indiana have before them, to prevent their State from being overrun by subsidized, imported negro voters, who will be made the willing instruments of a corrupt party, to defeat tbe wishes of the legitimate voters of the commonwealth. A Mystery. * Will Some One Please Explain. In respect to tbe thunderbolt launched on the 5th inst. by General Grant at tbe head of Hancock, there is a mystery which seeks explanation. Tbat assault was re ceived at this office at 3 r. m. on the 5tb, and was dnly published on tbe morning of tlie Gth. It was, as all our readers, know, the authoritative report of Dr. H. C. Fow ler of his Interview with General Grant in the study of the latter ou the 21st day of September last, and was, according to instructions, sent to tbe press on tbe 5tb. Yesterday, our first opportunity to see what the press bad to say about it oc curred on the receipt of tbe Nashville Daily American of the Cth instant; but to our surprise that paper did not contain tbe telegram or any reference to its ex istence. The Chattanooga Times, of the 6tb, bad it, because tbat press is supplied by tbe same line as we are. But tbe American, which is connected with the Western Press Association, had not a word on the subject. These facts set conjecture afloat. Was that telegram withdrawn by one route, and not by tbe other; and if so, why? Ev idently, from Grant’s corrections of the original, which were sent to our next edi tion and appeared yesterday, some very serious afterthoughts had come to Grant or to Fowler, or both. Fowler, in his or iginal telegram, had got what Grant said very much confused and mixed up with what Grant says he did not say, according to his subsequent telegram, so tbat it would take a very careful commentator to make out, by comparing their telegrams, precisely what Grant admits he did say. Did some discreet friend of the ex- President get hold of tbe original inter view telegram, after it had been sent Southward and before it bad been sent West, and hold it midway between the of fice and the wires? Did he then commu nicate in ail haste with Grant! Did he say, my dear General, this thing won’t be gin to do? Besides patent errors in his torical fact, it is full of a spirit which will nurt you and ns, but won’t hurt Hancock and the Democrats? You must stop it where it is, aud was it stopped according ly? These anil many other doubts and queries suggest themselves to impartial minds and await an answer. About Indiana. Tbe election in Indiana takes place next Tuesday, and everywhere expectation is on tiptoe to hear the result; for it is com monly said that if Indiana goes for Han cock tbe battle is won. A few days ago, tbe Philadelphia Times sent an impartial, long-headed observer to Indiana to ex amine into matters. Wc think' it is tbe same man who was sent to Maine, and who astonished tbe people by declaring tbat tbe difference would not be a thou sand votes either way, and this announce ment was printed when Blaine and liis friends were claiming from ten to fifteen thousand majority. ■ In tbe Times of tbe 5th this correspond ent makes bis first report of Indiana. He says tbe Republican committee are claim ing a majority of nine to ten thousand, but it is for effect. After conference with tbe most intelligent Republican sources, he says: “They (tbe Republicans) are fighting not wholly without hope, but in all probability with the fear tbat the best they can do is to keep down tbe Demo cratic majority and show a loss as com pared with four years ago.” Of tbe other side he says: There is perfect confidence on the part of the Democrats. Mr. English places tbe probable majority for Landers at 7,000. Senator McDonald, who is not given to enthusiastic claims, says it can’t possibly go below 7,000, and he would not be sur prised to see it reaching away to 10,000 or 12,000. The Greenback vote, he believes, will not exceed 10,000. Two years ago it was nearly 40,000, and this difference will divide with tbe largest share to the Dem ocrats. Before the Maine election its drilt was toward tbe Republicans, but it has since then been going more noticeably tbe other way. Weaver’s presence in the State ha3 about broken up tbe Green- backers’ organization. The few who con tinue leaders in the movement are so well understood to be following Weaver’s tac tics to assist tbe Republicans tbat tbe’ fol lowers are all brokefi up and refnse any longer to bo followers. Tbe evident co operation of tbe Greenbackers aud Repub licans has been an advantage to the Dem ocrats in having solidified the German vote and bringing back the Democratic Grecnbackers, wlio decline to be traded off. It is McDonald’s opinion that the aggregate vote will not be materially larger than in 1878, although there will be some increase. Estimating from the rate of four years ago, the Democratic part of the increase will be greater. Con siderable account is made of the young men who vote for the first time, who take naturally to Hancock. Whatever may be English’s unpopularity, it is of noaccount. Tbe people don’t stop to think of it, and are couiitiiui for Hancock or Garfield as if they were in the canvass in November. To the same purport IS a communica tion to the Sun from a Democrat just from Indiana dated, at tbe Astor House, 4th instant. He says: I am just from Indianapolis wherelhad talks with English, Seirator McDonald, Gen. Manson, Shoemaker (owner of the Stntinel), and with all the leading Demo crats. There is perfect harmony aud more earnest enthusiasm than I aver be fore witnessed. English