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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 18, 1868)
(Thvomclc & icntiuel. \ WIWIMAT HlilW. Ml EMBER I'. The Election Returns. A subscriber, writing from Sandcravillc. says : “Why is it that you have quit giv ing us the Election returns from the Northern States? We are prepared tor defeat. Give us the final result from both North and South.’’ To this we answer we have not quit giving returns. Our ta- ble for the returns for Georgia is daily ; made up, from data that we deem authen tic. As to returns from without the State we will give them just so soon as we can get them. The final result is that Grant and Colfax are elected President and Vice President of the United States for the next four years. Th : s is ascertained from re turns so iar as received, and from ati » mn led majorities. So soon as we can get official returns, we shall certainly publish the details of the “final result,” both North and South—not only as a matter of news, but as our dutj»to the public. To illustrate: Northern Republican papers put down Grant’s majority in Pennsylva nia, from returns received and estimated, at 40,000. On the other hand, the New York World asserts that Grant is a minority President, and presents the fol lowing table: THE minority president. By the Popular Vote. states that voted in 1864. 1804. 1868. Lincoln. *y».onr. lirar.l. , , 49 Hit, b2.141| 68J58J WJAI Cfc l f O DR *;>pl 1% . 4/..VIU *' I”, w Vi 10.7.D .rJJ-ijM ** m igaSHv:::-;:.::' >»m *gS, i» w » s m f.i«i I **s;» K»M«* S7 7WI 12108* 45 W i-Jttu • • ill, ">■*• Mail,** 1,153 34.N?!' ♦ Mkmoauoxu*-- ?J' W j4 M 521 «)'.(,25 115.*: • 217,'>15 25.0(0 M'fr u mV;* 727-2): 55.014 7AK'3 flrvada n, ~71 fr.Uhl 'A Silts .39 .Jilt iv' » ««4 'OV23, Whs 70 hw ion y .**ltW 9*l <»i 4.2 MT 4' --462 juft.rX* 2-..1H 2:0.31 . H 417 BSW <1.42. iZsi«kil‘' ‘270,:1-, !SW;«: •K,vSi. S.l 18 14.34'j1 0 54p 1 w v«u..: »*£ J?d S-i£ TolkJ Urtl/.i* * Actual return*. STATES VOTINO IN 1808 AND NOT IN 1804. ,Seymour. Grant. ££3T ::::::::::::: 5S Houtli Carolina 4.. <IOO .A,M> > 1 Total «7,9T(i 43.6,539 To the estimated vote ol these States should be added those of the three States which, by the unwarrantable action ot the present Congress, have been excluded from participation in the Presidential elec tion oflß6B, namely : Seymour. Grant. Mississippi 94,845 44,845 Texan 92,065 11,065 Virginia 137,966 87,967 Total 324,876 . 149,877 Nor is this all. There are in twelve States over half a million of citizens whom the Radicals have disfranchised for parti san purposes. They arc thus distributed, and include those who are partially or wholly disfranchised by Congressional or State legislation : CITIZENS DISFRANCHISED. Alabama 47,070 1 North Carolina 28,300 Arkansas 33,800 j Houtli Carolina 18,000 Georgia ....30,820 | Tennessee 114,867 Louisiana 31,648 1 Texas 24,3.»1 Missouri ...95,000 Virginia 7,8*3 Mississippi ...32,830 | West Virginia. 20,000 Total 545,381 Grouping these figures together, the result is as follows : VOTES FOll SEYMOUR. States voting in 1864 ...2,235,920 States vot’g in *6B, notin’o4 447,970 States not voting in 1868... 324,876 Disfranchised Democrats.. 545,281 VOTES FOll GRANT. Stales voting in 1804.........2,517, 000 States vot’g in ’6B, not in 64 435,530 States not voting in 1868.... l |. Majority for Seymour... 451,637 By the Electoral Vote. On a fair vote the Electoral College would have stood thus: FOll SEYMOUR. FOR GRANT. .States. Votes. .States. Voles. Alabama 8 California 6 Arkansas 5 Connecticut 6 Delaware 3 Illinois 16 Florida 3 Indiana 13 Georgia 9 lowa 8 Kentucky 11 Kansas 3 Louisiana 7 Maine 7 Maryland 7 Massachusetts 12 Mississippi 7 Michigan 8 Missouri 11 Minnesota 4 Sow Jersev 7 Nebraska 3 Now York 33 Nevada 3 North Carolina 9 New Hampshire. 6 Oregon 3 Ohio South Carolina.... 6 Pennsylvania 26 Tennessee 10 Khodelsland 4 Texas 6 Vermont Virginia 10 Wisconsin 8 WYs Virginia 6 Total 157 l'otai 160 157 Seymour's maj’y. 8 Delaware Florida.. Political Prospects. The Democratic clement of the forty first Congress will be increased, and prob ably there will be from eighty to ninety Democrats occupying seats in the House of Representatives. This is a great gain. The presence ot a strong minority is a moral advantage of incalculable benefit to the people in restraining the license of over whelming power. The history of Congres sional legislation for the past two or three years teaches the intolerance and tyranny of an unrestrained majority. Tarty wants were made the test of patriotism. Tarty will was made superior to solemn covenants; and tho organic law of the land,the charter which gave existence and authority to the body who acted the role of legislators was overridden and derided. The Constitution was made a jest and a by-word. Those who controlled the des tinies of forty millions of people openly boasted of their acts, “outside of the Con stitution,’’ in utter disregard of the solemn sanction ot their official oaths. The legis lation of the 39tb and of the 40th Con gresses furnishes a sad commentary upon the virtue of the Republic and a striking example of the tyranny of a lawless ma jority, The presence of so respectable a minority of Democrats in the next House of Rep resentatives, will be of incalculable ad vantage to tho incoming Trcsidcnt. Reti cent beyond any candidate who has ever aspired to the Tresidcntial chair, General Grant has been elected by a majority that puts him iu a position above all sections — all factions— all cliques. We may, there fore, reasonably expect independence in action and a policy far above that of the mere partisan. Besides : The Republican party in itself is no.' harmonious. The Western Republi can differs from the Eastern Radical as much as the Eastern Radical differs from the Radical carpet-bagger. Almost uni versally the Western Republican repudi ates universal negro suffrage and the “hu manities” which is interwoven in the dominant theories ot the Eastern Radical, whether religious or political; and it is in the West that the power lies. The policy of the Republican party will be more large ly controlled in the future than in the past. We do not believe that the West will sub mit longer to the dictates of Sumner and the Eastern leaders, who have hitherto ruled this party with a rod of iron. These are, of course, mere speculations, but they are sach speculations as are sug gested and are justified by the current of events. Singular Movement is Washing ton.—We clip the following from the Cin cinnati Enquirer ol the yth, giving it for what it is worth: Washington, November S, 1868 A singular movement has been originated by certain politicians, having in view the east ing of tbe Democratic electoral votes for Grant. It is urged it would ii fluence Grant to a conservative course, to winch be is uu doubiedly inclined. A circular letter on this subject has been addressed to Mr. Pendleton, Governor Stevenson and Gen. Preston, ot Kentucky, A. H. Stephens, acid prominent Democrats of the North. The following is the text of the letter: Washington, D. C., Nov. 8, 186S. General :—ln my judgment the wisest thing the Democracy could now do would be to throw their entire electoral vote for General Grant, as an indication of the fact that, should he pursue a liberal, generous and magnanimous course, they will sustain him. It would also have the effect of not leaving him altogether in the hands of the adverse faction, and would doubtless strengthen any purpose he may entertain toward the conservative sentiment of the country. This vote can not possibly do Seymour any good, and thrown in the man ner suggested would, at least, produce a conciliatory impression. Very truly, yours, &c. The Origin of the Trouble Between i TUK Florida State Officers—The Composition of the Two Factions —A ( dispatch to the New York Times says: The trouble in Florida between Governor ! Reed and his opponents has a curious origiu. Both factious are Republican; that of Governor Rec-d is moderate and practi cal, and looks to putting the party on a basis which will keep it in the. ascendancy in the State. The other faction, led by Lieutenant-Governor Gleason, Jenkins and a few others, is composed of a set of hair brained extremists, who »re for nothing but personal gain, and who will kill the party unless they were kicked out of it. 1 When the present government of the State was framed the Republicans thought they would make a sure thing of it for a number of years at least. They, therefore, pro vided that the Governor should hold office for six years, arid invested him with <he appointment of a great many offices, in cluding most of the county officers in the State. It is because Governor Reed has not used this power iu the interest of the extremists that the attempt is now made to impeach him. The Legislature which passed the resolutions had assembled on 'he 31 solely for the purpose of choosing Presidential electors, and a quorum was uot present when the resolutions were pas.-ed. Governor Reed, of course, resists the illegal and preposterous procedure. Both he and Gleason, the Lieutenant- Governor, are originally from W isconsin, Reed is an old journalist, a man of intel lect, ability and experiencein public affairs; Glgason, who was a lumberman in W iscon sia, is a man of very ordinary calibre, and would be doing his country and State far better service on his plantation at Indian River catching terrapins than in running an impeachment machine at Tallahassee. Charleston Municipal Election— Protest of the Citizens.—The citizens of Charleston have presented the following protest against the election of Pillsbury and his carpet-bag crew: To [the Acting Board of Aldermen of the Cdg of Charleston: Tin, itndersigueo citizens, electors and corporators of the city of Charleston .enter tliis llieir protest against the election of Mayor anil Aldermen, held on the 10th day of November, A. D. 1868, and contest the election of a majority of the persons voted for as irregular, illegal and void, on the following grounds: 1. That a large number of persons were allowed to vote who were not legally enti tled to vote, and that the number of votes so taken and counted greatly exceeded the majority of Gilbert PiUsbury, and the ma jorities of a majority of the Aldermen who were reported to have the largest number of votes. 