Newspaper Page Text
(%mride & Sentinel J
H H»> Khili 1 MORSISfi. AH.IST 1.
TOOMBS AND BSNNISfi’S BBIOADK.
In the issue of the Banner of the
South and Planters’ Journal for . j
c ust sth, will be commenced the publica
tion of a lloater of Toombs and Ben
ning’a Georgia Brigade, collected and ed
ited by Gen. E. P. Alexander, Chief of
Artillery of Longstreet’s corps- This Bos
ter records the Brigades in which each
Raiment served; the list of engagements
in which it took part, with iU strength
and casualties in each ; official figures being
given, where they can be obtained, and ap
proximate where they cannot. The name,
rack, promotions, and wotnds of all regi
mental officers above the rank of Lieuten
ant, and of all Btaff officers of whatever
rank. .
General Toombs’ Brigade was organized
near Savannah, about October, 1861— com
prising the 20th, 17th, 15th, 2d Georgia
Volunteers, and Ist Georgia Regulars.
The last Regiment was transferred,in June,
1862, to General G. T. Anderson’s Bri
gade, aod afterwards to the Department
of the South. The remaining Regiments
composed the Brigade to the end of the
war.
The Banner of the South and Plan
ters’ Journal is an eight-page weekly,
published by the Chronicle Publishing
Company, at Augusta, Georgia, devoted
to Agriculture, Horticulture, News, Me
moirs of the Lost Cause, and Litera
ture. Back numbers of it can be supplied,
containing a record of the Batteries, Bat
talions, Regiments, Brigades, and Divis
ions, in tho Confederate War for Indepen
dence, together with a record of the Navy,
and of the Civil Department of the Gov
ernment. Terms, $3 per annum. Speci
men copies seDt free to any addresp.
the endowment fund for indus
trial COLLEOES.
We call attention to the article of Prof.
Willet, upon “ Industrial Colleges,” which
particularly directs public attention to the
necessity of preserving, for the good of
posterity, tho fund that will arise from the
salo of the public lands granted to Geor
gia by Congress.
We arc advised that an effort is being
made to secure this fund, or some por
tion of it, for the projected Agricultural
College at Dahloßega. The Professor’s
article is suggestive of sub division among
existing institutions. We doubt if such
sub-division is compatible with the re
(|uiremcnt of Congress.
We have taken some pains to estimate
the number of youths from, this vicinity,
now students in colleges in other States,
and wo find that they number over one
hundred, not including some fifteen or
twenty “ receiving their education” in
the Dominion of Canada. Now, surely,
this fact points to tho necessity of haying
a single well endowed institution, which
will command the respect and compel the
patronage of our own citizens. Can this
be dono under any plan for sub division ?
HOW CONNECTICUT TRICES A MAS
SACHUSETTS DIBBLE*
Tho Hartford Daily Times explodes the
vanily of Boston men and Massachusetts
folk cruelly, in the following manner- The
Timm dares to say :
“I thas been well said of Boston that no
prominent placo in tho country makes
more literary pretention with less literary
performance. It was Boston that started
tbo idea that tho Radical party, even be
fore it included tho swamp negroes of the
South, embraced ‘all tho intelligence’ as
well as ‘all tho morality’ of the nation.
This Boston bladder is pricked by the
latest published statistics of the number
of daily newspapers in the State of Mas
sachusetts. They number exaclly twenty
one, a large number of which are printed
in Boston, for, excepting tho Springfield
Republican, there is not west of Worces
ter a singlo daily paper in the State.
Now Jersey and Missouri caoh have the
same number (21) of daily papers- New
York State has oighty-nine dailies ; Penn
sylvania, sixty-ono; Illinois, thirty-eight;
California, thirty four. In this State there
aro seventeen daily and fifty-one weekly
papers. With the comparatively limited
circulation of nowspapors in Massachu
setts, and the proportionate lack of means
for tho diffusion of intelligence, it is not
at all surprising that tho majority of the
people in that State Bliould bo the least
informed and consequently most Radical
people in the Union.”
THU ADMINISTRATION’S KFFOKTB IN
NOKTII CAROLINA.
There is but little doubt but that the
Administration is endeavoring to force the
people of North Carolina into subjection
to its will by monace. We can construe
Mr. Akerman’s authoritative speeoh in no
other way.
Under this Radical Constitution, and by
virtuo of its authority, the expenses of
the State government have been increased
enormously, and in amount exceed the
sum, threo or four times, required a few
yoars ago. A multitude of offices have
boen created to increase the spoils of of
fice, to purchase or reward Radical adhe
rents. The salaries of the State officials
have boen increased one hundred per cenr.
Two Judges have been added to the Su
preme Court. A oostly township sys
tem, obnoxious to the people, and utterly
unsuited to their wants and wishes, has
been inaugurated. State bonds in aid of
railroads, to the amount of many millions,
bave been granted and issued to railroad
projects. These innovations and this ex
travagance entail enormous taxation, at a
time, too, when the poople can least afford
suoh a burthen. Instead of an annual
revenue of about $750,000 per year, if this
Constitution remains in force, and is
carried out, the sum of four or five million
will have to be raised by taxation. The
condition of the people, however, is such
that no revenue tax ot this extent can be
levied without bringing ruin upon the
larger portion of the community. The
North Carolina Legislature refused to
order such a levy, and made no provision
for the large outstanding indebtedness
of the State, the most of which was fraud
ulently foroed upon the people of the State
by the Littlefields and kindred loyalists
and developers. In this state of affairs,
the Conservatives, representing the mass
of the people, demand a convention to
modify and amend the Constitution. This
demand is bitterly opposed by Radical
office-holders, who are endeavoring to in
flame the negroes against such a conven
tion. TbeConservatives hold a two-thirds
majority in the Senate, and lacked but
little of a like majority in the House of
Representatives. But this Radical Con
stitution forbids any appeal to the people
touching its amendments, unless two
thirds of both Houses concur. That is.
that unless two-tbirds of the Legislature
concur, the people who made the Consti
tution shall not amend the Constitution
of their creation. Io order to avert tbe
dangers which would follow, the Legisla
ture passed an act submitting the ques
tion—Convention or no Convention —to the
people, and requiring the Governor to
issue bis proclamation, appointing tbe day
for the election. This the Radical Gover
nor refused flatly to do. The Conserva
tives then passed another act, making it
the duty of the sheriffs and registrars of
the several counties to hold an election on
the first Tuesday in August, when the
people are to vote for or against conven
tion, and also to elect delegates to said
convention. These delegates are to meet
at Raleigh on the third Thursday in Sep
tember next. An immediate improve
ment of the organic law seems to be the
only hope of rescuing North Carolina from
the manifold evils into which she has been
plunged by the knaves, fanatics and fools
who are so firmly fastened upon her; and
yet this the Administration refuses to per
mit. The purposes of the convention are
expressly limited in the following section
of the aet under which the election to be
held next mouth is called:
Section 11—The said Convention shall
have power to consider and propose all
necessary amendments and alterations to
to the Constitution not inconsistent with
tho Constitution of the United States, ex
cept as is hereinafter provided, to-wit: The
said Convention shall have no power or
authoriiy whatever—
First—To offer or propose any amend
ment to, or alteration of, or in anywise in
terfere with, repeal or modify tne home
stead and personal property exemptions,
as provided for in article 10 of the Consti
tution of the State.
Second —To modify, repeal or do any
other act to restrict, impair or in any way
interfere with the rights, privileges and
immunities of any person in the State on
account of race, color or previous condi
tion, which are now guaranteed to him
by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fif
teenth amendments to the Constitution of
the United Btates, or to propose any
amendment to the Constitution of the
State in anywise impairing or restricting
said rights, privileges or immunities.
Third —To modify or repeal that clause
in the present Constitution which provides
for a mechanics’ and laborers’ lean law.
Fourth—To pass »ny ordinance or ordi
nances legislative in their character except
such as are necessary for the purpose of
submitting the Constitution as amended
to the people for their ratification or re
jection, and except ordinances in relation
to the public debt and in relation to the
Convention itself.
DEIiOIiUCY IN (iRKAI BRITAIN.
Avery remarkable chapter is the fol
lowing, coming as it does from the London
Spectator. We can imagine the sense of
wrong, the lowering wrath, which would
have come over England had America
herself said this of the former. The indig
nation would have been hotter than when
the genial Hawthorne told some very
homely truths of Old England in “Our
Old Horne.” The Spectator says ;
“ There is in this country but one great
political institution left alive, and that is
apparently endeavoring to commit suicide
by asphyxia. The throne as a political
power is dead ; the Lords are dying ; and
if the House of Commons loses the respect
of the country, there will be nothing left.
Every sign seems to show that it is.fast
losing it. From every part of the empire
conies up fierce complaint that the House
of Commons attempts to do everything,
will do nothing, and will suffer nobody
else to act. Ireland is in such a rage
at the dead lock of her private bill
legislation that schemes aro seriously con
sidered for transferring that portion, at
least, of Irish business back to Dublin.
We ourselves described last week the irri
tation in Scotland at the impossibility of
making way for the Scotch education bill.
