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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
(Huouiclc & Sentinel.
AUQUHTA. A 1
"WIDM-SIIAV MWKN'ING. Al'Cl'ST 1.
Yellow Fever is Florida. The
Greenville South Alabamian learns that
il,: jcilow fever is i revailing to an alarm
ing extent in Pensacola, and that it is ap
prehend ed it will be a scourge during the
entire season.
Albany and Timmaeville Railroad.
-A letter to the Macon Telegraph, dated
Tbomasville, says, the South Georgia Rail
road is now completed from J hotnasvllle
to beyond the Ocklockonee river,a distance
ol so?cn mile-, and the earn arc running
daily to that point, 'i'he grading is nearly
done to the first depot—ll utiles. The
: jper.structurc is being laid ahead o( the
ir • which latter is being iaid very rapidjy.
The work will be done, and the ears wtil be
run to the depot by the first of August,
when the Company wid get State aid of
jfs.uoo per mile—so it will lie seen the
South Georgia and Florida Railroad to
Albany is a fixed fact.
Convent ion. —A convention of the
stockholders of the Atlanta &. West
Point. litiirotl, was field in Atlanta
■on Friday. flu Convention met at
the City II dl at II o’clock, Hon.
John P. King presiding. There was a
pretty full attendant!* of stockholders.
The reports ware read and approved. A
resolution was introduced asking the
stockholders to aid to the amount of (400,-
<IOO in building a road from West Point to
Columbus. Col. Martin J. Crawford, of
Columbus, addressed the Convention as
the repro'Dilative of thef Hoard of Trade,
and of the City Council ofCalutmms asking
aid f'or the road. Col. Crawfrrd slated
that il was 3 8 miles from Wost Point to
Columbus, that it would require about
. '.510.000 to build the road, and that Co
lombo. would raise from (250,000 to 300--
000 toward building the road. The reso
ld! iori was referred to the new Board of
Direelors without instruction as to what
action t. j take, leaving the matter discre
tionary with them. The following gentle
men were elected Directors: lion. J. P.
King, It. Peters, F. I’hinizy, A. P. Ber
ry, J. Id. Robinson, J. F. Moreland, J B.
Lovelace. Hon. J. P. ■ King, re-elected
President.
Dedication op a Catholic Church
at Spaicia, Ga Sunday morning at six
o’clock a train left the Depot in this city
under charge of Conductor Purcell and
Engineer Stulbs, with a delegation of
about Ihreo hundred of our Catholic fed
low ein/.i ns, to attend the dedication of the
new church recently erected through the
labors of Rev. James O’Hara, who was
aided in his good work by a me of the
prominent oitiz ms of Sparta and Augusta.
The Augusta delegation was joined by
others from Berzelia, Thomson, Locust
Grove, Washington, Wurrenton and May
field, so that whon the train arrived at
Sparta about.six hundred were present to
do honor to to tne occasion.
The Church, which is located near the
Academy, is a plain, but neat and sub
stuutial wooden structure, oapablo of seat
ing about one hundred and seventy-five
persons. After the dedication services the
doors were opened and the Church was in
stantly filled, over two thirdsof those pres
cnt.beiug excluded for want of standing
room.
Rev. Father O’Hara officiated in offer
ing up the Sacrifice of the Mass. Profes
sor Wiogand and the members of the
Augusta Catholic Choir were present, and
participated in the service with even more
than their accustomed musical skill and
efficiency.
After the reading of the Gospel, Rev.
Father Ryan preached for an hour in that
eloquent and impassioned manner for
which ho is noted, his hearers listening
with marked respect and rivetted atten
tion. By invitation, and to give a large
number of the people an opportunity of
hearing him, ho preached again at 3
o’clock in the Academy building.
At half-past four o’clock the respective
delegations took their farewell of Sparta
and the Spartans, and arrived homo in
good season, without any accident to mar
the pleasures of tlio*oceasion. We can
vouch (hat the Augustudelegationwas very
well pleased with their visit to Sparta and
are proud of the ooeasion and the object
which called thorn from their homes. t
The I'iitton-Goi.d Movement.— The
Nt w Vi>rk Times says : “There is a move
ment at-everal of tho cotton ports of the
South in favor of the transaction of all
cotton business on tho gold basis. The
cotton ot the South will command its price
iu gold in the European market, and the
factors and planters are anxious that this
gold should get into their hands and be
used as currency, as it was before the war.
The cotton crop of the present year, if
sold for specie at present priers, would
realize to tne Southern planters between
three and tour hundred millions of dollars
in gold; and though it is against tho inter
est of England and other cotton purchas
ing eouutries to pay for it in coin, it is un
doubtedly for the interest of the South to
■ell lor com as far as possible. There aro
olist teles to the success of the South which
we do not see any prospect of being sur
mounted, but we shall be glad to see the
planters, factors and shippers make the
attempt, and achieve whatever success is
practicable.”
M.iNTtUiMKKY AND BRUNSWICK.— The
M ... Hi; ry Mail is pleased to know, from
undoubted authority, that arrangements
have just been completed in New York
lor tho early completion of the entire line of
railroad from Brunswick to Eufaula. It is
expected to be completed by November,
IS7O, at which time Mr. Owen will have
readied Eufaula with his road from Mont
gomery. King Wadley must look out for
his laurels.
Hi- F xi’resselenoy. —The New Vork
H’orW says that Bullock, of Albion, New
York, and Governor of Georgia, a man
who has sunk so low as to have the praise
of Forney alone of all tho editors of the
country, is such an utter coward as to
keep a military guard round bis house.
Bullock is in no danger, but if he was, any
dentist could find iu his mouth tho same
sort of we , <:i with which Samson smash
ed the Fluff-lines.
Senator Wilson.—ln referring to tho
recent letter containing the opinion of the
representative man of Massachusetts on
the ne-nt Virgiuia election, the New
York lludd -ays : “He talks like a man
ol sens hi arguing for an honest recogni
tion oi ti. re u.i- of the late V irgiuia
election. S- aator Wilson, however, has
been over the Southern held of politics
and knows how the land lies in Virginia,
and a- the mountain will not come to Ma
homet he wisely concludes that Mahomet
must go to the mountain.
Sai.es op Gold. —lt is stated that while
the premium ou gold remains at the pres
ent figure. Secretary Boutwell has no
present intention of selling. It is thought
the premium will go down. United States
bonds have advanced in Europe, and when
there is a demand for gold shipments the
crops will be ready for market. A Wash
ington letter writer says a letter has been
received iu that city from an American
gentleman travelling in Europe who states
Boutwell .s policy has strengthened the
credit of the Government abroad.
Tuk Income Tax.—Tbe present law,
imposing an income tax, will expire in
IsTO, unless extended by legislation at the
next session of Congress.
North Herman nteam hip fine.
The citizens of Savannao have exhibit
ed, since the termination of tbewar, a re
markable degree of enterprise and indus
try in building up the commercial and
other interests of their city. While other
Southern cities have retrograded, Savan
nah has moved steadily onward in the race
for commercial impo tance. This is a mat
ter forfxmgratulation and one in which
every Georgian should feel a deep inteiest.
The proceedings which we publish this
morning of a meeting to consider the feasi
bility of establishing direct steam com
munication with Bremen, Germany,and the
report of General Johnstoi. show the ad
vantages in favor of Savannah as a port of
entry tor the commerce and immigration
and transportation to be developed by the
proposed line of steamers. The Morning
News, which warmly advocates the move-,
ment, has an article o i the subject, from
which we quote :
“Ourleadiog citizens are fully alive to
the importance of an enterprise in which
the entire South and West cannot fail to
feel a deep interest; which promises uot
only to open direct commercial relations
between this section of the country and
Europe, but also to give facilities which
will insure to -he South and Southwest a
share of the European emigration which
they so inUeh need, and which has tiil now
been almost exclusively monopolized by
the Northern and Western States. Recent
indications justify the belief that all that
is required tc induce a large German emi
gration to the South is proper encourage
ment on our part, and the providing of
regular means of economical transporta
tion, with suitable aid and accommoda
tions for emigrants on their arrival in the
country —all of which will be accomplished
in the inauguration of-he proposed line of
steamers.
