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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1870)
Cfuobide & J>tntincl. WBDHHD.tY MORMS6, HOVJiMBEIt !6 Our Candidates. Wehoißt to oar mast-head tbe tames of tbe standard bearers of the Democratic party dnriog tbe coming election, it is unnecessary to say one word by w»y of encomium. Tbe candidates seketed bj the Democratic party are men in every , way worthy to bear tbe standard of De— > moeraey. Tbe letters of acceptance of Judge Corker and General Daßose arc , all sufficient guarantees for their political principles. Doth of these gentlemen plant themselves fully acdsquarely on the Demo cratic platform. Both are known by the people of this district, and by the people of the State, in word and in deed. In put lie j worth and in private virtues, we challenge the closest tcruliny ; and in their po litical principles they represent openly, honestly and boldly those doctrines which j form the ground work and the very bate of political • freedom —the free, un~ | trammeled ballot or bayonet, voice of the people at thh ballot-box, and hon- j e#t!y iD, and accountability to the people, j in the administration of public affairs. The nomination of Judge Corker and' General Dußosc, has been made by the unanimous voice of the Democratic elec- j tors in this Congressional district inconven tion assembled. • In the case of the nomina tion of Judge William M. Reese, as; Senator for 2'Jtb district, the Domination; was not by a Convention of Democratic electors; neither was there need for such action. Judge Ilcese, therefore, bas not been identified with political history. His life has been one of unceasing devotion to his profession. So soon aa it was known that he Would permit himself to depart from his [accustomed life and enter the arena of politics, the Democracy of this district tendered to him, unsolicited, unani ra tusly the Congressional nomination. This nomination, however flattering, and unex pected as it was, was declined; not more for reasons of a private character than for previous promise, that jf he should embark upon the sea of politics,, liia first effort should be to scive the people of the tt'jth as Senator, made and given by the best people in the district ; and it has been received with one acclaim by the Democracy, so that conventional action be came uneccssary. The canvass is now open. Our po litical antagonists have entered upon it with unanimity, ECcmiDg if not actual, which wc had little reason to expect. But if Democrats arc truo to themselves, work ing in season and out of season, quietly, but with thorough organization, victory will perch upon our banner. The Carolina Elect. Tho Charleston News gives the follow, ing as a cyrrect list of the elect of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina. 4fhe list is worth study, for the contrast it presents, as between the old and the new era. Chesterfield and Spar tanburg are both counted as being for the Reformer*. The names of Reformer* are in italics. The Senators for tho long term are marked with a star : Abbeville: Senator: HJLomnx. Rep resentatives: LP Guffin, Evcrid'm Cain, 'l' N Talbot, 1111 Ellison, Mitchel (,' iggins. Anderson: Senator: John Wil. on, Jr. Representatives: Dr John Wilson, Win Perry, Warren 1) Wilkes. Barnwell: Senator: C P Leslie Pep resentatives: James W Hayne, 811 Nor land, C I) Hayne, E Ferguson, E M Sumter, B F Berry. Beaufort: Senator : Robert Smalls.— Representatives ; II Gant, W J Whipper, S Green, C S Kuh, N B Myers, J B Bas oamb, E Nehemias. Chester : Senator : Lucius Wimbush. Representatives: B G Yocum, Sancho Sanders, Barney Humphries. Colleton: Senator: Geo F Molntvre. Representatives: William Thomas, II S Holmes, T G Modeloch, S Small, 11 Tarl ton Chcsteifield : Senator : E IF Duvall. Representative ; M J Hough, li C Evans. Charleston: Senators : 1) T Corbin.* Lloyd, W E Elliott, B A Bose man, 0 R Bevy. J B Dennis. T A. D»vis. H H Han ter, ,1 J Hardy, PP Hedges, C J Aodell, W C Glover. A Smith, A Logan, E Mickey, W 11 Jervcy, R Bryan. A I* Ford. Clarendon : Senator : E E Diekson. Representatives: Sylax Meltor,, Jared \V arley. Darlington : Senator: B F Whittemore. Representative : S J Keith, Jordan Lang, Richard II Humbert, Alfred Hart. Edgefield: Senator: Frank Arnim*. Representatives : l’rinco II River®, Sam uel J Lee. Lawrence Cain, Wm Kennedy, John A Barker, John A Green, David Harris. Fairfiold : Senator: George W Barber.* Representatives : S M Smart, W J Mc- Dowell Alfred Moore. Georgetown : Senator: J H Rainey.* Representatives : William II Jones, Jr, .lames A Bowley, Thomas D McDowell. Greenville : Senator ; James M Allen.* llcju'esontntives : L Williams, S S Grit tenWen, G IF Taylor, 11 Sullivan. Uorry : Senator: J S Burroughs. Representatives : James E Dusenburg, George T Litchfield. Kershaw: Senator: Henry Cardoza. Representatives ; Frank Adamson, Reu ben Gaithers, Stephen Gary. Lancaster ; Senator: K M Sims.* Rep csenlativcs: R W Cousart, A Hudson. Laurens: Senator: V J P Owens*. Representatives: Joseph Crews, Harry McDaniel, Wade A Perrin, Griffin C Johnson - Lexington : Senator : E 8 J Haves*. Representatives: F IF Derrick, Daniel kinder. Marion: Senator: Henry E Ilayn*. Representatives: Joel Allen, F A Miles, F R Bass, Jll Sellers. Marliboro’ : Senator: H J Maxwell. Representatives: W Thomas, Samuel Jackson. Newberrv: Sesator: C W Mont gomery*. Representatives: HCCoiwine, J T Hendorson, J D Boston Oconee: Sonator: D Birman*" Repre sentatives : 0 M Dvylt, J L Shanldin. Orangeburg : Senator: Jos A Green*. Representatives: William Donnerly, Beni Byass, J C Jaminson, W II Reddish, J H Wallace. Pickens: Senator: IF E Holcomb Representative : J E Hagood. Richland: Senator: W B Nash Repre sentatives: Wm Simons, James Davis, S B Thompson, iEiop Goodson. Spartanburg; Senator; Joel Foster.* Representatives; R 0 Poole, J Banks Lyle, J L Wofford, Robert M Smith. Surnlor; Senator; W E Johnson. Rep resentative;; F J Moore, Jr, W-fl Gardner, W \V Itarnsey, A L Singleton. Union; Senator; H W Duncan. Rep resentatives; Junius Mobley, Jas Nuckles, Simeon Farr. Williamsburg; Senator; S A Swalls. F.epreseutntives; F H Frost, Jeffrey Pen dergrass, Fortune Giles. York; Senator; W E Rose.* Represen tatives; 1* J O’Connell, Benj F Briggs, J W Mead, J H White. RECAPITULATION. Senate—Republicans 25 Reformers 6 Majority 19 House—Republicans 102 Reformers -J Majority 80 Republican majority on joint ballot... 99 Os the thirty-one Senators, (one vacancy) eleven are colored men, ami twenty white men. Out of the one hundred and twenty four members of the lower House, about eighty are colored men. Condition of the Southern Na tional Banks. A special telegram to He Chronicle k Sentinel has already given to the public the official statement of the eight National Banks in Georgia. This statement, as well 'as that which we now givo, is an abstract of the Reports made to the Comptroller of the Currency. We recapitulate from the statement of the condition of the Banks in Georgia. They have resources to the amount of $5,776,926. including legal ten der notes, $542,218, and $86,996 in specie. The individual deposits $1,681,595. The capital stock is $1,815,000. The national ba.-As of West Virginia (fourteen) have resources to the amount of $6,995,556, with s2t. 165 of specie: individual deposits, $2,069,135,' national bank notes outstand ing, $1,887,95,?; capital stock, $2,116,400. The national banks of Virginia (seventeen) have resources amount),7B: to $9,522,464; specie, $87,927 ; national bank L'Otes out standing, $2,128,328; individual deposits, $3,593,423; capital stock, $2,375,000. The national banks of North Carolina (six) re sources, $3,518,550; specie, $22,752; national bank notes outstanding, $528,655; individual deposits, $1,562,365; capital atock, $850,00u. The national Lank*- of South Carolina Cbrce)—resources, $2,866.- ' 239; specie, *l7, 107 ; national hank notes j ' a'staDding, $333 000; capital stock, i $l,Odl,OUUb Tbe national banks of Ala- j buna (two) —resources, $1,074,216; specie, I $12,727; national bank notes outstanding, j $265,018; capita! slock, $400,000. The j resources of the national backs of Orleans are $4 25-1,969; specie, $132,810; the capital stock is $1,300,000; national bank notes cutstanding $1,043,331. Au Engraving of General Robert E. Lee. Messrs. Bostwick & Winter, 177 West Fourth street, Cincinnati, has placed upen our table a copy ot their engraving of General Robert 2. Lee. The head is life size and is tbe largest ever produced in a similar engraving. In the combination of artistic and mechanical skill it has beeo rarely excelled. Tills engraving wa3 un dertaken by Mr. Walters, under the au spices of the American Arc Union, and was the object of long, assiduous labor, the result of which is the best likeness of | the illustrious Confederate chief that we Lave ever seen. The artist has succeeded iin catching that peculia, in expression i which all who ever seea General Lee will aot fail to recognize. The engraving is a beautifull work of art, well worthy a place in every household. The engraving is sold only by sub i scription. Experienced agents are wanted by tbe publishers. Political Pulpiteers. The Political Pulpiteer is tbe latest form of tbe politician. His cxi tence in the New Woild is coeval with the May t Ivi.er, and with the fame of Plymouth Pock. Hildreth, the abolition historian of the United States, who, by tbe way, for the most part is to be preferred for bis cindor to the so called Democratic histo rian, Bancroft, (races his origin with exact fidelity to our puritan forefathers, and to the influences that guarded and cared for the cradle of American liberty. Hildreth places tic political Pulpiteer, intellectually and politically, in advance of the | common herd, even of puritan fathers, and makes him reject as unsound many i cardinal doctrines of' Christianity then, | as now, accepted as orthodt* and essential j by the simple-hearted and pure in faith, but with