The English are waiting in no unpleasant
mood for at least a dozen reforms, not one
of which can bo so much as attempted.
The country, weary of the long talk, al
most ceases to expect anything from Par
liament, and concerns itself so little in its
proceedings that the newspapers find any
thing more interesting to their readers than
accurate Parliamentary reports. The
speeches in the Commons are reduced to a
summary which often makes them unin
telligible, while onc-haft' of all that occurs
in the Lords is not repoctcd at all. The
threat of resistance to measures, forcible
resistance—as, lor example, to parts of
Mr. Bruce’s licensing bill —is frequently
heard, and to all appearance creates no ir
ritation, while in one-third of the empire
oounty after county sends up a represen
tative who tells the Commons that the one
passionate desire of his countrymen is to
be rid of them. The feeling that the
House is filled by men who belong intel
lectually to an inferior class is diffusing it
self among the cultivated, till the House
begins in many circles to be spoken of as
tho House of ReprcsentaliveeSis ir Ameri
ca—as a vestry to which ill fortune confides
a groat deal too much power. It is while
all these symptoms are in the air that the
House of Commons—vre say the House,
for both parties aro guilty, though not in
equal dogrecs —increases not only the pub
lic irritation, but the public contempt, and
the statesman’s doubt whether the House,
liko the Crown and the Peers, has not
survived its vigorous time, by nullifying
its own functions, through a refusal cither
ro accept or reject the measures which the
Premier has proposed,”
THE GREATEST RAILROAD JEAI ON
RECORD.
On Sunday, July 23d, ft change in the
gauge of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad
was effected throughout the entire length
of the road, from Cincinnati to St. Louis,
a distance of 340 miles, in eight hours.
Between daybreak and noon, on Sunday
morning, the rails were all torn from their
chairs, lifted from the cross-ties, placed
upon the new chairs provided for them,
and firmly spiked down. It was an oft’
day, and no traffic was interrupted. Pre
parations had been made for the event
weeks beforehand. New engines and new
rolling stock had been provided, and on
Monday morning business went on, on a
new gauge, with anew equipment, as if
no great revolution had taken place.
But the revolution which has taken
place is an enormous one. The New York
and Erie Railroad and the Atlantic and
Great Western, broad gauge roads, which
were absolutely dependent upon this road
for tneir Mississippi connections, by it lost
a large and most important portion of
their trunk line- The Ohio and Missis
sippi Road, which was a New York road,
becomes a Baltimore one, and a great
feeder to New York is suddenly diverted
into a rival city. This is what this change
of gauge means. Baltimore and St. Louis
will sooa become closely allied. The Bal
timore and Ohio Iliad, the Jlarictta and
Cincinnati Road, the Baltimore and Cin
cinnati (a small independent link, afford
ing direct communication with Cincinnati,
approaching completion) will form one un
broken line of railway of the same gauge,
and identified by interest, between Balti
more and St. Louis. This new alliance
promises much for St. Louis, but much
more for Baltimore in import and export
trade, and the business of emigration.
An American University on the
Bosphorus.—On the 4th of July, 1869,
the United States Minister Resident in
Constantinople laid the corner-stone to
tho Roberts College, in that city, in the
presence of a large and respectable au
dience, comprising ten or a dozen na
tionalities. On the 17th of May last the
building was finished, occupying what is
generally acknowledged to be the finest
site of the Bosphorus, 250 feet above the
level of the sea ; removed only some four
hundred feet from it, and at about the same
distance from the famous Towers of Eu
rope, where the Turks crossed frem Asia
when they conquered Constantinople, A.
D. 1453. The site of the building was
purchased from the Turkish Government
as far back as 1861 ; but obstacles were
interposed by the Porte against the erec
tion of the college building, which it took
nearly eight year3 to overcome, although
Dr. HamliD, the President of the CoUege,
was aided at various times by the Ameri
can and English Embassies- This Ameri
can College in Turkey is designed to give
an education equal to the best colleges in
this country to the Turkish and foreign
youth, under Christian influences.
There will be attached to it six Ameri
can and seven or eight native teach
ers, giving instructions in various
departments cf learning, in five or six
languages, to thirteen or fourteen different
nationalities. The college was oponed in
1563, at Beluk, before permission had
been obtained to erect the new building,
and has ever since been crowded, and for
two years past the establishment has been
entirely self-supporting, the tuition being
£4O per annum. The number of scholars
will be greatly augmented after removing
to the new building, where the accommoda
tions are on a much larger and more suit
able scale, and new spirit and vig:r will
be infused into this commendable enter
prise. The new college building fronts
113 feet on tbe Bosphorus, and the same
in the rear, with sides each 103 feet long,
surrounding a spacious court The walls
are of blue limestone and very massive,
relieved every two feet by a course of
light-colored sandstone, of which material
also all the angles and corners are formed.
It has a high basement, with three stories
above, and is surmounted by a modern
Mansard roof and towers. The floors are
all of brick, arched on iron beams, and
the whole structure is considered perfectly
fire-proof. The property of the institution
amounts to about $140,000, aU of which,
with the exception of a few thousand
dollars, was furnished by Mr- C. A.
Roberts, of New York.
The revolutionist, Jillinez, and hia
troops, were defeated in Guerrero.
Industrial Colleges.
Editors Chronicle <t Sentinel:
On July 2d, 1862. the Congress of the
United States passed an act making a mu
nificent grant of lands for the establish
ment of an Industrial College in each of
the States. The most important features
of the act are as follows:
1. Every State may receive 30,000 acres
of land for each of its Senators and Rep
resentatives, under the census of 1860.
2: The proceeds of said lands are to be
invested in safe stocks, yielding not less
than five per cent, per annum, and the
interest only may be used. The State
must forever guarantee the principal thus
accruing, and none of the principal nor in
terest can be applied to the purchase,
erection or repair of buildings; one-tentb,
however, of the capital may be devoted to
the purchase of lands for an experimental
farm.
3. The purposes of (he grant are the
the endowment of at least one college in
each State, whose leading object shall be,
without excluding other scientific and
classical studies, and including military
tactics, to teach such branches of learning
as are related to agriculture and the me
chanic arts.
These grants have been accepted by
many of the States. Some have sold their
lands, realizing generally from 50 to 75
cents per acre. Others have leased them
for a term of years, with an annual rent
al ; and others retain them in hand for
better sales, in the meantime sustaining
their colleges by annual appropriations
from their treasuries.
'lhe Slate Legislatures have appropri
ated their grants to existing State Univer
sities, Agricultural Colleges, or other in
stitutions of learning, and, in a namber of
instances, to cities or counties which have
made liberal contributions of lands, build
iogs, &e. The town of Amherst, in Mas
sachusetts, pledged the sum of $75,000 for
the erection of buildings, and thus secured
two-thirds of the grant of that State ; the
other one-third was given to the Institute
of Technology, in Boston. Citizens of
Lexington, Ky., contributed aboutsloo,ooo
to secure the appropriation of the grant
of that State. Tho citizens of Champaign
county. 111., nude a donation in land,
buildings and bonds of the value of
$400,000, and the Legislature of Illinois
established in that county the Agricultural
College on a domain, including ornamental
grounds, and model farms and gardens, of
more than 1,000 acres.
The course of study in most of the In
dustrial Colleges extend through three
years, and embraces the natural sciences,
modern languages, practical agriculture
and horticulture, auimal husbandry, book
keeping, &c. The students in colleges,
which have iartns or work-shops attached,
usually lanor two or three hours per day,
at 12£ cents per hour. In some States,
tuition is free to all; in others, there is a
certain number of free scbolaiships, while
all other students pay reduced rates of
tuition. Iu the Agricultural College of
Minnesota, graduates of loth sexes of the
common schools may pursue a course of
study which “ bears directly upon agricul
ture and kindred industrial pursuits.”
Under this act the State of Georgia is
entitled to 270,030 acres of public land.
If managed judiciously in locating and in
sale or lease, this amount of land will
yield a handsome endowment to an In
dustrial College. This endowment may
be given to someone or more of the ex
isting colleges or communities whieh (like
Midway, Miiledgeville, Penfield, Dahl
onega, &c.,) may already have suitable
buildings, or to other towns and counties
which may offer the most liberal contribu
tions and the most eligible sites. The
benefits to the State—in conveying general
information on improved agriculture ; in
experiments on the culture, the fertilizing,
&c., of the crops peculiar to our section
and cn the introduction of new seeds,
plants, animals, &e. ; in returning to each
county every few years a farmer’s son
thoroughly versed iu the theory and prac
tice ot improved farming ; and in thus
educating, elevating arid dignifying the
most important industry of our land—are
of incalculable value.
The facts given above have been hastily
thrown together, from the Report of the
Department of Agriculture of 1867. More
lull information is doubtless in the hands
of others, including the act of Congress in
rxtense, the later annual reports of the
Department of Agriculture and the re
ports of the various agricultural colleges,
showing their organization and practical
working. Those lines havo been penned
with the hope of directing attention to the
subject and of eliciting all available in
formation from our writers on agriculture.
