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WEDNESDAY HOKUM, NOYKMBtH 16.
The Kfbt-h of the Radical Party.
By reference to ocr telegraphic column,
it will be .%en that the Blodgett-Tweedy
ring of the .Radical party, alter a 1 their
fuss and fanfaronade, have been whipped
jnto submission. like the King of France,
with ten thousand men, they marched up
the hill and then marched down again.
They met in conrention at Augusta,
1 weedy, the expected protege, was thrown
overheard, and Beard, colored, and Fannin,
a |Overnment official, oversowed the cal
culations and arrangements of Captain-
Gcceral Blodgett. Blodgett acd Tweedy
swore they would not stand this. It was
an invasion of the State rights of the Rad
ical party ot Georgia. Blcdgett foamed
ar.d fretted, and Tweedy cried out lustily
against corruption against Lino and Blod-
gett, and his Republican Executive Com
mute? declared the nomination null and
void, for Beard, colored, and Fannin, offi
cial, were not the free choice of the party.
By and by, Mr. Attorney-Genera! Alcer
man writes two letters to the faithful,
pnd tells them he sees no good reason
for upsetting the Beard-Fannin nom
ination, and that the Government can
not stand rebel Radicals and bolters.
Straightway Blodgett and Tweedy, and
their allies, get eighty miles out of the
city of Auyusß, corrupted by Govern
ment official-. They menace. They con
demn. They swagger with the air of in
jured right, and declare that tho colored
forces will Gght nobly with Tweedy as a
leader, but that they caooot stand official
dictation and corruption. But alter all
this menace, and condemnation, and swag
ger, and virtuous indignation of injured in
nocence, they ride the allotted eighty miles
—to the innocent land, vclveted with grass
and brilliant with roses, the land of primeval
innocence— and unanimously renominate
the rejected, Beard the colored and Fannin
the official—wooiDg gcutlv as flicking
doves the arbiters of their destiny, and
pcnitcntially seeking nogis of power as re
pentant rebels. Alas I for little liph, the
victim of .unrequiotod love; and, alas ! for
the Confederate Artillery Captain of an
cient days, and the Captaiq General of
later Radical bigguos. lie has iound his
apple tree to be a sweet briar of Greene
county-
Coming Home to Them.
The. Now Yorkers arc witnessing some of
the practical effects of tho modern guaranty
for Republican governments. They have
United States arillery stationed at Central
Park, the Bth United States Infantry in
Madison Park, and the United States
nrarines in readiness at the Battery; while
gunboats and monitors occupy eligible
positions in the harbor; all to guarantee
peace in a State election and a government
republican in form. Tho Mayor of the
Metropolitan city, io a speech, recently
said among other things:
“I never expected to soe the time in this
Republic, as they are doing now in Ireland,
and as they have douo in timo past iu other
governments ot Europe, when wo would
bo fettered and intimidated in the freright
of th : elective franchise by bayonets and
satraps. A greater outrage tbao this is
about to be—lias been this very day—perpe
trated on us. Wo used to read about the
outrages iu the Southern States, but that
was far aw ay, but now it is brought homo to
us. New York is cursed with two places—
the farm of Iloraco Greeley and the State
farm at Sing Sing. The negro troops have
marched up to Usion Square and back
again to the Battery to show themselves
and to intimidate you. I would have them
quartered at Madison Park so that the
people could sec them, to seo tha shining
light cf heaven gleam upon the bayonets
which are to cause the gleam of shame to
shoot from an honest man’s eye. I am the
ballot candidate against the bayonet and
pullet candidate, and I want it written
on my tombstone. You have got to fight
with tho ballot aid to rebuke tho outrages
v.'hiob are about to bo perpetrated on us.”
Whether Mr. Mayor Hall’s wish, re
specting the inscription on his tomb is
complied with or not, the bullet and ballot
are now twin companions, and hereafter
must and will go together to guarantee a
government republican in form, notwith
standing the Honorable Mayor never ex
pected to see such a ”timo in this Repub
lie.” “The Winchester Rifle is now the
best law."
TUp Production or Alcoholic Spirits In
(he United Slates.
Tho daily producing capacity of the
Uuited States, as shown by returns re
ceived at the Revenue Department, is as
follows:
Gallons
Spirits from grain 759377
“ molasses 24903
•• fruit 126271
Total capacity 910551
The following is a table showing the
daily production of each State:
From Mo- Total
States grain lasses Fruit gallons
California 16169 14105 30574
Connecticut.... 1-15 4810 6355
Delaware 178 1787 . 1975
Kentucky 9564S 109 V 109605
Ma.yiand 23191 4SI 25832
Massachusetts 957 11593 882 13442
Maine 1212 1212
N Hampshire 148 50 198
New Jersey 3807 11582 15489
Rhode IslaDd 387 3;7 j
Illinois „168430 817 169247 |
Indiana 3SIOB 4133 42641 ■
Idaho 260 160 j
Ohio 123909 1374 125253
Oregon - SO 43 123
New- Mexico... 70 77 447
Nebraska 1837 1837
Wisconsin 10463 10463
Tennessee 15638 ...... 7539 23174
Texas 229 522 751
N Carolina 2263 14939 17202
Virginia 22598 29134 61642 j
West Virginia 2751 1591 4342 \
lowa 11074 118 11191 1
Pennsylvania. 67478 1855 1541 70874
Now York 18)822 8443 714" 106412 1
Alabama 8569 1524 10693 10693
Arkansas 398 194 194 592
Missouri 25199 2817 28016
Miehigau 1843 1843
Minnesota 539 530
Mississippi 1482 318 1795
liOuia'ana 17914 1265 ...... 19i79
Georgia 1-7 5"07 63:4
N Carolina 530 1430 1960
Washington
Territory.... 458 I£B
Kansas 773 773
Montana 140 140
Total 7-9377 -4903 135271 910551
Th : B is the surveyed producing capacity
of all distilleries. The actual production
will probably average eighty per cent, of
be survey.
It will be seen by the foregoing table
that the distilleries of the United States
have a spirit producing capacity every
twenty-four hours as follows : from grain,
759,377 gallons; from molasses, 24.903
gallons; from fruit, 126,271 gallons—mak
ing a total daily capacity of 910,551 gal
lons. Assuming that the ggiin distilleries
run one hundred and fifty days each year,
there would be a production of 113,906,550
gallons annually ; add to this the 3,835,-
450 gallons molasses capacity, there would
be an annual production from those two
sources of 117,642,000 gallons. The actual
production of fruit spirits is over one mil
lion gallons per annum, thus making an
actual production annually of 117,642,000
grllone. The consumption of the country
is estimated to be about seventy-five mil
lion gallons annually, leaving at the lowest
estimate a capacity of 43,642,000 gallons'
which can only be made available by ex
portation. The grain distilleries consume
at least 38,635,517 bushels of the sur.
plus grain of the country.
It wiil be seen also by inspection of the
table, the banner States in the distillation
of grain are Illinois acd Ohio; of mo
lasses, Massachusetts and New York ; and
of fruits, Virginia aod California. Tne
four States—lllinois, Ohio, Kentucky and
Pennsylvania—have the greatest spirit
producing capacity for the distillation of
grain, amounting to 549,287, in a total
capacity of 759,377, or than fivc
oevenths of the total production.
! Boston and Philadelphia Com
merce.
I The table of imports and exports at the
j port of Boston, forth? month of Oitober,
give a total of $4,546,646 o! imports, and
of exports $910,148, of which $70,587
were foreign goods, which have been im
ported into this port, and re-exported to
I other countries. The chief articles of the
imports were dry goods to the value of
$877,589; iron and steel, $107,660;
hides and skins, $342,788; tin piatss and
slabs, $301,679; sugar, $215,835; linseed,
$206 697; dyes and drugs, $191,953;
hemp, $164,384 ; burlaps, $143,149.
Taking this month as a fair exponent
of the average, it will be observed that
Boston imports (in round numbers) four
and ODC-half times as much as she ex
ports. For the most part tire imports con
sist of raw materials for manufacturing
purposes.
Turning now to Philadelphia we find
that the total va'uo of the exports for the
same month was $1,712,752, of which
$1,381,250 was petroleum and its pro
ducts, leaving only $331,502 for other
products and manufactures, the imporls
holding about the same proportion to the
exports as at Boston. A comparison of
the import and export trade of these and
other Northern ciries, with those of South
ern cities, discloses a condition of affairs
just the reverse of what appears by the
foregoing statement. The exports are
very heavy in proportion, and many
times in amount the value of the imports.
Tne meaning of all this is that the North
does all trade iti importing goods, and
Southern productions pay for them.