“Bremen, the German terminus of the
proposed steamship line, is the emporium
of Brun»wick, Hesse and Hanover, and
besides beiug one of the most important
commercial cities in the German confed
eracy, is the principal German port for the
shipment of emigrants to America, 19,145
having embarked from that port in 1844.
It is a large shipping port, its tonnage be
ing larger than that of Hamburg, and has
extensive steam and railroad communica
tion with other German cities.
“The population of Bremen in 1862 was
57,217, nerrly all protestants. Its princi
pal imports arc tobacco, coffee, sugar, oil,
iron, tin, wines, rice, tea, cotton manufac
tures, lumber and hemp. Its chief exports
are linen and woolen goods, grain, oak
hark, glass, smelts and provisions. The
imports in 1848 were valued at £4,302,841
•—exports, £3,537,170. The chief indus
try -if the city consists in ship building and
manufactures ol’woolens and cottous, pa
per, starch, colors and segars; it has also
extensive sugar refineries, beer breweries,
and I randy distilleries. These facts,
which we gleam from Lippincoll's Gazet
teer, will give an idea of the commercial
capacities of Bremen.
“In this connection the following table,
compiled from official sources, showing the
increase of German emigration and the
proportion in which it fta.ids to the emi
gration from Ireland, will be of interest.
’l’he statistics are given by the Democrat,
a German Radical [ aper of New York, as
follows.
Year. From Ireland. From Germany.
1859 3’,659 28,270
1860 47,330 37,899
1861 25,784 27,139
1802 32,217 37,740
1863 91,157 35,002
1864 89,399 57,456
1865 70,462 83,451
1866 08,047 106,716
1867.. 65,134 117,591
1868.. 47,571 ......101,989
Total 549,760 633,253
“It willl e soon that the German Im
migration has largely increased since the
termination of our late war, and it i3 be
lieved that in the threatening aspect of
affairs in the German States, while the
Germans uro in fear of being enlisted in
the Prussian army, the tide of immigra
tion from that quarter will continue to in
crease. No class of immigrants are better
fitted for the agricultural region of the
South, and there is no room to doubt that,
with proper effort and enterprise, a large
portion of the immigration which has
heretofore flowed to the North and West
may be diverted in this direction, with
profit to the immigrants themsel /es and
benefit to us.”
South Carolina.
South Carolina is cursed by tho pres
ence of tho vilest set of thieves in the
shape of carpet-baggers and scalawags
that ever cursed any country. Almost
overy public office in the State, from the
humble office ol a bailiff to tho Governor’s :
chair, is filled by rascals and knaves whose |
sole and only purpose is to insult, oppress
and rob tho people and the State. Up to
this time tho robbers have been apparently
harmonious in their villainy, each class
preying upon the common victim, the out
raged people, but now the thieves are
quarrelling among themselves, and already
tho war has been proclaimed between the
Massachusetts carpet bagger and the
native scalawag. How long this state of
affairs will continue, to oppress and outrage
our unfortunate sister, it is hard to conjecture
though evidences of relief may be seen
from this spec in the political horizon. In
the up country the condition of affairs is
more tolerable, and when relief does come to
the State from the present regime it must
necessarily come from that section. The
low country, the districts and islands along
tho coast, is hopelessly gone. Charles
ton may perhaps be able to relieve her
self, but not inside of eighteen months.
Relief will, however, assuredly come to
the peoplo of the State, but then they
must bestir themselves. Already have
they too long given themselves up to de
spair and hugged the delusive phantom ol
policy and conciliation. If South Caro
linians would regain their lost rights of
person and property, they must abandon
their submissive policy, assume the ag
gressive, follow the example of Georgia,
organize and smite the authors of their hu
miliation and ruin. Determination and
pluck will intimidate and eventually drive
out ot the State every scalawag and car
pet-bagger. The sooner the people and
and their former leaders take the bull by
the horns the sooner they will rid them
selves and their State of the iufamous crew
who have so long and so grievously out
raged the dearest rights of a citizen.
The One Thing Needful.
The people of Georgia exhibited, during
the trying ordeal of military rule and carpet
bag supremacy, a forbearance worthy the
highest commendation. They should con
tinue to practice this same spirit of for
bearaaee and to inculcate its observance on
the young and the thoughtless, who too
often allow passion to run mad with their
judgments. There have been, and there
may lie again, instances where heinous
crimes may be committed. Where the law
may be too slow in its operations to reach
the criminal, or where, if allowed to take
its ordinary course, the ends of justice may
be fustrated by the abuse of clemency at
the hands of a coriupt Executive,who fails
te vindicate the laws of the State. In ex
treme cases where the laws ot humanity
are outraged by the commission of
bloody crimes, society justifies the
speedy punishment of the crimi
nal. But uuder no other circum-
stances. Mob violence must be restrain
ed. It is a curse to society, a crime against
humanity and God, and can only be justi- j
tied iu extreme cases as a warniog to tbe \
wicked and lawless,’ a preventative against
the repetition of outrages which call for
summary punishment. As conservators
of the peace and supporters of the laws,
as advocates of forbearance and justice, and
as ardent and uncompromising defenders
i of the honor, interests and well-being of
S our people and the re-establishment of good
government in Georgia, we call upon all
classes, white and black, to unite in pre
' serving the peace and in vindicating the
! laws.
Apart from the moral and religious con
siderations which should exercise a eon
trolling influence on society, there are
I others of a serious and important nature
affecting our materia! interests, our rights
and liberties as citizens, which should
unite all good men in opposing and
crushing out lawlessness and violence
in every county in Georgia. Let the law
and the courts take cognizance of and
punish the guilty. Let wisdom, justice
and moderation be our motto and our rule
of conduct, and we shall soon triumph
over our enemies by effectually frustrating
all future attempts at Congressional inter
ference in our domestic and internal
management of State affairs. Our State
is still in an uncertain condition. We have
no fixed status or authority under the
General Government according to the Rad
ical rule of faith. Looking, therefore, to
a speedy solution of our difficulties —to our
interest and welfare —the one thing need
ful for the people of Georgia to do is to
disarm the violent opposition of extremists
by preserving the peace and obeying the
very letter and spirit of the laws.
Agricultural lteport.
The July report of Hon. J. li. Dodge,
Statistician of the Department of Agricul
ture at Washington, now in press, refers
to the excessive rainfall of June, as regards
its influence upon the harvest, and pre
sents the following table, showing the rain
fall and mean temperature of the month as
compared with June, in 1868, in the sev
eral States:
,—Jose. 1869. —Tune, 1868—.
Mean Rain-fall Mean Rain-fall
Temp, in inches. Temp, in inches.
Maine 62.2 3.92 63.7 2.47
New Hampshire. 62 2 326 66.7 3.50
Vermont 62.3 499 64 4 3.95
Massachusetts...-85 2 5.38 66.5 3.50
Rhode Island 64 6 226 60 5 3.48
Connecticut 65 4 661 6.5.1 4.37
New York 64 5 449 66 5 3.34
New Jersey 70.8 4.37 69.3 5.37
Pennsylvania 68.5 4.84 68.8 3.47
Delaware 78.2 1.40
Maryland 71.7 2.49 70.7 3.46
Virginia 73 2 386 70 3 2.29
North Carolina. ..75 2 6.13 73.7 3.48
South Car01ina...77.4 372 -74 4 2.46
Georgia 75.5 2.89 75.5 0.84
Florida 803.608 79-8 12.40
Alabama 76.6 4.12 78.3 0.99
Mississippi 75.5 3.01 78.6 1.57
Texas ". 79.9 401 60.3 237
Tennessee 73 2 432 73.8 1.55
West Virginia... 70.1 5.30 71.5
Kentucky 71.9 5.11 74 6 5.04
Missouri 70 5 6.29 73 41 2.80
Illinois 68 3 673 71.2 2.78
Indiana 69.7 5.22 71.8 3.44
Ohio 08 4 525 69 7 5.57
Michigan 60.4 5.20 62.3 4.47
Wisconsin 61.0 7-73 06.2, 5.66
Minne50ta.........64.4 274 68.3 344
lowa 66.4 7.42 69.9 457
Kansas 68.3 7.95 76.0 3.79
Nebraska 67.8 6.92 72 5 379
California 66.6 00.1 56.1 0.38
It will be seen that rain in June of this
year has been in excess of the fall of June,
1868, in all the States except Florida, and
on the Atlantic coast between Washington
and New York city, and to a slight degree
in Rhode Island, New Hampshire and
Minnesota. The greatest disparity has
existed in the wheat belt between the Mis
souri and the Mississippi, Illinois, lowa,
Nebraska. Kansas and Missouri average
a rain-fall ot 7 20 inches against 3.54 in
June of last year. The temperature has
also been lower by 3 to 7°. In the South
the temperature has not been reduced,
though there was more than the usual
quantity of rain.