Our people should know the great prize
which is almost within their grasp. Know
ing the value of the Congressional grant,
they will take care that it is properly ad
ministered, Not knowing, they will soon
find that a princely heritage haa vanished
into thin air under the manipulations of
the financiering now in vogue.
Mercei University. J. E. Willet.
the Richmond Enquirer .]
Whither Are We Drintng ?
Many persons are incredulous when they
hear it uharged that the Republican party
cherishes a purpose of converting our
Government into a sort ofDemocratic Im
perialism—a combination similar to the
Ceeiarism and universal suffrage of the
lace French Empire. There are, however,
many signs that indicate such to be the
aspirations and aims of the more advanced
minds io that political organization.
Having long ago become utterly insensible
to the idea of the autonomy or sovereignty
of the States —having indeed been taught
to regard the States as only eo many
Shires in the Consolidated Commonwealth
of the National Union —the next step is to
look with equal indifference on the rights
of the individual. Mr- Hoar, of Massa
chusetts, has a bill pending in tho House
of Representatives, the object of which
was endorsed by John W. Forney, pro
posing to give the United State Govern
ment tho control of the common-school
system of the country. Senator Wilson,
of thp same State, advocated the scheme
in the Atlantic Monthly. There is also a
strong disposition to turn the railroads of
tbe country over to the Government. Al
ready Congress is granting oharters in
direct opposition to the expressed will of
the States through whioh the lines char
tered are to pass.
We have been struck with some remarks
made on the past 4th of July in Music
Hal), Boston, by the orator of the day,
Gen. Horace Binney Sargent. His speech
is a mixture of Imperialism and Com
munism. His model seems to be Prussia
leavened bv the Paris Commune, Let us
introduce him to our readers:
‘’American as I am in every fibre of my
heart, I find the secret of national power
in another land than my own. If I should
ask the questions where purity of life,
frugal simplicity of habits, intellectual
culture, patriotic fire, and all male virtues
predominate ; where the most affeetcinate
domestic ties combine the larger, grander
love for fatherland ; where the intere.-ts of
armed millions are welded into the mighty
wedge of one iron will; where we hear
that majestie tread of humanity, with a
great purpose before it and a great Dation
behind it —the voice of even an American
Assembly would correctly reply. And
why do ice find this simple virtue, this
earnest Republican energy under the
shadow of the Prussian throne ? Com
pulsory hgis'ation, based on a scheme of
national greatness, devised long ago, has
made the Prussian a dutiful citizen. The
absence of such legislation here, under
our false theories of the consent of the
governed, of the sanctity of an enlight
ened American elector, and that liberty
requires a weak executive expression of an
armed nation’s will, has degraded Ameri
can politics and office so low that, except
in moments of peril, able and honest men
who would serve the people as loyally as
they would serve the omniscient Lord of
Hosts, will have nothing to do with public
affairs.”
It is very easy to see where this will
lead to. Genera! Sargent wants “ a
scheme of national greatness, along wit h
a plenty of “ compulsory legislation.”
He wants compulsory military service,
compulsory education, compulsory voting.
He is tired of the “ false theory of the
consent to be governed.” He wants a
minister like Bismarck and a ruler like
Frederick the Great. The State is to be
supreme—and the United States is to
be the State. This State is to take charge
of the national education, The school
masters are to be appointed in Washing
ton —as a reward, no doubt, for “services
to the Union” —like Bowen. There is to
be but one Spelling Book in the land.
“Hail Columbia !” is to he suog every
Sabbath morning, with one consent, in
the National Sunday Schools. Why not
Sunday schools ? For already we hear
talk about “ recognizing God” in the
Constitution. And Mr. Lincoln of old
“ ran the churches !” * Mr. Harlan s
friend, Dr. Newman, is already appealing
by circular to the Methodist to send him
to the Senate because “ be attends the
Methodist Church.” Religion at the
North, to a large extent, has already gone
into business .with politics. It is not at
all fanciful to suppose that the Republi
can party, in ten or twenty years, shall be
advocating a union between Church and
State. Delighted with the triumph
achieved by the North over the South by
the agency of the Federal Government,
they consider the strong arm of the “ Gov
ernment” now as a panacea for every evil.
Admiring, with genuine American ser
vility, the success of the Prussians in
the late European war, they are
still further charmed with the idea of
“a strong Government.” “Govern
ment” is a great thing when it belongs to
you ; tb e Republicans cannot too greatly
admire the “government,” because they
run it; they make the laws ; they punish
traitors ; they possess all the offices ; they
run the Supreme Court; they command
the aruy and navy ; they “reconstruct
they emoeud the Constitution ; they pass
the Kn-Klux bills. The government can
not be too strong for them- When they
have trampled the States well under foot,
and pounded the South into a patriotic
frame, and gotten possession of the educa
tional system of the country, the next step
will be the faith of the people. They will
force the Jews to acknowledge Paul; they
will require the Roman Catholics to abjure
the Virgin ; they will compel the China
man to destroy his idols ; they will stop
the choirs in the Episcopal churches.
There will be a Plymouth Creed (substi
tuted for the Nieece) incorporated by a
hundred and eleventh amendment in the
Federal Constitution. What this creed
will be it is hard to say ; there will be a
struggle between Methodism and Unita
riatism. It will be either Wesley or
Channiog. We wonder what the Baptists
will do ? They are a stiff-necked people,
and like to have a say of their own.
Mr. Sargent wants compulsory service
in the army and also compulsory voting.
Already the Enforcement acts give the
Federal Government the power to oontrol
the elections in the States ; when it has
the additional powers of compulsory ser
vice in the army and compulsory educa
tion, we shall have our plebiscites in as
successful operation as they used to be
under poor Louis Napoleon.
But General Sargent would also have
“ State Factories established,” and “would
make the State and the poor partners in a
grand co-operative system, * * to be
initiated by legislative charity, based on
the power of inexhaustible taxation." That
is, General Sargent wants, first, “ a
strong government”—a dynasty (say) of
Ulysses I.—which shall keep things gene
rally in order. But how shall lie guaran
tee permanence to such a Government?
The answer is simple: Let our American
Cmsargo iDto “partnership with the peo
ple.” Give them workshops—let “ the
State and the poor become partners in a
grand co-operative system— to be initiated
by legislative charity, based on the power
of inexhaustible taxation." It is very
much like Mazzini’s Republic. The rich
are to be compelled to support the poor.
The Emperor is to see to it that “the paw
er of inexhaustible taxation ” is exerted
to this end.
It is worthy of note that the Philadel
phia Dress quotes a long extract from this
speech in order to commend it, while it
has not one word to say in condemnation
of it. The Boston Advertiser hardly
knows whether to condemn or approve.
The Journal ol Commerce Com
missioner at tlie South.
LETTER NO. 22.
Montgomery, Ala., July, 1871.
THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF ALABAMA.
Barring some misunderstandings, which
will be fully explained below, the debts of
Alabama aro clearly defined. Altogether,
I believe the financial condition of Ala
bama is healthy, and her people have little
to complain of, The following is a com
prehensive statement, showing the bonds
and other indebtedness of the State, Sep
tember 30th, 1870:
BONDED DEBT.
Date of When Whtre Rate of
is ue. due. payable. Amount. interest.
IBS'). 1870 London, Eng. 000 0 per cent.
185 J. 1872. New Yorfc, N. Y. i«8,0 0 6 “
1F66. ISS3. “ “ 1,941,100 5 "
18«6. ISBG. “ “ 471,800 5
JB6B. London, Eng. *’4 800 5 “
lt-C6. 188 i. *• “ 82 000 6 “
1867. 1886. “ “ 648 COO 5 “
1866. ISS6. New York, N. Y. £29,700 8 *•
1868. 1888. “ “ 487 000 8 “
ss^2^Boo
Total annual interest, $316,345.
Total bonded debt as auove stated, $5,582 80.
EDUCATIONAL FUND INDEBTEDNESS.
University Fund $300,000 00
f'chool Fund, Sixteenth Section.. .1,729 032 74
Valueless. Sixteenth S.ction Fund. 97.091 21
*Surp’Uß Revenue 669,086 80 -2,795,210 75
Outstanding State certificates, as
per Treasurers report 8 O.COO CO
Aggregate indebtednesr $8,478,0L0 75
Mejickandum— Bonds unsold In the lijdils
Lehmain. JLrnir & Cos , financial agents (eight
percent.) $61,000 00
Bonds unsoki in hat d3 of trustee* Alabama In
taue Hospital, sub ect to the order of the
Auditor Uight per cent.) 4.500 00
Tota> unsold s6s.tod 00
*Nctx —This item ot indebtedness does not strie*ly belong
to the “School Fund,” yet. so long as Section 957, Par. 1,
Revised Code, is unrepealed, eight per cent, annual interest
must ba t rovitled by the State upon this amount for
schiols; thus m iking it substantially as reported above.
The eight per cents, named in the mem
orandum have since been sold, and there
fore belong to the debt.