A Domestic Riiiloon Dispatch.
A special dispatch from this city to the
New York Tribute, under date 4th inst.,
says:
Avery lariro and appreciative audience
was assembled at the Court House last
evening to hear the opeuimr campaign
speech in this State of the Hon. Foster
Blodgett, Senator-elect, an 1 Chairman of I
the State Republican Central Committee. !
Mr. Blodgett’s appearance was hailed with I
rapturous applause, and his opening
speech has bad a most happy effect, if one
can so judge by th? cordiality with which
it was received. Tho assemblage was com
posed in part of the opponents of the Re
publican party, and the speaker’s fervent
appeals to the old Whig and Union ele
ments to be true to the principles which
formerly actuated them were listened to
with rapt attention. In reviewing favor
ably tho Administration of Gen. Grant,
he said that “it stands forth conspicuously
for its economy ; for its faithful collection
and return of the public revenue ; for its
faithful and rapid payment of the public
debt; for its scrupulous adhesion to the
great principles of free government, and
for itsjudioious foreign policy.” Alto
gether the speech will bo the means, no
doubt, of attracting a large portion ot the
Democratic elements to the Republican
standard.
Doubtless there was a large and appre
ciative audience in attendance on this
occasion, but neither the occasion nor the
speech were auspicious for tho future pros
pects of the Captain General Senator elect.
Senator Blodgett suited the Democrats
admirably, and doubtless would have one
“rapturous applause” if his pluck had not
oozed ouf at his lingers end. He opened
the campaign vigorously by getting up
a Bolters Conventon to overthrow prior
nominations,' but he finally found himself
under the ban of Attorney General
Akerman’s displeasure and ho closed the
campaign just as vigorously, like the little
boy of the blacksmith shop, who, having
taken up Smithey’s newly wrought korse
shoo of his own accord, put it down vigor
ously without being told to do so. The
faot i--, he reviewed Grant’s administration
and protested against the dictates of the
administration interferring in his baili
wick by putting forward candidates other
than tkoso of his nomination. Greeley
should send for Blodgett to aid him in the
conversion of New York Democrats. For
a man who reads written speeches, and
pays tor the writing of them, his eloquence
is overpowering. Nothing like it, in tele
graphic aeeounts, in ail the world. He
will bring down the house with rapturous
applause arid carry his audience with him.
Up in a balloon, boys, up in a balloon,
Up In a balloon, boys, sailing around the
moon.
Blodgett’s eloquence is only surpassed
by Blodgett’s learning and financial ability.
Greeley should import him at once, for
the administration Republicans have scorn
fully kicked him out cf this, his native
district, A man of Blodgett’s distressing
modesty, profound learning and scrupulous
integrity should seek a metropolitan field
where his works and his worth would be
appreciated.
The Revenue from Stamp
Taxes.
The stamp tax is the most ingenious of
all the forms of taxation ever devised.
The specific amount upon any single trans
action isgeneraily insignificant, and seldom
attracts the attention of the tax-payer,
but the frequency with which it is de
manded in the infinite number of transao
tions of daily life, for the most part char
acterized by each separate act of each
separate individual, swells the amounttbus
extracted from tbe pockets of the people
to an extent, in the aggregate, but seldom
appreciated eveu by close observers. That
portion of the stamp tax which is in the
nature of excise, is subtlety distributed
among the consumers, as in the case of tbe
tariff of imports, although in the first
instance paid in gross by the inanu!ac:urer
and deale!.
During the month of October the fol- !
lowing Revenue stamps -were sold : To
bacco stamps, 1f!,982,679, value $2,700 -
592 32; whiskey stampe, 410.900, value
$3,083 000 ; beer stamps, 1,600,000, value
$520,025,
The Supreme Court of the Unit- i
e«l States.
The Deocmbcr term of the Supreme j
Court of the United States will be looked
forward to with especial interest by the
whole country. There are a number of
cases of especial importance set down for
bearing at this term. The first involves
the constitutionality of the cotton tax law,
and will be argued by Judge Curtis and
Mr. Evarts against the Government. The
: second concerns the constitutionality cf
the confiscation acts. This will be con
ducted by Messrs. Curtis and Cashing
against the United States. The third comes
upon a writ ol error from Kentucky, and
involves the civil rights bill, the special
case being that of a white man tried in a
U. S. Court for the murder of a negro.
Judge Black appears against the Govern
ment, and will hold that it is unconstitu
tional to try iu a U- S- Court a citizen of a
State for murder when the State Courts
are open.
Montgomery, November 9.— The re
turns have come in meagre, but it is now
believed that the Democrats have carried
the State —they elect three members of
Congress without doubt.
Napoleon and His Generals.
A Berlin dispatch of the 4th instant in
forms U3 that on “Wednesday there were
twenty-one Generals acd eigaty-sevan
supericr officers with the Emperor Na
poleon at Wilheimshohe. Prince Murat
and a few other? remained there, acd the
rest proceeded to Berlin. The meeting of
j the Emperor and Marshal Caffrobert was
j very cordial. They embraced and kissed
; each other several times.”
M. Thiers characterized the First Na-
I poleon as Napok'm le Grand; the last
! Napoleon as Napoleon le Petit. This
| caustic antithesis finds justification in the
pic ure presented by the dispatch. Na
poleon lePelit, surrounded by twenty-one
Generals and eighty-seventy superior
officers, prisoners ot war, after surren
dering upon his own territory two armies,
aggregating to two hundred aDd fifty
thousand well armed soldiers, kissing his
Generals, is not the Napoleon of Auster
litz; nor of Jena; nor of Moscow or
Waterloo ; nor of Elba, nor St. Helena.
The Date Exhibition of the Cot
ton States Fair Association.
The question has frequently been asked,
since the close of our late fair, has the ex
hibition proved as successful, financially,
as in every other respect ? For the in
formation of inquirers we are authorized to
state that the fair paid all expenses and
ecroro! thousand dollars OVCr. The A:-
sedation is a little in debt for improve
ments and work on the grounds, but a
committee of leading citizens has the mat
ter in charge and wiil obtain sufficient ad
ditional tuboriptions to the capital stock
to place the Association on a firm financial
basis. Os the five hundred shares au
thorized by the charter, half have not been
subscribed, and from the result of the first
exhibition, it i3 not risking anything to
recommtnd the investment as a good one,
pecuniarily.
The Carolina Flection.
The pickets have duly reported from
their picket posts, and the State canvass
ers, the court of cassation for Republican
uses in tho State of South Carolina
have brought their arduous laborrs, al
most to a elose, in the consummation of a
foregone conclusion. The result reminds
us of an anecdote, if we are permitted
this Republican enjoyment. Upon the
acquisition of New Mexico instructions
were published promising our newly ac
quired citizens a free expression of opin
ion at the ballot-box, and arranging there
fur. But private instructions were issued
to military commanders looking to results,
A subaltern, at a certain post, having no
great taste for such management, be
thought himself to do. Ha was
blessed with a quick-witted Irish Orderly
Sergeant, a bold soger boy, handy at
everything—from bundling a musket and
necking a potatoe, down to wooing a Mexi
can damsel with a guitar and an Irish-
Sjanifh love song, and singing a jolly
roundelay over a bottle of whiskey, or a
bowl of t ulque. Call’ ng up this dapper
jovial S;rg ant, so full of broad humor,
but withal possessed, of a keen eye for the
proprieties of life, he addressed him thus :
“Sergeant, to-mor ;ow there will be an elec
tion at this post. There is a copy of the
instructions, which, you may read at your
leisure, but the meaning of them is, that
there must be a full and fair ballot for all
qualified voters, hr it the result must be
in accordance with our Republican notions.
The company mu st remain all day at the
place of balloting , from sunrise to sunset-'
See that everyth! ng hproperly arranged.”
Ihe clectiqp bel’jg duly consummated, ac
cording to the Republican form, and tho
Sergeant again at headquarters, the
commandant said to him: “Sergeant, how
is this ? I see that the election returns show
one hundred and ten yeas and forty-one
nay3.” “Why, you’se say, sur,” “saidtho
Sergeant, respectfully touching his forag
ing cap,, “the company must stand to their
colors ; so Use juste made corporal Shoots
emberg put into the box tackets for tho
officers and the guard to save tlirouble, and
them made one hundred and tin; an
I juste let a few of them Mexiken divils
vote out of the proprietus, sur, and then
I throw into tho box a few odd tackets for
luck and daceucy’ssake like, you know, sur.
Am sur, it was the best I could do, sur, to
give cm a third, barrio odd cumbers, sur.”