2. That a large number of persons, who were legally entitled to vote were rejected by the Managers, and teat the numner of vote so illegally rejected greatly exceeded the majority of Gilbert Pillsbury and the majorities of a majority of the Aldermen who were reported to have the largest number of votes. 3 That a large number of voters were prevented from voting by actual force, and that the number of persons so forci bly prevented from votinggreatly exceed ed' the majority of Gilbert Pillsbury and the majorities of a majority of the Aider men who were reported to have the largest number of votes. 4. That a large number of voters were prevented from voting by threats of vio lence and intimidationjthat the Special Po lice Force, illegally appointed by E. W. M. Mackey,the Hheriil of Charleston coun ty, were conspicuous and active in their participation in such force and intimida tion. and that the number of voters so pre vented from voting by threats of violence and intimidation exceeded the majority ot Gilbert Pillsbury and the majorities of the majority of the Aldermen who were re ported ’to have the largest number of votes. 5 That the ballots of a large number of voters were taken from them by force and fraud as they were about to be deposited and others substituted, and that the num ber o! ballots so changed by force and fraud greatly exceeded the majority of Gilbert Pillsbury, and the majorities of a majority of the Aldermen who were re ported to have the largest number of vo*es. 6. That the Board of Managers were j nover organized according to law. 7. That the result of the elections has never been ascertained by the Managers i of Elections as a Board. 8. That the reports of the managers of the several distinct precincts were separately and independently transmitted to the Mayor. 9. That the ballots, after being counted, wore not preserved, but were, in many cases, actually destroyed. 10. That the ballots were carried to the Mayor’s ollice and left there iuopeu boxes. Therefore the undersigned contest the said elections, and ask that the returns, together with tho ballots, shall be ex amined, and the case investigated by your Board, and that a time and place be ap pointed by you for the production of the process. ■ Heorgla Election Returns. Comities. Vote. Majorities S.wiinrn. IhiANT. SniiocE. Ghant. Appling 450 450 Bartow 1,473 008 805 Brvuti 471 J7l Bullock 425 37 388 Butts 606 247 359 Bibb 2,194 2,918 724 Burke 516 Ba dwin 719 1,065 337 Berrien 014 10 595 Brooks 1,303 158 1,245 Baker 724 .33 691 Banks 105 Cherokee 1,065 420 615 Cobb 1,634 013 1,021 Camden Charlton 156 95 Cl Clinch 311 75 236 Coffeee 193 193 Chattahoochee 533 3 531 Catoosa 447 194 253 Chattooga 534 147 387 Clayton 463 195 268 Chatham 4,643 2,316 2,325 Crawford 641 373 168 Columbia 1,120 1 1,119 Clay 502 321 151 Colquitt 147 25 122 Calhoun 939 782 157 Campbell 063 601 62 Carroll 1,120 562 558 Coweta 1,329 991 33s Clarke 1,197 1,186 II Dawson 274 316 42 Dade 31n IS 292 DeKalb 1,092 197 895 Dooly 850 32 818 Decatur 1,351 1,141 210 Dougherty 1,857 1,607 250 Echols 171 33 138 Effingham 346 116 230 Emanuel 460 29 401 Elbert 1,015 33 982 Early 648 548 Fannin Fayette 392 392 Fulton 2,812 2,474 358 Floyd 1,525 591 934 Forsyth 696 305 391 Franklin 574 Gilmer 110 Glvun 230 626 416 Gordon 894 307 587 Glasscock 334 10 324 Greene 1,001 1,200 199 Gwinnett 1,249 383 825 Harris 1,214 882 353 Henry 1,065 420 645 Houston 2,085 1,079 1,006 Hancock 958 So 873 Hart 504 241 163 Harralsou Heard 064 334 330 Habersham... :18s 172 216 Hall 623 327 290 Irwin 145 145 Jefferson 922 765 127 Johnson 232 12 220 Jasper 872 5 868 Jones 4.3 00 423 Jackson 1,055 264 900 Lump Kin 493 308 185 Liberty 288 207 81 Lincoln 824 I,aureus • 711 407 Lowndes 533 207 279 lrf>e 447 1,070 623 Milton 459 5S 401 Marion 835 201 600 Museoge 2,153 1,621 530 Murraj- 629 338 247 Meriwether... 1,159 821 338 Mclntosh Montgomery. Macon Bim 786 IS Monroe 1,652 972 680 Madison 398 91 Morgan 635 1,046 411 Miller -.. 302 302 Mitchell 677 112 610 New tou 1,528 922 006 Oglethorpe.... 849 116 733 Pierce 240 105 135 l’tke 1,»27 249 778 Putnam 645 951 306 Pulaski 929 208 721 Paulding 534 277 257 Polk 485 317 166 Quitman 312 53 259 .Richmond. . . 2,753 3,12- 375 Kabun 319 55 361 Randolph... . 969 1 968 Schley 454 69 385 Spalding 998 871 j 27 Scriveu 62s 147 Stewart 482 is> i It, Sumter 1,245 234 1,011 town s Talbot 963 49 914 Taylor 718 345 373 Troup 1,661 652 919 Tatnall .... 452 452 Twiggs 501 759 250 Taliaferro 519 187 382 Terrell 988 362 625 Telfair 291 291 Thomas.. 1,048 1,386 343 Union ... 435 280 155 • Upson 81 $ 776 37 Ware 172 86 86 Wayne Walker 524 426 Whitfield 936 651 285 Washington.. 1,076 143 9>> Warren 881 188 693 Wilkes 1,332 86 1,246 Wilkinson 900 684 216 Webster 474 282 192 Wilcox 237 7 230 Worth 273 o3 220 Walton 1,083 372 .01 White 433 143 290 Well Done Georglv— Right nobly has Georgia taken position among the Democratic States. The carpet-baggers and scalawags so managed the “Recon struction’’ of that State as to elect a Gov ernor of their choice, but the people are repudiating this blot upon the fair fame of tho Empire State of the South. They refuse to be handed over to the Radicals. —Nashville Union, 6th. The I’oullaln System of Cotton Culture. Impelled by the u- certainty and ineffi ciency of the present system of labor the public mind has been directed to de vise and adapt a method of cotton culture which will best meet the habits and j characteristics of the careful and skilled * emigrant of Europe. Fortunately, our starting point has been ■ propitious. To bring the worn lands ' of oar State into fair competition with the fertile, but unhealthy bottoms of Missis sippi was a problem' in agricultural science which has heretofore com manded the efforts of our best plant ers and practical men before the war. Gov ernor Hammond, of Beach Island (a point iu close connection with our city and in constant communication with it), establish ed anu maintained an Agricultural Club for the sole purpose oi promoting inter course, not alone among practical farmers, but also between the farmer and the factor who handled the farmers’ products, aod who was in direct communication with those who manipulated the products of the planters’ labor—the raw material. The criticism and wants of the purchaser was made known through the vendor or factor to the farmer. The wants of the manufacturer were made known to the producer, and the problem was to reach it. Each of these waDts were made the subject of experiment, and a comparison of results in friendly club meetings furnish ed new ideas. But it was reserved for that plain, un assuming gentleman and practical planter, David Dickson, Esq., of Hancock county, this State, by patient and practical effort, to devise and extend a system which heretofore, more than others, has obtained popular favor by practical results and impressed itself fully and effectually upon the agricultural community. Dickson’s sweeps and Dick son s culture, are known everywhere with in the State, and generally throughout the South. They have become common ex pressions even in the mouths of the com monest farm hands now. This has been our starting point. The present problem of the cotton farm- er is to increase production of small areas and devise that system which is best adapted to white labor. The desire of profit is sufficient stimulus to achieve the first of these ob jects. The constant agitation and dis turbance, produced by political excitement and uncertainties, impose the considera tion oi' the last and at present absorbing objeet. These make up the sum of the practical farmer’s inquiries—to reduce the area of cultivation and to increase the amount and profits of production under suchasystem of skilled labor as will not be disturbed by political bearing. Very recently the public have been as tounded by the results of the system pur sued by .Mr. James Bancroft, of Athens, Clark county, Georgia. Mr. Bancroft is, we believe, a native of Charleston. A merchant by profession, he brings nothing to his new calling but the habits of early training, of method, of decision and of close observation; keeping constantly in view the end desired, and persisting unremit tingly in that which would be likely to con tribute to that end. Mr. Bancroft’s soil is certainly not what isusually styled as rich or fertile or free and productive in the South. There arc thousands of acres in the State just such as he possesses that have lain j idle and uncultivated, simply because ! it was believed it would not pay, particu- larly since labor enters so directly into the cost of production and has been rendered so uncertain and expensive. Mr. Bancroft’s system, we understand, is simply to convert the soil into “stiltli ’ by deep and repeated plowings with tho turn plow, and the tine or colter plow, and supply it liberally with such fertilizers as by experiment he has found best suited for the cotton plant to feed upon, during its growth and while maturing. The thorough ness of preparation of the soil frees him from a large part of the usual continuous labor during the heat of summer, by pulverising it at those seasons wnich will best destroy interfering growth. His summer’s work is light, confined almost wholly to surface stirring. We learn that he has arrived at the con clusion that Middle Georgia lands can be made to produce five bales per acre, and yield a handsome profit upon the capital employed. If two halos per acre can be made with profit, it equals the production of the faruiers,of the Mississippi bottoms in their palmiest days, asd without exposure to the baleful climate of the Mississippi swamps. Wc would be glad to have under Mr. Mr.. Bancroft's proper signature the de tails of his views, and the result of his present crop, which has attracted visitors during its growth from all parts of tbe State. The lands of our State are its wealth. and he who contributes to making them available ho the highest degree, con tributes to general prosperity, and is a public benefactor. Again: we have before us a circular f.