Added to this, the Legislature, in the
winter of 1869-70, passed an act granting
State aid to all new railroads, upon the
completion of twenty miles of road. This
aid was in the nature of endorsement of
the railroad bonds, at the rate of $16,000
per mile, the State taking a first mortgage
on the road to secure it from loss. There
were also some special railroad subsidies
granted. So far the following amounts
have been endorsed by the State:
Railroads. Miles. Amounts.
Alabama and Chatta
nooga 55,300,000
Special subsidy 2,000,000
Montgomery and Eu
fala 55 880,000
Special subsidy 300,000
Selma, Marion and
Memphis 45 720,000
Selma and Gulf 30 480,000
Savannah and Mem
phis 20 320,000
Mobile and Alabama.. 20 320,000
Mobile and Montgome
ry, special 2,500,000
South and North, spe
cial, $22 mile 95 2,190,000
Total $15,010,000
This might as well be added to the debt
for the reason that railroads and steam
boat lines, as is well known from Con
gressional experience, always fail to make
payments endorsed by the people. That
amount added to the bonded debt gives
the following result:
Bonded and Trust Fund debt. 58,478,010 75
Bonds sold since statement.. 65,500 00
Railroad endorsements 15,010,000 00
Total $23,553,510 75
Which is, at the worst probability of an
increased endorsement of $10,000,000
more railroad bonds, a favorable showing
for a great State like Alabama. She has
a good government, composed of both
political parties, and the adherents of one
are a check upon the extravagances of the
other, so it is not probable that any new
increase of debt can be made, except by
general consent for a worthy object. The
State has just about a million of inhabi
tants, and tho taxes are one-half of one per
cent, upon assessed values of property.
THE ALABAMA AND CHATTANOOGA RAIL
ROAD SQUABBLE.
The people of the btate are just now in
a ferment over the strange conduct of the
managers of the Alabama and Chatta
nooga Railroad. It appears that the
bonds of the State for $2 000,000, given
in aid of the road, were sold, and the
money used in its construction. The
State endowment should then have been
given for 295 miles at $16,000 per mile,
which would have amounted to $4,720,000.
Instead of issuing only that amount, the
late Governor (William H. Smith) in
dorsed 5,300 bonds of SI,OOO each, amount
ing to $5,300,000. The ex-Governor does
not clear himself of suspicion in the mat
ter, but has written a letter, saying that if
the number cf bonds alleg.d to have been
endorsed by him were actually endorsed,
there was a mistake. This does not read
well alongside a previous statement. He
said, too, that he entrusted tbe counting
of the bonds to the Secretary of State and
his private secretary, and did not count
them himself ; that there was no disnon
esty iu the transaction on his part, or od
the part of any one else that he knows of.
Governor Lindsay (the present Governor)
refuses, however, to pay the interest on
the bonds in excess of those allowed by
law. The President of the road, N. D.
Stanton, and the Superintendent, J. C.
Stanton, brothers, received the bjnds and
built the road. They got involved in
trouble, and, it appears, did not pay their
debts. A creditor to the amount of $16,-
000, representing also the other creditors,
endeavored to force the road into involun
tary bankruptcy, and the Court of Bank
ruptcy adjudged it bankrupt- The United
States Circuit Court set aside the decree
of the other, and the creditors have made a
compromise by extensions of time. Stanton
himself has paid the interest last due on
the excess of b nds, and assumes that to
fall due hereafter.
The Declaration of Independence.
—Before the late war was instigated to
subjugate tbe South and put under ban
the doctrine of State Rights, it was a
common custom for nearly every news
paper in the country to publish the De
claration of Independence on, or just pre
ceding, the 4th of July. As an evidence
of the decline of that all-pervading spirit
of freedom that came down from the
Fathers of the Republic and warmed up a
blaze of patriotic outburst every 4th of
July, we need only state that in all our
exchanges we found but one this year that
adhered to the old custom of publishing
the Declaration of Independence. Why
is this so ? Because all men more or less
feel that the war brought about a state of
affairs and a state of feeling that men are
ashamed to hear the Declaration of Inde
pendence cr even look at it. We all feel
outraged in feeling, when we read it and
then reflect upon the doings of the past
ten years! It is out.of place here now.
Few would read it if it were laid upon
their tables free. They would rather pay
for a newspaper that contained, under
startling headings, a ukase from the em
peror of Russia suppressing the freedom
of the press or banishing patriots to
Siberia. — Seling ■ Grove ( Pa .) limes.
Port Royal Railroad. —Mr. Wm. H.
Appleton, of the firm of Appleton & Cos.,
of New York, has been recently elected
President of the Port Royal Railroad Com
pany-
Richmond County—Something for
the Croakers.—On yesterday Captain R.
J. Wilson, the Receiver of Tax Returns,
finished making up his digest and sent it
last night, by express, to the Comptroller
General. Captain Wilson deserves great
credit fir the zealous and efficient man
ner in which he has discharged the duties
of his office. For the benefit of those of
our croaking fellow-citizens who are so
fond of asserting that “Augusta is dead,”
and in order to show strangers how steady
has been our progress since the war, wc
give a few statistics relative to the sflairs
of the county, whieh we think will be
found of interest. The data is taken lrom
official sources and is entirely correct.
Befoie emancipation nearly one-fourth
the property of the county was slaves, all
of which the surrender swept away. In
1859 the figures were as follows:
Total value property $18,054,081
Deduct value slaves 4,302,075
$13,782,006
In 1860 the figures were as follows:
Total value property $21,574,357
Deduct value slaves 4,407,870
$17,166,487
In 1861-
Total value property $20,777,420
Deduct value slaves 4,413,725
$16,383,695
Then come Confederates times, 1862:
Total value property $19,743,050
Deduct value slaves 3,828,375
$15,914,675
In 1863-
Total value property $52,859,150
Deduct value slaves 8 278,250
$44,580,900
In 1864-
Total value pmoerty $85,057,446
Deduct value slaves 13,616,189
$71,441,257
After the surrender there was a fearful
depreciation of property, as well as an im
mense loss in slaves. In 1866 the follow
ing was the digest:
Total value property $14,006,006
In 1867-
Value land -..$ 1,535,880
City property 6,251,025
Money and solvent debts 1,824,702
Merchandise 1,382,575
Shipping 28,000
Stocks and Bondi 1,267,500
Cotton manufactories 243,900
Foundries 8,000
Capital in mining, 26,500
Household furniture 263,150
Plantation tools, over $300.... 62,600
All other property 254,360
Aggregate $13,148,492
This showed a decrease of nearly one
million compared vith the digesi of 1866.
Next year property depreciated still more.
The following is the digest for 1868 :
Value of land $ 1,125,131
City property 5,897,560
Money and solvent debts 1,663.270
Merchandise 1,270,490
Shipping 1,200
Cotton manufactories 250,000
Stocks and bonds 1,579,105
Foundries 2,000
Capital in mining 5,000
Household furniture 256,915
Farming tools, over S3OO 51,600
All other property. 198,438
Aggregate $11,933,368
This was the worst year. Afi er 1868
the tide began to turn, and since that time
the property of the county has been
steadily increasing. The digest for 1869
was as follows :
Value of land $ 1,128,375
City property 5,723,370
Shares in National Bank 500,000
Money and solvent debts 1,585,500
Merchandise 1,268,825
Stocks and bonds 1,718,720
Cotton manufactories 255,000
Capital in mining 6,000
Household furniture 249,800
Farming tools, over S3OO 44,000
Other property 200,050
Aggregate $12,407,190
The number of acres of land returned
this year was 136,138 in the county; wild
lands, 37,750.
Last year the digest was as follows:
Polls of whites 3,118
Professions 60
Dentists 8
Auctioneers 2
Photographers, ite 4
Billiard, bagatelle and pool tables 9
Children betrooon 6 and 18 1,091
Same age, with guardians 96
Road hands 632
REAL ESTATE.
Total number of acres of land. 145,071
Aggregate value of land $1,205,845
Aggregate value of city prop
erty 6,013,425
PERSONAL ESTATE.