authorized me to say East that Indiana is safe .by a good round majority; tbat the Democracy of the State are running tbe campaign on their own money, and have a perfect or ganization in every town and-county. Gen. Manson says: “Tell the brethren North that Indiana will go Democratic by 15,000 majority.” Senator McDonald is a cool, far-aeeing man—perhaps the best-poated man in In diana except English himself (whom I believe to be tbe best " political organizer and ablest manager of a campaign in America), and the Senator aays tbe State will go Democratic by a good, comforta ble majority. It is conceded on all bands out there that Hancock and English will run ahead of the State ticket by from 6,- 000 to S,000. Mosby will vote as be shot, aga'aa Hancock. After the Battle. It affords us real pleasure to chronicle tbe fact tbat despite tbe political excite ment which has raged at fever heat in this community for weeks, the election for Governor, State bouse officers and members of the Legislature, which was held on Wednesday,passed off quietly and wifcout the slightest disturbance or breach of tbe peace. As we bad anticipated, Bibb county gives Gov. Colquitt a handsome majority, and the election returns from the seaboard to tbe mouutains show tbat the people of Georgia have indorsed and triumphantly “vindicated” their able and patriotic Governor. And now “let the dead past bury Its dead.” The supreme duty of aiding, at this critical juncture in the election of thq standard bearers of the national Democ racy, leaves no room for further dissen sions and strife among ourselves. A pure ly personal contest between two candi dates for the gubernatorial office having been settled at the ballot box, it is the dictate alike of wisdom and necessity to bury the hatchet, and fuse once more as a unit for the good of the country. We have no disposition whatever to tri umph over our defeated Norwood friends. Indeed, the whole canvass was humilia ting to every true Democrat, and we trust its like may never be witnessed again In Georgia. Tho very smallness-of the vote, after the frantic efforts of so many speak ers on both sides, is a withering rebuke from the conservative element of the State, How could they bo expected to evince much interest in a contest so personal, fratricidal aud possibly ruinous in its consequences ? The sooner, then, every incident and root of bitterness connected with tbe late ill-stirred split in tbe ranks of the Democracy is consigned to obliv ion, the better will it be for tbe welfare and happiness of our people. Now, tbe great duty of tbe hour is to support and work for Hancock and English. Let us be “up and at” tbe common Radical ene- At What Age Should Children Go to school? Here is a very interesting question to all parents. The progress to maturity may be more rapid in Macon than in New York, but it is equally unquestionable that our long summers are more exhausting and our ill-ventilated school bouses are vastly inferior to tbe airy and commodi ous buildings devoted to education in that city: To the Editor of the Sun—Sir: Dur ing my practice of medicine I have treated many hundred children for various dis eases, a great many of which were engen dered by compulsory mental exertion, to gether with hygienic neglect during school horns. Although some chaildren -may, at the age of five or sis years, be physically strong enough to undergo men tal training, yet from a physical stand point the brains (cerebrum and cerebel lum) of these little ones are uot sufficient ly developed to endure a protracted and irksome occupation until tbe uiutb or tenth year. I consider tbe kindergarten system, after Frobel’s, the best method in bringing up children to a certain age. They ought not to be subjected to so rigid a discipline as is generally adopted in our public schools, but should be instructed after an easy, pleasant, and amusing method (for otherwise it inayliare a reflex action on the brain). There is too much cramming in the present system; if the brain is not ready to receive it is useless, ahd to a certain degree even criminal, to resort to compulsion. As regards ventilation it is very imper fect; so much so that, owing to the over crowding of some of tlie rooms, tbe oxy gen (which is the element in the atmos phere, absolutely necessary to life) con tained therein becomes speedily used up, and Us place is taken by carbonic acid gas (which is a product of the waste of the body, and is exhaled through the lungs). This consumption of oxygen aud surcharging with carbonic acid produces a vitiated atmosphere, which will poison the system in direct proportion to the state of vitiation and the amount inhaled. Hence so many diseases of the nervous system. The rapid and frightful increase of insanity is greatly attributed to over taxation of the nerves, and may in many instances be traced back to early child hood, as is tbe opinion of some of the most prominent physicians and writers on nerv ous diseases in Europe, such a3 Dr. Vail- lant, Professor at l’Academie d9 France, Paris; Dr. Erb, Professor of tbe Leipzig University; Dr. Hasse, director of tbe In sane Asylum iu Koenigslutter (who, by the bj, treated seven pupils in one "day suffering from nervous prostration due; to mental exertion); Dr. Ziuu, from Ebtrs- walde, who presided at tbe last meetsng of tbe Association of German Insane Asy lums, held in Eisenach, the other lay, and others. All agree tbat a great chjnge in tbe educational system Is necessary, and will Lave to be insisted upon. ’ George Vallaint, M.D., Pb.D. New