-osj Mr. Thilip Poullain, late of Greenes bore, G*., spw of Baltimore, covering “ a schedule referred &>” in letters patent granted iu May last, “Improved germinating and transplanting cup ”nd improvements in the cultivation of cotton and othey plants.” The improved cup is the frustum of a cone, having taper sides, and tot it oftds open. It is simply the ordinary earthen Sower pot, with both ends open, and inverted—the 'larger open ing beiug the base, and tbe smaller the top, The larger opening being lowest permits the cup in transplanting to be drawn up over the plant “without disturbing or rupturing the roots of the plant “by tho adhesion of ***•!» ig the sides or walls of the pot;” and dispenses wiihfj?e use of “de vices and transplanting tools’' sf'f7J?anly employed by gardeners. Mr. SvroJJain proposes hy his system : Ist. To secure t full and early bottom crop, acknowledged by farmers to be that which yields the greatest quantity and the first quality of cotton. 2nd. To economise the use of fertilizers, by so placing the compost and enriched soil within the reach of the plant, as de manded by its nature. 3d. To economise labor, by directing it to the particular point maintaining the plant, and confining its chief demands to preparation in late winter and early spring and the picking season. 4th. To increase production by prolong ing, at least, one month, “the season for blossoming and maturing the fruit or pod.” These objects are to be attained by the following method: A pit of the style and character of the gardener’s pit,(a cabbage plant hot bed), is made of dimensions suited to the extent of farming operations, to be so arranged that its eoGtects will be protected from frost, by glass or oausagg on rollers or even by pine tops: the better the protection the earlier operations may be commenced and tii» *fcW"C secure the results. A rough eimlLr pear by is erected for covering the compost, mad protecting the hands while filling the cups wttu outpost and planting the seed. To inclement weather the force is em ployed under shelter in filling and plant ing. Two seed are placed in each cup ; and the cups as planted ere placed upon a board or shallow trough or .tray ho he conveyed to the pit at convenience. In favorable weather the force is to be employed as follows: One set to lay off tfie land in furrows eight feet apart and check it at the same distance. Another set trenches at the eteog or inter section, two feet deep, and.this is done by the spade or hy an enlarged post auger. The third set, with carts or barrows, fill the holes with compost mixed with surface soil. The excavated soil does not foster grass or weeds andjis to be spread around the outer surface of the excavation or hole. The middles are to be]plowed “out” at leisure. The advanced plants, so soon as “all danger from frost is over,” are to be car ried to the field in carts or barrows on the “boards or shallow trays” upon which they have been first placed, and their transfer to tbe intersections is made easy by the shape of the transplanting cup. Mr. Poullain claims that the saving, of the cotton beed to bo used in manuring and . the savingoflabor in “thinning to a stand,” 1 will pay for “the cost of a transplanting cup” many times over, while the crop will be ensured against summer drouths. Now whatever may be the practical result of these experiments and present theories, public necessity demands and public in genuity will devise a system of cotton cult ure adapted to the demands of white labor anu to the habits and usages and accUß tomed modes of labor of the foreign skilled emigrant. _ ... We add, in conclusion, tnat it is a re markable coincidence that both Mr Ban croft and Mr. Fouilain have arrived at ex actly the same conclusion under different systems of culture, that Middle Georgia lands “may le able to produce profitably, five bales per acre.” What Will He Do With It? This is a great question with Republican aspirants. Everybody concedes Grant’s election. Every one concedes that his platform is the “will of the people.” But the question recurs with the politician, what will he do with it ? The politician is anxious and parades his labors. He has made an hundred stump speeches—all laudatory of Grant s exploits. He has made marches and counter-marches, in the bar-room and upon the boards of po litical arenas, and “should be regarded as an efficient means of attaining the glorious result.” Such services should not go unre warded. Such claims should have due preferment. Conservatives ask the ques tion, rather with confidence than solici tude—as a matter of curious inquiry re specting the “man of silence” —“the re ticent man.” Will he rise to the elevated position of Jefferson, and proclaim that we are ail Republicans all Democrats as Jefferson from the stand-point of triumphant success proclaimed that “we are all Dem ocrats," ail Republicans?” It is conceded • that the Republican party North has pronounced more emphatically against universal suffrage, than for Grant’s election to the most elevated position in the gift ofthe people. The whole South, with an unanimity never paralleled in history, has made an open, candid, honest, manly protest at the ballot-box, against the venaiity of universal suffrage and the corruption of carpet-bagism. W ithout at' tempting to answer the question, we present the demands of Western Repub licanism, as presented by the organ of the extreme of that party in the West, the Cincinnati Gazette. The Gazette says of Congress: That body will make a great mistake if it concludes that the election of Grant is a full indorsement of Congress. Even the extraordinary issue which the ill fated Democracy persisted in making, did not wholly cover up the short comings of Congress. The returns show that it gave the Republican party no strength in the canvass. Its majority in the next House will be so reduced that it will not be able to pass a measure over the veto ; and the popular majorities for Grant were so much greater than for Representatives as to show that there is a marked difference be- tween them in the popular estimation. What the country needs from Congress is not an advanced step in Radical political measures, but a Radical retrenching the expeuses of government, and of relorming its corruption. By this we refer to more than the corruption in the Executive branches of government. Congress itself is besieged by corruptionists with infinite schemes of jobbery to be carried through legislation by dividing the profits among the members. It. has enough to do to purge its own body. The more resonant corruption ofthe revenue department will not longer shield the taint of the Legisla ture. Nor will the feint of cutting down appropriations, to be made up by great de ficiency bills, serve in the place of econo my. Congress has received a warning by this election, instead of an endorsement, and if it is not heeded, the benches which now know a Republican majority will not soon know it again. To General Grant the country looks for a radical treatment ofthe corruption in the Executive Departments. To free his hands for this woi k Congress must abolish the tenure-of-office aot. It was at any time a measure of questionable policy ; it _ has worked badly ; and the necessity for a sweeping out oi the departments of the Treasury and Revenue, Postoffice, Interior and Navy demands that this impediment shall be taken away. We must have a responsible Government, which we have not under the system that divides the re sponsibility of Executive administration between the President and Congress. The interest of keeping political friends in office sinks to insignificance and contempt in the presence of this corruption which is sapping the very foundations of govern ment. We may presume that General Grant’s habits of organization of business affairs will lead him to make a Cabinet of men to whom he will intrust the management of their respective departments, and whom he will hold responsible for their adminis tration, including the lesser appointments to office. We may presume that he will not attempt the folly of Andre vv Johnson, in trying to run the whole appointing sys tem himself, down to the appointment of clerks and deputy inspectors and every thing else, which has resulted in creating a gang of officebrokers and pimps who had his ear and sold out his favors for money. No one man can attend to the whole appointing business of the sixty or seventy thousand officers of the United States, even if he gives all his time to it. No who undertakes to meddle at all with the minor appointments, and thereby per mits himself tQ be persuaded by the appli cants and their promoters, cart hove time to attend to any other affairs. ,) ohnson tried this and made the most noted administra tive failure on record, besides making his office and the White House positively dis reputable by the gang of procurers which his'system built up. Grant will no more undertake this th.SJ? would undertake to revise the regimental Quartermaster’s accounts to a grand army on a campaign. He will have a Cabinet whom ho can trust. And what the country hopes is, that he will take the men most worthy of trust in an executive capacity, chosen from outside pf any of those partisan com binations which, ,vpon the election of President, get together t.q ppomote the selection ot certain men, for their own private profit. The strongest of these in ner circles will represent no force of pub lic opinion. All of them are corrupting, and should be made to stand back. Even the men whom they pretend to promote owe the# nothing, for they only hitch