It rs just in this way, for luck and da
cencv’s sake, like, it strikes us, that Scott’s
election returns indicate that he has man
aged his picket line batallions according to
the -printed reports of his election ser
geants. Take a third from a Scott Re
publican’s vote, and “barrin odd numbers
for luck and daceDcy’s sake,” and you
have the vote ot a Reform candidate.
The result in the Congressional election
is given as follows:
FIRST DISTRICT.
Dudley, Reform 11,430
Rainey, Radical 20,200
SECOND DISTRICT.
DeLarge, colored Republican 16,686
Bowen, white, Republican 16,042
THIRD DISTRICT.
Elliott, colored, Republican 20,564
BaeOD, Reform 13,997
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Wallace, Republican 16,184
McKissick, Reform 12,206
The official returns given show the total
vote to be as follows:
FOR GOVERNOR.
Siott, Radical 84,475
Carpenter, Reform Republican 50,104
Scott’s majority 34,371
FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
Ransier, Radical 83,998
Butler, Reform Republican 50,441
Ransier’s majority 33,557
This majority, in the case ot both Scott
and Ransier, will be reduced about 400 by
the action of the board in tho cose of
Chesterfield and Spartanburg, and about
2,000 by their action in regard to Charles
ton owunty; aod we doubt not will be made
to square exactly with the Irish Serpent’s
ideas of propriety, for decency’s Make;
only this the proportion should be in
creased on account of the great danger
; and extreme hazards of the exalted posi
tion of picket line commanders—dangers
and hazards, by the confession of this
high authority, greater by far than those
cf the seige and the battle-field.
The W icchcster Rifle has been affirmed
to be the best law by the Republican vote
of South Carolina.
To be Avoided.
The Bainbridge Argus states that divisi
; ons among the Democrats of Mitchell
; county and the running of independent
candidates, we are informed, will probably
i insure the success of the Radicals in that
county. Divisions, always to bo avoided
and condemed, are now unpardonable. It
has been repeatedly asserted that there
j are Bullock-Democrats enough in the field
to give him upon election, a majority in
the next General Assembly. Such men
as are unwilling to harmonise the action of
the party and postpone their claims to
effect unanimity, when defeat stares them
in the face as consequent upon divided
action, cannot be considered cth erwise
than as desiring and contributing to the
perpetuation of Radical plunder and
; power.
SI,OOO Reward is offered by the proprie tor
°‘ t>r. Flerce ’s Alt. Ext. or Golden MeUi
cal Discovery, for a medicine that will
equal it in the cure of ah severe liugerirg
Coughs, Liver Complaint or Biliousness,
ana all diseases arising from imj>urity of
the blood, as Eruptions, Pimples, Blotches
anu Boils, Sold by druggists. P amphlet
i sent free. Address Dr. R. V. Piei.-ce, Buf
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AUGUSTA, GA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, IS7O
lititV VOnS CUf!RfcSVO>ESCK.
LETTER FROM TYRONE PtJVERS.
New York, 3d No verier, IS7O.
Revenge is not altogethei*a (Jhristian sen
timent, but to the unregenerat heart there
is something not absolutely inpleasing in
the present condition of this jreat city.—
New York sent to the war thousands of
men and millions of money, Democrats
and Republicans vying alii® in their ef
forts to cut the South’s thjoat for asserting
the doctrine of self government, and now
as a reward for thus robbing other people
of their liberties, Nev York has lost its
own. United States troops to the number
of several thousand are concentrated in
and about this barber, gun boats lie ready
to hack up this military by a naval force,
and to pave the way for the bayonet by
some little shadow of pretext of civil law,
United States Judges, Commissioners,
Marshals and Supervisors of election stand
ready to arrest, try, convict, and imprison
whomsoever the authorities at Washington
will. In one word this great city, the me
tropolis of the conquering North, the cen
tre whence went out the sinews of war to
sustain the late crusade against constitu
tional liberty, is “reconstructed”—recon
structed as fully as any of the unfortu
natfi Sffltzxo Os tko CvJUtli, UUb W lID tills
difference that said States, poor, hide
bound, unprogressive, Bourbon things
that they are, fought to the last extrem
ity at the very threat of reconstruc
tion, while this mighty metropolis,
rich in men and money, meekly opens
its mouth and swallows the dose as
though it rather liked it. And behind
New York is the whole North, covered by
a handful of soldiery, fed and paid and
armed, and kept on foot out of its own
substance, and willing to resort to no other
counter-irritant than a few maudlin words
of reprehension uttered while drunk at a
ward meeting overnight and clean for
gotten by morning. Instead cf this pal
pable use of the bayonet to overawe an
election being resented by the North,
utterly irrespective of politics, as a crime
against what is left of its freedom, the
question is treated simply e.s one of party
politics, and while the Democrat and the
Republican are snarliDg at one another
about it in comes the little man of the
White House to lay his rod on the backs
of both. How the mere election goes,
you wiil know very likely before this
letter sees print, and I am free to say the
signs are that there will be a majority
averse to the government at Washington,
but a mere vote is not the way to meet an
introduction of military force into civil
life. This election may be against the
users of that force, but the substantial
victory is theirs since they establish the
precedent of force, and little by little will,
so broaden that precedent as to put them
selves finally where they may disregard any
mere vote, however hostile. Impeach
ment and deposition of .the President who
so uses the bayonet, trial at common law
and imprisonment of the agents who
obey him rather than the fundamental
principles of constitutional liberty are the
only fit answer to such procedures as this
city, and through this city the whole
North, witnesses, but when the tortoise
flies like the eagle and tho cat-fish can sing
like the sweet mocking-bird that answer
will be made.
Among the remarkable features of what
is known as “metropolitan journalism,” is
the art of “interviewing,” and of this art
a city paper now before me affords a pe
culiar illustration. A day or so since it
appears that an unfortunate German quar
reled with his wife, and that good lady ut
terly wearing ont his patience by her
shrewish demeanor, no resource appeared
left the poor wretch but to kill himself,
which he accordingly attempted to do.
The ball, howovci, instead of instantly
putting him beyond the reach of his be
loved, merely inflicted a mortal wound,
and while the unhappy man lay dying in
the hospital he is “interviewed” by an en
terprising reporter for the requisite infor
mation for a “spicy” paragraph. “Now
tell us all about it,” says the enterprising
man in effect, “What did your wife say
to you; where did you buy the pistol; was
it loaded with ball or slug; how do you
spell your wife’s maiden name; how many
grandfathers did you have; do you feel
bad, and if so how much,” &c., &c., in a
string of questions as long as the moral
law, one eye meanwhile fixed on his
note-book, and one on the dying man’s
brow. Struggling in the agonies of disso
lution, the suicide turns to a friend stand
ing by to procure him a release from this
torture iu his passing hour, and straight
way the enterprising man “interviews”
the friend—“name, sir ? Live in the
city ? How long yer known him ? Ever
attempted suicide before ? Going to die
soon, isn’t he?” &e., ks., &e., again,
till he is fairly bundled away from the
death bed and goes off to villify all con
cerned in his paper for not giving him tbe*
“facts.” This is “enterprise,” one of tho
noblest signs of “our” national progress,
a glorious testimony to the acuteness and
all-pervasive activity of “our” national
intellect, purged and purified from the
errors of the past. To haunt those dismal
chambers where the self-murderer lies
stark with the knife yet in his heart, or the
pistol lying close to the gaping wound it
has inflicted, to dog the convicted mur
derer, from hour to hour, as the gallows
draws nigh, to cross-question the unhappy
one bereft of innocence, to give the
minutest autobiography ot the thief and
vagrant, are the glories of “enterprise”
like this. Let a word be said of its foul
ness and the answer is ready—“the people
like to read it,” and so they do. Con
temptible as is the mousing reporter, the
readers who at once stimulate and peruse
his efforts are the real offenders. “We”
are a great people, and must have our
dish of horrors every day.