admirable sagacity, avoiding every expression calculated to shock received public opinion, or to weaken his \ influence. But with like fidelity political Pulpiteers then, as now, were radically liu ihc advance in political progress. In more recent times the Political Pulpiteer | has progressed with the progress of the world, and assumes a holder range and a wider scope for tbe exercise of his powers, i The whole boundless continent is theirs, j They are called, in rendering unto Ceasar things that belong to Ceasar, to see that Ceasar gets all that belong to him, ac cording to the platform of their especial political party, not only in their own parishes or ecclesiastical departments, but throughout the whole length and breadth of the laud, over which they claim juris diction. To the eye of these church politicians, government authority is the ground work for missionary labor.; the claims of a po litical party coequal with the claims of tbe Most High: the utteiance of Divine Reve lations are to be construed with reference to political exigency, and the day sot apart so turn the thoughts of' men from earth to heaven, a fit day for tbe devotional act of pulling down one political party and build ; ing up another Asa matter of course | the Metropolis of the Republic is too ! potent to be overlooked in acquiring icfiu j er.ee and mastery; and in the city of New York these clerical politicians on each io’ aurring Sabbath hold high converse cud sweet communion with their devout con -1 gregations, delivering with the authority i of inspired, ambassadors mandates suited to 1 the political situation as matters oongenial ic religious worship, and make the walls of temples, tupposed to be sacred, resound with political appeals for the friendly par ty and with fierce invectives of condem nation for tluir antagonists, as rdiaioua exercises. In a late issue of tie New York Express, a writer, indignant at the denunciations of John T. Hoffman, the Democratic candi date for Governor, and still more indignant j at the laudations of Stewart L. Woodford, j the Radical candidate for the same office : asks: “What do the Hepworth’s, the j FrotliinghamV, the Akerman’s, tlmSwift’s, ! the Pullman’s and the NewtonN know about John T. Hoffman ? On what theory do they exonerate Stewart L. Woodford lor his efforts to aid Oaksmith to clear his ves:<! for a voyage to purchase a load of slaver for the market?’’ The amiable in nocent writer forgot that these Ilopworth’s acd Frothingham’s, and Pullman’s were inspired, and that inspiration keeps apaoe with annual income, else ho would nt t have put forth the question; and the theory, (or Woodford’s exoneration is equally p lain. The writer lugubriously reaches, late in the day, the conclusion that “both politics and religion are both ut a low ebb,” when such things take place. But these things are moderate. They are merely, appeals to reason in forms that Iludihras has satcrised long since. They are as mild 63 the genial rays of a vernal sun as compared with the hot beams of and g days, when the sharp rifle doctrines of ecclesiastical politicans arc recalled to mind, which should remind him that there j is a lower deep yet to be reached, when I clerical disputants shall deem their swords, 1 on points of faith, more eloquent than words. To show how near at hand we are to fuel) an issue, w’uat can be more appo site than the following quotation from the New Vori: lhraid's report of the Rev. Dr. Curry’s sermon, delivered at the twenty seventh street Methodist Episco pal Church on Sunday 7th instant. The It jv. Dr. said: “The war held the Republican party to gether, but it can be nothing but a monu ment. of self-destruction bq!i?ss it takes up new moral issues, and, like the whig party j of old, will go the wail if it cannot crush j Romanism, We have no confidence in j third psrtio>\ We never saw one which was not willing to sell out after one or two j years. They are only the floating riff-raff J of other parties, trying to catch votes on j moral issues, which they speedily abandon. Becoming Scared at the Real issue. The Radical party ere at list beginning to sec that continued agitation upon sec- I ticca! isues of a past era will do longer ; avail before the people. It is no longer j suffice rr to cry, “S'aveocracy,” Slave power," “Rebels,” “Rebellion,” “the Reril of Union Men,” “Loyally to the Flag” and like sensational party cries, to carry an dciion. Slew to admit this f.ct, and lothe to relinquish sueh powerful clap-trap, which heretef re has been so efficacious in perpetuating pary power upon labe issue®, the Philadelphia Press, a deadirg Radical organ, in a leader of the 6rh instant, confesses to this com- i phxion it has come at last. The Press, under the caption of “Free Trade vs. Re publican party, thus discourses: “It is getting to be a serious matter, this of Free Trade and Protection. The time is fist approaching when it will be one of the leading, if not the leadinc issue, to be decided at the ballot-box. The agents of foreign bankers and the importers of for j eign fabrics at New York wage a relentless and unyielding crusade. Backed by foreign capital, and with a sufficiency of their own, i they have both the means and the animus to carry on their war i Disguising their selfish movement under the name of reform, these men, the ma i j or ity of whom happen to be Republicans, I have endeavored to foist themselves upon [ t ho party, to control its nominations, and to dictate its candidates. Failing in this, they are everwhere recommending the few free— trade members of the party to take sides with the Democracy, to vote for a Democratic Free-Trader in preference to a Protection Republican. This question, then, is fast resolving itself into a parly one. It is no longer between the producer and the New York jobber, but between the Republican party gjid the new Free-trade i Democracy. Evidences of this art around on every side, and are daily accumulating, in Mis souri Democrats and the Free-Traders have united their forces, and threaten to defeat two, if not three. Republican Con fressmen. In New York, where Mr. lorace Greeley has been nominated for Congress in the Sixth districri the Keen ing FoU counsels his defeat and the elec t on of his Dcmccratia free-trade opponent. An address has been issued to the people of the district by the importers and foreign ; bankers of that city, calling upon them to ; deieat him, not on account of ha Re pub licanism, hut bee*o»e of his devotion to home industry. In Michigan they are I doiog the same thing. Tais candid confVesion has been wrung ! from Forney by the results of the late elections, which have awakened sensations of distrust and anxiety as great as that j which was caused by the handwriting on the wall at Belshazaar’s feast. They be token the sterner issue of accountability l for the oust, and f'ortell the end cf power bloated by plunder and spoliation by un scrupulous legislation. The issue is being 1 brought home to the firss.de of every I laboring man in the country—etript of j every adventitious covering, beref t of every ! sensational subterfuge and all hypocritical ! cant about caste and color, every iaber | ing man in the country feels, and bees and knows that, under Radical rule, he is 1 daily sinking into poverty, while the pro tected rich grow enormously richer. He ; knows that while there is protection af forded by the government to the lordly jgaanufacturer and money-lender, there ig no protection for him. He eees that while protection utters patriotic cries and loyal upLuisms, and the protected wax fat and grow rich. It exacts Free j Trade in Labor to diminish his daiiy earnings, and bring into compe | tition with his struggles for daily bread, all that can be reached f'rcm the utter ; most ends of the earth—even the Chinese from the hordes of tho Celestial Empire. Whether he be merchant, mechanic or j farmer, l e knows and feels that ho is ground as between the upper and the Dether millstone, between the powers of a Radical government, which arc exercised to make every article which he purchases to supply the daily wants of bis family j enormously high in price, and the | favored few who are protected, who | concentrate all their capital to crush his j energies as an obnoxious competitor. The | policy and practice of the Radical party i who control the government is to make ; the rich richer and the poor poorer. The people becoming alive to this disastrous policy brings Forney to the confession, — “It is getting to be a serious matter, this of‘Free Trade and Protection.’ ’ It will become more serious as time rolls on, and the masses get poorer.” Forney secs only two questions "affect ing our (Radical) national policy”; the one “the removal of political disabilities from the people of the South”, and “the other Free Trade.” With the first he avers that “we have nothing to do at present”, but promises to do something “in the ample time” ahead, when they, the people of the South, behave better. We respectfully but firmly submit that the people of the South have “behaved” too much already. From the close of the war the desire to con cilate has been universal. New demands iD direct conflict with promises and covenants and treaties were submitted to, and bureau exactions, such as no Northern man would suffer, complied with. So far did this spirit for conciliation prevail iu the State of Georgia, that the officers of the State government, from the highest executive down, were filled without opposition by old line Whigs, who opposed se cession and the wjr, as the highest evidence of goed faith and honor able submission. But what was the result? These men were igoominiously kicked out by the power of the bayonet, and disfranchised by act of Congress; and thieving, plundering carpet-baggers, by force and fraud, installed in their stead. What was done in Georgia was done : n all the Southern States, and yet the Radicals have the “shameless effrontery” to talk about “protection to American Industry.” The great industry of the country is agri cultural, and this now needs protection. Ten years of enormous profits have made Radical members oi Congress, and their * industry” rings enormously rich while the mass of the people have grown poor, aDd grow poorer every day—West and North as well as South. Ot a truth, | therefore, “II to gutting to be a serious matter this of Protection and Free Trade,” which, as the Press states, "is not one of the missions” of the Radical party. Tlie Alamance Rebellion Over. On the 11th of November the Radical Governor of North Carolina issued in due form his solemn proclamation that the rebellion in the counties of Alamance and Caswell, Noith Carolina, had been sup pressed and the right of habeas corpus restored to the citizens of the rebellious dis trict. In tkesp piping limes of peace when the ear-piercing fife and tho fierce rolling drum have given place to the softer strains of the flute and the guitar—when “the boot and the saddle” and the long roll linger only in memory or are read of as events in far distant countries—when the President says let us have peace—and the whole country is tired of war’s rude alarm,-, and seeks tranquility, with the milder sway of civil law—this official proc lamation is refreshing. The latest speck of official war has officially disappeared in the same manner in which it arose—by official proclamation. We congratulate the coun try. We congratulate the administration. Wo congratulate the good old Rip-Van- Winkle State. We congratulate the good people of Alamance and Caswell. Above all we congratulate Holden, the Governor, and Kir're, the Lieutenant-General, whoso unrivalled sagacity and unequalled mili tary skill and energies have brought this hidious rebellion to a close, and consumma j ted a glorious peace, with a Democratic : triumph at the ballot box. The history of this glorious achievement of Holden Las not yet been written. We are as yet without tlie details of official reports. We have not as yet learned the names of the subalterns who have won imperishable renown. Scott and Kirk are j immortal, and their names will go down ! to distant generations of Tar-lieeled Rad | icals brilliantly effulgent with glory. The | names of those who, with heart for any fate j still achieving, still pursuing the glorious principles of Radicalism in plunder, who I have surpassed in very deed that which to ] j FalstafT was but a remote and distant, and ! unfilled desire, will be indissolubly asso- j ! ci3ted with unrivalled exploits in assaults j upon the exchequer, and become il- I lustrious in imperishable renown. No ! gilded monument will perpetuate their j deeds. They are engraved upon the de- ; benturesof the State, and will quicken the public pulse with every recurring tax- i return. Nor have we the details of the i sieges and the battles; nor of glorious j charges; nor of successful repulses, by which glorious battles are so often lost j and won. Nevertheless, we have the j Iruits ol victory —and these we reeapitu- j late ; i Killed and wounded none. Captured 26 lawyers. 1 farmer. ■ »' 1 cow driver. " 1 chief justice. Total 31 Captured 5t0re5..40,000,000 State bonds. “ .. 4 railroads. “ •• 200,000 acres of land. .. School funds. .. 1 axes not yet ascertained. All this—this splendid line of achive ment —has been with the insignificant loss of 2,000 stand of Winchester rifles and one hundred thousand rounds of fixed am munition and a lew ballot boxes, taken in possession of by craity Democrats. This is glory enough for Holden and Kirks. The Marietta Paper Mill was partially destroyed by fire on last Monday morn ing. Fire the result of accident. Loss $15,000; insurance $5,000. At the raoes in Maoon, on Wednesday, Orphan Boy won the purse of SIOO, mile neats, best two in three, in harness. Anthony Wayne won the purse of $509, tor the best three in five, to harness, beat ing tbe noted Bismarck. At the Columbus Fair a miniature wooden plow was exhibited, made by a boy aged eleven years, named Robert Wells, of Calhoun county. He cut the tree down, and fashioned the plow after the most approved The machine is cf perfect workmanship.^ The Negro ami the Ballot. We have watched with peculiar interest the progress, end waited with an honest desire for a satisfactory result, from the experitnon'- recently made in Sittth Caro- , lies. It is true that the result dots Dot vary from that which we apprehended, nor indeed from that which was foreshadowed by Governor Orr’s forecast of the future, ; given as an argument for his defection from bis Jifo-long principles and for his adhesion to the worst phase of agrarian i Republicanism. There is no doubt of the j fairness of the experiment, and as little j about the energy and honesty ol the effort. j The problem was, would negro voters j divide upon a mere question of State economy, even though every civil right should be guaranteed to them, with every j power to enforce these rights at their com mand and disposal under the lead and oontrol cf a Republican of acknowledged ; and unimpeachable fidelity. There could be no question about Judge Carpenter's fidelity to the principles of modern Re publicanism. There was no danger that I power in his hands could be or would be ; used to abate one jot or tittle in the civil ; ! rights bill by practical administiation. ; There was as little danger under the laws | of the United States but that such power j abused upon surrender could be resumed | within a twelve month. Numerical pre- ! | ponderance made the security ample. So far as Democratic concession went every thing was yielded. The issues joined was simply that of limitation in the use of State credit and entrenchment in State expenditure. The Democrats simply said to unquestionable Republicans concurring in such a State policy; cover every avenue of approach, and gaard every weak point as to the loss of power; go forward, and we, surrendering our convictions, will sup port you heartily and energetically. The issue was joined openly, and the campaign conducted as all political campaigns are wont to be conducted, with stump speak ing and music and barbecues ; and argu ments and statistics, and statements, oral and printed. If statistics and statements and arguments would avail, there could have been no doubt about the result, for they stood uncontradicte.d. If public at tendance and private pledges were of value the aggregate vote might have been fore told. But compare the official vote with population, and what do we find ? Ai the white vote, with the exception of a few agrarian leaders, cn one side, and all the white vote on the other ; and a few Radical agrarians and unscrupulous plunderers, men who pay no taxes, but live by taxes in official plunder, giving harmless positions to Degroep, rule the State as Republican in form, and in the name of the people. The lesson is an in valuable one —neither eloquent appeals, nor incontrovertable arguments are of avail in such a canvass, nor the enthusiasm of assemblages, nor the allurements of feasts. Scott has demonstrated that the Win chester rifle is the best law for Republican use, and indicated tho Swiss guard for our model n Republic. Tlie North Carolina Railroad— The Obstruction to a Double Mail Service, North and South of Augusta. The Raleigh Sentinel states that at a recent meeting of the Board of Dircctora of the North Carolina Railroad at the “Company’s Shops,” the question of a lease of that portion of this road which lies between Greenesboro’ and Charlotte —about fifty miles—came up, was lengthily discussed, and upon motion of Captain R. J. HarrisoD, of Raleigh, “was rejected out and out,” and that final action resulted in the adoption of a proposition te delay action to a subsequent period nftt mention ed. The corporation desiring the lease is the Richmond, Danville and Piedmont Railroad. The objeet desired in sueh a lease' is to perfect a through schedule without chance of cars, and thereby avoid two change sos cars now made necessary both at Cbarlotteo and Greenesboro’, by the policy of the North Carolina Company, and thereby expedite transit, six or eight hours. The difficulty incident to the difference in track guage between the Charlotte Road and the. North Carolina has been overcome by an adjustible truck equally adapted to both roads, and re quiring only twenty minutes of delay for adaptation. We are informed that the Southern Express Company and the sleep ing car company have each provided cars of sueh construction, and that connecting roads will make similar provision upon a lease, or agreement for use: but the North Carolina Company refuses such an agreement, and prohibits tho uses of sueh cars, and imposes a tariff of arbitrary rates upon all transportation passing over it. The action cf this company heretofore and now, is a serious embarrassment to the enterprise of railroads south of it, to regain the great travel and postal service between New York and New Orleans, di verted by the long but more expedi tious and less fatiguing lines, by the way of Louisville and Cineinnaati. We have tho high authority cf the Postmaster General himself, (and here by the way, we take cceasion to matte an amende for having attributed to him the absence of such publio facilities, elsewhere granted) for saying that it is this conflict between these roads which has been the impedi ment to a double daily mail service North and South by this route. The opening of the New Orleans and Mobile Road, now completed, saves in time twenty-three hours between those two points. The completion of the Macon and Augusta Road, upon which the last spike will be driven before the lapse of another week, will bring an additional gain of six hours. A fair adjustment of this Company’s Shop question will expe dite the time between Augusta and Rich mond six hours more. So that altogether, with the harmonious working of con necting roads, the time can be re duced between New York and New New Orleans to within four days. This time cannot