York, Oct. 1. The Irish Trouble. The Irish news is alarming. Kents seam to be tending all one way-to a possible renewal of the struggle iorsepa- ration and independence, which, as alight against physical and political geognpby, cannot win. Nature decrees the paitical unity of tbe United Kingdom, and Hood sbed for separation is lost. But it fe easy to see how tbe anti-rent movement Aiust, as things now tend, soon become tolora- bly, If not actually, “another rebilion.” Tho people banded together to reist tbe collection of rents come in conflit with the police, and the latter, reinfoccd by the military, soon create a condtion of guerilla war, as barbarous as it ,Vili be unavailing—for all agree tbat lb rents cannot be collected in tbat way. j This brings a deadlock, which (rest be met by negotiation—by hanonizing, if possible, on some plan whict will be sustained by Irish opinion, cr ley must be broken down by forco—the sirn logic of the bayonet. A military Ireland for this purpose wouli horrible to contemplate. It tate Ireland, and demoralize . the whole kingdom. Such trouble on tbe back of Brills’ bilities and engagements abrid, would strain national credit, confidecc and re sources. ; A civil war, in any country,* tbe most enfeebling of all conditions. It assaults tlie foundations of a governmc-*, and par ticularly would this be cleplqable while involved in so many foreign explications as now demand tbe attenion of the British government. As enormous as is the wqdth of that government, it all rests oncredit. Tlie single item to ber credit against- her indebtedness is popular cofideuce. No one imagines the debt of treat Britain 4-ill ever be paid, aud yet it U “good as gold,” because - no one doXts tbat tbe Interest on It will always be. forthcoming at the day. But if the time should ever dome wheu an accumulation of domestic and foreign ills sliouid serisusiy threaten to reduce British revenues to a poiut at lyhich it should be Impossible to meet interest, all that property represented by tye public debt would be swept out of ex- Lence. Nor could tbat enormous fabric of funded wealth endure tbe suspicion of be ing iu hazard without disastrous conse- A Rejoinder to the Letter of General 'uecn successful. The result of yestcr- nr,nrwu>o !„ » ■ day’s election, however, not only averts this disaster, but will tend hereafter to quences, world-wide iu their character. The tranquillity of the United Kingdom is almost as essential to the prosperity of this country as it is to her .own. A civil war or a serious disturbance threatening it, will smite cotton and all our crops with paralysis. We may very well, therefore, “pray for tbe peace of Great Britain.” Lawton Atlanta, October 4,1880. To the People of Georgia: I have seen in the Constitution of yes- prevent any further effort to disrupt the party, inasmuch as it shows that, party The Tone of the State Press on the Late Election. ’We’are pleased to notice so little of a boastful spirit in the comments of the Colquitt papers upon the result of the re cent election, and the splendid triumph of their favorite. It should not be forgotten tbat tbe Nor wood men form an important element in the r nmocratic party, and both sides vo ted the same ticket, save in the single in stance of a choice for Governor. Moreo ver, that unless all past differences are forthwith buried out of sight; Georgia may lose her present unbroken Demo cratic representation in Congress, to say nothing of placing in jeopardy the cause of our national standard bearers, Han cock and English. Besides, what is there left to divide about since tbe one personal issue has bien irrevocably disposed of, aud iu the next gubernatorial race Governor Colquitt, should he be desirous of serving for another term, is ineligible under tbe constitution. Even tbe question of who shall be elect ed to tbe United States Senate is. practi cally no longer before tbe people, but de volves upon their Representatives, already chosen, in tbe next Legislature. The time, then, is opportune for a perfect -reconciliation of our late family quarrel, which we trust will never be renewed agaju, under any pretext whatever. Bet ter consent to yield personal predilections a thousand times than run the ieast risk of disrupting tlie party, whose continued success is essential to the future prosperi ty and happiness of the commonwealth. . • We hope then tbat the little exasperat ing flings of our Atlanta contemporary against the Norwoodites (albeit for the most part meant in fun) will be continued no longer. They are neither magnani mous or becoming. And it must over be borne in mind that party lines were not and could not be drawn in the late can vass, for the best of reasons, that neither candidate had been regularly nominated. Once more, then, we call alike upon Col quitt and Norwood men to close up the broken ranks of tbe Democracy, and let us all rally as one man in tbe support of Blount and tbe Hancock and English electoral ticket. Who is to be Believed? General Grant, in his Warren (Ohio) so-called speech, asserted that in fourteen States of the Union, now under Dcmo- cratic ruie, there wa3 no such thing as protection at the polls in tlie exercise of the ballot. Per contra, Senator Bayard in bis late speech in Columbia, South Carolina, emphatically proclaimed tbat “to-day one of tbe dangers tbat confronts us is the declaration of the leaders of the Republican party that tlie safety and wel fare of the people require the power to be kept in the bands of tbat party. Under