No. shares National Bank stock 5,000
Value shares “ “ “ $575,000
Amount money and solvent
debts 1,997,383
Merchandise 1,351,300
Capital in shipping 1,000
Stocks and Bonds 2,088,130
Cotton manufactories 255,250
Iron works and foundries 7,000
Capital in mining 3,000
Value of household and kiten
en furniture 296,750
Plantation and mechanical tools
above the value of $300.... $29,600
Value of all other property ex
cept annual crops, provis
ions, etc $209,950
Aggregate value of whole
property $ 14,033,633
Value, after deducting $200...514,033,433
Wild lands in other counties... 41,983
The digest for the present year is as
follows:
Polls of Whites 1,984
Polls of Colored 619
Professions 68
Dentists 8
Auctioneers 2
Photographists and other sim
ilar Artists 4
Billiards, 'Bagatelle, or Pool
Tables 9
Children between 6 and 18
years old 1,602
Wards between 6 and 18 years
01d...., 86
Blind, Deaf, and Dumb 3
Number of Hands employed
between 12 and 65 years of
age 39
Total number of Acres of
Land 177,574|
Road Hands 609
Acres Wild Lands owned in
other counties .. t 226,737^
Value $51,036
Amount of Tax on Professions 1,110
Aggregate Value of Land.... 1,423,270
Aggregate Value of City or
Town Property 6,181,200
Number of Shares in any Na
tional Bank in this State.... 7,000
Value of Shares in any Na
tional Bank in this State.... 800,000
Amount of Money and Solvent
Debts of all kinds 1,878,536
Merchandise 1,413,150
Capital invested iu Shipping
and Tonnage 3,350
Stocks and Bonds 2,299,764
Cotton Manufactories 1,043,000
Iron Works, Foundries, etc... 7,000
Capital Invested in Mining.... 8,000
Value of Household andKitch
en Furniture 326,100
Plantation and Mechanical
Tools above the value of
S3OO 9,500
Value of all other Property
not before enumerated, ex
cept annual crops, provis
ions, etc 263,600
Aggregate value of whole
property $15,651,470
Value 1870 14,033,633
Increase $ 1,617,837
Value 1869 12,407,190
Increase this vear. 3,244,290
Value in 1868 11,953,368
Increase this year 3,698,102
It will thus be seen that, notwithstand
ing the loss of four millions and half of
dollars in slave property —notwithstanding
the other enormous losses by the war and
the financial disasters which have occur
red since the surrender, Richmond county
has fully recovered from the many re
verses and has taken a Dew departure in
prosperty. Nearly four million increase
in four years is a pretty good showing.
But it will be seen that the rate of in
crease is larger every year. This year we
gain a million and a half, next year we will
gain three millions. One of the most
gratifying features of the digest for 1871
is the increase which it shows in the
capital iuvested in cotton manufactories.
Last year it was a little over $250,000.
This year it is more than a million. If
figures do not lie, Augusta is certainly on
the high road to commercial prosperity.
Paris, July 29, night. — lt is expected
that the prolongation of Thiers’ power as
Chief Executive will be voted by the As
sembly next week.
The Largest Cotton Crop.
[•fYom the New Orleans Picayune, July- 19.]
It is by no means improbable that the
cotton crop of 1870-71 may tarn out the
largest ever produced in the United States.
The cotton crops for the thirteen years
have been as follows:
1869-70... .• 3.034 749 bales.
1868-69 2,260.667 “
1867-68 2.430,893 “
1867-67 1,951,988 “
1865-66 .2,151,048 “
1860-61 3,656.086 “
1859 60 4.675,770
1858-59 3,851.481 “
1857-58 3,113,962 “
1856-57 2,939.519 “
1855-56 3,527,843 “
1854-55 2 847,339 “
1853-54 2,930,027 “
Up to last Friday night the receipts of
last year’s crop at all the ports summed
up 3,936,765 bales. We may safely calcu
late on 64,000 bales for the remainder of
the season, which is about 70 per cent,
above the receipts for the corresponding
time last year. This would make the to
tal receipts for the year at the ports say
4,000,000 bales.
The movement of cotton this year over
land direct to the mills has been very
large. Railroads have reduced their rates,
and high ocean freights from New Or
leans during the busy season have contri
buted to encourage direct shipments from
the interior. We published a statement
not long since of the amount sent thiough
Nashville on one road, which was 100,000
bales. The total amount seDt overland
last year was 140,000 bales. This year it
will probably reach 320,000 bales, and in3y
exceed this amount.
With regard to the consumption of cot
ton by Southern mills, wo may estimate
an increase ot 21,000 bales, which would
make the total 100,000 bales, compared
with 79,843 last year. These mills have
been running full time, and the number of
spindles and looms in operation has been
augmented.
The assertion that the overland ship
ments direct to Northern mills have so
largely increased is strengthened by the
extract which we gave a few days since
from the Chronicle, concerning the con
sumption of cotton. That journal states
that the United States consumption has
increased 100,000 bales during the last
six months. Deducting the foreign ex
ports aad Btooks now on hand from the
total receipts at all the ports, there is
found a deficiency ot 54,000 bales in the
takings ot Northern spinners from the
seaboard markets. This deficiency, to
gether with the increase of 100,000 bales,
must have gone overland.
We have thus the following estimate of
the crop ot 1870-71, in bales :
Receipts at the ports 4,000,000
Overland direct shipments 320,000
Consumption of Southern mill?.. 100,000
Burnt, etc 10,000
Total 4,430,000
The only crop larger than this in num
ber of bales was that of 1859-60, which
was 4,675,770. The average weight of a
bale of' cotton that year was 457 pounds,
which would make that crop 2,136,725,-
890 pounds.
This season the aveiage weight of bales
has been considerably in excess of the
foregoing. A statement was published
not long since setting it down at 464.41
pounds. This we think a little too low.
The average at New Orleans justifies 470
pounds to the bale for the whole crop.
This average weight per bale would
bring the crop to 2,082,100,000 pounds.
There is, therefore, only a difference of
54,625,890 pounds, or less than four per
cent., in favor of the crop ot 1859-60, and
the total may possibly turn out as large.
Decisions of llie Supreme Court of
Georgia.
Delivered at Atlanta, Tuesday, July 25,
1871.
[reported expressly for the consti
tution, BY N. J. HAMMOND, SUPREME
COURT REPORTER. J
11. Crutchfield, Administrator, vs. George
Patten et al. Equity, from Mitchell.
Lochrane, C. J.
The plaintiff in error in this case filed
his answer, in which he sot up, by way of
cross bill, that a certain sum of money,
found to be due by the Auditor to parties
therein named, as daughters of the de
cedent, was correct as to the facts set out
in such report, and admitted the trust and
the rights of the parties, but alleged that
such amount ought not to be paid upon
the ground that their husbands’ marital
rights attached thereto, and they had, by
waste and mismanagement of the estate,
rendered themselves liable for a larger
amount to the estate, and the Court below
dismissed the cross bill upon motion :
Held, That the right at auy time before
a final decree distributing the assets to file
a bill setting up power of equity against
the payment of certain debts is recognized
by this Court, and if the subject matter
has been previously litigated or adjudi
cated before the Auditor upon the facts,
and by the Court upon exceptions to his
report relative to the law, and the inter
locutory judgment of the Court has con
firmed the report, such tacts must arise
upon plea to the cross bill, and it was er
tor in the Court to dismiss the same upon
motion.
Judgment reversed.
Lyon, DeGraffenreid & Irvin, Vason &
Davis, for plaintiff in /t. fa,
James L. Seward, Wright & Warren,
A. D. Hammond, John Rutherford, for
defendants.
John Neal vs. George Patten, et al. Bill
to marshal assets, from Dougherty.
McOay, J.
Where a bill baa been filed to marshal
the assets of an estate, and under an in
terlocutory de:ree the assets had been
reduced to money, and were in the haudsl
of a receiver :
Held, That it was error in the Court to
dismiss from the litigation such judgment
creditors, parties to the proceeding, as
held judgments, founded on debts con
tracted before June 1, 1865, on the ground
that said judgment creditors had not filed
the affidavit that all legal taxes had been
paid, as provided by the act of October 13,
1870.
Judgment reversed.
Lyon & DeGratfenreid, Vason & Davis,
for plaintiff in error.
Wright & Warren, J. L. Seward, A. D.
Hammond, J. Rutherford, lor defendants.
Moses P. Hollis vs. John Williams. In
juncton, from Calhoun.
Warner, J.
A bill was filed ty the complainant
against the defendant, alleging that he
purchased certain property, including a
steam mill and a turnpike, which the de
fendant represented himself to be the
owner, and having good title thereto,
when, in fact, the defendant did not have
such title, but that there was an incum
berance on the steam mill, and that the de
fendant at the time of the sale did not
have a good title to the turnpike (which
was one of the main inducements to make
the purchase), and that the complainant
had been deprived of the possession of the
turnpike by a paramount title existing in
the county of Dougherty, under a contract
made with the defendant prior to his con
tract of sale to the complainant, the com
plainant relying solely upon the represen
tations of the defendant as to the sound
ness and validity of his tide to the steam
mill and turnpike. The prayer of the bill
is that the defendant may be enjoined from
transferring certain notes given for the
purchase of the property, and to enjoin
the collection of certain other notes due
by other parties to the defendant, alleging
that the defendant is insolvent. The Court
granted the injunction, and a motion wa3
made to dissolve it on the filing of the de
fendant’s answer, on the ground that these
was no equity in complainant’s bill, and if
there was, it had beeD denied by the an
swer. There were various affidavits filed
and read on the hearing of the motion by
both parties, which were confl etieg as to
the equity stated in the complainant’s bill-
The Court refused to dissolve the injunc
tion. and the defendant excepted:
Held, That the question of retaining or
dissolving an injunction rests in the sound
discretion of the Court, and in cases where
the evidence is conflicting, and especially
where fraud is charged, this Court will
not control the discretion of the Court be
low in retaining the injunction until the
final hearing of the case, though, this
Court would have been better satisfied
if the injunction had been confined to the
notes given for the properly in the hands
of the defendant, but inasmuch as the
Court below has the discretion to modify
the injunction at any time, or continue it,
in its discretion, we will not interfere with
that discretion.