bo made by any Western route. With such a saving in time and , with equal aceomp'odations, that travel ! which has been absorbed by Western routes and lost to this section for many I years, can be regained with a double mail j seivlce for tho groat mails between these | two great centres of commerce. Upon I such an arrangement, cars may run from j New York to New Orleans as readily as , they cow run from New Y r ork to San j Francisco, Without such an arrange- j ment, this travel cannot bo regained, as ; there will be no gain ib time, and two changes are requisite ; whereas by Louis* ] viiie and Cincinnati, there is only one, j and none at all by Dalton and Chattanooga, i We cannot and do not blame our es teemed cotemporary for watching and guarding carefully tho interests of Raleigh. But opposition and obstruction tc £rgat public wants cannot enure to those inter ests. The Sentinel confesses that the North Carolina Road does not now pay its stockholders —all North Carolinians. Is not that sound policy whioh will bring the profits of anew trade to its coffers without detriment or loss in existing sources of revenue ? This indefinite postponement of the whole question at the Company’s Shops, betokens that interests, South as well as North, of this centre of a fifty mile mo nopoly, must look to other points for through connections. Fortunately there are routes not inferior which may be put in operational no great cost, upon which the traveller may travel where he lists, without being forced to go to Raleigh, or pay tribute for avoiding Holden’s head quarters; and these can be brought into early requisition. From the Irish Citizen. John MitchePs Eulogy Upon Gen. Lee. The highest head, the noblest and grand est character of our pontinent, the most conscientious, humane and faithful sols | dier, the most chivalrous gentleman in i this world, the best, the most superb sam- ■ pie of the American watrior, has fallen j like a mighty tree in tjie forest : and men wonder after the first shock of the nocs to find that there is such a gap, such a j blank in the world. What is there wanting fto the fame of j thisjillustrious American? b'rom the Lexington, Ky. , Obterrer] im porter. Soothers Agricultural Congrq. A NOTH El LETTER FROM DR. SPUR - The (piloting letters from Dr. Lj. Spun Kentucky delegate to the Agrp!- ' tnral Coognes, now in session at Aagu a, Georgia wss received by our estee t -d friend Mr. J. M. Tipton, and handers for publication. Thev are not less in ir - i estinz than the letter we published et 1 week: t. i Augusta, Ga., October 24, 1870 J. M- Tiptoi: Dear Frend: I have been here tt> days, have been kindly and courteous! received, hive made many valuable at quaintam^s,and am well pleased iri'htfci people. Tn no country of which I hav personal kmwledge will yon tj n d a mor refined and iclished people. In the tw days that I have been here, I have not seen a drunken man or an act of rowdyism. 1 here is one point in their character to which I wist especially to draw your at tention. It is one upon which so much has been sail through the papers pro and cod, that it las difficult to determine the exact state ol the case, but from ao ex tensive interwurse with the leading men of tho State, I am prepared to say that, wheD the people of this State surren dered their sieme of forming a separate government, they did it m good faith; and if tuere lad been a disposition on the part of looseb power to ascertain this fact there conic, hive been no difficulty in ar riving at it. But there were political ends to be accompished and a greedy horde to fatten on tlnspeople; hence their state of vasalage.. Tley are bearing their treat ment patient!, believing that their day of deliverance font a worse than Egyptian bondage, wiflnot he much longer procras tinated. Thar hope is in the conservative Democracy ot the nation. It is well cal culatedto exiite in the mind of any un prejudtied pe-son a feeling of surprise and adrmratpn, to see and know truly the iu - ner lite and bearing of this people.— Stripped of self-government, a horde of \ ultures featured and fattening upon their \itals, th.bayonet everywhere gleaming before the- eyes to remind them that they are a conqpre<l people—a standing menace to them ; Vpir heretofore menials made ; their law-niters ; and tKe„ knowing a p this, step ir.o their churches upon the Sabbath and see the holy man of God, with tremblig l ands uplifted to a throne of heavenly gace, and hear the petition issuing from Is aged and eloquent lips for ‘ the Preside* of the United States and all in authority ver us,” and the hearty amen by the entir congregation. That man who sees andiears this, and then doubts and distrusts he sincerity and honesty of purpose of. tls people is, to say the least ot it, constitued different from what your correspondenis. Nor is this all. In me entire intei curse with the people I have not heard a ingle expression of disaffec tion to the Uited States Government, nor flings.(whicbwe often hear at home) at the Yankeesand Yankee States. They speak of the country as “our country,” “our Presidat,” “our Congress,” “our nation,” “oil flag,” &c. Is there no i true religiou ? Are these people all hypo- I crites going iito the presence of their God j with uplitteJhaads, and lies upon their ; lips? The tought can only originate in the. minds of aoie whose hearts are in the gall of bitterns) and in tho bonds of in iquity. Yon jay possibly think that I write plainly «and freely on this matter, I admit it: bti ticn, my dear sir, 1 do not. write what l ed, for words are inadequate to express tbe contempt and scorn I nave for mean aot>, let them originate where they may, andl bow my head in shame that my country capable of such con duct. The delegates to be Agricultural Con gress are coming i.- A lew of us to day had an inforual meting, to interchange thought in relation ti it.' Many delegates are expected tonigh, among others Hon Horace Capron, Comnissioner of Agrieul turc. The tusaessnf the session will be shaped to-moriow; [ think we will get through by Satu-day lam glad that yon sent a delegate lore, it is appreciated. I shall be home Sa.uniy, November sth. Very truly, jour: R. J. Spurr. Augusta, G.v Octjber 27,1870. The Agricultural Cpgress has now been in session two fays, md has effected an organization wlh Herchel V. Johnson as President. Mr Johns® is an ex-Governor of Georgia, am was tht candidate for Vice President cn tie DouJas ticket in 1860. He seems to lea god presiding officer. One vice presflent from each ot the States represented bn also teen elected. The following Suites are icpresenfed here: Maryland, Vrginia, District of Columbia, North Carolina, Georgii, Alabama, Ton nessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi and Texas. The name sleeted for the organization is “The Conges* of Agriculture.” There is mure talcn in the body than can be found in an ;qual number in any repre sentative orjinization in our nation. They seem to be ? earnest in trying to do some thing to V'oefit the agriculture of the South espectlly, and they deeply need in this State ad South Carolina something to be done tihelp them. The people are poor beyond our conception. They have land, and alicst nothing else. Their land is in a territe state of impoverishment, and ita cu;ivation even worse than the condition n the soil, and unless aid through enlightened science comes to their rssistance, tqether with a more reliable system of libor, there can be no bright future for them They talk of diversify ing their procnctbns—raising more bread and meat andlesi cotton. This might be well, if their lads were not so reduced in fertility; at ibis. I believe from what I have observed, that they will be con strained to raise otton until some system is introduced byvhich their lauds oan be increased in fertfity. If they attempt to raise corn and sick to any large extent, it seems to me thl disaster will be the re sult. You can stimate for yourself: from Chattanooga totbis place, although they have had a goofseason, the corn.crop will not average mre than 10 to 12 bushels shelled corn to te acre, and after passing the Blue Ridge ven less than this. I think that iflias been a great oversight in this State nothaving had a geological survey made, togther with an analysis of the different soiltof the State. I noticed closely the geoleical structure of the country from the! ue Ridge to this place, and observed thalall the way the country is based od the punitive formations; up heaved, broken, ;ontorted and tilted by subterranean fores, all the rocks bearing evidence of bavin been subjected to an intense degree of cat. There is no lime stone in ail this log distance. The water f this section liatio trace of V"~ie, and I apprehend that wbn an analysis is made of these red lands of Georgia and South Carolina, it will beound that if lime exbts at all, it is in vty small quantity. We well know in our on club, the importance of lime in our soi in developing all our crops and ouranimt organization®. Wher ever we find a ail based on limestone, particularly if it isoft limestone, there we find a fertile countt. Where this rock is absent, the land toner or later becomes exhausted, as in trge part® of the New England States, an cm never again be come fertile until though manures or the direct application o lime this element is j restored to the sd. In the East it has been proved impreticable to get a stand of clover upon.thei worn lands until lime has been freely aplied to them. When j they can once get cover to take, then their j lands are on the high road to become | productive. How tar this same course | of action may be successful in rcstor j ing these barrenfielts to fertility I cannot j say, for here is a different climate to deal j with ; but this sjucbmight be saf-Jy sug : gested, that the ideais vreli worth the at ! tenticn and consideration of farmers here. I It might be eautbusy tried by distributing i from 20 to 40 bishdb of lime to the acre j on two or three acres, and alter mixing it | up well with thessil then sow six quarts i of clover seed to th« acre, or even eight j quarts might do belter. I believe that ! here the proper timeto sow the clover seed would be from the ruddle of September to the Ist. cf October. The winters being mild, it would root sufficiently not to freeze, and would bein a better condition to stand the heat of ffiSt summer. If this idea should prove on »rial to be successful, then this country trough that means would have the "bes fertilizers to which they could resort, as tc clover would fur nish to the land all he humors it would need. You will percive that I have fol lowed this subject possibly rather minute ly, but I have done sointentionally, hoping 1 that by seme mean; the thoughts here penned may yet firtl some channel by which they may be Nought to the atten tion of some enterprising farmer in this sunny clime, who wil be induced to give the suggestions hen made a fair trial. Indeed, the elementary ideas involved, can do our club no harm, if you should think this long letter tortby of being read to them. I hope to be able to take by the hand all my dear friends of the club, on Saturday, November sth. You cannot realize how desirous lam to see y*u all once more. I am faithfully trying to do my duty. Good bye till I see. Yours, truly, R. J. Spurr. Hall on Greeley.