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So we i'rekumc,
Under the frank oj' L H. Plats, M. C.,
to whom we make our acknowledments,
wc have received by mail a copy of “An
act to enforce the right of citizens of the
Doited States to vote in theseveral States of
this Uoiod, and for other purposes." The
wrapper of this Pub'. Doe. bears as a part
of its superscription, in plain legible chiro
graphy, t u e following significant notifica
tion : This Kill be strictly ivforced. Wc
are thankful for the infurmatioD. The
notification is as honest as the warning of
a rattle ■make. Uut wc had assumed ail
that the notification imports. The tele
graph had advised us that wo may oxpcct
Doited States troops to enforce the ballot
at the point.’ol the bayonet, and that the j
troops were on the way, doubtless wi .h
this design. Ah to that part of the Act to
bo enforced, comprehended in the signifi- ;
cant phrase, “and lor other purposes,"
why, by this we suppose that it is in- ;
tended that Undo Sam’s soldiers Bhail
see that the citizen shall not oolytx
ercise the right to vote, but shall exercise
it correctly according to—'he only instrut*.
tions a soldier can receive—instructions
Ir-jtn headquarters. But Mr. J. 11.
Platt’s, M‘ C.’s warning does not alarm
us. We of the South have been made
familiar with the process of maoaging the
ballot by the bayonet. Oar experience is
that of five years.. We have seen the
“free and independent” voters pressed
back from tho polls by the bayonet, and a
legislature purged by the rword, io accor
dance with instruction) from army head- !
quarters. The baypnet at the ballot box
is a familiar sight io our State g,vern- j
rnont, Republican in form, and tho sword j
and the epaulette Las become the right !
guide in legislation and laws.
When ,Shall the New Congr ss
Meet? ,
The general impression seems to be that \
at the next session bf Congress, which
begins tho first Monday in December, the
act compelling each new Congress to or
ganize ou t’. e 4th of March, instead of the
first M oiulay ia D comber, will be re- j
peale l. To re is a difficulty in the way
of tho proper organiz ition of tho House
of Representatives, from the fact that
several of the States do not hold elections
for Congress until early in the spring. Os
eourso these States arc unrepresented in
tho now House; that is, in case the or
ganization is effected on tho.4th of March
instead of the first Monday in December
following. Tho Philadelphia Press, one
of Forney’s “two papers, both daily” gives
this reason for the proposed action :
“There seems to be a general disposi
tion to repeal tho act of Congress which
provides for tho organization of the new
House of Representatives io mediately
a‘ter the afij lurutuent ot the old one. It
was passed to anticipate and corrcot some
of Andicw Johnson’s aggressions, and as
several States will have to vote in tho
spring omi autumn before the now House
is full the older order of things had hot
ter be restored.”
Tlie Digest of Wild Lands.
Tho following letter, which we find in
the Romo Commercial, from one of the
most influential citizens of Cherokee Geor
gia, which touches the character of the
Comptroller’s digest of Unreturned Wild
Lands, may stimulate closer examination-
It will be seen that land over twenty years
in cultivation is advertised as wild land:
Rome, Ga., Nov. Ifitb, 1870.
Mu. Madison Bell — Comptroller Gen
eral—Sir:—This morning I arn in receipt
of a supplement to tho Atlanta Constitu
tion headed “Wild Lands,” in which I find
the lands therein advertised to be sold for
taxes Under the head “Cherokee origi
nal county, Floyd present county,” “22<1
district, 3rd section,” Nos. 9, 10, 11. I
own them They are not wild, they have
been in cultivation over twenty years, and
by the tax collector’s statement of this
county the taxes had been paid until I
bought, and since, i know they have.
You have in tho 3rd district and
4th section a part of the same set
tlement advertised, to wit, Nos. 468,
>69,611, 612,613, all been paid for and
occupied t wenty years. I can give you tho
numbers of the balar.ee of tbe settlement,
all of which I would be glad you would
sell together, 28 in 22, 3, and in the 3 and
aud 4th, 540, 539. If the State ot Geor
gia, has taken all they can get from mo for
tuxes and now proposos to sell n;y lands,
let a.i administration be bad according to
law, though lam alive. I expect, and
have heard, that it would be best for my
wile and children, that I had a guardian, j
hut I did not kno v that tho Stato of Geor- j
gin alter having misappropriated ray sharo i
of the Western and Atlantic Railroad,
proposed now to steal my land. However, |
L could not expect other than somebody
wants “grease.” W. B. Tjshhune,
of Floyd oounty.
I'Lliii Talk.
The New York Evening Post is giving
tho President (its President) another sharp
talking to The editor asks :
Why is it that the Southern States,
where administration influence is very po
tent, have yet so unexpectedly turned
against the Republicans t Why is it that
in States like New York and Missouri, in
Congressional districts like these we have
mentioned, the administration candidates
are beaten <
If the editor of the]JPo»C would make
the tour of the South and form the ac
quaintance of the "Radical leaders, the
political representatives of tho President,
he would hardly ask such a question. The
Holdens, the Scotts, the Bullocks, the
Kirks, Blodgetts, Littlefields, Averys. and
Conants, affect to be the true and onlv
representatives of loyalty and Republican
ism, and so far make some show of having
the support of the Administration. If the
Post will refer to its own columns it will
find a satisfactory auswer to the interroga
tory in the enormous debts of North Car
olina. South Carolina,. Georgia, Florida.
Alabama aud Louisiana, swollen to im
mense magnitudes by fraud and plunder.
The Post then goes on to auswer the
questions with great plainness of speech—
thus:
’ It would seem that the people are not
so well path tied as the politicians—whose
business R is to fl.tter the President —
have assert*-!. Tue people want some
thing more done than the administration
is doing.
They want the taxes lowered; they
want the tax system rearranged ; they
want to see industry reviving ; they are
disgusted at Goo. Grant’s subserviency to
notorious hack politicians, monopolists,
and political traders of all kinds ; they see
with jealousy bis open interference in
elections at the dictation ot these persons ;
and with disgust his support ot men no
toriously unfit for pubiie trusts. They
were promised a reform of the civil ser
vice. and they see the President dismiss
ing from his Cabinet the very men who
were friendly to that reform; they elected
Gen. Grant because he was independent
of the politicians, and welcomed his ac
cession to the Presidency because of his
public assurances that he would not suffer
the politicians to rule; and they are
bittorly disappointed at seeing him openly
complying with the demands of the very
class of political traders and managers
who have been the bane of the Republi
can party, and whose predominance makes
its greatest danger.
T4»c stockholders of the Camilla and
Cnthbert Railroad, at their meeting at
Newton en the 15th instant, choose Gen.
A. H. Colquitt as President, and A. L.
llawes as Secretary and Treasurer.
W. S. Bassinger, Esq-, has been electel
a member of council in Savannah, vice Al
derman Casey, resigned.
“The Healthy Chang 2.”
The Cincinnati Commercial marks “a
i heal by change” in Georgia when Senator
: Cameron and Secretary Delano “visit the
State to take part in the canvass.” Both
I of these gentlemtfil visited our city and
are, wc behave, now in Macon. As yet
I we have no public utterance from them.
i They were visited a3 private gentleman,
j bat so far as we ha7e heard made but a
1 single reference t o the canvass—and that
; was that they did not like the issue as
made up. We suppose this reference to
j mean that Bollock Blodgett & Cos., had
i too heavy a record against them, to pre
| sent a favorable prospect fjr success before
i the people. Old politicians never go into
Ia fight where all the argument, fortified
by the official Radical records, is in favor
j of their antagonist*. Where the outrages
I have been so criminal and so glaring in
! the administration as they have been in
i the State of Georgia, invoking |even the
! condemnation of the influential and in
telligent of the party in power, there
is no field iaviting~the labor even of a po
litical missionary. To defend Republican
ism in Georgia is to defend Blodgett, Bul
lock A Co.’s nefarious acts—a task too
Herculean for even these old and tried po
litical stagers.
I’lie Tariff and file Organization
of the Next Congress.