It is painful to relate that the great
American eagle lias not as yet laid one
claw on the lion’s snout and the other on
his tail and rent that British beast as the
owl;rends the mouse. Away far off to the
Northwest, across the extremest northern
border of Minnesota, lies the Red river
country, a British possession variously
known otherwise as Winnipeg, Selkirk’s
settlement, or Manitoba. Under an act of
the British Parliament to bring all the
British North American possessions into a
colonial confederacy, the authorities of
The Dominion,” as this confederacy is
culled, sought to supply Manitoba with a
local government and a general represen
tation in the Confederate, or Dominion,
Parliament. Scenting, as they thought, a
good chance in this effort to annex Mani
toba to the United States and thereby
plant the claws of the eagle deep in the
lion’s bide, the government at Washington
set on foot certain machinations in the
Red river country, intended to stir up
strife against the Dominion. Hot to put
too fine a point upon it, a little reconstruc
tion was injected into that peaceful com
munity, and divers emissaries put forth
tremendous proclamations, and had elec
tions and cobbled up a sort of government
quite in the style the thing was done
South, all going to show that the Manito
bians were perfectly' wild and crazy to
become a part of the United States.. The
British authorities put a 6top to this in a
neat way. Certain commissioners, with a
body of troops to protect them against the
Indians, were sent to Manitoba, the emis
saries of the government at Washington
ran away, and when these naif dozen or
patriots had shown their heels it Was dis
covered that the people of Manitoba nad
no desire to be taxed out of their eve-teeth
by being annexed to the United States at
ail. The lion consequently still retains his
1 vitality, and the great American eagle is
as mild when touching on his ManitoDa
diplomacy as any sucking dove. Unee, it
is true, he ruffled his pinions and prepared
to do most ferocious things on a report that
a British gunboat had hoisted its co,ors m
American waters to the north cf Michigan,
but as it turned out on an inspection of
maps and treaties that said, waters were in
reality British, the poor lion was ODce
again spared, and the magnanimous bird
of froedom his contented himself since
with whetting his beak on the pockets of
his coantrymen. Tyrone Powers.
Tue Alabama State Fair.—To afford
those of our citizens who desire an' op
portunity of visiting the Alabama State
Fair at Montgomery, commencing No
vember 15th, arrangements have been
made to issue through tickets. Pas
sengers ind freights for the Fair will be
transporttd for one fare. Arrangements
have also been made to issue through
tickets fron ah important points,
td
City Article London Times, OcL'22d.
i Tlie War aid the Money Market.
Tk# end of the war can hardly arrive
I without an adalion being witnessed of at
‘ least £200,000000 sterling to the existing
j debts of Euro-ean States. Already more
than a quarhr of that sum lias been
raised, and Paasia and Bavaria are again
seeking supplis, while in the background
I there is the htge amouDt to be provided
by France in lie shape cf indemnity, and
; abo for the mans of reparation from the
1 ruiQ of the tar, together with the re
quirements toistablish a return to specie
payments. Ebw will the London money
! market be affeted by these needs ? Ex
; traordinary as the impending operations
there isao reason to anticipate any
serious disturhnee from them. Germany
and France cm both, when peace shall
have been coaluded, raise from their own
people whatevr they may want; and,
as regards Germany, this faculty is
even now 10 great that her stocks
are issued at a price too high to attract
apy capital Iran this country. Os course,
if we were to subscribe largely to French
loans our ratesof discount would at once
be influenced, but just according to the
pressure thus iccasionid, such investments
would be ctietked and re-sales would be
induced. It nay be tfgued, however, that
on the conclusun of peace and the resump
tion of all the ordimry exchange opera
tion?. if money shoi/d be in great demand
in France and GrmaDy, specie would
forthwith fbw this side to find em
ployment at the hifier terms there offered,
until the rates of to London market were
brought nearly t those of the continent.
This would undoptedly be the oase, and
hence the quefioa to be considered is
whether any suo demand for currency at
the continental entres is likely then to be
experienced, ffie war over the heavy
amounts of cca distributed among the
armies would gradually find their way
back to the ses of commerce, to
gether with mutt of that at present secre
ted by the peasntry ; so that the availa
ble circulation, istead of becoming more
restricted, migh experience a considerable
increase. But tb mode of payment ot any
indemnity that lay ultimately be exacted
from France by Germany is a point for in
quiry. Whateertbe amount may be —
40, 60 or 80 miicns—Germany would not
be likely to accet it in the form of French
rentes. It will lost probably be required
in cash, and in peedy instalments. Per
haps of the 52 million of bullion held by
the Bank of i’race at the beginning of the
war, about half lay yet remain, The bal
ance of the indmnity would have to be
raised by loans, »a terms that would attract
the hoards of th&eneral population, or by
buying up thoseaoards at a premium by
means of ineieaed note issues. In either
case the aotive arrency would be increased
instead of dim'uished, and although the
supplies drawl forth would have to be
sent to Berlii, their influence, so far
as Europe iriqnt be concerned, would
be the sime. Moreover, it may be
presumed that much cf the amount sent
from Frame toGermany would soon find
its way bak » France in discharge of
the variou vouchersgiven by tfae German
army for requisitions made during the in
vasion. Tnder the circumstances a re
turn to spoie payments in France could
not be loo;cd fir until the nation had ex
perienced! lorg period of recovery, and,
therefore, the necessity for providing for
that oontngeacy need notform part of
immediat ctleulations. Toe chief re
maining ram of the country would be
the meas of supplying the void which
must novhave been created in the stocks
of all kids cf imported produce; and for
this purpse, as well as for the restoration
of buildjgs, railways, and other pub
-1 c undeiaking?, great efforts will have
to be made by the aid of mu
nicipal, provincial, and other forms
of credit Hetee the drain of gold from
the courtry mm be expected to be heavy
until tb popuation shall have again re
covered their wealth-producing power;
but tbire is gnuud to believe that the
latent rmoun’s thich can bo drawn forth,
judginq from theestimates lotrg current as
to the quantities among the French
populstiOD, will b/fully equal to the need.
As to tho momeitavy effects of our own
debts to France, consequent on our large
purchases of coton and other produce
consigned originaly to French ports, but di
verted hither, it ii to be borne in mind that
this produce is at available as gold, and
that wo have alsohrge holdings of rentes
and of various cotinental stocks lately
bought and paid or, and which will al
ways be useful foroxchauge transactions.
Looking at the wble of these considera
tions, the appreherion of sudden changes
or difficulties in tb money market as a
consequence of pece may apparently be
dismissed.
Letter from Greenesboroh
Radical Gongres&mal Meeting in Greenes
boro'—Trumphof Bryant and Fannin
—Blodgett Bady Sold, <Scc.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
The usuallyquiet little city of Greenes
boro’ wa3 to-dy (Saturday) the theatre of
a farcical seen. In pursuance of a call
for a district nminating convention, issued
by the bearded Mogul, State Road Super
intendent and ex-Confederate Captain,
Blotter Fodget, alias “little perjurer,”
rtd chairmans the “State,Central Com
mittee,” Douaerty’s hotel piazza was
swarming at o early hour this morning
with field hails, in broadcloth and a few
strange visaed whites, all having ar
rived on las night’s cars. Most of
tho colored dignitaries seemed bur
dened with the responsibilities rest
ing upon thm, and talked with much
animation, lome gathered in knots,
others strode off in pairs, gesticulating
earnestly, whe the “little perjurer” and
the distinguiaed “Speaker of the House”
were closetet in an upper room of the
hotel. The bur for the meeting arrived,
but little inebation to assemble was mani
fested; evidetly something was not work
ing right—tbre was a “flaw in the look”
somewhere, ud for a long while outsiders
were at a losito know the trouble, but it
finally leakeacut: Fannin’s friends were
in the majory , and determined to stand by
him. Bryan had stocked the cards, and
Blodgett, MWhorter, et al., —all bitter
enemies of Iham —were badly trumped.
Finally thy entered the Court House
followed by rfew 15th amendments, when
tbe entire elegation shut themselves up
in one ot the petit juror’s rooms, where
they remaind for a wonderfully long time.
Blodgett, dring the while, stood in the
vestibule of he Court House, anj every
few minutes, prominent colored member
emerged frot the caucus-room and went
to him with
At length he caucus entered the court
room and seaed themselves, when on mo
tion of W. H. Harrison, colored, of Han
cock, W. H. McWhorter, of Greene, was
called to the Chair, and on assuming the
onerous duti® and said high position, spoke
as follows:
Fellow Cibzers: “I always feel compli
mented whei caled upon to preside over a
Republican netting. I am not well, and
therefore, cama preside with that degree
of pleasantmss I otherwise should. But
if you are t’ue to yourselves, as I think
you will be, tore is a better day for Geor
gia and Rerablcanism. Lot there bo no
proscription or intolerant feeliDg among
you. The oject of this meeting has been
explained though the papers.”
After thisspeech a colored brother rose
and moved that Mr. McWhorter act as
Secretary. ?he Chairman corrected him,
and informer him that that was his name,
and that Xr. Hnngerford was the man.
McWhorter Hungerford, of Burke, was
then elected Secretary, which took the only
remaining vhite man present, with one,
or perhaps txo, exceptions.