tbeoisolves,'for'ipei* - gyif.ite gain, to tbeir supposed public favor ap2 pfwSpectj*. In this reform it has become necessary to curtail the system by which the Repre sentative in Congress has almost absolute centre! of the government appointments in his district, The responsibility of the Executive disappears in this mode of farm ing out bis appointing power. Naturally, this system, by which the Representative dispenses the public offices to reward those who promote his owu nomination, tends to bring forward corrupt men, who attach themselves to aspirants for other pur pose than to procure office in case they shall be successful. And thus, not only is the whole system of nominations made corrupt, but this dispensing of the offices becomes a great wrong to the party itself, who have bad men forced upon them by the power of the patronage of their own administration. . - One of the most useful ways in which this Congress can occupy the rest of its time is the framing of some such system of appointments to office as that proposed by Mr. dencies, of Rhode Island, by which candidates shall he subjected to a thorough examination by Boards created lor that purpose. When thus appointed to office on their business merits, sen their char acter for integrity, it is expected teat no Administration which intends to preserve ite p&rty by successful government, will venture to disorganize the departments by sweeping changes to i£W?rd its partisans. The time is propitious for tut creatprn of such a system. We may presume that .Grant would favor it, for it would relieve hits in a great degree from the most irk some part of the office of President, be sides assisting hintfeiq-tiling the Ad ministration. We needt&e system, not to place any obstruction in the way of a sweeping reform of the present officials, but to provide that their successors shall be capable and honest. . The great wort which the new A dmims tration will have to do requires the hearty co-operation of the Executive and .Congress, and there is every reason to suppose that this will be had. And in this we do not expect that the President will be without opinions of public policy, nor that he will subside to a ministerial officer to carry out tho measures of Congress. That he will faithfully execute the laws of Congress is to be expected, and this he will unuoubt edly to. But the President has great in fluence in the government, and the Consti tution gives him a voice in its counsels and legislation. He is expected to have opin ions on public policy, and to use his influence to advance them. General Grant is not the man to get up a conflict with Congress nor will Congress get up a conflict with Grant. There is not the least prospect of any occasion for this. But it is right and proper that the President should use his influence to promote a , right policy, and to give organization and unity to the somewhat heterogenous elements in the majority in Congress. This we shall have, of course, and this is j requisite to a successful Administration. Chinese Immigration—The Problem of! the Future. The adoption ofthe Fourteenth Amend- , meat to the Constitution of the United £ tales does not satisfy ail the political dc- , mandsoftlic suffrage questiou. Wc say adoption, because so iar as the South is concerned —because the enigmatical procla mation of the Hon. Secretary of State, in the name of the Legislative and Executive branches of the Govern- ment, gives it force and effect—albeit it i is a co-ordinate branch of the government —has not yet pronounced upon it. So far as the South is concerned, universal suffrage wears and possesses ail the force of law, and has been enforced and respect- ed as such, not however without protest. At the North the people have repudiated universal suffrage by overwhelming ma jorities, whenever the question came be fore them in the shape of practical enforce ment, under State Constitutions, when ever it has been agitated. This is particu larly true of the West; exceptionally true in the Eastern States where the question of the power of capital is greatest, and when the demands originate in a struggle against the accumulated wealth and the compe tition of the dense populations of Great Britain and Continental Europe. But the question L,' assuming a wider range —a greater significance—a more en larged magnitude than that of depend ing upon the necessities of New England. We are informed the Northern Press that Mr. Congressman Kelly, of Pennsyl vania, will introduction the first session of next Congress, a constitutional amoodment providing for universal suffrage in all the States. The introduction of such an amendment will be meeting ; the question fairly. It is just such a question as we would like to see - sued, because it will settle poli cy” which New England Sen sols have in troduced into politics. We hope Mr. Kelley will force the question Every one knows that, practically, the Declaration of Independence has been made • the law ot the land, or, at least, so far as it can be made to subserve party interests. Every one knows that Jeffersou’s declara tion, made to meet the opposition of hered itary rights and kingly authority of divine permission and sanction, “that ail men are born free and equal,” is construed to mean that equality in birth gives equality in the affairs of government; that every person of every nation and tribe and tongue, of every race and kindred of the habitable globe—African and Caucasian, Malay, and Mongolian—is possessed, by right of birth and naturalization, ot all civil rights and privileges in the adminis tration of the affairs of government of the American Republic. Every one sees and knows what the con tributions from what we term the dense population of Europe have been. Thirty-five or forty millions of people of the Caucasian race have made this nation what it is. It is true that what we term Caucasian is not of one origin, and that, on the contrary, they are composed of an infinite number of primitive stocks amalgamated in ages, of Egyptians, Jews, Arabs, Tartans, Celts, Sclavonians, Pelasqians, Romans, &c., and equally true that the Republican institu tions of Americas republic, thus far, has been wonderfully successful in amalgama ting stocks of different instincts, tempera ments, and mental and physical character, environed as they were by diverse social habits and traditions. But how far is this to be extended? European emigration from countries over-crowded by a popula tion of over two hundred and fifty million, has given us a population of over forty millions. What will the East give us when the sluices are open ? What will China, with its four hundred millions, send us as a surplus of bread seekers, and Japan, and circumjacent nationalities ? Are all these born free and equal to the privilege of di recting the affairs of government ? This question has begun to excite some atten tion at the North among tho thoughtful. We hope Mr. Kelley will bring it fairly and squarely before tbo masses, before those with whom become a question of bread, not a speculation in the humanities. The New York Times timidly brings this question before fho Northern mind as fol lows : A n eminent scholar and political philoso pher writes to us as follows concerning a question to which we have frequently call ed the attention of thoughtful meD, and which, ere long, must become one of the gravest questions for this country : “What is to be done with the Chinese influx? This subject is becoming very serious. Our age is a migration of na tions, but it is peaceful, while the old migration of nations are warlike. Twice was the Cis-Caucasian race in Europe obliged to repel tbe Mongolian influx, which was setting in like a Spring tide. It was done by most sanguinary war. I speak of tbe two most notable eases only. Where would civilization be had Attila not been driven back in one of “the Five Greatest Battles,” and had not the Mon golians, having already overrun Russia, not been beaten in Silesia centuries later ? Now, that ever-swarming Mongolian race, fit, it seems, for nothing so much as an almost rat-like reproduction, invades our territory ; but it is a peaceful invasion, and, perhaps, only the more dangerous on that account. How are we to keep them back? Will they always return, after having made so ne money ? They will gradually becofnc more accustomed to re main, and shall oar Pacific district be come Mongoliflcal—a. pieee of Asia, over lapping on America ? What a prospect! Where is the remedy ? The subject is a very grave one. Is the developed White Race to nil? this earth and ultimately to aprea.d oyer the globe, 07 are other races partially to absorb it ? Theories do not help us in cases of this magnitude. You recollect that absorption or extinction of a race has of itself nothing pitiful in it to my mind. It is not similar to the death of an individual. There is no extinction of life in the matter. The armory of souls furnishes quite many individual liyes after the extinction of a raw as before; generally far more. Extinction of a race means only non-reproduction, except in coses of bloody extirpation ; and of those I’do ffij | ** . kes Superior lomu THE FRUITS OF RADICALISM —THE JUDI" OJAL ERMINE DEFILED. The Superior Cos an of Wilkes county, adjourned over by Judge Andrews from the fourth Monday in September, to the second Monday in November, met in Washington,on last Monday. Judge Gib son, of Augusta, presiding. The Grand i Jury was impannelled and organized, ; and"having .aiired to their room, sent | in the following document to the Court; ! “Judge Gibson, Sir : “The undersigned members of the j Grand Jury, all being present, hereby known to you that they will serve at the present if so required to do. Yet ! they reel fofinjL to a*y that your i presage in this.county as a judicial otace*, to hold aCo«G.;? not acceptable to the | people. “The part taken by you whilst holding z ’udicial commission in going to a party j convention ii Chicago, in May of this I year, and then upon your return, canvass -1 jag the State for a political party, .iiii be ! jng a judge, has greatly impaired our con- I fidence and respect for you as an officer of I the Raw, "We are authorized by the members of the bar to say that they will not transact any business through you as a j udge. ’ ! This paper was signed by the Foreman and all tbe members of the Grand Jury. The Hon. William Gibson received and read the little lines, but it appears he “could not see it.” The form of holding the Court was gone through with, but no business was transacted so far as we can learn. There was never a more acceptable act to the people of Wilkes county done by a Grand Jury than this. The body of this term numbered twenty-three of our worthiest and most respected citizens. They spoke a notorious truth when they said that our people. have lost their con fidence in the integrity and honor of this man, who by his degraded and abandoned politico-judicial career,has soiled the robes of justice, which in our county have never before been worn by one of such a stripe. We do not want him here to administer upon our rights, and it is as well at least that our thieves and felons should go un whipped of justice, as that he should be at ; large among us. No wretch can be lower than one who degrades a high office to partisan pur± es.