I The present Congress will terminate on
the fourth of March next, and under (he
present law the 42i Congress will assemb'c
immediately upon the adjournment of the
41gt. An ingenious plan has been fixed
upon to delay the threatened coalition be
tween the Democrats and revenue-reform
Republicans, and prevent the possibility of
their overhauling the tariff bill. r plan
is to repeal the law organizing the new
Congress on March 4th, and by that means
to delay its meeting till the first Monday
in December, 1871. The advantage the
Radicals expect to gain in this proceeding
will be contingent entirely upon the result
of the elections to be held next fall. They
( hope to overcome the gains of the Demo
j craey in the different States, and to.realize
i a gain of votes among the Congressmen
J who are certaio, without being checked, to
j give their votes to the Conservative side
; of the tariff question ; that result to be
the moral eflcct of Republican victory.
; It is admitted that this will be a hazardous
I (C3t of doubtful Republican Congressmen,
as it will either awe them into the party
lines or force them into a Conservatism
bordering on Democracy. If the Repub
licans should happen to lose Indiana and
Illinois next fall, they would give up
further hope. With the chances of losing
Pennsylvania, too, at that time, their
iiopes are anything but brilliant. This
question, letter writers from Washington
affirm, is earnestly debated, and Congress
men on both sides are looking forward
with anxiety to a defection in P.epublican
ranks among members of the party in the
present House, as it is asserted that some
few of the Western and several Southern
representatives are expected to step out.,
emboldened by the result of the late elec
tions, which they consider an indorsement
of the Revenue Reform movement. With
a nucleus of this kind anew party, with a
Presidential candidate for 1812, is no
longer considered an improbability. It is
highly probable that the law organizing
the next Congress on the heels of this will
be repealed to carry out the Radical pro
gramme.
Tiie Conclusion of the Whole
Matter of Political Power.
Our New England brethren havj here
tofore availed themselves profitably of
their great love for humanitarian rights.
Possessing a sterile, bleak, inhospitable
land, they have, by dauntless energy and
wonderful cunning, contrivod so to wield
political power as to make the South fur
nish them she raw material which gave
the busy hum to industry, and at the same
timo to be her most profitable customer.
The West, by the same ingenuity, was made
to furnish the breadstuff's to fted her dense
population with a similar result, as to
profitable consumption for her shoes and
lawns and brown goods and notions. And
Now E igland blossomed as the rose, aud be
came tho type of American nationality.
Hitherto fortune has favored her. The
slaves that were captured and brought from
Afrioa by the enterprise of Salem, and Mar
blehead, and Newburyport, and Boston,
and sold as slaves to enable Southern plan
tatiras to supply New England wants,
brought gold for the African enterprise,
and returned cotton, sugar and molas
ses for New England manipulation- The
crime against nature and against Jeffer
son’s declaration for colonial independence
gave tho political power essential in na
tional economy according to New Eng
land’s ideas of progress and development.
“Slave power,” “slave owners,” “the
horrors of slavery,” all coming in trumpet
tones from the stump, the pulpit, the
press and the bir, re-echoed from Ply
mouth Rock to the Granite Hills cf New
Hampshire, and illustrated by heart
rending pictures of Topseys at the hearth
stones and Uncle Toms in the eabin, were
all sufficient to arouse pooulir sympathy
and to minister to New England profit,
despite tho fact of the origin of slavery, of
tho continued and the careful and con
scientious guards ot Southern legislation
and Southern desire.
This agitation brought out and main
tained political pewer, and with it New .
England thrift and prosperity. The cul
mination of this agitation is known of the
world. Its results have been duly pro- J
claimed. But with these results comes a
Dew era. The slave is made free. But j
the samo act that struck off the shackles of
negro slavery destroyed the bonds that i
fettered the white trilutarie?. Hereafter, in !
all questions of national discussion, there
will he neither t3unt, nor lash, normenaee>
nor threats to be whirled aloft over South
ern action. The rich political mine cf vi
tuperation and scorn can no longer be |
brooked by the politician for New England j
protection.
The majority must rule is the political
maxim which must govern natural policy- ’
As are tho viows and the wants of that
uisjirity, so will the policy be. Even the
slave who first owed his slavery to the en
terprise of New England and Old England,
and his enfranchisement to the same cu
pidity. will not be slow to act upon a doc
trine sanotified by so high authority. And
his wants and his desires have little in
common with tho close confinemsnt and
rigid eoonomy of factory discipline. His
wants are the wants of such as follow a long
and hazardous field culture—the highest
price for the products of his labors, and
| the lowest price for the supplies for the
farm.
Bat this is not ali. The West has pass
ed the age of paberty. It will no longer be
possible for New England capita! to control 1
the demands of western interests by ques
tions cither of sentiment or of prospec
tive advaDtags. The west has actual
interests, strong enough to assert their
rights, and power enough to demand their
enforcement —properly enough under the
New England doctrine “that the majority
must rule"-without regard to the rights
and interests of a minority. It is this
1 power that is foreshadowed bz the incom
plete census returns for IS7O. Mr. Bout
well was candid enough to tell his New
England constituency this mueh dimly
: and diplomatically it is true, but neverthe
less with a candor sufficient to command
attention. And now comes the New York
Herald with its bold, blunt and assured
emphasis, with the conclusion of the whole
matter after a careful revision of the drift
of population as prefigured by the returns
of United States census marshals. The
Herald says: • '*
“In the decade before us all the South
ern States, more or less, will gain prodi
giously in population and wealth, because
of their cheap lands and mineral resources
and fine soil and genial climate. Mean
time, excepting our great cities, the gene
ral drift of population has been to the
Northwest and the new States and Terri
tories thence to the Pacific; and under
the next Presidency, if not before, that
section of the Union will take from New
England and Pennsylvania the balance of
power, and will hold it in both Houses of
Congress, on the tariff and all the finan
cial questions affecting the general interests
of the Union.”
We demur to but a single point in the
Heralds summing up. There will be “do
balance of power.” The interests of the
West, and the interests of the South,
“niggers” and “poor white trash” and
“rebels” and all are identical, and neither
school system, nor missionary enterprise,
nor church government, nor heights, noj
depths, nor things passed, nor things to
come, will, change the result—each and
both and all want cheaper goods and less
taxes.
Tlte New Georgia Bonds.
We invite the attention of our readers
to the letter from New York to be found
in another column. It will be seen that
his Provisional Excellency has failed to
| negotiate his new seven per cents, and
that he found Wall street quite as well
. posted as to Georgia finances as he himself
assumes to be. It will be' inferred that
the utmost of his Provisional Excellency’s
I efforts lias only succeeded iu effecting a
; temporary loan upon pledging Ms four
millions of bonds, even if lie has accom
| plished this much, which seems doubtful.
Reconstruction bonds seem to be as com
mon as June whortleberries in the New
York market. Tennessee’s and North
Carolina’s seem to have absorbed the con
fidence and the surplus of Wall street.
Even Alabama’s have become a drug.
| Bullock has been too slow in putting his
j schemes upon the market. Ilis Radical
confreres in other States have thoroughly
I tested the credulity of Wall street, and
Holden’s fiasco makes money lenders cau
tious and bond brokers timorous.
The most astonishing fact, however, is
J that his “Provisional Excellency is about
to mend his financial condition by calling
! the Legislature together in January, be
cause of unfinished business and because
the next Legislature will not meet before
next fall. This, we are sure, must he a mis
take. The new Legislature will have been
elected, and we can hardly think his Pro
visional Excellency would have cheek
enough for such aa act. It is true that the
Provisional Legislature has only been pro
rogued by his Exoellenoy—and only in
part—the Senatorial Committee of Safety
being still in session. Io theory also, we
presume that the present Legislators hold
over by their own act until next fall,
when their successors take their seats.
It is quite possible that both his Pro
visional Excellency and the Provisional
Legislature may have contemplated just
such an unorgency as would again require
tho exercise of their Wonderful powers for
legislating for development. The Legis
lature by its own act have attempted to
nullify the Constitution, and His Pro
visional Excellency has never permitted the
Provisional legislatuio to adjourn, but
prorogued one branch of it. But how
the re-assembling of the Legislature
which, with nine dollars per day to each
member, will probably set from January to
November, on the impeachment of the
Treasurer for desiring to conform to the
requirements of the law, is to help the
credit of the Stato, passes our apprehen
sion. We suppose “the Governor” has
some object for the good of the financial
credit of the State in view, not visible to
our ken, which is to be attained by stir
ring up the financial matters of his admin
isiratiou. Probably the impeachment
and ejection from office of Treasurer An
gier will cause the New Sevens to rise in
value in Wall Street; but applying the old
adage to Ms case, for stirring, Hie result
would certainly seem to be otherwise.