The effect upon Winter grain of so much
moisture in the ripening season has been
to give an almost unprecedented growth
of straw, and an appearance of vigor quite
remarkable; at the same time a general
exemption from insects has been observed,
and a good development of and filling of
tho head, which, with the increased acre
age, might be expected to produce a har
vest of extraordinary magnitude. To this
calculation, however, there are some
drawbacks. Rust has wrought some injury
east ot the Plains, and has been quite
severe in parts of California, and may yet
prove disastrous to the Spring-sown grain
in threshing, and there are already reports
of injury by Sprouting in the shock, in
Missouri, Tennessee, and in Southern Illi
nois, which, should wet weather continue,
may greatly reduce the value of the crop.
It is scarcely possible, however, that any
or all those causes caD so reduce the crop as
to cause a scarcity; and it may be assumed
to be the third full crop, following three
seasons of comparative scarcity, and an
abundance of flour at moderate prices may
bo expected, with a good surplus for ex-
port.
The season has been very unfavorable
for the corn crop in almost every State. In
the early Spring, cold weather and wet
soil, threatening to rot the seed as fast as
planted, delayed the season of planting.
Then large areas were replanted from a
continuance of similar conditions, and the
stand has therefore been poor and the
growth stunted and feeble in northern
latitudes until late in June, since which
time a great improvement has resulted.
In many sections there are more weeds
than corn, while much is still overflowed,
making it impossible to cultivate the crop.
Worms have proved destructive in some
places. Altogether the prospect is quite
unfavorable for a good crop of corn, though
there is yet time, under favorable circum
stances, for great amelioration. The acre
age is somewhat less than last year in the
South, also in New York, Michigan, In
diana, Illinois and in some of the Eastern
States. The decrease in Illinois amounts
to 150,000 acres. There has been an in
crease west of the Mississippi, and to some
extent in more eastern States, sufficient to
give a total acreage equal to last year.
The feebleness and starved condition of
the cotton plant in May and early June
are yielding to the bright suns and genial
showers of the progressing season, which
are rapidly repairing all damages, except
the lack of a perfect "stand.” Fears are
expressed in a few localities that there will
not be more than half a crop. On the
other hand, the general report is far more
encouraging. Along the Atlantic coast
large quan.ities of fertilizers have been
used, great care exercised in the selection
of seed and better implements employed,
while the laborers are more faithful and
reliable. The total area planted is about
fifteen per cent, greater than last year,
increasing the acreage to fully 8,000,000
acres. Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky and
Missouri report a slight decline in acreage,
while the increase is given as follows;
North Carolina, ten per cent; South
Carolina, nine per cent; Georgia, eight
een per cent.; Florida, twenty-five per
cent.; Alabama eight per cent.; Missis
sippi, fourteen per cent,; Louisiana, six
teen percent; Texas, thirty-two percent.;
Arkansas, twelve per cent.
Hay will be abundant, but of compara
tively poor quality, being r*nk in growth,
and to some extent injured in curing. Po
tatoes have been largely planted, and gen
erally promise well, except where injured
by the wet weather, though apprehensions
of potato disease are prevalent, and the
bug is doing some damage.
Jefferson—Grant.
On March 27, 1801, Thomas Jefferson,
then President of the United States, wrote
to George Jefferson, on the subject of ap
pointing relatives to office, as follows :
“I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of yours of March 4, and to express
to you the delight with which I found the
just, disinterested, and honorable view with
which you saw the proposition it covered.
“The resolution you so properly approv
ed had long been formed in my mind. The
public will now be made to believe that an
appointment of a relation to office is made
on the ground of merit alone, uninfluenced
by family views. Nor can they ever see,
with approbation, offices the disposal of
which, they entrust to their President for
public purposes, divided out as family prop
erty. Mr. Adams degraded himself indefi-
nitely in his conduct on this subject, as
General Washington had done himself the
greatest honor. With two such examples
to proceed by, I should be doubly inexcusa
ble to err. It is that this places the Presi
dent in a worse situation than if he were a
stranger ; but the public good which can
not be effected if its confidence be lost, re
quires this sacrifice. Perhaps, too, it is
compensated by sharing in the public
pstegm. I could not be satisfied till I as
sured you of the increased esteem with
which this transaction fills me for you.”
In contrast with whicb look at this list;
Jesse R. Grant [father], Postmaster,
Covington.
A. H. Sharpe [brother-in-law], Marshal,
D. C.
Fred. T. Dent [brother-in-law], Briga
■dier General and Doorkeeper.
Casey [brother-in-law j, Collector,
NewOrleans. •
Fred. Grant [son]. Cadet, West Point.
Silas N. Hudson [cousinj, Minister to
Guatemala. _ . .
Judge Dent [brother-in-law], admims
iration candidate for Governor of Missis
sippi-
Cramer [brother in-law], recent
ly Consul to Leipsic.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, LS69
DISGKACKFI’L KIOT.
Charleston In Possession of a Mob.
THE NEGROES ASSAULT THE SAVANNAH
CLUB.
The Mititary Called on to Preserve the
Peace.
The Charleston rapers of yesterday were
filled with accounts of a disgraceful ricit
which occurred there Monday on the oc
casion of a Base Bail Match on the Citadel
Green, between the Savannah and Caro
lina Clubs. The News contains the follow
ing particulars es the riot:
THE RIOT.
During the game the police experienced
considerable difficulty in preventing the
crowd fro n trespassing upon the ground
allotted to the players. Immediately after
the close of the regular game the crowd
rushed around the scorers to ascertain
how the scorers stood. The clubs then
concluded to have a little game of pitch
ing and catching, and commenced it, be
fore doing so, however, requesting that
the crowd should be made to move back.
The police commenced to perform this un
pleasant duty, but their force was too
small. Major Ogiiby, of the United
States army, was requested to send- some
of his soldiers to the aid of the police. He
consented, and six unarmed soldiers came
up. The work of forcing the crowd back
over -the todo stretched on the Moot
ing street side of the * Green com
menced. During this movement, a mulat
to, named Ilaf'e Izzard, becatye very dis
orderly and iosolent to a policeman, who,
after requesting him to behave, arrested
him, whereupon Rate struck the police
man and endeavored to get away. Then
ensued a general melee, during which the
police resisted the efforts of the negroes to
rescue Rate, striking them over the head
with the clubs. The six soldiers seized
the base ball bats lying about and rushed
to the assistance of the police. Maj. Ogiiby
endeavored to stop the melee, but his ef L
forts were, of course, futile. Tho negroes
were rapidly reinforced and were about to
overpower the police and their six soldier
assistants, when a squad of armed soldiers
came up, loading their muskets as they
came. The negroes gave one look at thc
bristling bayonets, and then fled precipi
tately from the Green into Meeting st. The
soldiers did not pursue. The negroes then
commenced tearing off the pailings of the
fence for use as clubs. They also pulled
up the p&ving stones. On learning of the
action of' the negroes the soldiers were or
dered to advance upon them. The police
and detective lorces also advanced, before
whom the negroes reireated to the corner
of Calhoun and Meeting streets, throwing
bricks and other missiles as they did so.
The soldiers followed, keeping inside of
the fence, while thei police went into the
street and endeavored to arrest the ring
leaders. Two or three men were arrested,
but during the rush and excitement were
rescued. During all this time the soldiers
were most anxious to shoot, but were re
strained by their officers—Major 0 6 ilby
at one remarking: “The man who shoots
without orders I will go for.” In twenty
minutes after this riot commenced every
thing was quiet. A squad of soldiers were
stationed at the corner of Calhoun and
Meeting streets, and at the pate on Meet
ing street. Two of the policemen were
slightly injured during thir affair.
DESPERATE NEGRO.