— Washington Gazette, Nov. 13th. OIK NEW YOKK GOKRESFtNUKNCK. • The Presidential Election—How the South was Defrauded out of its Foies —The Contest ia New York—R'\<lioal Intimi dotion and Fraud-- Gineral Grant and his Policy—The finances — Ihe Crash Ahead —The Wall Street Panic—The New Cabinet—England, the North and the South , etc., etc. New York. Nov. 8, 1868. Editors Chronide & Sentinel: If ever there was an unfair election it is : the one just closed. The idea of South Carolina voting the Radical ticket is of itself sufficient to stamp the whole thing with fraud. On anything like a fair vote Seymour would have received the following electoral votes, a majority, as you will see, of the Electoral College: Alabama, 8; Arkansas, 5; Delaware, 3; Florida, 3; Georgia, 9; Kentucky, 11; Louisiana, 7; j Maryland,7; Mississippi, 7; Missouri, 11; New Jersey, 7; New York, 33; North | Carolina, 9; Oregon, 3; South Carolina, I 6; Tennessee, 10; Texas, 6; Virginia, 10, and West Virginia, 5; total 100. Instead | of this we find that exclusion last us 23 votes—Virginia. 10; Texas, 6; Mississip- pi, 7. Disfianchisement lost us 31 more— Arkansas, 5; Missouri, 11; Tennessee, 10, j and West Virginia, 5 ; that negro suffrage j carried South Carolina, 6 ; and the bogus Legislature, in direct contravention of their own XIV amendment, took off Flori da, 3 ; thus leaving hut 97 out of the ICO, the four several villainies of exclusion, dis franchisement, negro suffrage, and carpet bag law, robbing us of the balance. New Jersey, gallant old True Blue, a3 you see, went for liberty and so did the Empire State, New York. The credit of the latter victory is due to this city. The State at large gives a Radical majority but the city always meets that vote at the corporate limits with so huge a Democratic majority as to swamp it. In anticipation of this result a desperate and deep laid plan was concocted to throw out the city vote at this election. Radical emissaries were stationed at every precinct to chal lenge voters so persistently as to delay the lines; and, in addition to this, the Radical Governor, Fenton, came down and made his temporary headquarters in the city so as to be on hand to order out the militia at a moment’s notice. In addition to this he telegraphed to the Secretary of War that he might need the regulars and orders were accordingly sent to the garrison com manders in this vicinage to hold their men subject to the Governor’s orders. A suf ficient foice having thus been provided, the next step was to create an emergency which would serve as an excuse to call it out, and, to this end, the Radical Super intendent of Police ordered his men to take all persons arrested on charges of election frauds before some federal official and not before the State Judiciary. This most palpable violation of State law was well calculated to lead to rioting; and then the idea was to let loose the troops, fire upon the people, shed blood, put the city under ifiartial law, and, on pretence of illegality in the election, throw out the city returns and thus carry the State triumphantly for Grant. Thanks to the good sense of the Democracy, the plot failed. Beyond a slight row, in which an over-zealous trooly loil Federal official was soundly beaten, there was no disturbance, and forth went, from this city and vicinage, the booming majority of 80,000, that carried the State. Asa result of this victory Now York may henceforth be set down as immutably safe for the Democracy. This is conceded by the Radicals themselves and the reflection embitters ten-fold the sting of their pres ent defeat. And now for Grant. The all but uni versal impression here is that he will stand conservative. I hear, on very good authority, that he has already quarreled with Washburne; and, if so, the rupture is significant. Washburne is the man who got Grant his commission as Captain, and afterward shielded him from removal when that step was agitated on account of al leged drunkenness. The relations between the two have been exceedingly intimate, and, were not my information such as can hardly be gainsayed, I would be loth to credit a disruption. One account is that Washburne sought to make Grant feel that he (Washburne) was his good genius, and had procured his election—something that Grant at once resented. Another story is that Washburne, who is a bitter Radical, and aspires, since Stevens’ death, to the leadership of the ultras, sought to mould the administration in accordance with hisown views, and that Grant refused point blank to follow a revo lutionary lead. Which account is correct it is hard to say, probably tiro latterf but, whatever the cause of schism, there has been a rupture and Grant is represented as so fearfully incensed at Washburne that at the very mention ot his name he grinds his teeth. L'ke most men of mediocre calibre, the President elect is morbidly suspicious of an} body seeming to exercise an influence over him, und a st dement reaches here from Washington to the ef fect that he is stubbornly determined to follow nobody’s decrees but his own. Men here who know him say he is bu.l headed to the last degree, and, if so, we are likely to have lively times in the next Congress. It is a remarkable circum stance, which is becoming more and more unmistakably evident as the full returns come in, that many thouands throughout the North who voted for Grant for Presi dent voted the Democratic ticket for Con gress. The consequence is that there will be a very heavy Democratic vote in the next House, so heavy indeed that if Grant chooses to set himself in opposition to the ultra Radicals it will only be necessary for him to form a coalition between the Demo crats and about twenty of the more mod erate Republicans to give him the support of a majority in the House With such a coalition, the Senate could be brought to terms by cutting off supplies. Whether Grant will seek such a coalition is, of course, not certain, but it is thought not at all improbable that he will. Avery prominent topic in the next Con gress will be the finances. Unless some thing is done before long there will be a fearful crash in the business world, and indeed, to my comprehension, something of a smash is inevitable any way. Palli ative measures may ease the jults some, but it is just as well to face the facts of the case at once and make one’s calculations accordingly. The debt is owned by the few and is borne by the many. The weight is very grievous, exceedingly grievous, and the masses of the North groan beneath it. Added to these masses are also the masses of the South who perceive in this burden the purchase money of their defeat, their poverty and their oppression. Some day, be it soon or late, the question will come, "’Will you, pay this debt?" and in that day it needs no prophet to say how the votes will go. It is thought by some that this election has already settled this point affirmatively i but it should be remembered that this was not popular election, but rather one in the interests of the moneyed class and only extending so far as that class deemed it safe to go. They may patch it up here or cobble it there. For this four years it may be safe ; per haps, also, for the next four years, possibly even tor still another four years’ term, but in the end, it’s bound to go. Nothing but despotism can save it, and so long as and lftrge majority of the fighting men of the United States are Democrats there will be no despotism under General Grant or General anybody elge. The rumor is now prevalent that at the sassfon of Congress in December next, there will be a uesr issue of green backs. A report that the Secretary of the Treasury had ordered $40,000,000 of an unexhausted issue to be' put out knocked the market down yesterday, but repeated issues of irredeemable paper money is but a poor way to prqp u falling credit, ss we ought to feelingly remember with our old Confederate experience. When the official at the head of our Treas ury couldn’t pay one dollar he issued, as a brilliant stroke of finance, a promise to pay one and a third, and the upshot was that tfis cotes ran down to three and four cents on the dollar. \ repeat it: that the financial system of these people is rotten. The ultimate value of their money is pop ular credit, and popular credit, in a Gov like this, means popular willing ness to pay. day or another it must gome to the vote ?ud," WeiuCme, ill that oauba /jone for it is to coddle uUp like a sick child. The Wall street panic, which began on the 4th inst., was particularly se vere on stocks. Barring the few that have sa'fe bases, most of these are “fancies,” or stoeirc that represent iittle or nothing, and yet are “fauiiedj” set is to say: bid