The ( olored Population.
The following statement is given appa
rently as official, to exhibit a comparison
of tho census of the colured population in
1860 and 1870.
1860. 1870.
Ninety-fivo counties of
Geoigis 330 829 393,165
Delaware . 21,627 22,220
Kentucky, thirteen coun
ties 13,388 12 513
Maryland, one county 0,4E0 5,534
Texas, twenty-one 0unte5.21,425 27,756
Virginia, fifty-two coun
ties 272,086 258,052
West Virginia, fourteen
counties 1,776 1,347
South Carolina, one coun
ty 18,292 13,365
Districtof Columbia 10,998 35,426
Total of 200 counties and
tbe Distri -t of Columbia69o ( 9o6 769,378
The gain of the oolored population smee
1860 is set down, so far as heard from, at
nearly eleven per cent. We are at a less
to discover the object of putting forward
this imperfect statement, unless it be to
cover soma foregone conclusion. It looks
very muoli as if there was a desire to fore
stall public opinion as to the final result. —
The result as to Georgia is most astonish
ing. With all the fuss and furor made
about Ku-Klux and bloody murders of the
loyal, the census men, unwittingly no
doubt, makes the increase in the last ten
years nearly twenty per cent. Now, while
this statement is a very effective answer to
Radical representations, by the press and
: before Congressional it is a
' little too strong for our; credulity.
It is well known that the Freedmen’s
Bureau transported thousands and tens of
thousands of freedmen to the West, to
which Georgia gave her proportionate
share. We can name counties that were
nearly depopulated. We doubt if the im
migration from Virginia, North Carolina,
and more than all, from South Carolina,
has alone more than compensated for this
loss by Government interference. Again,
we distrust this pretended gain in Georgia,
from the fact that in one authenticated
instance at least—in Mclntosh county—the
Radical census taker so outstripped in his
registration the calculations of his supe
rior as to invoke investigation, which sub
sequently lead to his arrest for fraud in
office. In this instance it would appear j
that the official diinot fear to err in over- i
much zeal—probably thinking the greater j
amount of ilie colored population exhibited
the greater the satisfaction with which
his labors would be received and paid fcr.
We have not the slightest objection to
the statement, if it be honest, because it
! is an irrefutable argument against the Ku-
Klux outrages which trouble so much our
• “loyal” enemies. Again it is an evidence
of the demand for labor and consequently
thrift. But we fear that the only reliance
! that can he placed in the statement is that
! our loyal Radicals will use it to show that
: intimidation caused unfavorable result in
the impending election. The vote shoold
j equal the census returns.
Banner op the South and Planters’
Journal.—The Banner of the South,
heretofore edited by Father Ryan, is now
j published by the Chronicle Publishing
Company, Augusta, Ga., under the fore
going title, with Henry Moore, A. R.
I Wright and Patrick Walsh as editors. The
Roman Catholic features ot the Banner
no longer belong to it, but the new paper
. is devoted to agriculture, horticulture,
; news, memories of the “Lost Cause,”
literature, scieuoe and art. Price $3 00
i per year in advance.— LaGrange (Ga.)
j Reporter.
AUGUSTS, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7. 1870
Letter from Columbia, S, C.
Columbia, November 23, 1870.
i Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
\ As the mind wanders back to a period a
; bttle less than six years ago, when Colum
-1 bia was standing in all its pristine glory,
what mon.oriea crowd upon the mind,
what mingled feelings of pride and sorrow
do we feel.* At that time the remnant of
Johnston’s army was /ailing back before
Sherman's bummers. Tin last of the-
Confederate infantry had bid farewell to
Columbia, and] oniy Hampton was left in
the city with two squadrons of Cobb’s
Georgia Cavalry; as the skirmishing rear
| guard, while the army slowly wended its
way toward North Carolina, where it was
to make a final, last stand. Sherman laid
his. pontoons across the Congaree. His
men, or soldiers so-called, crossed and be
gan to. swarm over the whole city—that
city which bis palm and the palm3 of the’
whole Yankee nation had been itching to
grasp for four long years, and still Hamp
ton held on, with his small body-guard
drawn up in the centre of the place, as
though he fain would share the fate
of his beloved city. The Federals
were marohhg up almost every
j street and surrounded him. At last duty
compelled him to relinquish the only lin
gering hope, and leave one of the most
beautiful cities in the South to the mercy
of the hordes of invading incendiaries,
lead by the “immortal” Sherman. But
four and almost five o’clock found the
brave Hampton there. Now we must go,
darkness is coining on; a few miles are
traversed; a glance back, and then—a
scene, such as we shall never forget, burst
upon our view. Almost in a moment’s
time a whole city is breaking into flames.
Old men, more than three score and ten
years, women and children, invalids, all,
in a few hours rendered homeless,.house
less, losing treasures, clothing, everything;
a dark, blank, starving future, staring
them in the face. It is too much, even
now, to look back to that black page of
history as we stand to day looking at the
place where we last stood six years ago
and contemplated what was to follow, far
surpassing all we even dreamed of, when
we fain would have given our lives to save
our friends? Who can say that Hampton
caused all this desolation? Who can
even intimate that he ordered the torch
to be applied—who but the man who
would wish to shield himself from
the .odium of the act? We- who
were the last, as far as we knew then or
now, to leave the city, know that no order
had been given to fire anything. Nothing
was on fire until we had travelled some
miles, and no Confederates were there
then to inaugurate tho destruction on that
fatal 17th of February, 1865. Now, after
the lapse of six years, the place cannot bo
recognized, so wholesale had been the de
struction —not equalled hardly in any
other city except A’lanta or Richmond.
Although buildings have been going up
ever since, still there are whole blocks
piled with asbes and other remains ol tbs
once fine buildings that stood there, and
there is hardly any other blocks but show
“burnt lots,” remaining signs of that dark
time.
The new buildings are all, with few ex
ceptions, one and two story. Churches,
once proud of their beauty, are now re
placed by wooden structures, beside the
bare walls and charred remnants of their
former glory, still stand as monuments to
supreme incendiarism.
The business of the city does not ap
proach the activity and amount of what
it was previous to the war. It is remark
ably dull in that regard, and business
houses are much fewer. The incubus
resting upon this people has served as a
mill-stons to keep them down. The spirit
and enterprise of the r ftge, of which the
said "incubus” boasts so much, finds no
room in this section of our “glorious pro
gressive” country. The people seem to
feel that there is no hope for improvement
and recovery from their oast disasters
until this curse of Radical negro misrule is
thrown completely off and the rightful
owners of the propuitv ana the real rulers
or sovereigns of the State once more take
hold and govern for themselves, There is
some despondency apparent, but despair is
not yet written on the lace of South Caro
lina.
The mongrel concern, yclept the Legis
lature, assembled this morning and or
ganized at 12 m., and went into the elec
tion of officers. The complexion of the
House is remaikably dark, more than
two-thirds being negroes and the majority
of them full-blooded. The Senate has
more than a majority of whites, but they
are nearly all of the negro persuasion,
leaving but a handful of Reformers in
either House, and as for tbe hope of tbeir
doing any good to the white race of tbe
State, they might as well be anywhere
else, as the elections of Speaker, Door
keepers, etc., wore carried almost unani
mously by the negro element. F. J. Moses,
son of Chiet Justice Moses, was elected
Speaker of tho House, and in aceepting
the position thanked the “gentlemen” for
the honor. In his remarks he adverted
to the sorrow which was mingled with the.
joy of knowing tha; the party of progress
had made South Carolina “happy and
free”—the sorrow that was engendered by
the events which happened in Laurens and
Newberry counties, and the “harrowing”
thought of never meeting again those
noble friends of humanity and free thought
who had lost their lives in the campaign,
which gave them the State of “free and en
lightened” South Carolina. Turning to
the Reform side, he hoped that they
would vie with the other side in doing
good for the State, and they (the nigger
parly) would let bygones be bygones.
The Speaker is comparatively a youDg
man. hardly thirty years old, and has a
good flaw of language, with something of a
muscial voice. He appears to bo very
intelligent. His little speech was altogether
political and laudatory ot the Radical
party—rather an out of the way place to
crow over political victories bvfraud, I
think considerably inappropriate.