A commitee of five was appointed on
credentials, vhich retired, and after a long
absence reappeared, when one of their
number, da ker than seven loads of char
coal, said : ‘‘Mr. Chairman—l have the
honor to represent our report. ’ ’ It appeared
from said Robert that eight counties-~
Richmond, Burke, Greene, Hancock,
Morgan, Liicoln, Oglethorpe and Glass
cock—were represented, and to this report
on credentials were attached four remark
able resolutions, which the Secretary, with
the assistant of the author, found great
difficulty ii reading, and if reported as
read would sound decidedly funny. We
would give them to you but they would
make this report too lengthy.
Harrison (colored) then moved that they
go into the nomination of Congressmen
by public acclamation, which being agreed
to Beard (colored), of Richmond, was
entered for the Ehort term, and Fannin, of
Morgan for the long term: and, to our
surprise, both were unanimously nomi-
W hen the caucus emerged from the jury
room, Blodgett, knowing that the dog was
dead,' disappeared from the vestibule, and
has not been seen since. He had called a
meetiDg to kill off Fannin, and said meet
ing had unanimously endorsed him. Those
he had called out to curse had united in
praises, and he might feelingly have said:
“The best laid plans of mice and men aft
gang agle.” "Visitor.
Greensboro’, November 5,1870.
Texas Cattle.-
Dr. Latham contributes to The Omaha
i of tho 20th inst., a very interest
ing article on cattle-raising in Texa?, from
which we make extracts as fellows:
i A Texas is truly the cattle-hive of North
America. While New Yo-k, with her
: 4.000,000 inhabitants and her settlements
two and a half centuries old, has 748,000
oxe_n aod stock cattie ; while Pennsylvania,
with more than 3,000,000 people, has 721,-
000 cattle; while Ohio, with 3,000,000
people, has 749,000 cattle; while Illinois,
with 2,800,000 people, has 567,000 cattle;
and while lowa, with 1,200,000 people,
has 686,000 cattle, Texas, net forty years
of age, and with her 500,000 people, had
2,000,000 head of oxen and other cattle
exclusive of cows, in 1867, as shown by
the returns ot the CouDty Assessors. In
1870, allowing for the difference between
the actual number of cattle owned and the
number returned for taxation, there muse
be fully 3,000,000 head of beeves and
stock cattle. This is exclusive of cows,
which, at the same time, are reported at
600.000 head. In 1872 they must number
800,000, making a grand total of 3,800,1.00
head of cattle in Texas. One fourth ot
these are beeves, one-fourth are cows, and
the other two-fourths are yearlings and
two-year-olds. There would, therefore, be
950,000 beeves, 950,000 oowß, and 1,900,-
000 young cattle. There are annually
raised and branded 850,000 calves. These
cattle are raised on the great plains of
Texas, which contain 152,000,000 acres.
In the vast regions watered by the Rio
Gracde, Nueces, Guadalupe, San Antonio,
Colorado, Leon, Brazos, Trinity, Sabit,
and Red Rivers, these millions of cattle
graze upon almost tropical growths of*vegc
tation. They are owned by the ranche
meo, who own from 1,000 to 75,000 head
each.
I will describe one or two of these great
ranches, which will represent to your read
ers the large ranches of this cattle hive.
On the Santa Catrutos River is the ranohe
of Colonel Richard King, knewn as the
“Santa Catrutos Ranche.” This ranohe
consists of nineteen Spanish trigeeus of
land, or 84,132 acres. It is watered plen
tifully by the Santa Catrutos Iliver ami its
tributaries, On this ranche are the im
mense number of 65,000 cattle, 10,000
horses, 7,000 sheep, and 8,000 goai-s. One
thousand saddle-horses and 300 Mexicans
are constantly employed in herding,
gathering, and driving this stock.
Col. King brands annually 12,000 calves,
and sells 10,000 beef cattle yearly, and
invests the proceeds in stock cattle, there
by adding to his vast herds, in addition to
their natural increase. O’Connor’s ranche,
20 miles below Goliad, on the San Antonio
River, is another princely estate. He had
40,000 cattle in 1862, branded 11,872
calve?, and was selling from $75,000 to
SBO,OOO worth of beef cattle annually. The
foundations for this wealth were laid in
1852, wheu he commenced grazing with
1,500 cattle. Ttie Robideaux ranche, on
the Gulf, between the mouths of the Rio
Grande and the Neucos, owned bv Mr.
Kennedy, contains 142,840 acres. It is a
fertile peninsula jutting out into the Gulf,
and is fenced on three tides by the waters
of the Gulf. The other side is fenced by
30 miles of plank fence. Every three miles
of this fence has a little ranche for Mexi
can herders. In this inclosure there are
30,000 beef cattle alone, betides the other
stock- These three are types of the men
in the older cattle-srowing region near the
Gulf.
The frontier counties are all rich in stock.
Jack Young, ThrogmortoD, Stevens, Ual
lahan, ColemaD, Brown. Torrent, Elrath,
Camanehe, Palopinto, Hitt, and Johnson,
are all great stock counties. These coun
•ties comprise the country drained by the
thousands of streams that form tho Rio
Grande, Nueces, Guadaloupe, San Anto
nio, Colorado, Lsod, Brazos, Trinity, Sa
fa ne, and Red Rivers, aad is one cf the
best watered regions in ' America. The
bluffs and table lands bordering and be
tween these streams arc covered with
“bunch,” “buffalo,” and “mesquit”
grasses. The cattle princes of these coun
ties are John Hitt6on, who has 50,000 cat
tle; Wm. Hittson, who has 8,000; G. W.
Slaughter, 20,000 head; J. C. Lynch. 8.000
head; Geo. Beavers, 6,000; Chas. Rivers,
10,000; James Brown, 15,000; C. J. John
son, 8,000; S. E. Jackson, 4,000; Bob
Sloan, 12,000 (half Durham stock); An
derson Bros., 6,000; Coggins & Parkp,
20,000; Samuel VaughD, 6,000; Martin
Childers, 10,000; Cunningham, 8,000;
Mauskow, 8,000; Lacy <Sc Coleman, 12,000;
John Chisholm, 30,000.
John Hittson’s ranelie is in Palo Pinto
county, on the Brazos River, where he
has 50,000 cattle; he has 300 saddle
horsts and 50 herders. He drives about
10,000 head of cattle north annually.
Eighteen years ago; he was working from
daylight till dark in Rhea county, Ten
nessee, a timbered section, feeling trees,
cutting, rolling, and burning logs, and
clearing the land to raise a little corn and
wheat. From experience in the forests
of Tennessee he knew that it would take
the three score and-ten years cf a natural
life to clear away the trees and wear out
the stumps, and, not fancying the doom of
hard labor for life, he sold his land, and
with 60 Texan cows and nine brood
mates, turned hi' face toward the setting
sun and the grass regions of the Brazos.
Less than a score of years have passed,
and he has 50,000 head of cattle and as
many aores of land. Hittson is about
40 years old, six feet in height, and broad
shouldc-red; has an honest, sunburnt
face, with a square, firm-set under-jaw,
which, as J. looked at it, I thought was
shut a little firmer, giving him a more
determined look than it would otherwise,
but for a dozen or two encounters with the
fierce and insatiable Comanchts, who
knew Hittson and his old long muzzle
loading rifle well, and now know him with
his Winchester. I have often wondered
what they! thought when they pounced on
him with bis new Winchester, and re
ceived len shotsir a minute instead of one
in five minutes. TYey must have thought
the old rifle bewitched. At any rate, they
will give him a wide berth, unloss they can
creep upon him as the hunter docs tho buf
falo bull he does not dare to face. Mr.
Hittson is establishing a ranehe on the
South Platte, near old Fort Morgan, for
use as hi- general northern headquarters.
He will winter 5,000 cattle there this yeas
and bring 10,000 bead there for sale next
reason. John Chisholm, on the Concho
River, is another of the cattle raisers and
drivers of North-western Texas, who car
ries on the business on a princely scale,
and whose experience is muon like that ot
Hittson. Os the thousands of owners of
the 3,800,000 head of cattle in Texas, not
100 commenced with large means. They
have built themselves up from small be
ginnings, like Hittson and Chisholm.