Judgment affirmed. . .
L. D. Munroe, W. A. Hawkins, for
plaintiff in error.
Lyon, DeGraffenried & Irvin, Wootten
& Hoyle, for defendant.
James B. Walker tw. Wm- H. White
head. Relief Act of 1871, from Baker.
Lochrane, C- J.
Where the Court below dismissed a
case under the provisions of the act of
13th October, 1870, for failure to file the
affidavit required that the party had paid
all legal taxes due and chargeable thereon :
Hdd, That this, provision of the act of
October, 1870, is constitutional, and the
Legislature of the State had the power,
under the Constitution, to pass such laws
as was deemed essential to the public wel
fare and is the proper arbiter of the policy
of such laws, and courts have no right to
restrain, by construction, the power dele
gated by the people in convention, to the
people’s representatives.
Hdd again, That the duty to pay legal
taxes dne and ob&rgable upon property is
one of the highest duties imposed by Gov
ernment upon its citizens, and it it not an
impairment of the obligation of contracts
for the State to require payment of such
taxes due thereon and prescribe the mode
by which such payment shall appear, be
fore her Courts with their prooess and
powers, may be used to enforce such coc-
Daotp.
Held again, That ; f tb c failure to pay
legal taxes due the Stale or make affidavit
that they have been paid, after six months
has been granted ty the Legislature for
that purpose, works a failure of the reme
dy by law to enforce oontracts, such failure
of the remedy is the legitimate result of
the failure of the party tu pay his legal
tax, or comply with the laws of the State,
and such failure of the remedy, so invoked
by the party himself, is not an impair
ment of his obligation of contract.
Judgment affirmed.
McCay, concurring.
1. The Act of October 13tb, 1870, re
quiring all legal taxes then due to be paid
upon debts contracted priirto June Ist,
1865, before any judgment shall be had,
or any levy or sale made to recover the
sum and requiring the dismissal of any
pending suit upon such debts, if the
plaintiff, within six months after the pas
sage cl the Act, fail to file an affidavit that
such legal taxes have been paid, imposes
no duty upon the plaintiff inconsistent
with that clause of the Constitution of the
United states prohibiting any State from
passing any law impairing the obligation
of contracts.
2. The \ct of October 13,h, 1870, only
requires the performance of a legal duty
imposed by the laws of this State, at the
date of the contract, which legal duty if
not performed at the time agreed by law,
may, under section 866 of the Code, be
performed at any time thereafter, and it is
clearly within the power of the Legislature
to impose upon the suitors in its courts the
present performance of said duty as a con
dition precedent to the use of the powers
aDd principles of the Court for the collec
tion of the debt, upon which tbc duty
arises. Such penalty is not for the past
failure to pay, but lor the refusal to per
form a present and continuing duty.
Warner, J., dissenting.
This was an action brought by tl e plain
tiff against the defendant on a promissory
note, dated 28th March, 1864, on which
there is due the sum of $4,658 24, besides
interest. When the case was o»fled on the
docket ia the Court below, the defendant’s
counsel made a motion to dismiss it, on
the ground that the plaintiff had not filed
an affidavit that all legal taxes chargeable
by law had been duly paid on said debt, in
accordance with the provisions of an act of
the General Assembly passed on the 13th
of October, 1870, denyipg to plaintiffs the
aid of the courts to collect debts contracted
before the Ist of June, 1865, until the
taxes thereon have been paid. The Court
sustained the motion and dismissed the
case, and the plaintiff excepted. My
opinion in regard to this class of legisla
tive enactments has been repeatedly ex
pressed, and this act is quite as obnoxious
to the fundamental law of the land, as
any of the others; it imposes conditions
on the legal rights of the plaintiff, which
did not exist at the time the contract was
made; is ex post facto in its character, in
asmuch as it assumes that a particular class
ot the citizens of the State are guilty of a
criminal offense, and outlaws them frem
the enforcement of their legal rights in
the Courts, invades the legal rights of the
plaintiff under contract at the time it was
made, and impairs the legal obligation
thereof within the true intent and mean
ing of the prohibition contained in the
tenth section of the first article of the
Constitution of the United States, and is,
therefore, void.
Hines & Hobbs, for plaintiff in error.
Lyon, DeGraffenreid & Irvin, W. A."
Hawkins, for defendant.
[Prom the Washington Patriot.]
Tlie Ku-Klux Investigation.
TESTIMONY OP GEN. A. R. WRIGHT, 'OP
GEORGIA.
General A. R. Wright was for five hours
before the Ku-Klux Committee yesterday.
Gen. Wiigbt, in reply to a question, said
that he was a practicing lawyer and one
of the editor? of the Chronicle & Sen
tinel, at Augusta, Georgia. He further
testified that the people of that State were
law-abiding, and that the laws are as fully
enforced as they were before the late war.
Tne witness said that his law practice ex
tended to ten counties, and, from his per
sonal observations and knowledge of the
State, he could say the negroes enjoyed
all the privileges in the Courts accorded to
the whites ; in faot, the juries seemed to
lean a little toward the negroes, from ap
prehension or fear that they might he
suspected of doing injustice to them.
In reply to a question whether he knew
of white men having committed offenses
against negroes, he replied, he prosecuted
a white man for the murder of a negro,
who, however, was convicted of man
slaughter, and sentenced for the full term
allowed by the law. In the same Court in
the same county a white man. charged
with the murder of a negro, was found
guilty and sentenced to be hanged on the
first Friday of September- While these
two trials were in progress twelve white
citizens of Washington county were ar
rested under the Ku-Klux law, carried
one hundred and thirty miles, and tried by
a Uoited States commission for assault
and battery on negroes. They were kept
in jail several days, but on investigation
before a carpet-bagger, Lee, and General
Swayne, they were acquitted.
The witness said ho had no reason to
believe there was any organized baud of
Ku Klux in Georgia for political pur
pose?.
He, however, knew of a band of ma
rauders, like Morrell’s gang, that extended
through a portion ot the counties of the
district in which he lived, and the two
white men oonvictedin Washington county
were suspected of belonging to the band.
A man by the name of Reese, who killed
a negro, was found guilty by a military
commission, but was pardoned by Presi
dent Johnson. This same man not long
ago killed another person, and was tried,
found guilty, and sentenced to be executed
on the 4th of August. Governor Bullock
reprieved him, and his friends said, in
order to have him pardoned, it was neces
sary to make some arrangements. In an
swer to the question as to the nature of
the arrangements, the witness replied that
they involved the raising of a sufficient
amount of money in furtherance of that
design.
The witness was interrogated at some
length about the Georgia Legislature, the
Republicans having, in 1869, obtained a
majority through the action of General
Terry, acting, as ho said, under the order
of President Grant, and also through the
action of Harris, a master of transporta
tion. Wh'le Harris was engaged in or
ganizing the House, a military commission,
with General Huger at its head, was ex
amining the qualification of the members.
General Ruger and his board reported
sixteen or twenty members to be ineligible
under the constitutional amendments, and
thus secured a Republican majority. A
Senator from the forty-fourth district, who
had served two years in the Legislature,
died, when the commission, with Harris,
put in bis place the man whom the de
ceased had defeated at the election.
Having been asked what effect disfran
chisement, under the fourteenth amend
ment, had on the public mind, the witness
replied it was a cause of complaint among
the people against the Government.
The people murmured because the men
heretofore accustomed to conduct publio
affairs were kept out of office, while their
former slaves wore now the law makers.
If the disabilities of the people were re
moved, and they allowed to select their
best men for the public effuses, there would
be no cause of complaint against the Gov
ernment.
The relations of the white and black
races were perfectly harmonious. Toe
negroes had been Deither cheated nor
swindled, but fairly treated. Difficulties
frequently arose because the negroes could
not tell, in calculating the shares of crops,
whether one-third or one-tenth was the
most. Frequently arbitrators were called
in to determine the question for them.
The witness having been asked whether
he knew of any persons having been whip
ped by disguised persons, replied that a
white man, named Ferguson, was seized
by a band of negroes, stripped and nearly
whipped to death by them. A negro was
prosecuted for living in adultery with a
white woman. He was tried and convict
ed, but was pardoned by Governor Bul
lock. The frequent pardons produced
much mischief. A little while after the
above-named conviction, a white man was
convicted for living in adultery with a ne
gro womaD, but the man was discharged
on a technical defect in the proceedings.
The citizens whipped the white man and
negro woman who had been living in
shame.
There was no politics in these occur
rences. The people resorted to such
punishments because of the mischief to
society, produced by the indiscriminate
pardons of Governor Bullock.
Alleged Row in Yorkville.—The
following private dispatch, from York
ville, S. C., dated July 24, was received
by a gentleman of Washington: “The
sub-Committee on Southern Outrages ar
rived here yesterday evening. At the
supper table at the hotel, Hon. J. E. Ste
venson, of the committee, and Hod. A. 8.
Wallace, representative of the district,
were assaulted as they took their seats by
Major James Barry, a prominent citizen,
and a pitcher of milk thrown over them.