The State House where the Assembly is
in session is yet unfinished, after the lapse
of so many years since it was commenced ,
hat work is stil! going on,' and when com
pleted it will make a most substantial and
handsome structure. It is built entirely
of stone, and the present fitting up of tho
balls and offices give an idea of whas a
handsome and convenient place it will be
in the eod. The U. S. flig and the Pal
metto banner float irom separate staffs
over the cupola.
Four Railroads center here, with branch
es to Spartanburg, Union, Camden, Naq
over which there is considerable through
and way travel The hotels, of which, by
the way, the Columbia is one of the best,
are very full, consequent upon the open
ing of the Legislature. There are very
many Northerners at present here also.- —
The Columbia Hotel, UDder the surerior
management of William Gorman, Esq -, as
proprietor, a!ly assisted by Mr, James
Budds, formerly of the Charleston Mercu
ry, and favorably known through the
ritate, has becom" veiy popular, as is at
tested by 'the daily arrivals, the register
showing thirty cr forty each day this sea
son. It is one ot tbe finest buildings iu
the city-
The Superintendent of the Greenville j
and Columbia Railroad, Mr. 11. Moore, !
wi:h a superior corps of hands, since the
recent accident, is examining all the trus
ties on the road, with a view of repairing ,
them and making them secure. At pres- j
eat great care is taken not to run fast un- ,
j til the examination is complete, conse
i quently their trains are every day behind
j time. In speaking of Railroads, your
correspondent would suggest to the man
agement of the Charlotte, Co'umbia A
Augusta R R. to revise their published
schedule—as in some places the Northern
train is advertised to leave Augusta at
5:40 A. M., and in others at 6 A. M , ia
consequence cf which considerable incon
venience ensues to passengers.
Mr. John E. Marley, who was so well
known as the efficient Agent of the South
Carolina Railroad in Augusta for more
than twenty years past, is now occupying
that position in Columbia. Mr. W. B. Brit
ton, formerly of the Aneusta office, is also
located here with Mr. M.
Jennings.
Colonel J. C. Fain, Democratic nominee
for the next House of Representatives, in
Gordon county, has presented each of the
five denominations, in Calhoun, with fifty
dollars to be used for church purposes.
' Col. Henry S. Fitch has the inside traok
!of all other aspirants for the District
| Judgeship, in the Ist Senatorial District
Dr E. F. Colsey, .Davenport P. lE’lis,
Dr. John E. Bacon and S. 1». Cleghorn
are candidates for Mayor in Columbns.
Valdosta has an educated hog - amed
Wicked Bill.
Mr. John Bickers, one of the oldest
citizens of Greene county, died cn Monday
morning last, aged about eighty-five years.
Coirespondence.
Waynesboro, Nov. 29th, 1870.
Editors Chronicle «£ Sentinel:
An amusing event occurred in court
1 here to-day. During the setting of the
: court last week the notorious creature
I called Kirk, who has been figuring with
the Blodgett negroes for office for the past
eighteen months, applied for admission
ito the Bar. The respectable members of
the Waynesboro Bar were not asked to
certify as to his character, but a man living
, in the lower part of the county, who, in an
] evil hour for the profession, was admitted
1 to the Bar many years since, but who has
never practiced in the courts except in
defending suits against himself, signed,
with Dr. Yillard, a citizen of the county,
the certificate for Kirk
The members cf the local bar addressed
a communication to Judge Gibson, in which
they stated that Kjrk’s associations since
he had been in the county (he is by-ihe-by
a South Cirolinqn, who moved here
about the close of the war) were not those
of a gentleman, and that he was not so
regarded by the respectable people ot the
community. They also referred to the
fact that it was unusual for an application
.to be made for admission which was noi
endorsed by respectable members of the
Bar, and they, therefore, protested against
his admission. This >aper was, I learn,
also signed by all cf the Bar practising
here from other counties.
On yesterday morling Judge Gibson
arnounced that Kirk bad applied for ad
mission, and read an order directing his
examination to take place this morning
in open court. John 1 Shesvtuake, John
J. Jones and Jno. D Ashton, Esqs., with
the Solicitor General, were appointed the
examining committee.
This morning, upon the opening of
court, Kirk made his appeuraued, beari.Dg
on his face the most ctnfidGnt assurance
that be would walk through all right. He
was finely and fashionably gotten up for
the occasion—sported a fancy.
Taking his seat, witi great confidence
and bravado, he announced himself ready
for the trifling ordeal. Shewmake, with
his usual quiet, winning mannei, opened I
as follow?:
Mr. Kirk: “Can yiutellme what is
meant by ‘pleadings ?’ ”
To this Kirk, alter a little hesitation,
answered that he coull not tell. Then
turning to the Julge, he said : “I do not
expect to practice in this State, and conse
quently have not prepared myself on this
branch of the law.”
Mr. Shewmake, resuming : “How many
sorts of pleas are there ?”
Kirk ; “I can’t say.”
ohewmake : “Whatis evidence ?”
Kirk : “I can’t say. I have not pre
pared myself on this branch of the law. A
lawyer told me that it was not necessary to
study these subjects—that in the practice
here a knowledge of pieadmgand evidence
was not necessary. I object to being ques
tioned on these branches of the law.”
Shewmake: “What i3 testimony ?”
Kirk : “Can’t say.”
Shewmaxe: “What are some of the
different kinds of Lstimony ?”
Kirk; “I can’t say.”
Shewmake: “May it please your Honor,
I was in the arrangement for this examina
tion assigned the branches of pleading
and evidence. I have asked Mr. Kirk the
genera! leading questions on these sub
jects—precisely the same I put to » candi
date fir admission last week, Mr. Kenne
brum, and as yet he has failed to answer
one of them. lam satisfied th3t it is use
less to press the examination further on
these questions. If,, however, Mr. Kirk
desires it, and your Honor so directs, I
have no obj ctioo to pressing the investi
gation upon such subjects as Mr.. Kirk
shall designate. lam obliged to cay, how
ever, that I: cannot recommend him as
qualified for admission to practice in our
courts.”
Kirk; “Under the circumstances I pre
fer not to go any further in the examina
tion*’
And thus the farce ended and the bar of
this county and district are saved the
mortification and dishonor of having such
a creature as Kirk among its members.
It is fortunate also for the Degrees that this
contcmptablo wre‘ch was rejected. It he
had been admitted he would have stirred
up many suits between the races, in all of
which, through his ignorance and incompo
tency.the negroes would have been worsted.
He would onl - have harrassed the whites
—he would have severely injured the
blacks.
I am glad to state that your information
in regard to the killing of Daniel Palmer
on last Saturday night is incorrect.
Palmer was alive yesterday at noon, so a
respectable citizen of the county inlorms
me.
The court here will probably adjourn on
Thursday evening. The criminal docket
will be called to-morrow. Visitor.
Lejtcr from Now YorK.
Bullock Jails to sell his New Bonds —
Wall Street will not taka them.—The
Legislature to be called together again
in January—Angier to be Impeached.
New York, November 26, 1870. •
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
I thick you for the desired informa
tioc, and also for the kind allusions to our
House, and for the ex’racts from the At
lanta Constitution. There would be no
difficulty in placing State Bonds or bonds
of well looated railroad enterprises, en
dorsed by the State, in moderate amounts,
at a reasonable figure, upon one
condition, and that is, that the peo
pie of the State shall be proportion
ately identified in interest. Public con
fidence in Georgia thrift and energy is
very firm; and I may add, from persoral
knowledge acquired in early life (for I
commenced life in Georgia, in your city
and later at Macon) is well grounded.
Again: the wonderful recuperation of
Georgia since the close of the war has
opened the eyes of the public to her won
derful resources—as yet scarcely touched
and to t.he degree of prosperity which
she will attain in future. These
views receive careful consideration by
those who desire to invest ; and
of course are noted by Bankers and
bond brt kers. Your people may rest as
sured that Wall Street is as well posted as
to the liabilities and resources of your
State as any of your citizens, and scan
closely both the character of State Legis- !
lature and the requirements of law. As
an instance of public confidence in your
State credits, I could give the names of
three or four New England Savings Banks,
who hold as investments no inconsiderable
amounts of Georgia ‘‘old sixes.” At the
satno time, I should be unoandid did I not
state that your late Legislature has awaken
ed ereat distrust.