The surplus stock is disposed ol by pack
ing, by shipping by steamer to the Gulf
States, by driving due north to Abilene,
Kansas, and Schuyler, Nb., and by the
northwestern route to the Pecos river,
where the droves divide, some going to
Arizona and California bv the southern
route; the greater number, however, keep
ing a northern course up the Pecos river to
the Arkansas river, crossing at and above
Bent’s old fort, and thecee along the east
ern ba?e of the mountains, through Colo
rado and across the Black Hills, to the
Union Pacific Railroad, and oa to the great
valleys and markets of Wyoming, Utah,
Montana, Idaho, Nevada, and the Pacific
States. The beeves are selected out before
tbe heids leave the Black Hills west. If
fat, Pray are at once shipped for Chicago
and NiW York; ii thin, they are left in
the valleys of Colorado, Wyoming and Ne
braska to fatten. The amount of money
handled by bankers along the base of the
mountains from Chayenne to Trinidad is
enormous. I have no data from which to
calculate the amount, but it cannot be less
than $1,250,000. Every settler who comes
into any of these mountain territories,
every mine that is opened, every Indian
who goes on to reserves and is fed, every
soldier who is brought into the country,
creates an additional demand for stock
i cattle and beef. At astounding as these
figures may seem, the tupply has not been
nearly adequate to meet _ the demand.
Great preparations are making in North
western Texas to gather together herds
which in numbers have not been heard of
before.
Abilene has been the great market this
year. At that place the receipts of cat:le i
have reached the enormous figures of 200,- |
000. The shipments for the month of;
September amounted to 60,000 head, or j
3,333 car-loads, or 111 car loads per day,
for the great c rn-ueids of lowa, Missouri
and Illinois. It is anticipated that the
shipments will reach 75,000 in October.
! This great cattle trade at Abilene, which
has assumed such gigantic proportions,
wa3 initiated in 1867, acd has therefore
counted only four seasons. In 1867, 75,-
000 head of stock were received ; in 1868,
125,000; in 1869, 150,000; in 1870, 200,-
000. In 1869, one bank alone in Kansas
City handled $300,000 cattle money. The
cattle driven acd sold here are from the
eastern part of the State, from the Rio
Grande to the Red Rivers. At Schuyler,
this year, which was an experiment only,
27,000 cattle were sold. The First Na
tional Bank at Omaha handled $500,000
in consequence of this cattle business. I
am informed by those who know, that 40,-
000 more cattle could have been sold if
they had been at Schuyler. Next year
it i- hoped the supply will reach 100.000,
as the demand for Nebraska, lowa, South-
Western Minnesota and Dakota, will cer
tainly require that number.
Packing is one of the great means of
disposing of the cattle of Text i. Allen &
Poole, of Galveston, aro packing immense
numbers of cattle at Galveston, Tndianofa,
and at Shreveport and other places. lam
informed that they own more oattlo than
any other firm ia the State. This salted
beef Sods market in our great Eastern
cities, with cur navy and merchant ma
rine, and in every beef-buying market of
Europe. Refrigerator cars are looked
forward anxiously to, to take the place of
live shipments as cheaper, Wealthier, and
with no loss by ioDg travel without food.
It such shipments prove successful, every
market east of the Missouri river and west
of the Sierra Nevadas will receive beef
from Texas.
THF MKAIORY OF FEE.
A TRIBUTE FROM HIS OLD COMPANIONS IN
ARMS.
REMARKS OF EX-PRESIDENT DAVIS.
A meeting of Confederate officers and
soldiers was held in Richmond on Thurs
day night in the First Presbyterian
Church. The edifice was crowded to over
flowing. At 7 o’clock General Bradley T.
Johnson called the meeting to order, and
upon his motion, Geueral Jubal A. Early
was elected temporary chairman. General
Early on taking the chair, paid an elo
quent tribute to the memory of him whom
he described as “the greatest and noblest
of men,” General Robert E. Lee. After
prayer by Rev. Dr. Mmnegerode, General
Bradley T Johnson moved the appoint
ment of the usual committees, and the
motion was carried. The committee on
permanent organization, after a brief re
tirement, made a report, recommending
the following as the permanent officers of
the association :
I For President -Jefferson Davis,
Vice-Presidents—Major General Fitz
hugh Lee, Major General John B. Gordon,
Major General Edward Johnson, Major
General I. R. Trimble, Brigadier General
W. B. Taliaferro, Brigadier General IVm.
N. Pendleton, Major General Wm. Smith,
Brigadier General H. A. Wise, Brigadier
General J. D. Imboden, Colonel Charles
Marshall, Colonel Walter 11. Taylor, Col.
W. K. Perrine, Colonel Peyton N. Wise,
General M. Ransom, Captain Robert Pe
gram, General L. L. Lomax, Col. Henry
Peyton, Colonel J. M. French, Colonel R.
E. Withers, Major Wrn. Berkeley, Colonel
William Willis, Colonel William Preston
Johnson, Lieutenant Mann Page, Privates
William C. Kane, of Louisa county, Vir
ginia; Robert Martin, of Faurquier; G.
Hough, of Baltimore, and G. Elder, of
Maryland, and Sergeant W. Wirt Robin
son.
Secretaries—Captain E. S. Gregory, Ser
geant George L. Christian, Captain C. G.
Lawson, Sergeant James P. Cowardin,
Captain W. A. Anderson, Private Abner
Anderson, Captain S. D. Houston, Capt.
George Walker and Major Wm. B. Myers.
The report was unanimously adopted
amid great applause.
REMARKS OF PRESIDENT DAVIS.
The Dispatch says: As Mr. Davis arose
to walk to the stand every person in the
house rose to his feet, and there followed
such a storm of applause as seemed to
shake the very foundation of the'building,
while cheer upon cheer was echoed from
the throats of veterans saluting one whom
they delighted to honor.
Mr. Davis spoke at length, and with his
accustomed thrilling, moving eloquence.
We shall not attempt to give a full report
of his address. He addressed his hearers
as “soldiers and sailors of the Confederacy,
comrades acd friends.” Mr. Davis said;
Assembled on this sad occasion, with hearts
oppressed with the grief that follors the
loss of him who was our leader on many a
bloody battlefield, a pleasing though melan
choly spectacle is presented. Hitherto,
and in all times, men have beeu honored
when successful, but hero is the case of
one who, amid disaster, went down to his
grave, and those who were his oompanions
in misfortune have assembled to honor his
memory. It is as much an honor to you
who give as to him who receives, for above
the vulgar test of merit you show your
selves competent to discriminate between
him who enjoys and he who deserves sue-'
oesa.
Robert E. Lee was my associate and
friend in the military academy, and we
were friends until tho hour of his death.
We were associates and friends when he
was a soldier and Ia Congressman ; and
associates and friends when he led the
armieß of the Confederacy and I presided
in its Cabinet. We passed through many
sad scenes together, but I cannot romem
berthat there was ever aught but perfect
harmony between us. If ever there was
difference of opinion it was dissipated by
discussion, and harmony was the result.
I repeat, we never disagreed, and I may
add that I never in my life saw in hitn the
slightest tendency to self-seeking. It was
not his to make a record, it was not his to
shift blame to other shoulders; but it was
his with an eye fixed upon the welfare of
his country, never faltering, to folio * the
line of duty to the end. HU was the heart
that braved every difficulty; his was the
n.ind that wrought viotory out of defeat.
Ho has been charged with “want of
dash.” I wish to say that i never knew
Lee to falter to attempt anything that
man could dare. An attempt has also
been made to throw a cloud upon his
character because he left.lhe army of the
United S'ates to join in tbe struggle for
ihe liberty of his State. Without trench
ing at all upon polities, I deem it my duty
to say one word in reference to this
charge. Virginian born, desoended from
a family illustrious in Virginia’s annals,
given by Virginia to the service of the
United States, he represented her in the
Military Academy at West Point. He
was not educated by the Federal Govern
ment, but by Virginia, for she paid her
full share for the support of that insti
tution, and was entitled to demand in re
turn the services of her sons, Entering
the army of the United States, he repre
sented Virginia there also, and nobly.
On many a bard fought field. Lee wap
conspicuous, battling for his native State
as much as for the Union. He came
from Mexico crowned with hoaors,
covered by brevets, and recognized, you-g
as be was, as one of the ablest of his
country’s soldiers. And to prove that he
was estimated then as much, let me tell
you that when Lee was a captain of en
gineers stationed in Baltimore tbe Cuban
Junta in New York selected him to be
their leader in tho struggle for the inde
pendence of their Dative country. They
were anxious to secure his service?, and
offered him every tem station that am
bition could desire. He thought the
matter over, and, I remember, came to
Washington to consult me as to what he
should do, and when I began to discuss
the complications which might arise from
his acceptance of the trust, he gently re
bukfd me saying that this was not the
line upon which he wished ray advise ; the
pimple question was, “Whether it was
right or not.” He had been educated by
the United States, and felt it wrong to ac
cept place in the army of a foreign power.