Mr. Wallace then drew a revolver, bat
Major Barry was surrounded by friends
and left the hotel. At 9 o’clook the com
mittee were serenaded by a negro band,
and a crowd collected. As the band was
retiring an affray begaD, during which one
of the negroes was shot, reoeiving three
wounds. No arrests have been made.’’—
Baltimore
Telegraphic Summary
Washington, July 27.—The Grand
Duke Alexis leaves Oonstradtfor America,
August 30th, in the largest fleet that ever
sailed from European waters.
General Gordon was examined to-day.
His testimony generally corroborated that
of the other Conservative witnesses. He
knew of no Ku-Klux as described ic the
paper?. Had been invited by the best
people to join an organ zation, the object
of which was purely self-protective—no
disguises being is a nd; Uader the lead of
bad whites, rosing of the negroes was ap
prehended, which, without some organi
zation on the part of the whites, might be
disastrous. The organization alluded to
was not political, and was never used for
political purposes. Ti c uegroes did not
essentially sympathize with the Republi-
can party. They had equal interest with
whites in good government. The aliena
tion on the part of the people of the South
against the Government had boea in
creased since the war by Radical mea
sures, which they regarded as great
wrongs, as well as by military arrests with
out warrant or charges, and trial and im
prisonment of innocent men- He did not
feel that he or any of the Southern people
had committed treason.
London. July 27, noon.—The Pope
disclaims the inherent right of papacy to
dispossess monarch?, but in arcient times
Christian nations revered tho Pope as the
arbiter between tho people and sovereign.
Persian reports are unexaggerated.
Famine, cholera, typhus fever and the
plague rages. Cemeteries are guarded to
prevent the disinterment of the dead for
food. Diplomatic and telegraph corps
nave fl’d from tho country.
Paris, Juiy 27, night. —Dehats censures
the Government for siding with the mi
nority of the Assembly, aud demands
chauges in the ministry. It is reported
that Thiers lias induced his colleague in
the Government to remain in office.
London, July 27, night.—For the Good
wood cup—Shannon, first; Fanoreus,
second; Mortimer, third. The odds against
Shannon were heavy.
It is rumored that the adjournment of
the courts martial for the tiial of Com
munists is open for the purpose of paving
the way for general amnesty.
The Assembly has postponed, till the
4th of August, the question of distribut
ing, among ail departments of France, the
loss of property and material occasioned
by German invasion.
R ime, July 27, night.—Tho Maranitc
and Malaohito patriarchs, the Malachite
Archbishops of Aleppo, and thirteen Hun
garian Archbishops, have forwarded to
Romo their submission to the dogma of
infallibility.
Nashville, July 27.—The State Rail
road Commissioners have resolved to sell,
on the 20th ol September, the Knoxville
and Charleston, Rogersville and Jel'fetson,
and Knoxville and Kentucky Railroads at
auction ; also, tho Nashville and North
western Railroad, unless within thirty days
the latter pays the debt due the State.
New York, July 27.—Alabama & Chat
tanooga Railroad bonds, endorsed by Ala
bama, were placed on tho regular list of
the Stock Exchange,
Judge Blatchfonl refused an injunction
restraining the Erie Road from issuing
thirty thousand additional shares of stock.
New Orleans, July 27.—Tho first
bale of new cotton, from Texas, was re
ceived per steamship Austin to-day. It
weighs nearly 500 pounds, was raised on
Guadaloupe river, shipped by A. Gold
man, Vietoria, Texas, consigned to Franke
& Daniel, of this city, classed as middling,
and sold at 27 cents.
New York, July 28.—A largo meeting
bitterly denounced Hoffman, and resolved
to elect policemen dismissed for disobe
dience of orders, on the 12th, to some
office.
New York, July 28.—Damingo Ruaz,
indicted for violating the neutrality laws,
in furnishing aid and comfort to the Cu
bans, has been released.
A Montreal dispatch says that it has
been definitely ascertained that tho Cuban
Junta of New York, for some weeks, lias
been actively enlisting men to form part
of an expedition of about seven thousand,
expected to sail for Cuba in two or three
weeks. The commander of the Canadian
contingent is Major Robinson, ot Prince of
Wales Rifles, who was engaged in the Red
River expedition last year, and was
very active and efficient. The regiment
which Major Robinson is to command
will number about one thousand, about
seven hundred cf whom are enlisted, and
a portion of them sent to tho States, where
several rendezevous have been made along
the coast. Some of the men are in Port
land, but the majority are near New
York city. It is generally supposed that
the men will assemble near Barnaget and
embark, or go direct from New York city,
taking a pleasure boat, seemingly for
fishing excursion, and being mot by steam
ers outside, with several thousand stands
of arms. The short Snyder riflo has
quietly been passed across tho border, and
it is supposed by the officers safely shipped
by this time. The men are to receive
one hundred dollars bounty.
London, July 28, noon.—Carmaguin,
of tho Philipine Islands, has been aban
doned by 26,000 inhabitants. An earth
quake, sinking the land, engulphcd one
hundred and fifty persons, lollowed by a
volcano, firing the woods. Carmaguin
produced one-tenth of tho while manilla
hemp crop.
Paris, July 28, noon .—-Journal de Par
is says Favre is no longer Minister of For
eign Affairs.
Madrid, July 28, noon.—Tho now Min
istry has resolved to put down tho Cuban
insurrection, regardless of tho sacrifice of
life and money.
London, July 28, night.—The Times ,
in an editorial upon the New York riot,
says, in reference to the procession of
OraDgcmeD, that Governor Hoffman in
curred a horrible responsibility in, permit
ting it to take place, and promising it pro
tection. “The State,” says the Times,
“ought to interfere with parades of both
Orangemen and Ribbonmen. It should
not encourage antagonisms, and should
bring all persons to rccognizo its rule,
dealing equally with the national feelings
and prejudices of all.”
Louisville, July 28.—Negotiations are
pending which will give the Pennsylvania
Central Road a controlling interest in the
Ohio bridge at Louisville.
The proposed change of gaugo of the
Louisville and Cincinnati Short Line Road
has been postponed till August 13th—
narrow gauge rolling stock could not bo
got from the East sooner. The road will,
when the chaDgo is made, conform to the
gauge of the Northern oonncctions, ma
king a through line from Louisville to
Eastern cities without ohango of oars for
freight or passengers.
Chicago, July 28. —Eighteen thou
sand dollars worth of wijdow glass were
broken by hail.
San Francisco, July 28.— Negotiations
recently in progress here definitely termi
nated in the purchase, by the Central Pa
cific Railroad Company, of the California
Pacific Railroad line, between Valle Jo
and Sacramento.
New Orleans, July 28.—The election
of delegates to the Republican State Con
vention, which meets hero on the 9th of
August, is progressing throughout the
parishes. Lively encounters occur be
tween the Dunn and Warmcuth factions,
whioh indicates that a bitter struggle will
be had over the nominations.
There will be a meeting to-night at
Mechanic Institute, to endorse Governor
Warmouth’s administration of the Stato
Government. Di-orders are expeoted.
Custom House officials assert that the
receipts during the last month was great
er than any preceding Juno for ten years,
while expensosare two per cent. less.
Washington, July 28.—H. W. Quion,
of North Carolina, was examined. The
failure of conviction and the immediate
pardon of rascals compelled the people
to organize. GuioD, who was an officer
in a railroad company, had bonds of the
State tendered his road at a t.havo often
per cent.
The President has appointed commis
sioners to examine the first twenty miles
of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Cali
fornia.
Jackson, July 28.—The Macon Beacon,
published at the home of Taliiaferro, who
recently testified before the Outrage Com
mittee, says of him : “The aforesaid Tal
iiaferro is not a planter near this town
and was not a Confederate Captain either.
We can say, however, that he was arrest
ed hero for stealing a mule and has sev
eral standingjokes against him in the way
of unpaid accounts. ”
Brenham, July 28.—Henry Miller,
colored, who murdered Dehays in April
last, and was convicted by a colored jury,
was hung at one o’clock to-day, in this
city. Five thousand persons witnessed
the execution.
Washington, July 29.— The British
Government has appointed Mr. Gurney,
the Recorder of London, one of the Com
missioners authorized by the treaty of
Washington to whom claims therein pro
vided for shall be presented, and the
United States havo appointed, as Com
missioner on their part, Judge Frazer, of
Indiana. The remaining Commissioner is
to be appointed jointly by Great Britain
and the United States, and in case he be
not appointed within threo months he
shall be named by tho Spanish Minister
to Washington. The British Government
has already appointed its agent, Henry
Howard. The United States has appointed
as their agent Hon. R. 8. Hale, of New
York. The arbitrators, to meet at Geneva,
have not yet been appointed. Tno Com
missioners above’ named meet in Washing
ton,’ and settle gll questions under rules
established by the arbitrators at Geneva.