Your Governor is now here, or at least
was here day before yesterday, and finds
some difficulty in effee:ing a negotiation of
bis new seven per cents. Bankers
and capitalists will not touch these bonds
because the demands of the law have not
been complied with. He alleges that all
that is said about these- bonds has been
said by the]dtate Treasurer, who is striving*
through personal animosity as well as for
. political purposes, to cripple him by dam
aging the credit of the State; but k ap
| pears to mo that the extract from your
Code which you seat me is so very plain
that he cannot disregard it, and in all
i events it must be complied with before he
i can do more than effect a moderate loan
upon them as collaterals, if he can do this
much as I doubt. Some of our first ban
j kers who desire to go into these bonds will
send a responsible party out to Atlanta to
| investigate more closely the status of
j affairs before they venture. The sue
j "icioi is that this is another North
! Carolina affair, promising similar results.
: The Governor says that it will be neces
j sary to call the Legislature together in
January to perfect- some unfinished mat
! ters, as the new Legislature cannot meet
j before next fall. Is this so ? He says also
that at that time he will have some sug
gested alterations in the authority granted
i by the act passed, and shall insist that
i your Legislature free him from the Treas
urer’s malicious influence, which is so
damaging to the State. Be this as it may,
there are too many Southern bonds on
the market. Tennessee’s and Alabama’s
: are as plentiful as autumn leaves; and it
I looks as if Georgia’s promise like abuu-
I dance. I would that yon were without
1 “these bonds.” 0.
A good miny weddings are in prospec
i cive at Calhoun.
Cato Ellison shot Sam Williams, at
! Valdosta, a few days ago. Both were
j colored and had been gambling.
Connty Candidates for the Legislature.
Editors Chronicle it- Sentinel :
In selecting candidates for the Legisla
ture, it would probably be well to return to
, the old custom of nominating a represent*-
| tivo from the country portion of the coun
ty. Agriculture is more than ever the
pursuit ot our people, and it, above all
others, needs our fostering care. Under
the present election laws, as passed by the
black and white thieves and scoundrels,
who have been rioting in plunder and op
j pression for two years past, a country
candidate, as a measure [cf policy, is net
so essential as, I trust, it may be here
after—no election being held out of the
city.
Should the matter be thought worthy
of consideration, there will bo no lack of
good-men to fill the place. Without can
vassing any portion of the county beyond
my own neighborhood, three occur to n;y
j mind, either ot whom will do credit to the
position, viz : Lewis R. Collins, an ex
j cellent mechanic, a first rate farmer, a
I man of great energy and enterprise, p’er
; iectly familiar with the farmers’ interests,
and, lrom loDg service as county magis
trate, well acquainted with our statute
law; Capt. W. 11. Dickinson,' a gentle
man of good eduearicn, a practical farmer,
and whose record as asr idier is the best
evidence of his faithful discharge of any
duties which may be assigned him.
Walter A- Clark—a graduate (with
honors) o Emory College— a young man
of most unexceptionable character and fiao
intellect, a practical farmer, and whose
record as a soldier is probably second to
none in the' Confederate army of its raDk
and file.
I mention these, not in disparagement
of others, but simply because as neigh
bors I know them to be well fitted in all
respects to discharge the duties of faithful
and conscientious representatives of the
people. Ido not know that either would
accept the office. If it were accepted, 1
know that it would be only from a sense of
duty. . I have never .exchanged a word
with either of the gentlemen on the sub
ject. A Voter,
Telegraphic Summary.
New York, November 28.— A Tri
bune special from Berlin says : At the
outbreak of the present war.Gortschotf had
several interviews with King William and
Bismarok as to the object of the neutrality
of Russia. Gortechakoff demanded the ac
quiescence of Prussia to the abolition of
that part of the treaty which forbid a
Russian fleet in the Black sea. Bismarck
accepted the proposition. This enabled
PitS.ria to withdraw two corp3 .Lorn the
Russian frontier. Gortschakoff,]in.additioo,
was pledged to keep Austria from inter
fering.
London, 2:30 p. m. —The following has
just been received:
Tours, November 28. —A battle oc
curred yesterday between Villers and
near Amiens, which lasted all
day. The French maintained their posi
tion up to haif-past four in the afternoon,
when tho town of Villers was abandoned
before the superior fences and artillery of
the Prussians. Th,- French were subse
quently bea f eo at Boves, a few miles west
of Villers, but at Dury maintained their
position until nightfall. Three thousand
Germans were engaged iu tbe conflict at
the latter place.
London, November 28, 4 p. m, —De-
tails of an engagement between the Prus
sians under Werder and the French under
Garidaldi, near Pasques, in the depart
ment of the Vosges, have been received,
dated Dijon yesterday afternoon. The
Garibaldians while on a march from
Pasques late Saturday afternoon suddenly
came upon the outposts of the Prussian
rifles, which they attacked with great im
petuosity. The Prussians were at first
compelled to fall back, but reinforcements
coming uo the Garibaldians were in turn
repulsed in great disorder, the soldiers
throwing away their armo and kDapsacks
in .the flight. The next day (Sunday)
Werder took a circuit around Piombieres
and in this way overtook the French rear
guard. Another engagement then occur
red, in which the French lost 350 killed
and wounded and the Prussians only 50-
It is said that, Menotti Garibaldi had 2,000
men under his command in this engage
ment.
By the capitulation of La Fere seventy
cannon of all sorts fell into the hands of
the Prussians.
London, November 28.—While recoc
noitering ucar Orleans yesterday, the 10th
Prussian corps encountered the 20th
French co> ps of Palladme’s army. An
engagement occurred in which she French
were driver, from their strong position at
Mczeires, with heavy loss. Subsequently
several French companies attacked the
Prussian 10th corps, but were repulsed
with a loss of forty men and a French
General, taken prisoner. The Gorman
loss was trifling.
London, November 28, 5 p. rn.—The
French claim a great victory at Morcuil,
twelve miles south of Amiens, yesterday.
The battle lasted till darkness interfered.
The first German army, it is alleged, was
beaten and driven into its entrenchments
before Amiens. The French army of the
North was greater in numbers and better
armed. The losses were obscurely given
io thousands. The Prussian huzzar? rode
down and cut to pieces a regiment of ma
rine infantry. German loss severe.
Berlin, November 28.—Tho North
German Parliament has granted the ex
traordinary war credit demanded by the
Government, by a vote of 78 to 9. The
only opposition came from socialst and
Democratic members.
Debbauck has announced the ratifica
tion, by the Federal Council, of the union
of Wurtemburg with the Confederation.
He stated that the adhesion of Bavaria
would be considered Wednesday. Bavaria
retains an independent military jurisdic
tion under her King, but (he organization,
drill, equipment, etc., of her army are to
be modified to conform with tho Prussian
system.
London, November 28 —Tbe papers
contain a rumor that an attempt has been
made by a Bavarian soldier to shoot tbe
King of Prussia.
The publication of correspondence from
the seat of war by tho German newspaper?
isprohibited.
London, November 29-—After the ad
journment of the English Cabinet to
Wednesday, Granville visited the Queen.
Granville insists chat Russia must with
draw the noto before the Congress is as
sented to.
Granville demands the presence of
Frar.ce at any conference on the Eastern
question.
The Saltan is reported as dissatisfied
with the hesitancy of the allies against
Russia.
The royal headquarters have been moved
from Versailles to Meux. The seige guns
used at Thionville are going to Montmedy.
German successes around Amiens have
been confirmed by a dispatch from King
William, who, however, gives no particu-
I lar=.
Frederick Charles’ army has been
! strongly reinforced.
j Prussian movements indicate that their
I object is to turn Vendome and advance on
i Tours.
London, Novomber 29.—The Daily
Telegraph say3 that England and Austria
have firmly bu’ courteously denied Rus
-1 sia’s right to withdraw from the treaty,
and it is quite possible Russia may seek
an honorable retreat,
London, November 29.—Private French
I advices say that a great conflict between
the opposing forces, to ihe number of
I three hundred thousand men, is likely to
oocur immediately in the Southern depart
ment The Prussians are within twelve
miles of the French Provisional Govern
ment.
Troehu denies the truth of the statement
that he intends to baoish ten thousand
Parisians because of the scarcity of food.
London, November 29.— 1 tis officially
stated in the Telegraph that Russia has
decided to withdraw her demand and sub
mit it to a conference.
London, November 26, 3 p. m—The
foLowiog dispatch has just been received
here from Evcreux, the capital of the
Department cf the Eure, dated yesterday:
j The Prussians now occupy this town, and
j are in the valley of the Eare in great force.