The cessation of the disturbance, caused
by the appearance of the soldiers, was
taken advantage of by the two policemen
who had Rafe Izzard in charge, and they
took him inside of the Citadel, where he
used his hands, head, feet and teeth in his
efforts to get loose, all the while yelling as
if he was being murdered, doubtless hoping
to incite the negroes outside to make fur
ther efforts to rescue him. Rafe finally
became so disorderly that the officers on
duty ordered him to be placed in the guard
house, iu which were confined several sol
diers for violations of the army regulations.
Rafe had hardly been thrust inside of the
prison before the soldiers set upon him and
commenced to beat him most unmercifully,
and most probably would havo killed him
had he not poen taken out.
ASSAULT UPON THE BANK.
The disturbance of course put a stop to
all further bass-balling, and preparations
were made to start to the Vigilant En
gine House, on State street, where a sup
per had been spread. The members of
the Savannah Club said they would go to
the Charleston Hotel, pack up their ef
fects and rejoin the Carolina Club at the
hotel and march with them from there to
the engine house. It was then agreed
that the band should remain behind with
the Carolina Club. The Savannah Club
started to tho hotel, and the Carolina Club
joined in line on the Green, and headed by
the band marched toward the main gate on
Calhoun street.
W hen the disturbance first commenced
there were not over a thousand negro men
present, but by this time there were fully
twenty-five hundred. When the band
reached the gate, negroes crowded up and
commenced an unprovoked assault upon the
members of the band, calling them Demo
crats, and throwing rocks and pieces of
brick at them. Three of tl* band were
struck with the missiles. The player on
the trumbone seized that instrument by
the small end with both hands and swung
it around, knocking down seven or eight
of the assailants. J ust at this moment a
young gentleman fired in rapid succession
three shots from his revolver, which,
though doing no damage, had the effect ol
stampeding the negroes---not one being
within pistol range when the last shot was
fired. It is proper to state that two shots
were'fired from the street where the ne
groes were previous to the firing of three
_shots mentioned. The three colored men
were then carried into the Citadel, where
the surgeon dressed the wounds, none be
ing of a serious character.
The wounded members of the band are
as named ; W. H. Woodhouse, wounded
in the head ; Benjamin Morrell, in the
stomach ; R. H. Burke, in the head.
THE MAYOR POWERLESS.
As soon as this assault was made the
military marched out in strong force and
drove the crowd from off the corners. In
this work they were aided by the police.
Mayor Pillsbury rode up at this point,
and upon being asked what was to be done,
replied that he did not know, as he was
perfectly powerless, the police force being
inadequate to quell the riot. He then
drove off. General Robert H. Anderson,
Chief of the Savannah Police, on learning
this went to. Colonel Eddy, who was an of
ficer in the old army with him, and asked
him to furnish protection tor the to
which request, ds we learn, Colonel Eddy
replied that he would comply if the Mayor
stated that it was necessary, or wonld re
quest it officially. The Mayor returned
shortly after his departure, and requested
the services of the military. Colonel Lddy
detailed about sixty men, under command
of Lieutenants Savage and Lynch, to
escort the clubs and band down. The line
was theiv formed in the following order :
Squad of soldiers, band, squad of soldiers,
members and friends of the Carolina Club,
omnibus containing wounded members ot
the band, squad of soldiers ; on each side
were squads of the police anddetective
forces. The line then proceeded into Col
houn street, down that to King, down
King to Wentworth, up Wentworth to
Mee ing, down Meeting to the Charleston
Hotel. , , • „ ,
When the line marched out of the gate
some of the negroes commenced yelling.
“The soldiers have got all ot the band ana
club men under arrest,” and then the mob
set up a tremendous cheering, and ran up
and down in the most excited manner.
\t the Jorner of King and Calhoun streets
a number of them threw stones at the line,
but upon the soldiers facing about, ran oft.
With this exception there was no inter
ruption until after leaving the hotel.
Dining this march the band played
“Dixie,” “Bonnießlue Flag, and other
favorite Southern tunes, which the negroes
greeted with hisses, hoots of derision and
groans.
THE SCPPER.
At the Charleston Hotel the clubs par
took of some champaigne, and there form
ed in line again, it being increreased by the
addition otthe members and friends of the
Savannah Gut). They then marched up
Hayne to State street and down it to the
engine house of the Vigilant Fire Com
pany. Avery nice supper was spread in
the lower portion of the budding, and the
clubs were soon in the full enjoyment of it.
The soldiers and police remained outside
and kept the crowd of negroes at bay, but
they were not forgotten by those inside.
Soon toasting commenced, and after the
presentation of the ball to the victorious
tlnb, Mayor Pillsbury, who had accompa
nied the line from the Citadel, was called
UP He, as others bad done before him, ex
pressed the deepest regret for what had
occurred, statiDg that he had gone to the
ground to witness the game, and was sur
prised and mortified to see that a not was
in progress, and being utterly powerless to
! quell it with the force at his command, he
l had requested a detachment of the military
which had been granted. He had been
unable, up to this time, to asce'rtaii the
origin of the riot, or to learn who wee the
originators; but I give my pledge that
every effort that can be made will be xert
ed to bring the perpetrators to justce.—
And I further pledge that every nan of
the excursionists shall be protected si long
as he remains in the city.
Three cheers and a tiger were |iven,
after which General R. H. Andersot (ex-
Confederate) was called upon. He rtated
that he had called upon Colonel Sddy,
who was an old army friend of hit, and
requested protection for the hand, rhich
he had granted. He then proposal the
Colonel's health, which was drank and
three cheers and a tiger given for hin.
Lieut. Savage, who was in commaid of
the detachment on duty at the hall was
called upon. He stated that he aid his
soldiers had been detailed to protect the
excursionists from the negro mol, and
they would do their duty.
DEPARTURE.
Seme further toasting and speech-mak
ing followed, after which the line was re
formed. and marched down State street —
the negroes, who had had large accessions
to their originally large numbers following,
now and then throwing missiles, but hurt
ing no one. At the corner of Stat* and
Queen streets, and also at the corner of
Broad and East Bay streets, the mol gave
every indication of charging the line; but
shrunk back each time as the soldiers
turned upon them, At Boyce's wharf,
where the steamer Nick King lay, the
Chief of Police, who arrived shortly after
the first riot, so posted the troops and
tho police as to prevent the negroes from
going upon the wharf. After some little
delay, during which President McCabe
and others of the Carolina Club made short
speeches, iu them expressing their regret
that the disgraceful riot had occurred, the
steamer left. While on the wharf the ne
groes collected upon the opposite wharves
and endeavored to hurl brickbats among
the crowd around the steamer, but only a
half a dozen or so pieces struck on the
wharf—the rest falling short. Those who
accompanied the excursionists to the
wharf were assailed by the mob oa return
ing, and one or two slightly injured.
The Committee on Otjtragis. —The
Era says that six of the eight members of
the General Assembly, composing tho
Committee of Outrages, are in Atlanta,
viz : Hon. W. P. Priqe, of Lumpkin,
Chairman, and Messrs. Carpenter,Lee and
Ellis, of tho House, and Ilungerford and
McArthur, of the Senate. Those absent
are Messrs. Nesbitt, of Dade, and Welch,
of Dougherty. If the State Treasurer
houors the Executive warrant, defraying
the expenses of this committee, the inves
tigation will proceed. If not, it is inform
ed that the Committee will adjiurn and
go home.
The Fenian Prisoners.— Col. John
Warren has another interview with
Secretary Fish concerning the American
citizens imprisoned in Great Britain on the
charge of being Fenians. Col. Warreu
called the attention of the Secretary es
pecially to the case of Col. Halpin, who
was Warren’s fellow prisoner in Chatham
Jail, near London, and who has tow been
confined there for over two years. Tho
Secretary informed Col. Warren that he
was looking into Halpin’s ease, and would
do what he could to secure his release. He
said he “preferred to attend to these mat
ters in his own way, and intimated that he
would look after it as faithfully without
outside pressure as with it. ,He did not
think it did aDy good to be makkg a fuss
about it. The State Department would
perform its whole duty in the premises.” .
The Coming Chinamen.— The London
newspapers contain correspondence from
Canton stating that preparations are
making there for wholesale emigration to
tho United States on the part of the mass
es, who are but tao eager to embrace any
opportunity to get away from their man
darins and the bastinado. One of these
writers says there is one caution to which
the authorities of the United States would
do well to give their attention —they must
keep the whiskey-bottle from their new
subjects. Hitherto this has been done
with the most satisfactory results ; and if
it is not done now, we are warned that
we shall get rather a bad bargain, a drunk
en Chinaman being about as hard a case
as a whiskey-drinking Indian.