Such was his extreme delicacy—such was
the nice sense of honor of the gallant gen
tleman whose death we deplore. But
when Virginia withdrew—the State to
whom he owed his first and last allegiance
the same nioe sense of honor led him to
draw his sword and throw it in the scale
for good or for evil. Pardon me for this
brief defence of my illustrious friend.
When V irginia joined the Confederacy,
Robert Lee, the highest officer in the little
army of Virginia, came to Richmond, and
Dot pausing to inquire what would be his
rank in the service of the Confederacy,
went to Western Virginia under the belief
that he was still an officer of the State.
He came back, carrying the heavy weight
of defeat and unappreciated by the people
whom he served, for they could not know,
as I knew, that if hiß plans and orders had
been carried out, the result would have
been victory rather than defeat. You did
not know, lor I would not have known it
had he not breathed it in my ear only at
my earnest request, and begging that noth
ing be said about it. Thß clamor which
then arose followed him when he went to
South Carolina, so that it became necessary
on his going to South Carolina to write a
letter to the Governor of that State, tell
ing him what manner of man he was. Yet,
through all this, with a magnanimi*y
rarely equalled, he stood in silenoe, with
out defending himself, or allowing others
to defend him, for he was unwilling to
offend any one who was wearing a sword
and striking blows for the Confederacy,
Mr. Davis then spoke of the stra ghts to
which the Confederacy was reduced, and
of the danger to which her capital was ex
posed just after the battle of Seven Fines,
and told how General Lee had oonoeived
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and executed the desperate plan tu turn
their flank and rear, which, after seven
aays of bloody battle, was crown -d with
the protection of Richmond, while the
enemy was driven far from the city. The
speaker referred also to the circumstances
attending General Lee’s crossing thp Poto
r} aC i\i ,n< Tv^'- 0 , marc * l into P.mnsylvania.
ue (..Ur. LG vis) assumed the responsibility
tor that movement. The enemy had long
been concentrating his force, and it was
evident that it they continued their steady
C'mfafti'acy would be over
turn on orie Was t 0 drive
him to the defence of nis own capital, we
being enabled in the meantime to reinforce
our shattered army. How wrl! General
Lee earned out that dangerous experiment
necdMot te told. Richmond was relieved,
the Confederacy was relieved, ami timo
was obtained, if other things had ftvored,
to reiDiorc-3 tbc army.
j But, said Mr. Davis, I shall not at
tempt to review the military career of onr
lallen chieftain. Os the man. how shall I
j speak ! He was my friend, and in that*
{ w oid is induced ail that I could say of any
; man. His moral qualities rose to the
height ot his genius. Seif denying—al
ways intent upon the one idea of duty
self controlled to an extent that many,
thought him ooid. His feelings were
ready warm, and his heart melted freely
at the sight of a wounded soldier or the
f'Cory of tho sufferings of the widow and
orphan. During tho war he was ever con
scious of the inequality of the means at
his control ; but it was never liis to com
plain or to utter a doubt—it was always
nis to do. When in the last campaign he
was beleaguered at Petersburg, and pain
fully aware of the straights to which we
were reduced, lie said : “With my army
in the mountains of Virginia I could carry
on this war twenty years longer.” His
men exhausted and his supplies failing, he
was unablo to carry out his plans. Au
untoward event caused him to anticipate
the movement, and the army of Northern
Virginia was overwhelmed. But ia the
surrender he anticipated conditions that
l#ve not been fulfilled—he expected his
army to be respected and his paroled sol
diers to be allowed the enjoyments ot life
and proper’y. Whether these conditions
have been luifilled, let others say.
Here he now sleeps in the land he loved
so well, and that land is not Virginia only,
fur they do injustice to Lie who believe he
fought only for Virginia. He was ready
to go anywhere, on any service, for the
good of his country, and his heart was as
broad as the fifteen States struggling for
the principles that our forefathers fought
for in the Revolution of 1776. lie is
sleeping in the same soil with the thou
sands who fought under the samo flag, but
first offered up their lives. Here the living
aro assembled to honor his memory, and
there, the skeleton sentinels keep watch
over his grave. This citizen! this soldier!
this great general I this true patriot! left
behind him the crowning glory of a true
Christian. His Christianity ennobled him
in life, and affords us grounds for the be
lief that he is happy beyond the grave.
Bat, while we mourn the loss of the
great and the true, drop wo also tears of
sympathy with her who wa3 his help meet
in life—tbo noble woman who, while her
husband was in tho field, leading the army
of the Confederacy, though an invalid her
self, passed tho time in knitting socks for
the marching soldiers! A woman fit to be
the mother of heroes -and heroes are de
scended from her. Mourning with her,
we can only offer the consolation ot a
Christian. Our loss is not his, but he cow
enjoys the rewards of a life well spout
and a never wavering trust in 3. risen Sa
viour. This day we unite our words of
sorrow with those of the good anu the
great throughout Christendom, for his
fame is gone over the water, his deeds will
be remembered; and when the monument
we build shall have crumbled into dust, his
virtues wiil still live, a high model for the
imitation of generations yet unborn.
Resolutions were ilicd offered by Colonel
C. U. Venable providing for the organiza
tion of an association for the purpose of
erecting a monument to General Lee at
Richmond. Coined Venable spoke in
support cf hisresolu ioo, and was seconded
by Generals Pres:or:, Gordon and others.
In the courseof'liisspeech. Col. Venable
related the following incident:
At 3 o’clock on the memorable morning
us tbe surrender, when our last hope
seemed to have forsaken us, General Lee
sent me forward to the gallant Gordoe to
know whether, he could hold out longer. I
will give General Gordon’s reply in his
own words: “Tell General Leo that my
old corps iu reduced to a frazzle, and un
less I am supported by Longstreet heavily
I do not think we can do anything more."
I returned to General Lee and delivered
tho message. He then said, “There is
nothing left but to go to General Grant,
and I would rather die a thousand deaths.”
In the sad and tearful consultation which
ensued, one of us remarked, “What will
history say of our surrendering if there is
any possibility of escape’ Posterity will
Dot understand.” “Yes, yes,” he rejoined,
“they will not understand our situation ;
but that is not the question. The ques
tion is whether it is right, and if it is right,
I take the responsibility.”
The resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed, and the Loe Monument Association
was organized with the following officers:
President —Lieutenant Genera! Jubal A•
Early.
Secretary— Colonel T. M. R. Ta’cott.
Treasurer—Colonel William W. Palmer.
Auditor—C. R. Allan.
Executive Committee—Walter H. Tay
lor, Bradley T. Johnson, Robert Stiles, R.
D. Minor, R. H. Maury.
The meeting then adjourned.
County Nominations in Lincoln
County.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
At our county nomination meeting,
which was very largely attended, the fol
lowing nominations were made :
For Representative—H J Lang.
For Treasurer—A Johnston.
For Clerk —A Johnston.
For Sheriff-J W Martin.
For Colieotor—A Hearnsbergor.
For Receiver-JB Bentley.
For Surveyor— J J Pounds. *
For Coroner—M B Smalley.
The people of Lincoln are an unit for
Judge Reese fov S:a;e Senator, 29th
district. They approve the nominations
for Congress. But for Gen. A. R. Wright’s
declination, they would have been well
pleased to have tbe uhance of casting
their votes for him. But Lincoln will do
her duty. LINCOLN.
BY TELEGRAPH.
TO THE ASSOCIATED PRTSS.
THE ELECTIONS.
Washington, November 9 —The Con
servatives carried the Richmond munici
pal election by a small majority The
election passed off quietly. Toe Federal
troops did not approach the pells.
Governor Hoffman’s majority in New
York city is fifty thousand The Tribune
gives Governor Hoffman 30,000 majority
in the State.
A private dispatch from Jacksonville,
Fla., says two hundred men drove the
whites and blacks, including the candidates
for Lieu’enant-Governor and Legislature
from Lake City. The returns show a
decreased Repntilican majority in Florida.
Michigan has gone Republican by twenty
fire thousand. Sutherland is elected to
Congress in the fif'h district.
In the fourteenth New York district
Perry, Democrat, 'u elected.
The Republican majority in Illinois is
about twenty thnnßand. Thh Congres
sjonal delegation is probably the same as
last year. The ienthand twelfth districts
are claimed by both parties.
Merrick is elected from Maryland, though
the Republicans still claim the first and
fifth districts doubtful. The probabilities
favor a clean Democratic delegation from
Maryland.
Kentucky gives a clean Democratic dele
gation. The majorities are somewhat re
duced.
The Legislature of New Jersey and four
Congressmen are claimed by the Repub
licans.
There is nothing definite from Arkansas.
Conflicts between the Federal and State
authorities are repot ted at several points.