' This evening they were driven toward the
village of Villers by the Garde Mobile,
who retreated in turn when reinforcements
I came up for the enemy. Seventy thousand
Prussians now oeeupy Amiens.
New York November 29.—A World
special from Tours Monday night, says the
expected decisive battle near Orleans has
not y,et occurred Numerous skirmishes
have taken place, all favorable to the
French. The Prussian losses in these en
gagements were heavy, including nine can
non.
The Duke of Mecklenburg failed iu his
attempt to occupy Le Maus, which was
covered by fifty thousand French, composed
0 f Fierch’s and Keratry’s troops. The
main body of D’Aurelle’s army still occu
: p-ies an entrenched position between Or
; leans and Athernay. The Germans at
tempted to ercircle him.
; Versailles, November 29.—The French
yesterday attacked the Germans at Banme,
between Monterges. and Pithiere. The
French were repulsed. Frederick Charles
was present and directed the operations.
One thousand French were captured.
Lille, November 29 —The retreat of
tbe army of the North from'Amiens was
u.ade in an orderly manner.
New York, Nov. 29.—The World's
London special states that a late dispatch
from Tours, dated 29th, says the right
wing of tbe French army made six simul
taneous attacks on the German left yester
day, and was successful in fivo of the
actions.
Berlin. November 29.—The King tel
egraphs the Queen from Versailles the
29th, that Manteuffel, with a portion of the
first army corps, defeated tbe Freneh on
Monday a few niilesjsouth of Amiens. The
French loss was one thousand killed and
wounded, and seven hundred prisoners.
The Prussian loss comparatively unimpor
tant.
London, November 30 —The following
dispatch, dated Versailles early this
morning, has been received, via Berlin :
Monday and Tuesday the forts around
Paris—particularly those towards the
South—maintained a furious cannonade to
cover a sortie in force. On Tuesday the
French came out towards L’ nay, support
ed by gunboats on the Seine, and attacked
fiercely the position held by the sixth
Prussian.corps. Other sorties were made
simultaneously in other directions, proba
bly with a view to prevent reinforcements
to the sixtli corps. In all cases, however,
the French were repulsed and driven be
hind their fortifications. The entire loss
of the Prussians in these actions were seven
officers and a few hundred men, while
the Freneh lost 1,600 in prisoners alone.
The Freneh were badly beaten at
Amiens. Their army was totally routed,
and fled toward Arras. Four French gun
boats were captured in this action. On
Monday the main body of tho Freneh at
tempted to force a passage to Fontainbleu,
by a heavy and general attack. They en
countered the tenth Prussian corps at
Beauoe, a little village in the department
of the Loire, twenty-six miles north of Or
leans The Prussians were quickly rein
forced with the sth infantry and first cav
alry divisions. The Frenoh onslaught was
repulsed with heavy lossiu killed, wound
ed and pri-oners—especially prisoners.
Failing in this attempt the army of tho
Loire withdrew.
FROM ALABAMA,
Montgomery, November 28.—Tne city
is still excited, and the wheels of the gov
ernment are entirely looked Smith and
Bingham still claim to bo Governor and
Treasurer, mnd retain possession of their
respective offices. Smith has obtained
from the commanding effioer hero troops,
and has them posted in front of the doors
of the Executive room and tae Treasurer’s
office.
This morning the Senate met, Demo
cratic - Lieutenant Governor Moren pre
siding. There is but one other Democratic
Senator, all Republicans having held over
for two years. The S mate immediately
adjourned until to-morrow.
The House adopted tbe following reso
lution:
Whereas, article 4, section 14, of the
Constitution of the United States guaran
ties to every State a republican form of
government, protects each ol them against
invasion, and, on application of the Legis
lature, or of the Executive when the Leg
islature cannot be convened, against do
mestic violence; and whereas, peace and
order dow prevail throughout the borders
of tho State ot Alabama; and whereas,
the military forces belonging to the army
of the United States have been quartered
withiD the capital of the State during the
present session of the General \ssembly,
without the knowledge or consent of the
Assembly; therefore,
Resolved, the Senate concurring, Tbat
a committee cf six, oonsisting of threo
from the Senate and three lrom the House,
be appointed to ascerfain, without delay,
upon whose application, by whose Older,
and for what purpose the said military
force [was quartered in this“capital, and
that the General Assembly desist from all
further proceedings until the report of
said committeo be received and acted
upon.
Only two Republicans voted against this
resolution.
Tho Board of Education has also sus
pended business for the present. Many
Republicans denounce the action of Gov
ernor Smith as a high-handed usurpation,
and a grand indignation meeting of all par l
ties opposed to the revolutionary proceed
ing wilt be held to-night, and be addressed
by many speakers who supported Smith in
the late election.
LATER.
Montgomery, November 28.—The
meeting to express indignation at the ac
tion of W. H. Smith and Arthur Bingham,
in attempting to prevent the installation of
their successors, is now in progress at [the
Capitol. Tho President of the meeting
voted for Smith for Governor at tbe late
election.
Montgomery, November 29. The
meeting last night to express indignation
at the course of Smith and Bingham in
refusing to vacate their offices, was very
largely attended. AH the speeches were
made by Republicans—the principal speak
er being Judge Morse, defeated Republican
candidate for Attorney General. Ho said the
election was a fair and peaceful one. He
had already turned over his office to his
successful Demoftratic competitor, and did
so because he was entitled to it. He de
nounced the act of looking the wheals of
the government as a high-handed usurpa
tion. Several Republican members of the
Legislature also spoke in condemnation of
Smith and Bingham.
Mr. Graham, a Republican member from
Perry county, offered a resolution, which
was adopted, expressing the indignation
and disapprobation of the people at the
• course taken by Smith and Bingham.
Montgomery, November 30.— Last night
Captain Drum, commanding the post here,
had the troops at the capital removed by
ass order from General Terry, commanding
this department.
Smith and Bingham have a sheriff’ ’s
| posse of negroes guarding the Executive
and Treasury rooms.
Nothing done in the Legislature tq day.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, November 27.—The Treas
ury will sell a million in gold eacli
Wednesday, and purchase a million bonds
each Thursday, during December.
Notic<’ is given that from aDd after the
31st of December no interest will be paid
upon three per cent certificate- of the de
nomination of five thousand, between the
numbers 1 and 247 inclusive, and ofthe
denomination cf ten thousand betweefi
the numbers land 192 inclusive; nor will
tuch ccrt fl r.-tes be available as legal re
serves of National Banks. These certifi
cates aggregate two m llions.
Wines manufactured from wild grapes
for family use are not taxable, nor is the
vinters subject to tax for selling them at
the place of manufacture.
Washington, November 28.—The C >m
missioner of Internal Revenue is satisfied
there is no insurrountable difficulty in en
forcing the excise laws-the ability and in
tegrity of officers being what is .most need
ed. The employment of spies and inform
ers, and the payment of military is no
longer necessary, He thinks the service
will improve by a discontinuance of such
aids. Detectives should be continued un
der the name of assistant supervisors. He
thinks tho distillation from fruit will large
ly increase—there will be no material fall
ing off in the production of spirits during
tbe current fiscal year. The continuance
of the plan of surveying distilleries upon
the basis of forty-eight hour fermenting
period for sweet wash is recommended.
There ia now nothing like systematic or or
ganized opposition to the enforcement of
the laws taxing spirits. Spirit meter tests
are still under consideration. A continu
ance of the present rate of tax on spirits,
and the mannerof collection is recommend
ed. A uniform tax of 16 or 32 cents per
pound of all grades and descriptions of
Manufactured tobacco is recommened—
the manufacture* - being lett to manipulate
his tobacco as he pleases. A special tax
upon dealers who sell raw leaf to consu
mers is recommended. The number of
bonded warehouses already established
greatly exceeds that required to accom
modate the export trade. Three fifths of
the tobacco entered for export has been
withdrawn, thus securing four to five
months’ credit —an advantage ever those
who use stamps. The repeal ofthe taxon
canned condiments and conserves, as itn
posed under the clause relating to canned
meats, in schedule C, is
The quota of the Southern States for di
rect taxation aggregates over tive_ millions,
of which over two and a half millions re
main uncollected.