Four Lecis. —There is a child isl Blount
county, Alabama, fourteen months old,
with four perfect legs, one body and two
stomachs. Our informant states that the
parents of the child propose to exhibit it
during the coming fall.
letter From lexas.
Marshall, Texas, July 17,1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
Were I to write first that which I feel
most, my first sentence would be, it is very
warm, very warm. We have had a very
pleasant season until very recently. The
heat, however, is not as great by several
degrees as in somfe former years. The
thermometer now ranges about 90°, which
is not as high by 18°, as in the year 1860.
It would be natural to suppose that a
country like this, so isolated, separate and
distinct from the great body of States, left
out as it were to the “weather,” would
have such a freedom of air as to be a most
delightful climate. But unfortunately the
avenues of freedom are obstructed by in
habitants of a more Northern clime, who,
with hearts overflowing with sympathy,
have come into our midst to see that we
are properly cared for, and that we do not
breathe too freely or wander off to inhale
the mild zephyrs of the great Pacific. We
are glad to inform you that we are still
permitted to live in this unworthy, desert
ed territory. Are you not surprised to
hear this ? Have you not expected to hear
ere this, that by reason of so wicked and
rebellious a disposition, that we would
have suffered the fate of a Sodom ? • Are
we not exceedingly fortunate in having
such compassionate rulers , whose kind for
bearance has been so mercifully bestowed ?
Should we not indeed feel grateful for that
few within our limits, by whom our affairs
are so well managed and so truthfully rep
resented at the great earthly seat of justice,
and our passions so controlled as to pre
serve us from so horrible a fate? O ! how
long shall we thus continue to live in sin
and cause the heart of the great nation
to mourn and bleed ! How long shall we
thus trouble our noble benefactors ? How
they must desire to be relieved from such
onerous responsibilities! Is it not most cruel
to impose upon them in this way—to tax
their time and patience with the admini ;-
tration of our affairs —to cause many of
them to leave their -firesides and all the
joys of the domestic circle —to bid adeu to
friends and all that is most dear, and with
“carpet-bag” iu hand, to undergo the
perils of land and water —to pass the stilly
hours of night in unceasing travel to
reach this land as messengers of peace and
“good will to man !” And all for our
sakes ! And most cruel of all, instead of
hailing them as our deliverers from the cruel
\ fates, we do not even manifest the slight
; est appreciation for all their toils and
privations, and when they seek for those
whose hearts are in utiion, pregnant alike
with great Republican principles, how few
such noble spirits are to be found ! They,
no doubt, feel as did the Prophet of old,
; and wish themselves “a fountain of tears”
that they might “weep” over the “chil
dren” of this wicked land. But with their
presence, and under the guidance of a
Hamilton or Davis at the helm of State,
we have all hopes of being safely conduct
ed id paths we have not known, and wAttA
! er we cannot tell.
Do not, dear Editors, in the joy of your
reunion to a place in the family ot States,
forget to look compassionately upon our
desolate condition. We have not had
your good fortune, but d* not fail to re
member that we were once a sister State
with you, and like the great and noble
spirits of your Empire State,we still hold in
admiration and love the great principles
of constitutional freedom which once un
derlay the foundation of a noble super
structure, but now disregarded and tram
pled [under foot, as unworthy of that en
larged spirit of freedom now actuating the
feelings of oar national rulers. We are
patiently waiting the time ot our return,
when our obstinacy shall have ceased, and
our opinions moulded so as to accord with
those of our sister States, when we hope to
be reinstated and vested once more with
civil rights, and privileged by the voice of
a free and untrammeled people to hurl
from places of honor and trust those vile,
dishonest, political demagogues, who seek
to elevate themselves to power and au
thority by misrepresenting the will and
deeds of the people to the authorities that
be, thereby subjecting us to military and
tyrannical rule, of which I may say some
thing in my next.
Yours, &c., B.
Combinations Against the Planter,
The cotton speculator and manufactur
er, although their interests run in opposite
directions, combine against the producer.
The speculator takes advantage of the
necessities of the manufacturer, but both
uniteagainst the planter. Generally at this
season of the year, and especially this
season, the European and North
ern markets are bare of _ the raw
material, and the stock in the hands of the
speculator and in the factories is limited—
not sufficient to meet the brisk demands of
trade and the wants of the consumer.
These people in the North and in Europe
know this fact. The speculator sees it.
He knows the supply to be short, and he
makes the manufacturer feel it, for fce has
to pay the price or stop work. This lie can
not afford to do, because he will only in
crease his indebtedness by suspending
operations. *
Whiie this is the real condition of af
fairs, and while *ur eyes here in the South
are open to the fact, these cute fellows
unite and try to blind the planter to his
interests. This is the time for the manu
facturer and speculator to begin their con
fidence game. It is made to appear on
paper and in papers that the supply ot
cotton on hand is amply sufficient for the
demands of trade until after the new crop
comes into market. And then these cute
fellows, living in Boston and Liverpool,
who never, iu all probability, saw a cotton
stalk, get up glowing accounts ‘about the
growing crop, and show you how the in
crease in the area of land under cultivation,
and the increase in the number of hands
employed, and the immense amount of
fertilizers used, as compared with former
years, must,of necessity, give a large yield.
In fact it is made to appear by the man,
who never saw a cotton stalk, and could
not tell one if he did, that the present crop
cannot possibly fall very far short of from
three to three million and a half bales.
Strange as it may appear our people are
gulled and woefully deceived by these
rascally sharpers. Even a certain class
who ought to know better —the newspaper
men—are taken in. It was only a few
weeks since that we exposed an elaborate
and swindling report of a “Jotton Manu
facturers and Planters' Association,” which
pretends to hold its annual meetings either
in Boston or New York. This report, em
bracing an extended and plausible review
of the growing cotton crop, the stock on
hand, etc., had been extensively copied by
Southern papers, only a few of which saw
through its purpose and exDosed its intent,
which was to mislead our people. It car
ried the evidence of deception on its fa :e.
We have not heard of any cotton having
been grown in Massachusetts or Now
York recently, and we are very certain
that there are no Southern planters in the
“Cotton Manufacturers and Planters"
Association of New England. Therefore?
the thing is intended to deceive. Who,
The Southern planter. In other words, to
make him believe that a certain thing is
true when it is a lie.
Our planters and farmers should, there
fore, be not deceived by reports written
and published by interested parties in ref
erence to the growing crop. The stock on
hand is small, insufficient to supply the de
mands of trade for any considerable perio.d.
The new cotton must necessarily command
a good price—one which will make the
planter easy and comfortable if not in
dependent ip all his circumstances. If he
acts intelligently and prudently no com
bination, however powerful, can defraud
him of the fruits of his honest labors.
One of the most substantial, intelligent
anil influential planters of Hancock county
favors the readers of the Ciihonicms &
Sentinel with his views on this important
subject in this morning’s issue.
Whitewashing His Record.
General Sherman made a speech at Dart
mouth College last week. 1 n the course
of bis remarks he said :
“It is a common feeling among civilians
that soldiers are men of violence. There
is nothing further from the truth. I ap
peal to the history of America, to the his
tory ofqur own countiy from Washington
until the present moment, to show that the
military men of the country have always
been subordinate men —subordinate to the
law, subordinate to the authorities, never
setting up their own judgment in antago
nism to that of the naiion, hut executing it
with a fidelity beautiful to behold.” ,
Gen. Sherman is, beyond question, a man
of ability, and one of the first General Officers
in .the Federal army; but he does not tell
the truth when he says that soldiers are
not men of violence. He must be a man
of the most unblushing effrontery to stand
up before any audience in this country and
assert that soldiers—meaning, of course,
those of the Federal army—are not men of
violence. Look at the devastations and
the black and smouldering ruins still
standing in Georgia and the Carolinas as
monuments of his shame and barbarity.