—Mayor Hall made quite a hit in New York on Friday night where he addressed a large audience id favor of the election of Hod. S. S. Cox to Congress over Mr. Horace Greeley. In a speech full of humor he adroitly exposed the charlatanry of Mr. Greeley, whom he represented to be a madman. The follow ing extract gives the tone of Mayor Hall’s remarks. He said: He (Greeley) writes insane maundering about farming. Hcscrious’y recommends people to plant acorns in order*lo grow up oaks (!) and says it is the most profitable crop, and that tbe land will yield !c c s ! But the best of tbe joke is th it Ike Marvel, who, as Donald G. Mitchell, ris an excel lent farmer, thought Greeley sufficiently in esmrst to write comments against the ides. He has in.-acely surrounded his farm with hi., eccentrici'ries. His craving for notoriety is a symptom of a madman. I my:elf saw him, in 1869, in Chicago, while in company with two ether gentle men, who also laughed at him, go behind the door of the barber’s shop ic the hotel and carefuiiy adjust his trowsers in the inside of his boots. He must periodically run for seme effico every autumn, and it don’t much mat'er what it is. The last time he ran fur Cingress it wa= in a lower district. He once had some idea of geing to Virginia to run for United States Senator. AU these erratic movements show insanity. People said he once Jent to Europe because he could not be Gov ernor. There was no necessity for him to go. All people wondered why he did go- While in Paris he attracted so mush at , tention as au tx-member of our Crystal ' Palace Association that he got himself ar rested and shut up. It is the act of a mad man to beast of having been a jail-bird in his frantic r c -flections Read how proud he is of it. He was three months in Coa tress, and his acts there can only be chari tably txoiained on the hypothesis of in sanity. His insanity sometimes breaks out io 4is form of spasmodic letters on his own newipaper, signed by his name or initials. He was morally convicted of perjury in tiie M Figlapd case. Mad men are under the delusion that they tell the truth when they do not, and are therefore not to be blamed for it. President Gram’s Horses. The trotter.-, pacers, driving hor esacd ponies of the Presidential horse-fancier are siieeiL-ctly described by the Washington Star of a late dtate. The Executive stable is designated a respectable affair, such as befits a g-'ntVman of modest taste, clean as anew trie, and lighted throughout with gas. The President’s pet horse is a beau tiful chest-ut-sorrel stallion, who has not yet received a name; he is a thoroughbred Hambletonian, and a powerful animal, of beautiful form, well mannered and courage ous, with superb action. “Jeff. Davis.” Grant’s favorite saddle horse is a noble fc'-.r.L- Raiding, centeredoo » «ffnatation hp.- longing' to the ex Uonlederate chief in Mississippi. He is fourteen bands high, and an excellent pacer, doing his mile in three minutes easily. “Egypt” is regard ed as one of the prettiest beasts in the whole stud, is a fanmus trotter, and can make his mile in three minutes. The President’s old war-horse, “Cincinnati,” is used in carriage only, and is driven with “St. Louis,” his mate, a brighter bay than “Cincinnati,” though a very good match. “Mary,”a bay trot t ’ng mare, who makes her mile in 2:40 in single harness, is never used except for the buggy, and is driven to the po’e with “Jenny,” a bright bay American trotting mare of 2:30 speed. This is one of the President’s iavorite teams, and al ways at tracts attention, though very seldom used. The Shetland ponies “Biilv But ton” and “llcb,” belonging to Master Jessie Grant, are now at Georgetown. The Presidential carriages arc very comfortable and many of them elegant; the harnesses, likewise, are very elaborate, two sets being heavily mounted with gold, and several sets with silver. Mr. Grant is proud of bis entire 3tud, aDd spends much tin e in the company of his several favorites. Shortly before Gen. Grant was chosen President he was driving down Pennsyl vania ave Due, in Washington City, in a buggy, drawn by a splendid fast hor c- He was about to pass a butcher’s, cart, when the lad who was driviog touched up bis nag, aud rapidly shot ahead. Gen. Grant thought he could pass that lumbering sort of a cart, and put his charger up to his speed. The butcher boy chirrured to his nag and kept ahead. General Grant, with his $2,000 horse, could not pass him. The General marked the horse and cart, and driving to his stable ordered a hostler to go at once and buy the butcher peddler’s horse, lie did se, paying SIOO tor him. Subsequently General Grant drove him to Baltimore and back to Washington in a day. He considered him worth at least $2,000. The Carrier Pigeon.—Balloons and carrier pigeons are among the prominent agents of communication employed in the Franco -Prussian war. Os the former we have spoken more than once of the lat ter we propose to say a few words now, having been asked frequently as to the modus operandi. The carrier pigeon is larger than the common pigeon, measur ing about fifteen inches in length and weighing about one and a quarter pounds. An appendage of the naked skin hangs across ita bill, and continues down on either siao cf the lower mandible. Its value is estimated according to its shape and size- Its strong instinctive love of homo is the quality that renders it so va luable ami fits it lor its functions a- a car rier. The birds are regularly trained wben young, their trainers taking them at first short distances from home, and then turning them loose. Those that fail to return home are consideied stupid and rejected as valueless. Those that return home are taken to greater distances, pro gressively increased from two miles to a thousand miles. The good birds return home with unerring certainty. The birds are sometimes kept in a dark place for hours before they are used and sparingly fed, but abundantly watered. The paper on which the message is written, is carefully tied around the up per part of the bird’s leg, but so as not to impede its flight. An old English ballad and a line from Tans imply that the original way of suspending the dispatch was from the wing or around the neck, but the above method is that now in use. Tho employment of tho carrier pigeon dates from remote antiquity. The rapidity of the flight oi this bird is almost incredi ble, Audubon speaks of passenger pigeons shet io tho neighborhood of New York with their craws lull of rice, which the bird* could not have procured nearer than the rice fields ot Georgia and Carolina, the s> me naturalist observes that as their power of digestion is so great that they entirely decompose food in twelve hours, the birds which were killed in the neigh borhood or New York, must have traveled between three and four hundred miles in six hours. When the annual trial of the Pj'izo for the beet carrier pigeons was de cided at Ghent, in 1833, twenty-four birds, which had been conveyed Irons that place, were thrown up at Rouen at fifty-five minutes past nine o’clock in tho morning. 'The distance is one hundred and fifty miles. The first pigeon arrived in Ghent in one hour and a half ; sixteen came within two hours and a half, and three irr the course of the day. Four were lost. The rate of which tho first bird flew was ninety miles in the hour. When thrown up the bird rites, end whoa it has reached a good height w:ll at first fly round and round and then make off, continuing on the wing without slop or stay, .unless prevented, till its well known home is reached. —Rich mond Whig. A Scene at Versailles—A Prus sian King in a French Palace. Writing under date of October 6, a cor respondent of the Loudon Telegraph gives a graphic account cf a scene at Versailles; “To-day Versailles has been freafed to a ready beautiful and most interesting sight. The great fountain played at ball past two, and his Majesty walkedfitjiroueh the grounds and witnessed the display. Probably many who read these lines have seen the Grandes Kaux on a Sunday af ternoon, and memory will enable them to picture a scene that I cannot attempt tu describe. They will remember—or, if they have never been there they must imagine—bow the tall { stately columns of water rise into tho air, descending again j in suph graeeiul curves; how the minor fountains flash and sparkle in the bright : sunshine, forming innumerable little rainbow? ; and how the fresh clean water, falling in tiny spray up:n the leaves and grass, wafts a pleasant cdor as of new cut hay, and cools the heated and dust-.aden sir. To see tbe Grandes Eaux play is at anytime a pleasing