tbat pretext they have resorted to official interference with elections which threat ens^ make elections no longer free.” We of tbe South know that the noble Senator from Delaware Is right; and, so far from giving credeneo to the shameless assertion of Grant, are living witnesses to the fact that it was the speaker himself, even the veritable aforesaid Grant, who obstructed and even took possession of tbe polls in several of tbe Southern States, to the utter subversion of free local govern ment. WIsat a pitiful object is an ex- President of this great republic engaged as partisan in a political canvass, and slinging slanders at tbe heads of bis former constituents and countrymen. Ulysses Grant, by thus traducing tbe South, and maligning a brother officer and rival who proudly bears aloft the standard ol the Democracy, has, if possible, fallen lower than ever before in the eyes of all decent people. Ohio and Indiana Are in a condition of absolute frenzy, and it is doubtful whether Indiana will get through election day without trouble. It is confidently stated tbat the negro im portations into Indiana now number 10,- 500, and as the effort to vote them will be sternly contested at tlie polls, the danger of conflict is apparent. The flood of money sent from New York, Boston and Phila delphia by the Garfield men within ten day3 now amounts to about half a mil’ion dollars, and there are ludicrous reports of tbe scramble for it among the rival com mittees of these States. The extraordina ry importations of men and money into Indiana seriously imperil Democratic chances there, but tbe result, if the State goes for the Republicans, will be devoid of political significance other than that it lias been carried by money and fraudulent votes. Senator Wade Hampton introduced bis speech at Marion, tbe other day, with this personal reminiscence: My friends, in tbe good providence of God I am spared to meet you onco again; [Voice: “Thank God!” Cheers.] to look into the faces of tlie kind women and good men who extended the warmest sympa thy to mo while I was hovering betweeu life and death. I entered into tho canvass not because I thought I was needed berc, not because I thought I could do good, but because I wanted to thank tbe people wlio have honored me more than any man under God’s sun. [Cheers.] I wanted to tell the people whom I loved next to my God that my last thought should bo of them—of gratitude for their sympathy aud kindness. [Cheers.] It seems tbat in this meeting there is something more than a mere coincidence. The reverqnd gentleman wlio opciioil oiir proceeding, with prayer will remember. On tbe night Vm i ias given up as on the point of death, when the pains • of dissolution seemed almost over for me, I received a letter from Mr. Walker stating that the MenioUistConfer- euce in session at Newberry bad devoted an hour to prayers for my recovery. The letter said that they bad done all they could, aud that I must now exert myself and determine to get well. And I did. That night it seemed to me tbat I was borne on invisible wings to every county in South Carolina, where I saw great gatherings of the people as of yours to day, all prayiug for my recovery, and the nest morning I told them that the crisis was over and that I should recover. The commissioners of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company state that a large amount (about one hundred thou sand dollars) of the dividend of ,tcn pol ecat. recently declared by them still re mains uncalled for. Depositors are urged to collect the amount’due them as prompt ly as possible. Pass-books may be for warded by mail or express or seat through tank* Fished in that paper on the 26th ult., in which the Geueral admits that what ever may have been true in tbe past, be is now a candidate for United States Senator. But be declines in his commu nication to lay down any platform make any promise as to his course in tbe Senate if he should be elected. The General says be will not, for the purpose of securing favor, make any promise which he has no intelligent hope of.being able to perform, and he therefore very ju diciously declines to make any promise at all. There is a single point in General Lawton’s reply which £ think proper to notice. ’ V •-. In reference to my course on the recon struction measures, General Lawton roakei tbe point tbat I advised the accept ance of the terms dictated by the con queror too soon. He thinks it was better to suffer and endure for a season than promptly “to cast reproach tfpon the memories of those who had fallen in our cause. After we had made as gallant a struggle as any people on earth ever did make, and were finally compelled to surrender to overwhelming numbers aud boundless resources, how did we, when disarmed and hopeless, cast reproach upon the memories of those who'had fallen In our cause, by accepting the terms dictated by the conqueror, who stood over us with an army of one million two hundred thous and men upon the muster roll ? If I cast reproach upon the memories of our dead heroes in 186S by advising tbe acceptance of the terms dictated by the conqueror, did not General Lawton and tbe Demo cratic party cast like reproach upon their memories by accepting the same terms in 1872 ? If the acceptance of the recon struction acts and the constitutional amendments was a reproach upon their memories in 1868, and* tbe acceptance of the same measures iu 1S72 was not a re proach, will General Lawton inform the public at what precise point of time be tween 1868 and 1872 