The following arc the quotas and
amounts uncollecied under direct taxation:
Virginia $937,000, $260,000; North Caro
ina 579.000. |II3 QQflj Sfllli fIUMMI
NEW SERIES, YOL. XXVIIf. NO. 49.
$363,000, $140,000; Georgia $584,000,
$502,000: Florida s7l 000, s7l 090: Ala
bama $529 060. $529 000: M ‘.rissippi
$413,000, $343,000; Louisiana $385,000,
$ 1 5,000; Texas $355 000. $197,000; Ar
kansas $261,000, $162,000- Tennessee
$669,000, $266,000. Tennessee
The consolidation of assessor districts
has resulted in the dismissal of 419 assist
ant assessors. Further consolidation will
involve no more dismissals.
In Virginia, South Carolina, Florida,
Arkansas and Tennessee lands sold for
Don-paymeot of taxes were bid in by th"
Tax Commissioner an'i belong to the
United States Aocording to the assoss
ment ot 1866 the buds were valued a* fol
low=: Virginia $75,000. South Carolina
S3OO 000, Florida $25,000, Tennessee
$309,000. Ibeso lands yield no rovenue
to the Givernment exoept in South
Carolina and a few tracts in Flori
da. Steps -ire being taken where
by the (I iverrmr>nt may derive
revenue from them. It may he deemed
important that Congross should make
provision for the final disposition of all
the lands which have been acquired apd
are now owned by tho United States,
under the direct tax laws, at an early day,
and also that, in the adjustment of tbe
uncoil cted portion of the direct taxes in
the late insurrectionary States, a different
system frem )hat provided in the act of
June, 1862, should be devised.
Washington, November 29 —General
Halleck, who oounnands the division of the
South, is opposed to (ho employment of
regulav troops in State elections, except in
extreme cases, and then after State power
is exhausted. Haliepk writes the depart
ment here that he is assured by Federal
civil officers that tho employment of
troops in eveculing judicial processes and
enforcing revenue 1 ws seems to in
crease rather than diminish the necessity of
resorting to such fnree in civil matters.
Halleck.says the ill disposed become more
and more exasperated at being Qoeroed by
a force which they think has been uncon
stitutionally employed against them, and
the better disposed relax their efforts to
punish local crimes on the plea that this
duty_now devolves upon the military.
FROM NEW YORK.
New York, November 30.— The cotton
warehouse of Hopkins, Dwight, Frowbrig
& 06. was,burned. Loss $85,000.
The steamer Robert Lmce sailed from
Hearts Content Saturday last to repair the
Atlantic cable of 1866, which was injured
about sixty-five miles from that point.
We have just received information that
the cable of 1865 has also ceased to work,
and that the fault is about the same dis
tance from Hearts Content. It is, there
fore, probable that the steamer has grap
pled the wrong cable, as the steamer is on
the spot. It is hoped both cables will
soon be repaired. Although the Frenoh
cable is able to transmit westward with
about its usual facility, it is, from some
unknown cause, unable to transmit east
ward, except with great difficulty and very
slowly. Notice is hereby given that for
the present messages cannot be received
for any part of Europe. The- public will
be informed at the earliest moraont that
messages can be reoeivod for Eurone.
1 Signed] Cyrus W. Field.
FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
Raleigh, November 29. —The Legisla
ture elected Hon. Z. B. Vance, Democrat,
Senator, over Abbott, present incumbent.
Governor Vance sneaks this evening at
the Exchange hotel. Numerous persons
are coming and congratulating him. Ilis.
majority on joint ballot lacked a little of
being a two-thirds vote.
Raleigh, Nov. 30.— Manning, Demo
crat, beats Joe W. Holden for the unex
pired term in the 41st Congress from this
district, by 436 msjoritv.
FROM LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, November 30.—1n the
Metarie race for a purse of S3OO, mile
dash, Sue Dougherty beat Jim Mace,
Jno. Kilgour, Capt. Jenks and Joiephene
in the same order. Time 1:47. Two mile
heats, for a purs" of SSOO. Defender 1.1;
DoDavan 3,3; J -<me Shepherd 2. Dis
tanced 3:491, 3:461.
In the base bill matoh tho Mutuals
scored fifteen; the Lees eight. At the
close of the BiL innings the score stood
eight to eight.
From Columbia.
Governor Scott Proclaims Peace —Lively
Work in the Senate —Another Accident
on the Greenville Railroad.
[special telegram to the news.]
Columbia, November 28. —Chamber-
lain has virtually withdrawn from
the Senatorial contest. H;s friends sav
that he will stand on his merits, and will
not be seated by bribery. For that reason
his defeat is certain.
Governor Scott was inaugurated in the
House of Representatives, before both
houses end the public, at 1 o’clock. He
entered and advanced to the speaker’s
stand arm-in-arm with Whittemore. The
Lieutenant Governor, with the remainder
of the comm’ttees, followed. Chief Jus
tice Moses administered the oaths rs office.
The ceremonies occupied but a few mo
ments. Aa amusing incident happened.
The chaplain prayed that the blessing of
God would rest upon the “Governor of
Ohio," but corrected himself. The Gover
nor delivered his inaugural from manu
script. The address bears a resemblance
to the speech of acceptance before the
nominating convention. It says:
“Many things were said last canvass
which had better been left unsaid.” Scott
promises to know no party or class. He
makes no claim to have committed no mis
takes. The charge ofincompetcDcy of ap
pointees is not entirely without truth ; but
the fact was due to the exigencies of the
public service which precluded a thorough
investigation into the charae'er aed fitness
of persons rec immeuded. It. is his inten
tion to secure competence, lie speaks of
the political changes cf the past two years,
and of accomplished facts, also the Eu
ropean war and the progress t f the State.
Increased interest and activity are urged
in educational matters. The address closed
as follows: “Thsre cannot be prosperity in
the State unless there is peace. There
«nnot be peace unless these is respect for
w and for the rights of all. No matter
how objectionable to some of our fellow
citizens we may be who make and admin
ister tbe laws, or how hateful may be
those who, from time to time, have had
their lives.and liberties imperilled, a little
forbearance, a little of that good soqse
which we all claim as our heritage, will
save us from the dangers which threaten
the peace and prosperity of the State. A
beneficent Providence, by unerring signs,
is pointins cut a pathway to a future of
greatness. Let us walk in that path aDd,
forgetting as we may, all that is bitter in
the past, strive eamest’y to build up a
Commonwealth wbieh, by its freedom, in
telligence and virtue, as well as by its ma
terial wealth, shall addjustre to tho nation
of which it is a part. *
Lieutenant Governor Rmsier, in a few
words, announced Ms acceptance and read-
ipess to qualify.
The House met at 12. P- B. Hedges
and J. II- Wallac°, Syfax and Middleton,
appeared and qualiSicd.
Whipper (a candidate) endeavored by
resolution to have the Senatorial election
held to morrow. It was resolved to hold
it on December 6th.
The following concurrent resolution, by
Wilkes, was adapted :
Resolved, That, a joint special commit
| fee of one from eac * Congressional district,
! and odfe from ihe S ate at large on the
, part of the House, auo on the part
of the Senate, be appointed to thoroughly
investigate the eoiire transaction of the
land commission, from its organization to
the present time, with power to send for
persons and papers.
Moblcv desired a committee of one from
each county, tut Whipper opposed, as
the result would be the shielding of the
land commissioner-
Mr. Barker gave notice of a bill to regu
late the hours of labor ia the cotton facto
ries in this State.
The House adjourned to meet to-mor
row at 12 o’clock.
The Senate met at 12 o’clock. The
resolution for an investigation ofthe Bias
Ridge Railroad was received from the
House, and, alter much discussion, was
referred to the committee on railroads.
An effort was made by Corbin, Whittc
more and others to go into an election of
United States Senator to-morrow. After
much disoussion, it was agreed to make
Tuesday week the day. .
Mclntyre introduced tho following reso
that Messrs. Corbin and Leslie have
manipulated affairs to such an extent as
to have themselves elected chairman cf
one-half of the committees in the Senate;
aDd whereas it is expedient to hasten legis
lation without a useless expenditure ot
time and money ; therefore be it
Resolved, That all the committees of the
Senate be consolidated into one general
committee, and that the Hon. C. P. Leslie
be elected chairman and D. T. Corbin as
oommittee, and tbe remainder ot the Sen
ators be relieve l from duty as oommittee-.
men, and said Senators are instructed to
vote as dictated by the above-named com
■■
Whereas , Reports are in circulation that
directly implicates the State Treasurer and
others in a certain ninety thousand dollars
land swindle, and whereas, reports of a
like character, prejudicial to the integrity
of cur land commissioners and State offi
cers are pending; therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Senate, the House of
Representatives concurring. That a com
mittee of threo on the part of the Senate,
and on the part of the House, be
appointed, with power to investigate the
aceounts of Mr. Niles G. Parker and tbo
land commissioners, and send lor persons
and papers.