sight to the eye. To witness the display, under the circum stances that attended it yesterday, is a matter cf sueb interest as to constitute a veritable landmark in a mans life a day to look back upon and remember with ever-increasing wonder. “Yesterday morning was cola ana a amp, a regular autumn day, commencing with a slight frost and developing into a thick white fog. About oca o’clock, however, theskv suddenly cleared, the sun atone out in all its spiendor, speedily driving off the field the remnants of the mist which clung to the skirts of the woods and brakes—like skirmishers covering (ha re treat of the main body of the fog. Punctually ut the hour mentioned thc waters began to play, and the King of Prussia appeared on the terrace- A large crowd had assembled, and people were suffered to move about as they liked with out let or hindrance of any kind_ He, ac companied by the new prefect of Versailles, and followed by ail the historic per sonages of the staff, walked about natur ally and easily among the soldiers and civilians that crowded round. Two or three field police, to clear a path for him '■ when he wished to move were all the 1 guard that surrounded tic great con querer of the ago. In the most peaceful i i and quiet times of hjs relga the Emperor would scarcely have dared to trust him self aa openly among hit people. The simplicity with which tht progress was conducted was worthy of the head of a nation not eager for display, anxious only i to do the work appointed for it, without seeking the favor of mankind, or parading the successes with which efforts have been crowned. Haring gazed for a Bhort time upon the glorious tiew as seen from the terrace, the King moved on and went the regular round of the fountains, finish ing at the great bi in of Neptune, whet" a carriage was waiting to convey hi- Majesty ba*k to ii»e prefecture “Strange and novel indeed was the spec tacle as witnessed from the terraces of the western front. A deii-x: crowd of soldiers and civilians followed close t.p m the King. The Crown Prince was there, walking about and mingling almost unattended with tho crowd: and there also were many of the rndSt illustrious personages of the day—men who had pondered deeply over this very campaign, and from whose fertile brains had sprung the plans and combinations, the fruit of which we have already seen. There, too, in the undress uniform of the Cuirassiers, was that sol dier statesman whose diplomacy has as tonished the world—whose name has be come a synonym for a policy as courageous as astute, aud so straightforward and over board as to shock every tradition of the diplomatic art. Strolling about in the warm sunshine, inhaling fresh lite and strength iu the pleasant breeze, were a number ot soldiers recovering from their wounds, or from maladies brought on by the hardships of the war. Matty an etupty sleeve I saw, and many a poor fellow hob bling along on limbs ttie use of which he never would fully regain The civilians were delighted with the show; they- de clared it was delightful— rarittsant —and thought but little about who had ordered that the waters should play. What did it matter to them provided they were amused 1 ‘Let us have bread and games’ has often been their popular cry. What signifies it whether King or Emperor, Gaul or Teuton, friend or foe, provides the spectacle? Beautiful, at any rate, it. was; the clear columns of water, contrasting with the rich autumn tints, and the mass of gay uniforms forming a bright and moving foreground to such a picture as is rarely seen.” The Tragedy el' the Alps— Recovery of the Bodies. A correspondent of the Boston Tran script gives the following particulars of the recovery of the bodies of tho party recently lost whilst fsecrdiag the Alps, among whom, it will be remembered, was Dr. Beane, of Baltimore. The correspondent writes: LETTER FROM ONE OF WIE VICTIMS. G LiiaS 2L.ti, MunTUbux, | Switzerland, Ootuber 12, 1870. j In closing my letter of the 29th I had not the heart to allude to the latest tidiugs from Chamoupix. The bodies of 11 v. I Mr. McCorkeodale, of Scotland, and Dr. j Bear.c, of Baltimore, had been fount’; also * those of three porters. I still clung to the j hope that another attempt “in search of the j remains of Mr. Randall, of Quincy, and the five guides might prove successful. If so, we might have tho sad comfort of ob taining some locks of his hair for his be reaved family. Bad weather prevented another ascent. It is now too late in the season for even sa attempt. You may soon know through other correspondents, or through the London Times, ail I could have told you a fortnight ago. Possibly Dot. Therefore I must briefly indicate what was then known, adding thereto the touching particulars that reached us last evening. SEARCII FOR THE BOD’ ES. On the 16th of September those looking through the glass at Cfcamounlx discern ed some black points between “Les Petits Mulets” and the summit of Mont Illanc. Twenty-two guides prepared and started to ascend “Les Grands Mulets” before even ] ing. The next morning they fjund two bodies near where was indicated by the glass, and three higher up. Three guides explored the whole summit of Mont, Blanc for traces of the other six, while nineteen descended with the bodies found to the Grand Plateau. Then the twenty-two united again at “Lts Grands Mulets” for tl a Saturday night. But at a signal from them, twenty-four more guides started from Chamounix that evening, and the next morning, Sunday, proceeded on to the Grand Plateau, lhat day, the 18th, proved perfectly e’ear. The whole summit was visible to tho wistful eyes of tne watchers fcebw. Those using the telescope of course distinguished perfectly arid count ed the toiling inert. How often during the clear shining hours of the S.h Lad wo looked through that same telescope! And every time we changed the field we fell that we were to count some ot these stiffened forms on that summer snow. DESCENT WITH THE REMAINS. You can imagine the intense emotions of those simple and sympathetic villagers when, ten days later, they watehei alone that slow funeral train in its painful de scent from 5,0U0 feet above them. I will quote from the words oUone writing from the village at Ij, when the guides bearing the bodies had resehed the descent of the ‘ Grand Mulcts,” and were about continu ing the descent toward the glacier: ‘Vous ae pouves vous imaginer le lujubre effet produit par ces corps qua tan tot on voit glbser sur une neute rapid®, tantot trnines avec peine par cetie masse de guides.” IiEI.IGIOUS SEKVICEB were again held tlie next day, both Cath olic and Protestant. The bodies proved too brittle to undress, and were interred in the same clothing in which they made the ascent. Dr. Beane was found in a sit ting posture, his forehead resting on his hands. He was somewhat protected by an unfallen projection of snow. Mr. McCorkendale, sitting also, alpenstock in hand, passed into his frozen sleep with tlie calm lines of quiet peacefulness made en during while his spirit floated restfully on to a bright awakening. Now J come to tlie letter found on the body of Dr. Beane, of Which I first heard last evening. Sim pie and manly as it is, somewhat of its plain force and directness has been un doubtedly lost by translating it. into French. I shall send to Geneva for an English copy, if Mr. Upton, our American Consul, saved one before forwarding the ■ original to Baltimore. But to the family and friends of Mr. Randall, in Quincy and Boston, these last words of Dr. Beane, written amid those darkening Alpine snows, must have almost as deep and solemn an influence as though they had been Mr. Randall’s own farewell. DR BEANE S LETTER. “Tuesday, 6th September—l have made the asoen ion of Mont Biane with ten other persons, eight guides Mr. McCork endale and Mr. Randall. We reached the summit at two o’clock and a-halt. Im mediately after having quitted it I fiund myself enveloped io a whirlwind of snow at 15,000 feet English height. We have passed the night in a grotto dug in the snow—an uncomfortable asylum, and I have been ill all the night. “7th SiPterabcr, Morning—Gold very intense. Much sniw. It l'.lls without cessation ; the guides are uneasy. “7th September, Evening—We have been on Mont Blanc for two days in a ter rible snow storm. We are lost. We are in a grotto dug in tho snow, at a height of 15,000 feet. “[have no hope of descending. Per harw sou cone will find thi- book and will send it Io you.” (Then follow diicctious relative to his private affairs.) “We have no provisions. My feet are already frozen and lam entirely exhausted. I have only strength to write those, words. I die, be lieving in Jesus Christ, with the sweet thought of my family, my friendship, and all. I hope that we shall meet in heaven. Your* always. “My effects are partly at the hotel du Mont. Biane; a part are with me in (wo portmanteaus. Send them by post to thn hotel Schwietzernhoff at Geneva. Pay my tills at the hotel. Heaven will reward you for your kindness.” Then follow more instructions Io his family ; then a sudden close as if strength (ailed aod he bowed his head submissively to meet the great struggle, clearly accept ing the lonely gateway through that, tothc place beyond. I ata grateful for tho “iittle Rickie” and other beloved ones in Balti more, that they have not only the white cross referred to in my first ] tter, bat these last calm words of manly and pro tecting love. THE LAST HOURS. May they feel a celestial radiance from his new home alining tenderly through that white crystalline symbol, of the last passion of the beloved Master, who sus tained him to the end. But it pulls hard at our heart strings so know that Dr. Beano ana Mr. Randall were still alive during so many of those slow novfag hours, whi'e we, countrymen and town’s people, restlessly pac’d those narrow Chamounix streets, and sped on that brave band of iepajtir# guides. While our evo eve? yearningly turned toward tho?a veiled —“night and storm and