such acceptance ceased to bo a reproach ? How long are we to cherish the memo ries of our gallant aud heroic dead who fell in our glorious cause ? Shall it be for four- years only ? If so, then I was wrong in accepting the reconstruction arts in 1868 and my opponent was right in accepting them in 1872. But if it is our duty and that of our posterity to cherish their memories peipetually, as I hold that it is, theu I ask my opponent bow it could be a reproach on their mem ories forme to advise an acceptance of the terms dictated by the conqueror in 1868 and not a reproach for the Demo cratic party of the Union to accept the very same terms sin 1872 and reiterate with increased emphasis the same accept ance in 1876 and 1880? If we had all accepted in 1863 we would have been readmitted to represen tation in Congress and relieved of all semblance of carpetbag rule, and our “prevent position wouldhave been asgood as it now is” four years sooner, and we would by tlie wisdom of our course in a still higher degree have retained tbe re spect of our enemies and of the world, which lie says we now so proudly enjoy. Let us, for a moment, take a’ practical view of this subject and judge of the merits of the act by tlie results tbat fol lowed. South Carolina, Louisiana aud Florida, in 1868, followed the ad vice of the school of politicians to -which General Lawton belongs, and tbe white people of those States refused to accept the recon struction measures or to take any part in the proceedings under them. The result was the government of those States wa4 placed under thcfcontrol of carpet-baggers apd corrupt adventurers, where it re mained till 1876. If they had followed the example of Georgia and had taken part in tbe reconstruction of their respec tive States, as a large patriotic element of our white people did iu this State, and bad by that means secured as good a constitu tion as we did, the government of those States would have passed intb the bands of their intelligent people as ours did in Georgia, and there would have been no corrupt returning boards in power in those States in 1870, am! President Tilden would have been returned as elected, and we would now be completing a four years’ term of Democratic rule. And in place of the depreciated credit which those States now unfortunately have in the markets of the world, they might stand in the proud position occupied by our own beloved State, and with credit as high and unlimited as ours. The contrast between the position occu pied by Georgia and our sister States above mentioned m a degree illustrates the difference between the prompt accep tance of the reconstruction acts advised by me and partially practiced by the white people of Georgia and the persistent re fusal to accept as practiced in the States above mentioned. Hid South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana by “suffering and enduring” for so long a term and losing to the Democracy the presidency in 1870, cast less reproach upon the memories “of those who bad fallen in our cause,” than did Georgia by accepting more promptly and thus securing ber vote to the Demo cratic candidates in 1872 and 1876 ? The proposition in favor of prompt acceptance is too plain for argument. To state it in tbe light of cur experience for the last twelve years is to demonstrate it. Tbe reconstruction measures secure to tbe colored race tbe right to vote under tbe 14tli constitutional amendment; the race with this right secured is to be count ed in tbe representative population of the States where they are located. This gives to the South about thirty Representatives in Congress and as many in tbe electoral college, which she would not have under tbe 14th amendment if the ballot bad been withheld from the colored race. This is one of the fruits of the recon struction measures. Strike tbat number of votes from the electoral colleges in tbe Southern States, and every man who re flects sees at once that the election of Hancock and English would be an impos sibility. It follows, therefore, that I was not wrong in 1S68 when I advised tlie people of Georgia and of tbe South to ac cept promptly the reconstruction meas ures, and thereby secure readmission in Congress. Nor did I cast reproach upon tbe memory of our heroic dead by my course. Four years later the Democracy did just what I bad advised in 1868, and then repeated tbat act in 1876, and-again in 1880. And without the benefit of the colored vote, which was secured to tbe South by the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, tbe triumph of the Demo cracy in the present election wonld be an impossibility. In tbe light of all these facts, I leave it to you, fellow-citizens, to say whether I was untrue to Geoigia when I told ber tbe truth, and, at tlie ex pense of my popularity, gave ber people good advice. At it appears by General Lawton’s let ter that he had. not seen the reports of his speeches tbat appeared in some of tbe newspapers, and as be denies tbe correct ness of those be did see, in which he is re ported as assailing me, I see no other point in his published communication which requires attention. I therefore ibis communication with the single General Lawton is satisfied to my published letter, I certainly liave v^gaaaon to be disatisiied. i am, very respecw-niy, your fellow-citi zen aud obedienuervai;/ ieiiow-cm Jose**, E. Brown. terday the reply of General Lawton tomy in the State is too strong to be re communication addressed to you and pub- resuU . g a!i0 gpecifioa , Iy gratifying to