and bragged, up to par and above » As soon as it was known Grant was eleoted, the “bears,” or those stock-gamblers whose fort? it is to lie and brag stocks down, raised the ety that ye were on the eve of special payments, that everything must come to the hard cash, and so forth, and so on, until those who held stocks became frantic to realize on their investments, and, as many millions had been purposely with drawn from circulation to prodace a scarci ty of funds, a panic ensued. Not seeming to understand very well what it was all about, but seeing that stocks were turn bn ling, foreign markets took fright, anddown went U. S. bonds in London, Liverpool and Frankfort. This added to the fright here, and the panic increased. When these Wall street fellows go they knock each other down like bricks in a row, and the chances are that the damage will be very serious before the scare comes to an end. Speculation is rife as to the new cabinet A. T. Stewart will probably be Secretary of the Treasury, and there are statements that Stanton is to become Secretary of War. Holden, the present pretended Governor of North Carolina, is making a bid for the Secretaryship of the Interior. Sumner is said to be after Seward's place, but it is thought more likely that Morley, the historian, will get it. It is reported that llcverdy J ohnson is to be recalled from the Court of St. James. One of the phpers here says that English wrong in 1776 has left a deep and vengeful impres sion on the American mind that has not yet ceased to operate, and as Minister Johnson has contravened this sentiment, his head must come off. I wonder if the writer, who is correct in his statement of the abiding recollection of British barbarity j in 1776, stopped to consider that "loyal barbarity in 1861 has superinduced a hke deep and fervent hate on the part of the South toward her despoilers and tyrants ? Probably not, and yet the lact is so. No man in the South has ever squinted at the justness of the "loil” view of the case but the people have at once damned him. Longstreet was the idol of the army and yet to-day he could not obtain a seat in a representative Southern convention. In their own still quiet way the people of the South believe and feel that they were not in the wrong, and that the treatment they have experienced since the surrender has been no other than most treacherous, de~ ! spotic, malicious and unprovoked. More than this; they believe that they, and they 1 only, are the fit custodians of political power in their several States. Any man, any press or any party that seeks the support of the South must be to sub stantially accept this platform. So much as relates to the past need not be put prominently forward, and, indeed, on pru dential grounds need not be put forward at all, it being quite sufficient that the people know those who seek their aid ,do not s#* lieve they were “traitors” or “rebels,” or anything of that sort, but so much as de clares that the Southern people alone are the fit and lawful State constituencies must be not only put forward but kept forward and inflexibly insisted on. From every means of information in my power I am satisfied I that the people of the North are heartily j sick of this question of Reconstruction and arc drifting into that temper where they ! will be more than willing to make the bar gain—if you will stay in the Union, help : pay the debt, and not oppress the negroes we will let you alone. Now ot all other times is the least fitted for any paltry de clarations of acquiescence in negro Recon struction, and now, as never before, is the time to press upon the Norih the justness of tfie statement they are already begin ning to appreciate, mat ou’y under the rule of its worth, intelligence, and property can the South cease to be an element ot weak ness and become an elemeut of strength. To rise ia the hour of defeat and propound such a settlement as this may seem au dacious, but it is audacity that wins the day. Let us alone and we will guarantee to remain in the Union, pay the taxes, and keep the public peace is the shib boleth now of the South. Concurrent with this it is a highly desirable thing, to use a legal phrase, to “reduce into possession” the political power of the State. So long as no violent means are employed you may pretty confidently rely on no interference from abroad. Tyrone Powers. [for THE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL, j Cotton Growing in Middle Georgia. Messrs. Editors : —A short time ago a communication appeared in your columns from a Mr. Shackelford, of Virginia, so liciting information as to the quality and prices of lands in the vicinity of Augusta, with a view to emigrating to our State. Whether any one has answered that gen tleman’s inquiries or not, I have no means of knowing, but trust some planter who has a thorough knowledge of this sectiou of country, will fully enlighten him and all others who desire to be informed on this subject. It is a matter of vital im portance that parties at a distance, who desire to bo iniormed and thoroughly ac quainted with all matters pertaining to our agricultural and manufacturing advan tages, together with our delightful cli mate, the unsurpassed health of the country, the nature of the soil, and the variety of crops and fruits that can be produced here in abundance with compar ative ease, where severe frost and heavy snow storms never interrupt the husband man. All we want is an industrious, enter- prising population to make us rich and independent ot every other country in the world, and it should be known abroad that we have no enmity or preju dice against any class of people who come here to engage in honest pursuits. All are welcome to share in our prosperity, without regard to political or religious opinions, and none need have any difficulty in procuring lands, together with our friendship and confidence, if they show themselves worthy of either. Farms can, at present, be procured for less than their real value, and in order that you may see how profitable cotton planting can be made within a short distance of the Augusta market, 1 need only allude to a few, out of many, interesting statements, received from truthful, reliable planters, who are well known in the counties in which they reside. One gentleman in Burke county says ho works forty hands (little and big), and has made 200 bales of cotton, 104 of which is already in market, averaging fully 500 lbs. each. Another gentleman in the same county makes 100 bales, which he says is one third less than he expected, yet he feels confident that he will realize more net cash on his products than he ever done with slave labor in twenty years’ experience. Another gentleman planting on a small scale in Burke county made four bales of cotton weighing 500 pounds each aud 200 bushels of corn to the hand. A Columbia county planter, working only twelve hands, has already sent to market 59 bales of cot ton, weighing on art average 450 pounds each, and last week he assured his factor he might look out for 21 bales more of the same sort, thereby turning out 80 bales or 3,000 pounds of ginned cotton to the hand. These are facts which cannot be dis puted, as I can at any time furnish you with the planters’ names, together with their factors, who can corroborate their statements. Besides these are not isolated cases, for I could,allude to numerous farm ers who have properly attended to their business that have been equally successful. I will close, however, by giving you the ex perience of a poor Presbyterian preacher in or adjoining Burkec i., who never before attempted to make a bale of cotton in all his life, but necessity this time compelled him to make a trial; tor, says he, "my prarishoners being unable to support me I procured a ton of Peruvian Guano and applied it to ten acres of what might be called worn out land. I hired one white man to do the work and the result of his husbandry, with precious little of my as sistance, amounts to eleven heavy bales of cotton.” Whether he expeoted more or not I did not stop to inquire, hut I thought this case clearly demonstrated the utility of white labor in this latitude, as the pro duct, at present prices, would be considered quite a little fortune for any two European laborers. Now, in view of these facts, is there any cause for despondency or any reason why land should not he higher in this country than it ever has been? If there be any erokers in the land let them cease grumbling and go to work with a hearty good will, for, if money can’t be made in Georgia, they need not go to Brazil or any other couutry expecting to improve their condition. . Countryman. Vote of Suites, MARYLAND. Maryland gives Seymour 58,309; Grant 20,468 ; Seymour’s majority 31,841. PENNSYLVANIA. The Republican majority in this State now foots up 28,397, the returns from thirty counties beipg official, and the rest reported. Thirty-six counties are yet to hear from, which, it is believed, will make the Republican majority nearly 40,000. NEW YORK. The World claims for Seymour a ma jority of 12,565 in New York State, and for Hoffman a majority of 31,529. The Times concedes 6,942 majority for Sey mour. The Tribune gives Seymour 7,441, and Hoffman 23,830 majority. DELAWARE. The full vote in this State stands as fol lows: President -Grant 7,633 ; Seymour 10,953 ; majority 3,320. The Democrats elected their Congressmen and all but two State Senators, and the whole of the mem bers of the House. KENTUCKY. The Republican vote in this State has increased to a surprising exteDt. Sey mour’s majority will be from 65,000 to 70,000. General Grant’s vote reaches 45,000. Terrible Accident on the Pensaco la and GkoAgia Railroad.— An acci dent occurred on the Pensacola and Geor gia itaiirogij on Saturday nigh't, fiy which a number of persons were seriously injured, one of whom has sinee died. The usual train left the Tallahassee Depot §fisgt 12* P. M., with but one passenger oar- At Midway the car ran off the track and was left, tiio train now goo sisting of the baggage car, to which the passengers were transferred, the engine and tender going on. When nearfog Quin?