darkness” shut down and hopelessly hid the dying from any cbar.oo of mortal rescue. M, M. W, From the Sivannah Morning News. A Political Reminiscence. The nomination of Ilham S- Fannin, of Morgan, by the negro Radical party for Congress, brings to our recollection an inci dent in that individual’s political career, which demonstrates his peculiar fitness to be the standard bearer of the negro p rty, and which we will relate for the edifica tion of the Fifteenth Amendments, by whose votes he seeks to attain Coct-rcs sional honors. _ At tbe election in Augusta in 1840, when General Thomas Glascock was the Demo cratic candidate for Congress, an occur rence took place at the polls which came very ne =r leading to serious consequences. Avery bright mulatto, by many supposed to boa white man, approached the polls— a Democratic t’cket wa3 placed in his hands by Genera! Glascock, who took him to be a legal voter, but on attempting to deposit it in the ballot-box he was recog nized by one of the Whig challengers, whereupon he prccitately fled. Tho affair caused much indignation among the Whigs, some of whom denounced the General for attempting to vote a negro. This charge was promptly denied by the General and his friends. In the excite ment pistols were drawn, mutual challcng s passed, and bus for the coblncss and pru donee of several gentlemen, blood would have been shed - . At the next session ot the State Legisla ture, George W. Crawford, Hen Senator or Representative frotn Richmond county, for liic express purpose ot preventing the recurrence ot such scones at the election polls, introduced a bill defining the status ol persons of mixed blood, and declaring who were legal voters in Georgia. This bill was passed without opposition, and was rigned by Governor Towns. Toe following year Mr. Crawford was the Whig nominee for Governor, against Matthew Hall McAllister, the Democratic candidate. At the same election Isbam Fannin was a candidate, on the Democratic side, for Representative from Morgan county. The canvass between Mr. Craw ford aDd Mr. McAllister was a very warm one, while the local canvass for Repre sentative of Morgan excited very little in terest, aud many of rhe youDg Whigs of the town, regarding Isham’s democracy of a very mild type, had yielded to his per sonal solicitations to vote for him, with the understanding that he would do noth ing to prejudice Mr. Crawford’s election. With the support of his young Whig friends, Isham was very hopeful, nay, ot being elected, and everything went on swimmingly until a few days before tbe election, wheoj&n article appeared in the State Dcm icratio organ of that day, the Milledgeville Union, making a furious on slaught upon Mr. Crawtord, charging him with having introduced and smuggled through the General Assembly a “law manumitting five thousand slaves in Geor gia and giving them privileges of citizen ship.” This charge was predicated on the bill introduced by Mr. Crawtord to define and and dare the status of any persons of mixed blood, and to presribe the mode by which persons of doubtful status might sue for citizenship, which had been so garbled and misrepresented by the editor of the Union as entirely to pervert its meaning, aDd to mislead ignorant and unsuspecting persons a-’ to its true intention. Large numbers i f the paper containing [this unfair arid u just attack upon Mr. Crawford were sent to tho Democratic candidates in the upper part of the State, io be distributed among the people ou the eve of the elec uon, when there would be no possibility of exposing the cheat until it was too late to prevent tho evil which [>t was designed to accomplish. Some of his Whig friends, finding out that tsham had received a large package ot the papers containing the article, pointed out to him the fraud, and warned him tbnt if he endorsed or circulated the article at the barbecues he was attending, they would not only withdraw their votes from him, but would do all they could to secure his deieat. He at first professed to believe the ridicu'ous slander upon Mr. Cray,'lord, and was, of course, extremely shocked , that 1 Georgia contained within her borders such au insidious Abolitionist —a man who would connive at the man umission of five thousand slaves in Goor eta, and turning them loose upon the Stare as voters. If he was really stupid enough to believe the absurd charge, the sure prospect of losing whig votes finally convinced him that Mr. Crawford had been misrepresen ted, and he promised not to circulate the slander. But the temptation was too great for Isham’s political virtue, and he was then too good a pro-slavery man to forego the opportunity of exposing such a dangerous abolitionist as George W. Crawford, the whig candidate for Gover nor; so on. the Saturday preceding the Monday of the election, Isham was seen to smuggle a bundle of Milledgeville Unions into Lis buggy, in which he was going to attend a barbecue a few miles from the village, and where he circulated the proofs of Mr. Crawford’s treason to his Slate and raee. That, was an unlucky move for the as piring Isham. The fact was soon spread among the youDg whig?, seme ten or fit tern of whom had promised to give him their support, but who devoted themselves from that time to the close of the noils to defeat him. The result, was that Isham’s “per spiring passiuus,” as Bdly Lackaday would say, “were balked.” He was defeated by about twenty votes. Had be not been so strongly opposed to “Mr. Crawford’s bill to mauumit five thousand slaves in Geor gia, and give them the privileges of citi zenship,” and had acted in good faith, he would have been a member of the Legisla ture in 1841. Little did he expect then to rely upon tho votes of the negroes of Geor gia to elect him to Congress in 1870. In tho language of the wronged Bra bantio to the miscegenating Moor, slightly altered to suit the case, we say: Look to him, negroes! Have a quick eye to see— he deceived his white friends, and may deceive you. From the Montgomery Mail . Mon'gomery and tire Georgia Central Railroad. LETTER FROM MR. POLLARD. President’s Office, ) Western Railroad Company, [ MonigomerF, Ala., 1870. J To tlie Editor of the Mail: I find, on my return Montgomery, a letter from Mr. Wadley, the President of the Georgia Centra! Railroad, which, as an act cf justice to him and the line he represents, I request you to publish. There is, I learn, much dissatisfaction expressed in Montgomery with him and his company because they refuse to make a through freight rate over the Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad. He has stated eorrectly tho stipulation made by Judge Krng, the President of the Georgia Railroad Com- I paoy, in reference tothiough freights, and they were certainiy necessary for the pro tection of his line, for it is hardly to be supposed that either party would have joined in the purchase of a majority of the stock of the Western Railroad, assume heavy icsponsibilities to put the portion of it cast of Montgomery in thorough re pair. which is now being done, and then give their influence and support to another road running parallel with it and directly in competition. Ia reference to the looal rates which have been established sinee the purchase of the Montgomery and Wfst Point Railroad by the Western Railroad Company, I can only say that, judai®g from the past, they are not too h gh; fir I fully i-gree with Mr. Wadley, that, it is only reasonable to charge such rates as will at. least enable the C .in paoy to pay working expense--, keep up its road and outfit, aha provide f>r the inur est oa its deb'; and although tlie entire debt on the Western Railroad, when it ij cimp eted to Selma and that part east of Montgomery put. in thorough repair, wi 1 bo only about $17,000 per mile less than the debt, of new roads now building in the State, I shall feel entirely satisfied with the result of the operations for the year if the earnings of the road will do thi-. Both of the Companies now interested in the Western Railroad become so at my urgent solicitation. I deem it a matter of great importance to the whole State, and particularly to the people of Montgomery, that the connection with Selma ehould be made, and that they should have the ad vantage of using the lines to Charleston and Savannah at the same rates. I regret that complaints are made against Mr. Wadley and the Central Riiiroad, fur with out his influence and hearty co-operation and the aid given by bis Company, the i road to Selma woulJ not have been built, ’ and two years ago the Montgomery and i West PuiDt Railroad must have been sold out, which would have resulted in a total loss to the stockholders of their intereit in the road; and, if the people of Mont gomery are to iir:eh dissatisfied with (he present state of things, and desire to take (lie control of the road our of the bands of the Georgia and Centra! Railroad Com panies, I have the assurance of both Judge ! King and Mr. Wadley that their Com- i panies will willingly give up their pur chase of stock at cost and seven per oeot. interest, if any Alabama oompany wiil r'lievo the two companies of the respond- ! bilitio3 thoy have incurred. Yery respectfully.. Chas. T. Pollard, President, j Letter from jja. wadley. j (. entral Railroad and Banking 1 Company of Georgia, !