This vandalism is the result of his own
army. Atlanta and Columbia will stand
for all time to blacken the record of a march
which finds no parallel in the history of
civilized warfare. Sherman did it. He
made war on private property. He made
war on the old and the young—the halt
and the blinil—whom he left houseless and
defenceless, to starve and to die on the high
ways and byways of tire Carolinas and
Georgia. The smoke has scarcely cleared
away from the ruins which he made, and
yet he has the sublime effrontery to claim
that soldiers are not men of violence.
It is too soon for him to deny his bar
barities. It cannot be done success
fully in this day and generation. His
tracks and the tracks of his army can
never be whitewashed in the history of
the recent war. The skeletons of Atlanta
and Columbia will ever prove Sherman to
have been as cruel, destructive and unre
lenting in his atrocious method of barbar
ous warfare, as the Turchins, McNeils,
Kilpatricks, and Butlers who accompanied
him in his crusade against the South.
Civilized warfare does not consist in de
stroying and laying waste private property,
in murdering non-combatants and outrag
ing women. This is the record of General
Sherman and his army, from the “moun
tains to the sea.” There is, therefore,
“nothing further from the truth” than
Sherman’s implication that the Federal
officers and soldiers were not men of vio
lence in their warfare upon the South.
The evidences of their inhumanity are
scattered broadcast throughout our sunny
land.
Old Virginia.
Our Richmond exchanges note a decided
improvement in real estate prospects since
the signal defeat of Wells and the over
throw of the carpet-bag supremacy ; but
sufficient time has not yet elapsed for ef
fects to show themselves, though evidences
arenot wanting that there will soon bean in
creased demand for Virginia land. Com
menting on these signs of improvement in
Virginia, the New York Journal of Com
merce takes rather an encouraging view of
affairs, politically and otherwise. It says :
“Some people have doubts about the
recognition of Virginia as a State under
the Walker government; but these will
probably not be realized. After some
little opposition from extreme Radicals,
Virginia will be let in, and her Senators
and Representatives will tak§ their seats.
In anticipation of these events, movements
to emigrate to the old State are now on
foot in several parts of the North. A num
ber of gentlemen in New Jersey are spoken
of as having organized and appointed a
committee to go to Virginia and inspect
lands offered them by General Imboden,
the immigration agent of the State. They
intend to buy f rms of from 500 to 1,000
acres apiece, if prices and other conditions
are favorable. From the reconstruction ot
Virginia on a conservative basis will date
the era of a renewed prosperity greater
perhaps than she hasever enjoyed before.
From ihe Savannah Xeirs, of Juij/Z 3.
North German Steamship Line.
A called meeting of citizens was held
I yesterday at 1 o'clock at the Exchange
to receive the report of the Oouimittee
appointed on tho sth July last, in the
matterof setting forth the advantages of
the port of Savannah as the terminus of
the principal line of steamships from North
Germany. The report was submitted by
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Chairman of
Committee.
The Committee appointed to report on
the comparative fitness of Savannah and
other Southern towns to be the American
port of a line of steamships to ply between
the North German Confederation and our
Southern States, have giveu the subject
full consideration, aud have c'omo to the
unanimous conclusion, that in the essen
tials of geographical position, commo
diousness of har or, and railroad commu
nication with the interior, this city has de
cided advantages for su >h a purpose over
any other Southern port.
These advantages have given Savannah
a foreign trade, especially in eotton, larger
than that of any other of our Southern
Atlantic seaports. In thisoonnection your
atteotion is invited to the last report of the
United States Collector of the Port, by
which it will be seen that the burthen < of
vessels, foreign and American, that have
loaded at the wharvos of Savannah duriug
the year ending June 30, ISC9, amounted
to 1,129,835 tons, aud that these- vessels
were manned by 22,101 seaman, and the
value of its exports the same year amount
ed to $487336,494, including $21,411,550,
the value of 172,450 bales of cotton ship
ped to foreign countries. Its harbor is the
best on the Atlantic coast, south of Nor
folk, having a depth of 26 IWt.at high, ami
19 feet at low water. In addition to the
improvements of the river already effected
the municipal authorities are about to
deepen the ship channel between the bar
and the cityfso as to afford easy approach
to the largest class of vessels that may
seek kccess to our port.
Its communications by railroad with all
parts of the Mississippi Valley, south of
the Ohio, are shorter and more agreeable
for mildness of climate than those of any
other Atlantic city, aud the liberality and
public spirit of those who control those
roads, wili make transportation cheaper
also. By the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad
travellers, immigrants and merchandize
can now reach Florida and Southern
Georgia ah expeditiously and as cheap as
by any other emigrant routes in the Uuited
States. By the Central Railroad and its
connections it is 670 miles to Vicksburg.
This is the shortest distance between any
Atlantic port and the Mississippi. An ex
tension of this line to Marshall, Texas, is
now in progress. The future importance
of this route is fully set forth in the follow
ing
REPORT:
The committee appointed to attend the
Commercial Convention at Memphis re
port as the result of the deliberations of
that body, the selection of the thirty-sec
ond parallel of latitude as the proper line
for the location of the Southern Pacific
Railroad. This proposed route starts from
San Diego on the Pacific coast, and runs
eastwardly along .the line of the thirty-sec
ond degree to some convenient point east
of the Brazos river, in Texas, near Dallas
or Marshall, directly west of an 1 not far
removed from Shreveport, io the State of
Louisiana. From these proposed terminal
points the shortest and most direct lino to
the Atlantic coast lies along the thirty
second parallel of latitude, along whioh is
already constructed a continuous and al
most unbroken track of railway from Mar
shall, Texas, to Savannah via Vicksburg,
on the'Mississippi river. The line of rail
roads from Marshall, Texas, to Savannah
lies wholly between the thirty -second and
thirty-third parallels of latitude, and is
represented to exhibit less deviation from
a direct course than the same extent of
railroad in this or any other country.
.On the invitation of the Chamber of
Commerce of New Orleans, a portion of
yonr Committee attended the Convention
in that city, and have to report a like re
sult in the location of the line of the
Southern Pacific Railroad as that agreed
upon at Memphis. The line thus mu
tually recommended by the respective
Conventions is said to be in accord with
the views of the Government authorities
at Washington. * - *. * *
By the Central, Memphis and Charles
ton and intermediate roads, it is seven
hundred aDd forty miles to Memphis ; the
distance from that point to Charleston and
Norfolk are respectively 15 and 219 miles
greater, but a projected railroad from
Griffin to Decatur will increase this differ
ence in favor of Savannah by 60 or 70
miles.
By a line of railroads diverging from
that to Memphis at Stevenson, it is 582
miles from Savannah to Nashville; 762 to
the Mississippi, at Columbus, and 968 to
St. Louis; the last distance being 130
miles less than that from New York, The
mildness of the climate of the region in
which the Southern rou,te lies is, however,
a much greater advantage than this differ
ence of distance. The Atlantic and Gulf
and the lines of railroad to Vicksburg and
Memphis, lie in districts of country that
contribute a very large part of the cotton
exported by the United States,. and the
rich country in Tennessee and Kentucky,
north and west of Nashville, produce a very
great quantity of tobacco. It is considered
that a line of steamships from this port in
conjuction with the railroads described,
wouid form a better mode of transport
ing those article of trade than others now
used or practicable; it is equally, certain
that the ships carrying these products of
the South to Germany would bring back to
us German manufactures.
Norfolk is 219 miles further I ban Savan
nah, from any point beyond Chattanooga
toward Nashville or Memphis, and
Charleston 15; and there are 26 feet at
high and 19 at low water on the Savan
nah bar, and 16 312 at high and 11 at
low water mi that of Charleston.
Charleston is also 90 miles further than
Savannah by railroad from ail points in
Alabama and Mississippi. European emi
grants can find productive lands as cheap
in the South as in the Northwest in a cli
mate so mild that farmers may hbor in
the fields at all seasons, and by such a line
of steamships, and the four routes from
Savannah described above, they could
travel to those lands at less expense and
discomfort than to the Northwestern
States.
The following letters from the. corpora
tion named below were added to the re
port of the Committee :
* * * * y-
Office Central Railroad and )
Banking Company of Georgia, >
Savannah, 9th July, 1869. ]
Whereas, The prosperity of the South
ern and Western States is particularly de
pendent upon a more perfect and extend
ed culture of the soil, and as the labor of
the country is entirely insufficient to de
velpp the riches of their wide-spread acres;
and
Whereas, It is believed that the great
want can be best supplied by encouraging
the.industrious working men of Germany
and other parts of Europe to come and
live among us; therefore, be it
Resolved , That this Company will give
all facilities of transportation to emigrants
and their property, from Savannah to the
interior of the country, and at the lowest
possible rates, not exceeding one cent, per
mile for each passenger, and will invite all
connecting roads leading to the South and
West to extend like encouragement to all
seeking new homes in our rich and abun
dant land.