It rained in Missouri during the after
noon.
Brown is vastly ahead as far as heard-
The thirtieth New York district is a
Democratic gain. The fourth New York
district elects McMahon, Young Dem
ocrat. The eighth elects Brooks, Tam
many Democrat. In the ninth distriot
Cox beats Greeley one -thousand votes.
In the first Missouri Wells is elected by
a majority of one thousand. In the sec
ond Missouri Finkelinberg.a liberal Repub
lican, is re-elected. In the third Missouri,
McCormick .Democrat, is re-elected.
The Republicans have made heavy gains
in Kansas.
New Jersey elects a Democrat in the
second district, making the Democratic loss
one.
The second New Jersey district elects
Forker by 370 majority. .
The Republicans have eight majority
i on joint ballot, securing a Federal Senator.
I Too fourth New York district elects
Ricscvelt instead of McMahon, as before
reported.
The seventh Virginia district elects
Braxton by
The sixth Michigan district elects
Sutfierland by over eight hundred.
Tho first Arkansas district elects Hanks,
ar.d third Arkansas elects Edwards. The
m-and district Rogers is probably elected.
The Dean crats claim heavy gains iu
Tennessee. The seventh Tennessee dis
trict elects Caidwcll.
It in the first Missouri district Wells’ re-
election is claimed by 1,500.
The fourth Illinois distriot is claimed by
Cable, Democrat. In thj second Illinois
district the temperance candidate runs
Farnsworth olosely—possibly beats him.
The sixth Virginia district elects Har
ris.
In the second Minnesota distriot Averill
is elected by 3,000.
A close calculation gives the Democrats
in yesterday l ? elections and those already
hold twenty five Democratic gain.
The Democrats in tho next House will
be ninety-two, against sixty seven in the
present House. This test inc.udes no
hermaphrodites.
foreign.
Lome. November 9.—The Italians have
closed the Jesuit College?.
Msrmora’s headquarters are at the
(Juinnal.
London, November 9 —The so r is in
tense and it was as dark as midnight at
noon to day.
Heavy cannonading was heard at Arlon
°?.is 1 . turd M Saud Sunda y ftom the direction
of 1 hionville.
The Piussians are training hawks to
capture carrier pigeons from Paris.
The Prussians have fortified Montbclaird
preliminary to besieging Belfort.
London, November 9.-The latest
thincso advices say the French have ac
cepted atonement from the Chinese for
lbe late outrages.
London, November 9.—The Tours
Government promises a manifesto explain
ing the rupture of the armistice in negotia
tions. &
she Gazette de France demands an im
mediate election to end the arbitrary rule
of the Provisional Government.
Dispatches from Lyons report the col
lection of cattle in anticipation of a scige.
Tours, November 9.—Triers and L >u
ncr have arrived from Paris by a balloon
A barricade committee has been or
ganized at Lyons. Tho authorities of
Lyons have rccen’ly received fifty thou
sand Remington rifles.
T* l6 Russians are advancing by the
V alley of Oucher to occupy Orenzott.
There are twenty thousand Germans at
Gi.ion with sixty guns. *
Roms, Novembef 9.—ltalians seized
the Quirmal as State proqierty.
London, Novenf%er 9.—The correspon
“j®" 1 the Manchester Examiner says
that the Parliament of North Germany is
summoned to Sirasbourg.
The French fleets sighted off the Elbe
and other points.
Lille November 9—The Department
of the Nord has issued a loan for defence
PU'r>OSe^.
T ÜBS, November 9.—The Government
continues to withhold news. The peoplo
c n-n r f ar aewg .
Military men seem quite confident,
m v r Jj lm “ er Prussian prisoners have
A ivices from Paris to tho 6th says: Or
• m is preserved by stringent measures.
• 0 30 “ ve fir e from the forts prevent ihe
enemy from establishing aggressive worlcs
Iheir works constructed in the night are
regularly destroyed during the day.
It is said the Tours government contem
plate taking plebiscituiii for ratification of
their powei.
Rochefort resiened in disgust, caused by
the people s sneers.
Advices from Rime sta’o that tho Je
suits are excluded from night schools,
lopnlar demonstrations against the Je
suits are reported.
FROM fcOUISI \NA.
New Orleans, November 9. It, {$
stated that tbreo hundred persons are sup
posed to be counting the votes of the city
I hey receive eight dollars per day.
Tho Tim* ,B anys thn reasf> „ t j, e
election returns are not counted with
promptitude is simply eight dollais
per day and an interest in the is ue Tho
official returns will bo in, we presume,
about Christmas, as the ballot boxes
. ln , char K® Principally of Republican
officials. No fears are entertained of delay
reducing their majorities.
The Picayune has specials from Baton
IkOugCi lho city is in the hands of Fe oral
troops, who are making arrests of white
citizens on affidavits of negro rioters. Oa
the night ofihe 7th negroes, with arras in
their hands and uttering threats of viol no e
were quietly sent home, while whites!
found without arms, and inoffensive in
all particulars, were arrested and placed in
close confinement.
Yesterday and to-day further arrests
were made, several of whom were absent
at the time of the riots.
Martial law is practically ii*>peratioo
United Statos Marshal Packard ha? a
telegram regarding the riot on Monday
night at Baton Rouge. Supervisors and
counters of ballots were attacked by an
armed mob, but the ballots were paved.
Four are dead and twenty wounded—all
Republicans.
Marshall Sohoormackcr was wounded.
The official candidate for the Legislature
was killed More trouble is anticipated.
About thirty of the leaders were arrested.
[Signed] Henry Schorten,
. , ,„ . Deputy Marshal.
At base-ball the Atlantics of Bt. Louis,
were defeated by the Lees—twenty to
twelve.
The Republicans will, to-morrow, pub
lish a -letter giving a full account of the
Baton Rouge riot, which makes it appear
to be a premeditated affair, and would, it
is predicted, have been much more serious
but for the prompt action of Capt. Meyer
in moving two companies of the nine
teenth infantry to the scene of aotion and
restoring order by arresting thirty of the
ringleaders.
Marshal Packard has directed that tho
prisoners be removed from Baton Rouge
for security.
Trouble is apprehended at Donaldson
villo, and two companies of Federal troops,
from the Greenville barracks, were sent
there to-day on requisition of Governor
Warmoutb.
The Southern bound passenger train
on the Jackson Railroad, due hem at 11
o’clock this morning, ran off at Wesson
but was got on and ran off again this
evening at three o’clock two miles south of
BrookhaveD. Several are reported killed
and wounded.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, November 9. Fisher
Comraissioner of Patents, has resigned. ’
The Democratic Congressional Commit
tee have advices from Illinois that the
Democrats gain the fifth and eighth and
Probably the twelfth district, and reduce
the Republican majority by thirty thou
sand.
The President has authorized the publi
cation of the correspondence which passed
between him and ex-Becrctary Cox last
August, relative <o the claim of McGarra
nan to the quicksilver mines claimed bv
the New Idria Company. The President’s
letter savs: “As the matter had been taken
in hand oy Congress before the incoming of
this administration, and as so much
fraud is chargei and believed to exist
on both sides, I am not willing that mv
name should be signed to a patent for
either party until Congress has either de
cided or declared their ioabilitv to do so
I wish you would say to Mr. White, Secre
tary for signing patents, not to put my
name to that one exce D t on special orders
from me through you. Next day Cox
wrote a long reply, denying that Congress
had assumed a peculiar jurisdiction of the
subject, and asserting, for reasons stated,
tuat McGarraban stands before the de
partment as a fraudulent claimant, who
has twice been foiled and condemned in
his fraud by the highest court of the na
tioD, and whose efforts to procure favor
from Congress have also failed.” He con
cludes by saying: “For myself, as I am
conscious of having only fought fraud with
such vigor as I could, I can make no com
promise, and if I fail to secure to tbo full
est extent your approval of my oourse, I
must beg you to relieve me at once from
duties which, without your support, I
shall utterly fail in.”
The President notices the last part of
this letter to show that prior _to October,
when Cox sent in his resignation, he asked
to be relieved from nis office, and hence
tho reasons he assigned for his resignation
in October were not tho true ones. The
President, through the newspapers, but
without bis signature, also alludes to that
part of Cox’s letter implying that Grant
tfonld not support him in carrying out
civil reforms. The President refutes this
by saying that all persons appointed have
to undergo examination as to qualifications
the preference of course being giveD, all
things beiDg equal, to friends of the ad
ministiatioo. He inaugurated the policy
of appointing Indian agents from the va
rious religious societies, and to this the
publie way be assured that he will adhere