*, owing to the washing of the track by heavy rains, the b*ggage car ran off. The baggage and boxes or freight were thrown about, and It was from this that the injury done to the passengers was received. The Rev. Mr. Easterling, Presiding Eider of the Tallahassee District, had an arm badly broken , William Lawrence, of Quincy, who has since died, had his back broken ; John Hines, Conductor, and his brother, Turner Peeples, of Madison ; Warroelc Stockton, Express Agent, Gaston Finley, Conductor, son of Gen. Finley, of Lake City ; James Tucker, and perhaps one or two others whose names we have not learned, were also more or less serious ly injured. The accident did not cause much injury to the engine or baggage car. The track was believed to be in good order just , where the mishap occurred ; but the rains wire so excessive and cont nuous that it required but a fewminates, when the wash had ODce commenced, to render it unsafe. : TnUnhauee Floridian. BUSINESS MAITKKS. COTTON. Froin the A’cw York Commercial and Financial Chronicle o/ Saturday The market this week has continued un til to day strong and steady, with a fair demand from spinners, shippers, and speculators, in the face of lower gold and a very close money market. This was the result, in great part, of the small stock of American reported in Liverpool last Fri day, but as the telegraph this afternoon gives the stock of American there at 48,- 000 bales (about 30,000 bales more than estimated) with 35,000 bales American afloat, the market is weaker, and closes about } cent off. Sales of the week for forward delivery have been at full prices. On Monday sales were reported of 400 bales for December and January delivery at 23$ cents, and 500 bales for November at 25 cents; on Tuesday 100 bales average Middling for January, and 100 bales for February, were sold at 23-1 cents, and on Thursday 200 hales average Middling for January and February delivery at 24 cts, and 250 bales average Low Middling for February at 22j cents. To-day no sales are reported. In transit cotton the trans actions have been quite limited, though the amount offering has increased. We hear of one sale here of 300 bales average Liverpool Middling at 24 cents, on board, in Savannah. The total sales for immedi ate delivery this week, foot up 19,000 bales (including 3,704 bales to arrive) of which 4,545 bales were taken by spinners, 3,125 bales on speculation, 11,396 bales for ex pert, and 624 bales in transit,, and the fol lowing are the closing quotations: Upland & Florida. Mobi’e. K. Ori*n«. Tctsb. Ordinary, per 1b..23} 23j 24 241 Good Ordinary.. 24 24} 244 24} Low Middling... 244 24} 25 25} Middling 25} 25} 25} 26 TOBACCO. The market this- week has been quiet, and, under the pressure of’ a stringent money market and a decline in gold, prices have been drooping. The sales of Ken tucky for the week are limited to about 175 hhds. on small shipping and trade orders, mainly from S to 16 cents. Seed leaf tobacco has also been very quiet, without change in prices. The sales em brace 18 cases Ohio fillers, 64 cents; 100 do. choice Connecticut wrappers, 56 cents; 26 do. 1866 Connecticut seconds, 15 cents. Spanish tobacco less active; sales are limit ed to 674 bales Havana at 85 cents to $1 05 Nothing has been done in manu factured. BREAD-STUFFS. The market showed some speculative strength early in the week, which was subsequently lost under the pressure for money. Flour has arrived rather less freely, with a prospect of a still greater falling oil in supplies at an early date ; but trade has remained quiet, aud shippers have done but little for the British markets; stocks have, therefore, continued to accumulate, and the pressure for money, amounting almost to a panic in Wall street, has caused receivers to make considerable con cession in the past three days, in order to realize. The decline, however, is the most marked in low and medium grades ; the better grades, being in comparatively small supply, have been steady at the re duced quotations of last week. At to-day’s market some business was done for Liver pool and London, at $6 50@7. W heat lias come forward freely, and there is now a good prospect of liberal re ceipts throughout the residue of the season for inland navigation. The upward move ment early in the week (mainly stimulated by an advance of a penny per cental in the Liverpool market), reached $1 74 for No. 1 and $1 60 for No. 2 spring ; but there w\s a quick subsidence, and prices have declined daily, No. 2 closing atsi 53 The reduced prices have brought forward ship pers, and they have purchased freely for Great Britain —to the extent, this week, of nearly a quarter of a million bushels, being favored, likewise, by a slight decline in ocean freights. Corn has arrived sparingly, not equal to the current wants of the local trade, and prices have advanced ; but the demand has been quite limited, and buyers are not dis posed to take parcels from store. Shippers have not been able to do anything in this article for some days. The eft)sc was dull at $1 16 for prime mixed. Oats were ad vanced to 77 cents, but have receded, in the absence of speculation, with limited trade, and closed at 74(n)75 ceDts for West ern cargoes, afloat. Rye is scarce, but dull and heavy. Barley is held for some advance on the lowest prices of ths weak, but is dull. Canada peas are dull and heavy. GROCERI ES. Notwithstanding the continued down- | ward tendency of gold, we have had a week of very firm prices, with a positive advance in some articles of the trade. The extreme closene-s of the money market ha? ; had an unfavorable effect in checking busi- ; ness, but ha 9 not depressed prices as might have been supposed. The condition of the : markets as regards stocks on hand and to j arrive seems to be considered quite favor- I able to firm prices. F UO jTwAsIiUNGTO N. Special Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette. The Movements of General Grant —The Manner of his Return to Washington — Speculations Regarding It—Arrival of Prominent Politicians from the North — They Want to Have a Finger in the Cabinet Pie—Views of Southern Men The. Boys in Blue Make a Bad Speculation. Washington, November 9, 1868. — Although the movements of General Grant have been closely watched to day, they in dicate nothing. Not so with the manner of his return to the National Capital, and all parties are busy speculating upon its probable meaning. Nothing can be more evident than the alarm exhibited among the extremists here at General Grant’s wish to reach his residence without parade or demonstration on the part of the Radi cals of this District. This is the great heart of the nation, and every throb here is felt throughout the country. The Gen eral had determined to avoid political dis play, in which he succeeded most ad mirably. But why avoid it ? This ques tion furnishes at this time almost the ex elusive topic ot conversation in political circles, and the effect has been to seriously alarm the extreme wing of the Radical party, and this alarm is openly expressed by many, while on the other hand the conservative element is not only encouraged but positively elated at the prospect for a prudent and wi«e administration of the Federal Government. Very many of the Republican party, they say, condemned and abhorred the violent and uneonstitu tional measures of their party, hut that political necessity forced them to acquiesce or sacrifice themselves at home. Now the conservatives say they will be able to rally to the support of Grant’s administra tion, and, with the assistance of the De mocracy, can hold the extremists in check. The new administration will thfis be able to dictate terms, and President Grant will himself be the power in the Government. A number of prominent politicians have already arrived here from the North, de termined to be in time to have a finger so the Cabinet pis. It is understood, how ever, that General Grant will give no inti mations whatever of his purposes until the vote of the Electoral College has been cast, although it is generally believed by his friends that he has already fixed upon his cabinet—without the assistance of j politicians. Prominent Southern gentle men now here express entire satisfaction , with the election of Qeneral Grant. A leading member of the Mobile bar said, to day, that Seymour’s election would have been unfortunate for the South, as he would have been totally unable to render them any assistance, while defeat would only have exasperated the Radical Con gress, and rendered their legislation more tyrannical than before. With Congress, as at present composed, a Democratic President would have been but a man of! straw in the White House, The power will pass from the Capitol to the other end ' of the avenue with General Grant seated in the Executive chair. Such are the speculations of many leading Conservative Southern men now in this city. The quiet return of the President elect was a sad blow to the colored population, who had made extensive preparations lor a general jubilee. The Boys in Biue also made a speculation in the five thousand j torches they had ordered for the occasion, but these may keep until the 4th of March next. E. The Next House of Representa tives.