A true extract from the minutes of the
Company, this date.
T. M. Cunningham, Cashier.
* * * * *
Office of the Central Railroad & 1
Banking. Company of Georgia, J
General Joseph E. Johnston, Chairman
“Committee :
General —I have the honor to enclose
an extract from the minutes of our Board,
July 9, 1869, setting forth the terms en
which emigrants and their effects will be
transported over the Central Railroad of
Georgia and its branches, when landed at
the port of Savannah. I will add that
this Company will carry said emigrants as
cheaply as uny other line connecting with
an Atlantic port.
• Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. F. Gilmer, President pro tem.
President’s Office, A. &G.R-R- C 0.,)
Savannah, Ga., July 16,1869. )
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Chairman :
Dear Sib —In reply to your inquiry on
that subject I beg to say that the Atlantie
& Gulf Railroad Company will trapsport
emigrants and their freights at as low a
rate as any other railroad line in the
United States.
The present rates for emierants under
stood between the railroad companies in
the Southern States generally is one cent
per mile, bat this company will not hold
itself bound to charge so much should a
less rate be considered an encouragement
to emigrants. I beg to add that decided
efforts are about to be made to extend the
Atlantic & Gulf Railroad from Bainbridge
toward Mobile, and that should this pro
ject, which does not at present seem doubt
ful, be consummated, emigration will oom-
NEW SERIES, YOL. XXYIII. NO. 31
mand a second route from Savannah via
Mobile and New Orleans through tho low
er belt of the Gulf States to Texas and the
far West.
I remain, General,
Very respecefully yours, &c.,
John Screven, President,
*****
[Signed] Jos. E. Johnston, Chm’n.
J. F. Gilmer,
A. P. Wetter.
Mr. Win. Hunter, of the firm of Hunt
er & Gammell, moved that the report as
read be adopted, which was unanimously
carried.
On motion of Gen. J p . Gilmer a copy
of the report was directed to be forwarded
Major Hermann Hersch, Berlin, Prussia.
Mr. Hunter offered a resolution which
was adopted as follows : That the leading
merchants of our city be invited to place
their names on the report, and that. two
members of the committee be appointed
to obtain signatures.
The Chairman announced the names of
Major Geo. W. Anderson, Jr., and Capt.
Augustus P. Wetter, a3 said Committee.
On motion the Secretary was instructed
to furnish the city gazettes a transcript of
the proceedings of this meeting.
Meeting adjourned.
Edward C. Anderson, Chairman.
James Stewart, Seo’y.
lYonx the Macon Telegraph.
Swayze Restates His Evidence.
As part of the history of the Turner Im
broglio we copy from the American Union,
Swayze’s paper, of Saturday :
Turner’s Confession.— Owing to the
fact that portions of my testimony on the
occasion of tho Turner investigation last
Friday, w*i ino«£r.*<»ly ro-iorted, and that
some of it was objected to by the defend
ant’s counsel, aud that it was taken a
few words at a time, and, therefore, dis
jointed, and in some instances contradic
tory, I propose now to make an independ
ent statement covering ail the facts irre
spective of objections by. counsel. This I
deem all the more a duty to . yself from
the fact that my testimony, as it stands, is
impeached.
Henry M. Turner came in my office on
Sunday, the 4th day of July, about three
o’clock in the afternoon, and after care
fully closing the door, without saying a
word to me, he came toward me and sat
down on the corner of my editorial table.
Ho looked strangely at me, and then,
swinging his foot and his leg hung over
the table, he half smiling said: “I want
to tell you something.” Feeling roused at j
his disturbed demeanor I asked what was
the matter ? “I am ruined!” said he,
“ruined politically, religiously and every
other way,” and he, with a quick move
ment, started up and down the room
wringing his hands and wiping the pro
fuse perspiration from his face. I said :
“Turner, you scare mo : what in the
world is the matter ?” He then took from
his pocket an envelope, and from the en
velope a paper and handed it to me. It
was a subpoena to appear in Atlanta the
next day as a witness in the ease of the
United States Marian Harris. After I
had finished reading it, he gave me anoth r
paper from the sauieenvelope; it was a let
ter from L- J. Gartrell and W. 11. Hulsey,
of Atlanta, and contained the information
that Marian Harris had been arrested, and
had made a confidential confession to them
as Attorneys, aud they advised him that
it would be to his interest to see them
without delay. This letter was written on
ahalfsheetof letter paper with a print and
head, and to the -best, of my recollec e>,
the heading indicated the firm of “(lari
rell & Jackson;” at all events it was dif
ferent from the names that were attached
to the written letter, which were : L. J.
Gartrell and W. 11. Hulsey. I may be
incorrect as to the initials of these names,
but I give them as near as I can remem
ber. After reading the letter, I asked
Turner what he could do with it, and he
told me that he had given Marian Harris
the money on account of which she had
been arrested, and he suspected that the
subpoena for his appearance in Atlanta was
a blind to facilitate his arrest, and wished
my advice as to what was best for him to
do- He explained that he had given her
SI,BOO of this spurious money, for the rea
son that he feared that he might be killed
on his way from Washington to Macon,
on account of the bitter opposition that
existed to his appointment as Postmaster
of Macon, and he did not wish to have this
money found upon his person, and said
that he instructed her to keep it for him
until they got homo.
Without thinking of the extent to
which I was committing myself, I advised
him that it was his interest to know
nothing about the money in question, not
even to the lawyers who professed to have
the secret. He, too, thought that best,
and he left my office determined upon that
sourse of action when he should arrive in
Atlanta, to which point he was to start
that evening. I saw no more of him until
Tuesday, the 6th. But in the m°antime I
"had thought maturely on the matter, and
fully realized the perilous position in
which Turner had placed me, and de
termined that I would not allow the infamy
of such a transaction attach itself, in good
faith, to myself and my family; so, upon
the return of Mr. Turner on Tuesday
morning, I told him frankly that I could
not keep his secret, and that, I meant to
divulge it to the proper authorities.
Upon this announcement Mr. Turner ap
pealed to me in the strongest terms —offer-
ed me any price in his power to give, any
influence he could command politically; he
begged of me, for God’s sake, to keep his
secret. I told him I did uot dare to do it
—that I was not disposed to do it—that I
would not doit, when he very abruplty left
my office.
That day I went to Col. Morrill’s office
and disclosed to him what Turner had con
fessed, and asked him to send a detective
that I might beyond doubt, commit him.
Col. Morrill was just then very busy with
cases of seizures of goods upon which the
Revenue had not been paid, and told me
he could not attend to the matter un
til Mr. Neil, the detective, returned
from Atlanta, which would he on Friday,
the 9th.
On Wednesday, the 7th, Mr. Turner
again came to my office, and after closing
the door, began a sort of defence of his
crime by saying that he did not give the
counterfeit money in question to Marian
Harris, but that he laid the package down
in the car-seat on their way from Wash
ington to Georgia, and that she had taken
it up from the seat. This was offered as a
technical evasion, which he seemed to
suppose would defeat the law. lie further
stated that he told the woman that it would
not be safe for her to try to pass any of
this money. She examined it and said
that she thought she could pass it easy
enough. He further stated that he suspected
that she had been passing it to prove to
him that she could do more with it than
ho gave her credit for. After pursuing
this line some time, he asked if I had yet
exposed him. I refused to satisfy him on
that point, but repeated to him the situa
tion in which his confession placed me in
the eyes of the law, and told him he had no
favors to expect from me. At this inter
view the matter of the publication in the
Augusta papers came up. I think it came
up by my asking him if he had seen the
Augusta papers. He had not seen them.
I told him that Mr. Smith, route agent on
the Central-Road, had been in my office the
evening before, and had told mo that he
had seen an Augusta paper, which con
tained an extract implicating him in the
matter for which Marian Harris had been
arrested, and, udod this information, he
at once left my office. In the afternooD of
the same day he called again, and said that
he had been to the Daily Telegraph office,
and that the editor of that paper had
called his attention to the article of which
I had spoken. He then renewed his plead
ings for silence on my part, and hinted, as
a threat, that sjnee 1 had shielded him
thus far, he could implicate me as an ac
complice. I pursued the aloof policy
gave him no satisfaction and he retired.