The sub Ku-Klux Committee returned
from South Carolina. The General Com
mittee adjourns on*Monday, leaving the
sub-oommittee here to examine other
witnesses The semi-official report of the
committee, published in. the Star, , gives a
terrible oendition of affairs in South Caro
lina. The general tenor of the evidence
shows ineffioienoy and rasoality on the
part of the State government, and the
inability of the more staid uii to con
trol the young idod, who Ku-Klux white
and black Republicans.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
is having refunded the cotton tax collect
ed on rope and bagging, known as the
“tare, ’ which amounts to from 15 to 20
pounds on each hale. The amount of cot
ton tax collected by the Government was
about eighty millions, and of this amount
about tlireo millions is the rope and bag
ging, or tare tax, which is now being- re
funded under section 44 of the Act of
Congress, approved June 30th, 1864. In
nil claims of this kind the certificate of the
Collector of Internal Revenue is required.
Mexico, July 16, via Matamoras.— The
United States Consul says that notwith
standing the strong editorials of Siglo
Dias y Neaeve, and others, lo revolution
is expected.
Juarez’s estimated majority of deputies
aud electors is decreasing, and the elec
tion of President w ill probably pass into
Congress. Roth parties express confidence
in tiie result should suoh be t.lio case.
Affairs in Puebla are unchanged.
London, July 29, noon.—The Fronoh
Government has given qualified assent to
the Poston schemo for tho emigration of
Communist prisoners, divided into throe
classes —first, violent persons and those
guilty of crime?, who uro sentenced to
hard labor for lile. 2d, dangerous per
sons, who nro to bo sent to tho penal
colony ; and, 3d class, general amnesty is
granted in caso of their voluntary emigra
tion. Tho last aro permitted to go to
Arizona, tho Government giving them
transportation, agricultural and mining
tools, tents, arms and substance for six
month?.
Munich, July 29, e ; ght.—Dr. Bollin
ger has been cleoted Rector of tho Uni
versity of Munich. Fifty-four Prolossoia
voted in his favor and six against him.
Paris, July 29, evening.—The Court at
Lyons confirmed judgment of the Mar
seilles courts martial upon insurgents tried
by that body.
A mujoriiy of tho committco of the As
sembly arc reported to he in favor of tho
income tax.
Wilmington, July 29. John F. Pickor
rell, of New York, tho broker brought
here on the charge of iraud, by tho offi
cer? of tlir Wiiuiiiigluii, Charlotte &
Rutherford Railroad Company, was com
mitted to jail to-day in default of three
hundred thousand dollars bail.
A bloody riot occurred at Goldsboro to
day. About five thousand negroes ar
rived there from Ncwbcrne, and tho lower
counties, on an excursion train, ohartered
by tho Republic in Excoutivo Btato Com
mittee, to attend a mass meeting, at
which Congressman Thomas, cx-Senator
Abbott, Marcus Erwin and It. C. Badger,
wero to bo tho speaker?. There woro
very few white people an town. Many of
tho negroes became intoxicated and tho
police arrested ono turbulent negro, and
while on tho way to the guard house with
this prisoner, the negroes rallied and res
cued him. Tho oolored police firod at tho
prisoner, who was recaptured and taken
by tho police to the Exohango Hotel.
About ono thousand of tho oogro
mob, with club.? and piitols, rallied to
tho Hotel, attempting another res
cue. Tho riot oommonetd by tho
negroes throwing brick bats at tho polico,
and using olubs, when n cros>-firing
began botween the polico and mob. Tho
white citizens forbore, but aro now armed
for tho emergency. There is great excite
ment. About thirty shots wero tired.
Three or four whites wero hurt, and ono
negro killed, and ono colored polioeman
killed and two wounded. A committee of
citizens, appointed by Mayor Robinson,
waited upon tho Republican leaders and
Mr. Stanley, President of tho A. & N. C.
Railroad, and requested that tho train
and the negroes bo carried away. To this
Stanley replied that ho would not carry
them away until lie was ready. When
told that ho and Thomas would be hold
responsible lor the disturb moo, ho roplied,
“ Hold us responsible, and bo d— d.”
New York, July 29. —Tho Post says
that thirty Custom Houso clerks aro woric
ing at tho Times offico to-day, mailing
300,000 copies of to-day’s edition, con
taining what is called “ Secret Accounts
of the City,” throughout this country and
Europe.
The sword presented by tljo French of
New York to Gen. Uhlrioh, def'endei of
Strasbourg, was forwarded to Europe to
day.
D. F. Moore, a jeweller, has been ar
rested on the charge of smuggling a largo
quantity of diamonds.
The bale of now Texas cotton sol yester
day was shipped to-day to Liverpool.
SUNDAY NIGHT DISPATCHES.
FOREIGN.
London, July 29. —Tho Fronoh Am
bassador, Duko de Broglie, gives a dinner
this evening to Count de Pari?. Royal
honors will bo done the Prinoo, apparently
by order.
London, July 30.--JohnSlidell is dead.
llussel Gurney, tho British Commission
er under tho Alabama treaty, leaves short
ly for America.
Havana, July 30.— Valmascda is here.
It is expeotod that the family of ex-
Presidcnt Aguilara will surrender. Col.
Boitcl hassiirreDdircd.
Charles Quesnda, a oousin of Genoral
Quesada, and Figucradi, tho insurgent
Governor of Bayauio, have bocn taken to
Santiago de Cuba for trial.
Reports that tho blacks in insurgont
districts aro killing tho whites arc exagger
ated and mostly untrue.
Paris, July 29.— Gambotta has laid be
fore Thiers a proposition lor tho reorgani
zation of the army apd civil service. Tho
army plans aro supposed to como from
Faidherbo and Cliauscy, in conjunotion
with Duo D’Aumiie and I’riooo do Join
ville. Thiers and McMahon approve tho
plans submitted. Some surprise is ex
pressed at tho co operation ot tho Prinoes
with Gambotta and Tlnors.
Americans visiting Europo must bring
passports, especially naturalized citizens,
as tho latter cannot got them horo without
showing proper papers.
FROM NEW YORK.
New York, July 39.—Tho Staten Is’-
and ferry boat Westfield, while crowdod
with passengers, exploded her boiler at
1:20 to-day, in tho slip at Whitoball stroet.
Tho ooncussion was terrific, shattering
the forward part ot the boar, and killing
a great number of people. Tho hurricane
dock was earned overboard, and a largo
number of persons fell in tho water and
was drowned. Tho entiro number lost is
supposed to bo one hundred and fifty.
Later.—The Westfield was leaving tho
ship at tho foot of Whitehall street wheu
she exploded. About, three hundred us.ua)
Sunday excursionists wore aboard. A
yawning abyss extended from abaft tho
CDgino room to tho stern. The dook
seemed to havo opened. The dead and
dying wero in evory dircotion—among tho
timbers, splinters and heavy maohinory.
Tho whole upper works were shivered
ioto a thousand pieces. Many of those
blown into tho water wero hauled out by
boatmen with hookp. A largo party is
draggiog the bottom of the river constant
ly, to bring up tho bodies. Men, womon
aed children are brought in soorched,
bruisof and mutilated. Cos). Murohe,
formerly a partner of Garibaldi, wv*, badly
scalded.
The Tones estimates tho killed outright
at forty.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, July 30. —Pleasanton de
cides that borrowed capital, employed by
bankers, is no longer subjeot to taxation.
It is estimated that this decision reduces
the revenue ten millions, and will doubt
less lead to innumerable suits for reclama
tion. Deposits heretofore thus employed
were taxed five per cent.
_ It is known that since 1869 no proposi
tion. direct or indirect, has been made by
the United Stales for tho acquisition of
Cuba.
Up to the latest hour tho financial
policy of the Government is unannounced.
The Government purchases ouo million
in bonds each Wednesday, and sells »
million in gold on the first, third and fifth,
and two millions on second and fourth
Thurtdiys of August—making fivo million
bonds and seven millions gold.
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
New Yoke, July 30. —Cotton bus been
quiet the past week, and prices have de
clined, especially on the lower grades.
The total transactions reached 78,000
bales, of which 02,000 bales were for fu
ture delivery, and 11,000 bales on spot
and to arrive. Os the spot cotton, ex
porters took about 2,300 bales, spinners
4,500 bales and speculators 00,000 bales.
Hog products have been depressed, with
a heavy declino in Mess Pork. Beef pro
ducts have been quiet. Dairy products
have improved. Tobacco has been flan,
but less activo. Petroleum declined in
consequence of tbe large supply. Whisky
has advanced. Tallow has been active
for export. Activity in Hops has subsided,,
and the market is dull. Wool has been
firm, hut less active. Naval Stores havo
declined. In other domestic products
there is nothing new to notice.
FROM TEXAS.
Navasota. Texas, July 29— The con
struction iraif, bound north this evening,
with nine cars and eighteen laborers, was
preoipitated into Navasota river; tho der
riok of the wreokiog cur striking the later
al braoefl aod rods of tho bridge caused
the accident. Tho superstructure of the
first span was carried away, and the se
cond, third, and fourth spans went to tho
bottom with cars and engine, odo mass of
ruins. live persons were killed instantly,
two fatally injured, and twolvo moro
or less injured. One man was thrown
twenty feet in tho air and was instantly
killed,