Governor Colquitt. He has been as sailed, we dare say, with more bitterness than has ever previously been displayed toward any gubernatorial candidate in Georgia. His majority shows the entire confidence which the people of the State have in his integrity and capacity, and his “vindication” is thorough and complete. It is a source of sincere congratulation that the campaign is over. Its tendency has been only to create animosities, ex cite personal bitterness of feeling and lead to estrangement between friends and brethren of the same political faith. It earnestly to be hoped that now'there will be an entire acquiescence In the result that words spoken and charges uttered during the heat of the conflict may be for gotten, and tbat the Democracy of Geoigia will, with closed ranks, determine that in November she shall maintain her reputa tion as tbe banner Democratic State of tbe Union. London Fogs and the Death Rate. —The kind of work done by the Meteo rological Society of Scotland, accbrding to their last report, aptly Illustrates the va riety of ways in which meteorology is Mi tering into relations with the every-day business of life. The intense cold of last winter flooded them with requests for in formation as to the average damage done to gas-pipes, drains, etc., by extreme cold, and its effect on tbe herring fishery was also an object of high interest to many others of the society’s correspondents. One of the most curious papers present ed to the society last year was that of Dr. Arthur Mitchell, upon Loudon fogs m re lation to health. These fogs, he showed, enormously increased the death-rate all round, and tbe increase was contemporaneous with a low death- rate in other tovrn3 where fogs prevailed. Asthma wa3 the disease most fatally influenced by the great fogs of November, 1879, and the February of the present year. Deaths from bronchitis and other lung diseases seemed to be in fluenced by the fogs, but not in the mark edly close and direct way characteristic of asthma. But with regard to the whoop ing-cough, the pernicious effect of the fogs was noticeable in an alarming increase in the mortality from this disease, an in crease which did not abate as in the case of asthma, with the temporary clearing of the fogs. The deaths from rheumatism and croup showed no relation to the prev alence of fogs, and, generally speaking, the persons who suffered most were those compelled to earn a livelihood by outdoor employment.—Examiner. How She Snubbed Them.—A little lady satisfied herself with a peculiar re venge recently at the Grand Central Ho tel in Tahoe city, on Lake Bigler, Neva da. The place is a kind of Western summer resort. The lady came one day with her two children, all dressed verv modestly and even plainly. The swells of womanhood turned up their nosc3 at her; she must be nobody, so she was giv en to understand that she must consider lierself snubbed. This thing went on for some days, till at last she sent borne to San Francisco for tbe rest of her clothing and tbat of ber children. Next morning she came to breakfast in a magnificent morning dress made by Worth, and pro fusely ornamented with diamonds, and her two little children were dressed up to look a3 pretty as pictures. Everybody seemed anxious to say “Good morning, Mrs. Smith,” but Mrs. Smith didn’t good morning to any very cordial extent with any of the snobs. She did wliat polite ness required; but tbat was all, and was extremely distant to all. She cut them this way for about a week, then packed up her nine Saratoga trunks and sent them borne, and resumed her plain and comfortable vacation clothes. , The Science of Kissing.—Science in the last few years has gained a terrible foothold in this world. It has rattled the bones of old fogyism, made pi out of tbe worn-out theories, upset ideas which Lave been established for centuries. Tbe lat est and most astonishing feat that has been developed is that there is a scientific mode of kissing. The day when a young man could grab a girl around tbe neck and gobble a kiss in a rough but comfortable manner, is past. The time when he could circle ber waist with oue arm, and get his shirt bosom full of hair oil and piroutte his lips over every square inch of her countenance, is no more. Science has proclaimed against it, and man shud ders, but remains silent. Tbe old style of kissing, which sounds- like some one tearing a clap-board off a smoke-house, is now considered bad taste, and conse quently is rapidly going out of fashion, although the majority of girb admit tbat science has cruelly destroyed all the com fort of a long-lingering, heart-thrilling kiss, and causes them to express no little regret at tbe change. The improved scientific method ol kissiDg is to throw the right grm languidly around the fair one’s shoulder, tilt the chin up until her nose is pointed at au angle of forty-five degrees, or rather until it has an aspect resembling the bow-sprit of a clipper- built sloop, then stoop slowly and gaze about her lips in a quiet, subdued sort of way, tickle her nose with your mustache until she cries “Ouch!” This is scientific kissing, but there is no consolation in it— nothing to make a man feel like a couple of gal vanic batteries were galloping along his spinal column. It is fiat, lukewarm; it lacks substance, and if not stale is at least unprofitable.—Xew Orleans Times. What a Colored Pensioner Gets.