Hayes introduced a resolution for inves
tigating the affairs of the land commission.
Tbe resignation of Rainey was presented
and aeoepted.
Mr. Corbin presented the petition of
the Union Bank of South Carolina,
praying for an amendment of charter, so
as to authorize and empower the bank to
allow interest on deposits at such rates
and payable at such times and in such
manner as - may be deemed expedient.
Referred to the cimmitte on incorpora
tions. Mr, Corbin introduced a bill to
amend and cx’end the charter of the
Union Bank of South Carflins.
The Senate adjourned at 1:50.
Tho mammoth senatorial caucus ap
pointed to-night at the Sthtohium was a
failure. There was a large attendance and
no speakers. The Comptroller General’s,
Auditor’s and other rtporta aro out.
Tho ca«e of Langston vs. the South
Carolina Railroad Company was argued
to day before the Supreme Court, H«n.
Henry Buist for plaintiff. Mr. Rutledge
read t-he argument of General Conner for
defendant. The case involves the question
of the liability of tho company to pay
interest on its past du- coupon bonds. Tho
case of Creighton vs Pringle will be heard
to-morrow.
A resolution will bo introduced in the
Senate, to-morrow, instructing tho com
mittee on elections to inquiro on what au
thority Mclntyre holds his seat, when ho
held the position of postmaster on the
Monday succeeding tho election, in viola
tion of the continuation. Maxwell’s seat
is contested on the same grounds. The
Chesterfield protest was presented to-day.
There was another accident on the
Greenville Road to day. An engino and
two cars were smashed. Fireman killed-
Particulars not learned.
[special telegram to the news.]
Columbia, November 29. —Jilisen and
Colonel Pearce, General Sprague’s agent,
are new candidates announced to-day for
the senatorship. The latter, rumor says,
is prepared to speud a quarter of a million.
His chanees are good, and bis friends con
fident of success.
Several State constables arrived this
morning by special train from Newberry,
with Messrs R P Todd, R S Jones, S D
GarringtOD, D A Richardson and son, G
P Copeland and rod, Hayne Williams, G
F Mosely, N S Harris and Henry Subcr,
arrested on United States warrants. The
sheriff of Newberry was prepared to serve
writs of habeas corpus, but the constables
with the prisoners escaped him. They
were brought before United States Com
missioner Boozer, at 4 p m, on the charge
ofsiot, etc- The United States was rtp
reseated by Mr. Worthington, and the
prisoners by Messrs W D Simpson and A
C Garlington. They were bailed in the sum
ot $5 000 each to appear and answer in
the United States Court. After these nro
ci edings, Messrs GarhngtoD, Richardson,
Copeland, Jr, and Hayne Williams, were
re-arrested on the affidavit of Constable
iiubbard, charging them with the killing
cf Powell, Perrin and lli.ey. This is a
matter for the State Courts, and the gen
tlemen re-arrested were returned to jail,
surrounded by a largo crowd of negroes,
and serious aoprehensions were had that
they would be lynched. Great excitement
exists to-night. The prisoners will bo
brought before the grand jury of the
United States Court to morrow, and if in
dictments aro found, they will bo tried at
once by a petit jury-
HOUSE.
Wilkes gave notice of a bill to repeal an
act entitled an act to repeal the usury laws
of this State, approved December 18,
JBG6.
Hurley presented the petition of the
Charleston City echool commissioners for
an appropriation.
Thompson presented the petitition of
the county commissioners of llichland for
permission to levy a tax ot six mills.
Mobley presented a concurrent resolu
tion to investigate the affairs of the sinking
fund.
O’Connell gave notice of a bill to char
ter Dickon’s Perry, on the Catawba River.
Wilkes offered a concurrent resolution
authorizing auditors to require county
treasurers to enforce the collection of tax
execu'iona.
B F Berry appeared and qualified.
Hodgea gave notice of a bill to relieve
the school finance committee from a defi
ciency in the appropriation by the last ses
sion of the Legislature.
The speaker announced the namos of
the members of several of the standing
committees, as below, and said that tho
remainder of the standing committees
would be announced to-morrow :
Incorporations: 'lessr 3 Jones. Berry,
Coggins, Reedish, Ford, Cousart,
Boston and Smith.
State House: Messrs J N Hayne, Giles,
Hart, Holmes, Melton, Sanders, Wil
liams.
Education: Messrs Frost, Hunter,
Gantt, Smart, Gardner,* Green, Berly,
Bosemon, Hodges.
Vacant Offices: Messrs Thomas Em
merson, Gaither, Sumter, Hart, Warley,
Derrick.
Judiciary: Messrs Wilkes, Whipper,
i Smart, Lee, Duncan, Bosemon, Evans,
Hayne, Hough, Andell, Sellers, Hagood.
Privilege3]and Elections: Jervey, Whip
per, Bosemon, Andell, Bass, Byas, Lee,
Levy, Sellers.
Contingent Accounts : Dennis, Simons,
McDaniels, Donnerly, Jamison, White,
Humphries, Goodson, Green.
Military: Gardner, Rivers, Green, Den
nis, Whipper, Barker, Lloyd, Briggs,
Corwine.
Roads and Bridges: Messrs O’Connell,
AlleD, Boston, Davis, Farr, Roodcon,
Griffin, White, Jamison.
Medical: Messrs Bosemon, Doyle,
Smith, Wofford, Frost, Wilson, Sumter.
Public Buddings : Messrs Bryan. Crit
lenden, Norris, Henderson, Hudson,
Jackson, Keith, Sumter.
Claims: Messrs Byap, Gardner, Ner
land. Crews, Dennis, Ramsay, Levy, Yo
cum, Farr, Lang, Ellison, Hunter, bmart.
Levy gave notice of a bili to amend and
extend the charter of the Union Bank of
South Carolina ; also, a bill to incorporate
the Carolina Savings and Building Asso
ciation, No. 2; also, a bill to regulate the
measurement of timber and lumber in the
city of Charleston; also, a bill to amend
and extend the charter of the Planters’
and Mechanics’ Bank of South Carolina.
Smart gave notice of a bill to charter
the company known as the Moses Guards.
SENATE.
A House resolution to investigate the
affairs of the land commission was referred
to the committee on public lands.
Whittbmore gave notice of a bill to
amend the educational act.
Leslie presented a resolution instructing
the committee on elections to inquire why
Mclntyre held bis seat when he held the
office of postmaster on the Monday follow
ing the election.
’ Hayne introduced a resolution that the
joint Assembly meet on December 3d to
i elect an associate justice and a judge of
the first circuit, and gave notice of a bill to
! change the fourth judical circuit.
Whittemoro introduced a resoluion that
i the land commissioner be instructed to rc
! port, at as early a day a3 possible, the
entire transactions of his office ; and it
was read a second time.
The bill to amend the-oharter of the
i Union Bank of South Carolina was re
ferred to the committee on incorporations.
Mclntyre’s resolution was returced to
him and ordered ’o be stricken from the
I journal. Other resolutions investigating
the affairs of the land commission were
, referred to the committee on publio lande.
Tbo Governor’s message was read, and
several unimportant committees were ap
pointed.
J. A. Blanton, Esq., is suggested for
Mayor of Dalton.
A yonthfnl fifteenth amendment in
Whitfield tried to start a fire with gun
powder. The fire went out, and the little
nig has a skating rink on his head.
At a receDt meeting of the members of
Wesloy Chapel, of Columbus, nearly six
huodred dollars in small monthly install
ments was snl scribed towards securing for
the coming year a minister, whose whole
time and talent may be devoted to that
oburch exclusively.
A remarkable couple live in tho bwer
edge of Pulaski county. They have been
married twelve years, and have eighteen
healthy, robust children. The two eldest
were born the first two years after their
marriage, and since tbeo they have had
born to them eight pairs of twins! The
most remarkable feature is, that the chip