—The New Ifork Herald says the Democrat? wiq eighth-four vnembers, which is more than a third ot the next House of Representatives. Seventy-six members make over a third, and the Tribune concedes eighty-three to the Demo crats. The Tribune, makes an error in claiming a Republican as chosen from Keutueky, and possibly it gives u3 one too few from New Jersey. In Connecticut we may fairly expect two more members so add | to our list, and we can hardly fail to elec 1 one Democrat there VVe may thus count !on eieciing from eighty-five to eighty-eight ; members in the nest House of Represeota \ tives. • This destroys the two-third« majority; but it will not be suffered to stand so. Tb e Republicans, following the custom they have already instituted, will expel or un seat a sufficient number, say some ten or twelve Democratic members, so as to secure their two thirds majority ; and in full an ticipation of this unscrupulous course, we hear all over the country of defeated Re publicans who are to contest the seats of Democratic members. The game will be played, and the country will staud it. It is safe just yet, but may not always be so. National Intelligencer. Judge Dowling, of New York, declares that he will hereafter hold no direct offi cial intercourse with Superintendent Ken nedy, because the latter baa insulted the City Judiciary. OUK CHARLK6TOX CORKKSPONDKNCK. The Municipal Elcclion-Thc Steamship Buie to Liverpool-Cotton from Savan nah by S. and. & r. r. Rt-zrzzt and the Blue Bilge Road-German Emigration, &c., &c. Cahrleston, November, 11, 1868- Dear Chronicle:— Your readers have al ready learned theresultof the election and the defeat of the people’s candidate by twenty-two votes. Mr. Lesene was not a Democratic candidate, but the selection of men who looked to the development of the material interests of our war-scarred and war-begrimed, but yet dearly beloved city. Mr. Lesene certainly commanded the confidence of all classes of our best citi zens, and was deemed the beat man to direct affairs that could be elected. He never had been a politician, nor has he in any way been mixed up in political con tests. His election was looked to as inaugu rating anew era in retrenchment and re form of suicidal extravagance and expen diture, and in directing our resources to developing internal interests as well as ex ternal influence. You have doubt!- s seen the protest which has been entered in the name of the people. lam not without hope that all will work out light yet. We are ail excited about the new steam- ship line that has been established chiefly through the exertions of Mr. Robert Mure, a well known citizen, and by the arrival of the first steamer,the Gold en Horn. But this is not all. Our neople are equally astounded and gratified that five car loads of cotton have reached here from Selma. Ala.,a distance of six hundred and six miles without breaking bulk, consignea to Liverpool by the steamship Golden Horn, the first arrival of the Liverpool Line; and still further,that cotton can be brought from Vicksburg, the centre of the valley ot the Mississippi, eight hundred aud thir ty-two miles distant, with equal facility at proportionally low rates. lou mav imagine,therefore, that wc are in good spirits as to the future, and look forward with certainty to the complete restoration of the Queen City to a com mercial position far surpassing that she held in former times. Governor Scott, too, has turned his at tention particularly to our material inter ests in lieu of abstract political questions. Day before yesterday (9th). accompanied by General Sawyer and a Dumber of promi nent citizens, the Govern-ir started for New York and Cincinnati to secure co operation in completing the Blue Ridge Road to meet the extending arms of Cin- cinnati and Louisville. We have great faith in his success from assurances given. The completion of this road will not only put us in connection with the great grain growing West, but it will give us access to those rich fertile valleys of the Tennessee and Sweet Water, and ultimately, at no distant day with the Hiwassee, if Boston interests can be relied upon._ We are look ing also to emigration. You know that the Northern portion of our Stum contains many German .settlements, and also that there are thousands of acres of rich valley lands and mountain slopes particularly adapted to the industry of these people. General Wagener—the head of our Emi gration Bureau —is fully alive to the im portance of this means for future develop ment, and is sagaciously and of j fectivnly. Already a ship, containing be -1 tween six and seven hundred, has sailed, aud is on the way, Doubtless these will prefer to seek the Northern-most sections. But the current once established the whole State will receive the benefit. So you sec that wc arc not as those who labor without hope. ****** T. H. A. L. State News. Books have been opened to reueive sub scriptions to the Street Railroad in At lanta. The Democrats nominated a candidate for Mayor of Atlanta yesterday evening, The Lewis A Sprague gold mines in White county are being worked with en couraging results. Seymour’s majority in the sixth Con gressional District will he about 6.00 J. An effort is being made to raise a fund for the Macon Female College. A “confidence” man in Savannah has been operating to the extent of $228. John Rossiter, an ox-policeman, who was shot in Savannah a few days since, is dead. William Cohen, colored Lothario of the Forrest City, has been arrested for se duction. Camden county cast 441 votes for Grant and 213 for Seymour. A young man was killed last week in an affray in the historical town of Ca milla. A negro man had a row with a white man named Dix, in ,LaGrange, last week. L’he negro will probably die. Mr. Jacobi. Owen, an old citizen o* Troup county', died there on Sunday last. A Radical negro in the up conrttry is trying to make the Democratic darkies be lieve that they will bo sent to the peniten tiary for voting for Seymour. Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue J. A.Mayes has been indicted by the Grand Jury of Muscogee county for swindling. A two horse wagon load of arms have been distributed among the negroes on the Ogeeehee road near Savannah. Gilbert's company is playing “Under the Gaslight” to large housos in Macon. Gilbert, the Itevonue swindler arrested in Columbus, has made his escape. A vessel belonging to the U. 8. Coast I Survey, has put into Savannah for repairs. A nugget of g ild weighing 290 penny weights has been found in White county recently. Two hundred penitentiary convict- have been put to work on the Macon and Bruns wick road. Forney reports Geoorgia as having gone Democratic by 2,590. “All our dispatches come over the wires.” The August Term of the V. S. District Court adjourned sine (lie on lasi Monday. A crazy negro has been arrested in Macon, who claims to be Christ, and says Grant can’t manage the country without his aid. A steamboat line has been established between Brunswick and Hawkinsville. The Macon and Brunswick road will reach the Ocrnulgeo river by New Year’s day. The pretty girls in Bainbridgearo laying off Yankee calicoes and wearing Souther i homespun. The Radicals announce their intention of contesting tlio election in the Albany District. The “first shad” made its appearance in Macon on the 10th. The “local” of the Journal “went lor it.” A movement h on foot to build anew Catholic Church in the city of Atlanta, j Judge Clower, of Monroe, has been I elected to the Legislature over a negro. | The Monroe Advertiser publishes a call for the organization ot an Agricultural ’ Club in the county. j There have been shipped one hundred and eighty-seven bales more ot cotton i from Handcrsvillo this season than last. | Tbe “Great Wauhoo” Bradley i-i sup . posed to bo still in concealment in Ba | vaunab. ■ Rev. Father J. F. O’Neil, Jr., who [ formerly officiated in Atlanta and Macon, died in Baltimore last wetk. Clarke county was reported as having gone Radical ; this is a mistake, as it gave a Democratic majority ofeleven. A Street Railroad Company has been organized in Atlanta, with the prospect the speedy completion of the road. The military City Council of Columbus refuse to have an ejection, and will hold their places till kicked out by the Legisla ture. The sum of $210,000 was subscribed to tbe Air Line Road at a meeting in Atlanta the other day. A. W. Reese, editor of the t'acon Jour nal, was married to Miss Viola Ross, of that city, on the 11th. The Lyceum, a literary society in Rome, is to be reorganized. F. 8. Fitch, of the Griffin Star, has sold his interest in it to Mr. F. C. Bridges. R. W. Orme, sr., of the Milledgeville Recorder, wishes to sell his half interest in that paper. Anew Bank has been started in Macon. Its name is the City Bank, its President C. A. Nutting. Captain John T. Brown, one of the most estimable citizens of Bibb county, died on the 10th inst. Bradley, the Wauhoo, has at last turned up in Beaufort District, South Carolina. Anew railroad from Atnericus to Haw kinsville is proposed. This is practical reconstruction. The body of a colored boy was found dead near the City Hospital in Savannah, a few days since. Col. Holland, a Savannah lawyer, has: been employed to prosecute Governor Reed, of Florida. Mr. Harvy Lynch, of Putnam, was murdered on the Kith by Klbert Bayns, of Jasper county. Qn last Friday John Vickers, a young man liying on ily . ■ ir. Gm ■ . i , Greene county, was found dei.dm his heu. The city of Atlanta has subscribed $300,5)0 in seven per cent bonds to the Air Line Road. The latest novelty in the circus line is Thoderes phariot which is drawn by Aby slnnlan war camels. A cargo of 1,780 bales of cotton left Savan nah on the 12th on an American bark for Havre. Seven negroes and one white man made their escape from the Warren coun ty jail last week, V. Richards & Bros. —ft would do us good, make us lee! right down comfortable, if every Radical, of the North, who are re joicing over the downfall of the South, oould only visit Augusta, and spend one whole day in the large and magnificent Dry Goods Store of Messrs. V. Richards & Bros. After seeing a Stock which would cot make a Chambers street, or Broadway wholesale dealer blush —then to watch a score of clerks, all alive and work ing like bees in a hive —theq the numerous drays, as they bring in new arrivals qf Goods, and go away loaded with largo boxes, marked to all parts of Middle, Eastern, Northern Georgia, Tennessee, North Alabama and South Carolina, let them return home with the astounding in telligence that the Southern people are not Droke by a “jug full.”— Greensboro Herald.