— Dr. Boynton, U. S. Pension Agent at this place, received, yesterday, a pension cer tificate for Thomas Jeflerson, late a pri vate of Company B, 52d regiment United States colored troops, Who resides at Vicksburg, Miss. He is pensioned _ follows: $20 per month from 6fh of May, 1800,'and $31.25 per month from 4th of June, 1872, and $50 per month from 4ili of June, 1874, and $72 per month from June 17,1870. His first payment will be to September 4,18S0, and amounts to $0,- 543.14, aud he will continue to draw S&W annually. His disability is loss of both feet.—Knoxville Chronicle. The Savannah News on the &ate r . natorial Election. Theretunw so far received from the guoeitutorial election hold yesterdiy, are more grttifying than was ever anticipated by the saDguine friend of Governor Colquitt. The indications are that he has been reelected h r i ea , t 40,000 ma jority, and vl$o estimate, so ing off, is likely tfl be increlSU. . j further retunAcome in. The result is-^ecially gratifying, inas much as it sendSereeting to the national Democracy that Jje Democratic party of Georgia is invincibly Look at it as we may, and taking tlie most charitable view possible, tbe revoltof the minority of tbe Atlanta convention 1 against tbe action of that body, woul(have been attend** with serious oonw quaere to the party bad it Bill Arp’s Lecture in Columbus.— The Enquirer-Sun thus speaks of the re cent lecture of Major Smith iu Columbus; Last night a shower came up about tbe hour for attending the lecture, and many were thus denied the pleasure of hearing the distinguished humorist. Mr. Thomas had previously engaged the opera house for the purpose of delivering a political speech, and as he could not be induced to give way Major .Smith delivered bis lect ure in tlie college chapel. Uis audience, though not very large, was select and ap preciative. His receipts were larger than he reasonably hoped to receive under tbe unfavorable circumstances. His lecture throughout was chaste, in structive and abounded with humor and true wit, and was enthusiastically enjoyed by the entire audience. His reference to his courtship was a source of much enjoy ment to the college girls, who were out in numbers, and no doubt their hearts beat approbation as be advocated earlv marriages. His delineation of tlie character of tlie aristocracy of ante bellum days was the type of the “Southern gentleman,” and many in his audience were not too young to appreciate it. Tbe lecture throughout was highly entertainiug, and we trust he may again call on us under more favora- oi* circumstance* than those with which he met on yesterday evening. We loam that there is some prospect that Mgjor Smith will be invited to deliver his famous lecture m Macon, also, in the interest of the Library Association. He arr angenlSL*, w * n ^ welcome should the A dancing idiot, ten yeanrsr resident of Indianapolis. Ever sincelii birth he has been going through the tiocs of a waltz to silent music. h» is never still in his waking loom. His mother had danced to excess wa ball Just; before he was bora. MONEY TO CAEEY INDIANA. The Thousands of Dollars Sent There bX Kcpnbliean*. Mr. W. L. Scott, acting chairman of the National Democratic Committee, said to the New York Sun of the 6th, in reply to an inquiry about the approaching elec tions in Ohio and Indiana: “Ohio has long been a Republican Slate in Presidential years. Our friends there have hopes of carrying it next week. While there are many indications that favor their hopes, we shall not be greatly disappointed if it goes Republican by from three to seven thousand. Indiana is a Democratic State. The people of Indi- ana, if free to express their wishes, would undoubted give a very large Democratic majority. The only possibility of defeating n? there lies in Republican corrup tion and coercion. It is sim ply a question whether the State can be bought, intimidated or defrauded. I do not believe it can, and in spite of all tbe confidence of our opponents tbat they will carry it, I look for a handsome Democrat ic victory there on the 12th instant. I know something of the extent and charac ter of the efforts the Republicans are mak ing. During the last few days $176,000 was raised by the Republicans in Boston, $100,000 in Philadelphia, and a very large sum In New York. Fifty thousand dol lars was collected here by one person; and the gentlemen who met at the Union League Club iu this city a few nights since, and constituted themselves a com- initleee to raise funds in the interest of the Republican party in Indiana and Ohio, represented not less thru from two to three hundred millions of capital. Two paexages of $20,000 were shipped from Philadelphia to Indiana within tbe past ten days. Between 300 and 500 profes sional repeaters have been sent from this city, and one lot of 130 from Philadelphia. Tbe principal portion of the latter are government employees and persons employed by the city govern ment in Philadelphia, all of whom are re ceiving their pay while engaged in their nefarious work. Tho meeting of the Boys in Blue at Indianapolis is to be used as a cover for assembling desperate characters from all parts of tbe country, prepared to do desperate work on election day. The importation of negroes from all quarters, even from comparatively distant points, is carried on openly, and it is no secret that all the power tbat tbe United States gov ernment can exert in any way through its agents is to be used to save Ohio and gain Indiana to the Republican party. The gentlemen who are raising these vast sums for the October elections know tbat they are not needed for legitimate expenses. “I can stand in tbe centre of Wall