• i Savannah, Ga-, October 11, 1870. j Ghas. T. Pollard. Esqr., President West ern Railroad , Montgomery, Ala.: Dear Sir ; On my recent visit to Mont gomery, 1 was somewhat surprised to find * feeling existing with your merchants against the Central Railroad of Georgia, on account of our Laving no through rate via the Montgomery and Eafaula Road either to Savannah and points north, or from Troy to Montgomery. Passing over tho various phases in the history of the Montgomery and West Point Road, and the construction of the Western Railroad wherein our Company rendered material aid to eaob, I desire to call your attention to tho fact that in the final negotiations between the Georgia Railroad and our Company, by which the two lines became equally interested in the Montgomery and West Point and West ern Railroads, Judge King stipulated that there should be no through rate to the Chattahoochee lliver, either going East or West, except over the then Moatgomeiy and West Point Road. I mention this not as being unreasonable on the part of the Georgia Road, but to show that we are not wholly responsible for the lailure to make a through rate over another line. In regard to a through rate between Troy and Montgomery, I have only to remark teat the Mobile and Girard lioad has been I ’ built wholly by capital in the interest of Columbus, and it would, we thiak be un reasonable of others to ask of its man agers for a policy tending to draw trade from instead of to lhat city. Such’a policy should only he asked if each city were equally interested in its construction, and it the ci izxns t.f Montgomery will now come forward and pay for one-half the investment that, has been made lor build ing tho Mobile atul Girard K .a.l, 1 will ad vocate and believe it will be conceded that the tw'O cities shall have equal privileges in every particular. I also understand that there is some complaint as to the charges on the West ern Road since the purchase of the Mont gomery and West I’dint Road, made by the Western Railroad Company, and as our Company, with the Georgia Railroad may lie held responsible for the policy of the Western Road, I desire to say, in an swer to those that think your "tariff un reasonable, that, it is my opinion, and I pledge my support to the proposition, that it any responsible party will pay back to the two lines—that is, the Georgia and Central Railroads—the money they leave actually paid out, with interest on it at seven per cent from the date of payment, and assume the responsibilities of the two Companies, ou account of the Western and Montgomery and West Point Roads, then the whole of our interest shall he trans ferred, and, consequently, the entire man • agemeut and control pass from us. Wo have no desire or w ish to oppress, or charge exorbitant rates, but we do leel that there is an absolute necessity to charge rates that will maintain tlie road and pay the interest on its dent, which, even now, is not equal per mile to new roads that are being built at the present time in your State. ery respectfully, your ohed’t serv’t, W.u. M. Widi.by, President. A K -mark stoic Feat. THE GREAT SIXTY MILE RACE AT SAN AN TONIO, TEXAS From the San Antonio Herald, October "0. Some two months rincc, the Atricultu ral Stock Raising and Industrial Assccia t on of Western Texas, demioilcd at San Antonio, inset ted the following advertise ment in their city papers: “A SIXTY MILE RACE—S7S PREMIUM. “The Agricultural, Stock Raising and Industrial Association of Western Texas offer a special premium of SSO to tbe fust and $25 to the second winner in a sixty mile race around their track at San I’cdro Springs, provided 'ha. the distance is made in three hours. None hut Texas raised horses and Texas mt.de saddles to he used. No limit as to number. Tl>c race to come off during the holdirg cf the fair, from the sth to the Bth of October nex'. For further information, address ‘Agricultural Association,’ box 151, Post-office, San An tonio.” This announcement caused some little talk on the subject, but, tlic almost univer sal opinion ol she pent la was that the race could not be won by Texas raised hon es in that time. Up to th* mcming of the day not a single entry had been made, and the w"rcin il ’spair. However, before 1 o’clock, Neil Coker appeared upon the ground with twelve cow-pot,ic?, and de clared it his intention to contest for the prize. Neil Coker was born and raised in Bexar county, is twenty-two years ot age, weighs somewhera between 125 and 130 pounds, is a likely, active young man, a fair tyre of our stock raising community. We examined tbe horses and found them very common indeed, but as no one believed he could win the race', no one was willing to loan him a good !>cr‘ C, and of the eleven and one mu los which he had, it is safe to snj’ that not over three had eaten a mouthful of corn in their lives. The track ts only a half mile, is entirely new, a hog hollow prairie, badly ploughed and but slightly harrowed, with no attempt at fi ling up the holes or I volinp down the hills. The track is ova! in shape, with four sharp curves, whiclt makes it difficult to bring an untrained horse around the corners. With ail these difficuhies and the kind of stock, at the tan cf the bell, promptly on time, young Cukor mounted his first pony and applied his first dose of “Texas squirt.” Tha first four horses lie only ran a half mile each and made his changes in from five to seven second®. The fifth horse, a noble gracs-rai-od animal, belong ing to 1. P. Simpson, Etq., of this city, carried him one mile in two minutes and ten seconds. This was excellent t’r-ie, but hi was so hard to take up that j ; assed the stand fully five yards, costing the rider a good deal of needed strength and fifteen seconds of good time. Nothing special occurred up to the eighth, when an ungovernable mm,la g flew tho track altcgctler nnd made a circuit down through the woods. Meeting the San Pedro irrigating canal, he turned back through the airi cultural department, leap. and an cight -horse power threshing machine, and, finally despairing of makiri; his escape, triea his “Itvel best” to pitch y< ucg Coker over Lia head. By this time, his attend ants reached him with another horse; he got back into the track and preceded on hi* way. About the thirteenth mile, another horse broke on the other side of the track and oame very near jumping a stone well. He was finally brought to a full stop, but considerable time was lost. With all these mishaps, at the end oi‘ thirty miles young Coker was two minutes ar.ead of time. The marshal, General Yourg, made his announcement in a voice that could be hoard for half a mile around. The crowd now began to get excited, and a universal shout went up for more and better horses. Men who ha-i refused the use of their horses, and scoffed at the possioi’ity of such a race, began to be lieve he would make the trip. General Knox. Captain Story, William H. Jack son, President of the Association, and I pr :sume at least fifty others, exerted them selves in procuring better horse*. Captain William H. Elliot brought ir Lis splendid blank stallion, that made his mile in a little over two minutes. Mr. A. Oliver and Mr. McLean stripped the harness from their horses and brought them in. By this time the excitement was so great that every horse on the grourd, r.o matter what his value, was at, the service of tho young and gallant rider. Gentlemen with gold-headed cane.®, kid gloves and fine ljncn, would strip their horses, and, bring ing them in, scream at the lop cf their voiee®, ’ Put him through if you kill him.” From this lime on, young (.Veer's for tune smiled upon him. It. was now evident to all that without an accident lie would win the race, and every man, woman and child on the ground was wrought Bp to tlie high est pitch of excitement. Sedate old judges lust their dignity, and hurrahed at the top of their voices; the ladies waved their handkerchiefs, children screamed, and young Coker gained on his time every round. Finally, tlie marshal tapped tho bell, as the last mile was made, and an nounced “sixty miles in two hours and fifty-three minutes.” At this, young Coker exclaimed: “Lot me give them another mile for good measure,” and with au eye as dear as an eagle’s, and limbs as lilbe as a mountain doe’s, he mounted a fresh horse and made Lis sixty-first and last mile in two minutes and fifteen sec onds. ■' It is safe to say there never was such a concourse of people, or such a scene in j western Texas. Men w.anted to carry j him around on their shoulders— wauled | to treat him—give him coffee, ice water j 'anything. Finally lie was taken up into I dhe judges’ stand, and introduced'6y the I marshal; and that the crowd might have i a chance to do something for him, aprom j inent banker of thi3 city pulled off' his hat and called out: “All who wish to do ! something for the young man, -here's a chance.” The lust we saw of him, his hat was well laden with gold and silver, which was given to Coker in addition to the pre mium of the association. *\Ye have since learned that young Coker rode seven miles and back tlie day atter the nee, for the purpose of returning a saddle borrowed for the occasion, and that he was all right in every respeer. Rea: his time and take his belt. State Hems. Savannah lice mil's are running on half time. ; _ The Thomaston and Bircesvillc Railroad is completed to wuhln eight miles of Barnesville. A family of Georgians who sought their fortunes in the Wc3t have returns 1 to their old home in Monroe. Albany is the prospective center of seven railroads. The Democracy of Monroe nominate i candidates for the Assembly aal county j officers on the 19. h iast. j A magnificent dressing gowo and a pair of slippers, exquisitely worked, of the finest material and subdued colors, has been presented to the Industrial Associa tion of Columbus with a request that tho same be forwarded to Hon. Alexander H. j Stephens, whose distinguished nublia ser vices and private virtues make hiia worthy : of all honor. ! _ The Democracy cf Atlanta held meetings ! iast night (Thursday) to nominate candi- I dates for Council in the several wards and to appoint a general committee to nomi nate a Mayor. Dr. 0 Keefe, Cols. Ezzard, Alexander and Hammond are spoken of in connection with the Mayoralty. The South front of Tatnall square, in Macon, has been decided upon as the loca tion for Mercer University. Six magnifi cent buildings will be ereeted immediately, to be followed by ethers in due time. Planters’ drafts and acceptances held in Macon, in the sum of $300,000, were promptly met. General Gordon delivers a lecture on Southern education and school book?, ip Atlanta, to night.