On Tuesday, the Bth, he visited me
again and again renewed his pleadings, his
excuses and explanations, but the same
( routine was repeated with immaterial vari
ations.
On Friday Mr. Neil presented himself,
and after consultation with him 1 made
affidavit to the facts, and as I am since in
formed a warrant was issued on that day.
The editorial which appeared in the Union
on that day, headed “Turner in Irons,”
was written only because of the positive
necessity to say something in defence or
explanation of the published charges
against Turner; and matters had not suf
ficiently.developed to make a statement
of the case without, possibly, defeating
the ends of justice. That article, how
ever, when closely analyzed, makes no de
fence of Turner, but what is consciencioas
ly due him.
For the days intervening between the
9th and the 14th—the day of his arrest
nothing of special note transpired, only
that he visited my office almost daily, and
made it his special business to try to bribe
j me to be silent.
Many people attribute self interest, re
venge, malice, the money of rebels, and
everything else that is mean, to me, as
the motive which actuated mein this mat
ter. May I not have a little credit for
common honesty ? Is it not plain that if
I had been grovelling 1 could have jingled
rebel gold for such a service ? Mr. Turner
! offered me everything he had, or expected
ito have. When will these revilersof mine
! learn that I am not to be bought ? Rogues
will learn, after a while, to give me a wide
| berth, for the only use I have for them is
to bring them to justice.
The Cotton Crop.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Much speculation as to the extent of the
cotton crop and the price which it jp to
command, has already been had. It can
not be denied that quantity will have much
to do with price. If the crop be a large
one, then the price will be less. If a small
one the price will be greater. We speak
of the American crop only, for it is now
demonstrated that every bale of this crop
is aunually needed to supply the demand
and that, too, at remunerating prices to the
planter. It so happens, too, that when
prices “are up” the interests of both manu
facturer and speculator are in antagonism
to those of the producer. Interest , there
fore, unites the two in a war against the
planter to bring down prices. They are
too often successful, as experience proves.
They are harmonious until the crop is
mostly sold and out of first hands and then
the warfare begins between themselves.
The-speculafor now wants h>gh prices—the
manufacturer-struggles,as heever hasdone,
for low prices. Tne planter having cotton
on hand is benefitted, while those who,
from necessity or want of foresight, have
sold out too soon, go to work to plant more
another season, hoping to do better ib the
sale of his next crop. High prices unite
speculator and manufacturer ; low prices
separate them. It may be expected, there
fore, that mutual interests will prompt
both, under existing circumstances, to
magnify our prospects and to create Such
doubts in the minds of buyers and pro
ducers as will cause a decline in price.
And it is this point that the producer
should look to, at all times, especially at
this particular time and for some months
to come.
Our object is to caution the planter
against the schemes of the two interests of
which we spqak. They arc now exerting
their utmost power to make the impres
sion throughout the world, that the pres
ent crop will be the largest crop made
since 1861—that it will certaiulv reach
3,000,000 bales, and they bring forth what
they cali “facts” to prove it. They as
sert that a larger area is planted—a larger
amount of manure is used (granted) than
formerly—that more ba"ds arc engaged in
its cultivation than lastyear (not granted),
and there is a great improvement in the
labor (very little) this year over last-~and
that, added to all these, seasons have been
(not so, at this date) much more con
genial.
We deny that, within the range of our
observation, a larger area is planted—we
admit that more manure has been used,
but we don’t admit that ithe crop will be
materially enhanced by it, because of the
almost universal drouth, and.so severe as
to stop the growth of the manured plant
effectually, long before it had reached per
fection, and causing it to shed off a large
portion of the forms it had taken on, and
at a period, too, when it is too lato to calcu
late anything on a second growth. Late
cotton, whether manurA or not, may, if
the late seasons prove favorable, he as
good, if not better, than early cotton. So
far, however, as the early cotton is con
cerned, “the die is cast.” That will open
early, but cannot make a large crop out
side of the few neighborhoods which have
had regular seasons. Let planters not
forget this when they begin to forward
their crops to market. Wg deny any in
crease of hands (where did they come from?)
and that those engaged have materially
improved in labor. We have not dared to
increase our crops per hand. We have
had more grass to contend with, as a gen
eral rule, this year than last—have hal, as
a consequence, more cotton destroyed by
them; and, in addition to all this, we have
had, and are having, a consuming drought
upon us, and a very general oue at that.
We say nothing of the floods in our
Western streams—of caterpillar—of boll
worm—of storms, or other disaster. We
let all these pass for what they are worth,
and all such as may still come upon us, and
“assert, without the fear of successful con
tradiction,” that the present crop cannot
exceed the last, if the crops of this section
be a fair specimen of the general crop. We
say that it will open early if the weather is
favorable, but that it will fall far short of
our calculations when, with copious manur
ing and thorough preparation, we com
menced planting it.
If we are correct in our conclusions (the
reader can judge for himself—we are hon
est we know), the producer is justified in
expecting high prices the ensuing season
unless he yields to the efforts of interested*
parties to bring down prices. If he acts
sensible he will hold his cotton for satis
factory prices if not forced by his necessi
ties to sell a portion. Let him remember
that all the theories, figures, facts, data
and arguments of these interested parties
in pulling down the cotton market, by an
estimated very large crop, have proved,
up to this time, however plausible and
convincing, entirely onerous, and that
without additional labor, no matter what
the price, or how great the improvement
of culture, can we make more than two to
two and a half millions ? Planter.
The Brunswick & Albany Rail wad.
—lt seems to be a fixed fact that this im
portant railroad will speedily be buiit. The
Albany News says that a number of
Northern capitalists have embarked in the
enterprise; the company has been organ
ized with Mr. Chas. L. Frost, of New.
York, as President, and Mr. Henry Clews
as Treasurer; iron, engines and other ma
terial are being shipped to Brunswick, and
the work is to be commenced under auspi
ces that will secure the building of one
mile per day, at least to the junction with
the Gulf Road.
We believe Col. Chas. L. Sehlatter has
been retained as Chief Engineer, and Mr.
Henry S. Wells is one of the Directors.
Several of the Directors, we are informed,
are amply able to build the road single
banded, and all they ask is an open field
and a fair fight. Predictions are valueless,
but it is within the range of possibility
that, on the Ist day of September, 1870, a
passenger may dine in Albany and sup in
Brunswick the same evening.
The Resources of Georgia.—ln or
der to have the natural resources of Geor
gia properly bought to the public attention,
Col. E. llulbert, Superintendent of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad, has de
termined upon an excursion, which he
brings to the notice of the press through a
circular letter, a portion of which we copy.
He says ; “Desiring to afford the members
of the press of Georgia an opportunity of
visiting localities endowed with such a
wealth of natural resources that they may
see for themselves, and make known to the
country at large the very extraordinary in
ducements offered to capital and labor in
the production of iron, I have the honor
of tendering them a Free Excursion Train,
to leave Atlanta on Wednesday morning,
August 25th, proximo,- and proceed as
follows; The train will proceed first to
Chattanooga, Tennessee, whence it is
proposed to go by steamer to the extensive
Iron Works on the Tennessee river, above
.that city ; returning to Chattanooga, the
train will be resumed, and the excursion
ists will proceed to Rome, Georgia, via
Kingston ; fropi Rome they will go down
the Coosa, by steamer, to visit the Iron
Works on that river ; the party will then
return to Rpme, and go down the Selma,
Rome and Dalton railway to the valuable
Iron Works on its line—thence. back to
Rome and return to Atlanta, making a trip
of about twelve days.”
A New Issue of Greenbacks.—ln
addition to the new fractional currency the
Treasury Department wi 1 soon issue new
United States notes of the denomination of
one dollar. The plates for these notes are
uow being engraved. The vignette of
Chief Justice Chase on the left of the face
of the note will be taken off and a bust of
Washington substituted. This,and changes
in the vignettes recently made on the face
of the fractional currency, is in accordance
with an act of Congress prohibiting the
vignettes of persons now living from being
on the face of the United States currency,