street and throw a stone that wiil reach tbe offices of from five to ten. bankers and banking firms, whose profits from govern ment patronage amount to millions. One national bank, with a capital ol $530,000, within the last four years suddenly accu mulated a surplus equal to several times its capital. These banks and bankers have been monopolists ol the gains of the syndicates, and have made in a few years fortunes, in comparison with which, tbe gaius of Jay Cooke and bis associates were small. I am credibly informed of one gentleman, largely interested in the manufacture of sugar in this city, who, during thejpast month, has cleared over $400,000, and who publicly states tbat he will contribute $50,000,. and if necessary $100,000 of it for Republican success.” ^ “Judge T. V.". Bartley, of Washington, D. C., ex-governor and ex-chief justice of tbe Supreme Court of Ohio, called at the Democratic National Committee's head quarters yesterday. Ho has made recent ly an extended canvass in Ohio, and spok en in many of its interior counties. He said of the canvass in that Stale: ‘I am iutimately acquainted with tho present condition of the Democratic prospects in Ohio, and it is uiy opinion, formed from observation aud information acquired in the State, that the Democratic party will carry Ohio in tbe October election by from five to ten. thousand majority. During iffy absence I met many Republicans who declared that they would vote for Han cock, though they did not intend to vote for the Democratic party. Gen. Hancock is much stronger than the State ticket, and will poll a decidedly larger vote in November than will the State ticket next Tuesday. The Democratic party was nev er under such thorough and complete or ganization, and so active and determined and so unanimous as they are this fall-’ ” Capt. Eads’ Start in Lite. Last December, on the steamship Ger manic, I played chess with the great civil engineer, Capt. Ead3, stimulated by the thought, that to beat him was to defeat tbe man who had twice conquered the Mississippi. But I didn’t defeat hint. • * James R. Eads was bom in Indiana in 1820. He is slender In form, neat in dress, genial, courteous, and nearly sixty yeaisofage. In 1833 his father started down the Ohio river with his family, pro posing to settle in Wisconsin. The boat caught fire, aud his scanty furniture and clothing were burned. Young Eads bare ly escaped ashore with his pantaloons, shirt and cap. Taking passage on anoth er boat this boy of thirteen landed at St. Louis with uis parents, liis little bare feet first touching the rocky shore of the city on the very spot where be afterward loca ted and built the largest steel bridge in the‘world, over tbe Mississippi—one oftte most difficult feat3 of engineering ever performed in America. At the age of nine young Eads made a slfort trip on the Ohio, when the engineer of tlie steamboat explained to him so clearly thb construction of the steam en gine tbat before be was a year older be built a little working model of it, so per fect In its parts and movements that his schoolmates would frequently go home with him after school to see it work. A locomotive engine, driven by a concealed rat, was one of liis next juvenile feats in mechanical engineering. From eight to thirteen he attended school; after which, from necessity, he was placed as clerk in dry goods store. • • • Over tlie store in St. Louis where he was engaged his employer lived. He was an old bachelor, and having observed the tastes of his clerk, gave him his first book on engineering. The old gentleman’s li brary furnished evening companions for him during the five years lie was thus em ployed. Finally, his health failing, at the age of nineteen he went on a Mississippi river steamer; from which time to this day that great river lias been to him an all-abso: bing study. Soon afterwards he formed a partner ship with a friend aud built a small boat to raise cargoes of vessels sunk ,"n the Mississippi. While building this he made his first venture in submarine engineer ing on the lower rapids of the river, by the recovery of several hundred tons of lead, ne hired a scow or flat-boat and anchored it over the wreck. An experi enced diver, clad in armor, who liad been hired at considerable expense in Buffalo, a3 lowered into the water; but the rapids were so swift that the diver, thougli en cased in the strong armor, feared to be sunk to tlie bottom. Young Eads, deter mined to succeed, and finding it impracti cable to use tlie armor, went ashore, pur chased a whisky barrel, knocked out tbe head, attached the air-pump hose to it, fastened several heavy weights to the open etui of the barrel—then swinging it on a derrick he had a practical diving bell—the best use I bave ever heard made of a whisky barrel. Neither the diver nor any of the crew ould go down in this contrivance, so tlie dauntless young engineer, having full confidence in what he had read in books, ' was lowered within the barrel down to the bottom; the lower end of the barrel being open. The water was sixteen feet deep, aud very swift. Finding the wreck he remained by it a full Lour, bitching ropes to pig lead till a ton or more was safely hoisted into his own boat Then making a signal by a small line attached to the barrel, he was lifted on deck and in command again. The sunken cargo was soon successfully raised and was sold,and netted a handsome profit, which, idereas- ed by other sucee***"! enabled energetic Rads to build larger boats with powerful “-Silver Spray Cologne b the moat